No problem. After eating the MRE, just hook yourself up to a designated fuel tank and play the ass trumpet. Converting food into fuel this way is a very interesting way to save energy. Since you need to bring food anyway, total launch weight will be reduced. Profit!!
Too bad landing on the Moon isn't part of the package, because you can prepare your MRE anywhere. No problems finding a rock, or something.
Sorry, no tinfoil hat needed, it's all out in the open already. According to this article, Israel decided to deploy remote-controlled bulldozers to demolish Palestinian buildings. I don't know if the Israelis actually used those bulldozers for real, but if they did, what could stop the Israelis from using them to clear away those disputed Jewish settlements next?
If Israel can do this, so can any other country with access to sufficiently advanced technology.
By 'pushing buttons' I meant a type of control that is already widely used in the remote handling of hazardous materials and in remote surgery, not total autonomy. 'Watching a video screen, moving a joystick and pushing buttons' would be more accurate.
Talking about setting high stakes for a grad course!
Maybe next we'll see something like this:
AS421 NASA Grand Challenge Goal is to develop an entry into the NASA Grand Challenge to build a manned space vehicle that can yourney safely round-trip from Earth orbit to Mars and deploy a landing vehicle. $2 billion award to winner; success requires major advances in core problems in space exploration including efficient spacecraft propulsion, biosphere management and better insight into the effects of extended missions on human physiology and psychology. Focus is on team-based design, development, implementation, and evaluation of cutting-edge space technology in the context of the Grand Challenge. [prereq] Classes in basic spacecraft design, human physiology and psychology, system design and methodology. Limited enrollment.
3000 units, Autumn (Prof. Cochrane)
I guess I'll just stick to my lowly medical data acquisition with millihertz spectral analysis project, thank you.
If you're talking about C--, what adwantages are there in writing code for the application in a code generator intermediary language vs. writing code in a language that has a front-end to C-- and optimizing that front-end?
The people would revolt if our government did anything truly atrocious...at which point the government could quickly brand those people as un-patriotic conspirators, unleash hordes of remote-controlled 'crowd control vehicles' on them and subdue the crowds in a haze of tear gas (or worse).
Which shifts the question of war ethics and rationale right back to the people in bunkers pushing buttons and their commanding officers, precisely as the GGGP (cerebis) stated.
It's not so much that you can't beat the clock at first posting, it's the $$ that some posters pay to get a * after their name. That way, they'll see articles before you do, and are probably able to post before you can.
For all I know (last visited their Web site just a few minutes ago), they currently sell only one product: the Virbiage 3010 ATA, a hardware solution. I found out about their Firefly softphone from another source, and you can still download it from a 'hidden' (i.e. not reachable from their homepage) link.
Different pricing. We don't live in the EuroDollar zone yet, so prices in different countries are different. In many European countries, quality blank DVDs on a spindle are still well over a Euro (so a lot more than a buck) apiece. Also, some countries' governments actually put a tax on blank CDs/DVDs to, well, discourage copying... (I don't believe their story about using the revenue to pay the movie/record business).
For those who think that I made this all up (and for those who want to study "the mystery of the disappearing article", here's a link to TFA to go with that story. Linux Powers Airborne Bots.
Don't think so. Just minutes ago, I saw a Slashdot story on an experiment with swarming Linux powered tiny helicopters. I was waiting to reply, calmly hitting refresh for the Obi-Wan clone drone to stop spitting out "Nothing to see here,..." when the story just vanished into thin air. Checked many topics, searched, nada. Ruined my first "First Post" in years, too, darn Slashcode.
Hope you're dumping lots of money into an IRA, kids. Last time I counted, there was only one of them.
And besides, if the authorities discover you are dumping money into it, they may accuse you of supporting a terrorist organization.
(Note: This statement says nothing about Sinn Fein, which without the militants can be a justifiable cause worth supporting by those who share their views).
C crates of M Illegal marking devices, each of which could be used to mark N CD's (N = the amount of ink contained in a marker divided by the amount of ink needed to mark a CD), resulting in C * M * N * P (the average retail value of a CD) in "lost revenue".
The reason? In the end you need D/A converters to turn digital streams into analog, needed to produce sound.
Unless the record pimps find a way to bribe electronics manufactorers to only sell D/A converters DRM-ed to hell and back (and even then, some rich geek could use a laboratory grade ultra-high-precision A/D converter to resample), you could just grab the digital stream from the D/A's inputs and store it.
It takes just a single DRM-free digital copy to spread music to the world, no matter how much DRM it had before it was ripped.
Slashdot Mirror
Correction:
a
* 256 =
+ b =
* 256 =
+ c =
* 256 =
+ d
=
???
Take a dotted quad IP address: a.b.c.d
Take any run'o'the'mill calculator and punch (replace a.b.c.d with appropriate values):
a
* 256
+ b
* 256
+ c
* 256
+ d
=
Easy as pie.
Doesn't the ET return to its homeworld? I thought it phoned home to make arrangements for that.
No problem. After eating the MRE, just hook yourself up to a designated fuel tank and play the ass trumpet.
Converting food into fuel this way is a very interesting way to save energy. Since you need to bring food anyway, total launch weight will be reduced. Profit!!
Too bad landing on the Moon isn't part of the package, because you can prepare your MRE anywhere. No problems finding a rock, or something.
Hi! You're from Diaspar? Nice to get to know you. By the way, I'm from Lys...
Sorry, no tinfoil hat needed, it's all out in the open already. According to this article, Israel decided to deploy remote-controlled bulldozers to demolish Palestinian buildings. I don't know if the Israelis actually used those bulldozers for real, but if they did, what could stop the Israelis from using them to clear away those disputed Jewish settlements next?
If Israel can do this, so can any other country with access to sufficiently advanced technology.
By 'pushing buttons' I meant a type of control that is already widely used in the remote handling of hazardous materials and in remote surgery, not total autonomy. 'Watching a video screen, moving a joystick and pushing buttons' would be more accurate.
Well, there might be little daemons doing it when more cellphones start using Unix-like OSes.
More suggestions for time:
Always at 4:20
or
3 AM Eternally
Which Side Do You Want?
'90s: Get Rich Quick
'00s: Get Pr0n Fast
me@unixish$ outlook.exe
-sh: outlook.exe: not found
me@unixish$
Talking about setting high stakes for a grad course!
Maybe next we'll see something like this:
AS421 NASA Grand Challenge
Goal is to develop an entry into the NASA Grand Challenge to build a manned space vehicle that can yourney safely round-trip from Earth orbit to Mars and deploy a landing vehicle. $2 billion award to winner; success requires major advances in core problems in space exploration including efficient spacecraft propulsion, biosphere management and better insight into the effects of extended missions on human physiology and psychology. Focus is on team-based design, development, implementation, and evaluation of cutting-edge space technology in the context of the Grand Challenge. [prereq] Classes in basic spacecraft design, human physiology and psychology, system design and methodology. Limited enrollment.
3000 units, Autumn (Prof. Cochrane)
I guess I'll just stick to my lowly medical data acquisition with millihertz spectral analysis project, thank you.
All the vision code is written in C-- ...
If you're talking about C--, what adwantages are there in writing code for the application in a code generator intermediary language vs. writing code in a language that has a front-end to C-- and optimizing that front-end?
The people would revolt if our government did anything truly atrocious ...at which point the government could quickly brand those people as un-patriotic conspirators, unleash hordes of remote-controlled 'crowd control vehicles' on them and subdue the crowds in a haze of tear gas (or worse).
Which shifts the question of war ethics and rationale right back to the people in bunkers pushing buttons and their commanding officers, precisely as the GGGP (cerebis) stated.
It's not so much that you can't beat the clock at first posting, it's the $$ that some posters pay to get a * after their name.
That way, they'll see articles before you do, and are probably able to post before you can.
Yes, theres windows, mac, and Linux clients.
For all I know (last visited their Web site just a few minutes ago), they currently sell only one product: the Virbiage 3010 ATA, a hardware solution.
I found out about their Firefly softphone from another source, and you can still download it from a 'hidden' (i.e. not reachable from their homepage) link.
Different pricing. We don't live in the EuroDollar zone yet, so prices in different countries are different.
In many European countries, quality blank DVDs on a spindle are still well over a Euro (so a lot more than a buck) apiece.
Also, some countries' governments actually put a tax on blank CDs/DVDs to, well, discourage copying... (I don't believe their story about using the revenue to pay the movie/record business).
the Clone Wars...
For those who think that I made this all up (and for those who want to study "the mystery of the disappearing article", here's a link to TFA to go with that story. Linux Powers Airborne Bots.
Don't think so. Just minutes ago, I saw a Slashdot story on an experiment with swarming Linux powered tiny helicopters. I was waiting to reply, calmly hitting refresh for the Obi-Wan clone drone to stop spitting out "Nothing to see here, ..." when the story just vanished into thin air. Checked many topics, searched, nada. Ruined my first "First Post" in years, too, darn Slashcode.
Hope you're dumping lots of money into an IRA, kids.
Last time I counted, there was only one of them.
And besides, if the authorities discover you are dumping money into it, they may accuse you of supporting a terrorist organization.
(Note: This statement says nothing about Sinn Fein, which without the militants can be a justifiable cause worth supporting by those who share their views).
... anywhere besides Earth?
Does it exist you ask? I AM an alien from another planet, you insensitive clod!
Close, but not quite there.
C crates of M Illegal marking devices, each of which could be used to mark N CD's (N = the amount of ink contained in a marker divided by the amount of ink needed to mark a CD), resulting in C * M * N * P (the average retail value of a CD) in "lost revenue".
This simply wouldn't last.
The reason? In the end you need D/A converters to turn digital streams into analog, needed to produce sound.
Unless the record pimps find a way to bribe electronics manufactorers to only sell D/A converters DRM-ed to hell and back (and even then, some rich geek could use a laboratory grade ultra-high-precision A/D converter to resample), you could just grab the digital stream from the D/A's inputs and store it.
It takes just a single DRM-free digital copy to spread music to the world, no matter how much DRM it had before it was ripped.
Oh no! this has already happened... never mind.