I've gotten to play with them a bit. The cameras that support the GPS cards are nothing too amazing. But we are usually using them for geology field work and such to help locate where our pictures were taken when trudging through endless stretches of desert.
Hah, does anyone see the irony in the submitter complaining about shorter spellings... and then he goes on to use "dunno"?:-P
"I guess many folks are of very little brain, and big words bother them... There's a push for simpler spelling. Instead of 'weigh' it would be 'way.' 'Dictionary' would be 'dikshunery' and so forth. Dunno if it's a joke, but it seems in earnest. Mark Twain must be spinning around somewhere."
Oh please. Everything Google's doing today has been done before, and better, by Apple.
Except for the fact that Picasa beats the living daylights out of iPhoto. (Granted, iPhoto 6 is much improved over iPhoto 5, but it still can't touch Picasa IMHO). Maybe they'll make a OS X port of that some day...
Obviously, you are either too young to have ever use dial-up electronic Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) with a simple terminal emulator... or you are a computer newbie who hasn't realised that the unwashed masses was using a distributed network of computers before the internet became cheaply available.
Or it's quite possible you don't have a sense of humor.:-P
I'm sure the poster was quite familiar with the old style NO CARRIER:)
But he is pointing out that that doesn't apply anymore. It would be like someone writing in a comment - "I would write more, but I'm running out of sand to blot what I've already put down."
Now, that might have applied a long time ago in the era of inkwells and quills, but it doesn't apply to this forum today... and neither does "NO CARRIER":)
Is anyone familiar with the terms for indie artists to get published on iTunes? Sounds like it could work pretty well given the low cost of distribution. Here comes the indie revolution... maybe.:)
I'm not sure how to do it through iTunes itself, but CD Baby will help you get your music on iTunes. More information is available here.
Exactly what happens when people are allowed to spend other people's money with essentially zero accountability. Personally I'd like to see NASA eliminated as a public entity - there just isn't enough ROI. Fund it through voluntary contributions and commercial ventures. Period.
As a geoscientist who has benefited immensely from using various datasets provided by NASA researchers and spacecraft, I have to completely disagree with you and assume you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about (which is made doubly obvious by your statement about them spending money with almost no accountability). NASA is not just about manned space flight and taking pretty pictures.
Studies in earthquakes and plate tectonics, climate change, meteorology, volcanic (and other geologic) hazards, extremophiles (biology) and countless other topics wouldn't have been possible or achieved the same results without resources from NASA.
One other Google port that I would love to see for OS X would be Picasa. Such a great program for organizing and keeping track of your photos (much better than iPhoto in my opinion).
For those wondering what "this meeting" is all about (since the submitter just copied a paragraph from a press release), it is the American Geophysical Union conference that is held every December in San Francisco. 11,000 geoscientists from around the world meet for a week to discuss and share the latest research in the fields of geology, seismology, paleoclimatology, geophysics, among many others.
NASA has quite a few workshops and Q&A sessions this week, which you can find out here. Unfortunately, if you're not an AGU member, you'll have to pay a very hefty cost to get into the conference (upwards of $200 USD).
Other interesting news that has come out of the AGU meeting this week that you might have heard of are:
It's science. Geology, and volcanology are sciences that have existed for centuries before the first circuit board was ever printed. Believe it or not, there are "Nerds" that are quite interested in these topics. Personally, I'm a botany/genetics geek, myself. Computers are boring, in my opinion.
Count me as one. I'm a geologist and a computer geek.:)
Besides, it's interesting. And it breaks up the constant monotony of reading Microsoft vs. Google articles.
OS X came out like 5 years ago, and it wasn't until last year or so that Apple came out with machines that could run it without feeling slow. Heck, even with the latest version and the high end machines today, it doesn't feel nearly as smooth as Win XP on my Dell from when that came out.
I highly doubt they could get OS X to run smoothly on a $100 machine unless they stripped it down to what it was before Apple got their hands on it.
What are you smoking? It runs *perfectly fine* on my 1.67GHz PowerBook and most other Apple computers out today and is just as smooth as WinXP is on my AMD Athlon XP 2800+. No problem with the UI slowdown or anything. About the only difference in perfomance I notice between the two is that it takes WinXP longer to burn DVDs... but that's only because I have a 4x DVD writer in that machine compared to the 8x DVD writer in the PBook.:-P
However, your last sentence I completely agree with. The specs on the $100 laptop aren't all that impressive and it will probably even struggle to run the latest versions of gnome or KDE depending on what's going on with the system.
Focal lengths are measured in millimeters, even for the hubble. Anything beyond a couple thousand METERS is pretty much considered infinity.
I saw and studied to the HDFS you quoted - the focal difference between me and you vs. me and the furthest galaxy in that shot are negligable, from an optical point of view!
Aww right, I must be an idiot. Despite the focal length of the Hubble Space Telescope being over 50 meters. Whatever my friend.:)
How much do you know about focal lengths, lens, and the like? Are you an expert or just a smart ass? Do some research and think about what I asked you.
Both thanks.:)
What does this have to do with the relative spatial distance between Hubble and the Moon? Are you being angry just for the sake of being angry?
Define close??? The Hubble orbits 350 miles above the earth and the average distance to the moon is 238,857 miles.
I'd hardly consider 238,500 (apprx) miles very close =-)
Considering the Hubble routinely examines objects hundred of millions to billions of light years away from Earth (See the See the Hubble Deep Field survey), I'd consider ~239K miles to be right the fuck on top of.;)
Say a penniless student (or, perhaps, a 14-year-old girl on a small allowance) downloads 30 GBs of music. How much "income" is the copyright holder deprived of then? Note that I'm not asking whether the person in question is behaving ethically here; I'm asking just how much income has been lost.
Well according to the basic math of one song being ~0.99 cents and 30GB roughly being equivalent to 7,500 mp3's (based on 128kbs): They are being deprived of $7,425 US dollars.
Being a "penniless student" doesn't justify taking something that you are SUPPOSED to pay for, regardless of the potential income for the creator or not.
Gettysburg was a fun little twist that isn't like anything they've done before. Quite a fun war game. Never played Antietam (but again, Antietam followed the same philosopy as Gettysburg).
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I admire many of the great game designers who have pushed the boundaries in gaming (yourself, Will Wright and Peter Molyneux to name a few). However, I can't help but feel that many of today's genres are stale and a lot of new games are mostly repeating past formulas as we see many sequels or derivatives of previous games being released. This appears to be a trend that will continue.
Where do you think the future of gaming is headed and how hard is it to introduce radical new ideas into the industry (for example, Firaxis shelving Dinosaurs or Will Wright's bold idea in Spore)?
Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet.
For vertical elevations, I'd trust a topo map instead.
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Geotagging would work better if cameras had GPS recievers built-in, or used a GPS equipped phone linked via bluetooth.
:)
Why not use one?
I've gotten to play with them a bit. The cameras that support the GPS cards are nothing too amazing. But we are usually using them for geology field work and such to help locate where our pictures were taken when trudging through endless stretches of desert.
Hah, does anyone see the irony in the submitter complaining about shorter spellings... and then he goes on to use "dunno"? :-P
"I guess many folks are of very little brain, and big words bother them... There's a push for simpler spelling. Instead of 'weigh' it would be 'way.' 'Dictionary' would be 'dikshunery' and so forth. Dunno if it's a joke, but it seems in earnest. Mark Twain must be spinning around somewhere."
Has Microsoft EVER invented anything original?
Surely you just! Ever heard of the Blue Screen of Death?
Oh please. Everything Google's doing today has been done before, and better, by Apple.
Except for the fact that Picasa beats the living daylights out of iPhoto. (Granted, iPhoto 6 is much improved over iPhoto 5, but it still can't touch Picasa IMHO). Maybe they'll make a OS X port of that some day...
*shrug*
You're quite welcome to think whatever you want. This comment sums up my intentions quite well.
Obviously, you are either too young to have ever use dial-up electronic Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) with a simple terminal emulator ... or you are a computer newbie who hasn't realised that the unwashed masses was using a distributed network of computers before the internet became cheaply available.
:-P
Or it's quite possible you don't have a sense of humor.
I'm sure the poster was quite familiar with the old style NO CARRIER :)
:)
;)
But he is pointing out that that doesn't apply anymore. It would be like someone writing in a comment - "I would write more, but I'm running out of sand to blot what I've already put down."
Now, that might have applied a long time ago in the era of inkwells and quills, but it doesn't apply to this forum today... and neither does "NO CARRIER"
You nailed my point precisely.
I find it quite amusing that people have the time to type "NO CARRIER" as the fuzz come busting through their door.
;)
Personally, I'd rather just type "OH SHIT!" and use the extra time it takes to type those 2 extra characters and try to run away.
Is anyone familiar with the terms for indie artists to get published on iTunes? Sounds like it could work pretty well given the low cost of distribution. Here comes the indie revolution... maybe. :)
I'm not sure how to do it through iTunes itself, but CD Baby will help you get your music on iTunes. More information is available here.
Exactly what happens when people are allowed to spend other people's money with essentially zero accountability. Personally I'd like to see NASA eliminated as a public entity - there just isn't enough ROI. Fund it through voluntary contributions and commercial ventures. Period.
As a geoscientist who has benefited immensely from using various datasets provided by NASA researchers and spacecraft, I have to completely disagree with you and assume you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about (which is made doubly obvious by your statement about them spending money with almost no accountability). NASA is not just about manned space flight and taking pretty pictures.
Studies in earthquakes and plate tectonics, climate change, meteorology, volcanic (and other geologic) hazards, extremophiles (biology) and countless other topics wouldn't have been possible or achieved the same results without resources from NASA.
One other Google port that I would love to see for OS X would be Picasa. Such a great program for organizing and keeping track of your photos (much better than iPhoto in my opinion).
NASA has quite a few workshops and Q&A sessions this week, which you can find out here. Unfortunately, if you're not an AGU member, you'll have to pay a very hefty cost to get into the conference (upwards of $200 USD).
Other interesting news that has come out of the AGU meeting this week that you might have heard of are:
It's science. Geology, and volcanology are sciences that have existed for centuries before the first circuit board was ever printed. Believe it or not, there are "Nerds" that are quite interested in these topics. Personally, I'm a botany/genetics geek, myself. Computers are boring, in my opinion.
:)
Count me as one. I'm a geologist and a computer geek.
Besides, it's interesting. And it breaks up the constant monotony of reading Microsoft vs. Google articles.
I love how a bored moderator went out of their way to mod you down. People throw around mod points like candy these days I guess.
OS X came out like 5 years ago, and it wasn't until last year or so that Apple came out with machines that could run it without feeling slow. Heck, even with the latest version and the high end machines today, it doesn't feel nearly as smooth as Win XP on my Dell from when that came out.
:-P
I highly doubt they could get OS X to run smoothly on a $100 machine unless they stripped it down to what it was before Apple got their hands on it.
What are you smoking? It runs *perfectly fine* on my 1.67GHz PowerBook and most other Apple computers out today and is just as smooth as WinXP is on my AMD Athlon XP 2800+. No problem with the UI slowdown or anything. About the only difference in perfomance I notice between the two is that it takes WinXP longer to burn DVDs... but that's only because I have a 4x DVD writer in that machine compared to the 8x DVD writer in the PBook.
However, your last sentence I completely agree with. The specs on the $100 laptop aren't all that impressive and it will probably even struggle to run the latest versions of gnome or KDE depending on what's going on with the system.
Just wait till 2006 when the Kansas State Board of Education will have to face the voters on this issue.
Oh goody. So then the 4 people who voted against it will be voted out of office, further solidifying this teaching policy.
Couldn't find a printable link, so to save you from 8 clicks on "next->" and more ads than I could count (they went over budget by $16.49)
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That's okay! All those ads the site is infested with will pay for that.
Well then you are an idiot!
:)
Focal lengths are measured in millimeters, even for the hubble. Anything beyond a couple thousand METERS is pretty much considered infinity.
I saw and studied to the HDFS you quoted - the focal difference between me and you vs. me and the furthest galaxy in that shot are negligable, from an optical point of view!
Aww right, I must be an idiot. Despite the focal length of the Hubble Space Telescope being over 50 meters . Whatever my friend.
How much do you know about focal lengths, lens, and the like? Are you an expert or just a smart ass? Do some research and think about what I asked you.
:)
Both thanks.
What does this have to do with the relative spatial distance between Hubble and the Moon? Are you being angry just for the sake of being angry?
Define close???
;)
The Hubble orbits 350 miles above the earth and the average distance to the moon is 238,857 miles.
I'd hardly consider 238,500 (apprx) miles very close =-)
Considering the Hubble routinely examines objects hundred of millions to billions of light years away from Earth (See the See the Hubble Deep Field survey), I'd consider ~239K miles to be right the fuck on top of.
Say a penniless student (or, perhaps, a 14-year-old girl on a small allowance) downloads 30 GBs of music. How much "income" is the copyright holder deprived of then? Note that I'm not asking whether the person in question is behaving ethically here; I'm asking just how much income has been lost.
Well according to the basic math of one song being ~0.99 cents and 30GB roughly being equivalent to 7,500 mp3's (based on 128kbs): They are being deprived of $7,425 US dollars.
Being a "penniless student" doesn't justify taking something that you are SUPPOSED to pay for, regardless of the potential income for the creator or not.
Gettysburg was a fun little twist that isn't like anything they've done before. Quite a fun war game. Never played Antietam (but again, Antietam followed the same philosopy as Gettysburg).
I admire many of the great game designers who have pushed the boundaries in gaming (yourself, Will Wright and Peter Molyneux to name a few). However, I can't help but feel that many of today's genres are stale and a lot of new games are mostly repeating past formulas as we see many sequels or derivatives of previous games being released. This appears to be a trend that will continue.
Where do you think the future of gaming is headed and how hard is it to introduce radical new ideas into the industry (for example, Firaxis shelving Dinosaurs or Will Wright's bold idea in Spore)?
Well, actually, good chunks of it are. I was driving around with the altimeter on my GPS this afternoon and most of the areas I was in were in the range of ~-20 to +75 feet.
For vertical elevations, I'd trust a topo map instead.
Depending on what model of consumer GPS you're using, you can be anywhere from 10 - 20 meters off in terms of vertical accuracy.
Ah ha! I have just such an invention for you to prevent your keys from falling out of your pockets and all that jazz!
Carabiners are cool!