Cows say nothing. nothing. nothing! nothing cows nothing! nothing say the cows
Not true at all. I've seen them on TV. Some cows chat with each other about how contented they are, and how that makes their milk taste better. Other cows hold up picket signs that read "Eat more Chikin."
Say what? There is and always has been a desire for speed. People have always paid a premium for faster transportation. There's no other commercial air-breather, ever, that could reach Concorde airspeeds. Mechanical design of airframes, engines, engine intake structures, etc. gets incredible more complicated the moment you break Mach 1. Double- vs single- stream jet engines have nothing to do with the downfall of the Concorde.
We went to the moon to beat the Russians during the Cold War - an existential threat
Really? How did putting people on the Moon help us defend against the USSR?
The theories included, roughly: -- the USA clearly can build way awesome rockets that can deliver H-bombs to targets in the USSR with centimeter precision -- the USA's rocketry, ballistics, computers, and manufacturing capabilities so outclass the USSR that they don't dare mess with us.
As others have pointed out, the gravity well makes launch costs prohibitive. It also makes getting that load of ore from a captured meteor back down without another dinosaur extinction difficult.
Even with a few dozen engineering hurdles completely unsolved, a tethered station on a space elevator is really the only way to lift mass (you know, people and equipment) with any kind of reasonable energy-to-mass ratio.
Except that religion tends to make no goddamn sense to a rational mind and gets rejected on sheer logical grounds.
Not a problem for people who can hold two opposing ideas in their mind without going nuts. As a Christian, I believe in evolution.
You've just posted a famous fallacy. To wit: you consider yourself not to have gone nuts, but to many others (both atheists and various extremists in other religions) you are in fact nuts. You claim to believe in X and not-X simultaneously, and that that is not crazy. hmmm....
For the remaining 99%, Windows is just a tool to run some games, play movies, open IE and watch porn, and to occasionally feed some accounting basic Excel spreadsheets.
My wife, who aside from the porn bit, and she spends some time on facebook, is exactly what you describe.
Your sure? Last time I looked at her browsing history,... well, let's say there may be some new gadgets in your bedroom's future.
If you still define a TV as something with both a display and a tuner/channel selector, then yes, it's dead and covered with larvae.
If you separate the display from whatever collection of boxes you use to generate a video (and audio) stream, then large displays will always be desirable.
If you get literal, translating "tele - vision" as "distant seeing," then any streaming source to the monitor counts as TV. It's just OTA sources that will go away -- unless you count cellular video streaming to your phone followed by Chromecasting to the monitor -- , as well as fat-pipe CATV.
For a long time, Volvo equated indestructibility with safety. Then they finally noticed that "safety" means not injuring the occupants, and this is best achieved by dispersing the crash energy via destroying the vehicle rather than having the frame remain rigid and transferring the energy to the occupants. Other manufacturers are still way ahead of Volvo on this.
Anne McCaffrey made a whole book series that had believable gigantic lizards. They even flew and breathed fire.
Well, to be fair, they only breathed fire when fed special rocks. And you left out the part about how they could [redacted to avoid spoilers], both forwards and backwards.
Which begs the question as to why bribing doctors should be allowed..
In fact, it pretty much isn't any more. Even free lunches are banned if there's no "invited speaker." OTOH, lots of MDs get rich by investing in drug companies or by opening their own treatment (or MRI, or colonoscopy) centers and then sending their patients there.
Can't resist pointing out that, despite its stated objective,Scrum usually makes things take longer, not shorter. That means working Overtime, known as "OT" . Thus:
Maybe, but plenty of times I've trailed a driver who brakes on every curve, no matter how gentle, or who brakes every time there's an oncoming car. There are lots of idiots (or people with severely limited vision who should lose their license) out there.
The problem with fingerprints as "passwords" is you're "writing" them down everywhere you go.
Not to mention that those of us with current or previous government security clearances, or arrests, could have our machines unlocked by anyone with access to TLA or police fingerprint files.
Engineers had to construct things before science provided any tools (like Romans built bridges, without stress analysis).
They may not have had FEA stress analysis, but they did have some math:-). And further, they had the results of a variety of failed experiments ( " we tried stacking the keystone *that* way and everything fell down"). Engineers use, or should use, all the expreimental results available to them when making design decisions. I'm sure the Romans did.
I won a ton of money - I was (and probably still am) well ahead. However, I learned to read the booklet that they have, where you can see who's done what and what their history is for the year. My winning ratio sunk. Prior to that I always bet on the "chariot" racing (sulkies/harness) and always bet on the guy named Banks or Banks Jr or I simply bet on #3 to win/place/show. I once won so much that I had to pay taxes on it. However, as soon as some old guy showed me what that little book was for? I was sunk. I stopped going over and better after a little while - the magic was gone.
Just pass some retroactive laws legalizing drug use. Problem solved. No need for new trials. No new costs, and dramatically reduced law enforcement budget going forward. Plus revenue from tax stamps on recreational substances.
All my indexes are i, j, k, etc unless there's an actual reason for using a real index name.
Until you're forced to use MATLAB and suddently discover that BOTH i and j are defined as sqrt(-1) and you've just overloaded these definitions, quite possibly breaking some lines elsewhere that invoke complex numbers. Yes, that's MathWorks' fault. Just be careful out there.
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Cows say nothing. nothing. nothing! nothing cows nothing! nothing say the cows
Not true at all. I've seen them on TV. Some cows chat with each other about how contented they are, and how that makes their milk taste better. Other cows hold up picket signs that read "Eat more Chikin."
Say what? There is and always has been a desire for speed. People have always paid a premium for faster transportation. There's no other commercial air-breather, ever, that could reach Concorde airspeeds.
Mechanical design of airframes, engines, engine intake structures, etc. gets incredible more complicated the moment you break Mach 1. Double- vs single- stream jet engines have nothing to do with the downfall of the Concorde.
We went to the moon to beat the Russians during the Cold War - an existential threat
Really? How did putting people on the Moon help us defend against the USSR?
The theories included, roughly:
-- the USA clearly can build way awesome rockets that can deliver H-bombs to targets in the USSR with centimeter precision
-- the USA's rocketry, ballistics, computers, and manufacturing capabilities so outclass the USSR that they don't dare mess with us.
As others have pointed out, the gravity well makes launch costs prohibitive. It also makes getting that load of ore from a captured meteor back down without another dinosaur extinction difficult.
Even with a few dozen engineering hurdles completely unsolved, a tethered station on a space elevator is really the only way to lift mass (you know, people and equipment) with any kind of reasonable energy-to-mass ratio.
Except that religion tends to make no goddamn sense to a rational mind and gets rejected on sheer logical grounds.
Not a problem for people who can hold two opposing ideas in their mind without going nuts. As a Christian, I believe in evolution.
You've just posted a famous fallacy. To wit: you consider yourself not to have gone nuts, but to many others (both atheists and various extremists in other religions) you are in fact nuts. You claim to believe in X and not-X simultaneously, and that that is not crazy. hmmm....
For the remaining 99%, Windows is just a tool to run some games, play movies, open IE and watch porn, and to occasionally feed some accounting basic Excel spreadsheets.
My wife, who aside from the porn bit, and she spends some time on facebook, is exactly what you describe.
Your sure? Last time I looked at her browsing history, ... well, let's say there may be some new gadgets in your bedroom's future.
If you still define a TV as something with both a display and a tuner/channel selector, then yes, it's dead and covered with larvae.
If you separate the display from whatever collection of boxes you use to generate a video (and audio) stream, then large displays will always be desirable.
If you get literal, translating "tele - vision" as "distant seeing," then any streaming source to the monitor counts as TV. It's just OTA sources that will go away -- unless you count cellular video streaming to your phone followed by Chromecasting to the monitor -- , as well as fat-pipe CATV.
For a long time, Volvo equated indestructibility with safety. Then they finally noticed that "safety" means not injuring the occupants, and this is best achieved by dispersing the crash energy via destroying the vehicle rather than having the frame remain rigid and transferring the energy to the occupants. Other manufacturers are still way ahead of Volvo on this.
Everyone knows a catenary is a little yellow bird.
Only after it's been eaten by your household pet.
Anne McCaffrey made a whole book series that had believable gigantic lizards. They even flew and breathed fire.
Well, to be fair, they only breathed fire when fed special rocks. And you left out the part about how they could [redacted to avoid spoilers], both forwards and backwards.
Which begs the question as to why bribing doctors should be allowed..
In fact, it pretty much isn't any more. Even free lunches are banned if there's no "invited speaker." OTOH, lots of MDs get rich by investing in drug companies or by opening their own treatment (or MRI, or colonoscopy) centers and then sending their patients there.
And quit misusing "begs the question," m'kay?
Can't resist pointing out that, despite its stated objective,Scrum usually makes things take longer, not shorter. That means working Overtime, known as "OT" . Thus:
ScrOTum
Maybe, but plenty of times I've trailed a driver who brakes on every curve, no matter how gentle, or who brakes every time there's an oncoming car. There are lots of idiots (or people with severely limited vision who should lose their license) out there.
Yes, though we used (and sheltered) many more Nazis than is generally known, even to those familiar with Project Paperclip.
Wait... Clippy is a Nazi spy?
The problem with fingerprints as "passwords" is you're "writing" them down everywhere you go.
Not to mention that those of us with current or previous government security clearances, or arrests, could have our machines unlocked by anyone with access to TLA or police fingerprint files.
Of course a Gin & Tonic is greater than some symbol
Yes! Cue the blonde joke: "I'll have a Fifteen." bartender: "What?" blonde 'You never heard of a Seven and Seven?"
thanks; try the veal.
You forgot to start out with SPOILER ALERT
(you insensitive clod)
Engineers had to construct things before science provided any tools (like Romans built bridges, without stress analysis).
They may not have had FEA stress analysis, but they did have some math :-). And further, they had the results of a variety of failed experiments ( " we tried stacking the keystone *that* way and everything fell down"). Engineers use, or should use, all the expreimental results available to them when making design decisions. I'm sure the Romans did.
But does an abacus have a trig scale? A log-log scale?
Not all of us want to calculate the first 5 terms of a Taylor series every time we want something nonlinear.
I won a ton of money - I was (and probably still am) well ahead. However, I learned to read the booklet that they have, where you can see who's done what and what their history is for the year. My winning ratio sunk. Prior to that I always bet on the "chariot" racing (sulkies/harness) and always bet on the guy named Banks or Banks Jr or I simply bet on #3 to win/place/show. I once won so much that I had to pay taxes on it. However, as soon as some old guy showed me what that little book was for? I was sunk. I stopped going over and better after a little while - the magic was gone.
To which I can only reply, https://xkcd.com/552/
I just skimmed the first 150 or so posts, and Not One discussed Facebook, "wasted," or credit bureaus snooping Facebook.
How about we save the discussions of credit bureaus and credit card companies' methods of maximizing profits and get back to the actual FA?
Just pass some retroactive laws legalizing drug use. Problem solved. No need for new trials. No new costs, and dramatically reduced law enforcement budget going forward. Plus revenue from tax stamps on recreational substances.
So then let's pick a clock; one that can govern us all.
Oh you mean this one?
One Clock to rule them all, One Clock to find them, One Clock to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Ahhh,... you beat me to it. Love that paper you linked to.
Now we just need a way to convert crack (big jail time) into powder (smaller jail time) and we'll all be happy.
All my indexes are i, j, k, etc unless there's an actual reason for using a real index name.
Until you're forced to use MATLAB and suddently discover that BOTH i and j are defined as sqrt(-1) and you've just overloaded these definitions, quite possibly breaking some lines elsewhere that invoke complex numbers.
Yes, that's MathWorks' fault. Just be careful out there.