My normal source for information on disasters is an organisation I work with who are located in Christchurch. If I ring them up and I can't understand what is going on because of the screams then I know disaster is only two hours away from Melbourne.
I am not the GP but the bizarre behaviour of the dock thing on the left side of the screen was a bit of a problem. Often it would hide when the mouse moved towards it. If I wanted it to unhide I would have to run the mouse across the top of the screen then carefully down the left, taking care not to scare it into trying to hide. Sometimes it would sort of half hide, shrinking down to 20% or so, then pop up again when I moved away from it.
Bizarre. Also there are no simple menus for finding things. I couldn't find the preferences menu and I didn't know what to search for. Eventually I found a youtube video on how to switch unity off. I watched the first 20 seconds and then I was okay. No more unity.
Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 my Desktop doesn't redraw
Yeah I had this with motif apps on earlier versions of ubuntu but its happening all the time in 11.04. The conflict seems to be between firefox and GTK apps can leave firefox drawn over the top of the GTK window. This only happened for me when switching workspaces with the pager. I installed gnome 3 which broke the pagers in gnome 2 and XFCE so the problem went away;). I have now installed LXDE and I am very happy.
The homeless planets being discussed are gas giants. These planets have a lot of potential energy stored in their atmospheres. Jupiter, for example would be almost the same temperature without the sun. So there will be plenty of gaseous hydrogen with could be mined from the atmospheres. Any moons would be kept relatively warm by tidal effects from the primary so they may have gaseous atmospheres as well. The moons are likely to have a lot of water ice as well, which is useful to restock the life support system of a space craft on a long journey.
If you have matter (water, carbon, iron, etc) and energy (from a fusion reactor, perhaps) then you can make food. But you would have to stop at a planet to collect those things.
Spaceships tend to just carry on also without fuel... the vacuum of space doesn't offer much friction.
Sure, but say you are on a slowboat with a continuous transit time to the next star of 1000 years. Thats foreseeable technology today. You use fusion reactors for energy but they need to be topped up with deuterium or some such from time to time. Your life support system leaks gasses. You need to stop from time to time to take on more hydrogen and oxygen (in the form of ice). Perhaps the galaxy would be colonised one step at a time (like the Pacific) as population pressure pushed people on to the next island (so to speak).
a Midwest charter MD-81 carrying then presidential candidate Barack Obama, made an emergency landing at Lamber Filed in St. Louis, Missouri after an evacuation slide inside the plane underneath the tail in the airstair passage way deployed, interfering with the plane’s control cables.
Cloud computing services are ideal for situations where you have a startup which might fail in two months and you don't want to have to install a warehouse full of computers to get it going.
In android I get the text input box but it seems to lose focus every couple of seconds, which closes the keyboard and prevents me from typing. It might be connected to the behaviour I see on ubuntu 11.04 with firefox 4 where the page occasionally scrolls up or down in response to some mouse movements or clicks. Its probably just somebody's idea of a UI improvement with javascript.
It might be possible if we could demonstrate ten years with semi-automatic driving. Have a computer in control most of the time with a human as backup. But I frankly don't believe that a self driving car can come close to dealing with all the corner cases involved in driving on public roads.
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My normal source for information on disasters is an organisation I work with who are located in Christchurch. If I ring them up and I can't understand what is going on because of the screams then I know disaster is only two hours away from Melbourne.
Anybody know their IP address? I should start a ping.
YES!! Hopefully it'll be as good as Johnny Mnemonic!
Thats why I don't really want to see this film. Its going to suck, in comparison to the book, unless a miracle happens.
Yeah I found that settings button but it didnt do anything.
I am not the GP but the bizarre behaviour of the dock thing on the left side of the screen was a bit of a problem. Often it would hide when the mouse moved towards it. If I wanted it to unhide I would have to run the mouse across the top of the screen then carefully down the left, taking care not to scare it into trying to hide. Sometimes it would sort of half hide, shrinking down to 20% or so, then pop up again when I moved away from it.
Bizarre. Also there are no simple menus for finding things. I couldn't find the preferences menu and I didn't know what to search for. Eventually I found a youtube video on how to switch unity off. I watched the first 20 seconds and then I was okay. No more unity.
Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 my Desktop doesn't redraw
Yeah I had this with motif apps on earlier versions of ubuntu but its happening all the time in 11.04. The conflict seems to be between firefox and GTK apps can leave firefox drawn over the top of the GTK window. This only happened for me when switching workspaces with the pager. I installed gnome 3 which broke the pagers in gnome 2 and XFCE so the problem went away ;). I have now installed LXDE and I am very happy.
Yes, LXDE looks good here, especially as I broke XFCE by installing gnome 3.
My hope is gnome shell 3.1 will have ways to stack and access running programs in 3d or a simple bottom bar like Windows/MacOSX.
If they supported the gnome 2 task bar and pager then all would be well.
Mouse interaction requires to reserve some parts of the screen for clicking, and this is a waste of space most of the time.
So whats that big bar down the left side of the screen all about?
The homeless planets being discussed are gas giants. These planets have a lot of potential energy stored in their atmospheres. Jupiter, for example would be almost the same temperature without the sun. So there will be plenty of gaseous hydrogen with could be mined from the atmospheres. Any moons would be kept relatively warm by tidal effects from the primary so they may have gaseous atmospheres as well. The moons are likely to have a lot of water ice as well, which is useful to restock the life support system of a space craft on a long journey.
If you have matter (water, carbon, iron, etc) and energy (from a fusion reactor, perhaps) then you can make food. But you would have to stop at a planet to collect those things.
Spaceships tend to just carry on also without fuel... the vacuum of space doesn't offer much friction.
Sure, but say you are on a slowboat with a continuous transit time to the next star of 1000 years. Thats foreseeable technology today. You use fusion reactors for energy but they need to be topped up with deuterium or some such from time to time. Your life support system leaks gasses. You need to stop from time to time to take on more hydrogen and oxygen (in the form of ice). Perhaps the galaxy would be colonised one step at a time (like the Pacific) as population pressure pushed people on to the next island (so to speak).
What manner of fuel do expect to find on the "homeless" planet?
Hydrogen.
If a four light year hop is too far maybe it will be possible for space craft to reach the nearest "homeless" planet, refuel and carry on.
He used the idea of using a kind of radio receiver to collect solar energy in several of his short stories, including The Roads Must Roll
Also note that gnome 3 breaks anything which uses GTK including gnome 2 and XFCE.
Maybe the co-pilot kept deflating despite the best efforts of the captain to keep him upright.
I predict that the last word on the CVR will be Merde.
Or this:
a Midwest charter MD-81 carrying then presidential candidate Barack Obama, made an emergency landing at Lamber Filed in St. Louis, Missouri after an evacuation slide inside the plane underneath the tail in the airstair passage way deployed, interfering with the plane’s control cables.
I doubt the flow of air at 1 cm / min (3.7 10^-4 MPH) would create the lift neede
Might be just a lot of hot air blowing from Brussels.
Apparently its heaven for glider pilots.
Wiki article in the summary says "Built-in OS Linux"
Cloud computing services are ideal for situations where you have a startup which might fail in two months and you don't want to have to install a warehouse full of computers to get it going.
In android I get the text input box but it seems to lose focus every couple of seconds, which closes the keyboard and prevents me from typing. It might be connected to the behaviour I see on ubuntu 11.04 with firefox 4 where the page occasionally scrolls up or down in response to some mouse movements or clicks. Its probably just somebody's idea of a UI improvement with javascript.
I can't even post on android anymore.
It might be possible if we could demonstrate ten years with semi-automatic driving. Have a computer in control most of the time with a human as backup. But I frankly don't believe that a self driving car can come close to dealing with all the corner cases involved in driving on public roads.