It may fly one more time, but the final decision won't be made for a few weeks.
After serving as the rescue vehicle for the last two shuttle missions, NASA wants to use Atlantis for a final re-supply flight. It will already have a fuel tank and set of boosters ready to go, so a lot of the cost is already sunk. By only taking up four crew members they could hang out at the station and be rescued via soyuz capsules if something went wrong.
Great - does this mean we'll have to make all our calls using RPN?
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I know it's supposed to be more logical, but it just seems so confusing...
I made the switch to whiteboard, which I keep on the wall next to my desk. I find that it is better than paper, because paper is almost always too small, and it lets me discuss ideas with other employees a bit easier.
I tried "virtual whiteboard" with pen input recently at my CS department, and I found it very difficult to use, partly because the pen input device I was looking at was not the same thing I was drawing on.
I've consulted for a lot of large and small companies, and their offices are littered with unused/broken/misconfigured digital whiteboard solutions. They just don't work.
For me, the two best methods of brainstorming are post-it notes on the wall (for logical structuring of ideas) and whiteboard + cell phone camera (for lists and diagrams). There are no higher-tech solutions that come close the effectiveness of these techniques.
First off, why would people be critical of eliminating float?!
Float is a critical feature for the one segment that still relies on paper cheques - small business. Many, many small businesses would go bankrupt if they lost the ability to float their suppliers' payments. If you eliminate float on the way in (require payment via cash/debit/credit) this can easily equate to an interest-free loan worth several thousand dollars.
Canada is a lot further ahead than the the US in the elimination of paper cheques, with almost no consumer or P2P use. However, there is considerable resistance from small businesses to abandon cheques, mainly because of the float. Not a great reason to keep them around, but the market will need to find an alternative before eliminating paper completely.
Just what I want on my cell phone...a picture of a piece of paper that has my checking account number and bank routing number on it.::eye roll::
Everyone you have ever given a cheque to already has your account number, bank routing number and home address. Despite the little lock watermark and "micro-printing", cheques are 100% non-secure and should be treated as such. At least the iPhone has a four-digit password to protect it...
Course correcting a small ship is easy - I'm more worried about everything else. In a relativistic navigation model, the ship is going to be in exactly the right place. However, the energy required to course correct the entire universe by one million km will be prohibitive.
And this is different from hiring an employee to keep your IT support in-house? If anything, an external provider is less likely to be a nutcase or otherwise disgruntled enough to take punitive action against you. What about your cleaning staff? Your office security firm? Your hookers?
Security is important, but there can be a tendency for entrepreneurs and startups to over-vector. Pick a respectable vendor. Trust them, and keep an eye on their work.
Did they ensure that the iPod speakers were properly shielded against RDF interference? Now that Jobs is getting his strength back, I fully expect that Apple devices will discard with batteries completely and just feed off his sheer willpower.
Well, the title says "Anti-Piracy Dog" so it must have a means of smelling the contents of the disk
That's not the only thing misleading about the title - 35,000 is not exactly a "huge" number of discs.
According to Amazon, a 10-pack of slim-line discs measures 3x6x5 inches. That's 90sqin, or 9sqin per disk. Multiply by 35,000, and you get 315,000sqin. Sounds like a lot, but that's only 180 square feet. The entire stash would sit neatly on two pallets (stacked 6.5' high) or in 1/15 of a standard shipping container.
The same number of disks stored on 100-pack spindles would fit in a 4'x4'x3' stack, or slightly more than the cargo area of a Yaris. So, kudos to the dog for finding such a small target but deduct points for the overly-enthusiastic headline.
There are a lot of really interesting developments in video these days, not the least of which is the increasing convergence of video and still cameras. We're not talking about crappy video on your cell phone - this is all about taking the unique properties of still cameras into the realm of full-motion video.
Still cameras traditionally have better resolution, ISO sensitivity and dynamic range than their video counterparts. Furthermore, DSLRs have much better control over depth of field due to their sensor size and lens options (traditional digicams generally have a very large depth of field, which is great for shooting your kids' birthday party but not so good for artistic effects). Furthermore, by taking a 20+MP sensor and downsampling it to 1080 video, you get a very clean and noise-free image. It's also easy to see how the ability to shoot broadcast-quality video from a DSLR would be very attractive to professionals such as photojournalists.
A great example of this is the Canon 5D Mark II. The 5D MkII is Canon's latest full-frame offering, which in addition to a new sensor, improved dynamic range and greater resolution also shoots full 1080 video. The results are impressive, to say the least - check out this sample video by director Vincent Laforet.
This is a perfect example of convergence done right - taking the best features of different tools and making something better.
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It was so refreshing to search for 9/11 and not have any of the crap from the last seven years show up. A simpler time indeed.
I'm interested in why so many sensitive networks are even hooked up to the internet in the first place, or why trivial systems are so often bundled with sensitive ones under the same security frameworks.
Good point - I guess if the Internet had been designed by the military (or, say, by a military research group) it certainly wouldn't have ended up this way...
This is a neat proof of concept, but to really see this sort of "hack" fleshed out, take a look at N. Chikada's PacMan and Space Invaders Excel files. Graphics are run using cell colours, but it also does neat things like storing the system memory in a worksheet array.
I use it as an example of "just because you can do almost anything in Excel, doesn't mean you should"...
The problem with TFA is that it makes little logical sense. In what possible sense can time be "slowing down?" "Slowing down" is a statement that something is changing less per unit time. If you like, that dx/dt is negative. I'm sure the physics makes sense, but the language in this news article does not. If anyone knows what the actual science is, I at least would be grateful for a better explanation than this news article provides. Anyone?
Try to visualize this using kettles. The easiest way to slow the progress of time is to watch a kettle while it boils. If that analogy doesn't work for you, you can get a similar effect by boiling an egg or visiting a proctologist. In order to replicate the study, you start with a single kettle (today) and then progressively add more kettles until the universe is composed entirely of kettles boiling water (end time). Kettles all the way down, as it were.
Be ready for disappointment - we've seen this "shoot the prequels after the main trilogy" bit before. $5 says Bilbo stabs first, Gimli will be replaced by an annoying CGI sidekick, and we'll learn that the rings get their special power because they're made of high-strength mitochlorian alloy.
From his About Me page: "In closing, I would just like to say that if you read this whole document, then you need more of a life than I need for typing it." Keep in mind that this is the same page that states he got into computers due to "A strong need to somehow construct a woman like those kids in Weird Science".
If you go to www.nbc.com there's a big ol' link right there at the top: Watch Episodes. Why would you pay for or "steal" something that they're giving away for free anyway? Works great in Firefox/Kubuntu for me as well...
Because NBC won't stream videos to foreign IP addresses, and running through an open proxy is rarely fast enough for video.
You are asking for a technology solution (hardware/software) to a social problem (training, personal resources). Any one of the hardware & OS suggestions here would probably be fine, but they won't solve your core problem of trying to be in too many places at once.
The solution? Start a Computer Club in the home. Spend some time identifying the most-computer-savvy residents and train them on all of the equipment. Give them a title ("internet guru" or "internet certified") and put them in charge of training, educating and helping the other residents (sort of like setting up a free L1/L2 help desk). They will be more responsive to the other residents, and may be able to suggest things that you would never consider.
Most of all, they have the time - you don't. They get to be useful, and you can focus on the big issues. Everybody wins.
Airplane wings flex quite a bit more than you'd expect. Airliners.net has a great head-on shot of a 747 taking off that shows the wingtips flexed up higher than the fuselage. Kinda freaky looking.
It has been equipped with larger wheels than the usual TGV to cover more ground with each rotation and a stronger, 25,000-horsepower engine
And they would have beat the overall record, except that at the last second they decided to add an aftermarket spoiler, a 40,000 watt subwoofer and ground effects.
Austrialia will do little to curb overall output, North America and Western Europe are the problems.
As a hot country, Australia makes a lot more sense than a northern country such as Canada or Scandanavia. There isn't really any energy saving between incandescent and CF in a heated home, since an incandescent bulb will contribute BTUs to the overall heating of the house. It's only when you are in an unheated space, or even worse in an air conditioned space, that the difference becomes material. In Canada/Northern Europe you'll typically seat furnaces in use up to 8 months of the year. Most of Australia probably run air conditioning for at least that long.
I get a kick out of the fact that www.p2plawsuits.com currently points to a GoDaddy placeholder page filled with ads for P2P software and instructions for streaming satellite signals to your computer.
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It may fly one more time, but the final decision won't be made for a few weeks.
After serving as the rescue vehicle for the last two shuttle missions, NASA wants to use Atlantis for a final re-supply flight. It will already have a fuel tank and set of boosters ready to go, so a lot of the cost is already sunk. By only taking up four crew members they could hang out at the station and be rescued via soyuz capsules if something went wrong.
Great - does this mean we'll have to make all our calls using RPN?
1234 555 212 1+ DIAL
I know it's supposed to be more logical, but it just seems so confusing...
I made the switch to whiteboard, which I keep on the wall next to my desk. I find that it is better than paper, because paper is almost always too small, and it lets me discuss ideas with other employees a bit easier.
I tried "virtual whiteboard" with pen input recently at my CS department, and I found it very difficult to use, partly because the pen input device I was looking at was not the same thing I was drawing on.
I've consulted for a lot of large and small companies, and their offices are littered with unused/broken/misconfigured digital whiteboard solutions. They just don't work.
For me, the two best methods of brainstorming are post-it notes on the wall (for logical structuring of ideas) and whiteboard + cell phone camera (for lists and diagrams). There are no higher-tech solutions that come close the effectiveness of these techniques.
First off, why would people be critical of eliminating float?!
Float is a critical feature for the one segment that still relies on paper cheques - small business. Many, many small businesses would go bankrupt if they lost the ability to float their suppliers' payments. If you eliminate float on the way in (require payment via cash/debit/credit) this can easily equate to an interest-free loan worth several thousand dollars. Canada is a lot further ahead than the the US in the elimination of paper cheques, with almost no consumer or P2P use. However, there is considerable resistance from small businesses to abandon cheques, mainly because of the float. Not a great reason to keep them around, but the market will need to find an alternative before eliminating paper completely.
Just what I want on my cell phone...a picture of a piece of paper that has my checking account number and bank routing number on it. ::eye roll::
Everyone you have ever given a cheque to already has your account number, bank routing number and home address. Despite the little lock watermark and "micro-printing", cheques are 100% non-secure and should be treated as such. At least the iPhone has a four-digit password to protect it...
Course correcting a small ship is easy - I'm more worried about everything else. In a relativistic navigation model, the ship is going to be in exactly the right place. However, the energy required to course correct the entire universe by one million km will be prohibitive.
Congratulations to Wikipedia for celebrating this historic ***ERIC IS A FAG*** milestone, only 750 years in the making!
And this is different from hiring an employee to keep your IT support in-house? If anything, an external provider is less likely to be a nutcase or otherwise disgruntled enough to take punitive action against you. What about your cleaning staff? Your office security firm? Your hookers?
Security is important, but there can be a tendency for entrepreneurs and startups to over-vector. Pick a respectable vendor. Trust them, and keep an eye on their work.
Did they ensure that the iPod speakers were properly shielded against RDF interference? Now that Jobs is getting his strength back, I fully expect that Apple devices will discard with batteries completely and just feed off his sheer willpower.
Well, the title says "Anti-Piracy Dog" so it must have a means of smelling the contents of the disk
That's not the only thing misleading about the title - 35,000 is not exactly a "huge" number of discs.
According to Amazon, a 10-pack of slim-line discs measures 3x6x5 inches. That's 90sqin, or 9sqin per disk. Multiply by 35,000, and you get 315,000sqin. Sounds like a lot, but that's only 180 square feet. The entire stash would sit neatly on two pallets (stacked 6.5' high) or in 1/15 of a standard shipping container.
The same number of disks stored on 100-pack spindles would fit in a 4'x4'x3' stack, or slightly more than the cargo area of a Yaris. So, kudos to the dog for finding such a small target but deduct points for the overly-enthusiastic headline.
There are a lot of really interesting developments in video these days, not the least of which is the increasing convergence of video and still cameras. We're not talking about crappy video on your cell phone - this is all about taking the unique properties of still cameras into the realm of full-motion video.
Still cameras traditionally have better resolution, ISO sensitivity and dynamic range than their video counterparts. Furthermore, DSLRs have much better control over depth of field due to their sensor size and lens options (traditional digicams generally have a very large depth of field, which is great for shooting your kids' birthday party but not so good for artistic effects). Furthermore, by taking a 20+MP sensor and downsampling it to 1080 video, you get a very clean and noise-free image. It's also easy to see how the ability to shoot broadcast-quality video from a DSLR would be very attractive to professionals such as photojournalists.
A great example of this is the Canon 5D Mark II. The 5D MkII is Canon's latest full-frame offering, which in addition to a new sensor, improved dynamic range and greater resolution also shoots full 1080 video. The results are impressive, to say the least - check out this sample video by director Vincent Laforet.
This is a perfect example of convergence done right - taking the best features of different tools and making something better.
It was so refreshing to search for 9/11 and not have any of the crap from the last seven years show up. A simpler time indeed.
C'mon people - this story is a dupe. I just saw the exact same discussion on e-slashdot.org!
I'm interested in why so many sensitive networks are even hooked up to the internet in the first place, or why trivial systems are so often bundled with sensitive ones under the same security frameworks.
Good point - I guess if the Internet had been designed by the military (or, say, by a military research group) it certainly wouldn't have ended up this way...
This is a neat proof of concept, but to really see this sort of "hack" fleshed out, take a look at N. Chikada's PacMan and Space Invaders Excel files. Graphics are run using cell colours, but it also does neat things like storing the system memory in a worksheet array.
I use it as an example of "just because you can do almost anything in Excel, doesn't mean you should"...
The problem with TFA is that it makes little logical sense. In what possible sense can time be "slowing down?" "Slowing down" is a statement that something is changing less per unit time. If you like, that dx/dt is negative. I'm sure the physics makes sense, but the language in this news article does not. If anyone knows what the actual science is, I at least would be grateful for a better explanation than this news article provides. Anyone?
Try to visualize this using kettles. The easiest way to slow the progress of time is to watch a kettle while it boils. If that analogy doesn't work for you, you can get a similar effect by boiling an egg or visiting a proctologist.
In order to replicate the study, you start with a single kettle (today) and then progressively add more kettles until the universe is composed entirely of kettles boiling water (end time). Kettles all the way down, as it were.
Be ready for disappointment - we've seen this "shoot the prequels after the main trilogy" bit before. $5 says Bilbo stabs first, Gimli will be replaced by an annoying CGI sidekick, and we'll learn that the rings get their special power because they're made of high-strength mitochlorian alloy.
Here's the Wayback archive of Rob Malda's page at Hope College.
From his About Me page: "In closing, I would just like to say that if you read this whole document, then you need more of a life than I need for typing it." Keep in mind that this is the same page that states he got into computers due to "A strong need to somehow construct a woman like those kids in Weird Science".
If you go to www.nbc.com there's a big ol' link right there at the top: Watch Episodes. Why would you pay for or "steal" something that they're giving away for free anyway? Works great in Firefox/Kubuntu for me as well...
Because NBC won't stream videos to foreign IP addresses, and running through an open proxy is rarely fast enough for video.
You are asking for a technology solution (hardware/software) to a social problem (training, personal resources). Any one of the hardware & OS suggestions here would probably be fine, but they won't solve your core problem of trying to be in too many places at once.
The solution? Start a Computer Club in the home. Spend some time identifying the most-computer-savvy residents and train them on all of the equipment. Give them a title ("internet guru" or "internet certified") and put them in charge of training, educating and helping the other residents (sort of like setting up a free L1/L2 help desk). They will be more responsive to the other residents, and may be able to suggest things that you would never consider.
Most of all, they have the time - you don't. They get to be useful, and you can focus on the big issues. Everybody wins.
Airplane wings flex quite a bit more than you'd expect. Airliners.net has a great head-on shot of a 747 taking off that shows the wingtips flexed up higher than the fuselage. Kinda freaky looking.
It has been equipped with larger wheels than the usual TGV to cover more ground with each rotation and a stronger, 25,000-horsepower engine
And they would have beat the overall record, except that at the last second they decided to add an aftermarket spoiler, a 40,000 watt subwoofer and ground effects.
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."
Sure, it may feel like an eternity, but that's what it takes to get a decent table at Milliways.
Austrialia will do little to curb overall output, North America and Western Europe are the problems. As a hot country, Australia makes a lot more sense than a northern country such as Canada or Scandanavia. There isn't really any energy saving between incandescent and CF in a heated home, since an incandescent bulb will contribute BTUs to the overall heating of the house.
It's only when you are in an unheated space, or even worse in an air conditioned space, that the difference becomes material. In Canada/Northern Europe you'll typically seat furnaces in use up to 8 months of the year. Most of Australia probably run air conditioning for at least that long.
I get a kick out of the fact that www.p2plawsuits.com currently points to a GoDaddy placeholder page filled with ads for P2P software and instructions for streaming satellite signals to your computer.