It means "Facility". On Mauna Kea NASA operates an (obviously ground-based) infrared telescope called IRTF, which stands for Infrared Telescope Facility. They slapped the "Space" on SIRTF to differentiate between the two.
AMD and Intel CPUs both require between 300 and 450 watts of power to operate.
Really. Why is it then that Intel has a number of 250W power supplies listed on their website as being tested with the P4? AMD recommends a 350W PSU as well. If the CPUs require between 300 and 450 watts, then how can I use a 250W PSU to run everything?
They actually require on the order of 50W to run, not 300-450W, which is less than the 100W lightbulbs that are common in houses.
Oh, and if 300-450W is equivalent to an electric kitchen, you've got one damned efficient kitchen. Typical power consumption for a dishwasher is 1200W, a fridge is about 450W, and an electric range is 12000W.
Apple has publicly stated that they're working on getting the iTMS working for Windows users (by the end of the year (macobserver story)), and as of the end of April Apple had a job opening on their website for a developer of iTunes for Windows (macrumors story).
So yes, there will be a Windows version of iTunes.
What a stupid chart. If you're going to go through all the trouble of making an Excel spreadsheet why not create a proper spreadsheet and put the number of times a song was mentioned in its own column? See, now it's even more useful because I can sort by the number of times a song was mentioned to see what the most popular one was instead of having to scan the whole list manually. Simple, no?
And then you don't have to figure out if the number in brackets is actually the number of times it was mentioned or maybe makes up part of the title. If I was being pedantic and took the "Title (Times song appears)" column header to be gospel, then the Jay-Z song "I Just Wanna Love U" has been mentioned "Give It 2 Me" times, and the Ludacris song "Cry Babies" has been mentioned "Oh No" times. What is this? How many is "Oh No"?
Makes me want to go write some Lisp, which is perhaps the antithesis of Perl. Lisp has the maximum possibile flexibility through having the minimum possible syntax. Perl originally had little flexibility, now they are trying to add more by adding more syntax. The problem is, if they want to get anywhere near Lisp-level flexibility with this method they'll need to move to Unicode for the syntax!
But, you see, the problem with writing in Lisp is you're writing in Lisp.
Apparently you don't know how to read the website or other posts here. It's IE-only because it uses ActiveX controls to do encryption and handle licencing. Mozilla (or anything beyond IE on Windows) cannot do that.
It's not a matter of standards, it's a matter of them delivering music in a "secure" way.
You should be, because by offering copies of them publically you're essentially allowing them to be broadcast and copied. I'm sure that under some sneaky definition of "broadcast" the RIAA would sue you.
Apparently joshamania didn't read this comment about the Solar System model in Sweden that's 300 kilometers long. That's much larger than this one in Peoria that's 64 kilometers long.
And The Holy See is a city as well as a country, so it is a city that has a TLD. It had a TLD before this.la thing came along saying Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD. I fail to see your point.
The Holy See (Vatican City) has its own TLD,.va, and it's a city. I think the calls that Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD are a little premature.
Also in that answer was a complete non-answer. You'll note how he didn't say that the artists would get any of their money back, only that it depends on their contract. So much for the RIAA fighting for the artist, eh?
You are, yes. It doesn't change more frequently because of the sparseness of interesting stars within eighty light years. This program would be a lot less interesting if your birthday star happened to be some 11th magnitude red dwarf. It's much more interesting to have a 3rd magnitude star, one that you can actually see with the naked eye.
This is the first time I've ever heard of anybody complaining about the years in the titles of sports games. I was always under the impression that the year in the title referred to the year the game was released.
I wonder if the author feels the same way about car manufacturers. After all, a 2004 Jetta actually first comes out in 2003.
The odds of smacking a probe into a 10-kilometer moon that's orbiting Jupiter are a billion to one. I don't think NASA spends more than five minutes worrying about that one.
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It means "Facility". On Mauna Kea NASA operates an (obviously ground-based) infrared telescope called IRTF, which stands for Infrared Telescope Facility. They slapped the "Space" on SIRTF to differentiate between the two.
Presumably you also had migranes around the 12th and 24th of July?
Really. Why is it then that Intel has a number of 250W power supplies listed on their website as being tested with the P4? AMD recommends a 350W PSU as well. If the CPUs require between 300 and 450 watts, then how can I use a 250W PSU to run everything?
They actually require on the order of 50W to run, not 300-450W, which is less than the 100W lightbulbs that are common in houses.
Oh, and if 300-450W is equivalent to an electric kitchen, you've got one damned efficient kitchen. Typical power consumption for a dishwasher is 1200W, a fridge is about 450W, and an electric range is 12000W.
Apple has publicly stated that they're working on getting the iTMS working for Windows users (by the end of the year (macobserver story)), and as of the end of April Apple had a job opening on their website for a developer of iTunes for Windows (macrumors story).
So yes, there will be a Windows version of iTunes.
Ahem. I'm a he.
This is Slashdot, where do you get off assuming someone's female?
OpenOffice worked just fine opening it.
What a stupid chart. If you're going to go through all the trouble of making an Excel spreadsheet why not create a proper spreadsheet and put the number of times a song was mentioned in its own column? See, now it's even more useful because I can sort by the number of times a song was mentioned to see what the most popular one was instead of having to scan the whole list manually. Simple, no?
And then you don't have to figure out if the number in brackets is actually the number of times it was mentioned or maybe makes up part of the title. If I was being pedantic and took the "Title (Times song appears)" column header to be gospel, then the Jay-Z song "I Just Wanna Love U" has been mentioned "Give It 2 Me" times, and the Ludacris song "Cry Babies" has been mentioned "Oh No" times. What is this? How many is "Oh No"?
Apparently you don't know how to read the website or other posts here. It's IE-only because it uses ActiveX controls to do encryption and handle licencing. Mozilla (or anything beyond IE on Windows) cannot do that.
It's not a matter of standards, it's a matter of them delivering music in a "secure" way.
You should be, because by offering copies of them publically you're essentially allowing them to be broadcast and copied. I'm sure that under some sneaky definition of "broadcast" the RIAA would sue you.
I bought my copy at Borders for $12.44.
Yeah, and he's good at surfing the web. Just what I would be looking for in an employee.
Apparently joshamania didn't read this comment about the Solar System model in Sweden that's 300 kilometers long. That's much larger than this one in Peoria that's 64 kilometers long.
And The Holy See is a city as well as a country, so it is a city that has a TLD. It had a TLD before this .la thing came along saying Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD. I fail to see your point.
The Holy See (Vatican City) has its own TLD, .va, and it's a city. I think the calls that Los Angeles is the first city with a TLD are a little premature.
Also in that answer was a complete non-answer. You'll note how he didn't say that the artists would get any of their money back, only that it depends on their contract. So much for the RIAA fighting for the artist, eh?
Yes, but it's about tripled since this whole thing began.
You are, yes. It doesn't change more frequently because of the sparseness of interesting stars within eighty light years. This program would be a lot less interesting if your birthday star happened to be some 11th magnitude red dwarf. It's much more interesting to have a 3rd magnitude star, one that you can actually see with the naked eye.
They left off my favourite astronomy website, the Joint Astronomy Centre's Birthday Stars website. It's really informative and fun!*
* Disclaimer: I work for them.
This is the first time I've ever heard of anybody complaining about the years in the titles of sports games. I was always under the impression that the year in the title referred to the year the game was released.
I wonder if the author feels the same way about car manufacturers. After all, a 2004 Jetta actually first comes out in 2003.
These two words to not go together.
The odds of smacking a probe into a 10-kilometer moon that's orbiting Jupiter are a billion to one. I don't think NASA spends more than five minutes worrying about that one.