...The "far side" is often mistakenly called the "dark side"...
You're quite right. I was using the colloquial meanings for dark/light side. I apologize for any confusion that may have caused. The AC GP seemed to think that daylight didn't move on the moon, which is clearly false.
I agree that the heat engine idea bears further exploration. Your idea of having the piston in one place is interesting also. The ideal Carnot engine requires all the energy exchanges to be "reversible" to achieve maximum efficiency. This usually means very slow movement; much slower than we find practical in our IC and steam engines. Letting the cycle take ~28 days at a single location could get us much closer, assuming we could still harness it effectively.
No. The "dark side" of the moon always faces away from the earth. It doesn't always face away from the sun. It is fully illuminated during the "new moon" phase.
Heh. Just wait for APK and his magical HOSTS file. It will probably be something like:
Copy the entire contents of the DNS server into THIS multi-GB file with all the domains pointing to 0.0.0.0 (<- this parses faster than using 127.0.0.1) then, simply delete the sites you want to allow.
What are you on about? Bose makes great audio equipment! You do need to make sure you use the right cables to connect it all, though; Monster should do the job...~
Start at the beginning, then work your way through the middle until you reach the end. Then stop.
And then keep coming back every MWF for the updates.:-) That is one of my favorite comics ever; very well-written/drawn, and almost never misses an update.
To keep this from just being a "+1," I'll share a few of my other favorites to lift OP's spirits:
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure they believe the Segway will replace cars as well.
It totally will. We just have to perfect that cliff-avoidance algorithm.~
Also, Howdy Ho, Mr. Hanky!
...The "far side" is often mistakenly called the "dark side"...
You're quite right. I was using the colloquial meanings for dark/light side. I apologize for any confusion that may have caused. The AC GP seemed to think that daylight didn't move on the moon, which is clearly false.
I agree that the heat engine idea bears further exploration. Your idea of having the piston in one place is interesting also. The ideal Carnot engine requires all the energy exchanges to be "reversible" to achieve maximum efficiency. This usually means very slow movement; much slower than we find practical in our IC and steam engines. Letting the cycle take ~28 days at a single location could get us much closer, assuming we could still harness it effectively.
No. The "dark side" of the moon always faces away from the earth. It doesn't always face away from the sun. It is fully illuminated during the "new moon" phase.
HTH. HAND.
Something like "Nesticle_Love?"
Copy the entire contents of the DNS server into THIS multi-GB file with all the domains pointing to 0.0.0.0 (<- this parses faster than using 127.0.0.1) then, simply delete the sites you want to allow.
APK
Only twice? ;-)
That's a prime example of grammar nazi bait. I would have just said whoosh, but you at least suspected it was intentional.
What are you on about? Bose makes great audio equipment! You do need to make sure you use the right cables to connect it all, though; Monster should do the job...~
Let's see...
Dresses in black (turtlenecks)?
Uses devices with shiny, white, uniform appearances?
I'd say that's +2 for the Sith column.
Most quotable bastard since Oscar Wilde. -- Benjamin Franklin
Sorry; couldn't help myself.
Meh. Life goes on.
Posting as Anonymous Coward for obvious reasons.
Illiteracy? Or would that be too obvious?
If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine!
:-)
Oh, sorry. Wrong thread.
That's... actually a very good way to look at this situation.
Someone please mod parent up.
Well done!
I, for one, welcome our new, garden-analogy-making overlords.
Start at the beginning, then work your way through the middle until you reach the end. Then stop.
And then keep coming back every MWF for the updates. :-) That is one of my favorite comics ever; very well-written/drawn, and almost never misses an update.
To keep this from just being a "+1," I'll share a few of my other favorites to lift OP's spirits:
http://www.dorktower.com/
http://irregularwebcomic.net/
http://www.basicinstructions.net/
http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/index.htm
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/ootslatest.html
http://xkcd.com/ (obligatory)
Then there's www.failblog.org and its sister sites. YMMV with individual items, but overall there's fun material there.
Lots of archive material to trawl with those. Enjoy!
The only thing nicer than seeing women smile is hearing them laugh.
Indeed.
by TrisexualPuppy (976893) on 16:32 20 December 2010 (#34622660)
...However, since it has sex, no matter how obscure it is, it's on the front page. Nice job, Slashdot!
I can't quite put my finger on it, but I know there's some irony here...
Indeed. A møøse once bit my sister...
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Size doesn't matter... distance from center to surface.
If "radius" doesn't qualify as a measure of size, I don't know what does.
"I've got the whole world
in my pants!
I've got the whole wide world
in my pants!..."
For the record, Dr. Moon is the Department Head of ECE. He gives killer lectures, but his tests will make you wish for death ;-).
I'm currently working on an MS there. Good to see him get some publicity.
Manganese man? Isn't that one of those proto-human fossils they found in Africa somewhere?~
ravelry (a fibre community...
Sweet! Do you guys go for single-mode, or multi-mode?
(i.e. knitters and crochet-ers))
Oh. Nevermind, then.
No, that would have been the missile launch in Soviet Russia.
That's classic post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Is that a fancy way of sayin' "I like your tiger-repelling rock?" ;-)