It seems that politicians want you to think it's as simple as "CO2 makes the world hotter." But humanity is not the climate's keeper. For instance, the oceans dissolve tons of carbon dioxide and slowly deposit it in rocks. The hotter the climate, the more carbon dioxide can be dissolved in the water. And I am still waiting to hear how much volcanoes pollute, because we certainly don't control them and they look like they might be contributing to the contents of the atmosphere just a tad. Yet nobody is trying to find out how much the oceans help regulate the atmosphere, nobody is trying to defame volcanoes. There just isn't any money there. First you scare people by threatening the apocalypse, or even worse: change! Then you have something to base your campaign on, or something to get grant money with.
When my last HP printer crapped out on me, I was upset. Upon investigation, I discovered that the black cartridge had been leaking ink from its resting position for what must have been a long time. It clogged the gears and stopped the whole machine. The printer was also assembled in such a way that it could not possibly be opened without destroying it: they used some weirdly shaped screw heads and many places were snapped together, plastic into metal and such. Basically, I had only one option.
My friends and I took a baseball bat to it Office Space style. We even played the appropriate music. Now I'm using an Epson and I feel great about my old HP;).
Youtube Wins
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Youtube may have some low-brow physical humor, but America's "Funniest" Home Videos doesn't have TV clips and music videos. The variety alone places Youtube in an entirely different category. Plus, Youtube doesn't have those annoying voice-overs.
Toward the end of its objection, SCO claims IBM deleted copies of two versions of Unix, called Dynix and AIX, which could have helped SCO prove its case.
Shouldn't the copyright holder keep, I dunno, copies?
I was under the impression that Earth's water came from the outgassing of volcanoes. Thus it is not that Earth got water while the other terrestrial planets didn't, but that Earth simply retained it.
You can't go just by the distribution of craters. You have to take into account that these objects are billions of years old and that even those that are dead today once had enough volcanic activity to erase previous craters. The moon has areas of dense cratering and light cratering because the surface is not the same age everywhere. I would also be astounded that you could find out the relative ages of over 2000 craters with an accuracy of one day. But is that an Earth day or a Mars day? And why exactly would it be a "catastrophic" day? How many were killed, would you say?
And your example of the mammoth makes little sense. Are you suggesting that at -130 degrees the animal could only be frozen if it were covered quickly in snow? Have you ever been to the northern US or Canada? There are lakes that freeze so thick you can drive a truck on top of it. Not only is that a seasonal occurance, but it takes place at temperatues warmer than -130.
I'm afraid that trying to fix their error by those methods can't erase the crime itself. I can't steal steal things from stores then offer them replacements for the items I took. It simply doesn't change that I committed a crime in the first place. Sony's atonements are pretty much just a way of saying "Please don't sue me, here's some stuff to make up for it." It's what any corporation would do simply to protect its assets, and I don't think it should count for or against.
I don't understand people who will read one little blurb and then come up with such strong convictions.
Does correcting an incorrect article count as a strong conviction?
I also have great confidence in the fact that you know precisely what you're talking about when you summarise the entire project as a "reflector."
Would you rather I rewrite my astronomy textbook? The simple fact is that the article says the new telescope uses a lens though it will actually use a mirror.
Yes I'm sure it's impossible because nothing like it has ever been accomplished before.
Though perhaps not impossible, it is at least prohibitively impractical on this scale due to the required precision and immense weight. It is not that it has not been accomplished but that it does not have to be. Mirrors are much more effective. One might say the same about vacuum tubes. There's no need to improve them because they're obselete.
The article says that the telescope will use a 30 meter diameter lens, which is completely ridiculous, given how much it would weigh, how insanely perfect the glass would have to be, etc. Another article at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp? action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&a ctionFor=565556> says: The Thirty-Metre Telescope, called TMT, will dwarf existing telescopes and will be housed in an observatory the size of a large stadium. Unlike current telescopes, which have one mirror, this will have 780 mirrors side-by-side acting as one big mirror.
It seems to me that if companies like Google need to hire programmers to work on the "less glamorous" aspects of FOSS applications, that points out a significant weakness in the FOSS development model.
One may also say that if companies like Google are willing to hire programmers to work on those aspects, that points out a significant strength in the FOSS development model.
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What are you talking about? This is a 3D space, not a 2D plane. That star's just crossing in front of it.
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Not only is the video just as it appears, it's also funny that speculation is even brought up here. This video provides evidence AGAINST that very speculation. The facts are all there (no matter how many people may try to ignore Newton's and Kepler's laws); this star is orbiting something extremely massive that we cannot see. That, to me, is the very definition of a "black hole."
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Apparently you haven't studied these things. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, it takes light from even the nearest star years to reach us, the Earth's mass is only a fraction of Jupiter's, Jupiter's mass is only a fraction of the sun's, the sun's mass is only a fraction of some other stars that exist, and on and on. So the general idea is that a lot of the things in the universe are a lot bigger than you and me and our tiny planet. So if a star (and just think how much mass is in a star compared to you) orbits something in 15 years, you don't think it's just a bit interesting that it covers about half of its entire orbit in one fifteenth of the total time?
But I don't buy magazines so I can write on them. And there are many different types and styles of paper already. Surely this new paper will not be too much more difficult to work with than most other kinds.
I never understood why they can't just save things as RTFs more often. Is it because that would require the use of a complicated *gasp* pull-down menu? If they're so worried about compatibility, why not just use RTFs for things that don't use images? And I'm just assuming the police don't use wordart as frequently as my 6th grade class did. And why is there such a bias against the TXT format? If all you're concerned about is the information in the document and pictures aren't necessary, why does it have to look pretty?
I went Netcrafting some popular sites. Here are my findings:
Ebay http://www.ebay.com/ Uptime Summary Time in Days Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest Windows 2000 109 155.82 155.82 Windows Server 2003 55 172.18 7.19 90-day Moving average 431 61.25 61.17
Slackware http://www.slackware.com/ Up time Summary Time in Days Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest Linux 1276 463.28 150.07 90-day Moving average 1719 156.60 105.02
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/ Uptime Summary Time in Days Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest FreeBSD 788 414.05 315.62 90-day Moving average 1231 219.01 216.84
Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/ U ptime Summary Time in Days Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest Windows Server 2003 223 110.83 6.72 90-day Moving average 617 44.35 31.47
Slashdot http://slashdot.org/ Uptime Summary Time in Days Plotted Value No. samples Max Latest Linux 345 397.67 397.67 90-day Moving average 674 168.98 68.77
The Best Page in the Universe http://maddox.xmission.com/ uses linux - uptimes unknown
Google http://www.google.com/ uses linux - uptimes unknown
The formatting is screwed up, but it would take too long to fix it. All the information is there. You can see that Microsoft's own site won't stay up as long as the sites listed running Linux (those with known uptimes). There could be a lot of reasons for that, however; I'm sure Microsoft has some extra troubles just because it's so huge. Also note that not all Linux-run sites stay up much longer than Microsoft-run sites, but on average they seem to win hands down.
Their whole stance on the constitutionality of the GPL was based in lies. One of their major arguments against the GPL was that developers whose products were released under the GPL would not be able to control them for their own gain, that it would stifle their incentive to create. Notice that I used the passive voice, "whose products were released..." This is because SCO worded their arguments to avoid saying that the developer chooses to release under the GPL. SCO would have you believe that RMS takes his trident and strikes developers with GPL bolts to oppress them.
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It seems that politicians want you to think it's as simple as "CO2 makes the world hotter." But humanity is not the climate's keeper. For instance, the oceans dissolve tons of carbon dioxide and slowly deposit it in rocks. The hotter the climate, the more carbon dioxide can be dissolved in the water. And I am still waiting to hear how much volcanoes pollute, because we certainly don't control them and they look like they might be contributing to the contents of the atmosphere just a tad. Yet nobody is trying to find out how much the oceans help regulate the atmosphere, nobody is trying to defame volcanoes. There just isn't any money there. First you scare people by threatening the apocalypse, or even worse: change! Then you have something to base your campaign on, or something to get grant money with.
When my last HP printer crapped out on me, I was upset. Upon investigation, I discovered that the black cartridge had been leaking ink from its resting position for what must have been a long time. It clogged the gears and stopped the whole machine. The printer was also assembled in such a way that it could not possibly be opened without destroying it: they used some weirdly shaped screw heads and many places were snapped together, plastic into metal and such. Basically, I had only one option.
;).
My friends and I took a baseball bat to it Office Space style. We even played the appropriate music. Now I'm using an Epson and I feel great about my old HP
Youtube may have some low-brow physical humor, but America's "Funniest" Home Videos doesn't have TV clips and music videos. The variety alone places Youtube in an entirely different category. Plus, Youtube doesn't have those annoying voice-overs.
But most people use tabs as beginners to learn how to play. Not everybody picks up a guitar for the first time as a real musician.
Toward the end of its objection, SCO claims IBM deleted copies of two versions of Unix, called Dynix and AIX, which could have helped SCO prove its case.
Shouldn't the copyright holder keep, I dunno, copies?
You're right. It wasn't that bad per meg, now just multiply the cost difference by the number of megabytes purchased in the last 5 years.
If there are multiple intermediate states, could more than one be used by the device? Instead of base 2, could it use base 3 or higher?
Concerning the personal end of his life:
Brash, outspoken, and frequently insulting, Fleury has clawed his way to the top of the open-source pile over the past six years.
He will be missed.
Well if they can manipulate gravity by that time, wouldn't it be possible to deflect all particles?
The offering will include exclusive material from MTV
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MTV is involved? So I'm guessing this service won't have any music.
I was under the impression that Earth's water came from the outgassing of volcanoes. Thus it is not that Earth got water while the other terrestrial planets didn't, but that Earth simply retained it.
I am entirely offended by your remark! You must have lost your responsibility by doing too much research at Wikipedi!
mix in a little latin if that's ok... Teh 1337 boxen was hax0r3d und fregit sed non
You can't go just by the distribution of craters. You have to take into account that these objects are billions of years old and that even those that are dead today once had enough volcanic activity to erase previous craters. The moon has areas of dense cratering and light cratering because the surface is not the same age everywhere. I would also be astounded that you could find out the relative ages of over 2000 craters with an accuracy of one day. But is that an Earth day or a Mars day? And why exactly would it be a "catastrophic" day? How many were killed, would you say?
And your example of the mammoth makes little sense. Are you suggesting that at -130 degrees the animal could only be frozen if it were covered quickly in snow? Have you ever been to the northern US or Canada? There are lakes that freeze so thick you can drive a truck on top of it. Not only is that a seasonal occurance, but it takes place at temperatues warmer than -130.
I'm afraid that trying to fix their error by those methods can't erase the crime itself. I can't steal steal things from stores then offer them replacements for the items I took. It simply doesn't change that I committed a crime in the first place. Sony's atonements are pretty much just a way of saying "Please don't sue me, here's some stuff to make up for it." It's what any corporation would do simply to protect its assets, and I don't think it should count for or against.
I don't understand people who will read one little blurb and then come up with such strong convictions.
Does correcting an incorrect article count as a strong conviction?
I also have great confidence in the fact that you know precisely what you're talking about when you summarise the entire project as a "reflector."
Would you rather I rewrite my astronomy textbook? The simple fact is that the article says the new telescope uses a lens though it will actually use a mirror.
Yes I'm sure it's impossible because nothing like it has ever been accomplished before.
Though perhaps not impossible, it is at least prohibitively impractical on this scale due to the required precision and immense weight. It is not that it has not been accomplished but that it does not have to be. Mirrors are much more effective. One might say the same about vacuum tubes. There's no need to improve them because they're obselete.
The article says that the telescope will use a 30 meter diameter lens, which is completely ridiculous, given how much it would weigh, how insanely perfect the glass would have to be, etc. Another article at http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp? action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&a ctionFor=565556> says: The Thirty-Metre Telescope, called TMT, will dwarf existing telescopes and will be housed in an observatory the size of a large stadium. Unlike current telescopes, which have one mirror, this will have 780 mirrors side-by-side acting as one big mirror.
So this telescope will be a reflector.
It seems to me that if companies like Google need to hire programmers to work on the "less glamorous" aspects of FOSS applications, that points out a significant weakness in the FOSS development model.
One may also say that if companies like Google are willing to hire programmers to work on those aspects, that points out a significant strength in the FOSS development model.
What are you talking about? This is a 3D space, not a 2D plane. That star's just crossing in front of it.
Not only is the video just as it appears, it's also funny that speculation is even brought up here. This video provides evidence AGAINST that very speculation. The facts are all there (no matter how many people may try to ignore Newton's and Kepler's laws); this star is orbiting something extremely massive that we cannot see. That, to me, is the very definition of a "black hole."
Apparently you haven't studied these things. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, it takes light from even the nearest star years to reach us, the Earth's mass is only a fraction of Jupiter's, Jupiter's mass is only a fraction of the sun's, the sun's mass is only a fraction of some other stars that exist, and on and on. So the general idea is that a lot of the things in the universe are a lot bigger than you and me and our tiny planet. So if a star (and just think how much mass is in a star compared to you) orbits something in 15 years, you don't think it's just a bit interesting that it covers about half of its entire orbit in one fifteenth of the total time?
But I don't buy magazines so I can write on them. And there are many different types and styles of paper already. Surely this new paper will not be too much more difficult to work with than most other kinds.
I never understood why they can't just save things as RTFs more often. Is it because that would require the use of a complicated *gasp* pull-down menu? If they're so worried about compatibility, why not just use RTFs for things that don't use images? And I'm just assuming the police don't use wordart as frequently as my 6th grade class did. And why is there such a bias against the TXT format? If all you're concerned about is the information in the document and pictures aren't necessary, why does it have to look pretty?
The formatting is screwed up, but it would take too long to fix it. All the information is there. You can see that Microsoft's own site won't stay up as long as the sites listed running Linux (those with known uptimes). There could be a lot of reasons for that, however; I'm sure Microsoft has some extra troubles just because it's so huge. Also note that not all Linux-run sites stay up much longer than Microsoft-run sites, but on average they seem to win hands down.
Their whole stance on the constitutionality of the GPL was based in lies. One of their major arguments against the GPL was that developers whose products were released under the GPL would not be able to control them for their own gain, that it would stifle their incentive to create. Notice that I used the passive voice, "whose products were released..." This is because SCO worded their arguments to avoid saying that the developer chooses to release under the GPL. SCO would have you believe that RMS takes his trident and strikes developers with GPL bolts to oppress them.