Dude, screw the asteroid detection. One of those things will only take out most of the world's costal area.
Whereas one of those blazar things could take out the whole solar system. Imagine the fireworks there, as a mass the size of Jupiter smacks into the sun.
Gentlemen... we cannot allow... a blazar detection gap!
I always new that science would find a way to increase my lifespan. I will no live to be... 2.68us*365days*50years=4 hundredths of a second older than expected!
Thank you NASA and thank you US space program for making all this possible.
Oooohhhh... Could we really slashdot NASA's servers?
The same NASA that more or less invented the slashdot effect back in 1997 when Pathfinder landed on Mars. Basically, NASA's website was so swamped by the curious French that it took out their phone system.
I have quitely decided to not buy anything to do with Mac.
Which is quite unfortunate, because I really had every intention of giving the iBooks a shot. However, I simply cannot support a company which cannot support the competition.
As a pilot, you *must* be able to tell the difference between red, green, yellow, blue and white lights.
I disagree with this. As a professional pilot, you are putting people in more danger than if you couldn't tell the difference. Not necessarily in danger, just more than the color-sensitive case.
As a private pilot, it matters much less, and for a sport pilot it really doesn't matter. Colors aren't important when you are limited to a very small range, such as 25mi from an airport always in the same airplane.
(Yes, I am a pilot, too. Private, glider rating, and most of my IFR)
Maybe I'm just stupid, but Tabbrowser Extensions is singlehandedly the best extension available, IMHO. Why isn't it even on the mozilla extension site? Is there someway to control the tabs without TE? Specifically the oh-so-annoying way that firefox by default sticks new tabs at the end instead of right next to the parent?
I love Firefox, and I've convinced practically everyone in two residence halls to switch over to it. However, there's one little capability I miss from IE. Dockable toolbars. I like that fact that I can put the File_Edit_View_etc... menu on the same line as the address bar in IE. It uses some otherwise completely wasted space.
I mean, come on, take a gander at Firefox when it's in full screen. You precious $1500 MacCinema TFT gets a 1cm swath taken out of it by nothing but grey pixels.
Still, Firefox is awesome, and it'll be a long time before I consider anything else.
P.S. How long before Firefox becomes the monoculture? I mean, it's great that everyone's switching to a product which is decent, doesn't invite spyware in with cookies and milk, and is open source, but still... Monocultures are bad, even when they're good, right?
However, I don't suggest updating right away if you like how your current firefox is customized. None of my cool extensions or themes made the switch. I especially miss tabbrowser extensions.
My friend who translated the story pointed out that this was her original submission title. My apologies as hers was far better, and less self-serving, than mine.
Yeah, I know. In fact, I've really grown to love Romanians. They have phenomenal language skills (They all speak English better than we do.) and they've really an interesting language. I live with three Romanians, of which one is my gf. So, in a nutshell, I'm kidding about things when I take a crack at Romanians.
My Romanian roommate constantly referred to Demonstrator 2 as a "racket" instead of "rocket". Slip of the tongue? You decide.
Or, as further proof:
Dear friend,
My father just died after building a rocket designed to win a $10 million competition. However, before he died, he could not raise the money to build the full scale rocket, which is certain to win the money. I know that you, the kindest of people, will not shun from helping me realize his dream by giving me just a small sum of $200,000 to help all the paperwork. In exchange, I will split the prize with you, 50/50.
Time is of essence, so can you please respond to me today, loveliest of persons? Your generosity has been talked of the world over!
(So, I will use my mad language skillz, namely skillz at having friends who are Romanian, to translate said article)
Demonstrator 2, a Romanian small-scale model of the Orizont (Horizon) Rocket couldn't restrain itself anymore and burst into space two minutes before official launch at Midia Cap. The presurizing hose of the engine came off by surprise and triggered the tiny rocket by touching the contact and leaving Dumitru Popescu, president of ARCA ( Romanian Astronautics and Aeronautics Association) motionless.
Wrapped up in steam, Demonstrator 2 went its own way and, influenced by the gusty wind vanished into the clouds after reaching 1,200 m at 13 m/s before eventually sinking into the Black Sea, just off the to shore.
Even though the rocket didn't get to 2,000 m as planned, the ARCA students are now very confident they will find support and get the $200,000 they need to beat the American team Space Composites in the X Prize Cup competition, a team which already reached 100 km.
Apparently, Romanians are using a secret formula based on World War II technology for torpidoes, also used on the Kursk Russian submarine. It's all about decomposing oxygenated water with the touch of a mysterious catalyzer. And if it's not silver nor platinum, then what is it, we ask? "Just some tablets", Dumitru Popescu responds and that's the only thing we can wring from him.
Having spent only $30,000 to build Demonstrator 2, ARCA has already got offers to sell a miniature rocket in all the toy stores in the Unites States.
I remember seeing some flames about michael's editing job. I'm really beginning to see where it's coming from. Between the dupes and modding, it's getting rather annoying.
I guess I can't complain that much, seeing as I never really contribute that much. However, it's hard NOT to take notice when things devolve this badly. I've been with/. a long time, since 2001 or so, and before this last year I had only seen a couple dups EVER. Now I'm seeing them on a constant basis, or seeing old articles from years ago dredged up.
(No karma bonus for this self-admitted complaining crap!)
When I was 5-years-old, my aunt bought me one of those dorky remote control cars that goes forward except when you press the remote control, making it turn backwards and to the right.
Well, being bought at Big Lots, it breaks almost immedietely and leaves me with my first of many derelict cars.
My father, being an insane, genius, electrical engineer (do they make them any other way?), decides that the thing to do is make it into a complete remote control car. So the first things he does is orders a MOSFET speed control kit from RC/Modeler (back in the days when electric speed controls were awesome AND expensive). And he hands me a soldering iron, a schematic, a preprinted circuit board, and sets me to putting it all together.
Fast-forward one year: I'm playing with my brand new remote control car! It runs over anything and teaches me a very valuable lesson about things coming at you turning right when you move the stick left!
I've still got that car. 20 years later and it rolls just fine with a fresh NiCad charge. And I'm a mechanical engineer. Coincidence?
1. You
2. My mother
3. ???
4. Profit!
Yes, I know that MHz were somewhat misleading, but come on, they weren't that bad after all. While it was never true that a Pentium 3GHz was twice as fast as a Pentium 1.5GHz, it was nonetheless faster. And Intel's dominance forced AMD to give similar numbers (rounded up for inflation, of course) that helped us all compare.
Now I have to wonder which new chips are faster. To (blatantly) steal from an earlier post:
Will the Pentium 5 X159-XL-SE be more power full than a Pentium 5 X150-Pro-Ultra ? Or less powerfull than a X160-LE ? Does it compare to an Athlon 64 Dual FX-95e 4699+++ ?
I hate the "consumer electronics" style of naming things, incrementing a model number in order to sell an inferior product. Who here honestly thinks that Intel won't do exactly this when they release a product that bombs? I still remember the to-do when Tom's Hardware published a pre-release review of the Pentium II, showing that it was inferior to a Pentium MMX of the same clock speed.
What I would REALLY like to se is AMD seize the MHz banner now that Intel has abandonned it. I mean, now AMD doesn't have to give performance "numbers" to convince people to buy it. They could go back to simple MHz ratings, forcing Intel to keep itself honest. After all, we all know that the whole reason we all hated the MHz rating was because AMD had superior performance at inferior speeds and it just wasn't fair. I don't remember too many people complaining when AMD went back to MHz specs with the Athlons. Here's hoping to see it again soon.
Well, to all those people that don't see why it's so great to rush out and get an account immedietely, I have this to say:
username choice!
For the first time in my life, I don't need to get some goony name like "g733p42" because ALL the possible permutations of normal words are already taken.
Actually, this is *very* incorrect. I don't mean to flame, just to set the record straight.
Nucleate boiling is the BEST form of heat transfer known to man. What you're describing is film boiling, which is what occurs when there's SO much nucleate boiling that the molecules of vapor push away ALL the molecules of fluid.
You know all those heat pipes that are so popular these days? They all use, without exception, nucleate boiling.
I think the "half as much" stuff is a function of location. IIRC, when I went looking for a new telephone (Dijon, FRANCE) the P900 didn't yet exist and the P800 was around 450Euro, with contract. The N-Gage was 99Euro with contract (which fell to 0Euro, 15 days after the 30-day price guarantee ran out!). Anyway, the gamepad was a really nice feature for playing games, something that the P800 doesn't have.
The whole reason I bought the phone was because my Philips phone was broken. I wouldn't do it again, but I don't regret having bought 1st generation technology for the first time in my life. The N-Gage fit my needs. The others didn't.
I used to have an N-Gage. Until it broke and then got stolen. (Fortunately in that order.) The platform was actually quite good for what it was, and quite terrible for what it was advertised for.
From a computing standpoint, the thing was awesome. It ran Java apps, so that meant that within 24 hours of owning one, I had already downloaded a messenger client so I could be on all the IMs 24-7, no matter where I was.
Then there was the ogg player, the Gameboy emulator, etc. All for free.
Plus, it could understand Palm Pilot files, so no need to carry around both if all you use in the Palm is the address book. With a 512MB card, it was like carrying around a giant USB key, one that I used both under Linux AND Windows.
However, this new one looks as if it takes all the funcionality away with it's awkward button layout. It's never been easy to type on a cell phone. With this design, it'll be practically impossible.
And since I never played any N-Gage games on it, 'cause they were terribly boring and the platform was no good as a game machine, I agree with an earlier poster-- QD= Quiet Death. I won't be buying another one, that's for certain.
Ian Johnson, I feel your pain. Why, just the other day, my butler Jeeves remarked to me, "Sir, I find myself incapable of sleeping ever since you installed your 100" plasma computer monitor. The blue LED keeps me up all night."
And I'm regretting giving the cleaning staff new blue-LED-equipped brooms last week. Those hundreds of dancing broom-handles put me in such a dreadful mood. How can I concentrate on exploiting those massively regressive tax-cuts when all those lights keep dancing in my brain?
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, screw the asteroid detection. One of those things will only take out most of the world's costal area.
Whereas one of those blazar things could take out the whole solar system. Imagine the fireworks there, as a mass the size of Jupiter smacks into the sun.
Gentlemen... we cannot allow... a blazar detection gap!
I always new that science would find a way to increase my lifespan. I will no live to be... 2.68us*365days*50years=4 hundredths of a second older than expected!
Thank you NASA and thank you US space program for making all this possible.
Oooohhhh... Could we really slashdot NASA's servers?
The same NASA that more or less invented the slashdot effect back in 1997 when Pathfinder landed on Mars. Basically, NASA's website was so swamped by the curious French that it took out their phone system.
"Their" being the French's, not NASA's. Hehehe.
I have quitely decided to not buy anything to do with Mac.
Which is quite unfortunate, because I really had every intention of giving the iBooks a shot. However, I simply cannot support a company which cannot support the competition.
As seen here, Spitzer turns his guns on the insurance industry, this man is a hell of a bulldog. He seems to be taking on just about everyone this week.
We should write to him about the DMCA, Diabold voting machines, and software patents. The EFF needs to get him on their payroll.
Shocked, I am.
Shocked and astonished by this news.
Namely, that there's a senator stupid enough to have accepted the speech as independent material.
As a pilot, you *must* be able to tell the difference between red, green, yellow, blue and white lights.
I disagree with this. As a professional pilot, you are putting people in more danger than if you couldn't tell the difference. Not necessarily in danger, just more than the color-sensitive case.
As a private pilot, it matters much less, and for a sport pilot it really doesn't matter. Colors aren't important when you are limited to a very small range, such as 25mi from an airport always in the same airplane.
(Yes, I am a pilot, too. Private, glider rating, and most of my IFR)
It didn't work for my Tabbrowser Extensions!
Maybe I'm just stupid, but Tabbrowser Extensions is singlehandedly the best extension available, IMHO. Why isn't it even on the mozilla extension site? Is there someway to control the tabs without TE? Specifically the oh-so-annoying way that firefox by default sticks new tabs at the end instead of right next to the parent?
I love Firefox, and I've convinced practically everyone in two residence halls to switch over to it. However, there's one little capability I miss from IE. Dockable toolbars. I like that fact that I can put the File_Edit_View_etc... menu on the same line as the address bar in IE. It uses some otherwise completely wasted space.
I mean, come on, take a gander at Firefox when it's in full screen. You precious $1500 MacCinema TFT gets a 1cm swath taken out of it by nothing but grey pixels.
Still, Firefox is awesome, and it'll be a long time before I consider anything else.
P.S. How long before Firefox becomes the monoculture? I mean, it's great that everyone's switching to a product which is decent, doesn't invite spyware in with cookies and milk, and is open source, but still... Monocultures are bad, even when they're good, right?
I just converted. Yaay! Mirror, to save their poor souls.
Firefox
Thunderbird
However, I don't suggest updating right away if you like how your current firefox is customized. None of my cool extensions or themes made the switch. I especially miss tabbrowser extensions.
My friend who translated the story pointed out that this was her original submission title. My apologies as hers was far better, and less self-serving, than mine.
Yeah, I know. In fact, I've really grown to love Romanians. They have phenomenal language skills (They all speak English better than we do.) and they've really an interesting language. I live with three Romanians, of which one is my gf. So, in a nutshell, I'm kidding about things when I take a crack at Romanians.
(Wow, replying to my own post)
So, this is my analysis:
My Romanian roommate constantly referred to Demonstrator 2 as a "racket" instead of "rocket". Slip of the tongue? You decide.
Or, as further proof:
Dear friend,
My father just died after building a rocket designed to win a $10 million competition. However, before he died, he could not raise the money to build the full scale rocket, which is certain to win the money. I know that you, the kindest of people, will not shun from helping me realize his dream by giving me just a small sum of $200,000 to help all the paperwork. In exchange, I will split the prize with you, 50/50.
Time is of essence, so can you please respond to me today, loveliest of persons? Your generosity has been talked of the world over!
Your friend,
Demonstrator Jr.
(So, I will use my mad language skillz, namely skillz at having friends who are Romanian, to translate said article)
Demonstrator 2, a Romanian small-scale model of the Orizont (Horizon) Rocket couldn't restrain itself anymore and burst into space two minutes before official launch at Midia Cap. The presurizing hose of the engine came off by surprise and triggered the tiny rocket by touching the contact and leaving Dumitru Popescu, president of ARCA ( Romanian Astronautics and Aeronautics Association) motionless.
Wrapped up in steam, Demonstrator 2 went its own way and, influenced by the gusty wind vanished into the clouds after reaching 1,200 m at 13 m/s before eventually sinking into the Black Sea, just off the to shore.
Even though the rocket didn't get to 2,000 m as planned, the ARCA students are now very confident they will find support and get the $200,000 they need to beat the American team Space Composites in the X Prize Cup competition, a team which already reached 100 km.
Apparently, Romanians are using a secret formula based on World War II technology for torpidoes, also used on the Kursk Russian submarine. It's all about decomposing oxygenated water with the touch of a mysterious catalyzer. And if it's not silver nor platinum, then what is it, we ask? "Just some tablets", Dumitru Popescu responds and that's the only thing we can wring from him.
Having spent only $30,000 to build Demonstrator 2, ARCA has already got offers to sell a miniature rocket in all the toy stores in the Unites States.
I remember seeing some flames about michael's editing job. I'm really beginning to see where it's coming from. Between the dupes and modding, it's getting rather annoying.
/. a long time, since 2001 or so, and before this last year I had only seen a couple dups EVER. Now I'm seeing them on a constant basis, or seeing old articles from years ago dredged up.
I guess I can't complain that much, seeing as I never really contribute that much. However, it's hard NOT to take notice when things devolve this badly. I've been with
(No karma bonus for this self-admitted complaining crap!)
So this is the what they used to get Neo out of The Matrix.
When I was 5-years-old, my aunt bought me one of those dorky remote control cars that goes forward except when you press the remote control, making it turn backwards and to the right.
Well, being bought at Big Lots, it breaks almost immedietely and leaves me with my first of many derelict cars.
My father, being an insane, genius, electrical engineer (do they make them any other way?), decides that the thing to do is make it into a complete remote control car. So the first things he does is orders a MOSFET speed control kit from RC/Modeler (back in the days when electric speed controls were awesome AND expensive). And he hands me a soldering iron, a schematic, a preprinted circuit board, and sets me to putting it all together.
Fast-forward one year: I'm playing with my brand new remote control car! It runs over anything and teaches me a very valuable lesson about things coming at you turning right when you move the stick left!
I've still got that car. 20 years later and it rolls just fine with a fresh NiCad charge. And I'm a mechanical engineer. Coincidence?
1. You
2. My mother
3. ???
4. Profit!
I wish I had mod points for this one. What an awesome idea. Hacking FOR the masses.
Now I have to wonder which new chips are faster. To (blatantly) steal from an earlier post:
I hate the "consumer electronics" style of naming things, incrementing a model number in order to sell an inferior product. Who here honestly thinks that Intel won't do exactly this when they release a product that bombs? I still remember the to-do when Tom's Hardware published a pre-release review of the Pentium II, showing that it was inferior to a Pentium MMX of the same clock speed.
What I would REALLY like to se is AMD seize the MHz banner now that Intel has abandonned it. I mean, now AMD doesn't have to give performance "numbers" to convince people to buy it. They could go back to simple MHz ratings, forcing Intel to keep itself honest. After all, we all know that the whole reason we all hated the MHz rating was because AMD had superior performance at inferior speeds and it just wasn't fair. I don't remember too many people complaining when AMD went back to MHz specs with the Athlons. Here's hoping to see it again soon.
The best part of the article was that they skinned a furby. It's nice to see that science has finally found a way around the animal testing ban.
I hope they did it while it was still alive.
If they'll put a sticker on the shoe saying that many furbies WERE harmed in the making of this product, I'll go buy one right away.
Well, to all those people that don't see why it's so great to rush out and get an account immedietely, I have this to say:
username choice!
For the first time in my life, I don't need to get some goony name like "g733p42" because ALL the possible permutations of normal words are already taken.
Yaay blogger!
Actually, this is *very* incorrect. I don't mean to flame, just to set the record straight.
Nucleate boiling is the BEST form of heat transfer known to man. What you're describing is film boiling, which is what occurs when there's SO much nucleate boiling that the molecules of vapor push away ALL the molecules of fluid.
You know all those heat pipes that are so popular these days? They all use, without exception, nucleate boiling.
I think the "half as much" stuff is a function of location. IIRC, when I went looking for a new telephone (Dijon, FRANCE) the P900 didn't yet exist and the P800 was around 450Euro, with contract. The N-Gage was 99Euro with contract (which fell to 0Euro, 15 days after the 30-day price guarantee ran out!). Anyway, the gamepad was a really nice feature for playing games, something that the P800 doesn't have.
The whole reason I bought the phone was because my Philips phone was broken. I wouldn't do it again, but I don't regret having bought 1st generation technology for the first time in my life. The N-Gage fit my needs. The others didn't.
I used to have an N-Gage. Until it broke and then got stolen. (Fortunately in that order.) The platform was actually quite good for what it was, and quite terrible for what it was advertised for.
From a computing standpoint, the thing was awesome. It ran Java apps, so that meant that within 24 hours of owning one, I had already downloaded a messenger client so I could be on all the IMs 24-7, no matter where I was.
Then there was the ogg player, the Gameboy emulator, etc. All for free.
Plus, it could understand Palm Pilot files, so no need to carry around both if all you use in the Palm is the address book. With a 512MB card, it was like carrying around a giant USB key, one that I used both under Linux AND Windows.
However, this new one looks as if it takes all the funcionality away with it's awkward button layout. It's never been easy to type on a cell phone. With this design, it'll be practically impossible.
And since I never played any N-Gage games on it, 'cause they were terribly boring and the platform was no good as a game machine, I agree with an earlier poster-- QD= Quiet Death. I won't be buying another one, that's for certain.
Ian Johnson, I feel your pain. Why, just the other day, my butler Jeeves remarked to me, "Sir, I find myself incapable of sleeping ever since you installed your 100" plasma computer monitor. The blue LED keeps me up all night."
And I'm regretting giving the cleaning staff new blue-LED-equipped brooms last week. Those hundreds of dancing broom-handles put me in such a dreadful mood. How can I concentrate on exploiting those massively regressive tax-cuts when all those lights keep dancing in my brain?
Indeed.