Unless you contracted a different version of the measles that you didn't get innoculated to. It is possible, especially if this guy is older. I was born in Israel and have been innoculated against three different types of measles which are explicitly spelled out on my medical charts. Maybe this guy was not innoculated to the one that he got?
There are many reasons to colonize other planets. Assuming we had the proper technology - to make a small city because frankly someone living in cramped, tight quarters millions of miles from earth will go insane so we need something big. We need to be able to have at least a couple thousand people live there.
The reason to go there:
Research
Resource collection
Improve transporting technology (i.e. in case Earth might get hit by an asteroid, lets get the hell out of here)
There are many benefits. In our current system VERY VERY expensive and so very hard to accomplish. But we should strive. I think it would be good to try a moon based colony. At least, then, if a problem happens, we are only a 12 day journey(i think thats about the time it takes to get to the moon). Mars, however, has better resources then the moon.
The new study suggests water may still bubble to the surface of Mars now and then, flow for a short stretch, then boil away in the thin, cold air.
Ok, if they said liquid hydrogen, or some other such substance I could understand. But why would water boil in cold air, even thin air? First I didn't know Mars had air. Second we have thin air - go to some of the highest peaks on our planet - water does not boil - in fact it should be frozen.
I am comfortable at the theatres i go to. I rarely get sticky feet, but this honestly does not bother me. And I, frankly, LOVE previews and get upset when I do not see them. They help show me movies that are coming out. Now on occasion they have commercials - it doesn't bother me, and sometimes it is funny (like the movietickets.com commercial where the family is acting like they are special ops...their child falls and the father says "leave him, leave him, go go go.") To each their own. These theatres have small profit margins and they need to do whatever they can to earn a buck. Some even offer their movie rooms for global conferences.
If it really bothers someone, they shouldn't go. Personally, the only thing that bothers me is the idiot with the cell phone, or being loud and stupid and I will say something to them- and generally that is enough.
Then again, I do avoid certain theatres because the crowd it attracts are more obnoxious then others (the UA on Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia is the worst). But the Loews theatre in Camden NJ, UA in KoP, and IMAX in AC are, imho, just fine.
The IMAX I am referring to is in Atlantic City (in the Tropicana). Unfortunately it is a bit far for someone to go to just for a movie, but if you want to hang out at the beach for a day and then see a movie.
I happend to have gotten a suite for my g/f and myself last weekend and she did not see Batman (it was my second viewing).
I totally agree, the movies are fine. I don't go that often, but there are many movies over the years that I would like to see - just hard to get people to go as most of my friends don't go to theatres when drinking at Loie's, or Devon, Denim, etc is available:)
I generally do not see movies in theatres unless it is great specifial effects movies (LoTR, Batman, comic book movies, star wars, etc.)
I think Wedding Crashers, Crash, and 40 year old virgin will be great movies to see.
Because as others have posted, and I am sure you realize, it's the point of going out. Well duh the economics don't make sense. It doesn't make sense for me to go to a $150/couple restaurant except for the fact it's going out to a really nice place. The movies are obviously not as nice as such a restaurant, but at $22/couple for tickets (at an IMAX), a large popcorn ($5), and two drinks ($8) it is not that bad of an experience. Really I never get popcorn/drinks at a movie...I am generally at dinner before then so am stuffed. Again, it's the point of 1) seeing it on a large screen, 2) getting out of the house and making an event of it, 3)not waiting to see the movie until it hits DvD.
Doesn't matter. It's still one more thing that encourages people to watch movies at home, because drinks/popcorn/etc are at least 50% cheaper at home, and you can buy any kind of food or popcorn you want.
Thats a poor reason. I can make myself a wonderful three course meal, have it be surf/turf, with shrimp appetizer, and tiramasu dessert and it will be about 75% cheaper then if I went to a good restaurant.
Obviously businesses are going to be more expensive. Going by your argument, why aren't you harvesting your own cotton and making your own clothes?
I think you will find they were talking about three continents, sounds like just want to enslave the world one boxset^Wperson at a time...
You will rue this day for exposing my plan, I was quietly trying to assimilate S. America into N. America. Damn you DAMN YOU!!!!!
Let us go back home Pinky, so we can plan for another day.
spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink
Ok I just went to see the Batman movie at a brand new IMAX theatre, so tickets are a bit higher priced (14/ticket). At the KoP IMAX the cost is 11 for the IMAX screen. Most theatres (i live in center city philly) are 9/ticket. These are non student costs.
So if you are spending 12/ticket, plus drink (5 bucks), plus popcorn (5 bucks) how is your cost coming to 30+? Yea the numbers i gave you are on the high end. Drinks at these theatres (UA) typically cost me around 3-4 for each product. I think you are exaggerating your price by a lot.
Also, nobody is forcing you to get drinks/popcorn/etc. The theatres need to charge higher prices for these because that is where they make their bread and butter.
And lets not forget, if you think the movie is going to suck - don't see it. There is no gaurantee that you will like the movie.
You may like your widescreen (lets assume you have a 52 inch plasma) but I prefer seeing Batman on a 50 foot screen. Little kids are easily dealt with.
1) I would not blame lack of theatre turnout due to piracy. Most people go to theatre for the big screen experience, to do it with friends or significatn others, etc.
Also, I was watching on the news (it was some media news blub) saying that DVD/CD piracy has increased by 30%, and most of those is friends to friends (not peer networks) --- but the movie/music industry has increased sales by 40%. I might have the numbers slightly off, but that's about right. This was last week, maybe the week before.
So while piracy increased, movie sales increased more. Plus even if the %'s were equal, i think that actual numbers are not...in essence if there were 1 million more pirates per year, i think there were 5 more million cd/dvd purchases per year.
Hitachi said it did not have concrete plans for launching the products in overseas markets, explaining that consumers in Europe and the United States were not as keen on high-end recorders.
WTF are they to say what two ENTIRE continents are interested in? Elitest bastards, no wonder they only have 3% market share - they apparantly have no clue what the largest market share really wants.
I had AOL for three months (highspeed was not yet available in the area).
When I went to cancel, they offered me six free months to stay. I said "fine, but I really won't use it." but the person was adamant. I guess I could have been tougher and just said cancel it. Six months later, they tried to offer me another six months. I told them I had ZERO activity for the past six months. Finally after a few minutes they agreed to cancel. My cousin has been using AOL for years and never paid them one red cent.
It's very easy actually. "i can't offer you as much money as Google does right now, but take a chance with me and you will get shares and when we are big how would you like to be the VP of "
And this is bad why? In an age where we are getting screwed left and right. Where people coming out of college with a CS degree (one of the harder degree's to get in college) who start at 18k-25k/year. Good --- where's my 25-50%?
And nothing gets put in this book (i probably spelled it wrong) unless it is verified by one of their reps. Since I really don't care for the guiness book of records, I would settle for an independent third-party verification.
If they did do this - way to go. Hopefully it is a stable signal and not a flaky one.
Because it is the proper thing to do. This guy went to the LA Times, registered and got the article. He then posted it on his site and then someone from/. who likes this guy's site got the information from him. It would be appropriate to go directly to his site, since his site helped bring the article to/.
Is it possible someone else submitted this story with a direct link to the LA times, sure, but this is the one that got posted.
This happens many times throughout history in printed and digital media. Go find a book (i.e. psychology) and they will reference a quote in another book which is a quote from another source. Again, it is proper to site the place that *YOU* found the information from - not to just ignore it.
While the hard drive is nothing special (really I could buy a 300 GB HD for real cheap) with the other stuff it comes with: Wireless controller, headset (something i probably don't use, but hey) would probably make it worth it. The ethernet cable kind of gave me a laugh, but I could see how the common masses would say "Hey thats cool". Especially since a decent ethernet cable costs around 10-15$....I make my cables (its fun knowing how to do that) so it costs me around 50 cents to make a good cat 5e cable....twist the ends and have it be a x-over cable:D
I believe MS is part of W3C, but then the US is part of the UN and we don't always do what the UN wants do we?
While browsers are not really sold anymore, with regards to MS there is a couple things to note: MS has programs that will ONLY work on IE (or at least work correctly). As such for them to make it open standards, or to switch these programs to open standards is a disadvantage.
They don't want you to be able to run Soloman on FireFox. Why? Not because they charge you for IE, but because they want you to utilize as many MS programs as possible and become as dependent on MS stuff as possible. Not to mention, in theory, the programs should work better together because they are from the same company.
This is not an uncommon tactic, and it's used in other industries. In banking you are taught that the best customers, those who are least likely to leave you, are those that have at least three products with you. So a checking account, savings account and mortgage. The more they have with you, the more likely they will not leave you. Convenience is the key. When I log into my banking account I see all of my accounts. If I had multiple banks, I would have to log into multiple accounts. If I want to make an extra payment into my Home Equity Loan, I just log into my banking account, and transfer the cash from checking to H.E. Loan. It is much simpler then writing a check (which I loathe to do) and it is extremely fast (almost instant).
Well considering the testing everyone boarding a space shuttle must currently do (bloodwork, cancer test, etc) you know you won't have to worry about STDs. I don't think they let you up there with a canker sore.
The amount of magnetic interference would screw with ship systems (i.e. computer equipment) to no end. The energy requirements would be astronomical. Who knows what the long-term physical effects would be. And then, it would only help the legs and parts of the body that help work the legs.
Or, you just fly the proposed space shuttle in pieces into orbit (four to six trips) and assemble it in space. Once in space, size will not make that much of a difference after you get the spaceship in motion...though stopping it will take more force (to counter the mass). Maybe nuclear fuel would be a good way to do it? Lasts a long time, and is powerful. Plus, if insulated correctly, poses little radiation risk to the human travellers.
Ok, presumably one mission means you go to space and stay there until the end. If the longest time (up until this point) was 438 days...how can the longest cumulative time spent in space be 375 days? Cumaltive implies that this guy went up into space a bunch of times. The cumulative would still have to be at LEAST 438 days.
I couldn't do it just because of the lack of sex! Good god. And with camera's, bio equipment and all - masturbating has got to be kind of awkward : People at mission control "Hmm, Comrade, what are you doing? Oh...."
When he comes back he is going to be SO weak (physically) as he tries to rebuild his muscloskeletal system. Imagine being in a coma for two years and the work you have to do- this is almost as bad (though worse in some ways).
Kudo's for him for being able to stay up there away from family, friends, significant others. Personally, I would be bringing my g/f up with me.
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Unless you contracted a different version of the measles that you didn't get innoculated to. It is possible, especially if this guy is older. I was born in Israel and have been innoculated against three different types of measles which are explicitly spelled out on my medical charts. Maybe this guy was not innoculated to the one that he got?
There are many reasons to colonize other planets. Assuming we had the proper technology - to make a small city because frankly someone living in cramped, tight quarters millions of miles from earth will go insane so we need something big. We need to be able to have at least a couple thousand people live there.
The reason to go there:
Research
Resource collection
Improve transporting technology (i.e. in case Earth might get hit by an asteroid, lets get the hell out of here)
There are many benefits. In our current system VERY VERY expensive and so very hard to accomplish. But we should strive. I think it would be good to try a moon based colony. At least, then, if a problem happens, we are only a 12 day journey(i think thats about the time it takes to get to the moon). Mars, however, has better resources then the moon.
The new study suggests water may still bubble to the surface of Mars now and then, flow for a short stretch, then boil away in the thin, cold air.
Ok, if they said liquid hydrogen, or some other such substance I could understand. But why would water boil in cold air, even thin air? First I didn't know Mars had air. Second we have thin air - go to some of the highest peaks on our planet - water does not boil - in fact it should be frozen.
So would someone explain?
I am comfortable at the theatres i go to. I rarely get sticky feet, but this honestly does not bother me. And I, frankly, LOVE previews and get upset when I do not see them. They help show me movies that are coming out. Now on occasion they have commercials - it doesn't bother me, and sometimes it is funny (like the movietickets.com commercial where the family is acting like they are special ops...their child falls and the father says "leave him, leave him, go go go.") To each their own. These theatres have small profit margins and they need to do whatever they can to earn a buck. Some even offer their movie rooms for global conferences.
If it really bothers someone, they shouldn't go. Personally, the only thing that bothers me is the idiot with the cell phone, or being loud and stupid and I will say something to them- and generally that is enough.
Then again, I do avoid certain theatres because the crowd it attracts are more obnoxious then others (the UA on Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia is the worst). But the Loews theatre in Camden NJ, UA in KoP, and IMAX in AC are, imho, just fine.
The IMAX I am referring to is in Atlantic City (in the Tropicana). Unfortunately it is a bit far for someone to go to just for a movie, but if you want to hang out at the beach for a day and then see a movie.
:)
I happend to have gotten a suite for my g/f and myself last weekend and she did not see Batman (it was my second viewing).
I totally agree, the movies are fine. I don't go that often, but there are many movies over the years that I would like to see - just hard to get people to go as most of my friends don't go to theatres when drinking at Loie's, or Devon, Denim, etc is available
I generally do not see movies in theatres unless it is great specifial effects movies (LoTR, Batman, comic book movies, star wars, etc.)
I think Wedding Crashers, Crash, and 40 year old virgin will be great movies to see.
WHY F*CKING BOTHER
Because as others have posted, and I am sure you realize, it's the point of going out. Well duh the economics don't make sense. It doesn't make sense for me to go to a $150/couple restaurant except for the fact it's going out to a really nice place. The movies are obviously not as nice as such a restaurant, but at $22/couple for tickets (at an IMAX), a large popcorn ($5), and two drinks ($8) it is not that bad of an experience. Really I never get popcorn/drinks at a movie...I am generally at dinner before then so am stuffed. Again, it's the point of 1) seeing it on a large screen, 2) getting out of the house and making an event of it, 3)not waiting to see the movie until it hits DvD.
Doesn't matter. It's still one more thing that encourages people to watch movies at home, because drinks/popcorn/etc are at least 50% cheaper at home, and you can buy any kind of food or popcorn you want.
Thats a poor reason. I can make myself a wonderful three course meal, have it be surf/turf, with shrimp appetizer, and tiramasu dessert and it will be about 75% cheaper then if I went to a good restaurant.
Obviously businesses are going to be more expensive. Going by your argument, why aren't you harvesting your own cotton and making your own clothes?
I think you will find they were talking about three continents, sounds like just want to enslave the world one boxset^Wperson at a time...
You will rue this day for exposing my plan, I was quietly trying to assimilate S. America into N. America. Damn you DAMN YOU!!!!!
Let us go back home Pinky, so we can plan for another day.
spend $30+ on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink
Ok I just went to see the Batman movie at a brand new IMAX theatre, so tickets are a bit higher priced (14/ticket). At the KoP IMAX the cost is 11 for the IMAX screen. Most theatres (i live in center city philly) are 9/ticket. These are non student costs.
So if you are spending 12/ticket, plus drink (5 bucks), plus popcorn (5 bucks) how is your cost coming to 30+? Yea the numbers i gave you are on the high end. Drinks at these theatres (UA) typically cost me around 3-4 for each product. I think you are exaggerating your price by a lot.
Also, nobody is forcing you to get drinks/popcorn/etc. The theatres need to charge higher prices for these because that is where they make their bread and butter.
And lets not forget, if you think the movie is going to suck - don't see it. There is no gaurantee that you will like the movie.
You may like your widescreen (lets assume you have a 52 inch plasma) but I prefer seeing Batman on a 50 foot screen. Little kids are easily dealt with.
1) I would not blame lack of theatre turnout due to piracy. Most people go to theatre for the big screen experience, to do it with friends or significatn others, etc.
Also, I was watching on the news (it was some media news blub) saying that DVD/CD piracy has increased by 30%, and most of those is friends to friends (not peer networks) --- but the movie/music industry has increased sales by 40%. I might have the numbers slightly off, but that's about right. This was last week, maybe the week before.
So while piracy increased, movie sales increased more. Plus even if the %'s were equal, i think that actual numbers are not...in essence if there were 1 million more pirates per year, i think there were 5 more million cd/dvd purchases per year.
Hitachi said it did not have concrete plans for launching the products in overseas markets, explaining that consumers in Europe and the United States were not as keen on high-end recorders.
WTF are they to say what two ENTIRE continents are interested in? Elitest bastards, no wonder they only have 3% market share - they apparantly have no clue what the largest market share really wants.
I had AOL for three months (highspeed was not yet available in the area).
When I went to cancel, they offered me six free months to stay. I said "fine, but I really won't use it." but the person was adamant. I guess I could have been tougher and just said cancel it. Six months later, they tried to offer me another six months. I told them I had ZERO activity for the past six months. Finally after a few minutes they agreed to cancel. My cousin has been using AOL for years and never paid them one red cent.
It's very easy actually. "i can't offer you as much money as Google does right now, but take a chance with me and you will get shares and when we are big how would you like to be the VP of "
Many people will take that chance.
caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries
And this is bad why? In an age where we are getting screwed left and right. Where people coming out of college with a CS degree (one of the harder degree's to get in college) who start at 18k-25k/year. Good --- where's my 25-50%?
They are called my feet...and they get me around a lot farther then a few centimeters.
And nothing gets put in this book (i probably spelled it wrong) unless it is verified by one of their reps. Since I really don't care for the guiness book of records, I would settle for an independent third-party verification.
If they did do this - way to go. Hopefully it is a stable signal and not a flaky one.
It ain't velvet!
Le chaim!
Because it is the proper thing to do. This guy went to the LA Times, registered and got the article. He then posted it on his site and then someone from /. who likes this guy's site got the information from him. It would be appropriate to go directly to his site, since his site helped bring the article to /.
Is it possible someone else submitted this story with a direct link to the LA times, sure, but this is the one that got posted.
This happens many times throughout history in printed and digital media. Go find a book (i.e. psychology) and they will reference a quote in another book which is a quote from another source. Again, it is proper to site the place that *YOU* found the information from - not to just ignore it.
While the hard drive is nothing special (really I could buy a 300 GB HD for real cheap) with the other stuff it comes with: Wireless controller, headset (something i probably don't use, but hey) would probably make it worth it. The ethernet cable kind of gave me a laugh, but I could see how the common masses would say "Hey thats cool". Especially since a decent ethernet cable costs around 10-15$....I make my cables (its fun knowing how to do that) so it costs me around 50 cents to make a good cat 5e cable....twist the ends and have it be a x-over cable :D
I believe MS is part of W3C, but then the US is part of the UN and we don't always do what the UN wants do we?
While browsers are not really sold anymore, with regards to MS there is a couple things to note: MS has programs that will ONLY work on IE (or at least work correctly). As such for them to make it open standards, or to switch these programs to open standards is a disadvantage.
They don't want you to be able to run Soloman on FireFox. Why? Not because they charge you for IE, but because they want you to utilize as many MS programs as possible and become as dependent on MS stuff as possible. Not to mention, in theory, the programs should work better together because they are from the same company.
This is not an uncommon tactic, and it's used in other industries. In banking you are taught that the best customers, those who are least likely to leave you, are those that have at least three products with you. So a checking account, savings account and mortgage. The more they have with you, the more likely they will not leave you. Convenience is the key. When I log into my banking account I see all of my accounts. If I had multiple banks, I would have to log into multiple accounts. If I want to make an extra payment into my Home Equity Loan, I just log into my banking account, and transfer the cash from checking to H.E. Loan. It is much simpler then writing a check (which I loathe to do) and it is extremely fast (almost instant).
Well considering the testing everyone boarding a space shuttle must currently do (bloodwork, cancer test, etc) you know you won't have to worry about STDs. I don't think they let you up there with a canker sore.
The amount of magnetic interference would screw with ship systems (i.e. computer equipment) to no end. The energy requirements would be astronomical. Who knows what the long-term physical effects would be. And then, it would only help the legs and parts of the body that help work the legs.
Or, you just fly the proposed space shuttle in pieces into orbit (four to six trips) and assemble it in space. Once in space, size will not make that much of a difference after you get the spaceship in motion...though stopping it will take more force (to counter the mass). Maybe nuclear fuel would be a good way to do it? Lasts a long time, and is powerful. Plus, if insulated correctly, poses little radiation risk to the human travellers.
Ok, presumably one mission means you go to space and stay there until the end. If the longest time (up until this point) was 438 days...how can the longest cumulative time spent in space be 375 days? Cumaltive implies that this guy went up into space a bunch of times. The cumulative would still have to be at LEAST 438 days.
I couldn't do it just because of the lack of sex! Good god. And with camera's, bio equipment and all - masturbating has got to be kind of awkward : People at mission control "Hmm, Comrade, what are you doing? Oh...."
When he comes back he is going to be SO weak (physically) as he tries to rebuild his muscloskeletal system. Imagine being in a coma for two years and the work you have to do- this is almost as bad (though worse in some ways).
Kudo's for him for being able to stay up there away from family, friends, significant others. Personally, I would be bringing my g/f up with me.