Sometimes literalists have a way of ruining the joke for everyone...
Ribbon is to solar system as barrier is to galaxy. Simple as that. And if I were being literal I would have noted that V'ger was supposed to be Voyager 6, which of course doesn't (yet) exist. Then again I'm making jokes about Star Trek. None of it has any bearing on reality.
And no, not the Nexus. Classic Trek. The barrier at the edge of the galaxy. And like all good barriers they're designed to either keep something out, or to keep something in...
I suppose the implication of Voyager not detecting it is that it wasn't there then. Guess the EBE's have noticed us after all.
Oh yeah, for those who haven't caught on?:-):-):-)
If they don't like the way their own development is going they're not above buying out the competition to get what they want. Palm is pretty cheap right now. But the better bet would be Research in Motion. It'd be an expensive purchase, but given what they offered Yahoo last year I think they can manage.
Ever notice the similarities between the Windows and Blackberry logos? It's destiny...;-)
Yes, the 8th chevron is the "galaxy" code. Go all the way back to the SG-1 episode "The Fifth Race" to see how that came about. However the Earth point of origin chevron seems to be inconsistent with the established mythology. Then again I haven't seen SGU yet (downloading the free ones from iTunes now) so perhaps this is explained.
Thanks for the pointers AC. Even though I'm just down the street from Paul Allen I somehow suspect he wouldn't want my grubby little bear paws on his systems.
I have good memories of prior associations with Mr. Crispin, so thanks for that bit of nostalgia as well.
Clearly it's safe to put these in the "not fade away" category.
I haven't seen either in quite some time, and given that TOPS-20 ran on a 36-bit architecture I can't believe anyone would still have hardware capable of running it. Did they die with DEC?
Perhaps the current Administration will have the wisdom to realize that this is also something of an opportunity.
If manned spaceflight is important to humanity then it should be humanity's mission, not just America's. Enlist the aid of other nations. Their money and talent have to be good for more than just financing your excesses. If you don't want to deal with the Russians and the Chinese perhaps the Japanese and the Indians would be interested. But ideally this is something the rest of the world should be involved in, if as many here say it's important to humanity and not just to America.
...Until the political order of the day changes, and people begin to wonder why they're spending billions of dollars to support a handful of "explorers" on Mars. Many of whom are probably living in much better conditions than they are.
Do you think climate change research has only seriously been going on since the late '90's. . . remember the "global cooling" theories from the '70s?
Just because the approval authorizing this release was just made last week doesn't mean that the original request wasn't made decades ago. Bureaucracies are like that.
In any event *a* reason for keeping the images classified (which this is) doesn't mean it's *the* reason they actually were.
Because it shows the capability of US spy satellites. We may believe we know what their maximum resolution is. Revealing photographs removes some of the uncertainty.
Merely a prelude. Everyone knows that since the dawn of time man has yearned to destroy the Sun.../Monty Burns (Clearly the Monty AB a previous poster was talking about...)
Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing a monopoly is. And in this case Apple doesn't have anything like a monopoly.
As much as people love/hate iTunes there are clearly competitors to it. Perhaps Palm should have chosen one of them to provide sync services for their new phone. But that wouldn't have served their purposes--they wanted to ride Apple's market leading coat tails to commercial success. Not by doing it in the accepted way (say, licensing iTunes or paying a fee to Apple to provide support) but by exploiting a bug in the software. Is it any surprise that Apple decided to fix this bug and prevent a potential competitor from benefiting from their work?
It's true that Apple probably wouldn't license iTunes to anyone, but given that Palm is run by former Apple employees they probably had as good a shot as anyone of getting this done. They didn't try--and worse, they advertised iTunes compatibility--so they very well can't complain now that they've been shot down. The truly amazing thing to me is that people still blame Apple for doing this. Why?
Everyone has great titles for this one. http://arstechnica.com/ offers: "Zune HD: a new hope for Microsoft". To which the only response can be no. It's really just a Phantom Menace.
Or download the free Wall Street Journal app from the Apple App Store. Voila, instant free access to the Wall Street Journal's content.
I understand that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant wants to start charging for content there too, but until he does this is one massive loophole.
Nothing will happen to sports cars or high performance cars. These vehicles already pay a "gas guzzler" tax as a penalty for not meeting the current standards. I imagine this will continue under the new regulations. If demand warrants it we'll still have vehicles that don't meet these standards. You'll just have to pay more for them.
Damn that's some mighty smelly bait. I hope no one is foolish enough to actually take it and respond seriously to it... it will just make the entire thread sick.
Some colleagues recently informed us that they use Twitter to track whether or not people feel earthquakes. By scanning Twitter reports and correlating them to their seismic measurements they can build a map of how far away people actually felt the event. Thanks to tweet time stamps they can build a rough map of the felt area in about a minute. By using a longer time horizon they can build a more accurate map of the felt area.
Mapping the area of felt earthquakes is done anyway. Scanning Twitter just provides a supplemental way of doing that.
However exploiting them is. For those of you asking why Google and not Apple, perhaps that's why. I'd be hard pressed to say Apple has a monopoly in any of its markets anyway.
What is the government's intent in pursuing anti-trust action? If it's to make markets more competitive there are better industries to target than microchips, software and computer manufacturing. The barrier to entry for the software market is very low. In my opinion any emphasis here should be on limiting mergers and acquisitions that stifle innovation.
However if their goal is to limit the exploitation of consumers they need to revisit telecommunications. Start with the government-granted monopolies given to the cable companies. Then take a look at the oligarchy that the wireless phone market has become. AT&T may not be the "Ma Bell" of yore but they seem to be heading that way.
It may be *a* bird eating spider, but not the one most often referred to in the press. That would be the "Golden Orb Weaver" spider. I offer the following as proof:
Slashdot Mirror
Sometimes literalists have a way of ruining the joke for everyone...
Ribbon is to solar system as barrier is to galaxy. Simple as that. And if I were being literal I would have noted that V'ger was supposed to be Voyager 6, which of course doesn't (yet) exist. Then again I'm making jokes about Star Trek. None of it has any bearing on reality.
Wrong Voyager. I meant the Voyager space probe discussed in the article. If you must have a Star Trek reference for that one call it V'ger.
And no, not the Nexus. Classic Trek. The barrier at the edge of the galaxy. And like all good barriers they're designed to either keep something out, or to keep something in...
I suppose the implication of Voyager not detecting it is that it wasn't there then. Guess the EBE's have noticed us after all.
Oh yeah, for those who haven't caught on? :-) :-) :-)
If they don't like the way their own development is going they're not above buying out the competition to get what they want. Palm is pretty cheap right now. But the better bet would be Research in Motion. It'd be an expensive purchase, but given what they offered Yahoo last year I think they can manage.
Ever notice the similarities between the Windows and Blackberry logos? It's destiny... ;-)
Yes, the 8th chevron is the "galaxy" code. Go all the way back to the SG-1 episode "The Fifth Race" to see how that came about. However the Earth point of origin chevron seems to be inconsistent with the established mythology. Then again I haven't seen SGU yet (downloading the free ones from iTunes now) so perhaps this is explained.
Thanks for the pointers AC. Even though I'm just down the street from Paul Allen I somehow suspect he wouldn't want my grubby little bear paws on his systems.
I have good memories of prior associations with Mr. Crispin, so thanks for that bit of nostalgia as well.
Clearly it's safe to put these in the "not fade away" category.
I haven't seen either in quite some time, and given that TOPS-20 ran on a 36-bit architecture I can't believe anyone would still have hardware capable of running it. Did they die with DEC?
Perhaps the current Administration will have the wisdom to realize that this is also something of an opportunity.
If manned spaceflight is important to humanity then it should be humanity's mission, not just America's. Enlist the aid of other nations. Their money and talent have to be good for more than just financing your excesses. If you don't want to deal with the Russians and the Chinese perhaps the Japanese and the Indians would be interested. But ideally this is something
the rest of the world should be involved in, if as many here say it's important to humanity and not just to America.
...Until the political order of the day changes, and people begin to wonder why they're spending billions of dollars to support a handful of "explorers" on Mars. Many of whom are probably living in much better conditions than they are.
Do you think climate change research has only seriously been going on since the late '90's. . . remember the "global cooling" theories from the '70s?
Just because the approval authorizing this release was just made last week doesn't mean that the original request wasn't made decades ago. Bureaucracies are like that.
In any event *a* reason for keeping the images classified (which this is) doesn't mean it's *the* reason they actually were.
Because it shows the capability of US spy satellites. We may believe we know what their maximum resolution is. Revealing photographs removes some of the uncertainty.
I hate the new Slashcode... can we please have to old code back?
Cue "The Simpsons":
Merely a prelude. Everyone knows that since the dawn of time man has yearned to destroy the Sun... /Monty Burns (Clearly the Monty AB a previous poster was talking about...)
Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing a monopoly is. And in this case Apple doesn't have anything like a monopoly.
As much as people love/hate iTunes there are clearly competitors to it. Perhaps Palm should have chosen one of them to provide sync services for their new phone. But that wouldn't have served their purposes--they wanted to ride Apple's market leading coat tails to commercial success. Not by doing it in the accepted way (say, licensing iTunes or paying a fee to Apple to provide support) but by exploiting a bug in the software. Is it any surprise that Apple decided to fix this bug and prevent a potential competitor from benefiting from their work?
It's true that Apple probably wouldn't license iTunes to anyone, but given that Palm is run by former Apple employees they probably had as good a shot as anyone of getting this done. They didn't try--and worse, they advertised iTunes compatibility--so they very well can't complain now that they've been shot down. The truly amazing thing to me is that people still blame Apple for doing this. Why?
I for one look forward to our future of savagery, sorcery and super science.
Everyone has great titles for this one. http://arstechnica.com/ offers: "Zune HD: a new hope for Microsoft". To which the only response can be no. It's really just a Phantom Menace.
Or download the free Wall Street Journal app from the Apple App Store. Voila, instant free access to the Wall Street Journal's content.
I understand that Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant wants to start charging for content there too, but until he does this is one massive loophole.
Nothing will happen to sports cars or high performance cars. These vehicles already pay a "gas guzzler" tax as a penalty for not meeting the current standards. I imagine this will continue under the new regulations. If demand warrants it we'll still have vehicles that don't meet these standards. You'll just have to pay more for them.
You know, if you're going to criticize me for falling "hook, line and sinker" you might want to refrain from actually doing so yourself.
Er... no. Those words... they do not mean what you think they mean.
Responding seriously to it would be refuting his points. Pointing out that it's stinky bait is just that... a warning to other readers to beware.
Damn that's some mighty smelly bait. I hope no one is foolish enough to actually take it and respond seriously to it... it will just make the entire thread sick.
Some colleagues recently informed us that they use Twitter to track whether or not people feel earthquakes. By scanning Twitter reports and correlating them to their seismic measurements they can build a map of how far away people actually felt the event. Thanks to tweet time stamps they can build a rough map of the felt area in about a minute. By using a longer time horizon they can build a more accurate map of the felt area.
Mapping the area of felt earthquakes is done anyway. Scanning Twitter just provides a supplemental way of doing that.
However exploiting them is. For those of you asking why Google and not Apple, perhaps that's why. I'd be hard pressed to say Apple has a monopoly in any of its markets anyway.
What is the government's intent in pursuing anti-trust action? If it's to make markets more competitive there are better industries to target than microchips, software and computer manufacturing. The barrier to entry for the software market is very low. In my opinion any emphasis here should be on limiting mergers and acquisitions that stifle innovation.
However if their goal is to limit the exploitation of consumers they need to revisit telecommunications. Start with the government-granted monopolies given to the cable companies. Then take a look at the oligarchy that the wireless phone market has become. AT&T may not be the "Ma Bell" of yore but they seem to be heading that way.
I need to get me a mess of them thar gps trackers. Gotta keep track of the little woman when she's out of my sight...
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It may be *a* bird eating spider, but not the one most often referred to in the press. That would be the "Golden Orb Weaver" spider. I offer the following as proof:
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bird-eating-spiders-australias-giant-golden-orb-weaver