Because
things like this
will start to happen more and more often. You should bookmark that page so you can refer back to it every time you forget why.
But honestly it still offers no advantage. Twenty years ago feedback from TV viewers through the cable box was exciting stuff. You don't hear anything about that anymore. The internet made it a moot technology. If the end user would need to have high speed internet and a set top box anyway then he could already answer polls during the superbowl or 'Who wants to be a millionairre' questions.
besides my TV viewing being at the mercy of DOS attacks and trackable (you think http cookies have been abused, just wait) and limited since I can currently buy more satellite receivers if I want more simultanious HD streams?
Once you've learned to ride a unicyle competently, why not just ride it. It's are a lot cheaper and lighter than the Eunicycle.
Try to think outside the box. Imagine the practical joke potential alone: Add another magmotor and a circular saw blade and voilà! now it's a Eunuchcycle.
+Bundling DOS 7.0 with Windows 4.0 (in violation of an earlier agreement) and calling it one OS called Windows 95. Having it load win.exe automatically to give the false impressin that it was one OS. +Bundling IE with the Windows inteface. Claiming it was an innovation. +Claiming this IE "integration" couldn't be undone. Combining iexporer and explorer functions into common dll's to support this claim. +Faking a grass roots campain to support this so-called innovation. +Claiming only IE could access windowsupdate then changing the website so that came true after finding out that the DOJ was about to call an expert witness who had updated windows using Netscape with the ActiveX plugin. +Faking screenshots and making false claims in a videotape presented to the judge as evidence. (I can't remember all the details on this one. You'll have to google for it.) +I know there are many more but it has been years since the trials so it is fading from my memeory...
It was probably never more than a sham product anyway. During the anti-trust trials microsoft did a lot of things solely so the lawyers could make ludicrous claims yet have something to back them up.
I love Cory Doctorow's imagination and how he can immerse the reader in a very different world yet still keep everything consistent. I hope he has developed his writing a bit for this new book though because it seemed like in almost every story he ties the end up too quickly, almost as if he got tired of working on it and just wanted it to be done. I would like to be wowed by the endings as much as I am by the beginnings. He also keeps you in suspense by having unexplained questions that you want to understand. But then ends the stories without satisying the readers curiosity. But whenever I talk to anyone about interesting new authors I always bring him up because what he does he does very well.
What alternatives exist to combusting various gasses and solid fuels? Do explosives like TNT pack more potential energy if it could just be exploited usefully? Some sort of series of shaped, small, explosions every tenth or every second? With some sort of backplate to protect the ship?
One method which hasn't been tried yet but which is theoretically possible is to use the law of Conservation of Momentum to affect a change in velocity for mass M1 by ejecting a mass M2 from the rear of the spaceship at high speed. For example, using the Poo Flinging Monkeys system a quantity of monkeys would be trained to wait patiently inside the rocket holding chunks of their own feces and clinging to each other until a hatch is opened below them at which time those at the bottom would hurl their dung as hard as they could toward the earth. After they had performed their duty they would then let go of the spaceship thus decreasing its mass and increasing the efficiency of their fellow monkeys impending throws. Hopefully they can also be trained to enthusiastically leap downward to their deaths pushing off from the ship as they go giving a resultant increase in thrust. Of course to get the smooth ride which paying passengers might insist on, poo and monkeys would need to be ejected in a continuous stream. This could be accomplished by using very small animals such as Capucin monkeys or monkeys genetically engineered specifically for this purpose. Going a step further and actually using a shrinking ray to reduce the monkeys to microscopic or quantum size might be overkill but it certainly would give a smooth ride!
The Electr-sketch reminded me of that movie Elf where he drew the mona lisa and stuff. I wonder if you could really draw like that. I guess the line has to be connected from beginning to end so its probably not possible.
Since it is closer to the equator, the task of getting up to space is easier
That explains why Iceland doesn't have a space program. Plus it's really hard to get off the ground with geothermal power.
There are other players in this field, though, like bidpay and worldpay.
Wasn't there one also called
e-gold that purchases actual gold to back its electronic currency? Of course, if you had a lot of money in it and somebody discovered how to turn lead into gold, well then you'd be ruined. So its kind of a risky holding.
Yeah, I meant to suggest he write the game in C++ and use one of the C++ GUI's that he all ready found. That way he gets benefits of object programming as well as a pre-written OpenGL GUI toolkit.
I thought that years ago I read someone ranting about how he started writing a game (FreeCiv, I thought) in C and realized later that without any OOP facilities the project had gotten out of hand and he was debating whether he should rewrite it in C++ so that expanding it and maintaining it would be easier. But when I went to FreeCiv.org to doublecheck my memory I couldn't find any info on it and their compiling requirements only call for C, see?
Specific compiling requirements
All:
1. ANSI C compiler (gcc will do) 2. make
Unices:
1. The X Window System 2. Xaw/Xaw3d and Xpm (3.4k) -or- Glib (1.2.6), GTK+ (1.2.6) and Imlib (1.9.7)
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I was at a friend's house over the holidays and I noticed that he had received the distinction of being the World's Greatest Dad! Top that, Sir Tim!
Because things like this will start to happen more and more often. You should bookmark that page so you can refer back to it every time you forget why.
But honestly it still offers no advantage. Twenty years ago feedback from TV viewers through the cable box was exciting stuff. You don't hear anything about that anymore. The internet made it a moot technology. If the end user would need to have high speed internet and a set top box anyway then he could already answer polls during the superbowl or 'Who wants to be a millionairre' questions.
besides my TV viewing being at the mercy of DOS attacks and trackable (you think http cookies have been abused, just wait) and limited since I can currently buy more satellite receivers if I want more simultanious HD streams?
Try to think outside the box. Imagine the practical joke potential alone: Add another magmotor and a circular saw blade and voilà! now it's a Eunuchcycle.
I hear the more PC's they added to the grid, the closer the answer approached 42. A little mouse told me. I swear.
I only need 28. I use vi.
+Bundling DOS 7.0 with Windows 4.0 (in violation of an earlier agreement) and calling it one OS called Windows 95. Having it load win.exe automatically to give the false impressin that it was one OS.
+Bundling IE with the Windows inteface. Claiming it was an innovation.
+Claiming this IE "integration" couldn't be undone. Combining iexporer and explorer functions into common dll's to support this claim.
+Faking a grass roots campain to support this so-called innovation.
+Claiming only IE could access windowsupdate then changing the website so that came true after finding out that the DOJ was about to call an expert witness who had updated windows using Netscape with the ActiveX plugin.
+Faking screenshots and making false claims in a videotape presented to the judge as evidence. (I can't remember all the details on this one. You'll have to google for it.)
+I know there are many more but it has been years since the trials so it is fading from my memeory...
It was probably never more than a sham product anyway. During the anti-trust trials microsoft did a lot of things solely so the lawyers could make ludicrous claims yet have something to back them up.
I love Cory Doctorow's imagination and how he can immerse the reader in a very different world yet still keep everything consistent. I hope he has developed his writing a bit for this new book though because it seemed like in almost every story he ties the end up too quickly, almost as if he got tired of working on it and just wanted it to be done. I would like to be wowed by the endings as much as I am by the beginnings. He also keeps you in suspense by having unexplained questions that you want to understand. But then ends the stories without satisying the readers curiosity. But whenever I talk to anyone about interesting new authors I always bring him up because what he does he does very well.
Change the people from a priest and a lawyer to a priest and a rabbi and then you have a really offensive joke.
One method which hasn't been tried yet but which is theoretically possible is to use the law of Conservation of Momentum to affect a change in velocity for mass M1 by ejecting a mass M2 from the rear of the spaceship at high speed. For example, using the Poo Flinging Monkeys system a quantity of monkeys would be trained to wait patiently inside the rocket holding chunks of their own feces and clinging to each other until a hatch is opened below them at which time those at the bottom would hurl their dung as hard as they could toward the earth. After they had performed their duty they would then let go of the spaceship thus decreasing its mass and increasing the efficiency of their fellow monkeys impending throws. Hopefully they can also be trained to enthusiastically leap downward to their deaths pushing off from the ship as they go giving a resultant increase in thrust. Of course to get the smooth ride which paying passengers might insist on, poo and monkeys would need to be ejected in a continuous stream. This could be accomplished by using very small animals such as Capucin monkeys or monkeys genetically engineered specifically for this purpose. Going a step further and actually using a shrinking ray to reduce the monkeys to microscopic or quantum size might be overkill but it certainly would give a smooth ride!
The Electr-sketch reminded me of that movie Elf where he drew the mona lisa and stuff. I wonder if you could really draw like that. I guess the line has to be connected from beginning to end so its probably not possible.
Imported from where? From Washington state?
Since it is closer to the equator, the task of getting up to space is easier
That explains why Iceland doesn't have a space program. Plus it's really hard to get off the ground with geothermal power.
Wasn't there one also called e-gold that purchases actual gold to back its electronic currency? Of course, if you had a lot of money in it and somebody discovered how to turn lead into gold, well then you'd be ruined. So its kind of a risky holding.
Or to say "Mission Accomplished!"
You even get to pick which street person will be the lucky donor.
Do not look into synchrotron with remaining eye.
They no longer have to buy Macs.
Yes, but Japanese are short so 1 km probably seems much more impressive to them.
Yeah, I meant to suggest he write the game in C++ and use one of the C++ GUI's that he all ready found. That way he gets benefits of object programming as well as a pre-written OpenGL GUI toolkit.
Maybe they track down the creator of the faked Bush service documents and find out if it really was Karl Rove.
Webmaster al Sahaf: We are not afraid of the Open Source infidels and neither should you be. They are stupid. They tell lies. Everything they say is lies. It is only Hollywood. They are in contempt. We defeated them yesterday. They are convicted and rotting in prison awaiting their execution. They are even now commiting suicide in the halls of the USPTO. We will encourage them to commit more suicides.