I would think if you are using a set-top box / PVR from the cable company, they can already monitor the channel you're watching. Why wouldn't that box be sending the info back already?
I expected an article about some Texas-based website pushing back the settlement date for some kind of copyright violation class action lawsuit affecting North American users only (at least the known ones).
NASA technicians investigate fuel leak after rare nighttime landing
First female commander earns praise for "safe, if overly cautious" flying
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (CNN) 7/28/99 - 419SPP
Even before NASA's first female mission commander touched down on the tarmac at Kennedy Space Center late Tuesday evening, investigators were speculating on the possible cause of the fuel leak observed at the launch of shuttle Columbia at the start of its historic 5 day mission.
"At first we thought maybe she left the gas cap off," reported Chief Inspector Gerald Schmitt during a post-mission press conference yesterday. Schmitt was referring to mission commander U.S. Air Force Col. Eileen Collins, who led STS-93 to a complete success despite the glitches that plagued the start of the mission.
However, the inspectors ruled out that scenario after an exhaustive examination of the video launch records. They are now considering alternative theories, as well examining the shuttle engines for possible damage, such as a burned-out clutch. "We'll get in there and take a look," explained Schmitt, "but the real test will come on the next flight for Columbia, when the next mission commander can let us know if the shuttle still handles the way it did before."
Schmitt went on to explain that the launch is usually performed in an "Automatic" mode, but the shutdown of 2 flight computers just seconds into Friday's launch required Col. Collins to switch to "Manual" mode, which she may have had less experience with in the past.
Shuttle failed to reach "nominal" altitude
By the time main engine cutoff, or MECO, took place at the end of Columbia's vault into space, the shuttle was about 7 miles beneath its intended orbit. At the time, NASA had not yet confirmed the fuel leak, so ground control was at a loss to explain this result.
Launch controller Peter "Pete" Castle recalls, "For a few minutes I was beside myself. Did [Collins] fail to advance the engine throttles to 104 percent as called for in the launch sequence? Everyone knows you can drive those engines a little bit over the limit. There aren't any cops in space. Why are we here staying under the limit? We'll never get where we need to go like that."
Fortunately, Columbia had sufficient fuel onboard to boost itself to its full intended orbit, and the mission objectives and the crew were never in danger.
"She really took us by surprise"
Mission controllers at the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas, were very complimentary of Col. Collins. Third shift controller Michael Childs recalls one incident in particular:
"During orbit 15 of the mission, Col. Collins called down for directions on the next scheduled maneuver. At this point in the schedule we had not expected any communications from Columbia. Past shuttle commanders always ran through this sequence without asking for directions, even if they had lost track of where they were. It is a little known fact that on STS-96 [when shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station (ISS)], Mission Commander Kent Rominger reached the station three orbits late, basically because he insisted on 'just flying around in circles until we found it', to quote Mission Specialist Patty Jernigan."
Most call the landing 'flawless'
The touchdown of shuttle Columbia in the final minutes of Tuesday evening was called "flawless" by ground controllers at the KSC. However, U.S. Air Force Col. Jack "Cracker Jack" Jackson, the last mission commander for a Columbia mission, was more critical.
"That's not where I left it," Jackson said of Columbia, noting that Columbia rolled to a stop on the runway over 500 yards earlier than it did when he landed the same vehicle back in February, 1998. "When you take that baby out for a spin, I expect you to put it back where it belongs when you're done." After a moment, Jackson added one final thought, "God, I don't want to think what happened to those brakes."
419SPP - The Associated Press and Reuters did not contribute to this report.
Is your ID a Driver's License? Technically, where I live you are required to notify the registry of motor vehicles whenever you change your address, and they actually send you a sticker to put on the back of the license with your corrected address. So you'll always be carrying around your ZIP Code if you're in compliance. Not that I imagine everyone is so diligent.
Gee, in most race car games I've seen, you can sideswipe the walls, crash into other drivers, spin out, etc, and you aren't immediately disabled, dead or permanently out of the race. The game is forgiving -on purpose-. And by they way, in GH and RB, if you don't push the buttons, the tune does NOT keep on playing. Your errors screw up the music you hear, until eventually the performer 'fails' and the band is booed off the stage. Of course it's artificial - doesn't mean it's not fun.
Your Race Car Hero game sounds a lot like Dragon's Lair, which boiled down to nothing more than 'push the correct button at the beep'. Yet that game did pretty well for it's time.
I strongly agree with this. I have been well put off by the price points of most WiiWare I might have been interested in buying. 1000 points ($10US) is just too much for a little nostalgia rush. Price the same game at $3 or less and I might have considered spending the money.
Even if it's true that the console game will give 40 times the value of the $1 mobile game, that can be seen as an enormous leap of faith to ask the consumer to make. What if I decide in the first 30 minutes I don't like the game? Can I take it back to Gamestop and get my money back? Fat chance. If I download a $1 game and decide I don't like it, then meh.
Considering how many $40 or $50 Wii games my kids have that never get played again, I can see how people can become leery of that model.
I scanned the article quickly but I didn't notice any mention of Tex Murphy either. Sad because I thought Under A Killing Moon mixed live acting with CG very well for the time.
That was my first thought after spending all of about 2 seconds considering the issue. I'm not familiar with the FB development community at all, but I wonder whether this would just encourage people to abandon plans to make direct revenue within the FB platform, and just use their FB apps to drive traffic to an external platform.
All's I know is that I just signed up for Netflix on New Year's, and my monthly download is poised to go up by 4X from all the streaming (25GB -> 100GB). I have Comcast and only buy Internet - no cable. This is a fight that is going to get damn ugly.
Well, consider that the intention/claim is probably that they will host the data for as long as the gravestone remains standing (i.e. forever or damn near it).
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Removed the keylogger by removing the folder? Check
I'm guessing that by 'removing the keylogger', he meant 'let the anti-virus' software do its default recommended action'.
Well it would help with this version.
Triscuit? Jemima? Duck Duck Goose? FlashVideoEraser? I think you're a week early.
I would think if you are using a set-top box / PVR from the cable company, they can already monitor the channel you're watching. Why wouldn't that box be sending the info back already?
+1 for reference to such an old cartoon.
I expected an article about some Texas-based website pushing back the settlement date for some kind of copyright violation class action lawsuit affecting North American users only (at least the known ones).
Yet another fictional account of the same thing: Thank God It's Only A Motion Picture
Eat more cheeseburgers.
The book Thrice Upon A Time covers this idea very well.
Their video shows that the evoMouse works as a keyboard with an 'optional mat' that takes the place of the laser projection.
Those poor tormented TV shows. What did they ever do to you?
Oh look, this isn't an argument! It's just contradiction!
KinFoilHat would be a better name. I'll let you have it for a small finder's fee.
NASA technicians investigate fuel leak after rare nighttime landing
First female commander earns praise for "safe, if overly cautious" flying
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (CNN) 7/28/99 - 419SPP
Even before NASA's first female mission commander touched down on the tarmac at Kennedy Space Center late Tuesday evening, investigators were speculating on the possible cause of the fuel leak observed at the launch of shuttle Columbia at the start of its historic 5 day mission.
"At first we thought maybe she left the gas cap off," reported Chief Inspector Gerald Schmitt during a post-mission press conference yesterday. Schmitt was referring to mission commander U.S. Air Force Col. Eileen Collins, who led STS-93 to a complete success despite the glitches that plagued the start of the mission.
However, the inspectors ruled out that scenario after an exhaustive examination of the video launch records. They are now considering alternative theories, as well examining the shuttle engines for possible damage, such as a burned-out clutch. "We'll get in there and take a look," explained Schmitt, "but the real test will come on the next flight for Columbia, when the next mission commander can let us know if the shuttle still handles the way it did before."
Schmitt went on to explain that the launch is usually performed in an "Automatic" mode, but the shutdown of 2 flight computers just seconds into Friday's launch required Col. Collins to switch to "Manual" mode, which she may have had less experience with in the past.
Shuttle failed to reach "nominal" altitude
By the time main engine cutoff, or MECO, took place at the end of Columbia's vault into space, the shuttle was about 7 miles beneath its intended orbit. At the time, NASA had not yet confirmed the fuel leak, so ground control was at a loss to explain this result.
Launch controller Peter "Pete" Castle recalls, "For a few minutes I was beside myself. Did [Collins] fail to advance the engine throttles to 104 percent as called for in the launch sequence? Everyone knows you can drive those engines a little bit over the limit. There aren't any cops in space. Why are we here staying under the limit? We'll never get where we need to go like that."
Fortunately, Columbia had sufficient fuel onboard to boost itself to its full intended orbit, and the mission objectives and the crew were never in danger.
"She really took us by surprise"
Mission controllers at the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas, were very complimentary of Col. Collins. Third shift controller Michael Childs recalls one incident in particular:
"During orbit 15 of the mission, Col. Collins called down for directions on the next scheduled maneuver. At this point in the schedule we had not expected any communications from Columbia. Past shuttle commanders always ran through this sequence without asking for directions, even if they had lost track of where they were. It is a little known fact that on STS-96 [when shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station (ISS)], Mission Commander Kent Rominger reached the station three orbits late, basically because he insisted on 'just flying around in circles until we found it', to quote Mission Specialist Patty Jernigan."
Most call the landing 'flawless'
The touchdown of shuttle Columbia in the final minutes of Tuesday evening was called "flawless" by ground controllers at the KSC. However, U.S. Air Force Col. Jack "Cracker Jack" Jackson, the last mission commander for a Columbia mission, was more critical.
"That's not where I left it," Jackson said of Columbia, noting that Columbia rolled to a stop on the runway over 500 yards earlier than it did when he landed the same vehicle back in February, 1998. "When you take that baby out for a spin, I expect you to put it back where it belongs when you're done." After a moment, Jackson added one final thought, "God, I don't want to think what happened to those brakes."
419SPP - The Associated Press and Reuters did not contribute to this report.
Is your ID a Driver's License? Technically, where I live you are required to notify the registry of motor vehicles whenever you change your address, and they actually send you a sticker to put on the back of the license with your corrected address. So you'll always be carrying around your ZIP Code if you're in compliance. Not that I imagine everyone is so diligent.
Minecraft is fine, but that's nothing as satisfying working in dark, hazardous coal mines and contracting black lung.
Gee, in most race car games I've seen, you can sideswipe the walls, crash into other drivers, spin out, etc, and you aren't immediately disabled, dead or permanently out of the race. The game is forgiving -on purpose-. And by they way, in GH and RB, if you don't push the buttons, the tune does NOT keep on playing. Your errors screw up the music you hear, until eventually the performer 'fails' and the band is booed off the stage. Of course it's artificial - doesn't mean it's not fun.
Your Race Car Hero game sounds a lot like Dragon's Lair, which boiled down to nothing more than 'push the correct button at the beep'. Yet that game did pretty well for it's time.
I strongly agree with this. I have been well put off by the price points of most WiiWare I might have been interested in buying. 1000 points ($10US) is just too much for a little nostalgia rush. Price the same game at $3 or less and I might have considered spending the money.
Even if it's true that the console game will give 40 times the value of the $1 mobile game, that can be seen as an enormous leap of faith to ask the consumer to make. What if I decide in the first 30 minutes I don't like the game? Can I take it back to Gamestop and get my money back? Fat chance. If I download a $1 game and decide I don't like it, then meh.
Considering how many $40 or $50 Wii games my kids have that never get played again, I can see how people can become leery of that model.
I scanned the article quickly but I didn't notice any mention of Tex Murphy either. Sad because I thought Under A Killing Moon mixed live acting with CG very well for the time.
That was my first thought after spending all of about 2 seconds considering the issue. I'm not familiar with the FB development community at all, but I wonder whether this would just encourage people to abandon plans to make direct revenue within the FB platform, and just use their FB apps to drive traffic to an external platform.
All's I know is that I just signed up for Netflix on New Year's, and my monthly download is poised to go up by 4X from all the streaming (25GB -> 100GB). I have Comcast and only buy Internet - no cable. This is a fight that is going to get damn ugly.
Hooray! My sig is finally on-topic.
Well, consider that the intention/claim is probably that they will host the data for as long as the gravestone remains standing (i.e. forever or damn near it).
Of course making the plaid epoxy color filter would have been a little bit more complicated.