The important part is Calculations made by Greg Laughlin of the University of California at Santa Cruz show that an Earth-sized planet could survive in a stable orbit between the two gas giants.
This of course doesn't mean that we found anything only that when we are able to look for earth-like planets this is our best bet for hitting the jackpot.
--
/me does a double-take..
Just because it is possible for a frog to survive on a patch of grass dividing a 6 lane highway, does not mean that this is the best place to look for frogs.
Currently, we are using radar guns to observe speeding tractor-trailers, and speculating that due to the theoretical possibility of frogs living in the adjacent grass, that's where we should focus our efforts.
If you want to look for frogs, you go to a swamp, marsh or pond. Now, where are equivalent environments for finding Earth-sized planets? And what do we need to find them?
I would agree that a matching counter is a compliment, but not if it comes after a pay-cut. The pay cut means they do not respect you. The counter says they need you anyway. At least, that's how I'd feel about it.
So the key to Microsoft's succeess in the Console market is Movie Piracy?? That's great news!! Now, if someone can just come up with a hack that allows the XboX to play mp3 CD's, we'll be all set.
Yessiree Bob! Microsoft, in direct legal confrontation with the RIAA, MPAA, Disney and Sony, all at the same time? JOY!
In the REDmond corner, the Divine Right to Innovate; and in the BLUE corner, Content Protection; in a steel-cage fight to the finish!
Man, this will be better than the early Tyson fights.. Yeah..
"When the whales fight, the shirmp are in big trouble" - Korean proverb.
Yes, but you see, if I filter by author, I will exclude myself from the possibility of reading other stories posted by Timothy. This isn't as great a loss as it might seem, but the point is, the stuff that gets posted should be interesting, or, as in the case of Jon Katz, written with some semblance of literacy.
I like most of the book reviews that get posted, so I don't want to limit that. On occasion, Timothy might funnel forth something interesting, so I don't want to shut that door either.
The purpose of the editorial staff is to pick and choose through the submitted articles, and to post the stuff that seems interesting and 'of quality'. This is neither IMO, and so, I just want an explanation. I can typically see something of value in the sposted stories. Even the ones that do not interest me, I can imagine being of interest to others. But this review is so badly written that it actually turned me off to the book.
It was bad enough for me to stick my neck out to multiple 'flamebait' and 'troll' ratings, even though I am completely sincere in my question.
I just want to know what it was about this story that appealed to Timothy enough to put it on the page. Is he a big fan of the author? The story-line? Is he friends with the person who submitted the review? Is he filling a quota?
This story is BAD. Very bad. It's poorly written, it's uninteresting, it is, IMO, a waste of space. I genuinely want to see Timothy's reasoning, to try and understand. And I'm willing to burn precious Karma to do it.. So, Timothy, if you're reading this, go as far as a bitchslap if you must, but do explain to me why you posted this story. I sincerely want to know.
And notice, I'm not making fun of you, I'm not being insulting (not intentionally, and not maliciously, unlike many others who mock you regularly). I am being a bit snide, but this is my way of trying to be a little humorous, not mean.
Please, tell me how and why did this get posted? Is it a joke? Nepotism of some sort? Has the site been hacked by 6th graders again? This is the worst, most poorly written, least valuable or interesting story EVER to make the front page. Ever.
There are, reportedly, a quarter million readers of Slashdot. Please explain, why are you subjecting them all to this story? Are you trying to destroy the reputation you have built over the last several years? Have you lost that last shred of respect you once had for your visitors? Are you implying that perhaps, a 'for pay' version of the site would be better able to provide quality content, while the unwashed, freeloading masses are left with stories like this one?
Why? Why did you do this to us? What was the thought process? Whose decision was it? Please, out of respect for sentience, please explain.
Do you ever exceed the speed limit while driving? Granted, the speed limit isn't in the LEGO FAQ, but it's a rule, a Law, and yet you break it with regularity, don't you?
Get over your 'leet skilz of FAQtoid enforcement, and learn to appreciate life without being an anal-retentive bastich. LegoS are fun to play with. (Yes, that sentence ends on a preposition. Wanna spank me?)
Take a fresh, large grape, and cut it in half so that there is still a piece of grape-skin connecting the halves. Place this on a plate, and microwave on HIGH. Watch the pretty light-show.
A similarly interesting, and eventually decorative result, can be achieved by microwaving AOL CDs..
The IRS can't require you to be successful as a business.. If you go bankrupt, you get to write it off.. In fact.. Hell, look at Enron.. It even works on a macro scale.
All you 'have to do' is pay your taxes. You can pursue profitability.. But no one will ever require you to be successful.
To wit: If you buy a multifamily home and renovate it, you can write off the cost of the renovation. You do not, at any point, HAVE TO have tennants.
If you run your own business, such as drumming up business for someone else, you can claim milage, gasoline, and a 1/4th of your living space expenses as a business expense..
If your business consists of putting up ugly signage, but you get thousands of dollars back from the Fed in taxes, wouldn't you do it?
What if you really needed the money.. I mean, so badly that you would be willing to walk around at 3am, tacking paper to signs.. You'd do it.
You may work in the RF industry, but I have a TV.
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Wireless Monitors?
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· Score: 2
What is the "RF Industry" anyway?
I have cable internet, but not cable TV.. My parents have satellite TV, I have an antenna. Both my folks and I get our video signals over the air, and none of us have cancer or cooked intestines.. So I'm sceptical of your scepticism.
Further, I work in the "Power Generation Industry" as a software engineer.. And even though to do my job I need to know nothing about power generation itself, I'll tell you for a fact that electricity can also be transmitted over the air. If done properly, it's even quite harmless.
That said, this is just a web-tablet running something like VNC or Terminal Server. So, while this is not sending video over the air, it serves as though it did. So what's the difference?
As for the plausibility of transmitting video signals wirelessly.. Well, been to Radio Shack lately? How about the X-10 wireless video camera website?
My (better) Review
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Resident Evil
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Resident Evil, starring Milla Jovovich (yummy), is based on the video game of the same name. I've never played the game, but I assume it's pretty much the same general idea..
The plot is mind-numbingly simple: The Umbrella Corporation is the biggest company in the US. It makes all sorts of consumer products, and is involved in military tech, and viral and genetic research.
Deep underground beneath Raccoon City (yep, that's what it's called) is The Hive, Umbrella Corp's secret research facility..
The movie opens with someone stealing what turns out to be a mutagenic virus from one of the labs, and leaving a broken vial of the nasty stuff to cover their tracks. In response to the contamination, the facility AI brain seals all exits and kills all occupants.
There's really not much more to it than that.. We get to see Yummy Milla passed out naked in a shower stall, in a nice mansion, due to having been gassed by the Red Queen (the AI code name) defense system. We get a gratuitous nipple shot, and then the action picks up as an Alien's-style special forces team arrives to figure out what hapenned in The Hive.
What follows is a joy-ride of mindless violence, cool special effects and lots and lots of zombies.
There's a few plot-related explanations that strangely hold together pretty well, but 'plot' is not what this movie is about.. It's about action, suspense, effects, soundtrack, and of course, Yummy Milla in a short evening dress doing acrobatic fight scenes.
It's been said that "Every Breath You Take" is the perfect Pop Song.. It's devoid of content, but it has everything a great pop song needs to succeed. A good beat and melody, plenty of rhyming and easy to recall lyrics, and a simple structure that doesn't test even the most mundane of brains.
This movie is the perfect Popcorn Movie. It's got a non stop mix of suspense and shock, which alternates with loud gunfire, growling monsters, and the occasional computer-screen overlay.. It's a study in brilliant, yet vapid, entertainment.
It's Night of the Living Dead, on Methamphetamine.
And best of all, it's more than just a movie about the game "Resident Evil". All you need to do is replace Yummy Milla with a male, and the openning "virus theft" sequence with an experiment in trans-dimensional travel, and suddenly, it's also a movie about the game "Doom".. Seriously, right down to the final scene, except there isn't a bunny-head on a stick anywhere in sight..
If you've got $8.50 burning a hole in your pocket, this is a fun, albeit mindless 2 hours on which to spend it.
If it doesn't have basis self-preservation instincts that will allow it to elude the middle-managers, who invariably will try to write on it with a PERMANENT MARKER, then it really isn't 'smart', just 'expensive'..
Right.. Seems that on MODEMS (not LANs) the 'on' of the LED is a baud transition, not a bit marker. Granted, so easy enough to decode Huffmann encoding that even silicon can do it, but still.. I just don't buy this as a serious means of breeching security. It's novel, and it even might work at very low thruput rates, but when you're dealing with fast data rates, the response of the LED will mangle whatever pattern it is trying to represent..
Ok, so by sensing the LED, you can tell that transmission took place.. So what? The LED's don't indicate the data pattern, just the transmission pattern.. You can't tell a 1 from a 0 by looking at the LEDs..
It makes more sense to SQID the CRT from a mile away..
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
2) Wasn't this posted before??
3) Imagine a beowulf cluster of Kathleen Fent's. A veritable harrem..
3) Can we see pics of her, nake and petrified, covered in hot grits.
and, the actual point:
4) When some red-neck hick rents a big-screen at a sporting event in order to propose, it's mildly sweet.. When the arena manager does it for himself, it's downright unprofessional. You really should have hired a sky-writer or something..
I kiss you! All your babe are belong to Taco! Congrats.. We now return you to a/. sans Taco's personal life.
So hiring a law firm, and keeping them on 'retainer' is a valid business practice?
Say I have a legal issue with someone.. I 'retain' the best lawyer in town.. Now, my legal adversary can't use that lawyer because it would be a conflict of interest for the lawyer to take up that commission.. But I'm not actually using the lawyer.. I'm paying a lower fee, to 'retain' him, to have him available if I want..
Microsoft isn't doing anything expressly 'wrong' here.. No more so than a local Pizza Hut constantly calling a local Domino's to tie up their phone line so no customers could place an order. Classic.. Brilliant.. And thanks to past campaign contributions, perfectly legal..
"You have to watch the violence Lisa.. Else you'll never become desensitized to it" -- Bart
Slashdot Mirror
The important part is
Calculations made by Greg Laughlin of the University of California at Santa Cruz show that an Earth-sized planet could survive in a stable orbit between the two gas giants.
This of course doesn't mean that we found anything only that when we are able to look for earth-like planets this is our best bet for hitting the jackpot.
--
/me does a double-take..
Just because it is possible for a frog to survive on a patch of grass dividing a 6 lane highway, does not mean that this is the best place to look for frogs.
Currently, we are using radar guns to observe speeding tractor-trailers, and speculating that due to the theoretical possibility of frogs living in the adjacent grass, that's where we should focus our efforts.
If you want to look for frogs, you go to a swamp, marsh or pond. Now, where are equivalent environments for finding Earth-sized planets? And what do we need to find them?
I would agree that a matching counter is a compliment, but not if it comes after a pay-cut. The pay cut means they do not respect you. The counter says they need you anyway. At least, that's how I'd feel about it.
So the key to Microsoft's succeess in the Console market is Movie Piracy?? That's great news!! Now, if someone can just come up with a hack that allows the XboX to play mp3 CD's, we'll be all set.
Yessiree Bob! Microsoft, in direct legal confrontation with the RIAA, MPAA, Disney and Sony, all at the same time? JOY!
In the REDmond corner, the Divine Right to Innovate; and in the BLUE corner, Content Protection; in a steel-cage fight to the finish!
Man, this will be better than the early Tyson fights.. Yeah..
"When the whales fight, the shirmp are in big trouble" - Korean proverb.
Yes, but you see, if I filter by author, I will exclude myself from the possibility of reading other stories posted by Timothy. This isn't as great a loss as it might seem, but the point is, the stuff that gets posted should be interesting, or, as in the case of Jon Katz, written with some semblance of literacy.
I like most of the book reviews that get posted, so I don't want to limit that. On occasion, Timothy might funnel forth something interesting, so I don't want to shut that door either.
The purpose of the editorial staff is to pick and choose through the submitted articles, and to post the stuff that seems interesting and 'of quality'.
This is neither IMO, and so, I just want an explanation. I can typically see something of value in the sposted stories. Even the ones that do not interest me, I can imagine being of interest to others. But this review is so badly written that it actually turned me off to the book.
It was bad enough for me to stick my neck out to multiple 'flamebait' and 'troll' ratings, even though I am completely sincere in my question.
I just want to know what it was about this story that appealed to Timothy enough to put it on the page. Is he a big fan of the author? The story-line? Is he friends with the person who submitted the review? Is he filling a quota?
This story is BAD. Very bad. It's poorly written, it's uninteresting, it is, IMO, a waste of space. I genuinely want to see Timothy's reasoning, to try and understand. And I'm willing to burn precious Karma to do it.. So, Timothy, if you're reading this, go as far as a bitchslap if you must, but do explain to me why you posted this story. I sincerely want to know.
And notice, I'm not making fun of you, I'm not being insulting (not intentionally, and not maliciously, unlike many others who mock you regularly). I am being a bit snide, but this is my way of trying to be a little humorous, not mean.
I'm truly curious as to why this story exists.
Please, tell me how and why did this get posted? Is it a joke? Nepotism of some sort? Has the site been hacked by 6th graders again? This is the worst, most poorly written, least valuable or interesting story EVER to make the front page. Ever.
There are, reportedly, a quarter million readers of Slashdot. Please explain, why are you subjecting them all to this story? Are you trying to destroy the reputation you have built over the last several years? Have you lost that last shred of respect you once had for your visitors? Are you implying that perhaps, a 'for pay' version of the site would be better able to provide quality content, while the unwashed, freeloading masses are left with stories like this one?
Why? Why did you do this to us? What was the thought process? Whose decision was it? Please, out of respect for sentience, please explain.
I do, but if I told you, I would become a felon. Good luck though.
Do you ever exceed the speed limit while driving? Granted, the speed limit isn't in the LEGO FAQ, but it's a rule, a Law, and yet you break it with regularity, don't you?
Get over your 'leet skilz of FAQtoid enforcement, and learn to appreciate life without being an anal-retentive bastich. LegoS are fun to play with. (Yes, that sentence ends on a preposition. Wanna spank me?)
Take a fresh, large grape, and cut it in half so that there is still a piece of grape-skin connecting the halves. Place this on a plate, and microwave on HIGH. Watch the pretty light-show.
A similarly interesting, and eventually decorative result, can be achieved by microwaving AOL CDs..
You ought to direct your Congresswomen to Congressman Rick Boucher's Office.
The IRS can't require you to be successful as a business.. If you go bankrupt, you get to write it off.. In fact.. Hell, look at Enron.. It even works on a macro scale.
All you 'have to do' is pay your taxes. You can pursue profitability.. But no one will ever require you to be successful.
To wit: If you buy a multifamily home and renovate it, you can write off the cost of the renovation. You do not, at any point, HAVE TO have tennants.
If you run your own business, such as drumming up business for someone else, you can claim milage, gasoline, and a 1/4th of your living space expenses as a business expense..
If your business consists of putting up ugly signage, but you get thousands of dollars back from the Fed in taxes, wouldn't you do it?
What if you really needed the money.. I mean, so badly that you would be willing to walk around at 3am, tacking paper to signs.. You'd do it.
What is the "RF Industry" anyway?
I have cable internet, but not cable TV..
My parents have satellite TV, I have an antenna.
Both my folks and I get our video signals over the air, and none of us have cancer or cooked intestines.. So I'm sceptical of your scepticism.
Further, I work in the "Power Generation Industry" as a software engineer.. And even though to do my job I need to know nothing about power generation itself, I'll tell you for a fact that electricity can also be transmitted over the air. If done properly, it's even quite harmless.
That said, this is just a web-tablet running something like VNC or Terminal Server. So, while this is not sending video over the air, it serves as though it did. So what's the difference?
As for the plausibility of transmitting video signals wirelessly.. Well, been to Radio Shack lately? How about the X-10 wireless video camera website?
Resident Evil, starring Milla Jovovich (yummy), is based on the video game of the same name. I've never played the game, but I assume it's pretty much the same general idea..
The plot is mind-numbingly simple: The Umbrella Corporation is the biggest company in the US. It makes all sorts of consumer products, and is involved in military tech, and viral and genetic research.
Deep underground beneath Raccoon City (yep, that's what it's called) is The Hive, Umbrella Corp's secret research facility..
The movie opens with someone stealing what turns out to be a mutagenic virus from one of the labs, and leaving a broken vial of the nasty stuff to cover their tracks. In response to the contamination, the facility AI brain seals all exits and kills all occupants.
There's really not much more to it than that.. We get to see Yummy Milla passed out naked in a shower stall, in a nice mansion, due to having been gassed by the Red Queen (the AI code name) defense system. We get a gratuitous nipple shot, and then the action picks up as an Alien's-style special forces team arrives to figure out what hapenned in The Hive.
What follows is a joy-ride of mindless violence, cool special effects and lots and lots of zombies.
There's a few plot-related explanations that strangely hold together pretty well, but 'plot' is not what this movie is about.. It's about action, suspense, effects, soundtrack, and of course, Yummy Milla in a short evening dress doing acrobatic fight scenes.
It's been said that "Every Breath You Take" is the perfect Pop Song.. It's devoid of content, but it has everything a great pop song needs to succeed. A good beat and melody, plenty of rhyming and easy to recall lyrics, and a simple structure that doesn't test even the most mundane of brains.
This movie is the perfect Popcorn Movie. It's got a non stop mix of suspense and shock, which alternates with loud gunfire, growling monsters, and the occasional computer-screen overlay.. It's a study in brilliant, yet vapid, entertainment.
It's Night of the Living Dead, on Methamphetamine.
And best of all, it's more than just a movie about the game "Resident Evil". All you need to do is replace Yummy Milla with a male, and the openning "virus theft" sequence with an experiment in trans-dimensional travel, and suddenly, it's also a movie about the game "Doom".. Seriously, right down to the final scene, except there isn't a bunny-head on a stick anywhere in sight..
If you've got $8.50 burning a hole in your pocket, this is a fun, albeit mindless 2 hours on which to spend it.
If it doesn't have basis self-preservation instincts that will allow it to elude the middle-managers, who invariably will try to write on it with a PERMANENT MARKER, then it really isn't 'smart', just 'expensive'..
Right.. Seems that on MODEMS (not LANs) the 'on' of the LED is a baud transition, not a bit marker. Granted, so easy enough to decode Huffmann encoding that even silicon can do it, but still.. I just don't buy this as a serious means of breeching security. It's novel, and it even might work at very low thruput rates, but when you're dealing with fast data rates, the response of the LED will mangle whatever pattern it is trying to represent..
Ok, so by sensing the LED, you can tell that transmission took place.. So what? The LED's don't indicate the data pattern, just the transmission pattern.. You can't tell a 1 from a 0 by looking at the LEDs..
It makes more sense to SQID the CRT from a mile away..
The CIA, FBI and NSA should just use Google.
They sell blank CD's after all!! How much more blatant can you get??
Want more?? Just wait until the RIAA goes after the copper industry, for making the wires via which their 'property' is stolen..
Ok, so the only real way that a consumer has of telling the RIAA & MPAA how they feel is with their wallets..
So, short of not buying any more music or seeing any more movies, what are my alternatives?
Where can I find movies and music that don't grease the MPAA and RIAA wheels?
You can copy many things to and from it.. It's really much cheaper to do so.
Translating the DMCA from legallese and into plain English constitutes a form of reverse engineering, which is banned by the DMCA..
That's what I get for mindlessly clicking.. I thought that said "Perversive Computing" and I was getting all hot and bothered..
Waitaminute.. Computers everywhere?? Like "IN" things??? Hmmm....
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
/. sans Taco's personal life.
2) Wasn't this posted before??
3) Imagine a beowulf cluster of Kathleen Fent's. A veritable harrem..
3) Can we see pics of her, nake and petrified, covered in hot grits.
and, the actual point:
4) When some red-neck hick rents a big-screen at a sporting event in order to propose, it's mildly sweet.. When the arena manager does it for himself, it's downright unprofessional. You really should have hired a sky-writer or something..
I kiss you! All your babe are belong to Taco! Congrats.. We now return you to a
So hiring a law firm, and keeping them on 'retainer' is a valid business practice?
Say I have a legal issue with someone.. I 'retain' the best lawyer in town.. Now, my legal adversary can't use that lawyer because it would be a conflict of interest for the lawyer to take up that commission.. But I'm not actually using the lawyer.. I'm paying a lower fee, to 'retain' him, to have him available if I want..
It's really rather brilliant.
Microsoft isn't doing anything expressly 'wrong' here.. No more so than a local Pizza Hut constantly calling a local Domino's to tie up their phone line so no customers could place an order. Classic.. Brilliant.. And thanks to past campaign contributions, perfectly legal..
"You have to watch the violence Lisa.. Else you'll never become desensitized to it" -- Bart