Ramjets can only get up to about mach 5. What if you attached one of these plasma generators onto a ramjet? It might be able to get to Mach 7
It sounds like a scramjet could probably do about mach 7.6 without any fancy plasma generators. By the way do you have any links about this plasma stuff, I don't quite get how its supposed to work. Anyway, the info below came from: Cnn.com Even though its a theoretical speed, id trust the figure to be accurate.
The HyShot scramjet is designed to combust at Mach 7.6, nearly eight times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is about 1,200 km (750 miles) per hour.
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If english is your second language then disreguard this post. English is all messed up and I apologize for having to learn it =P. If english is your primary language, then I can understand why you may have troubles on such a poll, as im wondering if im the only one who thinks that the above sentence makes absolutely no sense.
While im sure this is a fairly well put together troll, im going to respond, and you can thank that to the corona's I drank earlier =P.
Which I am sure to do anyways but think about it. What are the chances of UFO's and life on other planets? Scientists in recent years have been searching our galaxy alone and still have not come up with one planet that could sustain life.
I honestly don't think we can put a figure on how much of a chance there will be of life on other planets. We have a very limited scope when it comes to these things, but we have found that life can exist in very harsh enviorments. Thinking to the picture that we all say today from hubble, id say that, in my opinion, that there is life on another planet. You say that scientists have been looking in our galaxy for life, but im pretty sure we have only *really* looked for life on the moon. We have sent a lander to mars to collect samples, and we have many questions about some of the stuff on mars, but we haven't even ruled that out yet. The galaxy is big, very big, we have much to rule out. Take a look at that picture, and there are 6000 more galaxies out there, just in that one picture alone.
Even SETI, have been scouring? the blackened abyss for just artificial radio waves, which could be signs of life existing else where, and what? Last time I checked, they found 19 possiblities that were so far decayed they were labeled... you guessed it... Possibilities.
Ive been running seti@home on my computers at work and at home for a few years now, I am all for the effort, and I feel its the best we can do with a few radio telescopes on earth to see what we can find. Are they declaring that it is the best way of looking for life out there? Nope.. but, it is one way of doing it. Just because we have not found anything yet, does that mean we should quit?
ESP? Depends how you mean it. The ability to sense and talk with the dead? Or the ability to pick up on others thoughts? Or read minds, etc.... Why not in all honesty? I mean for those of you who are strict Darwinists or Evolususts or whatever the hell you are called. (Atheist?) Could human minds evolve to another level? To actually pick up on other human brain waves. Fuck the idea of talking to the dead. Bullshit... but the real ability to actually one day communicate through ones thoughts. I believe it. I wouldn't callit esp, nore like a psyonic-network. More like a wireless lan. So long as you are in range you can communicate. (that would be damn cool)
Im really not too sure what you are trying to say here, and I doubt that people who belive in evolution are the same who think that we can talk to the dead. I myself believe in evolution of some sort, I don't think that some 'god' snapped his fingers and we are here, in fact i think its absurd. I read the rest of your post and its not worth me really trying to reply to it all. I saw a couple points at the end that need some comment i think..:
Besides... here are two more interesting arguements that cause science to fail.
1. Why is it that when scientists calculate the movement of the Big Bang they can calculate it down to like 0.0^63 1 of a second but after that all functions of Quantum Physics and the math they use break down and don't work in the calculations and they are still trying to find a way to calculate it further? Seems kinda funny to me. (Saw that on UWTV)
Well, I would say because the big bang was something that is pretty hard to figure out, but I think its a better representation of what went on then thinking that in 7 days the world was created or whatever (and im sorry if thats wrong, but science is offering a 'more complete' explination of all this then religion does). Humans have been trying to learn about the outside world for only about 4000 years maybe (sorry if the numbers wrong, but its not a large one) and we have only started scratching the surface in the past 100 years. Have a lot to learn.
If there is no God. And we are all evolved from ameoba and what not. In all honesty, if science is right and blah blah blah, when we die. Like a computer our mind will just turn to blackness. Nothing. A void. Not thought processes, nothing. Seems to me, that would suck. then again it couldn't realy suck because I wouldn't know it.
Well, from this statement, id say you probably fall within the percentage of amercians who have no clue. Your trying to say that you believe that we did not evolve from ameoba's and whatnot because if we did, and we died, it would suck because there would be nothing going on. Im sorry, but reality doesn't work based on how much things suck, the only thing that 'sucks' changes is people's attitudes.
So, to sum this up, and im sorry to say it, but you have a real closed mind. Im not trying to label this as being bad, I feel sorry that you have such an outlook on how things operate, but its your life and your mind =).
Just because something is possible, it does not mean that we should consider that possibity
I think that if we did not consider the less-possible explinations, we wouldn't really advance that far. With that sort of attitude, I doubt we would have learned things such as: The earth revolving around the sun, the earth being round, the fact that light actually travels, etc.. I can understand a bit what you mean, I am not going to sit and worry that im going to be that person that gets hit tomorrow by a car, but when it comes to things that are of a scientific/(insert whatever else here) nature we need to have a much more opened minded attitude
One percent of America's population holds 40% of the wealth.
Source, please? How was "wealth" measured - and by whom - to get that number? Also, was that one percent of the people as individuals or one percent of the "households" where different households hold different numbers of people?
Well, a google search and the "im feeling lucky" button got me the info:
There was some other pretty interesting information:
This is what the report found:
Most households have lower net worth, adjusting for inflation, than they did in 1983, when the Dow was still at 1,000.
From 1983 to 1998, the S&P 500 grew a cumulative 1,336 percent. But the wealthiest households reaped most of the gains.
Since the mid-1970s, the top 1 percent of households have doubled their share of the national wealth. The top 1 percent of U.S. households now have more wealth than the entire bottom 95 percent.
The top 1 percent of households control 40 percent of the wealth. Financial wealth is even more concentrated. The top one percent control nearly half of all financial wealth (net worth minus equity in owner-occupied housing).
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates owns more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined. In the fall of 1997, Gates was worth more than the combined Gross National Product of Central America -- for you geography buffs, that's Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize. By the fall of 1998, Gates' $60 billion was worth more than the GNPs of Central America plus Jamaica and Bolivia.
The boom has been a bust for millions of Americans. The inflation-adjusted net worth of the median household fell from $54,600 in 1989 to $49,900 in 1997. Nearly one out of five households have zero or negative net worth (greater debts than assets), an increase from the 1980s.
Workers are earning less, adjusting for inflation, than they did when Richard Nixon was president. Average weekly wages for workers in 1998 were 12 percent below 1973, adjusting for inflation. Productivity grew nearly 33 percent in the same period.
Families have sunk deeper into debt. Household debt as a percentage of personal income rose from 58 percent in 1973 to an estimated 85 percent in 1997. Total credit card debt soared from $243 billion in 1990 to $560 billion in 1997. Credit card limits have risen to the point that the average person can charge more than eight times what they already owe. As of 1997, almost 60 percent of American households carried credit card balances -- balances that average more than $7,000, costing these households more than $1,000 per year in interest and fees.
Im not sure if thats good enough proof, ive never heard of that site, but it seems fairly credible.
I had typed up a fairly long reply but it ended up being pretty much what you said.
I work at a fairly technical job, I do support for software on windows pc's. We have some pretty smart people at work, but I can think of only a handful (out of about.. 600) I can say, "hey, they released some pretty cool hubble pictures today, its up on slashdot" and they know/care what im talking about. As an example, I find those pictures taken by hubble to be quite amazing, unreal almost. Id say 6 out of 10 americans could give a rats ass about it though.
I can't say im an expert in many things, I know how to troubleshoot things pretty well I would say (troubleshooting pc's and using methods like divide and conquer can apply in many situations =) but I find most things to be pretty intersting, and I love to read or watch things about them. Its really too bad because its amazing to think if *everyone* thought like that instead of worrying about how to make more money, etc..
If I could mod you I would, but im stuck in this little metamoderating game and Im not sure where its taking me. By the way everquest sucks =P Safehouse was one of the pages I would read everyday when I did play though, keep up the good work!
I just go to the supermarket (this has worked at every place that has those cards) and when you get in line, and they ask if you have a 'club card' or whatever, pretend to look for it, and then tell them that you don't have it on you. 3 out of the 4 supermarkets that i go to will ALWAYS use a card they have at the register. The other one (safeway) uses a phone number, so I just enter my mom's phone number and I get the discounts.
This has happened to me time and time again, and it works everytime. The cashiers really don't want to have to do anything extra, so its easier for them to use their own cards or a dummy card to get you thru.
Ya, i've never stayed at those hotels, but it does seem strange, they are all fairly ritzy..
I can probably see why they dont have the monorail planned to go to the airport. The people going to, or leaving airports usually have about 4 or 5 bags with them, and have just arrived on a long flight. Not very fabulous sounding is it? =). Stick those folks in minivans and ship them off to a hotel where they can get fancy lookin and then let them ride the monorail.
When I stayed in Las Vegas, it was on work related buisness, and I was only 17 at the time, so I wasn't able to partake in the evilness of gambling heh.. The motel was on paradise, right across the street from the airport, and Id have to walk down Tropicana Blvd. and id be pretty amazed at how fast people drive there. The place is crazy though in my opinion, everyone's eyes seem to have dollar signs in them, and the air stinks of money. Maybe it'll be funner next time I go and I can actually gamble =)
I think it's about time the record companies started realising that mp3s have led to increased sales & free advertising and stop being so draconian about them!
I don't think you realize why the record companies don't like mp3 trading. They probably realize that they do sell more cds each year, compared to the last. What the problem is, they don't make any money when you trade mp3's. They want to make money anyway, and everyway that they can. They see a world where everytime you click to download an mp3, they get money. Right now, this is not happening. You could get all the data you wanted, showing charts, graphs, anything saying that they did do better this year then last, but they still are not going to like free mp3 trading. I remember around when napster was getting in trouble, the RIAA had stated that they lost 6% in sales that year. What they didn't mention is that the only loss they had was in tape and cd singles, everything else was a rise in the sale of said product. They could be pulling one of those "We projected we would make x amount, but we only made y amount instead. The only logical solution to this was because of z, when in fact the public just didn't buy as many this year as they did last because of a large rush of commercialized crap bands that come in a neatly packaged up in a box or whatever else it might be.
So in short, I think they already do realize that mp3's have led to increased sales and free advertising. They wont admit it though. They just see that they could be making 4 times as much if they were in control.
Washington seems to have a big problem with money. I live in Idaho myself, but work in Washington, so I hear about things here and there. Probably the most interesting fumble, is this big parking garage in Spokane Washington, that no one wants to seem to pay for. I believe some of the money was put up front by the city, but they arne't making it back or something.
I also hear that they want to use people's property taxes to help pay for the crappy roads there, because they had used the Gas Taxes for something else, or because they are trying to find the cheapest contractor to pave the roads with gravel, that gets all messed up when the winter hits here, and all the water gets under the roads, freezes, and makes potholes.
Its quite a mess, im just glad I dont live there..
Hmm.. thats pretty amazing, when I was at the Las Vegas Airport (id say around.. 1998) there was a shuttle for me when I was saying in a motel. The motel was across the strip with the airport in between the 2, so it was a pretty cheap motel and I had a shuttle.
I also had to wait for about 15min while it got there, and saw about 100 other shuttles.
Its probably a lot easier then remembering, "The Village People Act", then squishing that down to its acronym, which would then be TVPA, and then changing the T to a D, the V to an M, the C to a P, and then leave the A there.
Sorry, switch the C and the P around.. See how confusing it is heh..
>>I've noticed a lot of people getting confused >>by this. The best way to remember it:
>>"The Village People Act"
>>Just change the Y to a D (i.e., "YMCA" -> "DMCA").
Actually I think the best way to remember it is to say it outloud. Does Digital Copyright Millenium Act sound right?
Its probably a lot easier then remembering, "The Village People Act", then squishing that down to its acronym, which would then be TVPA, and then changing the T to a D, the V to an M, the C to a P, and then leave the A there.
You really can't comeback with something like.. "what have you done with the last 12 years of my life" because it doesn't work. I can put everyone up to the standards of some of the greats of our time, and it will make everyone look like monkeys. All I am saying is that I don't see a good outlook for a company trying to sell these computers, which in my opinion, are overpriced. I am allowed to have an opinion from what I can remember. And its not like im doing senseless slashdot trolling, as I gave an example of how I would do this instead.
So, what have you done in the last 10 years besides trying to squash down the thoughts of others?
From what I can see this is a company that is just starting up. This thing that they are selling, in my opinion, is pretty overpriced. With the money that it took to buy all the accessories, you could probably make yourself for cheaper. I hope they do well, but I don't see the masses of people buying any of those, let along a single person.
I would do something like this:
Make a wearable computer for lets say.. people that stock large amounts of stuff in warehouses. Would be pretty handy to have the full inventory at the press of a button, without having to look away. Make a few of these units, approach some large company who have a lot of these workers, and see if you can get a few of them to use it for a few days to see if its useful. It probably will, or they didn't make it right. Do this to a few different companies/different markets, and you have quite a base of users out there, and you then market it to the public, using the above examples of how good it works.
I read thru their website a bit, didn't really see much of any of that going on. Like I said, I hope they do well, but I don't think they are doing it right if they want it to take off..
I was reading some of the released FBI documents on www.xenu.net, and I was pretty suprised when I was looking at the early documents. Most of them were Hubbard writing the FBI accusing this person and that person of being a Communist. He also said that he would provide fingerprints of all his 'employees' to the FBI to help stop Communism. It was also amusing when this pastor wrote the FBI concerning a pamphlet that he had found near his church. The FBI wrote him back telling him that they don't release records of that nature, but they referenced the Los Angeles Times saying that he was insane. A bit later his organization started sending letters to the FBI stating that they had taken a Communist, and with Dianetics, converted him back to a normal person or something to that nature.
Adding to that, he was also accused by his wife for torturing her, with sleep deprivation, beatings, and so on. I also read a telegram from cuba, the gov't there was asking the FBI why someone named Ron Hubbard was asking for protection by the Military in Cuba from 'Communists'. The FBI then replied with a fairly long telegram pretty much spelling out all this craziness he has gotten himself into. His organization was accused of teaching surgery without a license, they mentioned his wife and that whole thing, but really didn't mention what to do about it. I guess it was apparent by all that info that the guy was a wacko and to treat him as such.
Its quite an interesting story, id love to see a real good interview with one of the celebrity $cientologists about what its all about, and what they think of whats going on, etc.. I know everyone has their beliefs and all that, and I respect it. I also think that $cientologists are all brainwashed and are programmed to believe in it. I guess i'll have to revise my thought on that to say, "i respect anyone's free-will in believing what they do", as these people seriously have problems.
Well, in my opinion, when you put a server on the internet, PEOPLE WILL VIEW IT!!!. If for some messed up reason, you think that you can put something out for the public to see, and expect only the poeple you want looking at it to look at it, wake up. If you want to make it so only a select few cultis.. err readers want to look at your site, password protect it =). I really don't even see why we need to get into the area of google caching pages, heck, every computer out there usually has a cache of pages you have been to. What makes me laugh is seeing those sites that forbid the right click, to 'protect' their images. I often wonder if the person who sold the creator of that site lets them know that whenever anyone goes to the site they have the pic on their machine already.. Ah well, I like what google is doing, it should be interesting to see what happens with all this..
Think about it...so many groups and companies competing against one another charging different levels of prices (free to $$$$$) for software products that are essentially based upon industry standards and are interchangeable with one another.
- stop lifting stories from Arstechnica or HardOCP three days after they first appear
I don't have much of a problem with this, I used to read those sites a lot but now I don't, so any news posted from that site is new news to me..
stop duplicates, it's easy to avoid with just a little attention
I agree with this 100%. In fact I think it should be tied in with the search system. Attach keywords to each story, so they would be easily searchable, and the results would be relevent. It can be done, 90% of the searches done on google the thing im looking for is within the first 10 hits. Make this also an automatic query done when submitting a story, to show relevent stories. Stories that are duplicated but are over lets say a month difference in time aren't that bad, especially if new news has come out about whatever it is. When its like, a day apart, thats just sloppy..
dump Michael Sims and Jon Katz
Well, I guess it depends on how you look at things. Jon Katz probably has the highest amount of replies to his stories, and usually its about how bad he is. Im not saying he is bad myself, but thats usually whats in the story. Having him around seems to bring more posters in, why would getting rid of him better the site? You, have the power to fix this yourself though. Its called preferences, and you can use them to.. *filter* out his stories. Its been there for a while, and if you have it checked, Jon Katz and Micheal Sims may not even work for slashdot.org anymore and you shouldn't have any idea... Or are you one of those who like to just keep them there so you can bitch about them?
Ok, sorry got ranting a little bit, but if John Carmack decided to submit a story about a new site he made, id like to know about it. If people want to complain about how the MPAA is run, I like reading about it, and I like reading about anime as well. Its unfortunate that most of the movies that come out fall under the MPAA, not all do though. Some of your complaints are valid, but most are just an opinion that not everyone shares..
Hmm, just from one of the links that were in the story:
document is not
illegal in Holland, and is the property of one of XS4ALL's customers.
So far German authorities have not contacted XS4ALL, no official
requests where made to remove these documents from our server.
I don't know about you, but it sounds like the documents in question are not illegal in the Netherlands (not much seems to be illegal in the netherlands).
Here is also a clip from the European Convention of Human Rights, article 10:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall
include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information
an ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of
frontiers."
Now where is the 'not legal' part of all this? The only place i can see that happen is the party that is in Germany.. I haven't heard of this issue until today so I may not know all there is to know about it, but I did read parts of the article that don't seem to corrolate with what your saying...
Slashdot Mirror
It sounds like a scramjet could probably do about mach 7.6 without any fancy plasma generators. By the way do you have any links about this plasma stuff, I don't quite get how its supposed to work. Anyway, the info below came from: Cnn.com Even though its a theoretical speed, id trust the figure to be accurate.
The HyShot scramjet is designed to combust at Mach 7.6, nearly eight times the speed of sound. The speed of sound is about 1,200 km (750 miles) per hour.
Haha, that is so true! =)
Its a 64mb flash card
If english is your second language then disreguard this post. English is all messed up and I apologize for having to learn it =P. If english is your primary language, then I can understand why you may have troubles on such a poll, as im wondering if im the only one who thinks that the above sentence makes absolutely no sense.
Which I am sure to do anyways but think about it. What are the chances of UFO's and life on other planets? Scientists in recent years have been searching our galaxy alone and still have not come up with one planet that could sustain life.
I honestly don't think we can put a figure on how much of a chance there will be of life on other planets. We have a very limited scope when it comes to these things, but we have found that life can exist in very harsh enviorments. Thinking to the picture that we all say today from hubble, id say that, in my opinion, that there is life on another planet. You say that scientists have been looking in our galaxy for life, but im pretty sure we have only *really* looked for life on the moon. We have sent a lander to mars to collect samples, and we have many questions about some of the stuff on mars, but we haven't even ruled that out yet. The galaxy is big, very big, we have much to rule out. Take a look at that picture, and there are 6000 more galaxies out there, just in that one picture alone.
Even SETI, have been scouring? the blackened abyss for just artificial radio waves, which could be signs of life existing else where, and what? Last time I checked, they found 19 possiblities that were so far decayed they were labeled... you guessed it... Possibilities.
Ive been running seti@home on my computers at work and at home for a few years now, I am all for the effort, and I feel its the best we can do with a few radio telescopes on earth to see what we can find. Are they declaring that it is the best way of looking for life out there? Nope.. but, it is one way of doing it. Just because we have not found anything yet, does that mean we should quit?
ESP? Depends how you mean it. The ability to sense and talk with the dead? Or the ability to pick up on others thoughts? Or read minds, etc.... Why not in all honesty? I mean for those of you who are strict Darwinists or Evolususts or whatever the hell you are called. (Atheist?) Could human minds evolve to another level? To actually pick up on other human brain waves. Fuck the idea of talking to the dead. Bullshit... but the real ability to actually one day communicate through ones thoughts. I believe it. I wouldn't callit esp, nore like a psyonic-network. More like a wireless lan. So long as you are in range you can communicate. (that would be damn cool) Im really not too sure what you are trying to say here, and I doubt that people who belive in evolution are the same who think that we can talk to the dead. I myself believe in evolution of some sort, I don't think that some 'god' snapped his fingers and we are here, in fact i think its absurd. I read the rest of your post and its not worth me really trying to reply to it all. I saw a couple points at the end that need some comment i think..:
Besides... here are two more interesting arguements that cause science to fail.
1. Why is it that when scientists calculate the movement of the Big Bang they can calculate it down to like 0.0^63 1 of a second but after that all functions of Quantum Physics and the math they use break down and don't work in the calculations and they are still trying to find a way to calculate it further? Seems kinda funny to me. (Saw that on UWTV)
Well, I would say because the big bang was something that is pretty hard to figure out, but I think its a better representation of what went on then thinking that in 7 days the world was created or whatever (and im sorry if thats wrong, but science is offering a 'more complete' explination of all this then religion does). Humans have been trying to learn about the outside world for only about 4000 years maybe (sorry if the numbers wrong, but its not a large one) and we have only started scratching the surface in the past 100 years. Have a lot to learn.
If there is no God. And we are all evolved from ameoba and what not. In all honesty, if science is right and blah blah blah, when we die. Like a computer our mind will just turn to blackness. Nothing. A void. Not thought processes, nothing. Seems to me, that would suck. then again it couldn't realy suck because I wouldn't know it.
Well, from this statement, id say you probably fall within the percentage of amercians who have no clue. Your trying to say that you believe that we did not evolve from ameoba's and whatnot because if we did, and we died, it would suck because there would be nothing going on. Im sorry, but reality doesn't work based on how much things suck, the only thing that 'sucks' changes is people's attitudes.
So, to sum this up, and im sorry to say it, but you have a real closed mind. Im not trying to label this as being bad, I feel sorry that you have such an outlook on how things operate, but its your life and your mind =).
I think that if we did not consider the less-possible explinations, we wouldn't really advance that far. With that sort of attitude, I doubt we would have learned things such as: The earth revolving around the sun, the earth being round, the fact that light actually travels, etc.. I can understand a bit what you mean, I am not going to sit and worry that im going to be that person that gets hit tomorrow by a car, but when it comes to things that are of a scientific/(insert whatever else here) nature we need to have a much more opened minded attitude
Source, please? How was "wealth" measured - and by whom - to get that number? Also, was that one percent of the people as individuals or one percent of the "households" where different households hold different numbers of people?
Well, a google search and the "im feeling lucky" button got me the info:
Here it is
There was some other pretty interesting information:
This is what the report found:
Most households have lower net worth, adjusting for inflation, than they did in 1983, when the Dow was still at 1,000.
From 1983 to 1998, the S&P 500 grew a cumulative 1,336 percent. But the wealthiest households reaped most of the gains.
Since the mid-1970s, the top 1 percent of households have doubled their share of the national wealth. The top 1 percent of U.S. households now have more wealth than the entire bottom 95 percent.
The top 1 percent of households control 40 percent of the wealth. Financial wealth is even more concentrated. The top one percent control nearly half of all financial wealth (net worth minus equity in owner-occupied housing).
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates owns more wealth than the bottom 45 percent of American households combined. In the fall of 1997, Gates was worth more than the combined Gross National Product of Central America -- for you geography buffs, that's Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize. By the fall of 1998, Gates' $60 billion was worth more than the GNPs of Central America plus Jamaica and Bolivia.
The boom has been a bust for millions of Americans. The inflation-adjusted net worth of the median household fell from $54,600 in 1989 to $49,900 in 1997. Nearly one out of five households have zero or negative net worth (greater debts than assets), an increase from the 1980s.
Workers are earning less, adjusting for inflation, than they did when Richard Nixon was president. Average weekly wages for workers in 1998 were 12 percent below 1973, adjusting for inflation. Productivity grew nearly 33 percent in the same period.
Families have sunk deeper into debt. Household debt as a percentage of personal income rose from 58 percent in 1973 to an estimated 85 percent in 1997. Total credit card debt soared from $243 billion in 1990 to $560 billion in 1997. Credit card limits have risen to the point that the average person can charge more than eight times what they already owe. As of 1997, almost 60 percent of American households carried credit card balances -- balances that average more than $7,000, costing these households more than $1,000 per year in interest and fees.
Im not sure if thats good enough proof, ive never heard of that site, but it seems fairly credible.
I'd agree with you 100% on all that.
I had typed up a fairly long reply but it ended up being pretty much what you said.
I work at a fairly technical job, I do support for software on windows pc's. We have some pretty smart people at work, but I can think of only a handful (out of about.. 600) I can say, "hey, they released some pretty cool hubble pictures today, its up on slashdot" and they know/care what im talking about. As an example, I find those pictures taken by hubble to be quite amazing, unreal almost. Id say 6 out of 10 americans could give a rats ass about it though.
I can't say im an expert in many things, I know how to troubleshoot things pretty well I would say (troubleshooting pc's and using methods like divide and conquer can apply in many situations =) but I find most things to be pretty intersting, and I love to read or watch things about them. Its really too bad because its amazing to think if *everyone* thought like that instead of worrying about how to make more money, etc..
If I could mod you I would, but im stuck in this little metamoderating game and Im not sure where its taking me. By the way everquest sucks =P Safehouse was one of the pages I would read everyday when I did play though, keep up the good work!
I can make those steps much quicker..
I just go to the supermarket (this has worked at every place that has those cards) and when you get in line, and they ask if you have a 'club card' or whatever, pretend to look for it, and then tell them that you don't have it on you. 3 out of the 4 supermarkets that i go to will ALWAYS use a card they have at the register. The other one (safeway) uses a phone number, so I just enter my mom's phone number and I get the discounts.
This has happened to me time and time again, and it works everytime. The cashiers really don't want to have to do anything extra, so its easier for them to use their own cards or a dummy card to get you thru.
Ya, i've never stayed at those hotels, but it does seem strange, they are all fairly ritzy..
I can probably see why they dont have the monorail planned to go to the airport. The people going to, or leaving airports usually have about 4 or 5 bags with them, and have just arrived on a long flight. Not very fabulous sounding is it? =). Stick those folks in minivans and ship them off to a hotel where they can get fancy lookin and then let them ride the monorail.
When I stayed in Las Vegas, it was on work related buisness, and I was only 17 at the time, so I wasn't able to partake in the evilness of gambling heh.. The motel was on paradise, right across the street from the airport, and Id have to walk down Tropicana Blvd. and id be pretty amazed at how fast people drive there. The place is crazy though in my opinion, everyone's eyes seem to have dollar signs in them, and the air stinks of money. Maybe it'll be funner next time I go and I can actually gamble =)
I don't think you realize why the record companies don't like mp3 trading. They probably realize that they do sell more cds each year, compared to the last. What the problem is, they don't make any money when you trade mp3's. They want to make money anyway, and everyway that they can. They see a world where everytime you click to download an mp3, they get money. Right now, this is not happening. You could get all the data you wanted, showing charts, graphs, anything saying that they did do better this year then last, but they still are not going to like free mp3 trading. I remember around when napster was getting in trouble, the RIAA had stated that they lost 6% in sales that year. What they didn't mention is that the only loss they had was in tape and cd singles, everything else was a rise in the sale of said product. They could be pulling one of those "We projected we would make x amount, but we only made y amount instead. The only logical solution to this was because of z, when in fact the public just didn't buy as many this year as they did last because of a large rush of commercialized crap bands that come in a neatly packaged up in a box or whatever else it might be.
So in short, I think they already do realize that mp3's have led to increased sales and free advertising. They wont admit it though. They just see that they could be making 4 times as much if they were in control.
Washington seems to have a big problem with money. I live in Idaho myself, but work in Washington, so I hear about things here and there. Probably the most interesting fumble, is this big parking garage in Spokane Washington, that no one wants to seem to pay for. I believe some of the money was put up front by the city, but they arne't making it back or something.
I also hear that they want to use people's property taxes to help pay for the crappy roads there, because they had used the Gas Taxes for something else, or because they are trying to find the cheapest contractor to pave the roads with gravel, that gets all messed up when the winter hits here, and all the water gets under the roads, freezes, and makes potholes.
Its quite a mess, im just glad I dont live there..
Hmm.. thats pretty amazing, when I was at the Las Vegas Airport (id say around.. 1998) there was a shuttle for me when I was saying in a motel. The motel was across the strip with the airport in between the 2, so it was a pretty cheap motel and I had a shuttle.
I also had to wait for about 15min while it got there, and saw about 100 other shuttles.
Sorry, switch the C and the P around.. See how confusing it is heh..
>>I've noticed a lot of people getting confused >>by this. The best way to remember it:
>>"The Village People Act"
>>Just change the Y to a D (i.e., "YMCA" -> "DMCA").
Actually I think the best way to remember it is to say it outloud. Does Digital Copyright Millenium Act sound right?
Its probably a lot easier then remembering, "The Village People Act", then squishing that down to its acronym, which would then be TVPA, and then changing the T to a D, the V to an M, the C to a P, and then leave the A there.
Thats just me though..
You really can't comeback with something like.. "what have you done with the last 12 years of my life" because it doesn't work. I can put everyone up to the standards of some of the greats of our time, and it will make everyone look like monkeys. All I am saying is that I don't see a good outlook for a company trying to sell these computers, which in my opinion, are overpriced. I am allowed to have an opinion from what I can remember. And its not like im doing senseless slashdot trolling, as I gave an example of how I would do this instead.
So, what have you done in the last 10 years besides trying to squash down the thoughts of others?
Heh yea, the bill was dated to the late 1800's so they shouldn't have much to worry about there.. Or should they? =)
From what I can see this is a company that is just starting up. This thing that they are selling, in my opinion, is pretty overpriced. With the money that it took to buy all the accessories, you could probably make yourself for cheaper. I hope they do well, but I don't see the masses of people buying any of those, let along a single person.
I would do something like this:
Make a wearable computer for lets say.. people that stock large amounts of stuff in warehouses. Would be pretty handy to have the full inventory at the press of a button, without having to look away. Make a few of these units, approach some large company who have a lot of these workers, and see if you can get a few of them to use it for a few days to see if its useful. It probably will, or they didn't make it right. Do this to a few different companies/different markets, and you have quite a base of users out there, and you then market it to the public, using the above examples of how good it works.
I read thru their website a bit, didn't really see much of any of that going on. Like I said, I hope they do well, but I don't think they are doing it right if they want it to take off..
I was reading some of the released FBI documents on www.xenu.net, and I was pretty suprised when I was looking at the early documents. Most of them were Hubbard writing the FBI accusing this person and that person of being a Communist. He also said that he would provide fingerprints of all his 'employees' to the FBI to help stop Communism. It was also amusing when this pastor wrote the FBI concerning a pamphlet that he had found near his church. The FBI wrote him back telling him that they don't release records of that nature, but they referenced the Los Angeles Times saying that he was insane. A bit later his organization started sending letters to the FBI stating that they had taken a Communist, and with Dianetics, converted him back to a normal person or something to that nature.
Adding to that, he was also accused by his wife for torturing her, with sleep deprivation, beatings, and so on. I also read a telegram from cuba, the gov't there was asking the FBI why someone named Ron Hubbard was asking for protection by the Military in Cuba from 'Communists'. The FBI then replied with a fairly long telegram pretty much spelling out all this craziness he has gotten himself into. His organization was accused of teaching surgery without a license, they mentioned his wife and that whole thing, but really didn't mention what to do about it. I guess it was apparent by all that info that the guy was a wacko and to treat him as such.
Its quite an interesting story, id love to see a real good interview with one of the celebrity $cientologists about what its all about, and what they think of whats going on, etc.. I know everyone has their beliefs and all that, and I respect it. I also think that $cientologists are all brainwashed and are programmed to believe in it. I guess i'll have to revise my thought on that to say, "i respect anyone's free-will in believing what they do", as these people seriously have problems.
Well, in my opinion, when you put a server on the internet, PEOPLE WILL VIEW IT!!!. If for some messed up reason, you think that you can put something out for the public to see, and expect only the poeple you want looking at it to look at it, wake up. If you want to make it so only a select few cultis.. err readers want to look at your site, password protect it =). I really don't even see why we need to get into the area of google caching pages, heck, every computer out there usually has a cache of pages you have been to. What makes me laugh is seeing those sites that forbid the right click, to 'protect' their images. I often wonder if the person who sold the creator of that site lets them know that whenever anyone goes to the site they have the pic on their machine already.. Ah well, I like what google is doing, it should be interesting to see what happens with all this..
And then you have Microsoft.. =)
Sorry, couldn't resist..
I thought that was only people in Indiana.
I don't have much of a problem with this, I used to read those sites a lot but now I don't, so any news posted from that site is new news to me..
stop duplicates, it's easy to avoid with just a little attention
I agree with this 100%. In fact I think it should be tied in with the search system. Attach keywords to each story, so they would be easily searchable, and the results would be relevent. It can be done, 90% of the searches done on google the thing im looking for is within the first 10 hits. Make this also an automatic query done when submitting a story, to show relevent stories. Stories that are duplicated but are over lets say a month difference in time aren't that bad, especially if new news has come out about whatever it is. When its like, a day apart, thats just sloppy..
dump Michael Sims and Jon Katz
Well, I guess it depends on how you look at things. Jon Katz probably has the highest amount of replies to his stories, and usually its about how bad he is. Im not saying he is bad myself, but thats usually whats in the story. Having him around seems to bring more posters in, why would getting rid of him better the site? You, have the power to fix this yourself though. Its called preferences, and you can use them to.. *filter* out his stories. Its been there for a while, and if you have it checked, Jon Katz and Micheal Sims may not even work for slashdot.org anymore and you shouldn't have any idea... Or are you one of those who like to just keep them there so you can bitch about them?
Ok, sorry got ranting a little bit, but if John Carmack decided to submit a story about a new site he made, id like to know about it. If people want to complain about how the MPAA is run, I like reading about it, and I like reading about anime as well. Its unfortunate that most of the movies that come out fall under the MPAA, not all do though. Some of your complaints are valid, but most are just an opinion that not everyone shares..
document is not illegal in Holland, and is the property of one of XS4ALL's customers. So far German authorities have not contacted XS4ALL, no official requests where made to remove these documents from our server.
I don't know about you, but it sounds like the documents in question are not illegal in the Netherlands (not much seems to be illegal in the netherlands).
Here is also a clip from the European Convention of Human Rights, article 10:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. this right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information an ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
Now where is the 'not legal' part of all this? The only place i can see that happen is the party that is in Germany.. I haven't heard of this issue until today so I may not know all there is to know about it, but I did read parts of the article that don't seem to corrolate with what your saying...
haha ya, no kiddin.. Throw vmware in the picture and you got yourself quite a mess =)