"families affected by Autism", not "effected". In this context, "affected" means the families were impacted by Autism; "effected" means Autism implemented the families.
But at least throttling liquid fuel consumption rates is possible. Solid rockets basically have just three settings: "off", "on", and "kaboom".
That's what I thought as well - you can't turn off a solid fuel rocket once it's light, right? So what happens if they produce too much thrust while braking, and send you up again?
I usually catch these abuses when I meta moderate. It just surprised me that a simple restatement of fact got modded down and remained down on such an active story.
Not sure why you got modded down as a troll. You correctly quoted the Carlton U student association's motion to support a charity that benefitted "their diverse communities." It even made the news sites down here in New Zealand. Here's the text of the motion, directly from the CBC:
Motion to drop Shinerama fundraising campaign from Orientation Week
Whereas Orientation week strives to be inclusive as possible
Whereas all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve their diverse communities
And whereas cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men
Be it further resolved that: The CUSA representatives on the incoming Orientation Supervisory Board work to select a new broad reaching charity for orientation week.
A lot of the European exchange students that we get down here in New Zealand refer to "America" when discussing Canada+USA+Mexico. Apparently it's a common cultural term of reference; all other countries in the Americas are then clumped in as "South Americans". Being from Canada originally, I used to correct them: "No, I'm not American, I'm Canadian." This just led to confusion, as they consider it a region not a country.
By the way, textual references to the 7 continental regions have been changing to "Oceania" for years, of which Australia is just one country. This is distinct from the continental plates; Australia is one, but there are more than 7.
i thought that in Myst solving the puzzles *was* the play.
Yes, that was part of my point. Myst is an example of a Puzzle focused game, where you can't move on to the next puzzle or world until you've solved the current puzzle.
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTO) was an example of an Action/RPG where you could avoid doing any puzzles if you wanted to, and still enjoy the game. Completing the puzzles advanced a subplot, or gave you better equipment, or earned you experience.
I agree with you - the puzzles are simply better integrated with the game, and are offered as a challenge to get more of the story/points/powers, rather than being roadblocks that must be passed. Think KOTOR, where the puzzles enhance the gameplay, vs something like Myst, where solving the puzzles enable futher gameplay.
I think it's also a reflection of the fact that most puzzles don't benefit from improved graphics or processor power, while fighting/shooting/action games see measurable benefits. So the puzzles still look and play very much the same way ("very well", in my opinion), but each year the action elements improve visually and kinetically.
Escuse me? Could you point out where I said anybody else should use Emacs? I was clearly listing the reasons I prefer Emacs over Eclipse. Never did I say anybody else should use Emacs over Eclipse. If you could point out where I did otherwise, I'd like to see it.
You're right, you did only say that you would stick to Emacs. I suppose I just assumed that answering a question of "What Eclipse distro should I use" with "None of them, Eclipse sucks, I'm sticking to Emacs" implied that you were recommending Emacs over Eclipse to the asker (and by extension, the Slashdot readers.) I'll answer the posted comments and not my own interpretation next time.
On a related note, if your Eclipse installation is using more than 800MB of active memory, you have a serious problem. The biggest drawback to Eclipse is that there is no vetting process for the plugins. Excess memory consumption at that level implies either a bad plugin, too many heavy projects open (> 20) or a problem with your JRE. It might be worthwhile to check the memory limit in your eclipse.ini file. Xms and Xmx are the min and max; by default, they are usually 40/256, although many distros alter that.
there's really no excuse for Eclipse using 800 megs with far fewer features.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but you're way off for Eclipse memory stats. I use Eclipse for Java, PHP (PDT), CFM (cfeclipse), Subversion (subclipse), controlling my MySQL databases (Data Tools), and Eclipse plugin development (PDE). With 4 Java projects, 2 PHP projects and one ColdFusion project open for the past week, Eclipse is using 370MB of memory. Of course the swap file is huge, but even Firefox has a swap file over a GB right now.
As for the features, emacs is feature rich, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing developers that the features are better. Where is my RDBMS gui? Where is my Tomcat control panel? Profiling tools, workflow integration, UML diagramming and reverse engineering... And those are just the Eclipse features that I use.
I can appreciate that Emacs is best for you, but please don't try to sell it as better for everyone. We can't all memorize C-x M-c M-butterfly.
Just how much worse would it have been if their last boyfriend/girlfriend could see online how much they're hurting, or could flood their email/MySpace/Facebook accounts with hurtful or pathetic messages.
Who modded this post "Flamebait"? It's either sarcasm, which is mildly funny, or it's serious, in which case it's just a dupe of all the earlier posts modded "Insightful".
Oops, I think you misread your source. Following your link goes to a report by Berkeley that has a table in "2002 Terabytes", not petabytes as you erroneously quoted. So that's 157 Terabytes for the "Surface Web", 93 Petabytes for the "Deep Web", and 532 Petabytes total. I agree that the summary quote underestimates the size of the web, but please don't exagerate the data from your sources.
Yes, that's the point. It's not stars you're looking at, where you're eyes have time to filter out noise from ambient light. You're "looking for split-second flashes" (from TFA, second-last paragraph.) This is why they're promoting their software, which can do the watching for you.
The hardware is quite uncommon, actually. I'm in Auckland, NZ right now, pop 1.1 million, and the number of telescopes beyond a 12-inch aperture in the city is probably between 200 and 300. Of those, maybe 2/3 will be in the hands of amateur astronomers. You'll also need a good CCD, a computer good enough to run their program, and a location from which you can track the moon for several hours without interference. That puts it far beyond most of the people in the clubs around here.
I hit 13.3 regularly with a 12-inch reflector about 30 foot from a (shielded) street light.
How shielded? If you're facing within 90 degrees of that streetlight, you should have light reflected off the inside of your tube, giving you light polution near your secondary reflector. That's like looking at the sky at dusk. How can you see anything beyond M9 or M10 in those conditions?
All you geeks need to get out from in front your Wii's and visit a star party put on by a local astronomy club.
Again, the point of the article is that lots of amateurs can help find these strikes; a distributed effort, so they can watch the moon from a myriad different angles, 24/7. The observatories already have better equipment than we do, so why would they bother asking for help from the amateurs? It's the different locations they're looking for, which can't be supplied by observatories (or a star party, where we're all clustered together in one location.)
Oh, and to the post that says Actually, magnitude 6 is generally the faintest stars visible to the naked eye (under good viewing conditions, of course), that's not a contradiction to what I wrote. Recall that the logarithmic scale means M7 is about 2.5 times harder to see, putting it beyond naked eye, and beyond most pocket binoculars (because of the small aperture. "pease1"'s binoculars gather a lot of light - rated at 50 - which is why he can see M7 easily.) M8 is 2.5 times dimmer than M7, and so on, so unless you're lucky, you could be looking for something very, very dim.
P.S.: M1 was meant to be the faintest star visibile to the nake eye, but Sirius is listed as -1.7, so the scale's off a bit.
You don't even need to RTFA to know it's beyond most of our equipment. The/. summary says "7th to 9th magnitude", so you know you probably can't see them. The stellar magnitude scale goes brighter the lower the number, and it's logarithmic. The sun is about -26, the moon -12, and Saturn is about a 1. Theoretically, in a very dark rural area, you should be able to see 7th magnitude items with a modest aperture (say 4 - 6 inches.) But it becomes logarithmically more difficult at higher magnitudes like 8 and 9, so those of us in any suburban setting already know that we won't see anything. The only saving grace to the article is the suggestion that the software will notice the strikes, even though the astonomer won't.
Well, what if we energized the tether? Run electicity through the tether to create an electromagnetic field, which would protect both the tether and the elevator from most of the radiation. Much simpler than shielding, and easier than beaming extra energy to the elevator and equiping the elevator with an electromagentic shield. Depending on how you form the carbon, you can make it quite conductive.
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"families affected by Autism", not "effected". In this context, "affected" means the families were impacted by Autism; "effected" means Autism implemented the families.
But at least throttling liquid fuel consumption rates is possible. Solid rockets basically have just three settings: "off", "on", and "kaboom".
That's what I thought as well - you can't turn off a solid fuel rocket once it's light, right? So what happens if they produce too much thrust while braking, and send you up again?
I usually catch these abuses when I meta moderate. It just surprised me that a simple restatement of fact got modded down and remained down on such an active story.
Not sure why you got modded down as a troll. You correctly quoted the Carlton U student association's motion to support a charity that benefitted "their diverse communities." It even made the news sites down here in New Zealand. Here's the text of the motion, directly from the CBC:
Motion to drop Shinerama fundraising campaign from Orientation Week
Whereas Orientation week strives to be inclusive as possible
Whereas all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve their diverse communities
And whereas cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men
Be it further resolved that: The CUSA representatives on the incoming Orientation Supervisory Board work to select a new broad reaching charity for orientation week.
Source: CUSA
A lot of the European exchange students that we get down here in New Zealand refer to "America" when discussing Canada+USA+Mexico. Apparently it's a common cultural term of reference; all other countries in the Americas are then clumped in as "South Americans". Being from Canada originally, I used to correct them: "No, I'm not American, I'm Canadian." This just led to confusion, as they consider it a region not a country.
By the way, textual references to the 7 continental regions have been changing to "Oceania" for years, of which Australia is just one country. This is distinct from the continental plates; Australia is one, but there are more than 7.
i thought that in Myst solving the puzzles *was* the play.
Yes, that was part of my point. Myst is an example of a Puzzle focused game, where you can't move on to the next puzzle or world until you've solved the current puzzle.
Knights of the Old Republic (KOTO) was an example of an Action/RPG where you could avoid doing any puzzles if you wanted to, and still enjoy the game. Completing the puzzles advanced a subplot, or gave you better equipment, or earned you experience.
I agree with you - the puzzles are simply better integrated with the game, and are offered as a challenge to get more of the story/points/powers, rather than being roadblocks that must be passed. Think KOTOR, where the puzzles enhance the gameplay, vs something like Myst, where solving the puzzles enable futher gameplay.
I think it's also a reflection of the fact that most puzzles don't benefit from improved graphics or processor power, while fighting/shooting/action games see measurable benefits. So the puzzles still look and play very much the same way ("very well", in my opinion), but each year the action elements improve visually and kinetically.
That looks like an iterative sig to me... no wisdom or truth to be found here.
Good point. It was meant to be funny, though. Also, it's a haiku! How about this one?
Sometimes a haiku
Can be odd or incorrect
Refrigerator
The real attraction, though, is under their shoes.
If these crystals have never been observed before, shouldn't they be observing instead of walking on them?
Escuse me? Could you point out where I said anybody else should use Emacs? I was clearly listing the reasons I prefer Emacs over Eclipse. Never did I say anybody else should use Emacs over Eclipse. If you could point out where I did otherwise, I'd like to see it.
You're right, you did only say that you would stick to Emacs. I suppose I just assumed that answering a question of "What Eclipse distro should I use" with "None of them, Eclipse sucks, I'm sticking to Emacs" implied that you were recommending Emacs over Eclipse to the asker (and by extension, the Slashdot readers.) I'll answer the posted comments and not my own interpretation next time.
On a related note, if your Eclipse installation is using more than 800MB of active memory, you have a serious problem. The biggest drawback to Eclipse is that there is no vetting process for the plugins. Excess memory consumption at that level implies either a bad plugin, too many heavy projects open (> 20) or a problem with your JRE. It might be worthwhile to check the memory limit in your eclipse.ini file. Xms and Xmx are the min and max; by default, they are usually 40/256, although many distros alter that.
there's really no excuse for Eclipse using 800 megs with far fewer features.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but you're way off for Eclipse memory stats. I use Eclipse for Java, PHP (PDT), CFM (cfeclipse), Subversion (subclipse), controlling my MySQL databases (Data Tools), and Eclipse plugin development (PDE). With 4 Java projects, 2 PHP projects and one ColdFusion project open for the past week, Eclipse is using 370MB of memory. Of course the swap file is huge, but even Firefox has a swap file over a GB right now.
As for the features, emacs is feature rich, but I think you'll have a hard time convincing developers that the features are better. Where is my RDBMS gui? Where is my Tomcat control panel? Profiling tools, workflow integration, UML diagramming and reverse engineering... And those are just the Eclipse features that I use.
I can appreciate that Emacs is best for you, but please don't try to sell it as better for everyone. We can't all memorize C-x M-c M-butterfly.
Who tagged this snorkfud, and what on earth does it mean? A google search just hits this slashdot article and a dummy website.
Just how much worse would it have been if their last boyfriend/girlfriend could see online how much they're hurting, or could flood their email/MySpace/Facebook accounts with hurtful or pathetic messages.
Well done, you gave the spammer the link he wanted!
Nah, I want "rick.at.dot@slashdot.org"
Try telling that one to your friends over the phone!
Who modded this post "Flamebait"? It's either sarcasm, which is mildly funny, or it's serious, in which case it's just a dupe of all the earlier posts modded "Insightful".
Oops, I think you misread your source. Following your link goes to a report by Berkeley that has a table in "2002 Terabytes", not petabytes as you erroneously quoted. So that's 157 Terabytes for the "Surface Web", 93 Petabytes for the "Deep Web", and 532 Petabytes total. I agree that the summary quote underestimates the size of the web, but please don't exagerate the data from your sources.
Sorry, but your information is incorrect. According to the old rules, the limit was $5,000 for individuals, and $1,000 for unions and corporations.
According to the new rules that took effect January 1st, the limit is
That's from individuals, so a family of four could potentially contribute 4 * (4 * $1,100) = $17,600.
That seems "significant" to me.
Reminds me a lot of a previous story on /. How many times can I read about how neat it is that normal people go to video game concerts?
record the brightness of 7th magnitude stars
Yes, that's the point. It's not stars you're looking at, where you're eyes have time to filter out noise from ambient light. You're "looking for split-second flashes" (from TFA, second-last paragraph.) This is why they're promoting their software, which can do the watching for you.
The hardware is quite uncommon, actually. I'm in Auckland, NZ right now, pop 1.1 million, and the number of telescopes beyond a 12-inch aperture in the city is probably between 200 and 300. Of those, maybe 2/3 will be in the hands of amateur astronomers. You'll also need a good CCD, a computer good enough to run their program, and a location from which you can track the moon for several hours without interference. That puts it far beyond most of the people in the clubs around here.
I hit 13.3 regularly with a 12-inch reflector about 30 foot from a (shielded) street light.
How shielded? If you're facing within 90 degrees of that streetlight, you should have light reflected off the inside of your tube, giving you light polution near your secondary reflector. That's like looking at the sky at dusk. How can you see anything beyond M9 or M10 in those conditions?
All you geeks need to get out from in front your Wii's and visit a star party put on by a local astronomy club.
Again, the point of the article is that lots of amateurs can help find these strikes; a distributed effort, so they can watch the moon from a myriad different angles, 24/7. The observatories already have better equipment than we do, so why would they bother asking for help from the amateurs? It's the different locations they're looking for, which can't be supplied by observatories (or a star party, where we're all clustered together in one location.)
Oh, and to the post that says Actually, magnitude 6 is generally the faintest stars visible to the naked eye (under good viewing conditions, of course), that's not a contradiction to what I wrote. Recall that the logarithmic scale means M7 is about 2.5 times harder to see, putting it beyond naked eye, and beyond most pocket binoculars (because of the small aperture. "pease1"'s binoculars gather a lot of light - rated at 50 - which is why he can see M7 easily.) M8 is 2.5 times dimmer than M7, and so on, so unless you're lucky, you could be looking for something very, very dim.
P.S.: M1 was meant to be the faintest star visibile to the nake eye, but Sirius is listed as -1.7, so the scale's off a bit.
You don't even need to RTFA to know it's beyond most of our equipment. The /. summary says "7th to 9th magnitude", so you know you probably can't see them. The stellar magnitude scale goes brighter the lower the number, and it's logarithmic. The sun is about -26, the moon -12, and Saturn is about a 1. Theoretically, in a very dark rural area, you should be able to see 7th magnitude items with a modest aperture (say 4 - 6 inches.) But it becomes logarithmically more difficult at higher magnitudes like 8 and 9, so those of us in any suburban setting already know that we won't see anything. The only saving grace to the article is the suggestion that the software will notice the strikes, even though the astonomer won't.
Magnitude descriptions
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/MagScale.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude
Well, what if we energized the tether? Run electicity through the tether to create an electromagnetic field, which would protect both the tether and the elevator from most of the radiation. Much simpler than shielding, and easier than beaming extra energy to the elevator and equiping the elevator with an electromagentic shield. Depending on how you form the carbon, you can make it quite conductive.