If my favorite bands would offer a subscription on their website, I'd gladly pay (say) $5 per month or $25 per year to access high quality oggs/MP3s and all of the artwork necessary to create my own CDs. They could market their own CDs too that way, and skip the record companies. Put live or rare tracks on the subscription too. And the "free" part of their site could offer lower quality sound files or streams.
Of course, that means the RIAA goes out of business, but that's not something anyone would be sorry about.
Well, I call myself a "software developer", actually. I've got the beard and ponytail, I weigh about 300 pounds, I haven't worn a suit or tie to work in years, I'm not one to pretend I'm heterosexual,
Obviously, you've never been near a Concorde as it flies.
I was in London at Kew Gardens in 1997, right beneath the "draining toilet bowl" pattern for Heathrow, and a Concorde was coming in. At 10,000 feet, the Concorde was louder than a 747 at 2,000. When the Concorde came in at 2,000, it was so loud you had to put your hands over your ears.
Furthermore, the Concorde *can't* fly from London or Paris to Los Angeles. It burns as much fuel as a 747 just to get to New York, and it carries only 100 people. The plane was a money-loser when it was built, and everybody knew it. It was built purely for the prestige which, arguably, it has in abundance even though it crashed & burned last year.
>We've had two generations of bombers, the B1 and
>B2, that haven't seen combat and aren't going to,
>ever.
The B-2 was used against Serbia in 1999. It flew less than 5% of the missions, but dropped 25% of the guided munitions in the entire conflict. They sortied from Holliman AFB in Missouri, refueled over the Atlantic, conducted their missions in Serbia regardless of the weather, and returned to base.
The B-2 was originally designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. The Air Force wanted more capability, so they had Northrop redesign the plane to fly low and drop conventional weapons too (one of the reasons the thing took so long to develop).
The B-2 works. Just ask the Chinese; their embassy in Belgrade was hit by a bomb dropped by a B-2. Old map, accurate delivery, courtesy of the US Air Force.
On the other hand, the B-1 is a piece of shit. But it is impressive at air shows!
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Excuse me, but there was never a "DC-Y". The follow-on was the DC-XA.
I think it's pretty clear you don't know what you're talking about.
The Schlockheed X-33 also had a big problem: no control authority on liftoff. The thing had to burn at 100% throttle just to get off the pad. Add a nice 10 MPH crosswind, and your nice $1.5 billion vehicle tips over.
Radiation! Yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-bock, do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you... pernicious nonsense!
Everyone go buy it on DVD and listen to the commentary.
I've got an old Primestar dish taking up space in my patio (when they "upgraded" me to DirecTV they didn't take it). I wonder if anything can be done like that with old Primestar dishes.
The big thing was the avionics system. Remember, before the Delta Clipper, there had never been a rocket that had landed like that, or had pitched over 90 degrees (well, they had, but they all blew up).
The DCX was really amazing. If it had been built, it could have been the first craft to be able to take off from the Earth, refuel in orbit, fly to the moon & land, refuel there, & come back. And it could land pretty much anywhere on the planet you had a big enough flat space.
It's typical of the government and McDonnell-Douglas's luck at the time. MDC has a proposal based on a previous, successful technology demonstration, then Lockheed gets the contract & fucks it up. Ever heard of THAADS?
This is another case of a no-win situation for the US. If we establish permanent normalized trade with China, we're accused of being two faced and ignoring their terrible human rights record. If we do take the "moral high ground", the rest of the world continues normal trade with China and the US gets shut out of the biggest developing market in the world.
Sorry about that, non-Americans, but I believe we're going to protect our economic ass.
Just because a US rocket launches something into space doesn't mean it's a NASA mission! NASA had *nothing* to do with 5 of the 8 launches described above!
It's the Zenit, which has (I believe) only a 60 or 70 percent success rate. It was a Zenit that failed for Globalstar that got us (Delta II) a lot of business. But it's a cheap rocket that has a medium-heavy launch capability, so customers are willing to risk it.
BTW, I'm not speaking for Boeing, I just work here, blah blah blah.
I was chatting with a guy from Malaysia a couple weeks ago about the whole DVD things going on. He said DVD players over there already have region control disabled, or you take it to a place that fixes it. He also said no one buys anything but region 1 DVDs cause the local ones are of such poor quality.
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If my favorite bands would offer a subscription on their website, I'd gladly pay (say) $5 per month or $25 per year to access high quality oggs/MP3s and all of the artwork necessary to create my own CDs. They could market their own CDs too that way, and skip the record companies. Put live or rare tracks on the subscription too. And the "free" part of their site could offer lower quality sound files or streams.
Of course, that means the RIAA goes out of business, but that's not something anyone would be sorry about.
But the pictures all came out like this.
Maybe I shouldn't have driven at night...
I'll pull out the ol' shovel and dig him out...
Oh great. Now I have to get *another* tinfoil hat!
Well, I call myself a "software developer", actually. I've got the beard and ponytail, I weigh about 300 pounds, I haven't worn a suit or tie to work in years, I'm not one to pretend I'm heterosexual,
Man, you must get all the chicks!
We have a winner for run-on sentence of the month!
Obviously, you've never been near a Concorde as it flies.
I was in London at Kew Gardens in 1997, right beneath the "draining toilet bowl" pattern for Heathrow, and a Concorde was coming in. At 10,000 feet, the Concorde was louder than a 747 at 2,000. When the Concorde came in at 2,000, it was so loud you had to put your hands over your ears.
Furthermore, the Concorde *can't* fly from London or Paris to Los Angeles. It burns as much fuel as a 747 just to get to New York, and it carries only 100 people. The plane was a money-loser when it was built, and everybody knew it. It was built purely for the prestige which, arguably, it has in abundance even though it crashed & burned last year.
Just put your Apache server on another port, say 8080. That's what I did. Then you just tell people to tack ":8080" after your domain.
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is your file!
>We've had two generations of bombers, the B1 and
>B2, that haven't seen combat and aren't going to,
>ever.
The B-2 was used against Serbia in 1999. It flew less than 5% of the missions, but dropped 25% of the guided munitions in the entire conflict. They sortied from Holliman AFB in Missouri, refueled over the Atlantic, conducted their missions in Serbia regardless of the weather, and returned to base.
The B-2 was originally designed to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union. The Air Force wanted more capability, so they had Northrop redesign the plane to fly low and drop conventional weapons too (one of the reasons the thing took so long to develop).
The B-2 works. Just ask the Chinese; their embassy in Belgrade was hit by a bomb dropped by a B-2. Old map, accurate delivery, courtesy of the US Air Force.
On the other hand, the B-1 is a piece of shit. But it is impressive at air shows!
Mod drox's reply WAY up please.
> which was demonstrated by the loss of the DC-Y.
Excuse me, but there was never a "DC-Y". The follow-on was the DC-XA.
I think it's pretty clear you don't know what you're talking about.
The Schlockheed X-33 also had a big problem: no control authority on liftoff. The thing had to burn at 100% throttle just to get off the pad. Add a nice 10 MPH crosswind, and your nice $1.5 billion vehicle tips over.
I suggest the O'Reilly animal for this book to be a weasel.
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Radiation! Yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-bock, do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you... pernicious nonsense!
Everyone go buy it on DVD and listen to the commentary.
So, NBC's "Survivor" ripoff's prize is gonna be a cruise and submarine trip?
Nader: Al and George make me want to Ralph!
Bush: Vote Republican, cause you'll get a Bush and a Dick!
Buchanan: (little kid) I want make all the Hindus in my school pray to Jesus!
Plagiarized from KROQ this morning and The Daily Show.
What I want to know is, where can I trade OGGs? Not Napster, that's for sure.
I've got an old Primestar dish taking up space in my patio (when they "upgraded" me to DirecTV they didn't take it). I wonder if anything can be done like that with old Primestar dishes.
The big thing was the avionics system. Remember, before the Delta Clipper, there had never been a rocket that had landed like that, or had pitched over 90 degrees (well, they had, but they all blew up).
The DCX was really amazing. If it had been built, it could have been the first craft to be able to take off from the Earth, refuel in orbit, fly to the moon & land, refuel there, & come back. And it could land pretty much anywhere on the planet you had a big enough flat space.
It's typical of the government and McDonnell-Douglas's luck at the time. MDC has a proposal based on a previous, successful technology demonstration, then Lockheed gets the contract & fucks it up. Ever heard of THAADS?
>The one thing I don't get it why they launch them seperately. Why not use a single Titan IV
Two Delta II rockets are much less expensive than one Titan IV.
Delta II rockets are the most reliable ones in the world, too. Titan IV's have a tendency to fly sideways, unfortunately.
This is another case of a no-win situation for the US. If we establish permanent normalized trade with China, we're accused of being two faced and ignoring their terrible human rights record. If we do take the "moral high ground", the rest of the world continues normal trade with China and the US gets shut out of the biggest developing market in the world.
Sorry about that, non-Americans, but I believe we're going to protect our economic ass.
Just because a US rocket launches something into space doesn't mean it's a NASA mission! NASA had *nothing* to do with 5 of the 8 launches described above!
Argh!
...is that MS-12 is scheduled to launch July 11 from Vandenberg. See? :)
Mission Config Launch Date Launch Location
MS-12 7920-10 11-JUL-2000 SLC-2W
Maybe the fact that you're in Redmond has something to do with that, hmmm?
It's the Zenit, which has (I believe) only a 60 or 70 percent success rate. It was a Zenit that failed for Globalstar that got us (Delta II) a lot of business. But it's a cheap rocket that has a medium-heavy launch capability, so customers are willing to risk it.
BTW, I'm not speaking for Boeing, I just work here, blah blah blah.
I was chatting with a guy from Malaysia a couple weeks ago about the whole DVD things going on. He said DVD players over there already have region control disabled, or you take it to a place that fixes it. He also said no one buys anything but region 1 DVDs cause the local ones are of such poor quality.