The prime suspect is aerosol / cloud interactions. Here is the more legible version from Scientific American"
Because its the weekend at the Scientific American and they don't have the aerosol/cloud interactions making it hazy and unreadable. So their "legible version" is weekday free making it less blurry!
Yeah, you're among friends here. Most people who read/. don't like Linux either
and my portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA
Bummer...somehow, I also thought MP3s and WMA files were the exact same thing. You mean they are different formats and your MP3 player won't play WMAs?!
I had been a MP fan for many years, but my dormmate in college had always heard "how stupid MP is"
Well, there used to be a show on the local rock station that played mostly standup comedy bits (it might have even been syndicated as well) So one night, the Argument Clinic was the closing bit. (Not anything to try to follow it with)
He became an instant convert...
Find it one the web somehow, and it will have anyone laughing. It is awesome...
If anyone disagrees (ding)
I'm sorry, I not allowed to argue with you anymore...(wink)
I am so used to seeing Haxorz on/. using their 1337 speak that I REALLY had to look at your 2x10^7 (What WORD is that supposed to be???) for quite a while before I figured it out...
Anytime a MS product and a competing product go head to head, everyone talks about the Anti-MS product working better...
Well, why is Sendmail's Overflow more "Buff" than Exchange's???
Will its "Buffer" Overflow run on a 64bit processor? Did it get "Buffer" legally, or like so many from the Open Source movement, is it on drugs of some kind that just make it SEEM "Buffer"?
Why would you want your Overflow to be "Buffer" anyways? We should be saving resources as much as possible and overflow is wasteful so really having Buff overflow is bad for the environment too...
How will it look to the average customer if free software has to resort to ads to make it profitable?
Yeah, go ahead.... Read that sentence again and I hope you won't have to read the rest of this post.
Still, don't get it? Try one more time...
hmmm...
Okay, fine, let me explain-
Something that is FREE, has to resort to SOMETHING to make it PROFITABLE!!!!!
Now, if the only concern is distribution, then you can give things away all day long. You can even be damn good at it. But, you want to be PROFITABLE??? Well, you hav'ta charge for SOMETHING.
Perpendicular recording will replace longitudinal recording in storage devices, placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface
Okay, yes, I've read the description of how "placing bits on end" works, and it even makes some sense.
This immediately makes me think of dominoes. But I still can't get the image out of my head of some computer entity trying to set up these "bits on end" like dominoes on a hard drive like some French guy on the old TV show That's Incredible! filling a gymnasium floor with 30,000 dominoes to break the world record
"Suddenly, Pierre makes one small mistake and his work for the last week all goes tumbling away"
Gives a new image to a hard drive crash as well.
BTW, no I do not know how many dominoes it actually was, and generally do not care, and I do not know that the guy was French or named Pierre. But devoting you life to breaking the dominoes world record does seem like the kind of thing that only a French guy named Pierre would do. Summary-If you are offended by me not knowing the details of obscure info such as who holds the record for dominoes instead be offended by my stereotyping of dominoes type people and the French.
So, one day, on a website devoted to Nerds, someone asks why the spacecraft have wings.
Someone else has to point out that they do fly through the atmosphere, which means, wings are a good thing to have, unless you enjoy making craters on every landing...
AND SOMEONE HAS TO MOD THAT POST AS INSIGHTFUL.
Which, lets be quite honest, it isn't very insightful at all: "Things that fly-wings helpful."
No offense intended to p3do, because it needed to be said. And props to the moderator who found it important to mod up, they were right.
Its just damn scary someone drug things down to the point that a statment of the obvious becomes insightful.
Cool, I've never been much of a fan anyways, so no big loss.
Will all their nomad fans be following them there too?
BTW, where exactly is FLAC? I hope its somewhere cold. Summer Phish concerts mean hippies in armpit hair revealing clothing. *shudder* At least somewhere cold they will bundle up
Shaggy, badly cut hair Probably has a large nose or some other non-appealing to the opposite sex feature A double chin from too much Mountain Dew and Pizza and inactivity A giant pot belly from the same Sagging shoulders from poor posture
OH, wait, this is a PERSONALITY profile???
Wow, that's going to be even scarier than the above image
"Okay, here's a story that you will prob see all over your favorite Free Software Slanted News Sites today. Here's what's wrong with it..."
The title says it all really: They are EDITORS. Not gatekeepers that post stories only, they have a staggering ability to actually add there own text. *yawn*
I see them taken to task often (and rightfully so) for posting dupes, unchecked links, etc...and they deserve the hassles on that stuff
Don't agree with his editorializing? Cool thing about/. is your can post your own reply AND other people actually READ them! Try that at your favorite newspaper site
"In fact, he said, the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
THEN
although the experiment "moves us a lot closer to saying that foam can do this kind of damage," it did not rule out other possible causes of the hole in the wing, including small meteorites and debris in space.
What is it about this being a peice of foam that they still can't cop to this being most likely.
If I saw you throw a basketball at my car at 500mph, I would likely stop looking for the "real" cause of the dent!
Even after the experiment and the basic lesson in physics, they still won't say "Yeah, we are keeping our minds open to any new evidence, but right now it appears that this foam strike was the a major factor in the accident."
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SAYING "Yes, we think this is what caused the damage" If it was instead the basketball that indeed hit the shuttle, the debate about what caused the damage would be wrapping up.
I say major factor, becuase I personally have theorized on/. before about the idea of ALL factors involved.
Below is the text of my former post on this idea-
'Under the conditions of a normal return to earth, the shuttle flies on autopilot until it is traveling more slowly than the speed of sound. But pilots train to take the shuttle all the way down in case the autopilot malfunctions, and so it is possible one of the pilots was trying to take control of the yawing craft in its final moments. 'It is relatively easy for the autopilot to be turned off by accident, which in fact happened just minutes before the problems with the Columbia started to become apparent. In the recovered segment of flight deck video of the waning minutes of the flight released by NASA, Colonel Husband is heard to exclaim, "Oh, shoot," and to tell mission control that "we bumped the stick earlier," briefly disengaging the autopilot. He quickly and calmly corrected the error' What this all leads me to is this, and I have not seen this suggested in anything I have read as an important concern: Is it possible that this accidental disengaging of the autopilot CONTRIBUTED to the loss of the Shuttle? Although the pilots are trained to fly the Shuttle without the Autopilot, if they were unaware that it was turned off then the "minute" adjustments that either one would make would be missed. All accounts I have seen suggest that the slightest details on the approach make HUGE differences in the results. Add to this the fact that it has been reported that the Autopilot, when on, was acting to correct the flight path anomalies caused by the damage outside. If the autopilot is off, then what other consequences were being experienced? Is it possible that this with the likely outside damage and other factors may have COMBINED have caused the loss of the Shuttle where any issue ALONE would have not? With all the speculation I have seen in the media, I am not sure this is any less of a possibility... BTW, I personally am not trying to lay blame on the astronauts themselves. Much like a Cruise Control that starts to mysteriously disengage on a vehicle, I would not be surprised if the Autopilot may have "sensed" a disengage as simple as moving the stick, and the pilots assumed that one of them must have done it."
Not only is it funny, it sounds like it might have actually been fun in a weird warped way to have been playing at the time...
After all, it is a fantasy game, why couldn't this have happened within the normal confines of the game?
"What, how the hell did I get at the bottom of the ocean? Oh, great. Now I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's keep...This is not my beautiful castle?! This is not my beautiful wench?! How did I get here?"
Well, fun to me, at least. I don't take fantasy computer games that serious
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I hope everyone takes this VERY seriously.
Sit down some day and actually TALK to a victim of cannibalism or necrophilia.
The things they tell you will change you forever
The prime suspect is aerosol / cloud interactions. Here is the more legible version from Scientific American"
Because its the weekend at the Scientific American and they don't have the aerosol/cloud interactions making it hazy and unreadable. So their "legible version" is weekday free making it less blurry!
"What a shame that I'm running Linux"
/. don't like Linux either
Yeah, you're among friends here. Most people who read
and my portable MP3 player doesn't support WMA
Bummer...somehow, I also thought MP3s and WMA files were the exact same thing. You mean they are different formats and your MP3 player won't play WMAs?!
Bastards!
I had been a MP fan for many years, but my dormmate in college had always heard "how stupid MP is"
Well, there used to be a show on the local rock station that played mostly standup comedy bits (it might have even been syndicated as well) So one night, the Argument Clinic was the closing bit. (Not anything to try to follow it with)
He became an instant convert...
Find it one the web somehow, and it will have anyone laughing. It is awesome...
If anyone disagrees (ding)
I'm sorry, I not allowed to argue with you anymore...(wink)
What did you call those kids???
/. using their 1337 speak that I REALLY had to look at your 2x10^7 (What WORD is that supposed to be???) for quite a while before I figured it out...
I am so used to seeing Haxorz on
You were just using good ol' geekspeak!! Rock on!
Anytime a MS product and a competing product go head to head, everyone talks about the Anti-MS product working better...
Well, why is Sendmail's Overflow more "Buff" than Exchange's???
Will its "Buffer" Overflow run on a 64bit processor? Did it get "Buffer" legally, or like so many from the Open Source movement, is it on drugs of some kind that just make it SEEM "Buffer"?
Why would you want your Overflow to be "Buffer" anyways? We should be saving resources as much as possible and overflow is wasteful so really having Buff overflow is bad for the environment too...
Okay, can't ever seem to Slashdot Slashdot itself.
But, maybe, if we try really hard, we can Slashdot the Slashdot T-Shirts about Slashdotting
How will it look to the average customer if free software has to resort to ads to make it profitable?
Yeah, go ahead.... Read that sentence again and I hope you won't have to read the rest of this post.
Still, don't get it? Try one more time...
hmmm...
Okay, fine, let me explain-
Something that is FREE, has to resort to SOMETHING to make it PROFITABLE!!!!!
Now, if the only concern is distribution, then you can give things away all day long. You can even be damn good at it. But, you want to be PROFITABLE??? Well, you hav'ta charge for SOMETHING.
While I feel this is the wrong move, why can't they have it both ways?
Dell/HP/Everyoneelseitseems sells you a PC that includes preloaded "sales" material such as AOL/MSN.
Will it cut back on their "boxed" sales? Prob so, but thats their call
I'm sorry, I can't help but smirk and snicker when I think about the Japanese and their
"Solah Powah Towahs!"
*smile*
And he has a HUGE 50ft army man peeking over a wall spying on him...
Perpendicular recording will replace longitudinal recording in storage devices, placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface
Okay, yes, I've read the description of how "placing bits on end" works, and it even makes some sense.
This immediately makes me think of dominoes. But I still can't get the image out of my head of some computer entity trying to set up these "bits on end" like dominoes on a hard drive like some French guy on the old TV show That's Incredible! filling a gymnasium floor with 30,000 dominoes to break the world record
"Suddenly, Pierre makes one small mistake and his work for the last week all goes tumbling away"
Gives a new image to a hard drive crash as well.
BTW, no I do not know how many dominoes it actually was, and generally do not care, and I do not know that the guy was French or named Pierre. But devoting you life to breaking the dominoes world record does seem like the kind of thing that only a French guy named Pierre would do. Summary-If you are offended by me not knowing the details of obscure info such as who holds the record for dominoes instead be offended by my stereotyping of dominoes type people and the French.
This really is sad...
So, one day, on a website devoted to Nerds, someone asks why the spacecraft have wings.
Someone else has to point out that they do fly through the atmosphere, which means, wings are a good thing to have, unless you enjoy making craters on every landing...
AND SOMEONE HAS TO MOD THAT POST AS INSIGHTFUL.
Which, lets be quite honest, it isn't very insightful at all: "Things that fly-wings helpful."
No offense intended to p3do, because it needed to be said. And props to the moderator who found it important to mod up, they were right.
Its just damn scary someone drug things down to the point that a statment of the obvious becomes insightful.
*grin*
"Artificial Intelligence" is common in home poker games-Its called BEER
The trick is to make sure your opponents are sufficiently fueled by "Artificial Inteligence" and you will come out way ahead
But that would suggest that there is somekind of value to a /. subscription...
While your at it throw in a Taco big toe nail (lightly chewed) and some CowboyNeal bellybutton lint (size large)
People are going to pay for a network attachmen(t) they can *use*, not a service for downloading Hello, Kitty skins for their cell phones.
But what I can USE *IS* a service for downloading Hello, Kitty skins for my cell phone! That would be so rockin' awesuuuume!
Cool, I've never been much of a fan anyways, so no big loss.
Will all their nomad fans be following them there too?
BTW, where exactly is FLAC? I hope its somewhere cold. Summer Phish concerts mean hippies in armpit hair revealing clothing. *shudder* At least somewhere cold they will bundle up
"only won by 3% [wa.gov], and was built anyway, unchanged"
Ummm, yeah, about that...
Uh, no, it should NOT require a vote with a greater outcome than 53-47.
At what point whould you set the acceptable public policy margin to be then? 60-40? 80-20? 99-1?
Well, lets see-
Shaggy, badly cut hair
Probably has a large nose or some other non-appealing to the opposite sex feature
A double chin from too much Mountain Dew and Pizza and inactivity
A giant pot belly from the same
Sagging shoulders from poor posture
OH, wait, this is a PERSONALITY profile???
Wow, that's going to be even scarier than the above image
What's wrong with saying-
/. is your can post your own reply AND other people actually READ them! Try that at your favorite newspaper site
"Okay, here's a story that you will prob see all over your favorite Free Software Slanted News Sites today. Here's what's wrong with it..."
The title says it all really: They are EDITORS. Not gatekeepers that post stories only, they have a staggering ability to actually add there own text. *yawn*
I see them taken to task often (and rightfully so) for posting dupes, unchecked links, etc...and they deserve the hassles on that stuff
Don't agree with his editorializing? Cool thing about
First, RTFA...
/. before about the idea of ALL factors involved.
"In fact, he said, the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
THEN
although the experiment "moves us a lot closer to saying that foam can do this kind of damage," it did not rule out other possible causes of the hole in the wing, including small meteorites and debris in space.
What is it about this being a peice of foam that they still can't cop to this being most likely.
If I saw you throw a basketball at my car at 500mph, I would likely stop looking for the "real" cause of the dent!
Even after the experiment and the basic lesson in physics, they still won't say "Yeah, we are keeping our minds open to any new evidence, but right now it appears that this foam strike was the a major factor in the accident."
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH SAYING "Yes, we think this is what caused the damage" If it was instead the basketball that indeed hit the shuttle, the debate about what caused the damage would be wrapping up.
I say major factor, becuase I personally have theorized on
Below is the text of my former post on this idea-
'Under the conditions of a normal return to earth, the shuttle flies on autopilot until it is traveling more slowly than the speed of sound. But pilots train to take the shuttle all the way down in case the autopilot malfunctions, and so it is possible one of the pilots was trying to take control of the yawing craft in its final moments. 'It is relatively easy for the autopilot to be turned off by accident, which in fact happened just minutes before the problems with the Columbia started to become apparent. In the recovered segment of flight deck video of the waning minutes of the flight released by NASA, Colonel Husband is heard to exclaim, "Oh, shoot," and to tell mission control that "we bumped the stick earlier," briefly disengaging the autopilot. He quickly and calmly corrected the error'
What this all leads me to is this, and I have not seen this suggested in anything I have read as an important concern: Is it possible that this accidental disengaging of the autopilot CONTRIBUTED to the loss of the Shuttle? Although the pilots are trained to fly the Shuttle without the Autopilot, if they were unaware that it was turned off then the "minute" adjustments that either one would make would be missed. All accounts I have seen suggest that the slightest details on the approach make HUGE differences in the results. Add to this the fact that it has been reported that the Autopilot, when on, was acting to correct the flight path anomalies caused by the damage outside. If the autopilot is off, then what other consequences were being experienced?
Is it possible that this with the likely outside damage and other factors may have COMBINED have caused the loss of the Shuttle where any issue ALONE would have not? With all the speculation I have seen in the media, I am not sure this is any less of a possibility...
BTW, I personally am not trying to lay blame on the astronauts themselves. Much like a Cruise Control that starts to mysteriously disengage on a vehicle, I would not be surprised if the Autopilot may have "sensed" a disengage as simple as moving the stick, and the pilots assumed that one of them must have done it."
It'd make a good business/school machine, but I don't think you'd want it for gaming and the like.
Not for FPSs or your fav heavy graphics speedfest.
But I see no reason that you couldn't sit on the sofa watching TV while playing an EQ-style game with on of these in you lap.
Not only is it funny, it sounds like it might have actually been fun in a weird warped way to have been playing at the time...
After all, it is a fantasy game, why couldn't this have happened within the normal confines of the game?
"What, how the hell did I get at the bottom of the ocean? Oh, great. Now I'm in the middle of my worst enemy's keep...This is not my beautiful castle?! This is not my beautiful wench?! How did I get here?"
Well, fun to me, at least. I don't take fantasy computer games that serious
I bet
12 joke
made at my expense
for such crappy
post.
Damn, what's wrong with me? Today that is...
"nearing workable stages at Microsoft Research"
:)
What a softball on a Slashdot story. I bet
21 joke made with reference to this phrase
Let's watch and see