we have to send Bruce Willis' head in a jar right now.
I for one am really quite OK with that, I don't think it is being used for much of anything right now. Somebody go grab the head and we'll find a rocket to juice up someplace. I'm pretty sure one of the pickle jars from a restaurant will work, I'll see if I can find one.
Sadly, my Droid does not support this. The app is the only way to get it to work. I understand that some of the newer phones, Droid X and 2 do support it. I had hoped that 2.2 would fix this, but it did not. I had to go back to EasyTether.
Thanks, I installed that some time ago. It doesn't seem to matter, I can be sitting right next to the hotspot (it's behind my monitor) and it will still stop communicating and require that I restart the wifi. I've had the same problem in many locations, hotels, coffee shops, my living room, it will work for some random length of time, and then just stop. If I need a reliable connection for email or something like that, I switch to 3G.
This won't be a problem with the military until, instead of unsuspecting civilians being blown to hell, it turns out to be a squad of US military on patrol who actually called in the drone strike and just happen to be 13 meters away from the target.
This is all very interesting given what happened to me. We were using well under the number of minutes provided by our plan (the smallest published family plan) and I got a letter from Verizon offering to switch us to a lower minute (and about 15% lower priced) non-published plan. When I called about it, the CSR was exceptionally helpful and got it set right up for us. I'm sure it reset our contract, but since we were just getting the same features cheaper, so what. We still don't use anywhere near the number of minutes in the plan, and since most of our mobile calls are to each other, we never will.
If the wi-fi on my Droid would work consistently, I wouldn't care about limited data plans. Since Verizon doesn't see fit to fix the problems (or from what I have seen, even acknowledge they exist) they should just leave their data plans alone.
I looked at all of the pictures, and there were some missing parts: teletype, card reader, tape drives, and a few guys in white lab coats. Oh, and the glass box surrounding everything so the lower beings can see the magic, but have no ability to actually touch the equipment. I think an aquarium would be good, build an elevated floor with removable 2x2 scale foot panels. You would have to cut two little windows in it, one for the card decks coming in, and one for the card decks wrapped with printouts coming back out.
Fox proves on a daily basis that people have a right to be dicks.
I didn't say that I approve of the game, I'd never buy the thing. I wouldn't even know about it if the media hadn't blown up a big shit storm about it. I remember neighbors a few years ago that had 6 year old's playing crap like that. Made me sick. OK, it was the 90's so this was pre-Taliban and they were shooting some other group with skin not quite as white as ours for some other reason. Why doesn't Fox ever complain about that kind of behavior. You can't have it both ways, either it's right or it's wrong, it doesn't matter who the hell is shooting who.
And she didn't know a thing about this game, until some thoughtful caring person from Cluster Fox brought it to her attention. How is that for basic human decency.
Once again proving that I cannot type. It should read "has dropped". You would think that by now I would have learned to proof twice before clicking on that last button.
Let me guess, the average IQ at the patent office as dropped by at least an order of magnitude (maybe two) since Einstein left. Must be in the low double digits, possibly even single digits by now.
If he wasn't trying to "use" the notoriety of the Geek Squad, he would have used a rectangular sign on the side of an early xB (the boxy(er) one), with different fonts and layout. That would have stood out, this was done to look like the Geek Squad. He is using Geek Squad advertising dollars to sell his product. That, by definition is infringement.
Yes, when I use mine where there is a compatible network, the GPS + Verizon locates exactly and quickly. I have no idea why the GPS becomes useless when there is no network. Seems kind of odd to me, it really shouldn't care but it does. If the Droid had compatible GSM I would have gotten a sim (or two, one for France and one for Spain) while in Europe and it likely would have been fine. The next phone I get will have to work that way.
I took my Moto Droid to France and Spain this spring for just that purpose. By definition there was no phone network in Europe, it only works with Verizon. I downloaded maps using MapDroid and planned to use it for GPS and email in wi-fi zones. The wi-fi email tool worked ok except the phone has a hard time hanging onto a wi-fi connection. As a GPS it was worthless. I find that if the phone network is disabled, the GPS takes forever to find it's location (sometimes it failed completely). If you are planning to not have a phone network connection, don't bother with this one.
If we have to send something (or someone) to each major object of space junk to attache one of these decelerators, how would collecting the object be less costly?
What I don't understand is, since we already paid a hefty price to lift this "material" into space, why not collect it in orbit and save it until we can utilize it as raw materials for future space projects. There must be lots of useful stuff that could be reprocessed and reused.
Doesn't everyone have the expectation that we will have factories in space to build the things that are needed in space from raw materials gathered from around the solar system? This would just be raw materials for those factories that doesn't have to be lifted out of the gravity well of earth.
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we have to send Bruce Willis' head in a jar right now.
I for one am really quite OK with that, I don't think it is being used for much of anything right now. Somebody go grab the head and we'll find a rocket to juice up someplace. I'm pretty sure one of the pickle jars from a restaurant will work, I'll see if I can find one.
In all likelihood, the deodorization process will break their breeding process and they will disappear completely in a year or two.
Sadly, my Droid does not support this. The app is the only way to get it to work. I understand that some of the newer phones, Droid X and 2 do support it. I had hoped that 2.2 would fix this, but it did not. I had to go back to EasyTether.
Thanks, I installed that some time ago. It doesn't seem to matter, I can be sitting right next to the hotspot (it's behind my monitor) and it will still stop communicating and require that I restart the wifi. I've had the same problem in many locations, hotels, coffee shops, my living room, it will work for some random length of time, and then just stop. If I need a reliable connection for email or something like that, I switch to 3G.
Even then, they will tell the families that it was and IED instead of telling the truth.
This won't be a problem with the military until, instead of unsuspecting civilians being blown to hell, it turns out to be a squad of US military on patrol who actually called in the drone strike and just happen to be 13 meters away from the target.
If you are using an Android phone, check out easytether in the app market.
This is all very interesting given what happened to me. We were using well under the number of minutes provided by our plan (the smallest published family plan) and I got a letter from Verizon offering to switch us to a lower minute (and about 15% lower priced) non-published plan. When I called about it, the CSR was exceptionally helpful and got it set right up for us. I'm sure it reset our contract, but since we were just getting the same features cheaper, so what. We still don't use anywhere near the number of minutes in the plan, and since most of our mobile calls are to each other, we never will.
If the wi-fi on my Droid would work consistently, I wouldn't care about limited data plans. Since Verizon doesn't see fit to fix the problems (or from what I have seen, even acknowledge they exist) they should just leave their data plans alone.
So, is gravity god then...
I looked at all of the pictures, and there were some missing parts: teletype, card reader, tape drives, and a few guys in white lab coats. Oh, and the glass box surrounding everything so the lower beings can see the magic, but have no ability to actually touch the equipment. I think an aquarium would be good, build an elevated floor with removable 2x2 scale foot panels. You would have to cut two little windows in it, one for the card decks coming in, and one for the card decks wrapped with printouts coming back out.
a Blackberry version would be useful for people living in Saudi Arabia, UAE, India and most importantly, the US.
Fox proves on a daily basis that people have a right to be dicks.
I didn't say that I approve of the game, I'd never buy the thing. I wouldn't even know about it if the media hadn't blown up a big shit storm about it. I remember neighbors a few years ago that had 6 year old's playing crap like that. Made me sick. OK, it was the 90's so this was pre-Taliban and they were shooting some other group with skin not quite as white as ours for some other reason. Why doesn't Fox ever complain about that kind of behavior. You can't have it both ways, either it's right or it's wrong, it doesn't matter who the hell is shooting who.
And she didn't know a thing about this game, until some thoughtful caring person from Cluster Fox brought it to her attention. How is that for basic human decency.
It's not like that hasn't happened in Afghanistan in the recent past.
God forbid we should offend somebody!
Once again proving that I cannot type. It should read "has dropped". You would think that by now I would have learned to proof twice before clicking on that last button.
Let me guess, the average IQ at the patent office as dropped by at least an order of magnitude (maybe two) since Einstein left. Must be in the low double digits, possibly even single digits by now.
And what I'd like to see is the original art for this technological advancement supplied to the patent inspectors.
If he wasn't trying to "use" the notoriety of the Geek Squad, he would have used a rectangular sign on the side of an early xB (the boxy(er) one), with different fonts and layout. That would have stood out, this was done to look like the Geek Squad. He is using Geek Squad advertising dollars to sell his product. That, by definition is infringement.
Yes, when I use mine where there is a compatible network, the GPS + Verizon locates exactly and quickly. I have no idea why the GPS becomes useless when there is no network. Seems kind of odd to me, it really shouldn't care but it does. If the Droid had compatible GSM I would have gotten a sim (or two, one for France and one for Spain) while in Europe and it likely would have been fine. The next phone I get will have to work that way.
I took my Moto Droid to France and Spain this spring for just that purpose. By definition there was no phone network in Europe, it only works with Verizon. I downloaded maps using MapDroid and planned to use it for GPS and email in wi-fi zones. The wi-fi email tool worked ok except the phone has a hard time hanging onto a wi-fi connection. As a GPS it was worthless. I find that if the phone network is disabled, the GPS takes forever to find it's location (sometimes it failed completely). If you are planning to not have a phone network connection, don't bother with this one.
frankly, the Church destroyed my belief in the Church. I didn't need any help from beings from a distant solar system.
If we have to send something (or someone) to each major object of space junk to attache one of these decelerators, how would collecting the object be less costly?
What I don't understand is, since we already paid a hefty price to lift this "material" into space, why not collect it in orbit and save it until we can utilize it as raw materials for future space projects. There must be lots of useful stuff that could be reprocessed and reused.
Doesn't everyone have the expectation that we will have factories in space to build the things that are needed in space from raw materials gathered from around the solar system? This would just be raw materials for those factories that doesn't have to be lifted out of the gravity well of earth.