Sounds very one-way, thus inappropriate for normal LAN use. On the other hand, there are quite a number of successful grocery store systems that use similar methods to change the value of smart price display tags. Although they do it by pulsing the normal fluorescent lights overnight (don't want to drive the customers mad). LED's could do the same thing faster, and would likely scale better as a result.
...to get to the moon would require a two launches that joined in orbit - a step backwards from the Saturn V days.
Whups, challenge that point. The Saturn V based Apollo launches joined up (docked) with an Agena vehicle that was separately launched. The combined payloads of two launches were necessary to complete the lunar spacecraft.
(Oh, sweet flashback to my youth, golden age of Science Fiction, when the future had no limits. Rockets to the moon, indeed! Now who, and where, are our heroes who will develop the next set of templates we need to plan for the future?)
and as long as you're not using Windows, it's not too hard to change font sizes.
um, how difficult is ctrl-scrollwheel? Even as far back as Windows XP holding the control key down while moving the mouse scroll wheel alters font size in practically every application except the desktop (for which there's a static font size adjust).
That said, it is somewhat true. The first world status of Australia means the communications in general (including TV news and such) and disaster warning systems are much more advanced
We're also heavy Internet users. We were using a combination of Facebook, Ventrilo and WoW guild chat to check status on our friends up in the north. Laugh if you like, it worked. One of my Facebook re-posts was "13 meter wave headed for Toowomba get out now ring SES 000 if you need assistance." Fortunately everyone checked in afterward.
And tomorrow we're holding a morning tea at work to raise funds. Being Australian (and with our strong volunteer culture) we are all likely to dig deep.
And for once, kudos to the first post on this thread.
I played that quest last night. You ride a Goblin-made artificial rocket-powered shark. I think the quest name was "Freakin' Lasers!" or perhaps that was a DBM call. But there was definitely a shark, with a freaking laser on it's head.
is about making people feel the capital costs needed at peak times. Currently this is not the case. I fail to see how this will make energy more affordable.
Actually that turns out not to be the case. The idea of the smart grid was two-fold; It provided a vehicle for upgrading infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded since it was built in (mostly) the middle of the last century, and by giving the generators more fine-grained knowledge of when to apply secondary generation facilities for peak load. The latter would provide sufficient savings to bankroll the entire project.
Or at least that was the opinion of the 20 or so C-level energy execs we interviewed in 2009 when I wrote our company's smart grid report. The concept may have drifted since then (and I'll admit I'm out of touch, I no longer work for that company) but I don't think by that much.
Rockets output power evenly over the entire take off. Electromagnets need a structure around the projectile to continue propelling it but there is no way to make it that tall.
You don't need "tall". You can make do with a straight, horizontal structure tangent to the planetary (or lunar) sphere. You have to punch through more atmosphere (if from the Earth, and let's not talk about noise ordinances), but you can certainly achieve orbit from a horizontal electronic accelleration structure. From the Moon, no-brainer. Less structure, make it longer. As long as it's straight enough at the muzzle you'll get your escape velocity.
As I understand the issue, it has nothing to do with friction. In fact it's probably more likely to get welded if it's going too slowly.
A rail gun is basically an arc welder in a way, you're passing massive amount of energy in the form of electricity through the interface between the rails and projectile.....
Think of a long, overpowered Jacob's Ladder with a slug where you'd expect the expanding arc.
Isn't one of the problems with railguns that sometimes the projectile will weld itself to the rail? What happens if that occurs with a jet launcher on the rail, and a plane hooked to that?
The pilot is in for a short, yet highly interesting flight.
I think you are being more generous than when people said Schwarzenegger was an Actor.
Which was a surprise to Arnie, because all throughout his 'acting career' people basically bashed him for not really acting, just having enough muscles to hold up big guns. Then he runs for Governor and everyone goes "Ha! An Actor running for California Governor!" - greatest compliment he ever received.
The same went for Ronald Reagan -- bad actor to worse governor. I won't speak of his tenure as President.
he attended Harvard, met Billyboy and became later a very rich man!
(I'd rather not look at him, thanks... but...) If the school has instructors good enough, they'll get the students so insanely motivated and empowered that they'll bring out their best work during their peak early years. Whether or not they graduate at that point, the school will have succeeded in educating them, and succeeded admirably.
The postal service is going to be insolvent because the service they provide isn't worth the cost. If it was, people would pay a higher price for it. At the time that the constitution was written, it was pretty much the state of the art communication channel and it made some sense for it to be singled out as necessary along with post roads etc. Today, things are different. Most people don't use snail mail to communicate so it doesn't make sense to keep it the way it is. The modern day equivalent of the postal service's role in the late 1700's is broadband last mile infrastructure.
A few years back in the employ of one of the big-5 consultancies, I proposed a virtual post office box system for Australia Post. Nice option for the user, a single PO box that just had a permanent re-direct to wherever the person lived at the moment. Proposal got all the way up to the exec.
"Great idea! But letter volume has gone down the toilet. Thank you for coming."
The correct tense would be the past or the future. For the time being, there isn't a firewall (the injection of independents and greens into a hang-up parliament seems to be causing good effects in this matter).
cOlo is correct. And although we do not have the same right to arm bears the US has, our per capita ownership of chainsaws is much higher. The Government knows this.
Well, all except Stephen Conroy, but then he's not so much a Government bastard as simply a bastard.
The point of effective marketing through advertising is to piss off a large number of people, but piss them off only a tiny little bit. Messages "filtered" by normal cynicism - the ones you think you're ignoring - become imprinted in your memory, only to arise as a bit of "bold" font when you next see the object that was advertised.
The point is you want the message to be embedded in the subconscious, not the conscious. If you piss people off big time, they will put the advertiser into an entirely different category.
Say the Jimmy Wales advertisement, for example. It's big, it pisses people off, people won't donate and will quickly scroll away. But if you had a tiny message above a "quote of the day" saying "Was Wiki good for you too? Then please donate" with a link. They'll subconsciously equate Wiki to sex, and want to uh, donate.
Slashdot Mirror
Not that extra-marital sex is necessarily a problem either
Extra-marital? Try extra-terrestrial!
Don't count in orbit.,,
Sounds very one-way, thus inappropriate for normal LAN use. On the other hand, there are quite a number of successful grocery store systems that use similar methods to change the value of smart price display tags. Although they do it by pulsing the normal fluorescent lights overnight (don't want to drive the customers mad). LED's could do the same thing faster, and would likely scale better as a result.
...to get to the moon would require a two launches that joined in orbit - a step backwards from the Saturn V days.
Whups, challenge that point. The Saturn V based Apollo launches joined up (docked) with an Agena vehicle that was separately launched. The combined payloads of two launches were necessary to complete the lunar spacecraft.
(Oh, sweet flashback to my youth, golden age of Science Fiction, when the future had no limits. Rockets to the moon, indeed! Now who, and where, are our heroes who will develop the next set of templates we need to plan for the future?)
and as long as you're not using Windows, it's not too hard to change font sizes.
um, how difficult is ctrl-scrollwheel? Even as far back as Windows XP holding the control key down while moving the mouse scroll wheel alters font size in practically every application except the desktop (for which there's a static font size adjust).
That said, it is somewhat true. The first world status of Australia means the communications in general (including TV news and such) and disaster warning systems are much more advanced
We're also heavy Internet users. We were using a combination of Facebook, Ventrilo and WoW guild chat to check status on our friends up in the north. Laugh if you like, it worked. One of my Facebook re-posts was "13 meter wave headed for Toowomba get out now ring SES 000 if you need assistance." Fortunately everyone checked in afterward.
And tomorrow we're holding a morning tea at work to raise funds. Being Australian (and with our strong volunteer culture) we are all likely to dig deep.
And for once, kudos to the first post on this thread.
No sea bass. I was not disappointed.
Carl Helmers, the first editor of Byte Magazine, said it very, very early on in the piece.
"There are people who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what's happening."
The first couple of issues of Byte, by the way, were corner-stapled and printed on blue paper to discourage photocopying.
The Evil Buffer Stuffer Strikes Again!
is about making people feel the capital costs needed at peak times. Currently this is not the case. I fail to see how this will make energy more affordable.
Actually that turns out not to be the case. The idea of the smart grid was two-fold; It provided a vehicle for upgrading infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded since it was built in (mostly) the middle of the last century, and by giving the generators more fine-grained knowledge of when to apply secondary generation facilities for peak load. The latter would provide sufficient savings to bankroll the entire project.
Or at least that was the opinion of the 20 or so C-level energy execs we interviewed in 2009 when I wrote our company's smart grid report. The concept may have drifted since then (and I'll admit I'm out of touch, I no longer work for that company) but I don't think by that much.
Rockets output power evenly over the entire take off. Electromagnets need a structure around the projectile to continue propelling it but there is no way to make it that tall.
You don't need "tall". You can make do with a straight, horizontal structure tangent to the planetary (or lunar) sphere. You have to punch through more atmosphere (if from the Earth, and let's not talk about noise ordinances), but you can certainly achieve orbit from a horizontal electronic accelleration structure. From the Moon, no-brainer. Less structure, make it longer. As long as it's straight enough at the muzzle you'll get your escape velocity.
As I understand the issue, it has nothing to do with friction. In fact it's probably more likely to get welded if it's going too slowly.
A rail gun is basically an arc welder in a way, you're passing massive amount of energy in the form of electricity through the interface between the rails and projectile.....
Think of a long, overpowered Jacob's Ladder with a slug where you'd expect the expanding arc.
Isn't one of the problems with railguns that sometimes the projectile will weld itself to the rail? What happens if that occurs with a jet launcher on the rail, and a plane hooked to that?
The pilot is in for a short, yet highly interesting flight.
Something needs to be put in place in the meantime; either voluntarily or compulsory.
I believe what we need is that each car require a flagman preceeding the vehicle whilst it's travelling within the limits of the town.
Oh, I'm afraid the Observatory will be quite operational when your neutrino friends arrive
Yes.... I feel it. Give in to your dark matter.
Then and Actor,
I think you are being more generous than when people said Schwarzenegger was an Actor.
Which was a surprise to Arnie, because all throughout his 'acting career' people basically bashed him for not really acting, just having enough muscles to hold up big guns. Then he runs for Governor and everyone goes "Ha! An Actor running for California Governor!" - greatest compliment he ever received.
The same went for Ronald Reagan -- bad actor to worse governor. I won't speak of his tenure as President.
So much bad news someone cheer me up...please.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104
Start at the beginning, then work your way through the middle until you reach the end. Then stop.
... I started writing as a hobby, and now, well, all my PCs have OOo installed.
If you started writing as a hobby, you might want to look for Storybook. It's FOSS and I believe it's on Sourceforge.
he attended Harvard, met Billyboy and became later a very rich man!
(I'd rather not look at him, thanks... but...) If the school has instructors good enough, they'll get the students so insanely motivated and empowered that they'll bring out their best work during their peak early years. Whether or not they graduate at that point, the school will have succeeded in educating them, and succeeded admirably.
I plan on majoring in Unreal Estate.
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Above a certain academic standard, that's your difference.
The postal service is going to be insolvent because the service they provide isn't worth the cost. If it was, people would pay a higher price for it. At the time that the constitution was written, it was pretty much the state of the art communication channel and it made some sense for it to be singled out as necessary along with post roads etc. Today, things are different. Most people don't use snail mail to communicate so it doesn't make sense to keep it the way it is. The modern day equivalent of the postal service's role in the late 1700's is broadband last mile infrastructure.
A few years back in the employ of one of the big-5 consultancies, I proposed a virtual post office box system for Australia Post. Nice option for the user, a single PO box that just had a permanent re-direct to wherever the person lived at the moment. Proposal got all the way up to the exec.
"Great idea! But letter volume has gone down the toilet. Thank you for coming."
Now if somebody could create a precise 3D milling machine that would trim that thing to precise tolerances . . . NOW that would be something!
If you had a precise 3D milling machine, you could replace many of the functions of a 3D printer.
They're basically the same thing; one adds material that looks like a chess piece, the other removes material that doesn't look like a chess piece.
the Great Australian Firewall
The correct tense would be the past or the future. For the time being, there isn't a firewall (the injection of independents and greens into a hang-up parliament seems to be causing good effects in this matter).
cOlo is correct. And although we do not have the same right to arm bears the US has, our per capita ownership of chainsaws is much higher. The Government knows this.
Well, all except Stephen Conroy, but then he's not so much a Government bastard as simply a bastard.
The point of effective marketing through advertising is to piss off a large number of people, but piss them off only a tiny little bit. Messages "filtered" by normal cynicism - the ones you think you're ignoring - become imprinted in your memory, only to arise as a bit of "bold" font when you next see the object that was advertised.
The point is you want the message to be embedded in the subconscious, not the conscious. If you piss people off big time, they will put the advertiser into an entirely different category.
Say the Jimmy Wales advertisement, for example. It's big, it pisses people off, people won't donate and will quickly scroll away. But if you had a tiny message above a "quote of the day" saying "Was Wiki good for you too? Then please donate" with a link. They'll subconsciously equate Wiki to sex, and want to uh, donate.
See? Persycholology can work for you.
So, the major issue appears to be that Wikipedia is free as in beer, but not as in speech?