It would be interesting if IBM could show that SCO had absolutely no case whatsoever from the beginning and that the key driver in all of this commotion was SCO's legal department and their hired lawyers. And, if they were able to do this, if they could hold the lawyers responsible for all of the commotion by showing that they were moving things along just to collect legal fees. Then, if they could move to hold the lawyers responsible for all of the crap they stirred up and fine them or garnish their wages appropriately, we could actually have the people who are messing around with everyone pay the price for sucking the blood out of our economic system.
When the RIAA sues these people do they provide a list of the songs/albums that they say have been download in an infringing manner (or is this just for uploading)? If so, it might be beneficial to simply buy all of the items on this list. I don't know what the average settlement is, but assuming somewhere around $5000, you could pick up around 300 CDs at $17/CD on average (or perhaps cheaper if you use a CD club or something). And then, at least you have _something_ for your money. You could turn around and sell those CDs (or even return them afterwards, lol) and be better off than straight out settling.
Exactly what I was thinking. I for one would be pissed if my university decided to adopt a program like this. I don't know how much they are paying for these, but considering the cheapest I could find a 20GB iPod online is for $300, I can't imagine they are paying any less than $150. With 40,000 students enrolled here, that's $6 million my university could be spending on upgrading campus facilities, buying new science equipment, etc. I find Duke's decision here to be truly lacking the student's interest. As well, not everyone in the world thinks that iPods or even MP3 players are the greatest things in the world. I don't own an MP3 player, nor do I plan to own one anytime in the future. I've got better things to do at school, work, and home than spend time messing around with a player and what kind of music I want to listen to. I've got money to earn and things to do.
I think the USPTO's problem is that they've adopted a default 'innocent until proven guilty' mantra where all patents are valid unless proven otherwise. They need to turn their thinking around and adopt a default 'guilty until proven innocent' mantra where all patents are invalid until sufficient (or a certain amount of) time has been spent or research done to prove otherwise. If a patent application comes in for a supposed "computer/electronic technology" and some guy looks at it for a couple hours (days, weeks, etc), but doesn't know what he's looking at, how can he actually justify that this is a new, unique, novel idea by accepting the application? If a patent reviewer doesn't react with an "ah ha!, now that is interesting" that indicates he/she understands the topic and what is unique about the idea, then it shouldn't be accepted.
I didnt want Comcast to call my bluff, cancel my service, and then charge me a reconnect fee, so I never tried that until recently. I was canceling service at an apartment I was no longer living in and gave them my "too expensive" reason - the lady on the phone just said "okay" and nothing else. In fact, at my permanent residence (my parent's house) we had Comcast cable for 2 or 3 years at full price. I wanted a better deal, so I called Comcast up and told them we had been with them for so long and there are cheaper high speed options that we want to take advantage of their 6 month 19.99 special offers. The CSR said no. The only way I was able to get a special offer was by going to a Comcast field office and switching the name on the account to a different person in the household... then I was able to advantage of the special offers (and without disconnecting/reconnecting).
This only works in areas that don't experience a harsh winter. I commute about 16 to 18 mile to school, taking about 30 to 40 minutes by car. But I imagine in the winter if I tried to bike to school, it would take me a good 2 or 3 hours. Up to 6 hours of my day spent commuting back and forth to school is not acceptable.
Having said that, I think 10 miles in areas with mild winters is a max for human-powered since the commute will be about 1 hour. While with human-power, motor-assisted commute this could expand to 15 miles and take 45 minutes or so. If you spend more than 1 hour on your commute each way you have to start looking at whether your time is being wasted. If you work 10 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day, you only have 6 hours of free time left each day. Take the 2 hour commute out and you're down to 4 hours. Take any more out for your commute and your free time starts dwindling down to nothing.
When you say you "use" a "45 MPH" road, I hope that means the shoulder, not just dilly-dallying in the middle of the lane. If this doesn't mean the shoulder, then these people have every right to be pissed off, and I for one would nudge your bike off the road with my bumper. However, a faster bike would definitely be nicer. Perhaps the user could pump it up to 15 mph or so (probably the hardest portion of speeding up) and then the motor takes it up to 25, 30, 35 mph.
You know the funny thing, they sell Instruction Kits on their website! If you need instructions, then you have no business trying to build something like this:P
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You say this is why you like consoles, but the simple fact is that graphics on consoles suck horribly. Think about it, what is an XBox? Just a computer. What kind of graphics chip set is in the XBox? Some sort of NVidia creation. Is that chip set evolving and getting better just sitting in the XBox? No. Is some magical NVidia or Microsoft Gnome running in your house every 6 months and changing the chip set out with a new one? No.
The simple reason you are able to keep a console for 2 or 3 years and continue to play new games on it is because the graphics just simply suck. I'm sure if you play Doom 3 at 640 x 480 with half of the detail options turned off, it'll run fine too. But when you are comparing how well they run, you have the XBox running 640 x 480 with half of the detail options turned off, while you have the computer running at 1600 x 1200 with EVERYTHING turned on. You better see a difference in running performance... If you want your computer to last 2 or 3 years without upgrading, just keep turning the graphics levels down with each new game generation - problem solved!
This may be a hard hitting point in the software industry and other "simple" industries, but in the Aerospace industry, it is not as important as getting the job done right. Deadlines are pushed back all of the time in aerospace. And it isn't because some software engineer can't get his project turned in since he was eating too many cheetos at his desk. It is because of realistic concerns about development of the hardware, getting the correct analysis done, etc. Proof of this can be found in safety factors in various engineering fields. In civil engineering it is standard practice to allow a safety factor of at least 4, perhaps as high as at least 7 depending on who you are working with. In aerospace, you are LUCKY if you get a safety factor any higher than 2. This means that much more analysis must be done, and the design process must be carried out much more carefully... people are willing to give a little slack on the deadlines IF you can show that you need the time to properly complete the job. If you have a safety factor of 7, management doesn't care if they the engineers for an early product, because they believe the safety factor may only drop to 6 or 5.
Well, if they are around long enough to get tenure, then they can't have been that bad in the first place. Back when I was in high school, we had a slew of the old dinosaurs retire (which sucked, because they were the best teachers we had) and a slew of new hires come in. One of them was an English teacher that lacked some (not all) basic English/grammar skills and sometimes incorrectly made corrections to students' papers. Now I never had this teacher personally, but she was of only a few in the school, so I heard some of the grading mistakes she made on my friends' papers. In the end, none of the students stood up in class and called the teacher a "fucking retard" (this was a more conservative than normal school, and that kind of behaviour usually got you detention or temporary suspension), but enough kids made enough comments to enough parents that the teacher was fired after 1 semester.
But how many MP3 servers can one person use? I have a Mac II, 2 386s, 2 486s, 1 100 MHz, 1 133 MHz, 1 233 MHz, 1 Pentium 400 MHz, 1 Pentium 500 Mhz, and an Athlon 900 MHz all sitting around. I don't need 11 computers sitting around serving stuff up. I only have them all still because I haven't decided to throw some of them out in the trash yet (and I've been harvesting small components off of the older ones). Although I am using 1 as an OpenBSD router, and the 400, 500, and 900 machines are still good for other people to surf the internet.
You know what's funny, if this is an image from a classified satellite (ie a spy satellite with such high resolution) you could determine the altitude it was at when it took that image if you knew some of the dimensions of downtown New York. Like the distances of certain streets sections shown in the picture, the heights of some of the buildings in the picture. And depending upon how much they "bend away" in the picture, etc, you can determine the altitude of the satellite. Pretty interesting, I might try it if I have some time and can find some of the dimensions I need.
What I want to know is how sea horses wire up their audio systems. I mean, if they go down to radio shack and ask for a male-male cable, which one is it? The male or the female? Huh? Which one is it? For the love of all things good, will someone please tell me which one is it?????
Wal-Mart's purchasing power, as the #1 retailer in the U.S.
Wal-Mart isn't just the #1 retailer in the US, they are the largest company in the world. With an anual revenue that just peaked US $250 Billion with the last quarter. Only 30 countries in the entire world make more money than they do. On the world listing, Wal-Mart is ranked just above Saudi Arabia which has a yearly GDP of US $242 Billion.
Heck, Wal-Mart's yearly revenue is just 1/40th of the entire USA GDP.
Wal-Mart is so large they have the ability to tell their suppliers what price they will pay for their products. They have thousands upon thousands of stores all around the world which enables them to catch such a huge market.
And guess what, Wal-Mart is a privately held company to boot!
I bought an engineering text from Blackwell.co.uk for around $60 total. It took a while to ship, about 2 weeks, but I managed in the mean time. I ended up not needing it (I knew someone with the same exact text who already took the class - they let me borrow it for the semester) so I sold it... for $88 and pocketed the $28 profit!! It was brand new and the local book store was selling it for $120, talk about a freaking rip off. If I can get it for $60, you know the book store is getting it for like $40 max, yet they are still selling it for $120. The person who bought it was happy (brand new text for 2/3 the cost) and I was happy ($28 profit), all is well.
Yes, you can say explosive. Because on solid rocket boosters that is exactly what the propellant is - an explosive. If you take a hunk of the propellant, mash it up into granules and ignite it, it will violently explode. The reason why solid rocket boosters don't blow up on the launch pad is because the designers control how the burn occurs. Note that I said "mas it up into granules" a little earlier. This opens up a much greater amount of surface area to be ignited than if you left the propellant as a chunk. When you have much larger surface area exposed, it can all burn a lot faster resulting in the typical explosion. The way designers control this is by controlling the amount of surface area exposed to the burn. A much smaller surface area is exposed, so the burn occurs much less rapidly and in a somewhat more controlled fashion (although you can not control the rate of burn or stop the burn once you start it).
What I'm thinking about is if it's better to throw out an answer like that based purely on numbers that might have been used in the past that you may sort of remember. Or, to spend a minute or two trying to arrive at a logical conclusion. When you threw out the cotton ball example I immdiately, sort of by habit, began thinking about how to figure that out - decided that a per-seat basis would be the best way to figure out the volume of the airplane and proceded from there. Say you have a 200 seater plane, each person and their seat take up a 3 foot by 3 foot area, perhaps 6 feet to the ceiling. That would be 3 * 3 * 6 = 54 / person * 200 people = 10800 cubic feet. Let's say each cotton ball is 1 inch by 1 inch (and assume no compression for now) then that would be 12 * 12 * 12 = 1584 balls / cubic foot * 10800 cubic feet (approximately 10000 cubic feet) = 15,840,000 cotton balls (excluding the cargo hold for luggage).
That literally took me all of a couple minutes to create and solve in my head. Would it be better to spend a couple minutes doing this or would it be better just to shout out that several million would fit (assuming that without much thought you wouldn't shout out just a couple thousand or that it would be a billion or two). I think for a job interview, figuring it out would be the best idea, but what about once you have the job?
Well, only 60 of the original 214 Jamestown colonists survived through the first winter. At that rate a colonist had a 72% chance of dying, a lot worse than anything quoted so far. Should Europe have not established Jamestown then and give up on America until something like the industrial age would enable us to have better survival rates? But America had a large role in the devlopment of the industrial age, and not colonizing America would have put off the industrial age to the point that we might be in the midst of its development right now. I hope you don't enjoy your computer, cause they aren't coming around for several more decades.
Space travel is an adventure into the unknown and as with all adventures into the unknown - past, present, and future - there are major risks involved. Does that mean we should stop the progress? In my book it doesn't. It just means we need to keep on trying and trying harder so that we make progress but improve our survival rates.
Remember, we only have so long on Earth before it becomes inhabitable and if we haven't developed inexpensive and effective interstellar travel by then, then the human race is doomed.
Yeh, that's how things go at school. I get up at 7 am and get ready for school. I eat a bowl of plain Cheerios (about 20 oz size) with 1/2% milk and drink about 14 to 18 oz of water, finishing with both by about 7:25 am. I leave for school at 8:00 am, have classes non-stop from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm except for a 30 minute break at 1:00 pm. During this period I don't have time to stop for food, so all I do is drink tons of water at the various water fountains in the buildings my classes are in. I'm not particularly thirsty, but I am really hungry and this helps to subside the hunger pains (as well as the loud noises my stomach begins to make by about 11:30 am).
I leave school at 3 pm, get home around 3:30 pm and I eat a ham sandiwch and another 14 to 18 oz of water by about 4:45 pm.
After that, things begin to break down though because I'm home and can run to the kitchen and just grab crap to eat. And, I only go to school on Mon/Wed/Fri. But, if I could keep that kind of schedule up the entire week, I would be extremely freaking lean. I do workout at the gym and run several miles here and there though, as you don't want to just thin down without working on your muscles. But just keeping your diet in check and drinking water instead of snacking or drinking juice/pop is the way to go. Along with a supplement, this is probably the healthiest way to lose weight.
And if you want to lose weight really fast, you can just keep cutting your diet, say down to something like 1000 cal per day. Drink tons of water to feel good, and you'll lose numerous pounds per week or even every couple days.
You know what's funny? Retards who think that the president makes the economy turn on a dime. You know what causes the economy to dive-bomb? THINGS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. Ya dumbass, sheesh. The economy was dive-bombing JUST AS Bush was getting into the office. You think he can get into office, make a few phone calls, and then cause the economy to change? Well, he can't. And anyone who thinks otherwise needs to pull their head of their ass. The reason the economy dive-bombed was because of the Tech bubble and fiscal policy put into place during Clinton's presidency. Now, Clinton may have not made enough changes to cause the dive-bomb alone, but along with whatever changes all the other offices wanted and the bursting Tech bubble, the economy would have dive-bombed whether Gore or Bush became president.
Actually, I registered with NYTimes as well, because I wanted to read the articles without passing through one of those registration-generators. However, I never log in to read the NYTimes articles anymore, because selecting "www" with the mouse and then replacing it with "archive" is actually much easier than typing in my Member ID and password.
Exactly. Any of these people who are obviously hard-core spammers and, after talking to them, seriously believe that they operate a legitimate business (or who don't believe it but still spam) should be taken out, tarred and feathered, and then drawn and quartered. This is getting serious folks, and more people need to realize it. Spammers are a menace on this world, a horrible plague, virus, disease, whatever you want to call it. Now I personally wouldn't advocate anyone take action on their own, nor would I take action myself. But, as far as I am concerned right now, we need to make spamming a capital offense - punishable by death.
I watched this movie as a kid and it seemed quite scary at the time. It's quite a classic scary movie involving the unknown, perhaps alien lifeforms, maybe some government experiment, etc. I think I started out watching the original from 1958, but there was a remake in 1988. More intriguing than most of the hack n' slash "scary" crap that is put out today.
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It would be interesting if IBM could show that SCO had absolutely no case whatsoever from the beginning and that the key driver in all of this commotion was SCO's legal department and their hired lawyers. And, if they were able to do this, if they could hold the lawyers responsible for all of the commotion by showing that they were moving things along just to collect legal fees. Then, if they could move to hold the lawyers responsible for all of the crap they stirred up and fine them or garnish their wages appropriately, we could actually have the people who are messing around with everyone pay the price for sucking the blood out of our economic system.
Well, it's a thought.
When the RIAA sues these people do they provide a list of the songs/albums that they say have been download in an infringing manner (or is this just for uploading)? If so, it might be beneficial to simply buy all of the items on this list. I don't know what the average settlement is, but assuming somewhere around $5000, you could pick up around 300 CDs at $17/CD on average (or perhaps cheaper if you use a CD club or something). And then, at least you have _something_ for your money. You could turn around and sell those CDs (or even return them afterwards, lol) and be better off than straight out settling.
Exactly what I was thinking. I for one would be pissed if my university decided to adopt a program like this. I don't know how much they are paying for these, but considering the cheapest I could find a 20GB iPod online is for $300, I can't imagine they are paying any less than $150. With 40,000 students enrolled here, that's $6 million my university could be spending on upgrading campus facilities, buying new science equipment, etc. I find Duke's decision here to be truly lacking the student's interest. As well, not everyone in the world thinks that iPods or even MP3 players are the greatest things in the world. I don't own an MP3 player, nor do I plan to own one anytime in the future. I've got better things to do at school, work, and home than spend time messing around with a player and what kind of music I want to listen to. I've got money to earn and things to do.
I think the USPTO's problem is that they've adopted a default 'innocent until proven guilty' mantra where all patents are valid unless proven otherwise. They need to turn their thinking around and adopt a default 'guilty until proven innocent' mantra where all patents are invalid until sufficient (or a certain amount of) time has been spent or research done to prove otherwise. If a patent application comes in for a supposed "computer/electronic technology" and some guy looks at it for a couple hours (days, weeks, etc), but doesn't know what he's looking at, how can he actually justify that this is a new, unique, novel idea by accepting the application? If a patent reviewer doesn't react with an "ah ha!, now that is interesting" that indicates he/she understands the topic and what is unique about the idea, then it shouldn't be accepted.
I didnt want Comcast to call my bluff, cancel my service, and then charge me a reconnect fee, so I never tried that until recently. I was canceling service at an apartment I was no longer living in and gave them my "too expensive" reason - the lady on the phone just said "okay" and nothing else. In fact, at my permanent residence (my parent's house) we had Comcast cable for 2 or 3 years at full price. I wanted a better deal, so I called Comcast up and told them we had been with them for so long and there are cheaper high speed options that we want to take advantage of their 6 month 19.99 special offers. The CSR said no. The only way I was able to get a special offer was by going to a Comcast field office and switching the name on the account to a different person in the household ... then I was able to advantage of the special offers (and without disconnecting/reconnecting).
This only works in areas that don't experience a harsh winter. I commute about 16 to 18 mile to school, taking about 30 to 40 minutes by car. But I imagine in the winter if I tried to bike to school, it would take me a good 2 or 3 hours. Up to 6 hours of my day spent commuting back and forth to school is not acceptable.
Having said that, I think 10 miles in areas with mild winters is a max for human-powered since the commute will be about 1 hour. While with human-power, motor-assisted commute this could expand to 15 miles and take 45 minutes or so. If you spend more than 1 hour on your commute each way you have to start looking at whether your time is being wasted. If you work 10 hours a day and sleep 8 hours a day, you only have 6 hours of free time left each day. Take the 2 hour commute out and you're down to 4 hours. Take any more out for your commute and your free time starts dwindling down to nothing.
When you say you "use" a "45 MPH" road, I hope that means the shoulder, not just dilly-dallying in the middle of the lane. If this doesn't mean the shoulder, then these people have every right to be pissed off, and I for one would nudge your bike off the road with my bumper. However, a faster bike would definitely be nicer. Perhaps the user could pump it up to 15 mph or so (probably the hardest portion of speeding up) and then the motor takes it up to 25, 30, 35 mph.
You know the funny thing, they sell Instruction Kits on their website! If you need instructions, then you have no business trying to build something like this :P
You say this is why you like consoles, but the simple fact is that graphics on consoles suck horribly. Think about it, what is an XBox? Just a computer. What kind of graphics chip set is in the XBox? Some sort of NVidia creation. Is that chip set evolving and getting better just sitting in the XBox? No. Is some magical NVidia or Microsoft Gnome running in your house every 6 months and changing the chip set out with a new one? No.
The simple reason you are able to keep a console for 2 or 3 years and continue to play new games on it is because the graphics just simply suck. I'm sure if you play Doom 3 at 640 x 480 with half of the detail options turned off, it'll run fine too. But when you are comparing how well they run, you have the XBox running 640 x 480 with half of the detail options turned off, while you have the computer running at 1600 x 1200 with EVERYTHING turned on. You better see a difference in running performance... If you want your computer to last 2 or 3 years without upgrading, just keep turning the graphics levels down with each new game generation - problem solved!
This may be a hard hitting point in the software industry and other "simple" industries, but in the Aerospace industry, it is not as important as getting the job done right. Deadlines are pushed back all of the time in aerospace. And it isn't because some software engineer can't get his project turned in since he was eating too many cheetos at his desk. It is because of realistic concerns about development of the hardware, getting the correct analysis done, etc. Proof of this can be found in safety factors in various engineering fields. In civil engineering it is standard practice to allow a safety factor of at least 4, perhaps as high as at least 7 depending on who you are working with. In aerospace, you are LUCKY if you get a safety factor any higher than 2. This means that much more analysis must be done, and the design process must be carried out much more carefully ... people are willing to give a little slack on the deadlines IF you can show that you need the time to properly complete the job. If you have a safety factor of 7, management doesn't care if they the engineers for an early product, because they believe the safety factor may only drop to 6 or 5.
Well, if they are around long enough to get tenure, then they can't have been that bad in the first place. Back when I was in high school, we had a slew of the old dinosaurs retire (which sucked, because they were the best teachers we had) and a slew of new hires come in. One of them was an English teacher that lacked some (not all) basic English/grammar skills and sometimes incorrectly made corrections to students' papers. Now I never had this teacher personally, but she was of only a few in the school, so I heard some of the grading mistakes she made on my friends' papers. In the end, none of the students stood up in class and called the teacher a "fucking retard" (this was a more conservative than normal school, and that kind of behaviour usually got you detention or temporary suspension), but enough kids made enough comments to enough parents that the teacher was fired after 1 semester.
But how many MP3 servers can one person use? I have a Mac II, 2 386s, 2 486s, 1 100 MHz, 1 133 MHz, 1 233 MHz, 1 Pentium 400 MHz, 1 Pentium 500 Mhz, and an Athlon 900 MHz all sitting around. I don't need 11 computers sitting around serving stuff up. I only have them all still because I haven't decided to throw some of them out in the trash yet (and I've been harvesting small components off of the older ones). Although I am using 1 as an OpenBSD router, and the 400, 500, and 900 machines are still good for other people to surf the internet.
You know what's funny, if this is an image from a classified satellite (ie a spy satellite with such high resolution) you could determine the altitude it was at when it took that image if you knew some of the dimensions of downtown New York. Like the distances of certain streets sections shown in the picture, the heights of some of the buildings in the picture. And depending upon how much they "bend away" in the picture, etc, you can determine the altitude of the satellite. Pretty interesting, I might try it if I have some time and can find some of the dimensions I need.
What I want to know is how sea horses wire up their audio systems. I mean, if they go down to radio shack and ask for a male-male cable, which one is it? The male or the female? Huh? Which one is it? For the love of all things good, will someone please tell me which one is it?????
Wal-Mart's purchasing power, as the #1 retailer in the U.S.
Wal-Mart isn't just the #1 retailer in the US, they are the largest company in the world. With an anual revenue that just peaked US $250 Billion with the last quarter. Only 30 countries in the entire world make more money than they do. On the world listing, Wal-Mart is ranked just above Saudi Arabia which has a yearly GDP of US $242 Billion.
Heck, Wal-Mart's yearly revenue is just 1/40th of the entire USA GDP.
Wal-Mart is so large they have the ability to tell their suppliers what price they will pay for their products. They have thousands upon thousands of stores all around the world which enables them to catch such a huge market.
And guess what, Wal-Mart is a privately held company to boot!
I bought an engineering text from Blackwell.co.uk for around $60 total. It took a while to ship, about 2 weeks, but I managed in the mean time. I ended up not needing it (I knew someone with the same exact text who already took the class - they let me borrow it for the semester) so I sold it
Yes, you can say explosive. Because on solid rocket boosters that is exactly what the propellant is - an explosive. If you take a hunk of the propellant, mash it up into granules and ignite it, it will violently explode. The reason why solid rocket boosters don't blow up on the launch pad is because the designers control how the burn occurs. Note that I said "mas it up into granules" a little earlier. This opens up a much greater amount of surface area to be ignited than if you left the propellant as a chunk. When you have much larger surface area exposed, it can all burn a lot faster resulting in the typical explosion. The way designers control this is by controlling the amount of surface area exposed to the burn. A much smaller surface area is exposed, so the burn occurs much less rapidly and in a somewhat more controlled fashion (although you can not control the rate of burn or stop the burn once you start it).
What I'm thinking about is if it's better to throw out an answer like that based purely on numbers that might have been used in the past that you may sort of remember. Or, to spend a minute or two trying to arrive at a logical conclusion. When you threw out the cotton ball example I immdiately, sort of by habit, began thinking about how to figure that out - decided that a per-seat basis would be the best way to figure out the volume of the airplane and proceded from there. Say you have a 200 seater plane, each person and their seat take up a 3 foot by 3 foot area, perhaps 6 feet to the ceiling. That would be 3 * 3 * 6 = 54 / person * 200 people = 10800 cubic feet. Let's say each cotton ball is 1 inch by 1 inch (and assume no compression for now) then that would be 12 * 12 * 12 = 1584 balls / cubic foot * 10800 cubic feet (approximately 10000 cubic feet) = 15,840,000 cotton balls (excluding the cargo hold for luggage).
That literally took me all of a couple minutes to create and solve in my head. Would it be better to spend a couple minutes doing this or would it be better just to shout out that several million would fit (assuming that without much thought you wouldn't shout out just a couple thousand or that it would be a billion or two). I think for a job interview, figuring it out would be the best idea, but what about once you have the job?
Does anyone else think that it looks like the monitor has cancer? Yech, what a horrible design, but definitely different!
Well, only 60 of the original 214 Jamestown colonists survived through the first winter. At that rate a colonist had a 72% chance of dying, a lot worse than anything quoted so far. Should Europe have not established Jamestown then and give up on America until something like the industrial age would enable us to have better survival rates? But America had a large role in the devlopment of the industrial age, and not colonizing America would have put off the industrial age to the point that we might be in the midst of its development right now. I hope you don't enjoy your computer, cause they aren't coming around for several more decades.
Space travel is an adventure into the unknown and as with all adventures into the unknown - past, present, and future - there are major risks involved. Does that mean we should stop the progress? In my book it doesn't. It just means we need to keep on trying and trying harder so that we make progress but improve our survival rates.
Remember, we only have so long on Earth before it becomes inhabitable and if we haven't developed inexpensive and effective interstellar travel by then, then the human race is doomed.
Yeh, that's how things go at school. I get up at 7 am and get ready for school. I eat a bowl of plain Cheerios (about 20 oz size) with 1/2% milk and drink about 14 to 18 oz of water, finishing with both by about 7:25 am. I leave for school at 8:00 am, have classes non-stop from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm except for a 30 minute break at 1:00 pm. During this period I don't have time to stop for food, so all I do is drink tons of water at the various water fountains in the buildings my classes are in. I'm not particularly thirsty, but I am really hungry and this helps to subside the hunger pains (as well as the loud noises my stomach begins to make by about 11:30 am).
I leave school at 3 pm, get home around 3:30 pm and I eat a ham sandiwch and another 14 to 18 oz of water by about 4:45 pm.
After that, things begin to break down though because I'm home and can run to the kitchen and just grab crap to eat. And, I only go to school on Mon/Wed/Fri. But, if I could keep that kind of schedule up the entire week, I would be extremely freaking lean. I do workout at the gym and run several miles here and there though, as you don't want to just thin down without working on your muscles. But just keeping your diet in check and drinking water instead of snacking or drinking juice/pop is the way to go. Along with a supplement, this is probably the healthiest way to lose weight.
And if you want to lose weight really fast, you can just keep cutting your diet, say down to something like 1000 cal per day. Drink tons of water to feel good, and you'll lose numerous pounds per week or even every couple days.
You know what's funny? Retards who think that the president makes the economy turn on a dime. You know what causes the economy to dive-bomb? THINGS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS. Ya dumbass, sheesh. The economy was dive-bombing JUST AS Bush was getting into the office. You think he can get into office, make a few phone calls, and then cause the economy to change? Well, he can't. And anyone who thinks otherwise needs to pull their head of their ass. The reason the economy dive-bombed was because of the Tech bubble and fiscal policy put into place during Clinton's presidency. Now, Clinton may have not made enough changes to cause the dive-bomb alone, but along with whatever changes all the other offices wanted and the bursting Tech bubble, the economy would have dive-bombed whether Gore or Bush became president.
Actually, I registered with NYTimes as well, because I wanted to read the articles without passing through one of those registration-generators. However, I never log in to read the NYTimes articles anymore, because selecting "www" with the mouse and then replacing it with "archive" is actually much easier than typing in my Member ID and password.
Exactly. Any of these people who are obviously hard-core spammers and, after talking to them, seriously believe that they operate a legitimate business (or who don't believe it but still spam) should be taken out, tarred and feathered, and then drawn and quartered. This is getting serious folks, and more people need to realize it. Spammers are a menace on this world, a horrible plague, virus, disease, whatever you want to call it. Now I personally wouldn't advocate anyone take action on their own, nor would I take action myself. But, as far as I am concerned right now, we need to make spamming a capital offense - punishable by death.
The Blob.
I watched this movie as a kid and it seemed quite scary at the time. It's quite a classic scary movie involving the unknown, perhaps alien lifeforms, maybe some government experiment, etc. I think I started out watching the original from 1958, but there was a remake in 1988. More intriguing than most of the hack n' slash "scary" crap that is put out today.