Modern-day scientists on their own Moby Dick-style search used a submersible to get them into the dark and cold depths of the northern Pacific Ocean, where at around 630 meters they managed to film a three-meter specimen.
Though it also says that the squid was missing it's two longest arms and would have been eight meters long if it was whole...
I thought for sure the 'reel-to-reel' in the summary was a joke, but here's a quote from TFA:
And while Mr. Strachmans movies were given to soldiers as a form of charity, studios do send military bases reel-to-reel films, which are much harder to copy, and projectors for the troops overseas.
Thanks for the info on replacement disks from Disney. That's a great policy for the company. That almost makes up for the fact that they are 'responsible' for extending copyright another 20 years in the US.
I asked Chris how far away he thinks he is from his dream of sending a manned shuttle into orbit.
"Let me tell you", he replied, "building a space shuttle is a big job." He thinks he'll have it done in four to six years.
From TFA:
The Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule launched into space 20 days before Gagarin's historic first human spaceflight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. The unmanned Vostok 3KA-2 capsule carried a life-size mannequin nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich and a dog called Zvezdochka ("Little Star" in Russian).
I used to dry all my clothes outside on a line. Then I measured how much electricity my electric dryer is using and found it cost around $0.20 to dry my clothes.
Now we only use the clothesline for drying sheets. It's not worth my time to hang up an entire load of clothes on the line for $0.20. Raise the cost of electricity and I'll change my mind, until then I'm using the dryer.
In a few months, if I use Google Dashboard to look back at today's history, I'm going to wonder why the heck I was searching for "What are these strawberries doing on my nipples I need them for the fruit salad"
More details on the challenge (and Colussus) can be found here :
http://www.tnmoc.co.uk/cipher1.htm
At the same time as the international team receives the enciphered messages, radio amateurs around the world will be able to receive the same radio broadcasts and try their hand at decrypting it. It will be fascinating to see who completes the job first!
Who among us is trusting (foolish?) enough to bid on an ebay item from a user with zero feedback and just joined ebay today? And free shipping? No way this is legit!
The US space agency has projected its own annual bill for the project to reach 2.3 billion dollars by 2010. In comparison, the pentagon is seeking 190 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdMpMla3A7P7PUbQx-344i6agLbA
The Top 100 tracks http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dmusic/digital-music-track are $0.89 each. I only had to go down to #17 to find one that I recognize (but wouldn't buy) - Blondie/Heart of Glass. A few steps down at #21 I found one to buy, Floyd/Comfortably Numb.
All the other tracks (not top-100) on the double album are $0.99 or you can get all 26 tracks for $8.99. All 256 kbps non-drm'd files.
This is how music buying should have been from day one.
The guy who came up with the idea of Adblock deserves a nobel prize for allowing us to block all of this 'stuff'. Henrik Aasted Sorensen according to http://adblockplus.org/en/history.
It currently charges Californians and other green-staters about $150 extra for these solid-citizen models. But experts suggest that it costs carmakers closer to $400 a pop to install the gear.
The Catch
Geography can be conspiring against eco-conscious buyers. The PZEV's limited availability is not a result of sales volume, marketing or any other political force; it's all about fuel quality. The reformulated fuel available in what's called the California Emission States--California, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Maine--make PZEV possible. Take a PZEV to Kansas and the change in fuel quality will knock down its emissions performance. Many PZEVs like the Ford Focus may be available in states bordering the California Emission States but in the case of Ford the 130-hp DURATEC 20E engine is a no-cost option.
Lamest article (spam) of the day? Is this a very late April Fools joke?
I've got tables that are much larger than 12GB in my Oracle DB that perform fine without partitioning. Indexes and good coding.
Moreover, it looks as if there isn't really much to the so-called 'self destruction' feature, which, according to the data sheet, causes the flash memory [to be] burned. However, as far as we have been able to determine, there isn't any extra hardware on the chip - such as a dc-dc-converter - that could physically destroy the memory by targeting it with more voltage than it can handle. I was very disappointed that tweakers.net didn't even try out the 'self-destruct' feature. I was hoping they'd find a wee little piece of C4 when they cracked the case open...
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Here's a link to the forum where the guy first posted about the console : http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?45489-The-Real-Sega-Pluto
Though it also says that the squid was missing it's two longest arms and would have been eight meters long if it was whole...
Err, I think you mean textfiles.com. Unless you meant to point at the domain squatter instead...
And while Mr. Strachmans movies were given to soldiers as a form of charity, studios do send military bases reel-to-reel films, which are much harder to copy, and projectors for the troops overseas.
Thanks for the info on replacement disks from Disney. That's a great policy for the company. That almost makes up for the fact that they are 'responsible' for extending copyright another 20 years in the US.
One of the first programs I always load up on Windows systems is a free utility from SlySoft that mounts ISO files as a virtual drive - http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Maybe they'll beat NASA back to space?
The 'Science of Sport' blog wrote about this in 2009 : http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/11/oscar-pistorius-gets-10-second.html Back then, two scientists hired to look at the case found that the artificial limbs would take 10 or more seconds off his 400 meter time. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/smu-opa111709.php
From TFA: The Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule launched into space 20 days before Gagarin's historic first human spaceflight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. The unmanned Vostok 3KA-2 capsule carried a life-size mannequin nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich and a dog called Zvezdochka ("Little Star" in Russian).
I used to dry all my clothes outside on a line. Then I measured how much electricity my electric dryer is using and found it cost around $0.20 to dry my clothes. Now we only use the clothesline for drying sheets. It's not worth my time to hang up an entire load of clothes on the line for $0.20. Raise the cost of electricity and I'll change my mind, until then I'm using the dryer.
In a few months, if I use Google Dashboard to look back at today's history, I'm going to wonder why the heck I was searching for "What are these strawberries doing on my nipples I need them for the fruit salad"
Who among us is trusting (foolish?) enough to bid on an ebay item from a user with zero feedback and just joined ebay today? And free shipping? No way this is legit!
The Top 100 tracks http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dmusic/digital-music-track are $0.89 each. I only had to go down to #17 to find one that I recognize (but wouldn't buy) - Blondie/Heart of Glass. A few steps down at #21 I found one to buy, Floyd/Comfortably Numb. All the other tracks (not top-100) on the double album are $0.99 or you can get all 26 tracks for $8.99. All 256 kbps non-drm'd files. This is how music buying should have been from day one.
The guy who came up with the idea of Adblock deserves a nobel prize for allowing us to block all of this 'stuff'. Henrik Aasted Sorensen according to http://adblockplus.org/en/history.
From TFA (writing of Honda cars):
It currently charges Californians and other green-staters about $150 extra for these solid-citizen models. But experts suggest that it costs carmakers closer to $400 a pop to install the gear.From a linked article : http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid =4024642
The Catch
Geography can be conspiring against eco-conscious buyers. The PZEV's limited availability is not a result of sales volume, marketing or any other political force; it's all about fuel quality. The reformulated fuel available in what's called the California Emission States--California, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont and Maine--make PZEV possible. Take a PZEV to Kansas and the change in fuel quality will knock down its emissions performance. Many PZEVs like the Ford Focus may be available in states bordering the California Emission States but in the case of Ford the 130-hp DURATEC 20E engine is a no-cost option.
Lamest article (spam) of the day? Is this a very late April Fools joke? I've got tables that are much larger than 12GB in my Oracle DB that perform fine without partitioning. Indexes and good coding.