It's a G3. Um. It is a graphite iMac.
Lorne: Snakes? Uh-huh. And they came out of your what? Okay. Okay, well, did they get up there themselves or is this part of a, you know, a thing? No, I'm not judging...Do we fight snakes? Angel: Only if they're giant. Or demons. Or giant demons. Are they giant demon snakes? Lorne: Well, unless this guy's 30 feet tall, I'm thinking they're of the garden variety.
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Allyson - Feb 15, 2006 2:37:40 pm PST #7098 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Tom Scola - Feb 15, 2006 2:37:56 pm PST #7099 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And are you sure that it doesn't have a DVD? I bought a cube six years ago, and it had a DVD built in.
Sean K - Feb 15, 2006 2:43:12 pm PST #7100 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm seriously thinking about getting a PowerBook soon, too. I'd kind of prefer a MacBook Pro, but I'll be able to afford the PB much sooner.
Also...
Latest Space Elevator tests looking good. [link]
I love the idea of a space elevator. I think that, as long as large groups of people are in love with the idea of murdering large numbers of other people in spectacular ways, a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Jessica - Feb 15, 2006 2:58:43 pm PST #7101 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think that, as long as large groups of people are in love with the idea of murdering large numbers of other people in spectacular ways, a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Hey, just because it happened twice in the Mars trilogy...
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2006 3:15:48 pm PST #7102 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm not sure how happy Tiger would be running on a G3 though.
I've never really noticed worse performance running Tiger on my G3 iBook. I do have the last G3 iBook (900 mhz) with 640 Meg RAM, and I pretty much just use it for web browsing or watching DVDs.
It does have speed problems playing downloaded video, but I'm not sure if that's gotten worse under Tiger.
DCJensen - Feb 15, 2006 3:36:45 pm PST #7103 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
a space elevator on Earth is extremely ill advised, and building one is just asking to see how many people it will kill when it comes crashing down.
Mostly the Earth end will be tethered in the ocean near the equator.
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2006 3:40:51 pm PST #7104 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If a space elevator is cut, the part above the cut will fly off into space. So if, say, a plane flew into it at 35,000 feet, you'd end up with about 8 miles of space elevator crashing down. Or more like floating down.
It would suck to actually be on the elevator when it flies off into space, though.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2006 3:47:33 pm PST #7105 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Mostly the Earth end will be tethered in the ocean near the equator.
Where will the rest of it be tethered?
tommyrot - Feb 15, 2006 3:51:47 pm PST #7106 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've read that the tether part will probably be some sort of mobile platform, so the elevator can be moved out of the way of storms and orbiting space junk and what-not.
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Where will the rest of it be tethered?
The other end will be a counterweight, somewhere further from earth than geostationary orbit.
DCJensen - Feb 15, 2006 4:02:12 pm PST #7107 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
The neat thing about the current plans for the space elevator is that it will run on nanotube "cables" so these super-thin, super-strong cables will theoretically be quite hard to break.
Of course, the completion date is still 12 years off, and the technology is still not completly in place, but that's what these tests are all about. slow but steady progress.
Plus? The benefits form the tests and resulting serendipitous knowlege may well outweigh the benefits of the actual elevator. Sort of like the (other) space program.
Hopefully with better PR to explain the benefits than NASA has.