A simple parenthetical phrase (like this) in the article, or maybe a link to the drupal site, could also have brought the information not only to me, but to the thousands of other people who have no clue what drupal is.
The GSM group ("Groupe Spécial Mobile" (French) 1, 2, 3 and 4) was founded in 1982. The name of the system comes from the name of this group, though later the decision was made to keep the initials but to change what they stood for.
The Transformers series offshoot, Beast Wars, so polluted the net that for the longest time I couldn't find a trace of one of the most
innovative homebrew robot projects ever published. Subsumption architecture is the way to go.
It won't matter. The dollars per megabyte aren't the only thing driving CD drives to oblivion. People would rather have a DVD on their machines so that they can watch movies. Further, operating systems and other software are now becoming available on DVD. As much as it rarely happens, we all hate swapping disks in and out during installs.
Besides, if there's a market for archive quality gold CD-Rs then there's a market for archive quality gold DVD-Rs.
Yes, this is what I can't really fathom either. Televisions tend to last for at least a decade. Consumers should have known about this for the past five years already. You shouldn't even be able to find an NTSC only television in stores right now. And yet...
Everything you say is true. However, of the 5 Lagrange points around any pair of orbital bodies, three of them (L1-L3) are unstable. As you move off of the unstable points, the imbalance in the forces pulls you away from them. With L4 and L5, as you move away, the imbalance in the forces pushes you back to the lagrange point. I was being over-simplistic, I guess, by saying there was only 2.
The problem with your analogy (apart from the fact that a marathon is 26 miles, not 52) is that one person running it does not prevent another from doing it. Lagrange points are different. There are only two lagrange points for the Sun-Earth system. Once someone is there, it prevents anybody else from being there.
I wasn't talking about fairness as in letting everybody have a turn. I meant fairness as in learning to play by the rules, and everybody playing by the same rules. If that means that the stronger, quicker, kids do better than the slow, fat, weaklings, then so be it. It builds character. My personal experience with gym class was a half hour every week (or was it every other week?). Anyways, it wasn't anywhere near the recommended minimums. I also agree with you that standing around waiting around for your turn is pointless. Obviously there needs to be a mix of personal, and team activities (including swimming. Everyone should know how to swim). So, maybe alternating days of personal workout with team sports.
The point behind teaching sports is not to teach kids who can become professional atheletes. It is to teach everyone the values of physical exercise, teamwork, fairness, and competition. Physical exercise has been shown to have a host of benefits, including a greater resistance to disease, and increased ability to concentrate. Children in North America are showing increasing tendencies towards obesity. We should be including their exercise in their education. Running is fine, in and of itself, but it is a solitary pursuit.
I think that the idea of moving kids along in lockstep, one grade at a time, may not be the best method. When I was in grade 5 or 6, we had a reading program in our school. There were a whole series of booklets, each set with it's own color. Each child would progress through the booklets at their own pace. The idea of a two month summer vacation, a concession to the days when the bulk of the student body was involved in harvesting, should probably be re-evaluated.
No. The submitter of the article is somewhat of a sports fan and has confused the spelling of the Montreal hockey team with the spelling of the national adjective.
That is, the already large orbiter plus the even larger external tank will flip nose over to re-orient itself with the landing site, this all while the engines are going full bore, and while still in the atmosphere.
I guess this is why confidence in this abort mode was not forthcoming, and why no astronaut volunteered to do a test flight of the RTLS system.
It seems to me that it would be safer to shut down the fuel flow, and jettison the external tank. Let the tank crash into the Atlantic.
No. This is obviously the NEW C standard they've been talking about. I haven't read the article, but clearly they've loosend up on punctuation. Also, any comparisons to directives starting with MAX must automatically default to a "less than" comparison.
On an old episode of Dr Who, the Doctor went to a planet of human calculators (to try to get the TARDIS chameleon circuits working again, I think). Everybody on the whole planet was sitting around with an abacus in their hand.
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A simple parenthetical phrase (like this) in the article, or maybe a link to the drupal site, could also have brought the information not only to me, but to the thousands of other people who have no clue what drupal is.
The GSM group ("Groupe Spécial Mobile" (French) 1, 2, 3 and 4) was founded in 1982. The name of the system comes from the name of this group, though later the decision was made to keep the initials but to change what they stood for.
I guess both viewpoints are right.
The Transformers series offshoot, Beast Wars, so polluted the net that for the longest time I couldn't find a trace of one of the most innovative homebrew robot projects ever published. Subsumption architecture is the way to go.
Fine. I propose a tax cut for all persons over 40, then.
The problem with public transit is that they let the public on it.
How 'bout this: if you publish it on the web, it is public domain.
Armageddon about 1/3 of the way down the quotes list.
Anything wrong with these, or these?
It won't matter. The dollars per megabyte aren't the only thing driving CD drives to oblivion. People would rather have a DVD on their machines so that they can watch movies. Further, operating systems and other software are now becoming available on DVD. As much as it rarely happens, we all hate swapping disks in and out during installs.
Besides, if there's a market for archive quality gold CD-Rs then there's a market for archive quality gold DVD-Rs.
Yes, this is what I can't really fathom either. Televisions tend to last for at least a decade. Consumers should have known about this for the past five years already. You shouldn't even be able to find an NTSC only television in stores right now. And yet...
Well, with rewriteable DVD prices approaching that cost I'd say the age of CD drives on computers is numbered.
Everything you say is true. However, of the 5 Lagrange points around any pair of orbital bodies, three of them (L1-L3) are unstable. As you move off of the unstable points, the imbalance in the forces pulls you away from them. With L4 and L5, as you move away, the imbalance in the forces pushes you back to the lagrange point. I was being over-simplistic, I guess, by saying there was only 2.
You're assuming the next Hitler won't be American. The way things look from outside the US, the next Hitler will be President Bush III.
The problem with your analogy (apart from the fact that a marathon is 26 miles, not 52) is that one person running it does not prevent another from doing it. Lagrange points are different. There are only two lagrange points for the Sun-Earth system. Once someone is there, it prevents anybody else from being there.
I wasn't talking about fairness as in letting everybody have a turn. I meant fairness as in learning to play by the rules, and everybody playing by the same rules. If that means that the stronger, quicker, kids do better than the slow, fat, weaklings, then so be it. It builds character. My personal experience with gym class was a half hour every week (or was it every other week?). Anyways, it wasn't anywhere near the recommended minimums. I also agree with you that standing around waiting around for your turn is pointless. Obviously there needs to be a mix of personal, and team activities (including swimming. Everyone should know how to swim). So, maybe alternating days of personal workout with team sports.
The point behind teaching sports is not to teach kids who can become professional atheletes. It is to teach everyone the values of physical exercise, teamwork, fairness, and competition. Physical exercise has been shown to have a host of benefits, including a greater resistance to disease, and increased ability to concentrate. Children in North America are showing increasing tendencies towards obesity. We should be including their exercise in their education. Running is fine, in and of itself, but it is a solitary pursuit.
I think that the idea of moving kids along in lockstep, one grade at a time, may not be the best method. When I was in grade 5 or 6, we had a reading program in our school. There were a whole series of booklets, each set with it's own color. Each child would progress through the booklets at their own pace. The idea of a two month summer vacation, a concession to the days when the bulk of the student body was involved in harvesting, should probably be re-evaluated.
No. The submitter of the article is somewhat of a sports fan and has confused the spelling of the Montreal hockey team with the spelling of the national adjective.
The recent surge is due to the scheduled phase out of NTSC/analog broadcasting.
That is, the already large orbiter plus the even larger external tank will flip nose over to re-orient itself with the landing site, this all while the engines are going full bore, and while still in the atmosphere.
I guess this is why confidence in this abort mode was not forthcoming, and why no astronaut volunteered to do a test flight of the RTLS system.
It seems to me that it would be safer to shut down the fuel flow, and jettison the external tank. Let the tank crash into the Atlantic.
- RTLS - Return to Launch Site
- TAL - Trans Atlantic Landing (European and African landing sites)
- AOA - Abort Once Around
- ATO - Abort To Orbit
So, if there is a problem, and they find it early enough, they have options.No. This is obviously the NEW C standard they've been talking about. I haven't read the article, but clearly they've loosend up on punctuation. Also, any comparisons to directives starting with MAX must automatically default to a "less than" comparison.
The reason is that they are trying to get us omnivores and carnivores to switch.
I ended up kissing Grace when we met and she seemed more positive afterwards (I have that effect on women).
I have that effect on fanasy women as well. [grin]
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On an old episode of Dr Who, the Doctor went to a planet of human calculators (to try to get the TARDIS chameleon circuits working again, I think). Everybody on the whole planet was sitting around with an abacus in their hand.