Atmospheric drag has nothing to do with it. It's gravity baby. And they don't have enough fuel at end of life to send them to la-grange point. Their orbit is high - obviously, but it's not half way to the moon.
Unlike our early space travel, there's a treaty that says that you have to de-orbit material around the moon. There's not as much room to be sending missions up there and muck about with lunar-orbit space junk. Although it's still mondo rare to have an impact in Earth orbit, there's enough crap flying around us that some time ago they decided we didn't need to make the same mistakes up there.
Old news actually.
In fact in earth orbit you're supposed to bring spacecraft out of orbit at the end of their life. Those Tv satlelites only have a 5-10 year supply of fuel on board. At least until Ion thrusters become more commonplace. For Geostationary spacecraft.
Of course Pundits need to put out meaningless garbage like this. August is one of the slowest months for nearly every industry on the planet, and these genetic assfucks need to do something - ANYTHING - to meet deadline and get their yummy yummy paycheck.
You actually thought this was some kind of public service? It's copy-time baby! And if you think all this bird-liner actually means dick on the actual outcome on the industry - then I've got some "Sony blows PS2 intro - Sony is DOOOOMED" articles under the parrot somewhere.
Fuck - I've never seen such a massive pile of rubes.
You'd think that they made "Snakes on a Plane into a fucking smash-hit". Oh nosies - THEY DIDN'T? Holy tapdancing fetal Jesus! And quick - go to best Buy and strike up a conversation with someone in the music section about Sony's malware and see if you get anywhere. OR better yet - get a 20 sidded die and roll your way into being KING OF THE WORLD! All are equally productive and just as relevant to the real-world. Which last I checked - is kind of Sony's target demographic come to think of it. Oh no wait - I forgot - Linux is now on everyone's desktop and you can run Photoshop on it. Silly fucking me.
"Make sure you deauthorize your computer before you upgrade your RAM, hard disk or other system components. If you do not deauthorize your computer before you upgrade these components, one computer may use multiple authorizations. If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months."
So yes you're totally right. Still to keep files from flying all over the P2P I can get the gist of it. I've never had to juggle that many pc's myself, and I've got quite a few (but only 2 are my workhorses).
It can be played on 5 computers - not two (that's usually what a "couple" means). As for the rest you could - um - burn a CD like I do to listen to it everywhere else. Nice try at FUD though. And I'm sure you'll make a huge dent in iTunes' sales. Just like that blockbuster hyped on the internet - Snakes on a Plane! Free music joins the ranks of free beer quite a bit around here don't it?
Yea - I was surprised at that one. Must have gotten a GOP action item memo or something. Or perhaps Hollywood was sweating bullets over lost revenue share to the competition from games and THEY sent the memo.
Curious about Missouri and if it paralells other state's prior history with Video Game legistlation.
Missouri was particularly dracconian in the early 80s with arcades being told when they could operate, how close to schools, etc. One very amusing instance comes to mind. In 1983, Atari tried a brief attempt to take on Bally's (then) arcade empire with a series of arcades called "Atari Adventure". The first one was at Great America in San Jose - but the next one - for WHATEVER reason - was put in St. Louis.
Now the funny thing was, besides the arcade - they put in a "learning center". It was stocked with the computers of the day, atari 8-bits. Initially, 1200XL's but those were replaced with Atari 800XLs. It looked nice but didn't see a lot of action. At one point the arcade moved from the North West side of town to South St. Louis. In the early 90s - LONG after Atari passed into Trammel's hands and LONG after the 800XL had any value - the Atari Adventure was STILL showcasing these computers in a STILL attached "learning center" at that location.
I asked a manager about this, and the response was because of zoning laws, they couldn't operate as a pure-arcade and required the "learning center" to get around the laws that were still on the books. And so until the late 90s, you could see a perfect time bubble from 1983 operating intact as an arcade cum 800XL enabled consumer front for a company that only barely existed because the laws required it to stay exactly as it was when it was pitched to the people running the mall and the people in control of the law.
I wonder if the same nuttyness was going on in all those other states that tried to restrict game sales today back then?
Reminds me of an old (but funny and relevant) riff from G. Carlin:
People much wiser than I am said, "I'd rather have my son watch a film with 2 people making love than 2 people trying to kill one another. I, of course, can agree. It is a great sentence. I wish I knew who said it first. I agree with that but I like to take it a step further. I'd like to substitute the word Fuck for the word Kill in all of those movie cliches we grew up with. "Okay, Sherrif, we're gonna Fuck you now, but we're gonna Fuck you slow."
Even not getting into the sociological arguments, the fact that GAMES are being wholly treated different than movies in the pennalty phase alone makes these laws a joke. The movie industry's rating systems are not law. If a kid sneaks in - the theatre can NOT be held accountable, fined and offending ticket sellers incarcerated.
Now - if the same people pushing felony raps on game sellers want to put the hurt on Hollywood - then fine, I'll consider it. I'll also consider the massive entertainment value of all the lawyers in Hollywood being unleashed on those courtrooms being of the finest money can buy. Would make the RIAA attacks look like bullets compared to H-Bombs.
I know. Hey - why are people buying 100-dollar plus Nike's when there's cheaper shoes? Why pay for designer jeans when they're cheaper at K-Mart.
Tech doesn't have to be about parts - sometimes good design, like fashion - makes it's own desire (and price points).
But what do I know. I'm sure even my el-cheapo Mac Mini would be PWNED by some Dell rebate fan. Doesn't mean it isn't the coolest lump of plastic I've ever owned though. Fuck they're just - so - COOL.
I want a rack of em' Beowolf BITCHES! With GRILLS!
Although the article itself is a hostile piece that tries to sensationalize CL's impact on paper-pubs that have been impacted by CL's methods, it does confirm the investment etc.
No but they'll bitch that Americans want too much money and aren't competitive in spite of nearly 20 years of combined wage stagnation and rising costs of living (particularly in the last 5 years). But they don't dwell on such things too much because the last thing why want to show up on the radar is inflation and salary decreases because - you know - people might start saving or something.
Thanks for letting us know about your future video-game puchase. Now what we really want to know is your sex-life. Dont' forget to include all the lurid details no matter how clinical or disgusting they may be. Don't forget relevant fantasies and therapy sessions. Lastly - no two line post please. We want at least 1200 words. Even if it's merely a schedule of daily autoeroticism sessions.
Thank you in advance - and I believe I speak for all of Slashdot when we say - we look forward to your next share.
re:"please, enlighten us as to why it's not complete blowing its competition away."
I didn't know popularity precluded fun. I guess all the Mac users should just crawl under a rock and die right now because their platform of choice isn't "blowing the competition away". I thought it was just a decent computer - and the PSP is a decent portable game system. And as far as amazing - I dont dance in front of eyetoy cameras and wave wands around the room to get my game-on. I just want solid gameplay in a portable unit.
If you equate gimicks with innovation then you've got serious issues. Yelling at a portable game system on a plane because it has microphone - is beyond gimmick. And waving the unit around until I whack the person next to me in the face is also kinda-gimicky. Fanboy ire aside - if you're doing either of the above? You're in serious dork territory.
But yes I was only calling half-bullshit, except for the fact that you put both up on the mantle of failure - which would be still bullshit 100%. However if we do come up with a decent equation that could describe unified bullshit theory then the world would be a much happier place.
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Atmospheric drag has nothing to do with it. It's gravity baby. And they don't have enough fuel at end of life to send them to la-grange point. Their orbit is high - obviously, but it's not half way to the moon.
Actually I thought the whole point of an ion thruster was it's very long lifespan. Why did they decide to terminate this mission? Buget cuts perhaps?
Unlike our early space travel, there's a treaty that says that you have to de-orbit material around the moon. There's not as much room to be sending missions up there and muck about with lunar-orbit space junk. Although it's still mondo rare to have an impact in Earth orbit, there's enough crap flying around us that some time ago they decided we didn't need to make the same mistakes up there.
Old news actually.
In fact in earth orbit you're supposed to bring spacecraft out of orbit at the end of their life. Those Tv satlelites only have a 5-10 year supply of fuel on board. At least until Ion thrusters become more commonplace. For Geostationary spacecraft.
Of course Pundits need to put out meaningless garbage like this. August is one of the slowest months for nearly every industry on the planet, and these genetic assfucks need to do something - ANYTHING - to meet deadline and get their yummy yummy paycheck.
You actually thought this was some kind of public service? It's copy-time baby! And if you think all this bird-liner actually means dick on the actual outcome on the industry - then I've got some "Sony blows PS2 intro - Sony is DOOOOMED" articles under the parrot somewhere.
Fuck - I've never seen such a massive pile of rubes.
You'd think that they made "Snakes on a Plane into a fucking smash-hit". Oh nosies - THEY DIDN'T? Holy tapdancing fetal Jesus! And quick - go to best Buy and strike up a conversation with someone in the music section about Sony's malware and see if you get anywhere. OR better yet - get a 20 sidded die and roll your way into being KING OF THE WORLD! All are equally productive and just as relevant to the real-world. Which last I checked - is kind of Sony's target demographic come to think of it. Oh no wait - I forgot - Linux is now on everyone's desktop and you can run Photoshop on it. Silly fucking me.
Hang on - I'm wrong - I found it:
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93
"Make sure you deauthorize your computer before you upgrade your RAM, hard disk or other system components. If you do not deauthorize your computer before you upgrade these components, one computer may use multiple authorizations. If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months."
So yes you're totally right. Still to keep files from flying all over the P2P I can get the gist of it. I've never had to juggle that many pc's myself, and I've got quite a few (but only 2 are my workhorses).
The deauthorization thing isn't quite accurate though:
e authorall/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/weblogs/ipodblog/2006/01/d
You can deauthorize all of them at once if you wish. I don't see "a couple a year" anywhere in iTunes help either. Just a tip.
I know - everyone I know buys more than 5 computers around here every year. It's amazing the stuff piling up in the dumpsters. Amazing!
It can be played on 5 computers - not two (that's usually what a "couple" means). As for the rest you could - um - burn a CD like I do to listen to it everywhere else. Nice try at FUD though. And I'm sure you'll make a huge dent in iTunes' sales. Just like that blockbuster hyped on the internet - Snakes on a Plane! Free music joins the ranks of free beer quite a bit around here don't it?
I won't comment on anything involving Porn or hands - because that would be crass and wrong.
Huzzah! If the thing can do VGA - then this would be a nice clothing video tag for the Funk crew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMxGZmGrxAM
Now you don't have to waste time getting your friends to apply text to your cloating with post-it notes:
3 7/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87457200@N00/2270910
The possibilities for the PRON industry abound.
Now they can show it all before they take it all off.
They called people who helped manage content in a publication - EDITORS.
News Flash! - Wheel invented again! Link at 11.
Yea - I was surprised at that one. Must have gotten a GOP action item memo or something. Or perhaps Hollywood was sweating bullets over lost revenue share to the competition from games and THEY sent the memo.
Curious about Missouri and if it paralells other state's prior history with Video Game legistlation.
Missouri was particularly dracconian in the early 80s with arcades being told when they could operate, how close to schools, etc. One very amusing instance comes to mind. In 1983, Atari tried a brief attempt to take on Bally's (then) arcade empire with a series of arcades called "Atari Adventure". The first one was at Great America in San Jose - but the next one - for WHATEVER reason - was put in St. Louis.
Now the funny thing was, besides the arcade - they put in a "learning center". It was stocked with the computers of the day, atari 8-bits. Initially, 1200XL's but those were replaced with Atari 800XLs. It looked nice but didn't see a lot of action. At one point the arcade moved from the North West side of town to South St. Louis. In the early 90s - LONG after Atari passed into Trammel's hands and LONG after the 800XL had any value - the Atari Adventure was STILL showcasing these computers in a STILL attached "learning center" at that location.
I asked a manager about this, and the response was because of zoning laws, they couldn't operate as a pure-arcade and required the "learning center" to get around the laws that were still on the books. And so until the late 90s, you could see a perfect time bubble from 1983 operating intact as an arcade cum 800XL enabled consumer front for a company that only barely existed because the laws required it to stay exactly as it was when it was pitched to the people running the mall and the people in control of the law.
I wonder if the same nuttyness was going on in all those other states that tried to restrict game sales today back then?
Reminds me of an old (but funny and relevant) riff from G. Carlin:
People much wiser than I am said,
"I'd rather have my son watch a film with 2 people making love
than 2 people trying to kill one another. I, of course, can agree. It is
a great sentence. I wish I knew who said it first. I agree with that but
I like to take it a step further. I'd like to substitute the word Fuck for
the word Kill in all of those movie cliches we grew up with. "Okay,
Sherrif, we're gonna Fuck you now, but we're gonna Fuck you slow."
Even not getting into the sociological arguments, the fact that GAMES are being wholly treated different than movies in the pennalty phase alone makes these laws a joke. The movie industry's rating systems are not law. If a kid sneaks in - the theatre can NOT be held accountable, fined and offending ticket sellers incarcerated.
Now - if the same people pushing felony raps on game sellers want to put the hurt on Hollywood - then fine, I'll consider it. I'll also consider the massive entertainment value of all the lawyers in Hollywood being unleashed on those courtrooms being of the finest money can buy. Would make the RIAA attacks look like bullets compared to H-Bombs.
I know. Hey - why are people buying 100-dollar plus Nike's when there's cheaper shoes? Why pay for designer jeans when they're cheaper at K-Mart.
Tech doesn't have to be about parts - sometimes good design, like fashion - makes it's own desire (and price points).
But what do I know. I'm sure even my el-cheapo Mac Mini would be PWNED by some Dell rebate fan.
Doesn't mean it isn't the coolest lump of plastic I've ever owned though. Fuck they're just - so - COOL.
I want a rack of em' Beowolf BITCHES! With GRILLS!
Here you go:
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http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-11-30/news/fe
Although the article itself is a hostile piece that tries to sensationalize CL's impact on paper-pubs that have been impacted by CL's methods, it does confirm the investment etc.
No but they'll bitch that Americans want too much money and aren't competitive in spite of nearly 20 years of combined wage stagnation and rising costs of living (particularly in the last 5 years). But they don't dwell on such things too much because the last thing why want to show up on the radar is inflation and salary decreases because - you know - people might start saving or something.
And that is truely frightening.
Geez with that loop in there I'm not sure we'd ever see line 9600.
My god Mr. Buzzkill has a NAME! You must be the guy I keep seeing at all those parties! And I thought it was just a metaphor for a humorless fuck.
I'm SO enlightened right now, I'm glowing - GLOWING I tells ya!
Thanks for letting us know about your future video-game puchase. Now what we really want to know is your sex-life. Dont' forget to include all the lurid details no matter how clinical or disgusting they may be. Don't forget relevant fantasies and therapy sessions. Lastly - no two line post please. We want at least 1200 words. Even if it's merely a schedule of daily autoeroticism sessions.
Thank you in advance - and I believe I speak for all of Slashdot when we say - we look forward to your next share.
SEC: What makes you think she is a witch?
Stockholder: Well, She turned my stock into a newt!!
(pause)
SEC: a newt?
(long pause)
Stockholder: It got better...
Stockholders: BURN HER anyway! BURN! BURN! BURN HER!
re:"please, enlighten us as to why it's not complete blowing its competition away."
I didn't know popularity precluded fun. I guess all the Mac users should just crawl under a rock and die right now because their platform of choice isn't "blowing the competition away". I thought it was just a decent computer - and the PSP is a decent portable game system. And as far as amazing - I dont dance in front of eyetoy cameras and wave wands around the room to get my game-on. I just want solid gameplay in a portable unit.
If you equate gimicks with innovation then you've got serious issues. Yelling at a portable game system on a plane because it has microphone - is beyond gimmick. And waving the unit around until I whack the person next to me in the face is also kinda-gimicky. Fanboy ire aside - if you're doing either of the above? You're in serious dork territory.
But yes I was only calling half-bullshit, except for the fact that you put both up on the mantle of failure - which would be still bullshit 100%. However if we do come up with a decent equation that could describe unified bullshit theory then the world would be a much happier place.