NASA actually has a B-52 specifically for carrier type flights such as this. Look up the X-15 and the X-45 programs and you'll see it could handle payloads that big. In fact, it really is overkill, which is why they're using the White Knight.
[S]ome of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.
There had been speculation that IE 7 would be real, independent web browser, safely seperated from the OS. I guess this blows that theory out of the water?
Not to mention the fact that there's dumb people everywhere you go. When you're done being bitter about being forced to live in America, you should do a reality check.
I found it interesting that The Lord of the Rings was listed as a trilogy rather than as a single work. Don't get get me wrong, I think it should be considered one work, but it contrasts Star Wars, for which only A New Hope was listed. Then again, I wouldn't place the other Star Wars movies (except perhaps Empire Strikes Back, or their effect on the movie industry, on the same level as the original.
I'll agree with the high budget chick flicks part, but Gone With the Wind is at least still watchable. I've always hated Titanic.
I've got to add my missing movies in as well: The Grapes of Wraith, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Princess Bride. I don't care if comedy doesn't usually make the list, The Princess Bride is outstanding and unique.
Nobody said anything about nukes. More correctly, in fact, they said (RTFA) no nukes. They're talking about conventional space-based weapons. Yes, that is the ideal way of fighting in the modern American military: Engage the enemy from a position where they can't harm you and minimize friendly casualties.
Apparently they weren't listening a few years ago when Dubya called 'dibs'.
I'm sorry, what?
'Rods of God'? Just when I think that the neoconservatives can't get any more arrogant, they serve up this gem. Way to go, guys.
Afraid I'm not sure what you're talking about here either. Someone attaches a nickname to an idea that they think is cute (given we're talking about death falling from the sky, I'd say the name fits), and this becomes neoconservative arrogance? Or were you accusing them of blasphemy? Either way, critisizing the name is no more of an argument than grammar trolling is.
Sounds like those Air Force boys have been watching too much Real Genius.
Fun movie. If you look around, you can find a lot more examples of stories with similar weapons, going back to the invention of the laser. If you really look around, you can find proposals to build such weapons going back just as far. The idea is nothing new either to the entertainment industry or the military.
Ahh, yes...the Death Star...just in time for the release of Revenge of the Sith. I wonder how much George paid George for that tie-in.
Han shot first. George Lucas needs a swift kick in the pants.
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to XM or Sirus yet, so I can't compare, but one thing I definitely like about streaming radio compared to regular FM is the music. Meaning they actually play music. There is no stupid DJ filling half of his 2 hour morning show with really stupid, naive, and/or ill-informed rambling, mixed in with phone calls from dim-witted listeners.
Not that DJ's are bad. On rare occassion they can quite pleasant. There are only two stations I've found in my area where the DJ's tell you what songs their playing, toss in some brief trivia, and give you some local news. Unfortunately, my favorite (Oldies 97.1, KISN FM) just got dropped onto the AM band by its owners. So that leaves one with decent sound quality.
With global distribution from any point and relatively low cost, I doubt Clear Channel stands a chance of dominating streaming the way it has the FM band.
In other news, the New York Post pulls yet another really big number out of a hat in order to continue their mission of providing sensationalist "news."
My understanding is no, but that they do follow some of the basics. I would expect them to respect some of the basic precepts, though, simply because they're well thought out and practical, especially for large bodies. If the senators really did have the misgivings about that part like they claim to, I would hope someone would have the balls to divide the question or amend it drop the Real ID part entirely.
The only thing I can think of is perhaps bills are expected to be finalized in their wording before they leave committee in order to save time. Still, that leaves me wondering about the origin of these riders.
* and how did they get into power? People who are either too forgiving or too stupid -- OR BOTH -- gave it to them. Government by the people, against the people.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. ~H. L. Mencken
We did all this parliamentary procedures and Robert's Rules of Order stuff back in FFA in high school, and I definitely remember a motion called "division of question," which allows you to divide a main motion into two or more seperate motions, then, if division of question passes, debate and vote on each part individually. For you computer types, it's sort of like exploding an array.
I know the senate is not directly analogous to high school clubs, but I wonder why the senators who did disapprove wouldn't have tried this. Or did they? Or perhaps the text is so carefully intermixed as to make such a motion practically impossible?
In this case, you didn't even have to RTFA to get that. The original submission told you straight out that it was attached to a rather important spending bill. In my opinion, it was ridiculously sneaky and underhanded.
If it's bullshit, it's because the afternoon of the day the burst was detected seems kind of early to be declaring how it formed. On the other hand, they've predicted this type of event for years...
Anyway, the burst didn't escape the black hole. RTFA. Theoretically, it was caused by the collision of two neutron stars. Just before they actually collide, the smaller one would collapse and form an accretion disk. If I understand them correctly, this collapse is involved in the creation of the "really big boom."
Perhaps I should leave off commenting on the FCC mandated switchover since it's been discussed quite a few times other places, but it still irks me. It's going to keep coming back and biting us in the butt quite a few times even after the switchover date passes.
Who knows, maybe nanotubes will prove to be more durable in TV's than LCD's. Plus there will be the cool factor. Just like how some people like to brag "My leg brace is made from the same metal as the SR-71 Blackbird." Maybe it will be, "My TV uses the same material as the space elevator."
Frankly, I'm shocked to see this come out so soon. It can't be more than a couple months since I personally first heard about using carbon nanotubes to emit light, and here they are claiming to have built a TV using them already.
The cost estimate is almost obligatory these days when discussing flat screens. Everybody's saying "Sure, it cost $3000 now, but wait until we refine the production. It'll be $500 in a year or two." I think I first heard that claim 2 years ago.
From what I've read about flat screen TV's, low cost will be one key to success, but life cycle will be just as important. Perhaps the nanotube screens will get a leg up on the competition by lasting longer? I guess I'll have to wait to find out.
Just four years ago, Pine was still the standard for remote email access at my school. Going from hotmail to that took some getting used to, but now I'm hooked. I can check for new messages in the time it takes Firefox to start up and load the hotmail login page. Of course, I don't even need to touch the mouse. The only downside, in my opinion, is downloading attachments is slightly more complicated, since I have to FTP them.
Of course, progress has a nasty tendency to ruin the best things in this world. This summer, my school is ditching Unix and migrating to Microsoft Exchange. No more Pine. I wonder if we can convince google to offer Pine, or some kind of CLI access, for gmail? Port 23 anyone?
The Sphere desktop environment probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but I think it's neat. It's really more of a toy than a tool.
It's basically a program that replaces the standard desktop in XP with a spherical one. Your vision is at the center of the sphere, and you can look 360 deg, including up and down and place windows throughout the entire environment. You can also get some rather dizzying backgrounds for it.
Indeed. Perhaps if the phones were open and people with skill could develop the software for them and it wouldn't cost $0.25 to send stupid messages whose average size is less than 100 bytes!
I admit I don't follow cell phone prices, but the last number I heard quoted for SMS was $0.25 per message a couple months ago. On the other hand, they'll give you unlimited voice minutes for $40/month. I have a very hard time believing that unlimited voice can be transmitted on anywhere near 16 MB/month ($40 * 0.1 KB / $0.25). I have an even harder time believing people will pay that much for the service.
I'm sure you're joking, but I've been around long enough to know there's plenty of readers out there who don't get it:
They didn't know what a parachute would look like layed randomly upon the Martian surface, photographed from 100 km up, with a resolution of about 2 meters/pixel.
Bigelow originally planned to launch his spacehab inflatable module prototypes aboard Falcon rockets. Unfortunately, SpaceX has fallen behind schedule, and I believe Bigelow is now planning on using Sealaunch for his first launch.
Check out stardestroyer.net. I had the misfortune to stumble across it many years ago. It's frightening. It's got pretty much everything no one else bothered to explain about hyperspace, the design of the death star's main reactor, and turbolasers. I only remember the URL because I was so appalled by the utter geekdom of its creator.
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I would say more like Tinker Toys...a lot more.
NASA actually has a B-52 specifically for carrier type flights such as this. Look up the X-15 and the X-45 programs and you'll see it could handle payloads that big. In fact, it really is overkill, which is why they're using the White Knight.
Perhaps you didn't notice the article was on BBC?
Not to mention the fact that there's dumb people everywhere you go. When you're done being bitter about being forced to live in America, you should do a reality check.
I found it interesting that The Lord of the Rings was listed as a trilogy rather than as a single work. Don't get get me wrong, I think it should be considered one work, but it contrasts Star Wars, for which only A New Hope was listed. Then again, I wouldn't place the other Star Wars movies (except perhaps Empire Strikes Back, or their effect on the movie industry, on the same level as the original.
I'll agree with the high budget chick flicks part, but Gone With the Wind is at least still watchable. I've always hated Titanic.
I've got to add my missing movies in as well: The Grapes of Wraith, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Princess Bride. I don't care if comedy doesn't usually make the list, The Princess Bride is outstanding and unique.
Nobody said anything about nukes. More correctly, in fact, they said (RTFA) no nukes. They're talking about conventional space-based weapons. Yes, that is the ideal way of fighting in the modern American military: Engage the enemy from a position where they can't harm you and minimize friendly casualties.
I'm sorry, what?
Afraid I'm not sure what you're talking about here either. Someone attaches a nickname to an idea that they think is cute (given we're talking about death falling from the sky, I'd say the name fits), and this becomes neoconservative arrogance? Or were you accusing them of blasphemy? Either way, critisizing the name is no more of an argument than grammar trolling is.
Fun movie. If you look around, you can find a lot more examples of stories with similar weapons, going back to the invention of the laser. If you really look around, you can find proposals to build such weapons going back just as far. The idea is nothing new either to the entertainment industry or the military.
Han shot first. George Lucas needs a swift kick in the pants.
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to XM or Sirus yet, so I can't compare, but one thing I definitely like about streaming radio compared to regular FM is the music. Meaning they actually play music. There is no stupid DJ filling half of his 2 hour morning show with really stupid, naive, and/or ill-informed rambling, mixed in with phone calls from dim-witted listeners.
Not that DJ's are bad. On rare occassion they can quite pleasant. There are only two stations I've found in my area where the DJ's tell you what songs their playing, toss in some brief trivia, and give you some local news. Unfortunately, my favorite (Oldies 97.1, KISN FM) just got dropped onto the AM band by its owners. So that leaves one with decent sound quality.
With global distribution from any point and relatively low cost, I doubt Clear Channel stands a chance of dominating streaming the way it has the FM band.
In other news, the New York Post pulls yet another really big number out of a hat in order to continue their mission of providing sensationalist "news."
My understanding is no, but that they do follow some of the basics. I would expect them to respect some of the basic precepts, though, simply because they're well thought out and practical, especially for large bodies. If the senators really did have the misgivings about that part like they claim to, I would hope someone would have the balls to divide the question or amend it drop the Real ID part entirely.
The only thing I can think of is perhaps bills are expected to be finalized in their wording before they leave committee in order to save time. Still, that leaves me wondering about the origin of these riders.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. ~H. L. Mencken
We did all this parliamentary procedures and Robert's Rules of Order stuff back in FFA in high school, and I definitely remember a motion called "division of question," which allows you to divide a main motion into two or more seperate motions, then, if division of question passes, debate and vote on each part individually. For you computer types, it's sort of like exploding an array.
I know the senate is not directly analogous to high school clubs, but I wonder why the senators who did disapprove wouldn't have tried this. Or did they? Or perhaps the text is so carefully intermixed as to make such a motion practically impossible?
In this case, you didn't even have to RTFA to get that. The original submission told you straight out that it was attached to a rather important spending bill. In my opinion, it was ridiculously sneaky and underhanded.
If it's bullshit, it's because the afternoon of the day the burst was detected seems kind of early to be declaring how it formed. On the other hand, they've predicted this type of event for years...
Anyway, the burst didn't escape the black hole. RTFA. Theoretically, it was caused by the collision of two neutron stars. Just before they actually collide, the smaller one would collapse and form an accretion disk. If I understand them correctly, this collapse is involved in the creation of the "really big boom."
Perhaps I should leave off commenting on the FCC mandated switchover since it's been discussed quite a few times other places, but it still irks me. It's going to keep coming back and biting us in the butt quite a few times even after the switchover date passes.
Who knows, maybe nanotubes will prove to be more durable in TV's than LCD's. Plus there will be the cool factor. Just like how some people like to brag "My leg brace is made from the same metal as the SR-71 Blackbird." Maybe it will be, "My TV uses the same material as the space elevator."
Frankly, I'm shocked to see this come out so soon. It can't be more than a couple months since I personally first heard about using carbon nanotubes to emit light, and here they are claiming to have built a TV using them already.
The cost estimate is almost obligatory these days when discussing flat screens. Everybody's saying "Sure, it cost $3000 now, but wait until we refine the production. It'll be $500 in a year or two." I think I first heard that claim 2 years ago.
From what I've read about flat screen TV's, low cost will be one key to success, but life cycle will be just as important. Perhaps the nanotube screens will get a leg up on the competition by lasting longer? I guess I'll have to wait to find out.
Very interesting. I had never even thought of investigating that. I'll have to see if I can set that up.
Yeah...8 pages. This is an arstechnica article, not a freaking history book.
Just four years ago, Pine was still the standard for remote email access at my school. Going from hotmail to that took some getting used to, but now I'm hooked. I can check for new messages in the time it takes Firefox to start up and load the hotmail login page. Of course, I don't even need to touch the mouse. The only downside, in my opinion, is downloading attachments is slightly more complicated, since I have to FTP them.
Of course, progress has a nasty tendency to ruin the best things in this world. This summer, my school is ditching Unix and migrating to Microsoft Exchange. No more Pine. I wonder if we can convince google to offer Pine, or some kind of CLI access, for gmail? Port 23 anyone?
The Sphere desktop environment probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but I think it's neat. It's really more of a toy than a tool.
It's basically a program that replaces the standard desktop in XP with a spherical one. Your vision is at the center of the sphere, and you can look 360 deg, including up and down and place windows throughout the entire environment. You can also get some rather dizzying backgrounds for it.
Indeed. Perhaps if the phones were open and people with skill could develop the software for them and it wouldn't cost $0.25 to send stupid messages whose average size is less than 100 bytes!
I admit I don't follow cell phone prices, but the last number I heard quoted for SMS was $0.25 per message a couple months ago. On the other hand, they'll give you unlimited voice minutes for $40/month. I have a very hard time believing that unlimited voice can be transmitted on anywhere near 16 MB/month ($40 * 0.1 KB / $0.25). I have an even harder time believing people will pay that much for the service.
I'm sure you're joking, but I've been around long enough to know there's plenty of readers out there who don't get it:
They didn't know what a parachute would look like layed randomly upon the Martian surface, photographed from 100 km up, with a resolution of about 2 meters/pixel.
More importantly, the chapter on compressible flows. Fluid mechanics is a piece of cake if your fluid is incompressible.
Bigelow originally planned to launch his spacehab inflatable module prototypes aboard Falcon rockets. Unfortunately, SpaceX has fallen behind schedule, and I believe Bigelow is now planning on using Sealaunch for his first launch.
Check out stardestroyer.net. I had the misfortune to stumble across it many years ago. It's frightening. It's got pretty much everything no one else bothered to explain about hyperspace, the design of the death star's main reactor, and turbolasers. I only remember the URL because I was so appalled by the utter geekdom of its creator.