Presumably you mean the male of this species . Lucky you: they are quite rare in the UK these days. Maybe they keep failing to breed because the Government database of Lekking times and places has been contracted out to EDS and been buried in some evil proprietory format.
Eris wept, I don't think I have ever achieved a more epic first post fail than that. There were no posts in the story when I hit "submit". But when I looked for my own post, it wasn't even on the first page and someone had even beaten me to the weak joke.
I just love Fucking in Austria.
The inhabitants of that town get very annoyed by English-speaking tourists photographihg themselves in front of the town's name. Quite unlike the town of Wank, Germany, where they are happy to sell you postcards with the name prominently featured.
I was coming from Slackware and apt-get seemed magical.
I was coming from being an ordinary user on Solaris systems. Installing Debian (from a stack of floppies!) and finding myself logged on as root was magical. I also have stuck with Debian ever since. It's just excellent. A huge cheer for the vast crowd of people who make it possible.
IANAL, but... My guess would be that public domain is actually quite simple. You forego copyright on your code, thereby placing it in the public domain. And then anyone can do whatever they like with it. I also guess that whoever wrote that pseudo-license on that (unlinked) NASA website had a very shaky understanding of both software licensing and of copyright law and has written something which is self-contradictory. If he wanted to retain some control over the code he should not have placed it in the public domain. By placing it in the public domain he has foregone any right to tell people what they can and can not do with it. (Can any actual copyright/licensing experts confirm my guesses?)
Please tell us how one would magically put their code into the public domain without first dying and then waiting a few decades. I think you can just release it with a statement that says something along the lines of "This software is public domain. I, the author, hereby forego any copyright on it." Or you could write it as part of your job while an employee of the United States government. There is a fair amount of numerical software that is public domain for that reason.
Step 5 (Get out your favorite high power firearm...) gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had this year.
The worrying thing is that if he is from the USA he probably does have a favourite high-power firearm.
This is indeed one of the most infuriating things about purchasing a new computer. How much money can it save? Surely the manufacturing cost of an optical disc produced in bulk is in the noise compared to producing and shipping a laptop? Heck, Canonical will ship you a disc with Ubuntu on for free, so it can't be that pricy.
Actually, perhaps the Linux zealot faction should welcome the "no OS discs" trend. Faced with a machine where you have had to replace the HDD, it is nowadays much easier to obtain and install Linux than to get your hands on the media from which to re-install Windows.
The jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/Foonly.html) states that the graphics in Tron were rendered not by a Burroughs mainframe, but by the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), a prototype for a future generation of the PDP-10. Wikipedia agrees.
There are no foreign equivalents.
This is less true than it was since the launch of Metop-A in 2006 to cover the morning polar sun-sync orbit. (An AC already noted this above.) Everything I have heard about NPOESS (the US programme to provide new weather satellites for the afternoon slot) is that it has been a huge trainwreck, with massive cost overruns and delays. Foreign governments do not fund much space activities other than subsidizing industry satellites, but those aren't very useful for science.
Eh? See above, and also Google for Envisat. Or even GoSat. And note that these are research missions, very different from NOAA K, L, M, NPOESS and MetOp, which are operational missions. It is a different (but not unconnected) story that there will be rather a gap in such research missions once the Envisat, Aura and SciSat-1 missions cone to an end.
One reason for actual home distilling being illegal is the fire risk. At least freeze distillation doesn't do that. I imagine that a double-strength hangover is bad, but less bad than a large air/vapour explosion. Mind you, without having tried it, I expect that the results of freeze distilling would taste neither pleasant, nor like beer.
Of the UK entries in this list, the first few are Hector (the national supercomputing facility), ECMWF, Universities, financial institutions etc. But there are also some labelled "Food industry". I wonder what I am eating that requires a supercomputer?
methane was a bad gas last week?
Still is if you release it into the atmosphere, especially if it came from somewhere where it has been locked up for centuries.
As fuel, though, it can be a good thing, especially if you got it by having some grass suck the carbon out of the air before using a cow to convert that carbon into an easily-usable form such as methane.
I noticed there's another large one in the waters between Ireland and Wales
That would be North Hoyle and Rhyl flats. The UK has an advantage when it comes to building these things: the seas around it are shallow. Texas may have a similar advantage actually, I'm not sure how deep the Gulf is. California is less lucky: the Pacific gets quite deep quite quickly as you head away from the shore.
[wind farms] do however kill sheep, the noise keeps them awake until they die
Care to give a citation for that? Sounds pretty odd to me. One sees sheep near railways, major roads, the sea etc, all of which make noise 24 hours of the day, with varying degrees of intermittency.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Well, in the UK a trailer has to have a plate on the back that matches that of the car that is towing it. But it is quite common to see trailers with two plates on: the regular owner's plate stuck on quite firmly and that of the bloke he lent it to tied on with a piece of string. I therefore anticipate a rash of incidents where a trailer gets lent to someone and the owner then gets a £50000 fine and 3000 points on his licence for exceeding the speed of sound in a built-up area.
My guess is that the GPS allows all the cameras on the system to have their clocks synchronised to the required level of accuracy. (GPS works by the satellites having atomic clocks on, after all). It may also provide accurate locations for each camera. Taken together with a digitised road map (to account for the fact that roads are not straight) you could then do the required calculation without having to measure the road distance between each pair of cameras.
Either you are trolling (in which case consider me hooked) or you need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine in order to get what the posts above here are talking about.
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Presumably you mean the male of this species . Lucky you: they are quite rare in the UK these days. Maybe they keep failing to breed because the Government database of Lekking times and places has been contracted out to EDS and been buried in some evil proprietory format.
Eris wept, I don't think I have ever achieved a more epic first post fail than that. There were no posts in the story when I hit "submit". But when I looked for my own post, it wasn't even on the first page and someone had even beaten me to the weak joke.
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Beethoven symphony! (I for one do actually welcome our new free-music-producing overlords).
I just love Fucking in Austria.
The inhabitants of that town get very annoyed by English-speaking tourists photographihg themselves in front of the town's name. Quite unlike the town of Wank, Germany, where they are happy to sell you postcards with the name prominently featured.
I was coming from Slackware and apt-get seemed magical.
I was coming from being an ordinary user on Solaris systems. Installing Debian (from a stack of floppies!) and finding myself logged on as root was magical. I also have stuck with Debian ever since. It's just excellent. A huge cheer for the vast crowd of people who make it possible.
IANAL, but ... My guess would be that public domain is actually quite simple. You forego copyright on your code, thereby placing it in the public domain. And then anyone can do whatever they like with it. I also guess that whoever wrote that pseudo-license on that (unlinked) NASA website had a very shaky understanding of both software licensing and of copyright law and has written something which is self-contradictory. If he wanted to retain some control over the code he should not have placed it in the public domain. By placing it in the public domain he has foregone any right to tell people what they can and can not do with it. (Can any actual copyright/licensing experts confirm my guesses?)
Please tell us how one would magically put their code into the public domain without first dying and then waiting a few decades. I think you can just release it with a statement that says something along the lines of "This software is public domain. I, the author, hereby forego any copyright on it." Or you could write it as part of your job while an employee of the United States government. There is a fair amount of numerical software that is public domain for that reason.
the space shuttle SRBs [...] At full throttle ...
I don't think an SRB has any other setting (apart from "fuse not lit yet").
Step 5 (Get out your favorite high power firearm...) gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had this year.
The worrying thing is that if he is from the USA he probably does have a favourite high-power firearm.
This is indeed one of the most infuriating things about purchasing a new computer. How much money can it save? Surely the manufacturing cost of an optical disc produced in bulk is in the noise compared to producing and shipping a laptop? Heck, Canonical will ship you a disc with Ubuntu on for free, so it can't be that pricy.
Actually, perhaps the Linux zealot faction should welcome the "no OS discs" trend. Faced with a machine where you have had to replace the HDD, it is nowadays much easier to obtain and install Linux than to get your hands on the media from which to re-install Windows.
pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet
What could possibly go wrong? (Also, FP?)
The jargon file (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/Foonly.html) states that the graphics in Tron were rendered not by a Burroughs mainframe, but by the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), a prototype for a future generation of the PDP-10. Wikipedia agrees.
Sheesh, RTFA, already. They mention the coolerado and explain exactly why this new idea has the potential to do better.
Float upside down, and ....
Uh, in 0-g, there is no "upside-down"
There are no foreign equivalents.
This is less true than it was since the launch of Metop-A in 2006 to cover the morning polar sun-sync orbit. (An AC already noted this above.) Everything I have heard about NPOESS (the US programme to provide new weather satellites for the afternoon slot) is that it has been a huge trainwreck, with massive cost overruns and delays.
Foreign governments do not fund much space activities other than subsidizing industry satellites, but those aren't very useful for science.
Eh? See above, and also Google for Envisat. Or even GoSat. And note that these are research missions, very different from NOAA K, L, M, NPOESS and MetOp, which are operational missions. It is a different (but not unconnected) story that there will be rather a gap in such research missions once the Envisat, Aura and SciSat-1 missions cone to an end.
One reason for actual home distilling being illegal is the fire risk. At least freeze distillation doesn't do that. I imagine that a double-strength hangover is bad, but less bad than a large air/vapour explosion. Mind you, without having tried it, I expect that the results of freeze distilling would taste neither pleasant, nor like beer.
Of the UK entries in this list, the first few are Hector (the national supercomputing facility), ECMWF, Universities, financial institutions etc. But there are also some labelled "Food industry". I wonder what I am eating that requires a supercomputer?
methane was a bad gas last week?
Still is if you release it into the atmosphere, especially if it came from somewhere where it has been locked up for centuries.
As fuel, though, it can be a good thing, especially if you got it by having some grass suck the carbon out of the air before using a cow to convert that carbon into an easily-usable form such as methane.
I noticed there's another large one in the waters between Ireland and Wales
That would be North Hoyle and Rhyl flats. The UK has an advantage when it comes to building these things: the seas around it are shallow. Texas may have a similar advantage actually, I'm not sure how deep the Gulf is. California is less lucky: the Pacific gets quite deep quite quickly as you head away from the shore.
[wind farms] do however kill sheep, the noise keeps them awake until they die
Care to give a citation for that? Sounds pretty odd to me. One sees sheep near railways, major roads, the sea etc, all of which make noise 24 hours of the day, with varying degrees of intermittency.
Would someone care to explain this Meatloaf/Linux Kernel slashmeme for the benefit of an old codger who is entirely missing the cultural reference? Oh, and yes, I did google it before posting this.
Well, in the UK a trailer has to have a plate on the back that matches that of the car that is towing it. But it is quite common to see trailers with two plates on: the regular owner's plate stuck on quite firmly and that of the bloke he lent it to tied on with a piece of string. I therefore anticipate a rash of incidents where a trailer gets lent to someone and the owner then gets a £50000 fine and 3000 points on his licence for exceeding the speed of sound in a built-up area.
My guess is that the GPS allows all the cameras on the system to have their clocks synchronised to the required level of accuracy. (GPS works by the satellites having atomic clocks on, after all). It may also provide accurate locations for each camera. Taken together with a digitised road map (to account for the fact that roads are not straight) you could then do the required calculation without having to measure the road distance between each pair of cameras.
Either you are trolling (in which case consider me hooked) or you need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine in order to get what the posts above here are talking about.