In fact, case in point: Rage Against the Machine. I called a local radio station when they said, "ok, the lines are open, tell us what you want to hear, because this is a radio station powered by YOU!". I called and requested RATM, what did they say? "Oh, sorry, that is too hard for our listeners. I just said okay, and turned off the radio. So, I was at the store the other day, and I really wanted some pretzels. They told me they were over on aisle 12, so I said, "Thanks anyway," and walked out.
If you'd called my favorite station asking them to play Garth Brooks, I'd hope they'd refuse. If *I* call the country station and ask for Switchfoot, I wouldn't be upset to be refused. I'd use those fancy buttons to switch to an appropriate station.
Now, if you'd scanned through every station trying to find one that would play some Cranberries, and all you could find was one "Top 40" station, seven country stations, two with talk radio, five "urban", and NPR, none of which would play it, *that* would be a legitimate reason to claim the radio does not serve your tastes. I have a set of six stations in my main set, with two more a couple buttons adjacent. Between all of them, I can approximate a good station closely enough that I haven't really felt the need to get an iPod or whatever. On the other hand, if I were stuck in Podunk, West Tennucky, I'd certainly be investigating other avenues of finding music.
He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.' Nobody would surrender (their lives) to Will Turner.;)
Pretty much, there are many ways to lose a teaching certificate, and not everyone is going to get one. This can be good as it not only protects children, but keep teacher pay high by filtering out the less serious practitioners. What world do you live in where "teacher pay" can even be used in the same sentence as "high"? Frankly, that's the least-informed argument I've heard yet.
But the correct answer was, obviously, "users". Sure, nicotine in tobacco is a more-or-less permitted drug, depending on where you live, but the guy was still a user.:)
Google can do whatever they want, but you have to admit, it seems odd to revert to an older set of imagery. As there was nothing obviously wrong with the existing post-Katrina imagery as far as end users could tell, there isn't any obvious explanation.
While Google can do whatever they want, *if* some government agency or official asked them to revert to older maps (not that anyone would *ever* try to whitewash their pathetic failures or anything), that would be something to investigate. (We have a long history of corruption in Louisiana, especially New Orleans, and FEMA... well, there are plenty of reasons people in Louisiana hate FEMA.)
Anyway, Google did nothing wrong by reverting to older imagery, but if they did so on the request of some pathetic loser of a politician (or agency), we would *really* like to know so we can show them in no uncertain terms that we find that unacceptable for any public official.
Basically, the technology to retrieve a satellite from where it is now is likely just as hard as the original mission. Additionally, by the time retrieval would be possible, what would be the point? Technology marches ever on; even if they could retrieve Hayabusa, it's old technology now.
Additionally, such probes are one-shot devices. The components are built to specs to survive hard solar radiation, exposure to space, and all the extreme temperatures involved. I'd venture to guess they'd have to basically rebuild the satellite almost completely to be able to make another attempt with it. It's cheaper to just start from scratch and include the advances available to you.
Now, why bother trying to get it home? It's by no means as important as Apollo 13 (in that no lives are depending on it), but to take a probe that's seen better days and get it all the way back home in the face of what appear to be nearly insurmountable odds has quite a bit of sentimental value. For Japan to get Hayabusa home even in such a depleted state, it would be a great honor to their scientists. (And the fact that there's still *some* chance, albeit very small, that there may have been some material captured just makes it that much better.)
It's the "Incredible Journey" of satellites, or perhaps more apropos, it's the wounded samurai doing everything he can to make it back home before he dies. Very Japanese, and quite a good potential story, too.:)
Quanta is building the laptops for OLPC, but that doesn't mean Quanta is a nonprofit. A church pastor can eat at McDonalds without McD's turning nonprofit. Habitat can get building supplies donated, but if they have to buy something from Home Depot, HD doesn't have to write off any profit on it (although giving a discount would be nice).
Frankly, if Quanta wasn't making at least *something* on each, there would be a solid business reason *not* to build them for OLPC.
..."htpp://www.autodesk.com is MEANINGLESS, you imbecile! You typed it WRONG!"... Actually, while it's not entirely meaningless, you *did* type it wrong.:)
Not Prandtl-Glauert condensation.
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Prandtl-Glauert condensation occurs around the transonic range, while lift-induced condensation can occur any time you have high lift (such at flight at high angles of attack, very tight turns, and wingtip vortices).
I've taken quite a few photos of lift-induced condensation at the airshows to which I've been. This sounds like a vertical-vane windmill specially designed to capture lift-induced condensation.
"...plonk a few hundred in marginal outback land -- specifically to water tree-lots -- and you could start to improve local rainfall."
So, condensing water from the air to water trees, from which some of the water will transpire back to the atmosphere, might improve local rainfall? Is that like the "lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume" line?:)
One yen coins (currently worth about 0.84 US cents) are made of aluminum. I'd go for aluminum pennies (they're fun to play with... and as they're made of less than a cent's worth of metal, they wouldn't mind if you do all those cool experiments with them).:)
At atmospheric pressure, methane freezes at a temperature about half a kelvin above that at which oxygen boils (about 90.7 kelvins and 90.2 kelvins, respectively, if I've looked things up correctly).
Obviously, I know nothing about the operational pressure ranges, but one can easily infer that mixed-phase flows would likely result if you tried to use both from a single tank. I wouldn't want to see what that would do to a rocket engine turbopump. (Well, actually, since high-speed cameras are fairly cheap these days... um...)
Rocket science is already rocket science.:) It's hard enough to design systems with two tanks. Designing a methane/LOX system with one? Perhaps it's counterintuitive to many, but at the *very* least, it would be *significantly* more difficult, but I suspect it would not even be possible.
Only did that once, and that was when the TradeWars 2002 universe appeared to have been wiped out.
The sysop said it was lost to hard drive problems the night before, but the fact that I had dialed in and played my turns about 8 hours *after* the "crash" had me thinking that maybe, just maybe, the sysop was unhappy that I had an invincible class 5 citadel in each sector of a large dead end.
I'd only used my unspendably-large cash reserves for fighting the bad guys, too. Had I known he was a petty, arrogant jerk, I'd have signed up some more corporation members and blown him out of the universe. At least then there would've been a reason to be petty.;)
These days, I don't know if I'd want someone to be able to reach me that easily, although if I can use it to connect to my personal SIP server, it could come in quite handy when I'm out of the country. On the other hand, carrying a little SIP phone hasn't been too much trouble, and it's a lot more comfortable to use than a computer headset (at least for my normal conversations). If this thing can't connect to my personal SIP network, there's no reason at all for me to want it -- I don't want to be on a public telephony network anymore.
("Telephony": From "tele-", meaning "at a distance", and "phony", meaning "BS".)
I believe what they said was merely, "We can make enough money on the easy stuff."
The people who are going to pay for the supported "Enterprise" linux distros have lots of money to throw around. Supporting only a couple well-defined distros also optimizes MySQL AB's investment in training and testing. They only need to know the specifics of a couple packaged distros, and the people who buy those distros have the money to pay for support as well as the corporate personality to want to pay for the value they perceive in commercial support.
Seems that people should be commending MySQL AB for realizing that it's a better business decision to "do one thing, and do it well" while opening up the market for others who would like to provide support options. They noted the inefficiencies inherent in trying to provide everything for everyone on every level, and they decided to concentrate on what they feel works best for MySQL AB -- i.e. providing the MySQL database and support to people who want to pay for it.
If they were forking a closed-source database and would only provide future versions for a couple distros, that would be one thing, but all they're doing is deciding who can pay them for support. The funny thing is that people think it matters, while they openly use other software that -- *gasp* -- doesn't even offer commercial paid support.
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A Bush official would *never* go "nuclear"... they would go "nucular"! :D
Mathman!
when you're looking for an all night Denny's around Omicron Percei 8, the system that you use will end up paying me patent royalties!
In that case, any Denny's not along the terminator or on the day side with certainly be an all night Denny's.My planet is tidally locked, you insensitive clod!
If you'd called my favorite station asking them to play Garth Brooks, I'd hope they'd refuse. If *I* call the country station and ask for Switchfoot, I wouldn't be upset to be refused. I'd use those fancy buttons to switch to an appropriate station.
Now, if you'd scanned through every station trying to find one that would play some Cranberries, and all you could find was one "Top 40" station, seven country stations, two with talk radio, five "urban", and NPR, none of which would play it, *that* would be a legitimate reason to claim the radio does not serve your tastes. I have a set of six stations in my main set, with two more a couple buttons adjacent. Between all of them, I can approximate a good station closely enough that I haven't really felt the need to get an iPod or whatever. On the other hand, if I were stuck in Podunk, West Tennucky, I'd certainly be investigating other avenues of finding music.
As today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars, I cannot help but say...
"I've got a bad feeling about this."
But the correct answer was, obviously, "users". Sure, nicotine in tobacco is a more-or-less permitted drug, depending on where you live, but the guy was still a user. :)
Google can do whatever they want, but you have to admit, it seems odd to revert to an older set of imagery. As there was nothing obviously wrong with the existing post-Katrina imagery as far as end users could tell, there isn't any obvious explanation.
While Google can do whatever they want, *if* some government agency or official asked them to revert to older maps (not that anyone would *ever* try to whitewash their pathetic failures or anything), that would be something to investigate. (We have a long history of corruption in Louisiana, especially New Orleans, and FEMA... well, there are plenty of reasons people in Louisiana hate FEMA.)
Anyway, Google did nothing wrong by reverting to older imagery, but if they did so on the request of some pathetic loser of a politician (or agency), we would *really* like to know so we can show them in no uncertain terms that we find that unacceptable for any public official.
I think the time has certainly come for congress to "fix" the patent system. Heaven knows we don't need that thing reproducing!
Basically, the technology to retrieve a satellite from where it is now is likely just as hard as the original mission. Additionally, by the time retrieval would be possible, what would be the point? Technology marches ever on; even if they could retrieve Hayabusa, it's old technology now.
:)
Additionally, such probes are one-shot devices. The components are built to specs to survive hard solar radiation, exposure to space, and all the extreme temperatures involved. I'd venture to guess they'd have to basically rebuild the satellite almost completely to be able to make another attempt with it. It's cheaper to just start from scratch and include the advances available to you.
Now, why bother trying to get it home? It's by no means as important as Apollo 13 (in that no lives are depending on it), but to take a probe that's seen better days and get it all the way back home in the face of what appear to be nearly insurmountable odds has quite a bit of sentimental value. For Japan to get Hayabusa home even in such a depleted state, it would be a great honor to their scientists. (And the fact that there's still *some* chance, albeit very small, that there may have been some material captured just makes it that much better.)
It's the "Incredible Journey" of satellites, or perhaps more apropos, it's the wounded samurai doing everything he can to make it back home before he dies. Very Japanese, and quite a good potential story, too.
Quanta is building the laptops for OLPC, but that doesn't mean Quanta is a nonprofit. A church pastor can eat at McDonalds without McD's turning nonprofit. Habitat can get building supplies donated, but if they have to buy something from Home Depot, HD doesn't have to write off any profit on it (although giving a discount would be nice).
Frankly, if Quanta wasn't making at least *something* on each, there would be a solid business reason *not* to build them for OLPC.
To quote Vizzini, "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders..."
When speaking of USB (2.0), "Full-Speed" means 12 Mbit/s, while "Hi-Speed" means 480 Mbit/s.
..."htpp://www.autodesk.com is MEANINGLESS, you imbecile! You typed it WRONG!"... Actually, while it's not entirely meaningless, you *did* type it wrong.Prandtl-Glauert condensation occurs around the transonic range, while lift-induced condensation can occur any time you have high lift (such at flight at high angles of attack, very tight turns, and wingtip vortices).
I've taken quite a few photos of lift-induced condensation at the airshows to which I've been. This sounds like a vertical-vane windmill specially designed to capture lift-induced condensation.
"...plonk a few hundred in marginal outback land -- specifically to water tree-lots -- and you could start to improve local rainfall."
:)
So, condensing water from the air to water trees, from which some of the water will transpire back to the atmosphere, might improve local rainfall? Is that like the "lose money on every sale, but we make it up in volume" line?
Apple didn't do this for you. Apple did it for *Apple*. Cingulattr did it for Cingulattr.
You are merely a pawn with disposable (heh) income.
One yen coins (currently worth about 0.84 US cents) are made of aluminum. I'd go for aluminum pennies (they're fun to play with... and as they're made of less than a cent's worth of metal, they wouldn't mind if you do all those cool experiments with them). :)
That appeared to me to be a nice illustration of "shock diamonds".
:)
You can get some really interesting designs out of high-speed flows, especially when you throw in some bright combustion.
At atmospheric pressure, methane freezes at a temperature about half a kelvin above that at which oxygen boils (about 90.7 kelvins and 90.2 kelvins, respectively, if I've looked things up correctly).
:) It's hard enough to design systems with two tanks. Designing a methane/LOX system with one? Perhaps it's counterintuitive to many, but at the *very* least, it would be *significantly* more difficult, but I suspect it would not even be possible.
Obviously, I know nothing about the operational pressure ranges, but one can easily infer that mixed-phase flows would likely result if you tried to use both from a single tank. I wouldn't want to see what that would do to a rocket engine turbopump. (Well, actually, since high-speed cameras are fairly cheap these days... um...)
Rocket science is already rocket science.
Darwin could beat Flipper any day of the week (even without his speech module).
Only did that once, and that was when the TradeWars 2002 universe appeared to have been wiped out.
;)
The sysop said it was lost to hard drive problems the night before, but the fact that I had dialed in and played my turns about 8 hours *after* the "crash" had me thinking that maybe, just maybe, the sysop was unhappy that I had an invincible class 5 citadel in each sector of a large dead end.
I'd only used my unspendably-large cash reserves for fighting the bad guys, too. Had I known he was a petty, arrogant jerk, I'd have signed up some more corporation members and blown him out of the universe. At least then there would've been a reason to be petty.
These days, I don't know if I'd want someone to be able to reach me that easily, although if I can use it to connect to my personal SIP server, it could come in quite handy when I'm out of the country. On the other hand, carrying a little SIP phone hasn't been too much trouble, and it's a lot more comfortable to use than a computer headset (at least for my normal conversations). If this thing can't connect to my personal SIP network, there's no reason at all for me to want it -- I don't want to be on a public telephony network anymore.
("Telephony": From "tele-", meaning "at a distance", and "phony", meaning "BS".)
I believe what they said was merely, "We can make enough money on the easy stuff."
The people who are going to pay for the supported "Enterprise" linux distros have lots of money to throw around. Supporting only a couple well-defined distros also optimizes MySQL AB's investment in training and testing. They only need to know the specifics of a couple packaged distros, and the people who buy those distros have the money to pay for support as well as the corporate personality to want to pay for the value they perceive in commercial support.
Seems that people should be commending MySQL AB for realizing that it's a better business decision to "do one thing, and do it well" while opening up the market for others who would like to provide support options. They noted the inefficiencies inherent in trying to provide everything for everyone on every level, and they decided to concentrate on what they feel works best for MySQL AB -- i.e. providing the MySQL database and support to people who want to pay for it.
If they were forking a closed-source database and would only provide future versions for a couple distros, that would be one thing, but all they're doing is deciding who can pay them for support. The funny thing is that people think it matters, while they openly use other software that -- *gasp* -- doesn't even offer commercial paid support.
Nokia builds a misfeature into their candy bar phones. While locked, if you hit zero, then eight, then Send, you're calling 911.
I have yet to find this documented anywhere, but it's been there on all the Nokia candy bar phones I've had.