Agree. The reason that I mentioned _rf and ZAAG is that the post also requests "some other kind of compressed music format" and many mp3 players can play XMs and MODs as well (eg. winamp,sonique).
Excellent selection! I was just about to post some of these *g*. I can make some further recommendations:
Total Eclipse -- Excellent Group releasing all kinds of electronic music (searchable by style)
rohformat -- IMHO the best minimal techno group out there. Try release #12 or #4.
ZAAG -- they say: "group specialising in noise inspired music. Zaag means 'saw' in Dutch, and i guess that kinda explains why we're called that way (ever thought about the beautiful noises a saw can create?)." Ever wondered what JPG files sound like ? Try release #7 or #17.
SLiCE -- Some nice acid techno/trance. Try "Love at first Sight" or "303 years ahead" in the XM/MOD section.
tanith.org -- Tanith is a german Techno DJ, playing several different styles (minimal techno, breakbeat, 2step). You can download some DJ sets from his homepage (including playlists).
There are tons of more groups and individuals out there, just follow the links...
"...the Propulsion Module is now intended as one among many sources of propulsion that will be available to Station operators. In addition to propulsion supplied by Zvezda and Russia's Progress resupply capsules, Hawes said,Station reboost also will be provided by visiting Space Shuttles and the planned European and Japanese orbital transfer vehicles."
The additional PM will relax the schedule for the visiting spacecraft and add a fallback option, should planned visits get delayed.
IMO government should concentrate on exploring new, risky technologies (too risky to make a business of) while industry focuses on the proven technologies. The NASA X-33 project seems to just do that. Of course, one will see many failures on new technologies, but that's usually the case in any science. The key in science is not to give up too early. I'd consider it great luck, if the first prototype would work as desired.
How did LM prevent other companies from building spacecraft ? (this is a serious question).
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Admittedly, they did know that there were spices to be found in India. We (pretty much) know there's water on Mars - let's go there and see what we can do with it!
Yes, but there was a shortage of spices in europe at that time (they were extremely expensive). Now I cannot see a shortage of water here. Are there any resources that we are short of, or that are extremely expensive ? Maybe oil in some future, but there is no oil on mars.
The only thing that mars seems to offer is room for expansion and reduced gravity.
Of course, we probably just haven't examined it close enough.
Agree. The one thing that Win95/NT did good was efficient use of screen real estate. Active Desktop was a drawback in this regard. They control panel on the screen shot manages to cover almost the whole screen only to give you 10 options to choose from. Even if I have a big monitor, I don't want cover the whole screen with "control panel".
The font that says "Control Panel" looks nice, however.
In my eyes GNOME icons look waay TOO WASHED OUT. They have to little contrast and are thus hard to recognize. After all, they are not icons but almost real pictures. Real pictures are not suited for the job of conveying a message fast, that's what ICONS were invented for (icons = as simple as possible, not: as detailed as possible).
For fonts, colors etc. use CSS. These will not interfere with browsers that do not support it. Make sure that you use an external CSS file - do not put CSS code inline. This has the added benefit that changing your style for the whole website requires only changes in that single CSS file.
Try to limit Javascript as much as possible, only use it for added value, not for essential things. Many people switch off JS, because of all those annoying popup ads.
Do not design your site for "800x600" or any fixed size. It will annoy the users of large monitors, that do not maximize their browser windows.
To state the obvious: The website will not be visited because of its style, but because of its content. The more often a user visits your site, the less important is the design - it will even annoy users if it slows down their browser. Of course, if you think that your users visit your site only once anyway, then you should get the most flashy, cutting edge design possible.
Users will not complain if your site locks them out (unless you *really* have valuable content), they simply quit and never come back. Ask yourself: how often have you contacted a webmaster because of broken HTML/JS/etc ?
Never heard of it and I don't really see any significant use for diamonds in many things except for drills and rings what about titanium?
Diamond is sometimes used as window in infrared spectroscopy, because of it's high transmission in the far infrared regime (windows are needed to seperate the vacuum chamber from the spectrometer and detector). Unfortunately such windows cost about $5000 each (1 cm diameter).
I was talking about plain old (bulk) diffusion, in that case no voltage is required. AFAIK usually one gets MTBF figures by artificial aging, which is baking at certain (higher) temperatures. Baking speeds the aging process and makes large MTBF figures measureable in finite time. This method is used with all kinds of other goods, I assume chip manufacturers use it as well.
Of course the "aged" samples are not sold! (unless one wants to pre-age for some reason)
A fast compression algorithm is not as important as a fast decompression, because compression is only used while creating the image, while decompression is used every time one displays the image. Because of this, the compression algorithm was probably not that much optimized.
AFAIK, one key advantage of fractal compression over JPEG is, that it is resolution independent, i.e. you can zoom in without seeing pixel artifacts. This is very useful if you intend to display it on devices with vastly different resolutions (like screen and printer). Of course, the picture details have to be there in the first hand.
Digital electronics don't work that way. There's no such thing as "prone to errors" or slowly breaking down. Either it works or it doesn't.
Digital electronics is still made of analog transistors, which are made of diffenrently doped Si-regions (n/p). Every increase in temperature will increase the mobility of dope inpurities and thus change the n and p regions. This can lead to damaged transistors or transistors that do not provide the proper voltage levels. Of course there is a safety margin in voltage levels, so it will take considerable diffusion of impurities to render the electronics useless. Breakdown of digital logic will occur suddenly (thats probably what you mean).
Basically, every temperature decrease will increase the lifetime of ICs.
I don't have to reboot to change my IP address on my WinNT4.0 box (It doesn't ask to). However I remember that it used to ask for reboot when I was running IPX+TCPIP (now its only TCPIP).
Last time I installed an ethernet card on a win98 box, I had to reboot 3 times! (times 5, for the unsuccessful tries).
I think it's basically due to lazy programmers - they only readin configuration on startup of program/service. Many programs seem to ask for reboot as a "safty measure" - I often refuse to do so and they work anyway.
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Agree. The reason that I mentioned _rf and ZAAG is that the post also requests "some other kind of compressed music format" and many mp3 players can play XMs and MODs as well (eg. winamp,sonique).
Now I would kill for a site with just "sample" MP3s and the like, designed specifically for consumption by end users.
The german label Kanzleramt already does this. They use realaudio and Shockwave though (you cannot d/l, only listen online).
The Dance Music Resource Pages offer short mp3 samples of the records they offer.
- Total Eclipse -- Excellent Group releasing all kinds of electronic music (searchable by style)
- rohformat -- IMHO the best minimal techno group out there. Try release #12 or #4.
- ZAAG -- they say: "group specialising in noise inspired music. Zaag means 'saw' in Dutch, and i guess that kinda explains why we're called that way (ever thought about the beautiful noises a saw can create?)." Ever wondered what JPG files sound like ? Try release #7 or #17.
- SLiCE -- Some nice acid techno/trance. Try "Love at first Sight" or "303 years ahead" in the XM/MOD section.
- tanith.org -- Tanith is a german Techno DJ, playing several different styles (minimal techno, breakbeat, 2step). You can download some DJ sets from his homepage (including playlists).
There are tons of more groups and individuals out there, just follow the links...the article says (emphasis mine):
"...the Propulsion Module is now intended as one among many sources of propulsion that will be available to Station operators. In addition to propulsion supplied by Zvezda and Russia's Progress resupply capsules, Hawes said,Station reboost also will be provided by visiting Space Shuttles and the planned European and Japanese orbital transfer vehicles."
The additional PM will relax the schedule for the visiting spacecraft and add a fallback option, should planned visits get delayed.
IMO government should concentrate on exploring new, risky technologies (too risky to make a business of) while industry focuses on the proven technologies. The NASA X-33 project seems to just do that. Of course, one will see many failures on new technologies, but that's usually the case in any science. The key in science is not to give up too early. I'd consider it great luck, if the first prototype would work as desired.
How did LM prevent other companies from building spacecraft ? (this is a serious question).
Admittedly, they did know that there were spices to be found in India. We (pretty much) know there's water on Mars - let's go there and see what we can do with it!
Yes, but there was a shortage of spices in europe at that time (they were extremely expensive). Now I cannot see a shortage of water here. Are there any resources that we are short of, or that are extremely expensive ? Maybe oil in some future, but there is no oil on mars.
The only thing that mars seems to offer is room for expansion and reduced gravity. Of course, we probably just haven't examined it close enough.
There is even a NASA project, that will try to produce propellant (in a small scale) on mars: Mars in-situ Propellant Production (MIPP)
The US Geological Survey might have what you need.
Agree. The one thing that Win95/NT did good was efficient use of screen real estate. Active Desktop was a drawback in this regard. They control panel on the screen shot manages to cover almost the whole screen only to give you 10 options to choose from. Even if I have a big monitor, I don't want cover the whole screen with "control panel". The font that says "Control Panel" looks nice, however.
If they did, they would experience the most massive DDoS "attack" in history.
In my eyes GNOME icons look waay TOO WASHED OUT. They have to little contrast and are thus hard to recognize. After all, they are not icons but almost real pictures. Real pictures are not suited for the job of conveying a message fast, that's what ICONS were invented for (icons = as simple as possible, not: as detailed as possible).
guess why it is called *Open* GL...
some examples: emacs, gcc, povray, gimp, setiathome, netscape(try loading a 500 comment /. article in nested mode)
John Carmack is brilliant...
I just wonder whether his next step will be to pioneer space travel now that he has read that rocket science book.I remember that Harddisks occasionally got renamed to "Lazarus" when they had many filesystem errors and you ran the filesystem check.
For fonts, colors etc. use CSS. These will not interfere with browsers that do not support it. Make sure that you use an external CSS file - do not put CSS code inline. This has the added benefit that changing your style for the whole website requires only changes in that single CSS file.
Try to limit Javascript as much as possible, only use it for added value, not for essential things. Many people switch off JS, because of all those annoying popup ads.
Do not design your site for "800x600" or any fixed size. It will annoy the users of large monitors, that do not maximize their browser windows.
To state the obvious: The website will not be visited because of its style, but because of its content. The more often a user visits your site, the less important is the design - it will even annoy users if it slows down their browser. Of course, if you think that your users visit your site only once anyway, then you should get the most flashy, cutting edge design possible.
Users will not complain if your site locks them out (unless you *really* have valuable content), they simply quit and never come back. Ask yourself: how often have you contacted a webmaster because of broken HTML/JS/etc ?
Compared to other techniques for producing diamond, CVD is probably cheap.
Never heard of it and I don't really see any significant use for diamonds in many things except for drills and rings what about titanium?
Diamond is sometimes used as window in infrared spectroscopy, because of it's high transmission in the far infrared regime (windows are needed to seperate the vacuum chamber from the spectrometer and detector). Unfortunately such windows cost about $5000 each (1 cm diameter).I was talking about plain old (bulk) diffusion, in that case no voltage is required. AFAIK usually one gets MTBF figures by artificial aging, which is baking at certain (higher) temperatures. Baking speeds the aging process and makes large MTBF figures measureable in finite time. This method is used with all kinds of other goods, I assume chip manufacturers use it as well. Of course the "aged" samples are not sold! (unless one wants to pre-age for some reason)
..._compression_ algorithm was, erm, slooooow.
A fast compression algorithm is not as important as a fast decompression, because compression is only used while creating the image, while decompression is used every time one displays the image. Because of this, the compression algorithm was probably not that much optimized.AFAIK, one key advantage of fractal compression over JPEG is, that it is resolution independent, i.e. you can zoom in without seeing pixel artifacts. This is very useful if you intend to display it on devices with vastly different resolutions (like screen and printer). Of course, the picture details have to be there in the first hand.
Digital electronics don't work that way. There's no such thing as "prone to errors" or slowly breaking down. Either it works or it doesn't.
Digital electronics is still made of analog transistors, which are made of diffenrently doped Si-regions (n/p). Every increase in temperature will increase the mobility of dope inpurities and thus change the n and p regions. This can lead to damaged transistors or transistors that do not provide the proper voltage levels. Of course there is a safety margin in voltage levels, so it will take considerable diffusion of impurities to render the electronics useless. Breakdown of digital logic will occur suddenly (thats probably what you mean). Basically, every temperature decrease will increase the lifetime of ICs.I don't have to reboot to change my IP address on my WinNT4.0 box (It doesn't ask to). However I remember that it used to ask for reboot when I was running IPX+TCPIP (now its only TCPIP).
Last time I installed an ethernet card on a win98 box, I had to reboot 3 times! (times 5, for the unsuccessful tries). I think it's basically due to lazy programmers - they only readin configuration on startup of program/service. Many programs seem to ask for reboot as a "safty measure" - I often refuse to do so and they work anyway.SETI@Home announced a planned 2 hour outage for today 13:00 UT. Right now it's OK.
"Life will find a way."
Indeed. Live does so by using a brute force attack using a masssive parallel approach. It just tries all possibilities until it succeeds.