Take off, land, complete objective, and take off again after refueling.
I'm guessing this thing needs a loooooonnnggg runway to land and get off the ground again... so that means no commando missions to/from a dirt airstrip in the jungle.
solar arrays generally don't provide enough power that far out, so RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) are generally the preferred option
Just a random thought, but if I'm not mistaken Jupiter has one badass magnetosphere... and if you move some kind of coil through a magnetic field at high speed you can generate quite a bit of electricity... surely some of you rocket scientist types have given this some thought WRT missions to Jupiter?
There have been proposals... one of the more interesting ones involves a surface lander that also has a detachable probe along with a small thermonuclear generator. The nuke probe heats the ice and begins to melt its way downward, trailing a communication cable behind to connect with the surface probe. The ice refreezes above the probe as it descends.
Even if the (surmised) liquid ocean is several kilometres down, the probe will reach it eventually. As an added bonus, by using a radioactive heat source, any "hitchhiker" microbes of earthly origin are neatly sterilized before the probe comes in contact with the liquid below.
I have a friend who teaches at a high school. It's obviously a different school district than TFA, but believe me, the last thing he wants to do is escalate a situation so that outside authorities get involved. Once he's done that, he gets to justify his actions to the principal, to the parents, and to the school board. It's a whole pile of administrative bullshit and it's not fun on any level.
In his experience, the current crop of kids in high school have a gigantic sense of entitlement and have virtually no respect for the rules of the classroom. Based on the numerous stories he's shared, I can easily envision several scenarios in which this student "brought it on herself" until the police were eventually involved.
The student was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct
If I were to guess, I'd say the student escalated the situation to the point where a disorderly conduct citation was appropriate and warranted. The summary makes for fabulous reading with the whole "heinous case of texting without permission" bit, but there's a whole story (that's not detailed in TFA) around how many times she was told to stop, how she reacted when told to stop, how she reacted when told to hand over the phone, etc.
The point is that if (for some reason e.g. "safety") some kind of geolocation functionality is enabled by default on a mobile phone, there is a huge majority of people who won't have any clue that it's even enabled, let alone how to disable it. This fact hardly qualifies them for the vengeful-estranged-spouse version of a Darwin Award.
I know somebody who's (soon to be ex) wife played this card too. She claimed she was suffering verbal and psychological abuse and used it to severely restrict his access to the children while the whole messy process was unfolding. After some time, the judge handling the case began to see through the most egregious of her lies, but not before the kids were emotionally scarred from all the bullshit.
Of course, if you did not disable their ability to get Google Latitude updates about your location, perhaps you are Darwin Award [darwinawards.com] worthy.
I'm willing to bet that if I went out on the street right now and asked a thousand people "How would you go about disabling Google Latitude updates on your location?" I would get fewer than 50 responses that made any technical sense at all, and fewer than 10 responses that are actually correct.
That's some pretty harsh Darwin Award medicine you're administering.
Running somebody's name through google and yahoo and then assuming that every result points to the potential candidate? Yes, I agree that's probably not a company you want to work for.
Checking the social networking sites for pictures and video you've posted showing yourself street racing and smoking crystal meth? Fair game.
When you are a country of ~30 million situated next to a neighbour ten times your size (and that neighbour has a penchant for economic and cultural imperialism), sometimes you have to take steps to prevent the trampling of your artistic community.
Canadian Content laws may be controversial, but there is no denying that it has helped Canadian art and artists flourish. Personally, I don't mind paying a few extra bucks each year on my tax return, if it means I get to live in a richer, more interesting society as a result.
Why do you need to keep the cat away from them? Why wouldn't you write some insane app where the cat's antics with the blocks trigger feedback that amuses the cat and everybody else in the room?
I think these blocks are way cool because they encourage exactly this kind of "out of the box" thinking and creativity.
You mean like by scanning and uploading the PDF to your Kindle?
That sounds like fun! Individually scanning several hundreds of thousands of pages. At 30 seconds per page, if I start today and work at it 40-50 hours per week, a small-medium sized book collection should be all scanned and ready for reading around a year from now.
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Take off, land, complete objective, and take off again after refueling.
I'm guessing this thing needs a loooooonnnggg runway to land and get off the ground again ... so that means no commando missions to/from a dirt airstrip in the jungle.
solar arrays generally don't provide enough power that far out, so RTGs (radioisotope thermoelectric generators) are generally the preferred option
Just a random thought, but if I'm not mistaken Jupiter has one badass magnetosphere ... and if you move some kind of coil through a magnetic field at high speed you can generate quite a bit of electricity ... surely some of you rocket scientist types have given this some thought WRT missions to Jupiter?
There have been proposals ... one of the more interesting ones involves a surface lander that also has a detachable probe along with a small thermonuclear generator. The nuke probe heats the ice and begins to melt its way downward, trailing a communication cable behind to connect with the surface probe. The ice refreezes above the probe as it descends.
Even if the (surmised) liquid ocean is several kilometres down, the probe will reach it eventually. As an added bonus, by using a radioactive heat source, any "hitchhiker" microbes of earthly origin are neatly sterilized before the probe comes in contact with the liquid below.
Just be at peace with the image size ... concentrate on your breathing ...
How about "icantdothatdave"
I have a friend who teaches at a high school. It's obviously a different school district than TFA, but believe me, the last thing he wants to do is escalate a situation so that outside authorities get involved. Once he's done that, he gets to justify his actions to the principal, to the parents, and to the school board. It's a whole pile of administrative bullshit and it's not fun on any level.
In his experience, the current crop of kids in high school have a gigantic sense of entitlement and have virtually no respect for the rules of the classroom. Based on the numerous stories he's shared, I can easily envision several scenarios in which this student "brought it on herself" until the police were eventually involved.
The student was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct
If I were to guess, I'd say the student escalated the situation to the point where a disorderly conduct citation was appropriate and warranted. The summary makes for fabulous reading with the whole "heinous case of texting without permission" bit, but there's a whole story (that's not detailed in TFA) around how many times she was told to stop, how she reacted when told to stop, how she reacted when told to hand over the phone, etc.
The point is that if (for some reason e.g. "safety") some kind of geolocation functionality is enabled by default on a mobile phone, there is a huge majority of people who won't have any clue that it's even enabled, let alone how to disable it. This fact hardly qualifies them for the vengeful-estranged-spouse version of a Darwin Award.
I know somebody who's (soon to be ex) wife played this card too. She claimed she was suffering verbal and psychological abuse and used it to severely restrict his access to the children while the whole messy process was unfolding. After some time, the judge handling the case began to see through the most egregious of her lies, but not before the kids were emotionally scarred from all the bullshit.
Of course, if you did not disable their ability to get Google Latitude updates about your location, perhaps you are Darwin Award [darwinawards.com] worthy.
I'm willing to bet that if I went out on the street right now and asked a thousand people "How would you go about disabling Google Latitude updates on your location?" I would get fewer than 50 responses that made any technical sense at all, and fewer than 10 responses that are actually correct.
That's some pretty harsh Darwin Award medicine you're administering.
Yeah CBC Radio One does a phenomenal job with their programming.
Actually there's a lot more strategy to Nascar than most people realize.
Depends what we mean by online research.
Running somebody's name through google and yahoo and then assuming that every result points to the potential candidate? Yes, I agree that's probably not a company you want to work for.
Checking the social networking sites for pictures and video you've posted showing yourself street racing and smoking crystal meth? Fair game.
Webdreams is partially funded through various gov't of Canada film and arts programs.
The '80s called, they want their dogma back.
only for certain values of "way"
When you are a country of ~30 million situated next to a neighbour ten times your size (and that neighbour has a penchant for economic and cultural imperialism), sometimes you have to take steps to prevent the trampling of your artistic community.
Canadian Content laws may be controversial, but there is no denying that it has helped Canadian art and artists flourish. Personally, I don't mind paying a few extra bucks each year on my tax return, if it means I get to live in a richer, more interesting society as a result.
Why do you need to keep the cat away from them? Why wouldn't you write some insane app where the cat's antics with the blocks trigger feedback that amuses the cat and everybody else in the room?
I think these blocks are way cool because they encourage exactly this kind of "out of the box" thinking and creativity.
Man, I hope the My Little Pony forum troll is safe ... some of his materials seems pretty actionable.
Sony has always been on my list of products to avoid ... but I must say this Goddamned Fucking Piece of Shit looks rather enticing.
That is some cutting-edge stuff right there.
they use sheet feeder scanners
... which makes it either
(a) useless, or
(b) highly destructive
as a tool for scanning a library of books.
I don't understand why Amazon insists on only selling one expensive version of this product.
Because they're selling a crapload of them?
You mean like by scanning and uploading the PDF to your Kindle?
That sounds like fun! Individually scanning several hundreds of thousands of pages. At 30 seconds per page, if I start today and work at it 40-50 hours per week, a small-medium sized book collection should be all scanned and ready for reading around a year from now.