No where near as good as Google. My evidence? Simple really: I search for "Microsoft sucks" (with the quotes) on both the MSN Search and Google web sites. MSN found 7,492 web pages whereas Google found 21,600.
This is great! If I'm in a crowded restaurant, and I find the TV show they have blaring annoying, BLAMMO! off with the TV. Who cares if someone else is watching it? What *I* want is what matters, correct?
Somehow, I see a market for "Universal ON" remotes in the unlikely event this thing catches on...
Typical. An email from the director of the movie explaining why exactly a character was left on the cutting roon floor only manages a '3' on the Informative score...
At the risk of being accused of simply promoting my own web site... (Okay, okay. I'm shamelessly promoting my own web site, but it is germane to the discussion)...here is a map showing all 414 geocaches in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area:
I have noticed that quite a few geocaches in the Minnesota area have been lost or otherwise removed over the past few weeks. Some of this is no doubt due to the usual loss of caches during the summer months, but I wonder if some of the loss is due to this new crackdown.
BTW, the National Park Service has for the past two years or so had a policy banning all physical (i.e. non-virtual) geocaches from their lands. Their position is that geocaches come under the heading of "abandoned property" and, as such, they confiscate caches as they find them.
When Apollo 11 was about to land on the moon in 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin found that they were descending toward a field of boulders, any one of which would have caused the lunar module to tip over and be destroyed.
Armstrong, selected for the mission because he was one of the best pilots in the military, was able to use the LEM's thrusters to fly the Eagle horizontally until he could bring it to a safe landing a few miles from the planned landing site.
Robot landers can't make on the fly decisions like that.
Had this been a manned mission to Mars, a human pilot would have been able to see that the lander was heading for a dangerous spot and, most likely, landed the craft safely.
I read an interesting book a few months ago called The Case For Mars. If you are interested in manned exploration of space beyond low Earth orbit I highly recommend it.
Yes, you are correct. It is amazing that two contractors, developing flight systems that were talking to each other, never noticed that they were using different units of measure.
Most of the posts have missed the point and have gone off into little metric vs. english flamage. Who cares what the units are? Just make sure you're using the same units.
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No where near as good as Google. My evidence? Simple really: I search for "Microsoft sucks" (with the quotes) on both the MSN Search and Google web sites. MSN found 7,492 web pages whereas Google found 21,600.
;)
Obviously, Google is ~3 times better.
Raise your hand if you're sick of the constant April Fool's Day postings. We get it already.
This is great! If I'm in a crowded restaurant, and I find the TV show they have blaring annoying, BLAMMO! off with the TV. Who cares if someone else is watching it? What *I* want is what matters, correct?
Somehow, I see a market for "Universal ON" remotes in the unlikely event this thing catches on...
-Buxley
Typical. An email from the director of the movie explaining why exactly a character was left on the cutting roon floor only manages a '3' on the Informative score...
At the risk of being accused of simply promoting my own web site... (Okay, okay. I'm shamelessly promoting my own web site, but it is germane to the discussion) ...here is a map showing all 414 geocaches in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area:
n t_paul.shtml
http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/minneapolis-sai
I have noticed that quite a few geocaches in the Minnesota area have been lost or otherwise removed over the past few weeks. Some of this is no doubt due to the usual loss of caches during the summer months, but I wonder if some of the loss is due to this new crackdown.
BTW, the National Park Service has for the past two years or so had a policy banning all physical (i.e. non-virtual) geocaches from their lands. Their position is that geocaches come under the heading of "abandoned property" and, as such, they confiscate caches as they find them.
-Buxley
Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint (geocaching's other website =)
Well, maybe if you have a "relevant, well-written or thoughtful post", you should log in when you post it rather than being YAAC.
Armstrong, selected for the mission because he was one of the best pilots in the military, was able to use the LEM's thrusters to fly the Eagle horizontally until he could bring it to a safe landing a few miles from the planned landing site.
Robot landers can't make on the fly decisions like that.
Had this been a manned mission to Mars, a human pilot would have been able to see that the lander was heading for a dangerous spot and, most likely, landed the craft safely.
I read an interesting book a few months ago called The Case For Mars. If you are interested in manned exploration of space beyond low Earth orbit I highly recommend it.
Most of the posts have missed the point and have gone off into little metric vs. english flamage. Who cares what the units are? Just make sure you're using the same units.
The word "Duh!" comes to mind...