But how does the probe even know what chicken tastes like? Maybe it really doesn't, so anything it tastes that it doesn't recognize it decides tastes like chicken..
Its probably for the better; Ryerson Engineering isn't real Engineering anyway;)
On a related note, Camp1's Iron Ring Ceremonies were Wednesday and Thursday. Congratulations to all the freshly obligated Engineers! (Myself included =)
No, unfortunately the resolution is not that high.. If I recall correctly, certain regions of the moon will be mapped with a resolution of about 100m/pixel while most of the moon will be mapped at about 1-2km/pixel.
Its too bad L1-3 are unstable.. you'll still need small maneuvering thrusters/attitude gyros etc. to keep your craft from straying too far from the equilibrium point. L4 and L5 are dynamically stable, but there's also a lot of other cruft just lying around there that you'd have to shield against.
But yes, Lagrange points are awesome and we need to exploit them more!
Yes. In fact, there's already a mission planned: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Set for launch later this calendar year, the LRO will be put into a low polar lunar orbit for about 1 year. Among its objectives are the creation of high-resolution lunar maps (it is equipped with a laser altimeter), seek suitable landing ellipses for future craft, and search for evidence of water ice and other resources.
I hated Blackboard for the crapiness that it is; I hated it a lot. Then I found out they are also patent trolling? No thank you, send it back for a refund =(
Not to mention horrible on resource usage. My school (University of Toronto) is in the process of switching to Blackboard, and they had to build an entire new server room to run it. CCNET all the way!!
"Our sources, given under this article, claims that the Milky-Way is so-and-so big" One could write it like that, but it'd become tiresome real quick.
Since WP is not itself a peer-reviewed journal, I was under the impression that any facts listed in it are assumed to have that blanket statement of "according to our references [...]". This is why you see things in articles that say "citation need"; people believe the information is accurate enough to include, and so they indicate that a proper reference (which should be available) should be added to support the claim.
When I'm writing out a math proof involving Calculus, I don't write down "by taking the limit of (f(x)+f(x+h))/(h) as h goes to zero", I just say "The derivative is: [...]". Its the same thing...
Have you taken a look at Western Civilization's fossil-fuel consumption? These are resources that by their very definition are not replenishable. And, quite frankly, all the metals in the world won't do you squat if you don't have the energy to drive them around or build anything with them. Beyond fossil fuels, there are other important resources, such a food. Notice how the deserts (in North America, sure, but in China in particular) are growing? They are losing arable soil at an alarming rate, and yet their population is increasing all the same. Food doesn't grow on trees, you know;) In all seriousness, what happens when you go to the market to buy food for your family and find that vegetables have gone up in price 10-fold because China has started importing en masse?
These are just two particular examples, but there are many more.. do some research on the renewable water table levels in Asia; you might be surprised how dry some of their mega-aquifers are. There's no point in trying to defend the "sustainability" of a fossil-fuel based society/economy. Even if the space program takes off and we fly to Titan to rape her resources, we're just prolonging the same situation: a dependence on a resource that is fundamentally limited in quantity.
----- Note that the above is the end of my point, and what follows is just additional ranting; do not make reference to it when defending the discussion at hand, as I am well aware that I am now talking about time-scales on the thousands or tens-of-thousands of years. -----
When you get down to it, nuclear power; there is a finite amount of suitable radioactive material in this world that, assuming our use of nuclear power continues to rise, will one day run out (of course this is much longer-span than fossil-fuels, but the time it takes is the only difference).
North-America (which I can speak to directly since I live there) lives in a wasteful, consumerist society. We are wasteful of our environment, we are wasteful of our resources, of our energy, of our food... In the "long term", unless we leave this planet, our energy consumption must be limited to a "solar quota", i.e. the amount of sunlight the Earth receives, as that is the only "input" energy this world has. Everything else is simply consuming solar energy that was stored a long time ago.
----- And now for some wild hyperbole, simply because its fun. -----
Actually, if you really get down to it, there's no point in anything since anything we do contributes to the eventual heat death of the Universe, and there is only a finite amount of energy (assuming a finite Universe) that we can consume even if we had ideal means of obtaining it.
Unfortunately, people have learned how to avoid natural selection in the short term through unsustainable approaches such as inequity and excess consumption. But this is not going to work in the long term.
(Emphasis mine). The researcher is saying that European/North-American/etc. culture is currently operating in an unsustainable way, and that this works in the short-term (i.e. we are "developing" and "improving" our lives), but that in the long-haul, any culture that hopes to survive must operate in a sustainable way. If they don't, they will consume all available resources until their way-of-life disintegrates around them.
This is why GM struck a new deal with union workers which transferred most of the benefits program (including retirement) to a trust fund, with the trustee being the union itself. GM agreed to make an initial infusion into this trust fund to get it started.
Ideally, this should reduce GM's long-term cost projections, and also reduce their liability, hopefully allowing them to borrow money at a lower interest rate and generally reducing operating costs as a whole.
Ideally, anyway... Having said that, I agree with your general point about unions in the US (and Canada) trying to take things too far. The writer's guild strike is a good example (I feel, anyway) of unions doing things write (haha); i.e. they were in an unfair working situation and they did what they had to do to get it fixed.
What exactly is the problem with Pidgin's XMPP/Jabber support? I use Pidgin for my MSN, AIM, and GTalk accounts.. and all three of them seem to work identically and without issue O_o
In case it didn't come across clearly, I actually am interested in knowing what it does so poorly with Jabber, since as an end-user I really can't say that I see what the issue is =(
I should add that it loaded in another tab, so I couldn't see it.. and I had MPD playing (blocking other sound devices), so I didn't hear anything either.. all I saw was the screen moving around. I downloaded the source with wget and took a look, and I'm fairly sure I can now guess what I would have seen if I hadn't loaded it in another tab =P
The people that designed the enclosure were probably given some numbers to work with. They were probably told "we want you to design a lion pit with X square feet of living space and a 3-4m fence." The person/entity telling them to do this wouldn't necessarily know how to do the math. Unless the designer was knowledgeable with respect to animals, he would have no reason to doubt the zoo-keeper's (or w/e) instructions, and would go ahead and design it as per the request.
Interesting; Obviously I work from what I know, which is Canadian copyright law. Because of the influence the States has on us, I also keep myself fairly up-to-date with that as well.
But you are certainly correct, the exact degree of this legality does indeed depend on what jurisdiction you're in. Typically our discussions here revolve around US-based issues like the MPAA and RIAA; guess I forgot to switch modes =P
Ya, its not like the moon has large quantities of silicon (think solar panels) and oxygen (think fuel) sitting in a relatively low gravity well with easy access to space-borne assembly platforms for all kinds of goodies, including stuff that's easier to build in micro-g or vacuum.
There are many more reasons to go to space than to look cool, and its not just science either.
The difference is that you are putting money into photocopiers owned by the library; if the library allowed you to copy the whole work, they would be aiding in the reproduction of a copyrighted work with the intent to distribute it (i.e. to you).
"Fair Use" is for using the work within the context of your own work, say, for teaching or research; it is unrelated to what you do on your own time, in your own home, and without an "audience" to view/read/listen.
Copyright infringement relates to the distribution of copyrighted works to which you don't have the permission. There is nothing illegal about making personal copies for personal use (unless you live in the Sates, and the copyrighted work is protected by some sort of copyright protection scheme).
As for your point RE: them not uploading the material themselves: this is pretty much, and always has been, TPB's defense, so, nothing new here.
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But I'm not sure I would have watched this on T.V. (if I had one), let alone downloaded it (legally or otherwise) =/
Aikon-
But how does the probe even know what chicken tastes like? Maybe it really doesn't, so anything it tastes that it doesn't recognize it decides tastes like chicken..
Aikon-
Its probably for the better; Ryerson Engineering isn't real Engineering anyway ;)
On a related note, Camp1's Iron Ring Ceremonies were Wednesday and Thursday. Congratulations to all the freshly obligated Engineers! (Myself included =)
Aikon-
No, unfortunately the resolution is not that high.. If I recall correctly, certain regions of the moon will be mapped with a resolution of about 100m/pixel while most of the moon will be mapped at about 1-2km/pixel.
Its too bad L1-3 are unstable.. you'll still need small maneuvering thrusters/attitude gyros etc. to keep your craft from straying too far from the equilibrium point. L4 and L5 are dynamically stable, but there's also a lot of other cruft just lying around there that you'd have to shield against.
But yes, Lagrange points are awesome and we need to exploit them more!
Aikon-
Forgot to mention: The LRO orbital period is roughly 2 hours.
Aikon-
Yes. In fact, there's already a mission planned: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Set for launch later this calendar year, the LRO will be put into a low polar lunar orbit for about 1 year. Among its objectives are the creation of high-resolution lunar maps (it is equipped with a laser altimeter), seek suitable landing ellipses for future craft, and search for evidence of water ice and other resources.
Aikon-
I hated Blackboard for the crapiness that it is; I hated it a lot. Then I found out they are also patent trolling? No thank you, send it back for a refund =(
Not to mention horrible on resource usage. My school (University of Toronto) is in the process of switching to Blackboard, and they had to build an entire new server room to run it. CCNET all the way!!
Aikon-
Since WP is not itself a peer-reviewed journal, I was under the impression that any facts listed in it are assumed to have that blanket statement of "according to our references [...]". This is why you see things in articles that say "citation need"; people believe the information is accurate enough to include, and so they indicate that a proper reference (which should be available) should be added to support the claim.
When I'm writing out a math proof involving Calculus, I don't write down "by taking the limit of (f(x)+f(x+h))/(h) as h goes to zero", I just say "The derivative is: [...]". Its the same thing...
Aikon-
Have you taken a look at Western Civilization's fossil-fuel consumption? These are resources that by their very definition are not replenishable. And, quite frankly, all the metals in the world won't do you squat if you don't have the energy to drive them around or build anything with them. Beyond fossil fuels, there are other important resources, such a food. Notice how the deserts (in North America, sure, but in China in particular) are growing? They are losing arable soil at an alarming rate, and yet their population is increasing all the same. Food doesn't grow on trees, you know ;) In all seriousness, what happens when you go to the market to buy food for your family and find that vegetables have gone up in price 10-fold because China has started importing en masse?
These are just two particular examples, but there are many more.. do some research on the renewable water table levels in Asia; you might be surprised how dry some of their mega-aquifers are. There's no point in trying to defend the "sustainability" of a fossil-fuel based society/economy. Even if the space program takes off and we fly to Titan to rape her resources, we're just prolonging the same situation: a dependence on a resource that is fundamentally limited in quantity.
----- Note that the above is the end of my point, and what follows is just additional ranting; do not make reference to it when defending the discussion at hand, as I am well aware that I am now talking about time-scales on the thousands or tens-of-thousands of years. -----
When you get down to it, nuclear power; there is a finite amount of suitable radioactive material in this world that, assuming our use of nuclear power continues to rise, will one day run out (of course this is much longer-span than fossil-fuels, but the time it takes is the only difference).
North-America (which I can speak to directly since I live there) lives in a wasteful, consumerist society. We are wasteful of our environment, we are wasteful of our resources, of our energy, of our food... In the "long term", unless we leave this planet, our energy consumption must be limited to a "solar quota", i.e. the amount of sunlight the Earth receives, as that is the only "input" energy this world has. Everything else is simply consuming solar energy that was stored a long time ago.
----- And now for some wild hyperbole, simply because its fun. -----
Actually, if you really get down to it, there's no point in anything since anything we do contributes to the eventual heat death of the Universe, and there is only a finite amount of energy (assuming a finite Universe) that we can consume even if we had ideal means of obtaining it.
I think you misunderstood the quoted researcher.
(Emphasis mine). The researcher is saying that European/North-American/etc. culture is currently operating in an unsustainable way, and that this works in the short-term (i.e. we are "developing" and "improving" our lives), but that in the long-haul, any culture that hopes to survive must operate in a sustainable way. If they don't, they will consume all available resources until their way-of-life disintegrates around them.
Aikon-
This is why GM struck a new deal with union workers which transferred most of the benefits program (including retirement) to a trust fund, with the trustee being the union itself. GM agreed to make an initial infusion into this trust fund to get it started.
Ideally, this should reduce GM's long-term cost projections, and also reduce their liability, hopefully allowing them to borrow money at a lower interest rate and generally reducing operating costs as a whole.
Ideally, anyway... Having said that, I agree with your general point about unions in the US (and Canada) trying to take things too far. The writer's guild strike is a good example (I feel, anyway) of unions doing things write (haha); i.e. they were in an unfair working situation and they did what they had to do to get it fixed.
Aikon-
My understanding of the (unproven) claim is that the customers' credit cards were never charged, so the transaction never passed the "point of sale".
Aikon-
What puzzling questions? I guess that's why I should read the article? O_o
Aikon-
What exactly is the problem with Pidgin's XMPP/Jabber support? I use Pidgin for my MSN, AIM, and GTalk accounts.. and all three of them seem to work identically and without issue O_o
In case it didn't come across clearly, I actually am interested in knowing what it does so poorly with Jabber, since as an end-user I really can't say that I see what the issue is =(
Aikon-
I should add that it loaded in another tab, so I couldn't see it.. and I had MPD playing (blocking other sound devices), so I didn't hear anything either.. all I saw was the screen moving around. I downloaded the source with wget and took a look, and I'm fairly sure I can now guess what I would have seen if I hadn't loaded it in another tab =P
Aikon-
Well, I didn't know what that was.. seeing as I'm on Linux, I decided to click it to find out. Good fun =)
The people that designed the enclosure were probably given some numbers to work with. They were probably told "we want you to design a lion pit with X square feet of living space and a 3-4m fence." The person/entity telling them to do this wouldn't necessarily know how to do the math. Unless the designer was knowledgeable with respect to animals, he would have no reason to doubt the zoo-keeper's (or w/e) instructions, and would go ahead and design it as per the request.
Aikon-
Interesting; Obviously I work from what I know, which is Canadian copyright law. Because of the influence the States has on us, I also keep myself fairly up-to-date with that as well.
But you are certainly correct, the exact degree of this legality does indeed depend on what jurisdiction you're in. Typically our discussions here revolve around US-based issues like the MPAA and RIAA; guess I forgot to switch modes =P
Aikon-
Ya, its not like the moon has large quantities of silicon (think solar panels) and oxygen (think fuel) sitting in a relatively low gravity well with easy access to space-borne assembly platforms for all kinds of goodies, including stuff that's easier to build in micro-g or vacuum.
There are many more reasons to go to space than to look cool, and its not just science either.
Aikon-
The difference is that you are putting money into photocopiers owned by the library; if the library allowed you to copy the whole work, they would be aiding in the reproduction of a copyrighted work with the intent to distribute it (i.e. to you).
"Fair Use" is for using the work within the context of your own work, say, for teaching or research; it is unrelated to what you do on your own time, in your own home, and without an "audience" to view/read/listen.
Copyright infringement relates to the distribution of copyrighted works to which you don't have the permission. There is nothing illegal about making personal copies for personal use (unless you live in the Sates, and the copyrighted work is protected by some sort of copyright protection scheme).
As for your point RE: them not uploading the material themselves: this is pretty much, and always has been, TPB's defense, so, nothing new here.
Aikon-
Oh no! 4chan must be down and the overflow is spreading to /.!!
I never said anything about air density, which is only one of the properties of the atmosphere that changes dramatically as your altitude increases.