Since gravity does not vary _that_ much during the earths voyage around the sun (if it did orbital decay would have solved the whole never-wear white after labour-day problem); lets consider some other alternatives.
Use something with a relatively short and predictable half-life.
- radiation shielding; take 2 samples of identical density/size. Place one in a lead-lined box, and the other in cardboard. measure both.
- use the time-of-day as a measurement, (let the planet 'block' any suspected interference from the sun.)
If neither of these eliminate a variable, then we can conclude that it isn't a radiation source that we know of causing the blip.
Here is another idea; since many NASA probes/rovers use nuclear-decay power sources, can we not measure the current power output vs the expected output? these probes are much further away from the sun then we are.
Blizzard and like should all get together and sue companies like Bell Canada and (Comcast?) that disrupt BT traffic. Wait, isn't that what net-neutrality is supposed to ensure?
Here is a better idea, if only there was a law that required any company doing commerce to design their "store/web-site" so that entry, egress, navigation, and information were easy to access by EVERYBODY regardless of physical ability. Or wait there is. ADA (US-Centric I know, but I am making a point so bear with me) states that even web-sites should use correct tags so Blind people can still use them. Text-to-speech an brail readers only work when there isn't crap in the way.
Heaven forbid an option to view/use the WWW in plain-text would exist. The only purpose all this eye-candy serves is to advertise something.
Proposal: make every web-design student use a text-only browser (like lynx) for the first 2 years of school.
Now that Google has a 'shipping' product I am excited about the future for these reasons:
1) Google can pull an Apple'ish move and push for carriers to open up the networks. or (even better) 2) Google can open up all of that dark-fiber that it has bought in the past and become a telecommunications juggernaught.
Google already has data centers all over the planet, they can match these up with worldwide GSM coverage and beat the existing companies at their own game.
I currently pay $150 CDN per month for the 'privilege' of using my phone anywhere in North America to make phone calls. If I try to use any data features I get charged $0.05/kb + US Roaming + US Data Rates/kb. To view the/. home page costs me almost $1.00 without viewing any stories.
Canada has been crippled by our 3 colluding state-sponsored ogilopies and I am desperate for another option.
Googles' ability to offer North America a non-draconian cellular service coupled with content/location-based advertising would be a god-send.
Scenerio: Motorist stranded on side of the road; does a Google search via cell-phone for tow-truck. Built-in GPS can show you the closest mechanics, and contact info.
Google; please take my money and give an option to ditch the horrible choices that I currently have.
Knowing nothing of the engineering involved here I have a laymans question. Why is it limited to 6km? Why can't they fill the sub with a non-conductive liquid like mineral oil, thus negating the effect of pressure on the hull of the sub? If they are carefull about the electronics that they install, they can make sure that there are no air pockets that can be compressed.
Seems much too simple not to work, so why doesn't it?
While some enjoy The Last Hope for what it is right now, twenty years from now people will be tripping all over themselves preaching that it was much greater then it was in reality. While the technology improves there will always be a rose-coloured view of what The Last Hope offered. We may even get the chance to see some evil Force try to remake Hope into something much sillier. Although I fear the dark sides influence at this possibility, I will holdout hope that it will never be 'remade' after money has changed the vision of the original director.
I think that the term 'News' should not apply to a 500-year old debate. While it is a fun mental exercise to actually try to pretend "What if" these Flat-Earth theories are true; it can quickly grow tiresome like Loch Ness, BigFoot, and all the other crackpot stories you can hear at 3am on shows like Coast-to-Coast.
What is more impressive IMHO is that much more ancient cultures like the Aztec 'had it right' thousands of years before these 'Flat-Earth' ideas were new.
I get a warm-fuzzy feeling seeing that OpenGL isn't dead. I was first and best impressed with it when I played NeverWinter Nights, why hasn't it caught on more? Why don't more Open Source Games use it (as opposed to reusing the Quake engine)?
As long as we depend on cigars with wings and chemical based propellants we will only inch our way along this journey. I had higher hopes for this crew.
I agree with the OP, and am in the "I don't get it" category. I have 3 sites that I visit and check frequently (read: addiction), so it's easier/quicker to hit the bookmark and view the page then use ABC to load feeds, wait for it to update, then I still need to goto the site if it's interesting.
I enjoy this topic because I am hoping that it will expose some new sites to me that I might like.
Your post is valid if you have 20+ sites that you want to keep upto-date on, but I would like to hear your insight on the usefullness of using RSS to view a smaller number.
When I was about 12 years old {1985 (+/- 2 years)} I was 'camping' in our back-yard with a friend. As this was during summer vacation were stayed up very late terrorizing the neighborhood pretending we were ninjas or army or whatever.
It was full night, the moon was out and it was cloudless. My friend saw it first and pointed it to me. There was a large asteroid or meteor in the sky and it was bright orange in colour (as if an orange-coloured spotlight was trained on it) I have since learnt that this item was in the Earths shadow (causing the orange colour). I could see lots of impact craters on it.
It was the size of a grapefruit or softball held out at arms length. We watched it travel through the sky and the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life happened.
It bounced off the atmosphere TWICE and then fell below the horizon. There were no flame-trails that we associate with atmosphere entry.
I lived in Chatham, Ontario (about 100km due-East of Detroit, MI) and the object originated in the South-East sky and traveled westerly. It was only visible for a short time (perhaps 10 seconds), but I still remember very clearly to this day.
I have often hoped that some expert would confirm or believe me, but I have been told that I "imagined it" and "that's impossible" buy the few I have told.
After all the fuss & muss (with no court-based legal rulings) how are they back up?
They did not goto court (the innocent admins would have shouted it from the roof-tops), they must have had an out-of-court settlement. Considering all the old account are still available, this stinks of a setup.
I am from Canada, and as we are aware there are several laws that 'allow' me to d'load. There is even one that I can think of that allows me to upload. BUT that said, I will not log back into demonoid, I will not create a new account.
I will continue to use the private trackers that I am currently on, and most importantly continue to use Piratebay to search.
Can anybody point me to a Linux compatible D-TV(good) or HDTV(better) tv tuner that will allow for full myth-tv integration? I am moving soon (and not replacing my Bell ExpressVu Sat. TV) as I will live close to Detroit, Michigan and a cheap TV-tower will give me all the channels that I would want to watch.
Slashdot Mirror
Since gravity does not vary _that_ much during the earths voyage around the sun (if it did orbital decay would have solved the whole never-wear white after labour-day problem); lets consider some other alternatives. Use something with a relatively short and predictable half-life. - radiation shielding; take 2 samples of identical density/size. Place one in a lead-lined box, and the other in cardboard. measure both. - use the time-of-day as a measurement, (let the planet 'block' any suspected interference from the sun.) If neither of these eliminate a variable, then we can conclude that it isn't a radiation source that we know of causing the blip. Here is another idea; since many NASA probes/rovers use nuclear-decay power sources, can we not measure the current power output vs the expected output? these probes are much further away from the sun then we are.
I was hoping it would be me. I have been using ./mprime on all my boxes for years now.
Congrats to the team and world.
Blizzard and like should all get together and sue companies like Bell Canada and (Comcast?) that disrupt BT traffic. Wait, isn't that what net-neutrality is supposed to ensure?
Essential web services?
ftp?
gopher?
ssh?
IRC?
NNTP?
SMTP?
Here is a better idea, if only there was a law that required any company doing commerce to design their "store/web-site" so that entry, egress, navigation, and information were easy to access by EVERYBODY regardless of physical ability. Or wait there is. ADA (US-Centric I know, but I am making a point so bear with me) states that even web-sites should use correct tags so Blind people can still use them. Text-to-speech an brail readers only work when there isn't crap in the way.
Heaven forbid an option to view/use the WWW in plain-text would exist. The only purpose all this eye-candy serves is to advertise something.
Proposal: make every web-design student use a text-only browser (like lynx) for the first 2 years of school.
Years ago I hung out a lot in an IRC Channel with one of his nephews.
I always thought 451 was over-rated, my school taught it along-side 1984 and Lost Paradise. I do however enjoy several of his other books.
Now that Google has a 'shipping' product I am excited about the future for these reasons:
1) Google can pull an Apple'ish move and push for carriers to open up the networks.
or (even better)
2) Google can open up all of that dark-fiber that it has bought in the past and become a telecommunications juggernaught.
Google already has data centers all over the planet, they can match these up with worldwide GSM coverage and beat the existing companies at their own game.
I currently pay $150 CDN per month for the 'privilege' of using my phone anywhere in North America to make phone calls. If I try to use any data features I get charged $0.05/kb + US Roaming + US Data Rates/kb. To view the /. home page costs me almost $1.00 without viewing any stories.
Canada has been crippled by our 3 colluding state-sponsored ogilopies and I am desperate for another option.
Googles' ability to offer North America a non-draconian cellular service coupled with content/location-based advertising would be a god-send.
Scenerio: Motorist stranded on side of the road; does a Google search via cell-phone for tow-truck. Built-in GPS can show you the closest mechanics, and contact info.
Google; please take my money and give an option to ditch the horrible choices that I currently have.
Knowing nothing of the engineering involved here I have a laymans question. Why is it limited to 6km? Why can't they fill the sub with a non-conductive liquid like mineral oil, thus negating the effect of pressure on the hull of the sub? If they are carefull about the electronics that they install, they can make sure that there are no air pockets that can be compressed.
Seems much too simple not to work, so why doesn't it?
I only used '500 year' time frame to point out that "Flat Earth" was something that Chris Columbus had to deal with.
While some enjoy The Last Hope for what it is right now, twenty years from now people will be tripping all over themselves preaching that it was much greater then it was in reality. While the technology improves there will always be a rose-coloured view of what The Last Hope offered. We may even get the chance to see some evil Force try to remake Hope into something much sillier. Although I fear the dark sides influence at this possibility, I will holdout hope that it will never be 'remade' after money has changed the vision of the original director.
I think that the term 'News' should not apply to a 500-year old debate. While it is a fun mental exercise to actually try to pretend "What if" these Flat-Earth theories are true; it can quickly grow tiresome like Loch Ness, BigFoot, and all the other crackpot stories you can hear at 3am on shows like Coast-to-Coast.
What is more impressive IMHO is that much more ancient cultures like the Aztec 'had it right' thousands of years before these 'Flat-Earth' ideas were new.
I get a warm-fuzzy feeling seeing that OpenGL isn't dead. I was first and best impressed with it when I played NeverWinter Nights, why hasn't it caught on more? Why don't more Open Source Games use it (as opposed to reusing the Quake engine)?
I hope they used a very tiny font!
I want to love Via, but they keep disappointing me.
"an elephant is a mouse designed by a committee."
The actual quote is: "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee Wiki attributes it to Vogue.
As long as we depend on cigars with wings and chemical based propellants we will only inch our way along this journey. I had higher hopes for this crew.
Get it to play a game of Tic-tac-Toe against itself. Give us some WOPR love!
I agree with the OP, and am in the "I don't get it" category. I have 3 sites that I visit and check frequently (read: addiction), so it's easier/quicker to hit the bookmark and view the page then use ABC to load feeds, wait for it to update, then I still need to goto the site if it's interesting.
I enjoy this topic because I am hoping that it will expose some new sites to me that I might like.
Your post is valid if you have 20+ sites that you want to keep upto-date on, but I would like to hear your insight on the usefullness of using RSS to view a smaller number.
If you eliminate the "Web 2.x" junk and embrace a spartan layout/format you won't need to upgrade your network.
/. page.
I have my preferences set to 'low-bandwidth', no icons, etc.. but the formatting goes to shit when I hit "Reply". It re-renders the entire
And yes, I miss the BBS 'offline-mail-reader' C=64 styles that Renegade and C-Net allowed.
I would stick to using lynx but tab-browsing is a killer-feature.
When I was about 12 years old {1985 (+/- 2 years)} I was 'camping' in our back-yard with a friend. As this was during summer vacation were stayed up very late terrorizing the neighborhood pretending we were ninjas or army or whatever.
/. universe believe me?
It was full night, the moon was out and it was cloudless. My friend saw it first and pointed it to me. There was a large asteroid or meteor in the sky and it was bright orange in colour (as if an orange-coloured spotlight was trained on it) I have since learnt that this item was in the Earths shadow (causing the orange colour). I could see lots of impact craters on it.
It was the size of a grapefruit or softball held out at arms length. We watched it travel through the sky and the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life happened.
It bounced off the atmosphere TWICE and then fell below the horizon. There were no flame-trails that we associate with atmosphere entry.
I lived in Chatham, Ontario (about 100km due-East of Detroit, MI) and the object originated in the South-East sky and traveled westerly. It was only visible for a short time (perhaps 10 seconds), but I still remember very clearly to this day.
I have often hoped that some expert would confirm or believe me, but I have been told that I "imagined it" and "that's impossible" buy the few I have told.
Can anybody in the
Nice reference.
Don't confuse my tone of pessimism, I _hope_ they are back.
Just wary, and paranoid.
hehe paranoid of demoniod.
After all the fuss & muss (with no court-based legal rulings) how are they back up?
They did not goto court (the innocent admins would have shouted it from the roof-tops), they must have had an out-of-court settlement. Considering all the old account are still available, this stinks of a setup.
I am from Canada, and as we are aware there are several laws that 'allow' me to d'load. There is even one that I can think of that allows me to upload. BUT that said, I will not log back into demonoid, I will not create a new account.
I will continue to use the private trackers that I am currently on, and most importantly continue to use Piratebay to search.
Can anybody point me to a Linux compatible D-TV(good) or HDTV(better) tv tuner that will allow for full myth-tv integration? I am moving soon (and not replacing my Bell ExpressVu Sat. TV) as I will live close to Detroit, Michigan and a cheap TV-tower will give me all the channels that I would want to watch.
House Atreides was not available for comment.
Not an urban legend.
Quebec has the most draconian laws of any communist country.
Sure you have freedom of speech, but it must be in French.
Take our most famous "English-rights' lawsuit taht a Canadian company took to the Quebec government.
Eaton's. (A very large upscale'ish Sears) Was forced to change their signs in Quebec from: "Eaton's" to "Eatons'"
All because the former was an 'English' sign.
I used two different styles but I ALWAYS keep coming back to this for my terms;
xterm -bg black -fg yellow -fn 9x15 &
xterm -bg black -fg green -fn 9x15 &
copy & paste for easy examples.