Are we cursed forever to avoid using the single most commmon element in the universe, one that will burn clean, simply because someone burned a balloon with it once decades ago?
Actually, the Hindenberg disaster had nothing to do with hydrogen: it was a flammable coating which was applied to the skin of the craft against the protests of the Zepplin engineers. If it were just the hydrogen burning, it wouldn't have been much of a problem because hydrogen, being so light, would shoot upwards away from the passengers.
According to people like Hobbes and Locke, freedom is the natural state of man
That doesn't make it true. Being a social animal, I think it would be more accurate to say that the natural state of man is a hierarchical tribal structure.
The first "pulse" would provide enough thrust to turn the passengers of said ship into pancakes against their seats
The Project Phoenix team had a theoretically sound design which would use a shock absorber to limit the instantaneous acceleration of the crew module to safe levels. They even flew a prototype using conventional explosives.
As I am posting this, there are approximately 600 comments to this article. This is already way above the average, I reckon, which means click through revenue from the advertisments on this page are also above average. So no, nobody is insane.
religious opposition in the 19th and early 20th century maintained that if we allowed study of cadavers or donation of organs that people would be killed and abducted and harvested by notorious individuals in the name of 'science'. but that did not happen.
Maybe because they didn't want to stoop to SCO's level (yet).
Call me cynical, but I think that's just what they are doing. The file effectively implies that SCO developers will not be affected, but may be in the future - this is FUD, which is what SCO is using to try to screw money out of various parties. Not that I'm against it, mind you;-)
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How the heck do you pronounce those differently?
CULL-ORR
VEC-TORR
CULL-OURR
VEC-TORR
i.e. the second syllable of colour is more of a U sound. But then, I haven't grown up with a dodgy spelling of the word colour;-)
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What you're forgetting is that spelling in the english language has very little, if anything, to do with logic. The reason for using combinations of letters to represent sounds is that the alphabet is derived from ancient greece, where they had a letter for each distinct sound in the language. When the romans brought writing to britain, they used their adaptation of the greek alphabet, which wasn't appropriate for all the sounds, hence combinations had to be used.
"American English" is an attempt to make english spelling more logical, which is pointless because it fails miserably - does color rhyme with vector? Are both the o's in color pronounced identically? Not the way I pronounce them.
In conclusion trying to apply logic to spelling rules in any variation of the english language is pointless, because it's not logical - you just have to learn it.
If this can be used to detect for example buffer overflows than does n't it also help speed up a crackers turn around rate?
All the more reason for companies to buy this product - if crackers can find the bugs easily using this program, it's much more important that the developers do to.
I can verify that this is indeed feasible. I have myself performed exploratory operations on a number of ants and other selected insects using concentrated sunlight.
Your post states that latency and throughput are unrelated. For TCP connections (FTP, HTTP, IMAP, POP, and many games), this is absolutely not true.
Actually, in most digital communication systems, this is untrue, not just TCP/IP. Also on a hardware level, there is a trade off between latency and bandwidth - e.g. in microprocessor pipelines, bus interfaces. If it were possible to reduce latency and maintain the same bandwidth, they would do it.
That's all very well, and in theory could improve elevator efficieny, but you have to ask yourself, is it worth it? How much extra equipment will have to be installed to support this (GSM, cellphone tracking sensors, etc)? Do you really want people already in the elevator to be inconvenienced by having to wait on a floor for someone who has ordered a lift remotely to avoid his waiting, but has done it too early? Do you really want the elevator you're travelling in to BSOD? The current method may be a little innefficient, but on the other hand, it's simple, cheap, reliable and fair.
When I first read the headline, I thought it said Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocketted Into Place. I had an image of an eccentric old man attaching explosive devices to 10 ton bricks, and flying them onto the top of a pyramid structure. What a let down.
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Actually, the Hindenberg disaster had nothing to do with hydrogen: it was a flammable coating which was applied to the skin of the craft against the protests of the Zepplin engineers. If it were just the hydrogen burning, it wouldn't have been much of a problem because hydrogen, being so light, would shoot upwards away from the passengers.
That doesn't make it true. Being a social animal, I think it would be more accurate to say that the natural state of man is a hierarchical tribal structure.
Head over to the neighbour's house and force them at gunpoint to sing for you before they jump to conclusion
The Project Phoenix team had a theoretically sound design which would use a shock absorber to limit the instantaneous acceleration of the crew module to safe levels. They even flew a prototype using conventional explosives.
It also stops it from blowing away in a strong breeze
As I am posting this, there are approximately 600 comments to this article. This is already way above the average, I reckon, which means click through revenue from the advertisments on this page are also above average. So no, nobody is insane.
If that's what happens during a normal shutdown procedure, I'd hate to be around when something really goes wrong.
Oh Yeah?
Steady now; there are much worse things than a human/rabbit hybrid.
A Philip K. Dick story far fetched? Surely you jest!
# gcc hello_world.c
Darl McBride sucks Satan's cock
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So what you're saying is that we should all go over and poop on Darl McBride's lawn? That would be the ultimate slashdotting. Scary thought.
Call me cynical, but I think that's just what they are doing. The file effectively implies that SCO developers will not be affected, but may be in the future - this is FUD, which is what SCO is using to try to screw money out of various parties. Not that I'm against it, mind you ;-)
CULL-ORR
VEC-TORR
CULL-OURR
VEC-TORR
i.e. the second syllable of colour is more of a U sound. But then, I haven't grown up with a dodgy spelling of the word colour ;-)
"American English" is an attempt to make english spelling more logical, which is pointless because it fails miserably - does color rhyme with vector? Are both the o's in color pronounced identically? Not the way I pronounce them.
In conclusion trying to apply logic to spelling rules in any variation of the english language is pointless, because it's not logical - you just have to learn it.
All the more reason for companies to buy this product - if crackers can find the bugs easily using this program, it's much more important that the developers do to.
I can verify that this is indeed feasible. I have myself performed exploratory operations on a number of ants and other selected insects using concentrated sunlight.
Actually, in most digital communication systems, this is untrue, not just TCP/IP. Also on a hardware level, there is a trade off between latency and bandwidth - e.g. in microprocessor pipelines, bus interfaces. If it were possible to reduce latency and maintain the same bandwidth, they would do it.
That's all very well, and in theory could improve elevator efficieny, but you have to ask yourself, is it worth it? How much extra equipment will have to be installed to support this (GSM, cellphone tracking sensors, etc)? Do you really want people already in the elevator to be inconvenienced by having to wait on a floor for someone who has ordered a lift remotely to avoid his waiting, but has done it too early? Do you really want the elevator you're travelling in to BSOD? The current method may be a little innefficient, but on the other hand, it's simple, cheap, reliable and fair.
Doesn't the loser of the case have to pay the legal costs in the US???
When I first read the headline, I thought it said Canadian Inventor: Pyramids Were Rocketted Into Place. I had an image of an eccentric old man attaching explosive devices to 10 ton bricks, and flying them onto the top of a pyramid structure. What a let down.
Didn't you read his post? He wants to run it all from solar power, which is free ;-)
This is slashdot. Simply being able to claim that your car runs linux is sufficient justification.
That's even worse than asking slashdot for medical advice.