I spent a couple years in Antarctica: clearest sky in the world by very far (see recent/. article about ridge A). When I was at Dome C, we would go lay down in the snow and watch the stars, never mind the sub -70C temperatures. The stars didn't twinkle at all (no turbulence) and appeared painted on a black ceiling. The main problem was getting back inside before you were frozen solid to the ground.
I had my own telescope, but my pitiful attempts at seeing anything were thwarted by the vexatious cold and my own incompetence at astronomy.
Dude. You're in Antarctica and it's September. You've got bigger problems than Slashdot moderation.
I'm not there right now. My pages refer to my previous missions.
Are you receiving resupply yet? Mobile Internet service must really suck down there. What kind of bandwidth do you get? It may interest you to know that it only gets 11C colder on Mars than it does there.
Supplies won't arrive before november. No mobile, although I think they should set up a tower, if only for local GSM use. Bandwidth was limited (in 2005 but I don't think it's changed) to two connections a day for email. Irridium throuput was abysmal. Avg temp at Dome C is actually the same than on Mars (-53C).
Moderation annoys me now and then, but if a moderation is really abusive you can just follow up with another post that's topical and interesting, and mention by-the-way that the parent was abusively modded and another moderator will fix it.
Apparently it works !
Awesome pics on your website by the way. I've got that bookmarked now. Probably beat up your webserver with wget this weekend building a local mirror.
Thanks. It survived a slashdoting once, so go ahead.
The answer to your question is: be patient. [...]
Well, I wasn't... Maybe when I upgrade my wife's phone, I'll have an excuse to get her a Linux phone to play with. I'm a little bummed that I can't get a bash prompt on Android, although the platform works great. Trying to compile my first 'hello world' right now.
What it boils down to is that the system needs to know how long it will take to run a program on itself and how long it will take to spin it off into another thread.
Computational theorists may say that this is the unsolvable halting problem, but more pragmatic approaches do exist. (Open)Mosix a decade ago would simply compile statistics on running threads: how much CPU/memory/bandwidth/disk they use per unit of time and move them to a better node. The load balancing algorithm wasn't that complicated and worked.
I don't know why I got moderated troll when both replies basically confirmed what I wrote. It's good to have apt-whatever to install any linux app under the sun, but is there a separate distribution channel for mobile-optimized apps ? That was the essence of the question.
First and at the risk of sounding like flamebait, if you are an 'advanced user', you don't use excel, but a real statistics or analysis package ('R', mathlab, etc). I figured that one out in, oh say 1995.
And if you are an 'advanced excel user' who uses keyboard shortcuts, why do you need the frigging ribbon for ? You can figure out the shortcut from the menu (it's written), but not from the ribbon. Quick, what's the ribbon icon for 'Properties', describe it to me, and its location on the screen. That's right, it changes position all the time depending on context. Better than saying "select menu Tools > Properties" ? I don't think so.
Let me say this loud and clear: a menu that changes depending on context like the Office 2007 shit is the one reason I removed Office from the Dell it came with and installed OpenOffice instead. I do not understand what problem it's supposed to solve, and it forces you to search the entire GUI every time you want to do something. Do. Not. Want.
I've had a touchscreen phone for a week and I must say I hate the greasy finger marks and I hate the sensation of swiping my finders on its surface. I spend half my time wiping the screen and the rest of the time wiping my fingers on my pants so as to leave a few marks as possible.
What I don't understand is why they don't make a tablet with the keyboard on the back, meant to be used with your 4 fingers while your thumb holds the front. Make the keys visible on the screen so that you don't need to turn it over to see them. After little training it'll be natural, and you get full screen + double real estate + real keyboard. That's a winning solution.
The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods.
Which was exactly my conclusion last week when I chose an HTC Hero (Android) over a Nokia N900 (Linux). In one case you have a distribution channel for many specialized apps, in the other case you have... What,./configure && make & sudo make install ? Or do they come up with yet another distribution channel after rpm, deb, etc ?
I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but are there networked screens that work on Linux ? Usable both as a secondary screen on a charger/holder and in bed on battery and touchscreen. Do they go through the available wifi or through some special wireless (like keyboards and mice) ?
I recently read an article which compared the lifetime earnings of someone who earns an average amount with a high school degree versus someone who earns an average amount with a Bachelors degree.
Yeah, I was really disgusted recently when I saw that working with (good) electricians and plumbers who were younger than me (in their early 30s) and already had two paid houses and worked only 6 months a year while I lived in a crummy rental appt with yeast on the walls and an unstable job in research.
At the start of the tags on slashdot, when a question was asked in an article, you could see the consensus in the tags as either 'yes' or 'no' without even bothering to read the comments. I think it's wrong that they took the simple tags out: it's exactly what they are for and you don't even need the CowboyNeal option.
Good thing of that. When my car was held hostage by crooked italian cops, I signed 'fuck you' in a different language on the check in order to get it back at the pound. It never passed though the bank, which makes me wonder if the cops/mafia association still accepts checks.
Huh? Absurd requirements (if you want the display to be fast, don't use e-ink, that negates the purpose). What you describe is basically called... a TV.
I think the very first color e-ink model is hitting the market only now, and its colors are very limited so far. I'm eagerly waiting for the day I can read comics on an E-Reader.
Absolutely. Most sane humans will read it and think it's parable... But then who gets to decide what parts are parables and which ones are to be taken literally ? Hence the fighting starts.
For all we know, the vacuum of space might just have a slight red-tint to it, causing this "red-shift" that makes us think the universe is expanding. It's not like we have rulers or anything.
A red-tint is completely different from a redshift. The rulers are the hydrogen (and other elements) spikes in absorption spectra received from distant starts/galaxies/quasars... But you are right that this dark matter debate is one of the most mysterious in science today. We are in a similar position as with the 'unexplainable' results of the Michelson-Morley experiments over a century ago. It will probably get solved by a guy saying: "Look, it's really simple, just consider this..." like Einstein did with "the speed of light is fixed, no matter the referential... and here are the consequences"
A major feature of the English language is its ability to incorporate foreign words and phrases in a useful way
Can't all languages do that ? The french academy is always battling the use of (mostly) english words in french because they are so easy to use and integrate.
Battlefield Earth was an entertaining book. Not a masterpiece and not very deep, but I did like it. The other stuff I've read from him made me want to pull my teeth off instead.
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I had my own telescope, but my pitiful attempts at seeing anything were thwarted by the vexatious cold and my own incompetence at astronomy.
Dude. You're in Antarctica and it's September. You've got bigger problems than Slashdot moderation.
I'm not there right now. My pages refer to my previous missions.
Are you receiving resupply yet? Mobile Internet service must really suck down there. What kind of bandwidth do you get? It may interest you to know that it only gets 11C colder on Mars than it does there.
Supplies won't arrive before november. No mobile, although I think they should set up a tower, if only for local GSM use. Bandwidth was limited (in 2005 but I don't think it's changed) to two connections a day for email. Irridium throuput was abysmal. Avg temp at Dome C is actually the same than on Mars (-53C).
Moderation annoys me now and then, but if a moderation is really abusive you can just follow up with another post that's topical and interesting, and mention by-the-way that the parent was abusively modded and another moderator will fix it.
Apparently it works !
Awesome pics on your website by the way. I've got that bookmarked now. Probably beat up your webserver with wget this weekend building a local mirror.
Thanks. It survived a slashdoting once, so go ahead.
The answer to your question is: be patient. [...]
Well, I wasn't... Maybe when I upgrade my wife's phone, I'll have an excuse to get her a Linux phone to play with. I'm a little bummed that I can't get a bash prompt on Android, although the platform works great. Trying to compile my first 'hello world' right now.
See if you can get the tricores and enable the fourth one in the bios with a minimal underclocking (2% in my case). Much cheaper.
What it boils down to is that the system needs to know how long it will take to run a program on itself and how long it will take to spin it off into another thread.
Computational theorists may say that this is the unsolvable halting problem, but more pragmatic approaches do exist. (Open)Mosix a decade ago would simply compile statistics on running threads: how much CPU/memory/bandwidth/disk they use per unit of time and move them to a better node. The load balancing algorithm wasn't that complicated and worked.
I don't know why I got moderated troll when both replies basically confirmed what I wrote. It's good to have apt-whatever to install any linux app under the sun, but is there a separate distribution channel for mobile-optimized apps ? That was the essence of the question.
And if you are an 'advanced excel user' who uses keyboard shortcuts, why do you need the frigging ribbon for ? You can figure out the shortcut from the menu (it's written), but not from the ribbon. Quick, what's the ribbon icon for 'Properties', describe it to me, and its location on the screen. That's right, it changes position all the time depending on context. Better than saying "select menu Tools > Properties" ? I don't think so.
Let me say this loud and clear: a menu that changes depending on context like the Office 2007 shit is the one reason I removed Office from the Dell it came with and installed OpenOffice instead. I do not understand what problem it's supposed to solve, and it forces you to search the entire GUI every time you want to do something. Do. Not. Want.
What I don't understand is why they don't make a tablet with the keyboard on the back, meant to be used with your 4 fingers while your thumb holds the front. Make the keys visible on the screen so that you don't need to turn it over to see them. After little training it'll be natural, and you get full screen + double real estate + real keyboard. That's a winning solution.
The main selling point seems to be that it can run regular Linux apps. Which of course you would not want to do in the first place in devices with such a constrained screen size and different input methods.
Which was exactly my conclusion last week when I chose an HTC Hero (Android) over a Nokia N900 (Linux). In one case you have a distribution channel for many specialized apps, in the other case you have... What, ./configure && make & sudo make install ? Or do they come up with yet another distribution channel after rpm, deb, etc ?
2nd time in two days that I get compared to a poetson slashdot... Must be some kind of trend.
I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but are there networked screens that work on Linux ? Usable both as a secondary screen on a charger/holder and in bed on battery and touchscreen. Do they go through the available wifi or through some special wireless (like keyboards and mice) ?
Extend functionality to provide automatic electroshock to BRAT moving beyond configured away-from-home radius
This has existed for dogs for about a decade...
I recently read an article which compared the lifetime earnings of someone who earns an average amount with a high school degree versus someone who earns an average amount with a Bachelors degree.
Yeah, I was really disgusted recently when I saw that working with (good) electricians and plumbers who were younger than me (in their early 30s) and already had two paid houses and worked only 6 months a year while I lived in a crummy rental appt with yeast on the walls and an unstable job in research.
No.
At the start of the tags on slashdot, when a question was asked in an article, you could see the consensus in the tags as either 'yes' or 'no' without even bothering to read the comments. I think it's wrong that they took the simple tags out: it's exactly what they are for and you don't even need the CowboyNeal option.
I suspect you've never seen beautiful handwriting, or its effect on the addressee.
Beautiful... but still illegible...
A legal signature doesn't need to be anything
Good thing of that. When my car was held hostage by crooked italian cops, I signed 'fuck you' in a different language on the check in order to get it back at the pound. It never passed though the bank, which makes me wonder if the cops/mafia association still accepts checks.
I got my own balloon pics. It wasn't in space but in a pretty interesting place anyway.
Huh? Absurd requirements (if you want the display to be fast, don't use e-ink, that negates the purpose). What you describe is basically called... a TV.
I think the very first color e-ink model is hitting the market only now, and its colors are very limited so far. I'm eagerly waiting for the day I can read comics on an E-Reader.
You have a exosexeton, your wife has one. And you let them run at each other while you watch TV shows in peace...
I just put "No" under sex
On written forms I alternate between "yes please", "pink", "big enough" and a few other variants.
Absolutely. Most sane humans will read it and think it's parable... But then who gets to decide what parts are parables and which ones are to be taken literally ? Hence the fighting starts.
For all we know, the vacuum of space might just have a slight red-tint to it, causing this "red-shift" that makes us think the universe is expanding. It's not like we have rulers or anything.
A red-tint is completely different from a redshift. The rulers are the hydrogen (and other elements) spikes in absorption spectra received from distant starts/galaxies/quasars... But you are right that this dark matter debate is one of the most mysterious in science today. We are in a similar position as with the 'unexplainable' results of the Michelson-Morley experiments over a century ago. It will probably get solved by a guy saying: "Look, it's really simple, just consider this..." like Einstein did with "the speed of light is fixed, no matter the referential... and here are the consequences"
A major feature of the English language is its ability to incorporate foreign words and phrases in a useful way
Can't all languages do that ? The french academy is always battling the use of (mostly) english words in french because they are so easy to use and integrate.
His books were godawful.
Battlefield Earth was an entertaining book. Not a masterpiece and not very deep, but I did like it. The other stuff I've read from him made me want to pull my teeth off instead.