Eridanus is just south of Taurus, a constellation on the ecliptic. In any case, interstellar voyages would likely to use gravity assist from one of the gas giants. But I agree with your Kansas comparison - it won't be a sight-seeing tour.
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What the President is supposed to do is to serve the people (not corporations) honestly. Experience is important for the President so that he or she can avoid being misled by lies and special interests. If the president serves special interests, we have unjust wars under false premises and laws that restrict what we can do in the privacy of our homes. No experience can make up for the lack of integrity and ethics.
I'm not against copyright, but I'm against being presumed thief unless proven innocent. I'm not against being treated as an offender before an offense could take place. That would take away some (albeit small) part of my freedom, the same freedom that we are allegedly spreading to the Middle East at the expense of the lives of our soldiers.
The Bible makes it clear that in a closed 3-mainfold, there non-spherical loops that can be continually tightened to a point.
But you need to be God to do that, and even then, it takes at least six days! Not to mention that some loops start misbehaving and need to be relocated to a different manifold.
Actually, the reason why Linus is saying "use somebody else than me to push your political agendas" instead of just plain "no" is because Linux uses a distributed version control system than makes it easy for everyone to maintain a separate source tree. Linus may not be perfect, but how many people you know that would take so much effort to relinquish control over something they created? Linus even wrote a replacement for BitKeeper!
Finally Sun has stopped assigning a version number to a programming language. I congratulate Java on leaving the crowd of the versioned languages and joining the elite community of the non-versioned ones.
I think it's OK to use the spacecraft engine to reach the orbit. Multi-stage rockets work better if there are more stages because it reduces overhead of acceleration the parts that will be later jettisoned. With a rocket segmented into "finer" pieces, parts that become unneeded can be shed faster. The limiting factor is the engines - they add weight and price. But the spacecraft engine is needed anyway for further maneuvers including the deorbit burn. Not using the spacecraft engine for descent would reduce efficiency because it would remove one stage without removing one engine.
Although more propellant means some extra weight of the spacecraft due to larger tanks, the propellant "pays" for that, and the extra weight is not a big deal once the orbit is reached (except that you need a little more propellant for maneuvers).
Remember a recent comment about a person for formated his hard drive after having read that all drives must be formatted before use?
The problem is, people expect computers to be hard. They expect that there is some knowledge that they should be looking for. Some users look for solutions to their problems on Google before (and often instead) checking the documentation. And then they write bugreports to the author and describe how their tried to avoid problems in long forgotten versions of the software because somebody described it in a blog.
My pet peeve is users asking "What am I doing wrong?" when reporting a real bug. Users expect to be wrong about computers.
This is just another case of people expecting things to be harder than they are. Plus a bit of jealousy towards the "minority OS" users who must be wasting time of the genius programmer. Deal with it. It's a psychological problem.
Unless one votes in that primary, one effectively has no voice in the selection.
Yes, it's a huge problem of N-party systems for N <= 2. Even though Joe Lieberman managed to find a way around, it's clearly a rare exception. If there are many viable parties, chances are that none of them would dominate so much that the winner of the election is chosen in the primaries.
As for the lyrics, I felt it was a bit too emotional for "News for Nerds", but I really appreciate your comment.
Note that not everyone votes for the same candidates. One can vote for local Republicans if they are good leaders (it's a rare breed these days, unfortunately), and yet be happy that the politicians like Rick "the frothy mix" Santorum have been "wiped out" from the Senate. There are good and bad Republicans, and so are Democrats.
My friend who has a DSLR (Canon D30) complains that dust gets on the sensor every time he changes the lens. He cannot use one lens for everything, so it's a real issue. I cannot see the difference between his picture and the pictures I'm taking with my good old 3.2 megapixel Olympus. Maybe it's just me.
The real story is that the radar allowed scientists to know in advance that the meteorite was there, so they were able to study the soil above the meteorite:
The dig was likely the most documented excavation yet of a meteorite find, with researchers painstakingly using brushes and hand tools to preserve evidence of the impact trail and to date the event of the meteorite strike.
This allowed to calculate when the impact took place:
Even before they had the pallasite meteorite out of the ground, the scientific experts at the site were able to debunk prevailing wisdom that the spectacular Brenham meteorite fall occurred 20,000 years ago. Its location in the Pleistocene epoch soil layer puts that date closer to 10,000 years ago.
For the users who are registered on Wikipedia, their account name is used instead of the IP address. This may be harder to track down, since it would require snooping the http traffic to find the IP address for the given username. And then there is plausible deniability by claiming that someone else guessed the password. This works best if the password is simple.
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Eridanus is just south of Taurus, a constellation on the ecliptic. In any case, interstellar voyages would likely to use gravity assist from one of the gas giants. But I agree with your Kansas comparison - it won't be a sight-seeing tour.
If the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true, Lojban will make them idiots. They should learn Vepsian instead, a language with 24 cases.
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... can we call it genuine Linux?
I'm not against copyright, but I'm against being presumed thief unless proven innocent. I'm not against being treated as an offender before an offense could take place. That would take away some (albeit small) part of my freedom, the same freedom that we are allegedly spreading to the Middle East at the expense of the lives of our soldiers.
Here goes my support for Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries.
First show me a modern Intel video card I can put into an existing machine.
Actually, the reason why Linus is saying "use somebody else than me to push your political agendas" instead of just plain "no" is because Linux uses a distributed version control system than makes it easy for everyone to maintain a separate source tree. Linus may not be perfect, but how many people you know that would take so much effort to relinquish control over something they created? Linus even wrote a replacement for BitKeeper!
Cars will be next.
And don't forget koalas. They a lurking everywhere waiting for human flesh. Even a small koala can rip you apart in a matter of seconds.
Finally Sun has stopped assigning a version number to a programming language. I congratulate Java on leaving the crowd of the versioned languages and joining the elite community of the non-versioned ones.
I disagree. I haven't heard "What am I doing wrong?" in any context but computing.
It's not your age. It's just a problem of the current TLA namespace. Another reason to switch to XTLA (extended three letter acronyms).
Although more propellant means some extra weight of the spacecraft due to larger tanks, the propellant "pays" for that, and the extra weight is not a big deal once the orbit is reached (except that you need a little more propellant for maneuvers).
The problem is, people expect computers to be hard. They expect that there is some knowledge that they should be looking for. Some users look for solutions to their problems on Google before (and often instead) checking the documentation. And then they write bugreports to the author and describe how their tried to avoid problems in long forgotten versions of the software because somebody described it in a blog.
My pet peeve is users asking "What am I doing wrong?" when reporting a real bug. Users expect to be wrong about computers.
This is just another case of people expecting things to be harder than they are. Plus a bit of jealousy towards the "minority OS" users who must be wasting time of the genius programmer. Deal with it. It's a psychological problem.
As for the lyrics, I felt it was a bit too emotional for "News for Nerds", but I really appreciate your comment.
Note that not everyone votes for the same candidates. One can vote for local Republicans if they are good leaders (it's a rare breed these days, unfortunately), and yet be happy that the politicians like Rick "the frothy mix" Santorum have been "wiped out" from the Senate. There are good and bad Republicans, and so are Democrats.
Thanks! I might actually buy it, for much less than that Canon D30.
My friend who has a DSLR (Canon D30) complains that dust gets on the sensor every time he changes the lens. He cannot use one lens for everything, so it's a real issue. I cannot see the difference between his picture and the pictures I'm taking with my good old 3.2 megapixel Olympus. Maybe it's just me.
But I agree, downgrading ("downwordsizing"?) of the browser because of one stupid plugin is a pain.
There are many web developers here. IE7 will affect them much more than Flash for Linux.
For the users who are registered on Wikipedia, their account name is used instead of the IP address. This may be harder to track down, since it would require snooping the http traffic to find the IP address for the given username. And then there is plausible deniability by claiming that someone else guessed the password. This works best if the password is simple.