I'd design a multi-celled balloon made of impact resistant film, self-inflatable, and attached to a de-orbiting mechanism.
Small space junk should decelerate enough from impacting this balloon. And once all the cells of this balloon have been popped, the de-orbiting mechanism brings it back down.
Since it doesnt take a lot of gas to inflate a balloon in space, it would weigh a lot less and take less room in rockets than other solutions, and since it would be relatively low-tech, it would probably be cheaper too.
If you have at least a couple of people above you (bonus: with a couple more people at the same level as you) who can give you a positive "private" reference, in contradiction to the 'official' negative ref, then you should be ok.
Also, you can have a bonus reference if you can find internal or external clients who can vouch for the quality of your work, independently from the corporate blackmailer.
the one with Letterman says "imagine what the world would be like without TV", and then you get a couple of seconds of nothing, then Letterman appears again and says "scary, wasnt it?"
I'm a relatively technical person, and I got an AAO with XP, and replaced that with Ubuntu, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply.
I bought my netbook because my workplace supplies me with a huge screen desktop on which I spend most of my time, so for when I'm not at work or especially away from home, I needed something bigger than a blackberry, but still very portable.
It's also awesome when I go out in the field for astronomy/astrophotography purposes, since Stellarium runs very well on it.
And since my tripod/mount/telescope is easily 50lbs, I didn't want to lug a fullsize laptop as well.
And as I'm typing this at my wirelessly networked parents' place, that only features one hardwired desktop, my father is on that one doing genealogy research, my sister is sitting across the room reading her online mangas, my brother is checking his fav team's statistics, and my wife is browsing home improvements websites.
Performance may not be the raison d'etre, but performance must still be adequate. Linux in general has, as one of its "selling points", the fact that it runs well on older hardware. With Ubuntu 8.04, that point went to hell
You get what you pay for!
Seriously though, as a relatively new linux user, if Ubuntu ever gets so slow that I get frustrated, I'll switch to another distro.
For me, the ability to switch distros is a linux selling point. Perhaps the best one.
If it wasn't for Knoppix and a corrupted HDD boot sector, I'd probably still be using some form of windows.
I think it's easier to have a policy that forbids officers from engaging in this type of undercover work, rather than have these officers sue their employer later because they were pressured into that role by their supervisors / colleagues.
I thought the whole discussion was about the indirect observation of something outside our universe pushing parts of our universe in an unexpected direction... that pretty much implies that our universe is located inside some other kind of space/medium
If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
Pure speculation on my part, but I imagine that, since you can't create anything out of nothing, the big bang occured in some sort of medium that was pushed aside when our universe was created.
I'm not convinced that we, as observers, would be able to draw a perfect line where our universe ends and where this older medium begins, at least not immediately.
I'd rather have a linux version that is more user friendly for installing apps, instead of having to google instructions each time I want to install stuff that isn't in synaptic.
I mean cmon, do I really have to open the terminal and type 4-5 command lines each time plus my root pw?
Installing stuff should be as easy as click, are you sure? yes/no.
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It's not like anyone is going to come collecting that debt after the end of the world anyway
I'd design a multi-celled balloon made of impact resistant film, self-inflatable, and attached to a de-orbiting mechanism.
Small space junk should decelerate enough from impacting this balloon. And once all the cells of this balloon have been popped, the de-orbiting mechanism brings it back down.
Since it doesnt take a lot of gas to inflate a balloon in space, it would weigh a lot less and take less room in rockets than other solutions, and since it would be relatively low-tech, it would probably be cheaper too.
I prefer having sidereal photons directly hit my eyes.
If you have at least a couple of people above you (bonus: with a couple more people at the same level as you) who can give you a positive "private" reference, in contradiction to the 'official' negative ref, then you should be ok.
Also, you can have a bonus reference if you can find internal or external clients who can vouch for the quality of your work, independently from the corporate blackmailer.
the one with Letterman says "imagine what the world would be like without TV", and then you get a couple of seconds of nothing, then Letterman appears again and says "scary, wasnt it?"
I wish there was more text to go with that bikini girl, so I could understand why she's holding a hammer, while bending toward a vise...
like this one taken on the night of the 2003 blackout, and on the following night
http://www.skynewsmagazine.com/pow/pow94.jpg
I'm a relatively technical person, and I got an AAO with XP, and replaced that with Ubuntu, so I'm getting a kick out of your reply.
I bought my netbook because my workplace supplies me with a huge screen desktop on which I spend most of my time, so for when I'm not at work or especially away from home, I needed something bigger than a blackberry, but still very portable.
It's also awesome when I go out in the field for astronomy/astrophotography purposes, since Stellarium runs very well on it.
And since my tripod/mount/telescope is easily 50lbs, I didn't want to lug a fullsize laptop as well.
And as I'm typing this at my wirelessly networked parents' place, that only features one hardwired desktop, my father is on that one doing genealogy research, my sister is sitting across the room reading her online mangas, my brother is checking his fav team's statistics, and my wife is browsing home improvements websites.
For what it's worth, I hate walking on fucking hot sand. It hurts.
You should try one of the many white sand beaches of Cuba. They naturally don't get hot from the Sun.
As a bonus, vacations there are quite cheap, and the aged rum is so smooth, it's like drinking cognac.
The resorts' food is pretty average, though, but everything else makes up for it.
(Disclaimer: Maybe there's other such white sand beaches in the Caribbean, but Cuba's are the only ones I've visited)
Windex is a lot less bad for you than cat piss. Believe me.
Cheesing is bad, mmkay?
I think it would be cheaper and easier to build a very very big telescope in orbit or on the Moon.
Since the light from Epsilon Eridani is only 10 years old, we'd find out what's there faster than sending a probe to take photos.
Performance may not be the raison d'etre, but performance must still be adequate. Linux in general has, as one of its "selling points", the fact that it runs well on older hardware. With Ubuntu 8.04, that point went to hell
You get what you pay for!
Seriously though, as a relatively new linux user, if Ubuntu ever gets so slow that I get frustrated, I'll switch to another distro.
For me, the ability to switch distros is a linux selling point. Perhaps the best one.
If it wasn't for Knoppix and a corrupted HDD boot sector, I'd probably still be using some form of windows.
/. did a pretty good article on this awhile back I think.
an antiquated article!
Hydrogen producing bacteria are pretty easy to locate!
I do wonder how deep you have to swab, though...
I think it's easier to have a policy that forbids officers from engaging in this type of undercover work, rather than have these officers sue their employer later because they were pressured into that role by their supervisors / colleagues.
Calm down, it's still only October.
But in Canada, Thanksgiving was last week!
lets not forget this one
we all know what will happen if we let our scientists focus on hair-loss
I do enough grinding IRL to earn money as it is... Why would anyone want spend money to do grinding in a game is beyond my understanding.
I thought the whole discussion was about the indirect observation of something outside our universe pushing parts of our universe in an unexpected direction... that pretty much implies that our universe is located inside some other kind of space/medium
If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
Pure speculation on my part, but I imagine that, since you can't create anything out of nothing, the big bang occured in some sort of medium that was pushed aside when our universe was created.
I'm not convinced that we, as observers, would be able to draw a perfect line where our universe ends and where this older medium begins, at least not immediately.
Being that our Sun is not visible by the Human Eye 10 light years away.
not to mention that there are no human eyes, 10 light years away, to see it...
That's assuming that he could even get the boat off the water, which whould likely be impossible with only one human power.
the problem with assumptions is that they make an ass out of u and mptions
yes, one HP is enough to lift a HPH
I'd rather have a linux version that is more user friendly for installing apps, instead of having to google instructions each time I want to install stuff that isn't in synaptic.
I mean cmon, do I really have to open the terminal and type 4-5 command lines each time plus my root pw?
Installing stuff should be as easy as click, are you sure? yes/no.
for everyone to panic when the authorities start looking at online data storage services...