Well, the device itself emits hard and soft X-Rays and tons of neutrons. The plasma is the air around the core being flash-heated and shot out in every direction at hypersonic speed.
6 of 1, half dozen of the other, but without Air, a nuclear bomb is just flash, albeit A really bright and nasty, and would evaporate you instantly flash...
(This is largely why the idea of stopping nuclear missiles and asteroids by setting of a-bombs near them in orbit won't work.)
The first few years of Pinto used an engine manufactured by Volkwagon because Ford couldn't make a powerplant that small. At least not well, as is evidenced by the later models of the Pinto with domestic engines that were just plain awful.
I hear you on Artificial Intelligence. It has been oversold. If you want something with the flexibility and decision making power of the human mind, it has to be trained like a human mind. At that point you have a choice of a flaky bit of electronic brain or a flaky bit of organic brain.
Let the punishment fit the crime. If Gilbert and Sullivan (sound's like a lawfirm nowadays, doesn't it?) came up with a verse to describe the plight of spammers it would be something along the lines of spending a few years reading unsolicited manuscripts at a trash-novel publishing house.
I was going to say "Damn man, that sucks to be Mike." but the thought that they were trying to negotiate with a Minor hadn't even occurred to me.
It was still dumb to send a counter-offer if one had no intention of selling it. (Though if I thought for a minute that one of my domains was worth that much to someone...)
I would like to point out that divers staying under the water for days aren't using the regular compressed air like a sport diver would use. Breathing too high a partial pressure of Oxygen for too long is poisonous. They generally breath a Helium/O2 mixture. Helium doesn't dissolve as readily into the blood stream, and thus doesn't bubble like Nitrogen while at the same time it does a dandy job of displacing Oxygen.
If you have heard of Nitrox, it is simply (HAH!) an artificial re-combination of N2 and O2, sometimes with an inert gases. Don't know enough about it myself, I'm an air-breather. Hell, I still dive with a wet-suit.
It's a Motorola HC-11 based micro controller with all the DAC's for doing robot projects. I was playing with these things in engineering class back in '97.
Actually the crew could work normally until about 1/2 of an atmosphere. If the change is gradual enough, your body build up extra red-blood cells to compensate. Mountain climber in the Himalayas actually park at camp for about six weeks to 'acclimatize' to the reduced atmosphere.
Most people would still need some bottled Oxygen to get up to the top of Everest though, at around 1/3 of an atmosphere. When the pressure gets that low, your body has trouble metabolizing fast enough to maintain temperature.
The Handy-Board was mind-storms before there was mind-storms. It was designed to plug into Lego structures so you could build robots. The boards are programmed in a language called Interactive C.
Mindstorms came later, use a bubble-gum programming interface, and has no way of expanding.
I am all for stretching their minds. But there is stretching your mind to learn algebra, and there is stretching your mind to work out Kabbalistic numerology. One is applicable to everyday life. The other is suspect at worst, and completely in-applicable to anything else at best.
The kits come with illustrated booklets showing you how to make the parts that lead to cool things.
As an aside, I know of at least one architect who actually models structure out in Lego like it was a 3d sketch pad. Pretty much if it holds together with Lego, you can easily build it out of anything.
The problem is that commodity is not sexy. A company that makes the same product for 99 years doesn't need a marketing department and a high-profile CEO. They need a reliable distribution network, a consistent product, and a good reputation.
I'm kinda worried about one of my favorite local beers. The owner's kid went off and got an MBA or something and they are expanding like crazy all over the place. While it's cool I can get my favorite beer in Florida as well as Philly, I just hope they don't go off and either Budwasser their product, or end up diversifying into a company that makes everything BUT the Lager I have come to know and love.
Fast growing companies are like tumors. Very few learn to stop growing, and sooner or later they die from starvation after destroying the entire market.
Oooo. That would be a cool toy. A model of household plumbing. Little metal tubes, pipe angles, lead solder, little wads of paper to try to flush through the system...
Maybe a natural gas system would be more fun to play with. "Remember kids, don't be a Darwin. Only fools look for gas leaks with matches."
A little easy-bake scintering furnace would be cool too. Make your own cinder blocks and bricks.
Ok, been on helpdesk too long today, I'm really getting loopy.
My brother and I had identical sets. We would build all sorts of wacky things to compete against each other with.
My only problem was pulling the damn thing apart when you were done. The linkages did not want to hear anything about being anywhere but fully snug. And that meant the plastic hexagon connector was so far lodged it had a death grip. I remember many times where I would resort to teeth in an effort to get the bloody connectors off.
Now how many capsela fans kept all the little sphere in the original packaging? I did for the longest time, it was the best way to keep them organized.
The mindstorms are fun for about 3/4 of an hour. Then you realize "shit, I've only got 3 inputs and 3 outputs to work with." I'm a little jaded. I cut me teeth on the MIT Handy board. It had 4 digital inputs, 4 analog inputs, an IR detector, 4 analog outputs, and a serial port.
Of course I did make a cute little droid that would run around the room and such.
I work at a museum and we have a big contest every year where high-school students compete using the Mindstorms kits to run a course. In the course there are barrels to be collected, items to be placed, and things to be avoided. The kids have a blast with it, but a lot of their creativity is spent working around the limitations of the controller.
Engineering Flunky, but my flaw was trying to understand everything instead of STFU and do the math.
In engineering we have many phenominon that are not completely understood. We develop mathematical models for them, but it's often the case that a phenominon can have multiple models that work well in different cases.
Particles and waves aren't phenominon by themselves. Particles and waves are mathematical tools. They both describe motion traveling at the same speed. Just because you flip rulesets doesn't mean you can ignore fundimental concepts.
When you model gravity as a wave you break the world into a set of points. Each point has a "density" of what you are measuring, and a net directional vector. The rubber sheet model works, but you have to understand that gravity and slope are what makes it work. Areas with more slope are points where in space/time is the "densist". It also happens to be where the sheet is pushing up against gravity the least.
In particle models of gravity you are firing an infite number of bean bags between everthing in the system, that travel in a straight line between them. (The bean bags that don't strike anything are ignored by the calculations.) Your math is on a representative sample of those bean bags. Those bags still travel at a finite speed though.
Now you know why we can't seem to decide if light/gravity/magnetism is a particle or a wave. It's neither. We just have 2 incomplete concepts to try to explain it.
Of course I have the names all wrong for the math concepts. Feel free to post corrections. Like I said, I dropped out long ago and have no ego to be bruised.
KDE isn't so bad. It's qt that always seems to take forever. Then, if you don't set your flags to forget about gnome you end up compiling that too when some package that hooks to both adds in all of its gtk dependencies.
For laughs run emerhe -ep kde. Note all the gnome entries.
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Ah hell, detecting lye is easy. A decent Ph meter and a spectrscope... oh. Lie detector. Doesn't that use a gyroscope to detect the prone position?
Hell, the Columbian drug cartels say the same thing!
I am not seeing what about you are talking.
I'm just glad that I no longer have to have a sarcasm LED surgically implanted in my forehead for people to know that I'm kidding.
The atmosphere is nearly invisible to radio telescopes (if you pick the right wavelength.)
6 of 1, half dozen of the other, but without Air, a nuclear bomb is just flash, albeit A really bright and nasty, and would evaporate you instantly flash...
(This is largely why the idea of stopping nuclear missiles and asteroids by setting of a-bombs near them in orbit won't work.)
Does Vulcan have Unicode support, or am I going to slog through really nasty binary characters in my tripwire logs?
I don't know whether to laugh at you or take pity on you.
Who am I kidding. (snicker).
I hear you on Artificial Intelligence. It has been oversold. If you want something with the flexibility and decision making power of the human mind, it has to be trained like a human mind. At that point you have a choice of a flaky bit of electronic brain or a flaky bit of organic brain.
And humans are cheap to make.
Let the punishment fit the crime. If Gilbert and Sullivan (sound's like a lawfirm nowadays, doesn't it?) came up with a verse to describe the plight of spammers it would be something along the lines of spending a few years reading unsolicited manuscripts at a trash-novel publishing house.
It was still dumb to send a counter-offer if one had no intention of selling it. (Though if I thought for a minute that one of my domains was worth that much to someone...)
If you have heard of Nitrox, it is simply (HAH!) an artificial re-combination of N2 and O2, sometimes with an inert gases. Don't know enough about it myself, I'm an air-breather. Hell, I still dive with a wet-suit.
(Which of course is now simply)
http://www.handyboard.com
It's a Motorola HC-11 based micro controller with all the DAC's for doing robot projects. I was playing with these things in engineering class back in '97.
What's the going rate to get a Kilogram in orbit?
Most people would still need some bottled Oxygen to get up to the top of Everest though, at around 1/3 of an atmosphere. When the pressure gets that low, your body has trouble metabolizing fast enough to maintain temperature.
Mindstorms came later, use a bubble-gum programming interface, and has no way of expanding.
I am all for stretching their minds. But there is stretching your mind to learn algebra, and there is stretching your mind to work out Kabbalistic numerology. One is applicable to everyday life. The other is suspect at worst, and completely in-applicable to anything else at best.
As an aside, I know of at least one architect who actually models structure out in Lego like it was a 3d sketch pad. Pretty much if it holds together with Lego, you can easily build it out of anything.
I'm kinda worried about one of my favorite local beers. The owner's kid went off and got an MBA or something and they are expanding like crazy all over the place. While it's cool I can get my favorite beer in Florida as well as Philly, I just hope they don't go off and either Budwasser their product, or end up diversifying into a company that makes everything BUT the Lager I have come to know and love.
Fast growing companies are like tumors. Very few learn to stop growing, and sooner or later they die from starvation after destroying the entire market.
"Ein Tasse Lego, Bitte."
Oooo. That would be a cool toy. A model of household plumbing. Little metal tubes, pipe angles, lead solder, little wads of paper to try to flush through the system...
Maybe a natural gas system would be more fun to play with. "Remember kids, don't be a Darwin. Only fools look for gas leaks with matches."
A little easy-bake scintering furnace would be cool too. Make your own cinder blocks and bricks.
Ok, been on helpdesk too long today, I'm really getting loopy.
Besides, those cockpit pieces are perfect when you go to build your of Starscream out of lego parts. (Man am I dating myself.)
My brother and I had identical sets. We would build all sorts of wacky things to compete against each other with.
My only problem was pulling the damn thing apart when you were done. The linkages did not want to hear anything about being anywhere but fully snug. And that meant the plastic hexagon connector was so far lodged it had a death grip. I remember many times where I would resort to teeth in an effort to get the bloody connectors off.
Now how many capsela fans kept all the little sphere in the original packaging? I did for the longest time, it was the best way to keep them organized.
Of course I did make a cute little droid that would run around the room and such.
I work at a museum and we have a big contest every year where high-school students compete using the Mindstorms kits to run a course. In the course there are barrels to be collected, items to be placed, and things to be avoided. The kids have a blast with it, but a lot of their creativity is spent working around the limitations of the controller.
In engineering we have many phenominon that are not completely understood. We develop mathematical models for them, but it's often the case that a phenominon can have multiple models that work well in different cases.
Particles and waves aren't phenominon by themselves. Particles and waves are mathematical tools. They both describe motion traveling at the same speed. Just because you flip rulesets doesn't mean you can ignore fundimental concepts.
When you model gravity as a wave you break the world into a set of points. Each point has a "density" of what you are measuring, and a net directional vector. The rubber sheet model works, but you have to understand that gravity and slope are what makes it work. Areas with more slope are points where in space/time is the "densist". It also happens to be where the sheet is pushing up against gravity the least.
In particle models of gravity you are firing an infite number of bean bags between everthing in the system, that travel in a straight line between them. (The bean bags that don't strike anything are ignored by the calculations.) Your math is on a representative sample of those bean bags. Those bags still travel at a finite speed though.
Now you know why we can't seem to decide if light/gravity/magnetism is a particle or a wave. It's neither. We just have 2 incomplete concepts to try to explain it.
Of course I have the names all wrong for the math concepts. Feel free to post corrections. Like I said, I dropped out long ago and have no ego to be bruised.
KDE isn't so bad. It's qt that always seems to take forever. Then, if you don't set your flags to forget about gnome you end up compiling that too when some package that hooks to both adds in all of its gtk dependencies.
For laughs run emerhe -ep kde. Note all the gnome entries.