Why not? Do you have some special insights?
After all, it was developed for use in rockets.
Well, I've never tried it on my own space station so you may dismiss this as not a "special insight." But applying WD-40 in a complete vacuum, to a jammed metal fastener connection that swings in temperature between roughly -250F and +250F, probably exceeds the recommended use instructions on the side of the can.
Minor nitpick: I knew of very, very few office or home desktops with 16-24 MB of RAM at that time.
4MB was standard for home machines, with 8MB considered a luxury. From what I saw, the standard in the workplace was similar.
What do you think the P in PSI is for? "Pound" MOST CERTAINLY implies mass times acceleration.
Your air gauge is indicating a pressure of 30 pounds per square inch, not 30 pounds. If you're talking about pressure, you'd only say "30 pounds" if you're just simplifying the phrase "pounds per square inch" to save your tongue some work. You ought to just say PSI instead.
"Pound" also can be used as a shortcut for saying "pound-mass," or the amount of mass that would weigh one pound on Earth. In the Apollo days this was quite common, and I'm sure the lingo lives on to some degree in the design offices at NASA. My older engineering professors would refer to "pounds-mass" all the time, whereas the younger ones exclusively used kilograms or (occasionally) slugs.
So "pounds" can be used informally to refer to either mass, mass times acceleration (i.e. force), OR mass times acceleration divided by area (i.e. pressure). But used in its true form, a pound is a unit of force.
Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby Shumeet Baluja, I don't mean maybe Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby Shumeet Baluja, I don't mean maybe Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll
...when they were finishing up with open rehearsals. Which basically means it's too late to change anything significant before opening, so you're pretty much seeing the show as it will play on opening night.
Two word review: WAGNER LIVES.
I should stop there, but here we go. (Note: General notes about the show follow, but I've tried to avoid any spoilers.)
The show is a spectacle, to be sure. And they tried to get everything in there. They really, really tried.
The entire basic plot exposition, from Bilbo's birthday disappearance to Frodo's departure from the Shire with Sam in tow, took maybe five minutes. If I hadn't seen the movies, I would have been lost 1/8 of the way into the show.
Tom Bombadil was reduced to one line of dialogue from an Ent, spoken near the end of the show. If I hadn't read the books, I would have wondered who the hell Tom Bombadil was.
The stage itself is unbelievable. It makes the technical shenanigans of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera look like three kids with a cardboard set in the backyard. People fly, Ents really are 20 feet tall, battle scenes look like battle scenes, and Shelob actually is a giant spider (not to give too much away). And there are plenty of little effects too, some occurring before the curtain even goes up. Amazing stuff.
But the characters and story are almost completely lost. In particular, Gandalf (Tony award winner Brent Carver) is written well but comes across as a waifish, almost goofy academic rather than a triumphant top-billed hero. Much more impressive is Saruman, triumphantly evil and menacing. I don't know much about musical theater, but I came away with the impression that the two actors should have switched roles.
As for the musical numbers, they are sometimes touching and sometimes bizarre. The music itself contains elements of several cultural styles, from Indian arias to Irish bar tunes. I guess the idea was that Middle Earth's music spawned all the currently known forms. That's kind of interesting, but unfortunately it is all for naught, as you won't remember a single theme by the end of the show. Sad.
IMHO the show is saved by a positively BRILLIANT performance from Gollum. Truly exceptional. It is nearly worth the admission price just to see a very talented actor (Michael Therriault) convincingly jump from Smeagol to Gollum and back before your very eyes. The effect is far more captivating than all the giant monsters, illusions, and spectacular set pieces on evidence throughout the rest of the show....Which makes sense, because live performance should be the reason why you go to see a musical in the first place.
All in all, this show is much better than some of the deplorable crap to be writ large in Broadway fashion (Smokey Joe's Cafe; Bye Bye Birdie; Grease). I'd see this one again before I saw Phantom again, but perhaps not before Les Mis. It's actually not a bad show, particularly for people who don't like a "typical" Broadway productions.
But LOTR as a musical simply suffers from the fundamental inability of musical theater to match something like Tolkien's original work. You just can't get there from here. And in trying to do so, the show abandons what typically works on Broadway. You end up on a very strange and somewhat unexplored middle ground. (Middle Earth?)
I'm not sure what concrete changes they can make before trying to get to London and Broadway, but a couple of truly memorable tunes and a new Gandalf would be a great start.
As a two-time MIT grad student, I can assure you that the vast majority of computer types here at the Institute are rather accustomed to working in stuffy, concrete-faced buildings that date from before the moon shot.
Among my circle of friends and colleagues, the Stata Center is eyed with curious suspicion and occasional annoyance.
By remarkably similar logic, the chances of Jesus' arrival back on Earth tomorrow is also 50%.
So don't worry about the asteroid, as chances are that Jesus will arrive before or very soon after it hits. But before the bank closes tonight, you'd better stop by and cleanse yourself of the sin of usury, or you're going to burn in hell forever!
Oh, and please post here to confirm that you've withdrawn your money from all interest-bearing investments. See you in line at St. Peter's place!
If we assume priciples of random incidence apply, then we are more likely to have been born during a period of time with a longer interval between the previous major asteroid hit and the next one.
And yet, random incidence says nothing about where we are in that interval. D'oh.
In case anyone's interested in the forefront of RFID... I think MIT's Auto-ID Center would be a great place to get answers to about half of the questions I've seen in this discussion so far. Plus, they're nice folks and their server could use some exercise.
For instance:
YES, it could potentially track individual items.
NO, it's not battery powered.
YES, it will reveal all your LOX purchases to the Secret Government.
This can already be done. When you buy a book at some chain bookstores, a very cheap tag is often hidden in its pages or on a sticker on the book cover. A mat on the checkout counter essentially renders the tag non-functional before you carry the book through the reader at the exit.
If you don't get the tag deactivated at the counter (implying purchase): "WOOP-WOOP. We're sorry. We failed to deactivate the inventory control tag on your purchase." Which is retail-speak for "STOP THIEF!...or other person of interest!"
Good point. So do us a favor: get the more realistic function for automotive suspension springs, integrate it appropriately across the distance traveled, and come back to us with the result when you're through.
Slashdot Mirror
"In space WD-40 is not really an option."
Why not? Do you have some special insights? After all, it was developed for use in rockets.
Well, I've never tried it on my own space station so you may dismiss this as not a "special insight." But applying WD-40 in a complete vacuum, to a jammed metal fastener connection that swings in temperature between roughly -250F and +250F, probably exceeds the recommended use instructions on the side of the can.
Gauntlet Humiliation.
Smallest MANNED powered aircraft ever flown.
Minor nitpick: I knew of very, very few office or home desktops with 16-24 MB of RAM at that time. 4MB was standard for home machines, with 8MB considered a luxury. From what I saw, the standard in the workplace was similar.
You mean 8.2296 meters.
What do you think the P in PSI is for? "Pound" MOST CERTAINLY implies mass times acceleration.
Your air gauge is indicating a pressure of 30 pounds per square inch, not 30 pounds. If you're talking about pressure, you'd only say "30 pounds" if you're just simplifying the phrase "pounds per square inch" to save your tongue some work. You ought to just say PSI instead.
"Pound" also can be used as a shortcut for saying "pound-mass," or the amount of mass that would weigh one pound on Earth. In the Apollo days this was quite common, and I'm sure the lingo lives on to some degree in the design offices at NASA. My older engineering professors would refer to "pounds-mass" all the time, whereas the younger ones exclusively used kilograms or (occasionally) slugs.
So "pounds" can be used informally to refer to either mass, mass times acceleration (i.e. force), OR mass times acceleration divided by area (i.e. pressure). But used in its true form, a pound is a unit of force.
Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby
Shumeet Baluja, I don't mean maybe
Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby
Shumeet Baluja, I don't mean maybe
Shumeet Baluja, she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll
...Do the superchickens have large talons?
...when they were finishing up with open rehearsals. Which basically means it's too late to change anything significant before opening, so you're pretty much seeing the show as it will play on opening night.
...Which makes sense, because live performance should be the reason why you go to see a musical in the first place.
Two word review: WAGNER LIVES.
I should stop there, but here we go. (Note: General notes about the show follow, but I've tried to avoid any spoilers.)
The show is a spectacle, to be sure. And they tried to get everything in there. They really, really tried.
The entire basic plot exposition, from Bilbo's birthday disappearance to Frodo's departure from the Shire with Sam in tow, took maybe five minutes. If I hadn't seen the movies, I would have been lost 1/8 of the way into the show.
Tom Bombadil was reduced to one line of dialogue from an Ent, spoken near the end of the show. If I hadn't read the books, I would have wondered who the hell Tom Bombadil was.
The stage itself is unbelievable. It makes the technical shenanigans of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera look like three kids with a cardboard set in the backyard. People fly, Ents really are 20 feet tall, battle scenes look like battle scenes, and Shelob actually is a giant spider (not to give too much away). And there are plenty of little effects too, some occurring before the curtain even goes up. Amazing stuff.
But the characters and story are almost completely lost. In particular, Gandalf (Tony award winner Brent Carver) is written well but comes across as a waifish, almost goofy academic rather than a triumphant top-billed hero. Much more impressive is Saruman, triumphantly evil and menacing. I don't know much about musical theater, but I came away with the impression that the two actors should have switched roles.
As for the musical numbers, they are sometimes touching and sometimes bizarre. The music itself contains elements of several cultural styles, from Indian arias to Irish bar tunes. I guess the idea was that Middle Earth's music spawned all the currently known forms. That's kind of interesting, but unfortunately it is all for naught, as you won't remember a single theme by the end of the show. Sad.
IMHO the show is saved by a positively BRILLIANT performance from Gollum. Truly exceptional. It is nearly worth the admission price just to see a very talented actor (Michael Therriault) convincingly jump from Smeagol to Gollum and back before your very eyes. The effect is far more captivating than all the giant monsters, illusions, and spectacular set pieces on evidence throughout the rest of the show.
All in all, this show is much better than some of the deplorable crap to be writ large in Broadway fashion (Smokey Joe's Cafe; Bye Bye Birdie; Grease). I'd see this one again before I saw Phantom again, but perhaps not before Les Mis. It's actually not a bad show, particularly for people who don't like a "typical" Broadway productions.
But LOTR as a musical simply suffers from the fundamental inability of musical theater to match something like Tolkien's original work. You just can't get there from here. And in trying to do so, the show abandons what typically works on Broadway. You end up on a very strange and somewhat unexplored middle ground. (Middle Earth?)
I'm not sure what concrete changes they can make before trying to get to London and Broadway, but a couple of truly memorable tunes and a new Gandalf would be a great start.
Do the Ewoks have large talons?
DeLoreans traveling at 88 mph generate the same frequency. Major time paradox.
Quick, somebody start arguing about probability!
As a two-time MIT grad student, I can assure you that the vast majority of computer types here at the Institute are rather accustomed to working in stuffy, concrete-faced buildings that date from before the moon shot.
Among my circle of friends and colleagues, the Stata Center is eyed with curious suspicion and occasional annoyance.
Big Bang?
You had the Big Bang?
less than 1% silver by volume
Translation: 0% silver by volume.
"ESTES"
They use D motors.
Yeah, to hell with history! It's 50%.
By remarkably similar logic, the chances of Jesus' arrival back on Earth tomorrow is also 50%.
So don't worry about the asteroid, as chances are that Jesus will arrive before or very soon after it hits. But before the bank closes tonight, you'd better stop by and cleanse yourself of the sin of usury, or you're going to burn in hell forever!
Oh, and please post here to confirm that you've withdrawn your money from all interest-bearing investments. See you in line at St. Peter's place!
If we assume priciples of random incidence apply, then we are more likely to have been born during a period of time with a longer interval between the previous major asteroid hit and the next one.
And yet, random incidence says nothing about where we are in that interval. D'oh.
Is it too early to declare the death of Bluetooth, or can we can expect more out of it?
Are these two clauses redundant, or do they say the same thing?
Lost that race by one minute...
In case anyone's interested in the forefront of RFID... I think MIT's Auto-ID Center would be a great place to get answers to about half of the questions I've seen in this discussion so far. Plus, they're nice folks and their server could use some exercise.
For instance:
YES, it could potentially track individual items.
NO, it's not battery powered.
YES, it will reveal all your LOX purchases to the Secret Government.
This can already be done. When you buy a book at some chain bookstores, a very cheap tag is often hidden in its pages or on a sticker on the book cover. A mat on the checkout counter essentially renders the tag non-functional before you carry the book through the reader at the exit.
...or other person of interest!"
If you don't get the tag deactivated at the counter (implying purchase): "WOOP-WOOP. We're sorry. We failed to deactivate the inventory control tag on your purchase." Which is retail-speak for "STOP THIEF!
...but humankind has not.
Good point. So do us a favor: get the more realistic function for automotive suspension springs, integrate it appropriately across the distance traveled, and come back to us with the result when you're through.
'Kay? Thanks.