The Voyagers belong somewhere in the top of the list with the most amazing machines ever developed by humans.
Every time I see the "Interesting Facts about the Voyager Mission" page [1] and "Fast Facts" page [2] at NASA's JPL, I am just amazed that this was achieved with technology from the early '70s!
I often find myself wishing that I was born earlier and that I was part of the team of man and women who pushed so many of our frontiers so much further then ever before.
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I do have to note though that when trying to whitelist a website I am viewing at that very moment, the extension does crash my browser every now and then. It might be something on my machine though! Anyway, with FireFox being able to restore sessions now, I find it a 'must have' extension to block out those CPU-consuming flash movies. I truly hate them
Using a kill-a-watt-like device I've actually learned that a particular lamp in my house, a 40W model, used 23W in stand-by mode!
I'd tend to think that just a small IR receiver would not use a lot of energy, but looking at the lamp and learning the amount of influence of a bad transformer I trust nothing anymore until I've measured it.
"There was a video about such a person on YouTube, but I can't seem to find it. He not only read at an incredible rate, but also could do calculations extremely quickly and reproduce entire landscapes. His brain has yet to get 'full'."
When I read that it only works under XP and Vista, the first thought that I had was actually that, instead of Ironkey, they should have called it Irony;P
Man made greenhouse or not, let's not forget that the exhaust fumes of non-electric cars are not very good for the human body either. So greenhouse or not, why not use our technological skills as a species to be able to move around and have cities without smog warnings?!?
Zooming around cities in a quick, quiet and clean vehicle is awesome!:D
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The Voyagers belong somewhere in the top of the list with the most amazing machines ever developed by humans.
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Every time I see the "Interesting Facts about the Voyager Mission" page [1] and "Fast Facts" page [2] at NASA's JPL, I am just amazed that this was achieved with technology from the early '70s!
I often find myself wishing that I was born earlier and that I was part of the team of man and women who pushed so many of our frontiers so much further then ever before.
*raises glass*
To the Voyagers! [3]
[1] http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/didyouknow.ht
[2] http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/fastfacts.htm
[3] Voyager 1 will celebrate it's 30th anniversary on september 5th, so let's celebrate both achievements
I know all too well what you're describing. Quite a bit of relief is found in the following Firefox extension:
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
This extension replaces flash movies/objects with a button you can click to view them. You can also whitelist certain websites (e.g. YouTube) to always show the flash movie directly.
I do have to note though that when trying to whitelist a website I am viewing at that very moment, the extension does crash my browser every now and then. It might be something on my machine though! Anyway, with FireFox being able to restore sessions now, I find it a 'must have' extension to block out those CPU-consuming flash movies. I truly hate them
Intially I read "gurls gone wild" while scrolling down the page.
/. with a sleepy head full of wishful thoughts...
Then I remembered that I was reading
They would be Dead in the Water
I don't think this is "something incredibly humane", but rather an option which is preferred to shooting at protesters in your own country.
I really don't think that this is something that has been developed for usage overseas.
Soon evil doers will start the warrr on evil colors! :D
Your post is rated funny, but based on experience I'm actually thinking that insightful would be better. ;o
;)
I also would like to present an anecdote from someone else as exhibit A:
http://www.bash.org/?420855
Awesome! Thank you once more for the extra information. Very nice!!
"... with another living person."
;p
There, just to be sure. There are a lot of strange people surfin' round on the intarweb
My compliments to you for using such a quote as a stepping stone for some great information! :)
Very interesting bit of information you're sharing in your post. Did some searching based on it and I found a nice video on YouTube because of it:
Donna Eden's "Energy Routine":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1H7jFsJME
Thanks again!
(mods: please mod up the parent!)
Using a kill-a-watt-like device I've actually learned that a particular lamp in my house, a 40W model, used 23W in stand-by mode!
I'd tend to think that just a small IR receiver would not use a lot of energy, but looking at the lamp and learning the amount of influence of a bad transformer I trust nothing anymore until I've measured it.
Stephen Wiltshire perhaps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVqRT_kCOLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95L-zmIBGd4
When I read that it only works under XP and Vista, the first thought that I had was actually that, instead of Ironkey, they should have called it Irony ;P
Get ready for the movie hit of 2007: Sticks on a Plane! xD
Oh I completely agree. I've cycled 15km to work and back for almost a decade (even during harsh winters).
But when you need to transport more weight than, say, two decent shopping bags it quickly becomes less practical.
Man made greenhouse or not, let's not forget that the exhaust fumes of non-electric cars are not very good for the human body either. So greenhouse or not, why not use our technological skills as a species to be able to move around and have cities without smog warnings?!?
:D
Zooming around cities in a quick, quiet and clean vehicle is awesome!
and then a too generally worded amendment will cause a ban on all ATM machines. Great! ;P
There are FOUR LIGHTS!
(ST:TNG - Chain of Command, Part II)
Did you know that you can learn a radically different language while excersizing? ;D xD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmbsSw81Uww
And suddenly it started calling! It was, like, Beep, beep, beep, beep!
for friend in friends:
for x in range(0,100):
send_sms(friend, "Let the snake be your teacher!")
Ah,..Pure Python joy(tm) >:P
According to their lyrics, they preferred a yellow submarine
True, true!
And how many people here knew for example that up to 70 percent of university students in Iran are female?
Also interesting:
"Chronicling the adventures of an American outside Tehran with guest appearances from her Iranian husband."
http://www.viewfromiran.blogspot.com/
Finally I understand why all those "Last longer.." e-mails are sent from Africa!
If copper is removes so fast again.. would fiber not be an alternative? Perhaps creating a new acronym in the process: FTTS. - Fiber To The Safari? ;)