It's ANOTHER entity (the fob people) doing the monitoring from what the original poster said. If not, then fine, whatever. And yes I do use cash as much as possible, precisely because I do not want other people second guessing my PRIVATE activities and using my own actions against me in the form of targeted advertising and consumer profiling. WTF are YOU being so ignorant for? Convenience apparently.
"Also, they call you when they detect unusual activity."
If it's so cold where you live that you are willing to accept yet ANOTHER monitor placed on your life, fine. Just don't assume it's a complete non-issue for everyone though.
As someone who has a few rc airplanes, I do find it newsworthy that it was actually able to move and complete a basic turn. Simply, it's the first time some its drive components are being tested. After its rolling and everything is _actually_ working ok, instead of just not being obviously broken and lighting up someones panel, then I'd agree and say it won't really be news until something breaks, gets discovered or the mission goes eol.
As a man, I'll tell you why I care, instead of shutting up. It's just plain ugly, that's why. It displays a lack of taste, class, the ability to think for ones self and most of all, femininity. Funny you say you feel sorry for men and wouldn't want to be one. Based on the behavior I described, not only do these women seem to want to be men, they want to emasculate the behavior of actual men as well. Witness you telling me to shut up. And witness me, like a man, telling you to kiss my ass.
I just hope you don't end up raising another one of those really attractive and feminine young women who think it's cool, hip and just fine equality-based behavior to be an aggressive, tattooed, NASCAR/football watching beer-drinking mandroid, with an 'I am a queen and men are responsible for my unhappiness, I shall make them first bow, then pay' complex.
No, nor the fact that there is very likely no way it could go the whole way flat-out at 5cm/s in a straight line either. It could easily take three or more times as long just due to that.
If what another poster said is true about Spirit being roughly 1/4 of the circumference of Mars away, and given that Mars is ~13240 miles around and after converting to metric, it would take Spirit 3.378 years to reach Beagle at a speed of 5cm/s.
Organized and actively involved citizens who would notice this kind of end-run on their their pet issue. There is no NRA for things like privacy or constitutionality, apparently.
I would beg to differ that the gold stanard never lasted. It has in fact lasted for thousands of years, and is still going strong, despite current world goverments attempts to ignore/hide it. Remember that thirty years or so, the period since the US 'gold window' was 'closed', is pretty much a blink of the eye in historical terms. And my sig is from a speech Greenspan made just last year iirc.
Not sure of the chemistry, but I do know that about four glasses of champagne can make me feel worse the next day than an entire bottle of sake. While not hangover free, I've found nothing I like to drink that has as mild of an after-effect.
I remember reading about (Sagan is ringing a bell in my head for some reason on this) a gathering involving various biological and astronomical experts that happened some years ago, and one of the questions they kicked around was, "If life evolved elsewhere under non-earthlike conditions, what would be its most likely form?" One of their conclusions was that any such life form would be extremely difficult for us to identify _as_ a life form to begin with.
While you do have a point about luck, you're info on chopsticks is so wrong it's funny. From EverythingChopsticks.com:
"For those really interested in chopsticks visit the Kuaizi Museum in Shanghai. The museum has collected over 1,000 pairs of chopsticks. The oldest pair is from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD)."
From chinavista.com:
"When the Chinese began to use chopsticks as an eating instrument is anybody's guess. They were first mentioned in writing in Liji (The Book of rites), a work compiled some 2,000 years ago, but certainly they had their initial form in the twigs which the primitive Chinese must have used to pick up a roast after they began to use fire."
And finally from About.com:
"The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table." (Confucius)
While I don't share Confucius' abhorrence at the mere thought of a man in the kitchen, his dislike of knives is more understandable. Confucius equated knives with acts of aggression, which went against his non-violent teachings. Some experts credit Confucius' influence with the widespread adoption of chopsticks throughout China. Scholarship had triumphed over the warrior lifestyle.
Chopsticks were in use by the Shang dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC). In fact, the first chopsticks may have been twigs used to spear a roast cooked over an open fire. The enduring popularity of chopsticks may actually be linked to Chinese cooking methods - before stir-frying the food is cut into tiny pieces, making them easy to manipulate with a chopstick."
I get very pissed when I see self-righteous people like you sugar coating our actions in Iraq with a humanitarian patina. Where were(are) we in Africa? Cambodia (which it sounds like the Iraqis learned a few tortures from)? A thousand other places that have ongoing horrors and NO OIL or other strategic value (and that we could _get away_ with invading - Tibet comes to mind, lots of nuns and monks raped, killed and tortured there too)? Fact is we supported Hussein for much of his rule when we KNEW what kind of ass he was. Our actions in Iraq have thus far only been EXCUSABLE by the stats you list, NOT JUSTIFIED.
then - temporal, "He went to the store and THEN to the movies." than - comparative, "He spells worse THAN an ape!" tottaly -> totally valueable -> valuable distrubted, distrubtied -> distributed departmarts -> departments (not sure if that one was on purpose though) fathum -> fathom querks -> quirks
Not only is your spelling atrocious, some basic grammar would help as well:
"Windows Server 2003 has the ability to do things that previous versions couldn't even fathum from a programming aspect. The networking aspect is about a thousand times better with the ablity to (not super dooper but good anough that anyone with experience with routing couldn't work something to just make it work)."
Speaking as a developer, you sound like a complete idiot here. Maybe you had a valid point, but your articulation of it was so poor that it is now lost completely.
Also, you seem to have a LOT to say about MS shit for such a 'born Linux user'. Deep down I think you are a troll.
"What is impressive and noteworthy is that Columbia pilot David Brown was attempting to regain control of the craft all the way to the end."
Actually, I think it's sad. He had no chance of regaining control, yet was trying, probably desperately. If he had succeeded, now THAT would have been impressive and noteworthy. As it is, he simply did exactly what his training and instinct to survive would say to do. What else would he have done anyway, bite his nails? Make like the guy in Aliens exclaiming "We're screwed man, we're screwed!" over and over? Yeah, he was a trooper. For even being willing to go up at all really.
There was a language for the C64 called Comal, that IIRC had some graphics primitive commands. I used it only briefly, but it was about the same as GFA-Basic for the Atari ST or GW and PowerBasic for PC's, only YEARS earlier. No line numbers, real subroutines, etc. The C64 definitely rocked in its day.
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LOL, before I read your comment, I thought your post title was referring to the amount of heat put out by the C64 power transformer! That power supply would probably be the weak link in the uptime chain for a C64, not the main unit.
YES!! My best friend in the world was my co-pilot on Bard's Tale, and we STILL use the mind blade reference with each other! Still, I've always thought that 'Mangar's Mind Mallet' had a particularly nice ring to it too.;)
OK, you win, you freaking dinosaur;) Smallest hard drive I ever used, or have even heard mentioned, is a 10M Mountain drive! And I looked longingly at, but had not the means to purchase (nor likely the skill to build at that age), the kit computers advertised in Popular Electronics circa...'79?
Out of curiosity, who made the drive?
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All I can say is DAMN.:) And, thanks for the confirmation of the joke! On the other side of the coin, I seem to recall that the 20M external hd I had for an Atari 1040ST used an Adaptec scsi controller inside, and was quite fast for its day. Or so it seemed at the time at least! Going from floppies to a hard drive was almost as good as the move from tape. And just because I get to mention it so infrequently to anyone who can relate, the earliest IBM hd I remember was an external MFM 10M Mountain drive that was four+ times the size of the Atari drive (about 20" wide, 15" deep, 6" high and forty pounds or so!) and slow as hell. It was also several years older than the Atari drive though. OK, little drunk, stopping rambling, thanks for the nostalgia!
The Commodore 1541 floppy drive was painfully slow as well. "Guaranteed to load faster than you can type" is the joke I remember about it. Way better than the tape drive though. The first game I ever bought was Telengard on tape, which I still have, and even if it turns to dust on the spools I also still have a printed dump of the BASIC source to it that I was trying to hack on. Its about 30 pages printed on a 9-pin dot matrix at around 10cpi, and it took close to five minutes to load from tape. That's a rough guess but close I think, just to give some idea of the speed. Of course, the other really cool (to me at the time anyway) feature of the floppy over the tape was _random file access_ woohoo!:)
Yeah, we are spoiled now. Hell, I was spoiled then looking back on it. I had been begging for a computer, was trying to get a ZX-81 on my own, and my parents got a C-64 with a tape drive for Christmas instead. One of the few times I can remember that they got a present REALLY REALLY right!
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It's ANOTHER entity (the fob people) doing the monitoring from what the original poster said. If not, then fine, whatever. And yes I do use cash as much as possible, precisely because I do not want other people second guessing my PRIVATE activities and using my own actions against me in the form of targeted advertising and consumer profiling. WTF are YOU being so ignorant for? Convenience apparently.
"Also, they call you when they detect unusual activity."
If it's so cold where you live that you are willing to accept yet ANOTHER monitor placed on your life, fine. Just don't assume it's a complete non-issue for everyone though.
As someone who has a few rc airplanes, I do find it newsworthy that it was actually able to move and complete a basic turn. Simply, it's the first time some its drive components are being tested. After its rolling and everything is _actually_ working ok, instead of just not being obviously broken and lighting up someones panel, then I'd agree and say it won't really be news until something breaks, gets discovered or the mission goes eol.
Actually makes it sound pretty reasonable if you just imagine that it's Uncle Fester saying it.
Touched a nerve there, didn't I Sparkles?
As a man, I'll tell you why I care, instead of shutting up. It's just plain ugly, that's why. It displays a lack of taste, class, the ability to think for ones self and most of all, femininity. Funny you say you feel sorry for men and wouldn't want to be one. Based on the behavior I described, not only do these women seem to want to be men, they want to emasculate the behavior of actual men as well. Witness you telling me to shut up. And witness me, like a man, telling you to kiss my ass.
I just hope you don't end up raising another one of those really attractive and feminine young women who think it's cool, hip and just fine equality-based behavior to be an aggressive, tattooed, NASCAR/football watching beer-drinking mandroid, with an 'I am a queen and men are responsible for my unhappiness, I shall make them first bow, then pay' complex.
No, nor the fact that there is very likely no way it could go the whole way flat-out at 5cm/s in a straight line either. It could easily take three or more times as long just due to that.
If what another poster said is true about Spirit being roughly 1/4 of the circumference of Mars away, and given that Mars is ~13240 miles around and after converting to metric, it would take Spirit 3.378 years to reach Beagle at a speed of 5cm/s.
Organized and actively involved citizens who would notice this kind of end-run on their their pet issue. There is no NRA for things like privacy or constitutionality, apparently.
I would beg to differ that the gold stanard never lasted. It has in fact lasted for thousands of years, and is still going strong, despite current world goverments attempts to ignore/hide it. Remember that thirty years or so, the period since the US 'gold window' was 'closed', is pretty much a blink of the eye in historical terms. And my sig is from a speech Greenspan made just last year iirc.
Not sure of the chemistry, but I do know that about four glasses of champagne can make me feel worse the next day than an entire bottle of sake. While not hangover free, I've found nothing I like to drink that has as mild of an after-effect.
Works fine in Moz 1.6b for me.
I remember reading about (Sagan is ringing a bell in my head for some reason on this) a gathering involving various biological and astronomical experts that happened some years ago, and one of the questions they kicked around was, "If life evolved elsewhere under non-earthlike conditions, what would be its most likely form?" One of their conclusions was that any such life form would be extremely difficult for us to identify _as_ a life form to begin with.
While you do have a point about luck, you're info on chopsticks is so wrong it's funny. From EverythingChopsticks.com:
"For those really interested in chopsticks visit the Kuaizi Museum in Shanghai. The museum has collected over 1,000 pairs of chopsticks. The oldest pair is from the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907 AD)."
From chinavista.com:
"When the Chinese began to use chopsticks as an eating instrument is anybody's guess. They were first mentioned in writing in Liji (The Book of rites), a work compiled some 2,000 years ago, but certainly they had their initial form in the twigs which the primitive Chinese must have used to pick up a roast after they began to use fire."
And finally from About.com:
"The honorable and upright man keeps well away from both the slaughterhouse and the kitchen. And he allows no knives on his table." (Confucius)
While I don't share Confucius' abhorrence at the mere thought of a man in the kitchen, his dislike of knives is more understandable. Confucius equated knives with acts of aggression, which went against his non-violent teachings. Some experts credit Confucius' influence with the widespread adoption of chopsticks throughout China. Scholarship had triumphed over the warrior lifestyle.
Chopsticks were in use by the Shang dynasty (1766 BC - 1122 BC). In fact, the first chopsticks may have been twigs used to spear a roast cooked over an open fire. The enduring popularity of chopsticks may actually be linked to Chinese cooking methods - before stir-frying the food is cut into tiny pieces, making them easy to manipulate with a chopstick."
It's Sicilian for compatriot or buddy, not really mob specific. cf. 'droog'
IT'S NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO POLICE THE PLANET.
I get very pissed when I see self-righteous people like you sugar coating our actions in Iraq with a humanitarian patina. Where were(are) we in Africa? Cambodia (which it sounds like the Iraqis learned a few tortures from)? A thousand other places that have ongoing horrors and NO OIL or other strategic value (and that we could _get away_ with invading - Tibet comes to mind, lots of nuns and monks raped, killed and tortured there too)? Fact is we supported Hussein for much of his rule when we KNEW what kind of ass he was. Our actions in Iraq have thus far only been EXCUSABLE by the stats you list, NOT JUSTIFIED.
Christ that was painful to read.
then - temporal, "He went to the store and THEN to the movies."
than - comparative, "He spells worse THAN an ape!"
tottaly -> totally
valueable -> valuable
distrubted, distrubtied -> distributed
departmarts -> departments (not sure if that one was on purpose though)
fathum -> fathom
querks -> quirks
Not only is your spelling atrocious, some basic grammar would help as well:
"Windows Server 2003 has the ability to do things that previous versions couldn't even fathum from a programming aspect. The networking aspect is about a thousand times better with the ablity to (not super dooper but good anough that anyone with experience with routing couldn't work something to just make it work)."
Speaking as a developer, you sound like a complete idiot here. Maybe you had a valid point, but your articulation of it was so poor that it is now lost completely.
Also, you seem to have a LOT to say about MS shit for such a 'born Linux user'. Deep down I think you are a troll.
That soldier has a choice - run, hide, surrender, suicide, etc. Not doing those things is heroic. The pilot had no option.
"What is impressive and noteworthy is that Columbia pilot David Brown was attempting to regain control of the craft all the way to the end."
Actually, I think it's sad. He had no chance of regaining control, yet was trying, probably desperately. If he had succeeded, now THAT would have been impressive and noteworthy. As it is, he simply did exactly what his training and instinct to survive would say to do. What else would he have done anyway, bite his nails? Make like the guy in Aliens exclaiming "We're screwed man, we're screwed!" over and over? Yeah, he was a trooper. For even being willing to go up at all really.
There was a language for the C64 called Comal, that IIRC had some graphics primitive commands. I used it only briefly, but it was about the same as GFA-Basic for the Atari ST or GW and PowerBasic for PC's, only YEARS earlier. No line numbers, real subroutines, etc. The C64 definitely rocked in its day.
LOL, before I read your comment, I thought your post title was referring to the amount of heat put out by the C64 power transformer! That power supply would probably be the weak link in the uptime chain for a C64, not the main unit.
"Mangar's Mind Blade RULES ALL"
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YES!! My best friend in the world was my co-pilot on Bard's Tale, and we STILL use the mind blade reference with each other! Still, I've always thought that 'Mangar's Mind Mallet' had a particularly nice ring to it too.
OK, you win, you freaking dinosaur ;) Smallest hard drive I ever used, or have even heard mentioned, is a 10M Mountain drive! And I looked longingly at, but had not the means to purchase (nor likely the skill to build at that age), the kit computers advertised in Popular Electronics circa...'79?
Out of curiosity, who made the drive?
All I can say is DAMN. :) And, thanks for the confirmation of the joke! On the other side of the coin, I seem to recall that the 20M external hd I had for an Atari 1040ST used an Adaptec scsi controller inside, and was quite fast for its day. Or so it seemed at the time at least! Going from floppies to a hard drive was almost as good as the move from tape. And just because I get to mention it so infrequently to anyone who can relate, the earliest IBM hd I remember was an external MFM 10M Mountain drive that was four+ times the size of the Atari drive (about 20" wide, 15" deep, 6" high and forty pounds or so!) and slow as hell. It was also several years older than the Atari drive though. OK, little drunk, stopping rambling, thanks for the nostalgia!
The Commodore 1541 floppy drive was painfully slow as well. "Guaranteed to load faster than you can type" is the joke I remember about it. Way better than the tape drive though. The first game I ever bought was Telengard on tape, which I still have, and even if it turns to dust on the spools I also still have a printed dump of the BASIC source to it that I was trying to hack on. Its about 30 pages printed on a 9-pin dot matrix at around 10cpi, and it took close to five minutes to load from tape. That's a rough guess but close I think, just to give some idea of the speed. Of course, the other really cool (to me at the time anyway) feature of the floppy over the tape was _random file access_ woohoo! :)
Yeah, we are spoiled now. Hell, I was spoiled then looking back on it. I had been begging for a computer, was trying to get a ZX-81 on my own, and my parents got a C-64 with a tape drive for Christmas instead. One of the few times I can remember that they got a present REALLY REALLY right!