Every gardener knows that kids will walk through a hedge when it's in their way. Look at the hedges in the nearest park and the paths worn through them.
Well, their web site is not navigable with Linux Netscape. One of the worst I've seen -- invisible links, no navigation links, fixed-size windows (well, Netscape deals with that OK, but it's not good design and things get chopped off). Wherever you got that Linux quote I can't reach.
Not a good sign of their Linux compatibility.
Re:Why we aren't as worried about nuclear war
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Most of the plutonium dust would be wasted on the terrain, clothes, and skin. Not everyone breathing it would get cancer, some would expel it during normal lung clearing, and some dust would be encased in cysts. And any cancer deaths would be spread over 40 years, which makes it rather ineffective. (Right now the D.O.E. is trying to find former nuclear workers to figure out if they were injured -- apparently it wasn't obvious if they were.) Better to drop cigarettes in the streets.
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No, the earlier story was from the paper pad. This story is the digitally captured version for the screen.
Other research showed that cells called melanocytes found in the uveal layer started growing and
dividing more rapidly when exposed to microwave radiation.
"My, what big eyes you have!"
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But there's a vast difference between a dozen cities vanishing and 500 craters across the USA (that's an average of 10 per state, although Rhode Island probably wouldn't get that many). We don't know if there would be weather consequences more widespread than 500 simultaneous short-lived thunderstorms.
Gee, they're going to force me to stop taping the Super Bowl so I won't be able to watch all those good commercials? Or will they turn off the "never copy" flag during the commercials? That will be convenient, if I don't have to watch that football that keeps delaying the commercials.
I've also gone through two winter buying seasons without buying DVD stuff. When I can put DVD players in my Linux boxes, then I'll invest in DVD media and compatible home DVD players.
Or, if there's one last refueling robot flight headed up there -- maybe the refueling capsule could leave behind a camera pod on the outside of Mir...
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Yes, but good imaging of it...and it's likely a simulation of a real activity...well, as real as fiction gets... I'll trail off now.
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Here is a collection of space rescue designs. I personally like the Paracone -- a cone unfolds around you after the retro burn. Accuracy only good enough to hit a continent, but as long as there's air that's good enough.
And let's not forget the space diving scene that Voyager's Torres does. Hopping out of a shuttlecraft and doing reentry wearing a spacesuit covered with heat tiles.
Don't forget to tell CNN that your home page is for France, tell your Netscape browser that French is your preferred language, tell Google to use French, tell your web mailer to use French...
Your reference to "nuclear missiles" is too specific (as to missile type) and implies too general an application (worldwide coverage). The story makes clear this is a test of a theater weapon. That is, it is intended to be used in a specific area of operation, such as orbiting over Desert Storm forces and shoot down Scuds and other airborne threats.
The initial design is to make it hit a missile during the first half-minute after launch, while the missile engine is still firing -- punching a hole in a missile both weakens it and is likely to make the engine do messy things. Right now they're only talking about big targets; later we'll see if they can detect, aim, and shoot at smaller SAMs which fly for a shorter time.
This report is about a specific test aircraft, not a device which will be installed on all 747s. The phrasing in the Slashdot story does read as if it's about all 747s.
Indeed there are services which provide coffee machines. Look in your local Yellow Pages (paper or online) for vending services. Those companies provide assorted beverage and food services, not only insert-the-coin vending machines. Some of them will install a coffee machine of the proper size and keep it supplied -- or if you prefer, a vending machine with or without coin slot.
Well, actually the Moon probably does not have many radioactive elements available. The Moon is mostly the lighter elements that were stripped off the surface of the Earth. There should be plenty of heavy metals available in the nearest metallic asteroid, so there really isn't a fuel problem.
Anyone know where the dish with the smiley face is? The pictures on the PARI site of the 4.6 meter dish only shows that it's in the corner of a building. The map in the "Tours" section is illegible. Of course, on the pictures with a 1-meter resolution, a 4.6 meter dish might be identifiable but the 3-meter smile might not be.
Yup, they're on Terraserver. Information on the PARI site mentions they are NW of Brevard, NC. The map on the Tours page has a barely-legible "To NC 215". NC 215 is west of Brevard, and has an S-curve 2-3rds of the way to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Look for "Glassmine Mountain", south of "Cook Mountain". South of the S-curve, looking above the streams (the article says PARI is in a natural bowl, thus probably some streams nearby) on the USGS topological map one sees several circles marked "TOWERS". One does not put TV broadcast in a depression. Zoom in and the road pattern matches that of the map on the PARI site. Zoom in to the area where the buildings are near the road to the gate, and to the left is a large white circle. That white circle is one of the dishes, and the picture shows the shadow is way off to the side of the circle -- showing that the circle is suspended up in the air. I don't know if this link is a temporary search result or if it's a permanent coordinate link. "212 KM NE of Atlanta GA" the label says.
Yup. Sweeping rapidly would just give a quick listen to any signals, like spinning an AM radio dial just lets you hear a burst from each station (to get the same effect you'd actually have to leave your AM radio on one station and rotate a directional antenna around so you hear half a word from Chicago, then half a word from New York, then half a word from Washington D.C....).
And for radio astronomy you'd also get the fun of compensating for Doppler effects from the advancing/receding edges of the dish and the Earth's movement combined with the movement of the dish. Ick.
On the other hand, maybe when they're not doing astronomy they could fire up the small dish and do astronomical radar sweeps of the area near Earth. I wonder if they could pick up near-miss rocks that the optical astronomers are missing, such as that 50-foot chunk over London last month.
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Translate to computerese to fit your desires.
Not a good sign of their Linux compatibility.
Most of the plutonium dust would be wasted on the terrain, clothes, and skin. Not everyone breathing it would get cancer, some would expel it during normal lung clearing, and some dust would be encased in cysts. And any cancer deaths would be spread over 40 years, which makes it rather ineffective. (Right now the D.O.E. is trying to find former nuclear workers to figure out if they were injured -- apparently it wasn't obvious if they were.) Better to drop cigarettes in the streets.
No, the earlier story was from the paper pad. This story is the digitally captured version for the screen.
"My, what big eyes you have!"
But there's a vast difference between a dozen cities vanishing and 500 craters across the USA (that's an average of 10 per state, although Rhode Island probably wouldn't get that many). We don't know if there would be weather consequences more widespread than 500 simultaneous short-lived thunderstorms.
Gee, they're going to force me to stop taping the Super Bowl so I won't be able to watch all those good commercials? Or will they turn off the "never copy" flag during the commercials? That will be convenient, if I don't have to watch that football that keeps delaying the commercials.
I've also gone through two winter buying seasons without buying DVD stuff. When I can put DVD players in my Linux boxes, then I'll invest in DVD media and compatible home DVD players.
Or, if there's one last refueling robot flight headed up there -- maybe the refueling capsule could leave behind a camera pod on the outside of Mir...
Yes, but good imaging of it...and it's likely a simulation of a real activity...well, as real as fiction gets... I'll trail off now.
And let's not forget the space diving scene that Voyager's Torres does. Hopping out of a shuttlecraft and doing reentry wearing a spacesuit covered with heat tiles.
Don't forget to tell CNN that your home page is for France, tell your Netscape browser that French is your preferred language, tell Google to use French, tell your web mailer to use French...
The initial design is to make it hit a missile during the first half-minute after launch, while the missile engine is still firing -- punching a hole in a missile both weakens it and is likely to make the engine do messy things. Right now they're only talking about big targets; later we'll see if they can detect, aim, and shoot at smaller SAMs which fly for a shorter time.
This report is about a specific test aircraft, not a device which will be installed on all 747s. The phrasing in the Slashdot story does read as if it's about all 747s.
A recent Ask Slashdot about Electronic Class Notebook discussed a paperless pen computer. The Crosspad was also mentioned there several times.
It sounds like you want something like a touchscreen Clio, where the screen can flip around to hide the keyboard.
Isn't this application begging for an IsItGeekOrNot page?
Hmm. The Slugbot page has not been updated since February 2000. Must not be slug season.
If they leave the input side open, they'll also be eating flies. Anyone hear how the SlubBot is doing?
Indeed there are services which provide coffee machines. Look in your local Yellow Pages (paper or online) for vending services. Those companies provide assorted beverage and food services, not only insert-the-coin vending machines. Some of them will install a coffee machine of the proper size and keep it supplied -- or if you prefer, a vending machine with or without coin slot.
Well, actually the Moon probably does not have many radioactive elements available. The Moon is mostly the lighter elements that were stripped off the surface of the Earth. There should be plenty of heavy metals available in the nearest metallic asteroid, so there really isn't a fuel problem.
Anyone know where the dish with the smiley face is? The pictures on the PARI site of the 4.6 meter dish only shows that it's in the corner of a building. The map in the "Tours" section is illegible. Of course, on the pictures with a 1-meter resolution, a 4.6 meter dish might be identifiable but the 3-meter smile might not be.
Yup, they're on Terraserver. Information on the PARI site mentions they are NW of Brevard, NC. The map on the Tours page has a barely-legible "To NC 215". NC 215 is west of Brevard, and has an S-curve 2-3rds of the way to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Look for "Glassmine Mountain", south of "Cook Mountain". South of the S-curve, looking above the streams (the article says PARI is in a natural bowl, thus probably some streams nearby) on the USGS topological map one sees several circles marked "TOWERS". One does not put TV broadcast in a depression. Zoom in and the road pattern matches that of the map on the PARI site. Zoom in to the area where the buildings are near the road to the gate, and to the left is a large white circle. That white circle is one of the dishes, and the picture shows the shadow is way off to the side of the circle -- showing that the circle is suspended up in the air. I don't know if this link is a temporary search result or if it's a permanent coordinate link. "212 KM NE of Atlanta GA" the label says.
And for radio astronomy you'd also get the fun of compensating for Doppler effects from the advancing/receding edges of the dish and the Earth's movement combined with the movement of the dish. Ick.
On the other hand, maybe when they're not doing astronomy they could fire up the small dish and do astronomical radar sweeps of the area near Earth. I wonder if they could pick up near-miss rocks that the optical astronomers are missing, such as that 50-foot chunk over London last month.
I want to know if a cat makes sparks when it touches the carpet after sliding down the curtains.