Astronomy ain't like dusting crops, kid. Without artist's impressions we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
Seriously, though, a smudge with any kind of detail at all is pretty impressive when all you've ever seen are point sources. The problem is that non-astronomers often find real astronomy to be about as exciting as reading detailed baseball statistics is to non-sports fans.
Bell makes a habit of screwing up other services. If you're not requesting data on port 80, preferably from one of their servers, then you are just causing trouble.
Way back when Bell Sympatico was first introducing ADSL I signed up for it and stuck with them for a few years. I put up with things like their spam-friendly mail servers, even going so far as to point out how their broken use of the VRFY command was exposing customer account numbers to the world and demonstrated how their POP3 server allowed brute force login attempts only to be told that such a thing was impossible and I must have just imagined the whole thing, but finally dumped them for a cheaper alternative about five years ago when they started messing around with my traffic.
The beginning of the end was when incoming SMTP connections were blocked. I worked my way up through the sludgy layers of technical support trying to find a way to explain that I really did want people on the Internet to be able to connect to TCP port 25 on my computer at home, only to be told that either a) It wasn't happening because Bell would never do that, b) I should be using their mail servers and did I want the IP address of their POPE server? or c) That if there was a problem with one of my ports then I should take my computer to a shop and have it fixed.
I only wish I was making those up. I finally managed to escalate to someone who knew what TCP was and he was as surprised as I was that there was a problem.
Bell is only interested in selling access to Facebook and Flickr. If you want anything more than that then you're probably not worth it and they will be quite happy to lose your business.
How is this cookie supposed to work for lookups from apps other than a web browser?
I see that you are not a Bell customer. They don't follow the simple "You pay us, we provide a service" model which you have come to expect from other ISPs, but they are half way there.
"It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977."
"Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game."
"Video game?"
(From Episode 2F20, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 2. Like you needed me to tell you that. Honestly, I could sneeze around here and it would only start an argument as to whether it was a quote from Futurama or Firefly.)
You can legally mod cars (for financial gain even) to exceed speed limits to the extreme.
You can also legally modify a bagel by slicing it open with a knife and spreading cream cheese on it. That doesn't mean that I should try doing the same thing to people who cut in front of me in line.
Not just "The Source", but "The Source by Circuit City". The company which ran the Canadian RadioShacks was purchased by CC in 2004 shortly before their unfortunate bankruptcy, and then bought up by Bell in January of 2009. It was Bell who shortened the name to "The Source" earlier this year.
That would imply that somehow Amazon had done something wrong in selling a book without the permission of its owners. In actuality it was the filthy book-pirates who broke into Amazon's offices and forced them at gunpoint to provide obviously stolen copies of 1984.
Amazon had no choice but to retaliate with every weapon at their disposal.
Seriously, though, this sort of thing used to happen even with books in print. Read the forward to the North American paperback releases of 'Lord of the Rings' in which Tolkien points out that he never authorized the earlier Ace release and never received a penny of royalties from them.
Strangely, despite withdrawing their books from print, Ace never felt the need to track down everyone who had bought copies of them to insist that they be destroyed. They just paid what they felt was fair to Tolkien and let the matter drop.
However, it will not be public domain until the year 2044 in the US and 2020 in the E.U.
You're forgetting about the "Take Your Stinking Paws Off Of Mickey Mouse, You Dirty Ape" Copyright Extension Act of 2022, which will extend US copyrights until one hundred years after the death of the last surviving family member of the creator.
If we take the Drake Equation, which is pretty solid to begin with but still makes some pretty broad assumptions, and we plug in seven completely unknown values which we have no possible way of determining experimentally or observationally, then we arrive at a final value which is the number of civilizations we should have contact with.
It looks something like this:
N = (I don't know) x (Beats me) x (Your guess is as good as mine) x (We have no way of knowing this) x (We have even less chance of knowing this than the last one) x (Let's just roll dice here) x (What are you, kidding me?)
And the news is that two guys from the U of Malaga have solved the equation for N.
The whole principle makes me want to misquote Ghandi:
"What is your opinion of Human civilization?" "I think it would be a wonderful idea."
How on earth is something that slow supposed to handle the behemoth that is Windows Vista?
I don't know and I don't care. However, "a P-III at 600 MHz" is exactly what powers my old Thinkpad X21 which I still use almost every day. It handles a full version of Ubuntu quite well, runs Firefox, does movies and plays games well enough for me while drawing something in the neighourhood of 50 Watts. A CPU which drew 1% of that would be just fine with me.
Even with a 3000 megahertz P4, my brother's machine runs like a snail.
Perhaps your brother's machine just sucks. Is it possible that he is running Vista?
There is nothing stopping anyone else who has to source from picking up where he left off.
There is, however, something stopping anyone else from accessing the (allegedly) thousands of Euros of donations which went directly into the hands of one now missing person every month.
When you try to 'fork' a bank account, sometimes the people at the bank get a little upset.
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I also own a cat. Now what?
I'm just going to look at the subject line and wait for someone else to say it.
Astronomy ain't like dusting crops, kid. Without artist's impressions we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
Seriously, though, a smudge with any kind of detail at all is pretty impressive when all you've ever seen are point sources. The problem is that non-astronomers often find real astronomy to be about as exciting as reading detailed baseball statistics is to non-sports fans.
Bell makes a habit of screwing up other services. If you're not requesting data on port 80, preferably from one of their servers, then you are just causing trouble.
Way back when Bell Sympatico was first introducing ADSL I signed up for it and stuck with them for a few years. I put up with things like their spam-friendly mail servers, even going so far as to point out how their broken use of the VRFY command was exposing customer account numbers to the world and demonstrated how their POP3 server allowed brute force login attempts only to be told that such a thing was impossible and I must have just imagined the whole thing, but finally dumped them for a cheaper alternative about five years ago when they started messing around with my traffic.
The beginning of the end was when incoming SMTP connections were blocked. I worked my way up through the sludgy layers of technical support trying to find a way to explain that I really did want people on the Internet to be able to connect to TCP port 25 on my computer at home, only to be told that either a) It wasn't happening because Bell would never do that, b) I should be using their mail servers and did I want the IP address of their POPE server? or c) That if there was a problem with one of my ports then I should take my computer to a shop and have it fixed.
I only wish I was making those up. I finally managed to escalate to someone who knew what TCP was and he was as surprised as I was that there was a problem.
Bell is only interested in selling access to Facebook and Flickr. If you want anything more than that then you're probably not worth it and they will be quite happy to lose your business.
I see that you are not a Bell customer. They don't follow the simple "You pay us, we provide a service" model which you have come to expect from other ISPs, but they are half way there.
"It's impossible for me to fire a pistol. If you'll check me medical records, you'll see I have a cripplin' arthritis in me index fingerrrs. Look at 'em! I got it from "Space Invaders" in 1977."
"Aw, yeah. That was a pretty addictive video game."
"Video game?"
(From Episode 2F20, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 2. Like you needed me to tell you that. Honestly, I could sneeze around here and it would only start an argument as to whether it was a quote from Futurama or Firefly.)
You can also legally modify a bagel by slicing it open with a knife and spreading cream cheese on it. That doesn't mean that I should try doing the same thing to people who cut in front of me in line.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but yeah, the Sims 3 was released for the iPhone. On the same day as the PC version, no less.
Wow. What kind of idiots would store passwords in clear text?
Guy number 2 also misused an apostrophe. I think that answers your question.
And this is why we are never going to try and throw you another surprise birthday party.
Not just "The Source", but "The Source by Circuit City". The company which ran the Canadian RadioShacks was purchased by CC in 2004 shortly before their unfortunate bankruptcy, and then bought up by Bell in January of 2009. It was Bell who shortened the name to "The Source" earlier this year.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
"I am a LEAF on the wind - watch how I soar."
Maybe it is referring to the other, NSFW definition of ATM. This is a hotel in Las Vegas, you know.
And it's a well known fact that 80% of Japanese women have blue hair, while 20% of a Japanese male's height is in gigantic spiky hair.
That would imply that somehow Amazon had done something wrong in selling a book without the permission of its owners. In actuality it was the filthy book-pirates who broke into Amazon's offices and forced them at gunpoint to provide obviously stolen copies of 1984.
Amazon had no choice but to retaliate with every weapon at their disposal.
Seriously, though, this sort of thing used to happen even with books in print. Read the forward to the North American paperback releases of 'Lord of the Rings' in which Tolkien points out that he never authorized the earlier Ace release and never received a penny of royalties from them.
Strangely, despite withdrawing their books from print, Ace never felt the need to track down everyone who had bought copies of them to insist that they be destroyed. They just paid what they felt was fair to Tolkien and let the matter drop.
Well, it is a lot more believable than "Jeff Bezos Ate My Balls.
Don't worry, your Swedish made penis enlargement pump is safe for now.
You're forgetting about the "Take Your Stinking Paws Off Of Mickey Mouse, You Dirty Ape" Copyright Extension Act of 2022, which will extend US copyrights until one hundred years after the death of the last surviving family member of the creator.
Sure, it has its issues and it may be a bit expensive, but that's not a very nice way to describe Windows XP.
I see it has been quite a while since you bought a new computer.
If we take the Drake Equation, which is pretty solid to begin with but still makes some pretty broad assumptions, and we plug in seven completely unknown values which we have no possible way of determining experimentally or observationally, then we arrive at a final value which is the number of civilizations we should have contact with.
It looks something like this:
N = (I don't know) x (Beats me) x (Your guess is as good as mine) x (We have no way of knowing this) x (We have even less chance of knowing this than the last one) x (Let's just roll dice here) x (What are you, kidding me?)
And the news is that two guys from the U of Malaga have solved the equation for N.
The whole principle makes me want to misquote Ghandi:
"What is your opinion of Human civilization?" "I think it would be a wonderful idea."
I don't know and I don't care. However, "a P-III at 600 MHz" is exactly what powers my old Thinkpad X21 which I still use almost every day. It handles a full version of Ubuntu quite well, runs Firefox, does movies and plays games well enough for me while drawing something in the neighourhood of 50 Watts. A CPU which drew 1% of that would be just fine with me.
Perhaps your brother's machine just sucks. Is it possible that he is running Vista?
There is, however, something stopping anyone else from accessing the (allegedly) thousands of Euros of donations which went directly into the hands of one now missing person every month.
When you try to 'fork' a bank account, sometimes the people at the bank get a little upset.
That last quote got mangled. My bad for not previewing.
"Lance vanished from the project some time in 2008. Everybody needs time off from projects from time to time, so there was no real need to worry about that. What there was to worry about is the following: Lance is the only one, who can make active changes to the centos.org domain, as he "owns it". Nobody else in the team is able to add nameservers, for instance. Recently he put an anonymizing service on the domain, so that nobody from the outside can see who that domain belongs to."