how is that insightful?? "another asteroid between 4.5 and 10 meters (14-33 feet) wide" just missed the Earth. Go look at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/ for real data. Thing is we are in estimated 95 percentile about potentially hazardous asteroids now.
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gas giants may have multiple, decent sized moons, you know...
The Hiller Flying Platform was designed in 1955. It was originally an ONR (Office of Naval Research) project to develop a platform capable of carrying one man for short hops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5QDHKk9AY ok, the video's choppy but we speak 1950's goddammit
If politically correct DOJ was designing Olimpics games today, they would have to make sure obese people have the same chance of winning gymnastics or marathon competition as fit people.
And Mensa would be an illegal organization. And passing US citizenship test would require no knowledge of English... oh wait...
This is not a 'high form of symmetry' but very basic one; a solution to a very rudimentary quadratic equation. I, for one am surprised we're not seeing such solutions more often around us. Here's why: every semi-dynamic system tends to find a local energy minimum, which needs to be stable. A quadratic equation has always a stable minimum or it doesn't have a minimum. Well... that's all, nothing more to see here for me.
15-tonne object is like 2.5m radius meteor. It'll never reach the surface in one piece, breaking up about 80-100km above earth. A few rather small chunks may possibly hit the ground, though. I say nothing to get paranoid about.
While apple "owns" about 8% (or sth like that) of OS market, it is worth a bit over 50% of what is MSFT worth. A small corporation? Gimme a break. A biggest computer manufacturer on earth, currently. More like it.
I find that "panopticon" is something unfamiliar to many western readers. Western readers just call "panopticon" in politicaly correct way.
They call it 'political correctness'.
Note 7 countries ( marked *** ) just recently updated their status within ISO from 'O' (observer) to 'P' so they could vote. Those are mostly small countries and likely to be Microsoft puppets within ISO body. Which means MS can now actively block *any* new proposed standard and promote their own more easily.
The Competition is divided into two levels. Level 1 requires a rocket to take off from a designated launch area, rocket up to 150 feet (50 meters) altitude, then hover for 90 seconds while landing precisely on a landing pad 100 meters away. The flight must then be repeated in reverse--and both flights, along with all of the necessary preparation for each, must take place within a two and a half hour period.
The more difficult course, Level 2, requires the rocket to hover for twice as long before landing precisely on a simulated lunar surface, packed with craters and boulders to mimic actual lunar terrain. The hover times are calculated so that the Level 2 mission closely simulates the power needed to perform the real lunar mission.
Imagine very long scissors, both edges very close to each other. Or a guillotine with very small angle. Now we can use a _non-material_ point of intersection of both scissor hands to transmit information. Of course it can be made to move in excess of c for brief period of time.
However we can't use such scissors to transmit information between 2 points at speed>c.
Actually, mean of {1,4} is 2.5 and mean of {1.0, 4.0} can be written as either 2.5 or 2.50.
When you have 10 measurings with error of 10% each, their mean will have much lower error.
Microsoft announced yesterday its "Silverlight", previously named WPF/E: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/intr oducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx. They call it "cross platform, cross browser plug-in" and it is basically a replacement for flash with wmv lock-in. Oh, and no linux (cross platform means XP+Vista+OSX, I guess) One nice feature being HD streaming, I have to give it to them.
weeeellll... this is the internets... it works a bit differently. Our radio-radio would have to be _physically_ located in US of A to be heard. Our series-of-tubes-radio don't have to. So fuck it we move to Antigua. Retarded law-makers will yet have to grasp the idea....
First IE slowly being replaced by superior FF. Then Open Office (or less bloated equivalents like Abiword) will come and kick out Word and al from grandma computers. Then average Joe will not be able to watch his movies on Vista and noone will have a copy of XP handy. So his 12-year old will install Ubuntu. And wmv and other non-open formats will die, too. People are getting burned by DRM tricks and lock-ins.
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how is that insightful??
"another asteroid between 4.5 and 10 meters (14-33 feet) wide" just missed the Earth. Go look at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/ for real data. Thing is we are in estimated 95 percentile about potentially hazardous asteroids now.
gas giants may have multiple, decent sized moons, you know...
The Hiller Flying Platform was designed in 1955. It was originally an ONR (Office of Naval Research) project to develop a platform capable of carrying one man for short hops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5QDHKk9AY
ok, the video's choppy but we speak 1950's goddammit
1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-4ygOrgJ4
2005: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/11/anderson-based/
what, no midget porn?
If politically correct DOJ was designing Olimpics games today, they would have to make sure obese people have the same chance of winning gymnastics or marathon competition as fit people.
And Mensa would be an illegal organization.
And passing US citizenship test would require no knowledge of English... oh wait...
just to nitpick (I like irony): Fibonacci sequence IS a golden ratio in its essence; more specifically Fib(n+1)/Fib(n) -> golden_ratio :)
This is not a 'high form of symmetry' but very basic one; a solution to a very rudimentary quadratic equation. I, for one am surprised we're not seeing such solutions more often around us.
Here's why: every semi-dynamic system tends to find a local energy minimum, which needs to be stable. A quadratic equation has always a stable minimum or it doesn't have a minimum. Well... that's all, nothing more to see here for me.
One day I hope to enter a store, pick up a brand new hot game and find a sticker on it:
"WINE COMPATIBLE"
15-tonne object is like 2.5m radius meteor. It'll never reach the surface in one piece, breaking up about 80-100km above earth. A few rather small chunks may possibly hit the ground, though. I say nothing to get paranoid about.
First rip them to Mp3s then burn...
While apple "owns" about 8% (or sth like that) of OS market, it is worth a bit over 50% of what is MSFT worth. A small corporation? Gimme a break. A biggest computer manufacturer on earth, currently. More like it.
D00de, don't divide. Try multiplying.
Or you'll end up with Libraries of Congress per Soviet Russia times Old Koreans.
They call it 'political correctness'.
This is a fucked up world of american political correctness, man. Let me be brave and bold to say....
FUCK FAT People. They are just UGLY.
breakdown by country votes: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/09/03/ecma-37 6-dis-29500-ooxml-the-voting-so-far/
Note 7 countries ( marked *** ) just recently updated their status within ISO from 'O' (observer) to 'P' so they could vote. Those are mostly small countries and likely to be Microsoft puppets within ISO body. Which means MS can now actively block *any* new proposed standard and promote their own more easily.
Scientist have yet to prove their theory there is abundance of water in comet body. None of comet missions/probes could find it so far. Read e.g http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/0602 14comet.htm
Competition summary:
The Competition is divided into two levels. Level 1 requires a rocket to take off from a designated launch area, rocket up to 150 feet (50 meters) altitude, then hover for 90 seconds while landing precisely on a landing pad 100 meters away. The flight must then be repeated in reverse--and both flights, along with all of the necessary preparation for each, must take place within a two and a half hour period.
The more difficult course, Level 2, requires the rocket to hover for twice as long before landing precisely on a simulated lunar surface, packed with craters and boulders to mimic actual lunar terrain. The hover times are calculated so that the Level 2 mission closely simulates the power needed to perform the real lunar mission.
Imagine very long scissors, both edges very close to each other. Or a guillotine with very small angle. Now we can use a _non-material_ point of intersection of both scissor hands to transmit information. Of course it can be made to move in excess of c for brief period of time.
However we can't use such scissors to transmit information between 2 points at speed>c.
"...the ability to create and edit bugs via email."
Love it.
There is a reason you can not patent a culinary recipe.
Why then recipe for some chemical (or biochemical) compound could be patented?
Actually, mean of {1,4} is 2.5 and mean of {1.0, 4.0} can be written as either 2.5 or 2.50.
When you have 10 measurings with error of 10% each, their mean will have much lower error.
Microsoft announced yesterday its "Silverlight", previously named WPF/E:r oducing-microsoft-silverlight.aspx.
http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/04/15/int
They call it "cross platform, cross browser plug-in" and it is basically a replacement for flash with wmv lock-in. Oh, and no linux (cross platform means XP+Vista+OSX, I guess)
One nice feature being HD streaming, I have to give it to them.
I'll still stay away...
weeeellll... this is the internets... it works a bit differently.
Our radio-radio would have to be _physically_ located in US of A to be heard.
Our series-of-tubes-radio don't have to. So fuck it we move to Antigua.
Retarded law-makers will yet have to grasp the idea....
Now back to our top 20 playlist.
First IE slowly being replaced by superior FF.
Then Open Office (or less bloated equivalents like Abiword) will come and kick out Word and al from grandma computers. Then average Joe will not be able to watch his movies on Vista and noone will have a copy of XP handy. So his 12-year old will install Ubuntu.
And wmv and other non-open formats will die, too. People are getting burned by DRM tricks and lock-ins.
Well... I like to dream.
Not only is this a dupe (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/ 04/2142232) but there are much better ideas.
Check http://www.magenn.com/ for example. And much less dangerous.