These rover updates are BY FAR more newsworthy than the latest Scott Peterson updates
You forgot anything having to do with Michael Jackson.
If I need to know anything about Jackson, Jay Leno can tell me about it (and Scott Peterson for that matter).
I just do not consider the rover moving 10"/45 deg news. Just like I do not consider "course corrections" by the cassini probe news, or when the Hubble flips open/closes its door news. Or anything having to do with the International Space Station (as much as NASA tries).
When the probe starts meaningful sampling to find traces of water, that would be news.
Some platicss are completely ungluable, or if they do glue they crumble at the first opportunity.
Another route might be the plastic that you bake in your oven and hardens, they go by the name of Fimo and Sculpey. You can find them in alot of art stores.
But I think I would go the metal route myself. Maybe find a professional to do a nice job.
Noise Emitting Diode (NED)
When connected across a 1000 volt supply it makes a loud noise (once). The NED was discovered by Igor Pravaganda whom you'll recall worked many years trying to filter AC with electrolytics. He'll always be remembered as the father of the confetti generator.
I just pulled -150F out of the air. I figure that at that point it really doesn't matter (not that -150 is warm).
Even though there is no sun, the earth is still warmed internally and that may be enough to have an atmosphere (albeit a cold one) in certain areas. Plate tectonics would still be active and there would still be volcanic regions. Life still might take place at the bottom of the oceans where organisms feed off the chemicals rather than have to rely on photsynthesis.
Humans would have to move underground. The limiting factor probably being a reliable food source (the only thing that brings our nuclear subs to the surface).
There are small self-contained nuclear reactors that could operate underground.
Obviously, not everyone would be able to go. Only those who had prepared in advance.
That is probably be the single greatest limiting factor of all - time - it would be a race against time to find a place to live and a consistent food/water source, before things froze over too much.
It would be difficult to be optimistic in this situation.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If you lived next to a nuclear plant and had a sufficient number of cooperating humans, then you might make a stab at it.
Or maybe if you lived near an area that had a lot of geothermal energy available -- yellowstone and iceland come to mind.
The problem as I see it is the oceans would freeze over and there would be nothing but ice.
So you would need the nuclear energy to produce water.
All the animals would die off rather quickly I surmise - from no food, no warmth, no water, not necessarily in that order.
The earth would radiate the warmth it has to outer space rather quickly - so it would get down to -150F quickly.
Machinery as we know it would cease to operate, you would need a space suit just to wander around and keep you warm.
What next, are they going to form their own army and invade Thailand on some WMD (weapons of music duplication) witch hunt??
Actually, they should probably do that, and leave the street vendors alone. That way the street vendors supply would dry up and the RIAA could save the gestapo outfits for halloween.
The street vendor has to get their supply from somewhere, and it's often from an overseas company that produces legal CDs by day and stamps out fakes at night and shoves them out the back door. Where does China get their supply of bootlegs that the billions of people buy?
While on the surface this may seem like a good idea, the sinister truth of the matter is that it would be better if the street vendors played along.
If the RIAA can haul a twelve year old girl to court, sue a grandmother, and take away a college student's life savings, they could do the same to a street vendor.
I imagine the first street vendor that doesn't play along, the RIAA will sue the pants off and haul into court merely to make an example of them. If enough street vendors resist, the RIAA will simply use their bottomless money supply and haul more street vendors into court until the vast majority of street vendors "gets it." This is the RIAA's modus operandi.
You hear about street vendors who occasionally get in trouble for selling fake Rolex watches, fake Gucci handbags, and other fake designer goods. Why should music/dvd's be exempt?
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA's practice here is not only misleading, but it's abhorrable. What is so distasteful is the fact that the RIAA is pretending to be a police force, when they have been granted no such powers, and are using these tactics to intimidate street vendors. Intimidation - more modus operandi.
All I am saying, that for the sake of expediency, it's better to hand over the handful of bootleg CDs/DVDs the street vendor has.
A street vendor eeks out a living as it is, without having to worry about a lawyer bill.
If geeks really wanted to takedown the RIAA for pulling this stunt, there are ways. But I'm not going to post here where they are going to read it.
As long as there is a demand for illegal goods (whether they are handbags or music) they will continue to be produced. I doubt that these RIAA tactics will change that. The street vendors will just move on and sell somewhere else. The number of fake Rolex watches available on many a street corner attests to that.
Good question. It got to the point that I felt like they were purposely "breaking" earlier versions of their RealPlayer so they could force you to "upgrade" and get another chance to spam you (to get you to buy their player) and take over as player for other formats (hence more opportunities to spam you when you start up their player).
Also, they really try hard to "hide" the link to their "free" player on their site to try and get you to buy it.
The fact is, if nobody upgrades, their revenue stream withers to nothing.
I really hope the ogg guys get their video codec going so there can be on viable open alternative.
Washington Mutual is a whore too. I overdrafted my checking account by a nickel and got charged $20 for it. When they wouldn't budge on a refund for the fee, I closed my account.
I moved to a credit union that will move money from my savings to my checking to cover my draft automatically at no cost to me.
Banks like Washington Mutual _could_ do this, but they want to squeeze you for every damm fee they can.
Banks hate credit unions BTW, and are trying everything in their power to get laws passed to restrict them.
Most of the people on the planes were American citizens who had American families that could vouch for their character.
That leaves stewardesses, pilots, and a small group of noncitizens with expired visas and box cutters.
Top that with the captured video of Osama remarking how fortunate they were with the results of the plane hijackings/WTC destruction/loss of life with "praise Allah!! praise Allah!! praise Allah!!" you pretty much know their identities _and_ their religion.
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couldn't get the papers to their legal dep't before they went away for, what, a month???
Yeah, makes you wish that you had their vacation plan.
I bet you they get groundhog day off too.
While not much, it might be enough for some graphic artist somewhere to take on so they could put this in their "portfolio".
It would be a nice feather in their cap.
At least you didn't find a gaping red hole.
I would call it a good day.
Anyway you look at it, it's still a glorified RC car.
These rover updates are BY FAR more newsworthy than the latest Scott Peterson updates
You forgot anything having to do with Michael Jackson.
If I need to know anything about Jackson, Jay Leno can tell me about it (and Scott Peterson for that matter).
I just do not consider the rover moving 10"/45 deg news. Just like I do not consider "course corrections" by the cassini probe news, or when the Hubble flips open/closes its door news. Or anything having to do with the International Space Station (as much as NASA tries).
When the probe starts meaningful sampling to find traces of water, that would be news.
Seriously, call me when the rover is "on the ground" , trying to find signs of water.
Nothing that they are doing now, i.e. preparation for egress, really isn't news.
I'm tired of hearing that the rover has "moved 10 inches" on its pad or "turned" on its pad. What makes that "special".
"From" address from what your SMTP server is, in which case I don't see how it could work for you.
This may put a lot of travellers out in the cold.
A solution is badly needed, but it has to work for everybody.
First the moon landing, now this. When is NASA going to come clean?
Some platicss are completely ungluable, or if they do glue they crumble at the first opportunity.
Another route might be the plastic that you bake in your oven and hardens, they go by the name of Fimo and Sculpey. You can find them in alot of art stores.
But I think I would go the metal route myself. Maybe find a professional to do a nice job.
help pay for the litigation costs of corporate users of the popular GNU/Linux operating system if they are sued.
That leaves grandmas, 12 year old girls, and nerds in parent's basements out in the cold.
I guess we now know who SCO is going to target next.
Yes there is the Noise Emitting Diode (NED) too;
Noise Emitting Diode (NED)
When connected across a 1000 volt supply it makes a loud noise (once). The NED was discovered by Igor Pravaganda whom you'll recall worked many years trying to filter AC with electrolytics. He'll always be remembered as the father of the confetti generator.
I just pulled -150F out of the air. I figure that at that point it really doesn't matter (not that -150 is warm).
Even though there is no sun, the earth is still warmed internally and that may be enough to have an atmosphere (albeit a cold one) in certain areas. Plate tectonics would still be active and there would still be volcanic regions. Life still might take place at the bottom of the oceans where organisms feed off the chemicals rather than have to rely on photsynthesis.
Humans would have to move underground. The limiting factor probably being a reliable food source (the only thing that brings our nuclear subs to the surface).
There are small self-contained nuclear reactors that could operate underground.
Obviously, not everyone would be able to go. Only those who had prepared in advance.
That is probably be the single greatest limiting factor of all - time - it would be a race against time to find a place to live and a consistent food/water source, before things froze over too much.
It would be difficult to be optimistic in this situation.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If you lived next to a nuclear plant and had a sufficient number of cooperating humans, then you might make a stab at it.
Or maybe if you lived near an area that had a lot of geothermal energy available -- yellowstone and iceland come to mind.
The problem as I see it is the oceans would freeze over and there would be nothing but ice.
So you would need the nuclear energy to produce water.
All the animals would die off rather quickly I surmise - from no food, no warmth, no water, not necessarily in that order.
The earth would radiate the warmth it has to outer space rather quickly - so it would get down to -150F quickly.
Machinery as we know it would cease to operate, you would need a space suit just to wander around and keep you warm.
Finally, if you absolutely must not get caught (like you've got an outstanding warrant or are on probation or whatever) claim to be armed.
Gee, it sounds like you're a real "pro".
What next, are they going to form their own army and invade Thailand on some WMD (weapons of music duplication) witch hunt??
Actually, they should probably do that, and leave the street vendors alone. That way the street vendors supply would dry up and the RIAA could save the gestapo outfits for halloween.
The street vendor has to get their supply from somewhere, and it's often from an overseas company that produces legal CDs by day and stamps out fakes at night and shoves them out the back door. Where does China get their supply of bootlegs that the billions of people buy?
While on the surface this may seem like a good idea, the sinister truth of the matter is that it would be better if the street vendors played along.
If the RIAA can haul a twelve year old girl to court, sue a grandmother, and take away a college student's life savings, they could do the same to a street vendor.
I imagine the first street vendor that doesn't play along, the RIAA will sue the pants off and haul into court merely to make an example of them. If enough street vendors resist, the RIAA will simply use their bottomless money supply and haul more street vendors into court until the vast majority of street vendors "gets it." This is the RIAA's modus operandi.
You hear about street vendors who occasionally get in trouble for selling fake Rolex watches, fake Gucci handbags, and other fake designer goods. Why should music/dvd's be exempt?
Don't get me wrong, the RIAA's practice here is not only misleading, but it's abhorrable. What is so distasteful is the fact that the RIAA is pretending to be a police force, when they have been granted no such powers, and are using these tactics to intimidate street vendors. Intimidation - more modus operandi.
All I am saying, that for the sake of expediency, it's better to hand over the handful of bootleg CDs/DVDs the street vendor has.
A street vendor eeks out a living as it is, without having to worry about a lawyer bill.
If geeks really wanted to takedown the RIAA for pulling this stunt, there are ways. But I'm not going to post here where they are going to read it.
As long as there is a demand for illegal goods (whether they are handbags or music) they will continue to be produced. I doubt that these RIAA tactics will change that. The street vendors will just move on and sell somewhere else. The number of fake Rolex watches available on many a street corner attests to that.
Without viable plant activity, provided by the sun, what would humans do for food?
Is this a survivable situation by even a small group of humans?
I've wondered about it a couple of times.
Good question. It got to the point that I felt like they were purposely "breaking" earlier versions of their RealPlayer so they could force you to "upgrade" and get another chance to spam you (to get you to buy their player) and take over as player for other formats (hence more opportunities to spam you when you start up their player).
Also, they really try hard to "hide" the link to their "free" player on their site to try and get you to buy it.
The fact is, if nobody upgrades, their revenue stream withers to nothing.
I really hope the ogg guys get their video codec going so there can be on viable open alternative.
...give us the RealPorn!
Maybe they could use the RealDoll.
The victim of lame slashdot humor. It never had a chance.
Use a credit union instead of a bank if you go to a financial institution. They are much better torward the customers.
I would imagine that your ISP could be considered a "financial institution" as well.
So much as your ISP is concerned, the FBI have carnivore to handle that.
Washington Mutual is a whore too. I overdrafted my checking account by a nickel and got charged $20 for it. When they wouldn't budge on a refund for the fee, I closed my account.
I moved to a credit union that will move money from my savings to my checking to cover my draft automatically at no cost to me.
Banks like Washington Mutual _could_ do this, but they want to squeeze you for every damm fee they can.
Banks hate credit unions BTW, and are trying everything in their power to get laws passed to restrict them.
That's why many people are switching to credit unions. I have switched to credit unions and find it much better.
The banks hate credit unions with a passion and are doing all they can to restrict their activity with legislation.
Process of elimination.
Most of the people on the planes were American citizens who had American families that could vouch for their character.
That leaves stewardesses, pilots, and a small group of noncitizens with expired visas and box cutters.
Top that with the captured video of Osama remarking how fortunate they were with the results of the plane hijackings/WTC destruction/loss of life with "praise Allah!! praise Allah!! praise Allah!!" you pretty much know their identities _and_ their religion.