A few days back there was talk about the Moller Sky Car, and someone said that the Newtonian and Bernoulli theories are incompatible, citing a Wikipedia article. (I'd link it, but I have a freakin migraine and really need to get to bed...)
Well, the wikipedia article was BS. Pulling out a real text like "Fundamentals of Aerodynamics" by Anderson would confirm that the Newtonian and Bernoulli views are compatible, just two different ways of expressing the same phenomenon. But since anyone who thinks s/he knows something about something can edit a wikipedia entry we get entries like that, which spread falsehoods.
I personally avoid Wikipedia for that very reason.
I suggest to people that when they are interested in a phenomenon that they try to find a reputable website that focuses on **just** that phenomenon. For example, if you have a question in aerodynamics, look for an aero website. Et Cetera.
*shrug*
Your point was that you'd rather live in a country whose ways are wrong but straightforward instead of america which you presume to be pretentious.
My post merely comments on a trend that fails to cease - people move to this country from all corners of the globe. More people come than we expect, some wind up getting turned away.
Whatever, you aren't worth my time. If you are going to reject a free ride to a university over some internet opinions well, that says a lot for your worth as a scientist.
I'm just glad Linux wasn't invented in the USA.
Yeah, but Linus moved here. Wonder why. Anyways America is probably better for not having you. Thanks for not tainting our gene pool.
15 minutes, three different answers. Kick the UN out, your guaranteed at least 3 months of bickering amongst the remaining nations of where they should go...
automated install of windows xp: stick in the disc, turn on the pc, 1 hour later you have windows. Or more likely they are flashing from a Ghosted disc, 10 minutes tops.
Regardless, you think on the boxes that aren't getting windows, they haven't installed **some** os to make sure the computer is working?
Read later on in this thread. Actual cost of a license in volume is about $30. And that price is reflected in the cheap machines. (post is by Trip Master Monkey).
Volume pricing on a windows license is about $30. We've covered this before. The price differential should be exactly $30 - it is - Dell is being honest (good for them).
A sniper in a building behind a glass pane has no heat signature - you get the heat signature of the pane of glass. Put another way, unless you have line of sight with the sniper, and could see him in daylight conditions, his heat signature does you no good.
Well then, you buy time while the sniper is shooting the robot instead of the mark.
Not to mention the robot would not have to be in the immediate vicinity of the mark. There could be a good distance between the two - in which case you would have plenty of time to react.
Yeah, if you have a mailbox at the end of your driveway. Some of us who live in apartments have to run to the post office for outgoing mail. Same thing happens on campus in a dormatory/"apartment housing."
Also this could potentially reduce costs for an operation like Netflix... no return postage, no return handlers, no restocking. "Everything goes out... nothing comes in". Could save a lot of dough.
And how about those queues? Netflix only has a finite number of copies of each movie, sometimes you have to wait. With a model like this, potentially, they could ship out an unlimited number of read-once DVD's.
Additionally, an extremely religious person believes that by disobeying the pope you go to hell. Prison is not as bad as hell.
Make that a devout catholic. And catholicism is opt-in. If you live in a country, the rules of the country are most definitely not opt-in.
(Not to mention the entire papacy is a misinterpretation of the scripture... when Christ said "On this rock I will build my church" he was referring to his confession that Jesus was the son of God, not on a line of men in big hats... but then again, I'm Lutheran, what do I know.):)
He appoints nominees, the senate makes the final decision. If the senate doesn't like what they see, the democrats (the opposing party at the moment) can filabuster, or the senators will vote against her.
You need a single point to bring people into consideration. Otherwise what are they gonna do, have all 100 senators sit at a table and talk until they can find someone they all like? riiight, like that's gonna find someone quickly:P.
Yeah. Less than 600 seconds performance. Traditional jet engines have 1700 seconds performance at that speed.
was just pointing out we needn't be limited to rockets, let alone chemical rockets. Rockets are good at some things, like propulsion in a vacuum. Propulsion at subsonic speeds at low altitude is not one of them.
so tell me why we would want to use a ramjet outside its designed environment?
Ramjets need to be supersonic. As the course is built for a subsonic racer it would probably not fare well (it would pull excessive G-forces in maneuvers)
Plus it would no longer fit the criteria, what not being a rocket.
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Hehe... a nickel for your thoughts?
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A few days back there was talk about the Moller Sky Car, and someone said that the Newtonian and Bernoulli theories are incompatible, citing a Wikipedia article. (I'd link it, but I have a freakin migraine and really need to get to bed...)
Well, the wikipedia article was BS. Pulling out a real text like "Fundamentals of Aerodynamics" by Anderson would confirm that the Newtonian and Bernoulli views are compatible, just two different ways of expressing the same phenomenon. But since anyone who thinks s/he knows something about something can edit a wikipedia entry we get entries like that, which spread falsehoods.
I personally avoid Wikipedia for that very reason.
I suggest to people that when they are interested in a phenomenon that they try to find a reputable website that focuses on **just** that phenomenon. For example, if you have a question in aerodynamics, look for an aero website. Et Cetera.
-everphilski-
The CD-ROM put encyclopedia salesmen out of business.
Um, no it didn't. My brother went door-to-door selling 'em last summer. Damn good money if you can do the sales pitch thing.
-everphilski-
*shrug*
Your point was that you'd rather live in a country whose ways are wrong but straightforward instead of america which you presume to be pretentious.
My post merely comments on a trend that fails to cease - people move to this country from all corners of the globe. More people come than we expect, some wind up getting turned away.
Whatever, you aren't worth my time. If you are going to reject a free ride to a university over some internet opinions well, that says a lot for your worth as a scientist.
-everphilski-
The point is it'd split the net, which no one wants.
Have your cake and eat it too, huh?
-everphilski-
I'm just glad Linux wasn't invented in the USA.
Yeah, but Linus moved here. Wonder why. Anyways America is probably better for not having you. Thanks for not tainting our gene pool.
-everphilski-
15 minutes, three different answers. Kick the UN out, your guaranteed at least 3 months of bickering amongst the remaining nations of where they should go ...
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If you can build your own backbones, rootservers shouldn't be that hard, now shouldn't it?
Oh, no, you want a handout...
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Meh, kicking em out of their headquateres in NYC should be good enough. Where would they go?
-everphilski-
automated install of windows xp: stick in the disc, turn on the pc, 1 hour later you have windows. Or more likely they are flashing from a Ghosted disc, 10 minutes tops.
Regardless, you think on the boxes that aren't getting windows, they haven't installed **some** os to make sure the computer is working?
-everphilski-
-Sun will promote Google Toolbar
-Google will promote Java runtime and stuff
Nowhere does it say that there will be a in-browser version on OpenOffice. It's speculation. If you disagree, link me a press release and quote it.
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.... with Verizon's *in* network, $5 a month flat rate to other Verizon members.
Verizon kicks ass.
-everphilski-
Read later on in this thread. Actual cost of a license in volume is about $30. And that price is reflected in the cheap machines. (post is by Trip Master Monkey).
-everphilski-
reeeeecyyyyycle! It's plastic and metal. Seperate the two and do the right thing!
-everphilski-
Volume pricing on a windows license is about $30. We've covered this before. The price differential should be exactly $30 - it is - Dell is being honest (good for them).
-everphilski-
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.a spx/precn_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Took less than 5 minutes of looking. Hit *customize* and make it your dream machine.
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1. Insert DRM crap into computer A. 2. Run sound cable from comp A to comp B. 3. Play on comp A and record on comp B.
Cause it sounds like shit.
-everphilski-
A sniper in a building behind a glass pane has no heat signature - you get the heat signature of the pane of glass. Put another way, unless you have line of sight with the sniper, and could see him in daylight conditions, his heat signature does you no good.
-everphilski-
Well then, you buy time while the sniper is shooting the robot instead of the mark.
Not to mention the robot would not have to be in the immediate vicinity of the mark. There could be a good distance between the two - in which case you would have plenty of time to react.
-everphilski-
Yeah, if you have a mailbox at the end of your driveway. Some of us who live in apartments have to run to the post office for outgoing mail. Same thing happens on campus in a dormatory/"apartment housing."
... no return postage, no return handlers, no restocking. "Everything goes out... nothing comes in". Could save a lot of dough.
Also this could potentially reduce costs for an operation like Netflix
And how about those queues? Netflix only has a finite number of copies of each movie, sometimes you have to wait. With a model like this, potentially, they could ship out an unlimited number of read-once DVD's.
-everphilski-
Additionally, an extremely religious person believes that by disobeying the pope you go to hell. Prison is not as bad as hell.
:)
Make that a devout catholic. And catholicism is opt-in. If you live in a country, the rules of the country are most definitely not opt-in.
(Not to mention the entire papacy is a misinterpretation of the scripture... when Christ said "On this rock I will build my church" he was referring to his confession that Jesus was the son of God, not on a line of men in big hats... but then again, I'm Lutheran, what do I know.)
-everphilski-
He appoints nominees, the senate makes the final decision. If the senate doesn't like what they see, the democrats (the opposing party at the moment) can filabuster, or the senators will vote against her.
:P.
You need a single point to bring people into consideration. Otherwise what are they gonna do, have all 100 senators sit at a table and talk until they can find someone they all like? riiight, like that's gonna find someone quickly
-everphilski-
Yeah. Less than 600 seconds performance. Traditional jet engines have 1700 seconds performance at that speed.
was just pointing out we needn't be limited to rockets, let alone chemical rockets. Rockets are good at some things, like propulsion in a vacuum. Propulsion at subsonic speeds at low altitude is not one of them.
so tell me why we would want to use a ramjet outside its designed environment?
-everphilski-
duuuuuhhhhh....
-everphilski-
Ramjets need to be supersonic. As the course is built for a subsonic racer it would probably not fare well (it would pull excessive G-forces in maneuvers)
Plus it would no longer fit the criteria, what not being a rocket.
-everphilski-