That might work up until the time that one heavily armed ship decides to take over the rest of the happy Libertine paradise. To be sure, every downtrodden group of disaffected college students has the money to pick up the old 1000 foot oil tanker sitting in Uncle Joe's backyard and get it running again.
Oh, free bandwidth? The nice folks running the satellites might feel somewhat put out about that detail.
Of course, those concepts are perfectly cold steel rational compared to your other idea of just 'creating a volcano'. Do you ever go outside?
Just think of the possibilities of a major radioactive oil leak happening in the Arctic Ocean in the midst of Polar Bears, Whales and Walruses. Should be good for one or two mutant monsters, a superhero and a whole generation of Micheal Bay movies.
Right. Next thing you'll want Verizon to quit shoveling crapware on their phones, allow tethering without extra costs, not charge for texting and bring back unlimited use contracts.
You do realize that a Porsche 911 is virtually invisible to the Real Alaskan in the pickup truck. Your little effete toy likely didn't even begin to register as a vehicle. He probably thought is was just a piece of plastic that blew out of someone's front yard and he was doing everyone a favor by keeping it from blowing around even further.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. drove with his knees while wiping mud off his Windshield.
And he won the race! Or something.
You do realize that NASCAR racing is statistically and functionally safer than driving on public roads? He is (actually was) in a group of professional drivers on a race track as opposed to a set of twisty narrow passages and intersections populated by the portion of the population that fits in the leftmost part of the intelligence curve.
In the immortal words of Frank Zappa (talking to the Devil): "I'll prove to you that I'm bad enough to go to hell, because I've been through it! I have seen it! It has happened to me! Remember, I was signed with Warner Brothers for eight f**king years!!!"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
This is a totally off-topic meta-post, but I'm tagging on a top comment anyway...
Is it just my browser, or is the./ layout radically different all of a sudden? I seem to have lost the sidebars and slashboxes on the front page and the comments are spanning the width of the screen instead of the normal layout. I haven't changed anything myself far as I can tell.
As per the subject line above, if you're into action instead of talking, you simply fork.
Note, Mozilla is really "weird" about trademarked names, so you'll have to call it iceweasel like Debian did, or maybe call it Animats-2011-fox or something.
Here's a better idea. Get a cheap airline ticket to New York City. Go to B&H Photo / Video, wander around the acre of backpacks and such and find the one that works best for you.
Then slowly back away from everything else, otherwise you may find yourself needing 2 backpacks and a Pelican case.
Really, it's such a personal decision and there are so many choices. NYC is really nice this time of year....
(Personally, I use a LowePro DryZone 200 (It's completely waterproof) and ditch the Lapzilla for a 13 inch MacBook which works fine for tagging, organizing, storage and other road trip type things. Should be able to pick up one of them for a song these days).
I still buy a phone as a phone. I refuse to pay exhorbitant rates for cell data plans. If and when they bring data plans down to something reasonable, say $5.00 a month for unlimited data (this includes tethering, texting, internet browsing, downloading, etc) then I might jump on. Until then, it's ho-hum phone as a phone for me.
Most of us would agree >80% == Monopoly, so stick your head in the sand if you'd like..
Who is this 'us' that you are referring to? Antitrust is a specific legal formulation with it's own definitions and limitations. Just because the word you so happily bandy around sounds exactly like the word in the statute it means very little unless you apply it the way the law does. And you are most certainly not, as about a dozen other posters have pointed out.
Read up on Antitrust law and come back to us when you're so enlightened. That word really doesn't mean what you think it means.
And too lazy to read blogs about blogs about blogs... Are these fake Apple stores that sell fake Apple products, or stores that sell regular Apple gear and just don't want to pay up for the logo rights and maintain the price policies of Apple?
And I'm guessing that they're just paying lip service to Apple, copyrights, patents and the like. And as soon as the store owners start paying the right people, it will be business as usual (again).
Please tell me they have a way of getting dust off the solar panels. Every time I read about dust buildup on Spirit and Opportunity's solar panels causing problems all I could think of was why didn't they install some type of simple vibration mechanism or air jet or any number of possible solutions.
Please tell me you have at least looked at the picture of the lander and realized it doesn't have any solar panels. Oh, wait, slap me. It's Slashdot....
No they could not. The MER (Mars Exploration Rover - Opportunity and Spirit) system can't land heavy payloads in a narrowly defined landing zone. Using that system, you get a landing ellipse of about 100 km2 area restricted to a band about 40 degrees above and below the equator (IIRC). For many, many interesting targets, that isn't good enough. You are also constrained to payloads about the same size as the baby rovers.
Yes, you can argue that the next step should be dozens of MER craft landed in many different zones. That is certainly a valid argument and one that has been made. However, according to the nice rocket scientists that have studied this for years (as opposed to us armchair astronauts who study things for 10 minutes max), it was felt that more significant research needed heavier payloads delivered with better accuracy.
I think there should be enough money in NASA's budget to fund both concepts (and Venus landers and Titan blimps and on and on) but I'm just a taxpayer.
Yes. There is a nice explanation at the Curiosity site (I think) that goes through the various thought processes but basically, IIRC
- The payload AND landing zone requirements made the rubber ball bouncing technique not viable - The unload off a ramp technique that the current rovers use doesn't scale well and has the major problem of failure if it lands on anything other than reasonably flat terrain. This limited the science and the landing site too much. - The retrorocket system has been used by Viking and the current rovers - The skycrane approach has a number of major advantages in terms of terrain avoidance, design of the rover, and size of payload at the expense of complexity.
The teams apparently felt that the risks were worth the benefits. Basically, they felt that unless the technology was pushed forward, the science packages would be too limited.
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That might work up until the time that one heavily armed ship decides to take over the rest of the happy Libertine paradise.
To be sure, every downtrodden group of disaffected college students has the money to pick up the old 1000 foot oil tanker sitting in Uncle Joe's backyard and get it running again.
Oh, free bandwidth? The nice folks running the satellites might feel somewhat put out about that detail.
Of course, those concepts are perfectly cold steel rational compared to your other idea of just 'creating a volcano'. Do you ever go outside?
Just think of the possibilities of a major radioactive oil leak happening in the Arctic Ocean in the midst of Polar Bears, Whales and Walruses. Should be good for one or two mutant monsters, a superhero and a whole generation of Micheal Bay movies.
Right. Next thing you'll want Verizon to quit shoveling crapware on their phones, allow tethering without extra costs, not charge for texting and bring back unlimited use contracts.
Why do you hate America?
Why not just link to Cyanogen's home page?
Amazing. You guys did both. We're proud of you!
Some asshole ruined Brokeback Mountain for me. I had no idea the cowyboy gets it in the end.
So your saying he queered it for you?
You do realize that a Porsche 911 is virtually invisible to the Real Alaskan in the pickup truck. Your little effete toy likely didn't even begin to register as a vehicle. He probably thought is was just a piece of plastic that blew out of someone's front yard and he was doing everyone a favor by keeping it from blowing around even further.
I don't know what your perspective is here, but driving tests in the UK are significantly harder to pass than in the USA.
Well they have to be. You all drive on the wrong side of the road!
Dale Earnhardt Sr. drove with his knees while wiping mud off his Windshield.
And he won the race! Or something.
You do realize that NASCAR racing is statistically and functionally safer than driving on public roads? He is (actually was) in a group of professional drivers on a race track as opposed to a set of twisty narrow passages and intersections populated by the portion of the population that fits in the leftmost part of the intelligence curve.
And it still wasn't a great idea.
Oddly, I've never actually seen the IRS as "evil". More of "neutral, necessary, and tedious", but not "evil".
That is odd. Perhaps you aren't an American?
In the immortal words of Frank Zappa (talking to the Devil): "I'll prove to you that I'm bad enough to go to hell, because I've been through it! I have seen it! It has happened to me! Remember, I was signed with Warner Brothers for eight f**king years!!!"
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
- Hunter S. Thompson
Harry Reid's halter top
You sir (or madam) have thoroughly grossed me out.
Now I have to go Clorox my mind.
This is a totally off-topic meta-post, but I'm tagging on a top comment anyway...
Is it just my browser, or is the ./ layout radically different all of a sudden? I seem to have lost the sidebars and slashboxes on the front page and the comments are spanning the width of the screen instead of the normal layout. I haven't changed anything myself far as I can tell.
Firefox did it.
As per the subject line above, if you're into action instead of talking, you simply fork.
Note, Mozilla is really "weird" about trademarked names, so you'll have to call it iceweasel like Debian did, or maybe call it Animats-2011-fox or something.
Its not like its closed source.
I know! I know!
We can call it "Stasis" and make everybody happy!
Here's a better idea. Get a cheap airline ticket to New York City. Go to B&H Photo / Video, wander around the acre of backpacks and such and find the one that works best for you.
Then slowly back away from everything else, otherwise you may find yourself needing 2 backpacks and a Pelican case.
Really, it's such a personal decision and there are so many choices. NYC is really nice this time of year....
(Personally, I use a LowePro DryZone 200 (It's completely waterproof) and ditch the Lapzilla for a 13 inch MacBook which works fine for tagging, organizing, storage and other road trip type things. Should be able to pick up one of them for a song these days).
I still buy a phone as a phone. I refuse to pay exhorbitant rates for cell data plans. If and when they bring data plans down to something reasonable, say $5.00 a month for unlimited data (this includes tethering, texting, internet browsing, downloading, etc) then I might jump on. Until then, it's ho-hum phone as a phone for me.
Yes gramps, sure gramps. Time for a nice nap?
Most of us would agree >80% == Monopoly, so stick your head in the sand if you'd like..
Who is this 'us' that you are referring to? Antitrust is a specific legal formulation with it's own definitions and limitations. Just because the word you so happily bandy around sounds exactly like the word in the statute it means very little unless you apply it the way the law does. And you are most certainly not, as about a dozen other posters have pointed out.
Read up on Antitrust law and come back to us when you're so enlightened. That word really doesn't mean what you think it means.
While you very may well be correct, the thought of Google knowing EVERYTHING that goes on in a home fills me with.... dread.
Do no evil, indeed.
Looks like you took too many happy pills this morning. Go and watch some financial news, that'll bring you down enough.
Not only does it come with those fine items, but it sports a Bluetooth cable as well!
Take that you Android fanbois!
And too lazy to read blogs about blogs about blogs ... Are these fake Apple stores that sell fake Apple products, or stores that sell regular Apple gear and just don't want to pay up for the logo rights and maintain the price policies of Apple?
I'm too lazy to respond to ignorant, lazy AC's.
And I'm guessing that they're just paying lip service to Apple, copyrights, patents and the like. And as soon as the store owners start paying the right people, it will be business as usual (again).
Is that the moon in the background?
That's no moon.
Please tell me they have a way of getting dust off the solar panels. Every time I read about dust buildup on Spirit and Opportunity's solar panels causing problems all I could think of was why didn't they install some type of simple vibration mechanism or air jet or any number of possible solutions.
Please tell me you have at least looked at the picture of the lander and realized it doesn't have any solar panels. Oh, wait, slap me. It's Slashdot....
No they could not. The MER (Mars Exploration Rover - Opportunity and Spirit) system can't land heavy payloads in a narrowly defined landing zone. Using that system, you get a landing ellipse of about 100 km2 area restricted to a band about 40 degrees above and below the equator (IIRC). For many, many interesting targets, that isn't good enough. You are also constrained to payloads about the same size as the baby rovers.
Yes, you can argue that the next step should be dozens of MER craft landed in many different zones. That is certainly a valid argument and one that has been made. However, according to the nice rocket scientists that have studied this for years (as opposed to us armchair astronauts who study things for 10 minutes max), it was felt that more significant research needed heavier payloads delivered with better accuracy.
I think there should be enough money in NASA's budget to fund both concepts (and Venus landers and Titan blimps and on and on) but I'm just a taxpayer.
Yes. There is a nice explanation at the Curiosity site (I think) that goes through the various thought processes but basically, IIRC
- The payload AND landing zone requirements made the rubber ball bouncing technique not viable
- The unload off a ramp technique that the current rovers use doesn't scale well and has the major problem of failure if it lands on anything other than reasonably flat terrain. This limited the science and the landing site too much.
- The retrorocket system has been used by Viking and the current rovers
- The skycrane approach has a number of major advantages in terms of terrain avoidance, design of the rover, and size of payload at the expense of complexity.
The teams apparently felt that the risks were worth the benefits. Basically, they felt that unless the technology was pushed forward, the science packages would be too limited.
It is rocket science after all.