Wouldnt matter too much...our Milky Way and Andromeda are on a slow collision course anyway - by the time an ejected star got here, the rest of the galaxy would be right behind it. But no need to go hide in a cave just yet, we've still got about 3 billion years.
That surprised me too. its a very small and very new site though, so its not too surprising that a small segment is using IE. last month, i had 928 hits from IE users, including: 1 person using ie6.1, 905 using ie6.0, 3 using ie5.5, and 19 using ie5. (oddly enough i also got hits from pretty much every version of netscape ever published.) The month prior, ie stats were about the same, with about 1200 more hits overall with a similar distribution. i was amazed to find several people using lynx and galeon. I'm not in any particular IE or FF camp, just showing an interesting trend.
OTHERS ----
Unknown ---- 155
Safari ---- 111
Mozilla ---- 98
Opera ---- 16
Dillo ---- 12
IE = 1699 hits,
FF = 7181 hits
..out of 9273 total hits*. Hmm. Interesting.
*data via awstats 6.4
Question about saftety...how do you measure it?
on
NASA's New Shuttle
·
· Score: 1
From the not-quite-an-article, the next gen shuttle is reputedly 10 times safer than the space shuttle. I know next to nothing about safety standards..but could anyone tell me how safety is quantified???
Who else misses real honest to god albums? Yes, of the vinyl record variety. You get some incredible artwork (sometimes the best, sometimes the worst), plus a full listing of lyrics, and often a story or two about the meaning of a track or how it was created. Moreover, you got analog sound at its best. Don't get me wrong, digital is fantastic, and I surely cant tell the difference between good analog and good digital any longer. But try this today. Crank up that old turntable, grab a your favorite vinyl out of storage, and remember how music used to be.
Sounds like left hand doesn't know what the right is doing..
Today's early "Race to Linux" thread about porting.Net linked to this article, which explicitly mentions mono as being an allowable language. This just seems odd to me, expecially because its also sponsored by the very same Microsoft Professional Developers Conversation..
A far better analog to the human hand is located here. The robotics folks over at Shadow really know what they're doing (check the videos). As anyone who checks the Shadow site will see, TFA's "clever artificial hand" does not win the prize for "the first artificially-made opposable thumb." Interesting nevertheless..if only we could see some realworld applications..
Does this remind anyone else of WindowsME? Vista has seemed to shed features in droves; WinME was a ultimately a non-version with some cosmetic changes and function that didn't live up to the hype. Is this what we can expect for Redmonds latest and greatest?
Is that even worth it?? The number of servers that can send that much down the pipe at speed to you are few and far between. That would be a lot of lost potential (and money).
Remove yourself from the context of your comfortable, padded chair and welcoming home. Transport yourself 80 million miles away through an airless void, and arrive upon a celestial artifact, a desert planet late in life. Stunningly beautiful in its own sublime way, isn't it?
Context is everything. Open your eyes and be amazed at what you might see.
Both are completely right. An elaboration: Wheras the CNN article discusses the stabilization of ozone depletion, the BBC article discusses the size of the Antarctic ozone hole. The BBC piece says, in not so many words, that the size of the ozone depleted region was largest in 2000 and 2003, owing to biennial-ish seasonal fluctuations and weather conditions. The hole might be of similar size THIS year as well for the same reasons. However, to quote from the very same BBC article:
Two years ago researchers produced the first evidence that damage to the ozone layer is slowing down; globally, they showed, destruction continues, but at a slower rate than before.
That is down to the Montreal Protocol, established in 1987, which has limited production and use of CFCs and related substances.
But the indications are that the ozone layer will not be back to its pre-industrial condition for at least another 50 years.
So then, both articles do indeed agree. They were not referring to separate conclusions on the same issue, but instead to different facets of the same phenomenon.
If you were on earth, that might be the case. Several factors are at work here: Earth's air pressure at sea level is 14 lb/in (1015ish millibars); on the other hand, martian atmospheric pressures are more on the order of 5 millibars. Thats damned low. Aside from that, you have an exceptionally arid atmosphere and most of the ice on mars is actually CO2. Add all of this together and the ice doesnt even have a chance to melt; it simply sublimes away into the atmosphere.
Some water on the surface of mars has been already detected. However, whether it be frozen or liquid, the search water beneath the regolith is the single most important priority for any manned exploration of our celestial neighbor. Any water present in subsurface acquifers would open the floodgates for progress on mars. It would: provide for human habitation, be a veritable hotbed for xenobiology, and provide the chemical components for fuel cells and even rocket propellant. Our generation needs something exciting as motivation..cross your fingers.
From TFA: "Court papers say that although the employee was tracked down because another one of the films he pirated bore a watermark linking it to the theater where he worked, he also had the ability to delete watermarks from other films."
That seems to make things sound much more devious...Wouldn't sufficient recompression algorithms render most watermarks void??
These are the things that make this universe so incredible! Nature may be governed by general laws, but she will never allow a dull moment
For such a tiny moon (its only 500km across), this one packs plenty of surprises. This oddity has: a localized hotspot at its southern pole, a largely water vapor atmostphere with some interesting trace compounds, and most intriguingly, a spot on the very short list of places possibly harboring life.
Absolutely intriguing - congrats to the Cassini team for their achievements.
Of COURSE the EULA doesnt intend to exclude laptops. That would be, very simply put, utterly idiotic. As instinct and facts suggest that laptops outsell desktops, it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner; it would exclude a fast growing majority of computer users. Surely some poor paper pushing paralegal just wasnt thinking.
Forget about what investment opportunities interest "everyone else." Consider, just for a moment, coming up with something innovative. The tech market isn't stagnant at the moment, its just refining prior accomplishments rather than forging ahead. Why not stir up the sauce?
Slashdot Mirror
Wouldnt matter too much...our Milky Way and Andromeda are on a slow collision course anyway - by the time an ejected star got here, the rest of the galaxy would be right behind it. But no need to go hide in a cave just yet, we've still got about 3 billion years.
That surprised me too. its a very small and very new site though, so its not too surprising that a small segment is using IE. last month, i had 928 hits from IE users, including: 1 person using ie6.1, 905 using ie6.0, 3 using ie5.5, and 19 using ie5. (oddly enough i also got hits from pretty much every version of netscape ever published.) The month prior, ie stats were about the same, with about 1200 more hits overall with a similar distribution. i was amazed to find several people using lynx and galeon. I'm not in any particular IE or FF camp, just showing an interesting trend.
...why is it still so damned expensive? is pricing arbitrarily?
Browser/version: ---- Hits
- MSIE
- FIREFOX
- NETSCAPE ----
- OTHERS ----
IE = 1699 hits,MSIE 6.0 ---- 1699
Total: 1699
Firefox 1.6 ---- 1
Firefox 1.4 ---- 233
Firefox 1.0.6 ---- 3218
Firefox 1.0.4 ---- 1123
Firefox 1.0.3 ---- 4
Firefox 1.0.2 ---- 2437
Firefox 1.0.1 ---- 130
Firefox 1.0 ---- 31
Firefox 0.10.1 ---- 4
Total: 7181
Netscape 4.04 ---- 1
Unknown ---- 155
Safari ---- 111
Mozilla ---- 98
Opera ---- 16
Dillo ---- 12
FF = 7181 hits
..out of 9273 total hits*. Hmm. Interesting.
*data via awstats 6.4
From the not-quite-an-article, the next gen shuttle is reputedly 10 times safer than the space shuttle. I know next to nothing about safety standards..but could anyone tell me how safety is quantified???
Who else misses real honest to god albums? Yes, of the vinyl record variety. You get some incredible artwork (sometimes the best, sometimes the worst), plus a full listing of lyrics, and often a story or two about the meaning of a track or how it was created. Moreover, you got analog sound at its best. Don't get me wrong, digital is fantastic, and I surely cant tell the difference between good analog and good digital any longer. But try this today. Crank up that old turntable, grab a your favorite vinyl out of storage, and remember how music used to be.
sadly enough, i did. worse still, i got excited
The conference is all about .Net -- its a monologue, dammit.
Sounds like left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.. Today's early "Race to Linux" thread about porting .Net linked to this article, which explicitly mentions mono as being an allowable language. This just seems odd to me, expecially because its also sponsored by the very same Microsoft Professional Developers Conversation..
A far better analog to the human hand is located here. The robotics folks over at Shadow really know what they're doing (check the videos). As anyone who checks the Shadow site will see, TFA's "clever artificial hand" does not win the prize for "the first artificially-made opposable thumb." Interesting nevertheless..if only we could see some realworld applications..
Does this remind anyone else of WindowsME? Vista has seemed to shed features in droves; WinME was a ultimately a non-version with some cosmetic changes and function that didn't live up to the hype. Is this what we can expect for Redmonds latest and greatest?
Is that cheaper in dollars or in lives?
To be martians we will go,
to be martians we will go,
Hi ho, the derry-oh!
To be martians we will go!!
..is:
To what degree have we done this to ourselves?
Is that even worth it?? The number of servers that can send that much down the pipe at speed to you are few and far between. That would be a lot of lost potential (and money).
Coral Cache sorta works : http://www.thetechzone.com.nyud.net:8090/?m=show&i d=349
Remove yourself from the context of your comfortable, padded chair and welcoming home. Transport yourself 80 million miles away through an airless void, and arrive upon a celestial artifact, a desert planet late in life. Stunningly beautiful in its own sublime way, isn't it?
Context is everything. Open your eyes and be amazed at what you might see.
Both are completely right. An elaboration: Wheras the CNN article discusses the stabilization of ozone depletion, the BBC article discusses the size of the Antarctic ozone hole. The BBC piece says, in not so many words, that the size of the ozone depleted region was largest in 2000 and 2003, owing to biennial-ish seasonal fluctuations and weather conditions. The hole might be of similar size THIS year as well for the same reasons. However, to quote from the very same BBC article:
So then, both articles do indeed agree. They were not referring to separate conclusions on the same issue, but instead to different facets of the same phenomenon.Two years ago researchers produced the first evidence that damage to the ozone layer is slowing down; globally, they showed, destruction continues, but at a slower rate than before.
That is down to the Montreal Protocol, established in 1987, which has limited production and use of CFCs and related substances.
But the indications are that the ozone layer will not be back to its pre-industrial condition for at least another 50 years.
If you were on earth, that might be the case. Several factors are at work here: Earth's air pressure at sea level is 14 lb/in (1015ish millibars); on the other hand, martian atmospheric pressures are more on the order of 5 millibars. Thats damned low. Aside from that, you have an exceptionally arid atmosphere and most of the ice on mars is actually CO2. Add all of this together and the ice doesnt even have a chance to melt; it simply sublimes away into the atmosphere.
Some water on the surface of mars has been already detected. However, whether it be frozen or liquid, the search water beneath the regolith is the single most important priority for any manned exploration of our celestial neighbor. Any water present in subsurface acquifers would open the floodgates for progress on mars. It would: provide for human habitation, be a veritable hotbed for xenobiology, and provide the chemical components for fuel cells and even rocket propellant. Our generation needs something exciting as motivation..cross your fingers.
From TFA: "Court papers say that although the employee was tracked down because another one of the films he pirated bore a watermark linking it to the theater where he worked, he also had the ability to delete watermarks from other films."
..Wouldn't sufficient recompression algorithms render most watermarks void??
That seems to make things sound much more devious.
These are the things that make this universe so incredible! Nature may be governed by general laws, but she will never allow a dull moment
For such a tiny moon (its only 500km across), this one packs plenty of surprises. This oddity has: a localized hotspot at its southern pole, a largely water vapor atmostphere with some interesting trace compounds, and most intriguingly, a spot on the very short list of places possibly harboring life.
Absolutely intriguing - congrats to the Cassini team for their achievements.
Of COURSE the EULA doesnt intend to exclude laptops. That would be, very simply put, utterly idiotic. As instinct and facts suggest that laptops outsell desktops, it would be beyond foolish to interpret the EULA in this manner; it would exclude a fast growing majority of computer users. Surely some poor paper pushing paralegal just wasnt thinking.
Forget about what investment opportunities interest "everyone else." Consider, just for a moment, coming up with something innovative. The tech market isn't stagnant at the moment, its just refining prior accomplishments rather than forging ahead. Why not stir up the sauce?
reference to the Radiohead song 'fake plastic trees.'