Unfortunately, this isn't something I could do. My primary email is run off my website and hosting company, and it's transfer counts towards my monthly bandwidth bill. So if I hit my limit, say, halfway through the money, I get NO email for the rest of that month, and I can't have that happen. I'm sure there are others around here with similar situations... if not, well, then I guess my hosting company sucks.
I agree with you 100%. At the college I attend, if you actually read the network contract you hafta sign to use the ethernet in the dorms/on-campus housing (I don't live on campus), in all technicality, you can't even use an instant messaging program, play a game, even surf the internet unless it is strictly academic related. Of course, the only things they really police are people running ftp servers (took them 9 months to catch my friend though), file sharing programs (iMesh, Gnutella, etc) and the like.
I think that they're hoping with this new system is that the people who get to read things 20 minutes in advance will catch errors or dupes and let somebody know so it can be corrected.
And I agree, I hate reading through a bunch of comments saying "DUPE!" and "Damn you Taco that's a dupe" and all that, just to see if there's some other interesting comments maybe I missed in the previous posting.
I didn't see any mention of sound. For me, that's somewhat important in a laptop, as I like to listen to music while I'm coding on a plane or in the car (if I'm not driving mind you) or even at work.
Exactly... my sister used to brag that she had a 3.5 or whatever gpa while mine was only 3.33... and I'm way smarter then she is (seriously).
Nevermind that she took freaking easy classes and that I sometimes had to help her with her homework, while I was taking mostly AP classes, dual enrollment, and the rest honors classes.
But at least now she's realized there's no comparison, especially since she's in precalc getting a B (yes I am still helping her with her homework) where I got a B in honors precalc (about 5 years ago). At least she gives me credit for explaining something or giving her a shortcut to use.
A rather large number of the machines don't work at all, or fail during the tests... I wonder if they'll ever do hydroplanes again since they've yet to have a single one work out of two competitions (or maybe more... don't recall - most of them floated and moved, but none actually hydroplaned).
I forget which team it was (I think it was the Mules or something... forget their full name) but I was really disappointed when their motor died in the hydroplane competition because their machine was really cool... built from the helicopter blades and stuff, and I really really wanted to see it go and win... they were an awesome team.
Or are they planning to do it in the style of that new show "Escape from Experiment Island" (or whatever it's called)? You know the one... where they stick a team together of people who don't know each other then make them build crap and watch them argue and junk, with time penalties and the like.
I guess it would be ok if they kept the same "format" where they have 10 hours to build their machines then "The next day, they race!" I don't think I'd like this "random team" business though... sounds kinda... ripoffy (if that's even a word, which it probably isn't)
There's a "travel" company here in Florida that does the same thing with my email address as it's "From", and I only found out about it because I got a bounce message from AOL (user not existing). You said that the person's ISP didn't have a code of conduct, that's not as bad as when I reported it to the isp of those people not doing ANYTHING after I reported it to them. Those spammers were breaking 4 of the 6 terms of the ISP's TOS and the ISP did JACK SHIT about it.
Dunno if there's any further recourse but probably nothing will matter anymore.
When I went to work for a large national company at age 15 (yes that young... I worked after school), they did a full background check (and probably didn't turn anything up for a person my age) and made me take a drug test (I don't smoke or take drugs anyways) before they'd hire me. No biggie. If they did a credit check and I didn't know about it, hell, what kind of credit would a 15 year-old have anyways?
Granted that was 6 years ago but still. I recently went back to said company as a contact employee and I had to take another drug test, which was still no problem. Heh, technically I'm still an employee there too, just on extended leave.
I'd rather hafta take an afternoon to go take a pee test and let them run a background check, and even a credit check if they wanted (and won't "harm" my credit rating like some people here have said it might) for the price of working a good job.
The 3 frogs sitting in the pond going "Bud... Weis... Er" over and over then the alligator eats them and goes "Coors!" I laughed for a very long time after that one.
The Halloween ones are actually usually pretty good. I really liked the first one when they did their take of The Raven. Plus, you can't forget the drooling aliens.
And I agree about the bowling one, it was kinda bad.
I can't seem to find the URL that I read it all at, but the chemicals they used as propellants on the shuttle can actually kill you. 2 of them will ignite all by themselves when you combine them (used to maneuver in space), which I would definately not like to have happen to me. Things like ammonia are used to cool electronics, and ammonia spells really bad, and in high concentrations can kill you.
Your comments about flying made me remember a (rather weird) dream I had over the course of a few nights once... kinda like a mini-series.
I had these, like, implant things in my feet. The sides of my feet looked like one of those Nike Air shoes with the little air windows or whatever that are clear on the sides by my heels. (I told you it was weird) I could jump really high, like over 2 story houses high, and eventually I taught myself how to use this to "fly" from building to building... kinda like spiderman with his web stuff. Various stuff happened, like tripping once and getting scraped up, flying through a window, etc.
Dunno what it means, maybe I need to get a pilot's license or something;-)
I used to sleep walk all the time when I was younger (on the order of about 5-9 years old). One time I remember being told about in particular was that I tried to drive the car (remember I was only about 8 years old) to, as I said it, "go play golf". My mom heard me go out the front door and found me trying to get the keys into the ignition.
I've had a few other incidents but mainly just ones where I run into the wall and wake up or something.
Unfortunatley, this is what happens when you take a working Government Agency like NASA and strip it's budget, change it's focus, hog-tie it's management all for the sake of saving a few green-backs.
Perhaps it's time we take a clue from Star Trek and stop using currency... as well as kill all lawyers (I thought they said they did that in one episode). If money stopped making the world go 'round I think a few problems would be solved, don't you?
Yes but I'm talking in the event of an emergency. I certainly woould not want to try and pop a 'chute at 12k mph. I was referring to the fact that if something should happen there would be an emergency air-brake on the crew capsule that could be used after the heat-intensive portion of the re-entry burn. But in that situation the capsule would need some sort of heat protection unless they tried to stick with the emergency situation until it was "safe" to detach.
Just my wimsical dream to avoid any more loss of life in a tradegy similar to this. A loss of a vehicle we can replace, 7 astronauts, scientists, lives we can't.
The Russian and US space programs have known this for ages, but the US public just doesn't want to accept the fact that their are serious risks involved with putting human beings in orbit and getting them home safely
I agree 100%. Space flight is indeed dangerous. But one also has to look at the statistics of NASA's shuttle program: 107 launches, 2 failures (losses?). That's a pretty good record for this type of thing. There's gonna be speculation out the ass about what caused it... maybe it was old age (structural failure) or that insulation thing they're thinking about that damage the heat shield. I don't know.
The energy involved at certain critical points (launch, reentry) is of such a high order that it simply isn't feasibly to introduce life-saving components.
In a case such as the re-entry breakup in question, I actually feel that it would be feasible to have a life saving component here. Perhaps they were going too fast but then again, people have free-fallen from very high altitudes and survived. My first though was maybe some kind of expandable, I don't know let's call it an air brake, on the crew capsule that can be deployed once they pass the firey part of the re-entry procedure in case of an emergency. Couple that with some parachutes and it might actually work.
Regardless, the lessons learned from this tragedy will help to prevent another one in the future. I think NASA needs to "get back on the horse" as the expresison goes. The crew change and additional module for the ISS should go up on schedule, unless this is found to be a structural failure of some kind that affects all shuttle orbiters, or they decide to implement some sort of system in the crew capsule.
Looks like we've witnessed the end of the American (and maybe International) space program. Although I was still really young when Challenger exploded I remember that they didn't launch another mission for a long while after that. I suspect now that with the age of the current orbiters that it's gonna be put on hold indefinately.
Anyways, there's already speculation that a piece of insulating foam from the fuel tank fell off on liftoff and hit the left wing and damaged the heat shield. NASA officially declared that the shuttle is lost.
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Penny Arcade calls their new RSS feed the "News Fucker 3000", which of course is a take off of their hella funny Fruit Fucker 2000.
I thought Elm and Pine were mail programs and Pico and Nano were text editors
Unfortunately, this isn't something I could do. My primary email is run off my website and hosting company, and it's transfer counts towards my monthly bandwidth bill. So if I hit my limit, say, halfway through the money, I get NO email for the rest of that month, and I can't have that happen. I'm sure there are others around here with similar situations... if not, well, then I guess my hosting company sucks.
I agree with you 100%. At the college I attend, if you actually read the network contract you hafta sign to use the ethernet in the dorms/on-campus housing (I don't live on campus), in all technicality, you can't even use an instant messaging program, play a game, even surf the internet unless it is strictly academic related. Of course, the only things they really police are people running ftp servers (took them 9 months to catch my friend though), file sharing programs (iMesh, Gnutella, etc) and the like.
I think that they're hoping with this new system is that the people who get to read things 20 minutes in advance will catch errors or dupes and let somebody know so it can be corrected.
And I agree, I hate reading through a bunch of comments saying "DUPE!" and "Damn you Taco that's a dupe" and all that, just to see if there's some other interesting comments maybe I missed in the previous posting.
God you guys might hafta bolt for the exit after those...
(Yeah it took me a sec to think that lame one up)
I didn't see any mention of sound. For me, that's somewhat important in a laptop, as I like to listen to music while I'm coding on a plane or in the car (if I'm not driving mind you) or even at work.
Don't confuse good grades with intelligence.
Exactly... my sister used to brag that she had a 3.5 or whatever gpa while mine was only 3.33... and I'm way smarter then she is (seriously).
Nevermind that she took freaking easy classes and that I sometimes had to help her with her homework, while I was taking mostly AP classes, dual enrollment, and the rest honors classes.
But at least now she's realized there's no comparison, especially since she's in precalc getting a B (yes I am still helping her with her homework) where I got a B in honors precalc (about 5 years ago). At least she gives me credit for explaining something or giving her a shortcut to use.
And that guy that goes into that little room with the camera in the back, gets all serious, and goes "Did you hear? Stephen King is dead at age..."
A rather large number of the machines don't work at all, or fail during the tests... I wonder if they'll ever do hydroplanes again since they've yet to have a single one work out of two competitions (or maybe more... don't recall - most of them floated and moved, but none actually hydroplaned).
I forget which team it was (I think it was the Mules or something... forget their full name) but I was really disappointed when their motor died in the hydroplane competition because their machine was really cool... built from the helicopter blades and stuff, and I really really wanted to see it go and win... they were an awesome team.
Or are they planning to do it in the style of that new show "Escape from Experiment Island" (or whatever it's called)? You know the one... where they stick a team together of people who don't know each other then make them build crap and watch them argue and junk, with time penalties and the like.
I guess it would be ok if they kept the same "format" where they have 10 hours to build their machines then "The next day, they race!" I don't think I'd like this "random team" business though... sounds kinda... ripoffy (if that's even a word, which it probably isn't)
There's a "travel" company here in Florida that does the same thing with my email address as it's "From", and I only found out about it because I got a bounce message from AOL (user not existing). You said that the person's ISP didn't have a code of conduct, that's not as bad as when I reported it to the isp of those people not doing ANYTHING after I reported it to them. Those spammers were breaking 4 of the 6 terms of the ISP's TOS and the ISP did JACK SHIT about it.
Dunno if there's any further recourse but probably nothing will matter anymore.
Penny Arcade had a funny comic about CompUSA and their "customer appreciation."
Too lazy to make a department? Maybe it shoulda been "Department of Redundancy Department"
When I went to work for a large national company at age 15 (yes that young... I worked after school), they did a full background check (and probably didn't turn anything up for a person my age) and made me take a drug test (I don't smoke or take drugs anyways) before they'd hire me. No biggie. If they did a credit check and I didn't know about it, hell, what kind of credit would a 15 year-old have anyways?
Granted that was 6 years ago but still. I recently went back to said company as a contact employee and I had to take another drug test, which was still no problem. Heh, technically I'm still an employee there too, just on extended leave.
I'd rather hafta take an afternoon to go take a pee test and let them run a background check, and even a credit check if they wanted (and won't "harm" my credit rating like some people here have said it might) for the price of working a good job.
Funniest part in a Simpsons episode EVER:
The 3 frogs sitting in the pond going "Bud... Weis... Er" over and over then the alligator eats them and goes "Coors!" I laughed for a very long time after that one.
The Halloween ones are actually usually pretty good. I really liked the first one when they did their take of The Raven. Plus, you can't forget the drooling aliens.
And I agree about the bowling one, it was kinda bad.
I can't seem to find the URL that I read it all at, but the chemicals they used as propellants on the shuttle can actually kill you. 2 of them will ignite all by themselves when you combine them (used to maneuver in space), which I would definately not like to have happen to me. Things like ammonia are used to cool electronics, and ammonia spells really bad, and in high concentrations can kill you.
Your comments about flying made me remember a (rather weird) dream I had over the course of a few nights once... kinda like a mini-series.
;-)
I had these, like, implant things in my feet. The sides of my feet looked like one of those Nike Air shoes with the little air windows or whatever that are clear on the sides by my heels. (I told you it was weird) I could jump really high, like over 2 story houses high, and eventually I taught myself how to use this to "fly" from building to building... kinda like spiderman with his web stuff. Various stuff happened, like tripping once and getting scraped up, flying through a window, etc.
Dunno what it means, maybe I need to get a pilot's license or something
I used to sleep walk all the time when I was younger (on the order of about 5-9 years old). One time I remember being told about in particular was that I tried to drive the car (remember I was only about 8 years old) to, as I said it, "go play golf". My mom heard me go out the front door and found me trying to get the keys into the ignition.
I've had a few other incidents but mainly just ones where I run into the wall and wake up or something.
Unfortunatley, this is what happens when you take a working Government Agency like NASA and strip it's budget, change it's focus, hog-tie it's management all for the sake of saving a few green-backs.
Perhaps it's time we take a clue from Star Trek and stop using currency... as well as kill all lawyers (I thought they said they did that in one episode). If money stopped making the world go 'round I think a few problems would be solved, don't you?
Yes but I'm talking in the event of an emergency. I certainly woould not want to try and pop a 'chute at 12k mph. I was referring to the fact that if something should happen there would be an emergency air-brake on the crew capsule that could be used after the heat-intensive portion of the re-entry burn. But in that situation the capsule would need some sort of heat protection unless they tried to stick with the emergency situation until it was "safe" to detach.
Just my wimsical dream to avoid any more loss of life in a tradegy similar to this. A loss of a vehicle we can replace, 7 astronauts, scientists, lives we can't.
The Russian and US space programs have known this for ages, but the US public just doesn't want to accept the fact that their are serious risks involved with putting human beings in orbit and getting them home safely
I agree 100%. Space flight is indeed dangerous. But one also has to look at the statistics of NASA's shuttle program: 107 launches, 2 failures (losses?). That's a pretty good record for this type of thing. There's gonna be speculation out the ass about what caused it... maybe it was old age (structural failure) or that insulation thing they're thinking about that damage the heat shield. I don't know.
The energy involved at certain critical points (launch, reentry) is of such a high order that it simply isn't feasibly to introduce life-saving components.
In a case such as the re-entry breakup in question, I actually feel that it would be feasible to have a life saving component here. Perhaps they were going too fast but then again, people have free-fallen from very high altitudes and survived. My first though was maybe some kind of expandable, I don't know let's call it an air brake, on the crew capsule that can be deployed once they pass the firey part of the re-entry procedure in case of an emergency. Couple that with some parachutes and it might actually work.
Regardless, the lessons learned from this tragedy will help to prevent another one in the future. I think NASA needs to "get back on the horse" as the expresison goes. The crew change and additional module for the ISS should go up on schedule, unless this is found to be a structural failure of some kind that affects all shuttle orbiters, or they decide to implement some sort of system in the crew capsule.
Looks like we've witnessed the end of the American (and maybe International) space program. Although I was still really young when Challenger exploded I remember that they didn't launch another mission for a long while after that. I suspect now that with the age of the current orbiters that it's gonna be put on hold indefinately.
Anyways, there's already speculation that a piece of insulating foam from the fuel tank fell off on liftoff and hit the left wing and damaged the heat shield. NASA officially declared that the shuttle is lost.
Something I saw yesterday on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site. Same thing and it has an explanation about it and such.
The APoD site is pretty cool, the day before they had an awesome picture of the Horsehead Nebula