Heh, I tried that earlier but it gave me hits on MSN. "tHe", on the other hand, gave me no hits on MSN but all the expected hits on google, which could be either case-sensitivity for MSN or just the general flakiness of the engine...
Okay, I'm done- a search of "that" returns no MSN pages and 1,090,000,000 google pages... more than the total number of pages than MSN claims to have indexed.
As an added bonus, slashdot.org is the second google hit on a search for "that"!
I disagree. "It'd take you ten minutes..." is correct, as the speaker doesn't expect him to take this action, so the uncontracted "It would take you ten minutes..." makes sense. Even if it were a grammatical error to use the word "it'd" there, changing the word choice in a quotation of a dramatic work can't be justified as a spelling correction. "you're" is the correct spelling of a word actually spoken, so I agree with that correction. The quotation at imdb:
[
The Kid is handcuffed to a car that's about to explode]
Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.
[The hacksaw is dropped next to The Kid, and Max limps off]
In the longer run, a better way to store energy for propusion is as antimatter- with far, far more energy per gram than combustion or nuclear sources. We can currently make and store small amounts of antimatter, and there's no fundimental reason it could not be used as an energy source.
Energy is cheap in space once you get enough solar cells, which will generate more energy than analogous ones within the atmosphere (and possibly much more if placed in an orbit closer to the sun...)
Of course, if your magnetic confinement of the antimatter fails all the antimatter will encounter matter and convert to energy and you'll release all of your stored energy at once.
It'll be a while yet before we have reliable and practical large scale antimatter production/storage/propulsion systems, but it would be the ideal rocket fuel once the (considerable) challenges are overcome.
As a US Citizen who lived in Canada for two years, I can tell you that Canadians are generally nice people (though no more so than their neighbors to the south)
...unless and until they learn that they are speaking to a US citizen, when a large percentage immediately transform into obnoxious idiots. The difference was often quite dramatic.
You missed my point in the last sentence, which concerned the validity of anecdotes. My anecdote concerning a spectacularly unstable XP system I had to deal with is exactly as valid as the preceding anecdote about a spectacularly stable WinXP machine. Both represent unusual experiences and neither should be taken as the truth about how stable Windows XP is.
If I really wanted to make a childish general accusation I'd say something like, for example...
Some people wish to distract from all the many valid, logical arguments about the problems with Windows by focusing attention instead on the small minority of rabid posters who make childish general accusations. Most people of that description don't have the knowledge of grammar to know that possessive pronouns such as "its"
do not contain an apostrophe.
The first time I installed XP, I 'upgraded' my Win98 box. The result was a system which crashed reliably within a few minutes of booting, or whenever I did anything complicated- such as anything involving graphics, or sometimes upon opening folders. I would estimate it crashed roughly 50 times each of the two evenings I wasted attempting to get it to work.
Microsoft assured me it was a hardware problem(yes, I actually managed to speak to someone), though they were unable to adequately explain why Win98 worked fine. Yes, I had all the latest drivers and patches.
After a lot of reading of message boards it seemed that there was a problem with a large percentage of people who had the three-way combo of my mobo, my video card, and WinXP; each vendor, naturally, blamed the others. Personally, the fact that Win98 worked fine and XP was completely unusable led me to the conclusion that Windows XP is a steaming pile, and the least stable Microsoft OS yet. I went back to the far, far more stable Windows 98 for my Microsoft OS needs.
This is, of course, worth exactly as much as your anecdotal evidence is: nearly nothing.
Hmm... I can certainly understand not liking the concept of time travel in science fiction, or of not liking specific episodes. But... in B5 there were only three episodes out of the 110 which contained any (out of sequence) time travel- "Babylon Squared" and "War Without End" parts 1 and 2. The three basically comprise one story (even though two years separated their production) and the net result was interesting in my opinion. Though not a totally novel outcome, it was at least mostly self-consistent and I hadn't seen it on the small screen before... unlike the average Star Trek "We must not alter the past and/or we must fix how someone else altered the past" or "Visit to Earth in some time period for which we already have sets" plot.
More episodes were produced before the first time travel episode (19) than were ever produced for Firefly.
There were a number of anachronistic things (e.g. "Comes the Inquisitor", "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Garibaldi's Daffy Duck poster and motorcycle) which were not results of nonsequential time travel, as well as some episodes which took place over odd timelines (the "camera" going years after the rest of the series) but which had no time travel per se ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", "Sleeping in Light")
There was precognition at many points, though, and lots and lots of foreshadowing and glimpses into the future. What time travel there was also implied some amount of predestination. Was it the predestination more than just the time travel which you found objectionable?
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Heck, and that's keeping it within the realm of US companies who frequently do major government construction contracts. It is not like it would've been hard for anyone in government who had a passing knowledge of government construction contracts to think of them, or that either wouldn't have rapidly come up with bids if only they were asked.
Heh, Canadian football fields are defined in yards- but not 120 yards; see the CFL rulebook:
Article 1: Regulation Fields
The field shall be 110 yards long by 65 yards wide. it shall be distinctly marked as indicated herein. ...
Vertical posts (goal posts) shall be placed and centred on each goal line. The distance between the posts shall be 18 feet 6 inches. The goal posts shall extend 40 feet above ground level and shall be joined by a crossbar parallel to the ground at a height of 10 feet. The diameter of each post above the crossbar shall be not less than 3 inches or greater than 4 inches. At the extreme top of each post there shall be attached a coloured ribbon 4 inches wide and 42 inches long. A wishbone type or single shaft goal post assembly may be used provided that it complies with the above standards, and the base of the assembly is not further than 75 inches from the goal line.
Oh, and an even larger difference than the above when compared to NFL football is that each team has only 3 downs to go 10 yards.
Football seemed reasonably popular (though not as much as Hockey, of course) when I lived in Calgary. This may be a regional thing, of course, but some Canadians do follow CFL football.
Castle Wolfenstein (1981) by Muse Software
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (1984) by Muse Software
id software purchased the rights to these, and Wolfenstein3d was initially going to be an updated version of these two games, but it evolved away from them in production (the originals had stealth aspects, wearing enemy uniforms, obtaining/using passes, (some) soldiers who would surrender when surprised by a gun... but only had a pistol and grenades as weapons.) And yes, those two classics still had significant name recognition in 1992 when Wolfenstein3d was released.
So, a possible sequel would be Wolf 6, if you're keeping score at home.
Yup, and it's just diagonal from Phlorine, which as we all know is the only exception to the rule that that sound is spelled with an "f" in the periodic table.
(The British spell that element differently, of course. It's spelled "Phlourine" there.)
It isn't even accurate to 4 significant digits, let alone 6. My old Analytical Chem text lists water at STP (0 deg. C) with a density of only 0.9998425 g/cm^3. Since they formally decoupled the definitions of the meter and the kilogram from the density of water years ago, even at its densest (at 4 deg. C) the 1L= 1kg conversion is incorrect at the 5th decimal place, at only 0.999975 g/cm^3.
Liquid water at 0 deg. C and one atmosphere has a density of 0.9998425 g/cm3, while liquid water at 4 deg. C and one atmosphere(the temperature at which liquid water is most dense) has a density of.9999750 g/cm3. The volume difference between the two is small, but is significant in the scientific sense of the word, so the grandparent poster is correct. The parent's claim that the water will occupy less volume at 0 C is certainly false.
Why do people just make things like this up, particularly as an alleged 'correction' to a true statement?
In many cases, the organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.
So, in the TV Production category, we see NBC's employess/owners/PAC/etc gave 68% to democratic candidates, while ABC gave 97%!
On the other hand, if we look at the raw numbers we see that the NBC affiliates gave a whopping $39k to democrats and $18k to republicans, while ABC's affiliates gave about $8k and $250. To give a bit of scale here, Univision affiliates gave more to republican candidates than these two together gave to both democrats and republicans combined. These are very small amounts of money for either of these organizations. If there is a bias here, the way affiliates spend trivial-to-them amounts of money is a poor way to diagnose it.
Cosmic rays from space can indeed be much more powerful than those created in particle accelerators- the seminal example is one of the few cosmic rays which has a name- the "Oh-My-God" particle (So named because of the exclamation the physicist was said to have made when he saw the data.) This cosmic ray had roughly 300 million times the energy of the protons Fermilab is able to produce, and was travelling at about v = 0.9999999999999999999999951 c.
The really interesting part is that we don't really know what process would produce such a thing. Since then, several other cosmic rays(subscription required) entering the atmosphere with energies over 10^20 eV have been detected by Japanese, Russian, and American observers.
You arrived at the correct conclusion for the wrong reasons, and my post addressed those incorrect reasons.
The only statement you've made on this thread about numbers of the form 2^n-1 was obviously false. Your conclusion here ignores all the 2^n+1 for even n even though some are prime (Fermat primes, e.g. 17, 257, 65537). In order for your "proof" to apply it must be demonstrated that the only even n for which 2^n-1 is prime is n=2. This requires the statement I made. Who's missing the point?
Besides, if I really wanted to miss the point I'd point out that you're wrong again with another counterexample:
...and then there is the reverse- Caltech awards no BA degree. It is possible (albeit rare) to earn a BS in Literature. To do so, of course, you'd have to take the core curriculum requirement of six course-years worth of math and physical science.
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I hear they're thinking of expanding the program to female deer as well, apparently someone at MS heard it was a way get more doe from the public.
My facts were correct at the time I made the searches.
Heh, I tried that earlier but it gave me hits on MSN. "tHe", on the other hand, gave me no hits on MSN but all the expected hits on google, which could be either case-sensitivity for MSN or just the general flakiness of the engine...
As an added bonus, slashdot.org is the second google hit on a search for "that"!
Possibly that's a cause- although "rabbit" doesn't have that reason... A search for "then" returns no MSN hits, but returns 190M google hits.
From msn:
cat returns "about 57,500,000" google pages.Energy is cheap in space once you get enough solar cells, which will generate more energy than analogous ones within the atmosphere (and possibly much more if placed in an orbit closer to the sun...)
Of course, if your magnetic confinement of the antimatter fails all the antimatter will encounter matter and convert to energy and you'll release all of your stored energy at once.
It'll be a while yet before we have reliable and practical large scale antimatter production/storage/propulsion systems, but it would be the ideal rocket fuel once the (considerable) challenges are overcome.
If I really wanted to make a childish general accusation I'd say something like, for example...
Microsoft assured me it was a hardware problem(yes, I actually managed to speak to someone), though they were unable to adequately explain why Win98 worked fine. Yes, I had all the latest drivers and patches.
After a lot of reading of message boards it seemed that there was a problem with a large percentage of people who had the three-way combo of my mobo, my video card, and WinXP; each vendor, naturally, blamed the others. Personally, the fact that Win98 worked fine and XP was completely unusable led me to the conclusion that Windows XP is a steaming pile, and the least stable Microsoft OS yet. I went back to the far, far more stable Windows 98 for my Microsoft OS needs.
This is, of course, worth exactly as much as your anecdotal evidence is: nearly nothing.
There were a number of anachronistic things (e.g. "Comes the Inquisitor", "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Garibaldi's Daffy Duck poster and motorcycle) which were not results of nonsequential time travel, as well as some episodes which took place over odd timelines (the "camera" going years after the rest of the series) but which had no time travel per se ("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", "Sleeping in Light")
There was precognition at many points, though, and lots and lots of foreshadowing and glimpses into the future. What time travel there was also implied some amount of predestination. Was it the predestination more than just the time travel which you found objectionable?
Heck, and that's keeping it within the realm of US companies who frequently do major government construction contracts. It is not like it would've been hard for anyone in government who had a passing knowledge of government construction contracts to think of them, or that either wouldn't have rapidly come up with bids if only they were asked.
Football seemed reasonably popular (though not as much as Hockey, of course) when I lived in Calgary. This may be a regional thing, of course, but some Canadians do follow CFL football.
Castle Wolfenstein (1981) by Muse Software
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein (1984) by Muse Software
id software purchased the rights to these, and Wolfenstein3d was initially going to be an updated version of these two games, but it evolved away from them in production (the originals had stealth aspects, wearing enemy uniforms, obtaining/using passes, (some) soldiers who would surrender when surprised by a gun... but only had a pistol and grenades as weapons.) And yes, those two classics still had significant name recognition in 1992 when Wolfenstein3d was released.
So, a possible sequel would be Wolf 6, if you're keeping score at home.
(The British spell that element differently, of course. It's spelled "Phlourine" there.)
It isn't even accurate to 4 significant digits, let alone 6. My old Analytical Chem text lists water at STP (0 deg. C) with a density of only 0.9998425 g/cm^3. Since they formally decoupled the definitions of the meter and the kilogram from the density of water years ago, even at its densest (at 4 deg. C) the 1L= 1kg conversion is incorrect at the 5th decimal place, at only 0.999975 g/cm^3.
Liquid water at 0 deg. C and one atmosphere has a density of 0.9998425 g/cm3, while liquid water at 4 deg. C and one atmosphere(the temperature at which liquid water is most dense) has a density of .9999750 g/cm3. The volume difference between the two is small, but is significant in the scientific sense of the word, so the grandparent poster is correct. The parent's claim that the water will occupy less volume at 0 C is certainly false.
Why do people just make things like this up, particularly as an alleged 'correction' to a true statement?
On the other hand, if we look at the raw numbers we see that the NBC affiliates gave a whopping $39k to democrats and $18k to republicans, while ABC's affiliates gave about $8k and $250. To give a bit of scale here, Univision affiliates gave more to republican candidates than these two together gave to both democrats and republicans combined. These are very small amounts of money for either of these organizations. If there is a bias here, the way affiliates spend trivial-to-them amounts of money is a poor way to diagnose it.
The really interesting part is that we don't really know what process would produce such a thing. Since then, several other cosmic rays(subscription required) entering the atmosphere with energies over 10^20 eV have been detected by Japanese, Russian, and American observers.
"That's no moon... it's a captured carbonaceous asteroid."
The only statement you've made on this thread about numbers of the form 2^n-1 was obviously false. Your conclusion here ignores all the 2^n+1 for even n even though some are prime (Fermat primes, e.g. 17, 257, 65537). In order for your "proof" to apply it must be demonstrated that the only even n for which 2^n-1 is prime is n=2. This requires the statement I made. Who's missing the point?
Besides, if I really wanted to miss the point I'd point out that you're wrong again with another counterexample:
The number -1 is odd, and 2^(-1) + 1 = 3/2Not all prime n work, but no non-prime n can work.
...and then there is the reverse- Caltech awards no BA degree. It is possible (albeit rare) to earn a BS in Literature. To do so, of course, you'd have to take the core curriculum requirement of six course-years worth of math and physical science.