According to these moonbats, yes, we should destroy all buildings and live in shallow holes in the ground. But be careful not to disturb any small animal burrows while digging your hole.
In the U.S. feral cats kill tens of millions of birds every year, but that's ok because that's just nature. Some estimates are that 100 million to one billion birds die from running into windows every year. But these dipshits are pulling at their hair and gnashing their teeth over a couple thousand too dumb to avoid wind turbines.
It takes a huge, huge, huge amount of energy to boost a kilogram in LEO out of the Earth's gravity well compared to how much energy it takes to deorbit that same kilogram.
Big box electronics store don't want anyone who has technical knowledge on the sales floor. They want people with used car salesman skills to shovel their rip-off extended warranties to rubes. Being able to spout techobabble bingo may help, but only as a smokescreen. An actual techie might tell customers the truth. That would be entirely unacceptable.
When you're running around sneaking and laying in the grass on an island do you see yourself from a camera suspended inexplicably above and behind your body? Immersion doesn't require some minimum level of graphics, it requires some minimum level of imagination.
After coming out of a 3 week bender of Dwarf Fortress http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html I can definitely say that graphics are not required for a good game. I literally had *dreams* about that damn game when I first started playing it.
My GPS has a map mode. You can zoom and pan a top-down road map to where ever you need. I'm pretty sure that's a standard feature on most GPS devices. Failing that, couldn't you have entered his location as a destination and reverse engineered directions to where you were from the route it gave you?
With respect to "guiding" you to congested main arteries, the fancy schmancy GPS models now come with real time traffic monitoring. No idea how well it works, from a quick look at Garmin's site, they have coverage only in major cities: http://www.navteq.com/rdstraffic/
The early blame seems to fall on games and GPS, resource-intensive applications that are pumping up the battery until it gets too hot to handle and eventually overheats.
What a horrible choice of words. "Pumping up" the battery? That would seem to indicate charging the battery. "Large battery drain" or "heavy power consumption", something that indicates battery use instead of charging would have made a lot more sense. Since when does "some random blogger" become an expert?
Another gem: One commenter shared this tale: "I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the head phones for a nap; I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned decently from the iPhone getting so hot. The phone seems to function fine though."
Try sticking a running notebook PC under your pillow and laying on it. It'll probably melt.
And what long term investment would that be that reliably makes 5%?
This guy, Bernie Madoff, has a sure-fire guaranteed investment strategy that makes WAY more than 5% annually. He hasn't been returning my calls lately though, I'm sure he's just busy...
Those are good ideas, especially having a DVD and a Blu-Ray playing on identical TVs side by side, but he works for a national chain where initiative and ideas are punished swiftly and without mercy. It would work at Locally Owned Video Store, but at Block, err, National Video Rental Chain it isn't going to fly.
Huh, they didn't start with FBW until the A310, consider me corrected. So a *mechanical engineer* designed a system whereby rudder inputs could tear the vertical fin clean off an aircraft.
In your brake example this would be like being able to press on the brakes and have your front wheels shatter.
Nope. With AA Flight 587 the first officer was able to snap the vertical stabilizer off an A300 with less than 40 pounds of force on the rudder pedals. Just, left-right-left *SNAP*. Analysis of the debris indicated the tail failed well after the designed force loading was reached. Basically, some programmer put code in that jet which would let the pilot destroy the aircraft with control inputs.
Yeah, it's also possible that Martians did it as revenge for defiling their planet with rover tracks. Or the reverse-vampire Illuminati responsible for faking the Apollo landings and blowing up the World Trade Center did it because they were bored.
Maybe if the publishers didn't distribute single-serving games that people were so willing to trade in after playing it for a week they wouldn't be in this position.
Interesting idea until a lazy programmer decides that detecting a triangular shaped area from a set of coordinates is too fussy and just divides the key areas up into boxes.
From experience, landing an R/C plane is a lot harder than landing a real light aircraft. You rely on your peripheral vision a LOT in a real plane, you don't get the same innate sense of sink rate when looking up at an R/C plane.
If I could take high speed rail back home to visit (about 1,100 miles) instead of driving or flying I would, assuming there was a route and it didn't cost more or take longer than driving.
Yes, there is. A high/low mix of Predator and Global Hawk UAVs provide real-time intelligence with a loiter time. Rather than blowing by a target at Mach 3, UAV surveillance gives the ability to observe a target for a long period of time. I suspect if there's a secret reconnaissance aircraft in the U.S. inventory it's a stealth UAV, something like the DarkStar concept only my guess is it's scaled up to have endurance similar to Global Hawk.
And hopefully we can get Bruce Willis and his merry band of asteroid hunters to save us!
Nukes won't save us from a killer asteroid at short notice. When you do the math of asteroid impacts there is a maximum amount of energy that can be applied to the planet, anything larger (short of one large enough to confetti the planet) reflects back off into space. If you were to use nuclear explosions to shatter a massive asteroid into "smaller" pieces (go from the state of Colorado to 8 states of Vermont), you're then getting 8 worst-case impacts instead of one. Our serious best hope is early detection and then doing something that applies a small force over a long period of time like an ion engine or something similar. Hey, the ion engine could be nuke powered! Or nuclear detonations far enough away to not shatter the asteroid... Shumacher-Levy was pretty sobering, the scars on Jupiter were about the size of Earth... each!
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According to these moonbats, yes, we should destroy all buildings and live in shallow holes in the ground. But be careful not to disturb any small animal burrows while digging your hole.
In the U.S. feral cats kill tens of millions of birds every year, but that's ok because that's just nature. Some estimates are that 100 million to one billion birds die from running into windows every year. But these dipshits are pulling at their hair and gnashing their teeth over a couple thousand too dumb to avoid wind turbines.
It takes a huge, huge, huge amount of energy to boost a kilogram in LEO out of the Earth's gravity well compared to how much energy it takes to deorbit that same kilogram.
The majority of Europe is also at a much higher latitude. The southern tip of Florida is about the same latitude as southern Algeria.
Big box electronics store don't want anyone who has technical knowledge on the sales floor. They want people with used car salesman skills to shovel their rip-off extended warranties to rubes. Being able to spout techobabble bingo may help, but only as a smokescreen. An actual techie might tell customers the truth. That would be entirely unacceptable.
When you're running around sneaking and laying in the grass on an island do you see yourself from a camera suspended inexplicably above and behind your body? Immersion doesn't require some minimum level of graphics, it requires some minimum level of imagination.
After coming out of a 3 week bender of Dwarf Fortress http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html I can definitely say that graphics are not required for a good game. I literally had *dreams* about that damn game when I first started playing it.
Also, for anyone who doesn't know the saga of Boatmurdered, enjoy: http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/
My GPS has a map mode. You can zoom and pan a top-down road map to where ever you need. I'm pretty sure that's a standard feature on most GPS devices. Failing that, couldn't you have entered his location as a destination and reverse engineered directions to where you were from the route it gave you?
With respect to "guiding" you to congested main arteries, the fancy schmancy GPS models now come with real time traffic monitoring. No idea how well it works, from a quick look at Garmin's site, they have coverage only in major cities: http://www.navteq.com/rdstraffic/
Erm, 300-400 MILES per hour? Nothing street legal gets anywhere near that.
The early blame seems to fall on games and GPS, resource-intensive applications that are pumping up the battery until it gets too hot to handle and eventually overheats.
What a horrible choice of words. "Pumping up" the battery? That would seem to indicate charging the battery. "Large battery drain" or "heavy power consumption", something that indicates battery use instead of charging would have made a lot more sense. Since when does "some random blogger" become an expert?
Another gem: One commenter shared this tale: "I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the head phones for a nap; I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned decently from the iPhone getting so hot. The phone seems to function fine though."
Try sticking a running notebook PC under your pillow and laying on it. It'll probably melt.
The Iranians don't have Eagles, they have old Tomcats.
And what long term investment would that be that reliably makes 5%?
This guy, Bernie Madoff, has a sure-fire guaranteed investment strategy that makes WAY more than 5% annually. He hasn't been returning my calls lately though, I'm sure he's just busy...
Those are good ideas, especially having a DVD and a Blu-Ray playing on identical TVs side by side, but he works for a national chain where initiative and ideas are punished swiftly and without mercy. It would work at Locally Owned Video Store, but at Block, err, National Video Rental Chain it isn't going to fly.
Because the technophiles are more likely to use Netflix than sully themselves by physically entering a National Video Rental Chain.
No, that's entirely correct. Pushing the rudder pedals back and forth are definitely "inputs".
Huh, they didn't start with FBW until the A310, consider me corrected. So a *mechanical engineer* designed a system whereby rudder inputs could tear the vertical fin clean off an aircraft.
In your brake example this would be like being able to press on the brakes and have your front wheels shatter.
Nope. With AA Flight 587 the first officer was able to snap the vertical stabilizer off an A300 with less than 40 pounds of force on the rudder pedals. Just, left-right-left *SNAP*. Analysis of the debris indicated the tail failed well after the designed force loading was reached. Basically, some programmer put code in that jet which would let the pilot destroy the aircraft with control inputs.
Yeah, it's also possible that Martians did it as revenge for defiling their planet with rover tracks. Or the reverse-vampire Illuminati responsible for faking the Apollo landings and blowing up the World Trade Center did it because they were bored.
Maybe if the publishers didn't distribute single-serving games that people were so willing to trade in after playing it for a week they wouldn't be in this position.
Interesting idea until a lazy programmer decides that detecting a triangular shaped area from a set of coordinates is too fussy and just divides the key areas up into boxes.
Maybe the $12/hr security guard realizes that if you've disabled the camera in software there's nothing stopping you from re-enabling it?
From experience, landing an R/C plane is a lot harder than landing a real light aircraft. You rely on your peripheral vision a LOT in a real plane, you don't get the same innate sense of sink rate when looking up at an R/C plane.
Price, destination options and schedules.
If I could take high speed rail back home to visit (about 1,100 miles) instead of driving or flying I would, assuming there was a route and it didn't cost more or take longer than driving.
To be precise, reward should be in quotes and be said sarcastically. It's the cost of the lipstick they're applying to the pig.
there is "something else" available.
Yes, there is. A high/low mix of Predator and Global Hawk UAVs provide real-time intelligence with a loiter time. Rather than blowing by a target at Mach 3, UAV surveillance gives the ability to observe a target for a long period of time. I suspect if there's a secret reconnaissance aircraft in the U.S. inventory it's a stealth UAV, something like the DarkStar concept only my guess is it's scaled up to have endurance similar to Global Hawk.
And hopefully we can get Bruce Willis and his merry band of asteroid hunters to save us!
Nukes won't save us from a killer asteroid at short notice. When you do the math of asteroid impacts there is a maximum amount of energy that can be applied to the planet, anything larger (short of one large enough to confetti the planet) reflects back off into space. If you were to use nuclear explosions to shatter a massive asteroid into "smaller" pieces (go from the state of Colorado to 8 states of Vermont), you're then getting 8 worst-case impacts instead of one. Our serious best hope is early detection and then doing something that applies a small force over a long period of time like an ion engine or something similar. Hey, the ion engine could be nuke powered! Or nuclear detonations far enough away to not shatter the asteroid... Shumacher-Levy was pretty sobering, the scars on Jupiter were about the size of Earth... each!