I pre-ordered a Kindle DX. Thanks to the information in this article I have changed my mind and I'm now canceling my order. I would be stupid to pay $500 for a device that can be remotely crippled, when cheaper ebook readers give me full control. What was I thinking?
It's even better than a solar eclipse as seen from earth because the earth's atmosphere diffracts light from the sun, causing a ring of light to appear around the planet. Very cool.
Bricks could never provide the same level of radiation shielding and meteorite protection as tens of meters of lunar regolith. Tunneling is the best option.
Here's a snippet of a letter I received from Delta Airlines last month regarding the high cost of oil. The letter was signed by 12 airlines.
"Twenty years ago, 21 percent of oil contracts were purchased by speculators who trade oil on paper with no intention of ever taking delivery. Today, oil speculators purchase 66 percent of all oil futures contracts, and that reflects just the transactions that are known. Speculators buy up large amounts of oil and then sell it to each other again and again. A barrel of oil may trade 20-plus times before it is delivered and used; the price goes up with each trade and consumers pick up the final tab. Some market experts estimate that current prices reflect as much as $30 to $60 per barrel in unnecessary speculative costs."
Here is a link to the full letter.
It's true that the connectors on monster cables are of better quality than cheaper alternatives, but IMHO it's not worth the huge - HUGE - markup. It's freakin rediculous what people will pay for essentially no performance improvement. I just wish I had thought to market this crap. The profit margin has to be enormous!
Well when I took scuba they told us to always breath. Holding your breath and rising even a few feet would be enough pressure differential to rupture a lung. How good that data is I don't know and I am not going to find out. If you hold your breath while ascending during a dive you risk an air embolism, not a ruptured lung.
Although radiation sources in other galaxies are locally very powerful, I believe that these sources are too far away to have such a drastic effect on earth life. The closest galaxy is 2.3 million light years away. You do the math.
This is what worked for me. After I installed the patch a few of our.NET 2.0 sites broke with a generic "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error, so I called microsoft tech support. After sending the requested log files I decided to uninstall and reinstall the patch. It worked! It's worth a try...
I don't see how this move will help Microsoft to recruit and retain quality programmers. There are plenty of quality programmers in the U.S. Look at the great code linux programmers produce on a daily basis. They're obviously not paying enough to recruit these programmers. I say, spend some of those cash reserves to buy better programmers. Otherwise, the quality of their software will continue to decline.
There's often times a Wi-Fi network that you can join whether you're sitting in a coffee shop or even walking along the street piggybacking on somebody's home Wi-Fi network. Yeah, great idea Mr. Jobs. Felony piggybacking is built into every phone, and it's automatic. What will they think of next!?
"AutoYaST allows unattended and automated installation. With AutoYaST, administrators can create a consistent baseline configuration for new installations in large or expanding deployments. In addition to AutoYaST, other installation methods include PXE Boot, CD-ROM, NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, FTP, and the Service Location Protocol (SLP), which allows autodetection of install servers."
These are not solid lawsuits we are talking here, hence why they've never actually won a suit If I filed a few thousand random lawsuits, would I be prosecuted for wasting the court's time?
If so, why isn't the RIAA being punished for filing countless frivolous lawsuits?
In contrast to many of the negative posts in this thread, I actually wish to thank Microsoft. When Vista was released I reformatted my home computer (XP) and installed it. After a few days of frustration with driver and application issues, not to mention general performance problems, I reformatted again and installed 64-bit openSUSE. I've never looked back. Thanks to Microsoft, I now run linux at home AND at work, and I LOVE it! If not for Vista who knows how long it would have taken me to switch.
You say that "no known substance is anywhere close to perfectly rigid"... but does that necessarily mean that there isn't such a thing? Is it even theoretically possible that there is such a material and we just haven't discovered it? A neutron star is probably the most rigid object in the universe since it is the result of a collapsed star. From the article:
A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon of its material would weigh 100 million metric tons.
The hole is roughly the same size as nearby craters. My guess is that a meteor hit and collapsed a thin surface layer exposing a large subsurface lava tube.
The next step for the researchers is to determine if the signal detected was the result of an error in the probe. Shouldn't you do that first before making a major announcement to the world press??
"Our Milky Way galaxy has 200 billion stars. I would estimate that 10 percent of them, perhaps, have planets that are habitable," Marcy said. We are most definitely not alone in this galaxy.
I hate to shill, but I went Opera a long time ago when FF first started trying to do too much and I never once turned away. The only time I use it is on a fresh Linux install with FF -integrated-; I think it's Ubuntu or SuSE that integrates it so you can't remove it without disurpting the OS...didn't a certain Borg-led OS company do that once to ill-effect? I disagree. Firefox can be removed from linux just like any other program.
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I pre-ordered a Kindle DX. Thanks to the information in this article I have changed my mind and I'm now canceling my order. I would be stupid to pay $500 for a device that can be remotely crippled, when cheaper ebook readers give me full control. What was I thinking?
Birds have a genetically specified latent memory for flight so maybe these baby chicks have a latent memory for counting too.
Just ask Biden for the open source web site number.
It's even better than a solar eclipse as seen from earth because the earth's atmosphere diffracts light from the sun, causing a ring of light to appear around the planet. Very cool.
Bricks could never provide the same level of radiation shielding and meteorite protection as tens of meters of lunar regolith. Tunneling is the best option.
In this story a superconducting supercollider had a similar accident, although the results were much different. Good read.
Here's a snippet of a letter I received from Delta Airlines last month regarding the high cost of oil. The letter was signed by 12 airlines. "Twenty years ago, 21 percent of oil contracts were purchased by speculators who trade oil on paper with no intention of ever taking delivery. Today, oil speculators purchase 66 percent of all oil futures contracts, and that reflects just the transactions that are known. Speculators buy up large amounts of oil and then sell it to each other again and again. A barrel of oil may trade 20-plus times before it is delivered and used; the price goes up with each trade and consumers pick up the final tab. Some market experts estimate that current prices reflect as much as $30 to $60 per barrel in unnecessary speculative costs." Here is a link to the full letter.
There's such a disconnect between what people experience in their cars and what they experience in the rest of their lives.
I have a novel idea: maybe we should focus on DRIVING while we're in the car.
It's true that the connectors on monster cables are of better quality than cheaper alternatives, but IMHO it's not worth the huge - HUGE - markup. It's freakin rediculous what people will pay for essentially no performance improvement. I just wish I had thought to market this crap. The profit margin has to be enormous!
Companies like monster cable rely on ignorance to stay in business.
Although radiation sources in other galaxies are locally very powerful, I believe that these sources are too far away to have such a drastic effect on earth life. The closest galaxy is 2.3 million light years away. You do the math.
This is what worked for me. After I installed the patch a few of our .NET 2.0 sites broke with a generic "object reference not set to an instance of an object" error, so I called microsoft tech support. After sending the requested log files I decided to uninstall and reinstall the patch. It worked! It's worth a try...
I don't see how this move will help Microsoft to recruit and retain quality programmers. There are plenty of quality programmers in the U.S. Look at the great code linux programmers produce on a daily basis. They're obviously not paying enough to recruit these programmers. I say, spend some of those cash reserves to buy better programmers. Otherwise, the quality of their software will continue to decline.
"AutoYaST allows unattended and automated installation. With AutoYaST, administrators can create a consistent baseline configuration for new installations in large or expanding deployments. In addition to AutoYaST, other installation methods include PXE Boot, CD-ROM, NFS, CIFS/SMB, HTTP, FTP, and the Service Location Protocol (SLP), which allows autodetection of install servers."
In contrast to many of the negative posts in this thread, I actually wish to thank Microsoft. When Vista was released I reformatted my home computer (XP) and installed it. After a few days of frustration with driver and application issues, not to mention general performance problems, I reformatted again and installed 64-bit openSUSE. I've never looked back. Thanks to Microsoft, I now run linux at home AND at work, and I LOVE it! If not for Vista who knows how long it would have taken me to switch.
Matter is mostly empty space, so there's plenty of room for compression.
I was very interested in what you had to say until I found the Particle Physics From the Bible! section. You totally lost me there...
The hole is roughly the same size as nearby craters. My guess is that a meteor hit and collapsed a thin surface layer exposing a large subsurface lava tube.