We don't want Galileo to crash into Europa, as it looks like it support life-as-we-know-it. If it were to land (or crash) there, and we later found life there, we wouldn't be sure that the life hadn't come from microbes hiding in the probe. (Since we will probably just find microorganisms)
By crashing it into Jupiter (which is rather hostile to earth-life), we can be sure that any life on Europa grew there on it's own, not seeded from a dirty probe.
The "speed" was in simulation ticks, not elapsed time. So on a 486 or a 16x-Xeon, 3000 ticks is 3000 ticks, doesn't matter how long it took to simulate in real time.
Windows Media Player uses hardware accelerated blitting if your video card supports it (And it probably does). So you can't screenshot it, because the image isn't there yet.
It's not really a security feature, just a side effect of hardware accel. video. You can turn off acceleration in the codec options, if you really want to make a screenshot.
Forget talking to them, what about playing quake with them? 45 light-years?!
Thats a ping of 141 Billion.
I guess I can forget trying to headshot a grey any time soon...
ack? my TRS-80 web server is almost complete! now somebody else will complete it first!
Well, alot of people still have C64s, they were a nice computer.
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Maybe because they ARE SiS?
Quotes are important because of what was said, not who said them.
We don't want Galileo to crash into Europa, as it looks like it support life-as-we-know-it.
If it were to land (or crash) there, and we later found life there, we wouldn't be sure that the life hadn't come from microbes hiding in the probe.
(Since we will probably just find microorganisms)
By crashing it into Jupiter (which is rather hostile to earth-life), we can be sure that any life on Europa grew there on it's own, not seeded from a dirty probe.
The "speed" was in simulation ticks, not elapsed time.
So on a 486 or a 16x-Xeon, 3000 ticks is 3000 ticks, doesn't matter how long it took to simulate in real time.
NASA's picture of the day used to be the most popular site on the interweb.
(It's still pretty popular)
I'm sure serving high-res pictures to a few million people a day doesn't require much bandwidth
Um, it's NASA.
They fall into the "More bandwidth than God" category.
That happened once.
Repeat after me:
THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST
The format is Redbook, if you want to call it something. Just call it an "Audio CD".
Sorry for the rant, but far too many people think redbook is just .cda files stored on a CDROM.
No, but I think you and me are alone.
Err, almost alone.
Where's Rudy Rucker when you need him? :)
I think that already happened, about a year ago...
Windows Media Player uses hardware accelerated blitting if your video card supports it (And it probably does).
So you can't screenshot it, because the image isn't there yet.
It's not really a security feature, just a side effect of hardware accel. video. You can turn off acceleration in the codec options, if you really want to make a screenshot.
47 is Weird Al's favorite number, he sticks it in all his songs.
Yer.
Like MySQL, GD, ImageMagick, etc.
In PHP at least, they are a very important part of site writing.
My cat is named Duncan Idaho.
He's not the great of a warrior though...
William sleator isn't god. William sleator is Jesus. RAH is god.
Must buy MS or AOL???
I predict mass suicides.
(6^6)^6 is what i mean. Read "the number of the beast" by R.A. Heinlein and all will become clear :)
Don't you people read Heinlein?
The number of the beast is 6^6^6.
Thats six to the sixth to the sixth
or somewhere around 10314424798490535546171949056
Forget talking to them, what about playing quake with them? 45 light-years?! Thats a ping of 141 Billion. I guess I can forget trying to headshot a grey any time soon...
exactly
click,Download. click, install. click, launch CRASH. mozilla has performed an Click close. Blue screen. reboot. damn, i need linux.
I'm gonna track down and slap meanly whoever modded this up as FUNNY!
I really am almost finished with my working TRS-80 web server.
ack? my TRS-80 web server is almost complete!
now somebody else will complete it first!
Well, alot of people still have C64s, they were a nice computer.