You should attempt to move the computer as far away from your recording area as possible to reduce noise. My room in South Carolina would serve nicely.
Oh for crap's sake. Can't they just get the Mozilla people to rattle off a few dozen name candidates? Their projects change names with every CVS commit.
We could build a telescope that could kick Hubble's ass on the lunar farside. Plus, with permanent human presence, someone could walk over with a wrench to fix it, as opposed to difficult and expensive on-orbit repair.
And this is exactly why I am so opposed to using Java as a first programming language. There's too many things you have to tell a newcomer to ignore when they're first starting out. Whatever happened to INPUT A$ ?????
I adore Java and develop in it daily, but it's absolutely the wrong thing to start a first-year on.
Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time.
Like those godawful, browser-filling Flash interstitials they already use? Those do a perfect job of grinding my poor little laptop (600mhz, but only 300 or so on batteries) to a halt as they load up. Not to mention, the volume levels are usually jacked up so if I'm using headphones, I'll get my eardrums popped.
Dear web advertisers - I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
Not really. A plane will get you, oh, 40,000 feet (7.57 miles) of altitude at the most, and maybe 700 MPH worth of speed. For a basic low earth orbit, you need 100-150 miles of "up" and more than 17000 MPH of "sideways". So that airplane boost, optimistically, got you 6 percent of the required altitude and 4 percent of required speed. That's not really "most of the way", and isn't that much of a benefit.
Magazines like RCM that offer printed blueprints for radio controlled airplanes and such could just as easily include drawings suitable for feeding a Versalaser....keep plunking in sheets of balsa, and in a few hours you've got all the parts to build your new plane, all laser-cut to tolerance.
Because, you know, people getting along, treating each other with respect, and not spending the whole day being whiny, obnoxious bitches is such a bad thing.
I've got it, here's how we'll build a safer SUV. Go get a pencil, I'll wait.
We start with a ordinary huge ass gas guzzling urban assault vehicle. Lower it way down to the ground, put smaller tires on it, cut off the huge cow-catcher bumpers so it won't mangle the Pinto you just ran over, shrink the frame so it'll fit in a parking spot and save weight, and put in a smaller engine. Perfect!
The AP article mentions that ice impacted Atlantis' *right* wing. This motivated ground teams to perform the cold soaking procedure. But the actual damage was on the *left* wing, and was caused by improper installation of some sort of seal thingy. So Atlantis may have been saved by the cold soak, but the truly dangerous condition that could have cost them the orbiter and crew wasn't the one they prescribed the cold soak for!
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You should attempt to move the computer as far away from your recording area as possible to reduce noise. My room in South Carolina would serve nicely.
--riney
*beep* BRAIIIIIIINS *beep*
--riney
Oh joy. Now the twelve year old Ritalin-addled snotnosed asshats that run rampant through every online game can now leave me little voice messages.
>YOU HAVE 1 NEW X-MAIL
*click*
From: L33TK1LL3RD00D!!1!!1
To: jwriney
>VOICE MESSAGE FOLLOWS
Eat a dick.
>END OF MESSAGE
--riney
(in Bender voice) Shut up baby, I know it!
--riney
Oh for crap's sake. Can't they just get the Mozilla people to rattle off a few dozen name candidates? Their projects change names with every CVS commit.
--riney
Dear moderators - Interesting, but wrong.
We could build a telescope that could kick Hubble's ass on the lunar farside. Plus, with permanent human presence, someone could walk over with a wrench to fix it, as opposed to difficult and expensive on-orbit repair.
--riney
And this is exactly why I am so opposed to using Java as a first programming language. There's too many things you have to tell a newcomer to ignore when they're first starting out. Whatever happened to INPUT A$ ?????
I adore Java and develop in it daily, but it's absolutely the wrong thing to start a first-year on.
--riney
Two screens, huh? Cool!
Two screens, huh? Cool!
--riney
Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time.
Like those godawful, browser-filling Flash interstitials they already use? Those do a perfect job of grinding my poor little laptop (600mhz, but only 300 or so on batteries) to a halt as they load up. Not to mention, the volume levels are usually jacked up so if I'm using headphones, I'll get my eardrums popped.
Dear web advertisers - I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
--riney
p.s. I hate you.
Not really. A plane will get you, oh, 40,000 feet (7.57 miles) of altitude at the most, and maybe 700 MPH worth of speed. For a basic low earth orbit, you need 100-150 miles of "up" and more than 17000 MPH of "sideways". So that airplane boost, optimistically, got you 6 percent of the required altitude and 4 percent of required speed. That's not really "most of the way", and isn't that much of a benefit.
--riney
To build Virtual Skeeball. Or Virtual Virtual Skeeball.
"Wow, I could swear I was really playing Virtual Skeeball."
--riney
I, for one, welcome our new genetically superior, all-male fishy masters.
--riney
Magazines like RCM that offer printed blueprints for radio controlled airplanes and such could just as easily include drawings suitable for feeding a Versalaser....keep plunking in sheets of balsa, and in a few hours you've got all the parts to build your new plane, all laser-cut to tolerance.
Nice.
--riney
Because, you know, people getting along, treating each other with respect, and not spending the whole day being whiny, obnoxious bitches is such a bad thing.
--riney
Drive VERY quietly.
--riney
Wow, they're actually making a Teen Girl Squad game? I'm totally crushing.
--riney
Then you have the ear of a turnip.
--riney
...it would certainly be a lot of fun to see stuff like the Camelot scene performed live.
It's only a model.
--riney
I've got it, here's how we'll build a safer SUV. Go get a pencil, I'll wait.
We start with a ordinary huge ass gas guzzling urban assault vehicle. Lower it way down to the ground, put smaller tires on it, cut off the huge cow-catcher bumpers so it won't mangle the Pinto you just ran over, shrink the frame so it'll fit in a parking spot and save weight, and put in a smaller engine. Perfect!
I call it a "car".
--riney
NOAA-N Prime is under guard, all records have been impounded,
...and the workers responsible will be ass-pounded.
--riney
Word, dog. Kaylee was off of any chain you care to attach her to.
--riney
"Robo-Grandma Vs. Godzilla", coming to theatres near you...
--riney
It's all fun and games until Pauly Shore hacks the guidance system and writes "Crawl" in 50 foot cursive letters across the back 40...
--riney
The most exciting thing in the article to me was the fact that there are "over a dozen spaceports now under development". Rock!
I know about OSIDA, the one in Oklahoma that Armadillo is planning on using. Anybody know where the others are?
--riney
The AP article mentions that ice impacted Atlantis' *right* wing. This motivated ground teams to perform the cold soaking procedure. But the actual damage was on the *left* wing, and was caused by improper installation of some sort of seal thingy. So Atlantis may have been saved by the cold soak, but the truly dangerous condition that could have cost them the orbiter and crew wasn't the one they prescribed the cold soak for!
Disturbing.
--riney