Well, yeah, now that I think about it - quickly pressing hard on the clutch while rapidly braking is pretty much an instinct (didn't even occur to me initially after all...), ingrained early and often so as to not stall the engine constantly. So typically, even if somebody confuses brake with gas pedal, the car would just roll at neutral.
So use a personal heatshield to decelerate? (of course, it's an open question if this would turn out to be more reliable and mass-efficient than simple lifeboat capsule)
I'd say that skin ones (etc.; generally those which just sit there & take care of themselves, without giving anything obvious in return) are also vital - they compete for their niche with those who are not so benign, helping to keep the latter in check.
Mass != number of cells. Bacterial ones are typically quite a bit smaller.
Yes, most in gut, but not all - if our immune system was so efficient as you paint it to be, there wouldn't be much infectious diseases to speak of (BTW, up to 1/3rd of world population has just one brain parasite)
Not strictly "born with all these built in" - remember that those who are born naturally have quite prolonged contact of their mouths with mother's vagina/etc., for starters. And IIRC those after caesarean section can show some "irregularities" in bacterial flora.
I even have an impression that dietary preferences might change in some real way, not just by habit & accustomization, after regular close contact with people from slightly different areas...
So you haven't ever heard about parasites or, more generally, infections of all kind? Sure, it's a matter of finding a balance for bost host and "attackers" to survive, but it doesn't mean the latter "doing something bad inside of us" aren't present (of course together with those which are pretty much neutral (but good but taking resources from "bad") or outright "good")
It was already established, IIRC, how the number of bacterial cells in our bodies is greater than "human" ones; now this. "Human" genetic material (what this is all about in the end) seems to be in a minority inside us - though with such viruses it might be much less clear, perhaps they are a much more integral part of us; could pass RNA between cells, for example.
So...I, for one, welcome our viral overlords. I welcome us.
"CIA... trying to figure out what other countries are stealing from our corporations or what we can steal from somebody else's"? That's quite a lot of assumptions about the process already... (and actually it seems like it was, also & in singular case, sort of the other way around)
Anyway, why it would be such a big practical problem? Think insider trading type of stuff; and leverage in international treaties.
Hm, maybe we should retrain ourselves to use primarily left leg to break; confusion might be harder that way...
Yeah, which isn't that great of a solution to many, including me (virtually only manual transmission everywhere around, 3 pedals); but not a problem with automatics and their broad brake pedal, which feature predominantly in TFA cases. Which brings another question - how is it so that I've never really heard about such "problem" in places where manual (and hence not 2 but 3 pedals, & more cramped) is the norm? (people training themselves over the years to have better feel & control over the vehicle?)
Hey, what do you expect from, basically, 'iPhone Death'?;p (at least as far as part of important markets is concerned; but it seems you might Apple marketing to little credit / they knew what they were doing in naming it so?;) )
How do you quantify "more visible" though? Were iPods or iTunes not far enough? Apple commercials (some of those should readily touch a nerve) together with general hoopla about OSX in times when it wasn't that great?
Isn't Google quite visible and still rather liked, almost as if being an "underdog"?
Who says I have a solution? (nvm whether or not a "satisfactory" one exist) It isn't required to show fallacy of what you said; how the issues are much harder than you paint them to be (when even our allies...), in practice perhaps bound to end in "failure" of some sort.
For somebody claiming to be familiar with the situation around Afghanistan, you are surely quick to forget about, say, Pakistan... (not the only example - Somalia would be probably the most striking one, the government there is surely an ally in "War on Terror"...; and tolerating or not by the gov doesn't have much to do with anything BTW, it doesn't directly translate, by itself, to where a given place is going)
Hopefully they'll do the same with Gizmo5 and bring SIP to the masses
Don't hold your breath (at least for some time); apparently there are, for a few years already, some internal builds of Gtalk with SIP / connecting to POTS. And wasn't Gizmo5 bought not far from the time of Google Voice rollout? GV which certainly needs such tech, internally...but that's probably it, Google can't anger carriers now.
Recent US history shows that we have good chances of winning (by winning in this case I'm going to say establish a viable government that we can rely on to keep the country free of Al Qaeda and we can push them if they don't)
That's failing even with places which are your allies from the beginning in all of this "War on Terror" stuff.
C'mon, it's obviously about relative suckage - or do you want to use, as a benchmark, unix talk? (which does have some nice properties, hm... NVM them) Skype did change how people communicate, after all (plus hey, it's not bad in comparison to some other stuff we have to live with, if wanting to communicate with some stubborn people...)
But for some reason mentioned solutions based on Jingle work much better when in really hard conditions, which tend to expose any faults (think VoIP via typically whimsical dial-up in deep Russia on one end; and slow DSL in one EU place shared between dozen of people on the other; in the evening). And much better in a way that makes "computer illiterate" people (that I know & who experienced both in hard conditions) universally choose Gtalk in such scenario. File transfers are typically faster too, in quite wide spectrum of conditions.
The issue might be of course also that Skype has, as a high priority, maximum obfuscation of its inner workings; that's not necessarily in line with providing best possible VoIP or video. But there are also huge delays in releasing even those basic mobile clients, poorly working voicemail or blindly trusting anything which talks Skype protocol.
Shuttle and those proposed vehicles don't strictly warrant "experimental and non-traditional launch system", especially when it comes to the all-important, all-expensive part of launching. They are just rockets, built in a way which we know is far from optimal (as far as rocket is concerned) - this non-optimal way having some bonuses, sure...but we don't even know if they're worth anything in the first place (while being so hard to perform that we still can't do it - and when we'll have required material science, etc., imagine what "dumb rocket" can do with it) Oh, and they are very traditional in one important sense - small number of essentially hand-crafted units.
This is the story of the Shuttle - it's not like it's a completely horrible vehicle, it's just how its bonuses proved worthless (while having their toll) But you're willing to just go along with those who have found new sexy baby?
(BTW, we basically have expandable spacecraft in operation for half a century - just meant for one human, and called spacesuits; so it's been already a long way)
V-2's were built by slave labor also because, by then, it was sort of the only kind of labor available to Germany (plus they probably didn't want too many Germans at such, essentially, targets for strategic bombers) - they were awfully overextended. It's similar to how they were obtaining gasoline from coal - not because it's the best way, but because they were in horrible strategic situation, not having any choice. Despite that situation, the rate of production and successful launches (of rockets built by not exactly motivated workforce, as you pointed out) was insane. Under constant shortages & attacks. For first and only mass produced launcher - we haven't actually tried it ever since (well, Germans did, 3 decades ago, but political pressures put a hold on that) Sure, some rules being "lax" helped keep costs low (though it's not at all obvious that slave labor gives you better sustainable industrial output - South vs. North?), but many obstacles and complications would be nonexistent.
BTW, production of liquid fueled rockets isn't very dangerous, they are virtually inert before fueling...
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Well, yeah, now that I think about it - quickly pressing hard on the clutch while rapidly braking is pretty much an instinct (didn't even occur to me initially after all...), ingrained early and often so as to not stall the engine constantly. So typically, even if somebody confuses brake with gas pedal, the car would just roll at neutral.
So use a personal heatshield to decelerate? (of course, it's an open question if this would turn out to be more reliable and mass-efficient than simple lifeboat capsule)
Projects meant to provide personal reentry...shroud, really, mentioned here (among many other rescue options), might be also worth a read in context.
I'd say that skin ones (etc.; generally those which just sit there & take care of themselves, without giving anything obvious in return) are also vital - they compete for their niche with those who are not so benign, helping to keep the latter in check.
Mass != number of cells. Bacterial ones are typically quite a bit smaller.
Yes, most in gut, but not all - if our immune system was so efficient as you paint it to be, there wouldn't be much infectious diseases to speak of (BTW, up to 1/3rd of world population has just one brain parasite)
Not strictly "born with all these built in" - remember that those who are born naturally have quite prolonged contact of their mouths with mother's vagina/etc., for starters. And IIRC those after caesarean section can show some "irregularities" in bacterial flora.
I even have an impression that dietary preferences might change in some real way, not just by habit & accustomization, after regular close contact with people from slightly different areas...
Considering they were, in the distant past, almost the same facility - that's not too surprising.
So you haven't ever heard about parasites or, more generally, infections of all kind? Sure, it's a matter of finding a balance for bost host and "attackers" to survive, but it doesn't mean the latter "doing something bad inside of us" aren't present (of course together with those which are pretty much neutral (but good but taking resources from "bad") or outright "good")
It was already established, IIRC, how the number of bacterial cells in our bodies is greater than "human" ones; now this. "Human" genetic material (what this is all about in the end) seems to be in a minority inside us - though with such viruses it might be much less clear, perhaps they are a much more integral part of us; could pass RNA between cells, for example.
So...I, for one, welcome our viral overlords. I welcome us.
"CIA ... trying to figure out what other countries are stealing from our corporations or what we can steal from somebody else's"? That's quite a lot of assumptions about the process already... (and actually it seems like it was, also & in singular case, sort of the other way around)
Anyway, why it would be such a big practical problem? Think insider trading type of stuff; and leverage in international treaties.
Hm, maybe we should retrain ourselves to use primarily left leg to break; confusion might be harder that way...
Yeah, which isn't that great of a solution to many, including me (virtually only manual transmission everywhere around, 3 pedals); but not a problem with automatics and their broad brake pedal, which feature predominantly in TFA cases. Which brings another question - how is it so that I've never really heard about such "problem" in places where manual (and hence not 2 but 3 pedals, & more cramped) is the norm? (people training themselves over the years to have better feel & control over the vehicle?)
Hey, what do you expect from, basically, 'iPhone Death' ? ;p (at least as far as part of important markets is concerned; but it seems you might Apple marketing to little credit / they knew what they were doing in naming it so? ;) )
How do you quantify "more visible" though? Were iPods or iTunes not far enough? Apple commercials (some of those should readily touch a nerve) together with general hoopla about OSX in times when it wasn't that great?
Isn't Google quite visible and still rather liked, almost as if being an "underdog"?
Apple perhaps got a bit too bullish lately...
Now you're going into absurdly dismissing doubts...
"Maintains"?
What is this suddenly, a type of Tu quoque?...
Who says I have a solution? (nvm whether or not a "satisfactory" one exist) It isn't required to show fallacy of what you said; how the issues are much harder than you paint them to be (when even our allies...), in practice perhaps bound to end in "failure" of some sort.
For somebody claiming to be familiar with the situation around Afghanistan, you are surely quick to forget about, say, Pakistan... (not the only example - Somalia would be probably the most striking one, the government there is surely an ally in "War on Terror"...; and tolerating or not by the gov doesn't have much to do with anything BTW, it doesn't directly translate, by itself, to where a given place is going)
Hopefully they'll do the same with Gizmo5 and bring SIP to the masses
Don't hold your breath (at least for some time); apparently there are, for a few years already, some internal builds of Gtalk with SIP / connecting to POTS. And wasn't Gizmo5 bought not far from the time of Google Voice rollout? GV which certainly needs such tech, internally...but that's probably it, Google can't anger carriers now.
Recent US history shows that we have good chances of winning (by winning in this case I'm going to say establish a viable government that we can rely on to keep the country free of Al Qaeda and we can push them if they don't)
That's failing even with places which are your allies from the beginning in all of this "War on Terror" stuff.
No previous forces invading the area of present Afghanistan had to "fight under crippling rules of engagement"
And look what an advantage that was...
C'mon, it's obviously about relative suckage - or do you want to use, as a benchmark, unix talk? (which does have some nice properties, hm... NVM them)
Skype did change how people communicate, after all (plus hey, it's not bad in comparison to some other stuff we have to live with, if wanting to communicate with some stubborn people...)
But for some reason mentioned solutions based on Jingle work much better when in really hard conditions, which tend to expose any faults (think VoIP via typically whimsical dial-up in deep Russia on one end; and slow DSL in one EU place shared between dozen of people on the other; in the evening). And much better in a way that makes "computer illiterate" people (that I know & who experienced both in hard conditions) universally choose Gtalk in such scenario. File transfers are typically faster too, in quite wide spectrum of conditions.
The issue might be of course also that Skype has, as a high priority, maximum obfuscation of its inner workings; that's not necessarily in line with providing best possible VoIP or video. But there are also huge delays in releasing even those basic mobile clients, poorly working voicemail or blindly trusting anything which talks Skype protocol.
I also remember hot alien chicks on every second planet. Which is a fabulous dream of course; not well grounded in reality though.
Shuttle and those proposed vehicles don't strictly warrant "experimental and non-traditional launch system", especially when it comes to the all-important, all-expensive part of launching. They are just rockets, built in a way which we know is far from optimal (as far as rocket is concerned) - this non-optimal way having some bonuses, sure...but we don't even know if they're worth anything in the first place (while being so hard to perform that we still can't do it - and when we'll have required material science, etc., imagine what "dumb rocket" can do with it)
Oh, and they are very traditional in one important sense - small number of essentially hand-crafted units.
This is the story of the Shuttle - it's not like it's a completely horrible vehicle, it's just how its bonuses proved worthless (while having their toll)
But you're willing to just go along with those who have found new sexy baby?
(BTW, we basically have expandable spacecraft in operation for half a century - just meant for one human, and called spacesuits; so it's been already a long way)
V-2's were built by slave labor also because, by then, it was sort of the only kind of labor available to Germany (plus they probably didn't want too many Germans at such, essentially, targets for strategic bombers) - they were awfully overextended. It's similar to how they were obtaining gasoline from coal - not because it's the best way, but because they were in horrible strategic situation, not having any choice. Despite that situation, the rate of production and successful launches (of rockets built by not exactly motivated workforce, as you pointed out) was insane. Under constant shortages & attacks. For first and only mass produced launcher - we haven't actually tried it ever since (well, Germans did, 3 decades ago, but political pressures put a hold on that)
Sure, some rules being "lax" helped keep costs low (though it's not at all obvious that slave labor gives you better sustainable industrial output - South vs. North?), but many obstacles and complications would be nonexistent.
BTW, production of liquid fueled rockets isn't very dangerous, they are virtually inert before fueling...
It feels as natural and smooth as it could.
How can you actually know that?
It's quite dirty already; humans don't care much.
Mouse is clear enough, but bicycle?