The History Channel hired a group to study that idea out of curiousity.
I don't remember the time frame but they estimated the costs to be around $30 billion US Dollars, while adjusting for inflation of the Pharoh would of spent $350 billion US Dollars. Of course the economics of the pharoh owning everything means things don't line up well.
I think they said 5-8 years using heavy lift cranes to lift the blocks up. pouring the top blocks into place, would probably shave a year or so off.
And to note that a person familar with system 6 and 7 won't have much of a learning curve for Basic tasks. Sure the more advanced features have changed a lot, but the finder and menu still work exactly the same. The way to launch apps is the same as well.
It's actually illegal to to launch rockets that way.(I looked it up a while ago). Launching of the rocket itself is easy, as all it takes is 4 aa's, a rocket motor igniter, and a remote controlled relay setup.
The hard part as another poster said is that model airplanes aren't fire resistant. Though they do have film Aluminum, though I don't know how well that owuld work. If you got a field I can fly in and a two grand down payment i will get started though. yes it would be that expensive to setup initially.
As the other poster said are they all lego? mega blocks hook up with lego blocks but don't quite fit.
Did a relative buy a non-lego set as a gift, and the blocks get mixed up?
while it is possible to be defective most of the time it comes down to.
1)Non-lego block 2)the block was warped(through heat or strong twisting motion(yes I have broken blocks that way) 3)Bad engineering design.(least likely, though I have had lego tower's fall apart because I forgot to reinforce a section I added on afterwards.)
Go through those steps and then go ask for a defective replacement block.
Just to set the record some what straight, both NASA and Russia have less than a 4% fatality rate among manned missions. You are more likely to be hurt in a car accident than an astronaut is going to be killed while on a mission.
so are you going to stop driving cars now? As the Allstate commercial says there is a car accident every few seconds in just the USA.
for polonium to kill you with alpha radiation, it would have to be ingested. The real question is what seasonings they use to cover up the taste. Of course it is british cuisine we are talking about. So they may never know.
A lot. Apparently you have never paid attention to the software copyright that you use. That's okay that's why the GPL is good you don't have to.
All the GNU tools bash, cp, mv, rm, etc have copyrights owned by the FSF. if you donate code to those projects you are "encouraged" to donate the copyrights to the FSF. Samba, Linux kernel, and other tools have their copyrights assigned to various other people.
the FSF is the single largest copyright holder of GPL software. IBM is working on doing the same thing with their software donations, and if Sun GPL's Java and Open Solaris then they will jump in the pool as well.
Well Maybe the BSD will finally stop dying. It's the only good thing i can think of. That and people will finally be able to own a computer and not worry about such things as drivers, memory leaks, and poorly desgined UI's
The bigger problem is automatic passwords for websites. I never understood why such a feature would be installed. it's far safer to use a third party app, and look up the passwords as you need them. I can remember some but not all of mine. but all I need to remember is three.
one to log onto my machine. One to decrypt an encrypted filesystem, and the third is for application in which I store the information. With OS X I can literally click twice, type in both passwords and can look up the forgotten password in 10 seconds. Closing the app and I can unmount the filesystem later.
I know such a thing is available under both windows and Linux. Why don't more people use it?
Um you inserted >>It just so happens that they're very good at taking other people's ideas and implementing them in a way that works and that people (in general) will want
When in reality it's MSFT just shoves their version down your throat through illegal, and quasi-legal actions.
Just remember MSFT does average in every venture they try where they can't use their monopoly position. Remember WebTV/MSFT TV ? MSFT's list of failures is greater than that of Apples. And Apples had a pretty impressive list.
so how many DVD-audios, and SCD's do you have? How about Minidisc's?
what don't you remember those formats. Of them all the only good one was minidisc, but since Sony did weird shit with formatting on them they never took off.
Not every new format gains acceptance, even good ones. I guess you never studied history or reality.
Okay two questions come to mind. First you have to the ability in the past to receive said message, and then you have to follow said message, and send it again. If you sent it via email it would mostly likely end up in your spam filter and lost to you. hence useless.
As the mesage would be filled with phrases like buy IBM on this date, short sell MSFT on this date buy it back on this date. Buy Apple on this date, etc.
Well if you watch them episodes IV-VI and then I-III and you take a shot of vodka every time someone says the force, you won't have to worry about remembering the bad scenes in I and II.
You also forgot about Napster, Real, Walmart, and all the other "music" companies that "partnered" with a company known for stabbing their "partners" in the back.
They have got to be loving Zune.
Now is the time for Apple to start licensing Fairplay to others. MSFT would choke. But that's not going to happen either. Jobs is to much of a control freak. Of course that is also why my hardware/software works so well. Where does one draw the line?
yea that's a good idea. You do realize you would screw up the entire northen hemisphere right? A better solution would be to simply update all buildings to modern insulation levels, and stop building giant mansion sized houses. Those two steps by themselves would save each person hundreds per year, paying for them selves in just a few years of time.
Living and growing up in NY I know one other fact. Winter is the most dangerous, when the temperatures hover around freezing. That is when Ice storms and massive snow storms are more common. The colder you go the less snow you get.
I don't know about that. Walmart doesn't pretend that it's a nice place to work. Walmart doesn't pretend to be anything more than a minimum wage shop. Walmart is a discount house, and really doesn't try to be anything different.
MSFT pretends to be open and standards following, and caring company, who you then partner with(playsforsure) and then stabs you in the back(Zune).
A simple fact, Outside of MSFT's monopoly their products are at best average and rarely long term profitable. Walmart while Evil, doesn't have all their eggs in one basket, and isn't a convicted monopolist.
>>I suppose Karl Rove is avid fan for character Mr. Morden:-)
One day can i have Rove's head mounted on a pole as a warning to the next few generations that twisting the truth only gets your head twisted off. so i can smile and wave at it?
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considering that the Zune is incompatible with other playsforsure devices including the ipod killers of old(creative, real, napster, etc) The zune is the Ipod wannabe killer.
because when it comes right down to it, all those other services will die becaue they partnered with MSFT, and then MSFT stabbed them all in the back.
The thing is now every code that comes out of Novell is now suspect. if Novell contributes code to Samaba the deal provides MSFT a recourse to attack Samba and use the Novell deal as the scape goat. Even if the code in question wasn't what Novell donated.
It's not about it being against the GPL, it's provide MSFT with an excuse, and an attack point with which to target open source developers.
Novell donates, code to firefox, and now Microsoft can sue the mozilla foundation for patent infringements, because of that, unless of course the mozilla foundation coughs up some money of course.
not really, it looks more like *nix window manager than OS X. If it was OS X the then buttons would be one color until you hover over them. It's also a standard feature of just about every gui.
When the power fails the devices stop monitoring volatage/ amperage, but also stop transmitting. The equipment you use to monitor all the transmitters would record which devices failed first, and that's where you start., combine that with a couple of databases, and an overlay map of the area, and you can literally watch the power fail, and where you need to go to get started. The final signals would give a clue as to what happened. with various voltage current, frequency variations at the time. A tree breaking a line, and blowing a transformer, are two different events that you most likely be recorded seperately.
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The History Channel hired a group to study that idea out of curiousity.
I don't remember the time frame but they estimated the costs to be around $30 billion US Dollars, while adjusting for inflation of the Pharoh would of spent $350 billion US Dollars. Of course the economics of the pharoh owning everything means things don't line up well.
I think they said 5-8 years using heavy lift cranes to lift the blocks up. pouring the top blocks into place, would probably shave a year or so off.
And to note that a person familar with system 6 and 7 won't have much of a learning curve for Basic tasks. Sure the more advanced features have changed a lot, but the finder and menu still work exactly the same. The way to launch apps is the same as well.
Try that with windows.
It's actually illegal to to launch rockets that way.(I looked it up a while ago). Launching of the rocket itself is easy, as all it takes is 4 aa's, a rocket motor igniter, and a remote controlled relay setup.
The hard part as another poster said is that model airplanes aren't fire resistant. Though they do have film Aluminum, though I don't know how well that owuld work. If you got a field I can fly in and a two grand down payment i will get started though. yes it would be that expensive to setup initially.
As the other poster said are they all lego? mega blocks hook up with lego blocks but don't quite fit.
Did a relative buy a non-lego set as a gift, and the blocks get mixed up?
while it is possible to be defective most of the time it comes down to.
1)Non-lego block
2)the block was warped(through heat or strong twisting motion(yes I have broken blocks that way)
3)Bad engineering design.(least likely, though I have had lego tower's fall apart because I forgot to reinforce a section I added on afterwards.)
Go through those steps and then go ask for a defective replacement block.
Just to set the record some what straight, both NASA and Russia have less than a 4% fatality rate among manned missions. You are more likely to be hurt in a car accident than an astronaut is going to be killed while on a mission.
so are you going to stop driving cars now? As the Allstate commercial says there is a car accident every few seconds in just the USA.
for polonium to kill you with alpha radiation, it would have to be ingested. The real question is what seasonings they use to cover up the taste. Of course it is british cuisine we are talking about. So they may never know.
I have dos 6 floppies around but I don't have wp 5.1
I also have a win95 bootdisk, and a winNT bootdisk in my pile of old software for just in case.
I also have every version of windows between windows 3.0 and win2k.
A lot. Apparently you have never paid attention to the software copyright that you use. That's okay that's why the GPL is good you don't have to.
All the GNU tools bash, cp, mv, rm, etc have copyrights owned by the FSF. if you donate code to those projects you are "encouraged" to donate the copyrights to the FSF. Samba, Linux kernel, and other tools have their copyrights assigned to various other people.
the FSF is the single largest copyright holder of GPL software. IBM is working on doing the same thing with their software donations, and if Sun GPL's Java and Open Solaris then they will jump in the pool as well.
considering that it was a republican who stopped the apollo missions early I don't think so.
The Democrats took us into space(Kennedy, Johnson). Republicans took us out of it(Nixon).
ah you never played doom. The weapon wielding zombies are on Mars.
The moon is full of aliens trying to destroy us.
Well Maybe the BSD will finally stop dying. It's the only good thing i can think of. That and people will finally be able to own a computer and not worry about such things as drivers, memory leaks, and poorly desgined UI's
The bigger problem is automatic passwords for websites. I never understood why such a feature would be installed. it's far safer to use a third party app, and look up the passwords as you need them. I can remember some but not all of mine. but all I need to remember is three.
one to log onto my machine. One to decrypt an encrypted filesystem, and the third is for application in which I store the information. With OS X I can literally click twice, type in both passwords and can look up the forgotten password in 10 seconds. Closing the app and I can unmount the filesystem later.
I know such a thing is available under both windows and Linux. Why don't more people use it?
Um you inserted >>It just so happens that they're very good at taking other people's ideas and implementing them in a way that works and that people (in general) will want
When in reality it's MSFT just shoves their version down your throat through illegal, and quasi-legal actions.
Just remember MSFT does average in every venture they try where they can't use their monopoly position. Remember WebTV/MSFT TV ? MSFT's list of failures is greater than that of Apples. And Apples had a pretty impressive list.
so how many DVD-audios, and SCD's do you have? How about Minidisc's?
what don't you remember those formats. Of them all the only good one was minidisc, but since Sony did weird shit with formatting on them they never took off.
Not every new format gains acceptance, even good ones. I guess you never studied history or reality.
Okay two questions come to mind. First you have to the ability in the past to receive said message, and then you have to follow said message, and send it again. If you sent it via email it would mostly likely end up in your spam filter and lost to you. hence useless.
As the mesage would be filled with phrases like buy IBM on this date, short sell MSFT on this date buy it back on this date. Buy Apple on this date, etc.
Well if you watch them episodes IV-VI and then I-III and you take a shot of vodka every time someone says the force, you won't have to worry about remembering the bad scenes in I and II.
that's one way to get through the marathon.
You also forgot about Napster, Real, Walmart, and all the other "music" companies that "partnered" with a company known for stabbing their "partners" in the back.
They have got to be loving Zune.
Now is the time for Apple to start licensing Fairplay to others. MSFT would choke. But that's not going to happen either. Jobs is to much of a control freak. Of course that is also why my hardware/software works so well. Where does one draw the line?
yea that's a good idea. You do realize you would screw up the entire northen hemisphere right? A better solution would be to simply update all buildings to modern insulation levels, and stop building giant mansion sized houses. Those two steps by themselves would save each person hundreds per year, paying for them selves in just a few years of time.
Living and growing up in NY I know one other fact. Winter is the most dangerous, when the temperatures hover around freezing. That is when Ice storms and massive snow storms are more common. The colder you go the less snow you get.
Um In NY there is a law on what positions you can have sex in.
I don't think it's ever been enforced though.
They might of finally removed it though. they were cleaning up the books on some stupid laws like that.
I don't know about that. Walmart doesn't pretend that it's a nice place to work. Walmart doesn't pretend to be anything more than a minimum wage shop. Walmart is a discount house, and really doesn't try to be anything different.
MSFT pretends to be open and standards following, and caring company, who you then partner with(playsforsure) and then stabs you in the back(Zune).
A simple fact, Outside of MSFT's monopoly their products are at best average and rarely long term profitable. Walmart while Evil, doesn't have all their eggs in one basket, and isn't a convicted monopolist.
>>I suppose Karl Rove is avid fan for character Mr. Morden :-)
One day can i have Rove's head mounted on a pole as a warning to the next few generations that twisting the truth only gets your head twisted off. so i can smile and wave at it?
considering that the Zune is incompatible with other playsforsure devices including the ipod killers of old(creative, real, napster, etc) The zune is the Ipod wannabe killer.
because when it comes right down to it, all those other services will die becaue they partnered with MSFT, and then MSFT stabbed them all in the back.
or maybe it was a chair in the board room.
The thing is now every code that comes out of Novell is now suspect. if Novell contributes code to Samaba the deal provides MSFT a recourse to attack Samba and use the Novell deal as the scape goat. Even if the code in question wasn't what Novell donated.
It's not about it being against the GPL, it's provide MSFT with an excuse, and an attack point with which to target open source developers.
Novell donates, code to firefox, and now Microsoft can sue the mozilla foundation for patent infringements, because of that, unless of course the mozilla foundation coughs up some money of course.
not really, it looks more like *nix window manager than OS X. If it was OS X the then buttons would be one color until you hover over them. It's also a standard feature of just about every gui.
Actually that would be a strong indicator.
When the power fails the devices stop monitoring volatage/ amperage, but also stop transmitting. The equipment you use to monitor all the transmitters would record which devices failed first, and that's where you start., combine that with a couple of databases, and an overlay map of the area, and you can literally watch the power fail, and where you need to go to get started. The final signals would give a clue as to what happened. with various voltage current, frequency variations at the time. A tree breaking a line, and blowing a transformer, are two different events that you most likely be recorded seperately.