I think its great. Can't wait for the coverage of how homoginized milk is eating holes in my brain and how drinking colloidal silver will save me.
Meanwhile, I think these dolphins will head for the nearest node in the global grid system, gather a bunch of other dolphins together and plan the downfall of our corrupt leaders. It's a joke...
Yes, they are the brightest astronomical events that have been observed. The radiation emmited is across the spectrum, so yes, you would see it (if it wasn't massively red-shifted).
From the wikipedia article, regarding GRB 990123:
The combination of obvious brightness and implied distance of GRB 990123 led to two possibilities.
The first was that the radiation of the gamma ray burst was spread evenly. This implied that the gamma-ray energy released by the burst was equivalent to that which would be produced by converting the entire mass of a star 1.3 times the mass of our Sun completely into gamma radiation (see mass-energy equivalence). At visual wavelengths, if the burst had occurred 2,000 light years away within our own Galaxy, it would have shone twice as bright as the Sun.
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BING BING BING!!!
National Geographic has some piccys
here...
max size is 10m for males and 13 m (43 ft) for females...
"Big Mamma is that a tentacle in your pocket?"
from the wikipedia : recent estimates put the maximum size at 10 m
Meanwhile, I think these dolphins will head for the nearest node in the global grid system, gather a bunch of other dolphins together and plan the downfall of our corrupt leaders. It's a joke...
> Huh? KDE isn't a filesystem.
Where does is say that?
While you were busy travelling with your Jesus hating cohorts, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development produced this report :
Today nearly 36 million Americans live in a state of poverty - http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/
#2 Don't use google
#3 ditto Microsoft
"What's actually profane is a company that built its future on the freedom provided by the American system helping a repressive regime censor such ideas." - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486268/p osts
Nevermind, the DOD's liberal-thought-zapping satelites will take care of comments like that.
Take THAT! Reportiers Sans Frontiers
Yours, General Lance Lord
They may have or they may not have.
How can you be sure?
quick...defend freedom and liberty now...GPL the source!
...is kinda special too. At least, I'd like to think so ;)
major.minor[.revision[.build]]
although the naming convention isn't clear moving from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7 is a revision release.
You might want to say 1.5 will be a new version, but the others are, as you say, security fixes or point releases.
Yes and more...Mini Microsoft is "looking for some dates!".
Now does he want someone to go out with, or is he actually after the chocolate starfish?
80 comments and counting and I'm still yet to see a CUNT around here...very disapointing...oh, wait...this is slashdot - no girls allowed.
FUCKING COOL !
Perhaps we can opt to have these RFID thingos embedded into an appendage. But then, wouldn't that tempt someone into cutting my leg off?
Just like the Visual studio turns designers into developers?
It will take more than Mr. Sparkle to do that!
...a concept so simple even Congress gets it. Too bad tech doesn't.
Data breach law
From the wikipedia article, regarding GRB 990123:
The combination of obvious brightness and implied distance of GRB 990123 led to two possibilities.
The first was that the radiation of the gamma ray burst was spread evenly. This implied that the gamma-ray energy released by the burst was equivalent to that which would be produced by converting the entire mass of a star 1.3 times the mass of our Sun completely into gamma radiation (see mass-energy equivalence). At visual wavelengths, if the burst had occurred 2,000 light years away within our own Galaxy, it would have shone twice as bright as the Sun.
I know jack about marketing, but this stinks of desperation.
M$ wanted to not take a job for 12 months. Common sense has prevailed.
1. That link is to ABC News - Australian Broadcasting Corp :)
+ blot&btnG=Search+News
2. I looked this hard : http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=powell
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/wmd-a-painful-bl
(tried to find US coverage of this story on Google News, but it seems the maintstream US media isn't interested ...)
I thought that caper ended in the 70's, but a quick googling reveals that "Each household's colour TV licence cost £10.08 every month in 2004/2005".
Do they still have black vans driving around with tv-detector dishes sticking out the roof?