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Coincidentally yesterday NASA came out with this article about the October event. HETE satellite catched a gamma-ray burst "[it] spotted the burst, nailed down a location, and notified observers worldwide within a few seconds, while the gamma rays were still pouring in". It turns out that there is a "Gamma-ray burst Coordinates Network", and an Automated Telescope in Japan that started observing just 193 after the burst was detected. cool story.
15 Years ago Macs had a [consistent GUI|SCSI|PostScript|3.5" floppies|etc.] while Windows 3.1 wasn't event out yet. the best you could have on a PC was DOSSHELL. But I guess you're too young to remember it.
Most likely it is a blind spot and there is no pictures (data) for it. If the probe wasn't at a relatively high latitude it wouldn't be able to "see" the actual pole.
Those are valid points of course, but if you're dreaming about everybody having an helicopter in the future, you can for the same price also dream about intelligent fly-by-wire, collision avoidance, GPS guidance. You might not even have to "drive" it, just program the destination (using voice recognition of course). It seems like the threshold for most of these scenarios was "it could conceivably be done", no feasibility studies there (and that's what makes them so cool in a sense, they're like the car homer designed in the Simpson, the "Homer")
I've heard that this guys have implemented the same idea as one of the trick they use in their traffic shaping/QoS products. They're for WAN links IIRC so that any client (in the remote sites) can take advanatge of it.
In the films script the word "gigawatt" is spelt "jigowatt". Gale and Zemeckis had been to a science seminar and the speaker had pronounced it "jigowatt".
OK, so they pronounced it like that. Haven't they heard about books? Science seminar my ass
I don't know how you're measuring this. I would measure it from an axis perpendicular to the screen plane (right in front = 0 degrees). so NO screen can be seen at angels above 90 degrees. (an if you took one of the other 2 axis 90 degrees would be straigh in front so that doesn't make sense either)
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Lemelson Foundation was created by Jerome Lemelson, one of the more polarizing figures in modern day patent life. Lemelson obtained more than 500 patents in his life. He did not use these patents to create companies geared toward manufacturing products, however. Instead, he filed lawsuits against a number of companies, including General Motors and Otis Elevator, when elements of his designs allegedly showed up in later products such as bar-code scanners.
This guy made his money from bar-code scanners' patents (and lawsuits). Still his is "one of the larger student grants in the country"
from this picture it seems they changed the "Yes to All" button when doing a multi-file copy/replace with a checkbox like in Jaguar (OS X) however the wording is terrible "Repeat my answer each time this occurs". And what's the point of having a slideshow in the taskbar?
Of course it's the current that kills you, but since I=V/R and your body's resistance is the same in Australia or the US, 240 Volts would generate a larger current. Granted, fuses are rated in Amps and in theory you would be as safe as in a 110 V country. Still I'm more cautios where I live now than when I lived in a 110 country. Also, here the circuit breakers have an anti-electrocution fuse. I think it trips when it senses a leakage to ground even if it isn't as large a current but i'm not sure.
Not really in the personal privacy sphere but I once saw a DEA document that they published in PDF with the name of their agents blacked out. in Acrobat the names were actually blacked out but in OS X preview app you could see them. I know absolutely nothing about PDF but I assume they have layers.
Ironically it was a report about some Israelis trying to gather information on DEA agents and there they had all their names and addresses published in the internet.
There's some info and a really coolanimation (gif) at the Aerospace Corporation Site that gives a little sense of the amount of junk out there. The Johnson Space Center orbital debris site used to have some nice graphics too, but it's currently out.
I remember reading sometime ago a theory on how the effect of the low frequency componets of thunders is what made ancient people think of them as signs form the Gods. Also I think hearing a thunder out in the country where there are less obstacles to attenuate it is far more "moving" than hearing it in a city.
In iTunes you can fade on track into the next, and the time they overlap is adjustable (up to around 12 seconds IIRC) but I believe that this feature is missing from the iPod
Here's a picture of it in the 'clock mode'. Kind of dissapointing, they should have used much larger fonts. (And the mouse is horrible IMO). It's a nice idea, but If they want to sell a PC based on its design they should take care of those small details.
Yeah, but they should at last mention that a kernel panic is a common risk. At any rate, first time ever and even for a kernel panic Apple's got a classy screen:-)
I used 'starry night' for OS9 and I saw that they now have a OS X version out, has anybody tried it?
You probably mean the Comsta maneuver , in which the orbit inclination is not only corrected but overcompensated so that the orbit after the maneuver is inclinde in the opposite direction. so instead of letting the satellite orbit to drift to X degrees and then correct it back to 0 inclination (parallel to the earth's equatorial plane) the orbit is set to an inclination of -X and let to drift all the way back to X at which time the maneuver is applied again.
I don't see what 11 digits buys new york over 10 though, cause if the first digit is always 1 then effectively you have gained nothing over just adding another area code.
That would be true if all the numbers would be used but this is not the case, since calls are routed as soon as enough information as been dialed you have whole blocks of numbers that can not be used. They are made available by adding an extra digit even if it always is the same. For example if you dial 911-XYZ you will be routed to 911 so there are no phone numbers that start with 911, but add a 1 and you have made available 10^(number of digits after 911) new numbers, and so on.
Why does a person need three numbers?
He's asking about Numbers not Lines . To the regular phone user it doesn't matter that these business use 200 lines or 20 but that they take 200 numbers out of the pool and that his and other numbers are now 11 digits long. And since DID is more economical and convenient as everybody has mentioned, this trend will continue. The public will have to deal either with longer "numbers" or increasingly smaller new area codes.
And it currently is in an orbit that is inclined by around 5 which is a lot, for most gero satellites it is less than 1. This means that while its position seems stationary in the east-west plane, in the north-south plane it moves from +5 to -5 from it's nominal latitude every 24 hours
when asiasat 3 got stranded back in 98 "the Insurers declared it a total loss for its original purposes". then with Hughes they had it swing around the moon a la Apollo-13 and agreed "to share profits with the insurers".
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Coincidentally yesterday NASA came out with this article about the October event. HETE satellite catched a gamma-ray burst "[it] spotted the burst, nailed down a location, and notified observers worldwide within a few seconds, while the gamma rays were still pouring in". It turns out that there is a "Gamma-ray burst Coordinates Network", and an Automated Telescope in Japan that started observing just 193 after the burst was detected. cool story.
15 Years ago Macs had a [consistent GUI|SCSI|PostScript|3.5" floppies|etc.] while Windows 3.1 wasn't event out yet. the best you could have on a PC was DOSSHELL. But I guess you're too young to remember it.
Most likely it is a blind spot and there is no pictures (data) for it. If the probe wasn't at a relatively high latitude it wouldn't be able to "see" the actual pole.
Those are valid points of course, but if you're dreaming about everybody having an helicopter in the future, you can for the same price also dream about intelligent fly-by-wire, collision avoidance, GPS guidance. You might not even have to "drive" it, just program the destination (using voice recognition of course). It seems like the threshold for most of these scenarios was "it could conceivably be done", no feasibility studies there (and that's what makes them so cool in a sense, they're like the car homer designed in the Simpson, the "Homer")
The "Closer Than We Think" series is great.
The above-ground transparent pool for example. And this one reminds me of the segway.
I've heard that this guys have implemented the same idea as one of the trick they use in their traffic shaping/QoS products. They're for WAN links IIRC so that any client (in the remote sites) can take advanatge of it.
That makes more sense... Thanks
OK, so they pronounced it like that. Haven't they heard about books? Science seminar my ass
I don't know how you're measuring this. I would measure it from an axis perpendicular to the screen plane (right in front = 0 degrees). so NO screen can be seen at angels above 90 degrees. (an if you took one of the other 2 axis 90 degrees would be straigh in front so that doesn't make sense either)
This guy made his money from bar-code scanners' patents (and lawsuits). Still his is "one of the larger student grants in the country"
from this picture it seems they changed the "Yes to All" button when doing a multi-file copy/replace with a checkbox like in Jaguar (OS X) however the wording is terrible "Repeat my answer each time this occurs".
And what's the point of having a slideshow in the taskbar?
Of course it's the current that kills you, but since I=V/R and your body's resistance is the same in Australia or the US, 240 Volts would generate a larger current.
Granted, fuses are rated in Amps and in theory you would be as safe as in a 110 V country. Still I'm more cautios where I live now than when I lived in a 110 country.
Also, here the circuit breakers have an anti-electrocution fuse. I think it trips when it senses a leakage to ground even if it isn't as large a current but i'm not sure.
Not really in the personal privacy sphere but I once saw a DEA document that they published in PDF with the name of their agents blacked out. in Acrobat the names were actually blacked out but in OS X preview app you could see them.
I know absolutely nothing about PDF but I assume they have layers.
Ironically it was a report about some Israelis trying to gather information on DEA agents and there they had all their names and addresses published in the internet.
There's some info and a really cool animation (gif) at the Aerospace Corporation Site that gives a little sense of the amount of junk out there.
The Johnson Space Center orbital debris site used to have some nice graphics too, but it's currently out.
I remember reading sometime ago a theory on how the effect of the low frequency componets of thunders is what made ancient people think of them as signs form the Gods. Also I think hearing a thunder out in the country where there are less obstacles to attenuate it is far more "moving" than hearing it in a city.
In iTunes you can fade on track into the next, and the time they overlap is adjustable (up to around 12 seconds IIRC) but I believe that this feature is missing from the iPod
Try connecting some headphones or computer speakers and remove them after a few seconds. It always works with my iBook
Here's a picture of it in the 'clock mode'. Kind of dissapointing, they should have used much larger fonts. (And the mouse is horrible IMO). It's a nice idea, but If they want to sell a PC based on its design they should take care of those small details.
Yeah, but they should at last mention that a kernel panic is a common risk. :-)
At any rate, first time ever and even for a kernel panic Apple's got a classy screen
I used 'starry night' for OS9 and I saw that they now have a OS X version out, has anybody tried it?
You probably mean the Comsta maneuver , in which the orbit inclination is not only corrected but overcompensated so that the orbit after the maneuver is inclinde in the opposite direction. so instead of letting the satellite orbit to drift to X degrees and then correct it back to 0 inclination (parallel to the earth's equatorial plane) the orbit is set to an inclination of -X and let to drift all the way back to X at which time the maneuver is applied again.
Get some of those 50's movies from archive.org's Prelinger Collection
The "Are you popular" MPEG is 260 MB+
From their terms of use:"Access to the Archive's Collections is provided at no cost to you and is granted for scholarship and research purposesonly."
I don't see what 11 digits buys new york over 10 though, cause if the first digit is always 1 then effectively you have gained nothing over just adding another area code.
That would be true if all the numbers would be used but this is not the case, since calls are routed as soon as enough information as been dialed you have whole blocks of numbers that can not be used. They are made available by adding an extra digit even if it always is the same.
For example if you dial 911-XYZ you will be routed to 911 so there are no phone numbers that start with 911, but add a 1 and you have made available 10^(number of digits after 911) new numbers, and so on.
Why does a person need three numbers?
He's asking about Numbers not Lines . To the regular phone user it doesn't matter that these business use 200 lines or 20 but that they take 200 numbers out of the pool and that his and other numbers are now 11 digits long. And since DID is more economical and convenient as everybody has mentioned, this trend will continue. The public will have to deal either with longer "numbers" or increasingly smaller new area codes.
And it currently is in an orbit that is inclined by around 5 which is a lot, for most gero satellites it is less than 1. This means that while its position seems stationary in the east-west plane, in the north-south plane it moves from +5 to -5 from it's nominal latitude every 24 hours
So I guess the insurers own it.