just pick a medium that can be focused
You meant that to sound stupid, as a joke, right?
Focusing puts the power that decreases exponentially (or quadratically, as menscher so helpfully pointed out in his half-correct post - inverse square law anybody?... not inverse cube.) into a smaller area... no point in dissipating your power in directions where it's not needed. However, it's not a laser... and even they dissipate exponentially, as their spatial coherence is not perfect.
For instance, it uses accelerometers to sense motion and this is used to give commands to the computer (for instance, to zoom a picture, you just have to move the Simputer towards you and to turn a page, you flick it like you would turn a page for a book.
Does this remind anyone else of the radios in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It'll be guessing at everything that happens as an input, and be completely unuseable.
I hope you're kidding. It's not free propulsion. It takes energy to compress and/or produce the buoyant medium. The energy used in that is equal to the energy to move the craft, plus inefficiency. Now, the efficiency of such a craft could be terribly high, as the induced drag would be near-null. Instead of fighting against gravity, it sets its buoyancy to the optimum for gliding, and alternates between gliding up and down. Instead of wasting energy thrashing the air with a propeller (the turbulence ends up dissipated as heat), or heating and expelling air out the back (the heat gradient is largely wasted), it is as simple and elegant as a glider.
However, it's not really fuelless. Else, you could generate power for free by connecting balloons to a vertical belt, and pumping buoyant gas into the baloons on the side going up, and out of the ones on the side going down, or for that matter, pumping water into the ones going down, and out of the ones going up. There's probably a drawing somewhere of just such a perpetual-motion machine, and somebody probably believed that one, too.
Now, if it employed a mechanism for alternately increasing and decreasing heat transfer from the buoyant cells, it could the gas warm up near the earth's surface, keep the heat in while letting it expand adiabatically during ascent, then let it cool in the cold stratosphere, and keep the heat out while descending. That would be a heat engine, though, running off solar power. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Heck, it's a darned good idea. For better control, they could even have alternate skins to put between it and the sun, showing silver or black, as need be. Hell, I don't know, that might even be what it does, but I got disgusted with all the misleading crap on the front page, and dismissed it.
...what he did since last night's backup, he's probably hours ahead just restoring from backup and re-creating.
What's that you say? He didn't back up? Life's tough. It's a whole lot tougher if you're stupid.
What's that, a new prosign "TAR"? Perhaps you meant the "Commercial A", or "at sign", rendered as "AC" - "didadadidadit"?
Yeah, anyway, it seemed silly when it was announced back in early January, and still does. "didah dah" ("at") is only a problem with an address like "kitkat@attbi.net", and is"didadadidadit"? shorter than "didadadidadit". And is that an "AC", as they say, or is it a "WR", or a "PN"? They all sound the same.
Closed-source software is all blind ends, like tangled underbrush. For small minds, as for small animals, it's a good trade to improve your ability to hide at the expense of the same for that which threatens you, or your prey. For large minds, as for large animals, it's better to be able to see what threatens you so you can do something about it.
Look at the difference between the kind of people who prefer closed source and those who prefer open source. They're the same ones who prefer that we don't expand beyond earth. They don't like thinking big, because they can't do it.
A healthy ecosystem has niches for lots of different survival strategies. Let's hope the rats and bacteria drop their insistence that their way is the only way, so we don't have to sterilize the swamps.
There's no reason you should choke down instant, short of as a delivery mechanism for caffeine. Buy beans you like, grind a day's worth into a ziplock before you go to work, and make your own shots at work.
GSI makes good cheap espresso makers, kind of a Brazilian press configuration. I've been using mine for 3 years now, though I replaced the gasket a few months ago, with an O-ring (2" od, 3/16" stock).
If there's a stove in the break room, great, else pick up a little one-burner camp stove. Life's too short for crappy coffee, or cheap beer.
... or to cause the monkeys to produce sperm. I suppose that would be called a "paw job"? Must be either really big-pawed mice and/or small-dicked monkeys... maybe they use both paws, along with little "tongue flicks"?
Until instant, free antipodal transport has us getting our checkups in Hyderabad, doctors will still be employed in America. Even if you do, perhaps voluntarily, go unemployed for a few months, changes in human architecture won't make you unemployable.
Ok, here's the solution for all the case-challenged intellects out there, who can't seem to grasp that the ability to use both cases does not imply the requirement to do so:
Program with the capslock key on. Occasionally run your code through "tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' and diff that against your existing file, to resolve conflicts. Fix the translated file and work from that, and quit complaining about the fact that a language has features you don't use. There're plenty of languages that were developed on baudot teletypes, so use one of them, if it's such a hardship.
We're using numbers to represent letters, and the only thing relating an uppercase character to its lowercase counterpart is the ascii translation table. If someone is using a DBCS input method for variable names, do you really think the compiler should anglicize the bytes? Or, perhaps you'd like the extra complexity of having to specify localization? Sure, it can be done, but why write around the preferences of fools?
Back in early/mid 80's we had to power the computers with coal-fired generators. The geeks would take turns going into the mine to dig out a few buckets of the stuff.
You only imagine that's what you were doing. You're actually in a vat, hooked up to machines that are extracting energy from your body, just like all the rest of us.
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Whatever, Why can't we all just get along?
Yeah, I'd like that but people like this ambassaror make it hard.
And the bloodthirsty murderers are spreading peace and understanding? Or is "ambassaror" a word for suicide bomber?
Commonly, replacement laptop hard drives come with a PCMCIAIDE adaptor, for that combined data and power connection laptops use. Plug the drive into the adaptor, and the adaptor into a slot, do your work, and stop the adaptor. I don't know if there's an adaptor for the laptop IDE to regular, but if there is, you'll be all set.
MP3 is a lossy compression. If lossy recovery is OK with you, fine. For storage to tape - maybe cwpcm the file after uuencoding it. I can't remember if there's a morse code character for each character used by uuencode. on a more practical line - send it as straight ascii, using the ham radio interfaces in Linux, through the sound card. decode that with the same interfaces and you're done. Those tools are used to loss, but I'd expect 100% copy on and off tape.
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While I'm fully prepared to believe that such a snake exists, the submitted photos appear designed to prevent one from verifying the size. In one photo, I could see 20, possibly 30 feet (depending on the size of the people in the photo), with some unknown length off-camera. It's in a zoo! Have wait till it's out in the open, have the veterinarian sedate it, stretch it out, and park a jeep next to it. Barring sedation, a series of snaps taken as it crawls through an open area. These are like a "magician" holding up his hand with two ends of rope hanging from it and calling that proof that the whole rope is rejoined after cutting. That said, I expect it's just incompetent journalism, and we'll see solid proof soon.
Incidentally, is anyone else getting sick of the "500 - internal server error" from/.?
*COUGHwussCOUGH*
"Call Me the Breeze", but only in the presence of strong lateral and vertical acceleration (think Buck Creek Pike, from Mount Pleasant to 5-points, just north of Mooreland, IN), else "Rocking down the Highway", "Ride of the Valkries", or the "Star Spangled Banner".
I think it's just sloppy working. Radios thousands of miles away can detect radio emmissions from my brain. Of course, those emissions are generated by my rig and released by my antenna.
What's really been happening to all the Mars landers is that they all think they've landed in their hometowns, and they're settling down to spend the rest of their lives with their long-lost loved ones.
The funny thing about that is that they're the same restaurant. In the eastern U.S., it's Hardees, and Carl's Jr. in the west. In high school, I was fired from the New Castle, Indiana Hardees for throwing away a hamburger patty another employee had dropped - "No customer saw it on the floor.".
Oh, and as Dave Barry said "The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHECK'S, or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM'S.". However, it is correct to use the apostrophe to indicate possession, except for the pronoun "it". I don't know why. So the western Hardees is the Jr. belonging to Carl. Such names usually come about because a well-known restaurant splits, and the new owners want to differentiate, or someone buys a known restaurant, and wants to indicate their own presence. In this case, it's one of those corporate focus-group names, like the non-word Japanese car names.
Hrmm. I'm sorry to hear about that. Whenever I've had to switch a jack between applications, the RJ-45 sort of "combed" the contacts back into alignment. I wouldn't want to switch back and forth too many times, as those wires probably don't take well to work hardening.
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just pick a medium that can be focused
You meant that to sound stupid, as a joke, right? Focusing puts the power that decreases exponentially (or quadratically, as menscher so helpfully pointed out in his half-correct post - inverse square law anybody?... not inverse cube.) into a smaller area... no point in dissipating your power in directions where it's not needed. However, it's not a laser... and even they dissipate exponentially, as their spatial coherence is not perfect.
For instance, it uses accelerometers to sense motion and this is used to give commands to the computer (for instance, to zoom a picture, you just have to move the Simputer towards you and to turn a page, you flick it like you would turn a page for a book.
Does this remind anyone else of the radios in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It'll be guessing at everything that happens as an input, and be completely unuseable.
I hope you're kidding. It's not free propulsion. It takes energy to compress and/or produce the buoyant medium. The energy used in that is equal to the energy to move the craft, plus inefficiency. Now, the efficiency of such a craft could be terribly high, as the induced drag would be near-null. Instead of fighting against gravity, it sets its buoyancy to the optimum for gliding, and alternates between gliding up and down. Instead of wasting energy thrashing the air with a propeller (the turbulence ends up dissipated as heat), or heating and expelling air out the back (the heat gradient is largely wasted), it is as simple and elegant as a glider.
However, it's not really fuelless. Else, you could generate power for free by connecting balloons to a vertical belt, and pumping buoyant gas into the baloons on the side going up, and out of the ones on the side going down, or for that matter, pumping water into the ones going down, and out of the ones going up. There's probably a drawing somewhere of just such a perpetual-motion machine, and somebody probably believed that one, too.
Now, if it employed a mechanism for alternately increasing and decreasing heat transfer from the buoyant cells, it could the gas warm up near the earth's surface, keep the heat in while letting it expand adiabatically during ascent, then let it cool in the cold stratosphere, and keep the heat out while descending. That would be a heat engine, though, running off solar power. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Heck, it's a darned good idea. For better control, they could even have alternate skins to put between it and the sun, showing silver or black, as need be. Hell, I don't know, that might even be what it does, but I got disgusted with all the misleading crap on the front page, and dismissed it.
civ
That's really all I have to say, but the lameness filter might block the post unless I add some useless drivel like this line.
did I mention civ?
Indeed. I've never been allowed a Linux desktop since 1996, and cygwin's been my salvation. "cygstart" is just so much nicer than double-clicking.
...what he did since last night's backup, he's probably hours ahead just restoring from backup and re-creating.
What's that you say? He didn't back up? Life's tough. It's a whole lot tougher if you're stupid.
...is to start drinking heavily.
You should listen to me, I was pre-med!
I thought I was pre-law.
Pre-med, pre-law, what's the difference?
What's that, a new prosign "TAR"? Perhaps you meant the "Commercial A", or "at sign", rendered as "AC" - "didadadidadit"?
Yeah, anyway, it seemed silly when it was announced back in early January, and still does. "didah dah" ("at") is only a problem with an address like "kitkat@attbi.net", and is"didadadidadit"?
shorter than "didadadidadit". And is that an "AC", as they say, or is it a "WR", or a "PN"? They all sound the same.
On behalf of the auto dealers of Colorado - Come on up! Despite the cesspool on the Platte, we're still mostly a Republican state.
Closed-source software is all blind ends, like tangled underbrush. For small minds, as for small animals, it's a good trade to improve your ability to hide at the expense of the same for that which threatens you, or your prey. For large minds, as for large animals, it's better to be able to see what threatens you so you can do something about it.
Look at the difference between the kind of people who prefer closed source and those who prefer open source. They're the same ones who prefer that we don't expand beyond earth. They don't like thinking big, because they can't do it.
A healthy ecosystem has niches for lots of different survival strategies. Let's hope the rats and bacteria drop their insistence that their way is the only way, so we don't have to sterilize the swamps.
Some sort of vehicle would be nice, too.
There's no reason you should choke down instant, short of as a delivery mechanism for caffeine. Buy beans you like, grind a day's worth into a ziplock before you go to work, and make your own shots at work.
GSI makes good cheap espresso makers, kind of a Brazilian press configuration. I've been using mine for 3 years now, though I replaced the gasket a few months ago, with an O-ring (2" od, 3/16" stock).
If there's a stove in the break room, great, else pick up a little one-burner camp stove. Life's too short for crappy coffee, or cheap beer.
... or to cause the monkeys to produce sperm. I suppose that would be called a "paw job"? Must be either really big-pawed mice and/or small-dicked monkeys... maybe they use both paws, along with little "tongue flicks"?
Until instant, free antipodal transport has us getting our checkups in Hyderabad, doctors will still be employed in America. Even if you do, perhaps voluntarily, go unemployed for a few months, changes in human architecture won't make you unemployable.
Ok, here's the solution for all the case-challenged intellects out there, who can't seem to grasp that the ability to use both cases does not imply the requirement to do so:
Program with the capslock key on. Occasionally run your code through "tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' and diff that against your existing file, to resolve conflicts. Fix the translated file and work from that, and quit complaining about the fact that a language has features you don't use. There're plenty of languages that were developed on baudot teletypes, so use one of them, if it's such a hardship.
We're using numbers to represent letters, and the only thing relating an uppercase character to its lowercase counterpart is the ascii translation table. If someone is using a DBCS input method for variable names, do you really think the compiler should anglicize the bytes? Or, perhaps you'd like the extra complexity of having to specify localization? Sure, it can be done, but why write around the preferences of fools?
Back in early/mid 80's we had to power the computers with coal-fired generators. The geeks would take turns going into the mine to dig out a few buckets of the stuff.
You only imagine that's what you were doing. You're actually in a vat, hooked up to machines that are extracting energy from your body, just like all the rest of us.
Whatever, Why can't we all just get along?
Yeah, I'd like that but people like this ambassaror make it hard.
And the bloodthirsty murderers are spreading peace and understanding? Or is "ambassaror" a word for suicide bomber?
Commonly, replacement laptop hard drives come with a PCMCIAIDE adaptor, for that combined data and power connection laptops use. Plug the drive into the adaptor, and the adaptor into a slot, do your work, and stop the adaptor. I don't know if there's an adaptor for the laptop IDE to regular, but if there is, you'll be all set.
MP3 is a lossy compression. If lossy recovery is OK with you, fine. For storage to tape - maybe cwpcm the file after uuencoding it. I can't remember if there's a morse code character for each character used by uuencode.
on a more practical line - send it as straight ascii, using the ham radio interfaces in Linux, through the sound card. decode that with the same interfaces and you're done. Those tools are used to loss, but I'd expect 100% copy on and off tape.
While I'm fully prepared to believe that such a snake exists, the submitted photos appear designed to prevent one from verifying the size. In one photo, I could see 20, possibly 30 feet (depending on the size of the people in the photo), with some unknown length off-camera. It's in a zoo! Have wait till it's out in the open, have the veterinarian sedate it, stretch it out, and park a jeep next to it. Barring sedation, a series of snaps taken as it crawls through an open area. These are like a "magician" holding up his hand with two ends of rope hanging from it and calling that proof that the whole rope is rejoined after cutting.
/.?
That said, I expect it's just incompetent journalism, and we'll see solid proof soon.
Incidentally, is anyone else getting sick of the "500 - internal server error" from
*COUGHwussCOUGH*
"Call Me the Breeze", but only in the presence of strong lateral and vertical acceleration (think Buck Creek Pike, from Mount Pleasant to 5-points, just north of Mooreland, IN), else "Rocking down the Highway", "Ride of the Valkries", or the "Star Spangled Banner".
Well, it is, if you then throw them into the ocean and expect them to send you back information on what they find out there.
I think it's just sloppy working. Radios thousands of miles away can detect radio emmissions from my brain. Of course, those emissions are generated by my rig and released by my antenna.
What's really been happening to all the Mars landers is that they all think they've landed in their hometowns, and they're settling down to spend the rest of their lives with their long-lost loved ones.
The funny thing about that is that they're the same restaurant. In the eastern U.S., it's Hardees, and Carl's Jr. in the west. In high school, I was fired from the New Castle, Indiana Hardees for throwing away a hamburger patty another employee had dropped - "No customer saw it on the floor.".
Oh, and as Dave Barry said "The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHECK'S, or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM'S.". However, it is correct to use the apostrophe to indicate possession, except for the pronoun "it". I don't know why. So the western Hardees is the Jr. belonging to Carl. Such names usually come about because a well-known restaurant splits, and the new owners want to differentiate, or someone buys a known restaurant, and wants to indicate their own presence. In this case, it's one of those corporate focus-group names, like the non-word Japanese car names.
Hrmm. I'm sorry to hear about that. Whenever I've had to switch a jack between applications, the RJ-45 sort of "combed" the contacts back into alignment. I wouldn't want to switch back and forth too many times, as those wires probably don't take well to work hardening.