Hazardous comets and asteroids are monitored by various space agencies under an umbrella effort known as Spaceguard. The vast majority of objects found so far are rocky asteroids. Yet UK-based astronomers Bill Napier at Cardiff University and David Asher at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland claim that many comets could be going undetected. "There is a case to be made that dark, dormant comets are a significant but largely unseen hazard," says Napier.
The article goes on to say that "dark comets are not unheard of. They occur when an 'active' comet's reflective water ice has evaporated away, leaving behind an organic crust that only reflects a small fraction of light."
Exactly! Identity theft and hacking are crimes of opportunity. Put another way, if you walk down the street with your wallet hanging out of your pocket, it's going to get stolen.
And p51d007? You don't want to trust the government for your safety? Tell me, who does a better job of protecting you in the real world?
Tell me: where were the police and armed forces on September 11, 2001? Because they certainly weren't protecting the 2,974 law abiding, peaceful citizens who lost their lives that day.
As the Zen practicioners are indistinguishable from day-dreamers such as my 9 year old son, your refutiation is meaningless.
Not really. They've studied the brains of Zen practitioners in meditation and have determined that Zen meditation actually increases brainwave significantly -- more so than even normal daydreaming.
(cracking a rock to make two is _not_ reprodction)
Is that so different from the way single-celled organisms reproduce asexually? I mean, a cell divides, right? I realize its quite shaky (no DNA, for example), but we are talking about life as we don't know it. The discussion requires an open mind.
What permanent safety are you talking about? Do you really expect that this new 'gated community white-bread-people-only internets' would not be hacked in 5 minutes by some pimply-faced 14-year-old smartass with a chip on his shoulders and a few 1337 h4x0r t00lz?
Understand that network security theory holds that is no such thing as security that cannot be broken.
To quote my main man on the C-Note: "They would trade essential liberty in return for a little temporary safety deserve neither." The B-man was talking about firearms, but it goes for the Intartubes as well.
The Unichrome Project is completely unrelated to VIA. Just a guy with some Unichrome cards and the community working together to write open source drivers. Don't blame the poor guy, it isn't his fault.
You think that's the world, you're seeing? No, you're seeing a representation of it constructed by your mind.
That's how all your senses work. The sensory signals are nothing until interpreted by the brain. Your brain literally does not know the difference between what it perceives through the senses vs. what is playing back in your 'minds eye' through memory. Remembering what an apple looks like and seeing an apple produces the exact same synaptic patterns in the brain.
As far as your postulation about needing to see only movement, I can kind of see your point, though not totally. Evolutionarily speaking, we traded the ability to see well in the dark for extended color perception during the day.
Cats, for example, can see very well in the dark. Their eyes are tuned for detecting movement -- good for hunting. This is why cats are easily amused by laser pointer or a toy on a string, for instance.
Our eyes seem to be more tuned for a broader range of tasks. Probably related to our hunter/gatherer phase. Probably a bit more for the gathering than the hunting, actually.
*shrug* My mainboard is a VIA K8M800 chipset motherboard. What can I say? It was cheap. Runs good though. I don't use their crappy video chipsets, though, I usually stick with Nvidia for that. I encountered the Unichrome driver trying to get my wife's onboard Chrome 9 graphics adapter (K8M890 chipset) to work and after playing with it for a few hours decided to just say 'screw it' and got her an Nvidia Geforce 6200 LE instead.
I will say that for some reason the onboard VIA Rhine III Ethernet controller was junk on that same board. It would randomly drop packets, etc. The add-on card I put in there happens to be a VIA Rhine II (same as on my board), and it works just fine.
That's different really. Google's approach is to build something and see what the Internet community likes. The small business approach is to pitch something and see what the boss/owner likes. A bit different.
But at medium to larger businesses, you do get the chance to present new ideas to higher levels of management. If you pitch an idea and it gets some attention, your group can be given funding to produce a prototype.
Still, usually no one outside the company gets to see these prototypes. There are a couple of exceptions -- in the auto industry you have events like the North American International Auto Show where prototypes are tossed at consumers and marketroids note how the media and how consumers react to the prototypes. That information fuels decisions about new models for the next few years, typically.
But Google's approach is altogether different. First off, the vast majority of their money is tied up in infrastructure, not development. Producing a new product doesn't cost nearly as much as it would a traditional software house.
Think of it this way: what's it take to produce an N-tier enterprise intranet app? An analyst/project manager, maybe a couple of page designers, a couple of domain experts, a 3-4 core software developers, a DBA and a systems/network administrator. And you can do it with half that if you have pay for a team of highly-experienced superstars.
So the reason they can afford to 'toss shit against the wall and see what sticks' is because they're already spending on the infrastructure -- that cost is known and somewhat fixed. The variable part, the new development, costs relatively very little.
Not really. The appeal of satellite radio on car trips is that even when I can't get cell phone service at all, I can get Satellite radio. If you just drive 10 minutes to work in the suburbs near a city, then perhaps your idea is fine.
But you're right of course when it comes to cross-country driving. Cellular coverage period sucks throughout the bulk of the U.S., AAMOF. Digital cellular coverage sucks even worse. Of course that's due to the fact that most people don't live in "the bulk of the U.S.";)
Yep. Wayyyy back when, when I first tried Slackware and couldn't get X to work with my S3 graphics card, my posts were answered with something along the lines of "Get a Riva TNT or an ATI card."
Are you kidding? I have all-you-can-eat data on my phone plan and it only costs me $15/month for the first phone and $7.50 a month for the two additional phones.
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another step forward for Open Source and a sign that Microsoft can adapt.
That's no moon!
Monty Python? Benny Hill? Blackadder? Douglas Adams? Rowan Atkinson?
Subtle innuendo has long been a staple of British humour.
Hey! Look up there! Watch out for that
Here we go, try this article from New Scientist, which has the same story.
Hazardous comets and asteroids are monitored by various space agencies under an umbrella effort known as Spaceguard. The vast majority of objects found so far are rocky asteroids. Yet UK-based astronomers Bill Napier at Cardiff University and David Asher at Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland claim that many comets could be going undetected. "There is a case to be made that dark, dormant comets are a significant but largely unseen hazard," says Napier.
The article goes on to say that "dark comets are not unheard of. They occur when an 'active' comet's reflective water ice has evaporated away, leaving behind an organic crust that only reflects a small fraction of light."
Paranoia is no way to deal with nuclear risks, but neither is being glib.
How about being imlib or gobject instead? Would that be better?
Exactly! Identity theft and hacking are crimes of opportunity. Put another way, if you walk down the street with your wallet hanging out of your pocket, it's going to get stolen.
And p51d007? You don't want to trust the government for your safety? Tell me, who does a better job of protecting you in the real world?
Tell me: where were the police and armed forces on September 11, 2001? Because they certainly weren't protecting the 2,974 law abiding, peaceful citizens who lost their lives that day.
But rocks grow.
As the Zen practicioners are indistinguishable from day-dreamers such as my 9 year old son, your refutiation is meaningless.
Not really. They've studied the brains of Zen practitioners in meditation and have determined that Zen meditation actually increases brainwave significantly -- more so than even normal daydreaming.
(cracking a rock to make two is _not_ reprodction)
Is that so different from the way single-celled organisms reproduce asexually? I mean, a cell divides, right? I realize its quite shaky (no DNA, for example), but we are talking about life as we don't know it. The discussion requires an open mind.
And you don't think China and another large country that are vying for limited resources won't be at war in the next 20 years?
Wake up and smell the peak oil.
There are virtually no Americans who would work for 41 cents per hour under sweatshop labor conditions.
Besides, we have laws banning this sort of thing.
What permanent safety are you talking about? Do you really expect that this new 'gated community white-bread-people-only internets' would not be hacked in 5 minutes by some pimply-faced 14-year-old smartass with a chip on his shoulders and a few 1337 h4x0r t00lz?
Understand that network security theory holds that is no such thing as security that cannot be broken.
In my opinion the French military should rather develop its own national operating system.
Of course, they could use the Linux kernel. And they could call it 'Maginot Linux'!
*ducking*
s/They would/They that would/
To quote my main man on the C-Note: "They would trade essential liberty in return for a little temporary safety deserve neither." The B-man was talking about firearms, but it goes for the Intartubes as well.
The Unichrome Project is completely unrelated to VIA. Just a guy with some Unichrome cards and the community working together to write open source drivers. Don't blame the poor guy, it isn't his fault.
You think that's the world, you're seeing? No, you're seeing a representation of it constructed by your mind.
That's how all your senses work. The sensory signals are nothing until interpreted by the brain. Your brain literally does not know the difference between what it perceives through the senses vs. what is playing back in your 'minds eye' through memory. Remembering what an apple looks like and seeing an apple produces the exact same synaptic patterns in the brain.
As far as your postulation about needing to see only movement, I can kind of see your point, though not totally. Evolutionarily speaking, we traded the ability to see well in the dark for extended color perception during the day.
Cats, for example, can see very well in the dark. Their eyes are tuned for detecting movement -- good for hunting. This is why cats are easily amused by laser pointer or a toy on a string, for instance.
Our eyes seem to be more tuned for a broader range of tasks. Probably related to our hunter/gatherer phase. Probably a bit more for the gathering than the hunting, actually.
*shrug* My mainboard is a VIA K8M800 chipset motherboard. What can I say? It was cheap. Runs good though. I don't use their crappy video chipsets, though, I usually stick with Nvidia for that. I encountered the Unichrome driver trying to get my wife's onboard Chrome 9 graphics adapter (K8M890 chipset) to work and after playing with it for a few hours decided to just say 'screw it' and got her an Nvidia Geforce 6200 LE instead.
I will say that for some reason the onboard VIA Rhine III Ethernet controller was junk on that same board. It would randomly drop packets, etc. The add-on card I put in there happens to be a VIA Rhine II (same as on my board), and it works just fine.
Anyway, YMMV.
That's different really. Google's approach is to build something and see what the Internet community likes. The small business approach is to pitch something and see what the boss/owner likes. A bit different.
But at medium to larger businesses, you do get the chance to present new ideas to higher levels of management. If you pitch an idea and it gets some attention, your group can be given funding to produce a prototype.
Still, usually no one outside the company gets to see these prototypes. There are a couple of exceptions -- in the auto industry you have events like the North American International Auto Show where prototypes are tossed at consumers and marketroids note how the media and how consumers react to the prototypes. That information fuels decisions about new models for the next few years, typically.
But Google's approach is altogether different. First off, the vast majority of their money is tied up in infrastructure, not development. Producing a new product doesn't cost nearly as much as it would a traditional software house.
Think of it this way: what's it take to produce an N-tier enterprise intranet app? An analyst/project manager, maybe a couple of page designers, a couple of domain experts, a 3-4 core software developers, a DBA and a systems/network administrator. And you can do it with half that if you have pay for a team of highly-experienced superstars.
So the reason they can afford to 'toss shit against the wall and see what sticks' is because they're already spending on the infrastructure -- that cost is known and somewhat fixed. The variable part, the new development, costs relatively very little.
Not really. The appeal of satellite radio on car trips is that even when I can't get cell phone service at all, I can get Satellite radio. If you just drive 10 minutes to work in the suburbs near a city, then perhaps your idea is fine.
Well, YMMV, of course, but Sprint's Mobile Broadband coverage is pretty good throughout most of the state of Florida, where I live.
But you're right of course when it comes to cross-country driving. Cellular coverage period sucks throughout the bulk of the U.S., AAMOF. Digital cellular coverage sucks even worse. Of course that's due to the fact that most people don't live in "the bulk of the U.S." ;)
Yep. Wayyyy back when, when I first tried Slackware and couldn't get X to work with my S3 graphics card, my posts were answered with something along the lines of "Get a Riva TNT or an ATI card."
It may be time to help out The Unichrome Project, which produces a driver that works with the older Unichrome and Chrome9 chipsets.
VIA doesn't have much of a history of helping the open source community with specs or source for its S3 graphics cards.
Yeah, but who said anything about it being the same half that have Internet access? (Hint: It's not.)
Are you kidding? I have all-you-can-eat data on my phone plan and it only costs me $15/month for the first phone and $7.50 a month for the two additional phones.
The phone uses no minutes when using data.