Comment Re:Watch your clauses, people! (Score 2) 450
This is why we need to kick folks off the internet who have their name servers as public recursive revolvers. And implement BCP38 more.
Civ 5 Will Let You Import and Convert Civ 4 Maps 142
bbretterson writes "From an interview Bitmob conducted with Civilization 5 Lead Designer Jon Shafer: 'You can import Civ 4 maps into the world builder and convert them into Civ 5 maps, including all the units and cities and stuff on it — the conversion process will just do that for you automatically. We're hoping that the first week Civ 5 is out, people will use that function and port all of the Civ 4 stuff over to Civ 5, so everything will be out there already.'"
Comment Nice speed, but still decade olds interface. (Score 1) 281
I'm glad to see they are still coming out with bigger and better products. However why bother. Their interface (Ios command line) is decades old and has seen little improvements. Take some of the ideas of Juniper of having (Commit Confirm... Show | display-set... Simple XML api interface)
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Theosis sends word that an astronomer at the University of Rochester and his colleagues have made the surprise discovery that Alcor, one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, is actually two stars; and it is apparently gravitationally bound to the four-star Mizar system, making the whole group a sextuplet. This would make the Mizar-Alcor sextuplet the second-nearest such system known. The discovery is especially surprising because Alcor is one of the most studied stars in the sky. The Mizar-Alcor system has been involved in many "firsts" in the history of astronomy: "Benedetto Castelli, Galileo's protege and collaborator, first observed with a telescope that Mizar was not a single star in 1617, and Galileo observed it a week after hearing about this from Castelli, and noted it in his notebooks... Those two stars, called Mizar A and Mizar B, together with Alcor, in 1857 became the first binary stars ever photographed through a telescope. In 1890, Mizar A was discovered to itself be a binary, being the first binary to be discovered using spectroscopy. In 1908, spectroscopy revealed that Mizar B was also a pair of stars, making the group the first-known quintuple star system."
Comment Re:Good find (Score 1) 187
I guess I should quit smoking..
Comment Re:They won't go for it? (Score 1) 880
I totally agree with this comment.
I fly 3-5 times a year. I've flown coach in the past but due to company freq flier programs I sit up front more often. In my experience the frequent fliers and 1st class fliers know what's going on. They know to get in, get your stuff stowed, and sit down. Most likely as a sub-conscious desire to get the flight over as soon as possible.
However that leaves the rest of the 80%. The cattle. Sadly most of America is made up of the 'I simply don't care about the big picture / community / my neighbors' They tramp on the plane with 2-3 times the allowed carry-on. They get to their seat and start to unload. What happens next? Well this cattle with 2 bags just noticed the overhead for 10 feet in all directions is stuffed with other fliers extra junk. So he has to say 'pardon me' and squeeze through the other boarding passengers in a frantic furry to get his stuff stowed before someone else takes it.
Up in first class? In all my travels I've usually seen the overhead only 50% used. Plenty of extra room.
The airlines need to crack down HARD on over sized, excess, carry-on's. They should fine people. Stop being 'The friendly skies' and give back to the passengers what the passengers are giving them.. a hard time..
Perhaps they can find some way to rate passengers. Then I can pay an extra 5% ticket cost to be grouped with clued fliers. I'd pay the extra!
Noisy.. Slow.. Too much luggage.. Dilly dallies while boarding... Brought the plague with them... :P
- Another first class jerk.
I fly 3-5 times a year. I've flown coach in the past but due to company freq flier programs I sit up front more often. In my experience the frequent fliers and 1st class fliers know what's going on. They know to get in, get your stuff stowed, and sit down. Most likely as a sub-conscious desire to get the flight over as soon as possible.
However that leaves the rest of the 80%. The cattle. Sadly most of America is made up of the 'I simply don't care about the big picture / community / my neighbors' They tramp on the plane with 2-3 times the allowed carry-on. They get to their seat and start to unload. What happens next? Well this cattle with 2 bags just noticed the overhead for 10 feet in all directions is stuffed with other fliers extra junk. So he has to say 'pardon me' and squeeze through the other boarding passengers in a frantic furry to get his stuff stowed before someone else takes it.
Up in first class? In all my travels I've usually seen the overhead only 50% used. Plenty of extra room.
The airlines need to crack down HARD on over sized, excess, carry-on's. They should fine people. Stop being 'The friendly skies' and give back to the passengers what the passengers are giving them.. a hard time..
Perhaps they can find some way to rate passengers. Then I can pay an extra 5% ticket cost to be grouped with clued fliers. I'd pay the extra!
Noisy.. Slow.. Too much luggage.. Dilly dallies while boarding... Brought the plague with them...
- Another first class jerk.
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