Yeah but the message from the publicity stunt was clear:
We have rockets that are powerful enough deliver a man and his life support systems to the moon and guidence systems capable enough to safely guide him back to a chosen location on earth. Think what would happen if we had a less ambitious goal of say..delivering a nuclear warhead to one of your cities.
The point he's trying to make is.. we have CAD today. and all the experience from then. We should be able to pop out the equivalent design in a matter of weeks compared to doing all of the design work with pencil, paper, models and all of the calculations with slide rules and mechanical calculators.
I don't speak for everyone regarding the flak NASA gets, but If they're like me, they're mad not because they're losing astronauts on space missions, but because they're losing astronauts on uninspiring space missions with a lackluster experimental vehicle that has exceeded the period of experimentation (and exceeded the design specifications in all the wrong ways). I honestly think people would be more accepting if the loss of life was FOR something... if we lose the first Mars crew, I'd be one of the first to clamor for figuring out what happened, fixing it, and getting the next crew out there as quickly as possible.
It's hard to get excited about (as SNL put it) "From the Earth to...The area around the Earth: the story of the space shuttle"
You could measure earthquake strength based on ergs released (it's a very big number so I have no idea why they choose such a tiny energy unit) In fact I believe the Richter scale is a log scale of energy released. (as such, it gives a better idea of the magnitude)
but why is this a nightmare.. shouldn't you be able to do all of those things once and then have the computer do the rest? I thought that's what computers were for: automating repetative tasks.
50%??? so half of the specs that ATI quotes are actually leveraged on the CPU i've already bought? (and therefore subtracting from available cycles for other uses.) I think you've just made a compelling argument for ATI's competitors.
They already provide hamburgers to an open standard. Their product interfaces in the same way as all other hamburgers, directly with the mouth port.
Very fancy restaurants have proprietary interfaces: You are required to use specialized hooks (salad fork, etc.) to interface with the food which must be used in a specific way.
Chinese restaurants use the most difficult interface of all, but it's fairly simple and often fully documented on the chopsticks package.
Well the Z3 is a non-hovering landspeeder that won't be invented for quite some time.. and in another galaxy to boot; which is why it has a Vehicle Identification Number. so apparantly it wasn't a very good analogy... all of my posts have been pretty much car-related (the relative prevalence of droids seems to put them above "kitchen appliance" at least to a level of "major household appliance"
There does seem to be a toaster droid in jabba's palace though.. it's getting its feet tortured. I guess it wasn't toasty enough.
See i thought there was no reason for him to tell them who his boss was, but to tell them they've been double-crossed by a dark jedi who is in charge of the senate would be very helpful to maintain the conflict.
extreme example: suppose someone got a tatoo of a swastika on their forehead. Don't you think you could make some assumptions about this person? i.e. if they are not outright bigots, then they must be sociopaths to get such a socially unacceptable symbol in a prominent place? Does that person have the right to complain when she doesn't get hired by http://www.adl.org/?
There are two things you can assume about someone when you see their tatoos:
1) They are amenable to the concept of body art.
2) What they painted on their body is likely important to them.
There are numerous corrollaries, but the important thing to remember is that tatoos and piercings often make others uncomfortable. Their feeling of uncomfortability is just as valid as your feeling of indignation, but you haven't given them the choice to not be uncomfortable (by not having a piercing/tatoo). On the other hand, you did have a choice to get the tatoo/piercing in the first place. (Once having it, you both have the choice to not interract with each other, but that is an equal choice.. Unless you argue they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against interracting with you, in which case, the interractee has no choice whatsoever and the body-art-foistee has all the choice.
You are not born with body modifications. There is no genetic predisposition to having body modifications. Body modifications are a choice and every choice speaks to the character of the person making that choice. The thing about tatoos and piercings is that they are usually visible, and therefore the information of their existance is available to anyone who sees you.
It is perfectly valid to make value judgements about a person based on the choices he/she has made in a conspicuous fasion. People like to complain about others "discriminating" against people with tatoos or metal, but this has always been the case. You got your tatoo or piercing knowing what the response would be so you really don't have a right to complain when you get that response. In fact, the fact that you got a tatoo knowing what the perception of tatoos is reveals something about your character in and of itself.
It never ceases to amaze me that people want to "be themselves" and do pretty much whatever they want without consequence. If you want someone to think of you in a certain way you must play the game. You must do or wear what that person expects of people that that person thinks of the way you want. You can't just turn around the "deal with it" argument by demanding others "deal with it" instead.
We can argue until we're blue in the face about whether lesbians choose their plight, but body modifications are by definition a choice. A choice that shouldn't be made lightly.
two flights in a hundred. there is a 2% chance that you won't be coming back.. incidentally, it's probably lower.. the last one was round #50 ish. (STS-51, but probably fewer flights had actually been flown, they seem to go slightly out of order) Seems they get complacent around every 50 flights or so, so it's probably been reset. (We're gonna need a lot more data to prove my assertion though.. are YOU willing to volunteer when the count gets back up to 35-40?)
The point of bluffing is to convince the other players that you ARE bluffing when you've actually got a good hand. Then you can milk them for all they've got. If you're bluffing a low hand, you should be prepared to lose. In fact, you should be expecting it.
There's a 'rule' in texas hold'em: If the other players are playing loose, you play tight. If the other players are playing tight, you find another table. Some games really can't be bluffed.
And I want to clear this up: an indivual game is still a game of chance. A bunch of games in aggregate have some theory to use.
How does communism compete with organized crime? Isn't there a really scary chinese 'mafia' or something? I would think that organized crime would thrive wherever the value of a human life is low, as it encourages recruits. (but indivual syndicates probably just want to avoid CHANGE)
I don't want to say it's not true, but most of the business I know of wouldn't be able to fit the receipts in an atm slot. In fact, there's a deposit drop box specifically for businesses at branch offices. (At small businesses at least, they still use crazy canvas sacks-o-money) Not to mention the fact coins won't go into atms either.
I would've believed you if you'd said employees dropping off their paychecks, but businesses don't work that way.
Having graded lab reports I can tell you that in general it's the opposite. The students that take the time to do the experiment correctly will take the time to write a decent lab report as well. The hasty students were hasty in both arenas. Then there were the unethicsal: Most of the copying that I had to deal with was among the students that cared neither to do the experiment correctly nor even copy off of someone who did the experiment correctly. (which made them easy to catch though) they usually wrote hastily too, though whether out fo laziness or actively trying to hide that they were copying.
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Outlook express should really be called: MS Dirty Needles.
What it needs is some kind of needle exchange to make the whole thing safer.
I used to laugh at webmail...
Yeah but the message from the publicity stunt was clear:
We have rockets that are powerful enough deliver a man and his life support systems to the moon and guidence systems capable enough to safely guide him back to a chosen location on earth. Think what would happen if we had a less ambitious goal of say..delivering a nuclear warhead to one of your cities.
The point he's trying to make is.. we have CAD today. and all the experience from then. We should be able to pop out the equivalent design in a matter of weeks compared to doing all of the design work with pencil, paper, models and all of the calculations with slide rules and mechanical calculators.
I don't speak for everyone regarding the flak NASA gets, but If they're like me, they're mad not because they're losing astronauts on space missions, but because they're losing astronauts on uninspiring space missions with a lackluster experimental vehicle that has exceeded the period of experimentation (and exceeded the design specifications in all the wrong ways). I honestly think people would be more accepting if the loss of life was FOR something... if we lose the first Mars crew, I'd be one of the first to clamor for figuring out what happened, fixing it, and getting the next crew out there as quickly as possible.
It's hard to get excited about (as SNL put it) "From the Earth to...The area around the Earth: the story of the space shuttle"
You could measure earthquake strength based on ergs released (it's a very big number so I have no idea why they choose such a tiny energy unit) In fact I believe the Richter scale is a log scale of energy released. (as such, it gives a better idea of the magnitude)
but why is this a nightmare.. shouldn't you be able to do all of those things once and then have the computer do the rest? I thought that's what computers were for: automating repetative tasks.
50%??? so half of the specs that ATI quotes are actually leveraged on the CPU i've already bought? (and therefore subtracting from available cycles for other uses.) I think you've just made a compelling argument for ATI's competitors.
They already provide hamburgers to an open standard. Their product interfaces in the same way as all other hamburgers, directly with the mouth port.
Very fancy restaurants have proprietary interfaces: You are required to use specialized hooks (salad fork, etc.) to interface with the food which must be used in a specific way.
Chinese restaurants use the most difficult interface of all, but it's fairly simple and often fully documented on the chopsticks package.
Well the Z3 is a non-hovering landspeeder that won't be invented for quite some time.. and in another galaxy to boot; which is why it has a Vehicle Identification Number. so apparantly it wasn't a very good analogy... all of my posts have been pretty much car-related (the relative prevalence of droids seems to put them above "kitchen appliance" at least to a level of "major household appliance"
There does seem to be a toaster droid in jabba's palace though.. it's getting its feet tortured. I guess it wasn't toasty enough.
despite being lightyears away, all alien planets base their clocks and calenders on the orbital motions of the earth and its moon.
I thought BSD was compatable with GPL in the forward direction.
See i thought there was no reason for him to tell them who his boss was, but to tell them they've been double-crossed by a dark jedi who is in charge of the senate would be very helpful to maintain the conflict.
extreme example: suppose someone got a tatoo of a swastika on their forehead. Don't you think you could make some assumptions about this person? i.e. if they are not outright bigots, then they must be sociopaths to get such a socially unacceptable symbol in a prominent place? Does that person have the right to complain when she doesn't get hired by http://www.adl.org/?
There are two things you can assume about someone when you see their tatoos:
1) They are amenable to the concept of body art.
2) What they painted on their body is likely important to them.
There are numerous corrollaries, but the important thing to remember is that tatoos and piercings often make others uncomfortable. Their feeling of uncomfortability is just as valid as your feeling of indignation, but you haven't given them the choice to not be uncomfortable (by not having a piercing/tatoo). On the other hand, you did have a choice to get the tatoo/piercing in the first place. (Once having it, you both have the choice to not interract with each other, but that is an equal choice.. Unless you argue they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against interracting with you, in which case, the interractee has no choice whatsoever and the body-art-foistee has all the choice.
How many of you have heard of a "Z3?" If the VIN number happened to be 000000000000000001 don't you think that'd stick in your mind?
When are we going to get 90-minute express ballistic shipping to anywhere on the planet?
ahh yes, the ol' safety by not looking down trick.
You are not born with body modifications. There is no genetic predisposition to having body modifications. Body modifications are a choice and every choice speaks to the character of the person making that choice. The thing about tatoos and piercings is that they are usually visible, and therefore the information of their existance is available to anyone who sees you.
It is perfectly valid to make value judgements about a person based on the choices he/she has made in a conspicuous fasion. People like to complain about others "discriminating" against people with tatoos or metal, but this has always been the case. You got your tatoo or piercing knowing what the response would be so you really don't have a right to complain when you get that response. In fact, the fact that you got a tatoo knowing what the perception of tatoos is reveals something about your character in and of itself.
It never ceases to amaze me that people want to "be themselves" and do pretty much whatever they want without consequence. If you want someone to think of you in a certain way you must play the game. You must do or wear what that person expects of people that that person thinks of the way you want. You can't just turn around the "deal with it" argument by demanding others "deal with it" instead.
We can argue until we're blue in the face about whether lesbians choose their plight, but body modifications are by definition a choice. A choice that shouldn't be made lightly.
two flights in a hundred. there is a 2% chance that you won't be coming back.. incidentally, it's probably lower.. the last one was round #50 ish. (STS-51, but probably fewer flights had actually been flown, they seem to go slightly out of order) Seems they get complacent around every 50 flights or so, so it's probably been reset. (We're gonna need a lot more data to prove my assertion though.. are YOU willing to volunteer when the count gets back up to 35-40?)
The point of bluffing is to convince the other players that you ARE bluffing when you've actually got a good hand. Then you can milk them for all they've got. If you're bluffing a low hand, you should be prepared to lose. In fact, you should be expecting it.
There's a 'rule' in texas hold'em: If the other players are playing loose, you play tight. If the other players are playing tight, you find another table. Some games really can't be bluffed.
And I want to clear this up: an indivual game is still a game of chance. A bunch of games in aggregate have some theory to use.
communist..businessmen.
communist..businessmen.
my head hurts.
How does communism compete with organized crime? Isn't there a really scary chinese 'mafia' or something? I would think that organized crime would thrive wherever the value of a human life is low, as it encourages recruits. (but indivual syndicates probably just want to avoid CHANGE)
I don't want to say it's not true, but most of the business I know of wouldn't be able to fit the receipts in an atm slot. In fact, there's a deposit drop box specifically for businesses at branch offices. (At small businesses at least, they still use crazy canvas sacks-o-money) Not to mention the fact coins won't go into atms either.
I would've believed you if you'd said employees dropping off their paychecks, but businesses don't work that way.
2 Y's and 2 N's. That's only two tests passed by my count.
I know you're joking, but it's only a matter of time before someone "blames" this on cassini or other "nukes-in-space" projects.
Having graded lab reports I can tell you that in general it's the opposite. The students that take the time to do the experiment correctly will take the time to write a decent lab report as well. The hasty students were hasty in both arenas. Then there were the unethicsal: Most of the copying that I had to deal with was among the students that cared neither to do the experiment correctly nor even copy off of someone who did the experiment correctly. (which made them easy to catch though) they usually wrote hastily too, though whether out fo laziness or actively trying to hide that they were copying.
ah.. are you going to tell us what the argument was? I really can't think of any so i'd be interested to see why you thought that.