But they still have balls the size of boulders. Common, the plane's still 'untested'. Something might happen, and often has. They even have plans for the situations. Even it 'Eject' is a fairly early option in alot of them.
Well, it says that the available medical facilities aren't really designed for surgury. They considered evacuation, but decided it would be too dangerous to the aircrew.
I'd say that Dr. Pollard, while a Surgeon, isn't qualified on this knee surgury, so they had Dr. Zarins (in Boston), a qualified specialist, watch over to help with any problems. The live feed was the best 'overwatch' they had.
I noticed this for ADV some time ago. I've bought an awfull lot of your DVDs. Don't have a TV, so I don't buy VHS anymore. Ripped a few to take on my laptop to places. Easier (and safer), to leave the DVDs home, and just use my laptop's HD. Not that Macrovision does anything, and CSS slows me for a whole 10 seconds (brute force). It'll probably matter more when I get my TV back.
Actually, it's just the opposite. TV tuners have a slow gain adjust that's unable to adjust quickly enough to supposably distort the signal (it all averages out good). While VCR's have fast gain control, which follows Macrovision's messed up signal more accurately, messing up the video.
Actually, A-10s are getting to be like B-52s. They're just too usefull to get rid of. They're more survivable than helicopters, can carry more further and require less maintenance. And yes, they have shot down other aircraft with their guns. They tagged a few helicopters. A good trick as the gun is actually tilted down a few degrees to better tag ground targets. Can you imagine what happened to the helicopters when they were hit by rounds designed to kill tanks?
You'd obviously have to limit the costs, to say, no more than what the other guy spends, or maybe a set amount depending on case type. Also, have a 'sincere case' decision made by the judge/jury. If they feel that the case was brought in good faith, then no bills. If it gets laughed out of court, they pay for the other side's time and effort.
Reminds me very much of the artist I once saw on TV who used to print his own dollar bill designs. He didn't spend the bills exactly, just traded them for goods with willing merchants.
Actually, it's important to note that although charged with counterfeiting, he was found innocent, because he didn't use any mechanical means beyond a drafting table to make those bills. He didn't print them, he drew them. So he wasn't guilty of counterfeiting (the definition says mechanically produced). They might have been able to get forgery, but on a more than cursery glance, it's obvious that the bills aren't US currency.
Watts are a measurement of power transmission, not amount. That's why you buy power in Kilowatt/hours. 1 thousand watts for 1 hour is a certain price. So if you're out in the sun for 1 hour, you've absorbed approximatly 2 watt/hours.
Which it was. In Alien, they had to go out in spacesuits and it was blizzard like conditions. I don't remember how cold, but I don't think all the condesate was water. Some was the higher-temp gases.
It's military uses would be limited. There's no way this machine would be able to overpower an explosion. It has to make 'anti-noise' at least as powerfull as the sound you're trying to cancel out. So it wouldn't be able to silence an explosion. It works best on lower level sound sources. The target would also have to be surronded by speakers & mikes, and if we're able to place those, there's more usefull things to put in.
From what I read a while ago, it was probably propagandic, the Kyoto protocol would have serious effects on the US economy. Add in that 'developing' nations are exempt, and you have reasons to be concerned. After all, according to the rules, The US would have to reduce total greenhouse gas emmissions to 5% BELOW the total that was emitted in 1990. We'd have to get alot of the show-off trucks (It's a show-off truck if it's never had anything in the bed) and SUVs off the road, as well as seriously clamping down on industry that's grown in the past 12 years. It'd help to get rid of some of the fossil fuel power plants too. Go with nuclear/renewable power sources.
According to the sources I found, the combined death toll was around 240,000. Also, don't forget the firebombing before the nukes were dropped. While these bombings required more effort, they did kill more Japanese than the 2 nuclear weapons did. I found figures for a land invasion of Japan stating expected casualties for US troops from 50k to 1 million. Higher figures for Japan. I think I saw as high as 10 million. Remember, Fog of War and hindsight is 20/20. Except Hindsight often isn't that good. Revisionistic tendencies get in the way.
During WWII the Axis powers were coming out with alot of new technology. Add in Einstein telling the US that the Germans had his research and could complete the atom bomb soon, and there's a huge imperative for the US to complete it itself. Afterwards, it was used to prevent the need to invade mainland Japan. Projected Casualty figures for this was EXTREME. I think they estimated a quarter million dead US troops in the first week.
From www.cargolifter.com we get that the CL160 will be able to carry 160 metric tones, over 10 times what you quoted for the helicopters. Even the CL 75AC qoutes 75 tons, still substantially more than the helicopers. The transport range listed for the CL 160 is qouted at 10,000 kilometers. This is without coming down even once!
They probably won't replace helicopters, but in the right cases, this will allow much easier transportation of heavy equipment to remote areas.
Overall fuel costs will also be lower, as the blimp won't be spending fuel to simply remain aloft.
Computers, from almost the start, have been superior to the human mind in very specific tasks. Precise and fast calculations, for example.
In Chess, the rules are static and well-defined. But the number of possible moves becomes very large over the course of a game. It's only in the last few years that the computers started winning against the best.
To lay to rest your concerns, think about all the man-hours used in development of this machine.
Why would you need it to? MD5 isn't encryption, it's a verification device. It works on the principle that any small change in the source will result in a large change in the hash. Odds are that anybody trying to make a 'revisionist' copy with an identical hash code would end up with what's effectivly rubbish, a bunch of random characters. There might be ways around that, but on the whole, it should be easy to detect. If it turns out to be a problem, you might end up with 1k+ bit hashes, or doing each article individually, with a md5 hash of the md5 list. Now that'd be tough
Yeah, but all power plants do this now, so it's a known concern. You take down a coal plant and put in a same rating fission/fusion plant using the heat cycle to produce power and you'll be producing the same heat as the coal plant. Difference is that you'll be substituting nuclear waste/irradiated containers for coal ash. Personally, I'd rather have the nuclear waste/containers. They're easy to handle and contain. Coal byproducts are produced by the kiloton, and are known hazards. It's a level of toxicity thing. The Coal byproducts aren't as dangerous, but are produced in orders of magnitude greater quantities.
You wouldn't want to use lead or concrete for this. I know that lead would melt at those temperatures, and I don't think that concrete would maintain integrity when it's that hot.
Actually, if the containment field failed, the fussion process would stop (it needs the pressure the field generates to fuse), and you'd only be getting no power out of the generator. You might need to replace the container, as well as whatever component failed to cause field collapse. As for the hydrogen-who cares? it's probably in a vacuum, and there wouldn't be enough of it to cause a problem. Remember, fusion produces many orders of magnitude of power more than burning the hydrogen would, so the container would be rated for the active fussion process.
Yep, it can do that kind of stuff. Yet another viral transmitter from MS.
I recommend that you find ver 1.3 of VirtualDub, the one with ASF support, and resave the asf file as an AVI. Select direct stream copy for both audio and video. You'll get your seeking back. Don't know about framerate, but that should increase too. And the file will be somewhat smaller. Best thing is, you're back to a pure multimedia file w/o the imbedded links or whatever they are.
I mean, isn't the biggest risk of a nuclear war the 'nuclear winter' from all the dust kicked up? Global warming getting to you? Set off a couple dozen nukes, kick up enough dust to cool the planet off. Yeah, I'm being a little sarcastic.
The point that people are trying to make is that we don't have enough data. We know that the earth has been hotter (time of the dinosaurs), and colder (ice ages). Meanwhile, we only have a couple hundred years AT MOST of accurate data for much of the world. These temperature cycles last for thousands of years.
As for even vast changes, if it's less than a couple degrees a decade, humanity as a whole will adjust. The equator might be largely abandoned. Siberia might become the next breadbasket. Ancient civilizations rose and fell on climatic changes.
As for the New Zealand problem. Sure, regulate CFC's. I seem to remember that there was a thorough study for that. But there the causation is understood better. The ozone layer absorbs UV, which is a known cause of skin cancer. There's a measurable hole/weakening of the ozone layer in the area. Decompositions of CFC's are detected in the area of the ozone loss. Volcanoes were also looked at as a possible cause, if I remember correctly.
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I seriously doubt that they'd send it over the internet if it's that large. But I doubt that it's that huge. I'd imagine that the system sends something in a proprietary format along the lines of a PDF. The local machine would do the setup. I mean, the publishing houses probably have some setup image for books already. Add in a local hardrive, and it wouldn't need to download most books more than once.
I'd see this used in small/medium publishers and the larger bookstores. For a premium you can get a copy of the out of stock book NOW. Of course, a fee goes to the owner of the copyright for each book printed. Maybe have a system where the company that produces these acts as a go-between. They'd total up all the books produced each month, collect the royalties, and send the money to each of the copyright holders.
Do not claim it's stolen! That's illegal. At most report it lost.
I suggest instead that you dispute any charges placed on it. Write (not email) the CC company a letter stating details. I had a charge placed on my card from a California auto store once (I was in Colorado at the time). It took a couple months, but I never paid a cent for that charge. And I don't have the insurance that they push in just about every statement.
Different Case. The guy you're talking about shut off sendmail, a deliberate action on his part. Did it cause the major problems before or after he stopped sendmail?
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But they still have balls the size of boulders. Common, the plane's still 'untested'. Something might happen, and often has. They even have plans for the situations. Even it 'Eject' is a fairly early option in alot of them.
Well, it says that the available medical facilities aren't really designed for surgury. They considered evacuation, but decided it would be too dangerous to the aircrew.
I'd say that Dr. Pollard, while a Surgeon, isn't qualified on this knee surgury, so they had Dr. Zarins (in Boston), a qualified specialist, watch over to help with any problems. The live feed was the best 'overwatch' they had.
I noticed this for ADV some time ago. I've bought an awfull lot of your DVDs. Don't have a TV, so I don't buy VHS anymore. Ripped a few to take on my laptop to places. Easier (and safer), to leave the DVDs home, and just use my laptop's HD. Not that Macrovision does anything, and CSS slows me for a whole 10 seconds (brute force). It'll probably matter more when I get my TV back.
Actually, it's just the opposite. TV tuners have a slow gain adjust that's unable to adjust quickly enough to supposably distort the signal (it all averages out good). While VCR's have fast gain control, which follows Macrovision's messed up signal more accurately, messing up the video.
Actually, A-10s are getting to be like B-52s. They're just too usefull to get rid of. They're more survivable than helicopters, can carry more further and require less maintenance. And yes, they have shot down other aircraft with their guns. They tagged a few helicopters. A good trick as the gun is actually tilted down a few degrees to better tag ground targets. Can you imagine what happened to the helicopters when they were hit by rounds designed to kill tanks?
You'd obviously have to limit the costs, to say, no more than what the other guy spends, or maybe a set amount depending on case type. Also, have a 'sincere case' decision made by the judge/jury. If they feel that the case was brought in good faith, then no bills. If it gets laughed out of court, they pay for the other side's time and effort.
Reminds me very much of the artist I once saw on TV who used to print his own dollar bill designs. He didn't spend the bills exactly, just traded them for goods with willing merchants.
Actually, it's important to note that although charged with counterfeiting, he was found innocent, because he didn't use any mechanical means beyond a drafting table to make those bills. He didn't print them, he drew them. So he wasn't guilty of counterfeiting (the definition says mechanically produced). They might have been able to get forgery, but on a more than cursery glance, it's obvious that the bills aren't US currency.
Watts are a measurement of power transmission, not amount. That's why you buy power in Kilowatt/hours. 1 thousand watts for 1 hour is a certain price. So if you're out in the sun for 1 hour, you've absorbed approximatly 2 watt/hours.
Which it was. In Alien, they had to go out in spacesuits and it was blizzard like conditions. I don't remember how cold, but I don't think all the condesate was water. Some was the higher-temp gases.
It's military uses would be limited. There's no way this machine would be able to overpower an explosion. It has to make 'anti-noise' at least as powerfull as the sound you're trying to cancel out. So it wouldn't be able to silence an explosion. It works best on lower level sound sources. The target would also have to be surronded by speakers & mikes, and if we're able to place those, there's more usefull things to put in.
From what I read a while ago, it was probably propagandic, the Kyoto protocol would have serious effects on the US economy. Add in that 'developing' nations are exempt, and you have reasons to be concerned. After all, according to the rules, The US would have to reduce total greenhouse gas emmissions to 5% BELOW the total that was emitted in 1990. We'd have to get alot of the show-off trucks (It's a show-off truck if it's never had anything in the bed) and SUVs off the road, as well as seriously clamping down on industry that's grown in the past 12 years. It'd help to get rid of some of the fossil fuel power plants too. Go with nuclear/renewable power sources.
According to the sources I found, the combined death toll was around 240,000.
Also, don't forget the firebombing before the nukes were dropped. While these bombings required more effort, they did kill more Japanese than the 2 nuclear weapons did.
I found figures for a land invasion of Japan stating expected casualties for US troops from 50k to 1 million. Higher figures for Japan. I think I saw as high as 10 million.
Remember, Fog of War and hindsight is 20/20. Except Hindsight often isn't that good. Revisionistic tendencies get in the way.
During WWII the Axis powers were coming out with alot of new technology. Add in Einstein telling the US that the Germans had his research and could complete the atom bomb soon, and there's a huge imperative for the US to complete it itself. Afterwards, it was used to prevent the need to invade mainland Japan. Projected Casualty figures for this was EXTREME. I think they estimated a quarter million dead US troops in the first week.
From www.cargolifter.com we get that the CL160 will be able to carry 160 metric tones, over 10 times what you quoted for the helicopters. Even the CL 75AC qoutes 75 tons, still substantially more than the helicopers. The transport range listed for the CL 160 is qouted at 10,000 kilometers. This is without coming down even once!
They probably won't replace helicopters, but in the right cases, this will allow much easier transportation of heavy equipment to remote areas.
Overall fuel costs will also be lower, as the blimp won't be spending fuel to simply remain aloft.
Computers, from almost the start, have been superior to the human mind in very specific tasks. Precise and fast calculations, for example.
In Chess, the rules are static and well-defined. But the number of possible moves becomes very large over the course of a game. It's only in the last few years that the computers started winning against the best.
To lay to rest your concerns, think about all the man-hours used in development of this machine.
Yeah, like they've ever worried about blocking legitimate site for the web!
www.peacefire.org
Firethorn
Why would you need it to? MD5 isn't encryption, it's a verification device. It works on the principle that any small change in the source will result in a large change in the hash. Odds are that anybody trying to make a 'revisionist' copy with an identical hash code would end up with what's effectivly rubbish, a bunch of random characters. There might be ways around that, but on the whole, it should be easy to detect. If it turns out to be a problem, you might end up with 1k+ bit hashes, or doing each article individually, with a md5 hash of the md5 list. Now that'd be tough
Firethorn
Yeah, but all power plants do this now, so it's a known concern. You take down a coal plant and put in a same rating fission/fusion plant using the heat cycle to produce power and you'll be producing the same heat as the coal plant. Difference is that you'll be substituting nuclear waste/irradiated containers for coal ash. Personally, I'd rather have the nuclear waste/containers. They're easy to handle and contain. Coal byproducts are produced by the kiloton, and are known hazards. It's a level of toxicity thing. The Coal byproducts aren't as dangerous, but are produced in orders of magnitude greater quantities.
Firethorn
You wouldn't want to use lead or concrete for this. I know that lead would melt at those temperatures, and I don't think that concrete would maintain integrity when it's that hot.
Firethorn
Actually, if the containment field failed, the fussion process would stop (it needs the pressure the field generates to fuse), and you'd only be getting no power out of the generator. You might need to replace the container, as well as whatever component failed to cause field collapse. As for the hydrogen-who cares? it's probably in a vacuum, and there wouldn't be enough of it to cause a problem. Remember, fusion produces many orders of magnitude of power more than burning the hydrogen would, so the container would be rated for the active fussion process.
Firethorn
Yep, it can do that kind of stuff. Yet another viral transmitter from MS.
I recommend that you find ver 1.3 of VirtualDub, the one with ASF support, and resave the asf file as an AVI. Select direct stream copy for both audio and video. You'll get your seeking back. Don't know about framerate, but that should increase too. And the file will be somewhat smaller. Best thing is, you're back to a pure multimedia file w/o the imbedded links or whatever they are.
Firethorn
I mean, isn't the biggest risk of a nuclear war the 'nuclear winter' from all the dust kicked up? Global warming getting to you? Set off a couple dozen nukes, kick up enough dust to cool the planet off. Yeah, I'm being a little sarcastic.
The point that people are trying to make is that we don't have enough data. We know that the earth has been hotter (time of the dinosaurs), and colder (ice ages). Meanwhile, we only have a couple hundred years AT MOST of accurate data for much of the world. These temperature cycles last for thousands of years.
As for even vast changes, if it's less than a couple degrees a decade, humanity as a whole will adjust. The equator might be largely abandoned. Siberia might become the next breadbasket. Ancient civilizations rose and fell on climatic changes.
As for the New Zealand problem. Sure, regulate CFC's. I seem to remember that there was a thorough study for that. But there the causation is understood better. The ozone layer absorbs UV, which is a known cause of skin cancer. There's a measurable hole/weakening of the ozone layer in the area. Decompositions of CFC's are detected in the area of the ozone loss. Volcanoes were also looked at as a possible cause, if I remember correctly.
Firethorn
I seriously doubt that they'd send it over the internet if it's that large. But I doubt that it's that huge. I'd imagine that the system sends something in a proprietary format along the lines of a PDF. The local machine would do the setup. I mean, the publishing houses probably have some setup image for books already. Add in a local hardrive, and it wouldn't need to download most books more than once.
I'd see this used in small/medium publishers and the larger bookstores. For a premium you can get a copy of the out of stock book NOW. Of course, a fee goes to the owner of the copyright for each book printed. Maybe have a system where the company that produces these acts as a go-between. They'd total up all the books produced each month, collect the royalties, and send the money to each of the copyright holders.
Firethorn
NoNoNoNO!!
Do not claim it's stolen! That's illegal. At most report it lost.
I suggest instead that you dispute any charges placed on it. Write (not email) the CC company a letter stating details. I had a charge placed on my card from a California auto store once (I was in Colorado at the time). It took a couple months, but I never paid a cent for that charge. And I don't have the insurance that they push in just about every statement.
Firethorn
Different Case. The guy you're talking about shut off sendmail, a deliberate action on his part. Did it cause the major problems before or after he stopped sendmail?
Firethorn