Comcast now offers a security service that puts cameras inside and outside your home and allows you to check your home from anywhere via the Internet, so you can even check on your own home without being there!
I would love to move there and join the Free State Project but am presently looking for a house to buy in NW Oregon because I'm old and it's too cooooooold in New Hampshire. Why on Earth couldn't they have chosen a state with a better climate?
Do you really think NASA is not using bolts, nuts and studs of AT LEAST this kind of quality?
Of course they are, they merely have higher standards for spacecraft (especially manned spacecraft) than anything you are accustomed to. Even an unmanned spacecraft is far more expensive than any terrestrial engine you've ever worked with. Do you really think I have never worked with NASA spacecraft? Would you like to hear about the $50,000 toggle switch boondoggle on the STS? It is after all, only taxpayer money.
Bolts are never reused in flight qualified spacecraft whether manned or unmanned because once they are used the threads become slightly deformed and do not hold as securely as the first time they're used. You can be sure this situation was tested many times with flight prototypes using identical bolts and I'm quite sure the particular bolt causing the problem was inspected quite thoroughly, but you are correct in that it would never have actually been used previously even for testing.
What is mind boggling to me is that otherwise intelligent people actually seem to think that car companies could make higher mileage vehicles and sell them at a profit in the United States and thus sell far more cars and make much more money than their competition, but they simply choose not to do so or are too "stupid" to think of such a fundamental idea.
If there are higher mileage cars in Europe, there is a damn good reason they aren't being sold in the United States, and that is probably because they do not meet all the draconian safety and air quality regulations that have forced all of our American car manufacturers out of business and caused GM to become a ward of the state.
Does this phenomenal Fiesta have all the airbags and other crap that our idiotic politicians require? In any case, the exact mileage figure is irrelevant, because the fact remains that neither vehicle mileage or any other scientific advances can happen simply by legislation.
Will they ever learn that congress cannot legislate scientific discovery or innovation by merely passing more laws? The physical laws of the universe will trump congressional law every time.
and a maybe a little bit of the submillimetre stuff
Isn't that similar to the wavelengths of the "nude scanners" the Department of Fatherland Security (DHS) uses in airports, and now rail and bus terminals, interstate freeways, etc?
It depends on what type of computer programming you do. I'm retired now, but most of the programs I wrote didn't require the use of much math; however, one application required integral calculus to determine the orbital angular position as a function of time for the Cassini spacecraft as it passed over an optical telescope at Table Mountain Observatory in Wrightwood, California on Earth as it did its "slingshot" around Earth in an Earth gravity assist maneuver to gain velocity on its eventual journey to Jupiter.
Most people seem to forget that the justification for creating corporations and "person-hood" in the first place here in the US was that the corporations were supposed to perform a public service of some sort. That has apparently either been forgotten or expanded to include "for-profit" corporations that are accountable only to their shareholders and not to the public at all.
Spamex.com solves that problem nicely. I don't understand why it hasn't caught on yet, but it is severely languishing because of lack of users and is consequently much slower than it used to be.
Don't laugh, as part of my high school science class (Circa 1960) we made solar cells from silicon wafers in a electric kiln the instructor built with firebricks. They probably weren't terribly efficient, but they did work.
This is a bonanza for scrap metal dealers and the scroungers who steal things like lamp posts, wiring and plumbing from abandoned houses, etc., because the contents of one of these unmanned micro data centers must be worth lot more than a lamp post to scrap dealers.
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and
to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Neither the US Constitution nor the Bill of Rights protect you from anything at all, since they are merely historical pieces of hemp paper that our federal government has been completely ignoring for a long, long time. The Constitution was written in plain simple language so that everyone could read and understand it. They expected the people to read it and understand their unalienable rights and the restrictions placed on the federal government by the Constitution -- but most importantly they expected the people to enforce the Constitution, which is one of the reasons they were vehemently opposed to a large standing government army and preferred a militia composed of the people.
I know two Chinese women who are here on temporary green cards (one for work, the other for marriage) and they both have a driver's license and SSN but neither are US citizens.
Anything but the pure C as defined in the sacred Whitebook pollutes the simple beauty of C and obscures the language's clarity and its similarity to the instruction sets of most common CPUs.
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Comcast now offers a security service that puts cameras inside and outside your home and allows you to check your home from anywhere via the Internet, so you can even check on your own home without being there!
Where in the hell do you get 5 bits from?
It's the old Baudot code young whippersnapper. Haven't you ever used TTYs or paper tape writer/readers?
Get off my lawn!
I would love to move there and join the Free State Project but am presently looking for a house to buy in NW Oregon because I'm old and it's too cooooooold in New Hampshire. Why on Earth couldn't they have chosen a state with a better climate?
"We" don't, but our elected representatives do.
More specifically, our elected representatives listen to their campaign contributions, bribes, etc.
Of course they are, they merely have higher standards for spacecraft (especially manned spacecraft) than anything you are accustomed to. Even an unmanned spacecraft is far more expensive than any terrestrial engine you've ever worked with. Do you really think I have never worked with NASA spacecraft? Would you like to hear about the $50,000 toggle switch boondoggle on the STS? It is after all, only taxpayer money.
Bolts are never reused in flight qualified spacecraft whether manned or unmanned because once they are used the threads become slightly deformed and do not hold as securely as the first time they're used. You can be sure this situation was tested many times with flight prototypes using identical bolts and I'm quite sure the particular bolt causing the problem was inspected quite thoroughly, but you are correct in that it would never have actually been used previously even for testing.
What is mind boggling to me is that otherwise intelligent people actually seem to think that car companies could make higher mileage vehicles and sell them at a profit in the United States and thus sell far more cars and make much more money than their competition, but they simply choose not to do so or are too "stupid" to think of such a fundamental idea.
If there are higher mileage cars in Europe, there is a damn good reason they aren't being sold in the United States, and that is probably because they do not meet all the draconian safety and air quality regulations that have forced all of our American car manufacturers out of business and caused GM to become a ward of the state.
Does this phenomenal Fiesta have all the airbags and other crap that our idiotic politicians require? In any case, the exact mileage figure is irrelevant, because the fact remains that neither vehicle mileage or any other scientific advances can happen simply by legislation.
Will they ever learn that congress cannot legislate scientific discovery or innovation by merely passing more laws? The physical laws of the universe will trump congressional law every time.
Isn't that similar to the wavelengths of the "nude scanners" the Department of Fatherland Security (DHS) uses in airports, and now rail and bus terminals, interstate freeways, etc?
I've been spending more time on /. because of the immature, inane, stinking cesspool that reddit has become.
It depends on what type of computer programming you do. I'm retired now, but most of the programs I wrote didn't require the use of much math; however, one application required integral calculus to determine the orbital angular position as a function of time for the Cassini spacecraft as it passed over an optical telescope at Table Mountain Observatory in Wrightwood, California on Earth as it did its "slingshot" around Earth in an Earth gravity assist maneuver to gain velocity on its eventual journey to Jupiter.
"Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
Yes.
Most people seem to forget that the justification for creating corporations and "person-hood" in the first place here in the US was that the corporations were supposed to perform a public service of some sort. That has apparently either been forgotten or expanded to include "for-profit" corporations that are accountable only to their shareholders and not to the public at all.
Spamex.com solves that problem nicely. I don't understand why it hasn't caught on yet, but it is severely languishing because of lack of users and is consequently much slower than it used to be.
Don't laugh, as part of my high school science class (Circa 1960) we made solar cells from silicon wafers in a electric kiln the instructor built with firebricks. They probably weren't terribly efficient, but they did work.
Maybe it wasn't the gods who were listening. What makes you think he went to "Heaven"?
This is a bonanza for scrap metal dealers and the scroungers who steal things like lamp posts, wiring and plumbing from abandoned houses, etc., because the contents of one of these unmanned micro data centers must be worth lot more than a lamp post to scrap dealers.
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Guess I'd better tell Alex Trebek that he and Jeopardy were wrong.
Neither the US Constitution nor the Bill of Rights protect you from anything at all, since they are merely historical pieces of hemp paper that our federal government has been completely ignoring for a long, long time. The Constitution was written in plain simple language so that everyone could read and understand it. They expected the people to read it and understand their unalienable rights and the restrictions placed on the federal government by the Constitution -- but most importantly they expected the people to enforce the Constitution, which is one of the reasons they were vehemently opposed to a large standing government army and preferred a militia composed of the people.
I know two Chinese women who are here on temporary green cards (one for work, the other for marriage) and they both have a driver's license and SSN but neither are US citizens.
Anything but the pure C as defined in the sacred Whitebook pollutes the simple beauty of C and obscures the language's clarity and its similarity to the instruction sets of most common CPUs.
Why the hell did he think it was a good idea to try to get the dead mouse away from the cat in the first place?
He was hungry.
The cloud is raining.