Don't allow Hubble to fall back to Earth. It is still doing good science and can for years to come. New modules for Hubble have already been built and tested and only await a shutle mission to be installed. Call your congressman / woman today. Here is some info from the Mars Society on the work to save Hubble.
One of the challenges they would face with any form of tidal or current energy device is how to keep the thing in place.
The other of course being how do you keep the surfaces from being fouled by marine life. From fish down to barnicles there are things in the ocean that will increase the roughness of the working surfaces until they need to be replaced. Is it stull "renewable" with this replacement?
> > Although NSA is technically prohibited from performing incercepts on U.S. citizens, they do not shy away from operating against non-citizens here in the U.S.
> Is that a bad thing?...
Hell no. If we had been monitoring the U.N. we might have seen all that money Saddam was sending them.
A company I worked at had one of these, but it had a flaw where it wouldn't recognize a swipe in if it came less than 5 minutes after a swipe out. They wanted us to swipe out before using the bathroom, but if we were quick, we wouldn't be signed back in. Sounds like it would suck, but you were just as likely to swipe out on Friday night and have the system swipe you in for a ~52 hour shift. The only feedback was that your card was detected, not that you were signing in/out, or if the 5 minute rule invalidated something.
They also wanted us to swipe out before taking the freight elevator to the basement server room. Fortunately, I was salaried and this didn't affect my pay, but I wonder about some of the other folks.
I'm sure it would be better if they were guaranteed jobs for life regardless of how much they were needed. They had that system in, where was it? Oh yeah, the USSR.
I had to stomp the dumpster at one job. It was a car wash. They would only call me in to work when it wasn't raining, then make me clock out if no one was showing up to get a wash. I once put the rag soaked with the solution we used to clean windows on a car's hood and the owner yelled at me that it would eat the paint. Really? So you're letting me handle this stuff with my bare hands?
Sorry, I remembered another goodie. Every card had an expiration date, and all the dates were set to 9/9/99. Not the most earth-shattering y2k bug, but I wonder if the system live long enough for this one to bite.
One day I had to fill in for a guy who was on vacation. We ran a prepaid phone card center. There was a terrible Visual Basic POS (not point of sale) app that customers used to create orders. The orders were _FAXED_ to me and usually illegible when they came in. I re-entered the same data in the same VB POS system on our side. I had to send out a request to the printer to get the cards printed and a reply to the party that ordered the cards.
To top it all off, the servers were in the 4th basement level and the worksttion was on te 8th floor. There was a network, but the company didn't trust it, so I had to take the new card numbers down on a floppy disk and manually import them into the databases on the 4 servers. Oh, and If I forgot part of the SQL import command, it would do it all in one big transaction which would freeze calls on that server while it did the import. Good thing I only had to do it for one day, but I always felt sorry for the guy whose regular job this was.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I bought a game, let's just call it Tron 2.0 and tried to play on my laptop. It didn't work, and tech support said I needed a specific video card, even though this wasn't on the package. The store, let's just call them Fry's, wouldn't give a refund, only store credit.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that with a console, you know it will be compatible when you buy it. You plug in the cartrage/CD, or dial up your online service and _it_just_works_. That used to be true for PC games as well, but it looks like not anymore.
This would be great for goodyear. They could cover several games with the same blimp. They would just need some powerful zoom lenses and image stabilization.
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Don't allow Hubble to fall back to Earth. It is still doing good science and can for years to come. New modules for Hubble have already been built and tested and only await a shutle mission to be installed. Call your congressman / woman today. Here is some info from the Mars Society on the work to save Hubble.
They should sentance him to 100 hours of community service -- cleaning up movie theaters.
You're right. We should be searching for the real drivers.
Microsoft pays $440M to license InterTrode Patents?
In Communist Russia...
space program funds you.
vodka is fuel for rocket and crew.
pull of Earth's gravity escapes you.
mission volunteers you.
I'm here all week, enjoy the borscht.
One of the challenges they would face with any form of tidal or current energy device is how to keep the thing in place.
The other of course being how do you keep the surfaces from being fouled by marine life. From fish down to barnicles there are things in the ocean that will increase the roughness of the working surfaces until they need to be replaced. Is it stull "renewable" with this replacement?
I've been here all week and there's nothing wrong BANG! ~~~~~++++
CARRIER LOST
The world's first arrest resulting from passive monitoring of electronic communications
Indeed. And I guess all those arrests that have resulted from wiretaps somehow don't qualify as passive, monitoring or electronic communications.
> > Although NSA is technically prohibited from performing incercepts on U.S. citizens, they do not shy away from operating against non-citizens here in the U.S.
...
> Is that a bad thing?
Hell no. If we had been monitoring the U.N. we might have seen all that money Saddam was sending them.
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LOAD "HTTP://WWW./PETSCII.COM/",8,1
HTTP 404 SITE NOT FOUND
READY
so anyway, I just had to add this little bit to get aroung the lameness filter. So, how's that Internet thing doing?
I thought they had left these at the bottom of the tunnel. Am I thinking of something else?
A company I worked at had one of these, but it had a flaw where it wouldn't recognize a swipe in if it came less than 5 minutes after a swipe out. They wanted us to swipe out before using the bathroom, but if we were quick, we wouldn't be signed back in. Sounds like it would suck, but you were just as likely to swipe out on Friday night and have the system swipe you in for a ~52 hour shift. The only feedback was that your card was detected, not that you were signing in/out, or if the 5 minute rule invalidated something.
They also wanted us to swipe out before taking the freight elevator to the basement server room. Fortunately, I was salaried and this didn't affect my pay, but I wonder about some of the other folks.
Smell-o-phone
Instead of appologising for a poor signal, people will have to appologise for driving past chemical plants, dairy farms, etc.
I'm sure it would be better if they were guaranteed jobs for life regardless of how much they were needed. They had that system in, where was it? Oh yeah, the USSR.
I had to stomp the dumpster at one job. It was a car wash. They would only call me in to work when it wasn't raining, then make me clock out if no one was showing up to get a wash. I once put the rag soaked with the solution we used to clean windows on a car's hood and the owner yelled at me that it would eat the paint. Really? So you're letting me handle this stuff with my bare hands?
Fortunately the job didn't last more than a week.
Oh, and he had invented a new way of programming.
Let me guess... Object Dis-oriented?
Sorry, I remembered another goodie. Every card had an expiration date, and all the dates were set to 9/9/99. Not the most earth-shattering y2k bug, but I wonder if the system live long enough for this one to bite.
One day I had to fill in for a guy who was on vacation. We ran a prepaid phone card center. There was a terrible Visual Basic POS (not point of sale) app that customers used to create orders. The orders were _FAXED_ to me and usually illegible when they came in. I re-entered the same data in the same VB POS system on our side. I had to send out a request to the printer to get the cards printed and a reply to the party that ordered the cards.
To top it all off, the servers were in the 4th basement level and the worksttion was on te 8th floor. There was a network, but the company didn't trust it, so I had to take the new card numbers down on a floppy disk and manually import them into the databases on the 4 servers. Oh, and If I forgot part of the SQL import command, it would do it all in one big transaction which would freeze calls on that server while it did the import. Good thing I only had to do it for one day, but I always felt sorry for the guy whose regular job this was.
I notice that I get a lot more lint on my clothes when I dry them outdoors. Maybe I need a better lint filter on the washer.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I bought a game, let's just call it Tron 2.0 and tried to play on my laptop. It didn't work, and tech support said I needed a specific video card, even though this wasn't on the package. The store, let's just call them Fry's, wouldn't give a refund, only store credit.
Anyway, the point of this rant is that with a console, you know it will be compatible when you buy it. You plug in the cartrage/CD, or dial up your online service and _it_just_works_. That used to be true for PC games as well, but it looks like not anymore.
It is also possible that the hardware market might be more diverse. Motorola might be the top now, or someone else.
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No it's because we got accounts for our cats too. Didn't we poopsie? Yes we did, yes we did.
This would be great for goodyear. They could cover several games with the same blimp. They would just need some powerful zoom lenses and image stabilization.
Too bad the recoil makes the heads crash.