My Garmin watch tells me how many calories I've burned too. I don't necessarily believe the actual number (that's not too important), what is very useful is seeing the relative difference between activities. If I see a drop it means that I either haven't worked as hard as I could have, or that I need to increase the load (ie distance cycled or walked).
There are of course people who will take those numbers as gospel and those people are likely to do the same with Apple's "ECG", which is no doubt what the concerns the UK.
People like to complain about the UK's nanny state, but there's somewhat of a reason for it. The NHS (National Health Service) is required to treat everyone (and foot the bill) so it's entirely in the government's interest that the population be healthy. Unfortunately this requires that you deal with the lowest common denominator, which brings us back to people who believe anything their newest gadget tells them.
...But the Delta IV Heavy obviously can do the job required though, and it's currently far more proven.)
Plus, Falcon Heavy plan was only unveiled in 2011 (although the concept was mooted several years earlier), two years after the PSP project was announced. The biggest advantage of using Falcon Heavy (had it been around, and mature enough) would probably have been the ability to add more fuel to increase the longevity and breadth of the mission, and add a few sensors.
Yeah, it's a pet hate of mine - talking about x-times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere. At -90 C in the Mesosphere the speed of sound is 271 m/s - 80% of that at sea level (ISA).
I know that they actually mean x-times 340 m/s, and at high multiples the effects are nigh-on meaningless, but when Felix Baumgartner made his jump the ambiguity was that he achieved Mach 1.25 (t=-50 C, a=300 m/s, v=1357 km/h), but using the above assumption you'd think he achieved 1,530 km/h.
I'm looking forward to a pedant pointing out mistakes in my pedantry!
But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there.
The delta-v required to get something up to the Karman Line (100km) is 1,400 m/s, assuming an instance impulse and no atmosphere. In reality you need about 2,000 m/s because of atmospheric and "gravity" drag. That's a mere 20% of the delta-v required to get into LEO where you not only have to get into space (2 km/s), but also travel fast enough to stay up (8 km/s).
Our website won't work without JavaScript. Why? Not because it's needed for advertisements, tracking, or any of that bullshit. It because we can create a very clean interface for searching our stock without having refresh the whole page (or even an iframe). The page queries a web service that return JSON which is far smaller that a frame of markup will ever be.
For example, if you want to search by a make and model of a product, without JavaScript you'd have to select the make, click submit, wait for the page to redraw. Select the model, click submit and wait for the page to redraw. Want to apply another filter? Select and submit, etc. With JavaScript you can select the make and the models are reloaded, allowed with any related filters.
I hate slow websites, and making ours fast has been a priority, but telling people to disable JavaScript will never work because the vast majority of interaction websites require it. You might as well tell people to use lynx...
How do you know which 2048 bits of memory contains the key? Take a server with 64GiB of RAM, that key takes up 0.000000373% of the memory.
Lets assume you knew which 8MiB block the key was held in, that's still 478 years at 16 bits/hour. Lets assume they can speed it up by a factor 1,000, that's 174 days. If somebody told me their safe was guaranteed to be cracked, but only if somebody worked on it 24 hours a day for 174 days I'd think "that's one fucking secure safe"
The captain then tried to break down the door, but like most cockpit doors made after the September 11 attacks, it had been reinforced to prevent intrusion.
The time from cruise to impact was about 10 minutes.
At the very least provide some references for that. I tried googling "spaceX bought their space rating from congress", but came up with nothing so I guess they've been bribed too.
It is prohibited to employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices.
Seeing as most soldiers are trained to shoot at the body centre of mass, you can easily claim that the weapon is to cause physical injury or death (like any other firearm). A weapon that fires tightly confined beam would be useless for trying to blind targets, for that you'd need a weapon that sweeps an area with wide (or rapidly oscillating) beam in order to cover the maximum area.
Duh, you get a smart oven which runs an outdated version on busybox and some simple cgi scripts that don't validate input properly, allowing hackers to gain root access to a device inside your home network.
It's very easy to fall into the trap of assuming that you are representative of the group you belong to (that grouping being highly subjective).
I wish I worked with "oldies" like you. Unfortunately my opinion of oldies his almost the polar opposite. I work with people who refuse to take in information unless it will help them at that very moment in time.
Recently I was told "stop being a twat" when trying to tell a colleague about a feature in our software that would give him the information he was looking for (instead of him shouting across the room at another colleague). Less than a week later I overheard him say when told of another feature "they never tell us about things like this". I bit my tongue.
It's very unfair, but the opinion I have formed of old people in the workplace is that they are short tempered, unwilling to listen and incapable of absorbing new information.
Yeah, because if a person who doesn't take on information from his murder victim's lecture, it's because the lecture wasn't worth listening, or because his victim didn't do a good enough job conveying his argument...
I know it's scary. We have 15 Muslim MPs out of a total of 650. The 5% Muslim population is completely over-represented by the 2.3% of Muslim MPs... They're even more over-represented in the Lords, with a whopping 10 out of 800! Where will the insanity end?
On a slight tangent, those 10 peers (who's peerages, like most, were awarded merit*) are outnumbered 26 to 10 by the "Lords Spiritual" who are given a seat in the Lords solely on their religion.
* Yes, I accept not all on are merit - there's plenty of cronyism, and the system is far from perfect.
Not that I disagree that solid rocket motors are bad idea for manned flight, but whilst they can't be throttled thrust can be removed using blowout panels. Solid fuel ICMBs use Thrust Termination to kill thrust as desired.
Reminds me of the opening line the Crow Road by Iain Banks:
'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.'
I did however use a Virgin cinemas pass when I still lived in Dublin. They sold a 4 or 8 week pass, with which you could see as many movies as you wanted. Can't remember the price, but it was worth it.
I saw a good few movies that I wouldn't otherwise have paid for, many of which I really enjoyed. It was about then I learned to ignore what the critics say.
I think I used a similar thing in uni in London - I remember seeing a good few independent films.
One of the biggest issues I had with Thunderbird was incredibly slow deletion of emails (for some users). It could sometimes take a minute to delete a single email, blocking the UI.
I tried using maildir instead of mbox, playing around with the tuning settings, disable AV scanning of the profile location, to no avail.
Then I found a single post that mentioned indexing, and discovered that the clients with problems had "Allow Windows to Index Emails" checked. It seems that deleting an email would fire an indexing callback that blocked the UI until it returned
On Linux I find it crashes every couple of weeks, but I haven't seen any issues on Windows since disabling indexing.
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My Garmin watch tells me how many calories I've burned too. I don't necessarily believe the actual number (that's not too important), what is very useful is seeing the relative difference between activities. If I see a drop it means that I either haven't worked as hard as I could have, or that I need to increase the load (ie distance cycled or walked).
There are of course people who will take those numbers as gospel and those people are likely to do the same with Apple's "ECG", which is no doubt what the concerns the UK.
People like to complain about the UK's nanny state, but there's somewhat of a reason for it. The NHS (National Health Service) is required to treat everyone (and foot the bill) so it's entirely in the government's interest that the population be healthy. Unfortunately this requires that you deal with the lowest common denominator, which brings us back to people who believe anything their newest gadget tells them.
...But the Delta IV Heavy obviously can do the job required though, and it's currently far more proven.)
Plus, Falcon Heavy plan was only unveiled in 2011 (although the concept was mooted several years earlier), two years after the PSP project was announced. The biggest advantage of using Falcon Heavy (had it been around, and mature enough) would probably have been the ability to add more fuel to increase the longevity and breadth of the mission, and add a few sensors.
Yeah, it's a pet hate of mine - talking about x-times the speed of sound in the upper atmosphere. At -90 C in the Mesosphere the speed of sound is 271 m/s - 80% of that at sea level (ISA).
I know that they actually mean x-times 340 m/s, and at high multiples the effects are nigh-on meaningless, but when Felix Baumgartner made his jump the ambiguity was that he achieved Mach 1.25 (t=-50 C, a=300 m/s, v=1357 km/h), but using the above assumption you'd think he achieved 1,530 km/h.
I'm looking forward to a pedant pointing out mistakes in my pedantry!
Yeah, people don't seem to understand how big the difference between getting into space and getting into orbit is.
But getting to space is easy. The problem is staying there.
The delta-v required to get something up to the Karman Line (100km) is 1,400 m/s, assuming an instance impulse and no atmosphere. In reality you need about 2,000 m/s because of atmospheric and "gravity" drag. That's a mere 20% of the delta-v required to get into LEO where you not only have to get into space (2 km/s), but also travel fast enough to stay up (8 km/s).
Our website won't work without JavaScript. Why? Not because it's needed for advertisements, tracking, or any of that bullshit. It because we can create a very clean interface for searching our stock without having refresh the whole page (or even an iframe). The page queries a web service that return JSON which is far smaller that a frame of markup will ever be.
For example, if you want to search by a make and model of a product, without JavaScript you'd have to select the make, click submit, wait for the page to redraw. Select the model, click submit and wait for the page to redraw. Want to apply another filter? Select and submit, etc. With JavaScript you can select the make and the models are reloaded, allowed with any related filters.
I hate slow websites, and making ours fast has been a priority, but telling people to disable JavaScript will never work because the vast majority of interaction websites require it. You might as well tell people to use lynx...
How do you know which 2048 bits of memory contains the key? Take a server with 64GiB of RAM, that key takes up 0.000000373% of the memory.
Lets assume you knew which 8MiB block the key was held in, that's still 478 years at 16 bits/hour. Lets assume they can speed it up by a factor 1,000, that's 174 days. If somebody told me their safe was guaranteed to be cracked, but only if somebody worked on it 24 hours a day for 174 days I'd think "that's one fucking secure safe"
Germanwings Flight 9525:
The captain then tried to break down the door, but like most cockpit doors made after the September 11 attacks, it had been reinforced to prevent intrusion.
The time from cruise to impact was about 10 minutes.
True. What's the point of drink real ale if all you get is the shitty metallic taste of Heineken!
Surely you can just temporarily hide a listing.
Some CNC machines use IPA as a coolant simply because cleanup is super easy.
Plus, the operators get a free source of beer...
At the very least provide some references for that. I tried googling "spaceX bought their space rating from congress", but came up with nothing so I guess they've been bribed too.
Go on, just one or two links...
It is prohibited to employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision, that is to the naked eye or to the eye with corrective eyesight devices.
Seeing as most soldiers are trained to shoot at the body centre of mass, you can easily claim that the weapon is to cause physical injury or death (like any other firearm). A weapon that fires tightly confined beam would be useless for trying to blind targets, for that you'd need a weapon that sweeps an area with wide (or rapidly oscillating) beam in order to cover the maximum area.
Surely if the laser is vaporising water droplets it the steam and heater air will cause a large amount of diffraction.
Duh, you get a smart oven which runs an outdated version on busybox and some simple cgi scripts that don't validate input properly, allowing hackers to gain root access to a device inside your home network.
It's very easy to fall into the trap of assuming that you are representative of the group you belong to (that grouping being highly subjective).
I wish I worked with "oldies" like you. Unfortunately my opinion of oldies his almost the polar opposite. I work with people who refuse to take in information unless it will help them at that very moment in time.
Recently I was told "stop being a twat" when trying to tell a colleague about a feature in our software that would give him the information he was looking for (instead of him shouting across the room at another colleague). Less than a week later I overheard him say when told of another feature "they never tell us about things like this". I bit my tongue.
It's very unfair, but the opinion I have formed of old people in the workplace is that they are short tempered, unwilling to listen and incapable of absorbing new information.
the misery of aligning screws with threads four times
I guess I'm the only one who read that post as being sarcastic. That line was the clincher for me.
Yeah, because if a person who doesn't take on information from his murder victim's lecture, it's because the lecture wasn't worth listening, or because his victim didn't do a good enough job conveying his argument...
Ah, I'd never heard Lucas being synonymous with poor quality.
What do you mean by "Lucas electrics", the only Lucas I can think of is motor industry based.
I know it's scary. We have 15 Muslim MPs out of a total of 650. The 5% Muslim population is completely over-represented by the 2.3% of Muslim MPs... They're even more over-represented in the Lords, with a whopping 10 out of 800! Where will the insanity end?
On a slight tangent, those 10 peers (who's peerages, like most, were awarded merit*) are outnumbered 26 to 10 by the "Lords Spiritual" who are given a seat in the Lords solely on their religion.
* Yes, I accept not all on are merit - there's plenty of cronyism, and the system is far from perfect.
Not that I disagree that solid rocket motors are bad idea for manned flight, but whilst they can't be throttled thrust can be removed using blowout panels. Solid fuel ICMBs use Thrust Termination to kill thrust as desired.
Reminds me of the opening line the Crow Road by Iain Banks:
'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.'
That's only true if you were to lazy to read how the attack actually works.
I did however use a Virgin cinemas pass when I still lived in Dublin. They sold a 4 or 8 week pass, with which you could see as many movies as you wanted. Can't remember the price, but it was worth it.
I saw a good few movies that I wouldn't otherwise have paid for, many of which I really enjoyed. It was about then I learned to ignore what the critics say.
I think I used a similar thing in uni in London - I remember seeing a good few independent films.
One of the biggest issues I had with Thunderbird was incredibly slow deletion of emails (for some users). It could sometimes take a minute to delete a single email, blocking the UI.
I tried using maildir instead of mbox, playing around with the tuning settings, disable AV scanning of the profile location, to no avail.
Then I found a single post that mentioned indexing, and discovered that the clients with problems had "Allow Windows to Index Emails" checked. It seems that deleting an email would fire an indexing callback that blocked the UI until it returned
On Linux I find it crashes every couple of weeks, but I haven't seen any issues on Windows since disabling indexing.