March 1999 Microsoft has been hiding behind the need to innovate for a long time, and the national media has been eating it right up. After all, they've given us all so much, right? ... Sorry, Unix did this in 1969, and Unix wasn't the first. ... The MacOS interface was loosely based on Xerox PARC research dating back to the '70s, which grew out of work by Douglas C. Engelbart in the late '60s. Even user-unfriendly Unix had a windowing environment back in the '80s, long before Microsoft. ...

THIS IS A DOOM2 LEVEL! ... Vidiot (when I can get a hold of him), |Sniper| for moral support, Chompie for playtest suggestions, NICO for helping calibrate the difficulty levels, and Cyber for making it so difficult to upload to CDROM.COM. ... Oh yeah, Thanks to ID Software for making a game that lets you make your own levels. ... Episode and Level # : MAP01 Single Player : Yes!! ... YES. ... If you use this level in a multi-level WAD, let me like to know about it so I can get a copy of the multi. ...

... As an experiment, I made some three-color images of Messier 42, more commonly known as the Great Nebula of Orion. ... green enhanced . ... halfsize or fullsize . ... Each image is a ``true color'' composite of three monochromatic images, in which the red, green, and blue intensities each correspond to the intensity of one of the original images. ... The HST image is assembled from different filters than mine: red is Nitrogen [II] at 6583 , green is H-alpha at 6563 , and blue is O [III] at 5007 . ...

Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

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... What's New? Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Hey, it's either this or one of those really irritating PayPal donation buttons here. ... There's more stuff going on out there in the world and beyond than we know about, and sometimes we don't even know enough to ask the right questions. ... Or at least, we know what questions to ask? ... These new telescopes may indeed answer all the questions we have now , but what questions do we not know that we don't even know? 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Educator's Guide to Robotic Spacecraft . ... Spacecraft are complex, technological objects that have to function far from Earth in the harsh environment of space. ... If the students are familiar with spacecraft they can be prompted with body parts and attempt to identify the analogous spacecraft part. This will work well if the students have a high quality picture of a modern spacecraft. ... Identify a mission and a destination for a spacecraft and have teams of students design the spacecraft. ...

JSC Celebrates 40 Years of Human Space Flight . ... Scheduled for completion about 2006, the completed International Space Station will have a mass of about 1,040,000 pounds. ... The assembled space station will provide the first laboratory complex where gravity, a fundamental force on Earth, can be controlled for extended periods. ... Hospitals, business parks and solar electric power stations that beam clean, inexpensive energy back to Earth are likely to dot the "space-scape" 40 years from now. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Posted on December 3, 2015 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 10 Comments On 2March 2004 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an ambitious and exciting robotic explorer into space, and you probably have heard its quite pretty name mentioned a lot lately. ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Astrophysics graduate student programs . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

... Too Close to a Black Hole . ... On the right is the same star field but this time with a black hole superposed in the center of the frame. ... Black holes are thought to be the densest state of matter, and there is indirect evidence for their presence in stellar binary systems and the centers of globular clusters, galaxies, and quasars. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: black hole - gravitational lens . Publications with words: black hole - gravitational lens . ...

Computer Ephemeris. Ephemeris for physical observations of the planets. Explanations. Each row of the table contains for date specified at 0h of Time Terrestrial Dynamical: . ... position angle of axis of planetary rotation (degrees) - 'P', . ... illumanated part of the disk - k, . ... position angle of disk point with minimal illumination (degrees), . longitude of central meridian of the disk (degrees) - 'merid1' - system I and so... phase correction (degrees). ...

... Yes, alligators do like to eat Canadians, yes we have them as pets in the back, here. ... Well, the two kids just got put in the back of the patrol jeep and another one just pulled up. ... Just how many police officers does it take to put some bikes into a jeep? ... Also, you shouldn't try to park on the upper deck when it is snowing-- the facilities guys `really feel bad when we hit' cars up there." ... I am really sick of it. ... Al just said that the stapler put his pages in the wrong order. ...

Next: Other People's Software . ... Quality system management of computer workstations for astronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost-effective administrative design decisions are made. ... This is all done with essentially one system manager. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

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... Sky Telescope editor Robert Naeye presents a whirlwind and colorfully illustrated trip through this amazing scientific story. ... Bob is editor in chief of Sky Telescope magazine and SkyandTelescope.com , and a proud member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, which is based near his hometown of Hershey, Pennsylvania. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc....

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... Cost­E#ective System Management Skip Schaller Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Abstract. Quality system management of computer workstations for as­ tronomy can be achieved with relatively small manpower requirements, if the right cost­e#ective administrative design decisions are made. ... The system is designed so that one doesn't depend on four or more hosts, (such as a software server, cpu server, data file server, font server, etc.) to get work done. ...

... There are two stars in the binary system: a donor star on the right and a black hole on the left (an infinitely small point in the center of a complex figure). ... The wind is ejected as a hollow cone; it has a funnel (the funnel opening angle in the figure) and thick walls (wall opening angle in the figure). The observer looks at the whole system and the supercritical disk from the right, and sees everything up to the wind photosphere (the red color in the figure). ...

... November 27, 1995 . Too Close to a Black Hole . Credit and Copyright: Robert Nemiroff , ( GMU , NASA / GSFC ) . ... On the right is the same star field but this time with a black hole superposed in the center of the frame. The black hole has such strong gravity that light is noticeably bent towards it - causing some very unusual visual distortion. In the distorted frame, every star in the normal frame has at least two bright images - one on each side of the black hole. ... About APOD | ...