A vault isn't just running, jumping and landing; there are other parts to it. All that silly stuff they do in the air, that actually means something. The more of those silly things they do, the harder the vault is. I know it's a hard concept to understand, but the world is a scary place sometimes.
If you'll notice, the BOTH of the Chinese vaulter's routines were more difficult than the U.S. vaulter's. They award you more points for trying something more difficult. And you'll also notice they HEAVILY deducted from the Chinese vaulter's second routine when she landed on her knees. If the U.S. vaulter hadn't done a cupcake second vault, she would've won.
A) 173945 is a low UID these days? Shit, I'm pissed I didn't sign up with my friend in the 14,000s... and he's pissed he didn't sign up before there were UIDs.
B) You missed his joke. He is fully aware of the fact/. isn't a fact checked news source and was just pointing out that this retarded "story" is something that should surprise nobody.
C) Screw you, Jogar the Barbarian (5830)... you are supposed to wait for a 5 digit to post before you as a 4 digit posts. Then someone with a 3 digit should post. That's how low UID epeen threads are supposed to go.
Delta and Atlas aren't designed for manned missions. They probably don't meet noise/vibration requirements, don't have the right kind of launch pad to support loading humans, don't have enough redundancy in case of a failure, etc. I'm too lazy to check, but they might not be able to lift enough weight or be able to enclose enough size.
But you are on the right track. NASA's new launch vehicle is designed using off the shelf parts and technology. They are going back to basics, using proven designs adapted for manned use.
Good luck trying to find info on NASA's unmanned launcher success... they don't have one. When NASA needs to launch a satellite they use a Delta II or Atlas V, depending on the size of the satellite and where it's going.
And they have extremely good success with those vehicles. The failures you think you've seen are with the satellites themselves, not the launch vehicle. My work is launching rockets, so I have a bit of insight into this. The only failed launches in the major private industry that I can remember were the first flights of the Delta IV Heavy config and the Delta III test vehicle. Yeah, there have been some anomalies with second stages that caused the satellite to either not make the intended orbit (but still be mostly usable) or not get as close as they wanted.
As far as your statement that "presumably their unmanned launchers have a considerably worse record simply because unmanned launchers always have a considerably worse record." Well, that's just incorrect. Manned spacecraft are considerably more complex than unmanned, and whenever something is more complex there is a greater chance for part of it to fail. Also, the Space Shuttle design just sucks balls. There's a reason the new launcher designs are going back to the Apollo style vehicle. The Delta II has had only one total failure out of 136 launches with over 81 successful launches in a row (around 99% success rate). The Atlas II went 100% with 63/63 successful launches. The Atlas V is at 14 launches with only a partial failure during the coast of the second stage.
Three launch failures of a brand spanking new rocket is nothing unusual in this field. Actually, nowadays it is. The Delta II, Atlas II, Atlas V, Delta IV (non-heavy), Atlas III, Arianne, etc all had zero failures for their first three launches (as far as I've found). The Shuttle took many launches before its first failure. The major difference is what SpaceX is trying to do: they want to make their launches be their check out tests. They don't test components on the ground very much before flying. That's how they save so much money: they just don't test. THAT is why they fail 100% of the time. As you can probably tell, I heavily disagree with this philosophy. Lockheed and Boeing probably had tons of failures during ground tests, but they didn't affect the first flight because they had tested every component 100 times. SpaceX doesn't test nearly as much so of course there will be spectacular failures.
Your overall point that NASA's success rate is low is still valid, though.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the blurb. I've been told by numerous Russian friends that you do NOT mess with the Russian mafia under any circumstances... they are the most ruthless people you'll ever meet. And, like you said, spam is generally controlled by the mafia.
Yes, that is one way you can walk away "happy." Another way is to realize you don't necessarily need that exact item this exact moment and try your hardest to get it for as cheap as possible.
If you don't follow your current line of thinking, you can wait for the next auction and possibly spend less. Keep your set maximum of $123, but try your hardest not to spend that much. With 30 sec left, only bid $80... if that fails, up it to $90 or $100.
There are different personality types in the world, and you are of the type that are satisfied with doing very little and getting what you want at a reasonable cost. There are others that would rather put in some time to get what they want for less money.
It is also financial. Is your time worth more than your money? Most of the snipers on eBay are housewives and college kids with no income and free time.
Yeah, that would help keep down the escalating prices, but it would also ruin any chance for a deal. That's the whole point of an auction, right? Finding a low price?
Why would ANYONE ever go to ebay if they knew all the stuff they bought would be the same as paying retail or, at best, online prices? The reason for the sniping at the last second is to get the LOWEST high bid in before someone can outbid you.
Your plan is stupid and is probably why you don't run a multi-billion dollar company like eBay.
Either you are shopping in an incredibly good place for all-in-one computers, or at an incredibly bad place for EVERYTHING else. All-in-ones aren't usually cheap, but monitors are. Monitors should only cost $300 for a good one, while the rest of the system can be had for around $500 (new, all components, no re-use). You can then upgrade everything but the monitor every three years for $500, vs buying an all-in-one for $1200.
The cheapest iMac is $1200 for a 20", cheapest Gateway All-in-one is $1500, cheapest Sony Vaio All-in-one is $1800. A 22" Dell is $300. So you can save $400 the first year and $700 every 2-3 years you decide to keep the monitor and upgrade, AND get a bigger monitor.
You fail at math... though maybe you succeed at meth.
But the company seems to have no clue or they would have fixed it already.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You do realize you are talking about a monolithic block of code for an OS from a gigantic software company and not a small, open source app, right? Things don't just change on the fly, especially not small inconveniences such as this. They've probably known about it for months and just haven't taken the time to fix it, since there are many other pressing issues out there.
I would be more friendly to our office janitor if he didn't wear 8 gallons of aftershave everyday. I literally have to fan out my office when he leaves, because the Aquavelva smell lingers so strongly and for so long. He also turns a simple "hey, how's it going" into a 20 min conversation on his life.
Ummm... wrong. You should Google it to find the truth.
It is a common misconception that DST was for farmers, but it was actually for power savings during (I think) WWII. In Indiana, where there are a decent amount of farmers, they never adopted DST. It was a useless idea that didn't affect them at all, since they used the sun to wake up and do work. The reasoning was people wouldn't need to use lights as much if the sun went down later in the day near their bedtime.
They did a study where they had DST on for a year and then off, and it was shown that the power savings was somewhere in the range of 1% (IIRC). While that is a significant number, they never did a test where they permanently change to DST (meaning you keep summer DST and never move to winter standard time). I would guess you'd still get the power savings and not lose all the productivity of people forgetting to change their clocks.
I'm biased because I grew up in a state with no DST and hate it now that I live in one that does have it, but I still think moving everybody's clocks around is a stupid idea.
It's also a stupid idea to change it once it has been so firmly entrenched. Did anyone tell GW that this would cost millions of man hours to make the switchover work? I'm sure they did, and he probably ignored it so it would seem like he was actually doing something helpful.
Unless you are using a heat pump that takes heat from outside sources (geothermal, air)... those produce 120 watts of heat for 100 watts used (they take 20 watts of heat from the outside source, so thermodynamics isn't violated).
eBay owns Paypal so I have no idea how you think you are receiving your payment when it is in their hands. So either you are fibbing or just truly stupid.
How about neither.
Do you have any idea how things work in the real world? Just because a company owns another company, doesn't mean they work together perfectly in sync. You do realize that Fox/Rupert Murdoch put out both The Simpsons and Fox News, but does that mean the Simpsons and Fox News coordinate on all their shows and don't make fun of each other? It's also not like they were even close to on top of things... THEY CLOSED THE AUCTION AFTER IT WAS OVER!
I did get my money (I verified this fact by spending it on a Wii). Paypal is just a method for trading money around, so he sent the account registered with my email address the funding source from his email address. As soon as I got this notification, I transfered the funds to my own bank account.
What kind of lizard do you have the gets burned by a heating pad? There are ways that you can cut down the actual heat received by the lizard... thicker substrate, dispersing the heat with an intermediate conduction layer, rheostats, buying a good pad, etc. Some species can't feasibly be kept with a pad as a heat source, though.
I've kept reptiles before and know that pads are perfectly workable for a lot of species.
I stopped keeping reptiles because I didn't think I would enjoy being confined to a small box for the majority of my life.
Because your house isn't a magically sealed container where energy can't leave or enter... knowledge maybe, but not energy.
The heat pump uses the energy in the air OUTSIDE your home and... wait for it... PUMPS it into your home. The air outside gets colder while your house gets warmer. Thermodynamics is satisfied, and you are left warm enough to happily enjoy Episode I.
It is a similar concept to geothermal heating and cooling.
All that waste heat doesn't directly heat your house. Most of it radiates out only to rise to heat your ceiling, where it is essentially useless to you (that whole heat rising thing). The convection isn't going to be all that great around the bulb, while a lot of heat is also going to be conducted away.
The heat production of a dedicated heater is more efficient than that of your standard bulb, too. A 100 watt bulb turns roughly 95 watts into heat, but that might only raise the temperature of a room by 1 degree (I'm not going to do the calculation here, since it is room specific) due to all the losses I listed above. A gas or electric heater might turn that same 95 watts into 2 degrees of useful heat. They are designed for better convection and radiation, with as little conduction as possible.
EBay tried to de-list my auction back in October for the character I played. I put up my fully epic hunter for $375 buyout, and it sold in under 12 hours.
The kicker is that about 6 hours after I got the paypal payment for it, eBay sends me an email saying they have taken my auction down because it violated Blizzard's IP. The auction was already done! Hilarious work, eBay... not only did I get the money for my character, but I didn't have to pay eBay for the auction cost.
The other guy got my account; I got money for the time I put into the character; Blizzard got the money for the game CDs and my monthly subscription; Paypal got their bite out of our transaction; eBay lost money for the bandwidth, site design and hosting.
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It's all ball bearings these days.
A vault isn't just running, jumping and landing; there are other parts to it. All that silly stuff they do in the air, that actually means something. The more of those silly things they do, the harder the vault is. I know it's a hard concept to understand, but the world is a scary place sometimes.
Sacramone:
Vault 1: A: 6.30 B: 9.450 - Total: 15.750
Vault 2: A: 5.80 B: 9.525 - Total: 15.325
Final score : 15.537
Cheng Fei:
Vault 1: A: 6.50 B: 9.575 - Total: 16.075
Vault 2: A: 6.50 B: 8.550 - Total: 15.050
Final Score: 15.567
A is diffculty, B is execution
If you'll notice, the BOTH of the Chinese vaulter's routines were more difficult than the U.S. vaulter's. They award you more points for trying something more difficult. And you'll also notice they HEAVILY deducted from the Chinese vaulter's second routine when she landed on her knees. If the U.S. vaulter hadn't done a cupcake second vault, she would've won.
A) 173945 is a low UID these days? Shit, I'm pissed I didn't sign up with my friend in the 14,000s... and he's pissed he didn't sign up before there were UIDs.
B) You missed his joke. He is fully aware of the fact /. isn't a fact checked news source and was just pointing out that this retarded "story" is something that should surprise nobody.
C) Screw you, Jogar the Barbarian (5830)... you are supposed to wait for a 5 digit to post before you as a 4 digit posts. Then someone with a 3 digit should post. That's how low UID epeen threads are supposed to go.
Delta and Atlas aren't designed for manned missions. They probably don't meet noise/vibration requirements, don't have the right kind of launch pad to support loading humans, don't have enough redundancy in case of a failure, etc. I'm too lazy to check, but they might not be able to lift enough weight or be able to enclose enough size.
But you are on the right track. NASA's new launch vehicle is designed using off the shelf parts and technology. They are going back to basics, using proven designs adapted for manned use.
Good luck trying to find info on NASA's unmanned launcher success... they don't have one. When NASA needs to launch a satellite they use a Delta II or Atlas V, depending on the size of the satellite and where it's going.
And they have extremely good success with those vehicles. The failures you think you've seen are with the satellites themselves, not the launch vehicle. My work is launching rockets, so I have a bit of insight into this. The only failed launches in the major private industry that I can remember were the first flights of the Delta IV Heavy config and the Delta III test vehicle. Yeah, there have been some anomalies with second stages that caused the satellite to either not make the intended orbit (but still be mostly usable) or not get as close as they wanted.
As far as your statement that
"presumably their unmanned launchers have a considerably worse record simply because unmanned launchers always have a considerably worse record."
Well, that's just incorrect. Manned spacecraft are considerably more complex than unmanned, and whenever something is more complex there is a greater chance for part of it to fail. Also, the Space Shuttle design just sucks balls. There's a reason the new launcher designs are going back to the Apollo style vehicle. The Delta II has had only one total failure out of 136 launches with over 81 successful launches in a row (around 99% success rate). The Atlas II went 100% with 63/63 successful launches. The Atlas V is at 14 launches with only a partial failure during the coast of the second stage.
Three launch failures of a brand spanking new rocket is nothing unusual in this field.
Actually, nowadays it is. The Delta II, Atlas II, Atlas V, Delta IV (non-heavy), Atlas III, Arianne, etc all had zero failures for their first three launches (as far as I've found). The Shuttle took many launches before its first failure. The major difference is what SpaceX is trying to do: they want to make their launches be their check out tests. They don't test components on the ground very much before flying. That's how they save so much money: they just don't test. THAT is why they fail 100% of the time. As you can probably tell, I heavily disagree with this philosophy. Lockheed and Boeing probably had tons of failures during ground tests, but they didn't affect the first flight because they had tested every component 100 times. SpaceX doesn't test nearly as much so of course there will be spectacular failures.
Your overall point that NASA's success rate is low is still valid, though.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the blurb. I've been told by numerous Russian friends that you do NOT mess with the Russian mafia under any circumstances... they are the most ruthless people you'll ever meet. And, like you said, spam is generally controlled by the mafia.
Man, I hope so.
Ok. But what about the plastic cock?
Yes, that is one way you can walk away "happy." Another way is to realize you don't necessarily need that exact item this exact moment and try your hardest to get it for as cheap as possible.
If you don't follow your current line of thinking, you can wait for the next auction and possibly spend less. Keep your set maximum of $123, but try your hardest not to spend that much. With 30 sec left, only bid $80... if that fails, up it to $90 or $100.
There are different personality types in the world, and you are of the type that are satisfied with doing very little and getting what you want at a reasonable cost. There are others that would rather put in some time to get what they want for less money.
It is also financial. Is your time worth more than your money? Most of the snipers on eBay are housewives and college kids with no income and free time.
Yeah, that would help keep down the escalating prices, but it would also ruin any chance for a deal. That's the whole point of an auction, right? Finding a low price?
Why would ANYONE ever go to ebay if they knew all the stuff they bought would be the same as paying retail or, at best, online prices? The reason for the sniping at the last second is to get the LOWEST high bid in before someone can outbid you.
Your plan is stupid and is probably why you don't run a multi-billion dollar company like eBay.
Either you are shopping in an incredibly good place for all-in-one computers, or at an incredibly bad place for EVERYTHING else. All-in-ones aren't usually cheap, but monitors are. Monitors should only cost $300 for a good one, while the rest of the system can be had for around $500 (new, all components, no re-use). You can then upgrade everything but the monitor every three years for $500, vs buying an all-in-one for $1200.
The cheapest iMac is $1200 for a 20", cheapest Gateway All-in-one is $1500, cheapest Sony Vaio All-in-one is $1800. A 22" Dell is $300. So you can save $400 the first year and $700 every 2-3 years you decide to keep the monitor and upgrade, AND get a bigger monitor.
You fail at math... though maybe you succeed at meth.
But the company seems to have no clue or they would have fixed it already.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You do realize you are talking about a monolithic block of code for an OS from a gigantic software company and not a small, open source app, right? Things don't just change on the fly, especially not small inconveniences such as this. They've probably known about it for months and just haven't taken the time to fix it, since there are many other pressing issues out there.
There is nothing less satisfying than an AC getting proper owned like this. You know they are never going to find out how wrong and stupid they were.
That's funny... I'm reading The Illuminatus trilogy right now.
Judging by the quality of writing in your post, you obviously didn't go to Standford.
He also used "effected" as a verb instead of "affected."
I would be more friendly to our office janitor if he didn't wear 8 gallons of aftershave everyday. I literally have to fan out my office when he leaves, because the Aquavelva smell lingers so strongly and for so long. He also turns a simple "hey, how's it going" into a 20 min conversation on his life.
... we can just get rid of DST altogether, since it has been shown to not do dick except annoy people and cost companies money in IT time.
Keep it summer time year round if you ask me.
Ummm... wrong. You should Google it to find the truth.
It is a common misconception that DST was for farmers, but it was actually for power savings during (I think) WWII. In Indiana, where there are a decent amount of farmers, they never adopted DST. It was a useless idea that didn't affect them at all, since they used the sun to wake up and do work. The reasoning was people wouldn't need to use lights as much if the sun went down later in the day near their bedtime.
They did a study where they had DST on for a year and then off, and it was shown that the power savings was somewhere in the range of 1% (IIRC). While that is a significant number, they never did a test where they permanently change to DST (meaning you keep summer DST and never move to winter standard time). I would guess you'd still get the power savings and not lose all the productivity of people forgetting to change their clocks.
I'm biased because I grew up in a state with no DST and hate it now that I live in one that does have it, but I still think moving everybody's clocks around is a stupid idea.
It's also a stupid idea to change it once it has been so firmly entrenched. Did anyone tell GW that this would cost millions of man hours to make the switchover work? I'm sure they did, and he probably ignored it so it would seem like he was actually doing something helpful.
Unless you are using a heat pump that takes heat from outside sources (geothermal, air)... those produce 120 watts of heat for 100 watts used (they take 20 watts of heat from the outside source, so thermodynamics isn't violated).
eBay owns Paypal so I have no idea how you think you are receiving your payment when it is in their hands. So either you are fibbing or just truly stupid.
How about neither.
Do you have any idea how things work in the real world?
Just because a company owns another company, doesn't mean they work together perfectly in sync. You do realize that Fox/Rupert Murdoch put out both The Simpsons and Fox News, but does that mean the Simpsons and Fox News coordinate on all their shows and don't make fun of each other? It's also not like they were even close to on top of things... THEY CLOSED THE AUCTION AFTER IT WAS OVER!
I did get my money (I verified this fact by spending it on a Wii). Paypal is just a method for trading money around, so he sent the account registered with my email address the funding source from his email address. As soon as I got this notification, I transfered the funds to my own bank account.
What kind of lizard do you have the gets burned by a heating pad? There are ways that you can cut down the actual heat received by the lizard... thicker substrate, dispersing the heat with an intermediate conduction layer, rheostats, buying a good pad, etc. Some species can't feasibly be kept with a pad as a heat source, though.
I've kept reptiles before and know that pads are perfectly workable for a lot of species.
I stopped keeping reptiles because I didn't think I would enjoy being confined to a small box for the majority of my life.
Dammit, my post was supposed to start out with an MMO joke, but HTML laughed in its face.
That was supposed to read:
YOUR POST: crits Thermodynamics.
THERMODYNAMICS: dies.
Because your house isn't a magically sealed container where energy can't leave or enter... knowledge maybe, but not energy.
The heat pump uses the energy in the air OUTSIDE your home and... wait for it... PUMPS it into your home. The air outside gets colder while your house gets warmer. Thermodynamics is satisfied, and you are left warm enough to happily enjoy Episode I.
It is a similar concept to geothermal heating and cooling.
crits Thermodynamics.
dies.
All that waste heat doesn't directly heat your house. Most of it radiates out only to rise to heat your ceiling, where it is essentially useless to you (that whole heat rising thing). The convection isn't going to be all that great around the bulb, while a lot of heat is also going to be conducted away.
The heat production of a dedicated heater is more efficient than that of your standard bulb, too. A 100 watt bulb turns roughly 95 watts into heat, but that might only raise the temperature of a room by 1 degree (I'm not going to do the calculation here, since it is room specific) due to all the losses I listed above. A gas or electric heater might turn that same 95 watts into 2 degrees of useful heat. They are designed for better convection and radiation, with as little conduction as possible.
EBay tried to de-list my auction back in October for the character I played. I put up my fully epic hunter for $375 buyout, and it sold in under 12 hours.
The kicker is that about 6 hours after I got the paypal payment for it, eBay sends me an email saying they have taken my auction down because it violated Blizzard's IP. The auction was already done! Hilarious work, eBay... not only did I get the money for my character, but I didn't have to pay eBay for the auction cost.
The other guy got my account;
I got money for the time I put into the character;
Blizzard got the money for the game CDs and my monthly subscription;
Paypal got their bite out of our transaction;
eBay lost money for the bandwidth, site design and hosting.