We had a web page where the 10,000-ish users initiated their own ticket. Or, they send an email to help@blah.com. Then we'd create a ticket for them. No ticket, no work. Next!
True! And my measure of being a good husband is how many affairs I DIDN'T have!
A) How do you count that?
B) Dude, even SKYNET had an IT department.
"Yeah, uh, hi... my directive is to nuke Redmond/PaloAlto (pick one), but... heh heh... I can't find the launch codes... could you reset my... oh, wait. Here they are. The sticky note fell off my monitor."
You must have a degree in Eugenics. I think that was tried without much success.
But since you brought it up, start naming the advances one could make. And while yer at it, take a look at several large, populous countries where religion isn't really a factor, then tell me all of the advancements THEY are making.
For being so "scientific", you sound more like John Lennon.
"A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFFWORLD COLONIES. A CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN..." Obligatory Bladerunner.
Yes. Sending a few "spacers" to the "shoulder of Orion" is a way to solve the population problem... for them. Or were you thinking of sending a couple billion 'there'? You are going to need astronomical amounts of energy, squared.
I agree that 'population' versus carrying capacity is a problem. But the carrying capacity of Mars is less, and Ceti Alpha 6 is about 15.
If we had as much energy as it takes to get there, we could solve the problem in situ. At least technoligically.
The problem isn't money. It isn't even technological.
It's Elections in Iran, Bailouts on Wall Street, Cholera in Zimbabwe, it's Bandwidth in Africa. Google "Base of the Pyramid." 4 Billion of the 6 Billion are trying to eat and not die of malaria. No time for string theory.
But really, that wasn't the mantra. My mantra there is "moving mass at a distance takes energy, and time. To use less of the latter, use more of the former." The amount of energy it takes to get anywhere but here is beyond our comprehension. To move a mass the size of the Enterprise takes zillions more mass than the Enterprise.
But, for the sake of discussion, IF we had that energy, list the Top 3 reasons for going 'there'.
"but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy dot dot dot"
Well, if we could manipulate astronomical amounts of energy, instead of sailing off to Alpha Centauri or Wolf 359, we could:
Have rolling roads (a la heinlein and Asimov) and eliminate the need for flying cars or rolling cars
Desalinate seawater to irrigate the arid lands
Control global climate change, or run a computer cluster model that can disprove it. Pick one.
But we can't. I know this is a fun dream. But before you try to replicate the Federation, take a look at the world that they were based upon. The Earth of Roddenberry is VERY different than this one. Let us strive to achieve THAT before we strive for the fastest way off of here.
A friend lives less than a mile from a paved road. In spring, their dirt/gravel road become nearly impassible due to 'permafrost' below trapping the melt and the top layer turns to baby-poop. So, he has been forced to own 4-wheel drive vehicles to get out of that. Then, he drives 30+ to work. Times 2 when his wife started working. Over a decade or so, it would have been cheaper to pay to have the road paved.
Wouldn't it be funny if this sparked a "MacOS to Windows hardware" hack that worked, spread like "kitten killer video" and then seeped back into the West and shut up the whiners (not to be confused with the Winers).
Then, Chinese could buy a compliant windows machine, hack it to MacOS, and the DamWare wouldn't know. Or will they require that all machines stay on all the time, such that silence is a violation?
I wonder what Slashdot would have said about Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and the Cosmological Constant when those ideas were first burgeoning. And from a PATENT CLERK, no less.
Ok, here's a question: Has this happened in the past?
It doesn't take long playing with simple, fun orbit simulators to see that while most planetesimals get glommed, a few get chucked. Escape velocity from the Sun at Mars distance is WAY MORE* (technological term) than Jupiter could perturb. Some things tossed could have 'very long' periods, but still not escape. THAT would be news.
And yes, I am a rocket scientist and yes, I HAVE done the math.
Vcircular * sqrt(2) = Vescape! 41% is too much, even for Jupiter.
I have the dream job as an IT guy among biz and political types. I do get the respect. I actually got this on a review: "You keep saying something can't be done, and then find a way in 10 minutes. Someday, it really WON'T be able to be done, but we won't believe you."
So, having the odd-timed lunch at your desk, has the following benefits:
If you eat at 1:17, it makes it look like you either are too busy to eat at noon, and have to wait until 1:00
If you eat at 11:17, it looks like you skipped breakfast for a hot job, or you are about to start a Level 3 rebuild while everyone is at lunch. Yes, I made that up.
Eat alone! You can look less like a utility and more like Merlin.
Oh, and NEVER increase your estimate by pi. Someone will figure it out. Few will check sqrt(10)
True. Why use a public, already-funded, low MPG-per-rider system when EACH parent can drive their SUVs to drop the kids off? In fact, why don't you just home-school your child and save lots of resources. And if you all buy hybrids, you can save the auto industry.
A young Obi Wan Kenobi flies with an Astrodroid, which is then used by his apprentice when he has grown old. The driod can still connect.
Pick a small set of standards that will work "well enough" and let them become the Legacy Standard. I'm so sick of going to garage sales and seeing good equipment, such as printers and scanners, that won't connect to any computer that I own. I have a drawer full of PS/2 keyboards.
I hope that someday, someone posts a/. article entitled "100 year old hardware used to connect to DNFNet"
The grandson of Hemos connected to the DukeNukemForeverNet* using a computer with USB, DVI, a drive that SPINS, and only 64GB of RAM, after all, 64GB should be enough RAM for anybody.
*DNFNEt is a networking protocol that uses baling wire and bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum.
A) They didn't abandon the planet. We were their offsite backup.
B) They stored it in one very clever nanostructure, which, if necessary, could make copies of itself. Thus, if many zillions of them were destroyed, many, many zillions remained, steeped in a briny matrix which fostered replication. As long as the sequence didn't change, the information would be preserved as long as the planet remained.
Oooops, copy error. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail.
Is this the plot for a book, cuz if not, I'm going to go write it. All we have to do is revert the mutations back to the original, and we have the info.
Of course, it's probably some alien language that uses only ACGT letters, and it spell their version of "All your base are belong to us."
DON'T PANIC! I'm waiting until the geek rush is over. I'll see it in iMAX. No point in fighting with people in Klingon costumes for the best seats. Besides, I didn't get a chance to finish my girlfriend's B'Etor costume.
Many people [citation needed] use Windows solely because it's how they play their games. With the excuse of "I can't play cool games on a Mac" gone, those "slaves to the game" Windows users will have no excuse, and will switch to Mac.
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We had a web page where the 10,000-ish users initiated their own ticket. Or, they send an email to help@blah.com. Then we'd create a ticket for them. No ticket, no work. Next!
True! And my measure of being a good husband is how many affairs I DIDN'T have!
A) How do you count that? B) Dude, even SKYNET had an IT department.
"Yeah, uh, hi... my directive is to nuke Redmond/PaloAlto (pick one), but... heh heh... I can't find the launch codes... could you reset my... oh, wait. Here they are. The sticky note fell off my monitor."
Yes, but without the heated air, you won't get that cool mushroom.
You must have a degree in Eugenics. I think that was tried without much success.
But since you brought it up, start naming the advances one could make. And while yer at it, take a look at several large, populous countries where religion isn't really a factor, then tell me all of the advancements THEY are making.
For being so "scientific", you sound more like John Lennon.
"A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFFWORLD COLONIES. A CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN..." Obligatory Bladerunner.
Yes. Sending a few "spacers" to the "shoulder of Orion" is a way to solve the population problem... for them. Or were you thinking of sending a couple billion 'there'? You are going to need astronomical amounts of energy, squared.
I agree that 'population' versus carrying capacity is a problem. But the carrying capacity of Mars is less, and Ceti Alpha 6 is about 15.
If we had as much energy as it takes to get there, we could solve the problem in situ. At least technoligically.
The problem isn't money. It isn't even technological.
It's Elections in Iran, Bailouts on Wall Street, Cholera in Zimbabwe, it's Bandwidth in Africa. Google "Base of the Pyramid." 4 Billion of the 6 Billion are trying to eat and not die of malaria. No time for string theory.
But really, that wasn't the mantra. My mantra there is "moving mass at a distance takes energy, and time. To use less of the latter, use more of the former." The amount of energy it takes to get anywhere but here is beyond our comprehension. To move a mass the size of the Enterprise takes zillions more mass than the Enterprise.
But, for the sake of discussion, IF we had that energy, list the Top 3 reasons for going 'there'.
Anyone? Seriously... anyone?
"but by manipulating extra dimensions with astronomical amounts of energy dot dot dot"
Well, if we could manipulate astronomical amounts of energy, instead of sailing off to Alpha Centauri or Wolf 359, we could:
But we can't. I know this is a fun dream. But before you try to replicate the Federation, take a look at the world that they were based upon. The Earth of Roddenberry is VERY different than this one. Let us strive to achieve THAT before we strive for the fastest way off of here.
A friend lives less than a mile from a paved road. In spring, their dirt/gravel road become nearly impassible due to 'permafrost' below trapping the melt and the top layer turns to baby-poop. So, he has been forced to own 4-wheel drive vehicles to get out of that. Then, he drives 30+ to work. Times 2 when his wife started working. Over a decade or so, it would have been cheaper to pay to have the road paved.
A few million Stormtroopers standing on the surface of the Death Star with ThinkGeek green lasers.
Archimedes would be proud!
(Think before you mod me offtopic.)
Wouldn't it be funny if this sparked a "MacOS to Windows hardware" hack that worked, spread like "kitten killer video" and then seeped back into the West and shut up the whiners (not to be confused with the Winers).
Then, Chinese could buy a compliant windows machine, hack it to MacOS, and the DamWare wouldn't know. Or will they require that all machines stay on all the time, such that silence is a violation?
I wonder what Slashdot would have said about Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and the Cosmological Constant when those ideas were first burgeoning. And from a PATENT CLERK, no less.
Ok, here's a question: Has this happened in the past?
It doesn't take long playing with simple, fun orbit simulators to see that while most planetesimals get glommed, a few get chucked. Escape velocity from the Sun at Mars distance is WAY MORE* (technological term) than Jupiter could perturb. Some things tossed could have 'very long' periods, but still not escape. THAT would be news.
And yes, I am a rocket scientist and yes, I HAVE done the math.
Vcircular * sqrt(2) = Vescape! 41% is too much, even for Jupiter.
So, having the odd-timed lunch at your desk, has the following benefits:
Oh, and NEVER increase your estimate by pi. Someone will figure it out. Few will check sqrt(10)
NY Times that according to a 2012 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million FaceBook Pages had been updated in the past 120 days
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NY Times that according to a 2016 survey only 7.4 million out of the 133 million Slashdot Users use Tachyons to revise old posts in the past 120 days
9102 morf tsop toDhsalS
Ridley Scott releases BladeRunner Penultimate Edition, with "prophetically accurate" vision of 2109
Yes, I AM out of my Vulcan mind.
Social!? It's barely civil!
True. Why use a public, already-funded, low MPG-per-rider system when EACH parent can drive their SUVs to drop the kids off? In fact, why don't you just home-school your child and save lots of resources. And if you all buy hybrids, you can save the auto industry.
I hope I broke the needle on your sarcasm meter.
Pick a small set of standards that will work "well enough" and let them become the Legacy Standard. I'm so sick of going to garage sales and seeing good equipment, such as printers and scanners, that won't connect to any computer that I own. I have a drawer full of PS/2 keyboards.
I hope that someday, someone posts a
The grandson of Hemos connected to the DukeNukemForeverNet* using a computer with USB, DVI, a drive that SPINS, and only 64GB of RAM, after all, 64GB should be enough RAM for anybody.
*DNFNEt is a networking protocol that uses baling wire and bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum.
A) They didn't abandon the planet. We were their offsite backup.
B) They stored it in one very clever nanostructure, which, if necessary, could make copies of itself. Thus, if many zillions of them were destroyed, many, many zillions remained, steeped in a briny matrix which fostered replication. As long as the sequence didn't change, the information would be preserved as long as the planet remained.
Oooops, copy error. (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail.
Is this the plot for a book, cuz if not, I'm going to go write it. All we have to do is revert the mutations back to the original, and we have the info.
Of course, it's probably some alien language that uses only ACGT letters, and it spell their version of "All your base are belong to us."
...until SKYNET uses this data to track us to our hiding places in the woods!!!
DON'T PANIC! I'm waiting until the geek rush is over. I'll see it in iMAX. No point in fighting with people in Klingon costumes for the best seats. Besides, I didn't get a chance to finish my girlfriend's B'Etor costume.
http://cgi.ebay.com/APPLE-MAC-MINI-1-83ghz-INTEL-2gb-ram-80gb-Airport-BT_W0QQitemZ300312655183
This would SMOKE any $500 PC. And you can even install XP on it.
PC people will scour the web for a way to make a cheap computer work well, when they can find it in 2 minutes on eBay.
Many people [citation needed] use Windows solely because it's how they play their games. With the excuse of "I can't play cool games on a Mac" gone, those "slaves to the game" Windows users will have no excuse, and will switch to Mac.
"I don't have an operating system on my computer. I use the Internet."
You'd be amazed...
2174.749 f/s SOMEONE has the wrong terminal velocity. Are we sure this isn't a way to eliminate political dissidents?