- I feel safer, calmer and less stressed. I never thought that this 10km/h speed difference would make such a mental difference. I 've started listening to music again, since at 130-140km/h, i had to focus on traffic instead of music.
So you're one of those clueless idiots with their head in their radio that's dangerous everyone on the road. I typically drive at 130 miles per hour too on the highway, and PAY ATTENTION TO TRAFFIC!!
There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space. It is a common thing that should belong to all.
Total Bullshit. Ownership of the space and all contained within a sphere from the Sun to the Ort cloud is the NATURAL RIGHT of the original inhabitants of this solar system: Us. If any deliquent ET tries to slip in through a wormhole in the middle of the night while we're sleeping we have every right to BLAST it!
This is just a logical extension of the Monroe Doctrine: The Io333 Doctrine.
..this is something I have been asking for for a while. Every day, we have to deal with people driving 50 to 60 down our street (30 mph limit) where our and other's children are playing and riding bicycles.
Then you and the other parents are idiots raising Darwin Award candidates. I don't let my DOG play in the streets, and yet you let your CHILDREN!!!??? It's not horse any buggy days anymore.
What I find interesting is that no one in this thead has yet pointed out that not one manufacturer has given a damn about the quality of voice at both ends of the phone. I still use my five year old Qualcomm 2700 (made by Sony) becase even though I have tried *every* other cell phone on the market today, not one sounds as good (either at my end, or to the other party) as that old 2700. I've seen some explanations of why this is so, the main one being that the latest compression algorithms are all about squeezing as many people onto a tower as possible, regardless of what it ends up sounding like. One would think that after all these years cell phones would sound like a frigging high end stereo system, but instead all the tech has gone into blinking lights! The phone part has SUFFERED for all the tech. I just think it's weird. It's not just me, either -- I have had dozens of people try my old Qualcomm and they are always amazed at how good it sounds.
Oh heck, a mac I bought in 1992 (!) had voice recognition. It just never freaking worked. There's viavoice etc for the PC and they don't work either. Someday someone will make it work, and all the endless "desktop" arguments will be moot.
Why isn't there an open source attempt to model what the folks in Cuppertino are doing? KDE and Gnome are both Windows copies. I think folks would switch in droves if they could get an open-source Mac copy to run on their PC hardware.
I can't think of any incentive for switching from an XP interface to one that is almost as good as XP.
Uh... I have a new operating system... it's a umm FreeBSD based distribution, and it's called uh... WindowsBSD. There. I copyright the name. WindowsBSD.
3. Stability.// most uptimes in Linux are measured in months and years rather than days and weeks (with exceptions, of course), and the GUI being a completely separate component from the kernel helps this greatly
Uh... no. Before XP, yes. Now, no. The VMS core makes a difference.
Seriously though, what's going on? University connection has been up and down all day, some cryptic email came through from the Uni network admin about a virus ravaging the system, some of my email addresses are dead, etc...
I'm stunned. Really stunned. Goodbye XP. I couldn't keep linux up all the time because I've been using WP since the 80's. Ask those who type 100+WPM what they have to use to keep it up every day (i.e., legal secretaries), and they *all* use WP.
Interestingly, this allows the thousands of law firms across the country to go to linux if they wish for their secretaries. Unfortunatley though, the attornies are all still stuck in Windows to run various specialized legal packages.
You wrote it as though "glycoprotein" is a recent discovery. Actually a glycoprotein is a class of substances, to wit:
A sugar (usually a ketose or aldose) attached to a protein. There are *many*. They've been known about for ages. Perhaps you mean that they've discovered an *interesting* glycoprotein?
Related Links:
+ NASA's rover page Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status January 23, 2004 5 pm PST
NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.
Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information.
Spirit had not communicated successfully through Odyssey since the rover's communications difficulties began on Wednesday.
Spirit's twin, Opportunity, will reach Mars at 05:05 Universal Time on Jan. 25 (12:05 a.m. Sunday EST or 9:05 p.m. Saturday PST) at a landing site on the opposite side of the planet from Spirit.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu.
My Dell Axim has been doing this for more than a year now, and does a lot more.
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If an explosion sufficient to destroy the universe occurred here on Earth, I doubt anyone would be aware of it because we'd be instantly vaporized, so why worry about it?
Just because our universe is zapped, doesn't mean that we are. In fact, what could happen is that the disappearance of our universe means that we are all dropped into another higher dimentioned universe that our current one is floating in. And of course we all know what happens then: SLIME TENTICLE SPIDERS!
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- I feel safer, calmer and less stressed. I never thought that this 10km/h speed difference would make such a mental difference. I 've started listening to music again, since at 130-140km/h, i had to focus on traffic instead of music.
So you're one of those clueless idiots with their head in their radio that's dangerous everyone on the road. I typically drive at 130 miles per hour too on the highway, and PAY ATTENTION TO TRAFFIC!!
There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space. It is a common thing that should belong to all.
Total Bullshit. Ownership of the space and all contained within a sphere from the Sun to the Ort cloud is the NATURAL RIGHT of the original inhabitants of this solar system: Us. If any deliquent ET tries to slip in through a wormhole in the middle of the night while we're sleeping we have every right to BLAST it!
This is just a logical extension of the Monroe Doctrine: The Io333 Doctrine.
All GM and Ford cars already have this, and they make the data available in the event of accidents.
Does anyone know if any of the other large manufacturers (e.g., BMW, Toyota, Honda) do this? Is there a list somewhere?
Here is a link to see how the data is being used from GM and Ford vehicles.
..this is something I have been asking for for a while. Every day, we have to deal with people driving 50 to 60 down our street (30 mph limit) where our and other's children are playing and riding bicycles.
Then you and the other parents are idiots raising Darwin Award candidates. I don't let my DOG play in the streets, and yet you let your CHILDREN!!!??? It's not horse any buggy days anymore.
What I find interesting is that no one in this thead has yet pointed out that not one manufacturer has given a damn about the quality of voice at both ends of the phone. I still use my five year old Qualcomm 2700 (made by Sony) becase even though I have tried *every* other cell phone on the market today, not one sounds as good (either at my end, or to the other party) as that old 2700. I've seen some explanations of why this is so, the main one being that the latest compression algorithms are all about squeezing as many people onto a tower as possible, regardless of what it ends up sounding like. One would think that after all these years cell phones would sound like a frigging high end stereo system, but instead all the tech has gone into blinking lights! The phone part has SUFFERED for all the tech. I just think it's weird. It's not just me, either -- I have had dozens of people try my old Qualcomm and they are always amazed at how good it sounds.
JPFO
What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?
The part where those words were written 100 years before the concept of "governmental regulation" existed. Try a history course.
Oh heck, a mac I bought in 1992 (!) had voice recognition. It just never freaking worked. There's viavoice etc for the PC and they don't work either. Someday someone will make it work, and all the endless "desktop" arguments will be moot.
Why isn't there an open source attempt to model what the folks in Cuppertino are doing? KDE and Gnome are both Windows copies. I think folks would switch in droves if they could get an open-source Mac copy to run on their PC hardware.
I can't think of any incentive for switching from an XP interface to one that is almost as good as XP.
Well, it happened. My life's dream is now fulfilled; as special bonus, I was stabbed by a spelling nazi too!
I'm Slashdotted out, so I'm going out.
COMPUTER OFF!
Oh, that's not going to work until voice recognition in Longhorn. Darn.
It's "a", not "an."
(I've always wanted to be modded down by an anti-grammer-nazi nazi.)
I bet you didn't know you were a NAZI.
YOU NAZI MOD!
Uh... I have a new operating system... it's a umm FreeBSD based distribution, and it's called uh... WindowsBSD. There. I copyright the name. WindowsBSD.
SUE ME NOW YOU BASTARDS!!!!! (please?)
3. Stability. // most uptimes in Linux are measured in months and years rather than days and weeks (with exceptions, of course), and the GUI being a completely separate component from the kernel helps this greatly
Uh... no. Before XP, yes. Now, no. The VMS core makes a difference.
Seriously though, what's going on? University connection has been up and down all day, some cryptic email came through from the Uni network admin about a virus ravaging the system, some of my email addresses are dead, etc...
I'm stunned. Really stunned. Goodbye XP. I couldn't keep linux up all the time because I've been using WP since the 80's. Ask those who type 100+WPM what they have to use to keep it up every day (i.e., legal secretaries), and they *all* use WP.
Interestingly, this allows the thousands of law firms across the country to go to linux if they wish for their secretaries. Unfortunatley though, the attornies are all still stuck in Windows to run various specialized legal packages.
I'm guessing you're not a heterosexual male?
What can people on the moon or Mars do that a robot can't?
Stick their hand in the dirt and see if it's wet or not.
Wow. That just set my mind spinning! Are there any pictures of what mars looks like at night? If not, how can we ask NASA to take some?
The X-15 had such favorable PR that most people forget that one pilot lost his life when his X-15 spun out of control and disintegrated.
That is patently false.
He was rebuilt
You wrote it as though "glycoprotein" is a recent discovery. Actually a glycoprotein is a class of substances, to wit:
A sugar (usually a ketose or aldose) attached to a protein. There are *many*. They've been known about for ages. Perhaps you mean that they've discovered an *interesting* glycoprotein?
The flash ram went bad."
Why does this not surprise me? I'd guess that SanDisk put in the low bid for that part.
The flash ram went bad."
Why does this not surprise me? I'd guess that SanDisk put in the low bid for that part.
linky
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Artist's concept of Mars Exploration Rover
Related Links:
+ NASA's rover page
Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status
January 23, 2004
5 pm PST
NASA's Spirit rover did not go to sleep today even after ground controllers sent commands twice for it to do so.
Shortly before noon, controllers were surprised to receive a relay of data from Spirit via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Spirit sent 73 megabits at a rate of 128 kilobits per second. The transmission included power subsystem engineering data, no science data, and several frames of "fill data." Fill data are sets of intentionally random numbers that do not provide information.
Spirit had not communicated successfully through Odyssey since the rover's communications difficulties began on Wednesday.
Spirit's twin, Opportunity, will reach Mars at 05:05 Universal Time on Jan. 25 (12:05 a.m. Sunday EST or 9:05 p.m. Saturday PST) at a landing site on the opposite side of the planet from Spirit.
JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover project for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Additional information about the project is available from JPL at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov and from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., at http://athena.cornell.edu.
My Dell Axim has been doing this for more than a year now, and does a lot more.
If an explosion sufficient to destroy the universe occurred here on Earth, I doubt anyone would be aware of it because we'd be instantly vaporized, so why worry about it?
Just because our universe is zapped, doesn't mean that we are. In fact, what could happen is that the disappearance of our universe means that we are all dropped into another higher dimentioned universe that our current one is floating in. And of course we all know what happens then: SLIME TENTICLE SPIDERS!