Yes, brilliant. I'm gonna go put up a solar panel on my roof. No, wait, I forgot... There is a whole family living up there. And some weird old lady living on their roof.
Pretty much any industrialised country has more than half of its population living in cities. That's why nuclear power is such a brilliant idea. Lots of power per area the power plant takes. And who cares about the uranium mines? They are anyways in some faraway place.
Sorry. Most enviromentally friendly powersources are simply not usable yet.
Oh? It is possible to disagree? I personally do not obey laws per se, but live by the rule to do WTF I want, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else.
That was my point, that laws are a tad too tight, and someone whose morales are tighter than too tight does in my opinion have a stick up his ass. I don't say that I'm more right than the "righteous" guy, but I do reserve the right to ridicule him.
And about the Guantanamo thigy. I think it is a obscene violation of human rights, and that the government who set it up have waived all claims of being fair, liberal or democratic. Pretty much like the concentration camps of WW2 minus the gas chambers. Should not exist in a civilized world.
But, still I would personally accept such an assignment. I do not consider myself responsible of Guantanamo, and I can make a webpage praising it, or rather the design/layout. Writing a text claiming it is a humane place is pure lies, and thus clashes with the "do not hurt anybody"-thingy.
To someone refusing such an assignment, I would say that it's like polishing somebody else's turd, so STFU and do it. And add that if you can't do this, plese go stand in the corner and think about why you are not doing anything to get rid of guantanamo, if it's so repulsive and unacceptable that you can't even make pretty pictures around a text of it.
I have to disagree with that. Celebrities and aspiring celebrities know about the loss of privacy. They know that someone will publish all kinds of crap on them. And yet they want to be famous knowing this downside. And this all is mostly accepted by the public. If it wouldn't be, all the gossip-papers would not sell, as people usually don't buy stuff that clashes with their morales, and become bankrupt.
I personally want remain hidden from the public, so I make a choise: Don't get famous. It won't happen accidentally, I would have to work really, really hard to become famous, if that is even possible for me.
A little point to support this: Every female celebrity knows that paparazzis would kill for pictures of her naughty bits. I never wear clothing that allows my schlong to accidentally fall out of my pants. Why do some female celebrities go out in miniskirts without panties? They are attention-whores, not victims.
I cannot possibly imagine what they want you to work on. Apparently they are not breaking laws of any kind, so what really is the problem? Is your morale really that much tighter than the rules imposed on you by one of the tightest legal systems in the world?
And exploitation? What? All people involved in whatever you are doing, have made their own choise whether to participate or not. And they probably even get paid for it. Don't impose your values on everyone. If the rest is okay with what is happening, why can't you simply accept it?
It's about comparing the users answers to a candidates answer.
Maybe a certain candidate answers yes to the first, and no to the second. And you answer the same. That tells that you think like the candidate, and that he would be suitable.
It's not the content or phrasing of the questions, it is the intersection of answers that matter.
On places where you really can't have your generator break down, like on ships that spend weeks on the open sea, 2 generators are considered enough. Both powerful enough to power the ship on its own, they are usually run in 12 hour shifts, one in the day and the other in the night.
I have yet to hear about a ship to completely lose power due to a generator failure.
What kind of ship requires 20 megawatts? The cruiseship I work on is powered with dual 1,95 megawatt generators. And it's not a small boat, 40 000 tons and 2500 passengers.
Comparing that to the biggest cruiseship at 138 000 tons and a tad over 3000 passengers, I can only wonder what requires 20 megawatts.
Windows comes with a command line ftp-client. Only thing missing is a batch file downloading an alternative browser, and putting an icon on the desktop for it.
Yes it can. There is nothing between us and the star. If you were lifted out from the gravity well of our solar system, I bet you can hit the star with a rock. Or one rock out of billions thrown. Kinda hard to hit precisely at that distance.
Depends. If you take your pics in single JPEGs it hardly matters.
On my Panasonic FZ-10, I can take a burst of 4 pictures in about 2 seconds. On an cheap slow card, the camera writes almost 10 seconds before letting me take more pictures. With a 133x card, the recycle time is only about 2-3 seconds.
Same cards again in my friends FZ-30, taking pictures in RAW format. At about 15 megs each, it took almost 10 seconds to write a single picture, but on the 133x card perhaps two. So that camera can write at least 15 megs/ 2 seconds, I don't know what would happen with faster cards, but cards writing slower that 7.5 megs/sec would slow the camera down.
No. For the 12 years I've had Internet access, I've never seen any company billing by usage. Well, except in the stone age, when using a modem... The phonecompany billed modem access by the minute.
My 4Mpix camera can snap a picture at 1/2000th of a second. By your calculations we get: 12MB * 2000 = 24000MBps. Either that technology exists. Or you are calculating the wrong stuff.
The Nintento Wii has a 3D controller. Designed for games, I don't know how enjoyable it would be to actually work with one of those.
And what actually does one do with a 3D interface? Only thing I can think of is 3D graphics. Perhaps CAD. Pretty rare stuff. I don't think Microsoft Excel Vista 2009 3D-edition would be of any use. Only really confusing.
I broke a bone in my hand a while ago, and had it fixated with some metal spikes. (X-Ray here)
At first it didn't hurt at all, but one of the spikes wasn't fixated well enough in the bone, so it started moving. Having metal pieces walking around in your flesh really hurts.
But most of the pain was when I moved my wrist so the flesh bent over the spike. Fingertips don't move in that way. And if the magnets are a bit larger, they should stay in place, and thus be painless.
Yup. My local hospital's MRI scanner has this big red button on it. With a very big sign saying something like: Shuts down the magnetic field. For extreme emergencies only. Press only if you get stuck to the machine.
(The last part was added with a pen by some technician)
My ex-girlfriend had her head examined there, so I talked to a tech while she was in the scanner. He told me that it just takes ages to power it up again. And gave me a complimentary copy of a MRI image of my ex-girlfriends brain.
>Have you seen the myth busters episode where they shoot at the gasoline tank?
No, but I've seen the brainiac episode where they put thermite on a car, just over the fuel tank. Boom, just like in the movies. And I'm not aware of any natural gas bombs, fuel-air bombs however are used. (That of course may be because a liquid is easier to handle than gas)
Eh? At least my mobile is synced over the network. The service provider syncs via NTP. So my mobile is synched within a few hundreds of a second from an atomic clock. Your wristwatch may have problems beating that.:)
That image on the page. The one with the hand holding a brick of aerogel. Is it a man's or a woman's hand? I see both hair on the forearms, and long nails. Creepy.
300G is not so much for a metal box falling on a solid floor. Neither the floor or the harddrive would deform really, so the stopping distance would be very small.
As you may remember from your physics lectures, acceleration is the change of speed over time. Now a harddrive falling off a table may not fall that fast, but when it has to stop very quickly the acceleration shoots up.
It's pretty difficult to get you to experience 300Gs, but whack two coins together and watch the coins experience over 300Gs.
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Yes, brilliant. I'm gonna go put up a solar panel on my roof.
No, wait, I forgot... There is a whole family living up there. And some weird old lady living on their roof.
Pretty much any industrialised country has more than half of its population living in cities. That's why nuclear power is such a brilliant idea. Lots of power per area the power plant takes. And who cares about the uranium mines? They are anyways in some faraway place.
Sorry. Most enviromentally friendly powersources are simply not usable yet.
Oh? It is possible to disagree?
I personally do not obey laws per se, but live by the rule to do WTF I want, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else.
That was my point, that laws are a tad too tight, and someone whose morales are tighter than too tight does in my opinion have a stick up his ass. I don't say that I'm more right than the "righteous" guy, but I do reserve the right to ridicule him.
And about the Guantanamo thigy. I think it is a obscene violation of human rights, and that the government who set it up have waived all claims of being fair, liberal or democratic. Pretty much like the concentration camps of WW2 minus the gas chambers.
Should not exist in a civilized world.
But, still I would personally accept such an assignment. I do not consider myself responsible of Guantanamo, and I can make a webpage praising it, or rather the design/layout. Writing a text claiming it is a humane place is pure lies, and thus clashes with the "do not hurt anybody"-thingy.
To someone refusing such an assignment, I would say that it's like polishing somebody else's turd, so STFU and do it. And add that if you can't do this, plese go stand in the corner and think about why you are not doing anything to get rid of guantanamo, if it's so repulsive and unacceptable that you can't even make pretty pictures around a text of it.
I have to disagree with that. Celebrities and aspiring celebrities know about the loss of privacy. They know that someone will publish all kinds of crap on them. And yet they want to be famous knowing this downside.
And this all is mostly accepted by the public. If it wouldn't be, all the gossip-papers would not sell, as people usually don't buy stuff that clashes with their morales, and become bankrupt.
I personally want remain hidden from the public, so I make a choise: Don't get famous.
It won't happen accidentally, I would have to work really, really hard to become famous, if that is even possible for me.
A little point to support this: Every female celebrity knows that paparazzis would kill for pictures of her naughty bits. I never wear clothing that allows my schlong to accidentally fall out of my pants. Why do some female celebrities go out in miniskirts without panties? They are attention-whores, not victims.
I cannot possibly imagine what they want you to work on.
Apparently they are not breaking laws of any kind, so what really is the problem?
Is your morale really that much tighter than the rules imposed on you by one of the tightest legal systems in the world?
And exploitation? What?
All people involved in whatever you are doing, have made their own choise whether to participate or not. And they probably even get paid for it. Don't impose your values on everyone. If the rest is okay with what is happening, why can't you simply accept it?
It's about comparing the users answers to a candidates answer.
Maybe a certain candidate answers yes to the first, and no to the second. And you answer the same.
That tells that you think like the candidate, and that he would be suitable.
It's not the content or phrasing of the questions, it is the intersection of answers that matter.
Well, yes, but it has to end somewhere :)
Click on the third page.
http://www.franquin.com/in/album3_in.php
That makes it okay to be close to the bottom?
On places where you really can't have your generator break down, like on ships that spend weeks on the open sea, 2 generators are considered enough.
Both powerful enough to power the ship on its own, they are usually run in 12 hour shifts, one in the day and the other in the night.
I have yet to hear about a ship to completely lose power due to a generator failure.
What kind of ship requires 20 megawatts? The cruiseship I work on is powered with dual 1,95 megawatt generators.
And it's not a small boat, 40 000 tons and 2500 passengers.
Comparing that to the biggest cruiseship at 138 000 tons and a tad over 3000 passengers, I can only wonder what requires 20 megawatts.
Windows comes with a command line ftp-client. Only thing missing is a batch file downloading an alternative browser, and putting an icon on the desktop for it.
Yes it can.
There is nothing between us and the star.
If you were lifted out from the gravity well of our solar system, I bet you can hit the star with a rock.
Or one rock out of billions thrown. Kinda hard to hit precisely at that distance.
Depends. If you take your pics in single JPEGs it hardly matters.
On my Panasonic FZ-10, I can take a burst of 4 pictures in about 2 seconds. On an cheap slow card, the camera writes almost 10 seconds before letting me take more pictures. With a 133x card, the recycle time is only about 2-3 seconds.
Same cards again in my friends FZ-30, taking pictures in RAW format. At about 15 megs each, it took almost 10 seconds to write a single picture, but on the 133x card perhaps two.
So that camera can write at least 15 megs/ 2 seconds, I don't know what would happen with faster cards, but cards writing slower that 7.5 megs/sec would slow the camera down.
How much space does the human genome take again?
:)
In a few ten years you can fit every single american on a storage server.
(And archive it on antarctica
No. For the 12 years I've had Internet access, I've never seen any company billing by usage. Well, except in the stone age, when using a modem... The phonecompany billed modem access by the minute.
Thank you for repeating my point. Obviously I wasn't clear enough for people to understand what I was saying.
My 4Mpix camera can snap a picture at 1/2000th of a second. By your calculations we get: 12MB * 2000 = 24000MBps.
Either that technology exists. Or you are calculating the wrong stuff.
The Nintento Wii has a 3D controller. Designed for games, I don't know how enjoyable it would be to actually work with one of those.
And what actually does one do with a 3D interface? Only thing I can think of is 3D graphics. Perhaps CAD. Pretty rare stuff. I don't think Microsoft Excel Vista 2009 3D-edition would be of any use. Only really confusing.
I broke a bone in my hand a while ago, and had it fixated with some metal spikes. (X-Ray here)
At first it didn't hurt at all, but one of the spikes wasn't fixated well enough in the bone, so it started moving. Having metal pieces walking around in your flesh really hurts.
But most of the pain was when I moved my wrist so the flesh bent over the spike. Fingertips don't move in that way. And if the magnets are a bit larger, they should stay in place, and thus be painless.
Yup. My local hospital's MRI scanner has this big red button on it. With a very big sign saying something like: Shuts down the magnetic field. For extreme emergencies only. Press only if you get stuck to the machine.
(The last part was added with a pen by some technician)
My ex-girlfriend had her head examined there, so I talked to a tech while she was in the scanner. He told me that it just takes ages to power it up again. And gave me a complimentary copy of a MRI image of my ex-girlfriends brain.
>Have you seen the myth busters episode where they shoot at the gasoline tank?
No, but I've seen the brainiac episode where they put thermite on a car, just over the fuel tank. Boom, just like in the movies.
And I'm not aware of any natural gas bombs, fuel-air bombs however are used. (That of course may be because a liquid is easier to handle than gas)
Eh? At least my mobile is synced over the network. The service provider syncs via NTP. :)
So my mobile is synched within a few hundreds of a second from an atomic clock. Your wristwatch may have problems beating that.
Impale a sausage on two nails, connect to a 9V battery. Just a few seconds, and it's cooked.
You make it sound like regular gasoline doesn't burn or explode.
That image on the page. The one with the hand holding a brick of aerogel. Is it a man's or a woman's hand? I see both hair on the forearms, and long nails. Creepy.
300G is not so much for a metal box falling on a solid floor. Neither the floor or the harddrive would deform really, so the stopping distance would be very small.
As you may remember from your physics lectures, acceleration is the change of speed over time.
Now a harddrive falling off a table may not fall that fast, but when it has to stop very quickly the acceleration shoots up.
It's pretty difficult to get you to experience 300Gs, but whack two coins together and watch the coins experience over 300Gs.