This is something that is going to continue getting flogged at us.
It's in the interest of the game manufacturers to show that there is no influence, as this would increase sales of both games and gaming systems.
At the same time there are examples that make sense. My friends six year old son does in fact become more unruly, violent, and rude after playing or watching violent video games. While there is apparently no difference in behaviour for an individual whose development has progressed beyond that level.
The conclusion that I draw from this is that children should not be exposed to violence, and adults can make up their own mind.
In TFA it admits that the solution would only be 2D and on a single frequency. This leaves me with a few questions.
1. Is the "cloak" effectiveness reduced as the observer gets closer to the object being cloaked?
2. How would they overlay the new image of the item being cloaked, would they use some type of projected hologram, or another physical system - such as attaching the image to the object?
This is just another form of corporate laziness.
They try to make us seem like we are part of the bigger picture, making a difference, place redundant catch phrase here.
They'll let us do the work, then market it for an obscene amount of money.
My son says it should be big and purple, dance, and sing a catchy little tune.
I love you, you love me....
Now there is a little worry about limitations at low elevations due to thermal plumes from the engine.
The opening for the telescope is well above the plane of the engine plumes, especially at it's cruising speed. Also, since the telescope can't be pointed down that wouldn't be a factor.
At visible wavelengths, it is neither atmospheric turbulence, the refractive action of mobile air cells which push light rays around, overhead (actually there is not much air left overhead) that causes the blurring problem, nor the aircraft and telescope shaking that causes the problem, but rather the "shear layer" stream of air shooting past the open airplane cavity where the telescope sits, at 500 mph. This air motion worsens the resolution (the opposite of blurring) to 3 arc secs at visible wavelengths.
But the problem at the long wavelengths is different - it's diffraction. Basically, the far-infrared light observed by SOFIA passes through the shear stream of air unperturbed. But this light has such a long wavelength, 100x to 1000 times the wavelength of visible light, that the SOFIA telescope is of insufficient size to focus it sharply, and blurriness results. At wavelengths in the far-infrared, like 60 micrometers, there is significant blurring due to this effect. The telescope is actually held extremely steady while observing occurs, even in turbulence. It's held about as stable as a mountaintop telescope sitting on a 10 meter cement foundation, but diffraction still blurs the image.
So how do you do this? First, you isolate the telescope from the airplane by mounting it on a spherical pressurized oil bearing. The plane shakes and quakes, but the telescope doesn't feel it. Second, you direct the wind away from the telescope by shaping the side of the airplane so as to deflect it, and install a little deflector fence on the edge of the telescope cavity as well. Third, you stabilize the telescope against sudden motion (wind does get through) by spinning three orthogonal gyroscopes which are rigidly attached to the structure, and fourth, you steer the telescope so as to keep it steady, by tracking a distant star and giving the telescope magnetical nudges to point it toward a fixed direction.
Censorship has quite a few rules that all differ by culture and law in any country. Where the problem lies with censorship is that even though there are hard and fast rules for applying it - in most cases, it comes down to the Censors interpretation of those rules, and the specific cultural time frame.
In pretty much any country of the world they would be forced to submit data for law enforcement issues, and probably taxation purposes(we certainly wouldn't want to short the government what they want, would we?). Then there are lobbyist groups like PETA that might try to interfere with content.
I can't see where anything will change, they certainly won't back you up with legal support to help you maintain your freedoms, even if you're blatantly being abused by some government agency and/or law enforcement office.
In general, all things being equal, with typical usage, you will ALWAYS create less pollution with a plug-in-hybrid than with a non-hybrid.
This is not always true. I live in an area where our electricity comes solely from burning fossil fuels. How is electricity green in this case?
Yes, we should develop more wind power, or solar power, I live in an apartment as the other options are fiscally beyond my capabilities. That leaves me with few options.
I do have friends who beleive that using a plug in vehicle in this region is green, but read the sig...
It really has nothing to do with the fuel pump, it's all in how you process the vegetable oil for use in a diesel engine.
A 1960 John Deere tractor runs just fine on biodiesel made from fat friers that use vegetable oil.
Exactly, how else can you pay for a new church. Again, I don't think this is a bad thing but stealing from the organization, and the members is. As a society we need to stand up to this and prosecute them for their actions. They should not be able to hide behind a loophole in the law or break the law to support their own agenda.
That's what terrorists do.
Just because they aren't running at a profit doesn't mean that they aren't trying to run at a profit. They have staff to pay, fees to pay to the parent organization, rent, taxes....
The lists of what they need to pay goes on to include trips for the youth organization that they run as well as businessman's breakfasts.
Just because you aren't aware of it does not make it so. Attend a members meeting and find out what they really want.
Don't get me wrong, I am not against an organization making money so that they don't need to leech off of the public in the way of government gimmes. What I am against are people who steal from the organization to furnish their houses or pay for sexual or drug addictions, and then hide it so that the congregation continues to pay for it. Heck, I'm even against the guys that admit those things and still expect the congregation to pay for it.
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They tried to donate, but when they ran the address through their decryption software they couldn't make heads or tails of it.
I'm glad to see that war heritage sites are not just being allowed to fall by the way side. They need to be preserved AND used.
This is something that is going to continue getting flogged at us.
It's in the interest of the game manufacturers to show that there is no influence, as this would increase sales of both games and gaming systems.
At the same time there are examples that make sense. My friends six year old son does in fact become more unruly, violent, and rude after playing or watching violent video games. While there is apparently no difference in behaviour for an individual whose development has progressed beyond that level.
The conclusion that I draw from this is that children should not be exposed to violence, and adults can make up their own mind.
In TFA it admits that the solution would only be 2D and on a single frequency. This leaves me with a few questions.
1. Is the "cloak" effectiveness reduced as the observer gets closer to the object being cloaked?
2. How would they overlay the new image of the item being cloaked, would they use some type of projected hologram, or another physical system - such as attaching the image to the object?
I obviously missed managing to sound facetious in that post :)
This is just another form of corporate laziness. They try to make us seem like we are part of the bigger picture, making a difference, place redundant catch phrase here. They'll let us do the work, then market it for an obscene amount of money.
My son says it should be big and purple, dance, and sing a catchy little tune. I love you, you love me....
Hey Bill, it's great to see that they finally gave you that day pass....
I dunno - seasonal flu kills thousands, and there's not a whole lot of humor in vomiting and diarrhea.
Unless you are into that sort of thing.
When two people love each other, then sometimes....
Now there is a little worry about limitations at low elevations due to thermal plumes from the engine.
The opening for the telescope is well above the plane of the engine plumes, especially at it's cruising speed. Also, since the telescope can't be pointed down that wouldn't be a factor.
They have one, that's where I pulled that from. I just forgot to add the link.
Here it is.
This is taken from the SOFIA site.
At visible wavelengths, it is neither atmospheric turbulence, the refractive action of mobile air cells which push light rays around, overhead (actually there is not much air left overhead) that causes the blurring problem, nor the aircraft and telescope shaking that causes the problem, but rather the "shear layer" stream of air shooting past the open airplane cavity where the telescope sits, at 500 mph. This air motion worsens the resolution (the opposite of blurring) to 3 arc secs at visible wavelengths.
But the problem at the long wavelengths is different - it's diffraction. Basically, the far-infrared light observed by SOFIA passes through the shear stream of air unperturbed. But this light has such a long wavelength, 100x to 1000 times the wavelength of visible light, that the SOFIA telescope is of insufficient size to focus it sharply, and blurriness results. At wavelengths in the far-infrared, like 60 micrometers, there is significant blurring due to this effect. The telescope is actually held extremely steady while observing occurs, even in turbulence. It's held about as stable as a mountaintop telescope sitting on a 10 meter cement foundation, but diffraction still blurs the image.
So how do you do this? First, you isolate the telescope from the airplane by mounting it on a spherical pressurized oil bearing. The plane shakes and quakes, but the telescope doesn't feel it. Second, you direct the wind away from the telescope by shaping the side of the airplane so as to deflect it, and install a little deflector fence on the edge of the telescope cavity as well. Third, you stabilize the telescope against sudden motion (wind does get through) by spinning three orthogonal gyroscopes which are rigidly attached to the structure, and fourth, you steer the telescope so as to keep it steady, by tracking a distant star and giving the telescope magnetical nudges to point it toward a fixed direction.
Censorship has quite a few rules that all differ by culture and law in any country. Where the problem lies with censorship is that even though there are hard and fast rules for applying it - in most cases, it comes down to the Censors interpretation of those rules, and the specific cultural time frame.
Do you really think that they don't already know about this method of duplicating keys?
There was the wrist watch with a laser... My favorite was the wrist watch with the electro magnet.
Is this on /., this doesn't seem to fit with anything very relevant. Surely there must be a political forum somewhere for this?
The only thing that will get posted on this one are personal opinions, trolling, and flaming.
I think the authors may need to perform a little more self moderation and restraint.(See, that too is a personal opinion.)
In pretty much any country of the world they would be forced to submit data for law enforcement issues, and probably taxation purposes(we certainly wouldn't want to short the government what they want, would we?). Then there are lobbyist groups like PETA that might try to interfere with content.
I can't see where anything will change, they certainly won't back you up with legal support to help you maintain your freedoms, even if you're blatantly being abused by some government agency and/or law enforcement office.
That could be good or bad. I wouldn't keep getting spam about Male Enhancement, but they would pepper me for online gambling.
Death is the ultimate statistic - one out of every one dies. What's the big deal?
I dunno, let's ask Xenu!
FYI, fat friers are made of stainless steel, not aluminum.
In general, all things being equal, with typical usage, you will ALWAYS create less pollution with a plug-in-hybrid than with a non-hybrid.
This is not always true. I live in an area where our electricity comes solely from burning fossil fuels. How is electricity green in this case? Yes, we should develop more wind power, or solar power, I live in an apartment as the other options are fiscally beyond my capabilities. That leaves me with few options. I do have friends who beleive that using a plug in vehicle in this region is green, but read the sig...
It really has nothing to do with the fuel pump, it's all in how you process the vegetable oil for use in a diesel engine. A 1960 John Deere tractor runs just fine on biodiesel made from fat friers that use vegetable oil.
Exactly, how else can you pay for a new church. Again, I don't think this is a bad thing but stealing from the organization, and the members is. As a society we need to stand up to this and prosecute them for their actions. They should not be able to hide behind a loophole in the law or break the law to support their own agenda. That's what terrorists do.
Just because they aren't running at a profit doesn't mean that they aren't trying to run at a profit. They have staff to pay, fees to pay to the parent organization, rent, taxes.... The lists of what they need to pay goes on to include trips for the youth organization that they run as well as businessman's breakfasts. Just because you aren't aware of it does not make it so. Attend a members meeting and find out what they really want. Don't get me wrong, I am not against an organization making money so that they don't need to leech off of the public in the way of government gimmes. What I am against are people who steal from the organization to furnish their houses or pay for sexual or drug addictions, and then hide it so that the congregation continues to pay for it. Heck, I'm even against the guys that admit those things and still expect the congregation to pay for it.
And I sold my nickel shares to Xenu!