No, we are cooperating with the Indians because they are the natural opponents of two of our probable future oppoenents: China and Pakistan. Pakistan is most likely to be the source of an islamic nuclear bomb, and China is on track to become a true superpower to contest the US like Russia did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
This is Machiavellian geopolitics. Having a friend on the Asian continent will be useful much like having Israel for a friend in the Mid-east.
From a 1960 interview with a witness, he refers to the existence of lake Cheko prior to the event:
In that place the seven rich Dzhenkoul brothers in those days pastured a reindeer herd of 600-700 head. The brothers were rich. On that day, [my] father went to meet the reindeer on the Ilimpo [river] (in the north). The herd was pastured between the Kimchu river and the Polnoty (Churgim) river. On the upper reaches of the Polnoty river there was a storehouse. There was a second storehouse at the mouth of the Cheko... More at:
http://www.vurdalak.com/tunguska/witness/dzhenkoul_l.htm
An airburst should leave multiple craters. After all, the pieces have to go someplace. Whether or not we can find those smaller craters after a century is another issue...
I found an old emachine sitting by the trash. 2.8 celeron, 80GB, etc. Not bad for the price. I found out why someone threw it out. The motherboard is glitchy: it won't recognize drives unless it is warmed up for an hour or two, and even then it is a 50/50 chance. I was going to canabalize it for parts until now.
I assume that this board should be an easy match. Anyone see any problems? Thanks.
...bajillions of micro black holes (as in, on the quantum scale) that theoretically exist EVERYWHERE (there's probably an astronomical number in your brain right now, even) Wow, I'glad to hear that. I thought I had mad cow disease.
I think that they mean to say that whatever process created the rings, it did not create it in it's current state. It cretaed it sort of like we see it today, but with more moons.
Then over the millenia several of those moons became involved in collisions that generated the moonlets which we see today.
I thought that this rawstory.com quote put it in perspective:
Two hypotheses prevail as to how Saturn acquired its seven rings.
One is that the rings were born at the same time as the planet itself -- they were left-over debris that became enslaved to the gas giant, doomed to orbit it for eternity.
The other is that the rings were the remains of large icy moons that broke into smaller pieces over time.
The problem with this latter theory has been that collisions of such a kind normally create debris in a wide range of sizes, from big lumps a kilometer (half a mile) wide to pebbles a few centimetres (inches) across.
The big pieces are already known, for there are kilometre- (half-mile) moons called Pan, Daphnis and Atlas that jostle their way around the rings, and photographs taken by scout probes have shown countless small pieces.
Until last year, what was missing were the medium-size pieces.
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How about an 'explanation' field on downmods? So when a person wants to know why he got modded down, with one click he can read "you called parent a fucktard." This tend to promote more polite behavior, IMHO.
Some states have a law requiring that the credit reporting companies 'thaw' your credit within 15 minutes of you requesting it. For a few bucks, you can thaw, be checked, and refreeze in one day.
Boids was a program written to try to simulate the flocking behavior of birds. It was written by Craig Reynolds
Reynolds gave his boids 3 rules:
1 Don't crowd too close to other boids 2 Try to go the same direction as other boids near you 3 Try to be in the average position of your local neighbors.
With just those three simple rules, the boids arranged themselves in a flock. Much to Reynolds surprise, without any more rules than that, the flock exhibited other emergent behavior, such as a flock that split up to go around an obstacle would rejoin.
Actually, for legal reasons that wouldn't work. You see, they need to use the same time marking as the billing system.
I found this out years ago when my GF was getting really persistent obscene phone calls. We called the phone company to ask for their help. They said to write down the time and date of each call. They specifically said to call their number for the time. I asked why. They said that way they could be sure who made the call to within 10 seconds, otherwise an eventual prosecution of the caller was sure to fail because the defense could argue that the GF's clock was off by just a few minutes, and that would be room for reasonable doubt.
BTW, I presume that they have concluded that it is no longer neccesary because everyone's cell phone has relatively accurate time ( and the clocks that are set according to cell time ).
...The only exception is airline security, where the public wanted them to take some freedom. Sorry, but I have to quibble about this one. We - the public - wanted them to make air traffic safer. Perhaps we tolerated a loss of freedom, but it was not what we wanted.
Personally , I wanted an increase of freedom for airline security. I was hoping that anyone who had a concealed carry permit would be able to carry on a plane.
They probably offered him a deal to spend home time versus all jail time if he agreed to certain terms. They are not FORCING him to use windows, I can offer you a deal your wallet or your life if you agree to certain terms. I'm not FORCING you to give me your wallet...
The problem is recognizing who the great programmers are. Sure, he may be worth an extra 100K a year, but it requires a tremendous expenditure of managerial time ( which, contrary to prevailing opinion on/., is worth something ) to monitor the situation closely enough to figure out that he is worth it.
And this presumes that you indeed have an uber-programmer. It is quite possible for management to spend a lot of time ( ie:money ) and still not find that their programmer is any better. The net result of trying is a loss of money.
This probably applies to a lot of other 'guru' type professions like lawyers and doctors. You can't understand it yourself, so you pay the going rate.
I expect the spam levels to match the gross national stupidity. ( Measured by the number of people who have acomputer and think that is an appliance that they can use without understanding. )
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No, we are cooperating with the Indians because they are the natural opponents of two of our probable future oppoenents: China and Pakistan. Pakistan is most likely to be the source of an islamic nuclear bomb, and China is on track to become a true superpower to contest the US like Russia did in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
This is Machiavellian geopolitics. Having a friend on the Asian continent will be useful much like having Israel for a friend in the Mid-east.
Craig Reynolds was doing this many years ago: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
An airburst should leave multiple craters. After all, the pieces have to go someplace. Whether or not we can find those smaller craters after a century is another issue...
I found an old emachine sitting by the trash. 2.8 celeron, 80GB, etc. Not bad for the price. I found out why someone threw it out. The motherboard is glitchy: it won't recognize drives unless it is warmed up for an hour or two, and even then it is a 50/50 chance. I was going to canabalize it for parts until now.
I assume that this board should be an easy match. Anyone see any problems? Thanks.
...bajillions of micro black holes (as in, on the quantum scale) that theoretically exist EVERYWHERE (there's probably an astronomical number in your brain right now, even) Wow, I'glad to hear that. I thought I had mad cow disease.As soon as the wake is over.
I think that they mean to say that whatever process created the rings, it did not create it in it's current state. It cretaed it sort of like we see it today, but with more moons.
Then over the millenia several of those moons became involved in collisions that generated the moonlets which we see today.
One is that the rings were born at the same time as the planet itself -- they were left-over debris that became enslaved to the gas giant, doomed to orbit it for eternity.
The other is that the rings were the remains of large icy moons that broke into smaller pieces over time.
The problem with this latter theory has been that collisions of such a kind normally create debris in a wide range of sizes, from big lumps a kilometer (half a mile) wide to pebbles a few centimetres (inches) across.
The big pieces are already known, for there are kilometre- (half-mile) moons called Pan, Daphnis and Atlas that jostle their way around the rings, and photographs taken by scout probes have shown countless small pieces.
Until last year, what was missing were the medium-size pieces.
Your personal cone of silence: http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm
And yes, they do ship to the US. It is mailed as a 'research device'.
...then what would the diehards bitch about on slashdot? The editors, of course.POS = Point Of Sale
How about an 'explanation' field on downmods? So when a person wants to know why he got modded down, with one click he can read "you called parent a fucktard." This tend to promote more polite behavior, IMHO.
Some states have a law requiring that the credit reporting companies 'thaw' your credit within 15 minutes of you requesting it. For a few bucks, you can thaw, be checked, and refreeze in one day.
Bees and ants seem to be a good argument that it might be a good return on investment. So do search parties when looking for lost hikers.
Boids was a program written to try to simulate the flocking behavior of birds. It was written by Craig Reynolds
Reynolds gave his boids 3 rules:
1 Don't crowd too close to other boids
2 Try to go the same direction as other boids near you
3 Try to be in the average position of your local neighbors.
With just those three simple rules, the boids arranged themselves in a flock. Much to Reynolds surprise, without any more rules than that, the flock exhibited other emergent behavior, such as a flock that split up to go around an obstacle would rejoin.
More at: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
Actually, for legal reasons that wouldn't work. You see, they need to use the same time marking as the billing system.
I found this out years ago when my GF was getting really persistent obscene phone calls. We called the phone company to ask for their help. They said to write down the time and date of each call. They specifically said to call their number for the time. I asked why. They said that way they could be sure who made the call to within 10 seconds, otherwise an eventual prosecution of the caller was sure to fail because the defense could argue that the GF's clock was off by just a few minutes, and that would be room for reasonable doubt.
BTW, I presume that they have concluded that it is no longer neccesary because everyone's cell phone has relatively accurate time ( and the clocks that are set according to cell time ).
Personally , I wanted an increase of freedom for airline security. I was hoping that anyone who had a concealed carry permit would be able to carry on a plane.
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The problem is recognizing who the great programmers are. Sure, he may be worth an extra 100K a year, but it requires a tremendous expenditure of managerial time ( which, contrary to prevailing opinion on /., is worth something ) to monitor the situation closely enough to figure out that he is worth it.
And this presumes that you indeed have an uber-programmer. It is quite possible for management to spend a lot of time ( ie:money ) and still not find that their programmer is any better. The net result of trying is a loss of money.
This probably applies to a lot of other 'guru' type professions like lawyers and doctors. You can't understand it yourself, so you pay the going rate.
That the best publicity comes from making moderately low predictions of success, then when you exceed them you look heroic.
...and a lot of energy. Probably enough to make it unreasonably expensive.
I expect the spam levels to match the gross national stupidity. ( Measured by the number of people who have acomputer and think that is an appliance that they can use without understanding. )
Because nobody on /. reads it.