It's a little ironic and a bit puzzling that the country of New Zealand, known for their strong environmental practices, has used their first space launch to put up what some might say is nothing more than space junk. Amazing.
What really irks me is the Windows 10 lock screen scenery photos. Every single one I have ever been presented with, apart from ONE, is of somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, either Europe or US/Canada.
The only southern hemisphere photo I've had presented (abouth 4 months ago) is of the Twelve Apostles in Australia. Why not more (or any!) photos from Australia, New Zealand, South America or Africa? Or even Antarctica?
Back in the 70s electronics magazines such as Practical Electronics used to run project articles on building simple white and pink noise generators, I recall they only used two or three transistors, a 9V battery and were built in little project boxes with a switch for white/pink and a headphone jack.
One could find or build one of those original circuits, record its output and put it on Youtube.
An australian woman living in the USA was shot dead by a Police Officer she had notified about a noise disturbance nearby. She was shot dead by him.
In Australia, you don't expect the cops to shoot you, hence her unfortunate misplacement of trust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's incredible that people dismiss heavy use of inkjets when they don't bother to use a Continuous Ink System (CIS), or haven't even heard of them.
With our CIS attached to a regular cheapo printer, my family prints HUNDREDS of pages per month, full color with no problem at all. The ink is cheap and easy to top up.
Since it is used so regularly it almost never needs a printhead clean operation.
Take a look on eBay to see if there is a CIS for your model printer.
I don't bother with the all of the Laser Printers I have anymore. Too much trouble to warm up, takes a lot of desk space and there's the carcinogenic airborne micro particles from the toner fuser I don't want to breathe.
Remember: inkjet without a CIS = madness BUT Inkjet with CIS = absolutely brilliantly wonderful.
I say "You know those computers in movies, where the protagonist types madly on a keyboard, the screen shows lots of columns of numbers scrolling up and then in just a few seconds there's a big 'ACCESS GRANTED' that comes, up, flashing?
And then there's expanding circles, a 3D rotation of a thing or a person, and lines of computer code?
Well, that's exactly what it's like."
Berthold City. Those unmistakeable square-cornered letters used for the IBM logo, all the 70xx, 360, 370 manuals and numerous other IBM publications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just had a brilliant idea, surely it can't fail. How about a KickStarter to save the venerable spacecraft?
Action would need to be taken very soon though.
Who's in?
My pet annoyance are those sites that do not clearly state what their particular requirement is, clearly, up front.
So it only tells you after you've entered something you think may be acceptable, and you've then lost that train of thought and are forced to figure out something new.
I agree, it looks as if the consumable crush core was compressed to near its limit.
For interest's sake, the honeycomb crush cores were (first?) used in the Apollo Lunar Module, see page 6 of https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
...it's in Austria:
http://nation.com.pk/entertain...
The interesting thing is, if either this austrlian museum or the swedish museum close due to poor attendance they can always acquire each others collections:)
As a life-long asthma sufferer, I've had this odd observation.
A few months ago I went to the doctor for an infected foot, which had swelled up. I was prescribed an antibiotic which I duly took.
Apart from taking care of the foot, something else totally unexpected happened to me. My mild but chronic asthma (wheezing, coughing etc) all but completely disappeared. Not just a bit, but totally. I had not changed my prescribed corticosteroid medication and reliever during this time.
I remarked to my wife I hadn't felt this good for years, my nose was clear, breathing perfectly, felt super-fit. After I finished the antibiotic the good feeling gradually tapered off, and I am back to the occasional asthma. But it was noticeable how much of a beneficial side-effect it was.
Boom reminds me of Thompson and Thomson driving along in the Tintin story 'Land of Black Gold' when their engine unexpectedly blows up:
When one day your car goes "Boom!"
Don't give up or change your tune!
Call Autocar we'll be there soon!
On the day your car goes "Boom!"
* * B O O M ! * *
Wondering whether the AI would still recognise the beach if the video was intentionally color-inverted, or color substituted? For instance, a purple beach with red ocean, sort of like in the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
A human would still be able to do this easily.
And without manned spaceflight how would we ever know that the eyeball changes shape, or the gut bacteria changes?
Manned spaceflight is HARD. Doing it is dangerous, expensive but completely worthwhile.
What is with these nonsensical postings, almost always as AC?
There seem to be more and more of them over the last few months, and pretty much on any article.
My guess is/. is an easy way to inject output by scripts that generate pseudo-random phrases, and possibly monitor the replies (like this one).
Starting to/. needs an always-available way to tag nonsense posts rather than having to wait for mod points so it can be marked Offtopic.
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This is not a drill.
This is a picture of a drill.
It's a little ironic and a bit puzzling that the country of New Zealand, known for their strong environmental practices, has used their first space launch to put up what some might say is nothing more than space junk. Amazing.
What really irks me is the Windows 10 lock screen scenery photos. Every single one I have ever been presented with, apart from ONE, is of somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, either Europe or US/Canada.
The only southern hemisphere photo I've had presented (abouth 4 months ago) is of the Twelve Apostles in Australia. Why not more (or any!) photos from Australia, New Zealand, South America or Africa? Or even Antarctica?
Back in the 70s electronics magazines such as Practical Electronics used to run project articles on building simple white and pink noise generators, I recall they only used two or three transistors, a 9V battery and were built in little project boxes with a switch for white/pink and a headphone jack.
One could find or build one of those original circuits, record its output and put it on Youtube.
An australian woman living in the USA was shot dead by a Police Officer she had notified about a noise disturbance nearby. She was shot dead by him.
In Australia, you don't expect the cops to shoot you, hence her unfortunate misplacement of trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's incredible that people dismiss heavy use of inkjets when they don't bother to use a Continuous Ink System (CIS), or haven't even heard of them. With our CIS attached to a regular cheapo printer, my family prints HUNDREDS of pages per month, full color with no problem at all. The ink is cheap and easy to top up. Since it is used so regularly it almost never needs a printhead clean operation. Take a look on eBay to see if there is a CIS for your model printer.
I don't bother with the all of the Laser Printers I have anymore. Too much trouble to warm up, takes a lot of desk space and there's the carcinogenic airborne micro particles from the toner fuser I don't want to breathe.
Remember: inkjet without a CIS = madness BUT Inkjet with CIS = absolutely brilliantly wonderful.
I say "You know those computers in movies, where the protagonist types madly on a keyboard, the screen shows lots of columns of numbers scrolling up and then in just a few seconds there's a big 'ACCESS GRANTED' that comes, up, flashing? And then there's expanding circles, a 3D rotation of a thing or a person, and lines of computer code?
Well, that's exactly what it's like."
"one-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten."
--Terry Pratchett
Berthold City. Those unmistakeable square-cornered letters used for the IBM logo, all the 70xx, 360, 370 manuals and numerous other IBM publications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The question is, which MOFI would get a Juicero first?
The one in Sweden https://idle.slashdot.org/stor...
Or the one in Austria http://nation.com.pk/entertain... ?
Just had a brilliant idea, surely it can't fail. How about a KickStarter to save the venerable spacecraft? Action would need to be taken very soon though. Who's in?
My pet annoyance are those sites that do not clearly state what their particular requirement is, clearly, up front. So it only tells you after you've entered something you think may be acceptable, and you've then lost that train of thought and are forced to figure out something new.
Agreed, there is a huge lot of older but still functional equipment that only talks SMB1. Microsoft has put together this list, and it surely isn't everything: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2017/06/01/smb1-product-clearinghouse/
I agree, it looks as if the consumable crush core was compressed to near its limit.
For interest's sake, the honeycomb crush cores were (first?) used in the Apollo Lunar Module, see page 6 of https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a...
...it's in Austria: http://nation.com.pk/entertain... The interesting thing is, if either this austrlian museum or the swedish museum close due to poor attendance they can always acquire each others collections :)
Let's hope they don't need the help of Thunderbirds 2, 3 and Brains' Rescue Beam!
As a life-long asthma sufferer, I've had this odd observation. A few months ago I went to the doctor for an infected foot, which had swelled up. I was prescribed an antibiotic which I duly took.
Apart from taking care of the foot, something else totally unexpected happened to me. My mild but chronic asthma (wheezing, coughing etc) all but completely disappeared. Not just a bit, but totally. I had not changed my prescribed corticosteroid medication and reliever during this time.
I remarked to my wife I hadn't felt this good for years, my nose was clear, breathing perfectly, felt super-fit. After I finished the antibiotic the good feeling gradually tapered off, and I am back to the occasional asthma. But it was noticeable how much of a beneficial side-effect it was.
...there is an observation port built into the device.
Then it would be a womb with a view.
Boom reminds me of Thompson and Thomson driving along in the Tintin story 'Land of Black Gold' when their engine unexpectedly blows up: When one day your car goes "Boom!" Don't give up or change your tune! Call Autocar we'll be there soon! On the day your car goes "Boom!" * * B O O M ! * *
Wondering whether the AI would still recognise the beach if the video was intentionally color-inverted, or color substituted? For instance, a purple beach with red ocean, sort of like in the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey. A human would still be able to do this easily.
This newsgroup has been around for decades, reporting on the downsides of technology, so it's nothing new.
This article is interesting reading: 1 in 5 Cubesats Violates International Orbit Disposal Guidelines http://spacenews.com/1-in-5-cu...
And without manned spaceflight how would we ever know that the eyeball changes shape, or the gut bacteria changes? Manned spaceflight is HARD. Doing it is dangerous, expensive but completely worthwhile.
What is with these nonsensical postings, almost always as AC? There seem to be more and more of them over the last few months, and pretty much on any article. My guess is /. is an easy way to inject output by scripts that generate pseudo-random phrases, and possibly monitor the replies (like this one).
Starting to /. needs an always-available way to tag nonsense posts rather than having to wait for mod points so it can be marked Offtopic.
As the other respondent has mentioned, d*ckd*ckd*ckgo is a possible malware site. Be careful.