Not really wanting to be all argumentative, but if you saw planes fly by at greater than the speed of sound you would most definitely hear the boom. It is apparently loud enough to rattle windows and sometimes break them. Odds are the aircraft you saw were not flying faster than the speed of sound. They don't do it very often over inhabited places.
You seem to be labouring under the common misconception that a sonic boom is caused when an object "breaks the sound barrier". As long as an object is moving through the air at greater than the speed of sound it will create a shock wave (cone shaped, think of a boat wake rotated in 3-d) behind it. As the object flies by you, the shock wave passes you and you hear the "sonic boom" So the answer is yes, bullets have a sonic boom.
Anecdote here - My ISP (small Canadian Cable Co) has added capacity and raised my DL limits 3 times in the last 3 years. I used to get 1.5 Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 10MB down / 1.5 MB up. That got raised to 3 Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 16MB down / 16 MB up. Then they raised it again to 4.5Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 64 MB total traffic. Not saying Comcast won't be dicks about this, but not every ISP is following that path.
from Snopes - "NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and development costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government."
I agree that "girlfriend" shouldn't automatically imply computer illiterate. In fact I'm quite certain the word "girlfriend" was used in the title of the article specifically as an eye catching "hook". i.e. Ubuntu and Girlfriend in the same sentence!!?? WTF???
However, from TFA - "Erin's intelligent, quick to learn and is reasonably well-acquainted with modern technology." The author makes it clear that his girlfriend is somewhat skilled with computers, can perform a range of normal computer tasks and was methodical and persistent in solving the problems she encountered. Aside from the somewhat unfortunate title, TFA makes it clear that she is a "noob" only in so far as she has never used Ubuntu"
Re: feral chicken. The island of Kauai is infested, knee deep, in chickens that apparently escaped from domestic captivity during a hurricane about 15 years ago. They are all over the island and they are doing fine.
Nope - the maximum area would be a square screen (1:1) for diagonal d area=(d^2)/2. A 4:3 screen has area d^2(12/25) or about.48d^2and a widescreen (16:9) has area d^s(144/337) or about.43d^2. The wider the screen gets the less area you get for the same diagonal measurement. Coffee is the answer.
Think about a typical "Death Spiral" of a computing platform. Decreased sales leads to developers abandoning the platform which leads to less available software which leads to decreased sales....
You could argue that Linux is at the bottom of a death spiral trying to swim back out. I won't say it'll never happen, but there is definitely a long hard way to go.
The smell we all like in good coffee shops is the smell of roasted coffee. On the other hand, the smell of roasting coffee is borderline horrible. It has that burnt coffee overtone we associate with bad gas-station coffee sitting on hotplates in those round glass pots.
Sometimes "c" is the best answer. LART them once and they'll perform fine after that. Sometimes the problem with "c" is - Newguy's manager is in a meeting till 2:00. ITguy's manager has gone home already because he works on the east coast and it's 5:00 there. However, say we do wait for this to happen - next morning newguy goes to his manager and says, "I got squat done yesterday because I couldn't print any drawings??" and gets reamed for it. Newguy's manager then phones IT manager who says "Thank you for bringing this to my attention. What is the trouble ticket number? What? There is no trouble ticket. Didn't you read the policy we sent last week that says step 1 is to open a trouble ticket? You know, if you had opened a ticket yesterday, we would have had the printers installed within an hour, as per our TOS agreement."
Two reasons that cause people to bypass IT rules - 1. IT not doing their jobs. 2. IT making all their policy and architecture decisions based on what is best for IT rather than what is best for the users.
e.g. #1 Newguy arrives at work and is given new PC by IT guy. IT guy didn't set up the network printers on the PC. Newguy can't print. What is better ? a. newguy calls help desk, opens ticket, 45 minutes later IT sets up network printers or b. I walk over and set up printers for him, time elapsed 2 minutes.
e.g. #2 We used to have our own mail and CAD licence server at our office. IT decides to make their life easier by centralizing all mail and CAD license servers in one office 4 timezones away. Much easier for IT to admin that way. Except now, when we can't get to the mail and CAD license server because IT dorked up the routing somewhere in Cucamonga or Omaha or whatever, or hosed the DNS doing routine maintenance, or lost any of the links on the WAN, or _renamed_ the fzcking servers without telling anyone west of the rockies (oops) our entire 70 man office grinds to a halt for an hour or two because nobody has CAD, phone lists, calendars or mail until the FUBAR du jour gets fixed.
The point is not "don't have debt" the point is "don't have debt on your credit cards".
A lot consumer credit cards have rates equivalent to 18% annual or even higher. I can get a line of credit for about 5%. Say I "need" a new home theater so I borrow $10,000 and pay it off $500/month. On the credit card I will pay for 24 months for a total cost of $12,000. On the line of credit I will pay for 21 months for a total cost of $10,500 (approx).
Those are all good reasons to have and use a card, as long as you pay the balance every month. Somebody who claimed to know posted here once that people who pay their balances off every month are refered to by the credit industry as "deadbeats".
Credit Cards allow you to go shopping without carrying large sums of cash around. Given the interest rates most cards charge, only a mentally defective person would carry a balance on a card and pay it off over time.
iPod is definitely being "genericised" (is that a word?) just like Xerox and Kleenex. At least among my kids friends, any mp3 player is an iPod. Not that their peer group doesn't sport a lot of Apple iPods, but they also have Creative iPods, Sandisk iPods and the ever popular $59 no-name Chinese iPod.
Now I'm snickering at the mental image of a stereotypical apple fanboy screaming red faced at a 10 year old - "Stop calling it an iPod dammit! Thats not an iPod! Only Apple makes iPods!"
Phone jamming. Awesome idea! After 25 minutes of listening to some idiot blathering on a cel phone at 30,000 ft his fellow passengers beat him senseless and then jam his celphone right up his....Oh wait, you're talking about a different kind of phone jamming. I guess that would work too. Not as educational though.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom The shockwave follows the supersonic object. As it passes you, you hear the boom.
Not really wanting to be all argumentative, but if you saw planes fly by at greater than the speed of sound you would most definitely hear the boom. It is apparently loud enough to rattle windows and sometimes break them. Odds are the aircraft you saw were not flying faster than the speed of sound. They don't do it very often over inhabited places.
You seem to be labouring under the common misconception that a sonic boom is caused when an object "breaks the sound barrier". As long as an object is moving through the air at greater than the speed of sound it will create a shock wave (cone shaped, think of a boat wake rotated in 3-d) behind it. As the object flies by you, the shock wave passes you and you hear the "sonic boom" So the answer is yes, bullets have a sonic boom.
No way dude. It's named after "Pippin the Christmas Pig". Really.
Anecdote here - My ISP (small Canadian Cable Co) has added capacity and raised my DL limits 3 times in the last 3 years. I used to get 1.5 Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 10MB down / 1.5 MB up. That got raised to 3 Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 16MB down / 16 MB up. Then they raised it again to 4.5Mbits/s download speed and a cap of 64 MB total traffic. Not saying Comcast won't be dicks about this, but not every ISP is following that path.
from Snopes - "NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule's] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge. Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and development costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government."
else why do people have so much trouble telling effect and affect apart?
I agree that "girlfriend" shouldn't automatically imply computer illiterate. In fact I'm quite certain the word "girlfriend" was used in the title of the article specifically as an eye catching "hook". i.e. Ubuntu and Girlfriend in the same sentence!!?? WTF???
However, from TFA - "Erin's intelligent, quick to learn and is reasonably well-acquainted with modern technology." The author makes it clear that his girlfriend is somewhat skilled with computers, can perform a range of normal computer tasks and was methodical and persistent in solving the problems she encountered. Aside from the somewhat unfortunate title, TFA makes it clear that she is a "noob" only in so far as she has never used Ubuntu"
Re: feral chicken. The island of Kauai is infested, knee deep, in chickens that apparently escaped from domestic captivity during a hurricane about 15 years ago. They are all over the island and they are doing fine.
Nope - the maximum area would be a square screen (1:1) for diagonal d area=(d^2)/2. A 4:3 screen has area d^2(12/25) or about .48d^2and a widescreen (16:9) has area d^s(144/337) or about .43d^2. The wider the screen gets the less area you get for the same diagonal measurement. Coffee is the answer.
Exactly. Its the chicken/egg catch 22 type thing.
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Think about a typical "Death Spiral" of a computing platform. Decreased sales leads to developers abandoning the platform which leads to less available software which leads to decreased sales
You could argue that Linux is at the bottom of a death spiral trying to swim back out. I won't say it'll never happen, but there is definitely a long hard way to go.
Wow! Or should I say W.O.W.
Will it run AutoCad?
The smell we all like in good coffee shops is the smell of roasted coffee. On the other hand, the smell of roasting coffee is borderline horrible. It has that burnt coffee overtone we associate with bad gas-station coffee sitting on hotplates in those round glass pots.
Seems a little overpriced. /ducks
Sometimes "c" is the best answer. LART them once and they'll perform fine after that. Sometimes the problem with "c" is - Newguy's manager is in a meeting till 2:00. ITguy's manager has gone home already because he works on the east coast and it's 5:00 there. However, say we do wait for this to happen - next morning newguy goes to his manager and says, "I got squat done yesterday because I couldn't print any drawings??" and gets reamed for it. Newguy's manager then phones IT manager who says "Thank you for bringing this to my attention. What is the trouble ticket number? What? There is no trouble ticket. Didn't you read the policy we sent last week that says step 1 is to open a trouble ticket? You know, if you had opened a ticket yesterday, we would have had the printers installed within an hour, as per our TOS agreement."
No, he's sitting.
Two reasons that cause people to bypass IT rules - 1. IT not doing their jobs. 2. IT making all their policy and architecture decisions based on what is best for IT rather than what is best for the users.
e.g. #1 Newguy arrives at work and is given new PC by IT guy. IT guy didn't set up the network printers on the PC. Newguy can't print. What is better ? a. newguy calls help desk, opens ticket, 45 minutes later IT sets up network printers or b. I walk over and set up printers for him, time elapsed 2 minutes.
e.g. #2 We used to have our own mail and CAD licence server at our office. IT decides to make their life easier by centralizing all mail and CAD license servers in one office 4 timezones away. Much easier for IT to admin that way. Except now, when we can't get to the mail and CAD license server because IT dorked up the routing somewhere in Cucamonga or Omaha or whatever, or hosed the DNS doing routine maintenance, or lost any of the links on the WAN, or _renamed_ the fzcking servers without telling anyone west of the rockies (oops) our entire 70 man office grinds to a halt for an hour or two because nobody has CAD, phone lists, calendars or mail until the FUBAR du jour gets fixed.
Atheist Mythology??? Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 by the Roman Catholic inquisition for espousing Copernican Astronomy.
De-acronym-ization? (is that a cromulent word?)
Any grammar nerds/nazis know how a word stops being an acronym? I've always wondered how S.C.U.B.A became scuba and L.A.S.E.R. became laser.
The point is not "don't have debt" the point is "don't have debt on your credit cards".
A lot consumer credit cards have rates equivalent to 18% annual or even higher. I can get a line of credit for about 5%. Say I "need" a new home theater so I borrow $10,000 and pay it off $500/month. On the credit card I will pay for 24 months for a total cost of $12,000. On the line of credit I will pay for 21 months for a total cost of $10,500 (approx).
I thought classical mistake number one was "don't get involved in a land war in Asia"
Those are all good reasons to have and use a card, as long as you pay the balance every month. Somebody who claimed to know posted here once that people who pay their balances off every month are refered to by the credit industry as "deadbeats".
Credit Cards allow you to go shopping without carrying large sums of cash around. Given the interest rates most cards charge, only a mentally defective person would carry a balance on a card and pay it off over time.
iPod is definitely being "genericised" (is that a word?) just like Xerox and Kleenex. At least among my kids friends, any mp3 player is an iPod. Not that their peer group doesn't sport a lot of Apple iPods, but they also have Creative iPods, Sandisk iPods and the ever popular $59 no-name Chinese iPod.
Now I'm snickering at the mental image of a stereotypical apple fanboy screaming red faced at a 10 year old - "Stop calling it an iPod dammit! Thats not an iPod! Only Apple makes iPods!"
Phone jamming. Awesome idea! After 25 minutes of listening to some idiot blathering on a cel phone at 30,000 ft his fellow passengers beat him senseless and then jam his celphone right up his....Oh wait, you're talking about a different kind of phone jamming. I guess that would work too. Not as educational though.