High taxes yes, relatively small land mass, no! Sweden has a population density of about 20/km^2, USA has about 30 (according to Wikipedia and CIA world factbook).
Though it's true that a lot of the infrastructure and backbones are paid by taxes.
Is there actually any coverage of E3 in the file at all, or is it all crappy music to a nintendo logo like the first 5 minutes is!? Crappy un-skippable asf-file%#"%"%
Funny, this is what I get when I run "man find" at work:
from@spacetec from $ man find Formatting page, please wait... /usr/bin/gtbl: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory groff: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I totally agree. Usually when I try do download something over bittorrent at work, where we have a 100 mbit connection to a 2 gbit backbone, I get upload in the region of 500 kB/s and download at about 40-50 kB/s. Doesn't seem very fair to me... Plus the sysadmin has come to inform me that "Peer to peer clients are not allowed" several times even if the stuff I've downloaded has been perfectly legal. It is very uncommon that I get speeds that low when downloading large files from ftp/http, and that saves me both the trouble of wasting outgoing traffic and bitching from the sysadmin.
OK, so he should have put "annoy mentally teenaged boys". Or possibly "teenage school boys and slashbots". People in the Real World [tm] don't give a shit...
My wife thinks they should have a web site that has the forms filled out and a little button, "I agree" or "make changes". The I agree button would take all of no seconds to push and Uncle Sam knows where my money is, so the next screen should present payment options. Make changes should let you enter things they might not know about, which would be rare, or let you file a complaint that a human being actually has to look at.
That's more or less exactly the way we have it in Sweden, using an electronic ID that you can get from online-banks to identify yourself. Works like a charm! You can of course still use the old pen and paper, but you get pre-filled in forms for that too. Only the hardcore use blank forms.
Yeah, along with a few thousand european and american tourists. There are over 600 SWEDES missing, and there are only 9 million of us, so I can only imagine how many other europeans must be...
I agree... Technically you affect earths rotation every time you move (you change your momentum - and totally it stays the same, so you take it from/leave it to earth), so just saying it affected earth's rotation tells me nothing.
It tends to, huh? And I heard they've killed Santa too cause he was giving ouy too many free DVDs last christmas. They tend to do that. I've heard it from reliable sources.
In Sweden, the largest movie distributer SF has a site for "renting" movies and TV shows online, that you see directly on your screen called SF Anytime (might not be accesible from a non-swedish IP). It has it's problems (it requires IE6 and WMP for example..) but overall it's a pretty good service. They have both movies and episodes of some swedish TV shows (though the selection is a little limited...). The prices are quite reasonable, about 1 dollar for a TV show and 4 or 5 for a movie. I've only used it for the free content they have (music videos), but that works great if you have a fast internet connection (the streams are at 400 kbps). And no commercials!
It hasn't helped one bit against piracy though, people still think free is better...
It would have been more relevant to do it on the basis of percentage of the GNP (Gross National Product, if you're wondering) or a similar statistic rather than the total cost of the educational system.
Ok, I KNOW this is slashdot, but... If you'd RTFA there IS a comparison to GNP... Page 93 of the PDF if I remember correctly...
There's also the fact that a robotic repair mission would serve as an excellent opportunity to learn a lot more about robotics in space, something that is very valuable in it self. Both NASA and ESA have sent up missions that do basically nothing but test new technology. This would be new technology that does something very useful other than "being new".
Actually my sisters not-so-geeky boyfriend was bragging to me about how his mp3-player could play ogg. Of course he didn't have a single ogg file to play on it, but apparantly it's bragable even for non-geek consumers nonetheless:)
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While we're nitpicking... I'd guess they just went in to a highly eccentric earth orbit with apogee at the moon which would mean a perigee (start) velocity of about 11.13 km/s (assuming no parking orbit was used - that would bring it down) while escape velocity is 11.18 km/s. Going above escape velocity would gain very little time and cost very much fuel.
There are mirrors left on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts that were put there to be able to measure the distance to the moon by laser. It's mentioned here for example. But the conspiracy theorists won't listen to that...
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Remember the Revolution has ports for Gamecube controllers as well, these work fine with all older nintendo systems.
High taxes yes, relatively small land mass, no! Sweden has a population density of about 20/km^2, USA has about 30 (according to Wikipedia and CIA world factbook). Though it's true that a lot of the infrastructure and backbones are paid by taxes.
Shampoo is french (in addition to perfume, which I guess is what you're referring to). So much for your theory...
Is there actually any coverage of E3 in the file at all, or is it all crappy music to a nintendo logo like the first 5 minutes is!? Crappy un-skippable asf-file%#"%"%
I'll pay your test fee - now prove it!
I totally agree. Usually when I try do download something over bittorrent at work, where we have a 100 mbit connection to a 2 gbit backbone, I get upload in the region of 500 kB/s and download at about 40-50 kB/s. Doesn't seem very fair to me... Plus the sysadmin has come to inform me that "Peer to peer clients are not allowed" several times even if the stuff I've downloaded has been perfectly legal. It is very uncommon that I get speeds that low when downloading large files from ftp/http, and that saves me both the trouble of wasting outgoing traffic and bitching from the sysadmin.
DOH. I got your meaning, missed your point... :)
"annoy teenage school boys". HELLO. DUMBARSE. FLAGRANT STUPIDITY REIGNS YET AGAIN.
OK, so he should have put "annoy mentally teenaged boys". Or possibly "teenage school boys and slashbots". People in the Real World [tm] don't give a shit...
He doesn't say what he's doing right now though... Might be that he actually has an income while looking.
My wife thinks they should have a web site that has the forms filled out and a little button, "I agree" or "make changes". The I agree button would take all of no seconds to push and Uncle Sam knows where my money is, so the next screen should present payment options. Make changes should let you enter things they might not know about, which would be rare, or let you file a complaint that a human being actually has to look at.
That's more or less exactly the way we have it in Sweden, using an electronic ID that you can get from online-banks to identify yourself. Works like a charm! You can of course still use the old pen and paper, but you get pre-filled in forms for that too. Only the hardcore use blank forms.
Yeah, along with a few thousand european and american tourists. There are over 600 SWEDES missing, and there are only 9 million of us, so I can only imagine how many other europeans must be...
I agree... Technically you affect earths rotation every time you move (you change your momentum - and totally it stays the same, so you take it from/leave it to earth), so just saying it affected earth's rotation tells me nothing.
It tends to, huh? And I heard they've killed Santa too cause he was giving ouy too many free DVDs last christmas. They tend to do that. I've heard it from reliable sources.
Seriously? It's the most stupid shit ever written. Yeah "Hey, you are stupid you stupid stupid idiot, go fuck yourself". Very funny indeed...
In Sweden, the largest movie distributer SF has a site for "renting" movies and TV shows online, that you see directly on your screen called SF Anytime (might not be accesible from a non-swedish IP). It has it's problems (it requires IE6 and WMP for example..) but overall it's a pretty good service. They have both movies and episodes of some swedish TV shows (though the selection is a little limited...). The prices are quite reasonable, about 1 dollar for a TV show and 4 or 5 for a movie. I've only used it for the free content they have (music videos), but that works great if you have a fast internet connection (the streams are at 400 kbps). And no commercials!
It hasn't helped one bit against piracy though, people still think free is better...
In swedish the words for 6 and "sex" are the same (sex...), so there is quite a lot of sex in mathematics.. And quite a lot of bad jokes about it...
This is like the fifth time I say this or something, but: THEY DO look at GDP, if you only RTFA. (PDF page 93 I think it was...)
It would have been more relevant to do it on the basis of percentage of the GNP (Gross National Product, if you're wondering) or a similar statistic rather than the total cost of the educational system.
Ok, I KNOW this is slashdot, but... If you'd RTFA there IS a comparison to GNP... Page 93 of the PDF if I remember correctly...
Dude, the 95% confidence interval are right there in the graph you're referring to...
There's also the fact that a robotic repair mission would serve as an excellent opportunity to learn a lot more about robotics in space, something that is very valuable in it self. Both NASA and ESA have sent up missions that do basically nothing but test new technology. This would be new technology that does something very useful other than "being new".
Actually my sisters not-so-geeky boyfriend was bragging to me about how his mp3-player could play ogg. Of course he didn't have a single ogg file to play on it, but apparantly it's bragable even for non-geek consumers nonetheless :)
While we're nitpicking... I'd guess they just went in to a highly eccentric earth orbit with apogee at the moon which would mean a perigee (start) velocity of about 11.13 km/s (assuming no parking orbit was used - that would bring it down) while escape velocity is 11.18 km/s. Going above escape velocity would gain very little time and cost very much fuel.
There's also a lot of info at the main contractors site. Swedish Space Corporation
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(ok, I just did that to brag about the fact it's swedish
There are mirrors left on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts that were put there to be able to measure the distance to the moon by laser. It's mentioned here for example. But the conspiracy theorists won't listen to that...