on the heels of this, comes news of a Smart Alarm Clock for Perky Wakeups...
Yes, but make sure you don't get the Darth Vader edition of the Smart Alarm Clock for Perky Wakeups.
That one not only reads your brain waves, but instead of adjusting itself to help you, it uses the dark side of alarm clock force to ring just a little bit too much... and then on alternate Tuesdays it doesn't wake you up at all and laughs in an evil way when you finally regain conciousness... plus it always broadcasts CNN.
Huh? I thought the moons atmosphere was mostly sodium... although there should be oxygen as well. Probably not 70% nitrogen though. Methinks you need to filter out the bad stuff as well as compress it.
Might have to bring the nitrogen with us - and make nitrous oxide.
Was it just that British humour and the struggle of the loser isn't regarded as funny in the USA, or was it because the Hollywood execs don't understand anything that involves a sense of understated irony?
Growing up in Alaska, I've been outside in -60F weather, and it's not so bad (you can always put on more insulation). You just have to keep every part of your body covered, including wearing a face mask. Once you solved the problem of a total lack of oxygen, solving the problem of keeping warm should be trivial.
I've lived for weeks outside at -40c myself (-40c is the same as -40F), so I agree, and the face mask isn't that critical (but a warm parka and gloves/socks are). There isn't a total lack of oxygen, the moon has a breathable atmosphere - once you compress it about 10,000 times... and warm it up.
Of course, if you melted the frozen ice there, you'd have lots of 02 and H2...
Extreme Winter (-60c) Very Cold Winter (-55c) Freezing Cold Winter (-50c) Nippy Out There Winter (-45c)
Reservations are now being accepted.
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And you probably think most space shuttle flights are civilian, right?
All shuttle flights *are* civilian. Have been since the early 90s.
Again, you confuse the "listed" flights and the actual flights.
Most flights have at least one mil package, and some flights are mil only. The mil only flights haven't been listed since the early 90's - because we don't want to acknowledge they exist, just like the 50 percent of the budget that's the black budget which we officially deny occurs, but we all know exists (and the French and others actual detail in thier stats on the US economy).
But, hey, I used to hold a military clearance myself, so I'm probably not correct - by your standards - right?
I say again, the decision is political, not scientific. Not saying it's the right or wrong decision, but everything's a choice.
It's not an icon, it's more useful
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If the White House burned down and it was discovered that it would only cost a little more to build a new White House over in Arlington then to rebuild it at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which would you choose?
I would choose to use the money to fix the Hubble.
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Even though 90 percent of the public is way more interested in pictures from Hubble than they are in the International Space Station (ISS) or any moon base, the scaredy-cats in DC don't want to risk fixing it with the military space shuttle, so they can send more spy satellites up instead.
Sigh. It will soon be replaced with something better from the EU or Japan anyway.
last time I used Z shell was when I dialed in via z-term, and that's so long ago I can't remember which century it was... or if my modem went faster than 300 baud.
A good standard is one that most software is 80 to 99.9 percent compliant with, has few exceptions, and is not heavily weighted towards a specific vendor.
A bad standard is one that most software is less than 80 percent compliant with, has a significant number of exceptions that you can misinterpret many different ways, and/or is heavily weighted towards one or more specific vendors.
If the standards committee spends more than 80 percent of their time arguing over minutiae that 99 percent of the software users of the standard will never use, you can be sure that it will be a bad standard, no matter how much everyone thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Had exactly the same problem with with Firefox/Acrobat Viewer today. Log off/on cleared it.
Kind of hard to do when the CPU is running at 100 percent. After I killed the Firefox.exe process, I did a full shutdown and reboot, once I had the Adobe Acrobat Viewer update completed.
Have to agree, a Rio MP3 player would be a better bargain.
And I own 400 shares of Sony, so there's no excuse for their actions, from my viewpoint. The market cares nothing for one's excuses, only one's actions.
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on the heels of this, comes news of a Smart Alarm Clock for Perky Wakeups ...
... and then on alternate Tuesdays it doesn't wake you up at all and laughs in an evil way when you finally regain conciousness ... plus it always broadcasts CNN.
Yes, but make sure you don't get the Darth Vader edition of the Smart Alarm Clock for Perky Wakeups.
That one not only reads your brain waves, but instead of adjusting itself to help you, it uses the dark side of alarm clock force to ring just a little bit too much
It gets worse.
There are bugs in Santa.
Not only that, but Santa has Open Sores. From firing a fox.
I think beer might be more appropriate. And marzipan.
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I like the marzipan from France and Spain more.
But I agree on a good smooth German beer, like you can get at the Essen Haus in Madison, WI
DrewTech developed some GPL code, and SAE said that they owned it and refused to release the source, and were charging money for it.
SAE gave up on their claims of ownership and released the source.
But did this involve an actual penalty or ruling from the court or was it settled ex parte (and thus not belonging to the body of US law)?
And also, was this a district court, state supreme court, federal court (e.g. 7th), or federal appeals court?
before we break open the bottles of German champagne ...
apologies, I just found out that Intel set up their WiFi at the North Pole.
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Not the South Pole.
Still gonna be hard to do any wireless WiFi podcasting on the Moon, though.
And the time lag is a killer for streaming video
it's cooold out there on the Moon.
No WiFi for miles.
Maybe I'll stay here.
At the Gap, photographers were told they couldn't take pictures because the Gap didn't want competitors to study and copy its clothing displays.
... um, wait, then why do we have a law about that if they don't exist? ...
Good laugh. All they need to do it walk in and LOOK at it. Duh.
Guess noone has cell phones that take pictures in Seattle
... the moon has a breathable atmosphere ...
Huh? I thought the moons atmosphere was mostly sodium... although there should be oxygen as well. Probably not 70% nitrogen though. Methinks you need to filter out the bad stuff as well as compress it.
Might have to bring the nitrogen with us - and make nitrous oxide.
or will there be any gratuitous scenes of violence involving the above?
Was it just that British humour and the struggle of the loser isn't regarded as funny in the USA, or was it because the Hollywood execs don't understand anything that involves a sense of understated irony?
Oh, and did you use a casting couch or a settee?
Just wanted to point out, though, that if a corporation built it, it would exist for one thing: economic profit for the corporation heads.
Based on the incorrect assumption that a corporation is a person under Lunar Law.
On the moon, corporations are actually defined as goats. Space goats in fact. They're tasty when barbecued.
Growing up in Alaska, I've been outside in -60F weather, and it's not so bad (you can always put on more insulation). You just have to keep every part of your body covered, including wearing a face mask. Once you solved the problem of a total lack of oxygen, solving the problem of keeping warm should be trivial.
... and warm it up.
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I've lived for weeks outside at -40c myself (-40c is the same as -40F), so I agree, and the face mask isn't that critical (but a warm parka and gloves/socks are). There isn't a total lack of oxygen, the moon has a breathable atmosphere - once you compress it about 10,000 times
Of course, if you melted the frozen ice there, you'd have lots of 02 and H2
depends on how much oil there is.
and at 14 cents a square mile, it's dirt cheap.
I'll be prospecting for gold, of course.
And selling frozen water found during the process to the people who own the land but forgot anyone can file for mining rights.
Record debt and deficits, and the Senate is right now discussing removing the Estate Tax. There is no money for this in your lifetime, it is scifi.
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Ah, but you assume they actually intend to pay for it.
We all know that Moon Base Alpha will be paid for with money borrowed by China.
After all, it's not like they have a space program
will have the seasons of:
Extreme Winter (-60c)
Very Cold Winter (-55c)
Freezing Cold Winter (-50c)
Nippy Out There Winter (-45c)
Reservations are now being accepted.
And you probably think most space shuttle flights are civilian, right?
All shuttle flights *are* civilian. Have been since the early 90s.
Again, you confuse the "listed" flights and the actual flights.
Most flights have at least one mil package, and some flights are mil only. The mil only flights haven't been listed since the early 90's - because we don't want to acknowledge they exist, just like the 50 percent of the budget that's the black budget which we officially deny occurs, but we all know exists (and the French and others actual detail in thier stats on the US economy).
But, hey, I used to hold a military clearance myself, so I'm probably not correct - by your standards - right?
I say again, the decision is political, not scientific. Not saying it's the right or wrong decision, but everything's a choice.
If the White House burned down and it was discovered that it would only cost a little more to build a new White House over in Arlington then to rebuild it at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which would you choose?
I would choose to use the money to fix the Hubble.
Next question?
he'll stop trying to Take Over The World ...
ya think?
Even though 90 percent of the public is way more interested in pictures from Hubble than they are in the International Space Station (ISS) or any moon base, the scaredy-cats in DC don't want to risk fixing it with the military space shuttle, so they can send more spy satellites up instead.
Sigh. It will soon be replaced with something better from the EU or Japan anyway.
last time I used Z shell was when I dialed in via z-term, and that's so long ago I can't remember which century it was ... or if my modem went faster than 300 baud.
A good standard is one that most software is 80 to 99.9 percent compliant with, has few exceptions, and is not heavily weighted towards a specific vendor.
A bad standard is one that most software is less than 80 percent compliant with, has a significant number of exceptions that you can misinterpret many different ways, and/or is heavily weighted towards one or more specific vendors.
If the standards committee spends more than 80 percent of their time arguing over minutiae that 99 percent of the software users of the standard will never use, you can be sure that it will be a bad standard, no matter how much everyone thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Caveat: I like unsliced bread, personally.
Had exactly the same problem with with Firefox/Acrobat Viewer today. Log off/on cleared it.
Kind of hard to do when the CPU is running at 100 percent. After I killed the Firefox.exe process, I did a full shutdown and reboot, once I had the Adobe Acrobat Viewer update completed.
Sigh.
Have to agree, a Rio MP3 player would be a better bargain.
And I own 400 shares of Sony, so there's no excuse for their actions, from my viewpoint. The market cares nothing for one's excuses, only one's actions.