I object! I say that the United States has more screwy laws than any other place in the world. Just take a look at our stupid sex laws that are still on the books. Then there are the laws about where you can park your elephant and how big of a strap you can beat your wife with.
The more I know about computers, the less I trust them. For a while I have not trusted them as far as I could through Colossus. That also sucks for me since I am a Computer Engineer.
Doesn't always work. I was fine with adults, and terible with others my own age. For the most part, I still am, but I have improved much. And I am just about split 50/50 (almost exactly) between introvert and extrovert.
What about the other free players out there? Like BSPlayer, ZoomPlayer and others? If Microsoft had to include those, there would be options for people. And they should definitely have to include Apple QuickTime.
Finding the binary for Adobe Acrobat READER (Free Version) from Adobe's main page is about as hard. Real isn't the only one that does this. I think I usually go in through google to find it when I don't have the latest version.
What would have happened if she tried to walk out of the store with her goods and EB tried to stop her? I am currious, they call the police, she presents her side, the cops have to do somthing, but what?
Considering how close the 8 and 0 key are on the keyboard, i think this was just a typo. And so that they don't get a deluge of e-mail on this, I already sent one off to the editor it.
It's not exactly technology that causes stress in my world. It is when technology goes wrong. Such as when MS Word keep trying to 'correct' my formating because it thinks I want it a certain way. Or a computer is acting up for no apparent reason and we can't find the answere.
Of course, for me technology is also a solution to stress. FPS+GOD MODE+32 BOTS+100 FRAG LIMIT+WEAPON OF CHOICE=NO STRESS Whoever says video games cause violence have never learned the stress relieving properties of fragging many, many bots.
DVD Decrypter Is a great program for ripping it (or so I have heard). It will also let you create an ISO of the Disk on your hard drive. You can then mount the ISO as a virtual DVD-ROM using a program like NERO (again, so I have heard) and play them that way. All you need to be able to do is figureout how to select them.
Alternatively, Cyberling lets you play VOB files off the hard drive (decrypted of course). You should be able to select the disk IFO file and play that.
If it was an EMP, then the electronic circuits would not work at all in any digital device that does not use vacuum tubes. The car computers, cash registers, sterios, digital watches, laptops, palm pilots, anything that has INTEL INSIDE, everything that uses an integrated circuit would be 100% completely fried unless it was made to take an EMP. And not much is, unless it has "Property of the Department of Defense" stamped on the side.
The original Tesla Coil (made by Tesla) is in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Before they were forced to put a Faraday Cage around it, every time they set it off ALL the computers in the area would reboot when they turned it on. And this was for a couple blocks if not more in radius. So, depending on how sensitive those things are, one might be able to do it.
On a side note, WHAT ARE THEY DOING USING MILITARY FREQUENCIES THE DOLTS!?!
Ray Bradbury was "real" Science Fiction at the time. Today, like most of Jules Vern, it has become the past. If you want examples of hard Science Fiction(Deffinition, Take today, advance technology one step, see what happens), try "Kim Stanley Robinsons" Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars Trilogy. Also try Robert A. Heinlen and James P. Hogan. They usually stick to hard SF as well. Most of the books you see in the Science Fiction section are borderline Fantassy. Super Science (Star Trek and the like) are either very soft SF or Fantassy.
You forget that Asimov also had the Earth become radioactive in order for everyone to be forced off of earth. And it was several tens of milleniums later that manking forgot about Earth.
Also, the reason the 50 colonies of his looked down on earth was because the population was crammed in like pigs (New York had 10 billion alone) and that everyone on Earth Lived only 100 years instead of 350 like they did.
Yes, but as you say, it only takes one.
It only took one lunatic that kept saying "Give me this land and I won't attack, or ask for more." to cause WW2. And the governments gave Hitler a mutch easier position to defend.
I believe a better way of putting it would be.
Country 1: We have to build it first or someone else WILL do it first.
A) There is a direct correlation between the health of the U.S. Economy and the budget of the U.S. Military. So, the more the DoD gets, the better.
B) We wouldn't be having this discusion right now if the DoD didn't get DARPA to figure out how to make a computer network work (Other than mainframes and dummy terminals).
C) There is no need for weapons on the Moon, if the UN even allowed them.
D) The first successful rocket launch NASA had was using a MILITARY ROCKET. The DoD and NASA have a nice good relationship, or have had ones at times.
Near 100% safety record? Have you taken a look at the safety record of Airplanes lately? Especially during the 70's when they sold Airplane Insurance (in case the plain crashed, your next of kin would get money) IN THE AIRPORT TERMINALS? With that kind of record, why should rockets need anywhere near 100%?
Why get rid of it? We may someday find a use for what we currently call "Nuclear Waste". The Romans had this one substance that they just threw away or tried as medicine. We know call this substance "Crude Oil". Save it, then see what we can do with it.
We don't have equal protection. Money buys protection. The more money you have, the more you can protect yoruself. Just look at all the sports stars that do drugs, the Singers that do drugs and of course, we mustn't forget OJ.
Those without money, just have to use the public defenders and low cost atorneys and prat to whatever deitie(s) they believe in that there atorney is a good one.
Dam taxes that the Broadband Rollout Initiative keep raising. Cox dropped their prices to $35 a month before a $5 increase in broadband taxes was scheduled. The dam taxes to "Help get broadband out to everyone" keep it just out of price range for most people.
One of the things I have heard is that NASA is the only department ever to pay for itself in the technology that has come out of it.
Seriously, Think about all that we have thanks to the space program. Light weight whell chairs, Tang and Coolaid style drinks, medical equipment that came out of it so we could monitor astronauts health and other things. Can anyone think of anything else?
The trip will develope technology that people would not otherwise have thought of, and it will be marketable.
Being a Science Fiction fanatic since the age of 6 I have a slightly strong opinion on this. I want to get to outerspace. I want to see the Moon. I want to live on the moon. I want a permanent human presence in space and by permanent I meen until the Universe grows old and dies. I also want it within my lifetime.
If we get a permanent base on the moon, we can start manufacturing equipment and raw materials there. Fuel consumption is cheaper than lifting off from the earth with the reduced gravity, assuming we even use chemical rockets and not a rail gun of sorts.
With a space station at the lagrange points it becomes even cheaper, we can even build space ships in space (Star Dock anyone?). No need to build it to survive atmospheric re-entry or anything.
Next to Mars and the asteroid belt.
Launch a couple of ice balls to Mars, set them on a decaying orbit where they burn up in the atmosphere, and you have water and a thicker atmosphere.
Who cares about the risks of living in space? Not me, I would rather be their and figure them out on the fly instead of having some bueracrat, saftey idiot or environmentalist tell me it is too dangerous or we should spend the money on something else. I may be a Lunatic but I still think most of the solutions to our problems lie in space.
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I object! I say that the United States has more screwy laws than any other place in the world. Just take a look at our stupid sex laws that are still on the books. Then there are the laws about where you can park your elephant and how big of a strap you can beat your wife with.
The more I know about computers, the less I trust them. For a while I have not trusted them as far as I could through Colossus. That also sucks for me since I am a Computer Engineer.
Doesn't always work. I was fine with adults, and terible with others my own age. For the most part, I still am, but I have improved much. And I am just about split 50/50 (almost exactly) between introvert and extrovert.
Sign him up for the Boy Scouts. It helped me. Then introduce him to girls.
What about the other free players out there? Like BSPlayer, ZoomPlayer and others? If Microsoft had to include those, there would be options for people. And they should definitely have to include Apple QuickTime.
Finding the binary for Adobe Acrobat READER (Free Version) from Adobe's main page is about as hard. Real isn't the only one that does this. I think I usually go in through google to find it when I don't have the latest version.
What would have happened if she tried to walk out of the store with her goods and EB tried to stop her? I am currious, they call the police, she presents her side, the cops have to do somthing, but what?
Think of how long dos lasted so businesses could use their old proprietary programs.
DOS is dead. They have been using an emulator to run dos ever since 2k and possibly as far back as 98.
Considering how close the 8 and 0 key are on the keyboard, i think this was just a typo. And so that they don't get a deluge of e-mail on this, I already sent one off to the editor it.
Who cares about microbes? Water would be worth it's weight in Gold Pressed Latinum on Mars. Or, for the non treekies, more than Platinum and Gold.
It's not exactly technology that causes stress in my world. It is when technology goes wrong. Such as when MS Word keep trying to 'correct' my formating because it thinks I want it a certain way. Or a computer is acting up for no apparent reason and we can't find the answere.
Of course, for me technology is also a solution to stress.
FPS+GOD MODE+32 BOTS+100 FRAG LIMIT+WEAPON OF CHOICE=NO STRESS
Whoever says video games cause violence have never learned the stress relieving properties of fragging many, many bots.
DVD Decrypter Is a great program for ripping it (or so I have heard). It will also let you create an ISO of the Disk on your hard drive. You can then mount the ISO as a virtual DVD-ROM using a program like NERO (again, so I have heard) and play them that way. All you need to be able to do is figureout how to select them.
Alternatively, Cyberling lets you play VOB files off the hard drive (decrypted of course). You should be able to select the disk IFO file and play that.
If it was an EMP, then the electronic circuits would not work at all in any digital device that does not use vacuum tubes. The car computers, cash registers, sterios, digital watches, laptops, palm pilots, anything that has INTEL INSIDE, everything that uses an integrated circuit would be 100% completely fried unless it was made to take an EMP. And not much is, unless it has "Property of the Department of Defense" stamped on the side.
The original Tesla Coil (made by Tesla) is in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Before they were forced to put a Faraday Cage around it, every time they set it off ALL the computers in the area would reboot when they turned it on. And this was for a couple blocks if not more in radius. So, depending on how sensitive those things are, one might be able to do it.
On a side note, WHAT ARE THEY DOING USING MILITARY FREQUENCIES THE DOLTS!?!
I seem to recall that UPN said they would pick up Angel if they could. The took Buffy and Rozwell. Hopefully they will take Angel.
Ray Bradbury was "real" Science Fiction at the time. Today, like most of Jules Vern, it has become the past. If you want examples of hard Science Fiction(Deffinition, Take today, advance technology one step, see what happens), try "Kim Stanley Robinsons" Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars Trilogy. Also try Robert A. Heinlen and James P. Hogan. They usually stick to hard SF as well. Most of the books you see in the Science Fiction section are borderline Fantassy. Super Science (Star Trek and the like) are either very soft SF or Fantassy.
You forget that Asimov also had the Earth become radioactive in order for everyone to be forced off of earth. And it was several tens of milleniums later that manking forgot about Earth.
Also, the reason the 50 colonies of his looked down on earth was because the population was crammed in like pigs (New York had 10 billion alone) and that everyone on Earth Lived only 100 years instead of 350 like they did.
Yes, but as you say, it only takes one. It only took one lunatic that kept saying "Give me this land and I won't attack, or ask for more." to cause WW2. And the governments gave Hitler a mutch easier position to defend.
I believe a better way of putting it would be. Country 1: We have to build it first or someone else WILL do it first.
A) There is a direct correlation between the health of the U.S. Economy and the budget of the U.S. Military. So, the more the DoD gets, the better.
B) We wouldn't be having this discusion right now if the DoD didn't get DARPA to figure out how to make a computer network work (Other than mainframes and dummy terminals).
C) There is no need for weapons on the Moon, if the UN even allowed them.
D) The first successful rocket launch NASA had was using a MILITARY ROCKET. The DoD and NASA have a nice good relationship, or have had ones at times.
Near 100% safety record? Have you taken a look at the safety record of Airplanes lately? Especially during the 70's when they sold Airplane Insurance (in case the plain crashed, your next of kin would get money) IN THE AIRPORT TERMINALS? With that kind of record, why should rockets need anywhere near 100%?
Why get rid of it? We may someday find a use for what we currently call "Nuclear Waste". The Romans had this one substance that they just threw away or tried as medicine. We know call this substance "Crude Oil". Save it, then see what we can do with it.
We don't have equal protection. Money buys protection. The more money you have, the more you can protect yoruself. Just look at all the sports stars that do drugs, the Singers that do drugs and of course, we mustn't forget OJ.
Those without money, just have to use the public defenders and low cost atorneys and prat to whatever deitie(s) they believe in that there atorney is a good one.
So I'm a cynic.
Dam taxes that the Broadband Rollout Initiative keep raising. Cox dropped their prices to $35 a month before a $5 increase in broadband taxes was scheduled. The dam taxes to "Help get broadband out to everyone" keep it just out of price range for most people.
One of the things I have heard is that NASA is the only department ever to pay for itself in the technology that has come out of it.
Seriously, Think about all that we have thanks to the space program. Light weight whell chairs, Tang and Coolaid style drinks, medical equipment that came out of it so we could monitor astronauts health and other things. Can anyone think of anything else?
The trip will develope technology that people would not otherwise have thought of, and it will be marketable.
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Being a Science Fiction fanatic since the age of 6 I have a slightly strong opinion on this. I want to get to outerspace. I want to see the Moon. I want to live on the moon. I want a permanent human presence in space and by permanent I meen until the Universe grows old and dies. I also want it within my lifetime. If we get a permanent base on the moon, we can start manufacturing equipment and raw materials there. Fuel consumption is cheaper than lifting off from the earth with the reduced gravity, assuming we even use chemical rockets and not a rail gun of sorts. With a space station at the lagrange points it becomes even cheaper, we can even build space ships in space (Star Dock anyone?). No need to build it to survive atmospheric re-entry or anything. Next to Mars and the asteroid belt. Launch a couple of ice balls to Mars, set them on a decaying orbit where they burn up in the atmosphere, and you have water and a thicker atmosphere. Who cares about the risks of living in space? Not me, I would rather be their and figure them out on the fly instead of having some bueracrat, saftey idiot or environmentalist tell me it is too dangerous or we should spend the money on something else. I may be a Lunatic but I still think most of the solutions to our problems lie in space.