Intelligence satellites, which are in high geosynchronous orbit.
Most intellegence satelites are in a low polar orbit, as you get a better resolution, and you can cover the entire planet with them. A satelite above the equator can't see the north side of buildings (in the northern hemisphere)
geosynchronus orbit is about 40,000km, which is high. There is only one height where a satelite is in geosyncronus orbit, so the "high" is rather redundant
You wouldn't say that if you lived in London. Every day people are treated worse then cattle by being cramed into overflowing delayed expensive trains.
Of course, you could say that China is only a bit ahead of the X-Prize contestants who are nearing the same goal. And since the X-Prize even has American citizens in it, one could argue that the U.S. is still far more evolved in its space usage for the common man to be able to participate where in China it is still a national effort.
Not to diss the xpreize in any way, but sending a capsule 100km up is a lot different then sending a capsule 100km up and accelerating sideways to orbital velocity - before decelerating back to 0mph.
:rolleyes:/me inserts "fix europe before exploring the new world" reference/me inserts "fix the trees before moving to the plans" reference/me inserts "fix the sea before moving on land" reference
100 years ago, flight wasn't exactly a useful thing, however because people used flight it slowly got cheaper, faster, more reliable and safer. Dont use it you dont learn from your mistakes.
Until reliable, powerful PC's with alternate OSes and applications suites are easily obtainable, the unwashed masses will continue to buy MS. Sad, but true.
No, the washed masses will buy windows. The unwashed masses sit on slashdot all day.
Here in the UK, since I was old enough to remember, we hardly ever (maybe once a year) get a "telemarketer" phoning up. We did get a lot of people phonging up for the "Plumb Center" once, about 3 or 4 a week, dialing 818 641 instead of 818 614. In the last 6 years I've never recieved a single telemarketer on my mobile phone.
Perhaps the fact that until recently (and always for buisnesses), the call initiator payed for the call - and that can be 30p/minute for landline - mobile numbers - had something to do with it
CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet."
"We will continue to fight these terrorists, and the rogue governments who harbor them, until the universe is safe, once and for all, and the security of the Neo-New Cosmic Order ensured."
It was one year ago today that the Death Star, perhaps the greatest symbol of the Empire's might, was destroyed in an attack by fanatic Rebels, who used small, single-person crafts to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable defenses. Thousands of mourners were on hand to remember and pay tribute to the victims and their families.
"We lost our innocence that day," reflected one mourner. "I guess we thought we were immune from the kind of violence that happens in other galaxies. We were wrong."
"I lost hundreds of buddies that day," said one teary-eyed Stormtrooper. "Guys whose only crime was trying make the Universe a safer place." Although the day was colored by sadness, the mourners found some relief in the news of a decisive victory over the Rebels.
In an attack led by Darth Vader, Empire forces were able to rout hundreds of Rebels from a network of caves underneath the surface of the planet Hoth. "We're not sure we got them all," says a Vader spokesman. "There are a lot of places to hide in those caves. But we've delivered a powerful blow to the terrorist's infrastructure, that's for sure. Today, the Empire has struck back."
Initial reports are unclear as to the fate of Luke Skywalker, a hero among the Rebels, who is rumored to have delivered the fatal blow to the Death Star. Skywalker, a former desert-dweller from the planet Tattooine, became a part of the Rebellion after family members were killed. Skywalker was trained by a militant wing of the Rebels, known as "Jedi Knights." Fanatical in their religious beliefs, the Jedi Knights claim to derive their power from the mystical "Force."
It's believed that Skywalker was specifically trained by infamous terrorist O bin Wankanobi. Wankanobi, occasionally called "Ben" and easily recognized by his bearded visage and long, flowing robes, achieved near-martyr status among the Rebels after his death last year during a spy mission. His more fervent followers believe that Wankanobi lives on within them today, some even claiming to hear his voice during times of duress.
The attack on the Death Star came shortly after the Empire's destruction of Alderstaan, a planet whose government was known to harbor terrorists. Responding to criticism over the total annihilation of the planet, Vader stated, "There is no middle ground in the War on Terror. Those who harbor terrorists are terrorists themselves. Alderaan was issued ample warning. The fight for continuing Freedom is often burdened by terrible cost." The cost of this war can still be seen today in the continuing efforts to build a coalition government on Tattooine. Longstanding animosities among the planets various ethnic groups, including the Jawas, Tusken Raiders and scattered human settlers, have been an impediment to the peace process. The Empire continues to maintain a small peace keeping force until a provisional government is finally in place.
Much of the difficulty in fighting the Rebel forces stems from their lack of a central organizing structure. "They don't play by the traditional rules of war," complained one spokesman. "They come in all shapes and sizes, united only by their single-minded desire to destroy the Empire before it destroys them."
The Emperor closed his comments today by stating that "the cowardly attack n the Death Star left a deep scar on the Empire. However, we will not stop fighting until every last evildoer has been brought to justice." He paused for several moments, wiping away a tear and then added with determination, "We will never forget."
"I wish we could all just get along," said one of the mourners. "But it's hard to offer an olive branch to a cult of religious fanatics whose main tool is violence and who insist on calling us the Dark Side."
Or you could buy a 52" plasma, and a zandar which takes 16 inputs and puts them up on the screen.
Better would be 12 inpputs into both the zandar and a matrix, and the output from the matrix to input #13 on the zandar. Then you can see 12 channels at once and have the thirteenth channel magnified in the middle at 4* size.
Perhaps when you are given so much freedom, some people abuse that freedom? When you arent given any freedom, you dont know why you would not abuse what little freedom you have.
Slashdot Mirror
This is slashdot, it's not meant to make sense
The file is forbidden by the robots.txt file.
A sensible precaution, I'm sure that spam harvesters pay attention to robots.txt.
They get the forbidden pages and look at them first, as thats where all the juicy stuff will be.
Understanding should be the first aspect to any solution.
No, the solution is to throw more and more resources into the void and hope something useful comes out. Like Social Security, or Iraq.
Yes, but Star Trek (TM) is a trademark, and you always have to acknowlege trademarks.
*Star Trek (TM) is a Trade Mark of Paramount Pictures
strongly believe that if September 11 showed us anything
*plonk*
Yahoo say Tall people earn more. The BBC say Short people earn less. I guess its half full/half empty
You wouldn't say that if you lived in London. Every day people are treated worse then cattle by being cramed into overflowing delayed expensive trains.
The report published on Wednesday found that people using public transport faced a "daily trauma" and were forced to travel in "intolerable conditions".
Increase the number of people on mass transit and you get more accidents.
Theres a difference between democracy and mob rule
Of course, you could say that China is only a bit ahead of the X-Prize contestants who are nearing the same goal. And since the X-Prize even has American citizens in it, one could argue that the U.S. is still far more evolved in its space usage for the common man to be able to participate where in China it is still a national effort.
Not to diss the xpreize in any way, but sending a capsule 100km up is a lot different then sending a capsule 100km up and accelerating sideways to orbital velocity - before decelerating back to 0mph.
Sub orbital (x-prize) is easier then orbital.
Could I get a copy on this floppy disk?
about 1,286,975,468 people
About? What, 10 significant figures isn't accurate enough for you?
:rolleyes: /me inserts "fix europe before exploring the new world" reference /me inserts "fix the trees before moving to the plans" reference /me inserts "fix the sea before moving on land" reference
etc.
100 years ago, flight wasn't exactly a useful thing, however because people used flight it slowly got cheaper, faster, more reliable and safer. Dont use it you dont learn from your mistakes.
people sit ontop of a several story tall candle and light it under their asses there's a big risk involved.
Especially after a curry and a few cans of lager
High Definition?
Multi Screen?
Come on, we need more then Petabyte storage on the desktop
RIMMER: What's wrong with you? Ah, it's November! Nearly time for your bath!
Until reliable, powerful PC's with alternate OSes and applications suites are easily obtainable, the unwashed masses will continue to buy MS. Sad, but true.
No, the washed masses will buy windows. The unwashed masses sit on slashdot all day.
Here in the UK, since I was old enough to remember, we hardly ever (maybe once a year) get a "telemarketer" phoning up. We did get a lot of people phonging up for the "Plumb Center" once, about 3 or 4 a week, dialing 818 641 instead of 818 614. In the last 6 years I've never recieved a single telemarketer on my mobile phone.
Perhaps the fact that until recently (and always for buisnesses), the call initiator payed for the call - and that can be 30p/minute for landline - mobile numbers - had something to do with it
It's not mine, read it a year or so back and found it floating arround usenet
CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet."
"We will continue to fight these terrorists, and the rogue governments who harbor them, until the universe is safe, once and for all, and the security of the Neo-New Cosmic Order ensured."
It was one year ago today that the Death Star, perhaps the greatest symbol of the Empire's might, was destroyed in an attack by fanatic Rebels, who used small, single-person crafts to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable defenses. Thousands of mourners were on hand to remember and pay tribute to the victims and their families.
"We lost our innocence that day," reflected one mourner. "I guess we thought we were immune from the kind of violence that happens in other galaxies. We were wrong."
"I lost hundreds of buddies that day," said one teary-eyed Stormtrooper. "Guys whose only crime was trying make the Universe a safer place." Although the day was colored by sadness, the mourners found some relief in the news of a decisive victory over the Rebels.
In an attack led by Darth Vader, Empire forces were able to rout hundreds of Rebels from a network of caves underneath the surface of the planet Hoth. "We're not sure we got them all," says a Vader spokesman. "There are a lot of places to hide in those caves. But we've delivered a powerful blow to the terrorist's infrastructure, that's for sure. Today, the Empire has struck back."
Initial reports are unclear as to the fate of Luke Skywalker, a hero among the Rebels, who is rumored to have delivered the fatal blow to the Death Star. Skywalker, a former desert-dweller from the planet Tattooine, became a part of the Rebellion after family members were killed. Skywalker was trained by a militant wing of the Rebels, known as "Jedi Knights." Fanatical in their religious beliefs, the Jedi Knights claim to derive their power from the mystical "Force."
It's believed that Skywalker was specifically trained by infamous terrorist O bin Wankanobi. Wankanobi, occasionally called "Ben" and easily recognized by his bearded visage and long, flowing robes, achieved near-martyr status among the Rebels after his death last year during a spy mission. His more fervent followers believe that Wankanobi lives on within them today, some even claiming to hear his voice during times of duress.
The attack on the Death Star came shortly after the Empire's destruction of Alderstaan, a planet whose government was known to harbor terrorists. Responding to criticism over the total annihilation of the planet, Vader stated, "There is no middle ground in the War on Terror. Those who harbor terrorists are terrorists themselves. Alderaan was issued ample warning. The fight for continuing Freedom is often burdened by terrible cost." The cost of this war can still be seen today in the continuing efforts to build a coalition government on Tattooine. Longstanding animosities among the planets various ethnic groups, including the Jawas, Tusken Raiders and scattered human settlers, have been an impediment to the peace process. The Empire continues to maintain a small peace keeping force until a provisional government is finally in place.
Much of the difficulty in fighting the Rebel forces stems from their lack of a central organizing structure. "They don't play by the traditional rules of war," complained one spokesman. "They come in all shapes and sizes, united only by their single-minded desire to destroy the Empire before it destroys them."
The Emperor closed his comments today by stating that "the cowardly attack n the Death Star left a deep scar on the Empire. However, we will not stop fighting until every last evildoer has been brought to justice." He paused for several moments, wiping away a tear and then added with determination, "We will never forget."
"I wish we could all just get along," said one of the mourners. "But it's hard to offer an olive branch to a cult of religious fanatics whose main tool is violence and who insist on calling us the Dark Side."
Or you could buy a 52" plasma, and a zandar which takes 16 inputs and puts them up on the screen.
Better would be 12 inpputs into both the zandar and a matrix, and the output from the matrix to input #13 on the zandar. Then you can see 12 channels at once and have the thirteenth channel magnified in the middle at 4* size.
What, beer and coding dont go well together?
American-made computer
Taiwan
American high-speed broadband
Demon Internet, a UK company. Japan has better broadband anyway - 8Mbit for 30/month style.
American keyboard
Shift-2 is ", shift-' is @, shift-3 is and z is zed, not zee. Also its probably made in China
American enemities
Dunno what an enemity is, but there are plenty of ammenities in Swansea.
Perhaps when you are given so much freedom, some people abuse that freedom? When you arent given any freedom, you dont know why you would not abuse what little freedom you have.
Also, Perhaps Jails are too cushy?