The sarcasm of parent has got a real point. I think that Bush's Supreme Court appointment(s) will be one of the defining political battles of recent time. Democrats in the Senate have violenty resisted Circuit Appellate Court nominees, and Bolton for UN ambassador. How much more will they fight the Republicans and President Bush if he nominates anyone but a moderate judge. Yes there will be great strife on the floor of the Senate in the coming months.
Of course, this all depends on who the President picks as a replacement. If he picks Alberto Gonzales (currently attourney general), all hell may break loose.
I agree that there has not been much space exploration done by the shuttle per se, but it did facilitate the Hubble telescope, which has been one of the best tools for space exploration.
Yes, we did not meet the security recomendations, but I don't think that should be a big deterrent for NASA. Compared to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, the Shuttle program is very safe. Add to that all the improvements they've made since the Shuttle came on-line, and space flight is much safer than it used to be.
The space business is a dangerous game and everyone used to accepted that. This was when astronauts were larger than life Supermen rather than scientists. I just want to know when the threat of death became an unacceptable risk for exploration.
I am a Greek major, and often my study leads me to investigate the nature of language, human communication in general, and meaning. I would like to offer a few points:
There are no rules, only patterns. Grammatical rules are misleading. Langauges evolve. They have evolved from the ground up and continue to change. The "rules" at the moment represent the normative usage at this time. So it seems sort of silly to teach English "rules," but it is the best way to express the common English code to English-language-learners. In other words, "You ought to follow these rules if you want to be understood."
Language is in the mouths of the people, not the pages of the dictionary and grammar book. Usage by English speakers defines the language. That is why new words and grammatical constructions and figures of speech and idioms pop up and fall away all the time.
The purpose of language is communication. The reason we talk is so that we can communicate with one another. When someone says "should of" instead of "should have," most seasoned English speakers understand exactly what that phrase means. Communication has happened, and the language has served its purpose. This happens all the time in common English. Example: Goodbye. I do not attack people who use this nonsensical grammatically poor word. You see, it originates from "God be with ye." Goodbye is an obvious grammatical distortion that has taken hold as a normative part of English language. So will "should of" as has "aint" as done as well.
It is silly to get mad at someone for not following the "rules" of English if you know exactly what they mean.
Biometrics are still so far from reliable. Hopefully this whole effort will not be in vain.
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I could see this sort of technology acting as a power assist for commercial aircraft, but it impractical.
First of all you have the weight, the craft is as skinny as rail, and only carries 1000 pounds. That is in the sub-feather-weight class of airplanes. I doubt that this same powertrain could drive a plane full of cargo and/or passengers.
You also have the functional question. This technology is for staying in the air for a week. It does not have what the airlines need. Passengers are looking to get from A to B as fast as possible.
Basically this is a great idea, but I cannot see it impacting the commercial air industry any time soon.
Good point. On my Verizon service there is a noticable lag of almost one second (at times) within their network. So multiply that by send and recieve and add to that any delay in Skype, and you might have some bizarre conversations.
I would have to agree with this as well. We have a small network with 5 Win2003 servers and 90 XP workstation. We use the Netscreen 5GT. It can be quite tricky to set-up, but having the firewall seperate from your domain is quite handy. Second choice, get a UNIX box to do the job.
Well we are both totally lacking sources to back up our ignorant/troll claims, so I guess this one is a draw until one of us does some research, or I give up and eat a taco.
D'OH
"Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming."
I read that "west" as "north" and deduced that the wind from the plant would be moving north into Canada, not west into my beloved home state of Oregon. OK I'll read more carefully next time.
There was a reason, back in the day, that gasoline was chosen to power vehicles. That is, its energy-density is very high. In fact, in terms of fuels that are stable enough to be in a vehicle, I am sure that gasoline is very very close to the top. That is why it became (and remains) the dominant fuel for automobiles. Alternative fuels (hydrogen fuel cells, ethanol) are simply to inefficient and expensive. Though gas is such a nasty pollutant, is the economically (think micro and short-term) smartest choice at the moment.
From the article:
"Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming."
North and upwind of Grand Teton, eh? Sounds like we are going to be sending some pollution up Canada's way. On behalf of all Americans, I apologize.
Allow me to append my statement from above, because it seems that many have misinterpreted it:
"For all of us who use ATI cards for Windows gaming machines and want to switch to Linux."
I thought it would be obvious that someone who is using "ATI cards for games" is using Windows, not Linux. Sorry for the confusion.
You can play the games right out of the box, assuming that you can get functional drivers for your video card. For all of us who use ATI cards for games, this is not so exciting.
How will this ruling bear upon Verizon's expanding fiber-optic network? Will another case have to go all the way to the Supreme Court, or will Fios be designated as an "information service" or a "telecommuncation service?"
I have not a professional, so this may not deal directly with this subject. But here it goes. After buying so many cameras (video and still) to document life, I have run into this same issue. What do I do with all these photos? Do I even need to keep them backed up? Then I had a revelation. Why not use the gray-matter between my ears to "remember" my life. Yes, I know that these events happened in my life without proper digital documentation. Give a shot some time.
Almost 2,000 years. But they were stored in an arid climate. Almost all extant documents from that time period are from Alexandria Egypt or the deserts of Palestine. So make sure you have your monks store those in a nice dry place.
Well the congregation is about 6000 people. So between staff, interns, volunteers, dedicated printing machines (we have two for sophisticated in house printing), servers, library kiosks and whatever else, it adds up to about 90.
I do agree that this is highly unusual for most churches.
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Of course, this all depends on who the President picks as a replacement. If he picks Alberto Gonzales (currently attourney general), all hell may break loose.
Hey, as long as there is money to be made, you can define freedom however you want to (read: Iraq).
I agree that there has not been much space exploration done by the shuttle per se, but it did facilitate the Hubble telescope, which has been one of the best tools for space exploration.
The space business is a dangerous game and everyone used to accepted that. This was when astronauts were larger than life Supermen rather than scientists. I just want to know when the threat of death became an unacceptable risk for exploration.
There are no rules, only patterns. Grammatical rules are misleading. Langauges evolve. They have evolved from the ground up and continue to change. The "rules" at the moment represent the normative usage at this time. So it seems sort of silly to teach English "rules," but it is the best way to express the common English code to English-language-learners. In other words, "You ought to follow these rules if you want to be understood."
Language is in the mouths of the people, not the pages of the dictionary and grammar book. Usage by English speakers defines the language. That is why new words and grammatical constructions and figures of speech and idioms pop up and fall away all the time.
The purpose of language is communication. The reason we talk is so that we can communicate with one another. When someone says "should of" instead of "should have," most seasoned English speakers understand exactly what that phrase means. Communication has happened, and the language has served its purpose. This happens all the time in common English. Example: Goodbye. I do not attack people who use this nonsensical grammatically poor word. You see, it originates from "God be with ye." Goodbye is an obvious grammatical distortion that has taken hold as a normative part of English language. So will "should of" as has "aint" as done as well.
It is silly to get mad at someone for not following the "rules" of English if you know exactly what they mean.
Wow, an 11 nation RAID? Now that is redundancy!
Biometrics are still so far from reliable. Hopefully this whole effort will not be in vain.
First of all you have the weight, the craft is as skinny as rail, and only carries 1000 pounds. That is in the sub-feather-weight class of airplanes. I doubt that this same powertrain could drive a plane full of cargo and/or passengers.
You also have the functional question. This technology is for staying in the air for a week. It does not have what the airlines need. Passengers are looking to get from A to B as fast as possible.
Basically this is a great idea, but I cannot see it impacting the commercial air industry any time soon.
Sweet, I love not getting taunted. BOOYAH!
There is nothing quite like a cryptic taunting post on Slashdot.
Good point. On my Verizon service there is a noticable lag of almost one second (at times) within their network. So multiply that by send and recieve and add to that any delay in Skype, and you might have some bizarre conversations.
I'm guessing he has made an investment, too.
I would have to agree with this as well. We have a small network with 5 Win2003 servers and 90 XP workstation. We use the Netscreen 5GT. It can be quite tricky to set-up, but having the firewall seperate from your domain is quite handy. Second choice, get a UNIX box to do the job.
Well we are both totally lacking sources to back up our ignorant/troll claims, so I guess this one is a draw until one of us does some research, or I give up and eat a taco.
"Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming."
I read that "west" as "north" and deduced that the wind from the plant would be moving north into Canada, not west into my beloved home state of Oregon. OK I'll read more carefully next time.
There was a reason, back in the day, that gasoline was chosen to power vehicles. That is, its energy-density is very high. In fact, in terms of fuels that are stable enough to be in a vehicle, I am sure that gasoline is very very close to the top. That is why it became (and remains) the dominant fuel for automobiles. Alternative fuels (hydrogen fuel cells, ethanol) are simply to inefficient and expensive. Though gas is such a nasty pollutant, is the economically (think micro and short-term) smartest choice at the moment.
If you volunteer for this experiment, you may wake up next to a foul-mouth bending robot in the year 3000. That is an acceptable risk.
Ugh, I cannot believe I just made an "All Your Base" joke. I think I am going to be sick.
"Federal officials say the program would produce a total of 330 pounds over 30 years at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling site outside Idaho Falls some 100 miles to the west and upwind of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming."
North and upwind of Grand Teton, eh? Sounds like we are going to be sending some pollution up Canada's way. On behalf of all Americans, I apologize.
"For all of us who use ATI cards for Windows gaming machines and want to switch to Linux."
I thought it would be obvious that someone who is using "ATI cards for games" is using Windows, not Linux. Sorry for the confusion.
You can play the games right out of the box, assuming that you can get functional drivers for your video card. For all of us who use ATI cards for games, this is not so exciting.
How will this ruling bear upon Verizon's expanding fiber-optic network? Will another case have to go all the way to the Supreme Court, or will Fios be designated as an "information service" or a "telecommuncation service?"
I have not a professional, so this may not deal directly with this subject. But here it goes. After buying so many cameras (video and still) to document life, I have run into this same issue. What do I do with all these photos? Do I even need to keep them backed up? Then I had a revelation. Why not use the gray-matter between my ears to "remember" my life. Yes, I know that these events happened in my life without proper digital documentation. Give a shot some time.
Almost 2,000 years. But they were stored in an arid climate. Almost all extant documents from that time period are from Alexandria Egypt or the deserts of Palestine. So make sure you have your monks store those in a nice dry place.
I do agree that this is highly unusual for most churches.