Kerosene costs would not stop Saturn V's. Are you kidding me? Talk about the cheapest component of the launch even with today's prices in 1974 dollars!
If I hear that Japanese/American guy say "We are on the brink of a revolution in robotics..." on the Discovery Science channel one more time I'm going to build my own killer robot to crucify him.
Seriously though...is robotics not really taking off? Where is my walking/talking/autonomous robot who gets me a beer? Isn't that what we should be striving for as Earthlings ? What's on the moon? Fridges packed with beer that my new robot can fetch? I doubt it!
Yeah not explaining things in the movie automatically makes it a great movie. Just like "Back to the Future". No attempt at all to explain how the time machine works, it just works.
Oh...wait a second....hey....what are they trying to pull here! Ruining a perfectly sound theory that explains why some movies are good and others suck!
Wrong again. The rest of the airports do matter. UPS and FedEx have orders in for this plane. Why? It can carry alot of crap. Who needs crap? People in the northeast corridor, thats who.
If I remember correctly Fort Worth can handle this plane also (runway, not terminal, but cargo doesn't need a terminal to unload a bunch of people). Not Miami, the article is wrong. Miami ccan over time, with upgrades.
An airport in the northeast US needs a runway that can land this plane, so tons of crap can be shipped from China by boat to LA then flown to east coast.
That's why FedEx and UPS bought them. Not for "fun".
Its faster and cheaper than going through Panama.
International routes also have a need for them, but not 1000 of them. Every other use (London-New York for example) for them is a waste. They'll sell about 100 in 10 years.
We have been using our fighter pilots, and bomber pilots, and their reserves, in active combat, on and off, for 15 years straight now. Not training, but combat. Not all have engaged in active combat, but the rest who didn't are currently flying over New York every 15 minutes when some moron flys into a no-fly zone.
Tell me, which country has that many pilots, including our reserves who are currently flying combat missions in 2 countries, and testing their opponents equipment not only in mock engagements, but on their own test ranges ?
Correct, no one but the good 'ol USofA.
Also, you may want to think for two seconds before opening your piehole. We have every version of every Soviet fighter ever made (they, or someone else, will sell them to us, East Germany gave us a ton, they German airforce still uses them!). You don't think Russia would sell us a nice shiney new aircraft, maybe, maybe not? What about if they sold it to Israel, would we get a copy? Yup, we would.
We practice against them all the time.....do they have copies of F-22's to practice against? Didn't think so.
Also, the F-15 is 1970/1971 technology, with some computer/radar & AAMRAM upgrades. Not too shabby, considering it'll kick the crap out of anything in the sky (from BVR and assitance from other support aircraft, thats how we fight). And yes, the US won't dogfight, because we'd probably lose some aircraft. That would be stupid, like you.
Exactly. Bleeding from a chest wound is a sympton of a gun shot wound to the chest. You shouldn't try to stop the bleeding, but instead just focus on the bullet. Good way to die. Symptoms kill you, always.
Don't think so? AIDS doesn't kill you, it symptons (lack of immune system) do. Bacteria, same thing, Virii, same thing etc etc etc. They cause problems that kill you. Just like Stress is caused by something, you should deal with the stress then find a cure for its original cause, or you will die.
For instance, you won't die from your boss yelling at you to work more, or in fact the work itself (unless you get shot on the job for example) but you will die from the stress induced problems such a lifesytle would bring.
Solution? Deal with stress short term by working less, long term find another job quick.
Considering the Sony was made in China, yes. Don't forget your fancy Japanese labels, 99% of the components and the final assembly is done in China.
Everyone was afraid the big 3 would go under when Japanese autos were creaming them in the 1970's, 1980's and early to mid 1990's. Now Ford and Chrysler are posting 1 billion dollar prodits and GM's only heel is their employee's health benefits. Your Toyota is made in Texas and your Honda in made in Ohio. Why ? Tarriffs and cost of shipping large objects overseas (see oil price increasing).
As oil prices continue to sky rocket, and people in Americas panic, tarrifs on Chinese imports will occur. We are their biggest consumer, without us, they simply make plastic junk, not plastic junk that someone buys!
Now, those oil prices continue to climb, they (India and China) continue to grow, the prices go higher because of their own growth.
Manufacturing jobs will return to the states, Mexico and Canada. Why? It will be cheaper. Yeah, instead of you $52/hour union car job, you'll make $32 and hour making Hondas. Wealth distribution. Deal with it or become super wealthy.
Now software, does that need oil ? Well, when the software is the BIOS of the hardware being shipped here from China, yes it does.
Yes food is valuable. However less than 1% of Americans are farmers. Most farms, 90% or more I'd wager, are controlled by multi-national conglomerates/corporations. So basically that "wealth" you describe will not be handed out to the other 99% of Americans who have no control or ownership of it. So basically, in America, the rich (top 1%) get richer and everyone else starves. Nice! This has been happening at a growing rate since 1980, ironcially since Reagan's and the GOP's "globalization" crap started. Search Google for "wealth distribution america statistics" .
Try changing timezones on all of the desktop computers in your company, and it ain't as easy as it looks. Let alone in a national company with offices in a few timezones, roaming users on laptops, network devices at various switching facilities, etc. There is no "just shift timezones" twice a year.
Uh, yeah it is. We call it "time sync". Have you ever heard of "NTP" ?
...the "Start" button. Users would "mouse click 1" on it with their news "2-button mouse". This woiuld enable them to "start" (no pun intended!) accessing their programs, documents and control panels.
Said Steve Jobs, "Once again Apple has reached a new level of user interface design." He continued "No longer will users have to use a single button mouse to click things other than our new Start button."
In the UK, my phone bill was around 20 pounds (~$40) per month. Upon moving to the US, my first month's bill was $250. Cellphones in the US are a fucking rip off, free market notwithstanding.
$250 for your first month ? Let me explain a few things for you my superior European friend.
1) Stop calling 1-900 numbers instead of real girls
2) Go back to Europe, you'll like it there
I pay $80 a month for 2 Nextel phones, with real nationwide calling (meaning, I can go anywhere in the US, even Disneyworld, and call anywhere in the US and not get charged anything extra but my normal minutes). Of course nights and weekends are free.
In America, stupid people will get ripped off. Smart people read fine print and ask questions.
Actually your wrong. After 5 month's the "PVR service" and "rental fees" start to add up. How long will you have Adelphia? Until you die? Then you'll be paying rental fees on equiopment and their service fee is $12 total, for PVR service and rental fee. Hint: read the small print on your $150 a month Adelphia bill .
Lets start with 10 years, shall we?
$144 a year for Adelphia service and rentakl fees on ONE box.
multiply by 10
is $1440
Think that's too long? You'll have HDTV longer than that. Sure $1000 (I see them for $800 , not sure where you're looking) is a high upfront fee. But better than crappy non-digital 77 channels of Adelphia.
Adelphia, call me when you get digital TV. Your cheezy 5 free monthes offers only get idiots to sign-up.
TiVo is THE standard. PVR's from cable co's rot (at least Adelphia). DirecTV w/ TiVo rocks. Working on MythTV on a spare box, seems like alot of work. If I wasn't married with a job/house, it would be worth while.
Yeah I could probably goto the junkyard and buy parts to build a car, but I have a life. Sometimes (actually, always) time is your most valuable comodity. You only have so much, then BANG.....
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Wrong Noriega had Van Halen, not Gn'R. We're so evil! I wish we had Islamic laws to follow here!
Kerosene costs would not stop Saturn V's. Are you kidding me? Talk about the cheapest component of the launch even with today's prices in 1974 dollars!
Seriously though...is robotics not really taking off? Where is my walking/talking/autonomous robot who gets me a beer? Isn't that what we should be striving for as Earthlings ? What's on the moon? Fridges packed with beer that my new robot can fetch? I doubt it!
And watch Russia take over all of China and Japan. No thanks, lets not wait.
Oh...wait a second....hey....what are they trying to pull here! Ruining a perfectly sound theory that explains why some movies are good and others suck!
first reply!
Churchhill was AGAINST appeasment. Your thinking of Chirac.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108121.html
Please, tell me the literacy rate of all of India? Don't lie, and expect others to not double-check your "facts".
Yes all Americans care about are athletics and sports, which is why they are all fat. Can't someone pick a stereotype that fits all Americans?!?
If I remember correctly Fort Worth can handle this plane also (runway, not terminal, but cargo doesn't need a terminal to unload a bunch of people). Not Miami, the article is wrong. Miami ccan over time, with upgrades.
An airport in the northeast US needs a runway that can land this plane, so tons of crap can be shipped from China by boat to LA then flown to east coast.
That's why FedEx and UPS bought them. Not for "fun".
Its faster and cheaper than going through Panama. International routes also have a need for them, but not 1000 of them. Every other use (London-New York for example) for them is a waste. They'll sell about 100 in 10 years.
We have been using our fighter pilots, and bomber pilots, and their reserves, in active combat, on and off, for 15 years straight now. Not training, but combat. Not all have engaged in active combat, but the rest who didn't are currently flying over New York every 15 minutes when some moron flys into a no-fly zone.
Tell me, which country has that many pilots, including our reserves who are currently flying combat missions in 2 countries, and testing their opponents equipment not only in mock engagements, but on their own test ranges ?
Correct, no one but the good 'ol USofA.
Also, you may want to think for two seconds before opening your piehole. We have every version of every Soviet fighter ever made (they, or someone else, will sell them to us, East Germany gave us a ton, they German airforce still uses them!). You don't think Russia would sell us a nice shiney new aircraft, maybe, maybe not? What about if they sold it to Israel, would we get a copy? Yup, we would.
We practice against them all the time.....do they have copies of F-22's to practice against? Didn't think so.
Also, the F-15 is 1970/1971 technology, with some computer/radar & AAMRAM upgrades. Not too shabby, considering it'll kick the crap out of anything in the sky (from BVR and assitance from other support aircraft, thats how we fight). And yes, the US won't dogfight, because we'd probably lose some aircraft. That would be stupid, like you.
Don't think so? AIDS doesn't kill you, it symptons (lack of immune system) do. Bacteria, same thing, Virii, same thing etc etc etc. They cause problems that kill you. Just like Stress is caused by something, you should deal with the stress then find a cure for its original cause, or you will die.
For instance, you won't die from your boss yelling at you to work more, or in fact the work itself (unless you get shot on the job for example) but you will die from the stress induced problems such a lifesytle would bring.
Solution? Deal with stress short term by working less, long term find another job quick.
Everyone was afraid the big 3 would go under when Japanese autos were creaming them in the 1970's, 1980's and early to mid 1990's. Now Ford and Chrysler are posting 1 billion dollar prodits and GM's only heel is their employee's health benefits. Your Toyota is made in Texas and your Honda in made in Ohio. Why ? Tarriffs and cost of shipping large objects overseas (see oil price increasing).
As oil prices continue to sky rocket, and people in Americas panic, tarrifs on Chinese imports will occur. We are their biggest consumer, without us, they simply make plastic junk, not plastic junk that someone buys!
Now, those oil prices continue to climb, they (India and China) continue to grow, the prices go higher because of their own growth.
Manufacturing jobs will return to the states, Mexico and Canada. Why? It will be cheaper. Yeah, instead of you $52/hour union car job, you'll make $32 and hour making Hondas. Wealth distribution. Deal with it or become super wealthy.
Now software, does that need oil ? Well, when the software is the BIOS of the hardware being shipped here from China, yes it does.
Yes food is valuable. However less than 1% of Americans are farmers. Most farms, 90% or more I'd wager, are controlled by multi-national conglomerates/corporations. So basically that "wealth" you describe will not be handed out to the other 99% of Americans who have no control or ownership of it. So basically, in America, the rich (top 1%) get richer and everyone else starves. Nice! This has been happening at a growing rate since 1980, ironcially since Reagan's and the GOP's "globalization" crap started. Search Google for "wealth distribution america statistics" .
Don't be such a ****. My God when will people just **** while they **** ?
Uh, yeah it is. We call it "time sync". Have you ever heard of "NTP" ?
M$ announces Longhorn will require 200GB of HD disk space to store new passwords, and quad 64-bit processors to decrypt these news passwords.
Said Steve Jobs, "Once again Apple has reached a new level of user interface design." He continued "No longer will users have to use a single button mouse to click things other than our new Start button."
1) Stop calling 1-900 numbers instead of real girls
2) Go back to Europe, you'll like it there
I pay $80 a month for 2 Nextel phones, with real nationwide calling (meaning, I can go anywhere in the US, even Disneyworld, and call anywhere in the US and not get charged anything extra but my normal minutes). Of course nights and weekends are free.
In America, stupid people will get ripped off. Smart people read fine print and ask questions.
Caveat emptor
Google can do anything here on Slashdot! They are a magical, mystical corporation. Unlike the evil Microsoft which wants to turn a profit!
When Google starts acting like a major corporation, which it will, they all end up doing it, see Steve Jobs, what will Slashdoter's say?
G$$gle sux man! They aren't kewl l33t haxors anymore! I used hotbot.com now, its soooo much better than that G$$gle crap!
You know its true.....wait for it.....
Then Google VIOP search engine will automatically come back with:
Did you mean error 0x000000A what it mean?
Yeah, I'd buy that for a dollar!
Lets start with 10 years, shall we?
$144 a year for Adelphia service and rentakl fees on ONE box.
multiply by 10
is $1440
Think that's too long? You'll have HDTV longer than that. Sure $1000 (I see them for $800 , not sure where you're looking) is a high upfront fee. But better than crappy non-digital 77 channels of Adelphia.
Adelphia, call me when you get digital TV. Your cheezy 5 free monthes offers only get idiots to sign-up.
Yeah I could probably goto the junkyard and buy parts to build a car, but I have a life. Sometimes (actually, always) time is your most valuable comodity. You only have so much, then BANG.....
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displa ylang=en
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/10/loki_down_ mpaa/