Glaciers do not necessarily "=water"!
There appear to be glaciers on some of the mountains on Venus where water in any state, frozen or otherwise, could not possibly exist.
The last therory that I heard was that these glaciers could be made from low melting point metals that have condensed in the upper atmosphere and settled on the mountains, much like snow.
However, since we know even less about Venus than we do about Mars, this is, of course, only speculation.
It's Eomer's battle cry from the Lord of the Rings.
The people who build them are supposed to fly them. Dick Rutan, the guy who built the plane that flew around the world non-stop a few years ago, is one of the major contenders.
However, I'm with you! There's no way I would fly in one of those things! My major hobby is building and flying high power rockets and their failure rate is bad enough.
You're thinking of the XPrize. The difference between this and the CATS prize is you have to put a small crew into space, not into orbit, and return them to earth, and be ready to fly again within two weeks. The URL is www.xprize.com.
Yes I know you can use e-mail from a C64, I've tried it a time or to. As far as this lady was concerned, it wasn't worth her time to go through the trouble of finding a modem and setting the machine up.
About two years ago, while I was working in a local computer store, an older lady came in with a Commador 64, a VERY large bundle of software, two floppy drives, and a Commador monitor (yes Commador made a monitor, so don't try to tell me they didn't).
She was looking for a modem so that she could connect to the internet and send e-mail to her daughter, who lived out of state. Her husband had bought the machine about a year or so before he died. After that she had packed it away and placed it in storage.
After breaking the news to her that her computer was not able to connect to the Internet and offering to show her some new PC's, I offered to buy the machine from her, which she accepted.
I brought the thing home and hooked it up. The computer, both drives, and the monitor worked perfectly. Some of the games however didn't stand the test of time quite as well, but the bulk of them could still be run. I didn't realize I had missed games like "Jumpman", and the original "loadrunner", or "F-15 Strike Eagle" quite so much!
So the plaque would end up being a sort of dead link?
URL NOT FOUND:
Sorry, the terrestrial body you requested could not be located in this solar system! The local star could be down, or the idiot inhabitants have destroyed themselves.
Please contact the Solar System Administrator if the problem persists.
I'm a Net Admin working in a small town hospital in eastern Oklahoma. My previous job was in sales and tech support (such as it was) at the local Staples. While I did have my share of snobish, well-to-do customers, the bulk of them were "lower class" trailer park folk. You know the kind, they live from payday to payday, and the concept of saving money is as foreign as personel hygene.
When I would ask them what they intended to do with the machine second most common answer (the first being "Play Games!") would be "I'm gonna get on that internet, so I can get e-mail and see who won the tractor pull up in Tulsa." There are people in this world (and most of them live here in Oklahoma) who, no matter what it costs them or if they can afford it, WILL buy a computer and WILL get on the net. Trust me, I've seen people who couldn't even spell "computer" buy a machine so that they could have net access (well that and play solitaire).
Someone tried to tell me that Sega's Dreamcast is based on Windows CE. Can anyone confim if this is true? Of course this guy is one of those people who knows absolutly nothing of digital electronics and, tries to make you think he knows everything. Still, he is a hell of a gamer and, does keep up to date with all this.
I used to work with this guy who's penis envy was so overwelming that everytime I, or any other of our coworkers, would get a new PC or upgrade the processor in our old machine, within a week (just after our next paycheck) he would have upgraded his machine to be "faster" than anyone elses. The funny (and sad) thing was that we only made minimum wage and this guy had to little girls and a wife to take care of. But he would spend all or almost all of his entire paycheck just so he could say he had the faster computer.
Thats what Intel and AMD are starting to remind me of.
I don't care if they built it around a quantum computer (Well ok, I might care if they did)! with holographic displays. The damn thing still came from Microsoft, who now apparently thinks the software industry isn't big enough, they have to try to corner the console market too?
Screw that, I'm still buying a Playstation II.
Microsoft, stick to what you know (or claim to know)...GENERIC SOFTWARE!
Scientists have recently dicovered that in the distant past the Net may have been combined into one large "Super Continent"
"As recently as 10 years ago when the Net was first becoming popular. All continents on the net were one and all life forms and services co-existed" says University of Facts That Nobody Cares About scientist, Dr. Mike Hunt.
As stated in what has now become known as "Katz Therory" the net is currently divided into as many as seven continents. Each containing its own unique life forms.
Dr. Hunt surmises that the super continent,being nicknamed as "Netgea", broke apart sometime around three to five years ago after strong tectonic upheaval in what would become the "Corporate Continent"
I have seen a TV special on DNA testing and in this program they brought up this same question. It's rather late and my brain is not top form (but then again when is it?) so I may not be remembering this right. Twins, while being in almost all aspects the same right down to their finger prints, their DNA does not match exactly. While developing from the same egg that has divided into two separate fertilised eggs with identical genetic material they still develope separatly from each other. This results in slightly different DNA patterns.
If I didn't get that right, somebody please tell me (as I'm sure you will anyway) I may have misunderstood. Biology was NEVER my strong point.
I don't remember ever being taught the that America won the War of 1812. In fact it was more of a draw. Each side suffered heavy losses in almost all battles fought. The slaughter finally got to a point when the US finally sued for peace by calling for a truce after the major spanking in Washington (the tactics used by the English in that battle were brilliant). If we had won the war then we would probably own a large portion of the Canadian countryside.
I don't remember ever being taught the that America won the War of 1812. In fact it was more of a draw. Each side suffered heavy losses in almost all battles fought. The slaughter finally got to a point when the US finally sued for peace by calling for a truce after the major spanking in Washington (the tactics used by the English in that battle were brilliant). If we had won the war then we would probably own a large portion of the Canadian countryside.
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For shame! You must be punished! I want a full book report on all three books by Monday. Be sure to read the Silmarilian too!
That's not the full quote, by the way, I had to edit it to fit in my sig.
Happy Reading.
Glaciers do not necessarily "=water"!
There appear to be glaciers on some of the mountains on Venus where water in any state, frozen or otherwise, could not possibly exist.
The last therory that I heard was that these glaciers could be made from low melting point metals that have condensed in the upper atmosphere and settled on the mountains, much like snow.
However, since we know even less about Venus than we do about Mars, this is, of course, only speculation.
It's Eomer's battle cry from the Lord of the Rings.
The people who build them are supposed to fly them. Dick Rutan, the guy who built the plane that flew around the world non-stop a few years ago, is one of the major contenders.
However, I'm with you! There's no way I would fly in one of those things! My major hobby is building and flying high power rockets and their failure rate is bad enough.
You're thinking of the XPrize. The difference between this and the CATS prize is you have to put a small crew into space, not into orbit, and return them to earth, and be ready to fly again within two weeks. The URL is www.xprize.com.
Just make sure you jump on the rock after you've kicked them back under it.
It takes a petty person to point out the shortcomings of others. It takes a coward to post anonymously hince the name.
Is a modem one of those things that goes beep beep beooooop? How do you think I'm connected now genius?
Yes, but I don't think this old lady would have understood how to do any of this. Thanks for the website though I'll have to check it out.
Yes I know you can use e-mail from a C64, I've tried it a time or to. As far as this lady was concerned, it wasn't worth her time to go through the trouble of finding a modem and setting the machine up.
About two years ago, while I was working in a local computer store, an older lady came in with a Commador 64, a VERY large bundle of software, two floppy drives, and a Commador monitor (yes Commador made a monitor, so don't try to tell me they didn't).
She was looking for a modem so that she could connect to the internet and send e-mail to her daughter, who lived out of state. Her husband had bought the machine about a year or so before he died. After that she had packed it away and placed it in storage.
After breaking the news to her that her computer was not able to connect to the Internet and offering to show her some new PC's, I offered to buy the machine from her, which she accepted.
I brought the thing home and hooked it up. The computer, both drives, and the monitor worked perfectly. Some of the games however didn't stand the test of time quite as well, but the bulk of them could still be run. I didn't realize I had missed games like "Jumpman", and the original "loadrunner", or "F-15 Strike Eagle" quite so much!
So the plaque would end up being a sort of dead link?
URL NOT FOUND:
Sorry, the terrestrial body you requested could not be located in this solar system! The local star could be down, or the idiot inhabitants have destroyed themselves.
Please contact the Solar System Administrator if the problem persists.
I'm a Net Admin working in a small town hospital in eastern Oklahoma. My previous job was in sales and tech support (such as it was) at the local Staples. While I did have my share of snobish, well-to-do customers, the bulk of them were "lower class" trailer park folk. You know the kind, they live from payday to payday, and the concept of saving money is as foreign as personel hygene.
When I would ask them what they intended to do with the machine second most common answer (the first being "Play Games!") would be "I'm gonna get on that internet, so I can get e-mail and see who won the tractor pull up in Tulsa." There are people in this world (and most of them live here in Oklahoma) who, no matter what it costs them or if they can afford it, WILL buy a computer and WILL get on the net. Trust me, I've seen people who couldn't even spell "computer" buy a machine so that they could have net access (well that and play solitaire).
Man, what is WRONG with you!
You don't just throw the body away, you have to grind it up in a meat grinder and feed it to the neighborhood dogs!
GOD! murder is becoming a lost art form. Nobody has any pride in their work any more.
It's Minas Tirith, and the name of the ram was Grond. Should've looked at the book before I posted. There were also trolls in Moria.
Legolas' father was king of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Forest. This makes him a Prince and therefor an elf-lord.
At the Battle of Minis Tirith it was trolls who opperated Grawn, the huge battering ram to smash the gates to the city.
When you are designing a plarform you want it to perform as well as possible! So why in the hell would they bother with CE?
Of course the games that use CE are going to be under-performers. When you write a game for an under-performing OS, what else can that game be?
They obviously new someone would try to remove the logo from the front of the system. Why else would they make it impossible to remove?
Well enough ranting. Thanks for the info.
Someone tried to tell me that Sega's Dreamcast is based on Windows CE. Can anyone confim if this is true? Of course this guy is one of those people who knows absolutly nothing of digital electronics and, tries to make you think he knows everything. Still, he is a hell of a gamer and, does keep up to date with all this.
I used to work with this guy who's penis envy was so overwelming that everytime I, or any other of our coworkers, would get a new PC or upgrade the processor in our old machine, within a week (just after our next paycheck) he would have upgraded his machine to be "faster" than anyone elses. The funny (and sad) thing was that we only made minimum wage and this guy had to little girls and a wife to take care of. But he would spend all or almost all of his entire paycheck just so he could say he had the faster computer.
Thats what Intel and AMD are starting to remind me of.
Oh sure, like the Oil Industry and other fossil fuel industrys won't lobby to have this suppressed too.
I don't care if they built it around a quantum computer (Well ok, I might care if they did)! with
holographic displays. The damn thing still came from Microsoft, who now apparently thinks the software industry isn't big enough, they have to try to corner the console market too?
Screw that, I'm still buying a Playstation II.
Microsoft, stick to what you know (or claim to know)...GENERIC SOFTWARE!
Scientists have recently dicovered that in the distant past the Net may have been combined into one large "Super Continent"
,being nicknamed as "Netgea", broke apart sometime around three to five years ago after strong tectonic upheaval in what would become the "Corporate Continent"
"As recently as 10 years ago when the Net was first becoming popular. All continents on the net were one and all life forms and services co-existed" says University of Facts That Nobody Cares About scientist, Dr. Mike Hunt.
As stated in what has now become known as "Katz Therory" the net is currently divided into as many as seven continents. Each containing its own unique life forms.
Dr. Hunt surmises that the super continent
I have seen a TV special on DNA testing and in this program they brought up this same question. It's rather late and my brain is not top form (but then again when is it?) so I may not be remembering this right. Twins, while being in almost all aspects the same right down to their finger prints, their DNA does not match exactly. While developing from the same egg that has divided into two separate fertilised eggs with identical genetic material they still develope separatly from each other. This results in slightly different DNA patterns.
If I didn't get that right, somebody please tell me (as I'm sure you will anyway) I may have misunderstood. Biology was NEVER my strong point.
I'm not touching this topic with a 10',20',30',...
Ok I'm just not touching this topic as it is WAY to opinionated.
I don't remember ever being taught the that America won the War of 1812. In fact it was more of a draw. Each side suffered heavy losses in almost all battles fought. The slaughter finally got to a point when the US finally sued for peace by calling for a truce after the major spanking in Washington (the tactics used by the English in that battle were brilliant). If we had won the war then we would probably own a large portion of the Canadian countryside.
I don't remember ever being taught the that America won the War of 1812. In fact it was more of a draw. Each side suffered heavy losses in almost all battles fought. The slaughter finally got to a point when the US finally sued for peace by calling for a truce after the major spanking in Washington (the tactics used by the English in that battle were brilliant). If we had won the war then we would probably own a large portion of the Canadian countryside.