Once America had been discovered and the seas charted, it was a matter of affordable logistics and courage, not technology, to get people to the US.
1787-1492=295.
So are you saying that space travel won't improve at all in the next three centuries, or do you just not know the difference between the continent of America and the United States thereof.
When you were the first to perform a voyage of discovery like that, thats significant. Of course they weren't... the Chinese, Vikings and others of course were doing it long before.
No, such voyages are significant when something comes from them. The Viking settlement in Vinland lasted, what, less than a generation, and the most that came out of it was a saga; and the Chinese voyage was so earth-shattering that no one'd even heard of it until this last decade.
Nope, the pre-Columbian voyages are like the Apollo flights -- interesting footnotes, but ultimately unimportant.
Actually, the way I heard it, altitude is only 1/25 the trick to orbit. The other 24/25 is speed.
Mostly right. If you just put an object 500 miles above the Earthing, it'll start falling. To achieve orbit, you have to have enough velocity perpendicular to the pull of gravity that you move away from the planet as fast as you're falling.
The ugly fact is that the palestenians are occupied and are fighting to gain their country back. If they had better weapons they would be using them.
Yes, how awful of the Israelis to occupy territory they captured in a war the other side started and then refuse to leave until the Palestinians agree to recognize Israel's right to exist.
I don't know about you but if the US was invaded I'd be fighting back too. I'd even tie a bomb to my chest if I had to.
Perhaps you should read a book of General Patton's maxims before that happens. Make special note of the one that begins, "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country."
This system defends against balistic missiles. The only countries that have missiles capable of reaching US soil are Russia and China.
Everyone else has pointed out that this is a battlefield weapon, and thus no use for strategic defense, thus rendering the second sentence irrelevant. But even so, there is a little country called North Korea that has missiles of questionable range, a dictator of questionable sanity, and which may or may not possess nuclear weapons. And they are most emphatically not on friendly terms with the US.
Open source developers are not your employee/slave,
Not true. If MS donated, say, a million dollars to the Mozilla Foundation, I'm sure they'd be more than willing to create an Avalon, XAML, or.NET branch.
Go check out the satellite pictures of Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan pre-November, 2001, and notice how similar they look, from a distance, to Los Alamos circa late 1944.
Okay, but where are the camps similar to Oak Ridge and Chicago?
Remember, the Manhattan Project consisted of a lot more than assembling a bomb -- they needed to create the fissionable material from scratch. The odds of al Qaeda being able to build and maintain a reactor is pretty slim; and if they obtain the fissionable material from a third party, they could probably get a complete bomb from the same source.
... is YES. Books on, say, Napoleon, you can find in a library. But ever tried to find, say, ten pages, or even a paragraph, about Napoleon? Especially in a 1200+ page book, or several?
This is why history books have indicies and tables of contents.
Teachers are trying to combat this now by requiring sources other than the internet. My last year of high school we were only allowed two or three internet sources. The rest had to be dead-tree books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
By that I hope you mean they're forbidding website citations. It'd be rather silly if a student had to read an article on microfiche instead of looking it up on NEXIS, or couldn't use a law school's online database to look something up in the USC.
Their library lookups don't appear to have included:
Looking it up in a card catalog (electronic or not)
Why waste time looking it up? The Library of Congress system is fairly simple to learn, and Dewey even easier. I don't remember the last time I wasted time with a catalogue.
Yes, it is cheating. But does he count how long it takes to turn his computer on and dailup for each question as well?
Dailup? What is this, the 20th Century? I mean, come on, who turns their computer off anymore?
I'm assuming that he had his computer turned on and web browser up on a lan.
They cycle the various series constantly on TV, if you have a mind to collect them you can get 3-4 various episodes a day on video tape. Why the hell do you want to spend god knows how much on a DVD collection?
Hmm, let's see... no framke clipping, no cut scenes, no commercials, no bugs, and higher quality picture. Good enough for you?
I have to disagree. I see a great advantage in having each application in a stand-alone context. I'd rather see mozilla-calendar stand-alone.
Already exists. It's pretty sweet even though it's only on version 0.1.1. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't get as much attention as Thunderbird and Firefox -- there aren't any extensions for it, and the few compatible themes are a PIA to install.
No, I think the problem is that he's not compacting his folders. All downloaded emails are stored in a single text file. (I believe this is true of all email clients, not just TB, though the formatting of the file varies.) When you hit delete, TB adds a note to ignore the message, but it stays in the text file until you compact folders.
The Offline extension (which is now a standard option in the Windows installer) has a feature for automatically compacting folders when they exceed a certain size.
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Once America had been discovered and the seas charted, it was a matter of affordable logistics and courage, not technology, to get people to the US.
1787-1492=295.
So are you saying that space travel won't improve at all in the next three centuries, or do you just not know the difference between the continent of America and the United States thereof.
When you were the first to perform a voyage of discovery like that, thats significant. Of course they weren't... the Chinese, Vikings and others of course were doing it long before.
No, such voyages are significant when something comes from them. The Viking settlement in Vinland lasted, what, less than a generation, and the most that came out of it was a saga; and the Chinese voyage was so earth-shattering that no one'd even heard of it until this last decade.
Nope, the pre-Columbian voyages are like the Apollo flights -- interesting footnotes, but ultimately unimportant.
I hereby propose the creation of a new mod point, -1 Tinfoil Hat.
Or, since this is Slashdot, perhaps that should be +1 Tinfoil Hat.
They said its time to get Mr. Bush and his Nazi party
Wow, one post and the thread's been Godwinized.
Actually, the way I heard it, altitude is only 1/25 the trick to orbit. The other 24/25 is speed.
Mostly right. If you just put an object 500 miles above the Earthing, it'll start falling. To achieve orbit, you have to have enough velocity perpendicular to the pull of gravity that you move away from the planet as fast as you're falling.
Missile shields are offensive weapons. When you no longer fear the retaliation of your enemy you are free to attack with impunity.
I wonder, did anti-war types in the Hundred Years War argue that the English Channel was an offensive weapon?
Wow, what an ignorant statement. Please, enlighten yourself before you make such prejudiced remarks,
Quite right. Islam is no more violent and evil than Christianity or Judaism.
The ugly fact is that the palestenians are occupied and are fighting to gain their country back. If they had better weapons they would be using them.
Yes, how awful of the Israelis to occupy territory they captured in a war the other side started and then refuse to leave until the Palestinians agree to recognize Israel's right to exist.
I don't know about you but if the US was invaded I'd be fighting back too. I'd even tie a bomb to my chest if I had to.
Perhaps you should read a book of General Patton's maxims before that happens. Make special note of the one that begins, "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country."
This system defends against balistic missiles. The only countries that have missiles capable of reaching US soil are Russia and China.
Everyone else has pointed out that this is a battlefield weapon, and thus no use for strategic defense, thus rendering the second sentence irrelevant. But even so, there is a little country called North Korea that has missiles of questionable range, a dictator of questionable sanity, and which may or may not possess nuclear weapons. And they are most emphatically not on friendly terms with the US.
Would you care to cite the passage in the article that says the Israelis aren't splitting the cost of R&D?
Open source developers are not your employee/slave,
.NET branch.
Not true. If MS donated, say, a million dollars to the Mozilla Foundation, I'm sure they'd be more than willing to create an Avalon, XAML, or
Imagine a SEAL team consisting of Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer armed only with a 1-iron.
Once the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Well once again will they tremble, this time at the sound of our driver!
Go check out the satellite pictures of Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan pre-November, 2001, and notice how similar they look, from a distance, to Los Alamos circa late 1944.
Okay, but where are the camps similar to Oak Ridge and Chicago?
Remember, the Manhattan Project consisted of a lot more than assembling a bomb -- they needed to create the fissionable material from scratch. The odds of al Qaeda being able to build and maintain a reactor is pretty slim; and if they obtain the fissionable material from a third party, they could probably get a complete bomb from the same source.
Exactly. Comcast doesn't make you use their router -- landline or wifi -- so why pay extra when it's cheaper to buy your own.
Better an unwieldy group and a killfile than a group with more spam than content.
I'm still sad about the decline of alt.sex.bestiality.hamsters.duct-tape.
... is YES. Books on, say, Napoleon, you can find in a library. But ever tried to find, say, ten pages, or even a paragraph, about Napoleon? Especially in a 1200+ page book, or several?
This is why history books have indicies and tables of contents.
Teachers are trying to combat this now by requiring sources other than the internet. My last year of high school we were only allowed two or three internet sources. The rest had to be dead-tree books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
By that I hope you mean they're forbidding website citations. It'd be rather silly if a student had to read an article on microfiche instead of looking it up on NEXIS, or couldn't use a law school's online database to look something up in the USC.
Their library lookups don't appear to have included: Looking it up in a card catalog (electronic or not)
Why waste time looking it up? The Library of Congress system is fairly simple to learn, and Dewey even easier. I don't remember the last time I wasted time with a catalogue.
Yes, it is cheating. But does he count how long it takes to turn his computer on and dailup for each question as well?
Dailup? What is this, the 20th Century? I mean, come on, who turns their computer off anymore? I'm assuming that he had his computer turned on and web browser up on a lan.
Why would he need to start a browser? You can Google right from the desktop.
They cycle the various series constantly on TV, if you have a mind to collect them you can get 3-4 various episodes a day on video tape. Why the hell do you want to spend god knows how much on a DVD collection?
... no framke clipping, no cut scenes, no commercials, no bugs, and higher quality picture. Good enough for you?
Hmm, let's see
Just because they aren't proactive about enforcing their TOS doesn't mean they don't keep records.
"Innocent until proven guilty" applies only to criminal cases.
If I ever catch my ISP spying on shit I do, I'm cancelling immediately.
If you were serious about that, you'd never be able to use the Internet again.
I have to disagree. I see a great advantage in having each application in a stand-alone context. I'd rather see mozilla-calendar stand-alone.
Already exists. It's pretty sweet even though it's only on version 0.1.1. Its biggest problem is that it doesn't get as much attention as Thunderbird and Firefox -- there aren't any extensions for it, and the few compatible themes are a PIA to install.
No, I think the problem is that he's not compacting his folders. All downloaded emails are stored in a single text file. (I believe this is true of all email clients, not just TB, though the formatting of the file varies.) When you hit delete, TB adds a note to ignore the message, but it stays in the text file until you compact folders.
The Offline extension (which is now a standard option in the Windows installer) has a feature for automatically compacting folders when they exceed a certain size.