no it's not a shithole at all. Yes chewing gum is illegal there. No, their sidewalks aren't covered in gum like ours are.
Seriously, if you live in a large U.S. city like I do, go outside and look at the sidewalk. Unless you're in a very high-rent suburb, you'll probably see more gum than concrete.
I am currently sitting in an office at ~5000 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. It is not a run-down ghetto, the houses around here average $800k. The sidewalk at Wilshire/Highland is covered in gum deposits.
I was watching a History channel documentary on the 1812 Missouri earthquake. I learned some very interesting facts:
It was the strongest earthquake in North American history, and it was caused by climate change! For a long time scientists wondered how such a strong quake could occur in an area where there is no tectonic activity. Missouri sits comfortably in the middle of the North American plate and was thought to be immune from large earthquakes.
Turns out, much of North America was under kilometers of ice during the last ice age. The weight of the ice was so immense, it compressed the ground underneath.
12,000 years ago the ice age ended and all the ice melted. The pressure on the ground went away, and the ground started rising. But due to friction it doesn't rise evenly in a gradual fashion, it does so in sudden bursts... just like when two tectonic plates slip against each other and cause a tectonic earthquake.
The ground is still rising and a repeat of the monster 1812 earthquake is virtually guaranteed. Since buildings in the Midwest are not built to California earthquake standards, massive catastrophe and carnage is sure to ensue when it happens.
I suppose getting to orbit and docking and stuff took some time, so the Dragon was attached to the space station for about 14 - 15 days?
What was it doing up there for 2 weeks? O_o Sightseeing?
Even with union labor it should take no more than a day to unload a thousand pounds of cargo. Russians don't even have a union actually... so if you make the cosmonauts do the work, they could probably get it done in a couple of hours.
Ok joking aside, this is a fantastic achievement for SpaceX, kudos -- their first paying gig! Yeah cue the naysayers and their "NASA did similar shit in the mid 60's with Gemini, blah blah". Well the fantastic achievement is not getting to orbit with cargo, it's how cheaply it can be done now. SpaceX is pioneering a whole new paradigm in the space industry, designing a launch system from the ground up with a laser focus on getting it done simply and CHEAPLY.
Back to the 18-day mission. Right now the launches are still few and far between, and there's no hurry, so I say why not leave it docked with the ISS for a couple months? It can serve as a backup lifeboat in the event of a disaster on the ISS. I know it's not man-rated yet but if the choice is between breathing vacuum and using the Dragon, I'd jump into the Dragon in a heartbeat.
When pressed for an answer by Australian news reporters, a Communist Party spokesman responded,
"We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man. Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you're stayin alive. Stayin alive. Ah ah ah ah stayin alive. Stayin alive."
nowadays hearing protectors for gun shooters have electronics built in. The earpieces go over the ears and damps out sound, as they've always done. However now there's microphones that pick up sound from the outside, and pipes them into speakers inside the earpiece. If the sound level outside exceed a threshold (such as a gun going off), it doesn't get piped into the speakers.
There's a volume knob, so if you crank that up you can hear much fainter sounds than your normal hearing. So you can use it like a hearing aid, sort of.
You can buy decent ones for $50 - $100.
But if government subsidies and medicare got involved, they'd probably cost $2000 also.
Plus, there is no such thing as drone strikes in Call of Duty. Drones (UAV) are only for reconnaissance. All airstrikes are done by manned aircraft such as Cobra, Hind, Pave Low, AC-130, and B-2.
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no it's not a shithole at all. Yes chewing gum is illegal there. No, their sidewalks aren't covered in gum like ours are.
Seriously, if you live in a large U.S. city like I do, go outside and look at the sidewalk. Unless you're in a very high-rent suburb, you'll probably see more gum than concrete.
I am currently sitting in an office at ~5000 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. It is not a run-down ghetto, the houses around here average $800k. The sidewalk at Wilshire/Highland is covered in gum deposits.
yes the hanging gardens of Babylon is 2500 years older than Singapore's.
had the ability, when they realized that their time came, to lay down and die peacefully at will.
But I suppose in Massachusetts the blood of Numenor does not run true.
I was watching a History channel documentary on the 1812 Missouri earthquake. I learned some very interesting facts:
It was the strongest earthquake in North American history, and it was caused by climate change! For a long time scientists wondered how such a strong quake could occur in an area where there is no tectonic activity. Missouri sits comfortably in the middle of the North American plate and was thought to be immune from large earthquakes.
Turns out, much of North America was under kilometers of ice during the last ice age. The weight of the ice was so immense, it compressed the ground underneath.
12,000 years ago the ice age ended and all the ice melted. The pressure on the ground went away, and the ground started rising. But due to friction it doesn't rise evenly in a gradual fashion, it does so in sudden bursts... just like when two tectonic plates slip against each other and cause a tectonic earthquake.
The ground is still rising and a repeat of the monster 1812 earthquake is virtually guaranteed. Since buildings in the Midwest are not built to California earthquake standards, massive catastrophe and carnage is sure to ensue when it happens.
only thing that will completely replace the keyboard and make it obsolete is direct brain-wave scanning.
Ponderosa Puff wouldn't take no guff
Water oughta be clean and free
So he fought the fight and he set things right
With his OpenBSD
Carpathia still has the warez on their servers. Which are still frozen by DoJ.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/10/05/report-seized-megaupload-data-be-subject-future-us-court-hearing
hey man, $1.8 goes a long way in China.
That's the point. If everybody opened their WiFi AP, then an IP address will become meaningless as a way of identifying a person to arrest or sue.
It'll never happen though, what's to stop all the neighborhood leeches from freeloading off my cable modem and save themselves $50 a month?
Hop aboard the thrilling X-wing roller coaster
Ride the log through the swamps of Degobah and watch Yoda the puppet's Jedi lessons
Get your pic taken with Chewbaka and Jar Jar in Tatooine Square
Enjoy a two-star dining experience at Mos Eisley Cantina
for Windows 8, I am beta testing it now.
Oh and Frist Post
seems to have worked for Samsung Galaxy Note with the plastic stylus...
I remember when AMD bought ATI many years ago... everybody (including us Slashdot posters) were saying what a bone-headed waste of money that was.
Now everybody's saying AMD is really fucked except for one bright spot which is its graphics division....
the Wii U tablet-based controller?
yes but the speed of light is different on Slashdot, we are just getting the news that the Falcon launch is a success.
I suppose getting to orbit and docking and stuff took some time, so the Dragon was attached to the space station for about 14 - 15 days?
What was it doing up there for 2 weeks? O_o Sightseeing?
Even with union labor it should take no more than a day to unload a thousand pounds of cargo. Russians don't even have a union actually... so if you make the cosmonauts do the work, they could probably get it done in a couple of hours.
Ok joking aside, this is a fantastic achievement for SpaceX, kudos -- their first paying gig! Yeah cue the naysayers and their "NASA did similar shit in the mid 60's with Gemini, blah blah". Well the fantastic achievement is not getting to orbit with cargo, it's how cheaply it can be done now. SpaceX is pioneering a whole new paradigm in the space industry, designing a launch system from the ground up with a laser focus on getting it done simply and CHEAPLY.
Back to the 18-day mission. Right now the launches are still few and far between, and there's no hurry, so I say why not leave it docked with the ISS for a couple months? It can serve as a backup lifeboat in the event of a disaster on the ISS. I know it's not man-rated yet but if the choice is between breathing vacuum and using the Dragon, I'd jump into the Dragon in a heartbeat.
New ownership. So, with new ownership we get a new direction. And this "new direction" sucks ass.
Slashdot has an owner? I thought it was GNU and free!
When pressed for an answer by Australian news reporters, a Communist Party spokesman responded,
"We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man. Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you're stayin alive. Stayin alive. Ah ah ah ah stayin alive. Stayin alive."
nowadays hearing protectors for gun shooters have electronics built in. The earpieces go over the ears and damps out sound, as they've always done. However now there's microphones that pick up sound from the outside, and pipes them into speakers inside the earpiece. If the sound level outside exceed a threshold (such as a gun going off), it doesn't get piped into the speakers.
There's a volume knob, so if you crank that up you can hear much fainter sounds than your normal hearing. So you can use it like a hearing aid, sort of.
You can buy decent ones for $50 - $100.
But if government subsidies and medicare got involved, they'd probably cost $2000 also.
First in Flight, last in computer interwebs
otherwise it's gonna be like, totally empty.
shut down and give money back to the shareholders.
eom
Plus, there is no such thing as drone strikes in Call of Duty. Drones (UAV) are only for reconnaissance. All airstrikes are done by manned aircraft such as Cobra, Hind, Pave Low, AC-130, and B-2.
App Store? Marketplace? (which is it?) Why?
Yes Apple came out with something and made lots of money, but is it really a good idea for you (as a generic non-Apple entity) to make one as well?
If Ubuntu comes out with its own Ubuntu App Store, should I kill myself? And should I stop ending every sentence with a question mark?