An experienced batter will have a pretty good idea where the ball is going to land, from the moment it leaves his bat. He will know whether he's going to have to really hustle to get to first base before the ball does, or if he might have a chance at second. If he's got a chance of making second, he doesn't have to take the fastest path to first, to be sure of getting that far. And if he's still thinking that he may be able to make second base by the time he's half way to first, he should still be able to round first base toward second, and then put the brakes on, and get back to first before the ball does.
While all of the stories in I Robot were first written 40 years before his death, Issac's positronic robots, and the three laws were something that he kept coming back to, time and again, throughout his career writing SF. His last works of fiction tied his earlier robot and Foundation stories together into one shared continuity. He clearly did not believe that he had written the last definitive word on the subject.
I am willing to give the new stories the benefit of the doubt. I won't declare them awful, until I've actually had the opportunity to read them.
Actually, the Hungarian ambassador came on his show, and gave him a plaque, or something, certifying that he had won the contest, and then specified that for them to actually name the bridge after him, Colbert had to speak Hungarian. Colbert demonstrated his fluency by knowing the "hid" was Hungarian for "bridge." The ambassador accepted that as meeting the first requirement, then told him that the second requirement was that he be dead, at which point Colbert acceded, and agreed to let them name the bridge after some Hungarian national hero.
Does it mean that 94% of websites did not find the standard useful?
Or perhaps that the standard is poorly presented, causing fewer people to be aware of it?
No. It means that most HTML coders are too lazy to do it right. Sure there are errors that don't really make much difference, like not giving all your IMG tags an ALT string. 'ALT=" "' is perfectly legal, but doesn't do anything useful.
But if you look at the actual errors reported, you're going to see a lot of things like unbalanced, or improperly nested tags. Something with an unmatched </TABLE> is going to display just fine, in pretty much any browser, until you go back in and edit the table to add some more rows, but you put them after that unmatched tag, and now they don't display right, and you waste ten minutes trying to track down what you did wrong.
It isn't just about breaking the law. Someone sends an email to a coworker, telling them "I suppose that if someone is using our Webelfetzer 1000 while hopping up and down on one foot in the shower, they might slip, and bang their head," and then a year later someone is using a Webelfetzer 1000 while hopping up and down on one foot in the shower, and they slip and bang their head, and sue, and their lawyer finds the old email, and screams: "See! You knew this was a threat, and you didn't warn anybody!" and then doubles the damages they're asking for.
Clarke always said that the novel credit should have been "by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrik, based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C Clarke," and that the screenplay credit should have been "by Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C Clarke, based on the novel by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrik."
He even wrote a book about the process "The Lost Worlds of 2001" which includes some of their earlier ideas for what the movie should have been about, and how the story evolved.
Saturn's rings were first seen in 1610 by Galileo, though he didn't figure out that they were rings. Christian Huygens first proposed that what people were seeing when they looked at Saturn were rings in 1655. In 1675 Cassini saw that there was more than one ring.
At the time the movie was made, they had a very good idea what Saturn looked like.
He spends a lot of time talking about the difference between binary and SI terabytes and gigabytes, and then comes out with:
Back in the day, the gap between decimal and binary capacity wasn't big enough to ruffle feathers. Gigabyte drives were only "missing" 24 bytes, and that was easy to swallow.
Um, 24 bytes is the difference between kilo meaning 1000 and kilo meaning 1024. A binary gigabyte is 1,073,741,824, or 73 megabytes bigger than an SI gigabyte.
And if they follow the Clarke story, that's what happens in this movie too. The guy has to follow the instructions on how to save himself that he gets from the folks on the ground.
If time travel was possible, there wouldn't be room on the grassy knoll for a second gunman. It would be full of time travelling conspiracy theorists looking for a second gunman.
Skin cancer is both easy to diagnose (you can see it) and to treat. Many of the other cancers that vitamin D deficiency may cause are neither.
To quote from the article: "Fifteen hundred Americans die every year from [skin cancers]. Fifteen hundred Americans die every day from the serious cancers."
And given that the human population is about 6 billion and growing, while the chimp population is about 150,000 and dropping, it would seem that people have the more beneficial set of genes.
They are subject to the law at all times, doesn't matter what their lights and sirens are doing. The traffic laws are written with exemptions for police, fire and other emergency vehicles.
But those exemptions aren't absolute. The police can't just run a red light any time they feel like it. There has to be a reason for it. They have to be persuing someone, or responding to a call, or some such thing.
I can't find any references to it now, but I thought I remembered from back in the day that when the idea of the Doctor's regenerations first came up they established that he had already undergone several of them before the series started. From the established backstory, the Tom Baker Doctor should have been his last regeneration. That was why they did the whole rigamarole with "The Watcher" for the regeneration into the fifth Doctor.
Businesses love this for security because there is no passcode for someone to steal and employees don't need to remember passcodes. Credit card companies would really love it to help prevent fraud (in theory saving us all money, but we know how that goes).
But how good is the security? Can't anyone with the right hardware read your RFID tag, without you even knowing it? And then they can program their own RFID device to mimic it.
Some of the footprints in the immediate vicinity of the landing might have been blown away, but not much else. All the hardware that they left up there will still be there.
Assuming: 2000 lbs in a ton 20 ton spacecraft $10,000/pound to get to geosynchronous transfer orbit
$400,000,000 just to launch this thing into a geosynchronous transfer orbit
$400 million is about what it costs to launch the shuttle. It would take two shuttle launches to put 20 tonnes into orbit. Not an extravagant amount to spend to keep an asteroid from hitting the Earth.
The only sort of failure that would have them going to the ISS is something that would make impossible to land, such as damaged tiles. Any sort of life support system failure, they can still probably land the thing faster than they can dock to the station.
I don't think that there's a requirement to cross the equator. The guys who hold the speed record for circling the world in a helicopter never left the northern hemisphere. They started in England, hopped across the Atlantic using Iceland and Greenland for refuelling stops, zigzagged across North America to build up the necessary distance to have the record recognized, then hopped from Alaska to Siberia, and went pretty much straight across Asia and Europe to get back to England.
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An experienced batter will have a pretty good idea where the ball is going to land, from the moment it leaves his bat. He will know whether he's going to have to really hustle to get to first base before the ball does, or if he might have a chance at second. If he's got a chance of making second, he doesn't have to take the fastest path to first, to be sure of getting that far. And if he's still thinking that he may be able to make second base by the time he's half way to first, he should still be able to round first base toward second, and then put the brakes on, and get back to first before the ball does.
While all of the stories in I Robot were first written 40 years before his death, Issac's positronic robots, and the three laws were something that he kept coming back to, time and again, throughout his career writing SF. His last works of fiction tied his earlier robot and Foundation stories together into one shared continuity. He clearly did not believe that he had written the last definitive word on the subject.
I am willing to give the new stories the benefit of the doubt. I won't declare them awful, until I've actually had the opportunity to read them.
Actually, the Hungarian ambassador came on his show, and gave him a plaque, or something, certifying that he had won the contest, and then specified that for them to actually name the bridge after him, Colbert had to speak Hungarian. Colbert demonstrated his fluency by knowing the "hid" was Hungarian for "bridge." The ambassador accepted that as meeting the first requirement, then told him that the second requirement was that he be dead, at which point Colbert acceded, and agreed to let them name the bridge after some Hungarian national hero.
Technically, Canada hasn't launched any satellites. We pay others (usually NASA, sometimes ESA or the Russians) to launch them for us.
Anyone know how Asimov's name came to be entirely omitted from the credits?
This turns out not to be the case. Three minutes and ten seconds into the movie we have:
based on the short story by Isaac Asimov
and the novel "The Positronic Man" by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
The same credit is printed on the DVD cover.
Does it mean that 94% of websites did not find the standard useful?
Or perhaps that the standard is poorly presented, causing fewer people to be aware of it?
No. It means that most HTML coders are too lazy to do it right. Sure there are errors that don't really make much difference, like not giving all your IMG tags an ALT string. 'ALT=" "' is perfectly legal, but doesn't do anything useful.
But if you look at the actual errors reported, you're going to see a lot of things like unbalanced, or improperly nested tags. Something with an unmatched </TABLE> is going to display just fine, in pretty much any browser, until you go back in and edit the table to add some more rows, but you put them after that unmatched tag, and now they don't display right, and you waste ten minutes trying to track down what you did wrong.
It isn't just about breaking the law. Someone sends an email to a coworker, telling them "I suppose that if someone is using our Webelfetzer 1000 while hopping up and down on one foot in the shower, they might slip, and bang their head," and then a year later someone is using a Webelfetzer 1000 while hopping up and down on one foot in the shower, and they slip and bang their head, and sue, and their lawyer finds the old email, and screams: "See! You knew this was a threat, and you didn't warn anybody!" and then doubles the damages they're asking for.
Clarke always said that the novel credit should have been "by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrik, based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C Clarke," and that the screenplay credit should have been "by Stanley Kubrik and Arthur C Clarke, based on the novel by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrik."
He even wrote a book about the process "The Lost Worlds of 2001" which includes some of their earlier ideas for what the movie should have been about, and how the story evolved.
Saturn's rings were first seen in 1610 by Galileo, though he didn't figure out that they were rings. Christian Huygens first proposed that what people were seeing when they looked at Saturn were rings in 1655. In 1675 Cassini saw that there was more than one ring.
At the time the movie was made, they had a very good idea what Saturn looked like.
It was an historic moment. For what may have been the only time, the Soviet Union decided "Okay, that weapon was too big."
And if they follow the Clarke story, that's what happens in this movie too. The guy has to follow the instructions on how to save himself that he gets from the folks on the ground.
If time travel was possible, there wouldn't be room on the grassy knoll for a second gunman. It would be full of time travelling conspiracy theorists looking for a second gunman.
More like he was trying to out shout someone who was misrepresenting something that he had said earlier.
Skin cancer is both easy to diagnose (you can see it) and to treat. Many of the other cancers that vitamin D deficiency may cause are neither. To quote from the article: "Fifteen hundred Americans die every year from [skin cancers]. Fifteen hundred Americans die every day from the serious cancers."
And given that the human population is about 6 billion and growing, while the chimp population is about 150,000 and dropping, it would seem that people have the more beneficial set of genes.
They are subject to the law at all times, doesn't matter what their lights and sirens are doing. The traffic laws are written with exemptions for police, fire and other emergency vehicles.
But those exemptions aren't absolute. The police can't just run a red light any time they feel like it. There has to be a reason for it. They have to be persuing someone, or responding to a call, or some such thing.
I can't find any references to it now, but I thought I remembered from back in the day that when the idea of the Doctor's regenerations first came up they established that he had already undergone several of them before the series started. From the established backstory, the Tom Baker Doctor should have been his last regeneration. That was why they did the whole rigamarole with "The Watcher" for the regeneration into the fifth Doctor.
It hinders innovation because people are continually having to reinvent the wheel, rather than go on to create something new.
Some of the footprints in the immediate vicinity of the landing might have been blown away, but not much else. All the hardware that they left up there will still be there.
$400 million is about what it costs to launch the shuttle. It would take two shuttle launches to put 20 tonnes into orbit. Not an extravagant amount to spend to keep an asteroid from hitting the Earth.
"...observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer."
They report about Macs, because Macs are computers that people can use.
The only sort of failure that would have them going to the ISS is something that would make impossible to land, such as damaged tiles. Any sort of life support system failure, they can still probably land the thing faster than they can dock to the station.
I don't think that there's a requirement to cross the equator. The guys who hold the speed record for circling the world in a helicopter never left the northern hemisphere. They started in England, hopped across the Atlantic using Iceland and Greenland for refuelling stops, zigzagged across North America to build up the necessary distance to have the record recognized, then hopped from Alaska to Siberia, and went pretty much straight across Asia and Europe to get back to England.