It's good that the corp pulled out, but who's to say that the school district won't just find someone else to do the job? Surely someone around would do it just for the publicity now that it's such a big story.
Morford is a pretty well-known (very) liberal columnist, as well as a MacHead. Hopefully people will judge this column on its own merits, not by its author's political views.
...if any/.'ers out there can think of a non-tinfoil-hat use for this? Not really a troll here, because I can't think of anything else really useful beyond the "cool" factor.
I don't want to post a commercial on here, so I'll put up a disclaimer: I don't live in the Boston area, and I don't like Harvard.
Be that as it may, though, Harvard has the best college radio station, and one the best radio stations at all, that I've ever heard. It's WHRB FM out of Cambridge, Mass. It (typically) plays decent classical music during the day, underground rock in the evening, and jazz at night, so there's something for everybody. There's a webstream at the link if y'all feel like listening.
...Not to mention the adult and business pros who chose Apple for being a superior computer company, and all the teenagers who chose Google because they use it every day (and it's free!)
Woudn't it make more sense (humanly and logically, not necessarily financially) to always have a backup shuttle ready? Sure as hell, there won't be a screwup so soon after restarting flights; NASA won't allow anything to get off the ground this early with any problems at all; it would look bad for PR. But later, like in a few years, they'll have slacked up, and something could go wrong. Hopefully, they'll have a backup flight ready to go if/when that happens.
The difference here is that you named all animals, all with at least some form of a brain to control their motion. A Venus Flytrap, being a plant, has by definition no brain. The one-megadollar question is how it "knows" when and how to move when there is no central impulse control to either snap its leaves shut or reset them afterward.
Most likely, it's both. Intel would be incredibly dumb to put out a new processor that wasn't 64-bit, considering where the market's heading. I think the VIIV is a clever piece of work, personally. (Although I'm more the G4/G5 type)
If we can whitelist sites, and reduce the total number of advertisments cluttering the search, the existing search algorithms would work quite nicely.
I agree, but why not just eliminate all ads from search results? As far as I'm concerned, they can put real ads all over the result page as long as the results themselves are legit.
I dunno...I'd still rather play Pong or Frogger than huge overdone games.
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One suspects that NASA decided to go solar because of the potential disaster to be had if there was a 'mishap' during launch and radioactive material went everywhere in the upper atmosphere. Public protest against putting nuclear fuel on top of a controlled bomb grew steadily over the years, to the point that, if I recall correctly, Cassini hardly got off the ground due to some people protesting it. Probably, there wouldn't be much of a problem, but better safe than sorry (especially when you're funded by taxpayers).
And I'll give the NASA geeks the benefit of the doubt that if there were a reliable and cost-effective wy of cleaning the solar panels, they would have implemented it long ago.
Looks to me like Apple's planning on buying the license to decode WMA in the somewhat near future, then giving iPod owners that ability in the form of a free or not-terribly-expensive downloadable patch. At least, that's what I would do.
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It's good that the corp pulled out, but who's to say that the school district won't just find someone else to do the job? Surely someone around would do it just for the publicity now that it's such a big story.
Morford is a pretty well-known (very) liberal columnist, as well as a MacHead. Hopefully people will judge this column on its own merits, not by its author's political views.
I wonder who the first Microsoft guy was that brought an iPod onto campus. That must've taken balls.
...if any /.'ers out there can think of a non-tinfoil-hat use for this? Not really a troll here, because I can't think of anything else really useful beyond the "cool" factor.
Sorry, but as a Buckeye, I on principle can't check it out. :)
"The first rule about USA PATRIOT ACT is you do not talk about USA PATRIOT ACT," if you will.
Be that as it may, though, Harvard has the best college radio station, and one the best radio stations at all, that I've ever heard. It's WHRB FM out of Cambridge, Mass. It (typically) plays decent classical music during the day, underground rock in the evening, and jazz at night, so there's something for everybody. There's a webstream at the link if y'all feel like listening.
...Not to mention the adult and business pros who chose Apple for being a superior computer company, and all the teenagers who chose Google because they use it every day (and it's free!)
No, but I sure as hell would if ~7 other people's lives were at risk on account of my being cheap.
Woudn't it make more sense (humanly and logically, not necessarily financially) to always have a backup shuttle ready? Sure as hell, there won't be a screwup so soon after restarting flights; NASA won't allow anything to get off the ground this early with any problems at all; it would look bad for PR. But later, like in a few years, they'll have slacked up, and something could go wrong. Hopefully, they'll have a backup flight ready to go if/when that happens.
The difference here is that you named all animals, all with at least some form of a brain to control their motion. A Venus Flytrap, being a plant, has by definition no brain. The one-megadollar question is how it "knows" when and how to move when there is no central impulse control to either snap its leaves shut or reset them afterward.
Most likely, it's both. Intel would be incredibly dumb to put out a new processor that wasn't 64-bit, considering where the market's heading. I think the VIIV is a clever piece of work, personally. (Although I'm more the G4/G5 type)
A truck be better than a Dell? It might.
Now I can build that petrified wood computer case I've always wanted!
I agree, but why not just eliminate all ads from search results? As far as I'm concerned, they can put real ads all over the result page as long as the results themselves are legit.
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying that anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
now we can totally fuck up ANOTHER planet. i think we should focus on cleaning this planet up before we decide to punt and basically make a new one.
I dunno...I'd still rather play Pong or Frogger than huge overdone games.
And I'll give the NASA geeks the benefit of the doubt that if there were a reliable and cost-effective wy of cleaning the solar panels, they would have implemented it long ago.
Looks to me like Apple's planning on buying the license to decode WMA in the somewhat near future, then giving iPod owners that ability in the form of a free or not-terribly-expensive downloadable patch. At least, that's what I would do.