The increased efficiency comes from the fact that it makes the engine run hotter. I have no way to actually do the math for this (unless you want imaginary numbers) but if it's drawing power from the engine's heat, that'll make the engine run cooler, therefore decreasing efficiency. No free lunch there, I think.
... as for the obvious question "Why don't we launch from Hawaii, then?" I don't know. This page indicates that it was considered at one point, but rejected in favor of Cape Canaveral being cheaper for some unspecified reason.
IANARS... but rockets must accelerate laterally as well as vertically to achieve orbit. Florida is therefore the location of choice (for the US) for launching orbital rockets, because of the boost in angular velocity they get from being close to the equator. Colorado and Florida both orbit the Earth's axis in 24 hours: obviously Florida is moving a lot faster. Denver's elevation would help, but not as much as Cape Canaveral's latitude.
If we launched rockets from, say, Quito, Ecuador, at an elevation of 9300 feet and basically on the equator, it seems to me we'd get the best of both worlds, but it'd probably be political suicide for NASA to try that. Less pork involved, you know...
You have just made my day. Thanks, I have just been through that whole process (except for the "begging for budget" part... I just work on that sort of thing anyway and the bosses figure I'm being productive. Which I am.;-)
Ah, yeah, I was afraid it was that. Unfortunately that situation applies to every single natural and computer language there is. You can't avoid having to learn things when you learn a new language, and it's *good*, not sad, that books like Effective C++ exist to learn from. Jeez.
It's true! Slashdot has very little original content. (Well, except for these.) If you already read every other media source,/. will have little to offer you as a nerd! Too bad.
You know, if they posted things promptly, it just wouldn't give people an outlet to complain about their posts being ignored, and then they'd get all restless and start breaking things.
Hi, neighbor! Just thought I'd tell you about the slaughterhouse I'm building on my acreage next to yours. Shouldn't affect you much, except maybe for the massive increase in road traffic, the inevitable unbearable stench, the incessant sound of thousands of cows trampling down a chute to their deaths and the increased local crime rate from hundreds of low paid workers. Surely you wouldn't object to this, after all, it's MY property...
Okay, Camel Pilot has evidently been around for a while, but does (s)he look like an editor to you? Jeez, kids these days. Normal users should of course retain the drunk-ass grammar and creative spelling we're used to. It's Our Right.
Maybe you could ask C. elegans or D. melanogaster... I've seen the genus name abbreviated like that pretty frequently, but I don't know if there's a general convention for it.
In any language, you obviously shouldn't look at bad examples. It may be true that Visual Basic is the only language with more bad examples than Perl, but there is plenty of good Perl code out there to read through -- most of what's in CPAN for example.
I'm impressed. 99.9% of American Dr Who fans don't know there even was a Doctor before Pertwee.
That can't be true, since there are clearly at least two of us who have seen Hartnell and Troughton episodes, and that's about a percentage point right there:-)
Jeez! Catholics have confession, Jews have Yom Kippur. Protestantism *sucks*! It's all moral upstandingness, rectitude, work ethic, yadda yadda yadda ALL THE TIME! I'm going to invent a time machine and kill John Calvin as a child.
Oh, we'll just not expect software to have any features, then. AFAIK this is not an example of a real system; I think it's reasonable to expect software that places periods after sentences to have some heuristics or criteria for where to place them.
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There was a time when discussions on Slashdot were mature and based on facts,
/. since before there were UIDs... and no, no, there wasn't.
I've been reading
The increased efficiency comes from the fact that it makes the engine run hotter. I have no way to actually do the math for this (unless you want imaginary numbers) but if it's drawing power from the engine's heat, that'll make the engine run cooler, therefore decreasing efficiency. No free lunch there, I think.
... as for the obvious question "Why don't we launch from Hawaii, then?" I don't know. This page indicates that it was considered at one point, but rejected in favor of Cape Canaveral being cheaper for some unspecified reason.
IANARS... but rockets must accelerate laterally as well as vertically to achieve orbit. Florida is therefore the location of choice (for the US) for launching orbital rockets, because of the boost in angular velocity they get from being close to the equator. Colorado and Florida both orbit the Earth's axis in 24 hours: obviously Florida is moving a lot faster. Denver's elevation would help, but not as much as Cape Canaveral's latitude.
If we launched rockets from, say, Quito, Ecuador, at an elevation of 9300 feet and basically on the equator, it seems to me we'd get the best of both worlds, but it'd probably be political suicide for NASA to try that. Less pork involved, you know...
Not much reason to escape the . in my opinion, unless you're likely to encounter 'slashdotborg' or 'slashdot@org' in your input :-)
Sir,
;-)
You have just made my day. Thanks, I have just been through that whole process (except for the "begging for budget" part... I just work on that sort of thing anyway and the bosses figure I'm being productive. Which I am.
Nonsense... do the words "white Ford Bronco" ring any bells for you? :-)
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Well, it said "almost" as many... and considering Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the rest hardly matter.
Ah, yeah, I was afraid it was that. Unfortunately that situation applies to every single natural and computer language there is. You can't avoid having to learn things when you learn a new language, and it's *good*, not sad, that books like Effective C++ exist to learn from. Jeez.
Um, are you upset that people would be new to C++, or that they weren't born with full knowledge of good programming practices?
It's true! Slashdot has very little original content. (Well, except for these.) If you already read every other media source, /. will have little to offer you as a nerd! Too bad.
You know, if they posted things promptly, it just wouldn't give people an outlet to complain about their posts being ignored, and then they'd get all restless and start breaking things.
It's all for the best I think...
Whatever. Substitute a paper mill or some other suitably offensive industrial plant.
Hi, neighbor! Just thought I'd tell you about the slaughterhouse I'm building on my acreage next to yours. Shouldn't affect you much, except maybe for the massive increase in road traffic, the inevitable unbearable stench, the incessant sound of thousands of cows trampling down a chute to their deaths and the increased local crime rate from hundreds of low paid workers. Surely you wouldn't object to this, after all, it's MY property...
Actually, you mean 'no one' but humourless pedants.
(Couldn't resist...)
Hey, my girlfriend is in Sociology...
Okay, Camel Pilot has evidently been around for a while, but does (s)he look like an editor to you? Jeez, kids these days. Normal users should of course retain the drunk-ass grammar and creative spelling we're used to. It's Our Right.
Maybe you could ask C. elegans or D. melanogaster... I've seen the genus name abbreviated like that pretty frequently, but I don't know if there's a general convention for it.
Roughly translated, "You have more to do than watch TV for sixteen hours a day."
In any language, you obviously shouldn't look at bad examples. It may be true that Visual Basic is the only language with more bad examples than Perl, but there is plenty of good Perl code out there to read through -- most of what's in CPAN for example.
I'm impressed. 99.9% of American Dr Who fans don't know there even was a Doctor before Pertwee.
:-)
That can't be true, since there are clearly at least two of us who have seen Hartnell and Troughton episodes, and that's about a percentage point right there
Um, how many libraries of congress are in an 11 kilobyte increase in temperature?
Erp. That was supposed to be a reply to the pre-Yom Kippur sin orgy comment.
Jeez! Catholics have confession, Jews have Yom Kippur. Protestantism *sucks*! It's all moral upstandingness, rectitude, work ethic, yadda yadda yadda ALL THE TIME! I'm going to invent a time machine and kill John Calvin as a child.
some poor bastard has to make it that way.
Oh, we'll just not expect software to have any features, then. AFAIK this is not an example of a real system; I think it's reasonable to expect software that places periods after sentences to have some heuristics or criteria for where to place them.