No, it is not close to the ground, but it is certainly not a stabilized approach which is standard operating procedure for a transport aircraft. If the approach is not stabilized, or becomes unstabilized, you declare a missed approach and try again.
Go with a 6" SCH80 PVC pipe with well "welded" endcaps. Put a smaller pipe inside it, also sealed, with dessicant packs inside it. Seal the items in vacuum bags similar to food storage bags . Water is not going to get inside!
It sounds like they combined the pretty decent book by Steven Gould with Highlander 2 and Underworld.
Plot outline from IMDB: "A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them."
A Magnavox Odyssey with a membrane keyboard and funky silver joysticks. It's so long ago that I couldn't even tell you what games I had for it, but I do remember having a lot of fun with it. I think we got touch-tone on our phone and a microwave oven that same year.
It was responsible for initiating my lust for all thing tech; not long after I started working my way through the Commodore product line and then into IBM.
Communication skills: spelling, grammar, public speaking, etc. If you can't make yourself clearly understood, or if you come off as an ignorant cretin, no one is going to be interested in any other skills you might have. I just had a resume cross my desk advertising a candidate's ability as a "NETW0RK ADMINISTRATOR"...a silly mistake, but if you miss a detail like that on your resume how much are you paying attention to detail on those netw0rks you are supposed to be administering?
Business Acumen: Have a basic understanding of accounting, finance, and economics. Think about how IT/IS makes things happen for an organization, how it impacts the bottom line.
Breadth of IT Skills: You can develop apps in a variety of environments...that's nice. But what do you know about databases, networks, servers, the care and feeding of end-users? Too many developers come up short here and are content to code in a vacuum and it shows in their work.
Presence: Learn to leave the teenage and 20-something mannerisms and slang behind. Workplace email is not the same as your personal IM or text messages. Comport yourself and your writing in a manner befitting the situation. Restrict your use of the word "like" to no more than five times a day.
If you look closely you'll see that those items refer to Voyager 1 not Voyager 2. Voyager 2 is on a different trajectory and will encounter the termination shock under a different set of circumstances.
Based on that picture (and the perspective may be misleading) that is not a 30m crater. Maybe the ejecta is out to 30m, but that hole in the ground looks like maybe 7-8m. That would mean whatever impacted there was substantially smaller.
Exactly what I was going to say. Any larger organization worth its salt is using a standard image on their PCs. Changes to that image have to be properly vetted through a change control process. For Microsoft to make changes with AutoUpdate turned off is, quite simply, wrong.
All true, but you forgot "enterprise integration".
Picture this: you work for a large multinational firm with users numbering in the 10's of thousands. How, exactly, would migrate the lot of them from Windows to Mac? Moreover, do you think that you could actually sell the migration to upper management?
Actually, this is a great topic for a general Slashdot discussion...
This sounds remarkably like the urban legend about the aircraft company firing chickens at their windshields only to realize that they weren't supposed to be frozen. In any case, Darwin is written all over this one. If you don't have the mental wherewithal to figure out that (dry sponge) + (lengthy microwave session) = (fire & smoking ruin of microwave)...oh well.
Perhaps more interesting would be to ask the question of these thermodynamically-challenge folk, "What nasty crud having you been wiping down with that $0.29 sponge that makes you feel compelled to sterilize it with a microwave rather than just using cleanser and hot water like the majority of sane people?" For that matter, if you believed your sponge to be that contaminated with bacteria, wouldn't you just -huh, huh- ***throw it away***?
Now it seems that all anyone can think of is the
children. Even innocent seeming conduct can easily be misconstrued as
"endangering" a child. There's an interesting article on salon.com entitled "They
called me a child pornographer" that details one family's excursion into a
similar legal hellhole as a result of photos taken during a camping trip.
From the article: As usual during the trip, we took several photos.
Because I forgot my digital camera, I bought a disposable camera at a gas
station on the way to the campground. I took pictures of the kids using sticks
to beat on old bottles and cans and logs as musical instruments. I took a few of
my youngest daughter, Eliza, then age 3, skinny dipping in the lake, and my son,
Noah, then age 8, swimming in the lake in his underwear, and another of Noah
naked, hamming it up while using a long stick to hold his underwear over the
fire to dry. Finally, I took a photo of everyone, as was our camping tradition,
peeing on the ashes of the fire to put it out for the last time. We also let the
kids take photos of their own. When we returned on Sunday, I forgot the
throwaway camera and Rusty found it in his car. He gave it to his wife, who I'll
call Janet, to get developed, and she dropped it off the next day with two other
rolls of film at a local Eckerd drug store. On Tuesday, when she returned to
pick up the film, she was approached by two officers from the Savannah Police
Department. They told her they had been called by Eckerd due to "questionable
photos."
This, of course, was just the beginning of an overblown investigation. Like
this case, Matt Bandy's "crime" should have been looked at by a competent
prosecutor and dropped. However, other recent cases in the news (the Connecticut
porn-pop-up teacher, and the Duke Lacrosse "rape") show that unfortunately some
prosecutors are simply out to make a name for themselves rather than checking their facts or enforcing
the spirit of the law.
There's no question that crimes against children are a vile thing, but after
decades of doing nothing and pretending that such things just didn't happen we
are now - in typical American fashion - going to exactly the opposite extreme.
I wouldn't call it a failure of Computer Science; it's a QA failure without a doubt.
Mistakes happen when you code. Sure, you try to minimize them but even the most carefully designed code can't be guaranteed to be 100% error free. That's why you employ, presumably, a top-notch QA team to check and recheck, testing your "perfect" code in ways that perhaps you never even considered.
This is what you would expect in a terrestrial application. When the platform that your code is going to run on isn't bound to the same gravitational source that you are, you would think...you would *hope*...that the QA team might do an even more thorough job.
If this event is at all indicative of the QA efforts that NASA will be making for our return to the moon, perhaps we'd be better off staying at home.
The more accurate interpretation of his comment would be that "Muslims are not believers in *our kind* of Jesus Christ", (ie. that Christ was the Son of God and not some mere prophet) and that's been a good enough reason for murder and genocide for oh, about two-thousand years now.
These people earnestly believe that God loves you but that he'll damn you straight to hell if you don't love him back (because *that's* what love's all about) and with that sort of weltanschauung is it surprising that the folks on either side of this equation see things in such black and white realities; convert or die? Probably not.
One of these days the human race will wake up and smell the cosmic coffee, but I wouldn't take bets on it being anytime soon.
----- "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind..." -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
I got a kick out of this comment in the article, "This sort of corporate disorganization might be expected in a fast-moving startup with 50 employees, but in a mature company with more than 70,000 people on its payroll it is not acceptable."
Um, have you ever worked for an organization this large? I have. Several times, unfortunately. It may not be acceptable, but it is , in fact, the norm. It's very easy to communicate a clear, concise corporate vision to 50 employees; it becomes exponentially more difficult as the number of employees rises. An organization of 50 is limber and agile, able to turn on a dime. 70,000 is a lumbering behemoth barreling forward under its own momentum heedless of the need to change direction.
Mr. Lucas and other Hollywood "luminaries" should really try to wrap their heads around the real reason that theaters don't have the same draw that they used to...
The. Movies. Suck.
The American public has had it with the same inane writing, rehashed story lines, actors who couldn't emote their way out of a paper sack, lame directing, and special effects masquerading as a plot.
Observe the market forces at work. Your product sucks, and we're not buying it.
Wake up, pay attention, make a movie *worth* seeing.
With that said, good riddance George. And by the way, Han shot first!
You're absolutely spot on. Migrating to electrically powered vehicles is all well and good but all that power still has to come from somewhere. As long as the generation source is still fossil fuels, I'm betting that it's close to a zero-sum game as far as greenhouse gasses go.
BASIC is a very easy language. Hell, I taught myself BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20 in 1982 at the age of 12. I didn't comment my code because you only had 3,583 bytes of memory to work with on the standard machine...but I learned enough on my own to breeze through a first-year college course using PL/1 while I was still a junior in high school. But that's just me; I also coded uphill both ways in the snow.
As for math skills, a few of us in my office had quite a laugh yesterday when we went out to lunch. The kid working the register at the store just shutdown and looked at me with a blank stare when, after ringing up my $5.50 tab, I first handed her a $10 and then offered her another $0.50. She quite literally could not comprehend what to do. When our high school kids can't make change, we've got a problem.
I'm quite sure, but this is why major corporations like HP staff huge legal departments. You can't tell me that at some point it didn't occur to them "Hmmm, maybe we should run this past Legal?"
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No, it is not close to the ground, but it is certainly not a stabilized approach which is standard operating procedure for a transport aircraft. If the approach is not stabilized, or becomes unstabilized, you declare a missed approach and try again.
Go with a 6" SCH80 PVC pipe with well "welded" endcaps. Put a smaller pipe inside it, also sealed, with dessicant packs inside it. Seal the items in vacuum bags similar to food storage bags . Water is not going to get inside!
Jeez...no one gets the South Park reference?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hippie,_Die
That, or you could just play some Slayer. Hippies can't stand death metal!
1) Target Wikipedia 2) ? 3) Prophet
It sounds like they combined the pretty decent book by Steven Gould with Highlander 2 and Underworld.
Plot outline from IMDB: "A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them."
Another Hollywood abortion...
A Magnavox Odyssey with a membrane keyboard and funky silver joysticks. It's so long ago that I couldn't even tell you what games I had for it, but I do remember having a lot of fun with it. I think we got touch-tone on our phone and a microwave oven that same year.
It was responsible for initiating my lust for all thing tech; not long after I started working my way through the Commodore product line and then into IBM.
Communication skills: spelling, grammar, public speaking, etc. If you can't make yourself clearly understood, or if you come off as an ignorant cretin, no one is going to be interested in any other skills you might have. I just had a resume cross my desk advertising a candidate's ability as a "NETW0RK ADMINISTRATOR"...a silly mistake, but if you miss a detail like that on your resume how much are you paying attention to detail on those netw0rks you are supposed to be administering?
Business Acumen: Have a basic understanding of accounting, finance, and economics. Think about how IT/IS makes things happen for an organization, how it impacts the bottom line.
Breadth of IT Skills: You can develop apps in a variety of environments...that's nice. But what do you know about databases, networks, servers, the care and feeding of end-users? Too many developers come up short here and are content to code in a vacuum and it shows in their work.
Presence: Learn to leave the teenage and 20-something mannerisms and slang behind. Workplace email is not the same as your personal IM or text messages. Comport yourself and your writing in a manner befitting the situation. Restrict your use of the word "like" to no more than five times a day.
Hope this helps...
In Soviet Russia, CAR drives YOU! Wait a sec...
If you look closely you'll see that those items refer to Voyager 1 not Voyager 2. Voyager 2 is on a different trajectory and will encounter the termination shock under a different set of circumstances.
Based on that picture (and the perspective may be misleading) that is not a 30m crater. Maybe the ejecta is out to 30m, but that hole in the ground looks like maybe 7-8m. That would mean whatever impacted there was substantially smaller.
Exactly what I was going to say. Any larger organization worth its salt is using a standard image on their PCs. Changes to that image have to be properly vetted through a change control process. For Microsoft to make changes with AutoUpdate turned off is, quite simply, wrong.
All true, but you forgot "enterprise integration".
Picture this: you work for a large multinational firm with users numbering in the 10's of thousands. How, exactly, would migrate the lot of them from Windows to Mac? Moreover, do you think that you could actually sell the migration to upper management?
Actually, this is a great topic for a general Slashdot discussion...
This sounds remarkably like the urban legend about the aircraft company firing chickens at their windshields only to realize that they weren't supposed to be frozen. In any case, Darwin is written all over this one. If you don't have the mental wherewithal to figure out that (dry sponge) + (lengthy microwave session) = (fire & smoking ruin of microwave)...oh well.
Perhaps more interesting would be to ask the question of these thermodynamically-challenge folk, "What nasty crud having you been wiping down with that $0.29 sponge that makes you feel compelled to sterilize it with a microwave rather than just using cleanser and hot water like the majority of sane people?" For that matter, if you believed your sponge to be that contaminated with bacteria, wouldn't you just -huh, huh- ***throw it away***?
You've killed my Internet, you Klingon bastard!
No scientist worthy of the name would suggest any such thing. To stifle debate and dissension of opinion is the realm of religion, not science.
Now it seems that all anyone can think of is the children. Even innocent seeming conduct can easily be misconstrued as "endangering" a child. There's an interesting article on salon.com entitled "They called me a child pornographer" that details one family's excursion into a similar legal hellhole as a result of photos taken during a camping trip.
From the article: As usual during the trip, we took several photos. Because I forgot my digital camera, I bought a disposable camera at a gas station on the way to the campground. I took pictures of the kids using sticks to beat on old bottles and cans and logs as musical instruments. I took a few of my youngest daughter, Eliza, then age 3, skinny dipping in the lake, and my son, Noah, then age 8, swimming in the lake in his underwear, and another of Noah naked, hamming it up while using a long stick to hold his underwear over the fire to dry. Finally, I took a photo of everyone, as was our camping tradition, peeing on the ashes of the fire to put it out for the last time. We also let the kids take photos of their own. When we returned on Sunday, I forgot the throwaway camera and Rusty found it in his car. He gave it to his wife, who I'll call Janet, to get developed, and she dropped it off the next day with two other rolls of film at a local Eckerd drug store. On Tuesday, when she returned to pick up the film, she was approached by two officers from the Savannah Police Department. They told her they had been called by Eckerd due to "questionable photos."
This, of course, was just the beginning of an overblown investigation. Like this case, Matt Bandy's "crime" should have been looked at by a competent prosecutor and dropped. However, other recent cases in the news (the Connecticut porn-pop-up teacher, and the Duke Lacrosse "rape") show that unfortunately some prosecutors are simply out to make a name for themselves rather than checking their facts or enforcing the spirit of the law.
There's no question that crimes against children are a vile thing, but after decades of doing nothing and pretending that such things just didn't happen we are now - in typical American fashion - going to exactly the opposite extreme.
I wouldn't call it a failure of Computer Science; it's a QA failure without a doubt.
Mistakes happen when you code. Sure, you try to minimize them but even the most carefully designed code can't be guaranteed to be 100% error free. That's why you employ, presumably, a top-notch QA team to check and recheck, testing your "perfect" code in ways that perhaps you never even considered.
This is what you would expect in a terrestrial application. When the platform that your code is going to run on isn't bound to the same gravitational source that you are, you would think...you would *hope*...that the QA team might do an even more thorough job.
If this event is at all indicative of the QA efforts that NASA will be making for our return to the moon, perhaps we'd be better off staying at home.
The more accurate interpretation of his comment would be that "Muslims are not believers in *our kind* of Jesus Christ", (ie. that Christ was the Son of God and not some mere prophet) and that's been a good enough reason for murder and genocide for oh, about two-thousand years now.
These people earnestly believe that God loves you but that he'll damn you straight to hell if you don't love him back (because *that's* what love's all about) and with that sort of weltanschauung is it surprising that the folks on either side of this equation see things in such black and white realities; convert or die? Probably not.
One of these days the human race will wake up and smell the cosmic coffee, but I wouldn't take bets on it being anytime soon.
-----
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind..."
-- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
I got a kick out of this comment in the article, "This sort of corporate disorganization might be expected in a fast-moving startup with 50 employees, but in a mature company with more than 70,000 people on its payroll it is not acceptable."
Um, have you ever worked for an organization this large? I have. Several times, unfortunately. It may not be acceptable, but it is , in fact, the norm. It's very easy to communicate a clear, concise corporate vision to 50 employees; it becomes exponentially more difficult as the number of employees rises. An organization of 50 is limber and agile, able to turn on a dime. 70,000 is a lumbering behemoth barreling forward under its own momentum heedless of the need to change direction.
Mr. Lucas and other Hollywood "luminaries" should really try to wrap their heads around the real reason that theaters don't have the same draw that they used to... The. Movies. Suck. The American public has had it with the same inane writing, rehashed story lines, actors who couldn't emote their way out of a paper sack, lame directing, and special effects masquerading as a plot. Observe the market forces at work. Your product sucks, and we're not buying it. Wake up, pay attention, make a movie *worth* seeing. With that said, good riddance George. And by the way, Han shot first!
You're absolutely spot on. Migrating to electrically powered vehicles is all well and good but all that power still has to come from somewhere. As long as the generation source is still fossil fuels, I'm betting that it's close to a zero-sum game as far as greenhouse gasses go.
It's a great maneuver for your opponent until your wingman goes to guns and waxes his slow ass.
This is why "I'm *NOT* leaving my wingman!"
BASIC is a very easy language. Hell, I taught myself BASIC on a Commodore VIC-20 in 1982 at the age of 12. I didn't comment my code because you only had 3,583 bytes of memory to work with on the standard machine...but I learned enough on my own to breeze through a first-year college course using PL/1 while I was still a junior in high school. But that's just me; I also coded uphill both ways in the snow. As for math skills, a few of us in my office had quite a laugh yesterday when we went out to lunch. The kid working the register at the store just shutdown and looked at me with a blank stare when, after ringing up my $5.50 tab, I first handed her a $10 and then offered her another $0.50. She quite literally could not comprehend what to do. When our high school kids can't make change, we've got a problem.
I'm quite sure, but this is why major corporations like HP staff huge legal departments. You can't tell me that at some point it didn't occur to them "Hmmm, maybe we should run this past Legal?"