1.) Falcon Heavy is still only half as powerful as Saturn V, while they are planning an SLS variant on par with Saturn V. Elon Musk did claim he'd build one for $2.5B though.
2.) SpaceX proving themselves will take a lot more than one successful demo flight and one successful satellite in orbit (they had three demo flight failures). Orbital's Taurus XL had five successful launches right out of the gate, and look how that worked out for OCO and Glory.
Discussions of fiscal sustainability should not be polarized polemical disputes that end with references to killing people. Bringing the budget under control is not a liberal or conservative thing. It's in all of our best interests. If you want to have transfer programs, fine. Then fund transfer programs. Figure out how to sustainably finance your programs for the poor.
Easier said than done. Democrats want to finance them with taxes on the rich, but the Republicans won't let it happen. Republicans would rather cut social programs, but Democrats won't let that happen either. Both sides have an answer, but at least one side has their fingers in their ears whenever the other side talks so they can't come to a compromise.
No. I'm willing to bet you've never made anywhere near as low as $25,000 in your adult life, otherwise you'd know what $250 means to them. They spend all of their money. ALL of it. That's why it's called living paycheck to paycheck. My in-laws make slightly less than that in rural Ohio, and those "tax windfalls" mean things like replacing a decades old, leaky refrigerator, or fixing a car that's been broken down in front of their house for months (yes, those are what their last two tax refunds went to). All it takes is one thing in their century-old house to break and cause damage, and they're down to one meal a day for a few weeks. Pretty much the only "luxury" they've got is cable internet, but my mother-in-law occasionally sells things so even that is a pretty much a necessity these days. There is literally nothing they could cut that would make $21/month anything other than a hardship for them.
And yet, people like my in-laws do way more for the economy per dollar income than the rich. Raising taxes on them is bad for everybody.
Note that instability is actually desirable on planes like the F-117, and has been designed in since at least the F-16. The more stable a fighter jet is, the less maneuverable it will be. But also note that instability (especially spiral mode) can be mitigated by the pilot, depending on the severity and which control surfaces are available.
There are a few types of drag, but for now let's just consider skin friction drag and pressure drag. For a smooth sphere the size golf ball, pressure drag (or wake drag, caused by the flow separation), is significantly higher than the skin friction because the surface area of the sphere is so small. The dimples introduce turbulence in the boundary layer (increasing skin friction) in order to delay flow separation (significantly reducing wake drag).
For an airplane, however, this situation is reversed. The surface area is enormous, and since the shapes of the wings and the fuselage are such that they delay flow separation as long as possible, the skin friction drag is significantly higher than the wake drag. Introducing dimples will decrease wake drag like a golf ball, but it will increase the skin friction more, causing a net increase in drag.
Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution “naturally expires at the end of 19 years” because “the earth belongs always to the living generation.”
I would say "absolutely, completely, utterly impossible with current technology." Come on. Just shooting a laser would take 22 years to hit it and if anyone were there they wouldn't even notice because we are just a speck in their sky too. Not to mention that if you ever got there, you're probably looking at 3G gravity at the surface. I'd go from 160 lbs to 480 lbs. How the hell are you supposed to be a conquistador when you weight 3 times as much as you are accustomed to after spending your entire life weightless? Please.
An unmanned, multi-generational mission might be feasible. Maybe.
There's no info on the radius, but as long as it's greater than 2.1x Earth (I believe it's quite likely since they say heavy metals are scarce in that system), surface gravity will actually be less than Earth's.
I would not be so worried about Doppler shifted radiation. I would be more worried about the 3 foot tall super strong midgets who would live on a planet with 4.5x our gravity. They would undoubtedly be able to break a human man in half with little effort.
Actually, the planet's radius is probably going to be quite a bit larger than our own, since (reportedly) there are fewer heavy metals in that system. If the radius is 2.1x Earth's radius with 4.5x the mass, the gravity would be the same as Earth.
I hadn't heard of Blue Griffon, so I looked it up and found that it is made by the same guy who made Nvu all those years ago. Nvu hasn't been updated for over 6 years, so as a result the community forked it and it became KompoZer. Now, though, KompoZer hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. The other options don't appear to be faring much better on the release front. It looks like Blue Griffon might be the way to go at the moment.
Good info, but not entirely complete. What I was told while researching webservers was that nginx also excels at serving static files. Personally I have a PogoPlug v2 serving three static HTML websites (static HTML is generated when I change something to make it look dynamic) plus a few binary files. I've never run Apache or any others, but the resource usage is extremely low, even under some load.
Actually they are "for" the tax cut as long as they can tack on entirely unrelated riders like forcing Obama to make a decision on the oil pipeline. That's the reason they didn't extend it for a year in the first place. What is hilarious to me is that Republican Presidential candidates like to point out Obama's "failed policies" when their colleagues have bastardized them at every turn.
It seems to me that a lot of people are paying a huge premium for device consolidation. I have a Droid Eris that I got super cheap from someone who was upgrading, but it's not even connected to any wireless service. I just keep it in airplane mode with wifi turned on, and as long as I have wifi -- which is pretty much everywhere except the car, I have most of the features I want out of a smart phone with no recurring costs. That's including texting through Google Voice (I tried setting up wifi voice calls but I couldn't get it to work). For the occasional voice call when I don't have another phone handy, I have a prepaid phone that costs about $20 every three months depending on how many minutes I used. Frankly I'll take the inconvenience of carrying two phones (though my prepaid phone is extremely light), for the significant cost savings.
OGRE switched away from the GPL a couple years ago, and they had this to say about it. This, in my opinion, is the strongest argument for BSD-style licenses, and totally changed my mind about open source licenses. I'd probably still use GPL for end user products, but for libraries or frameworks or what have you, I like the simplicity of BSD or MIT.
+1. Neil Armstrong was an aerospace engineering professor at my undergrad alma mater, the University of Cincinnati (though admittedly he retired before I got there). Every American child coming out of elementary school knows who he is, so top that! I agree with the previous commenters on school...the university name on your undergrad degree almost doesn't matter anymore. Private space firms are small enough that they won't even see your resume without at least an MS on there, unless you know somebody that can get get you past the filter.
The debt crisis involves a complex series of tradeoffs, and polling along the lines of "would you rather let millionaires keep their tax cuts, or cut all services to the poor" might get us more accurate information.
This is the point. I suspect that 47% (not a majority, mind you, just a plurality) has wildly different ideas about how to go about balancing the budget. We already know that 72% of Americans support raising taxes on the highest tax bracket. Plans for reducing and eventually eliminating the deficit *should* be on the table at all times, but we shouldn't be held hostage by the debt ceiling. Obama should do as Clinton said: raise it and let the court figure it out. He cares way too much about getting re-elected though.
If you can't trust your spouse to be where he or she says, then you have serious problems and should be consulting with either a qualified marriage counselor or an attorney about a divorce.
I'm no lawyer, but doesn't having proof of adultery usually have an effect on alimony? Maybe he already spoke to a divorce lawyer and this is the result.
I did a little digging for those wondering: it does run Linux, but only with the proprietary Catalyst driver at the moment. Might be interesting once the open source driver catches up (assuming AMD shares the required info).
Why can't we figure out that we aren't wanted in that part of the world and just fuck off? They don't want us, they don't need us. Just fuck off before we pick up more bad karma and blowback.
If you know your neighbor beats his wife and threatens to kill her, and she doesn't say anything, do you stay silent? What if you heard the story from a coworker, or from your brother across the country?
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think most people would agree that they have a moral obligation to interfere in someone's life in some situations. There's a line somewhere, but it's probably different for everybody. Now what happens when the oppressor runs an entire country, committing what you consider morally reprehensible acts that are not illegal in that country? Who should have the authority to do something? Nobody? Can we really leave it up to the people when opposing viewpoints are quashed violently?
Sam Harris gave this interesting TED talk that argues that science can answer moral questions like these, though he doesn't really address how we (as in the people of the world) should deal with it. I don't think there is an objective answer to these things...that's what makes international politics so difficult. To some people, removing Gaddafi (when he made clear he wouldn't listen to dissent) is worth it.
I think it's worth noting that being a bookworm later in life doesn't mean you were always one. I had maybe half a dozen books when I was in high school, not counting the middle grade books I still had on my shelf from back when I did Pizza Hut's Book It program (which I note is still going on!). And even then it was only because, when I was a sophomore in high school, my brother had brought home a book about black holes that just blew my mind. After I realized the similar books said mostly the same things, I lost interest in reading again and went back to playing video games. Then, when I was 21, a friend from college lent me the first eleven Wheel of Time books, thus creating a monster.
Now I'm making up for lost time, but in the six intervening years my Goodreads read shelf has grown to over 200 books, and I probably forgot a bunch. I have turned my wife into a monster as well, and we have over a hundred dead tree books in our collection, forty in boxes for donation to the nonprofit attached to our local library, plus six checked out from the library at the moment.
Anyway the point is, just because the under-20 crowd are largely still mindless Facebook and YouTube and video-game consumer drones doesn't mean they'll stay that way forever. Also, just a personal note related to the story, my wife and I both love the smell of books, new and old, so an e-reader is not even on the radar. I've tried my mother's, and it's just not for me. I don't think TFA is wrong, however, just a bit sad.
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1.) Falcon Heavy is still only half as powerful as Saturn V, while they are planning an SLS variant on par with Saturn V. Elon Musk did claim he'd build one for $2.5B though.
2.) SpaceX proving themselves will take a lot more than one successful demo flight and one successful satellite in orbit (they had three demo flight failures). Orbital's Taurus XL had five successful launches right out of the gate, and look how that worked out for OCO and Glory.
SLS isn't only a "backup". It will be the primary means of launching heavy materials and vehicles beyond orbit for deep space missions
What "heavy materials and vehicles"?
No such missions are funded. No such vehicles are funded.
"Backing up" commercial launches, at $1.5 billion per launch, is the only mission SLS has.
So you want them to spend money now on missions that will only be viable if the SLS works out?
Discussions of fiscal sustainability should not be polarized polemical disputes that end with references to killing people. Bringing the budget under control is not a liberal or conservative thing. It's in all of our best interests. If you want to have transfer programs, fine. Then fund transfer programs. Figure out how to sustainably finance your programs for the poor.
Easier said than done. Democrats want to finance them with taxes on the rich, but the Republicans won't let it happen. Republicans would rather cut social programs, but Democrats won't let that happen either. Both sides have an answer, but at least one side has their fingers in their ears whenever the other side talks so they can't come to a compromise.
No. I'm willing to bet you've never made anywhere near as low as $25,000 in your adult life, otherwise you'd know what $250 means to them. They spend all of their money. ALL of it. That's why it's called living paycheck to paycheck. My in-laws make slightly less than that in rural Ohio, and those "tax windfalls" mean things like replacing a decades old, leaky refrigerator, or fixing a car that's been broken down in front of their house for months (yes, those are what their last two tax refunds went to). All it takes is one thing in their century-old house to break and cause damage, and they're down to one meal a day for a few weeks. Pretty much the only "luxury" they've got is cable internet, but my mother-in-law occasionally sells things so even that is a pretty much a necessity these days. There is literally nothing they could cut that would make $21/month anything other than a hardship for them.
And yet, people like my in-laws do way more for the economy per dollar income than the rich. Raising taxes on them is bad for everybody.
Note that instability is actually desirable on planes like the F-117, and has been designed in since at least the F-16. The more stable a fighter jet is, the less maneuverable it will be. But also note that instability (especially spiral mode) can be mitigated by the pilot, depending on the severity and which control surfaces are available.
There are a few types of drag, but for now let's just consider skin friction drag and pressure drag. For a smooth sphere the size golf ball, pressure drag (or wake drag, caused by the flow separation), is significantly higher than the skin friction because the surface area of the sphere is so small. The dimples introduce turbulence in the boundary layer (increasing skin friction) in order to delay flow separation (significantly reducing wake drag).
For an airplane, however, this situation is reversed. The surface area is enormous, and since the shapes of the wings and the fuselage are such that they delay flow separation as long as possible, the skin friction drag is significantly higher than the wake drag. Introducing dimples will decrease wake drag like a golf ball, but it will increase the skin friction more, causing a net increase in drag.
Actually, you may well find the US Constitution move to the religion section. Certain parties certainly treat it that way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html?_r=1
From the article:
Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution “naturally expires at the end of 19 years” because “the earth belongs always to the living generation.”
FYI, for comparison look at GJ 1214 b, which is about 6.5x Earth mass, but 2.7x the radius, which gives a surface gravity of 0.91g.
I would say "absolutely, completely, utterly impossible with current technology." Come on. Just shooting a laser would take 22 years to hit it and if anyone were there they wouldn't even notice because we are just a speck in their sky too. Not to mention that if you ever got there, you're probably looking at 3G gravity at the surface. I'd go from 160 lbs to 480 lbs. How the hell are you supposed to be a conquistador when you weight 3 times as much as you are accustomed to after spending your entire life weightless? Please.
An unmanned, multi-generational mission might be feasible. Maybe.
There's no info on the radius, but as long as it's greater than 2.1x Earth (I believe it's quite likely since they say heavy metals are scarce in that system), surface gravity will actually be less than Earth's.
I would not be so worried about Doppler shifted radiation. I would be more worried about the 3 foot tall super strong midgets who would live on a planet with 4.5x our gravity. They would undoubtedly be able to break a human man in half with little effort.
Actually, the planet's radius is probably going to be quite a bit larger than our own, since (reportedly) there are fewer heavy metals in that system. If the radius is 2.1x Earth's radius with 4.5x the mass, the gravity would be the same as Earth.
I agree with but since no one seemed to have any answers for this person... I have not used these but they seem to be options a Dreamweaver replacement. NVU http://net2.com/nvu/ Quanta Plus http://freecode.com/projects/quantaplus Amaya http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/ Hope this helps the original poster. Oh and if you just want free as in beer. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/express I have used any of them but out of this is you will probably find something that will fill the bill.
I hadn't heard of Blue Griffon, so I looked it up and found that it is made by the same guy who made Nvu all those years ago. Nvu hasn't been updated for over 6 years, so as a result the community forked it and it became KompoZer. Now, though, KompoZer hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. The other options don't appear to be faring much better on the release front. It looks like Blue Griffon might be the way to go at the moment.
Good info, but not entirely complete. What I was told while researching webservers was that nginx also excels at serving static files. Personally I have a PogoPlug v2 serving three static HTML websites (static HTML is generated when I change something to make it look dynamic) plus a few binary files. I've never run Apache or any others, but the resource usage is extremely low, even under some load.
Check out Creative Commons Zero.
Actually they are "for" the tax cut as long as they can tack on entirely unrelated riders like forcing Obama to make a decision on the oil pipeline. That's the reason they didn't extend it for a year in the first place. What is hilarious to me is that Republican Presidential candidates like to point out Obama's "failed policies" when their colleagues have bastardized them at every turn.
Namecheap. They currently have a coupon code SOPASUCKS for domain transfers.
It seems to me that a lot of people are paying a huge premium for device consolidation. I have a Droid Eris that I got super cheap from someone who was upgrading, but it's not even connected to any wireless service. I just keep it in airplane mode with wifi turned on, and as long as I have wifi -- which is pretty much everywhere except the car, I have most of the features I want out of a smart phone with no recurring costs. That's including texting through Google Voice (I tried setting up wifi voice calls but I couldn't get it to work). For the occasional voice call when I don't have another phone handy, I have a prepaid phone that costs about $20 every three months depending on how many minutes I used. Frankly I'll take the inconvenience of carrying two phones (though my prepaid phone is extremely light), for the significant cost savings.
+1 Openbox and wbar, plus conky on the right and a vertical tint2 taskbar on the left
OGRE switched away from the GPL a couple years ago, and they had this to say about it. This, in my opinion, is the strongest argument for BSD-style licenses, and totally changed my mind about open source licenses. I'd probably still use GPL for end user products, but for libraries or frameworks or what have you, I like the simplicity of BSD or MIT.
+1. Neil Armstrong was an aerospace engineering professor at my undergrad alma mater, the University of Cincinnati (though admittedly he retired before I got there). Every American child coming out of elementary school knows who he is, so top that! I agree with the previous commenters on school...the university name on your undergrad degree almost doesn't matter anymore. Private space firms are small enough that they won't even see your resume without at least an MS on there, unless you know somebody that can get get you past the filter.
This does not make *any* sense, unless Knuth was trying to troll generations of students who were too insecure to admit they couldn't understand MIX.
So Knuth is kinda like the L. Ron Hubbard of Computer Science?
The debt crisis involves a complex series of tradeoffs, and polling along the lines of "would you rather let millionaires keep their tax cuts, or cut all services to the poor" might get us more accurate information.
This is the point. I suspect that 47% (not a majority, mind you, just a plurality) has wildly different ideas about how to go about balancing the budget. We already know that 72% of Americans support raising taxes on the highest tax bracket. Plans for reducing and eventually eliminating the deficit *should* be on the table at all times, but we shouldn't be held hostage by the debt ceiling. Obama should do as Clinton said: raise it and let the court figure it out. He cares way too much about getting re-elected though.
If you can't trust your spouse to be where he or she says, then you have serious problems and should be consulting with either a qualified marriage counselor or an attorney about a divorce.
I'm no lawyer, but doesn't having proof of adultery usually have an effect on alimony? Maybe he already spoke to a divorce lawyer and this is the result.
I did a little digging for those wondering: it does run Linux, but only with the proprietary Catalyst driver at the moment. Might be interesting once the open source driver catches up (assuming AMD shares the required info).
Why can't we figure out that we aren't wanted in that part of the world and just fuck off? They don't want us, they don't need us. Just fuck off before we pick up more bad karma and blowback.
If you know your neighbor beats his wife and threatens to kill her, and she doesn't say anything, do you stay silent? What if you heard the story from a coworker, or from your brother across the country?
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think most people would agree that they have a moral obligation to interfere in someone's life in some situations. There's a line somewhere, but it's probably different for everybody. Now what happens when the oppressor runs an entire country, committing what you consider morally reprehensible acts that are not illegal in that country? Who should have the authority to do something? Nobody? Can we really leave it up to the people when opposing viewpoints are quashed violently?
Sam Harris gave this interesting TED talk that argues that science can answer moral questions like these, though he doesn't really address how we (as in the people of the world) should deal with it. I don't think there is an objective answer to these things...that's what makes international politics so difficult. To some people, removing Gaddafi (when he made clear he wouldn't listen to dissent) is worth it.
I think it's worth noting that being a bookworm later in life doesn't mean you were always one. I had maybe half a dozen books when I was in high school, not counting the middle grade books I still had on my shelf from back when I did Pizza Hut's Book It program (which I note is still going on!). And even then it was only because, when I was a sophomore in high school, my brother had brought home a book about black holes that just blew my mind. After I realized the similar books said mostly the same things, I lost interest in reading again and went back to playing video games. Then, when I was 21, a friend from college lent me the first eleven Wheel of Time books, thus creating a monster.
Now I'm making up for lost time, but in the six intervening years my Goodreads read shelf has grown to over 200 books, and I probably forgot a bunch. I have turned my wife into a monster as well, and we have over a hundred dead tree books in our collection, forty in boxes for donation to the nonprofit attached to our local library, plus six checked out from the library at the moment.
Anyway the point is, just because the under-20 crowd are largely still mindless Facebook and YouTube and video-game consumer drones doesn't mean they'll stay that way forever. Also, just a personal note related to the story, my wife and I both love the smell of books, new and old, so an e-reader is not even on the radar. I've tried my mother's, and it's just not for me. I don't think TFA is wrong, however, just a bit sad.