... I don't get it. Where's the usual downside following "Good news everyone!"? Do we have to go and wrest the episodes from giant killer bees, or something?
Surely there's no downside to running, as opposed to biking? Yes, it uses a bit more energy, but it will improve the fitness of the runner (probably more so than biking will for you), and there's no real shortage of that sort of energy anyway.
It's people who drive to your workplace that you should really go after - using finite petroleum resources, polluting the air, and at the same time not getting the fitness benefits of biking/walking.
Hopefully, this is a sale of all of the useless bits of junk accumulated over the years - no real good stuff. The equivalent of a garage sale, where you're selling odd bits you no longer want, but keeping the useful/valuable stuff in the house.
I say this because Star Trek seems to have become an important heritage nowadays, and they seem to keep doing exhibitions etc. about it. Exhibitions would be rather difficult, and not very good, if all the interesting stuff was in the hands of a few thousand fans.
Of course, if it is decent stuff, I guess a single person / group could try to buy as much as possible, and open up a mini Star Trek museum, or something. That could be interesting.
You could possibly get away without using an Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE, i.e. PATA or SATA HDs, CD-ROMs,...), but it'd probably be a bit expensive - SCSI isn't cheap.
Personally, I'd recommend you go with the norm and use IDE. It's what they'll be using when they grow up, anyway.
Ether? So it's going from the minds of rocket scientists, to reality, and then to the minds of 19th century physicists and scholars from ancient greece? Impressive!
It sounds like you're describing blogs, just used in a different way.
Think about it: blogs are very distributed, based on open protocols and data descriptions (I'm thinking of the comments systems, trackbacks, and RSS), anyone can host one, it's easy to attach data, backups could potentially be easy.
It would need some changes, though, namely:
Decent mathematics support (latex-like, like on Mediawiki. This probably already exists, but I haven't found it yet)
Support for revisions - this is the big thing. Again, like on Wikipedia it must be possible to cite previous versions, while the current version can be a work in progress
Different display options - you don't want it displaying all of the article text on the home page. Title, author, date, abstract, tops - which should probably be customisable by the author. Things like tagging, archives, etc. already exist, and would be useful.
A better image (or more likely, a new name for the branch that's being used scientifically) - blogs have a reputation of being teenagerish, in my experience.
I guess the final version would be somewhere between a wiki and a blog.
It sounds like they're mis-applying Game theory. They economists are thinking that the thief is someone who will play along with the game so that overall everyone wins, whereas the thief's better modelled as someone who defaults all the time.
It'll be a sad state of the world when you have to go all the way to the edge of outer space to see the stars. But then, I guess with all of the extra pollutants given out by huge numbers of commercial rockets, this could be possible...
It most likely won't be a tax when you purchase the computer, but one that you pay yearly if you have a computer. Same as at the moment, it doesn't matter if you've bought a TV reciever or made one yourself; you still need a TV license.
I'd check a lot more sites if they all could be merged into one locally aggrigated portal site, but due to the way RSS works its just not really doable now.
How about the site I threw together to do this - KickRSS? That seems to do the job you're asking quite nicely...
Next to that monster display will be a pad of engineering paper, and a pencil.
Personally, I'd like to see this replaced - ideally, with something that looks and feels pretty much the same as it does now, but which is linked to the computer. So you'd draw on the pad as usual - it shows all of your lines when you draw them, has the same sort of resolution as a pen and paper does now, etc. - and then be able to move the image from the pad onto one of your monitors, send it to a friend, etc.
The closest I've come to this is a graphics tablet and Apple's Ink software - but it's faar from ideal.
It's probably worth pointing out that this's only a temporary decrease in the earth's rotation rate - the minute you stop spinning, you give your angular momentum back to the earth, and all is as it was.
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... I don't get it. Where's the usual downside following "Good news everyone!"? Do we have to go and wrest the episodes from giant killer bees, or something?
Surely there's no downside to running, as opposed to biking? Yes, it uses a bit more energy, but it will improve the fitness of the runner (probably more so than biking will for you), and there's no real shortage of that sort of energy anyway.
It's people who drive to your workplace that you should really go after - using finite petroleum resources, polluting the air, and at the same time not getting the fitness benefits of biking/walking.
So as long as no-one tries to kill it, it will be a good luck charm, but when someone kills one they'll become harbingers of death?
(If you don't understand that, read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
Hopefully, this is a sale of all of the useless bits of junk accumulated over the years - no real good stuff. The equivalent of a garage sale, where you're selling odd bits you no longer want, but keeping the useful/valuable stuff in the house.
I say this because Star Trek seems to have become an important heritage nowadays, and they seem to keep doing exhibitions etc. about it. Exhibitions would be rather difficult, and not very good, if all the interesting stuff was in the hands of a few thousand fans.
Of course, if it is decent stuff, I guess a single person / group could try to buy as much as possible, and open up a mini Star Trek museum, or something. That could be interesting.
You could possibly get away without using an Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE, i.e. PATA or SATA HDs, CD-ROMs, ...), but it'd probably be a bit expensive - SCSI isn't cheap.
;)
Personally, I'd recommend you go with the norm and use IDE. It's what they'll be using when they grow up, anyway.
"Only viewers within the United States can watch these full-length episodes"
I'm being discriminated against, just because I'm in a different country! That's geographicist, that is! Can I sue?
Incidentally, this news dates from the end of 2005 - so slashdot is running 4/5 months behind the times.
Or mebbe, why else did they get BootCamp up and running - so they could get rid of all those pesky non-Apple computers?
That paragraph was sarcasm, methinks.
Ether? So it's going from the minds of rocket scientists, to reality, and then to the minds of 19th century physicists and scholars from ancient greece? Impressive!
I can't remember the link offhand, but I'm sure I've seen these before today - doesn't that mean that they're not an April Fools joke?
I'm hoping I'm wrong, though.
Think about it: blogs are very distributed, based on open protocols and data descriptions (I'm thinking of the comments systems, trackbacks, and RSS), anyone can host one, it's easy to attach data, backups could potentially be easy.
It would need some changes, though, namely:
I guess the final version would be somewhere between a wiki and a blog.
It sounds like they're mis-applying Game theory. They economists are thinking that the thief is someone who will play along with the game so that overall everyone wins, whereas the thief's better modelled as someone who defaults all the time.
"... The stars will be visible."
It'll be a sad state of the world when you have to go all the way to the edge of outer space to see the stars. But then, I guess with all of the extra pollutants given out by huge numbers of commercial rockets, this could be possible...
What's the battery life of the MacBook Pro like? I've yet to hear anything but speculation there so far...
It most likely won't be a tax when you purchase the computer, but one that you pay yearly if you have a computer. Same as at the moment, it doesn't matter if you've bought a TV reciever or made one yourself; you still need a TV license.
Oddly enough, my first thought would be "Time to get the pen and paper out!"
Why not just contact Sony directly?
I'd check a lot more sites if they all could be merged into one locally aggrigated portal site, but due to the way RSS works its just not really doable now.
How about the site I threw together to do this - KickRSS? That seems to do the job you're asking quite nicely...
But she didn't need to ask you, you volunteered!
They could have just got him to lose a bit of weight before they did the filming...
Oh, wait, that bulge.
Next to that monster display will be a pad of engineering paper, and a pencil.
Personally, I'd like to see this replaced - ideally, with something that looks and feels pretty much the same as it does now, but which is linked to the computer. So you'd draw on the pad as usual - it shows all of your lines when you draw them, has the same sort of resolution as a pen and paper does now, etc. - and then be able to move the image from the pad onto one of your monitors, send it to a friend, etc.
The closest I've come to this is a graphics tablet and Apple's Ink software - but it's faar from ideal.
It's probably worth pointing out that this's only a temporary decrease in the earth's rotation rate - the minute you stop spinning, you give your angular momentum back to the earth, and all is as it was.
He's an experimental scientist, no? Won a Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, he died in 1969...
I'm currently trying to do something like that - KickRSS (example). Take a look. You might find it useful.