Okay, if it's noticed, my post will be modded to -99, but... I have to ask - who cares? Other than the fact that an industrial nation only has one reactor to make medical isotopes, this story really doesn't rate the attention. I guess the reference to G**GLE makes it/. worthy.
And if you ask Pascal, he'd advise you to believe in god.
Well, if I could ask him, there would have to be something to your argument. (FYI, he died in 1662.) Tell you what, you go ask him and get back to us. I'll wait.
Well, yes, it is correct that this is the 114th mission, but the previous mission (Columbia) was numbered STS-107 (STS-113 was actually the 112th mission). It's not that straightforward.
Using just the release versions of the browsers, Opera 8.02 renders better than FireFox 1.0.6, and both are miles ahead of IE 6.0 (as far as I know, this copy is patched to the max), which is pretty much on par with Amaya 9.2.1.
None are prefect, and FF gets the nose colour wrong (I think).
We'd've sent out one of the swabbies to hammer that oakum back between the planks, and sail on.
Interesting that there are caulking problems on vessels which don't travel on the water. (Almost said over water, but I guess they're over water most of the time, eh?)
Okay, I think I see what the problem was. TFA says "During the few millionths of a second that it operates. Atlas generates electrical energy roughly four times the Earth's entire energy production." This was morphed twice by the/. editors and/or submitter.
This means that the power dissipated would be 4 times the average (mean or norm) for that period, much like what thoolie is getting at... somewhere along the way.
Totally bloody useless statistic, unless you have an idea of "the Earth's entire energy production."
Arrgh. I'm posting so I won't be tempted to try to mod this whole discussion down. (Not just this thread - I mean from the top down. This thread could be the best of the bunch, but it's still off.)
So, each hour we consume 1.7454e12Wh of energy.
Close enough. I used 365.25 days. Here things break down, though. You have proved that the average power is about 1.74e12 watts. THAT IS THE AVERAGE POWER - it doesn't scale. If you had more information, you might be able to estimate peak usage and so on.
If the power used here was four times the average you'd have power dissipation of about 7.0e12 watts. Doesn't matter how long the duration was from this perspective. (For a 0.02 second discharge, the energy dissipated would be about 140e9 joules, for what that's worth.)
The voltage would be 7e12 W / 19e6 A or about 370 kV.
I am an engineer, but not an EE. I recall some stuff from my circuits classes, but energy and power is used everywhere...
Yeah, I used the proxomitron to modify the user agent string (to IE 6) and hey presto it just works. Of course Proxo is blocking the ads and such so I can't really tell if it is what it is supposed to look like. (And I also filter on FF, so it's rather moot to test with it.)
As to whether it looks fine, it does not appear to be a site I will visit, but it's not obviously messed up. (No text on top of text of text or anything like that.)
The CBC's take on this is interesting. "Repliee sometimes goes into what seems like spasms when its program has a bug".
I know people that go into what seems like spams when a bug lands on them, too.
Pictures of Repliee. The android behind her doesn't appear too lifelike, though.
It appears that the Osaka lab has been/.ed.
Might be interesting once everything settles down.
my degree took significantly more effort than "nearly zero" to obtain.
Well, it's obvious that you haven't been paying close enough attention to your inbox. I get several letters a day telling me how I can get any degree I want without any effort what so ever.
After the comments on this previous story, my question on reading the current story was "were they able to remove him from the room without widening the door?"
Of course the body part enlargement jokes could be invoked... "Well, of course he's the biggest, he's been taking those damn pills for, like, ever."
'Improvements in Firefox, along with IE 7 restrictions, could lead to a dramatic increase in the open-source browser's market share, according to Dotzler.'
Okay, I'm naive, but I don't see this. The primary reason that MS IE is the main browser is simply that people aren't changing from the default on their PCs. This isn't going to change simply because a new MS browser is released. I imagine that most of the XP users won't upgrade either, unless it's forced on them as a security upgrade. (Which may very well happen.)
The people running older versions of Windows will merrily keep running whatever dreck was originally installed as the browser on their machines.
What I see happening will be that MS IE 6 will take a hit in market share, which will be taken up by MS IE 7. If there is a significant difference in the browsing experience, people may react to the change by moving to another browser (I have to admit that is likely firefox, though I am not an FF fanbot) but this will not be the common trend. The greater portion of MS IE users will just keep trundling along.
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Nor can I... I had to get rid of my C64 (wife insisted) but I kept the A1000 (I insisted).
Murrican politico: Hey guys, we can cancel the NASA thing and devote another billion or so to this fund... yeah it's a mere pittance compared to the half trillion or so already there, but every little bit helps...
But the only thing I'm going to remember is that this guy (gal?) has issues with the configuration of apache (and who doesn't?) or I'll remember the last slide with the pony.
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There's a documentary block buster just waiting to happen.
There seems to be a lot of comment about the case, considering that he asked to have the cheque made out his own name.
This line even appears in court documents (pdf).
Why not look at the breast cancer and celebrity or email and political activism stories on the same website? They are more "stuff that matters" or "news for nerds" than this. Perhaps they were submitted - and rejected.
Next time I submit a story, I will make sure that I create some tie in with G**GLE just to it accepted.
Parent: No. Canada's official system of measurement is metric.
I believe that Mexico also uses S.I. units.
Well I could see Jena Jameson pulling that one off ... wait, did I say that?
I'm over 40, and there were computers available to me in grade 10.
Mind you, one of them was an analogue computer.
Gotta change my .sig to "Don't trust anyone under 30."
Damn whippersnappers.
Well, if I could ask him, there would have to be something to your argument. (FYI, he died in 1662.) Tell you what, you go ask him and get back to us. I'll wait.
Well, you got me there. However, it is not newsworthy.
Well, yes, it is correct that this is the 114th mission, but the previous mission (Columbia) was numbered STS-107 (STS-113 was actually the 112th mission). It's not that straightforward.
Are we really all that cynical that we can't wish Commander Collins and her crew a "good job folks"?
None are prefect, and FF gets the nose colour wrong (I think).
Interesting that there are caulking problems on vessels which don't travel on the water. (Almost said over water, but I guess they're over water most of the time, eh?)
This means that the power dissipated would be 4 times the average (mean or norm) for that period, much like what thoolie is getting at ... somewhere along the way.
Totally bloody useless statistic, unless you have an idea of "the Earth's entire energy production."
So, each hour we consume 1.7454e12Wh of energy.
Close enough. I used 365.25 days. Here things break down, though. You have proved that the average power is about 1.74e12 watts. THAT IS THE AVERAGE POWER - it doesn't scale. If you had more information, you might be able to estimate peak usage and so on.
If the power used here was four times the average you'd have power dissipation of about 7.0e12 watts. Doesn't matter how long the duration was from this perspective. (For a 0.02 second discharge, the energy dissipated would be about 140e9 joules, for what that's worth.)
The voltage would be 7e12 W / 19e6 A or about 370 kV.
I am an engineer, but not an EE. I recall some stuff from my circuits classes, but energy and power is used everywhere ...
Yeah, I used the proxomitron to modify the user agent string (to IE 6) and hey presto it just works. Of course Proxo is blocking the ads and such so I can't really tell if it is what it is supposed to look like. (And I also filter on FF, so it's rather moot to test with it.)
As to whether it looks fine, it does not appear to be a site I will visit, but it's not obviously messed up. (No text on top of text of text or anything like that.)
Pictures of Repliee. The android behind her doesn't appear too lifelike, though.
It appears that the Osaka lab has been /.ed.
Might be interesting once everything settles down.
Well, it's obvious that you haven't been paying close enough attention to your inbox. I get several letters a day telling me how I can get any degree I want without any effort what so ever.
Of course the body part enlargement jokes could be invoked ... "Well, of course he's the biggest, he's been taking those damn pills for, like, ever."
Skanska expert: No problem, I'll just run into the tunnel with my solar powered UV flashlight.
Okay, I'm naive, but I don't see this. The primary reason that MS IE is the main browser is simply that people aren't changing from the default on their PCs. This isn't going to change simply because a new MS browser is released. I imagine that most of the XP users won't upgrade either, unless it's forced on them as a security upgrade. (Which may very well happen.)
The people running older versions of Windows will merrily keep running whatever dreck was originally installed as the browser on their machines.
What I see happening will be that MS IE 6 will take a hit in market share, which will be taken up by MS IE 7. If there is a significant difference in the browsing experience, people may react to the change by moving to another browser (I have to admit that is likely firefox, though I am not an FF fanbot) but this will not be the common trend. The greater portion of MS IE users will just keep trundling along.
Note the .sig, eh?
Eddukashun? Enfra-what?
So what is happening for / to the long lost orphans of NASA's deep space program?
Hehn... pony ... want it ... can't have it ... cute.
presentation, what presentation?