someone was wondering if it was worth taking a course in TV repair because with the release of the Phillips Modular design it will be easy for anyone to fix their own TV so the repair industry would become obsolete.
It did become obsolete, but for a different reason. Why spend more than $100 to fix a TV when you could get a whole new better one for $200?
Has anyone done any simulations/calculations about what path Voyager 1 (and 2, and the Pioneers, and so on) will take in future centuries? What stars it will encounter first? There seems to be scant info about this on the JPL site...
In many computer graphics systems, the X/Y coordinate system starts in the the upper left and goes up in the right and down directions. So, in a way, the glider would be going "up" both ways. ("Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we hold dear are only true from a certain point of view.")
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It could be varied, combined with other emblems, or modified and infinitely repeated for use as a background.
If you tiled them (with no extra space, or even with a one-cell margin between, probably), they'd cease to glide. Which brings up a great, though CPU-draining, and possibly annoying, possibility: a huge life-game running as your wallpaper.
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Who Needs Radio?
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Incorrect question:
With online music distribution sources, television, and the internet itself, how much longer will it be before the radio, and the RIAA, will be an obsolete means to promote artists?
Corrected question:
With online music distribution sources, television, and the internet itself, how long has it been since the radio, and the RIAA, became an obsolete means to promote artists?
Don't like it? Don't do that business. Else do it somewhere far far away where you won't have to contain your gasses.
I grew up in a town surrounded by farming, dairy among it. Many days per year the whole town smelled of it. Step outside your house? Cow crap smell. Go to the park? Cow crap smell. Go shopping? Cow crap smell.
No one is saying they can't not eat something. They just want to. Anything wrong with that? If science can provide a way to do so with no (or less) negative side-effects, where's the harm?
Saying "never mind technological advances, concentrate on getting along with the way things are" results in stagnation. If it weren't for human vices such as laziness and gluttony, we'd still be walking from cave to cave every morning to assemble our spear-hunting parties for the day.
Why do you drive a car, or ride a bike, or take a train, or use a computer or a telephone? To avoid all the tedium of the alternatives -- a.k.a. laziness.
Why do you buy food at the grocery store instead of growing and/or hunting your own? To avoid all the hard labor and time consumption of farming and ranching -- a.k.a. laziness -- and because you'd never be able to make enough of the foods you like -- a.k.a. gluttony -- and because hunting can be dangerous -- a.k.a. cowardice.
Why do you seek a better job or business than the one you have? Because you want more money -- a.k.a. greed.
The list goes on. Human weaknesses drive human progress.
We've become so used to defending our rights to use anything having to do with music that we intinctively use the term "valid uses" at the first opportunity.
You mean like emptying my pockets, removing my belt, watch, and frickin' boots to enter a damn county assessor's office? Like I had to do this week?
Yeah, how could anyone object to that?
Quite the contrary, my friend. Putting everyone through checkpoints to do anything only ensures that everyone gets treated like a terrorist -- guilty till proven innocent by the wave of the magic metal-detector wand. Except, that is, for the actual terrorists, who will no doubt have cased the weaknesses in the system long ahead of time and will have few hurdles to cross -- plastic explosives, anyone?
No, far more effective to root out evil at its source than to attempt to filter it once it's floating freely in society.
I never had a credit card till I was out of school and on my own...and by that point, it was apparently too late. I had to get a really crappy card with a low limit, high interest, and high yearly fee, keep it for a year, then get a real card. I basically had to pay for a credit rating -- if you don't have one, no one will give you a card except a clip joint like that one. I kicked myself for ignoring the "Hey! Sign up for a credit card!" tables outside the student store in college.
There are two kinds of non-certified techs: those who are too incompetent to pass a certification, and those who are too busy actually getting things accomplished to bother with piffle like that. The certified ones tend to be the rest: the mediocre.
Mr. Sarkis said Williams's campus bookstore made the high costs all too visible. "They really rubbed it in," he said. "If you were the highest spender of the day, they'd ring this little bell and say they had a new winner, and give you a lollipop. I got the lollipop twice."
...when you start engineering people's genes themselves. For instance: let's say you're hiring, but not supposed to discriminate against someone because they have or have not been genetically engineered. That leaves you judging on performance alone, right? But happens when someone who is genetically engineered to be perfect for the job you're hiring for comes along? Won't they automatically be better for the job anyway?
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She opened her sensitive slot??
Uh? Oh...never mind.
Zzzzz....
Has anyone done any simulations/calculations about what path Voyager 1 (and 2, and the Pioneers, and so on) will take in future centuries? What stars it will encounter first? There seems to be scant info about this on the JPL site...
1. Write really nasty virus ...you know...
2. Frame some chump for it
3. Claim bounty
4. ???
5.
1. Microsoft is evil, therefore the device will explode and kill you if it detects improperly copied material.
2. Another music player...so what?
3. Blue screen of death in audio form?
4. Don't mention Microsoft and Licensing in the same sentence.
Some possible entries:
- Created escalating series of weapons, including: stone axes, fire, spears, swords, bows and arrows, firearms, missiles, and thermonuclear bombs
- Carried out many bloody wars -- millions killed
- Able to invent catchy war cries
[Idea by: that one episode of the 1980s version of "The Twilight Zone"]My wife is from Vietnam, and regales me from time to time with the unfair practices of the government there. So SCO should fit right in.
Should read: "Moron Talking Shopping Carts"
Also: If you tiled them (with no extra space, or even with a one-cell margin between, probably), they'd cease to glide. Which brings up a great, though CPU-draining, and possibly annoying, possibility: a huge life-game running as your wallpaper.
...it causes my car to get a 'Net connection.
Don't like it? Don't do that business. Else do it somewhere far far away where you won't have to contain your gasses.
I grew up in a town surrounded by farming, dairy among it. Many days per year the whole town smelled of it. Step outside your house? Cow crap smell. Go to the park? Cow crap smell. Go shopping? Cow crap smell.
Not fun.
..."Lightly Sarcastic" division.
No one is saying they can't not eat something. They just want to. Anything wrong with that? If science can provide a way to do so with no (or less) negative side-effects, where's the harm?
Saying "never mind technological advances, concentrate on getting along with the way things are" results in stagnation. If it weren't for human vices such as laziness and gluttony, we'd still be walking from cave to cave every morning to assemble our spear-hunting parties for the day.
Why do you drive a car, or ride a bike, or take a train, or use a computer or a telephone? To avoid all the tedium of the alternatives -- a.k.a. laziness.
Why do you buy food at the grocery store instead of growing and/or hunting your own? To avoid all the hard labor and time consumption of farming and ranching -- a.k.a. laziness -- and because you'd never be able to make enough of the foods you like -- a.k.a. gluttony -- and because hunting can be dangerous -- a.k.a. cowardice.
Why do you seek a better job or business than the one you have? Because you want more money -- a.k.a. greed.
The list goes on. Human weaknesses drive human progress.
In other news, motherboards "often" include CPUs. Meaning sometimes they don't. GHOST CPU! OooOOOOooOOO!!
We've become so used to defending our rights to use anything having to do with music that we intinctively use the term "valid uses" at the first opportunity.
Damn you, RIAA!
Yeah, how could anyone object to that?
Quite the contrary, my friend. Putting everyone through checkpoints to do anything only ensures that everyone gets treated like a terrorist -- guilty till proven innocent by the wave of the magic metal-detector wand. Except, that is, for the actual terrorists, who will no doubt have cased the weaknesses in the system long ahead of time and will have few hurdles to cross -- plastic explosives, anyone?
No, far more effective to root out evil at its source than to attempt to filter it once it's floating freely in society.
Take it from me, I know.
I never had a credit card till I was out of school and on my own...and by that point, it was apparently too late. I had to get a really crappy card with a low limit, high interest, and high yearly fee, keep it for a year, then get a real card. I basically had to pay for a credit rating -- if you don't have one, no one will give you a card except a clip joint like that one. I kicked myself for ignoring the "Hey! Sign up for a credit card!" tables outside the student store in college.
"Malware", people. Covers a lotta crap.
There are two kinds of non-certified techs: those who are too incompetent to pass a certification, and those who are too busy actually getting things accomplished to bother with piffle like that. The certified ones tend to be the rest: the mediocre.
"SUCKER!"
Now that's balls.
And the Internet teams up with it again. "Leveling markets here there and everywhere! Let's ride, trusty chum!"
CSN[1] should use CSN[2] for their music.
[1] Cable Science Network.
[2] Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
..."swallowed the worm".
...when you start engineering people's genes themselves. For instance: let's say you're hiring, but not supposed to discriminate against someone because they have or have not been genetically engineered. That leaves you judging on performance alone, right? But happens when someone who is genetically engineered to be perfect for the job you're hiring for comes along? Won't they automatically be better for the job anyway?
What is non-discrimination in this case?