Uh, the little measurement thing in my car battery's alkaline solution? Ok, agreed, not much.
As for the name:
Supermosphere? No.
Aerobouy? No.
Aeroship - Hmmmm. Too bad I can't copyright that now.
After the name is generalized we'll probably just call it an "LTA" for lighter-than-air.
I don't get the thing about terrorism though. Doesn't compressd air expand violently when its container is suddenly broken? Wouldn't the damn thing destroy most civillian targets? Jeeze.
Frankly, they deserve to have all authority over the root servers taken away from them before they do more harm in their quest for profits.
Now that has substance! This company sux to high heaven and they keep pulling this crap. I only fear that Congress will assign someone even worse and more corrupt if that happened.
In the great race to revolutionize previous services, CableTV, Telephone and Audio are all taking new forms. Seems to me that the Pixar acquisition after iTunes means Job's only needs a portable device with a large enough screen to make the portable, secure, wireless future happen.
Pixar will produce its own content, and those who seek to distribute their movies through that 'channel' will join in the success. Filling out the market footprint for Jobs' in 2005.
M$ may suffer from being more than we need with their next release.
If at the same time indie Musicians and Filmakers could get the gear they could offer great alternatives, but Apple and Pixar are a collossus.
Here's something: Literally give your significant other the sun . . . A white dwarf diamond that is!
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University
of Cambridge, and UFSC Brazil have identified in the constellation Centaurus
what is likely to be the fate of our own sun. With a rhythmically harmonious core and a
'suface' of hydrogen and helium this carbon-predominant cellestial body is known as BPM
37093. It is the largest diamond
ever indentified in the wild at Twenty-five hundred miles across and weighing 5
million trillion trillion pounds!". Artistic Representainions and Videos are available here.
The Catto Diamond A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the
largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.
He asked her about it.
"This is the Catto diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse
that goes with it."
"Oh - what's the curse?" the man asked.
Where would you like the results e-mailed to?
~Nice.
My Motto #17:
"Never leave sh!t laying around that you care about, you may (accidentally) eat it later."
Who ever heard of the Internet?(anyway)
on
What The Internet Isn't
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
"The federal agency responsible for allocating spectrum might notice that the value of open spectrum is the same as the true value of the Internet."
Sounds like some damn rant. The bloody FCC never did nothing right. Their cahooting diffusion with ICANN and the registrars, and phone companies . . . Then the audio/video hogs woke up and attacked . . . Soon a bunch of outta-loops was doing File->Save As->Web site. Heck I got some shovels to sell any prospector foolish enough to philosophize about protocol awareness.
It's really all about the breaks. The break between content provider and audience. The wireless and wired networks. When the right people or products coalesce - will it be a monopoly? Open-Source wireless networks deployedtoday are the only way to ensure bandwidth for open-minded transmissions later. As TimeWarner if the offer Movies, VoIP and Broadband in uncompetitive markets . . . Who can stop them? Congress? Ha! Al Gore they ain't and that fool backed Howard Dean!
I did not get much from the article at all - and think it was an esoteric sailing trip. But I too wrote a rant, so there was some stimulus. Like the style of Kurt Vonnegut my satire aims to ape:
"
The encapsulation format and rendering of data and metadata of the sources and possible Endings of user input. Various handshakes and transfers as made available through the GUI. Not a sophmoric semaphore, but a protocol delivered by competition, at first empiracly academic, and now in the hands of any SK who wants to do something today." And a little child shalll lead them.
[Context] x [Subject] x [Amplitude] x [Frequency] x [Time]
How ironic that I leave Slashdot to install Mozilla, and when I return the next story is about a MS flaw.
Actually, that's been par for the course over the last 7 years. Not really ironic at all. In fact, I think I am going to do an audit trail of my computing activity over that time and discover how dangerously close I have come to being compromised. Then I'll suffer intollerable psychiatric difficulties and send the bill to Redmond, along with a punitive amount for my suffering . . .
Nah, I need to spend my time reading some linux docs . . .
I took my first venture into Linux with the boot from CD Knoppix. I've been comfortable on every platform since Apple][ and I've worked with UNIX, but I couldn't get the Mo'fo to boot on my 1998 ThinkPad. Anyone want to save me some time and tell me if there is a known problem with IBM, or ThinkPads in specific? I know it sounds stupid, but that stuff happens from time to time on proprietary systems - so I'm asking. Any history at all w/ IBM BIOS on ThinkPad.
RTFM me all you want, just spare the cat. And Thanks in Advance.
It seems insane that they would be inferring that they have a claim to your work on your private time. More and more so the further away from your job duties this outside work lies from the company's. You should read the contract more closely, or hire a lawyer for a brief consult'.
Also, it's illegal for a company to offer you a contract that has illegal demands within it. Such as payment of a first-born child [Rapunzel], etc..
If you have already begun working on something then your work before the company sets a certain precedence [it's yours]. All work thereafter is a derivative. This is how it should work, but we both know that if you create something profitable and they find out, they may try to take it from you.
What no one wants to admit is that ideas do crop up at work. Whether they pertain to your job duties or not, we simply come up with good ideas at random(sic). Who owns it? What about ideas that have something to do with what you do at work, but taken in a new direction? Or what about ideas that have nothing to do with work, but which you discovered because of work you do there?
The research also showed that the Internet group reported a greater tendency toward membership in voluntary organizations and a higher level of helping others.
Yup. Worked 55 hours a week, took a light load of classes and joined a community group - all thanks to search engines, online documentations and wishing it be so. Soon, I had a decent job, and with the downturn in the economy I still am able to work in a computer related field. Definately not bad for my experience.
However, after a week or so of continual use of a monitor under flourescent lights, my eyes kinda twitch like.
Another thing, every once in a while if I make a mistake off of the computer, like putting too much pepper in the stew, or throwing a paper-wad and missing, I find that my first instinct is to CTRL+Z!
Buy significant other some soda,
[Love you they will.]
you can never have enough soda,
[Mine! Or I will help you not.]
just ask Yoda,
[Enough 'til they get their fill, mmmm]
you should buy them some soda.
[burhhhpk!]
$100.00/$2.99 (per 12-pack) = 33.44 12-Packs
33.44 * 12 = 401.28 cans of soda
400 cans of soda = 1 month, YMMV
Of course you might want to hold a little $ back to pay the water bill.
Yeah, I thought of that a long time ago too. Probably because of my twisted take on Archimedes' famous expression about having a big enough lever. I had reasoned that if the stick were a light-year long, then the energy would reach the other end at the same time as light. That compression-thingy-reason apparently ruins it. Of course if the stick were 100 light-years long, would the energy get there faster than light?
Yeah, I'd have to agree. Alot of those in the article were teenagers; a demographic with a lot of social angst. The good stuff was the guy who finds weaknesses and writes the virus then mails a copy to Symantec. He should be getting paid for that stuff. When he learns to make money instead of impressing his girlfriend then he'll have more money to be less bored. She don't want no stinking virus!
Of course, I'm no Phd in psychology, I just play one whenever you're foolish enough to read my post.
It is win-win in concept, but then those people become more of a blight over time. I hate these damn conundrums!
No Library card = Illiterate
No Driver's license = No commuting, shopping, taxdollars derived therefrom.
What we need to come up with is something that non-voters want, but that taking away from them will not hurt the rest of us . . . Ooooh - I know: Cable TV !
I don't know where to begin with this moronic idea. It seems to me that everything Congress, Network Solutions(sic), or ICANN ever touches turns to sh*t.
ICANN should enforce its policy of terminating contracts with domain name holders whose information is found to be inaccurate, but "is either unable or unwilling" to do so.
You mean ICANN is going to contact everyone in WHOIS and ask for 2 pieces of ID - puhlease.
ICANN "takes these issues very seriously" but has not decided whether to support the bill, said spokesman Kieran Baker.
ICANN will do whatever it's told by big business and Congress. Obviously Congress and Big Business are trying to sneak this under for some reason - Why?
That the whole thing is likely to get to the floor of Congress is absurd. IMHO - alot of the crime on the Internet is already covered by known laws, just the language needs tweaking. That they don't know where to start is itself a bunch of crap. This is just lobbying crap.
What the heck is with all Internet-this and internet-that. Why don't they just deploy closed LANs pre-configured with nothing more to configure that attaching cables and plugging them in.
There is little to be gained by it anyway. Apathetic and lethargic Americans will still come up with some excuse not to vote.
The money could better be spent berating these pinheads, or funding voter vans, or introducing legislation to take away privelliges from non-voters.
I think most of us feel that online CC transactions are usually safe, but we take the chance because most of the time we don't get burned (save eBay). Our CCs usually have a loss-limit protection of $50.00. My vote is more precious than $50.00.
Besides, if it was Internet-wired some politician would enact some crap legislation for last-minute pop-up adds that looked like OS dialog-boxes, thereby tricking hasty and myopic people into voting for the wrong candidate.
So three guys are out hunting one December morning. About an hour after eggs, bacon and hot coffee, one says to the other two "Damn I gotta sh*t, where's the toilet paper?". After searching in vain they realize he's sh!t outta luck - the TP was left at home. The only foliage to speak of is pine needles and cones and no one is willing to sacrafice a garment for the dirty deed. Then one of them has a bright idea(!) -"Hey, I know just use a dollar!".
The hunter quickly headed for the nearest private spot, and in a few minutes he returned - covered in sh^t all over his hand and arm.
"What happened!?" - the other two hunters exclaimed - "Did you run into trouble? We thought you were going to use the dollar?"
"I did, but it wasn't as easy as you might think." - he said.
"Why not?" - they asked in unison.
"Well" - he started, "have you ever tried wiping your ass with three quarters, two dimes and a nickle???"
Part II
A bear and a bunny are in the woods taking a shit in the same thicket. The bear says to the bunny - "Do you ever have a problem with sh|t sticking to your fur?"
"Why no, I don't, at least not that I'm aware of." - says the bunny.
At that point the bear picks up the bunny and neatly wipes his ass.
For the rest, you're making TONS of assumptions for which you simply don't have the information.
Truth. +5 points for simple sanity.
It never ceases to amaze how hard the human brain will work to put two and two together. Gift/Curse.
Evertime I hear something about the way things are in Spy-Land I immediately subract 1 point from the speaker/writer/purporter. With additional points taken off for each unit of certainty that I glean from their conveyance.
You make several obvious and good points, and I agree with you. Myself, I am not convinced that I have ever heard the truth about anything in Spy-Land, and I believe I never will. Shouldn't that be obvious to everyone who is not a Spy-person?
I purchased a used Pascal book in the early '80s and when I took my first Pascal class in 1991 - that book had just been eliminated from the course. The trend to bundle CDs with the required books just drives up the price, and some classes, especially high-schools and elementary schools, the subjects don't change from one year to the next. English and Math do evolve obviously, but is there such a drastic change occuring for school districts to purchase new books each year? At the college level I can see a greater possibilty for new books, but the cost has always surpassed the value.
Obviously everyone who visits this site does some amount of reading, but I imagine that we all have always found webpages and scrolling a little more of a hassle than regular books.
As a small time web developer and former page layout guy I have been watching with great interest to see how web-based reading models develop. My personal favorite thus far is without a doubt The Internation Herald Tribune. The full text is loaded, but there is no scolling to reach the next column of paragraphs. Just a click. I find that it is not only very easy to read, but also much better than scrolling either by scrollbar or wheel. This website has a masthead an other distractions, imagine what it would be like if the only other thing besides the text was a page number. As displays increase in size, so will the usability of web-based text books. The additional ability of hyperliking text within each book would obviously revolutionize reading a great deal. If hyperlinks within the text had multiple possible contextual destinations - everyone could learn more, faster. IMHO.
Basically, hereditary drives to acquire sustenance for self and offspring has run amok, see "Lawyers".
Some of these frivolous lawsuits are just taking advantage of the ever-increasing ignorance of human beings. Advancements in technology make this worse everyday! There is more and more information to read, digest and take advantage of (read: defend oneself from the merciless onslaught of) everytime someone hits "Enter".
It reminds me of the old Judges's adage that "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.". Whie that may have been true a long time ago, I doubt I could read all of the laws and comprehend what they mean in every locality, so frankly, ignorance is an excuse. Lawyers run amok.
None of us invented the physical laws of the universe, we just suspend equillirium in unique ways by applying our logic. I say: "Big Deal".
If I hold a tree branch back as we are walking on a path so that we don't get smacked - can I patent it? It's obvious, but I got there first!
Patents are a crock. Lawyers believe their own hype. If no one paid property taxes the Sherriff could do nothing.
So whilst the winds on Mars can reach enormous speeds, they actually exert very little force.
That's very interesting. I've been bandying a theory about in my ignorant little head about what billions of years of wind would do to cover up any lakes or seas that may exist (frozen) with particulate matter.
Maybe there is ice outside of the polar regions that has been covered by more than just a blanket of topsoil - perhaps a meter, 10, or thousands deep. If the wind can only move dust, perhaps that is why my hypothetical basins are not being revealed. I guess I'll just keep reading.
"Many scientists of the day believed that wireless waves travelled only in straight lines from the transmitter and hence range was restricted to line-of-sight. Marconi proved, however, that the curvature of the earth was not an obstacle for wireless telegraphy over great distances." ~ Marconi's Atlantic Leap
In St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi's kite received the letter "s", as transmitted in Morse Code from Cornwall, England.
Slashdot Mirror
As for the name:
Supermosphere? No.
Aerobouy? No.
Aeroship - Hmmmm. Too bad I can't copyright that now.
After the name is generalized we'll probably just call it an "LTA" for lighter-than-air.
I don't get the thing about terrorism though. Doesn't compressd air expand violently when its container is suddenly broken? Wouldn't the damn thing destroy most civillian targets? Jeeze.
Screw Verisign
No thanks. I my catch something.
Frankly, they deserve to have all authority over the root servers taken away from them before they do more harm in their quest for profits.
Now that has substance! This company sux to high heaven and they keep pulling this crap. I only fear that Congress will assign someone even worse and more corrupt if that happened.
You some good points and I the reader thank you.
It reminded me of three-man football team from 1970's Atari.
Hardware [check]
Software [check]
Content [check]
Mindshare [check]
Market [check$]
In the great race to revolutionize previous services, CableTV, Telephone and Audio are all taking new forms. Seems to me that the Pixar acquisition after iTunes means Job's only needs a portable device with a large enough screen to make the portable, secure, wireless future happen.
Pixar will produce its own content, and those who seek to distribute their movies through that 'channel' will join in the success. Filling out the market footprint for Jobs' in 2005.
M$ may suffer from being more than we need with their next release.
If at the same time indie Musicians and Filmakers could get the gear they could offer great alternatives, but Apple and Pixar are a collossus.
Here's something: Literally give your significant other the sun . . . A white dwarf diamond that is!
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Cambridge, and UFSC Brazil have identified in the constellation Centaurus what is likely to be the fate of our own sun. With a rhythmically harmonious core and a 'suface' of hydrogen and helium this carbon-predominant cellestial body is known as BPM 37093. It is the largest diamond ever indentified in the wild at Twenty-five hundred miles across and weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds!". Artistic Representainions and Videos are available here.
The Catto Diamond
A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen.
He asked her about it.
"This is the Catto diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there is a terrible curse that goes with it."
"Oh - what's the curse?" the man asked.
"Mr. Catto."
~Nice.
My Motto #17:
"Never leave sh!t laying around that you care about, you may (accidentally) eat it later."
Sounds like some damn rant. The bloody FCC never did nothing right. Their cahooting diffusion with ICANN and the registrars, and phone companies . . . Then the audio/video hogs woke up and attacked . . . Soon a bunch of outta-loops was doing File->Save As->Web site. Heck I got some shovels to sell any prospector foolish enough to philosophize about protocol awareness.
It's really all about the breaks. The break between content provider and audience. The wireless and wired networks. When the right people or products coalesce - will it be a monopoly? Open-Source wireless networks deployedtoday are the only way to ensure bandwidth for open-minded transmissions later. As TimeWarner if the offer Movies, VoIP and Broadband in uncompetitive markets . . . Who can stop them? Congress? Ha! Al Gore they ain't and that fool backed Howard Dean!
I did not get much from the article at all - and think it was an esoteric sailing trip. But I too wrote a rant, so there was some stimulus. Like the style of Kurt Vonnegut my satire aims to ape: [Context] x [Subject] x [Amplitude] x [Frequency] x [Time]
How ironic that I leave Slashdot to install Mozilla, and when I return the next story is about a MS flaw.
Actually, that's been par for the course over the last 7 years. Not really ironic at all. In fact, I think I am going to do an audit trail of my computing activity over that time and discover how dangerously close I have come to being compromised. Then I'll suffer intollerable psychiatric difficulties and send the bill to Redmond, along with a punitive amount for my suffering . . .
Nah, I need to spend my time reading some linux docs . . .
I took my first venture into Linux with the boot from CD Knoppix. I've been comfortable on every platform since Apple][ and I've worked with UNIX, but I couldn't get the Mo'fo to boot on my 1998 ThinkPad. Anyone want to save me some time and tell me if there is a known problem with IBM, or ThinkPads in specific? I know it sounds stupid, but that stuff happens from time to time on proprietary systems - so I'm asking. Any history at all w/ IBM BIOS on ThinkPad.
RTFM me all you want, just spare the cat. And Thanks in Advance.
. . . the whole theoretical edifice would come crashing down.
Does that mean that my Login/Password won't work anymore?
It seems insane that they would be inferring that they have a claim to your work on your private time. More and more so the further away from your job duties this outside work lies from the company's. You should read the contract more closely, or hire a lawyer for a brief consult'.
Also, it's illegal for a company to offer you a contract that has illegal demands within it. Such as payment of a first-born child [Rapunzel], etc..
If you have already begun working on something then your work before the company sets a certain precedence [it's yours]. All work thereafter is a derivative. This is how it should work, but we both know that if you create something profitable and they find out, they may try to take it from you.
What no one wants to admit is that ideas do crop up at work. Whether they pertain to your job duties or not, we simply come up with good ideas at random(sic). Who owns it? What about ideas that have something to do with what you do at work, but taken in a new direction? Or what about ideas that have nothing to do with work, but which you discovered because of work you do there?
The bottom line: Biggest lawyer wins.
Very Important: I am not a lawyer!
The research also showed that the Internet group reported a greater tendency toward membership in voluntary organizations and a higher level of helping others.
Yup. Worked 55 hours a week, took a light load of classes and joined a community group - all thanks to search engines, online documentations and wishing it be so. Soon, I had a decent job, and with the downturn in the economy I still am able to work in a computer related field. Definately not bad for my experience.
However, after a week or so of continual use of a monitor under flourescent lights, my eyes kinda twitch like.
Another thing, every once in a while if I make a mistake off of the computer, like putting too much pepper in the stew, or throwing a paper-wad and missing, I find that my first instinct is to CTRL+Z!
Buy significant other some soda,
[Love you they will.]
you can never have enough soda,
[Mine! Or I will help you not.]
just ask Yoda,
[Enough 'til they get their fill, mmmm]
you should buy them some soda.
[burhhhpk!]
$100.00 /$2.99 (per 12-pack) = 33.44 12-Packs
33.44 * 12 = 401.28 cans of soda
400 cans of soda = 1 month, YMMV
Of course you might want to hold a little $ back to pay the water bill.
Yeah, I thought of that a long time ago too. Probably because of my twisted take on Archimedes' famous expression about having a big enough lever. I had reasoned that if the stick were a light-year long, then the energy would reach the other end at the same time as light. That compression-thingy-reason apparently ruins it. Of course if the stick were 100 light-years long, would the energy get there faster than light?
Perhaps if we built a large, woooden badger . . .
Yeah, I'd have to agree. Alot of those in the article were teenagers; a demographic with a lot of social angst. The good stuff was the guy who finds weaknesses and writes the virus then mails a copy to Symantec. He should be getting paid for that stuff. When he learns to make money instead of impressing his girlfriend then he'll have more money to be less bored. She don't want no stinking virus!
Of course, I'm no Phd in psychology, I just play one whenever you're foolish enough to read my post.
It is win-win in concept, but then those people become more of a blight over time. I hate these damn conundrums!
No Library card = Illiterate
No Driver's license = No commuting, shopping, taxdollars derived therefrom.
What we need to come up with is something that non-voters want, but that taking away from them will not hurt the rest of us . . . Ooooh - I know: Cable TV !
Serendipity!
I don't know where to begin with this moronic idea. It seems to me that everything Congress, Network Solutions(sic), or ICANN ever touches turns to sh*t.
ICANN should enforce its policy of terminating contracts with domain name holders whose information is found to be inaccurate, but "is either unable or unwilling" to do so.
You mean ICANN is going to contact everyone in WHOIS and ask for 2 pieces of ID - puhlease.
ICANN "takes these issues very seriously" but has not decided whether to support the bill, said spokesman Kieran Baker.
ICANN will do whatever it's told by big business and Congress. Obviously Congress and Big Business are trying to sneak this under for some reason - Why?
That the whole thing is likely to get to the floor of Congress is absurd. IMHO - alot of the crime on the Internet is already covered by known laws, just the language needs tweaking. That they don't know where to start is itself a bunch of crap. This is just lobbying crap.
What the heck is with all Internet-this and internet-that. Why don't they just deploy closed LANs pre-configured with nothing more to configure that attaching cables and plugging them in.
There is little to be gained by it anyway. Apathetic and lethargic Americans will still come up with some excuse not to vote.
The money could better be spent berating these pinheads, or funding voter vans, or introducing legislation to take away privelliges from non-voters.
I think most of us feel that online CC transactions are usually safe, but we take the chance because most of the time we don't get burned (save eBay). Our CCs usually have a loss-limit protection of $50.00. My vote is more precious than $50.00.
Besides, if it was Internet-wired some politician would enact some crap legislation for last-minute pop-up adds that looked like OS dialog-boxes, thereby tricking hasty and myopic people into voting for the wrong candidate.
Part I
So three guys are out hunting one December morning. About an hour after eggs, bacon and hot coffee, one says to the other two "Damn I gotta sh*t, where's the toilet paper?". After searching in vain they realize he's sh!t outta luck - the TP was left at home. The only foliage to speak of is pine needles and cones and no one is willing to sacrafice a garment for the dirty deed. Then one of them has a bright idea(!) -"Hey, I know just use a dollar!".
The hunter quickly headed for the nearest private spot, and in a few minutes he returned - covered in sh^t all over his hand and arm.
"What happened!?" - the other two hunters exclaimed - "Did you run into trouble? We thought you were going to use the dollar?"
"I did, but it wasn't as easy as you might think." - he said.
"Why not?" - they asked in unison.
"Well" - he started, "have you ever tried wiping your ass with three quarters, two dimes and a nickle???"
Part II
A bear and a bunny are in the woods taking a shit in the same thicket. The bear says to the bunny - "Do you ever have a problem with sh|t sticking to your fur?"
"Why no, I don't, at least not that I'm aware of." - says the bunny.
At that point the bear picks up the bunny and neatly wipes his ass.
For the rest, you're making TONS of assumptions for which you simply don't have the information.
Truth. +5 points for simple sanity.
It never ceases to amaze how hard the human brain will work to put two and two together. Gift/Curse.
Evertime I hear something about the way things are in Spy-Land I immediately subract 1 point from the speaker/writer/purporter. With additional points taken off for each unit of certainty that I glean from their conveyance.
You make several obvious and good points, and I agree with you. Myself, I am not convinced that I have ever heard the truth about anything in Spy-Land, and I believe I never will. Shouldn't that be obvious to everyone who is not a Spy-person?
Patriots 24 Panthers 10
I purchased a used Pascal book in the early '80s and when I took my first Pascal class in 1991 - that book had just been eliminated from the course. The trend to bundle CDs with the required books just drives up the price, and some classes, especially high-schools and elementary schools, the subjects don't change from one year to the next. English and Math do evolve obviously, but is there such a drastic change occuring for school districts to purchase new books each year? At the college level I can see a greater possibilty for new books, but the cost has always surpassed the value.
Obviously everyone who visits this site does some amount of reading, but I imagine that we all have always found webpages and scrolling a little more of a hassle than regular books.
As a small time web developer and former page layout guy I have been watching with great interest to see how web-based reading models develop. My personal favorite thus far is without a doubt The Internation Herald Tribune. The full text is loaded, but there is no scolling to reach the next column of paragraphs. Just a click. I find that it is not only very easy to read, but also much better than scrolling either by scrollbar or wheel. This website has a masthead an other distractions, imagine what it would be like if the only other thing besides the text was a page number. As displays increase in size, so will the usability of web-based text books. The additional ability of hyperliking text within each book would obviously revolutionize reading a great deal. If hyperlinks within the text had multiple possible contextual destinations - everyone could learn more, faster. IMHO.
Basically, hereditary drives to acquire sustenance for self and offspring has run amok, see "Lawyers".
Some of these frivolous lawsuits are just taking advantage of the ever-increasing ignorance of human beings. Advancements in technology make this worse everyday! There is more and more information to read, digest and take advantage of (read: defend oneself from the merciless onslaught of) everytime someone hits "Enter".
It reminds me of the old Judges's adage that "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.". Whie that may have been true a long time ago, I doubt I could read all of the laws and comprehend what they mean in every locality, so frankly, ignorance is an excuse. Lawyers run amok.
None of us invented the physical laws of the universe, we just suspend equillirium in unique ways by applying our logic. I say: "Big Deal".
If I hold a tree branch back as we are walking on a path so that we don't get smacked - can I patent it? It's obvious, but I got there first!
Patents are a crock. Lawyers believe their own hype. If no one paid property taxes the Sherriff could do nothing.
So whilst the winds on Mars can reach enormous speeds, they actually exert very little force.
That's very interesting. I've been bandying a theory about in my ignorant little head about what billions of years of wind would do to cover up any lakes or seas that may exist (frozen) with particulate matter.
Maybe there is ice outside of the polar regions that has been covered by more than just a blanket of topsoil - perhaps a meter, 10, or thousands deep. If the wind can only move dust, perhaps that is why my hypothetical basins are not being revealed. I guess I'll just keep reading.
Thanks!
"Many scientists of the day believed that wireless waves travelled only in straight lines from the transmitter and hence range was restricted to line-of-sight. Marconi proved, however, that the curvature of the earth was not an obstacle for wireless telegraphy over great distances." ~ Marconi's Atlantic Leap
In St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi's kite received the letter "s", as transmitted in Morse Code from Cornwall, England.
AT&T, Verizon and AOL received $0.00.
The End