Odd. I'm disabled and have no problem using my iPad 2 for 6 hours+ at a time without any strain at all. Most of the time I hold it in my left hand in landscape mode. I can reach all but about 2.5 inches on the right of the screen with the thumb on my left hand. So I use it single handedly 99.9% of the time. Granted I have slightly large hands, but not unusually large. I can imagine if you had really small hands and couldn't support the pad with your middle and ring finger, and have you index and pinky hooked over the edges, top and bottom from the back it could get fatiguing. :-| ha.
Archos tablet a deal? Not at any price. I bought one about a year ago. It was given to my 15 year old son to play with. He's trying various versions of Linux on it. Strait out of the box it didn't run Android as good as the Google G1 phone I used to have. The most pathetic piece of electronics I've ever owned. My Comadore Vic20 was a better computing device and you had to load programs via an external audio cassette tape on that! Man I feel old. Just have to remember if I've made it to this age I can do it 20.8333 times more and I'll be 1000! That's when we will have the coolest toys!
Awesome article Brent! One of the coolest science related articles I've read for a long time here, or for that matter anywhere. Not just NASA but other groups doing research often find that what they develop has a greater range of usefulness then they originally intended. As in this example treatment for aliments afflicting astronauts, leads to millatary uses, leads to chemotherapy and diabetes for civilians, and this leads to a third party discovering yet another possable use where it replaces an EpiPen and trps to the hospital. (you should have filed a patent on that particular use!). This sort of 'multi-utility' can be applied to almost any discovery. Sometimes I think this sort of thing goes under utilized. There should be a discipline and degrees relating to this. It would advance scientific discovery and "utilization". Namely have courses that do not target only one science or area of technological know how, but focus on understanding the basic underlying precepts, understanding the jargon and the areas of crossover and connectedness of as many as possable. They would be consultants for tons of company's, sign NDC's, look at everything those company's are developing. And finally when they see discovery, newly developed tech or possable new 'combo's' of such bring those company's together (both signing NDC's) with at least an outline of a plan for them to work together to extend the utility of both company's discoveries. I just noticed I'm rambling. Sorry. I do that when I'm tired. Old age is no fun and it's embarrassing. Anyway loved the article. One of those things that restores my hope for mankind.
Money in front left pocket, phone in shirt pocket, keys on belt loop, switch blade in front right pocket, and the only thing in a back pocket ever is a handkerchief (preferably a red bandana). And always always always wear a Fedora. You must also have a mustache. Hmmmm.... now I don't need a profile picture. Notice I left out the big beer belly.
Well if we lost the moons gravitational stirring of the core it would eventually cool off. We would then loose our magnetic field protecting our atmosphere from the solar wind. Thenafter a few billion years of that we'd have almost no atmosphere, the oceans would go through the process's of freezing, molecular breakdown, and sublimating all at the same time. A couple looooong periods of time later all is dry, dead, air free, and very cold. I'm sure I've made some typos it's late.
They would have done better basing the movie on Robert A. Heinlein's book of the same name. Sadly it looks like only Starship Troupers and The Puppet Masters will be the only works of his to ever be made into movies. I think his whole catalog of juvenile SF would hold up well on film.
And to clarify even more: if earth lost its magnetic field we would loose our atmosphere. The magnetic field is what diverts most of solar wind around the earth and thus prevents this loss. Think of those sceens we have all seen of a car or plain in a wind tunnel, with smoke used to see how streamlined it is. The solar wind (a bunch of charged particles & radiation) flows out from the sun, it flows around the earth and continues on it's merry way. This happens a ways outside of our atmosphere, I dont remember how far. So basically you end up with earth, a layer of atmosphere, some empty space and then the solar wind being diverted to. Mars is thought to be solid all the way through. No molten core to rotate at a different rate and cause a magnetic field to form. The moon is thought to stirr the molten interior of earth much in the same way it's, and the suns pull cause tides. Be thankfully for a large moon orbiting our home planet! Mars's two dinky moons just are not enough to stirr it's center and keep it molten for long.
Why do you think im a pervert when i tell you what they look like Doc? Well Dr. you're the one showing me dirty pictures!
I've owned only one compound. Didn't like it. The feel of the exponential drop in resistance when you get near you draw length was always awkward to me. Never got used to it. I've had two English longbows and about five recurves over years and one primitive I made myself that actualy had a working pull of a little over 35 lbs! But my current bow is my favorite ever. It's a recurve take down bow. Great for hiking and camping trips. Just loosen the two knobs that hold the limbs in place, move the limbs left or right until its folded in thirds, wrap the bow string around it and slide it into the quiver with the arrows. About two min take down and the same to set up. Use a D-ring to attach to the side of your back pack and your done. Take 1 gallon empty milk jug as a target fill with sand, water or whatever on site and empty when done. I love takedown bows!
What? You no use the word tbat's?
Here it bee on a sentance: "tbat is in tcave"
Don'7 that wurk fer ya?
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Ouch!
And a rimshot please.
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It still amazes me that people fall for this stuff. Ived worked with computers since the dumb terminal and punch card days. Completely self tought coding, web design, diags & repair etc. And never ever once have I fallen for phishing, gotten a virus on my home computers or work computer(except for shared ones!). Once you get a good security scheme set up for your AV, and a schedule for your system to defragment the hard drive, setting and sticking to to a schedule of regular replacement of secure passwords is not that hard. It's only hard the first few times until you adjust both the process and your behavior. None of this says that tomorrow my system won't be compromised by a virus whose coder is creative enough to get it past all the AV software on the market, or that I in a lapse of judgement surcome to an new and unusual phish.
Still it seems odd that phishing succeeds as often as it does. Almost two decades before phishing had a name I came in contact with it. As did many others. I recognized it immediately for what it was, an artfully disguised form of social engineering. I don't think it's a matter of how smart or how well educated a person is. What I've noticed about a lot of users is they just quickly go through there email. Delete this, read this later, respond to this RIGHT NOW. If you originate any transaction it's real trustworthy. if youre contacted by someone else to do any transaction it is immediately suspect. Even if it was expected. This is true for email, phone calls, text messages, and yes even in person. So treat any transaction not of your creation as suspect and TAKE YOUR TIME, slow down and question every aspect of it. How could any part of it be used to cause harm to you. If it passes muster go for it, if not drop it like a dead phish!
Not totally original but a well executed and vary believable presentation of this style of phishing. Are you referring to Arizona State University? Or another with the same initials? If it is I wonder why it didn't make the news here in Phoenix? That's something I would think would be because it's after the fact and would be just one more warning to actualy take preventative measures.
It may well be that it is in the same universe and unconnected stories but for only one single connection. That connection may just be from the viewers standpoint. i.e. this is a prequel and takes place before all the others -so- at the time of this story no one knows about the Xenomorphs. We know about them of course. There may not even be on in a computer log etc. we may see them confront other leftover weapons/life forms from whatever war the space jockeys fought. Or as in to some of Andre Norton's SF (and numerous others since) on entering an ancient alien space craft it takes off on some ancient preset autopilot and they only find there way back to earth via good luck, superior reasoning skills, blood and sweat.
That is just some of my thoughts on this. I may be totally wrong, but I do believe the 'not seeing any Xenomorphs' part to be most likely. After all when it comes to war would any species rely on only one weapon? Or for that matter only type of weapons system.
Good night. I'm tired and must sleep now.
They are bright red so we should fear them after all.
Personally I still have nightmares about Effalumps and Woosels. Saw this disturbingly horrific documentary as a child and still at 48 years old I have nightmares about it. Still!! The name was something like Whiny u poop, or Whinny The Pooer or something similar.
Your afraid of strawberrys?!?
About number 9. Sorry its wrong. Basic middle school history class here: The world view of a flat disk shaped Earth on elephants on a turtle was invented several thousand years ago in Babylon. It's part of there religion and has been part of many other religions over the century's. Including some Greeks and Romans. The version the Persions and those from ancient India believed back then only varied in the top level in that Earth was known by them to be round. In both versions the turtle swims in an infinite ocean. At least that's what I remember. Middle school was a looooooong time ago. I am like 50 years old after all. I take my rest now and am preparing for immanent fossilization. Good night.
And the hexagons have hexagons of there own and so forth ad infinitum.
It would be usefull if it's something like this.
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It's a digitizing pen for the iPad. I've got one on the way.
