Steve Fossett passed out at high altitude (as he did once before). His plane has a 563 mile range, which from his take-off point in Nevada includes seven states, Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean. He ran out of gas without waking up, which is why nobody had any radio contact and there are no rescue beacons.
It's a loss.
You have to be very careful where you point an earth-sized telescope. For example, you are not allowed to look into a bathroom. With all those black holes and dark matter out there, that might be hard to avoid.
True frequently, but not 100%. Palo Alto (CA) had community TV, and it followed your route. But now they have community owned garbage, recycling, schools, fiber-based broadband, and a bunch of other non-traditiional municipal services. These are all doing great!
It is also highly useful to have another metric to compare monopolies. Having a handful of municipal owned utilities and services provides valuble benchmarks. Sometimes they do better, sometimes worse.
The problem with monopolies (power, garbage, streets, ISPs, cable TV, water, electricity, gas...) is that the only source of numbers are the "experts" who work for that monopoly. If they don't want to tell the truth, or know the truth, or have you know the truth...well, they are the only religion in town so you have to go to their church.
The most upsetting part is that we can't get nano-legos. I have a complete design for a self-replicating Lego nano-factory. If only I had started sooner, then I would have been able to solve their production limitations forever.
Was the swimsuit branded? Because if it is a Nike or Speedo, or any other brand, then the FTC will have to delete without notice your account due to the violation of the IP those brand holders.
No matter how hard the digital people work towards perfection, some creative engineer is determined to re-created the effect of crappy analog.
Why use compression? Why not just keep cans of spraypaint next to your plasma screen and use them everytime something you care about is on?
Includes my collection of 8-inch floppies and four sizes of ZIP media. I suppose it's too much to ask it to play my mother's 8-mm film collection, isn't it?
The artilce is not a troll, but I beg to differ...
He says that CDs took off in 1982 because of convenience. Wrong. CDs took off because of quality. Cassette audio tapes were the standard, then, and the best ones on the best players sound fabulous. But not as good as CDs. Joe six-pack may not care, but lots of people did care.
Why are people paying $4000 for HD monitors, when there is still limited content? Because once they watch soccer, the Olympics, their favorite drama...they don't want to go back. Now that they have the monitors, they are not happy with their rental DVDs. 99% of people don't care about DRM. They put in the disk and push PLAY. It plays. The hi-res is there, and they are happy.
Are studios turning out titles? Are they doing a decent job of encoding to the media's capability? No and No. But people will buy them anyway, because they can see the difference.
Under the law, it's not your data, it's theirs. Yup. Absolutely 100% true. Whoever collects data, owns the data. There is no legal basis whatsoever that information about you is owned by you, but for two exceptions: (1) Conversations with your lawyer are privileged, and (2) medical information. So, except for the lawyer and doctor lobby, you are hosed.
Would this be a good time to put in a plug for a constitutional amendment that extends personal property rights to personal data?
Lets see... pirates v. politicians. Who has a larger army? Who has better technology? Its pretty funny to think about. Kind of like pissing against the tide, no?
Here is how coffee has changed in 21 years: It now costs $3.00 at Starbucks and most customers order it filled up with fat and sugar, but it has a cute name, so that is OK.
Here is how alcohol has changed in 21 years: Alcohol is more acceptable to young people, and marijuana less acceptable.
Here is how studies have changed in 21 years: people have gotten stupider [that is only opinion; dont' troll me out] and the government uses politcs to trump science.
Integers do not devolve as fast as video games. Or, let me spell it out: don't dis 21-year old data, just 'cause its 21-years-old.
California has chronic water shortages. Politics of water aside, there are dozens of communities (e.g. Santa Cruz, Monterey, Mendicino) that effectively ration water more years than not.
Phoenix and Las Vegas would have water shortages, but they just take it from the Colorado River, leaving Mexico with less.
Wow. You can take a machine that has almost a zero chance of getting malware and convert it to giant virus magnet. This is like a Priest having sex with every prostitute in the Caribbean. Repeat after me, "Sweet!"
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Steve Fossett passed out at high altitude (as he did once before). His plane has a 563 mile range, which from his take-off point in Nevada includes seven states, Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean. He ran out of gas without waking up, which is why nobody had any radio contact and there are no rescue beacons. It's a loss.
You have to be very careful where you point an earth-sized telescope. For example, you are not allowed to look into a bathroom. With all those black holes and dark matter out there, that might be hard to avoid.
It is also highly useful to have another metric to compare monopolies. Having a handful of municipal owned utilities and services provides valuble benchmarks. Sometimes they do better, sometimes worse.
The problem with monopolies (power, garbage, streets, ISPs, cable TV, water, electricity, gas ...) is that the only source of numbers are the "experts" who work for that monopoly. If they don't want to tell the truth, or know the truth, or have you know the truth...well, they are the only religion in town so you have to go to their church.
then the two of you will circle each other forever.
The most upsetting part is that we can't get nano-legos. I have a complete design for a self-replicating Lego nano-factory. If only I had started sooner, then I would have been able to solve their production limitations forever.
Was the swimsuit branded? Because if it is a Nike or Speedo, or any other brand, then the FTC will have to delete without notice your account due to the violation of the IP those brand holders.
Wow! MS collected 10% of their legal bills.
What part of Microsoft does the EU not understand?
for Apple's 24" laptop.
No matter how hard the digital people work towards perfection, some creative engineer is determined to re-created the effect of crappy analog. Why use compression? Why not just keep cans of spraypaint next to your plasma screen and use them everytime something you care about is on?
Didn't I see the Cone of Silence on TV? A while back?
In fact, Google is so big that those two data points might invert the entire curve ...
... working for me absolutely who insisted that the great performance of the highest-paid football players was due to their salaries.
Includes my collection of 8-inch floppies and four sizes of ZIP media. I suppose it's too much to ask it to play my mother's 8-mm film collection, isn't it?
He says that CDs took off in 1982 because of convenience. Wrong. CDs took off because of quality. Cassette audio tapes were the standard, then, and the best ones on the best players sound fabulous. But not as good as CDs. Joe six-pack may not care, but lots of people did care.
Why are people paying $4000 for HD monitors, when there is still limited content? Because once they watch soccer, the Olympics, their favorite drama...they don't want to go back. Now that they have the monitors, they are not happy with their rental DVDs. 99% of people don't care about DRM. They put in the disk and push PLAY. It plays. The hi-res is there, and they are happy.
Are studios turning out titles? Are they doing a decent job of encoding to the media's capability? No and No. But people will buy them anyway, because they can see the difference.
Would this be a good time to put in a plug for a constitutional amendment that extends personal property rights to personal data?
matches the drones in Blade Runner.
Gate's goal is 95% market share.
Google lists 813 government documents (.gov) discussing "Area 51"
Lets see ... pirates v. politicians. Who has a larger army? Who has better technology? Its pretty funny to think about. Kind of like pissing against the tide, no?
Which terrorist group is NASA blaming ?
Here is how alcohol has changed in 21 years: Alcohol is more acceptable to young people, and marijuana less acceptable.
Here is how studies have changed in 21 years: people have gotten stupider [that is only opinion; dont' troll me out] and the government uses politcs to trump science.
Integers do not devolve as fast as video games. Or, let me spell it out: don't dis 21-year old data, just 'cause its 21-years-old.
Phoenix and Las Vegas would have water shortages, but they just take it from the Colorado River, leaving Mexico with less.
Wow. You can take a machine that has almost a zero chance of getting malware and convert it to giant virus magnet. This is like a Priest having sex with every prostitute in the Caribbean. Repeat after me, "Sweet!"