Look me in the eye and say "Robert Heinlein is a good writer
By that time he was big enough, old enough and rich enough to experiment in public. Heinlein wrote many very good books. Too bad if you (and others) don't like each and every one of them. I find it interesting that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Friday (both good books IMHO) appear to be set in the same universe. Maybe he was in a particular "mode" for both of those books.
Was it a Heinlein character who claimied that he wanted to be shot dead by a jealous husband at the age of 100? Or am I confusing him with somebody else?
Varley is a Heinlein fan but he only writes Varley books. I think its too late in his career for him to write a good Heinlein novel.
But the title of the article is wrong. This is not Heinleins last novel, its almost his first novel. That should make it easier to write because the early Heinlein had a much more stable, better understood (stereotyped?) style. This sounds a bit like Citizen of the Galaxy or Between Planets.
The other day I woman I work with brought in a birthday cake to share with her co-workers (because it was her birthday) and the whole lot disapeared from the fridge. Hard to think of anything lower than that.
Most of the time Windows provides few simple file, display and input services to MS word and excel. I can see why you would want to rewrite it to cut down on exploits, improve scalablity, etc. But why would MS need to create so much additional complexity? Other than the obvious reason that they already have windows built to do what they need and may as well rewrite it since they have all that revenue.
My advice is for Microsoft to spend the next 20 years rewriting windows to run on future quantum computing devices. Word will keep working in the mean time. Should make a killing.
Counter argued by Cliff Stoll in "Silicon Snake Oil."
Stolls claim to fame was his skill at hooking up DEC line printers to monitor the activities of a german hacker. I didn't see anything in "The cuckoos egg" to suggest an ability to argue issues like this. I think he should stick to astronomy.
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They need to be robust in the face of voter use and tampering behind the scenes. And they need to have lots and lots of places where they can be locked-down (often using things as simple as lead-and-wire tamper seals) to prevent hanky-panky by warehouse or precinct people.
Poker machines here in.au have to run firmware which hashes to a number attached to the license of the machine. The hash is made when the machine passes validation and the authorities can at any time go to a machine and check the hash against the ROMS.
As many others have pointed out, this is not rocket science.
A few hours after we proudly have a story on the electronic toilet, we have a story about the failures of electronic equipment that should be more accurate and reliable than anything else...
Perhaps we could combine the two. I heard of a small town radio station which ran a survey by asking all those who vote Yes to flush their toilets now. Apparently you could see the level drop in the water storage tower after a big flush.
There are lots of choices to choose from. Solar energy for southern countries, Wind energy for northern ones (Denmark gets a large portion from Wind energy, already). And there's lots more than this.
building a nuke plant or two should solve the water problem rather nicely
But this thread is about getting net energy out of biofuels. If you need to use fission to make water for fuel, then just use the energy directly. Battery technology is improving all the time. An intermediate liquid fuel may be required in some cases, but the direct use of electric power should take care of most urban requirements.
fusion would work wonders
I don't think fusion is going to save us this time. It has been a long way off for a long time.
finding ANYTHING wrong with an energy source is not a valid point. weighing the trade offs of one energy source's negatives against another's IS a valid point
At least we still have time to plan ahead. We do have at least 20 years of oil remaining, and we are able to engineer one or more better fuel cycles. I think hot places like Australia and Africa will wind up with a mostly inorganic fuel cycle based around hydrogen and methane, while temperate areas will go for agriculture and biofuel.
Desalination can ramp-up to whatever volume you want
Using energy from what? Oil? I doubt that you could irrigate biofuel crops with desalinated water, use the biofuel to power desalination, and wind up with an excess of energy.
because the centre of mass of the combined system is within the volume of one of the bodies
An alternative view is that most of the gravitational force acting on the moon comes from the sun, while most of the gravitational force acting on Charon comes from Pluto.
In the case of Earth-Luna they can be thought of as two planets which happen to share an orbit around their primary. Its a bit like two of the moons of Saturn which almost have the same orbit. When they come close enough they do a 180 degree turn around each other and exchange orbits.
There may not be enough energy to lift the Moon high enough to qualifty.
Good point. You must be the Vincent Cate I remember from s.s.[hp]
If Ceres is reclassified as a planet I wonder if this would make it more attractive for a manned mission. An astronaut could be the next Armstrong (first to walk on another planet orbiting the sun) for much less than the cost of landing on Mars.
That is assuming that the Moon doesn't get reclassified. If that happens Neil, Buzz and Mike have a party.
The 1960s space program was only possible because of the freely cooperative relationship between the organizations and businesses involved
You might want to read the apollo 17 ALSJ. The gravity wave detector deployed on that mission was an exact prequel to Hubble. The device was designed wrong and could never have worked. NASA were prevented from testing it because doing so would have revealed nasa trade secrets.
They're probably going to make your game run under.net as managed code.
This is where the idea of DRM will either work or fail. If I put my executable in as an array of bytes, will the runtime environment allow an i386 emulator to run?
The issues are not with Javascript, but with the web application itself.
Javascript is an easy way for somebody else to start software running on your computer. Unlike java it doesn't really have a security model. If you browse from within your intranet the javascript code you pick up from elsewhere can do things on your LAN. That can't be good.
Your argument about there being some potentially unknown underlying issues could apply to HTML itself - as i said, retarded and uneducated - just scaremongering.
HTML is a markup language. It can't do anything other than display a document.
The smallest of the two pieces (178 g) goes through the window while the second (2,333 kg!) rebounds inside the room, breaking the lamp-shade, the mirror and finally stopping close to the 14 year old boy.
This bit from your link had me confused until I realised it was a European comma, not an everybody else comma.
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By that time he was big enough, old enough and rich enough to experiment in public. Heinlein wrote many very good books. Too bad if you (and others) don't like each and every one of them. I find it interesting that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Friday (both good books IMHO) appear to be set in the same universe. Maybe he was in a particular "mode" for both of those books.
If you haven't yet seen the movie, don't. It was horrible
Better than being a clean old man.
Was it a Heinlein character who claimied that he wanted to be shot dead by a jealous husband at the age of 100? Or am I confusing him with somebody else?
Varley is a Heinlein fan but he only writes Varley books. I think its too late in his career for him to write a good Heinlein novel.
But the title of the article is wrong. This is not Heinleins last novel, its almost his first novel. That should make it easier to write because the early Heinlein had a much more stable, better understood (stereotyped?) style. This sounds a bit like Citizen of the Galaxy or Between Planets.
The other day I woman I work with brought in a birthday cake to share with her co-workers (because it was her birthday) and the whole lot disapeared from the fridge. Hard to think of anything lower than that.
The hacker who found the files could just as easily have planted them.
Most of the time Windows provides few simple file, display and input services to MS word and excel. I can see why you would want to rewrite it to cut down on exploits, improve scalablity, etc. But why would MS need to create so much additional complexity? Other than the obvious reason that they already have windows built to do what they need and may as well rewrite it since they have all that revenue.
My advice is for Microsoft to spend the next 20 years rewriting windows to run on future quantum computing devices. Word will keep working in the mean time. Should make a killing.
Stolls claim to fame was his skill at hooking up DEC line printers to monitor the activities of a german hacker. I didn't see anything in "The cuckoos egg" to suggest an ability to argue issues like this. I think he should stick to astronomy.
Poker machines here in .au have to run firmware which hashes to a number attached to the license of the machine. The hash is made when the machine passes validation and the authorities can at any time go to a machine and check the hash against the ROMS.
As many others have pointed out, this is not rocket science.
Perhaps we could combine the two. I heard of a small town radio station which ran a survey by asking all those who vote Yes to flush their toilets now. Apparently you could see the level drop in the water storage tower after a big flush.
Dams contribute to evaporation of fresh water before it is used.
It works in only one part of the world because Kuwait's energy reserves are so great that Kuwait is unique in using desalinated water for agriculture
In other words they do it with oil.
But this thread is about getting net energy out of biofuels. If you need to use fission to make water for fuel, then just use the energy directly. Battery technology is improving all the time. An intermediate liquid fuel may be required in some cases, but the direct use of electric power should take care of most urban requirements.
I don't think fusion is going to save us this time. It has been a long way off for a long time.
At least we still have time to plan ahead. We do have at least 20 years of oil remaining, and we are able to engineer one or more better fuel cycles. I think hot places like Australia and Africa will wind up with a mostly inorganic fuel cycle based around hydrogen and methane, while temperate areas will go for agriculture and biofuel.
Using energy from what? Oil? I doubt that you could irrigate biofuel crops with desalinated water, use the biofuel to power desalination, and wind up with an excess of energy.
An alternative view is that most of the gravitational force acting on the moon comes from the sun, while most of the gravitational force acting on Charon comes from Pluto.
In the case of Earth-Luna they can be thought of as two planets which happen to share an orbit around their primary. Its a bit like two of the moons of Saturn which almost have the same orbit. When they come close enough they do a 180 degree turn around each other and exchange orbits.
Good point. You must be the Vincent Cate I remember from s.s.[hp]
If Ceres is reclassified as a planet I wonder if this would make it more attractive for a manned mission. An astronaut could be the next Armstrong (first to walk on another planet orbiting the sun) for much less than the cost of landing on Mars.
That is assuming that the Moon doesn't get reclassified. If that happens Neil, Buzz and Mike have a party.
You might want to read the apollo 17 ALSJ. The gravity wave detector deployed on that mission was an exact prequel to Hubble. The device was designed wrong and could never have worked. NASA were prevented from testing it because doing so would have revealed nasa trade secrets.
This is where the idea of DRM will either work or fail. If I put my executable in as an array of bytes, will the runtime environment allow an i386 emulator to run?
Maybe the games will run in a VM, so in a sense they will never leave XNA Game Studio Express.
.... "Linux kernel"
Javascript is an easy way for somebody else to start software running on your computer. Unlike java it doesn't really have a security model. If you browse from within your intranet the javascript code you pick up from elsewhere can do things on your LAN. That can't be good.
HTML is a markup language. It can't do anything other than display a document.
This bit from your link had me confused until I realised it was a European comma, not an everybody else comma.
I thought sudo was just a shell for running pseudocode. Damn now I will have to start doing it in my head again.
Its too soon for that. We are not into the post attack panic yet.