The 4/3 part of 4/3 pi * r^3 is actually a misnomer, because the sphere is in reality 2/3 of the cylinder.
We can halve 4/3 and multiply pi by 2, resulting in 2/3 * 2 * pi * r^3. With Tau we can now gain a correct understanding of the formula by using 2/3 * tau * r^3
1339 * 2 = 2678 seconds, which is 44.63 minutes (40 minutes in round figures)
That is the theoretical longest time it takes for round trip communication with Mars. The shortest distance is 55.7 millions kilometers, making for a smallest round trip of 372 seconds, a bit more than 6 minutes.
This will be why Earth and Mars at their furthest distance will be known as the Eternal September.
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If you have your mouse over a menu item and you press a keyboard combination (e.g. ctrl+;), it will assign that combination to that menu item.
And this is where things begin to fall down.
Many productive Photoshop users use a lot of keyboard commands to quickly get their work done, but they don't want to have to set up The GIMP with 101 key settings before they can use it.
Is it possible for The GIMP to reach a hand out to Photoshop users by incorporating a set of keyboard combinations that map on to Photoshop equivalents?
Further, one of the installation options could be to ask which set of keyboard commands you want mapped on to The GIMP during installation, with Photoshop being chosen by default.
And if you're very clever, the installer might check the system for other installed image editors and shortlist those for you to choose from.
Linux folks, set your default firewall properties to DENY, and not DROP. It doesn't make you vulnerable, it doesn't allow SYN floods (which attack by spawning multiple server threads on a local port - an application vulnerability not a TCP/IP one).
It doesn't "hide" you from scanners, as he claims.
It doesn't prevent DDoS attacks, if I have enough bandwidth to clog your downstream, it doesnt matter what you do with all the crap I flood you with.
Actually, heh, he is doing a spin on the old "your machine is broadcasting an IP address" scam:
This may get me in trouble, but please mod parent down, or as flamebait, for it's not a fair assessment of Shield's Up and what its purpose is for.
Steve's stuff about things of a DoS nature are unrelated to Shield's Up. Instead, the Dos stuff comes from his own personal experience of being attacked, and provides information about how it was achieved by the other party, and protected against.
On the DROP/DENY issue, the major purpose is just to slow them down.
If the packets are denied then they will get that response instantaneously, allowing them to scan thousands of ports per second.
If the packets are dropped then they get no reponse. They have to wait 2 or 3 seconds and try that port again, then another wait, and perhaps a third try at that same port.
It is this slowdown effect that is intended and achieved when you DROP the packets.
You have that kind of backwards (and wrong). The Asimovian rules are: 1. A robot must never harm a human being 2. A robot must follow a human being's orders, unless that conflicts with Rule #1 3. A robot must preserve itself, unless that conflicts with either Rule #2 or Rule #1.
THe only trouble is, as a leeding robotics scientist pointed out a week ago, is that robots just end up standing ther shivering because they're just too scared to do anything else.
I can say though that somewhat vague requests for "better standards support" are not as useful as a specific example of what you'd like to see changed and specifically why it would improve things.
On writing plaintext emails Doesn't [shift]-Write work for you?
Alright, I give up here. How the hell is one supposed to learn about such very useful things by using standard Thunderbird documentation?
Oh, and a gripe. The importing of messages and/or settings from other Thunderbird profiles is still far beyond the realsm of normal expected user usage.
This story reminds me of an interview I read in, I think, Wired about the making of Shrek. They made the princess as realistic as possible, but it was looking like an animated corpse. They said something along the lines of "until we have the ability to cross the last 1% of realism, we need to step back a bit".
I read that article too but it was on the BBC News website.
Bringing Shrek to life http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/fil m/1409 261.stm
But the animators sometimes did their job too well and made her look too realistic for the style of an "animated story book", he says.
"At some points she... looked a bit like this creepy mannequin, and at other points she looked a bit too real and didn't really fit in the scene where she had to talk with the donkey."
Is it something that will require using Outlook on Windows to work? Alternatively, will I be force to use some MS software just to send mail to people who are using MS based web/mail/etc client/server programs?
I perceive that this is Microsofts way of killing a couple of birds with the same stone.
Microsoft will prevent spammers from using MS's latest and greatest operating system, and the spammers will move on to something more sp[am friendly, such as Linux.
In one foul stroke MS has cleaned up their own pitch and muddied the Linux waters.
If the description said what was fixed, and what files were replaced to fix it, and what those replacement files were, exactly, then you would at least be able to determine if the patch "took" or not. By withholding that information, the patches look like they work, whether or not they actually did anything. It's essentially impossible to unpatch if necessary.
To verify that the patch has been installed on the machine, confirm that the following registry key has been created on the machine: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Wind ows XP\SP2\KB824146.
To verify the individual files, use the date/time and version information provided in the file manifest in Knowledge Base article 824146 are present on the system.
Before you gripe about Microsoft at the least check your facts. If you don't you're going to be seen by their supporters as just another rabid dog, attacking anything that comes alongwi9thout justification. Come on man pick up your game.
To avoid confusion, I've responded to each of your points with quotes pulled directly from the article.
Imagine riding this thing during the lunch hour in a crowded downtown area (pick the city of your choice). And you obviously have to ride it on the sidewalk. But it would not be faster (if not slower) than walking, since you wouldn't be moving faster than the rest of the people. It pretty much defeats its purpose in the suburbs or in the industrial parks.
[Kamen] wants his machine taken seriously, as a serious solution to serious problems. That anxiety was one of the reasons he and his team decided to concentrate at first on major corporations, universities and government agencies--large, solid, established institutions--rather than dive straight into the consumer marketplace.
The second problem, as one of the previous posts mentioned, is what happens when you suddenly hit something (more likely someone). The thing might be self balancing, but I've felt what happens when one of your rollerblades gets stuck in a groove.
Especially gratifying to Kamen was the reaction of Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel and, unlike so many Silicon Valley boosters, a bone-deep skeptic. Perched tentatively on the machine, the 65-year-old Grove was rolling slowly along when Doerr ambled over and pushed him in the chest. When the Segway kept him from losing his balance, Grove emitted a distinctly un-Grove-like giggle. "The machine is gorgeous," he said later. "I'm no good at balancing; it would take me a hundred years to learn to snowboard. This took me less than five minutes."
Third, think of its battery life (I presume it is battery powered)
When most transportation companies talk about range, they reference it under optimal conditions--no wind, flat terrain, and so forth. While Segway HT's maximum range with NiMH batteries is approximately 17 miles (28 km), we expect you'll be able to travel about 11 miles (17 km) on a single battery charge--accounting for variations in terrain and other factors. This is far more than the distance we expect the average user will travel on a Segway HT in one day.
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Sure there is: e^(tau * i) + 0 = 1.
Hey, it's really not any more ridiculous than "... + 1 = 0".
Or even better: e^(tau * i) - 1 = 0
The 4/3 part of 4/3 pi * r^3 is actually a misnomer, because the sphere is in reality 2/3 of the cylinder.
We can halve 4/3 and multiply pi by 2, resulting in 2/3 * 2 * pi * r^3.
With Tau we can now gain a correct understanding of the formula by using 2/3 * tau * r^3
The shortest distance is 55.7 millions kilometers, making for a smallest round trip of 372 seconds, a bit more than 6 minutes.
This will be why Earth and Mars at their furthest distance will be known as the Eternal September.
And this is where things begin to fall down.
Many productive Photoshop users use a lot of keyboard commands to quickly get their work done, but they don't want to have to set up The GIMP with 101 key settings before they can use it.
Is it possible for The GIMP to reach a hand out to Photoshop users by incorporating a set of keyboard combinations that map on to Photoshop equivalents?
Further, one of the installation options could be to ask which set of keyboard commands you want mapped on to The GIMP during installation, with Photoshop being chosen by default.
And if you're very clever, the installer might check the system for other installed image editors and shortlist those for you to choose from.
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there is no
Here's a 4 page PDF of the open letter that can be printed out for distribution.
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Does anyone feel like packing it up in to a brochure dispensible format?
(There is no
This may get me in trouble, but please mod parent down, or as flamebait, for it's not a fair assessment of Shield's Up and what its purpose is for.
Steve's stuff about things of a DoS nature are unrelated to Shield's Up. Instead, the Dos stuff comes from his own personal experience of being attacked, and provides information about how it was achieved by the other party, and protected against.
On the DROP/DENY issue, the major purpose is just to slow them down.
If the packets are denied then they will get that response instantaneously, allowing them to scan thousands of ports per second.
If the packets are dropped then they get no reponse. They have to wait 2 or 3 seconds and try that port again, then another wait, and perhaps a third try at that same port.
It is this slowdown effect that is intended and achieved when you DROP the packets.
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THe only trouble is, as a leeding robotics scientist pointed out a week ago, is that robots just end up standing ther shivering because they're just too scared to do anything else.
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Paul Wilkins
To begin with, on the following page change the red boxes for IE to green boxes.
CSS contents and browser compatibility"
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On writing plaintext emails
Doesn't [shift]-Write work for you?
Alright, I give up here. How the hell is one supposed to learn about such very useful things by using standard Thunderbird documentation?
Oh, and a gripe. The importing of messages and/or settings from other Thunderbird profiles is still far beyond the realsm of normal expected user usage.
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Paul Wilkins
I read that article too but it was on the BBC News website.
Bringing Shrek to life
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/fi
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You forgot to close your IMHO tag!!!
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I'll bet you say that to everyone.
Is it something that will require using Outlook on Windows to work? Alternatively, will I be force to use some MS software just to send mail to people who are using MS based web/mail/etc client/server programs?
I perceive that this is Microsofts way of killing a couple of birds with the same stone.
Microsoft will prevent spammers from using MS's latest and greatest operating system, and the spammers will move on to something more sp[am friendly, such as Linux.
In one foul stroke MS has cleaned up their own pitch and muddied the Linux waters.
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Paul Wilkins
click on the test button on this page.... it's quite scary.
For those of us who have trouble understanding german, here's the English translated version of the page, thanks to babelfish.
the caption below the photo says "Elin Oxenhielm pointing to the second part of Hilbert's 16th problem on her web page"
You may need to take some reading comprehension as it say "... in this photo from her web page."
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About 10 minutes on each side, depending on the size of the CPU die should make for a tender and tasty meal.
Warning! Your mileage may vary on this one.
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So the information on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default
What about when you open the "Additional information about this patch" part of the page, where it has a "verifying patch installation" section, with useful things along the lines of
Before you gripe about Microsoft at the least check your facts. If you don't you're going to be seen by their supporters as just another rabid dog, attacking anything that comes alongwi9thout justification.
Come on man pick up your game.
The nightly builds support AA but it isn't enabled by default. I'm using this in my user.js:
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min", 0);
Wow, I just realised when copying the above code that Ctrl-click selects entire table cells!
That's why I dream of one day owning a cordless USB optical mouse with Docking Station.
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The cordless receiver is the charging unit that you put the mouse into, when you're not using it.
There is no
The article that Time recently did about the Segway answers many (if not all of your worries.
Reinventing the Wheel1 86660,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,
To avoid confusion, I've responded to each of your points with quotes pulled directly from the article.
This last piece is from the Segway Product Specificationsc ifications.html
--http://www.segway.com/consumer/segway/product_spe
Paul Wilkins
Don't worry. Here's the link.
Somehow it has ingrained itself upon my memory, even after many many months.
A Woman's Guide on How to Pee Standing Up
http://www.restrooms.org/standing.html