1) RTFA 2) Go to their website where you can see photos of them building their rocket. Yes it's based on an old design (the French Dauphin sounding rocket), but they built it from scratch and to scale. They didn't just mod something from the salvage yard.
And besides, the last time you built and successfully launched something the size of a small school bus was... when?
It used to be that you really didn't want to bailout from a B-52 bomber either. Certain crew stations on B-52s will have you rolling down the fuselage... through several blade antennas. Ron Popeil should make something that slices and dices so well.
I found the second link (re: kernel developer getting uppity with SCO) to be much more interesting. He claims to be the author (or significant modifier) of code which SCO purports to be in violation. His remark in short is "The violation is yours, 'cause I wrote the code". In a challenge to SCO, he's threatening to sue SCO unless they remove the paticular code sections from their list of copyright violations.
This may be one of the ways to put chinks in SCOs armor. Get other Linux kernel developers to compare what they've written against corresponding sections of OpenLinux. Then note SCO's violations.
Shocked that they're violating what little they had to do under the DOJ capitula... er, agreement. Really, MS not obeying antitrust or the terms of their agreement? Remarkable. Who could have predicted this?
Next stunner please. Anyone suing somebody new over UN*X today?
There was a mnemonic for resistor stripes that one of my TAs taught. Couldn't use it today w/o getting in major hot water.
I too wish there had been more interjection of practicality when I got my EE. The vast majority of instruction was theory with the occasional "... and then a miracle occurs".
Let's assume that they've only got 3-4 subs running. If you're Chief of Naval Operations wouldn't you have four of your best hunter/killer drivers dogging them all the time? I don't think Chinese subs attacking the US mainland is something we have to worry about. More likely to get our attention over Japan, Korea or Taiwan.
On the other hand, containers appear to be a real problem. Way too few inspectors for all of the inbound traffic.
I decided to do a Win2k server + Mandrake 9.1 install. Although I'm using separate disks and didn't need to repartition, the dual boot setup was flawless. There was no need to hack any files afterwards to get it working.
For some reason, GTK failed to install. Still trying to fix that.
Props to the fine folks at Edmunds for providing the 3-disc version of 9.1 WITH shipping for less than $8! (Yeah, I know. It can be downloaded and burned. Just not always possible.)
No. We don't trust Microsoft. For better or for worse, this community is predisposed to not trust them. I'm sure that keeps us on our toes but it also puts us at odds with the majority of the Microsoft-using world.
Microsoft has the money to buy whatever publicity it wants (as well it would seem as other things that one would think should not be for sale). So as much as we'd like to think that the rest of the world distrusts MS as we do, I think we're deluding ourselves on that point.
Hey AC, NCSU is a top engineering school. The Aero Engineering has been working with NASA for more than 20 years. It's not like State's research is unknown to NASA. In fact, this is the latest in a long line of projects that NASA has used.
These kids are not a bunch high school science fair dilettantes. This is a senior year college project. They're engineering students being graded on how they've worked out problems. And they've done a hell of a lot more research than you are giving them credit for. Certainly more than you put into your post.
Anyone actually get 56kbps out of their modem in the States? No, because the FCC limits them to 52.3k.
Okay it's not as big a disparity from the original spec for 802.11g. BTW, that was supposed to be 54 Mbps, not 45.
Want something nearly as good without laying out the dough for the more expensive 802.11g gear? Get DLink's Air Plus line. When used with each other (and especially with the new 4x firmware), you can easily get a lot better throughput than what we're now looking at (ie the revised g rate of 10-20 Mbps).
No, you made that leap on your own. But while you were at it, you also managed to lump everyone who works for Wal-Mart as "white trash". That includes a lot of every day folks who raise families, pay their taxes, etc. Lot of retirees (including not a few veterans) work at Wal-Mart too. Going to lump all those folks on the short side of one rocket scientist? And his daily contribution to society is... what? I'm not sure this is an argument you want to make. You took a slap at the DoD in a Guns vs Butter sort of argument and then missed the obvious correlation between one rocket scientist and someone's Mom at Wal-Mart.
On the other hand, if you want to talk about contribution to society I'll take the rocket scientist over Britney Spears any day.
Although what you say may be applicable to user interfaces, that is just a fraction of the documentation to consider. I can think of any number of proposal documents where we take a modular approach to sections: it's called boilerplate. When you have several proposals in the same line of work there's a lot of cut and paste from submission to another. On individual projects there are system design specs, operations & maintenance manuals and more. Your assertion does not apply in these instances.
The term "dirty" refers to any nuclear device that produces a significant amount of radioactive waste. Early (1940s/1950s) bomb designs were very ineffcient and tended to create more waste, hence they were considered "dirty".
Although your description of what takes to make a radiological weapon today is accurate, the "dirty bomb" is NOT "an overhyped weapon designed to take advantage of america's nuclear hysteria". The point of a radiological weapon is two-fold: area-denial and panic. Area-denial is a function of the radioactivity of the material involved. It could be a matter of weeks, or it could be years.
A simple search will reveal that the topic of a "dirty bomb" is a recent topic of discussion in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and a host of other countries. The concern arises from the ease in creating such a weapon and the panic it generates in most ANY population.
No, 9.9999... infinitely repeating is NOT equal to 10. It asymptotically approaches 10, but its not equal.
Want a real world example? Consider kiting in finance. Shave enough pennies off and it starts to add up. Like 5 to 10 at a Federal Country Club somewhere.
Well, I feel much better now. You've just illustrated that owing to the work of Perelman (Poincare/lasso) and Nash (game theory), even if I was able to fake out the competition for the blond in the corner (Nash), Perelman's lasso would fail to capture her every single time.
So in the end, its mathematically impossible for me to catch the girl. And here I thought the problem was my fixation on Star Wars action figures.
Hmm... Can't use fighting words or threaten people? And what, pray tell, is the content of that Cease and Desist letter. Sure sounds threatening to me.
On the other hand, claiming that your product is "safe and secure" when it's easily provable to be otherwise would seem to violate any number of state and Federal statutes long on the books before the advent of DMCA, etc. I'd think that you could at least make a reasonable case for several flavors of fraud.
Yep. IIRC water injection was used on certain models of B-52s (B-52G ?) to provide additional thrust. The general effect was F = ma. Here's a link that explains it quite well.
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1) RTFA
... when?
2) Go to their website where you can see photos of them building their rocket. Yes it's based on an old design (the French Dauphin sounding rocket), but they built it from scratch and to scale. They didn't just mod something from the salvage yard.
And besides, the last time you built and successfully launched something the size of a small school bus was
It used to be that you really didn't want to bailout from a B-52 bomber either. Certain crew stations on B-52s will have you rolling down the fuselage ... through several blade antennas. Ron Popeil should make something that slices and dices so well.
Excuse me, flagrant baseless sensationalism? You're new to user interfaces aren't you?
And what nitwit marked that comment as insightful? Flamebait maybe, but there's nothing insightful about it.
I found the second link (re: kernel developer getting uppity with SCO) to be much more interesting. He claims to be the author (or significant modifier) of code which SCO purports to be in violation. His remark in short is "The violation is yours, 'cause I wrote the code". In a challenge to SCO, he's threatening to sue SCO unless they remove the paticular code sections from their list of copyright violations.
This may be one of the ways to put chinks in SCOs armor. Get other Linux kernel developers to compare what they've written against corresponding sections of OpenLinux. Then note SCO's violations.
Shocked that they're violating what little they had to do under the DOJ capitula... er, agreement. Really, MS not obeying antitrust or the terms of their agreement? Remarkable. Who could have predicted this?
Next stunner please. Anyone suing somebody new over UN*X today?
Bad boys r... (BBROYGBVGW)
There was a mnemonic for resistor stripes that one of my TAs taught. Couldn't use it today w/o getting in major hot water.
I too wish there had been more interjection of practicality when I got my EE. The vast majority of instruction was theory with the occasional "... and then a miracle occurs".
Kudos to MIT.
Would someone please mod up parent as "insightful" and "informative".
Let's assume that they've only got 3-4 subs running. If you're Chief of Naval Operations wouldn't you have four of your best hunter/killer drivers dogging them all the time? I don't think Chinese subs attacking the US mainland is something we have to worry about. More likely to get our attention over Japan, Korea or Taiwan.
On the other hand, containers appear to be a real problem. Way too few inspectors for all of the inbound traffic.
I decided to do a Win2k server + Mandrake 9.1 install. Although I'm using separate disks and didn't need to repartition, the dual boot setup was flawless. There was no need to hack any files afterwards to get it working.
For some reason, GTK failed to install. Still trying to fix that.
Props to the fine folks at Edmunds for providing the 3-disc version of 9.1 WITH shipping for less than $8! (Yeah, I know. It can be downloaded and burned. Just not always possible.)
Without standards, the person with the best marketing will become the standard...
[cough]Internet Explorer anyone?
No. We don't trust Microsoft. For better or for worse, this community is predisposed to not trust them. I'm sure that keeps us on our toes but it also puts us at odds with the majority of the Microsoft-using world.
Microsoft has the money to buy whatever publicity it wants (as well it would seem as other things that one would think should not be for sale). So as much as we'd like to think that the rest of the world distrusts MS as we do, I think we're deluding ourselves on that point.
Hey AC, NCSU is a top engineering school. The Aero Engineering has been working with NASA for more than 20 years. It's not like State's research is unknown to NASA. In fact, this is the latest in a long line of projects that NASA has used.
These kids are not a bunch high school science fair dilettantes. This is a senior year college project. They're engineering students being graded on how they've worked out problems. And they've done a hell of a lot more research than you are giving them credit for. Certainly more than you put into your post.
Anyone actually get 56kbps out of their modem in the States? No, because the FCC limits them to 52.3k.
Okay it's not as big a disparity from the original spec for 802.11g. BTW, that was supposed to be 54 Mbps, not 45.
Want something nearly as good without laying out the dough for the more expensive 802.11g gear? Get DLink's Air Plus line. When used with each other (and especially with the new 4x firmware), you can easily get a lot better throughput than what we're now looking at (ie the revised g rate of 10-20 Mbps).
"Large powerful orb discovered in the sky. Thousands in New England turn beet red after prolonged exposure."
Film at eleven.
That would be a summary of a significant portion of ALL Slasdot articles.
Hmm, no innovation on Slashdot either.
No, you made that leap on your own. But while you were at it, you also managed to lump everyone who works for Wal-Mart as "white trash". That includes a lot of every day folks who raise families, pay their taxes, etc. Lot of retirees (including not a few veterans) work at Wal-Mart too. Going to lump all those folks on the short side of one rocket scientist? And his daily contribution to society is... what? I'm not sure this is an argument you want to make. You took a slap at the DoD in a Guns vs Butter sort of argument and then missed the obvious correlation between one rocket scientist and someone's Mom at Wal-Mart.
On the other hand, if you want to talk about contribution to society I'll take the rocket scientist over Britney Spears any day.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Mac-10 manufacturers have no idea how their products will be used.
Doesn't quite hold water, does it?
Although what you say may be applicable to user interfaces, that is just a fraction of the documentation to consider. I can think of any number of proposal documents where we take a modular approach to sections: it's called boilerplate. When you have several proposals in the same line of work there's a lot of cut and paste from submission to another. On individual projects there are system design specs, operations & maintenance manuals and more. Your assertion does not apply in these instances.
"Try to understand how the current patent process is an utter failure in today's environment before offering advice."
Welcome back pot! Meet kettle!
The term "dirty" refers to any nuclear device that produces a significant amount of radioactive waste. Early (1940s/1950s) bomb designs were very ineffcient and tended to create more waste, hence they were considered "dirty".
Although your description of what takes to make a radiological weapon today is accurate, the "dirty bomb" is NOT "an overhyped weapon designed to take advantage of america's nuclear hysteria". The point of a radiological weapon is two-fold: area-denial and panic. Area-denial is a function of the radioactivity of the material involved. It could be a matter of weeks, or it could be years.
A simple search will reveal that the topic of a "dirty bomb" is a recent topic of discussion in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Russia and a host of other countries. The concern arises from the ease in creating such a weapon and the panic it generates in most ANY population.
You obviously haven't seen Men in Black. That's where Tommy Lee Jones' character gets all his best information.
No, 9.9999... infinitely repeating is NOT equal to 10. It asymptotically approaches 10, but its not equal.
Want a real world example? Consider kiting in finance. Shave enough pennies off and it starts to add up. Like 5 to 10 at a Federal Country Club somewhere.
Well, I feel much better now. You've just illustrated that owing to the work of Perelman (Poincare/lasso) and Nash (game theory), even if I was able to fake out the competition for the blond in the corner (Nash), Perelman's lasso would fail to capture her every single time.
So in the end, its mathematically impossible for me to catch the girl. And here I thought the problem was my fixation on Star Wars action figures.
Hmm... Can't use fighting words or threaten people? And what, pray tell, is the content of that Cease and Desist letter. Sure sounds threatening to me.
On the other hand, claiming that your product is "safe and secure" when it's easily provable to be otherwise would seem to violate any number of state and Federal statutes long on the books before the advent of DMCA, etc. I'd think that you could at least make a reasonable case for several flavors of fraud.
Any REAL lawyers out there to comment on that?
Yep. IIRC water injection was used on certain models of B-52s (B-52G ?) to provide additional thrust. The general effect was F = ma. Here's a link that explains it quite well.