Phobos never failed to intrigue me. From Wikipedia: Phobos's unusually close orbit around its parent planet produces some unusual effects.
As seen from Phobos, Mars would appear 6,400 times larger and 2,500 times brighter than the full Moon appears from Earth, taking up a quarter of the width of a celestial hemisphere.
Some nice pictures of Mars, including Phobos, can be found here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/martian_skies.html
Data mining in law enforcement and anti-fraud will become more and more important in the future. Only recently computers are able to manage huge social networks. An often used technique is guild by associasion: your specific background, social network (who do you call), criminal record etc. give you a certain value. If this value is higher than a critical value, they will start further investigations.
If you want to learn more about this subject I strongly recommend this videolecture of Foster Provost, a pioneer in this research: http://videolectures.net/mmdss07_provost_ilwn/
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Phobos never failed to intrigue me. From Wikipedia: Phobos's unusually close orbit around its parent planet produces some unusual effects. As seen from Phobos, Mars would appear 6,400 times larger and 2,500 times brighter than the full Moon appears from Earth, taking up a quarter of the width of a celestial hemisphere. Some nice pictures of Mars, including Phobos, can be found here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/martian_skies.html
Indeed, and it's not "thing" neither ("ding"). I would call it an "object".
Not at all. Firefox has a market share of 18 percent and Opera only 0,7 percent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Opera 9.5 has been downloaded 4,7 million times in 5 days, so the 5 million mark was not really an ambitious goal
Data mining in law enforcement and anti-fraud will become more and more important in the future. Only recently computers are able to manage huge social networks. An often used technique is guild by associasion: your specific background, social network (who do you call), criminal record etc. give you a certain value. If this value is higher than a critical value, they will start further investigations. If you want to learn more about this subject I strongly recommend this videolecture of Foster Provost, a pioneer in this research: http://videolectures.net/mmdss07_provost_ilwn/
which kinda makes you wish you were in the army--really?--> http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1272
Mac and Linux support should roll out some time in early 2008.
....their crappy strategy the last couple of years:
http://origin.arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.media/sunstrategy.gif
Do you really think the US is not doing the exactly same thing?
you can always chance your skin, or, even better, use kubuntu (that's blue)
on the other hand, diversification and having lot's of options is one of Linux biggest advantage, although in this case the merge is good news
What's next, Cowboyneal gets laid?
Opera started even years before Firefox with tabbed browsing....