No idea which parent you were referring to, but clearly you're humor-impaired today.
Further, you appear to have failed reading comprehension, because I stated quite clearly that there are recorded cases of people blind from birth who were given sight (functional internal lens replacement or something similar). We know from their own testimony that they could not identify some objects they saw until they touched them.
I've read Flatland and some semisequels. You miss the point: if there are more spatial dimensions in nature, then that's still nature. There's a big difference between "effectively a deity," which could describe Jerry Garcia, and actually BEING a deity.
Yeah, well, may I speak for legions of geeks who say our idea of a Resident Evil Moment is a night with some wicked hot dark-haired, green-eyed babe who favors tight leather -- and is rather acrobatic.
The headline implies that there have been other, unsuccessful attempts at landing a UAV on a carrier (or else 'first successful' sounds redundant). Yet there is no mention of the failures.
The DoD and its "partners" in the Defense Industry have a nearly unbroken record of publicizing only successes and burying test failures. About the only way you can tell that some widget didn't pass test is if it either gets cancelled or its budget gets doubled (so next time it'll work FOR SURE).
Your girlfriend asks you, do these pants make me look fat?
There are two attractive people, one with red hair and one with blond hair. Which is more attractive?
What is love?
If a man born blind, and able to distinguish by touch between a cube and a globe, were made to see, could he now tell by sight which was the cube and which the globe, before he touched them?
Are mathematical objects are real or merely formal constructions?
Do deities exist?
OK, it's Friday so I'll bite. 1) No, she doesn't (ask me) 2) The female one (to me, at least) 3) Love is an emotion (stolen from Colussus) 4) This is already been documented by Oliver Sacks and others; the answer typically is "no." 5) Are you kidding? Show me a "two", and I mean the number, not the numeral. Duh. 6) By definition, no: "deity" means "supernatural being," and everything which exists is part of nature. Nyahhh nyaaaahhhh!
Interviewer: Tell me an example of when X happened and how handled it?
AC: Sorry, that information is unavailable.
It's only funny until it happens to you. Try working on restricted programs (classified or simply company secrets/proprietary) and then giving a decent interview response to "what have you done related to XXX subject?"
I guess they could program the computer to automatically flip the sensor data if after half a second into launch they are getting impossible readings?
I believe that sort of data processing is called the "too-late buffer."
But, seriously, if data could be ignored in some control loop, why would said data be involved in the first place? Mission-critical sensors HAVE to be relied on. The usual protocol if failure is detected is a full launch abort, or if the bird is away, full shutdown and whatever self-destruct is available is executed.
Is the 777 one of those planes which cannot be landed fully automatically? What are the current FAA rules about auto-landings? I thought planes were generally supposed to use manual landing only under severe weather or other concerns.
This only works if you can act quickly after it's been stolen. First, open the case. Place a block of C4 in some free area, with a detonator attached to the internal USB bus. Close the case. Remember to write down the secret code for the detonator as well as your machine's IPaddress. When machine is stolen, send the code. Great hilarity ensues.
or more EMoTICONS and markup such as [SARCASM]text here[/SARCASM]
Yeah -- it would be a lot easier and cheaper to bribe some of those Congresspeople to pass a law making it illegal to post sarcasm without using [SARCASM] tags. Naah, that could never happen.
I got a job offer last week and as part of my salary negotiations I demanded Dvorak keyboards. I still haven't heard back
Is this some sort of in-joke? software remaps for Dvorak are everywhere. If you need the keys themselves printed with the Dvorak characterset, then you haven't learned to touch-type in the first place.
Screw checking baggage entirely. How did we ever get into this crazy system where passengers are separated from their luggage in the first place? Trains: carry on. Busses: carry on, or personally place in undercarriage storage. I have a crazy dream where aircraft are redesigned so passengers bring their luggage to the plane themselves, place in convenient (elevators or not) luggage storage, and remove luggage themselves. Yeah, I know: blahblah pressurized volume, windows, etc. It can be done.
Just as the mathematicians, Decennials, if I recall correctly, mapped a series of unexplained images, here we are "tracking" some EM bursts. Clearly it's a sophisticated UltraHyperspaceDrive in deceleration mode, on its way to conquer and enslave our Universe.
Let me say Fuck You BU. They're the assholes of Back Bay. Whatever the quality of their Music&Arts Dept and several grad dept's, their undergrad housing sucks, they grab real estate left & right, and run possibly the most boring blahblah public radio station in the nation.
(wow - my first genuine flamebait in years. What set that off?)
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Stop using analogies when they are not necessary.
Can you please use a car analogy to explain when they're not necessary?
No, the politically correct answer is to blame Sandy on Obamacare.
I liked it better when the stock culprit was "all them nucular power plants."
yes of course you are correct but who the hell searches google for torrents?
To be fair, Google often does a better job of filtering torrent matches to your search terms than your everyday garden variety torrent search site.
Dune is at best soft sci-fi.
Well of course it is, duh! Sand is soft. You want hard SciFi, try Podkayne of Mars. Ooops, not *that* kind of hard?
Have any number of qualified and competent engineers (good ol' America-loving ones, of course) pick it apart and analyze it. Boom, problem solved.
Well, solved in a manner of speaking ~
No idea which parent you were referring to, but clearly you're humor-impaired today.
Further, you appear to have failed reading comprehension, because I stated quite clearly that there are recorded cases of people blind from birth who were given sight (functional internal lens replacement or something similar). We know from their own testimony that they could not identify some objects they saw until they touched them.
I've read Flatland and some semisequels. You miss the point: if there are more spatial dimensions in nature, then that's still nature. There's a big difference between "effectively a deity," which could describe Jerry Garcia, and actually BEING a deity.
Yeah, well, may I speak for legions of geeks who say our idea of a Resident Evil Moment is a night with some wicked hot dark-haired, green-eyed babe who favors tight leather -- and is rather acrobatic.
The headline implies that there have been other, unsuccessful attempts at landing a UAV on a carrier (or else 'first successful' sounds redundant). Yet there is no mention of the failures.
The DoD and its "partners" in the Defense Industry have a nearly unbroken record of publicizing only successes and burying test failures. About the only way you can tell that some widget didn't pass test is if it either gets cancelled or its budget gets doubled (so next time it'll work FOR SURE).
Your girlfriend asks you, do these pants make me look fat?
There are two attractive people, one with red hair and one with blond hair. Which is more attractive?
What is love?
If a man born blind, and able to distinguish by touch between a cube and a globe, were made to see, could he now tell by sight which was the cube and which the globe, before he touched them?
Are mathematical objects are real or merely formal constructions?
Do deities exist?
OK, it's Friday so I'll bite.
1) No, she doesn't (ask me)
2) The female one (to me, at least)
3) Love is an emotion (stolen from Colussus)
4) This is already been documented by Oliver Sacks and others; the answer typically is "no."
5) Are you kidding? Show me a "two", and I mean the number, not the numeral. Duh.
6) By definition, no: "deity" means "supernatural being," and everything which exists is part of nature. Nyahhh nyaaaahhhh!
That grammar is correct. Phonetically, the "N" begins with a vowel sound so "an NSA" is correct.
FTFY - Grammar police should endeavor to avoid use of the double negative.
And the math police will point out that "not incorrect" is not identical to "correct." The reason is left as an exercise to the reader.
sorry -- damn failure to preview, plus /. 's infamous refusal to allow edits.
That grammar is correct. Phonetically, the "N" begins with a vowel sound so "an NSA" is correct.
And the math police will point out that "not incorrect" is not identical to "correct." The reason is left as an exercise to the reader.
Interviewer: Tell me an example of when X happened and how handled it?
AC: Sorry, that information is unavailable.
It's only funny until it happens to you. Try working on restricted programs (classified or simply company secrets/proprietary) and then giving a decent interview response to "what have you done related to XXX subject?"
I'm pretty sure the blackhats don't need any of the terms explained to them.
yeah, but we're discussing blacklisting the asshats.
I guess they could program the computer to automatically flip the sensor data if after half a second into launch they are getting impossible readings?
I believe that sort of data processing is called the "too-late buffer."
But, seriously, if data could be ignored in some control loop, why would said data be involved in the first place? Mission-critical sensors HAVE to be relied on. The usual protocol if failure is detected is a full launch abort, or if the bird is away, full shutdown and whatever self-destruct is available is executed.
Is the 777 one of those planes which cannot be landed fully automatically? What are the current FAA rules about auto-landings? I thought planes were generally supposed to use manual landing only under severe weather or other concerns.
Doggone it -- AC ninja'd my C4 idea. Now I gotta race him to the patent office.
This only works if you can act quickly after it's been stolen.
First, open the case. Place a block of C4 in some free area, with a detonator attached to the internal USB bus. Close the case. Remember to write down the secret code for the detonator as well as your machine's IPaddress.
When machine is stolen, send the code. Great hilarity ensues.
If we're building stuff from local stores of ((grey goo)), why not just D/L plans for LSD ?
and yes I'm joking about the feasibility
or more EMoTICONS and markup such as [SARCASM]text here[/SARCASM]
Yeah -- it would be a lot easier and cheaper to bribe some of those Congresspeople to pass a law making it illegal to post sarcasm without using [SARCASM] tags. Naah, that could never happen.
I got a job offer last week and as part of my salary negotiations I demanded Dvorak keyboards. I still haven't heard back
Is this some sort of in-joke? software remaps for Dvorak are everywhere. If you need the keys themselves printed with the Dvorak characterset, then you haven't learned to touch-type in the first place.
Screw checking baggage entirely. How did we ever get into this crazy system where passengers are separated from their luggage in the first place? Trains: carry on. Busses: carry on, or personally place in undercarriage storage.
I have a crazy dream where aircraft are redesigned so passengers bring their luggage to the plane themselves, place in convenient (elevators or not) luggage storage, and remove luggage themselves. Yeah, I know: blahblah pressurized volume, windows, etc. It can be done.
Just as the mathematicians, Decennials, if I recall correctly, mapped a series of unexplained images, here we are "tracking" some EM bursts. Clearly it's a sophisticated UltraHyperspaceDrive in deceleration mode, on its way to conquer and enslave our Universe.
Let me say Fuck You BU. They're the assholes of Back Bay. Whatever the quality of their Music&Arts Dept and several grad dept's, their undergrad housing sucks, they grab real estate left & right, and run possibly the most boring blahblah public radio station in the nation.
(wow - my first genuine flamebait in years. What set that off?)
You relieve your officer of his command because he has violated his sworn oath.
At least that's the way the Pentagon claims it's supposed to work.
Yeah, that bug was opened by yours truly.
And I do agree that headers are of negative (not zero) benefit