Cool... I'll buy that. I've been thinking about this more... it would be cool if we had a tiny black hole on a 12,000 year orbit that passed inside the atmosphere of the Sun. Then, once every 12,000 years, the tiny blackhole would rip a chunk out of the Sun and (sort of) take it with it... it could be that the Earth is always in a position to get screwed by such an event and then manipulation of mag. fields could be used to attempt deflection.
Pulsars don't have 12,000 year periods... if this is in the book, it's crap (the assertion, not the whole book!) and the reviewer didn't notice. Pulsars are pulsars because they happen to sweep their highly-outflowing magnetic axis directly in our line of sight... we see this as the object pulsing... thousands of times per second... not once every 12,000 years... this is just not reconcilable.
As an astronomer, I can say with confidence that those 2.5 people probably do a lot more of technological babysitting than actual not-enough-time-in-the-day work... objects are found by computer software that compare image residuals (subtractions of images separated by a day or two)... fast moving things are closer to earth and may warrant follow-up with a larger 'scope.
Remember the copyright claims have to be duked out in Federal Court... the current case is in State court and is mostly a contract/ unfair business dispute. This particular piece of news shouldn't have registered as large as it is... the only good from this for SCO is a few more idiotic "licensees" who don't understand the issues as well as/.ers.
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damn straigt... considering how many things have a line-out...
I have an article coming out in the November 2003 issue of Space Policy (elsevier) that addresses NASA's restructuring... send me an email if you want to see it when it gets published (I'm under embargo until then... especially considering the CAIB report will come out two months earlier).
should be: "[...] see if I ever infringe your copyrights again." (unless, of course, you find yourself raping, pillaging, saying "arrr!" and sporting nasty-ass Johnny Depp dreadlocks)
I have had an NJB1 and now I've got a NJB3... the first one was a royal pain in the ass... the new one is a friggin' dream. Maybe that's the business strategy... release something totally new but with a shitty UI and file system... upgrade that and charge more! Worked on me... but seriously... the NJB3 is amazing. I've got 20/40 gigs taken up and I can queue every single song, HTTP stream, record in (even optical line-in!). And it has a snappy UI...
There's no Mac support for the higher-capacity Nomad products due to a tiff between Creative Labs and Apple people... and it all started going sour right around the date of release for the iPod. Anyway, if you are a OS X nerd that buys one of these things myself and a few others are trying to get either Gnomad2 or GnomeDAP up and running under Gnome 2.0 using libnjb (current cvs). Wish us luck...
BitPass will allow you to purchase one of their cards and send it to someone else... so, presumably, you would have to have the parent buy the prepaid card and send it to their kid...
111 out of 113 flights is damn reliable considering the forces involved... we don't have to abandon our manned space program... just the fallacy that we need humans in space all the time to do something useful.
We didn't need a constant human space presence in the sixties and seventies to do the apollo et al. work... we don't need it now.
This argument is flawed. We wont get humans to Mars (which really is interesting and exploratory) by building a battlestar galactica ship... we will get there using Lewis and Clark-style expeditionary means (pack light, make as much fuel as you can on Mars instead of bringing it with you, etc.). Bob Zubrin has a great book that shows how we could do this all for about $10 Billion... how much is the US buy-in to the hunk-of-shit space station? $60 Billion at least.
But we sure as hell exhausted the explorative features of low earth orbit after skylab and the first or second shuttle launch. We need to be literally exploring with our experimental craft... not trying to rate them up for humans just because it's the cheapest way to keep humans in space.
One of the most annoying features of the whole 1.4* line for OS X users is that slashdot moderation crashes mozilla consistently and completely. Doesn't matter what theme you use... always crashes or hangs. If anyone cares to take a gander at the bugzilla report:
Has anyone else noticed that the smooth scrolling [1] doesn't really scroll that smooth? For example, if you do a "pg up" or "pg dn" in a window with general.smoothScroll set to "true" it does a wacky herky-jerky page up/down scroll. weird.
[1] To enable smoot scrolling, enter "about:config" into the location bar, then right click anywhere and choose new -> boolean. Then enter "general.smoothScroll" (exactly) and set it to "true". To disable, set it to "false".
So, to all those who are in the know out there... when they have what they want how many nodes and individual machines could they maintain? What are the constraints? What about data back-ups? Is ephemeral data recorded on a few machines in separate nodes to make sure that one getting nocked out doesn't zap something for good?
doesn't seem to know much in terms of the technical... but does seem to have connections to Microsoft... we're all biased in this... that's why I want to see it go to court!
Oh yeah, to the mh.com.au questioner:
gpl != public_domain
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I can't tell you how many hours of my life I've spent trying to figure out what the hell a piece of "brilliant" code is doing just because it lacks comments...
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"Being held upside down freaks out the birds," says Michael P. Lacy of the University of Georgia's poultry-science department.
University of Georgia has a Poultry Science department? That's about the most ridiculous thing I've heard in at least one week. Wow. Maybe I'm in the wrong biz.
good point... I betcha someone out there has copies of the UnixWare\SCO code... and the kernel source is available. Any geeks with time and the UnixWare\SCO source on their hands want to do a large-scale diff of the two codes and try to predict what sections of the linux kernel will be implicated... the areas of the kernel are somewhat limited as it is clear SCO is implicating "enterprise" features.
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Cool... I'll buy that. I've been thinking about this more... it would be cool if we had a tiny black hole on a 12,000 year orbit that passed inside the atmosphere of the Sun. Then, once every 12,000 years, the tiny blackhole would rip a chunk out of the Sun and (sort of) take it with it... it could be that the Earth is always in a position to get screwed by such an event and then manipulation of mag. fields could be used to attempt deflection.
Cepheids have periods on the order of weeks, not years... check out this.
Pulsars don't have 12,000 year periods... if this is in the book, it's crap (the assertion, not the whole book!) and the reviewer didn't notice. Pulsars are pulsars because they happen to sweep their highly-outflowing magnetic axis directly in our line of sight... we see this as the object pulsing... thousands of times per second... not once every 12,000 years... this is just not reconcilable.
wow, man... I just got used to mouse gestures about 24 hours after reading this post and installing it. Mouse Gestures are really freakin' cool!
As an astronomer, I can say with confidence that those 2.5 people probably do a lot more of technological babysitting than actual not-enough-time-in-the-day work... objects are found by computer software that compare image residuals (subtractions of images separated by a day or two)... fast moving things are closer to earth and may warrant follow-up with a larger 'scope.
site mirror here.
Remember the copyright claims have to be duked out in Federal Court... the current case is in State court and is mostly a contract/ unfair business dispute. This particular piece of news shouldn't have registered as large as it is... the only good from this for SCO is a few more idiotic "licensees" who don't understand the issues as well as /.ers.
damn straigt... considering how many things have a line-out...
I have an article coming out in the November 2003 issue of Space Policy (elsevier) that addresses NASA's restructuring... send me an email if you want to see it when it gets published (I'm under embargo until then... especially considering the CAIB report will come out two months earlier).
should be: "[...] see if I ever infringe your copyrights again." (unless, of course, you find yourself raping, pillaging, saying "arrr!" and sporting nasty-ass Johnny Depp dreadlocks)
I have had an NJB1 and now I've got a NJB3... the first one was a royal pain in the ass... the new one is a friggin' dream. Maybe that's the business strategy... release something totally new but with a shitty UI and file system... upgrade that and charge more! Worked on me... but seriously... the NJB3 is amazing. I've got 20/40 gigs taken up and I can queue every single song, HTTP stream, record in (even optical line-in!). And it has a snappy UI...
There's no Mac support for the higher-capacity Nomad products due to a tiff between Creative Labs and Apple people... and it all started going sour right around the date of release for the iPod. Anyway, if you are a OS X nerd that buys one of these things myself and a few others are trying to get either Gnomad2 or GnomeDAP up and running under Gnome 2.0 using libnjb (current cvs). Wish us luck...
BitPass will allow you to purchase one of their cards and send it to someone else... so, presumably, you would have to have the parent buy the prepaid card and send it to their kid...
111 out of 113 flights is damn reliable considering the forces involved... we don't have to abandon our manned space program... just the fallacy that we need humans in space all the time to do something useful.
This argument is flawed. We wont get humans to Mars (which really is interesting and exploratory) by building a battlestar galactica ship... we will get there using Lewis and Clark-style expeditionary means (pack light, make as much fuel as you can on Mars instead of bringing it with you, etc.). Bob Zubrin has a great book that shows how we could do this all for about $10 Billion... how much is the US buy-in to the hunk-of-shit space station? $60 Billion at least.
But we sure as hell exhausted the explorative features of low earth orbit after skylab and the first or second shuttle launch. We need to be literally exploring with our experimental craft... not trying to rate them up for humans just because it's the cheapest way to keep humans in space.
mod this motherfucker up!!! Shouldn't there be a my-signal-because-it's-in-my-house kind of right... or maybe my-signal-because-it's-in-my-head.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207545
how about slashdotting these ones, too: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q =ice+cream+liquid+nitrogen&btnG=Google+Search
Has anyone else noticed that the smooth scrolling [1] doesn't really scroll that smooth? For example, if you do a "pg up" or "pg dn" in a window with general.smoothScroll set to "true" it does a wacky herky-jerky page up/down scroll. weird.
[1] To enable smoot scrolling, enter "about:config" into the location bar, then right click anywhere and choose new -> boolean. Then enter "general.smoothScroll" (exactly) and set it to "true". To disable, set it to "false".
So, to all those who are in the know out there... when they have what they want how many nodes and individual machines could they maintain? What are the constraints? What about data back-ups? Is ephemeral data recorded on a few machines in separate nodes to make sure that one getting nocked out doesn't zap something for good?
doesn't seem to know much in terms of the technical... but does seem to have connections to Microsoft... we're all biased in this... that's why I want to see it go to court!
Oh yeah, to the mh.com.au questioner:
gpl != public_domain
I can't tell you how many hours of my life I've spent trying to figure out what the hell a piece of "brilliant" code is doing just because it lacks comments...
"Being held upside down freaks out the birds," says Michael P. Lacy of the University of Georgia's poultry-science department.
University of Georgia has a Poultry Science department? That's about the most ridiculous thing I've heard in at least one week. Wow. Maybe I'm in the wrong biz.
good point... I betcha someone out there has copies of the UnixWare\SCO code... and the kernel source is available. Any geeks with time and the UnixWare\SCO source on their hands want to do a large-scale diff of the two codes and try to predict what sections of the linux kernel will be implicated... the areas of the kernel are somewhat limited as it is clear SCO is implicating "enterprise" features.