Why was that message mod'ed up? It contains incorrect information. "radii" is plural of "radIus", "virii" would be plural of "virius", if there was such a word. But hey, it's actually "virus", not "virius".
Absolutely not, that would only be the case if "virus" was spelled "virius". And it is not so.
Have you never tried to read any medical literature? It's "viruses" everywhere, which is the correct spelling. Please check a dictionary before telling anyone how to spell, please.
Ok so we all have seen Leik Myrabo on TV demonstrating that a laser can push a small sail in vacuum. Now, this should work equally well with a bigger sail in a bigger vacuum with a bigger light source, right?
Maybe Sequent developed their own RCU technology in the 1990s, but there's nothing special about RCU. This has been a standard technique among programmers much much longer than that, it was re-invented over and over again long before the nineties.
My handwriting is terrible and has always been, and I'm 43. The reason? Not keyboards or computers, for sure! The cause is the way handwriting is taught in school, with a reward system that encourages getting through the different stages as quickly as possible.
All of my class mates write terribly, at least all of the boys do. Anyway, at 15 I decided to learn touch-typing (using a good old mechanical typewriter and a Scheidegger course, IMO the absolutely best way to learn touch typing).
I've been happy since then, never looked back. Handwriting can never approach the keyboard. Handwriting is way too slow, even for the best of them. No worries folks, you only need to learn basic handwriting and then you should concentrate (and I mean concentrate, don't be sloppy about it) on learning touch typing. If you end up as a programmer it'll take your productivity to a totally different level.
Try http://sandlotscience.com (or go directly to for example http://sandlotscience.com/Distortions/Distortions_ frm.htm) Funny for the kids, and for the rest of us as well:-) TA
As much as I can understand how it sucks that AOL blocks DSL-based mailservers, I can also understand it. And the DSL users are, unfortunately, the ones to blame. What the spammers do is to scan DLS-hosts until they find an open relay, and then they forward their spam through it. There are also of course some spammers that spam directly from a DSL account, but mostly the problem is the braindead people who just connect their totally open system directly to the network and fire up their box. Thirty seconds later their box is a spam relay. Today I blocked dsl-verizon.net at this company. Yes it sucks. But thousands of junkmail made it necessary. TA
However much I dislike Microsoft products, "offers" with strings like that attached should always be rejected. It is completely unacceptable and should not even be taken to the board. TA
It's expensive because of the huge amount of cache on the chip. Without it the performance would be abysmal. The difference between cheap and expensive chips is almost entirely dictated by the amount of cache.
Much as I would love to see a space elevator, I shudder by the thought of how bad it will go if it does: Let's say the anchor asteroid gets disconnected at the top end. The elevator will fall down and wrap itself around the whole of Earth's equator! Can you imagine the consequences?
Exactly. On this site we immediately block any animated or otherwise moving banner. All of that is immediately banned campus wide. However, we never block static gifs. One must wonder how braindead the advertisers are as they do not seem to get this.
I compared the screenshots with the original sites, and in my opinion the Opera rendering is better than the original, on ANY display, including my huge office desktop monitor. I want that kind of layout in my desktop browser! TA
It is a thing of the past. This satellite was designed many years ago, it is only now that it is finished and ready for launch. And looking at the site of this satellite (around 8000 kilos) is exactly one of the reasons that "now" we think they are too big and this approach should not be repeated for the future.
1) This satellite does not have enough resolution on any of the instruments (including the SAR) to serve as a spy satellite, in any sense of the word. There are lots of satellites out there that are "better" in this respect.
2) It is the most advanced environmental satellite "everywhere", not only most advanced European satellite. In fact nothing like this will be built again, it's just too huge and expensive and there are too many eggs in one basket. It is how far anyone will go out on that particular limb, in the future smaller, cheaper and more specialised/limited satellites will be used.
TA
(Disclaimer: I work with the ground segment (that is, the acquisition and processing) of this satellite.
Of course, if you have the money and resources to protect your software from GPL abuse, by all means don't sign over the copyright to FSF. However, if you either don't have the money needed for legal help, or you're just one of a whole bunch of programmers all over the world, what do you do then? It sounds a bit messy.. TA
..that according to the article one reason they're installing the superconducting cables is that it is cheaper to install superconducting cables than "normal" cables! TA (I read the article)
You are correct. The immigrants of Finland (and also Hungary) simply took over the native language. The immigrants arrived in the area around the same time as immigrants arrived in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark/Sweden/Norway), and all these immigrants were probably part of the same people.
"Everyone died"?? Where did you get that from? Have you never seen a person with a smallpox-scarred face? It's true that there never were a 'cure' as such (except for vaccination, which might be considered a "cure"), but far from everybody died from it. A terrible disease yes, but not a killer like Ebola or a bunch of other diseases. TA
Using filters for colour photography is nothing new. In fact, that's the most used method of all, particularly when you look deep into how colour film (in particular, Kodachrome!) works. Look at astrophotography, for example. Almost all colour pictures of the sky is created this way -- you take three different B&W pictures through different filters. TA
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Why was that message mod'ed up? It contains incorrect information.
"radii" is plural of "radIus", "virii" would be plural of "virius", if there was such a word. But hey, it's actually "virus", not "virius".
>The word "virus" is spelled "virii".
Absolutely not, that would only be the case if
"virus" was spelled "virius". And it is not so.
Have you never tried to read any medical literature?
It's "viruses" everywhere, which is the correct spelling. Please check a dictionary before telling anyone how to spell, please.
Ok so we all have seen Leik Myrabo on TV demonstrating that a laser can push a small sail in vacuum. Now, this should work equally well with a bigger sail in a bigger vacuum with a bigger light source, right?
Maybe Sequent developed their own RCU technology in the 1990s, but there's nothing special about RCU. This has been a standard technique among programmers much much longer than that, it was re-invented over and over again long before the nineties.
I've been happy since then, never looked back. Handwriting can never approach the keyboard. Handwriting is way too slow, even for the best of them. No worries folks, you only need to learn basic handwriting and then you should concentrate (and I mean concentrate, don't be sloppy about it) on learning touch typing. If you end up as a programmer it'll take your productivity to a totally different level.
Try http://sandlotscience.com (or go directly to for example http://sandlotscience.com/Distortions/Distortions_ frm.htm) :-)
Funny for the kids, and for the rest of us as well
TA
As much as I can understand how it sucks that AOL blocks DSL-based mailservers, I can also understand it. And the DSL users are, unfortunately, the ones to blame. What the spammers do is to scan DLS-hosts until they find an open relay, and then they forward their spam through it. There are also of course some spammers that spam directly from a DSL account, but mostly the problem is the braindead people who just connect their totally open system directly to the network and fire up their box. Thirty seconds later their box is a spam relay.
Today I blocked dsl-verizon.net at this company. Yes it sucks. But thousands of junkmail made it necessary.
TA
However much I dislike Microsoft products, "offers" with strings like that attached should always be rejected. It is completely unacceptable and should not even be taken to the board.
TA
It's expensive because of the huge amount of cache on the chip. Without it the performance would be abysmal. The difference between cheap and expensive chips is almost entirely dictated by the amount of cache.
Much as I would love to see a space elevator, I shudder by the thought of how bad it will go if it does: Let's say the anchor asteroid gets disconnected at the top end. The elevator will fall down and wrap itself around the whole of Earth's equator! Can you imagine the consequences?
It's built by the GERMANS, you fool.
Exactly. On this site we immediately block any animated or otherwise moving banner. All of that is immediately banned campus wide. However, we never block static gifs. One must wonder how braindead the advertisers are as they do not seem to get this.
I compared the screenshots with the original sites, and in my opinion the Opera rendering is better than the original, on ANY display, including my huge office desktop monitor. I want that kind of layout in my desktop browser!
TA
I think you got that wrong. Artemis is the relay satellite, SPOT4 is not.
It is a thing of the past. This satellite was designed many years ago, it is only now that it is finished and ready for launch. And looking at the site of this satellite (around 8000 kilos) is exactly one of the reasons that "now" we think they are too big and this approach should not be repeated for the future.
1) This satellite does not have enough resolution on any of the instruments (including the SAR) to serve as a spy satellite, in any sense of the word. There are lots of satellites out there that are "better" in this respect.
2) It is the most advanced environmental satellite "everywhere", not only most advanced European satellite. In fact nothing like this will be built again, it's just too huge and expensive and there are too many eggs in one basket. It is how far anyone will go out on that particular limb, in the future smaller, cheaper and more specialised/limited satellites will be used.
TA
(Disclaimer: I work with the ground segment (that is, the acquisition and processing) of this satellite.
Slackware "..the first commercial linux distribution"??? Ah, how soon we forget. Slackware was NOT first, the SLS distro was. And long long before.
TA
Of course, if you have the money and resources to protect your software from GPL abuse, by all means don't sign over the copyright to FSF. However, if you either don't have the money needed for legal help, or you're just one of a whole bunch of programmers all over the world, what do you do then? It sounds a bit messy..
TA
..that according to the article one reason they're installing the superconducting cables is that it is cheaper to install superconducting cables than "normal" cables!
TA (I read the article)
"4 races"?? 'Race' is meaningless as a biological concept.
TA
You are correct. The immigrants of Finland (and also Hungary) simply took over the native language. The immigrants arrived in the area around the same time as immigrants arrived in the Scandinavian countries (Denmark/Sweden/Norway), and all these immigrants were probably part of the same people.
Islam didn't exist at 1200BC. Add another 1800 years or so.
TA
"Everyone died"?? Where did you get that from? Have you never seen a person with a smallpox-scarred face? It's true that there never were a 'cure' as such (except for vaccination, which might be considered a "cure"), but far from everybody died from it. A terrible disease yes, but not a killer like Ebola or a bunch of other diseases. TA
Hamilton and Bear don't write sci-fi. They write SF. Godzilla is sci-fi.
TA
Using filters for colour photography is nothing new. In fact, that's the most used method of all, particularly when you look deep into how colour film (in particular, Kodachrome!) works.
Look at astrophotography, for example. Almost all colour pictures of the sky is created this way -- you take three different B&W pictures through different filters.
TA