Hey this would make a great poll idea. Of course we get blasted by the Australians and other non-Americans out there who read slashdot complaining about Americo-centric polls.
Hey, but you gotta remember that many of us current computer geeks didn't become computer savvy throught the internet. Granted I was lucky and got to see the internet back in the early 90s when the only major providers were things like Prodigy, Compuserve, and Universities. Even AOL wasn't that big. I remember my dad spouting off how he could type in his homework on the computer, call up the University of New Orleans by modem, and printing his work on the printers at the library. I'd say my greatest introduction to the computing community came through local BBSs. That brought about the introduction of freeware and shareware games to me. My first introduction to some great games.
Speaking of, remember when Duke Nukem 3d cme out and you thought to yourself, man I remember that Duke Nukem character.
Even if they were talking about water as the rain on Titan (read the article before you post, you won't make as big a fool out of yourself.), it would not become hail just by falling. Falling rain that turns into ice at high altitudes is called sleet. Rain that turns into ice at low altitudes is called freezing rain. The difference between the two is that freezing rain is much wetter and freezes to our nice roads thus causing a more dangerous impact on drivers of automobiles, trucks, etc.
Hail is formed in thunderstorms where supercooled water condenses around dust particles, dirt, grasshoppers, etc, and then it freezes a layer. The newly formed hail stone is then tossed back up into the thunderhead where it receives a new layer of ice. This process continues until the stone becomes to heavy for the winds to lift back up into the anvil of the cumulonimbus thunderhead. This is why hail can be anywhere from pea sized to softball sized. Also, in examining a hail stone, one will notice, upon dissection, that you can observe the ringed layers. Another note is that sleet and freezing rain are primarily cold weather precipitation while hail stones are formed in warmer layers in that chaotic area we call a frontal boundary. Conceivable with winds of infinite speed, you could get hail stones of infinite size.
Don't you just love how science fiction shapes reality as time goes by. Makes you happy that we have had so many good science fiction writers to both give us ideas and to warn us of the problems associated with those ideas. I swear, the last, at least, third of the stories I have read here could've come out of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. What with buckyball transistors, molecular machines, tele-immersive ractives, worms with complex jaws that suck your brain out,... Wait that wasn't in that book...
Want to see a science fiction author who foretold the antics of Microsoft? The Puppetmasters by Heinlein. We live in the red zone.
What, you mean those were aliens, oops, well they could've been GatesSpawn.
Remember, though, we've had craft operating in a much more corosive environment just as long. Look how long many of the airplanes we fly in have been in the air.
Seeing as how the next president may be in a position to appoint several new supreme court justices, what are the qualities you would look for in a justice? How important is a knowledge of technical matters to the appointment with the recent "computer" cases with Microsoft, Napster, and the RIAA-DECSS case?
Could you pass the peas, nevermind, I'll just retreive them with my mouse. The ultimate dining experience with a mouse at every seat.
And how do we get geeks to set the table? Build an interface with a Quake engine where you have to deliver certain items to certain parts of the map. Unknowingly, your wife has gotten you to set the table while blasting many things into itty bitty pieces. Life would be good!!!
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Downloadable, yes it is. I got it and played it back at full screen in quicktime. Makes things much better, IMHO.
Hey this would make a great poll idea. Of course we get blasted by the Australians and other non-Americans out there who read slashdot complaining about Americo-centric polls.
Hey, but you gotta remember that many of us current computer geeks didn't become computer savvy throught the internet. Granted I was lucky and got to see the internet back in the early 90s when the only major providers were things like Prodigy, Compuserve, and Universities. Even AOL wasn't that big. I remember my dad spouting off how he could type in his homework on the computer, call up the University of New Orleans by modem, and printing his work on the printers at the library. I'd say my greatest introduction to the computing community came through local BBSs. That brought about the introduction of freeware and shareware games to me. My first introduction to some great games.
Speaking of, remember when Duke Nukem 3d cme out and you thought to yourself, man I remember that Duke Nukem character.
Even if they were talking about water as the rain on Titan (read the article before you post, you won't make as big a fool out of yourself.), it would not become hail just by falling. Falling rain that turns into ice at high altitudes is called sleet. Rain that turns into ice at low altitudes is called freezing rain. The difference between the two is that freezing rain is much wetter and freezes to our nice roads thus causing a more dangerous impact on drivers of automobiles, trucks, etc.
Hail is formed in thunderstorms where supercooled water condenses around dust particles, dirt, grasshoppers, etc, and then it freezes a layer. The newly formed hail stone is then tossed back up into the thunderhead where it receives a new layer of ice. This process continues until the stone becomes to heavy for the winds to lift back up into the anvil of the cumulonimbus thunderhead. This is why hail can be anywhere from pea sized to softball sized. Also, in examining a hail stone, one will notice, upon dissection, that you can observe the ringed layers. Another note is that sleet and freezing rain are primarily cold weather precipitation while hail stones are formed in warmer layers in that chaotic area we call a frontal boundary. Conceivable with winds of infinite speed, you could get hail stones of infinite size.
Don't you just love how science fiction shapes reality as time goes by. Makes you happy that we have had so many good science fiction writers to both give us ideas and to warn us of the problems associated with those ideas. I swear, the last, at least, third of the stories I have read here could've come out of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. What with buckyball transistors, molecular machines, tele-immersive ractives, worms with complex jaws that suck your brain out, ... Wait that wasn't in that book...
Want to see a science fiction author who foretold the antics of Microsoft? The Puppetmasters by Heinlein. We live in the red zone.
What, you mean those were aliens, oops, well they could've been GatesSpawn.
Remember, though, we've had craft operating in a much more corosive environment just as long. Look how long many of the airplanes we fly in have been in the air.
Seeing as how the next president may be in a position to appoint several new supreme court justices, what are the qualities you would look for in a justice? How important is a knowledge of technical matters to the appointment with the recent "computer" cases with Microsoft, Napster, and the RIAA-DECSS case?
I would like to read the essay you have written, yet you left no email address. If you manage to read this, would you send it to me: here.
Could you pass the peas, nevermind, I'll just retreive them with my mouse. The ultimate dining experience with a mouse at every seat.
And how do we get geeks to set the table? Build an interface with a Quake engine where you have to deliver certain items to certain parts of the map. Unknowingly, your wife has gotten you to set the table while blasting many things into itty bitty pieces. Life would be good!!!