I find it interesting that Zen Magnets are currently out of stock. I'm sure that it's easier to keep production quality high when dealing with smaller production runs, so maybe BuckyBalls' QC is slipping as they try to keep up with their larger market share?
From alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... (1 April 1974):
4.4) Revolvers, cyanide and high voltages: The pros and cons of various luser
education strategies.
There has been a great deal of debate on ASR about the best way of dealing
with lusers, and at this time no consensus has been reached. What we can
suggest, however, is to be sure it is painful, clean, and doesn't harm
the computer. That unfortunately leaves a lot of options out; you can't
just throw a grenade at them; it will hurt the machine.
Not small, but also not uncommon. According to NASA JPL:
Although neither of these object has a chance of hitting Earth, a ten meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 50 million would be expected to pass almost daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth's atmosphere about every ten years on average.
...so this happens pretty much every day. This time, however, we know about it.
Roleplay isn't something you can really put in or take out of the rules.
White Wolf's Exalted handles this really, really well. For any action, you can try to get "stunt dice": basically, you describe what you are doing in a cool way and if it sounds creative, you get extra dice to roll.
So, instead of, "I attack with my sword," you say, "I lunge over the table, uttering a blood-curdling war cry, and slash mightily at his mid-section."
Even more extra dice if you cause the entire group of players to either laugh or gasp in amazement. It does a great job of keeping the players engaged and thinking creatively.
I recall reading several years ago that one of the problems with wind turbines is the stress that they suffer during high winds. Also the potential that the turbine will get overloaded. You can make the blades strong enough so that they don't bend and get pushed in to the tower, but this makes them heavier. You can disengage the turbine in high winds, but this adds a layer of complexity.
One proposed solution was to reverse the system, so that the wind blows past the tower in to the blades, and then make the blades more flexible. As they bend in very high winds, they move away from the tower instead of toward it. Also, they get less efficient and don't over-spin the turbine. Plus, they're lighter and therefore more power goes to the turbine instead of giving them angular momentum.
I've never once seen this design implemented. Anyone out there in the know as to why?
haha - yes, I knew what you meant. But considering another common use of those symbols, # = British Pounds and $ = (any country that uses dollars), it makes sense to me that # is worth more than $.
Now here' the twist:
Ironically, by opening it up they maybe doing more to supress this compound than if they had kept quiet. The reason is, it's now unpatentable. What other company would invest in it?
There are still ways to get patent protection. Patent the formulation. Patent the synthesis method. Big Pharma has a long history of using these techniques to effectively extend patents almost indefinitely. The profits on a patented drug encourage them to pour the legal resources into bending patent law into a perversion of its intended goal, and the patent office (of any given country) doesn't have the resources or inclination to stop them.
That only counts as one bad experience. It sucks, to be sure, but it's anecdotal. I've done dozens of SP2 --> SP3 transitions, and zero machines got borked.
Or, alternately, posting a link anonymously won't trigger some karma-whore-hater to mod you down and might actually result in the link being seen by more readers (see: altruism). It's not the way that the system was designed, but it still works (see: hacker). Of course, none of this has anything to do with Jupiter (see: offtopic).
err...have you ever considered setting up a web portal where they can upload the file? Or and FTP server? Really, if this is happening "often" there's probably a better solution out there, just waiting for you to lay your blessed eyes on it.
Well, it took them two years to plan this extended phase of the mission, so that would mean that they would have had to wait two extra years before launching (for planning better). Plus waiting for the next launch window.
Also, some of these missions last long enough that the science advances back on Earth before the probe dies. They can now answer questions that no one had considered asking before they launched. If you ask me, that's pretty freaking cool.
Also of note, B&M stores will have the old models on sale for the next few days...it's the only time I've ever seen Apple laptops at reduced prices. Get 'em while they're hot!
Not really. In this experiment, the music is evolving in an environment where "fitness" equates with "what people say they like". The people voting can't make changes to the music, they only get to say how much they like it (on a 5-point scale).
It's not even selective breeding, where a breeder has a trait that they are looking to improve and forces mating among individuals which exhibit that trait.
Cool - soda can at 10m is exactly the sense of perspective I was looking for. I love watching the tides, and really, how cool would it be to have them messed up by something like this? Oh well.
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I find it interesting that Zen Magnets are currently out of stock. I'm sure that it's easier to keep production quality high when dealing with smaller production runs, so maybe BuckyBalls' QC is slipping as they try to keep up with their larger market share?
From alt.sysadmin.recovery FAQ v1.799999999999999998... (1 April 1974):
4.4) Revolvers, cyanide and high voltages: The pros and cons of various luser education strategies.
There has been a great deal of debate on ASR about the best way of dealing with lusers, and at this time no consensus has been reached. What we can suggest, however, is to be sure it is painful, clean, and doesn't harm the computer. That unfortunately leaves a lot of options out; you can't just throw a grenade at them; it will hurt the machine.
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/sysadmin-recovery
That's really cool...but they labeled their "underexposed" and "overexposed" backwards. Oops.
The first site is slow to load, the second is timing out completely. Could they possibly be Slashdotted?!
Not small, but also not uncommon. According to NASA JPL:
Although neither of these object has a chance of hitting Earth, a ten meter-sized near-Earth asteroid from the undiscovered population of about 50 million would be expected to pass almost daily within a lunar distance, and one might strike Earth's atmosphere about every ten years on average.
...so this happens pretty much every day. This time, however, we know about it.
Harvard graduates 97 percent of its students
Yep - getting in to Harvard is a challenge. After that, graduating is inevitable.
Roleplay isn't something you can really put in or take out of the rules.
White Wolf's Exalted handles this really, really well. For any action, you can try to get "stunt dice": basically, you describe what you are doing in a cool way and if it sounds creative, you get extra dice to roll.
So, instead of, "I attack with my sword," you say, "I lunge over the table, uttering a blood-curdling war cry, and slash mightily at his mid-section."
Even more extra dice if you cause the entire group of players to either laugh or gasp in amazement. It does a great job of keeping the players engaged and thinking creatively.
If this comes to pass, where do I turn in my fanboy card?
I recall reading several years ago that one of the problems with wind turbines is the stress that they suffer during high winds. Also the potential that the turbine will get overloaded. You can make the blades strong enough so that they don't bend and get pushed in to the tower, but this makes them heavier. You can disengage the turbine in high winds, but this adds a layer of complexity.
One proposed solution was to reverse the system, so that the wind blows past the tower in to the blades, and then make the blades more flexible. As they bend in very high winds, they move away from the tower instead of toward it. Also, they get less efficient and don't over-spin the turbine. Plus, they're lighter and therefore more power goes to the turbine instead of giving them angular momentum.
I've never once seen this design implemented. Anyone out there in the know as to why?
haha - yes, I knew what you meant. But considering another common use of those symbols, # = British Pounds and $ = (any country that uses dollars), it makes sense to me that # is worth more than $.
Why do you find it strange?
I agree completely. Except:
Now here' the twist: Ironically, by opening it up they maybe doing more to supress this compound than if they had kept quiet. The reason is, it's now unpatentable. What other company would invest in it?
There are still ways to get patent protection. Patent the formulation. Patent the synthesis method. Big Pharma has a long history of using these techniques to effectively extend patents almost indefinitely. The profits on a patented drug encourage them to pour the legal resources into bending patent law into a perversion of its intended goal, and the patent office (of any given country) doesn't have the resources or inclination to stop them.
It's a strange world in which # is worth more than $
Makes sense to me.
That only counts as one bad experience. It sucks, to be sure, but it's anecdotal. I've done dozens of SP2 --> SP3 transitions, and zero machines got borked.
Or, alternately, posting a link anonymously won't trigger some karma-whore-hater to mod you down and might actually result in the link being seen by more readers (see: altruism). It's not the way that the system was designed, but it still works (see: hacker). Of course, none of this has anything to do with Jupiter (see: offtopic).
err...have you ever considered setting up a web portal where they can upload the file? Or and FTP server? Really, if this is happening "often" there's probably a better solution out there, just waiting for you to lay your blessed eyes on it.
Why not both? Sure, it saves them money, but it also means less printing and shipping. How is that "not green"?
The Nintendo DS was released in 2004. You want a 20 or 30 year study?!?
You don't even have the regulating proteins or the ribosome to deal with a _circular_ DNA strand, and one outside the nucleus at that.
Whoa, there. I don't know about you, but I have mitochondria, thank you very much!
Well, it took them two years to plan this extended phase of the mission, so that would mean that they would have had to wait two extra years before launching (for planning better). Plus waiting for the next launch window.
Also, some of these missions last long enough that the science advances back on Earth before the probe dies. They can now answer questions that no one had considered asking before they launched. If you ask me, that's pretty freaking cool.
Agreed.
Also of note, B&M stores will have the old models on sale for the next few days...it's the only time I've ever seen Apple laptops at reduced prices. Get 'em while they're hot!
But I'm not going to get an iPad for each member of the household just to keep e-mail private.
Then you really aren't the type of customer that Apple cares about!
Much like the Highlander trilogy: There can be only one!
There's a quicktime movie showing the reversal of the air stream in the Supplemental Material of the PRL site.
It's pretty cool, and I couldn't find it on arxiv. Boy, I love being a student again and having free access to journal subscriptions!
Not really. In this experiment, the music is evolving in an environment where "fitness" equates with "what people say they like". The people voting can't make changes to the music, they only get to say how much they like it (on a 5-point scale).
It's not even selective breeding, where a breeder has a trait that they are looking to improve and forces mating among individuals which exhibit that trait.
Cool - soda can at 10m is exactly the sense of perspective I was looking for. I love watching the tides, and really, how cool would it be to have them messed up by something like this? Oh well.