If we can get all our enemies to paint their tanks in mirrors, I think we can declare success.
That will make them immediately visible, and we can take them out with conventional weapons easily enough.
If you don't know where the tanks are (they're not visible) then the laser can't target them, the enemy doesn't have to worry about this laser destroying them, and therefore, they're not going to wrap them in mirrors.
Monday: bought Dell Mini netbook. Monday night: installed Ubuntu, used it all week. Saturday: install Windows 7 RC, used it for an hour, bluescreened. Now: reinstalling Ubuntu.
1 month key money (money given to the owner, lost)
1 month for real state agency fees (lost)
So yes, it was 5 months paid in advance, two of them upfront rent, two more lost, and one that will be refunded when I move out (assuming no repairs are needed when I leave). But depends on the place anyway.
OR Pay $5000 for a 30 m2 apartment, share it with 5 other people, so you can pay the rent, and act like it's totally normal.
Not true. More like $800/month for a nice 40 m2 apartment, for myself alone. Oh, and that price includes 30Mbps fiber optics. Unlimited and unfiltered, of course.
It's also probably worth noting that our IT-job salaries are much higher here than they would be if we were working in the USA.
You took the time to check the whois info of my domain. You REALLY should have taken a look at my site too. Then you would have seen that I'm not Japanese. I'm Spanish, and quite happy living here.
...Japan. Which has probably been the most xenophobic country in the last 500-1000 years. It's still culturally acceptable, if not expected, to refer to foreigners as gaijin- and god help you if you're Asian but not Japanese. Please tell me how many non-Japanese people you se on your way to work today?
Not counting myself, there are 10-12 other non-Japanese sitting close to me right now (we're around 70 people on this floor). But perhaps this is a bad example, since after all I'm working for an American company.
Most of my friends here are foreigners, many of them American. And so far I haven't heard anything about any of them having any issues here, just the opposite.
You might want to try getting your geography straight- NYC is in NY, not Massachusetts.
My geography is fine, thank you. I stayed in Boston / Massachusetts when I was visiting the MIT.
It probably has something to do with the fact that after 9/11 the USA has become increasingly police state-like.
Before 9/11 happened I was looking forward to go back to the US and see NYC (I liked Massachusetts). Then the planes hit and the towers fell, and after the initial scare passed your country went irrationally paranoid about security.
I decided not to set foot on the US again until your government came back to its senses. You know, I don't like to be treated as a criminal by default when visiting a foreign country. I assume this is part of the reason why those people are leaving.
It seems that now things might start to change (hopefully for good).
I understand every word. Any experimental particle physicist does. I will conceed its not clearn to non-experts.
However an important feature of a luminosity and diffractive phyics detector such as TOTEM is its coverage, ie at what angle it can go to. Therefor its pseudorapidy range (basically the angle it covers from the beam line) and the distances of the roman pots from CMS (and effecting the angular coverage of this part of the detector) are key peices of information. This is perhaps the most important thing to know about TOTEM.
You seem to be claiming that you understand this highly technical jargon (implying that you're a highly educated individual). However, you fail at basic spelling. You even fail to correctly spell a technical word that you should be familiar with ("pseudorapidity").
That's great, but maybe you could appreciate what you have gotten for free and give maybe 10% of what you were paying before back to those open source projects?
They already are giving back, indirectly. In exchange for the huge licensing savings, the French citizens are getting either:
- Better police service because (licensing budget is now spent on other things needed by the police department)
or:
- Reduced taxes because the police department stays the same, but now they need less money
My opinion is that since the police is paid by the citizens via taxes, every cost savings is already a benefit for each individual citizen, because their tax money is being better spent.
Now, seriously, hentai aside. we're talking about a conutry in which selling used CDs is illegal. I am not making this up. That's not true. Selling useD CDs or DVDs in Japan is completely legal. You can find LOTS in most DVD rental shops, and in second hand stores like Book Off (Books, CDs, DVDs, console games...)
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... because it's not practical to carry-around 100 foot long transmitting antennas with your phone.
Why not?
Git offa mah lawn!
YOU get off my lawn, 6-digit youngster!
(4-digit post in 4... 3... 2... 1...)
If we can get all our enemies to paint their tanks in mirrors, I think we can declare success.
That will make them immediately visible, and we can take them out with conventional weapons easily enough.
If you don't know where the tanks are (they're not visible) then the laser can't target them, the enemy doesn't have to worry about this laser destroying them, and therefore, they're not going to wrap them in mirrors.
Now, there is a company that converts macbooks to table pcs.
Like, putting them on a desk? Where can I get one?
Name all your machines "Eric".
And here it is:
Monday: bought Dell Mini netbook.
Monday night: installed Ubuntu, used it all week.
Saturday: install Windows 7 RC, used it for an hour, bluescreened.
Now: reinstalling Ubuntu.
I had to pay:
So yes, it was 5 months paid in advance, two of them upfront rent, two more lost, and one that will be refunded when I move out (assuming no repairs are needed when I leave). But depends on the place anyway.
OR
Pay $5000 for a 30 m2 apartment, share it with 5 other people, so you can pay the rent, and act like it's totally normal.
Not true. More like $800/month for a nice 40 m2 apartment, for myself alone. Oh, and that price includes 30Mbps fiber optics. Unlimited and unfiltered, of course.
It's also probably worth noting that our IT-job salaries are much higher here than they would be if we were working in the USA.
According to whois, you live in Japan.
You took the time to check the whois info of my domain. You REALLY should have taken a look at my site too. Then you would have seen that I'm not Japanese. I'm Spanish, and quite happy living here.
Not counting myself, there are 10-12 other non-Japanese sitting close to me right now (we're around 70 people on this floor). But perhaps this is a bad example, since after all I'm working for an American company.
Most of my friends here are foreigners, many of them American. And so far I haven't heard anything about any of them having any issues here, just the opposite.
You might want to try getting your geography straight- NYC is in NY, not Massachusetts.
My geography is fine, thank you. I stayed in Boston / Massachusetts when I was visiting the MIT.
It probably has something to do with the fact that after 9/11 the USA has become increasingly police state-like.
Before 9/11 happened I was looking forward to go back to the US and see NYC (I liked Massachusetts). Then the planes hit and the towers fell, and after the initial scare passed your country went irrationally paranoid about security.
I decided not to set foot on the US again until your government came back to its senses. You know, I don't like to be treated as a criminal by default when visiting a foreign country. I assume this is part of the reason why those people are leaving.
It seems that now things might start to change (hopefully for good).
Wrong. Making fun of religion and religious nuts is ALWAYS funny.
Especially if it involves the Pope, Texas, and a midget or two.
For now on, every time a Slashdot editor posts a link that isn't the original source of the story, I'll be posting the original link.
So are you quitting your job in order to focus on this full-time?
Thanks for your sacrifice!
Wooooosh!
Not to mention that you missed "loose" too.
Unfortunately, some people don't care. And even worse, they often get angry when you tell them that they mispelled a word.
What? You need drivers to use a friggin' *MOUSE*?
Get a real operating system, boy.
Too bad there's no "+5 Common sense" moderation. You deserve it.
As requested.
I understand every word. Any experimental particle physicist does. I will conceed its not clearn to non-experts.
However an important feature of a luminosity and diffractive phyics detector such as TOTEM is its coverage, ie at what angle it can go to. Therefor its pseudorapidy range (basically the angle it covers from the beam line) and the distances of the roman pots from CMS (and effecting the angular coverage of this part of the detector) are key peices of information. This is perhaps the most important thing to know about TOTEM.
You seem to be claiming that you understand this highly technical jargon (implying that you're a highly educated individual). However, you fail at basic spelling. You even fail to correctly spell a technical word that you should be familiar with ("pseudorapidity").
I call bullshit on your post.
Two choices: electronic voting or revolution. Pick one.
False dichotomy.
Choice 3) Forbid TV stations from announcing a winner before the votes are counted.
Choice 4) Use your common sense and don't believe anything the TV stations say before the results are official.
Choice 5) (insert yet another choice here)
It has already been done:
Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone
That's great, but maybe you could appreciate what you have gotten for free and give maybe 10% of what you were paying before back to those open source projects?
They already are giving back, indirectly. In exchange for the huge licensing savings, the French citizens are getting either:
- Better police service because (licensing budget is now spent on other things needed by the police department)
or:
- Reduced taxes because the police department stays the same, but now they need less money
My opinion is that since the police is paid by the citizens via taxes, every cost savings is already a benefit for each individual citizen, because their tax money is being better spent.
For some reason I read dismemberment instead of disbarment...
You obviously play videogames too much.
You can have a trademark all you want, if someone has at least the same "reason" to have a domain, you have no case.
Unfortunately, there are judges who don't agree with you:
Nissan Motors vs. Uzi Nissan
That would be The Vatican, right?