For that price, a digital camera on a fixed mount might be easier than a scanner. Lay out the sheet, take a shot, lather, rinse, repeat. Generate a PDF using imagemagick/ghostview.
You are lumping together a group of people with a wide diversity of opinion, and assuming that they all hold the same contradictory set. There are camps that approved of the Microsoft and Red Hat EOL, and those that did not. The two sets are probably more exclusive than you think, and don't overlap nearly so much as you imply.
instead of decimalizing the length of the day (which has struck me as a supremely silly idea, because the day length changes, and the year is not an integer multiple of the day anyway), why not give up on the solar cycle altogether and count everything in terms of seconds since 1970?
In space we could define a "day" as being ten kiloseconds long, or about 27ish hours. A kilosecond is a good unit of time, about two and two-thirds hours. A megasecond is also a good unit of time: about three of them to a month. Ten megaseconds, also good, it's about the length of a season. Keeping track of the date that way is pretty intuitive, too; right now it's 1050.7Msec since 1970. Easy number to keep track of; at least no harder than the year.
Sucks for scheduling, though.
We could do a whole lot worse, and it'd have some advantages as well as the big disadvantage of not corresponding to the calendar date. It'd be most useful when we've got to deal with space-based calendars, or other planets' cycles. Or something.
Fly, Columbia.. Thunder toward tomorrow on an oxygen stream, Thunder toward tomorrow, fire flame and rocket song, Mark a new time of man, boost your candles, light the dawn, fly, Columbia Foundation of the future, courier of dreams, thunder on.
Sunshine brightens the horizon, tension rings the morning haze, The shuttle standing proud against the wind, Knows the distant stars her delta wings will never grace, Countown, pulses race, the launch begins.
(chorus)
Columbia, the promise of better days to come Columbia, new mistress of the sky Sail in orbit free, track the moon and chace the sun, Fly, Columbia, for humankind, fly.
"Before we leave this matter I wish to comment on the theory implied by you, Mr. Weems, when you claimed damage to your client. There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common
law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come in to court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
..I see no one so far has mentioned the impossibility - the inconceivability that DNA could possibly exist in a life form with a completely different development. DNA is an enourmously complex, enourmously intricate molecule that's developed over the course of billions of years to store the information that makes up an arbitrary lifeform in Earth biology -- the chances of something even remotely similar showing up in an alien biology are simply not conceivable. And don't even get me started on human-alien hybrids.
Slashdot Mirror
*shakes his cane*
young'in.
Googletastic.
gotmail - search google - will retrieve & forward from a hotmail account.
For that price, a digital camera on a fixed mount might be easier than a scanner. Lay out the sheet, take a shot, lather, rinse, repeat. Generate a PDF using imagemagick/ghostview.
You are lumping together a group of people with a wide diversity of opinion, and assuming that they all hold the same contradictory set. There are camps that approved of the Microsoft and Red Hat EOL, and those that did not. The two sets are probably more exclusive than you think, and don't overlap nearly so much as you imply.
wow, a VGA Planets reference on Slashdot. :)
I guess this means I can run a web browser in a web browser now. :)
instead of decimalizing the length of the day (which has struck me as a supremely silly idea, because the day length changes, and the year is not an integer multiple of the day anyway), why not give up on the solar cycle altogether and count everything in terms of seconds since 1970?
In space we could define a "day" as being ten kiloseconds long, or about 27ish hours. A kilosecond is a good unit of time, about two and two-thirds hours. A megasecond is also a good unit of time: about three of them to a month. Ten megaseconds, also good, it's about the length of a season. Keeping track of the date that way is pretty intuitive, too; right now it's 1050.7Msec since 1970. Easy number to keep track of; at least no harder than the year.
Sucks for scheduling, though.
We could do a whole lot worse, and it'd have some advantages as well as the big disadvantage of not corresponding to the calendar date. It'd be most useful when we've got to deal with space-based calendars, or other planets' cycles. Or something.
Fly, Columbia..
Thunder toward tomorrow on an oxygen stream,
Thunder toward tomorrow, fire flame and rocket song,
Mark a new time of man, boost your candles, light the dawn, fly, Columbia
Foundation of the future, courier of dreams, thunder on.
Sunshine brightens the horizon, tension rings the morning haze,
The shuttle standing proud against the wind,
Knows the distant stars her delta wings will never grace,
Countown, pulses race, the launch begins.
(chorus)
Columbia, the promise of better days to come
Columbia, new mistress of the sky
Sail in orbit free, track the moon and chace the sun,
Fly, Columbia, for humankind, fly.
(chorus)
Lyrics by Diana Gallagher
No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large.
-- Mark Twain
"Before we leave this matter I wish to comment on the theory implied by you, Mr. Weems, when you claimed damage to your client. There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common
law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come in to court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
--Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-line"