"You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money.
Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?"
Taking that for what it is (and as far as I've googled around, its a reasonably accurate statement of values of the various entities), despite the what the libertarian echo chamber says, gold is way OVER valued, not under...
I'd like to see you work a single day at your work, even if you just sit on your butt for 8 hours, with the injuries Roethlisburger played through this season.
Well, that would be ok, if the goal is to make what is basically an electronic version of what they have now (although arguably harder to quickly navigate)
Given the complexity/length of NFL playbooks, it would be a shame to digitize it, without taking advantage of advanced search features, menu features, dialogs/multimedia.
A lot of would could be done, would exceed what any sane person would want to try with pdf...
"what instance could MAN (instead of GOD) use this to do stuff with.?"
From TFA: ""Trapping any form of antimatter is difficult, because as soon as it meets normal matter — the stuff Earth and everything on it is made out of — the two annihilate each other in powerful explosions."
There you go. If there exists even the slightest possibility that something like this can be weaponized (and I'm not even pretending to be smart enough to make that call) you can be damn sure there will be no shortage of research into the manner..
Just look at the Manhattan project, atomic weapons had been theorized for a long time, but WW2 turned out to be the kind of spare-no-expense kick-in-the-pants motivator, that made them a reality, far faster than anyone (of those who even thought they were possible, which was by no means a unanimous assertion) had previously imagined...
"Isn't the possible massive explosion that could rip the universe apart a sign that maybe we should leave this one alone for awhile"
eh, we had some of the same fears about atomic weaponry, and its not like that stopped anyone...
Ubuntu doesn't come with an easy button for an IM that a teenager who's addicted to msn can quickly get comfy with
I've always thought pidgin was quite a nice program
especially now that it integrates with Facebook, and GTalk, which between them have pretty much killed off MSN/AOL(thank god)/ICQ/IRC in my lil' circle of friends and family...
The only time I read car and driver is in the doctors office, and its usually a year or so old...
now to your point
"Horsepower, in of itself, is an almost useless metric for comparison of anything" -- yes and no, the submitter said "The I4 turbodiesel in my van is quieter and more powerful than most Yank-tank petrols."
Sorry, but if you are making a reference to "powerful", then yes horsepower needs to be considered. Is it everything no, of course not, lots of other things can be considered, but it's not "almost useless"
Now, somebody is going to chime in about torque, yes I know about torque, and these V6 designs certainly are no slouches there either.
But ultimately torque is not some magic concept that is independent of HP. .HP = Torque x RPM ÷ 5252 is not just a rule, its the law...
Even tamer V6es like the ones going in the Chevy Malibu are in the 250HP range.
Buick's putting one in the lacrosse that goes around 380 or so..
There is no snobbery like euro auto snobbery, I think some of them actually believe that their low end VW, or opel or whatever would actually out-corner a Z06....
Syracuse area might be more realistic. Tons of excess infrastructure due to de-industrialization. Plenty of cool temperatures, and a nuclear power plant 30 miles up the road in Oswego.
The post, that I actually replied to, would like a word with you
I know, at first glance they are completely identical, but upon further examination, I'm sure you'll find that that an Audi R8 and a 1982 Mercedes 300SD do not exhibit the same performance characteristics...
It makes torque real low, so it still has better pickup than most full-size V6-powered sedans
"Most"?.. Bull... Any modern 220HP+ (which is virtually all of them) V6 powered sedan is going to blow it away 0-60 and in the quarter mile. You are fighting physics, i.e. (HP = (TQ*2.0*PI*RPM)/33000.0
TQ = (33000.0*HP)/(2.0*PI*RPM)
, and modern engineering, and you are going to lose.
as has been said by people who actually aren't just repeating something they heard on the internet... "Torque feels fast, horsepower is fast.."
The point of this isn't to call your baby ugly. I'm sure its a fine automobile, and certainly diesel motors exhibit lots of good qualities, but the claims of IDFs (internet diesel fanbois) have gotten really hyperbolic...
Probably cats, which also will die after ingesting the smallest amount of acetaminophen.
Of course, any cats on Guam would be non-native, and also cause serious disruptions to local wildlife, so its probably a good thing if they get killed off too...
Liver failure is a brutal way to do it though, poor cats....
Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman even has HIS OWN SHOW on MSNBC, where he blathers away with all the right wing talking points he can fit in..
You hear this meme, occasionally, usually from conservatives who can't say that fox news is "fair and balanced" with a straight face. No, they won't go there, but the will try to float this turn of an idea that fox news is just the other side of the coin of the alleged "liberalism" of the rest of the media..
"By doing so, it would completely destroy the entire basis of the FCC" -- I think that is a tad premature...
Google adaptive beam-forming, this is what you are referring to. It is used in the electronic warfare field, and a crude version of it has even made its way into some lower power consumer equipment like N-band routers...Creating an adaptable phased array directional enough to null out, to the point of non-interference one of two powerful/closely located transmitters is no easy, or cheap task.
Also, we aren't talking about a 2.4GHZ router. On the low end of UHF, there is also a significant size/portability issue governed by physics/antenna theory that won't be solved even if you figured out the economic issue. The idea that adaptive beamforming is going to come to every piece of consumer VHF/UHF equipment and make the FCC irrelevant is wildly optimistic
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"You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction.
For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money.
Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?"
Taking that for what it is (and as far as I've googled around, its a reasonably accurate statement of values of the various entities), despite the what the libertarian echo chamber says, gold is way OVER valued, not under...
Sounds like me
I don't know how many times I've taught myself regular expressions
My use is infrequent enough that my brain lets itself forget how to do it.
The assclown carnival begins on 27.025MHZ, world-wide baby!!!
Right
because its impossible to do anything this dangerous or insecure in C++
Oh, who are you, coming in here with facts and reason, you're disturbing a good anti-java derp carnival
I'd like to see you work a single day at your work, even if you just sit on your butt for 8 hours, with the injuries Roethlisburger played through this season.
Well, that would be ok, if the goal is to make what is basically an electronic version of what they have now (although arguably harder to quickly navigate)
Given the complexity/length of NFL playbooks, it would be a shame to digitize it, without taking advantage of advanced search features, menu features, dialogs/multimedia.
A lot of would could be done, would exceed what any sane person would want to try with pdf...
"fly over" country???
Everybody knows the proper term for this area is "Real America"
Thank God we have Sarah Palin to protect us from you fake Americans...
Not the football game, I'm talking about 27.025Mhz
How long till we have the tragedy of the commons effect seen on 27MHZ CB...
"what instance could MAN (instead of GOD) use this to do stuff with.?"
From TFA:
""Trapping any form of antimatter is difficult, because as soon as it meets normal matter — the stuff Earth and everything on it is made out of — the two annihilate each other in powerful explosions."
There you go. If there exists even the slightest possibility that something like this can be weaponized (and I'm not even pretending to be smart enough to make that call) you can be damn sure there will be no shortage of research into the manner..
Just look at the Manhattan project, atomic weapons had been theorized for a long time, but WW2 turned out to be the kind of spare-no-expense kick-in-the-pants motivator, that made them a reality, far faster than anyone (of those who even thought they were possible, which was by no means a unanimous assertion) had previously imagined...
"Isn't the possible massive explosion that could rip the universe apart a sign that maybe we should leave this one alone for awhile"
eh, we had some of the same fears about atomic weaponry, and its not like that stopped anyone...
Is that why the new alert sound is reminiscent of an analog modem?
I've wondered about that, but not enough to actually look into it
Wheelchair? From the hamventions I've been to, the current technology seems to be the rascal/hoveround, payed for by medicare of course...
Very few people probably get what you are referring to, but I hear you brother
The crotchety old fart, angry at the world, contingent of ham radio is indeed depressing
No actually it wouldn't
I believe the poster is referring to William Tyndale
Ubuntu doesn't come with an easy button for an IM that a teenager who's addicted to msn can quickly get comfy with
I've always thought pidgin was quite a nice program
especially now that it integrates with Facebook, and GTalk, which between them have pretty much killed off MSN/AOL(thank god)/ICQ/IRC in my lil' circle of friends and family...
The only time I read car and driver is in the doctors office, and its usually a year or so old...
now to your point "Horsepower, in of itself, is an almost useless metric for comparison of anything" -- yes and no, the submitter said "The I4 turbodiesel in my van is quieter and more powerful than most Yank-tank petrols."
Sorry, but if you are making a reference to "powerful", then yes horsepower needs to be considered.
Is it everything no, of course not, lots of other things can be considered, but it's not "almost useless"
Now, somebody is going to chime in about torque, yes I know about torque, and these V6 designs certainly are no slouches there either.
But ultimately torque is not some magic concept that is independent of HP.
.HP = Torque x RPM ÷ 5252 is not just a rule, its the law...
Even tamer V6es like the ones going in the Chevy Malibu are in the 250HP range.
Buick's putting one in the lacrosse that goes around 380 or so..
There is no snobbery like euro auto snobbery, I think some of them actually believe that their low end VW, or opel or whatever would actually out-corner a Z06....
"Most I4 engines in European cars are more powerful than American V6 engines. " -- Citation please?
Iran would find itself ostracized
no, I think they would find themselves very very dead...
Syracuse area might be more realistic. Tons of excess infrastructure due to de-industrialization. Plenty of cool temperatures, and a nuclear power plant 30 miles up the road in Oswego.
Shaves 2 hours + off trips to Boston and NYC
The post, that I actually replied to, would like a word with you
I know, at first glance they are completely identical, but upon further examination, I'm sure you'll find that that an Audi R8 and a 1982 Mercedes 300SD do not exhibit the same performance characteristics...
It makes torque real low, so it still has better pickup than most full-size V6-powered sedans
"Most"?.. Bull...
Any modern 220HP+ (which is virtually all of them) V6 powered sedan is going to blow it away 0-60 and in the quarter mile. You are fighting physics, i.e. (HP = (TQ*2.0*PI*RPM)/33000.0 TQ = (33000.0*HP)/(2.0*PI*RPM) , and modern engineering, and you are going to lose.
as has been said by people who actually aren't just repeating something they heard on the internet... "Torque feels fast, horsepower is fast.."
The point of this isn't to call your baby ugly. I'm sure its a fine automobile, and certainly diesel motors exhibit lots of good qualities, but the claims of IDFs (internet diesel fanbois) have gotten really hyperbolic...
Probably cats, which also will die after ingesting the smallest amount of acetaminophen.
Of course, any cats on Guam would be non-native, and also cause serious disruptions to local wildlife, so its probably a good thing if they get killed off too...
Liver failure is a brutal way to do it though, poor cats....
Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman even has HIS OWN SHOW on MSNBC, where he blathers away with all the right wing talking points he can fit in..
You hear this meme, occasionally, usually from conservatives who can't say that fox news is "fair and balanced" with a straight face.
No, they won't go there, but the will try to float this turn of an idea that fox news is just the other side of the coin of the alleged "liberalism" of the rest of the media..
Sorry, but it ain't so...
"By doing so, it would completely destroy the entire basis of the FCC" -- I think that is a tad premature...
Google adaptive beam-forming, this is what you are referring to. It is used in the electronic warfare field, and a crude version of it has even made its way into some lower power consumer equipment like N-band routers...Creating an adaptable phased array directional enough to null out, to the point of non-interference one of two powerful/closely located transmitters is no easy, or cheap task.
Also, we aren't talking about a 2.4GHZ router. On the low end of UHF, there is also a significant size/portability issue governed by physics/antenna theory that won't be solved even if you figured out the economic issue.
The idea that adaptive beamforming is going to come to every piece of consumer VHF/UHF equipment and make the FCC irrelevant is wildly optimistic
Right, and in 20 years E-readers will be so large and expensive, only the 5 richest kings in Europe will be able to afford them..