and then he sits in a hospital wasting more time, money and resources before finally dying of his wounds
Not quite. He spends a lot of time in this hospital before going home - a limb. He is now a constant reminder to everyone back home of just how bad war really is - every day. The people back home soon get tired of seeing all these otherwise fine young men in wheel chairs and tells the leaders to stop fighting. A dead soldier gets a funeral, and is then forgotten.
I have no idea why weather buttons are so popular (I prefer the method of sticking my head out the window), but they are.
The problem is you are sticking your head out the window. Therefore we can assume that you spend most of your day on the inside of that window. Weather is an interesting phenomena when
you spend most of your day indoors (with central heat and AC). When you spend your day outside it
is something you need to keep track of.
Just because it is sunny now doesn't mean much if you need things to be sunny for the next 5 days once you start cutting the hay. If might be cool this morning, but that doesn't tell you if you need to bring the 5 gallon jug of water (because it will be 100 in the shade and you will drink it all), or just can of pop for break time (all the water you need for 70)
Yesterday may or may not be anything like today, and things may change latter on in the afternoon. This is important when you work outside.
It is a vicious cycle here. I have never used public transit, so it rarely occurs to me to consider it for any trip. The few times I consider it I discover that everyone else is like me, rarely consider it. Thus nobody uses it, so they cut service back, so less people use it.
To-from work when you work 8-5 downtown and live in the suburbs is the only routes that get riders, so they are the ones that we have.
I'd love to take a bus to work. However I don't work downtown, so it would take me 3 times as long to get to/from work.
While it is correct that ethanol is 2/3rds the energy density of gas, that isn't the whole story either. Ethanol burns better in engines, so you get more of that energy out the crankshaft. In an engine designed for only ethanol (that is it cannot use gas in an emergency) will get nearly as good a milage as a similar engine running on gas. The emissions are better too.
The bottom line is you use more fuel. However it is not as much more as you would expect based on 2/3rds the energy.
There is only one amendment to the Bill of rights that means anything close to what you might think it means: the third. Though if the military ever needs more barracks that will change, the supreme court will just say that you cannot [when killing someone in a private house] quarter them, you are limited to drawing. (which is meaningless because bullets and poison are more common)
Some examples:
First: not if you are within 60 days of an election and want to talk politics.
Second: just trying buying a machine gun.
fourth: patriot act
fifth: the phase "public use" is filler with no meaning
sixth: unless you are en enemy combatant
seventh: see sixth
eighth: I can't think of anything for this one actually, but I'm sure there are examples of abuses.
ninth, tenth: These has always been so vague that the courts of ignored it. Besides, intersate commerce can cover just about anything if you are creative enough.
Where I live they must ask you to leave first. The police won't come otherwise. We had a problem with some tough high school kids hanging out in a resteraunt where I worked while this tiny girl was the manager on duty. Their looks were scaring customers away (they were likely harmless, but they looked like they would have no problem killing you), and she didn't want to be out there essentially alone with those kids, and the police would not come until she had asked them to leave.
Of course nothing is to stop the manager from saying they asked you to leave without doing it. It would be a crime on his/her part though.
The above applies to Buffalo, MN, USA (as of 10 years ago). Laws vary from area to area, so I can't comment on what happened to you. It would be worth checking out for future reference though.
This works for now. However when everyone moves to it, it won't help at all. It is trivial for spammers to get around this - follow the standard. They don't bother now because most of their mail isn't being stopped by this trick. When it starts stopping a lot of email they will just implement that part of the standard and greylisting will become useless.
I am not a administrator. I am an end user who sometimes tries to help others out. I keep all my personal system on FreeBSD, and I know how to admin that. Perhaps a real administrator can figure out how to make applications run under Microsoft Windows, but I don't have the patience for that. Besides even if I got everything working on thanksgiving, by Christmas (which isn't going to be at the same house) they will have found a new program that doesn't work.
I would recommend that you give him separate accounts of each person. With KDM you can put a cute picture of the user to click on and it will log you on automatically. If he sets his account with a password the kid can't delete his files.
Or possibly they don't understand how to do things. Even if an app does require elevated privs Windows has mechanisms to allow just a specific program to do so.
No, the point is these are things that logically should not require administrator access to run, but they do anyway. Sure I could give Joe User administrator rights, but he shouldn't need it, and I don't want him to have the ability to make mistakes. Sure there are mechanisms to raise access for one program, but they are too complex for Joe User to deal with, so he won't.
Your right, it is a developer problem. However it is still a big downside to Microsoft Windows.
I don't get this one. I'm salaried. I get paid to work 8 hours a day, including two 15 minute breaks. When I take my lunch I cannot count that against hours worked. I work 8-5, take an hour lunch, and call that 8 hours worked, even though 9 hours have passed. (I would count lunch hour if there was a lunch meeting, but that is rare)
Do people really count lunch hour as time worked? So they are at their desk and thinking about work for 7 hours, but get 8 because of the 1 hour they were elsewhere?
Of course since this wasn't designed to put out any particular frequency power, getting a powersource that will work is hard. Particularly because it is a 3-phase alternator, so you have to have 3 of those power sources, kept in sync.
But this generator is a direct drive unit. An auto alternator generates little if any (most likely it looses energy because the coils take more power than you generate) power at 70 RPM, which is where they are testing this generator. Sure you can gear up to get an alternator to work, but then you are dealing with all those losses which can be large.
If you can't figure out how to build your own version from their story, then you should stick to professional installations anyway. Make sure you buy the maintenance contract from them.
There is nothing wrong with being mechanically ignoreant. There is something wrong with being ignorant, and doing anyway.
Not anymore. However scrapping the shuttle does not mean we instantly get something more suited to our space needs. The current plans for a replacement are planed for 2015. The last shuttle flight is planned for 2010. (numbers subject to change all the time) It isn't that NASA wants to keep the shuttle, it is that they want something that will fill the gap.
There is already efforts to see if either the shuttle can last longer (unlikely), or the replacement can fly sooner.
If NASA came to me now with the offer to go up in this flight I would go, even if the catch was a 99.999% chance of failure on re-entry. That is the other 6 crew are going to stay on ISS and take the rescue shuttle home, I'm there to push the autopilot button to get it out of the way. (and a.001% chance that I also get to lower the landing gear)
That won't happen of course. Even if they would, I couldn't get there before the launch window closes, even if I drove my car to a plane waiting on the runway. You bet I'd go though.
Of course I don't have a family to take care of. Many people would love to go, but have kids to take care of.
Yeah, well I have an iron mine in my backyard. I'm refining the ore into steal, and then making a saw from that to cut down my trees, also growing in the backyard.
Now if I could just write a book worthy of the effort.
More likely there is no rivally for the same reason there is no rivally to be the first person to run a marathon (52 miles) in 5 minutes. It might be doable (with assistance), but right now everyone sees it well out of the realm of reason. Perhaps oneday the robot suit will be invented and people will do that often, but today we don't.
In general you can't. However the earth has a fairly strong magnetic field, which you can use to your advantage. Depending on how you run your local magnets you can accelerate away or to the earth. You don't get much acceleration, but you are at a place where not much is needed too. (Just don't let the system break)
I wouldn't walk into an operating room and criticize the surgeon. But I wouldn't let that surgeon operate on me without knowing something about what he was doing and having confidence that he is good.
I learn about the education system because one day I would like to have kids. I also learn about it because I have to work with the results of the system. If the education system gets better, it benefits me in the long run. Therefore I learn something about it.
Professional means only that you get paid to do something. It does not imply anything about you being good.
The problem is English, not lack of reading. English is a terrible language, but it is what we have.
I have been an expert reading all my life. (My parents never let me have a TV, so reading was my entertainment) Reading does not imply spelling, not with our messed up English 'rules' that are more exceptions than rules. There is no way to logically map 50-60 sounds into 26 letters.
By contrast I just barely know any Spanish, but I can correctly nearly spell every word I hear (not know) in Spanish. Every letter in Spanish has exactly one sound, and sounds are not repeated. (The words I get wrong have a silent 'h', I don't know when those go in)
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and then he sits in a hospital wasting more time, money and resources before finally dying of his wounds
Not quite. He spends a lot of time in this hospital before going home - a limb. He is now a constant reminder to everyone back home of just how bad war really is - every day. The people back home soon get tired of seeing all these otherwise fine young men in wheel chairs and tells the leaders to stop fighting. A dead soldier gets a funeral, and is then forgotten.
The above is against the Geneva conventions BTW.
Okay, powerpoint for making summaries look like in depth presentations.
I have no idea why weather buttons are so popular (I prefer the method of sticking my head out the window), but they are.
The problem is you are sticking your head out the window. Therefore we can assume that you spend most of your day on the inside of that window. Weather is an interesting phenomena when you spend most of your day indoors (with central heat and AC). When you spend your day outside it is something you need to keep track of.
Just because it is sunny now doesn't mean much if you need things to be sunny for the next 5 days once you start cutting the hay. If might be cool this morning, but that doesn't tell you if you need to bring the 5 gallon jug of water (because it will be 100 in the shade and you will drink it all), or just can of pop for break time (all the water you need for 70)
Yesterday may or may not be anything like today, and things may change latter on in the afternoon. This is important when you work outside.
It is a vicious cycle here. I have never used public transit, so it rarely occurs to me to consider it for any trip. The few times I consider it I discover that everyone else is like me, rarely consider it. Thus nobody uses it, so they cut service back, so less people use it.
To-from work when you work 8-5 downtown and live in the suburbs is the only routes that get riders, so they are the ones that we have.
I'd love to take a bus to work. However I don't work downtown, so it would take me 3 times as long to get to/from work.
Why not the waste stream? Ethanol is made of carbon, Hydrogen, and oxygen. All those minerals come out the waste stream again.
Proper crop rotation and placing the waste back on the fields solves this problem. Farmers have been doing this for years.
While it is correct that ethanol is 2/3rds the energy density of gas, that isn't the whole story either. Ethanol burns better in engines, so you get more of that energy out the crankshaft. In an engine designed for only ethanol (that is it cannot use gas in an emergency) will get nearly as good a milage as a similar engine running on gas. The emissions are better too.
The bottom line is you use more fuel. However it is not as much more as you would expect based on 2/3rds the energy.
There is only one amendment to the Bill of rights that means anything close to what you might think it means: the third. Though if the military ever needs more barracks that will change, the supreme court will just say that you cannot [when killing someone in a private house] quarter them, you are limited to drawing. (which is meaningless because bullets and poison are more common)
Some examples:
First: not if you are within 60 days of an election and want to talk politics.
Second: just trying buying a machine gun.
fourth: patriot act
fifth: the phase "public use" is filler with no meaning
sixth: unless you are en enemy combatant
seventh: see sixth
eighth: I can't think of anything for this one actually, but I'm sure there are examples of abuses.
ninth, tenth: These has always been so vague that the courts of ignored it. Besides, intersate commerce can cover just about anything if you are creative enough.
Where I live they must ask you to leave first. The police won't come otherwise. We had a problem with some tough high school kids hanging out in a resteraunt where I worked while this tiny girl was the manager on duty. Their looks were scaring customers away (they were likely harmless, but they looked like they would have no problem killing you), and she didn't want to be out there essentially alone with those kids, and the police would not come until she had asked them to leave.
Of course nothing is to stop the manager from saying they asked you to leave without doing it. It would be a crime on his/her part though.
The above applies to Buffalo, MN, USA (as of 10 years ago). Laws vary from area to area, so I can't comment on what happened to you. It would be worth checking out for future reference though.
This works for now. However when everyone moves to it, it won't help at all. It is trivial for spammers to get around this - follow the standard. They don't bother now because most of their mail isn't being stopped by this trick. When it starts stopping a lot of email they will just implement that part of the standard and greylisting will become useless.
I am not a administrator. I am an end user who sometimes tries to help others out. I keep all my personal system on FreeBSD, and I know how to admin that. Perhaps a real administrator can figure out how to make applications run under Microsoft Windows, but I don't have the patience for that. Besides even if I got everything working on thanksgiving, by Christmas (which isn't going to be at the same house) they will have found a new program that doesn't work.
I would recommend that you give him separate accounts of each person. With KDM you can put a cute picture of the user to click on and it will log you on automatically. If he sets his account with a password the kid can't delete his files.
Or possibly they don't understand how to do things. Even if an app does require elevated privs Windows has mechanisms to allow just a specific program to do so.
No, the point is these are things that logically should not require administrator access to run, but they do anyway. Sure I could give Joe User administrator rights, but he shouldn't need it, and I don't want him to have the ability to make mistakes. Sure there are mechanisms to raise access for one program, but they are too complex for Joe User to deal with, so he won't.
Your right, it is a developer problem. However it is still a big downside to Microsoft Windows.
I don't get this one. I'm salaried. I get paid to work 8 hours a day, including two 15 minute breaks. When I take my lunch I cannot count that against hours worked. I work 8-5, take an hour lunch, and call that 8 hours worked, even though 9 hours have passed. (I would count lunch hour if there was a lunch meeting, but that is rare)
Do people really count lunch hour as time worked? So they are at their desk and thinking about work for 7 hours, but get 8 because of the 1 hour they were elsewhere?
Not if you put power into it.
Of course since this wasn't designed to put out any particular frequency power, getting a powersource that will work is hard. Particularly because it is a 3-phase alternator, so you have to have 3 of those power sources, kept in sync.
But this generator is a direct drive unit. An auto alternator generates little if any (most likely it looses energy because the coils take more power than you generate) power at 70 RPM, which is where they are testing this generator. Sure you can gear up to get an alternator to work, but then you are dealing with all those losses which can be large.
If you can't figure out how to build your own version from their story, then you should stick to professional installations anyway. Make sure you buy the maintenance contract from them.
There is nothing wrong with being mechanically ignoreant. There is something wrong with being ignorant, and doing anyway.
Not anymore. However scrapping the shuttle does not mean we instantly get something more suited to our space needs. The current plans for a replacement are planed for 2015. The last shuttle flight is planned for 2010. (numbers subject to change all the time) It isn't that NASA wants to keep the shuttle, it is that they want something that will fill the gap.
There is already efforts to see if either the shuttle can last longer (unlikely), or the replacement can fly sooner.
Unless some magician has pulled a little trick where the fuel tank looks like it is there, but it isn't. (Something like sawing a women in half trick)
NASA needs something that magicians cannot fool, human eyes clearly fail.
You need to dream a little.
If NASA came to me now with the offer to go up in this flight I would go, even if the catch was a 99.999% chance of failure on re-entry. That is the other 6 crew are going to stay on ISS and take the rescue shuttle home, I'm there to push the autopilot button to get it out of the way. (and a .001% chance that I also get to lower the landing gear)
That won't happen of course. Even if they would, I couldn't get there before the launch window closes, even if I drove my car to a plane waiting on the runway. You bet I'd go though.
Of course I don't have a family to take care of. Many people would love to go, but have kids to take care of.
Yeah, well I have an iron mine in my backyard. I'm refining the ore into steal, and then making a saw from that to cut down my trees, also growing in the backyard.
Now if I could just write a book worthy of the effort.
Okay, it wasn't the US, but it was friends of the US. Kuwait was attacked first. Then they didn't live up to the peace treaty.
More likely there is no rivally for the same reason there is no rivally to be the first person to run a marathon (52 miles) in 5 minutes. It might be doable (with assistance), but right now everyone sees it well out of the realm of reason. Perhaps oneday the robot suit will be invented and people will do that often, but today we don't.
In general you can't. However the earth has a fairly strong magnetic field, which you can use to your advantage. Depending on how you run your local magnets you can accelerate away or to the earth. You don't get much acceleration, but you are at a place where not much is needed too. (Just don't let the system break)
I wouldn't walk into an operating room and criticize the surgeon. But I wouldn't let that surgeon operate on me without knowing something about what he was doing and having confidence that he is good.
I learn about the education system because one day I would like to have kids. I also learn about it because I have to work with the results of the system. If the education system gets better, it benefits me in the long run. Therefore I learn something about it.
Professional means only that you get paid to do something. It does not imply anything about you being good.
The problem is English, not lack of reading. English is a terrible language, but it is what we have.
I have been an expert reading all my life. (My parents never let me have a TV, so reading was my entertainment) Reading does not imply spelling, not with our messed up English 'rules' that are more exceptions than rules. There is no way to logically map 50-60 sounds into 26 letters.
By contrast I just barely know any Spanish, but I can correctly nearly spell every word I hear (not know) in Spanish. Every letter in Spanish has exactly one sound, and sounds are not repeated. (The words I get wrong have a silent 'h', I don't know when those go in)