In fact, there is not any alternative at all if you receive visio files. You can even open them to look at them.
I'm assuming you meant "You can't even open them...", otherwise your post doesn't make sense. Anyway, there is a free viewer to open them and view them. Runs inside IE, which isn't ideal, but works fine. I used to use it all the time.
I also never understood why they sell the noisiest possible food (crisps and popcorn) at cinemas, people munching away on this stuff is noisy and detracts from the movie!
I also don't understand why they think you'll consume an entire litre of fizzy drink during a single movie. I've never seen anywhere else selling that much beverage at one time outside the Oktoberfest
When I can buy a DVD for the price of a cinema ticket + parking + snacks and when my living room is much nicer than the local cinema, it makes very little incentive to go to the cinema. The price of the DVD alone is less than two tickets excluding everything it means the only time I ever go to the cinema is when I tag along with my friends who want to see something. If I want to watch a film, I'll just wait for the DVD. Pirating it is easier and cheaper than getting the DVD so that has a large appeal apart from the bit where I have to poo in a policeman's helmet
That aside, there are still plenty of people who use iPhones who aren't that technologically literate. They won't know what server to connect to or what an exchange account is. All they know is that they have an iPhone and a Hotmail account. If there's an option in the mail app to configure an Exchange account, they won't bother. If there is one to configure a Hotmail account they'll go "Oooh, I can get my hotmail on my phone" and do it.
It'd be interesting to see how many asinine comments like this there would be on slashdot about how horrendous Hotmail is if Microsoft hadn't bought them and people judged it on its own merits, rather than ownership. I haven't used Hotmail since the mid nineties, but plenty of friends do and I haven't heard anything bad about it.
It was meaning the former "Earth-asteroid distance Earth-Moon distance".
ie, at the time of closest approach to the Earth, the asteroid is inside the Moon's orbit, is indeed closer to the Earth than it is to the moon, but not 0.5 x (mean Earth-Moon distance).
It's not wrong, it's just ambiguous. The summary means "asteroid passes closer to Earth than the Moon is to the Earth", not "asteroid passes closer to the Earth than it will be to the moon".
That would probably tie in Creative too. Last I heard, Apple was still paying $1 per iPod to Creative for their 'invention' of the 3-tier menu for music: Artist, Album, Song.
2000: the most powerful geomagnetic storm since 1989 sparked Northern Lights as far south as Florida
2001: There are many dates when Northern Lights were sighted as far south as Texas, Florida, Arizona--even Mexico
2002: Another date of note: April 19 when Northern Lights descended as far south as California
2003: Auroras appeared in Florida, Texas, Australia and many other places where they are seldom seen
2004: Northern Lights descended as far south as California during an extreme geomagnetic storm
2005: sparking auroras from Alaska to Antarctica and many rare places in between [including California - follow the link]
2006: The best display occured on Dec. 14th when a coronal mass ejection hit Earth, sparking Northern Lights as far south as Arizona.
That webpage only goes from 2000-2006, so yes, they DO happen that often.
Lighting up the planets northern hemisphere isn't impressive ? or majestic ?
So by your definition, all auroras are epic?
This was a big aurora - no argument. But it's not as 'impressively great' as to be called 'epic' because auroras like this happen once every year-or-so (more now that we are approaching a solar maximum). If it was the biggest, most impressive aurora in about 50 years then maybe it could be described as epic, but it wasn't - in fact, there was one just a month ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042428/Best-auroras-seen-Britain-thanks-huge-solar-flares.html
I don't know of an app, but this website offers alerts via twitter than can also go to your mobile. It's only for the UK so possibly not helpful for you in Alberta, but putting on here in case it's useful for UK readers.
3 billion pounds of material traveling at 2000 miles/sec and blasting entire planets isn't epic for you ?
You have a pretty high standard for epic.
Correct. We do have a high standard of 'epic'. 3 billion pounds of material travelling at 2000 miles/sec is large, but it's not massively unusual and therefore not epic. Unfortunately you, and the mass media don't, so epic is being used whenever anyone gets slightly excited about anything these days.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epic
I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
Whether apple innovate is also questionable. They produce very good gadgets and they polish them very very well, but there's not a huge amount that they've done that is truly innovative.
iPod was just a well polished MP3 player of which there were many before them.
iPhone was nothing new (all-touchscreen had been done by LG prada before iPhone was released)
iPad was a merging of their iPhone and tablet computers (which MS had been trying (and failing) to generate a mass-market in about 10 years previous)
macbooks - flashy and well engineered, but not particularly innovative.
Siri was a bought-in component that they merged into the latest phone.
OK, I'll give you multitouch for them, but the point is that not everything that comes out of Infinite Loop is innovative. Very good and well designed, yes, but don't preach to them as the Gods of Innovation. They do find good innovators in the market and then copy-and-improve them or buy them outright to incorporate into their engineering team.
Still, the GP's point is that most people would chose XP over 7. That's simply not the case. Most people would prefer the newer and better OS. Ignoring the debate that is Vista, 7 is far superior to XP in many many ways and THE VAST MAJORITY would (and did) choose 7 over XP. Fact (even if (and I say if) only for the shiny aero interface)
This works perfectly in theory, but maintaining this is hard. Most amateur rockets have a 'good enough' approach to stabilisation. The bigger the rocket gets, the more variation in CoM inline with thrust and the harder the problem gets. See the Scandinavian amateur rocket a few months ago that ended up pitching by something like 70 from vertical.
This is not about 'time to usable desktop'. It's about shortening the existing boot process (I agree that Windows is far from usable the first half-minute or so after it gets you to the desktop).
This image sums it all up nicely, without the waffle, video or text.
It will all depend on the university, but for the one I went to, I'd disagree fundamentally with pretty much all of what you said (apart from the what-they-learned-at-school section, which most people didn't take at GCSE/A-Level anyway because they saw it was worthless - they did 2xMaths and Physics instead with a 4th Science generally). Half of the CS course was maths. Not watered-down maths for CS students, Proper, rigourous maths (I'm talking as a maths grad here). And if you couldn't hack it you were largely ignored and left to learn it on your own or fail rather than slowing the rest of the lecture down. They didn't focus on teaching specific languages (as they'd go out of fashion in 5 years anyway) so taught introductions to 3 different styles of languages (mine were java/prolog/ML) to teach you the difference between different types of thinking and then let you learn specific languages in your own time. I think it is basically summed up between the difference between Computer Science (which is a Science degree) and Computer Studies (which teaches you how to use a spreadsheet).
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In fact, there is not any alternative at all if you receive visio files. You can even open them to look at them.
I'm assuming you meant "You can't even open them...", otherwise your post doesn't make sense. Anyway, there is a free viewer to open them and view them. Runs inside IE, which isn't ideal, but works fine. I used to use it all the time.
The SSMEs needed to be reusable. J2 wasn't.
I also never understood why they sell the noisiest possible food (crisps and popcorn) at cinemas, people munching away on this stuff is noisy and detracts from the movie!
I also don't understand why they think you'll consume an entire litre of fizzy drink during a single movie. I've never seen anywhere else selling that much beverage at one time outside the Oktoberfest
When I can buy a DVD for the price of a cinema ticket + parking + snacks and when my living room is much nicer than the local cinema, it makes very little incentive to go to the cinema. The price of the DVD alone is less than two tickets excluding everything it means the only time I ever go to the cinema is when I tag along with my friends who want to see something. If I want to watch a film, I'll just wait for the DVD. Pirating it is easier and cheaper than getting the DVD so that has a large appeal apart from the bit where I have to poo in a policeman's helmet
That aside, there are still plenty of people who use iPhones who aren't that technologically literate. They won't know what server to connect to or what an exchange account is. All they know is that they have an iPhone and a Hotmail account. If there's an option in the mail app to configure an Exchange account, they won't bother. If there is one to configure a Hotmail account they'll go "Oooh, I can get my hotmail on my phone" and do it.
It'd be interesting to see how many asinine comments like this there would be on slashdot about how horrendous Hotmail is if Microsoft hadn't bought them and people judged it on its own merits, rather than ownership. I haven't used Hotmail since the mid nineties, but plenty of friends do and I haven't heard anything bad about it.
It was meaning the former "Earth-asteroid distance Earth-Moon distance".
ie, at the time of closest approach to the Earth, the asteroid is inside the Moon's orbit, is indeed closer to the Earth than it is to the moon, but not 0.5 x (mean Earth-Moon distance).
It's not wrong, it's just ambiguous. The summary means "asteroid passes closer to Earth than the Moon is to the Earth", not "asteroid passes closer to the Earth than it will be to the moon".
That would probably tie in Creative too. Last I heard, Apple was still paying $1 per iPod to Creative for their 'invention' of the 3-tier menu for music: Artist, Album, Song.
http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery.html:
2000: the most powerful geomagnetic storm since 1989 sparked Northern Lights as far south as Florida
2001: There are many dates when Northern Lights were sighted as far south as Texas, Florida, Arizona--even Mexico
2002: Another date of note: April 19 when Northern Lights descended as far south as California
2003: Auroras appeared in Florida, Texas, Australia and many other places where they are seldom seen
2004: Northern Lights descended as far south as California during an extreme geomagnetic storm
2005: sparking auroras from Alaska to Antarctica and many rare places in between [including California - follow the link]
2006: The best display occured on Dec. 14th when a coronal mass ejection hit Earth, sparking Northern Lights as far south as Arizona.
That webpage only goes from 2000-2006, so yes, they DO happen that often.
Lighting up the planets northern hemisphere isn't impressive ? or majestic ?
So by your definition, all auroras are epic? This was a big aurora - no argument. But it's not as 'impressively great' as to be called 'epic' because auroras like this happen once every year-or-so (more now that we are approaching a solar maximum). If it was the biggest, most impressive aurora in about 50 years then maybe it could be described as epic, but it wasn't - in fact, there was one just a month ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2042428/Best-auroras-seen-Britain-thanks-huge-solar-flares.html
Also this - http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/MobilePages - not an app, a website you can use to check on aurora (mobile version).
I don't know of an app, but this website offers alerts via twitter than can also go to your mobile. It's only for the UK so possibly not helpful for you in Alberta, but putting on here in case it's useful for UK readers.
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/alerts
3 billion pounds of material traveling at 2000 miles/sec and blasting entire planets isn't epic for you ? You have a pretty high standard for epic.
Correct. We do have a high standard of 'epic'. 3 billion pounds of material travelling at 2000 miles/sec is large, but it's not massively unusual and therefore not epic. Unfortunately you, and the mass media don't, so epic is being used whenever anyone gets slightly excited about anything these days. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/epic
I think you mean creator or inventor. It's not like the Lisp programming language was just sat out in the wilds of Chile under a rock waiting to be found by an archaeologist.
They bought in multi-touch too.
I didn't know that. Thank you!
Whether apple innovate is also questionable. They produce very good gadgets and they polish them very very well, but there's not a huge amount that they've done that is truly innovative. iPod was just a well polished MP3 player of which there were many before them. iPhone was nothing new (all-touchscreen had been done by LG prada before iPhone was released) iPad was a merging of their iPhone and tablet computers (which MS had been trying (and failing) to generate a mass-market in about 10 years previous) macbooks - flashy and well engineered, but not particularly innovative. Siri was a bought-in component that they merged into the latest phone. OK, I'll give you multitouch for them, but the point is that not everything that comes out of Infinite Loop is innovative. Very good and well designed, yes, but don't preach to them as the Gods of Innovation. They do find good innovators in the market and then copy-and-improve them or buy them outright to incorporate into their engineering team.
Still, the GP's point is that most people would chose XP over 7. That's simply not the case. Most people would prefer the newer and better OS. Ignoring the debate that is Vista, 7 is far superior to XP in many many ways and THE VAST MAJORITY would (and did) choose 7 over XP. Fact (even if (and I say if) only for the shiny aero interface)
Steve Wozniak is proving two things today. 1. He's a regular guy
Yes, nothing proves you're a regular guy more than turning up on your Segway...
Center of gravity above center of pressure.
This works perfectly in theory, but maintaining this is hard. Most amateur rockets have a 'good enough' approach to stabilisation. The bigger the rocket gets, the more variation in CoM inline with thrust and the harder the problem gets. See the Scandinavian amateur rocket a few months ago that ended up pitching by something like 70 from vertical.
Also checkout the atmospheric lensing of the stars in the background.
I thought that was Airglow
[citation needed]
... beyond pure greed...
You've pretty much summed up the stock market there.
This is not about 'time to usable desktop'. It's about shortening the existing boot process (I agree that Windows is far from usable the first half-minute or so after it gets you to the desktop).
This image sums it all up nicely, without the waffle, video or text.
It will all depend on the university, but for the one I went to, I'd disagree fundamentally with pretty much all of what you said (apart from the what-they-learned-at-school section, which most people didn't take at GCSE/A-Level anyway because they saw it was worthless - they did 2xMaths and Physics instead with a 4th Science generally). Half of the CS course was maths. Not watered-down maths for CS students, Proper, rigourous maths (I'm talking as a maths grad here). And if you couldn't hack it you were largely ignored and left to learn it on your own or fail rather than slowing the rest of the lecture down. They didn't focus on teaching specific languages (as they'd go out of fashion in 5 years anyway) so taught introductions to 3 different styles of languages (mine were java/prolog/ML) to teach you the difference between different types of thinking and then let you learn specific languages in your own time. I think it is basically summed up between the difference between Computer Science (which is a Science degree) and Computer Studies (which teaches you how to use a spreadsheet).