I need to get the government to give me millions of dollars to figure out how to deliver a flaming bag of dogshit onto someone's front porch...from orbit. Think of the applications...
"Psst! That's Saddam's house! Do it!" "No way!" "Don't be a chickenshit!" "I'll do it if I can do it from orbit!"
Well, I, for one, welcome our new downloading overlords.
Seriously, maybe I should move to North Mex^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCanada. Less psychotic right-wing fundies. And Canadian chicks are hot, they have good beer, and they don't shoot everything that moves on two legs.
And Bill Gates frequently talks out of his ass. I seem to recall that the Web wasn't important (and then we got IE a year later), that MS Bob was going to make computers usable by everyone, and that no one would need more than 640K of RAM.
WOOOOOOO! PAAAAARTY! Show us your tits! Pass the tequila. Where's Shenor Frog'sh at? Adonde esta el bano? Can I get some more salt for my margarita glass?
Funny. I bought 500 shares at about $17 waaaay back around the time the original iPod came out. Those shares went as high as $150 before the 2 for 1 split. So I wound up with 1000 shares at about $75. Which I sold. Profit: $66600. I'd say that's a damned good investment.
Strangely, if you stick a decimal point before the zeros, that's the price of the original Apple 1.
It's the typical death knell shit. It is to laugh. I've been a regular Mac user since 1994. It doesn't phase me. Especially when I have literally dozens of co-workers that are making the SwitchTM at home and at the office. Most of our VPs have gone over to Powerbooks, our designers are making the switch to Macs at the office, and lots of people who aren't designers or overpaid VPs are buying them for home use. The primary reason seems to be iLife -- everyone I talk to is making home movies with iMovie, burning DVDs for relatives, getting prints through iPhoto, etc. And everyone tells me, "I can't believe I ever used a PC."
Apple? Dying? Yeah, yeah, yeah...same old bullshit.
Yeah, I was a comm geek. Didn't stop me from spending time in the hospital recuperating from a firefight. Trust me, it doesn't matter what level of geek you are -- you'll still learn to run-n-staff for every one combat arms soldier. You think that the Army will let you sit on your ass in an air-conditioned bunker because you know how gun just like the rest of the grunts, and you'll still be put in that situation, regardless of your MOS? Why? Because there are 11 support to bust out mad C++? Think again. Jessica Lynch was a supply clerk, after all...
I would argue against you very strongly on that. An astronaut, despite the jokes is more than just "spam in a can"... They need to be aware of every nuance of the vehicle they travel in, as everything up to the point where they were flying the Shuttle on a regular basis was a wholly unique vehicle. Furthermore, as they are regularly paraded around to the media, etc., they need to be well-versed and act as PR for NASA -- thus they need to be able to speak with authority on planning, the future of the agency, etc.
It's not like astronauts are trained chimps. Most of these guys have a Masters, PhD, or MD degree, many of them multiples. The ones with Bachelor's degrees are just as well-versed as their better-educated counterparts.
And truth be told, Senator Glenn is probably basing his argument off of Robert Zubrin's excellent treatise on the subject, The Case for Mars. Give it a read if you haven't yet. A large number of people inside and outside NASA view it as an ideal manned mission program.
...talk about your all-time record-setting case of spyware!
Wearing one of those things should be grounds for an ass-whuppin'...as much as riding a Segway on the sidewalk should be. Technology seems to be following people's feelings -- "I don't care if it's the rules, it's more convenient for me!"
How about this guy? Freaky-low lactic acid production, high lactic-acid clearing, huge heart, VO2 Max (oxygen uptake to blood) more than twice the average person... And he beat cancer when he had about a 20% chance of living through it. Then he went and won the toughest race in the world. Five times. In a row.
Most things on eBay seem to go for damn-near retail price, so I'm guessing that a MiG-29 would get bid through the roof and have a value near to that of its Western counterparts (despite its less-than competitive combat avionics). You could probably get the MiG cheaper by just going to Russia to buy it. Like the price of a Hummer H2 (~$50K), I'm guessing. Some underpaid Russian general or mobster would probably jump at the chance.
Why don't you do the conversion yourself? Cory merely provides the plaintext version... Other formats are put out by people who aren't lazy enough to whine about the absence of their favorite format.
I really doubt Hubble is used for intelligence work, at least very often, though it probably could be in a pinch.
I don't know where to even begin with this...except to say I WAS MAKING AN ANALOGY. The Admiral comes from a military background and I was trying to paraphrase things in terms someone from a military background would understand. I mean, Jesus, it's OBVIOUS that the Hubble can't be pointed at the Earth for observational work -- Hell, it has to avoid being pointed within a few degrees of the Moon lest it's optics get burnt-out.
In the future, please, please, please read carefully. I'm putting it in military terms, not giving military advice. You don't need to lecture me on the NRO or the capabilities of it's satellites, again, if you'd read what I'd posted you'd see that I have an intelligence background.
It'll fit in the shuttle (that's how it got up there in the first place). However, the shuttle's landing gear won't support the added weight on landing.
Adm. Hal Gehman would do well to think of this in military terms: do you really want to give up your best intelligence-gathering source based on the promise from the government that the funds will be available for a new one three years after you give it up?
As a former intel geek myself, I'd say the answer is a resounding "no"... Pay the extra money to keep my current source while you build and deploy a new one for me to use.
Most people would agree it's far better to hire somebody to install the right server solution than to buy special hardware/software for the sole purpose of making it easier for yourself to do it.
Have you looked at what networking consultants get paid? As a small business owner, I can't afford that. I'll just buy an XServe and set it up myself.
In fact, I'll bet you're a consultant...or work for the marketing department of a consulting firm...or you're an alien communist infiltrator.:-)
I have my doubts about the ability of the ISS to host the Hubble, based solely on the issues of vibration -- I'm sure the station has all sorts of activity that would wreak havoc with Hubble's instrumentation. Nevermind that in the lower orbit of the ISS there's considerably more free-roaming debris to contend with.
I'm sorry, but so what? Star Trek jumped the shark as soon as they threw that half-baked Battlestar Galactica rip-off, Voyager, on the air. (Don't agree? Borg = Cyclons, Voyager = Galactica, far from home and lost.) Berman and Braga fucked up what could potentially be a great series by trying to do the same stupid Time War shit they did with Voyager, etc.
In the end, as much as I find the characters interesting, I just can't bring myself to care too much about the premature end of this five-year mission. You can't keep a show running, much less grabbing public interest, based on potential. This show had it, but it failed to deliver on it.
I use Earthstink -- the DSL service. I didn't even know that we had pop-up blocking as a service. I just block them @ Safari, and my GF has most of them blocked at her system's firewall.
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I need to get the government to give me millions of dollars to figure out how to deliver a flaming bag of dogshit onto someone's front porch...from orbit. Think of the applications...
"Psst! That's Saddam's house! Do it!"
"No way!"
"Don't be a chickenshit!"
"I'll do it if I can do it from orbit!"
Well, I, for one, welcome our new downloading overlords.
Seriously, maybe I should move to North Mex^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCanada. Less psychotic right-wing fundies. And Canadian chicks are hot, they have good beer, and they don't shoot everything that moves on two legs.
And Bill Gates frequently talks out of his ass. I seem to recall that the Web wasn't important (and then we got IE a year later), that MS Bob was going to make computers usable by everyone, and that no one would need more than 640K of RAM.
WOOOOOOO! PAAAAARTY! Show us your tits! Pass the tequila. Where's Shenor Frog'sh at? Adonde esta el bano? Can I get some more salt for my margarita glass?
You know it's only a matter of time. Really.
Funny. I bought 500 shares at about $17 waaaay back around the time the original iPod came out. Those shares went as high as $150 before the 2 for 1 split. So I wound up with 1000 shares at about $75. Which I sold. Profit: $66600. I'd say that's a damned good investment.
Strangely, if you stick a decimal point before the zeros, that's the price of the original Apple 1.
It's the typical death knell shit. It is to laugh. I've been a regular Mac user since 1994. It doesn't phase me. Especially when I have literally dozens of co-workers that are making the SwitchTM at home and at the office. Most of our VPs have gone over to Powerbooks, our designers are making the switch to Macs at the office, and lots of people who aren't designers or overpaid VPs are buying them for home use. The primary reason seems to be iLife -- everyone I talk to is making home movies with iMovie, burning DVDs for relatives, getting prints through iPhoto, etc. And everyone tells me, "I can't believe I ever used a PC."
Apple? Dying? Yeah, yeah, yeah...same old bullshit.
74C and 31C while on active duty. Switched to 96B for Reserves/Guard.
Yeah, I was a comm geek. Didn't stop me from spending time in the hospital recuperating from a firefight. Trust me, it doesn't matter what level of geek you are -- you'll still learn to run-n-staff for every one combat arms soldier. You think that the Army will let you sit on your ass in an air-conditioned bunker because you know how gun just like the rest of the grunts, and you'll still be put in that situation, regardless of your MOS? Why? Because there are 11 support to bust out mad C++? Think again. Jessica Lynch was a supply clerk, after all...
I would argue against you very strongly on that. An astronaut, despite the jokes is more than just "spam in a can"... They need to be aware of every nuance of the vehicle they travel in, as everything up to the point where they were flying the Shuttle on a regular basis was a wholly unique vehicle. Furthermore, as they are regularly paraded around to the media, etc., they need to be well-versed and act as PR for NASA -- thus they need to be able to speak with authority on planning, the future of the agency, etc.
It's not like astronauts are trained chimps. Most of these guys have a Masters, PhD, or MD degree, many of them multiples. The ones with Bachelor's degrees are just as well-versed as their better-educated counterparts.
And truth be told, Senator Glenn is probably basing his argument off of Robert Zubrin's excellent treatise on the subject, The Case for Mars . Give it a read if you haven't yet. A large number of people inside and outside NASA view it as an ideal manned mission program.
...talk about your all-time record-setting case of spyware!
Wearing one of those things should be grounds for an ass-whuppin'...as much as riding a Segway on the sidewalk should be. Technology seems to be following people's feelings -- "I don't care if it's the rules, it's more convenient for me!"
Um, John Glenn never went to the moon. His only flights were on Friendship 7 (as part of the Mercury program) and on STS-95.
"I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands."
Funny, I think I always choose to buy other brands. But that's just me. Having taste buds.
How about this guy? Freaky-low lactic acid production, high lactic-acid clearing, huge heart, VO2 Max (oxygen uptake to blood) more than twice the average person... And he beat cancer when he had about a 20% chance of living through it. Then he went and won the toughest race in the world. Five times. In a row.
Most things on eBay seem to go for damn-near retail price, so I'm guessing that a MiG-29 would get bid through the roof and have a value near to that of its Western counterparts (despite its less-than competitive combat avionics). You could probably get the MiG cheaper by just going to Russia to buy it. Like the price of a Hummer H2 (~$50K), I'm guessing. Some underpaid Russian general or mobster would probably jump at the chance.
Why don't you do the conversion yourself? Cory merely provides the plaintext version... Other formats are put out by people who aren't lazy enough to whine about the absence of their favorite format.
I really doubt Hubble is used for intelligence work, at least very often, though it probably could be in a pinch.
I don't know where to even begin with this...except to say I WAS MAKING AN ANALOGY. The Admiral comes from a military background and I was trying to paraphrase things in terms someone from a military background would understand. I mean, Jesus, it's OBVIOUS that the Hubble can't be pointed at the Earth for observational work -- Hell, it has to avoid being pointed within a few degrees of the Moon lest it's optics get burnt-out.
In the future, please, please, please read carefully. I'm putting it in military terms, not giving military advice. You don't need to lecture me on the NRO or the capabilities of it's satellites, again, if you'd read what I'd posted you'd see that I have an intelligence background.
It'll fit in the shuttle (that's how it got up there in the first place). However, the shuttle's landing gear won't support the added weight on landing.
Adm. Hal Gehman would do well to think of this in military terms: do you really want to give up your best intelligence-gathering source based on the promise from the government that the funds will be available for a new one three years after you give it up?
As a former intel geek myself, I'd say the answer is a resounding "no"... Pay the extra money to keep my current source while you build and deploy a new one for me to use.
Most people would agree it's far better to hire somebody to install the right server solution than to buy special hardware/software for the sole purpose of making it easier for yourself to do it.
:-)
Have you looked at what networking consultants get paid? As a small business owner, I can't afford that. I'll just buy an XServe and set it up myself.
In fact, I'll bet you're a consultant...or work for the marketing department of a consulting firm...or you're an alien communist infiltrator.
I have my doubts about the ability of the ISS to host the Hubble, based solely on the issues of vibration -- I'm sure the station has all sorts of activity that would wreak havoc with Hubble's instrumentation. Nevermind that in the lower orbit of the ISS there's considerably more free-roaming debris to contend with.
I'm sorry, but so what? Star Trek jumped the shark as soon as they threw that half-baked Battlestar Galactica rip-off, Voyager, on the air. (Don't agree? Borg = Cyclons, Voyager = Galactica, far from home and lost.) Berman and Braga fucked up what could potentially be a great series by trying to do the same stupid Time War shit they did with Voyager, etc.
In the end, as much as I find the characters interesting, I just can't bring myself to care too much about the premature end of this five-year mission. You can't keep a show running, much less grabbing public interest, based on potential. This show had it, but it failed to deliver on it.
I use Earthstink -- the DSL service. I didn't even know that we had pop-up blocking as a service. I just block them @ Safari, and my GF has most of them blocked at her system's firewall.
"Microsoft says that it will include pop-up blocking in IE when it releases WinXP SP2." Innovation at its finest, right Bill?
That information has been more-or-less public for a long time. Seriously. I think Slashdot was the first place I found it.