A feature on the ISS's sleeping quarters was actually the inspiration behind a feature on my limited edition pet foil hat technology. It includes a polyethylene layer for added protection from radiation. I used it in the form of a plastic shopping bag though, and the ISS will be using the newer NASA invented form of the hydrocarbon that may one day make up the lining of every spaceship headed to Mars or outside of the earth's magnetic field.
This isn't a good situation, but barring future disasters I'm confident that they'll get a ship up there to boost the ISS to a level where it can be saved for many more decades.
If you want to see the graphical representation of the ISS's altitude, there's a nice chart at Heavens-above.com It's a free sign-up, and the bonus is you can find out when ISS flies over your house so you can see it or even take pictures like I do sometimes.
I had noticed just a few days ago that the orbit was at its lowest point, and was getting concerned about what they were going to do about it.
""With this, we are selling NAC on switches, routers and on just about every product we sell," Gleichauf said, adding that Cisco now has over 60 vendors participating in the NAC initiative."
Now if only their Contract website was as easy to manage as their Linksys routers. I try to log in to their website to check the account status, and they make me jump through hoops and look for hidden links. It makes me wonder if any web designer works for them.
The Parent post isn't funny, it's insightful. Every time I read about "Trolltech" on Slashdot, I immediately think of the secret troll page hidden on Slashdot, and not a programming group responsible for a segment of Linux desktop programming.
My specially designed Pet Foil Hat Technology is 100% non-government funded [unless you count me getting most of my paycheques from the government?]. I highly encourage you to check it out soon, even though it doesn't have transparent aluminum in it.
I find that some computers just don't want to run a linux distribution reliably. I think it's often linked to something like an ATI video card, but it wouldn't be hard for HP or another manufacturer to introduce some kind of DRM that only works with Windows or other "sanctioned" Operating System.
I tried Damnsmalllinux.org on my HP Evos and dx2000s at work, and they don't boot at all, when it works fine on most other computers I try. Why can't a brand new HP run a new linux distribution every time?
The transAtlantic cable was almost certainly to Newfoundland.
I forgot to mention Anik, Canada's first satellite which provided TV transmission for station to station. There's probably lots of information at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa.
Canada has long been a telecommunications leader. It's 50%+ the site for the world's first trans-atlantic wireless communication on Signal Hill in Newfoundland. It's had a transcontienent microwave network for phone and TV communication since at least the 1960s [and possibly longer I don't recall], and it's the home of Nortel Networks, and Research In Motion [makers of the Blackberry email device PDA].
Even lowly Saskatchewan has had broadband in smaller markets [compared to US markets of similar size], since the late 1990s.
Things like Digital Cameras would benefit from this instant start technology. Really there's no reason I can fathom why they don't start instantly already. It's a blessed camera for gosh sakes, the only variables when it "boots" is how much memory is available. I'm sure people lose good pictures all the time because they don't anticipate the 3 seconds for the zoom lens to pop out, and the computer to get ready or do whatever it does.
2-12 years is as precise an answer as Rummy can give about the Iraq insurgency lasting. If it's good enough for the main stream media, it's good enough for average joe six pack me.
Dick "Netcraft" Cheney: I think IPv4 is in its last throes.
Why don't more routers that are sold today tout their IPv6 compatibility? Are they not compatible with the new protocol? If not why not?
NATs at home can only hold IPv4 together for so much longer. Soon a killer ap will come out that just doesn't want to be NATted, and the whole Internet using public will demand direct addressing [at least they'll demand a solution that requires direct IP addressing].
Canada recently made an improvment in political funding: every vote translates into a set dollar amount given to that party from the Elections Canada pot. This means that 3rd parties can get funding to compete in the next election, at least in theory.
I guess you'll have to just wait until there's a thread about proctology, then you can be on topic, and insightful when mentioning him. You'd probably end up being redundant though unless you arrive early.
Flashlight is the terminology used in Western Canada and I assume most of North America, instead of the more European "torch", which we know as a burning stick. A flashlight does flash if it's moved about, it looks like a flashing light in the distance from the movement of being carried.
I don't think so, but I know the device you speak of. The first time I saw an LCD overhead projector mod, it was in my first Computer Science class in university. I now own 3 of them because they were dirt cheap and came with cool cases. Want to buy one? They work with a computer.;-)
"Why are we getting all giddy over a stupid eclipse? They're a fairly regular occurance. "
People get excited about things that happen only once a year all the time. *ahem birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas*
Astronomers like any old excuse to get out and look up at things that don't happen every day. The fact that we can predict these things when most people don't know the difference between a protractor and a compass, is, well, impressive. Don't spoil the astronomer's good time by saying it doesn't matter. Lots of things depend on the moon, and having more people focussing on the same good thing at the same time is bound to have positive effects.
A somewhat common misconception is that the moon is dark in places because the earth is shading it. This is NOT the case!
This can be seen with a flashlight and a few balls you have laying around. Put the flashlight in the middle, and shine it at the earth and moon balls. You'll see the side of the ball facing away from the sunlight will be dark. If the moon is to the left of the earth, at a 90 degree angle to the sun, then people on earth will only see half of the Moon.
An eclipse is the rare occurance of the moon being in [nearly] perfect alignment with the earth and the sun. Instead of the shadow being caused by a lack of sunlight being available, to shine on the surface, it's the earth that is passing in front of the moon.
There's also something called "earthshine" [slashdot.org had a story the last week on this]. It's sunlight from the earth that lights up the moon when it would otherwise be completely dark in a region that has no direct sunlight.
"The full moon that occurs closest to the Autumnal Equinox (first day of fall) is known as a Harvest Moon. Due to the low angle of the ecliptic to the horizon, the moon rises only about 30 minutes later each night around a harvest moon as apposed to the normal 60 minutes later each night for the other full moons in the year." Harvest Moon
It should also be noted that the only night a lunar eclipse can take place is on a full moon. Otherwise the earth cannot project a shadow onto the moon.
And they'll be the wave of the future. There will always be some lonely game creator out on the fringest making something cool that everyone will lap up. When it gets popular though, they'll no longer be an independent though. They'll get bought out.
Funny you should mention LSD. The UofSask is famous for being the first University in North America to work with the drug in an attempt to use it to treat psychosis. Too bad they probably ended up making the psychosis worse in those they tried to treat...
Yes I realize that, but it's more fun to watch swear-happy people such as yourself get your undies in a twist because I have more self control in public.:-)
Obviously MS should bug their Flight simulator to contact the government by the Internet if anyone crashes a plane into a building.
And anyone caught looking up popular destinations only in Google Maps, is headed to Guantanamo. Don't bother packing, they'll provide a toothbrush for you./sarcasm.
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A feature on the ISS's sleeping quarters was actually the inspiration behind a feature on my limited edition pet foil hat technology. It includes a polyethylene layer for added protection from radiation. I used it in the form of a plastic shopping bag though, and the ISS will be using the newer NASA invented form of the hydrocarbon that may one day make up the lining of every spaceship headed to Mars or outside of the earth's magnetic field.
This isn't a good situation, but barring future disasters I'm confident that they'll get a ship up there to boost the ISS to a level where it can be saved for many more decades.
If you want to see the graphical representation of the ISS's altitude, there's a nice chart at Heavens-above.com It's a free sign-up, and the bonus is you can find out when ISS flies over your house so you can see it or even take pictures like I do sometimes.
I had noticed just a few days ago that the orbit was at its lowest point, and was getting concerned about what they were going to do about it.
""With this, we are selling NAC on switches, routers and on just about every product we sell," Gleichauf said, adding that Cisco now has over 60 vendors participating in the NAC initiative."
Now if only their Contract website was as easy to manage as their Linksys routers. I try to log in to their website to check the account status, and they make me jump through hoops and look for hidden links. It makes me wonder if any web designer works for them.
The Parent post isn't funny, it's insightful. Every time I read about "Trolltech" on Slashdot, I immediately think of the secret troll page hidden on Slashdot, and not a programming group responsible for a segment of Linux desktop programming.
My specially designed Pet Foil Hat Technology is 100% non-government funded [unless you count me getting most of my paycheques from the government?]. I highly encourage you to check it out soon, even though it doesn't have transparent aluminum in it.
I find that some computers just don't want to run a linux distribution reliably. I think it's often linked to something like an ATI video card, but it wouldn't be hard for HP or another manufacturer to introduce some kind of DRM that only works with Windows or other "sanctioned" Operating System.
I tried Damnsmalllinux.org on my HP Evos and dx2000s at work, and they don't boot at all, when it works fine on most other computers I try. Why can't a brand new HP run a new linux distribution every time?
The transAtlantic cable was almost certainly to Newfoundland.
I forgot to mention Anik, Canada's first satellite which provided TV transmission for station to station. There's probably lots of information at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa.
Canada has long been a telecommunications leader. It's 50%+ the site for the world's first trans-atlantic wireless communication on Signal Hill in Newfoundland. It's had a transcontienent microwave network for phone and TV communication since at least the 1960s [and possibly longer I don't recall], and it's the home of Nortel Networks, and Research In Motion [makers of the Blackberry email device PDA].
Even lowly Saskatchewan has had broadband in smaller markets [compared to US markets of similar size], since the late 1990s.
Just think of the number of microwave ovens this invention is going to destroy when people start using it as a food storage container!
Things like Digital Cameras would benefit from this instant start technology. Really there's no reason I can fathom why they don't start instantly already. It's a blessed camera for gosh sakes, the only variables when it "boots" is how much memory is available. I'm sure people lose good pictures all the time because they don't anticipate the 3 seconds for the zoom lens to pop out, and the computer to get ready or do whatever it does.
2-12 years is as precise an answer as Rummy can give about the Iraq insurgency lasting. If it's good enough for the main stream media, it's good enough for average joe six pack me.
Dick "Netcraft" Cheney: I think IPv4 is in its last throes.
Why don't more routers that are sold today tout their IPv6 compatibility? Are they not compatible with the new protocol? If not why not?
NATs at home can only hold IPv4 together for so much longer. Soon a killer ap will come out that just doesn't want to be NATted, and the whole Internet using public will demand direct addressing [at least they'll demand a solution that requires direct IP addressing].
Canada recently made an improvment in political funding: every vote translates into a set dollar amount given to that party from the Elections Canada pot. This means that 3rd parties can get funding to compete in the next election, at least in theory.
0 4_news_releases/sasktel_announces_communitynet_dep loyment_schedule.html
http://www.communitynet.ca/
http://www.sasktel.com/about_sasktel/news_room/20
Are two links that are on topic to a provincial government/corporation providing access to wireless internet over a wide area.
I guess you'll have to just wait until there's a thread about proctology, then you can be on topic, and insightful when mentioning him. You'd probably end up being redundant though unless you arrive early.
Flashlight is the terminology used in Western Canada and I assume most of North America, instead of the more European "torch", which we know as a burning stick. A flashlight does flash if it's moved about, it looks like a flashing light in the distance from the movement of being carried.
I don't think so, but I know the device you speak of. The first time I saw an LCD overhead projector mod, it was in my first Computer Science class in university. I now own 3 of them because they were dirt cheap and came with cool cases. Want to buy one? They work with a computer. ;-)
"Why are we getting all giddy over a stupid eclipse? They're a fairly regular occurance. "
People get excited about things that happen only once a year all the time. *ahem birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas*
Astronomers like any old excuse to get out and look up at things that don't happen every day. The fact that we can predict these things when most people don't know the difference between a protractor and a compass, is, well, impressive. Don't spoil the astronomer's good time by saying it doesn't matter. Lots of things depend on the moon, and having more people focussing on the same good thing at the same time is bound to have positive effects.
A somewhat common misconception is that the moon is dark in places because the earth is shading it. This is NOT the case!
This can be seen with a flashlight and a few balls you have laying around. Put the flashlight in the middle, and shine it at the earth and moon balls. You'll see the side of the ball facing away from the sunlight will be dark. If the moon is to the left of the earth, at a 90 degree angle to the sun, then people on earth will only see half of the Moon.
An eclipse is the rare occurance of the moon being in [nearly] perfect alignment with the earth and the sun. Instead of the shadow being caused by a lack of sunlight being available, to shine on the surface, it's the earth that is passing in front of the moon.
There's also something called "earthshine" [slashdot.org had a story the last week on this]. It's sunlight from the earth that lights up the moon when it would otherwise be completely dark in a region that has no direct sunlight.
Does this essentially turn your PSP screen into a transparency, and a digital version of an overhead projector sends it to the TV screen?
"The full moon that occurs closest to the Autumnal Equinox (first day of fall) is known as a Harvest Moon. Due to the low angle of the ecliptic to the horizon, the moon rises only about 30 minutes later each night around a harvest moon as apposed to the normal 60 minutes later each night for the other full moons in the year."
Harvest Moon
It should also be noted that the only night a lunar eclipse can take place is on a full moon. Otherwise the earth cannot project a shadow onto the moon.
GNU
:-O
Google United Nations. Too much of a coincidence I think!
And they'll be the wave of the future. There will always be some lonely game creator out on the fringest making something cool that everyone will lap up. When it gets popular though, they'll no longer be an independent though. They'll get bought out.
Funny you should mention LSD. The UofSask is famous for being the first University in North America to work with the drug in an attempt to use it to treat psychosis. Too bad they probably ended up making the psychosis worse in those they tried to treat...
Yes I realize that, but it's more fun to watch swear-happy people such as yourself get your undies in a twist because I have more self control in public. :-)
Besides, swearing contributes to global-warming.
Obviously MS should bug their Flight simulator to contact the government by the Internet if anyone crashes a plane into a building.
/sarcasm.
And anyone caught looking up popular destinations only in Google Maps, is headed to Guantanamo. Don't bother packing, they'll provide a toothbrush for you.