People call in to report that they saw Venus and it must be aliens.
The credible reports come from radar and pilots who report seeing things that move "impossibly" fast and high. Or from people who report seeing things flying that don't appear on radar. During the cold war people who saw something funny in the sky would call the air force to report it because it could be a soviet bomber! So when they got the answer "nope, there's nothing there".
The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning.
My father worked on developing the first lasers during his masters degree. I don't think he got any alien-inspired tips.
These are old notebooks well out of warranty that are broken anyway. The choice is to throw it in the oven for a few minutes or throw it away. Sure, if your computer is under warranty and you do this you're an idiot.
Pops right out actually. I've replaced mine twice. The "hard to replace" description of Apple batteries refers to needing to know how to use a screwdriver. Righty tighty and all that.
Although by the time you take the keyboard, screen, fans, plastic spacers and other heat sensitive bits off, you might as well just take the motherboard out and leave the battery in.
Many older notebook motherboards, and a lot of non-notebooks too, eventually develop problems that might be helped by reflowing. Notebooks are subject to a lot of vibration and circumstances unfavourable to efficient cooling. There are manufacturing issues that make it worse too, of course. nVidia has had problems with some of their stuff, and Microsoft with Xboxes. MacBooks made around the time Apple was switching to lead free solder, particularly ones with nVidia graphics chips, are known to be prone to these problems.
Engines don't stall, wings do. If your wings aren't passing through the air fast enough or are at too high an angle of attack (or both) the airflow over them becomes turbulent and the amount of lift the wing generates drops abruptly.
In aircraft with straight wings that can result in you being screwed. Aircraft with swept wings are generally designed so that the inside, further forward part of the wing stalls first. That means that a stall drops the nose, lowering the angle of attack and increasing airspeed. When that happens, so long as you have sufficient altitude and follow the correct procedure for the aircraft, stalls are recoverable. Correct procedure usually involves some variation of "stop trying to pull out of the dive until you have sufficient airspeed".
A plane climbing at a slow speed in a storm could mean they were trying to climb at too high an angle of attack and stalled. Or it could be more complicated. Thunderstorms have lots of strong winds. If the plane started climbing in a strong head wind and then flew out of that wind zone, it could stall abruptly.
It's easy to make suggestions like that without knowing much about the application you're suggesting. I don't know much about being a cop or bus driver, but I work in medical imaging. It happens that at a recent conference one of the pharma companies had a google glass display at their booth, as a gimmick to get people to stop by. They had an app where you could look at an MRI, test results, etc. and a Google guy to ooze enthusiasm.
The whole thing was funny. The resolution of the glass screen was just sufficient to tell that the grey blob was an MRI of a brain. It was completely useless. Test results are purposely made very simple (patient's value, normal range) and there's no reason to have them floating before your eyes. The difference in distance and focus between the screen and everything behind it was distracting and headache inducing. The google guy had to be enthusiastic, or course, but everybody who was more than a sales drone admitted it was mostly a way to get people to come to the booth. Like the free coffee.
Some of those problems could be fixed. When glass is a contact lens it will have lots of applications. Even as a high res HUD it might find some, perhaps mechanics, possibly surgeons, when they get good enough. Probably not routine medicine (although tablets and smartphones are quite handy there).
"The long tail" refers to the small, extreme fringe. You could say Apple has the long tail in PCs (the high end luxury market) while The wintels hold the middle.
Google is certainly the middle of search. The long tail is represented by the various gimmick search engines. Android is also very much the middle. The long tail might be things like Firefox OS and the open handset projects, appealing to the radical open source fringe.
Google makes android because they didn't want the cell phone manufacturers cutting their core business (advertising) out of the hot new mobile market. Sure they give away android, because they have to. Android is a cut down Linux distro. Their own apps come with a lot of conditions, and they use those to make the android phone manufacturers give them access.
The mistake Google keeps making is that they ambitiously look far ahead and then, if it doesn't catch on immediately, get bored and abandon what they've made.
It doesn't seem to make sense. But then you remember that Google is a giant advertising company. It's almost as if they're doing all this stuff just for the publicity.
1) you don't need to absorb all of the yearly emissions, just the excess that isn't absorbed and goes into increasing the atmospheric carbon concentration.
2) the proposal, which even Starts With a Bang manages to get p relatively clear despite his penchant for long emotional "arguments" is to temporarily increase carbon absorption to blunt the current increase and allow time for long term emissions reduction to take effect. You're quite right that if emissions aren't decreased, planting trees won't help.
Not necessarily. One of the leading theories about the formation of the Sahara, for example, suggests that periodic changes in the axial tilt have made North Africa cooler. The cooler temperatures result in less convection and so less cool moist air being drawn in from over the ocean. The monsoon then fails, and you eventually get desertification.
The implications of global warming vary depending on a lot of local factors and are we're not very good at predicting them. A little warmer might be good for general biodiversity - it certainly seems to have been in the past. But it's almost certainly not good for our current civilization because we have a lot of people and infrastructure that are dependent on established climate patterns.
The idea is to use increased forest area to store excess carbon long enough for reduced emissions to have an effect. Basically blunt the short term climate change problems long enough for long term emissions reduction to take effect.
The forested area of Canada has been stable for a long time and is currently increasing, much as it is in the US. Canada exports a lot of wood products but forests are managed and foresters are required to replant.
Banning prayer in school isn't tact by the religious to the non-religious. It's part of the separation of church and state, which became a big thing after two Christian groups had a violent falling out with each other in Europe and a bunch fled to the the US. The idea was that if you kept overt religious practice out of government and public activities (like education) then everybody (all Christians, or at least the more mainstream) could get along.
You shouldn't get all your news from television. Especially American television.
The UN has a regular stream of reports going back decades investigating North Korean human rights abuses and recommending sanctions be eased on necessities in order to improve the standard of living. You've only heard about it this week because the media is interested, because of the Sony hack.
Maybe. Mormons always confused me. They come to your door and try to get you to convert, but they also believe that heaven only has room for 5000 people. So wouldn't you be better off keeping it to yourself?
It turns out that God gives you afterlife credits for every unbeliever you convert. So it's important to convert a bunch of people so you can hopefully slip into one of the limited spots. Ahead of everyone you converted (and most of your co-religionists) presumably.
Logical, non-hypocritical, but kinda mercenary if you ask me.
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People call in to report that they saw Venus and it must be aliens.
The credible reports come from radar and pilots who report seeing things that move "impossibly" fast and high. Or from people who report seeing things flying that don't appear on radar. During the cold war people who saw something funny in the sky would call the air force to report it because it could be a soviet bomber! So when they got the answer "nope, there's nothing there".
It doesn't debunk this book either:
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-En...
My father worked on developing the first lasers during his masters degree. I don't think he got any alien-inspired tips.
Most of the self cleaning ovens will easily get that hot. I think my mother's gets to 1000 F, or a bit over 500 C.
These are old notebooks well out of warranty that are broken anyway. The choice is to throw it in the oven for a few minutes or throw it away. Sure, if your computer is under warranty and you do this you're an idiot.
Pops right out actually. I've replaced mine twice. The "hard to replace" description of Apple batteries refers to needing to know how to use a screwdriver. Righty tighty and all that.
Although by the time you take the keyboard, screen, fans, plastic spacers and other heat sensitive bits off, you might as well just take the motherboard out and leave the battery in.
Google.
Apple did replace or repair a lot of MacBooks with the nVidia solder issues out of warranty. These computers are all four to six years old.
Many older notebook motherboards, and a lot of non-notebooks too, eventually develop problems that might be helped by reflowing. Notebooks are subject to a lot of vibration and circumstances unfavourable to efficient cooling. There are manufacturing issues that make it worse too, of course. nVidia has had problems with some of their stuff, and Microsoft with Xboxes. MacBooks made around the time Apple was switching to lead free solder, particularly ones with nVidia graphics chips, are known to be prone to these problems.
PS: a speed in knots indicates airspeed, not climb rate. Climb rates are in feet per minute or, rarely, m/s.
Engines don't stall, wings do. If your wings aren't passing through the air fast enough or are at too high an angle of attack (or both) the airflow over them becomes turbulent and the amount of lift the wing generates drops abruptly.
In aircraft with straight wings that can result in you being screwed. Aircraft with swept wings are generally designed so that the inside, further forward part of the wing stalls first. That means that a stall drops the nose, lowering the angle of attack and increasing airspeed. When that happens, so long as you have sufficient altitude and follow the correct procedure for the aircraft, stalls are recoverable. Correct procedure usually involves some variation of "stop trying to pull out of the dive until you have sufficient airspeed".
A plane climbing at a slow speed in a storm could mean they were trying to climb at too high an angle of attack and stalled. Or it could be more complicated. Thunderstorms have lots of strong winds. If the plane started climbing in a strong head wind and then flew out of that wind zone, it could stall abruptly.
You can replace the battery yourself for about $20, or have someone do it for you for about $50.
It's easy to make suggestions like that without knowing much about the application you're suggesting. I don't know much about being a cop or bus driver, but I work in medical imaging. It happens that at a recent conference one of the pharma companies had a google glass display at their booth, as a gimmick to get people to stop by. They had an app where you could look at an MRI, test results, etc. and a Google guy to ooze enthusiasm.
The whole thing was funny. The resolution of the glass screen was just sufficient to tell that the grey blob was an MRI of a brain. It was completely useless. Test results are purposely made very simple (patient's value, normal range) and there's no reason to have them floating before your eyes. The difference in distance and focus between the screen and everything behind it was distracting and headache inducing. The google guy had to be enthusiastic, or course, but everybody who was more than a sales drone admitted it was mostly a way to get people to come to the booth. Like the free coffee.
Some of those problems could be fixed. When glass is a contact lens it will have lots of applications. Even as a high res HUD it might find some, perhaps mechanics, possibly surgeons, when they get good enough. Probably not routine medicine (although tablets and smartphones are quite handy there).
"The long tail" refers to the small, extreme fringe. You could say Apple has the long tail in PCs (the high end luxury market) while The wintels hold the middle.
Google is certainly the middle of search. The long tail is represented by the various gimmick search engines. Android is also very much the middle. The long tail might be things like Firefox OS and the open handset projects, appealing to the radical open source fringe.
Google makes android because they didn't want the cell phone manufacturers cutting their core business (advertising) out of the hot new mobile market. Sure they give away android, because they have to. Android is a cut down Linux distro. Their own apps come with a lot of conditions, and they use those to make the android phone manufacturers give them access.
The mistake Google keeps making is that they ambitiously look far ahead and then, if it doesn't catch on immediately, get bored and abandon what they've made.
It doesn't seem to make sense. But then you remember that Google is a giant advertising company. It's almost as if they're doing all this stuff just for the publicity.
Much easier - dump them in the ocean and make sure they sink.
1) you don't need to absorb all of the yearly emissions, just the excess that isn't absorbed and goes into increasing the atmospheric carbon concentration.
2) the proposal, which even Starts With a Bang manages to get p relatively clear despite his penchant for long emotional "arguments" is to temporarily increase carbon absorption to blunt the current increase and allow time for long term emissions reduction to take effect. You're quite right that if emissions aren't decreased, planting trees won't help.
Not necessarily. One of the leading theories about the formation of the Sahara, for example, suggests that periodic changes in the axial tilt have made North Africa cooler. The cooler temperatures result in less convection and so less cool moist air being drawn in from over the ocean. The monsoon then fails, and you eventually get desertification.
The implications of global warming vary depending on a lot of local factors and are we're not very good at predicting them. A little warmer might be good for general biodiversity - it certainly seems to have been in the past. But it's almost certainly not good for our current civilization because we have a lot of people and infrastructure that are dependent on established climate patterns.
The idea is to use increased forest area to store excess carbon long enough for reduced emissions to have an effect. Basically blunt the short term climate change problems long enough for long term emissions reduction to take effect.
The forested area of Canada has been stable for a long time and is currently increasing, much as it is in the US. Canada exports a lot of wood products but forests are managed and foresters are required to replant.
That's why we need to stop recycling the things. Cut the bit ones down, turn them into stuff, then when we're done with that stuff bury it at sea.
Banning prayer in school isn't tact by the religious to the non-religious. It's part of the separation of church and state, which became a big thing after two Christian groups had a violent falling out with each other in Europe and a bunch fled to the the US. The idea was that if you kept overt religious practice out of government and public activities (like education) then everybody (all Christians, or at least the more mainstream) could get along.
True. But the ratio hits 50/50 in the US by about age 35 as more boys die. Thereafter it's an accelerating plunge to 80% female by age 80.
You shouldn't get all your news from television. Especially American television.
The UN has a regular stream of reports going back decades investigating North Korean human rights abuses and recommending sanctions be eased on necessities in order to improve the standard of living. You've only heard about it this week because the media is interested, because of the Sony hack.
Maybe. Mormons always confused me. They come to your door and try to get you to convert, but they also believe that heaven only has room for 5000 people. So wouldn't you be better off keeping it to yourself?
It turns out that God gives you afterlife credits for every unbeliever you convert. So it's important to convert a bunch of people so you can hopefully slip into one of the limited spots. Ahead of everyone you converted (and most of your co-religionists) presumably.
Logical, non-hypocritical, but kinda mercenary if you ask me.