Limewire, sucky as it is, is the only Gnutella client with support for Unicode text on Windows. I suppose I'll have to get an IME set up on my Linux server so I can continue to search for Japanese music now.
Obama should just issue an executive order dissolving the corporate charters of Transocean and the US subsidiaries of BP using his authority to protect our territorial waters.
First of all the space shuttle is mostly 70's technology. Second of all there is no reason why "old" should be equated with "inferior". Soyuz is the most reliable manned spacecraft and it has direct roots all the way back to the start of the Soviet space program. Old can also mean simpler and less likely to suffer from mysterious technology failures. I have lab equipment older than you and it ticks along nicely and serves its purpose just as well as it ever did.
It would be nice if they could make the effort to implement a touch based layout without biasing against lefties. This is a significant annoyance especially with traditional mouse oriented controls like scroll bars. To do this right requires a design that minimizes the occurrence of the hand covering the screen while performing touch operations. Usually what happens is a system is designed assuming right handedness and the result is awkward to use for lefties. Ideally, applications and the window manager will dynamically change based on a user hand preference.
Without WAAS, plain GPS can have error in the hundreds of feet.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. It is applicable to first generation GPS receivers and doesn't apply to modern equipment made in the past 10 years or so. I leave WAAS off on my eTrex because the estimated positional accuracy usually gets *worse* with it enabled and it can't be used in power save mode. Without WAAS, I routinely get absolute accuracy to within 19-feet and never above 30 with a strong lock. It wouldn't be able to follow roads if the accuracy was only in the hundreds of feet range.
More specifically, the "national security" claim is the only way to get an exemption from the disclosure requirements imposed by FOIA. It is undemocratic and insulting that it is abused so often. It is appalling that the Obama administration is working so hard to best Bush II in the scope of this abuse.
It isn't about preventing copies of movies. It's about controlling the use of external DVRs and any means to avoid watching ads. The cable/satellite service wants to be certain they can force you to watch ads tacked on around premium services and thrown up in the OSD when you do any operations like skipping around. They killed CableCard with their foot dragging and now they're going after the last hole in their fortress of pablum.
An iPad is really a "new class" of device: a "content access" tool rather than a "content creation" tool
I wouldn't exactly call it new. It's basically a rehash of the Internet appliance concept for a more mature market that is more ready to accept it and its more compelling use case.
There's also the problem of would be terrorists coming to the US on student visas and then doing something else with their time in the country. This is likely the strongest case for involving Federal funds in this matter although there should be more appropriate means of verifying a student's presence at a campus that don't involve the wholesale homage to Big Brother.
One of the characteristics of Soviet spacecraft design is that they seal everything they can in atmospheric pressure vessels. This simplified the thermal design problem because convective cooling could be employed in the pressurized parts. Some of their manned spacecraft designs were repurposed as satellites using this principle. Their purpose built satellites were also pressurized. The "tub" of the lunokhod is a pressure vessel for the electronics. The Wikipedia page even mentions that the electric motors in each wheel were also pressurized although that was possibly more for lubrication and dust protection purposes. In contrast, the typical American design places the electronics in vacuum and they are thermally bonded to a heat spreader that provides for conductive cooling.
This report is unsurprising... the Soviet approach just seems so stupid to any Western engineer unfamiliar with it
It isn't exactly stupid. It's just a continuation of the typical methods of engineering before electronic computers became integral tools in the process. With the ever advancing and sophisticated technology developed in the 20th century they needed to distribute a larger work load across more workers.
Well actually to Christians, Christ is the Son of God, not a prophet.
Well actually that's just the specific view of Western Christianity. The Nestorians, Assyrians, and the Copts believe that Christ was a normal human who was touched by God to be his prophet.
I had a Giganews account once. I tried to cancel it but they kept charging me. It finally ended when my card was compromised and I was issued another number. I got an email from them that month complaining that their charge against my old card was rejected. It's unfortunate that this is the only easy solution for dealing with these bastards.
I bought a Ph2 720BE and unlocked it to a quad. Stress tested with 12 hours of Prime95, no failures.
Running Prime95 is not a stress test. Did you fully exercise all of the logic at all voltage and temperature extremes? Did you do the same with all on-chip memories? Did you subject the I/Os to a barrage of marginal conditions? This is what goes on in the fab during the binning process and you can't replicate it on your own.
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All this, and less than 20 years ago Texas was a largely Deomocrat voting state.
Limewire, sucky as it is, is the only Gnutella client with support for Unicode text on Windows. I suppose I'll have to get an IME set up on my Linux server so I can continue to search for Japanese music now.
Why do we let them control this?
Because if we don't they can blame any further failures on somebody else.
They were probably Muslim too.
If only we had some sort of subscriber identity module that could be easily transferred between telecommunications devices.
Obama should just issue an executive order dissolving the corporate charters of Transocean and the US subsidiaries of BP using his authority to protect our territorial waters.
First of all the space shuttle is mostly 70's technology. Second of all there is no reason why "old" should be equated with "inferior". Soyuz is the most reliable manned spacecraft and it has direct roots all the way back to the start of the Soviet space program. Old can also mean simpler and less likely to suffer from mysterious technology failures. I have lab equipment older than you and it ticks along nicely and serves its purpose just as well as it ever did.
It would be nice if they could make the effort to implement a touch based layout without biasing against lefties. This is a significant annoyance especially with traditional mouse oriented controls like scroll bars. To do this right requires a design that minimizes the occurrence of the hand covering the screen while performing touch operations. Usually what happens is a system is designed assuming right handedness and the result is awkward to use for lefties. Ideally, applications and the window manager will dynamically change based on a user hand preference.
Without WAAS, plain GPS can have error in the hundreds of feet.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. It is applicable to first generation GPS receivers and doesn't apply to modern equipment made in the past 10 years or so. I leave WAAS off on my eTrex because the estimated positional accuracy usually gets *worse* with it enabled and it can't be used in power save mode. Without WAAS, I routinely get absolute accuracy to within 19-feet and never above 30 with a strong lock. It wouldn't be able to follow roads if the accuracy was only in the hundreds of feet range.
More specifically, the "national security" claim is the only way to get an exemption from the disclosure requirements imposed by FOIA. It is undemocratic and insulting that it is abused so often. It is appalling that the Obama administration is working so hard to best Bush II in the scope of this abuse.
It isn't about preventing copies of movies. It's about controlling the use of external DVRs and any means to avoid watching ads. The cable/satellite service wants to be certain they can force you to watch ads tacked on around premium services and thrown up in the OSD when you do any operations like skipping around. They killed CableCard with their foot dragging and now they're going after the last hole in their fortress of pablum.
NASA's record (as opposed to JPL's) is not good.
Uh, dude. JPL is part of NASA: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Not necessarily. Some are growers and some are showers. Now he has a chance to play catcher too.
An iPad is really a "new class" of device: a "content access" tool rather than a "content creation" tool
I wouldn't exactly call it new. It's basically a rehash of the Internet appliance concept for a more mature market that is more ready to accept it and its more compelling use case.
Just put a finger in it. You'll know the difference soon enough.
That could be risky.
The beavers aren't denying it. What is it they're trying to hide?
College Humor's Font conference video would seem apropos.
There's also the problem of would be terrorists coming to the US on student visas and then doing something else with their time in the country. This is likely the strongest case for involving Federal funds in this matter although there should be more appropriate means of verifying a student's presence at a campus that don't involve the wholesale homage to Big Brother.
One of the characteristics of Soviet spacecraft design is that they seal everything they can in atmospheric pressure vessels. This simplified the thermal design problem because convective cooling could be employed in the pressurized parts. Some of their manned spacecraft designs were repurposed as satellites using this principle. Their purpose built satellites were also pressurized. The "tub" of the lunokhod is a pressure vessel for the electronics. The Wikipedia page even mentions that the electric motors in each wheel were also pressurized although that was possibly more for lubrication and dust protection purposes. In contrast, the typical American design places the electronics in vacuum and they are thermally bonded to a heat spreader that provides for conductive cooling.
Or, in close quarters, a dagger.
Someday /. will support Unicode. In the meantime...
This report is unsurprising... the Soviet approach just seems so stupid to any Western engineer unfamiliar with it
It isn't exactly stupid. It's just a continuation of the typical methods of engineering before electronic computers became integral tools in the process. With the ever advancing and sophisticated technology developed in the 20th century they needed to distribute a larger work load across more workers.
Well actually to Christians, Christ is the Son of God, not a prophet.
Well actually that's just the specific view of Western Christianity. The Nestorians, Assyrians, and the Copts believe that Christ was a normal human who was touched by God to be his prophet.
I had a Giganews account once. I tried to cancel it but they kept charging me. It finally ended when my card was compromised and I was issued another number. I got an email from them that month complaining that their charge against my old card was rejected. It's unfortunate that this is the only easy solution for dealing with these bastards.
Look on the bright side. It's a great way to clean out Congress.
I bought a Ph2 720BE and unlocked it to a quad. Stress tested with 12 hours of Prime95, no failures.
Running Prime95 is not a stress test. Did you fully exercise all of the logic at all voltage and temperature extremes? Did you do the same with all on-chip memories? Did you subject the I/Os to a barrage of marginal conditions? This is what goes on in the fab during the binning process and you can't replicate it on your own.