The problem is NASA doesn't seem interested in cheaper access to space.
As a governmental agency, the last thing NASA should be interested in is directly competing with private industry. If cheaper spaceflight helps NASA's mandate, fine, but no federal agency should be involved in what is, essentially, a commercial venture.
The Sequoia electronic voting machines that some of the California precincts use can do this, but only after you've already cast your vote. Unfortunately, the ballots have so many items sometimes that you can't show all of the results in the same window without making type that so small that it's unreadable without a magnifying lens.
Tell you what. You try to teach a room full of people, half of which are actually there to learn something, a quarter of which are interested but seriously unprepared and the rest not only refuse to learn anything but are actively working to make sure that the rest of the class won't either.
Add to this restricted budgets which will force you to buy paper if you want your students to actually have something to write on.
Then throw in parents who only get interested little Johnny or Suzy's welfare when they bring home bad grades (and embarrasses the parents). And then only to act as chief apologist for their darling little angel child and say that you are a "bad teacher" when their idea of "getting involved" with their child's education was turning the TV to Sesame Street.
On top of all this, add a society that knows without shadow of doubt that just about anybody can do better than you, that you work too few hours and that you're paid too much.
Yes, there are bad teachers, and I've had some. But there are bad workers no matter where you go. The majority of teachers do the best that they can given the varying level of preparedness and interest in their students and the insane requirements that society places upon them. I know more than a few, and after hearing what they have to go through just to do their job, I have to wonder if one of requirements of any teacher that does it for more than a couple of years is a masochistic streak.
If you're talking about desktop Linux in the enterprise, the lack of vision is absolutely a handicap. Management really isn't interesting in hearing "It's free, just as long as someone is interested enough in supporting it" or "Well, it'll have whatever features that it eventually has, as long as someone is interested in developing it" or "It may work with our other systems, if we can hire enough people to do it." A lot of non-IT companies don't have huge development groups any more and really aren't interested in incurring the short- and long-term costs of building one.
As an individual user, I'm perfectly comfortable with a certain lack of direction. When you're trying to get the attention of the folks that will authorize enterprise-wide systems, lack of direction, either perceived or real, can be the difference between "hmmm, that sound's interesting - we should investigate this" and "No".
Whether they actually have tried to pay or not is irrelevant. Part of the suit's claim is that allofmp3 does not have the legal right to set royalty amounts.
But first McDonalds: McDonalds uses massive ad campaigns targeted at children, a group than any self-respecting state recognizes has an imperfect will: the kid wanting something is not a rational choice. And McDonalds purveys as food substances that fool the senses into thinking they're receiving something extremely nutritive, when in fact, they're getting the obesity and diabetes express. So they're targeting a group not entirely capable of reason with a product that fools the senses. And they're intentionally doing that.
Yes, its a horrible thing. The hordes four- and five-year-olds McDonalds has hypnotized. I've seen pictures of them, fives and tens clutched tightly in their tiny little hands, stumbling up to the counter in their jammies; ordering BigMacs and fries - just like they've seen on TV. The glassy stares. The trembling arms as they reach for the poisonous ooze. Oh, the humanity.
Is there nothing that can restrain them? Nothing that can stop them? Something like, say, parents to steer them down the righteous path? No, the government must be called in! Only the military can stop this heinous crime!
If we want to discuss "failures", isn't it fair to do a comparison? Anybody remember Bob? NetBIOS and its bastard offspring NetBEUI? Clippy? OS/2? DoubleSpace? DOS Shell? MicroChannel Architecture?
See how useless this game is? Both NetBIOS and AppleTalk were very useful - in their time. DOS Shell was an attempt at a user interface - something that DOS users only had through third-party applications. OS/2 was a failure only because Microsoft wanted it to be. If OS 1-9 were failures, so were analog telephones, black and white TVs, vinyl records and multitudes of other technologies that were eventually supplanted with better ones.
It's nice to see that someone has the same problem with the show that I do.
I'd love to be able to watch it, and, believe me, I've tried, but I can't handle the damned POV-of-someone-who's-stoned cinematography. You'd think with the budget that they have, they could afford a SteadyCam.
Um, tried that. Twice. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a dismal failure (for a whole bunch of very good reasons) and Sacagawea Dollar isn't doing a whole lot better, even though they fixed most of the problems that they had with the SBA Dollar. People still prefer paper money.
According to the Comcast rep I talked with, you can get Internet service without the cable box. It just costs you more than the normal $59. I didn't ask how much, 'cause I already have Comcast cable, but I figure it's about $5/mo for account fees, about $1/mo for the the little $2 splitter that they use and another $10/mo for the "we really don't want to do that but we have to and we're gonna make you pay for us to be flexible" fee.
If you like that, you ought to play with the Tiptronic gearboxes that come on some of the newer VW models. It's an automatic, but move the stick sideways and you can change gears without a clutch. It's not perfect - you have to go through the gears rather than directly to a gear - but it works smoothly. My Touareg has one and it's a bunch of fun.
Unfortunately, that's about the simplest thing on it - I'm still trying to figure out all of the settings on the climate control system, the lighting system and those two small unmarked buttons on the side of the steering wheel...
NAS is a nice solution, but that doesn't solve the problem of off-site storage.
I use NAS for my home business but still archive my work to DVD and send it to a relative to store. If my house burns to the ground or if someone breaks in and steals my equipment, I can still restore. If I had everything on NAS, it would be gone.
Rather than a Republican, who will say that it was their manifest destiny to get to the cheese first, designate cheese as a protected national resource and then kill anybody else that tries to take it.
The pushing is coming from certain segments of the US public that are looking upon the US government to restrict certain types of information because it's easier than taking responsibility for it themselves. The folks that want sites/content banned have gotten organized and gotten legislation introduced and the initiatives in Congress are just government doing what it's supposed to do - the people's business.
Don't like it? Don't just cry "censorship, censorship" or come up with yet another conspiracy theory as to why the government is trying to rule our lives (which, in itself, is unbelievable - it's far too disorganized for that). Get involved, get organized and get counter legislation introduced for consideration.
If I really want to share pictures I'll put them on a website or Flickr or something.
Great idea. Which means that I have to: (1) put them on Flickr, making them available to the entire planet - whether I want to or not or (2) put them on Flickr, make an account and then make everybody else deal with accounts and passwords or (3) create a web site to put them on and still have to deal with (1) or (2).
Yeah, you get in the way of all of us Michael Schumacher wannabe, lane-changing, bumper-following, cellphone-using, donut-eating, coffee-drinking, radio station-changing, makeup-applying, hair-combing, computer-using drivers who are *far* more aware of what's going around us than you are.
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As a governmental agency, the last thing NASA should be interested in is directly competing with private industry. If cheaper spaceflight helps NASA's mandate, fine, but no federal agency should be involved in what is, essentially, a commercial venture.
The Sequoia electronic voting machines that some of the California precincts use can do this, but only after you've already cast your vote. Unfortunately, the ballots have so many items sometimes that you can't show all of the results in the same window without making type that so small that it's unreadable without a magnifying lens.
Add to this restricted budgets which will force you to buy paper if you want your students to actually have something to write on.
Then throw in parents who only get interested little Johnny or Suzy's welfare when they bring home bad grades (and embarrasses the parents). And then only to act as chief apologist for their darling little angel child and say that you are a "bad teacher" when their idea of "getting involved" with their child's education was turning the TV to Sesame Street.
On top of all this, add a society that knows without shadow of doubt that just about anybody can do better than you, that you work too few hours and that you're paid too much.
Yes, there are bad teachers, and I've had some. But there are bad workers no matter where you go. The majority of teachers do the best that they can given the varying level of preparedness and interest in their students and the insane requirements that society places upon them. I know more than a few, and after hearing what they have to go through just to do their job, I have to wonder if one of requirements of any teacher that does it for more than a couple of years is a masochistic streak.
If you're talking about desktop Linux in the enterprise, the lack of vision is absolutely a handicap. Management really isn't interesting in hearing "It's free, just as long as someone is interested enough in supporting it" or "Well, it'll have whatever features that it eventually has, as long as someone is interested in developing it" or "It may work with our other systems, if we can hire enough people to do it." A lot of non-IT companies don't have huge development groups any more and really aren't interested in incurring the short- and long-term costs of building one.
As an individual user, I'm perfectly comfortable with a certain lack of direction. When you're trying to get the attention of the folks that will authorize enterprise-wide systems, lack of direction, either perceived or real, can be the difference between "hmmm, that sound's interesting - we should investigate this" and "No".
I'd rather the make the offending caller use a Cone of Silence
Whether they actually have tried to pay or not is irrelevant. Part of the suit's claim is that allofmp3 does not have the legal right to set royalty amounts.
Yes, its a horrible thing. The hordes four- and five-year-olds McDonalds has hypnotized. I've seen pictures of them, fives and tens clutched tightly in their tiny little hands, stumbling up to the counter in their jammies; ordering BigMacs and fries - just like they've seen on TV. The glassy stares. The trembling arms as they reach for the poisonous ooze. Oh, the humanity.
Is there nothing that can restrain them? Nothing that can stop them? Something like, say, parents to steer them down the righteous path? No, the government must be called in! Only the military can stop this heinous crime!
It works better if you nail it down. Or so I've been told...
See how useless this game is? Both NetBIOS and AppleTalk were very useful - in their time. DOS Shell was an attempt at a user interface - something that DOS users only had through third-party applications. OS/2 was a failure only because Microsoft wanted it to be. If OS 1-9 were failures, so were analog telephones, black and white TVs, vinyl records and multitudes of other technologies that were eventually supplanted with better ones.
Clippy and Bob? Well, those really were failures.
I'd love to be able to watch it, and, believe me, I've tried, but I can't handle the damned POV-of-someone-who's-stoned cinematography. You'd think with the budget that they have, they could afford a SteadyCam.
Um, tried that. Twice. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was a dismal failure (for a whole bunch of very good reasons) and Sacagawea Dollar isn't doing a whole lot better, even though they fixed most of the problems that they had with the SBA Dollar. People still prefer paper money.
That may be so, and Shakespeare's works also played well to the masses. Does that make them any less important?
According to the Comcast rep I talked with, you can get Internet service without the cable box. It just costs you more than the normal $59. I didn't ask how much, 'cause I already have Comcast cable, but I figure it's about $5/mo for account fees, about $1/mo for the the little $2 splitter that they use and another $10/mo for the "we really don't want to do that but we have to and we're gonna make you pay for us to be flexible" fee.
Yeah, I know, but I've balanced bad "He's got a SUV" karma with good "cool, he has a race car" karma...
Maybe I better have my memory checked. I definitely remember seeing the words "In Color" in glorious monochrome on our B&W TV set when I was a kid...
Unfortunately, that's about the simplest thing on it - I'm still trying to figure out all of the settings on the climate control system, the lighting system and those two small unmarked buttons on the side of the steering wheel...
A holier-than-thou attitude? At slashdot? Heaven forfend.
I use NAS for my home business but still archive my work to DVD and send it to a relative to store. If my house burns to the ground or if someone breaks in and steals my equipment, I can still restore. If I had everything on NAS, it would be gone.
Rather than a Republican, who will say that it was their manifest destiny to get to the cheese first, designate cheese as a protected national resource and then kill anybody else that tries to take it.
Peloton
Ever hear of "Publish or Perish"?
I agree. There should be an icon for a "cool idea". Like a lightbulb with icicles on it (or something).
The pushing is coming from certain segments of the US public that are looking upon the US government to restrict certain types of information because it's easier than taking responsibility for it themselves. The folks that want sites/content banned have gotten organized and gotten legislation introduced and the initiatives in Congress are just government doing what it's supposed to do - the people's business.
Don't like it? Don't just cry "censorship, censorship" or come up with yet another conspiracy theory as to why the government is trying to rule our lives (which, in itself, is unbelievable - it's far too disorganized for that). Get involved, get organized and get counter legislation introduced for consideration.
Great idea. Which means that I have to: (1) put them on Flickr, making them available to the entire planet - whether I want to or not or (2) put them on Flickr, make an account and then make everybody else deal with accounts and passwords or (3) create a web site to put them on and still have to deal with (1) or (2).
I think I'll just use snail mail.
Yeah, you get in the way of all of us Michael Schumacher wannabe, lane-changing, bumper-following, cellphone-using, donut-eating, coffee-drinking, radio station-changing, makeup-applying, hair-combing, computer-using drivers who are *far* more aware of what's going around us than you are.