My problem with Last Jedi is that with 2 minutes of editing they could have a much more sensible scene. Holdo should have dressed down the pilot, not Leia. Maybe have Leia stand there listening as she rips his ass, and then after he leaves says "I like him".
Instead Holdo just appears from nowhere dressed like a prom queen. W T F ? Where was she when the rest of the command staff got obliterated? Fixing her face in the Admiral's bathroom? Sure, the Mon Calimari cruisers used to be cruise lines, but shit the general staff should n't dress like it still is one. Or maybe the bad guys attacked during Rebel Prom Night?
The hyperdrive kamikaze had a couple of things going for it
1. They weren't expecting it. They were focused on the fleeing ships.
2. They were close.
3. The cruiser had the time to turn and active drives.
The move wasn't her original choice. She only initiated it when it was clear they were not buying that the cruiser was continuing on its own.
It could easily be technobabbled against for future engagements.
1. A small ship attempting this would be splattered against the shields. 2. You would have to be incredibly close else you would completely miss. Evasive maneuvers would be trivial to do. 3. You have to be aligned with your target, which means time spent turning, and getting hammered by their heavy weapons.
Why? Well, reducing the sentence of a random prisoner was the red herring. The real reason he hacked the prison records was to extend the sentences of certain prisoners. Who's going to believe a prisoner in 6 years who says he should be getting out when the computer says he should be doing 20 to life?
Don't forget you are comparing them to the modern spectacle of skyscrapers and whatnot, and looking at them after thousands of years of looting and theft.
Imagine instead that you saw them on the horizon, their sides polished smooth white limestone (stolen to pave roads in Cairo), their peaks covered in hammered gold/electrum, reflecting the light of the Sun. As you approach the sheer enormity of these objects, made by man to praise their God, would strike you in awe. Yes there are temples and other large structures, but this would be something so out-of-the-ordinary, blinding white and visible at night from anywhere in Cairo.
What would you like to see in a computer 'health' class? After cleaning up several of my son's friend's computers from rampant spyware/malware/etc, it's clear that kids are given computers without any real training or discipline in how to protect themselves.
With all the sharing done on social media today, including lists and 'here's how to generate your porn/potter/star trek/etc name based on street address/birthday/etc', what alternate security questions should (if any) a website use to verify identity?
In my view, the kind of people who object to error messages that are complete sentences and contain three-syllable words are the kind of people who won't read any error message under any circumstances, but whatever. "ERR 34: Bad srvc" it is. Choke on it.
*sigh* The error message isn't for that user, it's for the person they call for help.
Or, have the robocar blink its brake lights/back up lights/extra floodlight, along with a warning klaxon, if a driver approaches too fast. It might not stop a collision, but it could reduce the severity. False positives could be a problem though.
So retrain them to mine tantalum and rare earth elements. I'm sure we can get "Mined in the USA" and "Conflict-free certified electronics" going, amirite?
Yes, too cold to snow. The amount of water vapor in the air is very temperature dependent. Even below freezing air can have water vapor: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/relative-humidity-air-d_687.html
So as the air cools more and more, there is less vapor available for snow.
So another side effect of the overall warming can definitely be larger snowfalls in the winter - there is more moisture in the air to work with.
You do realize the interior of Antarctica is one of the world's largest deserts, right? Because it is so cold that the air can't hold very much water. And now it is receiving large snowfalls because of the increased water vapor. Look at that chart, and see how much the % increase is from say 0F to 15F (remember, the amount of warming is much larger in the arctic areas) - nearly double.
What effects does the need for constant security updates have on a singularity timeline and/or existence? It seems that I spend more and more of my day waiting for software updates and patches (OS/PDF/flash/java/steam/etc) that we are rapidly approaching an "update singularity" where we spend more time fixing sofware than actually using it.
When push comes to shove, they make more money on PC CPUs. When they have a choice of making a wafer of high-margin vs low-margin CPUs, who do you think will win? Don't be surprised if there are major supply problems every time the PC market takes an uptick.
Basically, the components inside the bulb "borrow" some additional power and give it back to the utility. You don't see this additional power in your bill, since you get charged only for what you use. But, the utility has to still provide the capacity to give it to you. That's the non-electrical engineer way to view it.:)
Before the flyby, the New Horizons science team asked a bunch of us amateurs at http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/ to search for "pretty pictures", pictures that didn't necessarily have scientific value, but were beautiful and worth taking. Europa Rising and the Io and Europa conjunction were the first two returned. The others I suggested were two double shadow transits, a crescent Callisto emerging from behind a crescent Jupiter, and a crescent Ganymede in front of a crescent Jupiter.
Enjoying my 15 minutes of fame.:)
Considering they are planning, with all other media outlets, to make books and other paper media into eMedia with pay-per-read, I think they should just "suck it up".
But this is RS-232 serial. RS-232's SPECIFICATION states that any design using RS-232 must support any pin being shorted to any other pin, +5 to -5V, without damage. Sounds like your motherboard manufacturer is to blame, not Palm.
LookOut is totally broken when it comes to mail filtering. When filtering messages in your inbox, it totally stops responding to the system until it is done. So say you are on a medium mailing list that sends maybe 40-50 messages a day, filtering into a local folder. You can't do *anyhting* with outlook while it takes ten minutes to filter those messages. At least with NS it filters the messages as it downloads them, so you can read other messages, or change to different folders.
Well, in the latest literature it has been found that most asteroids above 200m don't rotate faster than a certain amount. The reason appears to be that anything larger than 200m is really just a giant pile of rubble. Rotation above this limit would cause the pile to fall apart.
Gist of the matter, it would be very hard to shift the direction of an asteroid, let alone one that is only a giant ball of boulders. See the SciAm article about it.
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My problem with Last Jedi is that with 2 minutes of editing they could have a much more sensible scene. Holdo should have dressed down the pilot, not Leia. Maybe have Leia stand there listening as she rips his ass, and then after he leaves says "I like him".
Instead Holdo just appears from nowhere dressed like a prom queen. W T F ? Where was she when the rest of the command staff got obliterated? Fixing her face in the Admiral's bathroom? Sure, the Mon Calimari cruisers used to be cruise lines, but shit the general staff should n't dress like it still is one. Or maybe the bad guys attacked during Rebel Prom Night?
The hyperdrive kamikaze had a couple of things going for it
1. They weren't expecting it. They were focused on the fleeing ships.
2. They were close.
3. The cruiser had the time to turn and active drives.
The move wasn't her original choice. She only initiated it when it was clear they were not buying that the cruiser was continuing on its own.
It could easily be technobabbled against for future engagements.
1. A small ship attempting this would be splattered against the shields.
2. You would have to be incredibly close else you would completely miss. Evasive maneuvers would be trivial to do.
3. You have to be aligned with your target, which means time spent turning, and getting hammered by their heavy weapons.
Why? Well, reducing the sentence of a random prisoner was the red herring. The real reason he hacked the prison records was to extend the sentences of certain prisoners. Who's going to believe a prisoner in 6 years who says he should be getting out when the computer says he should be doing 20 to life?
Don't forget you are comparing them to the modern spectacle of skyscrapers and whatnot, and looking at them after thousands of years of looting and theft.
Imagine instead that you saw them on the horizon, their sides polished smooth white limestone (stolen to pave roads in Cairo), their peaks covered in hammered gold/electrum, reflecting the light of the Sun. As you approach the sheer enormity of these objects, made by man to praise their God, would strike you in awe. Yes there are temples and other large structures, but this would be something so out-of-the-ordinary, blinding white and visible at night from anywhere in Cairo.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/what-the-completed-great-pyramid-wouldve-lo/
And the builders weren't slaves but either devoted followers or paid workers.
https://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids
What would you like to see in a computer 'health' class? After cleaning up several of my son's friend's computers from rampant spyware/malware/etc, it's clear that kids are given computers without any real training or discipline in how to protect themselves.
With all the sharing done on social media today, including lists and 'here's how to generate your porn/potter/star trek/etc name based on street address/birthday/etc', what alternate security questions should (if any) a website use to verify identity?
In my view, the kind of people who object to error messages that are complete sentences and contain three-syllable words are the kind of people who won't read any error message under any circumstances, but whatever. "ERR 34: Bad srvc" it is. Choke on it.
*sigh* The error message isn't for that user, it's for the person they call for help.
Have you even played Kerbal Space Program? Get to Moho and then talk about how duplication is trivial.
Or, have the robocar blink its brake lights/back up lights/extra floodlight, along with a warning klaxon, if a driver approaches too fast. It might not stop a collision, but it could reduce the severity. False positives could be a problem though.
Had tracking station radar issues, so launch scrubbed for today. Attempt again tomorrow.
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h#L49
Line 49 looks like where readq is defined for x64 architecture.
So retrain them to mine tantalum and rare earth elements. I'm sure we can get "Mined in the USA" and "Conflict-free certified electronics" going, amirite?
Yes, too cold to snow. The amount of water vapor in the air is very temperature dependent. Even below freezing air can have water vapor: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/relative-humidity-air-d_687.html
So as the air cools more and more, there is less vapor available for snow.
So another side effect of the overall warming can definitely be larger snowfalls in the winter - there is more moisture in the air to work with.
You do realize the interior of Antarctica is one of the world's largest deserts, right? Because it is so cold that the air can't hold very much water. And now it is receiving large snowfalls because of the increased water vapor. Look at that chart, and see how much the % increase is from say 0F to 15F (remember, the amount of warming is much larger in the arctic areas) - nearly double.
So yeah, more heating == more snowfall.
What effects does the need for constant security updates have on a singularity timeline and/or existence?
It seems that I spend more and more of my day waiting for software updates and patches (OS/PDF/flash/java/steam/etc) that we are rapidly approaching an "update singularity" where we spend more time fixing sofware than actually using it.
When push comes to shove, they make more money on PC CPUs. When they have a choice of making a wafer of high-margin vs low-margin CPUs, who do you think will win? Don't be surprised if there are major supply problems every time the PC market takes an uptick.
Why don't you read a Science paper and find out what the scientists really think?
Basically, the components inside the bulb "borrow" some additional power and give it back to the utility. You don't see this additional power in your bill, since you get charged only for what you use. But, the utility has to still provide the capacity to give it to you. That's the non-electrical engineer way to view it. :)
Take several old machines, mount flatscreen monitors attached to them, and run visual simulations.
Take John Conway's life, and set it to run at a reasonable pace, and to cycle through a bunch of patterns.
Show screen savers of various BOINC projects.
Display cool/interesting webcams. Nasa, telescopes, local intersections.
You work in a Cs department, for crying out loud. Use those computers to show the art.
Before the flyby, the New Horizons science team asked a bunch of us amateurs at http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/ to search for "pretty pictures", pictures that didn't necessarily have scientific value, but were beautiful and worth taking. Europa Rising and the Io and Europa conjunction were the first two returned. The others I suggested were two double shadow transits, a crescent Callisto emerging from behind a crescent Jupiter, and a crescent Ganymede in front of a crescent Jupiter. :)
Enjoying my 15 minutes of fame.
Considering they are planning, with all other media outlets, to make books and other paper media into eMedia with pay-per-read, I think they should just "suck it up".
But this is RS-232 serial. RS-232's SPECIFICATION states that any design using RS-232 must support any pin being shorted to any other pin, +5 to -5V, without damage. Sounds like your motherboard manufacturer is to blame, not Palm.
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http://www-s.ti.com/sc/psheets/slla037/slla037.
Also, look at a serial connector. The ONLY signals coming out of it are communication signals and a ground signal. No power signals. Nada. Zippo.
So electrically, there is no way slamming a Palm into your cradle in any way, shape, or form can cause the motherboard to prematurely terminate.
LookOut is totally broken when it comes to mail filtering. When filtering messages in your inbox, it totally stops responding to the system until it is done. So say you are on a medium mailing list that sends maybe 40-50 messages a day, filtering into a local folder. You can't do *anyhting* with outlook while it takes ten minutes to filter those messages. At least with NS it filters the messages as it downloads them, so you can read other messages, or change to different folders.
US citizens, of course, have no room to complain because Congress is so far behind on its UN dues it's ridiculous.
Anyone else catch the double meaning of that statement? I'm sure he didn't intend it, but I am for sure going to take it that way!
Well, in the latest literature it has been found that most asteroids above 200m don't rotate faster than a certain amount. The reason appears to be that anything larger than 200m is really just a giant pile of rubble. Rotation above this limit would cause the pile to fall apart.
Gist of the matter, it would be very hard to shift the direction of an asteroid, let alone one that is only a giant ball of boulders. See the SciAm article about it.
Palm is more than willing to license the PalmOS to anyone interested. Strike up a contract, and build your own LapPilot.