You can put anything on the ballot paper you like. The requirement is that you attend a polling station and have your name recorded as having receiving the ballot papers. You don't even have to do this on election day. There are a number of pre-poll options and absent voting provisions. They make it so easy that it isn't a drama.
Election days are more like a giant picnic barbeque these days anyway. There's more live broadcasting of what food is available at the polling stations than political comment. Every local charity sets up a stall outside the boundary and it's more like a street market than a serious national plebiscite.
They make a phone that runs an interface that looks like shit and it doesn't sell? How can it be so?
I wonder how much they spent on spin doctors trying to convince everybody that "Live Tiles" were so much better than widgets? An interface that looks like its made for Sesame Street watchers. Win8 was hated (and deservedly so). Make something that looks like Win8 and don't understand that it will also be hated? Just dumb.
Can't wait for Nokia to actually resurrect their phone business sans Windows. I will ditch this Samsung into the nearest toilet.
Ladies and Gentlemen this elevator has been halted deliberately. I have been eating chocolate, boiled eggs and cabbage for 24 hours. Place your wallets and valuables in the paper bag. Refusal to do so and I will fart in this elevator. Just in case some hero decides to pursue me, I will be farting into the bag itself when I leave.
Ok ante-up, thank you sir, madam those rings, no sir not yours, just your wallet, thankyou....
This world wide takeover - after that will we be allowed to fire Ak-47s into the air at weddings and football and stuff? I think that looks like fun. That could be ok. If we can do that and they get rid of all the crap about aliens on the History channel then the Caliphate might be bearable, at least for a while.
"When its dancing skills were called into question, the robot responded by showing off its Gangnam Style moves."
Yeah but then the crowd started to diss its ability get the upper hand in a physical contest. It said "I'll be back" and left the room. (Sound of truck revving up outside.)
Err no. A Dead Man's switch keeps it going by pressing the switch. If you stop pressing it, or the switch breaks, then the system stops. Commonly used on locomotives.
Nah. If that crater was caused by a small meteorite it wasn't travelling at a few hundred miles an hour. If the ejecta had sufficient energy to maim and kill, either the meteorite has transferred momentum from it's great mass or great velocity (or a useful combination of both). Let's try and bury the old Slashdot shibboleth about how meteorites just fall to earth like stones from the top of the Empire State building. More than willing to hear from somebody better equipped.
A meteorite entering at as near damn vertical to the atmosphere will take less than 10 seconds to plough through the last 60 miles (100k), if you fully discount deceleration just for the moment (not going all Calculus). If it starts in at a reasonable 25000mph, roughly 40000km/h, (on the low side for these things) that pissy bit of atmospheric braking has a job to do. a = v-u/t . That looks like a deceleration of 4X10^6 m/sec/sec to me. It's not an even deceleration of course because there isn't a whole lot of atmospheric density until the last 20k. Now the good old gravity thing adds 9.0 m/sec/sec to the acceleration side of the equation making it that bit harder to slow this thing down to a few m/sec constant velocity at some reasonable undefined height above ground. The outcome required would be a "survivor" saying "who threw that" vs a "bystander" saying 'did that guy just blow up"?
It is reasonable to argue that ablation removes momentum so we probably can't get any further until we can find useful figures that allow a back of hand calculation for loss of mass. I suppose we'd need to define a standard mass/velocity (momentum) required at the Earth's surface to maim somebody and go backward from there. The terminal velocity argument needs a lot more definition of its parameters IMHO.
Some sort of committee is needed to eventually, after much debate, to lay down the basis for further investigation.
Small has to be defined. (Smaller than Wolf Creek impactor isn't sufficient) Angle of entry to the atmosphere has to be defined. ("Any angle that delivers my proposed outcome" kind of lacks force of argument).
If this thing is to be funded I suspect it is necessary to investigate how this type of incident, something, something, climate change.
You know, this guy has given his given his life for science and saved us a whole lot of future bother. Next time somebody states that a meteorite won't kill you - just post the picture of the hole.
It might be because the Atlas flies on Russian RD-180 engines? If the entire manned space program ended up depending on the continued goodwill of the Russians; well it would be sort of embarrassing at that point.
The Jeppesen CR-3 Flight Computer is a circular slide rule that is still in use today. The circular slide rule has long been a tool of pilots, air traffic controllers and even bookmakers! It's not just science types that use slide rules.
Yeah, I coulda/shoulda been more specific about those factors. Because of their variance you need to be adaptive about how far from the water you stop. It's not about the car it's about having the boat and trailer in the correct depth (and angle) to launch it. Too deep and the trailer gets drowned and the boat and trailer can drift apart. Too shallow and the boat don't float - just gets damaged.
It's not a fixed distance from the edge so it varies between boats, ramps and tides.
At a busy ramp there is immense peer pressure (up to and including threats of violence) if you aren't efficient and tidy with your launch. The problems (like any) may indeed be broken down and addressed one by one - but the cost of the time and effort to produce a solution for any and every launch seems at a minimum, expensive.
There would be other unique driving experiences where an automated car fails. For office potatoes commuting on a drizzly day in Seattle it might be a dream come true. Can't see it being popular with motorists who want to do anything other than drone travel a to b though.
Give me a call when one of these clever cars can back my boat down a crowded ramp. All ramps have different slope angles and water levels change with the tides so every launch requires a different solution of where to stop. From what I've seen of self-driving mowers and robot vacuum cleaners in action I'm not enthused about the level of thought that goes into problem solving for these things. Quite happy to see millions of these things in New York and Los Angeles though, and from Youtube footage, around Moscow would be a hoot too.
Noob suggestion that worked for me having similar problems. Went through and removed any and all 32 bit java versions. Then for good measure, took 64 bit out and reinstalled fresh 64. Fixed. No 32 bit on machine. All good.
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Yep in about 2014.
I can't see why this wouldn't also count:
http://www.itwire.com/science-...
Correct.
You can put anything on the ballot paper you like. The requirement is that you attend a polling station and have your name recorded as having receiving the ballot papers. You don't even have to do this on election day. There are a number of pre-poll options and absent voting provisions. They make it so easy that it isn't a drama.
Election days are more like a giant picnic barbeque these days anyway. There's more live broadcasting of what food is available at the polling stations than political comment. Every local charity sets up a stall outside the boundary and it's more like a street market than a serious national plebiscite.
It's approximately one sixth of the circumference on the 360 degrees circle of hotness.
We know that our data is secure on a Windows phone.
What chance of a smart phone that you can actually control?
They make a phone that runs an interface that looks like shit and it doesn't sell? How can it be so?
I wonder how much they spent on spin doctors trying to convince everybody that "Live Tiles" were so much better than widgets?
An interface that looks like its made for Sesame Street watchers.
Win8 was hated (and deservedly so). Make something that looks like Win8 and don't understand that it will also be hated? Just dumb.
Can't wait for Nokia to actually resurrect their phone business sans Windows. I will ditch this Samsung into the nearest toilet.
Apples bushel together, grapes and bananas bunch. I don't altogether trust the wisdom of old folk.
Ladies and Gentlemen this elevator has been halted deliberately. I have been eating chocolate, boiled eggs and cabbage for 24 hours. Place your wallets and valuables in the paper bag. Refusal to do so and I will fart in this elevator. Just in case some hero decides to pursue me, I will be farting into the bag itself when I leave.
Ok ante-up, thank you sir, madam those rings, no sir not yours, just your wallet, thankyou ....
This world wide takeover - after that will we be allowed to fire Ak-47s into the air at weddings and football and stuff? I think that looks like fun. That could be ok. If we can do that and they get rid of all the crap about aliens on the History channel then the Caliphate might be bearable, at least for a while.
I wondered how far I had to read before the now standard meme "but China copies everything" would be invoked. Gives me a laugh everytime.
"When its dancing skills were called into question, the robot responded by showing off its Gangnam Style moves."
Yeah but then the crowd started to diss its ability get the upper hand in a physical contest. It said "I'll be back" and left the room.
(Sound of truck revving up outside.)
Dumb Cun
They could though. Instead of getting the carbon from an expensive solar plant why not use an inexpensive solar plant - like a tree?
Plant tree. Grow tree. Convert tree to charcoal. Make battery. Plant tree. Seems simple from my uncaring and uninformed desktop position.
Pretty sure there won't be Windows 10 anyway. That will be at the "other place".
It's far far worse than that. They bombed a hospital in Syria instead of arresting random employees of a CA gas company.
Err no. A Dead Man's switch keeps it going by pressing the switch. If you stop pressing it, or the switch breaks, then the system stops. Commonly used on locomotives.
Nah. If that crater was caused by a small meteorite it wasn't travelling at a few hundred miles an hour. If the ejecta had sufficient energy to maim and kill, either the meteorite has transferred momentum from it's great mass or great velocity (or a useful combination of both). Let's try and bury the old Slashdot shibboleth about how meteorites just fall to earth like stones from the top of the Empire State building. More than willing to hear from somebody better equipped.
A meteorite entering at as near damn vertical to the atmosphere will take less than 10 seconds to plough through the last 60 miles (100k), if you fully discount deceleration just for the moment (not going all Calculus). If it starts in at a reasonable 25000mph, roughly 40000km/h, (on the low side for these things) that pissy bit of atmospheric braking has a job to do. a = v-u/t . That looks like a deceleration of 4X10^6 m/sec/sec to me. It's not an even deceleration of course because there isn't a whole lot of atmospheric density until the last 20k. Now the good old gravity thing adds 9.0 m/sec/sec to the acceleration side of the equation making it that bit harder to slow this thing down to a few m/sec constant velocity at some reasonable undefined height above ground. The outcome required would be a "survivor" saying "who threw that" vs a "bystander" saying 'did that guy just blow up"?
It is reasonable to argue that ablation removes momentum so we probably can't get any further until we can find useful figures that allow a back of hand calculation for loss of mass. I suppose we'd need to define a standard mass/velocity (momentum) required at the Earth's surface to maim somebody and go backward from there.
The terminal velocity argument needs a lot more definition of its parameters IMHO.
Some sort of committee is needed to eventually, after much debate, to lay down the basis for further investigation.
Small has to be defined. (Smaller than Wolf Creek impactor isn't sufficient)
Angle of entry to the atmosphere has to be defined. ("Any angle that delivers my proposed outcome" kind of lacks force of argument).
If this thing is to be funded I suspect it is necessary to investigate how this type of incident, something, something, climate change.
You know, this guy has given his given his life for science and saved us a whole lot of future bother. Next time somebody states that a meteorite won't kill you - just post the picture of the hole.
It might be because the Atlas flies on Russian RD-180 engines? If the entire manned space program ended up depending on the continued goodwill of the Russians; well it would be sort of embarrassing at that point.
Name 10 of these businesses that have absolutely no clue.............. LOL
The Jeppesen CR-3 Flight Computer is a circular slide rule that is still in use today. The circular slide rule has long been a tool of pilots, air traffic controllers and even bookmakers! It's not just science types that use slide rules.
Yeah, I coulda/shoulda been more specific about those factors. Because of their variance you need to be adaptive about how far from the water you stop. It's not about the car it's about having the boat and trailer in the correct depth (and angle) to launch it. Too deep and the trailer gets drowned and the boat and trailer can drift apart. Too shallow and the boat don't float - just gets damaged.
It's not a fixed distance from the edge so it varies between boats, ramps and tides.
At a busy ramp there is immense peer pressure (up to and including threats of violence) if you aren't efficient and tidy with your launch.
The problems (like any) may indeed be broken down and addressed one by one - but the cost of the time and effort to produce a solution for any and every launch seems at a minimum, expensive.
There would be other unique driving experiences where an automated car fails.
For office potatoes commuting on a drizzly day in Seattle it might be a dream come true.
Can't see it being popular with motorists who want to do anything other than drone travel a to b though.
Give me a call when one of these clever cars can back my boat down a crowded ramp. All ramps have different slope angles and water levels change with the tides so every launch requires a different solution of where to stop.
From what I've seen of self-driving mowers and robot vacuum cleaners in action I'm not enthused about the level of thought that goes into problem solving for these things.
Quite happy to see millions of these things in New York and Los Angeles though, and from Youtube footage, around Moscow would be a hoot too.
It's sad that again Microsoft have had to copy yet another Apple innovation. :P
Noob suggestion that worked for me having similar problems. Went through and removed any and all 32 bit java versions. Then for good measure, took 64 bit out and reinstalled fresh 64. Fixed. No 32 bit on machine. All good.
Orson Welles? Christ wept.
Thanks. I really needed that laugh.