So, Coral scooped up all the eggs (but one) and hid with them, somehow escaping from the barracuda? And hadn't bothered coming back to find Marlin by the time Nemo was old enough to go to school? Nope, sorry, Coral was eaten, with a side of caviar.
Sometimes, it's quite possible to see a new moon at night, when the angles of orbit are different enough and the positions are night. And yes, you can see it, because light from the Earth (all the street lamps and such) reflects off the Moon's surface and makes it bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.
All the streetlamps and such in the world aren't enough light to illuminate the Moon 250,000 miles away. When the Moon is new, the Earth is full as seen from the Moon. So the Moon is illuminated by sunlight reflected off the bright side of the Earth.
It's also worth pointing out that when observing space from Earth, your best view is always looking straight up. Unfortunately, objects of interest are not always straight up, and looking at angles greatly increases the amount of atmosphere through which you must look.
On the other hand, if you want a spy satellite to look at a ground target, you can always get the target directly under the satellite, to minimize the atmospheric distortion and to provide a non-oblique view of the target.
They were also worried about the possibility of the spacecraft hitting Earth's atmosphere on its gravitational assist flyby. It would be awfully hard for anyone to guarantee the safety of the RTG had this happened. On the other hand, the chances of this happening were greatly overstated by a few folks wanting publicity.
One of them, Michio Kaku, was someone I had a fair amount of respect for before learning of his involvement. I'm sure hoping some kick-ass science comes out of the mission so it can be shoved in the protester's faces.
Actually, I think both layers have to have the same amount of data, so the head doesn't have to move when switching layers at the end of the disk. But still, half the disk at 8X and half at 2.4X gives you an average speed of 5.2X. Still not bad, considering most of us are stuck at 4X now and only get one layer to work with.
Sure America has decent beer. There's plenty in Canada, and that's part of America.
Now, the U.S., on the other hand....
Seriously though, here in the Southeastern U.S., there are days where it gets hot enough that anything liquid, cool, and containing alcohol becomes acceptable. What under normal circumstances would be a great beer would make you sick while mowing the yard or playing football in our 110F, 99% humidity summertime.
For the normal times, there are microbrews and imports....
Oops, yeah, I forgot that that goody is Windows-only. But it might run under Wine. You could also authorize a friend's Windows box, copy your files over, convert, then deauthorize his box when you're done. Probably more trouble than it's worth.
Alternately, if you don't mind the possibility of a few compression artifacts, you could burn your iTunes to CD and then rip to unprotected AAC (or MP3, or whatever) on any platform (of the two which run iTunes, of course).
I agree... so how about the reverse, I go out and buy the SACD version. Do I now have the right to walk into a record shop (or to the publisher's HQ) and say "here's my $2, I want a copy of this album on CD"..
Well, that would be silly, since the DSotM SACD is a hybrid. You already have a regular CD copy on the same disc with the non-CD copy, and you can copy the CD layer as easily as any other CD. You can also rip it and make MP3 or Ogg or AAC or whatever format you desire.
Now, if this disc were single-layer SACD only, it's a different issue. First off, I shy away from those, for exactly this reason. I wish the record companies wouldn't even make them, but they want their control. I think if they are unwilling to make all their SACD's hybrids or provide CD copies for a nominal fee, then they should be required to allow digital extraction of the audio data. But that will never happen - at least not while the DMCA is law.
Incidentally, if I do buy a non-hybrid SACD, it's possible that I'm replacing an old CD, in which case I can copy the old CD before selling it. However, that's not technically legal. If it's not something I already have in another format, I can download or copy from a "friend", but that's not legal either (e.g. mp3.com). However, AFAICT it IS legal for me to run the analog audio output of my SACD player into my PC or a standalone CD recorder and get a copy that way. It MAY also be legal to hack a player to get a digital output - you're not circumventing any encryption, you're just picking up the data after it's been decrypted by the player.
You can passively cool a Duron 750MHz. I found this out quite by accident one day when I opened up my case and found that the fan had quit working at some unknown time in the past. I imagine you could even go faster, if you were using a heatsink that was actually designed for passive cooling as opposed to an HSF with a dead fan.
That's not a half-bad idea. Stick a DVI-I port on the I/O panel, integrate a RAMDAC on the board, and have a socket for a GPU. You probably also want a dedicated memory slot for video RAM, although it should be able to share system RAM as a lower-cost option.
The hard part would be getting the chipset and GPU manufacturers to settle on a single specification for the interfaces. But it would really be a win-win situation; it could reduce the cost of new graphics hardware and increase the profits for the GPU manufacturers, by reducing the amouht of redundant hardware thrown away at each GPU upgrade cycle.
I was about to post the same thing, except I was going to add that this limitation can be easily overcome by a quick Google search for m4p2mp4.exe. Apart from that, the only formats I'd want supported that this doesn't handle are.ape (could just convert all my.apes to.flacs though) and.ac3 (for rips from music DVDs, I don't like to transcode them if I don't have to). I think I may have just found the digital-music-in-the-den solution for me, thank you (to the grandparent post)!
Don't know about the modem, as I never use it, but the USB works fine after returning from suspend. Every once in a while the Wi-Fi card will freak out, but popping it out and putting it back in fixes it. That's not necessarily due to the suspend though, sometimes it happens when the machine is left alone but running - I think the driver for the Wi-fi card is flaky.
No way in hell I believe that can boot up and be responsive in 10 seconds. It takes longer than that for my Debian server (300MHz P2) to come up to a login: prompt without X.
If you're talking about coming up from suspend, I might believe it, except that I have yet to have Linux properly suspend on any machine on which I've tried it.
Hmm... then again you didn't specify Linux, so you might be on BSD. But it's dying, so surely not.;)
My wife's Inspiron suspends and/or hibernates with 100% reliability. Granted, it's on XP now, but it was fine under 98 as well. In fact, that laptop probably hasn't been rebooted in about a month or two, and that reboot was for updates as well.
ST IV: The Search for Whales? Surely you jest. Well, I'll agree it didn't suck, but to call it THE good Trek movie is a bit unfair.
The real rankings:
1. II KHAAAAAAAANNNN 2. VIII Night of the Living Borg 3. VI The Undiscovered Acting 4. IV The Search For Whales 5. X Numbesis 6. I The Motionless Picture 7. IX Insufferable 8. III The Search For Plot 9. VII Geriatric 10. V Oh, God In Space
How well does that work? I'd imagine the basics of authoring would be mostly OK, but does the preview window work? How about the burning aspect of it - does that work OK, or should you just create a file structure and use K3B or something to burn?
Also, do TMPGEnc or CCE work well under Wine? The only other missing piece for my purposes was capture from DV, but I understand that kino does that exceptionally well....
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So, Coral scooped up all the eggs (but one) and hid with them, somehow escaping from the barracuda? And hadn't bothered coming back to find Marlin by the time Nemo was old enough to go to school? Nope, sorry, Coral was eaten, with a side of caviar.
I guess this conspiracy theory was powered by the fact that the US Army was interested in using Atari's BattleZone as a tank simulator.
Either that, or someone took The Last Starfighter too seriously.
Sometimes, it's quite possible to see a new moon at night, when the angles of orbit are different enough and the positions are night. And yes, you can see it, because light from the Earth (all the street lamps and such) reflects off the Moon's surface and makes it bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.
All the streetlamps and such in the world aren't enough light to illuminate the Moon 250,000 miles away. When the Moon is new, the Earth is full as seen from the Moon. So the Moon is illuminated by sunlight reflected off the bright side of the Earth.
It's also worth pointing out that when observing space from Earth, your best view is always looking straight up. Unfortunately, objects of interest are not always straight up, and looking at angles greatly increases the amount of atmosphere through which you must look.
On the other hand, if you want a spy satellite to look at a ground target, you can always get the target directly under the satellite, to minimize the atmospheric distortion and to provide a non-oblique view of the target.
They were also worried about the possibility of the spacecraft hitting Earth's atmosphere on its gravitational assist flyby. It would be awfully hard for anyone to guarantee the safety of the RTG had this happened. On the other hand, the chances of this happening were greatly overstated by a few folks wanting publicity.
One of them, Michio Kaku, was someone I had a fair amount of respect for before learning of his involvement. I'm sure hoping some kick-ass science comes out of the mission so it can be shoved in the protester's faces.
The Native American version has had a car and an e-mail program named for it, BTW.
Actually, I think both layers have to have the same amount of data, so the head doesn't have to move when switching layers at the end of the disk. But still, half the disk at 8X and half at 2.4X gives you an average speed of 5.2X. Still not bad, considering most of us are stuck at 4X now and only get one layer to work with.
Sure America has decent beer. There's plenty in Canada, and that's part of America.
Now, the U.S., on the other hand....
Seriously though, here in the Southeastern U.S., there are days where it gets hot enough that anything liquid, cool, and containing alcohol becomes acceptable. What under normal circumstances would be a great beer would make you sick while mowing the yard or playing football in our 110F, 99% humidity summertime.
For the normal times, there are microbrews and imports....
Oops, yeah, I forgot that that goody is Windows-only. But it might run under Wine. You could also authorize a friend's Windows box, copy your files over, convert, then deauthorize his box when you're done. Probably more trouble than it's worth.
Alternately, if you don't mind the possibility of a few compression artifacts, you could burn your iTunes to CD and then rip to unprotected AAC (or MP3, or whatever) on any platform (of the two which run iTunes, of course).
And if it's still on her finger at the time, your marriage won't last long either!
Will Natalie Portman use her powers for good, or for awesome?
They should let Disney bid for control of the President. At least it would be more entertaining!
Dear Lord, no. Can you imagine what President Fritz Hollings would do?!
I agree... so how about the reverse, I go out and buy the SACD version. Do I now have the right to walk into a record shop (or to the publisher's HQ) and say "here's my $2, I want a copy of this album on CD"..
Well, that would be silly, since the DSotM SACD is a hybrid. You already have a regular CD copy on the same disc with the non-CD copy, and you can copy the CD layer as easily as any other CD. You can also rip it and make MP3 or Ogg or AAC or whatever format you desire.
Now, if this disc were single-layer SACD only, it's a different issue. First off, I shy away from those, for exactly this reason. I wish the record companies wouldn't even make them, but they want their control. I think if they are unwilling to make all their SACD's hybrids or provide CD copies for a nominal fee, then they should be required to allow digital extraction of the audio data. But that will never happen - at least not while the DMCA is law.
Incidentally, if I do buy a non-hybrid SACD, it's possible that I'm replacing an old CD, in which case I can copy the old CD before selling it. However, that's not technically legal. If it's not something I already have in another format, I can download or copy from a "friend", but that's not legal either (e.g. mp3.com). However, AFAICT it IS legal for me to run the analog audio output of my SACD player into my PC or a standalone CD recorder and get a copy that way. It MAY also be legal to hack a player to get a digital output - you're not circumventing any encryption, you're just picking up the data after it's been decrypted by the player.
You can passively cool a Duron 750MHz. I found this out quite by accident one day when I opened up my case and found that the fan had quit working at some unknown time in the past. I imagine you could even go faster, if you were using a heatsink that was actually designed for passive cooling as opposed to an HSF with a dead fan.
That's not a half-bad idea. Stick a DVI-I port on the I/O panel, integrate a RAMDAC on the board, and have a socket for a GPU. You probably also want a dedicated memory slot for video RAM, although it should be able to share system RAM as a lower-cost option.
The hard part would be getting the chipset and GPU manufacturers to settle on a single specification for the interfaces. But it would really be a win-win situation; it could reduce the cost of new graphics hardware and increase the profits for the GPU manufacturers, by reducing the amouht of redundant hardware thrown away at each GPU upgrade cycle.
I was about to post the same thing, except I was going to add that this limitation can be easily overcome by a quick Google search for m4p2mp4.exe. Apart from that, the only formats I'd want supported that this doesn't handle are .ape (could just convert all my .apes to .flacs though) and .ac3 (for rips from music DVDs, I don't like to transcode them if I don't have to). I think I may have just found the digital-music-in-the-den solution for me, thank you (to the grandparent post)!
The real Venus and Mars reflect a LOT of light and are seen against a black background. The same won't be true of a model on Earth.
the one in Illinois claims to have Guinness backing them.
I would think the one in the UK would have Guinness backing it, and any in the US would have to settle for Budweiser.
Don't know about the modem, as I never use it, but the USB works fine after returning from suspend. Every once in a while the Wi-Fi card will freak out, but popping it out and putting it back in fixes it. That's not necessarily due to the suspend though, sometimes it happens when the machine is left alone but running - I think the driver for the Wi-fi card is flaky.
I have a P2 450 with fluxbox and kmail.
;)
No way in hell I believe that can boot up and be responsive in 10 seconds. It takes longer than that for my Debian server (300MHz P2) to come up to a login: prompt without X.
If you're talking about coming up from suspend, I might believe it, except that I have yet to have Linux properly suspend on any machine on which I've tried it.
Hmm... then again you didn't specify Linux, so you might be on BSD. But it's dying, so surely not.
My wife's Inspiron suspends and/or hibernates with 100% reliability. Granted, it's on XP now, but it was fine under 98 as well. In fact, that laptop probably hasn't been rebooted in about a month or two, and that reboot was for updates as well.
Does the "Dude, you're getting a DELL" guy count?
Damn twenty second delay.
OMFG. I'd never bothered to look up the lyrics. I figured it was bad, but had no idea it was THAT bad.
Incidentally, if I can't get this vomit out, you owe me a new keyboard.
ST IV: The Search for Whales? Surely you jest. Well, I'll agree it didn't suck, but to call it THE good Trek movie is a bit unfair.
The real rankings:
1. II KHAAAAAAAANNNN
2. VIII Night of the Living Borg
3. VI The Undiscovered Acting
4. IV The Search For Whales
5. X Numbesis
6. I The Motionless Picture
7. IX Insufferable
8. III The Search For Plot
9. VII Geriatric
10. V Oh, God In Space
How well does that work? I'd imagine the basics of authoring would be mostly OK, but does the preview window work? How about the burning aspect of it - does that work OK, or should you just create a file structure and use K3B or something to burn?
Also, do TMPGEnc or CCE work well under Wine? The only other missing piece for my purposes was capture from DV, but I understand that kino does that exceptionally well....