I took one of those tourist helicopter tours around Niagara falls on Saturday. The trip lasted about 15 minutes and my little Canon S70 filled up 2GB of memory shooting RAW.
Sure, most of the images were junk (deformation from the curved window pane, dirt on the windshield, etc.) but about 1 in 5 shorts came out well.
Found myself wishing I had both a faster camera and far more memory so I could turn on exposure bracketing.
I figure if I take enough shots, eventually I will accidentally get a good one.
Yes, Russia is having to pay to get him there, but Russia is pretty much treating this multi-national scientific endeavor as a high priced hotel.
Provided the Russians continue to send up people capable of doing the job, why do you care about the employee selection process? These people are fully trained and capable of doing the work necessary during their stay.
NASA has also sent up plenty of people to political reasons, but since they performed the assigned tasks while there I don't think we can complain too much.
Although, depending on how you think of it, we've been using stored solar energy all alone. AFAIK, the best solar cells available are plant cells. Using solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbons. When the plants are fossilized, we get fossil fuels.
Actually, we have been using stored fusion energy which was delivered as solar radiation.
Sales figures like that have always confused me as it is hard to see how they could quickly & easily track actual consumer sales.
I think all major retail stores have fairly tight integration between their customer sales and suppliers for next-day shipping services.
Barcode is scanned on the way out and an order will be placed a few hours later if the computer determines the number of items on the shelf is low.
Incidentally, this makes shoplifting fun. If the computer doesn't know the item is missing from the shelves, sometimes another one will not be ordered for weeks since the computer assumes nobody is interested in it.
Purchasing all of a rarely sold product 2 or 3 days in a row can also be fun. The computer will quickly order hundreds of units to meet the sudden demand.
As if fear of punishment is going to deter a suicide bomber.
The cameras seem pretty good at preventing a second attempt by the same person when they fail the first time around.
Terrorist attacks are like anything else in life, your first attempt usually doesn't work out as planned and you take the experience gained and try again.
I don't think anyone will go back to taking a 2 week journy across the ocean by sailboat. Airlines will raise their prices and most people will pay them.
Get rid of your car if you can use public transit instead. I found an extra $12k in my pocket per year (insurance, parking, lease, etc.). That makes for a pretty good vacation even if flights quadrouple in price.
Hasn't it been proven that a Shuttle type transport is not the most cost effective way of lifting heavy loads and even for things like simple manned space flight?
It has only been demonstrated that the Shuttle, in it's half completed "still a prototype" design, is not an overly cost effective way of putting up payloads.
A number of additional steps in the program, cut by congress, would have significantly helped.
You'd have thought that they would have learned enough not to deploy a reusable shuttle based on the bad experience of NASA with these things.
They did, NASA is not involved.
NASA has actually demonstrated that reusable is practical before congress removes wide swaths of your initial plan and sticks in a bunch of unnecessary pieces.
I'm fairly confident that the Russian system will still cost under $60M per launch to send up, a minor increase in cost compared to Soyuz and lower per kg of payload.
I'd like to know what kind of technology is used to catch cheaters on internet Casinos. Sites like Pokerstars must have some pretty complex systems in place to catch cheaters, as it seems so easy to cheat at first sight.
One of the big problems these sites have is with money laundering. Two people sign up and one will intentionally lose to the other in order to ship their illegally obtained funds or job payment through a legitimate 3rd party.
Both of these links refuting the "glass is a liquid" argument argue that since a noticeable deformation does not take place over a reasonable time frame (several millenia), we should consider it to be a solid.
It's a good argument, but the statement "glass is a solid" is just as incorrect as "glass is a liquid" is.
so i wouldn't say ANY site using apache... but probably most. the real problem there is with compression load on the servers... gzip compression doesn't just happen you know, it takes CPU cycles that could be being used to just push data rather than encode it.
Most web clients take gzipped content, so if it's static you should gzip by default and store compressed on the filesystem.
For browsers taking compressed content (most of them) serve as is and for those that don't you can uncompress the content on the fly. Incidentally, it's usually faster to decompress than to compress it anyway, so it could be a savings even if you do get a flood of Netscape 3 browsers visiting.
As far as the user is concerned, I believe it has ever since the invention of the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
Long, keyword heavy URLs appear to receive more traffic than short and easily remembered URLs as a result of their slightly improved search engine standing for those terms.
Search engines and bookmarks... Very few people seem to type full URIs anymore.
This does help solve the problem of distrobution however. You can just ship the powder, and at "gas stations" the water is mixed, and you fill up your tank.
Most (all?) gas stations also have water which can be easily (though expensively) turned into Hydrogen at the station.
Just get the station a 1MW feed from the power lines and off they go.
Lawyers aren't pure enough to prevent contamination of the comet, and that's assuming you can find some dense enough to break it apart in the first place.
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Now I'll need tinfoil wallpaper too, time to go to Cosco...
Tinfoil was eliminated by the government and replaced with aluminum foil. Your wallpaper and hats only make you believe you're safe.
1 in 5 shorts came
Shots rather...
I took one of those tourist helicopter tours around Niagara falls on Saturday. The trip lasted about 15 minutes and my little Canon S70 filled up 2GB of memory shooting RAW.
Sure, most of the images were junk (deformation from the curved window pane, dirt on the windshield, etc.) but about 1 in 5 shorts came out well.
Found myself wishing I had both a faster camera and far more memory so I could turn on exposure bracketing.
I figure if I take enough shots, eventually I will accidentally get a good one.
Yes, Russia is having to pay to get him there, but Russia is pretty much treating this multi-national scientific endeavor as a high priced hotel.
Provided the Russians continue to send up people capable of doing the job, why do you care about the employee selection process? These people are fully trained and capable of doing the work necessary during their stay.
NASA has also sent up plenty of people to political reasons, but since they performed the assigned tasks while there I don't think we can complain too much.
Although, depending on how you think of it, we've been using stored solar energy all alone. AFAIK, the best solar cells available are plant cells. Using solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbons. When the plants are fossilized, we get fossil fuels.
Actually, we have been using stored fusion energy which was delivered as solar radiation.
No big deal. Take 5 or so images and keep the constant pixels.
True, but he also would have used some time taking it into the shop to have them do it.
Sales figures like that have always confused me as it is hard to see how they could quickly & easily track actual consumer sales.
I think all major retail stores have fairly tight integration between their customer sales and suppliers for next-day shipping services.
Barcode is scanned on the way out and an order will be placed a few hours later if the computer determines the number of items on the shelf is low.
Incidentally, this makes shoplifting fun. If the computer doesn't know the item is missing from the shelves, sometimes another one will not be ordered for weeks since the computer assumes nobody is interested in it.
Purchasing all of a rarely sold product 2 or 3 days in a row can also be fun. The computer will quickly order hundreds of units to meet the sudden demand.
Hell I didnt even know they had a internet.
Of course they did. How else would they have gotten their experience at writing ship flying computer viruses?
As if fear of punishment is going to deter a suicide bomber.
The cameras seem pretty good at preventing a second attempt by the same person when they fail the first time around.
Terrorist attacks are like anything else in life, your first attempt usually doesn't work out as planned and you take the experience gained and try again.
This is great for the very miniscule percentage of people that live close to some large cities.
A lack of infrastructure in the US which causes high prices for those who live there isn't my concern.
Prices of different items increase at different rates. Pay for it or change your habits.
Incidentally, close to 80% of North Americans live in large urban cities.
I don't think anyone will go back to taking a 2 week journy across the ocean by sailboat. Airlines will raise their prices and most people will pay them.
Get rid of your car if you can use public transit instead. I found an extra $12k in my pocket per year (insurance, parking, lease, etc.). That makes for a pretty good vacation even if flights quadrouple in price.
If after all those hints you cannot guess what company I work in, you really need to think harder.
Well.. It could be any major finance company actually. Many of them are still kicking around old IBM software.
Hasn't it been proven that a Shuttle type transport is not the most cost effective way of lifting heavy loads and even for things like simple manned space flight?
It has only been demonstrated that the Shuttle, in it's half completed "still a prototype" design, is not an overly cost effective way of putting up payloads.
A number of additional steps in the program, cut by congress, would have significantly helped.
You'd have thought that they would have learned enough not to deploy a reusable shuttle based on the bad experience of NASA with these things.
They did, NASA is not involved.
NASA has actually demonstrated that reusable is practical before congress removes wide swaths of your initial plan and sticks in a bunch of unnecessary pieces.
I'm fairly confident that the Russian system will still cost under $60M per launch to send up, a minor increase in cost compared to Soyuz and lower per kg of payload.
I'd like to know what kind of technology is used to catch cheaters on internet Casinos. Sites like Pokerstars must have some pretty complex systems in place to catch cheaters, as it seems so easy to cheat at first sight.
One of the big problems these sites have is with money laundering. Two people sign up and one will intentionally lose to the other in order to ship their illegally obtained funds or job payment through a legitimate 3rd party.
Both of these links refuting the "glass is a liquid" argument argue that since a noticeable deformation does not take place over a reasonable time frame (several millenia), we should consider it to be a solid.
It's a good argument, but the statement "glass is a solid" is just as incorrect as "glass is a liquid" is.
You're not serving gzipped stuff to save space, you're serving it to save bandwidth.
Actually, I am. I didn't feel like getting more diskspace for increquently accessed material.
so i wouldn't say ANY site using apache... but probably most. the real problem there is with compression load on the servers... gzip compression doesn't just happen you know, it takes CPU cycles that could be being used to just push data rather than encode it.
Most web clients take gzipped content, so if it's static you should gzip by default and store compressed on the filesystem.
For browsers taking compressed content (most of them) serve as is and for those that don't you can uncompress the content on the fly. Incidentally, it's usually faster to decompress than to compress it anyway, so it could be a savings even if you do get a flood of Netscape 3 browsers visiting.
Why isn't programmer efficiency measured in KLOCs?
I didn't even know that Kangaroo's had Libraries of Congress, let alone used it as a measurement.
As far as the user is concerned, I believe it has ever since the invention of the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
Long, keyword heavy URLs appear to receive more traffic than short and easily remembered URLs as a result of their slightly improved search engine standing for those terms.
Search engines and bookmarks... Very few people seem to type full URIs anymore.
This does help solve the problem of distrobution however. You can just ship the powder, and at "gas stations" the water is mixed, and you fill up your tank.
Most (all?) gas stations also have water which can be easily (though expensively) turned into Hydrogen at the station.
Just get the station a 1MW feed from the power lines and off they go.
I wish that worked on girlfriends...
It does work, but it still takes 24 million to develop.
Lawyers aren't pure enough to prevent contamination of the comet, and that's assuming you can find some dense enough to break it apart in the first place.
Probably fear of the Blue Coma of Death