Rule #1: Never never never give any critical roles to bankrupt nations.
About the dumbest thing NASA (or the US) could do, get together a bunch of nations to build/launch/maintain a space station, then give the critical parts (life support, delivery of components) responsibility to the nation than can least afford to do it.
It's bad enough we have hand grenades in the steering wheels of our new cars (another reason I only drive old cars) but now we'll be wearing one too?
Thanks, I'll pass. When I ride my FZR600, I wear heavy leather gloves, massive leather jacket (along with a spine brace), two pairs of pants (inner one are jeans, outer: leather) and a full helmet.
When I flipped my FZR once and was thrown off, the only thing bruised was my pride (and all the expensive fiberglas on the bike.)
If I want hand grenades attached to my jacket, I'll join the military.
Was anyone else concerned when the original ISS station plans were brought forth, that the US was *expecting* the ex-USSR to foot some of the costs? Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't they broke?
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There was a very similar device for the Atari 800. I have forgotten the exact name, but it relied on mercury (again, IIRC) switches and doubled as a joystick for playing games. It took some getting used to, but it pretty neat.
I'd hardly call this revolutionary.
On a side note, I've sold a few items *very close* to this to presentation researchers. Wireless hand-held mice that allow the professors to give power point slide shows while still being able to walk around and point at other things.
But weren't DVDs supposed to *save* Hollywood? They were supposed to have Region Encoding, Macrovision and other Anti-Copying stuff embedded into them.
IIRC Hollywood wouldn't put anything out on DVD unless it contained all of the above (or most of the above) to prevent widespread theft.
I got nailed by a fraud auction (guy was selling items he didn't have in stock. Promised next day delivery...that was 3 months ago.)
Neither my CC company, nor PayPal (now owned by eBay) or eBay were overly interested in dealing with this. Yeah, they suspended his account, but because he didn't pay eBay, not because he ripped me (and hundreds of others as well) off.
I'm still in contact with the jerk, and I will have justice done, either by the proper authorities or.....
Palm is splitting hairs. The OS is (sadly) the same, this despite the fact they bought out my beloved Be, Inc. All they are doing is trying to flood the market with a Palm for every budget, shuffling around memory sizes and CPU speeds, without really offering anything new. I mean, how much different is this Palm from the 105 or 115, etc etc etc?
Seagate's Barracuda IV drives are great! Exceptionally quiet (the CPU cooling fan generates more noise) and I've not run across a single failure in ~100 sold.
I have a client with a resident "computer expert". The guy is so anti-MS that he'll install *anything* so long as it is not from MS. In this case, he started singing the praises of Mozilla.
Soon enough, I got calls from the client. It seems he had installed Mozilla on everyone's PC, and removed Netscape (4.7, the defacto default at this site). *Everyone* was bitching about how slow Mozilla was, and how they all wanted Netscape back.
Seems he was suddenly "unavailable" to fix this mess, so they called me in.
Long story short? Mozilla is gone (and a pig it is, slow and bloated) and Netscape 4.7 is back, and the problems are all gone.
I'm sure this new Mozilla-based browser is faster, it would be hard *not* to be. Thanks, but I'll stick with Opera.
>>Do you know the correct usage for its vs. it's? (Hint: Only use it's in place of it is -- no other time.) Can you fix your car every time something goes wrong, or do you take it into a mechanic? Do you know how to ballroom dance?
Yes I do..specialization is for insects.
>>What? Surprised at that last item? Consider this: terrorist children, much like American children, are being raised on a nonstop diet of violence and gore,...
and religion
>>CodeWeavers were there, they were presenting Office under Linux, and they are creating two new products, one of which is the ability to run Photoshop properly under Linux! In fact, they had a beta ready to ship, but they found some last minute bugs, that put the release on hold
Here in my home town (on the east coast) the roads are saturated with tolls. The local gov't decided to offer 'fast lane' toll lanes, that use toll transponders for quicker travel. I thought it'd be a great idea to get one, then I started reading through the form you had to fill out to get one. They were asking *way* too much personal information (marital status, # of children, income level, etc etc etc) for a simple toll transponder.
In fact, it looked like they were trying to gather as much info as possible, for what purpose god only knows (but I'm sure it's not for our best interests)
I'm totally guessing here, but doing a quick browse through Dell's website, they don't seem to offer anything else *but* HP printers.
Also, most of Dell's "deal of the week" machines are bundled with either a scanner or printer, or both.
I imagine that for a 1st time buyer, getting everything in one makes good buying sense, so I suspect that Dell sells quite a number of HP printers, but what percentage that is of HP's overall sales is, I have no idea.
>>Dell spokesman Mike Maher said his company would still sell HP branded printers that it purchases through distributors, but expressed dismay at HP's decision. "Frankly we're surprised that a company would make it harder for customers to get their hands on their products," he said.
No, it's not harder to get an HP printer, I can go to any of 1000 stores near me and pick one up quite easily, as can any number of new-computer buying people.
Dell is trying to muscle into HP's area, and this is how HP is responding. I'm not surprised at all...
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Rule #1: Never never never give any critical roles to bankrupt nations.
About the dumbest thing NASA (or the US) could do, get together a bunch of nations to build/launch/maintain a space station, then give the critical parts (life support, delivery of components) responsibility to the nation than can least afford to do it.
Brilliant, the IIS was doomed from the word go.
Janitor in a Drum?
(sorry, couldn't resist)
It's bad enough we have hand grenades in the steering wheels of our new cars (another reason I only drive old cars) but now we'll be wearing one too?
Thanks, I'll pass. When I ride my FZR600, I wear heavy leather gloves, massive leather jacket (along with a spine brace), two pairs of pants (inner one are jeans, outer: leather) and a full helmet.
When I flipped my FZR once and was thrown off, the only thing bruised was my pride (and all the expensive fiberglas on the bike.)
If I want hand grenades attached to my jacket, I'll join the military.
Was anyone else concerned when the original ISS station plans were brought forth, that the US was *expecting* the ex-USSR to foot some of the costs? Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't they broke?
Create a real-live Mickey Mouse?
"You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory."
Or perhaps this quote is more familiar
"Sorry, Doug. Your whole life was just a dream"
Taken, of course, from Total Recall.
goats.cx
I don't ever want to see either again.
There was a very similar device for the Atari 800. I have forgotten the exact name, but it relied on mercury (again, IIRC) switches and doubled as a joystick for playing games. It took some getting used to, but it pretty neat.
I'd hardly call this revolutionary.
On a side note, I've sold a few items *very close* to this to presentation researchers. Wireless hand-held mice that allow the professors to give power point slide shows while still being able to walk around and point at other things.
But weren't DVDs supposed to *save* Hollywood? They were supposed to have Region Encoding, Macrovision and other Anti-Copying stuff embedded into them.
IIRC Hollywood wouldn't put anything out on DVD unless it contained all of the above (or most of the above) to prevent widespread theft.
Ah well, perhaps I am wrong.
I got nailed by a fraud auction (guy was selling items he didn't have in stock. Promised next day delivery...that was 3 months ago.)
Neither my CC company, nor PayPal (now owned by eBay) or eBay were overly interested in dealing with this. Yeah, they suspended his account, but because he didn't pay eBay, not because he ripped me (and hundreds of others as well) off.
I'm still in contact with the jerk, and I will have justice done, either by the proper authorities or.....
On a leftover Twinkie, you could get power forever!
Palm is splitting hairs. The OS is (sadly) the same, this despite the fact they bought out my beloved Be, Inc. All they are doing is trying to flood the market with a Palm for every budget, shuffling around memory sizes and CPU speeds, without really offering anything new. I mean, how much different is this Palm from the 105 or 115, etc etc etc?
I have four words for you-
Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup.
That said, however, sorry for your loss. Data is hard to replace.
Seagate's Barracuda IV drives are great! Exceptionally quiet (the CPU cooling fan generates more noise) and I've not run across a single failure in ~100 sold.
Duh...this has been known for eons now. This is hardly news.
I have a client with a resident "computer expert". The guy is so anti-MS that he'll install *anything* so long as it is not from MS. In this case, he started singing the praises of Mozilla.
Soon enough, I got calls from the client. It seems he had installed Mozilla on everyone's PC, and removed Netscape (4.7, the defacto default at this site). *Everyone* was bitching about how slow Mozilla was, and how they all wanted Netscape back.
Seems he was suddenly "unavailable" to fix this mess, so they called me in.
Long story short? Mozilla is gone (and a pig it is, slow and bloated) and Netscape 4.7 is back, and the problems are all gone.
I'm sure this new Mozilla-based browser is faster, it would be hard *not* to be. Thanks, but I'll stick with Opera.
>>Do you know the correct usage for its vs. it's? (Hint: Only use it's in place of it is -- no other time.) Can you fix your car every time something goes wrong, or do you take it into a mechanic? Do you know how to ballroom dance? Yes I do..specialization is for insects.
I wonder what a good Slashdotting would look like? Probably 11 on the Richter scale.
>>What? Surprised at that last item? Consider this: terrorist children, much like American children, are being raised on a nonstop diet of violence and gore,... and religion
>>CodeWeavers were there, they were presenting Office under Linux, and they are creating two new products, one of which is the ability to run Photoshop properly under Linux! In fact, they had a beta ready to ship, but they found some last minute bugs, that put the release on hold
Bugs, yeah...they're called Microsoft lawyers
Here in my home town (on the east coast) the roads are saturated with tolls. The local gov't decided to offer 'fast lane' toll lanes, that use toll transponders for quicker travel. I thought it'd be a great idea to get one, then I started reading through the form you had to fill out to get one. They were asking *way* too much personal information (marital status, # of children, income level, etc etc etc) for a simple toll transponder.
In fact, it looked like they were trying to gather as much info as possible, for what purpose god only knows (but I'm sure it's not for our best interests)
They could get network traffic to produce musical tones? Imagine the sounds made of a server getting Slashdotted....
My vision is really goofed up today, I thought the title of the story was:
...oopppps...
"Wireless Clowns for Good and Ill"
I'm totally guessing here, but doing a quick browse through Dell's website, they don't seem to offer anything else *but* HP printers. Also, most of Dell's "deal of the week" machines are bundled with either a scanner or printer, or both. I imagine that for a 1st time buyer, getting everything in one makes good buying sense, so I suspect that Dell sells quite a number of HP printers, but what percentage that is of HP's overall sales is, I have no idea.
>>Dell spokesman Mike Maher said his company would still sell HP branded printers that it purchases through distributors, but expressed dismay at HP's decision. "Frankly we're surprised that a company would make it harder for customers to get their hands on their products," he said.
No, it's not harder to get an HP printer, I can go to any of 1000 stores near me and pick one up quite easily, as can any number of new-computer buying people.
Dell is trying to muscle into HP's area, and this is how HP is responding. I'm not surprised at all...