While I agree with your other points, "They generate a large fraction of the US GNP" is silly. The US GNP is about 6.7 trillion dollars. Microsoft's 40 billion in sales last year is about six tenths of one percent of that.
yeah, I'm sure an astronaut with a telescope would beat the hell out of the hubble:)
Seriously, look at the quantity and quality of the science provided by the unmanned missions to Mars and the probes to Venus, Saturn, etc., and compare that to what ISS has provided (at orders of magnitude higher cost).
Your signal strength isn't any lower with Tiger. The AirPort signal strength indicator has actually been retooled to show, not the signal strength, but the speed of the connection. This is a change from Panther.
Until the problem of 'heavy-lifting' has been resolved, mining asteroids will never become "more than lucrative". Even if you could grab a one ton asteroid that was solid platinum and return it to earth, the transportation costs destroy your economics. But, like you, I hope someday this changes.
Actually, you ARE right. Most auto antifreeze is currently ethylene glycol, but there's legislation in California to move to propylene glycol as a non-toxic substitute. Freeze point depression isn't as good as eth-gly, so it probably won't ever happen in Northern states.
DirecTV has several HD channels available, including ESPN, HBO, ShowTime, Discovery Channel, a couple of low rent movie channels, and a PPV. It's about $9 / month extra to get the HD.
I got a Samsung HDTV tuner for my DirecTV system, which combines off-air HD channels, cable (if you've got it too) and standard local channels into one seamless guide. With it I can spend countly hours watching mindless programs without even realizing it.
From the article, I fail to understand why the xmule developer's net connection was shutdown. Sure, he's been subpoenaed, but where's the due process? It sounds to me like his ISP isn't aware of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty"
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While I agree with your other points, "They generate a large fraction of the US GNP" is silly. The US GNP is about 6.7 trillion dollars. Microsoft's 40 billion in sales last year is about six tenths of one percent of that.
Wow, great post. It's too bad the moderators will slam you because you don't follow slashdot's group-think.
Science is best done in person, not remotely
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yeah, I'm sure an astronaut with a telescope would beat the hell out of the hubble
Seriously, look at the quantity and quality of the science provided by the unmanned missions to Mars and the probes to Venus, Saturn, etc., and compare that to what ISS has provided (at orders of magnitude higher cost).
"Wireless streaming of music library anywhere in the world to the device from your home server"
No service provider will allow this when there's money to be made selling the music to their customers.
Congratulations, sir! You are a true geek. Your post made my brain hurt.
I haven't seen much discussion on /. about the rumor that Google's going to take on PayPal directly.
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http://searchviews.com/archives/2005/06/google_wa
If the rumors turn out to be true, both eBay and PayPal could be in for some serious trouble.
nice troll... yawn
hopefully it'll be #2 this weekend and some lesson will be learned
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heh, funny that you mention that... turns out ROTS did fall to #2 this weekend.
http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/?sortdate=20
Your signal strength isn't any lower with Tiger. The AirPort signal strength indicator has actually been retooled to show, not the signal strength, but the speed of the connection. This is a change from Panther.
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Until the problem of 'heavy-lifting' has been resolved, mining asteroids will never become "more than lucrative". Even if you could grab a one ton asteroid that was solid platinum and return it to earth, the transportation costs destroy your economics. But, like you, I hope someday this changes.
"Don't touch me with that thing, its dirty!". Subsequent invention of a small, slip-on firewall is pending...
It's called a condom, not a firewall.
Erm, not for long...
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Actually, you ARE right. Most auto antifreeze is currently ethylene glycol, but there's legislation in California to move to propylene glycol as a non-toxic substitute. Freeze point depression isn't as good as eth-gly, so it probably won't ever happen in Northern states.
Most anti-freeze is proplyene glycol, not polyethylene glycol.
how can it be illegal to keep something that is coming into your home anyway?
I agree, but tell the folks at DirecTV that you own a smartcard programmer and see if they feel the same way.
The GMail TOS indicates that 10 MB is the message size limit.
Will someone please mention Nazis and put an end to this?
DirecTV has several HD channels available, including ESPN, HBO, ShowTime, Discovery Channel, a couple of low rent movie channels, and a PPV. It's about $9 / month extra to get the HD.
I got a Samsung HDTV tuner for my DirecTV system, which combines off-air HD channels, cable (if you've got it too) and standard local channels into one seamless guide. With it I can spend countly hours watching mindless programs without even realizing it.
Hey, I'm no astronomer, but ...
there are problems there, too, with vibration issues for instance
the moon is vibrating??
One ton of cooling is equivalent to 12,000 BTU/hr. A 1/2 ton unit will cool your typical 2-3000 sq.ft. home pretty well.
The back of the unit has left and right audio out, an ethernet port, and a connection for power... that's it.
Software (perl) runs on linux, OSX, windows, and streams MP3, OGG, etc. to the device... that's it.
The marketing may suck, but the device ROCKS!
From the article, "Lasers race to target at roughly Mach 860,000."
AFAIK, Mach 1 is slightly more than one meter per second.
From the article, I fail to understand why the xmule developer's net connection was shutdown. Sure, he's been subpoenaed, but where's the due process? It sounds to me like his ISP isn't aware of the concept of "innocent until proven guilty"