How much money do you think pours through this industry?
Adding computers to control every aspect, regulated or no, is just diluting the entertainment.
I just can't see how we are improving our world with such a flagrant waste of resources to watch cars run around a track over and over again until someone wins by 1/1000 of a second.
Now if they can create rules such that the cars must be made from recycled materials, (computers et al), then maybe we can see some benefits.
Are they not basing the project on Einstein's predicted theories? http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/gr av_probe_b_ 030304.html (take out space in url after the "b_") (slashdot bug)
Yes, it was a problem they reported with onboard electronics and in no way of my designing. http://www.space.com/businesstechnolog y/technology/gravity_probe_b_031231.html (take out space in url before gravity) (ironic slashdot bug)
I mean suspicious as in the project has been on and off going since 1964. They can't test anything because they say it introduces too much risk. Hmmmmm.... They say some guys left some insulation off some leads and blew fuses? Not to bright eh?
Like the Apprentice. That's the best you have out of 251,000?
I emailed the GPB team a long time ago to ask where I could submit predictions about the probe.
Anyone could have seen problems coming. They sure didn't want to hear any predictions though, saying it would lessen the results they where seeking by introducing prediction into the experiment.
That confused me, wasn't it a prediction they were testing anyway?
Regardless, it's a seriously complicated experiment where the onboard electronics can introduce and infect the instrumentation with the very information they are trying to measure.
Have *not* heard if they ever fixed that problem.
Suspicious if you ask me.
If you wanted to save face, you'd launch anyway and come up with an excuse later cause any PR is better than failure at this late stage in the game.
It's a beer bet gone bad I fear, but in this black box experiment, gratefully anything can happen.
Slashdot Mirror
I prefer SecureCRT for my emulation.. html
http://www.vandyke.com/products/index
Excellent product with scripting, keymapping, tons of choice emulation and transfer protocols.
Otherwise, a Wyse60 was my weapon of choice in the good ol days.
How much money do you think pours through this industry?
Adding computers to control every aspect, regulated or no, is just diluting the entertainment.
I just can't see how we are improving our world with such a flagrant waste of resources to watch cars run around a track over and over again until someone wins by 1/1000 of a second.
Now if they can create rules such that the cars must be made from recycled materials, (computers et al), then maybe we can see some benefits.
cat knowledge |grep -v understanding
There is certainly no understanding comeing through their pipe.
masturbatory. lol!
Its all about control isn't it?
I'm glad there are elements to offset the capitalists.
Its the lawyers who are making all the money in the end though.
...will it ever end?
We are definitely going to need all the extra bandwidth that is being toted as of late.
There is going to be so much crap in the pipe!
Encrypted P2P, bots sniffing each other's packet ends like dogs.
Enough already.
Who would imagine there would be flooding during global warming?
Go figure.
Water World here we come.
Nothing north of 40.
Not one.
I've been had!
I remember my 300 baud modem on the C64.
:-)
They said 1200 was theoretically impossible.
Within years they came out with a 2400.
Now lets talk QUANTUM baud.
Deja vu.
Seems cryptography is the new buzz word these days so I thought it might apply here.
Ya that was one of the best episodes. :-)
Definately funny.
LOL!
Thats what I was thinking.
Man, cover that with some circuit lines will ya!
Thats great.
Now I can get my VIagra and Nigeria investments sent to me a lot faster!
Oh Goody!
No way there is 1/3.
:->
Try 99.99%
Without serious filtering there is just no way email is even useable anymore.
The problem is bad.
Couple that with blacklisters blocking legit emails and you have a completly fuked system that only the savy can traverse.
What is even more entertaining is you have Google entering the market. Do they even have a strategy?
So far the best laid plans have been laid to waste here on Slashdot.
Maybe I should stop posting my email: kevin@qualico.ca around here?
lol!
I have to wonder if they put a rod in the Hubble backwards, what do you think they've done since 1964?
Its interesting as hell though.
700 million?
I'm thinking the bill has more gravity.
That's a small number for a project that has been stopped and started for so long.
What's with the blown fuses and interference from instrumentation?
Hmmmmm....
No doubt they will create more questions than answers.
Are they not basing the project on Einstein's predicted theories?r av_probe_b_ 030304.html
g y/technology /gravity_probe_b_031231.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/g
(take out space in url after the "b_") (slashdot bug)
Yes, it was a problem they reported with onboard electronics and in no way of my designing.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnolo
(take out space in url before gravity) (ironic slashdot bug)
I mean suspicious as in the project has been on and off going since 1964.
They can't test anything because they say it introduces too much risk.
Hmmmmm....
They say some guys left some insulation off some leads and blew fuses?
Not to bright eh?
Like the Apprentice.
That's the best you have out of 251,000?
[snicker]
Ya I'm famous in Hylafax groups for telling a guy to send me beer to let him join.
Google: hylafax member
was her father a fisherman and were there mermaids carrying baskets with babies in gold cloth?
:-)
Excellent recall.
I emailed the GPB team a long time ago to ask where I could submit predictions about the probe.
Anyone could have seen problems coming.
They sure didn't want to hear any predictions though, saying it would lessen the results they where seeking by introducing prediction into the experiment.
That confused me, wasn't it a prediction they were testing anyway?
Regardless, it's a seriously complicated experiment where the onboard electronics can introduce and infect the instrumentation with the very information they are trying to measure.
Have *not* heard if they ever fixed that problem.
Suspicious if you ask me.
If you wanted to save face, you'd launch anyway and come up with an excuse later cause any PR is better than failure at this late stage in the game.
It's a beer bet gone bad I fear, but in this black box experiment, gratefully anything can happen.
Those were the days!
I miss Mork and Mindy.
Playing the alien, wasn't there an actor who use to say that all the time?
Anyway, I wan some nano built Guitar Strings.
Will I need to have a special pick so that my flesh remains intact when plucking?
Wonder what they would sound like?
The resonance should be incredible.
Maybe that's how we will drive our vehicles...with the sound of a resonating string to move particles from one state to the next?
Its available and its good.
I'd say there are now a lot of humans with nanoparticles in their lungs.
Anyone who was around the bombing of the Twin Towers probably has some wierd stuff inserted.
Nanotubes perhaps?
Can I hope for a Google toilet seat cover?
Well done Google.
Now lets turn it on and give it a try!
Makes you wonder what is next?
I want a Google watch!
OCR is just starting to recognize letters at a quality that is satisfactory.
I don't believe this technology exists yet until OCR is perfected.