According to Ford, Armstrong spoke, "One small step for a man..." in a total of 35 milliseconds, 10 times too fast for the "a" to be audible. The "a" was transmitted, though, and can be verified in an analysis using a Canadian sound editing software called GoldWave , Ford said.
Canadian software is very good at detecting 'a's, eh?
His writers had McCoy give Kirk a pair of reading glasses in Star Trek IV
Fair warning: I'm going to nit pick a bit...
Firstly, that was Star Trek II, not IV. Secondly, the reading glasses were given because Kirk was allergic to the standard treatment (well, really 'cause the writers wanted an easy visual to help the audience recognize Kirk's frailty) and they were acknowledged to be antiques:
McCOY : Now you open this one. KIRK : I'm almost afraid to. What is it ? Klingon aphrodisiacs ? McCOY : No, more antiques for your collection. KIRK : Well, Bones, this is charming. McCOY : They're four hundred years old. You don't find many with the lenses still intact. KIRK : What is it ? McCOY : They're for your eyes. For most patients your age, I generally recommend Retinax V. KIRK : I'm allergic to Retinax.
If you are going to the trouble of setting up a proxy, why not use it for all of your web traffic?
Some folks say that tor browsing is slower but I haven't really noticed that. What I have noticed is that, when I surf slashdot through tor, I bump into the "can't login 'cause this ip is banned" thing much more often. Go figure: tor surfers are also slashdot abusers.:-)
I once had a remote hpux system which was periodically rebooting and often coming up in need of an fsck. It turned out that the reboots were exactly timed with some data-driven print jobs. Whenever a bit of data came in which had to be printed: boom. Some well meaning soul had plugged the laser printer into the ups and the extra draw from the printer waking up was enough to trip it.
If you lay flat, it increases the chance of electricity flowing through your body if there is a nearby strike.
Okay, fair enough, but is this sufficient reason for choosing to be the highest point in the landscape? I would think that getting lower would be a better idea. PS: Thanks for this nugget; it'll have me riddled with doubt should I ever find myself in a field with thunder around.:-)
The problem with Okopipi is that it amounts to an unelected and unrepresentative group that is appointing itself as police force, judge, jury and executioner.
Nonsense. All Okopipi will do is automate the opt-out/unsubscribe requests.
Does that mean that someone in Ira?, upon finding an undetonated warhead, could obtain its GPLed source code via the written offer?
Oh sure... they could just mail in their lat, lon, and elevation and wait for the src code to be delivered (along with a duplicate copy of the original offer)...:-)
"With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple as a PIN number or, preferably, a more secure system such as a fingerprint reader."
How could a fingerprint scanner be "more secure" than a PIN? If someone nicks your computer, it'll have your fingerprints all over it. With fingerprints being easy to fake via play-dough, surely this would be like finding a car with the keys left in it. With a PIN, at least the bad guy would have to brute-force it.
I wish gizmo would get their act together and get the linux client packaged in something other than an ancient.deb file.
Their deb file is up to date (released Nov 7/05), so you must be saying that you think deb itself is ancient, right? Perhaps you could try using alien (http://freshmeat.net/projects/alien/) to convert the deb into some non-ancient format.
What I'm wondering is how Google got this far down the road with gmail before bumping into these other folks. I mean, if only they had had some way to search the web for companies using name 'X' before they decided to use it themselves...:-)
internet campaigning isn't going to be growing at 30 fold forever.
Well, no, but we can reasonably expect it to replace nearly all other forms of advertising over time. If radio, tv, and newspapers are delivered to a home theatre pc then this would be internet advertising, wouldn't it?
The point I was trying to make was that we had zdnet earlier telling us that linux growth had slowed because the gpl was holding it back and then here we have an ibm study showing 40% growth of linux on the desktop. Maybe I should have included a sarcasm tag...
When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.
In 1535, two Indian Youths told Jacques Cartier about the route to "kanata." They were referring to the village of Stadacona; "kanata" was simply the Huron-Iroquois word for "village" or "settlement." But for want of another name, Cartier used "Canada" to refer not only to Stadacona (the site of present day Quebec City), but also to the entire area subject to its chief, Donnacona.
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The first use of "Canada" as an official name came in 1791 when the Province of Quebec was divided into the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two Canadas were again united under one name, the Province of Canada. At the time of Confederation, the new country assumed the name of Canada.
Looks like its an oversized TIVO box with 2 500GB harddrives, all for the low, low price of $1180
The terabyte version is not $1180; it is nearly double that.
From TFA:
The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen ($1,180) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.
I wasn't trying to say that wisecracks about openoffice being big and slow are invalid. On the contrary, whenever I pitch openoffice to msoffice users, I brace myself for their inevitable "that's way too slow" feedback. The start up speed is definitely an embarassment. I was reacting to the tone of Andy Oram's comment:
"Already, two speakers have made wisecracks about OpenOffice.org, tagging it as a bloated memory hog. I have the suspicion that some attendees see Linux as something to run for its own intrinsic value, rather than as a platform for useful applications that can actually help people accomplish something."
I take that to mean that he thinks such wisecracks are invalid and if one wants to run "useful applications" then one ought to be accepting of slow performance. I was trying to make the point that the OLS attendees realize how important an app like openoffice is.
In short, I think you should be objecting to him, not me.:-)
Already, two speakers have made wisecracks about OpenOffice.org, tagging it as a bloated memory hog.
I have happier memories of OLS and openoffice: it was at OLS in 2000 that Miguel de Icaza announced, during his keynote, that StarOffice would be opensourced and available at openoffice.org. This got a tremendous round of applause, so Andy Oram need not despair that OLS attendants don't grasp the importance of office suites.
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Canadian software is very good at detecting 'a's, eh?
Fair warning: I'm going to nit pick a bit...
Firstly, that was Star Trek II, not IV. Secondly, the reading glasses were given because Kirk was allergic to the standard treatment (well, really 'cause the writers wanted an easy visual to help the audience recognize Kirk's frailty) and they were acknowledged to be antiques:
Apart from that, I quite liked your post.
This seems to me to be a very solid business plan.
Some folks say that tor browsing is slower but I haven't really noticed that. What I have noticed is that, when I surf slashdot through tor, I bump into the "can't login 'cause this ip is banned" thing much more often. Go figure: tor surfers are also slashdot abusers. :-)
I once had a remote hpux system which was periodically rebooting and often coming up in need of an fsck. It turned out that the reboots were exactly timed with some data-driven print jobs. Whenever a bit of data came in which had to be printed: boom. Some well meaning soul had plugged the laser printer into the ups and the extra draw from the printer waking up was enough to trip it.
Okay, fair enough, but is this sufficient reason for choosing to be the highest point in the landscape? I would think that getting lower would be a better idea. PS: Thanks for this nugget; it'll have me riddled with doubt should I ever find myself in a field with thunder around. :-)
Nonsense. All Okopipi will do is automate the opt-out/unsubscribe requests.
http://wiki.okopipi.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Ques tions
True. I would have assumed the streak to be yellow. :-)
That's not 'good'; that's 'evil'. They won't 'be good'; they'll 'perform a good action' for selfish reasons.
Anyway, IMO, corportations are neutral evil. They don't care about laws; they only care about their own welfare.
Tightvnc does file xfer between win32 systems.
http://www.tightvnc.com/intro.html
Oh sure... they could just mail in their lat, lon, and elevation and wait for the src code to be delivered (along with a duplicate copy of the original offer)... :-)
How could a fingerprint scanner be "more secure" than a PIN? If someone nicks your computer, it'll have your fingerprints all over it. With fingerprints being easy to fake via play-dough, surely this would be like finding a car with the keys left in it. With a PIN, at least the bad guy would have to brute-force it.
Note to self: read up on this eco-nom-ics thing.
Their deb file is up to date (released Nov 7/05), so you must be saying that you think deb itself is ancient, right? Perhaps you could try using alien (http://freshmeat.net/projects/alien/) to convert the deb into some non-ancient format.
What I'm wondering is how Google got this far down the road with gmail before bumping into these other folks. I mean, if only they had had some way to search the web for companies using name 'X' before they decided to use it themselves... :-)
Well, no, but we can reasonably expect it to replace nearly all other forms of advertising over time. If radio, tv, and newspapers are delivered to a home theatre pc then this would be internet advertising, wouldn't it?
The point I was trying to make was that we had zdnet earlier telling us that linux growth had slowed because the gpl was holding it back and then here we have an ibm study showing 40% growth of linux on the desktop. Maybe I should have included a sarcasm tag...
If only the gpl weren't holding linux back, eh?
This always reminds me of the origins of "Canada". From http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/sc-cs/o5_e.cf m :
In 1535, two Indian Youths told Jacques Cartier about the route to "kanata." They were referring to the village of Stadacona; "kanata" was simply the Huron-Iroquois word for "village" or "settlement." But for want of another name, Cartier used "Canada" to refer not only to Stadacona (the site of present day Quebec City), but also to the entire area subject to its chief, Donnacona.
The first use of "Canada" as an official name came in 1791 when the Province of Quebec was divided into the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada. In 1841, the two Canadas were again united under one name, the Province of Canada. At the time of Confederation, the new country assumed the name of Canada.
The terabyte version is not $1180; it is nearly double that.
From TFA:
The recorders will go on sale in Japan from next month. They are expected to retail from about 130,000 yen ($1,180) for the cheapest model to 230,000 yen for the one-terabyte recorder, which stores data on two 500 gigabyte hard disk drives.
This reminds me of a quote from a police detective (dunno where I heard it; probably fictional):
"I've been throwing guys up against squad cars for a lot of years and I've never once found a mensa card in their wallet."
Quite right. The storage review faq provides a nice summary of the issue.
I wasn't trying to say that wisecracks about openoffice being big and slow are invalid. On the contrary, whenever I pitch openoffice to msoffice users, I brace myself for their inevitable "that's way too slow" feedback. The start up speed is definitely an embarassment. I was reacting to the tone of Andy Oram's comment:
"Already, two speakers have made wisecracks about OpenOffice.org, tagging it as a bloated memory hog. I have the suspicion that some attendees see Linux as something to run for its own intrinsic value, rather than as a platform for useful applications that can actually help people accomplish something."
I take that to mean that he thinks such wisecracks are invalid and if one wants to run "useful applications" then one ought to be accepting of slow performance. I was trying to make the point that the OLS attendees realize how important an app like openoffice is.
In short, I think you should be objecting to him, not me. :-)
Already, two speakers have made wisecracks about OpenOffice.org, tagging it as a bloated memory hog.
I have happier memories of OLS and openoffice: it was at OLS in 2000 that Miguel de Icaza announced, during his keynote, that StarOffice would be opensourced and available at openoffice.org. This got a tremendous round of applause, so Andy Oram need not despair that OLS attendants don't grasp the importance of office suites.