TrekWeb has a bunch of links to various information on Enterprise including first looks of the sets. BTW, I am not affiliated with trekweb so I don't care if you don't check them out either.
Don't buy from the companies... I was going to buy an X10 product because they are rather cool. But after being bombarded every day by their adds I decided to voice my opinion with my money and not buy anything from them.
I would write them to let them know my decision but I fear that they might send me SPAM afterwards.
I have Road Runner, i.e. Time Warner. I would like for two things to happen:
1) A guarantee that I will not someday be forced to use AOL as an ISP.
2) That I can choose an ISP that will give me more personal web space other than RR's pathetic 5MB.
There are web hosting companies out there that offer good packages for less than $20 per month. Got a good deal from www.cihost.com once (1GB web space plus a buch of stuff for $20/month). These packages can include way more web space, sometime unlimited email aliases and/or POP accounts, true virtual web hosting, and a bunch of other stuff.
AOL/TW can still handle the hardware side but I want the ability to choose someone else that will offer me way more ISP features.
ramps were made, and the stones were hauled up these
Saw a documentary that said that if straight ramps were used then the ramps would have had to be extremly long (a mile?). Also, the amount of material (stone) for the ramp would have been as much as the pyramid itself.
It was theorized that ramps could have been made that wrap around the pyramid sort of like a circular stairway. The ramp could have been used as part of the building blocks of the pyramid as the pyramid came closer to completion.
Now tell me, since when could a commercial company use proprietary code from another commercial company and build on it?
His point was that they should have a right to since the work was government sponsored (payed for). Thus indirectly Microsoft taxes payed for work that they are not allowed to use. Sounds like a fair arguement until you read something like:
but the
availability of languages (even when all are
using the same region code).
And that's my gripe. My family is Italian and we live in the US. My father never studied English. He can speak it, but often has difficulty understanding especially when someone speaks fast. He enjoys watching movies in Italian - that is when he can get his hands on it. Most DVDs from our local rental shop only have French and Spanish tracks on them. Cost is not the major issue - although he can't justify paying extreme markups to get the Italian equivalent of American movies.
Recently he purchased a bunch of DVDs directly from Italy. These were American movies dubbed in Italian. I had to rip the DVDs and convert them to VCD format so that he could watch his legally purchased DVDs. How annoying. He's considering buying a region free or a region selectable (better yet) DVD player. I just haven't found one that also has all the features of his current DVD player.
The MPAA would probably consider me a pirate (under the DMCA)for bypassing CSS to get around their region coding. Too bad for them - sue me. I wish the MPAA would get a clue and realize that the region coding annoys people.
Will they provide some tool to monitor bandwidth usage? Seems to me that if they will be metering usage then they should provide some feedback to users when they about to approach the cap and how much above the cap they have consumed. Without a bandwidth monitor users (who choose to allow above cap usage) could potentially accrue a large bill. Seems to me that there must be some law that states that metered usage of a product should have some means of telling the consumer how much has been used.
You dug a trench in my field. That's destruction of private property. Like I said at the beginning, it's a simple matter of ownership.
The railroads bought "surface" rights to the land. They "own" the "surface" of the land. This is differentiated in law compared to drilling and mining rights (according to the article). IANAL, but perhaps the difference is because of environmental impact or the reservation of keeping a potentially lucrative piece of property (if oil is buried underneath) while still being able to sell the surface.
The question before the courts (if it goes to court) would be: is 3+ feet under the surface (where the fiber is buried) still considered suface when compared to the unlimited sub-surface dealt with in the sale of property for mining/drilling?
Instead of taping a show myself and archiving it on bulky VHS, I download episodes of my favorite shows in either VCD or DivX and burn them to CD. MUCH better way to store video IMO. I can store 50+ VCD episodes in one CD spool. The equivalent for VHS tapes would require some type of cabinet.
The Voyager episodes have been posted regularly on alt.binaries.startrek. It is the only way I am able to view the show. Half way through this season, my local cable (Time Warner in Central NY) provider dropped UPN. Why? Not too sure. Their excuse was some contract conflict with UPN. However, most of the rest of NY still gets UPN.
This really upset me. I have been watching Voyager for several years now and, although I have become sick of the crappy writing, I wanted to see the rest of the show through to the end. If it wasn't for the hard working people who encoded and posted the show I would have missed out on the last half of the last season - the most important part of the entire series.
I don't have a problem with downloading the show from the net. If Time Warner didn't play games with their line-up then I wouldn't have had to resort to downloading. IMO, they take their customers for granted when they do things like this.
BTW, the VCD of the finale should be posted soon. Can't wait.
it's called a "Dial-up account", and I've been using it's security feature of random IP addresses (aka "dynamic" IP) for years. News sure travels slowly huh
Yeah, crappy ISPs can now advertise their high line drop rates as "security features".
Seems like a natural extension to me of the webcams in institutional babysitting places so parents can watch their kids -- of course, what does that say about schools?
I disagree. There are reasons I would want to watch my baby: make sure he is generally doing alright, make sure that he is not constantly crying (for whatever reason) and the sitters can't stop him, and to make sure that the sitters are not abusing him in some way. Babies are not self reliant; they need constant attention.
OTOH, older kids don't need the constant attention. They should be able to take care of themselves (at least for the school day). I would hope that I have been a good parent and educated my child enough to know the difference between right and wrong. If I am successful my child should not require constant supervision to make sure that they are not going to get in trouble.
Went to Walmart during lunch to buy some spray paints. When the cashier rang them up the register displayed, "Is the customer 18?" and the cashier had to respond (yes I am).
Smell disipation in space is one thing I never thought of. It's bad enough having to wait the 10-20 seconds for a fart to dissipate in your office. All the time hoping someone doesn't walk in. How much worse is it on the ISS? Do the ventillation systems work just as good at removing odor as office ones do? If not, that's one way of making yourself very unpopular. Can you imagine lines like, "man, don't go into that capsule for at least an hour. Ivan was just in there."
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Several years ago I saw a documentary about NYC water distribution. One of the quality controls was a woman who had some great sense of smell. She would smell samples of the water to determine if there was anything "bad" with it. Her job was so serious that she wore a white lab coat. Sorry, time has faded all the other details.
I have tried video caps and made my own DivXs. I know of those guides. Point is, first Hironimo's DivX's are from DVDs. Therefore the quality of the original video far exceeds any video captures. Second, I don't see any blochy-ness in the DivXs, even for transitions from Slow and Fast sceens. They are simply the best DivXs I have ever seen even for ones whose file sizes are double what Hironimo's are. AND, they are only 330 MB AND play well on slower computers. I don't know how he squeezes so much quality into so small a file size. I have tried using MakeFilm (automatic fast/slow file joiner) and have obtained good quality results but not small file sizes.
You haven't see Hironimo's (don't know who he is really) DVD rips of Farscape episodes. They're excellent quality, and are around 330MB for a ~45 minute video. They are the best I have ever seen. They also play nicely on my relatively slow K6 2-400 system which is jumpy for half of the other DivX's I sample. Anyone know where I can get a guide on what settings he uses?
Telescope relosution is limited by the diameter of the telescope. My old physics book (Serway - don't have it handy) had a formula in it where you could calculate the smallest detectable object given the aperature size and distance to an object. From what I remember, we don't have telescopes large enough (on Earth) to spot objects the size of people located on the moon. There was a slashdot article (someone in this thread links to it) that points to an article where scientists have photographed the moon landing site. However, these photots where taken by a moon orbiting spacecraft, not from Earth.
At the sort of near-space altitudes at which this thing will probably operate, Mach 5 is close to 5000 MPH.
So what speed is the shuttle going just as it leaves our atmosphere? I heard a figure once that it would be the equivalent of Mach 25. Not sure if they meant 25 times 714 or another value taking into account the density of the medium.
Which brings up something interesting up... If the speed of sound is faster in thinner atmospheres, then the speed of sound increases as you approach the threshold of space. However, once in space, the speed of sound should be essentially zero. Sounds confusing.
Anyone know where to get a Mir video without trees? How about in some other format than Window's Media? The combination of the two made me so frustrated that it ruined my night.
Slashdot Mirror
TrekWeb has a bunch of links to various information on Enterprise including first looks of the sets. BTW, I am not affiliated with trekweb so I don't care if you don't check them out either.
Don't buy from the companies... I was going to buy an X10 product because they are rather cool. But after being bombarded every day by their adds I decided to voice my opinion with my money and not buy anything from them.
I would write them to let them know my decision but I fear that they might send me SPAM afterwards.
I have Road Runner, i.e. Time Warner. I would like for two things to happen:
1) A guarantee that I will not someday be forced to use AOL as an ISP.
2) That I can choose an ISP that will give me more personal web space other than RR's pathetic 5MB.
There are web hosting companies out there that offer good packages for less than $20 per month. Got a good deal from www.cihost.com once (1GB web space plus a buch of stuff for $20/month). These packages can include way more web space, sometime unlimited email aliases and/or POP accounts, true virtual web hosting, and a bunch of other stuff.
AOL/TW can still handle the hardware side but I want the ability to choose someone else that will offer me way more ISP features.
Idleworms has a fun game called Barney Minesweeper.
http://www.idleworm.com/games/gamesBarneyMinefield .htm
ramps were made, and the stones were hauled up these
Saw a documentary that said that if straight ramps were used then the ramps would have had to be extremly long (a mile?). Also, the amount of material (stone) for the ramp would have been as much as the pyramid itself.
It was theorized that ramps could have been made that wrap around the pyramid sort of like a circular stairway. The ramp could have been used as part of the building blocks of the pyramid as the pyramid came closer to completion.
Now tell me, since when could a commercial company use proprietary code from another commercial company and build on it?
His point was that they should have a right to since the work was government sponsored (payed for). Thus indirectly Microsoft taxes payed for work that they are not allowed to use. Sounds like a fair arguement until you read something like:
Microsoft and Cisco Don't Pay Taxes?1) Aliens discover DNA bank probe travelling through space (aka needle in a haystack); or,
And if they find it they may use it as target practice, ala Klingons blowing up space junk in Star Trek - Voyage Home.but the availability of languages (even when all are using the same region code).
And that's my gripe. My family is Italian and we live in the US. My father never studied English. He can speak it, but often has difficulty understanding especially when someone speaks fast. He enjoys watching movies in Italian - that is when he can get his hands on it. Most DVDs from our local rental shop only have French and Spanish tracks on them. Cost is not the major issue - although he can't justify paying extreme markups to get the Italian equivalent of American movies.
Recently he purchased a bunch of DVDs directly from Italy. These were American movies dubbed in Italian. I had to rip the DVDs and convert them to VCD format so that he could watch his legally purchased DVDs. How annoying. He's considering buying a region free or a region selectable (better yet) DVD player. I just haven't found one that also has all the features of his current DVD player.
The MPAA would probably consider me a pirate (under the DMCA)for bypassing CSS to get around their region coding. Too bad for them - sue me. I wish the MPAA would get a clue and realize that the region coding annoys people.
Imagine a car dealership popping the tires of your new car after a few months since you didn't pay for the extended insurance!
You forgot the part where the dealership also installs a voice box that says,
"You must purchase our extended insurance in order to use your vehicle. Please dial 1-800-suxor to purchase our extended insurance."
The message is said everytime you open a car door.
Will they provide some tool to monitor bandwidth usage? Seems to me that if they will be metering usage then they should provide some feedback to users when they about to approach the cap and how much above the cap they have consumed. Without a bandwidth monitor users (who choose to allow above cap usage) could potentially accrue a large bill. Seems to me that there must be some law that states that metered usage of a product should have some means of telling the consumer how much has been used.
You dug a trench in my field. That's destruction of private property. Like I said at the beginning, it's a simple matter of ownership.
The railroads bought "surface" rights to the land. They "own" the "surface" of the land. This is differentiated in law compared to drilling and mining rights (according to the article). IANAL, but perhaps the difference is because of environmental impact or the reservation of keeping a potentially lucrative piece of property (if oil is buried underneath) while still being able to sell the surface.
The question before the courts (if it goes to court) would be: is 3+ feet under the surface (where the fiber is buried) still considered suface when compared to the unlimited sub-surface dealt with in the sale of property for mining/drilling?
It would be neat to see this played out in court.
Wow, /. discovers the 80's and satellite dishes.
Actually, the article is from CNET. That explains the delay much better. Slashdot can only post articles as fast as these news agencies report them.
BTW, for the humor impaired, although this post may contain fact, it was not meant to be serious.
Instead of taping a show myself and archiving it on bulky VHS, I download episodes of my favorite shows in either VCD or DivX and burn them to CD. MUCH better way to store video IMO. I can store 50+ VCD episodes in one CD spool. The equivalent for VHS tapes would require some type of cabinet.
The Voyager episodes have been posted regularly on alt.binaries.startrek. It is the only way I am able to view the show. Half way through this season, my local cable (Time Warner in Central NY) provider dropped UPN. Why? Not too sure. Their excuse was some contract conflict with UPN. However, most of the rest of NY still gets UPN.
This really upset me. I have been watching Voyager for several years now and, although I have become sick of the crappy writing, I wanted to see the rest of the show through to the end. If it wasn't for the hard working people who encoded and posted the show I would have missed out on the last half of the last season - the most important part of the entire series.
I don't have a problem with downloading the show from the net. If Time Warner didn't play games with their line-up then I wouldn't have had to resort to downloading. IMO, they take their customers for granted when they do things like this.
BTW, the VCD of the finale should be posted soon. Can't wait.
it's called a "Dial-up account", and I've been using it's security feature of random IP addresses (aka "dynamic" IP) for years. News sure travels slowly huh
Yeah, crappy ISPs can now advertise their high line drop rates as "security features".
Seems like a natural extension to me of the webcams in institutional babysitting places so parents can watch their kids -- of course, what does that say about schools?
I disagree. There are reasons I would want to watch my baby: make sure he is generally doing alright, make sure that he is not constantly crying (for whatever reason) and the sitters can't stop him, and to make sure that the sitters are not abusing him in some way. Babies are not self reliant; they need constant attention.
OTOH, older kids don't need the constant attention. They should be able to take care of themselves (at least for the school day). I would hope that I have been a good parent and educated my child enough to know the difference between right and wrong. If I am successful my child should not require constant supervision to make sure that they are not going to get in trouble.
Went to Walmart during lunch to buy some spray paints. When the cashier rang them up the register displayed, "Is the customer 18?" and the cashier had to respond (yes I am).
There's one more for your list.
Smell disipation in space is one thing I never thought of. It's bad enough having to wait the 10-20 seconds for a fart to dissipate in your office. All the time hoping someone doesn't walk in. How much worse is it on the ISS? Do the ventillation systems work just as good at removing odor as office ones do? If not, that's one way of making yourself very unpopular. Can you imagine lines like, "man, don't go into that capsule for at least an hour. Ivan was just in there."
Several years ago I saw a documentary about NYC water distribution. One of the quality controls was a woman who had some great sense of smell. She would smell samples of the water to determine if there was anything "bad" with it. Her job was so serious that she wore a white lab coat. Sorry, time has faded all the other details.
I have tried video caps and made my own DivXs. I know of those guides. Point is, first Hironimo's DivX's are from DVDs. Therefore the quality of the original video far exceeds any video captures. Second, I don't see any blochy-ness in the DivXs, even for transitions from Slow and Fast sceens. They are simply the best DivXs I have ever seen even for ones whose file sizes are double what Hironimo's are. AND, they are only 330 MB AND play well on slower computers. I don't know how he squeezes so much quality into so small a file size. I have tried using MakeFilm (automatic fast/slow file joiner) and have obtained good quality results but not small file sizes.
You haven't see Hironimo's (don't know who he is really) DVD rips of Farscape episodes. They're excellent quality, and are around 330MB for a ~45 minute video. They are the best I have ever seen. They also play nicely on my relatively slow K6 2-400 system which is jumpy for half of the other DivX's I sample. Anyone know where I can get a guide on what settings he uses?
So what is the process for getting generic words registered. Who will get news.biz or business.info?
Telescope relosution is limited by the diameter of the telescope. My old physics book (Serway - don't have it handy) had a formula in it where you could calculate the smallest detectable object given the aperature size and distance to an object. From what I remember, we don't have telescopes large enough (on Earth) to spot objects the size of people located on the moon. There was a slashdot article (someone in this thread links to it) that points to an article where scientists have photographed the moon landing site. However, these photots where taken by a moon orbiting spacecraft, not from Earth.
At the sort of near-space altitudes at which this thing will probably operate, Mach 5 is close to 5000 MPH.
So what speed is the shuttle going just as it leaves our atmosphere? I heard a figure once that it would be the equivalent of Mach 25. Not sure if they meant 25 times 714 or another value taking into account the density of the medium.
Which brings up something interesting up... If the speed of sound is faster in thinner atmospheres, then the speed of sound increases as you approach the threshold of space. However, once in space, the speed of sound should be essentially zero. Sounds confusing.
Anyone know where to get a Mir video without trees? How about in some other format than Window's Media? The combination of the two made me so frustrated that it ruined my night.