Some ISPs list what their policies are on the details of the packages. The cheap policies normally list 10, 20, or 40GB transfer limits. The more expensive ones normally state that it's unlimited but a 'fair usage policy' applies but don't list what this policy is, meaning they can just throttle whenever they like.
I just recently moved from Australia to the UK and that's one of the interesting things I noticed. In the UK you pay for the speed of your connection rather than how much you can download.... You can download as much as you want.
You must be new here. They all advertise that it's 'unlimited' but then massively throttle how much you download if you go over their secret hidden limits.
It is if the twittererer (sorry, don't know this modern lingo - the guy who is twittering) is the head of MS's XBox Live policy and enforcement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulouse
Haha! I challenge your non-peadant-meaning suggestion and say to you that yes, you did mean to be a pedant but stated the aforementioned non-pedantry-stance as an ironic twist to make the tale more risible to the reader.
Make yourself visible. The majority of managers don't see the guy that sits in the corner and makes beautiful code, but the guy sweating and working they think is working his butt off.
Again, this is one of those pieces of advice that applies differently in different places. I didn't do an internship, but a lot of people here did. I'm one of those who sat in the corner writing beautiful code rather than making a big song-and-dance about what they were doing.
When it came to put all the software components through acceptance testing, it was noticed that my component was the only one that went through testing first time with only a couple of minor fixes to be made - every other component failed with major problems. Doing your job well may not get you noticed as quickly as making a fuss about it all the time, but you will get noticed at some point and it will be far better than trying to sell yourself at every step of the way - especially if you're an intern (who they don't expect to come out with great results).
If you stay in London, every street has a handy reminder painted on the floor just on the edge of the road to remind you. It's only if you leave London that you have to worry about that for yourself.
When the first started building nuclear reactors in the 60s (is that correct? I wasn't around then) they imagined that they'd be able to produce so much electricity so cheaply that they wouldn't need to charge for it and electricity would be free.
Black holes (whilst black) have an accretion disc of hot material that glows brightly due to compressional heating under the extreme gravity. You can see this as the glowing white regions to the right of the image
The booster was supposed to fall into a tumble to increase drag so that it wouldn't hit the upper stage simulator (which it may have done anyway). It had rocket motors attached at the base to perform this manoeuvre and you can see these firing at separation.
The upper stage simulator (USS) was unguided and little more than a lump of metal to act as the mass of the real upper stage. As such, it's not surprising that it would fall into a tumble after separation, but it seemed to do more-so than people were expecting. This is not a problem as the USS had no parachutes and landed and sank (as intended) in the Atlantic.
The windows media streams are about 1-2 minutes behind the live events. RM stream is about 10-15 seconds behind live events.
If you're getting problems with the higher bandwidth streams, then it may be because of bandwidth issues, either at your end or because there are so many people subscribed to the feed. This has happened before (LCROSS) and I've had old versions of VLC appear to lock up if the stream drops packets (I don't know which version of VLC you are using)
The video is actually NasaTV's public channel, which a lot of the time is not showing live TV (instead, showing past missions, upcoming missions, press briefings etc). The only things that are shown live are really the space shuttle missions and press briefings. The vast majority of viewings are for space shuttle launches only. Yahoo (provider of the feeds) does not bother to update their metadata and just leaves it on "Nasa Space Shuttle Launch" the entire time.
Meteorites are a lot smaller than the crater that they create. Eg, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico is over 180km in diameter and was created by an impactor (estimated to be) only about 10km in diameter.
The blob of burning stuff in the middle (though exposed as a fake) is presumably supposed to be the meteorite and about the right size when put in context.
This is one of the occasions where slashdot should allow you to have more than one modifyer for a post. This is both informative AND funny! Kudos to you.
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As with all previous FF updates, it should be optional. You can turn off auto update with Tools->Opitons->Advanced->Update.
Some ISPs list what their policies are on the details of the packages. The cheap policies normally list 10, 20, or 40GB transfer limits. The more expensive ones normally state that it's unlimited but a 'fair usage policy' applies but don't list what this policy is, meaning they can just throttle whenever they like.
I just recently moved from Australia to the UK and that's one of the interesting things I noticed. In the UK you pay for the speed of your connection rather than how much you can download. ... You can download as much as you want.
You must be new here. They all advertise that it's 'unlimited' but then massively throttle how much you download if you go over their secret hidden limits.
the Virgin V+ HD box is free (well, a once off £50 activation charge)
So not really free then.
It is if the twittererer (sorry, don't know this modern lingo - the guy who is twittering) is the head of MS's XBox Live policy and enforcement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulouse
This is the internet. The whole point of an open and fair forum is to bitch and moan as loudly as possible, regardless of any aim or objective
Um, don't mean to be a pedant...
Haha! I challenge your non-peadant-meaning suggestion and say to you that yes, you did mean to be a pedant but stated the aforementioned non-pedantry-stance as an ironic twist to make the tale more risible to the reader.
I actually can't think of a sequel he's done *except* for the Matrix series. He's notably turned down ... a 3rd Bill & Ted movie...
(Emphasis mine). I'd say the second Bill and Ted movie would count as a sequel in most people's books...
Why run a hairy what?
Make yourself visible. The majority of managers don't see the guy that sits in the corner and makes beautiful code, but the guy sweating and working they think is working his butt off.
Again, this is one of those pieces of advice that applies differently in different places. I didn't do an internship, but a lot of people here did. I'm one of those who sat in the corner writing beautiful code rather than making a big song-and-dance about what they were doing. When it came to put all the software components through acceptance testing, it was noticed that my component was the only one that went through testing first time with only a couple of minor fixes to be made - every other component failed with major problems. Doing your job well may not get you noticed as quickly as making a fuss about it all the time, but you will get noticed at some point and it will be far better than trying to sell yourself at every step of the way - especially if you're an intern (who they don't expect to come out with great results).
LOOK TO THE RIGHT
If you stay in London, every street has a handy reminder painted on the floor just on the edge of the road to remind you. It's only if you leave London that you have to worry about that for yourself.
Look how that panned out.
ATTENTION WORLD GOVERNMENTS:
Fund. Fucking. Thorium. Fuel. Cycle. Research.
They've already done the first two items on your list. Thorium should be next.
No, paper beats rock. There's no water in the game.
Spock also beats rock.
Black holes (whilst black) have an accretion disc of hot material that glows brightly due to compressional heating under the extreme gravity. You can see this as the glowing white regions to the right of the image
Ares 1-Y in 2013
The booster was supposed to fall into a tumble to increase drag so that it wouldn't hit the upper stage simulator (which it may have done anyway). It had rocket motors attached at the base to perform this manoeuvre and you can see these firing at separation. The upper stage simulator (USS) was unguided and little more than a lump of metal to act as the mass of the real upper stage. As such, it's not surprising that it would fall into a tumble after separation, but it seemed to do more-so than people were expecting. This is not a problem as the USS had no parachutes and landed and sank (as intended) in the Atlantic.
Just open up VLC and choose "Open Network Stream". It still hasn't launched, so you should have time.
The windows media streams are about 1-2 minutes behind the live events. RM stream is about 10-15 seconds behind live events. If you're getting problems with the higher bandwidth streams, then it may be because of bandwidth issues, either at your end or because there are so many people subscribed to the feed. This has happened before (LCROSS) and I've had old versions of VLC appear to lock up if the stream drops packets (I don't know which version of VLC you are using)
The video is actually NasaTV's public channel, which a lot of the time is not showing live TV (instead, showing past missions, upcoming missions, press briefings etc). The only things that are shown live are really the space shuttle missions and press briefings. The vast majority of viewings are for space shuttle launches only. Yahoo (provider of the feeds) does not bother to update their metadata and just leaves it on "Nasa Space Shuttle Launch" the entire time.
NasaTV Feeds at different resolutions:
100k/s, 320/240
200k/s, 320/240
500k/s, 480x360(I think)
1200k/s, 640/480
All Windows Media format
Real media format
Quicktime
Launch data
XKCD has a lovely tribute to it today as well.
... which it says in the summary. I know a lot of people on here don't RTFA, but to not read the summary either??? What exactly do you read?
Meteorites are a lot smaller than the crater that they create. Eg, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico is over 180km in diameter and was created by an impactor (estimated to be) only about 10km in diameter. The blob of burning stuff in the middle (though exposed as a fake) is presumably supposed to be the meteorite and about the right size when put in context.
This is one of the occasions where slashdot should allow you to have more than one modifyer for a post. This is both informative AND funny! Kudos to you.