IANAN ( I am not a northener, from dawn sauf originally )
As far as I'm concerned, Manchesters got everything I want, except the royal opera house. All other obvious reasons apply (it's cheaper, the curry mile etcetera)
"Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. "
RTFA - I quote "He used information from one of Huygens' aerial photos (see second picture), and worked out the correct scale based on its resolution - about 20 to 40 metres per pixel. "The final image was adjusted for colour, with some artistic licence for dramatic effect," he says of his Titan landscape."
Huygens was at a known altitude when the photo was taken.
"if you're a South Park fan, you'll love this movie. If you're a fan of summer blockbusters, and can tolerate the language, you'll love this movie. If you're a prude, watch something else."
"Can I finish? Hello? C-can I finish? The United States has graphic violence on television all the time. We cant believe that a movie with some foul language would piss you off so much."
The Soviets won a lot of the unmanned contests back then, and some of the manned. We passed them by in the mid 60s and went higher and a *lot* further. (Yeah, we stagnated after that. But that's politics for ya; thanks for nothing, Nixon; despite your public support for the space program, you did doodly to stop it getting shafted by Congress.)
But the whole point of the space race was to develop unmanned missile technology. Imagine Neil Armstrong piloting an ICBM into moscow....
It's techinically impressive for a couple ofreasons
1) The unified memory architecture - the graphics and the main memory are shared. This means you dont have to wait for your PC or AGP bus to transfer your textures before you render them
2) The price point - How much can you pick up your Xbox set top media center for now?
Maybe you can gauge the quality of the show by the captain?
Shatner was perfect.
Stewart sometimes god like, sometimes not so great.
Brooks was very good, but sometimes I think couldn't forget he was on a set.
Mulgrew never really had enough presence. Now Judi Dench as the captain - she'd kick butt.
But Quantum Leap guy? Terrible Terrible choice!
here's my recipe for a perfect trek:
1) Shakespearian stage actor as the captain - Preferably not American
2) At least one co-star who is a frustrated (ahem) musician (spiner , nimoy), who really thinks they should be the captain (c'mon they were always gunning for the job)
3) No Beards
4) Space Battles every week (but like TOS which were far more like tense submarine battles than flying around with no respect for physics)
Slashdot Mirror
And there you have hit the nail on the head -
It's not about security or proof of ID.
It's a "stealth tax".
IANAN ( I am not a northener, from dawn sauf originally )
As far as I'm concerned, Manchesters got everything I want, except the royal opera house. All other obvious reasons apply (it's cheaper, the curry mile etcetera)
Come to Manchester Uni instead.
We've got the busiest bus route in europe! And it runs right from the center of town to studentville.
Oh and it rains a bit
:-( We don't have any money.
Imagine if we'd never cancelled Black Arrow / Black Buck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
We could be having tea and scones on Mars by now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903 ,00.html
"Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. "
http://www.optimnem.co.uk/letterman.htm
He learnt icelandic in a week from scratch.
RTFA - I quote
"He used information from one of Huygens' aerial photos (see second picture), and worked out the correct scale based on its resolution - about 20 to 40 metres per pixel. "The final image was adjusted for colour, with some artistic licence for dramatic effect," he says of his Titan landscape."
Huygens was at a known altitude when the photo was taken.
Which war was that?
There was the Korean War in the 50's
and then the Falklands in the 80's.
no war in the 60s.
Electrical Storage:
e s_technologies_pumpedhydro.htm
e s_technologies_flywheels.htm
4 /marine/tech_storage.htm
4 /wind/content/storage%20available.html
Hydrogen conversion is at presenly only 65% efficent versus 85% for a hydro storage system
http://www.electricitystorage.org/tech/technologi
and
http://www.electricitystorage.org/tech/technologi
http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/03-0
http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/focus/004power/
http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/03-0
http://www.geocities.com/dfradella/homepage.htm
I think you'll find there was a lot of computing power on the ground, which they were dependent upon.
Being able to compute indepedently is useful, for example if they have radio failure.
Quote 1:
"if you're a South Park fan, you'll love this movie. If you're a fan of summer blockbusters, and can tolerate the language, you'll love this movie. If you're a prude, watch something else."
"Can I finish? Hello? C-can I finish? The United States has graphic violence on television all the time. We cant believe that a movie with some foul language would piss you off so much."
As my AI professor said:
Once the problem has been solved, it ceases to be an AI problem
I'm curious if anyone could fill me in on why they chose Florida as a place to put major cities with the potential each year for hurricanes?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Voyager has a map on the gold plaque.
c 1. html
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenre
It pinpoints the location of our sun using 14 pulsars.
because bad customer service is the most terrible thing in the world!
The Soviets won a lot of the unmanned contests back then, and some of the manned. We passed them by in the mid 60s and went higher and a *lot* further. (Yeah, we stagnated after that. But that's politics for ya; thanks for nothing, Nixon; despite your public support for the space program, you did doodly to stop it getting shafted by Congress.)
But the whole point of the space race was to develop unmanned missile technology. Imagine Neil Armstrong piloting an ICBM into moscow....
ensures
It's techinically impressive for a couple ofreasons
1) The unified memory architecture - the graphics and the main memory are shared. This means you dont have to wait for your PC or AGP bus to transfer your textures before you render them
2) The price point - How much can you pick up your Xbox set top media center for now?
Teflon is opaque.
How about a program that automatically generates them for you then? :-)
http://www.i-see.org/eyecharts.html
You need to exercise you eyes.
Staring at a screen all day every day will cause your eyesight to get worse.
Put an eye chart on a wall 15 feet away, and look at it every 15 minutes. Your eyesight WILL improve.
Patrick Stewart
Maybe you can gauge the quality of the show by the captain?
Shatner was perfect.
Stewart sometimes god like, sometimes not so great.
Brooks was very good, but sometimes I think couldn't forget he was on a set.
Mulgrew never really had enough presence. Now Judi Dench as the captain - she'd kick butt.
But Quantum Leap guy? Terrible Terrible choice!
here's my recipe for a perfect trek:
1) Shakespearian stage actor as the captain - Preferably not American
2) At least one co-star who is a frustrated (ahem) musician (spiner , nimoy), who really thinks they should be the captain (c'mon they were always gunning for the job)
3) No Beards
4) Space Battles every week (but like TOS which were far more like tense submarine battles than flying around with no respect for physics)
5) Green Women (orions) on the crew
6) No Prime Directive
7) NO HOLODECK
I'd call it:
Star Trek:Renegades
I'm sorry. I disagree with this.
Maybe bab 5 had the whole 5 year story arc, but the acting was TERRIBLE! worse than star trek and that's saying something!
Shatner started out as a shakespearian actor.
His delivery - very good, and interesting for theatre work
The UK has always profitied from having one cheek on the US chair and one cheek on the EU chair.
Why is there any reason to decide? As far as I can see the UK can continue in it's "bridge" role and get the best of both worlds.
(or we could always tow it and anchor it somewhere near the east coast of the US)