Incorrect. See the previous poster's comments about Cherenkov radiation. No chemical reaction is involved.
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People who run linux. If it ran on the last version, it is almost certain to run on the next. Unless it's 15 year old hardware. No, wait, most of that works too.
In the end it was not launched from the shuttle though, right? Didn't want to scatter plutonium everywhere in case the shuttle blew up again as I recall.
That's a good argument and who knows, but... You mis-stated my starting position. Given current trends we will not stabilize, but peak (at 9 billion actually) and then begin to decline in population.
Well, it's a population pressure thing. If there is no limit to your expansion, you'll expand to your limit. Very true and considering that human population will likely begin to decline sometime next century, we won't have a motivation to colonize other planets unless travel and terraforming become really easy.
From the article it sounds like they have a system for power and data that runs a bus down the aisles and then the seats just plug into that. Considering that airlines are always moving seats around to make room for premium customers or squeeze more people in coach, there must be halfway decent ways to do this already.
The article is not about internet access at all but distribution of inflight movies and entertainment. And there is not an access point at every row, but an antenna at every row (in the old scheme). If you read it, that's a receiving antenna that would then distribute the content to the seats in that row, not a transmitting antenna (access point).
Also, this plane is already several thousand pounds over the design weight, so I imagine that has something to do with this decision.
How are the times of ice ages more than a million years ago determined? Do ice cores go back that far? And how far back can we tell there are ice ages every 40K years?
But surely, given your URL, you know that we have to talk about parton, not proton, collisions. So getting anything over a few TeV will be very difficult, even at the LHC.
Second of all, a miniature black hole, even if it didn't dissipate due to Hawking radiation, wouldn't gobble up the Earth. It would still have the gravity of a mere two protons, since that is what constitutes its mass.
Not quite. The theorized micro-black-holes would have masses of about 1000 protons, the amount of energy available in the collision.
Q: Give the dates of the last two attacks on American soil from radical Islamic terrorists.
A: 1993 and 2001
So we need another three years out of the current policy before you can even make this "fight them there so we don't fight them here" crap. Others addressed the "recruiting more than we are killing point." I'll just say "Ask people in Madrid and London how they think the 'fight them there so we don't fight them here' policy is working for them."
Ripping CDs and getting all the tags set right is such a hassle that I only wanted to do it once. So, I have a media server with lossless FLACs with all my CDs. You can fit about 3 CDs/GB and with 300 GB drives being about $100, why wouldn't you store it losslessly? These are also what gets played on my mid-range audiophile quality home system.
Then, for the 10GB iPod I received as a hand-me-down, I use MP3. Would rather use Ogg, but I can't. These are generated in batch mode from the FLAC, so it's easy. Later on down the line when we've got 200 GB "iPods" what play ogg or even flac, I can use that easily.
Next stage is to buy another HD so I can back up all the ripped CDs. As I said, I only want to do it once!
Thanks for the details. But isn't there some controversy that have expanded the mission? There are lawsuits over this, right? Wasn't the intended mission of the founder *only* to run the school? Clearly there are enough problems in education to suck up almost any amount of money. But one either has to make the mission so broad that the later board can change it to be almost anything or risk developments or the amount of money making the mission of the foundation not match very well with the situation on the ground.
This is exactly right. There is a Hershey foundation which exists to educate impoverished children in one school or some such. The charter of the foundation is such that this is the only thing they are supposed to do. They now have a lot of children in that school and so much money that the school can't possibly spend it all. But the foundation can't do something reasonable with the money because of the charter.
If the Gates foundation charter is to combat disease in the developing world (let's say) it may be that in 80 years there may be nothing left to do. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Why not let those who will make fortunes 80 years from now decide how to spend that money and get the maximum "short" term impact out of Bill and Warren's money?
No, you can't. As someone else pointed out, you have to look at the ratio of polonium to its decay product. In this case, the decay product is lead, which is naturally occuring. Considering the small dose of Po 210 needed to kill someone, my guess is that measuring this ratio and correcting for the naturally occuring amount is going to be difficult. But looking at the activity is worthless in and of itself.
Well, sure, you are right on one level. But I want a decent single player campaign I can play on my own time, take a few months away from if I want, etc. The single character route just seems to move a little more towards Diablo-type games (which, admittedly, I haven't played).
Well.... I guess you can count me in that category. I fully intended to buy NWN after loving the Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale games, but...
I really didn't think I would like the gameplay of NWN. For me, D&D has always been about the party (since Commodore 64/Pool of Radiance days). I don't do multiplayer, so I want control over every (or almost every) character. NWN didn't offer that, from what I understood, and you had to rely on henchmen to "do the right thing." So while I borrow a friends copy of NWN and actually ran it under linux for a few hours, I never wanted to buy the game.
I'm going to buy NWN2 at some point since my issues are addressed and I'll play it under Windows. But I'd much rather not have to re-boot.
It sounds to me like the extra $200 is to buy laptops for two deserving third world children. I.e., it's charity.
I'm still not going to do it though. For that $200 I can (and do) pay for the schooling for a child or two for a year. I didn't think Clinton's initiative of one computer per classroom was the solution to America's education problems and I sure don't think OLPC is a good use of resources for the third world. As far as I can tell, it's just a stunt that will truly benefit very few people.
Are you kidding? While I don't necessarily think Americans are unique in this regard, we (generally speaking) certainly have an attitude of "you should do it our way" from the little things on up.
Just a guess. None of the astronomers I talk to actually believe JWST will launch in 2013 if ever. I believe it is on the "schedule" but the funding allocated to it is nowhere near enough to build and launch it in that timeframe.
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Incorrect. See the previous poster's comments about Cherenkov radiation. No chemical reaction is involved.
People who run linux. If it ran on the last version, it is almost certain to run on the next. Unless it's 15 year old hardware. No, wait, most of that works too.
In the end it was not launched from the shuttle though, right? Didn't want to scatter plutonium everywhere in case the shuttle blew up again as I recall.
That's a good argument and who knows, but... You mis-stated my starting position. Given current trends we will not stabilize, but peak (at 9 billion actually) and then begin to decline in population.
From the article it sounds like they have a system for power and data that runs a bus down the aisles and then the seats just plug into that. Considering that airlines are always moving seats around to make room for premium customers or squeeze more people in coach, there must be halfway decent ways to do this already.
The article is not about internet access at all but distribution of inflight movies and entertainment. And there is not an access point at every row, but an antenna at every row (in the old scheme). If you read it, that's a receiving antenna that would then distribute the content to the seats in that row, not a transmitting antenna (access point).
Also, this plane is already several thousand pounds over the design weight, so I imagine that has something to do with this decision.
Thanks.
The furthest back I saw referenced there was 730k years (before the shift in periods). Did I miss something.
How are the times of ice ages more than a million years ago determined? Do ice cores go back that far? And how far back can we tell there are ice ages every 40K years?
But surely, given your URL, you know that we have to talk about parton, not proton, collisions. So getting anything over a few TeV will be very difficult, even at the LHC.
How big do you think a 2x4 is? It's not 2" x 4", you know.
A: 1993 and 2001
So we need another three years out of the current policy before you can even make this "fight them there so we don't fight them here" crap. Others addressed the "recruiting more than we are killing point." I'll just say "Ask people in Madrid and London how they think the 'fight them there so we don't fight them here' policy is working for them."
Ripping CDs and getting all the tags set right is such a hassle that I only wanted to do it once. So, I have a media server with lossless FLACs with all my CDs. You can fit about 3 CDs/GB and with 300 GB drives being about $100, why wouldn't you store it losslessly? These are also what gets played on my mid-range audiophile quality home system.
Then, for the 10GB iPod I received as a hand-me-down, I use MP3. Would rather use Ogg, but I can't. These are generated in batch mode from the FLAC, so it's easy. Later on down the line when we've got 200 GB "iPods" what play ogg or even flac, I can use that easily.
Next stage is to buy another HD so I can back up all the ripped CDs. As I said, I only want to do it once!
Thanks for the details. But isn't there some controversy that have expanded the mission? There are lawsuits over this, right? Wasn't the intended mission of the founder *only* to run the school? Clearly there are enough problems in education to suck up almost any amount of money. But one either has to make the mission so broad that the later board can change it to be almost anything or risk developments or the amount of money making the mission of the foundation not match very well with the situation on the ground.
This is exactly right. There is a Hershey foundation which exists to educate impoverished children in one school or some such. The charter of the foundation is such that this is the only thing they are supposed to do. They now have a lot of children in that school and so much money that the school can't possibly spend it all. But the foundation can't do something reasonable with the money because of the charter.
If the Gates foundation charter is to combat disease in the developing world (let's say) it may be that in 80 years there may be nothing left to do. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Why not let those who will make fortunes 80 years from now decide how to spend that money and get the maximum "short" term impact out of Bill and Warren's money?
No, you can't. As someone else pointed out, you have to look at the ratio of polonium to its decay product. In this case, the decay product is lead, which is naturally occuring. Considering the small dose of Po 210 needed to kill someone, my guess is that measuring this ratio and correcting for the naturally occuring amount is going to be difficult. But looking at the activity is worthless in and of itself.
Well, sure, you are right on one level. But I want a decent single player campaign I can play on my own time, take a few months away from if I want, etc. The single character route just seems to move a little more towards Diablo-type games (which, admittedly, I haven't played).
Thanks, that's great. I've been bugged that PoR let you have 8, BG brought that down to 6, etc. That might be useful.
Well.... I guess you can count me in that category. I fully intended to buy NWN after loving the Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale games, but... I really didn't think I would like the gameplay of NWN. For me, D&D has always been about the party (since Commodore 64/Pool of Radiance days). I don't do multiplayer, so I want control over every (or almost every) character. NWN didn't offer that, from what I understood, and you had to rely on henchmen to "do the right thing." So while I borrow a friends copy of NWN and actually ran it under linux for a few hours, I never wanted to buy the game. I'm going to buy NWN2 at some point since my issues are addressed and I'll play it under Windows. But I'd much rather not have to re-boot.
Was that for the autobahn versus all U.S. roads, highways, and freeways? That may or may not be a valid comparison.
It sounds to me like the extra $200 is to buy laptops for two deserving third world children. I.e., it's charity.
I'm still not going to do it though. For that $200 I can (and do) pay for the schooling for a child or two for a year. I didn't think Clinton's initiative of one computer per classroom was the solution to America's education problems and I sure don't think OLPC is a good use of resources for the third world. As far as I can tell, it's just a stunt that will truly benefit very few people.
Are you kidding? While I don't necessarily think Americans are unique in this regard, we (generally speaking) certainly have an attitude of "you should do it our way" from the little things on up.
China doesn't censor the internet.
Google censors the internet.
Just a guess. None of the astronomers I talk to actually believe JWST will launch in 2013 if ever. I believe it is on the "schedule" but the funding allocated to it is nowhere near enough to build and launch it in that timeframe.