I'm curious why the occupation involved with the exploration of space must use names derived from the language of the country doing the exploring?
In what way does "astronaut" convey that the explorer must be from the USA? Why the segregation? Because a precedence was set with "cosmonaut" during the cold war? Do russians and chinese use different names for the space explorers of other countries? Why doesn't the ESA have their own word in place of "astronaut"?
consumer electronics weren't already hard enough to repair. This will take them to a whole new level of discard-and-replace.
Once upon a time there were technicians that could take any piece of consumer electronics, and given a good repair manual, trouble shoot the problem and replace the offending component.
This creates a monopoly of sorts - since repair is impossible, the manufacturer has sole control over their product, so their profit margin increases. It behooves them to create products that cannot be repaired.
Microsoft holds patents relating to sub-pixel rendering. I don't know if they are specific to font rendering, or generic to any sub-pixel rendering to increase perceived resolution.
Why use a camera to look for road hazards, and not a type of radar?
How is a camera supposed to watch my eyes when I'm wearing sunglasses? The majority of car accidents involving fatalities are from falling asleep, and most of those occur in the daytime, not at night (from my direct experience as an EMT).
What about those devices you wear on your head that sound an alarm if your head droops forward or to the side? Those have been available for quite a while, and it seems like it would be more reliable simply because of their simplicity.
Falling asleep behind the wheel is definitely a huge problem, and results in more deaths than DUI. The reason is simple - when someone falls asleep traveling at 70 MPH with the cruise control on they do not slow down at all before the impact occurs. At that speed the vehicle can easily cross the median causing the worst type of wrecks - vehicle to vehicle with a net velocity of 140 MPH or more.
Most of these wrecks do not involve commercial drivers - those drivers are highly regulated, well trained, have to maintain logs, etc. People traveling long-distance, usually while on vacation, are the prime culprits. They simply want to get to their destination and will push themselves too far, driving far longer than what commercial drivers are restricted to.
Here are some stats on accidents in VA. It clearly shows that majority of fatal accidents occur in daytime and do not involve alcohol.
I read about this yesterday and got to visit their site before it was swamped.
The product of course contains hundreds of codes to turn off (or on) hundreds of different television models. Because of this it literally takes a over a minute to transmit each code one after the other. They have listed the most predominate models first so should typically take less time, however a person could still have to aim this device at a TV for up to 69 seconds before it turns off.
Firefox will only get a single shot with most users. If they download Firefox and have any problems with it at all they will go back to IE and never consider Firefox again.
Firefox is still gaining ground against IE. It may be better to wait a little longer and let Firefox muture a bit more before trying to convert the general masses with this type of advertising campaign.
1. Build ack into the higher-level protocol. 2. This is trivial bandwidth (and you are admitting this is the solution to #1?). 3. Yep, that's the idea. 4. What? With Messenger the buddy image is only sent when a chat is started. The buddies should be responsible for polling for the buddy image when they need it, not the other way around. 5. You're right, TCP/IP should be used. 6. See #1 and #2 7. See #3
I agree that UDP would not be appropriate, but most of your arguments are against p2p in general, which have nothing to do with the network protocol. So basically #5 is valid and the rest of your points aren't valid.
After some digging I've found where Google Desktop stores its data files.
\Documents And Settings\~UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Search Desktop
I have 33k searchable items: 23k emails, 9.4k files and 268 web pages. The data files are consuming 227 MB, which is well shy of the 1 GB Google says it requires.
I was wondering if this application uses any of the same technologies their web search engine uses? The reason I ask is because distributing the software opens the door for reverse engineering, so I doubt there is any ultra-special technology in this tool.
There is no central healthcare database. Having worked for the largest chain of hospitals in the world (was Columbia, now called HCA), I know firsthand that medical data is not shared between an entire chain of hospitals, let alone hospitals outside of their influence.
So what's the point in having an ID number imbedded in the patient via RFID, or having it tattooed on their forehead, etc, if it does not mean anything outside of a specific hospital or market? How is this better than a patient carrying a Social Security card? The only thing that comes to mind is to help track drug seekers that go from ER to ER. However these aren't exactly the type of people that would volunteer to be tagged like a wild animal.
After reading half a dozen complaints about the Neal Stephenson blurb in a story posted earlier Feather-based Jacobean Space Chariot, now we have an entire article about him.
It's interesting how the Animal Planet and Telegraph stories differ to the point of contradicting each other. Animal Planet makes these animals sound docile and peaceful, and only make a single mention about killing lions: tales that the forests were inhabited by large ferocious apes that could kill lions.
The BBC also only makes one mention about killing lions: capable of killing lions.
There's a big difference between "capable" and "does". Elephants can kill lions too, but that doesn't make them "Lion Killers", which is how the Telegraph article refers to these chimp-apes: known to locals as the "lion killer"
Locals told him about giant apes with a reputation for killing lions, New Scientist magazine reports today.
The Telegraph portraits them as violent and aggressive: The creatures are far larger and more aggressive than normal chimpanzees
they are unusually aggressive chimps
While Animal Planet describes them quite differently: Unlike gorillas, which invariably charge when they see a threat, these apes turn around and silently slip away into the forest when encountered, Ammann said.
That doesn't sound too aggressive to me, for an animal that is supposed to go around killing lions for sport. Why for sport? Because they obviously don't eat them, according to Animal Planet: Feces recovered from the nest sites indicated an animal with a diet rich in fruit, which is typical of chimps.
Rather odd to have such an aggressive and competent killer that doesn't eat meat. Either reporters are putting a big spin on this, or researches are trying to pique as much interest as possible to raise funding.
Over a decade ago someone put a goodly sized wind turbine up near their home (in Ohio, I think in Deerfield off of route 14). I'd estimate its height off the ground around 30 feet, and from the tip of one blade to the end of the other was probably around 15-20 feet.
We would drive by this house a few times a month, and over the course of many years we never saw the windmill rotating once - the blades were always in the same position.
We always assumed the gearing was wrong, or they were trying to push too large a generator for the wind conditions in that area.
Regardless, it was obviously a very large waste of money. It certainly demonstrated that one should do some serious research and weather studies before attempting wind power.
Yahoo mail did the same thing around 2 years ago. They used to allow POP3 access to the free mail accounts (although they didn't publicize it very much). They pulled that connectivity a couple years ago, reserving it only for the paying accounts.
I don't see what this has to do with spam - its simply an incentive to get people to send them money.
Any estimate on how long it will take the tracks to erode until they are no longer visible, given the average winds in that area? Unlike the tracks on the moon, these shouldn't last too long (relatively speaking).
That will never fly. Where's the entertainment value? Millions of people would be denied the drama of watching live on CNN, hours on end, as votes are counted one at a time, until an ambiguous card is found. Then suddenly a small group forms, carefully inspecting the card, holding it up to the light, examining it with a magnifying glass, in order to decide who the next president of the USA will be.
Scanning a piece of paper and watching a green or red LED illuminate just doesn't have quite the same effect.
I have heard from many sources that Sony released the slimmed down PSone because they had created a new chipset to allow the PS1 hardware to be integrated into the PS2 for backwards compatibility. Thus it made sense to package it as the small, inexpensive, stand-alone PSone to help revive that older market.
I wouldn't be surprised if this new PStwo stems from the exact same type of technology - a redesigned (aka smaller) PS2 chipset designed for integration into the future PS3.
Usually when leverage is used as a verb you can be sure the hype machine has been hard at work. For some reason I see it used in that way describing software, specifically medical software, far more than I see it anywhere else.
Reminds me of the 80's movie The Last Starfighter (which I rather liked). A league of aliens seeded the habitized planets of the galaxy with video games to find potential candidates to pilot ships to defend the galaxy from a common enemy.
A rogue recruiter put the video games on Earth, which was not an active planetary member of the league (we're too primitive and all that). Yet a teen proved to be so good at the game (he "won" it) that he was drafted to help defend our galaxy.
I've noticed something over the course of watching hundreds of movies over the years. Invariably when a movie shows a PC or a notebook it is 9 times out of 10 a Macintosh. I've found this to be rather odd, considering how disproportionate this ratio is compared to the real world. It would be interesting if someone compiled a database of movies and the computing hardware used for props.
I've often wondered what underlying politics within the movie industry drives this trend, as it certainly is no coincidence.
The individuals on board Flight 93 who counter-attacked to try and regain control of the plane are heros. They knew they were going to die regardless, yet they had the self control and motivation to act.
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I'm curious why the occupation involved with the exploration of space must use names derived from the language of the country doing the exploring?
In what way does "astronaut" convey that the explorer must be from the USA? Why the segregation? Because a precedence was set with "cosmonaut" during the cold war? Do russians and chinese use different names for the space explorers of other countries? Why doesn't the ESA have their own word in place of "astronaut"?
Dan East
consumer electronics weren't already hard enough to repair. This will take them to a whole new level of discard-and-replace.
Once upon a time there were technicians that could take any piece of consumer electronics, and given a good repair manual, trouble shoot the problem and replace the offending component.
This creates a monopoly of sorts - since repair is impossible, the manufacturer has sole control over their product, so their profit margin increases. It behooves them to create products that cannot be repaired.
Dan East
The lack of discussion regarding this story tells volumes.
Dan East
I didn't realize the president could simply wipe existing laws out of existance.
Dan East
Microsoft holds patents relating to sub-pixel rendering. I don't know if they are specific to font rendering, or generic to any sub-pixel rendering to increase perceived resolution.
Dan East
Why use a camera to look for road hazards, and not a type of radar?
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How is a camera supposed to watch my eyes when I'm wearing sunglasses? The majority of car accidents involving fatalities are from falling asleep, and most of those occur in the daytime, not at night (from my direct experience as an EMT).
What about those devices you wear on your head that sound an alarm if your head droops forward or to the side? Those have been available for quite a while, and it seems like it would be more reliable simply because of their simplicity.
Falling asleep behind the wheel is definitely a huge problem, and results in more deaths than DUI. The reason is simple - when someone falls asleep traveling at 70 MPH with the cruise control on they do not slow down at all before the impact occurs. At that speed the vehicle can easily cross the median causing the worst type of wrecks - vehicle to vehicle with a net velocity of 140 MPH or more.
Most of these wrecks do not involve commercial drivers - those drivers are highly regulated, well trained, have to maintain logs, etc. People traveling long-distance, usually while on vacation, are the prime culprits. They simply want to get to their destination and will push themselves too far, driving far longer than what commercial drivers are restricted to.
Here are some stats on accidents in VA. It clearly shows that majority of fatal accidents occur in daytime and do not involve alcohol.
http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/pdf/vacrashes
Dan East
I read about this yesterday and got to visit their site before it was swamped.
The product of course contains hundreds of codes to turn off (or on) hundreds of different television models. Because of this it literally takes a over a minute to transmit each code one after the other. They have listed the most predominate models first so should typically take less time, however a person could still have to aim this device at a TV for up to 69 seconds before it turns off.
Dan East
Firefox will only get a single shot with most users. If they download Firefox and have any problems with it at all they will go back to IE and never consider Firefox again.
Firefox is still gaining ground against IE. It may be better to wait a little longer and let Firefox muture a bit more before trying to convert the general masses with this type of advertising campaign.
Dan East
Huh?
1. Build ack into the higher-level protocol.
2. This is trivial bandwidth (and you are admitting this is the solution to #1?).
3. Yep, that's the idea.
4. What? With Messenger the buddy image is only sent when a chat is started. The buddies should be responsible for polling for the buddy image when they need it, not the other way around.
5. You're right, TCP/IP should be used.
6. See #1 and #2
7. See #3
I agree that UDP would not be appropriate, but most of your arguments are against p2p in general, which have nothing to do with the network protocol. So basically #5 is valid and the rest of your points aren't valid.
Dan East
After some digging I've found where Google Desktop stores its data files.
\Documents And Settings\~UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Search Desktop
I have 33k searchable items: 23k emails, 9.4k files and 268 web pages. The data files are consuming 227 MB, which is well shy of the 1 GB Google says it requires.
I was wondering if this application uses any of the same technologies their web search engine uses? The reason I ask is because distributing the software opens the door for reverse engineering, so I doubt there is any ultra-special technology in this tool.
Dan East
The rules are similar to those of the gameshow Friend or Foe.
Dan East
There is no central healthcare database. Having worked for the largest chain of hospitals in the world (was Columbia, now called HCA), I know firsthand that medical data is not shared between an entire chain of hospitals, let alone hospitals outside of their influence.
So what's the point in having an ID number imbedded in the patient via RFID, or having it tattooed on their forehead, etc, if it does not mean anything outside of a specific hospital or market? How is this better than a patient carrying a Social Security card? The only thing that comes to mind is to help track drug seekers that go from ER to ER. However these aren't exactly the type of people that would volunteer to be tagged like a wild animal.
Dan East
All you need to know is it is well documented, in the event that you ever actually need to know.
Dan East
After reading half a dozen complaints about the Neal Stephenson blurb in a story posted earlier Feather-based Jacobean Space Chariot, now we have an entire article about him.
Dan East
It's interesting how the Animal Planet and Telegraph stories differ to the point of contradicting each other. Animal Planet makes these animals sound docile and peaceful, and only make a single mention about killing lions :
tales that the forests were inhabited by large ferocious apes that could kill lions.
The BBC also only makes one mention about killing lions:
capable of killing lions.
There's a big difference between "capable" and "does". Elephants can kill lions too, but that doesn't make them "Lion Killers", which is how the Telegraph article refers to these chimp-apes:
known to locals as the "lion killer"
Locals told him about giant apes with a reputation for killing lions, New Scientist magazine reports today.
The Telegraph portraits them as violent and aggressive:
The creatures are far larger and more aggressive than normal chimpanzees
they are unusually aggressive chimps
While Animal Planet describes them quite differently:
Unlike gorillas, which invariably charge when they see a threat, these apes turn around and silently slip away into the forest when encountered, Ammann said.
That doesn't sound too aggressive to me, for an animal that is supposed to go around killing lions for sport. Why for sport? Because they obviously don't eat them, according to Animal Planet:
Feces recovered from the nest sites indicated an animal with a diet rich in fruit, which is typical of chimps.
Rather odd to have such an aggressive and competent killer that doesn't eat meat. Either reporters are putting a big spin on this, or researches are trying to pique as much interest as possible to raise funding.
Dan East
Over a decade ago someone put a goodly sized wind turbine up near their home (in Ohio, I think in Deerfield off of route 14). I'd estimate its height off the ground around 30 feet, and from the tip of one blade to the end of the other was probably around 15-20 feet.
We would drive by this house a few times a month, and over the course of many years we never saw the windmill rotating once - the blades were always in the same position.
We always assumed the gearing was wrong, or they were trying to push too large a generator for the wind conditions in that area.
Regardless, it was obviously a very large waste of money. It certainly demonstrated that one should do some serious research and weather studies before attempting wind power.
Dan East
Yahoo mail did the same thing around 2 years ago. They used to allow POP3 access to the free mail accounts (although they didn't publicize it very much). They pulled that connectivity a couple years ago, reserving it only for the paying accounts.
I don't see what this has to do with spam - its simply an incentive to get people to send them money.
Dan East
Mars does have an atmosphere, and wind erosion is quite active.
You have heard that all theses recent missions to Mars used parachutes during the landing process, right?
Dan East
Any estimate on how long it will take the tracks to erode until they are no longer visible, given the average winds in that area? Unlike the tracks on the moon, these shouldn't last too long (relatively speaking).
Dan East
That will never fly. Where's the entertainment value? Millions of people would be denied the drama of watching live on CNN, hours on end, as votes are counted one at a time, until an ambiguous card is found. Then suddenly a small group forms, carefully inspecting the card, holding it up to the light, examining it with a magnifying glass, in order to decide who the next president of the USA will be.
Scanning a piece of paper and watching a green or red LED illuminate just doesn't have quite the same effect.
Dan East
I have heard from many sources that Sony released the slimmed down PSone because they had created a new chipset to allow the PS1 hardware to be integrated into the PS2 for backwards compatibility. Thus it made sense to package it as the small, inexpensive, stand-alone PSone to help revive that older market.
I wouldn't be surprised if this new PStwo stems from the exact same type of technology - a redesigned (aka smaller) PS2 chipset designed for integration into the future PS3.
Dan East
Usually when leverage is used as a verb you can be sure the hype machine has been hard at work. For some reason I see it used in that way describing software, specifically medical software, far more than I see it anywhere else.
Dan East
Reminds me of the 80's movie The Last Starfighter (which I rather liked). A league of aliens seeded the habitized planets of the galaxy with video games to find potential candidates to pilot ships to defend the galaxy from a common enemy.
A rogue recruiter put the video games on Earth, which was not an active planetary member of the league (we're too primitive and all that). Yet a teen proved to be so good at the game (he "won" it) that he was drafted to help defend our galaxy.
Dan East
I've noticed something over the course of watching hundreds of movies over the years. Invariably when a movie shows a PC or a notebook it is 9 times out of 10 a Macintosh. I've found this to be rather odd, considering how disproportionate this ratio is compared to the real world. It would be interesting if someone compiled a database of movies and the computing hardware used for props.
I've often wondered what underlying politics within the movie industry drives this trend, as it certainly is no coincidence.
Dan East
The individuals on board Flight 93 who counter-attacked to try and regain control of the plane are heros. They knew they were going to die regardless, yet they had the self control and motivation to act.
Dan East