My point was that no one else has anything yet that can compete with an F-15. You can argue over where each specifically falls, but the Mig 29 and Sukoi 27/37 are at least competitive.
What situation can you see the US Air Force in where it has a serious contender to air superiority versus even the F-15 Keep in mind, we've just spent the last six years wearing out our F-15's, and we don't want to lose the ability to make new fighters.
That said, the F-35 should be a perfectly good answer to those considerations, and it's a lot cheaper.
German U-Boats in in WWII had dual diesel/electric engines. Essentially all submarines in WWII had dual diesel/electric engines, and basically any non-nuclear submarines today do, as well. Earlier than WWII, the electric side was standard on all but the earliest impractical prototypes, and the other propulsion was experimented with until everyone settled on using diesel train locomotive engines.
That wasn't for efficiency, but because they couldn't use the fuel-burning engines underwater.
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I'd heard it before, but I know you can find it in Guido's forward to the book I'm using for my son, Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, and he mentions it there.
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The thing is, Python is based on ABC, which *was* designed mainly as an educational language.
The only other choices that are halfway mainstream for any other purposes are VB.Net and Delphi (mainstream is debatable these days for Delphi), and the educational foundations are a long ways back for those. Besides, while I think Turbo Pascal was good choice for me at 17, Python's more casual approach strikes me as better for my 11 year old.
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as a side effect you're kids are guaranteed to be safe from pregnancy, STDs, or any form of social life. That's why I've also been teaching my son guitar.
He complains about having to practice, and I tell him that most parents tell their kids they'll thank them when they're grown-ups, but he'll thank me when he's a teenager.
and two, count em, *two*, mouse wheels. I've been using a Logiitech MX Revolution at work for two years, and I still haven't figured out what that second wheel on the side is for.
On the other hand, I've had a policy of never installing any special drivers that come with a mouse, especially from Logitech, since 1997 or so when my first scroll mouse's driver took over 90% of the CPU utilization on my 266mhz K6-2.
Two buttons plus a scroll wheel is pretty standard, and serves my purposes well. A browser back button on the left side is becoming pretty standard, too, and it's handy. That lets you do a lot of web browsing without ever using the keyboard.
I live in North Dakota, the generally really flat place that is boring as hell to drive through as there's no scenery. I wouldn't exactly call it boring. At least along the highway leading from Fargo to eventually get to Yellowstone (I-94?), the sparse buildings, combined with the fact that the buildings that do exist mostly seem to be abandoned, gives a really creepy wasteland effect.
I know you are joking, but the Bible says nothing about priests or celibacy. That was invented by the catholic church The Catholic Church decided the canon of the bible. If you're going to recognize their authority to do that, why wouldn't you also recognize their authority on other matters?
I find that I have a much more positive view of the Catholic Church as an agnostic than I did as a protestant.
I would have thought they would have given her hormones to trigger it. Before my wife started puberty at not-quite 16, her doctors were all set to start hormone treatment to force it, because they didn't think she had ovaries.
Then we thought she might be sterile, because she had never used a condom before me, but the disproof just finished fifth grade.
2 How to break a problem up properly into objects, what functionality belongs in which object? 4 Why should methods/functions not have 20, 30 or more arguments. 5 Why don't we nest ten if statements one inside the other with lots of else ifs thrown in and why don't we open an if statement line 112 and close it in line 768 (with 8-10 levels of nested If-elseif-else statements in between... of course).
Maybe it's just that I was a professional programmer for 11 years before I finished my degree, but my answer to most of these would just be instinct, and knowing that I wouldn't want to have to read it. I'm not sure I could articulate specific arguments against them.
Interesting: while reading about her symptoms, Crohn's Disease was the first think that came to my mind. I've seen someone else the same thing, but I expect the list of just the symptoms relating to the Chron's wasn't laid out so nicely for the actual doctors involved.
I do think the pathologist who actually saw her slides should have seen it, though.
As for scrapping the whole thing? Yeah, you could sell that to me if you tried. Unfortunately you would need an amendment to the Constitution, and those are scarce these days. The constitution just says that congress can grant copyrights and patents, not that they have to.
The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
The children that I see inflicted with this condition aren't simply 'weird'. They're incompatible with society. Asperger's or autism? I meant Asperger's.
It's a recent phenomenon that many people with Asperger's Syndrome are becoming reasonably successful, especially in technical fields. Where someone might have been "that weird guy who sweeps the stables and barely talks" ninety years ago, he could be a successful programmer or electrical engineer now. That plays a big part in whether you can find someone actually willing to settle down and have kids with you.
And no, Asperger's is not the same as autism, but genetic proponents seem to be suggesting that maybe it's just a matter of degree.
If the traits exist genetically, and are passed from generation to generation, why did this condition rapidly advance in the past few decades? Because it's a recent phenomenon that people with Asperger's actually get a chance to reproduce, especially with each other.
I'm not saying it is genetic, but your objection doesn't rule it out.
I won't deny that Ann Arbor has a better atmosphere than Detroit, but Wayne State is pretty comparable to Michigan State, and neither are that far off from the University of Michigan. Within the Detroit metro area, you also have Lawrence Tech, U of M Dearborn and Oakland University.
I live in Detroit, but my company is headquartered in Long Beach, CA, and my employment agreement specifically said the "We own everything" clause was limited by the California labor laws (it even included a copy of it at the back). I checked with an IP lawyer that it really would be limited that way when I wasn't in California, and was much happier about signing on.
But fiction in any genre is generally more enjoyable, at least for a lot of people, when it's plausible. Usually, yes. I think one of Star Wars big strengths, though, is that the science is so bad it pushes Star Wars out of sci-fi altogether and into fantasy. The Force helps with that, too.
Frankenstein (in any of its incarnations) isn't about what's possible or likely, it's about our responsibility for what we create. This is Freshman English stuff.
Did your class do a compare and contrast with Edward Scissorhands, too? That was probably my favorite writing assignment of 11th grade (with the possible exception of the one where I sat down to WordPerfect on my trusty Wang 286, and immediately realized we had no good reason to have joined WW1).
Dracula was a better book to read than Frankenstein, but writing an essay on imagery for it was really pretty dull.
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My point was that no one else has anything yet that can compete with an F-15.
You can argue over where each specifically falls, but the Mig 29 and Sukoi 27/37 are at least competitive.
What situation can you see the US Air Force in where it has a serious contender to air superiority versus even the F-15
Keep in mind, we've just spent the last six years wearing out our F-15's, and we don't want to lose the ability to make new fighters.
That said, the F-35 should be a perfectly good answer to those considerations, and it's a lot cheaper.
You're thinking of the other big fighter competition loser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-32
German U-Boats in in WWII had dual diesel/electric engines.
Essentially all submarines in WWII had dual diesel/electric engines, and basically any non-nuclear submarines today do, as well. Earlier than WWII, the electric side was standard on all but the earliest impractical prototypes, and the other propulsion was experimented with until everyone settled on using diesel train locomotive engines.
That wasn't for efficiency, but because they couldn't use the fuel-burning engines underwater.
I'd heard it before, but I know you can find it in Guido's forward to the book I'm using for my son, Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, and he mentions it there.
You can see it on page "ix" here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=aJQILlLxRmAC&dq=Python+Programming:+An+Introduction+to+Computer+Science&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=mPJcSoK9E5LONdKQ-L8C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
The thing is, Python is based on ABC, which *was* designed mainly as an educational language.
The only other choices that are halfway mainstream for any other purposes are VB.Net and Delphi (mainstream is debatable these days for Delphi), and the educational foundations are a long ways back for those. Besides, while I think Turbo Pascal was good choice for me at 17, Python's more casual approach strikes me as better for my 11 year old.
as a side effect you're kids are guaranteed to be safe from pregnancy, STDs, or any form of social life.
That's why I've also been teaching my son guitar.
He complains about having to practice, and I tell him that most parents tell their kids they'll thank them when they're grown-ups, but he'll thank me when he's a teenager.
and two, count em, *two*, mouse wheels.
I've been using a Logiitech MX Revolution at work for two years, and I still haven't figured out what that second wheel on the side is for.
On the other hand, I've had a policy of never installing any special drivers that come with a mouse, especially from Logitech, since 1997 or so when my first scroll mouse's driver took over 90% of the CPU utilization on my 266mhz K6-2.
Two buttons plus a scroll wheel is pretty standard, and serves my purposes well.
A browser back button on the left side is becoming pretty standard, too, and it's handy. That lets you do a lot of web browsing without ever using the keyboard.
I live in North Dakota, the generally really flat place that is boring as hell to drive through as there's no scenery.
I wouldn't exactly call it boring. At least along the highway leading from Fargo to eventually get to Yellowstone (I-94?), the sparse buildings, combined with the fact that the buildings that do exist mostly seem to be abandoned, gives a really creepy wasteland effect.
As long as we just grow parts and not people with mostly complete nervous systems, what's wrong with that?
I know you are joking, but the Bible says nothing about priests or celibacy. That was invented by the catholic church
The Catholic Church decided the canon of the bible. If you're going to recognize their authority to do that, why wouldn't you also recognize their authority on other matters?
I find that I have a much more positive view of the Catholic Church as an agnostic than I did as a protestant.
I would have thought they would have given her hormones to trigger it. Before my wife started puberty at not-quite 16, her doctors were all set to start hormone treatment to force it, because they didn't think she had ovaries.
Then we thought she might be sterile, because she had never used a condom before me, but the disproof just finished fifth grade.
2 How to break a problem up properly into objects, what functionality belongs in which object?
4 Why should methods/functions not have 20, 30 or more arguments.
5 Why don't we nest ten if statements one inside the other with lots of else ifs thrown in and why don't we open an if statement line 112 and close it in line 768 (with 8-10 levels of nested If-elseif-else statements in between... of course).
Maybe it's just that I was a professional programmer for 11 years before I finished my degree, but my answer to most of these would just be instinct, and knowing that I wouldn't want to have to read it. I'm not sure I could articulate specific arguments against them.
I like it better than my old DVD player's remote. It's a little clunky, but not dealing with the vagaries of infrared is more than worth it.
Perhaps "Chrysler will be gone soon enough - hopefully things will start to turn around."?
Interesting: while reading about her symptoms, Crohn's Disease was the first think that came to my mind.
I've seen someone else the same thing, but I expect the list of just the symptoms relating to the Chron's wasn't laid out so nicely for the actual doctors involved.
I do think the pathologist who actually saw her slides should have seen it, though.
As for scrapping the whole thing? Yeah, you could sell that to me if you tried. Unfortunately you would need an amendment to the Constitution, and those are scarce these days.
The constitution just says that congress can grant copyrights and patents, not that they have to.
The Congress shall have power... To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
The children that I see inflicted with this condition aren't simply 'weird'. They're incompatible with society.
Asperger's or autism? I meant Asperger's.
It's a recent phenomenon that many people with Asperger's Syndrome are becoming reasonably successful, especially in technical fields. Where someone might have been "that weird guy who sweeps the stables and barely talks" ninety years ago, he could be a successful programmer or electrical engineer now. That plays a big part in whether you can find someone actually willing to settle down and have kids with you.
And no, Asperger's is not the same as autism, but genetic proponents seem to be suggesting that maybe it's just a matter of degree.
If the traits exist genetically, and are passed from generation to generation, why did this condition rapidly advance in the past few decades?
Because it's a recent phenomenon that people with Asperger's actually get a chance to reproduce, especially with each other.
I'm not saying it is genetic, but your objection doesn't rule it out.
I won't deny that Ann Arbor has a better atmosphere than Detroit, but Wayne State is pretty comparable to Michigan State, and neither are that far off from the University of Michigan. Within the Detroit metro area, you also have Lawrence Tech, U of M Dearborn and Oakland University.
I live in Detroit, but my company is headquartered in Long Beach, CA, and my employment agreement specifically said the "We own everything" clause was limited by the California labor laws (it even included a copy of it at the back). I checked with an IP lawyer that it really would be limited that way when I wasn't in California, and was much happier about signing on.
But fiction in any genre is generally more enjoyable, at least for a lot of people, when it's plausible.
Usually, yes. I think one of Star Wars big strengths, though, is that the science is so bad it pushes Star Wars out of sci-fi altogether and into fantasy. The Force helps with that, too.
Frankenstein (in any of its incarnations) isn't about what's possible or likely, it's about our responsibility for what we create.
This is Freshman English stuff.
Did your class do a compare and contrast with Edward Scissorhands, too? That was probably my favorite writing assignment of 11th grade (with the possible exception of the one where I sat down to WordPerfect on my trusty Wang 286, and immediately realized we had no good reason to have joined WW1).
Dracula was a better book to read than Frankenstein, but writing an essay on imagery for it was really pretty dull.