Well, we are discussing flying fictional machines in the real world;)
My original comment was meant to mean "that thing won't 'fly'" (although it can certainly be propelled by a rocket).
Sure. In Armageddon they landed (and took off again) a shuttle on a rocky mountanous asteroid. So that means the (fictional) X-wing can fly in the atmosphere, right?
Klein, Grant A. Krafft, formerly at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and now chief scientific officer at Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Caleb E. Finch, professor of biological sciences and gerontology at the University of Southern California, reported the discovery of ADDLs in 1998. Krafft is a co-author of the FASEB Journal paper. Northwestern and USC hold joint patents on the composition and use of ADDLs in neurodisorders.
The patent rights have been licensed to Acumen Pharmaceuticals, based in South San Francisco, for the development of drugs that treat Alzheimer's disease and other memory-related disorders.
OK, a patent on a drug that suppresses ADDLs, sure, fine. But a patent on the mechanism/process of how stuff works in the biological world? WTF? Have you read my patent for "A Method and Process for Turning Water, Sunlight and Carbon Dioxide into Glucose and Oxygen"? Gimme a break.
Then there's the Not Invented Here effect. Need B-trees? Don't buy a third party implementation, 'cause that costs money, and don't use an open source one, 'cause it's encumbered with GPL, just write your own b-tree library. Of course, it's not as pretty and bug free as the other implimentations, but it's OURS; and yeah, it would be embarassing to let other people see how crufty it is. I think this is one of the secrets of Java's popularity, most everything is built in already.
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Probably because this discovery is considered the birth of spintronics.
No, it's all them Big Macs that make your heart look fat.
And Wyle E. Cyote mourns that they stole his idea.
First the Cubs and Red Sox in the playoffs, and now this.
I'm sure they gave plenty of slack in the schedules they arm-twisted thier vendors into.
How do you sneak a mountain?
Nah, it's just that smaller animals take less time to Design.
Well, we are discussing flying fictional machines in the real world ;)
My original comment was meant to mean "that thing won't 'fly'" (although it can certainly be propelled by a rocket).
"The Vogon ships hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't"
Sure. In Armageddon they landed (and took off again) a shuttle on a rocky mountanous asteroid. So that means the (fictional) X-wing can fly in the atmosphere, right?
X-wings aren't aerodynamical (i.e. not enough lift) - they're meant for zero atmosphere - in which case they wouldn't need wings.
I live real close to Chicago. On a clear night I can see Venus (if it's not too cloudy here in the midwest). I do most of my skywatching here.
errr....
never mind.
Bad jokes and flamewars in 3... 2... 1...
Let me know when you work out the image recognition problem, then we'll delve into what the image means...
Then there's the Not Invented Here effect. Need B-trees? Don't buy a third party implementation, 'cause that costs money, and don't use an open source one, 'cause it's encumbered with GPL, just write your own b-tree library. Of course, it's not as pretty and bug free as the other implimentations, but it's OURS; and yeah, it would be embarassing to let other people see how crufty it is. I think this is one of the secrets of Java's popularity, most everything is built in already.
"I'm in ur cache, screwin up ur prefetsh algorythm"
I built my iHouse out of iSticks, but I'm worried about the iWolf blowing my iHouse down.
I had never heard of Befunge before, but I can tell you that you just gave an ex-Forth programmer a full-body shiver.
Spoken like a true coward.