I've listened to the occasional Net music stream, but never served one. But I wonder -- how are they going to know if you've run a Net music service on your personal connection? Business DSL? etc.? It seems like this is a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.
It's the principle of the thing. If a program wants to copy everything to my hard drive, it had damned well better earn that disk space it's taking up. There is no legitimate reason why software that does this should require the CD. If you want the CD to be in the drive, you'd better have a tiny HD footprint. If you want a big one, then you'd damned well better not demand a CD.
If you paid with a credit card, you can contest it with the card issuer -- service rendered was made nearly useless unexpectedly. Still, this sort of thing is why I don't pay for web "services." Don't want to be left screwed.
Indeed. One man's trash is another man's treasure, as they say. I'd have to say that scene is tied for favorites (in Episode 2) with the juxtaposition of C-3PO and a battle droid; details left out in case readers haven't seen the film, but those who have know what I'm referring to.
I got rained out. You got the shots I wanted but could not get; my digital camera lay next to me at work all day, just in case I was there late, so I could get pictures as I walked to the car. With the rain, though, I hever had the chance.
No. Gyros have to be carried on board the Shuttle. They are not intended to be launched on board an unmanned rocket and must be manually lifted from the shuttle's payload bay using the Canadarm (RMS) and installed on the station by spacewalking astronauts with the help of a shuttle crew.
NASA has a spare CMG available, but it cannot be launched until early next year. That's because a CMG package - the gyro and necessary sub-assemblies - weighs some 1,100 pounds at launch and must be mounted on a special carrier beam in the shuttle's cargo bay. The next two shuttle flights, in August and October, will carry up huge sections of the station's solar array truss and don't have room for a CMG. As a result, the station may have to get by with three CMGs until early next year.
However, what the Slashdot story failed to note is that redundancy: only two control moment gyros are required for full control. One failed, leaving the station with three. No need to panic yet -- and even if the last one fails, the Russian modules attached to the station (which seem to be forgotten now, since all the activity is on the US side) are capable of using conventional rocket thrusters to control the station.
However, all such missions (including the last HST maintenance flight) are now handled by Columbia, since she is too heavy to fly to the ISS with any kind of useful payload -- heavier materials were used for her construction -- so the rest of the fleet is tasked for ISS flights while Columbia remains on research duty -- the kind of flight the whole fleet used to fly.
But they don't let you view the Quicktimes anymore. I used to use them for catching launch replays and other things I couldn't catch due to time, forgetting, or being at work. Now they're locked behind a password, and I refuse to be nickel and dimed.
Anyone know why spaceref.tv quit posting movies in a timely manner? Or, if they still post them, where they went?
Indeed -- I just thought Far-Seer was the best of the series. (The method for solving the space-elevator stability problem is interesting, though I don't know that it's workable.)
I hope this isn't too off-topic.:) But hopefully I can recommend my own favorite (so far) Sawyer novel.
I've thoroughly enjoyed his Far-Seer, which retells the story of Galileo using another planet and society (intelligent dinosaurs, anyone?) to educate. While there are changes in the empirical evidence available, done to compensate for the radically-different setting, the issues presented are the same.
While I'm already familiar with Galileo's story from reading other accounts of his life, Far-Seer put it into a personal perspective. The wonder of discovery, the process of reasoning how the solar system actually worked (including building on what others had written before) and the shock of being put on trial by society for upsetting the prevailing, comfortable world-view -- they are all here. So, too, is the punishment (again, changed, though I will not spoil it here.)
The Church didn't apologize to Galileo for 300 years. Give that some thought...
A friend of mine produces MPEG videos of his volunteer work at a raptor (bird) rehabilitation/education center. When I go to download them, Mozilla wants to name the file blah.mpg.mpeg, and insists the file size is 0k when the web server knows the correct size (usually 10 megs or so). It's funny to see "Downloaded -30% of 0k" or whatever... the first time. Changing the suggested file name works fine, and the final saved file is valid.
Wonder if this is indeed the same problem. I thought it was a server screwup... but maybe not.
"the judges in this case accepted the argument that requiring censoring software automatically lead to censoring things that weren't obscene, or child pornography, or "harmful to minors", and that that wasn't acceptable."
There's something I don't quite understand here. This is not a troll but an honest puzzled reaction.
It seems to me that this verdict, in particular the phrase which I have repeated above to clarify my position, seems to indicate that there are differing standards (at least to the court) regarding the application of censoring software. In the DeCSS case, it is my understanding that the courts are allowing censorship of the code and ruling that its publication can be blocked because it is harmful (to the profits of the movie inddustry.) In those cases, the argument that the code is free speech and thus protected by the First Amendment was denied, even though not everyone would be harmed by the posted code; the government is basically allowing censoring of something that is only harmful to a minority of citizens.
But in this case, the needs of the many did outweigh the needs of the few.
Where is the difference? Are words and symbols on a screen less worthy of protection than pixels on that same screen?
And for those who live on the Mississippi, the stations have both prefixes. It's not unheard of in such towns and cities to be surrounded by K--- stations with the occasional W--- thrown in for good measure, or vice versa.
They are called "call letters" and they're how the station is identified, much like a ham's call sign (which is two letters, a number, and three more letters.)
A station is required to announce its call letters on the air once in a given interval, if not more often, though I don't know what that interval is. I've heard DJs cut into ads or weather forecasts, etc. to say "The FCC says we only have 15 seconds more to announce our call letters, so here they are --" and cut right back into programming. Quite amusing.
Is there a directory of college radio stations and their freqencies online anywhere? I live near a major well-known (though private) university and I'd like to see if they've a student-run station I can listen to to see if I have a reason to ever tune my car's radio away from the local NPR station.
A bill to fund the construction of a new stadium here in downtown St. Louis just died in legislature this week. We have a stadium (the famous Busch Stadium) that works, though it could use a renovation. The sponsors of the bill wanted to tear it down and build a "new" old-style stadium in its place.
All because the local baseball team (the Cardinals) decided to whine and threaten to leave if the state didn't build a new stadium. But why, said the citizens, should we fund a new stadium with tax revenues if other things, like education, are hurting? Why should our sales taxes go up? The Univ. of MO is considering imposing surcharges to cover the deficit since the governor can't seem to balance the state budget.
I'd say MO doesn't have a clue either. At least here the stadium bill failed.
I am a space shuttle miniatures collector and occasionally pick up well-made replicas of the Shuttle (mostly orbiters so far) when I see interesting ones that I wouldn't mind showing to visitors. One evening I was shown a photo of the original Sky Lynx in an eBay auction, and I was hooked -- I bid on one that same week and now am the owner of an original, though decal-less, Sky Lynx shuttle orbiter in excellent condition. It now resides next to several other miniature shuttles and is by far the best of the collection (and the largest; I haven't yet assembled the huge 1/72-scale full stack kit I have in the closet.)
While this one is not made of metal like many of the others were, the detail is right on. While the crew access door on the port side is missing, it does have a lot of other details that I'm stunned a Transformer would have considering the age range of the intended audience. It has the radiator panel lines inside the payload bay doors (half-length bay only due to the way it transforms), the various lines on the wings where different groups of tiles meet each other, the gray (on the real thing) carbon-carbon tiles on the wings' leading edges, hints of the actuators for the rudder on the tail, nearly all of the maneuvering jets (there are 44, total, on the real thing) and even the star tracker portion of the navigation system is there! It's even got the two upper windows just forward of the payload bay (used for docking with the ISS and when working with large payloads.)
I was absolutely wowed when I took it out of the shipping box. Here's a few photos for those who are feeling nostalgic:
Volkswagen has already put out a New Beetle Special Edition in a similar brilliant yellow. The color was called Reflex Yellow (this is not me; my VW is a 2000 Golf and is white) and was only available in a limited number 2,000 and only available online. However, if you wanted to purchase one of these used and add an Autobot logo with either a vinyl sticker or having a body shop paint one on (relatively expensive, but the best shops will do a wonderful custom job...)
I was not able to find any photos online of a Beetle being painted to look like Bumblebee, but there is a vast aftermarket out there for Volkswagens and finding a tire and wheel combination that would be similar to that seen on the cartoon would not be hard. You could even have the wheels powdercoated Reflex Yellow (the paint code for the car should be in the spare tire well if it's in the same place as it is on Golfs). I personally think it would look mean with the wheels powdercoated black...
Honestly, Goldbug is a much better replica of a Beetle, though I'm glad the New Beetle isn't offered in that garish yellow. Looks like a late '70s model from the elephant's-foot taillamps...
For more news, take a look at the VWVortex.com page on the Special Edition New Beetle. This site is a wonderful resource for VW owners -- take a look in the forums and poke around the main page; ignore the whining for best results. (I'm personally looking forward to seeing what that Jetta Coupe looks like they're building...)
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Bet yer a Vortexer too, eh? ;>
I've listened to the occasional Net music stream, but never served one. But I wonder -- how are they going to know if you've run a Net music service on your personal connection? Business DSL? etc.? It seems like this is a "don't ask, don't tell" situation.
With only a robots.txt entry to stop Google, my site's entry in their index reads:
/
www.buran.org/
Similar pages
... I assume it's drawing off the domain name itself (the search term was "buran") to put the site in the index. The robots.txt file reads:
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow:
It's the principle of the thing. If a program wants to copy everything to my hard drive, it had damned well better earn that disk space it's taking up. There is no legitimate reason why software that does this should require the CD. If you want the CD to be in the drive, you'd better have a tiny HD footprint. If you want a big one, then you'd damned well better not demand a CD.
If you paid with a credit card, you can contest it with the card issuer -- service rendered was made nearly useless unexpectedly. Still, this sort of thing is why I don't pay for web "services." Don't want to be left screwed.
Indeed. One man's trash is another man's treasure, as they say. I'd have to say that scene is tied for favorites (in Episode 2) with the juxtaposition of C-3PO and a battle droid; details left out in case readers haven't seen the film, but those who have know what I'm referring to.
I got rained out. You got the shots I wanted but could not get; my digital camera lay next to me at work all day, just in case I was there late, so I could get pictures as I walked to the car. With the rain, though, I hever had the chance.
Thank you for the post!
*laugh*
:)
Yeah.
RMS in this case stands for "Remote Manipulator System".
Yep.
No. Gyros have to be carried on board the Shuttle. They are not intended to be launched on board an unmanned rocket and must be manually lifted from the shuttle's payload bay using the Canadarm (RMS) and installed on the station by spacewalking astronauts with the help of a shuttle crew.
0 8cmg/ :
From http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/sts111/0206
NASA has a spare CMG available, but it cannot be launched until early next year. That's because a CMG package - the gyro and necessary sub-assemblies - weighs some 1,100 pounds at launch and must be mounted on a special carrier beam in the shuttle's cargo bay. The next two shuttle flights, in August and October, will carry up huge sections of the station's solar array truss and don't have room for a CMG. As a result, the station may have to get by with three CMGs until early next year.
However, what the Slashdot story failed to note is that redundancy: only two control moment gyros are required for full control. One failed, leaving the station with three. No need to panic yet -- and even if the last one fails, the Russian modules attached to the station (which seem to be forgotten now, since all the activity is on the US side) are capable of using conventional rocket thrusters to control the station.
Incorrect. Hubble was launched by Discovery on STS-31.
However, all such missions (including the last HST maintenance flight) are now handled by Columbia, since she is too heavy to fly to the ISS with any kind of useful payload -- heavier materials were used for her construction -- so the rest of the fleet is tasked for ISS flights while Columbia remains on research duty -- the kind of flight the whole fleet used to fly.
But they don't let you view the Quicktimes anymore. I used to use them for catching launch replays and other things I couldn't catch due to time, forgetting, or being at work. Now they're locked behind a password, and I refuse to be nickel and dimed.
Anyone know why spaceref.tv quit posting movies in a timely manner? Or, if they still post them, where they went?
Indeed -- I just thought Far-Seer was the best of the series. (The method for solving the space-elevator stability problem is interesting, though I don't know that it's workable.)
I hope this isn't too off-topic. :) But hopefully I can recommend my own favorite (so far) Sawyer novel.
...
I've thoroughly enjoyed his Far-Seer , which retells the story of Galileo using another planet and society (intelligent dinosaurs, anyone?) to educate. While there are changes in the empirical evidence available, done to compensate for the radically-different setting, the issues presented are the same.
While I'm already familiar with Galileo's story from reading other accounts of his life, Far-Seer put it into a personal perspective. The wonder of discovery, the process of reasoning how the solar system actually worked (including building on what others had written before) and the shock of being put on trial by society for upsetting the prevailing, comfortable world-view -- they are all here. So, too, is the punishment (again, changed, though I will not spoil it here.)
The Church didn't apologize to Galileo for 300 years. Give that some thought
A friend of mine produces MPEG videos of his volunteer work at a raptor (bird) rehabilitation/education center. When I go to download them, Mozilla wants to name the file blah.mpg.mpeg, and insists the file size is 0k when the web server knows the correct size (usually 10 megs or so). It's funny to see "Downloaded -30% of 0k" or whatever ... the first time. Changing the suggested file name works fine, and the final saved file is valid.
... but maybe not.
Wonder if this is indeed the same problem. I thought it was a server screwup
How is it replaced in OS X?
"the judges in this case accepted the argument that requiring censoring software automatically lead to censoring things that weren't obscene, or child pornography, or "harmful to minors", and that that wasn't acceptable."
There's something I don't quite understand here. This is not a troll but an honest puzzled reaction.
It seems to me that this verdict, in particular the phrase which I have repeated above to clarify my position, seems to indicate that there are differing standards (at least to the court) regarding the application of censoring software. In the DeCSS case, it is my understanding that the courts are allowing censorship of the code and ruling that its publication can be blocked because it is harmful (to the profits of the movie inddustry.) In those cases, the argument that the code is free speech and thus protected by the First Amendment was denied, even though not everyone would be harmed by the posted code; the government is basically allowing censoring of something that is only harmful to a minority of citizens.
But in this case, the needs of the many did outweigh the needs of the few.
Where is the difference? Are words and symbols on a screen less worthy of protection than pixels on that same screen?
Opinions invited.
And for those who live on the Mississippi, the stations have both prefixes. It's not unheard of in such towns and cities to be surrounded by K--- stations with the occasional W--- thrown in for good measure, or vice versa.
They are called "call letters" and they're how the station is identified, much like a ham's call sign (which is two letters, a number, and three more letters.)
A station is required to announce its call letters on the air once in a given interval, if not more often, though I don't know what that interval is. I've heard DJs cut into ads or weather forecasts, etc. to say "The FCC says we only have 15 seconds more to announce our call letters, so here they are --" and cut right back into programming. Quite amusing.
Is there a directory of college radio stations and their freqencies online anywhere? I live near a major well-known (though private) university and I'd like to see if they've a student-run station I can listen to to see if I have a reason to ever tune my car's radio away from the local NPR station.
A bill to fund the construction of a new stadium here in downtown St. Louis just died in legislature this week. We have a stadium (the famous Busch Stadium) that works, though it could use a renovation. The sponsors of the bill wanted to tear it down and build a "new" old-style stadium in its place.
All because the local baseball team (the Cardinals) decided to whine and threaten to leave if the state didn't build a new stadium. But why, said the citizens, should we fund a new stadium with tax revenues if other things, like education, are hurting? Why should our sales taxes go up? The Univ. of MO is considering imposing surcharges to cover the deficit since the governor can't seem to balance the state budget.
I'd say MO doesn't have a clue either. At least here the stadium bill failed.
Every time you play a stupid Flash animation ...
... God kills a kitten.
I am a space shuttle miniatures collector and occasionally pick up well-made replicas of the Shuttle (mostly orbiters so far) when I see interesting ones that I wouldn't mind showing to visitors. One evening I was shown a photo of the original Sky Lynx in an eBay auction, and I was hooked -- I bid on one that same week and now am the owner of an original, though decal-less, Sky Lynx shuttle orbiter in excellent condition. It now resides next to several other miniature shuttles and is by far the best of the collection (and the largest; I haven't yet assembled the huge 1/72-scale full stack kit I have in the closet.)
...
While this one is not made of metal like many of the others were, the detail is right on. While the crew access door on the port side is missing, it does have a lot of other details that I'm stunned a Transformer would have considering the age range of the intended audience. It has the radiator panel lines inside the payload bay doors (half-length bay only due to the way it transforms), the various lines on the wings where different groups of tiles meet each other, the gray (on the real thing) carbon-carbon tiles on the wings' leading edges, hints of the actuators for the rudder on the tail, nearly all of the maneuvering jets (there are 44, total, on the real thing) and even the star tracker portion of the navigation system is there! It's even got the two upper windows just forward of the payload bay (used for docking with the ISS and when working with large payloads.)
I was absolutely wowed when I took it out of the shipping box. Here's a few photos for those who are feeling nostalgic:
With main engines temporarily not installed; with HST repair mission patch
"Mother, is that you?" (transformed)
Nose-up reentry attitude (supported by its feet; seems to be flying!)
and finally
Half-length payload bay with "satellite" covering tunnel for tail transform mechanism
It's not for sale.
Volkswagen has already put out a New Beetle Special Edition in a similar brilliant yellow. The color was called Reflex Yellow (this is not me; my VW is a 2000 Golf and is white) and was only available in a limited number 2,000 and only available online. However, if you wanted to purchase one of these used and add an Autobot logo with either a vinyl sticker or having a body shop paint one on (relatively expensive, but the best shops will do a wonderful custom job ...)
I was not able to find any photos online of a Beetle being painted to look like Bumblebee, but there is a vast aftermarket out there for Volkswagens and finding a tire and wheel combination that would be similar to that seen on the cartoon would not be hard. You could even have the wheels powdercoated Reflex Yellow (the paint code for the car should be in the spare tire well if it's in the same place as it is on Golfs). I personally think it would look mean with the wheels powdercoated black...
Honestly, Goldbug is a much better replica of a Beetle, though I'm glad the New Beetle isn't offered in that garish yellow. Looks like a late '70s model from the elephant's-foot taillamps...
For more news, take a look at the VWVortex.com page on the Special Edition New Beetle. This site is a wonderful resource for VW owners -- take a look in the forums and poke around the main page; ignore the whining for best results. (I'm personally looking forward to seeing what that Jetta Coupe looks like they're building...)
Soon, all restaurants will be Taco Bell, and all corporations will be MPRIAA.
But we still won't have figured out the seashell thing.
"Are you saying coconuts migrate?"
"A swallow could grip it by the husk!"