There are five Lagrange points between any two bodies. L1,L2 and L3 lie inline with the bodies and are unstable (i.e., the slightest perturbation and you fall off). However, L4 and L5 are located off to the side, where the point and the two bodies form an equilateral triangle in the plane of the orbit. L4 and L5 are stable (you can have stable orbits around them). Trojan asteroids have been found at the Jupiter-Sun L4 and L5 points, but I believe this is the first planet-moon case.
Take your time looking through various texts. Make sure that the ideas are clearly demonstrated (with real-world examples!) and that the ideas come in a reasonable order. Run them past someone who doesn't know Java and see if they can make sense of it.
Personally, I've had good luck with Cohoon & Davidson's "Java Program Design". Thorough and clear, though slightly out of date in a couple spots.
I don't see why the computer shouldn't be a part of their daily living environment from the beginning, like the TV or radio. But just like TV, their use should be monitored so that they don't get into trouble, and so that they spend enough time playing, reading books, socializing, and all those other critical life skills developed early in life.
I heard the same thing in high school, only it was 36 digits. I figured I'd never need to know more than that, so I spent a couple days memorizing pi to 36 places, and I've known it ever since.
Have you looked into radiating cable (aka leaky coax)? It's useful stuff. In effect, it's an antenna distributed along the length of the cable. I've used it to get cellular coverage into a metal-walled room. A little more elegant than APs everywhere...
Doesn't that just beg for the idea of GPL'd household goods? Someone designs a widget/spatula/sculpture/whatever, shares the design, and anybody who wants one can print it out at home, modify it at will, etc. Sounds like the conceptual equivalent of the replicator from Star Trek.
In my experience, the best way to get equiptment is to make friends with a college professor. Call it a mentorship, faculty advisor, whatever, but get to be their friend. At least at my school (Iowa State) there're many basement rooms stuffed floor to ceiling with old, used, perfectly serviceable stuff. If you're lucky, your professor friend will be happy to be looking the other direction when you find something you want. If you feel like being slightly more legal, you might ask the department if they'd be willing to sell some of the stuff to you.
Although the parent is correct that ignorance of the law is usually not a valid defense, I still find it amazing that we're expected to follow a body of laws greater than any human being could read in a lifetime.
Right, because silliness is a perfectly valid reason to dismiss a theory. Just look at how silly quantum theory is, that whole wave/particle duality nonsense. Surely something can't be both a wave and a particle, can it? Must be nonsense.
I used to spend my summers working on a hog farm. Hauling bloated, rotting corpses around, shoveling shit, etc. But there were days when in order to get at the problem we were trying to fix (broken water line, etc.) I would have to strip down to my skivvies and stand NECK DEEP IN A PIT FULL OF PIG SHIT, trying to work under the water by touch.
As the British now know, sometimes you DON'T keep the russians from hacking a mission. This whole "we haven't heard from it, we'll keep looking" thing is just a cover story. The CIA knows that a couple of 1337 h4x0r kiddies in Moscow are using the probe to play tic-tac-toe in the Martian dust as we speak.
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There are five Lagrange points between any two bodies. L1,L2 and L3 lie inline with the bodies and are unstable (i.e., the slightest perturbation and you fall off). However, L4 and L5 are located off to the side, where the point and the two bodies form an equilateral triangle in the plane of the orbit. L4 and L5 are stable (you can have stable orbits around them). Trojan asteroids have been found at the Jupiter-Sun L4 and L5 points, but I believe this is the first planet-moon case.
Take your time looking through various texts. Make sure that the ideas are clearly demonstrated (with real-world examples!) and that the ideas come in a reasonable order. Run them past someone who doesn't know Java and see if they can make sense of it.
Personally, I've had good luck with Cohoon & Davidson's "Java Program Design". Thorough and clear, though slightly out of date in a couple spots.
out of one of these?
I don't see why the computer shouldn't be a part of their daily living environment from the beginning, like the TV or radio. But just like TV, their use should be monitored so that they don't get into trouble, and so that they spend enough time playing, reading books, socializing, and all those other critical life skills developed early in life.
I heard the same thing in high school, only it was 36 digits. I figured I'd never need to know more than that, so I spent a couple days memorizing pi to 36 places, and I've known it ever since.
Still hasn't got me laid...
Have you looked into radiating cable (aka leaky coax)? It's useful stuff. In effect, it's an antenna distributed along the length of the cable. I've used it to get cellular coverage into a metal-walled room. A little more elegant than APs everywhere...
No wireless? Haven't you ever heard of a paper airplane?
This may be the first time we've ever slashdotted a country!
...and the slashfic types soil themselves in glee...
...In Soviet Russia, 1970 does YOU! ...
Shutting up, sir.
Unless they are single
How many NON-single guys would put that much time into decrypting this thing?
And so we are forced to conclude that NASA and Michael Jackson are working together to keep the aliens secret.
Anyone else tempted to bring a few IR toys into the theater just to screw with the guys in the night-vision goggles...
a crater over a light-minute across...cool. Now all I need is a neutron star. Oh yeah, and a way to accellerate it to lightspeed.
Great. Now you've got me thinking about how "fair use" applies to my ass...
Note to self: avoid prison.
I've got more than that in my left hip pocket alone!
Of course, the 15" Powerbook chafes a bit, but...
Doesn't emacs already do that?
Doesn't that just beg for the idea of GPL'd household goods? Someone designs a widget/spatula/sculpture/whatever, shares the design, and anybody who wants one can print it out at home, modify it at will, etc. Sounds like the conceptual equivalent of the replicator from Star Trek.
A girlfriend! Time to change the sig.
In my experience, the best way to get equiptment is to make friends with a college professor. Call it a mentorship, faculty advisor, whatever, but get to be their friend. At least at my school (Iowa State) there're many basement rooms stuffed floor to ceiling with old, used, perfectly serviceable stuff. If you're lucky, your professor friend will be happy to be looking the other direction when you find something you want. If you feel like being slightly more legal, you might ask the department if they'd be willing to sell some of the stuff to you.
Although the parent is correct that ignorance of the law is usually not a valid defense, I still find it amazing that we're expected to follow a body of laws greater than any human being could read in a lifetime.
Right, because silliness is a perfectly valid reason to dismiss a theory. Just look at how silly quantum theory is, that whole wave/particle duality nonsense. Surely something can't be both a wave and a particle, can it? Must be nonsense.
sometimes seventeen
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I used to spend my summers working on a hog farm. Hauling bloated, rotting corpses around, shoveling shit, etc. But there were days when in order to get at the problem we were trying to fix (broken water line, etc.) I would have to strip down to my skivvies and stand NECK DEEP IN A PIT FULL OF PIG SHIT, trying to work under the water by touch.
As the British now know, sometimes you DON'T keep the russians from hacking a mission. This whole "we haven't heard from it, we'll keep looking" thing is just a cover story. The CIA knows that a couple of 1337 h4x0r kiddies in Moscow are using the probe to play tic-tac-toe in the Martian dust as we speak.