The article explains how this is technically feasible, even though it means a loss of performance. The delta has not been proposed as a shuttle replacement, but a supplement to the shuttle. It is not a replacement because it is both non-reusable, and it is purely a lift vehicle, not a "mass return" vehicle.
So the actual product is the trademark? The cube itself is copyrighted? I don't think it works that way. Also, is my screensaver (which shows various rubik cube puzzles of varying dimensions solving themselves) legal? Could they confiscate my machine?
Consider a speaker. It has the same fluid (air) on both sides of the cone. Underwater speakers would work the same way. It would have the same fluid on both sides of the cone, and thus the same pressure on both sides of the cone. The pressure becomes irrelevant.
If your productivity is text oriented, then yes, taking your hands off of the keyboard is damaging to productivity. If it is graphic oriented, then a mouse, or graphic tablet is better. What if your productivity is music oriented? You're better off with a piano keyboard than a typewriter keyboard. In short, matching the interface to the task will always give you better productivity.
Having said all that, a horizontal thumbwheel mounted on the edge of the keyboard, underneath the spacebar allowing me to scroll sideways from desktop to desktop would be cool.
I have long assumed that my machine doesn't have the oomph* to run first person shooters well. Therefore I haven't tried. Consequently, I have no idea what the icon for this topic is supposed to represent. It looks like a red ray gun from out of the 40s with the handle and the trigger swapped being stuffed into an automobile part. What is that thing anyways?
Furthermore, both in the UK and the US, miles, pounds, gallons, etc. are now all defined by reference to the SI measures of the metre, the kilogram and the litre.
That 90% figure is what is making me reluctant to get back into the biz. Most of the support calls I was getting last year were spyware related, and I dont think things have gotten any better. (The company I worked for decided to close the IT department rather than make the changes necessary to comply with recently some implemented privacy legislation.)
George Lucas: I won the lifetime achievement award.
Luke Skywalker: No! That's not true. That's impossible!
George Lucas : Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Luke Skywalker: Nooooo! Nooooo.
Somehow I knew I wasn't going to get my point across.:-(
When the internal workings of a part are wrong, it doesn't matter one little bit that you've installed the part properly. The whole will fail. It's like the old pentiums that had the floating point problem. They could only be installed in one orientation. They just didn't work the way the documentation said they would.
Now, back to my compass. If I give you a compass and tell you that the red end of the needle is north, and give you all sorts of instruction on how to use the compass, and you follow those instructions, but it is in fact the black end of the needle that is north, is it your fault, or mine, that you end up in a swamp instead of the entrance of the siver mine marked on your great-granddaddy's map?
As far as the accelerometer is concerned, the article says that the part was installed 180 degrees from the proper orientation, but that this did not matter because the sensor was designed upside-down. If the sensor is designed to detect "up" when mounted horizontally, it doesn't matter if sensor is rotated in the horizontal plane, because up is still up, and down is still down. If they installed a sensor marked "up" but with the internal workings of a "down" sensor (say by a mixup at the sensor manufacturer, or maybe a typo on a parts list somewhere) then you wind up with a multimillion dollar hole in the ground instead of a spectacular mid-air capture.
I'm sorry. When you said conventional bomb, I thought you meant that the bomb was a bomb of the non-nuclear, chemical explosive variety, not (as it clearly was) a nuclear bomb. It *was* a nuclear bomb, but merely a chemical explosion.
That's not true. There are two types of atom bombs. The first one is a "gun" type of device that produces super-criticality by firing uranium slugs at each other. The combined force of the collision is sufficient to produce a super-critical reaction and thus an explosion.
Um... I thought that that the slugs were propelled by a chemical explosion. Perhaps I was wrong. It has been years and years since I looked into how these things worked.
Just before 4 p.m. on Nov. 10, 1950, St-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City was rocked by an explosion. Townsfolk saw a thick cloud of yellow smoke spiralling up 1,000 m above the middle of the river, which is 20 km wide at that point. Then came the low rumble that shook houses for 40 km around. It was 40 years before officials finally admitted what had happened: a U.S. Air Force plane had accidentally detonated an atomic bomb over Canada.
Fortunately, the weapon's plutonium-uranium core was not present. What exploded so dramatically over the St. Lawrence was a 2,200-kg chemical charge used to detonate the Mark IV bomb, dropped by a U.S. Air Force B-50 bomber that had run into trouble during a flight from Goose Bay, Labrador, to the United States.
It was not a conventional bomb, it was a nuclear bomb which (for some reason) did not have the atomic core installed. All nuclear bombs use a chemical detonator. This is what exploded.
November 10, 1950 - A B-50 returning one of several US Mark IV bombs secretly deployed in Canada had engine trouble and jettisoned the weapon at 10,500 feet. The bomb, carrying the depleted uranium tamper but not its plutonium core ("pit"), was set to self-destruct at 2500' and dropped over the St. Lawrence River off Rivière du Loup, Quebec. The explosion shook area residents and scattered nearly 100 pounds (45 kg) of uranium. -
WorldIQ List of Notable Nuclear Accidents
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Oh great! Now you're going to rot away my ozone layer while you rot away your mind.
The article explains how this is technically feasible, even though it means a loss of performance. The delta has not been proposed as a shuttle replacement, but a supplement to the shuttle. It is not a replacement because it is both non-reusable, and it is purely a lift vehicle, not a "mass return" vehicle.
The delta could probably be fitted with a payload module that mimics the shuttle's cargo bay.
... or maybe a good imagination but a poor grasp of history.
So the actual product is the trademark? The cube itself is copyrighted? I don't think it works that way. Also, is my screensaver (which shows various rubik cube puzzles of varying dimensions solving themselves) legal? Could they confiscate my machine?
Maybe some Classic John Williams movie theme music...
Consider a speaker. It has the same fluid (air) on both sides of the cone. Underwater speakers would work the same way. It would have the same fluid on both sides of the cone, and thus the same pressure on both sides of the cone. The pressure becomes irrelevant.
Until they develop a cell phone that works reliably in a basement apartment, I will not be getting one either.
You are aware that Frankenstein WAS the scientist, right?
The common thought these days is that chickens evolved from dinosaurs, so those dinosaur eggs you mention may actually be chicken eggs.
If your productivity is text oriented, then yes, taking your hands off of the keyboard is damaging to productivity. If it is graphic oriented, then a mouse, or graphic tablet is better. What if your productivity is music oriented? You're better off with a piano keyboard than a typewriter keyboard. In short, matching the interface to the task will always give you better productivity.
Having said all that, a horizontal thumbwheel mounted on the edge of the keyboard, underneath the spacebar allowing me to scroll sideways from desktop to desktop would be cool.
...who become teachers.
The Coward's just trying to start a "meme's don't exist" meme. Don't fall for it.
Back then $345 was worth about $49.95
I have long assumed that my machine doesn't have the oomph* to run first person shooters well. Therefore I haven't tried. Consequently, I have no idea what the icon for this topic is supposed to represent. It looks like a red ray gun from out of the 40s with the handle and the trigger swapped being stuffed into an automobile part. What is that thing anyways?
* 800MHz, 64M nVidia, 384M ram.
I'm not aware of any printer that prints white. If I'm using orange paper, it will be a black and orange target.
Furthermore, both in the UK and the US, miles, pounds, gallons, etc. are now all defined by reference to the SI measures of the metre, the kilogram and the litre.
That 90% figure is what is making me reluctant to get back into the biz. Most of the support calls I was getting last year were spyware related, and I dont think things have gotten any better. (The company I worked for decided to close the IT department rather than make the changes necessary to comply with recently some implemented privacy legislation.)
orbis non sufficit (latin for "The world is not enough")
I am not a latin expert (IANALE), but wouldn't mundi non sufficit better capture the spirit of the phrase?
More appropriately:
George Lucas: I won the lifetime achievement award.
Luke Skywalker: No! That's not true. That's impossible!
George Lucas : Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Luke Skywalker: Nooooo! Nooooo.
Somehow I knew I wasn't going to get my point across. :-(
When the internal workings of a part are wrong, it doesn't matter one little bit that you've installed the part properly. The whole will fail. It's like the old pentiums that had the floating point problem. They could only be installed in one orientation. They just didn't work the way the documentation said they would.
Now, back to my compass. If I give you a compass and tell you that the red end of the needle is north, and give you all sorts of instruction on how to use the compass, and you follow those instructions, but it is in fact the black end of the needle that is north, is it your fault, or mine, that you end up in a swamp instead of the entrance of the siver mine marked on your great-granddaddy's map?
As far as the accelerometer is concerned, the article says that the part was installed 180 degrees from the proper orientation, but that this did not matter because the sensor was designed upside-down. If the sensor is designed to detect "up" when mounted horizontally, it doesn't matter if sensor is rotated in the horizontal plane, because up is still up, and down is still down. If they installed a sensor marked "up" but with the internal workings of a "down" sensor (say by a mixup at the sensor manufacturer, or maybe a typo on a parts list somewhere) then you wind up with a multimillion dollar hole in the ground instead of a spectacular mid-air capture.
I'm sorry. When you said conventional bomb, I thought you meant that the bomb was a bomb of the non-nuclear, chemical explosive variety, not (as it clearly was) a nuclear bomb. It *was* a nuclear bomb, but merely a chemical explosion.
That's not true. There are two types of atom bombs. The first one is a "gun" type of device that produces super-criticality by firing uranium slugs at each other. The combined force of the collision is sufficient to produce a super-critical reaction and thus an explosion.
Um... I thought that that the slugs were propelled by a chemical explosion. Perhaps I was wrong. It has been years and years since I looked into how these things worked.
True, but it is also true that no matter how correctly you are using a compass, you will get lost if the needle is magnetized backwards.
From the article:
It was not a conventional bomb, it was a nuclear bomb which (for some reason) did not have the atomic core installed. All nuclear bombs use a chemical detonator. This is what exploded.
So... What is the correct way of doing this?