Habitable zone is quite similar to the androcentric cosmic view which can be summarized as we exist because the situations are right. Therefore only where the situation is similar to where we exist, other intelligent beings can be. In my opinion it's a pile of brown smelly stuff.
If we didn't have an atmosphere or the wrong type of it as you mentioned, Earth would be uninhabitable.
Unfortunately as like creationists, androcentrics never give up either.
This saturday I had a look at M33 with my binoculars because I was far too lazy to get the telescope out while I was shooting for Comet Machholz. It doesn't look anything like this picture. Are my eyes defective?
As a general thumb of rule, you can assume almost anything that's astronomy related is not true colour. Using filters always give you more information because each filter only allow a single information through (i.e., amount of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen). Then you can look at the picture and say "oooh, I have lots of atomic O here, I wonder why" and etc.:)
Who cares about visible light? Most of the interesting stuff is in the infra-red region because you can see through dust-clouds. As if the visible light pictures of Hubble are true colour...
That money doesn't dissapear from the economy. Think this way: America is the biggest weapons manufacturer on earth by a large margin. Most probably at least %20 of the total expenditure is spent on buying American weapons from American companies. That's 1 billion per day, at least and probably more because USA alone spends over 380 billion in a year. Americans get rich, rest of the earth gets poorer.
It does the job. I use it as a CD-based system + floppy on very old hardware with 64MB. Setting up the VPN was very easy and it was dead-easy to maintain/backup. I use it between three sites but I intend to use it at work as well.
I have a number of radios (a FT-101B, a FT-847, an IC-211E, a FT-200, a FT-11R, a FT-23R (yes, it's an almost yaesu shop), a Stormo 6000, a Standard C5800. The only expensive one (over a grand) was FT-847. The rest almost cost me nothing. What maintenance are you talking about? these things don't need any oil and water. They just run.
It's the bloody receiving (US/UK) end that's gonna get swamped by the interference, not the transmitting end. The disaster area might not have any BPL interference but what about the receiving end?
VHF/UHF is very handy on the ground. After Izmit earthquake (1999) in Turkey, Hams were operating a mobile repeater in the disaster area in the first day, coordinating rescue operations. Also they were providing long distance contact with HF well before any mobile company could provide some cover. The rest of the mobile networks were swamped for a couple of days and weren't reliable. For rescue people, they were completely useless. I got licensed after (TA2MGW) the earthquake and missed the action.
You might not like it but XP methodology recommends you design first, design the unit test first, then code. This doesn't mean you are not going to change your design but at least you should start with something in your mind. UML is just a tool, if you don't need it, don't use it. Most programmers are not that good at writing code as it goes.
I also remember a case about an air hostess where she fell without a parachute (obviously) after an accident and survived. Needles to say this was on snow as well.
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Furthermore, water is not compressible. On the otehr hand, Iron, for example, is. I would prefer jumping on top an cast-iron instead of water. Probably iron would give more way than water. I'd be still dead.
That doesn't make sense. The whole point of FOSS is you can do what you want. If you don't like it or find it lacking, you can modify it to your liking.
I don't care if the whining bastard is not a programmer or not. He can pay someone for it if he thinks it worths it. He can buy himself a C book and start teaching himself how to code. He can try to convince the developers where he thinks they have done wrong. If he doesn't want to do any of these, he shouldn't whine in public boards like Slashdot. Gimp (and almost every FOSS project) has a users mailing list. Subscribe to it, complain about it with explaining what he thinks wrong is and how to fix it. If he can convince the users in the list, developers will pay attention because they are users as well!
In the end, the product is owned by the developers and they are not doing this for completely altruistic purposes. They are doing it because they need a program for themselves. This whole bullshit of "Developers are not the users" doesn't work with FOSS, that might have been valid with a commercial product where the whole point of the developer is being paid by the employer and employer is only concerned about making money but it isn't with a FOSS.
The one and only reason the developer starts a FOSS program is he needs the program himself. If he wants to tag a nice license to his product, he is actually making a political point, not being helpful to you user-mass without any reason.
As a User you are given the choice by the FOSS developers, if you want to use it, use it but don't whine. If you don't want to use it, don't. Go and buy something commercial for yourself. If you want to contribute, feel free.
If the developers are not listening, fork the bloody project, find some users with some development background whom also complain, become the manager/coordinator of the project and make them hacking for yourself.
Last thing: Not every program is based on Microsoft's vision of UI. Not every program should have a panel of buttons and menus on the top. Not every program should follow some other company's GUI rules. No one is complaining about WindowMaker not looking like KDE. Why do they complain GIMP is not like Adobe's PhotoShop? Yes, it has a learning curve, yes, it is awkward for someone who spent thousands of hours in front of PS. GIMP is not PS replacement for Linux. GIMP is GIMP.
HSQLDB, we use it and it has its quirks but it is very fast (everything in memory). On the other hand, if you read the Oracle 9i documents you will see that you are required to have as much as memory and cache tuned so that you can at least keep your entire index in memory. Then it is very very fast.
Ah, I even found the link for it... It is not a server either. It is more of an embedded database API which deals with the things you don't want to deal with in your everyday coding-life. It is a great thing to use if you can live without SQL. Also comes with Java versions.
Gimp is open source, code is downloadable. Grab a copy and start hacking the UI. When you have a usable UI, let me know as well.
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Get a digital pen thingie. I got one before checking if it works on Linux. Now I have a nice paperweight but at least I'm working on the drivers now.:)
Btw, under win2k, Photoshop 6 is about 100x faster than Gimp 2.2pre. I didn't realise this working with the mouse but when I use the pen thingie, you can see how slow it is. Probably it is the Windows implementation of GTK, I expect higher performance on my Linux boxen.
That's within normal boundaries. The most important is what happens to their chicks out of centrifuge. Will they have strong leg muscles. Not unless there is a Darwinian vector. Lamarck's theories are so 17th century.
Red Dwarf's first season ratings were poorer than average. It picked up in the second season. Not only the story, also studio/channel bosses' faith in the series also matter.
It's not the (mostly cheesy) 3D effects that makes a good movie/series, it is the story. If the story sucks, no one can help. If the story is good (as you mentioned, Dr. Who, Blake's 7 etc.) you fondly remember them after years of time.
If it was the graphics that made the thing, theater would be completely dead but with a couple of simple props you still can play Hamlet.
Nice equipment. I have a manual system with lots of lenses so I'm reluctant to go for a new system. Once you start investing on lenses, switching systems becomes very very costly. I haven't decided what to use: Canon or Nikon, Minolta just doesn't cut it. For a stop-gap measure got myself an SLR-like to get myself involved with tricks of digital photography. It is not that bad but definitely nowhere near a good DSLR. Its handling of low-light situations just sucks. I still carry my old camera with me (usually with a couple of lenses) to cover that range.
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If we didn't have an atmosphere or the wrong type of it as you mentioned, Earth would be uninhabitable.
Unfortunately as like creationists, androcentrics never give up either.
If you believe Canon and Nikon et al., at least 5MPixels... If only Canon's toy cameras had as good CCDs as their EOS lines.
On the other hand, they managed to photograph something as pale, unbright.. arghh... what's the word... damn.
As a general thumb of rule, you can assume almost anything that's astronomy related is not true colour. Using filters always give you more information because each filter only allow a single information through (i.e., amount of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen). Then you can look at the picture and say "oooh, I have lots of atomic O here, I wonder why" and etc. :)
Who cares about visible light? Most of the interesting stuff is in the infra-red region because you can see through dust-clouds. As if the visible light pictures of Hubble are true colour...
That money doesn't dissapear from the economy. Think this way: America is the biggest weapons manufacturer on earth by a large margin. Most probably at least %20 of the total expenditure is spent on buying American weapons from American companies. That's 1 billion per day, at least and probably more because USA alone spends over 380 billion in a year. Americans get rich, rest of the earth gets poorer.
How do you force gmail with https? I can login using https but refreshes itself and switches to http immediately.
It does the job. I use it as a CD-based system + floppy on very old hardware with 64MB. Setting up the VPN was very easy and it was dead-easy to maintain/backup. I use it between three sites but I intend to use it at work as well.
I have a number of radios (a FT-101B, a FT-847, an IC-211E, a FT-200, a FT-11R, a FT-23R (yes, it's an almost yaesu shop), a Stormo 6000, a Standard C5800. The only expensive one (over a grand) was FT-847. The rest almost cost me nothing. What maintenance are you talking about? these things don't need any oil and water. They just run.
It's the bloody receiving (US/UK) end that's gonna get swamped by the interference, not the transmitting end. The disaster area might not have any BPL interference but what about the receiving end?
VHF/UHF is very handy on the ground. After Izmit earthquake (1999) in Turkey, Hams were operating a mobile repeater in the disaster area in the first day, coordinating rescue operations. Also they were providing long distance contact with HF well before any mobile company could provide some cover. The rest of the mobile networks were swamped for a couple of days and weren't reliable. For rescue people, they were completely useless. I got licensed after (TA2MGW) the earthquake and missed the action.
Documenting code? Hah! :-)
108 pictures and this is called a repository? More like a web page for a couple of people. Not good enough to even start with.
I also remember a case about an air hostess where she fell without a parachute (obviously) after an accident and survived. Needles to say this was on snow as well.
Furthermore, water is not compressible. On the otehr hand, Iron, for example, is. I would prefer jumping on top an cast-iron instead of water. Probably iron would give more way than water. I'd be still dead.
I don't care if the whining bastard is not a programmer or not. He can pay someone for it if he thinks it worths it. He can buy himself a C book and start teaching himself how to code. He can try to convince the developers where he thinks they have done wrong. If he doesn't want to do any of these, he shouldn't whine in public boards like Slashdot. Gimp (and almost every FOSS project) has a users mailing list. Subscribe to it, complain about it with explaining what he thinks wrong is and how to fix it. If he can convince the users in the list, developers will pay attention because they are users as well!
In the end, the product is owned by the developers and they are not doing this for completely altruistic purposes. They are doing it because they need a program for themselves. This whole bullshit of "Developers are not the users" doesn't work with FOSS, that might have been valid with a commercial product where the whole point of the developer is being paid by the employer and employer is only concerned about making money but it isn't with a FOSS.
The one and only reason the developer starts a FOSS program is he needs the program himself. If he wants to tag a nice license to his product, he is actually making a political point, not being helpful to you user-mass without any reason.
As a User you are given the choice by the FOSS developers, if you want to use it, use it but don't whine. If you don't want to use it, don't. Go and buy something commercial for yourself. If you want to contribute, feel free.
If the developers are not listening, fork the bloody project, find some users with some development background whom also complain, become the manager/coordinator of the project and make them hacking for yourself.
Last thing: Not every program is based on Microsoft's vision of UI. Not every program should have a panel of buttons and menus on the top. Not every program should follow some other company's GUI rules. No one is complaining about WindowMaker not looking like KDE. Why do they complain GIMP is not like Adobe's PhotoShop? Yes, it has a learning curve, yes, it is awkward for someone who spent thousands of hours in front of PS. GIMP is not PS replacement for Linux. GIMP is GIMP.
HSQLDB, we use it and it has its quirks but it is very fast (everything in memory). On the other hand, if you read the Oracle 9i documents you will see that you are required to have as much as memory and cache tuned so that you can at least keep your entire index in memory. Then it is very very fast.
Ah, I even found the link for it... It is not a server either. It is more of an embedded database API which deals with the things you don't want to deal with in your everyday coding-life. It is a great thing to use if you can live without SQL. Also comes with Java versions.
Although mentioned in the article as a DB, Berkeley DB is not a RDBMS. It is more of an object database.
Gimp is open source, code is downloadable. Grab a copy and start hacking the UI. When you have a usable UI, let me know as well.
Get a digital pen thingie. I got one before checking if it works on Linux. Now I have a nice paperweight but at least I'm working on the drivers now. :)
Btw, under win2k, Photoshop 6 is about 100x faster than Gimp 2.2pre. I didn't realise this working with the mouse but when I use the pen thingie, you can see how slow it is. Probably it is the Windows implementation of GTK, I expect higher performance on my Linux boxen.
That's within normal boundaries. The most important is what happens to their chicks out of centrifuge. Will they have strong leg muscles. Not unless there is a Darwinian vector. Lamarck's theories are so 17th century.
Red Dwarf's first season ratings were poorer than average. It picked up in the second season. Not only the story, also studio/channel bosses' faith in the series also matter.
It's not the (mostly cheesy) 3D effects that makes a good movie/series, it is the story. If the story sucks, no one can help. If the story is good (as you mentioned, Dr. Who, Blake's 7 etc.) you fondly remember them after years of time.
If it was the graphics that made the thing, theater would be completely dead but with a couple of simple props you still can play Hamlet.
Nice equipment. I have a manual system with lots of lenses so I'm reluctant to go for a new system. Once you start investing on lenses, switching systems becomes very very costly. I haven't decided what to use: Canon or Nikon, Minolta just doesn't cut it. For a stop-gap measure got myself an SLR-like to get myself involved with tricks of digital photography. It is not that bad but definitely nowhere near a good DSLR. Its handling of low-light situations just sucks. I still carry my old camera with me (usually with a couple of lenses) to cover that range.