How about we paint the external fuel tank to look a big trojan condom?.. Or atleast a couple cans of coke..
Nah that would add too much weight. The first few launches had the tanks painted white but they figured out by not painting them (leaving them rust colored) they could save a lot of weight and money. It'd be much better to have the ad on the tower...or perhaps during the count down they could do some ads... "10 9 8 coke is it 7 6 5 we like to see you smile 3 2 1
The problem is that reusuable spacecraft has proven to be a mistake. It costs more to develop something which can be used multiple times, and then it costs more to individually produce components, then it costs more to do the recovery & restoration. When you have a production line, like the pre-shuttle rockets, and like ESA has, then you can concentrate on producing reliable & cheap components. It worked for Henry Ford, and it works for spacecraft.
Umm...cars are reusable. You're trying to compare it to mass producing cars or computers or whatever. A better comparison is with aircraft. They are reusable but fairly expensive and require a lot of maintenance. And that comes down a lot to safety issues...if you use cheap parts and it falls out of the sky, you got a problem. I can just see a cheap reusable spacecraft...the engine dies while you're in orbit, or you spring an air leak.
Unfortunately I think if it all goes private then it will mean the end of manned spaceflight and planetary probes. There is no profit in that stuff...if there was we'd see it privatized already. The only thing that makes a profit is launching satelittes. Now perhaps eventually space tourism and mining will be profitable but the costs to get into space are too high and will remain too high until some new technology comes around. I think at this point the governmetn will always need to be the "buyer" of these services to continue them but perhaps spaceship design, etc. could be privatized much like the military chooses aircraft from private industry proposals and bids.
There is a documented link between low level noise and hearing and stress levels in those spending long times exposed to them.
The hum of a fan, whatever it is cooling, is often at a level that you might strain to hear clearly. It is these levels that can cause hearing strain. This is similar to eye strain when you need glasses and can give you monster headaches.
Except fans tend to generate white noise, which can drown out other distracting sounds and can also be soothing once you get used to it (like rain). For more info see how stuff works article.
I leave my computer on at my bed all the time and have no trouble with the fan per say. The thing that drives me mad is the harddrive noise (ie access noise)
Come on. Firstly, viewers these days are FAR less likely to associate shows to network, and any ability to associate such is largely due to the effect of the superimposed logo. Do you know which network runs "The West Wing", the World Series or "Monday Night Football" ? I sure don't. This is NOT the days of old where there were precious few networks/channels, the networks had much larger mindshare, and there actually was such a thing as viewer loyalty.
And who gives a damn? If I want to watch West Wing I'll find the channel that has it and watch it. I don't care about what network it is on...it has no bearing on anything what-so-ever, even though the networks want you to think it does. I don't watch a network because I know their name or have brand loyalty..I watch it because it has shows on there I want to see. If they want me to keep watching, then they'll have to keep providing good shows.
With the ICRA plan, operators would rate their Web sites by filling out an online form listing types of objectionable material, such as drug promotion, gambling or particular forms of nudity.
Hmm wouldn't the Viagara website be blocked then?
The Interactive Gaming Council, which represents gambling sites, will encourage its members to get behind the plan as well.
They like the odds...
"It's a reincarnation of a system that has been around for years with enormous financial backing, and nobody uses it," Haselton said.
That sounds sortof like CueCat
Many other solutions have been offered, from making Internet providers liable for illegal pornography that travels through their networks to creating separate kids-only or porn-only areas of the Internet.
Hmm well the only way to do that would be to have someone look at pornography all day long and determine what is illegal. I suspect that position wouldn't be vacant very often...well except for those 10 minute breaks.
"We believe that good corporate citizenship and tools that help parents make good decisions is a much better alternative than government regulation," Kenny said.
Translation: Let us good corporations raise your kids. You don't need to watch them....And while we're at it, we'll be sure to make sure they buy our products and don't do anything naughty like those evil file sharing products that steal money from Sir PaidAlot.
Previous, simpler versions of the rating system are included in some versions of Microsoft's Web browser, but there are no current plans to bundle the program into Microsoft or AOL software.
Which means 99% of the population will never see it.
From my experiences Gateway has so much trouble it's not even funny. A client of mine has 4 Gateway PCs, over the last 2yrs I've had to get at least 6 replacement parts. I have had them send me defective replacement parts TWICE! Once a bad motherboard, yesterday a bad harddrive! Very frusterating to say the least
The last Gateway I had wasn't all that reliable...but the good thing is they always overnighted me parts with no questions asked. Since I know my way around computers I thought it was great...I'd just replace the part myself and be back up and running. I guess for less experienced users they'd need to send it off or have someone come out.
Small Claims Court? Sure, give Compaq notice that you're suing them, and see if you don't end up paying their lawyers $400/hr for their time to kick your ass after you lose the suit and are forced to pay opposing side's legal fees.
My company pays for Compaq support and I know many times they don't stock the parts locally. They have to fly them out which takes up to 12 or 24 hours (and this is the top support). Also many times when they swap a part out, they will put it back in circulation and wait for it to be swapped several times before they declare it "bad". Not the best support around.
The last Dell I owned was defective on arrival. They refused to ship a part out...I had to spend several hours on tech support before they would send a technician to my house. I told them to screw theirselves and I gutted the PC and built my own...that was the last "name brand" PC I ever bought. Now on the other hand, I was always happy with gateway. They would mail me a part overnight no questions asked assuming I returned the old part.
be just another OS/2. The WinOS/2 subsystem was so good that it killed OS/2. What's the fun of running Windows apps in Linux? Higher stability? But Win2K/XP is already quite good for this purpose and it comes preinstalled anyway. I think that if you really plan to use Linux, stay away from Windows apps and stick with native ones. Besides, we have VMWare for it and it almost guarantees 100% compatibility.
I assume the point you were trying to make was by putting Win support in OS/2, OS/2 killed itself because why would someone want to develop natively for OS/2 when they could develop for Windows and have it run in both places?
How are you supposed to write to your representative if their mail isn't getting delivered, due to the Anthrax scare?
I wrote Senator Hollings since I live in SC and he never wrote back. This was in August. So it doesn't matter if it's delivered or not...Hollings won't read it anyway.
In WinXP how does one uninstall MSN instant messenger, I use AIM and don't know anyone on MSN IM so it has no use to me, all it does is clutter up my systray.
Just a thought, but if you are trying to say that this is not a Microsoft problem, you probably shouldn't say "The Dreamcast crashed." It (in case anyone doesn't remember) was running Win CE [microsoft.com].
I really don't think that this is going to be indicative of the overall performance of the XBox. I just think that Microsoft has a (well deserved) reputation for unstable operatin systems. They build that reputation over 10 years, so you can't expect it to dissapear overnight.
WinCE was an add-on that had to be on the CD a game was on (ie if the developer chose to develop under it) I never had a single game that used WinCE.
Telephone relay company night watchman Edward Baker, 31, was killed early Christmas morning by excessive microwave radiation exposure. He was apparently attempting to keep warm next to a telecommunications feed-horn.
Baker had been suspended on a safety violation once last year, according to Northern Manitoba Signal Relay spokesperson Tanya Cooke. She noted that Baker's earlier infraction was for defeating a safety shut-off switch and entering a restricted maintenance catwalk in order to stand in front of the microwave dish. He had told coworker's that it was the only way he could stay warm during his twelve-hour shift at the station, where winter temperatures often dip to forty below zero.
Microwaves can heat water molecules within human tissue in the same way that they heat food in microwave ovens. For his Christmas shift, Baker reportedly brought a twelve pack of beer and a plastic lawn chair, which he positioned directly in line with the strongest microwave beam. Baker had not been told about a tenfold boost in microwave power planned that night to handle the anticipated increase in holiday long-distance calling traffic.
Baker's body was discovered by the daytime watchman, John Burns, who was greeted by an odor he mistook for a Christmas roast he thought Baker must have prepared as a surprise. Burns also reported to NMSR company officials that Baker's unfinished beers had exploded.
If that's the way it was designed, then it should work both ways. I seriously doubt that my fellow South Carolinians asked Fritz Hollings to come up with the SSSCA, but he did anyway.
Indeed...I live in SC and nobody I have talked to even knows what the SSSCA is, much less cares about having it passed. Hollings took it upon himself to come up with this, not by talking to South Carolinians, but by talking to Disney, etc.
The man no longer represents anyone but corporations. I wrote him a postal letter and he (or his lackeys) did not even bother to write back
At least I can feel good that I didn't vote for him.
For my last senior year class, the entire class (about 20 people) had to program a real-world program that would be used by the university to track housing assignments. We split the program into logical sections and 2 people worked on each part. The professor basically did nothing during this period, so we had to take complete responsibility for it. It turned out fine and I think we all learned something. I think the key is to wait until senior year or so as the early classes have a lot of people who are not serious about their degree or college.
One possible problem with religions is the concept of Faith. Faith can be dangerous as it allows a charismatic leader to inject extra "truths" into followers' minds and modify their values, such that they may commit acts which are contrary to the teachings of the mainstream parent religion
This is insightful? You obviously don't understand what "faith" is. Go look in a dictionary. The issue here is people twisting what a religion says to make it suit their needs (IE someone saying something and you hearing what you want to hear). The term for this is bias. These people are so filled with hate that they try to make a religion justify their actions when it really doesn't.
The Bush administration is using this disaster to advance conservative agendas. Note the heavy emphasis on religion. This is especially bad because the other side considers this a religious war. If we buy into that, we get a crusade.
Are you a freaking idiot? I haven't seen Bush do ANYTHING to advance his agenda. He's reacted like any other president would. Religion? Well, NEWS FLASH!!! The majority of Americans are religious. Imagine that, majority rule.
Here are a few things to think about when you watch the T-R-A-S-H that is television news:
Peter Jenning's network had to pay Richard Jule millions of dollars for their irresponsible reporting of the 92 Olympics. Remember him?
After the Oklahoma bombing, tv news focused on Middle-Eastern terrorists. Later it was found that Timothy McVeigh was the real culprit.
To me, TV news is there to keep its audience and make money via ads. To make you loyal they must make you happy. So they are often saying and reporting things in such a way as to mislead the American people into believing what the viewers want to believe in, NOT what reality truly might be.
But, they can't lie. So that's why they always use crafty and clever language, such as "alleged" or "might". After using words like to to qualify what they're about to say, they then spend the next hour on these "alleged" theories, until your mind reaches satisfactory orgasm.
You're so right. Everyone knows the news media are robots and incapable of mistakes. How dare they deliberately misreport the news!
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Nah that would add too much weight. The first few launches had the tanks painted white but they figured out by not painting them (leaving them rust colored) they could save a lot of weight and money. It'd be much better to have the ad on the tower...or perhaps during the count down they could do some ads... "10 9 8 coke is it 7 6 5 we like to see you smile 3 2 1
Umm...cars are reusable. You're trying to compare it to mass producing cars or computers or whatever. A better comparison is with aircraft. They are reusable but fairly expensive and require a lot of maintenance. And that comes down a lot to safety issues...if you use cheap parts and it falls out of the sky, you got a problem. I can just see a cheap reusable spacecraft...the engine dies while you're in orbit, or you spring an air leak.
Unfortunately I think if it all goes private then it will mean the end of manned spaceflight and planetary probes. There is no profit in that stuff...if there was we'd see it privatized already. The only thing that makes a profit is launching satelittes. Now perhaps eventually space tourism and mining will be profitable but the costs to get into space are too high and will remain too high until some new technology comes around. I think at this point the governmetn will always need to be the "buyer" of these services to continue them but perhaps spaceship design, etc. could be privatized much like the military chooses aircraft from private industry proposals and bids.
The hum of a fan, whatever it is cooling, is often at a level that you might strain to hear clearly. It is these levels that can cause hearing strain. This is similar to eye strain when you need glasses and can give you monster headaches.
Except fans tend to generate white noise, which can drown out other distracting sounds and can also be soothing once you get used to it (like rain). For more info see how stuff works article.
I leave my computer on at my bed all the time and have no trouble with the fan per say. The thing that drives me mad is the harddrive noise (ie access noise)
And who gives a damn? If I want to watch West Wing I'll find the channel that has it and watch it. I don't care about what network it is on...it has no bearing on anything what-so-ever, even though the networks want you to think it does. I don't watch a network because I know their name or have brand loyalty..I watch it because it has shows on there I want to see. If they want me to keep watching, then they'll have to keep providing good shows.
You mean they didn't remove antitrust and monopoly too?
Hmm wouldn't the Viagara website be blocked then?
The Interactive Gaming Council, which represents gambling sites, will encourage its members to get behind the plan as well.
They like the odds...
"It's a reincarnation of a system that has been around for years with enormous financial backing, and nobody uses it," Haselton said.
That sounds sortof like CueCat
Many other solutions have been offered, from making Internet providers liable for illegal pornography that travels through their networks to creating separate kids-only or porn-only areas of the Internet.
Hmm well the only way to do that would be to have someone look at pornography all day long and determine what is illegal. I suspect that position wouldn't be vacant very often...well except for those 10 minute breaks.
"We believe that good corporate citizenship and tools that help parents make good decisions is a much better alternative than government regulation," Kenny said.
Translation: Let us good corporations raise your kids. You don't need to watch them....And while we're at it, we'll be sure to make sure they buy our products and don't do anything naughty like those evil file sharing products that steal money from Sir PaidAlot.
Previous, simpler versions of the rating system are included in some versions of Microsoft's Web browser, but there are no current plans to bundle the program into Microsoft or AOL software.
Which means 99% of the population will never see it.
The last Gateway I had wasn't all that reliable...but the good thing is they always overnighted me parts with no questions asked. Since I know my way around computers I thought it was great...I'd just replace the part myself and be back up and running. I guess for less experienced users they'd need to send it off or have someone come out.
Small Claims Court? Sure, give Compaq notice that you're suing them, and see if you don't end up paying their lawyers $400/hr for their time to kick your ass after you lose the suit and are forced to pay opposing side's legal fees.
That's why man created class action suits.
The last Dell I owned was defective on arrival. They refused to ship a part out...I had to spend several hours on tech support before they would send a technician to my house. I told them to screw theirselves and I gutted the PC and built my own...that was the last "name brand" PC I ever bought. Now on the other hand, I was always happy with gateway. They would mail me a part overnight no questions asked assuming I returned the old part.
I assume the point you were trying to make was by putting Win support in OS/2, OS/2 killed itself because why would someone want to develop natively for OS/2 when they could develop for Windows and have it run in both places?
I wrote Senator Hollings since I live in SC and he never wrote back. This was in August. So it doesn't matter if it's delivered or not...Hollings won't read it anyway.
Look here for how...
I really don't think that this is going to be indicative of the overall performance of the XBox. I just think that Microsoft has a (well deserved) reputation for unstable operatin systems. They build that reputation over 10 years, so you can't expect it to dissapear overnight.
WinCE was an add-on that had to be on the CD a game was on (ie if the developer chose to develop under it) I never had a single game that used WinCE.
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Telephone relay company night watchman Edward Baker, 31, was killed early Christmas morning by excessive microwave radiation exposure. He was apparently attempting to keep warm next to a telecommunications feed-horn.
Baker had been suspended on a safety violation once last year, according to Northern Manitoba Signal Relay spokesperson Tanya Cooke. She noted that Baker's earlier infraction was for defeating a safety shut-off switch and entering a restricted maintenance catwalk in order to stand in front of the microwave dish. He had told coworker's that it was the only way he could stay warm during his twelve-hour shift at the station, where winter temperatures often dip to forty below zero.
Microwaves can heat water molecules within human tissue in the same way that they heat food in microwave ovens. For his Christmas shift, Baker reportedly brought a twelve pack of beer and a plastic lawn chair, which he positioned directly in line with the strongest microwave beam. Baker had not been told about a tenfold boost in microwave power planned that night to handle the anticipated increase in holiday long-distance calling traffic.
Baker's body was discovered by the daytime watchman, John Burns, who was greeted by an odor he mistook for a Christmas roast he thought Baker must have prepared as a surprise. Burns also reported to NMSR company officials that Baker's unfinished beers had exploded.
Indeed...I live in SC and nobody I have talked to even knows what the SSSCA is, much less cares about having it passed. Hollings took it upon himself to come up with this, not by talking to South Carolinians, but by talking to Disney, etc.
The man no longer represents anyone but corporations. I wrote him a postal letter and he (or his lackeys) did not even bother to write back
At least I can feel good that I didn't vote for him.
For my last senior year class, the entire class (about 20 people) had to program a real-world program that would be used by the university to track housing assignments. We split the program into logical sections and 2 people worked on each part. The professor basically did nothing during this period, so we had to take complete responsibility for it. It turned out fine and I think we all learned something. I think the key is to wait until senior year or so as the early classes have a lot of people who are not serious about their degree or college.
I guess people aren't into spending $1000 for a radio
No, I'm not making this up.
So much for the Bible.
This hasn't been in any bible I've read. Either you made it up or you're dyslexic.
Except that it was part of the law of Moses and that law was ended when Jesus Christ came. At least understand the book you're quoting.
This is insightful? You obviously don't understand what "faith" is. Go look in a dictionary. The issue here is people twisting what a religion says to make it suit their needs (IE someone saying something and you hearing what you want to hear). The term for this is bias. These people are so filled with hate that they try to make a religion justify their actions when it really doesn't.
Are you a freaking idiot? I haven't seen Bush do ANYTHING to advance his agenda. He's reacted like any other president would. Religion? Well, NEWS FLASH!!! The majority of Americans are religious. Imagine that, majority rule.
Peter Jenning's network had to pay Richard Jule millions of dollars for their irresponsible reporting of the 92 Olympics. Remember him?
After the Oklahoma bombing, tv news focused on Middle-Eastern terrorists. Later it was found that Timothy McVeigh was the real culprit.
To me, TV news is there to keep its audience and make money via ads. To make you loyal they must make you happy. So they are often saying and reporting things in such a way as to mislead the American people into believing what the viewers want to believe in, NOT what reality truly might be.
But, they can't lie. So that's why they always use crafty and clever language, such as "alleged" or "might". After using words like to to qualify what they're about to say, they then spend the next hour on these "alleged" theories, until your mind reaches satisfactory orgasm.
You're so right. Everyone knows the news media are robots and incapable of mistakes. How dare they deliberately misreport the news!
Certainly some news is heresay or opinions. Other news consists of hard facts. And facts ARE knowledge.
As though KNOWING more will somehow help.
That's right. Everyone knows ignorance helps, not the pursuit of knowledge.