I'd rather we all spent our time making love and going to our kids little league baseball games.
Considering how many more people there are today than when the B-52 entered service... maybe we should cut back on the love making (or at least use some contraceptives).:P
Great point. The money does not disappear it does get redistributed in the form of purchasing something else. Nobody sits on 80 million dollars in cash, they have to invest it somewhere.
Are you sure? Because a whole lot of people and entities are doing exactly this sort of cash hoarding right now.
There's also lots of chaos in early solar systems. Something knocked Uranus on its side and some models show it and Neptune originally orbiting inside of Jupiter's orbit.
The model I'm familiar with suggests Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all formed closer to the Sun then they are currently, with Neptune's and Uranus's relative positions reversed.
At some point Jupiter and Saturn formed a 2:1 orbital resonance and this caused the entire Solar System to be disrupted... Jupiter moved inward, the other large planets moved outwards (with Neptune being pushed past Uranus), and lots of junk started falling into the inner Solar System (the "Early Heavy Bombardment")
A basic observation in favor of Neptune forming closer than Uranus is the fact that Neptune is more massive.
The Sumerians knew more about the outer planets than we do, six, ten, you pick a number, thousands of years ago. The arrogance of religion and its just as arrogant counterpart, science; knows even less.
They weren't even aware half of the outer planets existed, so your claim is very unlikely to be true.
I believe the intentions behind the wide engine spacing on the F-14 were to add lifting surface and make room to carry a full load of 6 Phoenix missiles.
The Su-27/30/33/34/35 family use engines similarly spread far apart.
They ejected as close to the last second as possible. When you have a rocket chair that leads to instant safety, it's gotta be pretty goddamned hard not to take that option when you know shit hit the fan.
Using an ejection seat is surely one of the most dramatic "controlled" events you can subject your body too... and there's still plenty of potential for something to go wrong.
I'm sure no fighter pilot wants to return to base after losing his ride in a crash. That sounds very hard on the 'ol ego.:)
"People" don't like that Pluto got demoted; their objections to the definition are reverse-engineered from that emotional fact, as evidenced by not even trying to understand the physical reality that informs it.
Indeed. Not only is Pluto no longer a plant, it no longer can claim Charon as its moon. Pluto and Charon orbit a common center of mass outside of both bodies, making them a binary planet with a further two (or possibly more) small moons.
what kind of salesman ignores you for half an h our after you tell him you want to buy a $2000 computer in an attempt to sell something to someone else?
The kind of salemen who gets no commission and thus doesn't give a shit about whether you buy anything?
Management might push them to sell certain things, but there is no carrot... only a stick.
The numismatic way to tell them apart is to look at the date. The copper pennies use a bigger font.
The coins age differently so just looking at the color is usually enough... copper coins become a dark even brown where the zinc coins darken mainly on the raised areas.
I think it's worth noting that the payoffs were part of a system where you were rewarded for uploading popular files. EVERY premium user got paid for getting downloads (which were not necessarily copyright infringing files). IANAL but I don't think rewarding people for uploading popular files is illegal in itself. It just turned out that copyright infringing files got a lot of downloads, so pirates were getting quite a sum.
Megaupload was never a popular as a cashhost. People who were interesting in making money did not use MU. Period.
I'm tired of seeing this BS assertion on/., from people obviously not remotely familiar with filehosters and their usage.
I forgot to mention part of the absurdity of the situation is that I learned the information this in the late 80's, long after it was known to be untrue. I was misled by that dusty book.
The same source brings some "news" about the rotational period being 58.7 Earth days and the "tidal lock" being actually a spin-orbit resonance with a 3:2 ratio (1 "year" = 1.5 "days").
When I was allowed access to the "big kids" books in the library as a first grader, the one book I grabbed was a book about the Solar System.
Since the book was circa 1960, it told me Mercury was tidally locked with the sun and that's became a "fact" I've held on to ever since.
While some/. people get a bit worked up over the "Pluto is not a planet" thing, Merury's rotational period is my that's not what I learned! issue.
Being able to soak up information easily and remember it very well has its downsides.:)
Since the notion that Mercury is a dead, inactive world like the Moon was common for a quite some time before we got much actual data from the planet, all gathered information will be referred to via that original reference.
It's a bit like how the "canals" mistranslation became a dominant factor for how English speakers viewed Mars for several decades.
The wording is just a reflection of the importance accorded to first impressions.
Quality comments take time and effort to write, and require time and effort to read. It's not a surprise that sites which deal with random and changing groups of vistors find few willing to invest the time to write a good comment... or even read a good comment (tl;dr anyone?)
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He's just openly admitting what many have claimed all along, that these shill accounts are all run by the same small group of people.
A few weeks ago when Jupiter was nearby in the sky... they formed quite an eye-catching pair. :)
I'd rather we all spent our time making love and going to our kids little league baseball games.
Considering how many more people there are today than when the B-52 entered service... maybe we should cut back on the love making (or at least use some contraceptives). :P
Great point. The money does not disappear it does get redistributed in the form of purchasing something else. Nobody sits on 80 million dollars in cash, they have to invest it somewhere.
Are you sure? Because a whole lot of people and entities are doing exactly this sort of cash hoarding right now.
There's also lots of chaos in early solar systems. Something knocked Uranus on its side and some models show it and Neptune originally orbiting inside of Jupiter's orbit.
The model I'm familiar with suggests Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all formed closer to the Sun then they are currently, with Neptune's and Uranus's relative positions reversed.
At some point Jupiter and Saturn formed a 2:1 orbital resonance and this caused the entire Solar System to be disrupted... Jupiter moved inward, the other large planets moved outwards (with Neptune being pushed past Uranus), and lots of junk started falling into the inner Solar System (the "Early Heavy Bombardment")
A basic observation in favor of Neptune forming closer than Uranus is the fact that Neptune is more massive.
The Sumerians knew more about the outer planets than we do, six, ten, you pick a number, thousands of years ago. The arrogance of religion and its just as arrogant counterpart, science; knows even less.
They weren't even aware half of the outer planets existed, so your claim is very unlikely to be true.
I believe the intentions behind the wide engine spacing on the F-14 were to add lifting surface and make room to carry a full load of 6 Phoenix missiles.
The Su-27/30/33/34/35 family use engines similarly spread far apart.
They ejected as close to the last second as possible. When you have a rocket chair that leads to instant safety, it's gotta be pretty goddamned hard not to take that option when you know shit hit the fan.
Using an ejection seat is surely one of the most dramatic "controlled" events you can subject your body too... and there's still plenty of potential for something to go wrong.
I'm sure no fighter pilot wants to return to base after losing his ride in a crash. That sounds very hard on the 'ol ego. :)
"People" don't like that Pluto got demoted; their objections to the definition are reverse-engineered from that emotional fact, as evidenced by not even trying to understand the physical reality that informs it.
Indeed. Not only is Pluto no longer a plant, it no longer can claim Charon as its moon. Pluto and Charon orbit a common center of mass outside of both bodies, making them a binary planet with a further two (or possibly more) small moons.
The amount of mass needed to self-round is far below the amount possessed by Pluto.
Saturn's moon Mimas would be our best cutoff example found.
Isn't the desktop/metro duality more akin to running both KDE and Gnome desktops at the same time? I don't think that's a very common usage.
what kind of salesman ignores you for half an h our after you tell him you want to buy a $2000 computer in an attempt to sell something to someone else?
The kind of salemen who gets no commission and thus doesn't give a shit about whether you buy anything?
Management might push them to sell certain things, but there is no carrot... only a stick.
The numismatic way to tell them apart is to look at the date. The copper pennies use a bigger font.
The coins age differently so just looking at the color is usually enough... copper coins become a dark even brown where the zinc coins darken mainly on the raised areas.
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Hitomi laughs at your silly white boy assertion.:)
I think it's worth noting that the payoffs were part of a system where you were rewarded for uploading popular files. EVERY premium user got paid for getting downloads (which were not necessarily copyright infringing files). IANAL but I don't think rewarding people for uploading popular files is illegal in itself. It just turned out that copyright infringing files got a lot of downloads, so pirates were getting quite a sum.
Megaupload was never a popular as a cashhost. People who were interesting in making money did not use MU. Period.
I'm tired of seeing this BS assertion on /., from people obviously not remotely familiar with filehosters and their usage.
Unlike almost every other niche OS circa 2012, that Amiga OS is closed-source.
So to hear there is some computer running GPL'd Linux, of all things, that is being called an Amiga amuses me.
I forgot to mention part of the absurdity of the situation is that I learned the information this in the late 80's, long after it was known to be untrue. I was misled by that dusty book.
The same source brings some "news" about the rotational period being 58.7 Earth days and the "tidal lock" being actually a spin-orbit resonance with a 3:2 ratio (1 "year" = 1.5 "days").
When I was allowed access to the "big kids" books in the library as a first grader, the one book I grabbed was a book about the Solar System.
Since the book was circa 1960, it told me Mercury was tidally locked with the sun and that's became a "fact" I've held on to ever since.
While some /. people get a bit worked up over the "Pluto is not a planet" thing, Merury's rotational period is my that's not what I learned! issue.
Being able to soak up information easily and remember it very well has its downsides. :)
Since the notion that Mercury is a dead, inactive world like the Moon was common for a quite some time before we got much actual data from the planet, all gathered information will be referred to via that original reference.
It's a bit like how the "canals" mistranslation became a dominant factor for how English speakers viewed Mars for several decades.
The wording is just a reflection of the importance accorded to first impressions.
Maybe... try playing this album while you install. \m/
Because Slashdot is full of OCD-ish folks who find deep meaning in numbers that most people pay no attention to?
Dammit, let's play monopoly instead...because emulators don't count.
The NES version of Monopoly was better than any version on newer systems
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Quality comments take time and effort to write, and require time and effort to read. It's not a surprise that sites which deal with random and changing groups of vistors find few willing to invest the time to write a good comment... or even read a good comment (tl;dr anyone?)
The most noteworthy thing about the PC is the redone translation. Given the convoluted plot, a better translation than the PS one would be nice.