Providing liability wavers would be something else that doesn't cost money but would make a huge difference for activities in space as costs could be a whole lot more predictable.
Liability wavers? What do you think this is, offshore drilling?
The 'stuff' coming out of a black hole is Hawking radiation, probably nothing more than the subatomic particles which made up the matter going in. Could those particles rearrange into atoms of hydrogen at a later stage? Seems plausible. Could that hydrogen then form a star? Let's see:
I imagine a place where some friction slows the radiation jets (possibly some extant hydrogen) which then causes all the particles to bunch up in one place, recoalesce into atoms, and then collapse to form a star. Seems far fetched, especially if the rotating black hole has any precession thus spewing the jets out in different directions.
That might happen in some places in an infinite universe, but it is too contrived to be the norm!
Won't that (eventually) get pulled back, gravitationally? Given enough time everything should end up coagulating into large masses that in turn pull towards each other. End result: another Big Bang.
Of course that's kind of... far off on the timeline.
Not if the universe is expanding but the hydrogen quantity does not increase. In fact, the hydrogen quantity is decreasing as it is fused into heavier elements in the stars.
That's what everybody says. Then they go to travelocity, and fly with the lowest bidder. If more people wanted to pay more for a better experience, there'd be more first class seats in airplanes.
Last month I flew on Jetblue and paid 10% less than anywhere else, got a huge seat and the best flight experience I'd ever had.
Thanks, I did try Vrapper and I think that I may have even filed a bug or two before giving up on it. I should have better documented my findings and disappointments with each "solution".
I currently code mostly PHP in VIM, but I have to do the occasional Java, Mono, or Python. I would love to know how you have found to effectively handle Java code across multiple files in VIM. For me, Nerdtree, Ctags, and Ctrl-P were nowhere what I need. What solutions have you found?
As another VIM user who is always looking at IDEs but can never commit, which IDE did you switch to? And how do you get by without VIM's navigation, macros, custom mappings, etc? Serious question, I'm looking for suggestions. I've tried all the Eclipse and Netbeens VIM plugins and they all have me running back to VIM.
Hold on! When the Earth gets downgraded to dwarf planet status, will we have to give the software back or what?
The Earth's peril will not be dwarf planet status, but rather binary planet status. The moon is in constant concave orbit around the sun. Asimov makes a rather convincing argument that this should be the criteria for binary planet status.
I wouldn't know either: I've been using Linux-bases OSes since 2001 and the last time I did try to install Windows for a neighbour, it wouldn't open Word files out of the box! Ubuntu just so happens to open Word files out of the box, by the way.
Yeah, I had to give up on Fedora, but I do still prefer CentOS on the server even if I prefer Debian-based at home.
Here is a picture where both power buttons are visible, for the curious (it gives me shivers, I actually covered the second button after the second loss): http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/10236.jpg
Interestingly, googling for some information on the Media Center (or Media Direct) I see almost nothing, as if there were never any issues with it or as if nobody ever used it!
I did the partitioning myself, I always have: two for alternative/'s, one for swap and one for/home. I really don't know where the Media Center code hid. Possibly in an EPROM? I actually still have the machine, but the screen is unusable. I could plug it into a monitor if I were really curious.
If it'd tell me it doesn't know the file system and has no idea what do do with it, that would be perfectly fine.
But corrupting a file system just because it is unknown to/unsupported by the system trying to read it would be a huge bug.
Windows did have this behaviour, by the way. In 2007 I had a Dell Inspiron laptop with two power buttons: one for Normal Windows and one for Media Center Windows. I had wiped the hard drive and installed Fedora on it. Powering with the normal button worked fine, but if by accident one were to power it on with the Media Center button then I would get the initial Media Center screen (I have no idea where that code was hiding, possibly in a hidden partition) and it would wipe all my ext3 filesystems.
The server qualifies for the free tier, and that's probably why it just went straight unresponsive for two hours. Maybe I should upgrade to a slightly larger paid/reserved instance and..... Wait, I smell conspiracy.
I'm right now hacking away at an EC2 instance with an EBS volume in the affected region, with no disruptions. The EC2 is an "Extra Large Instance" (need it for the IOPS more than the CPU or memory), though I don't think that matters so far as EBS is concerned.
I'm not familiar with the component, but some master cylinders had a single seal between both systems. When the seal blows, the only side effect is an equalisation of pressure between both systems. This is not a problem unless one of the systems also has an independent leak. Might this have been the case on your Chevy as well? Were any other repairs made, other than the valve body?
Thank you, I was summarizing but I appreciate your in-depth review! I am actually not familiar with the engineering aspects of shear stresses on the tire while cornering, only with straight-line acceleration and braking, so I was not referring to that.
I never said that there are two lines going to each caliper. On line is split between front right and rear left brakes, and the other is split between front left and rear right brakes (be the rears discs or drums).
I'm actually interested in hearing about the pinhole leaks that you and a friend had on two different vehicles that left you both without hydraulic brakes. Such a leak is not unheard of, but I've never heard of it leaving a vehicle without a hydraulic braking system. In the normal scenario for that type of failure, one hydraulic system is compromised. In the worst case scenario brake fluid would leak out and air/moisture would leak in, leading to inconsistent performance which may trigger ABS / ETC systems.
There is no such thing as an emergency brake, only a parking brake. There is no point of failure in a modern vehicle that would reduce the hydraulic pressure in both braking systems (yes, modern vehicles have two independent hydraulic systems going to the calipers) such that the cable-operated rear braking would provide assistance.
The only common points of failure are the pedal assembly (designed fail-safe, by the way) and the master cylinder. Master cylinder failure would either reduce pressure in one hydraulic system (front or rear seal failure), or equalize between them (center seal failure).
If someone were to sabotage the hydraulic braking system or pedal assembly, then the parking brake would be helpful in stopping the vehicle. Of course, that assumes that the parking brake itself was also not sabotaged.
It's not very intuitive, but the contact patch is the same with narrow and wide tires. If the weight of the car and tire pressure remains the same, then also the contact area must be the same. Force equals area tmes pressure.
You are assuming that the air pressure carries the entire weight of the vehicle. In fact, this is not true: the air pressure carries n% of the weight of the vehicle, and the rubber carries the remaining (100-n)% of the weight. For different purposes different proportions are desirable: for instance large earth-moving vehicles like n to be as large as possible to prevent rubber wear. I don't know the engineering considerations behind winter-tire design, though.
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Providing liability wavers would be something else that doesn't cost money but would make a huge difference for activities in space as costs could be a whole lot more predictable.
Liability wavers? What do you think this is, offshore drilling?
The 'stuff' coming out of a black hole is Hawking radiation, probably nothing more than the subatomic particles which made up the matter going in. Could those particles rearrange into atoms of hydrogen at a later stage? Seems plausible. Could that hydrogen then form a star? Let's see:
I imagine a place where some friction slows the radiation jets (possibly some extant hydrogen) which then causes all the particles to bunch up in one place, recoalesce into atoms, and then collapse to form a star. Seems far fetched, especially if the rotating black hole has any precession thus spewing the jets out in different directions.
That might happen in some places in an infinite universe, but it is too contrived to be the norm!
Won't that (eventually) get pulled back, gravitationally? Given enough time everything should end up coagulating into large masses that in turn pull towards each other. End result: another Big Bang.
Of course that's kind of... far off on the timeline.
Not if the universe is expanding but the hydrogen quantity does not increase. In fact, the hydrogen quantity is decreasing as it is fused into heavier elements in the stars.
That's what everybody says. Then they go to travelocity, and fly with the lowest bidder. If more people wanted to pay more for a better experience, there'd be more first class seats in airplanes.
Last month I flew on Jetblue and paid 10% less than anywhere else, got a huge seat and the best flight experience I'd ever had.
Oh, and I've been waiting for this:
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/787_dreamliner.html
Thanks, I'll take a look at IntelliJ. I seem to remember it not being terribly expensive and running on Linux, too.
Thank you, that looks like the improvement to TabList that was so sorely needed!
Thanks, I did try Vrapper and I think that I may have even filed a bug or two before giving up on it. I should have better documented my findings and disappointments with each "solution".
Maybe they should rename Eclipse to be called "tgacs".
Have you never used Ctags? Works great with that other bit of software that has the letters VM in it: VIM.
I currently code mostly PHP in VIM, but I have to do the occasional Java, Mono, or Python. I would love to know how you have found to effectively handle Java code across multiple files in VIM. For me, Nerdtree, Ctags, and Ctrl-P were nowhere what I need. What solutions have you found?
As another VIM user who is always looking at IDEs but can never commit, which IDE did you switch to? And how do you get by without VIM's navigation, macros, custom mappings, etc? Serious question, I'm looking for suggestions. I've tried all the Eclipse and Netbeens VIM plugins and they all have me running back to VIM.
Hold on! When the Earth gets downgraded to dwarf planet status, will we have to give the software back or what?
The Earth's peril will not be dwarf planet status, but rather binary planet status. The moon is in constant concave orbit around the sun. Asimov makes a rather convincing argument that this should be the criteria for binary planet status.
I wouldn't know either: I've been using Linux-bases OSes since 2001 and the last time I did try to install Windows for a neighbour, it wouldn't open Word files out of the box! Ubuntu just so happens to open Word files out of the box, by the way.
Yeah, I had to give up on Fedora, but I do still prefer CentOS on the server even if I prefer Debian-based at home.
Kate Fox sounds hot, I think I will google her.
I think that it is a KDE text editor plugin for Firefox.
Thanks. I'm still serving all content from EC2 myself!
Host the static images from S3. You might be able to save on bandwidth that way.
Note that I've just started working with AWS, and I haven't double checked that S3 bandwidth is cheaper than E2 bandwidth.
That was some tangent!
Here is a picture where both power buttons are visible, for the curious (it gives me shivers, I actually covered the second button after the second loss):
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/10236.jpg
Interestingly, googling for some information on the Media Center (or Media Direct) I see almost nothing, as if there were never any issues with it or as if nobody ever used it!
I did the partitioning myself, I always have: two for alternative /'s, one for swap and one for /home. I really don't know where the Media Center code hid. Possibly in an EPROM? I actually still have the machine, but the screen is unusable. I could plug it into a monitor if I were really curious.
If it'd tell me it doesn't know the file system and has no idea what do do with it, that would be perfectly fine.
But corrupting a file system just because it is unknown to/unsupported by the system trying to read it would be a huge bug.
Windows did have this behaviour, by the way. In 2007 I had a Dell Inspiron laptop with two power buttons: one for Normal Windows and one for Media Center Windows. I had wiped the hard drive and installed Fedora on it. Powering with the normal button worked fine, but if by accident one were to power it on with the Media Center button then I would get the initial Media Center screen (I have no idea where that code was hiding, possibly in a hidden partition) and it would wipe all my ext3 filesystems.
The server qualifies for the free tier, and that's probably why it just went straight unresponsive for two hours. Maybe I should upgrade to a slightly larger paid/reserved instance and..... Wait, I smell conspiracy.
I'm right now hacking away at an EC2 instance with an EBS volume in the affected region, with no disruptions. The EC2 is an "Extra Large Instance" (need it for the IOPS more than the CPU or memory), though I don't think that matters so far as EBS is concerned.
I'm not familiar with the component, but some master cylinders had a single seal between both systems. When the seal blows, the only side effect is an equalisation of pressure between both systems. This is not a problem unless one of the systems also has an independent leak. Might this have been the case on your Chevy as well? Were any other repairs made, other than the valve body?
Thank you for letting me know!
I would very much like to hear more about this. Are your sure that both hydraulic systems were compromised?
Thank you, I was summarizing but I appreciate your in-depth review! I am actually not familiar with the engineering aspects of shear stresses on the tire while cornering, only with straight-line acceleration and braking, so I was not referring to that.
I never said that there are two lines going to each caliper. On line is split between front right and rear left brakes, and the other is split between front left and rear right brakes (be the rears discs or drums).
I'm actually interested in hearing about the pinhole leaks that you and a friend had on two different vehicles that left you both without hydraulic brakes. Such a leak is not unheard of, but I've never heard of it leaving a vehicle without a hydraulic braking system. In the normal scenario for that type of failure, one hydraulic system is compromised. In the worst case scenario brake fluid would leak out and air/moisture would leak in, leading to inconsistent performance which may trigger ABS / ETC systems.
There is no such thing as an emergency brake, only a parking brake. There is no point of failure in a modern vehicle that would reduce the hydraulic pressure in both braking systems (yes, modern vehicles have two independent hydraulic systems going to the calipers) such that the cable-operated rear braking would provide assistance.
The only common points of failure are the pedal assembly (designed fail-safe, by the way) and the master cylinder. Master cylinder failure would either reduce pressure in one hydraulic system (front or rear seal failure), or equalize between them (center seal failure).
If someone were to sabotage the hydraulic braking system or pedal assembly, then the parking brake would be helpful in stopping the vehicle. Of course, that assumes that the parking brake itself was also not sabotaged.
It's not very intuitive, but the contact patch is the same with narrow and wide tires. If the weight of the car and tire pressure remains the same, then also the contact area must be the same. Force equals area tmes pressure.
You are assuming that the air pressure carries the entire weight of the vehicle. In fact, this is not true: the air pressure carries n% of the weight of the vehicle, and the rubber carries the remaining (100-n)% of the weight. For different purposes different proportions are desirable: for instance large earth-moving vehicles like n to be as large as possible to prevent rubber wear. I don't know the engineering considerations behind winter-tire design, though.