they become innocent civilians again No, hey become released child molesters. paid their debt What debt? Does the suffering of the criminal in jail somehow fix the damage he's done, or the damage that he will do when he is released? I'm a mean old bastard, but someone else suffering makes me feel bad. I can't imagine knowing someone is suffering helping to heal a child. I have no desire to hurt anyone, unless it makes the world a better place. I see no reason to "punish" a criminal at all. Punishment is a negative stimulus, part of behavioural training, for beings who can't learn from example. What keeps my son(age 3, autistic) from climbing onto the stove and pulling a pot of boiling water onto himself is that he knows his butt suddenly stings whenever he reaches for the stove. What keeps a pervert from touching my children is the certainty of a short and painful life, should he act on that impulse. What I'd do to him wouldn't do a thing to make what he did right. It would prevent him from doing anything ever again, and serve as a warning, even though I would go to prison or the gallows. I've got a lot of family, and most of them aren't as nice as me. Reform and deterrence should be the goals of our criminal justice system. Large numbers of released sex offenders disappear, refusing to register so they can be watched. If they were "cured", they wouldn't need to escape surveillance. They disappear so they can do it again. Those who obey the registration requirements just have to be more careful. Unlike most crimes, sexual predation is not a product of changeable circumstances, where with some therapy and alteration of circumstances, the criminal is a useful, good person. The only safe and moral course is to segregate them from all other humans. That doesn't mean put them all together. They'd all just victimize each other. We don't want to send them to hell. And yes, I know that most of them were, in turn, molested. I still don't see how that makes it ok to let them free to do it again. It's not about the criminal. His rights are junior to those of his victims.
...is that we let child molesters live. I'm not talking about the 17 year old with the 15-year-old girlfriend, crossing arbitrary legal lines. I'm talking about perverts. I'd like to see a government sting, where somebody fakes up a NAMBLA cruise to southeast Asia(they go there to fuck children), get them in international waters, and drown the lot of them. Every conviction on child molestation should be a mandator death penalty. The law tries to take the well-being of the offenders into account. I disagree. There are some crimes which bring the forfeit of status as a human. I can see sparing somebody for a crime of passion. There are murderers among us who are good people and will never do it again. There is no child molester who ever was redeemed. I'm sure there are some who were never convicted again, maybe even never charged, maybe even never did it again, but they must never be permitted the opportunity for unsupervised access to children again. The best way to do that is to kill them the first time they reveal themselves. Yeah, they were probably taught by getting molested themselves. That really is sad, but it doesn't change the fact that they should be dead. If the certainty of death keeps them from acting on their desires, they won't spread the disease. I'm perfectly willing to spare people with perverted thoughts that never have been put into action, but it's better that a billion repented criminals die than that one child should suffer. I keep close watch on my children. It would take overwhelming force to take one in my presence, or great stealth to get one out of the house while I sleep.
The sleep loss doesn't help - holds you down from activity. If you're tired, you don't feel like doing anything. Depending on when you eat, you might be improving things. Moving the bulk of your eating earlier in the day makes you able to be more active. I like a big breakfast, medium dinner, and a small supper, with lots of water throughout. Of course, I'm in front-range Colorado, and my old Indiana body was never intended to conserve water. And finally, that fidgeting thing can be more useful than you might think. It's easy to develop habits. Usually, we pick up annoying, useless ones, but semiconsciously keeping up leg bouncing burns calories and builds capacity. If you have a wheeled chair, for instance, you can drag yourself forward and backward on your chair while not having to manipulate the keyboard. I often have periods wherein I'm reading a manual or report, and need press pagedown only maybe every 20 seconds. Sometimes, I switch to a larger font, and stand up while reading, allowing me to do shallow knee bends, and even sloped pushups on my desk, (feet back behind you, breastbone and hands at the edge of the desk). Lately, of course, I haven't been able to practice what I preach much. It's hard to type code without holding still, and loading a complex problem for analysis often puts me into almost a trance state. I don't exercise much when I 'm not in my body.
Doing a search What a good idea. I'd meant to do that several times, but got redirected enough that I finally lost the idea. DOH! Now that I can see the article, though, I'm no longer impressed. They didn't add to the supply of wind power. They just bought the silly feel-good voluntarily paying more for power so they can say they're running on wind. I was picturing one of those venturi buildings - big turbine or maybe vertical circling airfoils in the center, with grid tap for low wind days. This is not news. It's not technology - it's social masturbation.
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Sure. It's not a stupid question in itself. However, if "Aunt Ginny" would have trouble with cases, she also probably wouldn't be in a commandline shell in the first place, but instead, using a gui and applications.
There's no reason the applications can't handle case rules for her, kind of like you suggested with the alternate shell.
Opening a file by typing a name with other case matches causes a selection dialog, showing each file, as it is on the filesystem, with size and date.
Trying to save a file with a casetransposition conflict would bring up a confirmation dialog, explaining that it may cause confusion.
Sorting of filenames in listings would be case-insensitive but case-preserving.
I saw one guy suggesting converting all case mixes to a standard case template and appending numbers. Now
If it's going to "shatter the earth", is the preparation evacuating the planet? If that's its only application, why use it? Can it be used against other planets? If so, and you simply MUST test it, why not Mercury, or better yet, a potentially-threatening asteroid? I can personally see no need to EVER shatter the earth. On the other hand, if it's not actually directly destructive, just world-CHANGING, we might as well get on with it. Trying to guess when it's ok to reveal it is futile, unless it's time travel, in which case, you can use the problem as the solution. If it has no positive application, get ahold of somebody in power in a limited government, who is in favor of limited government (I'm specifically thinking of G. W. Bush, here), secretly develop methods in place to detect research in that direction and prevent progress. You'd end up with a secret orginization like the conspiracy theories postulate about Roswell and such, but the fact is, there are people who would want to create and use such a thing, and there's been only one country ever who had an overwhelming advantage that didn't take advantage of it. Yes, we used nukes on Japan, but we couldn't leave it a stalemate, and to take the island conventionally would have killed millions of civilians, instead of a few thousand, and more importantly, thousands of our soldiers. Afterwards many in our military wanted to keep rolling, and take out the Soviet Union before they could catch up. We didn't. Imagine if it had been Stalin with the bomb. Socialism would have finally been allowed to fail worldwide. I didn't want to get so far off the topic, but I needed to point out that there actually are some in power who can be trusted.
For all you AOL users out there (I'm sure there's somebody for whom it's the only dialup available), I think this quote sums it up: "It became a flashing beacon for employees," he recalled. "If someone said, `I don't care about members, I care about the numbers,' we could show them the numbers." That clearly indicates that the general culture in AOL management is "I don't care about members". Of course, their primary duty is to make money, but one would expect at least lip-service to the concept of customer service. In private, they consider the customers to be chumps, which is what the willing customers are. I remember when I found out AOL was going to begin offering internet access, and my sad prediction has been borne out. The internet got bigger, but the quality of the users fell to maybe 4% of what it was. IRC became useless almost immediately (went from 1% netsexers to 90%), and with that many clueless losers available, in came the spammers. Sure, you can call it snobbery. People who work for something usually appreciate it more. If you start letting monkeys drive cars, the roads will get even more... never mind. considering my drive in today, I think that's already happened.
Same problem, same non-resolution. We bought 36 of these worthless things, at 4000USD each, and they refuse to do anything about it, saying that their "direction" is toward the windows-based NAS, and no further development or bugfixes will be performed for the unix-based NAS. We're evaluating the Iomega NAS 401u, Apple XServ, and IBM NAS 100 as replacements. Whatever we end up with, I will never be party to another business relationship with them, if they back out of their promise (verbal only) to make the product they sold and promised at a certain minimal useability level. Now, watch me get laid off and go try to get a job there...
Not all NAS vendors are doing that kind of optimization. Some vendors are making very-low-end systems, just like he's describing - actually, in my main experience, much lower-end. We standardized on the Maxtor MaxAttach NAS 4000 320GB machines, which are p166/64MB/4x80GBIDE, running FreeBSD 2.5. While we were negotiating the deal, they decided to end-of-life this new product, and have left it as an unreliable, poorly-performing product. They even refuse to fix the problem where the box locks up on reboot if rebooted while filesystems are mounted from the NFS shares. The basic concept is solid, and i'm probably going to end up doing just what the article is about, though with slightly-higher-end hardware, so I can buy a hundred or so identical systems, make an image, and splat it onto them all. It should come in at about 25% what all the NAS vendors are asking for equivalent products.
You're on the right track. The station radiates 10,000 W on 5, 10, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 and 20 MHz. 10Mhz is the most-reliably-heard frequency in most of the US, as it's one running at 10KW, at a good frequency compromise between minimizing number of hops to minimize absorption, and having short enough hops to leave very few dead spots ("skip zones"). Due to varying ground angles and indices of refraction along the way, it's well filled-in from about 200 miles on out until it's faded into the noise. since it's what, 40 miles from Ft.Collins to Boulder (down off Broadway, isn't it?), you get missed by skywave, even at the 2.5Mhz frequency. The 20Mhz signal might be detectable with a high-gain directional antenna, bouncing off the Flatirons. I'm in Longmont (about 10 miles up highway 119 from you, and out of the valley). I just grabbed my rig and checked. I can her 2.5,5,10, and 15, but not a bit of 20Mhz. I would expect that 2.5Mhz would have enough ground-wave to maybe bend down into the valley. You might try that one. You may find it easier to find the signal if you can switch the receiver to U/LSB or CW mode. That way, as you tune through where the station should be, you may hear the carrier , dropping to 0hz near the indicated correct frequency. Set a bit of an offset where it's easy to hear the carrier, and experiment with antenna orientation and placement, looking for an increase in signal strength. Then, null the carrier, and switch back to AM mode.
The WWV signal has components in its modulation that make it nearly impossible for me to understand, except in AM mode receiving. I think it's the 100hz subcarrier carrying the BCD time code. Whatever it is, it's much more easily ignored in AM. If you still can't get a strong enough signal, grab some wire at the Radio Shack at Flatirons mall (i think it's on the north side of Pearl, around 31st street), and hook it to your rig. You might want to pick up alligator clips for the purpose. At receive, you can get away with crimping - no need to solder. Get as much wire as you can, going in one direction, as high as you can. If there's a grounding point on the rig, run a short straight wire from there to a good ground, or a long straight wire just laying along the ground as a counterpoise. Surely, you can pick up WWV on one of the 5 freqencies. Once you can do that, you can probably also get other SWB stations - BBC, VOA, etc.. General technical issues aside, yes, Boulder is a bit of a dead zone, at many wavelengths, to many locations. There's a lot of high ground between South Broadway in Boulder and Ft. Collins. If you come across some time, come by for lunch, and we'll see if your rig is working, compared to my FT-817. Alternately:(303) 499-7111 is a local call, back to the same building you're in.
back story to narnia, and shows just WHY theres a lampost I agree, but until you commment, I was in the chronological order camp. I had even reordered my own set that way. However, you make me remember. That was so cool, to see where the lamppost came from.
I'm pretty sure Mikhail Barishnikov has a vacation home in Idaho. I sometimes wonder if those people who live on the edges of the country and think everything in "flyover country" is meaningless also think that the only meaningful part of a human is the epidermis. It would explain the shallow thinking.
Yes, and the fourth month of the year is spelled "capital a, p, r, i, l". (I still hate that teacher for calling me out in the third grade spelling bee on that one). Centrifugal force is an apparent force, useful for visualizing the stress on the wheel. You could say that gravity doesn't pull two masses together, either. Instead, an apparently falling object is just naturally following the curvature of space, and the surface of the Earth is pushing it off-course when they meet.
Why not just use regenerative braking I'm usually a little kinder than this, but you plainly don't know what regenerative braking actually is. It's a lot more than just a feature of your R/C car. The story is all about regenerative braking. Rather than using friction to convert kinetic energy to heat and getting rid of it, using the motor to convert it back to electrical energy. The flywheels are just the most efficient place to hold on to that energy until it's needed again. It's more efficient to store it near where it's generated, since a stopping train is likely to start again, from the place where it stopped, than to send it all along the system on the rail, where it will mostly be wasted in heating the third rail before it reaches a useful load. The thing i found surprising about this story was learning that they weren't already doing something like this.
Well, my planned comment was remembered by everyone else. That's cool. Here's one for you, though, that is portable and position-insensitive. A Geiger tube, counting pulses instead of averaging them. If the generation rate is too low, a femtocurie of radium should speed that up as high as you need it.
That was just a problem with their LinoType machine. the "i" and "s" in "Windows" were too soon before the "is" between "Windows" and "XP", and the chute hadn't fed new ones by the time they were called for.
I've got to disagree a little. Overall organizational efficiency as a business sucks. We feed the military a lot of money because we don't want them wasting all their time trying to save a buck here and there. That's how congressmen can get by with some of the idiotic spending mandates. Efficiency of systems, however, is something they excel at. For example, if a fighter jet is very inefficient, it's a dog, because it's either super-short range, or flies like a cow because it's carrying so much fuel. They package he food efficiently for foot soldiers so they can go farther, faster, with more ordnance. More efficient use of spectrum means more data. Don't confuse efficiency with penury.
He demonstrated that it was not a sparse file, by using the wc command on it. A sparse file treats all the empty space as nulls on reading, so he would have gotten the big size if it were sparse.
It's a single-bit error, probably bad media that got past the ECC on the drive, but maybe just a plain corruption. I'd suggest copying it somewhere safe and running an fsck, if you can afford the downtime.
I doubt they'd post a troll that stupid. I think he's just had some bad luck. I have gvim, which i set as a possible opener of ALL files... (context menu has "open with Vim"). However, I usually just use the plain vi (which is actually just text Vim) inside cygwin. Never a problem, and I don't have to retrain my fingers when i switch from an xterm to local stuff.
Actually, Italian law is what makes it legally authorized access. Legally, they could have forced him to do it himself, holding him in prison indefinitely, in contempt of court. He should be thankful they saved him the keystrokes. What I found funniest was the comment "We live in a world where we communicate worldwide and we travel worldwide," Farber said. "If I violate some Australian law and then land in Sydney, do they throw me in jail?". 's/ I / Dmytry Skylarov/^Js/Australian/American/^Js/Sydney/Las Vegas/' ...If we're going to dish it out, perhaps we should be prepared also to take it?
the pressure those fragments applied was well in excess of 22,000 psi at impact, yes. I don't see how you can be impressed, though? How about a punch hit with a hammer? Same principle.
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they become innocent civilians again
No, hey become released child molesters.
paid their debt
What debt? Does the suffering of the criminal in jail somehow fix the damage he's done, or the damage that he will do when he is released? I'm a mean old bastard, but someone else suffering makes me feel bad. I can't imagine knowing someone is suffering helping to heal a child. I have no desire to hurt anyone, unless it makes the world a better place. I see no reason to "punish" a criminal at all. Punishment is a negative stimulus, part of behavioural training, for beings who can't learn from example. What keeps my son(age 3, autistic) from climbing onto the stove and pulling a pot of boiling water onto himself is that he knows his butt suddenly stings whenever he reaches for the stove. What keeps a pervert from touching my children is the certainty of a short and painful life, should he act on that impulse. What I'd do to him wouldn't do a thing to make what he did right. It would prevent him from doing anything ever again, and serve as a warning, even though I would go to prison or the gallows. I've got a lot of family, and most of them aren't as nice as me. Reform and deterrence should be the goals of our criminal justice system.
Large numbers of released sex offenders disappear, refusing to register so they can be watched. If they were "cured", they wouldn't need to escape surveillance. They disappear so they can do it again. Those who obey the registration requirements just have to be more careful.
Unlike most crimes, sexual predation is not a product of changeable circumstances, where with some therapy and alteration of circumstances, the criminal is a useful, good person.
The only safe and moral course is to segregate them from all other humans. That doesn't mean put them all together. They'd all just victimize each other. We don't want to send them to hell.
And yes, I know that most of them were, in turn, molested. I still don't see how that makes it ok to let them free to do it again. It's not about the criminal. His rights are junior to those of his victims.
I'm not surprised that you are willing to do that, only that you have any money left since your last vacation to Thailand.
...is that we let child molesters live.
I'm not talking about the 17 year old with the 15-year-old girlfriend, crossing arbitrary legal lines. I'm talking about perverts.
I'd like to see a government sting, where somebody fakes up a NAMBLA cruise to southeast Asia(they go there to fuck children), get them in international waters, and drown the lot of them.
Every conviction on child molestation should be a mandator death penalty. The law tries to take the well-being of the offenders into account. I disagree. There are some crimes which bring the forfeit of status as a human.
I can see sparing somebody for a crime of passion. There are murderers among us who are good people and will never do it again.
There is no child molester who ever was redeemed. I'm sure there are some who were never convicted again, maybe even never charged, maybe even never did it again, but they must never be permitted the opportunity for unsupervised access to children again. The best way to do that is to kill them the first time they reveal themselves. Yeah, they were probably taught by getting molested themselves. That really is sad, but it doesn't change the fact that they should be dead. If the certainty of death keeps them from acting on their desires, they won't spread the disease. I'm perfectly willing to spare people with perverted thoughts that never have been put into action, but it's better that a billion repented criminals die than that one child should suffer.
I keep close watch on my children. It would take overwhelming force to take one in my presence, or great stealth to get one out of the house while I sleep.
The sleep loss doesn't help - holds you down from activity. If you're tired, you don't feel like doing anything.
Depending on when you eat, you might be improving things. Moving the bulk of your eating earlier in the day makes you able to be more active. I like a big breakfast, medium dinner, and a small supper, with lots of water throughout. Of course, I'm in front-range Colorado, and my old Indiana body was never intended to conserve water.
And finally, that fidgeting thing can be more useful than you might think. It's easy to develop habits. Usually, we pick up annoying, useless ones, but semiconsciously keeping up leg bouncing burns calories and builds capacity.
If you have a wheeled chair, for instance, you can drag yourself forward and backward on your chair while not having to manipulate the keyboard. I often have periods wherein I'm reading a manual or report, and need press pagedown only maybe every 20 seconds. Sometimes, I switch to a larger font, and stand up while reading, allowing me to do shallow knee bends, and even sloped pushups on my desk, (feet back behind you, breastbone and hands at the edge of the desk).
Lately, of course, I haven't been able to practice what I preach much. It's hard to type code without holding still, and loading a complex problem for analysis often puts me into almost a trance state. I don't exercise much when I 'm not in my body.
Doing a search
What a good idea. I'd meant to do that several times, but got redirected enough that I finally lost the idea. DOH!
Now that I can see the article, though, I'm no longer impressed. They didn't add to the supply of wind power. They just bought the silly feel-good voluntarily paying more for power so they can say they're running on wind. I was picturing one of those venturi buildings - big turbine or maybe vertical circling airfoils in the center, with grid tap for low wind days. This is not news. It's not technology - it's social masturbation.
Place the word "sex" after the word "a", and you'll understand his meaning.
Sure. I'll join in the ethnic stereotypes, and make a jingoistic confusion between Japan and China - All your zilla are belong to us.
There's no reason the applications can't handle case rules for her, kind of like you suggested with the alternate shell.
If it's going to "shatter the earth", is the preparation evacuating the planet? If that's its only application, why use it? Can it be used against other planets? If so, and you simply MUST test it, why not Mercury, or better yet, a potentially-threatening asteroid? I can personally see no need to EVER shatter the earth.
On the other hand, if it's not actually directly destructive, just world-CHANGING, we might as well get on with it. Trying to guess when it's ok to reveal it is futile, unless it's time travel, in which case, you can use the problem as the solution.
If it has no positive application, get ahold of somebody in power in a limited government, who is in favor of limited government (I'm specifically thinking of G. W. Bush, here), secretly develop methods in place to detect research in that direction and prevent progress. You'd end up with a secret orginization like the conspiracy theories postulate about Roswell and such, but the fact is, there are people who would want to create and use such a thing, and there's been only one country ever who had an overwhelming advantage that didn't take advantage of it. Yes, we used nukes on Japan, but we couldn't leave it a stalemate, and to take the island conventionally would have killed millions of civilians, instead of a few thousand, and more importantly, thousands of our soldiers.
Afterwards many in our military wanted to keep rolling, and take out the Soviet Union before they could catch up. We didn't. Imagine if it had been Stalin with the bomb. Socialism would have finally been allowed to fail worldwide.
I didn't want to get so far off the topic, but I needed to point out that there actually are some in power who can be trusted.
For all you AOL users out there (I'm sure there's somebody for whom it's the only dialup available), I think this quote sums it up:
"It became a flashing beacon for employees," he recalled. "If someone said, `I don't care about members, I care about the numbers,' we could show them the numbers."
That clearly indicates that the general culture in AOL management is "I don't care about members". Of course, their primary duty is to make money, but one would expect at least lip-service to the concept of customer service. In private, they consider the customers to be chumps, which is what the willing customers are. I remember when I found out AOL was going to begin offering internet access, and my sad prediction has been borne out. The internet got bigger, but the quality of the users fell to maybe 4% of what it was. IRC became useless almost immediately (went from 1% netsexers to 90%), and with that many clueless losers available, in came the spammers.
Sure, you can call it snobbery. People who work for something usually appreciate it more. If you start letting monkeys drive cars, the roads will get even more... never mind. considering my drive in today, I think that's already happened.
Same problem, same non-resolution. We bought 36 of these worthless things, at 4000USD each, and they refuse to do anything about it, saying that their "direction" is toward the windows-based NAS, and no further development or bugfixes will be performed for the unix-based NAS. We're evaluating the Iomega NAS 401u, Apple XServ, and IBM NAS 100 as replacements. Whatever we end up with, I will never be party to another business relationship with them, if they back out of their promise (verbal only) to make the product they sold and promised at a certain minimal useability level.
Now, watch me get laid off and go try to get a job there...
Not all NAS vendors are doing that kind of optimization. Some vendors are making very-low-end systems, just like he's describing - actually, in my main experience, much lower-end. We standardized on the Maxtor MaxAttach NAS 4000 320GB machines, which are p166/64MB/4x80GBIDE, running FreeBSD 2.5. While we were negotiating the deal, they decided to end-of-life this new product, and have left it as an unreliable, poorly-performing product. They even refuse to fix the problem where the box locks up on reboot if rebooted while filesystems are mounted from the NFS shares.
The basic concept is solid, and i'm probably going to end up doing just what the article is about, though with slightly-higher-end hardware, so I can buy a hundred or so identical systems, make an image, and splat it onto them all. It should come in at about 25% what all the NAS vendors are asking for equivalent products.
You're on the right track. The station radiates 10,000 W on 5, 10, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 and 20 MHz. 10Mhz is the most-reliably-heard frequency in most of the US, as it's one running at 10KW, at a good frequency compromise between minimizing number of hops to minimize absorption, and having short enough hops to leave very few dead spots ("skip zones"). Due to varying ground angles and indices of refraction along the way, it's well filled-in from about 200 miles on out until it's faded into the noise. since it's what, 40 miles from Ft.Collins to Boulder (down off Broadway, isn't it?), you get missed by skywave, even at the 2.5Mhz frequency. The 20Mhz signal might be detectable with a high-gain directional antenna, bouncing off the Flatirons.
I'm in Longmont (about 10 miles up highway 119 from you, and out of the valley). I just grabbed my rig and checked. I can her 2.5,5,10, and 15, but not a bit of 20Mhz. I would expect that 2.5Mhz would have enough ground-wave to maybe bend down into the valley. You might try that one. You may find it easier to find the signal if you can switch the receiver to U/LSB or CW mode. That way, as you tune through where the station should be, you may hear the carrier , dropping to 0hz near the indicated correct frequency. Set a bit of an offset where it's easy to hear the carrier, and experiment with antenna orientation and placement, looking for an increase in signal strength. Then, null the carrier, and switch back to AM mode. The WWV signal has components in its modulation that make it nearly impossible for me to understand, except in AM mode receiving. I think it's the 100hz subcarrier carrying the BCD time code. Whatever it is, it's much more easily ignored in AM.
If you still can't get a strong enough signal, grab some wire at the Radio Shack at Flatirons mall (i think it's on the north side of Pearl, around 31st street), and hook it to your rig. You might want to pick up alligator clips for the purpose. At receive, you can get away with crimping - no need to solder. Get as much wire as you can, going in one direction, as high as you can. If there's a grounding point on the rig, run a short straight wire from there to a good ground, or a long straight wire just laying along the ground as a counterpoise. Surely, you can pick up WWV on one of the 5 freqencies. Once you can do that, you can probably also get other SWB stations - BBC, VOA, etc..
General technical issues aside, yes, Boulder is a bit of a dead zone, at many wavelengths, to many locations. There's a lot of high ground between South Broadway in Boulder and Ft. Collins.
If you come across some time, come by for lunch, and we'll see if your rig is working, compared to my FT-817.
Alternately:(303) 499-7111 is a local call, back to the same building you're in.
back story to narnia, and shows just WHY theres a lampost
I agree, but until you commment, I was in the chronological order camp. I had even reordered my own set that way. However, you make me remember. That was so cool, to see where the lamppost came from.
I'm pretty sure Mikhail Barishnikov has a vacation home in Idaho.
I sometimes wonder if those people who live on the edges of the country and think everything in "flyover country" is meaningless also think that the only meaningful part of a human is the epidermis. It would explain the shallow thinking.
Yes, and the fourth month of the year is spelled "capital a, p, r, i, l". (I still hate that teacher for calling me out in the third grade spelling bee on that one).
Centrifugal force is an apparent force, useful for visualizing the stress on the wheel.
You could say that gravity doesn't pull two masses together, either. Instead, an apparently falling object is just naturally following the curvature of space, and the surface of the Earth is pushing it off-course when they meet.
Why not just use regenerative braking
I'm usually a little kinder than this, but you plainly don't know what regenerative braking actually is. It's a lot more than just a feature of your R/C car. The story is all about regenerative braking. Rather than using friction to convert kinetic energy to heat and getting rid of it, using the motor to convert it back to electrical energy. The flywheels are just the most efficient place to hold on to that energy until it's needed again. It's more efficient to store it near where it's generated, since a stopping train is likely to start again, from the place where it stopped, than to send it all along the system on the rail, where it will mostly be wasted in heating the third rail before it reaches a useful load.
The thing i found surprising about this story was learning that they weren't already doing something like this.
Well, my planned comment was remembered by everyone else. That's cool. Here's one for you, though, that is portable and position-insensitive. A Geiger tube, counting pulses instead of averaging them. If the generation rate is too low, a femtocurie of radium should speed that up as high as you need it.
That was just a problem with their LinoType machine. the "i" and "s" in "Windows" were too soon before the "is" between "Windows" and "XP", and the chute hadn't fed new ones by the time they were called for.
I've got to disagree a little. Overall organizational efficiency as a business sucks. We feed the military a lot of money because we don't want them wasting all their time trying to save a buck here and there. That's how congressmen can get by with some of the idiotic spending mandates.
Efficiency of systems, however, is something they excel at. For example, if a fighter jet is very inefficient, it's a dog, because it's either super-short range, or flies like a cow because it's carrying so much fuel. They package he food efficiently for foot soldiers so they can go farther, faster, with more ordnance.
More efficient use of spectrum means more data. Don't confuse efficiency with penury.
He demonstrated that it was not a sparse file, by using the wc command on it. A sparse file treats all the empty space as nulls on reading, so he would have gotten the big size if it were sparse. It's a single-bit error, probably bad media that got past the ECC on the drive, but maybe just a plain corruption. I'd suggest copying it somewhere safe and running an fsck, if you can afford the downtime.
I doubt they'd post a troll that stupid. I think he's just had some bad luck.
I have gvim, which i set as a possible opener of ALL files... (context menu has "open with Vim"). However, I usually just use the plain vi (which is actually just text Vim) inside cygwin. Never a problem, and I don't have to retrain my fingers when i switch from an xterm to local stuff.
Actually, Italian law is what makes it legally authorized access. Legally, they could have forced him to do it himself, holding him in prison indefinitely, in contempt of court. He should be thankful they saved him the keystrokes. /^Js/Australian/American/^Js/Sydney/Las Vegas/'
...If we're going to dish it out, perhaps we should be prepared also to take it?
What I found funniest was the comment "We live in a world where we communicate worldwide and we travel worldwide," Farber said. "If I violate some Australian law and then land in Sydney, do they throw me in jail?".
's/ I / Dmytry Skylarov
the pressure those fragments applied was well in excess of 22,000 psi
at impact, yes. I don't see how you can be impressed, though? How about a punch hit with a hammer? Same principle.