usually it's terrible line quality, terrible English skills, and some idiot saying he's "from the windows service provider and there's a problem with my computer".
Just as I was clicking on the link to read these comments, an Indian with bad English skills called me up saying that I am eligible to receive education grant money that I don't have to repay. But he mumbled so much that that's all I couple understand.
Interesting. The sections of New Orleans + suburbs that my wife and I frequent, plus the areas of Hammond and rural Tangipahoa that we travel to are all weak.
What you do is measure the kinetic energy of individual gas particles, and back-calculate to find out what temperature a regular gas would have in order that its average molecule would have the same kinetic energy.
That's an indirection too far to pass the smell test.
When a physicist talks about "temperature" in this context it's just short-hand for "average velocity"... it doesn't necessarily imply thermal equilibrium, even.
Huh? "Temperature" isn't that much easier to write, say or think about than "average velocity".
There's no "merriment" or "frolicsome amusement" in *work* (yes, there can be when gabbing at the water cooler, but if that's the preponderance of your day, then you'll be fired soon).
OTOH, there *is* "pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire" when working at what you enjoy.
Fun? Bah humbug. Not everything in this world must be fun. That and "Mom" are the two most overused words in modern English.
Nothing in my job is "fun". However, I get great satisfaction and enjoyment (which is not the same thing as "fun") at my job thinking up ways to make processes efficient and maintainable, and then going back later and making them even better.
until someone both (a) invents a new and *highly* efficient engine that's both high-thrust and high specific impulse and (b) and small, high-wattage, long-lasting energy source that doesn't need tons of shielding.
Until then, humans are going no further than the Moon, and even then just for short term National Pride visits.
but what suburban American families need is a 6 passenger station wagon/minivan that goes 450 km on a single charge, at speeds ranging from 0 to 120 km/h.
Using batteries that maintain their performance for 10 years (which is how durable modern IC engines are).
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"Nutritious" and "poisonous" are orthogonal (in the Computer Science sense).
Thus, you can die from cyanide poisoning while being fully healthy in all other respects.
No you haven't. That idiot from the NYT has a really, really, really wrong definition of the word "nutritious".
usually it's terrible line quality, terrible English skills, and some idiot saying he's "from the windows service provider and there's a problem with my computer".
Just as I was clicking on the link to read these comments, an Indian with bad English skills called me up saying that I am eligible to receive education grant money that I don't have to repay. But he mumbled so much that that's all I couple understand.
Interesting. The sections of New Orleans + suburbs that my wife and I frequent, plus the areas of Hammond and rural Tangipahoa that we travel to are all weak.
I don't remember them doing so in Computer Shopper (which I regularly read at the time).
Depends on your location.
This.
Verizon has been the strongest as far as signal and speed form my experience.
It's the exact opposite in southern (don't know about northern) Louisiana.
any CPU in the late 90's was called a Pentium regardless of whether it was Intel or AMD.
Not on any of the mailing lists or web pages that I ever visited. Maybe it was an Australian thing?
Except that it can take time, sometimes a long time, to suss out fraud, by which time the paper has been frequently cited and become Truth.
Scientists come up with evidence-based ideas and then try to test them.
Religion makes absolute proclamations and damns people who disagree.
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The suburbs are really nice. Except near railroad tracks. Especially when there's a scheduled 4AM train.
Being evil is *not* the same as being stupid.
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You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
What you do is measure the kinetic energy of individual gas particles, and back-calculate to find out what temperature a regular gas would have in order that its average molecule would have the same kinetic energy.
That's an indirection too far to pass the smell test.
First, that's 14,000,000,000, not 14 million.
I realized that afterwards...
When a physicist talks about "temperature" in this context it's just short-hand for "average velocity"... it doesn't necessarily imply thermal equilibrium, even.
Huh? "Temperature" isn't that much easier to write, say or think about than "average velocity".
retain it's 1,000,000K for 14,000,000 years?
There's no "merriment" or "frolicsome amusement" in *work* (yes, there can be when gabbing at the water cooler, but if that's the preponderance of your day, then you'll be fired soon).
OTOH, there *is* "pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire" when working at what you enjoy.
Fun? Bah humbug. Not everything in this world must be fun. That and "Mom" are the two most overused words in modern English.
Nothing in my job is "fun". However, I get great satisfaction and enjoyment (which is not the same thing as "fun") at my job thinking up ways to make processes efficient and maintainable, and then going back later and making them even better.
That's 3 in 91 years. Find some more examples.
(And I haven't forgotten that SS1 cost way more to build than $10M.)
it is amazing what X-Prizes can do for you.
Why do so many geeks think that the phrase "X Prize" is some magic incantation?
crying that your glass is half empty.
I prefer clear-eyed realism.
Plenty of it on the moon and mars as well as on asteroid
Except that it takes 45 metric assloads of heavy industry to mine the stuff and then extract it in the quantifies needed.
until someone both
(a) invents a new and *highly* efficient engine that's both high-thrust and high specific impulse and
(b) and small, high-wattage, long-lasting energy source that doesn't need tons of shielding.
Until then, humans are going no further than the Moon, and even then just for short term National Pride visits.
First thing I thought of, too. It was zinc oxide, the same as life guards put on their noses and grandparents smear on babies' bottoms.
but what suburban American families need is a 6 passenger station wagon/minivan that goes 450 km on a single charge, at speeds ranging from 0 to 120 km/h.
Using batteries that maintain their performance for 10 years (which is how durable modern IC engines are).
European or English Common Law?
This is the critical point: American jurisprudence is designed to be reactive, not proactive.