The USGS National Map has had the ability to overlay map symbology on aerial imagery for years. For example, check out this map. Furthermore, Google's imagery of urban areas is often the same aerial photos used by the USGS and Terra Server. Of course, Google Maps is way cooler to use than either the USGS or Terra Server.
Actually, it's more like the check engine light went on, but by the time you get the car to the mechanic, it's gone off and won't come on again.
In the shuttle's case, they can't repeat the problem. The theory now is that it only occurs when the tanks are loaded (and thus at cryo temperatures versus ambient).
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday.
At least you can take your pottery with you when an ice age comes! Now, in my day, we had it TOUGH. We had to scratch our data onto our cave walls with the points of our spears. Sunup to sundown, we'd be scratching data, with our pointy-haired bosses standing over us every minute, and anyone who didn't pass checksum got fed to the mastadons.
Never mind. On a keyboard with no lower case, it would be the I key.
However, I do know for a fact that at least some typewriters as recently as the 1970's did not have a 1, and typists used the el instead. My Dad's little Underwood portable was one of these.
It's even worse. The article has misspellings ("seperate") and factual errors. Page 2: "He decided his new keyboard would not need a number 1 key. 'They can just type I instead.'" In fact, the substitute for the 1 key on old typewriters was the l (el). That's how I learned to type. (A friend of mine who has been been typing for many years longer than me still types el for 1, even on her computer keyboards.)
After this comic NO ONE will think we're crackpots.
I haven't RTFA yet (it's printing now), but I can tell you as a longtime Dvorak user that we're viewed as crackpots and we have little credibility with the QWERTY types. So I hope that if these guys are making medical claims that they have some real medical evidence to back up their claims, and not just the kind of anecdote mentioned in the Slashdot teaser. I've used Dvorak for 13 years and I can type faster than I could in QWERTY and the keyboard feels more comfortable. But that doesn't mean that it will be so for everybody, and it certainly doesn't mean that Dvorak will reduce anybody's likelihood of damaging their wrists. Caveat emptor.
It's got a cop motor: a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is this the new Bluesmobile, or what? - Elwood to Jake, The Blues Brothers
Maybe, but just west on I-10 is Sweetwater, home of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup. Cue the singers: "O whacking day, o whacking day, Our hallowed snake-skull cracking day..."
And, of course, if you're paying attention at the scene where they meet Sir Bedevere ("We've found a witch, may we burn her?"), you'll notice that Bedevere is experimenting with a pigeon tied to a coconut. Great running joke!
Reverse engineering has played a key role in the advancement of technology.
Indeed, the x86 clones that are the most popular deployment platform for linux wouldn't exist at all if Compaq hadn't reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS.
When I was a kid, we used to tie a long thread to the hind leg of a June bug (the green scarabs you find in Alabama - not those brown things that are called "June Bugs" in Texas). So tethered, you can release the little critter, hold onto the other end of the thread, and he'll fly in circles around you. Cruel, but entertaining.
What are you talking about?! Men never have admin privs on a woman's box.
At least, not after marriage.
Damn straight. The best you can hope for after that is that she occasionally grants you execute permission. (And you'd best take advantage of it, or else she'll set world-execute permission.)
Slashdot Mirror
The USGS National Map has had the ability to overlay map symbology on aerial imagery for years. For example, check out this map. Furthermore, Google's imagery of urban areas is often the same aerial photos used by the USGS and Terra Server. Of course, Google Maps is way cooler to use than either the USGS or Terra Server.
Actually, it's more like the check engine light went on, but by the time you get the car to the mechanic, it's gone off and won't come on again.
In the shuttle's case, they can't repeat the problem. The theory now is that it only occurs when the tanks are loaded (and thus at cryo temperatures versus ambient).
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday.
At least you can take your pottery with you when an ice age comes! Now, in my day, we had it TOUGH. We had to scratch our data onto our cave walls with the points of our spears. Sunup to sundown, we'd be scratching data, with our pointy-haired bosses standing over us every minute, and anyone who didn't pass checksum got fed to the mastadons.
No, you are thinking of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
I was 20% faster in just two months with Dvorak. I'm probably a bit slower than that now.
Never mind. On a keyboard with no lower case, it would be the I key.
However, I do know for a fact that at least some typewriters as recently as the 1970's did not have a 1, and typists used the el instead. My Dad's little Underwood portable was one of these.
It's even worse. The article has misspellings ("seperate") and factual errors. Page 2: "He decided his new keyboard would not need a number 1 key. 'They can just type I instead.'" In fact, the substitute for the 1 key on old typewriters was the l (el). That's how I learned to type. (A friend of mine who has been been typing for many years longer than me still types el for 1, even on her computer keyboards.)
After this comic NO ONE will think we're crackpots.
I haven't RTFA yet (it's printing now), but I can tell you as a longtime Dvorak user that we're viewed as crackpots and we have little credibility with the QWERTY types. So I hope that if these guys are making medical claims that they have some real medical evidence to back up their claims, and not just the kind of anecdote mentioned in the Slashdot teaser. I've used Dvorak for 13 years and I can type faster than I could in QWERTY and the keyboard feels more comfortable. But that doesn't mean that it will be so for everybody, and it certainly doesn't mean that Dvorak will reduce anybody's likelihood of damaging their wrists. Caveat emptor.
The Goggles! They do nothing!
KNIGHTS OF NI:
Aaaaugh! He said it again! Aaaaaugh *I* said it!
Stop and go traffic
Dude, if your vehicle is powered by a gas turbine, you don't stop for traffic - you run over it.
"cop-car beater"
It's got a cop motor: a 440 cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is this the new Bluesmobile, or what? - Elwood to Jake, The Blues Brothers
be seen without a telescope
So we could still make a deal if aliens drop by wanting to buy Jupiter.
Amarillo is a fairly non-descript town.
Maybe, but just west on I-10 is Sweetwater, home of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup. Cue the singers: "O whacking day, o whacking day, Our hallowed snake-skull cracking day..."
DAMMIT, Jim, I'm a programmer not a bricklayer!
And, of course, if you're paying attention at the scene where they meet Sir Bedevere ("We've found a witch, may we burn her?"), you'll notice that Bedevere is experimenting with a pigeon tied to a coconut. Great running joke!
Cleese, Gromit! We'll go somewhere where there's cleese!
You don't have enough money.
That's the worst thing I've heard since PCMCIA!
But PCMCIA has a funny expansion: "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms."
It's right here.
Reverse engineering has played a key role in the advancement of technology.
Indeed, the x86 clones that are the most popular deployment platform for linux wouldn't exist at all if Compaq hadn't reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS.
When I was a kid, we used to tie a long thread to the hind leg of a June bug (the green scarabs you find in Alabama - not those brown things that are called "June Bugs" in Texas). So tethered, you can release the little critter, hold onto the other end of the thread, and he'll fly in circles around you. Cruel, but entertaining.
What are you talking about?! Men never have admin privs on a woman's box.
At least, not after marriage.
Damn straight. The best you can hope for after that is that she occasionally grants you execute permission. (And you'd best take advantage of it, or else she'll set world-execute permission.)
This definitely isn't my underwear!