You mean like in Hiroshima? Hiroshima is a city again with lots of people living there and little radiation. You get more radiation on holiday in Cornwall. A nuclear bomb is the conversion of matter to energy and unlike an accident at a nuclear power plant, does not lead to lots of long term residual radiation. Einstins theory E=mc2...
Only one gram of matter was converted to energy when the Hiroshima A-bomb exploded. Its charge was was about the critical mass of uranium (about 50-odd kilograms)
That's not to say the A-bomb had a yeild of only 0.002% of its mass, though.
I'm no expert on atomic physics, but I'd say the mass lost is somewhat like teensy bit of mass lost when two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom combine to form a H2O molecule plus some extra heat energy, except that for a fission reaction, some thingymajig is happening with nuclear particles rather than with 'bond energy'.
I imagine then, that the British Library's photocopiers are the the fancy new 'digital copiers' that look down onto the upright, open pages of the book and correct the spatial distortion and illumination variance of the page close to the spine.
I'm not sure if the machines are clever enough to remove the staples from centrefolds, though.
10 months to a year, 10 days to the month, 10 hours to the day. 10 minutes to the hour, 10 seconds to the minute. Might as well force pi to be 3 while you're at it. Or how about 10?
Don't forget that we also need to push the Moon around faster so we can get a metric month.
After reading Code Complete, which was great, I found Writing Solid Code a laugh a page for the first fifty pages and then more of a cry.
Writing Solid Code is full of stupid things like:
the statement that putting more information in your code is more important than being able to read it out aloud (this may explain why so many coders can not communicate with people - their speech centres have atropied); and
the argument that hungarian notation is great because you can perform pointer calculus on complex C/C++ expressions and work out if the 'p's match all the '*'s (WSC fails to mention that such complex expressions are unnecessary and could be broken up into smaller fragments assigned to variables with meaningful names and those used in place of the complex expression)
Code Complete has a nice section on how some coders write their code like love letters to a computer. It's great. Buy one for your dog too.
Regarding comments, the author Steve McConnell would be quick to point out that the best comments are no comments...that good code should flow almost like English and therefore document itself. Comments should be reserved for the (hopefully rare) cases where, for one reason or another, this isn't possible.
One such case is where no code is written and none should be, but looks like a place where a particular few lines of code should be written. You need a comment to say "Don't do [blarg] because [wibble]". In other words, you should comment the conspicuous absence of code.
Also, even 'obvious' comments, if written well can be a great help when they show the logical steps of a procedure as you're scrolling the page like a microfiche without caring to read the actual code till you find the place you want to work on.
It sounds like a great excuse to build a robot that will hunt down noisy frogs.
A hammer would be a cheap and easy weapon, but the thought of focusing a tone burst that matches the resonant frequency of the frog (somewhere between 100Hz and 3000Hz) gets me excited.
That would be almost as illegal as...
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A little solder and or ingenuity and PRESTO! we'll all be modding our PC's!
That would be almost as illegal as an OFF switch on your television!
... California residents are flocking to Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon to buy new computers. When interviewed California politicians couldn't understand this sudden migration in purchasing patterns. "Why would consumers purchase their computer in Arizona when they get recycling included if they purchase it in California?
That would be evidence that Big Brother is necessary to keep these 'Americans' from crapping on eath other and the world.
More resolution, while nice, is not what digital photography primarily lacks. Light and shadow sensitivity is
what really sucks with digital cameras. Film has a logarithmic sensitivity to light, while a digital sensor has a linear sensitivity.
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Okay, I agree that this technology is cool, but I think I would still opt for a traditional LCD display. I'm red-green colorblind, so I am most sensitive to blue, rather than red or green as this display assumes.
You're sensitive to blue-yellow difference but not red-green difference. Your blue-yellow spatial resolution will as spectacularly crap as it is for all humans, but your yellow spatial resolution will be fine. The Pentile matrix will be as just as a bonus to you as it will be for, um, trichromats. I'm not sure how it will affect the blue-yellow-colour-blind people though.
Indeed, i saw a hack for AmigaOS a few years ago, which allowed the use of 2 mice and 2 mouse pointers.. nfortunately i can`t remember the name of it.. anyone?
That's certainly a cool hack, as simple as it would be on an Amiga. Lemmings on the Amiga was awesome in two-player mode because of its support for two mice! I wonder how many other games would work as well with two mouse pointers.
Normally the bombardment is balanced, in open space you feel little effect. However, the particles are absorbed a bit by mass, creating a gravitational shadow. As you near a dense object, more particles are shielded by that object, so you are pushed more strongly toward it by the particles still pushing you from the other side.This theory does pose some other questions like:
Where are the (repulsive) 'gravitons' coming from?
Will we one day run out of gravitons because they've all been absorbed by massive objects?
Would we notice abrupt changes in the orbit of a planet about a pair of stars which happen to regularly form conjunctions from the planet's point of view?
I've noticed that very cold people seem to 'radiate' cold because of the shadowing effect you describe. However, the cold-radiation theory doesn't work in general since heat radiation can have a direction but the lack of heat radiation (cold) does not.
Perhaps someone can come up with an easy thought experiment to test your theory.
The United States, however, is a democracy. The whole point behind a democracy is: A: The people elect leaders to represent them in the government B: The people are free to say whatever they please, without fear of persecution.
The U.S.'s representative democracy doesn't seem all that democratic to me. Sure, you get to elect a 'leader', which is akin to a WinAmp skin. Only corporations get to have a significant vote on issues, through 'campaign contributions'.
but the DMCA violates the First Amendment and the definition of a democracy (at least MY definition as a US citizen).
The definition of citizenship in the U.S. is not all clear to me. Does the constitution (a mighty fine bill) actually apply to all people who live and were born in the U.S.A.? Some Americans I've talked to say not, and are busy getting land patents just so they truely live as free Americans.
How much free speech do you really have in the U.S.A.? Are you allowed to talk about the CIA's puppeteering of 'terrorist' bombings, or the Budhoo resignation from the IMF, or perhaps even the NSA's 'legal' right to 'disappear' anyone who they think is bad for 'national security'
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait, but I'm disturbed by the number of Americans who claim they're Free and what a Great Country they have, despite the U.S. government.
Not only does google distinguish 'sponsored' hits from normal ones, it displays them in a way that makes the sponsored hits easy to disregard - at the top, tucked under the instrumentation, and coloured with the <SEP> HTML tag.
He believes the quakes inspired the first stories of the beast among the Picts, the ancient Scottish tribes known for their tattoos and for carved stone images of the monster.
Either Piccardi or sfgate.com wasn't paying attention some 1600-odd years ago. The Picts were a distinct race to the Scots.
One person may be good with the rocket launcher, the next may be good with the BFG -- or the debugger. Problems have solutions. Transcending the presented solution-space to find meta-solutions, preferably including some nifty code, seems more like something we should welcome to me: the victory of geeky engineering over gruntly brute-force. All hail the "cheater": All hail the engineer
You vastly overestimate the creativity of those "engineers". If their efforts are supposed to be creative, why is it that their hacks invariably use "gruntly brute force" - naïve ballistic calculations and simple health fudges?
Apart from that, most cheaters do not even write these simple minded hacks but download and apply them, pretending to be 1337 to their online opponents.
The need of cheaters to be seen as 1337 to such an extent that they need to lie and have their computer win their games for them is a sure sign of some sort of geekish mental incapacity.
Seriously, when someone womps you in a game of NetStorm in a minute with the help of infinite money and instant build times then describes the cheating as "fun" in a following chat session, what other conclusion can you make?
Cheaters, like script kiddies, are a wee bit retarded, and somewhat creepy. Finding one in an online game feels a bit like discovering that a person you've been talking to on IRC is a child molester, or an amway sales 'bot.
And how do they diconnect the building? I can imagine the blimp will go up like a cork once the building is disconnected.
Having sussed out the sucky navigation aids on the site, I found this Rendering. I know bugger all about airships, but those yellow blobs are somewhat suggestive of a fish's swim bladder to me.
And how do they diconnect the building? I can imagine the blimp will go up like a cork once the building is disconnected.
Perhaps, if the engines aren't enough, the airship could hand out more rope and rise higher 'till it reached the height at which it's naturally bouyant. I'm sure it won't have to rise far.
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If the sun gets in the way, don't bother drawing the curtains. Just rotate the apartment so the television is kept out of direct dunlight.
Only one gram of matter was converted to energy when the Hiroshima A-bomb exploded. Its charge was was about the critical mass of uranium (about 50-odd kilograms)
That's not to say the A-bomb had a yeild of only 0.002% of its mass, though.
I'm no expert on atomic physics, but I'd say the mass lost is somewhat like teensy bit of mass lost when two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom combine to form a H2O molecule plus some extra heat energy, except that for a fission reaction, some thingymajig is happening with nuclear particles rather than with 'bond energy'.
I imagine then, that the British Library's photocopiers are the the fancy new 'digital copiers' that look down onto the upright, open pages of the book and correct the spatial distortion and illumination variance of the page close to the spine.
I'm not sure if the machines are clever enough to remove the staples from centrefolds, though.
GEOS had an excellent user-selectable interface complexity selector, from 1 to 4 on all its major apps.
Learning the fancier features was no hassle when you didn't have them in your face to start off with.
I believe this format is popular: yyyy-mm-dd (remember to use hyphens, not slashes).
It's great for naming backup zips like so:
Don't forget that we also need to push the Moon around faster so we can get a metric month.
After reading Code Complete, which was great, I found Writing Solid Code a laugh a page for the first fifty pages and then more of a cry.
Writing Solid Code is full of stupid things like:
Code Complete has a nice section on how some coders write their code like love letters to a computer. It's great. Buy one for your dog too.
One such case is where no code is written and none should be, but looks like a place where a particular few lines of code should be written. You need a comment to say "Don't do [blarg] because [wibble]". In other words, you should comment the conspicuous absence of code.
Also, even 'obvious' comments, if written well can be a great help when they show the logical steps of a procedure as you're scrolling the page like a microfiche without caring to read the actual code till you find the place you want to work on.
So these coquis are as loud as 90cB?
It sounds like a great excuse to build a robot that will hunt down noisy frogs.
A hammer would be a cheap and easy weapon, but the thought of focusing a tone burst that matches the resonant frequency of the frog (somewhere between 100Hz and 3000Hz) gets me excited.
That would be almost as illegal as an OFF switch on your television!
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The FUGA is kinda cool in that it doesn't integrate like a CCD. It has no 'shutter time' and pixel values can be read on the fly.
The site has an excellent FAQ.
You're sensitive to blue-yellow difference but not red-green difference. Your blue-yellow spatial resolution will as spectacularly crap as it is for all humans, but your yellow spatial resolution will be fine. The Pentile matrix will be as just as a bonus to you as it will be for, um, trichromats. I'm not sure how it will affect the blue-yellow-colour-blind people though.
That's certainly a cool hack, as simple as it would be on an Amiga. Lemmings on the Amiga was awesome in two-player mode because of its support for two mice! I wonder how many other games would work as well with two mouse pointers.
Only if you're willing to take a bath shorter than eight hours :)
The U.S.'s representative democracy doesn't seem all that democratic to me. Sure, you get to elect a 'leader', which is akin to a WinAmp skin. Only corporations get to have a significant vote on issues, through 'campaign contributions'.
The definition of citizenship in the U.S. is not all clear to me. Does the constitution (a mighty fine bill) actually apply to all people who live and were born in the U.S.A.? Some Americans I've talked to say not, and are busy getting land patents just so they truely live as free Americans.
How much free speech do you really have in the U.S.A.? Are you allowed to talk about the CIA's puppeteering of 'terrorist' bombings, or the Budhoo resignation from the IMF, or perhaps even the NSA's 'legal' right to 'disappear' anyone who they think is bad for 'national security'
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait, but I'm disturbed by the number of Americans who claim they're Free and what a Great Country they have, despite the U.S. government.
Not only does google distinguish 'sponsored' hits from normal ones, it displays them in a way that makes the sponsored hits easy to disregard - at the top, tucked under the instrumentation, and coloured with the <SEP> HTML tag.
I guess that makes me an 'unceremonious coffee bean muncher' :)
Either Piccardi or sfgate.com wasn't paying attention some 1600-odd years ago. The Picts were a distinct race to the Scots.
You vastly overestimate the creativity of those "engineers". If their efforts are supposed to be creative, why is it that their hacks invariably use "gruntly brute force" - naïve ballistic calculations and simple health fudges?
Apart from that, most cheaters do not even write these simple minded hacks but download and apply them, pretending to be 1337 to their online opponents.
The need of cheaters to be seen as 1337 to such an extent that they need to lie and have their computer win their games for them is a sure sign of some sort of geekish mental incapacity.
Seriously, when someone womps you in a game of NetStorm in a minute with the help of infinite money and instant build times then describes the cheating as "fun" in a following chat session, what other conclusion can you make?
Cheaters, like script kiddies, are a wee bit retarded, and somewhat creepy. Finding one in an online game feels a bit like discovering that a person you've been talking to on IRC is a child molester, or an amway sales 'bot.
Your analogy would hold if a Quake3 game with cheaters/bots flashed on the screen:
or perhapsSteel is about 8000kg/m, 1m of helium can carry a 1kg load. For a given radius r, the volume of a sphere is (4/3)pi*r and its surface area is 4pi*r
I'd say you need a sphere 20km across, with 40,000 megatonnes of steel.
I think you should paint it like a beachball to avoid early detection by the enemy.
Having sussed out the sucky navigation aids on the site, I found this Rendering. I know bugger all about airships, but those yellow blobs are somewhat suggestive of a fish's swim bladder to me.
Perhaps, if the engines aren't enough, the airship could hand out more rope and rise higher 'till it reached the height at which it's naturally bouyant. I'm sure it won't have to rise far.