Our moon is stuck to the earth. Without adding energy to the system, the moon will always be a part of the system.
Not exactly correct. The moon is moving away from the earth--albeit at a very slow speed. Tidal friction is widening the moon's orbit, hence, at some point, it'll move out of the earth's gravitational influence. It'll never be Space:1999, but it'll happen. Check here: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?numb er=124
Good lord... The data is the most important part of your comptuer? I call bullshit. The computer plus its broadband connectiom are the most imprtant part, since that gives you shells and the ability to run a proxy- or spamming mail server.
Well, there's the problem of extra-solar bombardment, for one: If you have large, gas giants orbiting in close, all that stuff that will invariably be moving in towards the star (Oort Cloud-like objects & such), would hit any rocky bodies further out first (so long life on a scale bigger than bacteria). Also, it could be that not enough material was present during formation of these systems to accrete into a terrestrial body. And there's also the problem of "tugging" between a large, super-Jovian & its star: way too much perterbation to be amenable to keeping smaller bodies in the star system.
Well, you know, all this commentary and rebuttal is great, but is ANY of it getting into things like The Wall Street Journal or The Financial Times? Cuz that's where SCO is waging its war of words. I fear that preaching to the choir isn't what's necessary here. Talking to the business folks is.
Whether or not SCO wins, this will be a wakeup call. Before accepting GNU tools for use in the business, managers are now going to be asking, "how can we be certain that this code is legit?" It is a very valid question. All source has pedigree -- are there any portions of this code that might be discovered to belong to someone else? If so, what protects us from having that code yanked out from under us? Somebody could sue us for damages, refuse to license the code to us, and shut down our entire operation.
Yes, exactly the reason for this whole set of shenanigans. I have no doubt that it's not coincidence that we are seeing a bunch of "linux-busters" on the scene together again--Aberdeen, MS and now SCO (looking to be bought up? Looking for increased market share? Who cares?)--trying to break up something sucessful in any way they can, especially since their standard methods have yet to succeed (linux has taken the MS maxim--"give it away for free and *everyone* will grab it"--and run with it).
Sci-fi: "Altered Carbon," by Richard K. Morgan. Big, but excellent. A truly new set of sci-fi ideas. It's his first book and it's already gonna be a movie (which usually bodes ill for a book, but not in this case). Not sci-fi: Try "Dubliners" or "Ulysses" by James Joyce. If you really wanna unhinge your mind, try "Finnegan's Wake."
Any plans to do a movie (or better yet!) an animated version of any of the Man-Kzin Wars stories? These are, I think, the most accessible stories of Known Space (Ringworld might go over the heads of quite a few folks out there).
Also, why not raise attention about how Wing Commander--both the computer game and the attrocious movie--is almost a direct "borrow" of Man-Kzin Wars?
For a phone that beats this and will be available in the US in 60 days, check out the SonyEricsson P800.
A REAL cell phone, with REAL PDA functionality (including size-reduced HTML rendering cia Opera browser). Already tested and getting rave reviews, too.
I had the same problem, until I booted into linux, did iwconfig and found the 10 digit key for my 64-bit WEP network. I skipped the password section of the setup, pasted in the 10 digit WEP key I glommed from linux and viola! WEP on the Linksys.
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Not exactly correct. The moon is moving away from the earth--albeit at a very slow speed. Tidal friction is widening the moon's orbit, hence, at some point, it'll move out of the earth's gravitational influence. It'll never be Space:1999, but it'll happen. Check here: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?numb er=124
Not too bad, as Macs run Little Snitch (http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.h tml), which makes zone alarm look like the piece of crap it is.
Good lord... The data is the most important part of your comptuer? I call bullshit. The computer plus its broadband connectiom are the most imprtant part, since that gives you shells and the ability to run a proxy- or spamming mail server.
Oh, you mean like China has already started to do?
I'll hold him down, you hit him.
Well, there's the problem of extra-solar bombardment, for one: If you have large, gas giants orbiting in close, all that stuff that will invariably be moving in towards the star (Oort Cloud-like objects & such), would hit any rocky bodies further out first (so long life on a scale bigger than bacteria).
Also, it could be that not enough material was present during formation of these systems to accrete into a terrestrial body.
And there's also the problem of "tugging" between a large, super-Jovian & its star: way too much perterbation to be amenable to keeping smaller bodies in the star system.
Well, you know, all this commentary and rebuttal is great, but is ANY of it getting into things like The Wall Street Journal or The Financial Times? Cuz that's where SCO is waging its war of words. I fear that preaching to the choir isn't what's necessary here. Talking to the business folks is.
Yes, exactly the reason for this whole set of shenanigans. I have no doubt that it's not coincidence that we are seeing a bunch of "linux-busters" on the scene together again--Aberdeen, MS and now SCO (looking to be bought up? Looking for increased market share? Who cares?)--trying to break up something sucessful in any way they can, especially since their standard methods have yet to succeed (linux has taken the MS maxim--"give it away for free and *everyone* will grab it"--and run with it).
Sci-fi: "Altered Carbon," by Richard K. Morgan. Big, but excellent. A truly new set of sci-fi ideas. It's his first book and it's already gonna be a movie (which usually bodes ill for a book, but not in this case).
Not sci-fi: Try "Dubliners" or "Ulysses" by James Joyce. If you really wanna unhinge your mind, try "Finnegan's Wake."
Mr. Niven,
Any plans to do a movie (or better yet!) an animated version of any of the Man-Kzin Wars stories? These are, I think, the most accessible stories of Known Space (Ringworld might go over the heads of quite a few folks out there).
Also, why not raise attention about how Wing Commander--both the computer game and the attrocious movie--is almost a direct "borrow" of Man-Kzin Wars?
The P800 has a 5-way scroll dial. That's right, FIVE-way. So you can use that as a joystick.
For a phone that beats this and will be available in the US in 60 days, check out the SonyEricsson P800. A REAL cell phone, with REAL PDA functionality (including size-reduced HTML rendering cia Opera browser). Already tested and getting rave reviews, too.
I had the same problem, until I booted into linux, did iwconfig and found the 10 digit key for my 64-bit WEP network. I skipped the password section of the setup, pasted in the 10 digit WEP key I glommed from linux and viola! WEP on the Linksys.