I was struggling through algebra I not long after this program came out (1995). I just wasn't "getting it". I know the phrase is cliched now, but this program was just so *intuitive* that after a few days of fiddling I understood almost all the math I'd ever take right up to 1st semester calculus on a conceptual level.
For me, at least, seeing things in motion (that nifty little value slider) made the concepts just click. Once they were there, the actual mathematical manipulation was much easier, because I was able to visualize "they way this should work out". My teachers were trying to show it on a static chalkboard, and it just wasn't getting through.
I just got my BS in Physics, and without Graphing Calculator, I doubt I'd be where I am today. To the author, if he reads this:
I disagree. I think he wants people to take democracy seriously (and off-air he uses what the influence he's got to that end), but I don't think his news show has any goal other than making people laugh.
The popularity of the show as a source of genuine news is merely an indicator of how far gone the "mainstream" media is.
This was awesome - they clearly were expecting a half-hour of comedy, and instead got someone who, for the first time, called them out on the damaging and irresponsible way in which the networks conduct themselves these days.
Then, when they tried to turn it around on him, all he had to do was remind them that his "journalism" is FAKE and that if people are actually using it as a source of genuine insight, what does that say about the state of journalism in this country?
And then they simply shield their eyes with their hands, and you've accomplished absolutely nothing.
By the time they get their hands to their faces, they will have a pretty substantial afterimage problem. In a critical phase such as an airliner on final, that is likely to be enough.
If you're just trying to dazzle them, it doesn't take that much power. Besides, were you intent on actually causing damage, you would roughly know the range beforehand, and adjust your beamwidth accordingly.
If a mW class laser can hurt you, something that puts out watts most certianly will, even if you increase the spot size.
Wow, too bad there are no devices that can be adjusted to cause light to diverge and converge at will...if there were, then binoculars wouldn't have to be tailored specifically to your own eyes.
On the one hand, Mars does have a much thinner atmosphere
It still needs to be corrected for, however; I spent the summer testing techniques to do so with data from Mars Odyssey. Especially in regions of high relief (Valles Marineris, Olympus Mons, etc.) the amount of dust in the air can significantly affect the image.
If anything, these images bear testimony to the quality of the camera on-board MGS.
Indeed, the folks I worked with over the summer mentioned several times that they were quite impressed with the resolution that Malin seems able to squeeze out of his camera.
Let's hear it for going into business for yourself!
If you think you are safe you are misleading yourself
I am well aware that I am not ENTIRELY safe, however, one of the upsides to using a platform with low marketshare is that the authors of malware (as exemplified by this and the vast majority of other virii) tend to pay it little attention.
Matter of fact, most macs that you can gain local access to are easily rooted through apple tools.
You mean single-user mode? I've used that before. I don't think anyone with local access to my machine gives a shit, though; it's in my bedroom. I suppose that if a cracker is enterprising enough to break into my house and root my machine locally, well...fair play to them:)
Quit all internet apps, and watched my network traffic with Activity Monitor.
Graphic Converter gave its standard "An error occurred while decoding the image. Some parts of the picture may be missing." Message, then displayed a blank white image (555x857)
No spike in network activity at all, as one would expect.
but i fear that step 4 will be sudden bankruptcy, when they quickly exhaust the very small number of adventurers rich enough to afford the still hideously expensive ticket.
This is indeed a possibility, and maybe even probable unless during the period of step 3, further development and testing is conducted to lower the cost of suborbital flights. If that occurs, then the rest of us may get suborbital for the cost of a car, while the super-rich get an orbiting hotel, and on from there.
You might be right, but I think the major advantage here would be fuel economy.
Well, look at the size of an ICBM (for example, the Titan II, which was also the launch vehicle for the Gemini capsules), and remember that the entire length of the thing with the exception of the capsule is essentially one big fuel tank.
Then look at the size of the capsule, and all two of the passengers it carried.
"It could cost us up to $100 million to invest," Branson told reporters. "We've done quite a lot of research; we think there are about 3,000 people out there who would want to do this," Sir Richard told the BBC.
That's quite a bit for a one-off publicity stunt, entirely aside from the 14 Million Pounds already invested.
I think your trip to Austrailia might still be a ways away. Most of SS1's boost is concentrated in getting it UP, not OUT. A ballistic flight to Austrailia would require something rather near orbital velocity (not quite, but close) in order to remain outside the atmosphere for such a distance.
Since 7 AM, I feel like I'm living a book by Arthur C. Clarke. I've been waiting for this since I was a kid. I've just been repeating the company name over and over in my head:
Virgin Galactic Spacelines.
Wow.
Oh - and it seems they have a website...be sure to check it out!
I took a spill off my bike last week, landed on my back and rolled several times on a concrete sidewalk. The initial impact was directly to the Powerbook in my backpack - I was sure it was a goner. When I got into work, it had a few dents, and part of the casing was slightly deformed.
I fixed the latter with a few gentle taps from a claw hammer. The dents in the back of the screen remain, and give it charachter. The monitor's fine; I'm typing this on it right now.
I love my Powerbook...not sure the 15" or 17" would hold up as well, though.
My school flew me to Germany from Honolulu for a conference last month...It lasted a week, and took about 30 hours each way to get there, on eight different aircraft. Once an SS1-derivative craft goes online, a ballistic flight might only be slightly more expensive, as it could reduce the number of aircraft involved considerably. This might go a long way towards offsetting the money spent on R&D.
There's a confluence about 20 miles southeast of my house. One night I convinced a friend of mine to help me go look for it, so we broke out the GPS and hit the road. After whacking our way through some overgrown forest, the place turned out to be in the middle of some farmer's paddock - I got to within ninteen feet, then cut and ran when an enormous black horse woke up and started stamping its feet at me.
My friend thought I was completely insane, but I know better:)
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I was struggling through algebra I not long after this program came out (1995). I just wasn't "getting it". I know the phrase is cliched now, but this program was just so *intuitive* that after a few days of fiddling I understood almost all the math I'd ever take right up to 1st semester calculus on a conceptual level.
For me, at least, seeing things in motion (that nifty little value slider) made the concepts just click. Once they were there, the actual mathematical manipulation was much easier, because I was able to visualize "they way this should work out". My teachers were trying to show it on a static chalkboard, and it just wasn't getting through.
I just got my BS in Physics, and without Graphing Calculator, I doubt I'd be where I am today. To the author, if he reads this:
Thank You.
Jon Stewart wants to be taken seriously
I disagree. I think he wants people to take democracy seriously (and off-air he uses what the influence he's got to that end), but I don't think his news show has any goal other than making people laugh.
The popularity of the show as a source of genuine news is merely an indicator of how far gone the "mainstream" media is.
This was awesome - they clearly were expecting a half-hour of comedy, and instead got someone who, for the first time, called them out on the damaging and irresponsible way in which the networks conduct themselves these days.
Then, when they tried to turn it around on him, all he had to do was remind them that his "journalism" is FAKE and that if people are actually using it as a source of genuine insight, what does that say about the state of journalism in this country?
Jon Stewart is a balls-out American Hero.
And then they simply shield their eyes with their hands, and you've accomplished absolutely nothing.
By the time they get their hands to their faces, they will have a pretty substantial afterimage problem. In a critical phase such as an airliner on final, that is likely to be enough.
If you're just trying to dazzle them, it doesn't take that much power. Besides, were you intent on actually causing damage, you would roughly know the range beforehand, and adjust your beamwidth accordingly.
If a mW class laser can hurt you, something that puts out watts most certianly will, even if you increase the spot size.
Wow, too bad there are no devices that can be adjusted to cause light to diverge and converge at will...if there were, then binoculars wouldn't have to be tailored specifically to your own eyes.
On the one hand, Mars does have a much thinner atmosphere
It still needs to be corrected for, however; I spent the summer testing techniques to do so with data from Mars Odyssey. Especially in regions of high relief (Valles Marineris, Olympus Mons, etc.) the amount of dust in the air can significantly affect the image.
If anything, these images bear testimony to the quality of the camera on-board MGS.
Indeed, the folks I worked with over the summer mentioned several times that they were quite impressed with the resolution that Malin seems able to squeeze out of his camera.
Let's hear it for going into business for yourself!
If you think you are safe you are misleading yourself
:)
I am well aware that I am not ENTIRELY safe, however, one of the upsides to using a platform with low marketshare is that the authors of malware (as exemplified by this and the vast majority of other virii) tend to pay it little attention.
Matter of fact, most macs that you can gain local access to are easily rooted through apple tools.
You mean single-user mode? I've used that before. I don't think anyone with local access to my machine gives a shit, though; it's in my bedroom. I suppose that if a cracker is enterprising enough to break into my house and root my machine locally, well...fair play to them
Interestingly enough, I just re-read that the other night.
Great story, despite the fact that it's not the altitude, it's the velocity.
So an orbit with a period of 24 hours and inclination of 90 degrees will remain above the same meridian?
I don't think so.
I just downloaded the sample from easynews.
Quit all internet apps, and watched my network traffic with Activity Monitor.
Graphic Converter gave its standard "An error occurred while decoding the image. Some parts of the picture may be missing." Message, then displayed a blank white image (555x857)
No spike in network activity at all, as one would expect.
(I love my Mac)
...Now they'll have to change the opening credits to "Enterprise" again :P
but i fear that step 4 will be sudden bankruptcy, when they quickly exhaust the very small number of adventurers rich enough to afford the still hideously expensive ticket.
This is indeed a possibility, and maybe even probable unless during the period of step 3, further development and testing is conducted to lower the cost of suborbital flights. If that occurs, then the rest of us may get suborbital for the cost of a car, while the super-rich get an orbiting hotel, and on from there.
If anyone can do it, though, it's Rutan IMHO.
You might be right, but I think the major advantage here would be fuel economy.
Well, look at the size of an ICBM (for example, the Titan II, which was also the launch vehicle for the Gemini capsules), and remember that the entire length of the thing with the exception of the capsule is essentially one big fuel tank.
Then look at the size of the capsule, and all two of the passengers it carried.
"It could cost us up to $100 million to invest," Branson told reporters. "We've done quite a lot of research; we think there are about 3,000 people out there who would want to do this," Sir Richard told the BBC.
That's quite a bit for a one-off publicity stunt, entirely aside from the 14 Million Pounds already invested.
I think your trip to Austrailia might still be a ways away. Most of SS1's boost is concentrated in getting it UP, not OUT. A ballistic flight to Austrailia would require something rather near orbital velocity (not quite, but close) in order to remain outside the atmosphere for such a distance.
This is the best news I've heard all year!
Since 7 AM, I feel like I'm living a book by Arthur C. Clarke. I've been waiting for this since I was a kid. I've just been repeating the company name over and over in my head:
Virgin Galactic Spacelines.
Wow.
Oh - and it seems they have a website...be sure to check it out!
I'm very inclined to make a bunch of innocuous MP3s with names designed to fool these bots, and put them in my public webspace.
Not that it'd really waste the time of any PERSON at the RIAA/MPAA, but being able to tell them to f&*k off would be quite satisfying.
If you think that drug cartels don't use terror to protect their business interests, you must be smoking a whole lot of their goods already.
I took a spill off my bike last week, landed on my back and rolled several times on a concrete sidewalk. The initial impact was directly to the Powerbook in my backpack - I was sure it was a goner. When I got into work, it had a few dents, and part of the casing was slightly deformed.
I fixed the latter with a few gentle taps from a claw hammer. The dents in the back of the screen remain, and give it charachter. The monitor's fine; I'm typing this on it right now.
I love my Powerbook...not sure the 15" or 17" would hold up as well, though.
My school flew me to Germany from Honolulu for a conference last month...It lasted a week, and took about 30 hours each way to get there, on eight different aircraft. Once an SS1-derivative craft goes online, a ballistic flight might only be slightly more expensive, as it could reduce the number of aircraft involved considerably. This might go a long way towards offsetting the money spent on R&D.
Oh - looks like someone else has done it, too!
& lo n=-77
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=40
There's a confluence about 20 miles southeast of my house. One night I convinced a friend of mine to help me go look for it, so we broke out the GPS and hit the road. After whacking our way through some overgrown forest, the place turned out to be in the middle of some farmer's paddock - I got to within ninteen feet, then cut and ran when an enormous black horse woke up and started stamping its feet at me.
:)
My friend thought I was completely insane, but I know better
How would Korea change after reunification?
Yin-yang on the Yalu?