Dance Dance Revolution - an arcade game where you have to move your feet to some blinking lights. And don't ask how a 40s some 250 lbs guy knows that...
there is a serious flaw in this set-up: To do this you need a tight seal between pug (aka spacecraft) and tube. This works fine at low speeds, but once you get into the area of the speed of a high speed bullet, lets say 3000 ft/s your friction will kill any further acceleration. And you also have to account the ability to feed water into your tube, at 10 ft diameter and 3000 ft/s you need to get 6,700 m^3 of water into that tube - every second. That's two and a half Olympic size swimming pools. Oh, and after "lift-off" you better get your engines going fast - otherwise that aircraft carrier weight of water moving at 3000 ft/s behind you might catch up and shoot you straight out of the air.
Would this same congressman want that all cars have a breathalyzer interlock, because there could be drunk drivers? Or, have us prove that we're not about to commit wire fraud every time we dial the phone? Or, how about ensuring that every time you drive near a school zone you prove that you're not a registered child molester? Because, that's the level of burden he's placing on the industry with these laws.
Yes, and they have done so already. NM had a bill introduced mandating the breathalyzer for all new cars, GA made a law restricting the living possibilities for registered sex offenders to something like one percent of the state's area (they probably couldn't prevent you from camping out in some national forest), and they are taping all phone calls in the interest of national security.
Congress stops NASA from wasting money on Mars sounds so simple. What is doesn't say is the money wasted by NASA and a lot of companies due to this change in policy. For the last couple years, NASA has spent huge amounts of money on getting "humans to Mars" research projects started. With funding cut, or just merely in doubt, all these programs will be cut short. Promising new developments will be terminated, reports about it will be written, and tossed into boxes without reading. The guys at NASA know the loopholes, but the ones in charge are political creatures, and they know not to piss of their funding source by going around it in a blatant way. Happens all the time; if you work with government agencies you can tell if the politics surrounding your projects have changed. Everyone still goes through the motions, but the mood is like a team that already missed the playoffs.
Amazing, you switch your whole organization to a mail client with serious future support issues and a 0.x calendar application?
I love them at home, but at work I like to have something where I'm sure it's going to be there 5 years from now.
$100 per person is nothing compared to rolling out a new system and having to teach 1000 people a new software. It might be something to consider if I start up a brand new business, but who opens a start-up with 1000 users.
Training cost will always be much in excess of any (reasonable) license fee, but then, you don't buy AutoCad and LabView for everyone in your organization.
Many of us are not aware how far reaching the precedents on war crimes and the "orders are no excuse" rule go. In the Nuremberg trial, the case was made that, even so the Navy never followed Hitler's order to execute all parachutists caught in Europe, they did turn over captured parachutists to the Army. And they should have known that the Army did execute them, so they are guilty just as if they'd done it themselves. Every US soldier who sent a prisoner to Abu Grahib is guilty of war crimes under that precedent. We can only hope that we never loose a war and are actually put in front a tribunal. I bet Bush's biggest nightmare is a successor who signs the international war crimes tribunal treaty, and turns him over to The Hague. For irony, they could put him in Milosevic's cell.
The real application for this might be in space. It's very hard to hide your satellite from the incoming kill vehicle if you have a huge antenna deployed. This technique could actually project a "ghost antenna" just off the satellite, and since this is not horse shoes, close does not count.
Yes - and no:) The gas is hot, but at very low pressure. So the amount of energy transmitted to the glass container surrounding it is minimal, and could be further reduced by active cooling. So the second your incomings are detected and the antenna shuts down it becomes invisible to both the RF and infrared seeker.
... because we have judicial oversight.
Like in Germany, where the courts ordered the police to delete illegally collected data.
Years later it was revealed that "deleting data" in police practice meant to add a "deleted" entry to the data file.
To answer the last question, while the often quoted opera.com article is sarcastic in calling Microsoft the good guys, this might be on of the cases where the evil monopoly is right and the valiant fighter for freedom is just dead wrong.
And we know, THAT CAN'T BE!
Actually, one of the biggest number of shared winners in the German lottery was with on of those "unlikely" patterns (something like 1,2,3, 45,46,47). Over 200 people had this. Just because you think it's unlikely doesn't mean a lot of other people don't pick it for the same reason.
Sure, all the data is online. Same for parachuting. But to find out if you're ready to let go is something you won't find out till you're at altitude. Same with doing chemistry.
Sorry, while that is fun stuff to watch it doesn't get you over the decisive hump of becoming a chemist. Only someone who can hold a boiling flask of sulfuric acid without dropping it (because he knows what happens if he does) will succeed in a lab, and that not something you learn of the internet. The wussification of today's "junior scientists" continues in the universities, where undergraduates are "taught" chemistry lab with micro apparatus equipment, with all so danger potential of a Playstation (actually, you can drop a PS on your feet and actually get hurt).
And then these people get hired, and flunk out of the job within 6 months because they can't handle the "stress" of being around a real chemistry lab, with real dangers, where you have to know what you're doing.
Shooting your first slug of hot water through the room by heating water in a test tube on the little bunsen burner that came with the chemistry set is quite a lesson. The earlier you get it, the better.
Odd, Windows had the ability to set the hard drive sleep time since 3.1 at least, under the screen saver settings. But that doesn't require command line usage, so it's definitely SIMPLE, not SMART
Well, Heroes is out on DVD, and for $38 you get 24 or so episodes. That's less than the $2 for the download, with unlimited reuse. Plus you can sneakernet trade with your buddy for his Sopranoes last season set.
We had a guy who kept sending the output of our business model as word documents. When I wondered why his one page document was 7 megs large I found that the way he copied the excel data embedded the whole model into the word document.
PDF only for anything that goes out - unless of course you deal with government entities that insist on.doc...
Unless of course the reason the RAM was bad is a bad power supply, and you just blew up your own stick. Which you might not notice and keep diagnosing bad RAMs all over the place since your test stick is now bad too.
And power supplies are the most likely thing to fail, especially the $8 300W oem kind running at 110% due to the extra hard drive and video card upgrade and what else that got installed since it left the factory four years ago.
I had a rabbit in college (GF bought it and found out she's allergic). It could chew the insulations of a 220 V cable without executing itself. Was a nasty shock to find out:)
You can buy all your interfaces for about 20k from National Instruments and run them in Labview. What I don't quite see is where you're getting the power to run your boat from. You will have winches for boom control and sail reefing, and actuators for your rudder. Unless you work with mechanical interlocks (which add lots of complexity and failure points) that allow you to power them down in "constant sailing mode" those will eat your power fast. Are you allowed a generator, or are you cladding your boat in 4 m^2 of solar cells and hope for good weather? Small keel boats are notoriously slow.
speed in knots (nautical miles/hour)= 1.337 * sqrt(L ft)
For a 10 ft water line, you get a little bit over 4 knots, what gives you over 20 days of travel time, a long time to run high power motors of batteries.
But unless you can design a system that can replace a true helmsman (who can steer a boat in between waves to avoid capsizing)_ you are required to go with a self-rightening design. Multi-hull designs don't have that limitation, but once they flip, that's it.
The first step to science is reproducible data. Phrenology does that. The second step is meaningful interpretations based on established or verifiable principles. That's where phrenology fails. But that still makes it better than string theory, which manages to exist with no data at all.
I'm always amazed how people assume wast conspiracies and evil thoughts in anything Microsoft does. I bet, 99% of the time organized incompetence of a bloated corporation is the better explanation.
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Dance Dance Revolution - an arcade game where you have to move your feet to some blinking lights. And don't ask how a 40s some 250 lbs guy knows that ...
there is a serious flaw in this set-up: To do this you need a tight seal between pug (aka spacecraft) and tube. This works fine at low speeds, but once you get into the area of the speed of a high speed bullet, lets say 3000 ft/s your friction will kill any further acceleration. And you also have to account the ability to feed water into your tube, at 10 ft diameter and 3000 ft/s you need to get 6,700 m^3 of water into that tube - every second. That's two and a half Olympic size swimming pools. Oh, and after "lift-off" you better get your engines going fast - otherwise that aircraft carrier weight of water moving at 3000 ft/s behind you might catch up and shoot you straight out of the air.
Congress stops NASA from wasting money on Mars sounds so simple. What is doesn't say is the money wasted by NASA and a lot of companies due to this change in policy. For the last couple years, NASA has spent huge amounts of money on getting "humans to Mars" research projects started. With funding cut, or just merely in doubt, all these programs will be cut short. Promising new developments will be terminated, reports about it will be written, and tossed into boxes without reading.
The guys at NASA know the loopholes, but the ones in charge are political creatures, and they know not to piss of their funding source by going around it in a blatant way. Happens all the time; if you work with government agencies you can tell if the politics surrounding your projects have changed. Everyone still goes through the motions, but the mood is like a team that already missed the playoffs.
Amazing, you switch your whole organization to a mail client with serious future support issues and a 0.x calendar application? I love them at home, but at work I like to have something where I'm sure it's going to be there 5 years from now.
$100 per person is nothing compared to rolling out a new system and having to teach 1000 people a new software. It might be something to consider if I start up a brand new business, but who opens a start-up with 1000 users. Training cost will always be much in excess of any (reasonable) license fee, but then, you don't buy AutoCad and LabView for everyone in your organization.
It's correct, and it includes all the necessary information without wasting any electrons. Perfect example of an informative post imho.
Thanks for this post, first I ever heard of that OS.
Many of us are not aware how far reaching the precedents on war crimes and the "orders are no excuse" rule go. In the Nuremberg trial, the case was made that, even so the Navy never followed Hitler's order to execute all parachutists caught in Europe, they did turn over captured parachutists to the Army. And they should have known that the Army did execute them, so they are guilty just as if they'd done it themselves.
Every US soldier who sent a prisoner to Abu Grahib is guilty of war crimes under that precedent. We can only hope that we never loose a war and are actually put in front a tribunal. I bet Bush's biggest nightmare is a successor who signs the international war crimes tribunal treaty, and turns him over to The Hague. For irony, they could put him in Milosevic's cell.
The real application for this might be in space. It's very hard to hide your satellite from the incoming kill vehicle if you have a huge antenna deployed. This technique could actually project a "ghost antenna" just off the satellite, and since this is not horse shoes, close does not count.
Yes - and no :)
The gas is hot, but at very low pressure. So the amount of energy transmitted to the glass container surrounding it is minimal, and could be further reduced by active cooling. So the second your incomings are detected and the antenna shuts down it becomes invisible to both the RF and infrared seeker.
... because we have judicial oversight. Like in Germany, where the courts ordered the police to delete illegally collected data. Years later it was revealed that "deleting data" in police practice meant to add a "deleted" entry to the data file.
To answer the last question, while the often quoted opera.com article is sarcastic in calling Microsoft the good guys, this might be on of the cases where the evil monopoly is right and the valiant fighter for freedom is just dead wrong. And we know, THAT CAN'T BE!
Actually, one of the biggest number of shared winners in the German lottery was with on of those "unlikely" patterns (something like 1,2,3, 45,46,47). Over 200 people had this. Just because you think it's unlikely doesn't mean a lot of other people don't pick it for the same reason.
Sorry, the station search button on the Inanotube is just too small to make this an attractive competitor to the Ipod nano
Sure, all the data is online. Same for parachuting. But to find out if you're ready to let go is something you won't find out till you're at altitude. Same with doing chemistry.
Sorry, while that is fun stuff to watch it doesn't get you over the decisive hump of becoming a chemist. Only someone who can hold a boiling flask of sulfuric acid without dropping it (because he knows what happens if he does) will succeed in a lab, and that not something you learn of the internet. The wussification of today's "junior scientists" continues in the universities, where undergraduates are "taught" chemistry lab with micro apparatus equipment, with all so danger potential of a Playstation (actually, you can drop a PS on your feet and actually get hurt). And then these people get hired, and flunk out of the job within 6 months because they can't handle the "stress" of being around a real chemistry lab, with real dangers, where you have to know what you're doing. Shooting your first slug of hot water through the room by heating water in a test tube on the little bunsen burner that came with the chemistry set is quite a lesson. The earlier you get it, the better.
Odd, Windows had the ability to set the hard drive sleep time since 3.1 at least, under the screen saver settings. But that doesn't require command line usage, so it's definitely SIMPLE, not SMART
Well, Heroes is out on DVD, and for $38 you get 24 or so episodes. That's less than the $2 for the download, with unlimited reuse. Plus you can sneakernet trade with your buddy for his Sopranoes last season set.
We had a guy who kept sending the output of our business model as word documents. When I wondered why his one page document was 7 megs large I found that the way he copied the excel data embedded the whole model into the word document. PDF only for anything that goes out - unless of course you deal with government entities that insist on .doc ...
Unless of course the reason the RAM was bad is a bad power supply, and you just blew up your own stick. Which you might not notice and keep diagnosing bad RAMs all over the place since your test stick is now bad too. And power supplies are the most likely thing to fail, especially the $8 300W oem kind running at 110% due to the extra hard drive and video card upgrade and what else that got installed since it left the factory four years ago.
I had a rabbit in college (GF bought it and found out she's allergic). It could chew the insulations of a 220 V cable without executing itself. Was a nasty shock to find out :)
You can buy all your interfaces for about 20k from National Instruments and run them in Labview. What I don't quite see is where you're getting the power to run your boat from. You will have winches for boom control and sail reefing, and actuators for your rudder. Unless you work with mechanical interlocks (which add lots of complexity and failure points) that allow you to power them down in "constant sailing mode" those will eat your power fast. Are you allowed a generator, or are you cladding your boat in 4 m^2 of solar cells and hope for good weather? Small keel boats are notoriously slow. speed in knots (nautical miles/hour)= 1.337 * sqrt(L ft) For a 10 ft water line, you get a little bit over 4 knots, what gives you over 20 days of travel time, a long time to run high power motors of batteries. But unless you can design a system that can replace a true helmsman (who can steer a boat in between waves to avoid capsizing)_ you are required to go with a self-rightening design. Multi-hull designs don't have that limitation, but once they flip, that's it.
The first step to science is reproducible data. Phrenology does that. The second step is meaningful interpretations based on established or verifiable principles. That's where phrenology fails. But that still makes it better than string theory, which manages to exist with no data at all.
I'm always amazed how people assume wast conspiracies and evil thoughts in anything Microsoft does. I bet, 99% of the time organized incompetence of a bloated corporation is the better explanation.