"The now decommissioned Space Shuttle Enterprise appears to have been damaged by super storm Sandy"
Enterprise sat in the Udvar-Hazy center for almost 20 years before being sent to NYC. I don't know when it was officially decommissioned, but it has been effectively so for some time as NASA handed it over to the Smithsonian in 1985.
Enterprise was never a space shuttle. It was a glider/test platform that was going to be refitted to be a space shuttle. But that was more expensive than building Endeavour. Enterprise never had engines, and it was covered in fiberglass, not thermal tiles. In the end it was cheaper to build Endeavour from spare parts.
maybe. If the water starts spinning the impeller beyond what the generator can handle, they'll get decoupled and the generator will sit idle.
Or maybe the engineers that designed hydroelectric plants knew more than those of us who post on/. and remembered to put in bypass/excess pressure relief mechanisms so this would be a non-issue. That's just a guess though.
I thought we were limiting this to natural disasters. That river was wholly unnatural when it caught fire.
"Heck, a nuclear meltdown would be a much bigger problem."
I'm not so sure what's natural about a nuclear meltdown. Unless you consider where fissile material was created in the first place. But then just about everything is "natural" at that point. It just becomes a matter of refinement.
Personally, I just want to see an MS advertisement where they drop the original Surface (the coffee table) on an iPad. Something like the old Bambi Meets Godzilla clip. They can then morph it into the tablet version or something.
The Sham Wow guy can narrate it, "iPad?!? Check out the Surface! Bam bitch! They stuffed an entire fucking table into this mutha fucka. You're gonna need two hands to hold this bitch . Can somebody get a Sham Wow and sweep that maxi-Pad off my set?"
1) Procure working torque wrench of sufficient size and strength.
Are you kidding? With hammers costing the gov't $600 a pop, how much do you think a "working torque wrench of sufficient size and strength" goes for? It's probably cheaper to just build another X-51.
I always liked Kirk. Basically in every first alien contact situation he either got into a fist fight, killed one or more, or fucked one of the (green/blue/shape shifted/whatever) women.
except for a scene in Star Trek The Motion Picture. It was early in the movie. He told some young ensign to get out of the way like she was incompetent and took over the beam-in controls. The person being beamed-in died. He got this look on his face like "oh. i fscked up. did anybody see?" LOL other than that one scene, he was always cool-headed and wise enough to sit back, trust his people, and let them do their jobs..
It's been a while since I saw that, but I thought he did it so the transporter operator didn't have to be the one to kill them. I believe the transporter operator even thanked him for it.
I am curious to know as well, since uranus has complex rotation. (It rotates on 2 axies; one roughly parallel to the solar ecliptic, and one perpendicular to it.) The coriolis effects would favor the first axis, but would still be influenced by the second.
Other interesting things would be the impact of solar heating due to its unusual angle of primary rotation. I can imagine very strange liquid gas ocean currents on the surface. (If not liquid, at least supercritical) the actual rocky body core inside probably has some very unique features from the erosion of the highspeed, high pressure atmosphere.
It really is a shame that we would have to make probes of pure unobtanium to exlore anything other than the atmospheres of the gas giants. I would love to see the remnants of the impact crater from the impact that knocked uranus into such an obscure rotation, or to see how such a dense and high velocity atmosphere erodes and reshapes the rocky body beneath.
Agreed. It would be nice to know why it has such an unusually cool core temperature for a gas giant. I'd also like to know if Jupiter's core is really metallic hydrogen. Just the thought that there could be enough pressure to force hydrogen into that state is pretty damn cool (obviously not literally).
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
Google Glass is a consumer level device. This is an enterprise-level device. So lots of little things, like...
Calling them "Enterprise". That's always good for a 3X markup in marketing alone
I had a similar problem too. But I found that it went away after I put my Galaxy S3 in the microwave for about 2 minutes*. It became "hardened" against such attacks. Haven't been hacked since.
* Times may vary depending on the phone and wattage of your microwave.
I work in a hospital setting where most, if not all, computers run XP. In radiology specifically, the PACS software we run is only certified for windows XP and ie 6.
Hospital doesn't want to invest money into upgrading pacs software.
Indeed. Upgrades like this are exactly why businesses will continue to use it well past 2014. I'm in the medical field too and there are still places running Windows NT for the same reasons. One hospital I dealt with was running 2K until just recently. They chose to skip Vista for obvious reasons plus the expense of upgrading 80,000 computers is not a simple or cheap task. This is also the case for manufacturing. I've talked to people who have $200K+ equipment that's attached to NT and 2K systems for control. It's crazy for a company, particularly a small one to have to drop half a million dollars every time Microsoft updates their OS. Granted, the companies that don't give a realistic upgrade path to their customers are also at fault.
I wish that Microsoft would have a home/standard version, similar to what they currently have. Except that they would not keep this version bogged down with legacy support as they tend to do. Then have a commercial version that can deal with all of the old crap that is needed. These types of users aren't interested in the latest greatest shiny features. Aero Glass looks pretty nice on a home users system, but it doen't do shit for someone using a computer to control a CNC machine.
that if you don't have a phone, no one can rob you for it.
Or they kick the shit out of you, or kill you because you must be lying to them. Everyone has a phone these days. Crack heads aren't known for their negotiation skills.
If it needs to be restarted, where are we going to find an amnesiac super-spy with an identity crisis to restart it for us? We already have the three-breasted 'professional' lady
Dunno, but with the way Arnold's life has been going he'd probably jump at the chance to go to Mars.
Personally, I just want to see an MS advertisement where they drop the original Surface (the coffee table) on an iPad. Something like the old Bambi Meets Godzilla clip. They can then morph it into the tablet version or something.
The Sham Wow guy narrate it, "iPad?!? Check out the Surface! Bam bitch! They stuffed an entire fucking table into this bitch right hear. You're gonna need two hands to hold this mutha fucka. Can somebody get a Sham Wow and sweep that other piece of shit off my set?"
Works for cars, bikes, motorcycles, swimmers, why not planes?
Turbulence due to the plane and it's engines. At least that is what I would assume to be a problem with drafting in the air.
I've talked to some pilots and they call it jet wash. The larger the plane the more severe it is. When I fly I occasionally listen to the air traffic control chatter. Larger planes like 747, 757, 767, 777, etc are always referred to as "heavy" after their call sign. It's to help ATC remember to keep the spacing a little further behind these planes due to more jet wash. At least that's what I've been told. I assume it's true as it makes sense.
Fortunately it's a "MacGyver bot". After vanquishing the enemy, it will be able to perform field surgery to re-attach the arm using duck-tape, a pine cone and some mints.
I can't say I ever used Hotmail, but I sure knew/know a lot of people who have Hotmail accounts.
Are you sure it's not one person with lots and lots of Hotmail accounts?
I suppose I should have been clearer. I actually know these people, not someone I met through the internet. So unless this person you are describing is polymorphic and owns dozens of homes/cars, yes I am certain.
Every time Microsoft copies another company, they fail. The only notable exception is XBOX which they sustained losses for a while in order to develop market share.
Look at the rest of MS copycat products/services:
Hotmail (worst web email experience ever)
Zune (worst brand-name MP3 player ever)
Windows phone 0-7.5/7.8 Worst smart phone OS ever (No multitasking)
Silverlight (worst copy of Flash)
Virtual PC (worst VM, at least QEMU can host multiple architectures)
MS Windows (worst OS2 clone ever)
The problem is that me-too mentality just does;t translate into ground breaking products. They only get as far as "good enough".
Some things I left off the list are Word and Excel. However these happened early enough on that they were clones of DOS programs (WP and Lotus 123) that when they went graphical MS took "proper" ownership of them.
I can't say I ever used Hotmail, but I sure knew/know a lot of people who have Hotmail accounts.
Never even looked at a Zune. Was it the hardware that sucked? Or the music service that went with it? I honestly don't know. But I agree, it was a pretty big failure.
My last phone was Windows Mobile 6.5. I thought it worked well. But I used it for email, surfing the web, watching video, etc. I added very few apps. I'd probably still be using it if the hardware hadn't starting having problems. I could have switched to WinMo 7, but from what I read they removed most of the customizability, so I passed. I have an Android phone now, and for teh most part I like it better. But there are still some features that I miss from my old phone. Obviously I'm in the minority on this though.
So are you saying that Windows as an OS is bad in general? Or that it's a failure as a OS2 clone? If it's the clone thing, then who gives a shit. What would be a better option for an OS2 clone? Why not just use OS2 if that's what you are looking for? I was pretty happy with Win 2K and only grudgingly upgraded to XP years later. XP is 2K with a bunch of window dressing and DRM, but it's not bad. I'm pretty happy with Win 7 as well. 95, ME, and Vista were atrocities. Regardless, I'd say they've done pretty well for themselves over the year with their OS, at least financially. That trend may be coming to an end though. We'll have to wait to see.
AFAIK, the Xbox is still in the red if you look at it's entire history.
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"The now decommissioned Space Shuttle Enterprise appears to have been damaged by super storm Sandy"
Enterprise sat in the Udvar-Hazy center for almost 20 years before being sent to NYC. I don't know when it was officially decommissioned, but it has been effectively so for some time as NASA handed it over to the Smithsonian in 1985.
Enterprise was never a space shuttle. It was a glider/test platform that was going to be refitted to be a space shuttle. But that was more expensive than building Endeavour. Enterprise never had engines, and it was covered in fiberglass, not thermal tiles. In the end it was cheaper to build Endeavour from spare parts.
My gaze tends to gravitate to the lips as much as (if not more than) the eyes, especially in those I find attractive. I'm not sure what that means.
Depends on which ones I suppose.
We should nuke the anti-nukers!
From orbit?
maybe. If the water starts spinning the impeller beyond what the generator can handle, they'll get decoupled and the generator will sit idle.
Or maybe the engineers that designed hydroelectric plants knew more than those of us who post on /. and remembered to put in bypass/excess pressure relief mechanisms so this would be a non-issue. That's just a guess though.
I thought we were limiting this to natural disasters. That river was wholly unnatural when it caught fire.
"Heck, a nuclear meltdown would be a much bigger problem."
I'm not so sure what's natural about a nuclear meltdown. Unless you consider where fissile material was created in the first place. But then just about everything is "natural" at that point. It just becomes a matter of refinement.
Personally, I just want to see an MS advertisement where they drop the original Surface (the coffee table) on an iPad. Something like the old Bambi Meets Godzilla clip. They can then morph it into the tablet version or something.
The Sham Wow guy can narrate it, "iPad?!? Check out the Surface! Bam bitch! They stuffed an entire fucking table into this mutha fucka. You're gonna need two hands to hold this bitch . Can somebody get a Sham Wow and sweep that maxi-Pad off my set?"
That would make me buy one
This should be easy, no?
1) Procure working torque wrench of sufficient size and strength.
Are you kidding? With hammers costing the gov't $600 a pop, how much do you think a "working torque wrench of sufficient size and strength" goes for? It's probably cheaper to just build another X-51.
"Once a Tyrannosaurus took down a Triceratops, how did it go about eating it?"
Any way it wanted to, of course.
I can just picture Miss manners telling it to place a napkin on it's lap and which fork to use...
Then becoming one of the hors d'oeuvres
. Kirk is cool. All there is to it...
I always liked Kirk. Basically in every first alien contact situation he either got into a fist fight, killed one or more, or fucked one of the (green/blue/shape shifted/whatever) women.
except for a scene in Star Trek The Motion Picture. It was early in the movie. He told some young ensign to get out of the way like she was incompetent and took over the beam-in controls. The person being beamed-in died. He got this look on his face like "oh. i fscked up. did anybody see?" LOL other than that one scene, he was always cool-headed and wise enough to sit back, trust his people, and let them do their jobs..
It's been a while since I saw that, but I thought he did it so the transporter operator didn't have to be the one to kill them. I believe the transporter operator even thanked him for it.
I am curious to know as well, since uranus has complex rotation. (It rotates on 2 axies; one roughly parallel to the solar ecliptic, and one perpendicular to it.) The coriolis effects would favor the first axis, but would still be influenced by the second.
Other interesting things would be the impact of solar heating due to its unusual angle of primary rotation. I can imagine very strange liquid gas ocean currents on the surface. (If not liquid, at least supercritical) the actual rocky body core inside probably has some very unique features from the erosion of the highspeed, high pressure atmosphere.
It really is a shame that we would have to make probes of pure unobtanium to exlore anything other than the atmospheres of the gas giants. I would love to see the remnants of the impact crater from the impact that knocked uranus into such an obscure rotation, or to see how such a dense and high velocity atmosphere erodes and reshapes the rocky body beneath.
Agreed. It would be nice to know why it has such an unusually cool core temperature for a gas giant. I'd also like to know if Jupiter's core is really metallic hydrogen. Just the thought that there could be enough pressure to force hydrogen into that state is pretty damn cool (obviously not literally).
This will destroy Rock, Scissors and Paper.
Nothing beats Laser Cutter. The game is ruined.
Rods from God beats 40 watt laser cutter.
And so where's the ACTUAL difference between this and the Google Goggles? Besides the pricetag? (Or in other words: what justifies that price difference?)
Google Glass is a consumer level device. This is an enterprise-level device. So lots of little things, like...
Calling them "Enterprise". That's always good for a 3X markup in marketing alone
I had a similar problem too. But I found that it went away after I put my Galaxy S3 in the microwave for about 2 minutes*. It became "hardened" against such attacks. Haven't been hacked since.
* Times may vary depending on the phone and wattage of your microwave.
I work in a hospital setting where most, if not all, computers run XP. In radiology specifically, the PACS software we run is only certified for windows XP and ie 6.
Hospital doesn't want to invest money into upgrading pacs software.
Indeed. Upgrades like this are exactly why businesses will continue to use it well past 2014. I'm in the medical field too and there are still places running Windows NT for the same reasons. One hospital I dealt with was running 2K until just recently. They chose to skip Vista for obvious reasons plus the expense of upgrading 80,000 computers is not a simple or cheap task. This is also the case for manufacturing. I've talked to people who have $200K+ equipment that's attached to NT and 2K systems for control. It's crazy for a company, particularly a small one to have to drop half a million dollars every time Microsoft updates their OS. Granted, the companies that don't give a realistic upgrade path to their customers are also at fault.
I wish that Microsoft would have a home/standard version, similar to what they currently have. Except that they would not keep this version bogged down with legacy support as they tend to do. Then have a commercial version that can deal with all of the old crap that is needed. These types of users aren't interested in the latest greatest shiny features. Aero Glass looks pretty nice on a home users system, but it doen't do shit for someone using a computer to control a CNC machine.
that if you don't have a phone, no one can rob you for it.
Or they kick the shit out of you, or kill you because you must be lying to them. Everyone has a phone these days. Crack heads aren't known for their negotiation skills.
Nuke them from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).
If it needs to be restarted, where are we going to find an amnesiac super-spy with an identity crisis to restart it for us? We already have the three-breasted 'professional' lady
Dunno, but with the way Arnold's life has been going he'd probably jump at the chance to go to Mars.
As well as possibly an underground lost civilization with ghosts and monsters n' shit.
Hopefully that big ass oxygen reactor is still working after all these years.
I hope it finds massive amounts of palladium, iridium or some mix of rare metals. Nothing would kick-start a race to Mars like greed. Unfortunately.
Personally, I just want to see an MS advertisement where they drop the original Surface (the coffee table) on an iPad. Something like the old Bambi Meets Godzilla clip. They can then morph it into the tablet version or something.
The Sham Wow guy narrate it, "iPad?!? Check out the Surface! Bam bitch! They stuffed an entire fucking table into this bitch right hear. You're gonna need two hands to hold this mutha fucka. Can somebody get a Sham Wow and sweep that other piece of shit off my set?"
That would make me buy one
It's those damn coin collectors. They probably have them in proof sets using this.
Works for cars, bikes, motorcycles, swimmers, why not planes?
Turbulence due to the plane and it's engines. At least that is what I would assume to be a problem with drafting in the air.
I've talked to some pilots and they call it jet wash. The larger the plane the more severe it is. When I fly I occasionally listen to the air traffic control chatter. Larger planes like 747, 757, 767, 777, etc are always referred to as "heavy" after their call sign. It's to help ATC remember to keep the spacing a little further behind these planes due to more jet wash. At least that's what I've been told. I assume it's true as it makes sense.
and use it as a club.
Fortunately it's a "MacGyver bot". After vanquishing the enemy, it will be able to perform field surgery to re-attach the arm using duck-tape, a pine cone and some mints.
I can't say I ever used Hotmail, but I sure knew/know a lot of people who have Hotmail accounts.
Are you sure it's not one person with lots and lots of Hotmail accounts?
I suppose I should have been clearer. I actually know these people, not someone I met through the internet. So unless this person you are describing is polymorphic and owns dozens of homes/cars, yes I am certain.
Every time Microsoft copies another company, they fail. The only notable exception is XBOX which they sustained losses for a while in order to develop market share.
Look at the rest of MS copycat products/services: Hotmail (worst web email experience ever) Zune (worst brand-name MP3 player ever) Windows phone 0-7.5/7.8 Worst smart phone OS ever (No multitasking) Silverlight (worst copy of Flash) Virtual PC (worst VM, at least QEMU can host multiple architectures) MS Windows (worst OS2 clone ever)
The problem is that me-too mentality just does;t translate into ground breaking products. They only get as far as "good enough". Some things I left off the list are Word and Excel. However these happened early enough on that they were clones of DOS programs (WP and Lotus 123) that when they went graphical MS took "proper" ownership of them.
I can't say I ever used Hotmail, but I sure knew/know a lot of people who have Hotmail accounts.
Never even looked at a Zune. Was it the hardware that sucked? Or the music service that went with it? I honestly don't know. But I agree, it was a pretty big failure.
My last phone was Windows Mobile 6.5. I thought it worked well. But I used it for email, surfing the web, watching video, etc. I added very few apps. I'd probably still be using it if the hardware hadn't starting having problems. I could have switched to WinMo 7, but from what I read they removed most of the customizability, so I passed. I have an Android phone now, and for teh most part I like it better. But there are still some features that I miss from my old phone. Obviously I'm in the minority on this though.
So are you saying that Windows as an OS is bad in general? Or that it's a failure as a OS2 clone? If it's the clone thing, then who gives a shit. What would be a better option for an OS2 clone? Why not just use OS2 if that's what you are looking for? I was pretty happy with Win 2K and only grudgingly upgraded to XP years later. XP is 2K with a bunch of window dressing and DRM, but it's not bad. I'm pretty happy with Win 7 as well. 95, ME, and Vista were atrocities. Regardless, I'd say they've done pretty well for themselves over the year with their OS, at least financially. That trend may be coming to an end though. We'll have to wait to see.
AFAIK, the Xbox is still in the red if you look at it's entire history.