I downloaded an watched these a while ago. I'm up to episode 12, and they are incredibly good.
However, I'm going to Tivo all of the episodes as they air so that I'm counted in the ratings. I'll likely watch them again, too.
You only see the spokes because it's a cutout to let you see the spokes. That isn't the real design. Without the cutout it would look just like a normal tire.
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Yeah, as long as you're driving speed is only 30 feet per day.
It is nice to see NASA thinking out of the box, though. Those are pretty sweet tires.
Some of us have clients that depend on us and don't have a replacement, but we still want to go camping.
If I go camping for the weekend and my clients web site goes down, costing them $25,000 a day in sales, that makes it harder for them to pay me $50 / hour to maintain it.
If I go camping and my laptop can alert me if their site goes down, I'm able to relax completely without having to worry about my clients in the back of my head, and if there is a problem I'm able to solve it and get back to relaxing.
I've programmed in PHP for 5 years and have successfully used it to feed my family the entire time.
I haven't had any problem with security vulnerabilities since day 1 (I write all of my own software rather than using any particular package).
It has scaled easily to meet my needs, including an e-commerce site that does $3,000,000+ a year in orders. Granted that is small potatoes for some, but that is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that PHP is fast and easy to develop in, easy to debug, and easy to deploy. It does what I need it to do, and it does so successfully.
In my mind it is well designed for it's intended purpose.
There is no sense picking apart a screw driver and saying what a bad hammer it is. It isn't a hammer. It wasn't designed to be a hammer. It will never be a hammer.
For my purposes PHP is well designed and is the best tool for the job I've found. I've looked into many other tools, but hands down the winner for my needs is PHP. Trust me, if there were another tool that offered the same power AND ease AND was more profitable for me to use overall, I'd be using it. If it exists, I haven't found it. This isn't a religous pursuit for me. I don't care what the "best" programming language is. I'm here to feed my family and PHP serves that purpose well.
I think Honda and the Japanese in general are making great strides with robotics.
ASIMO in particular may be more of a way to show off than the breeding itself, but I don't think this is just a case of Honda stealing everyone elses tech and packaging it.
If any other single entity was capable of making a robot as polished as ASIMO we'd be seeing it. And we're not.
That may have been the case in the past, but it certainly isn't now.
In the past you would get a little spam from a lot of sources, now you get a ton of spam from just a few sources, and these sources are very good at what they do. It's their business.
Many of them have invested countless hours in custom tools to improve their profitability and the ease with which they spam.
There are exceptions to this, of course.
But as evidence that they are very proactive in grooming their lists, see the recent Slashdot story that turning off your mail server for just one day will get you removed from 90%+ of spam lists. That is a very fast response, and does not indicate laziness or complacency.
I hate to state the obvious, but Math.com is where I've spent some time brushing up on all the math I've forgotten.
I'd love a math tutor style of program that would fluidly walk you through from basic math all the way to calc and trig, automatically adjusting to your rate of learning based on little exercises.
Gasoline should have an additional $0.50 per gallon tax and traditional lightbulbs should have an $0.10 per bulb tax.
The funds from this should directly fund research into alternative energy, means of conservation, and entirely new technologies.
I've heard that if every household in America installed only 1 compact florescent in place of a standard bulb, it would be the environmental equivelant of taking 1,000,000 cars off the road.
The only way America is going to change is if it's given an economic reason that hits home.
The education system in the U.S. is seriously flawed.
It tends to focus on the left brained aspects of learning (memorization, formulas, etc) without effectively applying the right brained aspects of learning (imagination, hands on application, experimentation, etc).
Many ADD / ADHD kids do poorly in school and are medicated, yet regularly test 20 - 30 IQ points above tha average student in the class. The schools view these kids as broken, but in reality it's the school system that is broken.
If you put an ADD / ADHD kid in the right kind of learning environment *for them* and they excel, learning faster than most educators and administrators would think possible.
I score 145 on IQ tests but was bored to tears in school and was a poor student, graduating from high school with a B average. But when I want to learn something and I can learn it my way (hands on, knowing *why* I'm learning it and how I'm going to *use* it) I learn very, very fast with excellent retention.
If every kid in America were left brained to the point of being anal retentive then our school systems would be just perfect. But we have at a minimum an equal mix of left and right brained students, if not leaning more to the right. The left brained types, unfortunately, are the ones who go on to be school administrators and run the bureaucracy, and until that changes we're screwed.
No, I consider myself pretty well informed on the issues and the republican party is a better fit overall for me than the democratic party. Unfortunately no other party currently has a chance of a real impact.
I'm against abortion, gay marriage, handouts (especially corporate), the U.N., and George W. Bush.
I'm for the environment, smaller government, more responsible spending, more financial accountability, common sense, and trying to fit into a complex world through diplomacy and cooperation.
I watch / read the news daily.
I decide my vote on moral and practical grounds and think voting party lines alone is irresponsible.
Not only that, his mis-directed overspending goes unnoticed by the general public, and they end up loving the guy and voting him in for a second term.
Definitely the most dangerous type of politician. He makes costly mistakes that cost lives, vast amounts of money, most of our support in the world, considerable damage to the environment, and the people love him.
The open source community really needs to rally behind this, I think.
I'd love to see a project that uses community involvment to flag projects and websites as "phishing" or "spyware" related.
It could be integrated into open source projects such as Firefox and Thunderbird so you could be assured that after a few people in the community confirmed that a particular URL or even IP was "phishing" or "spyware" related, it would be disabled in the browser or email client without a blood sample and double confirmation.
I, for one, am sick of helping other people clean their computers of spyware. Many of them become so bogged down they are unusable.
The point is in real life, with real physics, both things happen, depending on the situation.
Minitanks and real tanks do destroy road blocks, and road blocks do destroy and disable tanks.
Most games, in the past, haven't been able to support this level of flexibility. Half-Life 2 has given this flexibility, even if it hasn't been taken advantage of yet.
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Threads have to do solely with 3rd party plugins, not with PHP itself. PHP5 is completely thread safe.
I downloaded an watched these a while ago. I'm up to episode 12, and they are incredibly good. However, I'm going to Tivo all of the episodes as they air so that I'm counted in the ratings. I'll likely watch them again, too.
Hey, speak for yourself! Just because you aren't man enough to produce it...
You only see the spokes because it's a cutout to let you see the spokes. That isn't the real design. Without the cutout it would look just like a normal tire.
Yeah, as long as you're driving speed is only 30 feet per day.
It is nice to see NASA thinking out of the box, though. Those are pretty sweet tires.
I've had my Cornea MP704 17" LCD for a couple of years and still don't have a single dead pixel.
It has been an excellent monitor, I'd definitely buy a Cornea again.
Some of us have clients that depend on us and don't have a replacement, but we still want to go camping.
If I go camping for the weekend and my clients web site goes down, costing them $25,000 a day in sales, that makes it harder for them to pay me $50 / hour to maintain it.
If I go camping and my laptop can alert me if their site goes down, I'm able to relax completely without having to worry about my clients in the back of my head, and if there is a problem I'm able to solve it and get back to relaxing.
I would disagree.
I've programmed in PHP for 5 years and have successfully used it to feed my family the entire time.
I haven't had any problem with security vulnerabilities since day 1 (I write all of my own software rather than using any particular package).
It has scaled easily to meet my needs, including an e-commerce site that does $3,000,000+ a year in orders. Granted that is small potatoes for some, but that is irrelevant.
What is relevant is that PHP is fast and easy to develop in, easy to debug, and easy to deploy. It does what I need it to do, and it does so successfully.
In my mind it is well designed for it's intended purpose.
There is no sense picking apart a screw driver and saying what a bad hammer it is. It isn't a hammer. It wasn't designed to be a hammer. It will never be a hammer.
For my purposes PHP is well designed and is the best tool for the job I've found. I've looked into many other tools, but hands down the winner for my needs is PHP. Trust me, if there were another tool that offered the same power AND ease AND was more profitable for me to use overall, I'd be using it. If it exists, I haven't found it. This isn't a religous pursuit for me. I don't care what the "best" programming language is. I'm here to feed my family and PHP serves that purpose well.
No thanks. I'd rather have a headache once per quarter when I have to upgrade then daily as I use it.
I started out doing web applications in perl and switched to PHP then PHP / Smarty now and love it.
Err, make that "than the breeding ground itself"...
I think Honda and the Japanese in general are making great strides with robotics.
ASIMO in particular may be more of a way to show off than the breeding itself, but I don't think this is just a case of Honda stealing everyone elses tech and packaging it.
If any other single entity was capable of making a robot as polished as ASIMO we'd be seeing it. And we're not.
I have a new Dell laptop with 1 GB of RAM and I need* to reboot after running Photoshop, defrag, or any other memory intensive / agressive program.
It's not that I'm forced to reboot, but everything else is a PIG afterwards until I reboot.
Same with playing Half-Life 2, it only runs good after a clean boot and nothing else runs at normal speed until I reboot.
In any event, you can't just assume that spammers are lazy and not good at what they do.
For almost all of the remaining spam, the source of that spam is a full time professional spammer that is very good at what they do.
That may have been the case in the past, but it certainly isn't now.
In the past you would get a little spam from a lot of sources, now you get a ton of spam from just a few sources, and these sources are very good at what they do. It's their business.
Many of them have invested countless hours in custom tools to improve their profitability and the ease with which they spam.
There are exceptions to this, of course.
But as evidence that they are very proactive in grooming their lists, see the recent Slashdot story that turning off your mail server for just one day will get you removed from 90%+ of spam lists. That is a very fast response, and does not indicate laziness or complacency.
I hate to state the obvious, but Math.com is where I've spent some time brushing up on all the math I've forgotten.
I'd love a math tutor style of program that would fluidly walk you through from basic math all the way to calc and trig, automatically adjusting to your rate of learning based on little exercises.
As a geek I'm sure you can see the appeal of distributed systems (ala BitTorrent, et al).
Small scale, green energy production is just that: a distributed system for generating electricity.
I, for one, do want to be a part of that and want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
I'd love an electric car that runs 100% off of solar power generated at home. Now if only batteries weren't so freaking bad for the environment...
I think we need a new tax. No, really.
Gasoline should have an additional $0.50 per gallon tax and traditional lightbulbs should have an $0.10 per bulb tax.
The funds from this should directly fund research into alternative energy, means of conservation, and entirely new technologies.
I've heard that if every household in America installed only 1 compact florescent in place of a standard bulb, it would be the environmental equivelant of taking 1,000,000 cars off the road.
The only way America is going to change is if it's given an economic reason that hits home.
The education system in the U.S. is seriously flawed.
It tends to focus on the left brained aspects of learning (memorization, formulas, etc) without effectively applying the right brained aspects of learning (imagination, hands on application, experimentation, etc).
Many ADD / ADHD kids do poorly in school and are medicated, yet regularly test 20 - 30 IQ points above tha average student in the class. The schools view these kids as broken, but in reality it's the school system that is broken.
If you put an ADD / ADHD kid in the right kind of learning environment *for them* and they excel, learning faster than most educators and administrators would think possible.
I score 145 on IQ tests but was bored to tears in school and was a poor student, graduating from high school with a B average. But when I want to learn something and I can learn it my way (hands on, knowing *why* I'm learning it and how I'm going to *use* it) I learn very, very fast with excellent retention.
If every kid in America were left brained to the point of being anal retentive then our school systems would be just perfect. But we have at a minimum an equal mix of left and right brained students, if not leaning more to the right. The left brained types, unfortunately, are the ones who go on to be school administrators and run the bureaucracy, and until that changes we're screwed.
No, I consider myself pretty well informed on the issues and the republican party is a better fit overall for me than the democratic party. Unfortunately no other party currently has a chance of a real impact.
I'm against abortion, gay marriage, handouts (especially corporate), the U.N., and George W. Bush.
I'm for the environment, smaller government, more responsible spending, more financial accountability, common sense, and trying to fit into a complex world through diplomacy and cooperation.
I watch / read the news daily.
I decide my vote on moral and practical grounds and think voting party lines alone is irresponsible.
I couldn't agree more.
Not only that, his mis-directed overspending goes unnoticed by the general public, and they end up loving the guy and voting him in for a second term.
Definitely the most dangerous type of politician. He makes costly mistakes that cost lives, vast amounts of money, most of our support in the world, considerable damage to the environment, and the people love him.
Rather, George W. Bush isn't the only problem, but he is a problem.
That's the problem, Bush *claims* to be conservative, but the ONLY place he is conservative is in his spoken values.
His actions and policies are anything but conservative.
I'm a lifelong republican, but I didn't vote for Bush in 2004. I think he's the worst thing to ever happen to the republican party.
The open source community really needs to rally behind this, I think.
I'd love to see a project that uses community involvment to flag projects and websites as "phishing" or "spyware" related.
It could be integrated into open source projects such as Firefox and Thunderbird so you could be assured that after a few people in the community confirmed that a particular URL or even IP was "phishing" or "spyware" related, it would be disabled in the browser or email client without a blood sample and double confirmation.
I, for one, am sick of helping other people clean their computers of spyware. Many of them become so bogged down they are unusable.
Actually, things stay on your report a *MINIMUM* of 7 years.
I just got all three, thanks to this story, and there is a "30 days late" from 1994 on there, still showing up.
Most people that look at it will not take it into account, but then again, most people look only at your score, and that will be affected.
The point is in real life, with real physics, both things happen, depending on the situation.
Minitanks and real tanks do destroy road blocks, and road blocks do destroy and disable tanks.
Most games, in the past, haven't been able to support this level of flexibility. Half-Life 2 has given this flexibility, even if it hasn't been taken advantage of yet.
I think the mods he has suggested sound great!