HitchHiker = H2 (two "H") Guide to the Galaxy = G2 (two "G")
thus
Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy = H2G2
the "2"s do not represent the word to.
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Most small airplanes have horizontally opposed, air-cooled, internal combustion engines from Lycoming or Continental that are little changed from what was used 50 years ago. Most are still even carburated, though Cessna is now using fuel injected engines in all its new airplanes. You also get to adjust the fuel-air mixture yourself. The spark advance is fixed and the spark plugs come from magnetos. Most (all?) engines also have a dual ignition system with two magnetos each driving a spark plug in each cylinder. One of the most important things that the engine not fail.
There are (finally) some intereting developments happening with diesel engines and with FADECs (Full-Authority Digital Engine Controllers) that will adjust the mixture and spark timing automatically.
The requirements for certifying a new engine are unbelievable thus the reluctance to develop new technology. Experimental/home-built aircraft are exempt and there have been quite a lot of auto engine conversions used here.
Fun fact: An airplane with more than 200 horse-power is considered to be "high-performance". There aren't many current aircraft piston engines that produce more than 450hp. Higher power usually comes from turbines.
Yes, they are. I used to live near Paine Field in Everett, WA where Boeing makes 747s. There was also a maintenance shop on the field that worked on 727s. It was interesting - you would hear this earth shaking noise and it a tiny 727 flying away from the airport. Then you would hear a low rumble and there's a 747 blotting out the sun.
There are some noise regulations known as Stage 2 and Stage 3. Presumably, there is an earlier Stage 1 as well. There is also a Stage 4 currently in work. Most older jets comply with Stage 2 and are somewhat limited in when and where they can fly. There is a brisk business in "hush kits" to reduce the noise produced by these older airplanes.
What would you accept as proof? Personally, I don't think that it can be done. A miracle is either annicdotal evidance or some new natural process that needs a grant to be researched. Voices from heaven can easily be done with a balloon and speakers. Space alliens with adequate technology could probably duplicate the second coming.
The existance of God is an axiom that one uses to develop other theroms.
Not only are you unable to disprove the existance of a god, I'm not sure that you can prove the existance either.
In my mind, the existance or non-existance of god (or God) is something chosen as an axiom. Then develop some sort of consistant world-view based on that. It's similar to Euclids parallel postulate. It can actually go one of three ways, but there's no way to prove which is "correct".
It's funny how some people see religion as something fixed and unchanging. Christianity arose only 2000 years or so ago. Then there was the schism between eastern orthodox and Roman catholicsm. Around 1500 years ago, Islam was formed. About 500 years ago was the protestant reformation. Mormanism, one of the fastest growing religions around is only a couple hundred years old. Even Roman Catholicsm has undergone some significant changes during its extance.
This is why common formats and protocols should be pushed rather than common OSes or applications. The simple fact is that people work and think in different ways.
You can fight about vi vs emacs, but since they both work on text, I don't care which you used to create your text file. You could even do cat > somefile.txt if that works for you.
If MS-DOS or CP/M or RT-11 or RSTS/E or VMS or Mac OS (whichever flavour) or Windows or Unix (whichever flavour) or Linux (ditto) or whatever works for you, use it in good health.
Getting slightly off topic, for $10K, you are most of the way to the price of some older two seat airplanes. That would really give you a full motion cockpit.
However, if you look at flying as a hobby (and for some poeple it is), the sky (pun not intended) is pretty much the limit for what you can spend.
If I remember correctly, the gravity from the sun distorts the L5 & L4 points so the actual stable point wanders around that region a bit. The main practical problem with placing something at one of these points is that they would also tend to collect whatever debries wanders by.
You can place an object in orbit around the L1, L2, or L3 points. This is called a halo orbit, and if I remember correctly, is what SOHO uses.
When the Wright brothers invented the airplane, it stayed invented (ignoring to the moment the large patent fight with Glenn Curtis). It's a little like Columbus discovering America. He wasn't the first, but it stayed discovered after he discovered it.
Actually it sounds more powerful than the original Mac. That had 128K of RAM, (I believe) 128K of ROM, and an 8MHz M68K processor. It also had a 400K floppy disk drive. The screen had a horizontal resolution of 512 pixels. I forget the vertical resolution, but is was somewhere around 380 pixels.
Well, my computer weighs less than 1/2 ton and has less than 1000 vaccum tubes. In fact, all my computers put together weigh less than 1/2 ton and have less than 1000 vaccum tubes (3 currently, 5 total owned). With the advent of flat panel displays, the number of tubes is not likely to increase much.
The problem is that the PPC and x86 have completely different instruction sets and architectures. This would mean that anyone who wanted to make software for both types of machines would have to produce and test two different binaries. Or, you would wind up with software that would work on one line of machines and not the other.
If you'd paid attention in your history classes, you would remember that the smile was invented around 1918, but was patented. No one was able to smile without paying royalties to the inventor. Fortunately, the patent has since lapsed into the public domain and people are free to smile.
Right there is the problem. If you want a straight answer, you ask only one. With two, or more, they'll spend all their time arguing about the merits of various bits of technology.
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It is true that this won't magically make all problems disappear. However, it is nice to make as many problems as possible disappear.
HitchHiker = H2 (two "H")
Guide to the Galaxy = G2 (two "G")
thus
Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy = H2G2
the "2"s do not represent the word to.
Most small airplanes have horizontally opposed, air-cooled, internal combustion engines from Lycoming or Continental that are little changed from what was used 50 years ago. Most are still even carburated, though Cessna is now using fuel injected engines in all its new airplanes. You also get to adjust the fuel-air mixture yourself. The spark advance is fixed and the spark plugs come from magnetos. Most (all?) engines also have a dual ignition system with two magnetos each driving a spark plug in each cylinder. One of the most important things that the engine not fail.
There are (finally) some intereting developments happening with diesel engines and with FADECs (Full-Authority Digital Engine Controllers) that will adjust the mixture and spark timing automatically.
The requirements for certifying a new engine are unbelievable thus the reluctance to develop new technology. Experimental/home-built aircraft are exempt and there have been quite a lot of auto engine conversions used here.
Fun fact: An airplane with more than 200 horse-power is considered to be "high-performance". There aren't many current aircraft piston engines that produce more than 450hp. Higher power usually comes from turbines.
Yes, they are. I used to live near Paine Field in Everett, WA where Boeing makes 747s. There was also a maintenance shop on the field that worked on 727s. It was interesting - you would hear this earth shaking noise and it a tiny 727 flying away from the airport. Then you would hear a low rumble and there's a 747 blotting out the sun.
There are some noise regulations known as Stage 2 and Stage 3. Presumably, there is an earlier Stage 1 as well. There is also a Stage 4 currently in work. Most older jets comply with Stage 2 and are somewhat limited in when and where they can fly. There is a brisk business in "hush kits" to reduce the noise produced by these older airplanes.
>I guess one could accuse certain modern physicists of
>coming up with "theories that fit reality"
Well, I suppose that's better than coming up with theories that don't fit reality.
What would you accept as proof? Personally, I don't think that it can be done. A miracle is either annicdotal evidance or some new natural process that needs a grant to be researched. Voices from heaven can easily be done with a balloon and speakers. Space alliens with adequate technology could probably duplicate the second coming.
The existance of God is an axiom that one uses to develop other theroms.
Not only are you unable to disprove the existance of a god, I'm not sure that you can prove the existance either.
In my mind, the existance or non-existance of god (or God) is something chosen as an axiom. Then develop some sort of consistant world-view based on that. It's similar to Euclids parallel postulate. It can actually go one of three ways, but there's no way to prove which is "correct".
It's funny how some people see religion as something fixed and unchanging. Christianity arose only 2000 years or so ago. Then there was the schism between eastern orthodox and Roman catholicsm. Around 1500 years ago, Islam was formed. About 500 years ago was the protestant reformation. Mormanism, one of the fastest growing religions around is only a couple hundred years old. Even Roman Catholicsm has undergone some significant changes during its extance.
I guess the conclusion is that religions evolve.
This is why common formats and protocols should be pushed rather than common OSes or applications. The simple fact is that people work and think in different ways.
You can fight about vi vs emacs, but since they both work on text, I don't care which you used to create your text file. You could even do cat > somefile.txt if that works for you.
If MS-DOS or CP/M or RT-11 or RSTS/E or VMS or Mac OS (whichever flavour) or Windows or Unix (whichever flavour) or Linux (ditto) or whatever works for you, use it in good health.
Well it's obvious to me that spam has evolved from its early days of usenet green cards. Methods of fighting spam have also evolved.
Getting slightly off topic, for $10K, you are most of the way to the price of some older two seat airplanes. That would really give you a full motion cockpit.
However, if you look at flying as a hobby (and for some poeple it is), the sky (pun not intended) is pretty much the limit for what you can spend.
Hey, women have money too.
If I remember correctly, the gravity from the sun distorts the L5 & L4 points so the actual stable point wanders around that region a bit. The main practical problem with placing something at one of these points is that they would also tend to collect whatever debries wanders by.
You can place an object in orbit around the L1, L2, or L3 points. This is called a halo orbit, and if I remember correctly, is what SOHO uses.
When the Wright brothers invented the airplane, it stayed invented (ignoring to the moment the large patent fight with Glenn Curtis). It's a little like Columbus discovering America. He wasn't the first, but it stayed discovered after he discovered it.
Actually it sounds more powerful than the original Mac. That had 128K of RAM, (I believe) 128K of ROM, and an 8MHz M68K processor. It also had a 400K floppy disk drive. The screen had a horizontal resolution of 512 pixels. I forget the vertical resolution, but is was somewhere around 380 pixels.
Actually, it should be:
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if ($scocode = $linuxcode)
This, of all the theories I've heard, most warrents a tinfoil hat.
Well, my computer weighs less than 1/2 ton and has less than 1000 vaccum tubes. In fact, all my computers put together weigh less than 1/2 ton and have less than 1000 vaccum tubes (3 currently, 5 total owned). With the advent of flat panel displays, the number of tubes is not likely to increase much.
I've lost count. How many times has he died so far?
Yes, but I can save more money by not buying from B&N or Amazon than I can save by not buying from one of these other places.
This is exactly why we need VeriSign's site finder service.
I haven't gotten any of your money either.
The problem is that the PPC and x86 have completely different instruction sets and architectures. This would mean that anyone who wanted to make software for both types of machines would have to produce and test two different binaries. Or, you would wind up with software that would work on one line of machines and not the other.
It makes me shudder just to think of it.
If you'd paid attention in your history classes, you would remember that the smile was invented around 1918, but was patented. No one was able to smile without paying royalties to the inventor. Fortunately, the patent has since lapsed into the public domain and people are free to smile.
Right there is the problem. If you want a straight answer, you ask only one. With two, or more, they'll spend all their time arguing about the merits of various bits of technology.