In the wake of the disastrous 1980 eruption, the government has been stockpiling hundreds of thousands of tons of baking soda in depots all along the Cascade Range.
That was the plan before those communists at Arm & Hammer reduced their production levels screaming "Ze Americans will be buried in ash, and zen ze shall rule ze vorld! HA HA HA HA!"
Dyson spheres intersect *all* energy coming from a star. This energy has to go *someplace*.
Obviously they are focusing all of the energy away from us. Therefore, they are accelerating their galaxy toward ours. So their plan is simply to ram us.
You only need adaptive optics when you're trying to image through our turbulent atmosphere. Images from space are diffraction-limited -- the only way to get higher resolution is to build a bigger telescope.
The techniques of adaptive optics are used in space to compensate for mechanical stresses of space travel, temperature variations, manufacturing flaws, etc. They are used on the new Spitzer Space (infrared) Telescope.
Basically, if you want a bigger telescope, then adaptive optics (or at least something similar) is the way to do it.
I'm sorry, but if I'm on my death bed and I am not senile, then there is a reason why I have not decrypted my files - because I don't want them opened.
If you're puting personal encrypted material on your employer's computer, then you are already senile.
There is a company (possibly more than one) which manufactures a specialized DVD player that is designed to skip objectionable content in movies. The people in this company watche each movie and create instructions for skipping audio and video portions of specific DVDs. The DVD player dials up the company whenever someone watches a movie and receives these instructions.
The movie industry has objected to this practice, claiming that it violates there copyrights by creating a derivative product. There has been much discussion about the legality of these specialized DVD players.
This bill is designed to remove the existing ambiguity in copyright law and establish that what these bowlderizing companies are doing is legal.
The bill's language about skipping comercials is designed to prevent other companies from coming along with a similar product that removes commercials.
This bill in no way diminishes a persons right to skip commercials, only the rights of a movie-bowlderizing company from doing so.
Ninty-nine percent of the Slashdot comments on this are totally FUD, unrelated to the content of the bill under discussion.
You may now return to your fear-mongering. Thank you.
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Here's the contraption I experienced:
Why is software always a Rube Goldberg Machine?
In the wake of the disastrous 1980 eruption, the government has been stockpiling hundreds of thousands of tons of baking soda in depots all along the Cascade Range.
That was the plan before those communists at Arm & Hammer reduced their production levels screaming "Ze Americans will be buried in ash, and zen ze shall rule ze vorld! HA HA HA HA!"
Here's the rule: if a website (blog or whatever) includes good information, then it's journalism. If it contains junk, then it's not journalism.
Therefore, according to the McCain-Feingold law, the only information we can get about political candidates 30 days before an election is junk.
Dyson spheres intersect *all* energy coming from a star. This energy has to go *someplace*.
Obviously they are focusing all of the energy away from us. Therefore, they are accelerating their galaxy toward ours. So their plan is simply to ram us.
What a minute...!
Black men never watch the tech Oscars. The acadamy ignores all of the comedic scientific advances.
I do my tasks in a wiki, as ascii text.
Where's this wiki? I've got some stuff I need you to do.
You only need adaptive optics when you're trying to image through our turbulent atmosphere. Images from space are diffraction-limited -- the only way to get higher resolution is to build a bigger telescope.
The techniques of adaptive optics are used in space to compensate for mechanical stresses of space travel, temperature variations, manufacturing flaws, etc. They are used on the new Spitzer Space (infrared) Telescope.
Basically, if you want a bigger telescope, then adaptive optics (or at least something similar) is the way to do it.
google (156 000 000 results) versus microsoft (188 000 000 results) The winner is: microsoft.
I normally only use the first eighty million results on any given search, so really it's the quality of the hits that matter.
>Their jails aren't as nice as ours.
You haven't visited Guantanamo, obviously...
You haven't visited China, obviously...
Yea, I win the argument!
Yea, me!
This is great news for DRM anti-enthusiasts!
I'm sorry, but if I'm on my death bed and I am not senile, then there is a reason why I have not decrypted my files - because I don't want them opened.
If you're puting personal encrypted material on your employer's computer, then you are already senile.
Consider NSA's track record:
An agreement with Microsoft to ensure insecure encryption would be very out of character for them.
That is, unless they're just a bunch of Linux freaks.
A CPO in the Navy is an E-7
What if it's a 3C-PO? Is that still an E-7 or an R2-D2?
Why not cite his own explaination of his homophobia?
No my comments are rubbish. Derbyshire's are gold. That was just my sig.
Those interested in his other writings should check out John Derbyshire's homepage.
US Literacy rate: 97%
Russia Literacy rate: 99.6%
That is really amazing considering that they are learning Russian.
And with that crazy Russian alphabet.
They must be geniuses!
Through a verification email.
You in the back of the class, wake up!
There is a company (possibly more than one) which manufactures a specialized DVD player that is designed to skip objectionable content in movies. The people in this company watche each movie and create instructions for skipping audio and video portions of specific DVDs. The DVD player dials up the company whenever someone watches a movie and receives these instructions.
The movie industry has objected to this practice, claiming that it violates there copyrights by creating a derivative product. There has been much discussion about the legality of these specialized DVD players.
This bill is designed to remove the existing ambiguity in copyright law and establish that what these bowlderizing companies are doing is legal.
The bill's language about skipping comercials is designed to prevent other companies from coming along with a similar product that removes commercials.
This bill in no way diminishes a persons right to skip commercials, only the rights of a movie-bowlderizing company from doing so.
Ninty-nine percent of the Slashdot comments on this are totally FUD, unrelated to the content of the bill under discussion.
You may now return to your fear-mongering. Thank you.
Gentlemen, can we please get back to the name-calling?
Even if I lived in California I couldn't make use of the League of Women Voters information...
...because I'm a man!
Now where's the link for the Gentlemen's Cigars and Brandy Voting Club?
It takes baby steps to get to space.
First, lets figure out how to get people into orbit. Then, once we've accomplished that, we can start trying to figure out a way to get them back.
One step at a time, please.Or maybe it was the first.
"Stupid Venusian doing Mach 2.5 in the fast lane!"
Wow, you're high-tech. I have to pick up the phone and say "Get me Pensylvania 6-5000. Ahoy, ahoy!"