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That does sound pretty fugly though:)
Guess it is better than long island where you have scores of retired old men blockading their house from the world with concrete blocks, but just barely.
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Just because you live near each other doesn't mean you play well together. Especially when money is involved. How could you possibly do this and not have someone ticked off for paying more than they think they should. Should my mother who doesn't even own a computer be subsidizing everyone elses usage? Or what happens when someone who believes in the RIAA moves into your neighborhood and then starts enforcing his beliefs on you. Sounds crazy, but how many people get fined a year because they have too much crap on their condo deck, or some other abserd thing. Oh, the arguments may or may not be rational, but that won't stop them. Especially in a neighborgood that spans a large age group. Instead of get off my lawn, it'll be get your porn of my internet.
While the water is drinkable, the primary goal is to feed the water to the Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) for electrolysis. The OGA needs to be functional in order to increase the crew size. Currently the OGA is only periodically turned on for testing and requires bags of water to be hooked up to it. The goal is to feed the water from the WCS to the OGA, allowing for the full time production of O2 needed to support a 6 man crew. Well, not full time, as it really only functions during daylight hours when it can feed off the soloar arrays.
The final missing piece is the sabatier system which will take scrubbed CO2 from the cabin and H from the OGA to produce water. The OGA currently just dumps the H overboard. All of this is to test how the entire process would work for a trip to Mars, with the goal of showing that >80% of the O2 needed for the trip can be gotten via this 3 stage cycle where the waste water from normal eating/drinking provides the initial water source for the OGA.
None of this is really about drinking the water. But it does make good headlines. Afterall, if you are brining up bags of water for the OGA, why wouldn't you just drink that water. The real reason the water is so pure is because the OGA unit is much more fickle about what it drinks than a person.
If he is guilty, than coicidental doesn't really matter. What matters is that he is being prosecuted. From the little I've read he seems pretty guilty. The story basically goes: He heard from momma.com that would sink their stock. He immediately sells. The next day momma.com makes an official announces, stock tanks. The end result is he saved himself like $600k in losses. Assuming this happened, he is guilty and whether there is another agenda behind it is irrevelent.
As anyone who tried to find a good deal when compusa went under, good deals will be few and far between. Oh, you'll see lots of 30-50% off stickers, but they'll be against the MSRP or some other jacked up price. They will never come out of this and the inventory is worth more to them as an asset for some liquidation company than if they sell at too much of a loss. And I question how much inventory they really have anyway. Last time I was in there the shelves were pretty bare and I imagine the stock room is by now too. This has been well over a year in coming.
That's the problem with Kaman. When you make your millions off of medical devices its hard to remember what realistic for the rest of the people means. Its also the problem with the medical industry, $20k for a wheelchair. Everyone who comes up with a new bed pan wants $5000 a piece for them, and lord knows you don't want to be the hospital with one of the old ones.
If you have a high failure rate then its because you are using crappy media. Just like buying heaper casette tapes strethed faster than the more expensive, the cheaper the media, the less reliable its going to be. Unless you plan on continually verify disks randomly I don't really understand the point of testing the media other than to generate some useless numbers. Call a company, find the one with the best actual rating for your price and refresh every 75% of that. I guess its conceivable that certain burners are more brutal on media than others, but I think in the end it comes down to quality media you are buying.
Well, there are a few problems which greatly reduce the effectiveness of the saturn 5 in todays world. First you need to compare requirements to understand what will work and what won't. Then you need to hope that you can modify the sat 5 to accomodate, which may or may not be possible or cost effective. If it isn't then you've wasted a few years of time. If it is you now have to go back to a supply chain that has long been dead, half of which is probably out of business, and try to actually get the parts made. Of course nobody will work with your hand drawings anymore, so we need to redo all of them in unigraphics/proe/whatever down to the nut and bolt. Along the way we need to reengineer a bunch of stuff because vacuum tubes are so passe. The cost savings become questionable at best for what will be an outdated design. And lets face it, ORION is government employment project. And from scratch maximizes that. Aerospace engineers build terrible roads and would hurt themselves with a shovel, so you have to keep them employed.
Why do you think it was bought by a corporation and added to a fleet? My guess is tax reasons. I have no problem with the rich being rich, but at least do it honestly and pay for it like you should. The whole company is nothing more than a tax shelter. Despicable.
I'm not really sure what they are trying to show with this. I'm sure that MS could go and roll up all of there cumulative costs for XP, Vista, or Windows 7 or whatever and show a worthless number that is much more impressive. And they are able to do it as real costs to them and still make a profit, while employing thousands of people. I'm not real sure what this even includes. Are they counting the source to every package that is built into Fedora, ie emacs, all the gnu utils, etc. Are they trying to point out how people are idiots for contributing for free something that Redhat will now tout for their own purpose and profits? Should they advertise it as, people all over the world have saved us billions of dollars to help us profit? What's with the recent posts with really big useless numbers later? Is the Linux community feeling inadequate in a certain area?
Thats because they currently probably have some. I think his point is that currently people are fat, dumb and happy and have no problem donating,or more accurately goofing off their time. After spending 12 hours in a soup kitchen line people may not be so anxious to waste their time online for nothing. When you don't have a job you start considering whether that $65/mo high speed internet is worth it. Or maybe you should go to bed a few hours early so you are fresh for an interview. All he's saying is that the internet today is fueled by not having other higher priorities like putting food on the table. Not saying I agree with is doom and gloom of it all, but its his position and is at least partially accurate. If i have to choose between paying utility bills and the internet I'd have to choose the first.
Indeed this is true. While the simplest cases can be made that you can get away with only loading what you need to load the portions that are referenced this becomes rather difficult, actually impossible to do, thanks to our friend the function pointer. There is absolutely no way of predetermining what doesn't have to be loaded. Simplicity wins. Load the whole thing and share it.
Except that student loans are no longer cheap, and financial aid is drying up do to the credit crunch. Schools simply are not being granted the loans they used to be in order to give out aid. The rise in tuition was first fueled by the stock surge thanks to the internet boom, and then by the massive increase in peoples equity do to the housing market as there are some pretty good tax benefits to paying for college with house equity. That equity is no longer there, or the stock that was put asside to use is greatly devalued. Take a look at the number of major projects in the last 6 months that universities/colleges have postponed or stopped. They see the writing on the wall. At least for now, the stone is beginning to be bled dry and some sanity will come back to higher education. Even your Harvards have taken massive hits in their as their trusts are massively vested in the market. 6 months ago $75 dollar gas was an impossibility. At some point higher education will have to do similar. Your expensive colleges will see there applicants drop and have to react accordingly, trickling down through the system. And that's a good thing as its completely out of control right now.
So go strap a bomb to yourself and do something about it. What, not that passionate about it? Can't imagine why Sony doesn't take offending you seriously.
Just to clarify....this is how it used to work and in my opinion should still. After ww2 the model seems to have changed to simply defecit spend it. While there was a brief surge in Bond sales after 9/11 for the most part we are funding by deficit only, assuming the costs exceed a balanced budget which of course it does. Funny how I mention deficit spending for the bailout but not the war we are currently in. Which shows right there that the public has lost interest in it and certainly aren't buying many bonds to help support it. Although to put things in perspective of the massive financial trouble we are in it took 6+ years to spend on 2 wars what Congress has approved in a few weeks for the bailouts which if you add them all together is over $1T.
Bonds. People use there savings to help fund the government to fund the war.
While I'm not sure of the accuracy, this is really the underlying story of Flags of Our Fathers. In the movie at least Bond purchases had dried up so much that the war was on the brink of not being fundable and peace may have had to be negotiated. Thus the whirl wind tour of heros to drum up public support. Accurate or not, I don't know, but basis is valid
Also, since we aren't with a gold standard we just print more money and deficit spend. Which is what we are doing now with the bailouts. The downside here being by increases money in circulation you devalue the dollar, ie inflation. That's usually not seen as a problem in the timeframe of a war and can be corrected late ron.
His point is that about 2 in 1000 people will actually ever hit this limit. The rest will happily go about there lives on the one machine that they do own. And by the time they buy another 4 machines they will be so tired of this game anyway that it won't matter. This number doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. The vast majority of people will ever only run a game on 1 machine because that's all they have. I'm not real sure how this scheme is all that different than iTunes, in fact it is probably modelled after it. Not that I game anymore, but I could care less about this sort of drm. It would never affect me in a bad way..2% doesn't sound to off the wall that it invalidates his point.
Oh please, a parser from a 1985 adventure game could figure this out:). You have a few nouns and a few verbs and adjectives. How many questions could you possibly ask from the first sentence? probably less than a dozen. At worst you have like a 1:6 or so chance of picking the right noun to try. If asked to do it this is probably one of the simpler things to accomplish. Creating a parser that can read at a 2nd grade level isn't all that hard.
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That does sound pretty fugly though :)
Guess it is better than long island where you have scores of retired old men blockading their house from the world with concrete blocks, but just barely.
Just because you live near each other doesn't mean you play well together. Especially when money is involved. How could you possibly do this and not have someone ticked off for paying more than they think they should. Should my mother who doesn't even own a computer be subsidizing everyone elses usage? Or what happens when someone who believes in the RIAA moves into your neighborhood and then starts enforcing his beliefs on you. Sounds crazy, but how many people get fined a year because they have too much crap on their condo deck, or some other abserd thing. Oh, the arguments may or may not be rational, but that won't stop them. Especially in a neighborgood that spans a large age group. Instead of get off my lawn, it'll be get your porn of my internet.
Because in this day and age noone could possibly have enough hardrive space for multiple browsers.
Ok, this was one of the funnier of the stupid comments. Cheers.
While the water is drinkable, the primary goal is to feed the water to the Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) for electrolysis. The OGA needs to be functional in order to increase the crew size. Currently the OGA is only periodically turned on for testing and requires bags of water to be hooked up to it. The goal is to feed the water from the WCS to the OGA, allowing for the full time production of O2 needed to support a 6 man crew. Well, not full time, as it really only functions during daylight hours when it can feed off the soloar arrays.
The final missing piece is the sabatier system which will take scrubbed CO2 from the cabin and H from the OGA to produce water. The OGA currently just dumps the H overboard. All of this is to test how the entire process would work for a trip to Mars, with the goal of showing that >80% of the O2 needed for the trip can be gotten via this 3 stage cycle where the waste water from normal eating/drinking provides the initial water source for the OGA.
None of this is really about drinking the water. But it does make good headlines. Afterall, if you are brining up bags of water for the OGA, why wouldn't you just drink that water. The real reason the water is so pure is because the OGA unit is much more fickle about what it drinks than a person.
If he is guilty, than coicidental doesn't really matter. What matters is that he is being prosecuted. From the little I've read he seems pretty guilty. The story basically goes: He heard from momma.com that would sink their stock. He immediately sells. The next day momma.com makes an official announces, stock tanks. The end result is he saved himself like $600k in losses. Assuming this happened, he is guilty and whether there is another agenda behind it is irrevelent.
As anyone who tried to find a good deal when compusa went under, good deals will be few and far between. Oh, you'll see lots of 30-50% off stickers, but they'll be against the MSRP or some other jacked up price. They will never come out of this and the inventory is worth more to them as an asset for some liquidation company than if they sell at too much of a loss. And I question how much inventory they really have anyway. Last time I was in there the shelves were pretty bare and I imagine the stock room is by now too. This has been well over a year in coming.
That's the problem with Kaman. When you make your millions off of medical devices its hard to remember what realistic for the rest of the people means. Its also the problem with the medical industry, $20k for a wheelchair. Everyone who comes up with a new bed pan wants $5000 a piece for them, and lord knows you don't want to be the hospital with one of the old ones.
If you have a high failure rate then its because you are using crappy media. Just like buying heaper casette tapes strethed faster than the more expensive, the cheaper the media, the less reliable its going to be. Unless you plan on continually verify disks randomly I don't really understand the point of testing the media other than to generate some useless numbers. Call a company, find the one with the best actual rating for your price and refresh every 75% of that. I guess its conceivable that certain burners are more brutal on media than others, but I think in the end it comes down to quality media you are buying.
I work for Twitter and now somebody other than my mom may listen to me! Twitter is important damnit!
Everything is free and you can do whatever you want. What a plausible idea.
Well, there are a few problems which greatly reduce the effectiveness of the saturn 5 in todays world. First you need to compare requirements to understand what will work and what won't. Then you need to hope that you can modify the sat 5 to accomodate, which may or may not be possible or cost effective. If it isn't then you've wasted a few years of time. If it is you now have to go back to a supply chain that has long been dead, half of which is probably out of business, and try to actually get the parts made. Of course nobody will work with your hand drawings anymore, so we need to redo all of them in unigraphics/proe/whatever down to the nut and bolt. Along the way we need to reengineer a bunch of stuff because vacuum tubes are so passe. The cost savings become questionable at best for what will be an outdated design. And lets face it, ORION is government employment project. And from scratch maximizes that. Aerospace engineers build terrible roads and would hurt themselves with a shovel, so you have to keep them employed.
Why do you think it was bought by a corporation and added to a fleet? My guess is tax reasons. I have no problem with the rich being rich, but at least do it honestly and pay for it like you should. The whole company is nothing more than a tax shelter. Despicable.
Wow, whatever she's on, I'd like some too.
I'm not really sure what they are trying to show with this. I'm sure that MS could go and roll up all of there cumulative costs for XP, Vista, or Windows 7 or whatever and show a worthless number that is much more impressive. And they are able to do it as real costs to them and still make a profit, while employing thousands of people. I'm not real sure what this even includes. Are they counting the source to every package that is built into Fedora, ie emacs, all the gnu utils, etc. Are they trying to point out how people are idiots for contributing for free something that Redhat will now tout for their own purpose and profits? Should they advertise it as, people all over the world have saved us billions of dollars to help us profit? What's with the recent posts with really big useless numbers later? Is the Linux community feeling inadequate in a certain area?
Thats because they currently probably have some. I think his point is that currently people are fat, dumb and happy and have no problem donating ,or more accurately goofing off their time. After spending 12 hours in a soup kitchen line people may not be so anxious to waste their time online for nothing. When you don't have a job you start considering whether that $65/mo high speed internet is worth it. Or maybe you should go to bed a few hours early so you are fresh for an interview. All he's saying is that the internet today is fueled by not having other higher priorities like putting food on the table. Not saying I agree with is doom and gloom of it all, but its his position and is at least partially accurate. If i have to choose between paying utility bills and the internet I'd have to choose the first.
Personally, I'd be more concerned with a wife who makes frozen pizza for dinner. I guess its a step up from frozen waffles, but not by much.
Indeed this is true. While the simplest cases can be made that you can get away with only loading what you need to load the portions that are referenced this becomes rather difficult, actually impossible to do, thanks to our friend the function pointer. There is absolutely no way of predetermining what doesn't have to be loaded. Simplicity wins. Load the whole thing and share it.
Except that student loans are no longer cheap, and financial aid is drying up do to the credit crunch. Schools simply are not being granted the loans they used to be in order to give out aid. The rise in tuition was first fueled by the stock surge thanks to the internet boom, and then by the massive increase in peoples equity do to the housing market as there are some pretty good tax benefits to paying for college with house equity. That equity is no longer there, or the stock that was put asside to use is greatly devalued. Take a look at the number of major projects in the last 6 months that universities/colleges have postponed or stopped. They see the writing on the wall. At least for now, the stone is beginning to be bled dry and some sanity will come back to higher education. Even your Harvards have taken massive hits in their as their trusts are massively vested in the market. 6 months ago $75 dollar gas was an impossibility. At some point higher education will have to do similar. Your expensive colleges will see there applicants drop and have to react accordingly, trickling down through the system. And that's a good thing as its completely out of control right now.
So go strap a bomb to yourself and do something about it. What, not that passionate about it? Can't imagine why Sony doesn't take offending you seriously.
Just to clarify....this is how it used to work and in my opinion should still. After ww2 the model seems to have changed to simply defecit spend it. While there was a brief surge in Bond sales after 9/11 for the most part we are funding by deficit only, assuming the costs exceed a balanced budget which of course it does. Funny how I mention deficit spending for the bailout but not the war we are currently in. Which shows right there that the public has lost interest in it and certainly aren't buying many bonds to help support it. Although to put things in perspective of the massive financial trouble we are in it took 6+ years to spend on 2 wars what Congress has approved in a few weeks for the bailouts which if you add them all together is over $1T.
Bonds. People use there savings to help fund the government to fund the war.
While I'm not sure of the accuracy, this is really the underlying story of Flags of Our Fathers. In the movie at least Bond purchases had dried up so much that the war was on the brink of not being fundable and peace may have had to be negotiated. Thus the whirl wind tour of heros to drum up public support. Accurate or not, I don't know, but basis is valid
Also, since we aren't with a gold standard we just print more money and deficit spend. Which is what we are doing now with the bailouts. The downside here being by increases money in circulation you devalue the dollar, ie inflation. That's usually not seen as a problem in the timeframe of a war and can be corrected late ron.
His point is that about 2 in 1000 people will actually ever hit this limit. The rest will happily go about there lives on the one machine that they do own. And by the time they buy another 4 machines they will be so tired of this game anyway that it won't matter. This number doesn't sound too unreasonable to me. The vast majority of people will ever only run a game on 1 machine because that's all they have. I'm not real sure how this scheme is all that different than iTunes, in fact it is probably modelled after it. Not that I game anymore, but I could care less about this sort of drm. It would never affect me in a bad way. .2% doesn't sound to off the wall that it invalidates his point.
Oh please, a parser from a 1985 adventure game could figure this out :). You have a few nouns and a few verbs and adjectives. How many questions could you possibly ask from the first sentence? probably less than a dozen. At worst you have like a 1:6 or so chance of picking the right noun to try. If asked to do it this is probably one of the simpler things to accomplish. Creating a parser that can read at a 2nd grade level isn't all that hard.
This thread will be nothing but one big slashvertisement for some company that nobody would otherwise know or care about.