(Sorry I pressed the wrong reply button the first time i posted this response)
No it won't burn away, the cloth is ceramic-coated with the same material as the thermal tiles on the orberter belly; they can withstand thousands of degrees farenheit. The protrusions will break away some, but in past landings, they have measured protrusions of at least one half inch AFTER the craft has landed and the protusion was manipulated by the landing approach. There was no way to know how big the protrusions were prior to landing because they couldn't examine the craft to the level of detail they can post-Columbia.
No it won't burn away, the cloth is ceramic-coated with the same material as the thermal tiles on the orberter belly; they can withstand thousands of degrees farenheit. The protrusions will break away some, but in past landings, they have measured protrusions of at least one half inch AFTER the craft has landed and the protusion was manipulated by the landing. There was no way to know how big the protrusions were prior to landing because they couldn't examine the craft to the level of detail they can post-Columbia.
"Apparently, this is a response to pressure from FOX News who has always offered free video. Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?"
Apparently Drinian thinks he knows the inner-workings of CNN? I see no evidence anywhere (press release or otherwise) to support the idea that this was done to alleviate pressure from competing networks. Perhaps CNN struck some advertising deals that would yeild them more money? Perhaps they realized their subscriber base is so small that maintaining subscriptions was more costly than the revenues from them. There are lots of reasons why the video is free now and i don't think a slashdot headline is an appropriate medium to express the submitter's baseless presumption as to why it happened. With that said, lets all be happy that we have more free news:)
Off Topic but didn't know wherelese to post. Slashdot, you might want to think about doing a case insensitive string comparison against the image's text and the user's text on your new Human Verification thing you have going. My validation string was displayed in the image in ALL CAPS, but until i entered it in the box in lowercase, it wouldn't let me post.
Another issue I have is that some very popular sites that require registration (MySpace, Xanga, several banking sites, etc) do not do e-mail address validation. Given that I have a very very very 'easy to use' e-mail address with my company (e.g., firstname@reallybigisp.net), I get about 30 registrations per day from people who just enter it in instead of their own for whatever reason. And then i get all of their account updates, "you have 4 new responses to your profile!", etc. If every site with user registrations would use the "please validate your account by going to this url" system, it would save a lot of people like myself a lot of hassle of having to go in and cancel the accounts. That has required me to do things like calling up a bank on the phone and trying to convince them that I'm not really the guy who filled out the web form with the wrong e-mail address, and the guy who did really doesn't own that e-mail address. After about 20 minutes of arguing I can finally get those taken care of.
Our whole company was treated to a screening of ROTS this morning. My boss, who doesn't watch television and later admittidely never saw a Star Wars movie prior to today, asked us after it was over, "So do you think they'll make movies about those two twin babies now?" I still have not stopped laughing.
"KDE developers should follow Apple's lead and focus more on the needs of users, instead of insisting on software perfection."
Now I think back to 1995, when IE focused on user needs over software perfection and the following of published specifications. And look what a mess of incompatibility we have today of javascript, css, java VMs, etc. Mainly because M$ focused on 'the needs of users.' No thanks, I'll stick to the specs.
Given that this guy has proven the VX30 components use ShoutCast code, doesn't that give AOL/TimeWarner and open door to sue these guys for GPL violations?
... Leander Kahney (of 'Cult of Mac' book fame) received much heat in February over his "Hide Your iPod; Here Comes Bill" story for Wired describing Micro$oft employees being admonished for using iPods at work. I think/. might have even linked that story. Well, it later turned out (according to other journalists and MS employees) that many of his quotes and sources were possibly somewhat nonsensical and not representative of the entire M$ campus culture.
Now, I, being a big fan of Leander, have noticed that it's been nearly two months since a posting has appeared on his once daily blog, and he hasn't published a story for Wired in nearly three months either.
So it looks like Wired might be doing a lot of house cleaning lately....
It's great to see quality products from Mozilla having not only critical acclaim but also (hopefully) emperical usage data demonstrating how quickly these products are being adapted into online users' every day routines. I see good things for 2005 and beyond.
Does anyone know if the accelerator gives you the option to omit certain webpages from your accelerating experience, or is this going to turn into a huge information mine? (Not that the two are exclusive, there are going to be users who just blindly send anything through the accelerator regardless).
Yes, you can set up exception domains in the GWA settings, along with some other cool settings like prefetch tweaking.
More information about GWA is posted here: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050504-1453 07
Also, browsers other than Firefox and Mozilla can take advantage of GWA if you set them to proxy requests over Localhost:9100 while GWA is running in the system tray. It should also be pointed out that this is apparently geared towards broadband users.
"As Lost Circuits points out, power consumption worldwide has been exploding as more CPUs come online and the CPU power requirements increase so a significant power reduction will reduce the burden on electrical grids everywhere."
While it's important to do whatever we can these day to conserve energy, if every now and then people would think to turn off one single light that doesn't need to be on would conserve more power than this cpu technology.
With that said, for datacenter operations this could help resolve computer room cooling issues. AMDs have historically run hotter than Intel, and I personally know of several companies in Northern Virginia that have a strict policy of Intel-cpu-only gear in the datacenters for this reason.
Although I've been a techie my whole life, i was raised by religiously fanatical parents, so none of this talk of space exploration and evolution would be tolerated in our home. So that excluded enjoying HGG on the radio, television, or bookshelf.
I bring this up because it seems most everyone else here has gotten intimate with HGG in some form or another, so I thought I would provide some insight into the reaction of someone who saw the movie with no previous knowledge of what this thing was all about.
I was so eager to see HGG, I got to the theatre 45 minutes early last night to ensure good seating. I will say it simplye: the movie did NOT disappoint. Funny? Absolutely! There is a lot of silly humor, mainly in the forms of irony and cynicism. Many, many times throughout the movie, the entire theatre was laughing out loud together. I'm not sure who all in the theatre was familiar with the HGG story, everyone there from the 8-year-old kid to the 80-year-old grandparent gave it a unanimous thumbs up. I am actually thinking of going to see this thing again today, it was such a joy to watch the first time! I also just picked the literature from half.com.
To all those News stations that are upset about the hoax, imagine the anxiety suffered by children everywhere who, upon learning that there's no such thing as Santa, realize that your "Santa Tracker" satellite is nothing but a big hoax. Well, except the "bad" kids whose parents sold their toys on eBay. The media ate that one up too, so hopefully it turns out to be a hoax as well!
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(Sorry I pressed the wrong reply button the first time i posted this response) No it won't burn away, the cloth is ceramic-coated with the same material as the thermal tiles on the orberter belly; they can withstand thousands of degrees farenheit. The protrusions will break away some, but in past landings, they have measured protrusions of at least one half inch AFTER the craft has landed and the protusion was manipulated by the landing approach. There was no way to know how big the protrusions were prior to landing because they couldn't examine the craft to the level of detail they can post-Columbia.
No it won't burn away, the cloth is ceramic-coated with the same material as the thermal tiles on the orberter belly; they can withstand thousands of degrees farenheit. The protrusions will break away some, but in past landings, they have measured protrusions of at least one half inch AFTER the craft has landed and the protusion was manipulated by the landing. There was no way to know how big the protrusions were prior to landing because they couldn't examine the craft to the level of detail they can post-Columbia.
"Apparently, this is a response to pressure from FOX News who has always offered free video. Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?"
:)
Apparently Drinian thinks he knows the inner-workings of CNN? I see no evidence anywhere (press release or otherwise) to support the idea that this was done to alleviate pressure from competing networks. Perhaps CNN struck some advertising deals that would yeild them more money? Perhaps they realized their subscriber base is so small that maintaining subscriptions was more costly than the revenues from them. There are lots of reasons why the video is free now and i don't think a slashdot headline is an appropriate medium to express the submitter's baseless presumption as to why it happened. With that said, lets all be happy that we have more free news
And I thought this whole issue was settled with the 1-minute rechargable battery that's on its way.
And we also recently saw an article on Nuclear-powered batteries.
Off Topic but didn't know wherelese to post. Slashdot, you might want to think about doing a case insensitive string comparison against the image's text and the user's text on your new Human Verification thing you have going. My validation string was displayed in the image in ALL CAPS, but until i entered it in the box in lowercase, it wouldn't let me post.
Another issue I have is that some very popular sites that require registration (MySpace, Xanga, several banking sites, etc) do not do e-mail address validation. Given that I have a very very very 'easy to use' e-mail address with my company (e.g., firstname@reallybigisp.net), I get about 30 registrations per day from people who just enter it in instead of their own for whatever reason. And then i get all of their account updates, "you have 4 new responses to your profile!", etc. If every site with user registrations would use the "please validate your account by going to this url" system, it would save a lot of people like myself a lot of hassle of having to go in and cancel the accounts. That has required me to do things like calling up a bank on the phone and trying to convince them that I'm not really the guy who filled out the web form with the wrong e-mail address, and the guy who did really doesn't own that e-mail address. After about 20 minutes of arguing I can finally get those taken care of.
Our whole company was treated to a screening of ROTS this morning. My boss, who doesn't watch television and later admittidely never saw a Star Wars movie prior to today, asked us after it was over, "So do you think they'll make movies about those two twin babies now?" I still have not stopped laughing.
"KDE developers should follow Apple's lead and focus more on the needs of users, instead of insisting on software perfection."
Now I think back to 1995, when IE focused on user needs over software perfection and the following of published specifications. And look what a mess of incompatibility we have today of javascript, css, java VMs, etc. Mainly because M$ focused on 'the needs of users.' No thanks, I'll stick to the specs.
Given that this guy has proven the VX30 components use ShoutCast code, doesn't that give AOL/TimeWarner and open door to sue these guys for GPL violations?
... Leander Kahney (of 'Cult of Mac' book fame) received much heat in February over his "Hide Your iPod; Here Comes Bill" story for Wired describing Micro$oft employees being admonished for using iPods at work. I think /. might have even linked that story. Well, it later turned out (according to other journalists and MS employees) that many of his quotes and sources were possibly somewhat nonsensical and not representative of the entire M$ campus culture.
Now, I, being a big fan of Leander, have noticed that it's been nearly two months since a posting has appeared on his once daily blog, and he hasn't published a story for Wired in nearly three months either.
So it looks like Wired might be doing a lot of house cleaning lately....
It's great to see quality products from Mozilla having not only critical acclaim but also (hopefully) emperical usage data demonstrating how quickly these products are being adapted into online users' every day routines. I see good things for 2005 and beyond.
come on now. George Dubbya knows, he didn't invent the internet, he invented the "internets" :-)
Does anyone know if the accelerator gives you the option to omit certain webpages from your accelerating experience, or is this going to turn into a huge information mine? (Not that the two are exclusive, there are going to be users who just blindly send anything through the accelerator regardless). Yes, you can set up exception domains in the GWA settings, along with some other cool settings like prefetch tweaking.
More information about GWA is posted here: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050504-1453 07
Also, browsers other than Firefox and Mozilla can take advantage of GWA if you set them to proxy requests over Localhost:9100 while GWA is running in the system tray. It should also be pointed out that this is apparently geared towards broadband users.
"As Lost Circuits points out, power consumption worldwide has been exploding as more CPUs come online and the CPU power requirements increase so a significant power reduction will reduce the burden on electrical grids everywhere."
While it's important to do whatever we can these day to conserve energy, if every now and then people would think to turn off one single light that doesn't need to be on would conserve more power than this cpu technology.
With that said, for datacenter operations this could help resolve computer room cooling issues. AMDs have historically run hotter than Intel, and I personally know of several companies in Northern Virginia that have a strict policy of Intel-cpu-only gear in the datacenters for this reason.
So you like the intro? Me too ;-) A friend referred me to this, which you might enjoy seeing one (or twenty) times. http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/games/dolphins.sw f
Although I've been a techie my whole life, i was raised by religiously fanatical parents, so none of this talk of space exploration and evolution would be tolerated in our home. So that excluded enjoying HGG on the radio, television, or bookshelf.
I bring this up because it seems most everyone else here has gotten intimate with HGG in some form or another, so I thought I would provide some insight into the reaction of someone who saw the movie with no previous knowledge of what this thing was all about.
I was so eager to see HGG, I got to the theatre 45 minutes early last night to ensure good seating. I will say it simplye: the movie did NOT disappoint. Funny? Absolutely! There is a lot of silly humor, mainly in the forms of irony and cynicism. Many, many times throughout the movie, the entire theatre was laughing out loud together. I'm not sure who all in the theatre was familiar with the HGG story, everyone there from the 8-year-old kid to the 80-year-old grandparent gave it a unanimous thumbs up. I am actually thinking of going to see this thing again today, it was such a joy to watch the first time! I also just picked the literature from half.com.
To all those News stations that are upset about the hoax, imagine the anxiety suffered by children everywhere who, upon learning that there's no such thing as Santa, realize that your "Santa Tracker" satellite is nothing but a big hoax. Well, except the "bad" kids whose parents sold their toys on eBay. The media ate that one up too, so hopefully it turns out to be a hoax as well!