Sometimes medic is used, especially in the press, to refer to everything from an EMT to a neurosurgeon, like using the word "cook" to refer to everything from a fry cook at McDonalds to the chef at Le Cirque. Not to disprove your comment, which is strictly speaking correct, but to make the point that we can't read too much into the language of a story like this.
Let's remember that for a long time (maybe still, for all I know) Firefox commit privileges were limited to a handful of developers. UIs don't work well by committee. Open source doesn't have to mean open commits.
What makes you think you can't store encrypted data on an iPod? No harder than using TrueCrypt on a thumbdrive, and with a lot more storage; and anyone stealing the thing will be more likely to just wipe it and use it as a music player.
Feynman was talking about the system as it existed in 1986. Remember the O-rings? They were the core problem that lowered the SRB reliability to 1 in 50. The SRBs were redesigned. I'm not sure about the SSMEs, but I would not assume that the SSMEs of 1986 are the same as the SSMEs of 2003-2005.
The Romans used quadriremes at Syracuse. They were at anchor for quite some time, as it was a blockade/siege, rather than merely a naval battle. Most likely the attack with the "death ray" would have taken place well after the start of the siege. My question is why the "death ray" couldn't have been aimed at the stowed sails - I don't think the sails would have been put belowdecks (but I don't know much about Roman naval technology: the best source would no doubt be Lionel Casson's book Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World ISBN 0801851300 ) - I haven't read it, but Casson's very good on travel in the ancient world, and he knows his ancient ships. On Syracuse itself, I imagine there's stuff in Polybius, but from what I remember, the "death ray" story is late (Plutarch, maybe? Maybe even later?) and we don't know for sure if there's a reliable source lying behind the story. Regardless, Archimedes did engineer various kinds of engines that were used in the siege (cranes, etc.).
This was just a contingency plan; they never expected to get to Wilma, let alone Alpha, Beta, or Gamma. That's why it wasn't thought through so carefully. I imagine that if they do get a "retireable" storm with a Greek-letter name, they'll come up with another contingency plan.
So David Pogue, the author of Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual has no Windows frame of reference? How much of an idiot does Dvorak think the average reader is? As much as he is?
I store everything in 20 MB encrypted sparse images and back it up to StrongSpace (http://www.strongspace.com/) with sftp. (No ftp or http allowed, just sftp and https).
If you're going to get that technical, the sun and the earth both orbit two foci, one of which lies slightly outside the center of the sun; and the moon and the sun both orbit two foci, one of which lies slightly outside the center of the sun; while the earth and the moon both orbit two foci one of which lies slightly outside the center of the earth. However, the usual shorthand is "the earth orbits the sun," as the sun's 'orbit' of the earth is a very slight motion that we most likely would not be able to detect with current equipment from most neighboring star systems.
I'm not so sure. "Xena" is pretty far out, so its gravitational effect is probably negligible. And look at all the KBOs they've found at least a quarter the size of Pluto. (On your other posting, to ignore the joke and pretend it's serious - I don't know enough about extrasolar systems to know if they've found that the "ecliptic" arrangement is the norm, but I imagine it is - so extrasolar planets outside their local ecliptic are interesting, too.)
A body that orbits another body is a satellite in all cases. It is a moon if the body it orbits is a planet. Either "Xena" is a planet, or Pluto isn't (in which case Charon isn't a moon, either). The really interesting question for me is whether there are a lot more planet-sized bodies so far outside the ecliptic.
Actually, that depends upon the terms of the contract. A work for hire is a work for hire: if the contract specifies that all of a contractor's IP resulting from contract work is government IP, then copyright is not applicable (it's in the public domain). If the contract specifies something else, it usually gives a certain grant of rights to the contractor. And no, the Constitutional article that defines copyright only exempts works of the federal government, not states and cities. (Not sure why postage stamps are copyrightable; perhaps because USPS isn't a government agency in the strict sense?)
There ARE a lot of similarities with Cowboy Beebop - superficial ones. They're a jammed-togther crew on a small, rickety space ship tooling around a single system with the bad guys and the law always on their tails. That said, there isn't quite the hopelessness of Cowboy Beebop - if you've seen the whole CB series, you know that the whole thing is a set up for the last two episodes, which are damned good, but very, very depressing. There isn't MUCH hope in Serenity/Firefly, but it's never as bad as that final confrontation between Spike and Vicious. Perhaps it's a difference between Japanese narrative expectations and American ones.
Nope, I think he intends to continue the series with things as they stand at the end of the movie. But . . . . DAMN, that was cruel. Whedon is one tough-minded son of a bitch. My hat's off to him.
I believe that Sealand is an artificial island, not a vessel. Also, I would suggest linking directly to their site, though I'd warn readers that it is a bit subjective.
Why would Apple want to release that kind of a kludge? I'm sure that when they DO release a video iPod, it will decode MP4 files on the fly, at decent frame rates, with little or no jitter.
No doubt the town was named Oxford for the same reason that the town (now city) that had then just become home to Harvard was named Cambridge - to highlight the fact that it was a university town.
I disagree. The spatial logic of the find box at the bottom makes no sense to me. I go to the bottom of the page, type what I want, and then look back UP to find what I was looking for. Makes more sense, I think, to put it at the top.
He had submitted an abstract with many details about the object well before the other team announced the object. He was trying to firm up the orbital elements &c. before publishing, which is the normal practice among astronomers, so they aren't caught with their shorts down by someone six months later determining that they had misidentified the object.
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Sometimes medic is used, especially in the press, to refer to everything from an EMT to a neurosurgeon, like using the word "cook" to refer to everything from a fry cook at McDonalds to the chef at Le Cirque. Not to disprove your comment, which is strictly speaking correct, but to make the point that we can't read too much into the language of a story like this.
Let's remember that for a long time (maybe still, for all I know) Firefox commit privileges were limited to a handful of developers. UIs don't work well by committee. Open source doesn't have to mean open commits.
What makes you think you can't store encrypted data on an iPod? No harder than using TrueCrypt on a thumbdrive, and with a lot more storage; and anyone stealing the thing will be more likely to just wipe it and use it as a music player.
Feynman was talking about the system as it existed in 1986. Remember the O-rings? They were the core problem that lowered the SRB reliability to 1 in 50. The SRBs were redesigned. I'm not sure about the SSMEs, but I would not assume that the SSMEs of 1986 are the same as the SSMEs of 2003-2005.
The Romans used quadriremes at Syracuse. They were at anchor for quite some time, as it was a blockade/siege, rather than merely a naval battle. Most likely the attack with the "death ray" would have taken place well after the start of the siege. My question is why the "death ray" couldn't have been aimed at the stowed sails - I don't think the sails would have been put belowdecks (but I don't know much about Roman naval technology: the best source would no doubt be Lionel Casson's book Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World ISBN 0801851300 ) - I haven't read it, but Casson's very good on travel in the ancient world, and he knows his ancient ships. On Syracuse itself, I imagine there's stuff in Polybius, but from what I remember, the "death ray" story is late (Plutarch, maybe? Maybe even later?) and we don't know for sure if there's a reliable source lying behind the story. Regardless, Archimedes did engineer various kinds of engines that were used in the siege (cranes, etc.).
This was just a contingency plan; they never expected to get to Wilma, let alone Alpha, Beta, or Gamma. That's why it wasn't thought through so carefully. I imagine that if they do get a "retireable" storm with a Greek-letter name, they'll come up with another contingency plan.
So David Pogue, the author of Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual has no Windows frame of reference? How much of an idiot does Dvorak think the average reader is? As much as he is?
You do realize that Syracuse was under siege, right? In other words, the ships WERE parked. See http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Sieg e/Polybius.html
In an English translation. The MSS the BL is offering are facsimiles of the original with illustrations, in the original Italian.
Ready for this one - they actually have a "mirror" button to flip it over for you! Now that's nice.
Depends upon what kind of garbage. They could buy the rights to CopRock and send that instead of Rome . . .
This is fraudelent: they're not talking about "ripping" at all, but simply transferring their DRMed files.
I store everything in 20 MB encrypted sparse images and back it up to StrongSpace (http://www.strongspace.com/) with sftp. (No ftp or http allowed, just sftp and https).
If you're going to get that technical, the sun and the earth both orbit two foci, one of which lies slightly outside the center of the sun; and the moon and the sun both orbit two foci, one of which lies slightly outside the center of the sun; while the earth and the moon both orbit two foci one of which lies slightly outside the center of the earth. However, the usual shorthand is "the earth orbits the sun," as the sun's 'orbit' of the earth is a very slight motion that we most likely would not be able to detect with current equipment from most neighboring star systems.
I'm not so sure. "Xena" is pretty far out, so its gravitational effect is probably negligible. And look at all the KBOs they've found at least a quarter the size of Pluto. (On your other posting, to ignore the joke and pretend it's serious - I don't know enough about extrasolar systems to know if they've found that the "ecliptic" arrangement is the norm, but I imagine it is - so extrasolar planets outside their local ecliptic are interesting, too.)
Artificial satellites are not usually described as "bodies," now, are they?
A body that orbits another body is a satellite in all cases. It is a moon if the body it orbits is a planet. Either "Xena" is a planet, or Pluto isn't (in which case Charon isn't a moon, either). The really interesting question for me is whether there are a lot more planet-sized bodies so far outside the ecliptic.
Actually, that depends upon the terms of the contract. A work for hire is a work for hire: if the contract specifies that all of a contractor's IP resulting from contract work is government IP, then copyright is not applicable (it's in the public domain). If the contract specifies something else, it usually gives a certain grant of rights to the contractor. And no, the Constitutional article that defines copyright only exempts works of the federal government, not states and cities. (Not sure why postage stamps are copyrightable; perhaps because USPS isn't a government agency in the strict sense?)
There ARE a lot of similarities with Cowboy Beebop - superficial ones. They're a jammed-togther crew on a small, rickety space ship tooling around a single system with the bad guys and the law always on their tails. That said, there isn't quite the hopelessness of Cowboy Beebop - if you've seen the whole CB series, you know that the whole thing is a set up for the last two episodes, which are damned good, but very, very depressing. There isn't MUCH hope in Serenity/Firefly, but it's never as bad as that final confrontation between Spike and Vicious. Perhaps it's a difference between Japanese narrative expectations and American ones.
Nope, I think he intends to continue the series with things as they stand at the end of the movie. But . . . . DAMN, that was cruel. Whedon is one tough-minded son of a bitch. My hat's off to him.
I believe that Sealand is an artificial island, not a vessel. Also, I would suggest linking directly to their site, though I'd warn readers that it is a bit subjective.
Why would Apple want to release that kind of a kludge? I'm sure that when they DO release a video iPod, it will decode MP4 files on the fly, at decent frame rates, with little or no jitter.
No doubt the town was named Oxford for the same reason that the town (now city) that had then just become home to Harvard was named Cambridge - to highlight the fact that it was a university town.
I disagree. The spatial logic of the find box at the bottom makes no sense to me. I go to the bottom of the page, type what I want, and then look back UP to find what I was looking for. Makes more sense, I think, to put it at the top.
He had submitted an abstract with many details about the object well before the other team announced the object. He was trying to firm up the orbital elements &c. before publishing, which is the normal practice among astronomers, so they aren't caught with their shorts down by someone six months later determining that they had misidentified the object.