Yes. If it's trapped in the gravity well of the planet, it's a moon.
NORAD now tracks on the order of 10,000 man-made earth moons, and there are uncouned numbers of things they can't resolve on a RADAR (things less than a few inches across).
N.B. I just did the calculation the other day, and the moon is now at 240,000 miles radius (+- 10000, or thereabouts) now. When it stops receding, it will be at 340,000 miles radius (+- blah blah blah). In about 30 billion years. Right now, it's moving out at 4 cm/yr, but that's a very small amount of the normal perturbations in its orbit (the moon's orbit is a 100-page formula) and I just used an Earth-centered system, because it gets us within 5% accuracy.
That last one has the interesting quote of a quote, "In the February 1999 American Rifleman, the author of "America's 9mm's", James P. Cowgill states, "One reason for the change to a 9mm service pistol was the increasing number of women in the military. They have statistically smaller hands and were often issued revolvers as opposed to the larger M1911A1".
...for teaching all those open-source coders how to do their jobs, creating the free value from which the state can draw intellectual property and save themselves money?
adj., describes the state of having your webserver grind to a halt four times in a day as the Total Farkers, then the Farkers, then the Total Slashdotters, then the Slashdotters, are thrown a link to one of your webpages.
The only thing that keeps your phone from being spammed like your email is that the phone is 1-to-1 communication.
There are machines that can do the telemarketing work of dozens of workers over dozens of phone lines, but there aren't machines that can do the work of millions within a few hours over a single phone line.
A single, cheap PC with an ethernet card, a $49.95 broadband internet connection, and a $19 piece of shareware (probably pirated) can do it easily.
The only solution is jail time and public humiliation.
Testing for a bug that happens only when you reach the middle of the last level on the hardest play setting after collecting items on previous levels in a certain order...
Code review and testing is mandatory for software involved in any sort of safety operation.
Any software usage that doesn't mandate code review and testing is leaving itself wide open to not only malicious coding but egregiously negligent code and to the errors that result from failure to communicate requirements clearly or at all.
If you don't want to spend money to ensure the code is any good, you have no business complaining that it's bad.
The driver here won't be home recording so much as HD-DVD rentals.
The question is, will the upgrade happen at even a fraction of the rate of DVD rentals? That took a couple of years longer than I thought it would.
Chicken-and-egg will apply. There aren't many HD sets out there, and effectively nobody has HD-DVD yet. But what will sell HD sets is the availability of full-length HD-DVD content.
-u means "unbuffered". 'cat -v' would wait for newlines. I wonder how linux and cygwin get around the difference. Hopefully, by always being unbuffered.
Which is fine. But the bits still change, and the change is still detectable by comparison with the original.
BTW, I was writing patch-code for microprocessor validation systems by using the blank words between functions in, oh, 1990 or so. Prior l33t is mine.
I expect it's a fairly common virus-writing technique.
Now, if these guys came up with a steganographic method that wouldn't fool a byte-comparison tool, but would fool a CRC32, an XOR, and a simple additive checksum, then they'd have something interesting.
The problem there is the content wouldn't survive in any medium with a cost over $0.00/gigabyte.
Nonetheless, there are plenty of forms of content that can survive exhorbitant connection costs and terrible connection quality (jennycam, anyone?)
As the demand for things like on-demand reruns of Survivor episodes increases (don't even imagine that it won't increase, it will grow to fill the bandwidth left by live-sex-show porn TV) it will cause the telecom (and, yes, cable) companies to increase their bandwidth, build new infrastructure, the whole industrial revolution.
All it'll take is some high-end overhyped semi-related proof-of-concept demos (uh, like this) to get the investment $$$ flowing.
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Look closely at the vegetation in that area.
The different shaded green blocks are too large to be JPG artifacts.
I'm guessing they are clear-cutting.
And then we'll be able to see what John Aschroft really thinks about naked statuary pr0n.
I'm pretty sure they've added that gag template to the STL by now...
Yes. If it's trapped in the gravity well of the planet, it's a moon.
NORAD now tracks on the order of 10,000 man-made earth moons, and there are uncouned numbers of things they can't resolve on a RADAR (things less than a few inches across).
Our next great space project should be an orbital garbage truck.
N.B. I just did the calculation the other day, and the moon is now at 240,000 miles radius (+- 10000, or thereabouts) now. When it stops receding, it will be at 340,000 miles radius (+- blah blah blah). In about 30 billion years. Right now, it's moving out at 4 cm/yr, but that's a very small amount of the normal perturbations in its orbit (the moon's orbit is a 100-page formula) and I just used an Earth-centered system, because it gets us within 5% accuracy.
Well, maybe if her name followed one of the many "standards" for gender identification we wouldn't have this rendering problem...
Planet: n. Any object orbiting a star, not orbiting a planet, and having a radius greater than the radius of Pluto minus one millimeter.
M1911 Marine MEU (SOC)?
I can see the attraction.
With a light.
Ho-ly moly.
Clean and mean.
That last one has the interesting quote of a quote, "In the February 1999 American Rifleman, the author of "America's 9mm's", James P. Cowgill states, "One reason for the change to a 9mm service pistol was the increasing number of women in the military. They have statistically smaller hands and were often issued revolvers as opposed to the larger M1911A1".
The USMC's site for it.
Why don't we just lobby for the Library of Congress to put its catalog online with voting and posting?
...for teaching all those open-source coders how to do their jobs, creating the free value from which the state can draw intellectual property and save themselves money?
No?
Then fuck 'em.
And fuck Intel while you're at it.
TotalFarkingSlashdotted
adj., describes the state of having your webserver grind to a halt four times in a day as the Total Farkers, then the Farkers, then the Total Slashdotters, then the Slashdotters, are thrown a link to one of your webpages.
But, of course, we're AOL and this is Slashdot, so naturally everything we do is wrong.
Of course, you're wrong.
The only thing that keeps your phone from being spammed like your email is that the phone is 1-to-1 communication.
There are machines that can do the telemarketing work of dozens of workers over dozens of phone lines, but there aren't machines that can do the work of millions within a few hours over a single phone line.
A single, cheap PC with an ethernet card, a $49.95 broadband internet connection, and a $19 piece of shareware (probably pirated) can do it easily.
The only solution is jail time and public humiliation.
Testing for a bug that happens only when you reach the middle of the last level on the hardest play setting after collecting items on previous levels in a certain order...
Hand-eye coordination is a 100-500 millisecond feedback loop.
This waldo probably added all of 40 ms to that, if they had a clean link.
Code review and testing is mandatory for software involved in any sort of safety operation.
Any software usage that doesn't mandate code review and testing is leaving itself wide open to not only malicious coding but egregiously negligent code and to the errors that result from failure to communicate requirements clearly or at all.
If you don't want to spend money to ensure the code is any good, you have no business complaining that it's bad.
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Blue-laser discs are necessary for HD recordings.
The driver here won't be home recording so much as HD-DVD rentals.
The question is, will the upgrade happen at even a fraction of the rate of DVD rentals? That took a couple of years longer than I thought it would.
Chicken-and-egg will apply. There aren't many HD sets out there, and effectively nobody has HD-DVD yet. But what will sell HD sets is the availability of full-length HD-DVD content.
Huh.
Cygwin's manpage says it's ignored, too.
-u means "unbuffered". 'cat -v' would wait for newlines. I wonder how linux and cygwin get around the difference. Hopefully, by always being unbuffered.
Linux comes without the single-source hassles (even if it's open sourced) and is being updated and repaired by more people.
But it's still not the plug-and-play quality you get from M$ operating systems.
They have their flaws, but their strength is you don't have to rewrite device drivers and patch headers to work around their flaws.
Which is fine. But the bits still change, and the change is still detectable by comparison with the original.
BTW, I was writing patch-code for microprocessor validation systems by using the blank words between functions in, oh, 1990 or so. Prior l33t is mine.
I expect it's a fairly common virus-writing technique.
Now, if these guys came up with a steganographic method that wouldn't fool a byte-comparison tool, but would fool a CRC32, an XOR, and a simple additive checksum, then they'd have something interesting.
tail -f /var/spool/foo/logfile | cat -uv
Something any smart sysadmin would do, anyway, to display just exactly what was showing up in the log.
The NEIC gives you all the data you need to predict your own Earthquake as accurately as any other internet-diploma geologist.
How many of us happen to put pictures of our terminal windows up on our websites?
The problem there is the content wouldn't survive in any medium with a cost over $0.00/gigabyte.
Nonetheless, there are plenty of forms of content that can survive exhorbitant connection costs and terrible connection quality (jennycam, anyone?)
As the demand for things like on-demand reruns of Survivor episodes increases (don't even imagine that it won't increase, it will grow to fill the bandwidth left by live-sex-show porn TV) it will cause the telecom (and, yes, cable) companies to increase their bandwidth, build new infrastructure, the whole industrial revolution.
All it'll take is some high-end overhyped semi-related proof-of-concept demos (uh, like this) to get the investment $$$ flowing.