In Alaska I would say its about as common to have a pilot's license as a motorcycle license in the rest of the country. If not more so. I ahve seen statisitcs that at one time 50% of the population had pilot licenses though I found that hard to believe. A more reliable source says "Aviation is a more common source of transportation here than anywhere in United States, with six times the average private pilot's licenses and 14 times as many private planes per capita." Another site says the figure is one out of 58 residents. And a file on the state's Dept. of Transportation website says the following:
It is estimated that Alaska has about six times as many private pilots per capita than the rest of the United States. Approximately 1 in 50 Alaskans has an airplane pilot's license. Currently 8,752 pilots reside in Alaska, and 3,776 of these have a private pilot certifi- cate. Based on its population, the average Alaskan is sixteen times more likely to own an aircraft than the average American citizen.
Bush planes that can be quipped with pontoons, wheels, or skis, can land on any horizontal surface - and so are a necessary mean to access remots areas such as native villages.
1. Light-up the craft. OR 2. Instantly determine what is causing the optical illusion. 3. Get very detailed moving photos of the craft. 4. Get a definitive distance measurement, that will help when reviewing the tape(s). 5. Get credibility
6. Get picked up by federal agents and held indefinately on vague assertions that you are threat to national security. (Hey, they already have over 600 people in custody folowing 9/11, who's going to notice or question the disappearance of one more, right?) 7. ????????? 8. PROFIT!
I think the figure you are citing is for HDTV Ready sets. While I'm sure some people have sprung for the HDTV receiver set top boxes needed to actually get the HD Digital signals on most "HDTV Ready" TVs/monitors. I think the number of people that have bought the add-on receiver in addition to the monitor, or that have bought one of the few sets with built-in receivers is far fewer that the number of HDTV-Ready sets/monitors sold.
The $700 additional investment is pretty steep and it appears that only units bundled with the DirecTV HD reciever are getting enough sales to stay viable on the market.
As another former karma 50+ I too find this bothersome. The switch to word based karma would have been an ideal time to get rid of the foolish cap business. Personally I would like to see the following levels beyond Excellent:
how is it actually going to CLEAN the waste? Radioactivity is a property of the individual atoms making up the waste.
I had the same problem with the write-up. It says there are bugs that eat carbon, well hell, I eat carbon too, that doen't mean I don't also excrete carbon. I'm assuming they meant they ate carbon dioxide and/or monoxide bonded it with something else like hydrogen to produce hydro-carbons or calcium to produce harmless calcium carbonate.
Thanks for your clear informative explanation. I would add one point though. Most people when they hear the term MagLev infer that what is being talked about involves superconducting magnets. Unless there has been a dramatic revolution in room temperature superconductors that I haven't heard about, I don't think we will be seeing those kinds of MagLev devices being put into household appliances in the near future. If you need a super-cold refrigerator to store a ready source of liquid Nitrogen, it would be a very efficient method of powering a household fan to keep you cool on a hot day.
Doesn't this imply that the full "collection" will be at least 12 DVDs? . . . Is this set going to retail around $200 or so?
The Extended Edition can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $25.99. So I assume that you'll be able to get four disc sets of each film of th trilogy for a total just under $80.
Of course, if you really, really must have every edition available, you could get the Gift Set version of each film, plus a likely compendium complete trilogy gift pack edition, which at around $60 each for each film and maybe $100 plus for the trilogy could set you back over $300, but I expect there is a lot of repeated footage included and the only possible reason to buy all of them is for collecting and not actual viewing. For example the only additional footage available in the FotR gift set is on the National Geographic DVD which can be bought seperately for $21.49 the additional $11.50 cost is for figurines and gift cards. And since the National Geographic disc is in full screen format, I don't think it is for cinemaphiles. Just lots of pics of New Zealand.
Sidebar: what about the organized labor lobby for highway workers who pour asphalt every four years on every major road in the US?... The cost is half as much, and has twice the durability. So there would be less asphalt produced, and half the labor needed.
Actually, I have always heard that the reason for this is that the car companies depend on potholes and frostheaves, etc. to wear away at the cars so that typically they fall apart before 150k miles. Meanwhile a certain number of additional lives are lost each year as a result of people swerving to avoid potholes, but that's just part of the cost of doing business right?
rumours abound that in Britain, researchers are using scales from north atlantic cod in a new technology they are calling "fish'n chips."
Actually, fish scales generally are left at sea when the fish are caught, scaled, gutted, (sometimes filleted) and flash frozen to be stored in the hold until the ship gets to port.
On the other hand, crab shells are made of chitin, a protein with similar properties to the keratin that makes up feathers, hair and nails. Crab shells stay on the animals until after cooking and are stripped off during the 'picking' process. There is already a market for crab shells as they are composted into fertilizer which would mean diverting them to another industrial process would be pretty straight forward.
Personally when I read the headline I was expecting to read a story about a product that competes with pork rinds, and not one that competes with Pentiums . And as for barbecue chips, Nitrogen based plastics have a nasty tendency to explode under extreme conditions, I hope they test for that before they let the overclockers (overcluckers?) get ahold of them.
I have noticed a trend in the news this week on vicious fresh water creatures invading the waterways of foreign countries. Germany has been the victim of two of these recent 'invasions': a two foot long piranha, and a nearly one metre long North American snapping turtle. (Ironically, I think a 32" snapping turtle would be the ideal 'solution' to the snakehead, since if it can bite off a human arm it sould easily bite one of these in two. Also, the ability to go on land wouldn't keep it safe from the snapping turtle, though I am curious as to which can travel faster on land.
Please people, the next time your pet outgrows its aquarium, think before you release it into the wild.
MS has roots in Linux, just like almost every other software shop that's still alive.
I think you mean Unix, they had their own flavor of Unix once, XENIX. But NT/2000/XP aren't derived from this, they get their Unix like properties via their VMS heritage.
No one is forcing students to use the $549 Hewlett-Packard Jordana PDAs, which are provided for free,
Does MJ get a royalty for each one of those sold? I think they probably meant the HP Jornada. Not that a Jordan themed PDA wouldn't be a good idea, but somehow I think he would probably go with a SONY rather than an HP.
Dude, this is the X-Files, they don't need any reason to bring dead characters back. True, since the Final Ep has already shown in the US we now know that they were some of the 'dead' characters to come back in a halucination/waking dream to Mulder to give him advice. But the final Ep several times reminds us that super soldiers can't really be killed except with magnatite from certain meteors. And that Mulder's sister was cloned multiple times allowing for multiple deaths during the series of his sister, though we are told she actually dies in the 80's.
The only thing good about that is that you get to see your least favourite characters die repeatedly. Of course we also know they did bring back CSM from the 'presumed dead' to actually and pretty much beyond doubt kill him since they show him melting in a bomb blast, and since he is in a cave where super-soldiers can't enter, we know they can't use that excuse for bringing him back. But it still leaves cloning.
I hope they bring TLG back for the second film, it just would be the X-Files without them. As for CSM, let's hope that he is well and truly dead this time, though I hope to see the actor appear in other venues since he was a very good bad guy without being campy.
The change virtually ensures that AOL for Mac OS X will be Gecko based. AOL claims that beta results so far have shown significant improvements in speed and compliance with HTML standards by using Gecko. One can only assume that future Windows versions will at least have the option of a Gecko based browser as well.
If every slashdot reader . . . allowed their viewing habits to be tracked in the aggrigate, Futurama would never be cancled.
Fox released their fall schedule yesterday and Futurama made it in. From the rest of the article you get the impression that with all the other cancellations (X-Files, Ally McBeal, Dark Angel) they needed to keep some of the marginal shows around just so people would remember what network they were watching.
Of course they failed to make the one change that might give the show a real shot at survival, putting it in the 8:30 timeslot instead of the 7:00 slot where it will yet again get bumber almost every week by NFL football.
The change virtually ensures that AOL for Mac OS X will be Gecko based. AOL claims that beta results so far have shown significant improvements in speed and compliance with HTML standards by using Gecko. One can only assume that future Windows versions will at least have the option of a Gecko based browser as well.
No per-user "taxes" Xserve lets you eliminate the most galling expense in your department's budget: the usurious per-user "tax" you've been obliged to pay for using server software. Since Xserve comes with an unlimited-client license of the UNIX-based, industrial-strength Mac OS X Server, you can serve thousands of additional users - without spending thousands of additional dollars in licensing fees.
Now I wonder who they could be talking about? Later they also promote its "Out-of-the-box support for Mac, Windows, UNIX and Linux clients" further trying to stake a claim as direct competitors against Win2k/XP based servers.
Of course, why didn't I think of that, it all sounds so easy now that you explain it so clearly.
My question is, if this membrane is capable of extracting H out of plain water, what is the point of starting with waste water? You might as well put one of these "palladium-coated ceramic semi-permeable membrane[s]" where your fuel filter is and start filling up your car's tank from a garden hose (assuming of course you replaced your engine with a fuel cell already).
I'd like to see a linux distro that includes just one stable, simple version of each type of app in a basic install. One browser, one file manager, one word processor.
COREL tried this with their distro, and had good distribution channels, a widely recognized brand name, and marketing bucks. They even had the 'download and select run feature' you talk about thanks to an enhanced Debian.deb installer.
In the end they sold off their Linux division for $3M.
I think the lesson learned from this was that they weren't accepted by the Linux community, and that the Linux community is often too caught up in wars between distros or between Linux and BSD or GNU to focus on what really matters which is getting Linux accepted by the masses and crushing the MS monopoly.
PLANET: An object that formed in the disk surrounding a star. To be called a planet, an object must be more massive than Pluto
Assuming they meant as massive or more massive than Pluto so as to not actually exclude Pluto from the definition, then that definition would include the following moons each with a mass as great as Pluto's (1.36 x 10^22 kg), as planets: Earth's Moon (7.35) Ganymede (14.9) Callisto (10.75) Io (8.92) Europa (4.87) Titan (13.46) Triton (2.16) Arguing the precedent argument that Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery and the others have not, would be false since the four Galilean moon of Jupitor were named by him as new "wandering stars" (ie planets) when he discovered them since arguing formally that they orbited Jupiter instead of the Earth like all the objects in the sky were believed to, would have been heresy. So I guess according to CalTech we have 15 planets in the solar systm.
[Pluto]'s the largest (discovered) Kuiper Belt object
Which would therefore make Pluto the first discovered Kuiper Belt object to have a moon, making a total of Eight with the seven referenced in the article.
It was later discovered that it was smaller than originally thought. We still call it a planet today because we've been calling it one all along.
Given that there are other Kuiper Belt objects on the same order of magnitude in diameter as Pluto, and that Kuiper Belt objects with moons seem common, isn't there even greater reason to reclassify Pluto? With a mass of just 4% of the next smallest planet (only 1/8th the most massive moon in the Solar System), why should it continue to be singled out from the other KB objects? Isn't science about taking new information and changing our assumptions and definitions to comform with new facts as they discovered?
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In Alaska I would say its about as common to have a pilot's license as a motorcycle license in the rest of the country. If not more so. I ahve seen statisitcs that at one time 50% of the population had pilot licenses though I found that hard to believe. A more reliable source says "Aviation is a more common source of transportation here than anywhere in United States, with six times the average private pilot's licenses and 14 times as many private planes per capita." Another site says the figure is one out of 58 residents. And a file on the state's Dept. of Transportation website says the following:
Bush planes that can be quipped with pontoons, wheels, or skis, can land on any horizontal surface - and so are a necessary mean to access remots areas such as native villages.
With that, you should be able to:
1. Light-up the craft.
OR
2. Instantly determine what is causing the optical illusion.
3. Get very detailed moving photos of the craft.
4. Get a definitive distance measurement, that will help when reviewing the tape(s).
5. Get credibility
6. Get picked up by federal agents and held indefinately on vague assertions that you are threat to national security. (Hey, they already have over 600 people in custody folowing 9/11, who's going to notice or question the disappearance of one more, right?)
7. ?????????
8. PROFIT!
Try about 2 million HDTV sets in use in the USA.
I think the figure you are citing is for HDTV Ready sets. While I'm sure some people have sprung for the HDTV receiver set top boxes needed to actually get the HD Digital signals on most "HDTV Ready" TVs/monitors. I think the number of people that have bought the add-on receiver in addition to the monitor, or that have bought one of the few sets with built-in receivers is far fewer that the number of HDTV-Ready sets/monitors sold.
The $700 additional investment is pretty steep and it appears that only units bundled with the DirecTV HD reciever are getting enough sales to stay viable on the market.
I had the same problem with the write-up. It says there are bugs that eat carbon, well hell, I eat carbon too, that doen't mean I don't also excrete carbon. I'm assuming they meant they ate carbon dioxide and/or monoxide bonded it with something else like hydrogen to produce hydro-carbons or calcium to produce harmless calcium carbonate.
Thanks for your clear informative explanation. I would add one point though. Most people when they hear the term MagLev infer that what is being talked about involves superconducting magnets. Unless there has been a dramatic revolution in room temperature superconductors that I haven't heard about, I don't think we will be seeing those kinds of MagLev devices being put into household appliances in the near future. If you need a super-cold refrigerator to store a ready source of liquid Nitrogen, it would be a very efficient method of powering a household fan to keep you cool on a hot day.
Doesn't this imply that the full "collection" will be at least 12 DVDs? . . . Is this set going to retail around $200 or so?
The Extended Edition can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $25.99. So I assume that you'll be able to get four disc sets of each film of th trilogy for a total just under $80.
Of course, if you really, really must have every edition available, you could get the Gift Set version of each film, plus a likely compendium complete trilogy gift pack edition, which at around $60 each for each film and maybe $100 plus for the trilogy could set you back over $300, but I expect there is a lot of repeated footage included and the only possible reason to buy all of them is for collecting and not actual viewing. For example the only additional footage available in the FotR gift set is on the National Geographic DVD which can be bought seperately for $21.49 the additional $11.50 cost is for figurines and gift cards. And since the National Geographic disc is in full screen format, I don't think it is for cinemaphiles. Just lots of pics of New Zealand.
Sidebar: what about the organized labor lobby for highway workers who pour asphalt every four years on every major road in the US? ... The cost is half as much, and has twice the durability. So there would be less asphalt produced, and half the labor needed.
Actually, I have always heard that the reason for this is that the car companies depend on potholes and frostheaves, etc. to wear away at the cars so that typically they fall apart before 150k miles. Meanwhile a certain number of additional lives are lost each year as a result of people swerving to avoid potholes, but that's just part of the cost of doing business right?
rumours abound that in Britain, researchers are using scales from north atlantic cod in a new technology they are calling "fish'n chips."
Actually, fish scales generally are left at sea when the fish are caught, scaled, gutted, (sometimes filleted) and flash frozen to be stored in the hold until the ship gets to port.
On the other hand, crab shells are made of chitin, a protein with similar properties to the keratin that makes up feathers, hair and nails. Crab shells stay on the animals until after cooking and are stripped off during the 'picking' process. There is already a market for crab shells as they are composted into fertilizer which would mean diverting them to another industrial process would be pretty straight forward.
Personally when I read the headline I was expecting to read a story about a product that competes with pork rinds, and not one that competes with Pentiums . And as for barbecue chips, Nitrogen based plastics have a nasty tendency to explode under extreme conditions, I hope they test for that before they let the overclockers (overcluckers?) get ahold of them.
I have noticed a trend in the news this week on vicious fresh water creatures invading the waterways of foreign countries. Germany has been the victim of two of these recent 'invasions': a two foot long piranha, and a nearly one metre long North American snapping turtle. (Ironically, I think a 32" snapping turtle would be the ideal 'solution' to the snakehead, since if it can bite off a human arm it sould easily bite one of these in two. Also, the ability to go on land wouldn't keep it safe from the snapping turtle, though I am curious as to which can travel faster on land.
Please people, the next time your pet outgrows its aquarium, think before you release it into the wild.
MS has roots in Linux, just like almost every other software shop that's still alive.
I think you mean Unix, they had their own flavor of Unix once, XENIX. But NT/2000/XP aren't derived from this, they get their Unix like properties via their VMS heritage.
No one is forcing students to use the $549 Hewlett-Packard Jordana PDAs, which are provided for free,
Does MJ get a royalty for each one of those sold? I think they probably meant the HP Jornada. Not that a Jordan themed PDA wouldn't be a good idea, but somehow I think he would probably go with a SONY rather than an HP.
The pilot is available on DVD. The disc also comes with retrospective ep 'The Beginning' in widescreen format (the pilot is in Full Screen only).
Anyone know what happened to that woman?
BTW Amazon has Cable Modems from $49.99!
In parts of the US, there is the STSN service. They provide a hotel locator on their website.
Wayport also has national (and international) maps of participating hotels
Some other online lists of providers can be found here, here, and here.
Of course, you want to make sure that if you invest in a wireless card it will be compatible with the hotels you most frequently stay at.
Dude, this is the X-Files, they don't need any reason to bring dead characters back.
True, since the Final Ep has already shown in the US we now know that they were some of the 'dead' characters to come back in a halucination/waking dream to Mulder to give him advice. But the final Ep several times reminds us that super soldiers can't really be killed except with magnatite from certain meteors. And that Mulder's sister was cloned multiple times allowing for multiple deaths during the series of his sister, though we are told she actually dies in the 80's.
The only thing good about that is that you get to see your least favourite characters die repeatedly.
Of course we also know they did bring back CSM from the 'presumed dead' to actually and pretty much beyond doubt kill him since they show him melting in a bomb blast, and since he is in a cave where super-soldiers can't enter, we know they can't use that excuse for bringing him back. But it still leaves cloning.
I hope they bring TLG back for the second film, it just would be the X-Files without them. As for CSM, let's hope that he is well and truly dead this time, though I hope to see the actor appear in other venues since he was a very good bad guy without being campy.
I'm torn about AOL. I used to want their complete destruction. But now I want to see them reinstate Netscape in the browser market,
It looks like you may get your wish. It was announced yesterday that AOL will be dropping MSIE from its Mac OS X version beta.
The change virtually ensures that AOL for Mac OS X will be Gecko based. AOL claims that beta results so far have shown significant improvements in speed and compliance with HTML standards by using Gecko. One can only assume that future Windows versions will at least have the option of a Gecko based browser as well.
If every slashdot reader . . . allowed their viewing habits to be tracked in the aggrigate, Futurama would never be cancled.
Fox released their fall schedule yesterday and Futurama made it in. From the rest of the article you get the impression that with all the other cancellations (X-Files, Ally McBeal, Dark Angel) they needed to keep some of the marginal shows around just so people would remember what network they were watching.
Of course they failed to make the one change that might give the show a real shot at survival, putting it in the 8:30 timeslot instead of the 7:00 slot where it will yet again get bumber almost every week by NFL football.
It looks like software quality was a factor in convincing AOL to drop MSIE from its OS X version beta.
The change virtually ensures that AOL for Mac OS X will be Gecko based. AOL claims that beta results so far have shown significant improvements in speed and compliance with HTML standards by using Gecko. One can only assume that future Windows versions will at least have the option of a Gecko based browser as well.
they are doing a public service by blocking pr0n by saving people from unneeded eye strain.
See, your mother was right. That stuff will make you go blind.
Of course, why didn't I think of that, it all sounds so easy now that you explain it so clearly.
My question is, if this membrane is capable of extracting H out of plain water, what is the point of starting with waste water? You might as well put one of these "palladium-coated ceramic semi-permeable membrane[s]" where your fuel filter is and start filling up your car's tank from a garden hose (assuming of course you replaced your engine with a fuel cell already).
I'd like to see a linux distro that includes just one stable, simple version of each type of app in a basic install. One browser, one file manager, one word processor.
.deb installer.
COREL tried this with their distro, and had good distribution channels, a widely recognized brand name, and marketing bucks. They even had the 'download and select run feature' you talk about thanks to an enhanced Debian
In the end they sold off their Linux division for $3M.
I think the lesson learned from this was that they weren't accepted by the Linux community, and that the Linux community is often too caught up in wars between distros or between Linux and BSD or GNU to focus on what really matters which is getting Linux accepted by the masses and crushing the MS monopoly.
PLANET: An object that formed in the disk surrounding a star. To be called a planet, an object must be more massive than Pluto
Assuming they meant as massive or more massive than Pluto so as to not actually exclude Pluto from the definition, then that definition would include the following moons each with a mass as great as Pluto's (1.36 x 10^22 kg), as planets:
Earth's Moon (7.35)
Ganymede (14.9)
Callisto (10.75)
Io (8.92)
Europa (4.87)
Titan (13.46)
Triton (2.16)
Arguing the precedent argument that Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery and the others have not, would be false since the four Galilean moon of Jupitor were named by him as new "wandering stars" (ie planets) when he discovered them since arguing formally that they orbited Jupiter instead of the Earth like all the objects in the sky were believed to, would have been heresy. So I guess according to CalTech we have 15 planets in the solar systm.
[Pluto]'s the largest (discovered) Kuiper Belt object
Which would therefore make Pluto the first discovered Kuiper Belt object to have a moon, making a total of Eight with the seven referenced in the article.
It was later discovered that it was smaller than originally thought. We still call it a planet today because we've been calling it one all along.
Given that there are other Kuiper Belt objects on the same order of magnitude in diameter as Pluto, and that Kuiper Belt objects with moons seem common, isn't there even greater reason to reclassify Pluto? With a mass of just 4% of the next smallest planet (only 1/8th the most massive moon in the Solar System), why should it continue to be singled out from the other KB objects? Isn't science about taking new information and changing our assumptions and definitions to comform with new facts as they discovered?