In the early 60's we got birth control pills, which (some say) facilitated women being promiscuous. Now, we have 'husband control pills'
What happens if we miss a day? Do we take two then next and use alternate husband control methods.
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How many different states are there in Denmark? The bounding rectangle of Denmark wouldn't hold Michigan. There are several different power providers in my state. The Blackout of '03 stopped between my house and my job. Power grid is not a worry here. Now... turn those companies boundaries into STATE boundaries... light a candle AND curse the darkness!
I'd like to propose a 4th Branch of Government: The Techniciary Branch. Like the other three branches, it is part of the checks and balances. It concerns itself with just such matters, boundary issues, technically savvy solutions. It can act legislative to promulgate "laws" where needed, but can also act as a Supreme Review Board, which can rule such things as "State Regulation of national power grids is not in the nations interest." It can overrule a Supreme Court decision on Constitutionality by finding it "UnTechSolutional" And like the Supreme Court, is out of the reach of the lobbyists.
And in rare cases, can act as the Executive Branch, and "sign executive orders", publish "findings" and claim executive privilege when necessary.
In my wildest dreams, it would be outside of the Red vs. Blue dimension of politics. Yes, it would have it's own politics, but not fettered by what we have now. Among the first cases it would hear, I would imagine would be:
Human causation of Global Warming
Federalization of Powergrids
Carbon Footprint of War on Terror
Asteroid Insurance (a tax to build up defenses by actual experiments)
Fair enough. Though I was referring to the Apple ads in general, I'm pleased to hear that Apple has some competition. I don't use an iPhone because where I live I can barely get 2 bars, and not AT&T. So I envy your coverage.
Say, can you send me a picture of how good your website looks on your phone? And zoom in a bit for me, plz. Thanks.
Apple ads have been full of "hyperbole" since the sledgehammer hit Big Blue Brother in the face.
Perhaps the "best" hyperbole was Goldblum's chuckling saying "There is no step #3" (to connect to the Internet on a fruity-colored iMac. Of course there was... you had to do the Assistant, you had to have an ISP or something, blah blah blah. But they made their point. Getting a PC on the internet involved things we have forgotten we had to care about. Like having Win95 Rev B! Setting properties for "Client for Microsoft Networks", things I wouldn't want to have to explain to my sister over the phone.
The Apple ads use hyperbole to point out the contrast between their world and the PC World and rubbing the shortcomings in the viewers face, and now, the Mobile Phone world.
Case in point... Last year, I had to replace my phone. I'm not too demanding of a phone, but it had to be able to read a radar weather map off the web. This one would be nice: http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_400x300c/SIR/inmSIRSD_.gif IT COULDN'T!!! The browser couldn't read a GIF FILE!!!:-O I took the phone back to the store and told them to stuff it. No other feature of the phone could redeem that failure.
The Apple ads rub that failure in my face. Ok, it can't read FLASH. How will I EVER get my house refinanced without FLASH!?!?!
Two friends who were at the wedding will bicker over the photographs, as to whether JimBob was Photochopped IN or OUT! And the problem is that their memory will not help them.
On the other hand, JimBob will be able to take the blame for 'that one incident' with the Bridesmaid.
Maybe you will have to pay for the charge. Who gets that money? Dunno. Could we have FREE cars, and the juice costs? Are they going to "encode" the current so that people can't use it for something else? If your car runs out of gas, you buy a gas can... how do you "refill" a car 20 miles from the nearest charging station? Will cars have "platforms" like MS, Mac, UNIX? "Oh, this power coupling is BIG Endian, I can't use it.";-)
You think you have long lines at the pump, wait until they HAVE to power up all at once to get out of town a Rush Hour. And speaking of Rush, is this the beginning of "The Motor Law"? How long until internal Combustion cars are levied a surtax, and then made illegal?
I dare say that MOST developers do NOT know how to combat the most heinous, or even the most common hAx0Rz tricks. I've never triggered a buffer overflow in my life (on purpose).
To make software bullet proof requires the developers to have the skills of the hackers and malware writers, and the resources, the secret handshakes, the underground culture.
Yer talking one of two scenarios here:
PhD in Software security *by the time you got it, it'd be obsolete.
sending "nice" developers to infiltrate the black hat world.
I have learned to not use the word "impossible". Especially when "materials properties" are the hurdle. But I'm betting against the success, partly because of engineering hurdles, but MOSTLY because neither the prize nor goal (the 'why') are worth pursuing, especially given the miniscule budget. If it happens, make sure we know about it. I'll be watching. Of course, by that time, I'll be playing Duke Nukem Forever waiting for a ride on the Space Elevator;-)
Ok, ordinarily, I'd just let this go, but, I'm bored. So here goes...
I AM a degreed Aerospace Engineer who worked in El Segundo for a company that is now known as Boeing. Savvy? I worked with real rocket engines (Marquardt 5lbf and 100lbf I knew Gil and Phil...), loaded bi-propellant into very thin titanium tanks, and worked with those who worked with the solid motors, including the PAMs. (yeah, them). Now, I grant you i'm rusty, so that I had to look several times to make sure your Delta-V equation was correct. So, here's some more that you neglected.
Wave Drag -- I finally threw away my copy of Zucrow and Hoffman a decade ago, but I remember that dragging a supersonic and really HYPERsonic shock wave was a huge amount of drag. Were that not the case, you could put a bullet into sub-orbit with a sufficent elephant gun. You can't.
Stagnation Temperature -- You will be in the Mach 7 zone pretty quickly. The stagnation temperature at Mach 7 is... crap. Well, you have Zucrow... look it up. You've seen hypersonic ablation of metals at Mach 7. What are you going to make this thing out of? Carbon Nanotubes? Surplus shuttle tiles?
Combustion pressure -- Let's assume that this 280s engine is a simple solid motor, like a high-tech Estes rocket. Tube, propellant, nozzle. The combustion pressures you need will require a tube of very high strength to weight ratio. Here's some "back of the envelope" back at ya! If yer using some surplus Ammonium Perchlorate from Thiokol's drip bucket, you know that that's about 2Kg/l. Twice water. 10Kg of propellant is 5 liters. That's a tube 50 sq. cm by 100 cm long. About 8cm diameter. Since you are a rocket engineer, you know that smaller diameter tubes hold pressure better, but that increases the length needed to hold the same amount of propellant. That increases the mass, and increases the size of the fins (we're talking a model rocket on steroids here... no gyroscopes.) needed to stabilize this increaingly long rocket. And the fins will need to handle secondary shockwaves of like Mach 4. DAMN I need Zucrow back! You'll need some nano-tubes in your elmer's glue to hold them on.
Guidance -- Let's make some assumptions... To orbit 9 times, you'll need to be 100km high... AND going 7.7km/s... PERPENDICULAR to the G-vector. Otherwise, you're not at Apogee, and will dip lower, denser and more drag. You might eke out that 9th orbit, but judging from the debris of US193, I'd say not. So, to get to 100km AND be going 7.7 in a circular orbit, you need to go up, up, up AND east, east, east!!! (West is a waste of delta-V, right?) So, how do you get up AND east? You could do what the Shuttle and the ol' Saturn V did... go up for a while, then arc to the east. How are you going to guide that in this micro-missile? (forget about cost)? Add to that the fact that you run out of air for the spoilerons at about 16km. You have 84km of airless burn. How do you keep the arc flattening out to go only eastward? Tiny little RCS pulses? Someone will come up with something clever, but will it fit into your mass budget?
Circularization -- I sincerely tip my hat and bow to your rocket design career. But you must design rockets that go BOOM, because you missed something that is REALLY going to be tricky... The Circularization Burn. I'm sure you know that even the Shuttle coasts about 30 minutes from MECO to it's circularization burn. How do you, on this simple rocket, coast for 30 minutes and then burp about 130 m/s? The complexity of that will steal from your mass budget. I know what yer going to say...
Final Stage! -- The reason I didn't call you on SSTO was a) I was at work at an IT job and didn't have time to go into it. b) it was so OBVIOUS that it wouldn't work, that it went without saying. So, yes, let's stage this fire arrow. And the final stage, which is barely bigger than an
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If fuel prices were my criterion for where I live, I'd move the Cayman Islands and buy a sailboat, savvy?
...And some rum. YARR!
Slashdot needs to re-run the "Most Frequently Pirated" Poll, adding this Data-Barge to the list.
Nah, get ahead of the bleeding edge, and make them out of cake!
Bill shook his a55 in Seinfeld/MS Ad I, so we know they're on the way...
Alluding to another movie...
It shows immersive images of beauty and grandeur, while playing 'light classical' music. And at the end, the food comes OUT of the little opening.
"It's green"
Set in 2022, Edward G. Robinson was 62. Which means his character was born the same year as I was. And that's only 14 years away.
I modded you funny, because I think I was the only one who caught your sarcasm...
Errr... you WERE being sarcastic weren't you? heh heh, yes, of course you were...
Pssst... could you use the "~ at the end of the sentence to denote sarcasm" convention so we don't BOTH embarrass ourselves.
Right. I'd be worried less about their cloning, and more about if you put two in the same area, you end up with a litter of them!
How do they release the heat in the hot water?
Two Towers?
If you include "news for nerds stuff that matters" the first 1000 include "salamanders"
AND HOW MANY TIMES I wanted to grab my keychain and show them the scene I was alluding to, in the version I was alluding to.
And being on USB, I can carry each version on my keychain. I hope they are thoughtful enough to color code them.
WITH VOICEOVER, Bitches!
I rest my case ;-)
Sorry, the story isn't really all that interesting if taken seriously. Which is true of most articles on slashdot... and most posters ;-)
See... she has him on it already, and the poor blighter doesn't even know it.
Dangers I can see is taking a genetic test say before marriage and men without the genes will just be dumped on the spot.
Heck, I could see men DEMANDING such a test, for the very same reason.
In the early 60's we got birth control pills, which (some say) facilitated women being promiscuous. Now, we have 'husband control pills'
What happens if we miss a day? Do we take two then next and use alternate husband control methods. -- Sarcasm transmits across TCP/IP as well as it does other media
How many different states are there in Denmark? The bounding rectangle of Denmark wouldn't hold Michigan. There are several different power providers in my state. The Blackout of '03 stopped between my house and my job. Power grid is not a worry here. Now... turn those companies boundaries into STATE boundaries... light a candle AND curse the darkness!
And in rare cases, can act as the Executive Branch, and "sign executive orders", publish "findings" and claim executive privilege when necessary.
In my wildest dreams, it would be outside of the Red vs. Blue dimension of politics. Yes, it would have it's own politics, but not fettered by what we have now. Among the first cases it would hear, I would imagine would be:
Ha ha ha :-D :)) ROFL... you think I'm kidding.
Fair enough. Though I was referring to the Apple ads in general, I'm pleased to hear that Apple has some competition. I don't use an iPhone because where I live I can barely get 2 bars, and not AT&T. So I envy your coverage.
Say, can you send me a picture of how good your website looks on your phone? And zoom in a bit for me, plz. Thanks.
Apple ads have been full of "hyperbole" since the sledgehammer hit Big Blue Brother in the face.
:-O I took the phone back to the store and told them to stuff it. No other feature of the phone could redeem that failure.
Perhaps the "best" hyperbole was Goldblum's chuckling saying "There is no step #3" (to connect to the Internet on a fruity-colored iMac. Of course there was... you had to do the Assistant, you had to have an ISP or something, blah blah blah. But they made their point. Getting a PC on the internet involved things we have forgotten we had to care about. Like having Win95 Rev B! Setting properties for "Client for Microsoft Networks", things I wouldn't want to have to explain to my sister over the phone.
The Apple ads use hyperbole to point out the contrast between their world and the PC World and rubbing the shortcomings in the viewers face, and now, the Mobile Phone world.
Case in point... Last year, I had to replace my phone. I'm not too demanding of a phone, but it had to be able to read a radar weather map off the web. This one would be nice: http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_400x300c/SIR/inmSIRSD_.gif IT COULDN'T!!! The browser couldn't read a GIF FILE!!!
The Apple ads rub that failure in my face. Ok, it can't read FLASH. How will I EVER get my house refinanced without FLASH!?!?!
Great! That means in 2099, will have another "man made crisis" when C++99 is being superseded by C++100!!!
Or will we count by Hex? C++0x0x63?
Hopefully, we'll be up to "D" by then.
Two friends who were at the wedding will bicker over the photographs, as to whether JimBob was Photochopped IN or OUT! And the problem is that their memory will not help them.
On the other hand, JimBob will be able to take the blame for 'that one incident' with the Bridesmaid.
Maybe you will have to pay for the charge. Who gets that money? Dunno. Could we have FREE cars, and the juice costs? Are they going to "encode" the current so that people can't use it for something else? If your car runs out of gas, you buy a gas can... how do you "refill" a car 20 miles from the nearest charging station? Will cars have "platforms" like MS, Mac, UNIX? "Oh, this power coupling is BIG Endian, I can't use it." ;-)
You think you have long lines at the pump, wait until they HAVE to power up all at once to get out of town a Rush Hour. And speaking of Rush, is this the beginning of "The Motor Law"? How long until internal Combustion cars are levied a surtax, and then made illegal?
Anyone?
...INCINERATED the city's thousands of stray dogs.
I couldn't see how that would help the air quality. I guess the word "temporarily" should have clued me in.
To make software bullet proof requires the developers to have the skills of the hackers and malware writers, and the resources, the secret handshakes, the underground culture.
Yer talking one of two scenarios here:
Email me when that works out for ya~
I have learned to not use the word "impossible". Especially when "materials properties" are the hurdle. But I'm betting against the success, partly because of engineering hurdles, but MOSTLY because neither the prize nor goal (the 'why') are worth pursuing, especially given the miniscule budget. If it happens, make sure we know about it. I'll be watching. Of course, by that time, I'll be playing Duke Nukem Forever waiting for a ride on the Space Elevator ;-)
I AM a degreed Aerospace Engineer who worked in El Segundo for a company that is now known as Boeing. Savvy? I worked with real rocket engines (Marquardt 5lbf and 100lbf I knew Gil and Phil...), loaded bi-propellant into very thin titanium tanks, and worked with those who worked with the solid motors, including the PAMs. (yeah, them). Now, I grant you i'm rusty, so that I had to look several times to make sure your Delta-V equation was correct. So, here's some more that you neglected.