It doesn't have any phone like capabilities. It is silent when taking pictures, and still takes better pictures than any mobile phone camera I've seen.
Even my old 35m camera with 10x zoom is nearly silent.
That start menu function is available if you install windows search on your XP machine - it's not integrated in the start menu (yet) but still lives on the taskbar.
Seems well behaved - works well on a Windows eee PC.
most of them think it's a way of unsubscribing from a list.
I guess that Gmail has been suffering under the same problem. Just yesterday morning I found the most recent Google Groups newsletter in my spam folder - I clicked on the Not Spam button.
Obviously even google don't automatically pass their email addresses as legit.
I haven't read it yet, but it definetly isn't spam.
This is also true of some of the newer LED automobile tailights.
For me, these new LED tailights are really distracting, as I see them flickering as they go past. I also find push-bike LED tailights that flash patterns annoying as hell.
I don't have any flicker problems with LED torches or traffic signals, just the rear LED's on cars and trucks.
The unfortunate flaw in your comment, is that with a universe that started from a simple point (like ours) then all locations in the universe are at the centre, no matter how far things have spread out.
Reminds me of a Babylon 5 quote. 'There is a hole in your mind'
I would have though that technology would have come much further with this way of working.
Back in 1994 I had a FM transmitter for my portable CD player that gave problem free listening to music long before I was able to afford a real CD player in my car.
My CD player and transmitter were sitting on the floor behind the passenger seat (as that seemed to cause the CD player to jump the least)
No need to worry about flattening batteries as it all ran off the cigarette lighter and provided an extra lighter connection for the player as well.
I've found that Wikipedia entries are fairly good in their usage of grammar. I suppose that the errors get noticed fairly quickly and corrected without too much fanfare.
Sounds like something that should be in geek code, and other tests of computer mastery.
Personally I've often thought of making a small box that sits on my desk that has the lights (and some connections) from the computer that's under the desk and a lot less accessible.
When India and China go to the moon could they please check on the flag we left up there? It's been almost fourty years now....
PM me when they get to Mars.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Mo on The Moon is the only celestial body that human beings have orbited or landed on. The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966.[1] The United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon, culminating in 6 landings between 1969 and 1972.
So...the Russians go to space first, got to the moon first, orbited it first in the 50's, and landed successfully in 66. The US (granted it was a massive feat) actually landed and returned multiple times in 69-72.
Have you been back recently to collect your flag?
If I were the next there I'd replace the your flag with an Australian one, as you obviously don't want it. But our government seems not too concerned about funding science to any decent amount.
And yes I know there's plans to go back, but there's going to be a competition. There's going to be a lot of stuff to watch in 2020.
Figure out why hot dogs come in packages of 8 whereas hot dog buns come in packages of 6.
Or my personal favourite:
Why do Tim Tams come in a packet of 11?
My guess is that with 11 being a prime number there is no whay that you can share them out evenly, so you have eat them yourself, or open another packet - not that this is a bad thing.
Took all day on Friday (still wasn't finished when I left for the weekend (long 4-day weekend too!). Of course my computer at work is just a PIII 700 or 800 MHz with 256 MB RAM.
I guess somthing is probably broken then.
I did my old laptop: PIII500, 256 Mb mem, took about 1 hour 40 minutes to upgrade most components. But there were some times in there that I had to intervene and stop the screen saver thrashing the drives during the process.
That didn't fix an AC/Battery problem that I've had for a while, so I then downloaded the LiveCD, and installed 6.06 from scratch in about 1 hour 20. Battery stuff works fine now. Just keep a record of the extra stuff that you've got on there so you can reload later.
Even bigger than you think. Current theory (speculation/whatever) says that the Earth-Moon system was created a few billion years ago when something the size of Mars smacked into the (pre) Earth. And it still wasn't destroyed - just changed a bit.
Of course, if that happened now even the bacteria would be *severely* upset about it.
I for one would be slightly pissed as well. This is my home too.
Just wait till after that Excel wizz has finished work with the company and moved on....
And then you clean out their account a few months later - delete that old spreadsheet that seems to contains hordes of un-labelled data. Only to have half the office suddenly say that they require that (in that location) database for their daily work and that some of the data now needs to be updated.
Fortunatly our resident programmer was able to (eventually) figure out all that the spreadsheet did and was required for. He then merged most of its functions into our own (now commented) applications.
Neither of us had any knowledge of how old that spreadsheet was, and how important it had become to the company. We had even more fun when we started going through some of the ancient access databases around the place - mostly written by people with next to no programming style though with some skills. Not a meaningful table or query name to be seen.... That was fun...
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Want to get away from the oppressive heat? Move to Victoria.
Not a good choice just at the moment. South Australia and Victoria have been dealing with 35-45 Celsius temps for the last few weeks.
The Library of Congress does a lot of that.
I just had a quick look and they seem to have the hard-copy side of things down pretty well, seeing as most (if not all) publications go there.
I'm sure that one day they'll get around to digitising most things.
Looks like the American Memory collection will contain gobs of information.
I'm sure that many things may end up in the Web Archives there as well.
What about my digital camera?
It doesn't have any phone like capabilities.
It is silent when taking pictures, and still takes better pictures than any mobile phone camera I've seen.
Even my old 35m camera with 10x zoom is nearly silent.
This will be great, you know when you have download a movie from usenet and its encoded in ANCII art.
You only had to ask.
VLC Media Player can set the output device to be ASCII text.
You can probably send that stream to a file.
That start menu function is available if you install windows search on your XP machine - it's not integrated in the start menu (yet) but still lives on the taskbar.
Seems well behaved - works well on a Windows eee PC.
most of them think it's a way of unsubscribing from a list.
I guess that Gmail has been suffering under the same problem. Just yesterday morning I found the most recent Google Groups newsletter in my spam folder - I clicked on the Not Spam button.
Obviously even google don't automatically pass their email addresses as legit.
I haven't read it yet, but it definetly isn't spam.
This is also true of some of the newer LED automobile tailights.
For me, these new LED tailights are really distracting, as I see them flickering as they go past. I also find push-bike LED tailights that flash patterns annoying as hell.
I don't have any flicker problems with LED torches or traffic signals, just the rear LED's on cars and trucks.
I would certainly care if the megaton hydrogen bomb detonated above my city was originally intended for a different country!
You wouldn't care for very long though.
I mod randomly.
The dice have decided- you get 'Insightful'. Congratulations.
Pity that you then posted non-anonymously, as now your insightful rating has been removed.
>>Is there a firewall that blocks the really disgusting stuff, but not the more soft of the
>hard core?
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>Yes. More info here.
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Sorry, but it didn't work.
Not that I can see anything much at all after viewing that image. (it was goats.ex)
The unfortunate flaw in your comment, is that with a universe that started from a simple point (like ours) then all locations in the universe are at the centre, no matter how far things have spread out.
Reminds me of a Babylon 5 quote.
'There is a hole in your mind'
Because slashdot isn't well known for "breaking" news. It's an aggregator of news that has already been published and sourced.
Though slashdot is well known for breaking sites that happen to have breaking news.
I would have though that technology would have come much further with this way of working.
Back in 1994 I had a FM transmitter for my portable CD player that gave problem free listening to music long before I was able to afford a real CD player in my car.
My CD player and transmitter were sitting on the floor behind the passenger seat (as that seemed to cause the CD player to jump the least)
No need to worry about flattening batteries as it all ran off the cigarette lighter and provided an extra lighter connection for the player as well.
These grammar debates do help some products along.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_nazi/
I've found that Wikipedia entries are fairly good in their usage of grammar.
I suppose that the errors get noticed fairly quickly and corrected without too much fanfare.
re: I like bu.ms
Not a great comment I must say - especially with the fairly heavy male readership of this site.
I'm more of a leg man myself.
I have actually paid extra for more lights.
Sounds like something that should be in geek code, and other tests of computer mastery.
Personally I've often thought of making a small box that sits on my desk that has the lights (and some connections) from the computer that's under the desk and a lot less accessible.
In Alaska, the tunnel digs you!
In Alaska, the Russians dig you!
How did the pilot know how far away the debris was?
I would assume that most airline pilot would be better than Joe-average at estimating distances (in the air) correctly.
When India and China go to the moon could they please check on the flag we left up there? It's been almost fourty years now....
o on
PM me when they get to Mars.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_M
The Moon is the only celestial body that human beings have orbited or landed on. The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966.[1] The United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon, culminating in 6 landings between 1969 and 1972.
So...the Russians go to space first, got to the moon first, orbited it first in the 50's, and landed successfully in 66. The US (granted it was a massive feat) actually landed and returned multiple times in 69-72.
Have you been back recently to collect your flag?
If I were the next there I'd replace the your flag with an Australian one, as you obviously don't want it. But our government seems not too concerned about funding science to any decent amount.
And yes I know there's plans to go back, but there's going to be a competition. There's going to be a lot of stuff to watch in 2020.
No. What kind of password would an idiot put on his luggage? It's a baggage claim, remember?
So it's '12345'?
All credit to Spaceballs.
12345? That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
Figure out why hot dogs come in packages of 8 whereas hot dog buns come in packages of 6.
Or my personal favourite:
Why do Tim Tams come in a packet of 11?
My guess is that with 11 being a prime number there is no whay that you can share them out evenly, so you have eat them yourself, or open another packet - not that this is a bad thing.
Took all day on Friday (still wasn't finished when I left for the weekend (long 4-day weekend too!). Of course my computer at work is just a PIII 700 or 800 MHz with 256 MB RAM.
I guess somthing is probably broken then.
I did my old laptop: PIII500, 256 Mb mem, took about 1 hour 40 minutes to upgrade most components.
But there were some times in there that I had to intervene and stop the screen saver thrashing the drives during the process.
That didn't fix an AC/Battery problem that I've had for a while, so I then downloaded the LiveCD, and installed 6.06 from scratch in about 1 hour 20. Battery stuff works fine now. Just keep a record of the extra stuff that you've got on there so you can reload later.
Basically painless.
Even bigger than you think. Current theory (speculation/whatever) says that the Earth-Moon system was created a few billion years ago when something the size of Mars smacked into the (pre) Earth. And it still wasn't destroyed - just changed a bit.
Of course, if that happened now even the bacteria would be *severely* upset about it.
I for one would be slightly pissed as well.
This is my home too.
Just wait till after that Excel wizz has finished work with the company and moved on....
And then you clean out their account a few months later - delete that old spreadsheet that seems to contains hordes of un-labelled data. Only to have half the office suddenly say that they require that (in that location) database for their daily work and that some of the data now needs to be updated.
Fortunatly our resident programmer was able to (eventually) figure out all that the spreadsheet did and was required for. He then merged most of its functions into our own (now commented) applications.
Neither of us had any knowledge of how old that spreadsheet was, and how important it had become to the company. We had even more fun when we started going through some of the ancient access databases around the place - mostly written by people with next to no programming style though with some skills. Not a meaningful table or query name to be seen.... That was fun...
Gmail is still invite only, but they say that is to stop spammers from signing up heaps of accounts.
You can (providing you've got a mobile phone) get an account without any friends - Google SMS you an invite code.
https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1