You're right; I wasn't clear in my original post. I meant "everything local to the star". I was grooving on the idea that life could still exist in the solar system created by this star, provided the planet rotating around the star wouldn't get bombarded by stuff flying into the solar system. If the space between galaxies isn't littered with matter, then this seems a possibility.
It appears that the instruction language for extensions is Javascript. So you can theoreticaly control extension behavior with your browser's javascript settings.
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People with little money or resources, the world over, tend to have a shorter-term mindset than people with some security and long-term future at stake. So Africa, with a large proportion of the very poor, suffers from conning and stealing and power-grabbing and threats and violence.
TO ALL WHO WANT TO END TERRORISM:
The simplest way to end violence in the world is to make sure that everyone feels that they have a stake in the future:
* People need a legal system that promotes justice. * They need enough food to keep from starving. * They need vaccines against disfiguring illness and death.
*...they need a 100MBS ethernet connection... (???)
I've periodically looked into the possibility of using these MP3 recorders as dictation devices. About 2 years ago, the voice recognition software hadn't caught up to convenient use yet: you had to be sitting down in a quiet area with a good noise-cancelling microphone. The main commercial packages were IBM's ViaVoice and Dragon Naturally Speaking, and you couldn't easily use your own MP3 voice recorder with these. You had to offload the MP3, translate MP3 to WAV on your desktop, and somehow run the software in batch mode (non-interactively). I gave up after finding out that recognition was good only under restrictive conditions (sitting down, quiet room, etc.)
As I understand it, someone can write good software to separate background from voice (in particular MY voice as the software understands it from training), then speech recognition on-the-go should be possible, i.e. walking and talking. I would love to record my thoughts while I go on outdoor hikes.
So I'm wondering if anyone has come across this lately or tried it.
Now, illegal data on Jeff's machine, especially in the top level directory, was found timestamped from before the linker made the link, "plausible deniability" would be a much harder argument to make.
That may be true if timestamps weren't so easily manipulated.
For those earlier posters whining about lack of a good FPS, they should make sure and check out bzflag, a networked 3D version of Battlezone with outstanding playability. Works out-of-the box for linux, Windows, and MacOSX. Easy server startup and config; easy to run locally. "easy to learn, hard to master."
The graphics are not as beautiful as Quake II or Doom 3, but I know people who have been playing it for years and still aren't tired of it.
The obvious problem is that it's much more common to run Windows as "root" than it is on *nix, for various reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that *nix users usually are smart enough to use one account for administration, and other for doing "user" stuff.
Microsoft could make it so much easier to separate admin and user tasks by allowing someone with nonadmin privileges to temporarily install/remove/repair software in admin mode without having to log out. The last time I used XP running as a local user and tried to install something, I was simply told "you don't have permission to do that". Very annoying. I had to log out, login as admin, fire up my web browser, remember which webpage to surf to, and download/install again. This kind of annoyance encourages people to NOT separate their user/admin accounts.
For a long time now, distros like SuSE and OSX allow a person to perform SINGLE admin tasks by prompting for the root password. No need to logout as user/login as root/perform task/logout as admin/login as user. This makes separation of admin/user accounts easy.
I wonder why Microsoft hasn't fixed this problem. Other distros have had it right for quite a while.
how much of an earthquake, raised landmass or change would you need to move the poles significantly?
I learned in my geology class that the magnetic poles have switched polarity often on the geologic timescale.
In the middle of the Atlantic ocean is a large trough running north/south where two tectonic plates are separating (this is the mechanism that caused the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea). When lava cools, the earth's magnetic field is "recorded" in the rock. Geologists have discovered magnetic "bands" in these rocks that show how the poles have traveled over time.
IANAP (not a physicist), but I've noticed that when an ice skater spins and pulls in their arms, they spin faster. If the earth's overall density increases because a tectonic plate slides toward the center, then the Earth could presumably spin faster too.
Perhaps it's a question of a shift in the ratio between potential energy and kinetic energy.
I remember seeing one of his first TV shows on PBS where he wanted to build his own airplane with a glass floor. I remember thinking, "This guy is an idiot. But he apparently has a lot of money and time, so he gets to be on TV. Why him and not someone else who is telegenic AND has an engineering background?"
The various airplane custom designers he interviewed on the show tried to keep a straight face while he pushed his ideas, and they patiently explained that it wouldn't work. At the end of his show, he ended with some lame conclusion like, "Well, I sure learned a lot in this process." Yeah, thanks.
Apparently, there are a lot of people like you who believe otherwise, supporting a pseudo-fascist opinion state where anybody who disagrees with the talking points are flushed out of the system.
So would you disagree with a moderator who marked this latest post of yours as an inflammatory troll?:-)
I've read plenty of -1 posts that deserved to be +5 but were simply a minority opinion that the moderators happened to disagree with on that day.
How do you know they deserved to be +5, because you liked them? If so, you're no better than the moderators you're complaining about. Ever think about that?
Do not worship him. Do not attribute to him the quality of infallibility. He is not a god!
To quote Butthead, "Ummmmm....Uhhhhhh..huh huh...Ummm.....What?"
I wish I could tell from your post if you're trying to make a joke, or if you really are aiming to insult people who show some appreciation for what the guy has accomplished.
If you're not liberal by 20, you have no heart.
If you're not conservative by 40, you have no brain.
Your slogan signature bothers me; I wonder if you are simply trolling or if you actually believe it. In case you've never left the US and have an extremely narrow understanding of how liberalism is viewed around the world, I will respond.
What is your sig based on; your deep understanding of human experience, or some book or website full of slogans?
My parents are both in their 70s and liberals. They've both devoted their lives to providing medical assistance in countries with refugee crises caused by war and drought, in many cases without pay (Doctors without Borders). Your slogan implies that they are stupid for doing this. Perhaps in the eyes of a cynic, they are. I for one view cynicism as an attitude poisoner, which is something this world needs less of, not more.
from http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q4076.html: If the food still has living cells, (such as seeds, or shellfish, or potatoes) they will be damaged or killed just as microbes are. This can be a useful effect. For example, it can be used to prolong the shelf life of potatoes by keeping them from sprouting. The energy can induce a few other changes. At levels approved for use on foods, levels of the vitamin thiamine are slightly reduced. This reduction is not enough to result in vitamin deficiency."
Our digestive system is full of both beneficial and harmul microbes. Presumably we obtain beneficial microbes from what we eat. We probably also acquire resistance to harmful microbes by eating them in small quantities on a continual basis. So personally, I would prefer staying on a diet of food that exposes me to what my body has evolved to handle well, and won't expose me to vulnerability if my supply of irradiated food suddenly stops.
It's not hard for me to understand. I constantly worry, for example, that the rate of consumption of resources, plus the rate of population growth, are unsustainable, and our children and grandchildren will eventually curse us for our self-absorption and lack of caring for their future. I live in the rural South, where the drinking water is already poisoned with underground radium and petrochemical leaks.
But I am curious to know whether there are any things that seem to help. Simply burying my head in the sand appears to be impossible for me.
The device supplies vibrational feedback. Basically, if there is an oval object in front of the viewer, an oval-shaped buzzing is felt on the tongue. The tongue is apparently sensitive enough to distinguish from a 20x20 array of pixels.
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You're right; I wasn't clear in my original post. I meant "everything local to the star". I was grooving on the idea that life could still exist in the solar system created by this star, provided the planet rotating around the star wouldn't get bombarded by stuff flying into the solar system. If the space between galaxies isn't littered with matter, then this seems a possibility.
If everything around it is also moving that fast and in the same direction, then from the star's frame of reference, it's standing still.
It appears that the instruction language for extensions is Javascript. So you can theoreticaly control extension behavior with your browser's javascript settings.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extension_development
People with little money or resources, the world over, tend to have a shorter-term mindset than people with some security and long-term future at stake. So Africa, with a large proportion of the very poor, suffers from conning and stealing and power-grabbing and threats and violence.
TO ALL WHO WANT TO END TERRORISM:
The simplest way to end violence in the world is to make sure that everyone feels that they have a stake in the future:
* People need a legal system that promotes justice.
* They need enough food to keep from starving.
* They need vaccines against disfiguring illness and death.
*
I've periodically looked into the possibility of using these MP3 recorders as dictation devices. About 2 years ago, the voice recognition software hadn't caught up to convenient use yet: you had to be sitting down in a quiet area with a good noise-cancelling microphone. The main commercial packages were IBM's ViaVoice and Dragon Naturally Speaking, and you couldn't easily use your own MP3 voice recorder with these. You had to offload the MP3, translate MP3 to WAV on your desktop, and somehow run the software in batch mode (non-interactively). I gave up after finding out that recognition was good only under restrictive conditions (sitting down, quiet room, etc.)
As I understand it, someone can write good software to separate background from voice (in particular MY voice as the software understands it from training), then speech recognition on-the-go should be possible, i.e. walking and talking. I would love to record my thoughts while I go on outdoor hikes.
So I'm wondering if anyone has come across this lately or tried it.
Now, illegal data on Jeff's machine, especially in the top level directory, was found timestamped from before the linker made the link, "plausible deniability" would be a much harder argument to make.
That may be true if timestamps weren't so easily manipulated.
That's interesting. I would have expected the default printing behavior of Firefox to print images and wrap text properly.
Is this a webpage design issue, perhaps? Or should Firefox's default printing behavior change to be more intuitive?
They are the ones who decide how many TV/radio stations can be owned by a single company.
:-)
Powell's replacement could, for all we know, be a friend of Rupert Murdoch. How hard would that scenario be to imagine?
I hear Bill O'Reilly is looking for work..
ACC is the default format for ripping songs under iTunes, but it can be switched in Preferences to various flavors of MP3.
For those earlier posters whining about lack of a good FPS, they should make sure and check out bzflag, a networked 3D version of Battlezone with outstanding playability. Works out-of-the box for linux, Windows, and MacOSX. Easy server startup and config; easy to run locally. "easy to learn, hard to master."
The graphics are not as beautiful as Quake II or Doom 3, but I know people who have been playing it for years and still aren't tired of it.
More info: http://www.bzflag.org/screenshots
The obvious problem is that it's much more common to run Windows as "root" than it is on *nix, for various reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that *nix users usually are smart enough to use one account for administration, and other for doing "user" stuff.
Microsoft could make it so much easier to separate admin and user tasks by allowing someone with nonadmin privileges to temporarily install/remove/repair software in admin mode without having to log out. The last time I used XP running as a local user and tried to install something, I was simply told "you don't have permission to do that". Very annoying. I had to log out, login as admin, fire up my web browser, remember which webpage to surf to, and download/install again. This kind of annoyance encourages people to NOT separate their user/admin accounts.
For a long time now, distros like SuSE and OSX allow a person to perform SINGLE admin tasks by prompting for the root password. No need to logout as user/login as root/perform task/logout as admin/login as user. This makes separation of admin/user accounts easy.
I wonder why Microsoft hasn't fixed this problem. Other distros have had it right for quite a while.
how much of an earthquake, raised landmass or change would you need to move the poles significantly?
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I learned in my geology class that the magnetic poles have switched polarity often on the geologic timescale.
In the middle of the Atlantic ocean is a large trough running north/south where two tectonic plates are separating (this is the mechanism that caused the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea). When lava cools, the earth's magnetic field is "recorded" in the rock. Geologists have discovered magnetic "bands" in these rocks that show how the poles have traveled over time.
http://cse.cosm.sc.edu/hses/RthCrust/PlateTec/pag
IANAP (not a physicist), but I've noticed that when an ice skater spins and pulls in their arms, they spin faster. If the earth's overall density increases because a tectonic plate slides toward the center, then the Earth could presumably spin faster too.
Perhaps it's a question of a shift in the ratio between potential energy and kinetic energy.
I remember seeing one of his first TV shows on PBS where he wanted to build his own airplane with a glass floor. I remember thinking, "This guy is an idiot. But he apparently has a lot of money and time, so he gets to be on TV. Why him and not someone else who is telegenic AND has an engineering background?"
The various airplane custom designers he interviewed on the show tried to keep a straight face while he pushed his ideas, and they patiently explained that it wouldn't work. At the end of his show, he ended with some lame conclusion like, "Well, I sure learned a lot in this process." Yeah, thanks.
Apparently, there are a lot of people like you who believe otherwise, supporting a pseudo-fascist opinion state where anybody who disagrees with the talking points are flushed out of the system.
:-)
So would you disagree with a moderator who marked this latest post of yours as an inflammatory troll?
I've read plenty of -1 posts that deserved to be +5 but were simply a minority opinion that the moderators happened to disagree with on that day.
How do you know they deserved to be +5, because you liked them? If so, you're no better than the moderators you're complaining about. Ever think about that?
Do not worship him. Do not attribute to him the quality of infallibility. He is not a god!
To quote Butthead, "Ummmmm....Uhhhhhh..huh huh...Ummm.....What?"
I wish I could tell from your post if you're trying to make a joke, or if you really are aiming to insult people who show some appreciation for what the guy has accomplished.
If you're not liberal by 20, you have no heart.
If you're not conservative by 40, you have no brain.
Your slogan signature bothers me; I wonder if you are simply trolling or if you actually believe it. In case you've never left the US and have an extremely narrow understanding of how liberalism is viewed around the world, I will respond.
What is your sig based on; your deep understanding of human experience, or some book or website full of slogans?
My parents are both in their 70s and liberals. They've both devoted their lives to providing medical assistance in countries with refugee crises caused by war and drought, in many cases without pay (Doctors without Borders). Your slogan implies that they are stupid for doing this. Perhaps in the eyes of a cynic, they are. I for one view cynicism as an attitude poisoner, which is something this world needs less of, not more.
from http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q4076.html:
If the food still has living cells, (such as seeds, or shellfish, or potatoes) they will be damaged or killed just as microbes are. This can be a useful effect. For example, it can be used to prolong the shelf life of potatoes by keeping them from sprouting. The energy can induce a few other changes. At levels approved for use on foods, levels of the vitamin thiamine are slightly reduced. This reduction is not enough to result in vitamin deficiency."
Our digestive system is full of both beneficial and harmul microbes. Presumably we obtain beneficial microbes from what we eat. We probably also acquire resistance to harmful microbes by eating them in small quantities on a continual basis. So personally, I would prefer staying on a diet of food that exposes me to what my body has evolved to handle well, and won't expose me to vulnerability if my supply of irradiated food suddenly stops.
For a numerical methods class, this may be appropriate. What about calculus exams in Poland? In general, do they allow calculators for these?
Are you talking about the affidavit?
The incidents described in the affidavit happened in 2000.
I can't see the interview; is this where you're getting an idea of some long-running dispute?
It's not hard for me to understand. I constantly worry, for example, that the rate of consumption of resources, plus the rate of population growth, are unsustainable, and our children and grandchildren will eventually curse us for our self-absorption and lack of caring for their future. I live in the rural South, where the drinking water is already poisoned with underground radium and petrochemical leaks.
But I am curious to know whether there are any things that seem to help. Simply burying my head in the sand appears to be impossible for me.
These seem like two random names pulled out of the air. I'm curious: what makes it an interesting question?
The device supplies vibrational feedback. Basically, if there is an oval object in front of the viewer, an oval-shaped buzzing is felt on the tongue. The tongue is apparently sensitive enough to distinguish from a 20x20 array of pixels.
Google is your friend. Type in your distro and what you want enabled, plus words like "howto" or "tutorial", and you'll find plenty of help.