By the authority vested in me by virtue of being an Ubuntu user and member of the community, I hereby apologize to you on behalf of the entire Ubuntu community. We are sorry that Ubuntu broke your computer.
That being said, we believe that that specific problem, along with many others have been fixed.
What we should actually be doing is building massive solar panels in orbit around the sun, so many that they gather all the energy emitted by the star. Call it project Dyson or something. Then we'll have enough energy to move planets around. We could take one of the moons of Jupiter, or even a whole bunch of asteroids if you're sentimental about the Jovian moons, and smash them into Mars, making another convenient Earth size planet in the Goldilocks zone. Hopefully 2007 WD5 gives us just a bit of a head start.;)
The Goldilocks zone of course being the area around the sun where liquid water can exist. Not too hot and not too cold.
Venus is also in the Goldilocks zone, by the way. It can serve as a reminder of what could possibly happen to an Earth-like planet with too much CO2 in it's atmosphere. Maybe we should put a huge heatsink on Venus or something. You know, to cool it down enough to get the terrestrial genetically modified extremophiles living comfortably there. Let the extremophiles then bind the CO2 in it's atmosphere until it, too, is more Earth like.
Just like that, and you have two new inhabitable worlds! Easy!
I wonder if Mars being milder will help Spirit and Opportunity to keep functioning for even longer.
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Suppose a ship travels for seven centuries, you can expect about 30 generations of people to be born in that time. Apparently, kids today are using text messaging abbreviations in their school papers, and the teachers have a hard time understanding them.
Will the people on earth be able to decipher a message sent by the travelers by the time they get to where they were going? If we desire to ever become an interstellar civilization, I think spelling and grammar nazis will have an important role to play.
There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things, with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
I think you won't see much more of it anymore, until it emerges from behind the sun.
In the Southern Hemisphere it will be visible in the following week or so. It is raining right now here in the Kingdom of the Zulu, and the weather service expects the rain to persist for the whole of next week. We don't complain about rain here in Africa (except when there are floods of course) but this is inconvenient.
I was seven years old in 1986, and I was really excited to see Halley's comet. The night that the comet was expected to be visible, I asked my mother to wake me up so that I can see it. The next morning, I asked her why she didn't wake me. She explained that I had been sleeping so peacefully, and that she didn't want to disturb me. I was bitterly upset. Oh well, 76 years isn't that long to wait.
women on birth control don't ovulate. Actually, they do. And their eggs can even be fertilized. The fertilized eggs are just not allowed to stay atached to the uterine wall, since menstruation starts when they start taking the placebos (red pills).
what has HE done? He developed the original Emacs, GNU Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. That's a pretty serious contribution you know.
No, you don't understand the purpose of the evil bit. Pages that intentionally leave out the NSFW tag to fool people into opening objectionable content at work should have the evil bit set.
Yesterday I replaced my 20GB Fujitsu drive that I've had since 2000. It's still working fine, it just got a bit small. Harddrives are actually astonishingly reliable.
Have a look at OCS Inventory NG, it's an asset tracking system. It can also integrate with GLPI, which is a helpdesk system. They're FOSS. I'm thinking of giving them a go at the non-profit where I work. It looks pretty cool, the only thing that bothers me so far is the shoddy translation.
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It's also hot in infrared. Isn't this exactly what you would expect to see from a planet with a Kardashev level 1 civilisation?
I installed Windows for my father. He comitted suicide about a year ago. My mom is using Ubuntu and she's still fine.
By the authority vested in me by virtue of being an Ubuntu user and member of the community, I hereby apologize to you on behalf of the entire Ubuntu community. We are sorry that Ubuntu broke your computer.
That being said, we believe that that specific problem, along with many others have been fixed.
Will you please give Ubuntu another try?
No, no, no, no, no! Eccentrica Gallumbits described Zaphod Beeblebrox as "the best bang since the big one." It says so right in your link.
Yeah, that's him.
Oh man, I miss this guy. Where's he gone? What was his name again? SCO$699feetroll or something? I wonder if it was really Darl.
What we should actually be doing is building massive solar panels in orbit around the sun, so many that they gather all the energy emitted by the star. Call it project Dyson or something. Then we'll have enough energy to move planets around. We could take one of the moons of Jupiter, or even a whole bunch of asteroids if you're sentimental about the Jovian moons, and smash them into Mars, making another convenient Earth size planet in the Goldilocks zone. Hopefully 2007 WD5 gives us just a bit of a head start. ;)
The Goldilocks zone of course being the area around the sun where liquid water can exist. Not too hot and not too cold.
Venus is also in the Goldilocks zone, by the way. It can serve as a reminder of what could possibly happen to an Earth-like planet with too much CO2 in it's atmosphere. Maybe we should put a huge heatsink on Venus or something. You know, to cool it down enough to get the terrestrial genetically modified extremophiles living comfortably there. Let the extremophiles then bind the CO2 in it's atmosphere until it, too, is more Earth like.
Just like that, and you have two new inhabitable worlds! Easy!
-Okay, mod me offtopic now.
You might be trying to reinvent the wheel. BananaPOS seems to have died. Why don't you resurrect it? http://bananapos.com/pos/home.html
Yeah, Microsoft were all over in that movie. The directory/phone booth thing was MSN.
I wonder if Mars being milder will help Spirit and Opportunity to keep functioning for even longer.
Suppose a ship travels for seven centuries, you can expect about 30 generations of people to be born in that time. Apparently, kids today are using text messaging abbreviations in their school papers, and the teachers have a hard time understanding them.
Will the people on earth be able to decipher a message sent by the travelers by the time they get to where they were going? If we desire to ever become an interstellar civilization, I think spelling and grammar nazis will have an important role to play.
There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things, with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o'clock.
Don't you think this may already have happened?
Yes, a 100 MB application to read text seems a bit much. I use Foxit Reader. Just 2 MB, very fast.
I think you won't see much more of it anymore, until it emerges from behind the sun.
In the Southern Hemisphere it will be visible in the following week or so. It is raining right now here in the Kingdom of the Zulu, and the weather service expects the rain to persist for the whole of next week. We don't complain about rain here in Africa (except when there are floods of course) but this is inconvenient.
I was seven years old in 1986, and I was really excited to see Halley's comet. The night that the comet was expected to be visible, I asked my mother to wake me up so that I can see it. The next morning, I asked her why she didn't wake me. She explained that I had been sleeping so peacefully, and that she didn't want to disturb me. I was bitterly upset. Oh well, 76 years isn't that long to wait.
Oh gosh, it would appear that you are correct.
But I know you can delay menstruation by delaying the taking of the placebos.
women on birth control don't ovulate. Actually, they do. And their eggs can even be fertilized. The fertilized eggs are just not allowed to stay atached to the uterine wall, since menstruation starts when they start taking the placebos (red pills).
No, you don't understand the purpose of the evil bit. Pages that intentionally leave out the NSFW tag to fool people into opening objectionable content at work should have the evil bit set.
Yesterday I replaced my 20GB Fujitsu drive that I've had since 2000. It's still working fine, it just got a bit small. Harddrives are actually astonishingly reliable.
Have a look at OCS Inventory NG, it's an asset tracking system. It can also integrate with GLPI, which is a helpdesk system. They're FOSS. I'm thinking of giving them a go at the non-profit where I work. It looks pretty cool, the only thing that bothers me so far is the shoddy translation.
Yeah, how about fossil fuels? That's also solar power, stored thousands of years ago by trees.