Engineering is also a very exact science. The component will either bear the load or it will not. There's not a whole lot of grey area there, so it tends to be a very black and white disciplne. Zealots of any stripe, terrorist or otherwise, view the world in stark terms. My way is right, everyone else's is wrong. So it is not all that surprising that people who see the world in black and white terms get caught up with black and white causes.
I wonder if his bio is any indication of his abilities as a writer (from Amazon):
About the Author
I worked for Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a total of eight summer/years conducting research, doing satellite data analysis, analyzing computer simulations of interstellar bodies using Orbital Mechanics techniques, and Radio Frequency signal analysis of interstellar space objects. When I graduated from Tuskegee University in the fall of 1994, I left Jet Propulsion Laboratory to work for Hughes Aircraft Company as an Aircraft Radar and Satellite Systems Engineer. While studying physics, I always entertained designing and building the Flying Car, and made many designs over the years. Then in the year 1995, I contacted Moller International, and met with the President of the Company, and showed him some of my flying car designs. He rewarded me by offering me a job making half of what I was making at Hughes Aircraft Company. But because I really wanted to work on the flying Car, I left Hughes Aircraft Company to work for Moller International as Chief Engineer in charge of the Flight Control System design of the (M200, M400 and Aerobot) Vertical Take-Off and Landing and Flying Car aircrafts. When the Moller Corporation did not win a major contract that would have pumped more money into the company, I left a year later to return to Hughes Aircraft Company. I returned to Hughes Aircraft in 1996, and in 1997 they were bought out by Raytheon Systems Corporation. For the Raytheon Systems Corporation, I worked as a systems engineer on the F-14, F-15, F-18, and Global Hawk fighter aircraft radar systems. In the year 1997 I got the physics bug again, and from 1997 through 1999 in my spare time all I did was study mainly orbital mechanics, and rotation. I eventually wrote a book on the subject of rotation that I never published. While working as radar systems engineer and studying physics in my spare time, I also picked up a third job and started teaching Mathematics in the year 1999 for the University of Phoenix Southern California Campus. I continue to teach mathematics to this present day, and prior to the writing of this book I have taught at the University of Phoenix for a total of 10 years. In the year 2001 I stopped working on physics, because I was tired of working on physics and working three jobs. (Engineer, Teacher, Physics Writer). When I stopped studying physics instead of resting, I started studying software and web site design. A year later in the year 2002 I left Raytheon to work for the Disney Corporation as a software computer programmer in web site design; however, I got in on the tail end of the Dot Com Bang ; and experienced the Dot Com Bust. I left the Disney Corporation and web site design, to head back into aerospace; and landed a job working for the Northrop Grumman Corporation Aircraft Avionics Division in 2004, working on the X-47B Naval Unmanned Air Combat Vehicle. Two years later, in the year 2006 I was promoted to Algorithm Development and System Design Verification Manager of the F-35 Fighter Aircraft Program at the Northrop Grumman Corporation. In June 2007, I got the physics bug again, and resigned from my management job, sold my house and moved into a one bed room condo, and returned to physics. I started working on completing this book that I started 21 years ago. And for the last three years, on my own free time, after work, and on weekends, night and day, day and night, I spent a total of three years of blood, sweat and tears creating this work. I hope that the reader enjoys this work, I consider it art, as well as science. I earnestly ask that everything be read with an open mind and that the shortcomings in any of the subjects addressed, which are new concepts, may be not so much reprehended as investigated, and kindly supplemented, by new endeavors of my readers.
But isn't this same fungus found in some humans, too? It doesn't cause them to climb trees, but it does tend to make them more aggressive, paranoid, and less able to deal with authority IIRC. I thought there was a/. story about it, and how the the higher a country's proportion of infection was, the more likely they were to have a better Soccer team...
Given how much google uses java for all sorts of stuff, they were idiots not to buy sun.
Or they realized they were safe using Java as they are now. They'll spend less defending this than they would buying Sun, and once they get a ruling on their side they're good to go. Oracle is just picking up the torch where SCO dropped it.
Indeed. "That word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Prosecution means a criminal complaint against you. You might be able to be named in a Civil suit, but i don't see how you can be arrested for writing code.
no child left behind and the cert mess = tech just the test and with certification alot of the time they are way off base from the real world or set in a world of free M$ software that in many places will no much to set up how some of the cert tests have things setup.
I don't think I've ever commented on someone's grammar before but, Damn! You want to try that again?
I realize they are "predicting" games that have already taken place, but how would this affect a realtime match? How much would it change your moves knowing you've been predicted to lose? Or to win?
I still do all my writing in monospace. I don't use "smartquotes" or any of the other smart-replace type options. I use two spaces after periods everywhere except when texting and on twitter. I like what I type to appear on the screen. Not what the program thinks I want, but what I actually type.
Start with finding out what you are trying to accomplish, and then work from there!
So very true, regardless of what you're trying to learn. If it doesn't relate back to something you're already interested in you're not going to be able stick with it over the long haul.
So if I am reading it right, delta-V is the change in velocity. So a Star Destroyer and Paint fleck both have to have their velocity changed the same amount, to the same speed at which they will no longer orbit. The amount of energy required to affect that change can vary substantially?
As to shooting the.308 straight down, would it eventually reneter orbit, just going down a step each time, or would it eventually stabilize in a lower orbit?
An even bigger difference is taht Facebook is free. AOL and Prodigy were pay. The standards that killed off AOL and Prodigy (and CompuServe, et al) did so because they were free not because they were open. I understand that without being open they probably wouldn't have been free, but free as in beer is what established them.
It takes the same delta-v to de-orbit any two masses in the same orbit. Paint chip or Star Destroyer. Thrust requirements follow Newton, not Roddenberry.
I am not a physicist, but it seems that inertia would count for something. I could also be misreading it, but it doesn't sound right that the same nudge is needed to de-orbit a paint chip would also de-orbit a Star Destroyer. I would think that an astronaut, matching the orbital speeds, could flick the paint fleck and send it into a terminal plunge. I have a hard time believing a Star Destroyer would notice.
Of course most of my groundings space physics are Lucasian as opposed to Roddenberrian, so I think I'm at an even greater disadvantage:-)
Having worked with lawyers for a decade now I can say, yes. Yes it is. Except that the hatred of lawyers tends to increase exponentially the further their opinion is from yours:-)
Apple is about freedom. Freedom from porn. Freedom from criticism. Freedom from competition. Freedom from objective discussions. Freedom from the truth.
True. It doesn't matter what flavor the Kool-Aid is, as long as it's in a shiny, black pitcher.
Foo predates WWII by a few years, but the military certainly took it and ran. The British radar operators referred to false returns as "Foo Fighters." While i knew that, i did not know that the night fighter squadrons would refer to UFO's as foo fighters as well. (UFO in it's specific definition, not implying flying saucers.) FooBAR then is a backronym for F'd Beyond All Recognition.
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But what about when the component experiences plastic strain?
Black, it fails. White, it is OK. Plastic Strain, grey, exists from this precise point to that precise point. Even the grey area is compartmentalized.
Engineering is also a very exact science. The component will either bear the load or it will not. There's not a whole lot of grey area there, so it tends to be a very black and white disciplne. Zealots of any stripe, terrorist or otherwise, view the world in stark terms. My way is right, everyone else's is wrong. So it is not all that surprising that people who see the world in black and white terms get caught up with black and white causes.
Of course the pictures are limited to 140x140 pixels, and the videos are limited to 140 frames, but, other than that; its an outstanding service!
Yeah but going mach 10 at ground level isn't exactly rainbows and ponies either...
True, but you do have the potential to turn ponies into rainbows...
Such trains have existed for decades already in at least Finland and they certainly haven't killed airlines.
That's because the Reindeer stubbornly refuse to give up flying.
But isn't this same fungus found in some humans, too? It doesn't cause them to climb trees, but it does tend to make them more aggressive, paranoid, and less able to deal with authority IIRC. I thought there was a /. story about it, and how the the higher a country's proportion of infection was, the more likely they were to have a better Soccer team...
Given how much google uses java for all sorts of stuff, they were idiots not to buy sun.
Or they realized they were safe using Java as they are now. They'll spend less defending this than they would buying Sun, and once they get a ruling on their side they're good to go. Oracle is just picking up the torch where SCO dropped it.
Indeed. "That word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Prosecution means a criminal complaint against you. You might be able to be named in a Civil suit, but i don't see how you can be arrested for writing code.
So they buy Apples too, huh?
no child left behind and the cert mess = tech just the test and with certification alot of the time they are way off base from the real world or set in a world of free M$ software that in many places will no much to set up how some of the cert tests have things setup.
I don't think I've ever commented on someone's grammar before but, Damn! You want to try that again?
I realize they are "predicting" games that have already taken place, but how would this affect a realtime match? How much would it change your moves knowing you've been predicted to lose? Or to win?
Not that they'd use it, but it certainly couldn't hurt.
Just checked out Lyx. It looks pretty cool and looks like it will do most of what I want. I'll definitely check it out tonight. Thanks!
I still do all my writing in monospace. I don't use "smartquotes" or any of the other smart-replace type options. I use two spaces after periods everywhere except when texting and on twitter. I like what I type to appear on the screen. Not what the program thinks I want, but what I actually type.
Start with finding out what you are trying to accomplish, and then work from there!
So very true, regardless of what you're trying to learn. If it doesn't relate back to something you're already interested in you're not going to be able stick with it over the long haul.
So if I am reading it right, delta-V is the change in velocity. So a Star Destroyer and Paint fleck both have to have their velocity changed the same amount, to the same speed at which they will no longer orbit. The amount of energy required to affect that change can vary substantially?
.308 straight down, would it eventually reneter orbit, just going down a step each time, or would it eventually stabilize in a lower orbit?
As to shooting the
An even bigger difference is taht Facebook is free. AOL and Prodigy were pay. The standards that killed off AOL and Prodigy (and CompuServe, et al) did so because they were free not because they were open. I understand that without being open they probably wouldn't have been free, but free as in beer is what established them.
It takes the same delta-v to de-orbit any two masses in the same orbit. Paint chip or Star Destroyer. Thrust requirements follow Newton, not Roddenberry.
:-)
I am not a physicist, but it seems that inertia would count for something. I could also be misreading it, but it doesn't sound right that the same nudge is needed to de-orbit a paint chip would also de-orbit a Star Destroyer. I would think that an astronaut, matching the orbital speeds, could flick the paint fleck and send it into a terminal plunge. I have a hard time believing a Star Destroyer would notice.
Of course most of my groundings space physics are Lucasian as opposed to Roddenberrian, so I think I'm at an even greater disadvantage
Being socially deficient doesn't make you incapable of determining right and wrong,
Exactly. If he had robbed a bank no one would be rallying to his cause. He is accused of a crime and should stand trial for it.
objects in low Earth orbit are traveling somewhere north of 14,000 mph
That's why they jump backwards.
I imagine this is why people hate lawyers...
:-)
Having worked with lawyers for a decade now I can say, yes. Yes it is. Except that the hatred of lawyers tends to increase exponentially the further their opinion is from yours
The United States of America becomes United Sttes of Meric.
Which is also as close as the US will ever come to affiliating itself with the Metric system.
Apple is about freedom. Freedom from porn. Freedom from criticism. Freedom from competition. Freedom from objective discussions. Freedom from the truth.
True. It doesn't matter what flavor the Kool-Aid is, as long as it's in a shiny, black pitcher.
Foo predates WWII by a few years, but the military certainly took it and ran. The British radar operators referred to false returns as "Foo Fighters." While i knew that, i did not know that the night fighter squadrons would refer to UFO's as foo fighters as well. (UFO in it's specific definition, not implying flying saucers.) FooBAR then is a backronym for F'd Beyond All Recognition.
Thus sayeth the wikipedia.