....And what will Johnny User do with that computer when the network is down?....
8. copy video of child's first steps to computer
And without the internet, they can't upload it to youtube and get sued by the RIAA over that Prince song playing in the background! It's a win-win situation I tell you!
NASA administrator Mike Griffin blamed the White House, and the previous Bush administration, saying funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m.
Okay, the cost of the entire Apollo program was $25.4 billion dollars. That's 25,400,000,000 1969 dollars - about $135 billion in today's dollars. So why is it so much cheaper this time around?
I put it down to the fact that technology has advanced quite a lot since 1969* - The film industry in particular, if you're making a movie there's a heck of a lot more you can do with that kind of money than you could have in 1969. - *Disclaimer: All sly remarks on the redundancy of this sentence being used on slashdot are hereby inherently redundant.
The fortune at the bottom of the page says, "In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland" This is going to be very interesting to see what the US Govt does with this technology.
Thank you, that was very succint and puts things in perspective quite nicely. It's a concept I've always grasped, but it's great to see it put with such eloquence.
To attempt to claim that one evil is greater or lesser than the other is to fail to note the historical patterns. Due to the principle of counterpush, one must conclude that it requires a lesser evil to accomplish the objectives of the greater one.
To my knowledge, the man always held views in line with Bush on this matter; unfortunately it simply wasn't a big thing for the peons in the media and levels of lemmings on his campaign team to shroud in illusion. All of the campaign ads were hollywood-esque and reeked of sensationalism with an underlying motive of brainwashing.
Did he implicitly say that it's Bush's fault? What is your reasoning to dismiss him as somebody who cannot think beyond George W. Bush? When he calls it 'the Bush road' he is merely stating the fact that there was much advancement made during the Bush administration.
To infer from this that the man blames all on George W. Bush is fallacious.
Your tone is immature, and is more of a complaint than a criticism. Don't make such rash judgments of a man's character or maturity based on a few lines of text.
I dual boot Ubuntu and XP, and yes I downloaded Photoshop CS3 for free if that is what you mean by 'pirate'.
If adobe stops being so uncooperative towards the linux community with their flash player monopoly then I'll be quite happy to pay for their product, but until then they can kiss my arse.
I upgraded to Jaunty 9.04 beta and switched to Gnome a couple of days ago, and it's now much snappier than Kubuntu 8.10 was (KDE has had more than it's fair share of FAILS recently IMHO)
As someone who received a large amount of caffeine patches heavily subsidised by the govt (im in New Zealand) I can quite firmly tell you that the whole idea of quitting a substance via a constant intake of that substance is inherently retarded. Admittedly the government's whole "What's that, you're trying to overcome a nicotine addiction? Ok, here's a fsckload of nicotine!" premise increases the ridiculousness factor exponentially, but a caffeine patch is a real bad idea. Just stop drinking the stuff:)
Slashdot Mirror
Your username indicates that you will be overjoyed when introduced to the concept of WHOOSH.
O
/|\ --------- this is you, ConceptJunkie
/ \
(This is the WHOOSH area, ConceptJunkie)
. --------- this is the point, ConceptJunkie
In conclusion, I dub the Ambassador of the Obvious, Brave Defender of the Irrelevant.
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today, this must be one of those false awakenings, I bet I'm still dreaming...
....And what will Johnny User do with that computer when the network is down?....
8. copy video of child's first steps to computer
And without the internet, they can't upload it to youtube and get sued by the RIAA over that Prince song playing in the background! It's a win-win situation I tell you!
TAKE THAT YOU FSCKING NOOBS!
The Slashdot news template is converted into an image display!
No seriously, if you can insert an image into the summary why is it such a rarity?
Oh great, now we'll turn our computer on in the morning, and it will say "I think this is far too early!" and switch itself back off.
Why yes, I've used it, Telecom was very quick to charge me over two hundred dollars for a few google searches.
(Yes, I do live in New Zealand)
Well I think for $0.5B, I could get a gang together to pull all this off.. lol
Excellent, and then you can use the spare change to transform the poverty of third-world countries into the sheer elegance of the western world!
NASA administrator Mike Griffin blamed the White House, and the previous Bush administration, saying funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m.
Okay, the cost of the entire Apollo program was $25.4 billion dollars. That's 25,400,000,000 1969 dollars - about $135 billion in today's dollars. So why is it so much cheaper this time around?
I put it down to the fact that technology has advanced quite a lot since 1969* - The film industry in particular, if you're making a movie there's a heck of a lot more you can do with that kind of money than you could have in 1969.
-
*Disclaimer: All sly remarks on the redundancy of this sentence being used on slashdot are hereby inherently redundant.
The copyright laws of other countries do not necessarily apply in the United States, except as established by treaty. WIPO has no authority there.
I live in New Zealand, you insensitive clod!!
With some of the contributions being over 8,000 years old, this has to be the longest copyright extension ever offered.
Is anyone surprised at this? Seriously, does copyright ever end these days?
And I would be more likely to call it John's Revelation of the Divine
The fortune at the bottom of the page says, "In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland"
This is going to be very interesting to see what the US Govt does with this technology.
Yes, I agree, an Orbital Cloud of Lawyers is definitely what we need.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast...
Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas.
To attempt to claim that one evil is greater or lesser than the other is to fail to note the historical patterns. Due to the principle of counterpush, one must conclude that it requires a lesser evil to accomplish the objectives of the greater one.
That says it all.
To my knowledge, the man always held views in line with Bush on this matter; unfortunately it simply wasn't a big thing for the peons in the media and levels of lemmings on his campaign team to shroud in illusion. All of the campaign ads were hollywood-esque and reeked of sensationalism with an underlying motive of brainwashing.
Evidently hey were very, very, very effective.
Meh. As long as the whole violation of human rights thing has stopped I don't care.
Hate to break it to ya bud, but it doesn't look like we're going to see the end of the 'whole violation of human rights thing' in our lifetimes.
Did he implicitly say that it's Bush's fault? What is your reasoning to dismiss him as somebody who cannot think beyond George W. Bush? When he calls it 'the Bush road' he is merely stating the fact that there was much advancement made during the Bush administration.
To infer from this that the man blames all on George W. Bush is fallacious.
Your tone is immature, and is more of a complaint than a criticism. Don't make such rash judgments of a man's character or maturity based on a few lines of text.
These chimps be Pimpanzees!
I dual boot Ubuntu and XP, and yes I downloaded Photoshop CS3 for free if that is what you mean by 'pirate'.
If adobe stops being so uncooperative towards the linux community with their flash player monopoly then I'll be quite happy to pay for their product, but until then they can kiss my arse.
Agreed, it improves exponentially ;)
I upgraded to Jaunty 9.04 beta and switched to Gnome a couple of days ago, and it's now much snappier than Kubuntu 8.10 was (KDE has had more than it's fair share of FAILS recently IMHO)
in gnome (which is the Ubuntus default window manager) you can move any window just by ALT-dragging it.
Gnome and KDE are desktop environments, and Compiz is the window manager that allows such features :)
As someone who received a large amount of caffeine patches heavily subsidised by the govt (im in New Zealand) I can quite firmly tell you that the whole idea of quitting a substance via a constant intake of that substance is inherently retarded. Admittedly the government's whole "What's that, you're trying to overcome a nicotine addiction? Ok, here's a fsckload of nicotine!" premise increases the ridiculousness factor exponentially, but a caffeine patch is a real bad idea. Just stop drinking the stuff :)
Are you guys trying to get me to join a cult with a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105