They had evidence of soil from the Yucatan peninsula in the K/T layer from outcroppings around to world, indicating that the impact took place there and scattered material specific to the peninsula, around the globe. Dinosaurs are found up to the K/T layer, but not above. This has been known for quite some time. The exact location of the crater was located around 1991 I believe, but was only corroborating evidence. The evidence comes from the composition of the K/T layer. This link might help.
While everyone is complaining that Amazon already has a internet book rating archive. Where is the internet rating archive for Linux distributions and packages? Sure there are reviews for specific distros and packages, but no diffinitive source to see how many people are using specfic ones and what they say about it at a given time. Unless you count old/. polls. I'd also like to see some demographic information to correlate the statistics. I would expect users to change their vote to keep it relative to what they are actually running currently, that way when something new comes out the poll would reflect its true popularity.
My cell phone every now a then, gets a call from (000)000-0000 and sometimes 6789. These are creditors hunting the person who owned my phone number before me. The annoying thing is that they are using predictive dialing, but they arn't predicting very well. Nine out of ten times if I pick up there is no one there, I have to wait a while for someone to pick up, or I get a vms telling me to leave a message or call back. If I don't answer they leave nasty messages telling me that it is imparative that I call back immediatly. Sounds like a pretty worthless system to me.
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In my environment, we use whatever solution works worst. If it is a simple script, we do it as if it is a complex program. If it requies a complex program we do it as a simple script. We do it!
There's demand in any organization for digital rights management... you want to restrict modifying the purchase order forms to the accounting department, but make them globally readable? Check.
Looks somewhat like the ECS Elitegroup iBuddy desknote. Asus makes another generic build-your-own notebook, too.
I don't think you've acutally seen and ECS/ELITE/SAGER desknote...They are nothing like this. Unless you don't care that they are 18" X 15" X 3" and weigh 12.5 pounds. (yes I'm exagerating a bit)
Actually according to the last review I read on tomshardware plextor's newest, fastest drives are not as good as they were once were (compared to similar products from other manufacturers). I think the Yamaha beat Plextor in price, performance and features.
One compromise may be to give them a notarized letter stating your FICO score. Check out MyFico.com or other sources to get this cheaply. This will satisfy their question of good vs bad credit WITHOUT giving them the details of your credit history. For those not familiar with FICO scoring, it's a single number representing your credit risk ranging from 200 to 850 or something like that. Seems to be a good way to satisfy their intentions (if they have communicated them truthfully) and your privacy.
Don't you have to have a credit check to get the FICO score? What advantage would that give you? I guess the company would know your credit rating, but wouldn't be able to see who else was looking?
I hate pixel noise in my digital pictures
I wasn't talking about color specifically. By noise I was refering to the random multi-colored dots that you get when you are using a long exposure and the camera heats up. Its like "snow" on a tv with no signal. Not moire or those odd spots where the color interpolation is not done correctly. There are smoothing algorithms to reduce the appreance of noise, but the hardware can't seem to avoid it.
I had read a review of a sigma sd-9 which said the red colors were more suceptable to this since the light has to penetrate through the silicon further.
How is this at all like the way the human eye sees?
I hate pixel noise in my digital pictures. I have heard that since red color has to be detected at the deepest part of the silicon there is an abudance of noise in the reds.
The article just says that cabbies have to pay royalties for playing music. I take this to mean that they have to pay royalties for playing cds or tapes of (C) music, not for playing the radio. The article says that this may cause people to simply shut off their radios altogether. This might only be out of frustration or confusion over the royalty issue, not that playing the radio requires royalty payments.
It seems that amazon and tivo are using subjective profiling. Some person at amazon decides what category a movie is in. Then the computer recomments other movies in the same categories as the movies you have picked. Has anyone seen use of doppleganger profiling? Thats where they build a list of your movie pics then compare your list to other peoples lists, and try to find the closest match. The suggestions are then the movies on the other persons list that you have not yet seen. I would think that this would produce more relevant recomendations since they attempt to find someone who has similar taste as you, not just someone interested in the same categories as you.
In general I prefer Linux, but Microsoft still does some things better.
Can someone tell me why font rendering looks better on Windows? Am I doing something wrong? Fonts on linux look all blocky and sometimes hard to read, especially in Mozilla and Emacs.
Also, I still find that running graphical programs is laggy on Linux compared to Windows on the same computer. I think GNOME itself may be hogging too many resources. (I havn't used KDE enough to make a comparison).
Windows Explorer beats any of the graphical file browsers I have seen packaged with all the distros I've tried. Of course with Linux you don't need a graphical file browser, but sometimes its nice.
Plus there are still some applications that I have to use on Windows. Gimp may be evolving, but Photoshop still kicks its butt. OpenOffice works, but incorectly reformats word documents I have to share with "Windows only" co-workers. I also am a die hard fan of Textpad and they don't make a Linux version ?
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They had evidence of soil from the Yucatan peninsula in the K/T layer from outcroppings around to world, indicating that the impact took place there and scattered material specific to the peninsula, around the globe. Dinosaurs are found up to the K/T layer, but not above. This has been known for quite some time. The exact location of the crater was located around 1991 I believe, but was only corroborating evidence. The evidence comes from the composition of the K/T layer. This link might help.
While everyone is complaining that Amazon already has a internet book rating archive. Where is the internet rating archive for Linux distributions and packages? Sure there are reviews for specific distros and packages, but no diffinitive source to see how many people are using specfic ones and what they say about it at a given time. Unless you count old /. polls. I'd also like to see some demographic information to correlate the statistics. I would expect users to change their vote to keep it relative to what they are actually running currently, that way when something new comes out the poll would reflect its true popularity.
My cell phone every now a then, gets a call from (000)000-0000 and sometimes 6789. These are creditors hunting the person who owned my phone number before me. The annoying thing is that they are using predictive dialing, but they arn't predicting very well. Nine out of ten times if I pick up there is no one there, I have to wait a while for someone to pick up, or I get a vms telling me to leave a message or call back. If I don't answer they leave nasty messages telling me that it is imparative that I call back immediatly. Sounds like a pretty worthless system to me.
Rodney Brooks proposed something similar for space exploration in 1989. Did anyone else see the Errol Morris documentary that features him? His paper is here: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System
P.S. I work for a NASA subcontractor. And you wonder why things cost so much.
In my environment, we use whatever solution works worst. If it is a simple script, we do it as if it is a complex program. If it requies a complex program we do it as a simple script. We do it!
There's demand in any organization for digital rights management... you want to restrict modifying the purchase order forms to the accounting department, but make them globally readable? Check.
chgrp accounting *
chmod 664 *
Looks somewhat like the ECS Elitegroup iBuddy desknote. Asus makes another generic build-your-own notebook, too.
I don't think you've acutally seen and ECS/ELITE/SAGER desknote...They are nothing like this. Unless you don't care that they are 18" X 15" X 3" and weigh 12.5 pounds. (yes I'm exagerating a bit)
One note is that $50 of the $150 rebate you only get if you also sign up for high speed internet.
Actually according to the last review I read on tomshardware plextor's newest, fastest drives are not as good as they were once were (compared to similar products from other manufacturers). I think the Yamaha beat Plextor in price, performance and features.
He was talking about yamaha's exclusive T@2 feature. It actually burns visible graphics/text into the unused data portion of the cdr.
You havn't "upgraded" to red hat 8 yet.
One compromise may be to give them a notarized letter stating your FICO score. Check out MyFico.com or other sources to get this cheaply. This will satisfy their question of good vs bad credit WITHOUT giving them the details of your credit history. For those not familiar with FICO scoring, it's a single number representing your credit risk ranging from 200 to 850 or something like that. Seems to be a good way to satisfy their intentions (if they have communicated them truthfully) and your privacy.
Don't you have to have a credit check to get the FICO score? What advantage would that give you? I guess the company would know your credit rating, but wouldn't be able to see who else was looking?
I'm believe that the [hydrogen]? peroxide salons use is in an extremely watered down version.
Who cares? I'm gonna fire up my gnutella client and share open source software until the day that p2p is illegal.
P2P is not yet illegal, but what you are likely doing with it is already.
It also costs quite a lot more per page, in ink cartiges / dye ribbons / paper.
I hate pixel noise in my digital pictures
I wasn't talking about color specifically. By noise I was refering to the random multi-colored dots that you get when you are using a long exposure and the camera heats up. Its like "snow" on a tv with no signal. Not moire or those odd spots where the color interpolation is not done correctly. There are smoothing algorithms to reduce the appreance of noise, but the hardware can't seem to avoid it.
I had read a review of a sigma sd-9 which said the red colors were more suceptable to this since the light has to penetrate through the silicon further.
What about Dye Sublimation printers?
How is this at all like the way the human eye sees?
I hate pixel noise in my digital pictures. I have heard that since red color has to be detected at the deepest part of the silicon there is an abudance of noise in the reds.
Whats up with the Microsoft Visual Studio banner add on slashdot?
The article just says that cabbies have to pay royalties for playing music. I take this to mean that they have to pay royalties for playing cds or tapes of (C) music, not for playing the radio. The article says that this may cause people to simply shut off their radios altogether. This might only be out of frustration or confusion over the royalty issue, not that playing the radio requires royalty payments.
It seems that amazon and tivo are using subjective profiling. Some person at amazon decides what category a movie is in. Then the computer recomments other movies in the same categories as the movies you have picked. Has anyone seen use of doppleganger profiling? Thats where they build a list of your movie pics then compare your list to other peoples lists, and try to find the closest match. The suggestions are then the movies on the other persons list that you have not yet seen. I would think that this would produce more relevant recomendations since they attempt to find someone who has similar taste as you, not just someone interested in the same categories as you.
Just wait until the music industry starts spamming us with a britney.mp3 attachment.
In general I prefer Linux, but Microsoft still does some things better.
Can someone tell me why font rendering looks better on Windows? Am I doing something wrong? Fonts on linux look all blocky and sometimes hard to read, especially in Mozilla and Emacs.
Also, I still find that running graphical programs is laggy on Linux compared to Windows on the same computer. I think GNOME itself may be hogging too many resources. (I havn't used KDE enough to make a comparison).
Windows Explorer beats any of the graphical file browsers I have seen packaged with all the distros I've tried. Of course with Linux you don't need a graphical file browser, but sometimes its nice.
Plus there are still some applications that I have to use on Windows. Gimp may be evolving, but Photoshop still kicks its butt. OpenOffice works, but incorectly reformats word documents I have to share with "Windows only" co-workers. I also am a die hard fan of Textpad and they don't make a Linux version
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My mac plus' os fit on a floppy too.