... is the very first sentence, which says that antimatter is "the most elusive matter in the universe." Elusive indeed! So elusive that it's not matter at all!
This previous-show-runover stuff messes up my Tivo too, since the "official" timeslot for the Simpsons remains at 7:00 (or whatever) even if they play the whole show starting at 7:15. Grr.
Helps, although it'd be better if they were off by default.
From the article:
Microsoft says the Internet Explorer Smart Tags feature, which is similar to a Smart Tag feature in the new Office XP, will be turned off by default in the final release, and that users will have to consciously choose to enable it by activating a setting buried in the browser's menus.
If you're only running native apps (which the are relatively few at this second, but many are coming this summer), then you'll probably do just fine on 64MB of RAM. Last time I checked, this is pretty comparable to GNOME or KDE.
Actually, OS X is amazingly sluggish even with 128MB of RAM (the "minimum requirements") on my G4 400MHz PowerBook. Even the dead-simple TextEdit program takes a good 5 seconds to load most of the time, and a web browser easily takes longer than 20 seconds. If you're compiling something in a terminal window in the background, you can go get a cup of tea while you launch another program! The good ArsTechnica article that was posted on Slashdot the other day explains all this in great detail.
From the article: "You see this kind of thing everywhere here," Powers said. "They never have just one of something."
That's because the Ramans do everything in threes.
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Considering the kinds of mass destruction that can be wreaked on the rest of the work from orbital heights means that this would not only be the space elevator, it would also be a major weapon.
Kim Stanley Robinson demonstrates the destructive potential of this type of elevator excellently in his book Red Mars. In the story, someone blows the orbiting "counterweight" off the end of the cable. Without the large mass in geostationary orbit to keep the cable straight, it basically falls over, wrapping around the planet a couple times in the process and flattening everything in its path. And everything nearby, since by the time the upper half hits the ground, it's travelling many times the speed of sound, packing quite a shock wave in front of it.
What happens 50 years from now, when we're moving to HDTV-2? It will surely outstrip the limits of video resolution. Lucas's new pet all-video Star Wars saga will look pathetically scaled-up.
Yes, but by many measures, you could say that the existing 20-year-old Star Wars movies are "pathetically scaled-up" by today's standards. That hasn't stopped them from achieving legend status, though.
If the "retro" craze is (God forbid) as popular in 50 years as it is today, the poor picture quality will probably HELP the movie more than hurt it.
Of course, if the MOVIE is any good, the picture quality won't matter. Heh.
Actually, this article is neither about carbon dioxide flows NOR recent water flows. Rather, it discusses research on a meteor crater here on earth which exhibits similar channels to those photographed on Mars. These were apparently caused by water flowing beneath glaciers, which Mars might have had millions of years ago.
The point is, maybe the recently photographed channels WERE caused by water, but not recently.
The value of data alone that the probe is obtaining is well worth the value of increasing the transmission ability.
The slow transmission speed is due to the fact that the main (high-gain) parabolic-dish antenna failed to open correctly on its way to Jupiter. According to the JPL web site, the main antenna was supposed to be capable of up to 134 Kbps.
Instead, they had to use the less powerful, omnidirectional backup antenna, which has worked admirably over the years. Go JPL.
Salon is reporting on anonymously leaked data from a group which is going to carefully craft any official information releases so as to render the actual information useless.
It's almost as if SDMI applied the watermark to their own responses, and the process of filtering through the media removes the watermark and makes the information useless...
Wow, I didn't even know carbon dioxide HAD a liquid state... but I guess it makes sense if CO2, like water, actually *expands* when going from liquid to solid. I thought water was somewhat unique in that aspect, tho'!
How is Europa's size compared to Earth's or Luna's? With this discovery, could this be a comfortable place for people to live (with water and all)?
Europa's diameter is 3,138 km (1,946 miles), just a bit smaller than Earth's moon.
The surface gravity is also slightly less than that of our moon, which is 1/6 Earth gravity. That wouldn't stop people from living there, but the fact that the entire surface is ice would make it a bit, well, slippery.
I know it's far away, but how does it compare to Mars?
Europa isn't really comparable to Mars in many ways. Mars has an atmosphere -- thin and unbreathable, but much more substantial than vaccuum. Also, being much closer to the sun, Mars would have more energy available for things like growing plants and generating power from wind and sun.
On the other hand, I suppose that Europa's oceans (assuming they exist) could be more hospitable than the surface! Anything's possible... especially when monoliths are involved.:)
Take a look at www.soundom.com... I don't know if this thing will go anywhere, but it purports to be a program that will pay you and the artists for whatever music you listen to. Looks like they do this through banner ads a la NetZero, and some (undisclosed) method of figuring out what song you're listening to.
Of course, the client application doesn't exist yet;)... The site says it'll be released for Windows in September 2000, to be shortly followed by a Mac version.
Sounds like it could be a dot-com pipe dream, but who knows.
it's gotta be the teens vs. the world, doesn't it?
"He had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version"
I hate to defend Katz, but where in that statement does it say anything about teens?
JPL's web pages on DS1 are pretty detailed. Lots of interesting stuff here, especially the Mission Logs (latest one here) written with reasonable detail and considerable humor by Marc Rayman (quoted in the CNN article).
Particularly cool are pictures of the ion propulsion system at work!
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... is the very first sentence, which says that antimatter is "the most elusive matter in the universe." Elusive indeed! So elusive that it's not matter at all!
This previous-show-runover stuff messes up my Tivo too, since the "official" timeslot for the Simpsons remains at 7:00 (or whatever) even if they play the whole show starting at 7:15. Grr.
You don't care if your computer matches the furniture. My mother might.
Dude, I want to see your mother's furniture.
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I'm guessing it's because the machines were Macs.
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From the article:
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If you're only running native apps (which the are relatively few at this second, but many are coming this summer), then you'll probably do just fine on 64MB of RAM. Last time I checked, this is pretty comparable to GNOME or KDE.
Actually, OS X is amazingly sluggish even with 128MB of RAM (the "minimum requirements") on my G4 400MHz PowerBook. Even the dead-simple TextEdit program takes a good 5 seconds to load most of the time, and a web browser easily takes longer than 20 seconds. If you're compiling something in a terminal window in the background, you can go get a cup of tea while you launch another program! The good ArsTechnica article that was posted on Slashdot the other day explains all this in great detail.
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From the article: "You see this kind of thing everywhere here," Powers said. "They never have just one of something."
That's because the Ramans do everything in threes.
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Considering the kinds of mass destruction that can be wreaked on the rest of the work from orbital heights means that this would not only be the space elevator, it would also be a major weapon.
Kim Stanley Robinson demonstrates the destructive potential of this type of elevator excellently in his book Red Mars. In the story, someone blows the orbiting "counterweight" off the end of the cable. Without the large mass in geostationary orbit to keep the cable straight, it basically falls over, wrapping around the planet a couple times in the process and flattening everything in its path. And everything nearby, since by the time the upper half hits the ground, it's travelling many times the speed of sound, packing quite a shock wave in front of it.
Pretty scary stuff.
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What happens 50 years from now, when we're moving to HDTV-2? It will surely outstrip the limits of video resolution. Lucas's new pet all-video Star Wars saga will look pathetically scaled-up.
Yes, but by many measures, you could say that the existing 20-year-old Star Wars movies are "pathetically scaled-up" by today's standards. That hasn't stopped them from achieving legend status, though.
If the "retro" craze is (God forbid) as popular in 50 years as it is today, the poor picture quality will probably HELP the movie more than hurt it.
Of course, if the MOVIE is any good, the picture quality won't matter. Heh.
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In case you want to see the comments people had when this was posted on Slashdot five days ago.
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Unless we're talking about frozen methane or some other weirdness, glaciers = water.
Yes, but the point of this article is that the presence of water wasn't RECENT as they had been hoping after the photographs came out.
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Actually, this article is neither about carbon dioxide flows NOR recent water flows. Rather, it discusses research on a meteor crater here on earth which exhibits similar channels to those photographed on Mars. These were apparently caused by water flowing beneath glaciers, which Mars might have had millions of years ago.
The point is, maybe the recently photographed channels WERE caused by water, but not recently.
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The value of data alone that the probe is obtaining is well worth the value of increasing the transmission ability.
The slow transmission speed is due to the fact that the main (high-gain) parabolic-dish antenna failed to open correctly on its way to Jupiter. According to the JPL web site, the main antenna was supposed to be capable of up to 134 Kbps.
Instead, they had to use the less powerful, omnidirectional backup antenna, which has worked admirably over the years. Go JPL.
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I think the /. community would benefit more from a story on the misuse of "it's" as a possessive...
:-)
But I suppose one should only embark upon one revolution at a time
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Salon is reporting on anonymously leaked data from a group which is going to carefully craft any official information releases so as to render the actual information useless.
It's almost as if SDMI applied the watermark to their own responses, and the process of filtering through the media removes the watermark and makes the information useless...
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Wow, I didn't even know carbon dioxide HAD a liquid state... but I guess it makes sense if CO2, like water, actually *expands* when going from liquid to solid. I thought water was somewhat unique in that aspect, tho'!
:-)
Well, I guess I don't know all that much
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If they win against CUSS, then we produce REmoveCSS. RECSS is a whole new battle.
Hey, this could result in the MPAA suing the judge himself...
MPAA: No more arguments.
JUDGE: Okay, this court is now in recess.
MPAA: RECSS?! BURN 'IM!!!!
Okay, that wasn't funny.
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How is Europa's size compared to Earth's or Luna's? With this discovery, could this be a comfortable place for people to live (with water and all)?
:)
Europa's diameter is 3,138 km (1,946 miles), just a bit smaller than Earth's moon.
The surface gravity is also slightly less than that of our moon, which is 1/6 Earth gravity. That wouldn't stop people from living there, but the fact that the entire surface is ice would make it a bit, well, slippery.
I know it's far away, but how does it compare to Mars?
Europa isn't really comparable to Mars in many ways. Mars has an atmosphere -- thin and unbreathable, but much more substantial than vaccuum. Also, being much closer to the sun, Mars would have more energy available for things like growing plants and generating power from wind and sun.
On the other hand, I suppose that Europa's oceans (assuming they exist) could be more hospitable than the surface! Anything's possible... especially when monoliths are involved.
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The archives are at http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/archives.html and date back to October 1998.
JPL's main website (www.jpl.nasa.gov) also has lots of links to their other projects.
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Take a look at www.soundom.com... I don't know if this thing will go anywhere, but it purports to be a program that will pay you and the artists for whatever music you listen to. Looks like they do this through banner ads a la NetZero, and some (undisclosed) method of figuring out what song you're listening to.
;) ... The site says it'll be released for Windows in September 2000, to be shortly followed by a Mac version.
Of course, the client application doesn't exist yet
Sounds like it could be a dot-com pipe dream, but who knows.
it's gotta be the teens vs. the world, doesn't it?
"He had to try and please the rabid X-Men fans -- who make up one of the most impassioned sub-genres of outcast culture and who were noisily vigilant for even the slightest deviations from the comic version"
I hate to defend Katz, but where in that statement does it say anything about teens?
The US is a company now? I must have missed that story on slashdot...
That story immediately got blasted into oblivion for not being "news for nerds."
JPL's web pages on DS1 are pretty detailed. Lots of interesting stuff here, especially the Mission Logs (latest one here) written with reasonable detail and considerable humor by Marc Rayman (quoted in the CNN article).
Particularly cool are pictures of the ion propulsion system at work!
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