they claim that adding 25Million people (really phones) to a do not call list it will cost 2 Million people will be out of a job. That's roughly one telemarketer for every 10 phones - if that were really true I'd be getting a call every hour at the moment
I've always wondered about Arkansas... is it really urKansas? or erKansas (as in "Toto I don't think we're in er Kansas anymore")? or irKansas (as in "gee it's 2 in the morning and I can still feel the glow from the ground")? or maybe just orKansas (as in "I could live here or Kansas, I can't tell the difference and people will make fun of me anyway")?
The desert is as harsh as any Austrailian Outback. Be sure to read the website about survival thoroughly.
I fly rockets at Blackrock, have been going there 3-4 times a year for
longer than BM has been going there (I also burn) - common sense counts for a lot, so does planning ahead - other than what you normally take for camping you need extra sunscreen, water and shade and you have to make sure your tent wont be blown away. (the following don't really apply to BM...) Don't go in the hot springs - some are so hot they will kill you (2 people died last year, not at the burn) and don't go off by yourself, make sure someone knows where you are if your car/truck breaks down or gets stuck, take a GPS.
Many of the events are dangerous. This is part of the excitement, but people get hurt every year.
well it does (or used to) say on the tickets words to the effect "death is not a sufficient reason for refund"... my main complaint is the wording banning rockets:-(
Be very aware of the sex, drugs and rock & roll nature of the event. 90% of the attendees are drunk or stoned half the time.
I think that this is totally overblown, certainly there's nudity, but not a lot actual sexual stuff - at least not out in the open - you have to go looking for it. I take my kids, and apart from occasionally having to distract them from something I don't want to explain, I don't think it's a big deal. While there's probably more use of recreational chemicals than on a normal city street most people are NOT wandering around high all the time
mostly what.... there's a lot of music (gotta bring ear plugs if you want to sleep at night....) there's a lot of art, fire, flame throwers, big sparky things, naked people, people dressed outrageously, dust, dirt, cars in fancy dress, opera, moments of wonder,.....
well you get the idea - it's lots of different things to different people - don;t forget you have to bring some art of your own to share.... remember the only thing you can buy there is ice - leave the $$ at home
Think of Timothy as being the sub for this article in/. he gets to right the article header - as such I contend he as much creative license as a sub in a normal newspaper
it's an article about a baseball park - "slugfest" is a totally appropriate term - there about 100 years of newspaper subeditors writing headlines with these sorts of punish content - why should electronic media be any different?
None of these people (set painters, stunt people etc etc) get residuals - they get paid a union wage - they don't get part of the DVD/VHS post big-screen revenue stream that could be damaged by file swapping - they ought to have some fat-cat studio moguls, some big producers, and some million dollar stars out there shilling for them "we'll only take home $5M next year if you swap movies"....
They're a Unix house and they publish their pricelist on an Excell spread sheet - no wonder the actual technology side of the company is in the toilet - guy - you're not selling things because you are speaking a different 'language' from your customers and they can't figure out how to buy stuff from you
I can't stand it (and I like most english humour - I find Coupling wonderful to watch and dread what NBC will do to it) - I suspect it's because "The Office" close enough to reality that it's kind of like I'm having teeth pulled.
the site has an invalid SSL cert - could be anyone - certainly not someone who has all the might of the US security apparatus behind it (said of course rather tounge in cheek)
for the virus/spyware/worm/... that infects Windows machines and patches the election program to vote for the candidate of the spyware author's choice. Remember the 2000 election 100,000 overseas votes could make the difference....
The excellent bpoint made by the original poster wasn't about the politics of the matter - it's simply that we shouldn't name things after living people, or even people who've just died, especially politicians. I think there are two great reasons for that - firstly there's the possibility of political graft - "do this for us and we'll name something important after you", and secondly time - things like ships, freeways, airports etc last - historical memory of people doesn't always last - better to wait 20 years and think back about who you really admired after the test of time has taken its toll and end up with things you and your children can be proud of.
I also think that foisting the name of any politician that (by definition) close to half the country/state/city didn't vote for and may have despised on to them and making them use it is mean spirited - every time I go through "Reagan National Airport" I cringe, and try and book flights into the other one - it's just so unseemly I try an boycott it.
uucp to Australia used to be done by uploading a spool dir somewhere in the US to a tape and airfraighting it to Oz, then doing the same at the other end. You'd post something to usenet and get a reply 2 weeks later
I think you're right in general - the main problems I've seen with all the non-amateur 'little guys' (think rotorroc etc etc) is that they think too big and are underfunded - it sort of goes like this - Company X has a great idea on paper, gets a little money builds a prototype (if they don't go overbudget), something goes wrong, they fold. Rinse, repeat.
The great thing about the 'amateurs' like Armadillo, JPA etc etc is that they take baby steps, and can afford to fail more than once, they're not betting the farm on one prototype
please step this way...... you appear to have inadvertantly slipped a ford explorer into your pocket.... I'm sure there's a simple explanation you can make in our nice jail here
Gold's claim isn't merely that solar sails won't work, but that radiation pressure in general is non-existent. This is patently false, since my undergrad physics book has an actual picture of a small sphere being levitated by a powerful laser. So where has he gone wrong?
Rank speculation follows - Gold argues (I think) that reflecting a photon reults in no momentum transfer (momentum is mV and if m is 0.... of course photons are these days are considered to have momentum in a non-classical manor) - however absorbing a photon presumably does result in a momentum transfer. The sphere may levitate.... but get hot... I guess he would argue that the same may be true of a solar sail in order for it to work (black ones might work better than mirrors)
at some point someone will realise that for the cost of bombing a 3rd world country (cruise missiles cost something in the order of 1/2 a million a piece, supersonic space launched glide bombs are NOT going to be cheaper) you can wage the sort of political-economic campaign in which every one wins (well to be fair - not everyone - you probably can't win a rah-rah election campaign in the US this way)
I have a brand new top-of-the-line Sony laptop - with a Radeon M7 - can't find a linux driver that does 3d (and works) for the life of me.
I think that the problem is that ATI (and others) focus too much on the 8xxx and 9xxx and forget that they're still selling a bunch of 7xxx derived chips that are also being used for Linux.
ATI of course would say that we should get our drivers from Sony - Sony's linux support is of course worth shit (yes we know you spent $3k with us go away)
we've flown similar rockets to 100k ft at Blackrock in the US - the Canadian rocket looks big and heavy to me - similar to this one that flew to a similar height on larger motors.
100k ft is REALLY hard to reach - motors are extremely expensive and the technology is not wonderfully reliable. Mind you the US govt just banned all our motors due to the 'Patriot' act. On the other hand flying a light weight rocket to 6k is easy, people do it all the time - on cardboard and plywood - 100k requires lightweight composite materials that can stand flying thru mach 3
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they claim that adding 25Million people (really phones) to a do not call list it will cost 2 Million people will be out of a job. That's roughly one telemarketer for every 10 phones - if that were really true I'd be getting a call every hour at the moment
doesn't that give MS an incentive to leave bugs in?
I've always wondered about Arkansas ... is it really urKansas? or erKansas (as in "Toto I don't think we're in er Kansas anymore")? or irKansas (as in "gee it's 2 in the morning and I can still feel the glow from the ground")? or maybe just orKansas (as in "I could live here or Kansas, I can't tell the difference and people will make fun of me anyway")?
Funny you should say that - Fools Ark at last year's burn ....
I fly rockets at Blackrock, have been going there 3-4 times a year for longer than BM has been going there (I also burn) - common sense counts for a lot, so does planning ahead - other than what you normally take for camping you need extra sunscreen, water and shade and you have to make sure your tent wont be blown away. (the following don't really apply to BM ...) Don't go in the hot springs - some are so hot they will kill you (2 people died last year, not at the burn) and don't go off by yourself, make sure someone knows where you are if your car/truck breaks down or gets stuck, take a GPS.
Many of the events are dangerous. This is part of the excitement, but people get hurt every year.
well it does (or used to) say on the tickets words to the effect "death is not a sufficient reason for refund" ... my main complaint is the wording banning rockets :-(
Be very aware of the sex, drugs and rock & roll nature of the event. 90% of the attendees are drunk or stoned half the time.
I think that this is totally overblown, certainly there's nudity, but not a lot actual sexual stuff - at least not out in the open - you have to go looking for it. I take my kids, and apart from occasionally having to distract them from something I don't want to explain, I don't think it's a big deal. While there's probably more use of recreational chemicals than on a normal city street most people are NOT wandering around high all the time
mostly what .... there's a lot of music (gotta bring ear plugs if you want to sleep at night ....) there's a lot of art, fire, flame throwers, big sparky things, naked people, people dressed outrageously, dust, dirt, cars in fancy dress, opera, moments of wonder, .....
This is a very un-geek way to explain - perhaps some pictures ..... some panoramas or from above or a rubber duck jazz club or a galleon (err bus) or a beached whale or art or fire or home mande roller coasters (is that geeky enough?) or wind or anime come to life or .....
well you get the idea - it's lots of different things to different people - don;t forget you have to bring some art of your own to share .... remember the only thing you can buy there is ice - leave the $$ at home
yes - I agree I go every year with a bunch of Aussies many of whom come over specially - but be prepared - don't just show up
Think of Timothy as being the sub for this article in /. he gets to right the article header - as such I contend he as much creative license as a sub in a normal newspaper
it's an article about a baseball park - "slugfest" is a totally appropriate term - there about 100 years of newspaper subeditors writing headlines with these sorts of punish content - why should electronic media be any different?
None of these people (set painters, stunt people etc etc) get residuals - they get paid a union wage - they don't get part of the DVD/VHS post big-screen revenue stream that could be damaged by file swapping - they ought to have some fat-cat studio moguls, some big producers, and some million dollar stars out there shilling for them "we'll only take home $5M next year if you swap movies" ....
They're a Unix house and they publish their pricelist on an Excell spread sheet - no wonder the actual technology side of the company is in the toilet - guy - you're not selling things because you are speaking a different 'language' from your customers and they can't figure out how to buy stuff from you
perhaps Mr Bush could finally find some weapons of mass destruction
I can't stand it (and I like most english humour - I find Coupling wonderful to watch and dread what NBC will do to it) - I suspect it's because "The Office" close enough to reality that it's kind of like I'm having teeth pulled.
the site has an invalid SSL cert - could be anyone - certainly not someone who has all the might of the US security apparatus behind it (said of course rather tounge in cheek)
for the virus/spyware/worm/... that infects Windows machines and patches the election program to vote for the candidate of the spyware author's choice. Remember the 2000 election 100,000 overseas votes could make the difference ....
hmmmm according to your link Regan has no legacy
"hey do whatever they do to get laid..."
I also think that foisting the name of any politician that (by definition) close to half the country/state/city didn't vote for and may have despised on to them and making them use it is mean spirited - every time I go through "Reagan National Airport" I cringe, and try and book flights into the other one - it's just so unseemly I try an boycott it.
Besides ships should have female names
uucp to Australia used to be done by uploading a spool dir somewhere in the US to a tape and airfraighting it to Oz, then doing the same at the other end. You'd post something to usenet and get a reply 2 weeks later
The great thing about the 'amateurs' like Armadillo, JPA etc etc is that they take baby steps, and can afford to fail more than once, they're not betting the farm on one prototype
please step this way ...... you appear to have inadvertantly slipped a ford explorer into your pocket .... I'm sure there's a simple explanation you can make in our nice jail here
Rank speculation follows - Gold argues (I think) that reflecting a photon reults in no momentum transfer (momentum is mV and if m is 0 .... of course photons are these days are considered to have momentum in a non-classical manor) - however absorbing a photon presumably does result in a momentum transfer. The sphere may levitate .... but get hot ... I guess he would argue that the same may be true of a solar sail in order for it to work (black ones might work better than mirrors)
at some point someone will realise that for the cost of bombing a 3rd world country (cruise missiles cost something in the order of 1/2 a million a piece, supersonic space launched glide bombs are NOT going to be cheaper) you can wage the sort of political-economic campaign in which every one wins (well to be fair - not everyone - you probably can't win a rah-rah election campaign in the US this way)
I think that the problem is that ATI (and others) focus too much on the 8xxx and 9xxx and forget that they're still selling a bunch of 7xxx derived chips that are also being used for Linux.
ATI of course would say that we should get our drivers from Sony - Sony's linux support is of course worth shit (yes we know you spent $3k with us go away)
100k ft is REALLY hard to reach - motors are extremely expensive and the technology is not wonderfully reliable. Mind you the US govt just banned all our motors due to the 'Patriot' act. On the other hand flying a light weight rocket to 6k is easy, people do it all the time - on cardboard and plywood - 100k requires lightweight composite materials that can stand flying thru mach 3