Kona is, of course, wonderful! I used to drink it all the time when my ship was home-ported at Pearl Harbour. At one point, I had a reseller's permit, and found a place where I could buy it wholesale. I've heard that Jamaica Blue Mountain is even better, but I've never run across it. I won't say Gevalia is the best in the world, but it's what I drink at home, and I offered it as an example of what I think is good, so that people could judge my tastes.
I'm sorry you didn't like Gevalia, but not everybody's going to like the same thing. I'm sure you're qualified, and I see that you have interesting tastes. I note that you don't list Starbucks as a favorite, and wonder what you think of it. BTW, do you know why Scandinavians are such big coffee drinkers? I've often wondered but never knew the right person to ask. I doubt that the weather's the only reason, as Russians, among others with hard winters don't drink that much.
I hated Starbucks long before I first encountered Gevalia. I've also used a number of different Gevalia blends over the years. Last week I was part of a hotel walkthrough for a local convention, and at the end, we were in a conference room with coffee and tea service. I took a cup of coffee, put my normal ammount of sugar in it and it was still quite bitter. Checking later, the hotel serves only Starbucks. I couldn't have been predjudiced by knowing what the coffee was because I didn't find out until later. All I knew was it was bitter. Almost everybody I know that knows good coffee agrees with me that Starbucks isn't good. You may like it, YMMV, but just looking at the beans should tell you they're over-roasted.
Why some people pay that kind of money for coffee is beyond me.
Especially when you consider that all Starcruds "coffee" is over-roasted, burnt and bitter. The one thing they've ever done right is the snow job they've done in persuading people that badly-made coffee is the best thing they've ever tasted. If the average Starbucks customer ever tasted Gevalia, they'd never go back again, but Starbucks is trading on their ignorance. I guess it just goes to show how easy it is to fool people and how little most people know about how coffee's supposed to taste. Of course, most of those people probably still think percolators make good coffee.
I checked this out at FOLDOC, and got a simple definition in two short paragraphs. Unless the author thinks he needs to describe in great, redundant detail every service now used over broadband, I find it hard to see how he got past ten pages or so, even with a long section guessing what might be done with it in the future. I don't think I'm going to bother buying it.
It's also possible that there once was life like what we are familiar with but it's all dead now.
I'd like to see that happen, but I highly doubt it. It's very unlikely that Titan has ever been warm enough for that to happen, although with tidal effects, it just might be possible.
Because the un-manned exploration of space is run through JPL not directly through NASA. If you want more neat stuff like this, give the money directly to JPL rather than pouring it down the NASA rat-hole.
Just because there are some building blocks of life on Titan (if there are) doesn't mean that they're going to come to life. They've had about three billion years so far, and if they haven't managed it yet, they probably won't. It takes more than just the right chemicals. It takes energy. The main source of that is insolation, and that's pretty weak by the time you get out that far. I won't say that no form of life could ever evolve out there, but I will say that no life as we know it could. If nothing else, all indications are that life first appeared in the ocean, and there's almost certainly no liquid water there to form the background matrix. Yes, there might be a few forms of bacteria that could adapt to it, but if so, they'd have come into being somewhere more hospitable. If, as and when we start exploring Titan, I don't think we'll have to worry about native organisms, but we will (or should) worry about contaminating it with Earth evolved bacteria then mistaking them for native.
I'm glad you specified "most." My sister uses 2K, and we've had nothing but trouble with her CD burner. The install CD came without the proper driver. 2K assumes that in this case, the generic driver won't work, and won't install anything for it. We've been unable to find one on the web, but I might have found a different burning program that will work. In Linux, the assumption is opposite: unless there's a reason to think otherwise, simply use the default generic driver for everything. In most cases, it's right. We haven't installed Linux on her box because she's happy with what she has, and to me that's the most important thing.
NASA is a bureaucracy. As such, the main interest of many of its members is keeping their jobs and funding. Actually doing something comes second, at best. They stick to the shuttle because it keeps 25,000 people on their payroll, and they get the same budget if it flys twenty times a year or zero. Doing everything in the most elephantine way is much less work for the same money, so that's what they do. Maybe if they were paid on a flight-by-flight basis would encourage them to fly more often. I doubt we'll ever have routine space-flight (Like we were promised the shuttle would give us.) until it becomes a commercial venture. At that point, no flights means no income and no jobs, so the ships will fly.
No matter how you try to arrange things to be perfectly safe, there's going to be risk, and the explorers will be the type of people willing to take them. NASA has long viewed its mission to be "the exploration of space with zero risk." Everything they design is over-engeneered to make it as close to 100% safe as possible, with the result that everything takes longer to build, is exorbitantly expensive and far more massive than it needs to be. I'm beginning to believe that NASA is more interested in keeping its workforce busy and getting bigger budgets with which to do less. Maybe we need to tell them that enough is enough already, and that they need to get off the stick and get us back to the Moon.
A moonbase has a number of advantages. It's a good idea to learn how to build and maintain a base, because it's close enough to the Earth for us to send needed supplies or repair material. It might even be a better place to start a Mars expidition from, because we can get a little extra velocity from the moon's orbital velocity.
What's the problem? You simply lower the base, shovel some regolith over it and Bob's your uncle. When you're ready to move, a little more shovel work uncovers it.
What I thought to be impossible had suddenly become a reality.
Welcome to the future. Back in the '40s, Heinlein wrote Space Cadet. On the first page, a phone rings while hanging from the hero's belt. As he answers the call, he's watching a monorail arrive. Futuristic then, commonplace today. We have seen the future, and it is now!
I'm sure some skript kiddies do know the difference between right and wrong; they just don't care. What they do care about is the approval they get from each other for their "exploits." They want attention, they want to be noticed, they want people to think they're cool, and this is the way they've chosen to get it. I suspect most of them take this route because they are either unwilling or unable to get the attention they crave in more acceptable fashion.
Anyone who wants to take an ethics class obviously has some ethics (what you think someone lacking morales will be taking an ethics class to hope improving himself)???
Well, a smart but unpricipled cracker might take the course to learn how to "talk the talk" and make himself sound ethical. That would help him social engeneer himself into a security job where he can get paid to crack into systems and steal data while claiming to be looking for vulnerabilities to patch.
You have it backward. Grammer doesn't mean what it does because that's how the dictionary defines it, the dictionary defines it that way because that's what it means. Dictionary writers don't create definitions for words, they record the way words are used, and what people think they mean. This is why definitions in dictionaries change: the usage of the word changes, so the definition has to be re-written to keep current.
Calling this post insighteful was a bad joke. Imperial units would not look so clean because the relationships have no rhyme or reason to them. Like Topsy, they just grew. The metric system was designed with the intention that the various units had a simple relationship to each other, making conversion simple, rather than forcing the memorization of random ratios and formulas.
For breaking what law? Well, let's start with theft. As the records contained personal data, he could well be charged with being an accessory to identity theft as well, if anybody uses that information that way. Of course,that doesn't mean he'll be convicted, but that's the way I'd bet. Also, please note that AOL can't send him to prison, but they can prefer charges and let the law take its course.
When I worked at an ISP, I heard of a case where a salesdroid was using people's credit card numbers to sign them up for services they hadn't ordered. They found out when a customer's card was over limit and he couldn't buy a plane ticket home after a cross-country trip. The appology started with reversing all charges, buying him a ticket and giving him a full years service at no charge. They fired the droid, and when he left the building, the local police were waiting at the door to arrest him for fraud. I hope AOL did the same thing. (The ISP changed its software so that you couldn't see the card number except for the last four digits, used for ID when the member had forgotten it. Only those needing to see the rest had access to it.)
The odds of anybody being able to match Douglas Adams' writing style are depressingly, mindbogglingly small. I mean they're so small that the brain of Dilbert's Pointy-haird Boss looks huge in comparison. Think of the conventional probability of infinity minus one as being the size of Jupiter. Now, think of the probability of somebody writing well in Adam's style as being the size of an electron. I mean, really, really really small.
Doesn't matter who the bullet hit. Once the bloke behind Arthur was dead, they could blow up the Earth. If Arthur were on the Heart of Gold and heading out, either they couldn't continue or if they did, he'd survive.
All you would need is a list of registered DNS names with mx records...
And then make sure none of them are used on your "spam list." The spammers get a list of addresses that are known (by you) to be invalid because the domains don't exist and all their spam goes bouncy-bouncy.
Spam is moderately annoying. It is not destructive. It is not particularly wasteful, except of your time.
If that were only true, few people would worry about it. Telemarketing companies have to pay their telco on a per-call basis and pay the people making the cold calls. Junk mail costs money to design, print and send; if there were no junk mail, first class postage would be higher. Spam costs next to nothing. Your ISP bills you by the month, not for the bandwidth you use. You pay the same amount if you send one email or one million. The cost of the extra bandwidth, extra servers, extra everything is spread out among all the other customers, giving the spammer a free ride. That's why it's so attractive: you get something for nothing. Of course, your response rate is very low, but it doesn't take much to make a profit and that's all that unprincipled, greedy spammers care about.
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Kona is, of course, wonderful! I used to drink it all the time when my ship was home-ported at Pearl Harbour. At one point, I had a reseller's permit, and found a place where I could buy it wholesale. I've heard that Jamaica Blue Mountain is even better, but I've never run across it. I won't say Gevalia is the best in the world, but it's what I drink at home, and I offered it as an example of what I think is good, so that people could judge my tastes.
I'm sorry you didn't like Gevalia, but not everybody's going to like the same thing. I'm sure you're qualified, and I see that you have interesting tastes. I note that you don't list Starbucks as a favorite, and wonder what you think of it. BTW, do you know why Scandinavians are such big coffee drinkers? I've often wondered but never knew the right person to ask. I doubt that the weather's the only reason, as Russians, among others with hard winters don't drink that much.
I hated Starbucks long before I first encountered Gevalia. I've also used a number of different Gevalia blends over the years. Last week I was part of a hotel walkthrough for a local convention, and at the end, we were in a conference room with coffee and tea service. I took a cup of coffee, put my normal ammount of sugar in it and it was still quite bitter. Checking later, the hotel serves only Starbucks. I couldn't have been predjudiced by knowing what the coffee was because I didn't find out until later. All I knew was it was bitter. Almost everybody I know that knows good coffee agrees with me that Starbucks isn't good. You may like it, YMMV, but just looking at the beans should tell you they're over-roasted.
Especially when you consider that all Starcruds "coffee" is over-roasted, burnt and bitter. The one thing they've ever done right is the snow job they've done in persuading people that badly-made coffee is the best thing they've ever tasted. If the average Starbucks customer ever tasted Gevalia, they'd never go back again, but Starbucks is trading on their ignorance. I guess it just goes to show how easy it is to fool people and how little most people know about how coffee's supposed to taste. Of course, most of those people probably still think percolators make good coffee.
I checked this out at FOLDOC, and got a simple definition in two short paragraphs. Unless the author thinks he needs to describe in great, redundant detail every service now used over broadband, I find it hard to see how he got past ten pages or so, even with a long section guessing what might be done with it in the future. I don't think I'm going to bother buying it.
The problem was with the earliest Pentium CPU's, long after Windows 3.0.
I'd like to see that happen, but I highly doubt it. It's very unlikely that Titan has ever been warm enough for that to happen, although with tidal effects, it just might be possible.
Because the un-manned exploration of space is run through JPL not directly through NASA. If you want more neat stuff like this, give the money directly to JPL rather than pouring it down the NASA rat-hole.
Just because there are some building blocks of life on Titan (if there are) doesn't mean that they're going to come to life. They've had about three billion years so far, and if they haven't managed it yet, they probably won't. It takes more than just the right chemicals. It takes energy. The main source of that is insolation, and that's pretty weak by the time you get out that far. I won't say that no form of life could ever evolve out there, but I will say that no life as we know it could. If nothing else, all indications are that life first appeared in the ocean, and there's almost certainly no liquid water there to form the background matrix. Yes, there might be a few forms of bacteria that could adapt to it, but if so, they'd have come into being somewhere more hospitable. If, as and when we start exploring Titan, I don't think we'll have to worry about native organisms, but we will (or should) worry about contaminating it with Earth evolved bacteria then mistaking them for native.
I'm glad you specified "most." My sister uses 2K, and we've had nothing but trouble with her CD burner. The install CD came without the proper driver. 2K assumes that in this case, the generic driver won't work, and won't install anything for it. We've been unable to find one on the web, but I might have found a different burning program that will work. In Linux, the assumption is opposite: unless there's a reason to think otherwise, simply use the default generic driver for everything. In most cases, it's right. We haven't installed Linux on her box because she's happy with what she has, and to me that's the most important thing.
NASA is a bureaucracy. As such, the main interest of many of its members is keeping their jobs and funding. Actually doing something comes second, at best. They stick to the shuttle because it keeps 25,000 people on their payroll, and they get the same budget if it flys twenty times a year or zero. Doing everything in the most elephantine way is much less work for the same money, so that's what they do. Maybe if they were paid on a flight-by-flight basis would encourage them to fly more often. I doubt we'll ever have routine space-flight (Like we were promised the shuttle would give us.) until it becomes a commercial venture. At that point, no flights means no income and no jobs, so the ships will fly.
No matter how you try to arrange things to be perfectly safe, there's going to be risk, and the explorers will be the type of people willing to take them. NASA has long viewed its mission to be "the exploration of space with zero risk." Everything they design is over-engeneered to make it as close to 100% safe as possible, with the result that everything takes longer to build, is exorbitantly expensive and far more massive than it needs to be. I'm beginning to believe that NASA is more interested in keeping its workforce busy and getting bigger budgets with which to do less. Maybe we need to tell them that enough is enough already, and that they need to get off the stick and get us back to the Moon.
A moonbase has a number of advantages. It's a good idea to learn how to build and maintain a base, because it's close enough to the Earth for us to send needed supplies or repair material. It might even be a better place to start a Mars expidition from, because we can get a little extra velocity from the moon's orbital velocity.
What's the problem? You simply lower the base, shovel some regolith over it and Bob's your uncle. When you're ready to move, a little more shovel work uncovers it.
Welcome to the future. Back in the '40s, Heinlein wrote Space Cadet. On the first page, a phone rings while hanging from the hero's belt. As he answers the call, he's watching a monorail arrive. Futuristic then, commonplace today. We have seen the future, and it is now!
I'm sure some skript kiddies do know the difference between right and wrong; they just don't care. What they do care about is the approval they get from each other for their "exploits." They want attention, they want to be noticed, they want people to think they're cool, and this is the way they've chosen to get it. I suspect most of them take this route because they are either unwilling or unable to get the attention they crave in more acceptable fashion.
Well, a smart but unpricipled cracker might take the course to learn how to "talk the talk" and make himself sound ethical. That would help him social engeneer himself into a security job where he can get paid to crack into systems and steal data while claiming to be looking for vulnerabilities to patch.
You have it backward. Grammer doesn't mean what it does because that's how the dictionary defines it, the dictionary defines it that way because that's what it means. Dictionary writers don't create definitions for words, they record the way words are used, and what people think they mean. This is why definitions in dictionaries change: the usage of the word changes, so the definition has to be re-written to keep current.
Calling this post insighteful was a bad joke. Imperial units would not look so clean because the relationships have no rhyme or reason to them. Like Topsy, they just grew. The metric system was designed with the intention that the various units had a simple relationship to each other, making conversion simple, rather than forcing the memorization of random ratios and formulas.
When I worked at an ISP, I heard of a case where a salesdroid was using people's credit card numbers to sign them up for services they hadn't ordered. They found out when a customer's card was over limit and he couldn't buy a plane ticket home after a cross-country trip. The appology started with reversing all charges, buying him a ticket and giving him a full years service at no charge. They fired the droid, and when he left the building, the local police were waiting at the door to arrest him for fraud. I hope AOL did the same thing. (The ISP changed its software so that you couldn't see the card number except for the last four digits, used for ID when the member had forgotten it. Only those needing to see the rest had access to it.)
No, echo is for wimps. Real gurus use cat.
The odds of anybody being able to match Douglas Adams' writing style are depressingly, mindbogglingly small. I mean they're so small that the brain of Dilbert's Pointy-haird Boss looks huge in comparison. Think of the conventional probability of infinity minus one as being the size of Jupiter. Now, think of the probability of somebody writing well in Adam's style as being the size of an electron. I mean, really, really really small.
Doesn't matter who the bullet hit. Once the bloke behind Arthur was dead, they could blow up the Earth. If Arthur were on the Heart of Gold and heading out, either they couldn't continue or if they did, he'd survive.
And then make sure none of them are used on your "spam list." The spammers get a list of addresses that are known (by you) to be invalid because the domains don't exist and all their spam goes bouncy-bouncy.
If that were only true, few people would worry about it. Telemarketing companies have to pay their telco on a per-call basis and pay the people making the cold calls. Junk mail costs money to design, print and send; if there were no junk mail, first class postage would be higher. Spam costs next to nothing. Your ISP bills you by the month, not for the bandwidth you use. You pay the same amount if you send one email or one million. The cost of the extra bandwidth, extra servers, extra everything is spread out among all the other customers, giving the spammer a free ride. That's why it's so attractive: you get something for nothing. Of course, your response rate is very low, but it doesn't take much to make a profit and that's all that unprincipled, greedy spammers care about.