Google's philosophy of launching "early and often" frequently leads to products that start out on a par, at best, with those of competitors, giving Internet users little reason to change their surfing habits.
This hits the nail on the head. I checked out Google Finance pretty early and it wasn't as good as Yahoo so I stayed with Yahoo. (For instance, it had no stocks from the Toronto exchange.) I just checked it again today because of this article, and it has improved substantially. (The search box is especially impressive.)
I'm switching right now, but if this article hadn't appeared, I wouldn't.
Ok. But by my scorecard, we have two destroyed shuttles and no destroyed space stations (though, as if to prove my point, the crew of Salyut 1 died on the trip home). Re-entry is a dangerous business, and I'd rather do it in a healthy vessel.
What if a tile falls off the shuttle and hits the ISS?
It would bounce gently and harmlessly off the ISS and float away, probably to fall back to earth within a year. The Shuttle and ISS in this scenario are in the same orbit, so the relative speed between the two is small.
If I was an astronaut I'd prefer that the damaged Shuttle was landed only after I'd departed on an alternative landing craft.
I don't think you have any concept of how big space is. The shuttle would be literally dozens (perhaps hundreds) of miles away from the ISS before things get interesting, and it would probably be travelling dozens or hundreds of miles per hour in the opposite direction. I'd rather be on the ISS than on the ground when they attempt this; if you're on Earth, you have some chance of getting hit by falling debris.
Imagine an actual rape. After doing his time, the offender now continually pesters his victim pressuring her to "wipe his slate clean". What do you do about that?
There are stalking laws. But what if he's not stalking her? What if it's a single phone call that says "if you don't clear my name, you better keep your eyes peeled"?
The solution, I think, is to change the law that the guy was convicted under in the first place, rather than put the burden on the victim to set things right. Having a wrong-headed law with an excuse that says "oh well, the victim can always clean the slate" is lazy and unfair.
At least letting the "victims" wipe the slate would be good.
No that's not a good idea. Victims of legitimate sex offences should not have any more burden on them than they do now. If they are unable to wipe the slate clean, then they can get on with their lives without worrying about various kinds of threats or pressure to let the offender get away with it.
You need to know who is in favour of launch and who is opposed. I guarantee, if management wants the launch and the engineers want to postpone, then postponing is the right choice.
And I'm not saying that only because I'm an engineer.:-)
He named the crater in the documentary. As another reply already said, it is the spectacular crater Giordano Bruno, which I think is the only crater large enough to be seen by the naked eye from Earth. (At least, the dust rays radiating from it can be seen.) It can even be seen in Slashdot's "Moon" icon, as a bright spot in the middle near the bottom.
Ok, 15 g acceleration, works out to 15*9.81m/s^2, that's about 438 feet/sec^2. If I have that kind of acceleration on my mouse I'm clearly doing something wrong.
Suppose you want to move the mouse, say, 6cm as quickly as possible. If it accelerates and then decelerates smoothly at 15 g, I get 1/50 sec. In practice, people can probably do it in 1/5 sec, so I guess it has a 10x engineering tolerance. That's a lot, but it's not absurd.
How far do you need to walk in LA before you hit a Sushi restaurant?
I haven't been to LA in years, but Toronto is certainly starting to remind me of Blade Runner's LA.
I remember seeing this in the 80s and thinking the cars were absurdly round and bulbous, and now here we are in 2006, and I think 13 years is more than enough to turn this into this.
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This hits the nail on the head. I checked out Google Finance pretty early and it wasn't as good as Yahoo so I stayed with Yahoo. (For instance, it had no stocks from the Toronto exchange.) I just checked it again today because of this article, and it has improved substantially. (The search box is especially impressive.)
I'm switching right now, but if this article hadn't appeared, I wouldn't.
Seriously, it's easy to postulate any number of disasters happening at the same time, but what are the odds?
Acronyms should be defined in the summary.
"light on the kind of technical details"... That must be the most random, arbitrary hyperlink I have ever seen.
There are stalking laws. But what if he's not stalking her? What if it's a single phone call that says "if you don't clear my name, you better keep your eyes peeled"?
The solution, I think, is to change the law that the guy was convicted under in the first place, rather than put the burden on the victim to set things right. Having a wrong-headed law with an excuse that says "oh well, the victim can always clean the slate" is lazy and unfair.
And I'm not saying that only because I'm an engineer. :-)
He named the crater in the documentary. As another reply already said, it is the spectacular crater Giordano Bruno, which I think is the only crater large enough to be seen by the naked eye from Earth. (At least, the dust rays radiating from it can be seen.) It can even be seen in Slashdot's "Moon" icon, as a bright spot in the middle near the bottom.
That's why optimizers use heuristics.
Did you mean you make a 6-figure salary?
Storms are three-dimensional. If the depth varies as the size, then the large spot would actually be as much as eight times larger.
Unlockables are a substitute for actual creativity.
Otherwise your salespeople would already be creating applications in Java. There's certainly no shortage of components there.
Hint: it's not for hosting a web site.
Maybe you were starting from an out-of-date version?
Yeah I'm just being a smartass. Article submissions vetted by professional editors are also not the same thing as Slashdot comments.
Copies his terrible what?
I haven't been to LA in years, but Toronto is certainly starting to remind me of Blade Runner's LA.
I remember seeing this in the 80s and thinking the cars were absurdly round and bulbous, and now here we are in 2006, and I think 13 years is more than enough to turn this into this.
You haven't the faintest clue how astrodynamics works.
Did anyone honestly think the chicken came first?
You shouldn't be using the two on the same kinds of images. They are uncomparable compression techniques.