Radar is common on big boats, but for small personal boats, it would be quite expensive. GPS, on the other hand, is so cheap that almost everybody can afford it.
Bandwidth will improve with density, but latency will not. If the sector you need is on the other side of the disk, it doesn't matter how many MB you pass over on the way there - you still have to wait for the disk sector to get to where the head is.
So, you are suggesting that the company should redo their website because somebody posted an article about them... In an age when machine translation is perfectly understandable with a little effort, and the article is mostly pictures, and a significant amount of slashdot's readership doesn't have english as a first language? Twit.
Well, now I understand why such non-news is being posted to slashdot. Cmdr Taco just wants to show the prosecutors a little bit of the heat he can bring in case they try and file charges against him...
Anybody make a torrent yet? I don't have a stable enough connection to host the tracker myself, but given that these mirrors are presumably being slashdotted, I'd like to use a torrent if available.
Okay, I've done a bit of back of envelope math, and based on a mass of 4.5 e10 kg, and a 20 year burn (630,720,000 seconds?), and a delta v of 10 km/sec....
about 70,000 newtons. Continuous. For 20 Years.
Sadly, I don't think we'll pull that off. At first, I got 70 Newtons, and I was all excited, because it seemed semi-plausible. Then, I realised, I had calculated for a delta v of 10 m/s, and I was sad, but I did gain an appreciation of how damned big a "little" asteroid is!
True story - My boss, head of our IT department, came to me one day, because I had mentioned Vorbis, and so he knew I knew something about audio compression.
"What is wrong with MP3?" "Huh?" "I downloaded a program to make my music into MP3 format, so that my Real Jukebox will play it, but the program says that MP3's are lame. Is it just saying that it's outdated technology?" "Oh, no, lame is the name of the program that converts the music into the MP3 format. It's very common, and the program you downloaded probably uses that encoding program to make MP3's." "Why in the hell did they give it such a stupid name?"
Though, if we call it MUSICSHRINK 5000, there will be rumors about a MUSICSHRINK 6000! (Anybody see the gruntmaster 6000 episode of dilbert?)
And that, my friend, is precisely why the image is so sharp - a quantity of space crunched down to be small enough to see in a few thousand pixels. While a few inches of variation in the light of a home snapshot would render your family so blurry as to be almost invisible, if the light we see in the image is actually moved around by many kilometers, we wouldn't have any detector with sufficient resolution to notice.
Certainly, not many people play DVD's on their consoles, but you have to admit, when the PS2 came it, it *sounded* good. IMHO, the DVD drive is purely a marketing feature. It makes a casual buyer feel he is getting more for his money. The fact that I already had four different ways to play a DVD when I bought my game cube wasn't relevant to the grandma's buying birthday presents. They just know the nice man at the wal-mart had a longer list of nice things to say about the play station.
Huzzah! It never really occurred to me until recently, but I am nothing like Solid Snake. I don't workout. I don't know how to kick that much ass. Given a choice between an modest IT staffer like myself, and a real-life Solid Snake, most woman would not even notice me.
So, where is the male gamer lobby insisting that video game heros should all be flabby, unable to complete a mile run in less than 20 minutes, etc? While I do find the portrayal of the female form to be rediculous in video games, I wish that all the women who are offended by such portrayals acknowledge that it isn't a female only phenomenon.
how is subpeonaing Intel a huge step for IBM. Rather than be bothered by the order to show more code, they basically said, "Oh, hey, we totally already showed you a bunch, but I think those guys over there may have some interesting stuff. I dunno check them out. Leave me alone."
IOW, it's a chewbacca defense. Flood the court with lots of information which may or may not be entirely relevant. IBM can afford to keep the dog and pony show going longer than SCO can, so they will keep looking for truckloads of information that doesn't specifically incriminate them. Eventually, the court stops caring, and SCO goes bankrupt, and everybody goes home.
(Somebody please post the text of the Chewbacca defense, in case some of the other readers aren't familiar with it. I don't have time to track it down at the moment.)
Okay, I'll ignore the fact that such satellites would have to be made in the former USSR... If the amount of fuel required to get from A to B is so large that the space shuttle can't get there, odds are that the satellite won't be able to get from B to A...
Unless, of course, you set your OS to invert the buttons in "left handed" mode, like all my left handed users do. You know, so the mouse is comfortable and convenient, rather than just on the left side of the keyboard.
I do have one user who uses her laft hand for the mouse, but doesn't remap the buttons, but she's the only one. She's not actually left handed, she just uses the numpad a lot, and like to keep her right hand free for numbers.
I've never understood people who like the mouse on the left, but don't remap. I don't find it that confusing to use my left hand, but it always seems easiest to use my index finger for standard-click, other fingers for scroll/context click.
I doubt it - I sure as hell wouldn't watch any ads at the end of an MPG. For anything at the beginning, before I've switched to full screen, my time-slider is still handy and readily visible. As much as it would be an inconvenience, I think that advertisers would be forced to put ads in the middle of the show, so I'll be too lazy to skip them.
That, or somebody could become pirate-savvy, and start doing things like, "Oh no, what will we do to defeat the wraith?" "Here on Star Gate Atlantis, we drink only Budweiser, so we can chill with the Wraith and be cool buddies who watch the game, and drink beer together."
If they just integrated the ads into the show, there would be nothing to edit out, or skip over, without missing part of the show.
Major Shepard, your uniform looks fantastic! Yes, thanks to Tide brand laundry soap we brought from Earth.
Wow, this high tech space ship has lots of power! Yes, almost as much power as a Ford Pickup truck.
On my iBook, I have to Fn(up) and Fn(down) which is an inconvenient two-handed gesture. If This thing had a real pgup and pgdn, I'd be much less frustrated.
Though, Using the iBook made me realise that we need a pglt and pgrt keys. Seriously, Fn(up) to scroll up, but Fn(left) for home is just horribly annoying, and un finger-memory-friendly. If they were pglt and pgrt, it'd be spiffy.
For me personally, if I can have a convenient torrent of a simple non-DRM file that I can archive, and keep, I would be willing to watch a few ads. The things that keeps me off broadcast TV is that 90% of it sucks, especially from the states. Like some fellow slashdotters, I download Regenesis and some British shows because I just can't get them here. Another thing is that I don't want to dedicate my schedule to being a media consumer. Sorry, I have better things to do. I typically download shows once every few weeks, and catch up on my TV on a lazy Saturday.
If I could have access to a comprehensive, well organised, well encoded site with current TV shows from all over the world (and quite possibly some non-broadcast indie-torrent only productions), I'd be willing to sit through a few minutes of ads during the show.
Indeed. I work IT, and that includes user support. I still have to explain to people when to click, and when to right-click, and yes, when I say click I really mean the normal click, which is on the left. Except for the users who are both idiots and south paws, in which case the normal click is on the right, and the context click is on the left. And, heaven forbid I have to deal with a southpaw idiot who has a 5 button mouse... We are pretty good about who gets the 5 button mice, but somethimes an idiots mouse breaks, and the 5 buttons are all we have to replace them with!
When I say "right click" I mean the button that is left of center, but not the far left on the side, okay?
All that said, it royally pisses me off that I don't have three mouse buttons and a scroll wheel on my iBook!
Oh, no. It isn't up for debate anymore. We finally locked up all the socially deviant heliocentrists. Thank god we didn't need to bother with trials for all those bastards.
Slashdot Mirror
Radar is common on big boats, but for small personal boats, it would be quite expensive. GPS, on the other hand, is so cheap that almost everybody can afford it.
Bandwidth will improve with density, but latency will not. If the sector you need is on the other side of the disk, it doesn't matter how many MB you pass over on the way there - you still have to wait for the disk sector to get to where the head is.
So, you are suggesting that the company should redo their website because somebody posted an article about them... In an age when machine translation is perfectly understandable with a little effort, and the article is mostly pictures, and a significant amount of slashdot's readership doesn't have english as a first language? Twit.
It's called either a pre-emptive dupe, or a demidupe.
Well, now I understand why such non-news is being posted to slashdot. Cmdr Taco just wants to show the prosecutors a little bit of the heat he can bring in case they try and file charges against him...
Okay, so I went to the download sites, and they have torrents there, in addition to the straight ISO download. Never Mind!
Anybody make a torrent yet? I don't have a stable enough connection to host the tracker myself, but given that these mirrors are presumably being slashdotted, I'd like to use a torrent if available.
Right, HURD proved that slow-and-steady is the best way to build a kernel. Well, they are gonna prove it Real Soon Now!
Okay, I've done a bit of back of envelope math, and based on a mass of 4.5 e10 kg, and a 20 year burn (630,720,000 seconds?), and a delta v of 10 km/sec....
about 70,000 newtons. Continuous. For 20 Years.
Sadly, I don't think we'll pull that off. At first, I got 70 Newtons, and I was all excited, because it seemed semi-plausible. Then, I realised, I had calculated for a delta v of 10 m/s, and I was sad, but I did gain an appreciation of how damned big a "little" asteroid is!
You got a problem with forks? I'll poke you, man!
True story - My boss, head of our IT department, came to me one day, because I had mentioned Vorbis, and so he knew I knew something about audio compression.
"What is wrong with MP3?"
"Huh?"
"I downloaded a program to make my music into MP3 format, so that my Real Jukebox will play it, but the program says that MP3's are lame. Is it just saying that it's outdated technology?"
"Oh, no, lame is the name of the program that converts the music into the MP3 format. It's very common, and the program you downloaded probably uses that encoding program to make MP3's."
"Why in the hell did they give it such a stupid name?"
Though, if we call it MUSICSHRINK 5000, there will be rumors about a MUSICSHRINK 6000! (Anybody see the gruntmaster 6000 episode of dilbert?)
And that, my friend, is precisely why the image is so sharp - a quantity of space crunched down to be small enough to see in a few thousand pixels. While a few inches of variation in the light of a home snapshot would render your family so blurry as to be almost invisible, if the light we see in the image is actually moved around by many kilometers, we wouldn't have any detector with sufficient resolution to notice.
Certainly, not many people play DVD's on their consoles, but you have to admit, when the PS2 came it, it *sounded* good. IMHO, the DVD drive is purely a marketing feature. It makes a casual buyer feel he is getting more for his money. The fact that I already had four different ways to play a DVD when I bought my game cube wasn't relevant to the grandma's buying birthday presents. They just know the nice man at the wal-mart had a longer list of nice things to say about the play station.
Huzzah! It never really occurred to me until recently, but I am nothing like Solid Snake. I don't workout. I don't know how to kick that much ass. Given a choice between an modest IT staffer like myself, and a real-life Solid Snake, most woman would not even notice me.
So, where is the male gamer lobby insisting that video game heros should all be flabby, unable to complete a mile run in less than 20 minutes, etc? While I do find the portrayal of the female form to be rediculous in video games, I wish that all the women who are offended by such portrayals acknowledge that it isn't a female only phenomenon.
It never willion haven existed.
Of course, that's HHGG conjugation, rather than Star Trek...
What, you don't have robots?
how is subpeonaing Intel a huge step for IBM. Rather than be bothered by the order to show more code, they basically said, "Oh, hey, we totally already showed you a bunch, but I think those guys over there may have some interesting stuff. I dunno check them out. Leave me alone."
IOW, it's a chewbacca defense. Flood the court with lots of information which may or may not be entirely relevant. IBM can afford to keep the dog and pony show going longer than SCO can, so they will keep looking for truckloads of information that doesn't specifically incriminate them. Eventually, the court stops caring, and SCO goes bankrupt, and everybody goes home.
(Somebody please post the text of the Chewbacca defense, in case some of the other readers aren't familiar with it. I don't have time to track it down at the moment.)
Okay, I'll ignore the fact that such satellites would have to be made in the former USSR... If the amount of fuel required to get from A to B is so large that the space shuttle can't get there, odds are that the satellite won't be able to get from B to A...
Well, I do spend waaay too much time in Safari, it's not the only thing I use the iBook for... :)
Unless, of course, you set your OS to invert the buttons in "left handed" mode, like all my left handed users do. You know, so the mouse is comfortable and convenient, rather than just on the left side of the keyboard.
I do have one user who uses her laft hand for the mouse, but doesn't remap the buttons, but she's the only one. She's not actually left handed, she just uses the numpad a lot, and like to keep her right hand free for numbers.
I've never understood people who like the mouse on the left, but don't remap. I don't find it that confusing to use my left hand, but it always seems easiest to use my index finger for standard-click, other fingers for scroll/context click.
I doubt it - I sure as hell wouldn't watch any ads at the end of an MPG. For anything at the beginning, before I've switched to full screen, my time-slider is still handy and readily visible. As much as it would be an inconvenience, I think that advertisers would be forced to put ads in the middle of the show, so I'll be too lazy to skip them.
That, or somebody could become pirate-savvy, and start doing things like, "Oh no, what will we do to defeat the wraith?" "Here on Star Gate Atlantis, we drink only Budweiser, so we can chill with the Wraith and be cool buddies who watch the game, and drink beer together."
If they just integrated the ads into the show, there would be nothing to edit out, or skip over, without missing part of the show.
Major Shepard, your uniform looks fantastic! Yes, thanks to Tide brand laundry soap we brought from Earth.
Wow, this high tech space ship has lots of power! Yes, almost as much power as a Ford Pickup truck.
On my iBook, I have to Fn(up) and Fn(down) which is an inconvenient two-handed gesture. If This thing had a real pgup and pgdn, I'd be much less frustrated.
Though, Using the iBook made me realise that we need a pglt and pgrt keys. Seriously, Fn(up) to scroll up, but Fn(left) for home is just horribly annoying, and un finger-memory-friendly. If they were pglt and pgrt, it'd be spiffy.
For me personally, if I can have a convenient torrent of a simple non-DRM file that I can archive, and keep, I would be willing to watch a few ads. The things that keeps me off broadcast TV is that 90% of it sucks, especially from the states. Like some fellow slashdotters, I download Regenesis and some British shows because I just can't get them here. Another thing is that I don't want to dedicate my schedule to being a media consumer. Sorry, I have better things to do. I typically download shows once every few weeks, and catch up on my TV on a lazy Saturday.
If I could have access to a comprehensive, well organised, well encoded site with current TV shows from all over the world (and quite possibly some non-broadcast indie-torrent only productions), I'd be willing to sit through a few minutes of ads during the show.
Indeed. I work IT, and that includes user support. I still have to explain to people when to click, and when to right-click, and yes, when I say click I really mean the normal click, which is on the left. Except for the users who are both idiots and south paws, in which case the normal click is on the right, and the context click is on the left. And, heaven forbid I have to deal with a southpaw idiot who has a 5 button mouse... We are pretty good about who gets the 5 button mice, but somethimes an idiots mouse breaks, and the 5 buttons are all we have to replace them with!
When I say "right click" I mean the button that is left of center, but not the far left on the side, okay?
All that said, it royally pisses me off that I don't have three mouse buttons and a scroll wheel on my iBook!
Oh, no. It isn't up for debate anymore. We finally locked up all the socially deviant heliocentrists. Thank god we didn't need to bother with trials for all those bastards.