Here's an animation of the object. The link to the yahoo egroup discussion is also worth looking at. The discussion morphs from everyone thinking it's a joke post to realizing that the asteroid exists. It's an interesting log of people coping with uncertainty.
It may not kill you. Even if it does it will take a long time which is why there is plausible deniability that it is dangerous.
Whenever my father would hear that type of argument, he'd say
Water is dangerous. Drink it long enough and you die. Did you know that 99% of the people who died in the past year had swallowed water at some point in their lives.
During the Iraq invasion, attack helicopters tended to be awfully fragile. So fragile in some cases, they were intentionally withheld because copters were being downed by coordinated rifle fire.
Meanwhile, the Warthog showed it could go into battle, get banged up and survive. Take a look at the wing photo to see what I mean.
I had a problem with Excel resizing my spreadsheets after patching Windows. None of the patches touched Excel so I did not have a clue as to how to fix the problem. Changed the system and Excel wanked.
Called Microsoft's pay-for-support service; $35 until the problem's fixed. Two and half hours later we figured out that Microsoft had changed the font metrics on Arial. Excel computes cell sizes based on Arial font metrics. When Arial changed, so did my print areas. The tech was obviously Indian, obviously smart and curious enough to spend the 2 hours it took to figure out what was going on. I didn't care about the $35 to find out in what mystical way Microsoft screwed up - I just wanted to know what had changed so I could undo it.
Contrast that to estamps.com. Free tech support and worth every penny. Software crashes my printer taking the postage with it and all the tech can say is "tough." They don't have much competition right now so they can get away with it but that will change.
but I do feel obliged to point out that from a pragmatic standpoint a little bit of calm and courtesy probably would have prevented things from escalating the way they did.
And I feel obligated to point out that the man's daughter had slugged him, he was pissed about his daughter's choice of boyfriends and a cop shows up on a power trip. Now, be honest, would you have been a paragon of courtesy under those circumstances?
Simply : untrue. It's as easy to fake the envelope sender as it is the From: header.
But it has to be faked with the correct information for a particular recipient. You can't just put some random name there and get by this filter. Spammer has to know that Mary knows Tom. If Mary gets email from Jim, whom she doesn't know, the email is flagged. It's the pairing of From and To headers that matters, not the individual entities.
Add to that that it took years of planning and travel to get to Mars, but once there, it'll be lucky to work for more than 3 months. JPL spends time each day in a power meeting where the various groups negotiate who gets how much of the available power. There's not enough to go around so they have to haggle over who has priority.
Next time we spend $800 Million to go to Mars couldn't we equip the lander with enough power so the thing can survive a few years and be able to travel more than a mile total?
Why risk 50% of our remaining space shuttle fleet, another human crew, and untold billions to repair Hubble at this point?
You're right, there's risk involved. The question is which projects do you decide to spend the remaining shuttle flights on? Do you continue to pour money down an ISS rat hole that has delivered ZERO peer-reviewed science, has no reason to exist other than pork barrel or do you allocate the flights to maximizing the remaining science?
NASA has already killed Compton, is on its way to killing Hubble and you think O'Keefe and gang will fund Webb? Perhaps you didn't notice, Webb has already been scaled back twice - the ISS money vacuum will continue to wreak its damage. Other posters have already pointed out that Webb and Hubble are not interchangeable - they see different spectrums.The problem is is that NASA will continue to lose public support if its only reason to exist is to fly the Shuttle back and forth between ISS. The ISS has no value other than job creation. Hubble on the other hand, provides both jobs and real science - the kind of science that gets published in Science and Nature. ISS science is the kind of science you find at the local county science fair, i.e., "What color does my dog like?"
Your post and O'Keefe's decision to kill Hubble clearly illustrate how poorly educated this country is. Equating Hubble and Webb and choosing ISS over Hubble are examples of what happens when half our children aren't taught science well enough to know that it takes a year for the earth to circle the sun. The cost of that poor education is you get people like O'Keefe running Nasa and the public doesn't know enough to say boo about it. We've lost the super collider, we're going to lose Hubble, 50/50 Webb will not fly, manufacturing, accounting, customer service and software have been outsourced but we'll have a worthless missile "defense" and plenty of boobies on fark.com. That's the cost of poorly educating people.
The decision was a unilateral decision on O'Keefe's part. He's been called to account by Senator Barbara Mikulski.
In typical cya fashion, O'Keefe called on Harold Gehman, who led the Columbia accident inquiry, to review the decision. It's a bit of neener neener on O'Keefe's part because Gehman's commission nailed NASA for sloppy safety management policies.
What O'Keefe is saying to Gehman is "Look you SOB - you try running an agency that's being pulled 20 different ways and see if you don't start cutting corners."
Nasa will be well rid of Mr. O'Keefe when he leaves. Next time, maybe the powers that be will appoint someone with an engineering background to run the agency.
I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Her cheeks looked a little rosier and her overall color was a bit "warmer." It was probably a result of the way the rest of the apartment colors interacted with her reflection to give the effect but the color shift was noticable. The odd thing is the mirror didn't seem to affect my skin color or other girlfriend's color - it just worked on her. She loved that mirror, or at least its effect.
Fwiw, we're both Caucasian.
Forget the rfid - what's with the mirror?
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The dressing rooms also contain a video-based "Magic Mirror" which allows a customer to see an image of their back. As the customer begins to turn in front of the mirror the image becomes delayed, allowing the customer to view themselves in slow motion from all angles."
I'm tempted to go to Prada just to see the "mirror." For it to be a convincing substitute, you'd want a full length screen of some sort. Hard to believe thay've managed that so what exactly are you looking at when you look at the "mirror?"
Speaking of mirrors, an old girlfriend loved the mirror in my apartment because for some reason it flattered her coloring - she just looked better in the mirror than she actually did. I can see the "magic mirror" playing games of that sort as well - hiding blemishes, slimming the wearer etc.
A lot of the posts are political rants that ignore the basic question: Should we build a colony on the Moon?
Like parenthood, there's never a good time to do it - there'll always be pressing needs elsewhere. My take is if we can't build a colony on the moon, we may as well forget about manned space flight. If we do elect to abandon manned space flight, we'll be like old ladies in retirement homes waiting to die. Except our death will be delivered by our own hand or possibly a Permian level event. Either way, we're dead if we elect to stay here.
If we elect to build the colony, it has to be designed from the outset to be self-sustaining. By self-sustaining, I mean the whole shebang - kids (or at least the means for making them), farms, lots of people, machine tools, everything. The colony has to be able to weather failures on earth, be they political and/or economic failures, cutting them off.
I'm old enough to remember the first Star Trek broadcast and have that meme deeply imprinted - we need to explore and go out beyond earth. The moon's but the first step.
The scope is named after James Webb, not James Watt. But Watt the hell, both were bureaucrats. Given it's inauspicious name, the scope probably will never see first light. All the more reason to can ISS and keep Hubble going.
I was wondering if the different beers look different by chance or if you took several pictures of each beer that you'd be able to say "Of course, that's a Guiness/Bud Light/whatever."
Excel bases its row heights and column widths on Ariel metrics. Set a column width to 12 and you can fit 12 lower case, 10 point, Arial 'a's in it.
Which is fine until Microsoft decided to modify the base metrics on Ariel. All my spreadsheets that I had carefully sized to fit on a single sheet of printer paper suddenly started using two sheets after my customers downloade some patches to Windows. Buried in the usual welter of security patches was an "upgrade" to several of the system fonts. I discovered this nasty little surprise when my customers started calling for tech support. That unilateral font change on Microsoft's part cost me several days to clean up the mess.
weather really doesn't affect image quality (though this may not be true for HD content) but that airplanes, helicopters, birds and people falling off of your roof can and do.
Yeah it really sucks. Just yesterday, last seconds of the game, kicker is going for the field goal and BLAM! some guy impaled himself on our antennae. Peeled him off but it was no good, the game was over.
People will not buy crap if they know it's crap. But markets operate imperfectly in an environment that doesn't have perfect information perfectly distributed.
It's impossible to know just by looking at a product if it's any good. For that you have to have credible reviews or experience that'll guide your decision. The consumer magazines do a fair job in that regard but the best sources I've found have been forums dedicated to a particular topic. Even there, you need to be careful not to give credence to comments from vested interests - such as a reviewer being somehow compensated by the manufacturer of the product he's reviewing or manufacturer flunkys hanging out in newsgroups.
Umm, about the only preconception that's warranted is the actors have British accents and that's a bit iffy. There are plenty of blacks in Britian so skin color shouldn't factor in casting the part.
Whomever they cast for Zaphod, I just hope he's a good comedians and the screenplay is first rate. It'd be a shame to screw up Hitchhikers.
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Here's an animation of the object. The link to the yahoo egroup discussion is also worth looking at. The discussion morphs from everyone thinking it's a joke post to realizing that the asteroid exists. It's an interesting log of people coping with uncertainty.
Whenever my father would hear that type of argument, he'd say
Meanwhile, the Warthog showed it could go into battle, get banged up and survive. Take a look at the wing photo to see what I mean.
Called Microsoft's pay-for-support service; $35 until the problem's fixed. Two and half hours later we figured out that Microsoft had changed the font metrics on Arial. Excel computes cell sizes based on Arial font metrics. When Arial changed, so did my print areas. The tech was obviously Indian, obviously smart and curious enough to spend the 2 hours it took to figure out what was going on. I didn't care about the $35 to find out in what mystical way Microsoft screwed up - I just wanted to know what had changed so I could undo it.
Contrast that to estamps.com. Free tech support and worth every penny. Software crashes my printer taking the postage with it and all the tech can say is "tough." They don't have much competition right now so they can get away with it but that will change.
The guy is pretty amazing. This site he's involved with is phenomenally creative.
And I feel obligated to point out that the man's daughter had slugged him, he was pissed about his daughter's choice of boyfriends and a cop shows up on a power trip. Now, be honest, would you have been a paragon of courtesy under those circumstances?
But it has to be faked with the correct information for a particular recipient. You can't just put some random name there and get by this filter. Spammer has to know that Mary knows Tom. If Mary gets email from Jim, whom she doesn't know, the email is flagged. It's the pairing of From and To headers that matters, not the individual entities.
Next time we spend $800 Million to go to Mars couldn't we equip the lander with enough power so the thing can survive a few years and be able to travel more than a mile total?
Funny. I went to cell online, typed "international space station" in the search box and this is what Cell said:
You're right, there's risk involved. The question is which projects do you decide to spend the remaining shuttle flights on? Do you continue to pour money down an ISS rat hole that has delivered ZERO peer-reviewed science, has no reason to exist other than pork barrel or do you allocate the flights to maximizing the remaining science?
NASA has already killed Compton, is on its way to killing Hubble and you think O'Keefe and gang will fund Webb? Perhaps you didn't notice, Webb has already been scaled back twice - the ISS money vacuum will continue to wreak its damage. Other posters have already pointed out that Webb and Hubble are not interchangeable - they see different spectrums.The problem is is that NASA will continue to lose public support if its only reason to exist is to fly the Shuttle back and forth between ISS. The ISS has no value other than job creation. Hubble on the other hand, provides both jobs and real science - the kind of science that gets published in Science and Nature. ISS science is the kind of science you find at the local county science fair, i.e., "What color does my dog like?"
Your post and O'Keefe's decision to kill Hubble clearly illustrate how poorly educated this country is. Equating Hubble and Webb and choosing ISS over Hubble are examples of what happens when half our children aren't taught science well enough to know that it takes a year for the earth to circle the sun. The cost of that poor education is you get people like O'Keefe running Nasa and the public doesn't know enough to say boo about it. We've lost the super collider, we're going to lose Hubble, 50/50 Webb will not fly, manufacturing, accounting, customer service and software have been outsourced but we'll have a worthless missile "defense" and plenty of boobies on fark.com. That's the cost of poorly educating people.
In typical cya fashion, O'Keefe called on Harold Gehman, who led the Columbia accident inquiry, to review the decision. It's a bit of neener neener on O'Keefe's part because Gehman's commission nailed NASA for sloppy safety management policies.
What O'Keefe is saying to Gehman is "Look you SOB - you try running an agency that's being pulled 20 different ways and see if you don't start cutting corners."
Problem for O'Keefe is that there are plenty of ideas on how to both service Hubble and adhere to the Gehman's commission's advice. Not surprisingly, NASA management choses to ignore its engineers instead of listen.
Nasa will be well rid of Mr. O'Keefe when he leaves. Next time, maybe the powers that be will appoint someone with an engineering background to run the agency.
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I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Her cheeks looked a little rosier and her overall color was a bit "warmer." It was probably a result of the way the rest of the apartment colors interacted with her reflection to give the effect but the color shift was noticable. The odd thing is the mirror didn't seem to affect my skin color or other girlfriend's color - it just worked on her. She loved that mirror, or at least its effect.
Fwiw, we're both Caucasian.
I'm tempted to go to Prada just to see the "mirror." For it to be a convincing substitute, you'd want a full length screen of some sort. Hard to believe thay've managed that so what exactly are you looking at when you look at the "mirror?"
Speaking of mirrors, an old girlfriend loved the mirror in my apartment because for some reason it flattered her coloring - she just looked better in the mirror than she actually did. I can see the "magic mirror" playing games of that sort as well - hiding blemishes, slimming the wearer etc.
Like parenthood, there's never a good time to do it - there'll always be pressing needs elsewhere. My take is if we can't build a colony on the moon, we may as well forget about manned space flight. If we do elect to abandon manned space flight, we'll be like old ladies in retirement homes waiting to die. Except our death will be delivered by our own hand or possibly a Permian level event. Either way, we're dead if we elect to stay here.
If we elect to build the colony, it has to be designed from the outset to be self-sustaining. By self-sustaining, I mean the whole shebang - kids (or at least the means for making them), farms, lots of people, machine tools, everything. The colony has to be able to weather failures on earth, be they political and/or economic failures, cutting them off.
I'm old enough to remember the first Star Trek broadcast and have that meme deeply imprinted - we need to explore and go out beyond earth. The moon's but the first step.
The scope is named after James Webb, not James Watt. But Watt the hell, both were bureaucrats. Given it's inauspicious name, the scope probably will never see first light. All the more reason to can ISS and keep Hubble going.
The moderators must be on crack ranking pie-in-the-sky informative.
I was wondering if the different beers look different by chance or if you took several pictures of each beer that you'd be able to say "Of course, that's a Guiness/Bud Light/whatever."
A guy walks into a bar one day. The next day, he ducks.
Which is fine until Microsoft decided to modify the base metrics on Ariel. All my spreadsheets that I had carefully sized to fit on a single sheet of printer paper suddenly started using two sheets after my customers downloade some patches to Windows. Buried in the usual welter of security patches was an "upgrade" to several of the system fonts. I discovered this nasty little surprise when my customers started calling for tech support. That unilateral font change on Microsoft's part cost me several days to clean up the mess.
I'll bet you're one of those guys who flosses three times a day.
Yeah it really sucks. Just yesterday, last seconds of the game, kicker is going for the field goal and BLAM! some guy impaled himself on our antennae. Peeled him off but it was no good, the game was over.
Spout-nik: (noun). What you call a small chip in the enamel on a teapot's spout.
People will not buy crap if they know it's crap. But markets operate imperfectly in an environment that doesn't have perfect information perfectly distributed.
It's impossible to know just by looking at a product if it's any good. For that you have to have credible reviews or experience that'll guide your decision. The consumer magazines do a fair job in that regard but the best sources I've found have been forums dedicated to a particular topic. Even there, you need to be careful not to give credence to comments from vested interests - such as a reviewer being somehow compensated by the manufacturer of the product he's reviewing or manufacturer flunkys hanging out in newsgroups.
Whomever they cast for Zaphod, I just hope he's a good comedians and the screenplay is first rate. It'd be a shame to screw up Hitchhikers.