> Looking back on WWII it's a shame all the military hardware which ended up just getting scuttled or dumped overboard and the value it would have had if it had been saved.
Of course, that's a somewhat false calculation because the value nowadays of a lot of WW2 equipment is based on the current rarity value as most of them were scrapped.
You should read the threads about this on the mac forums. Full of the most amazing mac fanboy defence of the change.
For me, it's very simple. When I bought the device it had a screen rotate lock button. If I upgrade to 4.2 then this is taken away.
I certainly don't mind it being made an option, but for Asshat Jobs to decide that he knows better than me, and that I would prefer a mute button to the rotate lock button that I use every day, and NOT TO GIVE THE OPTION TO CHANGE THE BEHAVIOUR is typical of his arrogant insulting attitude to his customers.
I didn't NEED to jailbreak the iPad before. But now there's no way I can upgrade to 4.2 until someone re-enables this function as a jailbreak app.
We get these sorts of questions regularly on my site (www.mindat.org) and, I have to say, the vast majority of times they turn out to be of entirely terrestrial origin (meteorwrongs). A friend at the Natural History Museum in London tells me that well over 99.9% of the items brought in as possible meteorites turn out not to be. The chances are not good.
Now, I would not want to dismiss your findings out of hand because, of course, meteorites can be found anywhere. But the first picture doesn't look like a meteorite to me at all. It looks like a very badly corroded iron pyrite nodule, which are relatively common in some limestones and other sedimentary rocks. The second one could be a meteorite, but it could equally well be a nodule.
Easy way to tell is break one open. If it has a radial crystalline structure then it cannot be a meteorite, it can only be an iron sulphide nodule.
Alternatively, post pictures and descriptions on my board where real geologists and mineralogists can help you!
And who needs an app to identify whether an airliner is US, British, etc, because they all have the tails and sides of the planes painted as brightly and obviously as possible - So just look for the plane with the tail showing the colours of your enemy and shoot it down.
This is exactly what was planned in the UK a few years ago (allegedly), where terrorists were "planning" to shoot down an airliner coming out of Heathrow, with one spotter checking what planes had just taken off and reporting this on to a shooter with a MANPAD missile who was more directly in the flightpath. Although it was likely more pure fiction or at least a terrorist wet dream than a genuine threat - as I don't think any missiles were recovered.
From the wikipedia article "From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala."
So, tell me this. How can ANY phenomena based on material being delivered from space hit the SAME small area of the earth multiple times on different days over a period of two months, and not hit other parts of the world? Is there a comet with a particular grudge against this part of india?
You would think a physicist, of all people, would have figured there was a problem with that idea.
Scientists come up with crazy ideas all the time. Crazy ideas are what makes science great. However, if your crazy idea is also wrong, it's probably good to give it up and not keep writing papers about it.
> Equivalent to if you spend a year of your life as an engineer, but you only get half the pay. The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit
Sounds like you've just defined the taxation system
Half as dense as helium (so twice the lifting power), orders of magnitude cheaper, and far, far safer than a jet plane carrying aviation fuel.
It's not difficult to design safe(*) hydrogen airships nowdays. There's no excuse, other than irrational fear, for restricting airships to using expensive helium.
Jolyon
* - safe, as in the risks are at a similar, or lower, level than comparable forms of transport in everyday use.
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You should be shot for that comment!
> Looking back on WWII it's a shame all the military hardware which ended up just getting scuttled or dumped overboard and the value it would have had if it had been saved.
Of course, that's a somewhat false calculation because the value nowadays of a lot of WW2 equipment is based on the current rarity value as most of them were scrapped.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the average American voter!
So, when will I be able to buy a Quark-Gluon Plasma TV?
Um. It's Kuwait, they don't need to ban the rain.
Agree with you about eliptic galaxies. Ban them for sure.
You should read the threads about this on the mac forums. Full of the most amazing mac fanboy defence of the change.
For me, it's very simple. When I bought the device it had a screen rotate lock button. If I upgrade to 4.2 then this is taken away.
I certainly don't mind it being made an option, but for Asshat Jobs to decide that he knows better than me, and that I would prefer a mute button to the rotate lock button that I use every day, and NOT TO GIVE THE OPTION TO CHANGE THE BEHAVIOUR is typical of his arrogant insulting attitude to his customers.
I didn't NEED to jailbreak the iPad before. But now there's no way I can upgrade to 4.2 until someone re-enables this function as a jailbreak app.
What a completely frustrating experience.
But that wouldn't generate publicity on the BBC website, would it?
We get these sorts of questions regularly on my site (www.mindat.org) and, I have to say, the vast majority of times they turn out to be of entirely terrestrial origin (meteorwrongs).
A friend at the Natural History Museum in London tells me that well over 99.9% of the items brought in as possible meteorites turn out not to be. The chances are not good.
Now, I would not want to dismiss your findings out of hand because, of course, meteorites can be found anywhere. But the first picture doesn't look like a meteorite to me at all. It looks like a very badly corroded iron pyrite nodule, which are relatively common in some limestones and other sedimentary rocks. The second one could be a meteorite, but it could equally well be a nodule.
Easy way to tell is break one open. If it has a radial crystalline structure then it cannot be a meteorite, it can only be an iron sulphide nodule.
Alternatively, post pictures and descriptions on my board where real geologists and mineralogists can help you!
Jolyon
ps. Calcium Carbide? I had to laugh!
> Will the military have a special contract with the power companies to let them do this?
Probably not a big issue when you have a lot of guns and are invading the country in question.
kthxbi
And my apologies back to you and the rest of slashdot for using the phrase 'pdf file'
I should know better!
2nd link is a PDF. Thanks for the warning...
I see they cunningly hid the pdf file in a link ending with the filename ccs10.pdf
Don't you check what links are before you click them?
And who needs an app to identify whether an airliner is US, British, etc, because they all have the tails and sides of the planes painted as brightly and obviously as possible - So just look for the plane with the tail showing the colours of your enemy and shoot it down.
This is exactly what was planned in the UK a few years ago (allegedly), where terrorists were "planning" to shoot down an airliner coming out of Heathrow, with one spotter checking what planes had just taken off and reporting this on to a shooter with a MANPAD missile who was more directly in the flightpath. Although it was likely more pure fiction or at least a terrorist wet dream than a genuine threat - as I don't think any missiles were recovered.
Jolyon
It's grammatical nonsense.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read that and went "huh?".
If an atheist search engine redirected you to lego.com on searching creationism, I'd use it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
is when you read their words, and they just say "kill me"
4chan being nice. Duke Nukem Forever possibly being released soon. Cats and dogs living together.
End of days, my friend. End of days.
From the wikipedia article "From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala."
So, tell me this. How can ANY phenomena based on material being delivered from space hit the SAME small area of the earth multiple times on different days over a period of two months, and not hit other parts of the world? Is there a comet with a particular grudge against this part of india?
You would think a physicist, of all people, would have figured there was a problem with that idea.
Scientists come up with crazy ideas all the time. Crazy ideas are what makes science great. However, if your crazy idea is also wrong, it's probably good to give it up and not keep writing papers about it.
Well, I live in the UK, and all the swans belong to the queen.
I might be desperate, but not THAT desperate.
Indeed, I live my life by the motto "What would Zeus Do?"
Pretty much anything he wants, it turns out.
> Equivalent to if you spend a year of your life as an engineer, but you only get half the pay. The other half gets distributed among thieves claiming credit
Sounds like you've just defined the taxation system
Half as dense as helium (so twice the lifting power), orders of magnitude cheaper, and far, far safer than a jet plane carrying aviation fuel.
It's not difficult to design safe(*) hydrogen airships nowdays. There's no excuse, other than irrational fear, for restricting airships to using expensive helium.
Jolyon
* - safe, as in the risks are at a similar, or lower, level than comparable forms of transport in everyday use.
*waves*
stupid slashdot html ruined that! That'll teach me not to use preview. if (bar_count LESS_THAN 3)....