He's good if he doesn't direct himself. He can direct others well enough, particular talent actors, but he can't get outside his head to direct himself well.
That said, I thought the Guardian was a great film, giving the Coast Guard their hero movie.
Visible light they reflect you mean. This is a hard concept for many people to grasp, but depending on the part of the spectra you are looking at, objects can vary to how much they reflect and how much they transmit. If everyone chooses the same reflector, like a cheap paint, you just gotta change the frequency of the light.
A great example is silver. In the very close UV, like 310 nm, it's completely transparent. Light goes thru it perfectly. by the time you get to Green light, it's over 90% effective at reflections. Good, somewhat expensive, white paint used as a reflectance standard is good between 250-2500 nm. The type of laser they have is about 1000 or so nm. Using frequency doublers you can make that high UV in 3 jumps and below the bottom of where the paint can reflect well. I've used such high powered lasers in Academia. Doublers are common.
Regan had a team of science fiction advisers including Larry Niven back in the 80's to help him. In his Novel Footfall he has a good fictional account of meetings between them and the government with during a crises.
The military has some odd uses for technology and what they need and fund has odd spin offs. And sometimes what they intend will shift.
Some folks at the dull end love this because they see how much more a solider can carry. There's a practical limit of around 50 pounds of gear a solider can take on their person. What that gear is suppose to be and really is can vary. There's some great stories about differing philosophies to armor plate inserts, not only between the Brass and the guys in the field but between guys in the field because of how heavy it is.
Alot of brass loves the idea of 200 pound loads because they can put everything they think is useful on a solider and have them run faster with bigger loads and maybe a bigger gun. Which is pretty much why you have something like a humvee or a Stryker.
Course the actual use for this in military applications alone will take several years of practical use to really figure out. Might be great for special forces in certain situations (or might suck depending on Opforce). Definitely potential in logistics and things like setting up bases when 'man portable' equipment can be moved by one person quickly.
Private sector applications will also take a long while to sniff out. I can see surveyors and firefighters have this be a huge ideal. Imagine a firefighter with cooling systems installed. The best hope of the military here is to figure out these uses quick so if the whole super-suit bit fails the uses elsewhere still get them the respect the project deserves.
It would seem that the owners of Craigslist value their profits more than the lives of the children whose exploitation they benefit from.
Craigslist is pretty non-commercial. They do charge 5 bucks on the erotic services site for all of craigslist to keep down the amount of illegal content, but all of that is donated to charity. There's only a total of 24 people who work for craigslist, with all of the money that keeps it up coming from broker ads in a couple of metro areas (Bay Area, NYC, Chicago)
TSMC is also known as Wafertech and has a massive fab just across the river from intel's main R&D fabs in Portland. So they are incredibly easy to access.
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Unless of course the paycut lowers you enough to qualify for additional tax credits based on income. But then again you don't see that on you pay check, just at the end of year. For example in 2007 I made the same per hour as in 2008, but only worked 4 months out of the year and so I qualified (according to my tax software) for lots of tax credits for things like my retirement pay.
Last year I worked enough that I didn't qualify for them. Not the nearly the same thing as being bumped into a higher tax bracket, but if you're on the bubble it sure feels like it.
The reason they want chicken pox early is not for your child to not develop it at school.
The reason goes back to herd immunity and the mutation rates in humans meaning if enough people get the disease it mutates into a new form that adults are not immune from. If enough people are vaccinated that human chickenpox is uncommmon, the mutation rates are low enough the vaccine will be stable so adults who get it and never had it won't get it.
Pregnant women who get chickenpox as an adult can not only have their unborn child die from it, but have been known to drop dead of it themselves. 10,000 people are hosptialized each year with it in the US.
What's really important though beyond the health risks for you child to spread chicken pox beyond the home (can take 3 weeks to incubate), is to understand what about the vaccinations were causing allergic reactions. Several vaccines have alternative methods, although some are a bit more controversial
A skin reaction may not exist for the oral version of the vaccine. Polio is the poster child for the oral polio vaccine (although there have been one or two flaws with that one).
The odds of your child being reactive to any additional vaccines are tiny. Of course being allergic to any of them in the first is also pretty tiny. Hopefully when you're ready to get the rest there will be no issue, and hopefully the ones that are most needed at the age recommended (typhus for example) aren't an issue.
I prefer looking at Hydro electric. 317,686 million Kilowatt-hours for the US versus 26,944 million Kilowatt-hours. Or about 4 times as much per person.
I live in the Northwest though, and 82% of the power for the region is from Hydroelectric. The rest is either natural gas or nuclear and mostly for Seattle.
Well the biggest issue is the life support and social aspects. There's more than a few ways people have figured out to do the energy. Project Orion did enough math they figured they could get up to.12 C. Orion isn't something people would take likely due to being essentially using nukes. But the math works and we've got the stuff we need on earth enough enough.
Let alone using lasers to boost a solar sail to a fractional C and dumping the sail and using a ramscoop to steer/break.
If we can make habits (and that's the biggest if) we can slow boat it to the stars and make most of the cost in laser launching systems that are a fixed one time cost for all launch. Plus you can use em as a communication beam.
I was extremely lucky to be involved in the NASA SOAR program the last year the KC-135 was used. (Now it's a DC-9) SOAR is the free program for undergraduate research to be involved with Microgravity experiments. Something like 32 student groups a year get to use it in 2 week periods. NASA is also good at about getting multiple schools involved. Everyone from MIT to WVU and Oregon State is involved.
Back to the topic. What happens isn't a sharp fall, it takes a small amount of time to pull out of it, so you don't quite fall normally. And then once you get up to 1G you then go up to 2G in a short time. The first and last sets of parabolas are also a different type designed to replicate Lunar and Martian gravity.
Unless you use enough to make other fuels viable. Ore refining of Uranium can be done electrically. Hanford site and Oakridge were picked for reasons of cheap power from hydro.
Only thing left is transport. And even that can be carbon free if you're willing to do pebble bed reactors.
The thing is even though there's CO2 from those, you don't have the carload of coal per hour like coal plants. Sure there's minor stuff, but that's in all of them. When you compare it to the massive coal burning we got going, it's much better. Less radioactive than the coal too.
Oh god how do they. You overuse dramatic pop ups and they make people numb. I worked in a high volume manufacturing company and we could make each work area have prompts and warnings come up. But many were like you scanned X before Y on some of the automatic tools. A very common occurrence, and made those pop ups useless.
Thus began the escalating war of pop-ups where automatic warnings versus catastrophic warnings had to be given increasing amounts. The number of small warnings made people numb to them. So the biggest issues would have to bring up red screens requiring the employee ID and passwords to continue. What this did was make anything that wasn't that screen just be clicked through. I had some luck reducing the ignorable pop ups in my area because I didn't want the guys on the floor to ignore everything I had set up, but many of them were ones the floor managment didn't want taken out due to being able to use it as a club/way to pin blame on someone.
That's why we have medals. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is given to people who have enriched America through their works. Yeah it's a bit political, but Fred Rogers, Frank Sinatra and a mess of other folks.
Although I don't have a problem with constitutional monarchy, with a bit more power than the British do. It seems to me there's some merits when you have a decent Royal line that needs to think on a much longer scale than election cycles
Alot of the rights were saved by Roddenberry. She as his widow got everything. I think their son gets everything now. That's creative rights versus $$$ rights. Although I'm sure the son will be fithly rich off all the stuff for ages.
Well, first you have to remember that if it fell, it would only have the part below the cut fall.
So an airplane at 25,000 would cause only about 25,000 feet to fall. It's like spinning a bucket on a rope. Cutting the Rope causes the bucket to fly out. Depending on the tension on the cable we might have trouble fixing the far end, but the massive counter weight could be fixed.
So a 5 mile no flyzone would work just fine.
Then I gotta bring up how you want this at a low latitude with lots of shipping. Depending on whose building it depends on where it goes, but Hawaii's big island is considered one of the more likely places. Possibly the Marshall islands too.
How long till we see one attempted? A true space elevator needs a cheaper launch vehicle and a much better way to produce long Nanotubes or similar materials. Then you need to figure out the magnetic drag aspects. People have been working on it, and there's some neat ideas with them.
If and when I get a Job after being laid off due to the bum economy I'll really think about this. It's a great program and I'd love to tinker with one.
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He's good if he doesn't direct himself. He can direct others well enough, particular talent actors, but he can't get outside his head to direct himself well. That said, I thought the Guardian was a great film, giving the Coast Guard their hero movie.
What's even better is the German Wikipedia article now mentions the dispute and links to the NY Times Article without naming names on their page...
A great example is silver. In the very close UV, like 310 nm, it's completely transparent. Light goes thru it perfectly. by the time you get to Green light, it's over 90% effective at reflections. Good, somewhat expensive, white paint used as a reflectance standard is good between 250-2500 nm. The type of laser they have is about 1000 or so nm. Using frequency doublers you can make that high UV in 3 jumps and below the bottom of where the paint can reflect well. I've used such high powered lasers in Academia. Doublers are common.
Use them Together, Use them in Peace.
Regan had a team of science fiction advisers including Larry Niven back in the 80's to help him. In his Novel Footfall he has a good fictional account of meetings between them and the government with during a crises.
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/File:Koloth2269.jpg From the Animated series, they look pretty much like the regular series Klingon.
I frelling don't.
Well from what I learned on Tech TV it's really easy to break... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GYg-5AdRw
Perhaps some sort of Meat creature we could ride into battle that could carry our armored bodies and heavy weapons?
Some folks at the dull end love this because they see how much more a solider can carry. There's a practical limit of around 50 pounds of gear a solider can take on their person. What that gear is suppose to be and really is can vary. There's some great stories about differing philosophies to armor plate inserts, not only between the Brass and the guys in the field but between guys in the field because of how heavy it is.
Alot of brass loves the idea of 200 pound loads because they can put everything they think is useful on a solider and have them run faster with bigger loads and maybe a bigger gun. Which is pretty much why you have something like a humvee or a Stryker.
Course the actual use for this in military applications alone will take several years of practical use to really figure out. Might be great for special forces in certain situations (or might suck depending on Opforce). Definitely potential in logistics and things like setting up bases when 'man portable' equipment can be moved by one person quickly.
Private sector applications will also take a long while to sniff out. I can see surveyors and firefighters have this be a huge ideal. Imagine a firefighter with cooling systems installed. The best hope of the military here is to figure out these uses quick so if the whole super-suit bit fails the uses elsewhere still get them the respect the project deserves.
It would seem that the owners of Craigslist value their profits more than the lives of the children whose exploitation they benefit from.
Craigslist is pretty non-commercial. They do charge 5 bucks on the erotic services site for all of craigslist to keep down the amount of illegal content, but all of that is donated to charity. There's only a total of 24 people who work for craigslist, with all of the money that keeps it up coming from broker ads in a couple of metro areas (Bay Area, NYC, Chicago)
TSMC is also known as Wafertech and has a massive fab just across the river from intel's main R&D fabs in Portland. So they are incredibly easy to access.
*cough* Gattaca *cough*
Last year I worked enough that I didn't qualify for them. Not the nearly the same thing as being bumped into a higher tax bracket, but if you're on the bubble it sure feels like it.
Don't forget undertakers!
The reason they want chicken pox early is not for your child to not develop it at school.
The reason goes back to herd immunity and the mutation rates in humans meaning if enough people get the disease it mutates into a new form that adults are not immune from. If enough people are vaccinated that human chickenpox is uncommmon, the mutation rates are low enough the vaccine will be stable so adults who get it and never had it won't get it.
Pregnant women who get chickenpox as an adult can not only have their unborn child die from it, but have been known to drop dead of it themselves. 10,000 people are hosptialized each year with it in the US.
What's really important though beyond the health risks for you child to spread chicken pox beyond the home (can take 3 weeks to incubate), is to understand what about the vaccinations were causing allergic reactions. Several vaccines have alternative methods, although some are a bit more controversial
A skin reaction may not exist for the oral version of the vaccine. Polio is the poster child for the oral polio vaccine (although there have been one or two flaws with that one).
The odds of your child being reactive to any additional vaccines are tiny. Of course being allergic to any of them in the first is also pretty tiny. Hopefully when you're ready to get the rest there will be no issue, and hopefully the ones that are most needed at the age recommended (typhus for example) aren't an issue.
I prefer looking at Hydro electric. 317,686 million Kilowatt-hours for the US versus 26,944 million Kilowatt-hours. Or about 4 times as much per person. I live in the Northwest though, and 82% of the power for the region is from Hydroelectric. The rest is either natural gas or nuclear and mostly for Seattle.
Well the biggest issue is the life support and social aspects. There's more than a few ways people have figured out to do the energy. Project Orion did enough math they figured they could get up to .12 C. Orion isn't something people would take likely due to being essentially using nukes. But the math works and we've got the stuff we need on earth enough enough.
Let alone using lasers to boost a solar sail to a fractional C and dumping the sail and using a ramscoop to steer/break.
If we can make habits (and that's the biggest if) we can slow boat it to the stars and make most of the cost in laser launching systems that are a fixed one time cost for all launch. Plus you can use em as a communication beam.
I was extremely lucky to be involved in the NASA SOAR program the last year the KC-135 was used. (Now it's a DC-9) SOAR is the free program for undergraduate research to be involved with Microgravity experiments. Something like 32 student groups a year get to use it in 2 week periods. NASA is also good at about getting multiple schools involved. Everyone from MIT to WVU and Oregon State is involved. Back to the topic. What happens isn't a sharp fall, it takes a small amount of time to pull out of it, so you don't quite fall normally. And then once you get up to 1G you then go up to 2G in a short time. The first and last sets of parabolas are also a different type designed to replicate Lunar and Martian gravity.
Unless you use enough to make other fuels viable. Ore refining of Uranium can be done electrically. Hanford site and Oakridge were picked for reasons of cheap power from hydro. Only thing left is transport. And even that can be carbon free if you're willing to do pebble bed reactors. The thing is even though there's CO2 from those, you don't have the carload of coal per hour like coal plants. Sure there's minor stuff, but that's in all of them. When you compare it to the massive coal burning we got going, it's much better. Less radioactive than the coal too.
Thus began the escalating war of pop-ups where automatic warnings versus catastrophic warnings had to be given increasing amounts. The number of small warnings made people numb to them. So the biggest issues would have to bring up red screens requiring the employee ID and passwords to continue. What this did was make anything that wasn't that screen just be clicked through. I had some luck reducing the ignorable pop ups in my area because I didn't want the guys on the floor to ignore everything I had set up, but many of them were ones the floor managment didn't want taken out due to being able to use it as a club/way to pin blame on someone.
Although I don't have a problem with constitutional monarchy, with a bit more power than the British do. It seems to me there's some merits when you have a decent Royal line that needs to think on a much longer scale than election cycles
Alot of the rights were saved by Roddenberry. She as his widow got everything. I think their son gets everything now. That's creative rights versus $$$ rights. Although I'm sure the son will be fithly rich off all the stuff for ages.
Well, first you have to remember that if it fell, it would only have the part below the cut fall. So an airplane at 25,000 would cause only about 25,000 feet to fall. It's like spinning a bucket on a rope. Cutting the Rope causes the bucket to fly out. Depending on the tension on the cable we might have trouble fixing the far end, but the massive counter weight could be fixed. So a 5 mile no flyzone would work just fine. Then I gotta bring up how you want this at a low latitude with lots of shipping. Depending on whose building it depends on where it goes, but Hawaii's big island is considered one of the more likely places. Possibly the Marshall islands too. How long till we see one attempted? A true space elevator needs a cheaper launch vehicle and a much better way to produce long Nanotubes or similar materials. Then you need to figure out the magnetic drag aspects. People have been working on it, and there's some neat ideas with them.
If and when I get a Job after being laid off due to the bum economy I'll really think about this. It's a great program and I'd love to tinker with one.