It's not a very efficient process. I doubt any of the above will power it to a productive level.
Even if it did... feed 4 animals for 1 tray of ice cubes??? I seriously doubt you'd get more out of it (work is work is work, no matter who is performing it)
TerraServer predated Google Earth by years. MSN Messenger predated Google's offering by years. And depending on how you look at search, Microsoft's search offerings were there first. Google is making them think about opening up the services to third party applications. The services were there before Google became a player.
I agree to a point, but a few of the shows thrive off of it. Case in point, Robot Chicken, animating barbie dolls to reinact situations that can't quite (or wouldn't) be done in real life. And Aqua Teen Hunger Force (a happy meal family... what more is good animation going to add? it's supposed to have a happy meal motif, simple bright colors...)
...about 23 miles per gallon... kinda sucks, all things considered, although it does avoid the problem of hydrogen embrittlement and cryogenic storage. Thing is, where do we get hydrogen from? That's right, most efficient/cheap process is from oil.
Vacations are planned. Use them for excursions. Personal days are generally taken on short notice... if your feeling sick, kids get sick, car dies, etc. Floating holidays are a few extra holiday days to make holidays a nice round number. They tack onto major holidays (like thanksgiving or christmas).
Engineer, fresh out of college. I get 3 weeks vacation, 7 personal days, plus the standard federal holidays and three "floating" holidays.
Basically, it all depends on skill level. More skilled jobs, in general, give better vacation. However, the other variable to consider is some employers offer better pay or other benefits in lieu of vacation. For example, I could have taken another job in town and made 10% more money, but I would have had less vacation and a crappier insurance policy. The safety of the insurance policy and time off to visit relatives who are all several states away was worth it to me.
...they're paid the same wages (adjusted to the cost of living...
That doesn't change YOUR cost of living. That just makes them financially more attractive because they don't need fancy cars or fancy houses. (And that happens to be why I like where I live in the states, very reasonable cost of living so even if I only make a modest paycheck compared to my counterparts in California or Virginia, I'm putting way more into my 401k than they and I manage to pay off my house sooner...)
It's rather simple, really. Your money is being used to help other companies build their empire. If they succeed they pay you back - with interest according to their success. If they fail, it's a losing proposition.
Check out fool.com or any other investment site for investment 101 info. You don't need a lot of money to start investing and everyone should be. Social security probably won't be around to take care of us when the time comes, even if it is that wouldn't be much of a life:).
What is your time worth to you? To me, $40 is less than 2 hours of working. Even at $5 an hour thats a full day's work. If you spend more time than that setting up your linux box, explaining it to family, trying to get your favorite games working, your late-model video and sound cards, you lose.
Now, if you are doing it for the love or the joy, ok, have fun. But for me it's a simple economic decision. I'll take Windows for the OEM price, thanks. Time is money, and I'd rather enjoy time with my family / research / productive work. An operating is the means to an end, not the end.
...it is. none of this fancy text interface crap, just a line of text asking me what o/s I want before it automatically gives me my favorite. Don't remember my options? just hit tab...
You get them documented and validated by a lawyer. That's how my parents did it for high school. They have copies of every quiz, test, etc. in a file. Sure, i could have faked it. Proof is in the testing.
Between the ACT, and the standard entry tests I was accepted into the university of my choice with the highest level of scholarship they award. The standardized tests will catch the cheaters.
The feather won't work. It needs an atmosphere to orient the vehicle, it won't have that until about 100,000 feet or so. And at very high mach numbers it will rip off instead of working. I think Burt knows that. At the AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference (addressing a bunch of aerospace engineers) he said it would be awhile before anyone could do orbital, and his suborbital craft obviously couldn't be upgraded to do the job.
So parent is obviously talking out of his ass when the man who designed the craft said it can't be done.
Plus, you'd have to throw thermal protection system (TPS) on it, and engines probably an order of magnitude larger to achieve the delta-v to hit orbit.
In order to keep the same model (slung-under-aircraft single stage rocket) you'd need a much bigger aircraft - Boeing 747 or one of those Russian (i forget the names). Sling load a rocket, sans feather. Most of your volume is going to be fuel. Get up to your service ceiling and pich up, release your rocket and BOOM.
(Also remember t/space = Burt Rutan & Scaled, and a few other companies ) Personally I favor SpaceX for orbital capacity although remember they only produce launch vehicles, not human-rated vessels. A second company will need to do that and purchase the launch services from SpaceX.
Find a friend with a cellphone to sign you up. Or PM me, I'll invite you. Invites still work, nothing changed, they just added another way to get stuff done. And it does cut down on spam- the first time they find a spammer, they can see who invited him, and bam, the spam chain is broken. Bitching on/. doesn't get anything done.
Of course, bitching about google must give you some weird sense of fulfillment...
Because there are very specific and well-documented protocols for procuring and securing a computer to deal with "secret" level material. Consulting with Slashdot is not one of those methods.
If you have a job in a secure environment and your job is to procure computers, you SHOULD know these... if you don't you need to talk to your security officers... he is violating protocol, and when you are dealing with secret information this is a Very Bad Thing.
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It's not a very efficient process. I doubt any of the above will power it to a productive level.
Even if it did... feed 4 animals for 1 tray of ice cubes??? I seriously doubt you'd get more out of it (work is work is work, no matter who is performing it)
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Yeah, but Skype has a client base... they are buying the customers as much as they are buying the infrastructure
TerraServer predated Google Earth by years. MSN Messenger predated Google's offering by years. And depending on how you look at search, Microsoft's search offerings were there first. Google is making them think about opening up the services to third party applications. The services were there before Google became a player.
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I agree to a point, but a few of the shows thrive off of it. Case in point, Robot Chicken, animating barbie dolls to reinact situations that can't quite (or wouldn't) be done in real life. And Aqua Teen Hunger Force (a happy meal family... what more is good animation going to add? it's supposed to have a happy meal motif, simple bright colors...)
Can't speak for Birdman or the other shows...
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...about 23 miles per gallon... kinda sucks, all things considered, although it does avoid the problem of hydrogen embrittlement and cryogenic storage. Thing is, where do we get hydrogen from? That's right, most efficient/cheap process is from oil.
-everphilski-
Vacations are planned. Use them for excursions. Personal days are generally taken on short notice... if your feeling sick, kids get sick, car dies, etc. Floating holidays are a few extra holiday days to make holidays a nice round number. They tack onto major holidays (like thanksgiving or christmas).
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... and to quote the article
(the reporter asks a Ethiopian woman why she doesn't go to Europe since, as the parent mentions, she might have a better chance of "making it")
"What do they ever hope for in Europe? Here they have a law that you can dream to be happy."
'nuff said.
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Engineer, fresh out of college. I get 3 weeks vacation, 7 personal days, plus the standard federal holidays and three "floating" holidays.
Basically, it all depends on skill level. More skilled jobs, in general, give better vacation. However, the other variable to consider is some employers offer better pay or other benefits in lieu of vacation. For example, I could have taken another job in town and made 10% more money, but I would have had less vacation and a crappier insurance policy. The safety of the insurance policy and time off to visit relatives who are all several states away was worth it to me.
-everphilski-
...they're paid the same wages (adjusted to the cost of living...
That doesn't change YOUR cost of living. That just makes them financially more attractive because they don't need fancy cars or fancy houses. (And that happens to be why I like where I live in the states, very reasonable cost of living so even if I only make a modest paycheck compared to my counterparts in California or Virginia, I'm putting way more into my 401k than they and I manage to pay off my house sooner...)
-everphilski-
It's rather simple, really. Your money is being used to help other companies build their empire. If they succeed they pay you back - with interest according to their success. If they fail, it's a losing proposition.
:).
Check out fool.com or any other investment site for investment 101 info. You don't need a lot of money to start investing and everyone should be. Social security probably won't be around to take care of us when the time comes, even if it is that wouldn't be much of a life
-everphilski.
What is your time worth to you? To me, $40 is less than 2 hours of working. Even at $5 an hour thats a full day's work. If you spend more time than that setting up your linux box, explaining it to family, trying to get your favorite games working, your late-model video and sound cards, you lose.
Now, if you are doing it for the love or the joy, ok, have fun. But for me it's a simple economic decision. I'll take Windows for the OEM price, thanks. Time is money, and I'd rather enjoy time with my family / research / productive work. An operating is the means to an end, not the end.
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Deckard Cain
Annoying prick... no D2 on DS please, thank you.
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... or double click on the header or footer to edit it. No need to use the view menu. It's not as hard as the article makes it out to be.
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Ice is less dense than water, so we might even see sea levels *decline*
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...it is. none of this fancy text interface crap, just a line of text asking me what o/s I want before it automatically gives me my favorite. Don't remember my options? just hit tab...
It's really not that hard to figure out...
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You get them documented and validated by a lawyer. That's how my parents did it for high school. They have copies of every quiz, test, etc. in a file. Sure, i could have faked it. Proof is in the testing.
Between the ACT, and the standard entry tests I was accepted into the university of my choice with the highest level of scholarship they award. The standardized tests will catch the cheaters.
-everphilski-
Kids are kids for 12 years. They are adults for the remaining 60+.
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Media Center is a mature, stable product. With support options. MythTV is none of the above. Media Center makes sense from a commercial point of view.
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Yup. Just as meaningless as every other ISP / Webmail provider. Gotcha. Next critic, please.
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Burt Rutan would agree with you. Virgin prefers to showboat.
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The feather won't work. It needs an atmosphere to orient the vehicle, it won't have that until about 100,000 feet or so. And at very high mach numbers it will rip off instead of working. I think Burt knows that. At the AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference (addressing a bunch of aerospace engineers) he said it would be awhile before anyone could do orbital, and his suborbital craft obviously couldn't be upgraded to do the job.
So parent is obviously talking out of his ass when the man who designed the craft said it can't be done.
Plus, you'd have to throw thermal protection system (TPS) on it, and engines probably an order of magnitude larger to achieve the delta-v to hit orbit.
In order to keep the same model (slung-under-aircraft single stage rocket) you'd need a much bigger aircraft - Boeing 747 or one of those Russian (i forget the names). Sling load a rocket, sans feather. Most of your volume is going to be fuel. Get up to your service ceiling and pich up, release your rocket and BOOM.
(Also remember t/space = Burt Rutan & Scaled, and a few other companies ) Personally I favor SpaceX for orbital capacity although remember they only produce launch vehicles, not human-rated vessels. A second company will need to do that and purchase the launch services from SpaceX.
-everphilski-
Find a friend with a cellphone to sign you up. Or PM me, I'll invite you. Invites still work, nothing changed, they just added another way to get stuff done. And it does cut down on spam- the first time they find a spammer, they can see who invited him, and bam, the spam chain is broken. Bitching on /. doesn't get anything done.
Of course, bitching about google must give you some weird sense of fulfillment...
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...they have the same policy as every other ISP/Webmail company out there. Good to know. Next critic please.
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Talk to your security officers. Not slashdot. I hope for your sake your employers dont read /.
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Because there are very specific and well-documented protocols for procuring and securing a computer to deal with "secret" level material. Consulting with Slashdot is not one of those methods.
If you have a job in a secure environment and your job is to procure computers, you SHOULD know these... if you don't you need to talk to your security officers... he is violating protocol, and when you are dealing with secret information this is a Very Bad Thing.
-everphilski-