http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-prize
I'm very impressed. Great job. Question?
Do you have any comments on an N-Prize sort of launch? Do you feel it is achievable at even one orbit? If so are you part of a team?
Nope, we are not dropping the mindless drivel of Dish Network but will cancel. Same as we did with Netflix DVD's during this last summer. It sounds so dramatic to "drop the service". If we find we miss it (Dish) we will resubscribe with a reduced package. From their end they just toggle a bit, right? Fall is here and we plan to add back DVD's. We just haven't yet, but plan to when time allows.
WTF? I just watched the above post go from score 4 to 0 with no follow up post. This is a discussion on fixing Slashdot. Don't you see, this is the problem. That a post can be modded up to 4 and then back down into oblivion is sad and an example as to why the quality of Slashdot has dropped over the years and readership numbers have declined. Well it looks as though Slashdot is well on it's way down the road to earning it's Darwin award.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I run multiple browsers. In order of use: firefox, opera, IE on WIn7. Nope no chrome. Yes android phone, but no chrome on PC. No Safari either, though my wife has iphone. Only use IE to handle my 3rd gmail account. OTOH I don't consider it competition. It is not a race to me.
See it is time to ban or criminalize all activities but social networking and watching Dancing with the Stars. That will keep our collective brain numb.
Another reason to use public transportation when available. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If it can be abused by vandals or the authorities it will,...in time.
I knee-jerked when they upped the rates, dropping DVD. After all it was the beginning of Summer. No time for a 2 hour flick. Time to be out side. Now that the weather is cooling and the sun drops sooner, I'll add DVD's back,...until next summer. THAT is MY business model. BTW Dish content sucks much worse than Netflix and cost $40 more a month.
The Wiki has replaced Google as my search engine of choice UNLESS I'm surfing to purchase. Yes, the wiki has issue with integrity, but much less than the ad's on Google. Now if Yahoo had provided a better search VS desired results than Google it would be number one in popularity despite Google's better revenue return.
Did IQ's just drop while I was wasting my time watching the FOX news of weather, the Weather Channel? How is the parent a score 5? Insightful?
"Just like New Yorkers get to giggle when those Southern folk shut down schools and stock pile supplies like survivalists because they got 2 feet of snow.".
Wow, the discussions in this thread are polarized into North VS South, not unlike the earth quake last week was East VS West.
I'm from Vermont and no one up here is is complaining. Dump 10 inches of rain ANYWHERE in the world in 24 hours and it will cause a crisis of some sort. We take care of ourselves.
As to the topic of this tread about the storm force winds defining the levels of a storm, well, it might be time to redefine storm categories. It's just reciently been done with tornado's were had been judged by storm damage analyses by engineers after the storm has passed.
"Most places that get tropical storms often enough don't build transportation systems that move millions of people below sea level with nothing preventing them from flooding. Just like most places that get snow don't not have snow plows and salt."
How many houses are built in 100 year flood plains? 20% of homes in the US have flood insurance and they are not all in Vermont and New York City (the home of the other picante sauce).
Bye commander from a red shirted ensign (mod me Score:1),...again! While I'd like to say I like you half as much as you deserve, Question? This is the internet, like, where are you going anyway, where it that/. is unavailable? Even Libya got it restored this week.
What the hell. Wrap them in bubble wrap, duct tape and leave them in the living room until time to transfer them to the nursing room. I personally should have died, not unlike Hank and Dean of Venture Brothers every other month for the first 21 years of my life. Some may think the world would have been a better place. Never got my Darwin award despite septic blood poisoning, polio epidemics, car accidents, no bike helmets, playing with snakes, and unprotected sex.
There,... I feel better.
(mod me -1 tonight)
Ya gotta remember that the new price that Netflix pays is a leveraging point when cable and dish(s) come to the table for their turn at negotiating new contracts. Cable and Dish are the direct competitors of Netflix. It's all about the revenue stream. Old stuff like twilight zone compete with new programming for eyes too (season 4:(. The number of eyes consuming content is finite.
Just changed my plan to streaming only, for now. It's my dollar and that's what I've done. Second price increase since I started 6 months ago. With life schedule and turn around time was only able to watch 4 DVD's a month anyway. Guess I'll go back to borrowing, buying box sets and used DVD's like before. I WILL STAY LEGAL. They and the content providers have now lost a tiny bit of their revenue stream in me and others. Oh well.
Did not Google take pictures of people without permission at specific locations world wide and post them to the public in Street View? While I personally would not like my picture taken anonymously and posted to the web there seems to be a lot of wiggle room for this sort of activity.
Why do slashdoters so love to trivialize what the "average person" does with their computer? I know not everyone is a power user, but geez, give people some credit. It is thinking liek this that make stupid things like Chrome OS sound like a good idea.
My wife and I got two win7 12 inch dual core netbooks. She watches the Decora Eagle cam while I run ubuntu in a vm doing development work for aurdino in perl, while surfing and streaming music. Or we hook it up to the big screen tv to watch netflix. It's light weight, portable, great battery life and powerful enough. Dead? Dr. McCoy's dead.
Does anyone fail to see the problem of having what would likely be several Farads of high voltage stashed away in the body panels? I would expect if fully charged the capacitors if shorted, in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed. Just a spot of charred metal and the smell of electrolyte.
And what about the aging of capacitors or capacitor failure? It's certainly exiting when a small capacitor goes POP! Imagine when one of these suckers blow your doors off while you're driving!
Mod parent up. In the effort to improve the safety of the driving public a high energy arc as a result of a minor vendor bender is going the wrong way. It is insanity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-prize I'm very impressed. Great job. Question? Do you have any comments on an N-Prize sort of launch? Do you feel it is achievable at even one orbit? If so are you part of a team?
Nope, we are not dropping the mindless drivel of Dish Network but will cancel. Same as we did with Netflix DVD's during this last summer. It sounds so dramatic to "drop the service". If we find we miss it (Dish) we will resubscribe with a reduced package. From their end they just toggle a bit, right? Fall is here and we plan to add back DVD's. We just haven't yet, but plan to when time allows.
WTF? I just watched the above post go from score 4 to 0 with no follow up post. This is a discussion on fixing Slashdot. Don't you see, this is the problem. That a post can be modded up to 4 and then back down into oblivion is sad and an example as to why the quality of Slashdot has dropped over the years and readership numbers have declined. Well it looks as though Slashdot is well on it's way down the road to earning it's Darwin award.
To be fair, there are a lot of posts that are overrated even at Score:1.
And other "less than insightful" ones get score 5?
...just trying to be fair. ;)
To be fair, there are a lot of posts that are overrated even at Score:1.
And other "less than insightful" ones get score 5?
ditto! I could not agree more. I would say more but would be modded troll. Either way you are effectively silenced.
So this is another step in the process of taking away information from the public, silencing the internet.
Berlusconi's a cunt
FTFY: Il Duce's a cunt.
They can only shut it down if it is an un-truth. And what your saying is the truth.
Thank you for bringing some sanity to the discussion about browsers.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I run multiple browsers. In order of use: firefox, opera, IE on WIn7. Nope no chrome. Yes android phone, but no chrome on PC. No Safari either, though my wife has iphone. Only use IE to handle my 3rd gmail account. OTOH I don't consider it competition. It is not a race to me.
See it is time to ban or criminalize all activities but social networking and watching Dancing with the Stars. That will keep our collective brain numb.
Another reason to use public transportation when available. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If it can be abused by vandals or the authorities it will,...in time.
I knee-jerked when they upped the rates, dropping DVD. After all it was the beginning of Summer. No time for a 2 hour flick. Time to be out side. Now that the weather is cooling and the sun drops sooner, I'll add DVD's back,...until next summer. THAT is MY business model. BTW Dish content sucks much worse than Netflix and cost $40 more a month.
The Wiki has replaced Google as my search engine of choice UNLESS I'm surfing to purchase. Yes, the wiki has issue with integrity, but much less than the ad's on Google. Now if Yahoo had provided a better search VS desired results than Google it would be number one in popularity despite Google's better revenue return.
I got half way down the list of slashdot comments to find the first reference to tank exhaust. THAT looks like a road flare!
Did IQ's just drop while I was wasting my time watching the FOX news of weather, the Weather Channel? How is the parent a score 5? Insightful? "Just like New Yorkers get to giggle when those Southern folk shut down schools and stock pile supplies like survivalists because they got 2 feet of snow.". Wow, the discussions in this thread are polarized into North VS South, not unlike the earth quake last week was East VS West. I'm from Vermont and no one up here is is complaining. Dump 10 inches of rain ANYWHERE in the world in 24 hours and it will cause a crisis of some sort. We take care of ourselves. As to the topic of this tread about the storm force winds defining the levels of a storm, well, it might be time to redefine storm categories. It's just reciently been done with tornado's were had been judged by storm damage analyses by engineers after the storm has passed. "Most places that get tropical storms often enough don't build transportation systems that move millions of people below sea level with nothing preventing them from flooding. Just like most places that get snow don't not have snow plows and salt." How many houses are built in 100 year flood plains? 20% of homes in the US have flood insurance and they are not all in Vermont and New York City (the home of the other picante sauce).
Bye commander from a red shirted ensign (mod me Score:1), ...again! While I'd like to say I like you half as much as you deserve, Question? This is the internet, like, where are you going anyway, where it that /. is unavailable? Even Libya got it restored this week.
I use all of the browsers mentioned for one reason or another. Score me 100.
What the hell. Wrap them in bubble wrap, duct tape and leave them in the living room until time to transfer them to the nursing room. I personally should have died, not unlike Hank and Dean of Venture Brothers every other month for the first 21 years of my life. Some may think the world would have been a better place. Never got my Darwin award despite septic blood poisoning, polio epidemics, car accidents, no bike helmets, playing with snakes, and unprotected sex. There,... I feel better. (mod me -1 tonight)
Ya gotta remember that the new price that Netflix pays is a leveraging point when cable and dish(s) come to the table for their turn at negotiating new contracts. Cable and Dish are the direct competitors of Netflix. It's all about the revenue stream. Old stuff like twilight zone compete with new programming for eyes too (season 4 :(. The number of eyes consuming content is finite.
The pentium serial number scare was silly in light of unique mac addresses.
Just changed my plan to streaming only, for now. It's my dollar and that's what I've done. Second price increase since I started 6 months ago. With life schedule and turn around time was only able to watch 4 DVD's a month anyway. Guess I'll go back to borrowing, buying box sets and used DVD's like before. I WILL STAY LEGAL. They and the content providers have now lost a tiny bit of their revenue stream in me and others. Oh well.
Did not Google take pictures of people without permission at specific locations world wide and post them to the public in Street View? While I personally would not like my picture taken anonymously and posted to the web there seems to be a lot of wiggle room for this sort of activity.
Why do slashdoters so love to trivialize what the "average person" does with their computer? I know not everyone is a power user, but geez, give people some credit. It is thinking liek this that make stupid things like Chrome OS sound like a good idea.
My wife and I got two win7 12 inch dual core netbooks. She watches the Decora Eagle cam while I run ubuntu in a vm doing development work for aurdino in perl, while surfing and streaming music. Or we hook it up to the big screen tv to watch netflix. It's light weight, portable, great battery life and powerful enough. Dead? Dr. McCoy's dead.
Does anyone fail to see the problem of having what would likely be several Farads of high voltage stashed away in the body panels? I would expect if fully charged the capacitors if shorted, in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed. Just a spot of charred metal and the smell of electrolyte.
And what about the aging of capacitors or capacitor failure? It's certainly exiting when a small capacitor goes POP! Imagine when one of these suckers blow your doors off while you're driving!
Mod parent up. In the effort to improve the safety of the driving public a high energy arc as a result of a minor vendor bender is going the wrong way. It is insanity.