Note that the USA Today article actually says "NASA wants to know whether the asteroid... could be part of what was an earlier planet perhaps as large as Mars". The asteroid itself it nowhere nears as large as Mars (about 2800x smaller by mass).
Yeah, I gotta agree with this posting and that in http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=250801&c id=19876195. There's all this talk about the "first virus" for PCs being in 1982, but I remember them from before. I ran into a nasty one in 1980-81. It resided in the unused bytes of DOS, and would alter the prologue bytes of the sectors to non-standard values. Once infected, the disk could only be read by the infected DOS, which would install itself onto any new disks subsequently inserted in the drive.
Yeah, that caught my eye, too. "Distro of the year"? According to DistroWatch, Arch barely cracks the top 20, is about 1/5 as popular as the top distros, and is even on the way down over the last month.
I support the parent post. I was going to post my own comments on Loewen, but Tar-Palantir already posted pretty what I was going to say. I'd mod him up, but he's already at 5, and I don't have any mod points anyway.
You have to finish the story. "Hyperion" was too long to fit into one volume, so it was finished up in "The Fall of Hyperion". Simmons makes mention of this at the end of the two-volume sequel, "Endymion" and "The Rise of Endymion".
I thought I'd contribute my experiences as well. I had wrist problems about 10-12 years ago. To combat them, I tried the following:
Wrist excercises. The ones that worked for me were to position my upper arms horizontal to the ground, position my forearms upwards, and then to rotate my wrists propeller-like, getting as much extension in them as possible. Do 100 revolutions in each hand. I got this tip from a Kaiser Permanente commercial -- best medical help I ever got from them.
Take breaks. I was working on a Mac at the time, and installed a program called Coffee Break that forced me to take a 5 minute break every 30 minutes.
Take anti-inflammatory drugs. When things get bad I now take Aleve.
All told, things worked out, and I rarely have problems any more.
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> an asteroid potentially as large as Mars
... could be part of what was an earlier planet perhaps as large as Mars". The asteroid itself it nowhere nears as large as Mars (about 2800x smaller by mass).
Note that the USA Today article actually says "NASA wants to know whether the asteroid
How is this guy not a James Bond villain?
Yeah, I gotta agree with this posting and that in http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=250801&c id=19876195. There's all this talk about the "first virus" for PCs being in 1982, but I remember them from before. I ran into a nasty one in 1980-81. It resided in the unused bytes of DOS, and would alter the prologue bytes of the sectors to non-standard values. Once infected, the disk could only be read by the infected DOS, which would install itself onto any new disks subsequently inserted in the drive.
I want dontaskdont.tel.
Yeah, that caught my eye, too. "Distro of the year"? According to DistroWatch, Arch barely cracks the top 20, is about 1/5 as popular as the top distros, and is even on the way down over the last month.
I support the parent post. I was going to post my own comments on Loewen, but Tar-Palantir already posted pretty what I was going to say. I'd mod him up, but he's already at 5, and I don't have any mod points anyway.
You have to finish the story. "Hyperion" was too long to fit into one volume, so it was finished up in "The Fall of Hyperion". Simmons makes mention of this at the end of the two-volume sequel, "Endymion" and "The Rise of Endymion".
- Wrist excercises. The ones that worked for me were to position my upper arms horizontal to the ground, position my forearms upwards, and then to rotate my wrists propeller-like, getting as much extension in them as possible. Do 100 revolutions in each hand. I got this tip from a Kaiser Permanente commercial -- best medical help I ever got from them.
- Take breaks. I was working on a Mac at the time, and installed a program called Coffee Break that forced me to take a 5 minute break every 30 minutes.
- Take anti-inflammatory drugs. When things get bad I now take Aleve.
All told, things worked out, and I rarely have problems any more.