The movement of an object through the atmosphere or through space, sustained by aerodynamic, aerostatic, or reaction forces, or by orbital speed; especially, the movement of a man-operated or man-controlled device, such as a rocket, a space probe, a space vehicle, or aircraft
So, yes, you can consider it all human flight. All of these devices result in aerodynamically produced lift, and allow for man-controlled movement through the atmosphere.
Not really fair to mod the parent as redundant,
given the number of interesting and insightful
replies to it. Should at least be considered
a bit 'interesting'.
Depends on which fluid has the lower refraction index. I.e. either the upper-fluid in the diagram can be regarded as the lens, in which case the lines are drawn correctly, or the lower fluid, in which case you are right.
I have to disagree. Yes, engineering is indeed about creating structure, but that's beyond the point. It's about chaos being the driver of the process, not the result nor target of that process.
Creativity is combining things in new and often unexpected ways. You cannot structure that process.
You can model creative processes to some extend, but those models will always depend on some randomness, thus on chaos. An example would be a genetic algorithm: this is a creative algorithm, (re)combining existing solutions,
and letting the best solutions survive. But you can not have a genetic algorithm (at least not an effective one) without the random function.
The letter seems te be about the following choice: either have a nice job, getting paid well, and have all the girls look at you *or* work on open-source software. Isn't that a bit too much polarized?
I'm a software developer / architect myself, have a decent salary, even a wife, and still like to work on open-source, just because I love writing code in my free time and share the results with the community.
A lot of open-source projects help me in getting my job done (and getting me paid), so why not contribute back?
So, there is no choice, enjoy the best of both worlds!
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Definition of flight, according to NASA:
The movement of an object through the atmosphere or through space, sustained by aerodynamic, aerostatic, or reaction forces, or by orbital speed; especially, the movement of a man-operated or man-controlled device, such as a rocket, a space probe, a space vehicle, or aircraft
So, yes, you can consider it all human flight. All of these devices result in aerodynamically produced lift, and allow for man-controlled movement through the atmosphere.
Not really fair to mod the parent as redundant, given the number of interesting and insightful replies to it. Should at least be considered a bit 'interesting'.
Depends on which fluid has the lower refraction index. I.e. either the upper-fluid in the diagram can be regarded as the lens, in which case the lines are drawn correctly, or the lower fluid, in which case you are right.
You mean something like this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pipelinemanager
I have to disagree. Yes, engineering is indeed about creating structure, but that's beyond the point. It's about chaos being the driver of the process, not the result nor target of that process. Creativity is combining things in new and often unexpected ways. You cannot structure that process. You can model creative processes to some extend, but those models will always depend on some randomness, thus on chaos. An example would be a genetic algorithm: this is a creative algorithm, (re)combining existing solutions, and letting the best solutions survive. But you can not have a genetic algorithm (at least not an effective one) without the random function.
The letter seems te be about the following choice: either have a nice job, getting paid well, and have all the girls look at you *or* work on open-source software. Isn't that a bit too much polarized? I'm a software developer / architect myself, have a decent salary, even a wife, and still like to work on open-source, just because I love writing code in my free time and share the results with the community. A lot of open-source projects help me in getting my job done (and getting me paid), so why not contribute back? So, there is no choice, enjoy the best of both worlds!
Try: candle truck -ebay I now have 90 hits out of 82,600!
Good idea! And to solve this issue completely the FirebirdSQL guys could rename their project to:
"Database"