Also Geo-syncronous satalites have to placed very high in orbit around the earth to stay in one spot with using a lot fuel. This causes a significant delay in transmission time to/from the satalites.
Geostationary satellites operate at something like 23,000 miles, so the delay is only about 1/4 of a second... 23,000 miles is far away, but electromagnetic waves are pretty damn fast. Also, that 1/4 a second probably doesn't matter anyway - the communication to from these satellites is typically passive/non-interactive; it's just broadcasting information back to Earth (e.g. TV signals) with no need for communication in the other direction.
JP5 (or JP8) jet fuel is kerosene based and significantly cheaper than the gas we buy at the pump. 4000 gallons of the stuff could probably be had for under $2000. The real issue is that those 15 minutes in the air require a dozen hours or so of highly trained mechanics working on the plane before you can take it up again.
HR departments are filled with idiots, sleazeballs, and the vile progeny of high ranking executives who are too incompetent to hold real positions, but can't be fired for political or financial reasons. So what do you do with them? Put them in the place where they can do the least amount of damage to the organization... HR!
And, as an aside, suggesting that WU students are better than those from CMU, Caltech, MIT, Stanford or ANY of the Ivy League schools is complete and utter bullshit. Grads from these school dominate the high-powered executive positions. These are the facts of the case, and they are indisputable.
Yes, except that a nicer car usually means more bang for your buck... Bigger engine, better interior, better warranty. Buying a Mac is like buying a $35,000 Yugo with a $4000 paint job, but powered by a two-stroke carbuerated engine.
and while you might be able to outrun an '02 Mustang in a straight line, they can actually *take a corner*. It's amazing what 30 years of suspension technology can do.
This is why I installed some super stiff racing leaf springs, bought assymmetric tires, added sway bars, and lowered the upper control arm. It'll out corner basically anything but a C5 or a Viper. So, once again, eat it.
Don't by some rice-powered piece of sheat import that's filled with electronics, or some crappy new American car thats trying to be a Japanese. (What the hell's this all about? How the hell is it that Detroit's taking styling cues and engine specs from Honda and Toyota? I mean, have you seen these cars?! Stupid aluminum wings on cars with front wheel drive, massive rims, Night-rider lights, lawn-mower exhaust, and, of course, a 1 liter, 4 cyl engine that makes a whopping 100 horsepower... And now we're copying this garbage. And yet I digress.)
Get yourself an old Firebird or 'Cuda or 440 Six Pak Challenger or Goat with triple duece carbueration. All mechincal and will blow by any stupid Cop driving a Police Interceptor Crown Vic. Plus, you can help the economy for the good folks in Iraq by getting 6 miles per gallon on premium plus double octane booster.
And just for the record, my '69 Yenko Camaro (it's a clone, but hey) will turn 11 seconds on the ET (with Mickey Thompson slicks and some Thorley headers). Eat it, rice boys!
Buy an old Charger, Bird, Goat, Cuda, etc. No software to worry about. Just big, bad carbuerated engines belching smoke and fire... I mean, is there anything better than eight pistons beating in synchronization with your heart?
Yeah, but did you watch the Phillies this year? Burrell, Mesa, and a bunch of sorry no-account losers. This guy should be hailed as a hero in Philly for taking down the stupid newspapers who duped us into thinking the Fightin Phils were any good...
Who is Hell is John Scully? He is a fraud. A sanctimonious fraud. I mean, really, who died and made John Scully into Ghandi?
Vin Scully, however, brings tears to your eyes. Transcendental. To quote, "High flyball into right field.... She is gone!... In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened."
Oh, how I yearn for the days of the Detriot supercars... Cudas, Goats, Challengers, Chevelles, Road Runners, and Vettes painted crazy colors and polished to the max, big-block screamers revving to the redline, striking fear into the hearts of import owners on both street and strip, chromed-out engines and exhaust belching smoke and fire...
Right, because it only cost $1.98 to actually send a man to the moon and bring back, since all the technology already existed. He and Johnson (then VP) convinced Congress to approve NASA's massive budget for the program.
Why can't this new release of Java include selective compilation?! It's incredibly useful in C/C++ to implement common functionality with different platforms and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I should be using inheritance/interfaces/abstract classes to be doing this in Java, but why should the compiled bytecode be bloated with stuff that doesn't need to be compiled in?
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Geostationary satellites operate at something like 23,000 miles, so the delay is only about 1/4 of a second... 23,000 miles is far away, but electromagnetic waves are pretty damn fast. Also, that 1/4 a second probably doesn't matter anyway - the communication to from these satellites is typically passive/non-interactive; it's just broadcasting information back to Earth (e.g. TV signals) with no need for communication in the other direction.
The point being don't fish off the company pier, dip the company pen in the company ink, or otherwise mix business and pleasure.
JP5 (or JP8) jet fuel is kerosene based and significantly cheaper than the gas we buy at the pump. 4000 gallons of the stuff could probably be had for under $2000. The real issue is that those 15 minutes in the air require a dozen hours or so of highly trained mechanics working on the plane before you can take it up again.
HR departments are filled with idiots, sleazeballs, and the vile progeny of high ranking executives who are too incompetent to hold real positions, but can't be fired for political or financial reasons. So what do you do with them? Put them in the place where they can do the least amount of damage to the organization... HR!
And, as an aside, suggesting that WU students are better than those from CMU, Caltech, MIT, Stanford or ANY of the Ivy League schools is complete and utter bullshit. Grads from these school dominate the high-powered executive positions. These are the facts of the case, and they are indisputable.
Yes, except that a nicer car usually means more bang for your buck... Bigger engine, better interior, better warranty. Buying a Mac is like buying a $35,000 Yugo with a $4000 paint job, but powered by a two-stroke carbuerated engine.
Lasers ?
How about frickin' sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
Same way freakin' sharks with freakin' lasers on their heads do.
and while you might be able to outrun an '02 Mustang in a straight line, they can actually *take a corner*. It's amazing what 30 years of suspension technology can do.
This is why I installed some super stiff racing leaf springs, bought assymmetric tires, added sway bars, and lowered the upper control arm. It'll out corner basically anything but a C5 or a Viper. So, once again, eat it.
Don't by some rice-powered piece of sheat import that's filled with electronics, or some crappy new American car thats trying to be a Japanese. (What the hell's this all about? How the hell is it that Detroit's taking styling cues and engine specs from Honda and Toyota? I mean, have you seen these cars?! Stupid aluminum wings on cars with front wheel drive, massive rims, Night-rider lights, lawn-mower exhaust, and, of course, a 1 liter, 4 cyl engine that makes a whopping 100 horsepower... And now we're copying this garbage. And yet I digress.)
Get yourself an old Firebird or 'Cuda or 440 Six Pak Challenger or Goat with triple duece carbueration. All mechincal and will blow by any stupid Cop driving a Police Interceptor Crown Vic. Plus, you can help the economy for the good folks in Iraq by getting 6 miles per gallon on premium plus double octane booster.
And just for the record, my '69 Yenko Camaro (it's a clone, but hey) will turn 11 seconds on the ET (with Mickey Thompson slicks and some Thorley headers). Eat it, rice boys!
mount /dev/random /Brain
Buy an old Charger, Bird, Goat, Cuda, etc. No software to worry about. Just big, bad carbuerated engines belching smoke and fire... I mean, is there anything better than eight pistons beating in synchronization with your heart?
Yeah, but did you watch the Phillies this year? Burrell, Mesa, and a bunch of sorry no-account losers. This guy should be hailed as a hero in Philly for taking down the stupid newspapers who duped us into thinking the Fightin Phils were any good...
Who is Hell is John Scully? He is a fraud. A sanctimonious fraud. I mean, really, who died and made John Scully into Ghandi?
... She is gone! ... In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened."
Vin Scully, however, brings tears to your eyes. Transcendental. To quote, "High flyball into right field.
Oh, how I yearn for the days of the Detriot supercars... Cudas, Goats, Challengers, Chevelles, Road Runners, and Vettes painted crazy colors and polished to the max, big-block screamers revving to the redline, striking fear into the hearts of import owners on both street and strip, chromed-out engines and exhaust belching smoke and fire...
Right, because it only cost $1.98 to actually send a man to the moon and bring back, since all the technology already existed. He and Johnson (then VP) convinced Congress to approve NASA's massive budget for the program.
Why can't this new release of Java include selective compilation?! It's incredibly useful in C/C++ to implement common functionality with different platforms and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I should be using inheritance/interfaces/abstract classes to be doing this in Java, but why should the compiled bytecode be bloated with stuff that doesn't need to be compiled in?
those goddamn "BSD is dying" posts, already?