You're assuming it would be on in the daytime. That is true for American Soaps, but this TV show is British and British soaps are in Prime Time, between 7.30 and 8pm.
I know your post is marked "Funny", but I wonder why you have this opinion that ESA is such a failure? ESA has had extremely high success with many of its missions, and probably has a similar if not better hit rate than NASA.
I'm speaking as someone who currently works on a NASA mission here.
"That said though, I've seen some REALLY POOR peer reviewed talks at conferences."
Out of interest, what the hell is a "peer reviewed talk"? Do you mean that their abstract was peer reviewed before they were allowed to talk? If so, unfortunately the quality of an abstract or even one's work doesn't have any bearing on how good you are at giving a talk.
Otherwise I'm totally baffled as to what a peer reviewed talk might be. I'm talking here as a working scientist who gives talks at conferences about 5-10 times a year.
I presume after booting into single user mode, he was going to crack the root password in/etc/shadow and recover it that way. A little unorthodox sure, but employers like people who think outside the box, right?
All cars in the UK have plates, the dealer puts them on the car when you buy it (what an efficient system! Not like California where I had to wait 3 months for my plates to come in the mail!)
But yes, there's nothing to stop a crook putting false plates on a car involved in a crime, which I'm sure many will do. Perhaps the system will pick up the fact that the plates are not the right ones though?
The entire episode is spent using forensic evidence to track down the killer criminals, and the episode ends in a carjacking followed by an almighty car chase involving 20 police cars and the criminals.
Unfortunately, just before the police are about the catch the crooks, they drive down an alley and pass through a floating police badge, costing $500, and the police promptly forget about them, causing a massive 20 car police pile up followed by period explosions for 5 minutes in which 500 police and innocent bystanders are killed.
However, the criminals later are found standing aimlessly outside a local hospital after a misguided attempt at a stunt jump landed their car in the river, which was unfortunate as they were unable to swim.
Microsoft don't make their software for Windows only though. Their largest cash cow outside of Windows itself is on 2 platforms, Windows and Mac OS X.
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Things that have recently been found to have positive health properties: beer, chocolate, coffee. In moderation of course.
Personally I follow a very simple rule - eat and drink everything, just don't eat or drink too much of any one thing.
OH! You almost had it there, but stumbled at the final post. I think what you mean is: "Everything in moderation". On the other hand, why use a 3 word cliche when you can come up with a brand new 15 word sentance!
Sadly this is demonstrates the state of the games industry, and can be blamed on consumers and not the games manufacturers. The first question most American gamers will ask when they see the Xbox360 is "is there a version of Madden for it?", European gamers will be asking "What Football game is available for it?". These EA sports franchises are the mainstream games that everyone will buy, and are necessary for a console's success. Just look at the Dreamcast: EA didn't support it, so no Madden et al. Sure Sega had their own excellent Sports franchises, but to most people "Madden" is to NFL games as "iPod" is to MP3 players.
Of course now Madden is the only NFL game due to some fairly monopolistic business practices from EA.
Real gamers are going to lap up the good original games out there like Kameo (which has been getting good reviews), the mainstream simply won't care about them though, because console gaming is all about playing sports games with their buddies.
Yes, this is true, and one of the reasons I bought a Civic as I mentioned.
However America is an exception here, cars keep their values here much better compared to Car's in the UK, even "crap" cars. New Cars in the UK are a poor investment, no matter which one you buy, because they lose their value so quickly.
The knock on effect is that in the USA the 2nd hand car market is very overpriced compared to the UK. My UK friends couldn't believe that I paid $2000 for a 9 year old car when I first moved to the US, even though it was a Honda Accord, and were even more surprised when I sold it 3 years later and got $1500 for it (and I probably could have got more if I didn't need to move 2500 miles away the next day so was in a rush to sell it).
This kind of depreciation is simply not true in North America. I like the parent poster bought a 2004 Honda Civic new after realising that it was cheaper to buy a new car than a used car. I paid $16500 after sales tax for my car (I got a sweet deal on it by doing my homework and payed $500 under invoice price by playing off local dealers against each other online).
I just checked Kelly Blue Book value for the private sale of my car used, and its listed as $15200. Lets be conservative and say that the buyer knocks me down $1000, I've still only lost $2300 off the value of my car since driving it off the lot almost 2 years ago.
I new this would be the case when buying the car, I looked into the retail value of Civics and saw that they are popular cars so have a high retail value. In fact that was the reason I was better off buying a new car, because the used cars had high retail values just a few thousand less than what I could get the car for new, and the interest rate on the load was 5% higher, meaning a 3 year old Civic would have cost me more money in the long run.
Also I plan to own the car for the life of the loan, car values tend to plummet faster as they get older, by buying a new car, by the end of the 3 year loan period I have a car that is 5 years old instead of 8 years old, which will mean my sale value on the used market will be much higher, saving me money again.
BTW - UK readers - none of this is true in the UK. Car values in the UK plummet almost immediately after purchase, I'm not sure why the used market is so different in the USA, but as someone who has lived in both countries it definitely is.
"I personally would rip to mp3 straight off the audio in signal or make CD backups, but I don't use itunes."
Or you could just burn a CD direct from iTunes, available with a single click when your playlist is selected. Or is that method not "tin-foil-hat" enough for you, and you have to circumvent the DRM via the analogue hole, despite the fact Apple makes that unnecessary?
Really, you're saying piracy and copyright infringment as some sort of political statement against DRM. In reality you're justifying not paying for stuff you want.
The real way to "stick it to them" is not to buy stuff *and* not to pirate it.
Its bad enough that record companies seem to treat dropping sales as entirely due to piracy, rather than the fact that in realty they are not providing a valuable product. If you go ahead and pirate anyway, you're just proving them right, and the legislation and criminalisation of fair use will come about because of it.
Mod parent up. Rather than follow the usual/. "DRM is bad, m'kay" argument, the poster shows how Apple has ways to make sure you never lose the ability to play your music.
Just remember to keep backups of those m4p's folks!
Can be a bit longer than that actually, depending on the orbital inclination. The satellite I work on is in LEO and we see pass times (AOS to LOS) of up to about 12 1/2 minutes.
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You're assuming it would be on in the daytime. That is true for American Soaps, but this TV show is British and British soaps are in Prime Time, between 7.30 and 8pm.
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DUH, of course I mean "possibly". God I hate the fact you can't edit comments on Slashdot. :)
Indeed, hence the correct usage of the word "probably".
1. DRM that is too restrictive to allow "fair use".
2. No DRM at all.
Its hard to imaging what Google will do to make a "better" DRM. Perhaps if they allow people to burn to SVCD or DVD, but I can't see it.
I know your post is marked "Funny", but I wonder why you have this opinion that ESA is such a failure? ESA has had extremely high success with many of its missions, and probably has a similar if not better hit rate than NASA.
I'm speaking as someone who currently works on a NASA mission here.
"That said though, I've seen some REALLY POOR peer reviewed talks at conferences."
Out of interest, what the hell is a "peer reviewed talk"? Do you mean that their abstract was peer reviewed before they were allowed to talk? If so, unfortunately the quality of an abstract or even one's work doesn't have any bearing on how good you are at giving a talk.
Otherwise I'm totally baffled as to what a peer reviewed talk might be. I'm talking here as a working scientist who gives talks at conferences about 5-10 times a year.
I presume after booting into single user mode, he was going to crack the root password in /etc/shadow and recover it that way. A little unorthodox sure, but employers like people who think outside the box, right?
In English "Pajamas" is "Pyjamas". Its not a mispelling, its just the crazy American way of spelling the work.
All cars in the UK have plates, the dealer puts them on the car when you buy it (what an efficient system! Not like California where I had to wait 3 months for my plates to come in the mail!)
But yes, there's nothing to stop a crook putting false plates on a car involved in a crime, which I'm sure many will do. Perhaps the system will pick up the fact that the plates are not the right ones though?
The entire episode is spent using forensic evidence to track down the killer criminals, and the episode ends in a carjacking followed by an almighty car chase involving 20 police cars and the criminals.
Unfortunately, just before the police are about the catch the crooks, they drive down an alley and pass through a floating police badge, costing $500, and the police promptly forget about them, causing a massive 20 car police pile up followed by period explosions for 5 minutes in which 500 police and innocent bystanders are killed.
However, the criminals later are found standing aimlessly outside a local hospital after a misguided attempt at a stunt jump landed their car in the river, which was unfortunate as they were unable to swim.
And life goes on in Vice Cit.... Miami.
Microsoft don't make their software for Windows only though. Their largest cash cow outside of Windows itself is on 2 platforms, Windows and Mac OS X.
Personally I follow a very simple rule - eat and drink everything, just don't eat or drink too much of any one thing.
OH! You almost had it there, but stumbled at the final post. I think what you mean is: "Everything in moderation". On the other hand, why use a 3 word cliche when you can come up with a brand new 15 word sentance!
Just be glad you don't live in the USA, otherwise your grandmother would have got the Ambulance Bill, not the government.
Millions of copies of Halo and Halo 2 sold and the generally stellar reviews those games got would suggest that you are wrong sir.
Sadly this is demonstrates the state of the games industry, and can be blamed on consumers and not the games manufacturers. The first question most American gamers will ask when they see the Xbox360 is "is there a version of Madden for it?", European gamers will be asking "What Football game is available for it?". These EA sports franchises are the mainstream games that everyone will buy, and are necessary for a console's success. Just look at the Dreamcast: EA didn't support it, so no Madden et al. Sure Sega had their own excellent Sports franchises, but to most people "Madden" is to NFL games as "iPod" is to MP3 players.
Of course now Madden is the only NFL game due to some fairly monopolistic business practices from EA.
Real gamers are going to lap up the good original games out there like Kameo (which has been getting good reviews), the mainstream simply won't care about them though, because console gaming is all about playing sports games with their buddies.
Yes, this is true, and one of the reasons I bought a Civic as I mentioned.
However America is an exception here, cars keep their values here much better compared to Car's in the UK, even "crap" cars. New Cars in the UK are a poor investment, no matter which one you buy, because they lose their value so quickly.
The knock on effect is that in the USA the 2nd hand car market is very overpriced compared to the UK. My UK friends couldn't believe that I paid $2000 for a 9 year old car when I first moved to the US, even though it was a Honda Accord, and were even more surprised when I sold it 3 years later and got $1500 for it (and I probably could have got more if I didn't need to move 2500 miles away the next day so was in a rush to sell it).
This kind of depreciation is simply not true in North America. I like the parent poster bought a 2004 Honda Civic new after realising that it was cheaper to buy a new car than a used car. I paid $16500 after sales tax for my car (I got a sweet deal on it by doing my homework and payed $500 under invoice price by playing off local dealers against each other online).
I just checked Kelly Blue Book value for the private sale of my car used, and its listed as $15200. Lets be conservative and say that the buyer knocks me down $1000, I've still only lost $2300 off the value of my car since driving it off the lot almost 2 years ago.
I new this would be the case when buying the car, I looked into the retail value of Civics and saw that they are popular cars so have a high retail value. In fact that was the reason I was better off buying a new car, because the used cars had high retail values just a few thousand less than what I could get the car for new, and the interest rate on the load was 5% higher, meaning a 3 year old Civic would have cost me more money in the long run.
Also I plan to own the car for the life of the loan, car values tend to plummet faster as they get older, by buying a new car, by the end of the 3 year loan period I have a car that is 5 years old instead of 8 years old, which will mean my sale value on the used market will be much higher, saving me money again.
BTW - UK readers - none of this is true in the UK. Car values in the UK plummet almost immediately after purchase, I'm not sure why the used market is so different in the USA, but as someone who has lived in both countries it definitely is.
"I personally would rip to mp3 straight off the audio in signal or make CD backups, but I don't use itunes."
Or you could just burn a CD direct from iTunes, available with a single click when your playlist is selected. Or is that method not "tin-foil-hat" enough for you, and you have to circumvent the DRM via the analogue hole, despite the fact Apple makes that unnecessary?
Really, you're saying piracy and copyright infringment as some sort of political statement against DRM. In reality you're justifying not paying for stuff you want.
The real way to "stick it to them" is not to buy stuff *and* not to pirate it.
Its bad enough that record companies seem to treat dropping sales as entirely due to piracy, rather than the fact that in realty they are not providing a valuable product. If you go ahead and pirate anyway, you're just proving them right, and the legislation and criminalisation of fair use will come about because of it.
Mod parent up. Rather than follow the usual /. "DRM is bad, m'kay" argument, the poster shows how Apple has ways to make sure you never lose the ability to play your music.
Just remember to keep backups of those m4p's folks!
Its not Apple who are saying this, its just a Wall Street Analyst with no connection to Apple.
Can be a bit longer than that actually, depending on the orbital inclination. The satellite I work on is in LEO and we see pass times (AOS to LOS) of up to about 12 1/2 minutes.
And if my employer didn't give me a Thinkpad, I'd buy a Powerbook and install Linux on it (and obviously none of my PCs run Windows).
Yeah, that was my plan when my employer bought me a Powerbook. Suffice to say that 2 years later I work almost exclusively under Mac OS X.
For christ's sake, this post is a bag on crap posted by a moron. +5 Insightful? Jesus.