it won't tell us anything about how common they are until they snag a picture of another one
Yeah it does. We can assume that a tornado is visible 1/Nth of the time, where N is the total number of pictures taken by the rover, and the 1 represents the picture with the tornado visible.
If the rover snags a picture of another tornado it will increase the accuracy of our prediction slightly.
Sure. From my experience the best IMAP server for Windows is MailEnable. Unfortunatly for IMAP support you'll need the Pro version which isn't free, but you can try it for 60 days, and my windows installations rarely last that long;)
On the client side, it's easy - just add your server to Outlook as an IMAP server, and that's it. You'll probably find that IMAP support in Outlook sucks (it's a lot better in Outlook Express), but it's still OK.
One word: IMAP. If you can read your email using any decent email client, it should support moving it to an IMAP server. If you are using web-based email or some crappy client which can't export emails to a standard/raw format, you'll have to write a script to convert the messages.
What's wrong with taking a lethal dose of paracetamol (double the lethal dose to be sure), lying down in your bed, drifting off and never waking up again. Certainly not painful or messy.
How about Electronics then? You know how to write great code - but how about combining this ability with some in-depth hardware knowledge in order to design the next killer gadget?
Yes, that's if they win the case, which they won't assuming the legal system has any hint of sanity. There's so much prior art out there, it should be trivial to invalidate the patent.
I have to agree with the parent poster. If I was Eolas, I'd sell it and make a guaranteed x million $'s. If MS was really evil, they'd buy the patent and demand royalties from competing browsers who can't afford the legal fees neccessary to challenge the patent.
Okay I'm not even going to claim this place is legal cuz honestly, its clearly not. There is no way that the record industry would allow someone to sell non-DRM'd music.
Just because the record industry wouldn't want to allow it, doesn't automatically suggest it's illegal.
Perhaps the US record industries cannot pass laws in Russia... yet.
That isn't the case. I ran into the same problem with my IBM thinkpad.
IBM's wi-fi cards are simply Cisco Aeronet cards sold at twice the price. You can buy the exact same card, made by the same manufacturer, with the same quality - but it will refuse to work because you didn't pay IBM $30 to change the pnp id.
Yes - this has pissed me off. I bought a 802.11b/g combo card to replace the 802.11b card in my Thinkpad T41. Little did I know that the laptop BIOS is deliberatly crippled, and refuses to boot with minipci network cards which aren't approved by IBM (often exactly the same cards, made by exactly the same manufacturers, but have a different hardware ID - a privelage you are supposed to pay 2x the price for).
After a bit of research I managed to patch my BIOS to get around the problem - at least till I apply a BIOS update in the future.
If I had know of this beforehand, I would have seriously considered a different laptop. The problem is there are no warnings, and the specs claim the laptop has a miniPCI slot - which would make one assume it is compatible with any card which follows the miniPCI standard.
Perhaps the D/A items won't become totally illegal, but they could be greatly restricted until the ordinary citizen would (could) be outlawed for having such a device.
All it takes is a ladder of precision resistors and an op-amp to make a relatively good DAC. I don't see how a restriction on DACs could possibly be enforced.
Shit, I shouldn't have suggested that. Now resistors will be outlawed.
I don't understand peoples desire to needlesly complicate simple projects.
An animal food dispenser needs to run a simple script to release food at pre-programmed times. A cheap microcontroller is perfectly adequate for doing this. Heck, a 555 timer would be sufficient.
Requiring a Linux based system for this doesn't seem like much of an advantage. It's needless bloat, and complete overkill. Sometimes the simplest solution is the most elegant and reliable.
Who needs a multi-tasking operating system, complete with file system and memory managment support for something as simple as a food dispenser?
I'm pretty sure this guy could pick up an electronic animal feeder from any pet store for $50, and use his knowledge for something which is actually useful.
Heh, a few years ago, when I went to high school, the situation was kinda reversed.
The school went "hi-tech", and all the teachers got laptops to use for routine tasks like registering attendance, etc.
The laptops all had built-in wi-fi, and the school rolled out access points accross every building. There was an access point next to every classroom.
Of course the admins didn't have a clue about how to secure wi-fi, their servers, or any other part of the network.
To cut a long story short, I wrote a neat utility which would track the location of all the teachers based on what access points were in range of their laptops - complete with a nifty GUI.
I remember whenever a teacher was late for a class, I would glance at my laptop, see a map of the school along with moving red dots representing the teachers, and know where they were, and when they would be likely to walk into the classroom.:p
My dad's car (Peugeout 406) has developed an even worse software problem. It decides, at random, to lock itsself, and can't even be opened from the inside. Sometimes it unlocks itself after a few seconds, sometimes after a few minutes.
I think the worst effect of this was when he was dropping some visitors off at the airport. It decided right then to lock itsself, and wouldn't let them out:-/
Uhhh, yes... and they would be able to accomplish such a miraculous technological feat without any geek noticing that his monitor has a camera and transmitter built in?
Here in the UK, only a few ISPs have a clause about not running servers in their TOS, and it's never enforced (except in cases where people upload 100's of GB's/month).
Not running servers would equate to not accepting incoming TCP connections, which would cripple a LOT of internet programs. Unless it refers to specific ports, but that would be kinda pointless, since it's easy to evade.
This was just explained on NasaTV a second ago. You are correct that Chain A and Chain B are identical redundant systems.
They received all telemetry data on Chain B and none on Chain A. While Chain A carried out an additional experiment, the data can be recovered. They will look into the reason for the loss of Chain A.
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Err. I meant here.
Here is my coverage which I submitted two days ago. It got rejected because my method me documentation wasn't sufficiently nerdy.
it won't tell us anything about how common they are until they snag a picture of another one
Yeah it does. We can assume that a tornado is visible 1/Nth of the time, where N is the total number of pictures taken by the rover, and the 1 represents the picture with the tornado visible.
If the rover snags a picture of another tornado it will increase the accuracy of our prediction slightly.
Sure. From my experience the best IMAP server for Windows is MailEnable. Unfortunatly for IMAP support you'll need the Pro version which isn't free, but you can try it for 60 days, and my windows installations rarely last that long ;)
On the client side, it's easy - just add your server to Outlook as an IMAP server, and that's it. You'll probably find that IMAP support in Outlook sucks (it's a lot better in Outlook Express), but it's still OK.
One word: IMAP. If you can read your email using any decent email client, it should support moving it to an IMAP server. If you are using web-based email or some crappy client which can't export emails to a standard/raw format, you'll have to write a script to convert the messages.
I really personally don't care what hardware platform Linus uses or whether he buys his underwear from thinkgeek.com
Damn you... now I have this image of Linus wearing HTTPanties etched into my mind's eye's retina.
What's wrong with taking a lethal dose of paracetamol (double the lethal dose to be sure), lying down in your bed, drifting off and never waking up again. Certainly not painful or messy.
:)
I think you've been reading too much of this
Or simply that they changed the page, and the cache contains an outdated version.
How about Electronics then? You know how to write great code - but how about combining this ability with some in-depth hardware knowledge in order to design the next killer gadget?
I'm glad the station was launched "for free (as in beer)", as opposed to, erm, "for free (as in speech)".
Yes, that's if they win the case, which they won't assuming the legal system has any hint of sanity. There's so much prior art out there, it should be trivial to invalidate the patent.
I have to agree with the parent poster. If I was Eolas, I'd sell it and make a guaranteed x million $'s. If MS was really evil, they'd buy the patent and demand royalties from competing browsers who can't afford the legal fees neccessary to challenge the patent.
Okay I'm not even going to claim this place is legal cuz honestly, its clearly not. There is no way that the record industry would allow someone to sell non-DRM'd music.
Just because the record industry wouldn't want to allow it, doesn't automatically suggest it's illegal.
Perhaps the US record industries cannot pass laws in Russia... yet.
That isn't the case. I ran into the same problem with my IBM thinkpad.
IBM's wi-fi cards are simply Cisco Aeronet cards sold at twice the price. You can buy the exact same card, made by the same manufacturer, with the same quality - but it will refuse to work because you didn't pay IBM $30 to change the pnp id.
Yes - this has pissed me off. I bought a 802.11b/g combo card to replace the 802.11b card in my Thinkpad T41. Little did I know that the laptop BIOS is deliberatly crippled, and refuses to boot with minipci network cards which aren't approved by IBM (often exactly the same cards, made by exactly the same manufacturers, but have a different hardware ID - a privelage you are supposed to pay 2x the price for).
After a bit of research I managed to patch my BIOS to get around the problem - at least till I apply a BIOS update in the future.
If I had know of this beforehand, I would have seriously considered a different laptop. The problem is there are no warnings, and the specs claim the laptop has a miniPCI slot - which would make one assume it is compatible with any card which follows the miniPCI standard.
Perhaps the D/A items won't become totally illegal, but they could be greatly restricted until the ordinary citizen would (could) be outlawed for having such a device.
All it takes is a ladder of precision resistors and an op-amp to make a relatively good DAC. I don't see how a restriction on DACs could possibly be enforced.
Shit, I shouldn't have suggested that. Now resistors will be outlawed.
I don't understand peoples desire to needlesly complicate simple projects.
An animal food dispenser needs to run a simple script to release food at pre-programmed times. A cheap microcontroller is perfectly adequate for doing this. Heck, a 555 timer would be sufficient.
Requiring a Linux based system for this doesn't seem like much of an advantage. It's needless bloat, and complete overkill. Sometimes the simplest solution is the most elegant and reliable.
Who needs a multi-tasking operating system, complete with file system and memory managment support for something as simple as a food dispenser?
I'm pretty sure this guy could pick up an electronic animal feeder from any pet store for $50, and use his knowledge for something which is actually useful.
Do we have the right to play God?
:)
Sure we do.
Heh, a few years ago, when I went to high school, the situation was kinda reversed.
:p
The school went "hi-tech", and all the teachers got laptops to use for routine tasks like registering attendance, etc.
The laptops all had built-in wi-fi, and the school rolled out access points accross every building. There was an access point next to every classroom.
Of course the admins didn't have a clue about how to secure wi-fi, their servers, or any other part of the network.
To cut a long story short, I wrote a neat utility which would track the location of all the teachers based on what access points were in range of their laptops - complete with a nifty GUI.
I remember whenever a teacher was late for a class, I would glance at my laptop, see a map of the school along with moving red dots representing the teachers, and know where they were, and when they would be likely to walk into the classroom.
Does this mean a goatse or tubgirl link will get you modded up "+1 Informative"?
;)
Hmm, let's try it. For those of you who don't know what he was refering too, goatse and tubgirl are those sites.
That could me an immobilizer issue.
:-/
My dad's car (Peugeout 406) has developed an even worse software problem. It decides, at random, to lock itsself, and can't even be opened from the inside. Sometimes it unlocks itself after a few seconds, sometimes after a few minutes.
I think the worst effect of this was when he was dropping some visitors off at the airport. It decided right then to lock itsself, and wouldn't let them out
Uhhh, yes... and they would be able to accomplish such a miraculous technological feat without any geek noticing that his monitor has a camera and transmitter built in?
Remind me why this comment was modded insightful?
I'd be surprised if they didn't allow servers.
Here in the UK, only a few ISPs have a clause about not running servers in their TOS, and it's never enforced (except in cases where people upload 100's of GB's/month).
Not running servers would equate to not accepting incoming TCP connections, which would cripple a LOT of internet programs. Unless it refers to specific ports, but that would be kinda pointless, since it's easy to evade.
Well, for a start they should use this to control it :)
Yeah, and I also noticed some interesting artifacts after enchancing the images from the landing site.
This was just explained on NasaTV a second ago. You are correct that Chain A and Chain B are identical redundant systems.
They received all telemetry data on Chain B and none on Chain A. While Chain A carried out an additional experiment, the data can be recovered. They will look into the reason for the loss of Chain A.