If radiation shielding is our greatest problem, then we REALLY need a new way of lifting mass to orbit. Because tons and tons of lead is the only decent way we know to stop radiation.
My fiance's Mom has her own theory as to why they sun is 'wigging out'.
She says it's because a meteor crashed into the sun.
I've had my work cut out for me, trying to explain how 'crashing' a ping-pong ball into Lake Michigan isn't going to do much.
"...will resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels."
Can someone explain exactly what in the world that will mean? It sounds like they're leveraging the paradigms to outsource manpower.
"The Matrix Reloaded" can be jumbled to spell "Hexameter Dildo Art".
This was a public service announcement. If it had contained any real content, you would know by now.
I predict the strongest opening weekend ever and the biggest drop for the second weekend
Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
True enough, but a pretty good scare tactic for 95%+ of the population. The average computer user knows little or nothing about how their online activities can be tracked and prosecuted.
And it must have been disturbing as hell to get one of those messages, at your own computer, in your own office or bedroom, from a weird quasi-government body who may or may not have the wherewithall to arrest you/fine you/harass you.
The anonymity of the internet is what empowers people to download songs they have no business downloading. Without that to hide behind (or even if they think they can't hide behind it anymore), 95% of the use would drop off quickly. I'm not exactly applauding this tactic, but if they're looking to cut down on trading, it's a pretty effective idea (especially when compared to their other recent tactics).
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You would be able to customize each of the 3 zones (office, building, world) with its own call-handling rule set.
I can just see my mom trying to 'customize each of the 3 zones with it's own call-handling rule-set'. Abbot and Costello, minus hilarity, plus tears of frustration.
On the other hand, the day has probably already come and gone when the average user should be considered as tech-savvy as my mom. That worries me a little, though. It means the day when I, too, will be obsolete and considered non-tech-savvy is just a little bit closer...
The problem (as far as the government was concerned) is that people were running their cars on fish'n'chip oil without paying any fuel tax.
Disappointing on first impression. But if the tax is ostensibly for road and infrastructure upkeep and repair then it's entirely reasonable to tax any fuel, be it gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, hydrogen, or whatever.
These problems may be a few years out, though. IBM has not announced when it will release the final chip, but the Cell project was originally envisioned as taking five years, suggesting that the final product may not be ready until as late as 2007. Although Sony refuses to talk about its future plans for the chip, it does admit that the Cell chip will not be the CPU in the Playstation3, reportedly slated for release in 2005.
The people out there with a predisposition for getting online have, for the most part, already done so. They've had the better part of a decade to do so.
In order to appeal to that last 40% or so, the internet will simply have to continue growing. Not in users, but in uses. Especially uses that are accesible by neophytes (and, more importantly, easily explainable to neophytes).
Classifying it is all well and good, but the government itself isn't spotless. Hell, when they detonated the first nuke 60-some years ago, they were pretty sure it wouldn't ignite the atmosphere or start a planet-destroying chain reaction.
Because something has the potential to be dangerous is not a valid argument for not researching it.
True. But it's possibly a good argument for being careful. Just about any technology is potentially 'dangerous', as the list highlights. But they are not equally dangerous.
Sharp sticks are dangerous. Yes. But they're only dangerous reatil. Nanotech 'run amock' is potentially dangerous wholesale.
That book was pretty good but had a horrible ending.
Seconded. The idea of a primer as a method of raising children had enormous potential, which wasn't explored nearly enough. The rest of it was largely dreck, especially the ending. Should have focused more on the idea of the primer, the rewards and dangers inherent there.
Still a good book. Could have been incredible.
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Everyone knows that Kerberos is the biggest solution to the single sign-on dilemma.
Not really. In fact, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Don't know about tomorrow, but I'm on SBC, and it's been playing silly buggers all damned morning.
I'm still convinced this is some sort of hoax. It's just safer that way.
If radiation shielding is our greatest problem, then we REALLY need a new way of lifting mass to orbit. Because tons and tons of lead is the only decent way we know to stop radiation.
My fiance's Mom has her own theory as to why they sun is 'wigging out'.
She says it's because a meteor crashed into the sun.
I've had my work cut out for me, trying to explain how 'crashing' a ping-pong ball into Lake Michigan isn't going to do much.
"...will resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels."
Can someone explain exactly what in the world that will mean? It sounds like they're leveraging the paradigms to outsource manpower.
"The Matrix Reloaded" can be jumbled to spell "Hexameter Dildo Art".
This was a public service announcement. If it had contained any real content, you would know by now.
I predict the strongest opening weekend ever and the biggest drop for the second weekend
Well, Gigli has a hammerlock on the biggest second week drop, 'going down' 81.9%. If Revolutions does worse than that, I'll eat my own socks without ketchup.
Snake oil that works? What do you even call something like that?
Holy crap, an arguably good and appropriate use of tax dollars. What is this administration coming to?
Microsoft and Nintento are scrapping it out for second place. Does that really constitute a 'war'?
Sega and Nintendo, that was a console war. This is... not.
True enough, but a pretty good scare tactic for 95%+ of the population. The average computer user knows little or nothing about how their online activities can be tracked and prosecuted.
And it must have been disturbing as hell to get one of those messages, at your own computer, in your own office or bedroom, from a weird quasi-government body who may or may not have the wherewithall to arrest you/fine you/harass you.
The anonymity of the internet is what empowers people to download songs they have no business downloading. Without that to hide behind (or even if they think they can't hide behind it anymore), 95% of the use would drop off quickly. I'm not exactly applauding this tactic, but if they're looking to cut down on trading, it's a pretty effective idea (especially when compared to their other recent tactics).
I can just see my mom trying to 'customize each of the 3 zones with it's own call-handling rule-set'. Abbot and Costello, minus hilarity, plus tears of frustration.
On the other hand, the day has probably already come and gone when the average user should be considered as tech-savvy as my mom. That worries me a little, though. It means the day when I, too, will be obsolete and considered non-tech-savvy is just a little bit closer...
Disappointing on first impression. But if the tax is ostensibly for road and infrastructure upkeep and repair then it's entirely reasonable to tax any fuel, be it gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, hydrogen, or whatever.
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These problems may be a few years out, though. IBM has not announced when it will release the final chip, but the Cell project was originally envisioned as taking five years, suggesting that the final product may not be ready until as late as 2007. Although Sony refuses to talk about its future plans for the chip, it does admit that the Cell chip will not be the CPU in the Playstation3, reportedly slated for release in 2005.
You got drinking in my driving!
Wait a second, we could have something here...
Yeah, when we find out that CRT monitors cause head cancer and sterility five years from now, we'll see who's laughing about survival of the fittest.
Anyway, evolutionary principles don't apply to geeks. You need to actually breed to be involved in evolution.
This is not about a weak economy.
This is about saturation, pure and simple.
The people out there with a predisposition for getting online have, for the most part, already done so. They've had the better part of a decade to do so.
In order to appeal to that last 40% or so, the internet will simply have to continue growing. Not in users, but in uses. Especially uses that are accesible by neophytes (and, more importantly, easily explainable to neophytes).
Classifying it is all well and good, but the government itself isn't spotless. Hell, when they detonated the first nuke 60-some years ago, they were pretty sure it wouldn't ignite the atmosphere or start a planet-destroying chain reaction.
That would be pretty sad, since Taco posted this one.
True. But it's possibly a good argument for being careful. Just about any technology is potentially 'dangerous', as the list highlights. But they are not equally dangerous. Sharp sticks are dangerous. Yes. But they're only dangerous reatil. Nanotech 'run amock' is potentially dangerous wholesale.
Seconded. The idea of a primer as a method of raising children had enormous potential, which wasn't explored nearly enough. The rest of it was largely dreck, especially the ending. Should have focused more on the idea of the primer, the rewards and dangers inherent there. Still a good book. Could have been incredible.