So I went to sign up for Toodledo the other day. On the suggestion of my boss, I went to sign in via OpenID. Well I didn't have an OpenID, so I signed up for one of those through the OpenID provider that Toodledo linked from their very page - myopenid.com. Fair enough. Went back to sign in with Toodledo and my shiny new OpenID and I get an error message back saying "There was an error connecting to your OpenID server."
Well what the hell. I sign up using the very provider that they link to and I still can't get in. I have an OpenID success rate of 0%. Why would I want to keep using it?
ANWR is not the be all end all that drillers tout. There are between 6-16 billion recoverable barrels (from pro-drilling site). Right now, refineries use about 15 million barrels of oil per day (from the EIA -- scroll to bottom).
That means the US uses around 5.4 billion barrels of oil per year. If you buy the pro-driller propaganda, ANWR is AT BEST, 3 years worth of supply. If you took the highest estimate of oil in the ground and assumed the magically ability to extract all 30 billion barrels -- that's 6 years of supply.
From the second site you link, the US domestic crude oil production is somewhere just north of 5 million barrels a day, thus 16 billion barrels of supply would be gone in 8.75 years, assuming all other crude oil production in the US stopped immediately and was entirely replaced with crude from the ANWR.
The better plan is to consider ANWR like a wildlife refuge and not use it for commercial gains.
Episode 3 was the worst of the bunch! I honestly fail to see how anybody could see Lucas redeeming himself with Episode 3. I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head with all the eye-rolling I was doing through it. Seriously, do people actually think it's good?
The problem is that coordinating schedules became quite difficult to do things like a mining op.
You need to find a different (or larger) corporation then. Given there's rarely fewer than 15000 people online at any one time, there are people online from around the world 23/7. You need to find a corporation that's more active during your playtime.
And because there's such a huge skill and capability imbalance between n00bish characters and veterans, going lowsec was just too risky to be worth it. PVP in EVE is like playing Starcraft against nothing but Korean kids, spanking after spanking after spanking.
You need to find a different corporation then. Goonfleet (for all they're derided by others) revels in having new players join, as they actually have proper roles to play. There are the elitist corporations that say you need X million skillpoints and have to fly eight different battleships to join, and then there are corporations that cater to the new player.
It also sounds like you tried to go it alone in PvP. Again, you should've probably found a corporation that had good esprit de corps and worked well together.
But I guess this is all moot as you've quit the game.
Just so you know, the $15 billion in assets for the Roman Catholic Church is only for Australia, whereas the Scientologist number is presumably for the USA.
Also, the "Roman Catholic Church alone is thought to have more than $100 billion in property and other assets in Australia."
The Roman Catholic Church completely kicks the ass of the Scientologists when it comes to matters of money.
It's not the world's largest telescope. There are plenty of telescopes that are larger than this. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope is about 5 meters in diameter larger. Arecibo is about 295 meters larger.
And then you've got the array telescopes like VLA and VLBA, if you wanted to get pedantic about effective telescope size.
Does anybody actually edit or proof these book "reviews", or do the "editors" just copy and paste it from their inbox? Seriously, the opening three lines are so stilted and crap that no proper editor would accept this review. Couple that with the traditional "it's" screwup and I didn't want to read any further.
But I did. And lo and behold it's a typical Slashdot "review", consisting of ten paragraphs summarizing each chapter individually followed with "I thought this book sucked/ruled because...". My criticism of this "review" is that almost the whole thing is just a list of the chapters.
If this was a book review for an elementary class you might slide by with a B, but otherwise you get a D.
Why is the FF file cache so obscure? (kept in hex named files that appear to be indirectly referenced by other map files...)
It's so when Firefox crashes and leaves a lock file you can hunt around for the damned thing for ages trying to get Firefox to realize that no, another instance of Firefox isn't running.
So how exactly would these new ID cards be forge-proof? If people are already forging IDs, what's to stop them from forging these new ones? And what problem does this national ID card solve?
It's pretty sad that there are fifty-odd comments here, a few jokes about coding from jail, what ReiserFS is going to be called, whether or not single-developer projects should be included in Linux or whatever, but nothing about trying to help the guy out. No calls for donations for his legal defense?
Extrasolar planets are no longer "planets" since they don't orbit the Sun.
Wrong. If you'll read the actual definition, it is:
The IAU...resolves that planets and other bodies in our Solar System be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:
(1) A "planet" [1] is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that: (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [2], (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
(3) All other objects [3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar System Bodies".
Footnotes:
[1] The eight planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. [2] An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either "dwarf planet" and other categories. [3] These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.
The IAU further resolves:
Pluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
Note the starting gambit: "Solar System". This definition says absolutely nothing about extra-solar planets.
In addition:
# Jupiter is not a planet, because it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit - it has asteroids at the Trojan points. # Earth is not a planet, because it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit -- there exist Near-Earth asteroids and Earth-crossing asteroids. (One might argue that this is getting worse, what with all the space debris we keep flinging into near-Earth solar orbit).
Not true either. While the wording leaves much to be desired, what they meant was "gravitationally dominates its orbit". Jupiter is the dominant object in its orbital space, as is Earth. Pluto isn't (Neptune is), which is why Pluto isn't a planet yet Jupiter and Earth are.
You're right, the PC is just another console. It happens to do more than the other consoles, but from a gaming point of view it's a console. You don't have specific revisions (like NES -> SNES -> N64 -> GC -> Wii), but you'll still have to upgrade to play the newer games. You can't play, for example, Civ4 on a 386.
However, your argument of "if I buy a console game, I have a one in four shot of it playing on a popular console" is rubbish. You purchase games for your specific console. Just as you wouldn't buy a game built for OS X and expect it to play on your PC, you wouldn't buy a game built for the Xbox360 and expect it to play on your PS2.
Remember that old story about some tech support guy who, upon asking a user to send him a copy of a floppy disk, received a piece of paper with the floppy disk photocopied on it?
Airlines still offer free drinks, so you can scratch the whole thirsty bit out of your argument. You can get all the water you like from flight attendants.
and at least you don't have to pay for headphones anymore.
You do on Northwest and Delta, at least as of yesterday (for Northwest) and August 1 (for Delta). Northwest charges $3 for the headphones. I think Air Canada charges for them as well, but it's been a while since I've flown with them.
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So I went to sign up for Toodledo the other day. On the suggestion of my boss, I went to sign in via OpenID. Well I didn't have an OpenID, so I signed up for one of those through the OpenID provider that Toodledo linked from their very page - myopenid.com. Fair enough. Went back to sign in with Toodledo and my shiny new OpenID and I get an error message back saying "There was an error connecting to your OpenID server."
Well what the hell. I sign up using the very provider that they link to and I still can't get in. I have an OpenID success rate of 0%. Why would I want to keep using it?
From the second site you link, the US domestic crude oil production is somewhere just north of 5 million barrels a day, thus 16 billion barrels of supply would be gone in 8.75 years, assuming all other crude oil production in the US stopped immediately and was entirely replaced with crude from the ANWR.
The better plan is to consider ANWR like a wildlife refuge and not use it for commercial gains.
Episode 3 was the worst of the bunch! I honestly fail to see how anybody could see Lucas redeeming himself with Episode 3. I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head with all the eye-rolling I was doing through it. Seriously, do people actually think it's good?
You need to find a different (or larger) corporation then. Given there's rarely fewer than 15000 people online at any one time, there are people online from around the world 23/7. You need to find a corporation that's more active during your playtime.
You need to find a different corporation then. Goonfleet (for all they're derided by others) revels in having new players join, as they actually have proper roles to play. There are the elitist corporations that say you need X million skillpoints and have to fly eight different battleships to join, and then there are corporations that cater to the new player.
It also sounds like you tried to go it alone in PvP. Again, you should've probably found a corporation that had good esprit de corps and worked well together.
But I guess this is all moot as you've quit the game.
Eve has never had anywhere near 50,000 online at the same time. The record is 35,965 simultaneous logins.
Just so you know, the $15 billion in assets for the Roman Catholic Church is only for Australia, whereas the Scientologist number is presumably for the USA.
Also, the "Roman Catholic Church alone is thought to have more than $100 billion in property and other assets in Australia."
The Roman Catholic Church completely kicks the ass of the Scientologists when it comes to matters of money.
This is Slashdot. Slashdot got the story incorrect. If TFA had it incorrect I would've left a comment over there. Since they didn't, I didn't.
Forgive me to trying to correct the writeup on the site on which it appeared.
It's not the world's largest telescope. There are plenty of telescopes that are larger than this. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope is about 5 meters in diameter larger. Arecibo is about 295 meters larger.
And then you've got the array telescopes like VLA and VLBA, if you wanted to get pedantic about effective telescope size.
Don't worry, it's coming. I've seen previews of Google Sky at a couple of astronomical conferences so far. Also, check out partner number four for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
The title got it right, but I wasn't talking about the title, I was talking about the first paragraph.
Does anybody actually edit or proof these book "reviews", or do the "editors" just copy and paste it from their inbox? Seriously, the opening three lines are so stilted and crap that no proper editor would accept this review. Couple that with the traditional "it's" screwup and I didn't want to read any further.
But I did. And lo and behold it's a typical Slashdot "review", consisting of ten paragraphs summarizing each chapter individually followed with "I thought this book sucked/ruled because...". My criticism of this "review" is that almost the whole thing is just a list of the chapters.
If this was a book review for an elementary class you might slide by with a B, but otherwise you get a D.
* <-- the joke
O <-- your head
It's so when Firefox crashes and leaves a lock file you can hunt around for the damned thing for ages trying to get Firefox to realize that no, another instance of Firefox isn't running.
LOL
...the US Navy is looking to hire the guy who lent his voice to Unreal Tournament to add "MMMMMMMMONSTER KILL!" to ship audio.
So how exactly would these new ID cards be forge-proof? If people are already forging IDs, what's to stop them from forging these new ones? And what problem does this national ID card solve?
The obvious point I'd like to make is clearly this Heavy List Fighting causes some kind of brain injury that turns your spelling to shit.
What do hanging chads have to do with marking a box on a piece of paper?
It's pretty sad that there are fifty-odd comments here, a few jokes about coding from jail, what ReiserFS is going to be called, whether or not single-developer projects should be included in Linux or whatever, but nothing about trying to help the guy out. No calls for donations for his legal defense?
Sad, really.
Wrong. If you'll read the actual definition, it is:
Note the starting gambit: "Solar System". This definition says absolutely nothing about extra-solar planets.
In addition:
Not true either. While the wording leaves much to be desired, what they meant was "gravitationally dominates its orbit". Jupiter is the dominant object in its orbital space, as is Earth. Pluto isn't (Neptune is), which is why Pluto isn't a planet yet Jupiter and Earth are.
You're right, the PC is just another console. It happens to do more than the other consoles, but from a gaming point of view it's a console. You don't have specific revisions (like NES -> SNES -> N64 -> GC -> Wii), but you'll still have to upgrade to play the newer games. You can't play, for example, Civ4 on a 386.
However, your argument of "if I buy a console game, I have a one in four shot of it playing on a popular console" is rubbish. You purchase games for your specific console. Just as you wouldn't buy a game built for OS X and expect it to play on your PC, you wouldn't buy a game built for the Xbox360 and expect it to play on your PS2.
Remember that old story about some tech support guy who, upon asking a user to send him a copy of a floppy disk, received a piece of paper with the floppy disk photocopied on it?
Rockstar should do that.
Airlines still offer free drinks, so you can scratch the whole thirsty bit out of your argument. You can get all the water you like from flight attendants.
Ask the flight attendants for water every half hour or so. Water's always available on flights.
You do on Northwest and Delta, at least as of yesterday (for Northwest) and August 1 (for Delta). Northwest charges $3 for the headphones. I think Air Canada charges for them as well, but it's been a while since I've flown with them.
They're free on United, though.