You could also have a conventional or partial detonation of a nuke (dirty bomb), which would spread radioactive material without an all-out nuclear explosion.
Have you ever driven around a city between 2am and 5am? There's still a significant number of cars on the road. Some traffic lights do change to blinking red or yellow after a certain time of the night (2am in my case).
The northern hemisphere (having much more land mass than the southern hemisphere) is home to 90% of the human population. So it's "Winter of Code" for only 10% of the world's population. That figure is much lower if you apply the "programmer" constraint.
Ok, so the kid goes 50mph in a 20mph zone... The point is that recording a high absolute speed is only useful in certain situations (freeway driving?). For other situations, like mountain roads or school zones, 40mph or even 30mph could be unsafe as well.
I feel bad for the kids who are going through right behind me...
Don't feel sorry for them, feel sorry for yourself. Employers will start to see these kids without any low-level knowledge coming out of LSU, and think the same of you. Good luck.
People lie all the time - a popular one is "I have bad coverage" only to find out after reviewing their account that they've used 2800 minutes this month and are happy to accept a discounted handset with a 2 year deal. People with truly bad coverage do not renew for two years and have 2800 minutes usage per month.
This isn't necessarily true.
I use the same cell network as my girlfriend to take advantage of unlimited in-network calling. We normally spend 2800+ minutes per month on the phone, but I have absolutely horrible reception. She's in the SF Bay Area with near perfect reception, but I'm on the edge of Sacramento, with very poor service.
I would gladly accept a discounted handset (maybe the reception would be better?) with a 2 year contract. So would my account automatically get flagged with "Liar"?
When you pay hundreds of dollars for software, you buy the right to complain about every little thing. But with OSS, it's (usually) FREE--want your cake and eat it too?
Those existing satillites will need to be replaced every so often. There are many other orbital projects, such as the ISS, Galileo, etc. It seems more likely that the number of launches will go up, not down.
Use robots. Use robots that work in groups. The obstacles are safety and cost. If it's safer and cheaper to build a robot to perform a difficult task, that will be the way to go. For example, the mars rovers.
p.s. the foundation alone would be hell to engineer and would take years and years to complete
Take fusion as an example. Engineering is the art of solving difficult problems.
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The reflectors we left on the moon would be a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#Moon_landing_hoax_accusations
I'd go for electrodes on the keyboard... gives a whole new meaning to BSOD...
You could also have a conventional or partial detonation of a nuke (dirty bomb), which would spread radioactive material without an all-out nuclear explosion.
If you're going to complain about the grandparent's post over an apostrophe, you'd better make damn sure that your post is perfect.
Hint: CAPTCHA is an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
What if I play $5 slots? JACKPOT: 200!!!
Have you ever driven around a city between 2am and 5am? There's still a significant number of cars on the road. Some traffic lights do change to blinking red or yellow after a certain time of the night (2am in my case).
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The northern hemisphere (having much more land mass than the southern hemisphere) is home to 90% of the human population. So it's "Winter of Code" for only 10% of the world's population. That figure is much lower if you apply the "programmer" constraint.
#include
int main(void) {
char msg[4];
sprintf(msg, "Hello, World!");
printf("%s\n", msg);
return 0;
}
And how much money/time did it take to install?
Ok, so the kid goes 50mph in a 20mph zone... The point is that recording a high absolute speed is only useful in certain situations (freeway driving?). For other situations, like mountain roads or school zones, 40mph or even 30mph could be unsafe as well.
This isn't necessarily true.
I use the same cell network as my girlfriend to take advantage of unlimited in-network calling. We normally spend 2800+ minutes per month on the phone, but I have absolutely horrible reception. She's in the SF Bay Area with near perfect reception, but I'm on the edge of Sacramento, with very poor service.
I would gladly accept a discounted handset (maybe the reception would be better?) with a 2 year contract. So would my account automatically get flagged with "Liar"?
When you pay hundreds of dollars for software, you buy the right to complain about every little thing. But with OSS, it's (usually) FREE--want your cake and eat it too?
powers of two make for the best use of address lines.
so... Quattro? Midnight?
Those existing satillites will need to be replaced every so often. There are many other orbital projects, such as the ISS, Galileo, etc. It seems more likely that the number of launches will go up, not down.
"forgot"... sure...
Very nice. Well done. Bravo.
What? 24" is nothing. How about a Dell 30" Widescreen LCD?
100Mb inbox IS obscenely small. That's only 12.5 MB!! And 2Gb == 256MB.
You can get a 500Gb (62.5GB) for practically nothing these days. Etc., etc.
The point of this post: Units/Case matters. 8bits == 1Byte.
Use robots. Use robots that work in groups. The obstacles are safety and cost. If it's safer and cheaper to build a robot to perform a difficult task, that will be the way to go. For example, the mars rovers.
Take fusion as an example. Engineering is the art of solving difficult problems.
Did you know that the first scientist on the moon was Harrison Schmitt (a geologist)? He was part of Apollo 17. All prior crews were military guys.
And you don't think they've gotten anything out of it? They got their MIRVs, spy satillites, mach 10 jets, and GPS jammers. What else do they need?
Just wait for the next world war... you'll see.
Or, at the very least, not talk to yourself on two cell phones at once.
What is the word used for a functional artificial satellite that actually does something other than orbit?
a projectile?