Do you really need any weapon more powerful than offering the whole world power at less than a tenth of current prices and then be the one that can pull the plug?
The metal from which the car was made existed as oxides and had to be liberated with the help of a lot of carbon - both for reducing and generating the necessary heat. This emits about as much CO2 into the atmosphere as the car will emit through its exhaust pipe during its entire usable life. Yes, some of that metal is recycled, but not all of it.
Plesetsk cosmodrome is located at the far north of russia. You don't need an equatorial launch site for high inclination or polar missions. Military earth observation missions tend to have such orbits. Make not mistake - this is a military mission. At this moment Yang Liwei is probably too busy operating a military payload to enjoy the flight. The orbital module will remain in orbit for several months after the return capsule lands and continue its mission.
The Jinquan space launch center is almost 1km above sea level. This contributes to the launch vehicle performance, though not as dramatically as an equatorial location for equatorial orbits.
Does anyone remember a copy of Infocomm's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the C64 that shows an image during the loading of the game? Well, it's not an Infocom original. It's a version my brother and I, umm.... "repackaged" with a picture I made.
It was the last computer I ever programmed that you could understand top to bottom.
Ever seen the IBM PC XT technical reference with full circuit diagrams and BIOS source code? Together with the data sheets of all the Intel 82xx chips on the board was a damn complete documentation. I shudder to think that at one point I knew practically all of it from top to bottom...
I've heard of radars that receive at a different location from that where the signal is transmitted. Such radars are known as a bistatic radars. Some of them even use existing existing radiation sources such as TV stations.
I wonder if it's practical for a network of weather radars. A receive-only radar should be cheaper and have less regulatory hurdles to jump.
Yeah, I wonder about that myself. I've heard that "10x as productive" programmer idea before, and while I've definately seen a continuum of good developers and awful developers, I've never met THAT guy. Or gal. And I wonder if that person does exist
He exists. I've met him. He is also very friendly and humble. I think he doesn't even realize he is so much more productive than others. He laughs whenever anyone suggests it.
2. NATURE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES. You may have accessed the VeriSign Service(s) by initiating a query to our DNS resolution service for a nonexistent domain name. We are unable to resolve such queries through the DNS resolution service.
They are, and they do. They resolve such queries to 64.94.110.11.
Note that they are not claiming an apparatus or method claim. They are claiming the architecture. A claim is interpreted within the context of the disclosure part of the patent. The disclosure part of this patent is a CD submitted with it containing the help files for the.NET web services API.
The are claiming the API. Not any API that matches this general description. They are claiming the specific API.
Disclaimer: IANAPA (I am not a patent attorney) but I do have some experience in the patent area. I could still be simply wrong or perhaps an undercover agent for Microsoft corporation...
Microsoft is rapidly catching up on the scripting front. Take a look at the newest versions of JScript. It's becoming remarkably similar to Python in its capabilities. It's dynamically typed but now features optional static typing for performance, cross-language compatibility and error checing. It supports both "script" mode development and static compilation to assemblies. The latest versions add a real class system to the original JavaScript object model and a host of other features. As a.NET language it has access to the complete.NET library which is quickly catching up with Python's "batteries included" libraries.
Be afraid.
I am a big fan of Python and also a code contributor. But when I look at where JScript is going it gives me an eerie feeling. So far Microsoft isn't pushing it too hard but it has real potential. One of the undeniable advantages of JScript is that it has a familiar C-like syntax. While I prefer the Python syntax I am aware that on first impression it is a turnoff for most programmers.
An experiment that can only be replicated by believers isn't science, it's charlatanism.
Let us assume that a hypothetical physical effect depends on factors that are hard to control such as minute impurities, nealy flawless crystal structure or something similar. Furthermore, even when it occurs this effect may rather difficult to measure. Let us further assume that a first attempt at reproducing that effect would have a around 2%.
A "believer" would attempt it again and again until he perfects his methods and achieves a much better success rate (say, 80%) and larger magnitude of the effect that is easier to measure.
A "non believer", expecting the experiment to fail would find all the support he needs for his beliefs.
Note that such difficult-to-achieve effects are not unheard of in science. Some of them have later been tamed and mass produced once the process was perfected.
This is, of course, not a proof that cold fusion exists, but it does show that it *could* exist in spite of being rejected by the majority of the scientific community. A scenario where such an effect exists would not require any elaborate conspiracy theories to explain the apparent contradiction.
If you're into atomic tourism then the Sedan Crater is much more impressive than Trinity test site. The Titan Museum is also said to be very interesting.
Another spooky monument to technology (not atomic) is the Airplane Graveyard near Tucson.
If something is big, flashy, obviously costs unholy amounts of money to build, totally-mind-fsckingly-amazing and gut-wrenchingly tasteless it's probably in Las Vegas.
You'll be staring at things and saying "naaaah... even americans are not that crazy".
I find it interesting that CEO#5 on question 1 refers to "clone market". This term used to be popular when the "real" PC was IBM and the cheap Taiwanese compatibles were "clones" but it's been a long time since I last heard anyone refer to a generic PC as a "clone".
Carmack may be "open source", but Rutan is probably the most likely person currently participating in the X-Prize competition. This is the guy that designed, built, and flew the Voyager (the first non-stop around the world plane with no refuelling).
Building a single rocket recovered by parachute is simpler than building two complete aircraft.
I agree that Rutan's approach is more likely to lead to a safe and commercially viable suborbital tourist vehicle. But Carmack's approach still has a fair chance to win the X-Prize first. Carmack is taking a lot of shortcuts that a more advanced design like Rutan's simply can't use.
Evgenij Barsoukov has a page with a pretty convincing theory of lifters here. His equasions predict the thrust and efficiency of models built by many experimenters with fairly good accuracy.
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Do you really need any weapon more powerful than offering the whole world power at less than a tenth of current prices and then be the one that can pull the plug?
You mean that Bluetooth is the new technology that everybody has but almost nobody uses?
The name "Red Hat" is a trademark of Red Hat Inc. The software is copyrighted by many different authors and mostly licensed under the GPL.
May I remind you that in 40 days it will be the 31st anniversary of the last man to walk on the moon?
The metal from which the car was made existed as oxides and had to be liberated with the help of a lot of carbon - both for reducing and generating the necessary heat. This emits about as much CO2 into the atmosphere as the car will emit through its exhaust pipe during its entire usable life. Yes, some of that metal is recycled, but not all of it.
Plesetsk cosmodrome is located at the far north of russia. You don't need an equatorial launch site for high inclination or polar missions. Military earth observation missions tend to have such orbits. Make not mistake - this is a military mission. At this moment Yang Liwei is probably too busy operating a military payload to enjoy the flight. The orbital module will remain in orbit for several months after the return capsule lands and continue its mission.
The Jinquan space launch center is almost 1km above sea level. This contributes to the launch vehicle performance, though not as dramatically as an equatorial location for equatorial orbits.
Heres hoping for a safe and uneventful journey.
"May you travel in interesting vehicles".
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Does anyone remember a copy of Infocomm's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the C64 that shows an image during the loading of the game? Well, it's not an Infocom original. It's a version my brother and I, umm.... "repackaged" with a picture I made.
If you still a copy please contact me!
It was the last computer I ever programmed that you could understand top to bottom.
Ever seen the IBM PC XT technical reference with full circuit diagrams and BIOS source code? Together with the data sheets of all the Intel 82xx chips on the board was a damn complete documentation. I shudder to think that at one point I knew practically all of it from top to bottom...
I've heard of radars that receive at a different location from that where the signal is transmitted. Such radars are known as a bistatic radars. Some of them even use existing existing radiation sources such as TV stations.
I wonder if it's practical for a network of weather radars. A receive-only radar should be cheaper and have less regulatory hurdles to jump.
Yeah, I wonder about that myself. I've heard that "10x as productive" programmer idea before, and while I've definately seen a continuum of good developers and awful developers, I've never met THAT guy. Or gal. And I wonder if that person does exist
He exists. I've met him. He is also very friendly and humble. I think he doesn't even realize he is so much more productive than others. He laughs whenever anyone suggests it.
Yes, that's very rare.
In politics, the question is never, "who is right", the question is one of "what works" to progress society?
"What works" is a great question to ask. Much more productive than asking "what's right".
Ummm.... but exactly what does it have to do with today's politics?
2. NATURE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES.
You may have accessed the VeriSign Service(s) by initiating a query to our DNS resolution service for a nonexistent domain name. We are unable to resolve such queries through the DNS resolution service.
They are, and they do. They resolve such queries to 64.94.110.11.
Consider the possibility that clueless users (i.e. 90% of Internet users) actually do like it.
Be afraid.
Note that they are not claiming an apparatus or method claim. They are claiming the architecture. A claim is interpreted within the context of the disclosure part of the patent. The disclosure part of this patent is a CD submitted with it containing the help files for the .NET web services API.
The are claiming the API. Not any API that matches this general description. They are claiming the specific API.
Disclaimer: IANAPA (I am not a patent attorney) but I do have some experience in the patent area. I could still be simply wrong or perhaps an undercover agent for Microsoft corporation...
Microsoft is rapidly catching up on the scripting front. Take a look at the newest versions of JScript. It's becoming remarkably similar to Python in its capabilities. It's dynamically typed but now features optional static typing for performance, cross-language compatibility and error checing. It supports both "script" mode development and static compilation to assemblies. The latest versions add a real class system to the original JavaScript object model and a host of other features. As a .NET language it has access to the complete .NET library which is quickly catching up with Python's "batteries included" libraries.
Be afraid.
I am a big fan of Python and also a code contributor. But when I look at where JScript is going it gives me an eerie feeling. So far Microsoft isn't pushing it too hard but it has real potential. One of the undeniable advantages of JScript is that it has a familiar C-like syntax. While I prefer the Python syntax I am aware that on first impression it is a turnoff for most programmers.
An experiment that can only be replicated by believers isn't science, it's charlatanism.
Let us assume that a hypothetical physical effect depends on factors that are hard to control such as minute impurities, nealy flawless crystal structure or something similar. Furthermore, even when it occurs this effect may rather difficult to measure. Let us further assume that a first attempt at reproducing that effect would have a around 2%.
A "believer" would attempt it again and again until he perfects his methods and achieves a much better success rate (say, 80%) and larger magnitude of the effect that is easier to measure.
A "non believer", expecting the experiment to fail would find all the support he needs for his beliefs.
Note that such difficult-to-achieve effects are not unheard of in science. Some of them have later been tamed and mass produced once the process was perfected.
This is, of course, not a proof that cold fusion exists, but it does show that it *could* exist in spite of being rejected by the majority of the scientific community. A scenario where such an effect exists would not require any elaborate conspiracy theories to explain the apparent contradiction.
Python:
Programming the way
Guido
indented it.
Python is definitely not typeless. It's actually strongly typed. But it uses dynamic typing.
Take a look at this article for clarification on typing models.
If you're into atomic tourism then the Sedan Crater is much more impressive than Trinity test site. The Titan Museum is also said to be very interesting.
Another spooky monument to technology (not atomic) is the Airplane Graveyard near Tucson.
If something is big, flashy, obviously costs unholy amounts of money to build, totally-mind-fsckingly-amazing and gut-wrenchingly tasteless it's probably in Las Vegas.
You'll be staring at things and saying "naaaah... even americans are not that crazy".
I find it interesting that CEO#5 on question 1 refers to "clone market". This term used to be popular when the "real" PC was IBM and the cheap Taiwanese compatibles were "clones" but it's been a long time since I last heard anyone refer to a generic PC as a "clone".
Carmack may be "open source", but Rutan is probably the most likely person currently participating in the X-Prize competition. This is the guy that designed, built, and flew the Voyager (the first non-stop around the world plane with no refuelling).
Building a single rocket recovered by parachute is simpler than building two complete aircraft.
I agree that Rutan's approach is more likely to lead to a safe and commercially viable suborbital tourist vehicle. But Carmack's approach still has a fair chance to win the X-Prize first. Carmack is taking a lot of shortcuts that a more advanced design like Rutan's simply can't use.
Evgenij Barsoukov has a page with a pretty convincing theory of lifters here. His equasions predict the thrust and efficiency of models built by many experimenters with fairly good accuracy.
I like my privacy as much as the next person, I like seeing evil bastards locked up even more though.
I like chocolate, but I like ice cream even more. Does it mean that chocolate is not important any more?