Yes. Wingsuits right now are used with a parachute to slow once the glide is over because wingsuits don't really slow you enough to safely land. If this guy's successful, it's possible we'll see a wingsuit as a backup for a parachute, but more possible that we're going to see wingsuiting taking over for traditional skkydiving in most markets, including military applications. Wingsuits, if this guy's successful, seem a lot less error and failure prone than the traditional 'chute after sufficient training.
I've found forecastfox to be rather good for weather type stuff. Yeah, it's not a toolbar app, but who doesn't have a browser window open like 90% of the time?
They already know that it's not a solid iron object, and is closer to a dense piece of rock. Additonally, its orbital velocity seems to be around 12.59 m/s. While that would speed up, most likely, this is a "slow" meteor, and thus, would be less damaging than the assumed typical meteor speed of 17m/s. Yeah, this thing hitting is going to be for a very bad day for someone, but hardly world ending.
We'll get some real big speakers and broadcast their voice. The accents will be so inscrutable, that we'll confuse the asteroid into reversing its course.
I think a bigger question would be, "how would the Europeans act if there was no aid money to bilk, and no dictator they're cushy with to use this to their advantage?"
This asteroid is tiny; it'll make life bad for a decent number of people, but will hardly make any real lasting changes. Yes, it's going to be bad for the people affected by it, but it's hardly going to be earth-changing. It's nowhere near devestating.
If you're ever in the LA area, email me or something, I'll buy you a drink. You showed what's a fundamental flaw in too many societies today. One can be responsible and still partake in vices; there are times when one can let their hair down, provided they know they have some self control and put limits ahead of time of what they will and won't do. To do so otherwise just invites yourself trouble.
Most of the people here know the risks of alcohol and take steps to mitigate it. I don't drink very often; I had a double shot of peppermint liquour today and that'll last me a good 2-3 months. When I do drink socially, I know that I'm in no condition to drive and will take steps to make sure that I don't have to. Most people here act similarly. Thus, save your sermon for the pulpit, otherwise, you are acting like an ass.
Uh, hubble's designed for seeing into other galaxies. It doesn't work to well looking at stuff that's closer by. Try next time when you have some facts; there's plenty of things to bash bush about, but stuff like this is just moronic.
It depends on the factors involved in 1) where it's probably going to hit, and 2) if we have anywhere near the means, through chemical rocketry or whatever to guide it if it looks like it'll hit in an area where there will be significant disruption to human life. If it's going to hit somewhere like the middle of antarctica where there would be no disruption of human life, wouldn't it be better to just leave it alone and let it hit instead of perturbing the orbit to cause more damage? If we don't have the means to disrupt the orbit, wouldn't measures better be taken to make sure that where it does hit is as evacuated as possible? Finally, would Europe do anything if there wasn't oil for food money at stake?
Additionally, we really don't need to know the composition of this particular asteroid is. We already know its density; exact composition doesn't really get us any new insight as to what the damage is going to be if/when it hits. At this point, the best thing to do is to watch and wait. As nasa says themselves, this is probably a nothing event; life will go on, and the asteroid will buzz by harmlessly. If it does it, most likely it'll create large waves, but not mile-high walls of water which would destroy miles of coastline, or it'll hit on land in some unpopulated area and stir up dust. Any way you look at it, there's probably no reason to panic.
Sorry. I'm bored and like teasing irrational mac users like the root of this post who wonder why anyone would want to use anything other than OS/X; the kind who post "get a mac" to any hardware post no matter how relevant getting a mac would be to the hardware at hand. I personally dislike the heavy-handed approach apple takes to their operating system; I like the NeXT operating environment a lot better than nearly anything else out there; it's slick and by and large unobtrusive. If only it were possible to run it on more recent hardware.
With regards to the freebsd remark, that's just an example I threw off the top of my head; unfortunately, the freebsd for ppc project seems to have stalled. Shame, really, because I really like freebsd; it's a very slick server operating environment.
For the theoretical fileserver, I'd say you're probably best off going NetBSD. It's pretty damn low overhead and I like the system a lot. It strips down a lot easier than even Linux in my experience, so would be the perfect OS for throwing out files.
Except when you want to run an I/O heavy job and don't want to deal with the overhead of OS/X. Oh, and when you want to run that nice new DB app that's not available for OS/X. Oh, or when you want to run the much more stable FreeBSD for serving up your webpages. Or when you want to try out a new upgrade and are worried that the update may break some legacy piece of hardware. There are lots of reasons for running virtualization software, even for mindless apple dittoheads.
There's still going to need to be some sort of hypervisor task to monitor the OSes running on the system to ensure that reboots, new system images, etc, are handled correctly. Think of open firmware on the suns. Most of the time, it's just sort of there, but the second you hit l1-a it becomes very visible. You put in a reboot request, and you can set it up to bring you back to open firmware. I imagine a similar system would be in place for any partitoned OS system, where you'll have an area where you can control what OSes are running and how they work.
Tell me why I want RSS in my email/calendar client again? I can see it in my browser, or even in some desktop widget, but email? Naah.
RSS readers are useful in email clients, especially in the corporate environment. Instead of sending out company newsletters as email messages, the enterprizing department can set up an RSS feed to deliver news items which can't be deleted accidentally.
So should we ban politics too, because persons of strong political opinion sometimes resort to violence? After all, purely political motives killed tens of millions of people in the last hundred years.
No, because humans should be able to express their opinions openly, regardless of what they are. Otherwise, you aren't free. How does someone peacefully expressing their beliefs affect you?
I imagine any battle mecha would have its own air supply system so that one could use these system underwater or in other conditions where breathing is inhospitable to human life, like say, downtown Houston.
It's small, it's functional, it's unobtrusive and decent looking and it's inexpensive. Outdoes apple on four counts right there - size, function, appearance, and cost.
plasma doesn't last as long and is suceptible to burn-in, much like the video game screens of old had "Game Over" permanently emblazened in there. So if you watch one channel for a long time, you may find your $4000 set permanently branded with their logo.
Plasma TVs always had the appearance of being a niche item to me; only useful for when the cost and logistics of making a big LCD got overly prohibitive. I've got a feeling other makers are going to follow suit as well as LCD technology allows for larger, better screens than before. It just seems more beneficial to have one line that scales than two very separate technologies that require you to diverge your resources.
Or perhaps people have seen socialism for the tripe that it is and have wholly rejected the church of the state. Cable and Satellite TV have been around for decades now and is still unregulated by the FCC other than for the purposes of bandwidth allocation. It's highly doubtful that the government is going to start regulating satelite radio any time soon, it just goes against many decades of precident.
Honestly, why would I choose to be saddled with that ugly POS of an operating system called OS X when I could get an athlon64, have my choice of supported full 64 bit operating systems, plus be able to play Windows games without the need for an emulator?
Sorry, the panelpc is so passe and so expensive when you want to upgrade a few years from now. I know you maclots think that everything jobs creates is new, but us PC people have had such systems for years now. Better luck next time.
Then you're getting real crap PC cases. I've got a case here which has room for 4 hard drives, 2 3.5" removable media drives which can also be used for hard drives, and 4 5.25" removable media drives which can also be used for internal storagewith suitable adapters. Thus, stock, my PC has room for 10 IDE devices and has 5 pci slots. Finally, new macs only have room for one optical storage device, any more and you need to get external cases which adds more complexity and opportunity for failure.
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Yes. Wingsuits right now are used with a parachute to slow once the glide is over because wingsuits don't really slow you enough to safely land. If this guy's successful, it's possible we'll see a wingsuit as a backup for a parachute, but more possible that we're going to see wingsuiting taking over for traditional skkydiving in most markets, including military applications. Wingsuits, if this guy's successful, seem a lot less error and failure prone than the traditional 'chute after sufficient training.
I've found forecastfox to be rather good for weather type stuff. Yeah, it's not a toolbar app, but who doesn't have a browser window open like 90% of the time?
They already know that it's not a solid iron object, and is closer to a dense piece of rock. Additonally, its orbital velocity seems to be around 12.59 m/s. While that would speed up, most likely, this is a "slow" meteor, and thus, would be less damaging than the assumed typical meteor speed of 17m/s. Yeah, this thing hitting is going to be for a very bad day for someone, but hardly world ending.
We'll get some real big speakers and broadcast their voice. The accents will be so inscrutable, that we'll confuse the asteroid into reversing its course.
This asteroid is tiny; it'll make life bad for a decent number of people, but will hardly make any real lasting changes. Yes, it's going to be bad for the people affected by it, but it's hardly going to be earth-changing. It's nowhere near devestating.
If you're ever in the LA area, email me or something, I'll buy you a drink. You showed what's a fundamental flaw in too many societies today. One can be responsible and still partake in vices; there are times when one can let their hair down, provided they know they have some self control and put limits ahead of time of what they will and won't do. To do so otherwise just invites yourself trouble.
Most of the people here know the risks of alcohol and take steps to mitigate it. I don't drink very often; I had a double shot of peppermint liquour today and that'll last me a good 2-3 months. When I do drink socially, I know that I'm in no condition to drive and will take steps to make sure that I don't have to. Most people here act similarly. Thus, save your sermon for the pulpit, otherwise, you are acting like an ass.
There's a project in place to do just that. See numerous parent posts for the info. Or, just run Linux and use it today.
Uh, hubble's designed for seeing into other galaxies. It doesn't work to well looking at stuff that's closer by. Try next time when you have some facts; there's plenty of things to bash bush about, but stuff like this is just moronic.
Additionally, we really don't need to know the composition of this particular asteroid is. We already know its density; exact composition doesn't really get us any new insight as to what the damage is going to be if/when it hits. At this point, the best thing to do is to watch and wait. As nasa says themselves, this is probably a nothing event; life will go on, and the asteroid will buzz by harmlessly. If it does it, most likely it'll create large waves, but not mile-high walls of water which would destroy miles of coastline, or it'll hit on land in some unpopulated area and stir up dust. Any way you look at it, there's probably no reason to panic.
With regards to the freebsd remark, that's just an example I threw off the top of my head; unfortunately, the freebsd for ppc project seems to have stalled. Shame, really, because I really like freebsd; it's a very slick server operating environment.
For the theoretical fileserver, I'd say you're probably best off going NetBSD. It's pretty damn low overhead and I like the system a lot. It strips down a lot easier than even Linux in my experience, so would be the perfect OS for throwing out files.
Except when you want to run an I/O heavy job and don't want to deal with the overhead of OS/X. Oh, and when you want to run that nice new DB app that's not available for OS/X. Oh, or when you want to run the much more stable FreeBSD for serving up your webpages. Or when you want to try out a new upgrade and are worried that the update may break some legacy piece of hardware. There are lots of reasons for running virtualization software, even for mindless apple dittoheads.
There's still going to need to be some sort of hypervisor task to monitor the OSes running on the system to ensure that reboots, new system images, etc, are handled correctly. Think of open firmware on the suns. Most of the time, it's just sort of there, but the second you hit l1-a it becomes very visible. You put in a reboot request, and you can set it up to bring you back to open firmware. I imagine a similar system would be in place for any partitoned OS system, where you'll have an area where you can control what OSes are running and how they work.
So should we ban politics too, because persons of strong political opinion sometimes resort to violence? After all, purely political motives killed tens of millions of people in the last hundred years.
No, because humans should be able to express their opinions openly, regardless of what they are. Otherwise, you aren't free. How does someone peacefully expressing their beliefs affect you?
I imagine any battle mecha would have its own air supply system so that one could use these system underwater or in other conditions where breathing is inhospitable to human life, like say, downtown Houston.
It's small, it's functional, it's unobtrusive and decent looking and it's inexpensive. Outdoes apple on four counts right there - size, function, appearance, and cost.
plasma doesn't last as long and is suceptible to burn-in, much like the video game screens of old had "Game Over" permanently emblazened in there. So if you watch one channel for a long time, you may find your $4000 set permanently branded with their logo.
Plasma TVs always had the appearance of being a niche item to me; only useful for when the cost and logistics of making a big LCD got overly prohibitive. I've got a feeling other makers are going to follow suit as well as LCD technology allows for larger, better screens than before. It just seems more beneficial to have one line that scales than two very separate technologies that require you to diverge your resources.
Or perhaps people have seen socialism for the tripe that it is and have wholly rejected the church of the state. Cable and Satellite TV have been around for decades now and is still unregulated by the FCC other than for the purposes of bandwidth allocation. It's highly doubtful that the government is going to start regulating satelite radio any time soon, it just goes against many decades of precident.
Honestly, why would I choose to be saddled with that ugly POS of an operating system called OS X when I could get an athlon64, have my choice of supported full 64 bit operating systems, plus be able to play Windows games without the need for an emulator?
Why would I want derivitives of the panelpc form factor innovated by the PC market? There are flat panel PCs too, you ignorant macboy.
Sorry, the panelpc is so passe and so expensive when you want to upgrade a few years from now. I know you maclots think that everything jobs creates is new, but us PC people have had such systems for years now. Better luck next time.
Then you're getting real crap PC cases. I've got a case here which has room for 4 hard drives, 2 3.5" removable media drives which can also be used for hard drives, and 4 5.25" removable media drives which can also be used for internal storagewith suitable adapters. Thus, stock, my PC has room for 10 IDE devices and has 5 pci slots. Finally, new macs only have room for one optical storage device, any more and you need to get external cases which adds more complexity and opportunity for failure.