A screen of very sharp blades, in an orthogonal pattern, could be put over the engine inlet so that when a bird hits it, it will be chopped into smaller pieces that will make it easier for the engine to ingest (digest). Composed of the right material and with the proper cross-section, it would have minimal effect on airflow.
Pollution in general turns the atmosphere into a hazy soup that scatters, reflects, and blocks the light of the stars. The lights in our urban and suburban night-time environments only make that haze visible because of the light reflected from it, making it harder to see dim objects in the sky. There is a scale to measure the 'darkness' of a viewing location, called the 'Bortle Dark-Sky Scale', which allows you to evaluate the 'darkness' your viewing location. Using this scale, the night-time sky in Galileo's time would achieve a ranking of '1', the darkest sky possible. If that were the case, it would have been possible to read a book or a newspaper with ease by the light of the full Moon.
The 'World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness' has some nice pix of worldwide light pollution.
An article in 'The New Yorker' magazine from August, 2007, discusses light pollution and John Bortle.
That's all this is. Shifting the cost from paper to silicon. There's no long term savings -twenty percent of laptop computers are damaged or destroyed by students in a three year period. Allow them to take them off-campus -factor in another ten percent for loss/theft. Then there will be the inevitable five percent that just fail from a hardware standpoint and will have to be replaced or repaired. Then there is the cost to provide Internet access via 3G wireless or some other means -don't expect the parent's to pay for that. Textbooks last a lot longer and are essentially maintenance-free -plus the libraries at schools will charge for loss or damage to the books. So basically it comes down to no savings for the taxpayers and it's just a way for Schwarzenegger to look like a hero -in real life.
Modern commercial jets are designed to fly within a very narrow area of their performance envelope -defined by speed, thrust, lift, and fuel economy. It's called the 'coffin corner'. What the situation is with this incident is a confluence of circumstance. No more, no less. Weather, engineering decisions, and plain bad luck is what brought this plane down. God help those who who made the bad engineering decisions.
M5 suffered from the same megalomania and psychosis that its creator, Dr. Richard Daystrom, suffered from. This was the result of Daystrom having used his own 'memory engrams' in M5's programming.
How do you get a U.S. passport if you're an illegal alien? Do they not do their homework when they review applications? I mean, come on. Not only has the application fee gone sky high, but now as a U.S. citizen -with a valid passport- you must be subjected this indignity as well. Honestly!
About the DIY hacker in their mom's basement. Those people are not a threat to the Apple brand and their reputation as a hardware supplier -Psystar is. If you want to built a hackintosh yourself, you do it knowing full well that what you are doing is illegal -from a EULA standpoint. But, chances are good that someone technically proficient enough to pull it off, will not be calling Apple for support.
There is something about a Polaroid shot, that makes the picture undoubtedly Polaroid nearly every time.
Yes, there was. It was by and large that the picture was always slightly out of focus or blurred. I had several Polaroid SX-70 style cameras when they were still making them. The original SX-70 had manual focus and the later SLR-680/690 had an ultrasonic auto-focus system that never was quite accurate enough to really get the subject in sharp focus. That, combined with the big, slappy, mirror in the optical path -which was responsible for the motion blurring because of the vibration it setup- always produced less than stunning results despite what their advertisements of the day showed. The film was also an issue, since it was gel-based and didn't 'dry' for several days after the photo was taken. If you pressed on the photo, rubbed it with your finger, or it was stored incorrectly before the film had 'dried', there would be strange and oft-times seriously damaging effects to the photo.
When was the last time you bought any corn -fresh corn on the cob, not frozen? Four years ago you could get six ears of corn for a dollar -or less if it was on sale. Three years ago it leapt to a dollar an ear when this whole E85 shit hit the fan. Two years ago, you couldn't buy fresh corn on the cob in supermarkets on the west coast, even during the summer. Now, just this spring, with the economy in the shitter, it's three ears for a dollar. Tell me, in all honesty, that this hasn't been a direct result of the U.S. Government's E85 initiative.
Always have a pre-programmed kill limit. Sending wave after wave of humans at them will eventually cause them to reach that limit and shutdown, thereby ensuring human victory.
If they made it that big, I'd buy it. I can't use an iPhone because the bloody screen is too small for me to see it without optical assistance. If I had to use one everyday, I'd go nuts putting on and taking off my glasses everytime I'd have to make a call.
When one side can't afford to get good legal representation, the judge doesn't get to see the whole picture.
True. However, one of the primary responsibilities of any member of the bench is to see that the rights of the accused are protected, above all else. "Better to see ten guilty men go free than to see one innocent man convicted." Those that fail to do so are not upholding their responsibilities and will be either reversed on appeal, or should removed from the bench. It is entirely within the discretion of any judge to bring to the attention of the accused that they might not be properly represented and that they should seek better counsel; even if their lawyer is one appointed by the court.
It seems as though that the judges in these cases are becoming more educated as to the technical aspects of this case and P2P filesharing in general. This can only mean that the RIAA's tactics will be scruntized more closely by the court than ever before. This can only be a good thing for defendants in these cases. If the defense prevails, this is the start to the end of this mess for once-and-for-all. Thanks to NewYorkCountryLawyer for keeping us on top of this.
Many 'large' newspapers are part of media conglomerates that also control cable systems and radio stations. In order for the newspaper protion to survive they will have to cease providing 'free' service to non-subscribers. Cablevision, which controls the Long Island, New York-based Newsday, will be changing their website to a subscription only service starting in June of 2009. Long Island Cablevision subscribers will have access to the site as part of their cable service, while others will have to pay if they want more than 'limited' news. Apparently the S.F. Chronicle will be doing the same thing soon. This is probably the start of a trend that will continue as these companies struggle to make a profit.
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It would, at least, take a Hyperspace Phased Gate explosion to damage the Moon in the fashion that you suggest.
From an exploit standpoint, no. From an editorial standpoint, yes.
A screen of very sharp blades, in an orthogonal pattern, could be put over the engine inlet so that when a bird hits it, it will be chopped into smaller pieces that will make it easier for the engine to ingest (digest). Composed of the right material and with the proper cross-section, it would have minimal effect on airflow.
Then they were ground up into a fine, pink, powder. Ah! That soothes the burn!
Pollution in general turns the atmosphere into a hazy soup that scatters, reflects, and blocks the light of the stars. The lights in our urban and suburban night-time environments only make that haze visible because of the light reflected from it, making it harder to see dim objects in the sky. There is a scale to measure the 'darkness' of a viewing location, called the 'Bortle Dark-Sky Scale', which allows you to evaluate the 'darkness' your viewing location. Using this scale, the night-time sky in Galileo's time would achieve a ranking of '1', the darkest sky possible. If that were the case, it would have been possible to read a book or a newspaper with ease by the light of the full Moon.
The 'World Atlas of the Artificial Night Sky Brightness' has some nice pix of worldwide light pollution.
An article in 'The New Yorker' magazine from August, 2007, discusses light pollution and John Bortle.
That's all this is. Shifting the cost from paper to silicon. There's no long term savings -twenty percent of laptop computers are damaged or destroyed by students in a three year period. Allow them to take them off-campus -factor in another ten percent for loss/theft. Then there will be the inevitable five percent that just fail from a hardware standpoint and will have to be replaced or repaired. Then there is the cost to provide Internet access via 3G wireless or some other means -don't expect the parent's to pay for that. Textbooks last a lot longer and are essentially maintenance-free -plus the libraries at schools will charge for loss or damage to the books. So basically it comes down to no savings for the taxpayers and it's just a way for Schwarzenegger to look like a hero -in real life.
Modern commercial jets are designed to fly within a very narrow area of their performance envelope -defined by speed, thrust, lift, and fuel economy. It's called the 'coffin corner'. What the situation is with this incident is a confluence of circumstance. No more, no less. Weather, engineering decisions, and plain bad luck is what brought this plane down. God help those who who made the bad engineering decisions.
"But DEC...was not what we would consider a dot-com
It was the first commercial company to be connected to the Internet.
This guy is.
M5 suffered from the same megalomania and psychosis that its creator, Dr. Richard Daystrom, suffered from. This was the result of Daystrom having used his own 'memory engrams' in M5's programming.
1. Start a blog.
2. Start blogging.
3. ?
There is no four. I quit.
If you add the 'execution' fee -how appropriate- it's $100.00US.
How do you get a U.S. passport if you're an illegal alien? Do they not do their homework when they review applications? I mean, come on. Not only has the application fee gone sky high, but now as a U.S. citizen -with a valid passport- you must be subjected this indignity as well. Honestly!
About the DIY hacker in their mom's basement. Those people are not a threat to the Apple brand and their reputation as a hardware supplier -Psystar is. If you want to built a hackintosh yourself, you do it knowing full well that what you are doing is illegal -from a EULA standpoint. But, chances are good that someone technically proficient enough to pull it off, will not be calling Apple for support.
There is something about a Polaroid shot, that makes the picture undoubtedly Polaroid nearly every time.
Yes, there was. It was by and large that the picture was always slightly out of focus or blurred. I had several Polaroid SX-70 style cameras when they were still making them. The original SX-70 had manual focus and the later SLR-680/690 had an ultrasonic auto-focus system that never was quite accurate enough to really get the subject in sharp focus. That, combined with the big, slappy, mirror in the optical path -which was responsible for the motion blurring because of the vibration it setup- always produced less than stunning results despite what their advertisements of the day showed. The film was also an issue, since it was gel-based and didn't 'dry' for several days after the photo was taken. If you pressed on the photo, rubbed it with your finger, or it was stored incorrectly before the film had 'dried', there would be strange and oft-times seriously damaging effects to the photo.
Now that we've built a dice-rolling gambling robot...
You just need some hookerbots and a casino for blackjack.
When was the last time you bought any corn -fresh corn on the cob, not frozen? Four years ago you could get six ears of corn for a dollar -or less if it was on sale. Three years ago it leapt to a dollar an ear when this whole E85 shit hit the fan. Two years ago, you couldn't buy fresh corn on the cob in supermarkets on the west coast, even during the summer. Now, just this spring, with the economy in the shitter, it's three ears for a dollar. Tell me, in all honesty, that this hasn't been a direct result of the U.S. Government's E85 initiative.
Always have a pre-programmed kill limit. Sending wave after wave of humans at them will eventually cause them to reach that limit and shutdown, thereby ensuring human victory.
If they made it that big, I'd buy it. I can't use an iPhone because the bloody screen is too small for me to see it without optical assistance. If I had to use one everyday, I'd go nuts putting on and taking off my glasses everytime I'd have to make a call.
Soccerbot3000: I've fallen and I can't get up!
I'm sorry. I couldn't resist.
Simply changing the ID3 info for the file will change the hash.
When one side can't afford to get good legal representation, the judge doesn't get to see the whole picture.
True. However, one of the primary responsibilities of any member of the bench is to see that the rights of the accused are protected, above all else. "Better to see ten guilty men go free than to see one innocent man convicted." Those that fail to do so are not upholding their responsibilities and will be either reversed on appeal, or should removed from the bench. It is entirely within the discretion of any judge to bring to the attention of the accused that they might not be properly represented and that they should seek better counsel; even if their lawyer is one appointed by the court.
+5 Funny.
It seems as though that the judges in these cases are becoming more educated as to the technical aspects of this case and P2P filesharing in general. This can only mean that the RIAA's tactics will be scruntized more closely by the court than ever before. This can only be a good thing for defendants in these cases. If the defense prevails, this is the start to the end of this mess for once-and-for-all. Thanks to NewYorkCountryLawyer for keeping us on top of this.
Many 'large' newspapers are part of media conglomerates that also control cable systems and radio stations. In order for the newspaper protion to survive they will have to cease providing 'free' service to non-subscribers. Cablevision, which controls the Long Island, New York-based Newsday, will be changing their website to a subscription only service starting in June of 2009. Long Island Cablevision subscribers will have access to the site as part of their cable service, while others will have to pay if they want more than 'limited' news. Apparently the S.F. Chronicle will be doing the same thing soon. This is probably the start of a trend that will continue as these companies struggle to make a profit.