Actually, you should be modded -1, Kneejerk. Seems to me this is not about "Heather has two mommies and a daddy", but specifically to avoid known expected birth defects due to bad mitochondrial DNA in the mother.
Mitochondrial DNA is exclusively inherited from one parent, the mother in humans. Swap out the known bad stuff for some other woman's known good stuff, and Bab's your aunt.
I watched it way back when it was being used as the excuse for Benghazi. At first I thought I was being trolled and that it was some joke video people were pointing to instead.
It's like a bad college freshman film class assignment. It was so bad I had to stop halfway through to wash my brain out. And you can tell the "anti-Muslim" language was overdubbed because the overdub audio is so clean.
If there's one reason it should be completely removed from existence, it's because of how horribly bad the thing is.
Also please describe how you intend to use this as a weapon
First, an assumption has to be made that it is possible, and that it works as it needs to, otherwise there would be nothing to use as a weapon. That means that you have a lot of directed microwave energy going from the moon to the earth. Since the earth rotates 24 hours a day, there must be multiple receiving stations on earth. Unless you have a continuous band of receivers around the earth (continuous means just that, including over the oceans), the lunar transmitter must be able to direct its energy to different spots on the earth. It's easier to direct it to the "wrong" spot than the "right" spot. Even if the targeting system merely fails to change position, something that is not a receiving station antenna is going to absorb that directed microwave energy, like being in a giant microwave oven. (Not just being cooked... remember what happens when you put metal objects in a microwave oven!)
If the targeting system is intentionally mis-aimed, say at a city, Bad Things will happen, aka a weapon. Even aiming it at the ocean long enough could cause hurricanes to form. Better yet, aim it at an actual hurricane to keep its strength up as it hits land. (If you're lucky enough that the moon is high at the right time.)
Second, beaming power back from 22,000 miles up will be easier than beaming it back from 250,000 miles.
It's not just the distance. If they're in GEO, they can stay targeted on the receiver much more easily. Ever notice how you don't see the moon in the same place in the sky every day? That's because the stupid Earth keeps rotating. So the transmitter on the moon needs a targeting system. And it has to actively target the receiver sites (plural!) on Earth, or else stuff is going to get zapped.
The real fun might not even be a land target. After all, microwave ovens work by heating the water molecules inside the food. Aim it at the ocean, and see what fun happens when you warm that sumbitch up! Isn't warmer ocean water a major factor in cyclonic storms? (aka hurricanes and typhoons)
Are you kidding me? Firefox is almost as bad about this "completely fucking change the UI every six months" thing as Chrome is.
The real answer is Seamonkey, which is basically the old Mozilla project under a different name. At this point it's basically FF 3.6 brought up to date with patches and actual improvements, as opposed to changes for the sake of change.
That's not our mission. You should've waited for SLS to be finished before going. Maybe Elon Musk can send you a brand new Tesla in a Falcon Heavy if you ask real nice.
I was going to mention that Rod Serling needed a stamp, too. There's been a petition since 1988. But apparently he finally got one in 2009, so we can finally send our mail to... The Twilight Zone.
It should obviously be reported as 90,000,000,000 milligrams of dihydrogen monoxide with an average activity of greater than 6 billion picocuries. That'd be more frightening, I think.
Also, with Skype I am able to see my grand children
Too bad for MS that grandparents aren't the market segment they were shooting for. Consoles are sold for little or no margin, or even below cost. The big money is in the "razor blades", aka games. How many games have you bought for that system?
The other cost is if you require people to ONLY download games, they have to have a fast enough connection to make it worth it, and there is still a distribution cost to run download servers and give them bandwidth. Some parts of the world have metered internet, and some people may be on slower connections. It's also a trade-off between how long it takes to download, and how much you put into the game. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 5 inch piece of polycarbonate. It's still too early for a dickless console to succeed.
IIRC, their answer to that is "we'll figure out what to do about it later". So right now they don't support that, but they know they will need to eventually. I don't think they'll mind people doing low-impact non-commercial server stuff, but that wasn't your question.
It's a great place to live, but good luck finding tech jobs there. And San Antonio is not exactly my definition of "densely populated". Sure it's like #9 or #10 in US city population, but it's like #29 or so in metro population because there isn't much of the metro area that consists of other incorporated cities. (Maybe it'll give Fry's a reason to finally build a store there, ha ha.)
Now if they can just get started on lighting up Austin, I'd be happy.
how did home automation roll into programming on FOX???
Seriously, at least try to understand the message you are responding to before making a mindless Buck Feta rant.
Let me 'splain it to you Loozy. There's this new cop show on TV, only one of the cops is an android. And it's set like 35 years in the future, so all the cool stuff of 2014 (like quadcopters) is everyday stuff. And people do bad stuff with the cool stuff, so the human cop and the robot cop have to sort it all out. And in yesterday's episode (oh yeah, ON FOX), someone hacked into a home automation system to kill the people living there. (Though it helped that there was a frickin' death laser attached to it.)
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Actually, you should be modded -1, Kneejerk. Seems to me this is not about "Heather has two mommies and a daddy", but specifically to avoid known expected birth defects due to bad mitochondrial DNA in the mother.
Mitochondrial DNA is exclusively inherited from one parent, the mother in humans. Swap out the known bad stuff for some other woman's known good stuff, and Bab's your aunt.
Mitochondrial DNA#Female_inheritance
I watched it way back when it was being used as the excuse for Benghazi. At first I thought I was being trolled and that it was some joke video people were pointing to instead.
It's like a bad college freshman film class assignment. It was so bad I had to stop halfway through to wash my brain out. And you can tell the "anti-Muslim" language was overdubbed because the overdub audio is so clean.
If there's one reason it should be completely removed from existence, it's because of how horribly bad the thing is.
I think they sold StrongARM to Marvell.
Also please describe how you intend to use this as a weapon
First, an assumption has to be made that it is possible, and that it works as it needs to, otherwise there would be nothing to use as a weapon. That means that you have a lot of directed microwave energy going from the moon to the earth. Since the earth rotates 24 hours a day, there must be multiple receiving stations on earth. Unless you have a continuous band of receivers around the earth (continuous means just that, including over the oceans), the lunar transmitter must be able to direct its energy to different spots on the earth. It's easier to direct it to the "wrong" spot than the "right" spot. Even if the targeting system merely fails to change position, something that is not a receiving station antenna is going to absorb that directed microwave energy, like being in a giant microwave oven. (Not just being cooked... remember what happens when you put metal objects in a microwave oven!)
If the targeting system is intentionally mis-aimed, say at a city, Bad Things will happen, aka a weapon. Even aiming it at the ocean long enough could cause hurricanes to form. Better yet, aim it at an actual hurricane to keep its strength up as it hits land. (If you're lucky enough that the moon is high at the right time.)
our fusion powerplants
...which are right around the corner, promise!
(Note: He3 isn't the easiest kind of fusion, so we won't be able to use it until at least the second generation of fusion power plants.)
Second, beaming power back from 22,000 miles up will be easier than beaming it back from 250,000 miles.
It's not just the distance. If they're in GEO, they can stay targeted on the receiver much more easily. Ever notice how you don't see the moon in the same place in the sky every day? That's because the stupid Earth keeps rotating. So the transmitter on the moon needs a targeting system. And it has to actively target the receiver sites (plural!) on Earth, or else stuff is going to get zapped.
...or get ready to go into business selling lots of popcorn.
The real fun might not even be a land target. After all, microwave ovens work by heating the water molecules inside the food. Aim it at the ocean, and see what fun happens when you warm that sumbitch up! Isn't warmer ocean water a major factor in cyclonic storms? (aka hurricanes and typhoons)
I wonder if you'd get enough of a solar sail that you could use the sun for station keeping.
I believe that's called a statite.
And the Imperial moon is 5% bigger than that. Rule Britannia!
Are you kidding me? Firefox is almost as bad about this "completely fucking change the UI every six months" thing as Chrome is.
The real answer is Seamonkey, which is basically the old Mozilla project under a different name. At this point it's basically FF 3.6 brought up to date with patches and actual improvements, as opposed to changes for the sake of change.
Dear Reality Show Idiots,
That's not our mission. You should've waited for SLS to be finished before going. Maybe Elon Musk can send you a brand new Tesla in a Falcon Heavy if you ask real nice.
Sincerely, Houston.
I was going to mention that Rod Serling needed a stamp, too. There's been a petition since 1988. But apparently he finally got one in 2009, so we can finally send our mail to... The Twilight Zone.
Toshiba has overall charge of the project. Why a major Japanese company is having so much trouble with routine industrial tasks is not clear.
This Toshiba? http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
It should obviously be reported as 90,000,000,000 milligrams of dihydrogen monoxide with an average activity of greater than 6 billion picocuries. That'd be more frightening, I think.
FTFY
I can just see them try to get it running with an NT-based kernel. Aren't most Android apps in Dalvik/Java bytecode anyhow?
Also, with Skype I am able to see my grand children
Too bad for MS that grandparents aren't the market segment they were shooting for. Consoles are sold for little or no margin, or even below cost. The big money is in the "razor blades", aka games. How many games have you bought for that system?
The other cost is if you require people to ONLY download games, they have to have a fast enough connection to make it worth it, and there is still a distribution cost to run download servers and give them bandwidth. Some parts of the world have metered internet, and some people may be on slower connections. It's also a trade-off between how long it takes to download, and how much you put into the game. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 5 inch piece of polycarbonate. It's still too early for a dickless console to succeed.
To be fair, I found out that there actually was a link. It linked to this article.
IIRC, their answer to that is "we'll figure out what to do about it later". So right now they don't support that, but they know they will need to eventually. I don't think they'll mind people doing low-impact non-commercial server stuff, but that wasn't your question.
It's a great place to live, but good luck finding tech jobs there. And San Antonio is not exactly my definition of "densely populated". Sure it's like #9 or #10 in US city population, but it's like #29 or so in metro population because there isn't much of the metro area that consists of other incorporated cities. (Maybe it'll give Fry's a reason to finally build a store there, ha ha.)
Now if they can just get started on lighting up Austin, I'd be happy.
And I think RTP is a good choice for a GF city.
I thought "SyFy" was pronounced "shitty".
how did home automation roll into programming on FOX???
Seriously, at least try to understand the message you are responding to before making a mindless Buck Feta rant.
Let me 'splain it to you Loozy. There's this new cop show on TV, only one of the cops is an android. And it's set like 35 years in the future, so all the cool stuff of 2014 (like quadcopters) is everyday stuff. And people do bad stuff with the cool stuff, so the human cop and the robot cop have to sort it all out. And in yesterday's episode (oh yeah, ON FOX), someone hacked into a home automation system to kill the people living there. (Though it helped that there was a frickin' death laser attached to it.)
The problem isn't that The UI Formerly Named Metro is good for non-power users, it's that Metro is bad for power users and you can't avoid using it.
(Likewise, at least so far you can still say "no" to Slashdot Beta.)
And I want a bumper car targeted at F1 drivers.
(Or maybe a trebuchet targeted at a PHB.)