If we are talking about text documents in the LOC, then they should be scanned as plain text (or Rich Text at the very most) to at least preserve the contents in a format that is pretty much basically standard to every computer for at least the last 30 years (not counting unicode).
Of course, I'm sure the Copyright Police would have something to say about preserving the LOC in such an open format...
Were he still alive, Andre the Giant would have something to say about this sentence.
Yeah, like the following:
Original poster: Won't be long before we're all solving impossible encryption problems. Andre the Giant: As long as someone knows where they left all the mob gems!
Oddly enough, that was missing from the Earth Wikipedia entry.
I took the liberty of updating it. Of course, if the general public decides that it isn't necessary then it will probably removed, but it is there at the moment.
Well, if you can do it on a mock election site, then how about getting your (not just the parent, all of you/.ers in the US) asses off your chairs and/.ing the actual election ?
To quote the parent:
I mean how accurate can a survey be when it's posted on slashdot and not immediately reduced to a pile of smoldering rubble....
Now, imagine replacing the word survey with the word election, and then not caring about the accuracy but rather about the changes you can make.
Of course, I'm sad to see the candidate I would vote for in the real election only has 5% of the vote. After reading the summaries of all of the candidates, Nader is getting my vote this time around (it was Brown in the last election).
Several years ago, my grandfather was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Luckily the chemo-therapy beat it down and it hasn't returned.
Anyway, the point is when he was recovering, the doctor asked him about his life-style. My grandfather, a wine-drinker, answered a solid "NO" when asked if he drank beer. The doctor recommended that he change that and start drinking a beer per day.
The doctor was under belief a beer per day would keep the prostate cancer from returning, and it (among other things) seems to have worked. My grandfather celebrated his 80th a few years ago and is still going strong.
It would be nice not to be constrained by this whole 186,000 miles per second thing:)
Seriously! I agree. Recently I've been playing around with Celestia, and it really gives you a good idea of how freaking BIG the universe is. (download it and check it out).
Setting your speed at "c" and it takes a while to get out of the Solar System. Set it at a few AUs per second and you can clear the solar system more quickly, but once you are out, it seems like you are not moving at all. Once you accelerate to a light year per second, things start moving a bit, especially the neighboring stars, but it is still pretty slow going on a galactic scale. If you want to get out beyond the galaxy, I recommend going perpendicular to the galactic plane and accelerating to a few thousand light years per second (ummm...that is rather fast, don't you think).
Doing this gives you a pretty good perspective on things. Once you are in inter-galactic space, if you aren't moving about a thousand light years per second, it seems like you aren't moving at all. For an even better perspective of mixing size and speed, try manually flying back to Sol. It seems easy, and you even decelerate a bit, but it seems like you are going kind of slow until you suddenly zip past Sol doing about 100 light years per second. Go back and try again.
Back to the original point, yeah the speed of light is fast, but on a galactic and/or universal scale, it isn't that fast. I too hope they either find some loopholes in relativity, or find some loopholes in the universe (such as Asimov's idea of Hyperspace), or we won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Yeah, I know this is deeply in the realm of Science Fiction, but I'm kind of hoping that it becomes Science Fact someday...
I prefer the idea which Asimov put out in Foundation and Earth: Only the Earth's satellite is called "Moon". Everything else is either referred to by name or as a satellite of [planet].
This seems good to me. Just call our satellite the Moon, call Mars's satellites Phobos and Deimos(sp?), Jupiter's Io, Europa, etc, and so on, and anything without a name or newly discovered can simply be called satellite.
Usually, it is best to just let your enemies kill each other with their own resources.
I'm sorry, but I must disagree. Anyone remember in the Lord of the Rings (the books) when Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas meet Gandalf in Fangorn forest and they are talking about the betrayals of Saruman?
"It is a pity that our friends lie in between," said Gimli. "If no land divided Isengard and Mordor, then they could fight while we watched and waited." "The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt," said Gandalf.
So, IMHO, it is not so good to just "let your enemies kill each other" because that rarely happens. One wins and comes out stronger or they make an agreement and come out stronger. No, the best way to deal with your enemies is to confront them, to press them, and either defeat them or go down fighting.
Umm...looking at the front view in this picture from the first link above, how does one navigate between things like artists, albums, playlists, etc.
IMNSHO, one of the things, if not the main thing that makes the iPods and iPod Minis great is the interface.
However, I see no hints in the pictures as to what the interface is like except for the thumb-wheel on the top right. The Pocket Lint article mentions that the interface is the same as the Rio Karma, which I have never used. Can anyone enlighten us as to how the interface compares with the iPods's?
Actually, that is a pretty clever strategy for keeping your bandwidth charges down...
btw, obviously (and it seems some of the mods got it) I wasn't being seriously critical in my previous post. I just thought it was amusing to be going to www.wetsexygirls.com to see only a mirrored picture for a slashdot story...heh...with a domain like that, I was half expecting firefox's pop-up blocker to go crazy.;-)
1.) Thanks for the mirror. The cloud image wasn't so special, but it was nice to see it...
2.) Why on EARTH (or off it) would you use the domain "www.wetsexygirl.com" only for mirroring an image for a/. story?!?! Yeah, so I'm a horn-dog and checked out the top of the domain, and what did I find?:
Temporary mirror for http://peffis.com/cloud.jpg
Cloud
No offense, but man, that is just a tease...Don't tease us with "wetsexygirl.com" unless you are going to give us a Wet, Sexy Girl or two or ten or hundred...
yes I have karma to burn and this OT, so mod me down if you please...
Of course, on the one hand it is different from the service mentioned above in that it is not a streaming service but rather a built-in tuner, but on the other hand it has no additional cost...
I'm a High School teacher...which means I will have to work roughly 25 years before I make the Japanese yen equivalent of $1,000,000. So, assuming I can continue working for another 50 years, I won't even come close to $6,000,000. This is neither juvenile or defeatist...it is reality. The reality of the world is that you make more money being a corporate fat cat than being an educator.
Not that I care much...I love my job and I'm living pretty comfortably.
One of the ones that I thought would work was saying I live about 80 miles north of the border between North Dakota and Montana. However, a lot of people still had no idea where I was talking about, and these are people who live in the USA!
Of course they had no idea what you were talking about. Every US citizen knows that there is no such thing as "80 miles north of the border". There is no border! That is where the world ends! IIRC, there is a sign that says something like "Here there be monsters" and then a big drop off into the abyss because that is where one would fall off the turtle's back...
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Re: the grandparent post, that quote from the article got me too. I was wondering if they were showing an upside down map or something...
And I'm sure I speak for quite a few of us when I say, "Awwww...poor baby Bush...only worth $6,000,000~$14,000,000...how can he manage to survive?!?!?!
Must really suck to be that poor, eh?
Yeah, he may be the poorest of the bunch, but he still has more money than I will ever see in my life...
PNG is fine for photorealistic images for your own use, and in fact they will look better than JPEGs because of PNG's lossless compression. I have a large number of my pictures archived as PNGs after scanning the slides or negatives...
I'm guessing that what you really meant was that PNG is not suitable for photorealistic images on the web...
I am also curious, so I will echo the parent's question: any good alternatives to JPEG for web based photos?
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
Obviously, the defined goal of terror is coercion. Terror is the means, not the end. The end is a change in whatever situation is making the terrorist angry enough to resort to terrorism.
Saying that terror itself is the goal of terrorism sounds like propaganda because it gives a Government a great excuse to remove some freedoms in order to guard against "terror" so that the people don't have to be afraid.
Slashdot Mirror
If we are talking about text documents in the LOC, then they should be scanned as plain text (or Rich Text at the very most) to at least preserve the contents in a format that is pretty much basically standard to every computer for at least the last 30 years (not counting unicode).
Of course, I'm sure the Copyright Police would have something to say about preserving the LOC in such an open format...
I'm not entirely sure, but I assume you are referring to the MacDonald's applicants, right?
And then gone back in time about a year or so...
Original poster: Won't be long before we're all solving impossible encryption problems.
Andre the Giant: As long as someone knows where they left all the mob gems!
Stop that rhyming, I MEAN IT!
I heard it is locked in a box somewhere, but that may or may not be so. ;)
I took the liberty of updating it. Of course, if the general public decides that it isn't necessary then it will probably removed, but it is there at the moment.
:D
To quote the parent:
Now, imagine replacing the word survey with the word election, and then not caring about the accuracy but rather about the changes you can make.Of course, I'm sad to see the candidate I would vote for in the real election only has 5% of the vote. After reading the summaries of all of the candidates, Nader is getting my vote this time around (it was Brown in the last election).
Anyway, the point is when he was recovering, the doctor asked him about his life-style. My grandfather, a wine-drinker, answered a solid "NO" when asked if he drank beer. The doctor recommended that he change that and start drinking a beer per day.
The doctor was under belief a beer per day would keep the prostate cancer from returning, and it (among other things) seems to have worked. My grandfather celebrated his 80th a few years ago and is still going strong.
Setting your speed at "c" and it takes a while to get out of the Solar System. Set it at a few AUs per second and you can clear the solar system more quickly, but once you are out, it seems like you are not moving at all. Once you accelerate to a light year per second, things start moving a bit, especially the neighboring stars, but it is still pretty slow going on a galactic scale. If you want to get out beyond the galaxy, I recommend going perpendicular to the galactic plane and accelerating to a few thousand light years per second (ummm...that is rather fast, don't you think).
Doing this gives you a pretty good perspective on things. Once you are in inter-galactic space, if you aren't moving about a thousand light years per second, it seems like you aren't moving at all. For an even better perspective of mixing size and speed, try manually flying back to Sol. It seems easy, and you even decelerate a bit, but it seems like you are going kind of slow until you suddenly zip past Sol doing about 100 light years per second. Go back and try again.
Back to the original point, yeah the speed of light is fast, but on a galactic and/or universal scale, it isn't that fast. I too hope they either find some loopholes in relativity, or find some loopholes in the universe (such as Asimov's idea of Hyperspace), or we won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
Yeah, I know this is deeply in the realm of Science Fiction, but I'm kind of hoping that it becomes Science Fact someday...
This seems good to me. Just call our satellite the Moon, call Mars's satellites Phobos and Deimos(sp?), Jupiter's Io, Europa, etc, and so on, and anything without a name or newly discovered can simply be called satellite.
IMNSHO, one of the things, if not the main thing that makes the iPods and iPod Minis great is the interface.
However, I see no hints in the pictures as to what the interface is like except for the thumb-wheel on the top right. The Pocket Lint article mentions that the interface is the same as the Rio Karma, which I have never used. Can anyone enlighten us as to how the interface compares with the iPods's?
iPod
btw, obviously (and it seems some of the mods got it) I wasn't being seriously critical in my previous post. I just thought it was amusing to be going to www.wetsexygirls.com to see only a mirrored picture for a slashdot story...heh...with a domain like that, I was half expecting firefox's pop-up blocker to go crazy. ;-)
Cheers. :-)
1.) Thanks for the mirror. The cloud image wasn't so special, but it was nice to see it...
2.) Why on EARTH (or off it) would you use the domain "www.wetsexygirl.com" only for mirroring an image for a /. story?!?! Yeah, so I'm a horn-dog and checked out the top of the domain, and what did I find?:
No offense, but man, that is just a tease...Don't tease us with "wetsexygirl.com" unless you are going to give us a Wet, Sexy Girl or two or ten or hundred...yes I have karma to burn and this OT, so mod me down if you please...
The PDF about the V402SH describes one such phone...
Of course, on the one hand it is different from the service mentioned above in that it is not a streaming service but rather a built-in tuner, but on the other hand it has no additional cost...
It wouldn't bother me at all. Here is the flag of the country I live in...
Not that I care much...I love my job and I'm living pretty comfortably.
But thanks for the open minded response.
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Re: the grandparent post, that quote from the article got me too. I was wondering if they were showing an upside down map or something...
Must really suck to be that poor, eh?
Yeah, he may be the poorest of the bunch, but he still has more money than I will ever see in my life...
Church:Artificial.
Caboose: Ahh...What's the--
Church: INTELLIGENCE!
Red vs. Blue
Interestingly enough, the RvB Public Service Announcement #6 on this page is rather fitting for this article.
:-)
I'm guessing that what you really meant was that PNG is not suitable for photorealistic images on the web...
I am also curious, so I will echo the parent's question: any good alternatives to JPEG for web based photos?
Obviously, the defined goal of terror is coercion. Terror is the means, not the end. The end is a change in whatever situation is making the terrorist angry enough to resort to terrorism.
Saying that terror itself is the goal of terrorism sounds like propaganda because it gives a Government a great excuse to remove some freedoms in order to guard against "terror" so that the people don't have to be afraid.
IMHO.