Seriously, building a glass strong enough to withstand bird strikes is not a n issue and hasn't been.
The issue is that the glass has to be weak enough to allow the pilot to break through when he's ejecting. So strong enough for a bird at 800 mph, but weak enough for a human ejecting at maybe 10 mph.
That shouldn't be an issue. The canopy is jettisoned before the seat is ejected. The ejection seat doesn't need to break through the canopy.
I'm pretty sure the card works as advertised with RedHat 9.0 (one of my friends has the same card and he's running Redhat 9.0). Have you tried a text only install of Mandrake (i think you'll probably need to type 'linux text' at the boot prompt), you can then download the linux drivers from the ATI site and configure X.
XManager is another rootless X server which is cheaper. You can also download a trial version which works with all the functionality of the actual apart from the nag screen after 30 days.
the first indian satellite launcher was SLV 3, first successful launch was on Jul 18 1980. There have been a series of other lauchers after that: ASLV, PSLV, GSLV. more info at http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/online/lanc_isro. html
you could use parted which a free opensource partition resizer. or the Partition Resizer (www.zeleps.com). i'm sure there are other programs available for free or for less cost than partition magic which will serve the purpose
If you like Poe, you can also try Roald Dahl. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a good read, nice stories with some really interesting twists
my apologies for replying to my own post, but i hadn't considered the effects of air currents when i wrote the previous post. mars has some atmosphere and the dust will settle slower on mars since the gravity is lesser, but the moon doesn't. so my analogy of comparing moon to mars in incorrect. Dust on moon would indeed settle faster than on earth, but the math isn't all that simple as the earlier poster presented.
yeah, i guess the dust cloud on the moon will not have an opportunity to spread because there's no medium for it to spread. i was looking at a too restrictive case where the only upward force is a constant atmospheric drag. If you include air currents in the model, it get a little too complicated... damn! i'm thinking like a theoretician:)
have you considered the fact that the top of the trajectory on moon will be higher and the rate of descent of the particles will be much slower than on earth.
You might've heard of large dust storms on mars which has a lower gravity than earth but also has some sort of atmosphere unlike the moon where you have dust storms lasting years. There are huge dust storms on earth in deserts, but they never last as long. I'm afraid you're overestimating the effect of the atmospheric drag coefficient w.r.t to gravity.
not true, if you have a cloud of dust, there are other forces apart from simple gravity, there is the drag coefficient due to the atmosphere and cohesive forces due to collisions between dust particles. All I'm saying is these effects do not account for the 1/6 drop in the acceleration due to gravity between the earth and the moon. Mind you the cohesive forces will also operate on the moon, though the atmospheric drag will not be present. The math is not as simple as you present.
As such there is always a residual dust presence in the atmosphere. You can always argue whether all the dust is settled or is there residual amount of the original dust cloud still floating around.
Case in point is the martian dust clouds, which take months to settle, there are no comparable events on earth in recent times apart from the krakatoa explosion.
Another problem with your reasoning. The specific reason that dust "lingers" on earth is buoyant forces BY THE AIR upon very small dust particles. the moon's gravity well is smaller than that of the Earth, but the fact that F=ma will prevail without impedance by an atmosphere will make the "dust" settle rather quickly
a little problem there, on moon the acceleration due to gravity is about six times less. so on the whole the dust will settle slower. atmospheric impedence is very small compared to the acceleration due to gravity unless there are heavy winds.
cloning your kidneys won't really help as your immune system will continue to damage them. Like all autoimmune diseases, the best solution would be to locate the immune system genes and somehow replace them with the healthy genes.
most of the issues people have with gene therapy is when it's done at the germ line since changes (good or bad) will progress onto the progeny. There aren't those kind of risks with somatic cell gene therapy where only the individual in case is affected.
So the cure would work for you, but your offspring are still at risk of contracting the same disease and might have to undergo the same treatment
The whole issue of interfering with the human species would only occur with germ line gene therapy and not with the somatic line one. it's a distinction which is often missed when people rant against gene therapy as a whole.
this sort of luddism seems rather infectious, now it's nanotechnology and gene therapy, a few months down the line someone will come up with another potential (or far fetched) problem with new technology and then the story repeats again.
sure, lots of technologies have potential problems associated with them, but it's not to say that we shouldn't research those technologies just because there might be problems.
As far as engineering goes, the best universities for undergrad education are the Indian Institute of Technologys' (IIT) which happen to be government run. They have a highly competitive entrance exam (top 3% of 100,000 applicants in 1996). Higher education is very good, but as you point out primary education is lacking in most areas and the overall literacy rate remains pretty low.
I used to run large scale molecular dynamics simulations, simulating binding of drug to protein among other stuff. We ran our simulations on a Origin 2000 cluster (this was about 3 yrs ago) and an AIX RS/6000 cluster and the Origins scaled up much better. They're still very good when comes to handling huge data flows and they cluster really well though they're a tad expensive compared to a PC cluster:) don't know how current pc clusters compare with the latest Origins.
It also has some weird issues with SIGCHLD and waitpid(). If you have a signal handler for SIGCHLD in your program, waitpid never gets the status of the child process. It has far too many quirks of it's own which makes porting to IRIX a royal pain.
I sure people from any country with a decent postal service will still quibble about how bad it is !! For my part, I've always observed that when mail goes from one country to another there are always delays even if the postal system in both countries is excellent. Some quirk of the postal system I suppose.
freon would be a bad choice. but you can improve heat transfer properties of water. also i'm not sure how high the temparature get on the CPU. 100 degrees i suppose or the you'd have heat tranfer problems with water turning into steam and all that.
nanofluids (http://www.anl.gov/OPA/logos19-2/nanofluids01.htm ) seem like a good choice, or you could add chemicals to water to improve it's heat transfer properties.
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Seriously, building a glass strong enough to withstand bird strikes is not a n issue and hasn't been.
The issue is that the glass has to be weak enough to allow the pilot to break through when he's ejecting. So strong enough for a bird at 800 mph, but weak enough for a human ejecting at maybe 10 mph.
That shouldn't be an issue. The canopy is jettisoned before the seat is ejected. The ejection seat doesn't need to break through the canopy.
You could always set PermitRootLogin to no in sshd_config, not that it would prevent any more attempts. It just might be more secure that way
I'm pretty sure the card works as advertised with RedHat 9.0 (one of my friends has the same card and he's running Redhat 9.0). Have you tried a text only install of Mandrake (i think you'll probably need to type 'linux text' at the boot prompt), you can then download the linux drivers from the ATI site and configure X.
XManager is another rootless X server which is cheaper. You can also download a trial version which works with all the functionality of the actual apart from the nag screen after 30 days.
the first indian satellite launcher was SLV 3, first successful launch was on Jul 18 1980. There have been a series of other lauchers after that: ASLV, PSLV, GSLV. more info at http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/online/lanc_isro. html
you could use parted which a free opensource partition resizer. or the Partition Resizer (www.zeleps.com). i'm sure there are other programs available for free or for less cost than partition magic which will serve the purpose
yeah, too bad he can't import it. he still hasn't gotten permission from ATF. He might've better luck with a British carrier though :)
If you like Poe, you can also try Roald Dahl. The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a good read, nice stories with some really interesting twists
I don't see any reason why not. It seems to me it's just another form of pop-up which takes up your entire screen instead of just the browser window.
MSN search is powered by Inktomi, which is now a division of Yahoo. I don't think Microsoft has it's own search engine technology.
my apologies for replying to my own post, but i hadn't considered the effects of air currents when i wrote the previous post. mars has some atmosphere and the dust will settle slower on mars since the gravity is lesser, but the moon doesn't. so my analogy of comparing moon to mars in incorrect. Dust on moon would indeed settle faster than on earth, but the math isn't all that simple as the earlier poster presented.
yeah, i guess the dust cloud on the moon will not have an opportunity to spread because there's no medium for it to spread. i was looking at a too restrictive case where the only upward force is a constant atmospheric drag. If you include air currents in the model, it get a little too complicated... damn! i'm thinking like a theoretician :)
have you considered the fact that the top of the trajectory on moon will be higher and the rate of descent of the particles will be much slower than on earth.
You might've heard of large dust storms on mars which has a lower gravity than earth but also has some sort of atmosphere unlike the moon where you have dust storms lasting years. There are huge dust storms on earth in deserts, but they never last as long. I'm afraid you're overestimating the effect of the atmospheric drag coefficient w.r.t to gravity.
not true, if you have a cloud of dust, there are other forces apart from simple gravity, there is the drag coefficient due to the atmosphere and cohesive forces due to collisions between dust particles. All I'm saying is these effects do not account for the 1/6 drop in the acceleration due to gravity between the earth and the moon. Mind you the cohesive forces will also operate on the moon, though the atmospheric drag will not be present. The math is not as simple as you present.
As such there is always a residual dust presence in the atmosphere. You can always argue whether all the dust is settled or is there residual amount of the original dust cloud still floating around.
Case in point is the martian dust clouds, which take months to settle, there are no comparable events on earth in recent times apart from the krakatoa explosion.
Another problem with your reasoning. The specific reason that dust "lingers" on earth is buoyant forces BY THE AIR upon very small dust particles. the moon's gravity well is smaller than that of the Earth, but the fact that F=ma will prevail without impedance by an atmosphere will make the "dust" settle rather quickly
a little problem there, on moon the acceleration due to gravity is about six times less. so on the whole the dust will settle slower. atmospheric impedence is very small compared to the acceleration due to gravity unless there are heavy winds.
it's called hiding in a sea of garbage.
to be more precise steganography. more info here if you're not in the u.s.
cloning your kidneys won't really help as your immune system will continue to damage them. Like all autoimmune diseases, the best solution would be to locate the immune system genes and somehow replace them with the healthy genes.
most of the issues people have with gene therapy is when it's done at the germ line since changes (good or bad) will progress onto the progeny. There aren't those kind of risks with somatic cell gene therapy where only the individual in case is affected.
So the cure would work for you, but your offspring are still at risk of contracting the same disease and might have to undergo the same treatment
The whole issue of interfering with the human species would only occur with germ line gene therapy and not with the somatic line one. it's a distinction which is often missed when people rant against gene therapy as a whole.
this sort of luddism seems rather infectious, now it's nanotechnology and gene therapy, a few months down the line someone will come up with another potential (or far fetched) problem with new technology and then the story repeats again.
sure, lots of technologies have potential problems associated with them, but it's not to say that we shouldn't research those technologies just because there might be problems.
I'm dyslexic of Borg. Resemblance is fertile. Your ass will be laminated.
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As far as engineering goes, the best universities for undergrad education are the Indian Institute of Technologys' (IIT) which happen to be government run. They have a highly competitive entrance exam (top 3% of 100,000 applicants in 1996). Higher education is very good, but as you point out primary education is lacking in most areas and the overall literacy rate remains pretty low.
I used to run large scale molecular dynamics simulations, simulating binding of drug to protein among other stuff. We ran our simulations on a Origin 2000 cluster (this was about 3 yrs ago) and an AIX RS/6000 cluster and the Origins scaled up much better. They're still very good when comes to handling huge data flows and they cluster really well though they're a tad expensive compared to a PC cluster :) don't know how current pc clusters compare with the latest Origins.
It also has some weird issues with SIGCHLD and waitpid(). If you have a signal handler for SIGCHLD in your program, waitpid never gets the status of the child process. It has far too many quirks of it's own which makes porting to IRIX a royal pain.
1-A, 1-B and 1-C were launched from Russia and 1-D was launched from India using a PSLV.
I sure people from any country with a decent postal service will still quibble about how bad it is !! For my part, I've always observed that when mail goes from one country to another there are always delays even if the postal system in both countries is excellent. Some quirk of the postal system I suppose.
freon would be a bad choice. but you can improve heat transfer properties of water. also i'm not sure how high the temparature get on the CPU. 100 degrees i suppose or the you'd have heat tranfer problems with water turning into steam and all that.
m ) seem like a good choice, or you could add chemicals to water to improve it's heat transfer properties.
nanofluids (http://www.anl.gov/OPA/logos19-2/nanofluids01.ht