Sayonara

Pass her James Earl Jones' phone number.

I think that was Confucius. It's also on the Dedication Plaque on the USS Excelsior NCC-2000. [/geek]

To be fair, Event Horizon didn't imply that they were. The black hole was used to open a doorway to "somewhere else" - there wasn't any evidence that it was the only door that could be opened, or that it was a doorway that the black hole somehow "selected" by itself.

Then you aren't in the "usually" group. Diablo 2 is pretty straight-forward by the way. ME can have serious resource allocation problems with demanding software like Max' date=' Maya or even Ultradev. My point is that many Win9 users don't upgrade because they are ignorant of the reasons why they should, not that they don't understand Win9.

Depends on the printer. If it only has a colour cartridge, it will make black by combining all 3 colours.

Norton spends too much time molly-coddling the user and trying to look pretty. It places a layer of unneccessary crap between the user and the attack, separating you from what is actually going on. Instead of learning from attempted attacks on their PC, and developing good mail/browsing/file handling practices, many users of software like Norton seem to think that attacks on their PC are the program's problem. Some of them even shut it down while it's disinfecting because it uses too many resources or locks the infected file so the user can't access them.

AVG is a popular free a/v, which you can get from http://www.grisoft.com/ Sophos Antivirus is one of the industry-leading solutions for both networks and single machines. MacAffee is good for networks.

"More heat in it"?

MrL will know

Norton is shit, but no antivirus is effective if you don't keep it updated. The current state of affairs requires that you update your definitions at least once a day. If your a/v program forces you to download the entire definitions file in one go, or takes updating responsibility away from you completely, ditch it. BTW - there are lots of nasties out there that are capable of quietly disabling Norton when they first infect a machine.

Do you think you could avoid doing that?

What are you trying to do? Host a domain on your own box? If I remember correctly LuTze did something similar a while ago.

When I say "reach our nearest neighbour" I don't mean to say that it is 20 years away - I'm considering it from the point of view of an entire mission, conducted as an exploratory affair (the assumption is that this is a pathfinder mission, not that we have fleets of "press a button" starships). Planning, construction, launch, acceleration, deceleration, mapping planetoids in the target system, refabricating and deploying (perhaps even calibrating) whatever remote facilities or probes are required, mission fulfillment (which may involve manned observation systems), refuelling (if applicable), re-launch, acceleration, deceleration. Acceleration and deceleration alone are likely to double the period of travel each way, so it's going to be around 16 years just for the trip there and back.

The method that simulates your vision system without straining it is probably going to be preferable for most people.

Because oxygen is corrosive, and therefore when concentrated it is highly damaging to tissues - especially those that are specialised for oxygen absorbtion. In the scenario you described, you would quickly be overcome by hyperoxic euphoria and would most likely be unaware of the danger you were in.

If you have the stereograph images next to each other the right way around, and place a piece of card so that it is between them like a dividing wall, so the left and right eye can only see their respective image, you should get a passable stereoscopic effect.

"I've heard of tachyons" is not terribly helpful. As I understand it, mass cannot travel at light-speed due to E = mc2. If you solve the equation with negative mass however, you can. Or something.

...on the other hand, humans have created a society whereby it is not the sole and several responsibility of each man or woman to grow or gather their own food, which has allowed a portion of the population to sit around stroking their beards and give our species things to dream of, and better ways to construct tractors. Do not make the mistake of trying to drive the wedge too far in between philosophy and science.

No, because you'd be dead.

I suspect the intention was that people would notice the link. It's not terribly subtle.

"Breathing" is usually associated with respiration. Does anyone know how much useful light makes it to the surface of Venus? Those clouds are pretty thick.

OK, so we're all agreed. The answer is "None, one, two or as many as you can be bothered to count."

You realise that using the contrast boundaries of a 2D image to make a 3D separation layer is not the same as seeing the original object in 3D, as you would with a stereoscopic filming process which delivers two or three separate images? It's simulcra, nothing more. The images you are distributing are inherently not what they purport to be.

I thought it was supposed to be the temperature at which paper will spontaneously burst into flame. [edit] The actual quote from the book comes from Montag: "Fahrenheit four five one is the temperature at which book paper catches fire and starts to burn." The only evidence of this I have found so far on the Web is anecdotal.