I think the most important thing I saw in that article was this address to send condolances to:
People wishing to express their sympathies can send notes to this address:
Johnson Space Center
NASA Road 1
Houston, TX, 77058
The astronauts are heroes who risk their lives to better our world. They are truly the best of the best and I think we have taken them for granted. Since Apollo, the missions they've been on haven't been attention-grabbing and shuttle launches became routine. But I think this event has awoken us to the fact that space exploration is one of the most important fields and we need to give NASA more funding. It's time to realize that space exploration is costly but to make it safe, it is even more costly. I'm also going to draft a few letters to my national representatives and let them know that NASA needs omre money. The launch of a space shuttle is not mundane and we should still be in awe of it.
Snags??? I suppose you mean the TOWN under the area they wanted to drop the balls on. Doh!
Well, that shouldn't be a problem... a 4,000 mile-per-hour bowling ball probably wouldn't have any problem plowing straight through any snags that got in the way.
A bowling ball, on the other hand, though it could maybe technically be affected by the bernoulli effect (ping pong balls are, after all...), has a much smaller surface area to weight ratio.
A bowling ball doesnt seem like all that great of a simulation, though i can see how it would be usefull. All the meteorites ive seen have had very irregular surfaces, wouldnt that affect the way it flies through the air? And think of all the complicated fluid dynamics stuff you would have to deal with if you wanted to simulate a meteorite that was melted during entry into the atmosphere.
the cable / DSL operators will soon find out that trying to wage this battle through technical means will result in an arms race they cannot possibly win...
...which will, of course, result in their attempts to find more onerous legal solutions to the problem.
I found that an unidentified individual had accessed an account I was using at escape.com, from the Well's subnet.
This lead to the termination of a lot of "suspect" accounts on well.com of which mine was one. Pretty much anyone who had touched that shithole escape in any form (that could be proven) was given walking papers.
Why isn't i.e. fully integrated with Word the way outlook is?
Who cares? Word converted to html is bloated and clumsy.
When I view source from i.e. why does it come up in notepad and not that frontpad/page editor?
It can, if you bother to configure it to. I have, works great.
Not to nitpick, you do have some good ideas here though that i like:
How come I can't develop more complex relationships for bookmarks than inclusion (for example keywords)?
I find my self writing apps that interface to web pages. Mainly because it provides a simple, easy to use interface with out having to have people install software on their machines. People can access the software from any machine, independent of OS and hardware.
But i find many of my clients have problems. Problems checking email, problems entering in url's for websites. Problems finding the little 'x' in the upper right hand corner of the active window to make it disappear, and problems keeping food off the keyboard.
The last thing your average user wants is a bunch of shit all over their screen theyre afraid to click on. All too often people go in and dick up all thoes wonderful settings programmers were nice enough to provide options for. Things like default fonts, colors, and size. Stuff like positions of buttons and the like.
Entering in keywords to sift through your favorites list is cool, but all too often you find that sites in your favorites directory no longer exist anyway... The browser is just a window you look through to view dynamic and static content. Id like to see people spend more time making things simpler and easier for other people to use. Piles of features are great, but really, when was the last time you felt like watching a movie in your web browser...
You'd see Microsoft spending the kind of money on I.E. that they were in 95-98, and nobody can keep up with that. Its only because I.E. today isn't improving the way it was in the mid 90's that have managed to catch up and beat them in many areas.
I dont think the problem with the whole web using experience today has a whole lot to do with web browsers. I think it has more to do with web content, and thats where you see microsoft spending a lot of it's money. Browsers are jam packed with features, so why cram in more useless features when you can spend more time and money working on things in the back end side, where all the content comes from...
Opera has a head start on Safari... instead of giving up, they could just try and out-innovate Safari they way Watson has out-innovated Sherlock.
Problem is, and we have seen it before, end users dont really care what browser they use ( or other applications for that matter), as long as long as they can check their webmail and surf. Lots of browsers do this just fine. Some do it better than others. But the fact remains that most end users will just use use what came with the system.
Ive used opera quite a bit on pc's and it's pretty fast. Bout a month ago i put it on my macintosh, a blazing 80Mhz runnin macos 9.1. It was dog slow compared to ie on that box.
The human mind is a terrible computation machine. How many people can give you the sqrt(17) to 8 digits without pen and paper?
Human minds are great pattern matchers. How many computers can recognize the difference between a dog and a cat?
Computers are terrible pattern matchers because we havent taught them how to pattern match effectively, or taught them how to learn to pattern match.
Pattern matching is a difficult computational process, which the human mind has developed over millions of years. I guess that kinda makes the human mind a pretty powerful computational device, but only for specific applications.
I hope they treat him fairly in this match. IBM didnt with their match, even though i didnt like the way Kasperov handeled himself either.... Lets face it, the human mind is a great computational machine, but somethings are better suited for computers. Thats why we make comuters. At some time, the design of hardware and software will be beyond anyone human minds comprehemption, were pretty much there now. Try coding in assembler for ia64. Yeah you can do it... But a finely tuned algorythm is gonna give you a run for your money
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But i've got a long time ahead of me tonight writing stuff in php and drinking beer!
You can't actually beleive that. Id bet it was within months of his release he got on the net. He can connect to the internet using empty tuna cans and parts from walkman tape players, according to the prision officials anyway....
I remember in the 3rd Grade, the biosphere team came to my class and did a presentation. It got me interested in science at a very early age and since then i've got my masters in chemistry and now work for a biotech company.
Its sad to see how people have made fun of this project and called it worthless, since it has so much potential. The science being done there is vastly contributing to our knowledge of keeping environments alive and running in contained environments. There are many interactions we have learned about in there that weve overlooked in our own environment!
I guess this is just another example of a great idea that contributed massively to humanity, but probably wont get any respect untill generations of people come and go and rediscover how important it really was.
I've spent a lot of time playing with thoes little netwinders. The linux distro that it comes with is second rate and the hardware is buggy. I had the opportunity to play with dozens of the things and some of them would power down if you unplug the ether net cables. The driver that monitors the internal temp of the box would often cause it to lock up. I could care less if they come back or not. They screwed up once, and they'll do it again.
Maybe the problem isnt spammers, it's the idiots with email accounts. Of course your going to get mad spam if you give out your email address so freely. I have several email accounts. One strictly for receiving email from family and close friends, and another for the purpose of when i have to submit my email address to websites for various reasons.
And guess what, i never get spam in the email account i use for family and friends. Spammers can only send you junk mail if they know your address, so use your brain and stop giving it away.
Just as birds will surely shit on the hood of your car, your going to get spam. We dont need arcane laws to prevent something we can all not have to deal with if we just bump up our iq a notch or two.
Cmon yall. Thats the freebsd logo up there and the article is about openbsd. The last thing we need is for all the linux weenies out there pimping freebsd logos on their crappy open bsd boxen.
So this book sucked, and thhat looks like the selling point. Every body said it sucked so people bought it just to find out how bad it sucked. IF you lost your pda/laptop/gold chains and teeth crowns cause you dawt com bombed wouldnt you write a book to?
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I think the most important thing I saw in that article was this address to send condolances to: People wishing to express their sympathies can send notes to this address: Johnson Space Center NASA Road 1 Houston, TX, 77058
The astronauts are heroes who risk their lives to better our world. They are truly the best of the best and I think we have taken them for granted. Since Apollo, the missions they've been on haven't been attention-grabbing and shuttle launches became routine. But I think this event has awoken us to the fact that space exploration is one of the most important fields and we need to give NASA more funding. It's time to realize that space exploration is costly but to make it safe, it is even more costly. I'm also going to draft a few letters to my national representatives and let them know that NASA needs omre money. The launch of a space shuttle is not mundane and we should still be in awe of it.
What do you think?
Snags??? I suppose you mean the TOWN under the area they wanted to drop the balls on. Doh!
Well, that shouldn't be a problem... a 4,000 mile-per-hour bowling ball probably wouldn't have any problem plowing straight through any snags that got in the way.
A bowling ball, on the other hand, though it could maybe technically be affected by the bernoulli effect (ping pong balls are, after all...), has a much smaller surface area to weight ratio.
A bowling ball doesnt seem like all that great of a simulation, though i can see how it would be usefull. All the meteorites ive seen have had very irregular surfaces, wouldnt that affect the way it flies through the air? And think of all the complicated fluid dynamics stuff you would have to deal with if you wanted to simulate a meteorite that was melted during entry into the atmosphere.
I'm guessing getting all the hair salons to chip in a gallon or two won't help here will it. Worth a shot I guess. (:
the cable / DSL operators will soon find out that trying to wage this battle through technical means will result in an arms race they cannot possibly win...
...which will, of course, result in their attempts to find more onerous legal solutions to the problem.
I say - let the games begin!
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'init' is the mother or all processes...
I found that an unidentified individual had accessed an account I was using at escape.com, from the Well's subnet.
This lead to the termination of a lot of "suspect" accounts on well.com of which mine was one. Pretty much anyone who had touched that shithole escape in any form (that could be proven) was given walking papers.
http://www.slashdot.org I think that should be ... doh!
no, that should be
http://www.slashdot.org:80
Why isn't i.e. fully integrated with Word the way outlook is?
Who cares? Word converted to html is bloated and clumsy.
When I view source from i.e. why does it come up in notepad and not that frontpad/page editor?
It can, if you bother to configure it to. I have, works great.
Not to nitpick, you do have some good ideas here though that i like:
How come I can't develop more complex relationships for bookmarks than inclusion (for example keywords)?
I find my self writing apps that interface to web pages. Mainly because it provides a simple, easy to use interface with out having to have people install software on their machines. People can access the software from any machine, independent of OS and hardware.
But i find many of my clients have problems. Problems checking email, problems entering in url's for websites. Problems finding the little 'x' in the upper right hand corner of the active window to make it disappear, and problems keeping food off the keyboard.
The last thing your average user wants is a bunch of shit all over their screen theyre afraid to click on. All too often people go in and dick up all thoes wonderful settings programmers were nice enough to provide options for. Things like default fonts, colors, and size. Stuff like positions of buttons and the like.
Entering in keywords to sift through your favorites list is cool, but all too often you find that sites in your favorites directory no longer exist anyway... The browser is just a window you look through to view dynamic and static content. Id like to see people spend more time making things simpler and easier for other people to use. Piles of features are great, but really, when was the last time you felt like watching a movie in your web browser...
You'd see Microsoft spending the kind of money on I.E. that they were in 95-98, and nobody can keep up with that. Its only because I.E. today isn't improving the way it was in the mid 90's that have managed to catch up and beat them in many areas.
I dont think the problem with the whole web using experience today has a whole lot to do with web browsers. I think it has more to do with web content, and thats where you see microsoft spending a lot of it's money. Browsers are jam packed with features, so why cram in more useless features when you can spend more time and money working on things in the back end side, where all the content comes from...
Opera has a head start on Safari... instead of giving up, they could just try and out-innovate Safari they way Watson has out-innovated Sherlock.
Problem is, and we have seen it before, end users dont really care what browser they use ( or other applications for that matter), as long as long as they can check their webmail and surf. Lots of browsers do this just fine. Some do it better than others. But the fact remains that most end users will just use use what came with the system.
Ive used opera quite a bit on pc's and it's pretty fast. Bout a month ago i put it on my macintosh, a blazing 80Mhz runnin macos 9.1. It was dog slow compared to ie on that box.
The human mind is a terrible computation machine. How many people can give you the sqrt(17) to 8 digits without pen and paper?
Human minds are great pattern matchers. How many computers can recognize the difference between a dog and a cat?
Computers are terrible pattern matchers because we havent taught them how to pattern match effectively, or taught them how to learn to pattern match.
Pattern matching is a difficult computational process, which the human mind has developed over millions of years. I guess that kinda makes the human mind a pretty powerful computational device, but only for specific applications.
I hope they treat him fairly in this match. IBM didnt with their match, even though i didnt like the way Kasperov handeled himself either.... Lets face it, the human mind is a great computational machine, but somethings are better suited for computers. Thats why we make comuters. At some time, the design of hardware and software will be beyond anyone human minds comprehemption, were pretty much there now. Try coding in assembler for ia64. Yeah you can do it... But a finely tuned algorythm is gonna give you a run for your money
But i've got a long time ahead of me tonight writing stuff in php and drinking beer!
You can't actually beleive that. Id bet it was within months of his release he got on the net. He can connect to the internet using empty tuna cans and parts from walkman tape players, according to the prision officials anyway....
I remember in the 3rd Grade, the biosphere team came to my class and did a presentation. It got me interested in science at a very early age and since then i've got my masters in chemistry and now work for a biotech company.
Its sad to see how people have made fun of this project and called it worthless, since it has so much potential. The science being done there is vastly contributing to our knowledge of keeping environments alive and running in contained environments. There are many interactions we have learned about in there that weve overlooked in our own environment!
I guess this is just another example of a great idea that contributed massively to humanity, but probably wont get any respect untill generations of people come and go and rediscover how important it really was.
I've spent a lot of time playing with thoes little netwinders. The linux distro that it comes with is second rate and the hardware is buggy. I had the opportunity to play with dozens of the things and some of them would power down if you unplug the ether net cables. The driver that monitors the internal temp of the box would often cause it to lock up. I could care less if they come back or not. They screwed up once, and they'll do it again.
A beouwolf cluster of these things! hehe sorry yall i've just always wanted to post that.
Maybe the problem isnt spammers, it's the idiots with email accounts. Of course your going to get mad spam if you give out your email address so freely. I have several email accounts. One strictly for receiving email from family and close friends, and another for the purpose of when i have to submit my email address to websites for various reasons.
And guess what, i never get spam in the email account i use for family and friends. Spammers can only send you junk mail if they know your address, so use your brain and stop giving it away.
Just as birds will surely shit on the hood of your car, your going to get spam. We dont need arcane laws to prevent something we can all not have to deal with if we just bump up our iq a notch or two.
Cmon yall. Thats the freebsd logo up there and the article is about openbsd. The last thing we need is for all the linux weenies out there pimping freebsd logos on their crappy open bsd boxen.
So this book sucked, and thhat looks like the selling point. Every body said it sucked so people bought it just to find out how bad it sucked. IF you lost your pda/laptop/gold chains and teeth crowns cause you dawt com bombed wouldnt you write a book to?