This won't help you if it's hot at night and you want to sleep, but if it's a hot summer day, go somewhere with free A/C like the mall. Beats paying a $100+ electric bill.
From the reports, it sounds like there was a pretty big chunk of the carbon-carbon leading edge structure missing. Not a whole section, but a good sized piece of one, and it was already missing in orbit. If it was weakened but intact and then fell off during reentry, then the damage may not have been visible to a spy satellite, but that does not seem to be the case. The carbon-carbon composite is black. If any metal was exposed by the missing piece, the color contrast would be pretty strong.
Maybe they cleaned it up since last time I was there, but Prospect Park is not a place where I'd walk around with a $1000+ laptop. It's not the 'hood with drive bys and crackhouses, but then it's not exactly Disneyland either.
Cash can get damaged inadvertantly in many ways. The US Treasury considers any bill with more than half of it intact to be valid. A Euro note with a fried RFID is still authentic even though it's damaged. They may want to take it out of circulation, but I don't see how they could refuse it as if it were counterfeit.
"Lost" implies that they need to be "found" for some compelling reason. They have been supplanted with skills necessary for the modern world, such as computing, engineering, math, making $100 million movies, watching TV, surfing pr0n, and building space shuttles.
The world needs historians as much as it needs rocket scientists and porn stars. These skills are documented because people are out there keeping the knowledge alive. He's not suggesting that everybody give up their modern conveniences and go back to the 19th century. It's just that the old school arts and crafts give you a connection to the world and the way things work that's all too missing from our pushbutton world.
As for your suggestion to grab a Bud instead of a homebrew- you might as well say don't bother with a homemade Thanksgiving turkey, go grab an Oscar Mayer Lunchable.
This may not be that useful for a HUD display. Although the display is inside the vehicle, it's projected so the focus distance is many feet in front of the windshield. Otherwise you'd see a double image of the HUD when your eyes are focused down the road.
Yeah, just like a Blackberry except you can only use it in range of the base station like a cordless phone. The only advantage is you don't pay a monthly fee.
Pretty limited market here. If you have friends who don't have 2way texting cellphones but have MSN Messenger, and you want to IM while you're walking around the house but not when you leave the house, then yes, this is for you! For most people, they'd either use a text messaging cellphone to send short messages or they'd sit down at their computers with a full size keyboard for longer chats.
Polaroid is hurting much worse than Kodak from digital photography. Digital has many of the advantages of instant photography with none of the cons like cost of supplies. Polaroid used to be used for everything from crash scene documentation to ID photos to *ahem* party pictures that you wouldn't want a photo lab to see. All digital now.
At least 35mm film has the equivalent of 5-6 megapixel resolution. So it still has an advantage for high quality work like portraits and enlargements.
"I hate nothing worse than something that ends poorly"
You mean like the cliffhanger season finale of Dark Angel where they thought they'd be back for next season but got cancelled and replaced by Joss Whedon's Firefly? Yeah, that really sucks.
Even if it can't be hotwired and driven away, it's still light enough to carry away. Motorcycle thieves will get 4 strong guys to toss a 500lb bike into a van and drive off. Anything lighter than that and that's worth thousands of dollars had better be chained down when you park it.
The reason for wood frame construction on the west coast is because brick buildings fall down in earthquakes. After the Northridge quake in '94, every brick wall collapsed, every brick chimney collapsed or cracked apart. With a few notable exceptions, wood frame houses held up very well. And yes, the soundproofing sucks. I used to live in a brick building in New York so I should know.
Forget about putting it on the roof. Getting a signal through multiple floors and ceilings will be tough. Fortunately every apartment should have a few rooms with a window. Mount it outside and tell everybody to put their antennas near the window that faces your AP. You don't have to get a wireless signal to every single point in the building, just to every apartment unit. The best place would be an interior courtyard.
"Only if the supplier has a local presence in your state do you have to pay local sales tax"
They're just going to a stricter interpretation of this. For instance a brick and mortar store might incorporate a separate company to whom they license their name and trademarks to do online sales. Since this is supposedly a separate company, their brick and mortar stores aren't a business presence of the online store, and they'll avoid paying sales tax that way.
According to the article this is the language of the new bill:
"an out-of-state retailer is obligated to collect tax on sales to California customers if it has representatives operating in the state who repair or service property bought from the retailer; it has an ownership interest in a California business; or it sells the same products under the same name as the California business."
Bad argument. You are comparing a mature commercial industry to manned spaceflight which is more or less still experimental. To be fair you should really compare it to the aviation in the 1910's or jet flight in the 1950's. They lost a lot of planes and test pilots.
Retail spare parts from the dealer is by far the most expensive way to buy car parts. Less so in the computer world. I think the Corecrib kit uses Apple motherboards sold as spare parts to repair centers, and they probably cost over $200 each.
DIVX, XVID are just different implementations of the MPEG4 standard. Sure, the AVI container that most Divx files are stored in is specific to PCs, but MPEG4 is as much an industry standard as MPEG2. Of course if the archiver wanted to play those videos on a standalone DVD player rather than a PC, MPEG4 is not an option.
This goes back to the same old question of enforcability of EULA terms and whether breaking the seal on the CD or clicking OK is really agreeing to a contract. When I buy something in the store, the contract of sale happens at the cash register. I pay money and receive goods and services. The EULA attaches additional conditions after I've completed the contract of sale. Shrinkwrap and clickwrap EULAs are very much an untested and questionable area of law. That's why they tried passing UCITA laws in the US, to give EULAs the full force of a real contract.
The big question is which laws win out in Korea? consumer protection laws or enforcability of software EULAs?
It all depends on the storage technology. The Ipod uses a 1.8" Toshiba hard drive which gives it a substantial size advantage over the Zen that uses a 2.5" laptop drive. Apple must have gotten a great deal from Toshiba on the drives because just the disk drive costs over $200 retail for a 5GB. The Zen is about as small as you'll get with a 2.5" drive. Compactflash is smaller but also a lot more expensive, $250/GB for flash, $180/GB for a microdrive. Just hope the prices come down on those Toshiba drives, and maybe you'll see that $250 price point.
"My basic point is that the Roman empire collapsed due to over expansion in a purely geographical sense leading to communication breakdown"
I thought it was hubris, arrogance and ineffective leadership. They actually had a very efficient network of roads, and a messenger could travel as far as 100 miles a day.
That's also how neon lights work at the atomic level. Electricity excites an electron to a higher orbit, electron gives off light when it drops down to its original orbit.
I wouldn't exactly say changed my life, but Ultima 4 really was groundbreaking for including morality as part of the game. A big change from Ultima 3 where you could rob stores and kill the town police. Of course if you left town and came back it was all back to normal.
Although GTA had more varied gameplay like capping ho's and jacking cars, Carmageddon was the best for pure pedestrian squishing fun. Not an original concept (the movie Death Race 2000 is 30 years old) but well executed.
Both parties are friendly to the MPAA's commercial interests. Most of their disagreements are about censorship of sex and violence in movies. In those cases it's mostly Republicans and a few Democrats like Joe Liebermann who oppose the movie industry.
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This won't help you if it's hot at night and you want to sleep, but if it's a hot summer day, go somewhere with free A/C like the mall. Beats paying a $100+ electric bill.
AFAIK, MS Select Licensing includes no support. If you want support from Microsoft, it starts at $99/incident for online support, $245/incident for phone support. I think the only way to get free support from them is if you buy retail software.
From the reports, it sounds like there was a pretty big chunk of the carbon-carbon leading edge structure missing. Not a whole section, but a good sized piece of one, and it was already missing in orbit. If it was weakened but intact and then fell off during reentry, then the damage may not have been visible to a spy satellite, but that does not seem to be the case. The carbon-carbon composite is black. If any metal was exposed by the missing piece, the color contrast would be pretty strong.
Maybe they cleaned it up since last time I was there, but Prospect Park is not a place where I'd walk around with a $1000+ laptop. It's not the 'hood with drive bys and crackhouses, but then it's not exactly Disneyland either.
Cash can get damaged inadvertantly in many ways. The US Treasury considers any bill with more than half of it intact to be valid. A Euro note with a fried RFID is still authentic even though it's damaged. They may want to take it out of circulation, but I don't see how they could refuse it as if it were counterfeit.
"Lost" implies that they need to be "found" for some compelling reason. They have been supplanted with skills necessary for the modern world, such as computing, engineering, math, making $100 million movies, watching TV, surfing pr0n, and building space shuttles.
The world needs historians as much as it needs rocket scientists and porn stars. These skills are documented because people are out there keeping the knowledge alive. He's not suggesting that everybody give up their modern conveniences and go back to the 19th century. It's just that the old school arts and crafts give you a connection to the world and the way things work that's all too missing from our pushbutton world.
As for your suggestion to grab a Bud instead of a homebrew- you might as well say don't bother with a homemade Thanksgiving turkey, go grab an Oscar Mayer Lunchable.
This may not be that useful for a HUD display. Although the display is inside the vehicle, it's projected so the focus distance is many feet in front of the windshield. Otherwise you'd see a double image of the HUD when your eyes are focused down the road.
Yeah, just like a Blackberry except you can only use it in range of the base station like a cordless phone. The only advantage is you don't pay a monthly fee.
Pretty limited market here. If you have friends who don't have 2way texting cellphones but have MSN Messenger, and you want to IM while you're walking around the house but not when you leave the house, then yes, this is for you! For most people, they'd either use a text messaging cellphone to send short messages or they'd sit down at their computers with a full size keyboard for longer chats.
That's the gist of it. Chaos theory and complex systems will pretty much explain it.
Polaroid is hurting much worse than Kodak from digital photography. Digital has many of the advantages of instant photography with none of the cons like cost of supplies. Polaroid used to be used for everything from crash scene documentation to ID photos to *ahem* party pictures that you wouldn't want a photo lab to see. All digital now.
At least 35mm film has the equivalent of 5-6 megapixel resolution. So it still has an advantage for high quality work like portraits and enlargements.
"I hate nothing worse than something that ends poorly"
You mean like the cliffhanger season finale of Dark Angel where they thought they'd be back for next season but got cancelled and replaced by Joss Whedon's Firefly? Yeah, that really sucks.
Even if it can't be hotwired and driven away, it's still light enough to carry away. Motorcycle thieves will get 4 strong guys to toss a 500lb bike into a van and drive off. Anything lighter than that and that's worth thousands of dollars had better be chained down when you park it.
The reason for wood frame construction on the west coast is because brick buildings fall down in earthquakes. After the Northridge quake in '94, every brick wall collapsed, every brick chimney collapsed or cracked apart. With a few notable exceptions, wood frame houses held up very well. And yes, the soundproofing sucks. I used to live in a brick building in New York so I should know.
Forget about putting it on the roof. Getting a signal through multiple floors and ceilings will be tough. Fortunately every apartment should have a few rooms with a window. Mount it outside and tell everybody to put their antennas near the window that faces your AP. You don't have to get a wireless signal to every single point in the building, just to every apartment unit. The best place would be an interior courtyard.
"Only if the supplier has a local presence in your state do you have to pay local sales tax"
They're just going to a stricter interpretation of this. For instance a brick and mortar store might incorporate a separate company to whom they license their name and trademarks to do online sales. Since this is supposedly a separate company, their brick and mortar stores aren't a business presence of the online store, and they'll avoid paying sales tax that way.
According to the article this is the language of the new bill:
"an out-of-state retailer is obligated to collect tax on sales to California customers if it has representatives operating in the state who repair or service property bought from the retailer; it has an ownership interest in a California business; or it sells the same products under the same name as the California business."
Bad argument. You are comparing a mature commercial industry to manned spaceflight which is more or less still experimental. To be fair you should really compare it to the aviation in the 1910's or jet flight in the 1950's. They lost a lot of planes and test pilots.
Retail spare parts from the dealer is by far the most expensive way to buy car parts. Less so in the computer world. I think the Corecrib kit uses Apple motherboards sold as spare parts to repair centers, and they probably cost over $200 each.
DIVX, XVID are just different implementations of the MPEG4 standard. Sure, the AVI container that most Divx files are stored in is specific to PCs, but MPEG4 is as much an industry standard as MPEG2. Of course if the archiver wanted to play those videos on a standalone DVD player rather than a PC, MPEG4 is not an option.
This goes back to the same old question of enforcability of EULA terms and whether breaking the seal on the CD or clicking OK is really agreeing to a contract. When I buy something in the store, the contract of sale happens at the cash register. I pay money and receive goods and services. The EULA attaches additional conditions after I've completed the contract of sale. Shrinkwrap and clickwrap EULAs are very much an untested and questionable area of law. That's why they tried passing UCITA laws in the US, to give EULAs the full force of a real contract.
The big question is which laws win out in Korea? consumer protection laws or enforcability of software EULAs?
It all depends on the storage technology. The Ipod uses a 1.8" Toshiba hard drive which gives it a substantial size advantage over the Zen that uses a 2.5" laptop drive. Apple must have gotten a great deal from Toshiba on the drives because just the disk drive costs over $200 retail for a 5GB. The Zen is about as small as you'll get with a 2.5" drive. Compactflash is smaller but also a lot more expensive, $250/GB for flash, $180/GB for a microdrive. Just hope the prices come down on those Toshiba drives, and maybe you'll see that $250 price point.
"My basic point is that the Roman empire collapsed due to over expansion in a purely geographical sense leading to communication breakdown"
I thought it was hubris, arrogance and ineffective leadership. They actually had a very efficient network of roads, and a messenger could travel as far as 100 miles a day.
That's also how neon lights work at the atomic level. Electricity excites an electron to a higher orbit, electron gives off light when it drops down to its original orbit.
I wouldn't exactly say changed my life, but Ultima 4 really was groundbreaking for including morality as part of the game. A big change from Ultima 3 where you could rob stores and kill the town police. Of course if you left town and came back it was all back to normal.
Although GTA had more varied gameplay like capping ho's and jacking cars, Carmageddon was the best for pure pedestrian squishing fun. Not an original concept (the movie Death Race 2000 is 30 years old) but well executed.
Both parties are friendly to the MPAA's commercial interests. Most of their disagreements are about censorship of sex and violence in movies. In those cases it's mostly Republicans and a few Democrats like Joe Liebermann who oppose the movie industry.