Hey, I'd even like to see your idea happen like the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. 4 times a year, produce and show and new 1 or 2 hour episode, anthology style. The stories don't have to be linked together either with crew or ship or timeline.
They could even do a sort of mini-series, with maybe 8 or 10 episodes spread out a week at a time, and do that twice a year. That way they can get character development, and also give good treatment to various political happenings in the Klingon, Romulan and Federation universes.
When I worked at CTP, we had machines with names from the Hobbit. Except the administrator was not familiar with the Hobbit, and somehow managed to spell all the names *wrong*. So we had names like Billbo (should be Bilbo) and Gollim (should be gollum I think).
My machines at home are named for elements. My Thinkpad 486/33 printer server is named Hydrogen. My main work machine is named Helium. I have a Thinkpad laptop that is named Lithium. I used to have a machine for experimentation named Beryllium, but that's too much to type so I named it Boron instead. My wife's machine is named Platinum because that's the substance our wedding rings are made of.
And the really nice thing about these element names is that they have standard abbreviations, so I can type telnet lithium, or I can type telnet li. I have noticed that some programs do not like single character machine names, so telnet h to reach the machine named hydrogen doesn't work.
The analysts are getting too jumpy over nothing. TurboLinux has the right to make whatever changes they want to. That's the *purpose* of open source. If Linus was concerned about a code fork, then logically he would have chosen a different licence.
We should all be pleased that Linux is so flexible technically and legally that anyone who has a problem can either use Linux to solve the problem, or change Linux to solve the problem.
Using a feature of the operating system like the open source licence is no different than using any other feature of the operating system, like support for a TV Tuner card. The users will use any features of the operating system in the way that they want to, and nobody can tell them they can't.
Turbo Linux isn't forking the code, they are using one of the most powerful features of the code.
I'll second that. I was going to post the same thing, but I read through all the comments first to see if anyone said it.
Tcl has the advantage over Perl of being a bit easier to read after it's written, and it integrates with the Tk library much more easily. You can write your applications in Tcl and use them through the web browser via the plug-in. All you'll need on the client side is a browser. The plug-in supports the sandbox concept, meaning that the Tcl scripts that you write will be safe for the users to run through their browsers. The gui's that you write will be good looking, and easier to develop than the equivalent Java gui. For more information on the plug-in and the Tcl language in general, go to www.scriptics.com.
Actually, the substance of plants is partially composed of carbons from the air. If you pour H2SO4 (sulphuric acid) over some sucrose, the mess will smoke and stink, and when the reaction is done, all that will be left is a bunch of carbon. Through radioactive tracers it has been proven that the carbon that winds up in the sugar originally was floating around in the form of CO2.
I'm guessing that other parts of plants are the same way, so the carbon in wood and leaves was originally part of atmospheric CO2. This carbon doesn't return to the atmosphere at least until the wood is burned or rotted by methane and CO2 producing bacteria. Forests are good carbon sinks, until the rate of growth of new forest is balanced by the rate of decay of dead leaves and wood, and then the forest is saturated with carbon. It can't hold any more.
If the Mars Observer was one of those old expensive probes, we'd be waiting 10 years for another probe to Mars. It was a huge deal when the Mars probe was lost in 1993(?). That was an expensive one.
Instead, we've lost a probe, and some people wasted some good years of their lives working on the failed mission, but we've got several missions to mars waiting in the wings, or due to arrive at Mars in just a couple months. It's a better way to go.
Even the poor people who spent all their time working on the failed Climate Orbiter mission might be able to salvage their time and research invested by joining other teams, or maybe starting up a brand new project right away. This is much better than letting their awesome talent go to waste.
I also like the idea of spreading the instrument packages around to different spacecraft. If we'd lost Voyager 2, then we'd never have gotten a chance to look at Uranus or Neptune up close. It would have been safer to launch 3 or 4 tiny spacecraft instead, and expected 1 of those to fail. We'd have gotten 3 looks at Uranus and Neptune instead of just 1.
Nasa probably won't mind at all. The nice thing about government publications is that they are not copyrighted in a lot of cases (military publicity shots of old bombers).
In the case of the particular image you're referring to, JPL/Caltech has given permission for induhviduals to use the image for personal non-commercial use, but it's not clear if they retain copyright. If they do not retain copyright, then you can use the photo for whatever you like without asking their permission. If they do retain copyright, then you need to use the picture according to their policy, or ask permission. Check out the policy link on the IO photo page.
They could just as easily take your car. Or your house. Or your dog.
If you own a camera, do you really forsee that the gubment would tell you to turn it in? What about TV stations? What about vacationers taking snapshots? What about mom with the camcorder at the birthday party?
I think you're being paranoid. You didn't explain why private ownership of cameras would be subverted, but private ownership of cars would not be. What's the difference?
I agree. If I were in business, I'd love to have a nice database full of parent's names, associated with their kids. Then I could send the parents a letter saying something like "Dear Mr. Jones, We all want the best for our children, and I'm sure that you want the best for little William You must be worried about him going into the 4th grade next year, and that's why you should buy him Mace for Kiddies, otherwise known as Bully B Gone (TM)...
So, the kid rats out the parents, and the parents get a load of customized spam.
But CO2 is invisible. The visible vapor that is observed above a batch of dry ice is indeed water vapor that has formed a cloud above the ice. The air above the dry ice is pretty cold, so water vapor in the air condenses into a cloud.
This technology is really cool. With the right encryption, it would be workable for a lot of car devices. I look forward to the day when every automobile contains a camera mounted right behind the rearview mirror, looking out the front window of the car. Why? This is the best place to put a camera if you want universal (or nearly so) video coverage.
Yes, this is like 1984, but no it won't be an awful thing, because the cameras will be privately owned and controlled by the owners of the cars.
-owners will have complete control of the video -owners will have the option of giving others access to their video -if owners don't want anyone to use their camera, that's their right -when you're in public, there are very few places where you're not in view of a car somewhere -if you're being video taped all the time in public places, few will commit crimes. -if the police hear about crimes, they can use the car cams that they have permission to use, and no others -if you're at home in your living room, you're safe unless you park your car next to the TV.
Orwell wrote a good book, but the difference was that he wrote about cameras in a totalitarian society. We don't live in one of those, and cameras won't bring such a society about either. Take a look at who gets in trouble with cameras. When was the last time you saw your neighbor doing illegal things on film? Hardly ever. Instead, we've got plenty of examples of politicians getting in trouble with cameras. Think LAPD (Rodney King) or the Clinton aid caught with the hooker. Universal cameras be worse for politicians than for everyday people.
OK, and besides cameras in cars, I would like to have this technology used to provide web browser services in my car. On long drives my mind wanders a lot, and in the course of my thoughts I frequently come up with questions which the web certainly holds the answers to. It would be nice to have the luxury of instant gratification in those circumstances.
I'd like to have video out on a palm device for the same reason that I have it on my laptop and desktop computers. Someday, I want a palm device to run Linux and serve as my primary machine that I take everywhere and use everywhere. That means that if I want to hook my palm device up to a silly looking head mounted display, I should be able to do that.
I want a palm device that can use the keyboard from www.thinkoutside.com, and allow me to write C++, Java, TCL, or Perl code wherever I am. I don't care about writing documents, which is what all palm computers allow you to do. Take the silly word processors off the palms, psions, wince's, and give me vi and a compiler. I write only a couple more documents a year than my dead hamster used to, so I don't want a word processor.
All these little devices are going to be more and more powerful, and that means that we're not going to be stuck in the little rut that 3COM thinks we should be in. I want a device that is powerful enough to let me use it the way I think it should be used, not wasted on meetings, notes, and other administrivia.
Are you thinking of transmitting information using entangled particles? Sorry, but the way it works, no information at all can be transmitted that way. I can't recall all the details, but it fits in nicely with the rule that nothing, not even information, can travel faster than the speed of light.
That's a great idea, and it brings back memories of a menu program I used under DOS. This menu program was extremely tempermental, and any little change would break it. One day, I was having some trouble getting my menu program to run. Knowing that it was tempermental, I suspected that it had been changed without my knowlege. A virus scan turned up the Jerusalem-B virus, which had infected my menu program, rendering it inoperable. Every other infected program was still working though. That little canary in a coal mine saved me from losing any important data.
Remember Bristol? They used to make (and I think they still do) a MFC compatibility library for UNIX. They ported IE3 to UNIX, and it was a disaster, so MS yanked their licence. Bristol took MS to court and won, so I think they have their license back. Anyway, MS turned around and licenced MainSoft with their technology, and Mainsoft is now making the MFC compatibility library.
/. looks like it's been having some troubles today.
I was having some difficulties about 10:30 CDT this morning. When I'd click on the comments for stories on the main page, I'd get nothing at all. I checked this article out to see if it would display correctly, knowing that I posted the #1 comment yesterday.
Anyway, all I saw was my comment, and no others. I knew that there was at least one other reply, so I had confirmation of a slashdot hose-up. All seems normal now.
Visa will chargeback the gambling sites, and they will also 1099 the delinquent woman.
Visa doesn't want to lose any money if they can't help it, and their ongoing business relationship with the gambling houses allows them to chargeback the full amount. If the gambling houses don't like it, then they don't have to accept VISA, now do they?
No matter where Visa gets its money from, the woman received $70,000 of income that she spent how she pleased. She owes taxes on it.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I have consulted for credit card companies, and that's how I know.
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More information, and a scanned image of the document signed by Richard Truly repealing the ET exposure law.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/etlaw.html
http://www.qtm.net/~geibdan/et-law.html says that the regulation in question was repealed in 1991. It's now OK to touch aliens in any way you like.
I've read about computations which determine the mass of a proton within the context of a particular physics theory.
The result would be a single floating point number! Or maybe I'm just simplifying things...
Hey, I'd even like to see your idea happen like the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. 4 times a year, produce and show and new 1 or 2 hour episode, anthology style. The stories don't have to be linked together either with crew or ship or timeline.
They could even do a sort of mini-series, with maybe 8 or 10 episodes spread out a week at a time, and do that twice a year. That way they can get character development, and also give good treatment to various political happenings in the Klingon, Romulan and Federation universes.
When I worked at CTP, we had machines with names from the Hobbit. Except the administrator was not familiar with the Hobbit, and somehow managed to spell all the names *wrong*. So we had names like Billbo (should be Bilbo) and Gollim (should be gollum I think).
My machines at home are named for elements. My Thinkpad 486/33 printer server is named Hydrogen. My main work machine is named Helium. I have a Thinkpad laptop that is named Lithium. I used to have a machine for experimentation named Beryllium, but that's too much to type so I named it Boron instead. My wife's machine is named Platinum because that's the substance our wedding rings are made of.
And the really nice thing about these element names is that they have standard abbreviations, so I can type telnet lithium, or I can type telnet li. I have noticed that some programs do not like single character machine names, so telnet h to reach the machine named hydrogen doesn't work.
If Windows was adequate for running a computer, Linus probably would have just used that, rather than write his own OS.
So, in a way, we do have Bill Gates to thank for his small contribution to Linux!
The analysts are getting too jumpy over nothing. TurboLinux has the right to make whatever changes they want to. That's the *purpose* of open source. If Linus was concerned about a code fork, then logically he would have chosen a different licence.
We should all be pleased that Linux is so flexible technically and legally that anyone who has a problem can either use Linux to solve the problem, or change Linux to solve the problem.
Using a feature of the operating system like the open source licence is no different than using any other feature of the operating system, like support for a TV Tuner card. The users will use any features of the operating system in the way that they want to, and nobody can tell them they can't.
Turbo Linux isn't forking the code, they are using one of the most powerful features of the code.
And that's my view.
I'll second that. I was going to post the same thing, but I read through all the comments first to see if anyone said it.
Tcl has the advantage over Perl of being a bit easier to read after it's written, and it integrates with the Tk library much more easily. You can write your applications in Tcl and use them through the web browser via the plug-in. All you'll need on the client side is a browser. The plug-in supports the sandbox concept, meaning that the Tcl scripts that you write will be safe for the users to run through their browsers. The gui's that you write will be good looking, and easier to develop than the equivalent Java gui. For more information on the plug-in and the Tcl language in general, go to www.scriptics.com.
Was it any good? Did it make you high? Or did it make you want to find a silk blanket and sleep all winter?
I never forgot the time I ate a bug by mistake.
Actually, the substance of plants is partially composed of carbons from the air. If you pour H2SO4 (sulphuric acid) over some sucrose, the mess will smoke and stink, and when the reaction is done, all that will be left is a bunch of carbon. Through radioactive tracers it has been proven that the carbon that winds up in the sugar originally was floating around in the form of CO2.
I'm guessing that other parts of plants are the same way, so the carbon in wood and leaves was originally part of atmospheric CO2. This carbon doesn't return to the atmosphere at least until the wood is burned or rotted by methane and CO2 producing bacteria. Forests are good carbon sinks, until the rate of growth of new forest is balanced by the rate of decay of dead leaves and wood, and then the forest is saturated with carbon. It can't hold any more.
In the beginning
AltaVista was the best.
Now it just finds spam.
Google search engine
Is much more spam resistant,
And they run Linux
Ask Jeeves is nice too.
Questions are in real English.
But replies are not.
Jeeves is metasearch.
It queries many engines,
to summarize them.
Can anyone say
What the next idea will be?
If you can, get rich.
If the Mars Observer was one of those old expensive probes, we'd be waiting 10 years for another probe to Mars. It was a huge deal when the Mars probe was lost in 1993(?). That was an expensive one.
Instead, we've lost a probe, and some people wasted some good years of their lives working on the failed mission, but we've got several missions to mars waiting in the wings, or due to arrive at Mars in just a couple months. It's a better way to go.
Even the poor people who spent all their time working on the failed Climate Orbiter mission might be able to salvage their time and research invested by joining other teams, or maybe starting up a brand new project right away. This is much better than letting their awesome talent go to waste.
I also like the idea of spreading the instrument packages around to different spacecraft. If we'd lost Voyager 2, then we'd never have gotten a chance to look at Uranus or Neptune up close. It would have been safer to launch 3 or 4 tiny spacecraft instead, and expected 1 of those to fail. We'd have gotten 3 looks at Uranus and Neptune instead of just 1.
Nasa probably won't mind at all. The nice thing about government publications is that they are not copyrighted in a lot of cases (military publicity shots of old bombers).
In the case of the particular image you're referring to, JPL/Caltech has given permission for induhviduals to use the image for personal non-commercial use, but it's not clear if they retain copyright. If they do not retain copyright, then you can use the photo for whatever you like without asking their permission. If they do retain copyright, then you need to use the picture according to their policy, or ask permission. Check out the policy link on the IO photo page.
They could just as easily take your car. Or your house. Or your dog.
If you own a camera, do you really forsee that the gubment would tell you to turn it in? What about TV stations? What about vacationers taking snapshots? What about mom with the camcorder at the birthday party?
I think you're being paranoid. You didn't explain why private ownership of cameras would be subverted, but private ownership of cars would not be. What's the difference?
I agree. If I were in business, I'd love to have a nice database full of parent's names, associated with their kids. Then I could send the parents a letter saying something like "Dear Mr. Jones, We all want the best for our children, and I'm sure that you want the best for little William You must be worried about him going into the 4th grade next year, and that's why you should buy him Mace for Kiddies, otherwise known as Bully B Gone (TM)...
So, the kid rats out the parents, and the parents get a load of customized spam.
But CO2 is invisible. The visible vapor that is observed above a batch of dry ice is indeed water vapor that has formed a cloud above the ice. The air above the dry ice is pretty cold, so water vapor in the air condenses into a cloud.
This technology is really cool. With the right encryption, it would be workable for a lot of car devices. I look forward to the day when every automobile contains a camera mounted right behind the rearview mirror, looking out the front window of the car. Why? This is the best place to put a camera if you want universal (or nearly so) video coverage.
Yes, this is like 1984, but no it won't be an awful thing, because the cameras will be privately owned and controlled by the owners of the cars.
-owners will have complete control of the video
-owners will have the option of giving others access to their video
-if owners don't want anyone to use their camera, that's their right
-when you're in public, there are very few places where you're not in view of a car somewhere
-if you're being video taped all the time in public places, few will commit crimes.
-if the police hear about crimes, they can use the car cams that they have permission to use, and no others
-if you're at home in your living room, you're safe unless you park your car next to the TV.
Orwell wrote a good book, but the difference was that he wrote about cameras in a totalitarian society. We don't live in one of those, and cameras won't bring such a society about either. Take a look at who gets in trouble with cameras. When was the last time you saw your neighbor doing illegal things on film? Hardly ever. Instead, we've got plenty of examples of politicians getting in trouble with cameras. Think LAPD (Rodney King) or the Clinton aid caught with the hooker. Universal cameras be worse for politicians than for everyday people.
OK, and besides cameras in cars, I would like to have this technology used to provide web browser services in my car. On long drives my mind wanders a lot, and in the course of my thoughts I frequently come up with questions which the web certainly holds the answers to. It would be nice to have the luxury of instant gratification in those circumstances.
> fucking ey!
OK. Blame Canada.
I'd like to have video out on a palm device for the same reason that I have it on my laptop and desktop computers. Someday, I want a palm device to run Linux and serve as my primary machine that I take everywhere and use everywhere. That means that if I want to hook my palm device up to a silly looking head mounted display, I should be able to do that.
I want a palm device that can use the keyboard from www.thinkoutside.com, and allow me to write C++, Java, TCL, or Perl code wherever I am. I don't care about writing documents, which is what all palm computers allow you to do. Take the silly word processors off the palms, psions, wince's, and give me vi and a compiler. I write only a couple more documents a year than my dead hamster used to, so I don't want a word processor.
All these little devices are going to be more and more powerful, and that means that we're not going to be stuck in the little rut that 3COM thinks we should be in. I want a device that is powerful enough to let me use it the way I think it should be used, not wasted on meetings, notes, and other administrivia.
Are you thinking of transmitting information using entangled particles? Sorry, but the way it works, no information at all can be transmitted that way. I can't recall all the details, but it fits in nicely with the rule that nothing, not even information, can travel faster than the speed of light.
That's a great idea, and it brings back memories of a menu program I used under DOS. This menu program was extremely tempermental, and any little change would break it. One day, I was having some trouble getting my menu program to run. Knowing that it was tempermental, I suspected that it had been changed without my knowlege. A virus scan turned up the Jerusalem-B virus, which had infected my menu program, rendering it inoperable. Every other infected program was still working though. That little canary in a coal mine saved me from losing any important data.
Remember Bristol? They used to make (and I think they still do) a MFC compatibility library for UNIX. They ported IE3 to UNIX, and it was a disaster, so MS yanked their licence. Bristol took MS to court and won, so I think they have their license back. Anyway, MS turned around and licenced MainSoft with their technology, and Mainsoft is now making the MFC compatibility library.
/. looks like it's been having some troubles today.
I was having some difficulties about 10:30 CDT this morning. When I'd click on the comments for stories on the main page, I'd get nothing at all. I checked this article out to see if it would display correctly, knowing that I posted the #1 comment yesterday.
Anyway, all I saw was my comment, and no others. I knew that there was at least one other reply, so I had confirmation of a slashdot hose-up. All seems normal now.
They didn't update the RPM file, so you need to get the gzipped tar file instead.
I had the same trouble as you until I did this.
Visa will chargeback the gambling sites, and they will also 1099 the delinquent woman.
Visa doesn't want to lose any money if they can't help it, and their ongoing business relationship with the gambling houses allows them to chargeback the full amount. If the gambling houses don't like it, then they don't have to accept VISA, now do they?
No matter where Visa gets its money from, the woman received $70,000 of income that she spent how she pleased. She owes taxes on it.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I have consulted for credit card companies, and that's how I know.