That's ridiculous. I made a little AM station from a kit from RadioShack when I was 12. What would they do? Bust down the doors and smash it rather than waiting for the bullies at school?
Although they certainly do make for litigation-happiness, overall the non-loser-pays system is healthier for democratic participation in the legal system.
Very good point. It's a shame the same doesn't apply in criminal court. The accused (almost always a little guy) can be charged with virtually anything by the prosecution (ie, high potential cost), being coerced into accepting a plea-bargain for probation 90% of the time regardless of guilt (at least here in the US). So when it really counts litigation-happiness isn't an option. Go figure.
Actually, the RTGs are shielded even more than the typical black box in a jet. They are specifically designed to withstand a rocket blowing up or re-entry. So the only real worry is being hit in the head as it comes down. So, at most, one person may be killed by an RTG.
I'll grant you that. In my case, it was a simple out-and-back trip without hardly anytime to go off-roading. I did drive a bit on a dry lakebed, which certainly would have been more fun in a Jeep.
It was a mid-size Chev Classic Malibu, BTW. No bells and whistles, that's for sure, but comfortable. You probably wouldn't want the top down when driving through Las Vegas in summer for any length of time anyway.
Why did you go on such a long trip in a cinder block? If you're 25 or older, it probably would have been cheaper to rent a (brand new) car, especially once you consider vehicle maintenance. I just went on a 2100 mile road trip (from Boulder, CO to Mojave, CA and back) with a rental and got about 35mpg, crusing at roughly 70-80mph most of the time with A/C. At $2 per gallon, you would have saved about $122, paying for 4 days of a Hertz rental (not including maintenance savings) plus free roadside assistance.
That's not what I meant. I meant that if you want to pass a pointer to a complex structure to a function loaded from a DLL, it isn't trivial (depends on the structure, of course). You have to laboriously rebuild each structure exactly as its C counterpart. For large libraries, this is a pain in the ass.
I suppose if you made a habit of this you could write a Perl script to do much of the work for you, but I still don't like the extra work. Not to mention that most open source projects don't have VB bindings, so most of the time YOYO (you're on your own). There's a reason for this, the main one being that VB isn't cross-platform but rather solely dependent on a single vendor for its design and distribution licenses.
The primary problem with VB is that it isn't easy to do things that aren't built in to it. For instance, I once had to write a program to print unusually formatted reports. In C/C++ this would have been a snap, but VB's built-in GDI functions were not nearly precise enough and exposed a pathetically small portion of Windows API (this was 4-5 years ago, don't know if things have changed since then). I could have exposed the API functions, of course, but at that point it certainly is not simpler than raw C/C++ programming.
It also isn't trivial to use DLLs where functions require pointers to structures to be passed back and forth.
I think you're over-estimating that 99% number. One of the first environments I learned to program in was VB, but it doesn't provide nearly enough flexability to do 99% of the jobs easier than using the Windows API directly (or better yet QT), at least in my experience. You'd be surprised how quickly you can get an app done in C/C++ if you have some C boilerplate code laying around (even if you don't, there is a SDK example for nearly anything you would want to do in VB, such as using the common controls, etc.).
The main problem is that the extra weight would be placed well aft of the aerodynamic center of the airplane, increasing its inertia making it much more sluggish.
Aren't senators supposed to look out for their own state's wellfare? Which of those companies are based in Utah? Any of them? Not to mention that this doesn't do much for the wellfare of the people, but even the COMPANIES aren't in Utah AFAIK.
You're mostly right, but you missed the main reason why orbital launches are favorable from the equator. It allows you to directly insert a spacecraft into any orbital plane without extra cost. The further you get from the equator, the smaller the range of inclinations you can insert into without penalty. The equator is the only place you can launch geo-synchronous satellites without this penalty (which is the most expensive orbit correction there is, btw). The speed boost you get from launching at the equator is rather minor compared to orbital velocity, so that doesn't matter too much in comparison. For polar orbits, you need to counter this rotational speed so theoretically it would be cheapest to launch them as far north as possible, but this isn't usually practical.
Unless you're talking about ultra-high altitude planes, their latitude doesn't really matter, except for considering jet stream flows (the atmosphere and everything else is still moving with the earth too, so your relative velocity is the same regardless).
Hence why I use a RAID 1 at home. Drives are cheap, might as well double up on 'em. On the downside, I use it as an excuse to not do backups as often (doesn't prevent electrical surges, rm -rf *, etc.).
It seems that as more people try to short it, the more stable SCO's stock price will be. Instead of selling at the first small drop in price, they'll want to wait until it is as low as possible, the complete opposite of a normal buy low, sell high motivation.
The article doesn't state that it is the first stealth ship, just the most stealthy and mentions that the US is working on entering a new stealth ship into service around 2011 (the DD(X) destroyer).
Thousands and thousands of buses with "/." on top pour into the town.
Shouldn't those be Canyoneros with/. on top? Not only would they drop off passengers, they'd get involved in nocking down the buildings and running over the corpses and other vehicles as well.
Why not generate an image containing modified text like yahoo and others? Using a little PHP magic, it shouldn't be too hard (see here to get a start).
However, those who are confined to a chair, and those who are blind and deaf are strongly opposed to the units being on the sidewalks.
That's a bit ironic given that the guy who invented the Segway is the same guy who has invented countless mobility devices for people confined to wheel chairs.
Most people don't have $50,000-$150,000 cash (ie, at least 90%). What are the interest rates for loans for this key money? So long as you can get a loan for a reasonable interest rate, sure that would be cheap--you just pay 'rent' to the bank rather than the property owner.
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That's ridiculous. I made a little AM station from a kit from RadioShack when I was 12. What would they do? Bust down the doors and smash it rather than waiting for the bullies at school?
Very good point. It's a shame the same doesn't apply in criminal court. The accused (almost always a little guy) can be charged with virtually anything by the prosecution (ie, high potential cost), being coerced into accepting a plea-bargain for probation 90% of the time regardless of guilt (at least here in the US). So when it really counts litigation-happiness isn't an option. Go figure.
Actually, the RTGs are shielded even more than the typical black box in a jet. They are specifically designed to withstand a rocket blowing up or re-entry. So the only real worry is being hit in the head as it comes down. So, at most, one person may be killed by an RTG.
The scary thing is those guys specialize in educational software. Yikes.
Those bastards!
I'll grant you that. In my case, it was a simple out-and-back trip without hardly anytime to go off-roading. I did drive a bit on a dry lakebed, which certainly would have been more fun in a Jeep.
It was a mid-size Chev Classic Malibu, BTW. No bells and whistles, that's for sure, but comfortable. You probably wouldn't want the top down when driving through Las Vegas in summer for any length of time anyway.
If your trip was one-way, never mind ;-P.
I suppose if you made a habit of this you could write a Perl script to do much of the work for you, but I still don't like the extra work. Not to mention that most open source projects don't have VB bindings, so most of the time YOYO (you're on your own). There's a reason for this, the main one being that VB isn't cross-platform but rather solely dependent on a single vendor for its design and distribution licenses.
It also isn't trivial to use DLLs where functions require pointers to structures to be passed back and forth.
I think you're over-estimating that 99% number. One of the first environments I learned to program in was VB, but it doesn't provide nearly enough flexability to do 99% of the jobs easier than using the Windows API directly (or better yet QT), at least in my experience. You'd be surprised how quickly you can get an app done in C/C++ if you have some C boilerplate code laying around (even if you don't, there is a SDK example for nearly anything you would want to do in VB, such as using the common controls, etc.).
The main problem is that the extra weight would be placed well aft of the aerodynamic center of the airplane, increasing its inertia making it much more sluggish.
Aren't senators supposed to look out for their own state's wellfare? Which of those companies are based in Utah? Any of them? Not to mention that this doesn't do much for the wellfare of the people, but even the COMPANIES aren't in Utah AFAIK.
Unless you're talking about ultra-high altitude planes, their latitude doesn't really matter, except for considering jet stream flows (the atmosphere and everything else is still moving with the earth too, so your relative velocity is the same regardless).
Hence why I use a RAID 1 at home. Drives are cheap, might as well double up on 'em. On the downside, I use it as an excuse to not do backups as often (doesn't prevent electrical surges, rm -rf *, etc.).
Well, the greater Austin area is certainly over 1 million. It made the news there about 8 years ago.
It seems that as more people try to short it, the more stable SCO's stock price will be. Instead of selling at the first small drop in price, they'll want to wait until it is as low as possible, the complete opposite of a normal buy low, sell high motivation.
The article doesn't state that it is the first stealth ship, just the most stealthy and mentions that the US is working on entering a new stealth ship into service around 2011 (the DD(X) destroyer).
Shouldn't those be Canyoneros with /. on top? Not only would they drop off passengers, they'd get involved in nocking down the buildings and running over the corpses and other vehicles as well.
I was thinking more along the lines of 10,000 Canyoneros.
Why not generate an image containing modified text like yahoo and others? Using a little PHP magic, it shouldn't be too hard (see here to get a start).
Yep, acording to one of the linked pages, #14 are safe.
That's a bit ironic given that the guy who invented the Segway is the same guy who has invented countless mobility devices for people confined to wheel chairs.
Perhaps it is still expensive for them to produce good platters. Even if that's true, it should only be a proportinal increase in price of course.
I'm sure it costs a fair amount of money to re-tool the assembly line, no? Not to mention the ongoing R&D.
Most people don't have $50,000-$150,000 cash (ie, at least 90%). What are the interest rates for loans for this key money? So long as you can get a loan for a reasonable interest rate, sure that would be cheap--you just pay 'rent' to the bank rather than the property owner.