There is a reason, you just don't know it...
He uses perfectly correct german punctuation, where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma (like before the 'where' I used and unlike the arbitrary comma in your example). His website ends in '.de'... michael on the other hand has no excuse for not correcting it.
Actually he uses normal german punctuation where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma. (Unlike your sentence with arbitrary commas). His website ends in '.de'...
O(n)=84 ??? That is an interesting interpretation of the BigO notation. O(n) means that the function describing the time needed for the algorithm to finish can be upper-bounded by a polynomial of degree 1, p(t) = c1*t + c2, where c1 and c2 may be arbitrarily large. I don't think your value of 7 has any meaning in this context. And while an algorithm with low complexity is always interesting from a theoretical point of view, it may not always be feasible to actually use it if the constants are large.
If this vehicle is as smart as it needs to be,
then it would balance the load on top of it (ie
human). When accelerating fast in any direction,
the inertia of the load will be equivalent to a
force tangential to the wheel and in the opposite
direction of the acceleration. If the vehicle
could just lean (forward if accelerating or
backward if decelerating) so that the center of
mass is shifted in the direction of the accel,
then the inertia will result in a force that
_would_ cause a radial motion of the load oppos.
to accel. which is then always partially upwards,
away from the gravity, which will be a
counteracting force.
It is then possible to find one angle for every
acceleration where the gravity and the vertical
component of the inertia-caused force will add up
to zero and no load flinging will occur
hope that made sense. it's still pretty early for me
Yeah, that's what i thought, too. This is pretty cheap actually, since it's just another protein being expressed in the cell. I guess we will have to wait until the "normal" luciferin/luciferase infrastructure can be implemented in the genome.
now, please someone explain to me why parent was modded funny...
wow, you sure have a way with words and arguments. Please let me give you an answer which is slightly longer. Allied and Russian cooperation can be summed up by the Lease-Lend-Act and not shooting eachother. Stalin entered the war only after he was attacked directly (after he and Hitler divided Poland up between them and after he had graciously seen over the invasion of Czechoslovakia). While the invasion of Poland was the start of WWII for the _Allies_ (France & Britain at that time, Canada and Australia following shortly thereafter and ignoring that Japan already had invaded China two years ago), Russia was busy invading their share of Poland. When Hitler finally invaded Russia he made quick advances at first and the Allies realized they had to help any enemy of Nazi Germany if they were to win the war. As we know today, they helped Stalin to succesfully expand his influence over all of Eastern Europe including half of Germany (aka GDR) and including half of Germany's ex-capital Berlin (you may recall the Berlin Wall incident). After that the whole cold war thing started.
So yes, the Allies and Russia did have the same enemy, but they surely were not Allied. Their intentions of going into war and their opinions on how Europe _should_ be structured are so different that only lack of historical education can explain how someone would count Russia to the Allied forces.
the US american contribution is often overstated (especially in the US...). Most of the war, the US were simply sending aid to UK's defence industry, and only took 'physical' action when Germany was already past its apogee. The collapse of the German army is undoubtedly strongly correlated with the enormous losses in Russia.
The allies won the war, each making important contributions.
As i recall Russia was not part of the Allies. Simply having the same enemy does not make you allied. The post-war era makes that pretty clear.
I also noticed that US citizens don't like to hear that Canada's contribution, especially the efforts of the Canadian fleet, are widely (as in insignificant rest of world) regarded as more couragous and honorful (and other death-by-war euphemisms) than US contributions because they entered the war earlier to stand up for their European mother countries insted of pondering whether to try and stay isolated until the dirty part was over.
I am real glad i chose to get a Seagate. Only problem is that i now have to look at the led if want to know if the disk is busy, listening doesnt help much.
ok maybe i've been unclear about this. The "/tinfoil hat" appendix was supposed to suggest my comment includes conspiracy theory, which in this case was that the "first world" is conspiring to hinder the "third world" development by sending aid with trojan properties. Hence the conspiring first world would see free and developing third worlders as a disadvantage (because they might eventually grow stronger than the current first world and thus become a threat etc.)
I included the conspiratory comment because i oversimplified a bit. While there is food aid being given and while it will always be necessary in times of crisis, there is also technolgical aid done, so (at least not all of) the first world is conspiring. So yes, the third world and the good (as in samaritian) first world people would welcome independent, self-supporting nations. But I think it is not all too bold to say that there are people who would see it as a downside for possible reasons such as racism, grudge (gramm.?), fear of competition...
You wouldn't want to do that, because, while food aids can make you feel all helpful and generous, they actually help to destroy local agriculture, by reducing demand and thus reducing revenue for farmers and the motivation to build up a farm in the first place. It would be more reasonable to give technological aid by helping with e.g., irrigation infrastructure. By doing this you could employ and educate local (third world) technicians and help build up a solid agricultural industry, which is the basis for any further advances like industrialization. On the downside the third world countries could lose their dependance on the first world, hence we give food aid.
Weasel isn't actually another generic insult to express disliking or at least should not be. It applies more behaviour including lying and bad intentions in general. It may apply to France for allegedly using the UN to protect their economical interests. It does allegedly apply to USA/UK for the same reasons. (not excluding other points of criticism). Germany's stance toward peace was due to election campaign propaganda, (attempt at) european cohesion and _most_ of all Germany's strong objection against war for obviuos, historical reasons and thus not weasely.
So my hope is rather that the voters didn't simply think "I dislike X's opinion/action, i will vote for X as weasel!", but rather "I vote X to be weasel for weasely behaviour/attitude". But then again i'm naively optimistic towards humanitiy.
duh, like e2 is a credible source.
all variations of "thaler","taler" and "dollar" stem from the silver coins produced at the "Joachimstaler Silvermine" (which is named after the village Saint Joachimsthal in the Erzgebirge in what is today Germany) where silver coins are produce since pretty early. You may look that up in your favourite book of etymology.
You may also know that Austrians speak german (or germans speak austrian, by the time the words came up nations like today didnt even exist).
So yes the term doller comes a word that is as much austrian as it is german. Just because some spanish guy used the term "taler" to denote something similar to a taler does not make it a spanish word.
plastic does not imply organic afaik.
counterexample: polysilanes are long chains of silicon, analogous to polycarbon chains. these would not be considered organic and may be referred to as plastics as well. However, stabilize silanes, they have to have large substituents to protect against spontaneous oxidation. These substituents are mostly large carbon groups, like iso-butanyl, thus introducing carbon into the compound. But I think these are rather practical implications and i faintly remember having read about silanes without C. Not exactly my area of expertise though. I think it's also possible to do similar things with boron or combinations of Si,Te,Se,B,(P?). Ahh and there is also sulfur. It's a chemistry classic to make this rubberlike, albeit metastabile conformation by rapidly cooling molten sulfur.
Interesting article, albeit slightly on the sensationalist side. Good starting point for research nonetheless.
Funny that such a large undertaking should have so little impact on the world. Talk about lack of ambition.
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that during the early 1400's the chinese almost discovered europe
teh funny troll. Marco Polo lived from 1254-1324 AD and travelled the silk-street, which obviuosly existed before and its outer branches reached as far as the Mediterranean. He also was a confidant of Kublai Khan. There was nothing to discover. I also wonder what technologies you might be talking about. I doubt the chinese fleet was so much superior to the spanish or portuguese fleet.
And if you were talking about 1500 BC, you might want to share your knowledge of Shang dynasty technology compared with Babylonian and Mycenean technology, since bronze and writing were available to all three cultures.
You are right. With an exhaust velocity u and a rocket velocity of v, i was pretty certain the effective velocity would be like u + v. Doesn't make too much sense retrospectively as the rocket would be decelerated if the exhaust was slower than the rocket. Thanks for clearing that up.
it's a limit because the maximum velocity for a space craft is the velocity with which it ejects its fuel. Ion engines are faster than chemical engines because the xenon is highly accelerated. The acceleration of the ion propelled space craft is (currently) low, because the thrust of an engine is proportional to the mass of expelled fuel. When ion engines become mature, it will be possible to expel more ions and then you wont need to have a one year acceleration phase before the actual mission can start. So the fastest engine imaginable with current physics would be some giant lamp using photons as fuel. If you accelerate infinitely long you would get light speed. (Obviuosly you can never reach maximum velocity.)
True, but space radiation doesn't fall on earth in the form of large lumps and doesn't pollute the atmosphere with plutonium vapors. In theory of course nuclear batteries are perfectly safe, but rockets may explode, the probe may function improperly etc and then the trouble starts. So far, i've only heard of this one russian satellite that crashed into some canadian lake. Makes sense to look for alternative solutions (eg solar powered) before a few kg Plutonium crash into the White House and an unnamed monkey boy starts nookoolar war because of it.
No, it means when the benefits of spintronics have been exploited research will proceed to store information in quarks and whatever lies beneath, data transfer will be instantaneous through some weird particle entanglement. And someone will say "6*10^23 bits inside a few grams of silicon will be enough for everyone", and few years later he will be laughed at.
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There is a reason, you just don't know it...
He uses perfectly correct german punctuation, where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma (like before the 'where' I used and unlike the arbitrary comma in your example). His website ends in '.de'... michael on the other hand has no excuse for not correcting it.
Actually he uses normal german punctuation where main and subordinate clauses are seperated with a comma. (Unlike your sentence with arbitrary commas).
His website ends in '.de'...
O(n)=84 ??? That is an interesting interpretation of the BigO notation. O(n) means that the function describing the time needed for the algorithm to finish can be upper-bounded by a polynomial of degree 1, p(t) = c1*t + c2, where c1 and c2 may be arbitrarily large. I don't think your value of 7 has any meaning in this context. And while an algorithm with low complexity is always interesting from a theoretical point of view, it may not always be feasible to actually use it if the constants are large.
If this vehicle is as smart as it needs to be,
then it would balance the load on top of it (ie
human). When accelerating fast in any direction,
the inertia of the load will be equivalent to a
force tangential to the wheel and in the opposite
direction of the acceleration. If the vehicle
could just lean (forward if accelerating or
backward if decelerating) so that the center of
mass is shifted in the direction of the accel,
then the inertia will result in a force that
_would_ cause a radial motion of the load oppos.
to accel. which is then always partially upwards,
away from the gravity, which will be a
counteracting force.
It is then possible to find one angle for every
acceleration where the gravity and the vertical
component of the inertia-caused force will add up
to zero and no load flinging will occur
hope that made sense. it's still pretty early for me
Yeah, that's what i thought, too. This is pretty cheap actually, since it's just another protein being expressed in the cell. I guess we will have to wait until the "normal" luciferin/luciferase infrastructure can be implemented in the genome. now, please someone explain to me why parent was modded funny...
wow, you sure have a way with words and arguments. Please let me give you an answer which is slightly longer.
Allied and Russian cooperation can be summed up by the Lease-Lend-Act and not shooting eachother. Stalin entered the war only after he was attacked directly (after he and Hitler divided Poland up between them and after he had graciously seen over the invasion of Czechoslovakia). While the invasion of Poland was the start of WWII for the _Allies_ (France & Britain at that time, Canada and Australia following shortly thereafter and ignoring that Japan already had invaded China two years ago), Russia was busy invading their share of Poland. When Hitler finally invaded Russia he made quick advances at first and the Allies realized they had to help any enemy of Nazi Germany if they were to win the war. As we know today, they helped Stalin to succesfully expand his influence over all of Eastern Europe including half of Germany (aka GDR) and including half of Germany's ex-capital Berlin (you may recall the Berlin Wall incident). After that the whole cold war thing started.
So yes, the Allies and Russia did have the same enemy, but they surely were not Allied. Their intentions of going into war and their opinions on how Europe _should_ be structured are so different that only lack of historical education can explain how someone would count Russia to the Allied forces.
As i recall Russia was not part of the Allies. Simply having the same enemy does not make you allied. The post-war era makes that pretty clear.
I also noticed that US citizens don't like to hear that Canada's contribution, especially the efforts of the Canadian fleet, are widely (as in insignificant rest of world) regarded as more couragous and honorful (and other death-by-war euphemisms) than US contributions because they entered the war earlier to stand up for their European mother countries insted of pondering whether to try and stay isolated until the dirty part was over.
i want a burger that contains _any_ actual cow...
I am real glad i chose to get a Seagate. Only problem is that i now have to look at the led if want to know if the disk is busy, listening doesnt help much.
ok maybe i've been unclear about this. The "/tinfoil hat" appendix was supposed to suggest my comment includes conspiracy theory, which in this case was that the "first world" is conspiring to hinder the "third world" development by sending aid with trojan properties. Hence the conspiring first world would see free and developing third worlders as a disadvantage (because they might eventually grow stronger than the current first world and thus become a threat etc.)
I included the conspiratory comment because i oversimplified a bit. While there is food aid being given and while it will always be necessary in times of crisis, there is also technolgical aid done, so (at least not all of) the first world is conspiring. So yes, the third world and the good (as in samaritian) first world people would welcome independent, self-supporting nations. But I think it is not all too bold to say that there are people who would see it as a downside for possible reasons such as racism, grudge (gramm.?), fear of competition...
You wouldn't want to do that, because, while food aids can make you feel all helpful and generous, they actually help to destroy local agriculture, by reducing demand and thus reducing revenue for farmers and the motivation to build up a farm in the first place.
/puts on tinfoil hat
It would be more reasonable to give technological aid by helping with e.g., irrigation infrastructure. By doing this you could employ and educate local (third world) technicians and help build up a solid agricultural industry, which is the basis for any further advances like industrialization.
On the downside the third world countries could lose their dependance on the first world, hence we give food aid.
Weasel isn't actually another generic insult to express disliking or at least should not be. It applies more behaviour including lying and bad intentions in general. It may apply to France for allegedly using the UN to protect their economical interests. It does allegedly apply to USA/UK for the same reasons. (not excluding other points of criticism).
Germany's stance toward peace was due to election campaign propaganda, (attempt at) european cohesion and _most_ of all Germany's strong objection against war for obviuos, historical reasons and thus not weasely.
So my hope is rather that the voters didn't simply think "I dislike X's opinion/action, i will vote for X as weasel!", but rather "I vote X to be weasel for weasely behaviour/attitude". But then again i'm naively optimistic towards humanitiy.
i suggest you want to malloc(sizeof(X)). though it might work if you have 64bit pointers and 32bit ints.
duh, like e2 is a credible source.
all variations of "thaler","taler" and "dollar" stem from the silver coins produced at the "Joachimstaler Silvermine" (which is named after the village Saint Joachimsthal in the Erzgebirge in what is today Germany) where silver coins are produce since pretty early. You may look that up in your favourite book of etymology.
You may also know that Austrians speak german (or germans speak austrian, by the time the words came up nations like today didnt even exist).
So yes the term doller comes a word that is as much austrian as it is german. Just because some spanish guy used the term "taler" to denote something similar to a taler does not make it a spanish word.
plastic does not imply organic afaik.
counterexample: polysilanes are long chains of silicon, analogous to polycarbon chains. these would not be considered organic and may be referred to as plastics as well. However, stabilize silanes, they have to have large substituents to protect against spontaneous oxidation. These substituents are mostly large carbon groups, like iso-butanyl, thus introducing carbon into the compound. But I think these are rather practical implications and i faintly remember having read about silanes without C. Not exactly my area of expertise though. I think it's also possible to do similar things with boron or combinations of Si,Te,Se,B,(P?). Ahh and there is also sulfur. It's a chemistry classic to make this rubberlike, albeit metastabile conformation by rapidly cooling molten sulfur.
First i wanted to mock you for preaching to the choir. Then i realised how professional you are. (sarcasm==NULL)
Interesting article, albeit slightly on the sensationalist side. Good starting point for research nonetheless.
Funny that such a large undertaking should have so little impact on the world. Talk about lack of ambition.
teh funny troll. Marco Polo lived from 1254-1324 AD and travelled the silk-street, which obviuosly existed before and its outer branches reached as far as the Mediterranean. He also was a confidant of Kublai Khan. There was nothing to discover. I also wonder what technologies you might be talking about. I doubt the chinese fleet was so much superior to the spanish or portuguese fleet.
And if you were talking about 1500 BC, you might want to share your knowledge of Shang dynasty technology compared with Babylonian and Mycenean technology, since bronze and writing were available to all three cultures.
You are right. With an exhaust velocity u and a rocket velocity of v, i was pretty certain the effective velocity would be like u + v. Doesn't make too much sense retrospectively as the rocket would be decelerated if the exhaust was slower than the rocket. Thanks for clearing that up.
it's a limit because the maximum velocity for a space craft is the velocity with which it ejects its fuel. Ion engines are faster than chemical engines because the xenon is highly accelerated. The acceleration of the ion propelled space craft is (currently) low, because the thrust of an engine is proportional to the mass of expelled fuel. When ion engines become mature, it will be possible to expel more ions and then you wont need to have a one year acceleration phase before the actual mission can start. So the fastest engine imaginable with current physics would be some giant lamp using photons as fuel. If you accelerate infinitely long you would get light speed. (Obviuosly you can never reach maximum velocity.)
obligatory plagiarism:
Q: Why don't you go out and look at real naked chicks?
A: Because me pr0n has better resolution than real chicks!
link to incident mentioned in other post.
True, but space radiation doesn't fall on earth in the form of large lumps and doesn't pollute the atmosphere with plutonium vapors.
In theory of course nuclear batteries are perfectly safe, but rockets may explode, the probe may function improperly etc and then the trouble starts. So far, i've only heard of this one russian satellite that crashed into some canadian lake. Makes sense to look for alternative solutions (eg solar powered) before a few kg Plutonium crash into the White House and an unnamed monkey boy starts nookoolar war because of it.
No, it means when the benefits of spintronics have been exploited research will proceed to store information in quarks and whatever lies beneath, data transfer will be instantaneous through some weird particle entanglement. And someone will say "6*10^23 bits inside a few grams of silicon will be enough for everyone", and few years later he will be laughed at.