I'm lucky - I only swap lower case 'b' and 'd'. I certainly don't condemn those who have a cognitive reason. The folks I rail against are those who have never read words they use in speaking. To me it is evidence of a dumbing down of the populace. Some favorites:
Two Whit -> to wit
persay -> per se
ayee -> i.e.
faint -> feint
all the other homophones
I guess they don't realize that words have meaning beyond their sound when written.
I agree, but they apparently do to the original poster. Accidentally misspelling a word is one thing; using the wrong word, especially a homophone or near-homophone, is a crime.
they really use, we're all safe. I'm not a "Computer Employee," I'm a human employee that works with computers. I don't care what the Computer Employees get - probably WinXP if they're naughty.
I'm certainly no chemist, but why would one choose to use a spherical structure that suffers from poor packing density? Similarly, why would you layer the distinct dye-bearing materials instead of coming up with a solution containing all of the dyes at once and depositing them in a solid block (or at least as a packing of cubes)? Instead of having discrete onion-shaped 'bits', you could have as many bits as your read/write mechanisms could handle, and each dye's contribution would be read from exactly the same spot in the matrix.
I guess this guy hasn't read the GPL or doesn't understand what 'anyone' means. If you GPL your code, you can't pick and choose who gets to use it based on your silly little liberal causes. Get over it already. I'm sick of the us-and-them attitude exuded by the left - collect all the guns, except for our bodyguards. Everyone can use this software, except for bullies and people we don't like. Sheesh!
Interesting you mention that. I've long thought that 'speed' limits should be a function of your potential energy or momentum, not your velocity. An SUV that weighs 3 times what my Mini weighs has 3x the potential energy and 3x the momentum at the same velocity. At twice the velocity, the SUV has 12x the PE and 6x the momentum of my Mini at the original speed. Ouch!
I heard that autopilot-controlled ILS landings were routine for cargo carriers, but the FAA doesn't allow it when passengers are aboard. UPS and FedEx can do zero by zero landings (no visibility at all) if the controllers allow it.
I haven't done the math, but it might actually be harder to keep something warm in Antarctica than on the moon. The difference is that on the moon you only have radiative cooling. In Antarctica, you have both radiative and conductive cooling (heat wicked away via contact with the atmosphere). If you think conductive cooling is trivial, remember the wind chill effect. Brrrr!
Maybe I missed something, but NASA relies heavily on the exact same aerospace contractors that the DOD uses. Martin-Marietta, Rockwell, Lockheed, etc. Missle parts look an awful lot like NASA rocket parts. Some large percentage of NASA funding goes to subcontractors who actually do the lion's share of the construction and testing.
NASA and the DOD have a lot in common from launch to apogee; after that NASA wants their payload to remain in orbit, the DOD wants their payload to land on someone's head and go boom.
Shoot, I remember debugging the elevator seek driver for Interdata/Perkin Elmer/Concurrent OS/32 systems in the late 80's. This isn't new technology, not even for Linux. Remember the code that Tivo released back to the community? It was their implementation of an elevator-style seek mechanism for their PVR's.
I wouldn't say you have a liberal streak, you're trying to be fair, that's all.
I have long thought that the foodstamp program should consist of a voucher good for essentially unlimited amounts of fresh veggies, flour, milk, meat, eggs, etc (you know, the stuff that used to be called 'staples') and little/no pre-processed/pre-packaged anything. The store would add up how much 'voucher' food is sold/month (perhaps per person/family), and charge it to the gov't. I would rather hand out vouchers to needy families that allow them to buy plenty of what they need and what's good for them than give them essentially a gov't-sponsored debit card to buy nearly any junk in the store.
Along those same lines, tax those things that aren't 'staples' or FDA-approved drugs (either prescription or OTC, but not unregulated 'food supplements'). No crazy rebate program, everyone's happy!
I agree with the FairTax folk right up until they start describing their rebate system for necessities. Why have all of the rigamarole of mailing checks when it would be simpler to not charge the tax on food, drugs, clothes, and education in the first place? Most states have different tax rates for those types of things already. That way 'the poor' won't have to have the money up front, and there won't have to be any recordkeeping, printing, or mailing costs.
Am I missing something, or is the rebate system a messy solution in an otherwise elegant proposal?
... [it will] display over 10,000 pages on a single set of batteries...
Why in the world would they print all 10,000 of those pages on a set of batteries? Who wants to carry around a set of batteries covered in tiny print and a magnifying glass just to read a book?
How about an electromagnet on the IDD? Turn it on, wave the IDD and magnet over the panels, move IDD off the rover, turn off magnet, fines drop onto surface!
It's not the ones of "significant size" you have to worry about. Those are likely to be shaken off while driving. The Mars "fines" are the ones that are the most pesky, and are the most likely to be repelled by an electrostatic charge.
The charge on the wires wouldn't interfere with the solar cells, although the wires themselves might. We're talking very high voltage at very little current, so the wires could be literally smaller than a human hair. As far as power consumption, it probably wouldn't draw more than 1/10 W.
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I'm lucky - I only swap lower case 'b' and 'd'. I certainly don't condemn those who have a cognitive reason. The folks I rail against are those who have never read words they use in speaking. To me it is evidence of a dumbing down of the populace. Some favorites:
- Two Whit -> to wit
- persay -> per se
- ayee -> i.e.
- faint -> feint
- all the other homophones
I guess they don't realize that words have meaning beyond their sound when written.I agree, but they apparently do to the original poster. Accidentally misspelling a word is one thing; using the wrong word, especially a homophone or near-homophone, is a crime.
6. Look up definition of the word homophone. (gauze=Gauss, waist=waste)
they really use, we're all safe. I'm not a "Computer Employee," I'm a human employee that works with computers. I don't care what the Computer Employees get - probably WinXP if they're naughty.
I'm certainly no chemist, but why would one choose to use a spherical structure that suffers from poor packing density? Similarly, why would you layer the distinct dye-bearing materials instead of coming up with a solution containing all of the dyes at once and depositing them in a solid block (or at least as a packing of cubes)? Instead of having discrete onion-shaped 'bits', you could have as many bits as your read/write mechanisms could handle, and each dye's contribution would be read from exactly the same spot in the matrix.
I guess this guy hasn't read the GPL or doesn't understand what 'anyone' means. If you GPL your code, you can't pick and choose who gets to use it based on your silly little liberal causes. Get over it already. I'm sick of the us-and-them attitude exuded by the left - collect all the guns, except for our bodyguards. Everyone can use this software, except for bullies and people we don't like. Sheesh!
... they're a bunch of interactive tools.
Just kidding - harmless office pranks are great for comraderie.
Instructions for the care and feeding of a Chinese SKS rifle: "Do not let your SKS get tainted with defilement or sunburnt."
Embossed on the front of anti-personnel mines: "This side toward enemy."
And I was so hoping for heavy photons!
Or better yet:
Interesting you mention that. I've long thought that 'speed' limits should be a function of your potential energy or momentum, not your velocity. An SUV that weighs 3 times what my Mini weighs has 3x the potential energy and 3x the momentum at the same velocity. At twice the velocity, the SUV has 12x the PE and 6x the momentum of my Mini at the original speed. Ouch!
I heard that autopilot-controlled ILS landings were routine for cargo carriers, but the FAA doesn't allow it when passengers are aboard. UPS and FedEx can do zero by zero landings (no visibility at all) if the controllers allow it.
I haven't done the math, but it might actually be harder to keep something warm in Antarctica than on the moon. The difference is that on the moon you only have radiative cooling. In Antarctica, you have both radiative and conductive cooling (heat wicked away via contact with the atmosphere). If you think conductive cooling is trivial, remember the wind chill effect. Brrrr!
Maybe I missed something, but NASA relies heavily on the exact same aerospace contractors that the DOD uses. Martin-Marietta, Rockwell, Lockheed, etc. Missle parts look an awful lot like NASA rocket parts. Some large percentage of NASA funding goes to subcontractors who actually do the lion's share of the construction and testing.
NASA and the DOD have a lot in common from launch to apogee; after that NASA wants their payload to remain in orbit, the DOD wants their payload to land on someone's head and go boom.
Shoot, I remember debugging the elevator seek driver for Interdata/Perkin Elmer/Concurrent OS/32 systems in the late 80's. This isn't new technology, not even for Linux. Remember the code that Tivo released back to the community? It was their implementation of an elevator-style seek mechanism for their PVR's.
I wouldn't say you have a liberal streak, you're trying to be fair, that's all.
I have long thought that the foodstamp program should consist of a voucher good for essentially unlimited amounts of fresh veggies, flour, milk, meat, eggs, etc (you know, the stuff that used to be called 'staples') and little/no pre-processed/pre-packaged anything. The store would add up how much 'voucher' food is sold/month (perhaps per person/family), and charge it to the gov't. I would rather hand out vouchers to needy families that allow them to buy plenty of what they need and what's good for them than give them essentially a gov't-sponsored debit card to buy nearly any junk in the store.
Along those same lines, tax those things that aren't 'staples' or FDA-approved drugs (either prescription or OTC, but not unregulated 'food supplements'). No crazy rebate program, everyone's happy!
I agree with the FairTax folk right up until they start describing their rebate system for necessities. Why have all of the rigamarole of mailing checks when it would be simpler to not charge the tax on food, drugs, clothes, and education in the first place? Most states have different tax rates for those types of things already. That way 'the poor' won't have to have the money up front, and there won't have to be any recordkeeping, printing, or mailing costs.
Am I missing something, or is the rebate system a messy solution in an otherwise elegant proposal?
In 1976, Logan's Run used numbers in names. Logan 5, Jessica 6, Francis 7, Holly 13, Mary 2, etc.
My Favorite:
1E:A7:DE:AD:BE:EF
(I eat dead beef, for the 1337-impaired).
shows up as a Belkin device using this search.
Learn proper spelling, while you're at it.
Why in the world would they print all 10,000 of those pages on a set of batteries? Who wants to carry around a set of batteries covered in tiny print and a magnifying glass just to read a book?
Before someone misunderstands, I think the parent poster means infrared 'radiation' (heat), not ionizing nuclear 'radiation'.
How about an electromagnet on the IDD? Turn it on, wave the IDD and magnet over the panels, move IDD off the rover, turn off magnet, fines drop onto surface!
It's not the ones of "significant size" you have to worry about. Those are likely to be shaken off while driving. The Mars "fines" are the ones that are the most pesky, and are the most likely to be repelled by an electrostatic charge.
The charge on the wires wouldn't interfere with the solar cells, although the wires themselves might. We're talking very high voltage at very little current, so the wires could be literally smaller than a human hair. As far as power consumption, it probably wouldn't draw more than 1/10 W.