I can't understand how anyone at the time could look at all six landing on the moon as anything short of amazing as opposed to mundane.
I wonder if they would have felt the same if they had known there would only be six and then at LEAST another 40 years before the next one. I suspect it became "routine" because everyone just assumed we'd have vast moon bases by now.
When you are happy, the Computer is happy! When the Computer is happy, you are happy! You are hereby promoted to Blue security clearance. Remain vigilant against the works of muties and communists... and above all, Be A Happy Citizen! Trust the Computer! The Computer is your friend!
Can we please just have something that doesn't give up our privacy every three seconds? If you like having a browser history or enjoy the benefits of javascript, you're screwed. The only answer is to disable one or both of those.
I believe the $38,000 cost was for the entire conversion. I doubt replacement panels would cost that much. I think you're right that it would significantly extend the ROI, though. I think 12 years is optimistic.
I really like the idea of setting up a VM or alternate guest account, but I would install a bandwidth and CPU throttler and something to make it randomly buggy. If the thing is horrendously slow and randomly "crashes", they'll soon stop asking to borrow it, but you still get points for letting them use it.
No one mentions spam? I know that most servers are running 94-95% spam and the vast majority of that is in the 200kb range these days. AOL has reported billions of spams per year. I don't have any metrics, but with the increasing spam rates across the board, I would think that dwarfs all other online traffic combined.
For you, maybe. Not for your readers. If you truly wanted your readers to support your site, you could either find alternative ways to advertise that didn't suck, or you could perhaps write a blurb that says "I only have two banner ads, I promise they won't flash or blink. Here's an entry for your Ad-Block that will allow you to see my ads and help support my site."
If you respect your readers, they'll support you. If you bitch about how they're taking food out of your mouth, then they won't support you. It's as simple as that.
I read the article associated and all I heard from the content owners' side was "If you block our ads, we lose revenue!" It seems to me that if websites stopped using more and more intrusive ad techniques that people would be less likely to want to use ad-blockers. You already know your customers hate pop-ups, so the ads get blocked. Your answer is to use pop-unders instead, trying to circumvent the wishes of your target customer. You know they block half the ads on your site, so you double the ads and spread the content out over twice as many pages. Again, your customer has already told you what they want, but you insist that you know better.
Seriously, I'm getting tired of website owners and advertisers continuing to whine about how we won't let them bug us. If you want me to look at your ads, stop making them annoy me so much! Stop using blinking, flashing banners (too bad the BLINK tag didn't take you with it when that died), stop using javascript banners that are as likely to infect my computer as not. Stop trying to "bundle" your adware with anything I want to install.
If you make your ads play nice with me, I'll stop using ad-blocker software. I'll look at your ads and I might even buy something from them.
What happens when those 6-10 netbooks get sold? What about the rest of us? Seems like it's hardly worth it to build so few. They should be building them by the thousands!
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They're missing around 29% of the IPv6 internet and refuse to carry it.
That's because 28% of it is 4chan and the other 1% is unaccounted-for dark matter.
Oh, and while you're looking for ways to prevent such a 'catastrophe' from ever happening again, consider boosting the IT budget, will ya?"
[BigBoss] It only affected students and not my e-mail so it's not a problem. No budget increase for you. NOT YOURS.[/BigBoss]
1962 Called. They want their technology back.
1998 called. They want their annoying memes back.
Don't robotic submersibles usually have tethers of some sort for power and communications?
I can't understand how anyone at the time could look at all six landing on the moon as anything short of amazing as opposed to mundane.
I wonder if they would have felt the same if they had known there would only be six and then at LEAST another 40 years before the next one. I suspect it became "routine" because everyone just assumed we'd have vast moon bases by now.
When you are happy, the Computer is happy! When the Computer is happy, you are happy! You are hereby promoted to Blue security clearance. Remain vigilant against the works of muties and communists... and above all, Be A Happy Citizen! Trust the Computer! The Computer is your friend!
Can we please just have something that doesn't give up our privacy every three seconds? If you like having a browser history or enjoy the benefits of javascript, you're screwed. The only answer is to disable one or both of those.
It's the hole at the North Pole that leads to the center of the Earth.
Republic of China is Taiwan, not mainland China.
Good one. You sure showed him how smart you are.
Maybe now he'll understand why it's so important to be able to install third-party parts and he'll decide to loosen-up the licensing a little bit.
I believe the $38,000 cost was for the entire conversion. I doubt replacement panels would cost that much. I think you're right that it would significantly extend the ROI, though. I think 12 years is optimistic.
If you can make a thin laptop, just add on a massive battery and make it as thick as a regular one.
I'm with you in spirit but the giant battery would tack 10 pounds onto the weight. We need micro fusion generators that weigh just a few ounces.
How much does God hate you to put you in a meteor strike, a plane crash, and a lost-at-sea drowning all in the same day?
Do they have a good pizza/wing place down there?
No, but there's a Starbuck's.
I really like the idea of setting up a VM or alternate guest account, but I would install a bandwidth and CPU throttler and something to make it randomly buggy. If the thing is horrendously slow and randomly "crashes", they'll soon stop asking to borrow it, but you still get points for letting them use it.
No one mentions spam? I know that most servers are running 94-95% spam and the vast majority of that is in the 200kb range these days. AOL has reported billions of spams per year. I don't have any metrics, but with the increasing spam rates across the board, I would think that dwarfs all other online traffic combined.
According to this thread, the ball's in Netflix's court to get their streaming service running on Linux:
I'd be happy if they got their streaming service working on Windows.
Can it give me super powers if it accidentally hits me?!
It can give you the power to roll around on the ground and crap yourself. Does that count?
Kinda sucks, doesnt it?
For you, maybe. Not for your readers. If you truly wanted your readers to support your site, you could either find alternative ways to advertise that didn't suck, or you could perhaps write a blurb that says "I only have two banner ads, I promise they won't flash or blink. Here's an entry for your Ad-Block that will allow you to see my ads and help support my site."
If you respect your readers, they'll support you. If you bitch about how they're taking food out of your mouth, then they won't support you. It's as simple as that.
I read the article associated and all I heard from the content owners' side was "If you block our ads, we lose revenue!" It seems to me that if websites stopped using more and more intrusive ad techniques that people would be less likely to want to use ad-blockers. You already know your customers hate pop-ups, so the ads get blocked. Your answer is to use pop-unders instead, trying to circumvent the wishes of your target customer. You know they block half the ads on your site, so you double the ads and spread the content out over twice as many pages. Again, your customer has already told you what they want, but you insist that you know better.
Seriously, I'm getting tired of website owners and advertisers continuing to whine about how we won't let them bug us. If you want me to look at your ads, stop making them annoy me so much! Stop using blinking, flashing banners (too bad the BLINK tag didn't take you with it when that died), stop using javascript banners that are as likely to infect my computer as not. Stop trying to "bundle" your adware with anything I want to install.
If you make your ads play nice with me, I'll stop using ad-blocker software. I'll look at your ads and I might even buy something from them.
What happens when those 6-10 netbooks get sold? What about the rest of us? Seems like it's hardly worth it to build so few. They should be building them by the thousands!
5-digit UID FTW! Screw those 4-digit losers! There are TEN TIMES as many of us as there are of them!
I spent all that time patching systems for nothing?!
Most of the time, I can't even get mouse gestures to work reliably. Can't even imagine trying to get this to work.
Me too!!!!1one