From my reading of the Wikipedia article (and this is my introduction to sun-synchronous orbit, so I could be wrong), the neat part is that wherever the satellite is overhead, it's at the same point in time.
Again from Wikipedia, GeoEye-1's orbit is 10:30 am sun-synchronous...I think those shadows look like about 10:30 AM in the autumn.
Sort of...I try to look at it as an opportunity cost. If the odds of wining are 1:175,000,000 (roughly), I won't buy a $1 ticket unless the jackpot is already at least $175,000,000... the odds of winning times the payout meets or exceeds the investment.
Sure, it's more complicated than that, but so long as I'm already butchering Econ101, I can ignore multiple winners, etc. I'm sure they roughly balance against the partial match payouts. Or at least, that's what I'll continue to tell myself on the rare times where I actually play the lotto.:)
Google provides services in the form of content that convince customers - both residential and commercial - to subscribe to high-speed internet connections from Verizon. And Google doesn't charge Verizon one cent!
Where is Verizon's unique content? If Verizon charged Google extra for transport, and Google decided to decline and simply not run on Verizon's networks, what would Verizon offer that would convince me to use their network over their (still-Google-carrying) competitors'?
When I can find it locally, I swear by Hansen's energy - and I've tried lots of energy drinks. Hansen's makes me alert. I've had some other ones that make me feel like I need to get up around the room and run, to burn off some physical energy, but that doesn't help you at all when you're coding.
Hansen's is the usual mix of caffiene and sugar, b-vitamins, etc., but it also includes a good dose of the amino acid Taurine. I've found that this last ingredient really helps take the edge off of the caffiene, so I'm alert, but not jittery.
Of course, you listed it on your "I've already tried" list, so YMMV.
Is it surprising that a 5-year-old operating system still runs 8-year-old hardware? That's the hardware for which the operating system was designed!
A more pertinent question, I think, would be whether 2000 still runs with full support for new hardware devices, and whether that forward-compatibility hampers new OS sales.
You don't look at your keyboard because the view is always the same. If it changed for each application - especially applications you're using for the first time - I imagine it would warrant another look.
For the love of god, man, review the farging video game! I couldn't give two craps less about some japanese pop star for which you have massive wood. Just tell me about the sequel to the game I love.
ABIT now also can update from within windows, no floppy required.
I posted above with my experience flashing a video card bios from a USB disk. The hardest part there was that the distribution wanted to create a bootable floppy, so I couldn't just copy the files onto a flashdisk - I had to find a virtual floppy drive to get the job done.
I built a new machine in December '03, with no floppy drive, and I actually did regret it once.
I had to flash my new video card's bios. There was some issue with its factory clocks being different between 2d and 3d modes, and the act of changing the clocks when changing modes created local under-voltages. Whatever. The point is that the bios flash utility distributed by the manufacturer required a floppy drive because it was designed to create a boot disk with some DOS-like OS.
What I ended up doing is formatting a USB flash key to be bootable, then downloaded a utility that would mimic a floppy drive in windows, using files on the hard drive as storage. This allowed me to uncompress their distribution, then copy the files to the formatted flash disk.
Rebooted the machine with the key in the USB port, and everything worked just dandy. Since, I've used my flashdisk for boots into other OSs rather than CDs - no drivers needed, and they're writable. Ahh, the ability to run old '93-'95 era games in native DOS again!
I got probably dozens of invites to join the Navy when I was in college. They really seemed to want to put me on a nuclear sub. Isn't this just a different/more efficient method of doing what they're already doing?
I can't see this working. This sounds like a really poor interpretation of the law, and I can't fathom a judge accepting it.
For the case of copyright, using the original and generating a number from it, which is used to modify the original to make a different number, is a derivative work - the final product wouldn't exist without the original. Still infringement. To my (limited) knowledge, it doesn't matter that the modification is made mechanically. If you buy a copy of a print and use a machine to change a tiny spot of color, you can't resell it as yours.
For the case of patent, the product still includes the patented technology, even though there are other things in it that are not patented. Changing something from one form to another does not avoid patents.
Now, IANAL, blah blah, but I also wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of dollars and jail-time on a cute little workaround.
Firefly is a fantastic series that FOX, it its wisdom, decided to cancel after less than a full season.
It's a relatively gritty sci-fi show set in a sort of 'manifest destiny of the galaxy.' There are many parallels to Westerns not only in content but in directorial style. Their FX, though used sparingly, are very well done, and they adopted the same camera techniques for the CG work as they used in the show proper.
The characters are likable and very well defined, and the dialog is perfect. Not-quite-modern English with western throwbacks and (mostly) Mandarin swearing.
There are only 16 episodes (4 DVDs), so find someone who has the set and borrow them (or, better yet, take my word as the gospel truth and go buy a set).
Yeppers. The gist of the article was basically, "LCDs are great! Your next monitor will be an LCD, I guarantee it. In fact, LCDs are so wonderful, they're almost as good as CRTs!"
I'll admit that they're smaller, lighter, and don't flicker. Other than that, they're more expensive, harder to read text on, and don't have as good resolution as CRTs.
I don't know where you live, but when I went to school in Cleveland, even without the change, we went in the dark every morning during the winter.
The problem, perhaps, is that our timezones are split up longitudinally when there's a non-trivial impact by lattitude.
I've long felt that this should be the case. The modern workday favors it. Honestly, who cares if it's a bit darker when you go to work. When you go home, wouldn't it be nice to have it be light outside?
There's so much talk about SAD (seasonal attitude disorder, or whatever they're calling it these days), and all of America seems to be on antidepressants. How much of that would be eliminated if people could drive home in the daylight?
Especially this year, since the changeover, the change in my mood has been dramatic, and I even find myself unintentionally working a little later just because it's still so bright outside. I can't see how permanent DST could possibly be a bad thing.
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From my reading of the Wikipedia article (and this is my introduction to sun-synchronous orbit, so I could be wrong), the neat part is that wherever the satellite is overhead, it's at the same point in time.
Again from Wikipedia, GeoEye-1's orbit is 10:30 am sun-synchronous...I think those shadows look like about 10:30 AM in the autumn.
You're already losing by buying the ticket.
:)
Sort of...I try to look at it as an opportunity cost. If the odds of wining are 1:175,000,000 (roughly), I won't buy a $1 ticket unless the jackpot is already at least $175,000,000... the odds of winning times the payout meets or exceeds the investment.
Sure, it's more complicated than that, but so long as I'm already butchering Econ101, I can ignore multiple winners, etc. I'm sure they roughly balance against the partial match payouts. Or at least, that's what I'll continue to tell myself on the rare times where I actually play the lotto.
Google provides services in the form of content that convince customers - both residential and commercial - to subscribe to high-speed internet connections from Verizon. And Google doesn't charge Verizon one cent!
Where is Verizon's unique content? If Verizon charged Google extra for transport, and Google decided to decline and simply not run on Verizon's networks, what would Verizon offer that would convince me to use their network over their (still-Google-carrying) competitors'?
Hansen's is the usual mix of caffiene and sugar, b-vitamins, etc., but it also includes a good dose of the amino acid Taurine. I've found that this last ingredient really helps take the edge off of the caffiene, so I'm alert, but not jittery.
Of course, you listed it on your "I've already tried" list, so YMMV.
Yeah. Prolly should've used the [sic] tag or changed the title. Blame for everybody!
Messup is [sic] from TFA.
Is it surprising that a 5-year-old operating system still runs 8-year-old hardware? That's the hardware for which the operating system was designed!
A more pertinent question, I think, would be whether 2000 still runs with full support for new hardware devices, and whether that forward-compatibility hampers new OS sales.
You don't look at your keyboard because the view is always the same. If it changed for each application - especially applications you're using for the first time - I imagine it would warrant another look.
For the love of god, man, review the farging video game! I couldn't give two craps less about some japanese pop star for which you have massive wood. Just tell me about the sequel to the game I love.
I posted above with my experience flashing a video card bios from a USB disk. The hardest part there was that the distribution wanted to create a bootable floppy, so I couldn't just copy the files onto a flashdisk - I had to find a virtual floppy drive to get the job done.
I had to flash my new video card's bios. There was some issue with its factory clocks being different between 2d and 3d modes, and the act of changing the clocks when changing modes created local under-voltages. Whatever. The point is that the bios flash utility distributed by the manufacturer required a floppy drive because it was designed to create a boot disk with some DOS-like OS.
What I ended up doing is formatting a USB flash key to be bootable, then downloaded a utility that would mimic a floppy drive in windows, using files on the hard drive as storage. This allowed me to uncompress their distribution, then copy the files to the formatted flash disk.
Rebooted the machine with the key in the USB port, and everything worked just dandy. Since, I've used my flashdisk for boots into other OSs rather than CDs - no drivers needed, and they're writable. Ahh, the ability to run old '93-'95 era games in native DOS again!
I got probably dozens of invites to join the Navy when I was in college. They really seemed to want to put me on a nuclear sub. Isn't this just a different/more efficient method of doing what they're already doing?
I can't see this working. This sounds like a really poor interpretation of the law, and I can't fathom a judge accepting it.
For the case of copyright, using the original and generating a number from it, which is used to modify the original to make a different number, is a derivative work - the final product wouldn't exist without the original. Still infringement. To my (limited) knowledge, it doesn't matter that the modification is made mechanically. If you buy a copy of a print and use a machine to change a tiny spot of color, you can't resell it as yours.
For the case of patent, the product still includes the patented technology, even though there are other things in it that are not patented. Changing something from one form to another does not avoid patents.
Now, IANAL, blah blah, but I also wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of dollars and jail-time on a cute little workaround.
Saying a series is fantastic based on a pilot would be a fallacy.
Firefly is a fantastic series that FOX, it its wisdom, decided to cancel after less than a full season. It's a relatively gritty sci-fi show set in a sort of 'manifest destiny of the galaxy.' There are many parallels to Westerns not only in content but in directorial style. Their FX, though used sparingly, are very well done, and they adopted the same camera techniques for the CG work as they used in the show proper. The characters are likable and very well defined, and the dialog is perfect. Not-quite-modern English with western throwbacks and (mostly) Mandarin swearing. There are only 16 episodes (4 DVDs), so find someone who has the set and borrow them (or, better yet, take my word as the gospel truth and go buy a set).
I'll admit that they're smaller, lighter, and don't flicker. Other than that, they're more expensive, harder to read text on, and don't have as good resolution as CRTs.
Employers?
Actually, I just meant that happy workers are productive workers. I worked late willingly, but it was certainly my choice.
I don't know where you live, but when I went to school in Cleveland, even without the change, we went in the dark every morning during the winter. The problem, perhaps, is that our timezones are split up longitudinally when there's a non-trivial impact by lattitude.
I've long felt that this should be the case. The modern workday favors it. Honestly, who cares if it's a bit darker when you go to work. When you go home, wouldn't it be nice to have it be light outside?
There's so much talk about SAD (seasonal attitude disorder, or whatever they're calling it these days), and all of America seems to be on antidepressants. How much of that would be eliminated if people could drive home in the daylight?
Especially this year, since the changeover, the change in my mood has been dramatic, and I even find myself unintentionally working a little later just because it's still so bright outside. I can't see how permanent DST could possibly be a bad thing.