Their throatless rockets may not be the most efficient, it sounds like they'll be far more maintainable and almost bulletproof - which is far more important to them at the moment than raw power.
I'd say efficiency is fairly important when the objective is to have a high enough power to weight ratio to achieve escape velocity. The point of throated rockets (from what I gather) is that the pressures and temperatures in throatless systems are extremely high. Making the combustion chamber bell shaped spreads the load over a larger area.. the bed of nails principle. Still, if he can figure out a better engine, more power to him.
(Yeah, yeah, I noticed the pun at the end.. if I have to groan at my own writing, then everybody else does too).
Shhh.. you're not supposed to notice that it's impractical and doesn't solve any real problems, just become used to the idea.
Now, if there are no other questions, please turn your attention to the dancing monkey. No, not you Mr. President.. we got a real monkey this time. No it's not that, Mr. President -- you're a great dancer.
Isn't HD-DVD's one big touted advantage supposed to be, and correct me if I'm recalling wrong here, easy backwards compatability?
Not the way you're thinking of it. It's easily backward compatible with manufacturing hardware, which means they won't have to re-tool the production lines to crank out HD-DVDs. Blu-Ray will require the manufacturing equipment to be replaced. That's what the studio's care about -- not whether or not it will play on your existing TV, but how much manufacturing costs are going to cut into their short-term profits.
No kidding.. trying to tear an Australian dollar should be a qualification for the World's Strongest Man contest. It's also interesting how the size of the bill varies by value, which both complicates counterfeiting and protects people who are visually impaired.. no possibility of the clerk saying "I promise, these are all $100s."
Now if only the exchange rate would go back down to 50 cents to the US Dollar so I could have another great vacation on the cheap.
I just don't find anything particularly convincing about Christianity vice any other religion. What it ultimately comes down to is a feeling that it's true. I have a feeling it's not true, so I'm going to stick with that.
It could just be a product of growing up, but BBSes seemed more innocent. I met some good friends through BBSes, whereas the only people I meet from the net are strange women. Also BBSes were used by people in one's own locality by definition, unless someone was calling long distance. The ability of the internet to bring people together from across the globe seems to have come at the cost of making it so the person next door might as well be on the other side of the globe as well. BBSes were personal -- you could usually chat with or send feedback to the SysOp. If a BBS was down, you'd often get a SysOp answering by voice. If a website is down you get an HTTP error. BBSes were a community limited to those who had the knowledge and desire to access them. The net is ubiquitous and requires little or no technical knowledge to access.
Oh yeah, this topic is about the Amiga. Something something bridgeboard, something something viva la Denise chip! Long live Fast RAM.
My girlfriend was running late to work one morning. She saw a cop in an SUV enter the freeway about 10 cars behind her, so she gunned it, figuring the SUV probably couldn't go that fast, and she was probably far enough ahead of him that he wouldn't notice. Of course that didn't work at all, and about a mile later she was pulled over. After he issued the ticket, as he was about to walk back to his car, the cop said, "Didn't you notice I was behind you?" She makes ridiculous comments all the time, and she answered, "Yeah, but I didn't think you'd be able to catch me." I mean really.. you'd have to be stupid to say that to a cop.
So the court date rolled around about a month later. She decided to show up, plead guilty, and hope the charges would be reduced. The judge opened the case file and read over it for a minute. Finally he said: "Says here you thought you could outrun the cop?" And she just started laughing. "Well, he was in an SUV. I just thought..." And then the whole courtroom started laughing too. In the end, the judge decided to let her off with a warning because she made him laugh.
BS. Driving is not a privelage, it's a requirement. Maybe if you live somewhere with public transportation or mass transit, it's a privelage. Some of us actually don't live in an urban sprawl, and it's not exactly legal to ride a bike on an interstate. Our whole country has been developed with the idea of everyone driving everywhere. By revoking or suspending someone's license, you might as well be saying you want them to drive around without insurance, because that's what's going to happen.
I think the use of the word intuitive is taking it a little far. I don't think anyone's intuition would tell them what an icon is, or the purpose of moving it around, let alone the method for doing so. It's a more accurate representation of a stack of papers perhaps, but that doesn't make it intuitive. When's the last time you dragged a picture or a word off of a piece of paper and put it onto another one? And just because something is a more accurate representation of a stack of papers doesn't make it more effective or efficient. A keyboard is distinctly different from a pencil, yet it's generally a much more efficient means of transferring words from the mind to a visible medium.
While I don't particularly like the grouping feature of the XP taskbar, if I have several windows open it's much more efficient for me to go straight to the corresponding button on the taskbar than to leaf through a stack of open windows until I found the right one. I prefer to use the ctrl+x/c/v, but I think even right clicking and selecting copy/cut and then navigating to the appropriate window is less cumbersome than holding down the mouse to shuffle through windows.
That said, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Some people may find the shuffling method to be preferential, and it would probably be beneficial to include such a technique in a new OS.
In a complaint filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Microsoft accused Lee of breaking his 2000 employment contract, in part by taking a job with a direct competitor within a year of leaving the company...In its lawsuit, Microsoft said it was seeking a court order forcing Lee and Google to abide by terms of confidentiality and noncompetition agreements that Lee signed at Microsoft.
So what happens in the highly unlikely event that this lawsuit is not resolved within one year?
Is a non-competition clause even legally binding? Can one company dictate the actions of a person who is no longer in their employ, just because he formerly earned a salary? And if so, are there any companies which would like to offer me a salary to not work for Google? I'll accept low six figures! Going once...
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Their throatless rockets may not be the most efficient, it sounds like they'll be far more maintainable and almost bulletproof - which is far more important to them at the moment than raw power.
I'd say efficiency is fairly important when the objective is to have a high enough power to weight ratio to achieve escape velocity. The point of throated rockets (from what I gather) is that the pressures and temperatures in throatless systems are extremely high. Making the combustion chamber bell shaped spreads the load over a larger area.. the bed of nails principle. Still, if he can figure out a better engine, more power to him.
(Yeah, yeah, I noticed the pun at the end.. if I have to groan at my own writing, then everybody else does too).
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston Churchill
(It's worth noting that he also said "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.")
You mean we don't get French benefits?
we'd have about 19 million amps, but I'm sure the magnetic field would have presented interesting challenges.
Interesting challenges for some, interesting work for the local dentist.
"For the love of God, use ceramic this time!"
Assuming, of course, that the field wasn't strong enough to pull iron from blood. Doesn't sound like the most pleasant way to go.
As if the one in U2 wasn't enough...
Good thing 25% of $0 is still $0.
Thank God for USENET.
Don't forget the witches! We can place these on everyone who fails to float after being weighted down by rocks.
You know.. just to make sure they weren't using witchcraft to pretend to be dead.
Shhh.. you're not supposed to notice that it's impractical and doesn't solve any real problems, just become used to the idea.
Now, if there are no other questions, please turn your attention to the dancing monkey. No, not you Mr. President.. we got a real monkey this time. No it's not that, Mr. President -- you're a great dancer.
Isn't HD-DVD's one big touted advantage supposed to be, and correct me if I'm recalling wrong here, easy backwards compatability?
Not the way you're thinking of it. It's easily backward compatible with manufacturing hardware, which means they won't have to re-tool the production lines to crank out HD-DVDs. Blu-Ray will require the manufacturing equipment to be replaced. That's what the studio's care about -- not whether or not it will play on your existing TV, but how much manufacturing costs are going to cut into their short-term profits.
You should have told him Powerball wins you in the US.
You've got better odds of betting $1 on roulette and letting it ride until you win $1M than you do of winning Powerball.
Oops, meant 50 US cents to the AUS dollar.
No kidding.. trying to tear an Australian dollar should be a qualification for the World's Strongest Man contest. It's also interesting how the size of the bill varies by value, which both complicates counterfeiting and protects people who are visually impaired.. no possibility of the clerk saying "I promise, these are all $100s."
Now if only the exchange rate would go back down to 50 cents to the US Dollar so I could have another great vacation on the cheap.
Hey, it's Soviet Russia... where spam cans you.
They mentioned BeOS.
His particular setup triple-booted Mac OS X 10.4.1 (Intel), CentOS 4 and Windows XP.
Right there.. It's the first one listed.
I just don't find anything particularly convincing about Christianity vice any other religion. What it ultimately comes down to is a feeling that it's true. I have a feeling it's not true, so I'm going to stick with that.
You mean their parents...
SICK! Don't ever say anything like that again.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to the wanton violence of Bible Blaster. "Convert the heathens!"
the nation was going to be full of little murderers if something wasn't done.
Pfft.. yep, we sure showed them. There's hardly any murders nowadays.
Depends on whether you believe the media represents views, or propogates them.
Chicken or the egg...
It could just be a product of growing up, but BBSes seemed more innocent. I met some good friends through BBSes, whereas the only people I meet from the net are strange women. Also BBSes were used by people in one's own locality by definition, unless someone was calling long distance. The ability of the internet to bring people together from across the globe seems to have come at the cost of making it so the person next door might as well be on the other side of the globe as well. BBSes were personal -- you could usually chat with or send feedback to the SysOp. If a BBS was down, you'd often get a SysOp answering by voice. If a website is down you get an HTTP error. BBSes were a community limited to those who had the knowledge and desire to access them. The net is ubiquitous and requires little or no technical knowledge to access.
Oh yeah, this topic is about the Amiga. Something something bridgeboard, something something viva la Denise chip! Long live Fast RAM.
My girlfriend was running late to work one morning. She saw a cop in an SUV enter the freeway about 10 cars behind her, so she gunned it, figuring the SUV probably couldn't go that fast, and she was probably far enough ahead of him that he wouldn't notice. Of course that didn't work at all, and about a mile later she was pulled over. After he issued the ticket, as he was about to walk back to his car, the cop said, "Didn't you notice I was behind you?" She makes ridiculous comments all the time, and she answered, "Yeah, but I didn't think you'd be able to catch me." I mean really.. you'd have to be stupid to say that to a cop.
So the court date rolled around about a month later. She decided to show up, plead guilty, and hope the charges would be reduced. The judge opened the case file and read over it for a minute. Finally he said: "Says here you thought you could outrun the cop?" And she just started laughing. "Well, he was in an SUV. I just thought..." And then the whole courtroom started laughing too. In the end, the judge decided to let her off with a warning because she made him laugh.
Sometimes the best defense is no defense.
driving is a privilege not a right.
BS. Driving is not a privelage, it's a requirement. Maybe if you live somewhere with public transportation or mass transit, it's a privelage. Some of us actually don't live in an urban sprawl, and it's not exactly legal to ride a bike on an interstate. Our whole country has been developed with the idea of everyone driving everywhere. By revoking or suspending someone's license, you might as well be saying you want them to drive around without insurance, because that's what's going to happen.
Aside from that.
I guess using the shift key in combination with other letters to achieve uppercase is a monstrosity too?
It's just second nature for me.
I think the use of the word intuitive is taking it a little far. I don't think anyone's intuition would tell them what an icon is, or the purpose of moving it around, let alone the method for doing so. It's a more accurate representation of a stack of papers perhaps, but that doesn't make it intuitive. When's the last time you dragged a picture or a word off of a piece of paper and put it onto another one? And just because something is a more accurate representation of a stack of papers doesn't make it more effective or efficient. A keyboard is distinctly different from a pencil, yet it's generally a much more efficient means of transferring words from the mind to a visible medium.
While I don't particularly like the grouping feature of the XP taskbar, if I have several windows open it's much more efficient for me to go straight to the corresponding button on the taskbar than to leaf through a stack of open windows until I found the right one. I prefer to use the ctrl+x/c/v, but I think even right clicking and selecting copy/cut and then navigating to the appropriate window is less cumbersome than holding down the mouse to shuffle through windows.
That said, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Some people may find the shuffling method to be preferential, and it would probably be beneficial to include such a technique in a new OS.
In a complaint filed in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Microsoft accused Lee of breaking his 2000 employment contract, in part by taking a job with a direct competitor within a year of leaving the company...In its lawsuit, Microsoft said it was seeking a court order forcing Lee and Google to abide by terms of confidentiality and noncompetition agreements that Lee signed at Microsoft.
So what happens in the highly unlikely event that this lawsuit is not resolved within one year?
Is a non-competition clause even legally binding? Can one company dictate the actions of a person who is no longer in their employ, just because he formerly earned a salary? And if so, are there any companies which would like to offer me a salary to not work for Google? I'll accept low six figures! Going once...
I dunno, I think the face is the most important feature..
Oh, you said flat chips.