Obviously it's not "most planets are bigger than Earth", it's very exactly "our present detection method being a measure of star movements due to the planet presence, we only see enormous jupiter-like things for now". How to say it politely? "I hope the OP summary is, er, too concise, otherwise this just means Hawaii climate turns the scientists silly..."
In fact, apart from the venerable iCab on macs (and, much more recent, on ipads), is there just any rendering engine that's still developed by a single individual out there?
(before you start shrugging, let's remind iCab invented ad filtering some ten years before Mozilla was *born*)
Indeed, I'll sign up in a heartbeat as soon as you show me your very own KS is backed by an ethical bank.
As I'm not sure all of you know what it is, let's say these are very difficult to find (there is only one in my country*); in general they are non-profit banking associations thaf obviously won't even think about playing on stock exchanges. And yes they run, reasonably, and more importantly, in a very robust way.
A Kickstarter launched by one such bank, I'd just love. I'd not invest in it: I'd donate. Yes.
(*) in France: Credit Cooperatif. Been here for 10 years now.
Once, long ago, there was this supersonic transcontinental aircraft named Concorde. Then, after years and years of use, for various good reasons it was halted, and same good reasons explained there wouldn't be other civilian supersonics anymore. (but most of us were considering PROGRESS was continueing, weren't us?)
By the last years of Concorde, I graduated a space engineer in Europe. At that time, when there was a flaw in one of the european spacecrafts or launchers, a commission was created but its results first were hidden for months, and then when published they were so much toned down it was almost ridiculous. At that time, the immediate comparison, with reverence, was the US: so wealthy a country that any space crash there was immediately detailed, published, openly criticized and you *knew* the next issue would solve it.
Thit, was a time where there was the US, and then the others.
That the US now perform as ridiculously as their lousy followers twenty five years ago, is very telling.
Telling about the end of a civilisation. Face it. We are all Concorde-ed...
Well, yes and no: 'This is a developer preview image, not intended for general users'... What I'm waiting for is an open source system that just works, out of the box if I dare say. This Pwnie express looks the closest match, even probably coming with a guarantee of some sort. Of course OTOH, just their name tells me they are expecting more than average joe as an user: if I'm flooded with ridicule here, I won't buy. But still, being convinced that tablets are unavoidable, and seeing how locked our beloved A/G duopoly is evolving them... Well I look for other players...
I'm an ordinary linux user, not geek, and interested in *owning* my tablet not pwning. Do I understand correctly that buying that one will allow me unrestricted root access? Also, what exactly is in the 'custom ROM' from this point of view? Am I to be confident? Last, do you think this tablet will be compatible with general-use linux apps, for instance, shall I be able to install serious image processing tools like Rawtherapee..? TIA!
Sux0r (sorry not having seen you earlier, I just announced it 1 km below) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/ plenty of interesting features including bayesian filtering of lots of posts... If you try it do tell me! H.
If you own or share your webhosting, what about setting the agregator just there, so you can access it from just any platform you want? http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/ You can even train it, bayesian like, to sort your very own interesting posts...
on computers (not phone AFAIK), RSSOwl does this (and is best to me) on all platforms, open source; on macs only you also have Vienna. Both scale really well (like, 100+ feed sources, 10000+ unread instantly handled), both can sort, search, display html site inline, lock feed items...
do I understand correctly that PeerBlock may be the PC equivalent to macOS' Little Snitch, i. e. something that filters any request out and allows rules on them, per app and per address?
(and, is there something equivalent on Linux? Last time I asked that there I was shockingly told this was unnecessary...)
My feeling is, we don't see easily novelties because they are buried into much more data that what the previous centuries' people were used to analyze. I am aware that this edges to that atrocious Pandora box currently called, 'Big Data', forgive me. But still, that we don't see innovations as easily as before don't means there aren't.
Even at 'big data' level: 2012 saw the apparition of electoral statistical proofs: for instance, it has been demonstrated that Poutine cheated, and vastly, in his last two elections. There is a math proof, easy to verify, based on stats* --and indeed nobody denegated it.
In a world where 'big data' generally looks rather like 'big brother' or 'FBI knows everything from you', I find it very refreshing that indeed, 2012 big data novelty was the discovery that electoral cheating now can be mathematically demonstrated.
You'll see, some day, one country will set this kind if check inside its law. This, is a scientific novelty if not an 'invention'.
H. (*) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210722109
So you are posting AC but giving a link where you are almost openly identified (among the short list of authors). Are you AC here by modesty? Can we try running your JStylo software between your post and the associated wiki page, to evaluate if you are you?
There are a couple of sites that'll allow you to select a zone, locate every kind of potential improvement in the area (like, two roads that come adjacent to less than 1m, are they in fact connected) and then correct them, but being behind a very severe firewall at the moment I can't even find them for now:( Hopefully will come back later...
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ has been working for years I think. I did use it in Canada (coming from Europe, I only had euro mapping). My main issue is rather the Garmin software itself, and I'm patiently waiting for more developed open source turn-by-turn softwares. (what exists on tablets is already striking, including non-monopoly ones like Blackberry -I have great hopes for the coming linux ones)
Exactly. By the way, that's also the reason I continue using the arrow keys: when I hit a key, it obeys 100% of the time, and with absolutely precise accuracy, faaar beyond these ridiculous mouses -not to speak of trackpads.
Let's not exagerate. Not only copy/paste is nonintuitive on all tablets for now, but it's extremely basic, limited to text-only clipboards IIRC. If the OP's dad uses to create emails with images pasted into them, then he's out...
This definitely is a serious (very futuristic) study about capturing an asteroid, but absolutely not about "turning it into a space station"; the only objective is validating the capture AFAIK. This said, may I add having a random rock linked to a space station, well, would bring the same benefits than, well, having same rock linked to the current space station: just absolutely nothing.
What you say is significant, but I'd not be worried too much in this orbit. It's so low that atmospheric drag will get the thing down within one year (remember the space station needs tons of ergols yearly just to maintain it where it is, in the same surroundings). What worries me more is the disappointment of you all people when you'll realize within 1 litre or two you'll just not be able to fit actual pointing (so no images) and this orbit will leave your beast in ground sight just a couple of minutes per day (so no contact nor relay at will). One thing that may be efficient is a large collection of radio relay, commonly shared. But then you'll quickly find it's too costly to deploy.
To end in a more positive note: besides Cubesats you have a slightly costlier but *much* more efficient alternative: Iridium passenger payloads. There, you have much more space allowed, a power plug and an optical-compatible pointing provided by the host, along with optional high-throughput links *all the time* along the whole orbit, so indeed this starts providing an actual experiment potential... http://investor.iridium.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=547289 http://www.orbital.com/HostedPayloads/
... as far as I can see, the only thing Lego in this quadcopter is the plastic structure. Motors are not, batteries are not, control electronics are not, RF and presumably remote control are not, servomotors are not.
So are we discussing a "drone using some lego bricks for the structure"?
H. now mod me down, but remember I'm 50: at home I have older bricks than you (in addition to the vast amount aggregated by three sons)
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Obviously it's not "most planets are bigger than Earth", it's very exactly "our present detection method being a measure of star movements due to the planet presence, we only see enormous jupiter-like things for now".
How to say it politely?
"I hope the OP summary is, er, too concise, otherwise this just means Hawaii climate turns the scientists silly..."
Otherwise, otherwise... in my country (France) there is a nice saying, 'Les conseilleurs ne sont pas les payeurs', that basically describes you.
(attempt at translating: 'Most prominent advisors are generally not the investors to begin with')
In fact, apart from the venerable iCab on macs (and, much more recent, on ipads), is there just any rendering engine that's still developed by a single individual out there?
(before you start shrugging, let's remind iCab invented ad filtering some ten years before Mozilla was *born*)
Oh yes, you are THIS slashdot user, the only one, that does this. I identified you very easily :-D
Indeed, I'll sign up in a heartbeat as soon as you show me your very own KS is backed by an ethical bank.
As I'm not sure all of you know what it is, let's say these are very difficult to find (there is only one in my country*); in general they are non-profit banking associations thaf obviously won't even think about playing on stock exchanges.
And yes they run, reasonably, and more importantly, in a very robust way.
A Kickstarter launched by one such bank, I'd just love. I'd not invest in it: I'd donate. Yes.
(*) in France: Credit Cooperatif. Been here for 10 years now.
Once, long ago, there was this supersonic transcontinental aircraft named Concorde.
Then, after years and years of use, for various good reasons it was halted, and same good reasons explained there wouldn't be other civilian supersonics anymore. (but most of us were considering PROGRESS was continueing, weren't us?)
By the last years of Concorde, I graduated a space engineer in Europe.
At that time, when there was a flaw in one of the european spacecrafts or launchers, a commission was created but its results first were hidden for months, and then when published they were so much toned down it was almost ridiculous.
At that time, the immediate comparison, with reverence, was the US: so wealthy a country that any space crash there was immediately detailed, published, openly criticized and you *knew* the next issue would solve it.
Thit, was a time where there was the US, and then the others.
That the US now perform as ridiculously as their lousy followers twenty five years ago, is very telling.
Telling about the end of a civilisation. Face it. We are all Concorde-ed...
Thanks you two for this very efficient advice!
Well, yes and no: 'This is a developer preview image, not intended for general users'...
What I'm waiting for is an open source system that just works, out of the box if I dare say. This Pwnie express looks the closest match, even probably coming with a guarantee of some sort. Of course OTOH, just their name tells me they are expecting more than average joe as an user: if I'm flooded with ridicule here, I won't buy. But still, being convinced that tablets are unavoidable, and seeing how locked our beloved A/G duopoly is evolving them... Well I look for other players...
I'm an ordinary linux user, not geek, and interested in *owning* my tablet not pwning. Do I understand correctly that buying that one will allow me unrestricted root access?
Also, what exactly is in the 'custom ROM' from this point of view? Am I to be confident?
Last, do you think this tablet will be compatible with general-use linux apps, for instance, shall I be able to install serious image processing tools like Rawtherapee..?
TIA!
Sux0r (sorry not having seen you earlier, I just announced it 1 km below)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
plenty of interesting features including bayesian filtering of lots of posts...
If you try it do tell me!
H.
If you own or share your webhosting, what about setting the agregator just there, so you can access it from just any platform you want?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux0r/
You can even train it, bayesian like, to sort your very own interesting posts...
on computers (not phone AFAIK), RSSOwl does this (and is best to me) on all platforms, open source; on macs only you also have Vienna. Both scale really well (like, 100+ feed sources, 10000+ unread instantly handled), both can sort, search, display html site inline, lock feed items...
Thanks! You exemplify /. ultrafast reply :-)
Sorry for not having mod points...
do I understand correctly that PeerBlock may be the PC equivalent to macOS' Little Snitch, i. e. something that filters any request out and allows rules on them, per app and per address?
(and, is there something equivalent on Linux? Last time I asked that there I was shockingly told this was unnecessary...)
My feeling is, we don't see easily novelties because they are buried into much more data that what the previous centuries' people were used to analyze.
I am aware that this edges to that atrocious Pandora box currently called, 'Big Data', forgive me.
But still, that we don't see innovations as easily as before don't means there aren't.
Even at 'big data' level: 2012 saw the apparition of electoral statistical proofs: for instance, it has been demonstrated that Poutine cheated, and vastly, in his last two elections. There is a math proof, easy to verify, based on stats* --and indeed nobody denegated it.
In a world where 'big data' generally looks rather like 'big brother' or 'FBI knows everything from you', I find it very refreshing that indeed, 2012 big data novelty was the discovery that electoral cheating now can be mathematically demonstrated.
You'll see, some day, one country will set this kind if check inside its law. This, is a scientific novelty if not an 'invention'.
H.
(*) www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210722109
All is in the title -at least we may start forgeting Claude Allègre and homeopathics...
Indeed -real pride there, an unusual feeling.
So you are posting AC but giving a link where you are almost openly identified (among the short list of authors).
Are you AC here by modesty?
Can we try running your JStylo software between your post and the associated wiki page, to evaluate if you are you?
There are a couple of sites that'll allow you to select a zone, locate every kind of potential improvement in the area (like, two roads that come adjacent to less than 1m, are they in fact connected) and then correct them, but being behind a very severe firewall at the moment I can't even find them for now :(
Hopefully will come back later...
http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/
has been working for years I think. I did use it in Canada (coming from Europe, I only had euro mapping).
My main issue is rather the Garmin software itself, and I'm patiently waiting for more developed open source turn-by-turn softwares. (what exists on tablets is already striking, including non-monopoly ones like Blackberry -I have great hopes for the coming linux ones)
Exactly.
By the way, that's also the reason I continue using the arrow keys: when I hit a key, it obeys 100% of the time, and with absolutely precise accuracy, faaar beyond these ridiculous mouses -not to speak of trackpads.
Let's not exagerate. Not only copy/paste is nonintuitive on all tablets for now, but it's extremely basic, limited to text-only clipboards IIRC.
If the OP's dad uses to create emails with images pasted into them, then he's out...
This definitely is a serious (very futuristic) study about capturing an asteroid, but absolutely not about "turning it into a space station"; the only objective is validating the capture AFAIK.
This said, may I add having a random rock linked to a space station, well, would bring the same benefits than, well, having same rock linked to the current space station: just absolutely nothing.
open source, thus interesting.
did you build it or buy it prebuilt?
What you say is significant, but I'd not be worried too much in this orbit. It's so low that atmospheric drag will get the thing down within one year (remember the space station needs tons of ergols yearly just to maintain it where it is, in the same surroundings).
What worries me more is the disappointment of you all people when you'll realize within 1 litre or two you'll just not be able to fit actual pointing (so no images) and this orbit will leave your beast in ground sight just a couple of minutes per day (so no contact nor relay at will).
One thing that may be efficient is a large collection of radio relay, commonly shared. But then you'll quickly find it's too costly to deploy.
To end in a more positive note: besides Cubesats you have a slightly costlier but *much* more efficient alternative: Iridium passenger payloads.
There, you have much more space allowed, a power plug and an optical-compatible pointing provided by the host, along with optional high-throughput links *all the time* along the whole orbit, so indeed this starts providing an actual experiment potential...
http://investor.iridium.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=547289
http://www.orbital.com/HostedPayloads/
... as far as I can see, the only thing Lego in this quadcopter is the plastic structure. Motors are not, batteries are not, control electronics are not, RF and presumably remote control are not, servomotors are not.
So are we discussing a "drone using some lego bricks for the structure"?
H.
now mod me down, but remember I'm 50: at home I have older bricks than you (in addition to the vast amount aggregated by three sons)