My workplace 5 years ago had an all in one sheet fed scanner with an alphanumeric keyboard for entering email addresses. I loaded the document, entered the email address, machine scans and emails, done.
There was no difference in usability except the recipient got an electronic copy.
If 2.26% of the population is licensed, and those people are randomly distributed across the US population, and you know 200 people, then the probability that you know a licensed ham is 1 - (1 - 0.0226)^200 = 99%.
When I was 5 I leaped off the couch headfirst onto a pile of cushions. Except I underestimated my strength and flew right over the cushions, headfirst into the corner of a solid oak liquor cabinet.
It hurt like crazy but you know what? Agony is inescapable in life, and you have to learn how to deal with it through experience.
Two stitches later I had learned a pretty valuable lesson.
But Mars has gravity that is around a third that of Earth. That's a lot. So a sampling robot would need to land on Mars and then return fighting against the large Martian gravity well. It would probably need to carry its fuel with it which means it would need to have a lot of mass to start with and which would make a safe landing even more difficult. We'll probably have successful sample-return from Mars before a human mission their but the technical difficulty with even a sample-return mission is immense.
It's not really that much. Delta-V from the surface of Mars to Earth return trajectory is ~8km/sec, which is about double the delta-V from the lunar surface to Earth orbit. Consider the size of the Apollo lander - and that had people in it!
Wow, I had no intention of sparking such a vigorous and pedantic debate.
I simply made the observation that as odd as it sounds to measure fuel economy in square metres, there does in fact exist a physically meaningful interpretation of that number.
I certainly don't think it's useful in any way, and neither does anyone else in this thread, so you're arguing against a strawman.
My Accord gets about 10L/100km, or 0.01m^3/100000m or 1e-7 m^2. This is equivalent to one tenth of a square millimetre.
Which means a strip of gasoline down the centre of the lane, with a cross-sectional area of one tenth of a square millimetre, would be enough to power my car as it drives.
It's also well known that children tend to have trouble with categorizing animals. Frequently they'll overgeneralize - calling every 4-legged animal a dog, for example - and it's only with constant correction that their category boundaries become adjusted properly.
Or you could just have pointers to letters in the English alphabet! Then you can store all your emails in only 26 bytes (plus some overhead for the pointers).
So instead of a 6" layer of oil on the Gulf of Mexico's coastline, you'd rather have a 1" layer of oil on the Atlantic ocean's coastline? Both are very very damaging, but localizing the damage is the best way to help things recover quickly.
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My workplace 5 years ago had an all in one sheet fed scanner with an alphanumeric keyboard for entering email addresses. I loaded the document, entered the email address, machine scans and emails, done.
There was no difference in usability except the recipient got an electronic copy.
When it was mandatory it was a credible statistical survey that can be used to examine trends and analyze policy decisions.
Now it's the equivalent of an internet poll.
Is directing people to copyrighted material a crime?
Could I be convicted for standing on a street corner handing out maps marked with the locations of drug dealers?
Well Netburst has been pretty much replaced with Core, but the new 10-core Xeons run at 2.4GHz, so that's 24GHz of computer power on a single chip.
Decrease as a percentage of the total usage, while still increasing in absolute terms.
In other words, streaming video will outpace file sharing, which I certainly believe.
Concorde also isn't an aircraft carrier.
Just because nobody's ever collected a Pu doesn't mean they don't exist.
Maybe Sue Ellen Mischke.
In other news, people who engage in certain social behaviours are more likely to engage in other social behaviours.
Brilliant. This device you've described would completely rectify the problem!
If 2.26% of the population is licensed, and those people are randomly distributed across the US population, and you know 200 people, then the probability that you know a licensed ham is 1 - (1 - 0.0226)^200 = 99%.
When I was 5 I leaped off the couch headfirst onto a pile of cushions. Except I underestimated my strength and flew right over the cushions, headfirst into the corner of a solid oak liquor cabinet.
It hurt like crazy but you know what? Agony is inescapable in life, and you have to learn how to deal with it through experience.
Two stitches later I had learned a pretty valuable lesson.
Actually in this case I think it would be a 2.5" hard.
Clearly you still don't have replacement opinions though. :)
But Mars has gravity that is around a third that of Earth. That's a lot. So a sampling robot would need to land on Mars and then return fighting against the large Martian gravity well. It would probably need to carry its fuel with it which means it would need to have a lot of mass to start with and which would make a safe landing even more difficult. We'll probably have successful sample-return from Mars before a human mission their but the technical difficulty with even a sample-return mission is immense.
It's not really that much. Delta-V from the surface of Mars to Earth return trajectory is ~8km/sec, which is about double the delta-V from the lunar surface to Earth orbit. Consider the size of the Apollo lander - and that had people in it!
Wow, I had no intention of sparking such a vigorous and pedantic debate.
I simply made the observation that as odd as it sounds to measure fuel economy in square metres, there does in fact exist a physically meaningful interpretation of that number.
I certainly don't think it's useful in any way, and neither does anyone else in this thread, so you're arguing against a strawman.
Kanji are words, they're just words whose "spelling" is entirely unrelated to their pronunciation.
Hiragana or Katakana are the equivalent of English letters, and nobody's suggesting that those ever change.
My Accord gets about 10L/100km, or 0.01m^3/100000m or 1e-7 m^2. This is equivalent to one tenth of a square millimetre.
Which means a strip of gasoline down the centre of the lane, with a cross-sectional area of one tenth of a square millimetre, would be enough to power my car as it drives.
Do you also refer to people from West Virginia as "Virginians" and people from New Mexico and "Mexicans"?
It's also well known that children tend to have trouble with categorizing animals. Frequently they'll overgeneralize - calling every 4-legged animal a dog, for example - and it's only with constant correction that their category boundaries become adjusted properly.
Or you could just have pointers to letters in the English alphabet! Then you can store all your emails in only 26 bytes (plus some overhead for the pointers).
I need that much every second, at least!
So instead of a 6" layer of oil on the Gulf of Mexico's coastline, you'd rather have a 1" layer of oil on the Atlantic ocean's coastline? Both are very very damaging, but localizing the damage is the best way to help things recover quickly.
The beta sometimes crashes? The horror!
Clearly they won't fix those for the final version.
That comma is just out of place and makes the sentence hard to parse.