Comment Re:Happy birthday to 180th meridian too ! (Score 1) 429
It is simple math. For a given time zone offset (zone description,ZD, in navigation terms), your local mean time:
LMT = UTC ± ZD
It is simple math. For a given time zone offset (zone description,ZD, in navigation terms), your local mean time:
LMT = UTC ± ZD
"But does she dye there too?"
No. And no need to. She has a Brazilian wax. I've seen the shots.
"...but once you're dead who cares. Right?
Are you kidding? That's when his work becomes its most valuable. He'll be rich!
I've seen a goat eating a blackberry bush before. It ate everything - the stem, leaves and thorns. It must be that leather tongue. It cleaned out the whole blackberry patch.
"Just do not try to play Quake over it."
You can if you upgrade to the high-speed Red Tail Hawk network. Much, much faster. It eats Pigeon networks for lunch! .
"The OS course at the University of Washington I took used the Windows Research Kernel."
The UW? If they didn't, I doubt they would ever see another "donation" from Microsoft.
"That won't happen until we have Windows RE."
Great, now even your robot will catch a virus.
"I still buy DVDs, even when the Blu-ray disc is available..."
Same here. But I haven't seen anyone mention another reason. My sound system is Dolby 5.1. Many BD disks I have managed to rent didn't have digital 5.1 in English but rather DTS. They offer 5.1 in other languages. So I may get a better picture but only surround sound quality. That sucks. I'm not ready to buck up for new sound.
And another reason is the local rental store only has one, two or three at most new releases of BD on the shelf. If your not their the moment they put it up for rent, you don't get it. So I stopped even looking to rent BD disks. I just go for the DVD.
"Michael sold 750+ million albums."
Probably 75% of the sales go to teenage girls who love overdubbed, synthesized music and guys who look like girls.
Putting a Letus Ultimate 35mm adapter on your video camera gives you the same DOF capabilities.
"I still have pictures my father took back in the 50's not to mention I still have his old camera."
Good point. How many people are going to have their digital files 50 years from now let alone pass them on to their next generation? A few who maintain a rigorous backup system might but that doesn't mean the next generation will. Negatives are tangible; easy to pass on.
I still shoot a 20 year old medium and large format cameras as well as a 57 year old TLR I had to compete for. A $4k digital camera isn't going to be worth squat 20 years from now. Now one will want to shoot them even if you can still find a memory card for it. It will end up in the garbage dump. Not that digital doesn't have its place as a convenient small format color camera and for people making a living with them.
And film will live on in Black-n-White. To this day desaturated color or color converted to some ISO standard rarely looks like the real thing. Mostly because people don't understand BW much anymore and you don't get to use colored filters to alter tones like the real thing.
"The earth is egg or potato shaped..."
Too technical. Call it what it is. An Oblate Spheroid. Something Newton had predicted way back then.
Wake me up when it can harvest 1.21 gigawatts
"...1 second or so that it took to open the "Save file as" dialog..."
It takes 2 seconds for a menu to appear on my work XP laptop when I click the Start button. It takes forever to open a Word document. Virus scanning is now part of the Office experience and can't be disregarded. And this is on a more modern computer. What is your point.
What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J.M. Barrie