Dude, forget the Blazer. Too much cash, too many problems. Bigger is not better in this case. Just think of the slop in any car steering system... and think about trying to figure out how to 'code' the 'well, now I'm actually steering' thing.
How about a 4 wheel ATV? Direct steering. Better. Still not good, though. If it flips, you're out of the race. Design around possible problems where available... so, go with a tri-lobed treaded 'tank'. In other words, 3 treads, any 2 of which are in contact with the ground at any time. (Easy enough to figure out which is 'down', of course.) I'd prefer, on general principles, to use a ground-effect vehicle (rivers) but I doubt it would be practical for a budget.
Next, you'd need 'feelers' of some sort. A colision avoidance thing. It would need to be carefully designed, though, due to the type of terrain you're working on.
A GPS receiver is fairly small, and can be attached to a computer for nav purposes, right? Best way to navigate, I think.
Hrm... Actually, you'd want 6 treads, I think. 3 positions, and front and back for both. THey wouldn't be colinear, though, they'd meet at an obtuse angle. It would make it quite easy to go up larger slopes.
Ummm... well, I'm not sure it works that way, but let's assume they did:
All your Linux servers are set to, say, BSDv1.1.foo. All your NT servers are set to BSDv1.1.bar. Can anyone give me a (for example) perl script to figure out how many of each are there from some sort of generated output? Thought so.
No one said that it wasn't used as an excuse. Of course they decide on a course of action, then look for justification. Religion, however, gives them a perfect media to spread their stupid ideas. 'Look, it says so, right here, in the {Bible, Koran, whatever}'. And no one questions it because you don't question religion.
If there were no religion, these sort of things wouldn't vanish. We all know that. But we're also aware that substantial damage caused by terrorism, etc. would be much rarer than it is now. They won't be able to JUSTIFY it anymore.
I don't see what the fuss is about... A planet is a ball of rock and stuff over a certain size (I think what people have said... large enough for gravity to make it mostly spherical is a good break-even point). A moon is a ball of rock (etc.) orbiting another planet, not a star. Doesn't matter that one of Jupiter's moons can also be a planet. 'Welcome to Endor, forest moon!' 'Looks like a planet to me!'
With that definition, you still have bodies of stuff that fly off into space. They're going to be planets, iff they are large enough.
Personally, I'd find that pretty darn convincing, if I believed in Christianity. I don't have a problem with lack of internal consistancy in my own religion. I'm a Discordian, what would be the POINT?
First: Not the government. I don't want to have to pay because some moron from a different state thought COPA was a good idea. The Senators pay. The Reps. pay. And the president pays. Unless they voted against or vetoed it.
Second: The founders didn't want to do it, but I think it might help: Any bill introduced should be reviewed by a court at the level of the appeals court before it can be enforced. Only checking on constitutional grounds, like it is now. That might help...
Third: No amendments to bills that are unrelated to the stated main purpose of the bill. Not directly related, but that would help too.
Repeating it, while nice, does not make it so. I happen to have been brought up Christian. I also have severe problems with being ashamed of sexuality. This is duplicated with several people I know who are still Christian, unlike me.
I'm glad you got over your upbringing, but don't try to pretend that your experience is normal for Christians. It is not.
Further, threatening to mod someone down simply because they have a point of view with a very logical basis that does not happen to agree with yours is petty, and based on what I remember of my religion classes, implies a rather un-Christian attitude to boot.
Well, based on what was said in various explainations, it seemed that the proof of the RH would mean severe problems for crypto. If this is already the assumption, then the problems for crypto are minimal. You don't need proof for an effective working solution to stop the usefulness of an application. F=ma got physics a LONG way before it failed.
Ok... So, I have to ask. Why hasn't someone ASSUMED that the RH is correct, and built a encryption cracker based on that hypothesis. They have checked the idea out to what, 1.5 million primes? That may not be proof, but it's surely a good start...
I don't know... Most companies would understand the 'I'm suing you because that's who I have to sue' thing. In this case, if Timeline gave, along with their 'we win, this is what you owe us' bill a nice packet entitled 'Here's how to recover your money plus damages from Microsoft', they might not have a great deal of customer dissatisfaction.
Or, if they started assisted in starting a class action suit.
Perhaps you need to be informed that you're having the same problem Kahn did: You're thinking in two dimensions.
Why would you run an elevator from Australia such that the tether is parallel to a cut through an arc of latitude? That's not the way it works. You run from the center of gravity.
Think of it this way: No matter where the elevator is placed, the cable is (roughly) an extension of a line that is normal to the surface (and, of course, passes through the center of the Earth)
Now, that's an approximation for several reasons. First, the Earth isn't really a sphere, it's a bit flattened. Second, the cable will end up being slightly bowed near the Earth due to wind resistance. And third, the center of the Earth isn't the center of gravity: that's where the point the line would pass through would really be.
Perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the earth isn't really necessary.
Oh, one more thing: In a cable, there isn't any shear (yeah, approximation, but close enough). Any net shear forces will end up bending the cable, not snapping it in half, unless you localize it. When wind snaps a cable, it's not because there's so much wind the cable breaks. It's because the wind bent the cable so much the bend cause the tension limit of the material to be exceeded.
Wifi? Man, could you imagine women wandering around with a gadget that sees what guys are thinking about? 'Me naked... Me naked... Me naked with... I don't even want to know why I'd be with Janet Reno...'
"Or chips in two people's brains"
Why make it one way? Trade bodies with your SO for a night. Really figure out what turns her on. Find out how annoying it is to not be able to reach the stuff on the top shelf. Or in reverse, learn a whole new skill, learning to sit without sitting on 'the boys'.
How about something else: Go, do laundry in 'record' mode. Next time you do laundry, playback. Computer interrupts for your help if something goes wrong. So you can play a 'movie' or whatever. Or or those who don't like to exercise, have the computer work out while you surf the web.
For the kinky: You now have to obey orders. Unless you're either insane or very trusting, you'd have some sort of override, but otherwise... 'Your arms and legs cannot move. Your mouth is as sensitive as 'other bits' normally are. Prepare to be kissed'
For work: You can visualize nice models in space. Makes things like checking for fit, altering designs, incredibly fast. How about designs that you want to 'look cool' but you aren't good enough at drawing to do? Or work with 2 chips: Something's broken? Let me take a look. Forget 'doubleclick on 'My Computer'...
Man, I'd love one of those. So, would I really want one? Hell, yeah.
"But what I want to know is WHY haven't important advances like the linear aerospike engine developed for the X-33 been put to use?"
You know the real cause of the Challenger accident? O-ring, right? You should be aware that the only reason the SRBs had o-rings is because they're too big to ship in one piece over rail. And the low bidder on the contract, in Florida, from where they could ship in one piece, didn't get the job... because an important stonewalling Senator wouldn't approve the shuttle until he got his kickback.
I'd imagine that the MP has some actual power to influence the PM. More than you would, anyway. Just like one Rep. doesn't have the power to do anything constructive (there are over 400 of them, after all), but might influence debate on the topic.
If half your MPs start saying 'this is a good idea', then the PM would have to listen, really, or risk losing control of the party.
There is something you can do.
Write your... Member of Parliment, is it? The equivilent of State Representitive... and ask for controls that prevent unlabeled broken CDs (i.e. copy protected, the ones that don't work in some CD players) from being imported/sold. You might not be able to apply pressure to the US Representitives, but you can sure try to apply pressure to the RIAA.
Especially when 'god's vengeance' is so damn pathetic, when it comes down to it. 7 people and one 100mil shuttle is the best he can do? It would be worth more, in monetary, loss of life, and pure shock value, if god decided to wipe out a carrier group near Iraq. And a lot more obvious that's what he was doing.
Before I get flamed, I'm not saying the shuttle crash is a 'good thing', or whatever misinterpretation the AC who will be replying to this will say. I'm just saying that these people are really grasping at straws if they want to call it that.
That, and the only real hope they have in a war with the west is that we spend enough on peaceful applications of our science (like NASA) and less effort on improving our middle eastern parking situation.
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All these comments, and no one has asked the real question:
Would you want an AI driven pr0n game?
I would, but I'm not getting any, so my view might be off.:)
Now I just need a good AI, some servomotors, and a Real Doll. Never leave my house again.
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Palladium was more expensive than platinum when we were looking at it for coating parts.
How about a 4 wheel ATV? Direct steering. Better. Still not good, though. If it flips, you're out of the race. Design around possible problems where available... so, go with a tri-lobed treaded 'tank'. In other words, 3 treads, any 2 of which are in contact with the ground at any time. (Easy enough to figure out which is 'down', of course.) I'd prefer, on general principles, to use a ground-effect vehicle (rivers) but I doubt it would be practical for a budget.
Next, you'd need 'feelers' of some sort. A colision avoidance thing. It would need to be carefully designed, though, due to the type of terrain you're working on.
A GPS receiver is fairly small, and can be attached to a computer for nav purposes, right? Best way to navigate, I think.
Hrm... Actually, you'd want 6 treads, I think. 3 positions, and front and back for both. THey wouldn't be colinear, though, they'd meet at an obtuse angle. It would make it quite easy to go up larger slopes.
All your Linux servers are set to, say, BSDv1.1.foo. All your NT servers are set to BSDv1.1.bar. Can anyone give me a (for example) perl script to figure out how many of each are there from some sort of generated output? Thought so.
Now, the RIGHT way to do it is to increment the front display by one or two.
If there were no religion, these sort of things wouldn't vanish. We all know that. But we're also aware that substantial damage caused by terrorism, etc. would be much rarer than it is now. They won't be able to JUSTIFY it anymore.
http://www.netscrap.com/netscrap_detail.cfm?scrap_ id=73
I find it astounding that anyone can think the human body was designed. It is one of the worst peices of engineering I've seen, and I've seen a lot.
(http://science.howstuffworks.com/question239.htm if you don't know)
With that definition, you still have bodies of stuff that fly off into space. They're going to be planets, iff they are large enough.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theodore_dr ange/aeanb.html
Personally, I'd find that pretty darn convincing, if I believed in Christianity. I don't have a problem with lack of internal consistancy in my own religion. I'm a Discordian, what would be the POINT?
First: Not the government. I don't want to have to pay because some moron from a different state thought COPA was a good idea. The Senators pay. The Reps. pay. And the president pays. Unless they voted against or vetoed it.
Second: The founders didn't want to do it, but I think it might help: Any bill introduced should be reviewed by a court at the level of the appeals court before it can be enforced. Only checking on constitutional grounds, like it is now. That might help...
Third: No amendments to bills that are unrelated to the stated main purpose of the bill. Not directly related, but that would help too.
Repeating it, while nice, does not make it so. I happen to have been brought up Christian. I also have severe problems with being ashamed of sexuality. This is duplicated with several people I know who are still Christian, unlike me.
I'm glad you got over your upbringing, but don't try to pretend that your experience is normal for Christians. It is not.
Further, threatening to mod someone down simply because they have a point of view with a very logical basis that does not happen to agree with yours is petty, and based on what I remember of my religion classes, implies a rather un-Christian attitude to boot.
Well, based on what was said in various explainations, it seemed that the proof of the RH would mean severe problems for crypto. If this is already the assumption, then the problems for crypto are minimal. You don't need proof for an effective working solution to stop the usefulness of an application. F=ma got physics a LONG way before it failed.
Ok... So, I have to ask. Why hasn't someone ASSUMED that the RH is correct, and built a encryption cracker based on that hypothesis. They have checked the idea out to what, 1.5 million primes? That may not be proof, but it's surely a good start...
Or, if they started assisted in starting a class action suit.
Why would you run an elevator from Australia such that the tether is parallel to a cut through an arc of latitude? That's not the way it works. You run from the center of gravity.
Think of it this way: No matter where the elevator is placed, the cable is (roughly) an extension of a line that is normal to the surface (and, of course, passes through the center of the Earth)
Now, that's an approximation for several reasons. First, the Earth isn't really a sphere, it's a bit flattened. Second, the cable will end up being slightly bowed near the Earth due to wind resistance. And third, the center of the Earth isn't the center of gravity: that's where the point the line would pass through would really be.
Perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the earth isn't really necessary.
Oh, one more thing: In a cable, there isn't any shear (yeah, approximation, but close enough). Any net shear forces will end up bending the cable, not snapping it in half, unless you localize it. When wind snaps a cable, it's not because there's so much wind the cable breaks. It's because the wind bent the cable so much the bend cause the tension limit of the material to be exceeded.
You haven't been reading your Robert Anton Wilson lately, have you?
Wifi? Man, could you imagine women wandering around with a gadget that sees what guys are thinking about? 'Me naked... Me naked... Me naked with... I don't even want to know why I'd be with Janet Reno...'
"Or chips in two people's brains"
Why make it one way? Trade bodies with your SO for a night. Really figure out what turns her on. Find out how annoying it is to not be able to reach the stuff on the top shelf. Or in reverse, learn a whole new skill, learning to sit without sitting on 'the boys'.
How about something else: Go, do laundry in 'record' mode. Next time you do laundry, playback. Computer interrupts for your help if something goes wrong. So you can play a 'movie' or whatever. Or or those who don't like to exercise, have the computer work out while you surf the web.
For the kinky: You now have to obey orders. Unless you're either insane or very trusting, you'd have some sort of override, but otherwise... 'Your arms and legs cannot move. Your mouth is as sensitive as 'other bits' normally are. Prepare to be kissed'
For work: You can visualize nice models in space. Makes things like checking for fit, altering designs, incredibly fast. How about designs that you want to 'look cool' but you aren't good enough at drawing to do? Or work with 2 chips: Something's broken? Let me take a look. Forget 'doubleclick on 'My Computer'...
Man, I'd love one of those. So, would I really want one? Hell, yeah.
You know the real cause of the Challenger accident? O-ring, right? You should be aware that the only reason the SRBs had o-rings is because they're too big to ship in one piece over rail. And the low bidder on the contract, in Florida, from where they could ship in one piece, didn't get the job... because an important stonewalling Senator wouldn't approve the shuttle until he got his kickback.
That help answer your question?
If half your MPs start saying 'this is a good idea', then the PM would have to listen, really, or risk losing control of the party.
Either way, didn't they say (below, someone linked to the UMass site) it could be used as a petrolium substitute? That would also be handy.
1) Generates power.
2) Requires nutrients (say, like sewage)
3) Generates O2, like algae
Sounds like it would be really useful in an interstellar ship, doesn't it?
So write him and tell him. The dog won't learn new tricks until you pat him on the head when he gets it right.
There is something you can do. Write your... Member of Parliment, is it? The equivilent of State Representitive... and ask for controls that prevent unlabeled broken CDs (i.e. copy protected, the ones that don't work in some CD players) from being imported/sold. You might not be able to apply pressure to the US Representitives, but you can sure try to apply pressure to the RIAA.
Before I get flamed, I'm not saying the shuttle crash is a 'good thing', or whatever misinterpretation the AC who will be replying to this will say. I'm just saying that these people are really grasping at straws if they want to call it that.
That, and the only real hope they have in a war with the west is that we spend enough on peaceful applications of our science (like NASA) and less effort on improving our middle eastern parking situation.
Would you want an AI driven pr0n game?
I would, but I'm not getting any, so my view might be off. :)
Now I just need a good AI, some servomotors, and a Real Doll. Never leave my house again.