Don't fall for anything made of plastic that says "Educational!" on the package. Science toys don't teach kids anything. Parents do! Look for something that you can do and learn together. Steer towards gifts that have wider applications, e.g. don't get a telescope, get binoculars! Don't get a microscope, get a hand magnifying glass! Don't get a nature DVD, get a bird book!
Also by the definition since Charon would be a planet... wouldn't the moon need to be its own planet?
Charon differs from Luna because Pluto and Charon jointly orbit around a point outside either of their bodies, whereas Luna orbits a point inside the Earth. Pluto and Charon are therefore (currently) technically a twin planet system.
...in my experience means: "Visible to the naked eye of an experienced observer under the age of 40 with good eyesight whose eyes have been dark-adapted for at least half an hour, on a clear night in dry weather with no moon, at time at least three hours after sunset or three hours when the object is at least 40 degrees above the horizon, on a hill with dry air at least a fifty miles from any town with a population of over 2,000."
Exactly right. Take back the night. Learn how to curb light pollution at darksky.org.
It is these types of comets that frustrate people who are interested in astronomy but don't know where to look.
You will not see it with the naked eye unless you are under very dark skies away from city lights. You will have more luck with binoculars and even then it will only appear as a dim smudge of light.
Finding it in the sky will be an exercise in frustration unless you are already comfortable orienteering the night sky. Your best bet will be on January 8th, when the comet will be just to the right of the Pleiades, an easily locatable star cluster in Taurus.
This page at Sky & Telescope has a decent finder map. Happy hunting and even if you don't see it, enjoy the night air. It's good for you...
File this under "Too little, too late" but FWIW like most contests of these types there was "no purchase neccessary". With a careful reading of the official rules you would have discovered that sending an email message to itunes100@apple.com counted as an entry. Oh well...I wish I saw that before I bought all those Clay Aiken tracks...
A dot on the sun? Big deal? YES! The transit of Venus was a very important event in the history of astronomy and science. Previous transits were used by clever astronomers to calculate one of the most important measurements in all of science: the Earth-Sun distance, or 1 AU. By observing the transit of Venus from two distant locations on Earth and comparing the measurements you can determine the parallax angle. With those angles and one side of the triangle measured, simple geometry gives you the Earth-Sun distance. Once you have that number you can do all kinds of fun things; like figure out the distances to the rest of the planets, or by using the Earth orbit diameter to calculate stellar parallax and the distances to nearby stars, and on and on from there. The Venus transit is a *very* significant event.
I have no idea why they're recycling soundtracks. Maybe that's a starting trend...
This is a very common practice. Music soundtracks are one of the last things done in movie post-production. (You need a near-final cut of the film before you can score it.) Trailers, which come out months in advance, will use other appropriate music as place holders until then.
hmm, isn't that pretty bad actually? can't you get that kind of compression(get 40mb wav into 20mb file) with just zip&others on pretty easily anyways, fucking _ten_years_ago_.
but is the senior blimp from Massachusetts, the infamous Teddy Kennedy, ever called on the evil things he stands for?
You mean such evil things like fighting for Civil Rights, championing Labor Unions, seeking Health Coverage for everyone, improving Education, etc... Please tell us...
If you're still having problems ergomically with a screen that can be manuevered into any position, the problem is not with the computer. It's with your chair!
I've been using a preview version of Panther for a month now and I must say that Expose is the greatest GUI innovation in ages. It looks cool in demos, but it's even better when you actually use it. I much prefer it to virtual desktops as a method to organize windows.
No, and this is in fact the best feature of LivePhish Downloads. I love the music but stopped going to Phish shows years ago because the crowds got too big/disgusting. Now I can go on tour again from the comfort of my own home.
Why does Jupiter look so big in that picture? Did anyone catch what magnification that picture was taken at? Jupiter was behind the earth, and a long ways away, why does it still look so big?
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What I'd like to know is how many of that 10% are paying to get the news content, or the crossword puzzle. Seriously.
Don't fall for anything made of plastic that says "Educational!" on the package. Science toys don't teach kids anything. Parents do! Look for something that you can do and learn together. Steer towards gifts that have wider applications, e.g. don't get a telescope, get binoculars! Don't get a microscope, get a hand magnifying glass! Don't get a nature DVD, get a bird book!
Charon differs from Luna because Pluto and Charon jointly orbit around a point outside either of their bodies, whereas Luna orbits a point inside the Earth. Pluto and Charon are therefore (currently) technically a twin planet system.
The recordings that are no longer available were lossless. The streams are lossy.
Exactly right. Take back the night. Learn how to curb light pollution at darksky.org.
It is these types of comets that frustrate people who are interested in astronomy but don't know where to look.
You will not see it with the naked eye unless you are under very dark skies away from city lights. You will have more luck with binoculars and even then it will only appear as a dim smudge of light.
Finding it in the sky will be an exercise in frustration unless you are already comfortable orienteering the night sky. Your best bet will be on January 8th, when the comet will be just to the right of the Pleiades, an easily locatable star cluster in Taurus.
This page at Sky & Telescope has a decent finder map. Happy hunting and even if you don't see it, enjoy the night air. It's good for you...
Yeah, too bad we're stuck with only two candidates.
Uh...you can vote for whoever you want, not just those two. You will prolly have to get out of your pajamas though.
ummmmmmm... is that your real name?
yes, that's his real name. He's been regurgitating FUD pieces in the Globe for years now...
File this under "Too little, too late" but FWIW like most contests of these types there was "no purchase neccessary". With a careful reading of the official rules you would have discovered that sending an email message to itunes100@apple.com counted as an entry. Oh well...I wish I saw that before I bought all those Clay Aiken tracks...
Checking all my favorite sites this morning...
Microsoft, Xerox and FedEx are some of my favorite sites too! But due to the outage I'm stuck slumming it here on Slashdot...
A dot on the sun? Big deal? YES! The transit of Venus was a very important event in the history of astronomy and science. Previous transits were used by clever astronomers to calculate one of the most important measurements in all of science: the Earth-Sun distance, or 1 AU. By observing the transit of Venus from two distant locations on Earth and comparing the measurements you can determine the parallax angle. With those angles and one side of the triangle measured, simple geometry gives you the Earth-Sun distance. Once you have that number you can do all kinds of fun things; like figure out the distances to the rest of the planets, or by using the Earth orbit diameter to calculate stellar parallax and the distances to nearby stars, and on and on from there. The Venus transit is a *very* significant event.
I have no idea why they're recycling soundtracks. Maybe that's a starting trend...
This is a very common practice. Music soundtracks are one of the last things done in movie post-production. (You need a near-final cut of the film before you can score it.) Trailers, which come out months in advance, will use other appropriate music as place holders until then.
hmm, isn't that pretty bad actually? can't you get that kind of compression(get 40mb wav into 20mb file) with just zip&others on pretty easily anyways, fucking _ten_years_ago_.
Try playing a .zip file on your iPod...
It just seems to me such a simple problem could be overcome, there must be more to it than that.
Google is your friend. Summary is electrostatic forces make small grain dust adhesion formidable problem.
I'm sorry but - there's no reason to run OS X - FreeBSD 4.x already offers everything it has for free, and FreeBSD -current far surpasses it.
One word: Photoshop.
Bzzt...Gimp doesn't count so don't bother.
but is the senior blimp from Massachusetts, the infamous Teddy Kennedy, ever called on the evil things he stands for?
You mean such evil things like fighting for Civil Rights, championing Labor Unions, seeking Health Coverage for everyone, improving Education, etc... Please tell us...
Of course it's easier to mod this as a troll than to write an intelligent rebuttal.
And of course, it's also much easier to shout "Me first!" than to make an effort at improving society at large.
If you're still having problems ergomically with a screen that can be manuevered into any position, the problem is not with the computer. It's with your chair!
This list is beginning to get lengthy.
I could make a long list too if I included stories based on spurious reporting or features they never promised.
I get all my news and opinion from trolls.
>can anyone confirm/deny that Apple has expanded ftp support in the finder ?
It's still read-only in the Pre-release version of Panther that I have.
I've been using a preview version of Panther for a month now and I must say that Expose is the greatest GUI innovation in ages. It looks cool in demos, but it's even better when you actually use it. I much prefer it to virtual desktops as a method to organize windows.
Unfortunetly, they don't have the download for the plugin allowing shn and flac available from their site.
That was true of the earlier versions. V1.5b has the flac/shn decoders built in.
but I can't seem to find a player or plugin for .flac files on the Mac that will allow me to play the files I create without decompressing them first.
What you want is MacAmp Lite X 1.5b. It will play .shn and .flac files.
Does it make my computer smell like Patchouli?
No, and this is in fact the best feature of LivePhish Downloads. I love the music but stopped going to Phish shows years ago because the crowds got too big/disgusting. Now I can go on tour again from the comfort of my own home.
Is this a joke or a troll? Or both?
It looks big because it is big.