No ship at all??? The US Army, Navy and Air Force all have better space programs than NASA. Sure, they are not flying expendable human cargo, but that is a good thing.
It is time to drag out the Orange Catholic Bible - all seven interstellar trucks of it - and see whether Jedi Knights are mentioned at all. If it is not in the OC Bible, then they don't exist.
Steam trains were pretty damn fast since Victorian times:
http://www.o-keating.com/hsr/mallard.htm
Diesel electrics and pure electrics do not have the raw power required for high speed travel. Slow diesel trains is a major reason why air travel became popular.
Let me answer your question with a question: If a man and a woman from Utah, marries in Las Vegas and divorces in Los Angeles - are they still brother and sister?
In the age of pen and paper, only important stuff was written down. Nowadays all crap is preserved. This is useless. There is a big difference between data and information.
Yup, HPs problems are deeper than just replacing the CEO. They have trouble executing and delivering orders. That doesn't make HP products bad, but it does make it hard to deal with them.
Windows is very fragmented - far too many distributions - users don't know what to do with all the choices. MS is trying to emulate Linux in more ways than one...
I have wondered about that myself - in order to make Linux run an an ARM using as little memory as possible, they have to optimise things and apparently Linksys isn't very good at it...
Yup, though a 128MB USB memory stick is also only about $25 and way smaller - also, booting off a USB stick has a much higher Geek Coolness factor than booting off a clunky old USB CDROM drive...;-)
Chess is a very 'large' problem. You cannot simply proram all possible outcomes and then do a brute force pattern match.
For example chess programs - including Deep Blue - use a method of play based on the `state-space search' (SSS) model.
How programs like this work can be illustrated using a simpler game - Noughts and crosses.
Size of search space in Noughts and Crosses:
# First move: 9 possibilities
# Second move: 8 possibilities
# Third move: 7 possibilities
Total number of move sequences:
362880 (= factorial 9)
Searching each of those sequences, at the rate of one per second, would take about 100 hours.
This is an illustration of what is called the `combinatorial explosion'. Search spaces can become huge, even when they involve a relatively small number of alternatives at any single node in the search tree.
With chess, the problem space is much, much larger - factorial 64.
Fourteen SCSI disk drives - The MTBF will be rather bad...
A more practical RAID is to put 4 large IDE disk drives in an old PC and run software RAID1, to give you two virtual disk drives.
That means that you can't use a CDROM drive, since all IDE ports are used, but you can do a network install using either a boot floppy disk or a USB key.
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No ship at all??? The US Army, Navy and Air Force all have better space programs than NASA. Sure, they are not flying expendable human cargo, but that is a good thing.
Well, quite a few Astronaughts have been nullified in the process. I sure won't buy a Shuttle ticket, even if it was free.
So, is Titan an Inter Galactic Filling Station for Vogon space ships, or does it lack something - an oxidizer maybe?
Could you fill up on Titan with methane fuel and on Saturn with oxigen?
your comment is far too forceful...
It is time to drag out the Orange Catholic Bible - all seven interstellar trucks of it - and see whether Jedi Knights are mentioned at all. If it is not in the OC Bible, then they don't exist.
What are you complaining about? It is in France! The worst thing that can happen is that some French will get Fried...
The old De Gaul slogan: Follow me! I'm right behind you!
Blech. 'Nuff sed.
Steam trains were pretty damn fast since Victorian times: http://www.o-keating.com/hsr/mallard.htm Diesel electrics and pure electrics do not have the raw power required for high speed travel. Slow diesel trains is a major reason why air travel became popular.
Car crashes produce a never ending stream of 'volunteers'...
Something like Norway, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, India, China and Japan combined?
These trains are finally faster than the steam trains of the nineteenth century, which attained speeds up to 250km/h.
Amazing - it took us 100 years to get fast trains again!
for example: Multiple revisions...
Actually the takedown of the tents is automatic: When the computers overheat, the plastic will slump and drop onto the floor...
Zlotys??? Isn't Poland part of the Union yet?
Let me answer your question with a question: If a man and a woman from Utah, marries in Las Vegas and divorces in Los Angeles - are they still brother and sister?
It isn't an American flag. It is a flag from an alternate reality.
In the age of pen and paper, only important stuff was written down. Nowadays all crap is preserved. This is useless. There is a big difference between data and information.
Yup, HPs problems are deeper than just replacing the CEO. They have trouble executing and delivering orders. That doesn't make HP products bad, but it does make it hard to deal with them.
A serious work of art with a joke for a disk drive.
What would the MTBF of this painting be?
You missed Windows XP Tablet Edition...
Windows is very fragmented - far too many distributions - users don't know what to do with all the choices. MS is trying to emulate Linux in more ways than one...
I have wondered about that myself - in order to make Linux run an an ARM using as little memory as possible, they have to optimise things and apparently Linksys isn't very good at it...
Yup, though a 128MB USB memory stick is also only about $25 and way smaller - also, booting off a USB stick has a much higher Geek Coolness factor than booting off a clunky old USB CDROM drive... ;-)
Chess is a very 'large' problem. You cannot simply proram all possible outcomes and then do a brute force pattern match. For example chess programs - including Deep Blue - use a method of play based on the `state-space search' (SSS) model. How programs like this work can be illustrated using a simpler game - Noughts and crosses. Size of search space in Noughts and Crosses: # First move: 9 possibilities # Second move: 8 possibilities # Third move: 7 possibilities Total number of move sequences: 362880 (= factorial 9) Searching each of those sequences, at the rate of one per second, would take about 100 hours. This is an illustration of what is called the `combinatorial explosion'. Search spaces can become huge, even when they involve a relatively small number of alternatives at any single node in the search tree. With chess, the problem space is much, much larger - factorial 64.
Fourteen SCSI disk drives - The MTBF will be rather bad...
A more practical RAID is to put 4 large IDE disk drives in an old PC and run software RAID1, to give you two virtual disk drives.
That means that you can't use a CDROM drive, since all IDE ports are used, but you can do a network install using either a boot floppy disk or a USB key.