As soon as Howard Stern makes up his mind to move over to satellite, I will be buying receivers for home and car, and will probably not listen to FM radio again, except in other people's cars/homes. FM has been a musical wasteland for quite some time now.
The US is part of the world. It has to start acting like it.
That's right. The US is part of a world, where other countries have ICBMs that they could lob at the US. The question isn't "why are we developing missile defenses", but "why did we wait so damn long?!?!". We should have started developing something like this in 1945.
i'd sure like to know how often you have to change the wet sand, in order to get 2 weeks worth of refrigeration?
I'd also be curious to know how cold it gets? Are we talking refrigerator-cold (like e.g. 5C), or just cool? I would imagine this is tied to the rate of evaporation, whereas the previous poster's question is tied to the total amount of evaporative heat loss produced by the water.
Isn't that a shaver? You know, the one with seven blades?
Yeah, but nobody's ever seen one, because Gilette requires stores that carry it to have an underground bombproof vault with 24/7 armed security, and would-be buyers have to undergo background checks and put up a $10,000 deposit. Oh, that, and the cartridges cost $100 apiece...
What's with all these languages that start with 'p'? perl, python, php, not to mention good old pascal, and now prothon. Is there a joke here that I'm missing?
Well, how is Prothon ever going to be eligible to be part of a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) installation if it doesn't start with "P"?
So what? Why are individual EU citizens entitled to one red (Euro-)cent from Microsoft? If (and I repeat if) anyone has actually been harmed, it's the other makers of media-player software for Windows (e.g. RealNetworks, Winamp, etc.) - if anyone should get the money, it should be them. (Not that anyone was in fact harmed IMO. It's Microsoft's software; they should have the right to bundle it and sell it any way they damn well please.)
There is always commute. Telecommute jobs are hard to find. Get a VW TDI (anything with good gas milage), and move 1 hour drive from the city, and work non-peak hours. Won't work in California (or NY?)
NYC? It takes over an hour to drive through NYC, forget about getting away from it. An hour's drive from Manhattan would still leave you in a very dense "suburban" (maybe demi-urban would be a better term?) area.
You see, for various reasons I'm stuck on a Win32 development platform right now. I have access to Linux boxes, and I'd love an excuse to get another Mac, but for the time being I'm doing all my grunt work on Windows. So in order to actually do anything useful, I'd have to do at least the initial development under Windows. And that's gonna cost me. Sure, I could download the 30-day evaluation, but that puts a "Buy Me Dammit!" window up on every app, and stops working after 30 days. Not exactly conducive to development flow, eh? But if I want to see what it should look like, I'm out to the tune of $1500. And if I wanted to also test it on a Mac, well, that's $2500. At least there's a $500 discount for two platforms
Um, or, you could buy the book, which comes with a free/non-commercial version of the library. If you're trying it out, you'll probably want a book to help you out anyway, right?
If I still have to get cable in order to have a cable modem, why would I get USDTV? Now, if they were to maybe use some of those ~20Mbps "idle channels" for (possibly asymmetric) IP connectivity, it would be more appealing...
It was a joke. And even so, I said "-40 Kelvins", and never said anything about degrees. You assumed I was an idiot and inserted the word "degrees" in your head.
No need to assume or insert anything. The Kelvin is the SI unit of temperature. It is perfectly correct to say that the temperature outside is 300 Kelvin, without throwing in the redundant word "degrees".
The real problem I am afraid isn't tech. It is why. Why should we want to unfreeze these people in a hundred years?
Um, "we"? Why do you have any say in the matter? These people engaged in a contractual agreement with another party that promised to revive them. Why should that party not be required to hold up their end of the deal?
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As soon as Howard Stern makes up his mind to move over to satellite, I will be buying receivers for home and car, and will probably not listen to FM radio again, except in other people's cars/homes. FM has been a musical wasteland for quite some time now.
<emeril> I don't know where you get your punch cards, but where I get mine, they don't come with 25GB on 'em! </emeril>
Hell, It wouldn't be all that much code to port.
Really? Gonna port DirectX 9 to Linux during your lunck breaks, are ya?
I agree 100%. This would make it much easier to skip over all those annoying emails from friends and jump straight to the pr0n.
Oh yeah? Then how come you've got main() returning void?
How 'bout:
Lindows Is Not a Distribution Of Windows, Suckahs!
Either way, I'll wait until it's out on the market.
Well, gee, so will everyone else, I'd imagine...
The US is part of the world. It has to start acting like it.
That's right. The US is part of a world, where other countries have ICBMs that they could lob at the US. The question isn't "why are we developing missile defenses", but "why did we wait so damn long?!?!". We should have started developing something like this in 1945.
It is not a Time Award but a Rolex Award and indeed very old news (2000!).
Whereas if it had been a Timex Award, it would have been given out on time.
i'd sure like to know how often you have to change the wet sand, in order to get 2 weeks worth of refrigeration?
I'd also be curious to know how cold it gets? Are we talking refrigerator-cold (like e.g. 5C), or just cool? I would imagine this is tied to the rate of evaporation, whereas the previous poster's question is tied to the total amount of evaporative heat loss produced by the water.
You can keep yer weed in there, man!
now if only they can make the text 3D.
Maybe they could render the 3D text using really tiny ASCII art...
Isn't that a shaver? You know, the one with seven blades?
Yeah, but nobody's ever seen one, because Gilette requires stores that carry it to have an underground bombproof vault with 24/7 armed security, and would-be buyers have to undergo background checks and put up a $10,000 deposit. Oh, that, and the cartridges cost $100 apiece...
What's with all these languages that start with 'p'? perl, python, php, not to mention good old pascal, and now prothon. Is there a joke here that I'm missing?
Well, how is Prothon ever going to be eligible to be part of a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) installation if it doesn't start with "P"?
...I think it's worth pointing out that one of the authors, Doug Rosenberg, has his own consulting company which supports his own software development methodology. <shrug>
So it is about 1.311 EUR per EU inhabitant.
So what? Why are individual EU citizens entitled to one red (Euro-)cent from Microsoft? If (and I repeat if) anyone has actually been harmed, it's the other makers of media-player software for Windows (e.g. RealNetworks, Winamp, etc.) - if anyone should get the money, it should be them. (Not that anyone was in fact harmed IMO. It's Microsoft's software; they should have the right to bundle it and sell it any way they damn well please.)
It was Debt of Honor, not The Sum of All Fears.
There is always commute. Telecommute jobs are hard to find. Get a VW TDI (anything with good gas milage), and move 1 hour drive from the city, and work non-peak hours. Won't work in California (or NY?)
NYC? It takes over an hour to drive through NYC, forget about getting away from it. An hour's drive from Manhattan would still leave you in a very dense "suburban" (maybe demi-urban would be a better term?) area.
You see, for various reasons I'm stuck on a Win32 development platform right now. I have access to Linux boxes, and I'd love an excuse to get another Mac, but for the time being I'm doing all my grunt work on Windows. So in order to actually do anything useful, I'd have to do at least the initial development under Windows. And that's gonna cost me. Sure, I could download the 30-day evaluation, but that puts a "Buy Me Dammit!" window up on every app, and stops working after 30 days. Not exactly conducive to development flow, eh? But if I want to see what it should look like, I'm out to the tune of $1500. And if I wanted to also test it on a Mac, well, that's $2500. At least there's a $500 discount for two platforms
Um, or, you could buy the book, which comes with a free/non-commercial version of the library. If you're trying it out, you'll probably want a book to help you out anyway, right?
Is it just me, or does "digital" cable not look as good as regular analog cable?
It's not just you. On some programming, MPEG artifacts are clearly visible, IMO.
I guess "Bio-Safety Level" is supposed to sound safer or something? "Oooh, this is a Bio-Safety Level 4 facility, it must be really safe!"
Wow, that leaves me remarkably free of warm fuzzy feelings.
If I still have to get cable in order to have a cable modem, why would I get USDTV? Now, if they were to maybe use some of those ~20Mbps "idle channels" for (possibly asymmetric) IP connectivity, it would be more appealing...
It was a joke. And even so, I said "-40 Kelvins", and never said anything about degrees. You assumed I was an idiot and inserted the word "degrees" in your head.
No need to assume or insert anything. The Kelvin is the SI unit of temperature. It is perfectly correct to say that the temperature outside is 300 Kelvin, without throwing in the redundant word "degrees".
The real problem I am afraid isn't tech. It is why. Why should we want to unfreeze these people in a hundred years?
Um, "we"? Why do you have any say in the matter? These people engaged in a contractual agreement with another party that promised to revive them. Why should that party not be required to hold up their end of the deal?