Humorous hack: have it flash an image of a penis. If Fight Club has taught us anything (other then how to make soap), it has certainly taught us the benefits of subliminal images.
Of interest, I believe this is the first time since 1969 that a single person has traveled alone in space. Every US flight since Mercury has had at least 2 people, the last 1 person flight was when the Soyuz was being validated.
Sadly, Komarov (the pilot of Soyuz 1) died when his spacecraft impacted the ground. I hope this brave Chinese pilot will have better luck.
You've got to understand what makes people tick. Here's an example advertising campaign that would (based on the ad campaigns I see that are succesful) make eBook sales skyrocket.
"eBooks are reading, TO THE EXXXXXTREME!"
The advertisements would show well tanned 18 year olds on mountain bikes, skateboards, and rollerblades doing their sport with an eBook in one hand. The ad would tell the people that for ultimate smack talk, there's nothing like the classics, easilly accessible. "Dude, this is totally the winter of YOUR discontent! SCORE!"
The commercial I see would end with someone biking their mountain bike down a rocky slope, yelling "Call ME ISHMEALLLLLLLL!!!!!" and cut to their parachute opening as the BASE jumper disapears into the jungle below.
Fade to an eBook for a second (it now has a big X painted on the black case to make it extreme, maybe a Type-R sticker to get the car crowd too), then end.
Sounds like there is an easy solution to this. Since they will be capping people with higher then average bandwidth consumption, then all we need to do is increase the average.
With this in mind, it is your sacred duty (and the duty of all those who you can contact that use cable modems and DSL) to make batch jobs that repeatedly download ISOs from random servers to consume as much bandwidth as possible. If enough people do this, then the average will be skewed quite nicely.
Please, no thanks necessary. I only do what I can to help.
Asked whether Schwarz would like to clarify whether he had really meant that full disclosure should be legislated against, Symantec's Asia-Pacific public relations group manager Lindy Yarnold did not directly deal with the query but said: "Symantec fully supports information sharing on threats and vulnerabilities and believes it is an important tool for consumers and IT professionals to gain a measure of early warning of potential attacks."
Decryption logic or neural networks should be well suited to trial and erroring the perfect combinations of words and sentence structures to get the highest scores Criteria delivers.
You integrate a client/server database to this so that each completed essay is uploaded to a central server so that clients can avoid ever calculating the same papers (which would be a countermeasure against software that checks for copied essays). The early adopters would be able to generate small, high scoring essays quickly, and as the battle continued, it would get a little harder to come up with a unique document that meets Criteria scoring standards.
The arms race would likely go back and forth a few times until finally professors would be forced to read the essays submitted to find those that were machine generated. Because the neural net created essay would have perfect sentence structure, an actual person would be needed to follow the path of the essay to determine if another human had written it.
Eventually, the professors would find themselves using Criteria to grade the papers and using a specialized sub-breed of human to make sure it was not generated electronically. This breed would be known as the 'TA'.
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This wouldn't work for the same reason that you using a shopping cart to do a 'slingshot' maneuver off earth wouldn't, not enough energy.
I think we can all agree that the shocking thing here wasn't that they were building the super computer as much as it was that a campus rumor was true!
What will happen next, dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria?
The amazing thing is that code this complex doesn't crash more!
Microsoft has a really tough job. Unlike Linux, MS can't rely on all programmers to be 30-40 year old bearded guys with CS degrees. There are people working in software development for Windows that are hiding copies of 'Advanced Windows' by Jeffrey Richter that they crib subs out of all day without really understanding their programs.
The OS is far from perfect, but I'd say that the quality of it overcomes the design issues regularily.
There are a bunch of things wrong with your post, but I'll stick to one that you should understand. Here's what you wrote:
"Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix:("
The thing about this is that Fox actually approved/funded/aired these shows in the first place. Fox is far from perfect, I'm no fanboy, but the other big networks don't tolerate stuff like Family Guy and Futurama. Fox stuck with the show through four years of poor ratings, and with Family Guy through three years or so of dismal ratings.
Fox is a business. They need to maximize profits. That aside, the fact that they take risks on shows like these is good for us, because occasionally, the quirky show turns out to be a money maker.
If you spent a little effort reading the article, you would understand that the X-Prize does not put someone in orbit, it's just about launching straight up to 100k and then coming down.
If you completed high school, you should know that orbit involves traveling around 17 thousand miles per hour sideways.
I saw this story when it was originally posted and there were less then 5 comments. I went to Amazon.com and looked up the title. The sales rank for it was in the 400ks, like 450,000 +/- 10%.
An hour later, I checked and its sales rank had gone up to 800 something.
Tonight, I check and it is now the 40th most popular book being sold on Amazon.
Behold the power of slashdot!
(not to mention that not every slashdotter avoids amazon like they claim)
The real missing experiment is the one where we see what happens when you bother to read the article first.
Once equipped with the fantastic knowledge that they did, in fact, perform that experiment, I anticipate great things from you! Your blinding grasp of the obvious and your brave decision to criticize something you didn't read suggest that there are many exciting truths just waiting to pounce from your mouth!
This really applies if you treat it like Oil with centralized production, pipelines to sub-stations, etc.
The reason this article might not reflect what actually happens is that hydrogen production might be done on a decentralized local scale. There's no technological reason you can't make hydrogen gas AT the fill station or home, it's just a matter of the economy of scale. Initially, you might see factories extracting hydrogen for shipment, but the logical next step would be to have extraction facilities at the fill stations that crack water. It's not feasible right now because the easiest way for a small operation to make hydrogen is by electrically seperating the hydrogen from water, but there are other catalytic or new tech (insert trek speak here) ways that could get it to a point where you have a box the size of an airconditioner that takes water in one end, and pumps compressed hydrogen out the other.
Also, the article doesn't take into account another likely source of hydrogen that might be used, and that's natural gas. There are already devices that crack natural gas catalytically to extract the hydrogen for use in fuel cells, so it's conceivable that until the technology reaches the 'gas station hydrogen extraction' level, we might all be using CNG for our fuel cells. Since CNG has big fat molecules, it won't leak like hydrogen.
Soooo... while the article is interesting, the problems it describes can be overcome and probably would need to be to make it economical in the first place.
Truth, but space station freedom was originally going to have an inclination of 28.5 degrees instead of 58 or 59 degrees that it has now. The closer to zero, the closer it is to an equatorial orbit, and the cheaper it is to get to Geo. Good question, though.
The obvious followup is 'why not have an inclination of 0?' For that, you'd need to launch from the equator, and the French are the only ones who can do that. Well, the French and Boeing's SeaLaunch company (which launches from a barge at the equator). Since you'd need to launch shuttles (and be US or Russian) for the ISS and Freedom, that's not an option.
Of interest, NASA did some research (on paper, w/ mockups, etc) on in-space refueling in the 1960s, but the Russians have actually built up an expertise doing refueling since the early 1970s when they started refilling Salyuts.
Also of interest, NASA did consider building a space tug to do exactly what you describe and more. It would have been deployed in the early 90s and, in addition to providing precision guidance to payloads, could have also docked with payloads and boosted them to and from Geosynchronous orbit. A wounded but valuable geosat could be brought to the 'dry dock' section of the station 'Freedom' (this is no longer a part of the ISS design, the repair bay) where astronauts could have applied elbow grease to fix 'em and fuel them, then the OMV (orbital maneuvering vehicle) would have boosted them back up to geo orbit.
It tasted the coppery flavor of the budget axe and succumbed shortly thereafter, along with the Shuttle C (a shuttle technology based reusable heavy booster).
FACT, the Energia Booster has not been in production since 1988, please check your stuff more closely.
The only part of the Energia boost system still being built is the RD-11 engine that some new US rockets are using and the Zenit booster, a small rocket that can launch Soyuz sized payloads (it was used as a booster rocket on the Energia).
The parent post was wrong about one thing, the Shuttle is not the only heavy lift launcher that can be used for ISS, the Proton booster has essentially the same payload. The value of the Shuttle over the proton is that the Shuttle has hardware to handle doing installations (like the space arm) and there isn't the five thousand or so pound payload penalty of having a KURS docking system w/ thrusters onboard to do the automated module docking.
According to an article I read, while the flight deck elevator (that brings planes up to the top from the hangar) works, the actual hangar deck has been converted to a soccer arena.
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Humorous hack: have it flash an image of a penis. If Fight Club has taught us anything (other then how to make soap), it has certainly taught us the benefits of subliminal images.
Of interest, I believe this is the first time since 1969 that a single person has traveled alone in space. Every US flight since Mercury has had at least 2 people, the last 1 person flight was when the Soyuz was being validated.
Sadly, Komarov (the pilot of Soyuz 1) died when his spacecraft impacted the ground. I hope this brave Chinese pilot will have better luck.
TAIKONAUTS GO!
You've got to understand what makes people tick. Here's an example advertising campaign that would (based on the ad campaigns I see that are succesful) make eBook sales skyrocket.
"eBooks are reading, TO THE EXXXXXTREME!"
The advertisements would show well tanned 18 year olds on mountain bikes, skateboards, and rollerblades doing their sport with an eBook in one hand. The ad would tell the people that for ultimate smack talk, there's nothing like the classics, easilly accessible. "Dude, this is totally the winter of YOUR discontent! SCORE!"
The commercial I see would end with someone biking their mountain bike down a rocky slope, yelling "Call ME ISHMEALLLLLLLL!!!!!" and cut to their parachute opening as the BASE jumper disapears into the jungle below.
Fade to an eBook for a second (it now has a big X painted on the black case to make it extreme, maybe a Type-R sticker to get the car crowd too), then end.
Urban legend. Graphite shavings in 0 gee is bad. The russians also use Fisher space pens since the 60s.
If it had been an ultra high resolution movie of a train coming at the camera, the audience might have died of fright.
Sounds like there is an easy solution to this. Since they will be capping people with higher then average bandwidth consumption, then all we need to do is increase the average.
With this in mind, it is your sacred duty (and the duty of all those who you can contact that use cable modems and DSL) to make batch jobs that repeatedly download ISOs from random servers to consume as much bandwidth as possible. If enough people do this, then the average will be skewed quite nicely.
Please, no thanks necessary. I only do what I can to help.
An important clarification from an article on this subject a few days ago:
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Asked whether Schwarz would like to clarify whether he had really meant that full disclosure should be legislated against, Symantec's Asia-Pacific public relations group manager Lindy Yarnold did not directly deal with the query but said: "Symantec fully supports information sharing on threats and vulnerabilities and believes it is an important tool for consumers and IT professionals to gain a measure of early warning of potential attacks."
I'm running netware, that means I can't even play tuxracer! Why oh why won't Valve give me a netware port?
One other thing, I have this Amiga....
Decryption logic or neural networks should be well suited to trial and erroring the perfect combinations of words and sentence structures to get the highest scores Criteria delivers.
You integrate a client/server database to this so that each completed essay is uploaded to a central server so that clients can avoid ever calculating the same papers (which would be a countermeasure against software that checks for copied essays). The early adopters would be able to generate small, high scoring essays quickly, and as the battle continued, it would get a little harder to come up with a unique document that meets Criteria scoring standards.
The arms race would likely go back and forth a few times until finally professors would be forced to read the essays submitted to find those that were machine generated. Because the neural net created essay would have perfect sentence structure, an actual person would be needed to follow the path of the essay to determine if another human had written it.
Eventually, the professors would find themselves using Criteria to grade the papers and using a specialized sub-breed of human to make sure it was not generated electronically. This breed would be known as the 'TA'.
This wouldn't work for the same reason that you using a shopping cart to do a 'slingshot' maneuver off earth wouldn't, not enough energy.
What will happen next, dogs and cats living together? Mass hysteria?
Oblig simp: "Oh why did I register with Insta-Trace?!" - H. Simpsons
ooooh, insulted by an AC. My very world-structure has been compromised!
#define ROLLING_EYES
The amazing thing is that code this complex doesn't crash more!
Microsoft has a really tough job. Unlike Linux, MS can't rely on all programmers to be 30-40 year old bearded guys with CS degrees. There are people working in software development for Windows that are hiding copies of 'Advanced Windows' by Jeffrey Richter that they crib subs out of all day without really understanding their programs.
The OS is far from perfect, but I'd say that the quality of it overcomes the design issues regularily.
Oh geez....
:("
There are a bunch of things wrong with your post, but I'll stick to one that you should understand. Here's what you wrote:
"Oh well, just another shining example of how Fox knows how to cancel the best shows: Now i've lost my family guy AND futurama fix
The thing about this is that Fox actually approved/funded/aired these shows in the first place. Fox is far from perfect, I'm no fanboy, but the other big networks don't tolerate stuff like Family Guy and Futurama. Fox stuck with the show through four years of poor ratings, and with Family Guy through three years or so of dismal ratings.
Fox is a business. They need to maximize profits. That aside, the fact that they take risks on shows like these is good for us, because occasionally, the quirky show turns out to be a money maker.
If you spent a little effort reading the article, you would understand that the X-Prize does not put someone in orbit, it's just about launching straight up to 100k and then coming down.
If you completed high school, you should know that orbit involves traveling around 17 thousand miles per hour sideways.
I saw this story when it was originally posted and there were less then 5 comments. I went to Amazon.com and looked up the title. The sales rank for it was in the 400ks, like 450,000 +/- 10%.
An hour later, I checked and its sales rank had gone up to 800 something.
Tonight, I check and it is now the 40th most popular book being sold on Amazon.
Behold the power of slashdot!
(not to mention that not every slashdotter avoids amazon like they claim)
The real missing experiment is the one where we see what happens when you bother to read the article first.
Once equipped with the fantastic knowledge that they did, in fact, perform that experiment, I anticipate great things from you! Your blinding grasp of the obvious and your brave decision to criticize something you didn't read suggest that there are many exciting truths just waiting to pounce from your mouth!
Hey... you gave all the steps. You're SUPPOSED to leave one blank, or else it looks real. A legit, profitable business model has no place on slashdot.
Shame on you....
This really applies if you treat it like Oil with centralized production, pipelines to sub-stations, etc.
The reason this article might not reflect what actually happens is that hydrogen production might be done on a decentralized local scale. There's no technological reason you can't make hydrogen gas AT the fill station or home, it's just a matter of the economy of scale. Initially, you might see factories extracting hydrogen for shipment, but the logical next step would be to have extraction facilities at the fill stations that crack water. It's not feasible right now because the easiest way for a small operation to make hydrogen is by electrically seperating the hydrogen from water, but there are other catalytic or new tech (insert trek speak here) ways that could get it to a point where you have a box the size of an airconditioner that takes water in one end, and pumps compressed hydrogen out the other.
Also, the article doesn't take into account another likely source of hydrogen that might be used, and that's natural gas. There are already devices that crack natural gas catalytically to extract the hydrogen for use in fuel cells, so it's conceivable that until the technology reaches the 'gas station hydrogen extraction' level, we might all be using CNG for our fuel cells. Since CNG has big fat molecules, it won't leak like hydrogen.
Soooo... while the article is interesting, the problems it describes can be overcome and probably would need to be to make it economical in the first place.
Truth, but space station freedom was originally going to have an inclination of 28.5 degrees instead of 58 or 59 degrees that it has now. The closer to zero, the closer it is to an equatorial orbit, and the cheaper it is to get to Geo. Good question, though.
The obvious followup is 'why not have an inclination of 0?' For that, you'd need to launch from the equator, and the French are the only ones who can do that. Well, the French and Boeing's SeaLaunch company (which launches from a barge at the equator). Since you'd need to launch shuttles (and be US or Russian) for the ISS and Freedom, that's not an option.
Of interest, NASA did some research (on paper, w/ mockups, etc) on in-space refueling in the 1960s, but the Russians have actually built up an expertise doing refueling since the early 1970s when they started refilling Salyuts.
Also of interest, NASA did consider building a space tug to do exactly what you describe and more. It would have been deployed in the early 90s and, in addition to providing precision guidance to payloads, could have also docked with payloads and boosted them to and from Geosynchronous orbit. A wounded but valuable geosat could be brought to the 'dry dock' section of the station 'Freedom' (this is no longer a part of the ISS design, the repair bay) where astronauts could have applied elbow grease to fix 'em and fuel them, then the OMV (orbital maneuvering vehicle) would have boosted them back up to geo orbit.
It tasted the coppery flavor of the budget axe and succumbed shortly thereafter, along with the Shuttle C (a shuttle technology based reusable heavy booster).
FACT, the Energia Booster has not been in production since 1988, please check your stuff more closely.
The only part of the Energia boost system still being built is the RD-11 engine that some new US rockets are using and the Zenit booster, a small rocket that can launch Soyuz sized payloads (it was used as a booster rocket on the Energia).
The parent post was wrong about one thing, the Shuttle is not the only heavy lift launcher that can be used for ISS, the Proton booster has essentially the same payload. The value of the Shuttle over the proton is that the Shuttle has hardware to handle doing installations (like the space arm) and there isn't the five thousand or so pound payload penalty of having a KURS docking system w/ thrusters onboard to do the automated module docking.
Of course, Google is not the company Searchking should be going after.
Obviously, it's Mr. Search who poses the greatest danger.
"Call Mr. Search, that's the name... that name, again, is Mr. Search!"
According to an article I read, while the flight deck elevator (that brings planes up to the top from the hangar) works, the actual hangar deck has been converted to a soccer arena.