Actually, I've heard a bit about using a large balloon to get near the edge of space like this, then using an ion-drive (super high impulse, but low thrust) to gradually accelerate into orbit.
God forbid you have to change your view a lot (zoom in, out, show more than one page, etc) while formating. The extra clicks add and add and add. And yes, I know about the quick access bar.
In fact, my quick access bar now has so much stuff on it, it looks shockingly like this:
And not even by design, I just kept adding stuff to it as I needed, and I end up with the ribbon collapsed uselessly up at the top.
Also... completely unrelated: Why oh why did they make the table formatting so braindead in Powerpoint? It used to work just fine, but then they stripped out most of the options to make it fit the stupid ribbon or something.
I pay Virgin Mobile $20 every 3 months for service... 6.67/month.
That's 0.20c/min for talk time or 100 minutes for the three month period. Works perfectly for me, and I have the exact same usage pattern you do.
Also: your existing balance never "expires" on you. You do have to maintain service by adding money to it, but if you only use $1 of service in 3 months, you'll still have $39 the next period, etc.
Well, the real interesting conclusion you can draw from this article is that these sort of "expensive" adaptations take trees many thousands of years to readapt and get rid of them. Meaning there's a strong chance that a tree species that coevolved with a mammal/bird species is likely to go extinct in the meantime.
A great example of a tree with an even worse adaptation than this is the Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It's got these great big, leathery pods with large seeds and this weird gummy filling that looks like well-aged snot. The seeds have such a thick, impermeable coat that they sound exactly like a pair of marbles if you clack them together and they won't absorb any moisture even after sitting in water for months.
To get them to absorb anything at all, you have to sit and file a part of each seed until you're all the way through the outer coat (takes forever) or soak them in 14M sulphuric acid for a couple hours! Drop them in water and they'll soak it up like a sponge and germinate in less than 48 hours.
And why should it be this way? Because the pods are made to attract a mastodon and then the seeds to survive a trip through its digestive tract. No wonder it's a species in decline throughout its range.
That's funny, because I was just at the Frear and various other museums at the US National Mall. With my camera. And guards everywhere. And I came back with over 300 pictures. Not a word said anywhere but the signs for "no flash photography." Oh, and the National Watch and Clock Museum in PA, a private museum. many, many pictures
Hmmm... this sounded a bit blown up, so I checked wikipedia.
Yep, it is. The oral LD50's listed there range from 666 to 1270 mg/kg. Taking about 1 g/kg as your number is 80 g for an 80kg person. 80 g is about 2.8 oz. The inhalation LD50 is much lower... 42 mg/kg, 3.3 g for 80kg. You'd be ridiculously hard pressed to actually inhale that much THC.
Which isn't to say that's not pretty mild for a psychoactive drug, but for comparison, the LD50 of sugar (your "even safer than" comparison) is 29.7 g/kg [1]. 2.4 kg or 5.2 lbs for an 80 kg person.
Heck, the LD50 of the active ingredient in RoundUp herbicide is 5.6 g/kg [2].
I'm all for legalization, as I think it would solve a HUGE number of social problems caused by the "War on Drugs," but throwing out gross exaggeration hurts that cause more than it helps.
Try the 4.1.96 pre-release branch, it's much MUCH better than 4.1 was already. I had switched to Gnome until they got something out the door worth using again. But I'm posting from 4.1.96 right now.
The panel is useful again (yay, the quick launch thing is back, resizes properly, they changed the look to make more sense), MANY configuration options have returned from th 3.5 branch, like the ability to stack the taskbar two ranks deep, show only windows from the current desktop in it.
The integrated compositor is much more customizable, konqueror can be selected as the default file manager, and settings are properly respected between konq/dolphin.
I can't wait for 4.3 already, as 4.2 (for me) is functionally where 3.5 was. Except I can't maximize the folder view to cover the whole desktop. I understand that's in the pipes though.
I don't know how long ago you were in the Marines, but just a year ago I used a lot of MrSID imagery on my thesis. It's really quite a nice format. I tried exporting one of the images as a tiff, just to see how it compared in size, but the XP crashed when it hit 48GB. The MrSID image was ~300MB.
As far as I know, it's still the standard for GIS aerial photographs.
There are really two groups of oaks: the red and the white oaks.
The white oaks are generally preferred by most small animals (and deer!), as their acorns are lower in tannins and produced much more regularly (a good crop approximately every other year, and less difference between a good year and a bad year).
Red oaks have a less palatable acorn and can go up to 7 years between heavy mast years (with up to a 135x difference between a bad and a good year).
Oddly, with all the research done on the topic, there's little that can be done to predict a future crop, as cyclic production varies so widely and seems dependant on such a myriad of factors. In areas heavily dominated by oaks, we still even have to "wait and see" for a harvest... otherwise it's a game of roulette, and you might have such poor production you don't get a forest of oak back at all (but red maple is a whole other can of worms).
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I've heard a bit about using a large balloon to get near the edge of space like this, then using an ion-drive (super high impulse, but low thrust) to gradually accelerate into orbit.
Sam
Um... what are you doing with that N800? Probably surfing FAT websites like Slashdot).
Now what are you doing with MINIX in 16MB of RAM? Probably not much.
How about DD-WRT micro on a WRT54G > version 6? 2MB flash, 8 MB RAM and it runs a nice router and serves up config pages, QoS, etc.
Oh.
If you want it your way, try Opera. Really.
You can configure practically everything in the UI except putting the tabs in the same bar as the main toolbar/file menu.
Posting to undo accidental moderation.
Well, he meant to make that joke, but he's dyslexic.
Sam
I use my third wish for infinite wishes!
Fricking childish is what this is and these clauses need be smacked down as illegal or at least unenforceable in court.
Wow, that's freaking awesome! Why isn't OpenOffice.org working on that instead of the stupid ribbon?
That screenshot makes me want to buy a Mac AND MS Office. And that's something I've NEVER said before.
God forbid you have to change your view a lot (zoom in, out, show more than one page, etc) while formating. The extra clicks add and add and add. And yes, I know about the quick access bar.
In fact, my quick access bar now has so much stuff on it, it looks shockingly like this:
http://webdev.ccac.edu/talkin/office7.gif
And not even by design, I just kept adding stuff to it as I needed, and I end up with the ribbon collapsed uselessly up at the top.
Also... completely unrelated: Why oh why did they make the table formatting so braindead in Powerpoint? It used to work just fine, but then they stripped out most of the options to make it fit the stupid ribbon or something.
Sam
I pay Virgin Mobile $20 every 3 months for service... 6.67/month.
That's 0.20c/min for talk time or 100 minutes for the three month period. Works perfectly for me, and I have the exact same usage pattern you do.
Also: your existing balance never "expires" on you. You do have to maintain service by adding money to it, but if you only use $1 of service in 3 months, you'll still have $39 the next period, etc.
Sam
Well, the real interesting conclusion you can draw from this article is that these sort of "expensive" adaptations take trees many thousands of years to readapt and get rid of them. Meaning there's a strong chance that a tree species that coevolved with a mammal/bird species is likely to go extinct in the meantime.
A great example of a tree with an even worse adaptation than this is the Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It's got these great big, leathery pods with large seeds and this weird gummy filling that looks like well-aged snot. The seeds have such a thick, impermeable coat that they sound exactly like a pair of marbles if you clack them together and they won't absorb any moisture even after sitting in water for months.
To get them to absorb anything at all, you have to sit and file a part of each seed until you're all the way through the outer coat (takes forever) or soak them in 14M sulphuric acid for a couple hours! Drop them in water and they'll soak it up like a sponge and germinate in less than 48 hours.
And why should it be this way? Because the pods are made to attract a mastodon and then the seeds to survive a trip through its digestive tract. No wonder it's a species in decline throughout its range.
Sam
That's funny, because I was just at the Frear and various other museums at the US National Mall. With my camera. And guards everywhere. And I came back with over 300 pictures. Not a word said anywhere but the signs for "no flash photography." Oh, and the National Watch and Clock Museum in PA, a private museum.
many, many pictures
Or in other words: you're wrong.
Sam
A 200 MW beam would be 200,000,000 W. 200,000 W = 200 KW.
200,000,000 W = 200,000,000,000 mW
200,000,000,000 mW / 50 (mW/cm^2 )= 4,000,000,000 cm^2
4,000,000,000 cm^2 = 400,000 m^2
sqrt(400,000 m^2/3.14) ~= 357m
Still, doable sized though.
Sam
Living small is living green, really.
Sam
Yes, and if he'd invested that money 1 year ago, how much would he have earned? -30%?
Sam
I haven't read Anathem, but I have read A Canticle for Leibowitz, written in 1960.
Hmmm... this sounded a bit blown up, so I checked wikipedia.
Yep, it is. The oral LD50's listed there range from 666 to 1270 mg/kg. Taking about 1 g/kg as your number is 80 g for an 80kg person. 80 g is about 2.8 oz. The inhalation LD50 is much lower... 42 mg/kg, 3.3 g for 80kg. You'd be ridiculously hard pressed to actually inhale that much THC.
Which isn't to say that's not pretty mild for a psychoactive drug, but for comparison, the LD50 of sugar (your "even safer than" comparison) is 29.7 g/kg [1]. 2.4 kg or 5.2 lbs for an 80 kg person.
Heck, the LD50 of the active ingredient in RoundUp herbicide is 5.6 g/kg [2].
I'm all for legalization, as I think it would solve a HUGE number of social problems caused by the "War on Drugs," but throwing out gross exaggeration hurts that cause more than it helps.
[1] http://www.bellmarine.com/ld50_data.htm
[2] http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html
GM
You owe me a shot.
Try the 4.1.96 pre-release branch, it's much MUCH better than 4.1 was already. I had switched to Gnome until they got something out the door worth using again. But I'm posting from 4.1.96 right now.
The panel is useful again (yay, the quick launch thing is back, resizes properly, they changed the look to make more sense), MANY configuration options have returned from th 3.5 branch, like the ability to stack the taskbar two ranks deep, show only windows from the current desktop in it.
The integrated compositor is much more customizable, konqueror can be selected as the default file manager, and settings are properly respected between konq/dolphin.
I can't wait for 4.3 already, as 4.2 (for me) is functionally where 3.5 was. Except I can't maximize the folder view to cover the whole desktop. I understand that's in the pipes though.
Sam
I don't know how long ago you were in the Marines, but just a year ago I used a lot of MrSID imagery on my thesis. It's really quite a nice format. I tried exporting one of the images as a tiff, just to see how it compared in size, but the XP crashed when it hit 48GB. The MrSID image was ~300MB.
As far as I know, it's still the standard for GIS aerial photographs.
I'm Sparticus!
Acer Aspire One.
Heck, the default OS (Linpus Lite, worst name ever) is just Fedora, which I've been using forever anyway.
If I remember correctly, you wouldn't have seen any grey lines at all on an SE... its display was 1-bit!
Sam
There are really two groups of oaks: the red and the white oaks.
The white oaks are generally preferred by most small animals (and deer!), as their acorns are lower in tannins and produced much more regularly (a good crop approximately every other year, and less difference between a good year and a bad year).
Red oaks have a less palatable acorn and can go up to 7 years between heavy mast years (with up to a 135x difference between a bad and a good year).
Oddly, with all the research done on the topic, there's little that can be done to predict a future crop, as cyclic production varies so widely and seems dependant on such a myriad of factors. In areas heavily dominated by oaks, we still even have to "wait and see" for a harvest... otherwise it's a game of roulette, and you might have such poor production you don't get a forest of oak back at all (but red maple is a whole other can of worms).
Sam
No.
According to wikipedia, transmisson losses are ~7.4% for the UK and 7.2% for the US.
Sam
Um... Intercept?