Hmmm... the gov't does one thing badly, so the gov't shouldn't do anything? How stupid is that. Hey, I believe in small government, but there is no logic to your argument.
I guess we should all take care of our own roads, buy a fire truck to park in each driveway, take turns policing the streets, pay a local company to do medical research on diseases we don't have (and hardly anyone has), etc.
I have no idea whether government managed health care is a good idea. But politicizing the issue doesn't help us learn anything. If you must bring politics into it, I'll just note that the "tax-and-spend" Republicans haven't done much better at managing the country - the just spend the money on different things.
Once the rovers freeze, they will probably die. Not sure if the issue is the batteries or something else, but they need to -stay- warm. And if the hardware isn't damaged during the freeze, when the 'dust settles', where is it going to go? Onto the rovers' solar panels. So still no juice.
Years ago when I downloaded a demo of Tron 2.0 (onto Windows 98) and then uninstalled, the uninstall wiped every.EXE file in the WINDOWS directory. Obviously I was a bit miffed...
Just noticed this myself the other day. I was in *cough* Walmart *cough* I believe, looking at the usual single display case of Wii games, when I suddenly realized that the next case over was also -entirely full- of Wii games. The shelf space and selection has definitely gone up.
Yes! And in a disgusting case of the tail wagging the dog, the parties are now suing states for not holding the Primaries on the date they want them! Shouldn't the states be in charge of when the Primaries are held?
It doesn't have to change but eventually the cable companies will want to stop supporting obsolete analog TVs by converting the digital data they receive from broadcast stations to analog (it will just be overhead that costs money, like the phone company supporting pulse dialing now that almost everybody is on tone dialing). The FCC is just requiring cable companies to support analog until 2012 so consumers will have more time to upgrade their home equipment.
In the largest sense, yes, the primordial soup was more ordered. Locally, entropy in one place can decrease, but at the cost of increasing the sum total entropy of the Universe. I can take scraps of wood and build a table, and it may seem to a human observer that 'order' has increased, but the laws of physics guarantee that overall order in the basest sense has decreased. I expended energy to make that table, which produced waste heat, and hence (? - not sure of my thermodynamics here) more disorder.
Well, for small things I'm really not trying to make a lot of money on, perhaps I'd rather just use freecycle and give the stuff away. If I get a few useful items from other freecyclers, it all works out in the end. No commission to eBay, no tax liability to the IRS. That leaves eBay to the 'professional' sellers trying to make an actual cash profit.
Well, when you have things going on like a person named "Luxury Yacht" who's name is actually pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove", you're bound to have some spelling errors.
'all but xxx' is an American (or perhaps more generally English) idiom that means 'about as close to xxx as you can get without actually being there yet.'.
On the the other hand, the phrase 'anything but xxx' means the speaker doesn't think the thing is anywhere near 'xxx' even if other people do.
Hope this helps.
I read Osheroff's quote and decided he's talking out his ass (or it's a lousy quote). Perhaps successful repairs can only increase their chances, but things can and do go wrong, and it wasn't explained how Osheroff was in a better position to make the analysis than the people at NASA doing it. BTW, if you read the article carefully, it seems that financial considerations would lean toward doing the repair, not avoiding it. Leaving the gouge in place may result in more down-time and repair work for Endeavour on the ground.
The Astronauts -have- practiced patching tiles in the cargo bay. But those tiles can't be on the outside of the shuttle during reentry.
While I was writing my previous response I thought about the idea of 'pre-patching' some tiles near the rear of the shuttle before launch, in order to see how well those tiles did on reentry. Can you imagine the outcry if NASA suggested purposely -damaging- a few 'unimportant tiles' before the mission even begins? And I doubt you can easily add a few spare tiles to the airframe of the shuttle - just ain't gonna happen.
I'd give you more mod points but you're already at 5. This is such a major concept that gets ignored in all sorts of areas. My favorite example is when people talk about 'living off the land' on the moon or mars. We'll have these incredible fabrication machines that will build what ever we need from the materials found there! Bull! Only the most basic basic basic items can be fabricated this way (i.e. walls, windows, tables, chairs). Try 'fabricating' a PC. A PC might only require a few kg of materials, but the entire infrastructure that went into building that PC covers hundreds or thousands of manufacturers, numerous plants, machines, assembly steps, additional materials used to treat the parts (organic solvents, WATER - lots of WATER), etc. You don't just sift some dirt and make a PC!
Today's technology is only possible because we have yesterday's technology to build it. That's true for BluRay and HD-DVD as much as anything else.
You weren't paying attention. Your mail has to get through the DOCTOR'S ISP no matter where you send it from. That's the ISP he's talking about. And he even points out, sure the doctor might be willing to change email hosting when he hears that happened to you, but probably not, and by then it's too late.
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Hmmm... the gov't does one thing badly, so the gov't shouldn't do anything? How stupid is that. Hey, I believe in small government, but there is no logic to your argument.
I guess we should all take care of our own roads, buy a fire truck to park in each driveway, take turns policing the streets, pay a local company to do medical research on diseases we don't have (and hardly anyone has), etc.
I have no idea whether government managed health care is a good idea. But politicizing the issue doesn't help us learn anything. If you must bring politics into it, I'll just note that the "tax-and-spend" Republicans haven't done much better at managing the country - the just spend the money on different things.
Once the rovers freeze, they will probably die. Not sure if the issue is the batteries or something else, but they need to -stay- warm. And if the hardware isn't damaged during the freeze, when the 'dust settles', where is it going to go? Onto the rovers' solar panels. So still no juice.
Alas if only I had mod points today...
I'd expect to find a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster at a pub, not a coffee shop, unless you're guessing the active ingredient of the PGGB is caffeine?
Years ago when I downloaded a demo of Tron 2.0 (onto Windows 98) and then uninstalled, the uninstall wiped every .EXE file in the WINDOWS directory. Obviously I was a bit miffed...
No I don't, because I don't know it! A horse is a horse of course of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course ...
Just noticed this myself the other day. I was in *cough* Walmart *cough* I believe, looking at the usual single display case of Wii games, when I suddenly realized that the next case over was also -entirely full- of Wii games. The shelf space and selection has definitely gone up.
For some people achieving something 'is' the entertainment.
Yes! And in a disgusting case of the tail wagging the dog, the parties are now suing states for not holding the Primaries on the date they want them! Shouldn't the states be in charge of when the Primaries are held?
It doesn't have to change but eventually the cable companies will want to stop supporting obsolete analog TVs by converting the digital data they receive from broadcast stations to analog (it will just be overhead that costs money, like the phone company supporting pulse dialing now that almost everybody is on tone dialing). The FCC is just requiring cable companies to support analog until 2012 so consumers will have more time to upgrade their home equipment.
In the largest sense, yes, the primordial soup was more ordered. Locally, entropy in one place can decrease, but at the cost of increasing the sum total entropy of the Universe. I can take scraps of wood and build a table, and it may seem to a human observer that 'order' has increased, but the laws of physics guarantee that overall order in the basest sense has decreased. I expended energy to make that table, which produced waste heat, and hence (? - not sure of my thermodynamics here) more disorder.
Well, for small things I'm really not trying to make a lot of money on, perhaps I'd rather just use freecycle and give the stuff away. If I get a few useful items from other freecyclers, it all works out in the end. No commission to eBay, no tax liability to the IRS. That leaves eBay to the 'professional' sellers trying to make an actual cash profit.
Joke whizzing over 'Offtopic' mod's head duly noted.
Did you even -watch- the video? Excuse me while I finish cauterizing my optic nerves...
Well, when you have things going on like a person named "Luxury Yacht" who's name is actually pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove", you're bound to have some spelling errors.
Did they release any of my favorites, like TripTik Hunter IV, Roadside Assist - The Awakening, or Extreme Traveler's Check Speed Signing?
Don't ask Alanis. Most of her examples are more correctly described as 'coincidence'.
'all but xxx' is an American (or perhaps more generally English) idiom that means 'about as close to xxx as you can get without actually being there yet.'.
On the the other hand, the phrase 'anything but xxx' means the speaker doesn't think the thing is anywhere near 'xxx' even if other people do.
Hope this helps.
and Anal, Nerdy and Living in Mom's Basement.
I read Osheroff's quote and decided he's talking out his ass (or it's a lousy quote). Perhaps successful repairs can only increase their chances, but things can and do go wrong, and it wasn't explained how Osheroff was in a better position to make the analysis than the people at NASA doing it. BTW, if you read the article carefully, it seems that financial considerations would lean toward doing the repair, not avoiding it. Leaving the gouge in place may result in more down-time and repair work for Endeavour on the ground.
The Astronauts -have- practiced patching tiles in the cargo bay. But those tiles can't be on the outside of the shuttle during reentry.
While I was writing my previous response I thought about the idea of 'pre-patching' some tiles near the rear of the shuttle before launch, in order to see how well those tiles did on reentry. Can you imagine the outcry if NASA suggested purposely -damaging- a few 'unimportant tiles' before the mission even begins? And I doubt you can easily add a few spare tiles to the airframe of the shuttle - just ain't gonna happen.
But most betas don't run the risk of killing 7 people. There are serious risks involved in -doing- the patch too.
I'd give you more mod points but you're already at 5. This is such a major concept that gets ignored in all sorts of areas. My favorite example is when people talk about 'living off the land' on the moon or mars. We'll have these incredible fabrication machines that will build what ever we need from the materials found there! Bull! Only the most basic basic basic items can be fabricated this way (i.e. walls, windows, tables, chairs). Try 'fabricating' a PC. A PC might only require a few kg of materials, but the entire infrastructure that went into building that PC covers hundreds or thousands of manufacturers, numerous plants, machines, assembly steps, additional materials used to treat the parts (organic solvents, WATER - lots of WATER), etc. You don't just sift some dirt and make a PC! Today's technology is only possible because we have yesterday's technology to build it. That's true for BluRay and HD-DVD as much as anything else.
I'm over 30 and I don't get the Outer Limits ref., but just picturing Karen Black and her wandering eye is scary enough!
You weren't paying attention. Your mail has to get through the DOCTOR'S ISP no matter where you send it from. That's the ISP he's talking about. And he even points out, sure the doctor might be willing to change email hosting when he hears that happened to you, but probably not, and by then it's too late.