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The yahoo version is different. Unbelievable... quote:LONDON (Reuters) - A blind man has been arrested in Scotland after witnesses reported he sank his teeth into his guide dog and kicked her across the road, police said on Thursday. The incident allegedly occurred outside a busy shopping center in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. David Todd, 34, is expected to face charges of cruelty to animals and breach of the peace. A police spokeswoman said the 8-year old dog had been handed over to a charity dedicated to guide dogs. "When we took her into custody, she had no apparent injuries," she added. Todd is due to appear in court at a later date.this line bothers me. quote:"When we took her into custody, she had no apparent injuries," she added.wouldn't biting the dog leave some very apparent injuries?

quote:Originally posted by LostInSpace: I was waiting for just such an answer for the second half of my argument. What gives you or anyone the right to put my health at risk? Just as smokers are persecuted for health issues, so too should cell phone users. Here is one article for you all (you can find a lot more): Health101.org quote:The metal body of the car reflects the RF waves, bouncing them around the interior and exposing you to more RF energy than if you were outside your car. Think about it, I'm in a metal subway car surrounded by many people using their cell phones. Two right next to me, one on the left and one on the right and maybe a few standing in front of me (if I'm standing some to the back of me also). I'd rather be in a subway car filled with second hand smoke. The same holds true for those you that use their phones in a plane. So, while my butt is dragged into court for infringing on cell phone peoples rights (and whatever bogus laws are on the books to protect the cell phone industry), I'll in turn counter sue and drag them and everyone else I can into court for exposing me to dangerous radiation and my use of a jammer was for self-preservation. Don't jammers work by emitting a signal of the same type as the device they are trying to jam? So if you turn on this jammer device you would still be receiving dangerous radiation.

yea, the article didn't say how much they sold the unit to retailers for. The retailers might not markup the unit at all. quote: Me, I have an Ipaq with built in MP3 player, and payed a little more, but I get a WHOLE lot more, so an Ipod or whatever they are called is useless to me.....How old is that Ipag, or more importantly how old are the Lithium Ion batteries. I have heard that Lithium Ion batteries last only 2-3 years from the date of manufacture, not the date from first use. So if it had been on the shelf for a year then you would only have 1-2 years of life in those batteries.

quote:Originally posted by Kooseefoo: Uhhh... light speed isn't possible... Einstein's relativity theory states that as you reach the speed of light, your mass increases to infinity (weird, huh? o.O). Not only that but peripheral objects would percieve you as being frozen in time, while you would see objects around you as passing through time at an infinite rate. Armageddon would happen instantly. You'd miss it... heh. The only reason photons can hit light speed is cuz they don't weigh anything (literally). Not even a fusion drive can get ya there. About the maximum speed you can attain... Just the little 15-year-old's 10 cents worth. :-D The Twin "Paradox" anyone

Link quote:Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Analysts at IDC recently took apart an IPod Shuffle and come up with an estimate of how much the diminutive music player costs Apple Computer to make. They found that Apple makes a healthy 35 percent to 40 percent profit on each player sold, and stands to make even more from ITunes music purchases and expected drops in flash memory pricing. The IPod Shuffle's flash memory, which was supplied by South Korea (news - web sites)'s Samsung Electronics in the model examined by IDC, is estimated to be the most expensive component used in the player by far, says IdaRose Sylvester, a senior semiconductor research analyst at IDC. (IDC is owned by International Data Group, the parent of IDG News Service and PC World.) She estimates the 512MB of flash in the cheaper of Apple's two IPod Shuffle models costs the company around $37.50 for each player. That's about two thirds of the estimated total $59 that Apple spends on materials needed to make each 512MB IPod Shuffle. The product retails for $99 giving the company a profit of about $40, or roughly 40 percent. "Apple is making very, very good margins on the Shuffle," Sylvester says. "We based our cost analysis on fourth quarter production prices, which would have been when they sourced [the components]. At some point they'll switch to cheaper flash and the margins will improve." IDC estimates the average price of the same flash memory will slip to $31.25 during the current quarter, cutting the materials bill further and pushing Apple's margin on the 512MB player to around 46 percent, assuming there are no major changes in the price of other materials. "Apple's margin can only improve," Sylvester says. "It's certainly not a loss leader." Any discussion of Apple's profits from the IPod Shuffle must also include the ITunes Music Store, which is an integrated part of the company's business model. Like game console makers, Apple expects hardware sales to drive content sales, in this case music files. However, unlike some consoles Apple is making money on the hardware it sells and isn't so reliant on these later content purchases. The second most expensive single component is judged by IDC to be the digital music decoder chip, which in the IPod Shuffle is the STMP3550 chip from SigmaTel. That marks a change from the hard drive-based IPods which use a chip from Portal Player. The SigmaTel chip supports MP3 and Windows Media Audio files, although Apple has programmed it to play the AAC and Audible music formats, says Sylvester. The chip also includes a digital-to-analog converter, a controller for the USB2.0 interface, SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) memory for buffering, and the headphone driver amplifier. Other functions present in the chip that aren't used in the Shuffle include an analog-to-digital convertor for voice recording, a driver for an LCD, and an FM tuner. While these unused components are present in the chip, it doesn't necessarily mean Apple will use them at any time in the future, says Sylvester. "If it had a screen, it would no longer be a Shuffle," she says. "Apple is getting a lot of marketing mileage out of clever slogans about shuffling." Speaking at the recent Macworld Expo (news - web sites) in San Francisco, Apple's vice president of hardware marketing, Greg Joswiak, says Apple had experimented with a screen on the IPod Shuffle but that it hadn't been able to come up with a navigation system that it liked.

cool, I hope the game plays as good as the screenshots look.

I don't think it is a good idea to sell this device at all.

Why are you shocked? That right there is Wal-Mart mentality. Wal-Mart is always right, Wal-Mart is only here to help. They pound that into every employee's head. It all begins with a CD they play on opening day called "Wal-Mart ROCKS!!" those are the only two words in the whole CD and it loops and loops and loops.

Just a general question, but don't they have to advertise the game as imported before you buy it?

Which one? Or are all four books good? Anyways I will add it to my list of books I should read. Currently making my way through "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of three soldiers who were supporting Iraqi Freedom. They died Feb. 21 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated as they were exiting their military vehicle after it had rolled over. The soldiers were assigned to the Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 151st Field Artillery, 34th Infantry Division, Montevideo, Minn. The soldiers are: 1st Lt. Jason G. Timmerman, 24, of Tracy, Minn. Staff Sgt. David F. Day, 25, of Saint Louis Park, Minn. Sgt. Jesse M. Lhotka, 24, of Alexandria, Minn.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpl. Trevor D. Aston, 32, of Austin, Texas, died Feb. 22 as a result of non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Forces ReserveÔÇÖs 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Austin, Texas. The incident is under investigation.Link May you rest in peace...

your right jive is good one too hehe

The forums in Swedish Chef dialect and in moron dialect

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Link quote:Sara Goudarzi Special to SPACE.com SPACE.com Bradley C. Edwards, president and founder of Carbon Designs Inc., is the driving force behind the space elevator, a purportedly safer and cheaper form of transporting explorers and payloads into space. Although the idea has appeared in both technical and fictional literature for decades, the drive to bring it to reality belongs to Edwards. A cable extending from the Earth's surface to outer space is kept under tension by the competing forces of gravity on Earth and the outward rotational acceleration of the planet in space. Once the cable is aloft, the elevator will be ascended by mechanical means. Sounds impossible? That's what prompted Edwards to look further into it. While he had heard of the idea, the turning point was when he came across a web page in 1998 implying that such a device could not be built for 300 years, if ever. It was then that I started looking into it and I just never stopped, said Edwards in a recent interview with SPACE.com. This was just a blanket statement with no justification as to what the issues were he added with regards to the information on the webpage. I just couldn't believe that it couldn't be built and started to get sucked in further and further, said Edwards, a curious physicist. He pursued the realization of the space elevator by initially tracking grants from NASA (news - web sites)'s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. As the proposed design further developed, the idea generated interest amongst private investors, launching Edwards' vision. Edwards, now Director of Research for the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR), based in Fairmont, West Virginia, was always interested in the space program. As a child, he dreamt of becoming an astronaut and pursued physics in both his undergraduate and graduate studies. However, rejected by the astronaut program due to asthma, he went on to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researching advanced space technologies for 11 years. Edwards' work included conception and designs of the Europa and Lunar orbiter missions and construction of the first optical cryo-cooler, an efficient cooling system using fluorescence technology. The space elevator was just sort of the next step, he said. The biggest challenge to the space elevator has been developing a cable tough enough to extend 62,000 miles without breaking. This, Edwards explained will be solved with carbon nanotube composites - tiny bundles of carbon weaved together to form a ribbon that will be stronger than steel. His startup company, Carbon Designs, Inc., is currently focused on developing this technology. The space elevator is even more uplifting than it seems. Spacefarers no longer need to fear the dramatic forces and vibrations normally experienced with a rocket launch. This vehicle can adjust its speed to accommodate passengers. Likewise, cargo and astronauts eliminate the crushing forces of re entry used by rockets for slowing down when coming back to Earth. You can travel as slow as 10 miles per hour, making it [re entry] much safer, Edwards said. In contrast to rockets where most of what's being launched is fuel, the space elevator moves only the payload, a set of motors, and structures needed for its operation. With the fuel cost almost eliminated, only everyday operations and the mechanical climber expenses remain. Edwards estimates that the cost of launching into the lower earth orbit will be reduced from $10,000 per pound on Shuttle missions to $100 per pound on the space elevator. Once you reduce the cost to almost a Fed-Ex kind of level, it opens the doors to lots of people, lots of countries, and lots of companies to get involved in space, Edwards emphasized. No longer will space travel be limited to the United States, Europe, Russia, China, and other major players. If a research institution wanted to build a small greenhouse on the Martian surface, this technology makes the next planet a hop, skip, and a rotational fling away. Similarly, a hypothetical company can pursue gaming enterprises and send a thousand little rovers to the moon, renting time out to customers who want to control one with a joystick for an hour back here on Earth. Such dramatic increase in the size and activity of the space market would boost our understanding of the universe and generate other yet-unimaginable benefits, Edwards predicts.

Michael Jackson - Thriller video Yet another person with WAY WAY too much time on their hands

Link quote:James Niccolai, IDG News Service A new version of the Sober worm wriggled out of its hole early on Monday and set about quickly attacking computers in Europe and the U.S., a security services company says. The worm is a mass-mailer, meaning it spreads itself via e-mail using contacts listed in the address books of computers it infects. The first instance of the worm, called W32.Sober-K-mm, was intercepted by U.K. security company MessageLabs. The company detected 663 instances of the worm in the first hour, and the figure climbed quickly to more than 2,200 instances over the next five to six hours, prompting MessageLabs to give it a high-risk rating, says Maksym Schipka, a senior antivirus researcher with the company. "Compared to other Sober worms, it looks to me like this one is spreading itself more aggressively," he says. The latest variant appears to have originated in Germany, and by midmorning on Monday it had also been detected in France, the U.K., and the U.S. It may have been created by the same hacker that wrote the first version of the Sober worm, which appeared in October 2003 and also originated in Germany, Schipka says. "I'm not aware that the source code for this worm was made public. It is written in Visual Basic which makes it more difficult to reverse engineer the virus than if it were written in C++ or Assembler. So it would be logical to assume it is the same virus writer," he says. W32.Sober-K-mm spreads itself as an e-mail attachment and creates random subject lines and body texts in either English or German, depending on the e-mail addresses it gathers. Subject lines observed so far include "Alert! New Sober worm," "Paris Hilton Sex Videos," "You visit illegal websites," and "Your new Password," according to MessageLabs, in Gloucester, England. The worm can also generate fake messages that try to fool the recipient into opening the attached.zip file. Some e-mails purport to be from an antivirus company offering a security patch against a new version of the Sober worm--when in fact they contain they worm. Others pretend to be from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and include an attachment labeled "indictment," Schipa says. When a user opens the attachment the worm creates several executable files with the names csrss.exe, winlogon.exe and smss.exe. It then modifies the registry key SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun so that the files execute on startup. The worm also displays the contents of part of the infected machine's file system in a notepad document. Schipka says it is not clear yet why this document appears and that it may be a bug in the worm. "Sober is known as being relatively buggy," he says. The notepad file may be a sign that the virus writer is experimenting with new techniques, one observer speculated. Such worms can make the computers they infect sluggish to operate and also clog e-mail servers and networks. Users are advised to update their antivirus software to keep the definition files current.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Cpl. Kevin M. Clarke, 21, of Tinley Park, Ill., died Feb. 19 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.Link May you rest in peace...

NEXUS:THE JUPITER INCIDENT is going to be out in the US tomorrow

quote:Originally posted by Tac: 2) im a noob on all this.. how does one find that out?I think you can google this? quote: 4) I think I can do that. Be more specific? Gimme the for-dummies version hehehe At local noon (not necessarily the time at which a clock reads 12:00) a vertical indicator - called a GNOMON - will cast a shadow which is as short as is possible for that day. The direction of the shadow from the base of the gnomon is the direction of TRUE NORTH. You will need about 30 minutes to complete this. There is a more accurate version but it takes most of the day to complete.

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Seth R. Trahan, 20, of Crowley, La. died Feb. 19, in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained while on patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated. Trahan was assigned to the Army National Guard's 3d Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, Crowley, La.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. 1st Lt. Adam Malson, 23, of Rochester Hills, Mich., died Feb. 19 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained while on patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated. Malson was assigned to 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, Fort Drum, N.Y.Link May you rest in peace...

quote:The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spc. Clinton R. Gertson, 26, of Houston, Texas, died 19 Feb. in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy forces small arms fire. Gertson was assigned to 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.Link May you rest in peace...