Granted, I only have high school physics on my resumé, but if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
Now, while we don't have any large 'nets' to catch debris with, I do believe the most effective thing to clear stuff out of orbit is the atmosphere, and atmospheric drag tends to be more effective at lower altitudes. So you'd really want to push debris to a lower orbig rather than a higher one.
You just haven't realised how to use bugs/features correctly. Here's how you'd do it:
"Just have your mother call me and I'll pick her up at the airport." [Set phone to use crashy ringtone]
[Later that night] "I'm sorry honey, but every time someone calls me, my phone crashes. It's this new blasted Microsoft Windows thing... You know how much I love your mother's cooking. Noone's sadder than me that she was arrested for loitering at the airport"
So... if you were to do entanglement of an entire movie and send it into the eyes of two different people, would one of them see everything in inverted colours? Or does it just mean that if they're wearing polarized sunglasses, only one of them would see the movie?
If it's the latter, I suspect you'll see a new kind of DRM crop up for movies.
The screen aspect ratio is locked at 16:9 even though no such monitor exists for PC
While I won't argue that it's stupid to have a locked aspect ratio, you are very much mistaken in your claim. Even if we ignore the fact that you can easily hook up your PC to your full HD tv or projector, there are quite a few 16:9 monitors on the market.
I'd love to hear your arguments against bulletproof vests.
"Won't people figure out a way to beat the armor, or beat the system. Imagine a gun that fires a much heavier caliber bullet that the vest cannot stop?"
"What if people are standing on the edge of a building. Now instead of having a bullet rip through them only to make them collapse, the impact will push them off the ledge and crash into a crowd of toddlers and other kids. Boom, splat. Instantly kills multiple people with one single bullet, just because the target was stupid enough to wear a bulletproof vest."
Here's a hint - it's not supposed to be a forcefield. It's supposed to improve survivability not make you impervious to any and all attacks. After all - what's to prevent the shooter from just switching nuclear armaments?
This is true, but that's because they're constantly bombarded with the messages that "surveilance is good".
It's like "the fear of crime". And even when the numbers show that all crimes are at an all time low, the media goes "but the FEAR of crimes is at an all time high". So fucking what?!?
The number of zombie attacks may be at an all time low, but I'm sure the FEAR of zombies is pretty high.
Apologies to Dara Ó Briain for stealing parts of the above.
<voice="Kyle, HardCOP>To extract more money from Microsoft!</voice>
Yes, I'm picking on him - he deserves it, if for no other reason persistantly thinking that the only reason EU goes after Microsoft is money, and not because they've broken a law. Come on - if they don't get punished for breaking those same laws in the US, why should the EU profit from it?
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Hulu or not - the rest of us are still going to get our "needs" covered by The Pirate Bay.
Well, there seems to be two things to gain from this:
1) How to get a healthy clone out of the experiment. This seems to have already been done with Dolly, but aparently the knowledge doesn't translate easily from species to species.
2) Restoring an extinct species They didn't take DNA from enough individuals to avoid inbreeding even if they manage to perfect cloning that species.
While "because you can" is a rather popular reason around here, it just seems like a waste to me. "To save the species" is not even possible with what they've done. It's like declaring Windows to be the best POSIX compliant OS around.
They have one individual. Even if they made a thousand clones of that individual, you still wouldn't save the species. Even if you were able to manipulate the embryos into male and females, you're still stuck with absolutely no genetic diversty.
Nice try, but start by cloning a healthy population first.
And yet we don't see any movie theaters suing cell phone companies for selling you a phone that you're using to harass others while they're trying to watch a movie.
I'm also certain that there were business that relied on carts that couldn't be attached to a car, but I doubt you saw any car makers cowtow to those by adding horselike trailer-hitches to their cars.
Either upgrade to the newfangled goodness or stick with the obsolete stuff.
That version is just so horribly wrong (a depressed love song to a happy calypso tune) that it's pretty much impossible not to laugh or at least chuckle and shake your head at the results
WPM is standardized at 5 keystrokes, so that's 700 keystrokes/minute or almost 12/second. I can barely do that if I'm just mashing the keyboard at random.
Not only is it the first official digital picture of a president elect.
It's first official digital picture of an african american president elect. And the first official digital picture of a president elect married to an african american woman. And the first official digital picture of an african american president elect with african american children.
I think Jon Stewart said it best - "it's going to be a lot of firsts"
Is it just me or does that piece of equipment seem incredibly 'bulky' compared to the Wiimote? To me it seems to be about five times as big not to mention that tether. Not sure if the tether is needed though.
But seriously, while it does seem to be more precise than the Wiimote (the lightsaber thing looks kinda cool), it's not really a suitable replacement, as it's a lot bigger and bulkier.
With the Wiimote I think you'd get an actual feel for what it's like wielding a lightsaber. You'd have a handle, no real resistance beyond what you have when wielding something like a small knife, you could juggle it, toss it behind your back and catch it etc. Things that are probably a bad idea to do with a lightsaber. I just don't see that happening with that big controller.
Get it down to the same freedom as the Wiimote (doesn't have to be just as small) and I'll be more impressed.
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Granted, I only have high school physics on my resumé, but if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
Now, while we don't have any large 'nets' to catch debris with, I do believe the most effective thing to clear stuff out of orbit is the atmosphere, and atmospheric drag tends to be more effective at lower altitudes. So you'd really want to push debris to a lower orbig rather than a higher one.
You just haven't realised how to use bugs/features correctly. Here's how you'd do it:
"Just have your mother call me and I'll pick her up at the airport."
[Set phone to use crashy ringtone]
[Later that night] ... You know how much I love your mother's cooking. Noone's sadder than me that she was arrested for loitering at the airport"
"I'm sorry honey, but every time someone calls me, my phone crashes. It's this new blasted Microsoft Windows thing
So ... if you were to do entanglement of an entire movie and send it into the eyes of two different people, would one of them see everything in inverted colours? Or does it just mean that if they're wearing polarized sunglasses, only one of them would see the movie?
If it's the latter, I suspect you'll see a new kind of DRM crop up for movies.
While I won't argue that it's stupid to have a locked aspect ratio, you are very much mistaken in your claim. Even if we ignore the fact that you can easily hook up your PC to your full HD tv or projector, there are quite a few 16:9 monitors on the market.
BenQ has at least one series of Full HD monitors
Samsung has at least one full HD monitor
Acer has 8 models tagged as 16:9 HD
Fujitsu Siemens has at least two models
I'd love to hear your arguments against bulletproof vests.
"Won't people figure out a way to beat the armor, or beat the system. Imagine a gun that fires a much heavier caliber bullet that the vest cannot stop?"
"What if people are standing on the edge of a building. Now instead of having a bullet rip through them only to make them collapse, the impact will push them off the ledge and crash into a crowd of toddlers and other kids. Boom, splat. Instantly kills multiple people with one single bullet, just because the target was stupid enough to wear a bulletproof vest."
Here's a hint - it's not supposed to be a forcefield. It's supposed to improve survivability not make you impervious to any and all attacks. After all - what's to prevent the shooter from just switching nuclear armaments?
This is true, but that's because they're constantly bombarded with the messages that "surveilance is good".
It's like "the fear of crime". And even when the numbers show that all crimes are at an all time low, the media goes "but the FEAR of crimes is at an all time high". So fucking what?!?
The number of zombie attacks may be at an all time low, but I'm sure the FEAR of zombies is pretty high.
Apologies to Dara Ó Briain for stealing parts of the above.
<voice="Kyle, HardCOP>To extract more money from Microsoft!</voice>
Yes, I'm picking on him - he deserves it, if for no other reason persistantly thinking that the only reason EU goes after Microsoft is money, and not because they've broken a law. Come on - if they don't get punished for breaking those same laws in the US, why should the EU profit from it?
Well, don't hold out on us.
Why DO sumo wrestlers cheat?
How much do crack dealers REALLY make an hour?
Curious minds wants to know. But we're too lazy to go find the book, let alone read it.
Sorry to be so blunt but "fuck Canada".
From Hulu's FAQ:
Hulu or not - the rest of us are still going to get our "needs" covered by The Pirate Bay.
All at once? You'd think his life was a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon!
Well, there seems to be two things to gain from this:
1) How to get a healthy clone out of the experiment.
This seems to have already been done with Dolly, but aparently the knowledge doesn't translate easily from species to species.
2) Restoring an extinct species
They didn't take DNA from enough individuals to avoid inbreeding even if they manage to perfect cloning that species.
While "because you can" is a rather popular reason around here, it just seems like a waste to me. "To save the species" is not even possible with what they've done. It's like declaring Windows to be the best POSIX compliant OS around.
Seriously.
They have one individual. Even if they made a thousand clones of that individual, you still wouldn't save the species. Even if you were able to manipulate the embryos into male and females, you're still stuck with absolutely no genetic diversty.
Nice try, but start by cloning a healthy population first.
And yet we don't see any movie theaters suing cell phone companies for selling you a phone that you're using to harass others while they're trying to watch a movie.
Yes, because we all know that the farmers of the constitution all played blowing with The Dude.
*shakes head* Why overdo it, when a single mistake would have been a lot smarter:
"Yes, perpare! She's gonna bowl!"
Proponent: But so could you.
Opponent: But me being wrong doesn't make the earth dissapear.
Proponent: You could be wrong about that too.
I'm also certain that there were business that relied on carts that couldn't be attached to a car, but I doubt you saw any car makers cowtow to those by adding horselike trailer-hitches to their cars.
Either upgrade to the newfangled goodness or stick with the obsolete stuff.
Sorry for replying to my own, but if Roxanne doesn't make you laugh, this one should:
Intergalactic - Songsmith
That version is just so horribly wrong (a depressed love song to a happy calypso tune) that it's pretty much impossible not to laugh or at least chuckle and shake your head at the results
Roxanne - The Calypso Version
If Mr. Oppenheimer has been the RIAA's attorney, aren't they corrent in asserting privelidge?
I think you'll find that it's called "velocity challanged".
140 wpm? O_o
WPM is standardized at 5 keystrokes, so that's 700 keystrokes/minute or almost 12/second. I can barely do that if I'm just mashing the keyboard at random.
Not only is it the first official digital picture of a president elect.
It's first official digital picture of an african american president elect. And the first official digital picture of a president elect married to an african american woman. And the first official digital picture of an african american president elect with african american children.
I think Jon Stewart said it best - "it's going to be a lot of firsts"
Is it just me or does that piece of equipment seem incredibly 'bulky' compared to the Wiimote? To me it seems to be about five times as big not to mention that tether. Not sure if the tether is needed though.
But seriously, while it does seem to be more precise than the Wiimote (the lightsaber thing looks kinda cool), it's not really a suitable replacement, as it's a lot bigger and bulkier.
With the Wiimote I think you'd get an actual feel for what it's like wielding a lightsaber. You'd have a handle, no real resistance beyond what you have when wielding something like a small knife, you could juggle it, toss it behind your back and catch it etc. Things that are probably a bad idea to do with a lightsaber. I just don't see that happening with that big controller.
Get it down to the same freedom as the Wiimote (doesn't have to be just as small) and I'll be more impressed.
Do you honestly believe that 25% of the Chinese population works for the government?