But Guenneau cautions that large structures like islands and coastlines are unlikely to become invisible anytime soon, because building the many small islands needed to protect one is such a big job.
"It's crazy â" maybe only people in Dubai could do this," he adds, referring to the spectacular artificial islands built there.
Smaller structures such as offshore oil platforms would be easier to protect, he says.
It's a nice idea but a barrier like this would have to be made of strong stuff. That Asian tsunami a few years ago was able to pick up ten-feet-tall concrete blocks and throw them around like Lego bricks. I'm not sure if I'd want to be sitting downstream of something like this unless they're thinking of making them out of low-lying artificial islands, and in that case I don't know how effective they'd be under a tall enough wave. I'd like to have seen a bit more in the way of diagrams and specifics in TFA.
Get a copy of 'Great answers to tough interview questions.' I always read that before going into an interview and I swear by it. It'll give you examples of how you can take aspects of your job and put a certain spin on it to bring out the qualities they're looking for. Example: I once impressed an interview panel to hire me for the job of UNIX admin (even though I had zero sysadmin experience and precious little UNIX experience beyond typing a command to start AutoCAD) on the grounds that when I was at a loose end at work I would go through the Help menu and tutorials and learn a bit of Visual Basic Programming, which I was then able to use in work to save the company a quantifiable amount of money. If I hadn't read the book I probably would never have thought of mentioning something that ultimately got me the job because I was able to convince them that I would be able to pick up the skills with a little bit of training.
And as someone says above, have some qualities in your extra-curricular activities that you can sell as another reason to hire you. You could do a lot worse than read The Game by Neil Strauss. It's not just about picking up chicks, it's also about adding value to yourself and making you a person worth dating and then being able to demonstrate the high value person you are - a useful skill that can be adapted for the job interview.
as long as you can say you're anti-abortion and anti-gay you pretty much have most of the southern states wrapped up thanks to the Evangelical Christians.
And if in doubt, label educated people as 'elitists' and 'intellectuals' who are less qualified to run the country than someone who's fun to have a drink with.
My guess is that this article is just flat-out wrong. I know when I plug my iPhone into my Mac...
My guess is that he wasn't talking about iPhones. I use a Samsung..... something or other and I've yet to figure out how to get photos off the damn thing or how to lose that annoying 'ringback tone' that I had no idea what it was when I got it and now people don't like when they call me. Nor can I manage my image folders, there's no way to rename them or add new folders. And there's no quick way to delete the dozens of black pictures that it keeps taking on the inside of my pocket.
And when I go through the laboriously slow process of reading email on the damn thing, it won't let me see pdf or doc attachments. Bottom line: I hate the damn thing and I'm getting an iPhone.
I don't know much about the Cassini mission but I would imagine that they wouldn't want to jeopardize the probe by sending it too close to the rings where debris might damage her. You know what'd be cool though? If they could send in a reinforced probe similar to the Giotto probe that flew into Halley's Comet, send it as close to the rings as they can with a good telescope on board. I'd love to see actual close-up photos of the rings and see how accurate a prediction that artist's impression is.
but since we live in a multipolar world, and always have, and always will, that analysis is useless
most laughably, you articulate american "failure" in the context of a vacuum of anything else happening in the world, as if the usa were just randomly invading countries because it was in a bad mood
reach into the vast stretches of your imagination and figure out if maybe what the usa was doing was done in the context of anything the ussr was doing at the time
given THAT bizarre exotic context (since you seem to have a firmly entrenched opinion of american action without even faintly considering what was actually going on in the world at the time), what say you now?
Huh?
Please dispense with the ad hominem attacks, stop trying to show off how many big words you know, translate into meaningful English, and re-post something that relates to my point.
I wonder if downloadable movies are going to make optical media obsolete before Blu Ray gets a chance to become ubiquitous. Speaking for myself, I've barely touched my DVD player since I got my Roku Netflix download box, and I'm curious about how many other people are thinking along the same lines.
It would now be impossible for the likes of Germany to go to war with France or any EU member to go to war with another.
Why didn't you say that before Serbia started war with the other parts of what once was Yugoslavia? Denmark had no armed forces in the 1930s, did that protect them from the German invasion?
The problem with pacifism is that if your enemies are armed, you're toast.
If you could set aside the ad hominem attacks for one second and stop chastising people for being intellectually inferior to yourself, let me give you an analogy and then tell you why it's wrong.
"Defence spending is like taking out insurance on your car."
Why is it wrong? Because taking out insurance on your car does not increase the liklihood of you having an accident.
The nuclear balance of power did help to maintain peace in Europe for 40 years, but the projection of America's power elsewhere has led to many more problems. If you build military bases in countries where you're not exactly flavour of the month, you shouldn't be surprised when you find people opposing you. It's like the British sending troops to Northern Ireland. It was necessary at first, but it ended up just sending more soldiers to A) piss off the locals, because that's what happens when you have military people without civilian police training acting in a civilian police role, and B) provide targets for the locals who resent them.
A certain amount of defence spending will always be necessary, but it has gotten way out of hand in America today.
I find it odd that you were modded down. I think your analogy to Europe was quite apt and a good use of modern history to rebut the parent post's rather sophistic argument.
Me too. Hopefully the metamods won't be as biased.
a world without us military spending would be a world of russian imperialism and utter havoc in the middle east
"Would be?" What's with the conditional tense?
peace is a state of balance in war potentials between two or more sides.
That was all you had to say. The two dozen repetitions of 'you don't understand human nature' were a bit superfluous.
Europe was once a patchwork of opposing 'war potentials' as you describe them. There was a network of alliances pointing guns at each other in the belief that it would lead to peace. In reality all it took was a single assassination to trigger off the first world war. Modern Europe is a network of treaties and agreements where governments work together for mutual benefit. Result? It would now be impossible for the likes of Germany to go to war with France or any EU member to go to war with another.
There is an alternative to violence or the threat of violence in international relations. The American attitude of 'a gun in everyone's pocket keeps everyone safer' is one that doesn't work at home, and in world affairs it's a very high stakes game to be playing in the interests of proving that your ideology is correct.
Last month, the Army awarded Boeing $36 million to continue development of a high-energy laser
$36 million, eh? Not much when you say it quick. I suppose it's a drop in the ocean of US defence spending.
Other countries manage to generate growth without being such warmongers. What is it with the US and this obsession with devising new and more efficient ways to wage war? Dwight Eisenhower's warning seems to have been more prophetic than many would have realised. This war machine has every congressman in its pocket, it's sucking the taxpayer dry, and it's out of control.
Anyone here remember the old Open University broadcasts on the BBC? Apparently they ceased in 2006, but I remember watching them right up to 2001 when I left the UK. My sister learned to speak Spanish from a young age by watching those low-budget but highly informative shows on a Saturday morning. I got into engineering by watching OU material, 50% of which I had no idea what it was about, but my appetite was whetted for knowledge, the pursuit thereof, and I was aware of the level of mathematics needed to get your head around it all. Even though it looked like gibberish at the time, I couldn't help but wonder how cool it would be to be able to make sense of all those funnily-placed numbers and squiggles. I hope this material from Stanford will go on and inspire more people in the same way.
Ever hear the story of Graham Obree? He was a track rider who built his own bikes. He invented this low-tuck position that was subsequently banned. So then he invented the 'superman' position, everyone else copied it, and then it was banned too. I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made about him. He was a high profile rider at the same time as Chris Boardman was riding on the track with the famous (and expensive) Lotus bike.
I think recumbents are incredibly cool, especially the Windcheetah three-wheeler. I could use one of those for winter training when the surface is too greasy for the conventional bike. It's just a pity that recumbents aren't so good on the hills where you can't get to produce power from the muscles in your arms the same way you can on an upright, although in fairness I tend to do most of my climbing sitting in the saddle these days except for when I'm near the top.
These faired HPVs are amazing, I think they're a great illustration of how much power a human can translate into motion if he has an efficient enough machine under him.
As for this speed challenge, it'd bring a lot of publicity to the even if they could persuade big name pro cyclists or at least high profile ex-pros to take part.
An early word for balloonists was 'aeronaut,' which might have been the inspiration for 'astronaut.'
Athletes have been around for a long time, so the language surrounding them has had plenty of time to settle down. Manned space flight is still relatively new in terms of linguistic evolution, so the language is still in a little bit of flux.
It used to be that aviators were just people involved in the actual operation of the flying machine, but once passengers started travelling on planes we stopped talking so much about aviators and instead referred to distinguish between crew and passengers with different words for each. We'll soon see the same thing happen with space flight I think, I mean, are you really an astronaut if you take a flight on Virgin Galactic?
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It's a nice idea but a barrier like this would have to be made of strong stuff. That Asian tsunami a few years ago was able to pick up ten-feet-tall concrete blocks and throw them around like Lego bricks. I'm not sure if I'd want to be sitting downstream of something like this unless they're thinking of making them out of low-lying artificial islands, and in that case I don't know how effective they'd be under a tall enough wave. I'd like to have seen a bit more in the way of diagrams and specifics in TFA.
Get a copy of 'Great answers to tough interview questions.' I always read that before going into an interview and I swear by it. It'll give you examples of how you can take aspects of your job and put a certain spin on it to bring out the qualities they're looking for. Example: I once impressed an interview panel to hire me for the job of UNIX admin (even though I had zero sysadmin experience and precious little UNIX experience beyond typing a command to start AutoCAD) on the grounds that when I was at a loose end at work I would go through the Help menu and tutorials and learn a bit of Visual Basic Programming, which I was then able to use in work to save the company a quantifiable amount of money. If I hadn't read the book I probably would never have thought of mentioning something that ultimately got me the job because I was able to convince them that I would be able to pick up the skills with a little bit of training.
And as someone says above, have some qualities in your extra-curricular activities that you can sell as another reason to hire you. You could do a lot worse than read The Game by Neil Strauss. It's not just about picking up chicks, it's also about adding value to yourself and making you a person worth dating and then being able to demonstrate the high value person you are - a useful skill that can be adapted for the job interview.
Yes.
Those linked blogs say nothing about "yet another example of [Microsoft's] crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns."
What?! Since when?
On a related note, sometimes I hear people say "my SUV isn't making that big a difference to the environment, it's only one vehicle."
My response: "So you don't vote then? One vote isn't gonna make a difference, is it?"
And if in doubt, label educated people as 'elitists' and 'intellectuals' who are less qualified to run the country than someone who's fun to have a drink with.
Only if the president was more interested in clearing brush from his ranch than actually doing his job.
They told the President. Many times. He was too busy swanning off on vacation to take any of it seriously.
My guess is that this article is just flat-out wrong. I know when I plug my iPhone into my Mac ...
My guess is that he wasn't talking about iPhones. I use a Samsung..... something or other and I've yet to figure out how to get photos off the damn thing or how to lose that annoying 'ringback tone' that I had no idea what it was when I got it and now people don't like when they call me. Nor can I manage my image folders, there's no way to rename them or add new folders. And there's no quick way to delete the dozens of black pictures that it keeps taking on the inside of my pocket.
And when I go through the laboriously slow process of reading email on the damn thing, it won't let me see pdf or doc attachments. Bottom line: I hate the damn thing and I'm getting an iPhone.
... is only watch youporn films that are more than 15 minutes long.
I don't know much about the Cassini mission but I would imagine that they wouldn't want to jeopardize the probe by sending it too close to the rings where debris might damage her. You know what'd be cool though? If they could send in a reinforced probe similar to the Giotto probe that flew into Halley's Comet, send it as close to the rings as they can with a good telescope on board. I'd love to see actual close-up photos of the rings and see how accurate a prediction that artist's impression is.
in the idea of a unipolar world
but since we live in a multipolar world, and always have, and always will, that analysis is useless
most laughably, you articulate american "failure" in the context of a vacuum of anything else happening in the world, as if the usa were just randomly invading countries because it was in a bad mood
reach into the vast stretches of your imagination and figure out if maybe what the usa was doing was done in the context of anything the ussr was doing at the time
given THAT bizarre exotic context (since you seem to have a firmly entrenched opinion of american action without even faintly considering what was actually going on in the world at the time), what say you now?
Huh?
Please dispense with the ad hominem attacks, stop trying to show off how many big words you know, translate into meaningful English, and re-post something that relates to my point.
I wonder if downloadable movies are going to make optical media obsolete before Blu Ray gets a chance to become ubiquitous. Speaking for myself, I've barely touched my DVD player since I got my Roku Netflix download box, and I'm curious about how many other people are thinking along the same lines.
So you agree that the CEOs are to blame for risky investments then. Thanks for changing your mind.
Why didn't you say that before Serbia started war with the other parts of what once was Yugoslavia? Denmark had no armed forces in the 1930s, did that protect them from the German invasion?
The problem with pacifism is that if your enemies are armed, you're toast.
Serbia's not in the EU. There was no EU in 1939.
If you could set aside the ad hominem attacks for one second and stop chastising people for being intellectually inferior to yourself, let me give you an analogy and then tell you why it's wrong.
"Defence spending is like taking out insurance on your car."
Why is it wrong? Because taking out insurance on your car does not increase the liklihood of you having an accident.
The nuclear balance of power did help to maintain peace in Europe for 40 years, but the projection of America's power elsewhere has led to many more problems. If you build military bases in countries where you're not exactly flavour of the month, you shouldn't be surprised when you find people opposing you. It's like the British sending troops to Northern Ireland. It was necessary at first, but it ended up just sending more soldiers to A) piss off the locals, because that's what happens when you have military people without civilian police training acting in a civilian police role, and B) provide targets for the locals who resent them.
A certain amount of defence spending will always be necessary, but it has gotten way out of hand in America today.
I find it odd that you were modded down. I think your analogy to Europe was quite apt and a good use of modern history to rebut the parent post's rather sophistic argument.
Me too. Hopefully the metamods won't be as biased.
"Would be?" What's with the conditional tense?
That was all you had to say. The two dozen repetitions of 'you don't understand human nature' were a bit superfluous.
Europe was once a patchwork of opposing 'war potentials' as you describe them. There was a network of alliances pointing guns at each other in the belief that it would lead to peace. In reality all it took was a single assassination to trigger off the first world war. Modern Europe is a network of treaties and agreements where governments work together for mutual benefit. Result? It would now be impossible for the likes of Germany to go to war with France or any EU member to go to war with another.
There is an alternative to violence or the threat of violence in international relations. The American attitude of 'a gun in everyone's pocket keeps everyone safer' is one that doesn't work at home, and in world affairs it's a very high stakes game to be playing in the interests of proving that your ideology is correct.
No, not the UK. I'm aware that the British government isn't averse to a bit of warmongering either.
$36 million, eh? Not much when you say it quick. I suppose it's a drop in the ocean of US defence spending.
Other countries manage to generate growth without being such warmongers. What is it with the US and this obsession with devising new and more efficient ways to wage war? Dwight Eisenhower's warning seems to have been more prophetic than many would have realised. This war machine has every congressman in its pocket, it's sucking the taxpayer dry, and it's out of control.
...the EFF people start dropping dead after having shot themselves in the back of the head with a shotgun?
Anyone here remember the old Open University broadcasts on the BBC? Apparently they ceased in 2006, but I remember watching them right up to 2001 when I left the UK. My sister learned to speak Spanish from a young age by watching those low-budget but highly informative shows on a Saturday morning. I got into engineering by watching OU material, 50% of which I had no idea what it was about, but my appetite was whetted for knowledge, the pursuit thereof, and I was aware of the level of mathematics needed to get your head around it all. Even though it looked like gibberish at the time, I couldn't help but wonder how cool it would be to be able to make sense of all those funnily-placed numbers and squiggles. I hope this material from Stanford will go on and inspire more people in the same way.
Ever hear the story of Graham Obree? He was a track rider who built his own bikes. He invented this low-tuck position that was subsequently banned. So then he invented the 'superman' position, everyone else copied it, and then it was banned too. I'm surprised a movie hasn't been made about him. He was a high profile rider at the same time as Chris Boardman was riding on the track with the famous (and expensive) Lotus bike.
These faired HPVs are amazing, I think they're a great illustration of how much power a human can translate into motion if he has an efficient enough machine under him.
As for this speed challenge, it'd bring a lot of publicity to the even if they could persuade big name pro cyclists or at least high profile ex-pros to take part.
An early word for balloonists was 'aeronaut,' which might have been the inspiration for 'astronaut.' Athletes have been around for a long time, so the language surrounding them has had plenty of time to settle down. Manned space flight is still relatively new in terms of linguistic evolution, so the language is still in a little bit of flux. It used to be that aviators were just people involved in the actual operation of the flying machine, but once passengers started travelling on planes we stopped talking so much about aviators and instead referred to distinguish between crew and passengers with different words for each. We'll soon see the same thing happen with space flight I think, I mean, are you really an astronaut if you take a flight on Virgin Galactic?