If you don't connect for a few months, the words "UNREGISTERED COPY" or somesuch appear under the version number at the top of the window. I only know this because I didn't realize that I needed to download a new launcher a few months ago, and I was wondering why I couldn't log in anymore except with the web client.
Oh geez, not this again. Helium-3 doesn't do shit for us. Not only do we not have nuclear fusion working yet, but Helium-3 isn't even one of the easier fuels to use. It might be interesting in 50 years, but not now.
Too bad there's still no destination for people, eh?
Remember how someone at IBM said a long, long time ago that we would only ever need like a dozen computers total?
At least for now, there is little enough competition that launching satellites, sending cargo to ISS, and eventually sending crew to ISS should be enough to keep them in business.
What happened to the 1997 Japanese space hotel? Oh yeah, nothing. What's going on with the PG&E space based solar power? etc.
What happened was that we (humanity) really weren't capable of launching big stuff and the people that were needed to use the stuff, even though some of us thought we were. With stuff like SpaceX, J-2X, and VASIMR, the pieces are finally starting to fall together, and many of these pieces aren't dependent on the whims of the US legislative and executive branches trying to change NASA's direction every four years.
we couldn't even sustain Concorde.
Concorde is a bit more complicated than just throwing money at technology, which is how it was built. It was crippled from the start with all the people worrying about sonic boom noise limiting it to very few airports. That broke its whole business model. Then not only did the crash and 9/11 happen, but the whole fleet was aging. And the internet is faster than an SST, too.
The only reason it hadn't been ended long before was that they realized their passengers weren't price-sensitive, consisting mostly of celebs and business VIPs. (Just imagine if the plane that crashed hadn't been a tourist charter flight! I think some of the decision had to be based on the potential liability of a plane full of VIPs going down.)
You know what else it lacked that you still have to buy an addon for? An FM receiver, yes that's right, this music player still lacks a built-in FM receiver.
That's like saying the XBox 360 is crap because it doesn't play BluRay discs. I don't need an MP3 player to play FM radio. If I wanted to listen to the kind of corporate crap they put on radio, why would I need an MP3 player?
...but not a Texan. We not only have a state pepper, we've even changed it from the jalapeno to the chiltepin, a pea-size pepper which grows wild here, and is very spicy in its green form. (They prefer to be picked red, though, and I respect that.)
It's not about the immune system, it's about noticing and tending to injuries due to the lack of pain sensation. Just read any Thomas Covenant novel to get the idea. (But only read one, to avoid either depressing yourself to death or constant OCD visual checking of your fingers and toes.)
For what it's worth, I usually hear of this with long distance (marathon) runners, though I once heard of a guy who went nuts drinking water non-stop from a garden hose until he hit toxicity.
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It represents most of the world data as voxels, however each "voxel" represents a cube 50cm high, with typical 3-D graphics textures applied.
If you don't connect for a few months, the words "UNREGISTERED COPY" or somesuch appear under the version number at the top of the window. I only know this because I didn't realize that I needed to download a new launcher a few months ago, and I was wondering why I couldn't log in anymore except with the web client.
Or how about those Brits who pronounce beta as beet-uh?
Then there is also helium-3 on the moon
Oh geez, not this again. Helium-3 doesn't do shit for us. Not only do we not have nuclear fusion working yet, but Helium-3 isn't even one of the easier fuels to use. It might be interesting in 50 years, but not now.
Too bad there's still no destination for people, eh?
Remember how someone at IBM said a long, long time ago that we would only ever need like a dozen computers total?
At least for now, there is little enough competition that launching satellites, sending cargo to ISS, and eventually sending crew to ISS should be enough to keep them in business.
What happened to the 1997 Japanese space hotel? Oh yeah, nothing. What's going on with the PG&E space based solar power? etc.
What happened was that we (humanity) really weren't capable of launching big stuff and the people that were needed to use the stuff, even though some of us thought we were. With stuff like SpaceX, J-2X, and VASIMR, the pieces are finally starting to fall together, and many of these pieces aren't dependent on the whims of the US legislative and executive branches trying to change NASA's direction every four years.
we couldn't even sustain Concorde.
Concorde is a bit more complicated than just throwing money at technology, which is how it was built. It was crippled from the start with all the people worrying about sonic boom noise limiting it to very few airports. That broke its whole business model. Then not only did the crash and 9/11 happen, but the whole fleet was aging. And the internet is faster than an SST, too.
The only reason it hadn't been ended long before was that they realized their passengers weren't price-sensitive, consisting mostly of celebs and business VIPs. (Just imagine if the plane that crashed hadn't been a tourist charter flight! I think some of the decision had to be based on the potential liability of a plane full of VIPs going down.)
Obama didn't even want to get involved for the whole first month of the rebellion.
It's right more often!
You forgot the link for Esperanto.
DIVX - the reason I stopped shopping at Circuit City.
This. Submitter does not understand the entropy that can be generated by nothing more a modulus of the delta time between various external events.
Ask Slashdot: Continually asking to re-invent wheels for over 15 years.
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Seriously, though, SBC--er, I mean AT&T--still uses prodigy.net domain names for some of its internal e-mail servers. (for outbound mail, I think).
...to iAppleADay
Sigh, do you really think that they run word in ring0?
If only the Beatles had kept Pete Best as their drummer, this wouldn't have been a problem.
at least they stopped bundling their browser with the os
oh, wait, they started that again
Yep.
It's Windows. Why should you be surprised?
This is Slashdot. Shouldn't you be using a Bitcoin analogy?
I'll also use my power to right wrongs.
For great justice?
Yet you failed to knowtice* the misspelling of "contaminant"?
*started typing it this way, then decided it was funnier and kept it
You know what else it lacked that you still have to buy an addon for? An FM receiver, yes that's right, this music player still lacks a built-in FM receiver.
That's like saying the XBox 360 is crap because it doesn't play BluRay discs. I don't need an MP3 player to play FM radio. If I wanted to listen to the kind of corporate crap they put on radio, why would I need an MP3 player?
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Right. Because there was no public education before 1980. Nope, we can't do anything unless sugar daddy gummint does it for us.
(one American, FWIW)
...but not a Texan. We not only have a state pepper, we've even changed it from the jalapeno to the chiltepin, a pea-size pepper which grows wild here, and is very spicy in its green form. (They prefer to be picked red, though, and I respect that.)
It's not about the immune system, it's about noticing and tending to injuries due to the lack of pain sensation. Just read any Thomas Covenant novel to get the idea. (But only read one, to avoid either depressing yourself to death or constant OCD visual checking of your fingers and toes.)
Isn't that what dhmo.org is all about?
For what it's worth, I usually hear of this with long distance (marathon) runners, though I once heard of a guy who went nuts drinking water non-stop from a garden hose until he hit toxicity.