9.36 inches according to some ham radio sorts and some NASA folks among others. Pretty close... but... shouldn't NASA know better by now?
I worked at NASA back in the early 90s. They had a big campaign to push the metric system, including posters which read "Metric is a Perfect 10!". So I got out my ruler and measured the posters, and found them to be exactly 2 feet by 3 feet...
As the looting continues, people start making off with the foundations of the buildings and, one by one, they start simply collapsing and filling the area with rubble and dust.
And you view this all from a neighboring building, with the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" playing in the background. Then you turn to the woman next to you and say, "Marla, you met me at a very strange time in my life..."
I'm glad this article was labelled "Science", and has a picture of Einstein next to it. I hear Einstein himself was funding a trip to Mt. Ararat to follow up on his successes in finding Atlantis and the Abominable Snowman before he was captured by a UFO.
"Payload specialist", my ass. Just a coincidence that he was a Saudi prince, I guess. Everyone working at NASA at the time knew he bought himself a ticket.
But AeA researchers also state in the report that the effects of offshore outsourcing on technology workers have been exaggerated, and that no hard numbers are being gathered by government or independent entities that cite exactly how many jobs have actually been lost to outsourcing over the past few years.
But where are THEIR hard numbers? Pot, kettle, black. It's like they're saying, oh, they haven't even proven there's a problem -- but here's what's causing it.
2. Please also keep in mind that they are talking about the outsourcing of ALL tech jobs, including engineering, and not just computer science. Within computer science, jobs ARE being outsourced to save money. It's undeniable.
These could analyse the water while the craft floated in the ocean and the results could then be transmitted to Earth through the ice with a type of powerful transmitter used by submarines.
Other melt-through proposals propose a tether that connects the melter to the lander on the Europan surface. The lander has a tried-and-true antenna for communicating information back to Earth. Problem solved.
[My apologies that this post contains no knee-jerk reaction to the submitter's polemics.]
How funny. RealNetworks can't even use the pictures, descriptions, and accounts of the game, even with the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
There was a young lady called Jenny whose limericks aren't worth a penny. Her technique was sound, but she always found whenever she tried to write any she'd end up with one line too many.
Look, we've heard some compelling stories here of difficult working conditions, told from the heart. What made you go and feel the need to make something up, just to get sympathy?
Lots of meteors and such have already penetrated the surface. Once you hit the ocean, all you're going to encounter is 1) geysering and 2) refreezing. And since Europa has (great food but) no atmosphere, any liquid that's exposed sublimates instantly to steam.
Chemical-sensing instruments mounted on the spacecraft could identify organic chemicals on or just beneath Europa's surface, McKay said. However, those organic chemicals would have been so badly degraded by Jupiter's intense radiation that it would be impossible to tell if they came from anything alive.
Then they're like...
"Wouldn't it be fascinating to discover life on Europa that's based on amino acids and proteins entirely different than the stuff we know on Earth?" he said with a grin. Sensors aboard the spacecraft might not be able to detect such life at all, but an instrument landed directly on the ice could surely do the job.
Uh, dude? Could we detect life from the surface, or not?
The problem with this is -- you would have the same "dictionary-size" problem as was mentioned in the article. That is, you would have to human-generate every test, and if you reused the tests, spambots could easily pick up on that and know the correct answers.
And if you think you can computer-generate the quizzes, well, then, I'm betting a computer could guess the answers, if it used the same knowledge web for the word associations. The text-based CAPTCHAs work because you can computer-generate them but not easily computer-decypher them.
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This story sounds suspicious to me. Was the guy a tech geek, or did he have a girlfriend? You can't have it both ways.
After reading Feynman's addendum to the Challenger commission report, I'm surprised this 60% figure wasn't interpreted as "a 40% margin of safety".
I worked at NASA back in the early 90s. They had a big campaign to push the metric system, including posters which read "Metric is a Perfect 10!". So I got out my ruler and measured the posters, and found them to be exactly 2 feet by 3 feet...
The musical episode of Buffy got very high ratings. I think they should add song and dance to Trek.
It wouldn't be any worse, would it?
I've always wanted an "unless" statement, that means basically "if ( ! ... )". For example,
unless ( a.contains( b ) )
{
a.addElement( b );
}
As the looting continues, people start making off with the foundations of the buildings and, one by one, they start simply collapsing and filling the area with rubble and dust.
And you view this all from a neighboring building, with the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" playing in the background. Then you turn to the woman next to you and say, "Marla, you met me at a very strange time in my life..."
and am now concerned that commercial software development is not a good job for a dad to have.
Did you ever think that maybe a child is not a good thing for a commercial software developer to have?
Prioritize, man.
I'm glad this article was labelled "Science", and has a picture of Einstein next to it. I hear Einstein himself was funding a trip to Mt. Ararat to follow up on his successes in finding Atlantis and the Abominable Snowman before he was captured by a UFO.
But _The Day After Tomorrow_ is by the director of Independence Day -- how could it be anything but a quality picture?
Okay, Bonds hit a home run off him, but did he really have to kick sand in his face afterwards?
He's not the third, he's the fourth. They're forgetting this guy:
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http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/al-saud.htm
"Payload specialist", my ass. Just a coincidence that he was a Saudi prince, I guess. Everyone working at NASA at the time knew he bought himself a ticket.
But where are THEIR hard numbers? Pot, kettle, black. It's like they're saying, oh, they haven't even proven there's a problem -- but here's what's causing it.
2. Please also keep in mind that they are talking about the outsourcing of ALL tech jobs, including engineering, and not just computer science. Within computer science, jobs ARE being outsourced to save money. It's undeniable.
Other melt-through proposals propose a tether that connects the melter to the lander on the Europan surface. The lander has a tried-and-true antenna for communicating information back to Earth. Problem solved.
[My apologies that this post contains no knee-jerk reaction to the submitter's polemics.]
How funny. RealNetworks can't even use the pictures, descriptions, and accounts of the game, even with the express written consent of Major League Baseball.
I have no logical reason to hate this guy, but that doesn't stop me.
There was a young lady called Jenny
whose limericks aren't worth a penny.
Her technique was sound,
but she always found
whenever she tried to write any
she'd end up with one line too many.
Look, we've heard some compelling stories here of difficult working conditions, told from the heart. What made you go and feel the need to make something up, just to get sympathy?
Dude, just put it under your desk.
No, if this guy REALLY wanted to impress me, he would have the 55 OS's running nested inside each other, in an emulator.
Of course it would probably take 10^236 years to printout "Hello, world!" in the innermost OS but speed isn't really the issue, is it?
"60 to 100 feet in length" says this Yahoo news article:
/ 20031209/ap_on_sc/icy_moons_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap
Er, no.
Lots of meteors and such have already penetrated the surface. Once you hit the ocean, all you're going to encounter is 1) geysering and 2) refreezing. And since Europa has (great food but) no atmosphere, any liquid that's exposed sublimates instantly to steam.
Then they're like...
Uh, dude? Could we detect life from the surface, or not?
Like that would stop them from trying to patent it again.
The problem with this is -- you would have the same "dictionary-size" problem as was mentioned in the article. That is, you would have to human-generate every test, and if you reused the tests, spambots could easily pick up on that and know the correct answers.
And if you think you can computer-generate the quizzes, well, then, I'm betting a computer could guess the answers, if it used the same knowledge web for the word associations. The text-based CAPTCHAs work because you can computer-generate them but not easily computer-decypher them.
I'll bet an hour later, he wanted to go again!