Today, the European Space Agency hosted a unique sporting event. Supported by the World Flying Disc Federation and sanctioned by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation, STS-116 mission specialist Christer Fuglesang broke the world record in the flying disc sporting discipline MTA, Maximum Time Aloft.
ESA believes that this is the first ever sanctioned sports event that has taken place in space.
The rules of MTA are simple: A player shall attempt to throw the disc in such a fashion that the disc remains airborne for as long as possible, before catching the disc himself. The timing of the flight of the throw shall be measured from the instant is initially touched in the catching attempt.
In this specific competition, Christer was free to waive the recommendation in the rules that an additional disc be available in the event a disc was lost or becomes unsuitable for use.
Fuglesang's record-setting attempt at MTA had an air time between his toss and catching the disc of 20 seconds.
Until today, the MTA world record stood at 16.72 seconds and was set by Don Cain on May 26, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sanction for the attempt to break it was formally announced by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation on December 10, 2006.
Yes, I would be fine telling my family I had "prostitute flu", if it was an air born flu. They might even laugh at it, asking me how I had received it. But, I don't expect they would even suggest I had had intercourse or phellatio with a pig if I would have received the "swine flu".
guyminuslife wrote: "That's not the end of it. Those goddamn Nazis running the German government have also banned the National Socialist Party."
Would this be funny: "That's not the end of it. Those goddamn Zionists running the Israel government have not yet banned the Renewed Religious National Zionist Party."?
In fact, the similiarity with the Nazis are striking: "Ideologically, the party subscribes to Greater Israel, supports the Israeli settlement drive in Gaza and the West Bank. It vehemently opposes disengagement from West Bank, but opposes violence and civil disobedience against the IDF, and calls to respect the rule of law. The party platform also emphasizes the fight against government corruption, and more recently, also promoting social justice. The movement is supported by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, who could be seen as its spiritual leader, whilst Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann is the party's scientific advisor. All from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewed_Religious_National_Zionist_Party
I am fed up with jokes and links between modern Germans and what happened sixty years ago. And, no, I have no connection whatsoever with Germany, or, Robert Aumann, or, far-right, or, far-left wing ideologies.
Hmmmm. In my culture, swine meat is considered a delicacy and tasty (think bacon!!!). Still, I never objected to someone link the animal with flu. If it is the vector so be it. If it is NOT the vector, get rid of the association faster than quick, please. I am not in the mood to have my food associated with anything bad.
Have you ever wondered why procedural spagetti code is hard to read? Me too. Maybe it is because the code is full of references to a myriad places which makes it hard to follow. However, that may be applied to object oriented programming too. Have you ever looked at at class and wondered which and what the...
Why not send it by regular air mail to China and leak it from there? That way they could easily extort the Chinese government saying, "Hey you cracked our system. Obey the Microsoft Laws, you too!". While it would be a bad idea on too many respects, it wouldn't surprise me if they had already done it, somewhere.
While I am not a lawyer, www.archive.org (and variously named predecessors) is "prior art" when it comes to storing huge amounts of electronic data, as, I am sure we will see very soon, many many many other parties.
Effects arising from the Climate of England. In a nation so distempered by the climate as to have a disrelish of everything, nay, even of life, it is plain that the government most suitable to the inhabitants is that in which they cannot lay their uneasiness to any single person's charge, and in which, being under the direction rather of the laws than of the prince, it is impossible for them to change the government without subverting the laws themselves.
And if this nation has likewise derived from the climate a certain impatience of temper, which renders them incapable of bearing the same train of things for any long continuance, it is obvious that the government above mentioned is the fittest for them.
There are lot more fun to read in this English translation from the French language version.
It is hard to get a sense for the scale and the magnitude from the article's pictures. So, I looked it up on Google Earth.
That "ice bridge" protecting the Wilkins Ice shelf is narrow, only about 2 km wide, or slightly more than mile. And it is that which is breaking up. The floating ice area behind it (i.e. to the east) is huge, about 100x100 km!
Once that bridge is broken, sea currents may more easily flush that ice into the high seas. And, what the effects will be then, we don't know I guess.
From the Science article: "In the future, he says, scientists, in order to carry out their work, might have to learn how to program computers and express knowledge about the world the way people in artificial intelligence have done."
Huh? Weird. Scientists might have to learn how to program computers? Who would have expected it?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is seeking to ease General Motors Corp into a "controlled" bankruptcy by persuading some creditors to agree to a plan that would divide the company into two pieces, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Citing people briefed on the matter, the Times said the plan is to push GM into a structured bankruptcy "somewhere between a prepackaged bankruptcy and court chaos," using taxpayer financing for leverage.
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The Real Reason Why Linux Is Not Yet Ready For the Desktop? Microsoft is fighting it.
Why is it harder to raise the clock frequenceies on GPUs than CPUs? Is more code in use at the same time per unit area, or?
And, in Prague you would probably smell old beer belches?
Test it on Jim Carrey! Can't wait to see the overlocking results!!!
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Been there, done almost that...
No me, but:
Today, the European Space Agency hosted a unique sporting event. Supported by the World Flying Disc Federation and sanctioned by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation, STS-116 mission specialist Christer Fuglesang broke the world record in the flying disc sporting discipline MTA, Maximum Time Aloft.
ESA believes that this is the first ever sanctioned sports event that has taken place in space.
The rules of MTA are simple: A player shall attempt to throw the disc in such a fashion that the disc remains airborne for as long as possible, before catching the disc himself. The timing of the flight of the throw shall be measured from the instant is initially touched in the catching attempt.
In this specific competition, Christer was free to waive the recommendation in the rules that an additional disc be available in the event a disc was lost or becomes unsuitable for use.
Fuglesang's record-setting attempt at MTA had an air time between his toss and catching the disc of 20 seconds.
Until today, the MTA world record stood at 16.72 seconds and was set by Don Cain on May 26, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sanction for the attempt to break it was formally announced by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation on December 10, 2006.
(from: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000476.html)
"Actually the iPhone sold well because it is an apple product."
That is silly. Most of the people buying the iPhone, in terms of numbers, would probably be too young to have an idea of what is Apple Inc.
And, thy are definitely too young to realize about the Mac vs Wintel wars of two decades ago...
In fact, they might be more aware of Ubuntu versus Vista. But, to be honest, I don't think they even know of that.
They probably think of the iPhone as the mobile phone version of iPod, without realizing what is the name of the company behind it.
Yes, I would be fine telling my family I had "prostitute flu", if it was an air born flu. They might even laugh at it, asking me how I had received it. But, I don't expect they would even suggest I had had intercourse or phellatio with a pig if I would have received the "swine flu".
They would, however, not laugh at gonorrhea, syphilis or other STDs (for explicit details, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_disease).
guyminuslife wrote: "That's not the end of it. Those goddamn Nazis running the German government have also banned the National Socialist Party."
Would this be funny: "That's not the end of it. Those goddamn Zionists running the Israel government have not yet banned the Renewed Religious National Zionist Party."?
In fact, the similiarity with the Nazis are striking: "Ideologically, the party subscribes to Greater Israel, supports the Israeli settlement drive in Gaza and the West Bank. It vehemently opposes disengagement from West Bank, but opposes violence and civil disobedience against the IDF, and calls to respect the rule of law. The party platform also emphasizes the fight against government corruption, and more recently, also promoting social justice. The movement is supported by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, who could be seen as its spiritual leader, whilst Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann is the party's scientific advisor. All from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewed_Religious_National_Zionist_Party
I am fed up with jokes and links between modern Germans and what happened sixty years ago. And, no, I have no connection whatsoever with Germany, or, Robert Aumann, or, far-right, or, far-left wing ideologies.
That was Germany. They have banned the Scientologists too, which is good btw.
I am not sure it will pass in Sweden, which have a more liberal view on what may be a political party.
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"citing ethnic reactions to 'swine'"
Hmmmm. In my culture, swine meat is considered a delicacy and tasty (think bacon!!!). Still, I never objected to someone link the animal with flu. If it is the vector so be it. If it is NOT the vector, get rid of the association faster than quick, please. I am not in the mood to have my food associated with anything bad.
This could be Ballmer's strategy against Linux as he repeatedly has said that you can't beat Linux' price.
With this they will surely retain the market share, in a recession, for an otherwise very expensive product; it costs more than one third of a new pc.
Have you ever wondered why procedural spagetti code is hard to read? Me too. Maybe it is because the code is full of references to a myriad places which makes it hard to follow. However, that may be applied to object oriented programming too. Have you ever looked at at class and wondered which and what the...
The P2P replacement "Oneswarm" is F2F, "friend-2-friend" and uses BitTorrent files. Read more at: http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
Now, you can legally share your own, home-made Word-documents again!
Why not send it by regular air mail to China and leak it from there? That way they could easily extort the Chinese government saying, "Hey you cracked our system. Obey the Microsoft Laws, you too!". While it would be a bad idea on too many respects, it wouldn't surprise me if they had already done it, somewhere.
While I am not a lawyer, www.archive.org (and variously named predecessors) is "prior art" when it comes to storing huge amounts of electronic data, as, I am sure we will see very soon, many many many other parties.
Montesqieu 1740 (http://www.constitution.org/cm/sol.txt) wrote many unexpected things on climate and temper. Here is one from the link above:
Effects arising from the Climate of England. In a nation so distempered by the climate as to have a disrelish of everything, nay, even of life, it is plain that the government most suitable to the inhabitants is that in which they cannot lay their uneasiness to any single person's charge, and in which, being under the direction rather of the laws than of the prince, it is impossible for them to change the government without subverting the laws themselves.
And if this nation has likewise derived from the climate a certain impatience of temper, which renders them incapable of bearing the same train of things for any long continuance, it is obvious that the government above mentioned is the fittest for them.
There are lot more fun to read in this English translation from the French language version.
I remeasured it, the ice bridge is about 60 km long and 3 km wide at its waist.
It is hard to get a sense for the scale and the magnitude from the article's pictures. So, I looked it up on Google Earth.
That "ice bridge" protecting the Wilkins Ice shelf is narrow, only about 2 km wide, or slightly more than mile. And it is that which is breaking up. The floating ice area behind it (i.e. to the east) is huge, about 100x100 km!
Once that bridge is broken, sea currents may more easily flush that ice into the high seas. And, what the effects will be then, we don't know I guess.
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You're right, there is no need to put lipstick on the pig.
From the Science article: "In the future, he says, scientists, in order to carry out their work, might have to learn how to program computers and express knowledge about the world the way people in artificial intelligence have done."
Huh? Weird. Scientists might have to learn how to program computers? Who would have expected it?
Was that serious?! OMG! I really thought it WAS a joke.
Speaking of Obama and the current date: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53010720090401
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is seeking to ease General Motors Corp into a "controlled" bankruptcy by persuading some creditors to agree to a plan that would divide the company into two pieces, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Citing people briefed on the matter, the Times said the plan is to push GM into a structured bankruptcy "somewhere between a prepackaged bankruptcy and court chaos," using taxpayer financing for leverage.
I have a friend with a large vinyl album collection. Some 5,000 vinyls!
Funny, I always thought he was a bit of an introvert. Now I know why. ;)
http://www.dukeisback.com/ in September. At least so they say...
Funny I never thought about it before, why are these id Software Nazis dabbling with abrahamitic zombies...
At least one could expect them to summon Wothan, Thor, or some other Germanic deity.