Exactly. I'll admit that WP8 was good, though (not WP7!). WP9 broke all of our embedded eps graphics, they failed to fix the problems that concerned us, and they pretended to support Unicode while working exclusively with 8-bit encodings. That was the end for me. It was downhill from there. The only thing that would save WordPerfect as a product is 1. a buyout from a company with a good reputation, 2. move exclusively to the Linux and OS X platforms, 3. bring the code into the 21st century, already: it's still a 1990s product.
Scratch Emerson from that list (no tech majors that I know of) and add Northeastern, among many others. Also in Massachusetts: UMass/Lowelll (former ULowell, an engineering-oriented state University), WPI, etc. Big government and military labs, too: Hanscom AFB, MITRE, Lincoln Labs, Raytheon, etc.
On Efeze - Most westerners know it by its Latin name, as Ephesus (the letter to the Ephesians was to them). The temple of Artemis was also had economic importance. And as far as I can remember, he is the only terrorist who attacked an architectural or artistic monument who sufferred damnatio memoriae. The story is that he started the fire simply to become famous, thus the damnatio memoriae was an appropriate punishment.
So you're trying to tell me that Mars, as it is, is Paradise? I don't have to listen to the song, I know the lyrics by heart. "Call someplace paradise, you can kiss it goodbye." But Mars, as it is today, isn't my idea of Paradise. More like the 9th circle of Dante's inferno (the frozen one).
... for now. Basically, we have three choices: restrict the growth of our species enough to preserve earth, start spreading out and spoiling other planets, or a combination of the two, protect the earth and start over again on other planets and treat them the right way. If a planet doesn't have a biosphere, but is capable of supporting one, I propose that "treating it the right way" is terraforming it and then preserving the terraformed version the way we should have preserved earth starting 100 years ago.
Um, so we can live there. If there's no life on Mars, terraforming is an easy ethical decision. If there is life on Mars, then we've got some heavy thinking to do.
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Given how saturated Windows' market share is, any big company selling another OS on an x86 desktop is going to lower market share, at least fractionally, and be a minor loss, in the short term. Remember, MS is out there chasing the embedded market, too. I don't think MS is crying in their beer, yet, but a loss is a loss.
Always wanted a NeXT. Couldn't afford them, then they disappeared into Apple. I started shopping for a Mac on March 24, 2001 and ordered my iBook the day the white iBooks came out.
Very nice. I wonder how the folks at MS felt reading a quote saying that this was "nothing to do with Microsoft" attributed to a man with the most unfortunate name of Fink?
PL is for Perceval Lowell, but Tombaugh was the discoverer. He used Lowell's calculations, which he trusted so much that he SCOURED the area where X should have been, and managed to find a KBO decades before he had any right to. Even so, it wasn't quite where Lowell said it would be. That's pure, unadulterated, good observing. That's why this is such an interesting scope: because it was built by a guy who was good enough to discover something very, very new.
Sending a signal to another galaxy means waiting for 50,000 years for a response (from Canis Major Dwarf, a shredded up galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way 25Kly away, even closer than the Magellanics). Listening now means maybe, just maybe finding out very soon whether or not we're alone. It's called "asynchronous communication."
And, to be honest, I would rather sit back and listen first before speaking up; better to find out what kind of crowd we're in before we post. Rather like an old-style USENET group - lurk until we understand the rules. Assuming there's more than one group out there actually transmitting.
By the way, the search pretty much assumes we're looking for deliberate transmitters, not leakage. Leakage would be very unlikely to have the power to reach us, at least with current tech.
It's 30 m across, and the earth is 12,760,000 m across, volume is pi r^2, assuming the same density, and gravity is proportional to mass - probably not. If we could do that, we wouldn't need line of sight radar - we could just track airplanes by their gravitational effects without line of sight.
Of course floppies are still floppy. Open the plastic case and look inside one. Just because the casing is harder than on the 8" or 5 1/4" floppies . . .
1. The nuke batteries on these things aren't that dirty; especially given how dirty Jupiter's own radiation field is. 2. Don't you think that the friggin' NASA scientists have THOUGHT about all the other issues? I'll give you a hint (having read some of the proposals) - THEY HAVE.
On the first, good point, I did have the gender wrong. Metamorphosis (Latin) meta+morpho|o . On the second, the metaphor is pretty much a dead one, so the meanings are different.
They haven't actually *found* a moon around Sedna yet, they're just guessing there's one there because the rotational period is very slow, suggesting that it might have a relationship with a satellite similar to Pluto's with Charon.
2004 DW is another big object (TNO).
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Exactly. I'll admit that WP8 was good, though (not WP7!). WP9 broke all of our embedded eps graphics, they failed to fix the problems that concerned us, and they pretended to support Unicode while working exclusively with 8-bit encodings. That was the end for me. It was downhill from there. The only thing that would save WordPerfect as a product is 1. a buyout from a company with a good reputation, 2. move exclusively to the Linux and OS X platforms, 3. bring the code into the 21st century, already: it's still a 1990s product.
Damn. Do you realize that it has been 4 1/2 YEARS since E0.16 came out? What are they building? A window manager for n-dimensional displays?
No, that's the right to BEAR arms. Furry bear arms with four-inch claws. The Founders thought of everything: even transgenics!
Scratch Emerson from that list (no tech majors that I know of) and add Northeastern, among many others. Also in Massachusetts: UMass/Lowelll (former ULowell, an engineering-oriented state University), WPI, etc. Big government and military labs, too: Hanscom AFB, MITRE, Lincoln Labs, Raytheon, etc.
On Efeze - Most westerners know it by its Latin name, as Ephesus (the letter to the Ephesians was to them). The temple of Artemis was also had economic importance. And as far as I can remember, he is the only terrorist who attacked an architectural or artistic monument who sufferred damnatio memoriae. The story is that he started the fire simply to become famous, thus the damnatio memoriae was an appropriate punishment.
glasnost means basically "thaw," perestroika "restructuring," if that's what you're asking.
So you're trying to tell me that Mars, as it is, is Paradise? I don't have to listen to the song, I know the lyrics by heart. "Call someplace paradise, you can kiss it goodbye." But Mars, as it is today, isn't my idea of Paradise. More like the 9th circle of Dante's inferno (the frozen one).
But since we still can live here on earth today
... for now. Basically, we have three choices: restrict the growth of our species enough to preserve earth, start spreading out and spoiling other planets, or a combination of the two, protect the earth and start over again on other planets and treat them the right way. If a planet doesn't have a biosphere, but is capable of supporting one, I propose that "treating it the right way" is terraforming it and then preserving the terraformed version the way we should have preserved earth starting 100 years ago.
Um, so we can live there. If there's no life on Mars, terraforming is an easy ethical decision. If there is life on Mars, then we've got some heavy thinking to do.
fart.
Given how saturated Windows' market share is, any big company selling another OS on an x86 desktop is going to lower market share, at least fractionally, and be a minor loss, in the short term. Remember, MS is out there chasing the embedded market, too. I don't think MS is crying in their beer, yet, but a loss is a loss.
Always wanted a NeXT. Couldn't afford them, then they disappeared into Apple. I started shopping for a Mac on March 24, 2001 and ordered my iBook the day the white iBooks came out.
Very nice. I wonder how the folks at MS felt reading a quote saying that this was "nothing to do with Microsoft" attributed to a man with the most unfortunate name of Fink?
Because that way, I know what I'm in for when I get into work.
Where's the original to this? And who wrote it?
Actually, someone else said that Tombaugh found it by accident, and then checked Lowell's calculations. I might be mistaken.
PL is for Perceval Lowell, but Tombaugh was the discoverer. He used Lowell's calculations, which he trusted so much that he SCOURED the area where X should have been, and managed to find a KBO decades before he had any right to. Even so, it wasn't quite where Lowell said it would be. That's pure, unadulterated, good observing. That's why this is such an interesting scope: because it was built by a guy who was good enough to discover something very, very new.
Only problem with that theory is that it wouldn't have been the tenth, but rather the ninth planet. So yes, it was called Planet X for "unknown."
Sending a signal to another galaxy means waiting for 50,000 years for a response (from Canis Major Dwarf, a shredded up galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way 25Kly away, even closer than the Magellanics). Listening now means maybe, just maybe finding out very soon whether or not we're alone. It's called "asynchronous communication."
And, to be honest, I would rather sit back and listen first before speaking up; better to find out what kind of crowd we're in before we post. Rather like an old-style USENET group - lurk until we understand the rules. Assuming there's more than one group out there actually transmitting.
By the way, the search pretty much assumes we're looking for deliberate transmitters, not leakage. Leakage would be very unlikely to have the power to reach us, at least with current tech.
Thanks for correcting that, you're right, of course. Give the man another mod point (and keep mine overrated).
It's 30 m across, and the earth is 12,760,000 m across, volume is pi r^2, assuming the same density, and gravity is proportional to mass - probably not. If we could do that, we wouldn't need line of sight radar - we could just track airplanes by their gravitational effects without line of sight.
Of course floppies are still floppy. Open the plastic case and look inside one. Just because the casing is harder than on the 8" or 5 1/4" floppies . . .
1. The nuke batteries on these things aren't that dirty; especially given how dirty Jupiter's own radiation field is. 2. Don't you think that the friggin' NASA scientists have THOUGHT about all the other issues? I'll give you a hint (having read some of the proposals) - THEY HAVE.
On the first, good point, I did have the gender wrong. Metamorphosis (Latin) meta+morpho|o . On the second, the metaphor is pretty much a dead one, so the meanings are different.
They haven't actually *found* a moon around Sedna yet, they're just guessing there's one there because the rotational period is very slow, suggesting that it might have a relationship with a satellite similar to Pluto's with Charon. 2004 DW is another big object (TNO).