Wi-fi support is as simple as installing a few thousand dollars worth of equipment. They'll recoup that by empting the trashcans 0.05 times less per average day for a month or two.
I play a lot of Medal of Honor, and if I feel I'm ruling a little too hard I'll switch from machine guns to rifles. I still end up ruling because nobody understands the range and accuracy of a rifle, but I don't feel so bad about it.
The house you could rent for $500 a month and the house you can buy for $200,000 are two very, very different houses. In fact, one of them is a small, one-bedroom apartment, if not a studio, and the other is about 2500 square feet with new appliances and a quarter-acre of land in the same market.
Here's how it really works:
You can rent a small apartment for $500/mo and lose it all to the landlord; or, you can buy a house with a $1000/mo payment of which 150 is principal (and growing each month) and 700 is interest and the other 250 is tax and insurance. You can deduct the tax and the interest, getting back about $300 on your income taxes. The result is you pay $550 net per month for a house that's 2-3 times the size of your apartment. You're earning $150+ per month in principal equity. Now count the capital appreciation which is probably on the order of $100/month, and your overall cashflow is now $450 negative instead of the $500 you were paying when you rented.
You're up $50/month and you live in a much nicer place that you'll end up owning free and clear if you just keep up the payments.
None of this applies in California where people are made stupid by fear of having to move to a place where people aren't made stupid by fear.
I just bought an eMachines m6807 notebook with an Athlon64 3000+ cpu (512MB/60GB/802.11g/DVDRW/Radeon9600/etc/etc/etc) and...yeah...probably a 32-bit version of XP Home. Pro woulda been nice but it wasn't an option; as a compensation, all the "free" bundled software uninstalled almost cleanly, and I was able to get a nifty new 802.11g WAP/switch/router/VPN with the savings vs. a comparably equipped Dell...
When I feel more confident (and get a couple of blank DVDs to use for backups) I may snarf down winxp64...
There's an atmosphere on Mars. Not a happy one, but a few psi at least.
The big problem with the Moon and EVA is that there's zero pressure, making the problem of keeping the suit bendable while keeping the astronaut's air supply in is more difficult.
Regardless, moon suits weren't hermetically sealed. Astronauts had problems with regolith (i.e., dirt) working its way in at the sliding joints and grinding into their sweaty, sticky, uncleaned skin.
The question is, can anything that would thrive on a human for the months of space travel also live outside a human's ambulatory environmental biome on Mars to "contaminate" it?
And couldn't we eliminate it as indigenous simply by comparing its DNA with samples taken from the astronaut and capsule before embarkation?
Celebrate away, but I guarantee your attitude of celebrating "every inch" is going to tire in the eyes of the people fronting your pay rather quickly.
Space exploration isn't what it was. We landed rovers on Mars before. Do something new and it'll justify the outlandish expense. Pop the champagne because you pulled up your socks, and people will not be impressed.
Good on ya', Justin, but isn't it a bit premature to be calling this a success? I mean, look at Spirit, sitting a few feet from its pad wondering why there's a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale falling towards it. What I'm saying is, improbability has a way of creeping into every step of the process, and until these missions kick back some science with an order of magnitude deeper value than prior martian rovers, it really hasn't succeeded, has it?
But still, woo-hoo on not exploding in a shower of sparks in the atmosphere, or getting wedged into a crag or eaten by a giant space slug or anything.
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Wi-fi support is as simple as installing a few thousand dollars worth of equipment. They'll recoup that by empting the trashcans 0.05 times less per average day for a month or two.
Ever tried to aim an invisible infrared laser beam at an object 20 centimeters across 100 meters away without a viewfinder?
When they come out with a visible beam (doubles as a presentation pointer!) and 300-meter range I'll think about buying one.
e) submit your URL to /. and start up the benchmark server.
Faxbot?
(Points to anyone who gets the reference; but trust me, Dennis Miller would go "whatever" and beat feet rather than admit he's clueless on this one.)
I play a lot of Medal of Honor, and if I feel I'm ruling a little too hard I'll switch from machine guns to rifles. I still end up ruling because nobody understands the range and accuracy of a rifle, but I don't feel so bad about it.
It just goes to show. When you put porn and music together, bow chicka-bow-bow...
AMD wouldn't be alive if they weren't wrapping German taxpayers' Euros around every part.
The house you could rent for $500 a month and the house you can buy for $200,000 are two very, very different houses. In fact, one of them is a small, one-bedroom apartment, if not a studio, and the other is about 2500 square feet with new appliances and a quarter-acre of land in the same market.
Here's how it really works:
You can rent a small apartment for $500/mo and lose it all to the landlord; or, you can buy a house with a $1000/mo payment of which 150 is principal (and growing each month) and 700 is interest and the other 250 is tax and insurance. You can deduct the tax and the interest, getting back about $300 on your income taxes. The result is you pay $550 net per month for a house that's 2-3 times the size of your apartment. You're earning $150+ per month in principal equity. Now count the capital appreciation which is probably on the order of $100/month, and your overall cashflow is now $450 negative instead of the $500 you were paying when you rented.
You're up $50/month and you live in a much nicer place that you'll end up owning free and clear if you just keep up the payments.
None of this applies in California where people are made stupid by fear of having to move to a place where people aren't made stupid by fear.
I just bought an eMachines m6807 notebook with an Athlon64 3000+ cpu (512MB/60GB/802.11g/DVDRW/Radeon9600/etc/etc/etc) and...yeah...probably a 32-bit version of XP Home. Pro woulda been nice but it wasn't an option; as a compensation, all the "free" bundled software uninstalled almost cleanly, and I was able to get a nifty new 802.11g WAP/switch/router/VPN with the savings vs. a comparably equipped Dell...
When I feel more confident (and get a couple of blank DVDs to use for backups) I may snarf down winxp64...
There's an atmosphere on Mars. Not a happy one, but a few psi at least.
The big problem with the Moon and EVA is that there's zero pressure, making the problem of keeping the suit bendable while keeping the astronaut's air supply in is more difficult.
Regardless, moon suits weren't hermetically sealed. Astronauts had problems with regolith (i.e., dirt) working its way in at the sliding joints and grinding into their sweaty, sticky, uncleaned skin.
The question is, can anything that would thrive on a human for the months of space travel also live outside a human's ambulatory environmental biome on Mars to "contaminate" it?
And couldn't we eliminate it as indigenous simply by comparing its DNA with samples taken from the astronaut and capsule before embarkation?
just imagine... well you know.
What?
Just imagine what?
A Beowulf cluster of Beavers?
No you can't.
Not until they return in the morning to reboot whatever got melted.
How does anyone make money running a root server?
See, now this is something.
Exposed bedrock on another planet. No longer dealing with regolith, debris, and fragments of foreign bodies.
Today, we celebrate together.
Celebrate away, but I guarantee your attitude of celebrating "every inch" is going to tire in the eyes of the people fronting your pay rather quickly.
Space exploration isn't what it was. We landed rovers on Mars before. Do something new and it'll justify the outlandish expense. Pop the champagne because you pulled up your socks, and people will not be impressed.
Monopolies are not per se illegal under British Law.
Given that the British Monarchy is a monopoly unto itself, I'd say that's an understatement.
PostScript is a sequence of instructions for directing the interpreter software to do the painting on the buffer.
So is any markup language, xml included.
Joseph Jacquard would have probably chimed in with a "me too" post at this point, or rather, when he was finished carving the words on one.
Good on ya', Justin, but isn't it a bit premature to be calling this a success? I mean, look at Spirit, sitting a few feet from its pad wondering why there's a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale falling towards it. What I'm saying is, improbability has a way of creeping into every step of the process, and until these missions kick back some science with an order of magnitude deeper value than prior martian rovers, it really hasn't succeeded, has it?
But still, woo-hoo on not exploding in a shower of sparks in the atmosphere, or getting wedged into a crag or eaten by a giant space slug or anything.
The 73 megabytes was 3173913 iterations of
"j00 R 0\/\/nnnn0r3D!!!"
Is Microsoft paying Adobe?
Because an XML-markup structured document looks and feels an awful lot like a PostScript-markup structured document.
PayPal takes 4 days to find the money you send it. The RIAA finds the money before you send it.
Try again.
>RIAA members are like banks
What a nasty thing to say about banks.
P.S. Conning people out of their life's work is not "loaning" them anything.
Thanks for the digression. This guy's story is obviously anecdotal evidence, and therefore a fallacy.
It came with the fan. If the fan fails, I get another. Disposable.