I can understand a ghetto style trip without all the luxuries, but Space Suits are complicated pieces of equipment and last time I checked, NASA's contracted suits cost $10m US each. I'd imagine a custom designed Martian suit would be way more than.
Either way, eventually the aerospace industry will come down in price. I doubt it will be this dramatic though.
That's an awesome product branding strategy - name your product with...mini at the end. Any problems will be minor compared to the...extreme and...xxl products out there!
That's one of the I like about open source. Where a megalo-corporation would do it's best to stay away from a possible African market... people that have the resources the can work together to produce their own products.
If only open source could produce food... hmm.
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"...ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and Jupiter's powerful magnetic cloud strip the water ice to make whatever oxygen has been found haloing Europa to a distance of 125 miles above the frozen pack."
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Seriously - I'd hate to be Kevin Mitnick right now... There's probably 20 different gov't agencies all getting the warrants right now. "This much havoc can only come from ONE man!" Mwuwuwuwahahhahaha.
The RIAA charges NJ Transit because apparently, some people from NJ are going to Tower Records in NY to steal CDs... but the thing is... They're using NJ Transit to do it!!! Bastards!
Heh... so... is that the appropriate analogy here? Any other fun analogies out there?
Anyone else notice that the office update looks like it's not actually updating anything? Looks to me like it's just an installer for all the previous updates combined with a new version number.
I mean, nice if you haven't updated... but if you did... then I guess this won't do anything for ya. Well, nothing besides the awesome *.2 instead of that ghetto *.1 crap.
Actually, what a way to cover up the fact that you've been doing nothing at work all day but drinking and playing .
"We need that update by Thursday!" "Oh snap! Wait, I got an idea..."
For long flights couldn't you just use an airplane power adapter? I've never tried one of these but you can check 'em out at any online store. Just search for Airplane Power Adapter.
Personally, I'm never really anywhere that I can't just plug in. The airplane you could use what I mention above, the car you could use an auto adapter, etc. I mean... I'm sure there's some times when you just can't get some good ole' "from the grid" electricity but... who wants to lug around _more_ equipment right?
I think it goes farther than that. Napster threatens the economic model of the music industry by not only showing how cheap it can be to make music and promote it, but also by allowing the "undiscovered" artist to be heard.
They want the internet to develope for them "their" way. Expensive online concerts, expensive retail websites, centralized and monopolized distribution of digital media, you name it. Even if Napster charges, it's not the RIAA's price scheme. They don't have a say in the matter and that's the problem.
If they didn't have a say in the production of music, for example, do you think CD's could cost $15-20? No way, CD's would cost $5. Same goes for soda... if it wasn't for new competition, soda prices would've continued to rise. Even though they have stopped raising soda prices, the cost of production is disgustingly low in comparison to price. I argue that this is caused by the monopolist grip the soda industry had on production until the early 1990's.
If Napster were to become any more mainstream, the music industry would be under the threat of losing profits.
To sum up, Napster is the new competition to the music industry. And all competition must be quashed right? That's every market - computers, electronics, cars, DVD, et al.
It's a sick capitalist society out there and they're coming to your house next.
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And it's not even on Earth man, how did they use radar to detect the lost city of the Ancients in another galaxy.
... wait... damn I need to get a life.
Pfft, I call bs on this story. Unless Teal'c
All is well over here with the 3.4.1 update. Now I can finally dig into those Airport Management Tools.
linkity link
Apple also put out a doc on the tools (link to PDF article)
clickity click
Now introducing the Apple Tesla Coil. Common!
Tesla + Apple = Unstoppable Power!
Did that say $3b? Oh... nevermind - why not just buy a small country and then use all of it's resources for the trip? That way it'd cost you nothing!
...
1) Purchase Country
2) Plunder
3) Go to Mars
4)
5) Break Even!
I can understand a ghetto style trip without all the luxuries, but Space Suits are complicated pieces of equipment and last time I checked, NASA's contracted suits cost $10m US each. I'd imagine a custom designed Martian suit would be way more than.
Either way, eventually the aerospace industry will come down in price. I doubt it will be this dramatic though.
That's an awesome product branding strategy - name your product with ...mini at the end. Any problems will be minor compared to the ...extreme and ...xxl products out there!
That's one of the I like about open source. Where a megalo-corporation would do it's best to stay away from a possible African market... people that have the resources the can work together to produce their own products.
If only open source could produce food... hmm.
more info: Space Daily "...ultraviolet radiation from the Sun and Jupiter's powerful magnetic cloud strip the water ice to make whatever oxygen has been found haloing Europa to a distance of 125 miles above the frozen pack."
was gonna say this too, thanks
Guess I was the only one who read it like that... shew.
"Oh my god... the Feds are taking control of the net?! What the hell is happening? What about my pr0n?!"
I guess it's good that Kevin Mitnick has started his own consulting firm. Hmmmm.
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Let me try my first profit post:
1) Free Kevin
2) Start Consulting Firm
3) (cough... cough)
4) Profit!
Seriously - I'd hate to be Kevin Mitnick right now... There's probably 20 different gov't agencies all getting the warrants right now. "This much havoc can only come from ONE man!" Mwuwuwuwahahhahaha.
Uhmmm... what about (as posted above a number of times) no taxation without representation?
Would this plan include ISP representatives gathering together in a congress to vote Britney Spears and NSYNC off the island?
So in the analogy world, is that kinda like...
The RIAA charges NJ Transit because apparently, some people from NJ are going to Tower Records in NY to steal CDs... but the thing is... They're using NJ Transit to do it!!! Bastards!
Heh... so... is that the appropriate analogy here? Any other fun analogies out there?
Guess they REALLY need that 6% back huh? heh.
... which was specifically developed for running Doom III.
I have yet to try it (iBook) but according to
f fi ceX_1012.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/DOWNLOAD/OFFICEX/O
it just seems to be an update that updates anything that hasn't been updated to the last update (sorry for the excessive use of the word "update").
"This updater includes the following previously released updates for Microsoft Office v. X for Mac:
Office v.X 10.1.1 Update
Office v.X Service Release 1
Entourage X Hotmail Update
Network Security Update"
Anyone else notice that the office update looks like it's not actually updating anything? Looks to me like it's just an installer for all the previous updates combined with a new version number.
I mean, nice if you haven't updated... but if you did... then I guess this won't do anything for ya. Well, nothing besides the awesome *.2 instead of that ghetto *.1 crap.
Actually, what a way to cover up the fact that you've been doing nothing at work all day but drinking and playing .
"We need that update by Thursday!"
"Oh snap! Wait, I got an idea..."
For long flights couldn't you just use an airplane power adapter? I've never tried one of these but you can check 'em out at any online store. Just search for Airplane Power Adapter.
Personally, I'm never really anywhere that I can't just plug in. The airplane you could use what I mention above, the car you could use an auto adapter, etc. I mean... I'm sure there's some times when you just can't get some good ole' "from the grid" electricity but... who wants to lug around _more_ equipment right?
I think it goes farther than that. Napster threatens the economic model of the music industry by not only showing how cheap it can be to make music and promote it, but also by allowing the "undiscovered" artist to be heard.
They want the internet to develope for them "their" way. Expensive online concerts, expensive retail websites, centralized and monopolized distribution of digital media, you name it. Even if Napster charges, it's not the RIAA's price scheme. They don't have a say in the matter and that's the problem.
If they didn't have a say in the production of music, for example, do you think CD's could cost $15-20? No way, CD's would cost $5. Same goes for soda... if it wasn't for new competition, soda prices would've continued to rise. Even though they have stopped raising soda prices, the cost of production is disgustingly low in comparison to price. I argue that this is caused by the monopolist grip the soda industry had on production until the early 1990's.
If Napster were to become any more mainstream, the music industry would be under the threat of losing profits.
To sum up, Napster is the new competition to the music industry. And all competition must be quashed right? That's every market - computers, electronics, cars, DVD, et al.
It's a sick capitalist society out there and they're coming to your house next.
Jon Bexell