The article says that more than likely the lander will run out of power because there will not be enough sun to power the solar panels in the Martian winter. My question is, is there no possibility of the lander "comming back to life" after the Martian winter?
It would be really great for slashdot to have a Q&A with the Mars rover designers and engineers. I'd love to ask questions about the type of CPU/OS used. How the optics differ from your standard digital camera (other than being expensive and high quality) and so forth. Anybody want to second that? There is some information on the engineering specs, but it's very spotty it seems and hard to find!
Somebody told me of a story of some guy who had been a smoker for 40 years and quit cold turkey by having himself tranquilized (and unconscious) for a week so he wouldn't have to experience the withdrawal.
Now I'm sure he would of been feed intravenously, but is that even possible? Can somebody be safely tranquilized and unconscious for a week?
I'm not sure you'd want to go such extremes with caffeine, but if it's really bad.....
Maybe it's because the first computer games I played were on the Atari 2600, but I've never been able to get used to the gamepad. It's always HELL on my thumbs! I really LOVED the old Atari Joystick! Especially after you broke it in. Does anybody know of one of those that could be modified to work on a PC?
Does anybody else out there feel the same way?
My preference might not be specifically tied specifically to the 2600 game controller. Epyx made a 2600 controller (I think it was the 500XJ?) that was a 2600/C64 type controller with ergonomic design and "clicky" precision when you moved the stick into the right position.
With the Epyx controller I DESTROYED people in the Bitmap brother's "Speedball deluxe"!
Oh Please....tired arguments by tired people. Every major political figure at the national level does evil things. Tell me Clinton or Reagan, or Johnson, or Ford was any worse. Carter was honest, but naive.
Do eveybody a favor, if you are going to make a point. Try saying something new, other than repeating the same stuff other people have said. You sound like a robot repeating a mantra.
Oh...and by the way, how bout saying something about the topic. Other than "they are trying to funnel money to texas" Gee...shall we talk about Robert Byrd of West Virginia....or how bout some other Senators. Am I supposed to be surprised about gov officials funneling money/jobs back to their home states? Wake UP! It happens ALL THE TIME! W did'nt invent it.
The reason this is such a big deal is because the low resolution of the C64 looks just fine on a small screen. It looks like crap on a VGA monitor because most games of that era were designed with TV in mind. Many of those games looked better because the black line on every other scan line was a sort of "anti-aliasing" which made many of those games look nice.
Also, there were MAJOR titles released for the C64 that would NEVER be writing for the Palm. Like the Ultima Series (up to Ultima 6...I think?).
I've occasionally read Slashdot on my Tungsten T in a micro browser. Its readable, but somewhat painful. Would this new design help that at all (I'll have to try it). More importantly, it would be nice if slashdot had a WAP site for PDA users.
Could'nt you recompile the base code to run under a LINUX partition in VM on a 390 class system and change the calls to make external requests to another partition running CICS or whatever its interfacing?
Not that it would be of any benefit nessessarily.
Disclaimer - I spent 7 years of my life on as a Senior Operator on a Sperry/UNISYS 2200/622.
This is just going to result in the resurgance of COBOL! Not the migration away from it! BASIC was literally almost DEAD until microsoft came out with Visual Basic. What do you think this will do for COBOL!
So, if source code for a trojan is inserted into a GPL's project and assuming the author of the Trojan knows the trojaned program is a GPL project, does that mean that the Trojan is technically GPL'ed
How I lost 40 lbs in the last 5 months..
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I'm a self admitted geek. Most people don't want to hear this, but if you want to lose weight, you have to count calories. People HATE to hear that. But you have a certain amount you burn each day and to lose weight you have to eat less than that caloric amount. Although it is'nt good for you, you can lose weight eating twinkies, so long as the caloric total from your twinkies is less than the total calories you burn per day. This is true with ANY food. What I found out is that FAT/SUGARY foods have by weight and mass the highest amounts of calories in them, so If you want to be full when you eat you naturally gravitate towards low fat foods because they are bulkier and are lower in calories.
I cut my calories to 1500 per day, nor more than 500 per meal. And this is important, you CAN'T just eat 1500 calories in one sitting and then wait till 12:01am the next day and do it again. You have to be consistant and spread it out.
I weighed 194LBS and I was PORKING out...now I'm 154lbs and feel great! The first three weeks are the hardest. But once you've trained your brain for a new habit it's not that hard!
One more thing people forget about the Atkins diet, its also NO ALCHOHOL and NO SUGAR!!!
If all you want to do is lose a quick 10 lbs...switch to diet soda if you have not already done so....trust me on this, it works!
For those of you wondering about using it with the LINUX version of UT2003. Of the three mirrors that the site page has listed, fileplanet and the other one have a corrupted.gz file that that dies when decompressing with an unexpected EOF error. The offical site has taken the LINUX client off of their ftp server. So it looks for now that there is'nt a version ready for the LINUX version of UT2003.
Hey....I've got it! On the day that you know your website is to be slashdotted. Screenshot the page that is popular...make it a jpeg or something. Then redirect users to a bittorrent link to get the jpeg of the page....
yea, I use it. But freenet is SLOW. Bittorrent's purpose is speed and not anominity. Also, the tracking information for peers is centralized in Bittorrent, it's not in Freenet.
I've only seen several pictures of Linus over the years, but that photo of him on the right of the article makes him look like an offensive gaurd in American football! Was'nt he alot skinnier?
Instead of people saying "what would happen" has any of you bothered to ACTUALLY see if what you say comes true? I took a CD, used the same ripper, same encoder, different PC's, same default settings and created two MP3's and calculated MD5 sums. Guess what, they are NOT the same! Yes, they have the same ID tags and as far as I can tell ALL the options are identical.
By the way the same thing happens if you try it with other encoders as well. So before you start spewing your theories as true, why don't you test it? Especially if it is one that is EASY to test!
I KNEW IT!!! I checked google and NACHI is (National Association of certified Home inspectors). Man. What a pro-active group! I wonder if NOT having this worm will lower my mortgage?
I will not say what agency I work for, but the IT staff just turned off all of our switches due to this worm...I'm hearing reports from other places as well. Talk about being blind-sided!
For those of you who are in Northern VA. The Researcher at John Hopkins who looked at the Diebold systems is doing a presentation on his findings at the National Science Foundation, room 110 Aug 12th at 4pm.
If you can't make it, I've drafted an intern to tape and encode it for download. It will be archived a day later at http://www.ngi-supernet.org/conferences.html
If any of you are interested please tell me so I can post it as a bittorrent instead of burning down the web server.
Slashdot Mirror
The article says that more than likely the lander will run out of power because there will not be enough sun to power the solar panels in the Martian winter. My question is, is there no possibility of the lander "comming back to life" after the Martian winter?
It would be really great for slashdot to have a Q&A with the Mars rover designers and engineers. I'd love to ask questions about the type of CPU/OS used. How the optics differ from your standard digital camera (other than being expensive and high quality) and so forth. Anybody want to second that? There is some information on the engineering specs, but it's very spotty it seems and hard to find!
In case anybody wants to know what resolution the cameras will be taking the photos at you can get the whole technical specs for the pan cameras at
http://athena.cornell.edu/pdf/tb_pancam.pdf
It's quite interesting actually. Real News for Nerds!
Somebody told me of a story of some guy who had been a smoker for 40 years and quit cold turkey by having himself tranquilized (and unconscious) for a week so he wouldn't have to experience the withdrawal.
Now I'm sure he would of been feed intravenously, but is that even possible? Can somebody be safely tranquilized and unconscious for a week?
I'm not sure you'd want to go such extremes with caffeine, but if it's really bad.....
Maybe it's because the first computer games I played were on the Atari 2600, but I've never been able to get used to the gamepad. It's always HELL on my thumbs! I really LOVED the old Atari Joystick! Especially after you broke it in. Does anybody know of one of those that could be modified to work on a PC?
Does anybody else out there feel the same way?
My preference might not be specifically tied specifically to the 2600 game controller. Epyx made a 2600 controller (I think it was the 500XJ?) that was a 2600/C64 type controller with ergonomic design and "clicky" precision when you moved the stick into the right position.
With the Epyx controller I DESTROYED people in the Bitmap brother's "Speedball deluxe"!
Oh Please....tired arguments by tired people. Every major political figure at the national level does evil things. Tell me Clinton or Reagan, or Johnson, or Ford was any worse. Carter was honest, but naive.
Do eveybody a favor, if you are going to make a point. Try saying something new, other than repeating the same stuff other people have said. You sound like a robot repeating a mantra.
Oh...and by the way, how bout saying something about the topic. Other than "they are trying to funnel money to texas" Gee...shall we talk about Robert Byrd of West Virginia....or how bout some other Senators. Am I supposed to be surprised about gov officials funneling money/jobs back to their home states? Wake UP! It happens ALL THE TIME! W did'nt invent it.
Space travel rules! Go for it, money be damned!
Does the emulator support the C64's sound?
And...
The reason this is such a big deal is because the low resolution of the C64 looks just fine on a small screen. It looks like crap on a VGA monitor because most games of that era were designed with TV in mind. Many of those games looked better because the black line on every other scan line was a sort of "anti-aliasing" which made many of those games look nice.
Also, there were MAJOR titles released for the C64 that would NEVER be writing for the Palm. Like the Ultima Series (up to Ultima 6...I think?).
I've occasionally read Slashdot on my Tungsten T in a micro browser. Its readable, but somewhat painful. Would this new design help that at all (I'll have to try it). More importantly, it would be nice if slashdot had a WAP site for PDA users.
In case anybody wants it, the link to the conference is at
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/
Several of the lectures are being broadcast via high bandwidth video if
you are on Internet2.
Could'nt you recompile the base code to run under a LINUX partition in VM on a 390 class system and change the calls to make external requests to another partition running CICS or whatever its interfacing?
Not that it would be of any benefit nessessarily.
Disclaimer - I spent 7 years of my life on as a Senior Operator on a Sperry/UNISYS 2200/622.
This is just going to result in the resurgance of COBOL! Not the migration away from it! BASIC was literally almost DEAD until microsoft came out with Visual Basic. What do you think this will do for COBOL!
I DO NOT want to have to debug visual COBOL!
So, if source code for a trojan is inserted into a GPL's project and assuming the author of the Trojan knows the trojaned program is a GPL project, does that mean that the Trojan is technically GPL'ed
I'm a self admitted geek. Most people don't want to hear this, but if you want to lose weight, you have to count calories. People HATE to hear that. But you have a certain amount you burn each day and to lose weight you have to eat less than that caloric amount. Although it is'nt good for you, you can lose weight eating twinkies, so long as the caloric total from your twinkies is less than the total calories you burn per day. This is true with ANY food. What I found out is that FAT/SUGARY foods have by weight and mass the highest amounts of calories in them, so If you want to be full when you eat you naturally gravitate towards low fat foods because they are bulkier and are lower in calories.
I cut my calories to 1500 per day, nor more than 500 per meal. And this is important, you CAN'T just eat 1500 calories in one sitting and then wait till 12:01am the next day and do it again. You have to be consistant and spread it out.
I weighed 194LBS and I was PORKING out...now I'm 154lbs and feel great! The first three weeks are the hardest. But once you've trained your brain for a new habit it's not that hard!
One more thing people forget about the Atkins diet, its also NO ALCHOHOL and NO SUGAR!!!
If all you want to do is lose a quick 10 lbs...switch to diet soda if you have not already done so....trust me on this, it works!
Is vector compatibile with packages designed for slackware 9.0?
For those of you wondering about using it with the LINUX version of UT2003. Of the three mirrors that the site page has listed, fileplanet and the other one have a corrupted .gz file that that dies when decompressing with an unexpected EOF error. The offical site has taken the LINUX client off of their ftp server. So it looks for now that there is'nt a version ready for the LINUX version of UT2003.
Yes, that IS a good point!
Hey....I've got it! On the day that you know your website is to be slashdotted. Screenshot the page that is popular...make it a jpeg or something. Then redirect users to a bittorrent link to get the jpeg of the page....
cludgy...and inconvienient...but it could work!
yea, I use it. But freenet is SLOW. Bittorrent's purpose is speed and not anominity. Also, the tracking information for peers is centralized in Bittorrent, it's not in Freenet.
Somebody needs to make a Bittorrent like software that works with ENTIRE websites!
Is this impossible or doable?
I've only seen several pictures of Linus over the years, but that photo of him on the right of the article makes him look like an offensive gaurd in American football! Was'nt he alot skinnier?
Instead of people saying "what would happen" has any of you bothered to ACTUALLY see if what you say comes true? I took a CD, used the same ripper, same encoder, different PC's, same default settings and created two MP3's and calculated MD5 sums. Guess what, they are NOT the same! Yes, they have the same ID tags and as far as I can tell ALL the options are identical.
By the way the same thing happens if you try it with other encoders as well. So before you start spewing your theories as true, why don't you test it? Especially if it is one that is EASY to test!
Flame off
I KNEW IT!!! I checked google and NACHI is (National Association of certified Home inspectors). Man. What a pro-active group! I wonder if NOT having this worm will lower my mortgage?
I will not say what agency I work for, but the IT staff just turned off all of our switches due to this worm...I'm hearing reports from other places as well. Talk about being blind-sided!
For those of you who are in Northern VA. The Researcher at John Hopkins who looked at the Diebold systems is doing a presentation on his findings at the National Science Foundation, room 110 Aug 12th at 4pm.
If you can't make it, I've drafted an intern to tape and encode it for download. It will be archived a day later at http://www.ngi-supernet.org/conferences.html
If any of you are interested please tell me so I can post it as a bittorrent instead of burning down the web server.
Just respond to the thread...thanks!
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I've decided to try one beer with each type of cereal I have in my cabinet. I can honestly say that my cereal is MUCH better with beer!