Sometimes I by those cheap plastic delta kites and see how high I can get them. It's a cheap date and alows for much much more talking and getting to know a girl than a movie.
They mentioned using $2 900 yard spools of monofilament at Target and Wal-mart. In my expirience the $2 spool are adequate but they break easy, have horible stretch characteristics, have massive diameter (thus weight) and are just a general pain to work with.
When I fly kites past 1,600 yards I much prefer Berkely XL or XT (6lb or higher) fishing line. Much higher quality, lower diameter, less stretch (for the XT) and very forgiving (for the XL). Of course loosing a $1 platic kite is really no big deal. My record is 3,000 yards (not straight up of course), and yes... I was to lazy to wind the whole thing back up, I snipped the line.
I should look into this ballon photography, sounds like a fun hobby.
Chuck that stuff and cut loose. TAKE A VACATION FROM BEING A GEEK!
Sure the Smithsonian etc. wouuld be great, but I would suggest a non geek vacation... who knows, maybe you'll find something more enjoyable than a 20 hour codeing marathon or a weekend of watching SciFi network.
Go to Yellowstone National Park in September when all the school kids and boy scout troops are gone.
Spend some time biking in Moab (Southern Utah). While you're their check out Zion, Bryce and Arches National Park then jaunt over to Colorado and check out Mesa Verde NP.
Check out local festivals in the midwest. I know in my state ever other town seems to have a "Strawberry/Corn/Dairy/Watermellon days" frestival.
Find out if you like fly fishing, hikeing, rowing, swimming, running, boating, water skiing, or basket weaving. GO CLIMB A TREE!
Read some Thoreau at Walden Pond.
Go to Canada and visit their national parks (Banff is an INTERNATIONAL treasure). Go to some the the AWESOME festivals in Edmonton.
But please... turn off you cell phone. If I hear it ring while I'm watching a wolf pack in near Yellowstone this fall I'll be very upset.
Yeha, ya know... I've read the Book of Mormon, I don't remember any parts about space ships and phaser gun thingies. Kind of wish there was though, it would have made church a whole lot more enjoyed as a young boy!
If you havn't noticed by now we Mormons aren't all that secretive about our religion. There is whole bunch of young guys in suits, ties and name tags all over the world trying to tell people all about it.
My only real memory of BSG was how easy it was to make the bad guys ships with two paper plates and a magic marker. I'd run around all day making those stupid Cylon noises.
Speeking of Sci-Fi and Mormons. Their was a great Sci-Fi spoof called "Space Elders" on a local radio station a few years back. Two Mormon missionaries would travel all over space, running into characters from Star Wars, BSG, Star Trek, and just about every other sci-fi movie out there. IIRC, the series ended after they converted the BORG and the collective then converted the rest of the galaxy.
What I want to do is reprogram the suckers so when they scan my clothing I will be wearing a alarm clock on my head, have a 12 pack of Gillete Razors hidden in my shoes, answer to the name of Rover, have my shots for distemper, but due for a booster on rabies.
I'm not sure whats funnier, this post, or the fact that my moderation of Funny was metamoderated as Unfair!
Some poor metamoderator got goatse'd! Huh hah ahaha haha!!!
~Z
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Just a note, they would not have spread smallpox, as that was a European Disease... They likely would have spread STD, such as syphilis, one of the things Comlumus and his band of slave trading pirates brought back to Eruope was a boat load of syphilis.
There aren't a lot of historical accounts of warmongering Native American tribes until a few years of Eurpean influence on a tribe. One of the most striking accounts can be found in the Journals of the Lewis & Clark expidtion (Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose is a great compilation of the joournals). The tribes that they encountered that had little European contact were far different than the tribes they encountered near the West Coast that had contact with European traders. But who can blame them for becoming warmongers! Ever read any of the journal entries from the Mayflower Pilgrims or Columbus? Try reading some to find out the TRUTH about the American MYTHS regarding our founding fathers. If you don;t feel like reading the journals pick up a copy of "Lies My Teachers Told Me" by James W. Loewen http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/ He has plenty of excerpts from early journals that he uses as primary sources.
War did exist between tribes, but a large part of traditional warfare was about nonlethal methods of capturing and acquring new members for their tribe (a crucial source of genetic diversity). South American cultures often had very nonlethal wars, sure many of the prisoners were later sacrificed in the name of religion, but many were adopted or enslaved in a MUCH fairer verion of slavery than what our mighty hero Columbus introduced into the Americas (yes yes yes, Columbus started it all on his first journey, he didn't find much gold so he kidnapped a number of natives to be used as slaves)
Not really related, but many Eurpoean women and children were 'captured' or adopted into indian tribes and after some peace treaties the indians were required to return them to 'civilization'. Many did not want to leave the tribe, some kicked and screamed and ran away asap. Native tribes had a remakble degree of democracy and equality. It was about the only place women and blacks could have a say in government at the time. Your "male centered warrior cult mythology" is complete BULLSHIT. Women had a much greater say in day to day ruling of the tribe than 'American women' of the time. Mythology? I assume you are Christian... do you refer to Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism as Mythologies? Keep in mind there are MORE people in this world that think that some guy getting nailed to a cross then being resurected 3 days later is as much a myth as Zeus and the other Greek "Mythological" Gods.
So back to the topic, I find it Ironic that I am so offtopic. Oh well, it's only karma.
Ebay should just take the easy road and remove online auctions from their business model.
They could turn themselves into a a portal, or maybe maybe a search engine. Maybe they could sell groceries and have them delivered. I wonder if the CEO has heard of push technology? Push will be the wave of the future! Why surf around for content when it can be delivered via a cute little cartoon caharacter.
I doubt this whole 'auction' thing will ever catch on anyway. None is ever going to buy a piece of junk from an unknown person over this here new fangled internet.
I'll stick with my local library. They actualy have lots of CD's that I can borrow for free for 2 weeks. Plenty of time to rip into whatever format I want. No new releases, but thats OK I think most music is crap these days. Most CD's I check out I already have the tape stuffed in a box somewhere. I actualy buy new music CD's that I like after I have sampled enough of the disc dfrom kazaa etc.
It's great for audiobooks on CD. I can listen to them at my leisure without worrying about late fees. I don't look at it as theft, more as maximizing my libraries circulation capabilities. I could renew them for 4 weeks, but if I return them after they are ripped some other poor schmoe can borrow them. Buying an unabridged audio book on CD is WAY to expensive for me to only listen to them once. I;ve noticed lots of new audiobooks are being released as MP3's burned on CD now. I wish they'd fall in price though. I'd pay $10 for one in a heart beat, but not $49.95 (SK's Dreamcatcher on three MP3 cd's).
From the article... "Its operator interface consists of a quarter-VGA color LCD with a touch screen, driven by a 486 single board computer running Windows CE."
I was hopeing to find some of the winners using Linux, but the only mention of OS in the article was Windows CE.
Whatever works for each individual application I guess!
The next big thing in Keyboard design will be one handed keyboards optimized for the internet.
Sure there have been "internet" keyboards for awhile now with little speed buttons to launch your e-mail client or a web address. But a one handed keyboard will be optimzed for the #1 use for the net these days;)
A special IRC client could be included with each unit sold... you could call it jIRC:)
"I'm thinking this is akin to the hiring of former insider-traders to work on preventing further cheating. Basically, we're inviting the dog back into the pantry."
You mean like Joseph Kennedy? JFK's father was the first Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commision he was very good at controlling insider trading because he had used all the tricks of the trade to gather a large part of his fortune.
History shows plenty of exmaples that sometimes it DOES pay to hire the bad guys... but usualy just the first batch of exploiters, the rest become examples (like Mitnick). More info on Joseph Kennedy and his insider trading can be found
HERE
I'm not sure why everyone was/is such a fan of Sonic Blue and the other various bastard children of Diamond. I've had and seen nothing but problems with thier products. Shoddy workmanship, disposable products and low quality output.
My Rio Volt 250 lasted 2 months, my brothers PVR was nothing but trouble, their video cards back in the day suffered driver issues for years after initial release.
GOOD RIDDANCE! It sounds like D&M may be able to take the popularity of the name and turn out an adequate product.
Of course I am a freaking idiot and my opinion is probably usesless... I guess that's why I was given MOD points today, so I would STFU... but my dislike for SB, Rio, DiamondMM etc. overcame my deisre for an over rated sense of power and control.
Having problems with negative talk during lunches?
Get rid of the lunch breaks! If your local labor laws won't alow that, then just make sure each employee has a different lunch time. You may have to vary start times to fit them all in, but that is why the day has 24 hours.
People complaining around the water cooler?
Remove the water cooler! If the local health laws require a source of water, then intall a money collection device. People will think twice about gathering around for a BS sessions if it costs them $.25 a swallow.
Negatiove E-mails making the rounds on your corporate network?
Are their computers REALLY needed? Isn't web development really more of an artistic thing? I think only one person would really need to have a computer, the rest can just draw there ideas on paper with crayons and submit them to the guy with the computer for entry. And those silly PHP or Perl monkeys spend WAY too much time changing code, tweaking , degugging and stuff. I think most bugs are there because they are not careful or they are poor typists. You could hire a touch typists from you local high school to enter all their code for the day in the evening. Tha way they would be sure to be accurate the first time. Your empyees will be so busy they won't have time to have morale.
You are correct in your assumption that lay offs cause bad morale. NEVER LAY OFF EMPLOYS! Alway make thier job so horrible, so degrading, so painful that they just quit. It will save you a bundle on unemployment fees and severence packages. If you planned ahead you are allready located in an area like Utah, that has a horribly depressed tech sector so a few employees will stay because they know that the only other oppurtunity is flippiung burgers at McD's.
Wickipdedia may not be all that reliable. It also says
HERE [wikipedia.org]
That it was "first been spotted by Galileo Galilei over 300 years ago".
This site HERE Says Hooke discovered it. My original source is the 6th Edition of "Universe", by Freedman and Kaufmann.
This site has a biographical sketch of Hooke that also gives him credit for discovery ths spot, and also gives him credit for determining the rotation of the giant planet using the spot as a reference point.
It seems as if Cassini and Hooke are used interchangebaly at times! I wonder if in 300+ years people will use Gates and Jobs interchangebly when talking about early computer history? Or will everything be attributed to Al Gore?
No the orbit would not get bigger and bigger. What force would act upon it? Another object with MORE gravitational force than the planets star would be needed.
Mass being stripped off would affect the core though. It is often theorized that Jupiter has a rocky core 8 times the mass of the Earth, yet because of the emense pressure of the surrounding gases it is compresses it to a diameter of 11,000 KM, just smaller than the 12,800 KM diameter of the Earth. The estimated atmospheric pressure is near 70 million atmospheres with a tempature near 22,000 Kelvin.
So as the gas is drawn away from the core it would expand and cool (because of a decreased Kelvin-Helmholtz effect). The heavy core would actualy look larger than it was in it's compressed form. This of course would take many many millions of years. I would specualte by that time we'd have discoverd other planets past that particular stage of life.
I think a more interesting question would be as to WHY the atmosphere is being yanked by the star? It was thought that Jovian panets would only form at sufficient distances from a stars gravitaional force, otherwise all that Hydrogen and Helium would have been captured by the sun leaving a terrestial planet with a thinner atmosphere if any at all. Has the star expanded to a larger size or has the planet changed orbit?
Another interesting factoid about Jupiter. The "Great Red Spot" was first detected in 1664 by Robert Hooke. Other similar but smaller and much more temporary storms are commonly seen.
~Z
Hum... why have UDPs been used or threatend to be used in the past?
Lets see...
Erols.com... UCE, ie SPAM! Bell Atlantic, July, 1997 SPAM! UUnet SPAM! Compuserve October, 1997, SPAM! TIAC December, 1997 SPAM! Netcom February, 1998 SPAM! MCI2000.com August, 1998 SPAM! PSINet November, 1998 SPAM! Starnet IncJune of 1999 SPAM! HKT (Hong Kong) June of 1999 SPAM! BBNPlane October 1999 SPAM! Ameritech November of 1999 SPAM! VSNL and SILNET (India) December of 1999 SPAM!
In the Usenet Death Penalty article it frequently mentions that these example UDP's happened because the ISPs were major/#1 source for usenet spam. So the admins tightened things up and the spam disapeared from their servers, only to appear on someone elses. Spam just keeps getting worse and worse. UDPs may be a great way to enforce antispam policies, but it doesn't seem to stop the rotting public groups.
Wait a second... Is Usenet even still around? Didn't they morph into SpamNet or something?
Usenet used to be a great resource, but I've found it nearly unusable for the last 3 years (or more). If it wasn't for Google groups (Dejanews), I wouldn't even consider it a semivaluable source.
If they remove the ISP that the spam originates from, the spammer will just find new ISPs.
Those six types of powering up a machine are actually a pretty good thing. I've used the Automatic power up each day at a specific time as an alarm clock more than once. And it is also pretty nice for the work place.
Powering up a machine by using hotkeys on a keyboard is a nice feature for us big fat lazy guys that don't want to bend down to the level of the computers power button.
The graphical boot logo is ment more for OEM's (HP uses a lot of ASUS boards), and geeks that like to tweak this feature.
Although I like these features I must point out that the latest bios flash for my ASUS P2BLS seems to have caused some issues with powering down either via the power button or software when wake at a specific time is enabled, it reboots 30% of the time rather than shutting down.
As for the boot sector virus settings... I saw it used daily when I was doing phone support for Windows ME. We had a lot of techs that would explain the mysterious freezes that occured during setup as a "BIOS anitvirus" and tell them to call the BIOS maker. It made a great excuse and the cutomer can rarely verify this... ever tried calling AWARD? Good luck Joe Sixpack! That place sure sucked.
I notice that Tony Pierce of MS is on the Board at PCI-SIG. You may wnat to point out that their Knowledge base article q298837 points customers to www.yourvote.com/pci in order to ID unknown devices. I wrote the article and KNOW for a fact it is used daily be MS support techs while assisting customers.
I wrote this article while employed as a MS Win/ME customer support technician. It refers customers to www.yourvote.com/pci! I referenced yourvote because there is NO other easily availble database-- not even internal to Microsoft! I wonder what they plan on doing now? Ironic how MS is a member of the PCI SIG...
I guess I'll have to go back to my old method of searching the linux source code for device ID's, maybe MS should also update Q298837:)
OS/2's Solitaire was/is FAR better than Microsoft's version.
Until Microsoft integrates a menu item for cheating they will be inferior to IBM. When they do itegrate this function, I'm afraid even your precious Linux will cease to compete.
~Z
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Sometimes I by those cheap plastic delta kites and see how high I can get them. It's a cheap date and alows for much much more talking and getting to know a girl than a movie.
They mentioned using $2 900 yard spools of monofilament at Target and Wal-mart. In my expirience the $2 spool are adequate but they break easy, have horible stretch characteristics, have massive diameter (thus weight) and are just a general pain to work with.
When I fly kites past 1,600 yards I much prefer Berkely XL or XT (6lb or higher) fishing line. Much higher quality, lower diameter, less stretch (for the XT) and very forgiving (for the XL). Of course loosing a $1 platic kite is really no big deal. My record is 3,000 yards (not straight up of course), and yes... I was to lazy to wind the whole thing back up, I snipped the line.
I should look into this ballon photography, sounds like a fun hobby.
~Z
"gadgets, bookstores, software, comics,"
Chuck that stuff and cut loose. TAKE A VACATION FROM BEING A GEEK!
Sure the Smithsonian etc. wouuld be great, but I would suggest a non geek vacation... who knows, maybe you'll find something more enjoyable than a 20 hour codeing marathon or a weekend of watching SciFi network.
Go to Yellowstone National Park in September when all the school kids and boy scout troops are gone.
Spend some time biking in Moab (Southern Utah). While you're their check out Zion, Bryce and Arches National Park then jaunt over to Colorado and check out Mesa Verde NP.
Check out local festivals in the midwest. I know in my state ever other town seems to have a "Strawberry/Corn/Dairy/Watermellon days" frestival.
Find out if you like fly fishing, hikeing, rowing, swimming, running, boating, water skiing, or basket weaving. GO CLIMB A TREE!
Read some Thoreau at Walden Pond.
Go to Canada and visit their national parks (Banff is an INTERNATIONAL treasure). Go to some the the AWESOME festivals in Edmonton.
But please... turn off you cell phone. If I hear it ring while I'm watching a wolf pack in near Yellowstone this fall I'll be very upset.
~Z
Yeha, ya know... I've read the Book of Mormon, I don't remember any parts about space ships and phaser gun thingies. Kind of wish there was though, it would have made church a whole lot more enjoyed as a young boy!
If you havn't noticed by now we Mormons aren't all that secretive about our religion. There is whole bunch of young guys in suits, ties and name tags all over the world trying to tell people all about it.
My only real memory of BSG was how easy it was to make the bad guys ships with two paper plates and a magic marker. I'd run around all day making those stupid Cylon noises.
Speeking of Sci-Fi and Mormons. Their was a great Sci-Fi spoof called "Space Elders" on a local radio station a few years back. Two Mormon missionaries would travel all over space, running into characters from Star Wars, BSG, Star Trek, and just about every other sci-fi movie out there. IIRC, the series ended after they converted the BORG and the collective then converted the rest of the galaxy.
~Z
Disable?
Nah... too easy.
What I want to do is reprogram the suckers so when they scan my clothing I will be wearing a alarm clock on my head, have a 12 pack of Gillete Razors hidden in my shoes, answer to the name of Rover, have my shots for distemper, but due for a booster on rabies.
~Z
I'm not sure whats funnier, this post,
or the fact that my moderation of Funny
was metamoderated as Unfair!
Some poor metamoderator got goatse'd! Huh
hah ahaha haha!!!
~Z
Just a note, they would not have spread smallpox, as that was a European Disease... They likely would have spread STD, such as syphilis, one of the things Comlumus and his band of slave trading pirates brought back to Eruope was a boat load of syphilis.
There aren't a lot of historical accounts of warmongering Native American tribes until a few years of Eurpean influence on a tribe. One of the most striking accounts can be found in the Journals of the Lewis & Clark expidtion (Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose is a great compilation of the joournals). The tribes that they encountered that had little European contact were far different than the tribes they encountered near the West Coast that had contact with European traders. But who can blame them for becoming warmongers! Ever read any of the journal entries from the Mayflower Pilgrims or Columbus? Try reading some to find out the TRUTH about the American MYTHS regarding our founding fathers. If you don;t feel like reading the journals pick up a copy of "Lies My Teachers Told Me" by James W. Loewen http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/ He has plenty of excerpts from early journals that he uses as primary sources.
War did exist between tribes, but a large part of traditional warfare was about nonlethal methods of capturing and acquring new members for their tribe (a crucial source of genetic diversity). South American cultures often had very nonlethal wars, sure many of the prisoners were later sacrificed in the name of religion, but many were adopted or enslaved in a MUCH fairer verion of slavery than what our mighty hero Columbus introduced into the Americas (yes yes yes, Columbus started it all on his first journey, he didn't find much gold so he kidnapped a number of natives to be used as slaves)
Not really related, but many Eurpoean women and children were 'captured' or adopted into indian tribes and after some peace treaties the indians were required to return them to 'civilization'. Many did not want to leave the tribe, some kicked and screamed and ran away asap. Native tribes had a remakble degree of democracy and equality. It was about the only place women and blacks could have a say in government at the time. Your "male centered warrior cult mythology" is complete BULLSHIT. Women had a much greater say in day to day ruling of the tribe than 'American women' of the time. Mythology? I assume you are Christian... do you refer to Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism as Mythologies? Keep in mind there are MORE people in this world that think that some guy getting nailed to a cross then being resurected 3 days later is as much a myth as Zeus and the other Greek "Mythological" Gods.
So back to the topic, I find it Ironic that I am so offtopic. Oh well, it's only karma.
Ebay should just take the easy road and remove online auctions from their business model.
They could turn themselves into a a portal, or maybe maybe a search engine. Maybe they could sell groceries and have them delivered. I wonder if the CEO has heard of push technology? Push will be the wave of the future! Why surf around for content when it can be delivered via a cute little cartoon caharacter.
I doubt this whole 'auction' thing will ever catch on anyway. None is ever going to buy a piece of junk from an unknown person over this here new fangled internet.
~Z
I'll stick with my local library. They actualy have lots of CD's that I can borrow for free for 2 weeks. Plenty of time to rip into whatever format I want. No new releases, but thats OK I think most music is crap these days. Most CD's I check out I already have the tape stuffed in a box somewhere. I actualy buy new music CD's that I like after I have sampled enough of the disc dfrom kazaa etc.
It's great for audiobooks on CD. I can listen to them at my leisure without worrying about late fees. I don't look at it as theft, more as maximizing my libraries circulation capabilities. I could renew them for 4 weeks, but if I return them after they are ripped some other poor schmoe can borrow them. Buying an unabridged audio book on CD is WAY to expensive for me to only listen to them once. I;ve noticed lots of new audiobooks are being released as MP3's burned on CD now. I wish they'd fall in price though. I'd pay $10 for one in a heart beat, but not $49.95 (SK's Dreamcatcher on three MP3 cd's).
From the article...
"Its operator interface consists of a quarter-VGA color LCD with a touch screen, driven by a 486 single board computer running Windows CE."
I was hopeing to find some of the winners using Linux, but the only mention of OS in the article was Windows CE.
Whatever works for each individual application I guess!
~Z
The next big thing in Keyboard design will be one handed keyboards optimized for the internet.
;)
:)
Sure there have been "internet" keyboards for awhile now with little speed buttons to launch your e-mail client or a web address. But a one handed keyboard will be optimzed for the #1 use for the net these days
A special IRC client could be included with each unit sold... you could call it jIRC
History shows plenty of exmaples that sometimes it DOES pay to hire the bad guys... but usualy just the first batch of exploiters, the rest become examples (like Mitnick). More info on Joseph Kennedy and his insider trading can be found HERE
~Z
I'm not sure why everyone was/is such a fan of Sonic Blue and the other various bastard children of Diamond. I've had and seen nothing but problems with thier products. Shoddy workmanship, disposable products and low quality output.
My Rio Volt 250 lasted 2 months, my brothers PVR was nothing but trouble, their video cards back in the day suffered driver issues for years after initial release.
GOOD RIDDANCE! It sounds like D&M may be able to take the popularity of the name and turn out an adequate product.
Of course I am a freaking idiot and my opinion is probably usesless... I guess that's why I was given MOD points today, so I would STFU... but my dislike for SB, Rio, DiamondMM etc. overcame my deisre for an over rated sense of power and control.
What's more useless than mod points on April 1st?
For those that looked at me funny while I was wearing my tin foil hats: Apolgies will be accepted in verbal and written form from 6AM to 11:30PM.
Your apologies will be accompanied the cursory "I told you so"
~Z
Having problems with negative talk during lunches?
Get rid of the lunch breaks! If your local labor laws won't alow that, then just make sure each employee has a different lunch time. You may have to vary start times to fit them all in, but that is why the day has 24 hours.
People complaining around the water cooler?
Remove the water cooler! If the local health laws require a source of water, then intall a money collection device. People will think twice about gathering around for a BS sessions if it costs them $.25 a swallow.
Negatiove E-mails making the rounds on your corporate network?
Are their computers REALLY needed?
Isn't web development really more of an artistic thing? I think only one person would really need to have a computer, the rest can just draw there ideas on paper with crayons and submit them to the guy with the computer for entry. And those silly PHP or Perl monkeys spend WAY too much time changing code, tweaking , degugging and stuff. I think most bugs are there because they are not careful or they are poor typists. You could hire a touch typists from you local high school to enter all their code for the day in the evening. Tha way they would be sure to be accurate the first time. Your empyees will be so busy they won't have time to have morale.
You are correct in your assumption that lay offs cause bad morale. NEVER LAY OFF EMPLOYS! Alway make thier job so horrible, so degrading, so painful that they just quit. It will save you a bundle on unemployment fees and severence packages. If you planned ahead you are allready located in an area like Utah, that has a horribly depressed tech sector so a few employees will stay because they know that the only other oppurtunity is flippiung burgers at McD's.
~Z
Yes, I realized that just after posting. Me bad!
Wickipdedia may not be all that reliable. It also says HERE [wikipedia.org] That it was "first been spotted by Galileo Galilei over 300 years ago".
This site HERE Says Hooke discovered it. My original source is the 6th Edition of "Universe", by Freedman and Kaufmann.
This site has a biographical sketch of Hooke that also gives him credit for discovery ths spot, and also gives him credit for determining the rotation of the giant planet using the spot as a reference point.
It seems as if Cassini and Hooke are used interchangebaly at times! I wonder if in 300+ years people will use Gates and Jobs interchangebly when talking about early computer history? Or will everything be attributed to Al Gore?
~Z
No the orbit would not get bigger and bigger. What force would act upon it? Another object with MORE gravitational force than the planets star would be needed. Mass being stripped off would affect the core though. It is often theorized that Jupiter has a rocky core 8 times the mass of the Earth, yet because of the emense pressure of the surrounding gases it is compresses it to a diameter of 11,000 KM, just smaller than the 12,800 KM diameter of the Earth. The estimated atmospheric pressure is near 70 million atmospheres with a tempature near 22,000 Kelvin. So as the gas is drawn away from the core it would expand and cool (because of a decreased Kelvin-Helmholtz effect). The heavy core would actualy look larger than it was in it's compressed form. This of course would take many many millions of years. I would specualte by that time we'd have discoverd other planets past that particular stage of life. I think a more interesting question would be as to WHY the atmosphere is being yanked by the star? It was thought that Jovian panets would only form at sufficient distances from a stars gravitaional force, otherwise all that Hydrogen and Helium would have been captured by the sun leaving a terrestial planet with a thinner atmosphere if any at all. Has the star expanded to a larger size or has the planet changed orbit? Another interesting factoid about Jupiter. The "Great Red Spot" was first detected in 1664 by Robert Hooke. Other similar but smaller and much more temporary storms are commonly seen. ~Z
Huh?
... UCE, ie SPAM!
Offtopic?
Hum... why have UDPs been used or threatend to be used in the past?
Lets see...
Erols.com
Bell Atlantic, July, 1997 SPAM!
UUnet SPAM!
Compuserve October, 1997, SPAM!
TIAC December, 1997 SPAM!
Netcom February, 1998 SPAM!
MCI2000.com August, 1998 SPAM!
PSINet November, 1998 SPAM!
Starnet IncJune of 1999 SPAM!
HKT (Hong Kong) June of 1999 SPAM!
BBNPlane October 1999 SPAM!
Ameritech November of 1999 SPAM!
VSNL and SILNET (India) December of 1999 SPAM!
In the Usenet Death Penalty article it frequently mentions that these example UDP's happened because the ISPs were major/#1 source for usenet spam. So the admins tightened things up and the spam disapeared from their servers, only to appear on someone elses. Spam just keeps getting worse and worse. UDPs may be a great way to enforce antispam policies, but it doesn't seem to stop the rotting public groups.
~Z
Wait a second... Is Usenet even still around? Didn't they morph into SpamNet or something?
Usenet used to be a great resource, but I've found it nearly unusable for the last 3 years (or more). If it wasn't for Google groups (Dejanews), I wouldn't even consider it a semivaluable source.
If they remove the ISP that the spam originates from, the spammer will just find new ISPs.
~Z
Those six types of powering up a machine are actually a pretty good thing. I've used the Automatic power up each day at a specific time as an alarm clock more than once. And it is also pretty nice for the work place.
Powering up a machine by using hotkeys on a keyboard is a nice feature for us big fat lazy guys that don't want to bend down to the level of the computers power button.
The graphical boot logo is ment more for OEM's (HP uses a lot of ASUS boards), and geeks that like to tweak this feature.
Although I like these features I must point out that the latest bios flash for my ASUS P2BLS seems to have caused some issues with powering down either via the power button or software when wake at a specific time is enabled, it reboots 30% of the time rather than shutting down.
As for the boot sector virus settings... I saw it used daily when I was doing phone support for Windows ME. We had a lot of techs that would explain the mysterious freezes that occured during setup as a "BIOS anitvirus" and tell them to call the BIOS maker. It made a great excuse and the cutomer can rarely verify this... ever tried calling AWARD? Good luck Joe Sixpack! That place sure sucked.
~Z
I notice that Tony Pierce of MS is on the Board at PCI-SIG. You may wnat to point out that their Knowledge base article q298837 points customers to www.yourvote.com/pci in order to ID unknown devices. I wrote the article and KNOW for a fact it is used daily be MS support techs while assisting customers.
~Z
There is a technical article in the Microsoft knowledge base that shows users how to identify their PCI devices using their device ID's.
K B; en-us;q298837
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
I wrote this article while employed as a MS Win/ME customer support technician. It refers customers to www.yourvote.com/pci! I referenced yourvote because there is NO other easily availble database-- not even internal to Microsoft! I wonder what they plan on doing now? Ironic how MS is a member of the PCI SIG...
I guess I'll have to go back to my old method of searching the linux source code for device ID's, maybe MS should also update Q298837
~Z
Unfortunatley, for some people once GUM is introduced into the algorithms the wole system falls apart.
~Z
OS/2's Solitaire was/is FAR better than Microsoft's version. Until Microsoft integrates a menu item for cheating they will be inferior to IBM. When they do itegrate this function, I'm afraid even your precious Linux will cease to compete. ~Z