Thought the Liberator looked a cool design for a spaceship. Who would've thought that an air freshener and some washing up bottles could make a great looking spaceship. Blake was a deeply cynical space opera, with every character angling for their own objectives. I get the impression that is what Whedon tried to do with Firefly.
The new Doctor Who is a huge leap forward too, Ecclestone and particularly Tennant have been good Doctors, and the special effects have been good enough to capture the audience, which is all thats required. Some episodes (e.g. Blink, The Satan Pit and just about any other Stephen Moffat script) have been superlative.
I'm afraid that I haven't got into Battlestar Galactica. The production values are excellent, and the plot is good too, so I don't know why I can't get to love it. Maybe what's wrong is that it just takes itself too seriously.
Star Trek is much too clinical. Only the Ferengi seemed to have anything resembling a true to life approach to matters, but unfortunately they were also the comic relief.
I hope they manage to preserve the essence of Blakes 7 (idealism corrupted?) in the remake.
Unlike fingerprints, once you build up a sizeable DNA database, you can also to a certain extent work out the DNA of people related to the person whose DNA you sampled. (or more accurately, from the DNA, you can establish that the DNA of perpetrator was relative of someone in your database). This "creep" allows you to effectively have a DNA database for the entire population with only a small proportion of records.
I strongly suspect that a) American front line aircraft have substantially better avionics than the F-14s sold to the Shah in the 1970's. b) if the Iranians did have a spare parts problem for their aircraft, the advance of computers, avionics, CNC lathes etc would make it substantially easier to fabricate spare parts. The only problem, and I do accept it is a big one, would be getting any alloy composition right, but again I'm willing to bet chemical analysis is up to the job nowadays.
Iran in any case got a whole load of (Soviet) equipment flown in to them by the Iraqis at the end of Gulf War I. I get the impression the Iranian Air Force is now primarily Soviet based equipment, but potentially moving onto "home grown " kit soon.
Not much chance of becoming a non-planet like Pluto - it's 14 times the mass of Jupiter, so it would have to break up into lots of smaller planets for that to happen.
All my bulbs at home are low energy florescents, except for a few LED bulbs in the kitchen spotlights (2 LED, 2 standard) and a couple of standard bulbs on dimmer switches, so I won't be getting much heat out of those:-)
Answer is (probably) you'd need more of them to heat your house than standard bulbs. This is more efficient at converting energy into light, so it actually produces less heat than a light bulb. It may get to 6000K, but only at a very small point, so the amount of heat produced is quite small. A big radiator full of hot water will be more effective in terms of heat output. A radiator has huge size but a lower output per unit volume, whereas this has a very small volume but a high temperature.
It also says 6000K at its center; I'm not sure whether it transmits that heat to the casing or not.
Castro has been a murderous dictator for decades, and it's rather unfortunate that you'd choose to compare Stallman to him. Of course, being Slashdot, comparing Bill Gates to him is Official Policy....
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Doctor Who
s/Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi/g
Admiral Ackbar phoned home; he wants his lines from The Empire Strike Back returned to him
..he must be 6,000 years old. After all he can't be any older.
This may go over the heads of non Eoin Colfer readers
Stop DailyKos by Any Means Necessary.
Any legal issues can be resoved by a Presidential pardon after the election
Send another one up and see if it happens again.
reported on Slashdot.
Error - does not compute
I think I just BSOD'd myself.
..it was all Greek to me.
Oh wait...
Thought the Liberator looked a cool design for a spaceship. Who would've thought that an air freshener and some washing up bottles could make a great looking spaceship. Blake was a deeply cynical space opera, with every character angling for their own objectives. I get the impression that is what Whedon tried to do with Firefly.
The new Doctor Who is a huge leap forward too, Ecclestone and particularly Tennant have been good Doctors, and the special effects have been good enough to capture the audience, which is all thats required. Some episodes (e.g. Blink, The Satan Pit and just about any other Stephen Moffat script) have been superlative.
I'm afraid that I haven't got into Battlestar Galactica. The production values are excellent, and the plot is good too, so I don't know why I can't get to love it. Maybe what's wrong is that it just takes itself too seriously.
Star Trek is much too clinical. Only the Ferengi seemed to have anything resembling a true to life approach to matters, but unfortunately they were also the comic relief.
I hope they manage to preserve the essence of Blakes 7 (idealism corrupted?) in the remake.
...that an Intelligent Designer made Mathematics about 6,000 years ago.
...but due to a translation error, the Volleyball team was replaced by the Russian Womens weightlifting team.
Unlike fingerprints, once you build up a sizeable DNA database, you can also to a certain extent work out the DNA of people related to the person whose DNA you sampled. (or more accurately, from the DNA, you can establish that the DNA of perpetrator was relative of someone in your database). This "creep" allows you to effectively have a DNA database for the entire population with only a small proportion of records.
..and SCO
I strongly suspect that
a) American front line aircraft have substantially better avionics than the F-14s sold to the Shah in the 1970's.
b) if the Iranians did have a spare parts problem for their aircraft, the advance of computers, avionics, CNC lathes etc would make it substantially easier to fabricate spare parts. The only problem, and I do accept it is a big one, would be getting any alloy composition right, but again I'm willing to bet chemical analysis is up to the job nowadays.
Iran in any case got a whole load of (Soviet) equipment flown in to them by the Iraqis at the end of Gulf War I. I get the impression the Iranian Air Force is now primarily Soviet based equipment, but potentially moving onto "home grown " kit soon.
It tells me when Elvis has left the building
Not much chance of becoming a non-planet like Pluto - it's 14 times the mass of Jupiter, so it would have to break up into lots of smaller planets for that to happen.
Charlie Brown and Snoopy
I can do this in less than 12 parsecs....
All my bulbs at home are low energy florescents, except for a few LED bulbs in the kitchen spotlights (2 LED, 2 standard) and a couple of standard bulbs on dimmer switches, so I won't be getting much heat out of those :-)
Answer is (probably) you'd need more of them to heat your house than standard bulbs. This is more efficient at converting energy into light, so it actually produces less heat than a light bulb. It may get to 6000K, but only at a very small point, so the amount of heat produced is quite small. A big radiator full of hot water will be more effective in terms of heat output. A radiator has huge size but a lower output per unit volume, whereas this has a very small volume but a high temperature.
It also says 6000K at its center; I'm not sure whether it transmits that heat to the casing or not.
Perfect for my indoor marijuana plantation.... :-)
As long as my head can be kept alive in a jar....
am not blowing out the candles on the Universe's birthday cake....
Castro has been a murderous dictator for decades, and it's rather unfortunate that you'd choose to compare Stallman to him.
Of course, being Slashdot, comparing Bill Gates to him is Official Policy....