Soyuz TMA-2 is currently docked at the International Space Station. The next one up will be TMA-3 and they will return in TMA-2. That way they always have the freshist one available for emergency escape.
Most people are missing the biggest problem with Dell not having compatible cartridges. Right now, if you run out of ink while printing your paper/report/projet that is due TOMORROW you can simply pop over to the nearest office supply store and get a new ink jet cartridge, or if it's late you can go to the 24-hour super Wal-Mart since even they carry HP/Lexmart/Canon ink jet cartridges. If you get a Dell and you run out, what are you going to do? Order a new one that will be shipped at best overnight and pay the overnight shipping charges on a $30 cartridge? Or will you decide to wait a week while UPS Ground delivers it? Either way you are heavily screwed. Dell is going to make some big enemies when people find out they can't buy a replacement cartridge locally.
The company's stock soared on the news, rising $54.75, or 57 percent, to close at $11.69 on Nasdaq.
Lessee, if the stock price went up $54.75 to end at $11.69, then what was the price before the rise, minus $43.06? Let me have some a stock where they pay you $43.06 per share to take it off their hands, please. Rambus was in bad financial shape I know, but that is ridiculous.
I'm sorry moderators, but the posting calling Edison a jerk is right on the money.
He was on the wrong side of developing just about every technological idea that his name is attached to. He was one of the first to develop the phonograph, but insisted on tubes instead of disks, no matter what the market said.
In Britain ordinary household lightbulbs have a bayonet attachment. You just shove it in and give it a little twist and it's in. American style bulbs where you have to fiddle with the proper placement to get the screw threads lined up just right, then back off, and try again are called "Edison Style." Yet another item he was on the wrong side of, it's just that in the UK they took the other path whereas we in America are still stuck with the stupid Edison idea.
My Dell Axim can do that! It has Pocket PC 2002 and it includes a program called "Transcriber" which allows you to write in cursive longhand and it recognizes it an inputs it into your document. It has about a 90% recognition factor at what I have it set for. You can set a slider bar to choose faster or more accurate. I can just fly on it. It's way faster than "jot" (which is also included). If you want it will also recognize individual block letters,or printed letters, or cursive letters, or mixed in any combination. You can even put in math and it will recognize it. Here is a page on it.
Sorry about that. I should have added a "[/irony]" tag to the end of that comment. It was meant to dispel what I had just said as a kind of self-deprecating anti-argument. You were supposed to recognize that they were one and the same. I'm no expert and just wanted to make it more light-hearted.
Sorry. The "What next? The speed of magnetism? comment was meant as an ironic self-deprecating dig. You were supposed to understand it as a sarcastic remark aimed at myself supposedly not understanding that magnetism is a part of electro-magnetism, you know, like light?
Ahhh, but I don't buy into the "gravity is a particle" argument. I think it is a force. You certainly can feel the changing effect of the gravitational force as you approach another object at relativistic steeds. If gravity is particulate, then you do run into the paradox of meeting particles at speeds greater than c. But if you keep it a force, all you get is the gravitational field increasing the deflection on your "gravitationsl detection meter" at a more rapid pace. The gravitational force field can act instantaneously because it is a distortion of time-space itself.
Remember, the speed of light is constant no matter where you are or how fast you are moving. I would guess that gravity follows the same rules.
But an object's gravitational force increases toward infinity as the object approaches the speed of light at relativistic speeds. Doesn't this screw up the equations?
If this theory of gravitiational propagation is true then gravity would have to exhibit doppler effects. The force of gravity would be stronger and act at a shorter distance towards the velocity vector of an object and conversely it would be weaker and act at a greater distance in the opposite direction in violation of the inverse square rule for gravitational effects. This has not been noted in any observations. All present observations of moving astronomical objects moving at anywhere near to relativistic speeds, or even those moving much slower taken as a statistical whole, show no such effect.
The observed effect is mearly an artifact of the observational process.
Vanderbilt University Library's rare books collection used to have a copy of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 printed on asbestos . I don't know if they still have it as they probably threw it away in the current asbestos hysteria. It was there in 1977 anyway.
Hmm, Mate a jet pack or this ducted fan with the gyro stabilizers from a Segway and then you have a stable platform that will move the direction you move avoiding all the problems from having to have a weighted bottom to keep it upright.
Being able to light only the left or right hazard lights is a necessary feature in Europe. There it is common to park your car in the road on narrow village streets. At night you want to light the left side of your car if you park on the right side of the street. I only really learned what "parking lights" are for once I lived in Europe for a few years. You use them so people can see your car when you park on the street at night. In America, we only use them when moving in twilight when we for some reason we don't want to use headlights.
Oh and I almost forgot to mention that you failed to include Northern Ireland gun deaths in your UK statistics. Is Northern Ireland not a part of the United Kingdom?
Over 30,000? Not true even if you add in felons killed by police, suicides, and accidents. It's curious tht you need to add those in to make your point. The actual number of homicides by firearm is 10,801 in the US in the year 2000. You are off by a factor of 3.
There were 46,509 deaths in the same period from transportation-related injuries. Why are you not as concerned about those deaths? Are they any less dead? I will posit that someone in the US is far more likely to come into contact with a dangerous vehicle than they are with a dangerous firearm.
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I'll switch from QWERTY keyboards if you'll switch from imperial measurements.
Soyuz TMA-2 is currently docked at the International Space Station. The next one up will be TMA-3 and they will return in TMA-2. That way they always have the freshist one available for emergency escape.
A favorite of mine (for the physics of course) and a favorite as well to teen-age boys and to pre-teen girls is Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
Most people are missing the biggest problem with Dell not having compatible cartridges. Right now, if you run out of ink while printing your paper/report/projet that is due TOMORROW you can simply pop over to the nearest office supply store and get a new ink jet cartridge, or if it's late you can go to the 24-hour super Wal-Mart since even they carry HP/Lexmart/Canon ink jet cartridges. If you get a Dell and you run out, what are you going to do? Order a new one that will be shipped at best overnight and pay the overnight shipping charges on a $30 cartridge? Or will you decide to wait a week while UPS Ground delivers it? Either way you are heavily screwed. Dell is going to make some big enemies when people find out they can't buy a replacement cartridge locally.
Lessee, if the stock price went up $54.75 to end at $11.69, then what was the price before the rise, minus $43.06? Let me have some a stock where they pay you $43.06 per share to take it off their hands, please. Rambus was in bad financial shape I know, but that is ridiculous.
In Britain ordinary household lightbulbs have a bayonet attachment. You just shove it in and give it a little twist and it's in. American style bulbs where you have to fiddle with the proper placement to get the screw threads lined up just right, then back off, and try again are called "Edison Style." Yet another item he was on the wrong side of, it's just that in the UK they took the other path whereas we in America are still stuck with the stupid Edison idea.
My Dell Axim can do that! It has Pocket PC 2002 and it includes a program called "Transcriber" which allows you to write in cursive longhand and it recognizes it an inputs it into your document. It has about a 90% recognition factor at what I have it set for. You can set a slider bar to choose faster or more accurate. I can just fly on it. It's way faster than "jot" (which is also included). If you want it will also recognize individual block letters,or printed letters, or cursive letters, or mixed in any combination. You can even put in math and it will recognize it. Here is a page on it.
Well, none that I've observed anyway.
A theoretical measurement or an observational measurement?
Sorry. The "What next? The speed of magnetism? comment was meant as an ironic self-deprecating dig. You were supposed to understand it as a sarcastic remark aimed at myself supposedly not understanding that magnetism is a part of electro-magnetism, you know, like light?
Ahhh, but I don't buy into the "gravity is a particle" argument. I think it is a force. You certainly can feel the changing effect of the gravitational force as you approach another object at relativistic steeds. If gravity is particulate, then you do run into the paradox of meeting particles at speeds greater than c. But if you keep it a force, all you get is the gravitational field increasing the deflection on your "gravitationsl detection meter" at a more rapid pace. The gravitational force field can act instantaneously because it is a distortion of time-space itself.
Not yet. I have however posted a comment to a "boobies" post on Fark.com once. Does that carry the same academic weight?
But an object's gravitational force increases toward infinity as the object approaches the speed of light at relativistic speeds. Doesn't this screw up the equations?
If this theory of gravitiational propagation is true then gravity would have to exhibit doppler effects. The force of gravity would be stronger and act at a shorter distance towards the velocity vector of an object and conversely it would be weaker and act at a greater distance in the opposite direction in violation of the inverse square rule for gravitational effects. This has not been noted in any observations. All present observations of moving astronomical objects moving at anywhere near to relativistic speeds, or even those moving much slower taken as a statistical whole, show no such effect.
The observed effect is mearly an artifact of the observational process.
What next? The speed of magnetism?
Vanderbilt University Library's rare books collection used to have a copy of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 printed on asbestos . I don't know if they still have it as they probably threw it away in the current asbestos hysteria. It was there in 1977 anyway.
Hmm, Mate a jet pack or this ducted fan with the gyro stabilizers from a Segway and then you have a stable platform that will move the direction you move avoiding all the problems from having to have a weighted bottom to keep it upright.
Being able to light only the left or right hazard lights is a necessary feature in Europe. There it is common to park your car in the road on narrow village streets. At night you want to light the left side of your car if you park on the right side of the street. I only really learned what "parking lights" are for once I lived in Europe for a few years. You use them so people can see your car when you park on the street at night. In America, we only use them when moving in twilight when we for some reason we don't want to use headlights.
Oh and I almost forgot to mention that you failed to include Northern Ireland gun deaths in your UK statistics. Is Northern Ireland not a part of the United Kingdom?
There were 46,509 deaths in the same period from transportation-related injuries. Why are you not as concerned about those deaths? Are they any less dead? I will posit that someone in the US is far more likely to come into contact with a dangerous vehicle than they are with a dangerous firearm.
Check out the CDC statistics here.
You're wrong.
So you're saying that policemen legally armed with guns have nothing to do with solving violent crime?
Hmm, I read about flying cars in Popular Science a long time ago too and I've yet to see one at the local Ford dealership.