I think perhaps you meant gopher sites instead of finger sites (or maybe you meant finger servers, cause I've never heard of "finger sites" nor does the phrase make any sense)
Back around 1990, I was running a mailing list with useful archives, so I'd set up various automated systems for sending the archives. I proposed (and had accepted for a software engineering class) a "superfinger" command, that would allow users to do more than have a.plan, but instead to have a number of files available for distribution. So their test files might reasonably have been called a "finger site." If I'd been familiar with hypertext, I might have independently invented the web. Sigh...
OS X, in my experience, is a polarizing change. Certainly its fundamentals of security and stability are good. But I know many of long-time Mac-heads, and for them it's not a fully positive change. So Apple lost the enthusiasm of some of its evangelists in the changeover.
Hmm, except that this one was detected Monday. 3 days notice isn't enough to do anything.
For a number of these objects, the issue is not hitting us now, but hitting us years later in some later approach. Tracking it now gives information to plot its orbit for a few thousand years, during which time you might find a possibility of impact.
Or perhaps you could slow it down into an orbit around the earth, and have an instant space station framework. A 100 foot diameter asteroid would probably be a bit small for that, though.
Since the files are all in the public domain anyone can download them and sell them, either as a computer file, a pdf, or a printed book. Or start a "competing" website with them.
As an occasional minor contributor to PG, I have zero problem with that. Microsoft is free to make Word format files of all the PG books, and I wouldn't bat an eyelash or stop contributing.
The only issue here is using the PG name. The Project Gutenberg name has always been associated with the purely altuistic PD book archive. Now it is also associated with a money-making enterprise. Again, I have no problems with money-making enterprises. What I am concerned with is that now if I refer to the project, the listener may be confused over whether it's the free project or the commercial site, and the good name of the free site is no longer so good.
Consider, for example, if Habitat for Humanity started selling middle-class homes for profit.
So now all houses will be made out of concrete? What about the earthquake considerations?
Solid concrete tends to hold up pretty well in earthquakes, and they're top-notch against tornados. In areas particularly prone to quakes, you'll want to use energy-absorbing techniques, but that's true of most construction.
I heard about Iraquis coming forward that were told to hide, even bury, certain equipment.
The U.S. Gov't has chosen to take on faith the words of Iraqi exiles who have long shown that they wouldd say anything that might get Saddam deposed. The U.S. Gov't chooses to believe them because they want to, because it coincides with what they want to do.
Iraq did support terrorists.
Enough to justify hundreds of Americans dead, thousands of Iraqis dead, and the spending of $100s of billions?
Isn't the Moon 1/6 of a G? Hardly Jupiter there, buddy.
No, but given how much rocket we need just to put someone in orbit, making it even more energy-expensive is not a great idea.
if you screwed up even a few dozen feet per second redirecting the asteroid, the cumulative effect would be disasterous for Earth unless we were fast enough on the draw to stop it.
Presumably one would put it in a very distant orbit, then slowly brake it into a slower one.
Not to mention, how do we get to the Asteriod belt
We don't. The idea would be to capture one of the many NEOs (Near Earth Asteroids) that periodically gain attention from coming close to the earth.
For example there is a rumor that says Pasteur didnt discover the penicilium, some other guy did, do we know his/her name?
Yes, it was Alexander Fleming. Pasteur's most remembered (but far from his only) claim to fame is, fittingly, pasteurization; that is, heating stuff to kill germs.
As opposed to that giant thing orbiting the earth called 'The Moon'?
The moon is a significant gravity well. Once you get there, you're going to have to overcome gravity again, not to mention you have to land slowly enough in the first place. While it may be possible to mine the moon for materials to help enable a launch, or to build a linear accelerator that would do so, a near-zero gravity way station might be better.
I'd like to see if it is possible to redirect and capture a moderate-sized asteroid for this purpose. Said asteroid might itself be selected for having the sorts of raw materials that could be used for spacecraft launching.
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I think perhaps you meant gopher sites instead of finger sites (or maybe you meant finger servers, cause I've never heard of "finger sites" nor does the phrase make any sense)
.plan, but instead to have a number of files available for distribution. So their test files might reasonably have been called a "finger site." If I'd been familiar with hypertext, I might have independently invented the web. Sigh...
Back around 1990, I was running a mailing list with useful archives, so I'd set up various automated systems for sending the archives. I proposed (and had accepted for a software engineering class) a "superfinger" command, that would allow users to do more than have a
I still think OS X is going to save Apple.
OS X, in my experience, is a polarizing change. Certainly its fundamentals of security and stability are good. But I know many of long-time Mac-heads, and for them it's not a fully positive change. So Apple lost the enthusiasm of some of its evangelists in the changeover.
Hmm, except that this one was detected Monday. 3 days notice isn't enough to do anything.
For a number of these objects, the issue is not hitting us now, but hitting us years later in some later approach. Tracking it now gives information to plot its orbit for a few thousand years, during which time you might find a possibility of impact.
Or perhaps you could slow it down into an orbit around the earth, and have an instant space station framework. A 100 foot diameter asteroid would probably be a bit small for that, though.
Since the files are all in the public domain anyone can download them and sell them, either as a computer file, a pdf, or a printed book. Or start a "competing" website with them.
As an occasional minor contributor to PG, I have zero problem with that. Microsoft is free to make Word format files of all the PG books, and I wouldn't bat an eyelash or stop contributing.
The only issue here is using the PG name. The Project Gutenberg name has always been associated with the purely altuistic PD book archive. Now it is also associated with a money-making enterprise. Again, I have no problems with money-making enterprises. What I am concerned with is that now if I refer to the project, the listener may be confused over whether it's the free project or the commercial site, and the good name of the free site is no longer so good.
Consider, for example, if Habitat for Humanity started selling middle-class homes for profit.
You might also look at it as $2/each for Americans, although the scientific benefit goes to all. To me, it's definitely worth that.
btw if anybody wants to get rid of his money, I can help
Thanks, but I already have a wife.
It also looks impressive to the ladies without being hard at all.
Unless you go swimming, and there's significant shrinkage.
Whoops, responded to the wrong message. Ignore the above...
Enough of this off-color humor, you shady characters!
See? Even imdb has forgotten it!
Or, perhaps, somewhere next to Uranus.
You said that just for the joke responses, didn't you?
Can we have your liver, then?
What you cannot to is give or recieve a tool that will assist you in doing so.
Perhaps someday there will be geek cruises, where CDs of DVD extract and DVD shrink are exchanged once the boat reaches international waters...
Throwing up the brickwork is one of the fastest parts of building.
I don't know about speed, but it certainly seems to be expensive enough that a lot of people avoid brick (or go with brick front) because of the cost.
So now all houses will be made out of concrete? What about the earthquake considerations?
Solid concrete tends to hold up pretty well in earthquakes, and they're top-notch against tornados. In areas particularly prone to quakes, you'll want to use energy-absorbing techniques, but that's true of most construction.
I heard about Iraquis coming forward that were told to hide, even bury, certain equipment.
The U.S. Gov't has chosen to take on faith the words of Iraqi exiles who have long shown that they wouldd say anything that might get Saddam deposed. The U.S. Gov't chooses to believe them because they want to, because it coincides with what they want to do.
Iraq did support terrorists.
Enough to justify hundreds of Americans dead, thousands of Iraqis dead, and the spending of $100s of billions?
Abu Nidal wasn't a pre-existing terrorist? I think Leon Klinghoffer might disagree with this assessment.
Except that Kinghoffer was killed by terrorists under Abu Abbas, not Abu Nidal...
Eat some ground chickpeas and you could post hummusly...
Y'know, the moderation for this is funnier than the posting...
Care to explain? Are you referring to oil of bergamot in Earl Gray tea?
Isn't the Moon 1/6 of a G? Hardly Jupiter there, buddy.
No, but given how much rocket we need just to put someone in orbit, making it even more energy-expensive is not a great idea.
if you screwed up even a few dozen feet per second redirecting the asteroid, the cumulative effect would be disasterous for Earth unless we were fast enough on the draw to stop it.
Presumably one would put it in a very distant orbit, then slowly brake it into a slower one.
Not to mention, how do we get to the Asteriod belt
We don't. The idea would be to capture one of the many NEOs (Near Earth Asteroids) that periodically gain attention from coming close to the earth.
For example there is a rumor that says Pasteur didnt discover the penicilium, some other guy did, do we know his/her name?
Yes, it was Alexander Fleming. Pasteur's most remembered (but far from his only) claim to fame is, fittingly, pasteurization; that is, heating stuff to kill germs.
As opposed to that giant thing orbiting the earth called 'The Moon'?
The moon is a significant gravity well. Once you get there, you're going to have to overcome gravity again, not to mention you have to land slowly enough in the first place. While it may be possible to mine the moon for materials to help enable a launch, or to build a linear accelerator that would do so, a near-zero gravity way station might be better.
I'd like to see if it is possible to redirect and capture a moderate-sized asteroid for this purpose. Said asteroid might itself be selected for having the sorts of raw materials that could be used for spacecraft launching.
Unfortunately, it's getting the reaction to generate more energy than it consumes, is the problem.
Actually, they solved that problem in the 50's. It's controlling that reaction that is rather more difficult...
Yeah, so why did you yell again? It wasn't you getting the award...
And it wasn't other people scoring the goal/touchdown/basket, winning the race, etc. Perhaps this is his equivalent of a sports team?