Would YOU let a plane be hijacked? Would anyone since the new aircraft as weapons paradigm became aparrent? Keeping guns off planes might be good but the rest of these rules are rediculous!
Just a few years ago I took a knife with me on every flight. Now I'm assumed to be trying to hijack an airplane if I do. WTF?
The test should be weather these rules make us safer. If they don't it's smoke and mirrors. I think we are all aquainted with Ben Franklins applicable quote.
Did you buy simcity 4? It was a completely derivative work. I was extrememly dissapointed in the lack of innovation and new features. They even reused some of the sound effects from Simcity 3000.
Add to that the HUGE problems with many chipsets at release (that kept me from playing the game at all for several days) adn extreme hardware requirements of the game and many people were very dissapointed in the game.
I have totally sworn off EA games unless I've verified they work on my system through a demo or pirated download.
The "issues" with ATI cards were rediculous! They claimed that the ATI cards weren't powerful enough!
I see EA games as where quality titles go to be squeezed out of every penny and left to die, a shadow of thier former self.
Is there any info on where the debris is landing? It look slike it could be from mid texas to misissippi. Do any of you have knowledge of where this stuff is landing?
May god bless the souls of the brave men and women on board.
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But the real problem is distributing these baloons all over the world. The station keeping paper refrenced above cites average windspeed of 30 meters a second.
wouldn't it suck if the jet stream shifted a little and ten baloons would be over San Antonio with none over chicago.
Basically without throwing tens of hundreds of these up on a daily basis. (can you imagine the people running around to launch hteese things in predicted spots when an outage is forecast?)
I'm hot into the idea of looking at the weather to determine my connection speed.
htese might be cheaper than powered solutions, perhaps they could work in concert.
No, the point is that we as people don't fully understand the interactions of our environment and we should be abso-fucking sure that we want a species extinct before we make it extinct. It's a simple message taht we've heard plenty
"extinction is forever"
That might be seen as some people as green, I just feel it's common sense.
I was wondering what might suck more than the text only post. Behold! Pictures made it suck more. The guy just taped the load of crap together. There is NOTHING to see here!
Actual quote "The second version of the traincam is seen here passing Amtrak engine 231, which has the dubious distinction of being the first engine to derail on my carpet."
This person hasn't quite gotten past the infant self-absorbed state. And here we are encouraging it.
It would be better if he was replaced beacuse over half of the frontpage is his stuff right now. Twelve posts yesterday! I would have to give up so much of the content that slashdot would be pointless to me.
I get the feeling that the paid editors have all gone and it's only the ones that do it for free left.
I'm really tired of timothy's posts. It's clear he's not a geek, nerd, or interestd in news. He just posts things he likes. there is NOTHING geeky about this project. It's stupid. Perhaps if the submitter had actually done some nifty wiring, or taken the time to make a website including pictures, or made it controllable from the internet. I dunno, i'm grasping on how to make this good. This just sucks and dosen't even include any links. I thought that was a rule for posting on the front page. I was hoping they would take his editorial privelages away for the monkey automatons.
It's becoming clear that they keep him around to make the other editors look good.
YUK (mod me however you like I'm not a troll and i don't post often enough to care about my karma)
I believe the point is that these cards using the SiS chipset are already cheap and getting cheaper. These cards (Xabre) will cost you about fifty bucks. I have an SiS AG315 that I paid forty for with 64mg RAM and tv out. Try looking
Perhaps you should be dancing in the streets already.
Unfortunatley most people out there are blinded by advertising and think they need a godawful expensive card to do 300+ fps in games.
1. Go to newegg, get a card for $42 (ECS AG315T) and have fun.
Well a Duron 1Ghz OEM is 39 bucks right now at Newegg
I think you'd be suprised at how much bang for the buck is out there if your'e willing to sacrifice a couple of fps or a fraction in some benchmark. The other side of high performance systems is usually a drop in stability. But then again you already sacrificed quite a bit of performance by getting a P4.
Dude, you're way off on your pricing I bought a 950 duron(socket A) for $42 at newegg.com over a month ago. The top line Athlons cost about $200 a little more for the top one is around $250 I'd say the average processor costs about $150 or less. And for all those whiling about upgradabilty? I bought an ECS motherboard for 50 bucks that takes both SDRAM and DDR and put a forty buck chip in it, picked up a ECS video card for another $50 and I have a screaming workstation for cheap.
Plus when payday comes I can lay out some cash for DDR ram and have a great boost in power, then later I can get a fast athlon for around $100 (currently 1.4ghz) It's all in the planning your upgrade path guys.
Where the hell did you get that! It sounds bitchin! I'm not sure i'd utter you screwed all the way around thing. I might allude to lots of....um... I think her dad reads/. great idea
Dude... THis thign has four channel RAID. I think you're most likely going to be happy with four raided drives, and four other periphials. Hell, you could have six ide components each with it's own channel. So what are you complaining about? Do you REALLY want to buy harddrives that cost three times as much? I wish you luck
www.tirings.com carries some great rings. They seem to be the only ones making highly polished ti rings. I'm hoping my fiancee gices me the go-ahead to get one. She unfortunatley has a hang-up about our rings not matching. I think the blue titanium oxide looks great. I have questions about the oxides durability in the long run. Fortunatley I don't have to think about the rings durability. Does anyone out there have one of these?
With Respect Sir, Why the hell are so many people using DEFAULT installs of Microsoft products? How stupid do you want to be today?
All those checkboxes mean something and if you're gonna dance withthe devil I'd reccomend you look at what he's doing to your machine. So many of the complaints I see about Office, etc, Are related to what Microsoft decided a default should be. Don't be STUPID. The lack of ability of office to open wordperfect and older versions of office files can be fixed at install. You can get more fonts, you can get increased usabilty, you can get more features and not install the ones you don't want! Whoda thunk it? Apparently not the people posting on slashdot these days. For Gods sake Dont' be afraid to click that "custom" or scary "expert" install option! Default is for AOLers or even MSNers.
I just dont't get peoples angst that the default install feeds Midrosofts priorities more than their own. Duh
keep in mind that many members of the EAA are Warbird collectors, Restorers, and pilots. One of the central draws of the major EAA events is their B-17 that flies daily "Aluminum Overcast" you can hitch a ride on it for a nice donation. Or check out the Superfortress, FiFi, owned by the Confederate Air Force.
I had the pleasure to attend Sun N Fun in Lakeland, FL a few years ago. The warbird flightline is impressive and has hundreds of WWII heavy iron including several bombers and many fighters. The antiques are beautiful and lovingly restored. The competiton for awards is on par with Concours De Elegance but you can't trailer in the plane. Very cool.
This information is great for these kinds of enthusiasts. And yes, there are many projects that include jets. I've seen F-104 starfighters, F-86, several different migs, There are projects for F-4s and others.
All it takes is money. This is a great program for all of general aviation.
There is absolutley no evidence that reducing emissions will slow or otherwise harm the economy. This is FUD,FUD,FUD.
I stongly believe that given natural constraints an economy can thrive, the problem we have is an externalization of true costs of some forms of industry.
There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. We keep giving polluters a free lunch on the back of biodiversity, clean water, clean air, and the Health of Human beings living near these industries.
When appropriate regulations are in place to ensure that people and industry pay the true costs for thier impacts there will be a truly working economy . It is very sad that the President of the United States and many other leaders of the world have so little faith in the innovative ability of thier people that they must prop up industry through destruction of the biosphere.
Tell someone in Miami or Bangladesh or the Netherlands that the costs to possibly prevent their innundation are impossible.
Don't make the arrogant mistake to think that Greens haven't put quite a bit of thought into the positions they take. But I guess it's just a symptom of the general arrogance that some people have to damage or destroy the environmental commons in the name of personal profit while shreiking that they;re doing it for the benfefit of "The Economy"
Perhaps the chinese(insert other country) don't get the cultural refrence to Spam? I have seen hundreds of newbie posts questioning internet lingo and definitions, Perhaps they don't get it?
How does the fish translate Spam into chinese? Can a native speaker tell us if it makes any sense?
We need to keep in mind that our grandmothers don't understand the words we use and ESOL classes don't teach much lingo.
Clearly the instruments on the bird are not only optical. Of course if you were getting this kind of data rate on a camera it might be taking high resoloutin images. Let's look at what's flying.
Spectrophotometers. Um, not going to read the paper over your shoulder with one. _Might_ catch the gas flowing out of your bedroom though.
Radars. Could see objects, make accurate maps, but I swear the militaries of the world have better hardware. Plus this thing is orbiting. makes tracking discrete targets a pain.
Remember this is scientific data on a planetary scale. It needs gobs of data to get to truth. It's not some guy looking at a kmart thermometer and deciding that it's a cold winter this year so global warming is false. I takes a lot of data to beat back the money coming at our politicians from oil companies. Even if they weren't bought and paid for before the election.
Other have posted accurately about how much data is required. Hell, if you want to spy on something just call up space imaging. They'll do a better job for ya.
Mod this guy UP!
This is extremely insightful. As soon as I saw the Ice rink comment I thought of "Attractive Nuisance" It's a concept of common law that is supposed to encourage people to think about their actions. Like if a farmer parked his combine next to a McDonalds and a bunch of kids decided to play on it like it was a magic fun house.
Sounds like script kiddies to me. Damn, this could work legally. Thank you Dr. Olexa.
This really makes me wonder
Why is it that click through licenses have not been tested? Does everyone know that they aren't binding? Has nobody done anything high-profile enough to get sued?
What would someone have to do? Any ideas?
I would personally love to see a slashdot sponsored (oops it's corporate now) webcam frenzied lawsuit between joe blow and MICROSOFT in the battle for the century.
Are we still protected by "consumer law"? It seems to me that every company has enough lawyers on staff to put (most) any private individual into bankruptcy long term because we're all entitled to our decade in court.
Slashdot Mirror
mod up please. This pernon is right on.
Paranoia is Patriotic!
Are you sure of that?
Would YOU let a plane be hijacked? Would anyone since the new aircraft as weapons paradigm became aparrent? Keeping guns off planes might be good but the rest of these rules are rediculous!
Just a few years ago I took a knife with me on every flight. Now I'm assumed to be trying to hijack an airplane if I do. WTF?
The test should be weather these rules make us safer. If they don't it's smoke and mirrors.
I think we are all aquainted with Ben Franklins applicable quote.
you bring up an interesting idea for a gargoyle, many of them are designed so water comes out of thier mouth. Well, this one can be made opposite.
It also is one of the most memorable representations of evil I can think of.
yuk
Did you buy simcity 4?
It was a completely derivative work. I was extrememly dissapointed in the lack of innovation and new features. They even reused some of the sound effects from Simcity 3000.
Add to that the HUGE problems with many chipsets at release (that kept me from playing the game at all for several days) adn extreme hardware requirements of the game and many people were very dissapointed in the game.
I have totally sworn off EA games unless I've verified they work on my system through a demo or pirated download.
The "issues" with ATI cards were rediculous! They claimed that the ATI cards weren't powerful enough!
I see EA games as where quality titles go to be squeezed out of every penny and left to die, a shadow of thier former self.
Is there any info on where the debris is landing? It look slike it could be from mid texas to misissippi. Do any of you have knowledge of where this stuff is landing?
May god bless the souls of the brave men and women on board.
But the real problem is distributing these baloons all over the world. The station keeping paper refrenced above cites average windspeed of 30 meters a second.
wouldn't it suck if the jet stream shifted a little and ten baloons would be over San Antonio with none over chicago.
Basically without throwing tens of hundreds of these up on a daily basis. (can you imagine the people running around to launch hteese things in predicted spots when an outage is forecast?)
I'm hot into the idea of looking at the weather to determine my connection speed.
htese might be cheaper than powered solutions, perhaps they could work in concert.
No, the point is that we as people don't fully understand the interactions of our environment and we should be abso-fucking sure that we want a species extinct before we make it extinct.
It's a simple message taht we've heard plenty
"extinction is forever"
That might be seen as some people as green, I just feel it's common sense.
I was wondering what might suck more than the text only post. Behold! Pictures made it suck more.
The guy just taped the load of crap together. There is NOTHING to see here!
Actual quote
"The second version of the traincam is seen here passing Amtrak engine 231, which has the dubious distinction of being the first engine to derail on my carpet."
This person hasn't quite gotten past the infant self-absorbed state. And here we are encouraging it.
Bah
It would be better if he was replaced beacuse over half of the frontpage is his stuff right now.
Twelve posts yesterday!
I would have to give up so much of the content that slashdot would be pointless to me.
I get the feeling that the paid editors have all gone and it's only the ones that do it for free left.
Excellent point on the dupes though.
I'm really tired of timothy's posts. It's clear he's not a geek, nerd, or interestd in news. He just posts things he likes.
there is NOTHING geeky about this project. It's stupid. Perhaps if the submitter had actually done some nifty wiring, or taken the time to make a website including pictures, or made it controllable from the internet. I dunno, i'm grasping on how to make this good.
This just sucks and dosen't even include any links. I thought that was a rule for posting on the front page.
I was hoping they would take his editorial privelages away for the monkey automatons.
It's becoming clear that they keep him around to make the other editors look good.
YUK
(mod me however you like I'm not a troll and i don't post often enough to care about my karma)
I believe the point is that these cards using the SiS chipset are already cheap and getting cheaper.
These cards (Xabre) will cost you about fifty bucks. I have an SiS AG315 that I paid forty for with 64mg RAM and tv out. Try looking
Perhaps you should be dancing in the streets already.
Unfortunatley most people out there are blinded by advertising and think they need a godawful expensive card to do 300+ fps in games.
1. Go to newegg, get a card for $42 (ECS AG315T) and have fun.
2.??????
3. Dance in the streets
Well a Duron 1Ghz OEM is 39 bucks right now at Newegg
I think you'd be suprised at how much bang for the buck is out there if your'e willing to sacrifice a couple of fps or a fraction in some benchmark. The other side of high performance systems is usually a drop in stability. But then again you already sacrificed quite a bit of performance by getting a P4.
It's really the case that matters... admit it
But it seems the lame duron jokes made up a couple of years ago always have a little durability left in them.
Dude, you're way off on your pricing
I bought a 950 duron(socket A) for $42 at newegg.com over a month ago.
The top line Athlons cost about $200 a little more for the top one is around $250
I'd say the average processor costs about $150 or less.
And for all those whiling about upgradabilty?
I bought an ECS motherboard for 50 bucks that takes both SDRAM and DDR and put a forty buck chip in it, picked up a ECS video card for another $50 and I have a screaming workstation for cheap.
Plus when payday comes I can lay out some cash for DDR ram and have a great boost in power, then later I can get a fast athlon for around $100 (currently 1.4ghz) It's all in the planning your upgrade path guys.
Where the hell did you get that! /.
It sounds bitchin!
I'm not sure i'd utter you screwed all the way around thing. I might allude to lots of....um... I think her dad reads
great idea
Dude...
THis thign has four channel RAID. I think you're most likely going to be happy with four raided drives, and four other periphials. Hell, you could have six ide components each with it's own channel. So what are you complaining about?
Do you REALLY want to buy harddrives that cost three times as much?
I wish you luck
www.tirings.com carries some great rings. They seem to be the only ones making highly polished ti rings. I'm hoping my fiancee gices me the go-ahead to get one. She unfortunatley has a hang-up about our rings not matching.
I think the blue titanium oxide looks great. I have questions about the oxides durability in the long run. Fortunatley I don't have to think about the rings durability.
Does anyone out there have one of these?
The problem with oil is it's higher viscosity (requiring better pumps) and it's harder to get the waste heat out of it.
You need some kind of closed loop and a radiator with active cooling for oil to work.
With Respect Sir,
Why the hell are so many people using DEFAULT installs of Microsoft products?
How stupid do you want to be today?
All those checkboxes mean something and if you're gonna dance withthe devil I'd reccomend you look at what he's doing to your machine. So many of the complaints I see about Office, etc, Are related to what Microsoft decided a default should be. Don't be STUPID. The lack of ability of office to open wordperfect and older versions of office files can be fixed at install. You can get more fonts, you can get increased usabilty, you can get more features and not install the ones you don't want!
Whoda thunk it?
Apparently not the people posting on slashdot these days.
For Gods sake Dont' be afraid to click that "custom" or scary "expert" install option! Default is for AOLers or even MSNers.
I just dont't get peoples angst that the default install feeds Midrosofts priorities more than their own.
Duh
keep in mind that many members of the EAA are Warbird collectors, Restorers, and pilots. One of the central draws of the major EAA events is their B-17 that flies daily "Aluminum Overcast" you can hitch a ride on it for a nice donation.
Or check out the Superfortress, FiFi, owned by the Confederate Air Force.
I had the pleasure to attend Sun N Fun in Lakeland, FL a few years ago. The warbird flightline is impressive and has hundreds of WWII heavy iron including several bombers and many fighters.
The antiques are beautiful and lovingly restored. The competiton for awards is on par with Concours De Elegance but you can't trailer in the plane. Very cool.
This information is great for these kinds of enthusiasts. And yes, there are many projects that include jets. I've seen F-104 starfighters, F-86, several different migs, There are projects for F-4s and others.
All it takes is money. This is a great program for all of general aviation.
There is absolutley no evidence that reducing emissions will slow or otherwise harm the economy. This is FUD,FUD,FUD.
I stongly believe that given natural constraints an economy can thrive, the problem we have is an externalization of true costs of some forms of industry.
There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. We keep giving polluters a free lunch on the back of biodiversity, clean water, clean air, and the Health of Human beings living near these industries.
When appropriate regulations are in place to ensure that people and industry pay the true costs for thier impacts there will be a truly working economy .
It is very sad that the President of the United States and many other leaders of the world have so little faith in the innovative ability of thier people that they must prop up industry through destruction of the biosphere.
Tell someone in Miami or Bangladesh or the Netherlands that the costs to possibly prevent their innundation are impossible.
Don't make the arrogant mistake to think that Greens haven't put quite a bit of thought into the positions they take. But I guess it's just a symptom of the general arrogance that some people have to damage or destroy the environmental commons in the name of personal profit while shreiking that they;re doing it for the benfefit of "The Economy"
Perhaps the chinese(insert other country) don't get the cultural refrence to Spam?
I have seen hundreds of newbie posts questioning internet lingo and definitions, Perhaps they don't get it?
How does the fish translate Spam into chinese? Can a native speaker tell us if it makes any sense?
We need to keep in mind that our grandmothers don't understand the words we use and ESOL classes don't teach much lingo.
Clearly the instruments on the bird are not only optical. Of course if you were getting this kind of data rate on a camera it might be taking high resoloutin images. Let's look at what's flying.
Spectrophotometers. Um, not going to read the paper over your shoulder with one. _Might_ catch the gas flowing out of your bedroom though.
Radars. Could see objects, make accurate maps, but I swear the militaries of the world have better hardware. Plus this thing is orbiting. makes tracking discrete targets a pain.
Remember this is scientific data on a planetary scale. It needs gobs of data to get to truth. It's not some guy looking at a kmart thermometer and deciding that it's a cold winter this year so global warming is false. I takes a lot of data to beat back the money coming at our politicians from oil companies. Even if they weren't bought and paid for before the election.
Other have posted accurately about how much data is required. Hell, if you want to spy on something just call up space imaging. They'll do a better job for ya.
Mod this guy UP!
This is extremely insightful. As soon as I saw the Ice rink comment I thought of "Attractive Nuisance" It's a concept of common law that is supposed to encourage people to think about their actions. Like if a farmer parked his combine next to a McDonalds and a bunch of kids decided to play on it like it was a magic fun house.
Sounds like script kiddies to me. Damn, this could work legally. Thank you Dr. Olexa.
This really makes me wonder
Why is it that click through licenses have not been tested? Does everyone know that they aren't binding? Has nobody done anything high-profile enough to get sued?
What would someone have to do? Any ideas?
I would personally love to see a slashdot sponsored (oops it's corporate now) webcam frenzied lawsuit between joe blow and MICROSOFT in the battle for the century.
Are we still protected by "consumer law"? It seems to me that every company has enough lawyers on staff to put (most) any private individual into bankruptcy long term because we're all entitled to our decade in court.