Perhaps Marcus secretly likes hackers. Consider the hidden subtext in his statement:
Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy.
Encapsulating the Phantom torso is a protective canister of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic.
So, they're making a mini spaceship and putting a dummy inside it. I guess the carbon fiber and plastic won't take away much of the radiation, but it still seems a bit weird. Why not just dress them up in a real space suit (or, given the form of the dummy, a cut-down version)?
While scientists have used Phantom-like dummies in the past aboard the space shuttle and inside the ISS, the radiation hazards of open space on sensitive body organs is still unclear.[emphasis added]
I'm just wondering how they would make claims from this - "See, the radiation at 2.5cm below the middle of the first left rib is X, therefore it will cause a mild nausea".
Sure, artificial organs would give a slightly better idea of the radiation penetration, but why would such knowledge be useful?
Well, sure, if you plan to dominate the portion of the world that's smaller than 14 inches.
There's something smaller that, arguably, dominates a lot of the world (at least the more "personal" aspect of it). If these robots could dominate anything smaller than 14 inches, all men would be voraciously opposed to these robots.
So, we can apparently see [the light from] something 13 billion light years away, and find something 750 million years old, meaning we can see about 95% of the life of the universe.
How long will it be before we can get to the point where the whole universe was invisible?
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Alternatively, you could opt to have your body ejected in the upper atmosphere in such a way that the body burnt up on re-entry. This would remove the problems involved with space junk, and create a nice light show for the people below.
Well, if you've been looking at The Burning Edge, you might have already seen a slightly more informative changelog (like this one). There is extra information out there for those who want it; you just need to bookmark a bit deeper into the sites.
For those people who want to keep check on specific bugs, add yourself to the CC lists of those bugs in bugzilla. As a template: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=X will show you bug X, and tell you whether or not it has been fixed etc.
Try reading the *whole* article before commenting on parts of it:
"According to Nguyen, it takes minutes for a newly released item to reach all of the topsites, but it may take hours or days to reach the lower echelon of private sites. After that, the digital booty leaks out intermittently to online areas more accessible to the public, such as chat channels and news groups.
To get the movies, you just need to wait. But to get the movies as early as possible, you need to know the right people.
I have noticed that the Beagle 2 may have a problem with its clock:
Another possibility is that Beagle's clock might have been reset during its descent to the Martian surface, and so it is trying to call home when nobody is listening.
Now this potential problem has a solution! The rovers just need to use the Marsdial to calibrate their clocks on landing.
From the ECHONET / iReady article: Download from the internet a recipe or washing machine instructions to ensure ideal operations.
I hope these aren't meant to be downloaded to the same machine. Getting a washing machine and an oven mixed up could produce some strange results:
"Okay, so I just put the clothes in the washing machine like this, and push this button to get the wash cycle." "Um... why is it adding a tablespoon of oil to the wash?" "Now it's heating the clothes without water... they're turning brown" "Okay, its put the water in (finally)" "And I guess it's sort of mixing them. I always imaginged a bit more effort needed to get stuff out of clothes" "Well, I must say those clothes look good enough to eat - shame about the dirt"
Or alternatively:
"I think I'll cook a roast today. Lets see, I push *this* button to get the recipe" "Hmm. Expected time: 2.5-4 hours. Sounds about right" "Okay, this looks about right. It's putting everything into the water, and soaking it, but no heat yet" [2 hours later] "Still no heat, and everything is getting rinsed in even more water" "Oh dear. I don't think hanging that out in the sun is going to cook the food very well"
I wonder how they would go about protecting old records (of the tangible vinyl type). I was under the impression that those records were in danger of disintegrating over, say, a century, and the audio contained on them was being destroyed.
To make up your own mind, here's a definition of correlation.
To sum it up, correlation does not imply causality (see post "Let's remember that..."). Variables can be seemingly independent, and yet still change in a reciprocal fashion in relation to each other.
There may be a correlation between the two factors mentioned, but the submitter has suggested that this means a causal link. I think even suggesting a correlation would be a weak argument with only (at best) two data points (per variable) in the article.
But where can you buy these uranium-oxide enriched pebbles?
Your local confectionary shop, of course. I'm used to the chocolate filled type, but I guess they come in all varieties. Just make sure you get the ones that look a good ripe green.
instead of waiting for its newly acquired Handspring Treo 600
the Treo 600... has a 160 x 160 color display
Four times as many pixels would be a reason why I would choose the TT2 over the Treo. But I don't really see much of a difference between TT and TT2. If $400 is the starting price, I would be interested to find out what it will cost when Palm release their next "innovation".
Yes, and No. According to the follow through article, the spacing out of the keys was an unexpected (feature / side effect):
The explanation for Norman and Rummelhart's factor C is that during a keystroke, the idle hand prepares for its next keystroke. Thus Sholes's decision to solve a mechanical problem through careful keyboard arrangement may have inadvertently satisfied a fairly important requirement for efficient typing.
[I wonder how many other/.ers read the little novel that the condensed history linked to, especially since it needs a copy-paste.]
Well, with the specs of the average computer rising a bit more, the most common driving force now seems to be 3d game rendering. Perhaps an example of an innovation that could have happened is 3d browsing. I'm not completely sure how this could be made backward compatible, but I guess examples of this exist currently in the real world.
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Perhaps Marcus secretly likes hackers. Consider the hidden subtext in his statement:
Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy.
6000xDSL...
/. readers to visit the site after it is first posted.
Gosh, you could fit 540,000 olympic-sized swimming pools in the distance that the pipe would cover in a second.
Or should that be, in the time it takes twenty five new
Space people are made of mannequins.
Well, here's something that might be slightly related.
Encapsulating the Phantom torso is a protective canister of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic.
So, they're making a mini spaceship and putting a dummy inside it. I guess the carbon fiber and plastic won't take away much of the radiation, but it still seems a bit weird. Why not just dress them up in a real space suit (or, given the form of the dummy, a cut-down version)?
While scientists have used Phantom-like dummies in the past aboard the space shuttle and inside the ISS, the radiation hazards of open space on sensitive body organs is still unclear.[emphasis added]
I'm just wondering how they would make claims from this - "See, the radiation at 2.5cm below the middle of the first left rib is X, therefore it will cause a mild nausea".
Sure, artificial organs would give a slightly better idea of the radiation penetration, but why would such knowledge be useful?
WFM.
I use a unicode font, which can actually display japanese characters, including hirigana, katakana and kanji.
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Well, sure, if you plan to dominate the portion of the world that's smaller than 14 inches.
There's something smaller that, arguably, dominates a lot of the world (at least the more "personal" aspect of it). If these robots could dominate anything smaller than 14 inches, all men would be voraciously opposed to these robots.
You must be thinking of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. That restaurant is at the other end of the Universe.
So, we can apparently see [the light from] something 13 billion light years away, and find something 750 million years old, meaning we can see about 95% of the life of the universe.
How long will it be before we can get to the point where the whole universe was invisible?
Alternatively, you could opt to have your body ejected in the upper atmosphere in such a way that the body burnt up on re-entry. This would remove the problems involved with space junk, and create a nice light show for the people below.
Well, if you've been looking at The Burning Edge, you might have already seen a slightly more informative changelog (like this one). There is extra information out there for those who want it; you just need to bookmark a bit deeper into the sites.
For those people who want to keep check on specific bugs, add yourself to the CC lists of those bugs in bugzilla. As a template:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=X
will show you bug X, and tell you whether or not it has been fixed etc.
Try reading the *whole* article before commenting on parts of it:
"According to Nguyen, it takes minutes for a newly released item to reach all of the topsites, but it may take hours or days to reach the lower echelon of private sites. After that, the digital booty leaks out intermittently to online areas more accessible to the public, such as chat channels and news groups.
To get the movies, you just need to wait. But to get the movies as early as possible, you need to know the right people.
I suppose next we'll see some report from a country like Australia showing how sales of ripped media are not hurting the industry.
Or has that already happened?... I get a little confused as to which counter-argument is the most recent.
I have noticed that the Beagle 2 may have a problem with its clock:
Another possibility is that Beagle's clock might have been reset during its descent to the Martian surface, and so it is trying to call home when nobody is listening.
Now this potential problem has a solution! The rovers just need to use the Marsdial to calibrate their clocks on landing.
From the ECHONET / iReady article :
:
Download from the internet a recipe or washing machine instructions to ensure ideal operations.
I hope these aren't meant to be downloaded to the same machine. Getting a washing machine and an oven mixed up could produce some strange results:
"Okay, so I just put the clothes in the washing machine like this, and push this button to get the wash cycle."
"Um... why is it adding a tablespoon of oil to the wash?"
"Now it's heating the clothes without water... they're turning brown"
"Okay, its put the water in (finally)"
"And I guess it's sort of mixing them. I always imaginged a bit more effort needed to get stuff out of clothes"
"Well, I must say those clothes look good enough to eat - shame about the dirt"
Or alternatively
"I think I'll cook a roast today. Lets see, I push *this* button to get the recipe"
"Hmm. Expected time: 2.5-4 hours. Sounds about right"
"Okay, this looks about right. It's putting everything into the water, and soaking it, but no heat yet"
[2 hours later]
"Still no heat, and everything is getting rinsed in even more water"
"Oh dear. I don't think hanging that out in the sun is going to cook the food very well"
What about the following progression of 2 iterations of e, i, followed by o.
e-mail -> iTones -> eNet -> iStation -> oRover
I wonder how they would go about protecting old records (of the tangible vinyl type). I was under the impression that those records were in danger of disintegrating over, say, a century, and the audio contained on them was being destroyed.
To make up your own mind, here's a definition of correlation.
To sum it up, correlation does not imply causality (see post "Let's remember that..."). Variables can be seemingly independent, and yet still change in a reciprocal fashion in relation to each other.
There may be a correlation between the two factors mentioned, but the submitter has suggested that this means a causal link. I think even suggesting a correlation would be a weak argument with only (at best) two data points (per variable) in the article.
From the sourceforge page :
Punica is a selfbuilt, Linux powered drink mixer.
Apparently, this machine was able to build itself. I see that recursive compilation appears to have taken a step up in the world.
But where can you buy these uranium-oxide enriched pebbles?
Your local confectionary shop, of course. I'm used to the chocolate filled type, but I guess they come in all varieties. Just make sure you get the ones that look a good ripe green.
Pebbles - so safe, you can eat them!
instead of waiting for its newly acquired Handspring Treo 600
the Treo 600... has a 160 x 160 color display
Four times as many pixels would be a reason why I would choose the TT2 over the Treo. But I don't really see much of a difference between TT and TT2. If $400 is the starting price, I would be interested to find out what it will cost when Palm release their next "innovation".
Yes, and No. According to the follow through article, the spacing out of the keys was an unexpected (feature / side effect):
/.ers read the little novel that the condensed history linked to, especially since it needs a copy-paste.]
The explanation for Norman and Rummelhart's factor C is that during a keystroke, the idle hand prepares for its next keystroke. Thus Sholes's decision to solve a mechanical problem through careful keyboard arrangement may have inadvertently satisfied a fairly important requirement for efficient typing.
[I wonder how many other
it has to run your average computer
Well, with the specs of the average computer rising a bit more, the most common driving force now seems to be 3d game rendering. Perhaps an example of an innovation that could have happened is 3d browsing. I'm not completely sure how this could be made backward compatible, but I guess examples of this exist currently in the real world.
From the CNN article...
God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything
Big Google is watching you. Any change from your normal routine will have you sent you to web page 404.