They could, however it appears that they currently have a $50M suit filed against Boeing. If they dropped the suit, Boeing would be interested in talking but until then - no dice...
Shaw Cable in calgary has the basic set of channels, but all of the other channels are individual choices with discounts for 3 channels, 5 or whatever but you can pick them. There is also no time commitment, all you do is phone them up say I want to have this channel now and bingo, charges are prorated and it appears instantly on your set top box...
Problem is you are using a example of something that is intrinsicly in your set of units. You want to subdivide a yard. And if you had something a meter long divided into 5 you would have them 20cm apart. Housing and construction is mostly imperial, but there is a suprising amount of metric. Last time I had a house built, the sizing was imperial, but all of the window sizes where metric.
All of the phones I have every had sync themselves up with the provider. Even when traveling around, it will pick up the local time without any intervention...
Honestly, this is like asking what is more useful - the Breaking News headline that you get from CNN, versus their CNN Presents or a similar feature length report. They each have their use, but obviously the more useful source is the one that is researched, well written and has some production value. What is going to appear next, Which is more useful to you - A Stub in Wikipedia or something that has some content on it?!? And what the hell is this doing on Slashdot!
This is true, however not everyone has themselved connected behind a router. Your average Joe Sixpack who just bought a fancy computer that isn't connecting via a wireless card will plug it right in to the cable/DSL modem. Should people be behind one, of course.
I was trying to recover a machine for someone who didn't have a router installed between them and their modem, and within a couple of minutes of it being on, it was infected. My solution, take it out, put it behind my firewall and do a clean install + patch.
I had to laugh when I went to the Mission page. They have the Mission days listed in Sols, as well as the Sols Past Warranty!
This mission has been such a great success. I think it has fallen off the radar of most people who don't realize that they are still out there. NASA needs some better PR to capitalize on great science. NASA needs credit where credit is due, not for the ISS, but for true exploration.
Pratical Uses? I can think of quite a few. When I go on vacation, I find the meta data from digital very useful. Most cameras will put EXIF data in the image recording such things as the specific camera you shoot with, your exposure time, aperature, what mode you shot with... You can use it to adjust how you take your shots if you shot with different settings.
As far as geotagging, it gives you the flexibility to organize your photos by location, and add in that info to your photo. I went on a month long trip and can't remember where every shot I took was. This would have been an excellent way of keeping track without requiring me to take additional notes to correlate back to my photos.
Not entirely accurate. While the cable did contribute to some degree, the fact that the shaft was a high pressure design with very limited clearance slowed it down more.
" Also, the hatchway was of a 'high-pressure' design, with minimum clearance around the car. In such a small space, the air was compressed under the falling elevator. With such a tight fit of the car in the hatchway, the trapped air created an air cushion in the lower portion of the shaft -- thereby further slowing the elevator car and allowing its occupant to survive."
Make it two! Well, you don't know me, I don't know you...
I quite like using Opera as a browser, and as a mail client. Mouse gestures, tabbed browsing. I find it to be a nice browsing experience. I had used Firefox and Mozilla, but I have settled on using Opera as my browser of choice. Too each there own but I am quite happy that Opera keeps getting press, I think it is a quality browser.
Didn't say UPC, he said serial number. I briefly worked at Future Shop(Best Buy) and on some transactions it would ask you to enter the serial numbers into the computer. So yes, they do have individually identifyable information.
I think one of the interesting things, was the retiring of names after a significant damage causing storm.. Katrina will never be used again, as will Andrew. That is why no names start with Q, U, X, Y and Z. Not enough names to use.
Here Here! Infrastructure systems are designed for common to peak expected usage. No City or company in there right mind will build roads, or phone systems to handle maximum similtanous usage. Think of it has your morning commute. How come everyone in the city can't just hop on the road and not expect delays? You want to build a 50 lane highway on the off chance everyone has to use it at once?
The scale of the disaster is immense. When you have a city which is 80% under water up to 20' of water, I would think you would lose some critical systems!
We had on time in one of our smaller cities - Lethbridge during Canadian Idol, you couldn't place a phone call cause everyone was trying to phone in and vote for there local boy.(he ended up winning). Now put that on the scale of a wide spread natural disaster. Good luck!
Ok, I'll take a stab at it... Residents of the District of Columbia aren't in a state or commonwealth.. It is a federal district for the federal city of Washington...
The Residence Bill of July 16, 1790, established a site along the Potomac to be the capital. This federal district was first called the Territory of Columbia and the federal city the City of Washington. The name changed to the District of Columbia in 1793.
Considering the state of animation that North American audiences have been exposed to is it any wonder? Yes Anime is intricate, but how does it relate to what we want to watch. For a while animation was Disney, WB aimed at young audiences. It wasn't until things like The Simpsons which had a older target that animation != Saturday morning cartoon.
My basement has become a repository for some older machines. I had chosen debian for a couple, noticeably a HP-PA machine, and my I had a few Sparc 2, IPX boxes. Debian was my distro of choice because they still supported these machines. My Alpha is running an older version of RedHat when it was still supported.
So the question becomes, who will bother supporting non-mainstream hardware? They are still functional machines for me...
Some virus variants can be detected if it is close. I know some can scan a more generic fingerprint and still catch new ones because of components that are similar. They can also make specific signatures of the variants for more security.
Well, it isn't like you can head down to Radio Shack and pick up a functional interplanetary robot now can you? You are talking about one off ( or two off in this case) The second rover will cost half to make more than likely due to parts being already made for the first one. I mean think about how much R&D has to go into building a craft capable of surviving and thriving after being blasted off from earth, traveling through the radiation of space, hit a spot on a planet after many months of travel. After that you have to go through reentry and hit the ground at 60MPH, with all sorts of high precision instruments functional.
Quality is expensive, the survival rate of craft going to Mars is less than 1/3. They tried to cut costs, but that leads to failure. Build them with enough attention that you don't throw $3-400MM away after years of effort...
I think it is amazing that to see what it can do. It is important to realize that the components we think about aren't always what makes the most difference. I tried out a 3Mpix camera that was utter crap because the lens on it was a small piece of plastic, then I compared it to an SLR digital camera that took stunning photos at every resolution. Quality.
It is also interesting to see how it produces color photos. Instead of using a 3 color sensor, it uses a B&W camera with 3 colour filters that recombine into a colour image. This is calibrated by a colour wheel on the rover itself.
Neat stuff
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Fair marketing? When I look at that kind of rating I assume it is more domain specific. So just because I am an expert at Linux doesn't necessarily mean that I shouldn't pick up a Beginner book in Oracle or Cisco!
If you don't think there is anything such as a Linux Beginner you don't hang out on enough IRC channels or newsgroups.
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They could, however it appears that they currently have a $50M suit filed against Boeing. If they dropped the suit, Boeing would be interested in talking but until then - no dice...
Shaw Cable in calgary has the basic set of channels, but all of the other channels are individual choices with discounts for 3 channels, 5 or whatever but you can pick them. There is also no time commitment, all you do is phone them up say I want to have this channel now and bingo, charges are prorated and it appears instantly on your set top box...
Yeah, just as long as you aren't looking for the +5 Funny. Sure as hell wouldn't want those considered as law :-)
Problem is you are using a example of something that is intrinsicly in your set of units. You want to subdivide a yard. And if you had something a meter long divided into 5 you would have them 20cm apart. Housing and construction is mostly imperial, but there is a suprising amount of metric. Last time I had a house built, the sizing was imperial, but all of the window sizes where metric.
All of the phones I have every had sync themselves up with the provider. Even when traveling around, it will pick up the local time without any intervention...
Whoa, we must have been ahead of the curve. We used to get Time AND Temperature!!!
Honestly, this is like asking what is more useful - the Breaking News headline that you get from CNN, versus their CNN Presents or a similar feature length report. They each have their use, but obviously the more useful source is the one that is researched, well written and has some production value. What is going to appear next, Which is more useful to you - A Stub in Wikipedia or something that has some content on it?!? And what the hell is this doing on Slashdot!
I was trying to recover a machine for someone who didn't have a router installed between them and their modem, and within a couple of minutes of it being on, it was infected. My solution, take it out, put it behind my firewall and do a clean install + patch.
This mission has been such a great success. I think it has fallen off the radar of most people who don't realize that they are still out there. NASA needs some better PR to capitalize on great science. NASA needs credit where credit is due, not for the ISS, but for true exploration.
Pratical Uses? I can think of quite a few. When I go on vacation, I find the meta data from digital very useful. Most cameras will put EXIF data in the image recording such things as the specific camera you shoot with, your exposure time, aperature, what mode you shot with... You can use it to adjust how you take your shots if you shot with different settings.
As far as geotagging, it gives you the flexibility to organize your photos by location, and add in that info to your photo. I went on a month long trip and can't remember where every shot I took was. This would have been an excellent way of keeping track without requiring me to take additional notes to correlate back to my photos.
Next thing you know, they are going to be parking data centers next to the 3 Gorges Dam
From The Official Empire State Building Website:
" Also, the hatchway was of a 'high-pressure' design, with minimum clearance around the car. In such a small space, the air was compressed under the falling elevator. With such a tight fit of the car in the hatchway, the trapped air created an air cushion in the lower portion of the shaft -- thereby further slowing the elevator car and allowing its occupant to survive."
I quite like using Opera as a browser, and as a mail client. Mouse gestures, tabbed browsing. I find it to be a nice browsing experience. I had used Firefox and Mozilla, but I have settled on using Opera as my browser of choice. Too each there own but I am quite happy that Opera keeps getting press, I think it is a quality browser.
Didn't say UPC, he said serial number. I briefly worked at Future Shop(Best Buy) and on some transactions it would ask you to enter the serial numbers into the computer. So yes, they do have individually identifyable information.
I think one of the interesting things, was the retiring of names after a significant damage causing storm.. Katrina will never be used again, as will Andrew. That is why no names start with Q, U, X, Y and Z. Not enough names to use.
Here Here! Infrastructure systems are designed for common to peak expected usage. No City or company in there right mind will build roads, or phone systems to handle maximum similtanous usage. Think of it has your morning commute. How come everyone in the city can't just hop on the road and not expect delays? You want to build a 50 lane highway on the off chance everyone has to use it at once?
The scale of the disaster is immense. When you have a city which is 80% under water up to 20' of water, I would think you would lose some critical systems!
We had on time in one of our smaller cities - Lethbridge during Canadian Idol, you couldn't place a phone call cause everyone was trying to phone in and vote for there local boy.(he ended up winning). Now put that on the scale of a wide spread natural disaster. Good luck!
The Residence Bill of July 16, 1790, established a site along the Potomac to be the capital. This federal district was first called the Territory of Columbia and the federal city the City of Washington. The name changed to the District of Columbia in 1793.
How's that for a Canadian eh?
Considering the state of animation that North American audiences have been exposed to is it any wonder? Yes Anime is intricate, but how does it relate to what we want to watch. For a while animation was Disney, WB aimed at young audiences. It wasn't until things like The Simpsons which had a older target that animation != Saturday morning cartoon.
Nothing for your to see, please move along...
So the question becomes, who will bother supporting non-mainstream hardware? They are still functional machines for me...
Some virus variants can be detected if it is close. I know some can scan a more generic fingerprint and still catch new ones because of components that are similar. They can also make specific signatures of the variants for more security.
Their QA cycle just got a lot quicker :-)
Quality is expensive, the survival rate of craft going to Mars is less than 1/3. They tried to cut costs, but that leads to failure. Build them with enough attention that you don't throw $3-400MM away after years of effort...
It is also interesting to see how it produces color photos. Instead of using a 3 color sensor, it uses a B&W camera with 3 colour filters that recombine into a colour image. This is calibrated by a colour wheel on the rover itself.
Neat stuff
If you don't think there is anything such as a Linux Beginner you don't hang out on enough IRC channels or newsgroups.