Since Winter Solstice is approaching (December 21 or 22), it would be better for him to fly at the Tropic of Capricorn because the sun will be right above him, and circumference is shorter.
23.5 degrees South in radians = 0.410152374 radians cos 0.410152374 = 0.917060074 radius of Earth = 6 378.1 kilometers rotational radius at Tropic of Capricorn = 6378.1 * 0.917060074 = 5 849.10086 kilometers circumference at Tropic of Capricorn = 5849.10086 * 2 * pi = 36 750.9846 kilometers 36 750.9846 kilometers per 24 hours = 1 531.29102 km/h = 951.500127 mph
Or he can take 36 hours (start at dawn, end at dusk), which will be
1020.86068 km/h in mph = 634.333418 mph
If he goes faster, he can get more energy by having the sun right above him for a longer period of time, so there's that variable there.
The idea being that files uploaded here are expected to be permanently. Then professors can say urls with *.arc are o.k. for references, and *.RespectedName.arc/* are even better. In the math community, articles from arxiv.org and a few others are generally respected sources. This might not be the case for cultural studies, for example, where there are no central repositories. If there were more and better permanent archiving services, this would be less of a problem. Maybe the government could run such a service?
If that's what you meant by "inflammable," sorry. The word is "nonflammable."
When I said "inflammable," I meant "inflammable," not "nonflammable." I'm so sorry that you are dead wrong on that one.
According to the article, not some fire code, the cables can be toxic under fire. I was hazarding a guess that what the author wanted to say was that the cable was inflammable, but I might be wrong. The author should have explained what s/he meant by that. If the old cables are a fire hazard now, weren't they a fire hazard when first installed? How does the fact that they are old cables make them more dangerous? What is the problem now and what were the regulational loopholes that created the current state?
Pika is a generally used term, so I doubt that it has such a recent and specific origin. Some mistakenly categorize all Japanese mimetics as onomatopoeias. This isn't entirely correct because there are mimetics that describe bright flash of light (pika'!), silence (shi-n), and texture (tsurutsuru = slippery, zarazara = rough, sandy), and emotions (sowasowa = nervouos). These terms fall under the categories of giongo and giseigo.
You fingerspell! That doesn't translate into Japanese!
Japanese people finger spell their names all the time. Hiroya? Which character do you use? This one. (finger spells the character.)
Of course, Japan has their own sign language too. I think it'll be neat if there was one popular international sign language. It should be easier to learn such a language because you wouldn't have to make or listen to sounds you didn't learn when you were a child. For example, the ASL for "dance" is to swing back and forth your index and middle fingers of one hand on top of the open palm of the other hand. I don't see why this can't be an international hand sign for it.
i guess it depends on what the alternative to wizard is. for example, the "classical interface" of winzip is quite simple to use. simply select the files, then press the extract button. In the wizard interface I would have to press the next button several times and read boring dialogs (i can't believe they added the wizard interface). They also have a favorites button on the toolbar as default, which is utterly useless. The only buttons I have selected to be on the toolbar are "extract," "delete," and "exit."
With Nero Burning ROM, however, what I want is simply to burn a cd when I use it. The wizard interface works quite well to get things started on. However, the wizard interface is good in this case only because the alternatives are not as well developed.
I agree that wizards are a problem (too restricted on what you can do) but sometimes it can be better than the alternative.
Other Activity Center considerations
Microsoft is looking at a variety of other issues with regards to Activity Centers. For example, Web pages are notoriously difficult to navigate with the keyboard, but Activity Centers will need to be accessible to all users. So links in Activity Center won't be underlined, and the ALT+ method of selecting Win32 user interface elements will be supported using proprietary HTML extensions that Microsoft developed for Internet Explorer. Likewise, localization is going to be an issue, as Microsoft derives over half of its income outside of the United States. This also requires a number of proprietary extensions to HTML.
Microsoft will continue to bastardize the HTML standard.
how much music could a pocket-sized vinyl player carry? row row row your boat? a vinyl etching drive to boot might be pretty cool tho. but move the player even slightly and your vinyl is scratched.
i burnt on a cd-audio an itunes aac file, and then ripped it to an mp3 on my win2k. the original aac was 4:55, the resulting mp3 was 4:55 but complete silence.
another thing i noticed was with itunes music store they don't have some popular bands including aphex twin, the smashing pumpkins, radiohead, and the beatles.
in conclusion p2p softares are still a better way for obtaining mp3s.
also worthy of checking out is rio karma 20. the same hd capacity, about the same physical size as the 20gb ipod. yet cheaper and battery lasts twice as long, plays ogg and its dock has an ethernet port.
i mean, i like apple's itunes + ipod. they're cute looking and i trust that apple in general makes good products. yet drm is cumbersome, and itune music store is littered with typos and ommissions of bands and songs, and lack of features (sometimes i want to search for albums, not individual songs).
in conclusion, im torn whther to go the apple way or not. (and their "lamp" iMacs are really cool!)
I am merely saying that there isn't enough information to justify all the radical theories being made about how UN might run the internet.
I can also be sure that the US pays way more than any other nation to support and run the UN as well, no matter how far behind in it's dues' it is.
You swing and you miss. The US is exceptionally notorious when it comes to not funding UN. If they were funding the UN as they are supposed to, they would be paying more than Japan.
It can be expected to run like the UN peace keeping operations in Bosnia and Rawanda were massive genocide occured as the UN stood by incapable of acting due to it's own inertia.
Uhh.. right. Because war is so much like managing the internet. Why didn't I see this before?
The UN has never been held accoutable for the failures of it's breaucrats not will it admit any failures or shortcomings. Just the group that should be incharge of the ineternet.
Just an observation: a similar statement can be made about the US.
Why should I pay for internet access for some dirt poor ass backwards country? I pay 55 USD a month for my internet access in a first world country with little fraud or government kleptroacy. I should pay for some 3rd workld nation where all that money can be stolen and the access censored? Not in your wettest dreams will I agree to such a thing.
Rest assured, America (assuming you are American here) always underpays their UN membership dues anyway. Even if the US was the only country that existed in this universe, a poor person somewhere is benefiting from your tax money, whether it be in public roads, social security, education or the internet, but I hope you won't lose sleep over this.
ICANN is a semi-private company right now. If the UN keeps an eye on ICANN instead of the US Gov., it can still operate with the efficiencies / inefficiencies of ICANN, plus be fairer internationally. However, this is very wild speculation, as the article gave no details about what UN will do if they were to be in charge, not the US. As of yet there is very little meat to base relevant discussions off of, hence the low signal-to-noise ratio in the comments for this article.
The article starts off talking about how some groups want UN to assume the role of ICANN. Some reasons for and some against, from the article, with my comments in [square brackets]:
...
Defenders of the status quo [US, EC] say handing over power to governments could threaten the untrammelled flow of information and ideas that many see as the very essence of the borderless internet.
But these arguments appear to be losing force against the emergence of new challenges such as unwanted advertising ("spam"), privacy and security worries, hate speech and child pornography, which have convinced many governments of the need for international regulation and enforcement.
and later...
Other unresolved disputes concern the balance between intellectual property protection and access to information, the role of the media, and acceptable boundaries to freedom of expression.
There's very little on-topic discussion that can be made with regard to this article because the article greatly lacks in detail about how a UN-run Internet may operate differently.
Slashdot Mirror
Gyroscopes. Also, (and this is me speculating) the wheels might be designed so that it will turn in whichever direction the driver leans towards.
Since Winter Solstice is approaching (December 21 or 22), it would be better for him to fly at the Tropic of Capricorn because the sun will be right above him, and circumference is shorter.
23.5 degrees South in radians = 0.410152374 radians
cos 0.410152374 = 0.917060074
radius of Earth = 6 378.1 kilometers
rotational radius at Tropic of Capricorn = 6378.1 * 0.917060074 = 5 849.10086 kilometers
circumference at Tropic of Capricorn = 5849.10086 * 2 * pi = 36 750.9846 kilometers
36 750.9846 kilometers per 24 hours = 1 531.29102 km/h = 951.500127 mph
Or he can take 36 hours (start at dawn, end at dusk), which will be
1020.86068 km/h in mph = 634.333418 mph
If he goes faster, he can get more energy by having the sun right above him for a longer period of time, so there's that variable there.
...and the karma has longer-lasting batteries.
Swedish and English have a shared linguistic root, so the phonetics are similar. Also, Swedish education places heavy emphasis on English.
I always plug my battery charger in at places where I don't have to pay for power. :P
www.PublishersName.arc/path/articleID/VerNum/
The idea being that files uploaded here are expected to be permanently. Then professors can say urls with *.arc are o.k. for references, and *.RespectedName.arc/* are even better. In the math community, articles from arxiv.org and a few others are generally respected sources. This might not be the case for cultural studies, for example, where there are no central repositories. If there were more and better permanent archiving services, this would be less of a problem. Maybe the government could run such a service?
If that's what you meant by "inflammable," sorry. The word is "nonflammable."
When I said "inflammable," I meant "inflammable," not "nonflammable." I'm so sorry that you are dead wrong on that one.
According to the article, not some fire code, the cables can be toxic under fire. I was hazarding a guess that what the author wanted to say was that the cable was inflammable, but I might be wrong. The author should have explained what s/he meant by that. If the old cables are a fire hazard now, weren't they a fire hazard when first installed? How does the fact that they are old cables make them more dangerous? What is the problem now and what were the regulational loopholes that created the current state?
There have been people who have learned to sing songs in languages they didn't know at all
I've heard them, and they usually sound horrible if you are a native speaker of the language that they are singing.
The cables are inflammable and toxic, according to the article cache (main article /.ed).
As far south as Florida.
So government being able to hire less people is good for the economy? Is putting the future generations in debt also good?
sorry, I meant to say gitaigo and giseigo.
Pika is a generally used term, so I doubt that it has such a recent and specific origin. Some mistakenly categorize all Japanese mimetics as onomatopoeias. This isn't entirely correct because there are mimetics that describe bright flash of light (pika'!), silence (shi-n), and texture (tsurutsuru = slippery, zarazara = rough, sandy), and emotions (sowasowa = nervouos). These terms fall under the categories of giongo and giseigo.
Pika-pika is Japanese mimetics used for describing something that is shining.
On the other hand, Japanese communication was completely decrypted by the US, which, needless to say, helped greatly during the war.
Have you ever watched Star Wars and been amazed that Human beings could understand what R2D2 is saying?
They're actually just acting.
i guess it depends on what the alternative to wizard is. for example, the "classical interface" of winzip is quite simple to use. simply select the files, then press the extract button. In the wizard interface I would have to press the next button several times and read boring dialogs (i can't believe they added the wizard interface). They also have a favorites button on the toolbar as default, which is utterly useless. The only buttons I have selected to be on the toolbar are "extract," "delete," and "exit."
With Nero Burning ROM, however, what I want is simply to burn a cd when I use it. The wizard interface works quite well to get things started on. However, the wizard interface is good in this case only because the alternatives are not as well developed.
I agree that wizards are a problem (too restricted on what you can do) but sometimes it can be better than the alternative.
Microsoft will continue to bastardize the HTML standard.
how much music could a pocket-sized vinyl player carry? row row row your boat? a vinyl etching drive to boot might be pretty cool tho. but move the player even slightly and your vinyl is scratched.
ive been checking out itunes lately.
i burnt on a cd-audio an itunes aac file, and then ripped it to an mp3 on my win2k. the original aac was 4:55, the resulting mp3 was 4:55 but complete silence.
another thing i noticed was with itunes music store they don't have some popular bands including aphex twin, the smashing pumpkins, radiohead, and the beatles.
in conclusion p2p softares are still a better way for obtaining mp3s.
also worthy of checking out is rio karma 20. the same hd capacity, about the same physical size as the 20gb ipod. yet cheaper and battery lasts twice as long, plays ogg and its dock has an ethernet port.
i mean, i like apple's itunes + ipod. they're cute looking and i trust that apple in general makes good products. yet drm is cumbersome, and itune music store is littered with typos and ommissions of bands and songs, and lack of features (sometimes i want to search for albums, not individual songs).
in conclusion, im torn whther to go the apple way or not. (and their "lamp" iMacs are really cool!)
Microsoft surely has the better money-making model, but people interested in open source are usually more interested in the quality of software.
That explains why mozilla has PNG transparency support while IE doesn.t
I am merely saying that there isn't enough information to justify all the radical theories being made about how UN might run the internet.
I can also be sure that the US pays way more than any other nation to support and run the UN as well, no matter how far behind in it's dues' it is.
You swing and you miss. The US is exceptionally notorious when it comes to not funding UN. If they were funding the UN as they are supposed to, they would be paying more than Japan.
It can be expected to run like the UN peace keeping operations in Bosnia and Rawanda were massive genocide occured as the UN stood by incapable of acting due to it's own inertia.
Uhh.. right. Because war is so much like managing the internet. Why didn't I see this before?
The UN has never been held accoutable for the failures of it's breaucrats not will it admit any failures or shortcomings. Just the group that should be incharge of the ineternet.
Just an observation: a similar statement can be made about the US.
Why should I pay for internet access for some dirt poor ass backwards country? I pay 55 USD a month for my internet access in a first world country with little fraud or government kleptroacy. I should pay for some 3rd workld nation where all that money can be stolen and the access censored? Not in your wettest dreams will I agree to such a thing.
Rest assured, America (assuming you are American here) always underpays their UN membership dues anyway. Even if the US was the only country that existed in this universe, a poor person somewhere is benefiting from your tax money, whether it be in public roads, social security, education or the internet, but I hope you won't lose sleep over this.
ICANN is a semi-private company right now. If the UN keeps an eye on ICANN instead of the US Gov., it can still operate with the efficiencies / inefficiencies of ICANN, plus be fairer internationally. However, this is very wild speculation, as the article gave no details about what UN will do if they were to be in charge, not the US. As of yet there is very little meat to base relevant discussions off of, hence the low signal-to-noise ratio in the comments for this article.