This work was supported by NASA's Maryland Space Grant Consortium.
I could think of a few dozen better things for NASA to spend its money on. And another quote from the same page.
The economic benefit that astronomers could provide the world through shepherding this simple reform would easily and indeed more than repay all that the world has kindly spent on astronomical research.
You forgot that this is Star Trek where reality and the laws of phyics don't apply, where f = mv, not f = ma.
If the writers wanted to do it they could have could have come up with some drivel about an inverse tachyon force field that Wesley invented at the Academy. It would have been no less plausable that a lof of other stuff they did.
In spite of all that, I do like the series in general.
The parent is not a troll. As I ReplayTV owner, I'm trying a humorous way to tell TiVo owners why I think ReplayTV is better. I'm sorry if it comes across harsh. That's the trouble with text.
I'm not the originator of these types of complaints. I heard these complaints from TiVo owners themselves. I was part of the distributed computing approach to crack the key in the 3.2 release of TiVo, including working on software updates just before the project was cancelled. Read the posts on the site for yourself. I helped even though I'd didn't have a TiVo.
ReplayTV owners believe they have a better system and are often irritated that TiVo gets all the attention. It seems like its Betamax vs VHS again.
1. Why are you using the fast-forward button? Why not use the commercial-skipping forward button? What do you mean TiVo don't have one?
2. Okay then, why not use skip-ahead 30 seconds button or random-access? Oh, TiVo doesn't have that either.
This is why I have a ReplayTV. Actually, I have two of them. I can skip commercials with a single button press. This works 90% of the time. Also, I can skip ahead or back any amount or go any point in a program instantly. Plus, a lot more.
Slate was slashdotted while the story was in preview. Here is the first bit of it:
The first wave of exit-poll data reaching my desk comes from a variety of sources. In some states the sources disagree about the specific margin by which a candidate leads, but never about which candidate is out in front. Some of the confusion may stem from the mixing of morning exit-poll numbers with early afternoon numbers. With those provisos and the understanding that the early numbers are predictive of nothing without their accompanying computer model, here's what I've heard:
Florida Kerry 50 Bush 49
Ohio Kerry 50 Bush 49
Pennsylvania Kerry 54 Bush 45
Wisconsin Kerry 51 Bush 46
Michigan Kerry 51 Bush 47
Minnesota Kerry 58 Bush 40
Nevada Kerry 48 Bush 50
New Mexico Kerry 50 Bush 48
North Carolina Kerry 49 Bush 51
Colorado Kerry 46 Bush 53
Other exit-poll results have arrived in more vague form, with Kerry leading Bush in New Hampshire but trailing him in Arizona and Louisiana.
For an explanation of why Slate is posting exit-poll numbers, see the previous post, below.... 12:15 p.m. PT
Read my original post and you will see that I offered no opinion on which of the two is more evil. I have an opinion, but that was not stated in the post or is it stated here because that was not what my post was about. The only purpose of the post was to state a fact about deaths under Saddam Hussein.
BTW, I can taste the difference in Coke and Pepsi. I prefer Pepsi, but I really don't care. My wife, however, is very sensitive to the difference. When she was pregnant even the smell of Pepsi would make her nauseated, but Coke was fine.
However, I think most people don't know the difference. When Coke came out with New Coke many people complained bitterly. The leading crusader for the switch back to "Old Coke" was Gay Mullins. However, when given a taste test with Coke, New Coke and Pepsi, he chose PEPSI! When given a second chance, he said he could not tell which he liked best. In his case, it apparently was "all in his mind." The only reference I could find quickly on this is this usenet post.
What fascist tendencies? I stated a fact about how many people died under Saddam Hussein. I did not draw any conclusions from it. I did not say "George Bush: not as evil as Saddam". Since when does stating facts make a person a fascist?
The purpose of my post was not to say the numbers are accurate or inaccurate, whether 100,000 dead was acceptable, or whether one action justifies another. That sort of thing cannot be discussed intelligently in a few sentences.
The purpose of my post was to place the story in context and give additional facts not mentioned. An informed discussion needs all of the facts.
The story forgot to mention the other side. According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Iraq, 600,000 civilians were executed during Sadaam Hussein's regime.
From The Age (Google cache to skip registration): We have records of 600,000 executions and we estimate that 180,000 died in the uprising including the Marsh Arabs. The bombing of Halabja left 5000 dead," Mr al-Huoseyni said.
Like the posting said, make sure you vote--just like the people in Iraq finally had a chance to.
The links on the webpage open pop-up windows to show the video. You can't right click and save the files. I did a little right-clicking and source viewing and found the URLs of the actual files.
If someone is only going to vote because of the long-shot chance of winning a lot of money, do you really want that person to help decide the future of our country?
If someone is not motivated to participate by civic duty, the country is better off without their participation. Why are we interesting in 100% voter participation in voting? We need 100% participation in concern and consideration about our country/state/city. Bribing someone to vote does not remove apathy, it highlights it.
I asked myself this question about a year ago. I spent less than an hour researching, but I decided that UltraVNC seemed the best. It seemed to have the most features and be the most up to date. It has the best features of the others.
From UltraVNC's old FAQUltr@VNC is an enhanced VNC distribution, for Win32 platforms only (for now). It's based on RealVNC, features TightVNC smart cursor handling and encoding, almost all the special functionalities that can be found in eSVNC and Vdacc-VNC, and a LOT more.
Plus, at the time it was the only one with 128 bit encryption (via a plug-in) and still might be. The encryption not only protects the data in transit, it also acts as a second password. You can run the others through SSH, but the plug-in makes in integrated into UltraVNC.
I have put two monitors on several systems I use (home, work, church a/v) and have found it increases productivity and usefulness.
I did it the cheap way. I used whatever extra video card I have laying around, usually PCI, and whatever monitor I had laying around, often the smaller screen I upgraded from. Since I had this stuff available, the cost was $0.
In Excel, I use one monitor for the worksheet and one for the VBA code I am writing. In PowerPoint, I use one monitor to display a slideshow and one for better control of it. For web development, I use one for the page in my browser and one for the code. The possibilities are endless for many applications. But, for just word processing, it is not nearly as useful.
Slashdot Mirror
Or, if you prefer, they are now at 1 in 1,000,000.
Has anyone else looked closely at the 1/45 URL?
Yes, you are right. I missed that in checking my typing. Does sort of change the whole meaning of the sentence, doesn't it?
Also, a good website about calendar reform in general.
This work was supported by NASA's Maryland Space Grant Consortium.
I could think of a few dozen better things for NASA to spend its money on. And another quote from the same page.
The economic benefit that astronomers could provide the world through shepherding this simple reform would easily and indeed more than repay all that the world has kindly spent on astronomical research.
Sorry, that should have been "Congratulations on getting 6 of 8!"
Thank you for submitting your idea for calendar reform. However, we must reject it for the following reasons:
- ( ) It changes the seven day week or adds days outside the week.
- ( ) It has a day or days that are not in a month causing problems for writing dates, etc.
- (X) It has an unusual number of months in all or some years making it hard to divide a year into quarters.
- (X) One or more months have significantly more or fewer days than the others causing problems for monthly fees, etc.
- (X) The number of days in a year varies greatly from some years to others.
- (X) Some months are only in certain years and therefore the number of months in a year varies from year to year.
- (X) The number of days between a date in one year and the next varies form year to year.
- (X) It makes people keep clock time that does match the daytime, i.e. sunrise at midnight or noon.
Congratulations on getting 5 out of 7!Knowing that the editors don't always read the previous day's stories before posting new ones makes me feel better when I miss a few stories.
You forgot that this is Star Trek where reality and the laws of phyics don't apply, where f = mv, not f = ma.
If the writers wanted to do it they could have could have come up with some drivel about an inverse tachyon force field that Wesley invented at the Academy. It would have been no less plausable that a lof of other stuff they did.
In spite of all that, I do like the series in general.
I'm not the originator of these types of complaints. I heard these complaints from TiVo owners themselves. I was part of the distributed computing approach to crack the key in the 3.2 release of TiVo, including working on software updates just before the project was cancelled. Read the posts on the site for yourself. I helped even though I'd didn't have a TiVo.
ReplayTV owners believe they have a better system and are often irritated that TiVo gets all the attention. It seems like its Betamax vs VHS again.
1. Why are you using the fast-forward button? Why not use the commercial-skipping forward button? What do you mean TiVo don't have one?
2. Okay then, why not use skip-ahead 30 seconds button or random-access? Oh, TiVo doesn't have that either.
This is why I have a ReplayTV. Actually, I have two of them. I can skip commercials with a single button press. This works 90% of the time. Also, I can skip ahead or back any amount or go any point in a program instantly. Plus, a lot more.
Also, check out the ReplayTV forum at AVSForum
Zogby has already called it for Kerry 311 to 213.
Early results/predictions are interesting, but that's all.
Election results: early or accurate, pick one.
Slate was slashdotted while the story was in preview. Here is the first bit of it:
... 12:15 p.m. PT
The first wave of exit-poll data reaching my desk comes from a variety of sources. In some states the sources disagree about the specific margin by which a candidate leads, but never about which candidate is out in front. Some of the confusion may stem from the mixing of morning exit-poll numbers with early afternoon numbers. With those provisos and the understanding that the early numbers are predictive of nothing without their accompanying computer model, here's what I've heard:
Florida
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Ohio
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Pennsylvania
Kerry 54
Bush 45
Wisconsin
Kerry 51
Bush 46
Michigan
Kerry 51
Bush 47
Minnesota
Kerry 58
Bush 40
Nevada
Kerry 48
Bush 50
New Mexico
Kerry 50
Bush 48
North Carolina
Kerry 49
Bush 51
Colorado
Kerry 46
Bush 53
Other exit-poll results have arrived in more vague form, with Kerry leading Bush in New Hampshire but trailing him in Arizona and Louisiana.
For an explanation of why Slate is posting exit-poll numbers, see the previous post, below.
Read my original post and you will see that I offered no opinion on which of the two is more evil. I have an opinion, but that was not stated in the post or is it stated here because that was not what my post was about. The only purpose of the post was to state a fact about deaths under Saddam Hussein.
BTW, I can taste the difference in Coke and Pepsi. I prefer Pepsi, but I really don't care. My wife, however, is very sensitive to the difference. When she was pregnant even the smell of Pepsi would make her nauseated, but Coke was fine.
However, I think most people don't know the difference. When Coke came out with New Coke many people complained bitterly. The leading crusader for the switch back to "Old Coke" was Gay Mullins. However, when given a taste test with Coke, New Coke and Pepsi, he chose PEPSI! When given a second chance, he said he could not tell which he liked best. In his case, it apparently was "all in his mind." The only reference I could find quickly on this is this usenet post.
What fascist tendencies? I stated a fact about how many people died under Saddam Hussein. I did not draw any conclusions from it. I did not say "George Bush: not as evil as Saddam". Since when does stating facts make a person a fascist?
My, but everyone certainly has a lot to say...
The purpose of my post was not to say the numbers are accurate or inaccurate, whether 100,000 dead was acceptable, or whether one action justifies another. That sort of thing cannot be discussed intelligently in a few sentences.
The purpose of my post was to place the story in context and give additional facts not mentioned. An informed discussion needs all of the facts.
From The Age (Google cache to skip registration): We have records of 600,000 executions and we estimate that 180,000 died in the uprising including the Marsh Arabs. The bombing of Halabja left 5000 dead," Mr al-Huoseyni said.
Like the posting said, make sure you vote--just like the people in Iraq finally had a chance to.
Sorry I left that out.
If someone is not motivated to participate by civic duty, the country is better off without their participation. Why are we interesting in 100% voter participation in voting? We need 100% participation in concern and consideration about our country/state/city. Bribing someone to vote does not remove apathy, it highlights it.
From UltraVNC's old FAQ Ultr@VNC is an enhanced VNC distribution, for Win32 platforms only (for now). It's based on RealVNC, features TightVNC smart cursor handling and encoding, almost all the special functionalities that can be found in eSVNC and Vdacc-VNC, and a LOT more.
Plus, at the time it was the only one with 128 bit encryption (via a plug-in) and still might be. The encryption not only protects the data in transit, it also acts as a second password. You can run the others through SSH, but the plug-in makes in integrated into UltraVNC.
Also, RealVNC now charges for their best version.
I have put two monitors on several systems I use (home, work, church a/v) and have found it increases productivity and usefulness.
I did it the cheap way. I used whatever extra video card I have laying around, usually PCI, and whatever monitor I had laying around, often the smaller screen I upgraded from. Since I had this stuff available, the cost was $0.
In Excel, I use one monitor for the worksheet and one for the VBA code I am writing. In PowerPoint, I use one monitor to display a slideshow and one for better control of it. For web development, I use one for the page in my browser and one for the code. The possibilities are endless for many applications. But, for just word processing, it is not nearly as useful.
It has been corrected now.
Perhaps /. will correct the error. I emailed the editor when the story was in preview, but it was too late.