"If we lose our infrastructure for a manned space program, we may lose the space program all together!"
Slippery slope? Besides, worst case scenario, we can outsource our manned space flights to China. They've been making leaps and bounds in that area lately.
"Without manned travel, we're guaranteeing that the cost of sending probes will always be high."
Actually, I think the cost of sending manned probes would be higher than unmanned. An unmanned probe does not require all of the life support systems and all.
Which just happened to be the same spot as two bare electrical wires, causing himself to be electricuted.
Actually, the shock only left him comatose and doctors expect him to make full recovery. Sadly though, he dies when his Windows CE based life support system blue-screens. Bill Gates is devastated, and, after a failed venture to build large cargo planes out of plywood, becomes a total recluse.
A group of hackers announced today that they have cracked the DRM on Microsoft's new online music. Upon hearing the news, Steve Ballmer responded by getting mad and punching a hole in the wall.
Let's see here, in this hypothetical future, we can transport matter through the æther, yet we still need to hire a guy to press the button on the machine? Apparently the transit unions have way to much power in the future.
From the article: "hardware so old it is incapable of displaying anything but text"
Speaking as someone who writes software for these boat anchors, I would like to point out that they have VGA monitors and can display 640x480 graphics in black and white with the standard 9" monitor or, with the optional 9" color monitor, 16 colors. My company, which does custom retail software, has several customers running these units. Most still on DOS, but a few on Windows NT.
Just wait till the piercing/body modification crowd catches wind of this. I imagine tusks, horns, antlers, fangs, claws... The possibilities are endless.
This land is my land, this land is my land For Halliburton, Chevron and Ashland Kill the redwood forests, and pollute the waters This land should blindly follow me
As I was talking, I felt a yearning I have to ask, is our children learning? And thanks to me now, Baghdad is burning This land should blindly follow me
You know, I used to work as a sound technician at an amusement park about a mile from the WLW transmitter. In the morning, when the background music amplifiers were turned off, you could actually hear WLW by pressing your ear to a speaker. It was loudest on circuits that had a lot of cable connected to relatively few speakers.
Well, the power spreads out at a rate proportional to the square of the radius. So, if your brain averages.10 m from the phone, then the power passing through it is roughly 8 watts / m^2. (Determining the cross-sectional area of a brain and computing actual power is left as an exercise for the reader.) A 50 kW AM transmitter achieves this density of power at a radius of about 22 meters. So, if the tower is more than 22 meters high, it is safer to stand directly under it than it is to talk on a cell phone.
"It's the reason we don't have automatic pilot on cars yet..."
What are you talking about? My car has cruise control. Isn't that like automatic pilot? In fact, as I post this, with my cell phone modem, I am driving down the Interstate on cruise control with my laptop in my lap. This technology has existed for...
Probably the only thing you get is compatibility with older versions of UnixWare. Thus, there will be few if any new converts, but there might be some upgrades. Overall, if I were running UnixWare, I'd be looking at upgrading to some form of Linux instead.
A group of hackers in Europe announced today that they got Linux to run on a single NAND gate. Quote the project leader, "This way, a single 74x00 quad-NAND chip can be used to build a four processor supercomputer." In reponse to this news, Intel chief Craig Barrett removed his CEO hat and punched his fist through it in a fit of exasperated consternation.
Disney announced today it is getting out of the PC market due to lack of sales. The remaining unsold stock will be used to build a renderfarm to compete against Pixar.
Well, one operating system can run on multiple machines. Google, f'rinstance, has thousands of machines running Linux, and that's one operating system. Probably there was some service running on all the systems that choked simultanously on some piece of bad data or they distributed a bad upgrade.
The Unix trademark is allowed on anything that confroms to several standards laid out by the Open Group who owns the Unix trademark. Linux on X86 won't comply becuase some of the errno codes are incorrect, being based on Minix, which also uses incorrect values. GNU/Linux for other platforms could qualify as they are, but again, GNU/Linux seems to be evolving as its own standard which seems to be more widely supported because of the freeness and wide availability of Linux.
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"If we lose our infrastructure for a manned space program, we may lose the space program all together!"
Slippery slope? Besides, worst case scenario, we can outsource our manned space flights to China. They've been making leaps and bounds in that area lately.
"Without manned travel, we're guaranteeing that the cost of sending probes will always be high."
Actually, I think the cost of sending manned probes would be higher than unmanned. An unmanned probe does not require all of the life support systems and all.
Actually, the shock only left him comatose and doctors expect him to make full recovery. Sadly though, he dies when his Windows CE based life support system blue-screens. Bill Gates is devastated, and, after a failed venture to build large cargo planes out of plywood, becomes a total recluse.
A group of hackers announced today that they have cracked the DRM on Microsoft's new online music. Upon hearing the news, Steve Ballmer responded by getting mad and punching a hole in the wall.
Here's an excerpt from the award ceremony:
winner: I won! I won!
MC: No, you're failing computer science.
winner: [Segmentation fault]
I think it already does. Can you explain bouyancy in terms of subatomic interactions? I didn't think so.
Let's see here, in this hypothetical future, we can transport matter through the æther, yet we still need to hire a guy to press the button on the machine? Apparently the transit unions have way to much power in the future.
From the article:
"hardware so old it is incapable of displaying anything but text"
Speaking as someone who writes software for these boat anchors, I would like to point out that they have VGA monitors and can display 640x480 graphics in black and white with the standard 9" monitor or, with the optional 9" color monitor, 16 colors. My company, which does custom retail software, has several customers running these units. Most still on DOS, but a few on Windows NT.
Just wait till the piercing/body modification crowd catches wind of this. I imagine tusks, horns, antlers, fangs, claws... The possibilities are endless.
This land is my land, this land is my land
For Halliburton, Chevron and Ashland
Kill the redwood forests, and pollute the waters
This land should blindly follow me
As I was talking, I felt a yearning
I have to ask, is our children learning?
And thanks to me now, Baghdad is burning
This land should blindly follow me
"This machine kills fascists."
Peters Projection: A topo map will rise to its level of incompetence.
It's especially wasteful when you consider how much of it actually reaches someone's eye.
Well Africa is the dark continent. I was surprised by how bright Cuba is.
Just the other day, I was trying to find a way to calculate the total electron content of the ionosphere.
... most people expect it sail off the edge of the world.
/me Runs to the calculator...
.10 m from the phone, then the power passing through it is roughly 8 watts / m^2. (Determining the cross-sectional area of a brain and computing actual power is left as an exercise for the reader.) A 50 kW AM transmitter achieves this density of power at a radius of about 22 meters. So, if the tower is more than 22 meters high, it is safer to stand directly under it than it is to talk on a cell phone.
Well, the power spreads out at a rate proportional to the square of the radius. So, if your brain averages
PC will now be spelled "peecy" and CD will be spelled "seedy".
"It's the reason we don't have automatic pilot on cars yet..."
What are you talking about? My car has cruise control. Isn't that like automatic pilot? In fact, as I post this, with my cell phone modem, I am driving down the Interstate on cruise control with my laptop in my lap. This technology has existed for...
OH CRAP...
[lost carrier]
Probably the only thing you get is compatibility with older versions of UnixWare. Thus, there will be few if any new converts, but there might be some upgrades. Overall, if I were running UnixWare, I'd be looking at upgrading to some form of Linux instead.
Not without some smelling salts and a heater.
A group of hackers in Europe announced today that they got Linux to run on a single NAND gate. Quote the project leader, "This way, a single 74x00 quad-NAND chip can be used to build a four processor supercomputer." In reponse to this news, Intel chief Craig Barrett removed his CEO hat and punched his fist through it in a fit of exasperated consternation.
Slashdot story from THE FUTURE!!!
Disney announced today it is getting out of the PC market due to lack of sales. The remaining unsold stock will be used to build a renderfarm to compete against Pixar.
Well, one operating system can run on multiple machines. Google, f'rinstance, has thousands of machines running Linux, and that's one operating system. Probably there was some service running on all the systems that choked simultanously on some piece of bad data or they distributed a bad upgrade.
Either way, somebody fucked up somewhere.
Does that mean it contains Flouride?
4 out of 5 dentists recommend ADA compliant websites.