That sounds like the engineering involved would be rather complicated. Current airship-type designs basically have a light, rigid frame inside to support their envelope. If you're going to make that frame delibrately deformable, you're going to have trouble keeping it from deforming in an undesirable fashion when it's under stresses (such as crosswinds) - there would need to be a lot of engineering behind it, and the frame would probably end up being a lot heavier. Needless to say, for an airship, you generally want to be as lightweight as possible so you can lift cargo instead of just lifting the ship itself.
A rigid airframe is much simpler, cheaper, easier, and sturdier.
I'm one of those arbitrators who was appointed. You know why two arbitrators were appointed? Because two of the elected arbitrators quit, largely due to the pressures of the job. You know why I was one of those appointed? Because I was effectively the first runner up- as a matter of fact, I was one vote behind the next guy, Grunt, and I voted for him as well. So... Say what you like about political matters and POV and edit wars. Maybe a truly neutral point of view towards politics and history is implausible- at least people are trying. But of all the things to criticize the site over, the appointment of two arbitrators is a pretty lame excuse. And if the arbitration committee isn't the most absolutely transparent form of a "justice system" you've ever seen on a major website- well, then, please inform me what is. Just think- you could have equally fair or unfair people working namelessly in secret behind closed doors.
Speaking of arbitrator quality, I've been a lousy arbitrator. I've done almost nothing- mostly because I made plans for the summer after failing to be properly elected the first time, and subsequently finding myself absolutely swamped with other matters, like my internship, and school. I kind of feel bad about it, really, and I hope the new election can get underway quickly so someone else can fill this spot effectively...
This will still be made with the same grapes, the same yeast, and the same assorted-other-stuff as regular wine. Why would adjusting the precise amounts/times/temperatures with the aid of a computer somehow render it undrinkable?
Hoax? Maybe so. But as long as we're throwing around conspiracy theories, just consider how quickly Amazon.com sold out of copies of the Little Red Book after this story was released.
News flash, brother -- we aren't gods, and we don't have magic. Sometimes treatment is all we can do.
Aye, and sometimes treatment is better than we can do. There are amazingly few cures for disease in the world of medicine, most notably antibiotics (though you need to watch out for the antibiotic-resistant strains). Categorically, we simply can't cure viruses, which is why we have vaccines for flu and such that you need to get before you catch the flu itself.
Supposing for a moment that you're absolutely right and some treatment in question would save wealthy people and only wealthy people and never ever ever offer any help to the poor or middle class, or even to you the "guinea pig". Would you rather help save the lives of thousands of wealthy people or of nobody? Are "wealthy people" so amazingly evil that anything which extends their lifespan is a blight upon society?
Actually, I believe that we already have "sustained controlled fusion" reactions. What we'd like are sustained controlled fusion reactions which produce more energy than they consume.
On the contrary, there is a very real Santa, it's just that he's widely acknowledged as being dead. His feast day is actually December 6, so it's not quite Christmas, but...
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It does not intend to be a repository of truth, but of facts. If it's truth you're after, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
If there's some outrageous claim, or some hotly disputed and debated topic- say, take your pick of sides on the topic Intelligent Design- Wikipedia's job is not to state who's right and who's wrong, endorse one side or another, identify what's really true and false, or anything like that. Its job is to state that claims have been made, one way or the other, who made those claims, what sort of support the claims enjoy and what criticism they suffer, and other stuff relevant to the claims. That's all. I think that's a far more attainable goal for a volunteer encyclopedia project than Truth.
If you marry your aforementioned "significant other" and formally attain US citizenship, intead of just "living with" him or her. You'll probably wind up on a lot more solid ground as far as employment is concerned.
Well, the movie sure could sure use some sort of end-game. As I mentioned last time this movie came up, you can find USENET postings dating from 1992 about the first rumors of the movie. Frankly, Ender's Game is the Duke Nukem Forever of sci-fi movies.
No, perhaps the main reason the DVORAK keyboard hasn't taken over is path dependence, the same reason that railways are only 4'8.5" (1.435m) and people have VHS tapes instead of Betamax, and that is: everybody's doing it. QWERTY is already in place. Nobody wants to switch.
That, and the fact DVORAK, for all its goodness, may be overrated. The article above notes how economists "Liebowitz and Margolis cited ergonomic studies that conclude that the Dvorak keyboard offers at most only a two to six percent efficiency advantage over QWERTY."
Look into Java. Really. It'll run on *nix, Mac and Doze, and a good toolkit framework like SWT is plenty shiny. Yes, you'll suffer from slightly lengthy load times and memory usage and all that stuff. But there are plenty of Java IDEs, especially Eclipse and various Eclipse-based toys.
Other than Java, most of the really cross-platform *nix/Doze/Mac stuff I've really seen has been GTK-based: X-Chat, Gaim, and such. This would be mostly C/C++ work, but I'm not particularly up-to-date on compiling this sort of stuff for Windows. The other thing to consider is whether you can stuff everything into a web-based application. You can do a lot these days, especially with the JavaScript DOM- look at Gmail, Google Maps, and such. This is nearly the ultimate cross-platform solution, but might be tricky to pick up if you're not familiar with HTML and CSS and JavaScript at least a little already. It also suffers from the usual limitations associated with web apps. You might look into Flash for applications as well if you're going for pure shininess- though it generally has similar limitations and all the drawbacks associated with Flash itself, especially with the usual Flash environment costing an arm and a leg...
HTML (or better, XHTML) is the stuff your web browser uses, okay, you got that. Everything else is just a way to output XHTML from the server using some sort of script or program, instead of just serving up a file. PHP is a popular language for this, and.php files are often just HTML pages with snippets of embedded programming. JSPs are similar. Perl, Python, Ruby and such aren't so much embedded with the HTML itself (though this is often considered a good thing), but as long as you can get them to talk to the web server (usually using an interface called CGI) you just need to write HTML content from your program.
AJAX is a variety of fancy JavaScript tricks. Chances are you don't need it yet.
Finally, make sure you're formatting nicely with CSS stylesheets instead of stuffing stuff in FONT tags and bgcolor="" attributes.
Players buy their feral Nintendog at the beginning of the game, choosing from a variety of available breeds, then spend time with their new pet. They try time and time again to call their wild Nintendog to play with them, without success, and get a finger bitten in two when they try to give it a bath.
I believe the wikipedia class action organization is related to "QuakeAID", an organization which tried to use a link on Wikipedia to solicit donations after that bout of earthquakes a little while ago. When people on Wikipedia identified the link as potentially suspect, they (or a wholly owned subsidiary of the same parent organization, IIRC) started making whiny press releases about one editor who was working on such links, going on about how he was on some sort of personal crusade to ruin the lives of the earthquake victims or some equivalent nonsense. Wikipedia has some information on the topic.
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A rigid airframe is much simpler, cheaper, easier, and sturdier.
Speaking of arbitrator quality, I've been a lousy arbitrator. I've done almost nothing- mostly because I made plans for the summer after failing to be properly elected the first time, and subsequently finding myself absolutely swamped with other matters, like my internship, and school. I kind of feel bad about it, really, and I hope the new election can get underway quickly so someone else can fill this spot effectively...
bah, Neatorama had this many days ago, and they had the sense to hilight No. #78, "One in 18 people has a third nipple".
This will still be made with the same grapes, the same yeast, and the same assorted-other-stuff as regular wine. Why would adjusting the precise amounts/times/temperatures with the aid of a computer somehow render it undrinkable?
Curious. Inside(tm)? They've trademarked 'inside'? If so, I wonder how far they'll try to enforce that trademark... ick.
will it look as cremesaver-iffic as the new at&t logo?
Sometimes a few ounces of pure escapism can be a good thing, you know? Keep you from going slightly crazy, work out your anger nondestructively...
A conspiracy by the booksellers, I tell you!!! :)
Depends on how long I intend to be travelling. I mean, if it's just for 15 minutes...
Aye, and sometimes treatment is better than we can do. There are amazingly few cures for disease in the world of medicine, most notably antibiotics (though you need to watch out for the antibiotic-resistant strains). Categorically, we simply can't cure viruses, which is why we have vaccines for flu and such that you need to get before you catch the flu itself.
Supposing for a moment that you're absolutely right and some treatment in question would save wealthy people and only wealthy people and never ever ever offer any help to the poor or middle class, or even to you the "guinea pig". Would you rather help save the lives of thousands of wealthy people or of nobody? Are "wealthy people" so amazingly evil that anything which extends their lifespan is a blight upon society?
Actually, I believe that we already have "sustained controlled fusion" reactions. What we'd like are sustained controlled fusion reactions which produce more energy than they consume.
You got e, pi, i, 0 and 1 all in a simple equation. Hard to beat. And curse Slashcode not allowing a graphical paste-in of the letter...
On the contrary, there is a very real Santa, it's just that he's widely acknowledged as being dead. His feast day is actually December 6, so it's not quite Christmas, but...
No; you're right: it's not a joke. It's a political diatribe. *coughcough*
We all do dumb things. Using Internet Explorer doesn't have to be one of them.
If there's some outrageous claim, or some hotly disputed and debated topic- say, take your pick of sides on the topic Intelligent Design- Wikipedia's job is not to state who's right and who's wrong, endorse one side or another, identify what's really true and false, or anything like that. Its job is to state that claims have been made, one way or the other, who made those claims, what sort of support the claims enjoy and what criticism they suffer, and other stuff relevant to the claims. That's all. I think that's a far more attainable goal for a volunteer encyclopedia project than Truth.
If you marry your aforementioned "significant other" and formally attain US citizenship, intead of just "living with" him or her. You'll probably wind up on a lot more solid ground as far as employment is concerned.
Well, the movie sure could sure use some sort of end-game. As I mentioned last time this movie came up, you can find USENET postings dating from 1992 about the first rumors of the movie. Frankly, Ender's Game is the Duke Nukem Forever of sci-fi movies.
That, and the fact DVORAK, for all its goodness, may be overrated. The article above notes how economists "Liebowitz and Margolis cited ergonomic studies that conclude that the Dvorak keyboard offers at most only a two to six percent efficiency advantage over QWERTY."
I mean, come on. If you want to throw dirt at Wikipedia, can't you come up with something better than this? Not news, people. Not news at all.
Other than Java, most of the really cross-platform *nix/Doze/Mac stuff I've really seen has been GTK-based: X-Chat, Gaim, and such. This would be mostly C/C++ work, but I'm not particularly up-to-date on compiling this sort of stuff for Windows. The other thing to consider is whether you can stuff everything into a web-based application. You can do a lot these days, especially with the JavaScript DOM- look at Gmail, Google Maps, and such. This is nearly the ultimate cross-platform solution, but might be tricky to pick up if you're not familiar with HTML and CSS and JavaScript at least a little already. It also suffers from the usual limitations associated with web apps. You might look into Flash for applications as well if you're going for pure shininess- though it generally has similar limitations and all the drawbacks associated with Flash itself, especially with the usual Flash environment costing an arm and a leg...
AJAX is a variety of fancy JavaScript tricks. Chances are you don't need it yet.
Finally, make sure you're formatting nicely with CSS stylesheets instead of stuffing stuff in FONT tags and bgcolor="" attributes.
I believe the wikipedia class action organization is related to "QuakeAID", an organization which tried to use a link on Wikipedia to solicit donations after that bout of earthquakes a little while ago. When people on Wikipedia identified the link as potentially suspect, they (or a wholly owned subsidiary of the same parent organization, IIRC) started making whiny press releases about one editor who was working on such links, going on about how he was on some sort of personal crusade to ruin the lives of the earthquake victims or some equivalent nonsense. Wikipedia has some information on the topic.