I just clicked on your username and followed the link from your accepted stories. A search for "sts-107" will make it pop up as the first hit.
Oh well. Maybe we should be happy that the janitors here don't search for dupes before posting stories, if the old stories never actually have been published...:)
2003-01-22 08:39:35 Animal Experiments in STS-107 (NASA) (articles,space) (accepted)
However, I never saw it posted unless I overlooked it.:(
WTF? I looked on your user page, and this story is a dupe (surprise!;) ), but as you say I don't remember seeing your first story, and it's only got 8 comments. Personally I much preferred your first version. Was it removed after a couple of seconds?
I didn't mean to say that in-vivo biological studies in space are meaningless (they're necessary if we ever plan on ever leaving this planet ourselves and go anywhere far, far away...). It's of course a matter of discussion if a bunch of kids putting their show-and-tell aquaria/terraria on a space shuttle will give any significant scientific results.
My post was more meant as an observation on CNN reporting (and Slashdot regurgitating) on The American Project and not even mentioning the other at least as interesting projects. The myopic way this is reported in is appropriate for a local newspaper in Syracuse, NY, USA, or the Fowler High Pupils' Magazine. You know, so the parents can collect newspaper clippings about their kids and their damn ants.
Are the effects of space travel and microgravity on ants inherently more interesting for Nerds than the same effects on the web weaving of spiders, or cocoon spinning of silkworms, or the growth of crystalline filaments, or the eggs, development and taxis of Medaka fish, or the tunneling habits of carpenter bees?
Kids from 6 countries participate with 6 projects in this. WTF is so special with ants that hasn't been done before? Is it because "Fowler Highschool" is more easily pronounced than "Liechtenstein Gymnasium" for some people, or what?
Reported increase in crop yield - Some farmers and researchers have independently reported greater yield in the years following the appearance of formations in their fields....
Wow. Bullshit works as a fertilizer. Who'd a thunk it?
What I really wanna know is why the fuck Explorer is "automatically reading" an MP3 or WMA when it's not playing it?
Rest your mousepointer over an.mp3 or.wma in an Exploder window. Up pops the ID tag info.
What I wanna know is if/how this "feature" can be disabled. It's horribly annoying when you accidentally leave your mouse pointer for too long (one second or so) over a huge.zip backup archive. The machine locks up while listing the contents to display a summary. If the.zip is on a slow network share, you're fscked.
Hey, this buffer overflow vulnerability could theoretically be exploited in just about every type of file that Windows recognises and has a "preview" action for, right?! Scary.
Why "bust" you for 28x when they could claim 1563x ???
Nah, in this case RIAA would define the "average" connection that people have as "avian carrier".
Of course, when they need to show just how advanced and widespread piracy is, then the "average" connection will be OC-192, downloading and serving 24/7.
No, unless you actually altered or destroyed the detected "scent" molecules, then "masking" your scent with perfume or whatever wouldn't work. That works on organisms with olfactory organs, who can identify a scent as e.g. "banana", but can't tell the difference between minute structural differences between different banana-smelling molecules, if all "banana" molecules bind to the same receptors.
OTOH I wonder just how useful this would be for identifying individuals with any great certainty. Unlike fingerprints, the genetic sequences of MHCs (major histocompatibility complexes) of two individuals can very well be partially or fully identical (organ transplants wouldn't work otherwise). This is more comparable to identifying -- or grouping -- people by blood typing, and its application would likely not be for e.g. forensic investigations needing certainties approaching 100%. I'm sure it still can have its uses though.
The Teron CX is one of the two boards that will be sold under the licensed "AmigaOne" trademark. The other is the Teron PX. Read this comment. There will be no more "new Amigas".
The Pegasos, designed by the old Amiga gurus at bplan, is a similar board, but in a smaller Micro-ATX form factor, minus one PCI slot, plus a slot for CPU modules (the G3/600 is soldered down on the Teron CX), plus Firewire, plus on-board sound I/O including SPDIF (the Terons have an AMR slot), plus IrDA, plus a game port.
The Pegasos is cheaper than the Teron CX when that is sold as an "AmigaOne", and slightly more expensive than the Teron CX sold "normally" by e.g. Terrasoft.
Ignore the replies saying that it means the same physical slot/backplane. Well, OK, the huge cooling fans on a modern AGP card would cover the closest PCI slot...
The AGP 2x slot and the 66 MHz PCI slot share the same bus. The speed of that bus will be determined by the slowest device on the bus. If you use a 33 MHz PCI card in the slot adjacent to the AGP slot, your AGP will be clocked down to 33 MHz.
Well, it was originally intended as a developer's evaluation board for Mai Logic's Articia S chip set. As a bonus for us users it turned out to be quite a usable end-customer board, although its developer/evaluation roots are still clearly visible in the PCB design, choice of components and specs.
Look at this photo of a "Pegasos" PPC mobo. It's a mobo similar to the Teron CX (it's the same Articia S northbridge for example), but on a much smaller Micro-ATX board, including a slot for CPU modules (including not-yet-available dual G4). Just looking at a thing as the PCB trace routing, or the choice of common components like resistors, caps et c. says this is a more well thought out design, originally aimed at the consumer market. It's cheaper too, and runs Yellow Dog Linux...;)
I can totally see it running as a firewall/external webserver/DNS server box.
Yup. And check out another product based on Mai's Articia northbridge, the "Micro Server-S". Almost the same mobo as this Teron, but on a PCI card! I haven't seen any pricing for this, but it's also sold by Inguard (who also sell Terons, called Phoenix and Dragon.
Slashdot Mirror
... East of CET...
Doh. West. I'll shut up now.
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
... on 23/1?
Or 22/1 (Wednesday), if you live East of CET...
I just clicked on your username and followed the link from your accepted stories. A search for "sts-107" will make it pop up as the first hit.
:)
Oh well. Maybe we should be happy that the janitors here don't search for dupes before posting stories, if the old stories never actually have been published...
Does anyone remember seeing "Animal Experiments in STS-107 (NASA)" on 23/1?
2003-01-22 08:39:35 Animal Experiments in STS-107 (NASA) (articles,space) (accepted)
:(
;) ), but as you say I don't remember seeing your first story, and it's only got 8 comments. Personally I much preferred your first version. Was it removed after a couple of seconds?
However, I never saw it posted unless I overlooked it.
WTF? I looked on your user page, and this story is a dupe (surprise!
Michael, what are you doing?
I didn't mean to say that in-vivo biological studies in space are meaningless (they're necessary if we ever plan on ever leaving this planet ourselves and go anywhere far, far away...). It's of course a matter of discussion if a bunch of kids putting their show-and-tell aquaria/terraria on a space shuttle will give any significant scientific results.
My post was more meant as an observation on CNN reporting (and Slashdot regurgitating) on The American Project and not even mentioning the other at least as interesting projects. The myopic way this is reported in is appropriate for a local newspaper in Syracuse, NY, USA, or the Fowler High Pupils' Magazine. You know, so the parents can collect newspaper clippings about their kids and their damn ants.
[Agar] is often used in asian cooking..
Or when cultivating bacteria... Oh. Never mind. Didn't mean to be redundant.
Are the effects of space travel and microgravity on ants inherently more interesting for Nerds than the same effects on the web weaving of spiders, or cocoon spinning of silkworms, or the growth of crystalline filaments, or the eggs, development and taxis of Medaka fish, or the tunneling habits of carpenter bees?
Kids from 6 countries participate with 6 projects in this. WTF is so special with ants that hasn't been done before? Is it because "Fowler Highschool" is more easily pronounced than "Liechtenstein Gymnasium" for some people, or what?
Wow. Bullshit works as a fertilizer. Who'd a thunk it?
Your Computer Is Currently Broadcasting An
Internet IP Address. With This Address, Someone Can
Immediately Begin Attacking Your Computer! [ OK ]
Shut up Slashdot. I get all the Security Alerts I need from media*.fastclick.net.
Not to mention that a TFT/LCD is only really useful in one resolution! That's the major drawback for me.
Pay more for less flexibility? Nah...
I have one LCD screen, and a couple of laptops, but I always prefer the CRTs.
Thanks.
But it's a mere copy. Nothing sucks like an Electrolux!
THIS FIRST POST SENT VIA SMS. NO PROBLEM, AS YOU ALL CAN SEE.
blahblahblahLameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like SMSing.
Whoa! An improvement of 31000% in 7 hours and 28 minutes. ;)
a beowlfu clstr of theeeeeeeeeeesse
*hic*
AFAIK, nobody has announced a release date for such a thing.
;)
Seeing your joke about zealous Linux users being modded as "Flamebait" just makes the joke even better.
What I really wanna know is why the fuck Explorer is "automatically reading" an MP3 or WMA when it's not playing it?
.mp3 or .wma in an Exploder window. Up pops the ID tag info.
.zip backup archive. The machine locks up while listing the contents to display a summary. If the .zip is on a slow network share, you're fscked.
Rest your mousepointer over an
What I wanna know is if/how this "feature" can be disabled. It's horribly annoying when you accidentally leave your mouse pointer for too long (one second or so) over a huge
Hey, this buffer overflow vulnerability could theoretically be exploited in just about every type of file that Windows recognises and has a "preview" action for, right?! Scary.
... "travel" means "20 years hard labour in Siberia".
Damn, was I on-topic now?
Why "bust" you for 28x when they could claim 1563x ???
Nah, in this case RIAA would define the "average" connection that people have as "avian carrier".
Of course, when they need to show just how advanced and widespread piracy is, then the "average" connection will be OC-192, downloading and serving 24/7.
(For those who don't RTFA, it is theorised that the genes coding for our MHCs also determine what detectable scent molecules we spread around us.)
No, unless you actually altered or destroyed the detected "scent" molecules, then "masking" your scent with perfume or whatever wouldn't work. That works on organisms with olfactory organs, who can identify a scent as e.g. "banana", but can't tell the difference between minute structural differences between different banana-smelling molecules, if all "banana" molecules bind to the same receptors.
OTOH I wonder just how useful this would be for identifying individuals with any great certainty. Unlike fingerprints, the genetic sequences of MHCs (major histocompatibility complexes) of two individuals can very well be partially or fully identical (organ transplants wouldn't work otherwise). This is more comparable to identifying -- or grouping -- people by blood typing, and its application would likely not be for e.g. forensic investigations needing certainties approaching 100%. I'm sure it still can have its uses though.
For us damn foreigners, what's a "pre-RFRQ"?
The Teron CX is one of the two boards that will be sold under the licensed "AmigaOne" trademark. The other is the Teron PX. Read this comment. There will be no more "new Amigas".
Graphics? It's whatever AGP card there's drivers for.
The Pegasos, designed by the old Amiga gurus at bplan, is a similar board, but in a smaller Micro-ATX form factor, minus one PCI slot, plus a slot for CPU modules (the G3/600 is soldered down on the Teron CX), plus Firewire, plus on-board sound I/O including SPDIF (the Terons have an AMR slot), plus IrDA, plus a game port.
The Pegasos is cheaper than the Teron CX when that is sold as an "AmigaOne", and slightly more expensive than the Teron CX sold "normally" by e.g. Terrasoft.
The Teron CX does have on-board 10/100 Ethernet. Have a look at Terrasoft's specs.
Ignore the replies saying that it means the same physical slot/backplane. Well, OK, the huge cooling fans on a modern AGP card would cover the closest PCI slot...
The AGP 2x slot and the 66 MHz PCI slot share the same bus. The speed of that bus will be determined by the slowest device on the bus. If you use a 33 MHz PCI card in the slot adjacent to the AGP slot, your AGP will be clocked down to 33 MHz.
Well, it was originally intended as a developer's evaluation board for Mai Logic's Articia S chip set. As a bonus for us users it turned out to be quite a usable end-customer board, although its developer/evaluation roots are still clearly visible in the PCB design, choice of components and specs.
;)
Look at this photo of a "Pegasos" PPC mobo. It's a mobo similar to the Teron CX (it's the same Articia S northbridge for example), but on a much smaller Micro-ATX board, including a slot for CPU modules (including not-yet-available dual G4). Just looking at a thing as the PCB trace routing, or the choice of common components like resistors, caps et c. says this is a more well thought out design, originally aimed at the consumer market. It's cheaper too, and runs Yellow Dog Linux...
I can totally see it running as a firewall/external webserver/DNS server box.
Yup. And check out another product based on Mai's Articia northbridge, the "Micro Server-S". Almost the same mobo as this Teron, but on a PCI card! I haven't seen any pricing for this, but it's also sold by Inguard (who also sell Terons, called Phoenix and Dragon.