I don't have cable, and don't plan on getting it unless an a la carte plan is offered. The channels I want are indeed those that appeal to the "intellectual minority", and the cable company won't get anything from me until I can get exactly what I want.
Same thing for my parents, but for a different reason. They don't want my younger brother wasting his time watching crap TV, but they would be interested in more educational programming than is available via RF broadcast.
Thanks, I did have some notion of that but this'll help me explain it better to others. The "pull of gravity" argument always felt like a cop-out to me, so I'm glad to have a well articulated explanation under my belt.
I've actually wondered this too. Imagine if Mars were in close orbit around Jupiter! The tidal forces of Jupiter would cause Mars's closest side to be pulled on harder than the far side, causing it to elongate slightly. As Mars rotates, the once far side of the planet comes around and gets tugged on, while the once near side relaxes back into shape. This stretching back and forth is exactly what happens to the moon Io, and is so vigorous that the moon has a molten core and tremendous volcanic activity. Of course being that close to Jupiter places Io right in the most dangerous radiation zones around Jupiter, so there could probably have never been life on that moon.
Yes, with the rare exception of spots warming during the day to barely above freezing most of Mars is dead cold. However water is a strange molecule which changes phases directly from solid to gas in such a thin atmosphere as Mars has. This is similar to the way dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) turns directly into vapor here on earth.
Mars may have water frozen away in the ice caps and under the surface, but we're going to have a hard time maintaining liquid water on the surface if we try to melt any of it.
Mars has a very weak magnetic field since we speculate that its core has mostly cooled. This means that the planet is poorly protected from harsh solar and cosmic radiation, which is strong enough to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen. These atoms would indeed just float off into space, since the gravatational pull of the planet is not strong enough to retain such light atoms.
That's why I'm not holding out much hope for terraforming Mars. But that doesn't mean we can't still live on it, just in protected chambers on the surface.
Jupiter is just a (humungous) ball of gas, there is no land to land on, nor sea to splash in. Just lots and lots of atmosphere to fly through.
Jupiter's core is under such intense heat and pressure that it is speculated that it consists of metallic hydrogen, in either liquid or solid form. This theory helps explain its powerful magnetic field.
The leaked internal memos were done by conscientious insiders upset with the morality and behavior of their colleagues. It was not for personal gain, as was the Republicans' stealing of the memos and internal documents from the Democrats.
The AI folks and the Scalar Compiler folks at Rice are working on this project as well. Take a look, and scroll to the bottom for links to academic publications if you're interested.
Their initial objective was to reduce the power consumption of compiled programs, but notably the GA-discovered compiler flags increase the performance of most programs as well. Additionally they have experimented with a hill-climbing search for a particular program and have discovered that the search space is very bumpy. However the GA can beat the hillclimber by 20% performance in 200 generations (genepool=100, so search 20,000 trials) versus 2.8 million trials in the hillclimber.
>> And the democrats are as pure as the driven snow, I presume? Ever hear of 1960 and Illinois?
Oh no, they certainly aren't pure either. And notice I never said "Republican" in my post. This book rips into both parties, and irresponsible/evil people everywhere in politics.
According to this book by investigative journalist Greg Palast, the recount could never have made up for the illegally destroyed voting rights of tens of thousands of legitimate voters in Florida who (statistically) would have favored Gore.
Bush did not win the election, he stole it (or it was stolen for him).
I tried forever to find this on DVD (they promised sales of it at one point). Does anyone know if I can purchase the Computer Boy spoof on DVD? Thanks in advance!
>Standarize icons and names. Make them visually appealing.
To whom are you directing this imperative? The Thunderbird project needs more volunteers not more people telling them what to do -- there is only one regular developer (who is now no longer is employed by Netscape). I'm trying to get involved myself but I'm not an artist.
Just considering the distance Microsoft keeps between its unsupported OSes and its current OSes, plus the approximate release data for Longhorn... Microsoft will be wanting to make sure users are familiar with the new UI/themes when it deprecates Win2000.
And yes, I do believe it's a bit of effort for them to maintain/test code that supports the Win2000 theme - if the code was simple and the impact on the OS minimal, it wouldn't take numerous seconds on a fast machine to switch to the older theme(s).
Unfortunately the option will most likely be "Use Windows XP Classic theme" - with no support for a Win2000 lookalike. Will you start feeling comfortable with the WinXP UI all of a sudden?
Or you could go to the street corner and buy an entire newspaper for 75 cents. I think people would have trouble purchasing an article from their computer versus investing that money in a Snickers or Dr. Pepper.
Space isn't the issue for Mozilla's bloat either, speed is!
Disks are big. Unfortunately, relative to main memory speeds, disks are slow. Main memory has gotten big too. Unfortunately, relative to processor speeds, main memory is slow.
Anything we can do to reduce memory consumption will ultimately improve performance.
There's a more detailed article on inside.com (or, go here) that discusses some of the major players involved. This includes a friend of mine, Zach Allison, a CS major at Rice University who does a lot of cool shit on the side (like zICQ, a command-line ICQ client!)
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This thread works like an old joke:
:)
The optimist and the pessimist are camping. The optimist wakes up and says "mmm, this is as good as it gets!". The pessimist agrees
I don't have cable, and don't plan on getting it unless an a la carte plan is offered. The channels I want are indeed those that appeal to the "intellectual minority", and the cable company won't get anything from me until I can get exactly what I want.
Same thing for my parents, but for a different reason. They don't want my younger brother wasting his time watching crap TV, but they would be interested in more educational programming than is available via RF broadcast.
Stupid gits, you mean.
Thanks, I did have some notion of that but this'll help me explain it better to others. The "pull of gravity" argument always felt like a cop-out to me, so I'm glad to have a well articulated explanation under my belt.
I've actually wondered this too. Imagine if Mars were in close orbit around Jupiter! The tidal forces of Jupiter would cause Mars's closest side to be pulled on harder than the far side, causing it to elongate slightly. As Mars rotates, the once far side of the planet comes around and gets tugged on, while the once near side relaxes back into shape. This stretching back and forth is exactly what happens to the moon Io, and is so vigorous that the moon has a molten core and tremendous volcanic activity. Of course being that close to Jupiter places Io right in the most dangerous radiation zones around Jupiter, so there could probably have never been life on that moon.
Yes, with the rare exception of spots warming during the day to barely above freezing most of Mars is dead cold. However water is a strange molecule which changes phases directly from solid to gas in such a thin atmosphere as Mars has. This is similar to the way dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) turns directly into vapor here on earth.
Mars may have water frozen away in the ice caps and under the surface, but we're going to have a hard time maintaining liquid water on the surface if we try to melt any of it.
Mars has a very weak magnetic field since we speculate that its core has mostly cooled. This means that the planet is poorly protected from harsh solar and cosmic radiation, which is strong enough to break down water into oxygen and hydrogen. These atoms would indeed just float off into space, since the gravatational pull of the planet is not strong enough to retain such light atoms.
That's why I'm not holding out much hope for terraforming Mars. But that doesn't mean we can't still live on it, just in protected chambers on the surface.
...(I first heard about it in college in 1997 or so, I think).
Take a look at this image... from 1994!!:
Boston Globe cartoon
Ah, cryptic shorts... What's CPR and AED? =)
Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
Automated External Defribrillator
Or use a Google definition search: "definition CPR" and "definition AED".
Jupiter is just a (humungous) ball of gas, there is no land to land on, nor sea to splash in. Just lots and lots of atmosphere to fly through.
Jupiter's core is under such intense heat and pressure that it is speculated that it consists of metallic hydrogen, in either liquid or solid form. This theory helps explain its powerful magnetic field.
The leaked internal memos were done by conscientious insiders upset with the morality and behavior of their colleagues. It was not for personal gain, as was the Republicans' stealing of the memos and internal documents from the Democrats.
The AI folks and the Scalar Compiler folks at Rice are working on this project as well. Take a look, and scroll to the bottom for links to academic publications if you're interested.
Their initial objective was to reduce the power consumption of compiled programs, but notably the GA-discovered compiler flags increase the performance of most programs as well. Additionally they have experimented with a hill-climbing search for a particular program and have discovered that the search space is very bumpy. However the GA can beat the hillclimber by 20% performance in 200 generations (genepool=100, so search 20,000 trials) versus 2.8 million trials in the hillclimber.
>> And the democrats are as pure as the driven snow, I presume? Ever hear of 1960 and Illinois?
Oh no, they certainly aren't pure either. And notice I never said "Republican" in my post. This book rips into both parties, and irresponsible/evil people everywhere in politics.
According to this book by investigative journalist Greg Palast, the recount could never have made up for the illegally destroyed voting rights of tens of thousands of legitimate voters in Florida who (statistically) would have favored Gore.
Bush did not win the election, he stole it (or it was stolen for him).
I tried forever to find this on DVD (they promised sales of it at one point). Does anyone know if I can purchase the Computer Boy spoof on DVD? Thanks in advance!
Sure they do! This one works really well.
And you can mod it to boost the power and/or break FCC 15 regulations for private radio transmissions.
I've got it. I use it. I love it!
>Standarize icons and names. Make them visually appealing.
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To whom are you directing this imperative? The Thunderbird project needs more volunteers not more people telling them what to do -- there is only one regular developer (who is now no longer is employed by Netscape). I'm trying to get involved myself but I'm not an artist.
For those of you with artistic talents, help design a Mozilla Mail theme that is consistent with the Mozilla suite:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/theme
And yes, I do believe it's a bit of effort for them to maintain/test code that supports the Win2000 theme - if the code was simple and the impact on the OS minimal, it wouldn't take numerous seconds on a fast machine to switch to the older theme(s).
Unfortunately the option will most likely be "Use Windows XP Classic theme" - with no support for a Win2000 lookalike. Will you start feeling comfortable with the WinXP UI all of a sudden?
Or you could go to the street corner and buy an entire newspaper for 75 cents. I think people would have trouble purchasing an article from their computer versus investing that money in a Snickers or Dr. Pepper.
My favorite of all the silliness is their "Heisenburg compensator" device :)
Space isn't the issue for Mozilla's bloat either, speed is!
Disks are big. Unfortunately, relative to main memory speeds, disks are slow. Main memory has gotten big too. Unfortunately, relative to processor speeds, main memory is slow.
Anything we can do to reduce memory consumption will ultimately improve performance.
There's a more detailed article on inside.com (or, go here) that discusses some of the major players involved. This includes a friend of mine, Zach Allison, a CS major at Rice University who does a lot of cool shit on the side (like zICQ, a command-line ICQ client!)
You can see an excellent spoof of Episode II (as a trailer) at AdCritic: click here
For those who understand the nudist lifestyle, you know that it is very much a family-oriented non-sexual environment. However due to the extensive use of the words nude and naked in the pornography industry, we nudists are inappropriately lumped together with these sites by search engines and directories. This creates confusion of our lifestyle for those researching it online, but it also means that "safe" search engines and web services tend to block legitimate, legal nudist sites that happen to contain the words nude, naked, etc. Please keep this in mind when trying to provide a blocking or filtering service, since they usually obscure our window to the public.