Too bad. It'd look totally badass with the aa... Unpronounceable deity/mythical creature names are much more terrifying.
Not that I'm a conspiricy theorist, but what if someone at Intel was thinking.. hmm.. maybe we'll sponsor the dominant distribution for ARM platforms but give it a name that non-geeks will think is sissy.
He said his kids were doing a unit, not that he was teaching astronomy.
Not to mention that "hasn't yet" is different than "can't"
He's looking for resources, and hopefully he'll get the amateur community amateurs involved.
Sure, there's stuff wrong with American education. But don't anonymously jump on an individual member you don't know and rag on him for "can't use telescope" when all you know is that he "hasn't yet used telescope" It's just not nice.
Yes Yes Yes!!
And I'll bet local means up to 100 miles... amateurs are used to traveling for dark skies, they'll travel to share the hobby with kids.
I would.. of course, now I have kids, which means, I don't go anywhere!
Seeing Jupiters moons MOVE is a huge thing.
Maybe you could have each kid draw where they see the moons when they look thru the telescope.
Then let them cycle thru again. If you've got an hour or so, the moons will visibly move.
Definately see if you've got any active amateur astronomy clubs in the area. Amateurs love to come out and show kids the sky, and the fact that we build our own equipment is in of itself an inspiration for some kids.
A lot of amateurs are used to making long trips for night skies, I'm sure if you're 100mi from any major population, I'm sure you'll be able to get somebody to come out.
OOXML.. I'm a regular user of Openoffice. I'm pretty interested in it succeeding, and was pretty aware of the OOXML v. ODF issues a year ago. And still, when I saw the title of this article, my first thought for 10 seconds was... oh shit.. they're ditching Openoffice in Scandanavia!
Almost like someone deliberately named OOXML to create a little confusion, isn't it?
What I want to know about this is why Intel sold off the StrongARM line... a few years ago, weren't these the fastest ARMs on the planet?
Was it a case of "not invented here?"
Use well trained dogs.
Not only can dogs be trained to smell very minute quanties of just about anything, they also can smell fear and nervousness. And the presence of a dog is going to make a would be terrorist nervous.
Trouble is, dogs don't make money for defense oriented companies pushing cat scans and fancy sniffer machines which may or may not work.
I fixed a friend's Westinghouse brand flat panel a few months ago. It quit about 1 month past the warranty period. Problem was a power supply output capacitor had blown.
Overrating capacitors in switchmode supplies is a pretty good way to get short life out of a product... I lost all respect for Westinghouse that day, not that it matters that much.
Reason I bring this up, is that with switchmode power supplies, and cheap manufacturers, there's a lot of potential for failures after around 1-2 years... 1-2 years in a marginally designed product may actually be at the end of the bathtub. Not what you might expect from electronics, after the last 20 years.. where if something ran for 1 year, it'd run forever.
I sadly expect that the new washers and dryers and fridges and TVs, will not last like your old washers and dryers and fridges and TVs.
That doesn't mean the extended warranty isn't a ripoff.. they can weasel out, they make the interest on the money, and your time in doing whatever to get it back to them or the store and explain the problem is valuable. I never buy extended warranties myself.
Packaging large amounts of vacuum in incandescent lamps and CRTs increases the concentration of air we've got to breath if we're not living in a lamp or CRT.
Switching to these so-called green technologies could see us run out of air!!!
Provisional patents don't require or include claims. Just a description. I've written 3.
The only thing is, to actually use the provisional to back up a real patent app later, the description in the provisional must support the claims in the actual patent application.
Yes, might also be nice to have a launch site with a little less humidity than...
Florida, so anything with liquid H2/O2 doesn't turn into a big icicle before launch.
The Atacama desert plains in Chile come to mind. But then, there's not many Florida voters down there.
Maybe these guys just didn't want to infect their own computers at home. At work, there's an IT staff to clean up the mess.
Screw up the puter at home, you have to admit to your 12 year old you've been looking at naughty sites and get him to reinstall windows.
Thinking of this from Microsoft's perspective, it's a little bit of code inserted into their browser runtime... eventually, version by version, this grows in functionality and features and eats its way outward, taking over more and more of what IE was doing. Then Google comes out and says: Hey, you don't need this little shell of IE to start up the browser internals we gave you.
There's a lot of people who've been burnt by a crummy on-motherboard RAID that will never touch it again. I've never been burnt by a regular disk failure. I've been seriously burnt by a on-motherboard RAID on a client's machine that went south. I had pretty recent backups, the real time sink was spending 14 hrs trying all sorts of stuff to rebuild the RAID, instead of 5hrs replacing a drive, rebuilding the system and recovering about 1/2 hr of programming.
I'll never touch RAID, although I'm sure there's good controllers out there.
If I needed 24/7 disk, with second-by-second guaranteed no dataloss, I'd hire someone to set it up and support it. I'll never touch a RAID again.
My biggest concern is what happens with OpenOffice?
As a Linux-on-desktop user, I am dependent on it. It is a critical ap for me.
OpenOffice could finally break the hegemony of MS Office, if it's not screwed up. I know a few people who are now using it on Windows, by choice, not necessity. But if it's screwed up, it's over.
I hope Ellison sees this as his chance to really stick it to Microsoft. I hope he retains and rewards the existing development team, and starts cleaning and optimizing the existing code base, and if needed dedicates additional manpower and resources. I hope Oracle's capable of doing this without screwing it up.
Apple is all about CONTROL of the user experience.. can't blame them for that and it works for the masses, (and makes me money as a shareholder,) but it makes my life hard sometimes. I run a linux desk at work and a Mac at home... and Openoffice (for me..) is nothing but trouble on the Mac. I finally downloaded Neooffice, it's a bit better. I was wondering the other day why they came up with Iwork, and didn't just improve Openoffice for Mac... Then I realized that they CONTROL Iwork... not Openoffice.
Sun's always shining somewhere on this planet. An HVDC network could connect the planet east to west... from Siberia, Europe, over to Greenland, Canada, Alaska, back to Siberia, with power plants on every continent. Have feeds down to the southern continents to feed them and get power in the N hemisphere's winter months. Generation could be wind or solar.
HVDC is expensive, but it's technology we have now. All this could be done without one iota of new science. (not that new science is bad, it's just unpredictable)
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And do what? Change a bunch of idiotic consumers who are propping up their economy into angry non-consumers with guns?
We have cat5 and they're worthless. They pee on my stuff, don't guard the house and require expensive stinky canned food.
Not that I'm a conspiricy theorist, but what if someone at Intel was thinking.. hmm.. maybe we'll sponsor the dominant distribution for ARM platforms but give it a name that non-geeks will think is sissy.
How much damage will have to occur before that point? I feel like we've been at Sept 10th for awhile in terms of information security.
What is going to happen after that damage occurs??
He said his kids were doing a unit, not that he was teaching astronomy. Not to mention that "hasn't yet" is different than "can't" He's looking for resources, and hopefully he'll get the amateur community amateurs involved. Sure, there's stuff wrong with American education. But don't anonymously jump on an individual member you don't know and rag on him for "can't use telescope" when all you know is that he "hasn't yet used telescope" It's just not nice.
Yes Yes Yes!! And I'll bet local means up to 100 miles... amateurs are used to traveling for dark skies, they'll travel to share the hobby with kids. I would.. of course, now I have kids, which means, I don't go anywhere!
Seeing Jupiters moons MOVE is a huge thing. Maybe you could have each kid draw where they see the moons when they look thru the telescope. Then let them cycle thru again. If you've got an hour or so, the moons will visibly move. Definately see if you've got any active amateur astronomy clubs in the area. Amateurs love to come out and show kids the sky, and the fact that we build our own equipment is in of itself an inspiration for some kids. A lot of amateurs are used to making long trips for night skies, I'm sure if you're 100mi from any major population, I'm sure you'll be able to get somebody to come out.
OOXML.. I'm a regular user of Openoffice. I'm pretty interested in it succeeding, and was pretty aware of the OOXML v. ODF issues a year ago. And still, when I saw the title of this article, my first thought for 10 seconds was... oh shit.. they're ditching Openoffice in Scandanavia! Almost like someone deliberately named OOXML to create a little confusion, isn't it?
Maybe NASA is hidebound, and Corporate America can get us there faster. But I'd like something to take a little national pride in.
Hopefully some of our tech-billionaires will step up to the plate.
Yes, but they're very educated asses, with a lot of PhDs, and a noble pedigree and reputation for inventing the transistor, etc, etc.
What I want to know about this is why Intel sold off the StrongARM line... a few years ago, weren't these the fastest ARMs on the planet? Was it a case of "not invented here?"
Use well trained dogs. Not only can dogs be trained to smell very minute quanties of just about anything, they also can smell fear and nervousness. And the presence of a dog is going to make a would be terrorist nervous. Trouble is, dogs don't make money for defense oriented companies pushing cat scans and fancy sniffer machines which may or may not work.
Overrating capacitors in switchmode supplies is a pretty good way to get short life out of a product... I lost all respect for Westinghouse that day, not that it matters that much.
Reason I bring this up, is that with switchmode power supplies, and cheap manufacturers, there's a lot of potential for failures after around 1-2 years... 1-2 years in a marginally designed product may actually be at the end of the bathtub. Not what you might expect from electronics, after the last 20 years.. where if something ran for 1 year, it'd run forever.
I sadly expect that the new washers and dryers and fridges and TVs, will not last like your old washers and dryers and fridges and TVs.
That doesn't mean the extended warranty isn't a ripoff.. they can weasel out, they make the interest on the money, and your time in doing whatever to get it back to them or the store and explain the problem is valuable. I never buy extended warranties myself.
Packaging large amounts of vacuum in incandescent lamps and CRTs increases the concentration of air we've got to breath if we're not living in a lamp or CRT.
Switching to these so-called green technologies could see us run out of air!!!
hahaha my thoughts exactly, and we had an Apple 2e...
The only thing is, to actually use the provisional to back up a real patent app later, the description in the provisional must support the claims in the actual patent application.
haha... I don't have my glasses on and read this as "Ubuntu is that needy chick"
Yes, might also be nice to have a launch site with a little less humidity than... Florida, so anything with liquid H2/O2 doesn't turn into a big icicle before launch. The Atacama desert plains in Chile come to mind. But then, there's not many Florida voters down there.
Maybe these guys just didn't want to infect their own computers at home. At work, there's an IT staff to clean up the mess. Screw up the puter at home, you have to admit to your 12 year old you've been looking at naughty sites and get him to reinstall windows.
So yes, MS is afraid. And they should be.
I'll never touch RAID, although I'm sure there's good controllers out there.
If I needed 24/7 disk, with second-by-second guaranteed no dataloss, I'd hire someone to set it up and support it. I'll never touch a RAID again.
Anyways, here's hoping for the best.
As a Linux-on-desktop user, I am dependent on it. It is a critical ap for me.
OpenOffice could finally break the hegemony of MS Office, if it's not screwed up. I know a few people who are now using it on Windows, by choice, not necessity. But if it's screwed up, it's over.
I hope Ellison sees this as his chance to really stick it to Microsoft. I hope he retains and rewards the existing development team, and starts cleaning and optimizing the existing code base, and if needed dedicates additional manpower and resources. I hope Oracle's capable of doing this without screwing it up.
Apple is all about CONTROL of the user experience.. can't blame them for that and it works for the masses, (and makes me money as a shareholder,) but it makes my life hard sometimes. I run a linux desk at work and a Mac at home... and Openoffice (for me..) is nothing but trouble on the Mac. I finally downloaded Neooffice, it's a bit better. I was wondering the other day why they came up with Iwork, and didn't just improve Openoffice for Mac... Then I realized that they CONTROL Iwork... not Openoffice.
HVDC is expensive, but it's technology we have now. All this could be done without one iota of new science. (not that new science is bad, it's just unpredictable)