No thanks, registered voters only. Having a pile of unnecessary kids should not get you extra political points.
I couldn't agree more. It's a damn shame that congress and the POTUS are the ones that would have to make this change in our current system. Judging by their behavior in modern times I have a better chance of winning enough lottery money to found my own country though.
Until then I'll keep voting for the candidate that closest matches my beliefs, or against the incumbent when that's not an option.
You could run Netflix quite comfortably on 1/100th of that!
That's 500 megabytes per second, or roughly 4x the bandwidth of a GigE connection! Sounds to me like they're doing something seriously wrong, even if you assume they're receiving multiple hi-res live video streams simultaneously from the drones. Maybe the video isn't compressed at all?
There are no car engines with enough displacement for a wrench to fit. Socket? yes, that can and will happen, I've seen a race car smash a head up because of a socket left in a cyl. but you did not say that, you said wrench, so it's impossible for a wrench to ruin the engine from being left in the Cylinder because you cant get one in there to begin with.
Obviously you've never used a stubby wrench. Here's a 1/2 that is only 4 1/4" long. A Chevy 350 cylinder has a 4 inch bore with a 3.48 inch stroke. Plenty of room for a wrench of this size, and they can be even shorter. This is a Very common size wrench and a very common engine. But you stated race cars. I don't know what type you are referring to, but GM sells crate motors for such applications that are 572 CI with a 4.56 inch bore 4.375 inch stroke. You could easily lay the wrench at that link down flat across the top of the piston in an engine of this size. You could drop an entire socket wrench into a cylinder of this size if you're in a hurry and not paying attention.
If I recall correctly, in Kodak's case it was not that they became bloated and could not sustain themselves from profits, but that their new CEO kept doing a stock pump by selling off profitable divisions in order to make good quarterly numbers at the expense of recurring profits. So they had the classic 80s/90s 'short term profits give everyone huge bonuses, 5 years down the road does not matter' behavior.
I think Fuji film was the beginning of the end for Kodak. I remember when Fuji first started selling film in the US and quickly became the better choice for all but portrait photography. Kodak simply let that market go and it didn't seem like they put much effort into getting it back. It's my understanding that the original Fuji film was great for Asian portraits, but did not look so good for Caucasians. Once Fuji figured this out, they managed to basically take away Kodaks entire film market.
They were also too slow in moving into the digital market. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they had some pretty nice digital prototypes that they chose to not pursue early on.
I don't know how many divisions they sold off, but I know that medical division, now called Carestream, is doing well as a stand alone company.
It does what I need it to. That really says it all. It's not that I don't like Windows 7, I actually prefer it. But I can't justify spending $139 for Win7 Pro for all of my computers, when I really don't gain anything for it.
There are people still running 95 and 98 for the same reasons. I know of some government offices that are still on NT. AS long as you keep those boxes off of the internet, I'm not sure what the problem is.
bush's handouts to your corporate masters created so many jobs. Unless you meant the jobs needed to clean up after the mess caused by morally bankrupt people like you once all of the regulations are eliminated.
Urgh!!! Because Obama's handouts have done so much to fix everything. Why is it so hard to understand that, while for different reasons, having an R or a D following a persons name they are both equally corrupt and self serving these days? My biggest fear is that we've gone too far down the wrong path to fix this problem in a civil manner.
The GRAIL mission costs ~$400B. The NASA budget is ~$17B/year.
If you could fix the economy/budget problems with that amount of money in a politically viable way, GO TELL SOMEONE! Seriously... thats chump change in terms of the federal budget.
If you can explain how a $400B project can be done on a $17B/year budget along with all of the other NASA projects, please figure out a way to scale this up to the national budget. The USA should be able to eliminate the national debt in no time. Or perhaps it's math like
this that has us in the mess we're currently in. Regardless, you are right, it's but a small fraction of the federal budget.
In my car, yes, that is the case. Also, the torque applied to the steering wheel to keep you in your lane is pretty minimal; even grandma would have no trouble overpowering the motor to, say, make an emergency lane change to avoid an accident.
That's all well and good, until the Sontarans decide otherwise.
burn the devil box, it showed the chin of a female!
Not even. It probably showed a female learning basic addition.
If they were smart they would burn the internet...
By who's definition of "smart"? If they were smart they'd burn themselves in order to escape the atrocities of the world. You know, things like education, equal rights for women, free will, etc. Pure evil. [rolls eyes]
Eh, I think they would stop peanut butter. I had my toothpaste taken away from me by the TSA, and that, like peanut butter, is a soft-paste-like thing. Maybe peanut butter frozen solid?
I'm guessing it depends on the container it's in. I've gone through TSA check points several times with peanut butter sandwich crackers. But I'd imagine they'd stop you for a jar of peanut butter.
Regardless of your definition of a "the first computer", I'm sure just about anyone can find their own definition of it here. And I don't think that definition will be after the work of going to the moon started.
Actually, that's not next, it's already happened. My dad often tells stories about playing with mercury as a kid. Then we learned how that was a bad idea...
I hate how much this is going to make me sound old, but... When I was a kid thermometers were glass, filled with mercury. We were expected to be smart enough not to bite them while they were in our mouth in order to take our temperature. And yes, it was rather fun to play with. Of course I don't recall anyone being stupid enough to snort it either.
I'm usually amazed with the pictures amateur astronomers can take. The equipment that is needed in many cases is astounding too, especially in regards to cost. In this case the camera and optics are probably very reasonable. But the cost of the camera mount, observatory and shipping are several orders of magnitude greater.
I'm by no means up on the latest theory about what is at the core, but I thought that it's been some time since it was believed to be a solid "rock" as we would think of it. The last I heard, it was mostly likely metallic hydrogen. Theoretically (or maybe it's fact now) metallic hydrogen should be a high temperature superconductor. If true, this could also explain Jupiter's massive magnetic field.
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No thanks, registered voters only. Having a pile of unnecessary kids should not get you extra political points.
I couldn't agree more. It's a damn shame that congress and the POTUS are the ones that would have to make this change in our current system. Judging by their behavior in modern times I have a better chance of winning enough lottery money to found my own country though.
Until then I'll keep voting for the candidate that closest matches my beliefs, or against the incumbent when that's not an option.
All we do know for sure is the dominant greenhouse gas on earth is water vapor.
Dihydrogen monoxide strikes again! Is there any problem that we face that cannot be traced back to it? ;-)
You could run Netflix quite comfortably on 1/100th of that!
That's 500 megabytes per second, or roughly 4x the bandwidth of a GigE connection! Sounds to me like they're doing something seriously wrong, even if you assume they're receiving multiple hi-res live video streams simultaneously from the drones. Maybe the video isn't compressed at all?
Compressed? The video feeds weren't even encrypted at one point.
Neither melting ice caps nor a new ice age sound particularly appealing.
I agree. Too bad our ecosystem is not terribly static even in the best of times.
The Government Accountability Office would later blame the failure on a rag left inside a fuel line by a Lockheed worker.
It sounds like someone forgot to switch to winter blend and is using Lockheed as a scapegoat. ;-)
No.
There are no car engines with enough displacement for a wrench to fit. Socket? yes, that can and will happen, I've seen a race car smash a head up because of a socket left in a cyl. but you did not say that, you said wrench, so it's impossible for a wrench to ruin the engine from being left in the Cylinder because you cant get one in there to begin with.
Obviously you've never used a stubby wrench. Here's a 1/2 that is only 4 1/4" long. A Chevy 350 cylinder has a 4 inch bore with a 3.48 inch stroke. Plenty of room for a wrench of this size, and they can be even shorter. This is a Very common size wrench and a very common engine. But you stated race cars. I don't know what type you are referring to, but GM sells crate motors for such applications that are 572 CI with a 4.56 inch bore 4.375 inch stroke. You could easily lay the wrench at that link down flat across the top of the piston in an engine of this size. You could drop an entire socket wrench into a cylinder of this size if you're in a hurry and not paying attention.
If I recall correctly, in Kodak's case it was not that they became bloated and could not sustain themselves from profits, but that their new CEO kept doing a stock pump by selling off profitable divisions in order to make good quarterly numbers at the expense of recurring profits. So they had the classic 80s/90s 'short term profits give everyone huge bonuses, 5 years down the road does not matter' behavior.
I think Fuji film was the beginning of the end for Kodak. I remember when Fuji first started selling film in the US and quickly became the better choice for all but portrait photography. Kodak simply let that market go and it didn't seem like they put much effort into getting it back. It's my understanding that the original Fuji film was great for Asian portraits, but did not look so good for Caucasians. Once Fuji figured this out, they managed to basically take away Kodaks entire film market.
They were also too slow in moving into the digital market. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they had some pretty nice digital prototypes that they chose to not pursue early on.
I don't know how many divisions they sold off, but I know that medical division, now called Carestream, is doing well as a stand alone company.
Or why does he not eliminate them?
Because that would eliminate free will too.
It does what I need it to. That really says it all. It's not that I don't like Windows 7, I actually prefer it. But I can't justify spending $139 for Win7 Pro for all of my computers, when I really don't gain anything for it. There are people still running 95 and 98 for the same reasons. I know of some government offices that are still on NT. AS long as you keep those boxes off of the internet, I'm not sure what the problem is.
bush's handouts to your corporate masters created so many jobs. Unless you meant the jobs needed to clean up after the mess caused by morally bankrupt people like you once all of the regulations are eliminated.
Urgh!!! Because Obama's handouts have done so much to fix everything. Why is it so hard to understand that, while for different reasons, having an R or a D following a persons name they are both equally corrupt and self serving these days? My biggest fear is that we've gone too far down the wrong path to fix this problem in a civil manner.
The GRAIL mission costs ~$400B. The NASA budget is ~$17B/year.
If you could fix the economy/budget problems with that amount of money in a politically viable way, GO TELL SOMEONE! Seriously... thats chump change in terms of the federal budget.
If you can explain how a $400B project can be done on a $17B/year budget along with all of the other NASA projects, please figure out a way to scale this up to the national budget. The USA should be able to eliminate the national debt in no time. Or perhaps it's math like this that has us in the mess we're currently in. Regardless, you are right, it's but a small fraction of the federal budget.
In my car, yes, that is the case. Also, the torque applied to the steering wheel to keep you in your lane is pretty minimal; even grandma would have no trouble overpowering the motor to, say, make an emergency lane change to avoid an accident.
That's all well and good, until the Sontarans decide otherwise.
Carl's Jr. will start using these.
burn the devil box, it showed the chin of a female!
Not even. It probably showed a female learning basic addition.
If they were smart they would burn the internet ...
By who's definition of "smart"? If they were smart they'd burn themselves in order to escape the atrocities of the world. You know, things like education, equal rights for women, free will, etc. Pure evil. [rolls eyes]
Eh, I think they would stop peanut butter. I had my toothpaste taken away from me by the TSA, and that, like peanut butter, is a soft-paste-like thing. Maybe peanut butter frozen solid?
I'm guessing it depends on the container it's in. I've gone through TSA check points several times with peanut butter sandwich crackers. But I'd imagine they'd stop you for a jar of peanut butter.
Regardless of your definition of a "the first computer", I'm sure just about anyone can find their own definition of it here. And I don't think that definition will be after the work of going to the moon started.
Ubuntu is the distro for people who don't get Linux.
So it's perfect for all but one or two of the computer geeks in the class.
What's next, mercury funtime playsets?
Actually, that's not next, it's already happened. My dad often tells stories about playing with mercury as a kid. Then we learned how that was a bad idea...
I hate how much this is going to make me sound old, but... When I was a kid thermometers were glass, filled with mercury. We were expected to be smart enough not to bite them while they were in our mouth in order to take our temperature. And yes, it was rather fun to play with. Of course I don't recall anyone being stupid enough to snort it either.
"If the materials were slightly less toxic, it might even be a project that kids could do at home."
30+ years ago this probably would have been a kids project. But now we have chemical free chemistry sets.
I'm usually amazed with the pictures amateur astronomers can take. The equipment that is needed in many cases is astounding too, especially in regards to cost. In this case the camera and optics are probably very reasonable. But the cost of the camera mount, observatory and shipping are several orders of magnitude greater.
But if you hit the 'home' button, which usually takes you to the apps, are you?
That's how my current phone, and previous 2 worked. I don't recall before that.
Too late - I just have
And it only took 29 minutes...
...That's longer than I thought it would take.
Cause after over several months underwater, there is NO way you are gonna get a clean room facility up to snuff & speed in a matter of days.
Were the actual plants flooded? Or was it a lack of power(impassable roads, etc.) due to the flooding that caused the shutdown?
I'll bet Hugo Drax could!
I don't recall his foray into space turning out so well.
I'm by no means up on the latest theory about what is at the core, but I thought that it's been some time since it was believed to be a solid "rock" as we would think of it. The last I heard, it was mostly likely metallic hydrogen. Theoretically (or maybe it's fact now) metallic hydrogen should be a high temperature superconductor. If true, this could also explain Jupiter's massive magnetic field.