Definitely. One of the best articles I've ever read. Still have the magazine.
On topic, I recommend Hoover Dam. Take the tour and see the big-ass turbines in action. Unfortunately the hard hat tour isn't available now (security concerns). Only an hour from Las Vegas!
No, that would be probably $1B since it's on VCD for very cheap (illegal of course). Another way to think of it: $40B is an iPod for each US household.
Yes. Model trains are certainly a nerdy pursuit, and (having raced my own as a kid) I can certify that they can be much fun.
What we need, though, is wrecks. Trains going around in circles are boring. However, trains crashing into each other at 79mph (scale) are not. Particularly if cars, pedestrians, houses, etc. can also be made to fly around the room with vigor.
My browser (Mozilla) stores my passwords. Don't see why I need a network-based service, controlled by someone else, subject to snooping, stealing, or worse, when the browser on a PC I control will do the trick.
Well didn't you get up on the wrong side of the bed today. No, I didn't read the article. Yet my point stands - though you're correct, the current plan is to offer magazine content (woohoo! teen people!) to AOL users, the next logical step is to do the same with CNN.com. Which would be stupid.
Maybe the fucking DRM developer should think about managing the digital rights that he has paid for - or not, as the case may be. I say serves his ass right.
In fact, you can make a pretty strong argument that it should not make money. Instead, it should at most break even, and if possible be subsidized, to reduce the cost of commuting by means other than cars and therefore provide an incentive to reduce traffic. Reduced traffic via public transit is much less expensive, and more environmentally friendly, than new roads.
The great thing about the monorail is that it's elevated and so completely out of traffic - something that makes a huge difference for both speed and reliability. Elevated services are usually opposed by NIMBYs who want to keep their views - since Seattle seems not to have that problem, this has a much greater chance of success.
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Or you could just buy a Mac.
On topic, I recommend Hoover Dam. Take the tour and see the big-ass turbines in action. Unfortunately the hard hat tour isn't available now (security concerns). Only an hour from Las Vegas!
No, that would be probably $1B since it's on VCD for very cheap (illegal of course). Another way to think of it: $40B is an iPod for each US household.
The ISS crowds out other, much better science, both in space and on the ground. That was my point.
I mean, HOLY LIVING MOTHER OF GOD'S FIRST CHERRY-POPPING FUCK that's a lot of money.
And all that so Dennis Tito could listen to tunes and look at the pretty view?
Yeah, because so few people use Windows and Mac. The idiots! Surely they should have released first for OpenBSD!
What we need, though, is wrecks. Trains going around in circles are boring. However, trains crashing into each other at 79mph (scale) are not. Particularly if cars, pedestrians, houses, etc. can also be made to fly around the room with vigor.
No. I'd much prefer to keep the info in the browser, or in my head. I don't trust the central server as much as I trust my own PC.
My browser (Mozilla) stores my passwords. Don't see why I need a network-based service, controlled by someone else, subject to snooping, stealing, or worse, when the browser on a PC I control will do the trick.
(Or passport? Talk about a solution-in-search-of-a-problem.)
the line of cocaine the admins of this web site do before posting articles (and modding, let me add).
Commercialization of the Net is a Bad Thing? STOP THE PRESSES! Next thing you'll tell me is that Linux is still hard to install, and *BSD is dying!
Well didn't you get up on the wrong side of the bed today. No, I didn't read the article. Yet my point stands - though you're correct, the current plan is to offer magazine content (woohoo! teen people!) to AOL users, the next logical step is to do the same with CNN.com. Which would be stupid.
If they pull CNN.com they'll just hasten the death of CNN at the hand of Fox.
I never get any "you might like" stuff on my tivo, probably because it's always full of season-pass requests. So I haven't had this "problem."
Sounds like a big pain in the ass to me. I'll stick with buying and ripping CDs, or buying MP3s from artists who actually sell the real thing, thanks.
and have for years. Works great. Also carry around and use my iPod all the time. Looking forward to the two being combined in the next several years.
The male pill would be enormously useful. Still it will be important to use condoms if not with a trusted partner, though, to prevent disease.
Yes, except that they are mind-numbingly annoying. "TV Turn-Off Day" and "Buy Nothing Day"? Puh-leeze.
Maybe the fucking DRM developer should think about managing the digital rights that he has paid for - or not, as the case may be. I say serves his ass right.
Go Stanford! Beat Cal!
Federal funding is a deal with the devil. "Buy American" requirements often raise the cost of the project more than the amount you get from the Feds.
The great thing about the monorail is that it's elevated and so completely out of traffic - something that makes a huge difference for both speed and reliability. Elevated services are usually opposed by NIMBYs who want to keep their views - since Seattle seems not to have that problem, this has a much greater chance of success.
No, the spies have won. The terrorists just unwittingly helped.