- Study the behaviour of the technology possessing inhabitants of this world
I'd head for an area on the edge of a bright patch, but far enough away that I'm likely to be able to go unnoticed. West China, East Russia, and North Africa all look quite appealing, with little to distinguish between them. I'd probably visit all three, on the basis that there might be regional variation in behaviour.
Of course, East Russia (siberia?) is primarily tundra, which would make your alien outpost ridiculously easy to spot from overhead (particularly from modern spy satellites and such). North Africa being a desert would be about the same. Although I suppose they could bury themselves underground, but we could still spot them when they came up - which they'd do eventually, especially if they were observing us.
The best places for them to hide would be in the South American rain forest, or possibly in the Himalayan mountains of western China.
communicators - hell mobile phones are far better than communicators
Satellite phones are pretty darn close to Captain Kirk's communicator (although they're a bit pricey - I guess we still need to eliminate money before getting to the 23rd century.
A HypoSpray for drug delivery without a needle has already been developed and used clinically during the late 1990s.
It is a bit unusual that flat panel computer display technology did not hit the Star Trek universe until the late Next Generation series - Captain Kirk's Enterprise was equipped with CRTs and flashing and buzzing lights. But Captain Archer's Enterprise has LCD flat panels up the wazzoo,...;-)
And in a seemingly unrelated story released today in the year 2367, humpback whales are being re-released in the wild after over 350 years of extinction. Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk saved the planet from the clutches of an unknown alien probe by travelling back in time to retrieve two humpback whales to repopulate the species!
And the rest of the story,... is available on DVD!
It's a sad fact. I for one would never by a crappy disposable digital camera, and hope that most consumers agree with me so that we can stamp this puppy out before it gets mainstream.
The primary reason they're doing this is purely economical. They're using cheap plastic parts and hiring some guy in China or India for $2.00/day to put these things together so that they can sell them for $19.99. That's almost pure profit for the company, and the average American consumer won't give a flying fsck as long as they can buy this shit at Wally World. But the irony is the fact that these same American consumers are the same ones that are whining about where all of our manufacturing sector jobs have gone,...
Goes to show the intelligence of your average American consumer.
'Windows XP Starter Edition' will be limited to low-res graphics, limited networking, and will be hobbled to prevent more than three applications running concurrently.
Damn thing probably won't even run Doom 3! What good is that?!?!
Hasn't Bill learned his lesson from Micro$oft Bob? Apparently not.
I'm not so certain that Penguin wanted that type of free publicity for their book. Much of the/. publicity surrounding the book was decidedly negative - businesses generally don't like that kind of "publicity."
If someone named, "Falwell," put up falwell.com and was using it for his/her own personal website, Jerry Falwell would have no case - they both have the legitimate right to use their own name for their own purposes. Whomever got to falwell.com first, would have the rights to use the domain (be it the minister or some other guy). Perhaps you should read another http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/06/155251.shtml? tid=95&tid=158&tid=123 story about another domain name (a case which/. recently won:-)... Of course, if my name was, "Falwell," I'd have changed it long ago, but that's another story.
This is rather entertaining! The most overturned court in the nation (US 9th Circuit) vs. the crazy sheriff from Arizona! I've always thought the west coast was nuts... guess this just about proves it!
I seriously doubt that anything substantial will happen at the olympics. Terrorist organizations (and definitely Al Qaeda) know that security is going to be tight as hell during the olympics, and most likely won't even bother planning anything major. Al Qaeda's tendencies are to attack when we least likely expect, like some oddball, non-holiday, non-event tuesday in September,...
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3-D visualization has been used in a lot more areas than porn for several years. It's widely used in the the biological, chemical and drug design industries, and in a myriad of other scientific and engineering functions as well. It's about time the technology comes up to speed for allowing us to upgrade to LCD panel displays (versus those old CRTs that we only kept around for the 3-D).
The problem is not just unique to the computer science field. American college students are turning away from careers in the sciences and engineering in droves. Most science and engineering graduate programs in the US have at least 40-50% foreign national students. This is in anything from chemistry to computer science to physics to any engineering graduate program.
It seems like today's average undergraduate student is not interested in any major that won't earn them a six figure salary and a corner office with a view somewhere. The vast majority of American students majoring in Biology or Chemistry are not in it for going to graduate school - they are interested in medical school, since they figure they can get an easy six figure job (until they realize it's competitive as hell and only 10% that apply even get in, the rest are stuck with a biology or chemistry undergrad degree with no interest in graduate school). Although students need to realize that there's other ways to be successful than just by going to medical school and making six figures, etc. Today's undergrads also want the easy way out - they want a simple degree program that they graduate and start making money. Graduate school turns them off because they can't make money fast enough. Perhaps if we told them that if they went to graduate school in chemistry, they'd learn how to make their own beer, that might help (then again, beer brewing hardly requires a graduate education - it's rather trivial).
There are a lot of options with a degree (BS, MS, PhD) in Chemistry, and the pharmaceutical industry pays quite well, too;-) Of course, I can speak for chemistry, but I'm sure there are plenty of other opportunities in other scientific fields or engineering areas as well.
The solution to this problem is simple. Instead of writing worms and viruses for computers that turn them into "spam zombies" and knock legitimate websites offline, somebody should write a worm that connects to a database of known spammers' websites. Then, said "infected" computers perform a DOS attack on any number of those spammers' websites, knocking them offline and forcing the spammers out of business. We'd just have to keep track of this database and keep adding new spammer's sites to it, so that eventually, enough of the spammers realize that they're not welcome on the web anymore.
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will it have an ANY key?
I'd head for an area on the edge of a bright patch, but far enough away that I'm likely to be able to go unnoticed. West China, East Russia, and North Africa all look quite appealing, with little to distinguish between them. I'd probably visit all three, on the basis that there might be regional variation in behaviour.
Of course, East Russia (siberia?) is primarily tundra, which would make your alien outpost ridiculously easy to spot from overhead (particularly from modern spy satellites and such). North Africa being a desert would be about the same. Although I suppose they could bury themselves underground, but we could still spot them when they came up - which they'd do eventually, especially if they were observing us.
The best places for them to hide would be in the South American rain forest, or possibly in the Himalayan mountains of western China.
Satellite phones are pretty darn close to Captain Kirk's communicator (although they're a bit pricey - I guess we still need to eliminate money before getting to the 23rd century.
A HypoSpray for drug delivery without a needle has already been developed and used clinically during the late 1990s.
It is a bit unusual that flat panel computer display technology did not hit the Star Trek universe until the late Next Generation series - Captain Kirk's Enterprise was equipped with CRTs and flashing and buzzing lights. But Captain Archer's Enterprise has LCD flat panels up the wazzoo,... ;-)
And the rest of the story,... is available on DVD!
I thought that was the purpose of the Darwin Awards? To try and filter out the gene pool,... Perhaps the filter needs replacing again?
The primary reason they're doing this is purely economical. They're using cheap plastic parts and hiring some guy in China or India for $2.00/day to put these things together so that they can sell them for $19.99. That's almost pure profit for the company, and the average American consumer won't give a flying fsck as long as they can buy this shit at Wally World. But the irony is the fact that these same American consumers are the same ones that are whining about where all of our manufacturing sector jobs have gone,...
Goes to show the intelligence of your average American consumer.
Netscape was the next step, and was great (until they passed the 4.7 version, then shot to hell).
Opera was good, better than Netscape,... but still not quite up to par.
Mozilla Firefox just plain RULES!
Internet Explorer should be nuked and destroyed.
I would rather use a beta verson of Firefox over Netscape 7 (or *any* version of IE).
I wonder what a Puerto Rican NBA team would be called?
And Sun will always dominate the server market...
And also, Microsoft will always dominate the desktop.
And 640K ought to be enough for anybody! :-)
Damn thing probably won't even run Doom 3! What good is that?!?!
Hasn't Bill learned his lesson from Micro$oft Bob? Apparently not.
More or less ... especially considering the shape of the state of Florida, as well as what we're allegedly doing to Cuba! :-)
However, in this case, the judge was correct in awarding the domain name back to Falwell, because the previous owner of falwell.com had no rights to the Falwell name and was clearly using the site to promote his own interests and personal and/or financial gain (sort of like what Penguin wanted to do with katie.com http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/06/155251.shtml? tid=95&tid=158&tid=123 , except that Penguin didn't get as far as registering the domain name and setting up their site (instead, they were stopped by /. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117050&thr eshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=192&tid=1&tid=17&tid=6& mode=thread&pid=9901789#9901835 :-).
What's worse? To be stopped by a judge? Or to be stopped by /.?
It seems like today's average undergraduate student is not interested in any major that won't earn them a six figure salary and a corner office with a view somewhere. The vast majority of American students majoring in Biology or Chemistry are not in it for going to graduate school - they are interested in medical school, since they figure they can get an easy six figure job (until they realize it's competitive as hell and only 10% that apply even get in, the rest are stuck with a biology or chemistry undergrad degree with no interest in graduate school). Although students need to realize that there's other ways to be successful than just by going to medical school and making six figures, etc. Today's undergrads also want the easy way out - they want a simple degree program that they graduate and start making money. Graduate school turns them off because they can't make money fast enough. Perhaps if we told them that if they went to graduate school in chemistry, they'd learn how to make their own beer, that might help (then again, beer brewing hardly requires a graduate education - it's rather trivial).
There are a lot of options with a degree (BS, MS, PhD) in Chemistry, and the pharmaceutical industry pays quite well, too ;-) Of course, I can speak for chemistry, but I'm sure there are plenty of other opportunities in other scientific fields or engineering areas as well.
What reputation are you talking about?