You're talking about tampering with big money and business by threatening to put another energy source in front of Oil and Coal! Won't happen under our current mindset. Decades down the road, maybe. Right Now: Our leaders are marketing Coal as an alternative - for some unknown reason (pre-existing multi-billion dollar investments and stocks).
Oh, but wait, there's more! You're talking about pitching these ideas to a country who's people still believe, and are led by leaders still emulate, the essence of this place being created by a mythical being - God. God fixes every thing with prayer. God will fix the globe's crisis if we just keep praying. Reality still has not set it in yet.
It's going to take some more naturally occurring global happenings (hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, flooding, ice-melts), and finally an eventual relenting to the factual knowledge that Solar Systems are born... and they die - pretty much every day. Every thing in the great home we call a Universe has a life cycle, and right now, we're in our middle ages. Until people can understand their place in the Universe, we're better off just heading down the path we're on now.
What ever. Ride the global marketing campaign known as Operation Global Impending Doom - AKA Global Warming. Years ago it was called greenhouse gases, you remember right? Those same greenhouse gases that allow the surface temperature to have risen to a habitable state for species growth. Yeah those green house gases. The ones that were 1000 times the level they are now during Earths volcanically active years...
I'm all for streamlined energy. Yes. But stop selling it like it's the latest greatest thing that will SAVE THE WORLD. It's not going to happen. In 5 Billion years when our sun swells to the orbit of Mars and consumes every thing in it's path either form heat or from contact, all your efforts will essentially, mean nothing.
What people need to start thinking about is where the hell we're going to go in the next 50 years when the climate here on Earth grows to an uninhabitable state DUE TO NATURALLY OCCURRING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE - THE SAME CHANGES THAT SHAPED THIS BALL OF ROCK AND WATER THAT ALLOWS YOU TO EAT SLEEP AND BUY MORE STUFF.
you jack ass. it was Watergate that caused us to not focus on our next return to the moon mission during the 70s. It's only taken 40 years to bounce back from that fiasco. Leave NASA alone. At least they're trying to find ways to reach out from this planet instead of shelling out countless billions every week on a war that's destined to destroy it.
eventually, life as we know it will shift to the other side. kind of like all the excess crap in the boat, weighing down on side and then some thing happens: and it all shifts to the other side, rocking the boat, making every one uneasy. Get used to it. It's coming.
Just like the financial shakedown, the OS market will filter itself out. If a company does not want to comply with global standards, and instead pave their own road, then they'll be happy knowing they're the only ones driving on it a few years from now. Microsoft: enjoy your open road.
simply awesome. I wonder if at some point they'll put them online for access and have membership accounts for controlling and data collection. Services like that are a great way to generate funds for operation. A solid membership base can help to continuously scan the skies by having people that can schedule log-ins from locations around the world.
"Could these be first signs of another failing "industry"?"
I'd say yes, but I think it's been dying for a long time now. More than a decade perhaps. Since the advent of mp3.com (the original - R.I.P.) and the ability for independent musicians to completely circumvent the rigors of major-label-pole-smoking. In terms of recording, production, and distribution bands have quickly adapted to the medium by which they can deliver the latest to the masses literally years faster than most major labels can. In almost all cases, faster than what a label can provide due to legal mumbo-jumbo that bands are required to go through before any thing moves forward in terms of contracts, tour support, and record sales projections and demands. Unless your 'label-made' like 99% of top 40 artists - born in the offices of label heads and marketing strategists, the wait has been over for a while now. The stone chunks are being taken out of the proverbial great wall of music put up by labels that had essentially created their disgustingly comfortable niche. It's close to being fully dismantled. For the sake of good Music, the sooner the better.
Music industry is big business. Huge in fact. It's laid many a great band to ruin in it's wake. And any thing that can crop it off at the knees is okay in my book.
The unit should be up for bid for private ownership with aide of both governmment and public funding to help in times of upgrading technology and to help it run as often as needed. There is no reason that Arecibo shouldn't be pointed at our skies every night of every year with the necessary personnel on hand to manage and maintain it.
If the telescope is in need of updating, what sort of updates are necessary in order to make it as advanced and as powerful as it needs to be, or can be? How much will that cost the investor or the public, by either donation or funding derived from taxpayers? 10.5 Million people simply donating $1 would be enough to keep the current budget floating. Add that to my tax form and I'll definitely check 'yes'.
It's used for SETI research. Personally, I think it would be a detriment to us all to lose the funding that would allow for the operation and scanning of our skies for intelligent life other than ours. I think the level of importance carries the same weight as many other current global issues and should be allowed to remain functioning with what ever it needs to in order to gain a more full understanding of the universe around us.
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then why aren't the many parties that the rest of our government throwing that, more or less, belittle this NASA spending by tenfold under question and the same type of scrutiny?
It has always bugged me about the way the news media loves to point out just how much NASA is spending when ever some thing is launched, repaired, or once in a while, happens to fail. The text usually goes some thing along the lines of "new NASA satellite launched today. total cost $3.5 million taxpayer dollars". Now if every time one of our fine, upstanding, morally proper leaders threw a shin-dig and it was publicized in the same manner, I think we'd have a better understanding that NASA's spending is just a drop in the bucket.
Lay off. It's a dead horse topic. NASA doesn't get nearly as much as what it should for space exploration, long term research growth, and room for stability, yet the Kazillions of dollars we've dropped on this dumb-ass war in Iraq seem to go un-noticed by and large.
I believe he was referring to the hotkey (Ctrl[or Alt]-U(x2) (which ever it is, I don't recall been almost 2 years since I've run Winders of any kind) option which, according to what he wrote, is missing in Vista. I don't know.
I've only peeked at Vista for all of maybe 2 minutes before I was reaching for a Ubuntu loaded machine - all while shaking my head at the inherent graphical bloat they've added to Vista knowing that the stuff they're trying to pull off has been Linux norm for years now.
but i'm certain linux caused this cracking of the hinge. if the user had continued to run windows, it would have actually gone the way of Christine, the Stephen King novel car character, and repaired itself magically.
I heard a *story form some one that was an old GECO programmer way back when. In the midst of telling me stories about 3 foot diameter platters on huge racks and resistors the size of fists, he went on to tell a story of Cisco and and imminent wireless network failure.
It seems that years ago, some where in Europe, there was an issue with Cisco equipment failure at intervals. Massive wireless network failures and completely indeterminable. After bringing in a team of engineers for some thing like 9 months to assess the situation, they were still unable to determine the cause of failure. Until some one had peered in the way packets were being labeled under VLAN. Apparently Cisco had a number algorhithm issue, by which, say, every 10,000th packet, was getting dropped after being mislabeled and misdirected. After a so many identifying packets were getting dropped, total failure would ensue. I believe there was speculation of a Linux hardware and Cisco compatablity thing happening. Same protocols, just one was taking the shorter route to completion and it just happened to be Cisco to which all fingers pointed.
*The details of this may not be exact, but the ideas and names will remain the same to point out the guilty.
Here's one from Belkin that I just picked up a few weeks ago. Charger/Transmitter in one. Also can run off of iPod power, though it's kind of power hungry, so you can't run it for hours on end. But that's alright because most of the time I use it the car, so it's plugged in to the charger any way.
Vermont doesn't get to play with the new toys like the rest of the kids. Unicel has a firm grasp (sp/grasp/stranglehold) on the GSM network up here. As of current, and for what ever reason, they will also not be selling the iPhone. One would say go with Cingular or T-Mobile or which ever carrier applies, but one can't do that without penalty as well for not being on home network. If 50% of your calls, or more, are in non-network coverage areas for Cingular, you get the 'sorry-we've-dropped-you-as-valued-customer' letter.
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You're talking about tampering with big money and business by threatening to put another energy source in front of Oil and Coal! Won't happen under our current mindset. Decades down the road, maybe. Right Now: Our leaders are marketing Coal as an alternative - for some unknown reason (pre-existing multi-billion dollar investments and stocks).
... and they die - pretty much every day. Every thing in the great home we call a Universe has a life cycle, and right now, we're in our middle ages. Until people can understand their place in the Universe, we're better off just heading down the path we're on now.
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Oh, but wait, there's more! You're talking about pitching these ideas to a country who's people still believe, and are led by leaders still emulate, the essence of this place being created by a mythical being - God. God fixes every thing with prayer. God will fix the globe's crisis if we just keep praying. Reality still has not set it in yet.
It's going to take some more naturally occurring global happenings (hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, flooding, ice-melts), and finally an eventual relenting to the factual knowledge that Solar Systems are born
What ever. Ride the global marketing campaign known as Operation Global Impending Doom - AKA Global Warming. Years ago it was called greenhouse gases, you remember right? Those same greenhouse gases that allow the surface temperature to have risen to a habitable state for species growth. Yeah those green house gases. The ones that were 1000 times the level they are now during Earths volcanically active years
I'm all for streamlined energy. Yes. But stop selling it like it's the latest greatest thing that will SAVE THE WORLD. It's not going to happen. In 5 Billion years when our sun swells to the orbit of Mars and consumes every thing in it's path either form heat or from contact, all your efforts will essentially, mean nothing.
What people need to start thinking about is where the hell we're going to go in the next 50 years when the climate here on Earth grows to an uninhabitable state DUE TO NATURALLY OCCURRING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE - THE SAME CHANGES THAT SHAPED THIS BALL OF ROCK AND WATER THAT ALLOWS YOU TO EAT SLEEP AND BUY MORE STUFF.
bzzt.
CMYK color profiles may be loaded from a disk though.
who cares.
GIMP runs well on macs with xcode & developer tools installed.
you jack ass. it was Watergate that caused us to not focus on our next return to the moon mission during the 70s. It's only taken 40 years to bounce back from that fiasco. Leave NASA alone. At least they're trying to find ways to reach out from this planet instead of shelling out countless billions every week on a war that's destined to destroy it.
eventually, life as we know it will shift to the other side. kind of like all the excess crap in the boat, weighing down on side and then some thing happens: and it all shifts to the other side, rocking the boat, making every one uneasy. Get used to it. It's coming.
Just like the financial shakedown, the OS market will filter itself out. If a company does not want to comply with global standards, and instead pave their own road, then they'll be happy knowing they're the only ones driving on it a few years from now. Microsoft: enjoy your open road.
simply awesome. I wonder if at some point they'll put them online for access and have membership accounts for controlling and data collection. Services like that are a great way to generate funds for operation. A solid membership base can help to continuously scan the skies by having people that can schedule log-ins from locations around the world.
I think there was a book about this.
Exactly. So when is Microshaft going to hit them up with the 'Must make Apple machines run Windows' anti-monopoly lawsuit?
I really think these childish pissing matches make the people who launch these lawsuits look very ignorant.
"Could these be first signs of another failing "industry"?"
I'd say yes, but I think it's been dying for a long time now. More than a decade perhaps. Since the advent of mp3.com (the original - R.I.P.) and the ability for independent musicians to completely circumvent the rigors of major-label-pole-smoking. In terms of recording, production, and distribution bands have quickly adapted to the medium by which they can deliver the latest to the masses literally years faster than most major labels can. In almost all cases, faster than what a label can provide due to legal mumbo-jumbo that bands are required to go through before any thing moves forward in terms of contracts, tour support, and record sales projections and demands. Unless your 'label-made' like 99% of top 40 artists - born in the offices of label heads and marketing strategists, the wait has been over for a while now. The stone chunks are being taken out of the proverbial great wall of music put up by labels that had essentially created their disgustingly comfortable niche. It's close to being fully dismantled. For the sake of good Music, the sooner the better.
Music industry is big business. Huge in fact. It's laid many a great band to ruin in it's wake. And any thing that can crop it off at the knees is okay in my book.
my fancy blue Kubuntu splash screen isn't going to work any more.
The unit should be up for bid for private ownership with aide of both governmment and public funding to help in times of upgrading technology and to help it run as often as needed. There is no reason that Arecibo shouldn't be pointed at our skies every night of every year with the necessary personnel on hand to manage and maintain it.
If the telescope is in need of updating, what sort of updates are necessary in order to make it as advanced and as powerful as it needs to be, or can be? How much will that cost the investor or the public, by either donation or funding derived from taxpayers? 10.5 Million people simply donating $1 would be enough to keep the current budget floating. Add that to my tax form and I'll definitely check 'yes'.
It's used for SETI research. Personally, I think it would be a detriment to us all to lose the funding that would allow for the operation and scanning of our skies for intelligent life other than ours. I think the level of importance carries the same weight as many other current global issues and should be allowed to remain functioning with what ever it needs to in order to gain a more full understanding of the universe around us.
then why aren't the many parties that the rest of our government throwing that, more or less, belittle this NASA spending by tenfold under question and the same type of scrutiny?
It has always bugged me about the way the news media loves to point out just how much NASA is spending when ever some thing is launched, repaired, or once in a while, happens to fail. The text usually goes some thing along the lines of "new NASA satellite launched today. total cost $3.5 million taxpayer dollars". Now if every time one of our fine, upstanding, morally proper leaders threw a shin-dig and it was publicized in the same manner, I think we'd have a better understanding that NASA's spending is just a drop in the bucket.
Lay off. It's a dead horse topic. NASA doesn't get nearly as much as what it should for space exploration, long term research growth, and room for stability, yet the Kazillions of dollars we've dropped on this dumb-ass war in Iraq seem to go un-noticed by and large.
hrmph.
I believe he was referring to the hotkey (Ctrl[or Alt]-U(x2) (which ever it is, I don't recall been almost 2 years since I've run Winders of any kind) option which, according to what he wrote, is missing in Vista. I don't know.
I've only peeked at Vista for all of maybe 2 minutes before I was reaching for a Ubuntu loaded machine - all while shaking my head at the inherent graphical bloat they've added to Vista knowing that the stuff they're trying to pull off has been Linux norm for years now.
the tax payers will ultimately be the ones paying for this ... again.
just add on some more stuff, why don't they?
throw in a $20k toilet seat to while you're at it; the government doesn't care.
it took me a few minutes to remember what the hell DirectX actually was.
I was like, there's nothing in Linux that requires it, so wtf is it?
but i'm certain linux caused this cracking of the hinge. if the user had continued to run windows, it would have actually gone the way of Christine, the Stephen King novel car character, and repaired itself magically.
ah. right. no biggie. weird though, huh? i mean, was that even legal?
this all with firefox ... on linux (ubuntu 7.01)
it always scares me when people try and tell me (assume) what it was they think i was using before asking.
Notice on page 2 of the article, that if you mouse over the double underlined "Linux", it pops a Miscrosoft Server add under your mouse.
I heard a *story form some one that was an old GECO programmer way back when. In the midst of telling me stories about 3 foot diameter platters on huge racks and resistors the size of fists, he went on to tell a story of Cisco and and imminent wireless network failure.
It seems that years ago, some where in Europe, there was an issue with Cisco equipment failure at intervals. Massive wireless network failures and completely indeterminable. After bringing in a team of engineers for some thing like 9 months to assess the situation, they were still unable to determine the cause of failure. Until some one had peered in the way packets were being labeled under VLAN. Apparently Cisco had a number algorhithm issue, by which, say, every 10,000th packet, was getting dropped after being mislabeled and misdirected. After a so many identifying packets were getting dropped, total failure would ensue. I believe there was speculation of a Linux hardware and Cisco compatablity thing happening. Same protocols, just one was taking the shorter route to completion and it just happened to be Cisco to which all fingers pointed.
*The details of this may not be exact, but the ideas and names will remain the same to point out the guilty.
Here's one from Belkin that I just picked up a few weeks ago. Charger/Transmitter in one. Also can run off of iPod power, though it's kind of power hungry, so you can't run it for hours on end. But that's alright because most of the time I use it the car, so it's plugged in to the charger any way.
I can't believe you didn't use PWNS in the title of this story! I want my money back ;P !
Vermont doesn't get to play with the new toys like the rest of the kids. Unicel has a firm grasp (sp/grasp/stranglehold) on the GSM network up here. As of current, and for what ever reason, they will also not be selling the iPhone. One would say go with Cingular or T-Mobile or which ever carrier applies, but one can't do that without penalty as well for not being on home network. If 50% of your calls, or more, are in non-network coverage areas for Cingular, you get the 'sorry-we've-dropped-you-as-valued-customer' letter.
try and follow suit against the comment poster?