The big flaw with that line of logic is that it assumes Spock will himself act rationally. Isn't it more likely that in the throes of Ponn Farr, Spock drinks Kirk's blood like a vampire and then throws down whatsername and f*cks her into oblivion? Then has some moderately well-acted poignantly pseudo-logical non-emotional remorse the next day, which is so annoying that it finally drives Bones over the edge and he deconstructs Spock's famous ears with a poorly-adjusted laser scalpel? Well? ISN'T IT???
On the other hand, if Armageddon had been shot on the ISS, it would probably have looked like NASA closed circuit TV. Haven't you noticed that anything done in space or by NASA is poison for TV production values?
What I mean by "the original one" is that it was the first 100-in-one kit. I'm well aware that there were many earlier kits. The "original" 100-in-one was by far their best selling up to that date, and stayed in stores for quite a number of years - but was then replaced by another "100-in-one" kit with a plastic front and different components. Mine was just a wooden box with a cardboard insert. The most exciting components were a 7-segment LED and a quad NAND gate on a 16-pin DIP. It also had three transistors, a variety of resistors and capacitors, and a few jolly items like a voltmeter, a momentary contact switch, and a DPDT slide switch. It also came with the unavoidable Radio Shack flesh-colored earphone and unintentional earwax remover. This was circa 1982 or thereabouts.
Yes, I remember using the gold batteries with my 100-in-one electronics kit. The original one with the wooden frame. It may still exist in my parents' attic, for all I know. Probably with green crap from the batteries all over it by now.
After they did away with the gold and white batteries, they introduced red ones and green ones. The red ones were regular and the green ones were heavy-duty. As I recall the alkaline ones were a different color entirely - blue and white, maybe?
I remember reading a story in an old anthology. I don't remember exactly how old, but I think it would be the early 1960s at the very latest. It was about a society in which teleportation had become the norm; their teleporters were called Doors (capital D). The protagonist is a schoolboy; one day his family's Door stops working. They call for service but it's going to be a few days, so he has to go outside (through the small-d door, which confuses him) and get to school that way. He gets a cold, which terrifies his mother, but he starts to enjoy the outdoors - which earns him strong disapproval from his family. I don't remember exactly how it ends.
Does anyone remember this story? Anyone know what it was called, or who wrote it?
I have not used Netware 5 or 6, but I have certainly done installs of Netware 3 and 4 that did not require btrieve. I think under Netware 3 the documentation (folio) system might have used btrieve, so you got it automatically if you installed any package that contained documentation (including TCP/IP). But btrieve is certainly not required for the actual TCP/IP stack.
Have you ever been a parent? It's incrediby difficult to unteach a kid what the schools, peer groups and other adults are teaching them. The problem is not that parents have suddenly become irresponsible, it's that society at large has ceased to accept the presence of children. Two generations ago, a child who misbehaved in public would be snapped back into line by any competent adult who witnessed the scene. Today, children do not get this feedback - so their parents seem totally out-of-step with the rest of their experience. Partly this is due to fear of legal action, partly it's because we don't know our neighbors any more, and partly it's because social courtesy has been declining in perceived importance since the end of the nineteenth century. Parents may share some of the blame, but they have been set up with a nearly impossible task.
That having been said, I have had many movies ruined by people talking loudly to each other, talking on cellphones, making loud comments about the action on-screen, etc. That's why I don't go to movies very often any more. How you can spin that to somehow be DVD's fault is beyond me.
I work less than 2 miles from RDU airport, which is a reasonably busy regional hub. A few dozen times a day, commercial jetliners such as 737s or MD-80s take off or land at this airport. Depending on wind conditions, these aircraft frequently pass within 4000 feet of where I am sitting right now. These aircraft weigh about 50 tons each, and may be carrying up 5000 gallons of jet fuel. Not to mention 100+ people, many of whom weigh 200 lbs or more.
It's easy to get confused here. There is a quantum computer algorithm for factoring, because factoring happens to map well to quantum concepts. But factoring is not NP-complete - in fact, it is in P. If you could reduce an NP-complete problem to a factoring operation, you would have proven that P=NP.
The theories that posit QC as the solution to P=NP tend to involve poorly-defined "oracle machines" based on QC hand-waving, rather than any actual well-defined algorithms. It is very much an open question whether QC has anything interesting to say about P=NP.
It sounds like you're comparing B-III with VHS SLP. These are not comparable formats. The correct comparison to B-III is VHS LP. On T-120 (812 foot) and L-750 (750 foot) tapes, the equivalencies are:
Beta B-II (3h.) = VHS SP (2h.) Beta B-III (4.5h) = VHS LP (4h.) (nothing) = VHS SLP or EP or XP (6h.)
So if you're going to compare "the lowest speed" then you will indeed notice a difference between VHS SLP and Beta-III - just like you notice a difference between VHS SLP and VHS LP. If you compare speeds that are actually comparable, you will not notice a quality difference.
According to MediaMetrix, CNET was #10 in July 2002 with 22 million unique visitors. OSDN's advertising claims they get 6.6 million unique visitors per month, which probably would put them in bottom half of the top 100. Slashdot probably represents more than 50% of all OSDN traffic. So if Slashdot, by itself, isn't actually in the top 100, then it *is* close to it.
I don't know anything about Tolkien's life or what he intended while writing the books, but you are definitely correct that the focus and style changes drastically somewhere between Rivendell and Lorien. I always interpreted this as the changing perceptions of the hobbits as they become more aware of the world outside the Shire: the comfortable imagery gives way to something darker as the quest progresses. In this context you can see Tom Bombadil as the hobbits' first exposure to someone outside the world of hobbits; maybe Tom isn't as weird as he seems, maybe the hobbits just see him that way. Anyway, I think the relatively easy introduction serves the books well; if the books began with the middle chapters of The Two Towers, far fewer people would ever successfully launch a trip through them.
I'm guessing that when you buy a computer, you aren't spending your own money.
The nFORCE concept is to capture low-end market share by providing much better specs than the alternatives, for people who are price-constrained. Suppose you had $400 to build a computer (not including the monitor). The nFORCE architecture is by far the best deal you can get. At this price point, a GeForce4 Ti was never in the cards anyway.
What nVIDIA has recognized is that the traditional price points for high-end ($3000+) or even midrange ($2000+) PCs have gone the way of the dodo. Ultra-cheap PCs are such a good deal for the majority of buyers that that's where most of the market share is going to be in a few years, if it isn't there already.
The Canadian constitutional equivalent to the U.S. Bill of Rights is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which reads in part:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
(a) freedom of conscience and religion
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other means of communication.
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.
If Canadian officials are willfully disregarding the provisions of their own constitution, who are you to throw rocks? You[r supreme court] elected George W., thus creating the least constitutionally responsible executive branch in the past hundred years...
Here's an idea. Let's see how the shoe fits on the other foot.
1. Apply for a patent for: "A method for the promotion of the sciences and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
What you want is a Seagate Barracuda ATA-IV. They have fluid bearings and run so quiet it's startling. I upgraded my TiVo to a 60Gb Seagate and a Vantec Stealth cooling fan, and now I literally cannot hear it (except for occasional seek noise during heavy activity) when I'm sitting on the couch, 12 ft. away. My desktop machine has the 40Gb version and it's just as quiet.
Once you solve the hard drive problem, your next issue is the cooling fans. At this point I have a near-silent CPU cooler (the Vantec Stealth again), and a near-silent Panasonic Panaflo case fan that usually isn't even running. The loudest component is my power supply fan, which I might try to replace soon.
Of course, when you have to go unplug the refrigerator to be able to hear which component is making noise, it's arguable that your PC is already as quiet as it needs to be...
Buran has a dry weight of 82 tons. The Boeing 747 can handle cargo loads in excess of 110 tons, and can take this weight from Moscow to New York without refueling. You might have to disassemble the Buran to get it inside the 747's hold, but you are wrong to say it is too heavy for a US cargo jet.
You could also handle this with an AN-124 (you wouldn't need a 224 or 225). The AN-124 is probably better suited for the project because it has an integrated cargo ramp and cargo handling equipment, so you would require less logistics support, and you might be able to get away with less disassembly. But if you had a cargo-trim 747 available, you could definitely get the job done.
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The big flaw with that line of logic is that it assumes Spock will himself act rationally. Isn't it more likely that in the throes of Ponn Farr, Spock drinks Kirk's blood like a vampire and then throws down whatsername and f*cks her into oblivion? Then has some moderately well-acted poignantly pseudo-logical non-emotional remorse the next day, which is so annoying that it finally drives Bones over the edge and he deconstructs Spock's famous ears with a poorly-adjusted laser scalpel? Well? ISN'T IT???
-Graham
On the other hand, if Armageddon had been shot on the ISS, it would probably have looked like NASA closed circuit TV. Haven't you noticed that anything done in space or by NASA is poison for TV production values?
What I mean by "the original one" is that it was the first 100-in-one kit. I'm well aware that there were many earlier kits. The "original" 100-in-one was by far their best selling up to that date, and stayed in stores for quite a number of years - but was then replaced by another "100-in-one" kit with a plastic front and different components. Mine was just a wooden box with a cardboard insert. The most exciting components were a 7-segment LED and a quad NAND gate on a 16-pin DIP. It also had three transistors, a variety of resistors and capacitors, and a few jolly items like a voltmeter, a momentary contact switch, and a DPDT slide switch. It also came with the unavoidable Radio Shack flesh-colored earphone and unintentional earwax remover. This was circa 1982 or thereabouts.
-Graham
Yes, I remember using the gold batteries with my 100-in-one electronics kit. The original one with the wooden frame. It may still exist in my parents' attic, for all I know. Probably with green crap from the batteries all over it by now.
After they did away with the gold and white batteries, they introduced red ones and green ones. The red ones were regular and the green ones were heavy-duty. As I recall the alkaline ones were a different color entirely - blue and white, maybe?
-Graham
I remember reading a story in an old anthology. I don't remember exactly how old, but I think it would be the early 1960s at the very latest. It was about a society in which teleportation had become the norm; their teleporters were called Doors (capital D). The protagonist is a schoolboy; one day his family's Door stops working. They call for service but it's going to be a few days, so he has to go outside (through the small-d door, which confuses him) and get to school that way. He gets a cold, which terrifies his mother, but he starts to enjoy the outdoors - which earns him strong disapproval from his family. I don't remember exactly how it ends.
Does anyone remember this story? Anyone know what it was called, or who wrote it?
-Graham
I have not used Netware 5 or 6, but I have certainly done installs of Netware 3 and 4 that did not require btrieve. I think under Netware 3 the documentation (folio) system might have used btrieve, so you got it automatically if you installed any package that contained documentation (including TCP/IP). But btrieve is certainly not required for the actual TCP/IP stack.
Have you ever been a parent? It's incrediby difficult to unteach a kid what the schools, peer groups and other adults are teaching them. The problem is not that parents have suddenly become irresponsible, it's that society at large has ceased to accept the presence of children. Two generations ago, a child who misbehaved in public would be snapped back into line by any competent adult who witnessed the scene. Today, children do not get this feedback - so their parents seem totally out-of-step with the rest of their experience. Partly this is due to fear of legal action, partly it's because we don't know our neighbors any more, and partly it's because social courtesy has been declining in perceived importance since the end of the nineteenth century. Parents may share some of the blame, but they have been set up with a nearly impossible task.
That having been said, I have had many movies ruined by people talking loudly to each other, talking on cellphones, making loud comments about the action on-screen, etc. That's why I don't go to movies very often any more. How you can spin that to somehow be DVD's fault is beyond me.
-Graham
I work less than 2 miles from RDU airport, which is a reasonably busy regional hub. A few dozen times a day, commercial jetliners such as 737s or MD-80s take off or land at this airport. Depending on wind conditions, these aircraft frequently pass within 4000 feet of where I am sitting right now. These aircraft weigh about 50 tons each, and may be carrying up 5000 gallons of jet fuel. Not to mention 100+ people, many of whom weigh 200 lbs or more.
None of these people have parachutes.
-Graham
Hmm. I have to reject this argument because of A Night at the Roxbury. I'm sure you'll understand.
It's easy to get confused here. There is a quantum computer algorithm for factoring, because factoring happens to map well to quantum concepts. But factoring is not NP-complete - in fact, it is in P. If you could reduce an NP-complete problem to a factoring operation, you would have proven that P=NP.
The theories that posit QC as the solution to P=NP tend to involve poorly-defined "oracle machines" based on QC hand-waving, rather than any actual well-defined algorithms. It is very much an open question whether QC has anything interesting to say about P=NP.
-Graham
It sounds like you're comparing B-III with VHS SLP. These are not comparable formats. The correct comparison to B-III is VHS LP. On T-120 (812 foot) and L-750 (750 foot) tapes, the equivalencies are:
Beta B-II (3h.) = VHS SP (2h.)
Beta B-III (4.5h) = VHS LP (4h.)
(nothing) = VHS SLP or EP or XP (6h.)
So if you're going to compare "the lowest speed" then you will indeed notice a difference between VHS SLP and Beta-III - just like you notice a difference between VHS SLP and VHS LP. If you compare speeds that are actually comparable, you will not notice a quality difference.
-Graham
According to MediaMetrix, CNET was #10 in July 2002 with 22 million unique visitors. OSDN's advertising claims they get 6.6 million unique visitors per month, which probably would put them in bottom half of the top 100. Slashdot probably represents more than 50% of all OSDN traffic. So if Slashdot, by itself, isn't actually in the top 100, then it *is* close to it.
If I could sell my puke for cash, I'd buy three.
So wind while you're talking.
Perhaps the interstellar vacuum is less empty than we thought, leading to friction/drag effects?
I don't know anything about Tolkien's life or what he intended while writing the books, but you are definitely correct that the focus and style changes drastically somewhere between Rivendell and Lorien. I always interpreted this as the changing perceptions of the hobbits as they become more aware of the world outside the Shire: the comfortable imagery gives way to something darker as the quest progresses. In this context you can see Tom Bombadil as the hobbits' first exposure to someone outside the world of hobbits; maybe Tom isn't as weird as he seems, maybe the hobbits just see him that way. Anyway, I think the relatively easy introduction serves the books well; if the books began with the middle chapters of The Two Towers, far fewer people would ever successfully launch a trip through them.
-Graham
I'm guessing that when you buy a computer, you aren't spending your own money.
The nFORCE concept is to capture low-end market share by providing much better specs than the alternatives, for people who are price-constrained. Suppose you had $400 to build a computer (not including the monitor). The nFORCE architecture is by far the best deal you can get. At this price point, a GeForce4 Ti was never in the cards anyway.
What nVIDIA has recognized is that the traditional price points for high-end ($3000+) or even midrange ($2000+) PCs have gone the way of the dodo. Ultra-cheap PCs are such a good deal for the majority of buyers that that's where most of the market share is going to be in a few years, if it isn't there already.
-Graham
They could fight over whether Gothic or Modernist influences represent the true spirit of Manhattan...
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If Canadian officials are willfully disregarding the provisions of their own constitution, who are you to throw rocks? You[r supreme court] elected George W., thus creating the least constitutionally responsible executive branch in the past hundred years...
Why do I never have mod points when I need them!
Moderators, please mod parent up. Particularly if you don't understand it.
-Graham
No, actually wreckless driving is a good thing. Far better than the alternative, wreckful driving.
Here's an idea. Let's see how the shoe fits on the other foot.
1. Apply for a patent for: "A method for the promotion of the sciences and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
2. Sue the USPTO for infringing your patent.
-Graham
What you want is a Seagate Barracuda ATA-IV. They have fluid bearings and run so quiet it's startling. I upgraded my TiVo to a 60Gb Seagate and a Vantec Stealth cooling fan, and now I literally cannot hear it (except for occasional seek noise during heavy activity) when I'm sitting on the couch, 12 ft. away. My desktop machine has the 40Gb version and it's just as quiet.
Once you solve the hard drive problem, your next issue is the cooling fans. At this point I have a near-silent CPU cooler (the Vantec Stealth again), and a near-silent Panasonic Panaflo case fan that usually isn't even running. The loudest component is my power supply fan, which I might try to replace soon.
Of course, when you have to go unplug the refrigerator to be able to hear which component is making noise, it's arguable that your PC is already as quiet as it needs to be...
-Graham
Buran has a dry weight of 82 tons. The Boeing 747 can handle cargo loads in excess of 110 tons, and can take this weight from Moscow to New York without refueling. You might have to disassemble the Buran to get it inside the 747's hold, but you are wrong to say it is too heavy for a US cargo jet.
You could also handle this with an AN-124 (you wouldn't need a 224 or 225). The AN-124 is probably better suited for the project because it has an integrated cargo ramp and cargo handling equipment, so you would require less logistics support, and you might be able to get away with less disassembly. But if you had a cargo-trim 747 available, you could definitely get the job done.
-Graham