Can *you* go 3,145 miles on a bicycle and drink only a gallon?
Because I ride a bicycle to work I can accuse people who run the same distance of "wasting energy". Perhaps in the future radical motorists will direct the same accusation at me when they do the 10km commute on 1Kj (or whatever).
Obviously it WON'T be limited to those situations.
Well its a bit like operating a helicopter of which I assume the LA police have one or two, except it is a bit easier to operate without being seen (during the day, anyway, at night I would assume that they would have to use nav lights) and might be cheaper to operate (perhaps, depends on economies of scale).
If they wind up having thousands of small, cheap UAV's in the skies over LA I would expect to see them drop out of the sky from time to time and I wonder if this will be a serious issue for people living there. Maybe being killed by a police UAV will become a common cause of death.
This is so going to happen to my sister, and I am so not going to fix her computer this time.
My sister lives in a share house and her windows98 box sat in the living room on an ADSL line for two years. At the end of two years it was so virus ridden that I doubt much of the original microsoft code remained.
Now it runs ubuntu. It is used to run firefox and occasionally open office. It has three or four accounts on it so people can have their own environment. I haven't had to fix it since I put it in 18 months or so ago.
For bug fixes I find the measure of lines removed to be of some use. If they want to convey meaning they could quote a figure on the number of requirements implemented and validated to date or per unit effort or something. That at least has a better chance of giving a measure of progress.
The common point at which the Earth and Moon both 'orbit' stays significantly below the surface of the Earth, thus the Moon orbits the Earth.
Which is fair enough but I am reminded of two moons of (I think) Saturn which share an orbit. At any one time one of them is in a slightly lower orbit than the other. When they meet they do a half circle around each other and exchange orbits.
More than any other pair of objects orbiting the sun, earth and moon appear to be in a similar relationship to this pair of moons: they almost share an orbit around a common primary.
I'd say that a planet has to be orbiting a star to count. If, for example, Earth orbited Jupiter, I would call it a very large moon of Jupiter
The problem is that it is equally correct to say that the Earth orbits the Moon, as it is to say the Moon orbits the Earth. Its just a question of degree and perspective.
As is heated, the metal would have softenned. As it softenned, the metal would start to pancake like a dum-dum bullet. As it pancakes, its air resistance increases, causing it to slow down even more and heat up even faster, causing it to pancake even more.
I just can't see it working that way. The outer layers of the meteorite would turn to liquid and gas and carry off the heat generated by friction. Thermal conductivity is just too slow to heat up the core of a large body to the point where it will melt in (at most) a couple of seconds.
A better theory about Tunguska is that it was a loosely bound object like a "snowball" comet fragmennt or a "rubble pile" asteroid. Once it started to break up its surface area increased enormously and then it soaked up a lot of heat quickly and exploded.
could these be produced in a way to fit in existing devices as soon as possible?
TFA doesn't say what the capacity of his device actually is so I assume he has some kind of prototype but a NiCD replacement is a maybe for the future.
The original specs for the space shuttle entailed the orbiter (pretty much the same as it is today) and a "reusable booster" vehicle. The "booster" was going to be a hybrid jet/rocket about the size of a 747 (which explains why the shuttle fits so nicely on one) and was going to fly right to the edge of space and deploy the orbiter for the rest of the journey.
I had a thought that the shuttle orbiter should have been built as an evolution of the Apollo service module, with TPS, cargo bay and wings; and the flight deck should have been a stock standard Apollo command module with a hatch through the heat shield (like the proposed Gemini WET lab from the '60's).
Instead of an LES attached to the front of the vehicle during launch there would be a small solid motor right behind the CM heat shield which would separate the two parts of the spacecraft during launch or reentry.
The advantage is that you have a redundant escape system for most failures.
Well, various US states also say that a coin flip is a valid way to break a tie in elections
Here in Victoria, Australia they have to do a couple of recounts then draw the winning candidates name from a container of some kind. It happened about 15 years ago in a state electoral district of about 60000 voters. The funny thing was that the recounts converged on zero along such a beautiful curve.
BTW the loser referred to the result as a "chook raffle". If you don't have those in your area you probably get the point anyway.
I don't want my computer talking to Microsoft daily.
It might be worth pointing out that ubuntu linux synchronises its clock to the ubuntu ntp server at startup. Assuming that its a stock ntp the most that this can do is produce statistics on how many systems there are out there and when they are booted.
I've been running qmail on hundreds of servers since 1996
Then you probably know more about it than me. I have run it on 20 or 30 servers since 2000. Sorry for the late reply BTW. I wanted to see what bsd.slashdot.org looked like with the new skin.
One gripe I have about qmail is the way it bounces messages for which it can not deliver to a local user. I have heard it said that the best way to do this is to refuse the message during the initial smtp connection from the remote server. Qmail runs various processes locally before deciding to bounce so if the From field is incorrect you are bouncing back to somebody else and this can be used to route spam through qmail.
I don't believe you could patch qmail for this because it is an architectural issue, though a check inside the tcp wrapper might be able to do something.
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Because I ride a bicycle to work I can accuse people who run the same distance of "wasting energy". Perhaps in the future radical motorists will direct the same accusation at me when they do the 10km commute on 1Kj (or whatever).
Well its a bit like operating a helicopter of which I assume the LA police have one or two, except it is a bit easier to operate without being seen (during the day, anyway, at night I would assume that they would have to use nav lights) and might be cheaper to operate (perhaps, depends on economies of scale).
If they wind up having thousands of small, cheap UAV's in the skies over LA I would expect to see them drop out of the sky from time to time and I wonder if this will be a serious issue for people living there. Maybe being killed by a police UAV will become a common cause of death.
My sister lives in a share house and her windows98 box sat in the living room on an ADSL line for two years. At the end of two years it was so virus ridden that I doubt much of the original microsoft code remained.
Now it runs ubuntu. It is used to run firefox and occasionally open office. It has three or four accounts on it so people can have their own environment. I haven't had to fix it since I put it in 18 months or so ago.
For bug fixes I find the measure of lines removed to be of some use. If they want to convey meaning they could quote a figure on the number of requirements implemented and validated to date or per unit effort or something. That at least has a better chance of giving a measure of progress.
As a bike rider, and operator of several web servers, I have often thought of doing exactly that.
Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.
Close, it was December 17, 1972
Then they can bill by bandwidth and latency.
If the sex robot could pass the Turing Test, at least within the boundaries of its design I would argue that it should be treated as human.
Maybe the sensor was on the gate which he bypassed by climbing a fence.
Which is fair enough but I am reminded of two moons of (I think) Saturn which share an orbit. At any one time one of them is in a slightly lower orbit than the other. When they meet they do a half circle around each other and exchange orbits.
More than any other pair of objects orbiting the sun, earth and moon appear to be in a similar relationship to this pair of moons: they almost share an orbit around a common primary.
The problem is that it is equally correct to say that the Earth orbits the Moon, as it is to say the Moon orbits the Earth. Its just a question of degree and perspective.
I just can't see it working that way. The outer layers of the meteorite would turn to liquid and gas and carry off the heat generated by friction. Thermal conductivity is just too slow to heat up the core of a large body to the point where it will melt in (at most) a couple of seconds.
A better theory about Tunguska is that it was a loosely bound object like a "snowball" comet fragmennt or a "rubble pile" asteroid. Once it started to break up its surface area increased enormously and then it soaked up a lot of heat quickly and exploded.
TFA doesn't say what the capacity of his device actually is so I assume he has some kind of prototype but a NiCD replacement is a maybe for the future.
I had a thought that the shuttle orbiter should have been built as an evolution of the Apollo service module, with TPS, cargo bay and wings; and the flight deck should have been a stock standard Apollo command module with a hatch through the heat shield (like the proposed Gemini WET lab from the '60's).
Instead of an LES attached to the front of the vehicle during launch there would be a small solid motor right behind the CM heat shield which would separate the two parts of the spacecraft during launch or reentry.
The advantage is that you have a redundant escape system for most failures.
Forget about it mate she's too smug for you.
Here in Victoria, Australia they have to do a couple of recounts then draw the winning candidates name from a container of some kind. It happened about 15 years ago in a state electoral district of about 60000 voters. The funny thing was that the recounts converged on zero along such a beautiful curve.
BTW the loser referred to the result as a "chook raffle". If you don't have those in your area you probably get the point anyway.
Its a one time thing, it just happens a lot. - Suzanne Vega
It might be worth pointing out that ubuntu linux synchronises its clock to the ubuntu ntp server at startup. Assuming that its a stock ntp the most that this can do is produce statistics on how many systems there are out there and when they are booted.
No kidding! But the words of General Jack D Ripper do come to mind, or a variant of such anyway.
There was that RTG on Galileo...
Then you probably know more about it than me. I have run it on 20 or 30 servers since 2000. Sorry for the late reply BTW. I wanted to see what bsd.slashdot.org looked like with the new skin.
One gripe I have about qmail is the way it bounces messages for which it can not deliver to a local user. I have heard it said that the best way to do this is to refuse the message during the initial smtp connection from the remote server. Qmail runs various processes locally before deciding to bounce so if the From field is incorrect you are bouncing back to somebody else and this can be used to route spam through qmail.
I don't believe you could patch qmail for this because it is an architectural issue, though a check inside the tcp wrapper might be able to do something.
Do you believe this is a real issue?
Let me guess: you've been up all night hacking PHP and MySQL on linux?
I keep trying and it doesn't work. Must be a problem at your end :)