admiral_ju00

I'd love to get my hands on one of those Intel Itanium CPU's/Systems. That would rock!

rofl, i was going to same the same thing as well.

excellent and welcome. hope you'll stick around for a while

There probably is water on mars, but that would be found only in the marcian permafrost. The Phoenix probe will shed some light on that notion as it will drill into the permafrost on one of the marcian polar caps.

this should be interesting, especially when they'll examine it much more thoroughly...... http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000352EA-658A-10C7-A58A83414B7F0000

i've not used either of the ones above, nor will, but a linux is linux. roughly speaking, you can take a version of linux(flavor), change it's name, change some of it looks, while keeping the bulk of it the same, and as long as you adhere to the GPL, you'll be able to say this is Your OWN version of linux. as far as the software, it's all the same. unzip and recompile it if it's a tarball or if it's an rpm just treat it as such, etc.

one of the theories is that we do not see over 90-95% of the universe. and not just the planets and or other bodies. the space is made up of super small particles(items) called WIMPS and/or Super huge items called MACHOS - aka Dark Matter. then there's another theory (by Einstein) is the string theory saying that space is made up of 11 dimensions, etc. currently, the telescopes have reached as far as they can(ultra deep probes) and the amount of the black(ness) stuff or gaps between galaxies is very large and more abundant. what does it mean, there may be a limit to the space or there may not and the cosmos hasn't yet expanded enough to fill in those gaps, or that the light from ultra deep, deep, deep systems(galaxies) has not yet reached us, etc. as far as what's after the wall, there may either be perhaps another dimension or an even bigger space with no solid or visible bodies before another galaxy/cosmos. found a good article you might want to check: Scientific American but i'm nowhere near being an expert at cosmology, there maybe someone here that can give better details on the matter

Probably so. that would be a similar adaptation as the people who show a high(er) tolerance to high altitudes such as the Himalayans.

i'm looking for a link, or rather a catalogue/database(whatever) of the known tissue types and the people or groups of people who are usually associated with them. something similar to this: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~mkfenn/page9.htm

i do use it pretty often. especially in the last 2 years, i've used it at least every other weekend. dunno if that counts, but that is where i like to practice my anatomy drawings

isn't that an oxymoron? i mean god should be all loving and all caring and forgiving, or is he?

how does one go about fixing that? the cameras i have do not have detachable lens on them.....

the pictures all come out very blurry and in some cases in an up close shots, you'll realize what is in the background way before what's in the foreground. i generally use 4megapixel camera. the same thing with conventional camera, can't remember the max zoom on it, i'll post that tonight. i'll also try get some pics in as well. {edit} most pics are/were taken outside.

I've always been fascinated with spiders and have kept a few as pets, including a Mexican tarantula. I do have a problem and that is I can never get a descent picture of the spiders. I've seen some great shots, some were even done *supposedly* by a disposable cameras, but I've always had this problem. I've even used the conventional film cameras and some quality digi cameras to no avail. So my question is, how do these people do it? If anybody has any experience at taking pictures of spiders in their natural habitat and obtain results better then mediocre, how do you do it and with what? I'm not willing to buy professional grade equipment as like I said, I've see(or so I've been told) that some pics I've seen were the product of those cheap disposable cameras. Some of the spiders I've tried taking pics of were: Black Widow(have a few in my yard), various orb weavers, brown recluse, wolf and many smaller specimens. And the rate of failure is 90-95% in obtaining quality pictures. I've also tried one of those Photography books, but I'm not trying to disturb the spider or artificially enhance the lightning/shadow combination. Even if I do, most of the pictures come up very fuzzy, in most cases, regardless of the size of the spider.

game programming, eh? i respect that. lots and lots of maths involved.

well, no, but it does have some other interesting goodies on it.

Yes and Yes. I don't know Java, but JBuilder is a Windows Specific App, just like VB. Though the difference is that you can take the Java code and recompile it in Linux - provided that it does not invoke any Windows Specific Libraries. But I'll just shutup for now, since I do know a thing about Java. Then again, Linux does have a few Java suites. {edit} Looks like Borland now made JBuilder available on Mac's and Linux. http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/ec/xml/00/01/31/000131ecjbuilder.xml But then the reason for my ignorance of such fact is that I never liked or cared about Java development and have done absolutely 0 programming in ANY language in more than 5 years. {edit 2} Damnit, I'm wrong in all cases. I should have imagined that at some point in time, they will port the code or the tools such as VB to Linux. You should check out http://freshmeat.net for some solutions to your need.

most flavors of Linux(at least all the ones i've tryed) have numerous shell as well as gui development tools under the x-windows. although i've never tryed to use VB in linux and do not know of any tools that can do it. but then again, you can simulate VB in linux, but to what purpose???

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html

interesting. but for the moment, i think this hypothesis deserves the same shelf as that for the Gaia hypothesis. unlike what's said in the AAT(among others), 1) genus Homo does NOT date 5 mya or more 2) current fossil record places hominid evolution( or arrival) - or rather the split between the greather apes - roughly between 6.5 - 5.5 mya, a bipedalism does not seem too apparent until the age/time h. erectus. the tree of hominids is very large, and it seems to start about 14mya. but i will get that book as i want more details. thanks for the link.

that's a damn good point. i for one, will not cry should bush lose this election.

not really. i've been practicing that art for years now (might want to guess how many Microsoft's stuff i've already burnt?

i think you should unban and invite him. so that we could have some more nice discussions. heck, i'm sure they'll be better than those blasted marcian movies, eh?

pseudo or better yet, bad science is the key of the whole movie. but other than that, it's a good flick.

well, my father(although he stopped practicing it a while ago) has a degree in Geology - i believe it was more in petrology then in mineralogy, but the line between these two fields can get rather blurry. that is what got me started in Anthropology. Paleontology although is another very important field i love, professionally, that'll have to wait a while because there are no schools close by that offers both in the same institution.