It probably speaks volumes that I don't find this too egregious. My only question is why they couldn't have set these pods up in a vacant office area instead of in the aisles? It can't be good to sleep among all the fan noise.
If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. Our god-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate the moon in terms understandable to other men.
On the dangers and importance of the mission of going to the moon in "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space (1968) by Virgil I. Grissom
If you check the picture in the second row, second from left you see something very interesting. Look under the picture of the Virgin "Galactic Girl" on the forward fuselage. It's faint, but you can make out "VSS Enterprise". It's a big image so you might have to zoom in on it.
Is this a Star Trek reference or are they following the US space program tradition of calling the first Shuttle Enterprise? Although that was in response to outcry from trekkies. Anyway, interesting none the less.
If you remember, between the time Vista was released to enterprises in the Fall of 06 and release to the public in early 07, most computer vendors offered "Free Upgrades to Vista" if you bought a PC with XP. I'd like to know how many of these "40 million licenses" were paid for and how many were free. Was MS charging a higher price for OEM XP if it came with a free upgrade to OEM Vista? Or were you getting two OS licenses for the price of one?
Incredible! They were down at the open, but are now UP 5 bucks from yesterday's close! An outage taking out all of North America and the stock is up. Why don't I own some RIMM?
The msg body was a GIF containing text telling me there had been virus activity from my IP and I should run this "patch" to fix it. The "patch" was a zip file they said they had to send as a zip so my "comprimised virus scanner" wouldn't reject it. If I didn't run the patch, my internet access woudld be cut off. All I had to do was unzip and run the patch and all my problems would be solved. HA!
We all had a chuckle at how stupid someone would be to actually do that - then we realized grandma probably would, not knowning any better. All the more reason to get grandma off windows and onto at least a Mac, if not Linux.
In a recent interview, Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel, made the following remark: "We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
And to clarify, the customer is the ADVERTISER, not the listner. You are simply the PRODUCT. It is your eyballs and ears that are being sold, in the form of ratings.
Clear Channel could care less what you the listener/viewer want. It's all about advertisers. If you were tied down in front of the telly with your eyeballs stuck open with toothpicks to be force-fed intellectual sludge, that would be just peachy by them...
The 35 million customers they say they have is way over inflated. That includes all the people who D/L AIM for free - they're AOL users, they have a screen name and all that, but they don't pay AOL no 23.90 a month. Hell the 35 mil probably includes every user they ever had who got the service and tried to cancel, becuase we all know how hard it is to actually get through to someone and cancel an AOL account. I have no idea what the true paying subscriber base is but it's not 35 million.
Ah, but the computer support arena is FULL of trick questions. Try playing 20 questions with a user about why his computer keeps crashing and you better be listening for detail the whole time. That one little tidbit he throws in 8 minutes into the conversation about the "harmless" software he installed 3 days ago will be the thing that lets you fix the problem and get onto the next luser. If you weren't listening for that kind of detail you will miss it and go round in circles for hours.
The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
Sounds suspiciously like "the value of software we're giving to schools as an anti-trust penalty is $900M". Did they actually pay for that $40k of computer time all those years ago, or did they get it for free from the university they were at?
Nice accounting tricks though, claiming an expense costs you a huge amount of money when in reality the cost is negligble, and pocket the difference. No wonder the guy is the richest man in the world...
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
Lots of people, apparently. Linus Torvalds. Richard Stallman. Other members of the GNU/FSF and affiliated projects.
I know it! I did actually buy the magazine months ago, and it's not a bad article, maybe not worth buying a whole magizine for, but what the heck.
All the guy wanted was a source other than the NY Post, so that's what I provided. Seems there are other sources available on the net, as provided by others:
www.rocketguy.com
and even a/. story on this last summer, which pre-dates the space.com magazine by a lot...
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How about the February issue of Space Illustrated, the magazine produced by the space.com people?
http://www.space.com/mag/contents_february.php3
(Now granted, space.com may not be a reputable source either, to those in the space biz, but it's at least better than the NY Post...)
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It probably speaks volumes that I don't find this too egregious. My only question is why they couldn't have set these pods up in a vacant office area instead of in the aisles? It can't be good to sleep among all the fan noise.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom
On the dangers and importance of the mission of going to the moon in "Gemini : A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space (1968) by Virgil I. Grissom
Is it possible to slashdot youtube? I tried to watch but the video had these annoying pauses...
Foggy Bottom is the Department of State
If you check the picture in the second row, second from left you see something very interesting. Look under the picture of the Virgin "Galactic Girl" on the forward fuselage. It's faint, but you can make out "VSS Enterprise". It's a big image so you might have to zoom in on it.
Is this a Star Trek reference or are they following the US space program tradition of calling the first Shuttle Enterprise? Although that was in response to outcry from trekkies. Anyway, interesting none the less.
If you remember, between the time Vista was released to enterprises in the Fall of 06 and release to the public in early 07, most computer vendors offered "Free Upgrades to Vista" if you bought a PC with XP. I'd like to know how many of these "40 million licenses" were paid for and how many were free. Was MS charging a higher price for OEM XP if it came with a free upgrade to OEM Vista? Or were you getting two OS licenses for the price of one?
Incredible! They were down at the open, but are now UP 5 bucks from yesterday's close! An outage taking out all of North America and the stock is up. Why don't I own some RIMM?
The msg body was a GIF containing text telling me there had been virus activity from my IP and I should run this "patch" to fix it. The "patch" was a zip file they said they had to send as a zip so my "comprimised virus scanner" wouldn't reject it. If I didn't run the patch, my internet access woudld be cut off. All I had to do was unzip and run the patch and all my problems would be solved. HA!
We all had a chuckle at how stupid someone would be to actually do that - then we realized grandma probably would, not knowning any better. All the more reason to get grandma off windows and onto at least a Mac, if not Linux.
Either that, or leave little boxes with flashing LEDs all over the place. The authorities handle those very efficiently.
had to be done...
Not just for Breakfast anymore...
Dude, the article is about CONSOLE games not PC games. PC games I can see giving slack due to drivers/lack of consistent hardware platform.
The whole point of a console is that there is no variation and it's a frozen patform. No excuse for bugs there I'm afraid.
If all we /. users stop listening to CC they still have millions of sheep out there who don't know any better to advertise to.
do we care?
In a recent interview, Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel, made the following remark: "We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
And to clarify, the customer is the ADVERTISER, not the listner. You are simply the PRODUCT. It is your eyballs and ears that are being sold, in the form of ratings.
Clear Channel could care less what you the listener/viewer want. It's all about advertisers. If you were tied down in front of the telly with your eyeballs stuck open with toothpicks to be force-fed intellectual sludge, that would be just peachy by them...
The 35 million customers they say they have is way over inflated. That includes all the people who D/L AIM for free - they're AOL users, they have a screen name and all that, but they don't pay AOL no 23.90 a month. Hell the 35 mil probably includes every user they ever had who got the service and tried to cancel, becuase we all know how hard it is to actually get through to someone and cancel an AOL account. I have no idea what the true paying subscriber base is but it's not 35 million.
Columbia is too heavy to go to the ISS.
And you spelled "Endeavour" wrong...
Ah, but the computer support arena is FULL of trick questions. Try playing 20 questions with a user about why his computer keeps crashing and you better be listening for detail the whole time. That one little tidbit he throws in 8 minutes into the conversation about the "harmless" software he installed 3 days ago will be the thing that lets you fix the problem and get onto the next luser. If you weren't listening for that kind of detail you will miss it and go round in circles for hours.
just adding to the post total so we can get this higher on the HOF than the 9/11 stories...
Don't give them any ideas...
The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
Sounds suspiciously like "the value of software we're giving to schools as an anti-trust penalty is $900M". Did they actually pay for that $40k of computer time all those years ago, or did they get it for free from the university they were at?
Nice accounting tricks though, claiming an expense costs you a huge amount of money when in reality the cost is negligble, and pocket the difference. No wonder the guy is the richest man in the world...
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
Lots of people, apparently. Linus Torvalds. Richard Stallman. Other members of the GNU/FSF and affiliated projects.
And even then it doesn't seem to work...
I know it! I did actually buy the magazine months ago, and it's not a bad article, maybe not worth buying a whole magizine for, but what the heck. All the guy wanted was a source other than the NY Post, so that's what I provided. Seems there are other sources available on the net, as provided by others: www.rocketguy.com and even a /. story on this last summer, which pre-dates the space.com magazine by a lot...
How about the February issue of Space Illustrated, the magazine produced by the space.com people?
http://www.space.com/mag/contents_february.php3
(Now granted, space.com may not be a reputable source either, to those in the space biz, but it's at least better than the NY Post...)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!
(had to be said...)