For surveillance we already have satellites and they don't require a crew of airmen, massive hangers that rival the wonders of the ancient world and they run well under an airship's budget.
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Satellites require a mature aerospace industry (whose cost I won't even try to quantify). On top of that, they're fantastically expensive. Wikipedia has the KH-12 series costing north of $1 billion a pop, and massing 13,000kg at $4000/kg if you're going to have the Russians put it on a Proton comes to another $52 million at the very, very least; as far as I know, the US launched all of them with Titan-series rockets, which are significantly more expensive.
The contract awarded to Northrop Grumman for the airship mentioned in the article, for reference, is $517 million.
In high school I took AP physics. The exams came with a sheet of handy unit conversions. I had a program that did the exact same thing on my calculator, except that it eliminated the occasional error I'd make if I had to do the conversions by hand. You can do a lot of things with calculator programs that get you closer to the actual problem instead of the busywork around it.
Of course, you can also do a lot of things with calculator programs that give you answers to the problems.
The ACLU doesn't get any public money, and regardless of what you think of their positions it's probably a good thing that an organization that says it's protecting civil liberties isn't funded by the people who can legislate limitations on those same liberties.
At which point the waiter gives you a look like he wants to slap you, fetches a menu, and shows you the little box on the back where all the prices are laid out, which, by buying a drink, you tacitly agreed to.
I am not an optical physicist, but my understanding is that it goes something like this: even a very effective mirror isn't reflective enough to avoid absorbing a bunch of energy, which damages your mirrored coating, which leads to a faster rate of heat transfer, and so on.
You realize that having legal respect for the practice of religion and having a population fully in support of certain instances of that practice are two very, very different things, right?
That's assuming the process goes in a straight line. What if I have a picture of a pendulum, and a picture of a pendulum that's slightly bigger? Does that mean it's going to swing all the way around and smack into the camera?
Today: Look out! There's a glacier on the horizon!
Tomorrow: Look out! There's a glacier on the horizon! ...
Slightly more than a year later: Look out! The glacier is almost here!
(Using 20-30 meters per day as a speed, per Wikipedia).
If I have two tuning forks hanging on either side of my head, the sounds they produce will still interfere in the air.
If I put two earphones in and play a sine wave in each of them, the sounds will not interfere in the air. I will be hearing one tone and precisely one tone in each ear; there isn't a tone from the left bouncing off the wall and reaching my right ear.
In the first case, it is the waves in the air interfering to make the beat frequency. In the second case, the interference happens in the brain. The waves don't exist in the same place at the same time, and hence they can't interfere in the way that makes a beat frequency in air.
Considering that the campaign runs from 1939 to 1943 with a single submarine type and mediocre mechanics, and the previous entry in the series (focused on the Pacific war instead of the Atlantic one), has been modded to feature a German campaign from 1939 to 1945 with better stability, more submarines, and more realism, I'd say that even though you claim not to know what you're talking about you're actually pretty close to spot on.
Cough. I may be a little bit bitter.
Unless the Old Republic videos are vastly misleading, it's just going to be a bog-standard WoW-format MMO with a Star Wars skin. You want an RPG with lots of players? Go look at Guild Wars 2, particularly this part of it.
Except it's not the same at all. A beat from two similar frequencies is an actual acoustic effect caused by cyclic constructive and destructive interference between the two waves.
A binaural beat is a phenomenon that you only get when you listen: it's two frequencies played back via headphone so that they don't interfere. The beat is purely an artifact of your perceptions.
Not posting AC, because (having, y'know, actually familiarized myself with the topic of the story) I actually know what's going on.
I was going to rant for a bit about how people with no idea about how their cars work shouldn't be allowed to drive them, but I guess that's largely unproductive. I'll instead say this: I'm not even much of a car guy, and I can think of at least three causes for this kind of problem.
ECU fault. This is the only one that would be even possibly related to the alleged runaway acceleration problem.
Sensor problem. Idle speed starts high and comes down as the engine heats up. If your temperature sensor is badly borked (reading, say, -40C instead of whatever the real temperature is), then your engine will idle fast to try to warm up to operating temperature.
Mixture/spark problem. Your car can't pull the required vacuum or deliver the required fuel to make the sort of boom the engine needs to keep running at regular idle, so the ECU turns up the idle speed so the engine doesn't shut off when you're not on the throttle. This is probably kind of unlikely.
But yeah. Probably not related to the runaway acceleration deal.
And it might have worked, too, if every free-thinking American I've talked to of late hadn't, after step 1, said that the only domestic brand they'd even consider in these Government Motors days was Ford.
If it wasn't for my good old dependable '97 BMW (with a pedal that serves to disconnect the engine from the transmission, thank you very much), I might be in the market for a little Ford sedan.
JK2 is one of my favorite games of all time. After playing through it once, I went back again and did it with cheats, giving myself the lightsaber and maxed Force skills, turning dismemberment up a bit so I could turn a stormtrooper into sashimi when Force Speed was on, and increasing the knockback a bit so I could kill people by Force Pushing them into walls.
Heh. Good times....-1 Offtopic
There's a simple reason why the 5870 kicks the pants off of comparable Nvidia cards for GPGPU applications: number of stream processors. Your 5870 has 1,600 of them, and your old GTX285 has 240.
To clarify: the groovy 'interpreter' (groovy) is the groovy compiler (groovyc), except it doesn't save its work and just runs the bytecode straight away.
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Satellites require a mature aerospace industry (whose cost I won't even try to quantify). On top of that, they're fantastically expensive. Wikipedia has the KH-12 series costing north of $1 billion a pop, and massing 13,000kg at $4000/kg if you're going to have the Russians put it on a Proton comes to another $52 million at the very, very least; as far as I know, the US launched all of them with Titan-series rockets, which are significantly more expensive.
The contract awarded to Northrop Grumman for the airship mentioned in the article, for reference, is $517 million.
See HandyCalc for Android, for instance.
In high school I took AP physics. The exams came with a sheet of handy unit conversions. I had a program that did the exact same thing on my calculator, except that it eliminated the occasional error I'd make if I had to do the conversions by hand. You can do a lot of things with calculator programs that get you closer to the actual problem instead of the busywork around it.
Of course, you can also do a lot of things with calculator programs that give you answers to the problems.
The ACLU doesn't get any public money, and regardless of what you think of their positions it's probably a good thing that an organization that says it's protecting civil liberties isn't funded by the people who can legislate limitations on those same liberties.
At which point the waiter gives you a look like he wants to slap you, fetches a menu, and shows you the little box on the back where all the prices are laid out, which, by buying a drink, you tacitly agreed to.
I am not an optical physicist, but my understanding is that it goes something like this: even a very effective mirror isn't reflective enough to avoid absorbing a bunch of energy, which damages your mirrored coating, which leads to a faster rate of heat transfer, and so on.
You realize that having legal respect for the practice of religion and having a population fully in support of certain instances of that practice are two very, very different things, right?
That's assuming the process goes in a straight line. What if I have a picture of a pendulum, and a picture of a pendulum that's slightly bigger? Does that mean it's going to swing all the way around and smack into the camera?
Today: Look out! There's a glacier on the horizon!
...
Tomorrow: Look out! There's a glacier on the horizon!
Slightly more than a year later: Look out! The glacier is almost here!
(Using 20-30 meters per day as a speed, per Wikipedia).
If I have two tuning forks hanging on either side of my head, the sounds they produce will still interfere in the air.
If I put two earphones in and play a sine wave in each of them, the sounds will not interfere in the air. I will be hearing one tone and precisely one tone in each ear; there isn't a tone from the left bouncing off the wall and reaching my right ear.
In the first case, it is the waves in the air interfering to make the beat frequency. In the second case, the interference happens in the brain. The waves don't exist in the same place at the same time, and hence they can't interfere in the way that makes a beat frequency in air.
So yeah. You're wrong.
Considering that the campaign runs from 1939 to 1943 with a single submarine type and mediocre mechanics, and the previous entry in the series (focused on the Pacific war instead of the Atlantic one), has been modded to feature a German campaign from 1939 to 1945 with better stability, more submarines, and more realism, I'd say that even though you claim not to know what you're talking about you're actually pretty close to spot on. Cough. I may be a little bit bitter.
Unless the Old Republic videos are vastly misleading, it's just going to be a bog-standard WoW-format MMO with a Star Wars skin. You want an RPG with lots of players? Go look at Guild Wars 2, particularly this part of it.
Except it's not the same at all. A beat from two similar frequencies is an actual acoustic effect caused by cyclic constructive and destructive interference between the two waves.
A binaural beat is a phenomenon that you only get when you listen: it's two frequencies played back via headphone so that they don't interfere. The beat is purely an artifact of your perceptions.
Not posting AC, because (having, y'know, actually familiarized myself with the topic of the story) I actually know what's going on.
But yeah. Probably not related to the runaway acceleration deal.
And it might have worked, too, if every free-thinking American I've talked to of late hadn't, after step 1, said that the only domestic brand they'd even consider in these Government Motors days was Ford.
If it wasn't for my good old dependable '97 BMW (with a pedal that serves to disconnect the engine from the transmission, thank you very much), I might be in the market for a little Ford sedan.
I do hope you're trying to be funny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations Statute as in law, not statue as in carved three-dimensional art.
JK2 is one of my favorite games of all time. After playing through it once, I went back again and did it with cheats, giving myself the lightsaber and maxed Force skills, turning dismemberment up a bit so I could turn a stormtrooper into sashimi when Force Speed was on, and increasing the knockback a bit so I could kill people by Force Pushing them into walls. Heh. Good times. ...-1 Offtopic
There's a simple reason why the 5870 kicks the pants off of comparable Nvidia cards for GPGPU applications: number of stream processors. Your 5870 has 1,600 of them, and your old GTX285 has 240.
To clarify: the groovy 'interpreter' (groovy) is the groovy compiler (groovyc), except it doesn't save its work and just runs the bytecode straight away.
Stinking Pirates.
Laziness, I think you mean.
Well, then, don't buy an AT&T phone.