Some varieties of aquavit are aged on a sea voyage to Australia and back again. On a sailing ship that usually meant a trip all the way around the world. A year on the ISS would be lots of trips around the world.
The biggest problem with the space shuttle wasn't tiles or tanks or SRBs or O-rings. Or even needing to practically rebuild it between flights.
The biggest problem was that the first four orbiters should just have been the Mk-I model. All those things that were found to be problems in the Mk-I model should have been improved or even fixed in the MK-II and subsequent orbiters.
Yes, they made improvements in the later orbiters based on early experiences with the Columbia, and fixed the O rings after the Challenger accident, but there never was a truly improved model.
Kaplan and his colleagues found this stellar gem using the National Radio Astronomy Observatoryâ(TM)s (NRAO) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), as well as other observatories.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy Portfolio Review committee chaired by Daniel Eisenstein of Harvard University recommended in August 2012 that the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope should be defunded over a five year period.[9] Further information on this divestiture can be found on the AUI webpage and at www.savethegbt.org.
In the fiscal year 2014 budget, the US Congress did not recommend divesting the Green Bank Telescope. The Telescope is looking for partners to help fund its $10 million annual operating costs.
One thing that I don't get is how the current wave of web site redesigns are actually, in any way, tablet/smart phone friendly.
On a device with a small display concise and space eficient presentation of information, without excess white space or eye candy, is necessary if you don's want to end up feeling like you are peering at the site through a soda straw. Using large fonts, wide line spacing, and lots of white space just makes a small display effectively smaller.
On a device with a low bandwidth or expensive connection reducing the number of bits that needed to render the page is desirable to get the page to render in a reasonable time and cost. This is another reason to eliminate large, eye candy, images.
On a device that may have limited computing power it is desirable to use those resources efficiently, effectively, and only when necessary to deliver the information content of the site,
And, the one sin Slashdot beta hasn't committed, why should I need an app for something that should just display in a browser if the web presence was properly designed?
There are a number of licensed gun dealers engaged in retail sales "in the greater D.C. area". They are in Maryland and Virginia, not the District of Columbia.
There are almost no licensed gun dealers in the District of Columbia itself. A D.C. resident would be crossing state lines to buy a firearm in Maryland or Virginia. Most D.C. dealers exist to support government agencies and private security organizations. They do not deal with the general public. Last I heard (a while ago) there was at least one dealer that did not stock inventory or do normal retail sales but would do interstate transfers. There was supposed to be a retail dealer looking for a place of business and having difficulty.
The D.C. dealer situation may have gotten better while I wasbt looking but it is probably still bad. Glad I don't liuve there.
CDN's don't base the DNS server you use as the basis for decided where to serve content,
*they base it on the destination IP address (i.e. your computer)*
They couldn't use DNS servers simply because large ISP's like AT&T or Comcast all use the same DNS server IP addresses.
Furthermore, how would they ever get the identity of the domain server your system uses during the three-way handshake?
If they can, please tell us how. I'd really like to know.
If I remember correctly, it was cooperative, not preemptive, multitasking. When things were going well you wouldn't notice the difference. Much less effective when dealing with a non-cooperating task.
Earlier versions of Windows may have been similar.
There are two senses of the word "legal means" in English. One is "means that are in conformance with or allowed by law". The other is "by means of judicial process".
My observation is that the FSF is in it both ways.
Actualy, the best samurai swords were made from iron bearing sands once found in Japanese rivers. One theory has the iron for Damascus coming from similar deposits in India. The unique impurities (in both cases) added to the special properties of the blades.
So pwning for wootz iron for a 1337 sword actualy makes sense.
Six is a perfect numer (equal to the sum of its factors). Three is the first odd prime, since two is even -- making it a truly odd prime being the only even prime.
But more importantly a three way balance of power has proved relativly stable in history. The Roman Triumvarates. The three branches of US government. The trinity seems stable. Probably lots of other examples I'm too lazy to find.
Good engineering is mainly (for the purposes of this discussion) finding the good balances when tradeoffs are required.
IBM values good engineering (I'll bet they'll back me up on that one).
IBM is part of the IBM-Motorola-Apple triumvarate that brought us the power PC (based on POWER) archetecture.
So 18 combigns a stable balance of power with perfection.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish was allowed mod points.
ROFL for real!
Anybody have tracking info,
Two-lines?
COSPAR ID?
NORAD ID?
Keps?
I'd like to look for it.
They already do this by offering totally meaningless descriptions. Reading descriptions does no good when they contain no actual information.
How long until systemd absorbs emacs?
Some varieties of aquavit are aged on a sea voyage to Australia and back again. On a sailing ship that usually meant a trip all the way around the world. A year on the ISS would be lots of trips around the world.
The biggest problem with the space shuttle wasn't tiles or tanks or SRBs or O-rings. Or even needing to practically rebuild it between flights.
The biggest problem was that the first four orbiters should just have been the Mk-I model. All those things that were found to be problems in the Mk-I model should have been improved or even fixed in the MK-II and subsequent orbiters.
Yes, they made improvements in the later orbiters based on early experiences with the Columbia, and fixed the O rings after the Challenger accident, but there never was a truly improved model.
From the article:
Kaplan and his colleagues found this stellar gem using the National Radio Astronomy Observatoryâ(TM)s (NRAO) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), as well as other observatories.
From wikipedia:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy Portfolio Review committee chaired by Daniel Eisenstein of Harvard University recommended in August 2012 that the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope should be defunded over a five year period.[9] Further information on this divestiture can be found on the AUI webpage and at www.savethegbt.org.
In the fiscal year 2014 budget, the US Congress did not recommend divesting the Green Bank Telescope. The Telescope is looking for partners to help fund its $10 million annual operating costs.
The OMG Ponies slashdot April Fools joke was better
It at least functioned.
One thing that I don't get is how the current wave of web site redesigns are actually, in any way, tablet/smart phone friendly.
On a device with a small display concise and space eficient presentation of information, without excess white space or eye candy, is necessary if you don's want to end up feeling like you are peering at the site through a soda straw. Using large fonts, wide line spacing, and lots of white space just makes a small display effectively smaller.
On a device with a low bandwidth or expensive connection reducing the number of bits that needed to render the page is desirable to get the page to render in a reasonable time and cost. This is another reason to eliminate large, eye candy, images.
On a device that may have limited computing power it is desirable to use those resources efficiently, effectively, and only when necessary to deliver the information content of the site,
And, the one sin Slashdot beta hasn't committed, why should I need an app for something that should just display in a browser if the web presence was properly designed?
Almost got it.
There are a number of licensed gun dealers engaged in retail sales "in the greater D.C. area". They are in Maryland and Virginia, not the District of Columbia.
There are almost no licensed gun dealers in the District of Columbia itself. A D.C. resident would be crossing state lines to buy a firearm in Maryland or Virginia. Most D.C. dealers exist to support government agencies and private security organizations. They do not deal with the general public. Last I heard (a while ago) there was at least one dealer that did not stock inventory or do normal retail sales but would do interstate transfers. There was supposed to be a retail dealer looking for a place of business and having difficulty.
The D.C. dealer situation may have gotten better while I wasbt looking but it is probably still bad. Glad I don't liuve there.
A corner cube may do the trick.
CDN's don't base the DNS server you use as the basis for decided where to serve content, *they base it on the destination IP address (i.e. your computer)* They couldn't use DNS servers simply because large ISP's like AT&T or Comcast all use the same DNS server IP addresses.
Furthermore, how would they ever get the identity of the domain server your system uses during the three-way handshake? If they can, please tell us how. I'd really like to know.
Google obviously has the technical capability and facilities to handle the job.
Did they have the opportunity to bid the job? Did they submit a bid?
Did the bid evaluation process consider public benefit?
I think we would have been better off had they gotten the job.
If I remember correctly, it was cooperative, not preemptive, multitasking. When things were going well you wouldn't notice the difference. Much less effective when dealing with a non-cooperating task.
Earlier versions of Windows may have been similar.
http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2010/oct/060714c2.htm
The monument itself is based on a famous photo. The postal service should have bypassed the monument new artwork for the stamp based on the photo.
Did the sculpter pay royalties to Joe Rosenthal the photographer? Or to the AP, which employed him? If not, this is the height of hypocracy.
Come to think of it, it would probably be harder to produce an Apollo-quality fake moon landing than do it for real given 1960 era technology.
if you aren't creating a list.
There are two senses of the word "legal means" in English. One is "means that are in conformance with or allowed by law". The other is "by means of judicial process".
My observation is that the FSF is in it both ways.
Actualy, the best samurai swords were made from iron bearing sands once found in Japanese rivers. One theory has the iron for Damascus coming from similar deposits in India. The unique impurities (in both cases) added to the special properties of the blades.
So pwning for wootz iron for a 1337 sword actualy makes sense.
An octoplier, that is. I think they've had them for years.
Go back to fluxtions class.
Or more likly, because it is three times 6.
Six is a perfect numer (equal to the sum of its factors).
Three is the first odd prime, since two is even -- making it a truly odd prime being the only even prime.
But more importantly a three way balance of power has proved relativly stable in history. The Roman Triumvarates. The three branches of US government. The trinity seems stable. Probably lots of other examples I'm too lazy to find.
Good engineering is mainly (for the purposes of this discussion) finding the good balances when tradeoffs are required.
IBM values good engineering (I'll bet they'll back me up on that one).
IBM is part of the IBM-Motorola-Apple triumvarate that brought us the power PC (based on POWER) archetecture.
So 18 combigns a stable balance of power with perfection.
I would assume 18 would be a good number.
Yellow circles in a particular pattern might just do it. At least you wouldn't be able to print the pictures.
We don't want them to give us the same pics of U.S. instalations.
Can you imagine how iritating it would be to get a picture of some base in India when you requested a base in the US?