I think they also want to try to recover the stage. Normally they break up because of the stress of sub-orbital re-entry or from hitting the water. (The Shuttle SRBs were designed to take the stress of splashdown.) If this works, it would stop and hover just above the water, then cut out the engines and flop over. This one might not be reusable thanks to salt water, but this is only one test on the way to the final goal.
The state of the US space program is about the only thing I won't blame Obama for. The blame for that lies squarely in the halls of Congress trying to keep Shuttle-era pork alive and cutting anything else NASA-related.
Now that it's easy to make plates with a full-color printing process that doesn't need stamping, some states have gone totally overboard. In Texas, you can get a custom plate with the logo of most major colleges and NFL teams (even ones up in the "damnyankee" northeast states). You can even get plates with a sequential number on your choice of multiple alternate backgrounds, such as white letters on a pink background, but most of those are "for a cause" art.
And while they require you to change plates after a number of years (due to limited lifetime of the reflective material), I still have and see many of the old stamped plates. Also it seems that at some point they started requiring a new license plate when a vehicle is sold, which only increases the churn.
Of course when you get a new plate, it is a new number, that way they can just have a stack of new plates in the tax office. Back in the day, Oklahoma used to re-issue you a fresh plate with the same number every year with a prefix based on your county (like a telephone number), until a fire broke out in the state prison (probably from a riot) and destroyed the equipment. Then they finally accepted that, duh, plates can easily last ten years.
I think Texas is much worse about that. For instance, I think you can get just about any major college logo or professional NFL team logo. There's at least half a dozen non-logo specialty plates, including one that's just white letters on a pink background. This is because now it's just a multi-layer printing process, and they don't have to stamp raised letters anymore. At least the default plates are now plain instead of that "night sky" background which in the first version actually obscured some of the plate numbers.
To be completely fair, the main reason you could tell their lines were dubbed over was that the original audio quality was complete and total shit. The dubbed audio was actually intelligible.
"And the doors? Haven't you wondered why sometimes they don't open and you bump your nose on them? There's two guys back there pulling them open when they see someone come, and sometimes they aren't paying attention."
Sure, we could go to four quarks next, like the next universe over. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker gluon field and call it the Quark3SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a fundamental force of the universe, that's why!
Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands
If you buy the OS at the same time as you buy the motherboard and CPU, you are supposed to be able to get "new PC" pricing for Windows. At least that's the way it works when you buy parts to build your own from Fry's.
Of course if you don't buy Windows right at that moment, then you're kind of fucked.
If you just view Hugh Pickens and Bennet Hasselton as the drunken person of the Slashdot party that no one recognises then it makes more sense.
I'm not sure how you could possibly conflate the two. HP actually tries to make proper Slashdot articles. There's only been once or twice that I've thought an article of his really wasn't on-topic for Slashdot. And while I'm not too fond of theodp's articles, at least they're in the right ball park.
BH, on the other hand, is a rambling idiot who submits sub-par blog posts as articles. (Burning Man exodus ideas? Seriously? When even BM regulars don't care that much?) That wouldn't be a problem except that one of the "editors" actually posts them. Jon Katz is an Einstein in comparison. (Maybe if we put BH and MDC (from K5) together in the same room, they could annihilate each other like matter and antimatter, or at least lock up in an infinite feedback loop.)
The software may not wear out, but try to get new versions for it. IIRC, support for Windows 2000 was dropped after VS 2005, and support for XP was dropped after VS 2010. (or was that with VS 2008?) So in order to keep producing new versions of existing software for older versions of Windows, you have to use old, unsupported versions of VS that Microsoft will not do anything to help you find. Sure, you can find it on TPB, but good luck trying to find a shrinkwrapped copy for sale. Hooray for closed source!
But old versions of GCC for Linux? No problem. You can probably even use a modern GCC with an old Linux as long as you have a sufficiently new version of glibc installed.
Not only can you not guarantee an even distribution, you can't even claim there are 36 symbols being used, since most licence plate numbering will not use both letter I / digit 1 and letter O / digit 0, except maybe on vanity plates. And you have failed to account for vanity plates at all.
You are also assuming that the last character is always chosen from the entire alphanumeric sequence (often each digit in a sequence of plates is either specifically numeric OR alpha, but not both), and you are assuming that the last character is always the most rapidly changing position. Then there are skips in the sequence (like XXX or FUK), though those will probably have a relatively minimal effect.
I suppose you could put the whole plate number through a hash algorithm, but that would require everyone directing traffic to have a battery powered device to confirm hashes, and some not-inconvenient means of entering the plate number to check hashes. And that still fails to account for people willing to pay extra for a priority exit slot for whatever reason.
You know, like the "why your anti-spam idea won't work" form. Needs stuff like:
( ) Your idea will only reduce traffic capacity
( ) License plate numbers don't work that way
( ) License plate numbers are not random, only which vehicle they are on is random
( ) Requires everyone to keep track of a small slip of paper over the period of a few days in a campsite
( ) Fails to account for people being delayed moving between their campsite and the exit
( ) Requires more people directing traffic than are inside the vehicles being directed
( ) Any satellite with sufficient resolution is not geostationary and unlikely to be over the playa at the right moment
( ) The NSA really doesn't care about Burning Man, really
In other news, Russian defense and space minister Dmitry Rogozin said Russia has no space interests with NASA outside of the International Space Station.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was subsequently reported to have said, "THAT'S THE JOKE."
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I'm sure it's just the AE35 unit again. Give it a good whack with a hammer and it'll be fine.
I think they also want to try to recover the stage. Normally they break up because of the stress of sub-orbital re-entry or from hitting the water. (The Shuttle SRBs were designed to take the stress of splashdown.) If this works, it would stop and hover just above the water, then cut out the engines and flop over. This one might not be reusable thanks to salt water, but this is only one test on the way to the final goal.
They haven't been on moon with humans, you fucking moron. Or maybe you think they're perfectly fine with setting up an all-robot moon base.
The state of the US space program is about the only thing I won't blame Obama for. The blame for that lies squarely in the halls of Congress trying to keep Shuttle-era pork alive and cutting anything else NASA-related.
Well, they've already never been on the moon, might as well double down with nuclear fusion power that nobody has gotten working yet either!
Now that it's easy to make plates with a full-color printing process that doesn't need stamping, some states have gone totally overboard. In Texas, you can get a custom plate with the logo of most major colleges and NFL teams (even ones up in the "damnyankee" northeast states). You can even get plates with a sequential number on your choice of multiple alternate backgrounds, such as white letters on a pink background, but most of those are "for a cause" art.
And while they require you to change plates after a number of years (due to limited lifetime of the reflective material), I still have and see many of the old stamped plates. Also it seems that at some point they started requiring a new license plate when a vehicle is sold, which only increases the churn.
Of course when you get a new plate, it is a new number, that way they can just have a stack of new plates in the tax office. Back in the day, Oklahoma used to re-issue you a fresh plate with the same number every year with a prefix based on your county (like a telephone number), until a fire broke out in the state prison (probably from a riot) and destroyed the equipment. Then they finally accepted that, duh, plates can easily last ten years.
I think Virginia is another state infamous for plates gone wild. This one is my favorite.
I saw a Rolls Royce with plate "BR 2" - my initials
Your last name starts with a digit? Pleased to meet you, Mister 2! (But who is Number One?)
Have you ever noticed how people with handicapped license plates always drive like it's their car that's handicapped? What's up with that?
I think Texas is much worse about that. For instance, I think you can get just about any major college logo or professional NFL team logo. There's at least half a dozen non-logo specialty plates, including one that's just white letters on a pink background. This is because now it's just a multi-layer printing process, and they don't have to stamp raised letters anymore. At least the default plates are now plain instead of that "night sky" background which in the first version actually obscured some of the plate numbers.
Who exactly is Korean here? Panasonic = Matsushita = Japanese.
Any object can be consider the unmoving center of a frame of reference. Earth is at (0,0,0) and not rotating.
I have heard that this point is actually on a sofa somewhere in Pasadena.
and had their lines (sloppily) edited
To be completely fair, the main reason you could tell their lines were dubbed over was that the original audio quality was complete and total shit. The dubbed audio was actually intelligible.
"And the doors? Haven't you wondered why sometimes they don't open and you bump your nose on them? There's two guys back there pulling them open when they see someone come, and sometimes they aren't paying attention."
Sure, we could go to four quarks next, like the next universe over. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a thicker gluon field and call it the Quark3SuperTurbo. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a fundamental force of the universe, that's why!
Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands
Such a missed opportunity for the word "hadron".
It can't be Australia. It's got no Vegemite on it.
In other news, Tasmania is now confirmed to not exist.
If you buy the OS at the same time as you buy the motherboard and CPU, you are supposed to be able to get "new PC" pricing for Windows. At least that's the way it works when you buy parts to build your own from Fry's.
Of course if you don't buy Windows right at that moment, then you're kind of fucked.
If you just view Hugh Pickens and Bennet Hasselton as the drunken person of the Slashdot party that no one recognises then it makes more sense.
I'm not sure how you could possibly conflate the two. HP actually tries to make proper Slashdot articles. There's only been once or twice that I've thought an article of his really wasn't on-topic for Slashdot. And while I'm not too fond of theodp's articles, at least they're in the right ball park.
BH, on the other hand, is a rambling idiot who submits sub-par blog posts as articles. (Burning Man exodus ideas? Seriously? When even BM regulars don't care that much?) That wouldn't be a problem except that one of the "editors" actually posts them. Jon Katz is an Einstein in comparison. (Maybe if we put BH and MDC (from K5) together in the same room, they could annihilate each other like matter and antimatter, or at least lock up in an infinite feedback loop.)
The software may not wear out, but try to get new versions for it. IIRC, support for Windows 2000 was dropped after VS 2005, and support for XP was dropped after VS 2010. (or was that with VS 2008?) So in order to keep producing new versions of existing software for older versions of Windows, you have to use old, unsupported versions of VS that Microsoft will not do anything to help you find. Sure, you can find it on TPB, but good luck trying to find a shrinkwrapped copy for sale. Hooray for closed source!
But old versions of GCC for Linux? No problem. You can probably even use a modern GCC with an old Linux as long as you have a sufficiently new version of glibc installed.
If you have a static IP, you never needed dyndns to begin with. You could run your own DNS. (I have been since I first got DSL back in 2000.)
Not only can you not guarantee an even distribution, you can't even claim there are 36 symbols being used, since most licence plate numbering will not use both letter I / digit 1 and letter O / digit 0, except maybe on vanity plates. And you have failed to account for vanity plates at all.
You are also assuming that the last character is always chosen from the entire alphanumeric sequence (often each digit in a sequence of plates is either specifically numeric OR alpha, but not both), and you are assuming that the last character is always the most rapidly changing position. Then there are skips in the sequence (like XXX or FUK), though those will probably have a relatively minimal effect.
I suppose you could put the whole plate number through a hash algorithm, but that would require everyone directing traffic to have a battery powered device to confirm hashes, and some not-inconvenient means of entering the plate number to check hashes. And that still fails to account for people willing to pay extra for a priority exit slot for whatever reason.
You know, like the "why your anti-spam idea won't work" form. Needs stuff like:
( ) Your idea will only reduce traffic capacity
( ) License plate numbers don't work that way
( ) License plate numbers are not random, only which vehicle they are on is random
( ) Requires everyone to keep track of a small slip of paper over the period of a few days in a campsite
( ) Fails to account for people being delayed moving between their campsite and the exit
( ) Requires more people directing traffic than are inside the vehicles being directed
( ) Any satellite with sufficient resolution is not geostationary and unlikely to be over the playa at the right moment
( ) The NSA really doesn't care about Burning Man, really
etc.
actually it's quite hard to make it profitable, which is why the previous owners
...were so quick to sell
Running a barely profitable service business and someone offers you Too Much Money to buy you out? Take that money!
Actually, iTunes doesn't have MP3s at all, they use AAC.
Well, until the hackers start overlaying the Second Life furry content
Look at this on the bright side. One way streets can be designated by 3D penises pointing in the direction of traffic.
Oh wow. Just thinking of anything coming from the mind of ol' Chappaquiddick Ted makes my stomach churn.
In other news, Russian defense and space minister Dmitry Rogozin said Russia has no space interests with NASA outside of the International Space Station.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was subsequently reported to have said, "THAT'S THE JOKE."