So, if I strap a few million bottle rockets to my VW bug, I could get into orbit?? Sure, the union isn't inherently reliable, but the individual components of each certaily are.
Oh, sleep deprivation, how you make Slashdot posts so much more inventive and enjoyable.
Carmack may be "open source", but Rutan is probably the most likely person currently participating in the X-Prize competition. This is the guy that designed, built, and flew the Voyager (the first non-stop around the world plane with no refuelling).
Open source doesn't always mean successful. I'm sure if Oppenheimer was "open source" while developing the atomic bomb during WWII, it would have been ALOT more difficult to win the war.
Agreed, comparing The Manhatten Project and the X-Prize is a stretch. But it's less of a stretch than comparing OSS and rocket science.
was just waiting for a perfect example of why you should always wear eye protection when doing something extremely dangerous at extremely high speeds.
You'll shoot your eye out!
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That was the first thing I thought of when I read this story. Chickens go in the big tube, a burst of feathers out the other end.
Short but interesting.
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Short but interesting.
Kinda like the Slashdot article, just leave out the interesting part. C'mon guys, can maybe we get a bit verbose about what you choose to put up on/.?? Maybe a little cut and paste of an interesting piece of the article? Or maybe a little more witty repartee by the editors.
I just saw both demos to Halo2 and Doom3. Doom3 looks cool, but the gameplay looks like HalfLife. Halo2, however, looks completely killer, and the gameplay looks to be a blast. Nice to see battles in cities. How long before H2 makes it to PC??
Somebody in Parma actually knows what a computer looks like, let alone knows how to use one?? I thought all they did in Parma was bitch about the Tribe/Browns and drink beer.
Nope, the dot-coms were for-profit and did not make a profit.
But does the intention to make a profit, and not actually making a profit, render them unqualified to receive IRS Not-For-Profit status. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition has Not-For-Profit status, and yet his organization has earned a profit. I'm sure the NAACP would love to make a profit if they could.
The US government is Constitutionally prohibited from sanctioning any state religion. In recent decades that has been bastardized into not recognizing any religion.
By far one of the most intelligent statements I've read on/. in years.
Others responding to you seem to be confusing IRS not-for-profit status with religion. They are not the same. The Catholic Church and the NAACP both enjoy not-for-profit status, but the latter is not a religion even though they both have the same tax status.
Granted, there are those that perceive the Catholic Church as a business, and the NAACP as a religion.
BTW, not-for-profit != "non-profit", the former is a tax status (more precisely a not-federally-and-other-places-taxed status) and the latter means you do not make a profit. Yes, there is a huge reality difference and a small technical difference.
So, theoretically, the failure of hundreds of dot-com businesses could have been slowed, or even stopped, by petitioning for IRS Not-for-profit status? Certainly would have been more descriptive of their business practices.
I used to have a T-shirt that was designed to piss off everybody. It said "Nuke the Gay Unborn Baby Seals". That's what reading this article felt like. Tinder to start a flame war that everybody can join in on.
Barnes and Noble (the B&M book stores) and BN.com (the web site) are indeed separate and distinct companies. I wonder how this ruling will affect them.
Walls covered with these displays on the inside that can display anything. No need for windows, just make the displays show what's outside. The appearance of glass walls without the privacy issues. The only thing missing will be natural sunlight and opening a window for a breeze. But you can make any s**thole apartment seem to be a cabin in the woods, or beachfront property, or floating 150 miles above the planet's surface.
Cedar Point seems to have fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie rides.
That's like saying there's fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie movies. There's no money in mild anymore. Over the top, push the envelope, burst a blood vessel and spray your fellow patrons. That's what sells. Not that I don't agree with you, I'm just stating facts. It's either an $84Mil opening for X-Men2 or $22.8Mil total box office for Being John Malkovich. Bigger, louder, faster, not necessarily better.
Kennywood in Pittsburgh is a great old-style park. Lots of older "sane" coasters, lots of rides for the kids, and pretty decently priced admission too. My kids loved it.
I used to live in Ohio and would go to the park at least 10 times during the summer. Last time I was there was right after Millenium Force opened up. At the top of the first drop, you're looking almost straight down into Lake Erie. Best damn coaster park in the country.
Considering that Shada was actually filmed as an episode, why do a flash animation of it? It was never broadcast (as far as I know), but bootleg copies have been available at Who conventions for years.
Instead of re-creating existing episodes, why not create new episodes. There are tons of scripts available (not fanfic, actual scripts written and submitted by Dr Who writers) that were never produced.
I used to be a hardcore Whovian, and I still enjoy watching it on PBS. However, how about some new Red Dwarf or Blackadder episodes? I'd be willing to pay for flash animated new Red Dwarf episodes. And it would work very well with Red Dwarf too.
Definitely writing a blog is different than writing a novel. Blog is more of a stream of consciousness / random synaptic firing kinda thing. While with a novel, you've gotta keep the entire story in mind while writing.
Could going back to the stream of consciousness style actually screw you up when trying to write a novel??
that's great - some 8 year old chinese girl probably had her finger tips burned off to make that cartridge for 3 bucks. Maybe she'll get paid enough to buy bandages for her stubs. Maybe you can buy her for a cheap sex slave too, instead of paying the monopoly price for a quality American hooker.
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Oh, sleep deprivation, how you make Slashdot posts so much more inventive and enjoyable.
Open source doesn't always mean successful. I'm sure if Oppenheimer was "open source" while developing the atomic bomb during WWII, it would have been ALOT more difficult to win the war.
Agreed, comparing The Manhatten Project and the X-Prize is a stretch. But it's less of a stretch than comparing OSS and rocket science.
Easy answer. Don't rent anything from Blockbuster. It's hard enough finding widescreen versions of DVDs there.
You'll shoot your eye out!
That was the first thing I thought of when I read this story. Chickens go in the big tube, a burst of feathers out the other end.
Kinda like the Slashdot article, just leave out the interesting part. C'mon guys, can maybe we get a bit verbose about what you choose to put up on /.?? Maybe a little cut and paste of an interesting piece of the article? Or maybe a little more witty repartee by the editors.
I just saw both demos to Halo2 and Doom3. Doom3 looks cool, but the gameplay looks like HalfLife. Halo2, however, looks completely killer, and the gameplay looks to be a blast. Nice to see battles in cities. How long before H2 makes it to PC??
On-call doesn't mean "I'm at The Matrix Reloaded and can check e-mail when I get back." And if it did, I certainly wouldn't be here at work right now.
Somebody in Parma actually knows what a computer looks like, let alone knows how to use one?? I thought all they did in Parma was bitch about the Tribe/Browns and drink beer.
I was going to put some witty comeback here. But I guess I don't need to. Screwing my wife is punishment enough for you.
But does the intention to make a profit, and not actually making a profit, render them unqualified to receive IRS Not-For-Profit status. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition has Not-For-Profit status, and yet his organization has earned a profit. I'm sure the NAACP would love to make a profit if they could.
What about us married guys that enjoy D&D and Star Wars? We still can't get laid, but at least now we've got an excuse. We're married.
By far one of the most intelligent statements I've read on /. in years.
Others responding to you seem to be confusing IRS not-for-profit status with religion. They are not the same. The Catholic Church and the NAACP both enjoy not-for-profit status, but the latter is not a religion even though they both have the same tax status.
Granted, there are those that perceive the Catholic Church as a business, and the NAACP as a religion.
BTW, not-for-profit != "non-profit", the former is a tax status (more precisely a not-federally-and-other-places-taxed status) and the latter means you do not make a profit. Yes, there is a huge reality difference and a small technical difference.
So, theoretically, the failure of hundreds of dot-com businesses could have been slowed, or even stopped, by petitioning for IRS Not-for-profit status? Certainly would have been more descriptive of their business practices.
I used to have a T-shirt that was designed to piss off everybody. It said "Nuke the Gay Unborn Baby Seals". That's what reading this article felt like. Tinder to start a flame war that everybody can join in on.
Barnes and Noble (the B&M book stores) and BN.com (the web site) are indeed separate and distinct companies. I wonder how this ruling will affect them.
Walls covered with these displays on the inside that can display anything. No need for windows, just make the displays show what's outside. The appearance of glass walls without the privacy issues. The only thing missing will be natural sunlight and opening a window for a breeze. But you can make any s**thole apartment seem to be a cabin in the woods, or beachfront property, or floating 150 miles above the planet's surface.
That's like saying there's fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie movies. There's no money in mild anymore. Over the top, push the envelope, burst a blood vessel and spray your fellow patrons. That's what sells. Not that I don't agree with you, I'm just stating facts. It's either an $84Mil opening for X-Men2 or $22.8Mil total box office for Being John Malkovich. Bigger, louder, faster, not necessarily better.
Kennywood in Pittsburgh is a great old-style park. Lots of older "sane" coasters, lots of rides for the kids, and pretty decently priced admission too. My kids loved it.
I used to live in Ohio and would go to the park at least 10 times during the summer. Last time I was there was right after Millenium Force opened up. At the top of the first drop, you're looking almost straight down into Lake Erie. Best damn coaster park in the country.
I would have driven to DC for this. My kids love watching JW with me and would have loved this.
Maybe next year, a couple semis filled with an actual junkyard sets up in a mall parking lot. I'd pay money for something like that.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. :)
However, remember the absolutely inspired Blackadder Christmas Special. Need to find that one on DVD, if just for the leather jock strap scene.
Baldrick: Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made of iron.
Sorry, just gotta give props to somebody using a Blackadder sig line in a story about Dr. Who.
Instead of re-creating existing episodes, why not create new episodes. There are tons of scripts available (not fanfic, actual scripts written and submitted by Dr Who writers) that were never produced.
I used to be a hardcore Whovian, and I still enjoy watching it on PBS. However, how about some new Red Dwarf or Blackadder episodes? I'd be willing to pay for flash animated new Red Dwarf episodes. And it would work very well with Red Dwarf too.
Could going back to the stream of consciousness style actually screw you up when trying to write a novel??
I would, but customs is a bitch.