The work the scientists of this study have done is important and valuable, but don't overplay it: it merely limits the possibilities of what the Wow signal was a bit more than was previously thought. After all, there are no signals that have ever been transmitted/emitted from Earth that would have met the periodicity/duration criteria built into this test.
We conclude that the Wow was not due to a source within our flux density limits and repeating more often than every 14 hr, although the possibility of a longer period or nonperiodic source cannot be ruled out.
In other words, what they proved is that the Wow signal was not an intententional interstellar beacon, or if it was such a beacon, it is now off the air: whatever the Wow signal was, it wasn't aliens sending a galactic hailing signal, or if it was, it is on a longer period than 14 hours, or was shut off in the years between the original Wow signal's emission and the date of current signals from that location.
My iBook *almost* manages 5 hours if I put the brightness on barely visible, shut off the airport, shut down the sound, lower the processor speed, and use very low-resource stuff (i.e., not the DVD). It gets about 3 hours at my standard use: with brightness at 50%, sound at 80%, processor speed at high, and airport on (about 2 with a DVD and the airport off). YMMV. Important thing is to know how to reset the PMU and PM preferences when necessary (after upgrading to 10.2.7, I was getting 1 1/2 hours of battery time at standard use; after I upgraded to 10.2.8, I reset the PMU, and it's back up to 3 hours).
But the comment is wrong. It's not a G3 with Altivec. Sure, that's what everyone expected, but it didn't happen: this is a real honest-to-god Motorola processor.
I learned COBOL in 1985. I then walked away from programming completely for 12 years. Yes, there is a causal relationship. It took me 12 years to recover.
So what you're saying is that Apple is stuck - they have to license WMA from Microsoft if they are to have a successful product, because clusers are stupid enough to download and rip WMA instead of MP3?
Man, if you're going to make that joke, be realistic. It's Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet Edition, Windows CE PocketPC.NET, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2000 Pro. (95/98/SE/ME aren't sold anymore, at least if the CDW site is accurate).
The Pentagon announced the return of Admiral John Poindexter and Colonel Oliver North to their staff as lead team for an upgrade of all Pentagon internal mail systems to Outlook 2003.
The Heartland Institute is a genuinely independent source of research and commentary founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation. Its activities are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
They say they're not affiliated with any political party, but who do they cite as authorities who approve of their work?
Heartland has been endorsed by some of the country's leading scholars, public policy experts, and elected officials. Dr. Milton Friedman calls a "a highly effective libertarian institute." Cato Institute president Edward Crane says Heartland "has had a tremendous impact, first in the Midwest, and now nationally."
Milton Friedman and the Cato Institute. In other words, this is just another right-wing pressure group, camouflaging itself under the colors of a left-wing social movement:
Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people.
Fortunately, they aren't doing THAT good a job of camouflaging themselves: here's their real mission statement:
Such ideas include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.
Do you see anything there about protecting the environment? No, it's all about giving businesses free reign to do what they want.
Looking to them for accurate information on recycling is like looking to a Marxist group for good ideas about investing on Wall Street.
It's a good bit better than normal, I believe. On the other hand, once you subtract out the Mac users from the song sales and also the number of Windows-using Mac owners who downloaded the software to share their existing collections on their Windows machines, I'm guessing this isn't quite the splash Macfanatics hoped it would be. But give it time.
The Concorde was banned from Logan in Boston due to pressure from residential groups in East Boston, which is right under some of Logan's flight paths, and from some of the towns bordering Boston Harbor. The pressure groups' arguments always sounded bogus to me, but there you are.
And if those 13 were corporate-owned data centers, would they really be safer? Ultimately, what you want is more redundancy, and that can be done with non-profit, for-profit, or a mixture of the two.
Go ahead and stop broadcasting HDTV. It won't stop us from taking away your NTSC spectrum on schedule. Not that it will hurt you much, anyway: by your demographic, all of your viewers will be dead then.
In particular, whatever HTML renderer they're using is VERY slow, especially scrolling and resizing.
KHTML.
As a media player, it grows on you. Give it a week or so before you give up on it. I can't imagine preferring winamp or WMP - maybe MusicMatch, which has one feature I wish iTunes had (the hierarhical library). But de gustibus non disputandum est.
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I do agree a number of mac users are miffed about paying out $130 for the third time since initially upgradaing to OS X
Where are you getting "for the third time" from? 10.0 to 10.1 was $20. 10.1 to 10.2 was $129. 10.2 to 10.3 is $129. That's $278 total, not $387.
Sorry, somehow I s/discredited/debunked/ .
The work the scientists of this study have done is important and valuable, but don't overplay it: it merely limits the possibilities of what the Wow signal was a bit more than was previously thought. After all, there are no signals that have ever been transmitted/emitted from Earth that would have met the periodicity/duration criteria built into this test.
We conclude that the Wow was not due to a source within our flux density limits and repeating more often than every 14 hr, although the possibility of a longer period or nonperiodic source cannot be ruled out.
In other words, what they proved is that the Wow signal was not an intententional interstellar beacon, or if it was such a beacon, it is now off the air: whatever the Wow signal was, it wasn't aliens sending a galactic hailing signal, or if it was, it is on a longer period than 14 hours, or was shut off in the years between the original Wow signal's emission and the date of current signals from that location.
My iBook *almost* manages 5 hours if I put the brightness on barely visible, shut off the airport, shut down the sound, lower the processor speed, and use very low-resource stuff (i.e., not the DVD). It gets about 3 hours at my standard use: with brightness at 50%, sound at 80%, processor speed at high, and airport on (about 2 with a DVD and the airport off). YMMV. Important thing is to know how to reset the PMU and PM preferences when necessary (after upgrading to 10.2.7, I was getting 1 1/2 hours of battery time at standard use; after I upgraded to 10.2.8, I reset the PMU, and it's back up to 3 hours).
But the comment is wrong. It's not a G3 with Altivec. Sure, that's what everyone expected, but it didn't happen: this is a real honest-to-god Motorola processor.
And the hack doesn't work with the 1st generation of white dual usb firewire iBooks (the 2001 version), only the later ones: different video card.
I learned COBOL in 1985. I then walked away from programming completely for 12 years. Yes, there is a causal relationship. It took me 12 years to recover.
YHBT. Run a diff on this versus the "Apple" fanatics troll that always shows up on Apple stories. It's close enough to be a madlib.
You don't need uranium for a dirty bomb. The radium at a hospital will do.
IANAL. If the argument is correct above, basically, yes. When MS does it, it's bundling. When Yahoo does it, it's just poor service.
So what you're saying is that Apple is stuck - they have to license WMA from Microsoft if they are to have a successful product, because clusers are stupid enough to download and rip WMA instead of MP3?
Man, if you're going to make that joke, be realistic. It's Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Media Center, Windows XP Tablet Edition, Windows CE PocketPC .NET, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2000 Pro. (95/98/SE/ME aren't sold anymore, at least if the CDW site is accurate).
Which is curious, considering the fact that the AAC format is an industry standard, while the WMA format is purely a Microsoft format.
The Pentagon announced the return of Admiral John Poindexter and Colonel Oliver North to their staff as lead team for an upgrade of all Pentagon internal mail systems to Outlook 2003.
The Heartland Institute is a genuinely independent source of research and commentary founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation. Its activities are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
They say they're not affiliated with any political party, but who do they cite as authorities who approve of their work?
Heartland has been endorsed by some of the country's leading scholars, public policy experts, and elected officials. Dr. Milton Friedman calls a "a highly effective libertarian institute." Cato Institute president Edward Crane says Heartland "has had a tremendous impact, first in the Midwest, and now nationally."
Milton Friedman and the Cato Institute. In other words, this is just another right-wing pressure group, camouflaging itself under the colors of a left-wing social movement:
Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people.
Fortunately, they aren't doing THAT good a job of camouflaging themselves: here's their real mission statement:
Such ideas include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.
Do you see anything there about protecting the environment? No, it's all about giving businesses free reign to do what they want.
Looking to them for accurate information on recycling is like looking to a Marxist group for good ideas about investing on Wall Street.
Mod parent up. This is the only appropriate response to a troll like this: dismissive humor.
It's a good bit better than normal, I believe. On the other hand, once you subtract out the Mac users from the song sales and also the number of Windows-using Mac owners who downloaded the software to share their existing collections on their Windows machines, I'm guessing this isn't quite the splash Macfanatics hoped it would be. But give it time.
Reread his posting. He's pretending it's the old days, before QT was GPLed.
The Concorde was banned from Logan in Boston due to pressure from residential groups in East Boston, which is right under some of Logan's flight paths, and from some of the towns bordering Boston Harbor. The pressure groups' arguments always sounded bogus to me, but there you are.
My god I feel like an idiot. I have no idea what I thought that did. Mod parent up informative, mod grandparent (my posting) down stupid.
And if those 13 were corporate-owned data centers, would they really be safer? Ultimately, what you want is more redundancy, and that can be done with non-profit, for-profit, or a mixture of the two.
I know the free version is supposed to be for non commercial use, but that won't stop some people.
I dunno. The big freaking watermark they had on models created with the free version I tried might stop them.
Go ahead and stop broadcasting HDTV. It won't stop us from taking away your NTSC spectrum on schedule. Not that it will hurt you much, anyway: by your demographic, all of your viewers will be dead then.
In particular, whatever HTML renderer they're using is VERY slow, especially scrolling and resizing.
KHTML.
As a media player, it grows on you. Give it a week or so before you give up on it. I can't imagine preferring winamp or WMP - maybe MusicMatch, which has one feature I wish iTunes had (the hierarhical library). But de gustibus non disputandum est.
You cannot synch the same iPod with two computers. Thank the RIAA, as it was something APPL did to mollify them.