From the X-Plane site: "Fidelity Flight Simulation has obtained FAA approval (documented here) to train pilots towards their COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, INSTRUMENT RATING, and AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT CERTIFICATE. This training is done in a full-motion simulator, using X-Plane 6.12 as the simulator software!...Now, actually LOGGING this time requires you to be in a Motus full-motion sim (price tag: about $150,000.00) with an instructor."
Course, MSFS ain't certified for squats under ANY circumstances...it's just a game.
The guys are at a laser show with an atrium exhibit called "The Wonders of Technology", featuring exhibits like VR and meals-in-a-pill. One exhibit is titled "The Wonders of Electricity", and is just an old man standing by a lamp, switching it on and off.
Old Man: "What, you people aren't amazed by this? When I saw this at the 1906 World's Fair, I almost crapped my pants!"
X-Plane is usable for instrument, commercial, and airline pilot cert training (linky). Of course, "actually LOGGING this time requires you to be in a Motus full-motion sim (price tag: about $150,000.00) with an instructor" - but still, MSFS isn't rated for jack shit. It's just a game.
At least in NY, PA and CT, reading the back of a speeding ticket reveals that if you choose to pay, you're pleading nolo contendere - neither admitting nor denying responsibility for the charges, but agreeing to accept punishment. It's sort of a copout; you're agreeing to shut up and pay the fine in exchange for disallowing the gub'mint to use the case against you in any other action.
An external neutron source allows you to initate the chain reaction when the conditions in the fissile core are ideal for fission (the neutron multiplication rate [alpha] is at a maximum) and avoid predetonation, where the core initiates and blows itself apart before maximum alpha is achieved and consequently yields less than it should. It's a way of insuring the bombs work right every time, and making the most efficent use of your fissile material - but minimum critical mass is a mathematical function of the material.
Incidentally, you could theoretically use U-235, Pu-238, Pa-231 [>188kg], Np-237 [~90kg], Am-241 [84 kg], Am-234 [140kg], Cf-249 [5.9kg], Cf-251 [1.94kg], or Cf-252 [2.73kg] for a fission bomb, but only U and Pu are practical.
Well, the rabid anti-abortion crowd defines life as beginning at fertilization - which usually happens up in the fallopian tubes. the MAP and IUDs prevent the fertilized zygote from implanting, and are therefore forms of abortion in their book. Course, most of them are also anti-birth-control ("against the will of god" or "the bible says wasting sperm is evil" or something), so it's a moot point.
oh, the pill prevents ovulation by tricking the body into thinking it's pregnant, nothing to do with implantation. happy fux0ring!
Normally i'd be inclined to cheerfully debate that with you, but i've done enough drugs so that i can't rule out spiritual escape of the material world:D
by the time the Universe ends, perhaps we'll have transcended to some higher level and exist as purely mental beings beyond it or any other universe or material plane of existence for that matter? Of course, even if we don't take that evolutionary route, I'd be willing to bet by the time we have the technology to create new universes and move to them, reversing entropy should be a fourth-grade science project...
Oh, I know all about the properties of QM that make QCrypt possible *pats PhysChem book*; when i say "router" or "amplifier" i mean a trusted computer system that recieves the message, destroyng the QCrypt, and then rebroadcasts it with fresh QCryption along to the next system in the net. Like I said, more a daisy-chained system of single-links.
E.g. non-criminal guy sees $100 bill on table left by cop and he takes it. That could be entrapment.
Not quite...as long as the cop doesn't encourage it and the guy does it entirely on his own free will, the guy is still guilty of theft - now if the cop is standing there saying "ooh, look, there's a $100 bill on the table and nobody around, why don't you go take it, i don't think anybody will care!". THAT'S entrapment (coercing the target into perfoming an illegal act that s/he would otherwise not commit)/
There's just not enough bandwidth available on existing QCrypt links to send an OTP - AFAIK the plan is to use a strong conventional aystem like AES and send the key, just a few dozen bytes, over the QCrypt network, then send the multi-megabyte encrypted message in a more conventional way.
A lot of people here are (rightly so) pointing out that QCrypt is of limited use because it's only good for a straight run of fiber and is therefore useless for anything over ~100km at most. Well, wouldn't it be a relatively trivial matter to install trusted amplification stations that could verify the integrity of the transmission over the last link, and then bang it out over the next link? It'd be like a normal network, except your links would be shorter and your "routers" would have to be a whole hell of a lot more secure, but is there any fundamental reason why it wouldn't work?
I beg to differ with your "people dont' need SMP on the desktop" statement; I have a dual G4 and I absolutely love it - it never ever gets hung on a single proc-hungry task; sure, it's probably not as absolutely fast as a P4, but the overall responsiveness of the system is unmatched, at least in my limited experience (and a nice shiny new dual G5 should make up in the speed department, just need to get that mortgage:D).
Now, that rant done with, what about Darwin's SMP code? It seems to be pretty efficient [of course I've never run any other BSD on this box, so I can't say how well it stacks up against them, but I do hear the "BSD SMP sux0rz" line a lot], at least for 2 chips; has anybody considered trying to reuse it in the other BSDs? AFAIK the APSL isn't incompatible with this sort of idea...
From TFA: "The cast of Michelangelo's David, taken from the original marble figure now in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, was an early and unexpected acquisition for the fledgling Museum at South Kensington."
The Victorians were notoriously prudish, making even current America look downright debaucherous..."A letter sent to the Museum in 1903 by a Mr Dobson complained about the statuary displayed: 'One can hardly designate these figures as "art"; if it is, it is a very objectionable form of art.'" Course, some philistine woman in Florida had this to say about David: "'I didn't even know it was art,' said Jeanne Johnson, owner of a nearby barber shop, who complained about the 5ft concrete statue. 'To me, it's just a naked man standing on the side of the road. Once the girls saw it, I found myself in a position where I had to explain what a penis is.'" Talk about a sex-o-phobe...
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From the X-Plane site: "Fidelity Flight Simulation has obtained FAA approval (documented here) to train pilots towards their COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, INSTRUMENT RATING, and AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT CERTIFICATE. This training is done in a full-motion simulator, using X-Plane 6.12 as the simulator software!...Now, actually LOGGING this time requires you to be in a Motus full-motion sim (price tag: about $150,000.00) with an instructor."
Course, MSFS ain't certified for squats under ANY circumstances...it's just a game.
...since I'm running Office on my Mac!
...had a fungineering degree!
The guys are at a laser show with an atrium exhibit called "The Wonders of Technology", featuring exhibits like VR and meals-in-a-pill. One exhibit is titled "The Wonders of Electricity", and is just an old man standing by a lamp, switching it on and off.
Old Man: "What, you people aren't amazed by this? When I saw this at the 1906 World's Fair, I almost crapped my pants!"
X-Plane is usable for instrument, commercial, and airline pilot cert training (linky). Of course, "actually LOGGING this time requires you to be in a Motus full-motion sim (price tag: about $150,000.00) with an instructor" - but still, MSFS isn't rated for jack shit. It's just a game.
At least in NY, PA and CT, reading the back of a speeding ticket reveals that if you choose to pay, you're pleading nolo contendere - neither admitting nor denying responsibility for the charges, but agreeing to accept punishment. It's sort of a copout; you're agreeing to shut up and pay the fine in exchange for disallowing the gub'mint to use the case against you in any other action.
Amtrak?
An external neutron source allows you to initate the chain reaction when the conditions in the fissile core are ideal for fission (the neutron multiplication rate [alpha] is at a maximum) and avoid predetonation, where the core initiates and blows itself apart before maximum alpha is achieved and consequently yields less than it should. It's a way of insuring the bombs work right every time, and making the most efficent use of your fissile material - but minimum critical mass is a mathematical function of the material.
:)
See The Nuclear Weapons Archive, Engineering and Design of Nuclear Weapons for (lots and lots) more info. Brush up on your particle physics first though, it's a hefty read
Incidentally, you could theoretically use U-235, Pu-238, Pa-231 [>188kg], Np-237 [~90kg], Am-241 [84 kg], Am-234 [140kg], Cf-249 [5.9kg], Cf-251 [1.94kg], or Cf-252 [2.73kg] for a fission bomb, but only U and Pu are practical.
How about a picture of the FreeBSD demon sodomizing the Linux penguin?
Linky...can't ya just hear dueling banjos in the background?
Huh-huh, she's hot. Gets my vote.
Is OS X BSD enough so I can use her? Beats Hexley.
freshly launched, one empty window open - 1.16M
for reference, vim uses 556K.
All the time that is spent playing politics could be spent...fighting FUD with the truth
Yeah, 'cause that worked sooo well for progressives in the last election...
With IRIX, a T-1000 shoots you in the foot. Then a T-Rex bites it off.
With UNICOS, you shoot yourself in the foot with an MP-5.
Well, the rabid anti-abortion crowd defines life as beginning at fertilization - which usually happens up in the fallopian tubes. the MAP and IUDs prevent the fertilized zygote from implanting, and are therefore forms of abortion in their book. Course, most of them are also anti-birth-control ("against the will of god" or "the bible says wasting sperm is evil" or something), so it's a moot point.
oh, the pill prevents ovulation by tricking the body into thinking it's pregnant, nothing to do with implantation. happy fux0ring!
Shameless Karma Whoring
Normally i'd be inclined to cheerfully debate that with you, but i've done enough drugs so that i can't rule out spiritual escape of the material world :D
Pyro_dude! In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Seriously though, who's violating the Second Law?
by the time the Universe ends, perhaps we'll have transcended to some higher level and exist as purely mental beings beyond it or any other universe or material plane of existence for that matter? Of course, even if we don't take that evolutionary route, I'd be willing to bet by the time we have the technology to create new universes and move to them, reversing entropy should be a fourth-grade science project...
Oh, I know all about the properties of QM that make QCrypt possible *pats PhysChem book*; when i say "router" or "amplifier" i mean a trusted computer system that recieves the message, destroyng the QCrypt, and then rebroadcasts it with fresh QCryption along to the next system in the net. Like I said, more a daisy-chained system of single-links.
E.g. non-criminal guy sees $100 bill on table left by cop and he takes it. That could be entrapment.
Not quite...as long as the cop doesn't encourage it and the guy does it entirely on his own free will, the guy is still guilty of theft - now if the cop is standing there saying "ooh, look, there's a $100 bill on the table and nobody around, why don't you go take it, i don't think anybody will care!". THAT'S entrapment (coercing the target into perfoming an illegal act that s/he would otherwise not commit)/
There's just not enough bandwidth available on existing QCrypt links to send an OTP - AFAIK the plan is to use a strong conventional aystem like AES and send the key, just a few dozen bytes, over the QCrypt network, then send the multi-megabyte encrypted message in a more conventional way.
A lot of people here are (rightly so) pointing out that QCrypt is of limited use because it's only good for a straight run of fiber and is therefore useless for anything over ~100km at most. Well, wouldn't it be a relatively trivial matter to install trusted amplification stations that could verify the integrity of the transmission over the last link, and then bang it out over the next link? It'd be like a normal network, except your links would be shorter and your "routers" would have to be a whole hell of a lot more secure, but is there any fundamental reason why it wouldn't work?
Hello Killy
Is that like, Hello Kitty packing an RPG?
I beg to differ with your "people dont' need SMP on the desktop" statement; I have a dual G4 and I absolutely love it - it never ever gets hung on a single proc-hungry task; sure, it's probably not as absolutely fast as a P4, but the overall responsiveness of the system is unmatched, at least in my limited experience (and a nice shiny new dual G5 should make up in the speed department, just need to get that mortgage :D).
Now, that rant done with, what about Darwin's SMP code? It seems to be pretty efficient [of course I've never run any other BSD on this box, so I can't say how well it stacks up against them, but I do hear the "BSD SMP sux0rz" line a lot], at least for 2 chips; has anybody considered trying to reuse it in the other BSDs? AFAIK the APSL isn't incompatible with this sort of idea...
From TFA: "The cast of Michelangelo's David, taken from the original marble figure now in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, was an early and unexpected acquisition for the fledgling Museum at South Kensington."
The Victorians were notoriously prudish, making even current America look downright debaucherous..."A letter sent to the Museum in 1903 by a Mr Dobson complained about the statuary displayed: 'One can hardly designate these figures as "art"; if it is, it is a very objectionable form of art.'" Course, some philistine woman in Florida had this to say about David: "'I didn't even know it was art,' said Jeanne Johnson, owner of a nearby barber shop, who complained about the 5ft concrete statue. 'To me, it's just a naked man standing on the side of the road. Once the girls saw it, I found myself in a position where I had to explain what a penis is.'" Talk about a sex-o-phobe...