I still do think it's evil. Well, Not inherently and despicibly evil, perhaps not even evil at all, but at least distasteful. I would much prefer to handle my accounts with each site through the site. Suppose I used my name and password to log in to slashdot, and some elite cracker managed to lift my password, then decided to go see if I had a login over at ebay, perhaps even with a credit card number saved. No thanks, sell it to someone else.
That's how I would beat Ken if I had to play him in a match of Starcraft. Of course, If I were named Zergling, I would just hold him off until I could build a huge fleet of guardians and a few scourge escorts, then fly my wave of destruction slowly over his base until he had nothing left but his primary building. Then it's a simple matter of amassing all my units while he watches helplessly and crushing him in one final jeopardy salvo! Muahahaha!
I would have honestly thought that anyone who could learn to use Photoshop effectively could learn to use the Gimp, as well. I went from using Microsoft Picture-It (what a worthless program) to the Gimp with just a few quick internet tutorials. I admit the interface feels a little clumsy sometimes and it doesn't have the same refinement or some of the nifty custom text features as photoshop, but I got it for several hundred dollars less (free is seldom a bad price) and it takes up several hundred megs less on my drive. It's not the editor for everyone, but it's sufficient for most. I also have not observed any of the problems others have talked about with Windows although it seems a lot of those problems occur in WinGimp. I just used the compilation linked to from the Gimp's webpage and it works like a charm.
Because they're cool. Honestly, who doesn't want a 2 1/2 foot diameter copper ball to play with?
Actually, one of my classmates took a tour of the LIGO facility as part of an ASME conference and "it's cool" was basically the answer she got. It sounded, however, like this one only has a limited frequency range it can detect. Maybe LIGO detects a different range or at least a broader one. It also operates differently (laser beam in a vacuum instead of big ball in a freezer), so I suppose there's probably a difference in sensitivity. Also, it probably costs a decent amount of money to keep something that big at 20 milliKelvin.
I looked at their pictures page. Nerds.
I suppose the big buttocks is relative
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I guess the article means the big buttocks is relative to the rest of the body. If you look at sprinters, they tend to have more of a "bubble butt," but cross-country runners are generally classified as "flat-assed."
BTW, is this even news? I saw a person running yesterday, and he seemed to take to it pretty naturally, almost like he was born with the ability.
I think it would be far worse to be in the position of Lovell, Swaggert and Haise. While Collins can take satisfaction in doing what he went there to do and being a part of history, the Apollo 13 crew got screwed by a guy named Murhpy. They were there. They flew around it. They saw the spot they were supposed to land on from only about 60 miles up after travelling 150000. This was Lovell's 2nd time orbiting the moon (Apollo 8), but he didn't get the satisfaction of luna firma under his feet. I hate to think what must have gone through their minds as it slipped through their fingers.
It's not racism because it's not about the fact that they are racially different that creates the tension. It's the ~1,000,000 civilians the Japanese army murdered in Nanking and the other attrocities it committed during its occupation in China. It's like a man killing roughly 1/4 of the people on his block and then asking one of his surviving neighbors if his son wants to go out and play with the killer's son. What happened was really ugly, and those who witnessed it can't just forget it simply because the war is over.
Space.com reported several weeks ago that the White Knight (of Space Ship One fame) might be hired to do some drops for NASA after the retirement of its B-52B. In particular, a NASA spokesman stated that "cost analysis favored Scaled Composites," when talking about the X-37 program.
On the contrary, CNN hasn't even reached 300 baud (for you non-technical readers, that's equivalent to the Library of Congress sliding down a 2% grade, assuming the coefficient of friction is 0.01).
I seem to remember reading that the salt content of the Colorado is unnaturally high due to removal of desalinated water for irrigation and human consumption. I believe it was already higher than other US rivers because of the geology (saltier rocks?). Perhaps this is just to reduce the content back to natural levels so it doesn't kill vegetation or screw up the fish runs or whatever the ill effects of a lot of salt are.
I am continuously amazed at the ability of lawyers to run up huge bills. I've heard $200/hour quoted somewhere as an average, so I'll run with that, even though I know many charge way more. Someone else quoted 18 months of activity in the discussion above. I skipped a lot of assumptions, but that translates to about 60000 hours, which means 19 lawyers working 40 hour weeks, raking in about $600000 each ($400 K/year).
Does anyone know the actual number of lawyers involved or their rates and can anyone enlighten me about what other costs SCO is likely including in their figure of $12 million spent so far?
As long as we're on the topic of spam and such, I think slashdot has slashdotted itself. The "bush wins" thread is average at least a post every 3 seconds, who knows how many hits, and the server is crawling
Since NASA, with Lockheed and Boeing, is spending a fair amount of money on developing radio-thermo generator for the Martian surface laboratory, in addition to the chassis, it would seem to make sense to attempt to share the technology (and associated costs) between the two missions. This could save some money and give NASA more long term experience in developing, using, and maintaining standardized systems. I'm sure some of the instruments could be useful. For example, I don't know about current plans, but there had been talk of equipping a Martian mission, I think the sample return, with a drill for taking a deep subsurface core sample, with hopes of finding a permafrost layer. I expect it could be adapted fairly easily to be used on the lunar surface as well.
I originally typed lowest exergy, but assumed that not many people know the difference between energy and exergy, and those who did should be smart enough to figure out what I meant, so I changed it. Oh well. You can't connect with everybody.
Althought no one has confirmed it, it does appear the universe is a closed system. We haven't observed mass or energy going either in or out.
Just an FYI: grammatical criticism is not considered a fatal wound.
You seem very angry. Have you been saying your prayers at night?
Well, I wouldn't want to let you leave without an answer from a right-wing Bible thumper. Before I begin, I should probably mention that I think "evolutionary creation" fits within a figurative interpretation of Genesis, although I don't discount the literal interpretation, either.
The universe tends toward the lowest energy state. With radioactive atoms, fission (or fusion, if the initial conditions are right) wants to occur if individual atoms can get over the initial energy hump. People are not the lowest energy state. They have an orderly arrangement of trillions of cells, each composed of millions of atoms that took energy to arrange. In short, formation of a complex being goes against the thermodynmic model of the universe. Now it's true that often relatively high energy arrangements are the result of higher-energy reactions (the space shuttle is a very large man-made example). Additionally, scientist have experimented with "primordial soups" thought to be similar to the earth's atmosphere 4 billions years ago, and found that lightning could spark the formation of simple amino acids, but that's all the further it got. It certainly never showed any inclination to build DNA or wrap it's self in a lipid bi-layer or even form whole proteins. Granted the time period was relatively extremely short, so I'll offer a little more.
Scientists estimate the universe came into existance as we know it approximately 14.5 billion years ago. We don't know why it did, we don't know what was there before, and we don't have a very good idea what happened. Whatever did happen seems to defy our understanding. Enter Deus ex Machina. "Somebody" snaps their fingers and (big) bang! Light. I know I don't have a real convincing argument but I've heard other people state it way better. I don't have a proof for God anymore than others have a proof that He doesn't exist, but unlike too many people assumed, I have given the topic plenty of rational thought and decided to r
Last year, one of the guys a couple doors down did one (this is on a college campus). He set it on top of a bunch of empty pizza boxes and scattered beer cans all over for effect. It was great.
Here's another article that talks a little more about the findings, including a very short discussion on possible implications regarding climate change and global warming. Although a correlation makes sense and there appears to be a link between global climate change and sunspots in several instances, there is not enough data to be conclusive and the current warming trends do coincide with increasing levels of methane and CO2. It could be either or both.
In addition to the obvious question of whether this affects our climate, the findings are interesting simply because they provide more information about our sun. I think it's amazing we can look at carbon-14 content here on earth an make inferences about the solar weather 10000 years ago. They're using this to show indirectly that the sun exhibits it's own long term "climate changes" as expected. Of course, other bodies do this as well. For example, that hurricane on Jupiter (the red spot) that's been hanging around for just a little bit longer than Frances.
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I still do think it's evil. Well, Not inherently and despicibly evil, perhaps not even evil at all, but at least distasteful. I would much prefer to handle my accounts with each site through the site. Suppose I used my name and password to log in to slashdot, and some elite cracker managed to lift my password, then decided to go see if I had a login over at ebay, perhaps even with a credit card number saved. No thanks, sell it to someone else.
That's how I would beat Ken if I had to play him in a match of Starcraft. Of course, If I were named Zergling, I would just hold him off until I could build a huge fleet of guardians and a few scourge escorts, then fly my wave of destruction slowly over his base until he had nothing left but his primary building. Then it's a simple matter of amassing all my units while he watches helplessly and crushing him in one final jeopardy salvo! Muahahaha!
as the public realizes it should only have to buy content once.
Yes! Both interesting and insightful.
I would have honestly thought that anyone who could learn to use Photoshop effectively could learn to use the Gimp, as well. I went from using Microsoft Picture-It (what a worthless program) to the Gimp with just a few quick internet tutorials. I admit the interface feels a little clumsy sometimes and it doesn't have the same refinement or some of the nifty custom text features as photoshop, but I got it for several hundred dollars less (free is seldom a bad price) and it takes up several hundred megs less on my drive. It's not the editor for everyone, but it's sufficient for most. I also have not observed any of the problems others have talked about with Windows although it seems a lot of those problems occur in WinGimp. I just used the compilation linked to from the Gimp's webpage and it works like a charm.
Make either by per capita or per GNP or some weighted level related to the two.
Because they're cool. Honestly, who doesn't want a 2 1/2 foot diameter copper ball to play with?
Actually, one of my classmates took a tour of the LIGO facility as part of an ASME conference and "it's cool" was basically the answer she got. It sounded, however, like this one only has a limited frequency range it can detect. Maybe LIGO detects a different range or at least a broader one. It also operates differently (laser beam in a vacuum instead of big ball in a freezer), so I suppose there's probably a difference in sensitivity. Also, it probably costs a decent amount of money to keep something that big at 20 milliKelvin.
I looked at their pictures page. Nerds.
I guess the article means the big buttocks is relative to the rest of the body. If you look at sprinters, they tend to have more of a "bubble butt," but cross-country runners are generally classified as "flat-assed."
BTW, is this even news? I saw a person running yesterday, and he seemed to take to it pretty naturally, almost like he was born with the ability.
I think it would be far worse to be in the position of Lovell, Swaggert and Haise. While Collins can take satisfaction in doing what he went there to do and being a part of history, the Apollo 13 crew got screwed by a guy named Murhpy. They were there. They flew around it. They saw the spot they were supposed to land on from only about 60 miles up after travelling 150000. This was Lovell's 2nd time orbiting the moon (Apollo 8), but he didn't get the satisfaction of luna firma under his feet. I hate to think what must have gone through their minds as it slipped through their fingers.
It's not racism because it's not about the fact that they are racially different that creates the tension. It's the ~1,000,000 civilians the Japanese army murdered in Nanking and the other attrocities it committed during its occupation in China. It's like a man killing roughly 1/4 of the people on his block and then asking one of his surviving neighbors if his son wants to go out and play with the killer's son. What happened was really ugly, and those who witnessed it can't just forget it simply because the war is over.
Bah! You people are sad. Already 60 posts in and no one has taken his suggestion (plus the blog says 290 feet).
1 foot = 0.00344 MIT Green Buildings (MITGB's)
One Mile = 18.2 MITGB's
1 kilometer = 11.3 MITGB's
Space Shuttle orbit = 3,186 MITGB's
Space Elevator Tether Point = 1,092,400 MITGB's
Looks like they've got a little bit of scaling up to do.
Space.com reported several weeks ago that the White Knight (of Space Ship One fame) might be hired to do some drops for NASA after the retirement of its B-52B. In particular, a NASA spokesman stated that "cost analysis favored Scaled Composites," when talking about the X-37 program.
On the contrary, CNN hasn't even reached 300 baud (for you non-technical readers, that's equivalent to the Library of Congress sliding down a 2% grade, assuming the coefficient of friction is 0.01).
Meanwhile, CNN is still reporting the flight as being delayed on the front of their Science and Space page.
I seem to remember reading that the salt content of the Colorado is unnaturally high due to removal of desalinated water for irrigation and human consumption. I believe it was already higher than other US rivers because of the geology (saltier rocks?). Perhaps this is just to reduce the content back to natural levels so it doesn't kill vegetation or screw up the fish runs or whatever the ill effects of a lot of salt are.
Stupid moderators, that's not interesting. It's FUNNY. Get it right. Sheesh! I guess some things are too basic for you people.
Putting "kick me" signs on animals backs.
I am continuously amazed at the ability of lawyers to run up huge bills. I've heard $200/hour quoted somewhere as an average, so I'll run with that, even though I know many charge way more. Someone else quoted 18 months of activity in the discussion above. I skipped a lot of assumptions, but that translates to about 60000 hours, which means 19 lawyers working 40 hour weeks, raking in about $600000 each ($400 K/year).
Does anyone know the actual number of lawyers involved or their rates and can anyone enlighten me about what other costs SCO is likely including in their figure of $12 million spent so far?
That's alright. He can sell himself some viagara.
As long as we're on the topic of spam and such, I think slashdot has slashdotted itself. The "bush wins" thread is average at least a post every 3 seconds, who knows how many hits, and the server is crawling
Since NASA, with Lockheed and Boeing, is spending a fair amount of money on developing radio-thermo generator for the Martian surface laboratory, in addition to the chassis, it would seem to make sense to attempt to share the technology (and associated costs) between the two missions. This could save some money and give NASA more long term experience in developing, using, and maintaining standardized systems. I'm sure some of the instruments could be useful. For example, I don't know about current plans, but there had been talk of equipping a Martian mission, I think the sample return, with a drill for taking a deep subsurface core sample, with hopes of finding a permafrost layer. I expect it could be adapted fairly easily to be used on the lunar surface as well.
I originally typed lowest exergy, but assumed that not many people know the difference between energy and exergy, and those who did should be smart enough to figure out what I meant, so I changed it. Oh well. You can't connect with everybody.
Althought no one has confirmed it, it does appear the universe is a closed system. We haven't observed mass or energy going either in or out.
Just an FYI: grammatical criticism is not considered a fatal wound.
You seem very angry. Have you been saying your prayers at night?
Well, I wouldn't want to let you leave without an answer from a right-wing Bible thumper. Before I begin, I should probably mention that I think "evolutionary creation" fits within a figurative interpretation of Genesis, although I don't discount the literal interpretation, either.
The universe tends toward the lowest energy state. With radioactive atoms, fission (or fusion, if the initial conditions are right) wants to occur if individual atoms can get over the initial energy hump. People are not the lowest energy state. They have an orderly arrangement of trillions of cells, each composed of millions of atoms that took energy to arrange. In short, formation of a complex being goes against the thermodynmic model of the universe. Now it's true that often relatively high energy arrangements are the result of higher-energy reactions (the space shuttle is a very large man-made example). Additionally, scientist have experimented with "primordial soups" thought to be similar to the earth's atmosphere 4 billions years ago, and found that lightning could spark the formation of simple amino acids, but that's all the further it got. It certainly never showed any inclination to build DNA or wrap it's self in a lipid bi-layer or even form whole proteins. Granted the time period was relatively extremely short, so I'll offer a little more.
Scientists estimate the universe came into existance as we know it approximately 14.5 billion years ago. We don't know why it did, we don't know what was there before, and we don't have a very good idea what happened. Whatever did happen seems to defy our understanding. Enter Deus ex Machina. "Somebody" snaps their fingers and (big) bang! Light. I know I don't have a real convincing argument but I've heard other people state it way better. I don't have a proof for God anymore than others have a proof that He doesn't exist, but unlike too many people assumed, I have given the topic plenty of rational thought and decided to r
Excellent.
Last year, one of the guys a couple doors down did one (this is on a college campus). He set it on top of a bunch of empty pizza boxes and scattered beer cans all over for effect. It was great.
I like the point about thermal inertia, but it raises another question: Is there such a thing as "thermal jerk?"
Here's another article that talks a little more about the findings, including a very short discussion on possible implications regarding climate change and global warming. Although a correlation makes sense and there appears to be a link between global climate change and sunspots in several instances, there is not enough data to be conclusive and the current warming trends do coincide with increasing levels of methane and CO2. It could be either or both.
In addition to the obvious question of whether this affects our climate, the findings are interesting simply because they provide more information about our sun. I think it's amazing we can look at carbon-14 content here on earth an make inferences about the solar weather 10000 years ago. They're using this to show indirectly that the sun exhibits it's own long term "climate changes" as expected. Of course, other bodies do this as well. For example, that hurricane on Jupiter (the red spot) that's been hanging around for just a little bit longer than Frances.
Ok, whoever modded that comment "Troll" has a absolutely sadistic but delightfully clever sense of humor!