It doesn't seem like it's being put into orbit high enough to avoid this kind of damage. Obviously they thought of this... are the holes inconsequential?
Pretty much. The material is so thin, holes made by space debris won't be larger than the debris itself, and most of the stuff up there is sandgrain size or smaller. Given the size of the sail, a bajillion pinholes won't reduce the effective area much.
I've spent around $2000 on my computer. I use it to watch TV and DVDs -- I don't watch enough of either to justify a standalone player. As a side benefit, I can use the TV tuner card as an FM radio. I use it as a music player because it's cheaper to rip a batch of CDs to FLAC than to buy a player that can handle 50 CDs at once. My computer doesn't double as a phone -- yet.
It's an Athlon XP. I'm tempted to take convergence to the extreme and use it to fry an egg.
This one seems to be invading most of the social MMOGs. It's definitely been spotted in SecondLife and The Sims Online, and I suspect there's a Gorean group in There.
Perhaps you'd like to offer some insight as to how to go about achieving this. I routinely cash out vacation I had no time or inclination to take during the year. Not because I don't want to take it, but because I can't afford to be away from the job for more than 7 days at a time.
Are you really that indispensable? What would happen if you got hit by a truck and had to spend a couple of months in the hospital?
I want to know what sort of screwup the user did -- I ran an unpatched Win98 box unprotected on a dialup connection for almost four years without any problems.
(Well, almost no problems. Any time I tried to visit Windows Update, the computer would crash.)
Not in second grade, but my fifth grade class had some fun learning about additive vs subtractive color mixing (and other topics, like trying to align the output from three overhead projectors to produce one image)
If the original signal was RGBCMY, yes. The technology described in the article is a combination of an RGBCMY screen and a filter to "create" CMY data from the RGB data.
but it is true, if I was _paying_ I wouldn't want to bother with p2p since I'm already _paying_ for it I could easily pay the cent or two that would go into the necessary bandwith to get it from the centralised server and certainly wouldn't bother with donating bandwith to their business volunteraly.
It's more than "a cent or two". Server bandwidth runs around $1/GB, so Doom3 would probably cost $1.50 to download.
I could see a program that does the engineering at the fertilized egg level. If you design your athletes before they're born, it could be almost impossible to detect.
Actually, timezone differences are irrelevant at this point. The first competitions of the 2004 Olympics began on Wednesday, with a number of soccer matches.
All of these i386 instructions do the same thing, but they've got different binary representations. If you encode your information by which instruction you use, you can hide the message without changing filesize or functionality.
Many executable formats include unused space for alignment purposes. For example, I've been working on a Mach-O equivalent of the super-tiny ELF executable mentioned a few days back. The executable produced by GCC includes 300 bytes of code and headers, and 8000 bytes of padding.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. Apparently, he died of an overdose of SCO Astroturfing. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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Now, how can I fit something about Natalie Portman, hot grits, and SCO Astroturf in here?
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Recently, someone was talking about "popup ads", and it took me a moment to remember what they were talking about.
"Quite some time ago"? It's been less than two months!
It doesn't seem like it's being put into orbit high enough to avoid this kind of damage. Obviously they thought of this... are the holes inconsequential?
Pretty much. The material is so thin, holes made by space debris won't be larger than the debris itself, and most of the stuff up there is sandgrain size or smaller. Given the size of the sail, a bajillion pinholes won't reduce the effective area much.
I guess I'm at the other extreme.
I've spent around $2000 on my computer. I use it to watch TV and DVDs -- I don't watch enough of either to justify a standalone player. As a side benefit, I can use the TV tuner card as an FM radio. I use it as a music player because it's cheaper to rip a batch of CDs to FLAC than to buy a player that can handle 50 CDs at once. My computer doesn't double as a phone -- yet.
It's an Athlon XP. I'm tempted to take convergence to the extreme and use it to fry an egg.
Gor. Adult only.
This one seems to be invading most of the social MMOGs. It's definitely been spotted in SecondLife and The Sims Online, and I suspect there's a Gorean group in There.
Anyone know about Disney's Toontown?
Worst movie I've ever seen? Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace. Of course, that's probably because I don't watch very many movies.
Perhaps you'd like to offer some insight as to how to go about achieving this. I routinely cash out vacation I had no time or inclination to take during the year. Not because I don't want to take it, but because I can't afford to be away from the job for more than 7 days at a time.
Are you really that indispensable? What would happen if you got hit by a truck and had to spend a couple of months in the hospital?
I want to know what sort of screwup the user did -- I ran an unpatched Win98 box unprotected on a dialup connection for almost four years without any problems.
(Well, almost no problems. Any time I tried to visit Windows Update, the computer would crash.)
Not in second grade, but my fifth grade class had some fun learning about additive vs subtractive color mixing (and other topics, like trying to align the output from three overhead projectors to produce one image)
If the original signal was RGBCMY, yes. The technology described in the article is a combination of an RGBCMY screen and a filter to "create" CMY data from the RGB data.
but it is true, if I was _paying_ I wouldn't want to bother with p2p since I'm already _paying_ for it I could easily pay the cent or two that would go into the necessary bandwith to get it from the centralised server and certainly wouldn't bother with donating bandwith to their business volunteraly.
It's more than "a cent or two". Server bandwidth runs around $1/GB, so Doom3 would probably cost $1.50 to download.
I could see a program that does the engineering at the fertilized egg level. If you design your athletes before they're born, it could be almost impossible to detect.
Actually, timezone differences are irrelevant at this point. The first competitions of the 2004 Olympics began on Wednesday, with a number of soccer matches.
Once a football team fields a goalie the exact height and width of the goal, we may see some outcry.
No, the outcry won't begin until an American football team does that.
3DLabs makes cards with 512MB, but those are $3000+ workstation cards.
Well, yeah, they're not quite all equivalent in all situations.
I saw an online Minesweeper replacement somewhere. Only worked with Mozilla, though.
without changing file sizes... let me stick my pirated version of War and Piece in my Hello world application.
Have you seen the size of executable the latest Microsoft compilers produce for something as simple as "Hello World"? You almost could.
inc ax
add ax, 1
add al, 1
inc eax
add eax, 1
All of these i386 instructions do the same thing, but they've got different binary representations. If you encode your information by which instruction you use, you can hide the message without changing filesize or functionality.
Many executable formats include unused space for alignment purposes. For example, I've been working on a Mach-O equivalent of the super-tiny ELF executable mentioned a few days back. The executable produced by GCC includes 300 bytes of code and headers, and 8000 bytes of padding.
In Soviet Russia, Astroturf SCO You!
... Stephen King, dead at 54
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1) Astroturf
2) ???
3) PROFIT!
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Netcraft confirms: SCO is Astroturfing!
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Sad news
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. Apparently, he died of an overdose of SCO Astroturfing. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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Now, how can I fit something about Natalie Portman, hot grits, and SCO Astroturf in here?
1) Internet Explorer
2) Norton Anti-virus
3) Popup blocker
4) Outlook Express
or
1) MS Works
2) Media player
3) Calculator
4) Minesweeper
or
1) CoolWebSearch
2) WeatherBug
3) Gator
4) anything
I don't know if it's my monitor or what, but for me, games.slashdot.org has one of the best color schemes on Slashdot.
Why not use the correct acronym? It's "POS system"
The main branch in my city has 50 terminals: 33 catalog-only and 17 fully-functional internet terminals.