Bryce conducted her research by visiting gamers, usually during regional or national competitions
So, who would you expect to find at regional and national competitions? A cross section represantive of the typical game player? Or maybe above average players?
Please do some research before stating what you believe to be fact.
Radiometers can operate either using light pressure or thermal transpiration, depending on the construction. However, every radiometer you are likely to see operates on thermal transpiration.
If you actually had a clue and could recall playing with one of these, you would know that they turn AWAY from the black side, which is opposite what you describe.
Had you ever played with a true solar-sail type that turns TOWARD the black side, you would have broken it, as they are extremely delicate.
Please refer to the URL below for a more in depth discussion.
I'm not yet convinced that SSTO is they holy grail. It would certainly be cool, but I don't see why a two stage setup would be a problem, particularly if it was cheap and easy to use. The vehicle could be boosted by the first stage, then after it's return trip, fitted with a new first stage, potentially decreasing the turn-around time (as the first stage can be set up while the craft is in orbit).
SSTO just means you have to carry around a bunch of empty fuel tanks after you get to orbit. Seems like there would be some advantage to dumping them and just taking with you what you need.
I would not have a problem with everyone being recorded (video and audio) everywhere in public at all times, AS LONG AS all footage was publicly accessable to anyone, anytime, wihtout any kind of permit or supervision, and said recordings were stored in a redundant, distributed manner such that no one could know where they were being stored and altering said distributed footage such that the original could not be recovered was extremely difficult.
Kind of like freenet for video. Perhaps with some kind of public key system to help prevent modifying video streams.
hey, thats a great idea for film students! All you have to do is make sure that what you are doing looks real from a distance (mugging passersby), but be sure that you are fairly innocous upon closer inspection. Make sure someone gets it on tape, and that you get out of jail in time to do the postproduction and get it turned it.
Does it not make sense to you to pay farmers?[...] It's assumed that if one year, farmers don't do well, they should not all be forced out of business
The problem is that too many farmers are specialized into limited areas. Historicly, if corn was doing badly, a farmer could stop growing corn and rely on his hogs, cattle, soybeans and other products. The supply self limited because farmers were able to do other things when a crop was unprofitable.
Now we have farmers with enormous plots of land doing one thing. All they can do is grow section after section of bioengineered, pest resistant, high yeild corn. They have so much corn they can't sell it all, and they can't grow something else because they don't have the equipment or skill to do so.
We can't have these people going broke, we have to force crops to be profitable with price floors and subsidies. No, we can't just tell them to GROW SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE WE HAVE TOO MUCH FUCKING CORN!
Investors don't buy just one or two stocks, and farmers shouldn't depend on one or two crops. When prices on one commodity hit the shitter, they need something (prefreably several somethings) to fall back on before begging the govamint to bail them out of their stupidity.
Besides that, paying them to NOT grow food is just stupid. At the very least they should be paid to grow it, and then the product be given away to someone who does need it. (Not that feeding starving people in the desert is a good idea, you just get more starving people who STILL live in a damn desert. Hmm, maybe the crops can be treated with Ru-486 or something).
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a9171610594.ht m
This just means that they will need to dump the HPS lights and move to a source that produces a similar spectrum but uses less power. This will also allow them to appear less anomalous in power usage (I know, they bypass the meters, but that is detectable, at the very least the radiated heat from the pole transformer could be observered).
Next they'll need to address the rather potent odor. Possibly a bit of excavation a sewer map and some more fans could be useful.
You are standing in the dark with a few million other people. You can neither see nor touch anyone (although if you are close enough, you can overhear what they say), nor move.
If you want to know anything about someone else, you have to ask. However, some people get offended if you ask them certain questions, so rather than ignoring such questions, those people want to make it illegal to ask any question, instead they want you to ask only one question "what are you like" and they will provide only the information they want.
They do not want you to be able to ask a total stranger specific questions, even if what you want to know is unusual and so not often included in the answer to "what are you like".
Let's say I'm connecting my computer to the internet for private purposes.
The internet is a public network, anything you connect to it is exposed for public access. Anything you do not want accessed by the public should not be made accessable on the public interface.
Why should I have to put up with repeated port scans?
Because you choose to put your box on a public network. If you don't want people looking at your box, feel free to pay for a private connection.
Those people aren't trying to connect to ports 111, 161, etc to do me a favour by testing my security. They're trying to break in!
No, they are just looking. If they find a flaw they can exploit, and then make the attempt to exploit it, THEN they are trying to break in. Certainly cruising a neighborhood casing the houses is suspicious, but its not illegal (in general, depending on where you are. Some communities have such rules).
If you don't want people looking at a public interface, don't put one up.
Correct, it is not supersonic (although the article is not clear if by 'supersonic' they mean 'faster than the speed of sound in air at sea level' or 'faster than the speed of sound in water', I suspect the former).
Also, the Shkval is more like an explosive bullet than a traditional torpedo, it cannot be steered.
The russians have torpedos that use the principle, and apparently the US Navy has applied it to bullets that are able to penetrate about 12M of water to destroy mines.
Evidently ancient Klingons looked like TNG's Klingons. When Kayles (sp?) was cloned, he
had the standard cranial ridges. However,
since he was designed for general consumption,
he may have been altered. But, if Worf knows
why Klingons looked different in the TOS era,
then its likely that a large number of other
Klingons do too, and a supposed reincarnation
would have to be historically accurate.
Also, on Voyager, when Torres is on the Barge
of the dead, the helmsman, who is presumably
an ancient figure, has cranial ridges.
So, since we don't really have an evidence
of what klingons looked like immediately
pre-TOS, they could choose either format.
I certainly expect cranial ridges, because
TOS Klingons look like pussies.
I wonder if the license on this stuff is transferable, of if we'll have to start paying a license fee to use products made with the plant?
Maybe they'll do like microsoft and wait until everybody is using/pirating it, then release a new version that can't be digested until you call them up and buy a license.
Blasphemy! Here in the US we all have an obligation to live as long as possible, regardless of if we have any mental capacity left or not. You many not, under any circumstances, want to end your life, and we have machines that will keep you alive indefinately. Anyone who disagrees must be mentally disturbed and can be sent to thearpy and kept alive until corrected.
stick one of those collman thermoelectric cooler things on it (standard thermocouple, cold block, and a big-ass heatsink) and you can use processors that are quite a bit faster. Could probably go up to 500Mhz without a problem. Just be sure you have a nice beefy power supply.
I'd MUCH rather see credit cards that work like phone cards. You buy a card a wal-mart, where you don't have to identify yourself to anyone. You pay $10, $20, $50, $00 or whatever for the card, get it activated at purchase time (or call an 800 number), then you can buy stuff online and have it sent wherever you want.
Those hidden windows are annoying, someone ought to make a list of the sites using them. The damn thing mannaged to pop up three ads before i figured out what was going on.
the very idea that there is such a thing as different races has never been actually proved, and is now definitively disproved.
It seems obvious that there ARE different 'races' of humans. Look around, groups of people living in different areas have somewhat different physical (and perhaps mental) features.
Instead of trying to apply the special, we-are-better-than-animals term of 'race', try the generic version, 'breed'.
Some breeds have dark skin, some have light skin, some run faster, some are more suited to particular environmental conditions.
Its kind of a dumb argument anyway, all breeds/species/etc are seperated by fine differences in genetic makeup, trying to draw specific divisions between them is not possible. There is a big difference between black and white, but its all shifting shades of grey in between, attempting to define each shade in more than general terms is largely a waste of time.
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So, who would you expect to find at regional and national competitions? A cross section represantive of the typical game player? Or maybe above average players?
Please do some research before stating what you believe to be fact.
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Radiometers can operate either using light pressure or thermal transpiration, depending on the construction. However, every radiometer you are likely to see operates on thermal transpiration.
If you actually had a clue and could recall playing with one of these, you would know that they turn AWAY from the black side, which is opposite what you describe.
Had you ever played with a true solar-sail type that turns TOWARD the black side, you would have broken it, as they are extremely delicate.
Please refer to the URL below for a more in depth discussion.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/light-mil
I'm not yet convinced that SSTO is they holy grail. It would certainly be cool, but I don't see why a two stage setup would be a problem, particularly if it was cheap and easy to use. The vehicle could be boosted by the first stage, then after it's return trip, fitted with a new first stage, potentially decreasing the turn-around time (as the first stage can be set up while the craft is in orbit).
SSTO just means you have to carry around a bunch of empty fuel tanks after you get to orbit. Seems like there would be some advantage to dumping them and just taking with you what you need.
I would not have a problem with everyone being recorded (video and audio) everywhere in public at all times, AS LONG AS all footage was publicly accessable to anyone, anytime, wihtout any kind of permit or supervision, and said recordings were stored in a redundant, distributed manner such that no one could know where they were being stored and altering said distributed footage such that the original could not be recovered was extremely difficult. Kind of like freenet for video. Perhaps with some kind of public key system to help prevent modifying video streams.
hey, thats a great idea for film students! All you have to do is make sure that what you are doing looks real from a distance (mugging passersby), but be sure that you are fairly innocous upon closer inspection. Make sure someone gets it on tape, and that you get out of jail in time to do the postproduction and get it turned it.
The problem is that too many farmers are specialized into limited areas. Historicly, if corn was doing badly, a farmer could stop growing corn and rely on his hogs, cattle, soybeans and other products. The supply self limited because farmers were able to do other things when a crop was unprofitable.
Now we have farmers with enormous plots of land doing one thing. All they can do is grow section after section of bioengineered, pest resistant, high yeild corn. They have so much corn they can't sell it all, and they can't grow something else because they don't have the equipment or skill to do so.
We can't have these people going broke, we have to force crops to be profitable with price floors and subsidies. No, we can't just tell them to GROW SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE WE HAVE TOO MUCH FUCKING CORN!
Investors don't buy just one or two stocks, and farmers shouldn't depend on one or two crops. When prices on one commodity hit the shitter, they need something (prefreably several somethings) to fall back on before begging the govamint to bail them out of their stupidity.
Besides that, paying them to NOT grow food is just stupid. At the very least they should be paid to grow it, and then the product be given away to someone who does need it. (Not that feeding starving people in the desert is a good idea, you just get more starving people who STILL live in a damn desert. Hmm, maybe the crops can be treated with Ru-486 or something).
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a9171610594.ht m
This just means that they will need to dump the HPS lights and move to a source that produces a similar spectrum but uses less power. This will also allow them to appear less anomalous in power usage (I know, they bypass the meters, but that is detectable, at the very least the radiated heat from the pole transformer could be observered).
Next they'll need to address the rather potent odor. Possibly a bit of excavation a sewer map and some more fans could be useful.
What the hell? The federal government bailing out yet another industry that can't figure out a viable business model?
We already pay them not to grow food (sound economics there) now we get to pay their insurance too.
True, but that is a hell of a lot of computing power for anyone to come up with.
Actually, since computing power has advanced quite a bit, the odds a probably a bit better than that.
ugh, I won't let my kids watch the crap that passes for cartoons now, especially on Nick.
If you want to know anything about someone else, you have to ask. However, some people get offended if you ask them certain questions, so rather than ignoring such questions, those people want to make it illegal to ask any question, instead they want you to ask only one question "what are you like" and they will provide only the information they want.
They do not want you to be able to ask a total stranger specific questions, even if what you want to know is unusual and so not often included in the answer to "what are you like".
Anyone stupid enough not to have local copies of their current source tree deserves to lose their project.
I think my favorite expression on this is:
If guns kill people.... then, pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk, and spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat.
The internet is a public network, anything you connect to it is exposed for public access. Anything you do not want accessed by the public should not be made accessable on the public interface.
Why should I have to put up with repeated port scans?
Because you choose to put your box on a public network. If you don't want people looking at your box, feel free to pay for a private connection.
Those people aren't trying to connect to ports 111, 161, etc to do me a favour by testing my security. They're trying to break in!
No, they are just looking. If they find a flaw they can exploit, and then make the attempt to exploit it, THEN they are trying to break in. Certainly cruising a neighborhood casing the houses is suspicious, but its not illegal (in general, depending on where you are. Some communities have such rules).
If you don't want people looking at a public interface, don't put one up.
I'd really much rather read this than waste time listening to it, is there a transcription available?
Correct, it is not supersonic (although the article is not clear if by 'supersonic' they mean 'faster than the speed of sound in air at sea level' or 'faster than the speed of sound in water', I suspect the former).
Also, the Shkval is more like an explosive bullet than a traditional torpedo, it cannot be steered.
For those sea trips, how about supersonic subs?
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http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_2
The russians have torpedos that use the principle, and apparently the US Navy has applied it to bullets that are able to penetrate about 12M of water to destroy mines.
Evidently ancient Klingons looked like TNG's Klingons. When Kayles (sp?) was cloned, he
had the standard cranial ridges. However,
since he was designed for general consumption,
he may have been altered. But, if Worf knows
why Klingons looked different in the TOS era,
then its likely that a large number of other
Klingons do too, and a supposed reincarnation
would have to be historically accurate.
Also, on Voyager, when Torres is on the Barge
of the dead, the helmsman, who is presumably
an ancient figure, has cranial ridges.
So, since we don't really have an evidence
of what klingons looked like immediately
pre-TOS, they could choose either format.
I certainly expect cranial ridges, because
TOS Klingons look like pussies.
I wonder if the license on this stuff is transferable, of if we'll have to start paying a license fee to use products made with the plant? Maybe they'll do like microsoft and wait until everybody is using/pirating it, then release a new version that can't be digested until you call them up and buy a license.
Blasphemy! Here in the US we all have an obligation to live as long as possible, regardless of if we have any mental capacity left or not. You many not, under any circumstances, want to end your life, and we have machines that will keep you alive indefinately. Anyone who disagrees must be mentally disturbed and can be sent to thearpy and kept alive until corrected.
Did you read the article? Without the gene programmed cell death cannot occur and growth cannot proceed beyond the embronic stage.
Programmed cell death is required for all types of cells for normal operation of the body.
stick one of those collman thermoelectric cooler things on it (standard thermocouple, cold block, and a big-ass heatsink) and you can use processors that are quite a bit faster. Could probably go up to 500Mhz without a problem. Just be sure you have a nice beefy power supply.
I'd MUCH rather see credit cards that work like phone cards. You buy a card a wal-mart, where you don't have to identify yourself to anyone. You pay $10, $20, $50, $00 or whatever for the card, get it activated at purchase time (or call an 800 number), then you can buy stuff online and have it sent wherever you want.
Those hidden windows are annoying, someone ought to make a list of the sites using them. The damn thing mannaged to pop up three ads before i figured out what was going on.
It seems obvious that there ARE different 'races' of humans. Look around, groups of people living in different areas have somewhat different physical (and perhaps mental) features.
Instead of trying to apply the special, we-are-better-than-animals term of 'race', try the generic version, 'breed'.
Some breeds have dark skin, some have light skin, some run faster, some are more suited to particular environmental conditions.
Its kind of a dumb argument anyway, all breeds/species/etc are seperated by fine differences in genetic makeup, trying to draw specific divisions between them is not possible. There is a big difference between black and white, but its all shifting shades of grey in between, attempting to define each shade in more than general terms is largely a waste of time.