It took FOREVER to get a composite commercial aircraft into production because the insurance companies had no data on hull integrity to do the underwriting. As a result, the proposed premiums were based on utter disaster.
It may have been the Beech Starship http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/legacy/article.asp?id=775 that provided some useful data. Although a turboprop, it is pressurized, and the more-frequent pressure cycling of a corporate hauler may have given them some idea that composites aren't highly more likely than conventional aluminum hulls to become convertibles (Aloha 737) in flight.
If the US gov't really wanted to help advance the aircraft industry, they'd create an insurance agency for new designs and materials.
Since there are some women with the ability to differentiate a fourth primary color, it would seem that there is a very small market for a monitor with an additional color (not sure if the additional color is what the "tri"s among us call "yellow", though). Of course, there are a LOT of men with red-green colorblindness, so it might make more sense to make a cheaper monitor for them with only two colors.
There's a "design flaw" in the lens. Unlike bones, that have cells that both remove and replace bone, the lenses only have cells that smooth the surface by adding more material. After a few decades, the lens is too thick to be stretched for close focus, so we lose that ability, although distance vision may still be as good as when young.
Some people can tolerate a pair of replacement lenses, one near-focusable for reading and one far-focusable, between them covering the full range of vision. IIRC, the dominant eye is close-focusable. Contacts are available in the same arrangement, but, again, not everyone can tolerate them.
When the rods/cones exist in the retina, and the nervous system connections to the brain, but the photo-chemical pathways inside the rods/cones are blocked, this therapy unblocks the chemical error, letting the other components work.
For myopics the damage is different. Our eyeballs are not spherical, so the lens and cornea, matched to a spherical retina surface cannot focus incoming light "incorrectly" onto our distorted retinas. our best bet is still prosthetic. Although the cornea can be hacked up to make some correction, it is not really the issue (it is for astigmatism). What we need are lenses designed for non-spherical retinas. This can emulated by glasses/contacts, but the real solution would be corrective lens implants.
Current materials are not as flexible as natural lenses, so cannot be complete replacements. However, lenses can be shaped for accurate vision at longer than reading distances, or within reading-to-desktop range. As we get older and cataracts appear, there is a stronger justification to replace the lenses, and many older adults no longer have to wear glasses due to replacement lenses. I'm really hoping that by the time I get to replacement, the materials will have been improved so that I can not only stop wearing contacts, but get rid of the reading glasses, too.
Of course, it there were to be an "official" native release of SCII for Linux, I would probably drop my current boycott of the title for lack of LAN play.
The "geniuses" at the NSA couldn't even come up with a filter driver to detect the connection in real time (and block access)? I worked at a company years ago that had such a tool commercially available. Sweeping the registry is sort of "after the fact".
On Linux, you could control users' (not "root", but if they've got local "root" access...) ability to mount USB/Firewire/... removable storage with a simple change to the udev rules.
Given that it was a European (well, Briton, but it is on "that" side of the Atlantic), working at a European facility, that mucked up a perfectly good Internet with this "web" thingie, all of the non-maintenance traffic other than mail, telnet, and ftp should be billed to the EU, plus a royalty for Al Gore, since he invented the entire thing.
In my area, they shut off all of the guide data early last year. In addition, they shut off the PBS-channel subcarrier that had the time-of-day, so I now have to manually reset the time on my recorder when the useless, murderous (but that's another subject) "Daylight Savings Time" changes occur. Of course, they've also shut off all of the clear QAM, so I have to have a set top box to record anything that isn't a broadcast channel.
But, since all of the alternatives are no better, if not worse, I have no real choice but to pay somescum for access to whatever current video (some motorsports, some anime/cartoons, some non-presium movies) I want to watch.
Anyone got sawmill/sawfish running on a recent library set?
If so, got a link?
It had Gnome compatibility, but didn't clutter up the desktop with real estate-stealing nonsense or kick off a bunch of annoying memory- and disk-hogging "features", such as indexing, that I don't want, as do both Gnome and KDE.
It's really too bad the Mayflower didn't go down with all hands instead of inflicting the Puritans on what became the United States.
The sleep phase shift at puberty, and back again at about 20, is well documented. Simple application of intelligence would then indicate that school start, relative to childhood, should be adjust during those years to maximize students' potential to learn.
In the USofA, however, the Puritan cultural and genetic infestation will cause the evidence to be simply dismissed, to the detriment of our childrens' education, bacause they "should just learn to adapt".
With automatic electronic transfers between banks, which do not verify the validity of the original check, the person who's going to be screwed by this is the one whose account number is on the fake check. Right now washing out a check, putting in new amounts, and presenting it for cash is a little bit more time-consuming (plus the check is gone) than just photoshopping a check image and scanning it on a phone, or several. The only small deterrent is that the checks are deposited, not paid out in cash immediately. Simple enough to hit up a few pensioners while there's still a bit in their account (or businesses that don't reconcile accounts frequently), wait for the deposits to clear, and clean out the temporary deposit account.
Stress fractures in the tanks however "constructed" due to the frequently shifting internal pressure (think aircraft hulls that undergo a lot of pressure cycles, like the "convertible" Aloha 737)?
Pumps don't need maintenance or experience wear?
Losses in the gears or generator/motor sets to drive the pumps from the windmills?
There are "ultra-larks", too (delayed sleep phase and advanced sleep phase syndromes).
If, in a group of 30-50, there were a couple of people up and (naturally) awake 'til 3-4 AM, and a couple who woke up naturally at about the time those went to sleep, then invading humans, and, in earlier times, other predators, would have less chance of catching the whole band napping.
Pure supposition, of course.
Could be nothing more than simple SNPs. If it were to confer some hunting advantage over a better prey than other wakeful times, then, presumably, nearly whole bands might have shifted.
Given the regimentation of most modern societies, it will nearly always be a mating disadvantage, but just successful enough to remain in play.
So far, lefties haven't been exterminated, either, despite some rather concerted efforts in the US and elsewhere, and the higher incidence of industrial accidents.
I had a sleep study done (lots of wires and other sensors, on infrared camera).
The doctor told me that I should not get up before 11AM.
The genes that regulate your sleep phase are known, and there are alleles that not only shift some of us later, but also there is advanced sleep phase disorder.
There is currently no cure (it would take a retrovirus, most likely), but some people can deal with the day better if they get DAILY (no skips), strong, early, solar-spectrum light.
Because we are constantly stressing our bodies with out-of-phase wakefulness in the industrialized world, there is a higher incidence of stress-related illness.
But those of us who CAN drive usually have the sense to want more brakes than the "barely able to stop once, much less handle a downhill mountain road" rubber bands that seem to be the common equipment on mainstream cars.
BTW, can someone actually name a car sold in the last 5 years that cannot stop, even against full engine power?
Unless this problem is occurring in all areas where Toyota sells cars with electronic throttles, it is likely to be that Americans do not have to know how to drive in order to get a license.
If it is also occurring in those areas, why hasn't it been publicized in the USofA? (Oh, yeah: "no parrots were killed in the plane crash").
Three things would be needed for Microsoft to implement an effective random selection:
a spec' to follow the "standard"
a competent programmer
management willingness to let the programmer follow the spec'
Starting back with C-80 (a CP/M-80 attempt at a "C" compiler), Microsoft has consistently demonstrated that their organization lacks at lest one of those attributes.
int t_array[16]; int *t_pointer = &t_array[0];
however, in C-80 (t_pointer != t_array).
The Amiga programmers guide specified that addresses were 32-bit (68000), and not to store any data (flag bits, whatever) in the upper byte. Microsoft stuffed flags into the upper byte when implementing Amiga Basic, which promptly broke everything when the 68020 bonded out the upper address byte.
Sanity input checking was EASY when it was programmed into the 3270s.
To make a "Web Programmer", whatever kinda tool (operator) that is do some real work and provide a sane interface is like having just the one chimp pound away at the keyboard and produce Shakespeare immediately.
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It took FOREVER to get a composite commercial aircraft into production because the insurance companies had no data on hull integrity to do the underwriting. As a result, the proposed premiums were based on utter disaster.
It may have been the Beech Starship http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/legacy/article.asp?id=775 that provided some useful data. Although a turboprop, it is pressurized, and the more-frequent pressure cycling of a corporate hauler may have given them some idea that composites aren't highly more likely than conventional aluminum hulls to become convertibles (Aloha 737) in flight.
If the US gov't really wanted to help advance the aircraft industry, they'd create an insurance agency for new designs and materials.
Since there are some women with the ability to differentiate a fourth primary color, it would seem that there is a very small market for a monitor with an additional color (not sure if the additional color is what the "tri"s among us call "yellow", though). Of course, there are a LOT of men with red-green colorblindness, so it might make more sense to make a cheaper monitor for them with only two colors.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/28/1536204&mode=thread
Cool. Thanks for the link.
There's a "design flaw" in the lens. Unlike bones, that have cells that both remove and replace bone, the lenses only have cells that smooth the surface by adding more material. After a few decades, the lens is too thick to be stretched for close focus, so we lose that ability, although distance vision may still be as good as when young.
Some people can tolerate a pair of replacement lenses, one near-focusable for reading and one far-focusable, between them covering the full range of vision. IIRC, the dominant eye is close-focusable. Contacts are available in the same arrangement, but, again, not everyone can tolerate them.
I wish, but ...
When the rods/cones exist in the retina, and the nervous system connections to the brain, but the photo-chemical pathways inside the rods/cones are blocked, this therapy unblocks the chemical error, letting the other components work.
For myopics the damage is different. Our eyeballs are not spherical, so the lens and cornea, matched to a spherical retina surface cannot focus incoming light "incorrectly" onto our distorted retinas. our best bet is still prosthetic. Although the cornea can be hacked up to make some correction, it is not really the issue (it is for astigmatism). What we need are lenses designed for non-spherical retinas. This can emulated by glasses/contacts, but the real solution would be corrective lens implants.
Current materials are not as flexible as natural lenses, so cannot be complete replacements. However, lenses can be shaped for accurate vision at longer than reading distances, or within reading-to-desktop range. As we get older and cataracts appear, there is a stronger justification to replace the lenses, and many older adults no longer have to wear glasses due to replacement lenses. I'm really hoping that by the time I get to replacement, the materials will have been improved so that I can not only stop wearing contacts, but get rid of the reading glasses, too.
Not strictly.
StarCraft/BroodWar are supported through WINE with Blizzard's tolerance on BattleNet.
The NoCD patch (official, not a crack) for SC/BW (currently at 1.16.1) works OK in Linux.
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21149&rhtml=true
Of course, it there were to be an "official" native release of SCII for Linux, I would probably drop my current boycott of the title for lack of LAN play.
The "geniuses" at the NSA couldn't even come up with a filter driver to detect the connection in real time (and block access)? I worked at a company years ago that had such a tool commercially available. Sweeping the registry is sort of "after the fact".
On Linux, you could control users' (not "root", but if they've got local "root" access ...) ability to mount USB/Firewire/... removable storage with a simple change to the udev rules.
Given that it was a European (well, Briton, but it is on "that" side of the Atlantic), working at a European facility, that mucked up a perfectly good Internet with this "web" thingie, all of the non-maintenance traffic other than mail, telnet, and ftp should be billed to the EU, plus a royalty for Al Gore, since he invented the entire thing.
In my area, they shut off all of the guide data early last year. In addition, they shut off the PBS-channel subcarrier that had the time-of-day, so I now have to manually reset the time on my recorder when the useless, murderous (but that's another subject) "Daylight Savings Time" changes occur. Of course, they've also shut off all of the clear QAM, so I have to have a set top box to record anything that isn't a broadcast channel.
But, since all of the alternatives are no better, if not worse, I have no real choice but to pay somescum for access to whatever current video (some motorsports, some anime/cartoons, some non-presium movies) I want to watch.
Anyone got sawmill/sawfish running on a recent library set?
If so, got a link?
It had Gnome compatibility, but didn't clutter up the desktop with real estate-stealing nonsense or kick off a bunch of annoying memory- and disk-hogging "features", such as indexing, that I don't want, as do both Gnome and KDE.
He never put the transmission in neutral.
IF there was an real problem, his lack of competence as a driver turned a mechanical/electronic glitch into an evolutionary failure.
Wasn't that made into one of the Bourne movies?
It would help if there were more characters that looked like Kiera Knightley.
Driving like Jeremy Clarkson in some of his more manic modes would be fun, too.
It's really too bad the Mayflower didn't go down with all hands instead of inflicting the Puritans on what became the United States.
The sleep phase shift at puberty, and back again at about 20, is well documented. Simple application of intelligence would then indicate that school start, relative to childhood, should be adjust during those years to maximize students' potential to learn.
In the USofA, however, the Puritan cultural and genetic infestation will cause the evidence to be simply dismissed, to the detriment of our childrens' education, bacause they "should just learn to adapt".
With automatic electronic transfers between banks, which do not verify the validity of the original check, the person who's going to be screwed by this is the one whose account number is on the fake check. Right now washing out a check, putting in new amounts, and presenting it for cash is a little bit more time-consuming (plus the check is gone) than just photoshopping a check image and scanning it on a phone, or several. The only small deterrent is that the checks are deposited, not paid out in cash immediately. Simple enough to hit up a few pensioners while there's still a bit in their account (or businesses that don't reconcile accounts frequently), wait for the deposits to clear, and clean out the temporary deposit account.
Who in their right mind would trust an Intel FPU with their life?
Yeah, it may look like a troll, but some of us remember the FDIV bug.
Every billion, or so, calculations might be wrong, but, since you never know WHICH is wrong in an application, it must be assumed that they ALL are.
Stress fractures in the tanks however "constructed" due to the frequently shifting internal pressure (think aircraft hulls that undergo a lot of pressure cycles, like the "convertible" Aloha 737)?
Pumps don't need maintenance or experience wear?
Losses in the gears or generator/motor sets to drive the pumps from the windmills?
It's easy forget all of those costs.
There are "ultra-larks", too (delayed sleep phase and advanced sleep phase syndromes).
If, in a group of 30-50, there were a couple of people up and (naturally) awake 'til 3-4 AM, and a couple who woke up naturally at about the time those went to sleep, then invading humans, and, in earlier times, other predators, would have less chance of catching the whole band napping.
Pure supposition, of course.
Could be nothing more than simple SNPs. If it were to confer some hunting advantage over a better prey than other wakeful times, then, presumably, nearly whole bands might have shifted.
Given the regimentation of most modern societies, it will nearly always be a mating disadvantage, but just successful enough to remain in play.
So far, lefties haven't been exterminated, either, despite some rather concerted efforts in the US and elsewhere, and the higher incidence of industrial accidents.
I had a sleep study done (lots of wires and other sensors, on infrared camera).
The doctor told me that I should not get up before 11AM.
The genes that regulate your sleep phase are known, and there are alleles that not only shift some of us later, but also there is advanced sleep phase disorder.
There is currently no cure (it would take a retrovirus, most likely), but some people can deal with the day better if they get DAILY (no skips), strong, early, solar-spectrum light.
Because we are constantly stressing our bodies with out-of-phase wakefulness in the industrialized world, there is a higher incidence of stress-related illness.
But those of us who CAN drive usually have the sense to want more brakes than the "barely able to stop once, much less handle a downhill mountain road" rubber bands that seem to be the common equipment on mainstream cars.
BTW, can someone actually name a car sold in the last 5 years that cannot stop, even against full engine power?
Unless this problem is occurring in all areas where Toyota sells cars with electronic throttles, it is likely to be that Americans do not have to know how to drive in order to get a license.
If it is also occurring in those areas, why hasn't it been publicized in the USofA? (Oh, yeah: "no parrots were killed in the plane crash").
In Colorado (USofA), it is still illegal.
The owners of the downstream water rights also own the rainwater that feeds those streams.
http://www.gazette.com/articles/water-55602-rain-bill.html
cell-phone radiation isn't spherical.
by design, there is more emission in the plane of the array than straight up or down.
Three things would be needed for Microsoft to implement an effective random selection:
a spec' to follow the "standard"
a competent programmer
management willingness to let the programmer follow the spec'
Starting back with C-80 (a CP/M-80 attempt at a "C" compiler), Microsoft has consistently demonstrated that their organization lacks at lest one of those attributes.
int t_array[16];
int *t_pointer = &t_array[0];
however, in C-80 (t_pointer != t_array).
The Amiga programmers guide specified that addresses were 32-bit (68000), and not to store any data (flag bits, whatever) in the upper byte. Microsoft stuffed flags into the upper byte when implementing Amiga Basic, which promptly broke everything when the 68020 bonded out the upper address byte.
Sanity input checking was EASY when it was programmed into the 3270s.
To make a "Web Programmer", whatever kinda tool (operator) that is do some real work and provide a sane interface is like having just the one chimp pound away at the keyboard and produce Shakespeare immediately.