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Ubuntu 8.04 Released
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I wonder how many library of congresses worth of people use Ubuntu? How many football fields the CDs Ubuntu has sent out could they cover? How many people are there in the library of congress at any one time? A hundred?
They just throw together a crufty, heavyweight OOP framework and wait for their crappy implementations to be deployed on faster hardware to cover up their design mistakes He don't dump on industry standard UI development processes. Seriously, everybody works this way.
XP runs just fine on the EeePC. My roommate runs it on his. Thats interesting. I have the linux version and a guy I work with has the windows version. He told me that windows update totally filled the solid state disk and made the laptop useless to him. So I gave him a copy of my linux recovery DVD.
The general public will not know what "geometric" means*.
This Captcha suffers from the same old problem. As Captchas get harder more humans will fail them.
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Of course, if people really cared they may want to consider that GPS is rarely accurate to 5m, its not uncommon to get an EPE of 15-20m in that arts of the world.. I regularly get 4 metre accuracy in Australia. I used my ETREX to mark the locations of my wife's grandparents graves in Malaysia a couple of years ago. But I backed it up with photographs showing the site in context with the surroundings. The pics ensure reasonable accuracy.
I used a GPS on that occasion because it was in a huge overgrown Chinese cemetary and the people who guided us there won't be around forever either. I plan to leave the data with my nephew who will know how to use it in the future.
please remember that your kids( ages 9 and 12 ) are not 3rd work kids and as you stated, they have already been indoctrinated into the way Microsoft feels a generic user interface should be. Actually my 6 year old son's preferred desktop is google. Thats how he finds everything he wants to run.
Brain injuries are one of the bigger problems now that survival of concussive blasts is so much better. And if you can put in new brain cells; can you give a person their personality back? Only if they made backups.
I think $188 million is a little extreme for a submarine cable network. Perhaps the Navy is having a hard time recruiting these days, and they are using cable TV as a perk for submariners. I still think the money could be better spent elsewhere - like for a mini-arcade in each sub. But think of the bandwidth they can get with cable broadband! Much better than that ultra long wave towed cable telegraph thing.
ok, its about time you knew. You're a replicant. You've been living someone else's life, remembering someone else's memories. We should ask them each to say something about their mother. Then see which one misses the point.
Well... I bet the edge of the atmosphere isn't a solid smooth shell, that if an object were passing at a particular angle, it might hit more than one jagged edge... that maybe it wasn't 'bouncing off the atmosphere' so much as shaving the edges of a top thin edge of the atmosphere. More likely the object broke up as it travelled through the atmosphere. Small particles have more surface area for their mass and produce more light.
That is really cool, but this isn't the first story like this I've heard. My question is, how do these unreleased products make their way out into the world?
A lot of people (like me) just don't like to see good gear thrown out. They are called pack rats.
In other words, Farenheit gives you greater precision without making you sound like a dick.:-) This morning the temperature was 10 000 000 microcelcius degrees.
It can handle down to the freezing point (0 degrees F), too. TFA can't be right. Though I got an American education, I'm pretty sure freezing is 0 C/32F. Looks like the article writer didn't read the specs.....sounds like somebody in Norway. It should be possible to start most computer systems right down to a few degrees K. The main risk is that something will break through differential expansion as it heats up. I would easily believe that a COTS PC could be started at -100C, but would stabilise above 0 C once it had been working for a while.
Actually I know my servers have been in 50 degrees Celsius environment for the past few years, nothing bad happened yet to them (not even a hard drive crash) Traffic signal controllers routinely run at 60 degrees C on hot days. The gear isn't standard but its not exactly new or exotic either.
An interesting side note though: I wonder how reliable those estimations are. I mean it's not like we've exposed human test subjects to outer space to check how long it takes them to die, right? One guy was exposed to vacuum when a pressure suit failed during tests. He was recompressed without incident after about a minute.
Chimpanzees were deliberately exposed to vacuum in testing. They survived as well.
The advantage of the Eee PC, is that you will have ZERO support issues. It just works and just keeps right on working. I am thinking of taking mine back because the screen has started to flicker intermittently. It seems to be related to heating. If I leave it running on the power supply all day it will start doing this.
I wonder if anybody else is having the same problem?
It's about time airports started using their luggage routing software for security purposes. Its not funny. In the past week we have had two visitors from our office in France. Both transited to international flights through Heathrow and had to work here for days in the clothes they wore on the plane.
There are plenty of ways to get true randomness using hardware. Keyboard click timings, hard drive seek time, radioactive decay monitoring (probably the best, since its based on quantum nondeterminism), capacitor level checking, CCD camera in a dark coffee can, and a bunch of others. No pure software solution exists, though.
I think there are on chip random signal generators these days. Something as simple as taking the noise from a diode.
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I had to muck around looking for the torrents on ubuntu.com. They don't seem to encourage torrent downloads at ubuntu.
This Captcha suffers from the same old problem. As Captchas get harder more humans will fail them.
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I used a GPS on that occasion because it was in a huge overgrown Chinese cemetary and the people who guided us there won't be around forever either. I plan to leave the data with my nephew who will know how to use it in the future.
Really? I didn't think that people lost breast implants in accidents very often. Well if the seat belt doesn't hold it back in a crash...
Interestingly the Australian Navy does pay for breast implants on occasions.
A lot of people (like me) just don't like to see good gear thrown out. They are called pack rats.
Chimpanzees were deliberately exposed to vacuum in testing. They survived as well.
I wonder if anybody else is having the same problem?
There are plenty of ways to get true randomness using hardware. Keyboard click timings, hard drive seek time, radioactive decay monitoring (probably the best, since its based on quantum nondeterminism), capacitor level checking, CCD camera in a dark coffee can, and a bunch of others. No pure software solution exists, though.
I think there are on chip random signal generators these days. Something as simple as taking the noise from a diode.mass of asteroid 2 E14 kg
mass of satellite 2 E3 kg
mass ratio 1 E-11
encounter speed seems to be about 5 km/s but I can't find exact numbers.
So it should lose about 55 E-9 m/s which is 17 metres of displacement over 10 years.
So yeah it doesn't seem like much.