IAMARS but I'd like to propose a 3rd Scenario: it's a jet contrail, and due to the camera angle of the shot and the lighting looks kind of like a missile. I've seen lots of missile and rocket launches and the exhaust trail doesn't look exactly like that, similar, but not quite the same. I'm using Chrome and I can't paste in here, go to Youtube and search for Trident launches, there are plenty. Also note the speed - it's moving pretty slow for an ICBM. Even at the angle that the video is shot, by the time an ICBM (pedantry nullifier: all modern SLBMs ar also ICBMs) get to that altitude it would be travelling at 4-5000 m/s or faster, and will go about 300km miles down range in 60 seconds. Also, all modern SLBMs are multi-stage. About 2 minutes in stage 2 would have burned out and stage 3 started, but I don't see any evidence of the 3rd stage igniting in the video, and after 2 minutes the velocity would be over 6000 m/s and the missile wound be close to 800km downrange. Also, note the interesting lighting and the green flash reflecting off the vehicle.
My conclusion is a big jet travelling north west, possible an American Airlines plane due to the intensity of the flash.
While I personally believe the threat from former military personel to be nearly non-existant, assuming it has any truth in it at all, if a bunch of ex-Marines are going to blow something up it won't be an airplane full of civillians, likewise militias - they hate the guberment, not the citizens (except the black ones and the gay ones).
but there is a threshold of efficiency necessary to offset fixed installation costs.
This threshold will become lower as the costs of fossil fuel goes up. Assume for the sake of argument that the cost basis of solar tech like this doesn't change, the rising costs and shrinking supply of traditional sources will make things like this more attractive. Of course, it is likely that the costs for this tech will decrease over time...
This wasn't really a vote for Republicans as much as it was a vote against Obama and Pelosi. The Republicans do not have any mandate other than to block the Democrats' agenda. I am hopeful that this new batch will be able to get a few good things done before they become infected with the disease that permeates the fetid swamp that is Washington DC.
I think it is only a matter of time before they push the wrong file-sharer too far with these outrageous lawsuits before someone snaps and goes postal at 1025 F St. NW, Washington D.C., not that I would ever condone such a thing, because that would be wrong.
How, exactly, could the right torpedo the plan when the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate? Sorry, but I was paying attention too, and the democrats own that mess lock, stock and barrel.
I want the health care system improved in this country as well, but being forced to buy over-priced insurance or have the IRS fine me $2000 is not what I or most people had in mind.
I completely agree with this. Why can't we simply define things as follows: 0 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which pure water freezes @ a specified pressure. From there 1cc of pure water @1 degree celsius = 1 ml = 1 gram. at some point you have to simply pick something arbitrary and stick with it. Why this platinum cylinder and not something more ubiquitous and frankly useful? Water is one of the most common compounds on the planet and arguably the most important one to the life on the planet. Even though it's not completely accurate I use these conversion all the time. If you know the density of a material relative to water you can quickly calculate volume, weight and dimensions knowing only one of the other...
While I agree with what you are saying to a point, a large part of moving toward browser deployed applications was less maintenance AND the ability to keep desktops current and / or not have to worry about the desktop OS. They got the less maintenance part but failed on the latter.
The "experts" who were driving in this direction for the most part ignored the upcoming standards to their and Microsoft's detriment. Microsoft, as they usually do decided to be their own standards body, and this is the result. Even today IE8 isn't all that good from a standards perspective.
The blame lies equally with Microsoft and the companies who continued to add on to the existing mess and not move toward standards compliance even when it became clear in the early 2000's that Microsoft was not going to dominate the browser market.
Microsoft's continued arrogance in the area of standards, as indicated by the poor shoring of IE8 indicated to me that they either don't get it, or they don't care.
Also, someone should probably point out to them that all the blue hyperlinks on the right side, the ones on the blue background, that they might want to pick a different background color. In fact, thy might want to employ the services of a competent web designer. Looks like a crappy site from the 90's, what with the aliased transparent GIFs and the fixed-width left justified layout. I particularly like the sharing features on the password protected articles. These guys are amateurs. I revise my analysis from meh to shitty...
The newpaper's site (http://www.northcountrygazette.org/) is now throwing up a 403 error. Fastest slashdotting ever?
No, THey are, apparently, blocking referrers because once the story got out is seems that a lot of sites are linking to them because of it. If you get there via google, for example, no problem. Most of the new posts are password protected but there are a number of stories down the page that are accessible. My analysis: Meh.
I got one of those with my Mac. I can't use it, but it is a beautiful design. I plugged in my Model M to my Mac. I'm putting the Apple keyboard in the living room to use with the Mac Mini hooked up to the TV.
I have a Unicomp Model M, and while it's not "ergonomic" it is most definitely easier on the wrists and the hands. I type faster, more accurately (though it doesn't help with spelling), and more comfortably than with most other keyboards, and at $80 I found it to be quite a bargain, since they seem to last for about 20 years or so...
Life is too short to use a crappy keyboard, sit in a crappy chair or sleep on a crappy mattress. having items of high quality that work well will materially improve your life. If you sit all day at a computer, having a good keyboard and a good chair that is properly sized mean that at the end of the day you just feel better. Also having a good monitor that is sharp and clear will leave your eyes less strained. Sleeping on a good mattress means you will sleep deeper and will have better days. Life is also too shore to drink shitty coffee or eat crappy ice cream, but that's another post.
Ditch the shitty keyboard that came with your Dell or your Mac and get something that works well. You won't be sorry, and besides, you'd just waste that $80 on strippers or something anyway...
I wouldn't mind paying $150 to upgrade to 7 from XP, but having to pay anything to upgrade to 7 from Vista is unacceptable. In fact I think Microsoft should probably pay people in the form of vouchers or edition upgrades when upgrading from Vista to 7. The amount of wasted time due to Vista is real, mesurable and material. I know that there area a lot of./ers that had no issues with Vista, but I had it on 3 machines (all brand new dells (different machines), pre-installed) and I had all kinds of issues like SATA controller problems, slow access, network problems, etc.
Vista was a steaming pile of shit, and I spent many hours installing, reinstalling, trouble shooting, etc to get it working right. The only thing that worked in the end was a clean install of 7.
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Watch this other video of the "event" Clearly an airplane. Zero doubt about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2UGugR_-gU&feature=related
Apparently some pilots agree with me... http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/
IAMARS but I'd like to propose a 3rd Scenario: it's a jet contrail, and due to the camera angle of the shot and the lighting looks kind of like a missile. I've seen lots of missile and rocket launches and the exhaust trail doesn't look exactly like that, similar, but not quite the same. I'm using Chrome and I can't paste in here, go to Youtube and search for Trident launches, there are plenty. Also note the speed - it's moving pretty slow for an ICBM. Even at the angle that the video is shot, by the time an ICBM (pedantry nullifier: all modern SLBMs ar also ICBMs) get to that altitude it would be travelling at 4-5000 m/s or faster, and will go about 300km miles down range in 60 seconds. Also, all modern SLBMs are multi-stage. About 2 minutes in stage 2 would have burned out and stage 3 started, but I don't see any evidence of the 3rd stage igniting in the video, and after 2 minutes the velocity would be over 6000 m/s and the missile wound be close to 800km downrange. Also, note the interesting lighting and the green flash reflecting off the vehicle.
My conclusion is a big jet travelling north west, possible an American Airlines plane due to the intensity of the flash.
so you're responsible for those lame MyCleanPC.com ads?
While I personally believe the threat from former military personel to be nearly non-existant, assuming it has any truth in it at all, if a bunch of ex-Marines are going to blow something up it won't be an airplane full of civillians, likewise militias - they hate the guberment, not the citizens (except the black ones and the gay ones).
Citation needed.
Depends on how you define ERP. If you mean Enterprise only, you're right. If you include the mid-market Sage and Microsoft are big players...
Well, he IS a douche bag, but that doesn't make you wrong...
but there is a threshold of efficiency necessary to offset fixed installation costs.
This threshold will become lower as the costs of fossil fuel goes up. Assume for the sake of argument that the cost basis of solar tech like this doesn't change, the rising costs and shrinking supply of traditional sources will make things like this more attractive. Of course, it is likely that the costs for this tech will decrease over time...
This wasn't really a vote for Republicans as much as it was a vote against Obama and Pelosi. The Republicans do not have any mandate other than to block the Democrats' agenda. I am hopeful that this new batch will be able to get a few good things done before they become infected with the disease that permeates the fetid swamp that is Washington DC.
and by wrong I mean so, so right, in case you missed the sarcasm.
sounds more like he's outing himself as old.
I think it is only a matter of time before they push the wrong file-sharer too far with these outrageous lawsuits before someone snaps and goes postal at 1025 F St. NW, Washington D.C., not that I would ever condone such a thing, because that would be wrong.
How, exactly, could the right torpedo the plan when the Democrats had a huge majority in the house and a super majority in the Senate? Sorry, but I was paying attention too, and the democrats own that mess lock, stock and barrel.
I want the health care system improved in this country as well, but being forced to buy over-priced insurance or have the IRS fine me $2000 is not what I or most people had in mind.
"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice"
-Neil Peart
I completely agree with this. Why can't we simply define things as follows: 0 degrees Celsius is the temperature at which pure water freezes @ a specified pressure. From there 1cc of pure water @1 degree celsius = 1 ml = 1 gram. at some point you have to simply pick something arbitrary and stick with it. Why this platinum cylinder and not something more ubiquitous and frankly useful? Water is one of the most common compounds on the planet and arguably the most important one to the life on the planet. Even though it's not completely accurate I use these conversion all the time. If you know the density of a material relative to water you can quickly calculate volume, weight and dimensions knowing only one of the other...
While I agree with what you are saying to a point, a large part of moving toward browser deployed applications was less maintenance AND the ability to keep desktops current and / or not have to worry about the desktop OS. They got the less maintenance part but failed on the latter.
The "experts" who were driving in this direction for the most part ignored the upcoming standards to their and Microsoft's detriment. Microsoft, as they usually do decided to be their own standards body, and this is the result. Even today IE8 isn't all that good from a standards perspective.
The blame lies equally with Microsoft and the companies who continued to add on to the existing mess and not move toward standards compliance even when it became clear in the early 2000's that Microsoft was not going to dominate the browser market.
Microsoft's continued arrogance in the area of standards, as indicated by the poor shoring of IE8 indicated to me that they either don't get it, or they don't care.
I'm not husky, I'm big boned.
Also, someone should probably point out to them that all the blue hyperlinks on the right side, the ones on the blue background, that they might want to pick a different background color. In fact, thy might want to employ the services of a competent web designer. Looks like a crappy site from the 90's, what with the aliased transparent GIFs and the fixed-width left justified layout. I particularly like the sharing features on the password protected articles. These guys are amateurs. I revise my analysis from meh to shitty...
The newpaper's site (http://www.northcountrygazette.org/) is now throwing up a 403 error. Fastest slashdotting ever?
No, THey are, apparently, blocking referrers because once the story got out is seems that a lot of sites are linking to them because of it. If you get there via google, for example, no problem. Most of the new posts are password protected but there are a number of stories down the page that are accessible. My analysis: Meh.
No, that definitely looks like he used Linux to build it.
I got one of those with my Mac. I can't use it, but it is a beautiful design. I plugged in my Model M to my Mac. I'm putting the Apple keyboard in the living room to use with the Mac Mini hooked up to the TV.
As long as I am not publishing their source code, or distributing their copyrighted binaries, then fuck'em.
On the other hand, if I am publishing their source or binaries then I should expect a response, although jail time seems extreme to say the least.
I have a Unicomp Model M, and while it's not "ergonomic" it is most definitely easier on the wrists and the hands. I type faster, more accurately (though it doesn't help with spelling), and more comfortably than with most other keyboards, and at $80 I found it to be quite a bargain, since they seem to last for about 20 years or so...
Life is too short to use a crappy keyboard, sit in a crappy chair or sleep on a crappy mattress. having items of high quality that work well will materially improve your life. If you sit all day at a computer, having a good keyboard and a good chair that is properly sized mean that at the end of the day you just feel better. Also having a good monitor that is sharp and clear will leave your eyes less strained. Sleeping on a good mattress means you will sleep deeper and will have better days. Life is also too shore to drink shitty coffee or eat crappy ice cream, but that's another post.
Ditch the shitty keyboard that came with your Dell or your Mac and get something that works well. You won't be sorry, and besides, you'd just waste that $80 on strippers or something anyway...
I wouldn't mind paying $150 to upgrade to 7 from XP, but having to pay anything to upgrade to 7 from Vista is unacceptable. In fact I think Microsoft should probably pay people in the form of vouchers or edition upgrades when upgrading from Vista to 7. The amount of wasted time due to Vista is real, mesurable and material. I know that there area a lot of ./ers that had no issues with Vista, but I had it on 3 machines (all brand new dells (different machines), pre-installed) and I had all kinds of issues like SATA controller problems, slow access, network problems, etc.
Vista was a steaming pile of shit, and I spent many hours installing, reinstalling, trouble shooting, etc to get it working right. The only thing that worked in the end was a clean install of 7.