Remember that reporters rarely know much about technology. To them, everything is a "Pentium," including the monitor. These are probably P4/2.0GHz or at least a high-end P-III, not an i586-generation machine running at 120MHz.
A dollar a song is absurd. I really *COULD* record the song off the radio for free, and with a really good radio it would sound approximately as good as a 128kbps MP3. Would I somehow be outside my rights to do that?
For 50 cents, though, I could get a 16-track album for 8 bucks. That's reasonable, and convenient.
IIRC, transwarp doesn't actually make your trip any faster with respect to how the traveler perceives it. Instead it somehow dilates (or contracts, I forget which) time so that on the outside it seems like you took a lot less time than you did inside the ship.
So you think you were traveling for 2 weeks, but everyone else thinks your trip took 1 week. Something like that.
I always thought that explanation was lame, personally, and it did come from "Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise," which really is tremendously inconsistent with the rest of the ST Universe. So who knows.
I think you just found a reference I didn't know about.
The line is from Star Control 2. I guess they must have ganked it from AD&D. There's a lot of extremely liberal references to everything shot throughout the game, though - it's basically Uplift the Computer Game, for one thing.
This was a commercial endeavor, and a really stupid one at that.
I said "Ukrainians" can't afford to do that, not "The Ukraine."
No aspersions were being cast on a country, just a group of stupid people in it whose efforts would have been spent better on charity than on pointless destruction.
I *NEVER* destroy working computer hardware. Do you?
For Chrissake, lighten the hell up. Work is boring. There's a lot of people out there who are extremely overqualified for their jobs who could do them in their sleep, but cannot find anything more challenging because the market sucks.
Can you blame them for wanting to IM/surf? As long as this behavior doesn't expose the organization to network security holes (sorry, but exchange of text doesn't cut it), what is the BFD?
Rather than make blanket statements of "if it isn't absolutely NECESSARY to be on, it's off," why don't we actually do our jobs as sysadmins and actually investigate whether or not a given service will cause problems when being used?
There are lots of other ways to have fun rather than destroying valuable equipment that could be used to educate a child or connect a library to the Internet.
The Ukraine is not the wealthiest country in the world by any means. Every single piece of computer hardware they've got is an extremely valuable commodity and could be very useful in a "non-addictive" setting SOMEWHERE. How about a school? Library? SOMETHING rather than destroying an extremely useful tool?
If everyone seems to be able to agree that Knoppix is what everyone wants in a distribution - stable, fast, feature-rich, basically Debian with a really good installer, hardware detection and all - why the HELL is it not an official, supported feature of the distro to INSTALL TO A HARD DRIVE? Would it REALLY be that difficult to code for these guys?
There are no Native Martians, Native Europans, Native Asteroid Beltians, or any other native life that we know of to exploit or offend in our solar system. Certainly no sentient/sapient life. Anything we find life-wise will be of such tremendous scientific importance that no one would ever think of damaging it.
"Going to mars will not reveal exciting new facts about space to the general public."
This is patently false. Going to Mars will teach us untold amounts of information about how planets are formed and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life formation.
Establishing a permanent base on the Moon will allow a tremendous amount of important astronomy to be done, not to mention the potential for mining there (and collecting the vast amount of Helium-III available on the Moon's surface).
It would seem that technology has removed that choice from them.
It is inevitable. The way the world is moving, if you put information out there into the clear, it *WILL* be copied freely, one way or another.
If you don't like it, tough. Adapt. If I was an artist I suppose I would focus on making my cash on merchandising and live performances and sell CDs close to cost as promotional items.
Intellectual property WILL become irrelevant eventually. It will be painful, but the world is going to have to deal with it.
22% reported unusual experiences when it was present. What percentage reported unusual experiences when it WASN'T present? How was this data collected? Multiple choice quiz? "This music makes me feel: a) BLOODY ODD, MATE b) eh c) good d) fabulous"
I'd be surprised if he *wasn't* fond of it already at this point. He got an iPod and a ton of cash out of it. This whole thing has probably been a tremendous growing experience for him.
I would not be surprised, either, if Lucas did precisely as you suggest. He will more than likely not violate the "sanctity" of his movies, lame as they are, but some exclusive private visits would definitely be in the spirit of making the kid feel better.
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Sorry, but since when is "arse" a verb?
Remember that reporters rarely know much about technology. To them, everything is a "Pentium," including the monitor. These are probably P4/2.0GHz or at least a high-end P-III, not an i586-generation machine running at 120MHz.
Remind me of what happened in Threshold?
... they cut the price exactly in half.
A dollar a song is absurd. I really *COULD* record the song off the radio for free, and with a really good radio it would sound approximately as good as a 128kbps MP3. Would I somehow be outside my rights to do that?
For 50 cents, though, I could get a 16-track album for 8 bucks. That's reasonable, and convenient.
IIRC, transwarp doesn't actually make your trip any faster with respect to how the traveler perceives it. Instead it somehow dilates (or contracts, I forget which) time so that on the outside it seems like you took a lot less time than you did inside the ship.
So you think you were traveling for 2 weeks, but everyone else thinks your trip took 1 week. Something like that.
I always thought that explanation was lame, personally, and it did come from "Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise," which really is tremendously inconsistent with the rest of the ST Universe. So who knows.
... or Hoegaarden, God save his poor benighted soul.
I think you just found a reference I didn't know about.
The line is from Star Control 2. I guess they must have ganked it from AD&D. There's a lot of extremely liberal references to everything shot throughout the game, though - it's basically Uplift the Computer Game, for one thing.
Who's telling other nations how to do anything?
This was a commercial endeavor, and a really stupid one at that.
I said "Ukrainians" can't afford to do that, not "The Ukraine."
No aspersions were being cast on a country, just a group of stupid people in it whose efforts would have been spent better on charity than on pointless destruction.
I *NEVER* destroy working computer hardware. Do you?
... is a "bad thing."
For Chrissake, lighten the hell up. Work is boring. There's a lot of people out there who are extremely overqualified for their jobs who could do them in their sleep, but cannot find anything more challenging because the market sucks.
Can you blame them for wanting to IM/surf? As long as this behavior doesn't expose the organization to network security holes (sorry, but exchange of text doesn't cut it), what is the BFD?
Rather than make blanket statements of "if it isn't absolutely NECESSARY to be on, it's off," why don't we actually do our jobs as sysadmins and actually investigate whether or not a given service will cause problems when being used?
Hold! What you are doing is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
First one to spot that reference gets a cookie.
There are lots of other ways to have fun rather than destroying valuable equipment that could be used to educate a child or connect a library to the Internet.
You're a troll, but I just couldn't help myself.
The Ukraine is not the wealthiest country in the world by any means. Every single piece of computer hardware they've got is an extremely valuable commodity and could be very useful in a "non-addictive" setting SOMEWHERE. How about a school? Library? SOMETHING rather than destroying an extremely useful tool?
I hate wanton, frivolous waste.
So I figure I'll ask you this.
If everyone seems to be able to agree that Knoppix is what everyone wants in a distribution - stable, fast, feature-rich, basically Debian with a really good installer, hardware detection and all - why the HELL is it not an official, supported feature of the distro to INSTALL TO A HARD DRIVE? Would it REALLY be that difficult to code for these guys?
It uses less power, too. MRAM is going to revolutionize every aspect of computing... big-horsepower things like PCs, yes, but ESPECIALLY PDAs.
I can't wait.
What makes us different from other animals is that we are capable of second-order desires - striving to be more than what we are.
There are no Native Martians, Native Europans, Native Asteroid Beltians, or any other native life that we know of to exploit or offend in our solar system. Certainly no sentient/sapient life. Anything we find life-wise will be of such tremendous scientific importance that no one would ever think of damaging it.
So what's your point?
"Going to mars will not reveal exciting new facts about space to the general public."
This is patently false. Going to Mars will teach us untold amounts of information about how planets are formed and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life formation.
Establishing a permanent base on the Moon will allow a tremendous amount of important astronomy to be done, not to mention the potential for mining there (and collecting the vast amount of Helium-III available on the Moon's surface).
I don't recall a moratorium by any government on private space exploration / commercialization. Where are you getting your data from?
Your claim completely shocked me, so I went to the site...
and was totally amazed. I had no idea the project was developed for that long. I also had no idea Gemini had become such a capable spacecraft.
What do you mean by Apollo not having "real pilot control?"
I noted, btw, that there was no mention of Gemini being a reusable craft. Any idea if a reusable capsule is a viable design?
O, Canadadia, land that I lovovove.
Canada has no Bill of Rights. Their equivalent of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" is "Peace, Order, and Good Government."
Anyone with half a brain can tell these are not the same thing.
Canada gets a lot of things right, but they also get some very critical things wrong.
the "everyone moves out of my way on the highway because I look like a cop" factor.
It would seem that technology has removed that choice from them.
It is inevitable. The way the world is moving, if you put information out there into the clear, it *WILL* be copied freely, one way or another.
If you don't like it, tough. Adapt. If I was an artist I suppose I would focus on making my cash on merchandising and live performances and sell CDs close to cost as promotional items.
Intellectual property WILL become irrelevant eventually. It will be painful, but the world is going to have to deal with it.
22% reported unusual experiences when it was present. What percentage reported unusual experiences when it WASN'T present? How was this data collected? Multiple choice quiz? "This music makes me feel: a) BLOODY ODD, MATE b) eh c) good d) fabulous"
I'd be surprised if he *wasn't* fond of it already at this point. He got an iPod and a ton of cash out of it. This whole thing has probably been a tremendous growing experience for him.
I would not be surprised, either, if Lucas did precisely as you suggest. He will more than likely not violate the "sanctity" of his movies, lame as they are, but some exclusive private visits would definitely be in the spirit of making the kid feel better.