Man. It loaded *fast*. And I'm on 100mbit too -- even I could notice that it loaded faster than most other pages. Even some intranet servers are slower.
No. Velocity is measured in m/s. 9.81 m/s^2 is the approximate acceleration due to gravity on earth at sea level. Terminal velocity depends on the shape of the object falling. If it's aerodynamic (low drag), TV will be rather high. Skydiving TV is around 124mph (200kph) (54 m/s) (183 ft/sec). A raindrop is about 25 ft/sec.
Nope. In the article it discusses this issue for a bit -- basically Apple just doesn't want to -- Mac with Mac OS X is a package deal and much easier for Apple to support than running it on a myriad of different hardware configurations.
Why do the buttons have to have text with it? That wastes a lot of valuable real estate. The 'Up' and 'New Folder' buttons could be made icons by themselves -- tooltips to tell what they do if the user isn't familiar with it yet.
Actually, those countries already have compatible passports which contain most/all of the information that this system captures anyway, so it isn't that big of a deal.
Why limit this to Macs only? Wouldn't this work even better if it were cross-platform -- like many other distributed computing solutions such as SETI, distributed.net, and the UD Cancer projects.
"It's probably not possible to make aerogel any lighter than this because then it wouldn't gel," Jones said. "The molecules of silicon wouldn't connect. And it's not possible to make it lighter than the density of air, 1.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter (.00004 pounds per cubic inch), because aerogel is filled with air."
Latest scientific estimate of age of universe from WMAP data: 13.7 billion years +/- 200 million years Assume 13.9 as worst case. Assume 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46.5 seconds for a 'year' -- the time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun once -- ignore the 'slowdown' (which hasn't happened in 5 years anyway) alluded to in an earlier article. (no real need to be so exact though -- 31,560,000 seconds would work fine)
((365*24+5)*60+48)*60+46.5 = 31556926.5 seconds in the 'year'
13.9x10^9 * 3.156*10^7 = 4.38684*10^17 seconds
2^32=4,294,967,296 2^64=18,446,744,073,709,551, 616 ~= 1.845*10^18 -- quite enough for the current age of the universe and 3 more of the same length tacked on.
If you really need to skimp on the bit length, we could suffice with 59 bits, which would give us: 2^59=576,460,752,303,423,488 ~= 5.76*10^17 -- at least 100 quadrillion years to spare before the Y-576trillion-K bug rears its ugly head.
Is the Earth's *rotation* slowing or speeding up at all, though?
Let's do some math and see how big of a distance difference a leap second is. Rough estimate of 93 million miles on average for r. 2*pi*r = 584,309,935 miles for the circumference of the orbit -- assuming a circular orbit. 60*60*24*365.25 = 31557600 seconds on average per year. circumeference/seconds ~= 18 miles. Interesting. But hardly seems like much.
Oh yeah, I'm getting the data only plan -- which would be $50 for the phone on the site you mentioned -- so the one I found on letstalk.com is the cheapest I found. Type in DANGERFRIEND for the $65 coupon if that's still available.
Anyway, I had to call letstalk.com a couple times b/c it indicated to contact them on my order status on their website -- very nice system. I was instantly connected to customer service both times I called them.
check out http://www.hiptop.com/forums/ -- it's fairly active and you can learn new stuff to do with your sidekick. Someone's even developing a VNC client and they have working screenshots!
Yes, there is a telnet/ssh client built in! It's called Terminal Monkey.
I ordered mine through www.letstalk.com last week Saturday, but b/c of my odd zip code, they had delays in checking credit and making sure I had service in my area. It finally shipped on Thursday, so it'll be here Monday. There was an instant $65 off, plus $200 of mail in rebates, so I am getting it for $35.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the call letters of the PBS station 'watermarked' in these videos is 'KQED'. Rather approporiate, don't you think? Is that a real station?
There's actually charts dating back to the 1750s. It's pretty easy to trace a picture of the sun and perceive sunspots with a telescope displaying light onto a paper.
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I've seen ones that look just like sunglasses, but can't find a pic now.
Looking at the sourceforge site, someone says he's successfully installed an almost-unmodified Debian distro with this thing. here
They use Java for development. Here is a public version of a program they use for viewing data from the mars robots: maestro
Flight simulators do make great use of the terrain data. X-Plane has addon CDs that have a large amount of world terrain info.
Check out Viewtiful Joe too.
Check out Ikaruga. Insanely hard, with a very original game concept. here
Man. It loaded *fast*. And I'm on 100mbit too -- even I could notice that it loaded faster than most other pages. Even some intranet servers are slower.
No. Velocity is measured in m/s. 9.81 m/s^2 is the approximate acceleration due to gravity on earth at sea level. Terminal velocity depends on the shape of the object falling. If it's aerodynamic (low drag), TV will be rather high. Skydiving TV is around 124mph (200kph) (54 m/s) (183 ft/sec). A raindrop is about 25 ft/sec.
Nope. In the article it discusses this issue for a bit -- basically Apple just doesn't want to -- Mac with Mac OS X is a package deal and much easier for Apple to support than running it on a myriad of different hardware configurations.
Why do the buttons have to have text with it? That wastes a lot of valuable real estate. The 'Up' and 'New Folder' buttons could be made icons by themselves -- tooltips to tell what they do if the user isn't familiar with it yet.
Actually, those countries already have compatible passports which contain most/all of the information that this system captures anyway, so it isn't that big of a deal.
Why limit this to Macs only? Wouldn't this work even better if it were cross-platform -- like many other distributed computing solutions such as SETI, distributed.net, and the UD Cancer projects.
Here's a quote from the JPL site:
"It's probably not possible to make aerogel any lighter than this because then it wouldn't gel," Jones said. "The molecules of silicon wouldn't connect. And it's not possible to make it lighter than the density of air, 1.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter (.00004 pounds per cubic inch), because aerogel is filled with air."
Latest scientific estimate of age of universe from WMAP data: 13.7 billion years +/- 200 million years
, 616 ~= 1.845*10^18 -- quite enough for the current age of the universe and 3 more of the same length tacked on.
Assume 13.9 as worst case.
Assume 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46.5 seconds for a 'year' -- the time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun once -- ignore the 'slowdown' (which hasn't happened in 5 years anyway) alluded to in an earlier article. (no real need to be so exact though -- 31,560,000 seconds would work fine)
((365*24+5)*60+48)*60+46.5 = 31556926.5 seconds in the 'year'
13.9x10^9 * 3.156*10^7 = 4.38684*10^17 seconds
2^32=4,294,967,296
2^64=18,446,744,073,709,551
If you really need to skimp on the bit length, we could suffice with 59 bits, which would give us:
2^59=576,460,752,303,423,488 ~= 5.76*10^17 -- at least 100 quadrillion years to spare before the Y-576trillion-K bug rears its ugly head.
Is the Earth's *rotation* slowing or speeding up at all, though?
Let's do some math and see how big of a distance difference a leap second is. Rough estimate of 93 million miles on average for r. 2*pi*r = 584,309,935 miles for the circumference of the orbit -- assuming a circular orbit. 60*60*24*365.25 = 31557600 seconds on average per year. circumeference/seconds ~= 18 miles. Interesting. But hardly seems like much.
Does applying a third party patch violate the EULA for IE?
Or just boycott the RIAA and be a good guy and support cheap music, not downloading music you don't own. Or learn how to make your own music.
Where's your .sig?
Oh yeah, I'm getting the data only plan -- which would be $50 for the phone on the site you mentioned -- so the one I found on letstalk.com is the cheapest I found. Type in DANGERFRIEND for the $65 coupon if that's still available.
Here's an HTML-ized link for the forums.
Anyway, I had to call letstalk.com a couple times b/c it indicated to contact them on my order status on their website -- very nice system. I was instantly connected to customer service both times I called them.
check out http://www.hiptop.com/forums/ -- it's fairly active and you can learn new stuff to do with your sidekick. Someone's even developing a VNC client and they have working screenshots!
Yes, there is a telnet/ssh client built in! It's called Terminal Monkey.
I ordered mine through www.letstalk.com last week Saturday, but b/c of my odd zip code, they had delays in checking credit and making sure I had service in my area. It finally shipped on Thursday, so it'll be here Monday. There was an instant $65 off, plus $200 of mail in rebates, so I am getting it for $35.
Have fun with it!
I'm sure the Netgear FA 311 is even worse -- when it's in my server (epox 8k7a), it will not power off or reboot -- I have to pull the plug on it.
What about the 'broadcast flag' ?
What about the extended edition? They'll probably put it in there.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the call letters of the PBS station 'watermarked' in these videos is 'KQED'. Rather approporiate, don't you think? Is that a real station?
There's actually charts dating back to the 1750s. It's pretty easy to trace a picture of the sun and perceive sunspots with a telescope displaying light onto a paper.