Now this might actually be some good news, after all. With NASA out of the whole "space exploration" game (or at least it will be if the U.S. Congress has anything to say about it) maybe the fantasies about the private sector coming to save us all aren't all libertarian tripe. Looking at pics of the capsule from the article, it looks like they're abandoning the whole over-engineered spaceplane concept and sticking with an Apollo capsule/Soyuz style can filled with electronics. Cheap to build, probably easy to fix and refit for the next flight, and disposable if need be (you wouldn't get it back from Mars, for example). Maybe now that the Shuttle (expensive porkbarrel boondoggle that it was) is out of the picture, NASA can get back to engineering and R&D instead of propping up the same micromanaged bureaucrat-interfered ship for decades on a stretch. Assuming that Congress ever lets them do anything again, ever, of course.
Cut the bullshit. "Solemn oaths" don't make massacring a crowd of unarmed civilians and covering it up afterwards okay. What Manning swore an oath to was his country. Covering up war crimes is not serving your country. Dress it up with all the tradition and macho "my country right or wrong" posturing that you want, it's still a war crime.
Who the hell modded this man Troll? This is 100% correct, this IS the true cost of spending all your money on pointless wars - everything else has to suffer.
If a game's financial mechanics breaks the game, then nobody will want to play it, and the money will dry up. I don't think this is very hard to explain to the money people. They understand the mechanics of investment.
Exec A: We just released GrindQuest 3: The Grindening and put in all the stuff required by marketing - microtransactions, always-connected DRM, paid DLC released at the same moment as the game, everything - but nobody's paying for it! What do we tell the shareholders?
Exec B: We could take responsibility and admit that we've made gaming into too much of a dull, expensive hassle.
Exec A: Haha, that line always kills me Bob.
Exec B: Yeah, it does. Just blame it on piracy like we always do.
Exec A: Damn you, filthy pirates! Pass the coke, Bob.
Well America, it's up to India, China and Russia now. Leave the whole "space" and "discovery" and "dreams for the future" business to the up-and-comers. They'll take over the space exploration for you so you don't need to send people up or build space telescopes anymore. You've got more pressing, practical things to worry about! Terrorism, wars, economic stuff, that sort of thing. Good run guys!
I have to wonder... If North Korea suddenly announced that they had A) manned launch capability and B) plans to do a moon run in ten years, would America still decide that manned space travel was done and over with?
That would be the dreaded Warezwolf. Often sought out for his anti-establishment behavior, the Warezwolf is to be treated with caution as he is often infected with a variety of worms and viruses.
There's a solution to this, of course: refuse to do business in Marshall, TX. Don't open stores there, don't sell phones there, don't allow people with IP addresses from that range into your app store, and insert a catch-all clause in your EULA that you don't support users from Marshall. That way you've removed yourself from their jurisdiction and you can't be sued there. Repeat with each new lawsuit haven that springs up.
Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies, he said.
We're talking about implanted bombs. Pat-downs won't help.
They'll discover nothing! When the day comes that they crack somebody open and tear out their brand new pacemaker to "inspect" it, do you think that they'll let something like a mere gruesome passenger death at the hands of incompetent boobs stop them from "making America safe"? Can't you just hear the excuses and justifications flying even now?
If the sales personnel at Best Buy don't sell you additional up-sell products and rip-off cables, then they get their hours cut; also Geek Squad is filled with salesmen and not technicians. Staples is just as bad.
And don't even think of shopping at hhgregg as [their staff] are paid on a 100% commission basis. If you buy something on sale then the sales guy can lose money from his pay so they can be very pushy [on selling you premium products or up-sell additions].
The grammar and sentence structure was bad, but the point was good. The sales people at these companies can be absolutely raped by corporate over "add-on" sales and so are often under incredible pressure to sell additional warranties, expensive accessories, etc. Often the only thing they know about what they're selling is what corporate "trains" them to know, the rest of the time they're under pressure to sell no matter what horseshit they have to tell you.
with features such as different cable lengths, ultra slim and high speed,
There's two HDMI cable specs, supporting 720p/1080i or 1080p. What you mean is "high resolution", but since people don't know what a resolution is because all you do is sell them shiny gold plated voodoo cables you can call it "high speed" and bilk them some more. The price difference is $2 on Monoprice. Incidentally, this doubles the value of the cable. But you wouldn't know that since your cables start at twenty pounds and go up to the stratosphere from there.
They're rough right now, but you'd be surprised how accurate a fully developed industrial process can make a "rough process". At the very least there would be automatic sandblasting of the rough edges.
I think I speak for the world at large here.
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Op-what, now? Is that some sort of web browser or something?
Im sure if we pull out the current standing regime will raise hell on the civilians "just because."
Some democracy you guys installed there.
In addition, it might give those leaders the balls to try something on our home soil again.
Again? What "again"? Afghanistan was only invaded because they were sheltering bin Laden and al Qaeda, not because they caused 9/11. What actions did Iraq instigate on American soil?
That was bad, in fact. Big asteroid hits, giant dust clouds, 75% of species on the planet go extinct within a few thousand years. It took millions of years for diversity to recover.
The IEEE will probably introduce a really good standard for power bricks that will be patent-free, universal and adaptable to different models and country power connector standards.
This is exactly why electronics manufacturers won't adopt it.
Think HP or Samsung doesn't like charging you $100 for a replacement charging adapter? You think that Dell doesn't just absolutely love it when they discontinue manufacturing on a particular laptop model and their once-device-only charge plugs become unavailable, forcing you to buy a new laptop if you ever want to see power again?
The IEEE will draft the standard and release it to manufacturers, and the manufacturers will go "Whelp, that's really nice guys, but you see our laptops are speshul and wouldn't work with that standard, so no thank you."
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Now this might actually be some good news, after all. With NASA out of the whole "space exploration" game (or at least it will be if the U.S. Congress has anything to say about it) maybe the fantasies about the private sector coming to save us all aren't all libertarian tripe. Looking at pics of the capsule from the article, it looks like they're abandoning the whole over-engineered spaceplane concept and sticking with an Apollo capsule/Soyuz style can filled with electronics. Cheap to build, probably easy to fix and refit for the next flight, and disposable if need be (you wouldn't get it back from Mars, for example). Maybe now that the Shuttle (expensive porkbarrel boondoggle that it was) is out of the picture, NASA can get back to engineering and R&D instead of propping up the same micromanaged bureaucrat-interfered ship for decades on a stretch. Assuming that Congress ever lets them do anything again, ever, of course.
Cut the bullshit. "Solemn oaths" don't make massacring a crowd of unarmed civilians and covering it up afterwards okay. What Manning swore an oath to was his country. Covering up war crimes is not serving your country. Dress it up with all the tradition and macho "my country right or wrong" posturing that you want, it's still a war crime.
Who the hell modded this man Troll? This is 100% correct, this IS the true cost of spending all your money on pointless wars - everything else has to suffer.
If a game's financial mechanics breaks the game, then nobody will want to play it, and the money will dry up. I don't think this is very hard to explain to the money people. They understand the mechanics of investment.
Exec A: We just released GrindQuest 3: The Grindening and put in all the stuff required by marketing - microtransactions, always-connected DRM, paid DLC released at the same moment as the game, everything - but nobody's paying for it! What do we tell the shareholders?
Exec B: We could take responsibility and admit that we've made gaming into too much of a dull, expensive hassle.
Exec A: Haha, that line always kills me Bob.
Exec B: Yeah, it does. Just blame it on piracy like we always do.
Exec A: Damn you, filthy pirates! Pass the coke, Bob.
*ALERT* Crimewatch 0.1b has detected a possible future equestrian molestation. Units have been dispatched and are authorized to use deadly force.
Logic: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Well America, it's up to India, China and Russia now. Leave the whole "space" and "discovery" and "dreams for the future" business to the up-and-comers. They'll take over the space exploration for you so you don't need to send people up or build space telescopes anymore. You've got more pressing, practical things to worry about! Terrorism, wars, economic stuff, that sort of thing. Good run guys!
I have to wonder... If North Korea suddenly announced that they had A) manned launch capability and B) plans to do a moon run in ten years, would America still decide that manned space travel was done and over with?
Can we somehow convince all of Rupert Murdoch's other properties to hack someone's voicemail too?
That would be the dreaded Warezwolf. Often sought out for his anti-establishment behavior, the Warezwolf is to be treated with caution as he is often infected with a variety of worms and viruses.
There's a solution to this, of course: refuse to do business in Marshall, TX. Don't open stores there, don't sell phones there, don't allow people with IP addresses from that range into your app store, and insert a catch-all clause in your EULA that you don't support users from Marshall. That way you've removed yourself from their jurisdiction and you can't be sued there. Repeat with each new lawsuit haven that springs up.
Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies, he said.
We're talking about implanted bombs. Pat-downs won't help.
They'll discover nothing! When the day comes that they crack somebody open and tear out their brand new pacemaker to "inspect" it, do you think that they'll let something like a mere gruesome passenger death at the hands of incompetent boobs stop them from "making America safe"? Can't you just hear the excuses and justifications flying even now?
Here's a Hubble image of an actual exoplanet, 25 light years away. The exoplanet they're imaging in the story here is 1000 light years away...
Psst, don't tell Gandalf, but I think we've found where Sauron went after Barad Dur was destroyed.
The grammar and sentence structure was bad
Err... whoops. :P
If the sales personnel at Best Buy don't sell you additional up-sell products and rip-off cables, then they get their hours cut; also Geek Squad is filled with salesmen and not technicians. Staples is just as bad. And don't even think of shopping at hhgregg as [their staff] are paid on a 100% commission basis. If you buy something on sale then the sales guy can lose money from his pay so they can be very pushy [on selling you premium products or up-sell additions].
The grammar and sentence structure was bad, but the point was good. The sales people at these companies can be absolutely raped by corporate over "add-on" sales and so are often under incredible pressure to sell additional warranties, expensive accessories, etc. Often the only thing they know about what they're selling is what corporate "trains" them to know, the rest of the time they're under pressure to sell no matter what horseshit they have to tell you.
Hmmm, so it is. Wikipedia saves us all. I just assumed that bit was more BS from the sales guy. Still, 20 pounds?
with features such as different cable lengths, ultra slim and high speed,
There's two HDMI cable specs, supporting 720p/1080i or 1080p. What you mean is "high resolution", but since people don't know what a resolution is because all you do is sell them shiny gold plated voodoo cables you can call it "high speed" and bilk them some more. The price difference is $2 on Monoprice. Incidentally, this doubles the value of the cable. But you wouldn't know that since your cables start at twenty pounds and go up to the stratosphere from there.
They're rough right now, but you'd be surprised how accurate a fully developed industrial process can make a "rough process". At the very least there would be automatic sandblasting of the rough edges.
Op-what, now? Is that some sort of web browser or something?
Im sure if we pull out the current standing regime will raise hell on the civilians "just because."
Some democracy you guys installed there.
In addition, it might give those leaders the balls to try something on our home soil again.
Again? What "again"? Afghanistan was only invaded because they were sheltering bin Laden and al Qaeda, not because they caused 9/11. What actions did Iraq instigate on American soil?
Allow me. http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam.
That was bad, in fact. Big asteroid hits, giant dust clouds, 75% of species on the planet go extinct within a few thousand years. It took millions of years for diversity to recover.
The IEEE will probably introduce a really good standard for power bricks that will be patent-free, universal and adaptable to different models and country power connector standards. This is exactly why electronics manufacturers won't adopt it. Think HP or Samsung doesn't like charging you $100 for a replacement charging adapter? You think that Dell doesn't just absolutely love it when they discontinue manufacturing on a particular laptop model and their once-device-only charge plugs become unavailable, forcing you to buy a new laptop if you ever want to see power again? The IEEE will draft the standard and release it to manufacturers, and the manufacturers will go "Whelp, that's really nice guys, but you see our laptops are speshul and wouldn't work with that standard, so no thank you."
Am I the only one who read the title as "Decoding the Inscrutable Legos On Your Electronics"?
Officer (cont'd): ...Now, give me your license and registration. Chicken fucker! Bgawk!