The car will have to start climbing up the ramp before it can start pushing it down.
That depends on how much resistance is in the ramp, now doesn't it? A car, weighing in at perhaps 4000 lbs (Ford F150 curb weight) moving at, say, 20 mph is not going to climb up any significant distance before depressing a ramp unless that ramp is pretty much fixed in place.
The whole idea with these ramps are that they depress to drive a generator. Not much force, resistance, or for that matter inertia necessarily needed for that, now is there?
Also, see below for another reason this is not going to make an impact on your travelling distance.
Anyone with a working knowledge of triangles will know that the distance the car will have to travel "over" the ramp will be greater than on a flat road and hence, you'd have traveled a greater linear distance over these things to reach the same point on a normal road.
You are (1) wrong and (2) stupid. Now think about it again. The ramp is pushed down to the level of the road by the weight of the vehicle passing over it, thus driving a generator. Now; do you see that there is no "greater linear distance" involved here?
Yes, I hate bringing a book when travelling, reading it when getting stuck in an airport the first day, and then having to drag it around.
Share it. You've read it, now give it to someone who hasn't. You get to not lug it around, and someone gets to read a book you've enjoyed. Win-win situation:)
As for civilian casualties, there are no such thing as innocent civilians in an enemy country.
"Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?"
- Joseph Goebbels, February 18, 1943
Feersum Endjinn:) In which the protagonists story is told like this:
"Woak up. Got dresd. Had brekfast. Spoke wif Ergates thi ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u 1/2 a holiday? & I agreed & that woz how we decided we otter go 2 c Mr Zoliparia in thi I-ball ov thi gargoyle Rosbrith. I fot Id bettir clear it wif thi relivint oforitis furst & hens avoyd any trouble (like happind thi lastime) so I went 2 c mentor Scalopin."
Makes for a bit of a slow read, but it's perfectly parseable, and it really makes the character stand out.
Could you be kind enough to give some examples? I find Ken Macleod, Richard Morgan, China Mieville and Charles Stross to be a few of the better contemporary SF writers, but I sure would appreciate any tips on other good SF writers.
Which bit of "Liquid Crystal Digital Display" is tautologous?
You know, you can't just make shit up and claim that that's what the acronym stands for.
I don't know where you pulled that "Digital" from, but it has nothing to do with LCD's.
LCD is an acronym for Liquid Crystal Display, and therefore LCD Display is like OP says tautological.
No, they tested a solar sail deployment system. Read the OP's link or at least my quote from it, why don't you?
Not that I don't agree that it is a bit of a stretch to call Cosmos 1 a spacecraft, but it is surely more of a spacecraft than the Japanese deployment system, which is why I specifically said that Cosmos 1 might still get to be the first (solar sail-powered spacecraft).
Well, if you call a test of the deployment system a spacecraft... From your linked article:
The S-310 rocket which was launched from Uchinoura Space Center at 15:15 of August 9, 2004, carried two kinds of deploying schemes of films with 7.5 micrometers thickness. A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff, following the jettison of clover type system. Both experiments of two types deployment were successful, and the rocket splashed on the sea at about 400 seconds after liftoff
(I'm *not* going to figure out how to umlaut that "o" in Godel)
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I think you're right on the money there. Do it yourself, or take a class.
In my classes, I always encourage my students to try, to experiment -- when a student asks me 'what happens if you do this?' my answer will often be 'try it' even if I know they will most likely hose their system. It's what they're there for, learning. Sometimes the hard way, as those lessons tend to be the ones that stick best.
If they hose their system, the install CDs are at the ready, and their files are nicely tucked away on an NFS partition, so no harm done.
And I always teach them about a sysadmin's best friends: man pages, google and O'Reilly:)
That said, I think that most people do have a picture of Unix being arcane and difficult, and I regularly get into discussions with students who are of the opinion that it's much harder to learn Unix than Windows, right up until the point when they realize how much time they've spent learning Windows. They usually agree with me then that it's not any harder learning Unix than any other operating system.
Most of my students start my classes with little to no Unix experience, and most of them come away with little to no inclination to run anything else than a Unix-like OS. Most of them have installed Linux on a computer at home, and some of them (there's a few every class) have even kicked the Windows habit altogether.
(Personally, I do run W2K at home for business accounting, and I do tell my students this -- btw, does anyone know of a program that can do swedish business accounting with invoices/billing? I've been looking all over...).
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While I don't know if there's a "story" to the similarities between the two aircraft, there were not too many ways to build a supersonic swing-wing bomber in the 70's - 80's.
One might speculate that the TU-160 was inspired by the B1-A (which had its first flight in 1974, the year before the TU-160 started development), and that the B1-B was inspired by the flight of the TU-160 (the B1-B project started in 1981, the same year the TU-160 first flew). Of course the US and the USSR often looked at each others programs for "inspiration";)
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That depends on how much resistance is in the ramp, now doesn't it? A car, weighing in at perhaps 4000 lbs (Ford F150 curb weight) moving at, say, 20 mph is not going to climb up any significant distance before depressing a ramp unless that ramp is pretty much fixed in place.
The whole idea with these ramps are that they depress to drive a generator. Not much force, resistance, or for that matter inertia necessarily needed for that, now is there?
Also, see below for another reason this is not going to make an impact on your travelling distance.
You are (1) wrong and (2) stupid. Now think about it again. The ramp is pushed down to the level of the road by the weight of the vehicle passing over it, thus driving a generator. Now; do you see that there is no "greater linear distance" involved here?
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That's why we don't have AI yet. See my sig :)
Share it. You've read it, now give it to someone who hasn't. :)
You get to not lug it around, and someone gets to read a book you've enjoyed. Win-win situation
Well, do you have a separate "stop" key for your car, or do you use the same ignition key you use to start the car to stop it?
To qoute Juan Rico: "The horse is dead. Fuck it or walk away, but stop beating it."
"Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?"
- Joseph Goebbels, February 18, 1943
Feersum Endjinn :)
In which the protagonists story is told like this:
"Woak up. Got dresd. Had brekfast. Spoke wif Ergates thi ant who sed itz juss been wurk wurk wurk 4 u lately master Bascule, Y dont u 1/2 a holiday? & I agreed & that woz how we decided we otter go 2 c Mr Zoliparia in thi I-ball ov thi gargoyle Rosbrith.
I fot Id bettir clear it wif thi relivint oforitis furst & hens avoyd any trouble (like happind thi lastime) so I went 2 c mentor Scalopin."
Makes for a bit of a slow read, but it's perfectly parseable, and it really makes the character stand out.
It's a book I'd recommend to anyone.
Could you be kind enough to give some examples?
I find Ken Macleod, Richard Morgan, China Mieville and Charles Stross to be a few of the better contemporary SF writers, but I sure would appreciate any tips on other good SF writers.
Which bit of "Liquid Crystal Digital Display" is tautologous?
You know, you can't just make shit up and claim that that's what the acronym stands for.
I don't know where you pulled that "Digital" from, but it has nothing to do with LCD's.
LCD is an acronym for Liquid Crystal Display, and therefore LCD Display is like OP says tautological.
Dictionary definitions of LCD
LCD entry in wikipedia
Hey, it's a Windows box - just reinstall. And never, ever, ever connect it to the net without a proper firewall.
Shouldn't that be Celsius 233?
Yeah, but nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, remember? ;)
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Beautiful... Just beautiful.
They tested a solar sail by launching it.
No, they tested a solar sail deployment system. Read the OP's link or at least my quote from it, why don't you?
Not that I don't agree that it is a bit of a stretch to call Cosmos 1 a spacecraft, but it is surely more of a spacecraft than the Japanese deployment system, which is why I specifically said that Cosmos 1 might still get to be the first (solar sail-powered spacecraft).
Well, if you call a test of the deployment system a spacecraft... From your linked article:
The S-310 rocket which was launched from Uchinoura Space Center at 15:15 of August 9, 2004, carried two kinds of deploying schemes of films with 7.5 micrometers thickness. A clover type deployment was started at 100 seconds after liftoff at 122 km altitude, and a fan type deployment was started at 169 km altitude at 230 seconds after liftoff, following the jettison of clover type system. Both experiments of two types deployment were successful, and the rocket splashed on the sea at about 400 seconds after liftoff
So, Cosmos 1 might still get to be the first.
'If we start GDM sooner, the system will "feel" faster because the user will see a login screen sooner.'
Yeah, let's all take a page out of the Windows book and fool our users... bleh.
Why don't we try to make the system really boot faster instead?
September 30? But I want it NOW! ;)
Apropos qoute of the day from the bottom of this page:
"I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"
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I'm sure you can figure out how to umlaut the character "u" with that information.
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:)
I think you're right on the money there. Do it yourself, or take a class.
In my classes, I always encourage my students to try, to experiment -- when a student asks me 'what happens if you do this?' my answer will often be 'try it' even if I know they will most likely hose their system. It's what they're there for, learning. Sometimes the hard way, as those lessons tend to be the ones that stick best.
If they hose their system, the install CDs are at the ready, and their files are nicely tucked away on an NFS partition, so no harm done.
And I always teach them about a sysadmin's best friends: man pages, google and O'Reilly
That said, I think that most people do have a picture of Unix being arcane and difficult, and I regularly get into discussions with students who are of the opinion that it's much harder to learn Unix than Windows, right up until the point when they realize how much time they've spent learning Windows. They usually agree with me then that it's not any harder learning Unix than any other operating system.
Most of my students start my classes with little to no Unix experience, and most of them come away with little to no inclination to run anything else than a Unix-like OS. Most of them have installed Linux on a computer at home, and some of them (there's a few every class) have even kicked the Windows habit altogether.
(Personally, I do run W2K at home for business accounting, and I do tell my students this -- btw, does anyone know of a program that can do swedish business accounting with invoices/billing? I've been looking all over...).
It is also a very, very good read.
the US Army is developing FAE rounds for deployment at the platoon level
A link is worth a thousand words (well, not quite, but 212 words in this case).
While I don't know if there's a "story" to the similarities between the two aircraft, there were not too many ways to build a supersonic swing-wing bomber in the 70's - 80's.
;)
One might speculate that the TU-160 was inspired by the B1-A (which had its first flight in 1974, the year before the TU-160 started development), and that the B1-B was inspired by the flight of the TU-160 (the B1-B project started in 1981, the same year the TU-160 first flew). Of course the US and the USSR often looked at each others programs for "inspiration"
Here's a couple of links to the TU-160 from the manufacturer and from some Internet site. The B1-B from the manufacturer and from wikipedia.