The first thing I did yesterday morning was transfer the one domain I still had at NetworkSolutions to NameSecure. Why are you giving them the opportunity to change their mind? That's like catching a burglar with a sack of your possesions, and promising to let him go as long as he gives everything back. Versign has already committed a crime, as far as I'm concerned, and waiting for them to change their mind *after* they realize how much money they're losing won't make them better people. They need to be destroyed, now.
On the contrary, the developed film is returned to the customer, to be stuffed into a shoebox in the back of their closet. IIRC, the bodies of disposable 35mm cameras are recycled as plastic & paper scrap, but are not actually reused.
Reminds me of the survey where something like 80% of those interviewed described themselves as "much better than average" drivers.
And the A-holes that go twice the speed limit always try to rationalize it by claiming that they're skilled drivers, not like all those others.
It is in my world. I had SBC DSL for about one year. Even though I'm in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, I'm too far from the local office to get decent DSL service. I was getting about 600-700kbps up & down, when it was working. Disconnects were frequent, even after multiple service calls to run new wires, etc. They eventually just gave up on me and disconnected my service without even telling me first; now they have a shorter maximum distance that they're willing to install new DSL service to.
Since then I've used Roadrunner cable. It's a very consistant 1.9mbps down & 384kbps up, even during busy evening hours. Although it's technically a static IP, I find that the IP never changes as long as I keep the modem powered up. I've had the same IP now for about 9 months, allowing me to host a few low-traffic web sites and run my own mail server. They don't seem to care if you run servers, though they do occasionally scan for open mail relays.
Paint chips and satellites are moving at very high speeds relative to each other, ditto for the bird and the jet.
The chunk of foam, up until a brief moment before impact, was travelling at the same velocity as the rest of the shuttle. Its acceleration towards the wing's leading edge was caused by air drag and by the fact that the shuttle was still accelerating upward at the time. I'm amazed that those two, combined, would cause the foam to hit as hard as it did.
If the robber knows that the cash will be deactivated before he can spend it and/or traced to him or whoever he uses it to, it makes it not very worthwhile for him to kill you to take your wallet.
On the contrary. It makes him more likely to kill you to prevent you from reporting the stolen money before he has chance to unload it.
why would a forger bother with trying to forge one of the newer looking bills? The old $20's are still accepted everywhere, and have not become harder to forge
Because paper money has a rather short lifespan. While you'll frequently see coins dated from the 60's and 70's, you won't run across very many bills more than 10 years old. As old bills wear out and are shredded by the mint, they're replaced by the new ones. Even now I rarely see a $20 bill with the old smaller faces.
The short lifespan of bills is a big reason behind the governments push for dollar coins; they cost twice as much to mint, but last ten times longer than paper.
The state legislature aggravated the problem quite a bit recently by passing legislation requiring any business with more than 25 employees to provide six months paid maternity/paternity leave to both spouses in the event of a birth.
When you try to make Democrats out to be boogiemen, at least don't make your stories so obviously fabricated.
The California Family Rights Act provides for 3 months of UNPAID leave.
Not that that matters much, I'm sure you'll still find a way to blame Democrats for the fact that you're having trouble finding a job.
- Single-page newspapers and books. Not only would you not have to worry about portability, but you wouldn't have to worry about bookmarks either.
- Billboards would be much easier to update. No more repainting or repapering them, just send a new graphic to them and they change automatically. They could even cycle the ads.
- Credit cards could show your balance available.
Etc etc etc.
Plus, all paper could have built-in DRM. No more worrying about people hanging on to books for years to be read again and again, or even worse to be given to other readers in violation of the EULA. Now we can require all paper to go blank after a preset time interval unless reactivated through the users Passport account.
Just look at his site -- hasn't enjoyed any kind of redesign since he created it, or indeed any kind of design at all. There's nothing interesting on it, nothing inviting, nothing to indicate to someone that one thing is more important than another. In his vigor to keep his site accessible to text-only browsers he's completely ignored the visually unimpaired.
Exactly. His site is nothing but actual information, presented in an organized fashion with no clutter. He doesn't have Flash, animated GIFs, pop-ups, nothing. He probably didn't even hire a proper graphics design company to run it past a focus group before unleashing it upon the world.
I sure wish I had some mod points to give this a +1 funny, because you can't possibly be serious
I've been using a Shuttle XPC System for several months now. They're the ones using heat pipes to conduct heat from the CPU to a radiator and fan mounted on the rear of the chassis. The larger fan, with speed control, is much quieter then normal CPU fans. It's quiet enough that I'm now looking at acoustic noise specs when selecting a new hard drive, something I ignored in the past. They're pretty spiffy looking boxes too, though I had to take a Sharpie to the blinding blue power LED on the front so that it wouldn't scare the neighbors.
ballpark cost for 35mm motion picture film is about $1 a foot, including processing, to the best of my recollection. It's running at 16 inches a second, and much of what's shot is never even viewed. You do the math.
That being said, the JVC camera shoots at 750/30p. I'm not even sure that's one of the ATSC digital video specs. It's gotta be downconverted (slightly) to 720/30p to be used for anything, and then you still don't get the temporal resolution of 60p or even 60i. The HD standards that seem to be the most popular now are 1080/24p, 1080/60i, and sometimes 720/60p.
This thing's an improvement over current consumer cameras, but I don't think George Lucas will be using it for any Star Wars episodes.
I know I won't get modded up for this, but it needs to be said.
Corebreech, you are a complete fucking asshole; too stupid to have ever had a single rational thought in your head. You, and nobody else, caused this crash. If I ever meet you on the street, I will gladly bash your crack-smoking head in with a baseball bat.
In a way, using a 3rd party remote is like going down to the local keycutters shop and getting a copy of your front door key made. It's not authorised by the manufacturer of your front door lock and it's a direct copy of part of their product. I wouldn't want that to be illegal. If I needed a spare key, I'd have to go to the door lock manufacturer every time, and hope they didn't go out of business, otherwise I'd have to change the lock.
However, you could only get a new lock from the door manufacturer, since after-market replacement locks are now illegal. And of course the replacement door would have to be purchased from the contractor that originally built your house.
Face it, eventually if you lose your keys you're going to have to buy a new house or risk a prison sentence.
"Even with 4.7 gig DVD Burners, the days of multi terrabyte storage systems for the home is a little further off. Unless someone comes out with more justification for that much space (like a TiVO that can record 100 channels at the same time??)"
Or a TiVO that records HDTV, which they just announced as scheduled to be available by the end of this year.
The car must be built using the block of wood, 4 wheels, and 4 nails provided, so forget about the suggestions to create new axles.
Modifying the wheels or axles in any way is also not allowed, nor is the use of lubricants (though most packs don't have a problem with graphite powder.)
Here's what I've learned from running derbys for the past five years:
Add weights until the car is exactly the limit (5 ounces), no less.
The car must run absolutely straight. Push it across a smooth floor; if it veers to either side than it will wind up rubbing on the center strip of the track, slowing it down
Put a tiny blob of glue on the body just next to each axle, then sprinkle some graphite powder onto the glue before it dries. This will create a very small, smooth surface area for the wheel hub to rub against, rather than the side of the wood body.
General consensus is that it's better to have most of the weight in the rear of the car. The rear sits higher than the front when the car is on the starting line, which gives it a little more potential energy. Most will carve the wood block as small as possible, then add weights to the rear of the car to bring it back up to 5 ounces.
At the speeds that these cars run, air resistance can be pretty much ignored, so don't worry about an aerodynamic surface for anything beyond just making it look cool.
Also, remember to have fun, that's why you're doing this. Have awards for best paint job, funniest design, best muscle car, most space-age looking car, etc.
If the IRS gets all of this information, (and it does , it's used to doublecheck your return) why do we even HAVE the other half of this industry?
Because our legislators are heavily supported/bribed by companies like Intuit. (from courtaccess.org):
Online state tax filing faces one less obstacle
By Ann E. Marimow
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO - A Silicon Valley lawmaker Wednesday abandoned legislation that would have scuttled the state's e-filing
efforts, now paving the way for simpler, cheaper online income tax filing for Californians.
Rather than accept a compromise from Senate lawmakers, Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn, D-Campbell, shelved her bill,
saying she wasn't satisfied the proposed deal would protect taxpayer privacy.
For years California officials have tried to save taxpayers time and money by offering free online income tax filing directly
with the state. But such efforts have been vigorously opposed by companies such as Mountain View's Intuit that produce
tax-preparation software. Intuit pushed hard for Cohn's bill.
``The Intuit protection act is dead,'' Sen. Joseph Dunn said Wednesday after Cohn pulled the bill. The Garden Grove
Democrat pressed unsuccessfully last year for free e-filing but lost to industry opposition.
Californians have been able to file online for the past five years, but only with the help of tax preparers and preparation
software.
In at least 20 other states, taxpayers can click on their state's Web site and file for free. But in California, taxpayers must
pay $15 to $30 to use services such as Intuit's TurboTax or H&R Block's TaxCut.
Contact Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn at (916) 319-2024
How about you setup a seperate computer that automatically browses to any URL that is displayed in an ad
Better yet...
Set up the same computer to auto-dial Orbitz customer service at 888-656-4546 whenever your browser encounters a link to their site. A suitable audio clip from South Park would certainly be appreciated by whomever answers the phone.
From the article... "If a computer is idle and you don't use it, the computing power you generated is lost -- just like if you generate electrical power and you don't use it, it's gone," said Dan Reed, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
And this comes from the mouth of someone who supposedly knows something about science and technology??
It's quite easy for a private company to build (and spider) a *.kids.com domain or something similar.
So why hasn't a private company done this yet? Because there's no profit in it. A private company is not about to invest in a venture like this unless they have some assurance of making a profit from it, which these days usually requires popup ads for XXX sites and penis enlargement products. The government, as crappy and corrupt as it is, at least makes some passing attempt at doing things for the public good. A private company, on the other hand, will only do what's good for them, and not one iota more.
Let them see whatever content they want -- and teach them to deal with it responsibly.
I don't exactly see a plethora of good original programming on that channel, so why kill off one of the few successes?
TV programming decisions aren't based on the quality of the show, the size of it's viewing audience, or the number of petitions mailed to the networks. TV programs are cancelled whenever the money spent on the show and the time slot devoted to broadcasting it can be better invested in another product. Quality means nothing if the viewers aren't there. Viewer numbers mean nothing if they aren't part of the demographic that advertisers are interested in. Advertiser interest means nothing if the show costs more to produce than it returns in advertisement income.
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The first thing I did yesterday morning was transfer the one domain I still had at NetworkSolutions to NameSecure. Why are you giving them the opportunity to change their mind? That's like catching a burglar with a sack of your possesions, and promising to let him go as long as he gives everything back. Versign has already committed a crime, as far as I'm concerned, and waiting for them to change their mind *after* they realize how much money they're losing won't make them better people. They need to be destroyed, now.
On the contrary, the developed film is returned to the customer, to be stuffed into a shoebox in the back of their closet. IIRC, the bodies of disposable 35mm cameras are recycled as plastic & paper scrap, but are not actually reused.
Reminds me of the survey where something like 80% of those interviewed described themselves as "much better than average" drivers.
And the A-holes that go twice the speed limit always try to rationalize it by claiming that they're skilled drivers, not like all those others.
It is in my world. I had SBC DSL for about one year. Even though I'm in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, I'm too far from the local office to get decent DSL service. I was getting about 600-700kbps up & down, when it was working. Disconnects were frequent, even after multiple service calls to run new wires, etc. They eventually just gave up on me and disconnected my service without even telling me first; now they have a shorter maximum distance that they're willing to install new DSL service to.
Since then I've used Roadrunner cable. It's a very consistant 1.9mbps down & 384kbps up, even during busy evening hours. Although it's technically a static IP, I find that the IP never changes as long as I keep the modem powered up. I've had the same IP now for about 9 months, allowing me to host a few low-traffic web sites and run my own mail server. They don't seem to care if you run servers, though they do occasionally scan for open mail relays.
Paint chips and satellites are moving at very high speeds relative to each other, ditto for the bird and the jet. The chunk of foam, up until a brief moment before impact, was travelling at the same velocity as the rest of the shuttle. Its acceleration towards the wing's leading edge was caused by air drag and by the fact that the shuttle was still accelerating upward at the time. I'm amazed that those two, combined, would cause the foam to hit as hard as it did.
On the contrary. It makes him more likely to kill you to prevent you from reporting the stolen money before he has chance to unload it.
Because paper money has a rather short lifespan. While you'll frequently see coins dated from the 60's and 70's, you won't run across very many bills more than 10 years old. As old bills wear out and are shredded by the mint, they're replaced by the new ones. Even now I rarely see a $20 bill with the old smaller faces. The short lifespan of bills is a big reason behind the governments push for dollar coins; they cost twice as much to mint, but last ten times longer than paper.
When you try to make Democrats out to be boogiemen, at least don't make your stories so obviously fabricated.
The California Family Rights Act provides for 3 months of UNPAID leave. Not that that matters much, I'm sure you'll still find a way to blame Democrats for the fact that you're having trouble finding a job.
According the graph (supplied by Intel), processors back in 1960 had one transistor each. They probably didn't have a very extensive instruction set.
- Single-page newspapers and books. Not only would you not have to worry about portability, but you wouldn't have to worry about bookmarks either.
- Billboards would be much easier to update. No more repainting or repapering them, just send a new graphic to them and they change automatically. They could even cycle the ads.
- Credit cards could show your balance available.
Etc etc etc.
Plus, all paper could have built-in DRM. No more worrying about people hanging on to books for years to be read again and again, or even worse to be given to other readers in violation of the EULA. Now we can require all paper to go blank after a preset time interval unless reactivated through the users Passport account.
Exactly. His site is nothing but actual information, presented in an organized fashion with no clutter. He doesn't have Flash, animated GIFs, pop-ups, nothing. He probably didn't even hire a proper graphics design company to run it past a focus group before unleashing it upon the world.
I sure wish I had some mod points to give this a +1 funny, because you can't possibly be serious
I've been using a Shuttle XPC System for several months now. They're the ones using heat pipes to conduct heat from the CPU to a radiator and fan mounted on the rear of the chassis. The larger fan, with speed control, is much quieter then normal CPU fans. It's quiet enough that I'm now looking at acoustic noise specs when selecting a new hard drive, something I ignored in the past. They're pretty spiffy looking boxes too, though I had to take a Sharpie to the blinding blue power LED on the front so that it wouldn't scare the neighbors.
ballpark cost for 35mm motion picture film is about $1 a foot, including processing, to the best of my recollection. It's running at 16 inches a second, and much of what's shot is never even viewed. You do the math. That being said, the JVC camera shoots at 750/30p. I'm not even sure that's one of the ATSC digital video specs. It's gotta be downconverted (slightly) to 720/30p to be used for anything, and then you still don't get the temporal resolution of 60p or even 60i. The HD standards that seem to be the most popular now are 1080/24p, 1080/60i, and sometimes 720/60p. This thing's an improvement over current consumer cameras, but I don't think George Lucas will be using it for any Star Wars episodes.
The Librarians' Index to the Internet is the best place I know of to search for high-quality web sites.
A few moments of searching there found some likely winners:
Space Place
The Kids on the Web
Kids' Castle
and it looks like an awful lot of hours went into it. Unfortunately, in less than one year the boy will have grown too big to fit inside anymore.
I know I won't get modded up for this, but it needs to be said. Corebreech, you are a complete fucking asshole; too stupid to have ever had a single rational thought in your head. You, and nobody else, caused this crash. If I ever meet you on the street, I will gladly bash your crack-smoking head in with a baseball bat.
However, you could only get a new lock from the door manufacturer, since after-market replacement locks are now illegal. And of course the replacement door would have to be purchased from the contractor that originally built your house.
Face it, eventually if you lose your keys you're going to have to buy a new house or risk a prison sentence.
Or a TiVO that records HDTV, which they just announced as scheduled to be available by the end of this year.
Modifying the wheels or axles in any way is also not allowed, nor is the use of lubricants (though most packs don't have a problem with graphite powder.)
Here's what I've learned from running derbys for the past five years:
Add weights until the car is exactly the limit (5 ounces), no less.
The car must run absolutely straight. Push it across a smooth floor; if it veers to either side than it will wind up rubbing on the center strip of the track, slowing it down
Put a tiny blob of glue on the body just next to each axle, then sprinkle some graphite powder onto the glue before it dries. This will create a very small, smooth surface area for the wheel hub to rub against, rather than the side of the wood body.
General consensus is that it's better to have most of the weight in the rear of the car. The rear sits higher than the front when the car is on the starting line, which gives it a little more potential energy. Most will carve the wood block as small as possible, then add weights to the rear of the car to bring it back up to 5 ounces.
At the speeds that these cars run, air resistance can be pretty much ignored, so don't worry about an aerodynamic surface for anything beyond just making it look cool.
Also, remember to have fun, that's why you're doing this. Have awards for best paint job, funniest design, best muscle car, most space-age looking car, etc.
Because our legislators are heavily supported/bribed by companies like Intuit.
(from courtaccess.org):
Online state tax filing faces one less obstacle
By Ann E. Marimow
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO - A Silicon Valley lawmaker Wednesday abandoned legislation that would have scuttled the state's e-filing efforts, now paving the way for simpler, cheaper online income tax filing for Californians. Rather than accept a compromise from Senate lawmakers, Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn, D-Campbell, shelved her bill, saying she wasn't satisfied the proposed deal would protect taxpayer privacy.
For years California officials have tried to save taxpayers time and money by offering free online income tax filing directly with the state. But such efforts have been vigorously opposed by companies such as Mountain View's Intuit that produce tax-preparation software. Intuit pushed hard for Cohn's bill.
``The Intuit protection act is dead,'' Sen. Joseph Dunn said Wednesday after Cohn pulled the bill. The Garden Grove Democrat pressed unsuccessfully last year for free e-filing but lost to industry opposition.
Californians have been able to file online for the past five years, but only with the help of tax preparers and preparation software.
In at least 20 other states, taxpayers can click on their state's Web site and file for free. But in California, taxpayers must pay $15 to $30 to use services such as Intuit's TurboTax or H&R Block's TaxCut.
Contact Assemblywoman Rebecca Cohn at (916) 319-2024
Better yet...
Set up the same computer to auto-dial Orbitz customer service at 888-656-4546 whenever your browser encounters a link to their site. A suitable audio clip from South Park would certainly be appreciated by whomever answers the phone.
"If a computer is idle and you don't use it, the computing power you generated is lost -- just like if you generate electrical power and you don't use it, it's gone," said Dan Reed, director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
And this comes from the mouth of someone who supposedly knows something about science and technology??
So why hasn't a private company done this yet?
Because there's no profit in it. A private company is not about to invest in a venture like this unless they have some assurance of making a profit from it, which these days usually requires popup ads for XXX sites and penis enlargement products.
The government, as crappy and corrupt as it is, at least makes some passing attempt at doing things for the public good. A private company, on the other hand, will only do what's good for them, and not one iota more.
Let them see whatever content they want -- and teach them to deal with it responsibly.
You obviously have no children of your own.
TV programming decisions aren't based on the quality of the show, the size of it's viewing audience, or the number of petitions mailed to the networks. TV programs are cancelled whenever the money spent on the show and the time slot devoted to broadcasting it can be better invested in another product. Quality means nothing if the viewers aren't there. Viewer numbers mean nothing if they aren't part of the demographic that advertisers are interested in. Advertiser interest means nothing if the show costs more to produce than it returns in advertisement income.
I first read the headline as Stop Killing Asteroids