I know there are all kinds of other factors and I know it takes a lot of math to even get to the right orbit at the right time and speed to even see the Hubble, but after that, it ought to be relatively simple considering the lack of any unwanted or unexpected force on the crafts. I'm pretty sure it's much more difficult to land a jet on an air craft carrier, but I wouldn't know for sure.
Exactly right, we've been doing it for overy forty years -
Something tells me we'd pay Kim Jong Il $150 million and get a brick by return mail.
Marty: This is, uh, this is heavy-duty Doc! Does it run like on regular unleaded gasoline?
Doc: Unfortunately no. It requires something with a little more kick: Plutonium.
Marty: Uh, plutonium... Wait a minute, Doc, are you tellin me that this sucker is nuclear?!?
Doc: Hey, keep rolling, keep rolling there, No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but it needs a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and...and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?!
Doc: Of course, from a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb. So I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
Am I the only person left on earth that like and often prefers to read things printed on dead trees?
No, but I for one struggle with the form factor. The only place I can read my local 'broad sheet' newspaper is on my kitchen table. It's too ridiculously large for the bus, the counter at the diner etc. I wish I could get my 'paper' in the same form factor as a thick magazine. Then I could read it in more places.
Wake me up when Hulu is available outside the U.S.
I agree 100%. I suppose I wouldn't mind the region-blocking if there was a local alternative, but there isn't. Why block SNL if there isn't an alternative place I can go watch a clip? Who are they protecting?
Windows 1.0 through 3.11 were not operating systems
This is slashdot. It's blasphemy to even suggest on here that *any* release of Windows deserves the designation "Operating System." Now go sit in the corner and receive your flames like a good boy.
all ready to to play the role in the next sequel -- which, I dearly hope, never gets made.
I never understand comments like these. While another Next-Gen movie is highly unlikely, why do you care if they make one? I'm sure many people would be happy to see Picard, Riker, Worf and the gang go at it again. If you don't want a sequel then don't go.
Come up with some new ideas or at least rename them more then just slapping a increment onto the title.
For me, a "Plan C" would be to "Make the damn movies faster!"
Take James Bond - If you're worried about the actor getting all old on you (a la Moore) then release a Bond movie every year - Apparently we're not getting Bond 23 until 2011! In my mind that's an unnecessarily long period of time.
Contrast that with the early 60s:
Dr. No: 1962
From Russia with Love: 1963
Goldfinger: 1964
Thunderball: 1965
In their day, Goldfinger and Thunderball were some of the most complicated movies ever made (Gadget DB5, Fort Knox, Vulcan Bombers, Underwater Battles) yet they were a year apart.
If you want to get max dollar from your franchises Hollywood, then take advantage of the damn franchise, and don't make us wait forever for each release!
Living in Ohio, there is no way this would be faster, cheaper, or easier than just driving.
It may very well be cheaper in the near future, if fuel prices continue to increase. That's one the reasons many people in Europe take the railways instead of driving - The fares are cheaper than the fuel costs.
Please take Vancouver, Montreal, and any other city I might've missed off that list. Thanks.
Apologies for replying to an AC troll, but as a Canadian living in Vancouver I was very pleased to see that Obama's high-speed rail map included trains into our major cities from the USA. Next step would be a porous border between the USA and Canada like the one made possible by Europe's Schengen Agreement, but one step at a time:)
Taxes are effectively fees for services rendered. Why should one person pay more for an identical service rendered than another person?
Because the community you live in (be it a village, county, province or nation-state) isn't a business. For all intents and purposes it is a co-operative. Since the dawn of civilization, co-operatives have generally arranged themselves around a model of "pay (or contribute) what you can afford." The modern nation state has formalized this in the form of a sliding scale of taxes, but the same rules that have been around for 20,000 years still ring basically true.
These bozos were trying to say that the US was going to have to lower its standard of living, too, just like you are now.
I suppose it depends how you define "standard of living." If it means live in a smaller house, drive a smaller, more fuel-efficient car, have fewer 50" flat-panel TVs, then I'd say yes, the USA is going to have to do that. It won't be a socialist imposition or anything like that - It will just be market economics. Large houses are going to become too expensive to heat and cool; large cars and going to become too expensive to drive and lack of free credit means people will have to live more within their means. That's the invisible hand at work.
The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid.
While this annoyed me too, I took it as a nod to the original series:
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis.
If we assume that we're their descendents, then we need an explanation as to why there wasn't any technology back then... So we need to remaining humans to throw it away. But I agree - That wouldn't have actually happened.
I live in Canada (Vancouver, as a matter of fact - I can see Caprica City from my front window at home. But I digress.)
We're currently in synch with the "SyFy" air dates, but it didn't used to be the case... We too used to lag (in fact in one season the UK was ahead of us). As a result, if I didn't want spoilers I didn't read BSG forums. It's not reasonable to expect the millions of rabid North American fans to not accidentally post spoilers.
I'm also a big OO7 fan - When Quantum of Solace opened overseas a week before Canada, I stayed away from my OO7 forums...
And what the hell was the deal with all that business around B4? We had all these plotlines around "evil Lore" yet no mention of Lore is made when this B4 robot turns up. Ugh.
Just because something exists in another country, doesn't mean it should be a world-wide trend.
The problem is this: You can either pick
1) Lots of government spending, and lots of all kinds of taxes to pay for it, including taxes on ether like digital downloads
or
2) Little government spending, and as a result fewer / no taxes.
What those of use struggle with 'in other countries' is that USA has picked both lots of spending and no taxes. It's unsustainable. Pick one or the other, USA.
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I know there are all kinds of other factors and I know it takes a lot of math to even get to the right orbit at the right time and speed to even see the Hubble, but after that, it ought to be relatively simple considering the lack of any unwanted or unexpected force on the crafts. I'm pretty sure it's much more difficult to land a jet on an air craft carrier, but I wouldn't know for sure.
Exactly right, we've been doing it for overy forty years -
Apollo 13 CSM Seperation (sic) and Docking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSOuFzSNDmk
Something tells me we'd pay Kim Jong Il $150 million and get a brick by return mail.
Marty: This is, uh, this is heavy-duty Doc! Does it run like on regular unleaded gasoline?
Doc: Unfortunately no. It requires something with a little more kick: Plutonium.
Marty: Uh, plutonium... Wait a minute, Doc, are you tellin me that this sucker is nuclear?!?
Doc: Hey, keep rolling, keep rolling there, No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but it needs a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and...and buy plutonium! Did you rip that off?!
Doc: Of course, from a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb. So I took their plutonium and in turn gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts!
Come on, lets get you a radiation suit.
I have no idea what "At first they came for" means
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
Am I the only person left on earth that like and often prefers to read things printed on dead trees?
No, but I for one struggle with the form factor. The only place I can read my local 'broad sheet' newspaper is on my kitchen table. It's too ridiculously large for the bus, the counter at the diner etc. I wish I could get my 'paper' in the same form factor as a thick magazine. Then I could read it in more places.
I'm too poor to get a PVR...
Not sure where you are, but you can get a VCR on Craigslist.CA for about five dollars? Heck some of them are in "free"...
Wake me up when Hulu is available outside the U.S.
I agree 100%. I suppose I wouldn't mind the region-blocking if there was a local alternative, but there isn't. Why block SNL if there isn't an alternative place I can go watch a clip? Who are they protecting?
Windows 1.0 through 3.11 were not operating systems
This is slashdot. It's blasphemy to even suggest on here that *any* release of Windows deserves the designation "Operating System." Now go sit in the corner and receive your flames like a good boy.
First it was by year
???
What about Windows 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.11?
all ready to to play the role in the next sequel -- which, I dearly hope, never gets made.
I never understand comments like these. While another Next-Gen movie is highly unlikely, why do you care if they make one? I'm sure many people would be happy to see Picard, Riker, Worf and the gang go at it again. If you don't want a sequel then don't go.
Come up with some new ideas or at least rename them more then just slapping a increment onto the title.
For me, a "Plan C" would be to "Make the damn movies faster!"
Take James Bond - If you're worried about the actor getting all old on you (a la Moore) then release a Bond movie every year - Apparently we're not getting Bond 23 until 2011! In my mind that's an unnecessarily long period of time.
Contrast that with the early 60s:
Dr. No: 1962
From Russia with Love: 1963
Goldfinger: 1964
Thunderball: 1965
In their day, Goldfinger and Thunderball were some of the most complicated movies ever made (Gadget DB5, Fort Knox, Vulcan Bombers, Underwater Battles) yet they were a year apart.
If you want to get max dollar from your franchises Hollywood, then take advantage of the damn franchise, and don't make us wait forever for each release!
Living in Ohio, there is no way this would be faster, cheaper, or easier than just driving.
It may very well be cheaper in the near future, if fuel prices continue to increase. That's one the reasons many people in Europe take the railways instead of driving - The fares are cheaper than the fuel costs.
Please take Vancouver, Montreal, and any other city I might've missed off that list. Thanks.
Apologies for replying to an AC troll, but as a Canadian living in Vancouver I was very pleased to see that Obama's high-speed rail map included trains into our major cities from the USA. Next step would be a porous border between the USA and Canada like the one made possible by Europe's Schengen Agreement, but one step at a time :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
This is a critical component to any good disaster movie from the 70s.
- Towering Inferno: Building developer refuses to cancel dedication party after bad wiring is found and fire starts.
- Jaws: Town mayor refuses to close beach after attack from big shark.
Come to think of it, Tommy Lee Jones's and Pierce Brosnan's Volcano movies were the same deal...
Here in Vancouver, Canada, one of the most drug-crime infested neighbourhoods *is* a block from the police station:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
Taxes are effectively fees for services rendered. Why should one person pay more for an identical service rendered than another person?
Because the community you live in (be it a village, county, province or nation-state) isn't a business. For all intents and purposes it is a co-operative. Since the dawn of civilization, co-operatives have generally arranged themselves around a model of "pay (or contribute) what you can afford." The modern nation state has formalized this in the form of a sliding scale of taxes, but the same rules that have been around for 20,000 years still ring basically true.
These bozos were trying to say that the US was going to have to lower its standard of living, too, just like you are now.
I suppose it depends how you define "standard of living." If it means live in a smaller house, drive a smaller, more fuel-efficient car, have fewer 50" flat-panel TVs, then I'd say yes, the USA is going to have to do that. It won't be a socialist imposition or anything like that - It will just be market economics. Large houses are going to become too expensive to heat and cool; large cars and going to become too expensive to drive and lack of free credit means people will have to live more within their means. That's the invisible hand at work.
Most people in India have lived their entire lives without cars and didn't need it
The target market for this car is not people who have never had transportation. The target market is people who run their families around on scooters and mopeds, like this: http://images.quickblogcast.com/8849-8518/family_scooter.JPG
I wish I could buy a 50mpg small car here in the states for under $9500
It may not be a 50 mpg car, but you can certainly get a very fuel efficient used Honda Civic (~40mpg) for considerably less than $9500.
The unilateral decision to get rid of all technology for everybody was both absurd, short-sighted, and just plain stupid.
While this annoyed me too, I took it as a nod to the original series:
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis.
If we assume that we're their descendents, then we need an explanation as to why there wasn't any technology back then... So we need to remaining humans to throw it away. But I agree - That wouldn't have actually happened.
You do realize that not everyone lives in the US?
I live in Canada (Vancouver, as a matter of fact - I can see Caprica City from my front window at home. But I digress.)
We're currently in synch with the "SyFy" air dates, but it didn't used to be the case... We too used to lag (in fact in one season the UK was ahead of us). As a result, if I didn't want spoilers I didn't read BSG forums. It's not reasonable to expect the millions of rabid North American fans to not accidentally post spoilers.
I'm also a big OO7 fan - When Quantum of Solace opened overseas a week before Canada, I stayed away from my OO7 forums...
Couldn't have at least had a spoiler warning on your title?
If you're that far behind, why are you *reading* anything bsg related this close to the finale? You're bound to hit spoilers.
I thought industrial level trawling went out years ago?
Nope - Not when there isn't anyone to enforce the laws.
In Canada, our version of the channel is called "Space" - Of if you prefer the longer version: "Space, the Imagination Station."
And what the hell was the deal with all that business around B4? We had all these plotlines around "evil Lore" yet no mention of Lore is made when this B4 robot turns up. Ugh.
Just because something exists in another country, doesn't mean it should be a world-wide trend.
The problem is this: You can either pick
1) Lots of government spending, and lots of all kinds of taxes to pay for it, including taxes on ether like digital downloads
or
2) Little government spending, and as a result fewer / no taxes.
What those of use struggle with 'in other countries' is that USA has picked both lots of spending and no taxes. It's unsustainable. Pick one or the other, USA.