My setup was 'leet, 'cause I had a green screen for crisp 80-column text (the original AppleWorks for Apple//e rocked), and a color monitor (yes, a real monitor, not a TV; no fuzzy RF and tuning stages) for color games. Both at the same time, with a splitter.
LodeRunner looked better in color. The player character was white (IIRC), and the blocks were blue. I forget whether the bad guys were colored or not.
In less time, with fewer bugs BUT poorly (or not at all) architected, unmaintainable, and resource-hogging. I'm not so sure that's an improvement.
The implementation language has absolutely nothing to do with architecture, maintainability, or resource use.
On the other hand, Java makes it easy to use well-designed and well-implemented libraries. It is much harder to code up a linked-list solution when you can use an off-the-shelf Stack or Hashmap.
Yes, Evolution was banned because it contradicted the written word of God... in 1925. Evolution is right, not because it opposes religion, but because it has been repeatedly tested by comparing evidence with predictions of the theory.
Arguments that oppose Evolution also oppose verifiable observations, and must be discarded because they are wrong. You can claim religions persecution for being locked out of science class when you want to insist that the moon is made of green cheese, or that the sky is red at night and green during the day. Good luck with that.
The only fundamental difference between the two is that Evolution is a testable and tested scientific theory backed up by over a century of evidence, while ID is rehashed creationism, a religions belief contradicted by evidence and illegal (and unwise) to teach in public school science classrooms.
One final clue: Evolution does not speak at all to the origin of life.
A wonderfully fundamental equation, featuring 5 of the most interesting numbers: 0, 1, pi, e, and i, and the three fundamental operations of arithmatic: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
300 * 10 is 3000, so gasoline still stores three times as much potential chemical energy as the battery. But converting chemical potential energy into motion through an internal combustion engine is about 30% efficient, while power electronics and electric motors net between 80 and 95% efficient.
Battery: 3000 * 0.8 = 2400
Gasoline: 9,700 * 0.3 = 2910
so getting batteries to within 80% of gasoline (i.e. same volumetric energy density as a vehicle fuel as ethanol) really is revolutionary.
If these Li-Ion batteries are on the lighter end of the scale, the energy/weight figures could be extrordinary.
Battery: 1200 * 10 (improvement from research) * 0.8 (efficiency) = 9600 watt-hours traction per kilogram
Their excuse for me needing to buy Dell to begin with is that "their I/O card didn't work in anything but Dells. Anybody who's used anything else has had nothing but problems." Their special I/O card was essentially a Startech 4-port 16550 serial card. My only conclusion is that most of their customers are morons, and their tech support are morons, too.
You know nothing about the lab equipment manufacturer's other customers, or their other customer's tech support. You nailed it in the first sentence; what the lab equipment vendor told you was an excuse. It may or may not have had any original or ongoing basis in fact.
Two slaves, working all day with rope, block and tackle, and windlass, could possibly move your SUV the 3 or 4 miles that the liter of petrol would move it.
Paul McCready (of Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross fame) mentioned in a talk I got to see that he had created a wind-driven water craft that could carry a person and make double the wind speed... directly upwind. Essentially a turbine driving a propeller, and the craft in general being a hydrofoil.
If the kite only lasts 1 year, it is a problem (at today's cost of oil). It doesn't pay for itself before it wears out... unless the kite fabric is a small fraction of the installed system's $715,000
A kite is a clean and reusable local power generation method. Power is generated on the ship, and delivered to the ship in the form of tension on the kite string.
One of the goals of Constellation is safety. You jeopardize astronauts launching them on a vehicle that has SRBs strapped onto cryogenic tanks. That's the Challenger disaster redux. Ares V has SRBs strapped onto the cryogenic tank, so the plan is to not use Ares V for people.
The point of Ares I is to get the capsule into space safely. No SRBs next to cryogenic tanks. Underneath a cryogenic tank is fine; Ares I first stage is a bigger version of a Space Shuttle SRB.
Breaking the law is always wrong. Unless you are a wealthy, white, male, Republican. Then it's OK, and the District Attorney is on a witch hunt (see Fitzgerald, Patrick).
You didn't give Microsoft more money. That is wrong. Microsoft deserves your money more than you do, after all, they invented Windows. Nobody could see out of a house before Microsoft.
Nine business days out of ten, I need to drive 22 miles. That's my round-trip commute, and regenerative braking would be a big help, as I live in a valley, have to drive up onto the plain, down a steep hill into the next valley, and then back up a gentler incline to work. Then do the whole thing the other way around to get back home. After doing this commute for six years, my car needed a new transmission. P'raps saving the brakes by using engine braking down the steep hill wasn't such a good idea.
But on the tenth day, I need to drive 170 miles, 140 of them at highway speed over fairly level ground. And about three or four times a year I need to haul stuff. Lumber, sheet goods, woodworking machines, that sort of thing.
"Pirating" used to mean the armed attacks (or threats thereof) on vessals on the high seas, in an effort to steal their cargo, and/or enslaving the passengers.
Modern copyright violation, often called "Pirating", presumes that users can illegally reproduce works, and do so for less than the cost of legitimately aquiring them. That requires a fair bit of kit.
Look at how the 1966 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" blew it. AT&T (with the old liberty bell logo) as a dominant competitor. Pan Am. Computers that could think. Cryogenics.
Let alone a space station with artificial gravity, airline service to the space station, a lunar base, and a manned mission to Jupiter.
And, surprise surprise, the new heavy lift launch vehicle looks a lot like the Saturn V.
Only difference is that the crew goes up on a different rocket, which doesn't have side-mounted solid-fueled boosters. So the Challenger mistake doesn't happen again.
The violence in Iraq lessened because Moqtada al Sadr told his army to stand down. It had very little to do with Bush's surge. If al Sadr changes his mind, attacks will go back up.
And private accounts for Social Security will only expose Americans to additional risks, and enrich a few bigwigs on wall street. Truth is, the program is not at all in bad shape, and if the rest of the Federal Budget weren't in such bad shape (due, in large part, to Bush's tax cuts and the war he started), the government would have surpluses.
Since Bush Jr. got his hands on the budget, the US government has been spending the money of working citizens, and then some. Borrowing money and spending it.
And recently, we've been borrowing money from foreigners. Handing them financial power. Pretty soon, when the Chinese Premiere says jump, the US will have to ask "How High?" while in the air, or face the consequences.
Democrats: Constrain spending growth, and enhance revenue growth until they're balanced. Republicans: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners.
Most of the money goes to the officers of politically-connected US Businesses. Much of the rest (remember the 220 tons of $100 bills that went missing?) goes to politically-connected Iraqis.
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My setup was 'leet, 'cause I had a green screen for crisp 80-column text (the original AppleWorks for Apple //e rocked), and a color monitor (yes, a real monitor, not a TV; no fuzzy RF and tuning stages) for color games. Both at the same time, with a splitter.
LodeRunner looked better in color. The player character was white (IIRC), and the blocks were blue. I forget whether the bad guys were colored or not.
On the other hand, Java makes it easy to use well-designed and well-implemented libraries. It is much harder to code up a linked-list solution when you can use an off-the-shelf Stack or Hashmap.
Google maps says Memphis, TN is 167 miles/2 hours, 33 mins from Cairo, IL.
The ruins of Memphis, Egypt, are 12 miles from Cairo, Egypt.
I wish I had mod points. Good points all.
So many misconceptions, so little time.
Yes, Evolution was banned because it contradicted the written word of God... in 1925. Evolution is right, not because it opposes religion, but because it has been repeatedly tested by comparing evidence with predictions of the theory.
Arguments that oppose Evolution also oppose verifiable observations, and must be discarded because they are wrong. You can claim religions persecution for being locked out of science class when you want to insist that the moon is made of green cheese, or that the sky is red at night and green during the day. Good luck with that.
The only fundamental difference between the two is that Evolution is a testable and tested scientific theory backed up by over a century of evidence, while ID is rehashed creationism, a religions belief contradicted by evidence and illegal (and unwise) to teach in public school science classrooms.
One final clue: Evolution does not speak at all to the origin of life.
It is usually expressed e^(i*pi)+1 = 0.
A wonderfully fundamental equation, featuring 5 of the most interesting numbers: 0, 1, pi, e, and i, and the three fundamental operations of arithmatic: addition, multiplication, and exponentiation.
300 * 10 is 3000, so gasoline still stores three times as much potential chemical energy as the battery. But converting chemical potential energy into motion through an internal combustion engine is about 30% efficient, while power electronics and electric motors net between 80 and 95% efficient.
- Battery: 3000 * 0.8 = 2400
- Gasoline: 9,700 * 0.3 = 2910
so getting batteries to within 80% of gasoline (i.e. same volumetric energy density as a vehicle fuel as ethanol) really is revolutionary.If these Li-Ion batteries are on the lighter end of the scale, the energy/weight figures could be extrordinary.
- Battery: 1200 * 10 (improvement from research) * 0.8 (efficiency) = 9600 watt-hours traction per kilogram
- Gasoline: 12200 * 0.3 (efficiency) = 3660 watt-hours traction per kilogram.
This is breakthrough territory.Two slaves, working all day with rope, block and tackle, and windlass, could possibly move your SUV the 3 or 4 miles that the liter of petrol would move it.
Correction: Paul MacCready.
There are exceptions.
Paul McCready (of Gossamer Condor and Gossamer Albatross fame) mentioned in a talk I got to see that he had created a wind-driven water craft that could carry a person and make double the wind speed... directly upwind. Essentially a turbine driving a propeller, and the craft in general being a hydrofoil.
If the kite only lasts 1 year, it is a problem (at today's cost of oil). It doesn't pay for itself before it wears out... unless the kite fabric is a small fraction of the installed system's $715,000
Huh? I don't get your objection.
A kite is a clean and reusable local power generation method. Power is generated on the ship, and delivered to the ship in the form of tension on the kite string.
One of the goals of Constellation is safety. You jeopardize astronauts launching them on a vehicle that has SRBs strapped onto cryogenic tanks. That's the Challenger disaster redux. Ares V has SRBs strapped onto the cryogenic tank, so the plan is to not use Ares V for people.
The point of Ares I is to get the capsule into space safely. No SRBs next to cryogenic tanks. Underneath a cryogenic tank is fine; Ares I first stage is a bigger version of a Space Shuttle SRB.
DirectLauncher has SRBs next to cryogenic tanks.
The human rights of the slaves be damned? Is that what you're saying?
Breaking the law is always wrong. Unless you are a wealthy, white, male, Republican. Then it's OK, and the District Attorney is on a witch hunt (see Fitzgerald, Patrick).
You didn't give Microsoft more money. That is wrong. Microsoft deserves your money more than you do, after all, they invented Windows. Nobody could see out of a house before Microsoft.
Nine business days out of ten, I need to drive 22 miles. That's my round-trip commute, and regenerative braking would be a big help, as I live in a valley, have to drive up onto the plain, down a steep hill into the next valley, and then back up a gentler incline to work. Then do the whole thing the other way around to get back home. After doing this commute for six years, my car needed a new transmission. P'raps saving the brakes by using engine braking down the steep hill wasn't such a good idea.
But on the tenth day, I need to drive 170 miles, 140 of them at highway speed over fairly level ground. And about three or four times a year I need to haul stuff. Lumber, sheet goods, woodworking machines, that sort of thing.
"Pirating" used to mean the armed attacks (or threats thereof) on vessals on the high seas, in an effort to steal their cargo, and/or enslaving the passengers.
Modern copyright violation, often called "Pirating", presumes that users can illegally reproduce works, and do so for less than the cost of legitimately aquiring them. That requires a fair bit of kit.
What penalty would the current administration face if it were to ignore the court order?
Who would administer the penalty? The US Attorneys Office? They've already been purged of independent thinkers.
Look at how the 1966 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" blew it. AT&T (with the old liberty bell logo) as a dominant competitor. Pan Am. Computers that could think. Cryogenics.
Let alone a space station with artificial gravity, airline service to the space station, a lunar base, and a manned mission to Jupiter.
And, surprise surprise, the new heavy lift launch vehicle looks a lot like the Saturn V.
Only difference is that the crew goes up on a different rocket, which doesn't have side-mounted solid-fueled boosters. So the Challenger mistake doesn't happen again.
The violence in Iraq lessened because Moqtada al Sadr told his army to stand down. It had very little to do with Bush's surge. If al Sadr changes his mind, attacks will go back up.
And private accounts for Social Security will only expose Americans to additional risks, and enrich a few bigwigs on wall street. Truth is, the program is not at all in bad shape, and if the rest of the Federal Budget weren't in such bad shape (due, in large part, to Bush's tax cuts and the war he started), the government would have surpluses.
Since Bush Jr. got his hands on the budget, the US government has been spending the money of working citizens, and then some. Borrowing money and spending it.
And recently, we've been borrowing money from foreigners. Handing them financial power. Pretty soon, when the Chinese Premiere says jump, the US will have to ask "How High?" while in the air, or face the consequences.
Democrats: Constrain spending growth, and enhance revenue growth until they're balanced.
Republicans: Unconstrained spending growth, reduced revenues, and borrow from the kids and the foreigners.
Any questions?
Most of the money goes to the officers of politically-connected US Businesses. Much of the rest (remember the 220 tons of $100 bills that went missing?) goes to politically-connected Iraqis.
Relatively little goes to the servicemen.
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