This one article has caused the letter 'X' to move from the 24th most frequently used letter (in the English language) to the 22nd spot, surpassing 'J' and 'K'. If this keeps up, Huffman encoding will have to be completely re-written.
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Coooool, I love nancies. The Last Stop for DMB news. Keep it up. Now that the tour is over, though, I probably won't be contributing as much to the 600,000 hits as I have been.:p
There's probably a lot of truth in that, but Red Hat weren't doing Enlightenment any favors either by including 0.15.5 instead of 0.16.4. The current version is way, way, way better and more stable than 15.5. So I'm relly glad to see that they're finally distributing the new release. It still doesn't play all that well with gnome (or vice versa) however, but I don't really have a problem with that.
Come on guys.....nowhere in that article did it say that CueCat has a 'Cloudy Future'. It said, "'If people take over our cat and start using their own databases, the world becomes cloudy,' says Mathews." TOTALLY different meaning. Talk about taking something out of context...jeez.
I use a Visor but I agree with you. I personally prefer the Palm V look. Nice & sleek & futuristic - as you say, futuristic. I do some Palm development at work so I talked my boss into buying a variety of different ones - you know, for testing, yeah that's the ticket. Unfortunately, this was before the IIIc came out:(. I used the V for a couple of weeks and then the Visor came in. The 8MB flash module won out over aesthetics and now my boss has the V. I do miss the look and size of the V tho.
b) What keeps it from flying out the *top* of the mirror? On Earth, gravity holds it down, what holds it 'down' in space? (Hint: there is no gravity)
Now the idea of putting some on the moon has merit. Less gravity = slower spin = less vibration = better images.
However, the best solution, I think is lots and lots of smaller (ie, amateur) telescopes constantly scanning under remote control when not being used for other observations. Sorta like Seti@Home with telescopes instead of computers.
This country (that would be the US) is really going over the top nowadays with polls. I don't know if the upcoming elections has anything to do with it or not (probably not). Some of the latest abuses are the real-time online polls during sporting events. I used to think that polls such as "Who do you think will win the Super Bowl?" were stupid enough. My response was always, "Let's wait until January and find out." But the real-time ones are even worse. Saw one the other night during a football game where a questionable call was challenged and reviewed on instant replay. During the review (while the play was being shown from every conceivable angle except Cup-cam (tm)) the viewers were encouraged to vote whether they thought the play would stand. As if that has any meaning at all. Hey everybody, if we just wait around for a couple of minutes we'll *know* the answer - we won't have to guess. It's not as if the officials said, "Well, we think the play should stand, but let's consult the ESPN online poll before we make a final ruling." It worries me that anybody would even bother to respond to a poll like that. (The kicker is that the play was overturned even though one of the replays clearly showed that the on-field official made the correct call. The poll was about 50/50, if you're curious.)
Few people know this. There is a wormhole in your dryer. Socks (and for some reason only socks do this) get sucked into the wormhole, discombobulated and come out as individual fibers under the keys of your keyboard, on your mouse rollers and in your bellybutton.
I think Steeltoe's is faster (allowing for the typo: s/i 0/i 10/) by a little bit b/c of the termination condition. Comparison against 0 is faster on a lot of processors. Or used to be anyway, not sure if this is still true.
I'd wager you'd fall to the ground. The cable, space station, etc would all be connected to the asteroid, but since your elevator car was magleved to the cable, you'd just drop. And this would happen anywhere, in or out of the Earth's asmosphere. Asmosphere=/=gravity field. Only outside of the atmosphere you'd have to deal with re-entry Yep, you'd drop no matter what. Required orbital velocity for all orbits below GEO is greater than the velocity you'd have by virtue of the Earth's rotation. You're pretty much fscked in or out of the atmosphere.
...so when you get to the top, you'll still be walking (not floating) and won't be able to drink those cool balls of water. Not true, you'd still be in freefall. Do you think satellites in GEO experience gravity? If so, why don't they fall?
That *is* pretty cool, but I can't understand why you would want to listen to the mp3 version if you had the cd already in your hand. I don't get it, somebody wave a cluestick at me.
Prevents a bot from spamming or DoSing/. I think. If that's the real reason, they could say so rather than inventing some fiction about giving others a fair chance to post.
There was a story the other day in the local paper about how rude cellphone user are. (NOTE: this is in the US - Florida to be exact) The article compared cellphone users to smokers[1] because they (we!) appear to have no regard for others. They'll take a call anywhere: in school, in church, in a movie theatre, etc. One example in the article was an elementary school teacher who was giving a math lesson. Just as she was reaching the critical concept she was trying to get across in the lecture, she is interrupted by Fur Elise or some such coming from one of the 7-year-old's backpack. "It's probably my Mom," he said.
I have to agree that this is rude. Rude of the mother to call during class and rude of the pupil to not turn the ringer off. I don't necessarily think it has anything to do with cellphones, however, it's just a symptom of rudeness in general. I hope that it's just us Yanks that behave this way and this is not a worldwide phnomenon, but I have my doubts.
But there is starting to be pretty severe lashback against cellphone usage here in the States. There are lots of bumper stickers that carry messages such as "Hang up the phone and drive" and I think I heard that one state outlawed driving while talking on the phone. This is in contrast to Europe and Asia, where I gather that a cellular phone is something of a status symbol.
[1] I mean no offense to smokers; I'm only paraphrasing the article.
This is certainly true. I'm not advocating that we should, just pointing out that we aren't. Which may come as a surprise to some people.
I can see arguments both ways. One one hand, it would be ironic if the galaxy were populated with thousands of races all of which were scared to send out a signal for fear of being overrun by little green men. On the other, it would be pretty presumptuous for one nation or group of people to decide to send out a message and risk the lives of every (future) being on the planet. Then on the gripping hand I wonder how hard it would be to obtain our exact location from a radio beam unless we told them where we were (which we did in the broadcast to M13). Could they narrow it down to a single star or only find out what direction we were in?
I recall having read (somewhere or other) that some radio astronomers were beginning to think that communication signals don't actually propagate very well across interstellar space.
IANARA, but I believe it depends on wavelength (freqency). Most SETI research is concentrating on wavelengths that are least attenuated by the interstellar medium. Stray signals such as TV & radio programming don't propagate very well for two reasons. One is that those wavelengths get absorbed more, and the other is that the signal follows the inverse square law: the signal decreases in intensity with the square of the distance from transmitter to receiver. A beam of focused radio energy (radar, essentially) would only be attenuated linearly with distance.
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This one article has caused the letter 'X' to move from the 24th most frequently used letter (in the English language) to the 22nd spot, surpassing 'J' and 'K'. If this keeps up, Huffman encoding will have to be completely re-written.
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Coooool, I love nancies. The Last Stop for DMB news. Keep it up. Now that the tour is over, though, I probably won't be contributing as much to the 600,000 hits as I have been.
There's probably a lot of truth in that, but Red Hat weren't doing Enlightenment any favors either by including 0.15.5 instead of 0.16.4. The current version is way, way, way better and more stable than 15.5. So I'm relly glad to see that they're finally distributing the new release. It still doesn't play all that well with gnome (or vice versa) however, but I don't really have a problem with that.
I agree. My point was that the story linked to in the article didn't say that as was implied by the headline.
Come on guys.....nowhere in that article did it say that CueCat has a 'Cloudy Future'. It said, "'If people take over our cat and start using their own databases, the world becomes cloudy,' says Mathews." TOTALLY different meaning. Talk about taking something out of context...jeez.
I use a Visor but I agree with you. I personally prefer the Palm V look. Nice & sleek & futuristic - as you say, futuristic. I do some Palm development at work so I talked my boss into buying a variety of different ones - you know, for testing, yeah that's the ticket. Unfortunately, this was before the IIIc came out :(. I used the V for a couple of weeks and then the Visor came in. The 8MB flash module won out over aesthetics and now my boss has the V. I do miss the look and size of the V tho.
No, it was an internet poll. With ESPN/ABC "Enhanced TV". Surprised they haven't patented *that*.
a) I don't need a physics lesson.
b) What keeps it from flying out the *top* of the mirror? On Earth, gravity holds it down, what holds it 'down' in space? (Hint: there is no gravity)
Now the idea of putting some on the moon has merit. Less gravity = slower spin = less vibration = better images.
However, the best solution, I think is lots and lots of smaller (ie, amateur) telescopes constantly scanning under remote control when not being used for other observations. Sorta like Seti@Home with telescopes instead of computers.
Uh, what's keeping all the mercury from flying off into space?
Btw, LMTs (on Earth) (*can*) track objects by means of a movable mirror.
This country (that would be the US) is really going over the top nowadays with polls. I don't know if the upcoming elections has anything to do with it or not (probably not). Some of the latest abuses are the real-time online polls during sporting events. I used to think that polls such as "Who do you think will win the Super Bowl?" were stupid enough. My response was always, "Let's wait until January and find out." But the real-time ones are even worse. Saw one the other night during a football game where a questionable call was challenged and reviewed on instant replay. During the review (while the play was being shown from every conceivable angle except Cup-cam (tm)) the viewers were encouraged to vote whether they thought the play would stand. As if that has any meaning at all. Hey everybody, if we just wait around for a couple of minutes we'll *know* the answer - we won't have to guess. It's not as if the officials said, "Well, we think the play should stand, but let's consult the ESPN online poll before we make a final ruling." It worries me that anybody would even bother to respond to a poll like that. (The kicker is that the play was overturned even though one of the replays clearly showed that the on-field official made the correct call. The poll was about 50/50, if you're curious.)
Where the HELL does that come from?
Few people know this. There is a wormhole in your dryer. Socks (and for some reason only socks do this) get sucked into the wormhole, discombobulated and come out as individual fibers under the keys of your keyboard, on your mouse rollers and in your bellybutton.
I think Steeltoe's is faster (allowing for the typo: s/i 0/i 10/) by a little bit b/c of the termination condition. Comparison against 0 is faster on a lot of processors. Or used to be anyway, not sure if this is still true.
Yah, I know.....see my reply to my own post. Doh.
Sorry, didn't mean Darwin. I meant OSX - everything but Darwin, basically.
No, that would be HURD. :)
No chance unless they port Darwin to PC hardware. And we all know that's not gonna happen.
Exactly my point. Do you have weight in a falling elevator?
My choice of the word "fall" was unfortunate. I intended it in the sense "fall to Earth".
I'd wager you'd fall to the ground. The cable, space station, etc would all be connected to the asteroid, but since your elevator car was magleved to the cable, you'd just drop. And this would happen anywhere, in or out of the Earth's asmosphere. Asmosphere=/=gravity field. Only outside of the atmosphere you'd have to deal with re-entry
...so when you get to the top, you'll still be walking (not floating) and won't be able to drink those cool balls of water.
Yep, you'd drop no matter what. Required orbital velocity for all orbits below GEO is greater than the velocity you'd have by virtue of the Earth's rotation. You're pretty much fscked in or out of the atmosphere.
Not true, you'd still be in freefall. Do you think satellites in GEO experience gravity? If so, why don't they fall?
That *is* pretty cool, but I can't understand why you would want to listen to the mp3 version if you had the cd already in your hand. I don't get it, somebody wave a cluestick at me.
Ahhhh, I see.....yes that *is* silly. Apologies for being dense.
Prevents a bot from spamming or DoSing /. I think. If that's the real reason, they could say so rather than inventing some fiction about giving others a fair chance to post.
There was a story the other day in the local paper about how rude cellphone user are. (NOTE: this is in the US - Florida to be exact) The article compared cellphone users to smokers[1] because they (we!) appear to have no regard for others. They'll take a call anywhere: in school, in church, in a movie theatre, etc. One example in the article was an elementary school teacher who was giving a math lesson. Just as she was reaching the critical concept she was trying to get across in the lecture, she is interrupted by Fur Elise or some such coming from one of the 7-year-old's backpack. "It's probably my Mom," he said.
I have to agree that this is rude. Rude of the mother to call during class and rude of the pupil to not turn the ringer off. I don't necessarily think it has anything to do with cellphones, however, it's just a symptom of rudeness in general. I hope that it's just us Yanks that behave this way and this is not a worldwide phnomenon, but I have my doubts.
But there is starting to be pretty severe lashback against cellphone usage here in the States. There are lots of bumper stickers that carry messages such as "Hang up the phone and drive" and I think I heard that one state outlawed driving while talking on the phone. This is in contrast to Europe and Asia, where I gather that a cellular phone is something of a status symbol.
[1] I mean no offense to smokers; I'm only paraphrasing the article.
What if you put a link on your page that says this is not a link to the DeCSS source code?
This is certainly true. I'm not advocating that we should, just pointing out that we aren't. Which may come as a surprise to some people.
I can see arguments both ways. One one hand, it would be ironic if the galaxy were populated with thousands of races all of which were scared to send out a signal for fear of being overrun by little green men. On the other, it would be pretty presumptuous for one nation or group of people to decide to send out a message and risk the lives of every (future) being on the planet. Then on the gripping hand I wonder how hard it would be to obtain our exact location from a radio beam unless we told them where we were (which we did in the broadcast to M13). Could they narrow it down to a single star or only find out what direction we were in?
I recall having read (somewhere or other) that some radio astronomers were beginning to think that communication signals don't actually propagate very well across interstellar space.
IANARA, but I believe it depends on wavelength (freqency). Most SETI research is concentrating on wavelengths that are least attenuated by the interstellar medium. Stray signals such as TV & radio programming don't propagate very well for two reasons. One is that those wavelengths get absorbed more, and the other is that the signal follows the inverse square law: the signal decreases in intensity with the square of the distance from transmitter to receiver. A beam of focused radio energy (radar, essentially) would only be attenuated linearly with distance.