Don't forget that includes the price of 32MB ram. You're getting mobo, cpu, ram and their (non-free?) software in that price. Their price works out to about $1050NZ (maybe 1100) and I paid a similar price for my mobo + 2 celerons + adapter cards + 128M memory. Not really all that bad (though still expensive), but then they're probably selling in low volumes.
It's about time the people in power recognise that the internet transcends social and cultural barriers.
Oh, the PTB recognise it all right. That's the problem. They're fighting the transcendence of the net tooth and nail. Anything that bypasses the imposition of their rules is a "bad thing(TM)" and must be fought. Why else do you think it took this long before they started trying to pass such laws? They've only recently begun realising how empowering the internet is for the common person and they do not like it.
If that's the case, then what do you need a law for? From the sounds of it, your kids are perfectly safe and don't need a law that will adversly affect other and fail to protect them anyway. I have kids of my own and I am concerned about there safety, but I take that into my own hands, thank you very much. The government (any government, not just the US) can go jump in the lake.
Oh, I wasn't saying that awards in general are irellevant, just awards that don't actually award merit. That is my problem with the academy awards. Not the concept of them, just the implementation.
So, has the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just condemned itself to obsolescense? Not that it wasn't really obsolete to begin with (does an oscar really matter when it's rigged anyway?)
AMPAS can keep their awards to themselves. Long live the independent film maker!
if you can `see' it, you can analyse it's spectrum. Distance is irrelevant. This is how they know the chemical composition of stars many light years away, and this could is bigger than any star. It also has many stars behind it (if not in it) providing a nice backlight for spectrographic measurments.
simple: the gas cloud is a bazillion miles across:)
It's not really that difficult. If you can detect the could in the first place, you can get a spectrograph of the radiation coming from it. All chemical compounds have a unique spectrographic fingerprint (though they might sometimes get lost in the noise of other compounds) and thus can be easily detected.
This is how helium was first discovered: somebody took a spectrogram of the sun and found some interesting spectral lines in it, applied some theory or other, and came up with helium.
It's interesting to note that the scientists were talking about the building blocks of life seem to be being formed before the planets that host that life. Kind of makes you wonder if there are some interesting life forms living in the gas cloud independent of any one planet or star.
Maybe me fortifying netscape improved things, but I do get lockups occasionally, but always for three reasons: failed DNS lookups (recovers), slow to render pages (gets there eventually), and flash blocking on the sound device (stopping xmms lets it continue).
Though I believe everyone that says netscape locks up/crashes on them, I'm always puzzled because it doesn't happen to me.
yes, but it's still more spherical than a billiard ball according to my source (fifth form (gr11) chem teacher). Even a 100km bulge is less than 1.6%.
Interesting thing: the southern hemisphere is actually bigger than than northern hemisphere: the earth is slightly pear shaped (not so you'ld notice by eye:)
Try disabling javascript as well. That's what I do and netscape almost never crashes. I have it going for days at a time, shutting it down periodicly because of the memory leeks.
Mind you, I don't stray terribly far fram slashdot. slashdot, freshmeat, lwn, linux.org.uk and sourceforge are my main net abodes, though I do visit many of the sites linked of slashdot and I will occasionally go on wild goose chases via google (mind you, google tends to tame them a little:). But netscape crash on me? Very rare. And this is with fortified rh6.1 netscape + flash.
Actually, I've heard the Earth is smoother and more spherical than a billiard ball, so yeah, those bumps are pretty insignificant (even Mt Everest to Mariana is nothing: what, 25km/6370km?). However, as the above poster stated, even the slighted deformity serves as a stress concentration point. In fact, that's how glass cutters work: the score they make on the glass concentrates the bending stress to that line and so the glass breaks (mostly) cleany along the score. Similar thing for a super dense star core:)
Actually, from what I've read (ieee specturm, can't remember issue), the FAA has nothing (or little) to do with the cell phone ban on airplanes. The FCC beat them too it:). Basicly, as cell phones are designed to be operated from the ground, they're a problem in the sky. They wind up `flooding' several cells and thus cause grief for the cellular network. However, if the FCC hadn't banned cell phones at altitude (they're even banned in a hot air baloon:), the FAA would have for the reasons you've stated.
Yeah, I miss my external modem (it died in a lightning strike:( ). I like the lights too, but if someone doesn't like them and doesn't want to go chopping wires in their case, just cover the lights with tape.
Nice and opaque. put it over the lights. No more blinding LEDs. Doesn't match the case color? Black spraypaint:) or get some of the colored electricians tape. Just as opaque.
Another nice thing about lego: in general, it's repairable. Nomal model glue works very nicely with lego, as does super glue. This is, of course, if there isn't too much bending involved in the breakage.
Lego is also shaveable and sandable, so if that piece is bent beyond repair, get a sharp knife and some sandpaper and presto: new, custom made pieces:)
Well, as impulse (I) is I = m dv dt (mass times delta V times delta time), any Newtonian drive can be called an impulse drive. (note: I may have some of the symbols wrong, but I believe the basics are right)
That said,/. had an article on the possibility of warp drives last year (sorry, no url. try a search).
Do you have any idea how many gigs a devel box can consume? Especially when you have more than a few developers on the same machine. There are over 15 developers here (I'm not sure of the exact count even though I'm the sysadmin: not 100% certain who does what, and I lost track several developers ago:), and when each one tries to us 2G each (largish C++ trees, and then the.o files...), 18G doesn't go far. We've now got around 50G on the devel box, but I don't really think that's going to last all that long.
IMO, a devel box needs more space than a production box (especially in a team environment).
With something like this, testing takes minutes. "Does the saved uid/gid get set properly?" "No, oops, back to the editor", "Yes, cool, done". Bugs that are cause by a slight oversight are trivial to fix and test.
Yes, I know that bugs that are caused by design issues take weeks or months to test (hence the long 2.3.x cycle), but this is not one of those.
My 386 (yes, 386) linux box got cracked 2 weeks ago, but I believe it was trough bind, not something in the kernel (when the cracker kills and removes bind, it kinda makes you wonder:). He also removed my portmap bin as well (but when I recovered the system, I removed the package entirely:). From what I can tell, the Linux kernel is pretty secure, but some of the apps (and this goes for all unix variants) leave a little to be desired.
After I got over my initial outrage (and head->wall slamming), I was actually laughing. The guy was most definitly just a script kiddie (using lames scripts to boot). Though I don't really know how he got in, my logs were intact as were the his shell history files, though the script did try to handle that, but bash keeps the current history in memory, thus rm.~/.bash_history doesn't work to well:). AFAICT, he only left some back doors (which I fixed), and this was after a pretty thourough check of my system (though I am definitly going to look into something like tripwire as not everything is in the rpm database).
Linux isn't perfect, but I am much more willing to trust it than OpenBSD just due to the number of eyes looking over the source.
Most modern bioses have password protection. Mind you, it may not be the most secure and access is often only a jumper pull away, but it's better than nothing (not that I use it).
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Don't forget that includes the price of 32MB ram. You're getting mobo, cpu, ram and their (non-free?) software in that price. Their price works out to about $1050NZ (maybe 1100) and I paid a similar price for my mobo + 2 celerons + adapter cards + 128M memory. Not really all that bad (though still expensive), but then they're probably selling in low volumes.
If that's the case, then what do you need a law for? From the sounds of it, your kids are perfectly safe and don't need a law that will adversly affect other and fail to protect them anyway. I have kids of my own and I am concerned about there safety, but I take that into my own hands, thank you very much. The government (any government, not just the US) can go jump in the lake.
Oh, I wasn't saying that awards in general are irellevant, just awards that don't actually award merit. That is my problem with the academy awards. Not the concept of them, just the implementation.
AMPAS can keep their awards to themselves. Long live the independent film maker!
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if you can `see' it, you can analyse it's spectrum. Distance is irrelevant. This is how they know the chemical composition of stars many light years away, and this could is bigger than any star. It also has many stars behind it (if not in it) providing a nice backlight for spectrographic measurments.
It's not really that difficult. If you can detect the could in the first place, you can get a spectrograph of the radiation coming from it. All chemical compounds have a unique spectrographic fingerprint (though they might sometimes get lost in the noise of other compounds) and thus can be easily detected.
This is how helium was first discovered: somebody took a spectrogram of the sun and found some interesting spectral lines in it, applied some theory or other, and came up with helium.
It's interesting to note that the scientists were talking about the building blocks of life seem to be being formed before the planets that host that life. Kind of makes you wonder if there are some interesting life forms living in the gas cloud independent of any one planet or star.
Though I believe everyone that says netscape locks up/crashes on them, I'm always puzzled because it doesn't happen to me.
Interesting thing: the southern hemisphere is actually bigger than than northern hemisphere: the earth is slightly pear shaped (not so you'ld notice by eye:)
Mind you, I don't stray terribly far fram slashdot. slashdot, freshmeat, lwn, linux.org.uk and sourceforge are my main net abodes, though I do visit many of the sites linked of slashdot and I will occasionally go on wild goose chases via google (mind you, google tends to tame them a little:). But netscape crash on me? Very rare. And this is with fortified rh6.1 netscape + flash.
Actually, I've heard the Earth is smoother and more spherical than a billiard ball, so yeah, those bumps are pretty insignificant (even Mt Everest to Mariana is nothing: what, 25km/6370km?). However, as the above poster stated, even the slighted deformity serves as a stress concentration point. In fact, that's how glass cutters work: the score they make on the glass concentrates the bending stress to that line and so the glass breaks (mostly) cleany along the score. Similar thing for a super dense star core :)
bah, where's the fun in that? But yeah, I thought of that after posting :/
Actually, from what I've read (ieee specturm, can't remember issue), the FAA has nothing (or little) to do with the cell phone ban on airplanes. The FCC beat them too it:). Basicly, as cell phones are designed to be operated from the ground, they're a problem in the sky. They wind up `flooding' several cells and thus cause grief for the cellular network. However, if the FCC hadn't banned cell phones at altitude (they're even banned in a hot air baloon:), the FAA would have for the reasons you've stated.
Yeah, I miss my external modem (it died in a lightning strike :( ). I like the lights too, but if someone doesn't like them and doesn't want to go chopping wires in their case, just cover the lights with tape.
Nice and opaque. put it over the lights. No more blinding LEDs. Doesn't match the case color? Black spraypaint :) or get some of the colored electricians tape. Just as opaque.
Hey, I'm a Canadian, and I found it funny!
Lego is also shaveable and sandable, so if that piece is bent beyond repair, get a sharp knife and some sandpaper and presto: new, custom made pieces :)
That said, /. had an article on the possibility of warp drives last year (sorry, no url. try a search).
IMO, a devel box needs more space than a production box (especially in a team environment).
For female sysadmis: s/male pronouns/female pronouns/ (don't blame me, english sucks:)
Yes, I know that bugs that are caused by design issues take weeks or months to test (hence the long 2.3.x cycle), but this is not one of those.
After I got over my initial outrage (and head->wall slamming), I was actually laughing. The guy was most definitly just a script kiddie (using lames scripts to boot). Though I don't really know how he got in, my logs were intact as were the his shell history files, though the script did try to handle that, but bash keeps the current history in memory, thus rm .~/.bash_history doesn't work to well :). AFAICT, he only left some back doors (which I fixed), and this was after a pretty thourough check of my system (though I am definitly going to look into something like tripwire as not everything is in the rpm database).
Linux isn't perfect, but I am much more willing to trust it than OpenBSD just due to the number of eyes looking over the source.
Most modern bioses have password protection. Mind you, it may not be the most secure and access is often only a jumper pull away, but it's better than nothing (not that I use it).