How about NASA figure out how to get to _orbit_ first? They've been fucking that part up for the past 30 years, and I don't understand why it needs to be pointed out to them that it is the first and most critical step to getting anywhere else.
Good point - the US Navy test fired a railgun projectile at Mach 5 speeds at a target 110 nautical miles away utilising 33 megajoules of energy.
NASA is looking at the possibility of using a railgun to launch craft into space at Mach 10 speeds. A rail launcher study using gas propulsion already is under way, but maybe using electromagnetic acceleration is more feasible?
Although the defense spending is huge, it's still less than that for health care.
I'd far rather see a country spent more money on healthcare than on killing people. If the US Government really wants to save money, they should build less aircraft carriers - the incoming Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, will cost $14 billion including research and development, and the actual cost of the carrier itself would be $9 billion each - nearly $100 billion in total for a like-for-like replacement of the eleven Nimitz and Enterprise class carriers in active service.
By comparison, the UK spends two and a half times as much on Health as it does on Defence.
What permanently dark side of the planet? Contrary to beliefs in the '60s, Mercury is not tidelocked. It's rotational period is 59 days, making three complete rotations in two orbits.
You could get around this by having a mobile operating base for any manned mission to Mercury that stays out of direct sunlight to avoid frying its occupants. Its 3:2 spin-orbit resonance means that a single day on Mercury last exactly two Mercury years, or about 176 Earth days - so a single fixed point on the surface would be in daylight continuously for 88 days. Given that its radius is 2,439.7 ± 1.0 km, it has a circumference of 7667.6 km, so you'd only need to be able to move 87.1 km/day, or 3.63km/h.
As I recall, the latest Linux Skype client has been version Skype 2.1 Beta 2 for Linux for well over a year now, with no sign whatsoever of it progressing any further. Then again, I'm not too bothered about that, as newer Windows versions I have used have all been more bloated then previous ones with no appreciable additional functionality worth speaking of.
$400 for a netbook that doesn't run windows. Hell, doesn't even run when it's not hooked up to your phone. You can buy a netbook running windows 7 (or a full linux distro of choice) for under $300.
You can buy netbooks for under £/$200-250 these days, some with Win XP, but more running a Linux variant of some sort. I use an Asus EeePC 1000 running Easy Peasy 1.5, which is exactly what I need - all I use it for is light web browsing (Opera, sometimes Firefox for less W3C compliant web content), listening to music (hello Banshee), writing documents and the odd bit of spreadsheeting (OpenOffice). Simples!
Did wikileaks cause the destruction of all the worlds armaments overnight? Did I miss something?
Bob... Bob? Bob, p-put down that lighter, you know you're not allowed to play with matches next to munitions stockpiles! Bob! No, Bob, don't light that fu-
Wow, WikiLeaks got nominated! This has to be an important story. After all, it isn't like the nomination process is fairly simple or that there are 240 other nominees.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Maybe they're white hat hackers who will return the code in a vastly less bloated form?
Did you watch that movie? The game was entirely random, but Westley won by cheating, he poisoned both cups. You can't do that in RPS.
Poison both cups before you start playing and make sure he drinks from his...
My score is 12 wins, 11 ties, 5 losses so far...
Great, now do it another 300 times to prove to a statistically significant level that you're got ESP. :)
*appluads*
Mod that rant up by 101 points. :)
I need to get this printed on a t-shirt!
I've found saying "no" helps a lot, as does being in a relationship since I'm no longer allowed to fix things based solely on the hotness of the user.
I'd say that was a perfectly acceptable metric for deciding whose PC/laptop to fix; so would my girlfriend... ;)
How about NASA figure out how to get to _orbit_ first? They've been fucking that part up for the past 30 years, and I don't understand why it needs to be pointed out to them that it is the first and most critical step to getting anywhere else.
Good point - the US Navy test fired a railgun projectile at Mach 5 speeds at a target 110 nautical miles away utilising 33 megajoules of energy.
NASA is looking at the possibility of using a railgun to launch craft into space at Mach 10 speeds. A rail launcher study using gas propulsion already is under way, but maybe using electromagnetic acceleration is more feasible?
Although the defense spending is huge, it's still less than that for health care.
I'd far rather see a country spent more money on healthcare than on killing people. If the US Government really wants to save money, they should build less aircraft carriers - the incoming Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, will cost $14 billion including research and development, and the actual cost of the carrier itself would be $9 billion each - nearly $100 billion in total for a like-for-like replacement of the eleven Nimitz and Enterprise class carriers in active service.
By comparison, the UK spends two and a half times as much on Health as it does on Defence.
What permanently dark side of the planet? Contrary to beliefs in the '60s, Mercury is not tidelocked. It's rotational period is 59 days, making three complete rotations in two orbits.
You could get around this by having a mobile operating base for any manned mission to Mercury that stays out of direct sunlight to avoid frying its occupants. Its 3:2 spin-orbit resonance means that a single day on Mercury last exactly two Mercury years, or about 176 Earth days - so a single fixed point on the surface would be in daylight continuously for 88 days. Given that its radius is 2,439.7 ± 1.0 km, it has a circumference of 7667.6 km, so you'd only need to be able to move 87.1 km/day, or 3.63km/h.
As I recall, the latest Linux Skype client has been version Skype 2.1 Beta 2 for Linux for well over a year now, with no sign whatsoever of it progressing any further. Then again, I'm not too bothered about that, as newer Windows versions I have used have all been more bloated then previous ones with no appreciable additional functionality worth speaking of.
Will it have a laser that can cut through steel bars in it?
I still prefer my Rolex.
That's a "Brag post"?
Please. Let us know when you've moved up from mass-produced stuff to something good, like my Patek Phillipe.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Depends heavily on the size of the company. Opera however is fairly small.
Does 757 employees (end of Q4, 2009), count as "fairly small"? Well, I suppose it does next Apple's 49,500 employees worldwide...
I would put it on Bill Gates' car. :)
So does running the Linux command shred completely obliterate data stored on an SSD, or not?
Destroying evidence is a crime in the US, too.
Only if you leave evidence behind that you've destroyed evidence. Absence of evidence does not equate to evidence of absence...
..destroyed overnight, go with the SSDs. The melting point of a surface mount IC is a lot less than that of a spinning platter.
Surely putting either in a microwave oven and turning it on would suffice?
Deleted, should mean deleted.
That's what the Linux command shred is for...
$400 for a netbook that doesn't run windows. Hell, doesn't even run when it's not hooked up to your phone. You can buy a netbook running windows 7 (or a full linux distro of choice) for under $300.
You can buy netbooks for under £/$200-250 these days, some with Win XP, but more running a Linux variant of some sort. I use an Asus EeePC 1000 running Easy Peasy 1.5, which is exactly what I need - all I use it for is light web browsing (Opera, sometimes Firefox for less W3C compliant web content), listening to music (hello Banshee), writing documents and the odd bit of spreadsheeting (OpenOffice). Simples!
He's not megalomaniacal - just misunderstood... ;p
Did wikileaks cause the destruction of all the worlds armaments overnight? Did I miss something?
Bob... Bob? Bob, p-put down that lighter, you know you're not allowed to play with matches next to munitions stockpiles! Bob! No, Bob, don't light that fu-
Wow, WikiLeaks got nominated! This has to be an important story. After all, it isn't like the nomination process is fairly simple or that there are 240 other nominees.
*blinks*
There are other nominees..? O_o
The ANC were at times terrorists, but Nelson Mandela made peace with the South African government.
As the saying goes, "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter."
If the Internet wins, will Al Gore be picking the award up on it's behalf?
If it wins, I think Tim Berners-Lee should collect the award, personally.