I'll this time I've wondered if Slashdot was "my people." Now, with so many posts saying they liked the vehicle Voltron better than Lion Voltron I have the answer...
SLASHDOT **IS** MY PEOPLE! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
In other news, I think I just took the wrong medication...
Isn't this how Scientology works?!? I haven't RTFA, but my first impression is it sounds just like an e-meter used in one of those Dianetics auditing sessions.
I understand what you're writing, but for me is was never much of a fact checking thing. It's more along the lines of the "we should be riding on jetpacks by now" quirky lament. Everytime something like loose wires keeping a shuttle on the ground I just kinda growl to myself that, ya know, it wasn't supposed to be like this.
To this day I remember sitting on the sofa at 4am watching the first shuttle launch in '81. Two things the TV "experts" said were burned in my brain forever.
At one point he said each shuttle was designed for 100 operational flights. Sometime later they said the chances of castrophic failure was "only" something like 1 in 100. They sure made it seem like shuttle accidents were being taken into account and that, although unfortunate, were not being considered earth-shaking program-ending events.
Of course, this was back when they thought they'd get one launch off every two weeks or some nonesense. How times have changed.
For god's sake, how did it come to this, anyway?!? 30 years in and the STS program is still considered an experimental program with experimental vehicles.
I remember cutting out time magazine stories about Congress funding the space station in 1983! This is probably very simplistic thinking, but we could've taken the money we wasted on ISS in the 80's and designed a much more dependable shuttle fleet where loose wiring didn't mess the whole launch up.
And we're still talking about a Mars mission?1? Step by step, folks...not all at once.
Pity me, then. I love driving around Mojave Ntnl Preserve. I actually have to use that joint as a gas stop! At Baker's prices I have to eat cat food for a week to make up for it.:)
Note to those high school kids: please, Please, PLEASE send one of those down the I-15 here to Las Vegas. It was 118F (50C) here yesterday...I actually watched my truck's rear-view mirror slide off the windshield!
Damn smart Utah kids...the only thing they teach our high schoolers is advanced Texas Hold'em.
I haven't noticed lately, but (for US west coasters, in this case) does society still refer to Pacific Standard Time (PST) and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)? And if so, since most of the months are now going to be on the adjusted schedule shouldn't they now be refered to as Standard Time, then?
Also, something interesting from Wikipedia's entry on DST:
When the U.S. went on extended DST in 1974 and 1975 in response to the 1973 energy crisis, Department of Transportation studies found that observing DST in March and April saved 10,000 barrels of oil a day, and prevented about 2,000 traffic injuries and 50 fatalities saving about U.S. $28 million in traffic costs.
Dvorak seems to be a lot like that guy Andy Rooney from that "60 Minutes" show, where he just rants and rants about why the things he doesn't understand are "just plain silly."
The only answer that makes sense is, "Then don't watch/buy/use it!"
If Dvorak doesn't like CC...then he shouldn't use it. Period.
We count off the greatest beams, lasers, death rays and photon streams in movie history
They slice us, they disintegrate us, they roast us alive, they level our greatest monuments and pinpoint our deepest fears. But they also transport us, link us, serve us, protect us and illuminate the path to fortune and glory. They are beams, the glowing lances of focused radiation that have lit up our movie screens"and our imaginations"since some unknown caveman accidentally scratched a birchbark negative and became prehistory's first FX guy. Here at the dawn of 2005's summer blockbuster season, it's as good a time as any to look back and salute the Great Beams of Film!
The list is not exhaustive; hopefully the reader will find its many glaring omissions inspirational.
Death Star beam, Star Wars
Set aside the standard suspense-creation of a countdown list"that shit's for Cosmo and David Letterman. We all know who wins this contest, so let's get this bad boy outta the way quick. Which bad boy? The bad Death Star beam boy, of course. A full-on, no-nonsense, kill-everybody-now planet-smasher, it's as if millions of lasers cried out in terror and were suddenly awesome. Also, the gunnery crew had those cool helmets with the underbite blast shields.
Martian heat ray, War of the Worlds (1953)
Yeah, it was just sparks. But you know what? Sparks are hot. And when those red-hot sparks are streaming out of a gooseneck hose mounted on a sinister floating (walking, actually, on invisible "legs" of force) organic blob of a War Machine, you know some Earthling real estate's going to get seriously messed up. The Martians also mounted disintegrator guns on their space tanks, but it was their all-consuming heat rays that produced the shock and awe that has informed 52 years of cinematic beamery.
Scanning beam, Tron
It makes no sense, but it sure is awesome: a beam that sends real-world stuff (like people) into the internal world of computers. The greatest thing about the Tron scanning beam is its quickness, its precision; it had kids all over the world staring hard at objects, fantasizing the beam by waggling their fingers quickly back and forth in front of their eyes and going zk-zk-zk-zk-zk-zk. It wasn't just entering the computer world that fascinated them, it was also the scanning itself... they dreamed that in addition to Karateka, Lode Runner, Bruce Lee and The Print Shop they could add orange, hamster and Dad's Playboy mags to their box of pirated 5.25" floppies.
Proton streams, Ghostbusters
They're produced by unlicensed nuclear accelerators, they're untested and they're not to be crossed; the ghost-snaring proton streams are perfectly realized on film with a wild, unpredictable, snaking blast of barely-controlled pure energy. Look at those dudes! They can barely hold on to their projector nozzles. These are truly the weapons of a gang of irresponsible genius science-cowboys with nothing left to lose but their immortal souls. Brilliant.
Pure love, The Fifth Element
Earth, air, fire, water and... ether? Phlogiston? Sorry, Mr. 18th-Century Alchemical Theorist; no matter what Georg Stahl says, the fifth element is love, sweet love. How else to explain that a stumbling admission of affection from Bruce Willis could make a despairing Milla Jovovich barf a spectacular stream of concentrated good stuff into orbit, saving Earth from the mumbling menace of Evil Planet?
Radioactive breath, Godzilla et al.
Some debate on including this one, but come on! A coherent high-velocity flow of energized radioactive gas is a beam in anybody's book. The King of Monsters wasn't shy about using it, either; many a parcel of not-quite-so-high-priced Japanese real estate was reduced to a glowing pile of forever-uninhabitable rubble and slag by a casual whiff of Godzilla's nuclear breath. Many square metres of opposing giant monsters' hides got the same treatment. The best part of Godzilla's breath
I've been using a Kyocera 6035 since July. Combined tri-mode CDMA phone, Internet, and PalmOS PDA make it the most useful comm device I've ever used on a daily basis.
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kysmart/kysmart_ se ries.htm
I'm glad that Handspring is hopping on the bandwagon and bringing combo devices like this further into consumer conciousness.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, by habit I place slashes at the end of URL when using them as a link reference. Wikipedia doesn't take those well, apparently.
Pure/ user/ error/. Rarely do I succumb to the desire to be quick to the funny on Slashdot, but...this was one of those times. :)
Really now...this has already been settled! Pluto is a Class C Geoinactive planet I mean sheesh.....
I'll this time I've wondered if Slashdot was "my people." Now, with so many posts saying they liked the vehicle Voltron better than Lion Voltron I have the answer...
SLASHDOT **IS** MY PEOPLE! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
In other news, I think I just took the wrong medication...
Eileen Collins, James Kelly, Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi, Steve Robinson, and Andrew Thomas.
Good luck and come back safe.
Oh man, you're not joking!
Isn't this how Scientology works?!? I haven't RTFA, but my first impression is it sounds just like an e-meter used in one of those Dianetics auditing sessions.
{do I have to, like, watch my back now?}
They could make things really interesting, stick to the buddhist naming theme, and code name the 2.0 release Avalokitesvara!
I understand what you're writing, but for me is was never much of a fact checking thing. It's more along the lines of the "we should be riding on jetpacks by now" quirky lament. Everytime something like loose wires keeping a shuttle on the ground I just kinda growl to myself that, ya know, it wasn't supposed to be like this.
To this day I remember sitting on the sofa at 4am watching the first shuttle launch in '81. Two things the TV "experts" said were burned in my brain forever.
At one point he said each shuttle was designed for 100 operational flights. Sometime later they said the chances of castrophic failure was "only" something like 1 in 100. They sure made it seem like shuttle accidents were being taken into account and that, although unfortunate, were not being considered earth-shaking program-ending events.
Of course, this was back when they thought they'd get one launch off every two weeks or some nonesense. How times have changed.
For god's sake, how did it come to this, anyway?!? 30 years in and the STS program is still considered an experimental program with experimental vehicles.
I remember cutting out time magazine stories about Congress funding the space station in 1983! This is probably very simplistic thinking, but we could've taken the money we wasted on ISS in the 80's and designed a much more dependable shuttle fleet where loose wiring didn't mess the whole launch up.
And we're still talking about a Mars mission?1? Step by step, folks...not all at once.
Pity me, then. I love driving around Mojave Ntnl Preserve. I actually have to use that joint as a gas stop! At Baker's prices I have to eat cat food for a week to make up for it.
Heh...Baker. Was there smoke shooting out of the World's Tallest Thermometer?
Note to those high school kids: please, Please, PLEASE send one of those down the I-15 here to Las Vegas. It was 118F (50C) here yesterday...I actually watched my truck's rear-view mirror slide off the windshield!
Damn smart Utah kids...the only thing they teach our high schoolers is advanced Texas Hold'em.
I haven't noticed lately, but (for US west coasters, in this case) does society still refer to Pacific Standard Time (PST) and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)? And if so, since most of the months are now going to be on the adjusted schedule shouldn't they now be refered to as Standard Time, then?
Also, something interesting from Wikipedia's entry on DST:References are noted in the entry.
I thought Google Maps already linked to all the moon landing sites HERE!
Dvorak seems to be a lot like that guy Andy Rooney from that "60 Minutes" show, where he just rants and rants about why the things he doesn't understand are "just plain silly."
The only answer that makes sense is, "Then don't watch/buy/use it!"
If Dvorak doesn't like CC...then he shouldn't use it. Period.
ILM
BEAM ME UP, HOLLYWOOD!
By DARREN ZENKO
We count off the greatest beams, lasers, death rays and photon streams in movie history
They slice us, they disintegrate us, they roast us alive, they level our greatest monuments and pinpoint our deepest fears. But they also transport us, link us, serve us, protect us and illuminate the path to fortune and glory. They are beams, the glowing lances of focused radiation that have lit up our movie screens"and our imaginations"since some unknown caveman accidentally scratched a birchbark negative and became prehistory's first FX guy. Here at the dawn of 2005's summer blockbuster season, it's as good a time as any to look back and salute the Great Beams of Film!
The list is not exhaustive; hopefully the reader will find its many glaring omissions inspirational.
Death Star beam, Star Wars
Set aside the standard suspense-creation of a countdown list"that shit's for Cosmo and David Letterman. We all know who wins this contest, so let's get this bad boy outta the way quick. Which bad boy? The bad Death Star beam boy, of course. A full-on, no-nonsense, kill-everybody-now planet-smasher, it's as if millions of lasers cried out in terror and were suddenly awesome. Also, the gunnery crew had those cool helmets with the underbite blast shields.
Martian heat ray, War of the Worlds (1953)
Yeah, it was just sparks. But you know what? Sparks are hot. And when those red-hot sparks are streaming out of a gooseneck hose mounted on a sinister floating (walking, actually, on invisible "legs" of force) organic blob of a War Machine, you know some Earthling real estate's going to get seriously messed up. The Martians also mounted disintegrator guns on their space tanks, but it was their all-consuming heat rays that produced the shock and awe that has informed 52 years of cinematic beamery.
Scanning beam, Tron
It makes no sense, but it sure is awesome: a beam that sends real-world stuff (like people) into the internal world of computers. The greatest thing about the Tron scanning beam is its quickness, its precision; it had kids all over the world staring hard at objects, fantasizing the beam by waggling their fingers quickly back and forth in front of their eyes and going zk-zk-zk-zk-zk-zk. It wasn't just entering the computer world that fascinated them, it was also the scanning itself... they dreamed that in addition to Karateka, Lode Runner, Bruce Lee and The Print Shop they could add orange, hamster and Dad's Playboy mags to their box of pirated 5.25" floppies.
Proton streams, Ghostbusters
They're produced by unlicensed nuclear accelerators, they're untested and they're not to be crossed; the ghost-snaring proton streams are perfectly realized on film with a wild, unpredictable, snaking blast of barely-controlled pure energy. Look at those dudes! They can barely hold on to their projector nozzles. These are truly the weapons of a gang of irresponsible genius science-cowboys with nothing left to lose but their immortal souls. Brilliant.
Pure love, The Fifth Element
Earth, air, fire, water and... ether? Phlogiston? Sorry, Mr. 18th-Century Alchemical Theorist; no matter what Georg Stahl says, the fifth element is love, sweet love. How else to explain that a stumbling admission of affection from Bruce Willis could make a despairing Milla Jovovich barf a spectacular stream of concentrated good stuff into orbit, saving Earth from the mumbling menace of Evil Planet?
Radioactive breath, Godzilla et al.
Some debate on including this one, but come on! A coherent high-velocity flow of energized radioactive gas is a beam in anybody's book. The King of Monsters wasn't shy about using it, either; many a parcel of not-quite-so-high-priced Japanese real estate was reduced to a glowing pile of forever-uninhabitable rubble and slag by a casual whiff of Godzilla's nuclear breath. Many square metres of opposing giant monsters' hides got the same treatment. The best part of Godzilla's breath
I've been using a Kyocera 6035 since July. Combined tri-mode CDMA phone, Internet, and PalmOS PDA make it the most useful comm device I've ever used on a daily basis.
_ se ries.htm
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/kysmart/kysmart
I'm glad that Handspring is hopping on the bandwagon and bringing combo devices like this further into consumer conciousness.