Mixing Seafarers of Catan with Cities and Knights gives you a bunch of fairly radically different games as well. And if you're looking for even more alternate scenarios, get Buch Zum Spielen, which includes a bunch of new pieces and variants from Klaus Teuber. The Mayfair version sells the original German book, but they also provide an English translation (with no pictures). Once you figure out the German words for desert, brick, sheep, etc., it's pretty easy to decipher.
Yeah, they charge you more if you use a credit card and even more if you pay by check. The reason they did that is because you get taxed based on the per-minute, while service fees for auto-debit or charging your credit card are not taxed. So rather than wrap in overhead in their per-minute rates to cover these expenses, they separate them out so that you're not taxed on them. (And so that auto-debiters are not subsidizing people paying by credit card.)
Switch to AVC Inc. They have insanely good rates and no monthly fee, other than a $0.25 charge to automatically debit your monthly payment from your checking account.
I think that the story is misleading. Exempting satellite imagery from the FOIA does NOT mean that commercial companies couldn't sell the imagery to news agencies - you just wouldn't be able to make the government sort through and cough up all the unclassified satellite images that it has bought.
I'm guessing that defensetech.org is one of those sites that makes wild paranoid predictions about the military.
He doesn't want someone to run the calendar server for him. Yahoo! already has one, as long as using their web client is sufficient. He wants to run the calendar server himself.
With things like satellites and rovers, whoever is paying for it says, "We want it to last 90 days / 2 years / 10 years." Then the company actually building the device charges them for it. If it's going to last 10 years, you'd better have a lot of backup in case of failure, which adds complexity to the software controlling the device... all of which rapidly escalate the price.
So, when NASA says they want the rovers to last 90 days, they're built to last 90 days. Not less than 90 days, because then NASA will be mad. So inevitably, if you've done your job right, it's going to last a little bit longer. You don't just use the Mean Time to Failure, because that means that 50% of the time, you're going to fail before the mission end.
So, things last longer than "expected." Then eventually things break, and because the device is so expensive, they pay people a bunch of money to sit around a table and try to figure out how to work around the thing that broke. You can't do this ahead of time because then you'd be spending a LOT of time trying to figure out how to work around EVERY possible failure, and you can't always do that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the company that built the rover lost some sort of bonus because of the failure before mission end, but probably not the complete bonus because they were able to work around the problem.
Technically, the comma after "Post Anonymously" should be inside the quotation mark. Which is more an error than a typo, but if you're aiming for perfection...
sproket tells me that they couldn't get anything with wheels down there. The thing that they did use looked like a stokes litter, but it was orange plastic and couldn't fold up. So perhaps it wasn't a stokes litter. But I don't remember anything about the rescue at all.
I had tried calling the state park, but nobody was picking up, so when the ranger called, I asked him if anyone had found it. He said no, so even if someone found it now, it's probably totally destroyed.
I believe that there were danger signs at the beginning of the trail, but I don't think they had signs right at the point of the falls. The only thing I really remember about the whole thing is thinking, "The wet parts of the rocks are probably really slippery and the water current is probably deceptively strong." So I think I was being careful, even though there weren't any signs right there.
My friend (sproket) who was up there with me (and drug me out of the water at the bottom) said that I was actually done taking pictures when I fell, even though the article implied that I was in the process of taking pictures. He told me we were on our way off the rocks, but other hikers were coming up at the same time and I was moving aside for them when I started to fall. I knew of the danger of falling, and I was being careful, but I guess I just didn't pay quite enough attention when I was trying to get out of the way of the other hikers. (Maybe there should be a sign limiting the number of people on the rocks at one time.)
Fortunately, I was in a big enough group that there were enough people to stay with me and to go for help... If I had been there with just my wife, I really would have needed to land on that sensor.
And I think my acoustic signature was probably more like, "aaaaahhhhhh thump, thump..... THUMP.":)
No, unfortunately, my camera was not recovered - that was one of my first questions when I regained consciousness, too. And it was a Sony MVC-CD400, too! I may just have to get one of those DSC-F828s when I'm back earning a salary again.
I broke my jaw and my kneecap in the fall. They put a titanium plate in my jaw and it's currently wired shut, and they put my kneecap back together and reattached the tendon, and my leg is currently immobilized. I'll be off my feet several weeks waiting for my leg to recuperate.
I just got a call from one of the Rangers from the state park checking to see how I was, and he said that I'm the first person that's survived going over those falls, so God was really watching out for me.
Keep in mind that Gone With the Wind was released in a time when people couldn't just buy the DVD and watch it at home a year later. If they wanted to see it again, they had to go see it in the theater. It hung around in theaters for years.
You laugh, but on a software project I worked on earlier, we defined things like:
const int COMPONENT_SUBSYSTEM_SOMETHINGELSE_60 = 60
Not as useful as it could have been, but if we did indeed have to change that 60, you could just `grep -r COMPONENT_SUBSYSTEM_SOMETHINGELSE_60` and know exactly which ones to change rather than have to sort through ALL of the 60s.
Each degree of latitude is about 111 kilometers apart - for the sake of calculations, let's say they're 100 kilometers apart. So to get down to the meter You'd need 5 digits of accuracy.
Mr. Bill N47.52254 W121.90846
That doesn't look so appealing to me. Plus, most people's houses are more than a meter in width, so multiple coordinates could specify the same house.
No, I think street numbers will stick with us for a while.
What are they going to do, use smart bombs to deliver your packages?
Otherwise, you're going to have to provide a lot of digits of precision on your coordinates. I think the delivery man would prefer a street name.
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Mixing Seafarers of Catan with Cities and Knights gives you a bunch of fairly radically different games as well. And if you're looking for even more alternate scenarios, get Buch Zum Spielen, which includes a bunch of new pieces and variants from Klaus Teuber. The Mayfair version sells the original German book, but they also provide an English translation (with no pictures). Once you figure out the German words for desert, brick, sheep, etc., it's pretty easy to decipher.
Yeah, they charge you more if you use a credit card and even more if you pay by check. The reason they did that is because you get taxed based on the per-minute, while service fees for auto-debit or charging your credit card are not taxed. So rather than wrap in overhead in their per-minute rates to cover these expenses, they separate them out so that you're not taxed on them. (And so that auto-debiters are not subsidizing people paying by credit card.)
Switch to AVC Inc. They have insanely good rates and no monthly fee, other than a $0.25 charge to automatically debit your monthly payment from your checking account.
The problem is that when you have errors, they tend to be in bursts.
It's AHMAN Green. Sheesh, get to know your players a little better than the A. Green on the summary page.
I think that the story is misleading. Exempting satellite imagery from the FOIA does NOT mean that commercial companies couldn't sell the imagery to news agencies - you just wouldn't be able to make the government sort through and cough up all the unclassified satellite images that it has bought. I'm guessing that defensetech.org is one of those sites that makes wild paranoid predictions about the military.
He doesn't want someone to run the calendar server for him. Yahoo! already has one, as long as using their web client is sufficient. He wants to run the calendar server himself.
With things like satellites and rovers, whoever is paying for it says, "We want it to last 90 days / 2 years / 10 years." Then the company actually building the device charges them for it. If it's going to last 10 years, you'd better have a lot of backup in case of failure, which adds complexity to the software controlling the device... all of which rapidly escalate the price. So, when NASA says they want the rovers to last 90 days, they're built to last 90 days. Not less than 90 days, because then NASA will be mad. So inevitably, if you've done your job right, it's going to last a little bit longer. You don't just use the Mean Time to Failure, because that means that 50% of the time, you're going to fail before the mission end. So, things last longer than "expected." Then eventually things break, and because the device is so expensive, they pay people a bunch of money to sit around a table and try to figure out how to work around the thing that broke. You can't do this ahead of time because then you'd be spending a LOT of time trying to figure out how to work around EVERY possible failure, and you can't always do that. I wouldn't be surprised if the company that built the rover lost some sort of bonus because of the failure before mission end, but probably not the complete bonus because they were able to work around the problem.
Technically, the comma after "Post Anonymously" should be inside the quotation mark. Which is more an error than a typo, but if you're aiming for perfection...
sproket tells me that they couldn't get anything with wheels down there. The thing that they did use looked like a stokes litter, but it was orange plastic and couldn't fold up. So perhaps it wasn't a stokes litter. But I don't remember anything about the rescue at all.
I had tried calling the state park, but nobody was picking up, so when the ranger called, I asked him if anyone had found it. He said no, so even if someone found it now, it's probably totally destroyed.
I believe that there were danger signs at the beginning of the trail, but I don't think they had signs right at the point of the falls. The only thing I really remember about the whole thing is thinking, "The wet parts of the rocks are probably really slippery and the water current is probably deceptively strong." So I think I was being careful, even though there weren't any signs right there.
:)
My friend (sproket) who was up there with me (and drug me out of the water at the bottom) said that I was actually done taking pictures when I fell, even though the article implied that I was in the process of taking pictures. He told me we were on our way off the rocks, but other hikers were coming up at the same time and I was moving aside for them when I started to fall. I knew of the danger of falling, and I was being careful, but I guess I just didn't pay quite enough attention when I was trying to get out of the way of the other hikers. (Maybe there should be a sign limiting the number of people on the rocks at one time.)
Fortunately, I was in a big enough group that there were enough people to stay with me and to go for help... If I had been there with just my wife, I really would have needed to land on that sensor.
And I think my acoustic signature was probably more like, "aaaaahhhhhh thump, thump..... THUMP."
No, unfortunately, my camera was not recovered - that was one of my first questions when I regained consciousness, too. And it was a Sony MVC-CD400, too! I may just have to get one of those DSC-F828s when I'm back earning a salary again. I broke my jaw and my kneecap in the fall. They put a titanium plate in my jaw and it's currently wired shut, and they put my kneecap back together and reattached the tendon, and my leg is currently immobilized. I'll be off my feet several weeks waiting for my leg to recuperate. I just got a call from one of the Rangers from the state park checking to see how I was, and he said that I'm the first person that's survived going over those falls, so God was really watching out for me.
Would it be able to detect a hiker falling off a 54-foot waterfall, like I just did?
Keep in mind that Gone With the Wind was released in a time when people couldn't just buy the DVD and watch it at home a year later. If they wanted to see it again, they had to go see it in the theater. It hung around in theaters for years.
Microsoft bad... IBM good... so... confused....
Bush is in excellent health and does not have a pacemaker. Cheney, on the other hand...
Why the heck would the Architect let programs go free when he just agreed to peace with Neo? It's obvious that he meant humans.
You laugh, but on a software project I worked on earlier, we defined things like: const int COMPONENT_SUBSYSTEM_SOMETHINGELSE_60 = 60 Not as useful as it could have been, but if we did indeed have to change that 60, you could just `grep -r COMPONENT_SUBSYSTEM_SOMETHINGELSE_60` and know exactly which ones to change rather than have to sort through ALL of the 60s.
You mean venture capital.
Come on people, this is obviously a joke with a bunch of management-speak throw in. Sheesh.
For those of you wondering what this number is, it's the time of day number at NIST.
Each degree of latitude is about 111 kilometers apart - for the sake of calculations, let's say they're 100 kilometers apart. So to get down to the meter You'd need 5 digits of accuracy.
Mr. Bill
N47.52254 W121.90846
That doesn't look so appealing to me. Plus, most people's houses are more than a meter in width, so multiple coordinates could specify the same house.
No, I think street numbers will stick with us for a while.
What are they going to do, use smart bombs to deliver your packages? Otherwise, you're going to have to provide a lot of digits of precision on your coordinates. I think the delivery man would prefer a street name.