Except for maybe cheap DVD's. those are only expected to last 5-10 years. Probably the same for BluRay (although I wouldn't bank on that long term). Most magnetic tape should survive, I have 20 year old VHS tapes that still play, in fact I just converted wedding footage from 1982 last year, crappy footage but that was from the original equipment (not enough light), not deterioration. Throw in a camcorder, that should cover your. Or better yet, a hard drive media player, I'm doing all my digital archiving on hard drive now. The tv interface is not going to change in 16 years, and if it does then there will be adapters. Or at the least a coaxial equivalent terminal. Our tv sets run off of the same inputs as used in the 50's.
If you really want a long lasting medium, may I recommend film. You should still be able to get 8mm film, I have some 8 and 16mm going back over 50 years, properly preserved there is no deterioration. Just include a small projector. Pictures on good quality paper also survive decades (not inkjet, get them professionally made).
Or, you can always wait another year for the 1000 year archive dvd, throw that and a small dvd player in. Even if the format changes all you need is electricity.
So SCO is fully liable for payment to Novell, meaning they cannot get out of bankrupcy that easily. Ownership has not been reversed, SCO still does not own anything, that has to go to court and in the meantime SCO has to pay more money out. The question is will they continue to get investors to fund this campaign? Even if by some miracle SCO was to get the copyrights to unix, there is little if any chance they can succeed in proving any code was misappropriated by IBM.
Basically all this proves is that our court system does everything in its power to make sure lawyers get all the money.
Without a magnetic field. Mars does not have a rotating molten core like earth, it has a solid one. Therefore, no magnetic field, therefore it is constantly attacked by cosmic radiation and solar winds, which not only strip away the atmosphere, but also would kill us in months. Add onto that the low mass and the negative effects that has on bone density and Mars is definitely not a habitable planet for long term.
In what way will moving the clock an hour two months more save anything? Contrary to what our idiot politicians may think, increasing daylight savings time does not create additional daylight, it just moves the start and stop of night over briefly. That time of year, the day is about 11 1/2 hrs long, so how the hell will shifting when you wake up or go to sleep affect anything at all? The work day is bright, and we still use lights at home?
This has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard, I bet it passed with an overwhelming vote.
I think everyone here ready to point a finger at mankind, as accurate and justifyable as that may be, are overlooking one critical detail about this article. The 5200 year old deep freeze was apparently trigger by SOLAR ACTIVITY, something we have absolutely no control whatsoever on. I'm not sure if that means massive sunspots, flares, cosmic dust cloud, whatever. If all of a sudden we have a drastic change in radiation heating our atmosphere, pollution and global warming are not going to have any impact on this.
Of course, this in no way impacts the need to stop polluting the hell out of our atmosphere, but I think a more important survival point is figuring out how to maintain a workable infrastructure, economy, food and energy supply to keep humans in sustainable numbers around through a 500-1000 year stint of ice, flooding, whatever disaster. We're talking extermination of 2/3 the population at least, massive drops in birth rates, wars, barbarism, generally the textbook definition of chaos. Would be nice to be able to preserve culture in this for surviving generations as well.
Sounds like nature has a systme of checks and balances for human overpopulation afterall.
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Except for maybe cheap DVD's. those are only expected to last 5-10 years. Probably the same for BluRay (although I wouldn't bank on that long term). Most magnetic tape should survive, I have 20 year old VHS tapes that still play, in fact I just converted wedding footage from 1982 last year, crappy footage but that was from the original equipment (not enough light), not deterioration. Throw in a camcorder, that should cover your. Or better yet, a hard drive media player, I'm doing all my digital archiving on hard drive now. The tv interface is not going to change in 16 years, and if it does then there will be adapters. Or at the least a coaxial equivalent terminal. Our tv sets run off of the same inputs as used in the 50's. If you really want a long lasting medium, may I recommend film. You should still be able to get 8mm film, I have some 8 and 16mm going back over 50 years, properly preserved there is no deterioration. Just include a small projector. Pictures on good quality paper also survive decades (not inkjet, get them professionally made). Or, you can always wait another year for the 1000 year archive dvd, throw that and a small dvd player in. Even if the format changes all you need is electricity.
So SCO is fully liable for payment to Novell, meaning they cannot get out of bankrupcy that easily. Ownership has not been reversed, SCO still does not own anything, that has to go to court and in the meantime SCO has to pay more money out. The question is will they continue to get investors to fund this campaign? Even if by some miracle SCO was to get the copyrights to unix, there is little if any chance they can succeed in proving any code was misappropriated by IBM. Basically all this proves is that our court system does everything in its power to make sure lawyers get all the money.
Without a magnetic field. Mars does not have a rotating molten core like earth, it has a solid one. Therefore, no magnetic field, therefore it is constantly attacked by cosmic radiation and solar winds, which not only strip away the atmosphere, but also would kill us in months. Add onto that the low mass and the negative effects that has on bone density and Mars is definitely not a habitable planet for long term.
In what way will moving the clock an hour two months more save anything? Contrary to what our idiot politicians may think, increasing daylight savings time does not create additional daylight, it just moves the start and stop of night over briefly. That time of year, the day is about 11 1/2 hrs long, so how the hell will shifting when you wake up or go to sleep affect anything at all? The work day is bright, and we still use lights at home?
This has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard, I bet it passed with an overwhelming vote.
I think everyone here ready to point a finger at mankind, as accurate and justifyable as that may be, are overlooking one critical detail about this article. The 5200 year old deep freeze was apparently trigger by SOLAR ACTIVITY, something we have absolutely no control whatsoever on. I'm not sure if that means massive sunspots, flares, cosmic dust cloud, whatever. If all of a sudden we have a drastic change in radiation heating our atmosphere, pollution and global warming are not going to have any impact on this. Of course, this in no way impacts the need to stop polluting the hell out of our atmosphere, but I think a more important survival point is figuring out how to maintain a workable infrastructure, economy, food and energy supply to keep humans in sustainable numbers around through a 500-1000 year stint of ice, flooding, whatever disaster. We're talking extermination of 2/3 the population at least, massive drops in birth rates, wars, barbarism, generally the textbook definition of chaos. Would be nice to be able to preserve culture in this for surviving generations as well. Sounds like nature has a systme of checks and balances for human overpopulation afterall.