Mine was a little TOO restrictive.. Remember the Family guy episode where Peter sends macguyver a paperclip, a rubber band, and a drinking straw to save something or other?
well we got two sheets of loose leaf paper, a balloon, and four inches of scotch tape in addition to that. I think if i'd had more than 10 minutes to come up with something I could've done it though.
ok now considering how easy it was for the parachute to get caught under the egg, what does that tell you about skydivers...
I did the HS egg-drop competition, too. the "Parachute" technique is the obvious plan, and is about the furthest from "thinking outside the box" you can be.
also, if you had enough materials for a parachute, your egg-drop contest simply wasn't restrictive enough.
Everyone knows Futurology is a quack science perpetuated by wackos who can't even get published in a vanity journal. Those guys don't even have real degrees from acredited universities. And it's just a B.S. degree anyway. The real research is done by doctors of Futuronomy.
It's worse than that. If you use cunning and intuition to accelerate the 'grinding through dungeons' in any way that 1) the developers did not expect, 2) isn't a glitch, but is a natural consequence of game rules, and 3) causes you to deviate from the plodding plan the producers had for every character, whatever you did is called an "exploit" and "corrected" in the following patch.
Thinking outside the box is actually DIScouraged in WoW in favor of "fairness"
And that's what's so difficult to understand: The most prevelant copyright infringemant occurs with songs/artists that most people claim are too [something] to be interesting music... why are people "stealing" stuff they claim is so bad they don't even want to listen to?
Why ban hollow point? afaik, they are usually smaller bullets, and soft by design: they expand inside the body to produce a larger wound from a smaller round. It would seem to me that these would be the easiest bullets to stop with body armor. and therefore the round the police should prefer the baddies are armed with...
(or maybe they're trying to create a mystique by making them illegal... hmmm..)
30kw consumption rate. For every hour on the road, you'll need to charge like 30 hours. Or plug into a couple of outlets and charge a bit faster. Somehow I doubt that hotels will let you run heavy duty cable to 15 different rooms to charge your car over the next 16 hours...
Since the CCD itself is just a buncha charge buckets taking advantage of the photoelectric effect, ALL ccds are greyscale but they'll register intensity over a pretty wide range of frequencies. I think it's something like 1.1 m and shorter for our purposes (and depending on voltage). The only way to make it monochrome in the sense that you are using requires some VERY expensive lenses. Like, a Fabry-Perot etalon.
Depending on the bandwidth, these can require the precise deposition of hundreds of atoms-thick layers.
There are other techniques as well of observing very specific absorption/emission spectra, but most run into the same problem: At the bandwidth you're talking about, signal is VERY low (unless all you need to know is, "Is there a sodium lamp in the room? If so, where is it?"). So you need either a gigantic aperature, or something a bit more sensitive and less noisy than a CCD. Or most likly, both. You probably aren't going to be imaging very many things like that.
Deep Space 1's "ion drive" is a plasma drive. Perhaps what you're thinking of would be more like Hall thrusters, MHD thrusters, Pulsed Plasma Thusters, or VASIMR. All of which exist and have been tested to some degree in vacuum chambers and some of which have actually flown. They were not necessarily invented by NASA, but then neither was velcro, Tang, or kevlar, but those things are all still useful.
When all you have to describe someone's personality is the word, "strength" and the various newspeak incantations of it, everything looks like varying degrees of strength. Walking away from an agressor has nothing to do with strength. The word you're looking for is "wisdom." It is never "strength" to walk away, but sometimes it is wise.
There is a difference between withdrawing from society and hiding from a mob that wants to kill you. Incidentally, though hiding from that mob could be considered wise, it is not generally considered "strength." Strength would be standing up to the mob, which in the case of nazi germany would be decidedly unwise for a jewish person.
There are, in fact, plenty of examples of people who withdrew from nazi society, and none of them are particluarly regarded as strong, wise, or heroes. In fact there is a poem which starts, "first they came for the communists..." which deals with this very subject.
Obviously, there is no shame for someone who hid to survive, but for those that did not need to hide, but withdrew anyway, there is certainly no strength in that.
I thought it was just the inside spaces. I've been to no-smoking bars & clubs, and let me be the first to say how very much more pleasant they are without the thick cloud of headache inducing lungvomit muscling its way into the olfactory organ and permeating the clothes with its wretched stink.
Frankly, I'm at a loss as to why there weren't more non-smoking venues *before* the ban. Sadly, the town I'm currently in has no such ban, and all the watering holes have chosen to allow it. Sadly for them that is. I'm saving money.
I agree that business owners should be able to make the choice for themselves, but you can't argue that a smoke-free workplace isn't more pleasant for the majority of workers. If NYC is banning smoking in large public spaces with good airflow, the yes, that is pretty rediculous.
He makes a very important point about the nature of price, supply, and demand. If only people would understand that this applies to other commodities as well, we'd realize that there's no such thing as "price gouging." There is only "the price rises to market clearing levels." The secondary market for low-priced but 'rationed' consoles proves that.
But seriously, the geneva convention is a contract which was never signed by the terrorists or many of the nations they operate in. Geneva convention rights are not afforded by terrorists to their victims, which would seem to be a cut and dry abdication of geneva convention rights for themselvs. The geneva convention does not afford the same rights to non-uniformed combatants as it does to uniformed soldiers in a regular army anyway.
The idea that certain rights that are protected by the compact should be applied may be noble, but to classify failing to the geneva convention to situations far outside its original intended scope as rejection of the convention altogether is disingenuous rhetoric.
Y'know, You should think a little more deeply about that statement than just, "business is bad, m'kay."
The reason that there's money in it is that opression creates market inefficiencies, whose exploitation aparantly leads to more freedom for the populations involved. It's win-win for everyone but the opressors. Actually, win-win-win, because market inefficiencies reduce the total amount of wealth able to be generated by any given population and therefore the standard of living they are able to achieve.
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Mine was a little TOO restrictive.. Remember the Family guy episode where Peter sends macguyver a paperclip, a rubber band, and a drinking straw to save something or other?
well we got two sheets of loose leaf paper, a balloon, and four inches of scotch tape in addition to that. I think if i'd had more than 10 minutes to come up with something I could've done it though.
ok now considering how easy it was for the parachute to get caught under the egg, what does that tell you about skydivers...
I did the HS egg-drop competition, too. the "Parachute" technique is the obvious plan, and is about the furthest from "thinking outside the box" you can be.
also, if you had enough materials for a parachute, your egg-drop contest simply wasn't restrictive enough.
Everyone knows Futurology is a quack science perpetuated by wackos who can't even get published in a vanity journal. Those guys don't even have real degrees from acredited universities. And it's just a B.S. degree anyway. The real research is done by doctors of Futuronomy.
Well whatever it is, it'll be better than an overpriced scooter in art-"health-care-device" style.
If it only takes 5 minutes to d/l a 44 minute show, you won't care if it starts downloading in the middle or the begining.
It's worse than that. If you use cunning and intuition to accelerate the 'grinding through dungeons' in any way that 1) the developers did not expect, 2) isn't a glitch, but is a natural consequence of game rules, and 3) causes you to deviate from the plodding plan the producers had for every character, whatever you did is called an "exploit" and "corrected" in the following patch.
Thinking outside the box is actually DIScouraged in WoW in favor of "fairness"
And that's what's so difficult to understand: The most prevelant copyright infringemant occurs with songs/artists that most people claim are too [something] to be interesting music... why are people "stealing" stuff they claim is so bad they don't even want to listen to?
Why ban hollow point? afaik, they are usually smaller bullets, and soft by design: they expand inside the body to produce a larger wound from a smaller round. It would seem to me that these would be the easiest bullets to stop with body armor. and therefore the round the police should prefer the baddies are armed with...
(or maybe they're trying to create a mystique by making them illegal... hmmm..)
30kw consumption rate. For every hour on the road, you'll need to charge like 30 hours. Or plug into a couple of outlets and charge a bit faster. Somehow I doubt that hotels will let you run heavy duty cable to 15 different rooms to charge your car over the next 16 hours...
Why can't they just build a big wall? I mean, how high can a toad jump anyway?
gah.. suposed to be 1.1 micrometer. darn you slashdot.
Since the CCD itself is just a buncha charge buckets taking advantage of the photoelectric effect, ALL ccds are greyscale but they'll register intensity over a pretty wide range of frequencies. I think it's something like 1.1 m and shorter for our purposes (and depending on voltage). The only way to make it monochrome in the sense that you are using requires some VERY expensive lenses. Like, a Fabry-Perot etalon.
Depending on the bandwidth, these can require the precise deposition of hundreds of atoms-thick layers.
There are other techniques as well of observing very specific absorption/emission spectra, but most run into the same problem: At the bandwidth you're talking about, signal is VERY low (unless all you need to know is, "Is there a sodium lamp in the room? If so, where is it?"). So you need either a gigantic aperature, or something a bit more sensitive and less noisy than a CCD. Or most likly, both. You probably aren't going to be imaging very many things like that.
Since most of the sources for darwin award researchers seem to be snopes.com, i'd say pretty unlikey if something happens for real.
Deep Space 1's "ion drive" is a plasma drive. Perhaps what you're thinking of would be more like Hall thrusters, MHD thrusters, Pulsed Plasma Thusters, or VASIMR. All of which exist and have been tested to some degree in vacuum chambers and some of which have actually flown. They were not necessarily invented by NASA, but then neither was velcro, Tang, or kevlar, but those things are all still useful.
I have never heard either phrase uttered as a complement.
You should always build your first compiler by hand. and build everything else from that.
I just finished "Empire Strikes Back" you insensitive clod. Now i'm just creeped out.
When all you have to describe someone's personality is the word, "strength" and the various newspeak incantations of it, everything looks like varying degrees of strength. Walking away from an agressor has nothing to do with strength. The word you're looking for is "wisdom." It is never "strength" to walk away, but sometimes it is wise.
Actually you can set this up with a few smart playlists. They have suggestions at http://www.smartplaylists.com/ that you might be able to use.
There is a difference between withdrawing from society and hiding from a mob that wants to kill you. Incidentally, though hiding from that mob could be considered wise, it is not generally considered "strength." Strength would be standing up to the mob, which in the case of nazi germany would be decidedly unwise for a jewish person.
There are, in fact, plenty of examples of people who withdrew from nazi society, and none of them are particluarly regarded as strong, wise, or heroes. In fact there is a poem which starts, "first they came for the communists..." which deals with this very subject.
Obviously, there is no shame for someone who hid to survive, but for those that did not need to hide, but withdrew anyway, there is certainly no strength in that.
I thought it was just the inside spaces. I've been to no-smoking bars & clubs, and let me be the first to say how very much more pleasant they are without the thick cloud of headache inducing lungvomit muscling its way into the olfactory organ and permeating the clothes with its wretched stink.
Frankly, I'm at a loss as to why there weren't more non-smoking venues *before* the ban. Sadly, the town I'm currently in has no such ban, and all the watering holes have chosen to allow it. Sadly for them that is. I'm saving money.
I agree that business owners should be able to make the choice for themselves, but you can't argue that a smoke-free workplace isn't more pleasant for the majority of workers. If NYC is banning smoking in large public spaces with good airflow, the yes, that is pretty rediculous.
He makes a very important point about the nature of price, supply, and demand. If only people would understand that this applies to other commodities as well, we'd realize that there's no such thing as "price gouging." There is only "the price rises to market clearing levels." The secondary market for low-priced but 'rationed' consoles proves that.
But seriously, the geneva convention is a contract which was never signed by the terrorists or many of the nations they operate in. Geneva convention rights are not afforded by terrorists to their victims, which would seem to be a cut and dry abdication of geneva convention rights for themselvs. The geneva convention does not afford the same rights to non-uniformed combatants as it does to uniformed soldiers in a regular army anyway.
The idea that certain rights that are protected by the compact should be applied may be noble, but to classify failing to the geneva convention to situations far outside its original intended scope as rejection of the convention altogether is disingenuous rhetoric.
Y'know, You should think a little more deeply about that statement than just, "business is bad, m'kay."
The reason that there's money in it is that opression creates market inefficiencies, whose exploitation aparantly leads to more freedom for the populations involved. It's win-win for everyone but the opressors. Actually, win-win-win, because market inefficiencies reduce the total amount of wealth able to be generated by any given population and therefore the standard of living they are able to achieve.
And why is a murder committed out of hate worse than a "regular" murder? The victim is equally dead either way.