I was in High School when it came out and went to see it with my girlfriend. We really loved it even though I couldn't understand how he had a S100 Bus system with a $20,000 graphics terminal.
Huh? I thought he was using IMSAI. You can actually find the dealer's address in David's room if you watch carefully..
Say what you want, but I'm quite skeptical of their ability to accurately forecast this stuff...haven't there been sensationalist reports like this for the last 40 years? All of which were disproven when more accurate methods of forecasting came around?
The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven..
I wonder how it relates to UV, visible light and IR then? That's mighty big frequency range from 2,4GHz to 30 EHz.
Why couldn't they just say "EHF" if they needed to specify the frequency area where 94 GHz resides. I hate these articles that try to sound technical with some babble but in reality just betray that the writer does not know what's he talking about.
Perhaps most important of all, Roberta Williams wrote games for people - not specifically men or women - who enjoyed a good story with strong characters. She is remarkable for excelling in a mostly male-dominated industry without having to resort to the image of "PC game princess".
Well, she was topless in the (original) cover package of the Soft Porn adventure..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_A dventure (yes, there's a pic).
What do you think about the stellator designs? I thought that the weird shape (compared to Tokamak's toroid) had one nice advantage - the system doesn't get irradiated in the process. Can you comment on those?
Benefon is specializing in GPS phones, and has for a long time. The GSM model Benefon ESC! came to market in like 1999 - and had the same features, a GPS receiver, builtin map and the possibility to send your location to either to generic GSM phone (containing coordinates only) or to another similar phone (and you could see the destination on the map). Granted, the company has gone close to going bankrupt a number of times, but it seems they are nowadays doing ok in their niche.
In europe, Topfield's DVB PVR's and receivers have become very popular. They allow the user to install his own programs and therefore add to the functionality. Lots of stuff available around the net, googling for "Topfield tap" yields lots of results. The entire toolchain is there for anyone to start developing.
Anyway, as I don't really fancy a full-blown PC to my living room, I'm wondering if someone has either already made a TAP for this purpose, or if the MythTV stuff could be ported to Topfield?
A friend is attempting to try "30 days of Linux" for office use for a total Linux newbie (but experienced Windows/DOS user). Anyway, he's having a blog of the attempt at http://blogit.tietokone.fi/linuxinjaljilla/ (in Finnish). At first, he naturally asked for recommendations on what distros to use, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu was most popular, so he went with Ubuntu.
So far encountered problems seem small but trivial: His monitor (CRT) remained at 60Hz and he couldn't find any setting to change it to higher refresh rate. Eventually, with lots of help, he was able to edit xorg.conf directly and get the thing working.
To me this seemed very odd - I remember back in 2000 or so when installing Suse Linux and SaX pretty much auto-configured everything and allowed the settings changes too.
Today, another issue surfaced - no auto-mounting existing ntfs volumes. He eventually had to manually edit/etc/fstab to get the Windows partitions to show up. I thought that if you have a "clickety click" installer that they would automagically include existing partitions in fstab and create mountpoints...
Anyway, so far my perpection of Ubuntu as a friendly distro has plummeted and I think I'd now recommend Suse's corporate instead (Personally, I'm using Gentoo, and love it, but for someone looking for an user-friendly and easy-to-learn distribution...).
A bit OT, but since we're on the Swedish elections
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...how is the Pirate Party (www.piratpartiet.se) coming out in the polls recently? Any swedes who could tell us?
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'd be more then willing to sacrifice performance for durability. Am I the only one who thinks this way? Or are there laptop manufacturers out there who make decent, cheap machines that are built like tanks, but don't necessarily have a higher end hardware inside?
The Z60 series was, for a short while, available with silver cover instead of IBM black as well. Too bad I only good get the black Z60m (they ran out of the metal-cover versions just as I got the go-ahead from my boss to place an order for a new laptop...)
Good, no need to start my browser with alsa-oss anymore if I want the mixer to work (So that multiple sound sources can play at the same time), or having the flash hogging the sound device.
So we have a "pixel" that can be truely any color. Does it mean "any" color, as in Hue, or can it truely be of anything (ie. full spectrum output; Image of fluorescent light would have spiky spectrum, etc.). If the former, instead of RGB we can simply transmit HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value(Brightness)), but if it's a continuous spectrum...
Instead of transmitting just RGB values from 0-255 (24 bits) per pixel, instead you have to somehow convey the entire spectrum. At what resolution do you get? Instead of three values (R, G and B) do you get 400 (one per nanometer, from 300 to 700 nm?) - or 4000? What kind of format do spectrograms use?
Anyway, consider transmitting data from a spectrogram - times some standard monitor resolution - for multiple frames per second. That's a lot of uncompressed data.
Sonic as in speed of sound? Why would the speed of sound be significant in vacuum?
It's not vacuum - there are still particles in there, albeit not much. "Sound" is a propagation of wave in a medium - this medium can be extremely sparse, but it's still there.
Near Earth, the speed of sound is around 30-50 km per second, and solar wind particles go at speeds of 400 to 700 km/sec - they are supersonic. Once the interstellar wind starts pushing against solar wind, the particles slow down.
Not heliopause. It passed the Termination Shock, where Solar wind changes from supersonic to subsonic speeds. It's still in solar wind. Heliopause will be coming up later.
Damned near everything is dead, and it's sending back only the most basic scientific information to conserve energy levels that are already well beyond their expected date of exhaustion.
Umm, no.
I read an article not long ago (that I can't be bothered to find again) stating that only a small percentage of its original devices of science have worked at all since the 80s.
The Scan platform was turned off in the early 21st century. That's when cameras were turned off to save power.
1998 DOY 316 - Reduction in Scan Platform power - preserve UVS and Elevation Actuator temperature (+11.0 W)
* WA Vidicon Heater OFF (+5.5 W)
* NA Vidicon Heater OFF (+5.5 W)
2002 - Terminate UVS operations - turn-off all Scan Platform loads (43.9 W). Date expected to change.
* WA Electronics Replacement Heater OFF (+10.5 W)
* IRIS Replacement Heater OFF (+7.8 W)
* NA Electonics Replacement Heater OFF (+10.5 W)
* Azimuth Actuator Supplemental Heater OFF (+3.5 W)
* UVS Power OFF (+2.4 W)
* UVS Replacement Heater OFF (+2.4 W)
* Azimuth Coil Heater OFF (+4.4 W)
* Scan platform slewing power OFF (+2.4 W)
So, until 2002, V1 was used for searching UV sources among the stars, among other things. However, that doesn't tell much, since most of the work is done with particle, plasma and wave detectors and those will be working well into the 2020's.
Umm, font sizes are measured in Picas, not pixels, and all new monitors let the operating system know their physical charasteristics. Pica corresponds to 1/96 inches (yeah, ridicilous unit, but it comes from typesetting background). If you select font size as 96, and type a few letters That uses the entire "box", something like Íg, the distance between the aposthrophe and g:s curve is one ince on the screen. For most characters, 72 means an inch (THESE LETTERS ARE ONE INCH HIGH WITH SIZE 72).
I know that Windows used to act rather weirdly if trying to set the DPI factor to anything other than the default - back in '95, but the situation cannot be the same anymore...can it?
Linux and X-servers support this too. I haven't seen any problems except with a few gtk+ 1.x apps - and sometimes some windows are sized improperly. You can even manually specify the monitors physical measurements if autodetect does not work, with DisplaySize option in xorg.conf.
Anyway, with 1900x1200 screen, you get the same physical font sizes as before, there are just more pixels to draw them with, so they look nicer.
re-cracked it three more times to keep up with the FBI's 90-day password expiration policy. Lesson: Your users are your biggest security hole. Don't trust your users, especially if they're government agents.
Lesson #2: Don't use stupid password expiration periods, which force users to come up with new yet easy-to-remember (=> crackable) passwords. If passwords never expire, your users are bound to pick a more secure password in the first place since they know that they don't have to change it every full moon. Make the passwords never expire and just run a dictionary attack against your users - if you get through, THEN start harassing your user about proper security.
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I was in High School when it came out and went to see it with my girlfriend. We really loved it even though I couldn't understand how he had a S100 Bus system with a $20,000 graphics terminal.
Huh? I thought he was using IMSAI. You can actually find the dealer's address in David's room if you watch carefully..
Say what you want, but I'm quite skeptical of their ability to accurately forecast this stuff...haven't there been sensationalist reports like this for the last 40 years? All of which were disproven when more accurate methods of forecasting came around?
No.
The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven..
I wonder how it relates to UV, visible light and IR then? That's mighty big frequency range from 2,4GHz to 30 EHz.
Why couldn't they just say "EHF" if they needed to specify the frequency area where 94 GHz resides. I hate these articles that try to sound technical with some babble but in reality just betray that the writer does not know what's he talking about.
Mordorian air force (Nazguls).
Perhaps most important of all, Roberta Williams wrote games for people - not specifically men or women - who enjoyed a good story with strong characters. She is remarkable for excelling in a mostly male-dominated industry without having to resort to the image of "PC game princess".
A dventure (yes, there's a pic).
Well, she was topless in the (original) cover package of the Soft Porn adventure..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_
What do you think about the stellator designs? I thought that the weird shape (compared to Tokamak's toroid) had one nice advantage - the system doesn't get irradiated in the process. Can you comment on those?
Benefon is specializing in GPS phones, and has for a long time. The GSM model Benefon ESC! came to market in like 1999 - and had the same features, a GPS receiver, builtin map and the possibility to send your location to either to generic GSM phone (containing coordinates only) or to another similar phone (and you could see the destination on the map). Granted, the company has gone close to going bankrupt a number of times, but it seems they are nowadays doing ok in their niche.
In europe, Topfield's DVB PVR's and receivers have become very popular. They allow the user to install his own programs and therefore add to the functionality. Lots of stuff available around the net, googling for "Topfield tap" yields lots of results. The entire toolchain is there for anyone to start developing.
Anyway, as I don't really fancy a full-blown PC to my living room, I'm wondering if someone has either already made a TAP for this purpose, or if the MythTV stuff could be ported to Topfield?
Would have been nice if this would have been included in the article summary, but anyway...
http://team-gizka.org/
I have been putting off playing KOTOR 2 for a long time waiting for them to actually release. Hopefully it'll be soon.
Ofcourse people can do whatever they want, but why not spend their time making XFS easily resizable for example?
I would also appreciate block journaling for XFS.
A friend is attempting to try "30 days of Linux" for office use for a total Linux newbie (but experienced Windows/DOS user). Anyway, he's having a blog of the attempt at http://blogit.tietokone.fi/linuxinjaljilla/ (in Finnish). At first, he naturally asked for recommendations on what distros to use, and Ubuntu/Kubuntu was most popular, so he went with Ubuntu.
/etc/fstab to get the Windows partitions to show up. I thought that if you have a "clickety click" installer that they would automagically include existing partitions in fstab and create mountpoints...
So far encountered problems seem small but trivial: His monitor (CRT) remained at 60Hz and he couldn't find any setting to change it to higher refresh rate. Eventually, with lots of help, he was able to edit xorg.conf directly and get the thing working.
To me this seemed very odd - I remember back in 2000 or so when installing Suse Linux and SaX pretty much auto-configured everything and allowed the settings changes too.
Today, another issue surfaced - no auto-mounting existing ntfs volumes. He eventually had to manually edit
Anyway, so far my perpection of Ubuntu as a friendly distro has plummeted and I think I'd now recommend Suse's corporate instead (Personally, I'm using Gentoo, and love it, but for someone looking for an user-friendly and easy-to-learn distribution...).
...how is the Pirate Party (www.piratpartiet.se) coming out in the polls recently? Any swedes who could tell us?
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'd be more then willing to sacrifice performance for durability. Am I the only one who thinks this way? Or are there laptop manufacturers out there who make decent, cheap machines that are built like tanks, but don't necessarily have a higher end hardware inside?
Cheap, not. But you can try Panasonic Toughbook or even beyond, check out Itronix.
The Z60 series was, for a short while, available with silver cover instead of IBM black as well. Too bad I only good get the black Z60m (they ran out of the metal-cover versions just as I got the go-ahead from my boss to place an order for a new laptop...)
Good, no need to start my browser with alsa-oss anymore if I want the mixer to work (So that multiple sound sources can play at the same time), or having the flash hogging the sound device.
So we have a "pixel" that can be truely any color. Does it mean "any" color, as in Hue, or can it truely be of anything (ie. full spectrum output; Image of fluorescent light would have spiky spectrum, etc.). If the former, instead of RGB we can simply transmit HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value(Brightness)), but if it's a continuous spectrum...
Instead of transmitting just RGB values from 0-255 (24 bits) per pixel, instead you have to somehow convey the entire spectrum. At what resolution do you get? Instead of three values (R, G and B) do you get 400 (one per nanometer, from 300 to 700 nm?) - or 4000? What kind of format do spectrograms use?
Anyway, consider transmitting data from a spectrogram - times some standard monitor resolution - for multiple frames per second. That's a lot of uncompressed data.
High resolution TIFF available at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00451
No.
http://scienceweek.com/2004/sb040109-1.htm
Sonic as in speed of sound? Why would the speed of sound be significant in vacuum?
It's not vacuum - there are still particles in there, albeit not much. "Sound" is a propagation of wave in a medium - this medium can be extremely sparse, but it's still there.
Near Earth, the speed of sound is around 30-50 km per second, and solar wind particles go at speeds of 400 to 700 km/sec - they are supersonic. Once the interstellar wind starts pushing against solar wind, the particles slow down.
Not heliopause. It passed the Termination Shock, where Solar wind changes from supersonic to subsonic speeds. It's still in solar wind. Heliopause will be coming up later.
Damned near everything is dead, and it's sending back only the most basic scientific information to conserve energy levels that are already well beyond their expected date of exhaustion.
Umm, no.
I read an article not long ago (that I can't be bothered to find again) stating that only a small percentage of its original devices of science have worked at all since the 80s.
The Scan platform was turned off in the early 21st century. That's when cameras were turned off to save power.
See http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/thirty.html and scroll to the end of the page.
VOYAGER 1
1998 DOY 316 - Reduction in Scan Platform power - preserve UVS and Elevation Actuator temperature (+11.0 W)
* WA Vidicon Heater OFF (+5.5 W)
* NA Vidicon Heater OFF (+5.5 W)
2002 - Terminate UVS operations - turn-off all Scan Platform loads (43.9 W). Date expected to change.
* WA Electronics Replacement Heater OFF (+10.5 W)
* IRIS Replacement Heater OFF (+7.8 W)
* NA Electonics Replacement Heater OFF (+10.5 W)
* Azimuth Actuator Supplemental Heater OFF (+3.5 W)
* UVS Power OFF (+2.4 W)
* UVS Replacement Heater OFF (+2.4 W)
* Azimuth Coil Heater OFF (+4.4 W)
* Scan platform slewing power OFF (+2.4 W)
So, until 2002, V1 was used for searching UV sources among the stars, among other things. However, that doesn't tell much, since most of the work is done with particle, plasma and wave detectors and those will be working well into the 2020's.
Umm, font sizes are measured in Picas, not pixels, and all new monitors let the operating system know their physical charasteristics. Pica corresponds to 1/96 inches (yeah, ridicilous unit, but it comes from typesetting background). If you select font size as 96, and type a few letters That uses the entire "box", something like Íg, the distance between the aposthrophe and g:s curve is one ince on the screen. For most characters, 72 means an inch (THESE LETTERS ARE ONE INCH HIGH WITH SIZE 72).
I know that Windows used to act rather weirdly if trying to set the DPI factor to anything other than the default - back in '95, but the situation cannot be the same anymore...can it?
Linux and X-servers support this too. I haven't seen any problems except with a few gtk+ 1.x apps - and sometimes some windows are sized improperly. You can even manually specify the monitors physical measurements if autodetect does not work, with DisplaySize option in xorg.conf.
Anyway, with 1900x1200 screen, you get the same physical font sizes as before, there are just more pixels to draw them with, so they look nicer.
How does this compare to The Great Wall, discovered as a structure in 1989?
re-cracked it three more times to keep up with the FBI's 90-day password expiration policy. Lesson: Your users are your biggest security hole. Don't trust your users, especially if they're government agents.
Lesson #2: Don't use stupid password expiration periods, which force users to come up with new yet easy-to-remember (=> crackable) passwords. If passwords never expire, your users are bound to pick a more secure password in the first place since they know that they don't have to change it every full moon. Make the passwords never expire and just run a dictionary attack against your users - if you get through, THEN start harassing your user about proper security.
At least by default, world wind has something like 2-3x scaling factor for elevations (yes, you can turn it off).