There is something about worth of accomplishments if only own ones are remembered...
Just landing isn't much of an accomplishment. Did the Soviets get any useful science from the landing itself? They don't even know why it stopped working after it landed (successfully). Please, remember this all you want - I have no objection.
Isn't it high time that Adobe got its act together with this thing? Javascript attacks, the whole non-redacted-data text redaction "feature" that recently bit the TSA - I mean REALLY.
Well, let's just say I am having a very different experience. For a week after they installed DSL, my telephone number actually rang to random different numbers. It would have been funny if it wasn't so disappointing.
Verizon installed a fiber node this past year in my neighborhood, yet I cannot get FiOS because "it's not done".
To make matters worse, I cannot use my preferred ISP (Speakeasy) because of the infrastructure hurdle mentioned above.
In my mind, this is anti-competitive behavior by a monopoly (Verizon, obviously) to prevent me from choosing a different ISP. I really wish I could because Verizon's service and reliability is absolutely horrible.
One point of irony in all of this is that when the Verizon tech tested the copper line, the automated voice is still "Welcome to Bell Atlantic", the PREVIOUS established monopoly. (and it was James Earl Jones' voice no less.)
Why don't you get a netbook or iPod touch? Put the charger in the capsule. No significant moving parts to break, just charge it up 17 years later and press the "on" button.
Are they taking the deck gun off for the tourist flights? No, I'm serious - the Almaz had a 23mm aircraft cannon mounted to its underside to shoot at american targets (maybe the MOL?)
A recent NOVA episode interviewed a couple of former cosmonauts who said the only time it was fired was a test just before they decommissioned (de-orbited) the last one.
The document from the University of Delaware linked in the summary makes no "pitch" at all whatsoever.
In fact, the document which is entitled "What Employers Should Know About Hiring International Students" really only speaks to... you guessed it, information that employers may like to know about hiring international students.
How did this make it to the front page? It's clearly flamebait.
It's still random mutation, though. If there are 15 fertilized embryos there are 15 completely random results. Of those 15 results someone picks the 5 that feature blue eyes.
I don't think you present a valid argument that evolution will stop. The "worst" case scenario is that other eye colors could be selected out over several (dozens of?) generations.
Evolution surely continues in full force even in that "worst" scenario.
I would also add that in 1998 the automatic patching and updates concept was brand new, and even the windows update site wasn't pushing patches, but rather desktop themes and other nonsense "add ons".
Apple has a really good updating service built into OSX, so good that I barely notice that it has done anything when it is finished. There aren't as many patches as I get bombarded with on Windows, but I still don't think that means
"they are in 1998".
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Come on now, MP3? I've been listening to MPEG-4 encoded audio for what, 6 years now? Even Microsoft (Zune) plays MPEG-4 audio.
In short, who gives a shit. Next.
That is an utterly absurd statement. Look at the latest Supreme Court decision regarding corporate speech and the movie titled "Hillary".
I agree completely - women no longer understand what "equality" means and substitute "domination".
Right, but BEFORE they dropped it, it was certainly bait and switch. Which is why they dropped it. Which is what I said.
Yeah, no kidding they dropped the program. This type of fraud is called "bait and switch", and it is ILLEGAL.
A firewall actually is meant to prevent a fire from getting in to a place, not to burn things up that try to pass it.
There is a firewall in your car between the engine and dashboard, for example.
Just landing isn't much of an accomplishment. Did the Soviets get any useful science from the landing itself? They don't even know why it stopped working after it landed (successfully). Please, remember this all you want - I have no objection.
Isn't it high time that Adobe got its act together with this thing? Javascript attacks, the whole non-redacted-data text redaction "feature" that recently bit the TSA - I mean REALLY.
Come on Adobe, you can do better.
Thank you - I didn't know about those plugins and I appreciate you sharing. They are now installed!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It amuses me how many people forget what powers any President ACTUALLY has under the U.S. Constitution.
They seem to believe there is a "magic president wand" that fixes problems. CONGRESS makes the laws that the President then enforces.
Thank you again for pointing this out, and please continue to repeat as often as necessary.
I still don't get it. The internet is just a telegraph running at gigahertz speeds.
Well, let's just say I am having a very different experience. For a week after they installed DSL, my telephone number actually rang to random different numbers. It would have been funny if it wasn't so disappointing.
Verizon installed a fiber node this past year in my neighborhood, yet I cannot get FiOS because "it's not done".
To make matters worse, I cannot use my preferred ISP (Speakeasy) because of the infrastructure hurdle mentioned above.
In my mind, this is anti-competitive behavior by a monopoly (Verizon, obviously) to prevent me from choosing a different ISP. I really wish I could because Verizon's service and reliability is absolutely horrible.
One point of irony in all of this is that when the Verizon tech tested the copper line, the automated voice is still "Welcome to Bell Atlantic", the PREVIOUS established monopoly. (and it was James Earl Jones' voice no less.)
As Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul Krugman noted today in his column, competition is always a good thing.
You're kidding right? That's not the show at all. I recall a show that tackled social and moral issues all the time as the centerpiece of the plot.
Please tell me you don't think it actually COSTS $1.00 ?
It's a name for a type of gesture - like on Palm devices, lots of $1 implementations listed here.
Hydrogen is fine as long as you don't paint the outside of the airship with silver ROCKET FUEL based paint (perchlorate).
Why don't you get a netbook or iPod touch? Put the charger in the capsule. No significant moving parts to break, just charge it up 17 years later and press the "on" button.
It only blurred 1/3 of the people in this image: 3 Guys in Geneva
Are they taking the deck gun off for the tourist flights? No, I'm serious - the Almaz had a 23mm aircraft cannon mounted to its underside to shoot at american targets (maybe the MOL?)
A recent NOVA episode interviewed a couple of former cosmonauts who said the only time it was fired was a test just before they decommissioned (de-orbited) the last one.
The document from the University of Delaware linked in the summary makes no "pitch" at all whatsoever. ... you guessed it, information that employers may like to know about hiring international students.
In fact, the document which is entitled "What Employers Should Know About Hiring International Students" really only speaks to
How did this make it to the front page? It's clearly flamebait.
I'm going to lose my mod points to reply, but I wanted to add a third item to the list:
(c.) Meeting needs to have an agenda, preferably distributed in advance
This cuts down on frivolous meetings as well because there is usually a stated goal or a defined list of topics and people can come prepared.
Looks like the fine people of the EU get to pay off all those EU fines levied against Microsoft.
Payback is a bitch, huh?
Or they could do what Fox News does: put a question mark at the end.
"Obama having affair with the Ayatollah?"
It's still random mutation, though. If there are 15 fertilized embryos there are 15 completely random results. Of those 15 results someone picks the 5 that feature blue eyes.
I don't think you present a valid argument that evolution will stop. The "worst" case scenario is that other eye colors could be selected out over several (dozens of?) generations.
Evolution surely continues in full force even in that "worst" scenario.
I would also add that in 1998 the automatic patching and updates concept was brand new, and even the windows update site wasn't pushing patches, but rather desktop themes and other nonsense "add ons".
Apple has a really good updating service built into OSX, so good that I barely notice that it has done anything when it is finished. There aren't as many patches as I get bombarded with on Windows, but I still don't think that means "they are in 1998".