No. Intonation is altered by changes in string length. The Performer changes tunings by adjusting the tension of the strings while keeping the string length constant.
They wouldn't want to use Starfox. The Firebird/Thunderbird duet were sometimes referred to as *bird, so now we just need Thunderbird to become Thunderfox (fear of Ford litigation?) and then we can use *fox to refer to the pair again.
Personally, I found that really easy to read except for "theory" - I had to read on and get the context to decipher that one - and "substitition". I also read "expect" instead of "except".
Now I've got me an account, I'm going to start keeping track of these weird and frequent occasions where the posts are coming in fairly randomly, then two people post the same thing within seconds:
Spirit not that impressive...?
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Check out Lunokhod, two Russian moon rovers from the early 1970s that drove around for months.
Not to bring down the Spirit guys or their great work, but their talk of pioneering 30cm moves sound a bit dull compared with Lunokhod, or the Pathfinder. Also look at the Russian Venera probes that managed to return images from the surface of Venus, at temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressures of 90 bar.
I think NASA have edited out the sky to a pale pink colour. Take a look at the 12MB full panorama, and see how the horizon suffers from the jaggies.
Don't feed me any rubbish about JPEG compression, because JPEG doesn't do that. The raw image from the camera should be naturally anti-aliased: where a boundary crosses a CCD pixel, that pixel will receive a weighted average of the light from either side of the boundary.
The sky is unexpectedly uniform over the entire panorama - where's the sun?
I'm sorry? Since when has belief in God been exclusive to the Bush administration's creationists?
There is no firm evidence for the non-existence of God, and therefore the use of common sense one way or the other doesn't really come into it. Many people, myself included, are totally convinced that God exists (in one form or another), and a good scientific grounding does not put that belief into question in the slightest.
Maybe you should question why you are so hostile to people's beliefs...?
This isn't to say I agree with the implication that God deliberately destroyed Beagle 2 but ensured Spirit's success because of their names.
Presto, the feds know who opend the mail how long they looked at it etc etc etc.
No, they know when it was accessed, the user's IP address and the identification supplied by the mail client. They don't know how long it was looked at - HTTP doesn't hold the connection open all the time the image is on the screen.
That argument works fine on Earth, where you could fall out of your ship, or get stranded on an island and live off the land. Mars has virtually no atmosphere (7mbar, only 0.15% oxygen), and the average temperature is -55degC. There is no potential for "living off the land" without serious engineering work. Man is fairly tough in his natural environment, but this is a whole new ball game.
Don't make the mistake of making "religion" an entity. Religion is not a corporation, it is the practical outworking of a faith.
If you want to have a go at the Catholic Church, why not do so directly rather than labelling them as "religion".
If I had the opportunity to remove a word from popular usage, I think "religion" would be first to go.
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The device adjusts tension, not length.
Such a device has already been proposed...
Perhaps you need to revise your control characters:
A Century of Flight spans multiple decad
isplays.
I first realised this was old when reading Linus's entry. He has three daughters these days.
Except that the cameras on the rover are only one megapixel. They just have very good lenses.
They wouldn't want to use Starfox. The Firebird/Thunderbird duet were sometimes referred to as *bird, so now we just need Thunderbird to become Thunderfox (fear of Ford litigation?) and then we can use *fox to refer to the pair again.
You're a loony.
OTOH, you'd probably appreciate this.
For example, there have only been 1026 nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 1075 atoms in the entire universe.
Mental note: <sup> doesn't work on /.
Personally, I found that really easy to read except for "theory" - I had to read on and get the context to decipher that one - and "substitition". I also read "expect" instead of "except".
Here's another:
Actually, no. This makes it even easier to prevent copyright infringement, its all about who controls the blacklists.
Actually, either - and you know perfectly well which way it will go. The amount of thievery that goes on and is actively encouraged makes me sick.
"Oh, but CDs/DVDs are so expensive, they're just a rip-off!" (not a quote from the parent comment)
Deal with it. Boycott or abstain, but overpricing doesn't give you any legal or moral right to steal.
Have a nice day.
I demand all slashdot postings to go through a plagarism checker!
It already has one, of sorts. I thought "wouldn't it be amusing to post exactly the same comment? yeah, that'd make those weak-minded /. fools rotfl."
So I tried, and got this:
This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...
I don't know what its scope is - comment, story or date level. I have better things to do than examine the slashcode.
Now I've got me an account, I'm going to start keeping track of these weird and frequent occasions where the posts are coming in fairly randomly, then two people post the same thing within seconds:
Check out Lunokhod, two Russian moon rovers from the early 1970s that drove around for months.
Not to bring down the Spirit guys or their great work, but their talk of pioneering 30cm moves sound a bit dull compared with Lunokhod, or the Pathfinder. Also look at the Russian Venera probes that managed to return images from the surface of Venus, at temperatures hot enough to melt lead and pressures of 90 bar.
I think NASA have edited out the sky to a pale pink colour. Take a look at the 12MB full panorama, and see how the horizon suffers from the jaggies.
Don't feed me any rubbish about JPEG compression, because JPEG doesn't do that. The raw image from the camera should be naturally anti-aliased: where a boundary crosses a CCD pixel, that pixel will receive a weighted average of the light from either side of the boundary.
The sky is unexpectedly uniform over the entire panorama - where's the sun?
Or, of course, non-inflammable, which means it doesn't go up in flames. and means the same as non-flammable, except it's a proper English word.
I could never watch Duel without getting annoyed by the large "FLAMMABLE" on the back of the truck.
I'm sorry? Since when has belief in God been exclusive to the Bush administration's creationists?
There is no firm evidence for the non-existence of God, and therefore the use of common sense one way or the other doesn't really come into it. Many people, myself included, are totally convinced that God exists (in one form or another), and a good scientific grounding does not put that belief into question in the slightest.
Maybe you should question why you are so hostile to people's beliefs...?
This isn't to say I agree with the implication that God deliberately destroyed Beagle 2 but ensured Spirit's success because of their names.
Please post pictures of your 40-pin SATA cable.
Hint: SATA == Serial ATA: two (?) pins.
PATA == Parallel ATA: 40 pins.
Presto, the feds know who opend the mail how long they looked at it etc etc etc.
No, they know when it was accessed, the user's IP address and the identification supplied by the mail client. They don't know how long it was looked at - HTTP doesn't hold the connection open all the time the image is on the screen.
The Indians sometimes write as at 1,00,000. If I remember rightly, there's also the crore, which is 100 lakh (or 10^7).
and people are tougher than you think.
That argument works fine on Earth, where you could fall out of your ship, or get stranded on an island and live off the land. Mars has virtually no atmosphere (7mbar, only 0.15% oxygen), and the average temperature is -55degC. There is no potential for "living off the land" without serious engineering work. Man is fairly tough in his natural environment, but this is a whole new ball game.
Don't make the mistake of making "religion" an entity. Religion is not a corporation, it is the practical outworking of a faith. If you want to have a go at the Catholic Church, why not do so directly rather than labelling them as "religion". If I had the opportunity to remove a word from popular usage, I think "religion" would be first to go.
Wait a couple of weeks, and you'll be able to buy the CPU that does the same job without the rack of noisy fridge.
You mean "Vorbis", not "Ogg". As has been pointed out many times, Ogg is the "container", and Vorbis is the audio codec.
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I assume this is what you meant?