Perhaps they should come up with a way to lay the booster down on its side, once it's successfully landed on the drone ship?
Doesn't work. The rockets are not designed to handle heavy horizontal stress. They can handle pretty extreme vertical stress but to make them survive being on their sides that reliably would require a lot more reinforcements which means the rockets would have a lot more mass.
Wrong: take a look at the pre-launch videos. The entire 3-booster assembly is transported to the launchpad horizontally, on a specially designed carrier. It remains in full contact with the carrier bed as it (the bed) is hydraulically lifted to vertical. I will grant you that implementing such a gizmo on the barge is not cost-effective. But putting in a new set of grapplers and tiedowns is almost certainly in the future for the OfCourseIStillLoveYou
So, no pink-themed pages and unicorns over at microsoft.com ? No autocorrect jokes in their forum pages?
Then again, I recall back in the 70s or 80s, a Boston-area TV weatherman announced that Great Blue Hills (a local not-very-tall mountain) had erupted, along with stock footage of some volcano. People panicked and he got fired.
Might be interesting to know whether Sabre just found some bugs in their current code version, in some ancient code; or whether some hardware went kablooie.
Yep - another case study from the metro Boston area (was written up in great detail by the husband of the woman who died). The woman lived a few blocks from a hospital. She knew she had serious asthma sensitivity. One night she felt an attack coming on, and knew enough that she needed to be treated in the E.D. . However, she figured she'd just walk over. Ended up with the attack coming on faster than anticipated, and due to poor/obsolete signs on the hospital, collapsed outside a locked door. Many factors contributed to her death, but certainly in an urban area, calling for an ambulance will bypass all the factors that took place before she died.
You caught the true root cause: cheaping out on fundamental design, Boeing had a working airframe but knew they'd be out of the picture if they couldn't upgrade to a more efficient engine. There is no efficient engine physically compatible with the 737 airframe. Boeing used duct tape and hot glue to put the engine in a location which compromises flight stability (a LOT).
A correct, at least from an engineering and safety standard, would have been to put the new engines aft where they belong, perhaps either by mounting above-wing (noisy and pisses off passengers) or by redesigning the entire landing gear system to raise the airframe sufficiently to provide clearance. But, you know, time and money.
BTW, the "pilot training" on how to override is one of a huge number of "training to override failed XXX" , and even a trained pilot is unlikely to get through the list during a takeoff.
visit zoo, maybe you will see something more inspiring than origami.
That's about as stupid as one can get. leaving aside the beauty of paper origami art, the mathematics of surface folding has led to breakthroughs in the analysis of proteins. The origami bit here is to show an ultralightweighted structure that's still strong.
The first thing ALT-Tab does is show a list of thumbnails with all the open windows. You can click on the window you want with the mouse, no LIFO required. If you don't click on one, then the LIFO is used.
You're missing the whole point: people, including me, use ALT_TAB (and a dozen other key combos) because it is incredibly disruptive to use the mouse at all . It's even worse when you have to put one hand on the mouse and another on the KB (Oh, look, my KB doesn't have a WIN key on the right side, and I use a lefty mouse), which is why I programmed a mouse button to do CTRL-click, for example.
Consider all the flap about recent AI systems generating artificial head shots that most people can't distinguish from real photos. An algorithm that can create those can, with some existing add-ons, analyze a photo and decide what the Z-axis values are, thus producing a 3-D object. Might be a bit more difficult to fabricate, but I bet these phones can't tell what size the "head" they're looking at is. If they could capture cicadic movement, that might be cool, but I don't think the cameras have the frame rate to do so.
There are 300,000 people in the metropolitan area I live in and the nearest Tesla location for service is 1 hour away. They need to add locations, not subtract and they need to hire and train more people for service work.
This news is not about service centers (although you can view and test drive there). It's solely about the standalone showrooms such as the ones in major malls (in the USA). Tesla has said it's planning to open lots more service centers, BTW. Progress there is slow; but they are definitely not closing any service center.
The problem is that the USA has somehow allowed these credit rating companies to provide data to banks, loan agencies, corporate hiring departments, insurance agencies, etc., without any laws related to verification of the data provided.
It's easier to get your consciousness uploaded to Mr. Frostee than it is to get incorrect info removed from your credit report. There's nothing requiring the credit bureaus to fact-check and verify the sewage coming into their databases, let alone anything requiring them to change the contents of the database when correct material is supplied.
It is the Juries job to interpret evidence, I don't see this as a big challenge for the courts to contend with.
To state the obvious: the judge decides what evidence is allowed to be presented to the jury. If emojis are considered either prejudicial, irrelevant, or ambiguous, the jury won't see them.
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Perhaps they should come up with a way to lay the booster down on its side, once it's successfully landed on the drone ship?
Doesn't work. The rockets are not designed to handle heavy horizontal stress. They can handle pretty extreme vertical stress but to make them survive being on their sides that reliably would require a lot more reinforcements which means the rockets would have a lot more mass.
Wrong: take a look at the pre-launch videos. The entire 3-booster assembly is transported to the launchpad horizontally, on a specially designed carrier. It remains in full contact with the carrier bed as it (the bed) is hydraulically lifted to vertical.
I will grant you that implementing such a gizmo on the barge is not cost-effective. But putting in a new set of grapplers and tiedowns is almost certainly in the future for the OfCourseIStillLoveYou
When everything is hyped, even scientists have a hard time separating hype from fact. It becomes excessively tiresome, in mice
FTFY
MFL is any language that lets me talk to it and have it produce code, or hardware, just the way I want it.
Enterprise NCC1701-D's Food Replicator comes to mind. I bet you could tell it to generate the software you need to deliver tomorrow.
Here's some help in calculating the max achievable radius before Things Begin To Happen.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
Is one of those physicists named Homer, by any chance?
You jest, eh? The physicist is named T. Horton, you hoser.
complement
Ya never know, maybe the Odies would be enthusiastically cheering on the Garfields.
compliment
[The beatings continue].... untl moral improves.
I think that's a perfect solution to the immoral sociopathic behavior of most managers.
Now, to improve morale, not so much.
So, no pink-themed pages and unicorns over at microsoft.com ? No autocorrect jokes in their forum pages?
Then again, I recall back in the 70s or 80s, a Boston-area TV weatherman announced that Great Blue Hills (a local not-very-tall mountain) had erupted, along with stock footage of some volcano. People panicked and he got fired.
Might be interesting to know whether Sabre just found some bugs in their current code version, in some ancient code; or whether some hardware went kablooie.
I would hate to think that the real OTT were to come to an end.
Yep - another case study from the metro Boston area (was written up in great detail by the husband of the woman who died). The woman lived a few blocks from a hospital. She knew she had serious asthma sensitivity. One night she felt an attack coming on, and knew enough that she needed to be treated in the E.D. . However, she figured she'd just walk over. Ended up with the attack coming on faster than anticipated, and due to poor/obsolete signs on the hospital, collapsed outside a locked door.
Many factors contributed to her death, but certainly in an urban area, calling for an ambulance will bypass all the factors that took place before she died.
You caught the true root cause: cheaping out on fundamental design,
Boeing had a working airframe but knew they'd be out of the picture if they couldn't upgrade to a more efficient engine. There is no efficient engine physically compatible with the 737 airframe. Boeing used duct tape and hot glue to put the engine in a location which compromises flight stability (a LOT).
A correct, at least from an engineering and safety standard, would have been to put the new engines aft where they belong, perhaps either by mounting above-wing (noisy and pisses off passengers) or by redesigning the entire landing gear system to raise the airframe sufficiently to provide clearance. But, you know, time and money.
BTW, the "pilot training" on how to override is one of a huge number of "training to override failed XXX" , and even a trained pilot is unlikely to get through the list during a takeoff.
Too small?!? That's not what my wife said!
Yeah but she also said she wants it to last a little longer.
Lucky I read this article.
I'll judge it on its merits.
visit zoo, maybe you will see something more inspiring than origami.
That's about as stupid as one can get. leaving aside the beauty of paper origami art, the mathematics of surface folding has led to breakthroughs in the analysis of proteins. The origami bit here is to show an ultralightweighted structure that's still strong.
Which raises the question: how many valid BitCoin hashes are there in the 3.14trillion digits of pi?
The first thing ALT-Tab does is show a list of thumbnails with all the open windows.
You can click on the window you want with the mouse, no LIFO required.
If you don't click on one, then the LIFO is used.
You're missing the whole point: people, including me, use ALT_TAB (and a dozen other key combos) because it is incredibly disruptive to use the mouse at all . It's even worse when you have to put one hand on the mouse and another on the KB (Oh, look, my KB doesn't have a WIN key on the right side, and I use a lefty mouse), which is why I programmed a mouse button to do CTRL-click, for example.
t I see great potential to use the moon as a huge billboard to place ads.
It was proposed to the 6+ Corp but they turned it down long ago.
Consider all the flap about recent AI systems generating artificial head shots that most people can't distinguish from real photos. An algorithm that can create those can, with some existing add-ons, analyze a photo and decide what the Z-axis values are, thus producing a 3-D object. Might be a bit more difficult to fabricate, but I bet these phones can't tell what size the "head" they're looking at is.
If they could capture cicadic movement, that might be cool, but I don't think the cameras have the frame rate to do so.
There are 300,000 people in the metropolitan area I live in and the nearest Tesla location for service is 1 hour away. They need to add locations, not subtract and they need to hire and train more people for service work.
This news is not about service centers (although you can view and test drive there). It's solely about the standalone showrooms such as the ones in major malls (in the USA).
Tesla has said it's planning to open lots more service centers, BTW. Progress there is slow; but they are definitely not closing any service center.
Remind me again where in LOTR a wizard moved large stones?
I think he meant Yoda, not wizard, and crashed spaceship, not large stone.
The problem is that the USA has somehow allowed these credit rating companies to provide data to banks, loan agencies, corporate hiring departments, insurance agencies, etc., without any laws related to verification of the data provided.
It's easier to get your consciousness uploaded to Mr. Frostee than it is to get incorrect info removed from your credit report. There's nothing requiring the credit bureaus to fact-check and verify the sewage coming into their databases, let alone anything requiring them to change the contents of the database when correct material is supplied.
That's what needs to be fixed.
If Captain Marvel doesn't invoke the special word "Shazam" to function, it ain't Captain Marvel. Poo on all the subsequent pretenders.
It is the Juries job to interpret evidence, I don't see this as a big challenge for the courts to contend with.
To state the obvious: the judge decides what evidence is allowed to be presented to the jury. If emojis are considered either prejudicial, irrelevant, or ambiguous, the jury won't see them.
The porn I watch often has a penis inserted into a vagina and if watching with the wife, often results in my penis in a vagina.
Inquiring minds, including your wife's would like to know just which vagina your penis found.