Actually making Bush in charge of the moon base is a brilliant idea! Then only thing we need is some nuclear bombs exploding in space between moon and the earth and Bush will be no longer a concern to us. OTOH. shame about the other civilizations...
Planetes manga is worth reading as well, it is somewhat different from the anime and therefore quite fresh even if, like me, you loved and watched all episodes of the anime. It is definitely not a translation, by the third volume Hachimaki is already on his way to Jupiter and life doesn't stop on Earth. The story arch is similar but not the same. I actually would be very suprised if the manga started after the anime. The animation looks like an alternative telling instead of the same thing.
And they also show that despite what other posters have said, the US is not far behind in this area.
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But note that Sea Launch isn't an American company only. In fact, their successes have been atop Russian and Russian-derived launch vehicles.
Ah, you have it there. Sea Launch vehicles are completely built and operated by russians. Even worse, Russian technicians are not allowed to see the payload being mounted to the rocket because "They might steal the technology". What technology? For 40 years Russians managed to send humans to space only with four deaths in very experimental vehicles (Soyuz 1 - First Soyuz ever and Soyuz 11, first Salyut crew). They had a perfect safety record since then. Americans have a lot to learn from Russians. The rest of the world (i.e., Chinese, Europeans, Indians) is just accepting this as a fact and cooperating with Russians. What are Americans doing? Their Congress is banning NASA to buy seats from Russians to send Americans to Orbit just because Russians are trading with other countries which happen to be trying to have a nuclear bomb, forgetting the fact that the most number of usable chemical, nuclear and biological weapons actually belong to USA.
Yeah but that was 20 years ago. Just like USA used to be able to land on the Moon 30 years ago. Try it right now and you will see that USA is not capable of doing these things anymore. It just costs too much for you to pay for it.
Now, take China. It seems quite likely that they will rule the world in 20 years time. 1 billion people working for the government, you just can't beat that.
Everywhere zenith is exactly at the same place, straight up from where you are therefore the GP is perfectly right and IAAAA (I am an amateur astronomer).
When an object is closer to the zenith, the photons must go through less gas and will not be subject to the interfecence of the atmospheric currents.
DesktopBSD and/or DragonFly just work but they lack the "ready to use" feeling. In this day and age I would guess almost any distribution of UNIX will just work. Solaris 10 just works. FreeBSD 4/5 just works. NetBSD just works. With the most common hardware and the smallest set of commons (KDE/Gnome apps), they tend to work. When you have an obscure hardware or require some strange software (a webcam/printer no one ever heard of or a driver for a multi-IO serial card no one used in the last 20 years), then you run into problems. Same for the cutting edge technology. For example SuSE 10 comes with XEN. The documentation for XEN+SuSE virtually doesn't exist. When you are new to XEN and something happens, you just can't know if it is your or distribution's fault. Once you have an other distribution (Ubuntu/Fedora Core) and experience (or not) the same problems you will figure it out. The result should be a public wiki, somewhere and indeed XEN web page has a wiki for such work.
I wouldn't go for "this distro beats that" type of argument, Slackware just works as well and has its reputation for years. FreeBSD, of course, works. No one should claim it doesn't. That'd be stupid. The main question is "when you run into a problem, will you be able to get the solution by calling a number/visiting a web page/visiting an IRC channel or is the distribution completely obscure and there is one more person trying to use it.
Free/Open/NetBSDs and almost any major Linux distribution passes this criteria therefore they are useful.
The rest of the distinction is taste. I don't like Gnome desktops and I dislike some aspects of Ubuntu's ideology for the userland. I like SuSE, Kubuntu (to a degree) and Slackware. I also have FreeBSD-installed disks for experimentation.
This message is written on a SuSE10 system communicating via a Debian proxy server on a network firewalled by a FreeBSD-based firewall. They all just work.
A "killall eclipse" will only kill the shell. The output above is after my "killall eclipse".
A good old way of doing this is as follows:
#for i in `ps axuww|grep eclipse|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -9 $i; done ;
Works all the time although it is somewhat an overkill... but I still can tpe that faster than doing it in Windows (ctrl-alt-del, task manager, processes, select, right click, select kill or whatever, wait until it dies, get impatient, try to kill it again, click on the modal box stating that an application can't be closed while it is being debugged, get annoyed, scream, punch the screen, locate where the first aid kit and antidepresseants are... Waay too many things to do.
This is the basis of the Brane theory which is quite similar to what you describe. As well as multiple universes having effect on each other, it also prevents a singularity and infinite temperatures at Big Bang and is based on the string theory.
On the other hand, although it explains some of the peculiarities of the current universe theories (black matter, inflation etc.), it does not provide any testeable predictions, yet.
What's the problem? The link you sent out gives you multiple options and it can be either ELO or microtouch, both of them are supported by XFree86/Xorg directly.
Just make sure that you have the bits configured. If you are not sure the serial ports are not working correctly, they are usually 9600 baud and you can check them out simply by cat'ting the contents of the/dev/ttySx and tracing your finger around.
What you want is a couple of flourescent lamps with an emergency supply, a small 12V battery which keeps the lamp on after the power goes out. This way you don't have to heat a huge filament using precious watts and turning it into a heater plus a small amount of light. These fixtures are a requirement in real office places, providing you with light for emergencies.
I wouldn't have any problems with (yet) an other mathematical notation and method. In any case we use different notations for various rules of physics (tensors, vectors, fourier transformations etc.) depending on the aim and whatever method is easier for the problem. The problem would be teaching high-school level pupils because at that age you usually accept anything you are thought as the norm and then get confused when you are in the university and someone shows something completely different (tensors anybody?).
Couldn't agree more. By the time the melted core hits the bottom, the mass would have fragmented and changed shape, thus reducing any particular blob of material below the critical mass. At the end you would end up with somewhat toxic and radioactive-hot material sitting at the bottom of the sea. As long as it doesn't stay as the same big, concentrated mass it was when it was in the reactor container, it won't do any additional harm.
The China Syndrome is a very unlikely thing to happen. Once the reactivity stops, the pile will cool down quite rapidly, especially in cool deep ocean water and apart from the left-over radioactivity, it won't be generating a lot of heat, definitely not enough to melt anything or the bottom. There are thousands of rods in various pools all over the world, just waiting for the short-term radioactivity to decay.
Uranium itself is a mildly radioactive material, it is quite stable, with a halflife of 700-odd million years, Compared to Uranium the short-tem, very energitic transients are more dangerous but they tend to dissapear pretty rapidly.
Once in a while I get a letter from the licensing office. The last one was somewhat threatening in its nature. They can come and I will refuse them entry. That is within my rights. I don't own a TV and I don't have to prove a negative (which is impossible to do so, that's why we have so much problem with God, you can't prove it doesn't exist).
Most people I know just gives in and pays for the tax regardless. On the other hand, I can live without Big Brother, thanks.:)
Ahem, WE haven't been around for billions, only 10 thousand years of recorded history, one thousand years of advanced technology and 100 years of electronic technology, I bet we can achieve the destruction of earth to tiny bits in 300,000 years easily. Just believe in us. We can do it. Come on guys, yes, we can!
What do you mean? It is already an FCC regulated frequency. According to ITU rules, the frequencies they are listening to" are already allocated to radio astronomy as primary. You cannot legally operate in these frequencies unless you also have primary allocation. They are reserved for science and some other specific tasks.
I hope I'm not redundant but there aren't a lot of places far from civilsation left and most of the remaining areas are not very hopsitable (Antarctica and rain forests are not the best places for doing research if you had a choice). Also the cost of moving hardware and brainpower to the location and maintaining the equipment is usually prohibitive if it is not completely automated and remotely managed. Worse, with high cost the university will probably fund a cheaper, albeit less interesting subject and your doctorate will be going nowhere.
All AC sources radiate. As long as there is a piece of wire and an AC current flowing through it, it will radiate. All surfaces will radiate as well. FCC part 15 is bogus and the signals the scientists are looking for tend to be about millions of times weaker than an average cell phone's radiation flux at around a mile. FCC might be happy that the cell phone is not interfering with someone's speakers from a mile distance, it still does overpower the signal coming from the distant stars and nebulas.
Simple. Kidnap the owner, get the car keys off him, cut his digits off until he tells you the code, if there is one. Drop him at the first corner and speed off with the car to a location where you can change the license plate, serial under the bonnet and the security mechanism at your time.
It happens. It is usually safer just to get your car stolen. Insurance will pay it out in any case.
I flopped in one of my engineering exams in the university, just because of Casio. No, actually because I broke my HP48's LCD and borrowed my brother's Casio without checking it out first. After years of RPN/RPL, algebraic operations with complex engineering equations... Argh... I hate those cheap pieces of shits. Give me a real calc, give me a new HP48!:)
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Actually making Bush in charge of the moon base is a brilliant idea! Then only thing we need is some nuclear bombs exploding in space between moon and the earth and Bush will be no longer a concern to us. OTOH. shame about the other civilizations...
Planetes manga is worth reading as well, it is somewhat different from the anime and therefore quite fresh even if, like me, you loved and watched all episodes of the anime. It is definitely not a translation, by the third volume Hachimaki is already on his way to Jupiter and life doesn't stop on Earth. The story arch is similar but not the same. I actually would be very suprised if the manga started after the anime. The animation looks like an alternative telling instead of the same thing.
Are you talking about the glorious russian version or the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307479/">american/cra p one?
Don't tell that to lions otherwise they will start hunting hippos, elephants and rhynos! Lots of meat you know, better than those skimpy grazers.
I guess you are leaning towards Fujutsu boxes, aren't you? Sparc based Fujitsus were quite impressive.
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But note that Sea Launch isn't an American company only. In fact, their successes have been atop Russian and Russian-derived launch vehicles. Ah, you have it there. Sea Launch vehicles are completely built and operated by russians. Even worse, Russian technicians are not allowed to see the payload being mounted to the rocket because "They might steal the technology". What technology? For 40 years Russians managed to send humans to space only with four deaths in very experimental vehicles (Soyuz 1 - First Soyuz ever and Soyuz 11, first Salyut crew). They had a perfect safety record since then. Americans have a lot to learn from Russians. The rest of the world (i.e., Chinese, Europeans, Indians) is just accepting this as a fact and cooperating with Russians. What are Americans doing? Their Congress is banning NASA to buy seats from Russians to send Americans to Orbit just because Russians are trading with other countries which happen to be trying to have a nuclear bomb, forgetting the fact that the most number of usable chemical, nuclear and biological weapons actually belong to USA.
Now, take China. It seems quite likely that they will rule the world in 20 years time. 1 billion people working for the government, you just can't beat that.
Everywhere zenith is exactly at the same place, straight up from where you are therefore the GP is perfectly right and IAAAA (I am an amateur astronomer). When an object is closer to the zenith, the photons must go through less gas and will not be subject to the interfecence of the atmospheric currents.
DesktopBSD and/or DragonFly just work but they lack the "ready to use" feeling. In this day and age I would guess almost any distribution of UNIX will just work. Solaris 10 just works. FreeBSD 4/5 just works. NetBSD just works. With the most common hardware and the smallest set of commons (KDE/Gnome apps), they tend to work. When you have an obscure hardware or require some strange software (a webcam/printer no one ever heard of or a driver for a multi-IO serial card no one used in the last 20 years), then you run into problems. Same for the cutting edge technology. For example SuSE 10 comes with XEN. The documentation for XEN+SuSE virtually doesn't exist. When you are new to XEN and something happens, you just can't know if it is your or distribution's fault. Once you have an other distribution (Ubuntu/Fedora Core) and experience (or not) the same problems you will figure it out. The result should be a public wiki, somewhere and indeed XEN web page has a wiki for such work.
I wouldn't go for "this distro beats that" type of argument, Slackware just works as well and has its reputation for years. FreeBSD, of course, works. No one should claim it doesn't. That'd be stupid. The main question is "when you run into a problem, will you be able to get the solution by calling a number/visiting a web page/visiting an IRC channel or is the distribution completely obscure and there is one more person trying to use it.
Free/Open/NetBSDs and almost any major Linux distribution passes this criteria therefore they are useful.
The rest of the distinction is taste. I don't like Gnome desktops and I dislike some aspects of Ubuntu's ideology for the userland. I like SuSE, Kubuntu (to a degree) and Slackware. I also have FreeBSD-installed disks for experimentation.
This message is written on a SuSE10 system communicating via a Debian proxy server on a network firewalled by a FreeBSD-based firewall. They all just work.
That won't work. Eclipse is just a wrapper which spawns a number of java processes:
/usr/java/jdk1.4/bin/java -Xmx256M -jar /home/m1fcj/eclipse/./startup.jar -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -launcher /home/m1fcj/eclipse/./eclipse -name Eclipse -showsplash 600 -exitdata 1a20000 -vm /usr/java/jdk1.4/bin/java -vmargs -Xmx256M -jar /home/m1fcj/eclipse/./startup.jar
m1fcj 4180 4114 0 17:14 pts/10 00:00:00
A "killall eclipse" will only kill the shell. The output above is after my "killall eclipse".
A good old way of doing this is as follows:
#for i in `ps axuww|grep eclipse|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'`; do kill -9 $i; done ;
Works all the time although it is somewhat an overkill... but I still can tpe that faster than doing it in Windows (ctrl-alt-del, task manager, processes, select, right click, select kill or whatever, wait until it dies, get impatient, try to kill it again, click on the modal box stating that an application can't be closed while it is being debugged, get annoyed, scream, punch the screen, locate where the first aid kit and antidepresseants are... Waay too many things to do.
On the other hand, although it explains some of the peculiarities of the current universe theories (black matter, inflation etc.), it does not provide any testeable predictions, yet.
What's the problem? The link you sent out gives you multiple options and it can be either ELO or microtouch, both of them are supported by XFree86/Xorg directly. Just make sure that you have the bits configured. If you are not sure the serial ports are not working correctly, they are usually 9600 baud and you can check them out simply by cat'ting the contents of the /dev/ttySx and tracing your finger around.
What you want is a couple of flourescent lamps with an emergency supply, a small 12V battery which keeps the lamp on after the power goes out. This way you don't have to heat a huge filament using precious watts and turning it into a heater plus a small amount of light. These fixtures are a requirement in real office places, providing you with light for emergencies.
I wouldn't have any problems with (yet) an other mathematical notation and method. In any case we use different notations for various rules of physics (tensors, vectors, fourier transformations etc.) depending on the aim and whatever method is easier for the problem. The problem would be teaching high-school level pupils because at that age you usually accept anything you are thought as the norm and then get confused when you are in the university and someone shows something completely different (tensors anybody?).
1.414 is correct to the third digit and easy to remember. What's the problem? :)
awww, please tell me that you are kidding.
The China Syndrome is a very unlikely thing to happen. Once the reactivity stops, the pile will cool down quite rapidly, especially in cool deep ocean water and apart from the left-over radioactivity, it won't be generating a lot of heat, definitely not enough to melt anything or the bottom. There are thousands of rods in various pools all over the world, just waiting for the short-term radioactivity to decay.
Uranium itself is a mildly radioactive material, it is quite stable, with a halflife of 700-odd million years, Compared to Uranium the short-tem, very energitic transients are more dangerous but they tend to dissapear pretty rapidly.
Most people I know just gives in and pays for the tax regardless. On the other hand, I can live without Big Brother, thanks. :)
Bah.. Who cares about Windows and obsolete software... Come back when FC4 version of PlanetCCRMA is announced.
Ahem, WE haven't been around for billions, only 10 thousand years of recorded history, one thousand years of advanced technology and 100 years of electronic technology, I bet we can achieve the destruction of earth to tiny bits in 300,000 years easily. Just believe in us. We can do it. Come on guys, yes, we can!
What do you mean? It is already an FCC regulated frequency. According to ITU rules, the frequencies they are listening to" are already allocated to radio astronomy as primary. You cannot legally operate in these frequencies unless you also have primary allocation. They are reserved for science and some other specific tasks.
Any water molecule will contain only one or two deuterium atoms, not more. Anything that's not H2O is not water.
All AC sources radiate. As long as there is a piece of wire and an AC current flowing through it, it will radiate. All surfaces will radiate as well. FCC part 15 is bogus and the signals the scientists are looking for tend to be about millions of times weaker than an average cell phone's radiation flux at around a mile. FCC might be happy that the cell phone is not interfering with someone's speakers from a mile distance, it still does overpower the signal coming from the distant stars and nebulas.
It happens. It is usually safer just to get your car stolen. Insurance will pay it out in any case.
I flopped in one of my engineering exams in the university, just because of Casio. No, actually because I broke my HP48's LCD and borrowed my brother's Casio without checking it out first. After years of RPN/RPL, algebraic operations with complex engineering equations... Argh... I hate those cheap pieces of shits. Give me a real calc, give me a new HP48! :)