"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
This is not and never will be The Prisoner. In taking its name it's getting attention, but not on its own merits. Unless it totally blows people away, they're going to have a turkey on their hands. It would've been better to have taken the original creative inspiration and made something new. You may copy a master, but you never be a master, unless you learn to stand up on your two feet and create something of yourself.
"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway
Programming and art are two sides of the same coin. They're merely different ways of reasoning, exploring, and doing. People who tilt too far one way or the other may be very good at that narrow task, such as coding or drawing, but not so hot at its opposite, which explains a lot of coders with no social life and artists who can't run a business.
Being successful requires the ability to deliver a product and understand relationships, and is true whether you're designing and playing games, working in the garden, or decorating a house. Image what would've happened if Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had never got together, if you want to test the theory.
Many religions, business theories, and ways of war have known this, and the best leaders, the best achievers, have made themselves and been made by a balance between logic and emotion, a positive drive, and the ability to move people. None of this is new, none of it is a secret. The only difference between those who make it happen and those who don't is in its application.
The best way of avoiding Asian Flu is to maintain a regular pattern, getting plenty of sleep, eating well, and taking part in moderate exercise. Good personal hygiene will reduce the risk of but not necessarily prevent contagion. The virus has a high chance of being fatal if your immune system is weak, as may be the case with the very young, old, or physically weak.
I guess Slashdot is going to see a sudden drop in readership REAL SOON NOW(TM).
The United Kingdom has a legal framework, which includes DA Notices http://www.dnotice.org.uk/, where it is a criminal offence to publish or add to material material in a way that runs counter to national security.
The position on internet based mediums is yet to be clarified by court action, but the law exists and is something that any person or organisation wishing to publish a single or collective item that threatens the national security of the United Kingdom should be aware of.
Although Google Maps may not, in itself, be a specific threat to national security, the fact that it is so easily available to the public is a matter for concern, especially if it is likely to form a significant component of the planning of any terrorist or general criminal activity.
The Russians planned and tried to go to the moon. But when we got there first, they gave out that story of "Nyah, we never wanted to go to that dirty ol' moon, anyhow!"
A little known fact is the Soviet Union did get to the moon first. The United States manned moon landing was made shortly afterwards. Another fact is that without British and continental European assistance the United States would have come second in the manned programme. Rather than dwell on the PR oversights that encouraged you to come to the conclusions you have, I'm pleased to see Europe, Russia, China, India, and Japan, have started producing PR that better reflects their own considerable achievements.
I'm greatly encouraged by the enthusiasm with which many politicans and members of the public have shown towards Beagle. Putting technological achievements aside, this alone makes the project a success. Professor Pillinger is still of the belief that Beagle will bark, and isn't giving up hope until all possibilities have been exhausted. I share that belief. And that is probably the greatest triumph. Professor Pillinger has helped remind us what a sense of wonder and hope for a better world can achieve.
The point of a hoax, in my opinion, would most likely have been financial gain.
The manuscript was produced in a time when alchemy was the only science in town. Knowledge of herbal cures would've been a goldmine during that period, and studies to discover how to turn base metals into gold were the arms race of its day. Given that alchemist commonly encrypted their notes, this manuscript would've made a tempting purchase.
One overlooked thought is the amount of effort that went into encryption and decryption at the time. It's possible the manuscript was designed to intrigue the political masters who would then throw all of their decryption resources at the manuscript, at the expense of apparantly more mundane, though more important, documents and cryptographic research being ignored.
Fake, maybe. Fake what? That's another question.
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For a supersonic aircraft, the effect of these stresses is much worse. Flying above Mach 1 generates enormous heat on the skin of the plane. This expands the metal, which then contracts when the plane lands and cools down. The problem is all of this cyclic stress tends to open up cracks in the skin much faster than normal, constant stress. Because the stresses are much higher than in normal planes, a supersonic plane has to undergo maintenance much more often than a normal plane.
With respect to Concorde, the heating and cooling of the aircraft actually made it stronger each time it flew. (As well as making it grow an inch during flight.) Another interesting fact is it was able to sustain MACH 2 whereas military jets can only achieve that speed for short periods of time.
Boeing talked for a while about making an extended upper deck version of the 747, called the 747X IIRC, but it was eventually shelved, I assume for engineering reasons as well as the feeling that it would not work financially. I remember some discussion that the wing of the 747 would have had to be redesigned to support the load which would have meant basically a new airplane.
What stopped this project going forward was an inability to put enough doors in the right places to comply with regulations for disembarking passengers in an emergency.
"When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice."
What really pisses me off is that this second coming phenomenon has been used too often by labour to pass unpopular bills. When something proves massively unpopular, yield to public pressure and withdraw it, sleep on it for a while till people forget and then slip it when they hardly notice and public momentum has faded.
The Hutton Inquiry has confirmed that the government lied about the threat posed by Iraq to the United Kingdoms national security, confirming the view of the many hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated against Iraq war without United Nations approval. During Prime Ministers Question Time, the other week, he was asked whether he ever listened to and took into account the views of the public. His inability to answer the question confirmed the point of view held by the many hundreds of thousands of voters deserting the Labour Party that he's an out of touch control freak.
The long standing consensus held in this country that government operates with the consent and cooperation of the people is breaking down. The Thatcherite revolution encouraged greed and selfishness. The New Labour revolution is encouraging mistrust and bullying. Our country is becoming everything we hate before our very eyes. I'm starting a foreign language course next week with the intent of leaving the once forward thinking, fair minded, and internationally respected country I used to love, as far behind me as I possibly can. I suspect I'm not the only one.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to be a story by one news site about a single newspaper in the United Kingdom that's only published one day out of seven distributing a CD ROM on an occasional basis.
Excuse me while I dig out a list of other publications that provide a monthly CD. I'm sure there must be one or two...
The Times and Sunday Times are very much the same newspaper, though they're run as two largely seperate entities under two different editors. Both are owned by Rupert Murdoch, a hideous individual who is responsible for The Thunderer's decline in quality from its heyday. It's no coincidence that The Times is no longer referred to by this affectionate term, its teeth and reliability as a newspaper of record having disappeared years ago. One ray of hope is that the close and arguably biased coverage, of the Iraq War and subsequent inquiry into events surrounding its aftermath, may provide evidence that Murdoch is in breach of the agreement with the government of the time that allowed his takeover of the newspaper. Should the case of Murdoch not granting full editorial impartiality be proven he could lose the cornerstone of his international media empire. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing the sentiment this happens sooner rather than later.
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein
This is not and never will be The Prisoner. In taking its name it's getting attention, but not on its own merits. Unless it totally blows people away, they're going to have a turkey on their hands. It would've been better to have taken the original creative inspiration and made something new. You may copy a master, but you never be a master, unless you learn to stand up on your two feet and create something of yourself.
"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway
Programming and art are two sides of the same coin. They're merely different ways of reasoning, exploring, and doing. People who tilt too far one way or the other may be very good at that narrow task, such as coding or drawing, but not so hot at its opposite, which explains a lot of coders with no social life and artists who can't run a business.
Being successful requires the ability to deliver a product and understand relationships, and is true whether you're designing and playing games, working in the garden, or decorating a house. Image what would've happened if Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs had never got together, if you want to test the theory.
Many religions, business theories, and ways of war have known this, and the best leaders, the best achievers, have made themselves and been made by a balance between logic and emotion, a positive drive, and the ability to move people. None of this is new, none of it is a secret. The only difference between those who make it happen and those who don't is in its application.
The Best Boss Is...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4357938.stm
Conflict Resolution Pair Wins Nobel Economics Prize/ 0,9830,1588912,00.html
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story
The best way of avoiding Asian Flu is to maintain a regular pattern, getting plenty of sleep, eating well, and taking part in moderate exercise. Good personal hygiene will reduce the risk of but not necessarily prevent contagion. The virus has a high chance of being fatal if your immune system is weak, as may be the case with the very young, old, or physically weak.
I guess Slashdot is going to see a sudden drop in readership REAL SOON NOW(TM).The United Kingdom has a legal framework, which includes DA Notices http://www.dnotice.org.uk/, where it is a criminal offence to publish or add to material material in a way that runs counter to national security. The position on internet based mediums is yet to be clarified by court action, but the law exists and is something that any person or organisation wishing to publish a single or collective item that threatens the national security of the United Kingdom should be aware of. Although Google Maps may not, in itself, be a specific threat to national security, the fact that it is so easily available to the public is a matter for concern, especially if it is likely to form a significant component of the planning of any terrorist or general criminal activity.
A little known fact is the Soviet Union did get to the moon first. The United States manned moon landing was made shortly afterwards. Another fact is that without British and continental European assistance the United States would have come second in the manned programme. Rather than dwell on the PR oversights that encouraged you to come to the conclusions you have, I'm pleased to see Europe, Russia, China, India, and Japan, have started producing PR that better reflects their own considerable achievements.
I'm greatly encouraged by the enthusiasm with which many politicans and members of the public have shown towards Beagle. Putting technological achievements aside, this alone makes the project a success. Professor Pillinger is still of the belief that Beagle will bark, and isn't giving up hope until all possibilities have been exhausted. I share that belief. And that is probably the greatest triumph. Professor Pillinger has helped remind us what a sense of wonder and hope for a better world can achieve.
The manuscript was produced in a time when alchemy was the only science in town. Knowledge of herbal cures would've been a goldmine during that period, and studies to discover how to turn base metals into gold were the arms race of its day. Given that alchemist commonly encrypted their notes, this manuscript would've made a tempting purchase.
One overlooked thought is the amount of effort that went into encryption and decryption at the time. It's possible the manuscript was designed to intrigue the political masters who would then throw all of their decryption resources at the manuscript, at the expense of apparantly more mundane, though more important, documents and cryptographic research being ignored.
Fake, maybe. Fake what? That's another question.
With respect to Concorde, the heating and cooling of the aircraft actually made it stronger each time it flew. (As well as making it grow an inch during flight.) Another interesting fact is it was able to sustain MACH 2 whereas military jets can only achieve that speed for short periods of time.
What stopped this project going forward was an inability to put enough doors in the right places to comply with regulations for disembarking passengers in an emergency.
The Hutton Inquiry has confirmed that the government lied about the threat posed by Iraq to the United Kingdoms national security, confirming the view of the many hundreds of thousands of people who demonstrated against Iraq war without United Nations approval. During Prime Ministers Question Time, the other week, he was asked whether he ever listened to and took into account the views of the public. His inability to answer the question confirmed the point of view held by the many hundreds of thousands of voters deserting the Labour Party that he's an out of touch control freak.
The long standing consensus held in this country that government operates with the consent and cooperation of the people is breaking down. The Thatcherite revolution encouraged greed and selfishness. The New Labour revolution is encouraging mistrust and bullying. Our country is becoming everything we hate before our very eyes. I'm starting a foreign language course next week with the intent of leaving the once forward thinking, fair minded, and internationally respected country I used to love, as far behind me as I possibly can. I suspect I'm not the only one.