It's transmitting, so it has enough power to run something, such as a trajectory computer system. I'd imaging getting a strong signal back to earth is a lot power-consuming though.
Propulsion systems would be powered a lot different from transmission systems anyhow, using a reserve of solid fuel most likely. It's not like I was proposing using a big fan off a solar cell (which would be useless).
Save your knee-jerk reactions for the next time you decide to investigate the strange thumping noise from the room down the hall...
Apparently Pioneer was only intended for a short missing to around Jupiter anyways, and it's lasted longer than expected. Either way, I suppose NASA got their money's worth.
You do understand that the probe communicates with us via radio, and that we get all of its data that way, right
What...the...hell, RTFA, or even the slashdot post?
But the transmission was so faint that NASA engineers could not obtain any scientific readings from the craft
In other words, it can't reach us with a solid signal. Previous contact has also been sporadic. What I was saying, is at this point the data is not harvestable and has become useless. It's nice that we've heard from pioneer, but we're not learning anything.
Where exactly is the Pioneer headed to. Is it intended to eventually make a circular path and eventually head home, or will it just continue to wander out into space? If we could start planting satellites in circular synchronous orbits, perhaps we could eventually have a transmission array that could gradually extend throughout the solar system.
Sending out probes is cool when we can collect info, but it's not really useful if the data isn't able to be processed. A probe that wanders away isn't really very useful, unless perhaps somebody picks it up and sends it home or comes to visit.
Ah, I found the put reclarified elsewhere. Apparently with a "put" he can sell the stock at a higher price, even when it's bought low. The dictionary link didn't explain this overly well, but another/.'er did a fairly good job
He allegedly bought more than $21,000 of put options, which grants an investor the right to sell a certain amount of underlying stock at a certain price. By giving the investor the right to sell underlying stock at a given price, put options increase in value when the stock value falls.
I'm trying to figure this out. From the ABC article, it sounds like he bought stock in the parent company and expected to profit when things went bad? I could see how this works with buying into a rival company would work, but this sounds like a losing situation. Maybe the article is just weirdly worded, or I'm reading things wrong?
Any decently large business worth its beans should be able to accept credit-card payments. Hell, if the local coffee shop can take VISA, I'm pretty sure that a large well-founded escrow service can. If they're only accepting wires or other hard-to-trace methods, people should really clue in that they're probably going to get "escrewed."
I've only lost money once on ebay, and that was because I tried to get the package shipped without value, and thus couldn't collect insurance when the postman stole it (the seller has a strong rep, so I'm fairly sure it's the postman as I've heard of this happening before). I've had other times when companies tried to hose me, one sent me the wrong part and I rangled with them for refund for 3 months, before getting smart and calling Visa (Visa had a little talk with them, my refund came very quickly after without needing chargeback).
Visa doesn't like fraudsters, because it hurts their reputation as a safe method of transaction. Every so often, they go out like sharpened stakes and impale a few scammers to set an example. If you're lucky, you can catch them when they're looking for somebody to lynch.
A lot of larger companies can have multiple admins, each taking care of a particular sector. By having a common methodology or plan, you can ensure that one admin can cover for another (in case of unforseen accident) or take over.
In the schools where I work, I can walk into another admin's school and be fairly comfortable with making fixes/changes to their system - since everything runs similarly. This is convenient if one of us gets sick, or has a holiday, etc, and a server goes kaput somewhere.
Some of us are more well-versed than others, and one of the other admins has a much better knowledge of most of the systems than me - in particular our main user repository.
I can get by fairly well the "armadillo book" (0'Reilly) when there's something I don't understand, but sometimes I still need to call him when things go awry. For those that need to catch up with other admins, I do recommend the O'Reilly books though. I've only been here a few months, and I expect that after time (and reading) I'll be much more confortable with some of the systems I'm not currently as fluent in as others.
Yeah, a bunch of laws can be nuked that way. Every now and then they try to sneak an ugly one in that's super-ambiguous. And it goes for awhile, until somebody has the guts to challenge it, and then (if the judge has brains and the challenger some money) it gets struck down. And then at times, rewritten to be as close as possible to the first, and reinstated until the process cycles.
Unfortunately, being that their early medium was a 5-1/4 (low density?) disk... these are definately rare in the original form. Mainly because, even though I know some who had them, many copies tend to have become demagnetized and thus are useless.
The first episodes were silly, but I think it's to surprise you as to the real depth of Vash and also show his varying personalities.
It also doesn't sound too bad dubbed (at least from the first few episodes I watched before going to subbed), but I'm hoping that a lot of the blood and innuendo doesn't get killed by the censorship police.
All in all, definately worth seeing, although -like all anime - if you can see the uncut subbed with original voice actors you may enjoy it more.
And it's one of the few shows with enough guts to wipe out a main character. I won't mention which so as not to offend those who haven't seen it, but many shows get attached to characters and end without really having any final development on them.
Last time I checked there were a lot of wrappers for kernel compiling that made it somewhat simple, except for checking for things like your boot-loader would fine the new kernel, etc - which some people overlook. Is it simple a disable option... allow_binary_kernel_linkage etc?
Some people whine that they would like the source so they could mod their video card properties, but it's still a hell of a lot better than having no driver at all, for which many more people will whine unless they cannot get their video card to work without going through a huge hassle.
Then we have people whining about how the binaries can violate GPL. But maybe we need a clause for video drivers.
If the drivers are released as free to the public - not with source, but without cost, then that would make 90% of the users happy.
You also have to consider that things like video cards don't work exactly like software from a marketing perspective. Software like mySQL etc can market their troubleshooting and/or programming, as well as enhanced-feature licenses while still making their base-produce free and open source.
How many people would pay for a troubleshooting contract for a video card brand? The profit is in the sales, and the sales are based on that it works. I know very few people who would begrudge NVidea for releasing compatible drivers, even if they are only binaries. Making the hardware work is one more step towards making linux a more accepted o/s, and that's a good thing!
Aspirin, alka-seltzer, stomach tablets.
Perhaps some muscle relaxants, a gift certificate for a massage parlor.
And for when he/she gets home... I nice big bottle of 80 proof.
It may not be exactly what your geek was looking for, or even considered, but all those things will probably come in handy on those days when he/she is dealing with users...
In Canadian cases laws are at times stricken down because of too much ambiguity (not specific enough) or because they're just plain incoherent.
One must go through court to have it stricken, but if you got a judge with a brain...
seems to me in a case where the jury couldn't even grasp the law, it's a bit too ambiguous and unclear for the normal person and should be trashed. Guess it doesn't work that way elsewhere though.
...it's generally done on the grounds that the law is so obtuse that the average juror wouldn't understand it...
So if a jury can't understand it enough to render a decision... how is the average person supposed to be able to understand it enough to avoid infringing it?
No need to moderate this up ppl, apparently it's not a miamoto game - although it does still differ from Nintendo's tendency towards designing games of a kiddish genre.
Truly? How sad. At one point I had heard that the big M was involved, but I guess you can't believe everyone. Can anyone list the various R&D teams and their claims to fame. How about R&D2,3
It's a fine thing to be corrected, if in doing so one is also educated - phorm
Yeah, some people actually enjoy a game that doesn't involve lopping off heads, dismemberment, gratuitous nudity etc, and can actually be played by a general audience.
Games like mario were playable by all ages. While the graphics have grown a bit more kiddish, I've known many parents that would happily sit down with their kid and play a game or two (and often enough, wait for the kid to go to bed so they can play for themselves).
I've never really considered "metroid" a kid's game either. Some of the plot is best enjoyed by more audiences, and the animation is more of a dark and sinister at times rather than comical.
470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus
While I'm sure there are some trek weirdos and collectors that have these sort of things... how many were collected by theatres, conventions, and other businesses/events that wanted to promote some $tar Trek cash inflow?
Both my cable and my dsl cost $49.99 a month - though I did get a special on my DSL ($25 for the first 6 mo)
Ditto here, except that to get the $25/6mo one had to buy the DSL modem. After that it goes up to $35/mo. Is that in Canadian or American $? Mine's in Canadian so it probably amounts to cheaper.
Customer service on DSL and cable still sucks though.
I used to be on cable (local Shaw), billing was a nightmare, and there was lot significant amount of downtime. I still remember the day when my cable went down for 12h, and my overnight download autodialled my old dialup connection... long distance (my fault for the dialout though, in retrospect it is somewhat funny).
Now though, I subscribe to a DSL business account and tech support still doesn't give me the time of day (no seriously guys, you have issues with blocking 66.x.x.x IP ranges, it's been tested and the fault is not mine?).
Truly? I'd never even heard of them until some of the more well known PC games. Perhaps they were out, but I think that their PC titles (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo) made them popular.
Thanks for the info though, I'd not heard of them on console. What games?
Somebody already made that joke, I was going to too but checked first. This is the first thing that comes to mind though... maybe this guy should ask his bro (or somebody else with a nut loose and few scruples) to bring his boss in hogtied with a big bow so he can tell him how he feels about the bobble-head doll.
I've never had a holiday bonus, but I've worked a few companies that were very good to employees. On one of my better jobs, you banked an extra holiday for every 2 weeks where there was no stat, we also had a very nice departmental picnic and various prizes that good employees one (plus a draw that anyone could win). Everyone I know at that job was great to get along with, and the company environment was incredible.
If I had ever needed to, I would have gone out of my way (overtime, holiday work, on-call, etc) for that company in a second - because I knew I was appreciated.
Maybe we don't need an Xmas bonus, but just a donation of appreciation (hell, a box of chocolates or even a chocolate bar) makes me feel a lot better about how my employers appreciate me.
For all those that are scraping coins right now, I wish you better days ahead, happy holidays, and perhaps a lucky lottery ticket.
One thing to consider as that you "grow into your age." This device will pile everything on at once, but generally as you age things just somewhat creep up on you (so I've been told).
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It's transmitting, so it has enough power to run something, such as a trajectory computer system. I'd imaging getting a strong signal back to earth is a lot power-consuming though.
Propulsion systems would be powered a lot different from transmission systems anyhow, using a reserve of solid fuel most likely. It's not like I was proposing using a big fan off a solar cell (which would be useless).
Save your knee-jerk reactions for the next time you decide to investigate the strange thumping noise from the room down the hall...
Apparently Pioneer was only intended for a short missing to around Jupiter anyways, and it's lasted longer than expected. Either way, I suppose NASA got their money's worth.
You do understand that the probe communicates with us via radio, and that we get all of its data that way, right
What...the...hell, RTFA, or even the slashdot post?
But the transmission was so faint that NASA engineers could not obtain any scientific readings from the craft
In other words, it can't reach us with a solid signal. Previous contact has also been sporadic. What I was saying, is at this point the data is not harvestable and has become useless. It's nice that we've heard from pioneer, but we're not learning anything.
Where exactly is the Pioneer headed to. Is it intended to eventually make a circular path and eventually head home, or will it just continue to wander out into space? If we could start planting satellites in circular synchronous orbits, perhaps we could eventually have a transmission array that could gradually extend throughout the solar system.
Sending out probes is cool when we can collect info, but it's not really useful if the data isn't able to be processed. A probe that wanders away isn't really very useful, unless perhaps somebody picks it up and sends it home or comes to visit.
Ah, I found the put reclarified elsewhere. Apparently with a "put" he can sell the stock at a higher price, even when it's bought low. The dictionary link didn't explain this overly well, but another /.'er did a fairly good job
He allegedly bought more than $21,000 of put options, which grants an investor the right to sell a certain amount of underlying stock at a certain price. By giving the investor the right to sell underlying stock at a given price, put options increase in value when the stock value falls.
I'm trying to figure this out. From the ABC article, it sounds like he bought stock in the parent company and expected to profit when things went bad? I could see how this works with buying into a rival company would work, but this sounds like a losing situation. Maybe the article is just weirdly worded, or I'm reading things wrong?
1) Buy stock
2) Logic bomb subsidiary company
3) ??? 4) Profit?
Any decently large business worth its beans should be able to accept credit-card payments. Hell, if the local coffee shop can take VISA, I'm pretty sure that a large well-founded escrow service can. If they're only accepting wires or other hard-to-trace methods, people should really clue in that they're probably going to get "escrewed."
I've only lost money once on ebay, and that was because I tried to get the package shipped without value, and thus couldn't collect insurance when the postman stole it (the seller has a strong rep, so I'm fairly sure it's the postman as I've heard of this happening before). I've had other times when companies tried to hose me, one sent me the wrong part and I rangled with them for refund for 3 months, before getting smart and calling Visa (Visa had a little talk with them, my refund came very quickly after without needing chargeback).
Visa doesn't like fraudsters, because it hurts their reputation as a safe method of transaction. Every so often, they go out like sharpened stakes and impale a few scammers to set an example. If you're lucky, you can catch them when they're looking for somebody to lynch.
A lot of larger companies can have multiple admins, each taking care of a particular sector. By having a common methodology or plan, you can ensure that one admin can cover for another (in case of unforseen accident) or take over.
In the schools where I work, I can walk into another admin's school and be fairly comfortable with making fixes/changes to their system - since everything runs similarly. This is convenient if one of us gets sick, or has a holiday, etc, and a server goes kaput somewhere.
Some of us are more well-versed than others, and one of the other admins has a much better knowledge of most of the systems than me - in particular our main user repository.
I can get by fairly well the "armadillo book" (0'Reilly) when there's something I don't understand, but sometimes I still need to call him when things go awry. For those that need to catch up with other admins, I do recommend the O'Reilly books though. I've only been here a few months, and I expect that after time (and reading) I'll be much more confortable with some of the systems I'm not currently as fluent in as others.
Yeah, a bunch of laws can be nuked that way. Every now and then they try to sneak an ugly one in that's super-ambiguous. And it goes for awhile, until somebody has the guts to challenge it, and then (if the judge has brains and the challenger some money) it gets struck down. And then at times, rewritten to be as close as possible to the first, and reinstated until the process cycles.
Unfortunately, being that their early medium was a 5-1/4 (low density?) disk... these are definately rare in the original form. Mainly because, even though I know some who had them, many copies tend to have become demagnetized and thus are useless.
You don't have any aunts/grandparents/older-parents etc that use computers do you?
I think that all most of the semi-literate in my family know how to do are solitaire, minesweeper, and (most of the time) email...
The first episodes were silly, but I think it's to surprise you as to the real depth of Vash and also show his varying personalities.
It also doesn't sound too bad dubbed (at least from the first few episodes I watched before going to subbed), but I'm hoping that a lot of the blood and innuendo doesn't get killed by the censorship police.
All in all, definately worth seeing, although -like all anime - if you can see the uncut subbed with original voice actors you may enjoy it more. And it's one of the few shows with enough guts to wipe out a main character. I won't mention which so as not to offend those who haven't seen it, but many shows get attached to characters and end without really having any final development on them.
Last time I checked there were a lot of wrappers for kernel compiling that made it somewhat simple, except for checking for things like your boot-loader would fine the new kernel, etc - which some people overlook. Is it simple a disable option... allow_binary_kernel_linkage etc?
Some people whine that they would like the source so they could mod their video card properties, but it's still a hell of a lot better than having no driver at all, for which many more people will whine unless they cannot get their video card to work without going through a huge hassle.
Then we have people whining about how the binaries can violate GPL. But maybe we need a clause for video drivers.
If the drivers are released as free to the public - not with source, but without cost, then that would make 90% of the users happy.
You also have to consider that things like video cards don't work exactly like software from a marketing perspective. Software like mySQL etc can market their troubleshooting and/or programming, as well as enhanced-feature licenses while still making their base-produce free and open source.
How many people would pay for a troubleshooting contract for a video card brand? The profit is in the sales, and the sales are based on that it works. I know very few people who would begrudge NVidea for releasing compatible drivers, even if they are only binaries. Making the hardware work is one more step towards making linux a more accepted o/s, and that's a good thing!
Aspirin, alka-seltzer, stomach tablets.
Perhaps some muscle relaxants, a gift certificate for a massage parlor.
And for when he/she gets home... I nice big bottle of 80 proof.
It may not be exactly what your geek was looking for, or even considered, but all those things will probably come in handy on those days when he/she is dealing with users...
In Canadian cases laws are at times stricken down because of too much ambiguity (not specific enough) or because they're just plain incoherent.
One must go through court to have it stricken, but if you got a judge with a brain... seems to me in a case where the jury couldn't even grasp the law, it's a bit too ambiguous and unclear for the normal person and should be trashed. Guess it doesn't work that way elsewhere though.
...it's generally done on the grounds that the law is so obtuse that the average juror wouldn't understand it...
So if a jury can't understand it enough to render a decision... how is the average person supposed to be able to understand it enough to avoid infringing it?
Oh, and Miyamoto did signifigantly work on Metroid Prime, for the first time in the series.
:-)
I feel significantly less lame now, and it's nice to know my friends aren't complete liars.
No need to moderate this up ppl, apparently it's not a miamoto game - although it does still differ from Nintendo's tendency towards designing games of a kiddish genre.
Truly? How sad. At one point I had heard that the big M was involved, but I guess you can't believe everyone. Can anyone list the various R&D teams and their claims to fame. How about R&D2,3
It's a fine thing to be corrected, if in doing so one is also educated - phorm
Yeah, some people actually enjoy a game that doesn't involve lopping off heads, dismemberment, gratuitous nudity etc, and can actually be played by a general audience.
Games like mario were playable by all ages. While the graphics have grown a bit more kiddish, I've known many parents that would happily sit down with their kid and play a game or two (and often enough, wait for the kid to go to bed so they can play for themselves).
I've never really considered "metroid" a kid's game either. Some of the plot is best enjoyed by more audiences, and the animation is more of a dark and sinister at times rather than comical.
470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus
While I'm sure there are some trek weirdos and collectors that have these sort of things... how many were collected by theatres, conventions, and other businesses/events that wanted to promote some $tar Trek cash inflow?
Both my cable and my dsl cost $49.99 a month - though I did get a special on my DSL ($25 for the first 6 mo)
Ditto here, except that to get the $25/6mo one had to buy the DSL modem. After that it goes up to $35/mo. Is that in Canadian or American $? Mine's in Canadian so it probably amounts to cheaper.
Customer service on DSL and cable still sucks though.
I used to be on cable (local Shaw), billing was a nightmare, and there was lot significant amount of downtime. I still remember the day when my cable went down for 12h, and my overnight download autodialled my old dialup connection... long distance (my fault for the dialout though, in retrospect it is somewhat funny).
Now though, I subscribe to a DSL business account and tech support still doesn't give me the time of day (no seriously guys, you have issues with blocking 66.x.x.x IP ranges, it's been tested and the fault is not mine?).
Truly? I'd never even heard of them until some of the more well known PC games. Perhaps they were out, but I think that their PC titles (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo) made them popular.
Thanks for the info though, I'd not heard of them on console. What games?
Somebody already made that joke, I was going to too but checked first. This is the first thing that comes to mind though... maybe this guy should ask his bro (or somebody else with a nut loose and few scruples) to bring his boss in hogtied with a big bow so he can tell him how he feels about the bobble-head doll.
I've never had a holiday bonus, but I've worked a few companies that were very good to employees. On one of my better jobs, you banked an extra holiday for every 2 weeks where there was no stat, we also had a very nice departmental picnic and various prizes that good employees one (plus a draw that anyone could win). Everyone I know at that job was great to get along with, and the company environment was incredible.
If I had ever needed to, I would have gone out of my way (overtime, holiday work, on-call, etc) for that company in a second - because I knew I was appreciated. Maybe we don't need an Xmas bonus, but just a donation of appreciation (hell, a box of chocolates or even a chocolate bar) makes me feel a lot better about how my employers appreciate me.
For all those that are scraping coins right now, I wish you better days ahead, happy holidays, and perhaps a lucky lottery ticket.
One thing to consider as that you "grow into your age." This device will pile everything on at once, but generally as you age things just somewhat creep up on you (so I've been told).