Yes! In fact, the station's own weaponry was tested last night, and amazed observers report that plasma bolts from the main ray gun reached deep into Nevada.
The new spaceport will be a huge boon to Richard Branson's standing (and bragging rights) in billionaire circles, perhaps finally overshadowing the horrible and humiliating defeat he suffered in the "balloon around the world" race, at the hands of Steve Fossett.
You are right; they should not arbitrarily change the rules. However, the official reason why the vote was nullified was not that Microsoft bought themselves a bunch of sock puppets, but that one member at the meeting voted twice. The voting was done by a show of hand, and most likely it was Microsoft themselves, who had three representatives in the room, that by accident and in the excitement of the moment had two of those raise their hands. Reports from the meeting inform us that at that point the mood was ecstatic, the Microsoft goons cheering and applauding as they trumped their line through.
The SIS is now vigorously denying that there is any other reason why the nullified the vote other than this technically proper reason to do so. Of course that is not true; the SIS board saw a way to salvage some of their credibility, built in a century and squandered in a day, by grasping onto this technicality.
That being said, I do think the SIS voting model is fundamentally wrong and broken. The rules do indeed allow the party with the deepest pockets to carry the day. I'm sure this has happened before and it will happen again. I hope the SIS will not get away with this without implementing some thorough reform of how they operate. The same goes for the bodies in other countries that turned out to be easily corruptible.
Read the documents. That Katzer guy is evil. Not only did he threaten the good guys, but also flat out stole their code.
By the way, did you hear about this cool file, it's called/etc/crontab or something. It lets you schedule jobs, say 12 minutes past the hour, every hour. It would be a shame if you added something like the below; that could really strain Katzer's poor little ASP web server.
I originally typed "ready for the general desktop," but removed that word not to complicate my post. I continuously evaluate whether I can in good conscience recommend Linux as a Windows replacement to my friends and relatives. I cannot. Yet. There are a number of show stoppers at various levels of the Linux desktop stack (i.e. from the kernel up through desktop applications). But it is getting close. Maybe three years? If you think sooner, just consider the state of user documentation for most free software.
In many specific cases, e.g. a corporate setting with a limited set of applications, control over which hardware gets installed and the backing of system admins, Linux is definitely ready. As another example, I have personally been using Linux exclusively on the desktop for the last seven years. But I'm not a typical user.
Thank you Google for delaying the Linux version! We now have Beagle, Strigi, the Nepomuk project and more as free alternatives to your proprietary software. There would have been free desktop search software anyway, but most likely there would have been a bit less enthusiasm for its development, and some distributions might have flocked to supporting the Google product.
I'm excited that Linux is still flying under the radar to such a large extent, when it comes to commercial software. Soon it will be Ready For The Desktop (TM) and the Linux desktop is still 100% free!
Radiation given off by the sun: 4*10^9 kg/s * (3*10^8)^2 J/kg
Solar cell output, if 50x50 cm: 1000 W/m^2 * 40% * 1/4 m^2
In other words, the solar cells have an efficiency 2.8*10^-25 by the metric you suggest, so I don't think that's what they used. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
By the way, the answer to your question is in the Wikipedia article, as well as in the calulation above, of course. The 1000 W/m^2 seems to be a convention. Oh, and TFA ripped off the solar cell picture from Wikipedia.
Thanks! I got that and at least at the first glance it seems to be working. (For the record, I just downloaded the list and imported it in the ad filter page of the Konqueror configuration.)
Which blocklist should I get for use with Konqueror? I went looking, found a bunch of list, none of which seemed to be "the" list and none of which promised to work with Konqueror.
I realise this is a "Funny" post, but still. Thanks!
Agreed. Reading this article was downright chilling -- cheering on the "heroic" local police in their oppressive effort with no reservations at all. Straight out of the 30:s it seemed to me.
Does anyone know what kind of paper this is, and whether anti-free speech sentiments such as those expressed in this article are widely shared in certain circles in India?
At least Slashdot is still better than Digg, where "I like/dislike your opinion" is the only type of moderation going on. I lost interest in Digg because of that.
Today, I hope the broken American patent system will grant Red Hat their software patent for DRM technology.
Today, I hope the broken American justice system will find a way to separate this radio station and its people from all their assets.
Tomorrow, everything will be back to normal.
(As a side note, I don't find it fitting to make fun of this unfortunate woman for not being familiar with the physiological consequences of extreme water intake. I believe most people are not.)
No strings attached? In other words, the EULA does not apply? These bloggers now all *own* a copy of Vista, which they can for instance share with their friends as per their local fair use regulations, reverse engineer or do with whatever else they please?
Google the clown. None of his web pages seem to have been updated since 2003. Even back then his scientific production, in his supposed area of research, was completely dead. This guy is completely out of touch with science and would never be able to land another research faculty position based on his publication record. Most likely he was not smart enough to stay in the game.
The only consolation is that there will be countermeasures for the kids. For a fee, the kids could subscribe to a service that fakes their position in the system. If for some reasons the networks don't come out with such a service, one workaround could be to leave the phone with a friend and forward your calls to a secondary phone. Of course, any such scheme would require some financial resources on the part of the kid.
I tried and failed to get the old game from the "underdogs" to run under WINE/Crossover. Downloading Orbiter now to try it. Did anyone have any success with getting any of the games to run under Linux?
Anyway, congratulations to the Shuttle crew!
According to a recent article in Scientific American, protection from radiation in space is a depressingly hard problem. Basically, the only protection known to work is to put a great many atomic nuclei in the way of the radiation. The irony is that a thin shield, such as a space station wall, may be worse than no shield at all: It stops low-energy particles, but when hit by the really nasty high-energy particles (that are out there in great numbers) secondary radiation is produced, that is in many cases more harmful than the original particles.
Leave the lead shield at home: light elements such as hydrogen work the best for shielding, both because you get more atomic nuclei per mass unit, but also because less secondary radiation is produced. Therefore, water is a good choice for a shield. You need about one meter.
Now, surrounding the ISS with a one-meter deep water shield is unfeasible. However, if you want to protect just one, or two, little things from radiation that is coming from a specific direction, you can. You carry one meter of water shielding with you at all times. Just use you body as a shield!
You will find that astronauts fall into one of two categories: Those who choose to shield their heads and those who choose to shield something else. They are easily told apart during a solar storm by their bodies pointing in opposite directions.
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Yes! In fact, the station's own weaponry was tested last night, and amazed observers report that plasma bolts from the main ray gun reached deep into Nevada.
The new spaceport will be a huge boon to Richard Branson's standing (and bragging rights) in billionaire circles, perhaps finally overshadowing the horrible and humiliating defeat he suffered in the "balloon around the world" race, at the hands of Steve Fossett.
You are right; they should not arbitrarily change the rules. However, the official reason why the vote was nullified was not that Microsoft bought themselves a bunch of sock puppets, but that one member at the meeting voted twice. The voting was done by a show of hand, and most likely it was Microsoft themselves, who had three representatives in the room, that by accident and in the excitement of the moment had two of those raise their hands. Reports from the meeting inform us that at that point the mood was ecstatic, the Microsoft goons cheering and applauding as they trumped their line through.
The SIS is now vigorously denying that there is any other reason why the nullified the vote other than this technically proper reason to do so. Of course that is not true; the SIS board saw a way to salvage some of their credibility, built in a century and squandered in a day, by grasping onto this technicality.
That being said, I do think the SIS voting model is fundamentally wrong and broken. The rules do indeed allow the party with the deepest pockets to carry the day. I'm sure this has happened before and it will happen again. I hope the SIS will not get away with this without implementing some thorough reform of how they operate. The same goes for the bodies in other countries that turned out to be easily corruptible.
Read the documents. That Katzer guy is evil. Not only did he threaten the good guys, but also flat out stole their code.
By the way, did you hear about this cool file, it's called /etc/crontab or something. It lets you schedule jobs, say 12 minutes past the hour, every hour. It would be a shame if you added something like the below; that could really strain Katzer's poor little ASP web server.
12 * * * * nobody wget --quiet -r kamind.net www.trainpriority.com -O /dev/null
One statement is true. Which one?
1) Cuba sponsors terrorism directed at the US.
2) The US sponsors terrorism directed at Cuba.
I originally typed "ready for the general desktop," but removed that word not to complicate my post. I continuously evaluate whether I can in good conscience recommend Linux as a Windows replacement to my friends and relatives. I cannot. Yet. There are a number of show stoppers at various levels of the Linux desktop stack (i.e. from the kernel up through desktop applications). But it is getting close. Maybe three years? If you think sooner, just consider the state of user documentation for most free software.
In many specific cases, e.g. a corporate setting with a limited set of applications, control over which hardware gets installed and the backing of system admins, Linux is definitely ready. As another example, I have personally been using Linux exclusively on the desktop for the last seven years. But I'm not a typical user.
Thank you Google for delaying the Linux version! We now have Beagle, Strigi, the Nepomuk project and more as free alternatives to your proprietary software. There would have been free desktop search software anyway, but most likely there would have been a bit less enthusiasm for its development, and some distributions might have flocked to supporting the Google product.
I'm excited that Linux is still flying under the radar to such a large extent, when it comes to commercial software. Soon it will be Ready For The Desktop (TM) and the Linux desktop is still 100% free!
Radiation given off by the sun: 4*10^9 kg/s * (3*10^8)^2 J/kg
Solar cell output, if 50x50 cm: 1000 W/m^2 * 40% * 1/4 m^2
In other words, the solar cells have an efficiency 2.8*10^-25 by the metric you suggest, so I don't think that's what they used. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
By the way, the answer to your question is in the Wikipedia article, as well as in the calulation above, of course. The 1000 W/m^2 seems to be a convention. Oh, and TFA ripped off the solar cell picture from Wikipedia.
In the light of recent stories, it seems that the EU is looking after its citizens, rather that its corporations. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Thanks! I got that and at least at the first glance it seems to be working. (For the record, I just downloaded the list and imported it in the ad filter page of the Konqueror configuration.)
Which blocklist should I get for use with Konqueror? I went looking, found a bunch of list, none of which seemed to be "the" list and none of which promised to work with Konqueror. I realise this is a "Funny" post, but still. Thanks!
Agreed. Reading this article was downright chilling -- cheering on the "heroic" local police in their oppressive effort with no reservations at all. Straight out of the 30:s it seemed to me.
Does anyone know what kind of paper this is, and whether anti-free speech sentiments such as those expressed in this article are widely shared in certain circles in India?
Oh, I didn't notice that you did. Sorry. (Well, we had to stop at some point, right?)
Oh well,
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At least Slashdot is still better than Digg, where "I like/dislike your opinion" is the only type of moderation going on. I lost interest in Digg because of that.
I love how you are modded insightful! Which means... But that in turn...
Today, I hope the broken American patent system will grant Red Hat their software patent for DRM technology.
Today, I hope the broken American justice system will find a way to separate this radio station and its people from all their assets.
Tomorrow, everything will be back to normal.
(As a side note, I don't find it fitting to make fun of this unfortunate woman for not being familiar with the physiological consequences of extreme water intake. I believe most people are not.)No strings attached? In other words, the EULA does not apply? These bloggers now all *own* a copy of Vista, which they can for instance share with their friends as per their local fair use regulations, reverse engineer or do with whatever else they please?
Google the clown. None of his web pages seem to have been updated since 2003. Even back then his scientific production, in his supposed area of research, was completely dead. This guy is completely out of touch with science and would never be able to land another research faculty position based on his publication record. Most likely he was not smart enough to stay in the game.
The only consolation is that there will be countermeasures for the kids. For a fee, the kids could subscribe to a service that fakes their position in the system. If for some reasons the networks don't come out with such a service, one workaround could be to leave the phone with a friend and forward your calls to a secondary phone. Of course, any such scheme would require some financial resources on the part of the kid.
Of course.
Four torrents currently:
What did you expect? :-)
I tried and failed to get the old game from the "underdogs" to run under WINE/Crossover. Downloading Orbiter now to try it. Did anyone have any success with getting any of the games to run under Linux? Anyway, congratulations to the Shuttle crew!
According to a recent article in Scientific American, protection from radiation in space is a depressingly hard problem. Basically, the only protection known to work is to put a great many atomic nuclei in the way of the radiation. The irony is that a thin shield, such as a space station wall, may be worse than no shield at all: It stops low-energy particles, but when hit by the really nasty high-energy particles (that are out there in great numbers) secondary radiation is produced, that is in many cases more harmful than the original particles.
Leave the lead shield at home: light elements such as hydrogen work the best for shielding, both because you get more atomic nuclei per mass unit, but also because less secondary radiation is produced. Therefore, water is a good choice for a shield. You need about one meter.
Now, surrounding the ISS with a one-meter deep water shield is unfeasible. However, if you want to protect just one, or two, little things from radiation that is coming from a specific direction, you can. You carry one meter of water shielding with you at all times. Just use you body as a shield!
You will find that astronauts fall into one of two categories: Those who choose to shield their heads and those who choose to shield something else. They are easily told apart during a solar storm by their bodies pointing in opposite directions.