I apologize to all who caught the mistake of "millions", when it should have said "billions". I would offer an excuse such as, "It was late at night when I submitted this story, so I was very tired at the time and it slipped through even though I previewed the story three times," but I don't think anyone wants to hear excuses. Again, sorry!
Note: I live in Arizona
Well, Bush has arrived and Kerry will be here soon. The media circus is ramping up. No one seemed to doubt that "the show" would go on.
I don't plan on watching the debate, though. If Badnarik had been able to participate, I probably would have, because a three-way debate might have offered me a lot more insights into the candidates views. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a libertarian, and most probably won't vote libertarian. But watching Bush and Kerry spout their canned and polished diatribes at each other won't enlighten me any.
I agree with you, when you look at the image from the article showing the pollution concentrations, they seem to be aligned with the largest populated industrial areas, even in the US.
The other thing I notice is that there seem to be "tails" from the concentrated areas that trail off to the west in lighter shaded bands (due to the earth's rotation?).
"I'm a consultant in the computer business, in Columbus Ohio. SETI@home is running on machines on my network around the house, using 5 Sun processors in the 400MHz range amd one P4 1.8 GHz."
and
"I'm sure extraterrestrial life exists. Will we ever discover it or visa versa? That's anybody's guess. But SETI@home seems like a great idea, and certainly worth putting on machines that sit here and run 24/7 anyway! It does screw up my workload average statistics though:-) "
That gives us a little insight on his thought processes about using computers that just "sit here and run 24/7 anyway!"
Living here in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona where temperatures are 100+ degress for 5-6 months of the year, I can some practical uses for something like this:
- Athletic departments of colleges, high schools, etc; every summer, especially when football programs start up, students are taken to the hospital due to heat exhaustion and heat stroke
- Emergency Medical Response teams
- Anywhere where workers are required to be outdoors during the heat of the day
On average, 29 people a year die of heatstroke in Arizona alone. (That doesn't include the illegal immigration deaths, of which were 172 documented so far in 2004, probably more all told.) Something like this could be very useful, commercially, it just depends on how practical and expensive it would be.
Nature.com states that the feathers are actually protofeathers which are more like hair. Instead of having a central shaft and barbs, they are single flexible filaments that would have covered the dinosaur's body.
Another interesting note from the article: The first Jurassic Park film featured scaly reptiles, but in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV all the dinosaurs now will have feathers.
"To put on the debate, the school raised more than $2 million in donations through private donors. But the complaint says those officials who solicited donations were working for the state, thus violating the law. "
- Use it to time-shift your TV shows
- Can edit out commercials
- Can alter the screen ratio to normal, full, 4:3, or 16:9 (letterboxing)
- Boots up in seconds (as opposed to laptops)
- Shows recorded on the unit can be played on your PC (or is that a minus?)
- Can import TV listings from Yahoo! for programming
- Create playlists on the fly with s split screen and allows you to sort music files by artist, album, title, genre, year or playlist
- Built in microphone for live recording in addition to in-line recording
Minuses:
- For the best video playback at 2,500 Kbps (near television quality), using about 2GB per hour of recording; so 20GB model holds about 10 hours (80 GB model holds about 40 hours)
- Device will record files up to 2GB in size before closing that file and starting another
- By default, external speakers stay on, even when you plug in the headphones (potentially embarassing and annoying)
- Freezes on last image when fast-forwarding or rewinding so that you can't observe your progress
- Can't program for repeat events (such as weekly episodes), each episode has to be programmed seperately
- Gapless playback of songs is not supported
- Navigation buttons are not backlit, making use in very low-light situations difficult
- Records in WAV format only
I have three kids... they each had to have their own Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green game. They use the wireless adapter on a daily basis for trades and for a couple of mini-games. This adds a whole new dimension to their enjoyment of the game. I've tried out the wireless adapter myself, works great even through walls; you don't even need to be in the same room (that could make being sent to your room fun).
The specs for the Freescale wireless chipsets say that the range is 10 meters indoors and 20 meters outdoors, though Nintendo recommends no more than 10 feet (3 meters). Plus it's supposed to be able to communicate with special base stations connected to the internet at certain locations (in Japan only) for long-distance play.
This makes me think that the DS is going to be similar to this, except maybe a pumped up version. I don't see that its feasible for it to work at great distances, though. Mainly in high density areas like Tokyo/New York?
CNN is recently had a story about Mauna Loa showing signs of erupting. Mauna Loa is on the Big Island and hasn't erupted since 1984, although the well-known Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. Both of these volcanoes are located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
It'll be interesting to see if volcanologists can use these events to hone their eruption prediction skills based on the increased seismology and more sensitive tracking equipment.
On the other hand though, it is predicted in the article that in 2562, "...Toutatis will pass within 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) of Earth." What would happen if it hit the moon?
The sugar molecule they are talking about here is glycolaldehyde, not a digestible sugar for humans. Might make a good diet sweetener though, dunno, though anything with -aldehyde in the name doesn't sound appealing.
Well, its not like we can just pile into a spaceship and go somewhere like it's a roadtrip.
First, we gotta pack all the stuff we're gonna need, because there aren't any 7-11's or Autozones or Home Depot's on the way.
Then we need a place to go to! There's no feasable way to even leave the solar system unless we're prepared to send off a group of people never to be seen or heard from again to another sun that may or may not have a planet, much less one habitable by humans. Remember that views we get in telescopes of distant objects outside the solar system show things as they were X amount of time ago, due to the distances light travels. That object may not even be in that location by the time a ship arrives there.
So that leaves our own solar system, which is still a very inhospitable place. I would love to see a base established on the moon, and one on Mars too, even a real space station for the masses. But there has to be a lot of thought and preparation (and money) to do that or else it's doomed before it even gets out of orbit.
Tell me about it! We have two G3's and have had the cases off both. One of them we couldn't get the case back on properly so now the power button can only be accessed by poking it with a pen through the case hole. Also I've found that once the case has been off, then put back on, the vibration noise is louder, which is irritating. Plus it's a desktop hog... I'm jealous of all those who have the G4's and G5's for that reason alone!
I went to the website to see for myself (and to do some/.ing) and the script tried twice to download the.exe file to my computer without my even touching the scrollbar.
...out-of-state visitors are more stupid. Visitors to the Alpine Visitors Center (elevation 11,796 ft) in Rocky Mountain National Park are frequently cautioned about lightning and park rangers tell visitors what the warning signs of an impending strike are and what to do to avoid being killed in that event. Yet visitors are injured and killed by lightning there every year.
Actually according to this
web page Florida had the most lightning related deaths (126) from 1990-2003, Texas (52) was second, and Colorado (39) was third.
There is a blog called Duke's
Vomit Comet Crew written by four Duke University students who were
chosen to perform experiments studying the effects of microgravity while
riding on NASA's Vomit Comet plane. They describe what their
ride was like and include pictures
and video.
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... to be permanently hard-wired to my computer.
I apologize to all who caught the mistake of "millions", when it should have said "billions". I would offer an excuse such as, "It was late at night when I submitted this story, so I was very tired at the time and it slipped through even though I previewed the story three times," but I don't think anyone wants to hear excuses. Again, sorry!
Note: I live in Arizona
Well, Bush has arrived and Kerry will be here soon. The media circus is ramping up. No one seemed to doubt that "the show" would go on.
I don't plan on watching the debate, though. If Badnarik had been able to participate, I probably would have, because a three-way debate might have offered me a lot more insights into the candidates views. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a libertarian, and most probably won't vote libertarian. But watching Bush and Kerry spout their canned and polished diatribes at each other won't enlighten me any.
I agree with you, when you look at the image from the article showing the pollution concentrations, they seem to be aligned with the largest populated industrial areas, even in the US.
The other thing I notice is that there seem to be "tails" from the concentrated areas that trail off to the west in lighter shaded bands (due to the earth's rotation?).
You may or may not be aware of this but the Gamecube game Animal Crossing has an unlockable version of NES Legend of Zelda in it, along with several other old NES games.
From his SETI@home website:
:-) "
"I'm a consultant in the computer business, in Columbus Ohio. SETI@home is running on machines on my network around the house, using 5 Sun processors in the 400MHz range amd one P4 1.8 GHz."
and
"I'm sure extraterrestrial life exists. Will we ever discover it or visa versa? That's anybody's guess. But SETI@home seems like a great idea, and certainly worth putting on machines that sit here and run 24/7 anyway! It does screw up my workload average statistics though
That gives us a little insight on his thought processes about using computers that just "sit here and run 24/7 anyway!"
Living here in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona where temperatures are 100+ degress for 5-6 months of the year, I can some practical uses for something like this:
- Athletic departments of colleges, high schools, etc; every summer, especially when football programs start up, students are taken to the hospital due to heat exhaustion and heat stroke
- Emergency Medical Response teams
- Anywhere where workers are required to be outdoors during the heat of the day
On average, 29 people a year die of heatstroke in Arizona alone. (That doesn't include the illegal immigration deaths, of which were 172 documented so far in 2004, probably more all told.) Something like this could be very useful, commercially, it just depends on how practical and expensive it would be.
Nature.com states that the feathers are actually protofeathers which are more like hair. Instead of having a central shaft and barbs, they are single flexible filaments that would have covered the dinosaur's body.
Another interesting note from the article: The first Jurassic Park film featured scaly reptiles, but in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV all the dinosaurs now will have feathers.
According to this article at azcentral.com:
"To put on the debate, the school raised more than $2 million in donations through private donors. But the complaint says those officials who solicited donations were working for the state, thus violating the law. "
Plusses:
- Use it to time-shift your TV shows
- Can edit out commercials
- Can alter the screen ratio to normal, full, 4:3, or 16:9 (letterboxing)
- Boots up in seconds (as opposed to laptops)
- Shows recorded on the unit can be played on your PC (or is that a minus?)
- Can import TV listings from Yahoo! for programming
- Create playlists on the fly with s split screen and allows you to sort music files by artist, album, title, genre, year or playlist
- Built in microphone for live recording in addition to in-line recording
Minuses:
- For the best video playback at 2,500 Kbps (near television quality), using about 2GB per hour of recording; so 20GB model holds about 10 hours (80 GB model holds about 40 hours)
- Device will record files up to 2GB in size before closing that file and starting another
- By default, external speakers stay on, even when you plug in the headphones (potentially embarassing and annoying)
- Freezes on last image when fast-forwarding or rewinding so that you can't observe your progress
- Can't program for repeat events (such as weekly episodes), each episode has to be programmed seperately
- Gapless playback of songs is not supported
- Navigation buttons are not backlit, making use in very low-light situations difficult
- Records in WAV format only
The .gif file on the Space.com webpage is taken from the video. Eleven minutes compressed into about 6 seconds.
I have three kids... they each had to have their own Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green game. They use the wireless adapter on a daily basis for trades and for a couple of mini-games. This adds a whole new dimension to their enjoyment of the game. I've tried out the wireless adapter myself, works great even through walls; you don't even need to be in the same room (that could make being sent to your room fun).
The specs for the Freescale wireless chipsets say that the range is 10 meters indoors and 20 meters outdoors, though Nintendo recommends no more than 10 feet (3 meters). Plus it's supposed to be able to communicate with special base stations connected to the internet at certain locations (in Japan only) for long-distance play.
This makes me think that the DS is going to be similar to this, except maybe a pumped up version. I don't see that its feasible for it to work at great distances, though. Mainly in high density areas like Tokyo/New York?
CNN is recently had a story about Mauna Loa showing signs of erupting. Mauna Loa is on the Big Island and hasn't erupted since 1984, although the well-known Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. Both of these volcanoes are located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
It'll be interesting to see if volcanologists can use these events to hone their eruption prediction skills based on the increased seismology and more sensitive tracking equipment.
On the other hand though, it is predicted in the article that in 2562, "...Toutatis will pass within 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) of Earth." What would happen if it hit the moon?
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The sugar molecule they are talking about here is glycolaldehyde, not a digestible sugar for humans. Might make a good diet sweetener though, dunno, though anything with -aldehyde in the name doesn't sound appealing.
Well, its not like we can just pile into a spaceship and go somewhere like it's a roadtrip.
First, we gotta pack all the stuff we're gonna need, because there aren't any 7-11's or Autozones or Home Depot's on the way.
Then we need a place to go to! There's no feasable way to even leave the solar system unless we're prepared to send off a group of people never to be seen or heard from again to another sun that may or may not have a planet, much less one habitable by humans. Remember that views we get in telescopes of distant objects outside the solar system show things as they were X amount of time ago, due to the distances light travels. That object may not even be in that location by the time a ship arrives there.
So that leaves our own solar system, which is still a very inhospitable place. I would love to see a base established on the moon, and one on Mars too, even a real space station for the masses. But there has to be a lot of thought and preparation (and money) to do that or else it's doomed before it even gets out of orbit.
Tell me about it! We have two G3's and have had the cases off both. One of them we couldn't get the case back on properly so now the power button can only be accessed by poking it with a pen through the case hole. Also I've found that once the case has been off, then put back on, the vibration noise is louder, which is irritating. Plus it's a desktop hog... I'm jealous of all those who have the G4's and G5's for that reason alone!
Pfft... Forget it then!
...thank god I have a Mac!
/.ing) and the script tried twice to download the .exe file to my computer without my even touching the scrollbar.
I went to the website to see for myself (and to do some
...HAL is past his expiration date!
...out-of-state visitors are more stupid. Visitors to the Alpine Visitors Center (elevation 11,796 ft) in Rocky Mountain National Park are frequently cautioned about lightning and park rangers tell visitors what the warning signs of an impending strike are and what to do to avoid being killed in that event. Yet visitors are injured and killed by lightning there every year.
Actually according to this web page Florida had the most lightning related deaths (126) from 1990-2003, Texas (52) was second, and Colorado (39) was third.
There is a blog called Duke's Vomit Comet Crew written by four Duke University students who were chosen to perform experiments studying the effects of microgravity while riding on NASA's Vomit Comet plane. They describe what their ride was like and include pictures and video.