A NASA-led campaign to detect large asteroids in near-Earth orbits is about half way toward its goal of detecting 90 percent of those larger than 1 kilometer in diameter (the size of 1950 DA) by 2008.
"Until we detect all the big ones and can predict their orbits, we could be struck without warning," said Asphaug. "With the ongoing search campaigns, we'll probably be able to sound the 'all clear' by 2030 for 90 percent of the impacts that could trigger a global catastrophe."
Um, why is the goal to only find 90 percent of the asteroids that can kill us? Shouldn't they be trying to find all of them?
And what about Canada? They're up there too with ~%50 penetration. You can't really claim that they're much less spread out than the US. I imagine that dense urban areas, where implementing broadband would be easiest, make up a similar percentage of population as well.
Wrong. Canada's population is much more concentrated than the U.S. Don't forget that a large portion of it is frozen all year long.
My attic gets very hot in the summer. There's no way a hard drive would survive a month there. The basement is a much better place since it'll stay cooler all year round.
Did you look at the site? That's basically how is works already. It gives you the scanned image of one page and the text output of the OCR program. You then compare the two and make any corrections to the text and formatting for the page. Many people can be working on the same book at the same time.
Who, in their right mind, would buy one of these for $6536? You could easily build a faster system for 1/3 the price. It seems like a company that just doesn't know how to build computers. It comes with water cooling, but could only be overclock to 2.9GHz before it started becoming unstable. What? Why does it have a Zip drive if it comes with a CD and DVD burner? Why RAID-0 WD1200JB hard drives, and not a Cheetah 15k.3 for a boot drive? And most importantly, they don't seem to know how to ship a computer: "Due to inadequate mounting procedures, the Radeon 9700's core was ripped from the card during shipping."
I read about an insurance scam once where this guy got fire insurance for each of his cigars, over $1,000 a piece. Then he smoked them. He took the insurance company to court, and the judge reluctantly ruled that the insurance company had to pay the guy $12,000. Fortunately for the insurance company, though, they were able to charge him with arson. Heh he got a hefty fine ($10,000 ish? I don't remember..) and served jail time.
They don't advertise unlimited access, they advertise always on, which is quite a bit different. As long as I've been with them, they've had a section in their TOS that said excessive bandwidth use wasn't allowed, so I knew what I was getting when I signed up. Anyway, far more people care about their download speeds, which they don't touch, no matter how much one downloads.
They aren't stopping you from using P2P apps, they're just slowing down the uploads (to 125Kb, which is still much faster than a modem) for those who upload more than a certain limit. Most people really don't know that, by default, they're running all the time in the background, and how quickly that can add up to GBs of data on a very fast connection, like OOL has. It's also a temporary cap, and I'd much rather have that, than to permanently cap the uploads for everyone.
Very, very few. I'd rather have 10Mbit down/1Mbit up for $30.00 than swith to DSL that's a fraction of that speed for twice the price. For most of us, having fast Internet access is about more than just being able to download music/movies/pr0n from P2P apps.
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"Until we detect all the big ones and can predict their orbits, we could be struck without warning," said Asphaug. "With the ongoing search campaigns, we'll probably be able to sound the 'all clear' by 2030 for 90 percent of the impacts that could trigger a global catastrophe."
Um, why is the goal to only find 90 percent of the asteroids that can kill us? Shouldn't they be trying to find all of them?
Wrong. Canada's population is much more concentrated than the U.S. Don't forget that a large portion of it is frozen all year long.
Yes.
I doubt this type of defense will help people who used their credit card to sign up for child porn sites.
OK. Try here. 100 pack of Lead Datas for $79.00
$10 discs! You can easily get them in bulk for about $.80 each, online.
How about Firebird? I'm sure that won't cause any problems :-)
My attic gets very hot in the summer. There's no way a hard drive would survive a month there. The basement is a much better place since it'll stay cooler all year round.
They found the key. Run Dawn, Run!
In the '70s version, he climbed the WTC.
Maybe the parent has a Winmodem, and his CPU really is busy when he downloads MP3s. :)
Did you look at the site? That's basically how is works already. It gives you the scanned image of one page and the text output of the OCR program. You then compare the two and make any corrections to the text and formatting for the page. Many people can be working on the same book at the same time.
Who, in their right mind, would buy one of these for $6536? You could easily build a faster system for 1/3 the price. It seems like a company that just doesn't know how to build computers. It comes with water cooling, but could only be overclock to 2.9GHz before it started becoming unstable. What? Why does it have a Zip drive if it comes with a CD and DVD burner? Why RAID-0 WD1200JB hard drives, and not a Cheetah 15k.3 for a boot drive? And most importantly, they don't seem to know how to ship a computer:
"Due to inadequate mounting procedures, the Radeon 9700's core was ripped from the card during shipping."
I read about an insurance scam once where this guy got fire insurance for each of his cigars, over $1,000 a piece. Then he smoked them. He took the insurance company to court, and the judge reluctantly ruled that the insurance company had to pay the guy $12,000. Fortunately for the insurance company, though, they were able to charge him with arson. Heh he got a hefty fine ($10,000 ish? I don't remember..) and served jail time.
You may want to check your sources first.
They don't advertise unlimited access, they advertise always on, which is quite a bit different. As long as I've been with them, they've had a section in their TOS that said excessive bandwidth use wasn't allowed, so I knew what I was getting when I signed up. Anyway, far more people care about their download speeds, which they don't touch, no matter how much one downloads.
They aren't stopping you from using P2P apps, they're just slowing down the uploads (to 125Kb, which is still much faster than a modem) for those who upload more than a certain limit. Most people really don't know that, by default, they're running all the time in the background, and how quickly that can add up to GBs of data on a very fast connection, like OOL has. It's also a temporary cap, and I'd much rather have that, than to permanently cap the uploads for everyone.
Very, very few. I'd rather have 10Mbit down/1Mbit up for $30.00 than swith to DSL that's a fraction of that speed for twice the price. For most of us, having fast Internet access is about more than just being able to download music/movies/pr0n from P2P apps.
Optimum is terrible for uploads anyway.
No it isn't! I get very close to the 1Mbit limit on the rare occasions I upload something.