It will probably tighten up standards so tight that bicyclists will have to have an emissions probe stuck up their backside annually to see if they are contributing to global warming.
May want to skip the beans for dinner for a while...
Airliners and military aircraft up until the 1960s or so had sextant domes so the navigator could shoot stars during flights over the ocean. That was the only way back then.
But a lot of ships don't simply rock to and fro, especially when seas are bad. They pitch, roll, heave, and gyrate in all sorts of weird ways. And the angle is worthless if it isn't down to the nearest horizon (i.e. if your sextant is slightly tilted it is a bad sight). You need to orient quickly to local vertical and stay there, so you would need an inertial system to find the gravitational acceleration vector - on a frame that is pitching and bucking and accelerating in all sorts of crazy ways.
And we also need to remember to code for Error 123: Star Not Found. If it is overcast (or even if merely foggy and you can't get a clean horizon), you are not going to be able to determine your position with cel-nav, period.
On a pitching, rocking ship in the middle of the sea, with a sky that may have cloud coverage so you don't have much choice in the stars that you can shoot? A picture of the sky tells you very little - you need the angle of the celestial object relative to the local horizon. A good human navigator might be able to shoot a few stars through a hole in 9/10ths cloud coverage and get a fix.
Star-trackers work well in space because the platform is relatively stable and you don't have any clouds (usually). Apollo 13 had problems with its star tracker after the explosion because of a cloud of reflective debris around the ship. They had to do a manual burn sighting the Earth's terminator through the reticle.
Not saying a computer couldn't be designed to do it, but getting a robust cel-nav system for sea vessels that can handle the noisy environment that is the sea and sky will be a challenge. Humans still beat computers in some things, this is one of them.
Yahoo Mail has been my throwaway email since about forever, and I have no desire for it to be anything other than that. Yahoo is in such straights now that I would have to read the fine print about what they'll be doing with my cell number and would be very leery about handing it to them. It wouldn't surprise me if this is less a security ploy than a data-mining revenue enhancement ploy.
I'm sure adblocking will die on the vine, just like piracy, under a tidal wave of laws and regulations.
Oh wait, no, that's not going to happen because people don't want it to happen. If Adblocker A gets shut down, everyone will move to Adblocker B, or otherwise implement whatever technical strategy that lets them use their computers. Technical rebellion is as easy as a few mouseclicks. And anyway, what are they going to do if 200 million people don't obey a bullshit law? Throw them all in jail, fine them?
Remember when the MAFIAA slapped a bunch of teenagers with $100,000s of fines for illegally downloading some $0.50 Bieber tunes? Remember how bad that PR shitstorm was for the studios? The first advertiser that decides to actually press for outlandish damages because someone blocked their advertising with an illegal blocker will do nothing but show everyone who wasn't paying attention to the noisy ads what a bunch of obnoxious, money-hungry pricks the advertising industry is. They'll be pulling their own noose tighter around their own neck.
Advertisers tried to squeeze more golden eggs from the goose than it could lay and are mystified why the goose is dead. If I were an advertiser, I'd either be looking for another revenue model or perhaps another line of work.
I thought that subject would get your attention. Welcome to my post! This is going to be a constructive and fun conversation, I can just tell! I can feel the love already.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I don't own a gun myself, not much interest in guns except qualifying on the M16 while in the service and going to the range with some friends every now and again. I do have a lot of gun owners as friends, and they all treat them with the respect and responsibility that they entail. Several hunt, several maintain guns for personal protection. The 2nd Amendment rocks in this regard. I'm very cool with this.
What I don't get (and what my gun-owning friends don't get) is the insistence by some in the pro-gun lobby on assault weapons for an untrained militia (a.k.a hicks in the woods with assault rifles who think they are The Revolution). The government slightly has A-10s and the fucking atom bomb folks. A bunch of rednecks with assault rifles ain't changing the government any time soon, and I am pretty sure I don't want the next iteration of civilization run by rednecks with guns anyway. That ain't a "well-regulated militia". The concept of the citizen soldier with a musket in his closet to protect the nation is dead. The government provides the arms and militia for national defense. Amassing arms to overthrow the government is treason and now is ultimately futile.
For social stability, I do think the government has the responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of fucking idiots. Hell, some of the folks that we give driver's licenses to should not be allowed to drive, because they kill people every fucking day.
I want to allow people to have guns, but I demand that they keep and use them responsibly as they are a very lethal technology. Fucking idiots should not have guns. Breathing and living in the U.S. should not be the minimum qualifications to owning a gun.
Are you really an engineer? What *kind* of engineer are you?
I'm an Irate Engineer, though I am feeling pretty relaxed right now. You must have stolen my irateness.
You're not really an engineer, are you?
As a matter of fact, I am a mechanical engineer.
I'm really not sure why you're getting your panties in a bunch, and I don't think anyone else does either, seeing you're getting modded down to nothing. I was not slamming this particular app - I was just noting that it is a very serviceable and shiny teaspoon being used to empty the sea of problems that is Detroit. More spoons are needed, maybe even a few buckets.
The Israelis are actually from the Simon Wiesenthal center - they're hunting for the Nazis that have been hiding on the dark side of the moon since 1945. They'll chase the Nazis from the moon to Argentina in 2018. I think I saw this in a movie, so it must be true.
- hydrazine reaction heat being neglected (someone calculated it would heat up the Hab to 400C).
Yes, if the calculation assumes a completely adiabatic Hab, and the heat release occurs quickly. A trickle of hydrazine in a Hab in contact with the ground with ambient temps around 0 deg. C doesn't seem farfetched to me.
- raw potatoes being merely "awful" while in reality they are quite poisonous.
Wow, they sell 5 lb bags of raw potatoes in the store! What a reckless thing to do! Amazing the personal injury lawyers haven't jumped on that!
Seriously, properly grown potatoes are harmless, raw or cooked. However, being nightshades, if potatoes are not hilled properly the ones near the soil surface that are exposed to sunlight will turn green and produce solanine, a glycoakaloid poison. I grow potatoes in my garden and just make sure to toss any potatoes that have any green on them.
Fresh young potatoes from the garden, sliced thin and sprinkled with a little sea salt are pretty darned tasty, but eating nothing but potatoes would start to suck ass pretty quickly.
Except those of us considering buying a new phone will hear the old customers' bitching and complaining, and decide y'know what, let's buy something else.
Old customers stop being a drain on your financials the moment they start spreading negative word-of-mouth about your product.
But where are you going to go? It's not like Verizon, AT&T and the others have stellar reputations for not violating their customer agreements. They are all trying to outdo each other in screwing their customers out of their dollars without losing their contracts.
Signing up for cell service in the U.S. is like going to federal PMITA prison. You're going to be someone's bitch, that's for certain, so you chose the one that beats you the least often.
Doing all this requires people to actually give a fuck. If they don't care to leave the carrier for another provider and are content to just bitch, nothing will get done. No one cares to move this off center, and the companies KNOW this.
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It will probably tighten up standards so tight that bicyclists will have to have an emissions probe stuck up their backside annually to see if they are contributing to global warming.
May want to skip the beans for dinner for a while...
Feh...
Kari never toted natural hair color.
Wait...Kari had hair? I wasn't looking at the top of her head apparently.
...they cut Kari Bryon.
All the explosions in the world didn't fix the lack of girl-next-door fun-n-curvy hotness that was Kerri. She was hot even when prego.
...you're going to see some serious shit.
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here...
I hope Amazon doesn't shut down the reviews for the The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee
It is pure Internet Gold!
Airliners and military aircraft up until the 1960s or so had sextant domes so the navigator could shoot stars during flights over the ocean. That was the only way back then.
But a lot of ships don't simply rock to and fro, especially when seas are bad. They pitch, roll, heave, and gyrate in all sorts of weird ways. And the angle is worthless if it isn't down to the nearest horizon (i.e. if your sextant is slightly tilted it is a bad sight). You need to orient quickly to local vertical and stay there, so you would need an inertial system to find the gravitational acceleration vector - on a frame that is pitching and bucking and accelerating in all sorts of crazy ways.
And we also need to remember to code for Error 123: Star Not Found. If it is overcast (or even if merely foggy and you can't get a clean horizon), you are not going to be able to determine your position with cel-nav, period.
Well if yahoo wants to commit sudoku they're doing a fine job.
This needs to be put into the Slashdot random comments.
On a pitching, rocking ship in the middle of the sea, with a sky that may have cloud coverage so you don't have much choice in the stars that you can shoot? A picture of the sky tells you very little - you need the angle of the celestial object relative to the local horizon. A good human navigator might be able to shoot a few stars through a hole in 9/10ths cloud coverage and get a fix.
Star-trackers work well in space because the platform is relatively stable and you don't have any clouds (usually). Apollo 13 had problems with its star tracker after the explosion because of a cloud of reflective debris around the ship. They had to do a manual burn sighting the Earth's terminator through the reticle.
Not saying a computer couldn't be designed to do it, but getting a robust cel-nav system for sea vessels that can handle the noisy environment that is the sea and sky will be a challenge. Humans still beat computers in some things, this is one of them.
Yahoo Mail has been my throwaway email since about forever, and I have no desire for it to be anything other than that. Yahoo is in such straights now that I would have to read the fine print about what they'll be doing with my cell number and would be very leery about handing it to them. It wouldn't surprise me if this is less a security ploy than a data-mining revenue enhancement ploy.
IBM code too beaucoup.
I'm sure adblocking will die on the vine, just like piracy, under a tidal wave of laws and regulations.
Oh wait, no, that's not going to happen because people don't want it to happen. If Adblocker A gets shut down, everyone will move to Adblocker B, or otherwise implement whatever technical strategy that lets them use their computers. Technical rebellion is as easy as a few mouseclicks. And anyway, what are they going to do if 200 million people don't obey a bullshit law? Throw them all in jail, fine them?
Remember when the MAFIAA slapped a bunch of teenagers with $100,000s of fines for illegally downloading some $0.50 Bieber tunes? Remember how bad that PR shitstorm was for the studios? The first advertiser that decides to actually press for outlandish damages because someone blocked their advertising with an illegal blocker will do nothing but show everyone who wasn't paying attention to the noisy ads what a bunch of obnoxious, money-hungry pricks the advertising industry is. They'll be pulling their own noose tighter around their own neck.
Advertisers tried to squeeze more golden eggs from the goose than it could lay and are mystified why the goose is dead. If I were an advertiser, I'd either be looking for another revenue model or perhaps another line of work.
I thought that subject would get your attention. Welcome to my post! This is going to be a constructive and fun conversation, I can just tell! I can feel the love already.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I don't own a gun myself, not much interest in guns except qualifying on the M16 while in the service and going to the range with some friends every now and again. I do have a lot of gun owners as friends, and they all treat them with the respect and responsibility that they entail. Several hunt, several maintain guns for personal protection. The 2nd Amendment rocks in this regard. I'm very cool with this.
What I don't get (and what my gun-owning friends don't get) is the insistence by some in the pro-gun lobby on assault weapons for an untrained militia (a.k.a hicks in the woods with assault rifles who think they are The Revolution). The government slightly has A-10s and the fucking atom bomb folks. A bunch of rednecks with assault rifles ain't changing the government any time soon, and I am pretty sure I don't want the next iteration of civilization run by rednecks with guns anyway. That ain't a "well-regulated militia". The concept of the citizen soldier with a musket in his closet to protect the nation is dead. The government provides the arms and militia for national defense. Amassing arms to overthrow the government is treason and now is ultimately futile.
For social stability, I do think the government has the responsibility to keep guns out of the hands of fucking idiots. Hell, some of the folks that we give driver's licenses to should not be allowed to drive, because they kill people every fucking day.
I want to allow people to have guns, but I demand that they keep and use them responsibly as they are a very lethal technology. Fucking idiots should not have guns. Breathing and living in the U.S. should not be the minimum qualifications to owning a gun.
My plan is to find a Home Depot next to a grocery store and move in there.
Good idea! I'm sure no one with guns and homicidal tendencies will think to do that!
Happy Apocalypse! Sleep well!
Are you really an engineer? What *kind* of engineer are you?
I'm an Irate Engineer, though I am feeling pretty relaxed right now. You must have stolen my irateness.
You're not really an engineer, are you?
As a matter of fact, I am a mechanical engineer.
I'm really not sure why you're getting your panties in a bunch, and I don't think anyone else does either, seeing you're getting modded down to nothing. I was not slamming this particular app - I was just noting that it is a very serviceable and shiny teaspoon being used to empty the sea of problems that is Detroit. More spoons are needed, maybe even a few buckets.
That's great. Too bad Detroit has millions of other problems. I hope there is an app for that.
No more techno raves for you, Mr. Heart Patient!
The Israelis are actually from the Simon Wiesenthal center - they're hunting for the Nazis that have been hiding on the dark side of the moon since 1945. They'll chase the Nazis from the moon to Argentina in 2018. I think I saw this in a movie, so it must be true.
- hydrazine reaction heat being neglected (someone calculated it would heat up the Hab to 400C).
Yes, if the calculation assumes a completely adiabatic Hab, and the heat release occurs quickly. A trickle of hydrazine in a Hab in contact with the ground with ambient temps around 0 deg. C doesn't seem farfetched to me.
- raw potatoes being merely "awful" while in reality they are quite poisonous.
Wow, they sell 5 lb bags of raw potatoes in the store! What a reckless thing to do! Amazing the personal injury lawyers haven't jumped on that!
Seriously, properly grown potatoes are harmless, raw or cooked. However, being nightshades, if potatoes are not hilled properly the ones near the soil surface that are exposed to sunlight will turn green and produce solanine, a glycoakaloid poison. I grow potatoes in my garden and just make sure to toss any potatoes that have any green on them.
Fresh young potatoes from the garden, sliced thin and sprinkled with a little sea salt are pretty darned tasty, but eating nothing but potatoes would start to suck ass pretty quickly.
I just switched to Sprint this summer. I hope this doesn't spell the end of my $19.50/month unlimited everything plan!
Ha..ha ha, ha ha ha, mwah ha ha ha!
Keep hoping little fella! I hate to see you innocents torn from your dreams into sad reality. Too bad, so sad...
'Verizon, incompetently'
Wait...Verizon was competent? When?
Except those of us considering buying a new phone will hear the old customers' bitching and complaining, and decide y'know what, let's buy something else.
Old customers stop being a drain on your financials the moment they start spreading negative word-of-mouth about your product.
But where are you going to go? It's not like Verizon, AT&T and the others have stellar reputations for not violating their customer agreements. They are all trying to outdo each other in screwing their customers out of their dollars without losing their contracts.
Signing up for cell service in the U.S. is like going to federal PMITA prison. You're going to be someone's bitch, that's for certain, so you chose the one that beats you the least often.
Doing all this requires people to actually give a fuck. If they don't care to leave the carrier for another provider and are content to just bitch, nothing will get done. No one cares to move this off center, and the companies KNOW this.