What I want to know is WHY? I don't care if they came across a land bridge or by sea. Doesn't matter if it was Asia or Europe, though there is a closer genetic similarity to Asians. I want to know why they came. What was the impetus to go through all the trouble of crossing. Maybe they were following the food, but what was wrong with staying in Asia (or Europe)? Seems like there would be better pickin's in more hospitable lands.
The diagrammed version is not for destroying IED's. The article says a much smaller 25kW laser would be useful for destroying them because time is not a factor. The 25kW version just needs to "dwell" on the target a little longer.
A 100kW version (like in the picture) is where it gets interesting because it might be useful for destroying moving targets on the battlefield (missiles, shells, etc...). A 25kW laser wouldn't be able to acquire a target and destroy it in time.
The Copernican model didn't offer very good astronomical predictions compared to the most sophisticated Ptolemaic models. When Galileo saw Venus go through complete phases (full -> new -> full), it pretty much convinced anyone conversant in astronomy that geocentrism was wrong. Why? Because in a geocentric system Venus can't go through all the phases; only half the phases depending on whether it's inside or outside the Sun's orbit.
Still, Ptolemaic models with their fancy epicycles within epicycles within epicycles gave better results. It wasn't until Kepler came along and put the planets on elliptical paths that the Ptolemaic models were finally thrown out.
I'm tired of people saying terrorists objective is to make us afraid. That's not the objective. They have a goal completely unrelated to us being afraid. The fear that results from their activities is supposed to cause us to cave in to their demands.
Unfortunately, most Americans are completely oblivious to what the "terrorists" want. Their activities only serve to heighten our fear and anger directed towards them. Their objectives, meanwhile, remain almost completely unachieved...
I don't know what branch of the military he was in, but I was in the Navy and was paid about $13k in my last year (1999). There are cost of living allowances that help offset living expenses in high cost areas, but as most e-5 and below have to live on the ship, most sailors don't get that. Of course, living on the ship is free, but it also really sucks. Same with the food. It's free, but you get what you pay for. There is also a uniform allowance to help pay for...uniforms. Hazardous duty pay is about $150 a month, but of course you have to put yourself in greater danger than the average military member (war zone, special ops, aircraft carrier flight deck, etc).
For what it's worth, I started college after leaving the Navy and I had some paper somewhere that stated an equivalent income of about $23k...
How does using a slide rule differ from using a calculator? A student using a slide rule won't fundamentally understand what (s)he's calculating any more than with a calculator.
Length - Metre
Mass - Kilogram
Time - Second
Electric Current - Ampere
Thermodynamic Temperature - Kelvin
Amount of Substance - Mole
Luminous Intensity - Candela
Don't mistake the will of corporations and the government with the common American.
The average American will never meaningfully leave the United States, and has no frame of reference to the rest of the world. Hell, I've known plenty of people who've never, or rarely, left their homestate. That was the grandparent's point.
In your rant, you seem to be confusing these normal Americans with large corporations and the government. Normal Americans have very little influence over these dealings.
I assume the height we are dropping the feather and hammer from is equal to their centers of gravity? I'm going to take a small liberty and specify the feather as a peacock feather (approximately 48 inches in length). I'm going to drop my feather oriented such that it's longest axis is pointed towards the center of the Moon.
We must drop the hammer and feather from more than 24 inches in order to allow for the length of the feather. Assuming a perfectly spherical lunar surface, it will definitely hit the ground first.
There is a big difference in occasional use of GPS software and a full car computer you're using to connect to the internet, play music or video, make phone calls with, and even track car performance.
That's not the same thing. That's actually more useful. What Ford and MS are proposing lacks automotive diagnostic ability. It can connect to the internet and play music, though!
It's not safe to have a pc in the car. I know this from personal experience.
First let me detail what I had. I installed a pc in a car a couple of years ago for a technical writing class (had to document the research, the installation, a user manual, etc). It had GPS and map software, internet connection via cellphone, custom touchscreen interface, mp3 library, and DVD player. Using an OBD-II connection, it also monitored the automotive systems and tracked speed, rpm, intake and exhaust temperatures and pressures, gas usage, and other information. It also scanned and identified the cause of any check engine warnings.
All in all, a pretty nice system that took me the better part of a year to build. I wrote the software that integrated all the components into an interface easy to use with a touchscreen. I also wrote my own OBD-II software (supplied software is NOT touchscreen friendly). Of course, I also did the physical install myself.
Ok, so how was it unsafe? I crashed. Stupidly so. I was following a friend to his house late at night on empty streets. I figured it was safe to mess with the music controls. My friend decided to take a different route home and turns earlier than I was expecting. As I was engaged with the music controls and not my driving, I smashed right into him.
We weren't hurt badly, but his car was eventually totalled. It came out after the repairs. That was enough to convince me that PC + CAR = BAD IDEA.
Well, of course we need to send construction guys up there first. The problem with NASA is that they aren't interested in sending a construction crew up there. They're interested in sending half a dozen guys up there to collect neat looking rocks.
Everything NASA does is about science. People aren't interested in science, only in the results, and only then if it's really interesting and simple to understand.
Joe Sixpack won't care about what NASA is doing on the Moon until they announce plans for the first moonbase that'll take regular people. You tell a regular person that NASA's going to the moon again, and the most immediate and obvious question they'll have is why? If the answer is something "sciency", they won't care.
Besides the HST, nothing NASA has done in the past 20 years is interesting to the average person. I think the reason is that everything else they've done, like the various planetary probes and even ISS, has been done before. They've just been doing the same things (to the average person) over and over again.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing sciency things, just that they can't expect the average person to care about it.
Excuse me, but the question should be...Would you rather a nice color picture of someone else on vacation in Hawaii, or a nice color picture of Hawaii?
You see, WE don't get to go on the fancy $25 billion dollar trip to the Moon, someone else does. That's boring and uninteresting because it was already done +35 years ago. Until Joe Six-pack gets to go, it's not interesting, no matter how many neat looking rocks we collect.
Maybe because most mmorpgs have similar problems that people keep complaining about...the same problems that ANet tried to address when they made Guild Wars?
I'm not a GW freak, I haven't even played it in several months. It just seems to be what a lot of people keep asking for when they talk about what they want out of an mmorpg.
Is it perfect? HELL NO! Hardcore, non-pvp mmo fans get bored quickly from the relatively small game world, and non-hardcore pvp'ers have a difficult time getting their skills to a level where they can compete at the highest levels of pvp.
Is it better for casual gamers than any mmorpg out there? Probably.
Patrick Stewart? David Duchovny? Unless they fly on the shuttle or in the ISS, they won't have any effect.
Kids aren't interested in space because nothing new has happened except a disaster and a "space station" in the last 20 years. They aren't excited because NASA isn't going out of its way to make us believe that one day they will be able to travel to space. Unless, of course, they get a PhD. by the time they're 25, in perfect health, and a model citizen.
If they really want to ignite interest, let regular folk go to space. For the last 50 years, only the most perfect people have been given the chance to go. It's our turn...
Guild Wars was created with players like you in mind; casual gamers who don't spend more than a couple hours a week playing.
1) Max level is 20 and reached quickly.
- If you just want to PVP, you can create a level 20 PVP character with max stats and items.
2) Equipment isn't the biggest deal; you'll usually be strong enough for the next area by the time you get there as long as you do most or all of the quests along the way.
- Some people like to pay for extra rare items with nicer looking skins (same stats as regular equipment, though).
3) No monthly fee, so if you stop playing for a couple of weeks or months it's not like you're losing money.
4) Only at the highest levels of PVP does it matter which chapter(s) you own. PVP was designed so players can be competitive with any combination of chapters.
Well, the Pope says that because the technology will only extend your mortal life and maybe get you a one way ticket to Hell. Meanwhile, those singing crappy tunes to God will be granted an immortal life in Heaven.
At least, that's the theory they operate on...
Just because they signed up to it under protest gives them the right to disregard it? I don't think that's a very strong defense.
Because someone else did something bad in the past gives you the right to do wrong now? Of course not.
I'm all for eating tasty animals, but what they are doing in the video is illegal. There are international laws that the Japanese claim to be following, but this video shows that officials there must be looking the other way.
There is also the point that the dolphin meat may be mis-labeled as whale meat, but there is no real evidence in the video. I sure don't want to eat dolphin meat when I think I'm eating a nice juicy, whale burger!
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What I want to know is WHY? I don't care if they came across a land bridge or by sea. Doesn't matter if it was Asia or Europe, though there is a closer genetic similarity to Asians. I want to know why they came. What was the impetus to go through all the trouble of crossing. Maybe they were following the food, but what was wrong with staying in Asia (or Europe)? Seems like there would be better pickin's in more hospitable lands.
The diagrammed version is not for destroying IED's. The article says a much smaller 25kW laser would be useful for destroying them because time is not a factor. The 25kW version just needs to "dwell" on the target a little longer.
A 100kW version (like in the picture) is where it gets interesting because it might be useful for destroying moving targets on the battlefield (missiles, shells, etc...). A 25kW laser wouldn't be able to acquire a target and destroy it in time.
The Copernican model didn't offer very good astronomical predictions compared to the most sophisticated Ptolemaic models. When Galileo saw Venus go through complete phases (full -> new -> full), it pretty much convinced anyone conversant in astronomy that geocentrism was wrong. Why? Because in a geocentric system Venus can't go through all the phases; only half the phases depending on whether it's inside or outside the Sun's orbit.
Still, Ptolemaic models with their fancy epicycles within epicycles within epicycles gave better results. It wasn't until Kepler came along and put the planets on elliptical paths that the Ptolemaic models were finally thrown out.
I'm tired of people saying terrorists objective is to make us afraid. That's not the objective. They have a goal completely unrelated to us being afraid. The fear that results from their activities is supposed to cause us to cave in to their demands.
Unfortunately, most Americans are completely oblivious to what the "terrorists" want. Their activities only serve to heighten our fear and anger directed towards them. Their objectives, meanwhile, remain almost completely unachieved...
I don't know what branch of the military he was in, but I was in the Navy and was paid about $13k in my last year (1999). There are cost of living allowances that help offset living expenses in high cost areas, but as most e-5 and below have to live on the ship, most sailors don't get that. Of course, living on the ship is free, but it also really sucks. Same with the food. It's free, but you get what you pay for. There is also a uniform allowance to help pay for...uniforms. Hazardous duty pay is about $150 a month, but of course you have to put yourself in greater danger than the average military member (war zone, special ops, aircraft carrier flight deck, etc).
For what it's worth, I started college after leaving the Navy and I had some paper somewhere that stated an equivalent income of about $23k...
It's too fuckin cold in Cana-fuckin-da.
How does using a slide rule differ from using a calculator? A student using a slide rule won't fundamentally understand what (s)he's calculating any more than with a calculator.
No one needs more than 640k^H^H^H^H 10 cruise missiles a day!
Length - Metre
Mass - Kilogram
Time - Second
Electric Current - Ampere
Thermodynamic Temperature - Kelvin
Amount of Substance - Mole
Luminous Intensity - Candela
Don't mistake the will of corporations and the government with the common American.
The average American will never meaningfully leave the United States, and has no frame of reference to the rest of the world. Hell, I've known plenty of people who've never, or rarely, left their homestate. That was the grandparent's point.
In your rant, you seem to be confusing these normal Americans with large corporations and the government. Normal Americans have very little influence over these dealings.
Not surpising that Consumer Reports got it perfect. Their host organization, the Consumers Union, published a set of guidelines they think all online sites should follow in order to promote online credibility. It's http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/consumer-reports-w ebwatch-guidelines.cfm.
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They've also compiled a list of every site that's pledged to follow the guidelines. (PDF) http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/images/praisewort
I assume the height we are dropping the feather and hammer from is equal to their centers of gravity? I'm going to take a small liberty and specify the feather as a peacock feather (approximately 48 inches in length). I'm going to drop my feather oriented such that it's longest axis is pointed towards the center of the Moon. We must drop the hammer and feather from more than 24 inches in order to allow for the length of the feather. Assuming a perfectly spherical lunar surface, it will definitely hit the ground first.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214254&cid=174 10076
There is a big difference in occasional use of GPS software and a full car computer you're using to connect to the internet, play music or video, make phone calls with, and even track car performance.
Don't know about Ubuntu, but there are plenty of custom built carpc's with Linux installs on them:f =77
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?
That's not the same thing. That's actually more useful. What Ford and MS are proposing lacks automotive diagnostic ability. It can connect to the internet and play music, though!
It's not safe to have a pc in the car. I know this from personal experience.
First let me detail what I had. I installed a pc in a car a couple of years ago for a technical writing class (had to document the research, the installation, a user manual, etc). It had GPS and map software, internet connection via cellphone, custom touchscreen interface, mp3 library, and DVD player. Using an OBD-II connection, it also monitored the automotive systems and tracked speed, rpm, intake and exhaust temperatures and pressures, gas usage, and other information. It also scanned and identified the cause of any check engine warnings.
All in all, a pretty nice system that took me the better part of a year to build. I wrote the software that integrated all the components into an interface easy to use with a touchscreen. I also wrote my own OBD-II software (supplied software is NOT touchscreen friendly). Of course, I also did the physical install myself.
Ok, so how was it unsafe? I crashed. Stupidly so. I was following a friend to his house late at night on empty streets. I figured it was safe to mess with the music controls. My friend decided to take a different route home and turns earlier than I was expecting. As I was engaged with the music controls and not my driving, I smashed right into him.
We weren't hurt badly, but his car was eventually totalled. It came out after the repairs. That was enough to convince me that PC + CAR = BAD IDEA.
Well, of course we need to send construction guys up there first. The problem with NASA is that they aren't interested in sending a construction crew up there. They're interested in sending half a dozen guys up there to collect neat looking rocks.
Everything NASA does is about science. People aren't interested in science, only in the results, and only then if it's really interesting and simple to understand.
Joe Sixpack won't care about what NASA is doing on the Moon until they announce plans for the first moonbase that'll take regular people. You tell a regular person that NASA's going to the moon again, and the most immediate and obvious question they'll have is why? If the answer is something "sciency", they won't care.
Besides the HST, nothing NASA has done in the past 20 years is interesting to the average person. I think the reason is that everything else they've done, like the various planetary probes and even ISS, has been done before. They've just been doing the same things (to the average person) over and over again.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be doing sciency things, just that they can't expect the average person to care about it.
Excuse me, but the question should be...Would you rather a nice color picture of someone else on vacation in Hawaii, or a nice color picture of Hawaii?
You see, WE don't get to go on the fancy $25 billion dollar trip to the Moon, someone else does. That's boring and uninteresting because it was already done +35 years ago. Until Joe Six-pack gets to go, it's not interesting, no matter how many neat looking rocks we collect.
Maybe because most mmorpgs have similar problems that people keep complaining about...the same problems that ANet tried to address when they made Guild Wars?
I'm not a GW freak, I haven't even played it in several months. It just seems to be what a lot of people keep asking for when they talk about what they want out of an mmorpg.
Is it perfect? HELL NO! Hardcore, non-pvp mmo fans get bored quickly from the relatively small game world, and non-hardcore pvp'ers have a difficult time getting their skills to a level where they can compete at the highest levels of pvp.
Is it better for casual gamers than any mmorpg out there? Probably.
Patrick Stewart? David Duchovny? Unless they fly on the shuttle or in the ISS, they won't have any effect.
Kids aren't interested in space because nothing new has happened except a disaster and a "space station" in the last 20 years. They aren't excited because NASA isn't going out of its way to make us believe that one day they will be able to travel to space. Unless, of course, they get a PhD. by the time they're 25, in perfect health, and a model citizen.
If they really want to ignite interest, let regular folk go to space. For the last 50 years, only the most perfect people have been given the chance to go. It's our turn...
Guild Wars was created with players like you in mind; casual gamers who don't spend more than a couple hours a week playing.
1) Max level is 20 and reached quickly.
- If you just want to PVP, you can create a level 20 PVP character with max stats and items.
2) Equipment isn't the biggest deal; you'll usually be strong enough for the next area by the time you get there as long as you do most or all of the quests along the way.
- Some people like to pay for extra rare items with nicer looking skins (same stats as regular equipment, though).
3) No monthly fee, so if you stop playing for a couple of weeks or months it's not like you're losing money.
4) Only at the highest levels of PVP does it matter which chapter(s) you own. PVP was designed so players can be competitive with any combination of chapters.
You should give it a try.
Well, the Pope says that because the technology will only extend your mortal life and maybe get you a one way ticket to Hell. Meanwhile, those singing crappy tunes to God will be granted an immortal life in Heaven. At least, that's the theory they operate on...
Just because they signed up to it under protest gives them the right to disregard it? I don't think that's a very strong defense. Because someone else did something bad in the past gives you the right to do wrong now? Of course not.
I'm all for eating tasty animals, but what they are doing in the video is illegal. There are international laws that the Japanese claim to be following, but this video shows that officials there must be looking the other way. There is also the point that the dolphin meat may be mis-labeled as whale meat, but there is no real evidence in the video. I sure don't want to eat dolphin meat when I think I'm eating a nice juicy, whale burger!
Uhm...flash media??? Ya know, like USB flash drives...