Close - (I just tackled this issue w/ a personal ss5) - SGI uses sync-on-green. Sun's use COMPOSITE sync (H and V in one wire) whereas PC's use SEPARATE sync (an H wire and a V sync wire). My KDS monitor wouldn't work on the ss5 with one of those 13w3-to-hd15 adapters. Solution was to buy a ViewSonic p95f - look at the specs, input signal supports HV separated, COMPOSITE (sun) and sync-on-green (SGI).
Ok, so just send someone on a one way trip at the beginning, but include a LOT of tools and supplies, as much as can be stuffed into one trip - BUT, then send a STREAM of auxillary supplies right after set to parachute nearby. Send spare parts, regular food drops, shelters, maybe even other crew members to help with the work of setting up a permenant station.Or launch a bunch of supply missions before sending the human so it will all be there already. Have a car like the apollo missions had to get around and get the stuff. Eventually you could drop enough stuff to build a return ship and launch facilities. Anyway, the key idea is that a human being with enough tools and parts and access to the best engineering on earth can build anything. The whole thrust at first would be basic survival - instead of trying to plan EVERYTHING out ahead, just give them enough and let them engineer stuff on the spot, kind of like camping, you can't plan for everything, sometimes you have to improvise with what you find and have to work with.
I have *never* heard music played in an actual elevator. In restaurants, hospital lobbies, stores, lots of public places, but can't ever recall it in an elevator, and I've been in many that were packed with sleepy commuters going in to the office.
[puts on sifi author hat] it would be great if researchers could somehow create 'gravity beams' like there are laser beam, that would be a big step toward the famous star trek 'tractor beam'. And then maybe someway to slow or stop gravity, which would be instrumental in developing all kinds of 'anti-grav' stuff, levitation, flying cars at last, etc.
i was going to mention Wallis - was that a documentary or the 1954 movie? anyway, according to this they got 2 out of 3 dams, pretty good considering they had to fly a huge bomber 30 feet above a lake at a certain speed, and release the thing at just the right distance over enemy territory while under fire.
here's a feasible project: send the frozen remails of Walt Disney on a trip into intersteller space out past pluto, etc. The cryogenics can be switched off, and maybe some alien race will eventually find the body, like the golden record, and return with the solution to earth's current copyright crisis. Relatively inexpensive (compared to missions to moons, planets, asteroids, etc) and with potentially immense rewards.
Your mission: to travel to alien planets, wipe out enemy bunkers, gather fuel units, and make the solar system safe for you and future generations of space pioneers.
I have been at radio stations in the past few months still happily running a single station programmer app in ms-dos. They've been using it for years, it does the job, runs on modern hardware, is proven and reliable, etc etc etc. The secretary and non mission critical pc's that someone lives at has been 'upgraded' to win98 and all the associated problems. In fact, when I got there the station engineer was leaning over the receptionist trying to sort out some Windows issue, while MS-DOS was running the programming going out on the air.
I admit that I enjoyed the campy, amateur-hour flavor.
last motel I stayed at had NASA TV, and one morning they had this girl just sitting there smiling at the camera, waiting for showtime. It was so funny, like watching 'behind the scenes tv'. This went of for 5 or ten minutes, and every so often she would make small talk to someone off camera, then resume smiling and waiting.
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Close - (I just tackled this issue w/ a personal ss5) - SGI uses sync-on-green. Sun's use COMPOSITE sync (H and V in one wire) whereas PC's use SEPARATE sync (an H wire and a V sync wire). My KDS monitor wouldn't work on the ss5 with one of those 13w3-to-hd15 adapters. Solution was to buy a ViewSonic p95f - look at the specs, input signal supports HV separated, COMPOSITE (sun) and sync-on-green (SGI).
I cannot copy that benjamin
a car that will startup and drive itself to me when I whistle.
Isn't that like Atari w/o Noland Bushnell, Apple w/o Steve Jobs, SGI w/o Jim Clark...
Ok, so just send someone on a one way trip at the beginning, but include a LOT of tools and supplies, as much as can be stuffed into one trip - BUT, then send a STREAM of auxillary supplies right after set to parachute nearby. Send spare parts, regular food drops, shelters, maybe even other crew members to help with the work of setting up a permenant station.Or launch a bunch of supply missions before sending the human so it will all be there already. Have a car like the apollo missions had to get around and get the stuff. Eventually you could drop enough stuff to build a return ship and launch facilities. Anyway, the key idea is that a human being with enough tools and parts and access to the best engineering on earth can build anything. The whole thrust at first would be basic survival - instead of trying to plan EVERYTHING out ahead, just give them enough and let them engineer stuff on the spot, kind of like camping, you can't plan for everything, sometimes you have to improvise with what you find and have to work with.
Just leave your punch card deck with the operator at the window, come back and pick up your printout in 2 to 4 hours.
I have *never* heard music played in an actual elevator. In restaurants, hospital lobbies, stores, lots of public places, but can't ever recall it in an elevator, and I've been in many that were packed with sleepy commuters going in to the office.
D&D sessions count as social gatherings
or time spent in your quake clan? I've been getting back into quake and trying to improve team play in capture the flag game, approx 1.5hr / night.
"KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park"
wow, and that was one month before the "Star Wars Holiday Special" in '78. Musta been something in the water that fall...
Now all us Windows 2003 users can continue to look down our snobby noses and snear in derision at the heathen still using Windows 98, the scum.
Or Msft marketing could created a stratified social class plan, like the old GM model:
Chevrolet - blue collar factory laborer
Oldsmobile - factory management
Cadillac - executives
Buick - retirees
Corvette - factory owners son
[puts on sifi author hat] it would be great if researchers could somehow create 'gravity beams' like there are laser beam, that would be a big step toward the famous star trek 'tractor beam'. And then maybe someway to slow or stop gravity, which would be instrumental in developing all kinds of 'anti-grav' stuff, levitation, flying cars at last, etc.
succesfully destroying 1 of 3 objectives
i was going to mention Wallis - was that a documentary or the 1954 movie? anyway, according to this they got 2 out of 3 dams, pretty good considering they had to fly a huge bomber 30 feet above a lake at a certain speed, and release the thing at just the right distance over enemy territory while under fire.
Barnes-Wallace
i wonder how many yanks even know who Barnes Wallis was. Frankly I enjoyed Dam Busters.
management consultants.
I'm still internalizing the *last* paradigm shift created to facilitate enabling my disempowerment.
here's a feasible project: send the frozen remails of Walt Disney on a trip into intersteller space out past pluto, etc. The cryogenics can be switched off, and maybe some alien race will eventually find the body, like the golden record, and return with the solution to earth's current copyright crisis. Relatively inexpensive (compared to missions to moons, planets, asteroids, etc) and with potentially immense rewards.
people stuff money into mattresses, so I guess stores that sell them count as 'financial' too.
namely, this one, Gravitar.
Your mission: to travel to alien planets, wipe out enemy bunkers, gather fuel units, and make the solar system safe for you and future generations of space pioneers.
not exactly 'hd' but you can also fish for digital content in the shortwave bands.
This SCO notification is brought to you by the letters 'U' and 'O' and the numbers '6' and '0'.
in my notebook Windows 2000 it's an RPC buffer exploit virus that keeps it at 100%.
everyone who runs windows uses power, usually somewhere around 500-700 watts.
what about us MS DOS users?
I have been at radio stations in the past few months still happily running a single station programmer app in ms-dos. They've been using it for years, it does the job, runs on modern hardware, is proven and reliable, etc etc etc. The secretary and non mission critical pc's that someone lives at has been 'upgraded' to win98 and all the associated problems. In fact, when I got there the station engineer was leaning over the receptionist trying to sort out some Windows issue, while MS-DOS was running the programming going out on the air.
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I admit that I enjoyed the campy, amateur-hour flavor.
last motel I stayed at had NASA TV, and one morning they had this girl just sitting there smiling at the camera, waiting for showtime. It was so funny, like watching 'behind the scenes tv'. This went of for 5 or ten minutes, and every so often she would make small talk to someone off camera, then resume smiling and waiting.
but that 6 month trip - yaaa.
mars is getting to seem like neighborhood by now.