Light diminishes with distance because of divergence. Hence even though it's perceived brightness on earth is lower it is actually brighter and hence either more reflective or larger.
Navteq is the copyright for the road data that is overlayed. The aerial images are stock USGS datasets.
Both Google and MSN Earth use Navteq for the roads but google is using (at least in my area) 2003 sat images from a private source rather than the latest 1998 USGS aerial imagery.
Just another instance of Google providing better data:}
Ahh yes... but many of the largest ISPs (AOHell for example) run their traffic through proxies... and even worse run them through rotating proxies. A single AOL user in a single session may come from 4 or 5 different IP addresses.
I'm just glad that users are use to required cookies for login or I would have to slap them back to htaccess style login windows for everything.
At least in our area (Berrien Springs, MI) the images were shot on a Saturday at about 10am in either late July or early August.
I know this because you can clearly see all the Seventh-Day Adventist church parking lots are full... the water tower makes a great sundial... and I had mowed a giant 'Hi!' in my field for a pilot buddy of mine to see when he flew over.:}
In reality the only reason satellite data is that old is because: #1 it takes a while to register and stitch it and #2 the person that payed for it wants exclusive rights the first year
I would suggest you either get new hardware or a new OS then....
For example... my home internet connection is a 6.1 mile 802.11b connection to the campus where I work and my laptop usually connects over a wrt54g unit in my basement. I am currently downloading an ISO over both of these at a hair over 230KB/s and that is the norm.
Also.. the only outtages I have ever had from any wireless are when the units themselves have lost power due to bad UPSs. (Hint... UPS in top of water tower == lightning bait:} )
If you are having these problems I would suggest you fix the location/number of APs to get proper coverage of the area... change your wifi card to see if it is just that... or if you are using an semi-old version of windows upgrade to a newer one or to linux and get some stable drivers.
No... it's to save you remembering which login (hmm... was this nick? or email address?) and which password (These !@!#s don't allow periods?)
Although 'remember password' is nice... how many people truly trust that local database to be secure? Even if you are not paranoid... how many people hate it when they are on another machine that doesn't have it remembered and they can't remember even more passwords because they don't usually use them
Yes you should always be careful with 3rd parties in trust relationships... however all this service does is lets another site say 'With those credentials I will vouch for them being this person on my site'. It doesn't prove they are Joe with bank account number xxxxxxx... it proves they are someluser@livejournal.com
Granted... outside systems always leave you open to failures beyond your control. But... it is a ton easier to say 'livejournal users arn't working because livejournal is broken' than saying 'ohh shoot.. we're sorry our database died and we lost all the users'. Both situations will RARELY happen... and if a user can't login cause their verifier sucks they will get a new one.
The phishing only works if you have their password... which... why would you phish then?
Nothing comes for free... but I think most users would take 3-5 seconds of lag on first login to save the setup/remember torture
This system is designed to let you prove you are the user of another system... and it does it securely... this isn't something to use to login to your bank account with... yet...:}
Nah... it gets better than that. Unlike what we see in Doctor Who and such, time travel would be a VERY dangerous thing.
For example... if you try to assasinate your mother before you are conceived then since time is self consistent something will prevent you. That is what this theory is saying. Since you have observed the state everything in known in that state will be self consistent.
So... since we know that we can't change any part of the past that we know lets create a scenario.
You go into the past to shoot your mother before you are conceived. Several rare events now become very likely. Since you know she didn't die then something WILL prevent you from killing her.
You try to snipe her from a distance:
You get out of your time machine and are hit by a car.
You manage to avoid that but as you are running up the hill to a good vantage point you have a heart attack and die
You manage to get out of the time machine and up the hill... but a defect in the gun causes it to explode killing you when you pull the trigger
...etc...
Fate/luck are never on your side when you try to change something in the past that you know the history of.
For your example... even if you reflect light into the photo a freak problem in the negative processing would make it not show... or you would only affect a part of the image you hadn't noticed before... etc...
2) Put salt in the water. The ice and chilled water mixture gets colder with salt.
Errggh.... no it doesn't:}
Salt in the water just allows it to be a liquid at a lower temp. Salt does also add a little more heat mass to the water. However, neither of these changes makes the solution 'colder'.
The reason you use ice in an icecream maker is to allow better thermal conduction to the container with the ice cream. You want the whole surface area to be below freezing. Not just the points where icecubes are actually rubbing against the container. Having the liquid state gives you 100% surface area contact instead of just those points.
I agree with you in the long term... however... every company at least looks at their locale first since they know that management and setup fees are usually cheaper for projects closer to home.
They may not stay there... but they always look there first.
In this case google saw a large city not too far away and most likely said 'Hey... this will be a cheap guinea pig that won't require much hassle... let's start here'
I have yet to see a business from say Michigan say... "Hey! We are starting out a new idea... let's try it in London first instead of Detroit!"
Europe?!? They havn't even done one city in their own country yet and your bashing them already?
I love the rest of the world and international types... but you gotta remember that every company thinks of their country and locale first... Then they move on to the rest of the world.
Now if google ever comes out and says: "We arn't doing europe because we think they are poopoo" THEN you can complain and I will join in with you.
"Magenta is low??? I haven't even been printing for a minute!"
*replaces 15$ cartridge*
"CYAN!!!!??!!! Arrrghh"
*replaces another 15$ cartridge*....
Seriously... they had better have some massive ink tanks to back up that speed of printing. Please let them be refillable from a pint jug also:}
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For getting a LCD really clean get 'Novus #1' plastic polish. They sell it for cleaning helmet shields and oddly enough for cleaning pinball machines.
Few squirts and wipes and your screen will look like the day you purchased it.
Found this out cause I gave up on a screen and decided to do a 'why not' and clean it with the Novus. I am glad I tried it cause WOW! Have used it on my LCD and on my notebook screen exclusively now and it is great. Also seems to keep the LCD from attracting dust for several weeks after application.
But that is just the point... They can't distribute java WITH the installer... so hence people do have to hunt around and find the tires. If they happen to already have a set (a prior JVM) it just better be new enough... or you start the hunt again.
If Sun would allow distribution of the JVM with OOo I think most of the complaints would disappear...
Well... most creationists believe God is infinite and thus never 'came into existence' but that aside.
What is simpler about the second? Both of them no human has come even close to understanding. Even the most advanced theoretical physics of pre-bang conditions has more hocus-pocus than a David Copperfield show.
A good example of some of the problems with evolution is the idea of morality. Why do humans despise rape? In evolutionary terms rape creates more offspring from a wider genetic pool and thus we should have bred into a society of rapists (or a society that tolerated it)
If you really think about it both views take a 'suspension of disbelief' and an amount of faith.
If it is easier for you to believe in proto-matter then so be it... but realize that just because that is easier for you it may not be for me.
If nothing else... think of this. If you lead a good life... and believe in God... and He is real then you get eternal life.
If you do this and it turns out He doesn't exist then... what have you lost?
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YOU SICK BASTARD!
That is all...
Light diminishes with distance because of divergence. Hence even though it's perceived brightness on earth is lower it is actually brighter and hence either more reflective or larger.
Wouldn't that be 5 cents then?
Navteq is the copyright for the road data that is overlayed. The aerial images are stock USGS datasets.
:}
Both Google and MSN Earth use Navteq for the roads but google is using (at least in my area) 2003 sat images from a private source rather than the latest 1998 USGS aerial imagery.
Just another instance of Google providing better data
Ahh yes... but many of the largest ISPs (AOHell for example) run their traffic through proxies... and even worse run them through rotating proxies. A single AOL user in a single session may come from 4 or 5 different IP addresses.
I'm just glad that users are use to required cookies for login or I would have to slap them back to htaccess style login windows for everything.
Web proxies and NAT
I would bet 50% or more of the current web traffic is aggregated behind those 2 items. Makes IP based tracking useless.
At least in our area (Berrien Springs, MI) the images were shot on a Saturday at about 10am in either late July or early August.
:}
I know this because you can clearly see all the Seventh-Day Adventist church parking lots are full... the water tower makes a great sundial... and I had mowed a giant 'Hi!' in my field for a pilot buddy of mine to see when he flew over.
In reality the only reason satellite data is that old is because: #1 it takes a while to register and stitch it and #2 the person that payed for it wants exclusive rights the first year
Let's see...
USB booting:
Thumb drive... $12 (Yes... 'small' 128mb ones are this cheap)
Floppy booting:
Floopy drive... $10
Floopy disk.... $0.50
For $1.50 I think I will take no moving parts, 1/100th the physical size and hundreds of times the speed.
You appear to have missed that he uses a standard keyboard and mouse... This is just to hold the laptop in a good viewing position.
I would suggest you either get new hardware or a new OS then....
:} )
For example... my home internet connection is a 6.1 mile 802.11b connection to the campus where I work and my laptop usually connects over a wrt54g unit in my basement. I am currently downloading an ISO over both of these at a hair over 230KB/s and that is the norm.
Also.. the only outtages I have ever had from any wireless are when the units themselves have lost power due to bad UPSs. (Hint... UPS in top of water tower == lightning bait
If you are having these problems I would suggest you fix the location/number of APs to get proper coverage of the area... change your wifi card to see if it is just that... or if you are using an semi-old version of windows upgrade to a newer one or to linux and get some stable drivers.
Anyways... just my 2 cents...
So you live in Michigan also? :}
:P
The permacloud is quite spectacular
Why not put a disk direct between us and the sun at a stable gravity point?
We know how well solar eclipses work... why not just a permanent 'dimming'?
For example... if you try to assasinate your mother before you are conceived then since time is self consistent something will prevent you. That is what this theory is saying. Since you have observed the state everything in known in that state will be self consistent.
So... since we know that we can't change any part of the past that we know lets create a scenario.
You go into the past to shoot your mother before you are conceived. Several rare events now become very likely. Since you know she didn't die then something WILL prevent you from killing her.
You try to snipe her from a distance:
Fate/luck are never on your side when you try to change something in the past that you know the history of.
For your example... even if you reflect light into the photo a freak problem in the negative processing would make it not show... or you would only affect a part of the image you hadn't noticed before... etc...
Errggh.... no it doesn't
Salt in the water just allows it to be a liquid at a lower temp. Salt does also add a little more heat mass to the water. However, neither of these changes makes the solution 'colder'.
The reason you use ice in an icecream maker is to allow better thermal conduction to the container with the ice cream. You want the whole surface area to be below freezing. Not just the points where icecubes are actually rubbing against the container. Having the liquid state gives you 100% surface area contact instead of just those points.
The difference is that over there the government requires this for everyone...
The government in this article is just requiring that it be made available for everyone to use if they ASK FOR IT!
Where on earth are they going to get a 'Mr Fusion' at this time of the century?
Or is that why those cold fusions stories are popping up these days?
I agree with you in the long term... however... every company at least looks at their locale first since they know that management and setup fees are usually cheaper for projects closer to home.
They may not stay there... but they always look there first.
In this case google saw a large city not too far away and most likely said 'Hey... this will be a cheap guinea pig that won't require much hassle... let's start here'
I have yet to see a business from say Michigan say... "Hey! We are starting out a new idea... let's try it in London first instead of Detroit!"
Europe?!? They havn't even done one city in their own country yet and your bashing them already?
I love the rest of the world and international types... but you gotta remember that every company thinks of their country and locale first... Then they move on to the rest of the world.
Now if google ever comes out and says: "We arn't doing europe because we think they are poopoo" THEN you can complain and I will join in with you.
*sends a printjob*
....
:}
"Magenta is low??? I haven't even been printing for a minute!"
*replaces 15$ cartridge*
"CYAN!!!!??!!! Arrrghh"
*replaces another 15$ cartridge*
Seriously... they had better have some massive ink tanks to back up that speed of printing. Please let them be refillable from a pint jug also
For getting a LCD really clean get 'Novus #1' plastic polish. They sell it for cleaning helmet shields and oddly enough for cleaning pinball machines.
Few squirts and wipes and your screen will look like the day you purchased it.
Found this out cause I gave up on a screen and decided to do a 'why not' and clean it with the Novus. I am glad I tried it cause WOW! Have used it on my LCD and on my notebook screen exclusively now and it is great. Also seems to keep the LCD from attracting dust for several weeks after application.
and died because it is poisonous to ivory-billed woodpeckers. :}
GPS is not an option indoors which limits it to less than 5% of all VoIP phone/device locations.
But that is just the point... They can't distribute java WITH the installer... so hence people do have to hunt around and find the tires. If they happen to already have a set (a prior JVM) it just better be new enough... or you start the hunt again.
If Sun would allow distribution of the JVM with OOo I think most of the complaints would disappear...
Well... most creationists believe God is infinite and thus never 'came into existence' but that aside.
What is simpler about the second? Both of them no human has come even close to understanding. Even the most advanced theoretical physics of pre-bang conditions has more hocus-pocus than a David Copperfield show.
A good example of some of the problems with evolution is the idea of morality. Why do humans despise rape? In evolutionary terms rape creates more offspring from a wider genetic pool and thus we should have bred into a society of rapists (or a society that tolerated it)
If you really think about it both views take a 'suspension of disbelief' and an amount of faith.
If it is easier for you to believe in proto-matter then so be it... but realize that just because that is easier for you it may not be for me.
If nothing else... think of this. If you lead a good life... and believe in God... and He is real then you get eternal life.
If you do this and it turns out He doesn't exist then... what have you lost?