It's my understanding that pilot error is now the single most dangerous thing about flying. You are more likely to die of the pilot doing something stupid, then you are of just about anything else going wrong with the plane.
Could this not also be a tribute to aircraft technology?
I was born without a sports gene, but as much as I hate to admit it, many sports stars do earn their pay, even though it takes all the fans to complete the picture.
A good player can bring in the noodnick fans, who will forgive their favorite sports star any crime under the sun. I remember when Tyson was convicted of rape, most of the sports nuts I knew were more concerned about not being able to see him fight again than anything else.
The sports star will bring in the fanatical, sycophantic fans, so they do deserve a cut, even thought it's the sheeplike fans that are really at the root of the extra income.
Same goes for film stars. There's a lot of really talentless millionaires wandering around Hollywood, but these vapid, empty vessels bring people to movies.
Get three feet outside of geekdom, and you're in a strange world of typical moviegoers who only care if a movie has some hunky star or busty starlette. They don't care about plot, or story, or theme, or writing, or even basic coherency.
It's sad, but I have to be honest, and say that the folks who are directly the reason for filling seats do deserve a piece of the action.
Hey, I don't work all that hard on the average, but I make $130K a year because my hardware designs (helped by an annual flash of invention) bring in business.
In the end it doesn't matter. Someone else getting rich does not preclude you or me from getting rich. The amount of money in the world is not finite, despite the claims to the contrary of the ideological set. As long as the "overpaid" spend their money and invest it, it goes back into circulation. People need to stop fretting over the salaries of other people, and concentrate on their own.
Or just tell the SC2K players to shut the hell up. I've seen the field density calculations for typical beams. You could safely walk through one. That always bugged me about SC2K.:-\ I dimly recall sending Maxis an email.
Besides, do we really want the surface of the moon to look like, say, New Jersey?
No point. New Jersey already looks like the surface of the Moon:-D
I remember the early ideas for solar power sats way back when, and they almost always involved geosynchronous satellites so you don't have to aim at a moving target. Not as optimal as an LEO, but I believe for a focused beam most of your losses are in the atmosphere anyway, so another 20,000 miles or so of space is a good trade for the issues of aiming or relaying.
Now in the past few years we keep seeing these wacky plans to put the arrays on the moon (very far away and down in another gravity well making servicing a really big issue, robots or not), and beam the energy around via realy satellites. It just seems so wastetful. The only advantage I can think of is that the lunar array could *maybe* be built so large that the transmission losses don't matter.
It just seems like geosync is such a better solution, though. You could incorporate the next generation of communication satellites into the power arrays.
If you had some money, would you invest it at a 10% return or a 20% return?
A meaningless question in the real world. You need to look at the downside, or the overall risk. For example, what's the odds of either investment resulting in a -100% result? Most likely the 20% potential return is riskier. There's also questions of liquidity.
There's also the concepts of building a brand image and getting in early to grow a market which is still pretty nascent. *That's* how a CEO serves his long term shareholders properly. The "gimme billion percent profit margin now!" daytrader "I've owned this stock for two hours and I haven't doubled my money yet!" types can go get bent. It's their influence that has led to so many BS products and ripoffs and overpriced junk, especially in the tech market.
I test drove one, but it's a little impractical for me, and I have a near religious zeal against spending more than $35K on a car inspite of my ability to do so. I'm thinking Lexus IS300. Sporty and reliable and practical at a reasonable $30K price point.
The main problem with the article is that it's the iPod versus the world, and not one particular other device.
Note that each of the 5 has a separate list of alternative players that the iPod beats head to head.
For example, in one point he crows that one alternative has no moving parts and weighs less than the iPod, but in another point, he presents a solution involving an MP3 CD player (moving parts) that is also saddled with a case of CDs (total is far heavier and more unweildy than the iPod).
So it seems if I follow the advice of this article, I need to buy about 3 to 5 different players to beat the functionality of my iPod.
Obligatory car analogy: It's like saying, if you want a sports car, you should not buy Corvette because it's more expensive than a Mustang, might break more easily than a Lexus GS300, hauls less than a Chevy full size pickup, has a smaller fuel tank than a Hummer and is not as "cool" as an Aston Martin.
His defrauding the court system with the Tawana Brawley case might count for something. And you might want to talk to Yankel Rosenbaum's family. Sharpton is no f**king joke.
But this is modern America where monsters are treated with kid gloves. Even O'Reilly treats Sharpton like some harmless, goofy fuzzball.
You just know the Green River killer will wind up with a talk show.
I find it really useful in my engineering job as a place to bundle up all the data on a design for data releases, design presentations, or just to hand to anyone new who needs to get up to speed on the project. I can put schematics, assembly drawings, block diagrams, interface control tables and whatever all into one handy package. They also convert to PDF well.
Overheard recently: "I go to customer sites. They show me their Powerpoint presentation. I show them my Powerpoint presentation. And we think we've communicated."
Well that's the fault of "they" and "we", not Powerpoint. People blaming the tool, again.
What did we have to sacrifice to prevent this again?? i can't read mayan..
Oddly enough, we have to sacrifice Ben and JLo.
The Mayan line in question is "Big head, snake, rock shaped thing, potato with teeth, something that looks like a broken Trane air conditioning unit, something with three legs and four ears, a bigger potato with teeth and breasts, Jabba The Hut, another big head, a pile of little tiny heads, a medium sized head with a smaller head next to it, an aborted fetus someone inflated with an air pump."
The rough translation is "annoying couple (in unity) with mighty hair and (ass) who commit crime of that (terrible) Gigli."
When I see the hurricanes and tornadoes and big wildfires, there's always this nagging worry in the back of my mind that it might not be happening if we weren't spitting out all the pollution.
Oh, yeah, they NEVER had hurricanes, tornadoes and big wildfires before the industrial age. Just the occasional divine flood, angry volcano god and periodic smiting of the sodomites.
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Actually, they are an aggregate of monoliths. Jupiter is doomed.
Yeah, offtopic, but I'm tired today, and it's just friggin' Microsoft, for Cliff's sake.
Now come back in one billion years when you have evolved. :-)
Strait man? Is that a man in a straight jacket? Some guy who monitors ship traffic in the Strait Of Gibraltar? Mark Knopfler?
Lesson 1, Grasshopper: if you're going to troll, at least spell it correctly.
or space monkeys. Gotta be one of those two. It's just gotta.
Could this not also be a tribute to aircraft technology?
A good player can bring in the noodnick fans, who will forgive their favorite sports star any crime under the sun. I remember when Tyson was convicted of rape, most of the sports nuts I knew were more concerned about not being able to see him fight again than anything else.
The sports star will bring in the fanatical, sycophantic fans, so they do deserve a cut, even thought it's the sheeplike fans that are really at the root of the extra income.
Same goes for film stars. There's a lot of really talentless millionaires wandering around Hollywood, but these vapid, empty vessels bring people to movies.
Get three feet outside of geekdom, and you're in a strange world of typical moviegoers who only care if a movie has some hunky star or busty starlette. They don't care about plot, or story, or theme, or writing, or even basic coherency.
It's sad, but I have to be honest, and say that the folks who are directly the reason for filling seats do deserve a piece of the action.
Hey, I don't work all that hard on the average, but I make $130K a year because my hardware designs (helped by an annual flash of invention) bring in business.
In the end it doesn't matter. Someone else getting rich does not preclude you or me from getting rich. The amount of money in the world is not finite, despite the claims to the contrary of the ideological set. As long as the "overpaid" spend their money and invest it, it goes back into circulation. People need to stop fretting over the salaries of other people, and concentrate on their own.
Or just tell the SC2K players to shut the hell up. I've seen the field density calculations for typical beams. You could safely walk through one. That always bugged me about SC2K. :-\ I dimly recall sending Maxis an email.
Besides, do we really want the surface of the moon to look like, say, New Jersey?
No point. New Jersey already looks like the surface of the Moon :-D
Hey, I was born and raised in NJ, so I'm allowed.
I remember the early ideas for solar power sats way back when, and they almost always involved geosynchronous satellites so you don't have to aim at a moving target. Not as optimal as an LEO, but I believe for a focused beam most of your losses are in the atmosphere anyway, so another 20,000 miles or so of space is a good trade for the issues of aiming or relaying.
Now in the past few years we keep seeing these wacky plans to put the arrays on the moon (very far away and down in another gravity well making servicing a really big issue, robots or not), and beam the energy around via realy satellites. It just seems so wastetful. The only advantage I can think of is that the lunar array could *maybe* be built so large that the transmission losses don't matter.
It just seems like geosync is such a better solution, though. You could incorporate the next generation of communication satellites into the power arrays.
A meaningless question in the real world. You need to look at the downside, or the overall risk. For example, what's the odds of either investment resulting in a -100% result? Most likely the 20% potential return is riskier. There's also questions of liquidity.
There's also the concepts of building a brand image and getting in early to grow a market which is still pretty nascent. *That's* how a CEO serves his long term shareholders properly. The "gimme billion percent profit margin now!" daytrader "I've owned this stock for two hours and I haven't doubled my money yet!" types can go get bent. It's their influence that has led to so many BS products and ripoffs and overpriced junk, especially in the tech market.
I test drove one, but it's a little impractical for me, and I have a near religious zeal against spending more than $35K on a car inspite of my ability to do so. I'm thinking Lexus IS300. Sporty and reliable and practical at a reasonable $30K price point.
The main problem with the article is that it's the iPod versus the world, and not one particular other device.
Note that each of the 5 has a separate list of alternative players that the iPod beats head to head.
For example, in one point he crows that one alternative has no moving parts and weighs less than the iPod, but in another point, he presents a solution involving an MP3 CD player (moving parts) that is also saddled with a case of CDs (total is far heavier and more unweildy than the iPod).
So it seems if I follow the advice of this article, I need to buy about 3 to 5 different players to beat the functionality of my iPod.
Obligatory car analogy: It's like saying, if you want a sports car, you should not buy Corvette because it's more expensive than a Mustang, might break more easily than a Lexus GS300, hauls less than a Chevy full size pickup, has a smaller fuel tank than a Hummer and is not as "cool" as an Aston Martin.
Actually, it's so old, that complaints like yours are really old. ;-)
And call me cynical, but I'm guessing Lucas was trying to make money when he released the very first Star Wars.
Is it me or has /. become really snitty over the past month or so?
I hear it contains an entire bit of storage, but, sadly, it's volatile.
His defrauding the court system with the Tawana Brawley case might count for something. And you might want to talk to Yankel Rosenbaum's family. Sharpton is no f**king joke.
But this is modern America where monsters are treated with kid gloves. Even O'Reilly treats Sharpton like some harmless, goofy fuzzball.
You just know the Green River killer will wind up with a talk show.
I find it really useful in my engineering job as a place to bundle up all the data on a design for data releases, design presentations, or just to hand to anyone new who needs to get up to speed on the project. I can put schematics, assembly drawings, block diagrams, interface control tables and whatever all into one handy package. They also convert to PDF well.
Well that's the fault of "they" and "we", not Powerpoint. People blaming the tool, again.
Shouldn't the reward be in wulongs?
True, but "smote" is funnier, and so it wins. :)
Oh my.
Oddly enough, we have to sacrifice Ben and JLo.
The Mayan line in question is "Big head, snake, rock shaped thing, potato with teeth, something that looks like a broken Trane air conditioning unit, something with three legs and four ears, a bigger potato with teeth and breasts, Jabba The Hut, another big head, a pile of little tiny heads, a medium sized head with a smaller head next to it, an aborted fetus someone inflated with an air pump."
The rough translation is "annoying couple (in unity) with mighty hair and (ass) who commit crime of that (terrible) Gigli."
Yes, there's a heiroglyph for "Gigli".
Hey, they were WAY ahead of their time.
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Oh, yeah, they NEVER had hurricanes, tornadoes and big wildfires before the industrial age. Just the occasional divine flood, angry volcano god and periodic smiting of the sodomites.
Dammit, Jim, it's a an 870,000 mile wide ball of fusing hydrogen, not a stripper.
And althought there might not be sound in space, I think these flare can be considered pretty big bangs.