1. America's big long highways tend to have lots of bushes and trees along the side of the road for cops to hide in.
2. The roads tend to be very curvy in some places.
3. Some cops (around here anyway) drive civilioan-looking cars with lights hidden inside the passenger compartment, so you don't know its them till its too late.
I have a pysics teacher (also in WA) that drives as fast as he wants. Then when he goes to court for the speeding tickets he dazzles the judge with science and calculus until the ticket gets dropped.
This makes me think about why I think software patenting might be an ok thing. Let's say I'm a mechanical engineer and I develop a new machine for harvesting wheat, so long as my machine is original I can patent it. I never hear anybody complaining about those kinds of patents.
Then let's say I'm a programmer and I invent a new algorithm for sorting video files (or whatever). It seems to me that my new algorithm is really no different than a machine and should be patentable.
The age of the shuttle is irrelevent, just because its 24 years old doesn't mean it's unsafe. After all, Challenger was only something like 5 years old when it exploded. The reason the shuttle is unsafe is because everytime there's a problem (e.g. cracked o rings, defective foam or cracked fuel tanks somebody says "Oh that's not a big deal take off."
I love my Netflix subscription too but I think there's a difference between Netflix and Napster-like programs.
Netflix and Napster are both rental companies, but Netflix is obviously a rental company in that you have to send the disk back in order to get the next one. Napster, though, seems to be kind of slippery about thier rental-ness (sic). When they copmare themselves to iTunes it's as though they're saying they're a music store like iTunes.
And it's that kind of deviousness, rather than their buisness model, that turns me off.
They work great. You can fit a ridiculous amount of cds on a normal sized bookcase. It's easy to see the lables on the jewel cases. And scanning over a row of disks to find the one you want is way faster that flipping through a pile of binders.
I think the author was refering to data cds but regular shelves work better for music too. I hate specialized cd racks because double albums and cds with non-standard packaging won't fit in the stupid little slots.
Of course, the drawback is that bookcase is a full-fledged piece of furniture and therfore takes up a fair amount of room (but its probable better than filling your closet).
I meant people don't start being musicians or athletes for the money. I played sports in high school and of all the people on both track teams I was on only 1 ever talked about continuing past school ( and she didn't make it). Or kids that learn to play guitar or drums or something. They do it becasue its cool to play rock and roll. Only later, when they get to the point that they start to make money for those few that do do they begin to do it only for the money.
As idealistic as this sounds I don't think people get into music for the money. Think about how many bands you've seen playing clubs. Those guys don't make shit from thier music and a lot of them have to have day jobs to make a living.
So would we "say hello to less music"?
Maybe not, but if what you're saying is right, we might end up with less career musicians.
Although, if you look at some of those old bands that are still touring (aerosmith, the stones etc.) and are just rehashing thier old stuff over and over that might not be so bad.
Holy crap! You mean debris traveling at thousands of kilometers per hour is hazardous to a vehicle that's also taveling at thousands of kilometetrs an hour?
Seems to me this was already known and isn't a danger only to the shuttle but to anything in orbit.
I think it's something like yearly product lines in cars and fashion. Ford doesn't release one car at a time and Calvin Klien doesn't show the new suits this week and new jeans next week (well maybe they do but you get the idea. If you release a whole product line at one shot you can really make a spectacle.
e.g. Wow! Look at the new family of dual core AMD chips!!!!!!
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1. America's big long highways tend to have lots of bushes and trees along the side of the road for cops to hide in. 2. The roads tend to be very curvy in some places. 3. Some cops (around here anyway) drive civilioan-looking cars with lights hidden inside the passenger compartment, so you don't know its them till its too late.
I have a pysics teacher (also in WA) that drives as fast as he wants. Then when he goes to court for the speeding tickets he dazzles the judge with science and calculus until the ticket gets dropped.
Then let's say I'm a programmer and I invent a new algorithm for sorting video files (or whatever). It seems to me that my new algorithm is really no different than a machine and should be patentable.
Maybe the comment wasn't supposed to show off their fanboy-nes toward AMD but rather to tell the reader what options are available.
Fantastic, and here I was mere seconds away from aquiring some new music. Alas.
What a bleak dystopian future we live in.
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It doesn't matter. After time travel is invented you can go back and attend.
And just think, before today you never got to brag about working in a convenience store.
How many people trashed tis article over at osnews and are now over here trashing it again?
The age of the shuttle is irrelevent, just because its 24 years old doesn't mean it's unsafe. After all, Challenger was only something like 5 years old when it exploded. The reason the shuttle is unsafe is because everytime there's a problem (e.g. cracked o rings, defective foam or cracked fuel tanks somebody says "Oh that's not a big deal take off."
Nastier and more educational than goatse or tubgirl.
Netflix and Napster are both rental companies, but Netflix is obviously a rental company in that you have to send the disk back in order to get the next one. Napster, though, seems to be kind of slippery about thier rental-ness (sic). When they copmare themselves to iTunes it's as though they're saying they're a music store like iTunes.
And it's that kind of deviousness, rather than their buisness model, that turns me off.
I think the author was refering to data cds but regular shelves work better for music too. I hate specialized cd racks because double albums and cds with non-standard packaging won't fit in the stupid little slots.
Of course, the drawback is that bookcase is a full-fledged piece of furniture and therfore takes up a fair amount of room (but its probable better than filling your closet).
Fantastic. I thought I was forgeting something :-)
As to how thick it is, since it wasn't detected until we got "close" to it, it's probably quite a bit thinner than Titan's atmosphere.
Again,even though this is the field I'm in school for right now, I'm pulling all this out of my butt. So usue the usual grain of salt.
Maybe they'll keep releasing Longhorn piecemeal, then when somebody has all the parts downloaded they'll sue him for piracy?
I'm using one even as we speak.
That's what I've seen anyway.
Maybe not, but if what you're saying is right, we might end up with less career musicians.
Although, if you look at some of those old bands that are still touring (aerosmith, the stones etc.) and are just rehashing thier old stuff over and over that might not be so bad.
We're Washingtonians
I guess that's waht I get for trying to use html to early in the morning ;)
Holy crap! You mean debris traveling at thousands of kilometers per hour is hazardous to a vehicle that's also taveling at thousands of kilometetrs an hour? Seems to me this was already known and isn't a danger only to the shuttle but to anything in orbit.
e.g. Wow! Look at the new family of dual core AMD chips!!!!!!
Or something.
If you look closely you'l notice gerber tools (those ones anyway) are marked stainless.