Funny. I have people asking for flat panals because they want their desks back. That 'desk space' it saves is important because we don't get much of it.
In a large organization, you often have more control over what computer equipment you buy than you do over how the office space is arranged. In a cube farm, a 21" monitor often takes up too much space--particularly if management has never heard of ergonomics so you're forced to balance the keyboard on the little strip of desk right in front of the monitor.
If you only want people with a deep love of astronomy to know about upcoming events, then you're dead on.
If you want to try to introduce newcomers to the delights of celestrial events, then you want to have sites like Slashdot put up the articles ahead of time.
I consider myself fairly interested in astronomical events. I've gone out in freezing cold weather for meteor showers. I've sat on a rooftop to get a good view of a lunar eclipse. (And I'll be out photographing the upcoming one.) And I tend to go to the
Astronomy Picture of the Day at least once a week, if not more. But I would never have heard of this except for Slashdot.
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It's short for association football. No, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to, it's British.
Except how many museums would want to keep taking an object off of display just to bring up a file about it? The damage you would inflict on the object from the constant handling...the annoyance of having to fill out paperwork to authorize the movement...the joy of discovering you can't read your files because it's out on loan to another museum...yep, sounds perfect.
My point is this sets a dangerous precedent. If the government can choose to ignore a group of people based on their method of communicating, how far can they take it?
Too late, they're already doing it. The US court system has defined rules for how to submit papers; if you don't meet their standards they'll throw them out. For example, why do you think 8 1/2" x 14" is known as legal sized? Right, that was the size the courts wanted. (Although I think common sense has sunk in and most jurisdictions will allow letter sized sheets now.) No weird fonts either.
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Just because you have POTS in an area doesn't mean you want to pay to run it to the camera's location. For example, let's say you're curious what kind of birds are visiting the birdfeeder in the back of you yard while you're at work. (Trust me, there are people this weird in the world.) Slap the camera on the stand, aim at the feeder, and you're good to go.
You know how it is with those crash diets. First you cut back until you're only 254 times as massive as the Earth. Then, you get a sudden craving for a frozen treat and have a couple of comets and bam! You're up to 318 again.
I wouldn't say spectacular, but the photos are impressive for the detail available. (I'm spoiled from all the color nebula shots.) The spiral formations are easily visible, even without the 'cheatsheet' image.
Shame the images can't capture all the close-in dust. Considering that Pluto's only 40 a.u. out, having data from almost 100 a.u. around the star missing means a lot of the prime planetary formation area isn't available to examine.
Actually, RedHat returns them in the correct order. Any other unix box would return them in a wrong yet consistant with past mistakes order. Now, you might argue it's more important to be consistant than right; however, the fact is RedHat is following the basic ordering system used by everyone except computer geeks.
but let me give you my assurance that these forcasts and predictions
are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have
to be some kind of moron not to reaize that every single one of the is absolutely true.
You can write your state legislators as much as you want, but it won't do any good. Now, if you were writing your prefecture legislator, it might help, because the article is talking about something for Japan.
Of course, if you had bothered to read the article first, you would have noticed this. You'd have also noticed that there are lots of cars with simular functions being already being sold in Japan. And you'd have realized the selling points of this model are playing music and a bigger screen than a cell phone. (You did catch the bit about using the cell phone for the communications, right?)
The key words are *mobile phone masts*. While the article says authorities are only using the signals from the masts, you've got to filter out the signals from the mobile phones as well. So I'd say the original comment is correct.
But the parents pay for them. Don't forget to complain to your local cable franchise. I would suspect more will be done if enough cable companies ask about why the shows are disappearing.
convincing entire hordes of the traditionally sluggish-to-growth universities to shift from IEEE 802.11b to 802.11a will take a while.
Which is why Intel is offering a dual-mode expansion kit to allow the access point to support both standards.
The more interesting item to see would be a dual mode pc-card so you could hit both.11a and.11b access points as you roam about. (And I'm aware this would be quite pricy compared to a single mode card.)
An MRI scan requires that the part to be scanned is in the exact centre of the magnet that surrounds the bore.
If you read the article, the birds do stay in an essentially stationary location. Particularly for smaller birds, even the wingtips would stay inside the zone covered by a normal MRI done on a human torso.
It also requires that the sftware that combines all of the sectional images into a 2-D slice and then a 3-D image know exactly where each image was taken from.
Well, the article states they are already creating 3D images of the bird via high-speed cameras.
Instead, I would focus on speed (Can the MRI slices be taken fast enough to image an entire bird multiple times a second? Seems unlikely with the current generation of equipment), accuracy (Can the imaging be matched up to a sufficent degree of accuracy to the MRI results), or costs versus benefits (MRIs are still rather expensive.) as reasons for not persuing the MRI concept.
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Funny. I have people asking for flat panals because they want their desks back. That 'desk space' it saves is important because we don't get much of it.
In a large organization, you often have more control over what computer equipment you buy than you do over how the office space is arranged. In a cube farm, a 21" monitor often takes up too much space--particularly if management has never heard of ergonomics so you're forced to balance the keyboard on the little strip of desk right in front of the monitor.
That's why you have redundant power supplies on your server, running off of seperate UPS systems. And you tuck all the power cords out of the way.
True paranoia, though, is when you have two power distribution units, on opposite sides of the room, each with their own backup generator.
I suppose it depends on what you want.
If you only want people with a deep love of astronomy to know about upcoming events, then you're dead on.
If you want to try to introduce newcomers to the delights of celestrial events, then you want to have sites like Slashdot put up the articles ahead of time.
I consider myself fairly interested in astronomical events. I've gone out in freezing cold weather for meteor showers. I've sat on a rooftop to get a good view of a lunar eclipse. (And I'll be out photographing the upcoming one.) And I tend to go to the Astronomy Picture of the Day at least once a week, if not more. But I would never have heard of this except for Slashdot.
It's short for association football. No, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't have to, it's British.
Except how many museums would want to keep taking an object off of display just to bring up a file about it? The damage you would inflict on the object from the constant handling...the annoyance of having to fill out paperwork to authorize the movement...the joy of discovering you can't read your files because it's out on loan to another museum...yep, sounds perfect.
My point is this sets a dangerous precedent. If the government can choose to ignore a group of people based on their method of communicating, how far can they take it?
Too late, they're already doing it. The US court system has defined rules for how to submit papers; if you don't meet their standards they'll throw them out. For example, why do you think 8 1/2" x 14" is known as legal sized? Right, that was the size the courts wanted. (Although I think common sense has sunk in and most jurisdictions will allow letter sized sheets now.) No weird fonts either.
Just because you have POTS in an area doesn't mean you want to pay to run it to the camera's location. For example, let's say you're curious what kind of birds are visiting the birdfeeder in the back of you yard while you're at work. (Trust me, there are people this weird in the world.) Slap the camera on the stand, aim at the feeder, and you're good to go.
You know how it is with those crash diets. First you cut back until you're only 254 times as massive as the Earth. Then, you get a sudden craving for a frozen treat and have a couple of comets and bam! You're up to 318 again.
I wouldn't say spectacular, but the photos are impressive for the detail available. (I'm spoiled from all the color nebula shots.) The spiral formations are easily visible, even without the 'cheatsheet' image.
Shame the images can't capture all the close-in dust. Considering that Pluto's only 40 a.u. out, having data from almost 100 a.u. around the star missing means a lot of the prime planetary formation area isn't available to examine.
Actually, RedHat returns them in the correct order. Any other unix box would return them in a wrong yet consistant with past mistakes order. Now, you might argue it's more important to be consistant than right; however, the fact is RedHat is following the basic ordering system used by everyone except computer geeks.
but let me give you my assurance that these forcasts and predictions are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have to be some kind of moron not to reaize that every single one of the is absolutely true.
Best error message I ever came across in some custom code. Shut her down, Clancy. She's pumping mud.
You can write your state legislators as much as you want, but it won't do any good. Now, if you were writing your prefecture legislator, it might help, because the article is talking about something for Japan.
Of course, if you had bothered to read the article first, you would have noticed this. You'd have also noticed that there are lots of cars with simular functions being already being sold in Japan. And you'd have realized the selling points of this model are playing music and a bigger screen than a cell phone. (You did catch the bit about using the cell phone for the communications, right?)
The key words are *mobile phone masts*. While the article says authorities are only using the signals from the masts, you've got to filter out the signals from the mobile phones as well. So I'd say the original comment is correct.
Sleep, of course.
Else you couldn't make ice work cocktails of them.
But the parents pay for them. Don't forget to complain to your local cable franchise. I would suspect more will be done if enough cable companies ask about why the shows are disappearing.
Or you would have seen the following right after the 81W for a sleeping person.
Strange, isn't it. It's almost as if they knew what they were talking about.
Researcher A: Hey! You got beer in my bacteria!
Researcher B: Hey! You got bacteria in my beer!
Announcer: You get two great tastes in one toxic waste cleaning solution!
Boating can give you an extra bonus. During an intense meteor storm, calm water will reflect the trails, doubling the show.
(Of course, the water would reflect trails even during the slowest of showers. But you're not likely to be looking down at the right moment.)
The name I've heard the most online is the Bimbo Du Jour, or BDJ.
convincing entire hordes of the traditionally sluggish-to-growth universities to shift from IEEE 802.11b to 802.11a will take a while.
Which is why Intel is offering a dual-mode expansion kit to allow the access point to support both standards.
The more interesting item to see would be a dual mode pc-card so you could hit both .11a and .11b access points as you roam about. (And I'm aware this would be quite pricy compared to a single mode card.)
I'm sorry to say that your comments are wrong.
An MRI scan requires that the part to be scanned is in the exact centre of the magnet that surrounds the bore.
If you read the article, the birds do stay in an essentially stationary location. Particularly for smaller birds, even the wingtips would stay inside the zone covered by a normal MRI done on a human torso.
It also requires that the sftware that combines all of the sectional images into a 2-D slice and then a 3-D image know exactly where each image was taken from.
Well, the article states they are already creating 3D images of the bird via high-speed cameras.
Instead, I would focus on speed (Can the MRI slices be taken fast enough to image an entire bird multiple times a second? Seems unlikely with the current generation of equipment), accuracy (Can the imaging be matched up to a sufficent degree of accuracy to the MRI results), or costs versus benefits (MRIs are still rather expensive.) as reasons for not persuing the MRI concept.