until you realize how many satellites are up there, and they all must come down eventually.
What goes up must come down, eh?
Nope.
It depends entirely on the radius of the orbit, the orbital velocity, and the amount of upper atmosphere remaining at that altitude. If the orbit is good and the drag nil, it'll stay up there. Or at least that's how orbital mechanics worked when I was a kid.
Yes but a strike isn't that easy to organise*. You have to have a lot of people who really want change badly enough to spend their own time and energy on a common cause. That's heavy politics, that is.
If you're untangling them loose, you might as well just yank them all, cut new wire, and untangle the original nest later
Yes, but I'd add a recommendation to switch to structured cabling with Krone blocks and patch-by-exception panels. I had the job of straightening out several thousand Cat-5 rats nests for a retail chain a couple of years ago, and the Krone stuff worked a treat. Recommended.
I'd advise extra care if using this approach. Marketing people are not usability experts
Whups (ding) Thank you for playing.
Good marketing people are usability experts. Advertising people aren't. Best not to confuse the two.
The distinction is fairly simple; Advertising people try to sell things by annoying you, marketing people try to sell things that don't annoy you. The latter defines a niche, the former tries to cram you into it. Seriously. Advertising sells, marketing determines what will sell before the advertiser even sees it.
Other than that quibble, you're pretty much on target. Too much shiny on the site is lame, but good artwork is imperative. Remember this is the foyer of your company's premises to a lot of people, and people read "cheap" into a company really quickly on that first impression. I'd no more design the letterhead of a company than I'd let an un-ticketed outsider play with our DC's air conditioning.
Wasn't there a record company during the dot-boom who went broke in about a week because they omitted the "required" flag on "enter credit card details"?
What we're witnessing are the death throws of the RIAA.
It's death throes, not death throws! THROES. GAAaaahhh! (grabs wax doll, removes RIAA sticker and a few pins, writes "Bombula" on a tag and pins it to doll. Grabs said doll and swings violently against remains of a TV, then bashes with a copy of Mein Strunk.) Death THROES of RIAA ! THROES!! AHahaha! (throes doll out the window, takes deep breath, checks medication...)
./sigh. You simply do not have the correct bureaucratic and regulatory mind set, do you? Please leave the nanny state immediately.
You're mostly right. People do not catch fire while filling their tanks as a rule. But they do expose themselves to hydrocarbons on a regular basis, and there's a hint of carcinogenesis there. Long term effects?
Agree -- the last thing anybody needs is a war. But they might want isolation. It could be this isn't a deliberate harbinger of war, but is an end to be achieved in itself.
Think of some extremely conservative group intent on strict Sharia law finding it more and more difficult to keep things the way they were, in the face of the evidence of alternatives presented by content available on cheap global communications. Forget Britney, this could be a matter of a select group of people being offended enough at the sight of women driving cars on commercials to want to systematically shut that presence off.
This can turn out so wrong though! I used to spend lots of time with my eldest daughter, sitting and playing early computer games together. Ruined her mind totally. Now she's in Germany completing a multimedia design degree and studying game physics and writing, all with the intent to learn to make games of her own, and has developed a sick and twisted sense of humour. How can I handle that? She should be getting a nice comp sci degree and learning to write presales bids like her dad. On top of all that she's a WoW player, not a good honest Vanguard chappy like me.
Still, her druid's epic flight form is pretty cool.
Funny thing is, you can get some really good music there. Once in a while musicians arrive and treat city streets like the legitimate and ancient venue they are.
For you non-Melburnians, Bourke St. Mall is a good looking brick-faced street that's restricted to foot and tram traffic only. It's extremely busy, being smack in the middle of the shopping district. Sometimes you get sad dreadlock hopefuls pounding on plastic buckets, and sometimes you get decent pub bands setting up, and sometimes you're really lucky and get Lindsay Buckland and I'll buy a CD or three. RIAA not in attendance.
...sure was nice not having to get out of the car to fill up...
Sure is safer, too. That stuf is toxic as well as having a lot of energy density for a liquid. Just a little bit of training -- a tiny bit, really -- is all you need to keep people from exposure to hot plasma or a lot of strange molecules that the monkey in you never learned to deal with. You or I may know intuitively what to do, but the non-Slashdot crowd is pretty immense and prone to errors in mundane day-to-day engineering processes such as the refueling process for a complex machine. I salute, therefore, this idea.
However, if you rock up with a little Honda step-through, you want to be really careful.
It would be great if there was a central site where artists could register to receive donations/payments that their fans wanted to give them in exchange for getting their music from an unofficial source, or just as a sign of appreciation
There is. In Melbourne, it's called "Bourke St. Mall". Best not to set up too close to the tram tracks though.
...Thinking that wind or earthquake forces are predictable and easy to model on a structure is also naive...
My brother built a commercial radio station once (KREC). The antenna went up above Brian Head, Utah in the mountains where 110-knot winds are not uncommon. He told the engineer to come back with plans for a broadcast antenna that would survive 300 knot winds.
When the engineer came back with the plans, he said "Fine -- now double the spec everywhere." "Why?" said the engineer. "Because I want this thing so reliable all I have to do is come back every three years to fire the accountant". True story. No reliability stats are available for the installation, I'm afraid, because nothing has ever failed. YMMV.
You're right, and I have. But cutting off Singapore, a major hub, can materially affect the islamic nations surrounding it. Thus including it in the original list was correct, despite it's not being of that stripe. It's conceivable a muslim radical isolationist could have known that and added it to their target list.
I'm well aware of where Singapore is; it's our near and very strategic neighbor. It's surrounded by Malasyia and Indonesia, which are primarily Muslim in orientation. Singapore left the Malasyian federation in 1964 but remains a hub for Internet communication. In Australia we use Singapore links primarily for backup, with the main route going via Sydney. So it's not a huge inconvenience for us, but the people of Malasyia and Indonesia may be feeling a bit cut off at the moment.
Still, the act may be futile in the long term because the cables will be repaired. I'd be more concerned right now that the cable repair ships are well guarded -- if they're relatively few in number, military action against them could represent a substantial risk against the delay in restoring traffic.
Sounds like a concerted effort to isolate muslim nations, to me. Singapore, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE. We're looking for airplanes aiming for buildings and they're attacking the world under the sea with a pair of clippers and a web cam.
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In Australia we use Barry Manilow. Downside is it chases everyone away.
Ahh, Bricks In Space! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brick_Moon. Doesn't that just take you back?
That's ok, I wouldn't worry about it. Color, chroma, dominants are all wrong, and the Eddorians suck at esprit' de corps.
How dare you speak the name of His Noodly Goodness in vain? And besides, He and Er are no longer an item. Er is so last week.
If we were discussing anything other than Vista, I'd correct your spelling.
What goes up must come down, eh?
Nope.
It depends entirely on the radius of the orbit, the orbital velocity, and the amount of upper atmosphere remaining at that altitude. If the orbit is good and the drag nil, it'll stay up there. Or at least that's how orbital mechanics worked when I was a kid.
*Except here in Australia, of course.
Some Slashdotter (or Slashsson) said "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice". Don't remember who, but ./salute .
Yes, but I'd add a recommendation to switch to structured cabling with Krone blocks and patch-by-exception panels. I had the job of straightening out several thousand Cat-5 rats nests for a retail chain a couple of years ago, and the Krone stuff worked a treat. Recommended.
Whups (ding) Thank you for playing.
Good marketing people are usability experts. Advertising people aren't. Best not to confuse the two.
The distinction is fairly simple; Advertising people try to sell things by annoying you, marketing people try to sell things that don't annoy you. The latter defines a niche, the former tries to cram you into it. Seriously. Advertising sells, marketing determines what will sell before the advertiser even sees it.
Other than that quibble, you're pretty much on target. Too much shiny on the site is lame, but good artwork is imperative. Remember this is the foyer of your company's premises to a lot of people, and people read "cheap" into a company really quickly on that first impression. I'd no more design the letterhead of a company than I'd let an un-ticketed outsider play with our DC's air conditioning.
Ushering in a new era for our ...no, can't say it...
Wasn't there a record company during the dot-boom who went broke in about a week because they omitted the "required" flag on "enter credit card details"?
It's death throes, not death throws! THROES. GAAaaahhh! (grabs wax doll, removes RIAA sticker and a few pins, writes "Bombula" on a tag and pins it to doll. Grabs said doll and swings violently against remains of a TV, then bashes with a copy of Mein Strunk.) Death THROES of RIAA ! THROES!! AHahaha! (throes doll out the window, takes deep breath, checks medication...)
Yes, many stenographers tend to encrypt messages. Fortunately with the advent of email they're not quite as prominent in business circles.
I presume you really meant "steganographic".
You're mostly right. People do not catch fire while filling their tanks as a rule. But they do expose themselves to hydrocarbons on a regular basis, and there's a hint of carcinogenesis there. Long term effects?
Agree -- the last thing anybody needs is a war. But they might want isolation. It could be this isn't a deliberate harbinger of war, but is an end to be achieved in itself.
Think of some extremely conservative group intent on strict Sharia law finding it more and more difficult to keep things the way they were, in the face of the evidence of alternatives presented by content available on cheap global communications. Forget Britney, this could be a matter of a select group of people being offended enough at the sight of women driving cars on commercials to want to systematically shut that presence off.
Still, her druid's epic flight form is pretty cool.
For you non-Melburnians, Bourke St. Mall is a good looking brick-faced street that's restricted to foot and tram traffic only. It's extremely busy, being smack in the middle of the shopping district. Sometimes you get sad dreadlock hopefuls pounding on plastic buckets, and sometimes you get decent pub bands setting up, and sometimes you're really lucky and get Lindsay Buckland and I'll buy a CD or three. RIAA not in attendance.
Sure is safer, too. That stuf is toxic as well as having a lot of energy density for a liquid. Just a little bit of training -- a tiny bit, really -- is all you need to keep people from exposure to hot plasma or a lot of strange molecules that the monkey in you never learned to deal with. You or I may know intuitively what to do, but the non-Slashdot crowd is pretty immense and prone to errors in mundane day-to-day engineering processes such as the refueling process for a complex machine. I salute, therefore, this idea.
However, if you rock up with a little Honda step-through, you want to be really careful.
There is. In Melbourne, it's called "Bourke St. Mall". Best not to set up too close to the tram tracks though.
My brother built a commercial radio station once (KREC). The antenna went up above Brian Head, Utah in the mountains where 110-knot winds are not uncommon. He told the engineer to come back with plans for a broadcast antenna that would survive 300 knot winds.
When the engineer came back with the plans, he said "Fine -- now double the spec everywhere." "Why?" said the engineer. "Because I want this thing so reliable all I have to do is come back every three years to fire the accountant". True story. No reliability stats are available for the installation, I'm afraid, because nothing has ever failed. YMMV.
You're right, and I have. But cutting off Singapore, a major hub, can materially affect the islamic nations surrounding it. Thus including it in the original list was correct, despite it's not being of that stripe. It's conceivable a muslim radical isolationist could have known that and added it to their target list.
Gaah I am a noob. Go to the cia.gov site and navigate to Singapore via the factbook to find the relevant details.
I'm well aware of where Singapore is; it's our near and very strategic neighbor. It's surrounded by Malasyia and Indonesia, which are primarily Muslim in orientation. Singapore left the Malasyian federation in 1964 but remains a hub for Internet communication. In Australia we use Singapore links primarily for backup, with the main route going via Sydney. So it's not a huge inconvenience for us, but the people of Malasyia and Indonesia may be feeling a bit cut off at the moment.
Still, the act may be futile in the long term because the cables will be repaired. I'd be more concerned right now that the cable repair ships are well guarded -- if they're relatively few in number, military action against them could represent a substantial risk against the delay in restoring traffic.
Sounds like a concerted effort to isolate muslim nations, to me. Singapore, Pakistan, Qatar, UAE. We're looking for airplanes aiming for buildings and they're attacking the world under the sea with a pair of clippers and a web cam.