* Mercury tends to freeze at a few Kelvin. * Liquids tend to float away with no gravity and a lot of little bumps.
Even if you contain it in a canister that heats & keeps the mercury, you will still have the Mercury all over the containment and not on the bottom.
As an aside, you basically have a lot of gyros, which means repositioning the satellite would be harder, and thus more costly due to the extra fuel, as well.
If not, on do you base your assumption that I am from the US? Also, you imply that by having the luck of living in the first world, I totally disregard people who are less fortunate. I would be interested in how you arrive at that conclusion.
As an aside, you posted on an US-owned and English speaking website.
I never played Sunshine (the only one in the J&R franchise I did not play) so dunno.
Spirit Tracks felt _way_ better than Wind Waker even though I hate the stuff that prolongs the game pretty much indefinitely and for no good reason (ship & train parts? die!).
The Afghans have been blaming the USSR, now Russia, for withholding detailed information about mineral & gem deposits for a couple of decades now. Even US researchers call bullshit on this "new discovery". As to why this is being hyped all of a sudden, I will let everyone think of a reason for themselves.
> Aren't those just all more examples of how they're (supposedly) afraid to do something new? I mean, all of those games had "something new" in them, but making a Mario game is like the safest possible move for Nintendo...
Actually, it takes more balls to more or less radically re-invent a franchise constantly than to churn out a new universe every time. With the former, they risk spoiling the experience.
And even if it took less balls, they are still doing something _good_ with the franchise as opposed to pretty much everybody else.
What's bad about milking the franchise if they _re-invent_ it constantly while doing so? Name one Mario or Zelda game (other than Majora's Mask) that was not awesome at the time it was released.
> That's just marketing speak for "We're way too pathetic to have the balls to go with something new
So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2? That, or you are just making shit up to be righteous.
Most of the equipment in a diesel will be designed & tested with gas engines as well. In most cases it's cheaper to manufacture one kind of $commodity_foo and use that for all models.
Any news that shows the public at large how inherently broken today's evoting system are are good news. Especially so when proof can not be denied.
Why inherently, you ask? Because as long as electronic votes are not _at least_ as heavily guarded on a multitude of levels as electronic money, things can not change. Cost/benefit for attackers to simply too good.
If the one child policy in China did not lead to a usual family constellation of four grandparents, two parents and one child, your statement would actually make sense.
The key phrase is "as far as we can tell". They probably have a ton of stuff they still need to go through/try to decrypt (though that always had a strange ring to it. You would assume scret agencies would use strong crypto).
Getting rid of floppy support is a plus, imo. Floppies are unstable, unreliable, cumbersome crutches and ever since I had my first CD-ROM burner, I migrated away completely.
I can see how MS-DOS might have problems booting from a CD (think crappy BIOS update programs), but FreeDOS boots off of CD & USB thumb drive just fine, so...
I saw the Doom movie (not the Bollywood version) by accident, one night. It even stars Dwayne Johnson so I was expecting pretty much nothing.
Yet, it was pretty decent for a random horror/splatter flick. The end was a bit strained, but the overall movie was far from awful. Solid, but not excellent, movie.
> Still, in my line of work we sit on gates for hours waiting for someone we don't know is actually at his computer to undock his ship. I guess you could call that grinding as well;-)
As someone who does not play EVE, I don't even know if you mean real work or EVE stuff.
> People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
> Some may argue the same thing happens nowadays when people leave farming to take up city-based factory work in third world countries- there is an active external force/agenda (e.g. those international bodies wishing to force through capitalist/free-market reforms by tying aid or loans to them) coercing people into the industrial option by making the old way of doing things unworkable.
That's one interpretation, but one I do not subscribe to. Assuming that the modern livestyle with easy and save living is preferable over hard manual labour as your only option (an easy assumption to make, but probably not true for 100% of all people), the external force is the transistion to this new lifestyle. It is painfully obvious that supply and demand as well as available tools (tractors, seeds, water pumps, schoolbooks etc pp) undergo a massive change during this transition.
When weaving machines (the first computers, btw) became more sophisticated, a _lot_ of people lost their jobs. The external force, availability of new machines, made a whole profession useless over night. Yet, the overall population lived better due to higher quality and cheaper fabrics being available.
I am not saying that the number are not impressive, or that iTV is not right around the corner, but I sold more cell phones in 2010 (one) than the entire market in 1959;)
Similarly, there are a _lot_ more devices out there that can display video than the mere 100 million iXs. Again, not saying this is not a large install base, but the comparision was useless, imo.
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* Mercury tends to freeze at a few Kelvin.
* Liquids tend to float away with no gravity and a lot of little bumps.
Even if you contain it in a canister that heats & keeps the mercury, you will still have the Mercury all over the containment and not on the bottom.
As an aside, you basically have a lot of gyros, which means repositioning the satellite would be harder, and thus more costly due to the extra fuel, as well.
ITYM to reply to parent.
If not, on do you base your assumption that I am from the US? Also, you imply that by having the luck of living in the first world, I totally disregard people who are less fortunate. I would be interested in how you arrive at that conclusion.
As an aside, you posted on an US-owned and English speaking website.
I never played Sunshine (the only one in the J&R franchise I did not play) so dunno.
Spirit Tracks felt _way_ better than Wind Waker even though I hate the stuff that prolongs the game pretty much indefinitely and for no good reason (ship & train parts? die!).
Majora's Mask felt too much like Ocarina of Time.
The Afghans have been blaming the USSR, now Russia, for withholding detailed information about mineral & gem deposits for a couple of decades now. Even US researchers call bullshit on this "new discovery". As to why this is being hyped all of a sudden, I will let everyone think of a reason for themselves.
Related: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/no-the-military-didnt-just-discover-an-afghan-mineral-motherlode
> Aluminium is a better conductor than copper per unit weight and is much cheaper.
It's still a worse conductor overall.
> Cable tv distribution cable typically has a copper center conductor and a aluminium shield.
Now _that_ makes sense. We have the same.
> Aren't those just all more examples of how they're (supposedly) afraid to do something new? I mean, all of those games had "something new" in them, but making a Mario game is like the safest possible move for Nintendo...
Actually, it takes more balls to more or less radically re-invent a franchise constantly than to churn out a new universe every time. With the former, they risk spoiling the experience.
And even if it took less balls, they are still doing something _good_ with the franchise as opposed to pretty much everybody else.
> (Oh, and you forgot Super Mario Sunshine...)
Hmm, true. And that one DS game.
What's bad about milking the franchise if they _re-invent_ it constantly while doing so? Name one Mario or Zelda game (other than Majora's Mask) that was not awesome at the time it was released.
> That's just marketing speak for "We're way too pathetic to have the balls to go with something new
So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2? That, or you are just making shit up to be righteous.
Most of the equipment in a diesel will be designed & tested with gas engines as well. In most cases it's cheaper to manufacture one kind of $commodity_foo and use that for all models.
Also, itym "affect" not "effect"
You guys use alumin(i)um for your TV cable networks? Seriously?
> Obviously if you're in a house you probably already have electric power or some other more reliable source of lighting
How delightfully first-worldish of you.
So an atomic bomb within a hydrogen bomb is not a weapon? Cool.
Any news that shows the public at large how inherently broken today's evoting system are are good news. Especially so when proof can not be denied.
Why inherently, you ask? Because as long as electronic votes are not _at least_ as heavily guarded on a multitude of levels as electronic money, things can not change. Cost/benefit for attackers to simply too good.
Ah, didn't know that. Thanks.
If the one child policy in China did not lead to a usual family constellation of four grandparents, two parents and one child, your statement would actually make sense.
The key phrase is "as far as we can tell". They probably have a ton of stuff they still need to go through/try to decrypt (though that always had a strange ring to it. You would assume scret agencies would use strong crypto).
Getting rid of floppy support is a plus, imo. Floppies are unstable, unreliable, cumbersome crutches and ever since I had my first CD-ROM burner, I migrated away completely.
I can see how MS-DOS might have problems booting from a CD (think crappy BIOS update programs), but FreeDOS boots off of CD & USB thumb drive just fine, so...
I saw the Doom movie (not the Bollywood version) by accident, one night. It even stars Dwayne Johnson so I was expecting pretty much nothing.
Yet, it was pretty decent for a random horror/splatter flick. The end was a bit strained, but the overall movie was far from awful. Solid, but not excellent, movie.
> Still, in my line of work we sit on gates for hours waiting for someone we don't know is actually at his computer to undock his ship. I guess you could call that grinding as well ;-)
As someone who does not play EVE, I don't even know if you mean real work or EVE stuff.
> People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Pro tip: Delete your sig.
The nice thing is that they put recycling bins right next to the new phone books. That way, you can get rid of the large-format books easily, as well.
Cameras fix the symptoms. The root cause is that you do not have dedicated bike lanes and/or a traffic light which can be operated by a push button.
The Wikipedia pic shows a mine which does not look natural. More like a man-made mine.
> Some may argue the same thing happens nowadays when people leave farming to take up city-based factory work in third world countries- there is an active external force/agenda (e.g. those international bodies wishing to force through capitalist/free-market reforms by tying aid or loans to them) coercing people into the industrial option by making the old way of doing things unworkable.
That's one interpretation, but one I do not subscribe to. Assuming that the modern livestyle with easy and save living is preferable over hard manual labour as your only option (an easy assumption to make, but probably not true for 100% of all people), the external force is the transistion to this new lifestyle. It is painfully obvious that supply and demand as well as available tools (tractors, seeds, water pumps, schoolbooks etc pp) undergo a massive change during this transition.
When weaving machines (the first computers, btw) became more sophisticated, a _lot_ of people lost their jobs. The external force, availability of new machines, made a whole profession useless over night. Yet, the overall population lived better due to higher quality and cheaper fabrics being available.
I am not saying that the number are not impressive, or that iTV is not right around the corner, but I sold more cell phones in 2010 (one) than the entire market in 1959 ;)
Similarly, there are a _lot_ more devices out there that can display video than the mere 100 million iXs. Again, not saying this is not a large install base, but the comparision was useless, imo.