I am not a math major, but I don't need to be to answer this. "That which we know of as twenty-three, by any other base would be as prime" (Hey, I ain't no english major neither).
Prime numbers are prime irrespective of what base they are expressed in. Primes are numbers which cannot be evenly divided by any other integers but themselves and 1. For example, 23 (base 10) is just as prime as 10111 (binary), 27 (octal), or 17 (hex).
You need some sort of heat shield to protect the cargo as it enters the atmosphere. So unless the cargo has its own heat shield built in, you cannot retrieve it without some sort of recovery vehicle.
Also, why land in the ocean? A parawing is steerable. They could land at the Kennedy Space Centre, or any sizeable airport, or military base.
I think there should be two types of shuttle. First, a personnel shuttle to bring people up and down. Second, for those rare occasions when we need it, a cargo shuttle to bring hardware down (not up, but down). These shuttles, wouldn't be the fixed wing flying brickyards we have now, but a craft with a replaceable ablative heat shield, and parasail/parawing. Cargo would be sent up the way it used to be, as simple rocket payload.
If a Swiss Army Knife is so useful, so handy, so indespensible, then think of the utter hopelessness you'll feel when staring down the business end of a Swiss Army Assault Rifle [TM].
Sorry, I just don't understand why the sequel consistently seems to rate higher with the general public..
Because the general public doesn't give a flying flip about any sort of film school artistic classiness. They care about being entertained. They want excitement. They want funny. They want "in your face" quotable lines. They want memorable characters. ALIENS delivers much more entertainment than ALIEN
When I say "can't run servers" I'm not talking about any sort of technical blockade. I'm referring to the End User Agreement, or Acceptable Use Policy, or whatever they call it. If I were to run a web server, even on port 8080, they could pull the plug on my connection at a whim.
Cable is giving me 1.5mb/s for $55/month, but I can't run servers. DSL would give me 3mb/s for $30/month (plus $50 one time fee for a static ip address) and I can run servers. It would be a no brainer. However, despite being in the middle of one of the largest cities in the country, I can't get DSL where I live.
I have two problems with the whole cable/dsl issue. The first is that (hereabouts) the only ISP I can use on the cable is the Rogers. Rogers does not permit me to run my own servers. If I had a DSL line, I would have a choice of providers which allow servers.
The other (more important) issue is that CableInternet+Cell costs a fair penny more than DSL+Landline.
Given that the name of the service is called Dodgeball, I presume that the target audience is the fat slow-moving kids with the glasses. You know, the uncoordinated, clumsy ones who are socially inept and... post on... Slashdot...
Hey, You know what they need here? An Unpost Button.
So, telephones, voicemail, internet, email, faxes, even Slashdot itself are doomed to fail? You're precluding the possibility of people having functional relationships with anyone that is further than walking distance apart? You must be a Luddite... Or a Nike shareholder.:)
If you truely lived in Canada, you would know that liquor control is handled on a provincial level, not on a federal level. This is why beer is available in corner variety stores in Quebec, but not in, say, Ontario.
Ah! So maybe they are South Pole honeypots then. Put up some non-secure machines with interesting data, and let the script kiddies think they've hacked the south pole, when in reality the real machines are nice and safe.
Slashdot Mirror
That's not a map... That's a map.
I am not a math major, but I don't need to be to answer this. "That which we know of as twenty-three, by any other base would be as prime" (Hey, I ain't no english major neither).
Prime numbers are prime irrespective of what base they are expressed in. Primes are numbers which cannot be evenly divided by any other integers but themselves and 1. For example, 23 (base 10) is just as prime as 10111 (binary), 27 (octal), or 17 (hex).
"Oh look, Kodos! They sent us a cookbook."
Yes, that's it exactly.
If you're going to send the thing up to bring cargo down, it would be a waste not to send cargo up in it too.
You're right, of course. I was trying to emphasize that the cargo shuttle was not essential in getting cargo up.
You need some sort of heat shield to protect the cargo as it enters the atmosphere. So unless the cargo has its own heat shield built in, you cannot retrieve it without some sort of recovery vehicle.
Also, why land in the ocean? A parawing is steerable. They could land at the Kennedy Space Centre, or any sizeable airport, or military base.
"Scotty, beam me aboard"
"Aye sir. Will a two-by-four do?"
I think there should be two types of shuttle. First, a personnel shuttle to bring people up and down. Second, for those rare occasions when we need it, a cargo shuttle to bring hardware down (not up, but down). These shuttles, wouldn't be the fixed wing flying brickyards we have now, but a craft with a replaceable ablative heat shield, and parasail/parawing. Cargo would be sent up the way it used to be, as simple rocket payload.
Microsoft knows a tax writeoff opportunity when they see one.
"It's not about plusses and minuses. It's about plusses and plusses, if you play the minuses correctly" - Momma Carlson - WKRP
My computer's DVD player is not quite fast enough to play DVDs. I have to copy them to my hard drive in order to watch them.
If a Swiss Army Knife is so useful, so handy, so indespensible, then think of the utter hopelessness you'll feel when staring down the business end of a Swiss Army Assault Rifle [TM].
It could be that his keyboard repeat is a tad too sensitive.
You know you've got software bloat when you have to preload the game before it even hits the shelves.
Sorry, I just don't understand why the sequel consistently seems to rate higher with the general public..
Because the general public doesn't give a flying flip about any sort of film school artistic classiness. They care about being entertained. They want excitement. They want funny. They want "in your face" quotable lines. They want memorable characters. ALIENS delivers much more entertainment than ALIEN
When I say "can't run servers" I'm not talking about any sort of technical blockade. I'm referring to the End User Agreement, or Acceptable Use Policy, or whatever they call it. If I were to run a web server, even on port 8080, they could pull the plug on my connection at a whim.
Cable is giving me 1.5mb/s for $55/month, but I can't run servers. DSL would give me 3mb/s for $30/month (plus $50 one time fee for a static ip address) and I can run servers. It would be a no brainer. However, despite being in the middle of one of the largest cities in the country, I can't get DSL where I live.
I have two problems with the whole cable/dsl issue. The first is that (hereabouts) the only ISP I can use on the cable is the Rogers. Rogers does not permit me to run my own servers. If I had a DSL line, I would have a choice of providers which allow servers.
The other (more important) issue is that CableInternet+Cell costs a fair penny more than DSL+Landline.
Given that the name of the service is called Dodgeball, I presume that the target audience is the fat slow-moving kids with the glasses. You know, the uncoordinated, clumsy ones who are socially inept and... post on... Slashdot...
Hey, You know what they need here? An Unpost Button.
So, telephones, voicemail, internet, email, faxes, even Slashdot itself are doomed to fail? You're precluding the possibility of people having functional relationships with anyone that is further than walking distance apart? You must be a Luddite... Or a Nike shareholder. :)
They should put that on the incompatibility list then.
PENTAbyte? What is that, like, five bytes?
If you truely lived in Canada, you would know that liquor control is handled on a provincial level, not on a federal level. This is why beer is available in corner variety stores in Quebec, but not in, say, Ontario.
I've read it hrair times. Great book. If you haven't read it, go and do so.
Ah! So maybe they are South Pole honeypots then. Put up some non-secure machines with interesting data, and let the script kiddies think they've hacked the south pole, when in reality the real machines are nice and safe.
No fair! I'm in the middle of Scarborough (a suburb of Toronto) and I can't get DSL.