BTW, don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of shuttle. They are way too expensive to fly and they require too much time care between flights. A replacement would be nice. Upgrading them doesn't make much sense though.
Why should they upgrade? For playing quake on orbit? Mechanics of Shuttle control has to be simple; it goes thru several, totally distinct from aerodynamic flight modes. What works when going up on a solid booster may be very detremental when going down at hypersonic speeds. It has to be a flying brick, with as few control surfaces, moveable parts and engines as possible. What would a powerful computer do when a much less powerful one is quite sufficient to control all parameters of the system?
One may argue that ability to play quake or conducting a data rich experiment is really important up there, then they should bring a laptop. Weight is an issue, but not serious enough to justify using shuttle's flight control systems for auxilary work.
Absorb or absorb not, there is no reflect
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The light that is neither transmitted nor reflected is absorbed. If it is totally opaque too it has to be also a good solar heating surface. That said, one might be a very good absorber at particular wavelengths, but transparent or reflective at others. The cavities should act as a blackbody and operate at a wide range of frequencies though.
Read the Challenger documents. The problem was taken to the attention of upper management in the form of "too cold, can't send" with no mention of O rings. Upper management knew at what temperatures they could safely send the shuttle, and disregarded that. The inability of O rings to function below certain temperature should not and does not concern management; it is a concern to those who rate the Shuttle for operating conditions. An entirely different malfunction could have occured and the end result would be just the same.
"Should I tell you that you should care about 9/11 when ten times that amount had died elsewhere?"
Obviously that is "Should I tell you that you shouldn't care about 9/11 when ten times that amount had died elsewhere?"
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why are the seven astronauts so important?
They are not. They are just over one billionth of world population, which will all surely die. They would have died anyway, someday, probably not later than 50 years into future. So I don't care much about those seven people. And when I do, I envy them, 'cause they have been where I want to be.
I, and many of my friends, mourn for the loss of the shuttle, as in "the thing that can fly into space and carry people with it too." I would be more distressed compared to when two mars probes were lost back a few years ago had the shuttle been any other shuttle. But Columbia was what fueled my childhood imagination, it was whose first flight I watched in awe...
Whatever. It is sad.
Let me ask you another question, you probably went ape over 9/11 events. Terrorism killed ten times that amount in my country in the last decade, yet you didn't even notice. Should I tell you that you should care about 9/11 when ten times that amount had died elsewhere? Does that make any sense at all?
The solution is to buy it used. Microsoft makes NO money from used sales.
NO! The real solution is buying used Apples. That way, MS neither makes money from the used sale nor made money from the original one. That will surely make MS go under.
Comparing Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.2.1 w/o quick launch and considering memory use with blank pages only, Moz's tab handling is slightly better while Phoenix beats Moz at both base mem usage and memory per new browser windows.
Spoken language is not any more expressive than a sign langauge. If the chimps had all intellectual capabilities of a three year old, I would expect them to perform as well as a three year communicating a thought with a sign language.
That doesn't happen. Their overall language development resembles that of humans', just faster and ending sooner. Chimps start *much* faster than human babies at picking up words and rech two-word stage earlier. But sometime well before their first birthday, they stall. They never get past two word stage, which is when babies say stuff like "papa nice", "sour apple" and when "sour apple" is synonymous with "apple sour."
Since stall occurs so early in the development, it is unclear whether it is really faster human development that stalls earlier or just an ability to learn arbitrary mappings between things and symbols and have little (perhaps nothing) else in common with human language use and acqusition. I, as should be evident by now, think it is the same process with a more limited cognitive capability. Other do claim otherwise. None of the groups have conclusive evidence either way.
So my take on your question is chimps are not smart enough to do that and the answer is never. If they were capable, they would be speaking and we would have known the answer as "now."
OTOH, if there are really language centers, genes etc. that are solely responsible for language, independent from general intelligence level and cognitive capabilities, then it should be possible to bred a transgenetic monkey you can speak to. That would also be highly unethical, so probably noone would ever bred one. And the answer is, once again, never.
Define "universe." I might prove that X exists once I know what it is you mean by X. Even when I get all solipsistical (is that a word?), I'm pretty sure universe exists because my definition of universe is capable of being one and the same entity as me. Let's hear yours.
They need to test with both new and old x86 OSs to see whether their cpu's are really compatible. Slackware is the oldest mainstream linux distro around so it makes sense to test older linux compatibility with an old slackware.
The number of burned CDs were actually 22000. But some were overburned, a few as high as 800MB/cd, which is very uncommon. Also those 10000DVDs were actually 15000CDs but they were high quality divx rips, so essentially they were DVDs.
And those three individuals were actually fifty four guys but they have rights equivalent of three normal citizens.
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If I got your implied assumption "Playboy is porn" right, surely you are not screwed up. Infact, you are too pure.
Some versions of Linux are easier to install than Windows. RedHat 8, Mandrake 9 and Knoppinx (to name a few) work out-of-the-box for me... Getting a full system up and running with apps is far easer and much faster with Linux.
While neither RH8 nor LM9 work out of the box for me (I've never tried knoppinx. IIRC it wasn't a distro proper anyway.)
It used to be that no linux distro worked out of the box for anybody. It used to be that one had to tweak much heavily to get a linux system working. So I think while "linux doesn't work without heavy tweaking!" guys need an update on the current state of linux distros, that update shouldn't include statements such as "getting a full system up and running with apps is far easer and much faster with Linux." That is probably not true for majority and definetly not true for everybody.
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BTW, don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of shuttle. They are way too expensive to fly and they require too much time care between flights. A replacement would be nice. Upgrading them doesn't make much sense though.
One may argue that ability to play quake or conducting a data rich experiment is really important up there, then they should bring a laptop. Weight is an issue, but not serious enough to justify using shuttle's flight control systems for auxilary work.
The light that is neither transmitted nor reflected is absorbed. If it is totally opaque too it has to be also a good solar heating surface. That said, one might be a very good absorber at particular wavelengths, but transparent or reflective at others. The cavities should act as a blackbody and operate at a wide range of frequencies though.
Read the Challenger documents. The problem was taken to the attention of upper management in the form of "too cold, can't send" with no mention of O rings. Upper management knew at what temperatures they could safely send the shuttle, and disregarded that. The inability of O rings to function below certain temperature should not and does not concern management; it is a concern to those who rate the Shuttle for operating conditions. An entirely different malfunction could have occured and the end result would be just the same.
The subject line was not intentional, I should have noticed. Sorry about that, I'm not THAT insensitive.
Obviously that is "Should I tell you that you shouldn't care about 9/11 when ten times that amount had died elsewhere?"
They are not. They are just over one billionth of world population, which will all surely die. They would have died anyway, someday, probably not later than 50 years into future. So I don't care much about those seven people. And when I do, I envy them, 'cause they have been where I want to be.
I, and many of my friends, mourn for the loss of the shuttle, as in "the thing that can fly into space and carry people with it too." I would be more distressed compared to when two mars probes were lost back a few years ago had the shuttle been any other shuttle. But Columbia was what fueled my childhood imagination, it was whose first flight I watched in awe...
Whatever. It is sad.
Let me ask you another question, you probably went ape over 9/11 events. Terrorism killed ten times that amount in my country in the last decade, yet you didn't even notice. Should I tell you that you should care about 9/11 when ten times that amount had died elsewhere? Does that make any sense at all?
Don't feel alone, my computer is P II 300 MHz or better too.
NO! The real solution is buying used Apples. That way, MS neither makes money from the used sale nor made money from the original one. That will surely make MS go under.
For best results, move your head in harmony with controller and look really nervous.
Comparing Phoenix 0.5 and Mozilla 1.2.1 w/o quick launch and considering memory use with blank pages only, Moz's tab handling is slightly better while Phoenix beats Moz at both base mem usage and memory per new browser windows.
2- Open source
3- Profitable.
There is NO profitable completely open source business model. Noone ever came up with one. If you have one, do share it.
I would know my woody isn't signed anyway, no problem there. But I'd rather have bios telling me my new ArkLinux 4.2 is really signed or not.
Since I read about the kid on internet, I didn't need your proof to know he exists. Thanks anyway.
I didn't think so.
That doesn't happen. Their overall language development resembles that of humans', just faster and ending sooner. Chimps start *much* faster than human babies at picking up words and rech two-word stage earlier. But sometime well before their first birthday, they stall. They never get past two word stage, which is when babies say stuff like "papa nice", "sour apple" and when "sour apple" is synonymous with "apple sour."
Since stall occurs so early in the development, it is unclear whether it is really faster human development that stalls earlier or just an ability to learn arbitrary mappings between things and symbols and have little (perhaps nothing) else in common with human language use and acqusition. I, as should be evident by now, think it is the same process with a more limited cognitive capability. Other do claim otherwise. None of the groups have conclusive evidence either way.
So my take on your question is chimps are not smart enough to do that and the answer is never. If they were capable, they would be speaking and we would have known the answer as "now."
OTOH, if there are really language centers, genes etc. that are solely responsible for language, independent from general intelligence level and cognitive capabilities, then it should be possible to bred a transgenetic monkey you can speak to. That would also be highly unethical, so probably noone would ever bred one. And the answer is, once again, never.
Define "universe." I might prove that X exists once I know what it is you mean by X. Even when I get all solipsistical (is that a word?), I'm pretty sure universe exists because my definition of universe is capable of being one and the same entity as me. Let's hear yours.
They need to test with both new and old x86 OSs to see whether their cpu's are really compatible. Slackware is the oldest mainstream linux distro around so it makes sense to test older linux compatibility with an old slackware.
How many is "a few" in the "a few years ago"? I bought the cheapest nokia I could find 3 years ago and it did have the capability.
No, the article says the deadline has passed so it won't be an EU wide law.
STFU and modify funny modifier.
And those three individuals were actually fifty four guys but they have rights equivalent of three normal citizens.
If I got your implied assumption "Playboy is porn" right, surely you are not screwed up. Infact, you are too pure.
While neither RH8 nor LM9 work out of the box for me (I've never tried knoppinx. IIRC it wasn't a distro proper anyway.)
It used to be that no linux distro worked out of the box for anybody. It used to be that one had to tweak much heavily to get a linux system working. So I think while "linux doesn't work without heavy tweaking!" guys need an update on the current state of linux distros, that update shouldn't include statements such as "getting a full system up and running with apps is far easer and much faster with Linux." That is probably not true for majority and definetly not true for everybody.
It can't be running now, cause it never runs. The thing it does can be called crawling or, if you are feeling positive, walking.