I thought military folk were supposed to be paranoid during the Cold War. Obviously not paranoid enough.
I think this shows how parinoid they were. By having everyone in the chain of command know the password(s) for launch they enabled the ability for a launch to happen even if the right people weren't around.
So that if there was a launch against the US and no one was able to react fast enough in the chain of command and order the launch, then Joe Anybody could still affect the launch.
I know it's flawed logic but I'm just trying to present a different side of the issue.
If you are sending e-mail, assume it is read by a dozen people between you and the recipient.
All email that I send, unless it's encrypted, I treat the same as if I was sending a postcard and assume everyone between me and the recipient can & will read the contents.
They clearly aren't overpriced; they sell like hotcakes
The same aguement could be mad in regards to the current generation of consoles (XBOX, PS2, & Gamecub).
The XBOX and PS2 both came out at $299 and sold like crazy. But a lot of people still felt that they were very overpriced, and only coming with one controller and no free game made it feel even more so.
I myself only jsut recently bought all 3 consoles, simply because the price has finally come down to a legitimate level.
And with newer PCs being sold by Dell, Compaq, etc... in the $400-$600 range the console makers should be very careful at how they price the next generation. Because as more and more people buy computers at these low prices they will not feel like putting that much cash down for new toys.
I have a cell phone already and it's with Nextel. I don't need a game device/PDA/cell phone. That's just annoying.
I'd rather buy a Gameboy that has games I know and enjoy and that my friends and co-workers own so I can bum the games off them with no intention of returning them.
Aluminium doesn't smell bad when it burns. I suspect whatever soda pop chemicals remaining in the can do.
And very possibly the paint they use to put the logo etc... on the can. He also stated that the aluminium can smelled really bad, not the aluminium that the can was made of. So when referencing to the can in that way would mean everything involved that makes it an aluminium can.
Seriously, this article is all about playing with a new destructive toy and not much about using the toy in question to do interesting science-related experiments.
While the expierments they did were fun, then did put some science into it.
Impressive as destroying a penny may seem, I estimated that we may have only managed to get maybe 10 percent of the available energy hitting the lens (roughly 1kW) into the penny:
* Mass of a zinc penny: 0.0025 kg
* Specific heat of zinc: 390 J/kgK
* Melting point of zinc: 419.58 degC
o Thus 20degC to about 420degC takes 390 J
* Latent heat of fusion for zinc: 1.1x10e5 J/kg
o Thus to melt the penny takes about 275 J
* We heated the liquid zinc considerably as well, but I will ignore that.
o Total energy in the penny: > 665 J
* It takes something under or around 6 seconds to melt a penny:
o 665 J / 6 sec gives us a lower limit of about >= 111 Watts
* Sunlight at the earth: 1365 W/m^2
* Transmission of the earth's atmosphere: maybe 65-70% at this angle with some clouds?
* Area of the lens is about 1.1m^2
o Power on the lens: approx. 1000 W
o Power to the penny >= 10.0%
They have to be getting it from an outside source, because most porn sites and male enhancement products are not sold or located in China. (Assupmtion on my part in regards to the male enhancement becuase of the TV commericals that I see and radio ads that I hear.)
So that means that something is getting into the country.
How much more spam and other junk would we be seeing if their government didn't try to close them from the outside world?
...I don't see this stopping item auctions at all, just driving them to multiple lesser-known eBay knockoffs.
And less legit sites with no sure way of recourse if you do end up getting scammed.
I've sold and bought many accounts through eBay for DAOC and by having the feedback sytem it helps to verify ppl's legitimacy or intention to follow through with the sale.
I think it's pretty safe to say, that if you are serious about playing games, you are better off with a console than a PC or Mac.
A console if you wish to play a sports title or a party social game (ie: mario kart). Or you are entertaining some children and need something simple they can understand (ie: starting up by reseting with a new game disc in)
But if you wish to play a game that has cutting edge technology (FarCry) & the freedom of customization (Half-Life) then playing on a windows pc is the best place for that.
Yes there is, when did Microsfot (or any other major software company) begin releasing beta software through P2P networks as a means for testing?
You could argue that Blizzard put out the beta client for World of Warcraft out through P2P (BitTorrent) but to get the software you had to first obatin the seed from Blizard. So that nullifies that arguement.
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I think this shows how parinoid they were. By having everyone in the chain of command know the password(s) for launch they enabled the ability for a launch to happen even if the right people weren't around.
So that if there was a launch against the US and no one was able to react fast enough in the chain of command and order the launch, then Joe Anybody could still affect the launch.
I know it's flawed logic but I'm just trying to present a different side of the issue.
They are even duping previous made comments
All email that I send, unless it's encrypted, I treat the same as if I was sending a postcard and assume everyone between me and the recipient can & will read the contents.
The same aguement could be mad in regards to the current generation of consoles (XBOX, PS2, & Gamecub).
The XBOX and PS2 both came out at $299 and sold like crazy. But a lot of people still felt that they were very overpriced, and only coming with one controller and no free game made it feel even more so.
I myself only jsut recently bought all 3 consoles, simply because the price has finally come down to a legitimate level.
And with newer PCs being sold by Dell, Compaq, etc... in the $400-$600 range the console makers should be very careful at how they price the next generation. Because as more and more people buy computers at these low prices they will not feel like putting that much cash down for new toys.
I haven't looked for a home address there in a few years though so I'm not sure how up-to-date they are with the photos on file.
Perhaps it's because they had this under the Ashcroft caption
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But this trend of incorporating everything into one device is annoying.
No, but it sure is a good start.
I have a cell phone already and it's with Nextel. I don't need a game device/PDA/cell phone. That's just annoying.
I'd rather buy a Gameboy that has games I know and enjoy and that my friends and co-workers own so I can bum the games off them with no intention of returning them.
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Unless it's a weekend long one or something to that affect, but then there's the worry of the case being stolen.
The answer is yes.
Aluminium doesn't smell bad when it burns. I suspect whatever soda pop chemicals remaining in the can do.
And very possibly the paint they use to put the logo etc... on the can. He also stated that the aluminium can smelled really bad, not the aluminium that the can was made of. So when referencing to the can in that way would mean everything involved that makes it an aluminium can.
Seriously, this article is all about playing with a new destructive toy and not much about using the toy in question to do interesting science-related experiments.
While the expierments they did were fun, then did put some science into it.
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Impressive as destroying a penny may seem, I estimated that we may have only managed to get maybe 10 percent of the available energy hitting the lens (roughly 1kW) into the penny:
* Mass of a zinc penny: 0.0025 kg
* Specific heat of zinc: 390 J/kgK
* Melting point of zinc: 419.58 degC
o Thus 20degC to about 420degC takes 390 J
* Latent heat of fusion for zinc: 1.1x10e5 J/kg
o Thus to melt the penny takes about 275 J
* We heated the liquid zinc considerably as well, but I will ignore that.
o Total energy in the penny: > 665 J
* It takes something under or around 6 seconds to melt a penny:
o 665 J / 6 sec gives us a lower limit of about >= 111 Watts
* Sunlight at the earth: 1365 W/m^2
* Transmission of the earth's atmosphere: maybe 65-70% at this angle with some clouds?
* Area of the lens is about 1.1m^2
o Power on the lens: approx. 1000 W
o Power to the penny >= 10.0%
It was my understanding that the standard Mozilla client had everything because Firefox is the timmed down version of Mozilla.
They have to be getting it from an outside source, because most porn sites and male enhancement products are not sold or located in China. (Assupmtion on my part in regards to the male enhancement becuase of the TV commericals that I see and radio ads that I hear.)
So that means that something is getting into the country.
How much more spam and other junk would we be seeing if their government didn't try to close them from the outside world?
And less legit sites with no sure way of recourse if you do end up getting scammed.
I've sold and bought many accounts through eBay for DAOC and by having the feedback sytem it helps to verify ppl's legitimacy or intention to follow through with the sale.
A console if you wish to play a sports title or a party social game (ie: mario kart). Or you are entertaining some children and need something simple they can understand (ie: starting up by reseting with a new game disc in)
But if you wish to play a game that has cutting edge technology (FarCry) & the freedom of customization (Half-Life) then playing on a windows pc is the best place for that.
Perhaps hover boards from Back to the Future II?
Yes there is, when did Microsfot (or any other major software company) begin releasing beta software through P2P networks as a means for testing?
You could argue that Blizzard put out the beta client for World of Warcraft out through P2P (BitTorrent) but to get the software you had to first obatin the seed from Blizard. So that nullifies that arguement.
What about the supposed astroid that hit and wiped out the dino's? I don't count that one as a miss.