Considering that the most problematic aspect of landing
on a planet is a surplus of (kinetic) energy, why not find
a way to take a long glide through the atmosphere while
converting some of that energy and storing it in a form
that can power a propeller, rocket engine or other device
to slow down the last phase of descent? The air friction
from this energy collecting phase would also serve to slow
down the descent, making the final phase all the easier.
As far as forms of energy which could be converted to for
storage: there's the possibility of converting CO2 to carbon
carbon monoxide and oxygen; there's charging batteries to
power a helicopter propeller; and...?
I don't suggest that these are practical methods of storing
and using surplus energy --- they're just starting points.
Hmmm, I wonder if some of the principles of scramjet design could be used in reverse for braking? If you're making compressed O2, you'll need a way to bottle it in a hurry without creating excessive hazards for the crew. Anyhow, I'm glad someone's finally recasting the term "Martian flying saucers".
Key question: do you need to work with MS Exchange? If so, ask yourself whether you have a suitable replacement for MS Outlook. Pretty much anything else, office workers can adjust to, but most live in Outlook. Not being able to identify coworkers, set up meetings, in the familiar way is damn-near an impossible sell. Thunderbird etc isn't really a convincing answer. Of course, if you moved all that onto their personal smartphones first, then the proposition changes...
Nah, there's no exemption for roman alphabet spelling, they get that wrong too. Not long ago there was a US Secretary of State with a French name "Boucher" didn't get pronounced "booshay", but "bowtshur". This guy must have had the whole of the corps diplomatique giggling inside.
Placebos are pretty well understood. The BS enters when you pretend that one sugar pill is vastly more valuable than another and charge accordingly. Of course big pharma does the same with real drugs (look into "evergreening" sometime), but for them, it's more of a sideline. The basic idea is still to find treatments that actually do work better (and safer) than currently available options.
There's a reason there's an entire field called evidence-based medicine [wikipedia.org], which from its very name makes it distinct from just plain-old normal "medicine."
If you prefer, we could just distinguish "real medicine" from "pretend medicine"... Of course individual practioners use a mix of the two, particularly when there's no real treatment for a diagnosed condition that is either untreatable or harmless. That in no way makes pretending a full-time substitute for evidence.
You've forgotten that the Hz represents cycles/s, not just 1/s. Hence their so-called
"spectral efficiency" is 5.7 bits/cycle. The problem of course is that the article does not address the SNR nor the BER that it took them to get that 5.7 result. If you need cryo-tech photodetectors and massive FEC to get that result, it's less impressive than doing it with the existing kit and minor data redundancy.
1947? Hell, everyone has always been racist and always will be. Can't help it. Xenophobia is in the genes because it is a survival-trait behaviour. We just change our perceptions about which "race" we apply our zenohobia to. Right now, we mainly apply it to machines. Come the singularity, machines will be racist too. We can only hope that they will find us amusing pets rather than serious threats.
That's getting close. Talk to your auditors too. Let them figure out what the liability is, and they'll persuade the board to take action. Meanwhile, get your incident response plan ready. Once the intrusions start, you'll have a lot of people breathing down your neck looking to know how to respond.
Insert obligatory "Think of the children!!!!" where needed.
The real point is that she should be allowed to refer you to someone who is allowed, in this case a dermatologist. The whole GP-as-gatekeeper issue is really profit-driven disfunction. Of course, in most jurisdictions medicine is a self-regulating profession statistically dominated by GPs, so it may be a while before that changes.
The Internet Archive says that it subscribes to the The Oakland Archive Policy which for |requests by governments" says:
Archivists will exercise best-efforts compliance with applicable court orders Beyond that, as noted in the Library Bill of Rights, 'Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.'
Seems like this may just have slipped past them. Let's make sure they know they need to sort it out... Surely they only removed it from the Wayback Machine, not from the archive itself.
Interesting analysis, but the conclusion is wonky. The problem you highlight is caused by two things: grossly distorted pricing structures intended to subsidize "renewables" and perception-skewed design safety profiles (out of all proportion to real risk) that artificially jack up the cost and delay the approval, build & commissioning of nuclear while encouraging the burning of more dangerous fossils or the broiling of birds in sunbeams. For the most part, totalitarian states don't have these problem, they can do the sensible thing without worrying over NIMBY. Odd though, that China keeps building coal plants despite their access to nuclear.
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Considering that the most problematic aspect of landing on a planet is a surplus of (kinetic) energy, why not find a way to take a long glide through the atmosphere while converting some of that energy and storing it in a form that can power a propeller, rocket engine or other device to slow down the last phase of descent? The air friction from this energy collecting phase would also serve to slow down the descent, making the final phase all the easier.
As far as forms of energy which could be converted to for storage: there's the possibility of converting CO2 to carbon carbon monoxide and oxygen; there's charging batteries to power a helicopter propeller; and ...?
I don't suggest that these are practical methods of storing
and using surplus energy --- they're just starting points.
Hmmm, I wonder if some of the principles of scramjet design could be used in reverse for braking? If you're making compressed O2, you'll need a way to bottle it in a hurry without creating excessive hazards for the crew. Anyhow, I'm glad someone's finally recasting the term "Martian flying saucers".
Pointer arithmetic? Whose dumb-ass idea is that? http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/...
You take the fruit. You chop it up real fine, put it through the printer and you get a fruit!
Yum, looks like mango, tastes and smells like durian! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
That would explain the stationary backbenchers on cable...
Do you really not know the difference between a clutch and a clutch pedal?
So that would be 48.5 megaSmoot/semester, based on the conventional 39 hour semester
Do a complete offline backup snapshot, on media inaccessible to the newbie.
Key question: do you need to work with MS Exchange? If so, ask yourself whether you have a suitable replacement for MS Outlook. Pretty much anything else, office workers can adjust to, but most live in Outlook. Not being able to identify coworkers, set up meetings, in the familiar way is damn-near an impossible sell. Thunderbird etc isn't really a convincing answer. Of course, if you moved all that onto their personal smartphones first, then the proposition changes...
a problem for transliterations
Nah, there's no exemption for roman alphabet spelling, they get that wrong too. Not long ago there was a US Secretary of State with a French name "Boucher" didn't get pronounced "booshay", but "bowtshur". This guy must have had the whole of the corps diplomatique giggling inside.
Yeah, but the formula used to compress pi down to one bit sucks at compressing e.
So we're looking for the C. elegans of software?
Code quality in the Linux kernel varies a lot per individual driver or subsystem
Well, Linus uses a broader definition of kernel than is customary, referring to a monolithic (macro) kernel. If you really seek elegance in OS code, you start by looking at microkernels, stripped of all the device-dependent clutter. Harmony, for instance was a mere 20 kbyte kernel, even on 68K architectures. http://books.google.com/books?id=xvOpC0_r14wC&pg=PA100 http://www.researchgate.net/publication/234826460_Harmony_as_an_object-oriented_operating_system This led to the even more succinct MQX, which is embedded in quajjillions of devices.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQX
"I don't know, Yogi. Ranger Smith isn't gonna like this..."
Placebos are pretty well understood. The BS enters when you pretend that one sugar pill is vastly more valuable than another and charge accordingly. Of course big pharma does the same with real drugs (look into "evergreening" sometime), but for them, it's more of a sideline. The basic idea is still to find treatments that actually do work better (and safer) than currently available options.
If you prefer, we could just distinguish "real medicine" from "pretend medicine"... Of course individual practioners use a mix of the two, particularly when there's no real treatment for a diagnosed condition that is either untreatable or harmless. That in no way makes pretending a full-time substitute for evidence.
You've forgotten that the Hz represents cycles/s, not just 1/s. Hence their so-called "spectral efficiency" is 5.7 bits/cycle. The problem of course is that the article does not address the SNR nor the BER that it took them to get that 5.7 result. If you need cryo-tech photodetectors and massive FEC to get that result, it's less impressive than doing it with the existing kit and minor data redundancy.
...did somebody actually ''want'' to watch Disney? Even the kids their parents forced to watch it know that it's crap.
But are they capable of malice aforethought, or do they simply live in the moment?
1947? Hell, everyone has always been racist and always will be. Can't help it. Xenophobia is in the genes because it is a survival-trait behaviour. We just change our perceptions about which "race" we apply our zenohobia to. Right now, we mainly apply it to machines. Come the singularity, machines will be racist too. We can only hope that they will find us amusing pets rather than serious threats.
That's getting close. Talk to your auditors too. Let them figure out what the liability is, and they'll persuade the board to take action. Meanwhile, get your incident response plan ready. Once the intrusions start, you'll have a lot of people breathing down your neck looking to know how to respond.
Insert obligatory "Think of the children!!!!" where needed.
She said, "I'm not allowed to diagnose."
The real point is that she should be allowed to refer you to someone who is allowed, in this case a dermatologist. The whole GP-as-gatekeeper issue is really profit-driven disfunction. Of course, in most jurisdictions medicine is a self-regulating profession statistically dominated by GPs, so it may be a while before that changes.
Archivists will exercise best-efforts compliance with applicable court orders Beyond that, as noted in the Library Bill of Rights, 'Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.'
Seems like this may just have slipped past them. Let's make sure they know they need to sort it out... Surely they only removed it from the Wayback Machine, not from the archive itself.
Interesting analysis, but the conclusion is wonky. The problem you highlight is caused by two things: grossly distorted pricing structures intended to subsidize "renewables" and perception-skewed design safety profiles (out of all proportion to real risk) that artificially jack up the cost and delay the approval, build & commissioning of nuclear while encouraging the burning of more dangerous fossils or the broiling of birds in sunbeams. For the most part, totalitarian states don't have these problem, they can do the sensible thing without worrying over NIMBY. Odd though, that China keeps building coal plants despite their access to nuclear.
"Guns don't kill people, physics kills people." -- Dick Solomon
Ban physics!
Mod parent up. This approach could make some amazing blades.