1. 22 MJ is quit a hefty pulse so might be useful in the odd application.
I know little about the units, but harnessing a large surge of energy like this is probably like harnessing a lightning strike. How far have we come along with that?
"According to Henry Hutchinson of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, who set up the European panel, fast ignition requires less laser energy than the conventional approach, which means that it is considerably cheaper."
This is great news! Now I can upgrade my imaginary working fusion reactor with a much more efficient model.
"Uhhh... you do know that Judge McMahon is a woman, yes?"
That would only be relevant if the original poster was being sexist in assuming that the speaker was male and that a male talking about a mom fighting a case must be sexist.
Anyone can be sexist, including towards the same sex.
"DRM will help secure you and your computer so that nobody will be able to pirate movies or music through your computer and you won't have to worry about being sued for $100k".
Thank god for Windows! DRM would be hard to work around without it.
"Surely this simple rule isn't beyond the tech-heads here? For those of us that care about English this is as jarring a syntax error as anything that would barf a compiler. So do our parsers a favour and LEARN this simple rule."
Yeah, right! I tried your code and my compiler complained about a missing apostrophe! I finally fixed the problem by adding another one:
"Makes you wonder. If nothing ever came from this IP, then shouldn't it be "unsuspicious" or something like that (or at least "unknown")?"
Simple: any IP address that looks itself up is suspicious. YOU COULD BE A TERRORIST! Sorry, wrong meme. YOU COULD BE A SPAMMER checking his IP before spamming!
"In around mid 1998, I cleaned my car out and found, among the other rubbish in the back seat, an obviously forgotten McDonalds paper bag, one either me or one of my passengers had bought & forgotten about. It contained a Quarter Pounder and Fries that had been sitting there, dried out for who knows how long. I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd been to McDonalds when i was doing the cleaning, so I'm guessing it had been there at least six months to a year.
The fries looked OK. they'd been kept inside the bag & never exposed to the air[...]"
Am I the only one who was cringing in anticipation of reading that the food was eventually taste-tested? It had that tone of building up to the punch.
"You mean to tell me that real police officers can't zoom in on footage taken from a $5 security camera and enhance it enough to read the room number off the keycard in someones hand?"
...including looking around the back if the card is flipped over.
And if you'd like to write in ASCII, ensuring that your posts are readable by virtually everyone no matter what the font, you can use $0.99 or 99 cents.
"Intel is developing a new technology that could prevent unauthorized access to wireless networks using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the access point to the Wi-Fi user."
As opposed to, say, enabling encryption?
"Intel has also released a hardware-based solution to fight against worm spreading."
The software-based solution is using a real OS. Another hardware-based solution is to refuse to run any Microsoft operating systems.
"I often feel that it's better to have a mediocre standard than no standard at all."
Exactly. The value of a format is not in its technical excellence alone; data formats provide a foundation for development by all parties. Two foundations divides work between them and thus progress.
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Where's the FA so I can do the usual skip RTFA operation? I'm hanging here!
1. 22 MJ is quit a hefty pulse so might be useful in the odd application.
I know little about the units, but harnessing a large surge of energy like this is probably like harnessing a lightning strike. How far have we come along with that?
"Why is everyone so skeptical? There are already working nuclear fusion reactors."
The only nearby one I know of is visible half the day in most parts of the world.
"According to Henry Hutchinson of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK, who set up the European panel, fast ignition requires less laser energy than the conventional approach, which means that it is considerably cheaper."
This is great news! Now I can upgrade my imaginary working fusion reactor with a much more efficient model.
"... I trust Sony ... "
Arguably your first mistake.
Unless the rest was "...to screw me over as much as they can."
"Do you want to pay an extra $130 ($100 cost of drive plus 30% profit margin) on your new PS3 for a DRM-laden drive that can 'punish' you?"
Sure, as long as my tinfoil hat will block the "blu" rays. No punishment for me!
This is a bad comparison because it costs more to print a classified page and shred it than to print an unclassified page. Duh.
"Uhhh ... you do know that Judge McMahon is a woman, yes?"
That would only be relevant if the original poster was being sexist in assuming that the speaker was male and that a male talking about a mom fighting a case must be sexist.
Anyone can be sexist, including towards the same sex.
"DRM will help secure you and your computer so that nobody will be able to pirate movies or music through your computer and you won't have to worry about being sued for $100k".
Thank god for Windows! DRM would be hard to work around without it.
"Surely this simple rule isn't beyond the tech-heads here? For those of us that care about English this is as jarring a syntax error as anything that would barf a compiler. So do our parsers a favour and LEARN this simple rule."
Yeah, right! I tried your code and my compiler complained about a missing apostrophe! I finally fixed the problem by adding another one:
'its' != its
'its' a good thing I checked this!
"Makes you wonder. If nothing ever came from this IP, then shouldn't it be "unsuspicious" or something like that (or at least "unknown")?"
Simple: any IP address that looks itself up is suspicious. YOU COULD BE A TERRORIST! Sorry, wrong meme. YOU COULD BE A SPAMMER checking his IP before spamming!
Skip forward to 2015: on the back of milk cartons are notices of missing milk carton sized satellites.
"For example, here is a Pravda article which says that NASA is preparing sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years."
They just need to make the sandwich out of Twinkie-matter and it'll last indefinitely.
"Such a reader would also probably enable you to read what's in your neighbour's cupboard as well."
My neighbor will never know about my huge stash of tinfoil in the pantry!
"In around mid 1998, I cleaned my car out and found, among the other rubbish in the back seat, an obviously forgotten McDonalds paper bag, one either me or one of my passengers had bought & forgotten about. It contained a Quarter Pounder and Fries that had been sitting there, dried out for who knows how long. I honestly couldn't remember the last time I'd been to McDonalds when i was doing the cleaning, so I'm guessing it had been there at least six months to a year.
The fries looked OK. they'd been kept inside the bag & never exposed to the air[...]"
Am I the only one who was cringing in anticipation of reading that the food was eventually taste-tested? It had that tone of building up to the punch.
Sorry, it was just a pedantic flame of a "warmer temperature" kind of redundancy. As to my childhood, if it was happening around 1980 it was.
" the Arctic will likely see ice-free summers within a century due to the increasing rate of global warming."
So the rate itself is increasing, not just the temperature?
Your decimals look more like the pricing model than the weights for playing songs..
.285 -- $299, iPod (full?) 20gb .238 -- $249, iPod mini 6gb .190 -- $199, iPod mini 4gb .143 -- $149, iPod shuffle 1gb .095 -- $99, iPod shuffle 512mb
5 star -
4 star -
3 star -
2 star -
1 star -
0 star - 0.48 -- $49, iPod w/ some scratches and dead battery
"You mean to tell me that real police officers can't zoom in on footage taken from a $5 security camera and enhance it enough to read the room number off the keycard in someones hand?"
...including looking around the back if the card is flipped over.
And if you'd like to write in ASCII, ensuring that your posts are readable by virtually everyone no matter what the font, you can use $0.99 or 99 cents.
It's the goal of the article-summary-writer to puff it up with as much redundancy and pseudo-insight as possible.
"Intel is developing a new technology that could prevent unauthorized access to wireless networks using the time it takes for packets to arrive from the access point to the Wi-Fi user."
As opposed to, say, enabling encryption?
"Intel has also released a hardware-based solution to fight against worm spreading."
The software-based solution is using a real OS. Another hardware-based solution is to refuse to run any Microsoft operating systems.
"Holy Crap! FTA: Prosecutors allege Smith had Mach issue about 72,000 prescriptions from July 2004 to about May 2005. "
I bet the handwriting on the 72,000th prescription was absolutely horrible, probably just a wavy line!
What about the Mac OS X on PowerPC platform? It's not like all the current PowerPC machines will cease to be used in two years.
"I often feel that it's better to have a mediocre standard than no standard at all."
Exactly. The value of a format is not in its technical excellence alone; data formats provide a foundation for development by all parties. Two foundations divides work between them and thus progress.