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Can anyone define these sentences for me: “Ego venit , ego posteri , ego eram zotted.”

Posted on 04/12/2009 12:15:48 PM PDT by 1believer

# De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. (1 result) 11 Visa tamen tardi demum inclementia morbi

# Luna habitabilis (1 result) 24 Visa tibi ante oculos, et nota major imago.


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To: sionnsar

1201?


1,201 posted on 05/16/2009 5:22:49 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: NicknamedBob

Welp, I just found out what happens when one fills up the hard drive under Linux.


1,202 posted on 05/16/2009 5:23:54 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

Penguin poop has to go somewhere, buddy.


1,203 posted on 05/16/2009 5:43:28 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Error is patient. It has all of time for its disturbing machinations.)
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To: NicknamedBob
You got that right. It's my photos and propensity for shooting RAW (digital equivalent to having film negatives as opposed to Polaroid "final prints") that's done it to me. I've flushed enough unnecessary stuff to recover about 10% of the HD space.

I knew this day was coming...

OTOH with this (Xubuntu) distro I can now watch videos. Just watched a (UK) company Christmas 2007 luncheon video I found in the file system. Not especially embarrassing to anyone, but LoM might be amused. And see&hear one of my UK colleagues.

1,204 posted on 05/16/2009 6:28:32 PM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

I quit using RAW most of the time because of the size. My SLR will only recognize memory to two gigs.


1,205 posted on 05/16/2009 8:47:09 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (They don't let you sit anywhere you want even when they have a sign saying so.)
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To: sionnsar
...I go and pick up the WSJ and it reminds me of... "National Review" and "Atlas Shrugged." ...

Gee, life imitating art. Again.

Why are we the least bit surprised, anymore?

1,206 posted on 05/16/2009 10:31:09 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The Truth isn't something; it's someone. | Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.)
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To: HKMk23

1,207 posted on 05/17/2009 4:46:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Tax-chick; Anoreth

Turn your vacuum into a death ray. I'm not sure it would work with a Dyson, though.

1,208 posted on 05/17/2009 5:23:48 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: NicknamedBob

Hhmmm... I think I could rig a couple of spider-bot thrust units for a low-G Quiddich match...


1,209 posted on 05/17/2009 6:17:40 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Tax-chick

Filter Queen becomes an anti-matter containment proximity mine.


1,210 posted on 05/17/2009 6:56:57 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Dead Corpse; NicknamedBob
Italy aims to send spider bot swarm to the moon.
They ripped it off of NNB!
1,211 posted on 05/17/2009 6:58:40 AM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: Tax-chick

Monring. (Yawn.) Just really wanted to stay in bed this morning. Oh well.


1,212 posted on 05/17/2009 8:15:51 AM PDT by sionnsar ((Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Also sprach Telethustra" - NonValueAdded)
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To: sionnsar

Morning. I’ve been scrubbing floors, walls, and bathrooms. This may prove to have been a bad idea, but at this stage of pregnancy I’m on the very fringes of rationality, so it’s better to end up with clean floors than with blood on the ceiling.


1,213 posted on 05/17/2009 8:53:28 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Darksheare

My Dyson could be an android killer drone. It lacks the deadly elegance of that art-deco Electrolux!


1,214 posted on 05/17/2009 8:54:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Tax-chick

1,215 posted on 05/17/2009 12:27:43 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Darksheare
"They ripped it off of NNB!"

Here's what it takes to compete with your humble Imperial Weatherman;

"Messina helped pull together all the major Italian aerospace and engineering universities, as well as the two largest Italian aerospace companies, to support the race to land a robot on the moon by 2012."
Now, for comparison purposes, here's their concept, (artist's version): Image

And here's my description:

Spider Robots

Spider robots were designed prior to, and specifically for, our journey to the moon. We needed an efficient way to do work in low gravity and vacuum.

We needed something that could withstand the temperature extremes, and be robust enough for construction work.

They are large, filling the design space of a four-meter sphere with their eight arms/legs folded along their exterior surfaces.

The arms are fastened at the equator of the sphere, or beltline. This more or less circular ring can rotate if needed, and equipment storage bays are arranged above and below the beltline.

The first segment of the arm is one-fourth the circumference of the sphere. The second is one-half. All joints are freely rotating, and the arms can assume a wide variety of combinations in their orientations.
Note the discrepancy here. In the artist's conception, the outer limb segments are the same length as the closer ones. My design allows a greater limb length without affecting the folding parameters.

The image looks "cute" in a robotic or toy sense, but an image of my spiderbot will be seen to be more capable of conquering the Lunar terrain because it has the reach to be able to lift itself over rocks and low barriers.

Now, to be fair, this seems an obvious design. On the Moon, temperature variation is a strong consideration, and the spherical shape is the most energy-conserving configuration. Folding the legs along the outside is just simple conservation of space available.

I like to think that I have the advantage also of a very simple operator "console". With my design, even an untrained operator would be able to use the robot effectively.

If they need further guidance, and wish to avoid an embarrassingly under-performing robot, I'll be right here.

1,216 posted on 05/17/2009 1:09:50 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Error is patient. It has all of time for its disturbing machinations.)
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To: NicknamedBob

What have the Italians done successfully, lately, technology-wise? I can’t think of anything.


1,217 posted on 05/17/2009 1:12:02 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Tax-chick
"What have the Italians done successfully, lately, technology-wise? I can’t think of anything."

They seem to be fair hands at working on cars.

1,218 posted on 05/17/2009 1:49:38 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Error is patient. It has all of time for its disturbing machinations.)
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To: NicknamedBob

“Working on cars,” but not getting them to go anywhere predictably ;-). Our nextdoor neighbor in Broken Arrow had a couple of Alfa Romeos; when he wasn’t working on the lawn, he was trying to get at least one of those cars to start!


1,219 posted on 05/17/2009 1:52:45 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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To: Tax-chick

It is rather surprising that “Italian design” would come up with a concept as strictly utilitarian as a spider-bot.

Well, fine. Let them build spider-bots and trundle around on the moon.

I’m putting together a sleek little atmospheric craft to go exploring Venus.


1,220 posted on 05/17/2009 2:06:43 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Error is patient. It has all of time for its disturbing machinations.)
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