Just trying to make the point that electric powered cars + nuclear power would be a good step on the long road to weaning the US (and subsequently the rest of the world) off oil.
I am disappointed that the scouring of the Shire is missing but I can fully understand it from a filmmakers pov as it'd really mess up the pace of the end of the film. Although it may have helped offset the length of the endings.
The biggest edit I would like is the removal of Legolas surfing the Oliphant. That was just pathetic.
Still, nearly an hour of extra footage will be fscking brilliant.
Roll on December!!!
Ringworld would make a great movie
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Once Nivens wordiness is removed Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers would make GREAT sfx movies.
Halo gives a hint of how good the concept is visually.
On the literary front I think Niven suffered horrendously from his collaborations with Pournelle. The books make good intro sci-fi but read like childrens fiction now. I also think that Gentry Lee diluted ACC's work to a childlike level.
Any way imho
Iain M Banks writes THE best modern Sci-Fi.
ISPs prove a PUBLIC service. You'll note I did say about providing a PUBLIC service.;-)
Add MAC filtering to WEP and you have a reasonable set up.
Now the Uni has a choice. Devote time and resources to ensuring all student WAPs are set up properly, or ban the lot. I know which option I'd choose if I was in charge of the campus network.
There is no reason why anyone should be allowed to connect a WAP to a network that doesn't belong to them.
This is a similar concept to banning modems.
If the Uni wanted their network to have public access then they would provide public access on their terms not through students plugging in WAPs and inadvertantly letting every joe in reception range surf anonymously through the Unis network.
It's pretty standard network design to only allow WAPs to exist in the dmz. Not a good idea to have them on the trusted network at all.
Hopefully you'll give Douglas Adams credit for that!
"For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across--which happened to be the Earth -- where due to a terribble miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidently swallowed by a small dog"
I live in the borough next to Newham. Just to give a sense of scale I can walk to Newham in 10 minutes. And you can cross it by tube in less time. Although driving across it can take over an hour.
I also work 50% of the time in Newham.
It is mainly crumbling Victorian buildings with streets barely wide enoungh to drive the essential service vehicles (ambulances, refuse trucks, etc) let alone cars, busses and delivery vehicles.
It is also one of the key boroughs in Londons 2012 Olympic bid.
Now rather than spending money on IT why aren't they investing further in the things that the residents need. Repairing the schools, hospitals, policing.
You have to assume that this funding is from central government as the local council taxes wouldn't provide for this and would hopefully see a revolt amongst voters come the local elections (if they ever found out about it).
Given it is such a poor and deprived area an OSS it project for the region would have been a superb idea possibly even run as a charity and gaining tax free status.
Hopefully the government audit office will investigate deal as smacks of improprietry.
I'm trying to recover a spyware ridden winME (shudder) system at the mo. Nice Co-incidence.
I've been told by the owner that I can't reload it.
Now this is gonna take a lot longer than zapping it with the restore disks but this is what they want.
The point is - reloading it is the sensible option but the computer owner doesn't want it reloaded and is prepared to wait a reasonable amount of time to have it repaired. It may well take 10+ hours but "the customer is always right"!
I deleted a whole section on how to explain handedness to an alien being.
Something to do with subatomic left/right handedness but I couldn't recall the details so del del del!
Well the inclination explains why the milky way is visible at the angle it is./Me makes another note in the book.
Further googling (I won't call it research) shows that galactic rotation is both clockwise and anti clockwise.
I forget who it was but a victorian (i think) scientist had a facination with vortices.
I can start to see solar systems as vortices in the local group. Local group as vortices within the galaxy. Galactic systems as vortices within the galactic cluster. etc etc. Translated from 2d (watching water flow) to 3d or 4d.
This would allow different rotations within a super vortex but would keep the minor vortex rotating in the same direction (either clockwise or counter cockwise). With the exception of captured objects.
It's counter intuitive but yeah -- makes sense when explained that way.
The system cannot be spinning at it's current speed at the moment it starts forming.
It must start out at a much lower rotational velocity and then it builds up as the bodies coalesce.
Something must impart the initial rotation. My assumption would be that a clump of matter forms and then attracts more matter, most of which is at an angle which doesn't impact with the primary clump. Eventually the matter which misses the clump ends up in orbit.
The matter that impacts imparts angular velocity to the main clump and adds to its gravitational influence attracting more matter, etc, etc.
O for a space/time machine to be able to observe this in progess.
Thankyou again, my friend. The thirst for knowledge has been awakened.:-D
Does not the denser material clump together more the further in towards the gravitational centre of the disk it gets? Even if the disk is spinning we have many millions of years to wait and dust clouds certainly don't behave the same as planetary sized objects.
I've also recalled that the initial ignition of a star would blow the inner dust cloud clear and set a shock wave throught the remainder.
This would suggest that the planetary cores of the closer planets are already formed and large enough to withstand this event.
I think I'll go read up on this. It's suddenly grabbed my interest. Thanks again!
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What have OO using Java and Linus' change from bitkeeper got in common?
NOTHING AT ALL!
Why add the rider editor? The article was valid enough without stirring things.
The FP was accurate - it's free so why no use it??
A poll on who uses which version of Java is required!!
Also they forgot that terran gravity is just a wee bit stronger than martian gravity.
Wow! The Core was fucking awfull!!!
Deep Impact was cool next to it.
Spidey 2 was true art compared to both.
That'll be Australia then?
Olympic Dam Mine
A nuke powered Dodge Viper would totally rock!
Just trying to make the point that electric powered cars + nuclear power would be a good step on the long road to weaning the US (and subsequently the rest of the world) off oil.
Jokes can often be +1 insightfull too.
A valiant attempt by the Slashdot editors to slashdot Slashdot itself.
Do not look into laser with remaining good eye!
It's very important to the book, but a film cannot fully translate those important details.
Tho if RoTK was 5 hrs long......
In the film it'd be near impossible to show the transition of the hobbits into "modern man".
It would also add a double plus down ending, which (imho) is why the film had an up beat ending for Sam.
Dwarf tossing?
btw Your post at sep 11th at 9:11
This'd be a good sport for the 2008 olympics.
Watch all 3 directors cuts ot LoTR whilst drinking beer (at least 2 per hour) and eating chips.
To score you have to be consious and answer some basic questions about the films.
Scoring is per beer, per pack of chips, per question answered.
I'd go for a sprint start on the beer/chips combo as a sprint finish will leave you incontinent and incompetant.
This is going to make my year! :-)
I am disappointed that the scouring of the Shire is missing but I can fully understand it from a filmmakers pov as it'd really mess up the pace of the end of the film. Although it may have helped offset the length of the endings.
The biggest edit I would like is the removal of Legolas surfing the Oliphant. That was just pathetic.
Still, nearly an hour of extra footage will be fscking brilliant.
Roll on December!!!
Once Nivens wordiness is removed Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers would make GREAT sfx movies.
Halo gives a hint of how good the concept is visually.
On the literary front I think Niven suffered horrendously from his collaborations with Pournelle. The books make good intro sci-fi but read like childrens fiction now. I also think that Gentry Lee diluted ACC's work to a childlike level.
Any way imho Iain M Banks writes THE best modern Sci-Fi.
HAHAHAHA
:-D
;-)
Way to take it out of context.
ISPs prove a PUBLIC service. You'll note I did say about providing a PUBLIC service.
Add MAC filtering to WEP and you have a reasonable set up.
Now the Uni has a choice. Devote time and resources to ensuring all student WAPs are set up properly, or ban the lot. I know which option I'd choose if I was in charge of the campus network.
There is no reason why anyone should be allowed to connect a WAP to a network that doesn't belong to them.
This is a similar concept to banning modems.
If the Uni wanted their network to have public access then they would provide public access on their terms not through students plugging in WAPs and inadvertantly letting every joe in reception range surf anonymously through the Unis network.
It's pretty standard network design to only allow WAPs to exist in the dmz. Not a good idea to have them on the trusted network at all.
Day the Earth Caught Fire
Excellent film, done without effects but good plotting, characters and acting.
FWIW my top 10 sci-fi films in no particular order.
Day the Earth Caught Fire
Forbidden Planet
Day the Earth Stood Still
Gattaca
Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell
Alien
Aliens
Starship Troopers
Terminator
And just missing the top 10 is Alien v Predator.
Scaramanga's flying AMC from the Man with the Golden Gun.
Thats what a flying car should look like.
LOL I may move there from Redbridge then.
My Council tax is nearly double yours!
Excellent point about Ken bribing the poorer councils, however to pay for it ALL our council taxes will go up.
The only benefit I can see from the olympic bid is that it may force governments hand over crossrail. A project that should've started 15 years ago.
Hopefully you'll give Douglas Adams credit for that!
"For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across--which happened to be the Earth -- where due to a terribble miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidently swallowed by a small dog"
I live in the borough next to Newham. Just to give a sense of scale I can walk to Newham in 10 minutes. And you can cross it by tube in less time. Although driving across it can take over an hour.
I also work 50% of the time in Newham.
It is mainly crumbling Victorian buildings with streets barely wide enoungh to drive the essential service vehicles (ambulances, refuse trucks, etc) let alone cars, busses and delivery vehicles.
It is also one of the key boroughs in Londons 2012 Olympic bid.
Now rather than spending money on IT why aren't they investing further in the things that the residents need. Repairing the schools, hospitals, policing.
You have to assume that this funding is from central government as the local council taxes wouldn't provide for this and would hopefully see a revolt amongst voters come the local elections (if they ever found out about it). Given it is such a poor and deprived area an OSS it project for the region would have been a superb idea possibly even run as a charity and gaining tax free status.
Hopefully the government audit office will investigate deal as smacks of improprietry.
I'm trying to recover a spyware ridden winME (shudder) system at the mo. Nice Co-incidence.
I've been told by the owner that I can't reload it.
Now this is gonna take a lot longer than zapping it with the restore disks but this is what they want.
The point is - reloading it is the sensible option but the computer owner doesn't want it reloaded and is prepared to wait a reasonable amount of time to have it repaired. It may well take 10+ hours but "the customer is always right"!
ROFL!
:-)
I deleted a whole section on how to explain handedness to an alien being.
Something to do with subatomic left/right handedness but I couldn't recall the details so del del del!
Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Learnt alot tonight. Many thanks.
Planetary formation 101 :D
/Me makes another note in the book.
:)
Well the inclination explains why the milky way is visible at the angle it is.
Further googling (I won't call it research) shows that galactic rotation is both clockwise and anti clockwise.
I forget who it was but a victorian (i think) scientist had a facination with vortices. I can start to see solar systems as vortices in the local group. Local group as vortices within the galaxy. Galactic systems as vortices within the galactic cluster. etc etc. Translated from 2d (watching water flow) to 3d or 4d.
This would allow different rotations within a super vortex but would keep the minor vortex rotating in the same direction (either clockwise or counter cockwise). With the exception of captured objects.
Wheres that time/space machine when you need it?
Something to sleep on
Everyday learn something new.
:-D
Everything spins but not necessarily in the same direction.
One of neptunes moons orbits in the opposite direction. Google tells me its Triton and it's called a retrograde orbit.
It suggests to me that the causes for rotation are not consistent.
It'd be interesting to know how many of the discovered planetary systems have retrograde orbits.
You would suspect that solar systems would rotate uniformly in the same direction as the galaxy.
Google here I come.
It's counter intuitive but yeah -- makes sense when explained that way.
:-D
The system cannot be spinning at it's current speed at the moment it starts forming.
It must start out at a much lower rotational velocity and then it builds up as the bodies coalesce.
Something must impart the initial rotation. My assumption would be that a clump of matter forms and then attracts more matter, most of which is at an angle which doesn't impact with the primary clump. Eventually the matter which misses the clump ends up in orbit.
The matter that impacts imparts angular velocity to the main clump and adds to its gravitational influence attracting more matter, etc, etc.
O for a space/time machine to be able to observe this in progess.
Thankyou again, my friend. The thirst for knowledge has been awakened.
Thanks for the response.
Does not the denser material clump together more the further in towards the gravitational centre of the disk it gets? Even if the disk is spinning we have many millions of years to wait and dust clouds certainly don't behave the same as planetary sized objects.
I've also recalled that the initial ignition of a star would blow the inner dust cloud clear and set a shock wave throught the remainder.
This would suggest that the planetary cores of the closer planets are already formed and large enough to withstand this event.
I think I'll go read up on this. It's suddenly grabbed my interest. Thanks again!