The summary above is not quite correct. The linked article actually states, "...someone had broken into a computer server at the university's housing and food service center last July", not a vending machine.
If you could take a vaccine for the common cold once then you'd lose all that money for cold remedies. And if you could cure high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and arthritis instead of managing these conditions then you'd make much less money. It is the opposite of the old saying about teaching someone to fish rather than giving them a fish for dinner. In this case, they'd rather that you were dependent upon them for the rest of your life.
In the same vein, the shuttle is very expensive but this is good for the companies that essentially strip them down and rebuild them for every launch, which is what they do rather than just reusing them. The SRBs are salvaged out of salt water and rebuilt. The shuttle is a prime example of pork barrel politics and make work projects. It is meant to make political capital for certain states, not to solve a problem. The contractors love being the only game in town and since they can charge a margin on top of subcontractors and equipment and software bought for the projects they never use things over again, they buy it all from scratch. It is a large waste of money, but good for the economy in a way if you like having the gov't fund what amounts to corporate and personal welfare.
Until there is a completely private alternative, accountable to shareholders instead of politicians at the trough, space travel will continue to be outrageously expensive and inefficient.
Both my parents are left handed but that could mean nothing as myself and my brother and sister are all right handed. I believe I was left handed at first but the old, english woman I had for a teacher in grade one forced me to switch and my handwriting has been terrible ever since. Everyone who sees it says I should have been a doctor with all the 'prescriptions' I make. Writing with my left hand is about as legible, though slower of course. I do some activities with one hand, others with the other and some with both. This is probably one of the reasons why I liked computers so early on.
Most sets or set-top boxes, Tivos, etc. have parental control built right in, often using a V-Chip. If you only want children's programming to work when you aren't there, just set it to limit that type of programming for them, then when they're in bed you unlock it for yourself. Still means things need to be rated properly (and news of all things, one of the worst things you can show children is often rated G) but it is better than sticking all of us with TreehouseTV.
There is one other problem, commercials aren't V-Chip rated yet and while you'd think they'd make the commercials match the show, often there are innappropriate commercials around educational shows. Surprisingly, Discovery channel is one of the worst culprits, at least Discovery Canada does. With simulcasting I'm not sure about the original signal.
As in this Buran? Means 'snow storm' in Russian. "Ptichka" ("Little Bird" in Russian) was the name of the 2nd one built, which never flew. Energia did make the booster.
India is also looking at lunar and manned programs and already has launched its own satellites, etc. Private entries from the US, Canada and the UK (and other countries) can perhaps be considered separately from the goverment operations. There are now many players, some major (some declining, some expanding) and some minor (some expanding, some perhaps will never get off the ground). Exciting times ahead, I hope.
I never said anything about being better for the consumer. Just better for the producer, obviously. The marketing dollars aren't meant to win you over, they are meant to inform you about their product because for many people right now, portable music players ARE iPods. iPod has become like Kleenex, which is just a brand but people unknowingly ask for it by name; when's the last time you asked someone for a facial tissue? Creative wants to make sure you know there are more to portable music players than the Apple iPod.
If the perfect product falls in a forest, will anyone buy it? Not without marketing.
The best product in the world will not sell itself, contrary to popular opinion. Without good marketing you won't sell anything. It is far better to have an inferior product marketed well than the other way around.
I used to be in the, "what the heck does marketing do, anyways?" camp thinking money spent on it was a waste but no more.
I don't know about you but I shudder to think about sharing the road with automated 18-wheelers. What happens if the software or hardware (mechanical or computer) fails? What happens if the truck's control network is disrupted or gets hacked? Even an out of control car could create large amounts of damage but a runaway truck would be a nightmare.
"Patients who present late in the disease process tend to have a poor outcome." Get well, good luck, I wish you the best as it sounds like this is a late presentation. As someone who's spent time in the hospital on IV antibiotics, I hope your veins don't get sensitive to the IVs like mine did. At first the insertion sites lasted for days but later they'd become inflamed in very little time. Prepare to become a human pincushion:-(. They can put IV needles in places you don't want to know...
The scramjet is an air-breathing engine. That is its advantage over chemical rockets which must loft both fuel AND oxidizer while the scramjet just carries fuel, thus hopefully providing a better thrust:weight ratio. The scramjet gets its oxidizer from the atmosphere so unless it can reach escape velocity while deep enough in the atmosphere to get out (and overcome the remaining air resistance) it will need a different type of motor to kick it into orbit.
Sometimes the news lets us down, then again there is a lot of bad science out there. Funny how the science "facts" depend on who is funding the research.
Well, you have to make sure the grant providers get their money's worth. The problem with how the grants are given out is that prospective projects are listed with hypothesis, expected conclusions and practical implications. It is difficult to get funding if no one wants your expected conclusions to come out. Almost no one is doing science just to see what might happen; accidental discoveries do happen but only by serendipity, not by paying scientists to simply explore. Coming to different conclusions is alright but the 'file drawer problem' means studies which 'successfully' show a view are more likely to be published than those which are unsuccessful.
In many applications the linear response of CMOS and CCD chips is exactly what we want but in other cases we want more of what the eye and, to a lessor extent, film can do to have a wider dynamic range. Different films have different responses and while the effect can, to some extent, be simulated afterward in the digital darkroom you can only get rid of data at that stage, you can't get back what is already lost. For your average snapshot camera user digital has already won but for the serious hobbiest, it has a way to go. I don't think it will ever be the same but eventually we'll forget the nuances of film like we've forgotten the nuances of the buggy ride.
4800 DPI scanners yield over 34.5MP in 35mm format and fine grained black & white film can be scanned at even higher resolutions while showing more and more data. Large (analog) enlarger prints look better and sharper than printer reproduction still. Film is far from dead as the sharpest format. Soon, but not yet. And even once digital has as much data as film, the non-linear response will still be difficult to copy exactly. Some people still prefer tube amps to transistor amps in the music industry and likely always will and the same will be true for film, assuming we can still buy it.
Are you sure? The synopsis may say it supports video formats but neither the product page nor the review indicate that any video formats will work. What is your source for the video functionality?
What has not yet been mentioned in this/. discussion is briefly, though not directly, mentioned in the aforementioned space.com article. The changes to the engine were made at least partly to offset the previous glitch encountered during the previous flight. "...the increased liquid nitrous oxide should delay that drop off and provide more thrust earlier in the flight, when SpaceShipOne's control surfaces can still bite into the Earth's atmosphere for steering." They hope this will allow them to reach their target altitude this time (almost missed the space altitude last time) without having to resort to secondary guidance systems.
Dust off your VCR! I still have my original tapes, complete with grey bounding boxes on the models, etc. They still work. No need to wait for DVD really if you want to see the 'originals'. Sure, it isn't widescreen but at least the story is the same (one can argue that changing the shooting order is fairly significant for Han's character) and no new actors have been added!!!
Exactly! But for those who didn't RTFA, it does say "The numbers do not include workers who are laid off, Aon says. Last year, 11.2% of the workforce left jobs involuntarily, compared with 20.3% in 2001, when the tech bubble burst." So it appears that involuntary layoffs are also down.
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Mine doesn't. Yahoo groups messages do, but not my email. Perhaps this is because I have an old account?
The summary above is not quite correct. The linked article actually states, "...someone had broken into a computer server at the university's housing and food service center last July", not a vending machine.
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Microsoft and the hackers are just playing CoreWars, for real, on our systems. Isn't that great?
In fact, Windows XP's heap boundary checking sounds like little more than the old RADAR-X REDCODE program...
If you could take a vaccine for the common cold once then you'd lose all that money for cold remedies. And if you could cure high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and arthritis instead of managing these conditions then you'd make much less money. It is the opposite of the old saying about teaching someone to fish rather than giving them a fish for dinner. In this case, they'd rather that you were dependent upon them for the rest of your life.
In the same vein, the shuttle is very expensive but this is good for the companies that essentially strip them down and rebuild them for every launch, which is what they do rather than just reusing them. The SRBs are salvaged out of salt water and rebuilt. The shuttle is a prime example of pork barrel politics and make work projects. It is meant to make political capital for certain states, not to solve a problem. The contractors love being the only game in town and since they can charge a margin on top of subcontractors and equipment and software bought for the projects they never use things over again, they buy it all from scratch. It is a large waste of money, but good for the economy in a way if you like having the gov't fund what amounts to corporate and personal welfare.
Until there is a completely private alternative, accountable to shareholders instead of politicians at the trough, space travel will continue to be outrageously expensive and inefficient.
Both my parents are left handed but that could mean nothing as myself and my brother and sister are all right handed. I believe I was left handed at first but the old, english woman I had for a teacher in grade one forced me to switch and my handwriting has been terrible ever since. Everyone who sees it says I should have been a doctor with all the 'prescriptions' I make. Writing with my left hand is about as legible, though slower of course. I do some activities with one hand, others with the other and some with both. This is probably one of the reasons why I liked computers so early on.
Most sets or set-top boxes, Tivos, etc. have parental control built right in, often using a V-Chip. If you only want children's programming to work when you aren't there, just set it to limit that type of programming for them, then when they're in bed you unlock it for yourself. Still means things need to be rated properly (and news of all things, one of the worst things you can show children is often rated G) but it is better than sticking all of us with TreehouseTV.
There is one other problem, commercials aren't V-Chip rated yet and while you'd think they'd make the commercials match the show, often there are innappropriate commercials around educational shows. Surprisingly, Discovery channel is one of the worst culprits, at least Discovery Canada does. With simulcasting I'm not sure about the original signal.
There have been some recent updates but essentially the design is almost 40-years old now.
As in this Buran? Means 'snow storm' in Russian. "Ptichka" ("Little Bird" in Russian) was the name of the 2nd one built, which never flew. Energia did make the booster.
India is also looking at lunar and manned programs and already has launched its own satellites, etc. Private entries from the US, Canada and the UK (and other countries) can perhaps be considered separately from the goverment operations. There are now many players, some major (some declining, some expanding) and some minor (some expanding, some perhaps will never get off the ground). Exciting times ahead, I hope.
See Wil's entry in the IMDB which lists him as Richard Burns. If you'd read Wil's blog entry, you'd know this part was of a news reporter.
Wonder if they ever recovered anything?
I never said anything about being better for the consumer. Just better for the producer, obviously. The marketing dollars aren't meant to win you over, they are meant to inform you about their product because for many people right now, portable music players ARE iPods. iPod has become like Kleenex, which is just a brand but people unknowingly ask for it by name; when's the last time you asked someone for a facial tissue? Creative wants to make sure you know there are more to portable music players than the Apple iPod.
If the perfect product falls in a forest, will anyone buy it? Not without marketing.
The best product in the world will not sell itself, contrary to popular opinion. Without good marketing you won't sell anything. It is far better to have an inferior product marketed well than the other way around.
I used to be in the, "what the heck does marketing do, anyways?" camp thinking money spent on it was a waste but no more.
I don't know about you but I shudder to think about sharing the road with automated 18-wheelers. What happens if the software or hardware (mechanical or computer) fails? What happens if the truck's control network is disrupted or gets hacked? Even an out of control car could create large amounts of damage but a runaway truck would be a nightmare.
"Patients who present late in the disease process tend to have a poor outcome." Get well, good luck, I wish you the best as it sounds like this is a late presentation. As someone who's spent time in the hospital on IV antibiotics, I hope your veins don't get sensitive to the IVs like mine did. At first the insertion sites lasted for days but later they'd become inflamed in very little time. Prepare to become a human pincushion :-(. They can put IV needles in places you don't want to know...
The scramjet is an air-breathing engine. That is its advantage over chemical rockets which must loft both fuel AND oxidizer while the scramjet just carries fuel, thus hopefully providing a better thrust:weight ratio. The scramjet gets its oxidizer from the atmosphere so unless it can reach escape velocity while deep enough in the atmosphere to get out (and overcome the remaining air resistance) it will need a different type of motor to kick it into orbit.
Well, you have to make sure the grant providers get their money's worth. The problem with how the grants are given out is that prospective projects are listed with hypothesis, expected conclusions and practical implications. It is difficult to get funding if no one wants your expected conclusions to come out. Almost no one is doing science just to see what might happen; accidental discoveries do happen but only by serendipity, not by paying scientists to simply explore. Coming to different conclusions is alright but the 'file drawer problem' means studies which 'successfully' show a view are more likely to be published than those which are unsuccessful.
In many applications the linear response of CMOS and CCD chips is exactly what we want but in other cases we want more of what the eye and, to a lessor extent, film can do to have a wider dynamic range. Different films have different responses and while the effect can, to some extent, be simulated afterward in the digital darkroom you can only get rid of data at that stage, you can't get back what is already lost. For your average snapshot camera user digital has already won but for the serious hobbiest, it has a way to go. I don't think it will ever be the same but eventually we'll forget the nuances of film like we've forgotten the nuances of the buggy ride.
4800 DPI scanners yield over 34.5MP in 35mm format and fine grained black & white film can be scanned at even higher resolutions while showing more and more data. Large (analog) enlarger prints look better and sharper than printer reproduction still. Film is far from dead as the sharpest format. Soon, but not yet. And even once digital has as much data as film, the non-linear response will still be difficult to copy exactly. Some people still prefer tube amps to transistor amps in the music industry and likely always will and the same will be true for film, assuming we can still buy it.
Does TFA say HP is cancelling Itanium servers?
Are you sure? The synopsis may say it supports video formats but neither the product page nor the review indicate that any video formats will work. What is your source for the video functionality?
What has not yet been mentioned in this /. discussion is briefly, though not directly, mentioned in the aforementioned space.com article. The changes to the engine were made at least partly to offset the previous glitch encountered during the previous flight. "...the increased liquid nitrous oxide should delay that drop off and provide more thrust earlier in the flight, when SpaceShipOne's control surfaces can still bite into the Earth's atmosphere for steering." They hope this will allow them to reach their target altitude this time (almost missed the space altitude last time) without having to resort to secondary guidance systems.
Dust off your VCR! I still have my original tapes, complete with grey bounding boxes on the models, etc. They still work. No need to wait for DVD really if you want to see the 'originals'. Sure, it isn't widescreen but at least the story is the same (one can argue that changing the shooting order is fairly significant for Han's character) and no new actors have been added!!!
Exactly! But for those who didn't RTFA, it does say "The numbers do not include workers who are laid off, Aon says. Last year, 11.2% of the workforce left jobs involuntarily, compared with 20.3% in 2001, when the tech bubble burst." So it appears that involuntary layoffs are also down.