55 comments so far and nobody's jumped on the "NASA hasn't used metric units for the crawler. Will roll upside down?" bandwagon yet? No comments about how many fully-laden African swallows it would take to move a Saturn V either. Jeez,/. is getting boring.
You might have written that sarcastically, but in fact many Repubs I knew in 1974 were furious that anyone had the nerve to investigate pretty much anything the Nixon Administration did. And it didn't take long for a certain non-elected president to deep-six the whole matter by issuing a full pardon to Tricky Dick.
And this is why robots aren't going replace people anytime soon. One little thing goes wrong with an unmanned mission and either a major subsystem is written off or the entire mission is a failure. More or less, as other responders have pointed out. Me, I'd have designed any replaceable item ("LRU" in DoD-ese) such that the locking mech was independent of the item. In this case, for example, have the power supply made with through holes and mount on bolts which are part of the mating surface (like wheels on a car to the hubs). Even better would be to have both the box and the mount plate w/ through holes, so the bolt and nut are independent, easily replaced items. In this way, thread damage never affects replaceability.
Let me say first that any professor who uses his own textbook has a basic conflict of interest. Mimeo'd handouts (thus revealing my age:-) ) are one thing, but forcing students to pay up for this sort of "enhancement" is similar to the way airlines 'unbundle' so they can add a string of extra charges.
If your textbook, printed or e-book, requires "extra enhancements," then you either wrote it wrong or intended to squeeze extra money out of the students. If Khan Academy continues to impress and succeed, it'll be a rough equivalent of open source software projects. (one hopes:-) )
you made me curious. In the US: 1914 - price of bread per pound 6 cents 2002 - 149 cents Calculating inflation, 6 cents in 1914 is equivalent to 107 cents in 2002. So we are paying more for bread, but. It s sliced, safer, higher quality, and consistent. ?? Pre-sliced sucks. "Safer" is nonsense. Consistency is boring. And most important, sliced mass-produced bread is crap both nutritionally and gustatorially. Give me a good local bakery any day.
If it was really as bad as this guy seems to think then leftys would become rightys. It is not like being gay, it is like not being particularly proficient at a language.
Not really true. There is a well-documented difference in the brain structure of righties vs lefties. That said, anyone can, with some effort, train either hand to do a variety of jobs. After all, musicians (generally) use each hand to perform a lot of tasks in concert [sorry] with the other. I've met several tennis players who successfully switched sides after an injury.
You obviously haven't heard of the phenomenon of "pair surfing". No, but I'm rather familiar with the term "pair production" (hint: quantum mechanics).
Exactly true. In the visible range, a Fresnell lens is essentially a series of concentric rings of prisms with varying base angle; in the present case the change in shape and size of the metal layer does the same thing. In both cases the lens power is strongly dependent on wavelength.
How do you know that they had no effect ('impact' is incorrect)? We might have had a significantly different, and better, fundamental design paradigm that eliminated bus bottlenecks, improved failure management, and so on. After all, there's a lot of room to change the constant "K" in exp(K*time):-)
I suspect the GP's post about 20 years' halt in development refers to either or both of the lag in declassifying WW2 computer development and the abandonment of computer theory at Princeton's IAS (see Turing's Cathedral).
Interesting survey, but not directly useful. It doesn't mention what *percentage* of people who wanted an iPhone decided to go Android instead. The reasons for switching don't matter if only 0.1% actually switched. BTW, anecdotally the number one reason I hear for choosing iPhone over anything is "it just works."
I'm sorry -- it would be exactly how hard to run the public transit on a weekday schedule on Voting Day? At least here in Boston MA, they regularly run augmented transit schedules when there's some major event going on during a weekend.
When HFT "works," the trading company makes tons of money. When a "bug" hits -- and said bug causes a loss, rather than an unintended gain --, the trading company writes it off its taxes or gets TARP-III to cover. Why worry about bugs? Or, more accurately, it's like being chased by a bear. You only need to run faster than the other guy. Fewer bugs in your HFT code than Other_Big_Trading_Co and you're ahead of the game.
And BTW, as for that "Christian" label people like to slap on homophobia - as I've said elsewhere, despite the actions of "Conservative Christians" to make me believe otherwise, I refuse to believe our creator is an evil intolerant jackass. I'm sorry -- I must be having a really bad day or something -- but were I to become any sort of deist, I would refuse to bow down to a god who makes nearly all deaths rather painful. Whether it's higher apes who hamstring their prey and start eating it while it's alive, or alligators who pull prey underwater and wait for it to drown, or humans coughing their life out in a months-long stream of bloody sputum and TB germs, death is horrible. You'd think a "loving god" could find a better way.
Nearly every presidential poll I've seen lists the current ratio of popular vote. But all that matters is the popular vote in 8 or 10 states where the electoral college outcome is in doubt. Why Twitter expects anyone with intelligence (oops, my bad) to think either that the national popular vote matters or that twits who tweet in any way represent a statistical valid sample is beyond me.
Most of the posts here seem to be of the "cut this or else cut that" ilk. Why not do the right thing and raise taxes, or in the USA case, return the tax rates on the very rich to what they once were, and change the business tax code to reflect some sort of reality. And then stop taxing capital gains less than "ordinary" income.
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55 comments so far and nobody's jumped on the "NASA hasn't used metric units for the crawler. Will roll upside down?" bandwagon yet? /. is getting boring.
No comments about how many fully-laden African swallows it would take to move a Saturn V either. Jeez,
You might have written that sarcastically, but in fact many Repubs I knew in 1974 were furious that anyone had the nerve to investigate pretty much anything the Nixon Administration did. And it didn't take long for a certain non-elected president to deep-six the whole matter by issuing a full pardon to Tricky Dick.
And this is why robots aren't going replace people anytime soon. One little thing goes wrong with an unmanned mission and either a major subsystem is written off or the entire mission is a failure.
More or less, as other responders have pointed out. Me, I'd have designed any replaceable item ("LRU" in DoD-ese) such that the locking mech was independent of the item. In this case, for example, have the power supply made with through holes and mount on bolts which are part of the mating surface (like wheels on a car to the hubs). Even better would be to have both the box and the mount plate w/ through holes, so the bolt and nut are independent, easily replaced items. In this way, thread damage never affects replaceability.
Laws exist for a reason people. Only IDIOTS who don't understand the reason, break the law.
Mr. Ghandi would like a word with you.
Or you could take a look at a certain famous quote misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.
Let me say first that any professor who uses his own textbook has a basic conflict of interest. Mimeo'd handouts (thus revealing my age :-) ) are one thing, but forcing students to pay up for this sort of "enhancement" is similar to the way airlines 'unbundle' so they can add a string of extra charges.
If your textbook, printed or e-book, requires "extra enhancements," then you either wrote it wrong or intended to squeeze extra money out of the students. If Khan Academy continues to impress and succeed, it'll be a rough equivalent of open source software projects. (one hopes :-) )
you made me curious.
In the US:
1914 - price of bread per pound 6 cents
2002 - 149 cents
Calculating inflation, 6 cents in 1914 is equivalent to 107 cents in 2002.
So we are paying more for bread, but. It s sliced, safer, higher quality, and consistent.
?? Pre-sliced sucks. "Safer" is nonsense. Consistency is boring. And most important, sliced mass-produced bread is crap both nutritionally and gustatorially. Give me a good local bakery any day.
If it was really as bad as this guy seems to think then leftys would become rightys.
It is not like being gay, it is like not being particularly proficient at a language.
Not really true. There is a well-documented difference in the brain structure of righties vs lefties. That said, anyone can, with some effort, train either hand to do a variety of jobs. After all, musicians (generally) use each hand to perform a lot of tasks in concert [sorry] with the other. I've met several tennis players who successfully switched sides after an injury.
You obviously haven't heard of the phenomenon of "pair surfing".
No, but I'm rather familiar with the term "pair production" (hint: quantum mechanics).
Exactly true. In the visible range, a Fresnell lens is essentially a series of concentric rings of prisms with varying base angle; in the present case the change in shape and size of the metal layer does the same thing. In both cases the lens power is strongly dependent on wavelength.
ell I have a patent on zero, void, null, and None. I expect a royalty of 1 per use.
you forgot to claim FILE_NOT_FOUND
Obligatory: it's the launch codes!
How do you know that they had no effect ('impact' is incorrect)? We might have had a significantly different, and better, fundamental design paradigm that eliminated bus bottlenecks, improved failure management, and so on. After all, there's a lot of room to change the constant "K" in exp(K*time) :-)
I suspect the GP's post about 20 years' halt in development refers to either or both of the lag in declassifying WW2 computer development and the abandonment of computer theory at Princeton's IAS (see Turing's Cathedral).
Guys, really? Fahrenheit? In a science article? On an international website?
I don't even advocate the usage of Celcius in this case, so why not use 33 degrees Kelvin?
For one thing, there's no such thing as a "degree Kelvin." Look it up.
Interesting survey, but not directly useful. It doesn't mention what *percentage* of people who wanted an iPhone decided to go Android instead. The reasons for switching don't matter if only 0.1% actually switched. BTW, anecdotally the number one reason I hear for choosing iPhone over anything is "it just works."
Ummm... just what do you think they had been doing between the balcony scene and "it is not the nightingale, it is the lark" ?
irrelephant is a perfectly comulent word!
IIRC it was Groucho himself who responded, "Irrelevant? Looks more like a hippopotamus to me."
Queue the Metric/Imperial Wars:
So "Queue" is the metric equivalent of "Cue" ?
I'm sorry -- it would be exactly how hard to run the public transit on a weekday schedule on Voting Day? At least here in Boston MA, they regularly run augmented transit schedules when there's some major event going on during a weekend.
When HFT "works," the trading company makes tons of money. When a "bug" hits -- and said bug causes a loss, rather than an unintended gain --, the trading company writes it off its taxes or gets TARP-III to cover. Why worry about bugs? Or, more accurately, it's like being chased by a bear. You only need to run faster than the other guy. Fewer bugs in your HFT code than Other_Big_Trading_Co and you're ahead of the game.
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Marfa is where hipsters go to be alone.
So... she's a hipster because she quit Facebook before it was cool to do so?
And BTW, as for that "Christian" label people like to slap on homophobia - as I've said elsewhere, despite the actions of "Conservative Christians" to make me believe otherwise, I refuse to believe our creator is an evil intolerant jackass.
I'm sorry -- I must be having a really bad day or something -- but were I to become any sort of deist, I would refuse to bow down to a god who makes nearly all deaths rather painful. Whether it's higher apes who hamstring their prey and start eating it while it's alive, or alligators who pull prey underwater and wait for it to drown, or humans coughing their life out in a months-long stream of bloody sputum and TB germs, death is horrible. You'd think a "loving god" could find a better way.
Nearly every presidential poll I've seen lists the current ratio of popular vote. But all that matters is the popular vote in 8 or 10 states where the electoral college outcome is in doubt. Why Twitter expects anyone with intelligence (oops, my bad) to think either that the national popular vote matters or that twits who tweet in any way represent a statistical valid sample is beyond me.
Most of the posts here seem to be of the "cut this or else cut that" ilk. Why not do the right thing and raise taxes, or in the USA case, return the tax rates on the very rich to what they once were, and change the business tax code to reflect some sort of reality. And then stop taxing capital gains less than "ordinary" income.