"The telescope could then continue doing science well into the next decade." If they find Atmospherium in that comet, it could mean real advances in the field of science.
Why is the title (in the browser titlebar) for the print version of this article 'Nothing Says "Early Earth Was Cool" Like World's Oldest Diamonds?' If you drop the "&print=true" from the URL, the title is correct.
Yeah, the "too-good" writing seems pretty suspicious. But hey, more power to'em. If it sells these things and people are naive enough (and man, are they ever) to not take nearly EVERYTHING they read on teh intarwebz with a grain of salt, then bravo.
Your post has pretty much summed up what this book is about, meaning you may have read this already. But, if not, check it out and keep it in mind when reading international news. It makes a lot of sense.
I think it's a crapshoot - I have a 1200Mb drive that was a hand-me-down to me; it's been spinning constantly for the past 5 or so years and just won't quit. Meanwhile a 160Gb drive I bought back when that was huge just completely died on me very few months later - no warning, nothing. It just didn't work one day. I have spun up old drives I've found in boxes of computer crap and they work no problem - I wonder if it's just that by the time they're old the faulty drives are "weeded out" (have already died) and I'm just seeing a good sample. Whatever, my experience has been that big, new drives have a high failure rate, and I'm not the only one to say that.
What are low-income families doing with cable anyway? I don't mean to sound like Scrooge, but it pisses me off when an elementary school kid shows up at school without a coat in the dead of winter because his parents "can't afford one," but they sure can afford to pay the cable bill every month./rant
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Stop using the term "blogosphere," or any other vomit-inducing "blog-" based word.
"The 'blogosphere' is the new buzz word that has replaced 'information super highway.' It's what idiots like to call a collection of 'blogs,' otherwise known as a tragedy."
Ha, point taken. By way of explanation, it's the first Google hit for "gimp draw circle."
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Yeah, but can you draw a circle? You can follow these directions, and even they require you to create a new image to make the circle, wherein you get to guess about how big the circle needs to be on the original image, so you can cut and paste it there after you're done following the five or six steps it took to make a circle.
I know GIMP isn't supposed to be everything to everyone, so it's not fair to say "Well program X can do it, so why can't GIMP?!?!?"* But seriously, should it be this hard to make a freaking circle?
You can go back and forth about using vi to edit x.org, etc., etc., and pretty much all the arguments I've seen here concerning that have merit.
But don't ignore the entire rest of the story - I have tried what the OP is talking about multiple times with both Windows and linux. It sort of works with Windows, but requires a lot of reboots and the system is never totally right (phantom devices and the like). Linux doesn't mind this nearly as much. I currently run a dual-boot laptop - when I'm running Windows, I boot up my linux partition in a VMware vm. No complaints then, none when I reboot into native linux.
For just a one-time swap, Linux is far better at this than Windows. And no, my mom couldn't use vi to edit xorg.conf. But then, she wouldn't be swapping out hard drives between machines, either. Just my two cents.
Apparently no one told web designers at Yale how to resize photos so they don't have to use a full size, 1.6 Meg picture that's scaled down in the HTML.
I am in grad school, and at least at my school, gtalk is the chat client; it's what AIM was in undergrad a few years ago. Everyone uses it because everyone has a gmail account - if you can check your email somewhere, you can send someone an instant message - no additional browser windows, no proxy issues.
Just my experience, but it has almost entirely replaced AIM for me. Google was smart to build chat into gmail.
This reminds me of the story a little while back about the woman who said no one could download any part of her site (or something to that effect). The same wget advice was offered then, too. Anyone remember that story? I realize this is incredibly vague, but maybe somebody else remembers.
The new version works alright, but I have no idea how to post a new comment (i.e. I only know how to reply). The other day I was a first poster, and I went back to the old comment system just to make the initial post. I'm probably just overlooking the obvious.
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See my sig.
Why is the link to the second page of TFA? Some of us like to read things in order.
Maybe I'm just rammy today.
Try not to say the same thing twice in your subject, because that's redundant, which means you're saying the same thing twice and being redundant.
Why is the title (in the browser titlebar) for the print version of this article 'Nothing Says "Early Earth Was Cool" Like World's Oldest Diamonds?' If you drop the "&print=true" from the URL, the title is correct.
Ah, I know my day is off to a good start when I the first tags that I see are "potheads" and "boobies."
Smashing.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/19/1831237
The sheer amount of High Voltage left the audience Thunderstruck, ready to Shoot to Thrill.
Now we can comb the source to find all the places where Linux has stolen from MULTICS too. Give SCO a call, they can help out.
Yeah, the "too-good" writing seems pretty suspicious. But hey, more power to'em. If it sells these things and people are naive enough (and man, are they ever) to not take nearly EVERYTHING they read on teh intarwebz with a grain of salt, then bravo.
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194725442&sr=8-1
Your post has pretty much summed up what this book is about, meaning you may have read this already. But, if not, check it out and keep it in mind when reading international news. It makes a lot of sense.
...and just what was the point of that, exactly? I actually read TFA - guess I'm never getting those five minutes back.
I think it's a crapshoot - I have a 1200Mb drive that was a hand-me-down to me; it's been spinning constantly for the past 5 or so years and just won't quit. Meanwhile a 160Gb drive I bought back when that was huge just completely died on me very few months later - no warning, nothing. It just didn't work one day. I have spun up old drives I've found in boxes of computer crap and they work no problem - I wonder if it's just that by the time they're old the faulty drives are "weeded out" (have already died) and I'm just seeing a good sample. Whatever, my experience has been that big, new drives have a high failure rate, and I'm not the only one to say that.
(yeah, I take my own sig to heart)
What are low-income families doing with cable anyway? I don't mean to sound like Scrooge, but it pisses me off when an elementary school kid shows up at school without a coat in the dead of winter because his parents "can't afford one," but they sure can afford to pay the cable bill every month. /rant
http://www.networkmirror.com/fDZs3ol_RaN_NoOY/www.robotworldnews.com/100194.htm
and here's another, a mirror of the original article.
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Stop using the term "blogosphere," or any other vomit-inducing "blog-" based word.
"The 'blogosphere' is the new buzz word that has replaced 'information super highway.' It's what idiots like to call a collection of 'blogs,' otherwise known as a tragedy."
-- http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish
Ha, point taken. By way of explanation, it's the first Google hit for "gimp draw circle."
I know GIMP isn't supposed to be everything to everyone, so it's not fair to say "Well program X can do it, so why can't GIMP?!?!?"* But seriously, should it be this hard to make a freaking circle?
*BTW, "program X" in this example is MS Paint.
You can go back and forth about using vi to edit x.org, etc., etc., and pretty much all the arguments I've seen here concerning that have merit.
But don't ignore the entire rest of the story - I have tried what the OP is talking about multiple times with both Windows and linux. It sort of works with Windows, but requires a lot of reboots and the system is never totally right (phantom devices and the like). Linux doesn't mind this nearly as much. I currently run a dual-boot laptop - when I'm running Windows, I boot up my linux partition in a VMware vm. No complaints then, none when I reboot into native linux.
For just a one-time swap, Linux is far better at this than Windows. And no, my mom couldn't use vi to edit xorg.conf. But then, she wouldn't be swapping out hard drives between machines, either. Just my two cents.
Apparently no one told web designers at Yale how to resize photos so they don't have to use a full size, 1.6 Meg picture that's scaled down in the HTML.
I am in grad school, and at least at my school, gtalk is the chat client; it's what AIM was in undergrad a few years ago. Everyone uses it because everyone has a gmail account - if you can check your email somewhere, you can send someone an instant message - no additional browser windows, no proxy issues.
Just my experience, but it has almost entirely replaced AIM for me. Google was smart to build chat into gmail.
This reminds me of the story a little while back about the woman who said no one could download any part of her site (or something to that effect). The same wget advice was offered then, too. Anyone remember that story? I realize this is incredibly vague, but maybe somebody else remembers.
Wait, a helpful response and not mere invective? This is Slashdot; are you sure you're in the right place?
Thanks.
The new version works alright, but I have no idea how to post a new comment (i.e. I only know how to reply). The other day I was a first poster, and I went back to the old comment system just to make the initial post. I'm probably just overlooking the obvious.