lol, so long as I don't have to use *your* keyboard I'll be happy =)
funny you should mention that.... this thing is all worn out and I had already ordered another one! It supposed to be here on Friday, but I have a feeling it will end up here on the 5th or 6th.
But as you can see I was a lot more careful when I was typing the content that counts. --That was no simple copy & paste
and yes this post was just as awful but I ran it through the spell checker AFTER I was done this time.
The more interesting part of this is what would all this say about the code -vs- no-code debate in the ham radio community if all the text messagers start using morse?
Yes I admit that some of these characters are clunky, but they are also clunky on a phone, and though I don't know of any percent sign, how often are you going to use it.
Many people proficient in morse code do not know all of these puntuations -And for good reason.... they are more cumbersome then helpful. On occaision though there is an actual need for them you can't just avoid, but one of the very reasons you don't see these listed in many ources is that they are down right scarey to people trying to learn the code.
Just because you don't know what a character is, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are also characters for As with circles on them, Os with lines through them (not the same as zero mind you) also Russian, Greek and Other Language support too.
How many people are aware that when their Nokia sends "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" it is in fact sending "SMS" in morse to indicate Short Message System? I hear it all the time, and nobody knows why it beeps like that!
um... you got that WRONG. "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" is OIO. you meant "Dit dit dit, Dah Dah, Dit Dit Dit" which is not only what the nokia phones send, but also SMS in Morse Code.
While the chances of this are very, very small, we still encourage optical observers to see if the sail can be seen after that time
Let me get this right... If anyone on Earth sees their space craft please let them know by calling 1(888)NOT-GONE so they can aim their antennas at it.
ALTERNATE:
Since this was launced from a sub... Maybe some guy hit the wrong launch button and accidentally launced an ICBM. The explosion was the self destruct after they realized it wasn't the cosmos1. Now they just say the spacecraft blew up while they try to figure out how to explaine this to the higher ups?
Don't get me wrong. I love Google map, Google mail; Google is the technology leader on the Internet. Period.
Nope. The pr0n industry has them beat.
Seriously... Yahoo has had maps far longer -mail too for that matter. As much as I like Google, Yahoo also has them beat with "Yahoo Whores" as I call it (Yahoo messenger - because you can just IM up a ---never mind you get the idea) -- GOOGLE HAS NO MESSENGER
All that said about Yahoo, Google has one thing going for it that Yahoo doesn't. I just like Google more Maybe it's some hypnotic flickering solid white.gif image they have for a background or something, but I just like Google better. -No blinking flash ads helps them out a lot too.
ST is not even asethnically diverse as the current US population?
OK, I'll bite...
Are you talking about the ethnicity and gender of the actors - or are you talking about the characters? - either way, seems more diverse than anything else on TV... and yes that does count. Granted of the 42 main characters, only 13 are women. did you count all the extras? and guests?
here is a list of characters in case you forgot...
Jonathan Archer
Julian Bashir
Chakotay
Pavel Chekov
Beverly Crusher
Wesley Crusher
Data
Ezri Dax
Jadzia Dax
The Doctor
Kathryn Janeway
Kes
Harry Kim
James T. Kirk
Geordi LaForge
Travis Mayweather
Leonard McCoy
Neelix
Kira Nerys
Miles O'Brien
Odo
Tom Paris
Phlox
Jean-Luc Picard
Katherine Pulaski
Quark
Malcolm Reed
William T. Riker
Hoshi Sato
Montgomery Scott
Seven of Nine
Benjamin Sisko
Spock
Hikaru Sulu
B'Elanna Torres
T'Pol
Deanna Troi
Charles Tucker
Tuvok
Uhura
Worf
Tasha Yar
lets not forget - in particular the demographics of the original series --- COMPARE IT WITH OTHER CONTEMPORARY SHOWS
Some of the actors do play characters with a different ethnicity... I'm pretty sure Michael Dorn isn't a Klingon in real life...and Chakotay?.. and is DATA really a man? (well I guess if you ask Tasha he is).
Also I didn't mention people like O'Brien's wife & children and Ensign Ro
you think it is gonna get hard to get vhs tapes (blank or prerecorded), just think about DVHS (if you know about it).
Don't worry about it, just drill a few extra holes in a regular VHS or S-VHS and you have a cheap just as good blank D-VHS. DO you actually think they make more than one grade of the actual tape anymore?
OK so this thing is going to shoot straight up, then it's going to fall right back down so it will be able to land vertically... like a splashdown i assume. This doesn't sound like fun to me. I mean I think the only way you can land near where you launched with a ballistic trajectory is straight up and straight down. (well really close to it, you know what I mean)
300-sum-thousand feet?
I am just disappointed.
But on the brighter side, there are people who will pay to do this and maybe it will become a viable market thus making it possible better things will come along during my life time I might just be able to afford.
That's the most plausible explanation I've "heard". Do you have any citations to show its historical accuracy?
I have heard it in ham radio theory classes... and read it in books... but I can no longer remember the sources. -But it was from several sources. Should I run accross one of them, i'll try to remember to atleast make a reference to it in wikipedia
yet somehow can not figure out how to spell "peel". Instead, the author of the site likes to "pill" things.
That's not a spelling error, that's plain using the wrong word. Pill is a different word completely. I can forgive spelling errors and typos but using the wrong one-syllable word is something worse! - A spelling error or a typo is on accident. This wasn't on accident, it was on stupid.
What's wrong with virii? - Did you not know what he meant? This is English, not French. We have a right to bastardize our language any d--n way we want!
I was under the impression than Mars has no appreciable magnetic field, and that a potential explanation for this was the dynamo of molten iron that the earth enjoys had cooled to solidification on Mars.
The core doesn't need to cool to the point it's solid just to shut down the dynamo. It is believed that Mars once had a magnetic field and the state of that field is now locked in the rocks of the crust.
The interior could very well be molten, it could also be solid. It may be cool or it may be hot.
The best way to find out would be to bring seismometers to Mars and measure seismic waves as they travel through the planet. We could then measure the speed of those waves and hope to find out something about the interior composition of the planet. I'm not sure how active Mars is, or how sensitive the equipment can be after a ride all the way there. If the crust and tectonic forces are as dead as some think, we may need to wait until something big hits the planet to get any measurements.
$52.50!!!!!!! Canadian Dollars? !?!?!? You got to be kidding... Them folks in Ontario need to learn something from us Americans. Our tickets rarely start lower than $75 and that $75 American Dollars baby.... and it's not uncommon to just start those fines over the $100 (US) Dollar mark.
Here in the US, they actually need the revenue from those tickets to pay for payroll for the various law enforcement agencies. Sure we pay taxes for that, but those monies were diverted to building swimming pools for the homeless years ago.
That's like a difference of 5 Miles an hour... I'm glad that where I live they usually don't care unless is more than 15 MPH different (like about 25 km/h).
Where I live you just can't speed on the last 3 days of the month. Why? it's senseless, but at one point they (the police) had a quota of speeding tickets they needed to write in order to keep their jobs. - Since then there was a public outcry. They swear up and down they don't use quotas. But the old rule of don't speed on the last 3 days of the month still applies
I wonder if zinc oxide cream would show up on one of these low-level x-rays. I think it just might. Just use it to write all sorts of things all over yourself.
FLASH The FAA and the Department of Homeland Security have just banned carrying Zinc Oxide on to Airplanes.
That site it toast. But I did find another picture of it here although that picture is a little small.
I would really like one of these keyboards, It'd keep the unworthy off my computer. How much do these things cost anyway? Is it so much, I might just as well break out with the sandpaper?
The Earth rotates... the moon moves around the Earth... Aiming this type of thing requires realigning flawlessly automatically all the time, Plus your target is only visible half the day.
Nuclear power is far safer and more reliable than this
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funny you should mention that.... this thing is all worn out and I had already ordered another one! It supposed to be here on Friday, but I have a feeling it will end up here on the 5th or 6th.
But as you can see I was a lot more careful when I was typing the content that counts. --That was no simple copy & paste
and yes this post was just as awful but I ran it through the spell checker AFTER I was done this time.
What do you mean???
Question | . . - - . .Comma | - - . . - -
Period | . - . - . -
Colon | - - - . . .
Semicolon | - . - . - .
Apostrophe | . - - - - .
Tilde | - - . - -
Plus | . - . - .
Slash or Divide | - . . - .
Equal | - . . . -
Exclamation | - . - . - -
At | . - - . - .
Dash or Minus | - . . . . -
Asterisk | . . . - . -
Dollar Sign | . . . - . . -
Underscore | . . - - . -
Left Parenthesis | - . - - . -
Right Parenthesis | - . - - . -
Quote | . - . . - .
Carat | - . - . -
Warning | . - . . -
Back Space | . . . . . . .
Wait | . - . .
Because of limitations in HTML and Slashdot, the # indicates a space
Ampersand | . # . . .
Repeat | . . # .
LOL | . . . . # .
Pound | . - . . # - . . .
The more interesting part of this is what would all this say about the code -vs- no-code debate in the ham radio community if all the text messagers start using morse?
Yes I admit that some of these characters are clunky, but they are also clunky on a phone, and though I don't know of any percent sign, how often are you going to use it.
Many people proficient in morse code do not know all of these puntuations -And for good reason.... they are more cumbersome then helpful. On occaision though there is an actual need for them you can't just avoid, but one of the very reasons you don't see these listed in many ources is that they are down right scarey to people trying to learn the code.
Just because you don't know what a character is, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are also characters for As with circles on them, Os with lines through them (not the same as zero mind you) also Russian, Greek and Other Language support too.
um... you got that WRONG. "dah dah dah dit dit dah dah dah" is OIO. you meant "Dit dit dit, Dah Dah, Dit Dit Dit" which is not only what the nokia phones send, but also SMS in Morse Code.
I once got an E in grammar. My parents thought it was an F anyway.
Let me get this right... If anyone on Earth sees their space craft please let them know by calling 1(888)NOT-GONE so they can aim their antennas at it.
ALTERNATE:
Since this was launced from a sub... Maybe some guy hit the wrong launch button and accidentally launced an ICBM. The explosion was the self destruct after they realized it wasn't the cosmos1. Now they just say the spacecraft blew up while they try to figure out how to explaine this to the higher ups?
Nope. The pr0n industry has them beat.
Seriously... Yahoo has had maps far longer -mail too for that matter. As much as I like Google, Yahoo also has them beat with "Yahoo Whores" as I call it (Yahoo messenger - because you can just IM up a ---never mind you get the idea) -- GOOGLE HAS NO MESSENGER
All that said about Yahoo, Google has one thing going for it that Yahoo doesn't. I just like Google more Maybe it's some hypnotic flickering solid white .gif image they have for a background or something, but I just like Google better. -No blinking flash ads helps them out a lot too.
OK, I'll bite...
Are you talking about the ethnicity and gender of the actors - or are you talking about the characters? - either way, seems more diverse than anything else on TV... and yes that does count. Granted of the 42 main characters, only 13 are women. did you count all the extras? and guests?
here is a list of characters in case you forgot...Jonathan Archer
Julian Bashir
Chakotay
Pavel Chekov
Beverly Crusher
Wesley Crusher
Data
Ezri Dax
Jadzia Dax
The Doctor
Kathryn Janeway
Kes
Harry Kim
James T. Kirk
Geordi LaForge
Travis Mayweather
Leonard McCoy
Neelix
Kira Nerys
Miles O'Brien
Odo
Tom Paris
Phlox
Jean-Luc Picard
Katherine Pulaski
Quark
Malcolm Reed
William T. Riker
Hoshi Sato
Montgomery Scott
Seven of Nine
Benjamin Sisko
Spock
Hikaru Sulu
B'Elanna Torres
T'Pol
Deanna Troi
Charles Tucker
Tuvok
Uhura
Worf
Tasha Yar
lets not forget - in particular the demographics of the original series --- COMPARE IT WITH OTHER CONTEMPORARY SHOWS
Some of the actors do play characters with a different ethnicity... I'm pretty sure Michael Dorn isn't a Klingon in real life. ..and Chakotay?.. and is DATA really a man? (well I guess if you ask Tasha he is).
Also I didn't mention people like O'Brien's wife & children and Ensign Ro
Don't worry about it, just drill a few extra holes in a regular VHS or S-VHS and you have a cheap just as good blank D-VHS. DO you actually think they make more than one grade of the actual tape anymore?
Th last time I bought blank DVDs, I paid $0.34 each. The last time I bought blank VHS i paid $1.09 each (that was a while ago)
How cheap are VHS now? Can I get them for less than $0.34 each at a retail store? I am not going to mail order blank VHS, sorry.
I'm broke, €99 is a lot to spend on an OS just to see that I don't like it
What is the boiling point of water at 3, 5 or 10 atmospheres? could there be liquid water at 200C?
OK so this thing is going to shoot straight up, then it's going to fall right back down so it will be able to land vertically... like a splashdown i assume. This doesn't sound like fun to me. I mean I think the only way you can land near where you launched with a ballistic trajectory is straight up and straight down. (well really close to it, you know what I mean)
300-sum-thousand feet?
I am just disappointed.
But on the brighter side, there are people who will pay to do this and maybe it will become a viable market thus making it possible better things will come along during my life time I might just be able to afford.
I have heard it in ham radio theory classes... and read it in books... but I can no longer remember the sources. -But it was from several sources. Should I run accross one of them, i'll try to remember to atleast make a reference to it in wikipedia
A, K, N & W
A stands for America
in morse code it is .-
K is like an A in morse code with a dah before it -.-
N is like an A only backwards -.
W is like an A with a - after it .--
We have more people (stations) in the US than most other countries, we needed more letters.
Yup that is why we have A, K, N & W.That's not a spelling error, that's plain using the wrong word. Pill is a different word completely. I can forgive spelling errors and typos but using the wrong one-syllable word is something worse! - A spelling error or a typo is on accident. This wasn't on accident, it was on stupid.
What's wrong with virii? - Did you not know what he meant? This is English, not French. We have a right to bastardize our language any d--n way we want!
>Meringue.
Well aren't Meringues left behind by glaciers?
The core doesn't need to cool to the point it's solid just to shut down the dynamo. It is believed that Mars once had a magnetic field and the state of that field is now locked in the rocks of the crust.
The interior could very well be molten, it could also be solid. It may be cool or it may be hot.
The best way to find out would be to bring seismometers to Mars and measure seismic waves as they travel through the planet. We could then measure the speed of those waves and hope to find out something about the interior composition of the planet. I'm not sure how active Mars is, or how sensitive the equipment can be after a ride all the way there. If the crust and tectonic forces are as dead as some think, we may need to wait until something big hits the planet to get any measurements.
$52.50!!!!!!! Canadian Dollars? !?!?!? You got to be kidding... Them folks in Ontario need to learn something from us Americans. Our tickets rarely start lower than $75 and that $75 American Dollars baby.... and it's not uncommon to just start those fines over the $100 (US) Dollar mark.
Here in the US, they actually need the revenue from those tickets to pay for payroll for the various law enforcement agencies. Sure we pay taxes for that, but those monies were diverted to building swimming pools for the homeless years ago.
That's like a difference of 5 Miles an hour... I'm glad that where I live they usually don't care unless is more than 15 MPH different (like about 25 km/h).
Where I live you just can't speed on the last 3 days of the month. Why? it's senseless, but at one point they (the police) had a quota of speeding tickets they needed to write in order to keep their jobs. - Since then there was a public outcry. They swear up and down they don't use quotas. But the old rule of don't speed on the last 3 days of the month still applies
I wonder if zinc oxide cream would show up on one of these low-level x-rays. I think it just might. Just use it to write all sorts of things all over yourself.
FLASHThe FAA and the Department of Homeland Security have just banned carrying Zinc Oxide on to Airplanes.
Heh... I first read that as www.realsexchallenge.com and was really wondering what you were talking about -at first.
I would really like one of these keyboards, It'd keep the unworthy off my computer. How much do these things cost anyway? Is it so much, I might just as well break out with the sandpaper?
Well here's is one exampleUS Congress Evacuated
And another... Radar operators will sometimes find dead birds lying below a Radar dish. (atleast birds can see and hear windmills).
And when it comes to aiming things at other celestial bodies
The Earth rotates... the moon moves around the Earth... Aiming this type of thing requires realigning flawlessly automatically all the time, Plus your target is only visible half the day.
Nuclear power is far safer and more reliable than this
The you come out the other end with a Van Dyke