You probably would not be able to get even to geosynchronous altitude - Space Is Big. They do provide the option for up to 4 tubesats to be linked, so I'm thinking the best route to boost a tubesat to the highest possible orbit would be two flash-in-the-pan solid rocket stages followed by an electric propulsion stage, and finally your electronics on top. How high that orbit would actually be I couldn't guess, but still probably not geosynchronous.
The evolutionary basis of attractiveness is external traits that correlate with health and fertility (ie, ability and fitness to bear children.) It shouldn't come as a surprise that this forms a positive feedback loop.
I played MxO early on. I actually wanted to experience the continuing story and tried to like it, but two things killed it for me: 1. The control scheme was terrible. It couldn't decide if it was an FPS or an RTS control scheme, making it a real pain to actually look at what you wanted to look at and position your character with any precision, especially in cramped interiors. 2. Some kind of nanotech magician character class totally alien to the films was not just present, but overwhelmingly dominant in its effectiveness over the gun/martial arts styles that were emblematic of the setting.
During war time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military, period. War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees.
A good BS litmus test that came out of copyright debates is, if you replaced "music" with "cars" does the argument sound stupid and/or communist. Let's try something similar here:
"During a fuel shortage, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing fuel efficient vehicles, period. Car industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees."
Check. Human deaths change the equation you say? How about this:
"During a famine, there should be no profit driven motivation for growing food, period. Farmers should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees."
Yep, communist.
I think an initial thesis that would have served you better is, "During peace time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military."
It looks to me like they mean "high level" languages... the sort that allow you to deal with arbitrarily complex datastructures without burdening the programmer with the manual management of memory allocation and pointers.
Okay, I'll grant you that criticism against C, but then why wasn't C++/Boost invited to the table? Only interpreted/VM languages? Then why wasn't C++/Boost/LLVM invited? Almost any paradigm you care to program can be realized in C++, the only difference is the bookeeping is hidden in the libraries instead of in the interpreter. It can be hidden, though with syntactic sugar as easy as anything else in the wild. The only thing missing is perfect function forwarding, which is expected in the next major spec.
So you claim the Source engine fails because they chose a color palette that fit the needs of their game's gritty and ominous setting? You do know that the colors are 24-bit RGB values that could be set to something brighter if they chose, rather than hard-wired architectural parts of the engine, right? (Likewise lens and saturation settings in the HDR subsystem.)
Disadvantages are really just lack of advantages. Most skill based systems don't allow you to build up every skill at once. So for example if you're a mage but you want to pick up a sword, you can build your swordmanship skill, but at the opportunity cost of some ancillary mage skill that increases your magic damage - and you still will not have the ancillary sword skills that would make swordsmanship a powerhouse.
If you're really interested, go google the carbon absorption rate of trees. It varies by tree and time of year, but take some averages and see if you come up with something more than a factor of 2 off from my number. If you want to complain about the margin of error, fine, but its plenty to deep-six any pithy comments about just planting natural trees.
What the **** are you talking about? You can go see this physically at the library of congress if you need to:
In Convention of the people of the state of South Carolina, by their representatives, held in the city of Charleston, on Monday the 12th day of May, and continued by divers adjournments to Friday, the 23d day of May, Anno Domini 1788, and in the 12th year of the independence of the United States of America.
The Convention, having maturely considered the Constitution, or form of government, reported to Congress by the Convention of Delegates from the United States of America, and submitted to them by a resolution of the legislature of this state, passed the 17th and 18th days of February last, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to the people of the said United States, and their posterity, -- Do, in the name and behalf of the people of this state, hereby assent to and ratify the said Constitution.
Done in Convention, the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Thief 3 was the best of the series for me. Why? Because of the free-roaming segments between missions. For the first time, you could actually go where you chose to go when you chose to go there.
How much of GDP is composed of useless junk like professional sports, designer handbags, and American Idol? And all the money people spend to market it to each other? If society could really put priorities in order, R&D would be 25-50% of GDP. It doesn't really take that much to feed, clothe, and house everyone. (And quality entertainment can be free.)
Expected population should be addressed in the design of game areas. When you have a small userbase, you can provide lots of space for adventuring, but you need to concentrate players for socialization and trade. UO failed to realize this as it added new continents in every other expansion even while the player count was dwindling. WoW knew what it was doing when it kept auction houses out of the expansion continents.
What you seem to be getting at is that it's not meat-for-sex, it's love or "caring." It's just romanticism that stands in the way of realizing that caring is just the biological/cognitive implementation of a long-term meat-for-sex behavior.
I could really get into an archivist character, actually. Playing Diablo 1 as a wizard, nothing was more exciting than finding a library room. (New spells, yay!)
I'll go ahead and volunteer. I don't like how software installation works on Linux (Unix) systems. The various package managers are much vaunted but they exist to hide the unnecessary complexity of sprinkling files around a dozen directories to accomplish an installation. Macs had it right (at least in my pre-OSX experience with a lot of apps: installation meant dragging-dropping one icon.
While it could be evidence of some latent hypocricy, my theory is this: People more influenced by the limbic system or instinctual patterns of thought are more likely to exhibit a set of behaviors/beliefs/attitudes that are naturally selected for. Basically, people who trust their "gut" or "faith" are subsuming logic to neurobiological imperitives. If a correlation were found between self-reported piousness and increased heart rate when seeing a snake, that might support this hypothesis.
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They aren't manipulating genes, just screening embryos. If there is no combinatorial possibility for the parents to produce a blue-eyed offspring, this method won't change that.
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You probably would not be able to get even to geosynchronous altitude - Space Is Big. They do provide the option for up to 4 tubesats to be linked, so I'm thinking the best route to boost a tubesat to the highest possible orbit would be two flash-in-the-pan solid rocket stages followed by an electric propulsion stage, and finally your electronics on top. How high that orbit would actually be I couldn't guess, but still probably not geosynchronous.
The evolutionary basis of attractiveness is external traits that correlate with health and fertility (ie, ability and fitness to bear children.) It shouldn't come as a surprise that this forms a positive feedback loop.
I played MxO early on. I actually wanted to experience the continuing story and tried to like it, but two things killed it for me:
1. The control scheme was terrible. It couldn't decide if it was an FPS or an RTS control scheme, making it a real pain to actually look at what you wanted to look at and position your character with any precision, especially in cramped interiors.
2. Some kind of nanotech magician character class totally alien to the films was not just present, but overwhelmingly dominant in its effectiveness over the gun/martial arts styles that were emblematic of the setting.
If printing the code isn't effectively free, and a device to read it is more than $5, its not a replacement for bar codes.
During war time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military, period.
War industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees.
A good BS litmus test that came out of copyright debates is, if you replaced "music" with "cars" does the argument sound stupid and/or communist. Let's try something similar here:
"During a fuel shortage, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing fuel efficient vehicles, period. Car industry employees should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees."
Check. Human deaths change the equation you say? How about this:
"During a famine, there should be no profit driven motivation for growing food, period. Farmers should all work for subsistence wages, and really should be volunteers if not draftees."
Yep, communist.
I think an initial thesis that would have served you better is, "During peace time, there should be no profit driven motivation for developing the military."
It looks to me like they mean "high level" languages... the sort that allow you to deal with arbitrarily complex datastructures without burdening the programmer with the manual management of memory allocation and pointers.
Okay, I'll grant you that criticism against C, but then why wasn't C++/Boost invited to the table? Only interpreted/VM languages? Then why wasn't C++/Boost/LLVM invited? Almost any paradigm you care to program can be realized in C++, the only difference is the bookeeping is hidden in the libraries instead of in the interpreter. It can be hidden, though with syntactic sugar as easy as anything else in the wild. The only thing missing is perfect function forwarding, which is expected in the next major spec.
So you claim the Source engine fails because they chose a color palette that fit the needs of their game's gritty and ominous setting? You do know that the colors are 24-bit RGB values that could be set to something brighter if they chose, rather than hard-wired architectural parts of the engine, right? (Likewise lens and saturation settings in the HDR subsystem.)
Disadvantages are really just lack of advantages. Most skill based systems don't allow you to build up every skill at once. So for example if you're a mage but you want to pick up a sword, you can build your swordmanship skill, but at the opportunity cost of some ancillary mage skill that increases your magic damage - and you still will not have the ancillary sword skills that would make swordsmanship a powerhouse.
Presumably being limited to an infant-sized skull would affect brain development.
If you're really interested, go google the carbon absorption rate of trees. It varies by tree and time of year, but take some averages and see if you come up with something more than a factor of 2 off from my number. If you want to complain about the margin of error, fine, but its plenty to deep-six any pithy comments about just planting natural trees.
The artificial "tree" is projected to remove as much CO2 per day as 25194 real trees.
What the **** are you talking about? You can go see this physically at the library of congress if you need to:
In Convention of the people of the state of South Carolina, by their representatives, held in the city of Charleston, on Monday the 12th day of May, and continued by divers adjournments to Friday, the 23d day of May, Anno Domini 1788, and in the 12th year of the independence of the United States of America.
The Convention, having maturely considered the Constitution, or form of government, reported to Congress by the Convention of Delegates from the United States of America, and submitted to them by a resolution of the legislature of this state, passed the 17th and 18th days of February last, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to the people of the said United States, and their posterity, -- Do, in the name and behalf of the people of this state, hereby assent to and ratify the said Constitution.
Done in Convention, the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
THOMAS PINCKNEY, President.
Attest. John Sandford Dart, Secretary.
Let me introduce you to the General Welfare Clause and the Elastic Clause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause
if the sponsoring organizations can afford to pay each kid $250-500 ... why aren't they giving it to inner-city schools in the first place?
I believe the point of the study is that the missing piece for these "disadvantaged" students is not opportunity or resources but motivation.
You can actually buy MS points in $5 increments from the Zune site. The same points are used for GfWL.
Cyberwarfare means hacking. Network-centric warfare means soldiers with iPhones.
the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application
This attitude is exactly why Firefox is no longer my default browser.
Thief 3 was the best of the series for me. Why? Because of the free-roaming segments between missions. For the first time, you could actually go where you chose to go when you chose to go there.
How much of GDP is composed of useless junk like professional sports, designer handbags, and American Idol? And all the money people spend to market it to each other? If society could really put priorities in order, R&D would be 25-50% of GDP. It doesn't really take that much to feed, clothe, and house everyone. (And quality entertainment can be free.)
Expected population should be addressed in the design of game areas. When you have a small userbase, you can provide lots of space for adventuring, but you need to concentrate players for socialization and trade. UO failed to realize this as it added new continents in every other expansion even while the player count was dwindling. WoW knew what it was doing when it kept auction houses out of the expansion continents.
What you seem to be getting at is that it's not meat-for-sex, it's love or "caring." It's just romanticism that stands in the way of realizing that caring is just the biological/cognitive implementation of a long-term meat-for-sex behavior.
I could really get into an archivist character, actually. Playing Diablo 1 as a wizard, nothing was more exciting than finding a library room. (New spells, yay!)
I'll go ahead and volunteer. I don't like how software installation works on Linux (Unix) systems. The various package managers are much vaunted but they exist to hide the unnecessary complexity of sprinkling files around a dozen directories to accomplish an installation. Macs had it right (at least in my pre-OSX experience with a lot of apps: installation meant dragging-dropping one icon.
While it could be evidence of some latent hypocricy, my theory is this:
People more influenced by the limbic system or instinctual patterns of thought are more likely to exhibit a set of behaviors/beliefs/attitudes that are naturally selected for. Basically, people who trust their "gut" or "faith" are subsuming logic to neurobiological imperitives. If a correlation were found between self-reported piousness and increased heart rate when seeing a snake, that might support this hypothesis.
They aren't manipulating genes, just screening embryos. If there is no combinatorial possibility for the parents to produce a blue-eyed offspring, this method won't change that.