Even limited evening light on earth is probably a heck of a lot brighter than daylight on Titan - remember that Titan's atmosphere is effectively opaque at visible wavelengths, and remember that Saturn is 9 au out - if I remember my inverse square law correctly, that would make the sunlight 1/81 as effective (somebody feel free to correct me here) even at the cloud tops. And those $400 5 Mpl cameras weren't available in 1997 when Cassini was launched.
Keep the lighting conditions in mind: the Sun is MUCH dimmer out there, even without such a thick, cloudy atmosphere to dim it further. And no, maybe they didn't have a much better camera: there might be severe bandwidth and weight limitations involved.
I think that commercial broadcasting, which requires that the broadcasters satisfy their sponsors' need to interest the lowest common denominator, are far more guilty of "cater[ing] to a narrower set of views."
I know it's in the movie, because not only have I seen the movie and never read 2001, but I can even spout "My God, it's full of stars." in exactly the same intonation used by the performer in the movie. Where would that knowledge have come from, if not from the movie eh?
The sequel, 2010. It's not in 2001, only 2010 (unless they've made some change to the DVD in the past few years). You don't have to believe me, though, watch the DVD.
' NPR is not "official US government news" by any stretch.'
NPR is propped up and funded by tax money. The same is true of PBS.
PBS receives most of its funding from (80% ) from private donations (sponsors and members); some government funding does come in via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the form of grants, but not much of it.
NPR gets most of its funding from licensing fees paid by member stations. Even these memberships stations average maybe 15% government funding, at most.
For an interesting contrast, Raytheon gets something on the order of 80% of its funding from government or "defense" sources; since all "defense" money ultimately comes from the US government (even foreign defense revenue must be approved by the US government, and I can almost guarantee you that the foreign defense revenue does not come to more than a fraction of the US defense revenue), I think we can characterize all 80% or so (I'm rounding the number to account for leaner and fatter years) as "government funding." So I guess that we can say, by your logic, that Raytheon is part of the government.
So, to summarize, PBS and NPR are independent non-profit organizations that receive some federal grant money: nowhere near as much as most of their detractors seem to think.
He did describing them as "unconvincing," true - though I don't remember the "realistic, but strange" part. Anyway, there are several places you could look, including *The Making of Kubrick's 2001*, Clarke's *Lost Worlds of 2001*, and I think there's an intro to 2010 (that's the most likely place).
The book 2010 was written as a sequel to the movie, not to the book. There are some things in the book from the book 2001 ("My god, it's full of stars!" wasn't in the movie - yes,I've checked a dozen times), but it discards Saturn and re-sets everything to Jupiter. The reason Jupiter was used in the movie? They couldn't get a convincing enough Saturn, and decided that by eliminating the ring by depicting Jupiter instead they'd simplify the FX issues.
Depends upon what you mean by "compatible." There's already a good bit of.doc compatibility in TextEdit (the Mac equivalent to Notepad). Oh, and by the way, it's Mac - short for Macintosh - not MAC, which is a Machine Authentication Code.
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Personally, I have no objections to Paul Allen or Bill Gates, as human beings. Gates especially deserves kudos for his philanthropic work (which is far more extensive, relative to his net worth, than is strictly necessary to win him respect). But that doesn't change my distaste for some of the things Microsoft has done under Bill Gates' direction. When Paul Allen does things I like (funding this, SpaceShipOne, etc.) he'll get my praise; when he does thing I don't like, he'll get my criticism.
The fabulously beautiful space station ISS is now so worried about the cumulative erosion caused by two visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the space station is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt!
Most of these people lived hundreds, or even thousands, of miles from the epicenter. If we were to apply your rule in this case, we had better all get up into orbital colonies, because we all live within a few thousand miles of a potential 9.0 quake.
Come on man! don't be naive. A red scrolling bar on CNN or BBC would have saved lives. We know that the governments are not the most efficient ways of doing this. Anybody sufficiently powerful alerting news media would have helped.
The lives of some of the tourists, maybe. Other than that, how many lives do you think would have been saved in fishing villages where most folks don't have a TV, and have learned to distrust much of what CNN has to say in the first place? You need to have the message go to people on the ground who are able to implement an existing emergency management plan (in this case, an evacuation plan), or the best you can hope for is panic in the streets.
The solution to problems like these is for governments to have Emergency Management Agencies, and for there to be coordination of the various EMAs so they can communicate with one another in times of crisis. Imagine if the folks at USGS and NOAA could have just picked up a phone, called the FEMA contact person for international emergencies, and he could have just turned to the phone banks and called his opposite numbers in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives, etc. That might have been effective.
What makes you think they didn't try? Even if GWB got on the phone and called the heads of government of all the countries likely to be affected, without an emergency response system, by the time the news filtered down to the people who could do something about it, it would have been too late.
Anyone who blames the US for this is simply looking for excuses to blame the US for everything.
Ah, but the GPL is also an ETHICAL document. The purpose of the GPL is to share code. It's not merely that sharing code is *permitted* by the GPL, but that it is *encouraged* - indeed, prescribed by the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to disseminated shared and reused code, and obfuscation and claims of "code theft" are in direct opposition to the moral basis of the GPL. In other words, you're comparing a prescription to a proscription.
Look, the whole POINT of the GPL is to take good stuff from other people's code, and (preferably) give them credit. Obfuscating GPLed code is like buying decaffeinated Jolt, or giving everyone on your Christmas list cash for Christmas: it's in direct opposition of the intentions and spirit of the thing. If he's at all tempted to do these things, he's in the wrong business.
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There is none that I know of. Usually they are advertised pretty well on the order pages if you are buying from apple.com .
So what happens once Hollywood has remade every story familiar to Americans and first published on or before December 1922?
They make the sequels.
The thing to do is to look for one of the deals Apple tends to have with $200 off Final Cut Express when you buy a Mac.
Not for a while - not until they get good yields of small, low-heat G5 processors. Keep in mind that the mini is basically an iBook without a screen.
Even limited evening light on earth is probably a heck of a lot brighter than daylight on Titan - remember that Titan's atmosphere is effectively opaque at visible wavelengths, and remember that Saturn is 9 au out - if I remember my inverse square law correctly, that would make the sunlight 1/81 as effective (somebody feel free to correct me here) even at the cloud tops. And those $400 5 Mpl cameras weren't available in 1997 when Cassini was launched.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks to me as though those the specs for the cameras on the Cassini orbiter, not the Huygens lander?
Keep the lighting conditions in mind: the Sun is MUCH dimmer out there, even without such a thick, cloudy atmosphere to dim it further. And no, maybe they didn't have a much better camera: there might be severe bandwidth and weight limitations involved.
I think that commercial broadcasting, which requires that the broadcasters satisfy their sponsors' need to interest the lowest common denominator, are far more guilty of "cater[ing] to a narrower set of views."
I know it's in the movie, because not only have I seen the movie and never read 2001, but I can even spout "My God, it's full of stars." in exactly the same intonation used by the performer in the movie. Where would that knowledge have come from, if not from the movie eh?
The sequel, 2010. It's not in 2001, only 2010 (unless they've made some change to the DVD in the past few years). You don't have to believe me, though, watch the DVD.
' NPR is not "official US government news" by any stretch.'
NPR is propped up and funded by tax money. The same is true of PBS.
PBS receives most of its funding from (80% ) from private donations (sponsors and members); some government funding does come in via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the form of grants, but not much of it.
NPR gets most of its funding from licensing fees paid by member stations. Even these memberships stations average maybe 15% government funding, at most.
For an interesting contrast, Raytheon gets something on the order of 80% of its funding from government or "defense" sources; since all "defense" money ultimately comes from the US government (even foreign defense revenue must be approved by the US government, and I can almost guarantee you that the foreign defense revenue does not come to more than a fraction of the US defense revenue), I think we can characterize all 80% or so (I'm rounding the number to account for leaner and fatter years) as "government funding." So I guess that we can say, by your logic, that Raytheon is part of the government.
So, to summarize, PBS and NPR are independent non-profit organizations that receive some federal grant money: nowhere near as much as most of their detractors seem to think.
He did describing them as "unconvincing," true - though I don't remember the "realistic, but strange" part. Anyway, there are several places you could look, including *The Making of Kubrick's 2001*, Clarke's *Lost Worlds of 2001*, and I think there's an intro to 2010 (that's the most likely place).
Actually, Clarke himself attributes the space elevator to Tsiolkovsky. On this one, Wikipedia has it right.
The book 2010 was written as a sequel to the movie, not to the book. There are some things in the book from the book 2001 ("My god, it's full of stars!" wasn't in the movie - yes,I've checked a dozen times), but it discards Saturn and re-sets everything to Jupiter. The reason Jupiter was used in the movie? They couldn't get a convincing enough Saturn, and decided that by eliminating the ring by depicting Jupiter instead they'd simplify the FX issues.
How many slashdotters remember archie (let alone altavista.digital.com)?
Depends upon what you mean by "compatible." There's already a good bit of .doc compatibility in TextEdit (the Mac equivalent to Notepad). Oh, and by the way, it's Mac - short for Macintosh - not MAC, which is a Machine Authentication Code.
Personally, I have no objections to Paul Allen or Bill Gates, as human beings. Gates especially deserves kudos for his philanthropic work (which is far more extensive, relative to his net worth, than is strictly necessary to win him respect). But that doesn't change my distaste for some of the things Microsoft has done under Bill Gates' direction. When Paul Allen does things I like (funding this, SpaceShipOne, etc.) he'll get my praise; when he does thing I don't like, he'll get my criticism.
The fabulously beautiful space station ISS is now so worried about the cumulative erosion caused by two visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the space station is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt!
About writing IE only applications. It's the web, for heaven's sake - the idea is that it's not supposed to depend upon any given application.
Most of these people lived hundreds, or even thousands, of miles from the epicenter. If we were to apply your rule in this case, we had better all get up into orbital colonies, because we all live within a few thousand miles of a potential 9.0 quake.
Come on man! don't be naive. A red scrolling bar on CNN or BBC would have saved lives. We know that the governments are not the most efficient ways of doing this. Anybody sufficiently powerful alerting news media would have helped.
The lives of some of the tourists, maybe. Other than that, how many lives do you think would have been saved in fishing villages where most folks don't have a TV, and have learned to distrust much of what CNN has to say in the first place? You need to have the message go to people on the ground who are able to implement an existing emergency management plan (in this case, an evacuation plan), or the best you can hope for is panic in the streets.
The solution to problems like these is for governments to have Emergency Management Agencies, and for there to be coordination of the various EMAs so they can communicate with one another in times of crisis. Imagine if the folks at USGS and NOAA could have just picked up a phone, called the FEMA contact person for international emergencies, and he could have just turned to the phone banks and called his opposite numbers in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives, etc. That might have been effective.
What makes you think they didn't try? Even if GWB got on the phone and called the heads of government of all the countries likely to be affected, without an emergency response system, by the time the news filtered down to the people who could do something about it, it would have been too late.
Anyone who blames the US for this is simply looking for excuses to blame the US for everything.
JPG is lossy.
Ah, but the GPL is also an ETHICAL document. The purpose of the GPL is to share code. It's not merely that sharing code is *permitted* by the GPL, but that it is *encouraged* - indeed, prescribed by the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to disseminated shared and reused code, and obfuscation and claims of "code theft" are in direct opposition to the moral basis of the GPL. In other words, you're comparing a prescription to a proscription.
Look, the whole POINT of the GPL is to take good stuff from other people's code, and (preferably) give them credit. Obfuscating GPLed code is like buying decaffeinated Jolt, or giving everyone on your Christmas list cash for Christmas: it's in direct opposition of the intentions and spirit of the thing. If he's at all tempted to do these things, he's in the wrong business.
So, What Would Linus Do?