Who still measures things like this in Fahrenheit ? Come on - admit that you are in the 21st century - that should have been (about) 1925 Celsius or 2200 Kelvin
I always understood that a nutrition Calorie was written with a capital 'C', whereas the energy needed to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree C was a 'calorie' (lower 'c'). By this definition the OP is correct.
A friend pointed me at this today: basically how a small number control governments to make more money. I have only seen a bit and would welcome an objective review by real historians.
It was just obfuscated enough to get it past the general public without much of a fight.
This was negotiated in secret, the governments deliberately acted to prevent the public from knowing in advance what was going to be imposed on them. Large companies were let in on the negotiations which is why it contains clauses to help the screw the public and small business.
FTL is not the only option - see other posts on this page. Others include: hibernation/statis, multi generations, send out frozen fertilised eggs. All have their problems but do not appear impossible.
It isn't worth spending that much time in a small metal projectile just to see dead planets in person.
Send the robots first, they can explore and tell us what will be worth visiting. Then we first send more robots to prepare for us: build somewhere to live, maybe terraform a planet. By the time that fragile humans get there they will have something to step into.
It will probably be a century or few before this happens, depending on how far to the planet chosen; even more if we want it terraformed. A century later the colony will be able to send out its own explorers and so on. Dangerous, not a pleasant trip but some will want to do it and the ultimate survival of our species will depend on those people with really itchy feet.
Yes: although there have been attempts to prevent publication in the UK of facts 'revealed' in another country, the government has usually ended up taking the pragmatic approach and back down - if it is out overseas, then it is OK to publish in the UK -- but often only after quite some delay.
I sometimes wonder how many zillions hours of programmer debugging time would have been saved if K&R had used ':=' for assignment (like Pascal) rather than '=' ? The number of times people have assigned rather than compared is huge.
it is also all the other places where people have used the same password and have used the same email address. Comcast must contact all 590,000 people - not just the 'active' ones; people might not be active comcast customers but many will still be real people who must be told that an old supplier has f**ked up and revealed their password.
It is unacceptable for comcast to say: old customer, not important; they should not have reused their password - so not our fault. I agree that password reuse is stupid, but the world is full of stupid people.
VW lied about car emissions so that more people would buy their cars.
Comcast et al lied about available data so that more people would buy their broadband/cloud-service/....
VW is paying a price for its lies, there may well be criminal prosecutions; I doubt that anyone at Comcast, Time Warner, Microsoft,... will pay any price.
how about a class action against Microsoft which made millions of PCs download 3GB being MS Windows 10 -- just in case they wanted to upgrade. This pushed people over monthly broadband limits, sometimes at great expense. Apparently possible to disable, but the default was on.
While they are at it: another class action suit for spying on their users and exporting private data to the MS servers; again on by default and impossible to switch off completely.
Kids are great imitators, if they see you eating a food they are likely to copy. I suppose that this might be a problem if the parent does not like vegetables, but learn for the sake of your kids and discover that cooked properly they are good to eat.
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Who still measures things like this in Fahrenheit ? Come on - admit that you are in the 21st century - that should have been (about) 1925 Celsius or 2200 Kelvin
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look on in envy ...
I visited the ISP's web site to try to see exactly what is supposed to be loaded onto a machine, but I don't read their language.
If they do, then assign them at code points starting: U+110000. That will teach them to keep marketing out of international standards.
DICE should be ashamed to publicize such trashy liberal propaganda !!
The Palestinian government is run by Hamas & Fatah - DICE has nothing to do with it.
The propaganda problem is with Israel: trying to keep the rest of the world ignorant about their oppression of Palestinians.
A/C - which CIA/NSA troll might you be ?
I always understood that a nutrition Calorie was written with a capital 'C', whereas the energy needed to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree C was a 'calorie' (lower 'c'). By this definition the OP is correct.
A friend pointed me at this today: basically how a small number control governments to make more money. I have only seen a bit and would welcome an objective review by real historians.
It was just obfuscated enough to get it past the general public without much of a fight.
This was negotiated in secret, the governments deliberately acted to prevent the public from knowing in advance what was going to be imposed on them. Large companies were let in on the negotiations which is why it contains clauses to help the screw the public and small business.
FTL is not the only option - see other posts on this page. Others include: hibernation/statis, multi generations, send out frozen fertilised eggs. All have their problems but do not appear impossible.
Mars is the last target worth doing this with. I really don't think people are going to terraform one of the moons around the gas giants.
I had planets in other star systems in mind.
It isn't worth spending that much time in a small metal projectile just to see dead planets in person.
Send the robots first, they can explore and tell us what will be worth visiting. Then we first send more robots to prepare for us: build somewhere to live, maybe terraform a planet. By the time that fragile humans get there they will have something to step into.
It will probably be a century or few before this happens, depending on how far to the planet chosen; even more if we want it terraformed. A century later the colony will be able to send out its own explorers and so on. Dangerous, not a pleasant trip but some will want to do it and the ultimate survival of our species will depend on those people with really itchy feet.
Yes: although there have been attempts to prevent publication in the UK of facts 'revealed' in another country, the government has usually ended up taking the pragmatic approach and back down - if it is out overseas, then it is OK to publish in the UK -- but often only after quite some delay.
I sometimes wonder how many zillions hours of programmer debugging time would have been saved if K&R had used ':=' for assignment (like Pascal) rather than '=' ? The number of times people have assigned rather than compared is huge.
it is also all the other places where people have used the same password and have used the same email address. Comcast must contact all 590,000 people - not just the 'active' ones; people might not be active comcast customers but many will still be real people who must be told that an old supplier has f**ked up and revealed their password.
It is unacceptable for comcast to say: old customer, not important; they should not have reused their password - so not our fault. I agree that password reuse is stupid, but the world is full of stupid people.
VW lied about car emissions so that more people would buy their cars.
Comcast et al lied about available data so that more people would buy their broadband/cloud-service/....
VW is paying a price for its lies, there may well be criminal prosecutions; I doubt that anyone at Comcast, Time Warner, Microsoft, ... will pay any price.
but not as we know it.
a good, healthy profit by helping those who are ill, but not an outrageous one on the back of gouging the sick.
how about a class action against Microsoft which made millions of PCs download 3GB being MS Windows 10 -- just in case they wanted to upgrade. This pushed people over monthly broadband limits, sometimes at great expense. Apparently possible to disable, but the default was on.
While they are at it: another class action suit for spying on their users and exporting private data to the MS servers; again on by default and impossible to switch off completely.
Water is wet.
Would you be content if your government behaved like the East German government did with the Stasi enforcing national security?
download and run the Snowball client. Has anybody done this ? I suspect that it is a MS Windows executable, does it run under Wine ?
You haven't met many managers have you ?
Is it worth getting a large box of it and watching the fun or will it all be over by the time that I am back from the shop ?
Kids are great imitators, if they see you eating a food they are likely to copy. I suppose that this might be a problem if the parent does not like vegetables, but learn for the sake of your kids and discover that cooked properly they are good to eat.