This is actually a popular feature among Tivo users as you could say, get a brochure for the new Corvette sent to your home by simply pressing thumbs up during the Chevrolet commercial. I welcome this.
Perhaps your definition of popular is different than mine. The La Times article says
Between 5% and 20% of TiVo viewers given the opportunity to "participate" in an ad -- either by clicking on a tag or by selecting a long-form commercial from a main menu -- take it.
Put another way, 80 to 95% of the TIVO viewers don't care for the feature.
In your dictionary, are "SPAM" and "popular" synonymous?
I think they were implying that you couldn't use one of these engines to get off the earth's surface. The thrust they generate is on the order of the weight of a single sheet of paper. If you don't have to fight earth's gravity to get the craft moving, you're set. If you're trying to get off-planet, you're not going anywhere.
JPL has an open house every year. A few years back, they were in the middle of a multi-year burn test and during the open house, you could see the engine's blue glow as it sat there chugging out ions into a vacuum chamber. It was totally silent (vacuum has that effect...) and the exhaust looked like it came off the front page of Analog.
I've never understood why someone would read a review about a search engine. Reviews make sense of you can't afford to try the item yourself before buying.
With a search engine, however, you try it, if you like it, you keep using it. That's how I started with Google. What does the review do for me that I can't see for myself?
Dawkins described the likely evolution of the eye as a progression from a heat sensitive patch of skin to a pit as found on pit vipers to a camera obscura peephole to a rudimentary lens to keep the camera obscura clean. The final step in Dawkin's speculated path would have been the eye. When I read his path it made sense but at the time, I figured, without the creatures Dawkins was merely speculating.
The pit viper was already known so that wasn't hard. However, about 5 years after I read Dawkin's speculation, some oceanographers brought up some blind shrimp that had heat sensitive patches on their topside. The shrimp apparently use the ability to "see" heat to find smokers which provide the energy basis of the food chain at the bottom of the ocean.
Anyone know of a creature that uses a camera obscura for an eye?
Two questions: 1)Asking you "was it worth it?" is going to get an affirmative answer regardless of how you really feel so let me ask you, what happened on the flight that made the trip worth $20 million?
My son is an avid film buff and Doom player. By chance, he got a copy of the script. An excerpt from his email describing the script:
Bad doesn't begin to describe it. It is one of the single best examples of everything thats wrong with Hollywood. The charachter
sic development is so awful that you actually want everyone to die so that the movie will. (spoiler warning)...
And one of the marines (john) and his scientist sister figure out that essentially this virus from another planet infects the DNA of people and then, if they are bad, manipulates their inner badness into an external representation making them monsters (resulting in lines like "we've all got a monster inside"). So John, since he has not been infected because all the monsters know that he is so good (literally thats the rationale), has his sister pump him full of the virus, and it manipulates his goodness into an angelic form making him an angel (seriously).
My point wasn't that Apple had invented water cooling or heat pipes. There's a difference between you or me buying some parts and water cooling our PCs and a company like Apple doing the same. Until now, there hasn't been a major manufacturer who used water - on the PC side it's either been garage-based builders or homebrew for water cooling home PCs.
There has been quite a bit of reluctance to adopt water - partly due to cost and partly due to fear of the liability a water leak would cause that companies like Dell and HP have avoided it. As I said in my original post, if Apple demonstrates that leaks don't happen in a consumer environment, you're going to see the other manufacturers following suit. They won't have a choice because if Dell tries to stick with air cooling, HP, IBM, Apple, or some other competitor will eat their lunch. I just returned a brand new Dell (2.8 Ghz) because it was too noisy.
I can see how my post would be mistaken as a fanboys. But, believe me when I tell you not a fanboy.
Which is ok if you plan on using the cpu as your water pump. Water comes in through a one way valve, flashes and exits the other side making room for a fresh slug of water. You get a free water pump and excellent heat transfer - a couple of orders of magnitude better than with fluid water.
Apple's warranty experience with the G5 is going to influence what happens on the PC side. If Apple's water cooling solution doesn't incur any undue warranty claims, I'm willing to bet that AMD and Intel will simply mandate water cooling for their chips. I can even imagine having water channels embedded in the chip itself to cool the chip from the bottom as well as the top.
Once Intel and AMD accept the heat losses associated with the smaller dimension gates because they can just pipe the heat away, the MHZ wars will return.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come from Intel.
Boeing dropped out of the large airframe race leaving the field to Airbus. Silicon Light had a really interesting technology which they sold to Sony who are just sitting on it.
It's not just that we just don't make things the way we used to - it's getting to where we just don't make things.
Editing a movie on Final Cut Pro on an iBook is an exercise in tedium and patience.
This will probably be modded down as a troll but I stopped using a Mac altogether when I felt that using it was an exercise in tedium and patience. My brother still has one and watching him wait and wait for what takes me but a second to do the same thing makes me admire his patience but in no way makes me want to emulate him by reverting to a Mac.
After all, today's flight's pilot, Brian Binnie, is a South African.
I think perhaps you're thinking of Michael Melville who was born in South Africa and became a U.S. citizen back in the 70's. Binnie, did his college work at Brown and Princeton and learned to fly jets at Patuxent Naval Air Base and spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy. Though the Navy has been known to train foreign nationals, it's more likely that Binnie is an American.
If you go to the webcam at the visitor's center right now (7:40 am pst), you'll see nothing but a grey screen. It's the early morning fog. If it were ash, you would get a "page not found...", something/. readers see more often than not anyway.
People tend to get excited about new products like these; in a separate but equally relevant phenomenon, they tend not to RTFA. Yep, that pretty much describes me.
e-had - a purely electronic holy war; i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable You forgot bin-had - people who get excited without rtfa.
If it was a nuke, wouldn't Japan have noticed by now? When Chernobyl blew, Sweden was the first place to say something when their geiger counters went off. It took the Russians awhile to admit they had a problem.
Similarly, if it was a nuke, Japan's geiger counters have had plenty of time to go off by now.
I attended the last launch and parking was _free_.
Don't know how you finagled free parking. Everyone else paid a minimum of $10 to park.
Nonetheless, when I saw the $35 fee I thought that perhaps they were spending the money on improving the viewer's experience. The sound system last June was lousy - even though the crowd was fairly quiet, you still couldn't hear what was on the PA system. When you got right next to one of the few speakers littered around the parking lot, you got to hear a local politician talk about how great it all was so it was just as well you couldn't hear much. I figure that for $35 they ought to be able to pay someone who has a clue as to what's going to give color commentary, tie the PA system into the ground/ship chatter so we can hear things as they happen and perhaps have some jumbotrons getting a feed from an airborne camera so we can see something more than a speck generate a contrail.
It was fun once but if the next time is like the first, I'll pass on going back to Mojave.
At a conference in the mid thirties, Fermi reported that his group had discovered neutron induced radioactivity. His post-docs called after he'd delivered the paper and told them they couldn't reproduce the results - he'd have to retract his paper. Nightmare time for Fermi.
They'd set the experiment up in a different lab so the postdocs decided to try setting the original experiment up *exactly* as it was before, including the same room. Voila! they induce radioactivity again. Call Fermi back and say, nevermind, they've got it going again.
The crucial piece of equipment turned out to be the lab bench. The original bench was made of wood, the null result bench was steel. The hydrogen in the wood slowed the neutrons down enough that they could interact with the sample they were shooting neutrons at.
In describing the setup, they never mentioned the bench because they didn't know it mattered. Their discovery that hydrogen atoms moderated neutrons led them to repeat the experiment all over, and around the lab - including out by the goldfish pond which was filled with lots of hydrogen.
Would it make sense to surround the ship with a reinforced concrete caisson that's shaped like a parabola with the ship at the focal point? Blow the ship and any blast effect goes straight up.
Only drawback I can think of is the inevitable construction vibrations may be enough to set the bombs off. That and getting rid of the caisson after the bombs were set off.
The idea's based on the old railroad dynamite cars. They were made with heavily reinforced floors and walls but the ceilings had just enough tin to keep the rain out. If the load blew, the blast took the path of least resistance and blew the tin roof sky high leaving the rest of the car intact.
His secretary could have drawn them up, his butler could have made the call, and his daughter could think Rich was innocent - none of it matters. What matters is that money slid across the table in exchange for Clinton's signing the pardon.
So, excuse me, but get YOUR facts straight. Billy was impeached (f*cking unbelievable) because he decided to lie about his blow job.
Let's get YOUR facts straight. Bill Clinton was on trial for a sexual harrassment charge. The charge was he gave good paying jobs to women who gave him sex and ignored the women who didn't. Monica Lewinski came up as a case in point. Clinton's lie about his relationship with Lewinski obstructed proving the key point - he was a typical jerk boss who promoted women he fucked and dissed women who rejected him.
Clinton then compounds his perjury by talking to his secretary about her upcoming Grand Jury testimony. He was specifically ordered not to speak to any of the witnesses who had yet to testify and yet he did. That's another obstruction of justice charge.
Bill Clinton deserved his impeachment and should have been removed from office. The fact that he wasn't removed left him in a position to sell pardons to people like Marc Rich and the Hasidic Jews knowing nobody would do anything about it. The Marc Rich pardon was true chutzpah - to wit:
Some are calling the inquiries a field day for die-hard Clinton-haters. But most see this as a source of bipartisan outrage. Republicans and Democrats alike were dumbstruck by the Rich pardon. The federal prosecutors who indicted Rich are especially livid, particularly because, by definition, Rich appears to be ineligible for a pardon: He never took responsibility for his actions or served any sentence.
The congressional panels were called to investigate the path to Rich's pardon -- which, as various documents seem to indicate, did not follow usual channels. In testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. pardon attorney Roger Adams says when the White House sent over Rich's name for pardon consideration -- only a few hours before the President was due to leave office -- there was never any mention of Rich being a fugitive. There is also suspicion that donations made to Clinton campaigns and to the Clinton presidential library by Rich's ex-wife, Denise, could be a quid pro quo for the pardon.
The only difference between Nixon and Clinton was Clinton, being a Democrat, has the Washington Post and New York Times, on his side. Both were equally crooked presidents.
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Perhaps your definition of popular is different than mine. The La Times article says
Put another way, 80 to 95% of the TIVO viewers don't care for the feature.In your dictionary, are "SPAM" and "popular" synonymous?
NASA has scheduled a press conference at 4 PST. It's available at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Color me pissed. (a darker shade of yellow with a little ochre mixed in...)
JPL has an open house every year. A few years back, they were in the middle of a multi-year burn test and during the open house, you could see the engine's blue glow as it sat there chugging out ions into a vacuum chamber. It was totally silent (vacuum has that effect...) and the exhaust looked like it came off the front page of Analog.
With a search engine, however, you try it, if you like it, you keep using it. That's how I started with Google. What does the review do for me that I can't see for myself?
I don't think they're intended to be cuddly.
The pit viper was already known so that wasn't hard. However, about 5 years after I read Dawkin's speculation, some oceanographers brought up some blind shrimp that had heat sensitive patches on their topside. The shrimp apparently use the ability to "see" heat to find smokers which provide the energy basis of the food chain at the bottom of the ocean.
Anyone know of a creature that uses a camera obscura for an eye?
Two questions:
1)Asking you "was it worth it?" is going to get an affirmative answer regardless of how you really feel so let me ask you, what happened on the flight that made the trip worth $20 million?
2)How much would you pay to go up a second time?
There has been quite a bit of reluctance to adopt water - partly due to cost and partly due to fear of the liability a water leak would cause that companies like Dell and HP have avoided it. As I said in my original post, if Apple demonstrates that leaks don't happen in a consumer environment, you're going to see the other manufacturers following suit. They won't have a choice because if Dell tries to stick with air cooling, HP, IBM, Apple, or some other competitor will eat their lunch. I just returned a brand new Dell (2.8 Ghz) because it was too noisy.
I can see how my post would be mistaken as a fanboys. But, believe me when I tell you not a fanboy.
Which is ok if you plan on using the cpu as your water pump. Water comes in through a one way valve, flashes and exits the other side making room for a fresh slug of water. You get a free water pump and excellent heat transfer - a couple of orders of magnitude better than with fluid water.
Once Intel and AMD accept the heat losses associated with the smaller dimension gates because they can just pipe the heat away, the MHZ wars will return.
Boeing dropped out of the large airframe race leaving the field to Airbus. Silicon Light had a really interesting technology which they sold to Sony who are just sitting on it.
It's not just that we just don't make things the way we used to - it's getting to where we just don't make things.
This will probably be modded down as a troll but I stopped using a Mac altogether when I felt that using it was an exercise in tedium and patience. My brother still has one and watching him wait and wait for what takes me but a second to do the same thing makes me admire his patience but in no way makes me want to emulate him by reverting to a Mac.
Perhaps I drink too much caffeine.
I think perhaps you're thinking of Michael Melville who was born in South Africa and became a U.S. citizen back in the 70's. Binnie, did his college work at Brown and Princeton and learned to fly jets at Patuxent Naval Air Base and spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy. Though the Navy has been known to train foreign nationals, it's more likely that Binnie is an American.
If you go to the webcam at the visitor's center right now (7:40 am pst), you'll see nothing but a grey screen. It's the early morning fog. If it were ash, you would get a "page not found...", something /. readers see more often than not anyway.
This is what happens when you flip the switches.
Yep, that pretty much describes me.
e-had - a purely electronic holy war; i-had - much like an e-had, but it's portable
You forgot bin-had - people who get excited without rtfa.
Could you elaborate on that?
Similarly, if it was a nuke, Japan's geiger counters have had plenty of time to go off by now.
Don't know how you finagled free parking. Everyone else paid a minimum of $10 to park.
Nonetheless, when I saw the $35 fee I thought that perhaps they were spending the money on improving the viewer's experience. The sound system last June was lousy - even though the crowd was fairly quiet, you still couldn't hear what was on the PA system. When you got right next to one of the few speakers littered around the parking lot, you got to hear a local politician talk about how great it all was so it was just as well you couldn't hear much. I figure that for $35 they ought to be able to pay someone who has a clue as to what's going to give color commentary, tie the PA system into the ground/ship chatter so we can hear things as they happen and perhaps have some jumbotrons getting a feed from an airborne camera so we can see something more than a speck generate a contrail.
It was fun once but if the next time is like the first, I'll pass on going back to Mojave.
They'd set the experiment up in a different lab so the postdocs decided to try setting the original experiment up *exactly* as it was before, including the same room. Voila! they induce radioactivity again. Call Fermi back and say, nevermind, they've got it going again.
The crucial piece of equipment turned out to be the lab bench. The original bench was made of wood, the null result bench was steel. The hydrogen in the wood slowed the neutrons down enough that they could interact with the sample they were shooting neutrons at.
In describing the setup, they never mentioned the bench because they didn't know it mattered. Their discovery that hydrogen atoms moderated neutrons led them to repeat the experiment all over, and around the lab - including out by the goldfish pond which was filled with lots of hydrogen.
Only drawback I can think of is the inevitable construction vibrations may be enough to set the bombs off. That and getting rid of the caisson after the bombs were set off.
The idea's based on the old railroad dynamite cars. They were made with heavily reinforced floors and walls but the ceilings had just enough tin to keep the rain out. If the load blew, the blast took the path of least resistance and blew the tin roof sky high leaving the rest of the car intact.
His secretary could have drawn them up, his butler could have made the call, and his daughter could think Rich was innocent - none of it matters. What matters is that money slid across the table in exchange for Clinton's signing the pardon.
Let's get YOUR facts straight. Bill Clinton was on trial for a sexual harrassment charge. The charge was he gave good paying jobs to women who gave him sex and ignored the women who didn't. Monica Lewinski came up as a case in point. Clinton's lie about his relationship with Lewinski obstructed proving the key point - he was a typical jerk boss who promoted women he fucked and dissed women who rejected him.
Clinton then compounds his perjury by talking to his secretary about her upcoming Grand Jury testimony. He was specifically ordered not to speak to any of the witnesses who had yet to testify and yet he did. That's another obstruction of justice charge.
Bill Clinton deserved his impeachment and should have been removed from office. The fact that he wasn't removed left him in a position to sell pardons to people like Marc Rich and the Hasidic Jews knowing nobody would do anything about it. The Marc Rich pardon was true chutzpah - to wit:
The only difference between Nixon and Clinton was Clinton, being a Democrat, has the Washington Post and New York Times, on his side. Both were equally crooked presidents.