Quite a lot of them went for money. Eventually money will be a factor in space exploration too, but I think that capable asteroid mining robots will come along first. The first space colonists will be our machines. By the time people get out there in large numbers, the machines will have made it a lot safer. So, I'd have to say that I'd go, definitely.
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War peace. A famous Russian science fiction author predicted it long ago.
That's very insightful. Remember what Oracle did to become the biggest database company in the world? They did presentations, not demos. If you wanted to see the database working, you had to buy it. The salesman would not show you the actual database during his pitch.
That led to the old joke, playing on Oracle's support for many computer platforms:
Q: What platform does Oracle database run best on? A: A 35mm slide projector.
You think that movie is unnerving? Try watching "The Ring". It freaked me out. Very well done, and a little different than your regular horror movie.
One thing I like to do is watch the frightening parts of a horror movie in very slow speed on my TiVo. It's a good way to remove all the horror, and you might get to see what went into the special effect. That technique doesn't work on "The Ring". That move is just plain spooky at any speed.
It's an English remake of a Japanese horror film, and trust me, nothing gets lost in translation.
I know I'm offtopic, but it was a really entertaining movie. I just wish that it wouldn't "entertain" me when all the damn lights in the house are off. Seems like that's the case every time I recall the film.
So, the space program is the appropriate lever to use to move China into the classification of a civilized country? Give me a break. We should stop being pussies and revoke their most favored nation trade status.
But, since we're all FOR doing business with China, it's just a little hypocritical to say that we shouldn't launch rockets with them too.
Don't call us until you've killed off at least 14 people in flight.
Seriously, this is stupid. China has orbited a person, and we should be working with these people. Calling someone immature is what a 13 year old girl does to show her disapproval.
The bottom left photo is not a F-20. There were just 1 or 2 made, and they are owned by Northrop, not the Navy.
The F-5 in the lower left is owned by the Navy. The reason that it has the Red Star painted on it is that it's an agressor plane used by the Top Gun dogfighting school.
The average sentence for criminals convicted of rape in the United States (and released in 1992) is 117 months. The average time served is 65 months, which equates to 56 percent of the actual sentence served. For crimes of sexual assault, the average sentence is 72 months, and the average time served is 35 months, equating to 49 percent of time served. (Greenfeld, Lawrence A., 1995, "Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence," page 1, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)
In the old days, when the address was put on the bus, you had a bank of 8 memory chips that all read the same address off the same bus. Each individual memory chip would put the bit for that address on its data out line, which represented the 8 bit number at a particular address in memory. That's right, every time you read a byte from memory, each bit came from a different chip. Today, the packaging is different, but the concept is the same.
The magic of both the Atari and the Amiga wasn't their CPU power. The 68000 at 8 Mhz was roughly as fast as the 80286 chip, which had been used in the IBM AT and clones since before the Atari and Amiga were released.
What made these machines special was the hardware support for accelerated graphics and better sound. I am not an Amiga expert, but I had an Atari ST. The thing had some very decent sound hardware in it. It also had MIDI ports which made it very useful for controlling more advanced instruments. These were built-in to every ST made. The graphics were better than the IBM EGA graphics, and there was a blitter chip which accelerated the process of moving blocks of memory around. Since the screen was relocatable to any address in the system, the chip worked on all the memory. That blitter could be used to move memory that wasn't currently on the display at the time.
The Amiga also had its magical hardware which I'm sure someone else can explain in detail.
This X68000 appears to have had some advanced features too, which in some ways was more advanced than earlier machines. The disk interface was SCSI, capability to run 4 floppy drives, 1024x1024 screen resolution, hardware scrolling, hardware sprites, advanced sound, and a socket for a math coprocessor.
You'd need a lot of heat shielding if you were reentering from orbit, but that's not what this rocket ship is designed to do. It's a suborbital ballistic flight profile, straight up to 60 miles, then freefall back down. Orbital profiles have to go up 200 miles, PLUS they need to have 17,000 MPH of speed to maintain the orbit. The forward momentum of an orbital spacecraft is more energy than the potential energy in 200 miles of altitude.
Spaceship One will only generate temperatures of about 1000 degrees, and since they don't need to use an angle of attack of 40 degrees like the shuttle, they only need to protect the leading edge. The max speed is only about mach 3.5, and the decelleration is 70 seconds. The shuttle on the other hand decellerates from orbital velocity for 20 minutes.
I honestly haven't done a controlled test of the two, but I discovered that NASA TV is carred through the KSC website and also through the United Space Alliance website on both Real and Windows media. I pulled up the stream, and Windows media looked a lot better.
This isn't really a controlled test because I don't know if they might be screwing with one video stream and not the other. But there you go.
Actually, this is bad for Real. Audiences will be able to bring up two identical streams side-by-side on the computers. They will see that Windows Media looks a lot better. Oops.
The warning buzzers are there by law. The auto industry lobbied to weaken the law, and the compromise was a 20 second requirement for the buzzer. It wasn't a smart auto industry. Remember, they're the ones who think your door is a jar.
OMFG. I just realized it. THAT is what the math teacher meant about arithmetic being important. Wow, it just hit me. It was all just fingers and toes until just now. Thanks.
Those features are probably not supported. There are people working on them, but at best you'll have to compile your own copy of XFree86. I only know this because I spent a couple hours yesterday getting DRI to work on my T30. I read a lot of docs.
The problem with this is that your system is chaotic. If you measure it one way, you can't tell how it's going to turn out. If you measure it the other way, you also can't tell how it began.
And, the number of possibilities you have for a starting state would probably depend on just how sensitive your system is. If there's not many possibilities to choose from, then your system is probably insensitive enough to get an accurate measurement right up front.
But it's a cool idea that would probably make a good gimmick in a sci-fi story.
Would the act of barratry qualify as the illegal act?
Also, how does the fact that sharing copyrighted material isn't really legal affect all this? Can someone who was doing something illegal in the first place claim racketeering? Don't mod me down, I'm just asking the question.
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Quite a lot of them went for money. Eventually money will be a factor in space exploration too, but I think that capable asteroid mining robots will come along first. The first space colonists will be our machines. By the time people get out there in large numbers, the machines will have made it a lot safer. So, I'd have to say that I'd go, definitely.
War peace. A famous Russian science fiction author predicted it long ago.
Don't you mean Romans anthropomorphise god? The image that was described fits Jupiter to a tee, and was borrowed by others.
Or maybe it's the Greeks describing Zeus...
That's very insightful. Remember what Oracle did to become the biggest database company in the world? They did presentations, not demos. If you wanted to see the database working, you had to buy it. The salesman would not show you the actual database during his pitch.
That led to the old joke, playing on Oracle's support for many computer platforms:
Q: What platform does Oracle database run best on?
A: A 35mm slide projector.
You think that movie is unnerving? Try watching "The Ring". It freaked me out. Very well done, and a little different than your regular horror movie.
One thing I like to do is watch the frightening parts of a horror movie in very slow speed on my TiVo. It's a good way to remove all the horror, and you might get to see what went into the special effect. That technique doesn't work on "The Ring". That move is just plain spooky at any speed.
It's an English remake of a Japanese horror film, and trust me, nothing gets lost in translation.
I know I'm offtopic, but it was a really entertaining movie. I just wish that it wouldn't "entertain" me when all the damn lights in the house are off. Seems like that's the case every time I recall the film.
Right, because age-ism is logical!
(That was sarchasm)
So, the space program is the appropriate lever to use to move China into the classification of a civilized country? Give me a break. We should stop being pussies and revoke their most favored nation trade status.
But, since we're all FOR doing business with China, it's just a little hypocritical to say that we shouldn't launch rockets with them too.
Don't call us until you've killed off at least 14 people in flight.
Seriously, this is stupid. China has orbited a person, and we should be working with these people. Calling someone immature is what a 13 year old girl does to show her disapproval.
The bottom left photo is not a F-20. There were just 1 or 2 made, and they are owned by Northrop, not the Navy.
The F-5 in the lower left is owned by the Navy. The reason that it has the Red Star painted on it is that it's an agressor plane used by the Top Gun dogfighting school.
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I wrote all the code that I used to generate pdrap.org in Python, and learned a lot from that.
(a man) Everybody, repeat after me: "We are not collectivists".
(crowd) "We are not collectivists..."
In the old days, when the address was put on the bus, you had a bank of 8 memory chips that all read the same address off the same bus. Each individual memory chip would put the bit for that address on its data out line, which represented the 8 bit number at a particular address in memory. That's right, every time you read a byte from memory, each bit came from a different chip. Today, the packaging is different, but the concept is the same.
Porn loads faster from a ramdisk.
The magic of both the Atari and the Amiga wasn't their CPU power. The 68000 at 8 Mhz was roughly as fast as the 80286 chip, which had been used in the IBM AT and clones since before the Atari and Amiga were released.
What made these machines special was the hardware support for accelerated graphics and better sound. I am not an Amiga expert, but I had an Atari ST. The thing had some very decent sound hardware in it. It also had MIDI ports which made it very useful for controlling more advanced instruments. These were built-in to every ST made. The graphics were better than the IBM EGA graphics, and there was a blitter chip which accelerated the process of moving blocks of memory around. Since the screen was relocatable to any address in the system, the chip worked on all the memory. That blitter could be used to move memory that wasn't currently on the display at the time.
The Amiga also had its magical hardware which I'm sure someone else can explain in detail.
This X68000 appears to have had some advanced features too, which in some ways was more advanced than earlier machines. The disk interface was SCSI, capability to run 4 floppy drives, 1024x1024 screen resolution, hardware scrolling, hardware sprites, advanced sound, and a socket for a math coprocessor.
You'd need a lot of heat shielding if you were reentering from orbit, but that's not what this rocket ship is designed to do. It's a suborbital ballistic flight profile, straight up to 60 miles, then freefall back down. Orbital profiles have to go up 200 miles, PLUS they need to have 17,000 MPH of speed to maintain the orbit. The forward momentum of an orbital spacecraft is more energy than the potential energy in 200 miles of altitude.
Spaceship One will only generate temperatures of about 1000 degrees, and since they don't need to use an angle of attack of 40 degrees like the shuttle, they only need to protect the leading edge. The max speed is only about mach 3.5, and the decelleration is 70 seconds. The shuttle on the other hand decellerates from orbital velocity for 20 minutes.
I honestly haven't done a controlled test of the two, but I discovered that NASA TV is carred through the KSC website and also through the United Space Alliance website on both Real and Windows media. I pulled up the stream, and Windows media looked a lot better.
This isn't really a controlled test because I don't know if they might be screwing with one video stream and not the other. But there you go.
Actually, this is bad for Real. Audiences will be able to bring up two identical streams side-by-side on the computers. They will see that Windows Media looks a lot better. Oops.
The warning buzzers are there by law. The auto industry lobbied to weaken the law, and the compromise was a 20 second requirement for the buzzer. It wasn't a smart auto industry. Remember, they're the ones who think your door is a jar.
OMFG. I just realized it. THAT is what the math teacher meant about arithmetic being important. Wow, it just hit me. It was all just fingers and toes until just now. Thanks.
Those features are probably not supported. There are people working on them, but at best you'll have to compile your own copy of XFree86. I only know this because I spent a couple hours yesterday getting DRI to work on my T30. I read a lot of docs.
I chose DSL over Cable because I could get a static IP with no ports blocked. What will the electric company offer?
In the near future
A city moves to Linux: not news
A city moves to Windows: now THAT'S news.
The problem with this is that your system is chaotic. If you measure it one way, you can't tell how it's going to turn out. If you measure it the other way, you also can't tell how it began.
And, the number of possibilities you have for a starting state would probably depend on just how sensitive your system is. If there's not many possibilities to choose from, then your system is probably insensitive enough to get an accurate measurement right up front.
But it's a cool idea that would probably make a good gimmick in a sci-fi story.
Would the act of barratry qualify as the illegal act?
Also, how does the fact that sharing copyrighted material isn't really legal affect all this? Can someone who was doing something illegal in the first place claim racketeering? Don't mod me down, I'm just asking the question.