Bare in mind that all those color pictures are pre-1900, which I personally find absolutely incredible, because to me black-white means old, and suddenly seeing landscapes and people in color, somehow makes them more real.
Here's something to think about as well. When the US retired the SR-71 from active service, did you really think they didn't have a replacement coming into active service? Space based sensing is nice but it has some inherent limitations.
I would take an uneducated guess that the US has a top secret spy plane that has eclipsed all of the short comings of the SR-71.
Nice hat you're wearing, I like how it shines and all.
It's was quite boring to go on ellection where one could only vote for one candidate and for one party. People haven't been coming. Then, in order to bring people on ellections, authorities arranged free drinks.
And I though George(c) thought of everything, I guess he still has a margin for improvement in his campaign.
I totaly agree with you about the incompletness of man pages for newbies (me). The most frustrating part of the man pages for me is the lack of practical examples in them. I've always felt that the easiest way to understand a command or concept is by imitation, it's very intuitive. And I'm not talking about an abstract example like:
That doesn't speak to me the same way as a realy concrete example of the command, even if it's not exactly the command I need, at least I know the general syntax and can try from there.
I've always found 4DOS / 4NT (for the Windows world) to have the best possible help. Because you have a clear desciption of every optional argument, and lots of examples.
Hang on.. If windows NT / 2000 are affected.. looks like M$ have been sitting on it for a _lot_ longer than 6 months.
Well from what is said on the eEye site, SP4 (for win2k) fixed the problem:
Systems Affected: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (all versions) Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 and earlier) Microsoft Windows XP (all versions)
And from the MS site it says that SP4 was released on the 26 Juin 2003.
Also it seems that XP's SP1 didn't correct the overflow. Which is weird because XP's SP1 came out much earlier than Win2k's SP3 (around 29 August 2002)
All raw images are black and white - how do they transform them into RGB colour ?
Excellent question, which was answered at least twice in the last threads on the subject,
Anyway, this page is really the best at explaining how it's done, and how you can do it yourself IF the images are saturated evenly by a common reference point.
For example, I'm guessing that these 3 images can be made to resemble "human perceivable" colors quite easily. this on from the L2 lens (Reddish) this on from the L5 lens (greens) this on from the L6 lens (blues)
Please note, that I am not all knowing in the matter, I just followed the explanation from the top linked page.
I'm not sure I really understand your point of using an existing asteroid for this.
Since there is no fuel economy, since we still the same momentum to get to/from the asteroid on both ends as we would with a ship/probe.
But I do kinda like the idea of a "constant" base swinging by earth and mars. But if we have the resources to build a hotel on an asteroid we probably could build a nice station without the hassle of actualling having to dig a hole in a big chunk of unknown stuff using yet to be invented technology.
Just do a search with scientology and notice that there are now at least 4 sites in the top 10 that are Good Sites(tm). As opposed to a couple month ago when the only one was xenu.net
I think that this is really a great thing on behalf of Google. Because, let's face it when one organisation can artificially promote their site in a search engine, then that could be considered as the first step towards censure.
I had a Voodoo5 and a GF3-ti500 both the hottest cards out at the time. The Voodoo5 with only 2 CPU's kept up almost every game. But after the drivers stopped from 3DFX, you had to move to different hardware.
I'm sorry, but this is really walking very close to the Troll Line(tm).
The Voodoo5 was released around August 2000 while The GeForce3-Ti was released around October 2001. (ref: here)
As a matter of fact their was an entire generation of nNvidia cards in between the GeForce2 and GeForce2 GTS.
Let me quote what is said on this page about the speed you're claim of comparable speed between the two: During the following four months the Voodoo5 5500 proved to have the second best performance available, squeezing in between the Radeon and a GeForce2 GTS.
And do note that, this is only compared to a GeForce2-GTS not even a GeForce3 or a GeForce3-Ti
Also as a side note it's interresting to read back on the site that I've linked about the fact that nVidia, ATI and 3dFX where never really alone in the 3D market. PowerVR had an almost good successful prodect with it's KyroII line and SiS has always been pretty good in the the on-board/cheap-ass-but-works-ok line.
So why do the french make them take them [chador] off in school, but americans don't?
That is actually an excellent point. The reason is that public schools are under the goverment's dictum (naturally), and France has a very strict separation between religions and goverment. Hence the ban on any religious difference in any govermental affairs. Of course private schools can do as they please.
A clear separation of religions and govermetn seems all that more lacking in the US.
Now, I would just like to be able to legally remove the CD check from my Battlefield 1942 installation. I've got a $450 DVD burner and wasting it's spin-life while the damned game makes sure I'm not stealing every MP game launch and every level change
Well I think there is a 100% legal way to go about you over-using your DVD drive.
It's my understanding that you are allowed to make backup copies of your software. Then exercise this right and use something like diskdump to make a 100% copy of your CD on the harddrive. Then use Daemon-Tools to mount your ISO image as a CDROM volume.
That's it, and as an added bonus your game will event start up faster, and without your drive making aeroplane like noises too:)
From reading this press release, they have struck a deal with EDF (Huge french based utility provider), and my conspiracy theories might make me think that EDF's goals are not all that glamorous, when you know that they have a very big parc of nuclear power stations and promotes them heavily.
Maybe it hasn't been really clear to everyone, but no WMD, ballisitic missile defense (AKA star wars), stimulated Gamma Weapon, Joint strike figther with uber laser onboard, would have prevented, 9-11.
Anyone still beleiving that need a good wack of reality in the face, and a couple of box cutters.
Reading this a couple of days ago when the article about the timeline of space discorveries came on/. said that: In addition, the new portrait precisely pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years old, with a remarkably small one percent margin of error.
So I'm not really all that sure what "humble" is trying to find out...
Back in reality, Customs can and do stop parcels and insist you tell them what's in it. However, they ignore most of the stuff for private citizens and only go after the stuff for companies
Well you customs office is much "nicer" than elswhere, say for example where I live, Switzerland.
A couple of years ago I went on ordering spree, and ordered from a US site a car radar detector, and later a radar scrambler. Instead of reiciving my detector, I received a nice letter, telling me that I was trying to import an illegal device and that it had been confiscated, I got fined AND I got to pay the VAT on it too. For the later device, I got the US site to send it as "sample/gift", and got no problem from the customs office.
On a side note, radar detectors/scrambler do NOT work with the Swiss radars...:/ Murphy(c)
I've read both articles, and understand the basic of the switch (which is very much like a plasma window, only works a lot faster). But I'm having a hard time understanding how this valve would stop a leak. Since that seems to be the primary function of such a valve.
Is it supposed to be placed "on top" of an existing mechanical valve, so that if that valve leaks the plasma one will jump in close it off ?
At least you are moded as funy, and a funny troll can't be that bad.
I'm guessing (as in extrapolating out of my ass) that the reason north UK is rising is because of the tectonic plate it's sitting on.
If I recall correctly, the Scandinavian plate is slowly rising because the ice cap that covered it during our longer ice ages melted (Ice cap is heavy, and pushed down on the whole plate for a long periode of time). That type of heavy glacier ice cap is called "inlandsis" (well at least in french, don't know the name in english)
So, I'm guessing that the Northern part of the UK tectonic plate might either be doing the same thing, or that friction from the rising Scandinavian plate forces it raise with it.
Just a quick note, that the damage seen on the picture from the BBC-News page, depicts a fairly large hole, our "inset" into the radom (nose cone) of the aircraft.
Now you have to remember that this part of the aircraft is probably the most fragile as it is not made out of steel or aluminium but rather carbon-epoxy (because it houses the plane's radar, and radar energy doesn't pass thru metal all that good). Also the radom is not pressurised and a plane can easily fly without it nor, the radar it portects.
That being said, I cannot comment on the other impacts or their severity.
P.S. But as another poster said above, Why the hell did they fly into a thunder/hail storm in the first place is beyound me. "Cumulo Nimbus" (the big anvil shaped thunder storm clouds) are the first thing any pilote learns never to go near.
I don't understand why so many people are constantly bashing Goldin's faster, better, cheaper (FBC) approch. And it's not only our own/. crowd I'm thinking about, but even journalist like the person that wrote the abcnews article.
I mean, the first part of the article somewhat describes that FBC sucks, then it explains that this new mission is going to use trusted technology like, [guess what ?], bouncing airbag landing, aeroshell insertion (probably aeorbreaking too). Guess when all this "trusted" technology whas first tested ?
I'm sure Goldin must have done some things badly, but I personally don't think that FBC is one of it. Given the budget cuts that NASA has gone thru and the pressure for more "exciting" science from the general public, I really think that FBC was the logical answer. Sure it fumbled on a couple of occasions, but I won't even count the loss of the Mars Polar lander (the Metric vs US, snafu) as a cause of FBC, more like the exact reason why having common standard is a Good Thing(tm).
I still think that some wonderfull experiments have come out of FBC, Pathinder is certanly one, DS-1 too (first autonomous navigation, first Ion Drive), and not to mention the Mars Global Surveyor.
I liked the idea of trying and squeezing every last bit of science out of a project. Like the NEAR Shoemaker's landing on Eros/rant Murphy(c)
What you could easily do with your Athlon 1.4 is install something like this. Which is a pretty quiet CPU cooler and is pretty cheap too. Then if you still feel that it makes too much noise, you can always try to hook it up to 5v instead of the normal 12v. That way it will run much slower and quieter, but it should still cool plenty enough for your CPU
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In the same vein as making movies before actual movies, see also the great photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.
He took pictures using color filters on 3 different cameras, and then used 3 candlelight projectors to recombine the the image in one color picture.
Pretty neat stuff, here is the link.
Bare in mind that all those color pictures are pre-1900, which I personally find absolutely incredible, because to me black-white means old, and suddenly seeing landscapes and people in color, somehow makes them more real.
Murphy(c)
Here's something to think about as well. When the US retired the SR-71 from active service, did you really think they didn't have a replacement coming into active service? Space based sensing is nice but it has some inherent limitations.
I would take an uneducated guess that the US has a top secret spy plane that has eclipsed all of the short comings of the SR-71.
Nice hat you're wearing, I like how it shines and all.
Murphy(c)
It's was quite boring to go on ellection where one could only vote for one candidate and for one party. People haven't been coming. Then, in order to bring people on ellections, authorities arranged free drinks.
And I though George(c) thought of everything, I guess he still has a margin for improvement in his campaign.
Murphy
I totaly agree with you about the incompletness of man pages for newbies (me). :
The most frustrating part of the man pages for me is the lack of practical examples in them. I've always felt that the easiest way to understand a command or concept is by imitation, it's very intuitive. And I'm not talking about an abstract example like
Foobar [argument] [option] ([sub argument] [output file])
That doesn't speak to me the same way as a realy concrete example of the command, even if it's not exactly the command I need, at least I know the general syntax and can try from there.
I've always found 4DOS / 4NT (for the Windows world) to have the best possible help. Because you have a clear desciption of every optional argument, and lots of examples.
Murphy.
Well from what is said on the eEye site, SP4 (for win2k) fixed the problem
And from the MS site it says that SP4 was released on the 26 Juin 2003.
Also it seems that XP's SP1 didn't correct the overflow. Which is weird because XP's SP1 came out much earlier than Win2k's SP3 (around 29 August 2002)
Murphy(c)
All raw images are black and white - how do they transform them into RGB colour ?
Excellent question, which was answered at least twice in the last threads on the subject,
Anyway, this page is really the best at explaining how it's done, and how you can do it yourself IF the images are saturated evenly by a common reference point.
For example, I'm guessing that these 3 images can be made to resemble "human perceivable" colors quite easily.
this on from the L2 lens (Reddish)
this on from the L5 lens (greens)
this on from the L6 lens (blues)
Please note, that I am not all knowing in the matter, I just followed the explanation from the top linked page.
Murphy(c)
Folks - that 1.5 BILLION wasted
You mean like about a day's worth of liberating WMD hiding coutries ?
[/sarcasm]
Murphy(c)
I'm not sure I really understand your point of using an existing asteroid for this.
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Since there is no fuel economy, since we still the same momentum to get to/from the asteroid on both ends as we would with a ship/probe.
But I do kinda like the idea of a "constant" base swinging by earth and mars. But if we have the resources to build a hotel on an asteroid we probably could build a nice station without the hassle of actualling having to dig a hole in a big chunk of unknown stuff using yet to be invented technology.
Murphy(c)
Just my
Just do a search with scientology and notice that there are now at least 4 sites in the top 10 that are Good Sites(tm). As opposed to a couple month ago when the only one was xenu.net
I think that this is really a great thing on behalf of Google. Because, let's face it when one organisation can artificially promote their site in a search engine, then that could be considered as the first step towards censure.
Murphy(c)
I had a Voodoo5 and a GF3-ti500 both the hottest cards out at the time. The Voodoo5 with only 2 CPU's kept up almost every game. But after the drivers stopped from 3DFX, you had to move to different hardware.
:
I'm sorry, but this is really walking very close to the Troll Line(tm).
The Voodoo5 was released around August 2000 while The GeForce3-Ti was released around October 2001. (ref: here)
As a matter of fact their was an entire generation of nNvidia cards in between the GeForce2 and GeForce2 GTS.
Let me quote what is said on this page about the speed you're claim of comparable speed between the two
During the following four months the Voodoo5 5500 proved to have the second best performance available, squeezing in between the Radeon and a GeForce2 GTS.
And do note that, this is only compared to a GeForce2-GTS not even a GeForce3 or a GeForce3-Ti
Also as a side note it's interresting to read back on the site that I've linked about the fact that nVidia, ATI and 3dFX where never really alone in the 3D market. PowerVR had an almost good successful prodect with it's KyroII line and SiS has always been pretty good in the the on-board/cheap-ass-but-works-ok line.
Murphy(c)
So why do the french make them take them [chador] off in school, but americans don't?
That is actually an excellent point.
The reason is that public schools are under the goverment's dictum (naturally), and France has a very strict separation between religions and goverment. Hence the ban on any religious difference in any govermental affairs. Of course private schools can do as they please.
A clear separation of religions and govermetn seems all that more lacking in the US.
Murphy(c)
Now, I would just like to be able to legally remove the CD check from my Battlefield 1942 installation. I've got a $450 DVD burner and wasting it's spin-life while the damned game makes sure I'm not stealing every MP game launch and every level change
:)
Well I think there is a 100% legal way to go about you over-using your DVD drive.
It's my understanding that you are allowed to make backup copies of your software. Then exercise this right and use something like diskdump to make a 100% copy of your CD on the harddrive.
Then use Daemon-Tools to mount your ISO image as a CDROM volume.
That's it, and as an added bonus your game will event start up faster, and without your drive making aeroplane like noises too
Murphy(c)
More than a handful of windows games require administrator access to run (not to install, to RUN).
:
Well you can always use the "su" like feature of 2000/XP
- Hold shift key
- Right click program to start.
- Select "run as"
- Enter credentials of admin.
-OR-
Right click the program/game, on the property pane, under "shortcut" tab, select "run as different user".
Agreed it's a pain to have to enter a user and password each time you want to play, but the rest is in the game developper's hands.
Murphy(c)
From reading this press release, they have struck a deal with EDF (Huge french based utility provider), and my conspiracy theories might make me think that EDF's goals are not all that glamorous, when you know that they have a very big parc of nuclear power stations and promotes them heavily.
Murphy(c)
I shared your PoV before 9-11.
I still share his point of view now.
Maybe it hasn't been really clear to everyone, but no WMD, ballisitic missile defense (AKA star wars), stimulated Gamma Weapon, Joint strike figther with uber laser onboard, would have prevented, 9-11.
Anyone still beleiving that need a good wack of reality in the face, and a couple of box cutters.
Murphy(c)
Reading this a couple of days ago when the article about the timeline of space discorveries came on /. said that :
In addition, the new portrait precisely pegs the age of the Universe at 13.7 billion years old, with a remarkably small one percent margin of error.
So I'm not really all that sure what "humble" is trying to find out...
Murphy(c)
Back in reality, Customs can and do stop parcels and insist you tell them what's in it. However, they ignore most of the stuff for private citizens and only go after the stuff for companies
... :/
Well you customs office is much "nicer" than elswhere, say for example where I live, Switzerland.
A couple of years ago I went on ordering spree, and ordered from a US site a car radar detector, and later a radar scrambler.
Instead of reiciving my detector, I received a nice letter, telling me that I was trying to import an illegal device and that it had been confiscated, I got fined AND I got to pay the VAT on it too.
For the later device, I got the US site to send it as "sample/gift", and got no problem from the customs office.
On a side note, radar detectors/scrambler do NOT work with the Swiss radars
Murphy(c)
I've read both articles, and understand the basic of the switch (which is very much like a plasma window, only works a lot faster).
But I'm having a hard time understanding how this valve would stop a leak. Since that seems to be the primary function of such a valve.
Is it supposed to be placed "on top" of an existing mechanical valve, so that if that valve leaks the plasma one will jump in close it off ?
Murphy(c)
At least you are moded as funy, and a funny troll can't be that bad.
I'm guessing (as in extrapolating out of my ass) that the reason north UK is rising is because of the tectonic plate it's sitting on.
If I recall correctly, the Scandinavian plate is slowly rising because the ice cap that covered it during our longer ice ages melted (Ice cap is heavy, and pushed down on the whole plate for a long periode of time). That type of heavy glacier ice cap is called "inlandsis" (well at least in french, don't know the name in english)
So, I'm guessing that the Northern part of the UK tectonic plate might either be doing the same thing, or that friction from the rising Scandinavian plate forces it raise with it.
Murphy(c)
Just a quick note, that the damage seen on the picture from the BBC-News page, depicts a fairly large hole, our "inset" into the radom (nose cone) of the aircraft.
Now you have to remember that this part of the aircraft is probably the most fragile as it is not made out of steel or aluminium but rather carbon-epoxy (because it houses the plane's radar, and radar energy doesn't pass thru metal all that good).
Also the radom is not pressurised and a plane can easily fly without it nor, the radar it portects.
That being said, I cannot comment on the other impacts or their severity.
P.S. But as another poster said above, Why the hell did they fly into a thunder/hail storm in the first place is beyound me. "Cumulo Nimbus" (the big anvil shaped thunder storm clouds) are the first thing any pilote learns never to go near.
Murphy(c)
I don't understand why so many people are constantly bashing Goldin's faster, better, cheaper (FBC) approch. And it's not only our own /. crowd I'm thinking about, but even journalist like the person that wrote the abcnews article.
/rant
I mean, the first part of the article somewhat describes that FBC sucks, then it explains that this new mission is going to use trusted technology like, [guess what ?], bouncing airbag landing, aeroshell insertion (probably aeorbreaking too). Guess when all this "trusted" technology whas first tested ?
I'm sure Goldin must have done some things badly, but I personally don't think that FBC is one of it. Given the budget cuts that NASA has gone thru and the pressure for more "exciting" science from the general public, I really think that FBC was the logical answer. Sure it fumbled on a couple of occasions, but I won't even count the loss of the Mars Polar lander (the Metric vs US, snafu) as a cause of FBC, more like the exact reason why having common standard is a Good Thing(tm).
I still think that some wonderfull experiments have come out of FBC, Pathinder is certanly one, DS-1 too (first autonomous navigation, first Ion Drive), and not to mention the Mars Global Surveyor.
I liked the idea of trying and squeezing every last bit of science out of a project. Like the NEAR Shoemaker's landing on Eros
Murphy(c)
Please take note that I'm far from knowledgeable about network routing and protocols.
But doesn't using encapsulated IPv6 inside IPv4 packets create an ugly overhead in packet sizes?
Adding that extra header of IPv4 on top of a IPv6 packet seems to me like a "less than smart" solution.
What did I miss?
Murphy(c)
Here is a torrent mirror, don't forget to keep your client running afterwards, but nice with me :)
Murphy
P.S. Thanks to torrents.cx for the upload/link
That's funny, but just reading the summary on slashdot made me think that it was a John Katz Feature.
...Almost, then I woke up.
Almost made me regret his articles.
Murphy(c)
What you could easily do with your Athlon 1.4 is install something like this. Which is a pretty quiet CPU cooler and is pretty cheap too.
Then if you still feel that it makes too much noise, you can always try to hook it up to 5v instead of the normal 12v. That way it will run much slower and quieter, but it should still cool plenty enough for your CPU
-Murphy