One has to wonder how commercially viable an autonomously driven car will be that doesn't violate speed limits. Who's liable if the supervising operator selects "five mph over limit?"
(Still, I WANT ONE!)
Here's what's keeping me from upgrading my XP machines to Windows 7: Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7
That's the top (unsponsored) Google link for the query "how to upgrade windows xp to windows 7."
Note the bullet items under "what you need:"
Sorry, they want me to pay for the privilege and blow a whole weekend to update my four XP machines at home? What do I get out of this? My XP machines do what they need to do just fine.
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I'm sure they put on some great shows, but these modern "overhead projectors" often lack the dynamic range of the best discrete planetarium projectors out there.
Even among dedicated planetarium projectors, only the best are able to replicate the differences in brightness between mag 1 and mag 6 stars with any convincing accuracy. Many of them project such a "flat" sky in terms of brightness that it's difficult to recognize even familiar constellations. The old Morrison Planetarium projector had dedicated lamps for particular bright guide stars, and the projector at Chabot Science Center is very good at that.
It's discouraging to see a run-of-the-mill college planetarium with "bright" stars that are just smears of bigger dots.
So they aren't pixelating, but I bet their Spica is nearly the same brightness as their Porrima.
When we photograph meteors for genuine data collection, we don't use a mount at all. We set up a ring of cameras with each covering several degrees of sky, and let them all take five or ten minute exposures. It's your best hope of catching a bright one and several faint ones. If you're using a decently short lens (50mm, 35mm), (a) you'll catch more meteors and (b) the star trails are less notable, or you won't care about them.
Remember, with meteors being an atmospheric phenomenon, you'll catch more closer to the horizon than looking up. (You're looking through more air.)
And it makes no difference if you're looking toward or away from the radiant for meteor count.
Not looking at the keyboard is essential. You need to be able to read and correct your typing as you go. Aside from that, I agree with the others that getting another 10wpm matters not.
If you only ever used one keyboard, switching to Dvorak would make sense. These days that's just impossible, even if you're not a computer tech professional.
What I've done is make a small TrueCrypt drive, and redirect Firefox to use that for its local data. It will store the cache and my passwords on that drive, thus keeping my passwords hidden without first entering the TrueCrypt password.
Find Firefox's profiles.ini file in your local application data directory.
Downside: you have to give TrueCrypt a password whenever you startup, and Firefox won't boot at all if the TrueCrypt drive isn't mounted. The error message is misleading too, "Firefox is already running
Bonus: the pr0n downloads in your cache are encrypted too.
People born in cities these days don't realize that the Milky Way is something real that they can see with their own eyes. The words "Milky Way" themselves are losing their meaning. For a lot of people, the words "Milky Way" just mean something vaguely spacey.
When faced with the Milky Way for the first time from a dark location, they'll easily think "oh there's a line of clouds moving in." In the city, the clouds glow. From a truly dark location, the only way you can tell there are clouds is by the big patch of dark where there should be stars.
And likewise, many people will never have the experience of having their vision fully dark adapted. It's amazing how milky gray the sky looks when you actually are dark adapted.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra