One really nice thing about that vote button is that lurkers count. I think there's a few people here who think that the loudest person should win, which is a problem common to all online discussion forums -- not just/.
I dunno. Why do conservatives always want to see acts of generosity and voluntary cooperation as "leftist"?
Certain radio blowhards like to point out every example of something liberal as an attempt to control others. Ignore the stated purpose... they "really" just like controlling others and will come up with any excuse to do it.
But then, he just does it because it generates his favorite kind of caller: the *sputtering* liberal.
I don't sputter, sorry.
Money and interest could make it happen.
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One problem is that the ET was recently redesigned, to be lighter. There should be some question, I imagine, as to whether this tank is as appropriate for re-use as the original design. Any redesign to optimize recycling would have to overcome the new standards of tank weight and capability.
This is a long-term vision, and it rests mainly on the establishment of true Cheap Access to Space (CATS). Look at places like ProSpace and the X-Prize to see what's happening there. If we get a 90% reduction in launch costs to orbit, then almost anything becomes possible.
Actually, there's good justification. NASA doesn't see the ISS as a means to an end -- i.e. a space station to be used for science, et cetera. NASA sees the ISS as the end in itself. That is, the purpose of the ISS project is to build ISS.
If they just throw up some tanks and outfit them, they're being practical, but they're not funding what they see as their primary mission: research & development of cutting-edge space tech.
Unfortunately, most of the cutting-edge stuff was trimmed from the ISS budget years ago, when it was still the Freedom project.
Space Station not meant to be cost effective
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Actually, I imagine that the Hilton project will charge appropriate rates to cover its costs -- including R&D costs -- but over an amortized period. Governments can't do that, budgeted costs are more direct.
(The previous poster was talking about ISS, anyway, not the Hilton.)
Ah, yes, but you forget that in the post-Reagan era, anyone to the left of Elizabeth Dole is a subversive attempting to destroy the American way of life....
Eyes Wide Shut will still be released (*link*)
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This is the Yahoo story about Kubrick from Reuters. Warner Bros. states "the film was completed and was shown to the two top executives at Warner Bros., studio heads Terry Semel and Robert Daley, and to Kidman and Cruise last week in London. 'It will be released as planned in the United States on July 16,' the spokeswoman said."
Maybe he should listen to the 74% who wanted the Katz posts to stay.
I certainly don't find the arguments of the Katz-haters compelling. What, they (you) can't use your mouse properly? Take some personal responsibility. Grow up. Skip the stuff you don't like.
Don't try to make an Ubercommunity where voices that aren't liked, can't be heard. {{{shudder}}}
When I see 100 posts just flaming Katz for being a) old b) verbose c) clueless d) off-topic e) craven... and not hardly 1 that actually READS his posts and wants to talk about his ideas... that's just plain sad.
I hope the 23-and-under half of the Slashdot community learns, and soon, that you don't learn anything if you only listen to the people you already agree with.
Jeez. You know what Malda wants/. to "stand for"? I think he wants an interesting website that covers its own expenses, somehow. Maybe some of his personal ones, as well.
Yup, you read me right. Malda is an evil capitalist!
Guess it's time to leave, we can't have that.
Personal Responsibility The people who post flammage are responsible for turning/. into a putrid cesspool of juvenilia. Not Katz. They don't have to respond. They don't have to be uncivil. But they frequently are. That's a sign of immaturity, frankly.
Personal Responsibility The people who click on the Amazon link and buy Katz's book are responsible for their own purchases. Not Malda, not Katz. Nobody forced them to do this. Obviously, by voting with their dollars, they have shown that Katz is of interest to them.
Kickback schemes, by their very nature, are secret. If you don't want to help Malda out, then by all means ignore the link to Amazon.
I just can't believe the tiny brained people that keep posting. What, did they think Malda does this for free? Just for them? And only people who are eligible to join the L33T HAX0R D00DZ club are eligible to get any "privilege" from posting here? Gimme a break! None of youse has any idea how the real world works. Get out of school, get out of your parents' basements, and GET JOBS. The rest of us, the ones who understand what it means to work for a living, are pretty tired of this BS.
Well, good luck -- but if you know anything about writing you should know how hard knocks are that you get in the school of hard knocks.
Not every writer is gonna make it. You can get some nifty promotion and still not sell books. You can have your book stomped on by another news story or another best-seller. It's a dicey business. Katz doesn't even know if he's ultimately gonna make a bunch mroe off this book -- or if sales will start to fizzle next week and never recover.
"Thems da breaks"
I hope you don't think that just coming to/. and posting means that Taco & Hemos owe you anything.
Having endorsements is not anything new. Katz doesn't understand this. There isn't even much of a difference between the web (slashdot) and TV (Oprah). Or do the writers of the books that Oprah favors, 'hack the TV network'?
Sure.
I don't think you appreciate what this means -- yes, it sold Katz some books, but it also shows that the/. effect is more widespread than the mere juvenile ability to take down a webserver.
Katz understands perfectly, and I didn't see him calling this something new or unique -- just something that he got to work for him, and maybe showing the way for someone else. You're making too much of this.
You consider that quote original enough to put QUOTES around it? Do you have any idea how old that line is? Do you have any idea how many people have said it?
Look, buster, *I* like Katz, and I don't think that there's any point to questioning exactly (to the penny, no less) how much money he makes from selling his book. Do we ask how much time you waste at work? How long are you in the litte boy's room? How long are you BSing with a pal? What about those long lunches?
Selling his books is how Katz makes money. It's his job. I, for one, don't care if he gets 5 cents or 5 bucks from every copy sold -- it ain't my business.
And, by the way, this isn't your site -- it's CT's and Hemos's, so fortunately THEY get to make the decisions and not twits like you.
This isn't an IRC channel. Nobody's working off of a 2400-baud modem (I hope). If you don't like reading something so long (short attention span? maybe cartoons would be more up your alley?) you can just freaking skip over it.
I saw an article about the shrinking article lengths in magazines like Esquire -- which was, once upon a time, the ne plus ultra of literary kudos. Getting your article in Esquire was it. Playboy also held this position for a while, and they still publish excellent writers -- though their audience isn't nearly as hip as it used to be. Now magazines like Details and (worst of all) Maxim have turned this whole genre of magazine into a world of sound-bites.
I think it's a wonder anyone even reads books anymore, and even more miraculous that someone like Katz bothers to write them -- luckily for him, he's interesting enough to get on the Amazon Hot 100.
Again, the "death penalty sanction" is only legal jargon for the judge banning Evans from ever selling his idea to a competitor. It has nothing to do with the criminal death penalty, which even in Texas you must commmit a felony to deserve!
Privacy is punishable by death, now.
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"Death penalty sanction" is legal jargon for a permanent decision that injures the party sanctioned. e.g. A contractor cheats on the federal government, they receive a death penalty sanction for no more govt contracts, ever.
In this case it probably means, "no more high-tech employment for the programmer".
The State Supreme Court is seeking to ban Nolo Press for "unauthorized practice of law". They've been down this road before, of course... but that just tells us that computers aren't the issue. The issue is individual rights to basic legal procedures.
One group has proposed that Congress pass a national law that would "deregulate" the 50 most common legal procedures, from wills to name changes to property documents. It hasn't gone far....
Toys'R'Us has a kids' clothing store called "Kids'R'Us". In addition, they have successfully and aggressively protected their trademark going back long before the internet -- basically, anyone trying to use an "R Us" name is asking for trouble, even if they only sell auto parts!
The trademark is in the uniqueness of the "R Us" and especially the reversed R. But the similarity of a name like "toys R gus" is obvious. Even if he wasn't making money off the name, it wasn't a parody, and it's doubtful this would stand up in a court of law.
Very unlike the ajax & veronica cases. I sympathize with Mr. Lopez, but he trod on thin ice.
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But the voting is loud and clear! Keep him.
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One really nice thing about that vote button is that lurkers count. I think there's a few people here who think that the loudest person should win, which is a problem common to all online discussion forums -- not just
I dunno. Why do conservatives always want to see acts of generosity and voluntary cooperation as "leftist"?
... they "really" just like controlling others and will come up with any excuse to do it.
Certain radio blowhards like to point out every example of something liberal as an attempt to control others. Ignore the stated purpose
But then, he just does it because it generates his favorite kind of caller: the *sputtering* liberal.
I don't sputter, sorry.
Yeah, and Rotary's rollout was cool, too!
One problem is that the ET was recently redesigned, to be lighter. There should be some question, I imagine, as to whether this tank is as appropriate for re-use as the original design. Any redesign to optimize recycling would have to overcome the new standards of tank weight and capability.
This is a long-term vision, and it rests mainly on the establishment of true Cheap Access to Space (CATS). Look at places like ProSpace and the X-Prize to see what's happening there. If we get a 90% reduction in launch costs to orbit, then almost anything becomes possible.
The BBC was rather dry, weren't they? :)
Actually, there's good justification. NASA doesn't see the ISS as a means to an end -- i.e. a space station to be used for science, et cetera. NASA sees the ISS as the end in itself. That is, the purpose of the ISS project is to build ISS.
If they just throw up some tanks and outfit them, they're being practical, but they're not funding what they see as their primary mission: research & development of cutting-edge space tech.
Unfortunately, most of the cutting-edge stuff was trimmed from the ISS budget years ago, when it was still the Freedom project.
Actually, I imagine that the Hilton project will charge appropriate rates to cover its costs -- including R&D costs -- but over an amortized period. Governments can't do that, budgeted costs are more direct.
(The previous poster was talking about ISS, anyway, not the Hilton.)
Skiing on the slopes of Olympus Mons. Free climbing the sides of Valles Marineris. Hunting six-legged martian thoats. That sort of thing.
Ah, yes, but you forget that in the post-Reagan era, anyone to the left of Elizabeth Dole is a subversive attempting to destroy the American way of life ....
This is the Yahoo story about Kubrick from Reuters. Warner Bros. states "the film was completed and was shown to the two top executives at Warner Bros., studio heads Terry Semel and Robert
Daley, and to Kidman and Cruise last week in London. 'It will be released as planned in the United States on July 16,' the spokeswoman said."
isn't good enough for ya?
m /Filmmaking/Directing/D irectors/Kubrick__Stanley/
Maybe that wasn't rude of you, just ignorant. Kubrick wasn't the kind of guy to have an official website, though.
Here's the Yahoo list o' Stanley Kubrick fan sites, if it helps:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Fil
OK, you buy a sense of humor at K-mart, now ...
Just one small problem. Compression requires a Beowulf cluster running overnight ...
Maybe he should listen to the 74% who wanted the Katz posts to stay.
... and not hardly 1 that actually READS his posts and wants to talk about his ideas ... that's just plain sad.
I certainly don't find the arguments of the Katz-haters compelling. What, they (you) can't use your mouse properly? Take some personal responsibility. Grow up. Skip the stuff you don't like.
Don't try to make an Ubercommunity where voices that aren't liked, can't be heard. {{{shudder}}}
When I see 100 posts just flaming Katz for being a) old b) verbose c) clueless d) off-topic e) craven
I hope the 23-and-under half of the Slashdot community learns, and soon, that you don't learn anything if you only listen to the people you already agree with.
Jeez. You know what Malda wants /. to "stand for"? I think he wants an interesting website that covers its own expenses, somehow. Maybe some of his personal ones, as well.
/. into a putrid cesspool of juvenilia. Not Katz. They don't have to respond. They don't have to be uncivil. But they frequently are. That's a sign of immaturity, frankly.
Yup, you read me right. Malda is an evil capitalist!
Guess it's time to leave, we can't have that.
Personal Responsibility
The people who post flammage are responsible for turning
Personal Responsibility
The people who click on the Amazon link and buy Katz's book are responsible for their own purchases. Not Malda, not Katz. Nobody forced them to do this. Obviously, by voting with their dollars, they have shown that Katz is of interest to them.
Kickback schemes, by their very nature, are secret. If you don't want to help Malda out, then by all means ignore the link to Amazon.
I just can't believe the tiny brained people that keep posting. What, did they think Malda does this for free? Just for them? And only people who are eligible to join the L33T HAX0R D00DZ club are eligible to get any "privilege" from posting here? Gimme a break! None of youse has any idea how the real world works. Get out of school, get out of your parents' basements, and GET JOBS. The rest of us, the ones who understand what it means to work for a living, are pretty tired of this BS.
Well, good luck -- but if you know anything about writing you should know how hard knocks are that you get in the school of hard knocks.
/. and posting means that Taco & Hemos owe you anything.
Not every writer is gonna make it. You can get some nifty promotion and still not sell books. You can have your book stomped on by another news story or another best-seller. It's a dicey business. Katz doesn't even know if he's ultimately gonna make a bunch mroe off this book -- or if sales will start to fizzle next week and never recover.
"Thems da breaks"
I hope you don't think that just coming to
Having endorsements is not anything new. Katz doesn't understand this. There isn't even much of a difference between the web (slashdot) and TV (Oprah). Or do the writers of the books that Oprah favors, 'hack the TV network'?
/. effect is more widespread than the mere juvenile ability to take down a webserver.
Sure.
I don't think you appreciate what this means -- yes, it sold Katz some books, but it also shows that the
Katz understands perfectly, and I didn't see him calling this something new or unique -- just something that he got to work for him, and maybe showing the way for someone else. You're making too much of this.
You consider that quote original enough to put QUOTES around it? Do you have any idea how old that line is? Do you have any idea how many people have said it?
Twit. Don't let the door slam on your way out.
Well, fortunately, Rob owns the site and Rob gets to decide who stays.
I wish he'd get rid of you, but I don't expect it. That's the difference between us.
Look, buster, *I* like Katz, and I don't think that there's any point to questioning exactly (to the penny, no less) how much money he makes from selling his book. Do we ask how much time you waste at work? How long are you in the litte boy's room? How long are you BSing with a pal? What about those long lunches?
Selling his books is how Katz makes money. It's his job. I, for one, don't care if he gets 5 cents or 5 bucks from every copy sold -- it ain't my business.
And, by the way, this isn't your site -- it's CT's and Hemos's, so fortunately THEY get to make the decisions and not twits like you.
I guess you can't control your mouse very well.
This isn't an IRC channel. Nobody's working off of a 2400-baud modem (I hope). If you don't like reading something so long (short attention span? maybe cartoons would be more up your alley?) you can just freaking skip over it.
I saw an article about the shrinking article lengths in magazines like Esquire -- which was, once upon a time, the ne plus ultra of literary kudos. Getting your article in Esquire was it. Playboy also held this position for a while, and they still publish excellent writers -- though their audience isn't nearly as hip as it used to be. Now magazines like Details and (worst of all) Maxim have turned this whole genre of magazine into a world of sound-bites.
I think it's a wonder anyone even reads books anymore, and even more miraculous that someone like Katz bothers to write them -- luckily for him, he's interesting enough to get on the Amazon Hot 100.
(More than we can say for Mr. "Kaufmann".)
Every time Katz posts, the whiners come out.
Again, the "death penalty sanction" is only legal jargon for the judge banning Evans from ever selling his idea to a competitor. It has nothing to do with the criminal death penalty, which even in Texas you must commmit a felony to deserve!
"Death penalty sanction" is legal jargon for a permanent decision that injures the party sanctioned. e.g. A contractor cheats on the federal government, they receive a death penalty sanction for no more govt contracts, ever.
In this case it probably means, "no more high-tech employment for the programmer".
http://www.nolo.com/Texas/
... but that just tells us that computers aren't the issue. The issue is individual rights to basic legal procedures.
....
The State Supreme Court is seeking to ban Nolo Press for "unauthorized practice of law". They've been down this road before, of course
One group has proposed that Congress pass a national law that would "deregulate" the 50 most common legal procedures, from wills to name changes to property documents. It hasn't gone far
Toys'R'Us has a kids' clothing store called "Kids'R'Us". In addition, they have successfully and aggressively protected their trademark going back long before the internet -- basically, anyone trying to use an "R Us" name is asking for trouble, even if they only sell auto parts!
The trademark is in the uniqueness of the "R Us" and especially the reversed R. But the similarity of a name like "toys R gus" is obvious. Even if he wasn't making money off the name, it wasn't a parody, and it's doubtful this would stand up in a court of law.
Very unlike the ajax & veronica cases. I sympathize with Mr. Lopez, but he trod on thin ice.