Don't they understand that the closer to the equator they are, the greater the natural velocity of the vessel? By picking a trajectory so far North, they will have to burn more fuel to get the vehicle up to a speed which they would've gotten for free if they started somewhere closer to the equator.
This only applies if you're going for orbit. For an up-and-down suborbital flight, no place has a particular advantage over any other. (Slight exception: Launching from a mountaintop will reduce the height you need to reach by a bit)
I think Scaled Composites could launch tomorrow if they wanted to. They've got the full system working, they're just going slowly to make sure nothing unexpected crops up.
Ummmmm... psycho-ergonomics? neuro-economics? c ompu-architectonics?
"psycho-ergonomics" makes sense -- it relates to thinking in the same way that ergonomics relates to moving -- but the other two are clearly made-up buzzwords.
"whole language" is where you don't teach kids to read at the phonetic/letter level, but instead just let them learn whole words "naturally" by following along in their own book while the teacher reads aloud. If this seems ridiculous and nonsensical, that's because it is. It was dreamed up by a fool who "observed" that when one reads, one doesn't sound out individual letters, and then assemble the letters into words; no, one just reads words. The logical flaw here is the assumption that there is no letter-level parsing when, in fact, there is-- it's just not noticable as a distinct step because we do it so efficiently.
The person who thought this up was half-right. Most people do develop a sight-reading vocabulary of a few hundred words that are recognized as whole words, while the rest of the time it's letter-based parsing.
There are also a few people who really do learn to read using the whole-language method -- my brother taught himself to read this way, and had a sight-reading vocabulary of five thousand words by the age of six -- but those people have trouble learning additional words because they never learned how to sound out words.
I'm not coming from any real position of authority here, but I imagine that this law would only affect the recording's admissability in a court proceeding.
No. Unauthorized recording is in and of itself a crime.
Look at the 'undercover reports' that TV shows do on insurance fraud--those people are filmed by civilians without informing all parties.
The US is about evenly split between jurisdictions that require at least one party involved to give consent, and ones that require all parties involved to give consent. I bet these shows are very careful about where they do the recording.
Where's the privacy problem? Let only people you trust see things they're allowed to remember. That's why the difference between "public" and "private" places is so important, and why the right to control access to our private places is essential to privacy, and to our participation in society - rather than alienating us from it.
Walk in to a department store dressing room in the lingere section, "accidentally" open the door to an occupied stall. "Oops, sorry!", and you've got a few more pictures for your softcore porn site.
Sure, it may create some privacy issues...if it's storing it at some central HP or public database. If it's just recording it to some internal storage drive, and then you move the footage to your hard drive or somewhere else, then what's the problem?? I'm not trying to troll, but why is this such a big deal?
In many places, wiretapping law requires that if you are recording a conversation, all parties involved must be informed in advance of the recording. Despite the name, this applies to recordings of any conversations, not just telephone.
Are you the poor sap who got stuck trying to maintain the inventory tracking database I wrote as part of a summer job when I was 14? The reason it's got such a goshawful design is because I'd never designed a database before.
That's flat-out incorrect. A reasonable definition of "running out of space on earth" is no longer being able to exist as a species without displacing other species to the point where we drive them to extinction. We have reached that point and passed it.
We reached that point and passed it about six thousand years ago when large-scale farming began.
A lot easier said that done - there is a lot of concrete in the structure - besides, other than Yuma, there aren't a lot of population centers on the river.
Hoover's an arch dam. As a result, a semi-truck filled with explosives detonated either dead-center or at one end will do significant damage. Probably not enough to bring the dam down entirely, though.
On the other hand, a gravity dam like Grand Coulee could shrug off a nuke.
I'm all for choice when it works. For example, KDE offers you tons of choices; by default there's this multiple-virtual-desktop thing with all sorts of options and shortcut keys and soforth. But the one choice I want - the ability to stop files and folders on my local harddrive from acting like hyperlinks - isn't available. I suppose that, given a few months of practice, I could get used to treating my hard drive like a website, but it isn't working out for me at the moment.
Are we talking about the same KDE here? The one available from www.kde.org? I've been using KDE for two years now, and for all that time, it's used a standard "single click highlights, double click opens" system. Nowhere do I see an option to switch it to "point highlights, click opens" system.
Don't be an ass. With "enough context" you can replace entire words with meaningless alternatives, or delete them, or insert new ones, or rearrange them, and still "understand" the text.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Dude. That's way too harsh. I think you should give people some credit for knowing what their needs or wants are versus what they can afford.
I don't. Ever since the peak of the dot-com bubble, in the US, consumer debt has exceeded the GDP. Kind of implies that people are spending *way* more than they make.
That is an incorrect assumption. The fundamental requirement is: It is hard (next to impossible) to find two inputs which produce the same digest (and still make sense
This doesn't invalidate the project, though. If they can find a collision in two years or less with a distributed system, then cracking MD5 has gone from "hard (next to impossible)" to "hard but feasable".
What do you mean trivial amount of memory? Even book-length text files aren't very big. Like it said, it can hold about 500 books on it. Have most people even read 500 books?
When I was in school, I'd typically read 500 books a year. Nowadays, what with having a full-time job and being active on-line, it's closer to 200 a year.
But the question remains: How can they stop them completely? Surely, script kiddies will just stop and go somewhere else, but how about the guys who write all the tools? They won't stop so easily.
In my opinion, writing a cheat tool is a perfectly valid strategy for playing the game -- a good aimbot or whatever isn't exactly easy to make. Using someone else's programs is simply lame.
That's an extremely clean world. Where are the oil stains? Where are the scuff marks? Where are the worn edges? Where are the footprints from those mechs?
It's got an interesting "TV interlace" effect, but that's hardly a substitute for dirt.
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hmmm... 4 comments up same response with a sentance more of obvious explanation = 5, insightful. me = offtopic.
If it makes you feel any better, I'd mod you "redundant" if I hadn't already posted to the topic.
Who picked Saskatchewan as a launch site??
Don't they understand that the closer to the equator they are, the greater the natural velocity of the vessel? By picking a trajectory so far North, they will have to burn more fuel to get the vehicle up to a speed which they would've gotten for free if they started somewhere closer to the equator.
This only applies if you're going for orbit. For an up-and-down suborbital flight, no place has a particular advantage over any other. (Slight exception: Launching from a mountaintop will reduce the height you need to reach by a bit)
Will any of them really be ready for it?
I think Scaled Composites could launch tomorrow if they wanted to. They've got the full system working, they're just going slowly to make sure nothing unexpected crops up.
How about the release date for the Phantom Edit cut?
Speaking of which, was there a "phantom edit" of Ep. 2?
Here's hoping that UbiSoft will be able to breathe new life into the series.
UbiSoft screwed up on Myst III: Exile. If anything, they're responsible for state the series is in.
Ummmmm...
c ompu-architectonics?
psycho-ergonomics?
neuro-economics?
"psycho-ergonomics" makes sense -- it relates to thinking in the same way that ergonomics relates to moving -- but the other two are clearly made-up buzzwords.
"whole language" is where you don't teach kids to read at the phonetic/letter level, but instead just let them learn whole words "naturally" by following along in their own book while the teacher reads aloud. If this seems ridiculous and nonsensical, that's because it is. It was dreamed up by a fool who "observed" that when one reads, one doesn't sound out individual letters, and then assemble the letters into words; no, one just reads words. The logical flaw here is the assumption that there is no letter-level parsing when, in fact, there is-- it's just not noticable as a distinct step because we do it so efficiently.
The person who thought this up was half-right. Most people do develop a sight-reading vocabulary of a few hundred words that are recognized as whole words, while the rest of the time it's letter-based parsing.
There are also a few people who really do learn to read using the whole-language method -- my brother taught himself to read this way, and had a sight-reading vocabulary of five thousand words by the age of six -- but those people have trouble learning additional words because they never learned how to sound out words.
I'm not coming from any real position of authority here, but I imagine that this law would only affect the recording's admissability in a court proceeding.
No. Unauthorized recording is in and of itself a crime.
Look at the 'undercover reports' that TV shows do on insurance fraud--those people are filmed by civilians without informing all parties.
The US is about evenly split between jurisdictions that require at least one party involved to give consent, and ones that require all parties involved to give consent. I bet these shows are very careful about where they do the recording.
Where's the privacy problem? Let only people you trust see things they're allowed to remember. That's why the difference between "public" and "private" places is so important, and why the right to control access to our private places is essential to privacy, and to our participation in society - rather than alienating us from it.
Walk in to a department store dressing room in the lingere section, "accidentally" open the door to an occupied stall. "Oops, sorry!", and you've got a few more pictures for your softcore porn site.
Sure, it may create some privacy issues...if it's storing it at some central HP or public database. If it's just recording it to some internal storage drive, and then you move the footage to your hard drive or somewhere else, then what's the problem?? I'm not trying to troll, but why is this such a big deal?
In many places, wiretapping law requires that if you are recording a conversation, all parties involved must be informed in advance of the recording. Despite the name, this applies to recordings of any conversations, not just telephone.
This year, it seems to be mostly that they're posting stories that normally they'd reject.
Access database. With a baroque VBA frontend.
Are you the poor sap who got stuck trying to maintain the inventory tracking database I wrote as part of a summer job when I was 14? The reason it's got such a goshawful design is because I'd never designed a database before.
What, no elvish?
There's no approved Unicode encoding for Feanorian runes.
That's flat-out incorrect. A reasonable definition of "running out of space on earth" is no longer being able to exist as a species without displacing other species to the point where we drive them to extinction. We have reached that point and passed it.
We reached that point and passed it about six thousand years ago when large-scale farming began.
A lot easier said that done - there is a lot of concrete in the structure - besides, other than Yuma, there aren't a lot of population centers on the river.
Hoover's an arch dam. As a result, a semi-truck filled with explosives detonated either dead-center or at one end will do significant damage. Probably not enough to bring the dam down entirely, though.
On the other hand, a gravity dam like Grand Coulee could shrug off a nuke.
You know, in the context of your post, your sig takes on entirely new worlds of meaning!
I'm all for choice when it works. For example, KDE offers you tons of choices; by default there's this multiple-virtual-desktop thing with all sorts of options and shortcut keys and soforth. But the one choice I want - the ability to stop files and folders on my local harddrive from acting like hyperlinks - isn't available. I suppose that, given a few months of practice, I could get used to treating my hard drive like a website, but it isn't working out for me at the moment.
Are we talking about the same KDE here? The one available from www.kde.org? I've been using KDE for two years now, and for all that time, it's used a standard "single click highlights, double click opens" system. Nowhere do I see an option to switch it to "point highlights, click opens" system.
Don't be an ass. With "enough context" you can replace entire words with meaningless alternatives, or delete them, or insert new ones, or rearrange them, and still "understand" the text.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Dude. That's way too harsh. I think you should give people some credit for knowing what their needs or wants are versus what they can afford.
I don't. Ever since the peak of the dot-com bubble, in the US, consumer debt has exceeded the GDP. Kind of implies that people are spending *way* more than they make.
That is an incorrect assumption. The fundamental requirement is: It is hard (next to impossible) to find two inputs which produce the same digest (and still make sense
This doesn't invalidate the project, though. If they can find a collision in two years or less with a distributed system, then cracking MD5 has gone from "hard (next to impossible)" to "hard but feasable".
What do you mean trivial amount of memory? Even book-length text files aren't very big. Like it said, it can hold about 500 books on it. Have most people even read 500 books?
When I was in school, I'd typically read 500 books a year. Nowadays, what with having a full-time job and being active on-line, it's closer to 200 a year.
But the question remains: How can they stop them completely? Surely, script kiddies will just stop and go somewhere else, but how about the guys who write all the tools? They won't stop so easily.
In my opinion, writing a cheat tool is a perfectly valid strategy for playing the game -- a good aimbot or whatever isn't exactly easy to make. Using someone else's programs is simply lame.
And .CON for fraud, phishing, and related sites.
y'know, if you're using Mozilla, you can just select an addy with the mouse and right-click on it to go there....
Mozilla 1.6 here, and the options I got were "copy", "select all", "web search for", and "view selection source".
That's an extremely clean world. Where are the oil stains? Where are the scuff marks? Where are the worn edges? Where are the footprints from those mechs?
It's got an interesting "TV interlace" effect, but that's hardly a substitute for dirt.