Re:Sorry for the lenght but it needs to be said.
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Yeah, and France and England never should have created the *modern* instability in the Middle East anyways. And the turks never should have picked such horrible allies. And after that the Germans. And before that the Irgun. And way before that the Greeks never should have covertly replaced the Romans and formed the Byzantine, aka the Eastern Roman Empire, to begin with.
The whole region is full of Europe and America messing with it, and the whole region is full of it creating problems for itself. And it always has been.
Re:Sorry for the lenght but it needs to be said.
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It didn't need to be said. And it does not even come close to telling the entire story. Almost all Iraqi arms under Saddam were French and Russian made.
That the US backed Iraq due to *the enemy of my enemy* policy is no secret. And I personally do not like that type of policy, even if the enemy was Iran. Do you have any idea what actually went on in Iran and how disgusting of a government that is even to this day?
However, as much as I don't like it I'm not going to pretend a case can't be made for it.
Bottom line is, just because you can copy-n-paste an article from the internet doesn't mean you understand anything about the the article. And it doesn't mean the article is with merit.
I personally find most of the touting of US-Iraq relations prior to GWI to be very simplistic in nature. It's rare to see someone discussing it in detail and in regards to the region and world as a whole over the lsat 40 or 50 years.
Life isn't always so simple that a trite copy-n-paste can make a good point on your behalf.
I would like to be in those places right now. The fact that we, the entire world, are not doing more in places like those sickens me.
That does not mean I'm going to weep for the US being in a place that needed to be toppled.
Sometimes you get what you ask for. And with you acting like a smart-ass because you think your rehashed point fit here due to you making stupid assumption, my reply is what you were asking for. And you got it.
So why don't you move to China and 1st hand report on the freedoms there?
I'm sure you'll come away thinking a few one-liners can summerize a country where billions of one-liners are possible.
It's amazing that despite giving more then any other nation in the world, and that includes the government, everything America does is so evil. I'm sure all the wars America has faught on foreign soils were evil. All the humanitarian aide is hands out is evil. All the medical supplies and donations and the whole works. All evil America.
What a bunch of crap you wrote. And it was purely out of ignorance that you wrote it.
Yeah, their freedom to be killed by Saddam sure was great.
Iraq is a cluster now. It was before too.
The worst part about the US going into Iraq is the entire world should have gone. Leaders like Saddam who routinely kill their own people en masse should not be allowed. While everyone was busy living in their free little NA or Europe, few seemed to care what was actually happening in Iraq. Until the US went in there.
No, I don't buy the reasons given to us all as to why the US went in. But Saddam was a threat. To the world, to the region, and to his own people. He was a disgrace. The type of leader that the world shouldn't tolerate. So forgive me for not weeping that some shoddy reasoning (and who really knows the true purpose) was used to go in there.
A bigger disgrace is that the world didn't join. Again, not for the reasons listed in a SoTU. But because getting him out was the right (morally) thing to do.
Sure because every degree above absolute zero is same the temperature.
Think what you will of America and it's policies. But to even compare it with China is absurd in that regard. American government has, for the majority of the time, been a boon to the world as a whole. Yes, there are conflicts where wonderful leaders like Saddam are overthrown and it makes people unhappy. And no, I'm not justifying Iraq with that sarcastic statement. But I am pointing out that no matter what side of the fence you're on, Iraq was an issue that should have been delt with. It wasn't Atlantis being invaded.
American foreign policy is enormous. The most influential country in the world. While it easy to find examples of harm in there, there is more good then harm in the case of American foreign policy.
Where as my biggest gripe with China is how the entire world stands by and let's a country like that into open markets so easily considering how disgraceful that country's government is.
"So far there has been no comment on how a Linux user group is going to help sorority girls with their Windows machines"
Meh, if you've seen one box you've seen them all.
When you're really break it down they're all nothing but I/O devices. Sure, some might have a few more bugs then others. And sure, some are more easy to get into then others. But at the end of the day a box is a box.
Oh, and beer never hurts.
The Second Thing I'd do..then 3rd..then 4th...
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Is whatever scope you get, get a Telrad for it. A Telrad is a zero reflex finder. It lets you point the scope with your eyes open looking through a non-magnified view with a projected set of concentric circles on your target. Even with a Goto mount, the Telrad is what I would call a necessity.
My experience went from a few seasons of frustration, to actually being able to easily find deep space objects and planets in the scope, the moment I got a Telrad.
Also, concerning software, Cartes du Ciel is a freeware astronomy program that is very robust and probably the most common outside of Stary Night.
My advice for a purchase it perhaps an Orion ED 80 on a Sirus goto mount. You'll crack just over a grand, but it's a quality set up the price. It's not a Tak sitting on a Losmandy, but it'll work.
Another option, especially for the photography part, would be to try and find a Meade SN-8 OTA used. You can't get the OTA alone brand new. And still get the Sirus mount.
The Atlas EQ-G mount is perhaps the best bang for the buck in astronomy, but that's about $1,500 by itself. The Sirus is it's little brother.
For best results you're also going to need to guide your scope taking the pictures. So you'll need to mount a second guide scope, or use what they call an off-axis guider. The first option is preferred. And it gives you the option of manual guiding, or getting a second imager, and autoguding.
My last little bit of advice. Typically, dedicated CCD imagers work better then dSLRs for astrophotography. I use a a couple of different Canon dSLR's and you can get the job done with them. Though you're not going to be able to get some targets well unless you get them modified to remove the IR filters they come with. The Meade DSI Pro can be found right now for about $100. And at that price is a super bargian.
Be warned, it's an expensive hobby. As I've said before, astronomy is a hobby where free software abounds, yet a simple 2" long piece piece of 2" machined tubing will cost you $100. The tech side of it is free. Everything from planetarium software, to focusing software, to control software can be found free. But the
They have a large central obstruction which houses the secondary mirror.
Central Obstrcutions come with negative affects.
http://www.telescope-optics.net/obstruction.htm
So I was making a very bad and geeky joke based on the headline about this being a very large telescope with the entire Earth as its central obsutrction. Which, in a *very* round-about sense, it is.
I do not think I am getting it just to be denied my First Ammandment rights
No where in the 1st does it grant you the right to a name of your choosing on a private network. Come on now. If care enough to be concerned about it, you should at least know something about it.
Oh, and btw, there is no story here. If you'd read some of the other comments you'd see there are a lot of words like this not allowed.
Yeah, this story is pure garbage. A very trivial amount of effort by either the submitter or the "editors" would have made them realize there is nothing to the story and they just overreacted to the situation because, like most overreactions, they came to conclusions without having enough facts.
Doesn't matter? Are you stupid? No system is giving 100% to audio most of the time. If a system made it so my audio playback was as close to perfect as could be without interfering with other functions, I'd love that. They all try but no one gets it 100%. XP had less preference on audio, and I could tell the difference in quality when my CPU was getting taxed on other things.
You may not like the priority. But at least have a clue what your talking about.
The obvious answer, and the best one found in the articles, is this is an issue with priority.
I can drop my file transfer ability by using my USB TV-Tuner that installs itself as above average priority.
In tryin to give better audio quality it's effecting other areas of the system.
Wow! Yet ever other post is a stupid conspiracy piece of crap.
Get a freaking clue before you post. And if you're still wondering why it's a Vista issue and not a XP issue at this point call you grandma for tech support instead of the other way around because you're not qualified to think apparently.
And it's memory use is fine. When it's sees non-use CPU/RAM it just starts using them for things like indexing and pre-caching. As it should.
A lot of the complaints are from idiots with an agenda.
I move large files all the time. I copy mySQL database backups that are gigs all over my machine in minutes not an hour.
Suck that you're having the problem. I'm sure others are. As I said, there are legit issues I'm sure. But it's easy to tell the valid ones from real ones.
It might be useful in getting people to become "amatures".
But speaking as an amature astronomer myself I wouldn't consider it useful. Fun maybe and worth looking at but not very useful.
Cartes du Ciel, now that is useful for amatures. The astronomy world is one where free software abounds and simple machined pieces of metal can cost a few hundred dollars.
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Mod it funny again. It still doesn't make any current *usable for modern tasks* linux distro better or more stable (want to see me crash a linux distro in 5 seconds by "using" it?) then Vista.
It is. I don't have any idea where all this "it sucks crap" comes from.
1st hand experience with it here. I like it better then XP. I'm posting from Vista. I don't have crashes. I don't have hangups. It handles software errors much more gracefully. And as said, and no, I'm not joking, with Aero turned off the experience is faster then XP.
Typically when Vista gets bought up on/. there's tons of jokes, a few ignorant posts from complete morons, a few valid complaints from non-ignorant morons, and then several posts from people that have actually used it an like it.
Due to hardware and XP stability there's not a great reason for home upgrade IMO. But hardware compat is getting better and better all the time. For the enterprise, we're not on it at my place, no major reason to be currently. And like most enterprises we don't upgrade OS's. We buy hardware with an OS installed. Vista is probably a few years off since XP is pretty decent and there's no hurry to upgrade.
But 99% of the knocking Vista posts here are 100% ignorant prattle and nothing more.
I think it's a superior OS to XP. I think the design is more secure and stable, though I consider XP to be rather stable as well.
The new look and feel can be turned off, in which case it certainly isn't slower. I'd consider it faster then XP to be honest.
I like its smart use of dead cycles and unused RAM for indexing and precaching. I like the new explorer options and much improved searching.
All in all it's certainly a step forward.
I don't know if I'd say it's worth upgrading over XP for most people that are running XP just fine now. But I certainly would suggest Vista over XP if one were going to be buying one OS or the other.
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Yeah, and France and England never should have created the *modern* instability in the Middle East anyways. And the turks never should have picked such horrible allies. And after that the Germans. And before that the Irgun. And way before that the Greeks never should have covertly replaced the Romans and formed the Byzantine, aka the Eastern Roman Empire, to begin with.
The whole region is full of Europe and America messing with it, and the whole region is full of it creating problems for itself. And it always has been.
It didn't need to be said. And it does not even come close to telling the entire story. Almost all Iraqi arms under Saddam were French and Russian made.
That the US backed Iraq due to *the enemy of my enemy* policy is no secret. And I personally do not like that type of policy, even if the enemy was Iran. Do you have any idea what actually went on in Iran and how disgusting of a government that is even to this day?
However, as much as I don't like it I'm not going to pretend a case can't be made for it.
Bottom line is, just because you can copy-n-paste an article from the internet doesn't mean you understand anything about the the article. And it doesn't mean the article is with merit.
I personally find most of the touting of US-Iraq relations prior to GWI to be very simplistic in nature. It's rare to see someone discussing it in detail and in regards to the region and world as a whole over the lsat 40 or 50 years.
Life isn't always so simple that a trite copy-n-paste can make a good point on your behalf.
I would like to be in those places right now. The fact that we, the entire world, are not doing more in places like those sickens me.
That does not mean I'm going to weep for the US being in a place that needed to be toppled.
Sometimes you get what you ask for. And with you acting like a smart-ass because you think your rehashed point fit here due to you making stupid assumption, my reply is what you were asking for. And you got it.
You got any other questions you want to ask me?
Yeah, that's the only difference. Good point!
So why don't you move to China and 1st hand report on the freedoms there?
I'm sure you'll come away thinking a few one-liners can summerize a country where billions of one-liners are possible.
It's amazing that despite giving more then any other nation in the world, and that includes the government, everything America does is so evil. I'm sure all the wars America has faught on foreign soils were evil. All the humanitarian aide is hands out is evil. All the medical supplies and donations and the whole works. All evil America.
What a bunch of crap you wrote. And it was purely out of ignorance that you wrote it.
Yeah, their freedom to be killed by Saddam sure was great.
Iraq is a cluster now. It was before too.
The worst part about the US going into Iraq is the entire world should have gone. Leaders like Saddam who routinely kill their own people en masse should not be allowed. While everyone was busy living in their free little NA or Europe, few seemed to care what was actually happening in Iraq. Until the US went in there.
No, I don't buy the reasons given to us all as to why the US went in. But Saddam was a threat. To the world, to the region, and to his own people. He was a disgrace. The type of leader that the world shouldn't tolerate. So forgive me for not weeping that some shoddy reasoning (and who really knows the true purpose) was used to go in there.
A bigger disgrace is that the world didn't join. Again, not for the reasons listed in a SoTU. But because getting him out was the right (morally) thing to do.
Sure because every degree above absolute zero is same the temperature.
Think what you will of America and it's policies. But to even compare it with China is absurd in that regard. American government has, for the majority of the time, been a boon to the world as a whole. Yes, there are conflicts where wonderful leaders like Saddam are overthrown and it makes people unhappy. And no, I'm not justifying Iraq with that sarcastic statement. But I am pointing out that no matter what side of the fence you're on, Iraq was an issue that should have been delt with. It wasn't Atlantis being invaded. American foreign policy is enormous. The most influential country in the world. While it easy to find examples of harm in there, there is more good then harm in the case of American foreign policy. Where as my biggest gripe with China is how the entire world stands by and let's a country like that into open markets so easily considering how disgraceful that country's government is.
"So far there has been no comment on how a Linux user group is going to help sorority girls with their Windows machines"
Meh, if you've seen one box you've seen them all.
When you're really break it down they're all nothing but I/O devices. Sure, some might have a few more bugs then others. And sure, some are more easy to get into then others. But at the end of the day a box is a box.
Oh, and beer never hurts.
Poor people? No
Poor looters? Hell yeah!
Is whatever scope you get, get a Telrad for it. A Telrad is a zero reflex finder. It lets you point the scope with your eyes open looking through a non-magnified view with a projected set of concentric circles on your target. Even with a Goto mount, the Telrad is what I would call a necessity.
My experience went from a few seasons of frustration, to actually being able to easily find deep space objects and planets in the scope, the moment I got a Telrad.
Also, concerning software, Cartes du Ciel is a freeware astronomy program that is very robust and probably the most common outside of Stary Night.
My advice for a purchase it perhaps an Orion ED 80 on a Sirus goto mount. You'll crack just over a grand, but it's a quality set up the price. It's not a Tak sitting on a Losmandy, but it'll work.
Another option, especially for the photography part, would be to try and find a Meade SN-8 OTA used. You can't get the OTA alone brand new. And still get the Sirus mount.
The Atlas EQ-G mount is perhaps the best bang for the buck in astronomy, but that's about $1,500 by itself. The Sirus is it's little brother.
For best results you're also going to need to guide your scope taking the pictures. So you'll need to mount a second guide scope, or use what they call an off-axis guider. The first option is preferred. And it gives you the option of manual guiding, or getting a second imager, and autoguding.
My last little bit of advice. Typically, dedicated CCD imagers work better then dSLRs for astrophotography. I use a a couple of different Canon dSLR's and you can get the job done with them. Though you're not going to be able to get some targets well unless you get them modified to remove the IR filters they come with. The Meade DSI Pro can be found right now for about $100. And at that price is a super bargian.
Be warned, it's an expensive hobby. As I've said before, astronomy is a hobby where free software abounds, yet a simple 2" long piece piece of 2" machined tubing will cost you $100. The tech side of it is free. Everything from planetarium software, to focusing software, to control software can be found free. But the
Whether your specific story is true or not (hey, it's the interweb, just sayin) it makes sense.
It wouldn't be very hard or expensive to find sats. They are easily seen by backyard astronomers.
So even hard to see ones would, I'd imagine, would be well within the abilities of nearly every nation on the planet should they want.
SCT's are Schmidt-Cassegrain telecopes.e lescope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt-Cassegrain_t
They have a large central obstruction which houses the secondary mirror.
Central Obstrcutions come with negative affects.
http://www.telescope-optics.net/obstruction.htm
So I was making a very bad and geeky joke based on the headline about this being a very large telescope with the entire Earth as its central obsutrction. Which, in a *very* round-about sense, it is.
Wow! And I thought SCT's had a large central obstruction.
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Ok. That might be the geekiest joke in the histroy of
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I've got five 70's, and I got to webcam in on my wedding.
Sir, please put down the internet and step back slowly.
Your joking right?
I do not think I am getting it just to be denied my First Ammandment rights
No where in the 1st does it grant you the right to a name of your choosing on a private network. Come on now. If care enough to be concerned about it, you should at least know something about it.
Oh, and btw, there is no story here. If you'd read some of the other comments you'd see there are a lot of words like this not allowed.
Yeah, this story is pure garbage. A very trivial amount of effort by either the submitter or the "editors" would have made them realize there is nothing to the story and they just overreacted to the situation because, like most overreactions, they came to conclusions without having enough facts.
Doesn't matter? Are you stupid? No system is giving 100% to audio most of the time. If a system made it so my audio playback was as close to perfect as could be without interfering with other functions, I'd love that. They all try but no one gets it 100%. XP had less preference on audio, and I could tell the difference in quality when my CPU was getting taxed on other things.
You may not like the priority. But at least have a clue what your talking about.
The obvious answer, and the best one found in the articles, is this is an issue with priority.
I can drop my file transfer ability by using my USB TV-Tuner that installs itself as above average priority.
In tryin to give better audio quality it's effecting other areas of the system.
Wow! Yet ever other post is a stupid conspiracy piece of crap.
Get a freaking clue before you post. And if you're still wondering why it's a Vista issue and not a XP issue at this point call you grandma for tech support instead of the other way around because you're not qualified to think apparently.
No it doesn't.
And it's memory use is fine. When it's sees non-use CPU/RAM it just starts using them for things like indexing and pre-caching. As it should.
A lot of the complaints are from idiots with an agenda.
I move large files all the time. I copy mySQL database backups that are gigs all over my machine in minutes not an hour.
Suck that you're having the problem. I'm sure others are. As I said, there are legit issues I'm sure. But it's easy to tell the valid ones from real ones.
It might be useful in getting people to become "amatures".
But speaking as an amature astronomer myself I wouldn't consider it useful. Fun maybe and worth looking at but not very useful.
Cartes du Ciel, now that is useful for amatures. The astronomy world is one where free software abounds and simple machined pieces of metal can cost a few hundred dollars.
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Mod it funny again. It still doesn't make any current *usable for modern tasks* linux distro better or more stable (want to see me crash a linux distro in 5 seconds by "using" it?) then Vista.
It is. I don't have any idea where all this "it sucks crap" comes from.
/. there's tons of jokes, a few ignorant posts from complete morons, a few valid complaints from non-ignorant morons, and then several posts from people that have actually used it an like it.
1st hand experience with it here. I like it better then XP. I'm posting from Vista. I don't have crashes. I don't have hangups. It handles software errors much more gracefully. And as said, and no, I'm not joking, with Aero turned off the experience is faster then XP.
Typically when Vista gets bought up on
Due to hardware and XP stability there's not a great reason for home upgrade IMO. But hardware compat is getting better and better all the time. For the enterprise, we're not on it at my place, no major reason to be currently. And like most enterprises we don't upgrade OS's. We buy hardware with an OS installed. Vista is probably a few years off since XP is pretty decent and there's no hurry to upgrade.
But 99% of the knocking Vista posts here are 100% ignorant prattle and nothing more.
I think it's a superior OS to XP. I think the design is more secure and stable, though I consider XP to be rather stable as well.
The new look and feel can be turned off, in which case it certainly isn't slower. I'd consider it faster then XP to be honest.
I like its smart use of dead cycles and unused RAM for indexing and precaching. I like the new explorer options and much improved searching.
All in all it's certainly a step forward.
I don't know if I'd say it's worth upgrading over XP for most people that are running XP just fine now. But I certainly would suggest Vista over XP if one were going to be buying one OS or the other.
Tough crowd you got here.
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It worked for me: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=272173&cid=20
A front page D&D news story. That's gotta be hard to top.