I thought that was exactly what centaur was meant to be for.
Proposed initially for launch on top of saturn, then the shuttle and finally launched on titan IV so that the military could get their "shuttle" payloads into space without using post-challenger shuttles..
You missed the bit how he tried to cut a couple of bottles first before giving up and getting a professional glass cutter to do the job. I wonder if his second (or third) attempt was getting better or worse than the first.
Also throw in a sledgehammer (for making holes, or otherwise dissasembeling), Bondo (for fixing holes, and finiky re-assembely...) and a Dremel (finiky dissasembely that the Leatherman wont/would take too long to handle)
and you should be set to survive on a distant moon...
They could have a motorized cart that drags soldiers around by a tether/seat. The cart would be motorized and follow the pulling on the steering wheel. The cart can be really tough and have wheels on all ends so it can climb out of ditches using tracks on the wheels. Stuff can be secured inside so it won't get thrown about by the shaking. Soldiers can also be protect by travelling withing the armoured cart.
And this was designed in the 80's, with core memory, for good reasons... Core memory is bloody resilient. They only replaced it after challenger because it was rusting! I doubt how resilient flash memory is to cosmic rays because of the size of the storage units (transistors?-- whatever). Todays nano-scale memory doesnt take nicely to being hit by radiation and will get errors.
Apparently the Thinkpads? that do go up on the shuttle were *not* certified for use in space and will crash every few hours/days due to radiation issues, but are used anyway because they are not mission critical, and using a 8086 just isnt cool anymore...
The mars rovers went up with several hundred megabytes of *modern* radiation hardened solid state units, and they havnt worked flawlessly either (but maybe that was software issues...)
I read a hard drive mod like this probably over a year ago... His preferred method was to use the bathroom...
err, use A bathroom. Close the door (dont turn the fan on), turn on the shower with hot water and let the room steam up. turn off the shower and let the steam dissipate. Supposably the steam will form little droplets and pull any dust out of the air.
I guess your plastic box and a kettle/steam cleaner would do the trick also...
"Dome" around here is a coffee shop a la Starbucks...
But in their stores they often have a mural with an old sail ship with their logo on the back. Problem is the boat is narrow, so they put it across two lines...
Where i work there is an official recommendation that passwords *should* be changed regulary, but no hard coded policy... result 1 permenant password.
My gf's work has a windows policy to change it every 30 days. result 2 'permenant' passwords in the style of "password"--"wordpass"
And ex's work also had complex requirments for passwords based on similarity to past passwords 6 generations back... result writing down the password. And a whole pile of wated time each month trying to think of something that fitted the really long list of rules (double letters, paliondromes, adjacent keys!, more that 3 letters the same as the last 6 passwords, numbers that might spell something on a t9 keyboard... etc etc) "pAsswOrdZZ123qwerty" is really quite strong, but stupid rules dissallow them...
But only enough to address the individivual molecules of about 20 nanograms of fat from my svelt body...
On a more serious note, your figures assume the amount of address space used on *earth* at one point in time. What if IPs were to be throw-away certificates for an item (the toaster i get next year will not have the same IP as my last one, lest i get confused...)
Plus I am sure there will have to be other "personal" devices such as pacemakers or general health/wellbeing detectors... And profanitiy detectors on the walls (think Demolition Man)
After the 90 days are up they would still have released him. And they would not even have to explain why he'd been locked up, because he'd never been charged.
And currently in Australia, you would not be allowed to tell anyone where you are/were (including family, employers, anyone), and the media are not allowed to report on it either...
So even if you were innocent you would be lucky to get a "there there" and a pat on the back from the people you care about, let alone an apology from the authorities...
I can't be bothered going through *all* the listings, but the prices you quote are for discounted box sets, just a smaller set than the "Ultimate". I wonder what the total would come to for RRP of the individual DVD's of individual seasons... Thats how they get these "massive savings" figures...
(Thank the gods that QM doesn't work at macroscopic scales or else we'd never get any work done)
I think it does... The observation (the bloody long report) on the work means that the work changed (didnt get done, as i was spending all my time reporting err "observing" it)
Its more the debate between the theory of evolution Vs the dogma of Genesis. "Intelligent design" is the middle ground.
What gets me is how new religious ideas pop up in this middle ground to try get in on the debate. Now i know nothing about the truth of the "wedge document" that is supposed to explicitely say that this idea is to undermine the evolution theory, but i have seen many examples of "definitave evidence" for intelligent design that just dont have any basis in reality.
Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. There are many who believe in a divine being, but its just that he doesnt really meddle in our plane of existance very often...
Personally, I believe that religion is all too often used to explain things that cant be explained yet. Someone famous said it well, i just cant remember who or how exactly... something along the lines of "technology of today is so advanced that it could have only been described as being controlled by magic a century ago..."
Slashdot Mirror
or the Earth (Venus, Mercury) will hit it next time round...
Wasnt there a Futurama episode on a ball of waste comming back to earth?
I thought that was exactly what centaur was meant to be for.
/runs
Proposed initially for launch on top of saturn, then the shuttle and finally launched on titan IV so that the military could get their "shuttle" payloads into space without using post-challenger shuttles..
feel free to correct me...
Great script, and me with no mod points...
Thanks for the into to greasemonkey
You missed the bit how he tried to cut a couple of bottles first before giving up and getting a professional glass cutter to do the job. I wonder if his second (or third) attempt was getting better or worse than the first.
Also throw in a sledgehammer (for making holes, or otherwise dissasembeling),
Bondo (for fixing holes, and finiky re-assembely...) and a
Dremel (finiky dissasembely that the Leatherman wont/would take too long to handle)
and you should be set to survive on a distant moon...
OK, searching for 'Civ4' in Amazon gives me as my 3rd (!) option down is "How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men"
Very funny, but still on the first page is :
"Cook Right for Your Type : The Practical Kitchen Companion to Eat Right 4 Your Type, Including More Than 200 Original Recipes..."
Telling me i cant get a woman and that I am fat! oh wait...
Next generation...
They could have a motorized cart that drags soldiers around by a tether/seat. The cart would be motorized and follow the pulling on the steering wheel. The cart can be really tough and have wheels on all ends so it can climb out of ditches using tracks on the wheels. Stuff can be secured inside so it won't get thrown about by the shaking. Soldiers can also be protect by travelling withing the armoured cart.
That sounds somewhat familiar...
And this was designed in the 80's, with core memory, for good reasons... Core memory is bloody resilient. They only replaced it after challenger because it was rusting! I doubt how resilient flash memory is to cosmic rays because of the size of the storage units (transistors?-- whatever). Todays nano-scale memory doesnt take nicely to being hit by radiation and will get errors.
Apparently the Thinkpads? that do go up on the shuttle were *not* certified for use in space and will crash every few hours/days due to radiation issues, but are used anyway because they are not mission critical, and using a 8086 just isnt cool anymore...
The mars rovers went up with several hundred megabytes of *modern* radiation hardened solid state units, and they havnt worked flawlessly either (but maybe that was software issues...)
I read a hard drive mod like this probably over a year ago... His preferred method was to use the bathroom...
err, use A bathroom. Close the door (dont turn the fan on), turn on the shower with hot water and let the room steam up. turn off the shower and let the steam dissipate. Supposably the steam will form little droplets and pull any dust out of the air.
I guess your plastic box and a kettle/steam cleaner would do the trick also...
"Dome" around here is a coffee shop a la Starbucks...
But in their stores they often have a mural with an old sail ship with their logo on the back. Problem is the boat is narrow, so they put it across two lines...
DO
ME
Where i work there is an official recommendation that passwords *should* be changed regulary, but no hard coded policy... result 1 permenant password.
My gf's work has a windows policy to change it every 30 days. result 2 'permenant' passwords in the style of "password"--"wordpass"
And ex's work also had complex requirments for passwords based on similarity to past passwords 6 generations back... result writing down the password. And a whole pile of wated time each month trying to think of something that fitted the really long list of rules (double letters, paliondromes, adjacent keys!, more that 3 letters the same as the last 6 passwords, numbers that might spell something on a t9 keyboard... etc etc) "pAsswOrdZZ123qwerty" is really quite strong, but stupid rules dissallow them...
LOL. My home server is called "fluffybunny". The passwords however are 'strong'...
What I want instead of a cell phone for my cats, is a webcam with night vision!
Just duct tape a camcorder, perhaps a betamax broadcast unit that weighs over 10 pounds to kitty (or is that duct tape the kitty to the betamax?).
That would make me quite happy...
I got a dead rat on my doorstep this morning.
:)
Your doorstep? You're cats must not love you. Mine bring them all the way to my BED!
Dead rats to your bed? You're cats must not love you. Mine bring them in and put them on my pillow, ALIVE!
On the same line...
"Every take-off is optional,
Every landing is mandatory"
nah, just combine it with a nukalar powered roomba and let it go... it may take a while, but it will *eventually* cover the whole surface of the moon.
But only enough to address the individivual molecules of about 20 nanograms of fat from my svelt body...
On a more serious note, your figures assume the amount of address space used on *earth* at one point in time. What if IPs were to be throw-away certificates for an item (the toaster i get next year will not have the same IP as my last one, lest i get confused...)
That would be wastefull, but certainly plausible
You forgot IPs for this (**NSFW**)
Plus I am sure there will have to be other "personal" devices such as pacemakers or general health/wellbeing detectors... And profanitiy detectors on the walls (think Demolition Man)
After the 90 days are up they would still have released him. And they would not even have to explain why he'd been locked up, because he'd never been charged.
And currently in Australia, you would not be allowed to tell anyone where you are/were (including family, employers, anyone), and the media are not allowed to report on it either...
So even if you were innocent you would be lucky to get a "there there" and a pat on the back from the people you care about, let alone an apology from the authorities...
Thanks, that is exactly the quote i was after...
I can't be bothered going through *all* the listings, but the prices you quote are for discounted box sets, just a smaller set than the "Ultimate". I wonder what the total would come to for RRP of the individual DVD's of individual seasons... Thats how they get these "massive savings" figures...
The sad thing is, it *is* at least 30% off...
List Price: $3,908.99
Price: $2,499.99
You Save: $1,409.00 (36%)
funnier... "You may also be interested in these items..."
Above All Co. L74995CN Forearm Forklift Lifting Straps
is it really that heavy???
(Thank the gods that QM doesn't work at macroscopic scales or else we'd never get any work done)
I think it does... The observation (the bloody long report) on the work means that the work changed (didnt get done, as i was spending all my time reporting err "observing" it)
Its more the debate between the theory of evolution Vs the dogma of Genesis. "Intelligent design" is the middle ground.
What gets me is how new religious ideas pop up in this middle ground to try get in on the debate. Now i know nothing about the truth of the "wedge document" that is supposed to explicitely say that this idea is to undermine the evolution theory, but i have seen many examples of "definitave evidence" for intelligent design that just dont have any basis in reality.
Religion and science are not mutually exclusive. There are many who believe in a divine being, but its just that he doesnt really meddle in our plane of existance very often...
Personally, I believe that religion is all too often used to explain things that cant be explained yet. Someone famous said it well, i just cant remember who or how exactly... something along the lines of "technology of today is so advanced that it could have only been described as being controlled by magic a century ago..."
In Australia at least i often hear stories in the media after i had read them on /. Particularly the local radio stations...