Like anyone who isn't an idiot, I watch my statements closely, first sign of a false charge, I'd report it to the card issuer and police, and if it was some clerk at Papa Johns, they'd be in cuffs inside of a day.. Lifting customers credit cards is probably the stupidest crime there is, and the easiest to track.
As for caring if Papa Johns "tracks" me, I dont. I really dont care who knows that I like bacon, pineapple and tomato on my pizzas.
As for my address and phone number, there's this crazy database called a phone book that lists all of that information.
Terminal velocity is the maximum speed you'd reach if you fell off the ladder at the top. Gravity would be pulling you down, air friction would be pushing you up, eventually they balance and you reach a maximum speed. In a vaccuum you'd keep accellerating till you hit the ground.
You're talking about escape velocity.
Yes, you would, that's the idea of the space elevator that's brought up from time to time. But you'd be expending energy constantly on your way up.
Think of it more that you fire a bullet straight up, how fast would it have to be going to leave earths gravitational well? You expend your energy all at once - like the big engine on a rocket. That's escape velocity.
You sure they're a bunch of rocket scientists with cold, hard facts and plenty of good data and insight, and not just complaining because of a political agenda - ie; it's election time and they're running a slurry of "look how the conservatives are wasting our money for broken stuff when they could be giving prescriptions to old people" articles?
Who cares if its a jumping off point for anywhere? It was never intended to be, AFAIK. It was never meant to be an interplanetary gas station. It's an orbiting research laboratory, plain and simple.
It's value to the scientific community is tremendous, it allows a ton of research into weightlessness, living in space, etc. That's its purpose.
that mars can sustain life? that the types of microbes and organisms that might hitch a ride on even the nastiest, most syph-ridden ass-tronaut would survive mars?
It wouldnt be such a useless, hacky, undocumented pile of steaming monkey shit. It would support some modern hardware, have a desktop interface that works, etc, etc..
Hell, even at the current asking price of free I think I deserve some money back.
Nah, there are just no alternatives anymore. Go out and look for just a cell phone, they all have PDA features, color LCD screens, IM and eMail and stuff.
It's more like a forced up-selling, you really dont have the choice.
My company just handed out a round of new phones not too long ago that are so bloated with features they're borderline useless as a phone. They run PalmOS, and I've had it crash with a fatal exception just by trying to answer it when it was ringing.
Can your modern calculator, or uberl337 modded PC survive a trip through space and the martian surface? Didn't think so. The ram is probably redundant a few dozen times over, there's no doubt a good reason it only has 256mb of data.
As for the filesystem/os it uses, I'd go dead simple like the MSDOS days myself. The more complex the software, the more complex the bugs. Would you really want to troubleshoot a flubbed up Red Hat install from a bazillion miles away?
Noone writes perfect, bug free, unexploitable code. Exploits are found in code previously thought to be perfect.
There are some obvious things you can do, but on a sufficiently complex project, it's impossible to think of every possible use or misuse of the resulting code. Hell, some exploitable stuff is injected by the compiler.
The others are bulky, ugly, more expensive...why bother.
Others are cheaper. If all you care about is listening to music it really doesnt matter what you get. It's not like you can pick up chicks with an iPod.
It aint off the shelf compact flash, dingus. This is stuff specially engineered to be fault proof at the extreme heat/cold conditions of space and the martian surface.
I dont know for sure, nor do I care, but I'd imagine a ton of redundant modules running in a best-of-p configuration.
Everyone knows that hardware support in any unix sucks monkey dongs. Hell, these cheap bastards probably installed lunix based on all those 10 year old HOWTOs floating around the web.
Can you quote from the book where he's described as a white british man?
Hes an alien from space.
Besides, do you see a theme here? They cast a bunch of B-List nobodies.
Know why?
Noone cares if they cast Mayor McCheese in some stupid nerd movie that wont make a plug nickel since noone but a handful of geeks are interested in seeing it.
How do you know they wont charge per minute or per kilobyte?
Cells will get cheaper, and more unlimited plans will show up, because the infrastructure is there and practically paid for, they need only make up maintanaince costs..
Think how much it cost to use a cell phone in the 80s for a guesstimate at your WiMax service bill.
A variation of an XY plotter, hanging from cables, gravity pulls it in the Y direction.
A friend and I did something practically identical years ago for a tech shop project in high school, though we werent allowed to use spraypaint, so we had it draw on walls with magic markers, like a giant hanging etch-a-sketch. Worked pretty well, and really wasnt that complicated to build (QBasic "driver" software included)
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What's Papa Johns gonna do?
Like anyone who isn't an idiot, I watch my statements closely, first sign of a false charge, I'd report it to the card issuer and police, and if it was some clerk at Papa Johns, they'd be in cuffs inside of a day.. Lifting customers credit cards is probably the stupidest crime there is, and the easiest to track.
As for caring if Papa Johns "tracks" me, I dont. I really dont care who knows that I like bacon, pineapple and tomato on my pizzas.
As for my address and phone number, there's this crazy database called a phone book that lists all of that information.
Terminal velocity is the maximum speed you'd reach if you fell off the ladder at the top. Gravity would be pulling you down, air friction would be pushing you up, eventually they balance and you reach a maximum speed. In a vaccuum you'd keep accellerating till you hit the ground.
You're talking about escape velocity.
Yes, you would, that's the idea of the space elevator that's brought up from time to time. But you'd be expending energy constantly on your way up.
Think of it more that you fire a bullet straight up, how fast would it have to be going to leave earths gravitational well? You expend your energy all at once - like the big engine on a rocket. That's escape velocity.
You sure they're a bunch of rocket scientists with cold, hard facts and plenty of good data and insight, and not just complaining because of a political agenda - ie; it's election time and they're running a slurry of "look how the conservatives are wasting our money for broken stuff when they could be giving prescriptions to old people" articles?
Who cares if its a jumping off point for anywhere? It was never intended to be, AFAIK. It was never meant to be an interplanetary gas station. It's an orbiting research laboratory, plain and simple.
It's value to the scientific community is tremendous, it allows a ton of research into weightlessness, living in space, etc. That's its purpose.
But to contaminate the planet on some sort of permanent basis?
Yeah, viral spores or other dormant microbes can survive - but they wont thrive or multiply.
that mars can sustain life? that the types of microbes and organisms that might hitch a ride on even the nastiest, most syph-ridden ass-tronaut would survive mars?
quicker to swipe/scan than it is to in yer dl#.
But Part 6 says if they dont, they can just blow some smoke up the judges robe instead.
It wouldnt be such a useless, hacky, undocumented pile of steaming monkey shit. It would support some modern hardware, have a desktop interface that works, etc, etc..
Hell, even at the current asking price of free I think I deserve some money back.
I'm sure most people were expecting "Darl Goes to Clown College".
Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Nah, there are just no alternatives anymore. Go out and look for just a cell phone, they all have PDA features, color LCD screens, IM and eMail and stuff.
It's more like a forced up-selling, you really dont have the choice.
My company just handed out a round of new phones not too long ago that are so bloated with features they're borderline useless as a phone. They run PalmOS, and I've had it crash with a fatal exception just by trying to answer it when it was ringing.
Can your modern calculator, or uberl337 modded PC survive a trip through space and the martian surface? Didn't think so. The ram is probably redundant a few dozen times over, there's no doubt a good reason it only has 256mb of data.
As for the filesystem/os it uses, I'd go dead simple like the MSDOS days myself. The more complex the software, the more complex the bugs. Would you really want to troubleshoot a flubbed up Red Hat install from a bazillion miles away?
Noone writes perfect, bug free, unexploitable code. Exploits are found in code previously thought to be perfect.
There are some obvious things you can do, but on a sufficiently complex project, it's impossible to think of every possible use or misuse of the resulting code. Hell, some exploitable stuff is injected by the compiler.
The others are bulky, ugly, more expensive...why bother.
Others are cheaper. If all you care about is listening to music it really doesnt matter what you get. It's not like you can pick up chicks with an iPod.
Thats an urban legend.
Never happened.
It aint off the shelf compact flash, dingus. This is stuff specially engineered to be fault proof at the extreme heat/cold conditions of space and the martian surface.
I dont know for sure, nor do I care, but I'd imagine a ton of redundant modules running in a best-of-p configuration.
Wouldnt you keep all logs/evidence you could in the event you had to debug something from 400 million miles away?
I dont think nasa is quite ready to shove the lander up their ass.
Oh - you mean the other thing you do with your fancy TI graphing calculator.
there's yer problem.
Everyone knows that hardware support in any unix sucks monkey dongs. Hell, these cheap bastards probably installed lunix based on all those 10 year old HOWTOs floating around the web.
Sibling post is an idiot. It was Ralph Wiggum.
It's inconsequential.
Mayor McCheese could run Canada, noone in the world cares. (He'd be better than Muldoon was at least).
Can you quote from the book where he's described as a white british man?
Hes an alien from space.
Besides, do you see a theme here? They cast a bunch of B-List nobodies.
Know why?
Noone cares if they cast Mayor McCheese in some stupid nerd movie that wont make a plug nickel since noone but a handful of geeks are interested in seeing it.
And thats simply the truth of it.
I wouldn't have to worry about minutes
How do you know they wont charge per minute or per kilobyte?
Cells will get cheaper, and more unlimited plans will show up, because the infrastructure is there and practically paid for, they need only make up maintanaince costs..
Think how much it cost to use a cell phone in the 80s for a guesstimate at your WiMax service bill.
I want to share 74Mb/s with everyone within a 50km radius?
Sounds like a pretty crappy, easily oversold service, with crappy ping times. We already have that and it's called satellite.
Wires are the future. Wireless is for sock thumpers.
does even Toms Hardware waste time reviewing power supplies?
Who cares. Its a power supply with some "quiet" fans in it. Stick a quiet fan in any power supply for 5 bucks and you have the same product.
Now post some articles on ram coolers or glowing mouse pads.
A variation of an XY plotter, hanging from cables, gravity pulls it in the Y direction.
A friend and I did something practically identical years ago for a tech shop project in high school, though we werent allowed to use spraypaint, so we had it draw on walls with magic markers, like a giant hanging etch-a-sketch. Worked pretty well, and really wasnt that complicated to build (QBasic "driver" software included)