Unless you can see through an opaque substance, you're kind of out of luck. They're manufacturing a type of concrete, which is used as a backing for that thin layer of aluminum. The aluminum does all the reflecting and carries the entire load of useful optical phenomena. Glass is used for mirrors not because of it's transparency, but because of the mechanical and manufacturing properties of melted silica sand. Light doesn't go through an optical mirror, it bounces right off.
So although you could make a house out of the stuff, you couldn't make windows.
Actually, the statistics do clearly show that "rednecks" aka poor and undereducated areas of society, have dramaitically higher per capita gun use rates than other areas
Sounds like the folks who can't think need protection against those who do. (/whimsey)
Interestingly enough several articles in The Age (Melbourne) this last year have covered instances where old, unprotected pensioners in outer suburb areas were bashed and robbed (or worse) in their own houses by younger members of the fried-brain set. I wonder if that would have happened if they believed their victims were armed? Probably some would consider it a deterrent, and some would simply end up better armed after the event. Personally I'd go with what the majority of people want (cue the rantings of Democritus).
...but the fact that random homicide was something to be bragged about to strangers at that time really says a lot about the emotions that were running through the country...
Ah, there you have your finger on it. It's a sad, sad thing to win a war, only to discover you've become the enemy.
No, they are both not radars. I do QA on the maintenance of both of these systems for the US Navy, as well as training and qualifying of technicians. If one of our techs referred to a interrogater/transponder communications link as "secondary radar" I'd tell his supervisor that the guy needs to go back to school.
If a system relies on the target to actively transmit an information-bearing signal, it is NOT radar.
He's quibbling, but it's an important quibble. RADAR = RAdio Detection And Ranging. Both use electromagnetic signal propagation at the core. That is - the same basic physics apply, but for the purposes of avionics they are set up quite differently, use different frequencies, and different protocols. RADAR depends on a bounced signal off of a passive object, and uses the return signal doppler characteristics to resolve into an image, from which information can be derived. A transponder doesn't use passive reflection but sends an encoded signal of its own in response to an encoded signal from the ground, i.e. it's a bi-directional pair of discrete transmissions. Wikipedia has an article on it. It could be expanded a bit, but it's a useful short overview. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder
Mysticism is a response to the unknown. Unfortunately it isn't a very useful response. It is much better to respond with empiricism and inquiry than carving stone idols.
I'd mod you up, but I see it's capped.
Progress throughout history has been a steady transition from metaphysics to physics. Example is alchemy to chemistry, and Bacon's occult treatise Novum Organum that described the scientific method. Theory, experiment, independent corroboration will get you a lot further than re-interpreting out of context literature or as you said, carving stone idols. If a body of knowledge is superseded, keep it for the historical and art value but move on. Hanging on to stuff that isn't real any more is boring.
There is one chance of a major technological change: Wireless Internet access is starting to spread
One of the game-changing aspects of wireless is that it crosses roads. Often you'll find the large telcos have a monopoly on digging cables under roads (or crossing them from above) which has acted to inhibit competition in many places in the past.
I know, this is Slashdot. Or any other forum where people want to live other people's lives for them. I try not to, having enough trouble living my own.
The guy wants alternatives to IT and we're playing who's-the-good-dad / who's-the-bad-dad.
The question he raised is legitimate. What else can you do if IT is mined out as a career? Other people outside the industry can answer it for themselves, but what career options are available for people who want to leverage their hard-won existing skills and disciplines (and in IT if you're into it deeply enough, you *will* have them). Can we please track the guy's question?
It strikes a chord with me, too. I'm 58, have been in IT since the SDS 930 was hot kit. I can't use my legacy knowledge, but I can dirty well continue to use the logic, tenacity and creativity those hard yards engendered in my working life.
What about law? I'd say -- read Groklaw for a while, maybe ask a few questions -- what sort of legal training (short of a full law degree) would you need to be able to help the legal professionals with their discoveries? I know there are good legals out there who could use help. Their hair-splitting logic has a certain appeal, and I would suggest good logical people with some care to their use of language -- and a profound knowledge of IT -- might be of some use to the profession.
Downside -- we'd end up with less to gripe about regarding laws and their interpretations. Hey you legal folks, want to venture an opinion here?
IANAL. IAAITP. Some lawyers and paralegals I respect more than the law itself (Hi, PJ!).
Yes -- in particular I thought the later cars were a good design, and still do. They moved from swing axles to half shafts and that cured their handling woes. Nice little turbocharged mid-engine flat six, could have been a Porsche competitor if GM had just stuck to their guns and took credit for the improvement in quality instead of pretending it never happened. I guess that would have given credit to some outside person, though -- nobody outside the corporation can ever be "right"../offtopic
any more than it's the responsibility of car manufacturers to build cars that can't crash no matter how they're driven
Ref. "Unsafe at any speed" (R.Nader) and contrasting opinion "Safe at any speed" (L.Niven). The latter story was deliberate satire. Flying your car into a Roc can be inconvenient.
Copyight is, on the whole, beneficial. It ensures, for instance, that all artists will be fairly compensated for what they have created
I agree. That is, I agree that was the intent anyway.
Further, I think it would be a fair and just overhaul of the copyright laws if the copyright were bound irrevocably to the artists, deemed utterly non-transferrable, issuing only from the artist and the definition of copyright altered to ensure that no form of proxy, corporation, or other entity other than the original artist or artists could hold title to it. This would mean composers and other crafters of the vision, but not including corporations or other support organisations. The artists could pay their support crew for services rendered (and treated as a commercial transaction) but could not assign that copyright to that organisation.
As a side benefit, it would favour the artists as creative directors and favour less the organisations that attempt to "manufacture" talent, something that's been dragging quality down since the days of Tin Pan Alley.
The choreographer would own the dance, the dancers would own the performance, the artists the image on canvas, and the musicians their music. It might mean a bit of quibbling ("Paul owns the bass track") but better there than in the corporations, no? Artists in groups are used to arguing anyway. That way if you sell a piece of your soul it's you selling it, not some remote swivel chair pilot. Walt would own the mouse, not Disney Enterprises.
Keep the faith, inmontario. I abandoned a level 75 mage, 70 warrior and 50 sorc in two different online games because of Sony's antics. That's not trivial,either -- a large network of friends and several years of involvement, and a fair bit of revenue for them.
Personally I like what IBM's doing for collaboration -- building their own set of secure Second Life servers based on an agreement with Linden Labs. Although I think a collaborative environment based on Warcraft might be more fun, and better team building.
They could even introduce their own gold spammers from the Sales department, trolling for pre-sales resources. "Are you annoy with current position? Spending too much time mining gold when better use of time? Talk to ERP sales team at http://xxxintranet.thingy.ibm.com/"
I doubt any solar sail, no matter the design, is going to take you much further than the termination shock, let alone between stars.
Do you mean that once having achieved the velocity it can from the flux-rich area near our star, it will simply stop? I doubt that gravity at termination shock is going to be enough to slow it down much. Remember that it will have felt that very minor push for quite a few years by then. A few grams thrust isn't very much, but that much continuous per second x60x60x24x365 x however many years it takes to get there, it's likely to be travelling at quite a clip by the time it reaches that point. It will eventually get somewhere between the stars.
Agree with the Nemeth book, never leave home without it. Supplement this with a spare PC and a few cheap disks / other peripherals, then pick a number of Unix versions you can get for free then spend a bit of time doing all the commercial hosting oriented stuff to it. Build it, tear it down, play with disks, backups, scripts for all sorts of maint, build Apache and other standards, drag it, drop it, treat it like an object... basically use the bejeezus out of until you learn all the little twinks the books don't cover. That is, start with the book and move past it by beating the OS up until it submits. Lecture+lab FTW.
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This risk is mitigated via use of an innovation referred to as a "co-pilot".
I play an Orc, you insensitive clod!
Guy, tone down the drugs and seek help. Schizophrenia is your enemy. Help is available. See a doctor, or use a better text generator.
If this emulates the human brain, isn't there a body of prior art? Thousands of years of prior art in fact?
So although you could make a house out of the stuff, you couldn't make windows.
Sounds like the folks who can't think need protection against those who do. (/whimsey)
Interestingly enough several articles in The Age (Melbourne) this last year have covered instances where old, unprotected pensioners in outer suburb areas were bashed and robbed (or worse) in their own houses by younger members of the fried-brain set. I wonder if that would have happened if they believed their victims were armed? Probably some would consider it a deterrent, and some would simply end up better armed after the event. Personally I'd go with what the majority of people want (cue the rantings of Democritus).
You can order a series of tubes, for example, on the series of tubes: http://www.made-in-china.com/china-products/productviewjmQxfKEEUJpH/LM-3B-Launch-Vehicle.html
Note the little "+ add to basket" button.
Mind you, I do find that a little frightening.
Why wouldn't a welding research institute employ physicists? Welders do move a lot of elementary particles around.
ahh, but good old Lan Damager was fun too. Windows for Worrieds.
um, ever tried to move ntoskrnl.exe?
...but the fact that random homicide was something to be bragged about to strangers at that time really says a lot about the emotions that were running through the country...Ah, there you have your finger on it. It's a sad, sad thing to win a war, only to discover you've become the enemy.
If a system relies on the target to actively transmit an information-bearing signal, it is NOT radar.
He's quibbling, but it's an important quibble. RADAR = RAdio Detection And Ranging. Both use electromagnetic signal propagation at the core. That is - the same basic physics apply, but for the purposes of avionics they are set up quite differently, use different frequencies, and different protocols. RADAR depends on a bounced signal off of a passive object, and uses the return signal doppler characteristics to resolve into an image, from which information can be derived. A transponder doesn't use passive reflection but sends an encoded signal of its own in response to an encoded signal from the ground, i.e. it's a bi-directional pair of discrete transmissions. Wikipedia has an article on it. It could be expanded a bit, but it's a useful short overview. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder
I'd mod you up, but I see it's capped.
Progress throughout history has been a steady transition from metaphysics to physics. Example is alchemy to chemistry, and Bacon's occult treatise Novum Organum that described the scientific method. Theory, experiment, independent corroboration will get you a lot further than re-interpreting out of context literature or as you said, carving stone idols. If a body of knowledge is superseded, keep it for the historical and art value but move on. Hanging on to stuff that isn't real any more is boring.
One of the game-changing aspects of wireless is that it crosses roads. Often you'll find the large telcos have a monopoly on digging cables under roads (or crossing them from above) which has acted to inhibit competition in many places in the past.
External combustion, of course. Steam powered. It might end up as large as the spider in the Will Smith "Wild Wild West" movie, though.
The guy wants alternatives to IT and we're playing who's-the-good-dad / who's-the-bad-dad.
The question he raised is legitimate. What else can you do if IT is mined out as a career? Other people outside the industry can answer it for themselves, but what career options are available for people who want to leverage their hard-won existing skills and disciplines (and in IT if you're into it deeply enough, you *will* have them). Can we please track the guy's question?
It strikes a chord with me, too. I'm 58, have been in IT since the SDS 930 was hot kit. I can't use my legacy knowledge, but I can dirty well continue to use the logic, tenacity and creativity those hard yards engendered in my working life.
What about law? I'd say -- read Groklaw for a while, maybe ask a few questions -- what sort of legal training (short of a full law degree) would you need to be able to help the legal professionals with their discoveries? I know there are good legals out there who could use help. Their hair-splitting logic has a certain appeal, and I would suggest good logical people with some care to their use of language -- and a profound knowledge of IT -- might be of some use to the profession.
Downside -- we'd end up with less to gripe about regarding laws and their interpretations. Hey you legal folks, want to venture an opinion here?
IANAL. IAAITP. Some lawyers and paralegals I respect more than the law itself (Hi, PJ!).
Yes -- in particular I thought the later cars were a good design, and still do. They moved from swing axles to half shafts and that cured their handling woes. Nice little turbocharged mid-engine flat six, could have been a Porsche competitor if GM had just stuck to their guns and took credit for the improvement in quality instead of pretending it never happened. I guess that would have given credit to some outside person, though -- nobody outside the corporation can ever be "right". ./offtopic
I wonder if they managed to get level 70 / raid geared before they ran out of grant money?
Ref. "Unsafe at any speed" (R.Nader) and contrasting opinion "Safe at any speed" (L.Niven). The latter story was deliberate satire. Flying your car into a Roc can be inconvenient.
I agree. That is, I agree that was the intent anyway.
Further, I think it would be a fair and just overhaul of the copyright laws if the copyright were bound irrevocably to the artists, deemed utterly non-transferrable, issuing only from the artist and the definition of copyright altered to ensure that no form of proxy, corporation, or other entity other than the original artist or artists could hold title to it. This would mean composers and other crafters of the vision, but not including corporations or other support organisations. The artists could pay their support crew for services rendered (and treated as a commercial transaction) but could not assign that copyright to that organisation.
As a side benefit, it would favour the artists as creative directors and favour less the organisations that attempt to "manufacture" talent, something that's been dragging quality down since the days of Tin Pan Alley.
The choreographer would own the dance, the dancers would own the performance, the artists the image on canvas, and the musicians their music. It might mean a bit of quibbling ("Paul owns the bass track") but better there than in the corporations, no? Artists in groups are used to arguing anyway. That way if you sell a piece of your soul it's you selling it, not some remote swivel chair pilot. Walt would own the mouse, not Disney Enterprises.
The Internet is for Horde...
- Enough power to completely replace fossil fuel AND nuclear plants and absorb forseeable energy use expansion for decades.
- 'Way cheaper, too. (Even at '60s fuel prices.)
- Essentially no pollution at ground level.
- Bootstraps a space program that can then move other manufacturing processes, and THEIR pollution, off the planet as well.
I'd like to add another:
- Completely change the balance of power in the middle east by dropping a significant fraction of daily demand for oil.
They could even introduce their own gold spammers from the Sales department, trolling for pre-sales resources. "Are you annoy with current position? Spending too much time mining gold when better use of time? Talk to ERP sales team at http://xxxintranet.thingy.ibm.com/"
Do you mean that once having achieved the velocity it can from the flux-rich area near our star, it will simply stop? I doubt that gravity at termination shock is going to be enough to slow it down much. Remember that it will have felt that very minor push for quite a few years by then. A few grams thrust isn't very much, but that much continuous per second x60x60x24x365 x however many years it takes to get there, it's likely to be travelling at quite a clip by the time it reaches that point. It will eventually get somewhere between the stars.
Agree with the Nemeth book, never leave home without it. Supplement this with a spare PC and a few cheap disks / other peripherals, then pick a number of Unix versions you can get for free then spend a bit of time doing all the commercial hosting oriented stuff to it. Build it, tear it down, play with disks, backups, scripts for all sorts of maint, build Apache and other standards, drag it, drop it, treat it like an object... basically use the bejeezus out of until you learn all the little twinks the books don't cover. That is, start with the book and move past it by beating the OS up until it submits. Lecture+lab FTW.