It's the same type (or rather, principle) of propulsion - just a different fuel for a different environment.
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What part of currently available technology don't you understand? Write NASA a big enough check, and they'll build a ship capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in under 200 years.
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust. It was briefly developed as Project Orion by ARPA. It was invented by Stanislaw Ulam in 1957, and is the invention of which he was most proud.
Calculations show that this form of rocket would combine both high thrust and a high specific impulse, a rarity in rocket design. Specific impulses from 2000 (easy, yet ten times chemical specific impulses) to 100,000 (requires specialized nuclear explosives and spacecraft design) are possible, with thrusts in the millions of tons.
While the one-time hardware cost is clearly going to significantly lower for a cluster of commodity machines, it is equally clear that the ongoing expenses of space occupied, power and cooling will favor custom hardware.
While Mr. Hitler did call himself a vegetarian, he was not one according to any common definition of the word. His idea of vegetarianism included such items as chicken soup and beef broth.
I don't want to insult anyone, but for me it's far more likely that lack of creatine (= vegetarian diet) is causing redused brain abilities than Creatine boosting brain power.
Doubtful. I've been a strict vegetarian since 1986, and a quasi-vegetarian for several years before that. I did not notice any coincident deterioration in memory function; I'd say if you want to preserve your memory function, the important thing is to avoid smoking too much weed - not take some weird, overpriced pills.
From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-010: Microsoft has extensively investigated an engineering solution for NT 4.0 and found that the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future.
Why can't they just say, "Nah, we're not going to do that because we don't feel like it."?
Free, open-source MMORPGs had already been around for a decade when commercial interests first took interest in the market. The only thing Ultima Online & Co. really added is the graphical interface.
Umm, nope. From the EU site: The proposed Directive deals with the enforcement of intellectual property rights and so it does not deal directly with the substance of IPRs (i.e. to what extent intellectual property is protected in law). That is already covered by an existing EU legal framework.
Are you saying Mr. Schwarzenegger doesn't? You really shouldn't be implying that he runs Windows at home unless you can back that up. He really doesn't strike me as the Windows type...I'd say it's much more likely he runs OS X.
Lufthansa Systems GmbH, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines AG, is an IT service provider focused on the airline industry (as opposed to an IT devision focused exclusively on the parent company's IT needs.)
The press release announces that Lufthansa Systems will be offering Linux solutions due to customer demand. It does *not* state which of its customers are demanding Linux. In particular, one would expect that if the parent company were planning to deploy Linux in its airline operations, this fact should have been mentioned in the press release.
In maybe a 10-year timeframe, spintronics will be on par with electronics
If the actually manage to go from idea to commerically competitive "spintronic" circuitry in only a decace, I'll consider that proof of some sort of space-alien technology transfer deal going on.
SCO has shipped these products for many years, in some cases for nearly two decades, and this is the first time that IBM has ever raised an issue about patent infringement in these products.
Gee officer, you've been standing there with your gun all this time, but you didn't point it at me until I started snatching old ladies' purses...
The answer is "yes", but you should be sure to turn in rechargable batteries for recycling once they are no longer able to hold enough of a charge for your puropses. This is especially true of Ni-Cd batteries (Cd = cadmium, a toxic heavy metal.) Radio Shack accepts rechargable batteries for recycling, which is why I buy all my rechargables there.
Rechargable batteries that replace standard "AA" cells come in three basic varieties: Ni-Cd, Ni-MH and rechargable alkaline.
Of these, Ni-Cd are the cheapest. Drawbacks include the so-called memory effect, which essentially means that they'll only perform optimally if used until completely discarged, then completely recharged, and so on. They'd also be quite harmful to the environment if you were to, say, chuck them into a river after use instead of properly recycling them. They come in various capacities, 600 mAh being typical for AA (that means one charge would last about 2/3 as long as a disposable alkaline battery.)
Ni-MH batteries cost about twice as much as Ni-Cd and hold about twice as many milli-ampere hours (1200 mAh.) Also, they are not subject to the "memory effect", can be recharged more quickly (if you get a charger specifically designed for Ni-MH) and are less of an environmental concern. I find that they're only worthwhile for devices that draw a *lot* of juice, as they will (like Ni-Cd cells) gradually lose their charge over time, even if not used. (In my experience, the charge seems to have a "half life" of about 3 months - so a fully recharged, unused cell will retain 50% charge after 3 months, 25% after another 3 months, and so on.)
Lastly, rechargable alkaline cells are touted mainly as enviro-friendly. That really shouldn't be an issue, though, as long as you see to it that your NiCd or NiMH cells are recycled after use. Their main advantage is that they don't lose their charge over time as quickly, so they could be useful for very low-powered devices such as remote controls. Their main drawbacks is that they can only be recharged about 8 times, and that they require a charger specifically designed for rechargable alkalines. I've never used them myself, so I'm not quite sure what they cost.
It takes more energy and resources (electricity, water, etc...) to recycle a tree's worth of paper, than it does to harvest a new tree and process it into paper.
I don't know who told you this, but it's a complete and utter lie. In fact, the energy savings are what makes paper recycling enconomically viable in the US and Canada--raw material costs are often actually *higher* for recycled fibre than for virgin fibre, but the savings in energy and effluent treatment costs more than make up for that.
Caveat: producing fine paper grades with high brightness requirements (e.g. office paper) from recycled fibre will probably never make sense economically. But as far as newsprint, Light-Weight Coated (magazines, catalogs), paperboard (cereal boxes, book covers, etc.), tissue paper and corrugated cardboard are concerned, it most certainly does make sense to use as much reclaimed fibre as possible. The factors limiting recycled content are tensile strength requirements (recycled fibres are on average shorter than virgin) and the availability of waste paper.
Search for "flowers," and more than 90 percent of the top results are online florists.
That's a feature, not a bug! The word "flowers" is rarely used in a context not relating to the florist trade. What were you expecting to find with that query, hmm? A picture of a flowering meadow, perhaps? Then you might want to try an image search for "flowering meadow".
Google doesn't read your mind to figure out what you *really* want, Mr. Johnson, it just relies on what you type in. Plain and simple. And beautiful.
How long do we have to wait for the total excommunication of SCO from the tech industry?
I think the duty of spanking this naughty brat into submission rests upon Novell. Both as the previous owner of Unix and as fellow Mormons, I can't help but feel they're somehow responsible.
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Instead of nukes how about using those simulated gamma ray whatsis explosives reported yesterday. Likely give better control over acceleration.
More thrust per gram, too - which is a very important consideration.
The term Wolfpack will forever be associated with the Nazi German Kriegsmarine.
It's the same type (or rather, principle) of propulsion - just a different fuel for a different environment.
scifi lore
What part of currently available technology don't you understand? Write NASA a big enough check, and they'll build a ship capable of reaching Alpha Centauri in under 200 years.
To quote from Wikipedia:
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a proposed method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust. It was briefly developed as Project Orion by ARPA. It was invented by Stanislaw Ulam in 1957, and is the invention of which he was most proud.
Calculations show that this form of rocket would combine both high thrust and a high specific impulse, a rarity in rocket design. Specific impulses from 2000 (easy, yet ten times chemical specific impulses) to 100,000 (requires specialized nuclear explosives and spacecraft design) are possible, with thrusts in the millions of tons.
While the one-time hardware cost is clearly going to significantly lower for a cluster of commodity machines, it is equally clear that the ongoing expenses of space occupied, power and cooling will favor custom hardware.
While Mr. Hitler did call himself a vegetarian, he was not one according to any common definition of the word. His idea of vegetarianism included such items as chicken soup and beef broth.
It's cultural. In US, big boobs is what men [like].
Umm, it was an American who said about the female breast: "Anything over a mouthful is wasted!"
I don't want to insult anyone, but for me it's far more likely that lack of creatine (= vegetarian diet) is causing redused brain abilities than Creatine boosting brain power.
Doubtful. I've been a strict vegetarian since 1986, and a quasi-vegetarian for several years before that. I did not notice any coincident deterioration in memory function; I'd say if you want to preserve your memory function, the important thing is to avoid smoking too much weed - not take some weird, overpriced pills.
It's also interesting to note that India, a largely vegetarian nation, appears to be relatively geek-rich.
Oh, and there are plenty of brilliant vegetarians to hold up as examples, from Pythagoras and Plato to Tolstoy and Einstein.
FTFA:
Instead in April 2004, he will declare to the US Internal Revenue Service that his main source of income is the sale of imaginary goods.
From Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-010:
Microsoft has extensively investigated an engineering solution for NT 4.0 and found that the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future.
Why can't they just say, "Nah, we're not going to do that because we don't feel like it."?
Free, open-source MMORPGs had already been around for a decade when commercial interests first took interest in the market. The only thing Ultima Online & Co. really added is the graphical interface.
New Euro law could make criminals of us all
Umm, nope. From the EU site:
The proposed Directive deals with the enforcement of intellectual property rights and so it does not deal directly with the substance of IPRs (i.e. to what extent intellectual property is protected in law). That is already covered by an existing EU legal framework.
and knows how to run Linux
Are you saying Mr. Schwarzenegger doesn't? You really shouldn't be implying that he runs Windows at home unless you can back that up. He really doesn't strike me as the Windows type...I'd say it's much more likely he runs OS X.
If you're like me and visiting the unslashdottable siteeven downloading the MPEGsleaves you feeling powerless and depressed, here's a server that you can easily get to barf.
Lufthansa Systems GmbH, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines AG, is an IT service provider focused on the airline industry (as opposed to an IT devision focused exclusively on the parent company's IT needs.)
The press release announces that Lufthansa Systems will be offering Linux solutions due to customer demand. It does *not* state which of its customers are demanding Linux. In particular, one would expect that if the parent company were planning to deploy Linux in its airline operations, this fact should have been mentioned in the press release.
In maybe a 10-year timeframe, spintronics will be on par with electronics
If the actually manage to go from idea to commerically competitive "spintronic" circuitry in only a decace, I'll consider that proof of some sort of space-alien technology transfer deal going on.
Why do people keep insinuating that comfortable furniture is somehow incompatible with brilliant thought?
Seriously, I've come up with many a clever solution upon taking pencil and paper to bed with me.
SCO has shipped these products for many years, in some cases for nearly two decades, and this is the first time that IBM has ever raised an issue about patent infringement in these products.
Gee officer, you've been standing there with your gun all this time, but you didn't point it at me until I started snatching old ladies' purses...
That's what worked for ./
Well, I've tried to check out the site of which you speak, but all I get is a DNS error...
In other news: Syphillis to do for the brain what it did for the penis.
The answer is "yes", but you should be sure to turn in rechargable batteries for recycling once they are no longer able to hold enough of a charge for your puropses. This is especially true of Ni-Cd batteries (Cd = cadmium, a toxic heavy metal.) Radio Shack accepts rechargable batteries for recycling, which is why I buy all my rechargables there.
Rechargable batteries that replace standard "AA" cells come in three basic varieties: Ni-Cd, Ni-MH and rechargable alkaline.
Of these, Ni-Cd are the cheapest. Drawbacks include the so-called memory effect, which essentially means that they'll only perform optimally if used until completely discarged, then completely recharged, and so on. They'd also be quite harmful to the environment if you were to, say, chuck them into a river after use instead of properly recycling them. They come in various capacities, 600 mAh being typical for AA (that means one charge would last about 2/3 as long as a disposable alkaline battery.)
Ni-MH batteries cost about twice as much as Ni-Cd and hold about twice as many milli-ampere hours (1200 mAh.) Also, they are not subject to the "memory effect", can be recharged more quickly (if you get a charger specifically designed for Ni-MH) and are less of an environmental concern. I find that they're only worthwhile for devices that draw a *lot* of juice, as they will (like Ni-Cd cells) gradually lose their charge over time, even if not used. (In my experience, the charge seems to have a "half life" of about 3 months - so a fully recharged, unused cell will retain 50% charge after 3 months, 25% after another 3 months, and so on.)
Lastly, rechargable alkaline cells are touted mainly as enviro-friendly. That really shouldn't be an issue, though, as long as you see to it that your NiCd or NiMH cells are recycled after use. Their main advantage is that they don't lose their charge over time as quickly, so they could be useful for very low-powered devices such as remote controls. Their main drawbacks is that they can only be recharged about 8 times, and that they require a charger specifically designed for rechargable alkalines. I've never used them myself, so I'm not quite sure what they cost.
It takes more energy and resources (electricity, water, etc...) to recycle a tree's worth of paper, than it does to harvest a new tree and process it into paper.
I don't know who told you this, but it's a complete and utter lie. In fact, the energy savings are what makes paper recycling enconomically viable in the US and Canada--raw material costs are often actually *higher* for recycled fibre than for virgin fibre, but the savings in energy and effluent treatment costs more than make up for that.
Caveat: producing fine paper grades with high brightness requirements (e.g. office paper) from recycled fibre will probably never make sense economically. But as far as newsprint, Light-Weight Coated (magazines, catalogs), paperboard (cereal boxes, book covers, etc.), tissue paper and corrugated cardboard are concerned, it most certainly does make sense to use as much reclaimed fibre as possible. The factors limiting recycled content are tensile strength requirements (recycled fibres are on average shorter than virgin) and the availability of waste paper.
Here's an example from recent news, which gives details on the energy cost savings in one specific case: Abitibi-Consolidated's Deink Line Innovation Moves Thorold to 100% Recycled Newsprint
Remember when the U.S. was the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
Search for "flowers," and more than 90 percent of the top results are online florists.
That's a feature, not a bug! The word "flowers" is rarely used in a context not relating to the florist trade. What were you expecting to find with that query, hmm? A picture of a flowering meadow, perhaps? Then you might want to try an image search for "flowering meadow". Google doesn't read your mind to figure out what you *really* want, Mr. Johnson, it just relies on what you type in. Plain and simple. And beautiful.
How long do we have to wait for the total excommunication of SCO from the tech industry?
I think the duty of spanking this naughty brat into submission rests upon Novell. Both as the previous owner of Unix and as fellow Mormons, I can't help but feel they're somehow responsible.