Along with all these new advances in engines and thrust, are there research divisions in exisitance that are trying to invent better spacetravel braking systems?
Imagine a day when we actually discover another inhabited planet and incorporate every means of advanced sophisticated propulsion we know to get there, only to approach their planet full-thrust.. backwards! and then deploy parachutes to land...
Practical? Sure. Graceful? No. Awe-inspiring first impression? Nah-uh.
to see where this will go.. how long before your cd has to dial into an advertising scheme of some sort before you can listen to to the music you paid for.
Heck, NASA thinks they're so smart. If they we really thinking they would realize that a trip to mars with 8 crew members along with all the so-called 'infedelity' and 'intense relationships' is a perfect chance to corner the reality TV market!
They'd be killing all their birds with one stone, for pete's sake. Huge media coverage, lucrative advertising sponsorships... man NASA would be overfunded and popular again for the first time since the 60's. C'mon NASA, give America what it really wants!
They could call it "Pigs in Space" or wait.. yeah that one was taken. Too bad it's a classic.
If Microsoft were to allow Google to organize the information on *.microsoft.com I may actually find what I'm looking for from time to time without feeling like I'm wading through a jungle of irrelevant info, missing pages, and redundant circle-loop links.
Telus (as in Telecommunications US || Tell us how much we owe you now) is not a Canadian company. BC Tel, AGT, and Sasktel were Canadian companies.
Offtopic I know but I've always been disappointed in my western canadian provinces for selling out our telecoms to american interests.
Great way to describe it. Made me think of the WWF when I read that.. Used to love it once. Then it got more flashy, and then it got more loud, and time and time as much as it changed it was the same old boring stupid crap. And I started to hate it. I hated it so much it made me want to choke. Die. Kill! Kill!!
Well anyways, at least we have options to mso.
Is that off topic.. ?
Even if eveyone who went to the theatre was an absolute clean freak, you would still encounter messes in the theatre. The fact is, it's usually pretty darn dark in there, and as movie-goers we have very little room to place our drinks and popcorn containers except on the floor, where they can get kicked or knocked over. Even if you do manage to hang onto those during the whole movie, all it takes is someone to try and get out past you to the aisle and there's a very good chance something is gonna spill.
Are you telling me you've never spilled any popcorn in a theatre? Or that you picked up every little piece when you did? C'mon, do you scrub public toilets and counters after you use them? Empty the trash bins when they look pretty full? I doubt it, that's not your job, is it? Does that make you a slob? No.
Making the ribbons is quite simple, Dr. Baughman said. The UTD scientists started with a "forest" of nanotube trees, about one-third of a millimeter high. Then they stuck a Post-It note to one edge of the forest and gently pulled away. The nanotube trees were drawn out, and as the researchers kept pulling, the trees stuck to each other side by side, forming a long, wispy and transparent sheet.
This is one of those amazing accidentally discovered things, that seems pretty obvious to me.
"OH CRAP! My Post-It note got stuck to the precious nano-forest!!"
"Quick! Pull it off before the Professor gets back! Gently!! Ahhh!!"
"Oh no! It's peeling the forest away!... Make it stop, make it stop! Oh man we're screwed, dude!"
"Hey wait! Look what it's doing! That's way too cool! We just invented Superman's cape!"
Wasn't Captain Janeway the first female starship captain or something like that? She managed to get her ship and whole crew hopelessly lost, didn't she?
I've been using UltraEdit [www.ultraedit.com] for 6 or 7 years.. Anyone not familiar with it, UltraEdit is notepad on a heavy dose of steroids.. it's a true hacker's wet dream. One of the best things about it being it's tabbed interface, being able to have two dozen (or more!) code documents open at once without a crapload of clutter on the bar is nothing less than ejaculatory.
It's about time!! the browsers started implementing a tabbed system.. it's nothing new.
Now, if SecureCRT would just do the same thing my life would be complete!! Actually, maybe they have.. I haven't tried a new version since v3.0.
I like Microsoft simply for the comedy factor they provide. Someone like yourself and myself and many others who know better can afford to just sit back and laugh, no?
Pray, let them continue! My world would be so much less amusing without the ongoing Microsoft foot-in-it's-own-mouth campaigns we keep seeing.
Oh, I know it's a shame that so many actually believe their rhetoric, and we should continue to be diligent in pointing to the silly monkeys and letting others know just where that unseen finger actually is, but y'know, linux has obviously hit it's powerband and has a lot of gears to go, Apple had a near-death experience which has inspired them with a new vigour for life, whereas Microsoft is just showing evidence of stalling out..
Should the day come in which there is no more Microsoft, who will we laugh at? Who will we blame? Will we be happy, or will we be sad? Who will be the monkeys once we've killed all the monkeys?
Yes, in my own nutty way and for my own nutty reasons, I like Microsoft, and I'm glad they're around.
Where else can I "Get The Farce" and walk away feeling so much better about myself?
So... what _do_ women do on the internet, exactly? Pron, gaming, and illegal downloading is all (mostly) male dominated activity, but that's the internet... Yeah off topic I know, but that's the first thing that came to my inquiring mind.
Well, anyways, back to your regularly scheduled mindlessness...
I could not agree more with sthawkeye, what a great post. How can these so-called educated business-saavy megalith organizations continue to waste away what profits they do have on ridiculous campaigns to kill a technology they obviously do not understand. And I do not for one moment believe this empty pockets crying game the RIAA and MPAA and others are playing.. didn't the MPAA announce record theatre attendance recently?? I know I'm sure seeing record ticket prices.. and for what? As far as I'm concerned, mainstream music and movie plots have taken huge nosedives in quality in the last 10 years! Sure the production is better but so what?
These industries have at their disposal a proven testing ground for determining the value and marektability of their product, and they don't have to pay one thin dime on it. It's right there! Imagine if production houses released (even cheesy) animation pre-production story lines across P2P to see what people's reactions would be.. I wonder if Peter Jackson would be doing King Kong or The Hobbit right now... ? I think Hollywood would be releasing a LOT less flops than it does and the world would be a better place.
Now, referring to the executives and staff of these industries, I wonder how many of these people have actually _never_ installed or used kazaa, or winmx, or napster? Are they truly that purist? How about their children? Or their extended families such as brothers, nieces, grandparents... Do these people even understand what they're fighting here?
Any of you parents know that it is difficult to keep track of the things your kids are installing and/or downloading from public networks. I wonder if they threaten their kids with lawsuits or spankings... ?
It's also funny that these monopolistic/dominant/selfish corporate monsters all seem to be American... (Forgive me on this one, I've known many Americans and I love them, but I can't believe the direction they're letting their country venture) The RI of America, the MPA America.. Microsoft being American as well. What happened to the original American values of competition, free enterprise, et al. Can we just give the US their own internet so the rest of us can relax and actually enjoy being on a public network without worrying about who's coming after us or what they're threatening to take away next? Maybe we can wrap them all up into a great big honey-network so they only *think* they're on the actual internet.. (Yes thats a joke!)
Ahhhh... if it wasn't so pathetic it would be funny.
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pretty slick judging by the state of the dining room table I would guess you're not married? ;)
that, or your wife is pretty darn cool
Yeah. Um.. is there something NASA is perhaps not telling us? Should we be worried here? "Pay no attention folks, it's just a drill."
Maybe if we put scary faces all over the parachutes... !!
I hereby retract my previous post.
Imagine a day when we actually discover another inhabited planet and incorporate every means of advanced sophisticated propulsion we know to get there, only to approach their planet full-thrust.. backwards! and then deploy parachutes to land...
Practical? Sure. Graceful? No. Awe-inspiring first impression? Nah-uh.
to see where this will go.. how long before your cd has to dial into an advertising scheme of some sort before you can listen to to the music you paid for.
They'd be killing all their birds with one stone, for pete's sake. Huge media coverage, lucrative advertising sponsorships... man NASA would be overfunded and popular again for the first time since the 60's. C'mon NASA, give America what it really wants!
They could call it "Pigs in Space" or wait.. yeah that one was taken. Too bad it's a classic.
"Vote 'em off the shuttle!"
If Microsoft were to allow Google to organize the information on *.microsoft.com I may actually find what I'm looking for from time to time without feeling like I'm wading through a jungle of irrelevant info, missing pages, and redundant circle-loop links.
Telus (as in Telecommunications US || Tell us how much we owe you now) is not a Canadian company. BC Tel, AGT, and Sasktel were Canadian companies. Offtopic I know but I've always been disappointed in my western canadian provinces for selling out our telecoms to american interests.
Great way to describe it. Made me think of the WWF when I read that.. Used to love it once. Then it got more flashy, and then it got more loud, and time and time as much as it changed it was the same old boring stupid crap. And I started to hate it. I hated it so much it made me want to choke. Die. Kill! Kill!! Well anyways, at least we have options to mso. Is that off topic.. ?
Ultraedit used tabs back when Netscape was still the shit.. loooong before Firefox was around.
Are you telling me you've never spilled any popcorn in a theatre? Or that you picked up every little piece when you did? C'mon, do you scrub public toilets and counters after you use them? Empty the trash bins when they look pretty full? I doubt it, that's not your job, is it? Does that make you a slob? No.
This is one of those amazing accidentally discovered things, that seems pretty obvious to me.
If ever a slashdot post deserved a plus 6 this is it.
Wasn't Captain Janeway the first female starship captain or something like that? She managed to get her ship and whole crew hopelessly lost, didn't she?
Oh wait... Yeah. Well, anyways.
It's about time!! the browsers started implementing a tabbed system.. it's nothing new.
Now, if SecureCRT would just do the same thing my life would be complete!! Actually, maybe they have.. I haven't tried a new version since v3.0.
Pray, let them continue! My world would be so much less amusing without the ongoing Microsoft foot-in-it's-own-mouth campaigns we keep seeing.
Oh, I know it's a shame that so many actually believe their rhetoric, and we should continue to be diligent in pointing to the silly monkeys and letting others know just where that unseen finger actually is, but y'know, linux has obviously hit it's powerband and has a lot of gears to go, Apple had a near-death experience which has inspired them with a new vigour for life, whereas Microsoft is just showing evidence of stalling out..
Should the day come in which there is no more Microsoft, who will we laugh at? Who will we blame? Will we be happy, or will we be sad? Who will be the monkeys once we've killed all the monkeys?
Yes, in my own nutty way and for my own nutty reasons, I like Microsoft, and I'm glad they're around.
Where else can I "Get The Farce" and walk away feeling so much better about myself?
Well, anyways, back to your regularly scheduled mindlessness...
I could not agree more with sthawkeye, what a great post. How can these so-called educated business-saavy megalith organizations continue to waste away what profits they do have on ridiculous campaigns to kill a technology they obviously do not understand. And I do not for one moment believe this empty pockets crying game the RIAA and MPAA and others are playing.. didn't the MPAA announce record theatre attendance recently?? I know I'm sure seeing record ticket prices.. and for what? As far as I'm concerned, mainstream music and movie plots have taken huge nosedives in quality in the last 10 years! Sure the production is better but so what?
These industries have at their disposal a proven testing ground for determining the value and marektability of their product, and they don't have to pay one thin dime on it. It's right there! Imagine if production houses released (even cheesy) animation pre-production story lines across P2P to see what people's reactions would be.. I wonder if Peter Jackson would be doing King Kong or The Hobbit right now... ? I think Hollywood would be releasing a LOT less flops than it does and the world would be a better place.
Now, referring to the executives and staff of these industries, I wonder how many of these people have actually _never_ installed or used kazaa, or winmx, or napster? Are they truly that purist? How about their children? Or their extended families such as brothers, nieces, grandparents... Do these people even understand what they're fighting here?
Any of you parents know that it is difficult to keep track of the things your kids are installing and/or downloading from public networks. I wonder if they threaten their kids with lawsuits or spankings... ?
It's also funny that these monopolistic/dominant/selfish corporate monsters all seem to be American... (Forgive me on this one, I've known many Americans and I love them, but I can't believe the direction they're letting their country venture) The RI of America, the MPA America.. Microsoft being American as well. What happened to the original American values of competition, free enterprise, et al. Can we just give the US their own internet so the rest of us can relax and actually enjoy being on a public network without worrying about who's coming after us or what they're threatening to take away next? Maybe we can wrap them all up into a great big honey-network so they only *think* they're on the actual internet.. (Yes thats a joke!)
Ahhhh... if it wasn't so pathetic it would be funny.