Clearly you've forgotten the grandfather of the modern flying chair. This is what I think of when I see flying chair mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M of course I was a freshman at Purdue when this happened.
If you voluntarily join a group with the intent of having your opinions heard through the voice of others in that group, that is one thing. It seems entirely another thing to have the political leanings off my boss amplified through corporate profits which I help earn, whether I like it or not.
Actually your having helped earn the profits is irrelevant, the profits are not yours... The profits belong to the stockholders(or owners in a non-public company) and the corporation represents their interests NOT your interests. Your an employee not a stockholder or at least your not thinking like a stockholder. If you are a stockholder and the corporation is behaving in a manner that violates their fiduciary duty to the stockholders then you have a right to make that claim at the annual meeting (or a court of law) and try to convince others that the board needs to be ousted and a better board elected. You do not have that right as an employee.
So if I go to my local library and check out a physical DVD and copy it at negligible cost that is OK?
These darn lines are getting blurrier and blurrier....
It amazed me that people closely watched the HD-DVD vs. BluRay "format war", and never once did they stop and think -- wait, why are we still relying on optical read-only media in the 21st century?
The same reason that CD beat out DAT (digital audio tape). For a tape to be loaded with content each tape had to be run across a record head which is relatively time consuming compared to stamping a CD. Flash memory, even some sort of write once version, still has to be loaded with content and is still orders of magnitude slower than stamping a disc. Plus the huge capacity solid state memory devices are much more expensive.
While I mostly concur I have been wanting a little more programming functionality lately. I'd like to be able to set up the coffee maker at work on Friday to brew a pot Monday morning.
I do make my own coffee, even though the company provides free coffee. The company coffee is horrible beyond belief, although I think it is the buildings water. Good thing the company also provides free bottled water (water coolers with the 5 gallon jugs). Fresh ground coffee beans (roasted locally) + the companies bottled water make for an excellent cup. I drink a pot a day, sometimes more.
As spectacular as some of its failures have been -- like slamming a probe into Mars because one group failed to convert the units the other group was using --...
From CNN circa 1999...
NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
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The latest findings show that the spacecraft's propulsion system overheated and was disabled as Climate Orbiter dipped deeply into the atmosphere, JPL spokesman Frank O'Donnell said.
That probably stopped the engine from completing its burn, so Climate Orbiter likely plowed through the atmosphere, continued out beyond Mars and now could be orbiting the sun, he said.
...All budgets borrow from Social Security. That's the way the program is set up. If there is excess in the SS trust fund, and there has always been, and will be for the next several decades, it gets loaned to the general budget,...
Less than one decade. In 2016 SS will be at the point where it has to pay out more than it takes in, so the government will have to start paying back those IOU's.
In 2037 the IOU's (assuming they are actually paid) will be exhausted and SS will only be able to pay 76% of the benefits.
Source: The 2009 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds. Available here: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2009/index.html
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Clearly you've forgotten the grandfather of the modern flying chair. This is what I think of when I see flying chair mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M of course I was a freshman at Purdue when this happened.
If you voluntarily join a group with the intent of having your opinions heard through the voice of others in that group, that is one thing. It seems entirely another thing to have the political leanings off my boss amplified through corporate profits which I help earn, whether I like it or not.
Actually your having helped earn the profits is irrelevant, the profits are not yours... The profits belong to the stockholders(or owners in a non-public company) and the corporation represents their interests NOT your interests. Your an employee not a stockholder or at least your not thinking like a stockholder. If you are a stockholder and the corporation is behaving in a manner that violates their fiduciary duty to the stockholders then you have a right to make that claim at the annual meeting (or a court of law) and try to convince others that the board needs to be ousted and a better board elected. You do not have that right as an employee.
So if I go to my local library and check out a physical DVD and copy it at negligible cost that is OK? These darn lines are getting blurrier and blurrier....
For $20,000 I'll build you one that goes to 7.
http://xkcd.com/670/
It is for this sort of funny that the moderation system should go to 6. Very good sir.
It amazed me that people closely watched the HD-DVD vs. BluRay "format war", and never once did they stop and think -- wait, why are we still relying on optical read-only media in the 21st century?
The same reason that CD beat out DAT (digital audio tape). For a tape to be loaded with content each tape had to be run across a record head which is relatively time consuming compared to stamping a CD. Flash memory, even some sort of write once version, still has to be loaded with content and is still orders of magnitude slower than stamping a disc. Plus the huge capacity solid state memory devices are much more expensive.
Not without pictures.
FTFY
While I mostly concur I have been wanting a little more programming functionality lately. I'd like to be able to set up the coffee maker at work on Friday to brew a pot Monday morning.
Actually Down Syndrome (technically Trisomy 21) is having a whole extra copy of chromosome 21 not the lack of one.
I do make my own coffee, even though the company provides free coffee. The company coffee is horrible beyond belief, although I think it is the buildings water. Good thing the company also provides free bottled water (water coolers with the 5 gallon jugs). Fresh ground coffee beans (roasted locally) + the companies bottled water make for an excellent cup. I drink a pot a day, sometimes more.
As spectacular as some of its failures have been -- like slamming a probe into Mars because one group failed to convert the units the other group was using -- ...
From CNN circa 1999...
NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
...
The latest findings show that the spacecraft's propulsion system overheated and was disabled as Climate Orbiter dipped deeply into the atmosphere, JPL spokesman Frank O'Donnell said.
That probably stopped the engine from completing its burn, so Climate Orbiter likely plowed through the atmosphere, continued out beyond Mars and now could be orbiting the sun, he said.
missed it by that much...
If I only had mod points...
Ask not what your country can do for you
Neither ask what you can do for your country
Ask instead, what can I do to keep my country from "doing" to me.
Of course it will still be attached to a consumer phone with a shitty little lens in front of it.
FTFY
"Authorities from around the world with the right permissions can then access the same system."
Oh, I can see where this is going...
Where this is going is they can outsource monitoring to another country with lower cost labor.
I had to refresh myself a bit on the mission. This is really good info and of course this is as well.
I think you meant this. The William Herschel Telescope is a ground based scope built in the 80's.
...All budgets borrow from Social Security. That's the way the program is set up. If there is excess in the SS trust fund, and there has always been, and will be for the next several decades, it gets loaned to the general budget, ...
Less than one decade. In 2016 SS will be at the point where it has to pay out more than it takes in, so the government will have to start paying back those IOU's.
In 2037 the IOU's (assuming they are actually paid) will be exhausted and SS will only be able to pay 76% of the benefits.
Source: The 2009 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds. Available here: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2009/index.html
Alternatively some yeast cultures and growth medium (and hops). You will have to dispose of the used growth medium yourself. ;)
Every time I see "Spotted Owl" I think of this: http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2008/10/06/politically-incorrect-dinner-spotted-owl-helper/ I actually have a box of this.
There were two other people at my University with the same first and last name at the same time I was there, only the middle name was different.
Since they didn't file in east Texas which is the patent troll mecca any other place would be random.
So the submit a flowchart demonstrating the algorithm as part of the filing.
Of course you missed the next part, refile the patent that was pulled, perhaps with a minor change.
RTFA? Thats just crazy talk!
No, but I got a D in typing...
Yeah, the learning curve might be steep, but in the end she will be trained just like you want her to be.