The stripes are the paths from the several vehicles in orbit assembled over time when they passed near the poles.
Almost. The Operational Linescan System has an automatic gain function which changes as a step function across the scan. The system is designed for working at low sun angles (better shadows for definition in the vertical) and its huge 2600 km swath width has to image clouds from very bright daylight in the west to city lights in the east. It's a hell of an instrument, albeit, iirc, 7 x the cost of its civilian counterpart (AVHRR).
IAAP (I am a physician - specifically pediatrics). First off, "you" may have been "fine" when you "got measles," but the population of England wasn't. Measles isn't chicken pox - it's a LOT worse. It's pretty rare to die of pox
IANAP, but did catch chicken pox aged 33. It's a lot worse when you're older, much, much worse than the mild temperatures and chance of scarring in childhood. It kills on average 25 people in the UK each year, although most of these have compromised immune systems. It makes it our worst 'childhood' killer disease. There is, AFAIK, no national varicella immunisation programme in place.
I use to be very anal about remembering every detail. As I've gotten older I'm less concerned with this. I use technology (Outlook calendar/tasks, smartphone, Google Calendar for personal) to remember less and remind me when needed.
I never used a calendar or diary in my twenties and thirties. My problem getting older (40) isn't remembering things, it's forgetting. I'll suddenly look at the date and panic, as it was a deadline, meeting or something of consequence years ago. Scares the beejeezus out of me some mornings.
An interesting comparison. How do the risks of death appear in the general driving accident figures if you're not drunk/tired/stupid? Extrapolate for mail server admins.
Just reading this and reading comments on newbies messing up. I'm about to turn in but as I'm travelling decide to do something about the fact my eee login isn't password protected. Using the desktop interface I set the password and transform it into an electric brick. A trip through a less salubrious part of Athens to a late night internet cafe see the forum answer as "there's a bug in the application".
I'm a unix/linux user/admin of 18 years, and the software stiffs me. I'm now typing on factory-reset eee in the same hotel lobby I made the mistake. What would the 'average user' think of a pre-installed software tool that simply knackers their pride and joy?
That allegation is simply a *fabrication*. It started on Daily Kos - and it's utter nonsense.
Sorry to disappoint:
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
The question asked if the universe started with a big explosion. The rest of the questions were straight-forward general knowledge, but we haven't introduced him to the big-ideas about space-time as not sure he's ready for the joys of getting his mind around the Horrendous Space Kablooie.
By around age 5 I learned most (if not all) of these facts from watching TLC or Discovery.
I thought you had 'rose-tinted spectacles' about your childhood abilities, but have just asked the 11 questions to my 6-year old and he got 9 right, 1 wrong and didn't want to answer the question about how the Universe started (understandable).
No, the comment was with regard to the exaggerated nature of claims for sporting events. Except for the blue riband events, how many people will watch minority sports for 16 days? The only big unknown in this is how many Chinese will feel that turning on a tv is their patriotic duty.
If you go and look at the Olympics' own figures, they state that the numbers are those 'who have access' to see the Athens Olympics are 3.9 billion, and then watch 12 hours of coverage. Both figures are simply not credible but go unchallenged.
1/3 of young mothers feel unsafe in their own towns? 1/3! What was the question? "Do you feel totally and utterly safe everytime you walk out the door?", or something as meaningless and all encompassing.
The same survey suggests Legoland is one of the top family attractions- man, I've been there with my family and spend £75 to stand in queues for 95% of a day.
I wouldn't put much weight behind many other opinions in this survey.
Were Friday's Tornados in the UK's Guardian? Of course not (and of course I probably picked a bad example and someone will link a Guardian story about it).
What's more pertinent, that you expected the Guardian not to have the story, or the fact that it did?
Cassini didn't find any high-frequency noise and the results were published with lots of headlines along the lines "Ashen light just an optical illusion". Wonder how this new evidence ties in?
Thanks for the line of sane reasoning. After reading a lot of threads here and on other blogs your 'cock-up rather than conspiracy' post makes most sense. Can now go and enjoy that whisky.
Re: eyelet. On other threads there were comments that there are missiles with dummy warheads which are unidentifiable except to the munitions commander (hence their dismissal) that these are used to add doubt in the case of anyone wanting to steal/go Strangelove with them. The presence of an obvious visual check would negate this.
Still uncertain why the anonymous military personnel wanted to leak it though. Simplest assumption is they've got (possibly very reasonable) worries/grudges about people at Minot.
A book about the Corona spy satellite project (ISBN 1-56098-830-4) discusses how spy satellites altered the Whitehouse view of the 6-Day War. In a throwaway line, it mentions how planners reacted when there was "only daily imagery available". That was in 1967. One assumes that the daily temporal coverage, clouds permitting (and assuming we're only talking vis/ir), is far greater now.
One word: Vandenberg. The 1000 miles range was necessary as the Air Force were s'posed to want to launch on the West Coast and that would leave the Shuttle over the Pacific with the next polar orbit and emergency landing opportunity. The lifting body (Dynasoar) plans were dead with this simple, and completely unfulfilled, decision.
Now I can tell you that Y is often Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials series. I happen to like that series a great deal, but I also happen to think it has its faults. This doesn't mean the books aren't wonderful in their way, but they are often presented as an artistically perfect alternative to the artistically worthless Potter series. The truth is, Pullman's series is a more politically correct alternative to Harry Potter, both for its anti Judeo-Christian motifs, and because it is seen as the less popular alternative. That's not really an introduction to the Dark Materials book that does them justice.
I loved Pullman's trilogy, but if you take it apart, it's really the first novel's driving themes are separate from second set. All this stuff about an overarching anti-cleric theme really only appears in Subtle Knife, along with the main protagonist, Will. Also Pullman is on record as demanding his work undergo highbrow criticism, (he uses the prose surrounding death of 'god' as his example) something that I find a little, well, odd.
One in the morning
Two in the morning
Three in the morning
Four in the morning
Five in the morning
Six in the morning
Seven in the morning
Eight in the morning
Nine in the morning
Ten in the morning
Eleven in the morning
Noon
One in the afternoon
Two in the afternoon
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2000, in a Supermarket. See a CD from a band who had the last of their three hits in 1978. Title of CD was "Greatest Hits". $24 equivalent price. None of the three singles were on this CD. Who's defrauding who?
Slashdot Mirror
Almost. The Operational Linescan System has an automatic gain function which changes as a step function across the scan. The system is designed for working at low sun angles (better shadows for definition in the vertical) and its huge 2600 km swath width has to image clouds from very bright daylight in the west to city lights in the east. It's a hell of an instrument, albeit, iirc, 7 x the cost of its civilian counterpart (AVHRR).
Apologies, NY eve and moderated incorrectly- this should correct.
IANAP, but did catch chicken pox aged 33. It's a lot worse when you're older, much, much worse than the mild temperatures and chance of scarring in childhood. It kills on average 25 people in the UK each year, although most of these have compromised immune systems. It makes it our worst 'childhood' killer disease. There is, AFAIK, no national varicella immunisation programme in place.
I never used a calendar or diary in my twenties and thirties. My problem getting older (40) isn't remembering things, it's forgetting. I'll suddenly look at the date and panic, as it was a deadline, meeting or something of consequence years ago. Scares the beejeezus out of me some mornings.
An interesting comparison. How do the risks of death appear in the general driving accident figures if you're not drunk/tired/stupid? Extrapolate for mail server admins.
Oh the irony.
Just reading this and reading comments on newbies messing up. I'm about to turn in but as I'm travelling decide to do something about the fact my eee login isn't password protected. Using the desktop interface I set the password and transform it into an electric brick. A trip through a less salubrious part of Athens to a late night internet cafe see the forum answer as "there's a bug in the application".
I'm a unix/linux user/admin of 18 years, and the software stiffs me. I'm now typing on factory-reset eee in the same hotel lobby I made the mistake. What would the 'average user' think of a pre-installed software tool that simply knackers their pride and joy?
Sorry to disappoint:
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
Source http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html
e.g. "If you return this guarantee we'll try mend your toaster but if we can't/don't want to then you will have no recourse to the law".
All from the sixties to mid-seventies, but these things did exist.
Got an eee this month and am suddenly very aware of my tinnitus.
The question asked if the universe started with a big explosion. The rest of the questions were straight-forward general knowledge, but we haven't introduced him to the big-ideas about space-time as not sure he's ready for the joys of getting his mind around the Horrendous Space Kablooie.
I thought you had 'rose-tinted spectacles' about your childhood abilities, but have just asked the 11 questions to my 6-year old and he got 9 right, 1 wrong and didn't want to answer the question about how the Universe started (understandable).
If you go and look at the Olympics' own figures, they state that the numbers are those 'who have access' to see the Athens Olympics are 3.9 billion, and then watch 12 hours of coverage. Both figures are simply not credible but go unchallenged.
Lies, damned lies and TV viewing statistics: The most watched televised sports events of 2006
Sport/Event/Claim/Verifiable
Football, Italy v France World Cup final, 715.1m/260m
American football, Super Bowl Steelers v Seahawks, 750m-1bn/98m
Winter Olympics, Torino 2006 opening ceremony, 2bn/87m
Football, Champs League Arsenal v Barça, 120m/86m
Formula One, Brazilian Grand Prix, 354m/83m
NASCAR, Daytona 500, n/a/20m
Baseball, World Series game five, n/a/19m
Golf, US Masters (final day), n/a/17m
Tennis, Wimbledon men's singles final, n/a/17m
Basketball, NBA finals game six, up to 1bn/17m
Cycling, Tour de France (final stage), n/a/15m
Golf, US Open (final day), n/a/10m
Golf, Ryder Cup (final day), up to 1bn/6m
Commonwealth Games, Melbourne opening ceremony, 1.5bn/5m
Cricket, ICC Champions Trophy final, n/a/3m
Laptop on last legs, but Slashdot is suddenly back to life; no more 'a script has stopped working on this page' notices. Excellent job.
The same survey suggests Legoland is one of the top family attractions- man, I've been there with my family and spend £75 to stand in queues for 95% of a day.
I wouldn't put much weight behind many other opinions in this survey.
What's more pertinent, that you expected the Guardian not to have the story, or the fact that it did?
Apologies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
One for sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655/
Cassini didn't find any high-frequency noise and the results were published with lots of headlines along the lines "Ashen light just an optical illusion". Wonder how this new evidence ties in?
Thanks for the line of sane reasoning. After reading a lot of threads here and on other blogs your 'cock-up rather than conspiracy' post makes most sense. Can now go and enjoy that whisky.
Re: eyelet. On other threads there were comments that there are missiles with dummy warheads which are unidentifiable except to the munitions commander (hence their dismissal) that these are used to add doubt in the case of anyone wanting to steal/go Strangelove with them. The presence of an obvious visual check would negate this.
Still uncertain why the anonymous military personnel wanted to leak it though. Simplest assumption is they've got (possibly very reasonable) worries/grudges about people at Minot.
A book about the Corona spy satellite project (ISBN 1-56098-830-4) discusses how spy satellites altered the Whitehouse view of the 6-Day War. In a throwaway line, it mentions how planners reacted when there was "only daily imagery available". That was in 1967. One assumes that the daily temporal coverage, clouds permitting (and assuming we're only talking vis/ir), is far greater now.
One word: Vandenberg. The 1000 miles range was necessary as the Air Force were s'posed to want to launch on the West Coast and that would leave the Shuttle over the Pacific with the next polar orbit and emergency landing opportunity. The lifting body (Dynasoar) plans were dead with this simple, and completely unfulfilled, decision.
I loved Pullman's trilogy, but if you take it apart, it's really the first novel's driving themes are separate from second set. All this stuff about an overarching anti-cleric theme really only appears in Subtle Knife, along with the main protagonist, Will. Also Pullman is on record as demanding his work undergo highbrow criticism, (he uses the prose surrounding death of 'god' as his example) something that I find a little, well, odd.
One in the morning Two in the morning Three in the morning Four in the morning Five in the morning Six in the morning Seven in the morning Eight in the morning Nine in the morning Ten in the morning Eleven in the morning Noon One in the afternoon Two in the afternoon Three in the afternoon Four in the afternoon Five in the evening Six in the evening Seven in the evening Eight at night Nine at night Ten at night Eleven at night Midnight
2000, in a Supermarket. See a CD from a band who had the last of their three hits in 1978. Title of CD was "Greatest Hits". $24 equivalent price. None of the three singles were on this CD. Who's defrauding who?