Well a turbine/electric would decouple the turbine itself from the drive mechanism, so it probably could run at constant RPM without much trouble.
What I want to know is what ever happened to CVTs. I remember reading about them over a decade ago in Popular Science. They were supposed to be some kind of voodoo hoodoo on the mileage too.
Instead, they have the employees toss the boxes around wearing sandpaper gloves, then sit on them to give them that "handled piece-o-crap" feel. Once that's done, they stack them (so you won't accidentally recognize a title by its front cover) on one of those island display thingies that used to be reserved for cheezy joystick knockoffs. Further, you usually have to walk down the urine-smelling carpet gauntlet* to the back of the store to find the island of badly beaten up, poorly organized, mostly out-of-date PC games. Then you pay a 20-50% premium over Best Buy for the priviledge.
*why does every EB smell like it's had some kind of serious water damage?
There is NO problem with online gaming. Just look at how many people enjoy it.
The problem with online gaming is "anonymity"
is the problem for YOU. the problem I have is the rigidity. I'm not a D&D fan, but if I was, i'm not sure I'd be all that interested in a game that basically enforces the rules in a very draconinan manner. IMO, it takes out a lot of the roleplay. But the entire genre is certainly not based on skill, so it's an RPG without RP. The entire point of the game becomes, "get the most [something]"
Ok, well that and the anonymity.. But the anonymity wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't require so very much time. No one cares about who they're playing a pickup game of counterstrike with, and you don't need to "all level up together" if you want to play LAN games of tribes with your friends every once in a while.
Also, their pricing structure is insane. If you want me to pay $15/month subscription there had better be something dynamic about the world that changes every month for that value. And don't say you need that money to develop the expansion packs if you're going to charge for those too.
But those are the problems that I have with it. There are what.. 6 million people who disagree with us?
Ahh, spoken like a true "person who doesn't shop at walmart." But it doesn't really matter whether the movies available at walmart are "good" or not. All that matters is whether the movie YOU want to see is sold there. It's not like paying $50 at bestbuy will guarantee your set of "Four creepy spinsters: uncomfortably intimate coffee talk - Season 1" will be any more watchable than the $35 version of same at Walmart.
Many people think that the number of CxO positions is small enough that the market can't make a proper correction. The religion of the "corporate savior" has artificially limited the field of qualfied personnel for these positions.
I don't know if that is the case per se, but it is the only way I can explain the number of leaders of absolute disasters who've been hired into top spots at other companies. Maybe it's like the hollywood actors whose claim to fame is that they aren't fans/never heard of whatever it is they're making a film of.
The TOS however doesn't say anything about throttling due to a user's frequency of use. It does exempt them for the various reasons things could take a while. one of which is the number of transactions each transations per day at each clearing center.
This number is presumeably limited by the number of personnel and how hard the work them. I suppose it could be a way for them to weasel out of having enough employees to handle the needed volume at each center, but then again you can't expect them to work the employees they do have to death or hire more workers than their revinue can support either.
Are you sure about that? that they're actually throttling people? i was under the impression that they put low-volume users higher in priority for disks compared to high-volume users for the same film, so you should only notice a slow-down if your queue is short and you've picked popular films.
Of course, I haven't had netflix in a while, so i guess they could've changed it or i've been mistaken, but I was a pretty heavy user when I did have it and never noticed any throttling. I did notice that the post office box I dropped the disks into seemed to affect the delivery time quite a bit though. I shaved off a day or two by dropping off at the main branch instead of my own.
On the off chance that it is not, your understanding is incorrect. The phases you refer to (solid, liquid, gas) refer to the bulk properties of large quantities of atoms. The bonds holding them together are generally weaker as you go down that list and the densities generally increase as you go up the list.
It would be a fundamental misunderstanding of physics and the word, "atomized" to state that something could be "converted into atoms." As Pauli would say, "not even wrong."
They're not buzzwords. They're physical terms with precise meanings. To paraphrase your objection in slashdot terms:
You sound rediculous correcting someone who says, "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday." When they clearly meant, "An email recently took over a day to reach me."
Certainly it's not difficult to work out the meaning in either case, but I think you'll agree that to those familiar with the concepts in question, the former is extrememly grating to hear.
But you'd think about the risk more. And it might be different if it was a motorcycle.
But.. um.. could you describe the mechanism by which you came to the conclusion that it's safer than the airline flight and drive?
'cause it seems to me that if these guys are right about the "per trip" statistics, and you figure drive, flight, drive, your odds of being in a fatal accident on the way to the pad are something like, 3.8 million to one against, whereas the odds of being in a fatal trip to space and back have a historical record of something like 50 to one against.
That's because the risk is still abstract to you. I'm sure you'd feel differently if you'd been friends with the deceased and if there really was a way to trade your checking account for a ride.
No, If the guy was really serious, he deserves to be institutionalized. If he's trying to yank the Art Bell crowd, he definately deserves to be shot for pushing so many other people closer to requiring institutionalization.
Also. consider the spam factor. If just 800,000 people take 5 minutes to read it, he's already cost society one lifetime in agregate. And actually much worse if most of those people took time from their regular wakefull time rather than from their sleep.
I fail to see why we should assume it's leaking into the habitat. The biggest worry from toxic off-gassing will be after the orbiter lands, and there is already system in place for dealing with that.
If you think Bill Bennett is a hypocrite, you are necessarily arguing from the position that gambling is immoral, an argument that Bennett himself didn't actually make.
It is an interesting logical exercise to condemn a man as hypocritical for engaging in an activity which others think is immoral on the basis that he is some kind of morality advocate.
On the other hand, you cannot deny that that hurts the creditors by willfully disregarding the agreement by which the credit is extended. Why should the lenders be forced to provide a loan for which the money will be spent without collecting any collatoral whatsoever? Now I can see this also applying to other kinds of purchases, consumeables for instance, but the banks seem to have decided that there is something different about those purchases. Perhaps it has something to do with the unlimited loss potential of the gambling "investment" and the extremely limited upside potential. (approaching zero for an addict...)
So while we should support freedom, that includes the freedom of the banks to specify the terms under which they are willing to loan. Otherwise we might just see the disapperance of credit cards. Whatever else you think about them, cc's certainly are a significant convenience. Their loss would have profound effects.
Yes, actually that was the whole point of the article. They assumed the values followed a particular distribution (in this case, zipf, one of the most fun to say distributions...) and then derived the "law" based on that, so that's where the nlogn thing comes from.
Now their assumed distribution might be a little naive, and certainly seems to have been chosen because it results in a relatively clean derived formula, but that's academic. This is a refinement of the orginal observation. A higher-order approximation if you will.
Except the 5-button part. Generally they put those extra buttons on the side, which puts some limitation on the way you can cradle the mouse and move it without accidentally brushing one of those damn side-buttons. The extra buttons don't really serve any useful purpose anyway (unless you're gaming, but if you've got a stress injury, it's probably a good idea to find something else to do with your leisure time for a while).
Better to get just the basic Microsoft or Logitech optical wheel mouse. (something like this one) The contoured ones feel great in the store, but your real usage is at a different angle and the contours force into a particular way of holding it. I suggest optical because you can use it directly on the desk, eliminating the high-traction neoprene mouse pad and the inertia of the mouse ball will reduce the force needed for operation. Also you can easily switch between left-handed and right-handed operation without moving a bunch of needless auxiliary gear. On that note, a radio-mouse might be nice, if you can find one without all the bells and whistles.
If you haven't been switching mouse operation from hand to hand periodically, you probably should from time to time. Anyone can learn to mouse ambidextrously. It probably wouldn't hurt to learn keyboard shortcuts for things so you don't need the mouse as much. Whatever you do to vary your usage will cut down on the repetative part of repetetive stress.
If you were a geek, it'd have been memorable enough for you to.. you know.. remember. You didn't. Ergo, the aforementioned revocation of your geeking license.
Indeed. but does the EU actually have lawmaking authority? I'm a bit confused over whether it's an economic agreement or some kind of strange franco-germanic empire.
Do you mean that they will recieve a fatal sentence or that they will recieve an unreasonably large number of nonfatal and potentially conflicting sentences?
I guess one question is what is the limiting reagent in the space suits? CO2 scrubber or oxygen supply? 'cause Hypoxia really wouldn't be that bad a way to go. You just get more and more unable to function until you pass out.
Assuming the suits are rebreathers. It strikes me as tremendously inefficient weight-wise to carry 8 hours of gas in an open circuit system. Not to mention the delta-v from venting problem.
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Well a turbine/electric would decouple the turbine itself from the drive mechanism, so it probably could run at constant RPM without much trouble.
What I want to know is what ever happened to CVTs. I remember reading about them over a decade ago in Popular Science. They were supposed to be some kind of voodoo hoodoo on the mileage too.
Instead, they have the employees toss the boxes around wearing sandpaper gloves, then sit on them to give them that "handled piece-o-crap" feel. Once that's done, they stack them (so you won't accidentally recognize a title by its front cover) on one of those island display thingies that used to be reserved for cheezy joystick knockoffs. Further, you usually have to walk down the urine-smelling carpet gauntlet* to the back of the store to find the island of badly beaten up, poorly organized, mostly out-of-date PC games. Then you pay a 20-50% premium over Best Buy for the priviledge.
*why does every EB smell like it's had some kind of serious water damage?
is the problem for YOU. the problem I have is the rigidity. I'm not a D&D fan, but if I was, i'm not sure I'd be all that interested in a game that basically enforces the rules in a very draconinan manner. IMO, it takes out a lot of the roleplay. But the entire genre is certainly not based on skill, so it's an RPG without RP. The entire point of the game becomes, "get the most [something]"
Ok, well that and the anonymity.. But the anonymity wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't require so very much time. No one cares about who they're playing a pickup game of counterstrike with, and you don't need to "all level up together" if you want to play LAN games of tribes with your friends every once in a while.
Also, their pricing structure is insane. If you want me to pay $15/month subscription there had better be something dynamic about the world that changes every month for that value. And don't say you need that money to develop the expansion packs if you're going to charge for those too.
But those are the problems that I have with it. There are what.. 6 million people who disagree with us?
Ahh, spoken like a true "person who doesn't shop at walmart." But it doesn't really matter whether the movies available at walmart are "good" or not. All that matters is whether the movie YOU want to see is sold there. It's not like paying $50 at bestbuy will guarantee your set of "Four creepy spinsters: uncomfortably intimate coffee talk - Season 1" will be any more watchable than the $35 version of same at Walmart.
On the other hand, such an animal would be quite tasty when served raw.
Many people think that the number of CxO positions is small enough that the market can't make a proper correction. The religion of the "corporate savior" has artificially limited the field of qualfied personnel for these positions.
I don't know if that is the case per se, but it is the only way I can explain the number of leaders of absolute disasters who've been hired into top spots at other companies. Maybe it's like the hollywood actors whose claim to fame is that they aren't fans/never heard of whatever it is they're making a film of.
Yes. A much cheaper, more convenient (only need the one trip, and only if you want to minimize turnaround time) video store with a vast collection.
Of course, the local library is even cheaper. Though the collection is usually smaller than a video store, it's usually more eclectic as well.
They don't have a EULA.
The TOS however doesn't say anything about throttling due to a user's frequency of use. It does exempt them for the various reasons things could take a while. one of which is the number of transactions each transations per day at each clearing center.
This number is presumeably limited by the number of personnel and how hard the work them. I suppose it could be a way for them to weasel out of having enough employees to handle the needed volume at each center, but then again you can't expect them to work the employees they do have to death or hire more workers than their revinue can support either.
Are you sure about that? that they're actually throttling people? i was under the impression that they put low-volume users higher in priority for disks compared to high-volume users for the same film, so you should only notice a slow-down if your queue is short and you've picked popular films.
Of course, I haven't had netflix in a while, so i guess they could've changed it or i've been mistaken, but I was a pretty heavy user when I did have it and never noticed any throttling. I did notice that the post office box I dropped the disks into seemed to affect the delivery time quite a bit though. I shaved off a day or two by dropping off at the main branch instead of my own.
Please Please Please tell us that this is a joke.
On the off chance that it is not, your understanding is incorrect. The phases you refer to (solid, liquid, gas) refer to the bulk properties of large quantities of atoms. The bonds holding them together are generally weaker as you go down that list and the densities generally increase as you go up the list.
It would be a fundamental misunderstanding of physics and the word, "atomized" to state that something could be "converted into atoms." As Pauli would say, "not even wrong."
They're not buzzwords. They're physical terms with precise meanings. To paraphrase your objection in slashdot terms:
You sound rediculous correcting someone who says, "I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday." When they clearly meant, "An email recently took over a day to reach me."
Certainly it's not difficult to work out the meaning in either case, but I think you'll agree that to those familiar with the concepts in question, the former is extrememly grating to hear.
But you'd think about the risk more. And it might be different if it was a motorcycle.
But.. um.. could you describe the mechanism by which you came to the conclusion that it's safer than the airline flight and drive?
'cause it seems to me that if these guys are right about the "per trip" statistics, and you figure drive, flight, drive, your odds of being in a fatal accident on the way to the pad are something like, 3.8 million to one against, whereas the odds of being in a fatal trip to space and back have a historical record of something like 50 to one against.
That's because the risk is still abstract to you. I'm sure you'd feel differently if you'd been friends with the deceased and if there really was a way to trade your checking account for a ride.
No, If the guy was really serious, he deserves to be institutionalized. If he's trying to yank the Art Bell crowd, he definately deserves to be shot for pushing so many other people closer to requiring institutionalization.
Also. consider the spam factor. If just 800,000 people take 5 minutes to read it, he's already cost society one lifetime in agregate. And actually much worse if most of those people took time from their regular wakefull time rather than from their sleep.
I fail to see why we should assume it's leaking into the habitat. The biggest worry from toxic off-gassing will be after the orbiter lands, and there is already system in place for dealing with that.
If you think Bill Bennett is a hypocrite, you are necessarily arguing from the position that gambling is immoral, an argument that Bennett himself didn't actually make.
It is an interesting logical exercise to condemn a man as hypocritical for engaging in an activity which others think is immoral on the basis that he is some kind of morality advocate.
They'd probably try and get you to call it gaming...
What is to stop people from doing that indeed.
On the other hand, you cannot deny that that hurts the creditors by willfully disregarding the agreement by which the credit is extended. Why should the lenders be forced to provide a loan for which the money will be spent without collecting any collatoral whatsoever? Now I can see this also applying to other kinds of purchases, consumeables for instance, but the banks seem to have decided that there is something different about those purchases. Perhaps it has something to do with the unlimited loss potential of the gambling "investment" and the extremely limited upside potential. (approaching zero for an addict...)
So while we should support freedom, that includes the freedom of the banks to specify the terms under which they are willing to loan. Otherwise we might just see the disapperance of credit cards. Whatever else you think about them, cc's certainly are a significant convenience. Their loss would have profound effects.
Yes, actually that was the whole point of the article. They assumed the values followed a particular distribution (in this case, zipf, one of the most fun to say distributions...) and then derived the "law" based on that, so that's where the nlogn thing comes from.
Now their assumed distribution might be a little naive, and certainly seems to have been chosen because it results in a relatively clean derived formula, but that's academic. This is a refinement of the orginal observation. A higher-order approximation if you will.
Except the 5-button part. Generally they put those extra buttons on the side, which puts some limitation on the way you can cradle the mouse and move it without accidentally brushing one of those damn side-buttons. The extra buttons don't really serve any useful purpose anyway (unless you're gaming, but if you've got a stress injury, it's probably a good idea to find something else to do with your leisure time for a while).
Better to get just the basic Microsoft or Logitech optical wheel mouse. (something like this one) The contoured ones feel great in the store, but your real usage is at a different angle and the contours force into a particular way of holding it. I suggest optical because you can use it directly on the desk, eliminating the high-traction neoprene mouse pad and the inertia of the mouse ball will reduce the force needed for operation. Also you can easily switch between left-handed and right-handed operation without moving a bunch of needless auxiliary gear. On that note, a radio-mouse might be nice, if you can find one without all the bells and whistles.
If you haven't been switching mouse operation from hand to hand periodically, you probably should from time to time. Anyone can learn to mouse ambidextrously. It probably wouldn't hurt to learn keyboard shortcuts for things so you don't need the mouse as much. Whatever you do to vary your usage will cut down on the repetative part of repetetive stress.
If you were a geek, it'd have been memorable enough for you to .. you know.. remember. You didn't. Ergo, the aforementioned revocation of your geeking license.
Indeed. but does the EU actually have lawmaking authority? I'm a bit confused over whether it's an economic agreement or some kind of strange franco-germanic empire.
Do you mean that they will recieve a fatal sentence or that they will recieve an unreasonably large number of nonfatal and potentially conflicting sentences?
Everyone says this, but the truth is, it's not rocket science. It's rocket engineering.
I guess one question is what is the limiting reagent in the space suits? CO2 scrubber or oxygen supply? 'cause Hypoxia really wouldn't be that bad a way to go. You just get more and more unable to function until you pass out.
Assuming the suits are rebreathers. It strikes me as tremendously inefficient weight-wise to carry 8 hours of gas in an open circuit system. Not to mention the delta-v from venting problem.