Almost. He just got the verb tense wrong. I think he meant to say that Longhorn will have advantages over Tiger. Hmm. Maybe not, since most of the things he listed will be in Tiger first. Maybe he meant to say it would have advantages over Panther. Or Jaguar. Or Puma. Or Cheetah?
Got it when it became available through Windows Update. No issues, but then, I don't have a lot of weird apps, and Virtual PC doesn't emulate weird hardware, so oh well.
I hardly ever use it, though... except to run Windows Update when a new batch of patches come out.
Last September, months before the iPod Shuffle was announced, an article on MP3 player market share listed the top 5 players in the flash-based player space, who combined controlled 68.2% of that market segment:
18.8% iRiver
18.6% Rio
15.8% Digital Way
8.8% RCA
6.2% Samsung
Apple is now claiming that the iPod Shuffle, after one quarter on the market, has 43% market share. In a segment where the existing players were battling to see who'd reach 20% share, that's pretty scary.
Of course, all these numbers are probably US-only, but still.
JWST is not only not a "total" replacement for the Hubble, it's about as unrelated as can be, and basically not a replacement at all.
In addition to being optimized for a single wavelength, it's being designed to go float around at a Lagrange point, utterly beyond the reach of Shuttles and such.
It's not upgradeable (though the original specs will, I assure you, be quite nice). And while Hubble was originally designed for a 15-year orbital life with servicing, then extended to 20 years, the non-serviceable JWST is designed to last 5 years, and they're hoping for 10.
if BIGNUM% of PC's are malware-infested (I've heard 80% tossed around) and they get disconnected, suddenly anyone who's looking at their web logs will think that an unusually high number of Big Pond users are on Linux boxen, Macs, etc.
If more ISPs did this, maybe we'd see a decline in sites that only work in MSIE...
It just says that the light wouldn't be as intense as in the cases where people have gotten in trouble with their laser pointers.
That seems a little hard to believe at first, since a green laser pointer's power is only something in the milliwatts, and the AOPA article mentioned in another reply (this is a fixed URL, incidentally) talks about a 1.5 watt laser. But that's reflected/diffused to create a 100-foot-wide line of light in a circle 10 miles from the laser, so I guess by sending the light off in all directions (not at all like your normal use of a laser) it's possible that it wouldn't be a problem.
Out here in Hawaii, the summit of Mauna Kea is an "informal" no-fly zone. There aren't any major flight paths that would cross it anyway, and since there are telescopes on it, folks have basically just agreed not to go flying over when we're trying to see things.
This has become a little more important in recent years, since the folks over at Keck use a laser to ionize stuff in the sodium layer of the atmosphere and create an artificial "guide star" that they can then measure the light from to correct for atmospheric interference. This is part of their adaptive optics, I think. That's a 15-watt laser, which could really ruin a pilot's day.
And Gemini North, across the summit from Keck, is about to start playing with a big bright toy too.
They've got a pool of "plane spotters" who spend half a night standing outside on the summit with a walkie-talkie. If they see any planes that look like they might get in the way, they radio in to turn off the laser before anything gets zapped.
I'm going to try to do that, one of these days. Goodness knows I'm up there enough as it is.
I tried running an early beta version of this tool on one of the development systems I oversee, and it reported that the following files under/usr/src/linux/ contained kiddie pr0n:
Oh, but they replaced it with that nifty transparent-overlay multilingual kernel panic "You need to reboot your computer" screen!:)
(Which I've seen once, maybe twice at most, in the 6 months I've had this Mac. And which is basically the only form of "crash" it does.)
PowerBooks on the conference circuit.
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A friend who works in IT for an observatory told the woeful tale of attending the 2003 ADASS conference (which I think it's safe to say is geek turf) in France and getting pitiful looks from a lot of people, since he was one of the few there with a non-PowerBook laptop.
Most of the conferences I attend involve UN environmental and development programs, but even at those, I'm seeing a lot more Apple notebooks than I did six months ago.
It'll be spectacular out close to the orbit of Mars, though, for safety's sake. If it were closer to Earth's orbit, there'd be a higher chance of a big chunk getting knocked off and smacking into the White House. Which would be spectacular, but in a different sort of way. So it won't be terribly visible to us Earthlings... unless something causes a much bigger kaboom than we're expecting.:)
Actually it's more about whether comets might contain things that contributed to life on Earth (and possibly elsewhere, I suppose) - it's part of the astrobiology field.
If you want water for outer-solar-system missions, it's a lot easier to just recycle urine than it is to chase down inner-solar-system comets, methinks.:)
They're trying to time the collision so it will be visible from Hawaii, where Karen Meech will be coordinating observation from all these telescopes (in their respective favorite wavelengths) that night. (Technically, I think it'll still be July 3, local time.)
This will hopefully bring to fruition the hard work of Jana and Audrey and all those other Honolulu-based astrobiology folks for whom I sometimes point this scope at comets.
Now I just have to remember to ask way far ahead of time to be running the scope around then. Or... maybe not. Maybe I should just drive up to the visitor station and kick back with their 16-inch Meade and some popcorn.
Nah, the Cinema HD and the smaller panel visible to the right of it are connected to a Power Mac. I don't have the DVI-to-ADC adapter for the PowerBook, and I'm trying to sell the Power Mac and the Cinema anyway, so I don't expect to get the adapter in the future. Yeah, verticalness like that would kinda be weird.
How could you question the "validity" of anything Paul Thurott says about vaporware from Microsoft? I mean, that ranks right up there with stone tablets inscribed by $DEITY himself! Sheesh.
I gave it a try with my PowerBook and it came out not too awfully, although the shelf behind it isn't aligned quite right in this shot - I blame refraction. Or, um... sunspots!
A few pointers I figured out along the way:
It's very important to keep the camera angle the same. If you've got a tripod, this is a good time to use it.
Shooting perpendicular to the display (i.e. not at any sort of angle) is the simplest way of making things line up properly, since you don't have to stretch the backgrounds for perspective or whatever. (Some of the shots in the gallery are at angles and are very impressive in terms of difficulty.)
Backgrounds with lots of stuff in them look cooler than "gosh, the wall shows behind the computer" in most cases. Elements that extend from behind the screen, or wrap around to the side or front can also be fun.
Next time I'm really bored, I'll try to work up something that has a mirror in it...
But I wonder what Bastian thought s/he was doing by "befriending" whiskey, a bar, and a giant Citgo sign, if not wasting time?
I'm one of those people who won't be friends with someone unless I'm actually friends with them. Nor will I be friends with places, things, intangibles, etc. The concept of social networking, in and of itself, wasn't a bad thing, but the various "fakesters" et cetera basically trashed any chance of it actually being useful.
My favorite social networking site at present is Multiply, largely because it lets me specify how I'm connected to someone, and weights different sorts of relationships differently - "friend" is worth more than "online buddy," for example.
(Plus it's got a nice interface and lots of useful features.)
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Almost. He just got the verb tense wrong. I think he meant to say that Longhorn will have advantages over Tiger. Hmm. Maybe not, since most of the things he listed will be in Tiger first. Maybe he meant to say it would have advantages over Panther. Or Jaguar. Or Puma. Or Cheetah?
Got it when it became available through Windows Update. No issues, but then, I don't have a lot of weird apps, and Virtual PC doesn't emulate weird hardware, so oh well.
I hardly ever use it, though... except to run Windows Update when a new batch of patches come out.
I just want a clock that'll make my wife wake up non-grouchy. I'm sure there's a huge market for this device.
Clearly, Apple can afford to better compensate its employees.
I propose that Steve Jobs's salary be raised to $2.00 per year!
Who's with me?
- 18.8% iRiver
- 18.6% Rio
- 15.8% Digital Way
- 8.8% RCA
- 6.2% Samsung
Apple is now claiming that the iPod Shuffle, after one quarter on the market, has 43% market share. In a segment where the existing players were battling to see who'd reach 20% share, that's pretty scary. Of course, all these numbers are probably US-only, but still.JWST is not only not a "total" replacement for the Hubble, it's about as unrelated as can be, and basically not a replacement at all.
In addition to being optimized for a single wavelength, it's being designed to go float around at a Lagrange point, utterly beyond the reach of Shuttles and such.
It's not upgradeable (though the original specs will, I assure you, be quite nice). And while Hubble was originally designed for a 15-year orbital life with servicing, then extended to 20 years, the non-serviceable JWST is designed to last 5 years, and they're hoping for 10.
if BIGNUM% of PC's are malware-infested (I've heard 80% tossed around) and they get disconnected, suddenly anyone who's looking at their web logs will think that an unusually high number of Big Pond users are on Linux boxen, Macs, etc.
If more ISPs did this, maybe we'd see a decline in sites that only work in MSIE...
It just says that the light wouldn't be as intense as in the cases where people have gotten in trouble with their laser pointers.
That seems a little hard to believe at first, since a green laser pointer's power is only something in the milliwatts, and the AOPA article mentioned in another reply (this is a fixed URL, incidentally) talks about a 1.5 watt laser. But that's reflected/diffused to create a 100-foot-wide line of light in a circle 10 miles from the laser, so I guess by sending the light off in all directions (not at all like your normal use of a laser) it's possible that it wouldn't be a problem.
Out here in Hawaii, the summit of Mauna Kea is an "informal" no-fly zone. There aren't any major flight paths that would cross it anyway, and since there are telescopes on it, folks have basically just agreed not to go flying over when we're trying to see things.
This has become a little more important in recent years, since the folks over at Keck use a laser to ionize stuff in the sodium layer of the atmosphere and create an artificial "guide star" that they can then measure the light from to correct for atmospheric interference. This is part of their adaptive optics, I think. That's a 15-watt laser, which could really ruin a pilot's day.
And Gemini North, across the summit from Keck, is about to start playing with a big bright toy too.
They've got a pool of "plane spotters" who spend half a night standing outside on the summit with a walkie-talkie. If they see any planes that look like they might get in the way, they radio in to turn off the laser before anything gets zapped.
I'm going to try to do that, one of these days. Goodness knows I'm up there enough as it is.
Do not look into laser with remaining fly.
...astronomers will leverage the release of Yet Another Destroy-the-Earth Movie to talk about the more scientifically likely ways of doing so. Woo!
Did anyone ask where you'd been interviewing? I always got that if I shaved.
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Then it said that I could get a license for untainted versions of the files for something like $700 as a special limited-time offer...I made a doody.
That should take care of things.
Oh, but they replaced it with that nifty transparent-overlay multilingual kernel panic "You need to reboot your computer" screen! :)
(Which I've seen once, maybe twice at most, in the 6 months I've had this Mac. And which is basically the only form of "crash" it does.)
Most of the conferences I attend involve UN environmental and development programs, but even at those, I'm seeing a lot more Apple notebooks than I did six months ago.
Heck, it's even attractive to those of us whose background in C is more of the "int" variety.
It'll be spectacular out close to the orbit of Mars, though, for safety's sake. If it were closer to Earth's orbit, there'd be a higher chance of a big chunk getting knocked off and smacking into the White House. Which would be spectacular, but in a different sort of way. So it won't be terribly visible to us Earthlings... unless something causes a much bigger kaboom than we're expecting. :)
Nah, it sits in a deck chair and sips mai-tai's.
If you want water for outer-solar-system missions, it's a lot easier to just recycle urine than it is to chase down inner-solar-system comets, methinks. :)
This will hopefully bring to fruition the hard work of Jana and Audrey and all those other Honolulu-based astrobiology folks for whom I sometimes point this scope at comets.
Now I just have to remember to ask way far ahead of time to be running the scope around then. Or... maybe not. Maybe I should just drive up to the visitor station and kick back with their 16-inch Meade and some popcorn.
Hmmm... that's more DeHavilland Comet than Comet Tempel-1.
Nah, the Cinema HD and the smaller panel visible to the right of it are connected to a Power Mac. I don't have the DVI-to-ADC adapter for the PowerBook, and I'm trying to sell the Power Mac and the Cinema anyway, so I don't expect to get the adapter in the future. Yeah, verticalness like that would kinda be weird.
How could you question the "validity" of anything Paul Thurott says about vaporware from Microsoft? I mean, that ranks right up there with stone tablets inscribed by $DEITY himself! Sheesh.
A few pointers I figured out along the way:
- It's very important to keep the camera angle the same. If you've got a tripod, this is a good time to use it.
- Shooting perpendicular to the display (i.e. not at any sort of angle) is the simplest way of making things line up properly, since you don't have to stretch the backgrounds for perspective or whatever. (Some of the shots in the gallery are at angles and are very impressive in terms of difficulty.)
- Backgrounds with lots of stuff in them look cooler than "gosh, the wall shows behind the computer" in most cases. Elements that extend from behind the screen, or wrap around to the side or front can also be fun.
Next time I'm really bored, I'll try to work up something that has a mirror in it...But I wonder what Bastian thought s/he was doing by "befriending" whiskey, a bar, and a giant Citgo sign, if not wasting time?
I'm one of those people who won't be friends with someone unless I'm actually friends with them. Nor will I be friends with places, things, intangibles, etc. The concept of social networking, in and of itself, wasn't a bad thing, but the various "fakesters" et cetera basically trashed any chance of it actually being useful.
My favorite social networking site at present is Multiply, largely because it lets me specify how I'm connected to someone, and weights different sorts of relationships differently - "friend" is worth more than "online buddy," for example.
(Plus it's got a nice interface and lots of useful features.)