From the article: A 6-meter diameter ball on Mars could accelerate to about 10 m/s (22.4 mph) pushed along by Martian afternoon winds of 20 m/s (44.7 mph).
Well, you may be correct however I've heard it refered to as "punt". No doubt it changed forms at some point. Words have a tendancy to do that.
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To "punt" is also a term used in baseball. It means to hit the ball very softly so it lands shortly in front of you. You then try to make it to first base before anyone can reach the point where the ball landed. Because the ball only goes a short distance there is no chance that someone from the opposing team will catch it, scoring a point.
Yes, you are missing something. They have reached 6 billion items, only 4 billion of those are web pages, the rest are pictures, usenet messages, etc.
RTFA!
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Must be a civil war among the forces of evil!
Fortunately for us, they are offering a course to guide the unsecure masses.
The blind leading the seeing?
From the article: A 6-meter diameter ball on Mars could accelerate to about 10 m/s (22.4 mph) pushed along by Martian afternoon winds of 20 m/s (44.7 mph).
I think it just goes as fast as the wind blows. You can't control the speed (or direction for that matter).
Shouldn't that be: "All your hovercraft are belong to us eels"?
it's not the idea that's important.. it's how you present it.
Yup. It's all about marketing.
Am I the only one who saw "Purely *fictional* data structures"?
You've got mail! You've not got a job!
If you are transmitting images the production of which violated someone else's human rights, is that acceptable?
If the production of the images violated someones rights, then prosecture them for making the images. There's no need to outlaw transmitting them.
Don't both KDE, Gnome and Fluxbox have this too? In fact does anyone know of a window manager for Linux that doesn't have this feature?
How do you put a heatsink on backwards?
Hammer?
Not bad, but it's hard to beat: "Intel inside, idiot outside."
Well, you may be correct however I've heard it refered to as "punt". No doubt it changed forms at some point. Words have a tendancy to do that.
To "punt" is also a term used in baseball. It means to hit the ball very softly so it lands shortly in front of you. You then try to make it to first base before anyone can reach the point where the ball landed. Because the ball only goes a short distance there is no chance that someone from the opposing team will catch it, scoring a point.
I can't imagine what they'd fight against.
Pencils?
I, for one, welcome the return of our old Vogon overlords.
Maybe they'll be dumb enough to take the robot too so you can track them with it.
kinda like buying something from apple
You just compared Apple with SCO and got modded +3, Informative. Nice one!
Yes, you are missing something. They have reached 6 billion items, only 4 billion of those are web pages, the rest are pictures, usenet messages, etc. RTFA!
From the front page of Google: (C)2004 Google - Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages
Am I missing something here? Or is the above mentioned integrity indeed gone?
They're not based on english, really:
They are however based on, or atleast closely tied to, the latin alphabet. Try giving the example you just gave, in, say, chinese.
Slashdot editors don't read the articles?
Read the article? That's crazy talk!
Now the big question is: who to clone?
Me, of course. I'm perfect in every way.
...or does X both make you lonely and make you want to use the internet?
So if you patch YOUR kernel and/or roll YOUR own network stack, then you could be vulnerable to a remote attack.
No, your attacker has to patch his linux kernel or roll his own network stack in order to crash you. You don't have to do a thing. RTFS!