Well if we're being really really super pendantic then either everything is moving because we're all moving in relation to the galactic core which is moving in relation to some zero point that is the global frame of reference or center of the big bang or somthing. Well, all except for me. I am the center of the universe so I'm not moving, everythign obviously revolves around me. Disprove it:)
People seriously need to learn how to merge. Brakes don't help when you're merging, especially on an interstate. However, people seem to think they do.
There are issues involved when you put rooms above garages. Maily to do with fumes. I believe you have to concrete shell the garage if you put a room above it, which is why I guess you mainly see garages off to the side.
IANARS but I would think no, as getting "horizontal" velocity from the fall would require pushing off somthing. This works fine in atmosphere for a falling plane as it pushes down a "ramp" of the air as it falls, converting it's height into horizontal velocity. But in space, I would think that this would have to be done with a rocket as there is nothing to push off of and you would just fall. As has been said eariler, it would probbably be better just to do it during the launch.
Family Guy is coming back after 2 (?) years of being off of the air. There was a recent article about it but I can't find it. They start again in 2005 after going off in 2002.
Does quiality of living factor in retardely large livving spaces? I mean seriously, I doubt the average square footage per person in Switzerland or Japan is any where near what it is in america. All of this bigger space makes things farther apart, which requires more energy to haul our fat butts to work (a previous article was talking about working in the boonies and 40 minute commutes being "short". Come on, I like my 5 minute walk much more). Without good public transportation in many large cities in the US, this movement problem is only compounded. In Chicago and NYC it's pretty easy to jump on a train, but nothing compared to London. In St. Louis, you HAVE to own a car if you live anywhere outside the city. When I lived out in the county (15 minute, 7 mile commute, I hate to drive) Busses on heavily used roads were at 45 minute intervals during rush hour.
The point of all of this is that I seriously doubt that we could ever support our current living layout on 1/4 the power usage.
I agree with the parent, that it's a cycle, the more cheap oil we get the more people can afford to live just past the people in the far suburbs in a new big house for cheap. Yay, you're in the middle of no where, soon to loose the woodland charm in clap trap housing that's going to fall apart in 15 - 20 years.
The issue that the HAM's are saying is that even if you can use the HAMs in an emergency when the power is down, no one is going to have one anymore because the fun of it is sitting up in your attic chatting to someone halfway across the globe. (as opposed to sitting in your basement in the dark typing to someone halfway across the globe).
Mastercard is a Non-Profit. They have to find ways of gettting rid of their cash. Therefore they have generous compenstation and employee benefits (401K, Tuition, Insurance, Etc...).
Just because they're not for profit doens't mean that they don't make the $EInsane.
I'vd done this and the guiness challenge as I like to call it (Come over here and drink it, it's better). Ya well, it was. Slightly. I still didn't like it though.
Must be because I just don't like that type of beer. Then again my favourite drink is an ice cold glass of water.
Then again, all of you eliteist beer drinkers are fools because you don't appriciate the subelty of a good wheat beer w/ lemon.
The main reason the beers are brewed this way is because it is VERY easy to tell when somthing is bad in a batch. Which keeps their consisitency levels up. Try brewing another style of beer on this massive of a scale.
That's Blue Label (Bush). Bud has rice. The Corn is what makes Bush taste sweeter (and i swear is what makes is such an effective morning killer).
The recipe has been the same for a long damned time, get over the fact that they don't brew it the way that others do. If everything had the same ingredients then all we'd have is a bunch of bitter tasting coffee clones such as guiness.
Ya I like Budweiser, but hell I also love the high-end wheat beers from the local microbrewery. Some people just don't like the more bitter beers.
Also, some people don't want taste in their beers sometimes. It's the same reason I hate coolaid. Too much flavor. When I'm just thirsty, a watery american beer satisfies like no other.
You don't drink Guiness when you're sitting outside and it's 95degrees and 80% humidity.
When your power goes down and all you have is that nifty 2.4 ghz wireless phone, how are you going to call 911?
Just because it won't work in all circumstances doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Cellphones don't get receptions sometimes. I guess the cellphone provideres shouldn't have been regulated in order to provide 911 serivice either.
Get an extended Warrenty. They may be a hassle and they may be expensive. Mine for 4 years was around $300 from Circuit City.
However, in 1 year of use (don't get a laptop if you don't USE it), including traveling, and use as main computer all inside my apartment I have gone through:
3 Harddrives : $100-200 each. All covered. Mouse buttons wore out: $75 2 Power cords: $90 ea
And all of this is just due to normal wear an tear of using a laptop as a primary computer on the road. They slip off of couches, they fall off of desks, their button's are good but they wear out and peripherals are expensive.
So in the course of one year I've already matched the price of my insurance and then some in damages that I would have had to fix myself out of pocket. All of these happened after the original warrenty expired.
And don't blame it on the manufacturer. I had the same issues with my dell that I had at my old job. 1 harddrives on that one, and one power cable, in 6 months. The things melt if you travel (cables). I suggest stocking up on them via your warrenty if you have the chance.
I love my laptop, it's great. But I don't trust data to it. I don't trust data to my desktop for that matter. Everything is reduntant. Hardware is very prone to failure. but you can't take a desktop in a backpack so what you gonna do. You pay for the ability to be portable.
If i continue to travel, I doubt I'll buy another one. I'll just let my work pay for it.
Lie or count "Sidework" (Ie do database design for free for a friend or someone else who will just "take" it. That's how I learn most technologies anyway is with a side project. If someone pays you for it, is it not professional work expericence? if you do it for a charity, is it not also?
What's the difference between doing a side project for yourself, one that a few others use, and a decently used open sourced project (bug fixes, I know). But really, when does it become countable work experience.
Trimming a function down by 5 cpu cycles doesn't get you too much, cept maybe in games. However when you can find algorithmic issues or major design flaws (why are you running the same query over the VPN 4 times?) can make me very happy. Especially when people are worried that the application is too slow and hten you give a few 1000% speedups so that the end user no longer has to wait 50 seconds for search to return, now he doesn't even know that somthing happened (then again this can be bad because the user thinks you're not doing anything (is it broke?))
I think this in part could be a social issue. Seriously. After going through being the only CS person in my Fraternity, I knew how to fix just about any MS or MacOs Messup you could think of. Then again I also spent double duty removing crippling spyware, viruses, and porn software (Jimmy, why do you have somthing under network connections labeled Sex.com?)
My computer on the other hand rarely messed up because I needed it to do my coding assignments or I'd have to go sit in the lab with the other CS people... Scary
This is why I think engineering schools should require social activities also or more intermingiling with other schools on join projects.
I knew more business students in college than other CS students (I knew 2 by name because they were TA's and had their photos and names on the web).
It wasn't me either. I was on the football team (talk to jocks (tho not dumb at this school)), in a frat (talk to drunks and people from other schools), and ran the tv station (talk to artsy people and get money from the Deans / get permission for important events). The CS guys were just scared to talk to anyone who they hadn't sat next to for 50+ hours in the cs lab. My senior year I had to start being overbearing to get them to talk in group projects.
Then again I've had more luck in masters school, as most of the people have been working for a while and have to talk to others. Most CS people seem to loosen up after work hits them.
All of this said (in regards to the parent), In my current job I've had to build a compiler, and write a language / parser. But then again my job is a bit different than my previous IT jobs as I'm asked for Design solutions all the time, not just monkey code.
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I believe the term you were looking for was "Hunt-Dar".
Oh and the orbital escape velocity is Mach 26, you can convert that on your own. This is from all of the articles on the X43a
Well if we're being really really super pendantic then either everything is moving because we're all moving in relation to the galactic core which is moving in relation to some zero point that is the global frame of reference or center of the big bang or somthing. Well, all except for me. I am the center of the universe so I'm not moving, everythign obviously revolves around me. Disprove it :)
People seriously need to learn how to merge. Brakes don't help when you're merging, especially on an interstate. However, people seem to think they do.
You got suckered for being out of state. They know you'll just pay the fine.
There are issues involved when you put rooms above garages. Maily to do with fumes. I believe you have to concrete shell the garage if you put a room above it, which is why I guess you mainly see garages off to the side.
I believe that if you are registered, and then caught using the tools to steal stuff, the penalty is much much stiffer than it would normally be.
IANARS but I would think no, as getting "horizontal" velocity from the fall would require pushing off somthing. This works fine in atmosphere for a falling plane as it pushes down a "ramp" of the air as it falls, converting it's height into horizontal velocity. But in space, I would think that this would have to be done with a rocket as there is nothing to push off of and you would just fall. As has been said eariler, it would probbably be better just to do it during the launch.
Family Guy is coming back after 2 (?) years of being off of the air. There was a recent article about it but I can't find it. They start again in 2005 after going off in 2002.
I can't live at 75 degrees, I'm a chlorine based lifeform. Somthing to do with advanced millitary research.
(I'll probbably get modded -1 failure to say "You Insensitive Clod")
Does quiality of living factor in retardely large livving spaces? I mean seriously, I doubt the average square footage per person in Switzerland or Japan is any where near what it is in america. All of this bigger space makes things farther apart, which requires more energy to haul our fat butts to work (a previous article was talking about working in the boonies and 40 minute commutes being "short". Come on, I like my 5 minute walk much more). Without good public transportation in many large cities in the US, this movement problem is only compounded. In Chicago and NYC it's pretty easy to jump on a train, but nothing compared to London. In St. Louis, you HAVE to own a car if you live anywhere outside the city. When I lived out in the county (15 minute, 7 mile commute, I hate to drive) Busses on heavily used roads were at 45 minute intervals during rush hour.
The point of all of this is that I seriously doubt that we could ever support our current living layout on 1/4 the power usage.
I agree with the parent, that it's a cycle, the more cheap oil we get the more people can afford to live just past the people in the far suburbs in a new big house for cheap. Yay, you're in the middle of no where, soon to loose the woodland charm in clap trap housing that's going to fall apart in 15 - 20 years.
The issue that the HAM's are saying is that even if you can use the HAMs in an emergency when the power is down, no one is going to have one anymore because the fun of it is sitting up in your attic chatting to someone halfway across the globe. (as opposed to sitting in your basement in the dark typing to someone halfway across the globe).
Open transmissions is why they have things like SSL. I mean it's not like ethernet is untappable.
Mastercard is a Non-Profit.
They have to find ways of gettting rid of their cash. Therefore they have generous compenstation and employee benefits (401K, Tuition, Insurance, Etc...).
Just because they're not for profit doens't mean that they don't make the $EInsane.
You missed my point. What do you do associated with a laptop that requires light?
I'vd done this and the guiness challenge as I like to call it (Come over here and drink it, it's better). Ya well, it was. Slightly. I still didn't like it though.
Must be because I just don't like that type of beer. Then again my favourite drink is an ice cold glass of water.
Then again, all of you eliteist beer drinkers are fools because you don't appriciate the subelty of a good wheat beer w/ lemon.
The main reason the beers are brewed this way is because it is VERY easy to tell when somthing is bad in a batch. Which keeps their consisitency levels up. Try brewing another style of beer on this massive of a scale.
That's Blue Label (Bush). Bud has rice. The Corn is what makes Bush taste sweeter (and i swear is what makes is such an effective morning killer).
The recipe has been the same for a long damned time, get over the fact that they don't brew it the way that others do. If everything had the same ingredients then all we'd have is a bunch of bitter tasting coffee clones such as guiness.
Ya I like Budweiser, but hell I also love the high-end wheat beers from the local microbrewery. Some people just don't like the more bitter beers.
Also, some people don't want taste in their beers sometimes. It's the same reason I hate coolaid. Too much flavor. When I'm just thirsty, a watery american beer satisfies like no other.
You don't drink Guiness when you're sitting outside and it's 95degrees and 80% humidity.
When your power goes down and all you have is that nifty 2.4 ghz wireless phone, how are you going to call 911?
Just because it won't work in all circumstances doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Cellphones don't get receptions sometimes. I guess the cellphone provideres shouldn't have been regulated in order to provide 911 serivice either.
Why do you need a light? I'm guessing for papers. But How does it being on the computer help? Unless you have trouble touch typing.
I don't know, I've never seen the need for one of these.
Get an extended Warrenty.
They may be a hassle and they may be expensive. Mine for 4 years was around $300 from Circuit City.
However, in 1 year of use (don't get a laptop if you don't USE it), including traveling, and use as main computer all inside my apartment I have gone through:
3 Harddrives : $100-200 each. All covered.
Mouse buttons wore out: $75
2 Power cords: $90 ea
And all of this is just due to normal wear an tear of using a laptop as a primary computer on the road. They slip off of couches, they fall off of desks, their button's are good but they wear out and peripherals are expensive.
So in the course of one year I've already matched the price of my insurance and then some in damages that I would have had to fix myself out of pocket.
All of these happened after the original warrenty expired.
And don't blame it on the manufacturer. I had the same issues with my dell that I had at my old job. 1 harddrives on that one, and one power cable, in 6 months. The things melt if you travel (cables). I suggest stocking up on them via your warrenty if you have the chance.
I love my laptop, it's great. But I don't trust data to it. I don't trust data to my desktop for that matter. Everything is reduntant. Hardware is very prone to failure. but you can't take a desktop in a backpack so what you gonna do. You pay for the ability to be portable.
If i continue to travel, I doubt I'll buy another one. I'll just let my work pay for it.
Lie or count "Sidework" (Ie do database design for free for a friend or someone else who will just "take" it. That's how I learn most technologies anyway is with a side project. If someone pays you for it, is it not professional work expericence? if you do it for a charity, is it not also?
What's the difference between doing a side project for yourself, one that a few others use, and a decently used open sourced project (bug fixes, I know). But really, when does it become countable work experience.
Trimming a function down by 5 cpu cycles doesn't get you too much, cept maybe in games. However when you can find algorithmic issues or major design flaws (why are you running the same query over the VPN 4 times?) can make me very happy. Especially when people are worried that the application is too slow and hten you give a few 1000% speedups so that the end user no longer has to wait 50 seconds for search to return, now he doesn't even know that somthing happened (then again this can be bad because the user thinks you're not doing anything (is it broke?))
I think this in part could be a social issue. Seriously. After going through being the only CS person in my Fraternity, I knew how to fix just about any MS or MacOs Messup you could think of. Then again I also spent double duty removing crippling spyware, viruses, and porn software (Jimmy, why do you have somthing under network connections labeled Sex.com?)
My computer on the other hand rarely messed up because I needed it to do my coding assignments or I'd have to go sit in the lab with the other CS people... Scary
This is why I think engineering schools should require social activities also or more intermingiling with other schools on join projects.
I knew more business students in college than other CS students (I knew 2 by name because they were TA's and had their photos and names on the web).
It wasn't me either. I was on the football team (talk to jocks (tho not dumb at this school)), in a frat (talk to drunks and people from other schools), and ran the tv station (talk to artsy people and get money from the Deans / get permission for important events). The CS guys were just scared to talk to anyone who they hadn't sat next to for 50+ hours in the cs lab. My senior year I had to start being overbearing to get them to talk in group projects.
Then again I've had more luck in masters school, as most of the people have been working for a while and have to talk to others. Most CS people seem to loosen up after work hits them.
All of this said (in regards to the parent), In my current job I've had to build a compiler, and write a language / parser. But then again my job is a bit different than my previous IT jobs as I'm asked for Design solutions all the time, not just monkey code.