It was never a law (as in operating principle of existence). It was merely a trend in manufacturing. Keen observers could probably make note of similar trends in other industries. I.e. gas mileage of cars, etc.
I doubt it. If you have two rows of seven chutes along the length of the plane, and one or two fail, you wind up with a slightly greater rate of descent, and maybe a little listing. Besides, the situations under which one would deploy such a system pretty much preclude the possibility of a survivable crash anyways.
That's the easy part. A hundred thousand strands each able to support a hundred thosandth of the weight will do it. Besides, you could distribute smaller 'chutes over the entire length of the aircraft. It doesn't have to be one big 'chute.
Slowing the thing down enough to safely deploy the thing, now that's another issue... Retrorockets and drag-chutes anyone?
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Not so fast there! The carbon used in CD production is bound in a form that is unusable by the boisphere. With vehicle emissions, plants can use the CO2 immediately.
Water cooling is a lot different than what your freezer does. With a freezer the working fluid (freon) goes into the freezer and is allowed to expand. As it expands, the heat of the surrounding environment (the food) causes it to boil. The gas is then forced out of the freezer compartment and passed into the condenser coils. A compressor squeezes the gas until it condenses back into a liquid. In the process it sheds heat to the environment (the air surrounding the freezer). The liquid then circulates.
A water cooler just moves water around. There is no phase change (liquid/gas - gas/liquid) to absorb heat. Actually the working of a water cooler is a lot closer to that of a fan than that of a freezer.
First of all, the login page is still off of the nytimes.com webserver, so unless registration prevents people from clicking the link at all, the same number of requests will be hitting the nytimes server as if it didn't have registration. Well, actually double, since we're all going through a registration page AND the article page.
It was meant to be funny. Sorry if it didn't come across that way.
I know that the login requests would hit the server, and that the hit rate would be no different than if they didn't have the registration... from a technical point of view.
However, there are plenty of people (me among them) that simply won't bother to go to the site because of the registration. Whether it's laziness, or security hypersensitivity, the registration part of that site does "block" traffic from slashdot users.
Can you imagine the traffic the NYTimes site would get from here if they didn't have the registration? Consider all the complaints about it.
Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One define the Batman for me. Anything else seems either silly, or weak.
"There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them
disarm with minimal contact. Three of them kill. The other..." [kicks bad guy] "hurts!"
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It was never a law (as in operating principle of existence). It was merely a trend in manufacturing. Keen observers could probably make note of similar trends in other industries. I.e. gas mileage of cars, etc.
First post is passe. The current trend is posting well informed, insightful (and possibly humourous) comments.
Is this the same Markopoulou that went tramping around Mongolia and China a few hundred years ago?
Yes, and the bomb casing is specifically designed to handle the stresses involved.
I doubt it. If you have two rows of seven chutes along the length of the plane, and one or two fail, you wind up with a slightly greater rate of descent, and maybe a little listing. Besides, the situations under which one would deploy such a system pretty much preclude the possibility of a survivable crash anyways.
Slowing the thing down enough to safely deploy the thing, now that's another issue... Retrorockets and drag-chutes anyone?
Or: They were put there. Buy a man.
10 a$="20 print "+chr(34)+"10 a$="+chr(34)+"+chr(34)+a$+chr(34)"+chr(13)+chr(10) +"30 print a$"
20 print "10 a$="+chr(34)+a$+chr(34)
30 print a$
Roughly
I keep these straight by referring to them as Delux and Sux.
Of course then you'd have to deal with overhyped threads...
You mean like this?
Perhaps we can kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Just paint the time sensitive dye on old AOL CDs. :-)
Not so fast there! The carbon used in CD production is bound in a form that is unusable by the boisphere. With vehicle emissions, plants can use the CO2 immediately.
So send them back when they expire.
A water cooler just moves water around. There is no phase change (liquid/gas - gas/liquid) to absorb heat. Actually the working of a water cooler is a lot closer to that of a fan than that of a freezer.
It was meant to be funny. Sorry if it didn't come across that way.
I know that the login requests would hit the server, and that the hit rate would be no different than if they didn't have the registration... from a technical point of view.
However, there are plenty of people (me among them) that simply won't bother to go to the site because of the registration. Whether it's laziness, or security hypersensitivity, the registration part of that site does "block" traffic from slashdot users.
Can you imagine the traffic the NYTimes site would get from here if they didn't have the registration? Consider all the complaints about it.
Why do you think you have to log in to see the articles? It's protection from being slashdotted.
That's what makes it so secure!
You mean "feeling" holograms will let you be a farmer?
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Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One define the Batman for me. Anything else seems either silly, or weak.
"There are seven working defenses from this position.
Three of them disarm with minimal contact. Three of them kill. The other..." [kicks bad guy] "hurts!"
I use PPPoE on xDSL and run servers with no problems. Why would PPPoE have problems with servers?
You'd have to do that to keep the Wake on Lan signals from getting through. Oh, and unplug the phone line from the modem as well.