But headwinds were much stronger than forecast. With airports few and far between in the Antarctic, Jon changed his destination to fly to McMurdo after overflying the South Pole. Jon remains at McMurdo/Scott Base unable to depart until he can get more fuel. The Australian Government is currently negotiating with relevant US/NZ authorities to assist.
I'm sure it'll go like this:
Australia: We'll just give you the fuel, and even pay to have it shipped along with the next cargo run going out there.
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for authoring and executing HTML application files is disclosed. An HTML application file is basically a standard HTML file that runs in its own window outside of the browser, and is thus not bound by the security restrictions of the browser. The author of an HTML application file can take advantage of the relaxed security. The author of the HTML application file designates the file as an HTML application file by doing one or more of the following: defining the MIME type as an HTML application MIME type; or using an HTML application file extension for the file. When a browser, such as the Internet Explorer, encounters one of the above, it processes the file as an HTML application file rather than a standard HTML file by creating a main window independent of the browser, and rendering the HTML in the main window.
Could be a bad thing...but perhaps Microsoft is planning to SUE THE EVERLIVING BEJEZUS OUT OF ANYONE WHO MAKES ADWARE?
If ever Microsoft made a good PR move, that sounds like it'd be their best one.
If everyone and their brother knows exactly how much is in my bank account, but cannot do anything more then send me an offer for a short-term loan or a "special cash rate" for a purchase, then all of my rights remain intact.
I dunno if I'm being funny or serious, but I'd rather keep my information private and make life harder for spammers. Yea, that sounds much better than everyone knowing my business and being flooded with junk mail...
If I ever caught a random person jamming my cel phone because they thought cel phones where "annoying", I think I would honestly commit a homicide via severe beating. This anti-celphone crap is really out of control.
I know, some places like quiet nice resteraunts and the movies are not the time or place, but if I'm walking down the street, you have about as much right to tell me to get off the phone as you do to tell me to shut up when I'm talking to the person next to me.
Damn easily-annoyed whinny bastards. Probably the same people who are offended when their ATA drive says "Master/Slave" on the jumpers...
...but I don't see putting a tracking device in a plow truck as a bad thing. This would allow better coordination of the trucks. Last night, I drove 30 miles in 3 inch deep snow. I watched the other direction on the highway get plowed and plowed over several times, but my side? It seemed like no one had even bothered to touch it.
Now you'd think after 30 miles at least one township would stop and say "Sh*t, we never did plow the southbound lane on Route 8!"
I could see if they where trying to track people around their homes, etc. But this is emergency vehicle coordination. I think the plow guys are just mad they can't get paid to stop at Wendy's and eat now.
...I envision that a ring all the way around the moon or at least a few stations at regular spacing all cabled together to broadcast at earth from the most convinient location could work nicely. Costly? Yes. Benifits? R&D and some of the world's energy problems solved...sounds like we should at least look into it to me.
And the new formats will probably include DRM features, so you're breaking the law if you try to reverse-engineer their format to get Linux/Mac support...
Yes, because those dirty Napster pirates aren't getting their filthy hands on my ToDo List!!!!!!
The moon mas plenty of resources, such as it's LACK of atmosphere. Do you think in any way the air on earth, or it's magnetic field, or it's clounds or airplanes or radio waves bouncing around inside it make it easy to use radio telescopes and such? The moon has little to none of that interference. Much less than low earth orbit, even. Solar power collection? 24-hour free solar energy beamed to earth? Yea, the moon is SO overrated.
And if you think that they're going to cancel space flights and deny someone taking off to return from the moon then you must be trolling. Let's leave them up there to definetly fir as opposed to taking the chance they might survive...good call.
The reason we don't go there now for cheap is we haven't done it in 30 years. Think about 30 years ago: big bulky unefficient cars, clunky appliences, computers the size of your house.
Critics say that this is a clear conflict of interest. Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure.
You mean like writing viruses and then selling antivirus software?
I think big business is starting to learn what step 2 is, and it's kind of frightening.
If you don't start an HREF (or any other URL I believe) with a protocol specifier (is that what it's really called?) like "http:","ftp:","aim:","news:" or for you oldskoolers "gopher:", the URL is thought instead to be relevant to the current URL.
For example, HREF="" is "http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?whateverthefs ckelse"+"" If it had been HREF="/fark?" we would have gotten "http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?whateverthefs ckelse"+"/fark" = "http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?whateverthefs ckelse/fark"
The reason for this is
It makes HTML documents portable. If a site is designed to be accessable all from one directory, it can be shifted to any other hostname/preceeding URL and still work
It allows for easy use of anchors. HREF="#" is basically the same as saying HREF="", but for other anchors, it's easy enough to say HREF="#anchor" as opposed to using an entire file name. This is also versitile for the reason listed in #1.
A concert or play can only be performed in one place at a time, while a movie can be distributed worldwide and shown several times a day every day for as long as there is demand.
The record industry does have an equivalent, it's called a television special.
It could be shown on-demand and either pay-per-view or with commercials worldwide and several times per day for as long as there is demand.
We used to have a channel that would do this for the "concert singles", or music videos as they have come to be known, but now you have to have Premium cable to watch anythign but "MTV's Real World" reruns. This is why so many people bitch about "sellouts". MTV isn't "music television" anymore, it's "crappy-shows-with-an-occational-look-at-a-celebri ty-who-happens-to-sing TV".
The music industry is like a monkey with a toolbox: They could do so much with what they already have but I doubt they'll ever figure it out. Quick, someone pass out thumbs.
This is outrageous. As someone who has submitted MP3s to MP3.com before, I feel slightly violated. I'm sure I'm going to recieve spam from them, which will make me feel even better I'm sure.
This is just the music industry silencing more independant artists so they can push the flavor of the week on us from a popular and fancy name.
Fear not, our time will come. Pop will eat itself.
I think since the spam comes from Yahoo and is stored on Yahoo's own servers, it really is of no inconvinience to you other than to go uncheck some boxes and delete a few e-mails, then get on with your life.
If you have a POP account with them however, this presents a problem. I don't see why they'd want to span their POP users because IIRC you pay for that service so they're already making money that way.
iPod has worked for WIndows for a long time now...
That being said, as a pretty dedicated Mac user myself I must say that yes, many of the other Mac users I've met are very, very stange folk indeed. I'm sure that speaks volumes about me as well.;-)
Sponsored by Microsoft, SCO will attempt to win several key lawsuits which will appoint them the power to charge royalties on every other popular OS besides Windows and their own products. The payoff? Their stock soars every week or two, and the execs cash in. Then Microsoft buys them out and charges Apple royalties on every copy of OS X, and possibly Linux if it's not completely ruined. This is a ploy to re-take the market once and for all.
It'll never work, obviously, but all the pieces are there. How lame.
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If ever Microsoft made a good PR move, that sounds like it'd be their best one.
...I can't help but giggle like Beavis & Butthead when I attempt to imagine what a "Microsoft Nanotube Pole" would really be.
I agree on the N64 controller. It's the ultimate. Dreamcast controlers are pityful, though, and dont' even get me started on the friggin' Gamecube...
If I ever caught a random person jamming my cel phone because they thought cel phones where "annoying", I think I would honestly commit a homicide via severe beating. This anti-celphone crap is really out of control.
I know, some places like quiet nice resteraunts and the movies are not the time or place, but if I'm walking down the street, you have about as much right to tell me to get off the phone as you do to tell me to shut up when I'm talking to the person next to me.
Damn easily-annoyed whinny bastards. Probably the same people who are offended when their ATA drive says "Master/Slave" on the jumpers...
...but I don't see putting a tracking device in a plow truck as a bad thing. This would allow better coordination of the trucks. Last night, I drove 30 miles in 3 inch deep snow. I watched the other direction on the highway get plowed and plowed over several times, but my side? It seemed like no one had even bothered to touch it.
Now you'd think after 30 miles at least one township would stop and say "Sh*t, we never did plow the southbound lane on Route 8!"
I could see if they where trying to track people around their homes, etc. But this is emergency vehicle coordination. I think the plow guys are just mad they can't get paid to stop at Wendy's and eat now.
...I envision that a ring all the way around the moon or at least a few stations at regular spacing all cabled together to broadcast at earth from the most convinient location could work nicely. Costly? Yes. Benifits? R&D and some of the world's energy problems solved...sounds like we should at least look into it to me.
They'll be brownouts every eclipse, though...
...they're pretty much both designed so that you lose no matter what.
The moon mas plenty of resources, such as it's LACK of atmosphere. Do you think in any way the air on earth, or it's magnetic field, or it's clounds or airplanes or radio waves bouncing around inside it make it easy to use radio telescopes and such? The moon has little to none of that interference. Much less than low earth orbit, even. Solar power collection? 24-hour free solar energy beamed to earth? Yea, the moon is SO overrated.
And if you think that they're going to cancel space flights and deny someone taking off to return from the moon then you must be trolling. Let's leave them up there to definetly fir as opposed to taking the chance they might survive...good call.
The reason we don't go there now for cheap is we haven't done it in 30 years. Think about 30 years ago: big bulky unefficient cars, clunky appliences, computers the size of your house.
I'd say we're about ready for another wack at it.
...purhaps
I think big business is starting to learn what step 2 is, and it's kind of frightening.
- Create inconvinience/problems.
- Sell products which eleminate the problem.
- Profit!
What a shame the tech industry is becomming.If you don't start an HREF (or any other URL I believe) with a protocol specifier (is that what it's really called?) like "http:","ftp:","aim:","news:" or for you oldskoolers "gopher:", the URL is thought instead to be relevant to the current URL.
For example, HREF="" is "http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?whateverthef
If it had been HREF="/fark?" we would have gotten "http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?whateverthef
The reason for this is
It could be shown on-demand and either pay-per-view or with commercials worldwide and several times per day for as long as there is demand.
We used to have a channel that would do this for the "concert singles", or music videos as they have come to be known, but now you have to have Premium cable to watch anythign but "MTV's Real World" reruns. This is why so many people bitch about "sellouts". MTV isn't "music television" anymore, it's "crappy-shows-with-an-occational-look-at-a-celebr
The music industry is like a monkey with a toolbox: They could do so much with what they already have but I doubt they'll ever figure it out. Quick, someone pass out thumbs.
Perhaps they could be President/Sheep drives?
Actually, I probably shouldn't be saying this on the Interne
NO CARRIER
...and I might actually want to watch it.
This is outrageous. As someone who has submitted MP3s to MP3.com before, I feel slightly violated. I'm sure I'm going to recieve spam from them, which will make me feel even better I'm sure.
This is just the music industry silencing more independant artists so they can push the flavor of the week on us from a popular and fancy name.
Fear not, our time will come. Pop will eat itself.
I think since the spam comes from Yahoo and is stored on Yahoo's own servers, it really is of no inconvinience to you other than to go uncheck some boxes and delete a few e-mails, then get on with your life.
If you have a POP account with them however, this presents a problem. I don't see why they'd want to span their POP users because IIRC you pay for that service so they're already making money that way.
iPod has worked for WIndows for a long time now...
That being said, as a pretty dedicated Mac user myself I must say that yes, many of the other Mac users I've met are very, very stange folk indeed. I'm sure that speaks volumes about me as well.
Sponsored by Microsoft, SCO will attempt to win several key lawsuits which will appoint them the power to charge royalties on every other popular OS besides Windows and their own products. The payoff? Their stock soars every week or two, and the execs cash in. Then Microsoft buys them out and charges Apple royalties on every copy of OS X, and possibly Linux if it's not completely ruined. This is a ploy to re-take the market once and for all.
It'll never work, obviously, but all the pieces are there. How lame.
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