Here's an explanation from NASA. In shorter version, how fast the sunspots cycle in and out of the Sun's surface determines how big they get.
So the article says that the sunspots have reached 1000-year peak, but the NASA article says that sunspots are at the minimum right now (Solar Minimum). Which one is correct?
Slashdot presents "The Torture of Overhearing" list:
Flying from TX: "Down't fuhget now, take.. m'gun.. to the stowre.. for a fixin'.. owkay?" Flying from Southwest: "ey cabron, don forget to buy some tortilla before yu head home okee ese?" Flying from Canada: "oohkeeh, i'll see you later hey? you take care hey?" Flying from NJ: (loudly) "tell Lil' Vinny to pony it up, or else I'm sending him swimming with the fishes tonight!"
you'll either appreciate the melting pot that is our beloved country or start melting and go ballistic on those people, maybe not that last one.
please answer this as honest and straightforward as possible..
-can you sum up the business strategy on PS3 in 3-5 sentences? -how are the business strategy being implemented? especially on the technical side (i.e. is Sony helping to overcome difficulties in developing games for cell?), marketing side (weird ads, and boy, the terrible damage controls)
these questions came up because many things done for the PS3 seem to have been reactionary. The last minute addition of accelerometer to the control, the shape change of the control pad, the "Home" concept to XBLA and Miis to name a few.
3) Listen to jazz (of any kind, or any kind of music for that matter) on the FREE Shoutcast or iTunes radio, and use the money to actually buy the songs you discover from the radio.
Cheaper and makes more sense. Hey they even got Howard Stern on Shoutcast 24/7.. turn from a sternaholic to sternophobic in just a couple of days!
To ensure to maximum certainty that a soldier had fallen instead of just losing limbs, there's no better place to put the RFID tag but on the forehead.
and also, since we have criminals and soldiers tagged, why not tag everyone else that are prone to 'potentially disfiguring accidents"? Included in that would be people who rides in cars, public transportation (air, land, water).
I'm trying so hard not to relate this to revelation.
PS. oh, and a person who wants to steal your identity doesn't need to wave a scanner in front of you. Just by being in close proximity with a scanner in a backpack is all it takes.
aside from knowing my ability to fulfill the requirement of the task on time, I also need another factor to set in to be able to start and perform what I need to do: the sense of URGENCY.
In college, at night before an exam (quiz, midt, or even final) I would not, or could not, study until early AM. My typical night-before-exam is chill/hangout with friends, then jay leno, then o'brien, then maybe some other shows after that. By this time I'd probably be hungry and fix myself some ramen.
Then I'd sit by the desk and start reading. The reading won't take long due to distraction of what's on the computer, maybe check out ebay items, check out who's online on IM, play songs, etc.
Finally, the brain is most ready for academic input at around 3 to 5 hours prior to exam. By then, even skimming the pages would still result in good grades.
Therefore, I think procrastination is just a phase to build an incentive for the self. For others maybe it's to wait for all necessary info to set in before starting the task, for me it's the sense of urgency.
you have to remember, in the US-not to mention the world- the last mile is still a problem.
What's the percentage of users able to stream in DVD quality movies into their homes? and still if many of us get a fast broadband, do we have enough bandwidth to support the huge traffic?
NO, but for the low low interest of.5% a month, you can trade a fraction of your mortgage towards payment of this hyper-connected, worry-free, your-life-on-surveillance-by-BestBuy-24/7 wonderful life.
XBOX360 = $400 + $200 for HDDVD (with no HDMI output i might add)
= $600
not to start a flamewar here but the fact stands. same price, but one is external and HDMIless. btw, by being external, is there any performance toll for the HD-DVD as opposed to having the drive internal?
"We have gathered information from inside NASA, that during the last minutes of contacts the Mars Global Surveyor sent out an encrypted message. After a grueling three hours trying to decrypt the message, top scientists at NASA was startled to see what appears to be a message from semi-intelligent beings. It reads 'How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us.' Then the MGS went silent.
Governments of the United States and Western Europe have moved to take of every zig. Although it is widely believed that we have no chance to survive make our time, the scientists insist that we must indeed move zig.
by the same logic, with global warming at hand, can we as human evolve to think/calculate/compute faster enough (albeit not much due to little increase in temp) to:
-invent technologies that enable us to escape earth should it become less habitable? OR -invent better ways to suppress/reverse global warming?
remember, living organisms work better on survival when there is threat
just to add to the hordes of poster already posting their experience: I had been dissing FF2 since its new features were first made public. Just to name a few, X close button on each tab, the anti-phishing feature, and other things that i considered a bloat-factor.
But yesterday I decided to make a go for it after testing FF2 on other PC since RC1. I dled 2.0 and to my surprise, most extensions and themes already have updates available. That includes CloneWindow by Pikey, which I considered key feature that I needed when I jumped from IE years ago. Also, I found out ways to disable things I didn't want, namely the close tab buttons, which I changed to 1.5 style.
On usage, loading the program felt faster, although loading some websites felt a little slower compared to 1.5..
all in all, I think the upgrade to 2.0 is worthwhile, if you take the time to tailor it to your wants n needs.
this is just a 'bonus feature' from Nintendo to what already much more anticipated game console relative to its two competitors, at least in terms of gameplay n funfactor.
Folks who can't not play their retro games will be happy (despite maybe some grunts over the price), and those who dont will too be happy for not having to pay extra for backward compatibility..
It all looks very impressive on paper, but they're having trouble getting enough juice to those magnets, and as yet have been unable to give the BALMER anything but a dry run.
However, with my newly-released Preprogrammed Magnet-Intensifier Pro (P.I.M.P.) juice, all the trouble is only a thing of the past..
The new, enhanced version is even more powerful that it eliminates the need for a UPS (Uninterruptible Probability of Scoring) unit.
disclaimer:
PIMP juice may contain traces of nuts.
am I the only one who felt betrayed by this announcement because I own the 1.83 MBP? Not only did Apple give the Black MB (almost) the same spec as the 1.83 MBP, to add insult to the injury, they have now DISCONTINUED the 1.83 MBP.
"The lunar landing sites will still be recognizable in 200 million years. Even the footprints are estimated to survive for a hundred times the age of the Pyramids."
200 years? This must mean the government puts great care of that studio in Burbank where they shot the landing sites scene..
Slashdot Mirror
Here's an explanation from NASA. In shorter version, how fast the sunspots cycle in and out of the Sun's surface determines how big they get.
So the article says that the sunspots have reached 1000-year peak, but the NASA article says that sunspots are at the minimum right now (Solar Minimum). Which one is correct?
Slashdot presents "The Torture of Overhearing" list:
Flying from TX: "Down't fuhget now, take.. m'gun.. to the stowre.. for a fixin'.. owkay?"
Flying from Southwest: "ey cabron, don forget to buy some tortilla before yu head home okee ese?"
Flying from Canada: "oohkeeh, i'll see you later hey? you take care hey?"
Flying from NJ: (loudly) "tell Lil' Vinny to pony it up, or else I'm sending him swimming with the fishes tonight!"
you'll either appreciate the melting pot that is our beloved country or start melting and go ballistic on those people, maybe not that last one.
please answer this as honest and straightforward as possible..
-can you sum up the business strategy on PS3 in 3-5 sentences?
-how are the business strategy being implemented? especially on the technical side (i.e. is Sony helping to overcome difficulties in developing games for cell?), marketing side (weird ads, and boy, the terrible damage controls)
these questions came up because many things done for the PS3 seem to have been reactionary. The last minute addition of accelerometer to the control, the shape change of the control pad, the "Home" concept to XBLA and Miis to name a few.
*sigh* you people..
Nothing to See Here, Please Move Along!
wouldnt you want two hands typing on keyboard, while two other are holding beer and hotdog?
hell, add two more to hold the remote and to scratch balls!
let me take a shot..
3) Listen to jazz (of any kind, or any kind of music for that matter) on the FREE Shoutcast or iTunes radio, and use the money to actually buy the songs you discover from the radio.
Cheaper and makes more sense. Hey they even got Howard Stern on Shoutcast 24/7.. turn from a sternaholic to sternophobic in just a couple of days!
are you a mexiCAN or a mexiCAN'T?
so, for point number two above:
To ensure to maximum certainty that a soldier had fallen instead of just losing limbs, there's no better place to put the RFID tag but on the forehead.
and also, since we have criminals and soldiers tagged, why not tag everyone else that are prone to 'potentially disfiguring accidents"? Included in that would be people who rides in cars, public transportation (air, land, water).
I'm trying so hard not to relate this to revelation.
PS. oh, and a person who wants to steal your identity doesn't need to wave a scanner in front of you. Just by being in close proximity with a scanner in a backpack is all it takes.
adding to parent thread pla's comment,
aside from knowing my ability to fulfill the requirement of the task on time, I also need another factor to set in to be able to start and perform what I need to do: the sense of URGENCY.
In college, at night before an exam (quiz, midt, or even final) I would not, or could not, study until early AM. My typical night-before-exam is chill/hangout with friends, then jay leno, then o'brien, then maybe some other shows after that. By this time I'd probably be hungry and fix myself some ramen.
Then I'd sit by the desk and start reading. The reading won't take long due to distraction of what's on the computer, maybe check out ebay items, check out who's online on IM, play songs, etc.
Finally, the brain is most ready for academic input at around 3 to 5 hours prior to exam. By then, even skimming the pages would still result in good grades.
Therefore, I think procrastination is just a phase to build an incentive for the self. For others maybe it's to wait for all necessary info to set in before starting the task, for me it's the sense of urgency.
you have to remember, in the US-not to mention the world- the last mile is still a problem.
What's the percentage of users able to stream in DVD quality movies into their homes?
and still if many of us get a fast broadband, do we have enough bandwidth to support the huge traffic?
NO, .5% a month, you can trade a fraction of your mortgage towards payment of this hyper-connected, worry-free, your-life-on-surveillance-by-BestBuy-24/7 wonderful life.
but for the low low interest of
and remember:
PS360GB = $600
XBOX360 = $400 + $200 for HDDVD (with no HDMI output i might add)
= $600
not to start a flamewar here but the fact stands. same price, but one is external and HDMIless. btw, by being external, is there any performance toll for the HD-DVD as opposed to having the drive internal?
From the Associated Pres news:
"We have gathered information from inside NASA, that during the last minutes of contacts the Mars Global Surveyor sent out an encrypted message. After a grueling three hours trying to decrypt the message, top scientists at NASA was startled to see what appears to be a message from semi-intelligent beings. It reads 'How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us.' Then the MGS went silent.
Governments of the United States and Western Europe have moved to take of every zig. Although it is widely believed that we have no chance to survive make our time, the scientists insist that we must indeed move zig.
God help us
it's a short from
Rollercoaster Escape System for Critically Unstable Environment
screw RES, RESCUE me!!
by the same logic, with global warming at hand, can we as human evolve to think/calculate/compute faster enough (albeit not much due to little increase in temp) to:
-invent technologies that enable us to escape earth should it become less habitable?
OR
-invent better ways to suppress/reverse global warming?
remember, living organisms work better on survival when there is threat
just to add to the hordes of poster already posting their experience:
I had been dissing FF2 since its new features were first made public. Just to name a few, X close button on each tab, the anti-phishing feature, and other things that i considered a bloat-factor.
But yesterday I decided to make a go for it after testing FF2 on other PC since RC1. I dled 2.0 and to my surprise, most extensions and themes already have updates available. That includes CloneWindow by Pikey, which I considered key feature that I needed when I jumped from IE years ago.
Also, I found out ways to disable things I didn't want, namely the close tab buttons, which I changed to 1.5 style.
On usage, loading the program felt faster, although loading some websites felt a little slower compared to 1.5..
all in all, I think the upgrade to 2.0 is worthwhile, if you take the time to tailor it to your wants n needs.
this is just a 'bonus feature' from Nintendo to what already much more anticipated game console relative to its two competitors, at least in terms of gameplay n funfactor.
Folks who can't not play their retro games will be happy (despite maybe some grunts over the price), and those who dont will too be happy for not having to pay extra for backward compatibility..
dontchathink?
However, with my newly-released Preprogrammed Magnet-Intensifier Pro (P.I.M.P.) juice, all the trouble is only a thing of the past..
The new, enhanced version is even more powerful that it eliminates the need for a UPS (Uninterruptible Probability of Scoring) unit.
disclaimer: PIMP juice may contain traces of nuts.
am I the only one who felt betrayed by this announcement because I own the 1.83 MBP?
Not only did Apple give the Black MB (almost) the same spec as the 1.83 MBP, to add insult to the injury, they have now DISCONTINUED the 1.83 MBP.
WHAT DO I DOO??!! *runs away sobbing*
"The lunar landing sites will still be recognizable in 200 million years. Even the footprints are estimated to survive for a hundred times the age of the Pyramids."
200 years? This must mean the government puts great care of that studio in Burbank where they shot the landing sites scene..
how does a port scan or packet flood show on the sculpture?
according to this article at Gizmodo, the MacBook Pro arrives Feb 15..
dont know about yall but i'm keeping my hopes high whether it's true or not!
does it also feature the Continuum Transfunctioner? ..if not then I'm not buying.
what about the ones that invade other countries for no reason? and dont give me "for greater good" argument back..