Ah, yes, but water vapor (clouds) can also reflect solar radiation. It could be a positive or negative feedback.
So clouds very well may have cooling effects, depending on the cloud type.
I'm in charge of the tech aspects of a school group with two email addresses that we accept mail from the public. I've set up an internal Mailman that only board members know about. The two external emails accounts are forwarded to the internal mailman which then sends a copy of the email to all of the people subscribed to the listserv.
I then set up Mail man to munge the reply-to fields so that the reply to field is the same as the private listserv. As a result, we can talk amongst oursevles about something and then when we decide, we simply reply to the original message and bcc ourselves. This works really well because everyone gets a copy of everything, there's no sharing of email accounts, there's no remembering to reply all, etc. Also, spam drops to nearly zero because you can filter the external accounts quite well.
As for the actual organization part...don't you have a set list of what people normally do? If not, usually someone replies to the message and says "hey bob, can you follow up on this?". This system works extraordinarily well.
On mac you can quickly switch back and forth between inverted color with ctrl+apple+option+8. It isn't perfect, but for most webpages / text documents it works fine. Additionally, in Universal Access (System Preferences), there's a grayscale option.
I'm not sure if there's something like that in Windows.
It's also good for reading at night and you don't want the entire room to see you're face lit up like a Christmas tree.
I think the only advantage of this particular linux usb key is it's size. Otheriwse, the gumstix are a helluva lot more powerful and almost as small (think size of a gumstick). Anyway, gumstix also has a variety of expansion boards. I'm waiting for the gsm module so I can make something off the OpenMoko platform or a cobbled together iPhone.
I don't think it was the hammering of their servers. There's an option in mythtv to mythfilldatabase at a time that's good for Zap2it. I'm not sure exactly what the option is called, but when I setup myth, it was there.
I personally use target to print some of my photos (the quality is better than I thought it'd be and faster than because you can pick it up.) Target photo is tied into Yahoo photos...I wonder what will happen. Flickr already uses its own printing service, so maybe we'll have two choices?
Well, the Mars Global Surveyor did take a picture of (albeit farther away) of Spirit's landing site-tracks, heat shield, and parachute. You can't see the actual rover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mgs_mer.gif
This might be of interest to you. From the nasa website: "The Mars Orbiter Camera can resolve features on the surface of Mars as small as a few meters or yards across from Mars Global Surveyor's orbital altitude of 350 to 405 kilometers (217 to 252 miles). From a distance of 100 kilometers (62 miles), the camera would be able to resolve features substantially smaller than 1 meter or yard across" Take a look at the pictures on this site: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/mg s-images.html especially the Mars Odessey as seen by the Surveyor
I think there's some veracity to that statement...apparently Napoleon's troops suffered in their campaign in Russia because of this. During the day, they'd walk around in the bitter cold, where their core temperature was very low. At night, they would huddle around a fire and their core temp would rise. Apparently, because they had such a drastic change in temp, they died at a faster rate.
It's better to stay hot or cold all the time than switch between them.
At least that's what I remember...can't find the source.
Well, maybe that IS what it costs to them, given how many systems they sell. On Amazon right now, it costs $189; there's no reason why Dell (which is either the first or second largest computer manufacturer in the world) can't get that much of a discount when they probably sell millions of systems.
And maybe you have your own XP disc and don't want all that Dell crap installed on your system when you get it. It's 30 bucks...I'll take it.
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." ~ Marcus Brigstocke (falsely attributed to Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc)
Because maybe he has more important things to do? Because maybe he wants to do other things? Because maybe he wants something that works right out of the box. Because a lot of us don't have infinite amounts of time.
How about actually loading people onto an airplane? Last time I flew on a 747, it took at least 45 minutes to board the aircraft. (there were 400 people on the flight) Although I have seen the dual jetway configuration, how many airports actually have it? And what's the tolerance for people waiting?
Hub and spoke isn't the problem. You NEED it to get anywhere that's not a nonpopular destination. By saying that hub and spoke is a flawed concept, you effectively resign smaller cities to death.
Say I want to go to Butte, Montana and I live in Boston. How is a direct route method of Southwest airlines going to get me there? Isn't the most efficient and cost effective way for an airline to transport me on a larger jet, to say Denver, and then, use a smaller less than 100 passenger plane to fly me to my destination of Butte? How do you say to medium sized cities without rail lines, we're not going to use the hub and spoke method and we're going to destroy any sort of business you have (not just tourism, but meetings/conferences)? How do you tell that to the people who will have to drive hours to get to a major airport?
I agree that the upper management is corrupt. It really is. But because management is corrupt, you can't go saying that hub and spoke is flawed. In the future, I forsee a multitude of direct route airlines, and one big airline that still employs hub and spoke (either government subsidized, or just large enough and efficient to turn a profit). After all, how are airlines like Southwest going to get us overseas? Suddenly, the Jet Blue/Southwest system doesn't seem to efficient.
First of all, 10x zoom is a complete joke. I hope you didn't base your decision of that. It's meant for the uneducated consumer, who sees the 10x and thinks it's better than the 3x optical.
I know I am not the kind of guy who is interested in changing lenses all the time.
You don't have to if you get a zoom lens. The Nikon D70 outfit has a 18-70 mm lens (factor of 1.6 multiplication to convert to 35 mm cameras). You really don't need to lug around all those lenses, unless you're doing extreme telephoto (which I highly doubt).
I used the Nikon Coolpix 5200 for awhile, but I was unhappy with it's inability to focus quickly and accurately. Additionally, the consistency between shots was poor. I got the D70 outfit (already had Nikon lenses) and the results amazed me. All CCDs were not created equal. You need a larger CCD more than megapixels. Hell, the Spirit's digital cameras are only 1 megapixel in resolution. (The CCD is nearly a half an inch sqaure.) http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/pancam_techwed_040114.html
I can agree with you if you don't want to spend more than $1000. However, keep this in mind: The lense you buy is basically a 10+ year purchase. The body is not. So, in 3 years, when dslrs are markedly better, you can still use that lens. You won't be throwing away that lens. With a point and shoot, you throw out all of the camera...and there goes that $800 purchase.
Oh, and I got a decent tripod from Target for $30. Why do you need high quality support equipment if the equipment you use doesn't need it?
I would hardly even consider myself an amateur at this point because not all of my pictures turn out well.
Most of your pictures shouldn't turn out. I'm happy if 1/3 of the shots I've taken are good, both technically and artistically.
This seems akin to the metal sleeve you get when you buy an ez pass. If you don't want the machine to read your ez pass, you put it in the bag.
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It certainly did not affect the editors of xbox magazine, who gave it a 9.7 out of 10.
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attack dangerous driving by banning fuzzy dice
In some states, you can be ticketed for placing fuzzy dice on your rearview mirror. Apparently, it can obstruct the view of the driver.
if you switch to something like Debian with a strong user-community, will you even need to pay for software support anymore?
You buy Redhat or SuSe because of support. When you have a critical application that goes down, you want it fixed NOW. Not after paging through newsgroups or googling for hours, that's wasted time. Besides, Redhat and Suse test their enterprise grade linux with major applications that a customer would use, like Oracle. It's designed with that in mind. Debian supports a broad range of architectures and a wide variety of users. With RedHat and Suse, a specific group is targeted. Support is where they make their money, not selling linux to home users.
As for package management, you don't need a repository of thousands of applications. Besides, all of the apps you'd ever want to install are well documented. It's not like your going to use portage to install Oracle.
Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in
their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full
fledged development team devoted to it.
Uh huh. That's why a majority of the world's web servers run Apache. here
These developers are hardly "weekend hackers", but devoted people. Read this
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to
compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming,
but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows
98/NT/2K are your only choices. So that's why Google and Amazon, for example, run Linux? [netcraft.com]
If my VoIP doesn't work, chances are my POTS phones isn't working either.
When was the last time that your land line actually died? Not a "network busy", but just died. No dial tone. No power to the phone? Just died?
In the age of monoploy of the telephones, we didn't care how much it actually cost. The system was built to last. If the power goes out, so does your VOIP, email, instant messaging, even your cell phone (how towers have battery backup?) But your phone will always be there.
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I was able to get it on bittorrent. Link here.
Ah, yes, but water vapor (clouds) can also reflect solar radiation. It could be a positive or negative feedback. So clouds very well may have cooling effects, depending on the cloud type.
I'm in charge of the tech aspects of a school group with two email addresses that we accept mail from the public. I've set up an internal Mailman that only board members know about. The two external emails accounts are forwarded to the internal mailman which then sends a copy of the email to all of the people subscribed to the listserv.
I then set up Mail man to munge the reply-to fields so that the reply to field is the same as the private listserv. As a result, we can talk amongst oursevles about something and then when we decide, we simply reply to the original message and bcc ourselves. This works really well because everyone gets a copy of everything, there's no sharing of email accounts, there's no remembering to reply all, etc. Also, spam drops to nearly zero because you can filter the external accounts quite well.
As for the actual organization part...don't you have a set list of what people normally do? If not, usually someone replies to the message and says "hey bob, can you follow up on this?". This system works extraordinarily well.
On mac you can quickly switch back and forth between inverted color with ctrl+apple+option+8. It isn't perfect, but for most webpages / text documents it works fine. Additionally, in Universal Access (System Preferences), there's a grayscale option.
I'm not sure if there's something like that in Windows.
It's also good for reading at night and you don't want the entire room to see you're face lit up like a Christmas tree.
I think the only advantage of this particular linux usb key is it's size. Otheriwse, the gumstix are a helluva lot more powerful and almost as small (think size of a gumstick). Anyway, gumstix also has a variety of expansion boards. I'm waiting for the gsm module so I can make something off the OpenMoko platform or a cobbled together iPhone.
I don't think it was the hammering of their servers. There's an option in mythtv to mythfilldatabase at a time that's good for Zap2it. I'm not sure exactly what the option is called, but when I setup myth, it was there.
I personally use target to print some of my photos (the quality is better than I thought it'd be and faster than because you can pick it up.) Target photo is tied into Yahoo photos...I wonder what will happen. Flickr already uses its own printing service, so maybe we'll have two choices?
Well, the Mars Global Surveyor did take a picture of (albeit farther away) of Spirit's landing site-tracks, heat shield, and parachute. You can't see the actual rover. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mgs_mer.gif
g s-images.html especially the Mars Odessey as seen by the Surveyor
This might be of interest to you. From the nasa website: "The Mars Orbiter Camera can resolve features on the surface of Mars as small as a few meters or yards across from Mars Global Surveyor's orbital altitude of 350 to 405 kilometers (217 to 252 miles). From a distance of 100 kilometers (62 miles), the camera would be able to resolve features substantially smaller than 1 meter or yard across" Take a look at the pictures on this site: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/m
The Surveyor orbits at 235 miles above Mars.
Obligatory user friendly comic.
I think there's some veracity to that statement...apparently Napoleon's troops suffered in their campaign in Russia because of this. During the day, they'd walk around in the bitter cold, where their core temperature was very low. At night, they would huddle around a fire and their core temp would rise. Apparently, because they had such a drastic change in temp, they died at a faster rate. It's better to stay hot or cold all the time than switch between them. At least that's what I remember...can't find the source.
Well, maybe that IS what it costs to them, given how many systems they sell. On Amazon right now, it costs $189; there's no reason why Dell (which is either the first or second largest computer manufacturer in the world) can't get that much of a discount when they probably sell millions of systems.
And maybe you have your own XP disc and don't want all that Dell crap installed on your system when you get it. It's 30 bucks...I'll take it.
Many of the adapters that come with laptops today accept 120/240, 50-60 hz. All you need then is a power adapter for the outlet.
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." ~ Marcus Brigstocke (falsely attributed to Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc)
from wikiquote
Because maybe he has more important things to do? Because maybe he wants to do other things? Because maybe he wants something that works right out of the box. Because a lot of us don't have infinite amounts of time.
How about actually loading people onto an airplane? Last time I flew on a 747, it took at least 45 minutes to board the aircraft. (there were 400 people on the flight) Although I have seen the dual jetway configuration, how many airports actually have it? And what's the tolerance for people waiting?
Theforce.net has the trailer...it's already a bit clogged. here
Hub and spoke isn't the problem. You NEED it to get anywhere that's not a nonpopular destination. By saying that hub and spoke is a flawed concept, you effectively resign smaller cities to death.
Say I want to go to Butte, Montana and I live in Boston. How is a direct route method of Southwest airlines going to get me there? Isn't the most efficient and cost effective way for an airline to transport me on a larger jet, to say Denver, and then, use a smaller less than 100 passenger plane to fly me to my destination of Butte? How do you say to medium sized cities without rail lines, we're not going to use the hub and spoke method and we're going to destroy any sort of business you have (not just tourism, but meetings/conferences)? How do you tell that to the people who will have to drive hours to get to a major airport?
I agree that the upper management is corrupt. It really is. But because management is corrupt, you can't go saying that hub and spoke is flawed. In the future, I forsee a multitude of direct route airlines, and one big airline that still employs hub and spoke (either government subsidized, or just large enough and efficient to turn a profit). After all, how are airlines like Southwest going to get us overseas? Suddenly, the Jet Blue/Southwest system doesn't seem to efficient.
10x zoom w/ IS
y /pancam_techwed_040114.html
First of all, 10x zoom is a complete joke. I hope you didn't base your decision of that. It's meant for the uneducated consumer, who sees the 10x and thinks it's better than the 3x optical.
I know I am not the kind of guy who is interested in changing lenses all the time.
You don't have to if you get a zoom lens. The Nikon D70 outfit has a 18-70 mm lens (factor of 1.6 multiplication to convert to 35 mm cameras). You really don't need to lug around all those lenses, unless you're doing extreme telephoto (which I highly doubt).
I used the Nikon Coolpix 5200 for awhile, but I was unhappy with it's inability to focus quickly and accurately. Additionally, the consistency between shots was poor. I got the D70 outfit (already had Nikon lenses) and the results amazed me. All CCDs were not created equal. You need a larger CCD more than megapixels. Hell, the Spirit's digital cameras are only 1 megapixel in resolution. (The CCD is nearly a half an inch sqaure.) http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technolog
I can agree with you if you don't want to spend more than $1000. However, keep this in mind: The lense you buy is basically a 10+ year purchase. The body is not. So, in 3 years, when dslrs are markedly better, you can still use that lens. You won't be throwing away that lens. With a point and shoot, you throw out all of the camera...and there goes that $800 purchase.
Oh, and I got a decent tripod from Target for $30. Why do you need high quality support equipment if the equipment you use doesn't need it?
I would hardly even consider myself an amateur at this point because not all of my pictures turn out well. Most of your pictures shouldn't turn out. I'm happy if 1/3 of the shots I've taken are good, both technically and artistically.
This seems akin to the metal sleeve you get when you buy an ez pass. If you don't want the machine to read your ez pass, you put it in the bag.
It certainly did not affect the editors of xbox magazine, who gave it a 9.7 out of 10.
attack dangerous driving by banning fuzzy dice In some states, you can be ticketed for placing fuzzy dice on your rearview mirror. Apparently, it can obstruct the view of the driver.
if you switch to something like Debian with a strong user-community, will you even need to pay for software support anymore?
You buy Redhat or SuSe because of support. When you have a critical application that goes down, you want it fixed NOW. Not after paging through newsgroups or googling for hours, that's wasted time. Besides, Redhat and Suse test their enterprise grade linux with major applications that a customer would use, like Oracle. It's designed with that in mind. Debian supports a broad range of architectures and a wide variety of users. With RedHat and Suse, a specific group is targeted. Support is where they make their money, not selling linux to home users.
As for package management, you don't need a repository of thousands of applications. Besides, all of the apps you'd ever want to install are well documented. It's not like your going to use portage to install Oracle.
Apache is a volunteer based project written by weekend hackers in their spare time while Microsft's IIS has an actual professional full fledged development team devoted to it.
Uh huh. That's why a majority of the world's web servers run Apache. here These developers are hardly "weekend hackers", but devoted people. Read this
As things stand now, I can understand using Linux in academia to compile simple "Hello World" style programs and learn C programming, but I'm afraid that for anything more than a hobby OS, Windows 98/NT/2K are your only choices.
So that's why Google and Amazon, for example, run Linux? [netcraft.com]
If my VoIP doesn't work, chances are my POTS phones isn't working either.
When was the last time that your land line actually died? Not a "network busy", but just died. No dial tone. No power to the phone? Just died?
In the age of monoploy of the telephones, we didn't care how much it actually cost. The system was built to last. If the power goes out, so does your VOIP, email, instant messaging, even your cell phone (how towers have battery backup?) But your phone will always be there.