Construction of the ice road involves clearing the route of snow, bulldozing rough ice and filling in crevasses. The route will cross the Leverett glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains. ... The road will need to be cleared of snow and checked for crevasses and ice movement each spring, says Karl Erb of the National Science Foundation in Virginia, which is funding the $12-million project. "But crevices don't change much from year to year," he says. "We will just have to monitor them."
It's going to cost $12 million for a 1600km back-country road. It's not a high speed 6 lane super highway. No asphalt. No lines. It's a compressed snow/ice road that they are smoothing out and filling in crevices.
While I have not ever gone to the south pole, pictures I've seen indicate that it is pretty much frozen year round. I don't think that they are going to have to worry a whole lot about melting ice/snow in the imediate future.
The National Science Foundation is funding the entire road project...not the US Government directly. Yes the NSF is funded by the government, but I'd imagine that it has a regular line-item entry on the fiscal budget each year so it really isn't anything extra. I'd rather they build this road then have any polition go on a "fact-finding" junket.
Also, the road is justified. They are starting research at the south pole (Ice Cube Project) that requires heavy equipment to be brought in. Currently the only way to get their is by air, which places limits on the weight of cargo and they have to have clear skies. This road will help with both of those limitations.
In my state (Indiana), the new owner is the one responsible to fill out the paperwork to get it titled, registered, licensed, etc. If the new owner never does that, then the system is still going to have the previous owner's information. My guess is the release is notifying the DMV/BMV that you don't have the car anymore officially just in case the new owner doesn't do what he/she is suppose to do.
The ATI All-In-Wonder 7500 and up come with PVR software and remote included. Pricing is around 125 I believe. I have not used it, but have been thinking about it for some time. There are several reviews out there if you do a little digging.
Using your PC as a progressive scan DVD player because it's cheaper these days isn't necessarily true. Their are some good quality DVD players that output progressive signals that are sub-$100. I personally own a CyberHome DVD-500 and have been quite happy with it. Yes it's a BestBuy generic DVD player, but it has progressive scan and a DD/DTS decoder built in for $69.
If you are keeping military secrets, privileged company information or anything else that is highly sensitive, then no unix/linux isn't enough either. The computer shouldn't be on a network.
Generally a dedicated firewall would be better then one built into the OS. I'm not talkign about a $99 Linksys...but a real firewall. Seperate the functions of the two machines. Have security on both. If one is compromised, at least there is not a straight path without resistance to the other. If they are on the same machine, then once one is comprimised, the other is also.
I believe you are refering to this article. I didn't read it as Microsoft admitting to having a backdoor. And what would be the point of having a backdoor to Windows when there are multiple front doors that are practically wide open. If you wanted security, you are not going to only use the security provided by the OS alone. If you do...then it's your own fault.
I'm sick & tired of people using this argument. There is more then one fricking definition of free. Free as in beer. Free as in speech. Free as in Dmitry. The registration is free in the meaning that 99% of the world thinks it means. It does not cost any money out of your pocket. Does it cost money to someone...yes. In a technical sense, nothing is free...it comes at a cost to something somewhere.
All that NYT is asking is a little information about you. You don't have to give up your life's story. If it is a big deal, you can lie about the information or just use some other news source. Your not giving up any of your precious freedom by telling them your name.
Sure it is. But probably not in the way that you might think. I remember that some razor company (Gillette???) was going to use them in their warehouse. Just wave a sensor over a pallet and you could get instant information about how many razors are in it, batch number, when they were made, etc.
I don't think that Target is going to start tracking the movements of the snickers bar at the register, but they can use them for anti-theft, inventory purposes, etc. It also could easily identify a shirt as to if it was purchased at a location.
Until I hear that this is false, I'm boycotting SCO.
So you are going to boycott a product based purely on the unsubstantiated rumor printed in a minor magazine. SCO has never officially released anything that said they were charging.
I heard that Debian was considering charging users $10 each time you run apt-get. You saw it here on/. so it has to be true. From now on, I'm boycotting Debian until I see an official press release.
To help with your quest to find Caldera's contribution, see here. Included are portions of Webmin, RPM, Netscape, and oh yeah...the Linux Kernel. BTW...it's not Caldera. It's SCO.
Back before SCO was purchases by Caldera, Microsoft actually had a stake in SCO. I believe that it was around 12.5% of the total number of shares. I beleive that some OS tools (compiler rings a bell) still have Microsoft copyrights on them.
Ransom is no longer a part of SCO or Caldera anymore and hasn't been for some time. He left shortly after UnitedLinux came into being. Apparently he appointed himself as the omnipotent ruler and spokesman of UnitedLinux without the input of any of the others. Because of this, he was quickly replaced with some lady who's name escapes me. Last I heard he was writing an autobiography or something called For The Love Of It.
Since the sight is slashdotted (it's painfully slow in the middle of the off season before/. hit it anyways), here are some more details that I gleamed off the site earlier. I guess my write up wasn't good enough:(
-Each car will have tiered seating, similar to stadium seating in a movie theater. Everyone should have a good view of the ground as the are dropping straight towards it.
-The track is basically an oval. You come straight out of the garage, immediately go up, peak, then come back down. On the trip down, you do a 270 degree twist. Then you just ride out on a straight track.
-The cars will be launnched via a cable (similar to the Millenium Force) as oppose to a LIM. Braking will be provided via magnets.
-CP is expecting a car goes through the station every 40 seconds for about 1500 people/hour.
Anyways, if you want to see two representations as to what the track will look like, check out here.
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My father ran for several years a council-wide competition as well as the pack-level races. Just to try out different things, he made a test car that had different styles of wheels, solid axle vs. nails, etc.
WRT the wheels, he milled perfectly flat across (maximizing contact area), a very small sliver on the inside or outside of the car, and a v shaped wheels. It ended up that multiple runs ended up with near identical times. Wheel shape really didn't come into play. Didn't matter because altering the wheel shape was against the rules.
Weighting does come into play, but not the position of the weight. Just get it close to 5 oz (the limit at the time). If you have races over multiple days, remember that scales sometimes do change slightly over time, so it may be better to be a tad under.
Solid axles did nothing once you cleaned up the nails and put graphite on them.
Some other things that we found out with test cars and through observing the races that really don't affect times: -Paint jobs. Smooth, polished, waxed. Didn't matter. Have fun with it, put stripes on it or flames, but don't go crazy trying to get the perfectly smooth finish to minimize microflaws in the paint. Regular ol' Krylon works fine. -Percise "aerodynamic" shape. The winner was almost always a flat car about 3/4 of an inch think. Pointed, rounded, or angled noses didn't matter, but they usually had some type of "areodynamics" to them just for looks. A square nose ran just as fast. -Drag, turbulance around the wheels, etc really don't come into play. They are light, start off slow, and reach the bottom quickly that it dosn't come into play significanly.
Things that did help with the car: -Not buying the premium "pine car" accessories like the weights, "better" wheels, axles, etc. Any weight will do. We used old brass hardware. Lead shot also works. Feel free to have fun with model car parts like windshields, tailpipes, etc. Keep in mind overall dimension limitations. -As someone else pointed out, polish the supplied nails to remove the burrs or whatever they are from both the head and shaft. You want a very smooth nail. Easiest way is put them in a drill press, get some fine sandpaper and some water. Turn the press on and just polish away. -Pop the wheels into a lathe or drill press and wet sand down the surface of the wheel to remove any moulding lines. -Graphite, graphite, graphite. Don't use WD-40, oil, etc. graphite is the key. Put it on till everything is covered where a wheel may even rub (side of car, nail head, shaft) I think liquids or grease might even be against the rules (drips on tracks) as well as spacers. -Getting a fast lane. This is just a chance. Some lanes run faster the others. They may be smoother at the joints or have a better finish or something.
Some other advice: -Have fun. -Take your time. Work with your son to figure out what you want to do before hand on paper. Have him draw out a couple of ideas and talk to him about the design qualities (aerodynamics, liitations of the wood, available tools to make it). -Don't do it all. This is your son's project that you are helping. Give him some tips/help, but don't do it all for him. I remember when I was a scout seeing these wonderful looking cars magnificantly created and a flawless paintjob. It's very obvious when Dad does it all and the kid has didn't do anything. Son will get more value in the long run from spending time with you working then if you did it all and he wins. Looking back, I didn't win 1st, but I usually ranked high and I remember working with my Dad more then anything about the race. -Both of you should remember it is only a race. It doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of life. I remember kids crying because they lost. I'm sure some dad has gotten "track rage". It isn't worth it.
I bet that 95% of the people that would buy this card right now could care less about the standard deviation or any other statistic about the card beside fps. They just want bragging rights to be able to say that they got.0002% better fps then card XYZ.
High gas prices seem like a great way to get people to switch to more efficient cars.
Great. So now I get to pay a higer price for a hybrid vehicle, higer maintenance cost, and still continue to pay basically the same total amount in the long run for fuel. Sounds like a winner to me.
Maybe in your case but not for everyone. Last October I ditched my land line for a family plan with T-mobile. I pay 69.99 for 800 shared minutes, "free" long distance, unlimited weekends and unlimited to any T-mobile customer. I've yet to come close to my limit with the two lines. It was cheaper for 2 cell phones then it was for my single cell phone and a land line.
For those people wondering about what the 3n solution is, here is a page that describes it: Firing Squad Solution. A decent diagram as to the firing order is here. The page also links to a description about the 2N-2 solution, but claims that it is buggy and only works in certian Ns, not for all values of N.
I'm going to guess that this is either a bad troll or you are just new around here. Judging from your UID, I'll bite and say the last. We originally started boycotting Amazon because of their one-click patent back in the.COM boom. Many have forgotten about the boycott, but I would guess that most just didn't care.
According to Megan E. Gray, "As the retailers well know, simple sales prices are not protected by copyright. Copyright only covers the expression of ideas, not facts.
Are facts not copyrighted everyday? Look at research papers, news articles, biographies, anything that is published or presented. Most everything is copyrighted these days. I can refer to the facts in my my own works, but I need to give credit to the source of information unless it is public knowledge. Remember citing things in papers in the 6th grade onward.....?
Most university help desks are going to be staffed by fellow students that have received work study financial aid. Because of this, don't expect much more then minimum wage.
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It's going to cost $12 million for a 1600km back-country road. It's not a high speed 6 lane super highway. No asphalt. No lines. It's a compressed snow/ice road that they are smoothing out and filling in crevices.
While I have not ever gone to the south pole, pictures I've seen indicate that it is pretty much frozen year round. I don't think that they are going to have to worry a whole lot about melting ice/snow in the imediate future.
The National Science Foundation is funding the entire road project...not the US Government directly. Yes the NSF is funded by the government, but I'd imagine that it has a regular line-item entry on the fiscal budget each year so it really isn't anything extra. I'd rather they build this road then have any polition go on a "fact-finding" junket.
Also, the road is justified. They are starting research at the south pole (Ice Cube Project) that requires heavy equipment to be brought in. Currently the only way to get their is by air, which places limits on the weight of cargo and they have to have clear skies. This road will help with both of those limitations.
Link to picture of Hillary listening to an iPod.
For those who don't know what it is called, here is a link to BroadQ's QCast Tuner. It plays Divx, MPEG, digital music, plus shows jpg slide shows.
In my state (Indiana), the new owner is the one responsible to fill out the paperwork to get it titled, registered, licensed, etc. If the new owner never does that, then the system is still going to have the previous owner's information. My guess is the release is notifying the DMV/BMV that you don't have the car anymore officially just in case the new owner doesn't do what he/she is suppose to do.
The ATI All-In-Wonder 7500 and up come with PVR software and remote included. Pricing is around 125 I believe. I have not used it, but have been thinking about it for some time. There are several reviews out there if you do a little digging.
Depending on the drive, it varies. I have SLR-style drives that get between 100-130 MB/s.
Using your PC as a progressive scan DVD player because it's cheaper these days isn't necessarily true. Their are some good quality DVD players that output progressive signals that are sub-$100. I personally own a CyberHome DVD-500 and have been quite happy with it. Yes it's a BestBuy generic DVD player, but it has progressive scan and a DD/DTS decoder built in for $69.
If you are keeping military secrets, privileged company information or anything else that is highly sensitive, then no unix/linux isn't enough either. The computer shouldn't be on a network.
Generally a dedicated firewall would be better then one built into the OS. I'm not talkign about a $99 Linksys...but a real firewall. Seperate the functions of the two machines. Have security on both. If one is compromised, at least there is not a straight path without resistance to the other. If they are on the same machine, then once one is comprimised, the other is also.
I believe you are refering to this article. I didn't read it as Microsoft admitting to having a backdoor. And what would be the point of having a backdoor to Windows when there are multiple front doors that are practically wide open. If you wanted security, you are not going to only use the security provided by the OS alone. If you do...then it's your own fault.
I'm sick & tired of people using this argument. There is more then one fricking definition of free. Free as in beer. Free as in speech. Free as in Dmitry. The registration is free in the meaning that 99% of the world thinks it means. It does not cost any money out of your pocket. Does it cost money to someone...yes. In a technical sense, nothing is free...it comes at a cost to something somewhere.
All that NYT is asking is a little information about you. You don't have to give up your life's story. If it is a big deal, you can lie about the information or just use some other news source. Your not giving up any of your precious freedom by telling them your name.
Sure it is. But probably not in the way that you might think. I remember that some razor company (Gillette???) was going to use them in their warehouse. Just wave a sensor over a pallet and you could get instant information about how many razors are in it, batch number, when they were made, etc.
I don't think that Target is going to start tracking the movements of the snickers bar at the register, but they can use them for anti-theft, inventory purposes, etc. It also could easily identify a shirt as to if it was purchased at a location.
So you are going to boycott a product based purely on the unsubstantiated rumor printed in a minor magazine. SCO has never officially released anything that said they were charging.
I heard that Debian was considering charging users $10 each time you run apt-get. You saw it here on
To help with your quest to find Caldera's contribution, see here. Included are portions of Webmin, RPM, Netscape, and oh yeah...the Linux Kernel. BTW...it's not Caldera. It's SCO.
Back before SCO was purchases by Caldera, Microsoft actually had a stake in SCO. I believe that it was around 12.5% of the total number of shares. I beleive that some OS tools (compiler rings a bell) still have Microsoft copyrights on them.
Ransom is no longer a part of SCO or Caldera anymore and hasn't been for some time. He left shortly after UnitedLinux came into being. Apparently he appointed himself as the omnipotent ruler and spokesman of UnitedLinux without the input of any of the others. Because of this, he was quickly replaced with some lady who's name escapes me. Last I heard he was writing an autobiography or something called For The Love Of It.
Since the sight is slashdotted (it's painfully slow in the middle of the off season before /. hit it anyways), here are some more details that I gleamed off the site earlier. I guess my write up wasn't good enough :(
-Each car will have tiered seating, similar to stadium seating in a movie theater. Everyone should have a good view of the ground as the are dropping straight towards it.
-The track is basically an oval. You come straight out of the garage, immediately go up, peak, then come back down. On the trip down, you do a 270 degree twist. Then you just ride out on a straight track.
-The cars will be launnched via a cable (similar to the Millenium Force) as oppose to a LIM. Braking will be provided via magnets.
-CP is expecting a car goes through the station every 40 seconds for about 1500 people/hour.
Anyways, if you want to see two representations as to what the track will look like, check out here.
My father ran for several years a council-wide competition as well as the pack-level races. Just to try out different things, he made a test car that had different styles of wheels, solid axle vs. nails, etc.
WRT the wheels, he milled perfectly flat across (maximizing contact area), a very small sliver on the inside or outside of the car, and a v shaped wheels. It ended up that multiple runs ended up with near identical times. Wheel shape really didn't come into play. Didn't matter because altering the wheel shape was against the rules.
Weighting does come into play, but not the position of the weight. Just get it close to 5 oz (the limit at the time). If you have races over multiple days, remember that scales sometimes do change slightly over time, so it may be better to be a tad under.
Solid axles did nothing once you cleaned up the nails and put graphite on them.
Some other things that we found out with test cars and through observing the races that really don't affect times:
-Paint jobs. Smooth, polished, waxed. Didn't matter. Have fun with it, put stripes on it or flames, but don't go crazy trying to get the perfectly smooth finish to minimize microflaws in the paint. Regular ol' Krylon works fine.
-Percise "aerodynamic" shape. The winner was almost always a flat car about 3/4 of an inch think. Pointed, rounded, or angled noses didn't matter, but they usually had some type of "areodynamics" to them just for looks. A square nose ran just as fast.
-Drag, turbulance around the wheels, etc really don't come into play. They are light, start off slow, and reach the bottom quickly that it dosn't come into play significanly.
Things that did help with the car:
-Not buying the premium "pine car" accessories like the weights, "better" wheels, axles, etc. Any weight will do. We used old brass hardware. Lead shot also works. Feel free to have fun with model car parts like windshields, tailpipes, etc. Keep in mind overall dimension limitations.
-As someone else pointed out, polish the supplied nails to remove the burrs or whatever they are from both the head and shaft. You want a very smooth nail. Easiest way is put them in a drill press, get some fine sandpaper and some water. Turn the press on and just polish away.
-Pop the wheels into a lathe or drill press and wet sand down the surface of the wheel to remove any moulding lines.
-Graphite, graphite, graphite. Don't use WD-40, oil, etc. graphite is the key. Put it on till everything is covered where a wheel may even rub (side of car, nail head, shaft) I think liquids or grease might even be against the rules (drips on tracks) as well as spacers.
-Getting a fast lane. This is just a chance. Some lanes run faster the others. They may be smoother at the joints or have a better finish or something.
Some other advice:
-Have fun.
-Take your time. Work with your son to figure out what you want to do before hand on paper. Have him draw out a couple of ideas and talk to him about the design qualities (aerodynamics, liitations of the wood, available tools to make it).
-Don't do it all. This is your son's project that you are helping. Give him some tips/help, but don't do it all for him. I remember when I was a scout seeing these wonderful looking cars magnificantly created and a flawless paintjob. It's very obvious when Dad does it all and the kid has didn't do anything. Son will get more value in the long run from spending time with you working then if you did it all and he wins. Looking back, I didn't win 1st, but I usually ranked high and I remember working with my Dad more then anything about the race.
-Both of you should remember it is only a race. It doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of life. I remember kids crying because they lost. I'm sure some dad has gotten "track rage". It isn't worth it.
I bet that 95% of the people that would buy this card right now could care less about the standard deviation or any other statistic about the card beside fps. They just want bragging rights to be able to say that they got .0002% better fps then card XYZ.
Great. So now I get to pay a higer price for a hybrid vehicle, higer maintenance cost, and still continue to pay basically the same total amount in the long run for fuel. Sounds like a winner to me.
Maybe in your case but not for everyone. Last October I ditched my land line for a family plan with T-mobile. I pay 69.99 for 800 shared minutes, "free" long distance, unlimited weekends and unlimited to any T-mobile customer. I've yet to come close to my limit with the two lines. It was cheaper for 2 cell phones then it was for my single cell phone and a land line.
Do we?
For those people wondering about what the 3n solution is, here is a page that describes it: Firing Squad Solution. A decent diagram as to the firing order is here. The page also links to a description about the 2N-2 solution, but claims that it is buggy and only works in certian Ns, not for all values of N.
I'm going to guess that this is either a bad troll or you are just new around here. Judging from your UID, I'll bite and say the last. We originally started boycotting Amazon because of their one-click patent back in the .COM boom. Many have forgotten about the boycott, but I would guess that most just didn't care.
Are facts not copyrighted everyday? Look at research papers, news articles, biographies, anything that is published or presented. Most everything is copyrighted these days. I can refer to the facts in my my own works, but I need to give credit to the source of information unless it is public knowledge. Remember citing things in papers in the 6th grade onward.....?
Perhaps he meant the OTHER WC3, War Craft 3.
Most university help desks are going to be staffed by fellow students that have received work study financial aid. Because of this, don't expect much more then minimum wage.