Also, a good way to support the small artists is to pay attention to the local scene. Sure a lot of it is crap, (the same with the big-name clear channel bands, by the way) but a lot of these guys are really good. Listen to your local college radio (or go to www.wruw.org and listen to mine) and keep abreast of local bands and local concerts. Go to a hole in the wall bar and listen to whoever is playing there, what could it hurt? Some artists, such as Dar Williams, and Ruth Gerson, got their start in "living room gigs." Average people arrange a concert in their homes for artists they believe in. Something like $10 or $20 donation at the door, and give the procedes to the performer. Be a Patron, not just a "consumer." Thanks. And listen to WRUW FM 91.1 (I am not affiliated with them, but I do donate $n annually where n is in the set of whole numbers.)
I think the 2nd and 3rd stages should be hydrogen. Somehow I doubt hydrogen would be very dangerous at 1-2 millibars. And I don't think it would be easy to ignite with the partial pressure of oxygen even lower than 0.2 millibar at that altitude. What altitude? I don't know, I'm just pulling numbers out of the air:)
I think this is cool, though. And if their timeline isn't overly optimistic, cheap space travel in 7-10 years sounds better than a big maybe on developing technology to make 300 mile carbon fiber ribbons in that same time frame.
It only witty at the surface.
ob. Simpsons quote: "It's funny because it's true" --Fat Tony
As a Libertarian I'm well aware of the need for the S.A. and it's intent to guarantee citizens a last recourse when government goes wrong. I must stress _last_ resort because I fear the outcome of any revolution will result in a government worse that what was intended in 1783. Think of the UN stepping in to stabilize our region, or worse, banana republic or warlord style feudalism.
Thankfully, until Diebold gets its electronic voting machines in a majority of districts, I believe we can still "throw the rascals out" via democratic institutions. Too bad Libertarians get only 1-3% of the vote, if any.
You can get a lawyer, but the PATRIOT act allows the feds to monitor all your conversations with your lawyer, and charge your lawyer as a conspirator. If they can spin a criminal investigation as a terrorist investigation, they play by a whole different set of rules: sealed charges, secret detentions, secret courts. I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
Personal anecdote here: way back when I was in high school, the PTA scraped together some money to buy a dozen Apple II computers for an after school computer club. The following year they were incorporated into a computer lab, and a course was offered as an elective for us nerdy kids, but computing wasn't part of the general curriculum.
Anyway, for my final project in that course, I wrote a program that could take a term paper draft and size requirements as input, and then it would produce an expanded draft to meet those requirements by fiddling with margins, word and line spacing, and finally by inserting nonsense phrases if necessary.
I submitted the source code, a sample input (3 1/2 pages) and the output, a 5 page English paper (which had been graded "A")
The teacher gave me an "F" on principle, or maybe because I didn't properly comment the code.
I even used that program to expand this one-line post.
What you described (spontaneous reving) sounds like oil blow-by runaway. I'm not familiar with the Olds diesel, but oil blow-by runaway can be caused by oil leaking through the turbo seals, spewing out of the crankcase ventilator, or leaking past the valves. With sufficient oil in the cylinders, the oil is burned as fuel in addition to the diesel fuel (or instead of it if you shut off the fuel flow) I think the engine was trashed, and you were right to get rid of it.
Cheapo digital answering machines have a minimum of buttons, and play back loop. The old tape answering machines are even cheaper. Asset: cheap and easy to configure for your task. Drawback: this solution really does look cheap.
On the third hand (you do have three hands don't you?)
Off topic, but still: Larry Niven's book "The Gripping Hand" (sequel to his book "The Mote in God's Eye") the aliens had 3 hands--2 regular hands and a "gripping hand." When the idiom "on the one hand... on the other hand... on the gripping hand..." entered the popular lexicon, the authorities realized that they had not contained the aliens within their own solar system as well as they thought. I really enjoyed that book, though I thought it had a major structural flaw (Niven abandoned major characters half way through the book and replaced them with other major characters for the second half. It was just disruptive to the flow of the book, I thought.)
I also could play GTA and tomb raider, even Quake, but Quake II and Quake III, and games based on those engines, like Call of Duty, give me motion sickness. I don't know why.
Yes. Only instead of cheap external hard drives, give the kids CD-R's with the textbooks on them, refurbished PC's for home if they need one, and let them do their homework on paper. A lost CD-R is 10 cents.
The text book publishers may not like that idea, but maybe they can change their copyright policy from a $60 per textbook model to a $60 per student license, and let the schools replace the CD-Rs as needed. Use the money for the laptops to build a decent computer lab for the students instead.
Yes. In fact, burn the zips of all your favorite programs to a CD. If you have to reinstall, use your zip CD to customize it and secure it _before_ you plug into the 'net. As another post mentioned, you can even download the patches and integrate them with your windows install disk, or you can just put the major roll-up patches on your zip CD if you have a crappy "system restore" CD. Another poster mentioned using ghost, and making a backup CD--an excellent idea. But still another mentioned swapping mobos, which would make the ghost backup and the restore disk useless. But at 10 cents/CD-R, why not make a ghost archive _and_ a zip CD with all the important stuff?
Oh, and figure out why it is one has to reinstall every month, and fix the problem. I installed win2K once, about 2 years ago.
Parents still eat that shit up.
Beavis and Butthead inspire pyromania, Grand Theft Auto and FPS of all types inspire violence and antisocial behavior, and rap music turns kids into cop killers. It would help parents today to remember that they heard all the lies before when they were kids. Most of them turned out alright in spite of the "danger."
Mod parent funny or mod troll, that is not the article text. "the ability to listen to menudo while skydiving naked" should tip you off. It is mostly correct, though. Thank you
I ordered an ipod mini a month or two ago. They said it would be 2 weeks, but after 2 weeks they said it would be another 2 weeks, and gave me the opportunity to buy the 15 GB ipod ($50 more usually) for the price of the mini instead. I had just read about the ipod mini headphone problem, so I agreed. It arrived in 2 days.
SCO did just name a new financial officer, and the market may also be anticipating more change in leadership following Baystar's request. Darl says he won't quit though. But he's been talking out of his ass for a while now.
IANA stock analyst. The only bath I ever took was in the market.
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Also, a good way to support the small artists is to pay attention to the local scene. Sure a lot of it is crap, (the same with the big-name clear channel bands, by the way) but a lot of these guys are really good. Listen to your local college radio (or go to www.wruw.org and listen to mine) and keep abreast of local bands and local concerts. Go to a hole in the wall bar and listen to whoever is playing there, what could it hurt?
Some artists, such as Dar Williams, and Ruth Gerson, got their start in "living room gigs." Average people arrange a concert in their homes for artists they believe in. Something like $10 or $20 donation at the door, and give the procedes to the performer. Be a Patron, not just a "consumer."
Thanks. And listen to WRUW FM 91.1 (I am not affiliated with them, but I do donate $n annually where n is in the set of whole numbers.)
I think the 2nd and 3rd stages should be hydrogen. Somehow I doubt hydrogen would be very dangerous at 1-2 millibars. And I don't think it would be easy to ignite with the partial pressure of oxygen even lower than 0.2 millibar at that altitude. What altitude? I don't know, I'm just pulling numbers out of the air :)
I think this is cool, though. And if their timeline isn't overly optimistic, cheap space travel in 7-10 years sounds better than a big maybe on developing technology to make 300 mile carbon fiber ribbons in that same time frame.
Photoshop this Toyota PM. Difficulty: no baby strollers.
indeed. And the image produced will probably look like a diorama with paper cutouts a sixth grader might make.
mirror, in case of slashdotting
What I really don't understand is why it would be necessary or smart to brand such a product as Windows at all
They could call it ".NET Cluster" and cash in on the ".NET Server" brand recognition.
Oh, wait... I guess they would have to call it "Cluster 2003"
No argument from me about the women. We had to import girls from Erie college or Notre Dame (in Cleveland) to get a decent showing at parties.
And yet, he's at my alma mater.
neener neener neener!
It only witty at the surface.
ob. Simpsons quote: "It's funny because it's true" --Fat Tony
As a Libertarian I'm well aware of the need for the S.A. and it's intent to guarantee citizens a last recourse when government goes wrong. I must stress _last_ resort because I fear the outcome of any revolution will result in a government worse that what was intended in 1783.
Think of the UN stepping in to stabilize our region, or worse, banana republic or warlord style feudalism.
Thankfully, until Diebold gets its electronic voting machines in a majority of districts, I believe we can still "throw the rascals out" via democratic institutions. Too bad Libertarians get only 1-3% of the vote, if any.
You can get a lawyer, but the PATRIOT act allows the feds to monitor all your conversations with your lawyer, and charge your lawyer as a conspirator. If they can spin a criminal investigation as a terrorist investigation, they play by a whole different set of rules: sealed charges, secret detentions, secret courts.
I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
The National Rifle Association does.
I'm just curious; how'd you manage to get all these different jobs?
He's always been one step ahead of InterPol.
Personal anecdote here: way back when I was in high school, the PTA scraped together some money to buy a dozen Apple II computers for an after school computer club. The following year they were incorporated into a computer lab, and a course was offered as an elective for us nerdy kids, but computing wasn't part of the general curriculum.
Anyway, for my final project in that course, I wrote a program that could take a term paper draft and size requirements as input, and then it would produce an expanded draft to meet those requirements by fiddling with margins, word and line spacing, and finally by inserting nonsense phrases if necessary.
I submitted the source code, a sample input (3 1/2 pages) and the output, a 5 page English paper (which had been graded "A")
The teacher gave me an "F" on principle, or maybe because I didn't properly comment the code.
I even used that program to expand this one-line post.
What you described (spontaneous reving) sounds like oil blow-by runaway. I'm not familiar with the Olds diesel, but oil blow-by runaway can be caused by oil leaking through the turbo seals, spewing out of the crankcase ventilator, or leaking past the valves. With sufficient oil in the cylinders, the oil is burned as fuel in addition to the diesel fuel (or instead of it if you shut off the fuel flow) I think the engine was trashed, and you were right to get rid of it.
Cheapo digital answering machines have a minimum of buttons, and play back loop. The old tape answering machines are even cheaper. Asset: cheap and easy to configure for your task. Drawback: this solution really does look cheap.
On the third hand (you do have three hands don't you?)
Off topic, but still: Larry Niven's book "The Gripping Hand" (sequel to his book "The Mote in God's Eye") the aliens had 3 hands--2 regular hands and a "gripping hand."
When the idiom "on the one hand... on the other hand... on the gripping hand..." entered the popular lexicon, the authorities realized that they had not contained the aliens within their own solar system as well as they thought.
I really enjoyed that book, though I thought it had a major structural flaw (Niven abandoned major characters half way through the book and replaced them with other major characters for the second half. It was just disruptive to the flow of the book, I thought.)
I would however blame the US patent system for allowing jarheads to patent trivial things
They let anyone patent trivial things, not just Marines. Back off, swabbie!
I also could play GTA and tomb raider, even Quake, but Quake II and Quake III, and games based on those engines, like Call of Duty, give me motion sickness. I don't know why.
Yes. Only instead of cheap external hard drives, give the kids CD-R's with the textbooks on them, refurbished PC's for home if they need one, and let them do their homework on paper. A lost CD-R is 10 cents.
The text book publishers may not like that idea, but maybe they can change their copyright policy from a $60 per textbook model to a $60 per student license, and let the schools replace the CD-Rs as needed.
Use the money for the laptops to build a decent computer lab for the students instead.
Yes. In fact, burn the zips of all your favorite programs to a CD. If you have to reinstall, use your zip CD to customize it and secure it _before_ you plug into the 'net.
As another post mentioned, you can even download the patches and integrate them with your windows install disk, or you can just put the major roll-up patches on your zip CD if you have a crappy "system restore" CD.
Another poster mentioned using ghost, and making a backup CD--an excellent idea. But still another mentioned swapping mobos, which would make the ghost backup and the restore disk useless.
But at 10 cents/CD-R, why not make a ghost archive _and_ a zip CD with all the important stuff?
Oh, and figure out why it is one has to reinstall every month, and fix the problem. I installed win2K once, about 2 years ago.
Parents still eat that shit up.
Beavis and Butthead inspire pyromania, Grand Theft Auto and FPS of all types inspire violence and antisocial behavior, and rap music turns kids into cop killers.
It would help parents today to remember that they heard all the lies before when they were kids. Most of them turned out alright in spite of the "danger."
The legality of that scenario depends on what Microsoft tells the DOJ the legality is.
Mod parent funny or mod troll, that is not the article text. "the ability to listen to menudo while skydiving naked" should tip you off. It is mostly correct, though. Thank you
I ordered an ipod mini a month or two ago. They said it would be 2 weeks, but after 2 weeks they said it would be another 2 weeks, and gave me the opportunity to buy the 15 GB ipod ($50 more usually) for the price of the mini instead. I had just read about the ipod mini headphone problem, so I agreed. It arrived in 2 days.
SCO did just name a new financial officer, and the market may also be anticipating more change in leadership following Baystar's request. Darl says he won't quit though. But he's been talking out of his ass for a while now.
IANA stock analyst. The only bath I ever took was in the market.