Yes. I remember when TIROS was launched, and in the years following other earth-observing sats. Much more data coming in, better prediction models, the nine yards of it. Back when, the weather presenter on the local (more channels if in or near a large city) was a real meteorologist and worked his or her reports and forecasts using methods developed or improved largely due to needs during World War Two. Most were pretty good, given what they worked with. Going more than two, maybe three days out was not really possible except for using historic patterns at much lower probability.
Nowadays? It might have been unusual, but about ten years back I visited with friends for two weeks a few states over and packed according to long-range forecast. Biggest anomaly was an afternoon's forecast rain didn't happen.
Had you simply said there is another accepted spelling everything would've been copacetic; instead you chose to accuse me of being unable to spell. As for comprehension, you apparently elided over the [grin] as well.
What I do know, having read the entire thread to this point, is that QM makes my head hurt and not in an entirely good way by trying to follow this stuff, and two other things: it all depends, and YMMV. Relativity, indeed.
Well, one more thing. There are some smart people here, even some nicely smart-aleck people, all trying to explain and help. Weird place, this, and weird people, we.
Whatever you may think or say about Kim, he's got some interesting moves. (I don't yet have much of a viewpoint on him beyond what I just said, being too busy learning to make good popcorn and trying to follow what's what.)
Is this a really a plea for help, or extortion, or patent-trolling (the latter two might be synonymous)?
On the related matter, I've not read the whole law and am curious: Are violations of DMCA to be pursued under civil or criminal law? Or either one or both depending on circumstance?
Let me guess, you're too lazy to look it up or you have a dull axe to grind?
There are two accepted spellings, one favoured in the USA, the other by those who got and retain their English spellings from the Brits. Are you gonna carp on "favoured" too?
The above ought to be sufficient to get you started, if you have any interest in improving your understanding. You could have done this on your own hook if you really had an interest or gave a shit. Or perhaps you derive pleasure from pressing keys in pursuit of fucking with people, or some such? Any case, I'm sooo oughta here.
Third stage, at least, has dump ports. At precise time according to flight plan, charges open vents in side of can, venting combustion gases and this abruptly ends continued boost. (Yah, I know that first stage is called boost phase, so sue me.)
Guy who thought it was fuel being dumped maybe thinks solid-fuel rockets burn from one end to the other. Obviously he doesn't understand just what solid fuel means. He was certainly too lazy to look it up (that or had a five minute deadline and little prior knowledge of rockets).
Stars wouldn't have to physically collide for a civ to die, I should think. Even mild perturbation of orbit might take a given planet out of its habitable zone for long enough, once or cyclically; all manner of electro-magnetic manifestations could really mess things up; enough dust might interfere with what a planet's civ finds needful from its sun.
Good memory. Never liked tape much, even for audio although it sure had its uses. Least with audio tape one could slice and splice and not always lose too much.
What can I say? I like somewhen for its aptness, and find ere useful. Just because some words have fallen into general disuse doesn't mean they've lost their utility - to me, anyway. 'Sides, "ere" saves ink. Or electrons, or whatever. [grin] I'm old enough and stupid enough to enjoy a bit of play with the language.
While "de gustibus..." and all that, I figure many found that cooked meat and 'spoon vittles' tasted better and was often easier to chew. Of course, that act of cooking also had the advantages you describe.
Doesn't go back nearly that far, but we have found fire-hardened spears - at least the fire-hardened ends, which last longer. I don't remember from light reading if we've found bone points, but I'd have to guess yes.
For fossilizing wood it takes what, a mineralized wash, covering, pressure? I'm guessing that there's gotta be some around, but rare, yes, as you say.
One of the things that's long fascinated me is the blend of accidental discovery and active 'hunting' for the remains of those who used to be here so long ago. Also those places in discovery where anthro, archeo and paleo can sometimes meet.
Nice thing about stone - right kind of stone will split along fracture planes, and can produce edges not even today rivaled by metal. Flint and obsidian come to mind. Obsidian is still used for scalpel blades.
"....would run the hell away *from* you. Unless you can get it surrounded..."
Which is why terrain could be used to advantage where possible, or fences, palisades, and such might be made, and the prey funneled into the killing ground, where there might also be a group of folks with sharp implements gathered. More modern day, we organized beaters, no reason to think earlier people didn't.
How you got troll for this I find puzzling. All you did was nicely remind us of some relevant history (and not so much the kind of history written by the victors as knowledge of history gained by looking at what happened); I'd have included the successive sacks of the Alexandrian libraries. It didn't necessarily have to be religion, but that is often a, or the, prevailing factor. All it takes is an ego with a hair up its butt, and religion provides ready-made organization, troops, prejudice, and justification. Gott mit uns.
A 90 degree bevel can be sharp or blunt. If you look closely at a properly sharpened axe you will see two bevels, btw. Maces and the like were much used, but Hollywood didn't like them. It was not uncommon to wield a mace and carry a sword; particular usage and popularity of a given weapon varied over the course of centuries according to many factors, some as you point out.
Edged tools or weapons are beveled and sharpened according to use. Thinner, more acute bevel, and highly sharpened blades are used for slicing (chef's knife, katana, saber, and the like); thicker, greater bevel, blunter blades are used for hacking yet can still slice if applied with vigor and precision. Broadswords and the like were not all that sharp; sharpening was done to make a fair edge and remove nicks, which otherwise would weaken the blade.
There are compromises, as with planes and axes. A plane blade might have a bevel from around 25 to as high as 50 degrees yet is highly sharpened.
The reason for putting a good edge on an axe has as much to do with preventing slipping and bounce as with penetration; angling the stroke not only works to cleave the wood, it also helps prevent bounce. (I've taken down a few trees, back when, and learnt some of this the hard way, yet not so hard that I don't still have all my parts.)
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Yes. I remember when TIROS was launched, and in the years following other earth-observing sats. Much more data coming in, better prediction models, the nine yards of it. Back when, the weather presenter on the local (more channels if in or near a large city) was a real meteorologist and worked his or her reports and forecasts using methods developed or improved largely due to needs during World War Two. Most were pretty good, given what they worked with. Going more than two, maybe three days out was not really possible except for using historic patterns at much lower probability.
Nowadays? It might have been unusual, but about ten years back I visited with friends for two weeks a few states over and packed according to long-range forecast. Biggest anomaly was an afternoon's forecast rain didn't happen.
No, you said it was _the_ correct spelling.
Had you simply said there is another accepted spelling everything would've been copacetic; instead you chose to accuse me of being unable to spell. As for comprehension, you apparently elided over the [grin] as well.
I don't know if your conclusion is so or not.
What I do know, having read the entire thread to this point, is that QM makes my head hurt and not in an entirely good way by trying to follow this stuff, and two other things: it all depends, and YMMV. Relativity, indeed.
Well, one more thing. There are some smart people here, even some nicely smart-aleck people, all trying to explain and help. Weird place, this, and weird people, we.
Whatever you may think or say about Kim, he's got some interesting moves. (I don't yet have much of a viewpoint on him beyond what I just said, being too busy learning to make good popcorn and trying to follow what's what.)
Is this a really a plea for help, or extortion, or patent-trolling (the latter two might be synonymous)?
On the related matter, I've not read the whole law and am curious: Are violations of DMCA to be pursued under civil or criminal law? Or either one or both depending on circumstance?
Let me guess, you're too lazy to look it up or you have a dull axe to grind?
There are two accepted spellings, one favoured in the USA, the other by those who got and retain their English spellings from the Brits. Are you gonna carp on "favoured" too?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civilization
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/civilization
http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/british-american-spelling.html
http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=view_category&database=spelling&category=C
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/09/civilise-civilize.html
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/civilization
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilised
The above ought to be sufficient to get you started, if you have any interest in improving your understanding. You could have done this on your own hook if you really had an interest or gave a shit. Or perhaps you derive pleasure from pressing keys in pursuit of fucking with people, or some such? Any case, I'm sooo oughta here.
Yeah, I caught that as well.
Third stage, at least, has dump ports. At precise time according to flight plan, charges open vents in side of can, venting combustion gases and this abruptly ends continued boost. (Yah, I know that first stage is called boost phase, so sue me.)
Guy who thought it was fuel being dumped maybe thinks solid-fuel rockets burn from one end to the other. Obviously he doesn't understand just what solid fuel means. He was certainly too lazy to look it up (that or had a five minute deadline and little prior knowledge of rockets).
Let me guess, tl;dr?
Nope. Neither do you. [grin]
Stars wouldn't have to physically collide for a civ to die, I should think. Even mild perturbation of orbit might take a given planet out of its habitable zone for long enough, once or cyclically; all manner of electro-magnetic manifestations could really mess things up; enough dust might interfere with what a planet's civ finds needful from its sun.
Good memory. Never liked tape much, even for audio although it sure had its uses. Least with audio tape one could slice and splice and not always lose too much.
Wow, man, that sounds a mess. I like your using dates to avoid ambiguity, saves bother.
Music by decades has been my experience also, although I can't always remember a whole bunch from '67-'77 or thereabouts, it got a bit trippy.
ah, thanks; I get the drift, but it's over my head [grin]
IIRC, several of the Tandy/Radio Shack models came with 8" drives. I saw one circa '82, don't recall the model number.
Ouch.
What can I say? I like somewhen for its aptness, and find ere useful. Just because some words have fallen into general disuse doesn't mean they've lost their utility - to me, anyway. 'Sides, "ere" saves ink. Or electrons, or whatever. [grin] I'm old enough and stupid enough to enjoy a bit of play with the language.
Now that's an interesting and to me original idea. Good on ya.
I suspect we did whatever we could by whatever method or combinations thereof to get ourselves some grub.
meant to help, not carp: "tract" not "track"
While "de gustibus..." and all that, I figure many found that cooked meat and 'spoon vittles' tasted better and was often easier to chew. Of course, that act of cooking also had the advantages you describe.
Doesn't go back nearly that far, but we have found fire-hardened spears - at least the fire-hardened ends, which last longer. I don't remember from light reading if we've found bone points, but I'd have to guess yes.
For fossilizing wood it takes what, a mineralized wash, covering, pressure? I'm guessing that there's gotta be some around, but rare, yes, as you say.
One of the things that's long fascinated me is the blend of accidental discovery and active 'hunting' for the remains of those who used to be here so long ago. Also those places in discovery where anthro, archeo and paleo can sometimes meet.
Nice thing about stone - right kind of stone will split along fracture planes, and can produce edges not even today rivaled by metal. Flint and obsidian come to mind. Obsidian is still used for scalpel blades.
"....would run the hell away *from* you. Unless you can get it surrounded..."
Which is why terrain could be used to advantage where possible, or fences, palisades, and such might be made, and the prey funneled into the killing ground, where there might also be a group of folks with sharp implements gathered. More modern day, we organized beaters, no reason to think earlier people didn't.
How you got troll for this I find puzzling. All you did was nicely remind us of some relevant history (and not so much the kind of history written by the victors as knowledge of history gained by looking at what happened); I'd have included the successive sacks of the Alexandrian libraries. It didn't necessarily have to be religion, but that is often a, or the, prevailing factor. All it takes is an ego with a hair up its butt, and religion provides ready-made organization, troops, prejudice, and justification. Gott mit uns.
Amen.
Sharp is not the same as angle of bevel.
A 90 degree bevel can be sharp or blunt. If you look closely at a properly sharpened axe you will see two bevels, btw. Maces and the like were much used, but Hollywood didn't like them. It was not uncommon to wield a mace and carry a sword; particular usage and popularity of a given weapon varied over the course of centuries according to many factors, some as you point out.
Edged tools or weapons are beveled and sharpened according to use. Thinner, more acute bevel, and highly sharpened blades are used for slicing (chef's knife, katana, saber, and the like); thicker, greater bevel, blunter blades are used for hacking yet can still slice if applied with vigor and precision. Broadswords and the like were not all that sharp; sharpening was done to make a fair edge and remove nicks, which otherwise would weaken the blade.
There are compromises, as with planes and axes. A plane blade might have a bevel from around 25 to as high as 50 degrees yet is highly sharpened.
The reason for putting a good edge on an axe has as much to do with preventing slipping and bounce as with penetration; angling the stroke not only works to cleave the wood, it also helps prevent bounce. (I've taken down a few trees, back when, and learnt some of this the hard way, yet not so hard that I don't still have all my parts.)
Had no freaking idea, never heard this before. Amazing, man; thanks.