Buran does not have a 100 ton payload, the Energia booster does. The weight of Buran itself must be subtracted from this figure to get the payload Buran can put into orbit.
Then there are the Maori of New Zealand. They didn't have gunpowder or metal, but they invented what became modern trench warfare and seriously kicked ass until the British resorted to the Treaty and Treachery technique.
Actually, all of the Maori uses of trench warfare were after the treaty was signed.
The Maori survived because they were able to adopt new technology and lifestyles faster than most of the other low-tech peoples of the time, and because it wasn't in the interests of the British to pound them the way the Spanish pounded the Incas.
That said, if you have the time, implementing it yourself is a great way of learning the algorithms. My PhD topic is neural networks, and I 've always found that implementing a particular architecture myself gives me the highest level of understanding and satisfaction.
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If they were going to put another card slot in, I'd rather it was another CF slot. I run a lot of apps off of a 32 MB CF card in my TRGPro. If I wanted to use a CF modem as well, I wouldn't be able to use those apps. Kinda annoying, really, since with a CF modem I'd be able to use my folding keyboard at the same time.
From where I'm sitting (New Zealand) the whole DMCA mess seems like a symptom of a very sick, inherently corrupt, political system. You can fight the DMCA as much as you like, but even if you win, you've only won the battle, not the war. These kinds of things will continue until the US political system is changed.
There is much truth in the statement "the US congress is the best legislature money can buy"
True only for the early / simple GA's. The later GA's (such as messy GA's) do have variable length chromosomes, and there has been some work done on using a synthetic genetic code as well.
Is it just me, or are a lot of the Ask Slashdot questions lately from people looking for free legal advice?
If you're in a position where you need legal advice, get it from a lawyer. If the question was along the lines of "I'm having problem X in technology area Y and I'm located in jurisdiction Z, can you reccommend a good lawyer to help with this?" then the answers would be useful. As it is, they are a lot like a teenager asking their friends about contraception: the most common answers are along the lines of "You don't get pregnant if you do it standing up"!!!
So lets see an end to these kinds of questions, and a return to questions that actually have a chance of eliciting useful answers.
It takes less time to fly from Los Angeles to New York than it does to fly from New Zealand to Australia.
Why otherwise intelligent people are so utterly incapable of either reading a map or otherwise taking an interest in the outside world is completely beyond me.
It is one thing to mistake a NZ accent for an Australian accent (they do have many similarities) but to mistake one country for the other is nothing less than stupidity!
The Death Star II was not 500 miles wide, as they state at the start of the Endor Holocaust site - that's over 800km! According to the Essential Guide to Vechicles and Vessels, the original Death Star was "only" 120km wide. IIRC, DS 2 was 20 - 40km wider, which would make it 140-160km in diameter, which is only approx. 90-100 miles wide.
I think they described it very poorly in the movie (of course, it's a movie, who cares about the details?). It seemed to me that to fire the weapons or whatever the pilot had to think the Russian command for that action. I never saw the difference between thinking the command phrase immediately and thinking the command phrase in English then thinking the translation. In both cases, you are "thinking" the command phrase.
I do realise that there is a difference between translating. Because I don't speak any other languages well, I have to think in English then translate. My multi-lingual friends (most of whom have Englsh as a second language) tell me they think in the language they are speaking at the time. Some of them even dream in different languages.
The movie was "Firefox", with Clint Eastwood. IIRC the thought control only controlled the weapons, but you are right about having to think in Russian. One of the scientist characters said to Clint "You cannot think in English then translate", which I always thought was stupid - if you are thinking of the Russian translation of an English phrase, you are still thinking Russian, aren't you?
I got my folding keyboard to go with my TRGpro, and I absolutely love it.
If I'm sitting in a seminar, or reading resarch papers in the library, I just whip out my TRG and keyboard and start typing notes. Since I habitually wear a big leather jacket with capacious inside pockets, the size of the folded keyboard isn't a problem for me.
There's also the huge coolness factor associated with it: people keep coming up to me when I'm using it and telling me how cool it is. Even non-geeks are impressed by it.
Given that I mostly used a laptop for taking notes, this combination is far more conveniant for me: there is no way I could ever fit a laptop in my inside jacket pockets! Also, I can have the keyboard and handheld out, set up and usable in far less time than it takes most laptops to boot.
The requirement for a hard surface is a bit of a problem, but not an insurmountable one. The only times I want to do anything with it when I'm not near a hard surface is when I'm working in bed: I just keep a piece of hardboard by my bed instead.
Now, if only someone would come up with a way of connecting a PS/2 connecter to it...
OK, one thing Paul Swain (the fascist trying to push this crap through) has to remember, is that the current NZ government is a coalition of Labour and the Alliance, and is a minority government. The coalition must have the support of at least one other party to get any legislation passed. At the moment, that party is the Greens. The best (most effective) thing would be to convince the Greens that this is A Bad Thing to have in law, and it's chances of passing become much less. The Greens are also the party most likely to be sympathetic, especially given the paranoia their MPs like Sue Bradford have. Send her (and Nandor Tanczos) a letter saying how this will be used by the SIS to track their campaign against the multi-nationional corporations, and watch her go mental at Labour.
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Buran does not have a 100 ton payload, the Energia booster does. The weight of Buran itself must be subtracted from this figure to get the payload Buran can put into orbit.
Actually, all of the Maori uses of trench warfare were after the treaty was signed.
The Maori survived because they were able to adopt new technology and lifestyles faster than most of the other low-tech peoples of the time, and because it wasn't in the interests of the British to pound them the way the Spanish pounded the Incas.
It is almost 1,200 miles from the nearest point of New Zealand to the nearest point of Australia.
You would hope people at /. would be able to read a freakin' map.
Sounds a lot like Kohonen's Self Organising Map. SOMs would potentially be more efficient.
That said, if you have the time, implementing it yourself is a great way of learning the algorithms. My PhD topic is neural networks, and I 've always found that implementing a particular architecture myself gives me the highest level of understanding and satisfaction.
If they were going to put another card slot in, I'd rather it was another CF slot. I run a lot of apps off of a 32 MB CF card in my TRGPro. If I wanted to use a CF modem as well, I wouldn't be able to use those apps. Kinda annoying, really, since with a CF modem I'd be able to use my folding keyboard at the same time.
I don't know if it's true, but an old war movie I remember called 633 Squadron had Mosquito aricraft flying down a valley to hit a hidden target.
like in Snow Crash. There's just something very appealing about nuclear powered bionic pit bulls that can run at supersonic speeds.
The cats wouldn't stand a chance...
From where I'm sitting (New Zealand) the whole DMCA mess seems like a symptom of a very sick, inherently corrupt, political system. You can fight the DMCA as much as you like, but even if you win, you've only won the battle, not the war. These kinds of things will continue until the US political system is changed.
There is much truth in the statement "the US congress is the best legislature money can buy"
True only for the early / simple GA's. The later GA's (such as messy GA's) do have variable length chromosomes, and there has been some work done on using a synthetic genetic code as well.
why do they keep using Greek god names anyway? There are lots of other gods from other cultures / religions that are useful.
Just don't name a planet Xenu, that's all...
Is it just me, or are a lot of the Ask Slashdot questions lately from people looking for free legal advice?
If you're in a position where you need legal advice, get it from a lawyer. If the question was along the lines of "I'm having problem X in technology area Y and I'm located in jurisdiction Z, can you reccommend a good lawyer to help with this?" then the answers would be useful. As it is, they are a lot like a teenager asking their friends about contraception: the most common answers are along the lines of "You don't get pregnant if you do it standing up"!!!
So lets see an end to these kinds of questions, and a return to questions that actually have a chance of eliciting useful answers.
It takes less time to fly from Los Angeles to New York than it does to fly from New Zealand to Australia.
Why otherwise intelligent people are so utterly incapable of either reading a map or otherwise taking an interest in the outside world is completely beyond me.
It is one thing to mistake a NZ accent for an Australian accent (they do have many similarities) but to mistake one country for the other is nothing less than stupidity!
</obligatory NZ rant>
...points this post out to his Muslim and Jewsih friends...
Maori make up more than 10% of the population, they are far from dead.
Jedi is a trademark, _but_...
1) Census data is confidential under the Statistics Act. Therefore, it will be impossible to sue anyone, if such a suit was possible.
2) George Lucas, if he has a sense of humour, would probably laugh his arse off at the whole thing.
3) DMCA is an Amerikan law, and does not apply in other countries!
Can introduce another moderation category? Something like "-5: Stupid Ethnocentric American"
The Death Star II was not 500 miles wide, as they state at the start of the Endor Holocaust site - that's over 800km! According to the Essential Guide to Vechicles and Vessels, the original Death Star was "only" 120km wide. IIRC, DS 2 was 20 - 40km wider, which would make it 140-160km in diameter, which is only approx. 90-100 miles wide.
Armstrong was filmed stepping off the ladder by a camera fixed to the side of the lander.
The Ascent stage lifting off (on Apollo 16 or 17, IIRC) was filmed by a remote controlled camera on the rover.
so much as WHERE.
The original plan was for it to come down 1600km east of Australia.
1600km east of Australia is New Zealand. You'd think they'd be able to read a map...
I'm old enough to remember the concern about damage when Skylab came down in this part of the world.
> Newton had to wait to get the right to see Tyco > Brahe's studies, and so on (was it Newton, > right?).
Kepler, actually,
I think they described it very poorly in the movie (of course, it's a movie, who cares about the details?). It seemed to me that to fire the weapons or whatever the pilot had to think the Russian command for that action. I never saw the difference between thinking the command phrase immediately and thinking the command phrase in English then thinking the translation. In both cases, you are "thinking" the command phrase.
I do realise that there is a difference between translating. Because I don't speak any other languages well, I have to think in English then translate. My multi-lingual friends (most of whom have Englsh as a second language) tell me they think in the language they are speaking at the time. Some of them even dream in different languages.
The movie was "Firefox", with Clint Eastwood. IIRC the thought control only controlled the weapons, but you are right about having to think in Russian. One of the scientist characters said to Clint "You cannot think in English then translate", which I always thought was stupid - if you are thinking of the Russian translation of an English phrase, you are still thinking Russian, aren't you?
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Well, the processors in the JSOW prototypes were a pair of militarised 486-33s.
I suppose weapons don't need that much processing power.
I got my folding keyboard to go with my TRGpro, and I absolutely love it.
If I'm sitting in a seminar, or reading resarch papers in the library, I just whip out my TRG and keyboard and start typing notes. Since I habitually wear a big leather jacket with capacious inside pockets, the size of the folded keyboard isn't a problem for me.
There's also the huge coolness factor associated with it: people keep coming up to me when I'm using it and telling me how cool it is. Even non-geeks are impressed by it.
Given that I mostly used a laptop for taking notes, this combination is far more conveniant for me: there is no way I could ever fit a laptop in my inside jacket pockets! Also, I can have the keyboard and handheld out, set up and usable in far less time than it takes most laptops to boot.
The requirement for a hard surface is a bit of a problem, but not an insurmountable one. The only times I want to do anything with it when I'm not near a hard surface is when I'm working in bed: I just keep a piece of hardboard by my bed instead.
Now, if only someone would come up with a way of connecting a PS/2 connecter to it...
OK, one thing Paul Swain (the fascist trying to push this crap through) has to remember, is that the current NZ government is a coalition of Labour and the Alliance, and is a minority government. The coalition must have the support of at least one other party to get any legislation passed. At the moment, that party is the Greens. The best (most effective) thing would be to convince the Greens that this is A Bad Thing to have in law, and it's chances of passing become much less. The Greens are also the party most likely to be sympathetic, especially given the paranoia their MPs like Sue Bradford have. Send her (and Nandor Tanczos) a letter saying how this will be used by the SIS to track their campaign against the multi-nationional corporations, and watch her go mental at Labour.