Probe: "Uh, Bob? We are getting failure telemetry from the robotic arm of the probe. It's stuck"
Manned: "Ok Houston, I've deployed the analysis equipment. You have an error reading? One moment... _clang_...has that fixed it? Cool - I'll set the next one up."
Value of this post: 2 cents.
Robotic mission to Mars: 500 M$
Manned mission to Mars: 3000 M$
Being there to fix expensive shit when it breaks: priceless
For carefully controlled, predictable environments there are robots. For everything else there's humans.
That would be because it is a wrist rest. You are supposed to rest your wrists on it when you stop typing.
As other posters have mentioned, the correct typing position is with your wrists straight, your hands hovering over the keyboard, and your fingers dangling down (relaxed) to press the keys. The intent of the wrist rest is that when you stop typing, you do not rest your wrists on the desk and bend them backwards as your fingers rest on the raised keyboard.
Used correctly, a wrist rest can help relieve RSI. However learning to position your hands properly, relax, and sit properly will all do far more for you.
Pop quiz (hotshot): How many muscles in you neck and belly are taught at the moment?
Check by trying to relax a few. If you are like me you will find that your shoulders drop by about an inch and your gut comes out by about the same amount (curse that tasty beer). Doing that check once an hour will help you to stay relaxed while at the keyboard. Again, less pain.
Astronomer, image processing guy, blah blah...
Right, there will be sufficient light from the sun scattered from the illuminated atmosphere and then rescattered from the dark hemisphere towards the camera to make the dark hemisphere visable. You can see a similar effect by looking at a half moon on a dark night. You will be able to see the 'dark' side of the moon illuminated by light that has been reflected from the surface of the Earth. Its called Earthshine.
Yep, bang on about most of the effects that the parent saw being compression artifacts.
Ok, now as to why there are no stars. The Earth recieves a lot more solar radiation than Mars (distance squared). Presume that the albedo (amount reflected) is the same. So you have a lot more photons going into your camera if you take a picture of the Earth from Mars than vv. This means that you can use a shorter exposure and hence less stars will appear. Then do JPEG compression and watch the few point-like stars get smoothed out. Also, we don't know what else has been done to the image. Subsample and point like stars can go.
If you want to hunt around in the depths of an image looking for cool stuff, start off with an unprocessed original.
I've been using pilot-link for a while and not found the timing of the sync to be too troublesome. I usually just click 'sync' on the clie and turn and click the button in jpilot and it works fine.
This really shouldn't be needed anyway. With a little helper daemon to monitor the state of the USB subsystem, the pilot-link sync could be kicked off automatically. If only I could just jam an extra 5 hours into the week to write this...
It really shouldn't be a shock that you recieved a high mark.
Education should provoke thought. Just training kids to pass tests is of no value. What you did, analysing your results and thinking about _why_ you got them shows far more 'talent' than someone who just repeated an experiment that is guaranteed to give good results.
Sigh! Rant over. It is just crushing to see very little evidence of people designing their science lessons to impart the ability to think, like the guy who wrote Clouds in a Glass of Beer did.
The main reason for making bills a different size is to aid blind people in differentiating them. I guess that it does help prevent the bleach-and-reprint mode of forgery too.
at the very least i hope they will get rid of the "rpm hell" that people go thru when you go to upgrade major components.
I agree that upgrading major components in an RPM based system can be a pain.
However, the people that RedHat are trying to sell to usually don't want to do this. They want to buy a system that will run non-stop for five years. They realise they won't get this of course, but the most that they want to do is apply tiny incremental fixes to the versions of the packages that they started with. Once you have a system in production, doing a job, you leave it alone, except for security or stability fixes.
Try the store at Sky and Telescope. They sell LED flashlights with red leds. They are really restfull on the eyes when reading in bed and will not keep your partner awake. They are also small enough to prop-up somewhere to illuminate your book.
Toyed with the idea of getting one of these for the office but came to the conclusion that a linux box running hardware RAID from a 3ware controller card was better value. Transtec configured this exactly how I wanted it - I can highly recommend them. The 3ware card is pretty good too.
Oh, to be fair, the default Transtec keyboard sucks.
anyone smart enough to travel that distance despite the physics problems involved would probably also be smart enough to land in the place putting out the most energy (assuming they want to find "our leader"). That would be the US, hands down.
Right with you on the logic. However, consider a civilization within which the rich enjoy a pastoral livestyle and technology capable of recycling 'wasted' energy, whereas the poor must live in crowded environs built with older 'wasteful' technology. The result - they would start looking for our leader in the middle of Russia.
There just isn't a way that we can predict what an aliens opinions would be, since we do not know anything about the environment that they call 'normal'.
Yeah, the way that they just happened to have the team of scientists playing team building games with sandcastles nearby when that MRSA infected hobo with the rotting leg tripped into the rock-pool and then leaped out cured - hell! What a stroke of luck!
Just think, the company might have had to spend millions on computers and lab equipment if that hadn't happened.
Sorry, just had lunch and my brain is stuck on 'sarcastic'.
Let's just hope that MRSA doesn't infringe on the patent by becoming resistant to this one too:-)
There is in fact a perfectly good MRSA killer out there already - bleach. Not much use once you are infected, but an ounce of prevention, etc. Here in the UK we need the government to get hospitals to focus more on basic hygiene, rather then forcing them to hire more managers to figure out ways of fiddling the figures to meet the latest (meaningless) government target.
At least the government here have set themselves a goal of a 6% reduction in the number of targets set per year...
So a drug company come along and patent a sequence of DNA. "We own this, " they say. "It's ours."
Does this not imply that they accept responsibility for any disease causing properties of the sequence?
It would be sweet if those same companies that patented interesting sequences of cancer causing genes, so that they could exclude the competition, were then liable to anyone sick because they possesed that particular mutation.
Let's just get one thing straight - WotC were under no obligation to allow the stuff _they_own_ to be used in PCGen, ever. In the old TSR days, the code monkeys may well have been sued fur-less!
As things stand, for the price of a couple of pints, I'm going to be able to download datafiles for PCGen (which is a bloody fine piece of work in itself) that will allow me to bash out characters and monsters that
a) Can use all of the published features from the rules and addons
b) Stand a hope in hell of actually being numerically correct
Think people - when have we ever been able to do this before for the DnD world? Never.
For the people who are whinging about WotC releasing new editions to keep money coming in - if you don't want them, don't buy them. If you do, get 'yer hand in 'yer pocket and pay for them. And if I come across anyone ripping off the datafiles once they go on sale, they'll get a vorpal enema from me!
The time taken to achieve a result similar to what you wanted to do is order of the time needed to search through half a dozen menus. This isn't systems administration, it's voodoo. What were the side effects of what you just clicked?
I concur with your real point - that the documentation for various parts of Linux could be better, as could the average UI design. But I don't complain about it, since I haven't (yet) raised a finger to help.
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You are not wrong. It has been in orbit for years.
Probe: "Uh, Bob? We are getting failure telemetry from the robotic arm of the probe. It's stuck"
Manned: "Ok Houston, I've deployed the analysis equipment. You have an error reading? One moment... _clang_ ...has that fixed it? Cool - I'll set the next one up."
Value of this post: 2 cents.
Robotic mission to Mars: 500 M$
Manned mission to Mars: 3000 M$
Being there to fix expensive shit when it breaks: priceless
For carefully controlled, predictable environments there are robots. For everything else there's humans.
As other posters have mentioned, the correct typing position is with your wrists straight, your hands hovering over the keyboard, and your fingers dangling down (relaxed) to press the keys. The intent of the wrist rest is that when you stop typing, you do not rest your wrists on the desk and bend them backwards as your fingers rest on the raised keyboard.
Used correctly, a wrist rest can help relieve RSI. However learning to position your hands properly, relax, and sit properly will all do far more for you.
Pop quiz (hotshot): How many muscles in you neck and belly are taught at the moment?
Check by trying to relax a few. If you are like me you will find that your shoulders drop by about an inch and your gut comes out by about the same amount (curse that tasty beer). Doing that check once an hour will help you to stay relaxed while at the keyboard. Again, less pain.
FINALLY, the answer to who shoots first!
Bottom line. I will always be able to buy DRM defeating hardware.
Damn, but I wish I had followed through with my 'dumb' idea to remortgage and dump the cash into SCOX! 'Idle rich' is such good job title.
Yep, bang on about most of the effects that the parent saw being compression artifacts.
Ok, now as to why there are no stars. The Earth recieves a lot more solar radiation than Mars (distance squared). Presume that the albedo (amount reflected) is the same. So you have a lot more photons going into your camera if you take a picture of the Earth from Mars than vv. This means that you can use a shorter exposure and hence less stars will appear. Then do JPEG compression and watch the few point-like stars get smoothed out. Also, we don't know what else has been done to the image. Subsample and point like stars can go.
If you want to hunt around in the depths of an image looking for cool stuff, start off with an unprocessed original.
This really shouldn't be needed anyway. With a little helper daemon to monitor the state of the USB subsystem, the pilot-link sync could be kicked off automatically. If only I could just jam an extra 5 hours into the week to write this...
Education should provoke thought. Just training kids to pass tests is of no value. What you did, analysing your results and thinking about _why_ you got them shows far more 'talent' than someone who just repeated an experiment that is guaranteed to give good results.
Sigh! Rant over. It is just crushing to see very little evidence of people designing their science lessons to impart the ability to think, like the guy who wrote Clouds in a Glass of Beer did.
The main reason for making bills a different size is to aid blind people in differentiating them. I guess that it does help prevent the bleach-and-reprint mode of forgery too.
I agree that upgrading major components in an RPM based system can be a pain.
However, the people that RedHat are trying to sell to usually don't want to do this. They want to buy a system that will run non-stop for five years. They realise they won't get this of course, but the most that they want to do is apply tiny incremental fixes to the versions of the packages that they started with. Once you have a system in production, doing a job, you leave it alone, except for security or stability fixes.
Try the store at Sky and Telescope. They sell LED flashlights with red leds. They are really restfull on the eyes when reading in bed and will not keep your partner awake. They are also small enough to prop-up somewhere to illuminate your book.
Oh, to be fair, the default Transtec keyboard sucks.
Yep. The only time I've been in the position to say 'Damn, my pants.' I certainly wasn't socially acceptable. Furthermore it was drafty!
Right with you on the logic. However, consider a civilization within which the rich enjoy a pastoral livestyle and technology capable of recycling 'wasted' energy, whereas the poor must live in crowded environs built with older 'wasteful' technology. The result - they would start looking for our leader in the middle of Russia.
There just isn't a way that we can predict what an aliens opinions would be, since we do not know anything about the environment that they call 'normal'.
If it don't fit ('cos of that ATI you have in there), send it to me and I'll do some testing on it for you. Should only take a year or two.
Homer:
We apologize for misleading you and urge you to watch as many Fox shows as possible.
So in summary, NBC bad. Fox good.
*pause*
CBS great-*gunshot, thud*
Cosmologists. 2000 million years one way or the other is a bullseye at dating the age of the universe.
Yeah, the way that they just happened to have the team of scientists playing team building games with sandcastles nearby when that MRSA infected hobo with the rotting leg tripped into the rock-pool and then leaped out cured - hell! What a stroke of luck!
Just think, the company might have had to spend millions on computers and lab equipment if that hadn't happened.
Sorry, just had lunch and my brain is stuck on 'sarcastic'.
There is in fact a perfectly good MRSA killer out there already - bleach. Not much use once you are infected, but an ounce of prevention, etc. Here in the UK we need the government to get hospitals to focus more on basic hygiene, rather then forcing them to hire more managers to figure out ways of fiddling the figures to meet the latest (meaningless) government target.
At least the government here have set themselves a goal of a 6% reduction in the number of targets set per year...
So a drug company come along and patent a sequence of DNA. "We own this, " they say. "It's ours."
Does this not imply that they accept responsibility for any disease causing properties of the sequence?
It would be sweet if those same companies that patented interesting sequences of cancer causing genes, so that they could exclude the competition, were then liable to anyone sick because they possesed that particular mutation.
Just dreaming...
Have they looked down the back of the sofa?
As things stand, for the price of a couple of pints, I'm going to be able to download datafiles for PCGen (which is a bloody fine piece of work in itself) that will allow me to bash out characters and monsters that
a) Can use all of the published features from the rules and addons
b) Stand a hope in hell of actually being numerically correct
Think people - when have we ever been able to do this before for the DnD world? Never.
For the people who are whinging about WotC releasing new editions to keep money coming in - if you don't want them, don't buy them. If you do, get 'yer hand in 'yer pocket and pay for them. And if I come across anyone ripping off the datafiles once they go on sale, they'll get a vorpal enema from me!
One happy DM!
I'll do holiday and hangover cover for you guys.
I concur with your real point - that the documentation for various parts of Linux could be better, as could the average UI design. But I don't complain about it, since I haven't (yet) raised a finger to help.