Large stars will never become brown dwarfs. They will end up as one of the following: White dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. A white dwarf will eventually cool and become a black dwarf. The chemical composition of a white dwarf is NOTHING like that of a brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is hydrogen and a few other elements. A white dwarf has very little hydrogen, it is the 'ash' of a star that once was and is made of mostly heavier elements that are the result of fusion.
If you've ever worked for a company that is involved with certain government contracts you might have had to apply for a 'secret clearance'. There are of course many levels of this, but it does involve making all sorts of information available to the government to prove you are who you say you are. I would imagine that the level of clearance they are talking about for the trusted flier program is a few notches below that of a top secret clearance. My nephew recently got a job with a government agency requiring such a clearance that took several months to process (we don't know which agency, he isn't allowed to talk about that, but I assume one of the 'spooks' such as the CIA doing cryptology work).
The shuttle had to carry a lot of extra baggage that was only used to get it back to earth. The idea was for a re-usable ship, and the shuttle was re-usable. However it took a lot of re-fitting after each flight. The engines had to be replaced after several uses, the heat shield tiles wore out after a few flights and needed to be replaced, plus other stuff that you'd expect (tires, oil, etc). The Dragon capsule costs a lot less than the shuttle, can be re-usable, and can lift more weight to space per lb of fuel.
They want to do that but there is a lot of outrage. And if the post office cuts back to less than 5 days a week there will be legal problems elsewhere since overdue bills that come late in the mail can't be overdue by government decree.
This reminds me of a cartoon that was circulating around Digital Equipment Co. in the 1970's. Written by a DEC employee the strip's hero was Digital Dog, a super K9 whose owner had feed him LSD to make him smart. Anyway it seems some scientists wanted to create a cure for some disease so they combined the DNA from Killer Bees with the DNA of "Tricky Dick" (don't ask!). Anyway they ended up with a huge bee with Nixon's face and appetite for cottage cheese and ketchup. Digital Dog had to trap him so NASA could get him strapped to rockets to blast him into space.
The same cartoonist latter wrote for Creative computing and a few other magazines a strip called "bit pit" which starred a VAX computer.
First, I'd define where an e-retailer was located. This could be where their web server is located, where their goods are shipped from, where their CEO has his office or most probably the state where they are incorporated in. They would be responsible for the collection of sales tax to THAT location for certain as part of their business license under their incorportation papers. Any state that wants to collect sales taxes from this e-retailer for sales made in their state would have to sign a contract with that e-retailer, and the state would have to pay the e-retailer for the cost of collecting the taxes. Only the federal government, or the state government of the e-retailers home state have the power to collect taxes from the e-retailer. Other states THINK or WISH they have this power, too bad you don't (at least not until the US Supreme court says otherwise).
I think the bird has a different opening for the eggs. Probably similar to the way mammals give birth, only not fully developed. (IOW, you weren't shitted out, more like pissed, but even THAT isn't totally correct).
Well this idea isn't new at all. Back in the 1910's aircraft engineers were trying to produce engines that could be cooled without heavy water jackets and radiator cooling systems. Putting cooling fins around the engine cylinders and block to let the passing air cool the engine worked, but not well enough given the state of metallurgy at the time. One solution was a rotating radial engine. In this configuration the crankshaft of the engine was bolted to the firewall and the block spun around with the crankcase and cylinders. The prop was bolted to the block. These rotary engines were cooled by spinning the engine. Some compromises resulted, the oil system was a non-recycling system with some oil being burned and the rest lost with the exhaust. A vegetable based oil was used (which had a laxative effect on the pilot!). Many of the aircraft of WWI used these rotary engines, including the famous Tri-Plane of the Red Baron.
There are probably many moon rocks on earth other than the ones brought back by project Apollo. Just as meteor strikes on Mars sent rocks on a collision course with earth, so did meteor strikes on the moon. The hard part would be in proving that a particular rock came from the moon.
Ah, but if all of the documents in the safet were written in a language that ONLY you knew (guess it can't be Klingon) they can't force you to translate it under the 5th. So how is this any different?
The stock market rises and falls on speculation. The price of a stock should depend on the companies actual worth, which can be measured (how accurate such a measurement is depends on if the books have been cooked or not). What actually does happen is that the stock price depends on what investors THINK will happen to the value of the company, which can be based on rumor, inside or public information, and overall trends in the market as a whole. Speculation is sort of a stampede effect however, not always driven by reason but by herd instinct.
It has been suggested that the 14th amendment of the constitution might give the president the power to raise the dept ceiling by a decree if necessary to satisfy the terms of that amendment. So far the president has declined to comment on this other than stating his belief that congress will do what they are required to do. The end result of a failure by congress to act might be that all members of congress, the courts, and the president (and his staff) would not be paid, while all other business goes on as usual. I think that would be proper.
"There AREN'T any; at least not that I could find. "
I guess you don't have any Radio Shack stores near you! I bought one a few years ago to connect a computer (with DVI video) to my HDTV (via HDMI). Today that cable is unused since the replacement computer has an HDMI video output which can also output audio with the right drivers. BTW DVI is compatible with the content scrambling done over HDMI, the only reason the industry went to a new connector was to add embedded audio, reduce the connector size, and simplify the connector by removing the attachment screws (HDMI cables simply PUSH IN).
DVI is sorta kinda a subset of HDMI or maybe visa versa. Also there have been so many DVI-HDMI cables made that you'd have to just grandfather these in by now.
There is an option available under Ubuntu, and it should also be available under Linux Mint that allows you to install Linux under windows. What this does is to create a large file in the Windows file system and uses it as a virtual file system for Linux. The installer modifies the boot loader so you can select either windows or Linux at boot time (and can select which one is the default). It's not as fast as a true native Linux install because it has to make use of the NTFS file system driver underneath an ext2/3/4 file system. I've tried this method of evaluating Linux on a laptop and it worked fine. What's nice about it is that you can un-install it very easily from windows as you would any windows program.
Drastic cuts to medicare and social security? There are many people that depend on those programs who will be hurt badly. How about cuts to farmers that get paid for growing nothing. Or to prop up producing fuel from corn that only ends up increasing food prices without reducing the carbon footprint due to the energy (from oil!) required to produce it. Fact is there isn't enough we CAN cut to turn the debt cycle around we need to enhance revenue, which means higher taxes aimed at those that can afford to pay them. The GOP needs to face up to the fact that it's a two way street and that "W"'s war against Iraq to find imaginary WOMD plus his tax cuts got us into this hole (from a SURPLUS under Clinton). If the GOP puts this country into default the resulting kaos will be worse than the great depression of 80 years ago. The result will be a putting a bull'seye target on the back of every member of the GOP, literally! I can't guess who will be shot first.
Monster cable for years was selling some super expensive speaker cables. Granted they were 'low oxygen' litz wire type cable, nice and flexible even though they were #12 gauge. The hype was that that kind of wire would have super high frequency performance and low loss. Litz wire does reduce the skin effect that is seen at high frequencies, but you can't begin to detect that until you reach the HF RF region. I don't think you can begin to measure skin effect losses at AUDIO frequency. What's important for speaker cables (especially with 4 ohm speakers) is that the resistance / foot be low. So when it came time for a friend of mine to wire up his home theater system he went to look at the available speaker cables, and then decided for the price to go to the Home Depot and bought a large roll of #12-2 Romex cable! It sounded just great BTW.
For long runs you shouldn't even use HDMI cables. There are special 'balums' available that let you run the signals over CAT6 cables. Some of these balums are available with amplifiers for real long runs. You need a pair of these, one at each end. If you need to pass HDMI signals between rooms this is the only way to go.
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Large stars will never become brown dwarfs. They will end up as one of the following:
White dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. A white dwarf will eventually cool and become a black dwarf. The chemical composition of a white dwarf is NOTHING like that of a brown dwarf. A brown dwarf is hydrogen and a few other elements. A white dwarf has very little hydrogen, it is the 'ash' of a star that once was and is made of mostly heavier elements that are the result of fusion.
If you've ever worked for a company that is involved with certain government contracts you might have had to apply for a 'secret clearance'. There are of course many levels of this, but it does involve making all sorts of information available to the government to prove you are who you say you are. I would imagine that the level of clearance they are talking about for the trusted flier program is a few notches below that of a top secret clearance. My nephew recently got a job with a government agency requiring such a clearance that took several months to process (we don't know which agency, he isn't allowed to talk about that, but I assume one of the 'spooks' such as the CIA doing cryptology work).
The shuttle had to carry a lot of extra baggage that was only used to get it back to earth. The idea was for a re-usable ship, and the shuttle was re-usable. However it took a lot of re-fitting after each flight. The engines had to be replaced after several uses, the heat shield tiles wore out after a few flights and needed to be replaced, plus other stuff that you'd expect (tires, oil, etc). The Dragon capsule costs a lot less than the shuttle, can be re-usable, and can lift more weight to space per lb of fuel.
Given RMS's opinion of Debian not being 'free' enough, I'm surprised at Debian giving the HURD the time of day.
They want to do that but there is a lot of outrage. And if the post office cuts back to less than 5 days a week there will be legal problems elsewhere since overdue bills that come late in the mail can't be overdue by government decree.
This reminds me of a cartoon that was circulating around Digital Equipment Co. in the 1970's. Written by a DEC employee the strip's hero was Digital Dog, a super K9 whose owner had feed him LSD to make him smart. Anyway it seems some scientists wanted to create a cure for some disease so they combined the DNA from Killer Bees with the DNA of "Tricky Dick" (don't ask!). Anyway they ended up with a huge bee with Nixon's face and appetite for cottage cheese and ketchup.
Digital Dog had to trap him so NASA could get him strapped to rockets to blast him into space.
The same cartoonist latter wrote for Creative computing and a few other magazines a strip called "bit pit" which starred a VAX computer.
First, I'd define where an e-retailer was located. This could be where their web server is located, where their goods are shipped from, where their CEO has his office or most probably the state where they are incorporated in. They would be responsible for the collection of sales tax to THAT location for certain as part of their business license under their incorportation papers. Any state that wants to collect sales taxes from this e-retailer for sales made in their state would have to sign a contract with that e-retailer, and the state would have to pay the e-retailer for the cost of collecting the taxes. Only the federal government, or the state government of the e-retailers home state have the power to collect taxes from the e-retailer. Other states THINK or WISH they have this power, too bad you don't (at least not until the US Supreme court says otherwise).
Guess your dad was a made man with low friends in high places.
I think the bird has a different opening for the eggs. Probably similar to the way mammals give birth, only not fully developed.
(IOW, you weren't shitted out, more like pissed, but even THAT isn't totally correct).
Well this idea isn't new at all. Back in the 1910's aircraft engineers were trying to produce engines that could be cooled without heavy water jackets and radiator cooling systems. Putting cooling fins around the engine cylinders and block to let the passing air cool the engine worked, but not well enough given the state of metallurgy at the time. One solution was a rotating radial engine. In this configuration the crankshaft of the engine was bolted to the firewall and the block spun around with the crankcase and cylinders. The prop was bolted to the block. These rotary engines were cooled by spinning the engine. Some compromises resulted, the oil system was a non-recycling system with some oil being burned and the rest lost with the exhaust. A vegetable based oil was used (which had a laxative effect on the pilot!). Many of the aircraft of WWI used these rotary engines, including the famous Tri-Plane of the Red Baron.
There are probably many moon rocks on earth other than the ones brought back by project Apollo. Just as meteor strikes on Mars sent rocks on a collision course with earth, so did meteor strikes on the moon. The hard part would be in proving that a particular rock came from the moon.
So she enters a pass phrase that actually causes the computer to wipe the drive. OOPS! I entered the wrong phrase. Sorry, my bad.
Ah, but if all of the documents in the safet were written in a language that ONLY you knew (guess it can't be Klingon) they can't force you to translate it under the 5th. So how is this any different?
following the defective directions of a GPS?
"TURN LEFT NOW! " (off the road and into a lake).
The stock market rises and falls on speculation. The price of a stock should depend on the companies actual worth, which can be measured (how accurate such a measurement is depends on if the books have been cooked or not). What actually does happen is that the stock price depends on what investors THINK will happen to the value of the company, which can be based on rumor, inside or public information, and overall trends in the market as a whole. Speculation is sort of a stampede effect however, not always driven by reason but by herd instinct.
It has been suggested that the 14th amendment of the constitution might give the president the power to raise the dept ceiling by a decree if necessary to satisfy the terms of that amendment. So far the president has declined to comment on this other than stating his belief that congress will do what they are required to do. The end result of a failure by congress to act might be that all members of congress, the courts, and the president (and his staff) would not be paid, while all other business goes on as usual. I think that would be proper.
"There AREN'T any; at least not that I could find. "
I guess you don't have any Radio Shack stores near you!
I bought one a few years ago to connect a computer (with DVI video) to my HDTV (via HDMI).
Today that cable is unused since the replacement computer has an HDMI video output which can also output audio with the right drivers.
BTW DVI is compatible with the content scrambling done over HDMI, the only reason the industry went to a new connector was to add embedded audio, reduce the connector size, and simplify the connector by removing the attachment screws (HDMI cables simply PUSH IN).
DVI is sorta kinda a subset of HDMI or maybe visa versa. Also there have been so many DVI-HDMI cables made that you'd have to just grandfather these in by now.
I'd still like to lean to read Japanese, then I could enjoy the bulk of Tezuka's Manga that was NOT translated into English.
Did Rolex ever make a digital watch?
There is an option available under Ubuntu, and it should also be available under Linux Mint that allows you to install Linux under windows. What this does is to create a large file in the Windows file system and uses it as a virtual file system for Linux. The installer modifies the boot loader so you can select either windows or Linux at boot time (and can select which one is the default). It's not as fast as a true native Linux install because it has to make use of the NTFS file system driver underneath an ext2/3/4 file system. I've tried this method of evaluating Linux on a laptop and it worked fine. What's nice about it is that you can un-install it very easily from windows as you would any windows program.
Drastic cuts to medicare and social security? There are many people that depend on those programs who will be hurt badly. How about cuts to farmers that get paid for growing nothing. Or to prop up producing fuel from corn that only ends up increasing food prices without reducing the carbon footprint due to the energy (from oil!) required to produce it. Fact is there isn't enough we CAN cut to turn the debt cycle around we need to enhance revenue, which means higher taxes aimed at those that can afford to pay them. The GOP needs to face up to the fact that it's a two way street and that "W"'s war against Iraq to find imaginary WOMD plus his tax cuts got us into this hole (from a SURPLUS under Clinton). If the GOP puts this country into default the resulting kaos will be worse than the great depression of 80 years ago. The result will be a putting a bull'seye target on the back of every member of the GOP, literally! I can't guess who will be shot first.
Monster cable for years was selling some super expensive speaker cables. Granted they were 'low oxygen' litz wire type cable, nice and flexible even though they were #12 gauge. The hype was that that kind of wire would have super high frequency performance and low loss. Litz wire does reduce the skin effect that is seen at high frequencies, but you can't begin to detect that until you reach the HF RF region. I don't think you can begin to measure skin effect losses at AUDIO frequency. What's important for speaker cables (especially with 4 ohm speakers) is that the resistance / foot be low. So when it came time for a friend of mine to wire up his home theater system he went to look at the available speaker cables, and then decided for the price to go to the Home Depot and bought a large roll of #12-2 Romex cable! It sounded just great BTW.
For long runs you shouldn't even use HDMI cables. There are special 'balums' available that let you run the signals over CAT6 cables. Some of these balums are available with amplifiers for real long runs. You need a pair of these, one at each end. If you need to pass HDMI signals between rooms this is the only way to go.
The worst thing that someone could put into a USB stick would be some C4 with a detonator wired across the 5V lines......