CRTs are pretty durable. A typical CRT screen is already holding back a few thousand pounds of atmospheric force; a mere punch or two isn't going to bother it.
I haven't needed to actively conceal myself. If you Google my real name, you'll get plenty of hits, but I am neither the baseball player, nor the musician, nor the author. Two of the top 100 Google hits for my name are me, but good luck picking them out.
For the price of donating enough money Wine to pay a programmer to implement complete support for the application, one could buy several copies of genuine Windows Vista Ultimate.
For the cost of a thousand copies of Vista Business, you could pay Wine programmers to support every app your company uses.
I agree and I call shenanigans on the cops. Try and point a laser pointer at a stationary object that far away. You can't hold it still enough. Even if a helicopter was hovering in place, I'll bet that the victim pilot couldn't hold a beam on something as small as a helmet visor inside a cockpit from a quarter-mile away for anything longer than a fraction of a second. Wahhhhhhhh.....
I could. When I'm taking pictures with a long telephoto lens on my camera, I can manage to keep the aiming point within a ten-foot circle at three miles. Strap a laser to the camera, and that corresponds to a ten-inch circle at a quarter-mile.
fair cop, I missed the fractional bit,but weirdly: print (2).("3"); prints "2" - now whats going on there?
Perl's rule for function calls is that if it looks like a function call, then it is a function call. You're calling the function "print" with numeric 2 as its only argument, then string-concatenating the function's return with string 3 and discarding it.
We have 5 rather large freshwater lakes up north. I would say landing in those would be a "great" idea to solve the corrosion problem.
One slight problem: there are a lot of commercial ships on those lakes, and even more private boats. Yes, you can reliably land the vehicle within five miles of your target, but how are you going to keep every one of the half-million or so private boats out of the target zone? You've got at least 20 million people who might want to get a front-seat view of the landing.
You've also got the problem that the lakes can't be used for landing in the winter. Apart from the problem of ice, you also get storms that make the North Atlantic look tame.
I don't understand how we could have built something in 1967 that we couldn't still build forty years later.
You're forgetting that there's more to a rocket than just tanks and pipes. The electronics industry has come a long way in the past 40 years -- other than wires, they no longer make any of the parts the Saturn V used. You could probably fit the entire Saturn V electronics package on a single microchip, but you'd also have to do a complete re-design of it.
Things like pumps and heaters also change. Other than pipes, I doubt any of the plumbing used is still manufactured to the original specs. The stuff out there now is probably better, but you'll need to re-design the mountings to deal with the changed shapes, and you'll need to re-qualify them for use.
I admittedly don't know what I'm talking about, but I believe that a quieter engine would produce a smaller sonic boom- thus, if the scramjet is quieter, it may have a smaller boom.
A sonic boom is the shockwave generated by an object moving faster than the speed of sound. It doesn't matter if it's a rocket, a scramjet, a ramjet, or something completely unpowered like a machine-gun bullet: the size of the shockwave depends mainly on the size of the object and how fast it's travelling.
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They will take notice of a sign that says "Maximum clearance" though.:)
Not often enough, though. There's a bridge near here that's got an impressive collection of scrapes and dents from truckers taking the tops off their vehicles.
They may not have been published, but there are at least three: 1) A memory-indirect jump where the address is stored across a 256-byte boundary will read the second byte of the address from the wrong location. 2) The arithmetic status flags are not valid when performing arithmetic in BCD mode. 3) If a hardware interrupt occurs while the processor is fetching a BRK instruction, the BRK instruction is ignored.
Yes. SEVEN. "I agree to download the executable". "I agree to save the executable". "I agree to run the program" "I know it's an installer and might install something". "Yes, I'd like to install everything." "Yes, I agree to let the installer install something in Program Files" "Yes, I agree to let the installer update the registry".
You might want to change installers, then. We're using InstallerVise: yes, it requires clicking "next" a few times, but it doesn't trigger the "update the registry", "install in Program Files", and "run the program" UAC prompts.
The whole notion of "or any future version" of the license, as is commonly used in GPL and GFDL licenses, has always worried me. IANAL, but from a legal standpoint, it seems odd that you can agree in a binding way to something which is yet to be defined.
I can't find it right now, but IIRC, the FSF has made a legally binding commitment that any future versions of any of its licenses will be substantially in the spirit of current versions. The modified GFDL is no exception to this: the CC-BY-SA license is basically the GFDL without all the awkwardness clauses.
Sure, maybe hooking up to the internet is a little dicey in Death Valley, but there are other ways.
"A little dicey" is an understatement. Racetrack Playa is about as middle-of-nowhere as you can get in the lower 48. At a first guess, you'd need to run about a hundred miles of wire over the tallest mountain range outside of Alaska to get an internet connection there.
They need some college kid hyped up on caffeine to wire together a solar-powered
Armored against hailstorms, I presume?
, weather proof
An operating temperature range of -25F to +175F should cover what you need -- this will be sitting in direct sunlight, and it gets damn hot at times. Not exactly off-the-shelf equipment.
DVR
If it's going to be unattended, you'll need a minimum of a few months' video storage. The rocks don't move very often.
1) the experiment that could solve it is REALLY simple and 2) The mystery has been around for years.
It's conceptually simple, but the engineering details are a nightmare. The small, cheap webcam is an invention of the past few years, as is cheap high-volume storage. The experiment could not have been performed on a university budget more than about five years ago: before that, you'd need to pay someone to live out there full-time, swapping videotapes every six hours. The rocks only move once every few years, so even if they've got a camera out there now, it's possible that the rocks have't performed.
There are a number of reasons why they haven't: * The rocks don't move very often -- typically once every two or three years. * Cheap webcams have only been around for a few years, and I don't know if there have been any movement episodes during this time. * It's an incredibly hostile environment for electronic equipment: surface temperatures of 150+ degrees F during summer days, temperatures below zero F during winter nights, violent rainstorms, and intense direct sunlight. * There is no electricity. There is no internet service. There is no wireless phone service. During the rainstorms when the rocks are expected to be moving, there is no satellite service. * There's the ever-present risk of theft.
Then again, I don't remember too many japanese ships of steel on the waters around the time the british launched the titanic.
You might want to look again. Eight years before the Titanic sank, the Japanese navy sank two-thirds of the Russian navy without taking significant losses at the Battle of Tsushima.
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CRTs are pretty durable. A typical CRT screen is already holding back a few thousand pounds of atmospheric force; a mere punch or two isn't going to bother it.
I haven't needed to actively conceal myself. If you Google my real name, you'll get plenty of hits, but I am neither the baseball player, nor the musician, nor the author. Two of the top 100 Google hits for my name are me, but good luck picking them out.
For the cost of a thousand copies of Vista Business, you could pay Wine programmers to support every app your company uses.
Every Compaq recovery CD I've encountered has been the "format and reinstall" sort.
I could. When I'm taking pictures with a long telephoto lens on my camera, I can manage to keep the aiming point within a ten-foot circle at three miles. Strap a laser to the camera, and that corresponds to a ten-inch circle at a quarter-mile.
Worse than Daikatana isn't hard. The big problem with Daikatana was that it was a B-list game hyped as if it were AAA.
Perl's rule for function calls is that if it looks like a function call, then it is a function call. You're calling the function "print" with numeric 2 as its only argument, then string-concatenating the function's return with string 3 and discarding it.
One slight problem: there are a lot of commercial ships on those lakes, and even more private boats. Yes, you can reliably land the vehicle within five miles of your target, but how are you going to keep every one of the half-million or so private boats out of the target zone? You've got at least 20 million people who might want to get a front-seat view of the landing.
You've also got the problem that the lakes can't be used for landing in the winter. Apart from the problem of ice, you also get storms that make the North Atlantic look tame.
You're forgetting that there's more to a rocket than just tanks and pipes. The electronics industry has come a long way in the past 40 years -- other than wires, they no longer make any of the parts the Saturn V used. You could probably fit the entire Saturn V electronics package on a single microchip, but you'd also have to do a complete re-design of it.
Things like pumps and heaters also change. Other than pipes, I doubt any of the plumbing used is still manufactured to the original specs. The stuff out there now is probably better, but you'll need to re-design the mountings to deal with the changed shapes, and you'll need to re-qualify them for use.
A sonic boom is the shockwave generated by an object moving faster than the speed of sound. It doesn't matter if it's a rocket, a scramjet, a ramjet, or something completely unpowered like a machine-gun bullet: the size of the shockwave depends mainly on the size of the object and how fast it's travelling.
It's called "clickfraud", it's possibly illegal, certainly against the Google terms of service, and a well-known problem.
The series numbering is a bit odd:
*Final Fantasy I
*Final Fantasy II
*Final Fantasy III
*Final Fantasy II
*Final Fantasy V
*Final Fantasy III
*Final Fantasy VII
*Final Fantasy LiveJournal
*Final Fantasy IX
*Final Fantasy X
*Final Fantasy XII
*Final Fantasy XIII
"How" is always the same: "I slipped while stepping out of the shower".
Considering they've used the same launch pads for everything from Apollo onwards, I'd say that a lightning-repeller is a good investment.
Not often enough, though. There's a bridge near here that's got an impressive collection of scrapes and dents from truckers taking the tops off their vehicles.
They may not have been published, but there are at least three:
1) A memory-indirect jump where the address is stored across a 256-byte boundary will read the second byte of the address from the wrong location.
2) The arithmetic status flags are not valid when performing arithmetic in BCD mode.
3) If a hardware interrupt occurs while the processor is fetching a BRK instruction, the BRK instruction is ignored.
You might want to change installers, then. We're using InstallerVise: yes, it requires clicking "next" a few times, but it doesn't trigger the "update the registry", "install in Program Files", and "run the program" UAC prompts.
I can't find it right now, but IIRC, the FSF has made a legally binding commitment that any future versions of any of its licenses will be substantially in the spirit of current versions. The modified GFDL is no exception to this: the CC-BY-SA license is basically the GFDL without all the awkwardness clauses.
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Sort of. The price cuts to the low-end models were to clear out existing inventory so the low-end model wouldn't be competing with the next model up.
"A little dicey" is an understatement. Racetrack Playa is about as middle-of-nowhere as you can get in the lower 48. At a first guess, you'd need to run about a hundred miles of wire over the tallest mountain range outside of Alaska to get an internet connection there.
Armored against hailstorms, I presume?
An operating temperature range of -25F to +175F should cover what you need -- this will be sitting in direct sunlight, and it gets damn hot at times. Not exactly off-the-shelf equipment.
If it's going to be unattended, you'll need a minimum of a few months' video storage. The rocks don't move very often.
It's conceptually simple, but the engineering details are a nightmare. The small, cheap webcam is an invention of the past few years, as is cheap high-volume storage. The experiment could not have been performed on a university budget more than about five years ago: before that, you'd need to pay someone to live out there full-time, swapping videotapes every six hours. The rocks only move once every few years, so even if they've got a camera out there now, it's possible that the rocks have't performed.
There are a number of reasons why they haven't:
* The rocks don't move very often -- typically once every two or three years.
* Cheap webcams have only been around for a few years, and I don't know if there have been any movement episodes during this time.
* It's an incredibly hostile environment for electronic equipment: surface temperatures of 150+ degrees F during summer days, temperatures below zero F during winter nights, violent rainstorms, and intense direct sunlight.
* There is no electricity. There is no internet service. There is no wireless phone service. During the rainstorms when the rocks are expected to be moving, there is no satellite service.
* There's the ever-present risk of theft.
You don't need $750, or much of a computer, for this:
Old computer (I used a 300MHz K6-II): $50
2x500GB hard drives: $110 ea
Hardware RAID1/0 card: $100
PCI 10/100 network card: $10
Linux: $0
Shipping (UPS ground): $20
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Total: $400
You might want to look again. Eight years before the Titanic sank, the Japanese navy sank two-thirds of the Russian navy without taking significant losses at the Battle of Tsushima.
The algebra is 248-dimensional. The universe is still only 3+1-dimensional.