...So this thing makes me want to waste money on statistically stacked games in the name of weak free drinks and then go to dark strip clubs to gaze drunkenly at plastic women expose themselves for my few remaining dollar bills?
My high-school science teacher Dad explained this to me when I was about 6 years old.. How is it that these 'great minds' of the world have been grappling with this for so many centuries?
It's refraction... The same reason it's very difficult to catch fish with a spear or bare-handed..
When you look at the water in a stream at an angle, you're not seeing 'in a straight line', the refraction due to the surface of the water causes you to perceive the fish in a different spot than it really is.
This can also be observed in a fish tank (get real, this is Slashdot, do any of us EVER find ourselves wading in fish-bearing streams?) If you look at the tank from the outside, straight-on, you see the fish where it really is. If you look from an angle, however, your perceprion of where the fish is will be distorted in proportion to the angle at which you deviate from the perpendicular (with respect to the side of the tank)
If the surface of the tank were curved (like the atmosphere) you'd perceive the fish to be larger than it is as well.
In the moon's case, if you are looking straight up at the moon when it is directly overhead, you're experiencing as little atmospheric/curvature distortion as possible. As the moon gets lower in the sky, the refraction becomes more pronounced resulting in the perception of a larger moon...
I dub this the Archibald Castell Jr. (Dad) theory of moon illusion.
I assume I'll be contacted by the Nobel people soon...
How about some NEW Sci-Fi? I agree on the Star Trek thing.. Given TNG, B5, Voyager, Enterprise, etc., I'm a bit OVER the whole Star Trek Universe.. B5's writing was nothing more than a re-hashing of racial and political strife.. Some might call it good writing that transcends all time and place constraints -- I call it HACK tripe.
I want to see someone come up with some NEW SCI-FI content without having to go back to the well on Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien, etc. The Matrix was a nice new take on things, Battlestar Galactica is cool, but part of me is tired of the 'hoping to find earth' theme that Voyager beat into the ground. The show's well made and the acting is decent (sure beats B5).
So, how about more truly NEW stuff like the 4400 and such?
also note that Linux support can OFTEN be deferred to 'just use the browser interface...' like you suggest here for Domino... The same thing holds true for Accpac CRM and a number of other packages that are traditionally windows apps but have add-ons (sometimes 3rd party) that provide pretty well-rounded browser-based functionality (GoldMine, SalesLogix, etc.)
those invites are based on the iCal standard. I can't speak for why Sunbird doesn't support them, but the iCal standard is supported by numerous commercial groupware products like GoldMine, Lotu Notes, SalesLogix, etc. It's not rocket science. I suspect the conspicuous absense of support in Sunbird is due to some sort of misguided desire to purposely NOT interact with a Microsoft product -- at their own peril...
Has anyone double-checked the timing on this to see if the energy that hit us coincided with the earthquake that caused the tsunamis? Mass-extinction, indeed...
what a coincidence that you choose to use definition 2a.. I happen to have selected that one as well. The story was about distractions (like/.) and how people fight those distractions, yet, none of us were fighting distraction, instead, many were happily being distracted and further contributing to the distraction by commenting that the very act of commenting was contributing to the distraction. Your misunderstanding of my valid use of the word is YOUR problem, not mine. So, please, Mavis, go count your pennies or review your notebooks to make sure all your i's are dotted exactly in the middle -- or whatever it is you like to do -- but, just go away.
really? what would you call it? I see that you're one of those folks who took part in a apirited debate on the definition of irony in a high school english class once and now feels that the rest of the world misuses the word. Mod me redundant, but I am one of only about 20 people in the thread who seem to agree on this.
'windows key'-D is fewer keys (and avoids that noisy spacebar...)
other helpful 'windows key' key combo's include:
-E (explorer window)
-M (similar to -D but -D is more of a toggle-able thing...)
wait.. someone's coming! Gotta go!
Why the hell would the casino care if you came in and bought little pieces of plastic for $5, $25, $50, etc. and walked off with them? Sounds like an excellent way to turn a profit to me...
No you wouldn't. As a guy who spent a good bit of time on an Aircraft carrier, let me tell you that you only really notice the swaying for the first day or two, after that it becomes a natural part of the environment. Not that I could possibly imagine why a spaceship version of an aircraft carrier would sway so much.. especially one with it's own false gravity developed by people who can do things like build warp drives and artificial gravity generators... You'd think they'd take care of the little things.
for friends and family, it's free plus any favors/services they may want to offer out of good-will. For friends of friends or acquaintences, it's $50/hr for weekend/evening type work at their home or mine in the case of machines needing extended hardware or reformatting work. There is an understanding that they don't bother me at my day job as well.
If I were to do this full time, I'd probably go legit and actually become an LLC and up the charges to $100/hr (though the existing folks would likely retain their $50/hr rate as long as they can pipe some referrals my way!)
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...So this thing makes me want to waste money on statistically stacked games in the name of weak free drinks and then go to dark strip clubs to gaze drunkenly at plastic women expose themselves for my few remaining dollar bills?
This cures my depression how?
My high-school science teacher Dad explained this to me when I was about 6 years old.. How is it that these 'great minds' of the world have been grappling with this for so many centuries?
It's refraction... The same reason it's very difficult to catch fish with a spear or bare-handed..
When you look at the water in a stream at an angle, you're not seeing 'in a straight line', the refraction due to the surface of the water causes you to perceive the fish in a different spot than it really is.
This can also be observed in a fish tank (get real, this is Slashdot, do any of us EVER find ourselves wading in fish-bearing streams?) If you look at the tank from the outside, straight-on, you see the fish where it really is. If you look from an angle, however, your perceprion of where the fish is will be distorted in proportion to the angle at which you deviate from the perpendicular (with respect to the side of the tank)
If the surface of the tank were curved (like the atmosphere) you'd perceive the fish to be larger than it is as well.
In the moon's case, if you are looking straight up at the moon when it is directly overhead, you're experiencing as little atmospheric/curvature distortion as possible. As the moon gets lower in the sky, the refraction becomes more pronounced resulting in the perception of a larger moon...
I dub this the Archibald Castell Jr. (Dad) theory of moon illusion.
I assume I'll be contacted by the Nobel people soon...
Ok, that was a pretty good Rogering...
I, for one, welcome our $5/month music uploading overlords.
butterfly kisses
How about some NEW Sci-Fi? I agree on the Star Trek thing.. Given TNG, B5, Voyager, Enterprise, etc., I'm a bit OVER the whole Star Trek Universe.. B5's writing was nothing more than a re-hashing of racial and political strife.. Some might call it good writing that transcends all time and place constraints -- I call it HACK tripe.
I want to see someone come up with some NEW SCI-FI content without having to go back to the well on Star Wars, Star Trek, Tolkien, etc. The Matrix was a nice new take on things, Battlestar Galactica is cool, but part of me is tired of the 'hoping to find earth' theme that Voyager beat into the ground. The show's well made and the acting is decent (sure beats B5).
So, how about more truly NEW stuff like the 4400 and such?
http://www.tvtome.com/BattlestarGalactica_2004/
Lots more info there along with episode list and synopsis of the entire first season...
also note that Linux support can OFTEN be deferred to 'just use the browser interface...' like you suggest here for Domino... The same thing holds true for Accpac CRM and a number of other packages that are traditionally windows apps but have add-ons (sometimes 3rd party) that provide pretty well-rounded browser-based functionality (GoldMine, SalesLogix, etc.)
disclaimer: I'm a GoldMine/Accpac VAR
those invites are based on the iCal standard. I can't speak for why Sunbird doesn't support them, but the iCal standard is supported by numerous commercial groupware products like GoldMine, Lotu Notes, SalesLogix, etc. It's not rocket science. I suspect the conspicuous absense of support in Sunbird is due to some sort of misguided desire to purposely NOT interact with a Microsoft product -- at their own peril...
Has anyone double-checked the timing on this to see if the energy that hit us coincided with the earthquake that caused the tsunamis? Mass-extinction, indeed...
/me blinks
Why don't we just get the ability to MOD top-level articles like this as DUPE? Seems like it'd save a lot of time...
Whatever you say buddy...
sorry, chief, I thought you mentioned being Canadian (on the American continent). Too many tabs open, I guess.
what a coincidence that you choose to use definition 2a.. I happen to have selected that one as well. The story was about distractions (like /.) and how people fight those distractions, yet, none of us were fighting distraction, instead, many were happily being distracted and further contributing to the distraction by commenting that the very act of commenting was contributing to the distraction. Your misunderstanding of my valid use of the word is YOUR problem, not mine. So, please, Mavis, go count your pennies or review your notebooks to make sure all your i's are dotted exactly in the middle -- or whatever it is you like to do -- but, just go away.
Hate to break it to you, but you live in North America, which, technically, makes your American...
unless, of course, you're dying of cancer...
really? what would you call it? I see that you're one of those folks who took part in a apirited debate on the definition of irony in a high school english class once and now feels that the rest of the world misuses the word. Mod me redundant, but I am one of only about 20 people in the thread who seem to agree on this.
'windows key'-D is fewer keys (and avoids that noisy spacebar...) other helpful 'windows key' key combo's include: -E (explorer window) -M (similar to -D but -D is more of a toggle-able thing...) wait.. someone's coming! Gotta go!
Why the hell would the casino care if you came in and bought little pieces of plastic for $5, $25, $50, etc. and walked off with them? Sounds like an excellent way to turn a profit to me...
isn't it ironic that this post has been getting replies at a rate of more than 1 per minute since being posted?
just drag ecto over to your second monitor and figure it out later..
No you wouldn't. As a guy who spent a good bit of time on an Aircraft carrier, let me tell you that you only really notice the swaying for the first day or two, after that it becomes a natural part of the environment. Not that I could possibly imagine why a spaceship version of an aircraft carrier would sway so much.. especially one with it's own false gravity developed by people who can do things like build warp drives and artificial gravity generators... You'd think they'd take care of the little things.
for friends and family, it's free plus any favors/services they may want to offer out of good-will. For friends of friends or acquaintences, it's $50/hr for weekend/evening type work at their home or mine in the case of machines needing extended hardware or reformatting work. There is an understanding that they don't bother me at my day job as well. If I were to do this full time, I'd probably go legit and actually become an LLC and up the charges to $100/hr (though the existing folks would likely retain their $50/hr rate as long as they can pipe some referrals my way!)
c'mon, aren't you ALL signed up as MicroSoft 'Partners' too?