Um... yeah, you can pay, but you can also scroll down about 2 pages of advertisements and a listing of catagories and find the answers lodged beneath. Unless there are yet more answers to these questions?
For example: a question about Java. The question first, then the SIGN UP! bla bla, then a bunch of catagories, but if you scroll down further, you'll find answers to the questions, including the 'accepted answer' and such.
Copy & paste the sites that are listed on the front page of the link in the article into a file called sites.txt, each on one line, and then run the following command:
while true; do wget -q -i sites.txt --delete-after ; done
A daemonized version shouldn't be that hard to write, just have it parse the URLs on the front page out every day, and re-run wget on the new list.
JBoss uses both JMS and JGroups, an excellent open source reliable multicasting library/protocol stack.
According to the project plan the goal is to have JMS for client-server structure communication, and use JGroups for peer to peer structure communication.
I highly recommend JGroups for your intermachine networking needs!:-)
Friends and direct family, 20 euros an hour, friends of family or friends of friends, 40 euros an hour. I figure a high price might make them think twice about clicking on random attachments and actually take my advice about using Firefox seriously.:-)
Minimum exit height for skydiving is around 2500 feet, but this is not recommended. We regularly jump from 3500 feet. No problem there, you just don't get much freefall time (couple seconds). I'm not sure how fast a paragliding reserve opens, but with regular chutes you need at most a couple hundred feet to open a parachute if you're doing a 'hop & pop' where you open your chute right after leaving the plane. This would the case as well, where the pilot of the cluster would find himself descending too fast, and decides to bail out... he would basically be cutting away from a low downward velocity (not freefall speeds - 120 MPH) and immediately opening his reserve, so he would only need a couple hundred feet.
And I don't know which base jump site you got your information from, but BASE jumpers usually jump from objects which are less than 2600 feet high. Probably the lowest object ever jumped was the Jesus statue in Rio de Janero.
The only problem I see with his setup is the extra balloons tied to his hands and feet... The harnas will not cut those away when you are in trouble, and they could severely tangle with your reserve parachute, which is not a good thing...
Yep, they're my ISP too, and I only have good words about them. Connectivity is great, service is excellent. They even have a special unix helpdesk. They have a lot of experimental stuff customers can play with (like Google Beta stuff): IPv6, a secure jabber server with transports to all other networks and a lot of other stuff.
Space diving? Thats insane... I don't know if you've heard of Joe Kittinger, who jumped from a balloon at 102,800 ft. The first jump he had serious trouble stabilizing himself, as there was no air to work with. On later jumps he deployed a drogue as is used with tandem skydives these days. He had a special suit made and took oxygen along. It was all a rather complicated affair.
Of course I'm not saying space travel is not complicated. Its just that skydiving becomes a lot more complicated when you travel higher than 15,000ft. I'm sure there'll be some people that will do it, but I don't see it as something that many skydivers will be willing/able (skill-wise or finallcially) to do.
Cheers
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Its called Teletekst here in the Netherlands and is still used quite a lot. The public broadcasting corporation even has a web gateway. Check it out here for those of you unfamiliar with the concept of teletekst:
So you basically see all the area in black on your TV screen... use your remote to search for the pages.
I guess they have this service on the web because a lot of people, like another poster said, like the sparse/terse way of information presentation. I frequently visit the weather (page 702) and news page (page 101) for a quick overview. Very useful.
Also used for TV program listings and stuff like that (page 201 usually).
I have contributed several articles. Sometime on subjects that interested me and I didn't find any good information on wikipedia. In other cases I saw an interesting documentary on Discovery or some other program on TV and wanted more information... also not finding it on wikipedia. I would then do the research myself and write the article.
These were articles that constituted a major change. I have done many many edits on various articles where I wikified terms and perhaps noticed an error or typo. Minor edits.
If you're looking to start out, a good place is the 'Dead end' pages. These are articles that have no outgoing links and need to be wikified. Armed with Google and 'site:en.wikipedia.org' in your searchbox you can find relevant words to link to in Wikipedia (the search in Wikipedia is quite slow usually - Google is a lot faster). Sometimes you will find an article that looks too professional. A bit of Googling will often verify that it is copy & pasted from another page with a copyright... then adding the page to the copyviolations list is another good way of contributing.
Why not use a simple altimeter? Yeah it'd have to be somewhat more complex being out in space for a while and all that, but in the skydiving world nearly everybody has an automatic activation device which will deploy their reserve parachute at a set altitude if still in freefall, should the skydiver become incapacitated or distracted or whatever.
If they used a system as described above, which seems very fail-prone, why?? when there are better systems available? And like someone else said, why didn't they have a backup remote radio system to release the parachute? Probably cause it would weigh too much, but like we've seen, the parachute deploying is a pretty crucial part of the mission...
Ha! Looks like my keyboard... I'm typing this on an old 1985 IBM keyboard with buckling springs... its beautiful... the noise is terrible but it types great. Incredible that they sell those for $69. Well, I guess thats cause its programmable.
Thats awesome... I love photomosaics... and I agree that the article pic is not a mosaic... I even find it suspicious that these are pics taken with cell phones... aren't pics taken with cell phones small and grainy and low quality? The source pics actually look pretty decent quality.
Now, if they'd used some more source pics and made them a little smaller it would maybe become interesting... not such a gray/purple smudge of crap.
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Want a Linux (unix, os x, etc) version? Send them an email asking for it:
mailto:labs+webaccelerator@google.com
Perhaps if they get enough responses they will get it out faster (or decide to put it out if they had decided not to publish it).
Gee... I guess that couldn't be since the number of internet users has grown since 1996? Nah...
Um... yeah, you can pay, but you can also scroll down about 2 pages of advertisements and a listing of catagories and find the answers lodged beneath. Unless there are yet more answers to these questions?
For example: a question about Java. The question first, then the SIGN UP! bla bla, then a bunch of catagories, but if you scroll down further, you'll find answers to the questions, including the 'accepted answer' and such.
Hope this is useful to someone.
Cheers
Happy marauding...
JBoss uses both JMS and JGroups, an excellent open source reliable multicasting library/protocol stack.
:-)
According to the project plan the goal is to have JMS for client-server structure communication, and use JGroups for peer to peer structure communication.
I highly recommend JGroups for your intermachine networking needs!
Friends and direct family, 20 euros an hour, friends of family or friends of friends, 40 euros an hour. I figure a high price might make them think twice about clicking on random attachments and actually take my advice about using Firefox seriously. :-)
Cheers!
Hehe, yeah and under the Mac Mini it says:
"Keyboard, mouse, megaphone and display sold separately"
Probably in reference to the little megaphone icon at the bottom right.
Holy Fucked Up Buzz Box Night?
(wtf are the Dutch words doing in that sentence?)
At least attribute the source when you blatantly rip something from another site.
Minimum exit height for skydiving is around 2500 feet, but this is not recommended. We regularly jump from 3500 feet. No problem there, you just don't get much freefall time (couple seconds). I'm not sure how fast a paragliding reserve opens, but with regular chutes you need at most a couple hundred feet to open a parachute if you're doing a 'hop & pop' where you open your chute right after leaving the plane. This would the case as well, where the pilot of the cluster would find himself descending too fast, and decides to bail out... he would basically be cutting away from a low downward velocity (not freefall speeds - 120 MPH) and immediately opening his reserve, so he would only need a couple hundred feet.
And I don't know which base jump site you got your information from, but BASE jumpers usually jump from objects which are less than 2600 feet high. Probably the lowest object ever jumped was the Jesus statue in Rio de Janero.
The only problem I see with his setup is the extra balloons tied to his hands and feet... The harnas will not cut those away when you are in trouble, and they could severely tangle with your reserve parachute, which is not a good thing...
Slashdot's topic icon for the GIMP is animated (the only animated icon). Watch his eyes. :-)
Yep, they're my ISP too, and I only have good words about them. Connectivity is great, service is excellent. They even have a special unix helpdesk. They have a lot of experimental stuff customers can play with (like Google Beta stuff): IPv6, a secure jabber server with transports to all other networks and a lot of other stuff.
Go XS4ALL!
Check your email... you should have an invite
Your gmail invite has been sent
Space diving? Thats insane... I don't know if you've heard of Joe Kittinger, who jumped from a balloon at 102,800 ft. The first jump he had serious trouble stabilizing himself, as there was no air to work with. On later jumps he deployed a drogue as is used with tandem skydives these days. He had a special suit made and took oxygen along. It was all a rather complicated affair.
Of course I'm not saying space travel is not complicated. Its just that skydiving becomes a lot more complicated when you travel higher than 15,000ft. I'm sure there'll be some people that will do it, but I don't see it as something that many skydivers will be willing/able (skill-wise or finallcially) to do.
Cheers
Its called Teletekst here in the Netherlands and is still used quite a lot. The public broadcasting corporation even has a web gateway. Check it out here for those of you unfamiliar with the concept of teletekst:
http://teletekst.nos.nl/
So you basically see all the area in black on your TV screen... use your remote to search for the pages.
I guess they have this service on the web because a lot of people, like another poster said, like the sparse/terse way of information presentation. I frequently visit the weather (page 702) and news page (page 101) for a quick overview. Very useful.
Also used for TV program listings and stuff like that (page 201 usually).
I have contributed several articles. Sometime on subjects that interested me and I didn't find any good information on wikipedia. In other cases I saw an interesting documentary on Discovery or some other program on TV and wanted more information... also not finding it on wikipedia. I would then do the research myself and write the article.
These were articles that constituted a major change. I have done many many edits on various articles where I wikified terms and perhaps noticed an error or typo. Minor edits.
If you're looking to start out, a good place is the 'Dead end' pages. These are articles that have no outgoing links and need to be wikified. Armed with Google and 'site:en.wikipedia.org' in your searchbox you can find relevant words to link to in Wikipedia (the search in Wikipedia is quite slow usually - Google is a lot faster). Sometimes you will find an article that looks too professional. A bit of Googling will often verify that it is copy & pasted from another page with a copyright... then adding the page to the copyviolations list is another good way of contributing.
It's spelled 'hakuna matata' which means 'no problem' in Swahili.
Why not use a simple altimeter? Yeah it'd have to be somewhat more complex being out in space for a while and all that, but in the skydiving world nearly everybody has an automatic activation device which will deploy their reserve parachute at a set altitude if still in freefall, should the skydiver become incapacitated or distracted or whatever.
If they used a system as described above, which seems very fail-prone, why?? when there are better systems available? And like someone else said, why didn't they have a backup remote radio system to release the parachute? Probably cause it would weigh too much, but like we've seen, the parachute deploying is a pretty crucial part of the mission...
Use the nyud.net:8090 distributed cache
Ha! Looks like my keyboard... I'm typing this on an old 1985 IBM keyboard with buckling springs... its beautiful... the noise is terrible but it types great. Incredible that they sell those for $69. Well, I guess thats cause its programmable.
Levelling out at 10,000ft eh? What airline is this? Does the FAA know?
:-)
Perhaps you meant 30,000ft.
Thats awesome... I love photomosaics... and I agree that the article pic is not a mosaic... I even find it suspicious that these are pics taken with cell phones... aren't pics taken with cell phones small and grainy and low quality? The source pics actually look pretty decent quality.
Now, if they'd used some more source pics and made them a little smaller it would maybe become interesting... not such a gray/purple smudge of crap.
YES! Awesome. Very impressive. Thank you.
Gonna do this now. Took a bit of practice but I can do it easily now.