"Science fiction is much better suited to one off shows like the Outer Limits since there is no need for multi-episode plot continuity."
Yet one of the most interesting Outer Limits was where they glued together clips from various previously unrelated episodes into a new, different storyline.
"Besides, Enterprise is shown more than once a week."
That is entirely dependent upon who your local UPN affiliate is. With the one we finally got in my area (never got to see 7 Days until the reruns on Spike) I'm lucky if the one showing per week doesn't lose more than 3 or 4 minutes to audio and/or video dropout, assuming it isn't pre-empted for a basketball game (although we are talking ACC basketball:-)
Seriously though, acoustic waves have to move through some medium which is capable of compression and rarefaction and they don't move at the same rate through all such media, travelling more quickly through water than sea level air here on earth (or is it more quickly through air than water? either way it's not the same).
So, what's the speed of an acoustic wave moving through a near vaccuum? Faster than the expansion rate of the universe? (Does the edge of the universe return echoes?) Slower? Any standing waves out there?
Of course I know that the shareholders are the owners (although there are companies where management may need reminding of that from time to time). My point was that employee pay comes out of the company's pocket which means that it comes out of the pockets of the owners of the company (the stockholders), and this is true no matter how you do the accounting. What exactly is it that's being stolen from the shareholders?
" Do you know what percentage of vehicles were not armored when that question was planted in the mouth of a soldier by a reporter? And do you know what percentage currently is?"
Well, I know that the company making the armor plates was only running at about two-thirds of capacity but nobody from the government bothered to check with them to see if they could supply more product sooner until after that GI put Rumsfeld on the spot. And I'm pretty sure that the soldier wasn't forced by the reporter to say anything he didn't want to or that he knew to be untrue.
Don't laugh. I was working in Saudi Arabia back in the 80's on a job with electricians from a third world country and on more than one occasion, if a voltmeter wasn't available, I have seen a technician wet his fingers in his mouth and put them into a wall socket to determine if it was live or not.
Not only that but they could tell you if it was 110 or 220 volts.
And from the way it "bit" they could probably tell if it was AC or DC.
In most of those other (non-USA) places you mention, services and utilities tend to be government provided (and taxes are higher), whereas here you often have to deal with a commercial enterprise that only considers improving things for the customer (if it's going to cost said enterprise anything) when forced to by competition or government regulation.
I live about 2000 feet from a phone company switching station that's only a decade or so old but only in the past few months has DSL become available (at about the same time that the local cable TV franchise started making noises about offering VOIP).
My conspiracy theory is that everybody's switching to broadband because dialup on a Pentium II or better and 56K modem is worse than it was at 28K with a 486.
There was an article in Radio-Electronics about 20 to 25 years ago about hacking a Selectric, basically just adding a tap onto the wires connecting the keyswitches to the part that controlled the printball, but I don't remember if it was supposed to be an input or output or both. At the time my mom had a fairly new Selectric but if I'd tried to mod it I wouldn't be alive to be typing this today.
"... since when, in the MS universe, did the options stayed in the same place between major versions of anything?"
Ever notice how the key sequence to create a new sub-directory (folder) changes in each version of Windows? The words don't change, just the underlined letters. Somewhere in Redmond I guess they're still laughing (or buying more stock in mouse making companies).
"If two people post the same thing, then one of those messages is redundant."
But the association of the comment with the person making it isn't and sometimes the "Slashdot Experience" is as much about who expressed a particular thought as it is about what that thought is. People don't always respond the way your previous experience of them might lead you to expect.
I had forgotten about Simple Object Access Protocol.
I (and my teacher--this was about 1967--) was referring to the substance that, when combined on a frequent basis with water, allows one to enjoy better health and longer life (and to better avoid giving olfactory offense) by washing away germs and other contamination.
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Yet one of the most interesting Outer Limits was where they glued together clips from various previously unrelated episodes into a new, different storyline.
That is entirely dependent upon who your local UPN affiliate is. With the one we finally got in my area (never got to see 7 Days until the reruns on Spike) I'm lucky if the one showing per week doesn't lose more than 3 or 4 minutes to audio and/or video dropout, assuming it isn't pre-empted for a basketball game (although we are talking ACC basketball :-)
So, what's the speed of an acoustic wave moving through a near vaccuum? Faster than the expansion rate of the universe? (Does the edge of the universe return echoes?) Slower? Any standing waves out there?
An excellent explanation and I commend it to any of my fellow moderators who haven't commented in this thread.
Just exactly how fast does an acoustic wave travel through a vaccuum?
Of course I know that the shareholders are the owners (although there are companies where management may need reminding of that from time to time). My point was that employee pay comes out of the company's pocket which means that it comes out of the pockets of the owners of the company (the stockholders), and this is true no matter how you do the accounting. What exactly is it that's being stolen from the shareholders?
Yeah! How dare those employees expect to get paid? And by the people who own the company for which they work, no less!
Well, he did say that he had worked for Andersen( and they were such a great accounting company that they no longer exist).
I've never had the opportunity (misfortune?) to be "bit" by 50 cycle current so I don't know if skin cells have a good sense of pitch or not.
Well, I know that the company making the armor plates was only running at about two-thirds of capacity but nobody from the government bothered to check with them to see if they could supply more product sooner until after that GI put Rumsfeld on the spot. And I'm pretty sure that the soldier wasn't forced by the reporter to say anything he didn't want to or that he knew to be untrue.
And from the way it "bit" they could probably tell if it was AC or DC.
What can say, the English language is one of my favorite toys.
But is et cetera any relation to Chicago bassist/lead singer Peter Cetera? :-)
Shouldn't that be J-Flex Bondo?
I live about 2000 feet from a phone company switching station that's only a decade or so old but only in the past few months has DSL become available (at about the same time that the local cable TV franchise started making noises about offering VOIP).
My conspiracy theory is that everybody's switching to broadband because dialup on a Pentium II or better and 56K modem is worse than it was at 28K with a 486.
There was an article in Radio-Electronics about 20 to 25 years ago about hacking a Selectric, basically just adding a tap onto the wires connecting the keyswitches to the part that controlled the printball, but I don't remember if it was supposed to be an input or output or both. At the time my mom had a fairly new Selectric but if I'd tried to mod it I wouldn't be alive to be typing this today.
Ever notice how the key sequence to create a new sub-directory (folder) changes in each version of Windows? The words don't change, just the underlined letters. Somewhere in Redmond I guess they're still laughing (or buying more stock in mouse making companies).
I'll bet she even does wire-wrap.
But the association of the comment with the person making it isn't and sometimes the "Slashdot Experience" is as much about who expressed a particular thought as it is about what that thought is. People don't always respond the way your previous experience of them might lead you to expect.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Of course this presupposes that one is sharing one's own files, and not someone else's.
Uh, get modded down?
Nothing new there. Of course back when that used to happen a lot the covers were 12 inches by 12 inches, not postage stamps.
I (and my teacher--this was about 1967--) was referring to the substance that, when combined on a frequent basis with water, allows one to enjoy better health and longer life (and to better avoid giving olfactory offense) by washing away germs and other contamination.
Or were you making a joke about online porn?
If we change "rapidly" to "greatly" I have a nomination, stolen directly from an observation by one of my high school history teachers--
Soap!
If it turns into an Optimus anything that means that it's from Radio Shack which means that it will be what falls to pieces.