On Killing by LTCOL Dave Grossman covers this, along with other aspects of killing other humans, including the effect of killing at range and much more. Well worth a read.
If you are being serious, I believe (DOS geeks feel free to correct) that the abort option stopped attempts to read for that particular request, whilst the fail option failed the device (i.e. marked it unserviceable to the system).
For the newly initiated, the original post is a modification of a long time troll that inhabited the Apple section of this site, always starting off with 'Sitting at my freelance gig...' somewhere in the first sentence, and then prattling on about how crap their system was, but outperforming whatever the article was about.
Right / Control click on the calculator.app -> show package contents.
Under resources are a number of folders ending in.calcview. Drag them into the PlugIns folder and, voila, you now have a 2D Graphing calculator, a fully blown Hexadecimal calculator, and so on, available through the View menu in Calculator.
If it still doesn't rock your boat, there are plenty of valid third party calculator applications, such as GeekCalc, WCalc and a host of others.
Having received one of the above mentioned spam mails, and having looked at the site redesign, I think that this is NOT courtesy of the USSS. When I received my spam I actually did a bit of digging to uncover what the site was about, since I got several types of Joe Job aimed at them in my inbox (terrorist items, and so on). I traced the Joe Job back to a Finnish DSL net, and passed on the details to the relevant Police Computer Crimes Division, and to abuse@finnishisp.com.
The real life arrests, and whatnot would be legit, but the site redesign screams out that it is an amateur defacement.
At the least, as a government agency, the USSS would know that this would be made public, and would not have implemented such a hackish takeover of the site. If they had done it, it would have been more tasteful in terms of appearance.
This is probably a defacement by the same people Joe Jobbing them, timed to coincide with the news of the arrests. Expect to see this appear on the defacement lists, and for the site to fade quietly into the background like before.
Although I am much too late for moderation, I thought that I would address your final point regarding the iPod. I remember a recent bit of media coverage (I think started by ARIA or other equally abhorrent body) that it is illegal to rip your CD collection and place it on your iPod. I think that APR(I?)A (Australian Performing Rights / Industry Association) was the body complaining about how they were going to be so hard done by after the FTA comes into effect. Somehow I don't think that the concepts of ownership, licencing and the Free Market are really understoof all that well by these bodies.
This shouldn't be funny. It's true (except for the 419 attempted email). This money WAS paid out to the Australian taxpayers (at least some of them) after the last budget, and supposed to help with the Family first type of policy that the Government has been pursuing.
Another point of note is that a federal election is due this year, and the conjecture is that it will be happening in mid October. It could be a sign of things to come for Blair and Bush wrt public perception of Iraq, given that the Spanish have already booted their incumbent government (the other of the original four countries).
Probably too late for mod points, but to answer your humorous suggestion with a serious answer -
God implies a god that is addressed as God as one of his / her titles.
god implies a supernatural being with the smiting and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
AFAIK it is only really the Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith that calls their god God (amongst other names).
It is similar to the Aboriginal people in Australia (although there are many tribes). In common usage, an aborigine / aboriginal person is a native of a country / region, but an Aborigine / Aboriginal is a native of Australia.
Momentum and impulse is good, but Impact pressure is more of a concern.
(1) P = F/A
(2) F = ma
(3) v=u + at
solving
v = 0 m/s
u = 500 m / s (not unreasonable for a supersonic round)
t = 0.01 s (how long do you think it takes to stop the round?
Substituting into (3) and solving for a
a = (v-u) / t = (0-500) / 0.01
a = 50 * 10 E 3 m s E -2
Solving (2) for F, given m = 0.02 kg
F = 1000 N.
Given a bullet point approx 1 mm squared( 1 E -6)
Solving (1) for P gives a pressure of 1 E 9 Pa (1 GPa).
With an armoured body, we assume a protected area of 0.25 square metres protected. Spreading the 1000 N force across this area reduces the pressure to 4000 Pa transmitted to the torso, a solid hit, but hopefully no penetration, and we assume the armour plate is capable of absorbing 1 GPa without failure.
Okay, so I understand the budget crisis under Bush, but does that mean that they have to start thinking like him, too? Or did he order it to be a night mission?
I wonder how they are going to retrieve the piloted balloon (short of venting helium). If their design becomes commercially viable, how much Helium is going to be wasted to get their rocket to launch altitude. While there wouldn't be a problem for small scale implementation, on a global scale of tourism / usage, surely the logisitcs would drive Helium prices / usage up, and supplies down.
Okay, so this is probably incorrect, but it is a train of thought. With the state of quantum encryption being that if a third party observes the key in transit, it is apparent, and the key is useless, would this have a potential application to break this encryption.
Using this method, the duplicated particles could be observed, leaving the original particles in the encryption stream relatively unmolested. Yes, it would be impractical and the equipment needed would be very distinctive and difficult to hide, but it raises the possibility.
One thing that I have noticed recently is the apparent explosion in the number of people using PHP for more than a simple MySQL / dynamic-when-it-should-be-static web page implementation. I'm too lazy to provide the clicky links, but OpenGL and dynamic image generation is being done in PHP now. I think that once the associated stigma of it 'just being a web scripting language' passes, then PHP will be set for some very interesting future uses (much the same as BASIC has evolved through various implementations such as QuickBasic, VB [shudder], etc).
I think that it might follow Perl, and find more implementation at the CLI. To a non-technical user, Perl and PHP are only seen through CGI / web-scripting, and they don't care or need to see the CLI usage, even though it may be doing everything they are relying on. Once it gets past the 'just a n00b language' I think that it might get very interesting.
I was going to mod this, but I thought I should reply instead. I call BS on the claim you could see the stars through the cloud breaks. I don't know what you were looking at, but it wouldn't have been the stars unless the storm clouds were dense enough and thick enough to extend all the way through the atmosphere to mitigate the effect of the atmosphere in distributing light. This is the same reason why you can't see stars when looking up through a long chimney / mine shaft / whatever during the day.
I was waiting for someone to pipe up about the La Fayette class. The La Fayette is actually in service, and has been for sometime, as opposed to the Sea Shadow.
The idea with a low vis / low radar vis stealth platform is not to use the radar at all, but to sit there and listen to everything else going on, giving you a better chance to work out what the bad guys are doing, before they know you are there (or hopefully never know you are there).
Since this is Italy, I assume this law only really applies to downloading materials that come from companies that Berlusconi owns a controlling interest in.
I was thinking along the same lines. How much influence would a billionaire media magnate have had in introducing these laws, particularly when said media magnate is president.
If you think Fox is bad, imagine how bad it would be if Murdoch became US President. Here in Australia there is always a little tension between the media magnates and the government trying to restrict their power. It is difficult when the population gets their political views from the mass media to place too many restrictions on media ownership. It is a case of one body that prints its own money fighting with a group that buys ink by the truckful.
Having said that, the recent FTA with the USA may be leading.au computer users down a similar path to the Italian (although not as extreme). The power that American bodies such as RIAA and MPAA were, and are, going to be allowed to exert over Australia is disturbing, so much so that Australian performers have formed their own special interest group to highlight the inequalities and unfair treatment that they will receive as a result of the FTA.
How is this any different than mega supermarkets that give shelf space preference to various brands with respect to location and quantity?
Never having been a shelf stacker or otherwise worked in a supermarket this maybe incorrect, but I think that the shelf space and location is determined largely by money.
If I remember correctly, the food companies pay bucketloads of money to the supermarkets to provide the preferential location, in the hope that the popularity and demand for their product will pick up to the point that it becomes necessary to maintain that position and shelfspace for the product.
The end of aisle locations are also very hotly contested and worth big money. It is all a part of the marketing matrix, particularly the product placement.
It is very interesting that you call yourself an Aero Eng student, but haven't mentioned anything about the NACA series of aerofoils (or maybe that is what you are calling 1960s or earlier). Why modern aerofoil data is required, as opposed to these foils is not known. If you are on the cutting edge of design, then you should have ready access to a wind tunnel for testing. If you don't, then you should be able to convince your instructors to let you carry out a project to derive appropriate NACA data for your modern aerofoil.
A standard NACA series aerofoil should suffice for your project, until everything else related to the design is settled to maximum efficiency (propulsion and so on). The six series aerofoil is actually the basis for the F-15 wing, it uses the 64A modified with camber at the leading edge. A lot of modern aerofoils are derived from the six-series NACA aerofoils, so they would make for a great starting point, while you modify the design to meet your requirements.
If you really must use a custom design, I would reccomend using X Plane and the aircraft design module, and design the aerofoil within that module. This also allows flying of the model in the simulator. X Plane uses Finite Element Analysis to carry out the appropriate computations to work out if the design will work, and generate lift in accordance with design principles.
Building your own wind tunnel / test rig would also be a possibility, such as the Wright brothers did, in order to test your designs. A good read of
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach by Daniel P. Raymer;
Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators by the USN ASA-ANA ISBN 1-56027-140-X;
Modern Combat Aircraft Design by Klaus Huenecke also explains the F-16 wing as the NACA 64A204 series (modified) - although these last couple of titles would probably gain unwanted attention now-a-days.
I remember being able to develop a decent approximation for the E-2C Hawkeye and the Concorde aerofoils as part of my assignments at Uni. Surely your Uni / College library would have suitable titles on the shelves with some more in-depth listings of aerofoils and their application, and the appropriate modifications. The NACA series aerofoil data should also be available online (at least I remember that used to be the case).
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On Killing by LTCOL Dave Grossman covers this, along with other aspects of killing other humans, including the effect of killing at range and much more. Well worth a read.
If you are being serious, I believe (DOS geeks feel free to correct) that the abort option stopped attempts to read for that particular request, whilst the fail option failed the device (i.e. marked it unserviceable to the system).
Agret meet troll, troll meet Agret.
For the newly initiated, the original post is a modification of a long time troll that inhabited the Apple section of this site, always starting off with 'Sitting at my freelance gig ...' somewhere in the first sentence, and then prattling on about how crap their system was, but outperforming whatever the article was about.
As per your sig, your opinion is uninformed.
Right / Control click on the calculator.app -> show package contents.
Under resources are a number of folders ending in .calcview. Drag them into the PlugIns folder and, voila, you now have a 2D Graphing calculator, a fully blown Hexadecimal calculator, and so on, available through the View menu in Calculator.
If it still doesn't rock your boat, there are plenty of valid third party calculator applications, such as GeekCalc, WCalc and a host of others.
Having received one of the above mentioned spam mails, and having looked at the site redesign, I think that this is NOT courtesy of the USSS. When I received my spam I actually did a bit of digging to uncover what the site was about, since I got several types of Joe Job aimed at them in my inbox (terrorist items, and so on). I traced the Joe Job back to a Finnish DSL net, and passed on the details to the relevant Police Computer Crimes Division, and to abuse@finnishisp.com.
The real life arrests, and whatnot would be legit, but the site redesign screams out that it is an amateur defacement.
At the least, as a government agency, the USSS would know that this would be made public, and would not have implemented such a hackish takeover of the site. If they had done it, it would have been more tasteful in terms of appearance.
This is probably a defacement by the same people Joe Jobbing them, timed to coincide with the news of the arrests. Expect to see this appear on the defacement lists, and for the site to fade quietly into the background like before.
Wasn't the coldest inhabited place Vostok(?) in Russia? I guess that having people living on these ice domes will mean that record will be rewritten.
Although I am much too late for moderation, I thought that I would address your final point regarding the iPod. I remember a recent bit of media coverage (I think started by ARIA or other equally abhorrent body) that it is illegal to rip your CD collection and place it on your iPod. I think that APR(I?)A (Australian Performing Rights / Industry Association) was the body complaining about how they were going to be so hard done by after the FTA comes into effect. Somehow I don't think that the concepts of ownership, licencing and the Free Market are really understoof all that well by these bodies.
What, not that sort of revolution?
Damn...
Another point of note is that a federal election is due this year, and the conjecture is that it will be happening in mid October. It could be a sign of things to come for Blair and Bush wrt public perception of Iraq, given that the Spanish have already booted their incumbent government (the other of the original four countries).
Probably too late for mod points, but to answer your humorous suggestion with a serious answer -
God implies a god that is addressed as God as one of his / her titles.
god implies a supernatural being with the smiting and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
AFAIK it is only really the Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith that calls their god God (amongst other names).
It is similar to the Aboriginal people in Australia (although there are many tribes). In common usage, an aborigine / aboriginal person is a native of a country / region, but an Aborigine / Aboriginal is a native of Australia.
I initially read that as
I'm a Fuhrer.net user ...
and was wondering what exactly was the stance of old Adolf on the P2P issue.
(1) P = F/A
(2) F = ma
(3) v=u + at
solving
v = 0 m/s
u = 500 m / s (not unreasonable for a supersonic round)
t = 0.01 s (how long do you think it takes to stop the round?
Substituting into (3) and solving for a
a = (v-u) / t = (0-500) / 0.01
a = 50 * 10 E 3 m s E -2
Solving (2) for F, given m = 0.02 kg
F = 1000 N.
Given a bullet point approx 1 mm squared( 1 E -6)
Solving (1) for P gives a pressure of 1 E 9 Pa (1 GPa).
With an armoured body, we assume a protected area of 0.25 square metres protected. Spreading the 1000 N force across this area reduces the pressure to 4000 Pa transmitted to the torso, a solid hit, but hopefully no penetration, and we assume the armour plate is capable of absorbing 1 GPa without failure.
Here is my contribution, all the confluences between 60 and 90 N and 60 and 90 S.
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Whew! That was a lot of effort. Damn dust spec on the lens.
For those lacking taste, the reference is to Good Morning, Vietnam
Okay, so I understand the budget crisis under Bush, but does that mean that they have to start thinking like him, too? Or did he order it to be a night mission?
I wonder how they are going to retrieve the piloted balloon (short of venting helium). If their design becomes commercially viable, how much Helium is going to be wasted to get their rocket to launch altitude. While there wouldn't be a problem for small scale implementation, on a global scale of tourism / usage, surely the logisitcs would drive Helium prices / usage up, and supplies down.
Just a couple of pondering points.
Okay, so this is probably incorrect, but it is a train of thought. With the state of quantum encryption being that if a third party observes the key in transit, it is apparent, and the key is useless, would this have a potential application to break this encryption.
Using this method, the duplicated particles could be observed, leaving the original particles in the encryption stream relatively unmolested. Yes, it would be impractical and the equipment needed would be very distinctive and difficult to hide, but it raises the possibility.
One thing that I have noticed recently is the apparent explosion in the number of people using PHP for more than a simple MySQL / dynamic-when-it-should-be-static web page implementation. I'm too lazy to provide the clicky links, but OpenGL and dynamic image generation is being done in PHP now. I think that once the associated stigma of it 'just being a web scripting language' passes, then PHP will be set for some very interesting future uses (much the same as BASIC has evolved through various implementations such as QuickBasic, VB [shudder], etc).
I think that it might follow Perl, and find more implementation at the CLI. To a non-technical user, Perl and PHP are only seen through CGI / web-scripting, and they don't care or need to see the CLI usage, even though it may be doing everything they are relying on. Once it gets past the 'just a n00b language' I think that it might get very interesting.
I was going to mod this, but I thought I should reply instead. I call BS on the claim you could see the stars through the cloud breaks. I don't know what you were looking at, but it wouldn't have been the stars unless the storm clouds were dense enough and thick enough to extend all the way through the atmosphere to mitigate the effect of the atmosphere in distributing light. This is the same reason why you can't see stars when looking up through a long chimney / mine shaft / whatever during the day.
I was waiting for someone to pipe up about the La Fayette class. The La Fayette is actually in service, and has been for sometime, as opposed to the Sea Shadow.
The idea with a low vis / low radar vis stealth platform is not to use the radar at all, but to sit there and listen to everything else going on, giving you a better chance to work out what the bad guys are doing, before they know you are there (or hopefully never know you are there).
I was thinking along the same lines. How much influence would a billionaire media magnate have had in introducing these laws, particularly when said media magnate is president.
If you think Fox is bad, imagine how bad it would be if Murdoch became US President. Here in Australia there is always a little tension between the media magnates and the government trying to restrict their power. It is difficult when the population gets their political views from the mass media to place too many restrictions on media ownership. It is a case of one body that prints its own money fighting with a group that buys ink by the truckful.
Having said that, the recent FTA with the USA may be leading .au computer users down a similar path to the Italian (although not as extreme). The power that American bodies such as RIAA and MPAA were, and are, going to be allowed to exert over Australia is disturbing, so much so that Australian performers have formed their own special interest group to highlight the inequalities and unfair treatment that they will receive as a result of the FTA.
Never having been a shelf stacker or otherwise worked in a supermarket this maybe incorrect, but I think that the shelf space and location is determined largely by money.
If I remember correctly, the food companies pay bucketloads of money to the supermarkets to provide the preferential location, in the hope that the popularity and demand for their product will pick up to the point that it becomes necessary to maintain that position and shelfspace for the product.
The end of aisle locations are also very hotly contested and worth big money. It is all a part of the marketing matrix, particularly the product placement.
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Is this a low-end Klein bottle for materials that would vaporise in contact with plasma?
It is very interesting that you call yourself an Aero Eng student, but haven't mentioned anything about the NACA series of aerofoils (or maybe that is what you are calling 1960s or earlier). Why modern aerofoil data is required, as opposed to these foils is not known. If you are on the cutting edge of design, then you should have ready access to a wind tunnel for testing. If you don't, then you should be able to convince your instructors to let you carry out a project to derive appropriate NACA data for your modern aerofoil.
A standard NACA series aerofoil should suffice for your project, until everything else related to the design is settled to maximum efficiency (propulsion and so on). The six series aerofoil is actually the basis for the F-15 wing, it uses the 64A modified with camber at the leading edge. A lot of modern aerofoils are derived from the six-series NACA aerofoils, so they would make for a great starting point, while you modify the design to meet your requirements.
If you really must use a custom design, I would reccomend using X Plane and the aircraft design module, and design the aerofoil within that module. This also allows flying of the model in the simulator. X Plane uses Finite Element Analysis to carry out the appropriate computations to work out if the design will work, and generate lift in accordance with design principles.
Building your own wind tunnel / test rig would also be a possibility, such as the Wright brothers did, in order to test your designs. A good read of
Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach by Daniel P. Raymer;
Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators by the USN ASA-ANA ISBN 1-56027-140-X;
Modern Combat Aircraft Design by Klaus Huenecke also explains the F-16 wing as the NACA 64A204 series (modified) - although these last couple of titles would probably gain unwanted attention now-a-days.
I remember being able to develop a decent approximation for the E-2C Hawkeye and the Concorde aerofoils as part of my assignments at Uni. Surely your Uni / College library would have suitable titles on the shelves with some more in-depth listings of aerofoils and their application, and the appropriate modifications. The NACA series aerofoil data should also be available online (at least I remember that used to be the case).
Good luck with your project, anyway.