"Because it takes anywhere from a week to a couple months to get a shuttle ready for flight."
THAT's the problem with the shuttles. When they were designed back in the 70's, they were supposed to have a turnaround from landing to liftoff of maybe a few weeks using a team of perhaps a dozen or so people. This didn't turn out to be feasible when implemented. The thermal insulation tiles themselves take weeks and a team of dozens to replace just by themselves, then you add prepping the payloads, inspections of every system onboard, etc.
The shuttle fleet were supposed to be nothing more than transport vehicles from ground to an orbiting research station. At the time, it was Skylab, and the shuttle was to have been in operation before Skylab's orbit decayed and crashed down. However creating the world's first reusable space vehicle took much longer than they thought, and Skylab crashed into Austrailia before the shuttle could correct it's orbit. It took many years for NASA to put up another space station, and it took other countries (albeit not proportionally) to help. In that time, they had to use the shuttle AS the research station.
Now, they have their orbiting platform again, and I think it is well time to start phasing in a new type of vehicle (before Freedom crashes down like Skylab). If there is one thing about the USA, it is that when a technological challenge is presented, we don't back down from it (Just look at how long we've been extending Moore's Law...). Right now we need to better our space program (I don't want to still have to be here once we f*ck up this planet, or some interstellar chunk decides it wants to hit us).
I'll prove thier hiccupping is similar to sucking nipples. Send me a big-breasted 20 year old centerfold-type chick over, and when I start hiccupping, i'll put my mouth on her nipples. She'll tell me what she thinks it feels like. Damn, I smell grant money.... gotta go...
Without the rendering engine it is just a window that displays bytecode. I think the part they released is the most important part. The interface, which is all that's really left in a browser after you remove the rendering engine, is pretty much an afterthought, and is pretty standard from browser to browser (save a few gimmcky knick-knacks like a google search bar in the buttonbar... which can save you maybe 3 clicks over any other browser). The back, forward, stop, reload, etc. buttons are fairly standard.
All I can find in that article is them beating to death that it uses a wider frequency band than the existing standards (which is a good thing as the other wireless connectivity standards i feel will saturate the frequency bands quickly). I may have missed it in the artice (and I apologize if i did), but have they released bandwidth figures yet?
Apple is, and always has been, a company who's primary objective is to sell their hardware. OSX, iPod, Safari, iLife.. all that crap just makes people want to buy thir hardware. Unless this changes sometime in the near future, I don't see why they would turn against OSS, there would be no profit in it. It sure wouldn't help them sell hardware, in reality it would hurt them as they would most likely scorn a whole new following of Apple fans (not addicts... yet).
If this is as widespread as it would appear, it's just a matter of time before someone works up the nerve to file a class action lawsuit. If I were you (and IANAL), i'd keep any paperwork IBM has sent you disputing your claim of a faulty product. It may help you to settle the matter if it ever does go to court.
I had one in high school. WE used to steal the electronic ignighters off of our neighbor's bar-b-que grills to create the spark. After testing every product, we found that starting fluid (basically ether) gave the best launches. The next best is that aqua net hair spray crap that everyone's grandma uses to make their helmet hair. Once, we even made a double-barreled one, which actually worked pretty well (seperate chambers and ignighters). I wish i still had pictures!
Now Sony has a defense.. "It wasn't our game that killed those people, it was e-thrombosis"
It's sad that people need medical proof before they would even consider getting up a few times a day instead of sitting at a computer for 18+ hours straight. Back in the day, we called that common sense.
As one of the articles I read on the issue stated, it really does show that their policy of blaming the users for not patching their systems perhaps isn't the best approach to take. It is in fact blaming the victim for the software's flaws. Maybe this will turn microsoft more towards making sure their products are more secure from the start if this info gets around enough. Yes, I know Billg's "Trusted Computing" plan is rather new, but they sure seem to get caught with their pants down often.
... and that's all great, but the really useful figure would also include how many albums you could produce after purchasing all these components. I'm guessing all these charges wouldn't be billed to each client that comes in your door. Yes, the initial price is high, but if the equipment is as good as you claim it to be, and based on the price, i'd sure hope it owuld be able to go for at least a couple of years before obsolescence. So, all these fantastic figures are nice, but until you include how many albums/songs/etc you get per setup, it's all pretty meaningless, unless of course you have THE bitchiest clients in the world that require you to purchase their own hardware each time. And i'd sure hope that any band worth their sweat weight would at least have their own instruments and drummer.
"She said the RIAA board will conduct a search for her replacement." -AP
Sure, they've made a good few years doing nothing but searching... on Kazaa, Morpeus, Napster... oh wait. I hope this turns out like the presidential races and when they discover the new pres. has downloaded MP3s all hell will break loose!;)
I'm going to go weld on a couple of extra cylinders on my 3 cylinder geo metro to enable it's 140 hp mode. rumor has it, it's built into the car if you only add twice the parts.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, "DUH!". Actually, I went to Purdue to study CS, and there were i'd say about 15-25% females. I think Purdue's focus on women in technology really helps draw them in, obviously not in proportional numbers to men though. Perhaps other universities just need to enhance their women in technology programs as well, as I think perhaps some females just think that it is a man's profession (incorrectly too). My girlfriend graduated from Purdue with a Technical Graphics BS, but is now doing Cold Fusion programming (which she describes as the PowerPoint of programming languages), and enjoys it more than doing Flash work.
And if you think those companies are evil, buy yourself a used Sega Master system.
Yeah, and Sega isn't evil? They have no history of releasing hardware then discontinuing them after people have invested in them. Remember the 32X? The Saturn? Even the Dreamcast! The DC was a wonderful machine (still is), then they killed it. Great way to keep customers.
Great, now that it has been posted here, I'll never get my $5.
amount per person = total settlement / number of claims
If too many people sign up for the refund, making the amount given per person less than $5, no one will get the money, it will all go to charity. Rat farts. I wanted a refund from those money grubbing bastards.
If i recall, the QuickTime 6 holdout was because of their "unreasonable" license fees for MPEG-4 (which is based on apple tech). It would appear M$ agreed, and released their version at the price that Apple wanted. Kinda ironic, eh?
Perhaps they should call it OS/Too, becuase besides for a handful of you devoted folks out there (and people who have investments in it and no time to port all 3 OS/2 apps to windows/linux), they seem to only be keeping it alive to clain they have an OS too. Yeah yeah, they have that Unix variant, but I've never seen THAT in a box. It only comes with an RS/400 server or whatnot.
I was in Best Buy, or The Good Guys the other day, and happened to see a display of stereo equipment. The manufacturer was pitching the product line as using Firewire to interconnect all the devices. Personally I think this is a great design. Suddenly each device has a power cord, and a single data cable. And then the reciever has a "hub" built in. FAR less spaghetti behind the system, FAR less opportunities for noise to leak into the wiring, etc.
The manufacturer is mitsubishi, they call it Net Command and they have all their pro. equipment firewire enabled. When you connect any device, it appears in a device manager-like screen where you can choose to send video and/or sound to any connected device that can output video and/or sound. Very cool, and WAAAAY better than RCA, coax, S-Video, or Component.
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THAT's the problem with the shuttles. When they were designed back in the 70's, they were supposed to have a turnaround from landing to liftoff of maybe a few weeks using a team of perhaps a dozen or so people. This didn't turn out to be feasible when implemented. The thermal insulation tiles themselves take weeks and a team of dozens to replace just by themselves, then you add prepping the payloads, inspections of every system onboard, etc.
The shuttle fleet were supposed to be nothing more than transport vehicles from ground to an orbiting research station. At the time, it was Skylab, and the shuttle was to have been in operation before Skylab's orbit decayed and crashed down. However creating the world's first reusable space vehicle took much longer than they thought, and Skylab crashed into Austrailia before the shuttle could correct it's orbit. It took many years for NASA to put up another space station, and it took other countries (albeit not proportionally) to help. In that time, they had to use the shuttle AS the research station.
Now, they have their orbiting platform again, and I think it is well time to start phasing in a new type of vehicle (before Freedom crashes down like Skylab). If there is one thing about the USA, it is that when a technological challenge is presented, we don't back down from it (Just look at how long we've been extending Moore's Law...). Right now we need to better our space program (I don't want to still have to be here once we f*ck up this planet, or some interstellar chunk decides it wants to hit us).
I'll prove thier hiccupping is similar to sucking nipples. Send me a big-breasted 20 year old centerfold-type chick over, and when I start hiccupping, i'll put my mouth on her nipples. She'll tell me what she thinks it feels like. Damn, I smell grant money.... gotta go...
Without the rendering engine it is just a window that displays bytecode. I think the part they released is the most important part. The interface, which is all that's really left in a browser after you remove the rendering engine, is pretty much an afterthought, and is pretty standard from browser to browser (save a few gimmcky knick-knacks like a google search bar in the buttonbar... which can save you maybe 3 clicks over any other browser). The back, forward, stop, reload, etc. buttons are fairly standard.
"You can download the source code for WebCore (1 MB) and JavaScriptCore (321 KB)."
I took that to mean, quite literally, they release the source code for the rendering engine. Could be all that crack i'm smoking though.
All I can find in that article is them beating to death that it uses a wider frequency band than the existing standards (which is a good thing as the other wireless connectivity standards i feel will saturate the frequency bands quickly). I may have missed it in the artice (and I apologize if i did), but have they released bandwidth figures yet?
Apple is, and always has been, a company who's primary objective is to sell their hardware. OSX, iPod, Safari, iLife.. all that crap just makes people want to buy thir hardware. Unless this changes sometime in the near future, I don't see why they would turn against OSS, there would be no profit in it. It sure wouldn't help them sell hardware, in reality it would hurt them as they would most likely scorn a whole new following of Apple fans (not addicts... yet).
If this is as widespread as it would appear, it's just a matter of time before someone works up the nerve to file a class action lawsuit. If I were you (and IANAL), i'd keep any paperwork IBM has sent you disputing your claim of a faulty product. It may help you to settle the matter if it ever does go to court.
I had one in high school. WE used to steal the electronic ignighters off of our neighbor's bar-b-que grills to create the spark. After testing every product, we found that starting fluid (basically ether) gave the best launches. The next best is that aqua net hair spray crap that everyone's grandma uses to make their helmet hair. Once, we even made a double-barreled one, which actually worked pretty well (seperate chambers and ignighters). I wish i still had pictures!
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It's sad that people need medical proof before they would even consider getting up a few times a day instead of sitting at a computer for 18+ hours straight. Back in the day, we called that common sense.
Does anyone still use Voodoo cards? Do they work with win2k or XP?
Actually, you get more for less, as they reduced the prices a bit, even for the high end systems.
As one of the articles I read on the issue stated, it really does show that their policy of blaming the users for not patching their systems perhaps isn't the best approach to take. It is in fact blaming the victim for the software's flaws. Maybe this will turn microsoft more towards making sure their products are more secure from the start if this info gets around enough. Yes, I know Billg's "Trusted Computing" plan is rather new, but they sure seem to get caught with their pants down often.
... and that's all great, but the really useful figure would also include how many albums you could produce after purchasing all these components. I'm guessing all these charges wouldn't be billed to each client that comes in your door. Yes, the initial price is high, but if the equipment is as good as you claim it to be, and based on the price, i'd sure hope it owuld be able to go for at least a couple of years before obsolescence. So, all these fantastic figures are nice, but until you include how many albums/songs/etc you get per setup, it's all pretty meaningless, unless of course you have THE bitchiest clients in the world that require you to purchase their own hardware each time. And i'd sure hope that any band worth their sweat weight would at least have their own instruments and drummer.
Sure, they've made a good few years doing nothing but searching... on Kazaa, Morpeus, Napster... oh wait. I hope this turns out like the presidential races and when they discover the new pres. has downloaded MP3s all hell will break loose! ;)
Even monekys can remember 10 digits. You're not dumber than a monkey, are you?
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I think I speak for everyone when I say, "DUH!". Actually, I went to Purdue to study CS, and there were i'd say about 15-25% females. I think Purdue's focus on women in technology really helps draw them in, obviously not in proportional numbers to men though. Perhaps other universities just need to enhance their women in technology programs as well, as I think perhaps some females just think that it is a man's profession (incorrectly too). My girlfriend graduated from Purdue with a Technical Graphics BS, but is now doing Cold Fusion programming (which she describes as the PowerPoint of programming languages), and enjoys it more than doing Flash work.
Yeah, and Sega isn't evil? They have no history of releasing hardware then discontinuing them after people have invested in them. Remember the 32X? The Saturn? Even the Dreamcast! The DC was a wonderful machine (still is), then they killed it. Great way to keep customers.
no, but it has been posted elsewhere in the past, including on fark.
Great, now that it has been posted here, I'll never get my $5. amount per person = total settlement / number of claims If too many people sign up for the refund, making the amount given per person less than $5, no one will get the money, it will all go to charity. Rat farts. I wanted a refund from those money grubbing bastards.
If i recall, the QuickTime 6 holdout was because of their "unreasonable" license fees for MPEG-4 (which is based on apple tech). It would appear M$ agreed, and released their version at the price that Apple wanted. Kinda ironic, eh?
Now I have bar envy. And I'm thirsty. Damn you!
Perhaps they should call it OS/Too, becuase besides for a handful of you devoted folks out there (and people who have investments in it and no time to port all 3 OS/2 apps to windows/linux), they seem to only be keeping it alive to clain they have an OS too. Yeah yeah, they have that Unix variant, but I've never seen THAT in a box. It only comes with an RS/400 server or whatnot.
The manufacturer is mitsubishi, they call it Net Command and they have all their pro. equipment firewire enabled. When you connect any device, it appears in a device manager-like screen where you can choose to send video and/or sound to any connected device that can output video and/or sound. Very cool, and WAAAAY better than RCA, coax, S-Video, or Component.