You've seen too many bad movies. A hole would result in some localized swelling of the exposed tissue. I'd be more concerned about severe sunburn, which can happen quickly in space.
Selective availability never had a damn thing to do with fear of terrorists. It was intended to deny the enemy access to high-precision navigation data. Even if every terrorist shot themselves in the head tomorrow, the military would still need the ability to deny this information to enemy forces.
I think that book was about the DG Eclipse. The DG Nova was an earlier 16-bit minicomputer that competed with the DEC PDP-11. DG was founded by Ed de Castro, an ex-DEC engineer, who was involved in the design of the PDP-8.
While it may be entertaining to make fun of those "weak-willed gluttons", there are genetic factors that can make it very difficult for some people to lose weight. Would you make fun of a diabetic for not being able to regulate their blood sugar level without insulin?
I can't get too worked up about this. In the larger scheme of things, it's a trivial amount of pollution. If you are really concerned about polluting Lake Michigan, how about doing something about agricultural, suburban, and urban runoff, poorly treated sewage, and the misuse of fertilizers and pesticides?
Bad idea. It's called obstruction of justice. Conrad Black was just convicted of that for removing many boxes of files from his office when he found out that he was being investigated.
I think some of it is biological. In general, I have a good memory. However, my memory for things like birthdays, dates, zip codes, and phone numbers is poor. If it's an arbitrary number, it doesn't stick very well.
Sony certainly has developed a talent for screwing things up. At what point do they write off the PS3 and try again? I'll keep my PS2 until Sony offers a better console at a reasonable price with solid backwards compatibility.
Is it possible to sue them in small claims court for the time and money that their customers have to spend attempting to fix billing errors? Those are real damages caused by the company's incompetence.
I can think of two problems with your idea. One, the digital circuits needed to display the data would have been too expensive at that time. Two, the bit-error rate on plain audio CDs would be too high for it to work reliably. They had to add an additional layer of error correcting coding to the CD-ROM.
A nuclear detonation designed to produce an EMP is going to be at such a high altitude, say 400 km, that the blast, thermal, and radiation effects will be negligible at ground level. In space, the nuclear device can be modeled as a black-body radiator that emits large amounts of soft x-rays. The Earth's atmosphere is relatively opaque to x-rays.
Delaware's laws are "corporation friendly". It's a major source of income for the state. It's similar to how ships are often registered under "flags of convenience" to avoid having to comply with the laws and regulations of their home country.
There are stink bombs that are effective at dispersing crowds. There's been quite a bit of research in the identification and synthesis of the chemicals that most humans find to be really disgusting, things like essence of rotting corpse.
Seagate used to make several models of drives with two actuators. They never caught on and were discontinued.
In ancient times, you could get disk drives that had a fixed head for each track, eliminating the need for a head actuator. They were very fast, but their storage density was low.
Modern track densities have made it impractical to have more than one head active at a time. Each active head needs its own independent positioner, servo channel, and read-write electronics.
I've seen mainframe disk drives that had multiple actuators and multiple active heads. That was decades ago, when the VAX was just being introduced and a 70 MB drive was the size of a washing machine.
It may not be the fault of WPHS. Most reports of interference are actually the result of people using crappy FM radios with poor selectivity and front-ends that are susceptible to overload. Malfunctioning transmitters are relatively rare.
The school system is more than able to pay their debts. They just don't want to. Fsck them. IBM should do whatever will cause the most political pain to the asshats running the school system. I'm tired of school officials who waste money like drunken sailors, and then come crying to the public, saying that if we really cared about the children, we'd vote to fully fund their bloated budget request.
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You've seen too many bad movies. A hole would result in some localized swelling of the exposed tissue. I'd be more concerned about severe sunburn, which can happen quickly in space.
Selective availability never had a damn thing to do with fear of terrorists. It was intended to deny the enemy access to high-precision navigation data. Even if every terrorist shot themselves in the head tomorrow, the military would still need the ability to deny this information to enemy forces.
I think that book was about the DG Eclipse. The DG Nova was an earlier 16-bit minicomputer that competed with the DEC PDP-11. DG was founded by Ed de Castro, an ex-DEC engineer, who was involved in the design of the PDP-8.
While it may be entertaining to make fun of those "weak-willed gluttons", there are genetic factors that can make it very difficult for some people to lose weight. Would you make fun of a diabetic for not being able to regulate their blood sugar level without insulin?
I can't get too worked up about this. In the larger scheme of things, it's a trivial amount of pollution. If you are really concerned about polluting Lake Michigan, how about doing something about agricultural, suburban, and urban runoff, poorly treated sewage, and the misuse of fertilizers and pesticides?
Bad idea. It's called obstruction of justice. Conrad Black was just convicted of that for removing many boxes of files from his office when he found out that he was being investigated.
I think some of it is biological. In general, I have a good memory. However, my memory for things like birthdays, dates, zip codes, and phone numbers is poor. If it's an arbitrary number, it doesn't stick very well.
The saying "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" comes to mind. It's too little and too late.
Sony certainly has developed a talent for screwing things up. At what point do they write off the PS3 and try again? I'll keep my PS2 until Sony offers a better console at a reasonable price with solid backwards compatibility.
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Can't take a smoke break in peace anymore, with all these health nuts trying to get a free lungful of nicotine.
Is it possible to sue them in small claims court for the time and money that their customers have to spend attempting to fix billing errors? Those are real damages caused by the company's incompetence.
My AT&T (ex-Cingular) phone is a GSM phone. I've never seen an AT&T CDMA phone, just TDMA (obsolete) and GSM.
Don't expect sympathy for self-inflicted wounds.
I can think of two problems with your idea. One, the digital circuits needed to display the data would have been too expensive at that time. Two, the bit-error rate on plain audio CDs would be too high for it to work reliably. They had to add an additional layer of error correcting coding to the CD-ROM.
A nuclear detonation designed to produce an EMP is going to be at such a high altitude, say 400 km, that the blast, thermal, and radiation effects will be negligible at ground level. In space, the nuclear device can be modeled as a black-body radiator that emits large amounts of soft x-rays. The Earth's atmosphere is relatively opaque to x-rays.
Delaware's laws are "corporation friendly". It's a major source of income for the state. It's similar to how ships are often registered under "flags of convenience" to avoid having to comply with the laws and regulations of their home country.
There are stink bombs that are effective at dispersing crowds. There's been quite a bit of research in the identification and synthesis of the chemicals that most humans find to be really disgusting, things like essence of rotting corpse.
In ancient times, you could get disk drives that had a fixed head for each track, eliminating the need for a head actuator. They were very fast, but their storage density was low.
Modern track densities have made it impractical to have more than one head active at a time. Each active head needs its own independent positioner, servo channel, and read-write electronics.
I've seen mainframe disk drives that had multiple actuators and multiple active heads. That was decades ago, when the VAX was just being introduced and a 70 MB drive was the size of a washing machine.
Yes. The average thief's thought processes rarely make it past "ooh, shiny!".
You can lose the title to your home as the result of someone else's fraudulent actions. Hanging is too good for the bastards that commit this crime.
It may not be the fault of WPHS. Most reports of interference are actually the result of people using crappy FM radios with poor selectivity and front-ends that are susceptible to overload. Malfunctioning transmitters are relatively rare.
No. Any switch to 100% digital is many years away, if ever. Digital radio broadcasting is still in an early stage of development and deployment.
Can't we just brick the executive?
The school system is more than able to pay their debts. They just don't want to. Fsck them. IBM should do whatever will cause the most political pain to the asshats running the school system. I'm tired of school officials who waste money like drunken sailors, and then come crying to the public, saying that if we really cared about the children, we'd vote to fully fund their bloated budget request.
WTF are you talking about? Anyone who has bought a surplus military rifle is familiar with cosmoline.