That pretty much says it right there. Every house has a dead phone line, this woman had no reason to blame a Voice over IP business. She can afford a computer, high speed internet, but not a cheap $8 phone for "emergencies?" She can surf the net, pay her bills, and still too dumb to give a moment's thought to emergencies? Someone ought to call child protective services on this woman, she is clearly endangering the lives of any other children she may have, if she's missed this obvious detail.
By the way, I didn't appreciate you calling the cops on me, the boy had it coming to him. He's never going to play with matches again. After burning the house down last year, you'd think he would have learned the lesson on his own without punishment...
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This is all about revenue, not service; think about it, when was the last time you dialed 911? 100 Million households paying at least $25 a year for 911 service (my bill has about $2 a month on it for that of about 7 upcharges), not to mention all the corporate telephones and payphones, 911 is minimally a 2.5 Billion Dollar industry. They start losing revenue, and they start searching for where it went. Why the article wasn't written from the perspective is beyond me.
Call me a sick-o, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this story about the woman from Florida is a falsification on some levels, I would like proof that she has no access to a cellular phone, that she is too far to a payphone, and has no neighbors nor passers-by on her street. Come on, this just smells like a set-up!
150 Terabytes in some sort of Storage Area Network, with striping is a lot more actual storage, and it isn't as cheap as a Best Buy deal sans the rebates.
Honestly, I think Lucas was silly to put a number like that out. Weta Digital can probably surpass that with existing infrastructure, I'll check the bonus features on my LoTR collection to verify. It sounds like mindless media drivel to me. A real quote would be something to the effect of:
"Our new rendering farm is a massively parallel distributed environment, capable of 150 Teraflops, which translates to 400 peta-triangles per second, or roughly the equivalent of 500,000,000 $100 graphics cards."
I can only imagine what people are going to have to shell out to live in San Francisco now. I bet they have that throughput for all the telecommuters dialed in from Stockton. He should have build the studio in Stockton or Livermore, or somewhere easy to live. Tulsa. Yeah, he should have built the studio in Tulsa. Oh wait, there's not an internationally renowned art school for 500 miles in Tulsa, maybe not Tulsa. Redding. He could have built it in Redding.
Fine, I'll leave the chair alone. How about the city council members paid $140,000 a year? That's only a few G's shy of our Governor. I hate corruption, but it seems rampant. People aren't about integrity here, they are always about the Benjamins, as it were.
The epitath of this project answers your question: "It was just too hard, we give up!" Save your pennies for nuclear fission power and let the private industries settle space on their own, I say.
Uh, which shuttle design are you talking about? The Challenger, the Columbia, or the one they keep delaying for launch due to growing safety concerns? As for trash, what about the debris and hydrazine scattered throughout several Southern states?
The real problem with the US Government is the bureaucracy, you have that right. There's plenty of waste in every branch of our government. Can't get over the $500 office chairs my city hall has.
So, what did you two wear? I don't see that cost listed. I think you paid too much for catering, I was able to get a $14 plate price, and my guests had a choice of Walleye or stuffed pork, and the reception was the entire upper floor of the restaurant, no additional cost. Granted, the wedding itself was in a lakeshore garden, and my mother-in-law is a professional cake decorator, my wife's aunt just closed her wedding shop so we got a $1500 dress below cost.
I've seen people do with only a real bouquet for the bride, and fake flowers as decoration. The trick to doing a wedding without taking it through the nose is to work with what you have, and leverage relationships. Most people want to help out in a wedding. Maybe you've got an uncle (or in my wife's case, a former roommate) who is ordained and can "marry 'em and bury 'em" pro bono/as his or her wedding gift.
parting thought: if you do your own wedding invitations, use special paper, use an electronic printer only for text, and work with mixed media to add some dimension. The more time and effort (not money) you and your betrothed put into the wedding, the more time and effort you are apt to invest in maintaining a lifelong covenant. Just remember (if you're the guy) that you'll need to continue to put time and effort into every anniversary. Keep's 'em happy.
Yeah, I'm afraid the anonymous poster has a point: air popping is where you put the kernels in something where the heat comes from air, not heated oil. I've never found a single theater that air-pops. Most use the oil-filled pan with the split lid. It makes for more aroma, and is a better-suited mechanism for making in volume. Someone tell me why anyone other than a foods conglomerate (Kraft, Conagra, etc.) would be sponsoring popcorn research.
Well, if you have a way to run anything beyond 1.0 Firefox and AdBlock, do share. I'm expecting a response to the effect of "recompile it, silly" would suffice, but perhaps something else?
AdBlock is great. I figured out filters to completely strip my Yahoo! account of its Yahoo! Personals ads, which I find particularly inappropriate marketing for married people and small children. That's the first time in a long time I've put two exclamation points in a single sentence.
Yeah, wait until the AI routines in those network protection devices just get a little too crafty and just flat-out decide to run things. Terminator is eerie not for its spooky villains, but for its accuracy. Just look at all that UAV, UGV, USV technology (Air, Ground, Space).
I realize you are an ASU student, so you probably know your dinosources better than most people on Slashdot. Toss aside the old bone of "countless millions of years" for a minute: any chance this guy (well, they did say it was a large femur) was just loitering around for way too long? I mean, sandstone, formed by water, come on, there's no way it wasn't replaced with minerals....
Bio Diesel has a real issue in cold-weather states like Minnesota. Stuff gums up at low temps. I know that petrol-diesel is good to -10F. Still not warm enough for 10-20 days out of the year here, but I think that you can put additives in the fuel, you must.
Those poor farmers weakened our energy density on gasoline by introducing methanol, which as I recall from an earlier post is 60% that of gasoline. No telling what kind of energy is required to make a gallon of ethanol, but my guess is that it takes a gallon of gasoline to make a gallon of ethanol.
There must be some truth to this. I went into a Sharper Image store once and got in close to look at those "silent" fans/air purifiers that basically charge particles (looks like a 4-foot tall heatsink, basically). Apart from smelling the ozone it makes, when I leaned in, I got a momentary, fierce headache. It backed off within a minute.
Tell your woman friend she should be a flight attendant, that way she can enforce the "turn off all electronic devices" rule. Also, for her living arrangement, I suggest she repaints her flat/apartment with that cell-phone blocking paint mentioned here in the past. Alternately, she could just move out into the country.
Fess up, you wrote some of that VBA code, didn't you? So did I. It was one of those business-line driven decisions, where some manager who may be more at home deciding how to market dry cereal than making an engineering project plan. Falls into the quick-and-dirty development process, it does. In addition to being written in VBA, there's nary a document to describe how it was developed, nor a source code control system.
VBA is for single-shot one-offs like a user data load process. Used for anything else, and you are begging for trouble. My personal favorite: the day I was asked to optimize some genius' Access databases. What did I do? Moved as much as I could into stored procedures on the SQL server. Sure, it raised the bar for maintenance skills, but there's nothing like improving performance (I did metrics) 1000-fold when it comes time to review the contract engagement. I'd be willing to bet that marketing manager regretted the decision to let me touch it, because all of the sudden, he had to hire a programmer to tweak it, he couldn't pass off the work to his nephew anymore. All in all, the people deciding on these matters of what software to use just flat-out shouldn't be allowed to do so. Long ago, there was a time when people who used computers liked computers and were comfortable as programmers. I'd say that better than 95% of computer users would never touch the things if it was a command console interface only.
This falls apart in stolen merchandise and other scenarios, like clerical error. Try to remember that laws and safety measures are only effective on those who chose to abide them, that's why a ban on guns is like a dream come true to a criminal, they know that a home is now defenseless. Besides, think how expensive it would be to tag shotgun pellets. And don't you think criminals would figure out how to remove the RFID? I mean, think how easy it apparently is to sidestep media copy protection. Bottom line? You're talking about registered purchases of ammunition.
You can't legislate away the ills of mankind, you can only sacrifice freedom. Remember your post the next time you have to unbuckle your belt or take your shoes off at the airport. Embrace the pad-down at rock concerts and sporting events. When you get pulled over for some minor offense and the policeman sees fit to turn your car inside-out, looking for crime, there or not, that is your liberty melting away. I don't trust a government that doesn't trust its people to think for themselves.
If you ask Teddy Kennedy, Osama Bin Laden was also recently elected Senator from Illinois! There's a great sound byte of Senator Kennedy befouling Obama's last name to this end.
Appointing this crack from Gator/Clarita is astounding. This decision shines as brightly as the knee-jerk reaction to having people take shoes off at the airport.
FWIW, there was a movie released recently that takes up your concern: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. It was largely Aramaic, Latin, and some Hebrew(?) If you are personally interested in reading the Bible in original language, try: ISBN: 0-8407-8357-4 for starters. It is the New Testament entirely in Greek. You may find it is exactly what you are looking for. A question for the Bible scholars is whether the entire New Testament was written in Greek.
Regarding the cavant from Kent, I'd love it if he would write a book called "genius math for the non-autistic" or "Math: a study in art." If this guy could capture what he is talking about with the colors, sounds, and patterns, enough to teach, think of the amazing gift that would be. We could rid ourselves of these evil computers and think for ourselves. Until then, I continue to feed at the trough of Slashdot.
that "less than a new one" sounds like a threat to me; I bet they could get it done much cheaper if they outsourced; it's not like India doesn't have a space program. I'm betting if Scaled Composites got the launch contract, it would be up there for $20 million, wrapped in a bright blue bow made out of solar panels. Russia is doing twice as much launch volume as the USA (flights/mass/passengers/altitude, any way you count it), and let's face it, NASA hasn't done anything beyond probe or fun experiments like studying the mold growth on stale food in the ISS (saw a picture recently).
I just get the impression they are bored and want a challenge, like a daring rescue of an invaluable and popular satellite, so they can send up another IMAX camera team to catch the action in zero-G.
NASA's main problem is they are completely inept at implementing the effects of Moore's Law to space technology. Every year they seem less and less efficient. It has been a quarter-century now since the Shuttle program started, and the only launch-relevant upgrades I've seen on that system are new O-rings and an improved fuel tank hull, now far less likely to shred big chunks that smack into the shuttle during launch. I don't know about the rest of you, but covering the outside of anything traveling at supersonic speeds with something as flimsy as styrofoam sounds moronic at best, and the redesign did nothing to prevent the peeling of the styrofoam in the first place. And that was to do what, prevent ice from forming on the tank's exterior, which might flake off and hit the wings of the Shuttle?
Hey NASA, here are some ideas worth a go:
Move the shuttle up top.
Most thermos designs put some sort of shell around the insular layer, for durability. Try the vacuum-walled design, you might save mass.
Work a little harder on the physics and figure out how to make a tank which doesn't depressurize as it empties.
How about a smaller fuel tank used later in the flight, when there is no moisture in the atmosphere? You could put another solid booster in its place.
What really bugs me about this is Jeffrey used to work at Hopkins Cinema Six (find it at Moviefone), so the whole social cave dweller line is just effective lawyerisms. I distinctly remember him saying to me on multiple occasions: "Theater two on your left, enjoy the show."
Jeffrey wasn't particularly bright, I concur with Loucura that all he did was re-release, from his Dad's computer no less. If he was smart, he would have been more intelligent about launch approaches, especially with a rap. Variant is clearly an overstatement.
The scientific pursuit of the origins of life has amassed great volumes of topically tangential information, such as the consistency and content of the dirt on Mars and the Saturnian moon of Titan. You speak of macroevolution as if a theory is out there, written as concisely as the theory of Relativity, or Quantum theory. Macroevolution changes, it evolves. It is data-driven, and fraught with subjectivity and core-component debate. Do not point to one small element of knowledge and say it is somehow conclusive, I find terseness unengaging. Instead, begin your discussion with the beginning, not the latter ends. Oparin's experiment lacked any kind of temporal stasis; the quantities of oxygen were poisonous to monocellular organisms. How long is a single DNA strand? What is the shortest known complete strand of DNA from a viable organism?
Before we discuss the 5 skeletons of the Archaeopteryx that bear any distinction from the common Procompsagnathus, the 6 homonids and their histories, tiger moth, et alia, begin with the beginning. If you happen to have reference to a complete definition of the theory of macroevolution that has stood any test of time, I would appreciate reading it. I must say it is quite assuming for humans to perceive their understanding of the origins of life to be solid enough to consider it a theory.
Quantum theory is already being applied in electronics design, and cyclotrons are built to take into consideration the theory of relativity. Neither of these exceed the age of the theory of macroevolution, yet the theory itself, not tangential knowledge under the umbrella of biology , has not to my knowledge proven servicable in engineering. Have we evolved anything yet? Have we ressurected the dinosaurs, ill-fated dodo, or the even the coelocanth?
Yeah, I see your point. Evolution is really only a hypothesis, not even a theory. It isn't like anyone has ever observed evolution. Explanation, however rational, does not a theory make, if one is to be picky about words. Theories can be tested. At this point, anything on evolution is hindsight conjecture. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of intraspecial microevolution, but even the majority viewpoints of modern comparative phylologists have abandoned the 150-year old model of macroevolution, citing a nearly complete fossil record and no evidence of it. Their current view is that of punctuated equilibrium, or in other terms, a bird gave birth to a lizard.
I love how Slashdot mixes it up on these inane linguistic minutiae.
Okay, I did the math:
1 seat on the Russian taxi sells commercially for $25 M US dollars, however that included several weeks of training, as the story goes.
I believe that the Soyuz is a 3-seater. Assuming all passengers are capable astronauts, It isn't unreasonable to still expect the astronauts can travel for the same price as a civilian tourist.
At that price, let's round up and say the seven-person Space Shuttle ride equivalent is $200 M US dollars. I believe that the cargo volume in the Soyuz is much smaller, so tack on $50-100 M US dollars for an additional supply-only launch.
It sure seems to me like no matter how you jiggle the numbers, there really isn't much fiscal sense to fire up the Space Shuttle, for routine, non-assembly missions. A billion-dollar Shuttle launch means 1/3rd to 1/4th the investment value.
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By the way, I didn't appreciate you calling the cops on me, the boy had it coming to him. He's never going to play with matches again. After burning the house down last year, you'd think he would have learned the lesson on his own without punishment...
:-)
Call me a sick-o, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this story about the woman from Florida is a falsification on some levels, I would like proof that she has no access to a cellular phone, that she is too far to a payphone, and has no neighbors nor passers-by on her street. Come on, this just smells like a set-up!
Honestly, I think Lucas was silly to put a number like that out. Weta Digital can probably surpass that with existing infrastructure, I'll check the bonus features on my LoTR collection to verify. It sounds like mindless media drivel to me. A real quote would be something to the effect of:
"Our new rendering farm is a massively parallel distributed environment, capable of 150 Teraflops, which translates to 400 peta-triangles per second, or roughly the equivalent of 500,000,000 $100 graphics cards."
I can only imagine what people are going to have to shell out to live in San Francisco now. I bet they have that throughput for all the telecommuters dialed in from Stockton. He should have build the studio in Stockton or Livermore, or somewhere easy to live. Tulsa. Yeah, he should have built the studio in Tulsa. Oh wait, there's not an internationally renowned art school for 500 miles in Tulsa, maybe not Tulsa. Redding. He could have built it in Redding.
Fine, I'll leave the chair alone. How about the city council members paid $140,000 a year? That's only a few G's shy of our Governor. I hate corruption, but it seems rampant. People aren't about integrity here, they are always about the Benjamins, as it were.
The epitath of this project answers your question: "It was just too hard, we give up!" Save your pennies for nuclear fission power and let the private industries settle space on their own, I say.
The real problem with the US Government is the bureaucracy, you have that right. There's plenty of waste in every branch of our government. Can't get over the $500 office chairs my city hall has.
I've seen people do with only a real bouquet for the bride, and fake flowers as decoration. The trick to doing a wedding without taking it through the nose is to work with what you have, and leverage relationships. Most people want to help out in a wedding. Maybe you've got an uncle (or in my wife's case, a former roommate) who is ordained and can "marry 'em and bury 'em" pro bono/as his or her wedding gift.
parting thought: if you do your own wedding invitations, use special paper, use an electronic printer only for text, and work with mixed media to add some dimension. The more time and effort (not money) you and your betrothed put into the wedding, the more time and effort you are apt to invest in maintaining a lifelong covenant. Just remember (if you're the guy) that you'll need to continue to put time and effort into every anniversary. Keep's 'em happy.
Yeah, I'm afraid the anonymous poster has a point: air popping is where you put the kernels in something where the heat comes from air, not heated oil. I've never found a single theater that air-pops. Most use the oil-filled pan with the split lid. It makes for more aroma, and is a better-suited mechanism for making in volume. Someone tell me why anyone other than a foods conglomerate (Kraft, Conagra, etc.) would be sponsoring popcorn research.
I'll bite. Why do you put yeast on popcorn? Is it just a seasoning, like Parmesan cheese?
Well, if you have a way to run anything beyond 1.0 Firefox and AdBlock, do share. I'm expecting a response to the effect of "recompile it, silly" would suffice, but perhaps something else? AdBlock is great. I figured out filters to completely strip my Yahoo! account of its Yahoo! Personals ads, which I find particularly inappropriate marketing for married people and small children. That's the first time in a long time I've put two exclamation points in a single sentence.
I like how they named all the modules after the different Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Too bad they left out Michaelangelo! Cowabunga, NASA.
Yeah, wait until the AI routines in those network protection devices just get a little too crafty and just flat-out decide to run things. Terminator is eerie not for its spooky villains, but for its accuracy. Just look at all that UAV, UGV, USV technology (Air, Ground, Space).
I realize you are an ASU student, so you probably know your dinosources better than most people on Slashdot. Toss aside the old bone of "countless millions of years" for a minute: any chance this guy (well, they did say it was a large femur) was just loitering around for way too long? I mean, sandstone, formed by water, come on, there's no way it wasn't replaced with minerals....
Those poor farmers weakened our energy density on gasoline by introducing methanol, which as I recall from an earlier post is 60% that of gasoline. No telling what kind of energy is required to make a gallon of ethanol, but my guess is that it takes a gallon of gasoline to make a gallon of ethanol.
Tell your woman friend she should be a flight attendant, that way she can enforce the "turn off all electronic devices" rule. Also, for her living arrangement, I suggest she repaints her flat/apartment with that cell-phone blocking paint mentioned here in the past. Alternately, she could just move out into the country.
VBA is for single-shot one-offs like a user data load process. Used for anything else, and you are begging for trouble. My personal favorite: the day I was asked to optimize some genius' Access databases. What did I do? Moved as much as I could into stored procedures on the SQL server. Sure, it raised the bar for maintenance skills, but there's nothing like improving performance (I did metrics) 1000-fold when it comes time to review the contract engagement. I'd be willing to bet that marketing manager regretted the decision to let me touch it, because all of the sudden, he had to hire a programmer to tweak it, he couldn't pass off the work to his nephew anymore. All in all, the people deciding on these matters of what software to use just flat-out shouldn't be allowed to do so. Long ago, there was a time when people who used computers liked computers and were comfortable as programmers. I'd say that better than 95% of computer users would never touch the things if it was a command console interface only.
You can't legislate away the ills of mankind, you can only sacrifice freedom. Remember your post the next time you have to unbuckle your belt or take your shoes off at the airport. Embrace the pad-down at rock concerts and sporting events. When you get pulled over for some minor offense and the policeman sees fit to turn your car inside-out, looking for crime, there or not, that is your liberty melting away. I don't trust a government that doesn't trust its people to think for themselves.
Appointing this crack from Gator/Clarita is astounding. This decision shines as brightly as the knee-jerk reaction to having people take shoes off at the airport.
Regarding the cavant from Kent, I'd love it if he would write a book called "genius math for the non-autistic" or "Math: a study in art." If this guy could capture what he is talking about with the colors, sounds, and patterns, enough to teach, think of the amazing gift that would be. We could rid ourselves of these evil computers and think for ourselves. Until then, I continue to feed at the trough of Slashdot.
There was a Nintendo University at least 5 years back in Washington State. I read about it in IEEE Computer.
I just get the impression they are bored and want a challenge, like a daring rescue of an invaluable and popular satellite, so they can send up another IMAX camera team to catch the action in zero-G.
NASA's main problem is they are completely inept at implementing the effects of Moore's Law to space technology. Every year they seem less and less efficient. It has been a quarter-century now since the Shuttle program started, and the only launch-relevant upgrades I've seen on that system are new O-rings and an improved fuel tank hull, now far less likely to shred big chunks that smack into the shuttle during launch. I don't know about the rest of you, but covering the outside of anything traveling at supersonic speeds with something as flimsy as styrofoam sounds moronic at best, and the redesign did nothing to prevent the peeling of the styrofoam in the first place. And that was to do what, prevent ice from forming on the tank's exterior, which might flake off and hit the wings of the Shuttle?
Hey NASA, here are some ideas worth a go:
Jeffrey wasn't particularly bright, I concur with Loucura that all he did was re-release, from his Dad's computer no less. If he was smart, he would have been more intelligent about launch approaches, especially with a rap. Variant is clearly an overstatement.
Before we discuss the 5 skeletons of the Archaeopteryx that bear any distinction from the common Procompsagnathus, the 6 homonids and their histories, tiger moth, et alia, begin with the beginning. If you happen to have reference to a complete definition of the theory of macroevolution that has stood any test of time, I would appreciate reading it. I must say it is quite assuming for humans to perceive their understanding of the origins of life to be solid enough to consider it a theory.
Quantum theory is already being applied in electronics design, and cyclotrons are built to take into consideration the theory of relativity. Neither of these exceed the age of the theory of macroevolution, yet the theory itself, not tangential knowledge under the umbrella of biology , has not to my knowledge proven servicable in engineering. Have we evolved anything yet? Have we ressurected the dinosaurs, ill-fated dodo, or the even the coelocanth?
I love how Slashdot mixes it up on these inane linguistic minutiae.
1 seat on the Russian taxi sells commercially for $25 M US dollars, however that included several weeks of training, as the story goes.
I believe that the Soyuz is a 3-seater. Assuming all passengers are capable astronauts, It isn't unreasonable to still expect the astronauts can travel for the same price as a civilian tourist.
At that price, let's round up and say the seven-person Space Shuttle ride equivalent is $200 M US dollars. I believe that the cargo volume in the Soyuz is much smaller, so tack on $50-100 M US dollars for an additional supply-only launch.
It sure seems to me like no matter how you jiggle the numbers, there really isn't much fiscal sense to fire up the Space Shuttle, for routine, non-assembly missions. A billion-dollar Shuttle launch means 1/3rd to 1/4th the investment value.