If the industry really thought ahead, there would be a UPS built into the power supply, with enough juice to do a suspend to disk. Why this has yet to take place is beyond me.
I saw a version of xeyes that used a picture of Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean). After a while, it started getting creepy. The eyes were so round, and they followed you everywhere.
Most typewriters (back when they were popular) didn't have italics, just upper and lower case courier font at ten characters per inch (and six lines per inch) - thus the underline protocol for titles. If you wanted italics, you would have to use a completely different typewriter. Sometime in the 60's IBM released the Selectric series, which had a removeable type-head. Changing fonts became as simple as replacing an ink cartridge is today. This broke the one machine, one font state of affairs. A document produced on a Selectric could have many fonts. Some might consider the introduction of the Selectric as the beginning of desktop publishing.
Does this mean that they are legally prevented from running a for profit sub-business. I mean, if the ISS cargo runs are lucrative, why not do it themselves and funnel the profits into their coffers?
Godwin's Law is a Usenet term that states that the longer an online discussion/debate goes, the greater the probability that someone will make a comparison to Nazis, Hitler, etc. Once someone does make that comparison the thread usually breaks down into name calling and no further intelligent debate occurs. So, once Hitler/Nazis are mentioned, the thread is effectively over. Since this particular article starts with a Nazi reference, is the discussion over before it begins? More info here.
About this ring of yours... anything, um, special about it? Was it part of a collection, one of a set of nine perhaps, or is it one ring. It's my birthday, and I wants something... precious.
Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that we send up that particular camera. Obviously you're going to want to tune the optics and spectrum sensitivities and what-not for the application. I am not a camera expert, nor do I play one on TV (although I once played an actor who had a role as a photographer on a TV show. [grin]) The point I was trying to make was simply "hey, let's bump up the resolution". The link was merely meant as an example of what higher resolution can do.
Hubble is amazing and all, and has produced some fabulous images (and maybe, just maybe some actual scientific data), but isn't it time to retire the 1 megapixel bird and replace it with a 5, or 16 megapixel, or perhaps a 4 gigapixel satellite instead?
Setting aside my opinion of 60 Minutes for a moment, the idea of placing a crap show after the football game is stupid. You've got all this viewership watching your station, then you shoo them away by switching to, say, a Mork and Mindy rerun that's already in progress. That's stupid. What you want to do is keep the viewership by following the game with another good show, and then another. To hell with the schedule, the only thing that matters is the number of eyes watching. Once that number drops down to normal, then you can switch back to regularly scheduled programming. (Of course, a clever broadcaster would just add in a few extra commercials here and there to bring them back to schedule).
I have nothing particular against 60 Minutes, or Mork and Mindy. I watch TV for entertainment, and I don't find politics or news entertaining. So, given the choice... Nanu-Nanu baby.
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You mean like all those Israelite slaves playing "Dungeon Draggin" back in the pyramid building days?
that now SlashDotters will no longer have an excuse for poor spelling in their posts?
No, it merely means that with a quick flick of a script, every "misspelling" gets added to the dictionary and thus becomes "proper English, 'cause it's in the dictionary"
That's the same Santa Claus as the one here. Watch the movie, or at least read the site you linked to: "Plot Outline: The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. (more)".
In some parts of the world "ice" is a synonym for "popcicle", which would be a countable noun. "Vast Martian Popsicle found" works. Grammatical parsing is slippery business.
Why bother with Mars then. Send your robotic craft to gather comet fragments and throw them into a nicer orbit. Surround the fragments with a nice huge ziplog bag and let the sun melt them. Voila! Cubic kilometres of water.
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Does it come with an optional B-battery carrying case?
With Christianity, we sacrifice Gods.
If the industry really thought ahead, there would be a UPS built into the power supply, with enough juice to do a suspend to disk. Why this has yet to take place is beyond me.
Rodent Intelligence Association of America?
I saw a version of xeyes that used a picture of Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean). After a while, it started getting creepy. The eyes were so round, and they followed you everywhere.
Most typewriters (back when they were popular) didn't have italics, just upper and lower case courier font at ten characters per inch (and six lines per inch) - thus the underline protocol for titles. If you wanted italics, you would have to use a completely different typewriter. Sometime in the 60's IBM released the Selectric series, which had a removeable type-head. Changing fonts became as simple as replacing an ink cartridge is today. This broke the one machine, one font state of affairs. A document produced on a Selectric could have many fonts. Some might consider the introduction of the Selectric as the beginning of desktop publishing.
I guess it must be. You're the only one to even mention visiting it, and I haven't had a single sale.
... and yet we still are overrun with cats. I don't get it.
Duh! Digital vaulting means leaping over fingers.
Does this mean that they are legally prevented from running a for profit sub-business. I mean, if the ISS cargo runs are lucrative, why not do it themselves and funnel the profits into their coffers?
Godwin's Law is a Usenet term that states that the longer an online discussion/debate goes, the greater the probability that someone will make a comparison to Nazis, Hitler, etc. Once someone does make that comparison the thread usually breaks down into name calling and no further intelligent debate occurs. So, once Hitler/Nazis are mentioned, the thread is effectively over. Since this particular article starts with a Nazi reference, is the discussion over before it begins? More info here.
About this ring of yours... anything, um, special about it? Was it part of a collection, one of a set of nine perhaps, or is it one ring. It's my birthday, and I wants something... precious.
Since I use my PDA for storing data, I'd rather have mine made from elephant neurons.
Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that we send up that particular camera. Obviously you're going to want to tune the optics and spectrum sensitivities and what-not for the application. I am not a camera expert, nor do I play one on TV (although I once played an actor who had a role as a photographer on a TV show. [grin]) The point I was trying to make was simply "hey, let's bump up the resolution". The link was merely meant as an example of what higher resolution can do.
Hubble is amazing and all, and has produced some fabulous images (and maybe, just maybe some actual scientific data), but isn't it time to retire the 1 megapixel bird and replace it with a 5, or 16 megapixel, or perhaps a 4 gigapixel satellite instead?
This kind of says it all.
Gimel, Gimel, always gets?
Setting aside my opinion of 60 Minutes for a moment, the idea of placing a crap show after the football game is stupid. You've got all this viewership watching your station, then you shoo them away by switching to, say, a Mork and Mindy rerun that's already in progress. That's stupid. What you want to do is keep the viewership by following the game with another good show, and then another. To hell with the schedule, the only thing that matters is the number of eyes watching. Once that number drops down to normal, then you can switch back to regularly scheduled programming. (Of course, a clever broadcaster would just add in a few extra commercials here and there to bring them back to schedule).
I have nothing particular against 60 Minutes, or Mork and Mindy. I watch TV for entertainment, and I don't find politics or news entertaining. So, given the choice... Nanu-Nanu baby.
You mean like all those Israelite slaves playing "Dungeon Draggin" back in the pyramid building days?
that now SlashDotters will no longer have an excuse for poor spelling in their posts?
No, it merely means that with a quick flick of a script, every "misspelling" gets added to the dictionary and thus becomes "proper English, 'cause it's in the dictionary"
29 comments and not a single "All your base..." joke. Gotta be a record.
That's the same Santa Claus as the one here. Watch the movie, or at least read the site you linked to: "Plot Outline: The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. (more)".
Try pinging Sedna or Quaoar.
In some parts of the world "ice" is a synonym for "popcicle", which would be a countable noun. "Vast Martian Popsicle found" works. Grammatical parsing is slippery business.
Why bother with Mars then. Send your robotic craft to gather comet fragments and throw them into a nicer orbit. Surround the fragments with a nice huge ziplog bag and let the sun melt them. Voila! Cubic kilometres of water.