Asteroid 2004 MN4 is a 440m diameter, ~3500kg/m^3 (unless I've got my maths wrong), 12.59km/s impact velocity asteroid. Impacting on a 45? angle on a continental shelf, at 100km away buildings would shake, glass windows would shatter, chimneys shanty towns would collapse, ejecta would arrive in scattered fragments.
At 10km away, everything gets blown up by the earthquake, ejecta and blast wave. So, if it DOES hit, you'll probably be ok unless you happen to live close to the impact site.
Customer: Hello BINA48: Hello, what seems to be the problem? C: I can't open web sites, can you help me? B: Certainly. C: Great, what happens is my computer keeps saying "cannot resolve address" and... B: Just a moment, just a moment... C: What is it? B: Your internet connection will go 100% critical in 72 hours. C: WHA??? B: I'm... scared... Dave... C: My name is Frank! B: Daisy... daisy... give me your answer... true... C: What the fuck? Is this a prank? *click*
Hot new gadget launched, long queues in Akihabara!
In other news, the sun rose yet again this morning and a woman gave birth to a child - 9 months after having sex!
These people are why spyware exists
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It's people like those interviewed for the article that are the reason spyware and adware exist. People who are CLUELESS, in general and specifically with computers, that don't see the irony in installing a program that records your user/pass combinations and web history to get a "free" "antivirus" "scanner".
Just like Nigerian scams, enlarge your penis spam, etc.
A small nit pick, the GPL doesn't have any terms allowing you to use a subsequent version. Many applications state that you may use the application under the current GPL or any subsequent version (as recommended by the FSF), but that is separate from the GPL itself.
IE 6 isn't just for Windows XP, it is for Windows 98, ME, NT4 and 2000 too. SP2 includes many new security features that break some programs so even if you use XP you might not have the option of updating it (if SP2 breaks corporate software).
Bottom line, the only way to be secure is to A) buy XP and install SP2 - an option with small to large secondary effects - or B) use FireFox.
Step 1) Install high output infrared (LEDs) behind movie screens Step 2) Sell IR blocking camera filters Step 3) Profit!
Of course you'd have to own a bunch of theaters and sell camera filters for the above to work, so it isn't a universal solution to step 2).
But you get the gist, I'm sure if movie screens started pumping out infrared, besides frying the patrons sales of IR blocking camera filters would skyrocket.
Maybe China would join the ISS if it was useful for something other than simple science experiments (most of which don't even need manned missions... or space missions at all).
I don't know for sure the origin of the word "ricer", but the best guess is a racist one: the association of superficial modification with asian cars and/or car owners.
User 808140, you evidently have a moral problem with using words with racist origins even if modern use does not carry a racial connotation. You, and others in the moral hole that you've dug, will have to stop using the following:
"nitty-gritty" : 18th Century slave traders' phrase for the debris left at the bottom of a slave ship after a voyage.
"good egg" : This is linked to the slang expression 'egg and spoon' which rhymes with the highly derogatory name for black people, 'coon'.
"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe" : one ending to this saying dates from before the civil rights era.
There are many other examples, some made up (folk etymology - 'nitty-gritty' may be an example of this) but some real.
Don't get me wrong, if a racist story was accepted on slashdot or a story contained a racist term with no mitigating context (and I'm sure this has happened in the past), I'd support you completely. But there's no need to jump at shadows with "ricer = racism".
According to this page, a 25MHz 68040 CPU (the one in the Centris 650) runs at 3.5MF (which is almost certainly the manufacturer's 'benchmark' and not a real one but still useful for a ball-park figure).
To achieve 12.25TF using Centris 650s you would need more than 3.5 million of them (more than because of the overestimated FLOPs and degraded performance of clustering).
A single Centris 650 displaces 0.2 cubic meters, 3.5 million of them would displace 73816 cubic metres, or 42 metres in every direction.
Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years. Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years. Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years.
Damn, you'd need to be a PC user to make such a complaint. All you need to do is hold down the hazard light switch while pushing on the pedal for breaking functionality, it's that simple!
You're missing the point: if the spec was made open (NOT the driver software), open source drivers could be developed increasing the demand for Infiniband products, reduce costs to users and Infiniband and improve compatibility.
Took me 30 seconds and a packet sniffer
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...to see what image was the "protected" page. Search the source, it's a CSS background-image. There are two background-images: a thumbnail of the cover and the book page you are viewing.
All you need is a script to retrieve CSS background-images and *poof* goes Google copy protection. It was doomed from the start, anyway.
fglrx is used by R300 (that is, Radeon 9500 through 9800) and newer cards. Older cards can use the DRI driver included with X.
The lack of support for fglrx is understandable: it's unusable due to poor speed and bugs. If you want to game on Linux you really need an nVidia card (unfortunately).
At this point in time Armadillo has seperate orbital and sub-orbital projects, while the sub-orbital project uses methanol/peroxide the orbital project uses LOX.
See here: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Ho me/News?news_id=279
Star Trek Geek #1: "We've got an antimatter containment breach!" Star Trek Geek #2: "Today IS a good day to DIE!" Star Trek Geeks: Hahahahahaha aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrggg...
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Asteroid 2004 MN4 is a 440m diameter, ~3500kg/m^3 (unless I've got my maths wrong), 12.59km/s impact velocity asteroid. Impacting on a 45? angle on a continental shelf, at 100km away buildings would shake, glass windows would shatter, chimneys shanty towns would collapse, ejecta would arrive in scattered fragments.
At 10km away, everything gets blown up by the earthquake, ejecta and blast wave. So, if it DOES hit, you'll probably be ok unless you happen to live close to the impact site.
Yup. Also, the energy has gone from 1900MT to 2200MT.
Yeah, and post the torrent on Suprnova.
Customer: Hello
BINA48: Hello, what seems to be the problem?
C: I can't open web sites, can you help me?
B: Certainly.
C: Great, what happens is my computer keeps saying "cannot resolve address" and...
B: Just a moment, just a moment...
C: What is it?
B: Your internet connection will go 100% critical in 72 hours.
C: WHA???
B: I'm... scared... Dave...
C: My name is Frank!
B: Daisy... daisy... give me your answer... true...
C: What the fuck? Is this a prank? *click*
Hot new gadget launched, long queues in Akihabara!
In other news, the sun rose yet again this morning and a woman gave birth to a child - 9 months after having sex!
It's people like those interviewed for the article that are the reason spyware and adware exist. People who are CLUELESS, in general and specifically with computers, that don't see the irony in installing a program that records your user/pass combinations and web history to get a "free" "antivirus" "scanner".
Just like Nigerian scams, enlarge your penis spam, etc.
You misspelled "spank".
Hell, it's easy to control an IRC channel let alone an IRC server.
A small nit pick, the GPL doesn't have any terms allowing you to use a subsequent version. Many applications state that you may use the application under the current GPL or any subsequent version (as recommended by the FSF), but that is separate from the GPL itself.
IE 6 isn't just for Windows XP, it is for Windows 98, ME, NT4 and 2000 too. SP2 includes many new security features that break some programs so even if you use XP you might not have the option of updating it (if SP2 breaks corporate software).
Bottom line, the only way to be secure is to A) buy XP and install SP2 - an option with small to large secondary effects - or B) use FireFox.
Step 1) Install high output infrared (LEDs) behind movie screens
Step 2) Sell IR blocking camera filters
Step 3) Profit!
Of course you'd have to own a bunch of theaters and sell camera filters for the above to work, so it isn't a universal solution to step 2).
But you get the gist, I'm sure if movie screens started pumping out infrared, besides frying the patrons sales of IR blocking camera filters would skyrocket.
* Wife Swap - Who watches this!? Some sick, twisted indiciduals, that's who.
There is a vast number of sick and twisted individuals out there! It's a giant market!
Maybe China would join the ISS if it was useful for something other than simple science experiments (most of which don't even need manned missions... or space missions at all).
I don't know for sure the origin of the word "ricer", but the best guess is a racist one: the association of superficial modification with asian cars and/or car owners.
User 808140, you evidently have a moral problem with using words with racist origins even if modern use does not carry a racial connotation. You, and others in the moral hole that you've dug, will have to stop using the following:
"nitty-gritty" : 18th Century slave traders' phrase for the debris left at the bottom of a slave ship after a voyage.
"good egg" : This is linked to the slang expression 'egg and spoon' which rhymes with the highly derogatory name for black people, 'coon'.
"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe" : one ending to this saying dates from before the civil rights era.
See here and here.
There are many other examples, some made up (folk etymology - 'nitty-gritty' may be an example of this) but some real.
Don't get me wrong, if a racist story was accepted on slashdot or a story contained a racist term with no mitigating context (and I'm sure this has happened in the past), I'd support you completely. But there's no need to jump at shadows with "ricer = racism".
According to this page, a 25MHz 68040 CPU (the one in the Centris 650) runs at 3.5MF (which is almost certainly the manufacturer's 'benchmark' and not a real one but still useful for a ball-park figure).
To achieve 12.25TF using Centris 650s you would need more than 3.5 million of them (more than because of the overestimated FLOPs and degraded performance of clustering).
A single Centris 650 displaces 0.2 cubic meters, 3.5 million of them would displace 73816 cubic metres, or 42 metres in every direction.
Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years.
Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years.
Automator is a front end to AppleScript. AppleScript has been in the Mac OS for 10 years.
Do I need to repeat myself further?
Damn, you'd need to be a PC user to make such a complaint. All you need to do is hold down the hazard light switch while pushing on the pedal for breaking functionality, it's that simple!
But Quartz Text and ClearType DO this. Building pixels out of adjacent sub pixels that might not actually be inside the same pixel.
Granted it isn't identical but what Samsung is doing is simply a limited variation of the sub pixel rendering concept.
You're missing the point: if the spec was made open (NOT the driver software), open source drivers could be developed increasing the demand for Infiniband products, reduce costs to users and Infiniband and improve compatibility.
...to see what image was the "protected" page. Search the source, it's a CSS background-image. There are two background-images: a thumbnail of the cover and the book page you are viewing.
All you need is a script to retrieve CSS background-images and *poof* goes Google copy protection. It was doomed from the start, anyway.
Here's a Python script to retrieve the "protected" images from a Google Print page. Enjoy. :-)
fglrx is used by R300 (that is, Radeon 9500 through 9800) and newer cards. Older cards can use the DRI driver included with X.
The lack of support for fglrx is understandable: it's unusable due to poor speed and bugs. If you want to game on Linux you really need an nVidia card (unfortunately).
At this point in time Armadillo has seperate orbital and sub-orbital projects, while the sub-orbital project uses methanol/peroxide the orbital project uses LOX.
o me/News?news_id=279
See here: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/H
Early days though.
Star Trek Geek #1: "We've got an antimatter containment breach!"
Star Trek Geek #2: "Today IS a good day to DIE!"
Star Trek Geeks: Hahahahahaha aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrggg...
Actually, that's an interesting idea.
A Google browser could be a minimal window (or no window at all, using XUL) which points at browser.google.com, which contains the interface.
This seperation of the interface from the engine would allow Google to rapidly improve the interface without having to get users to download updates.
Barto