So, if you can't develop a system that solves all your problems, it's useless?
Yes, it is. Especially if it doesn't solve any of your problems. What could lasers do on our planes right now?
Burn stuff up
Maybe deflect guided missiles, if they weren't designed well
We could do this already.
Missiles and smartbombs are currently more effective at getting rid of things
Flares/Radar Jamming/Chaff do this fine, but our current enemies don't even have guided missiles or even radar
So, this means that our government has just spent millions of dollars on "freaking lasers" for our airplanes (which are already far ahead of anyone else's airplanes) instead of developing a way to detect IEDs, which would actually be useful and save lives. Lasers are a nice idea right now, but that's all they are. We have no use for them. It should be filed in the "nice ideas for later" box.
Man, you must curl up in a little ball in the morning, unable to function because you can't find that one tool that will brush your teeth and wipe your ass.
It's more efficient to do these two unrelated things separately, unless you brush your teeth each time you finish taking a shit. Stupid argument.
Great idea. Especially the part where we can see the sun glint off of them from 90 freaking miles away, and then we know where to shoot our missiles that have no problem with reflective surfaces.
Anyways, since you can't make anything perfectly reflective, it will burn through if it's powerful enough or stays on the same part for a long time.
Q3:A has the distinction of being battle proven in a commercial product over the others.
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We are working in an electronics environment and are mainly working on embedded software and PCB design. We cannot get accross to those Java ppl that memory does not come for free (What! only 32 MB) in terms of money and board space, nor does processor speeds (money, space and energy dissipation)(What! only 66 or 300 MHz, why can't you put a 1GB processor on the board).
Luckily for me (my AP Computer Science II class uses Java), it will be about six years (2 years of high school, 4 years of college) before I enter the workforce, so that will probably be possible by the time I'm there:) --- The only thing I hate more than a hypocrite is a person who hates hypocrites. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Ya, it's to prevent joint damage. Still... it gives them an "I told you so" angle if anything like this ever gets to court. --- I'm actually just a script. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
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Actually, you won't have to worry about not knowing for a little while. If your cooling system breaks, your CPU will be a blob of silicone in about four seconds, IIRC.
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The shuttle *has* to fly where it does. There's only two landing strips capable of taking it in the world.
Do you live in a city with an airport?
They used to have legalized military supersonic flight, (when it was relatively new) but the sonic booms would knock things off walls and sometimes break windows. I live in Dallas, and even though DFW is on the other side of town, airplanes routinely fly over my neighborhood and I'm sure it's worse when you get closer. I know I don't want sonic booms sounding outside every fifteen minutes. --- If nobody notices, it's not illegal. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
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Yeah typing input has a ways to go for conveying free form information that departs from the simply textual. Over even formated textual... like ever tried doing impromptu columns in a word processor vrs just jotting three lists next to each other on a sheet of paper ? With practice and knowledge (insert and tab stops) it can be done quickly but it isn't very intuitive.
In StarOffice:
Format>Page-Columns
That divides the page into 3 columns.
Insert>Manual Break and select "Column Break"
Separate the text (Like a Page Break. It forces all text after that onto the next column.)
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Has that changed? There should be a lot of material that students still need to write longhand, until some kind of standard in-class "terminal" that's hackproof is installed in classrooms.
Last school year in my Pre-AP English class, we didn't do much writing. We usually typed at home or in the computer lab, but a few compositions and every test we took was by hand. I was surprised that we actually did more writing in AP World History. There were essays once or twice a month, and near the end of the school year we did several timed essays (25 mins) to prepare for the TAKS and AP exam. I'm terrible at writing essays, so I barely passed TAKS and failed the AP exam. I am always more productive on a computer, though. I can quickly get out a general outline, then fill it in with details - on paper I just have to go with whatever I've already put down, and make it work somehow. --- What subliminalmessage? Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
On Slashdot? Dude, none of us wear designer clothes anyways. It would be like saying "Boycott Microsoft!!!" --- Light is filtering down from above. Would you like to use DIVE? Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Uhh... Catch the grenade the taxi drivers threw at them after they broke out of The Clink? --- Recent studies indicate that you are a moron. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Because the majority of the readers on/. are American, and we think in miles per hour and feet per second. They did give you KPH, so you shouldn't be complaining - they could have left it out completely, if they felt like it. --- PS - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
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...a short story by Philip K. Dick called "Foster, You're Dead". Find a copy and read it, it's good. It's about a kid during an alternate-reality cold war whose father refuses to buy a nuke shelter. Wikipedia Link --- Recent studies indicate that you are a moron. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Natalie in the restaurant, but Natalie doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the ISS nearby the restaurant, in the bed-room, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bed-room like that, they got a lot of room accross the tube where the equipment used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the equipmnet, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in here, and we decided it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the Earth. So we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a white Boeing orbiter, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Earth.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the landing strip saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a landing strip closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we flew off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to low orbit, and off the side of the orbit there was an atmosphere and at the bottom of the atmosphere there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one slightly burned big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down. --- Recent studies indicate that you are a moron. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
I had an inner ear infection last year, and I went through that. It's way not cool, you seriously cannot stand in one place (or even sit up!) without falling and it's very nauseating to be still or even lie down with your eyes closed. (I must have thrown up at least six times that morning, and I had dry heaves the rest of the day.) It was also very scary because we didn't know what the hell was going on until I had been diagnosed at the hospital. --- The only thing I hate more than a hypocrite is a person who hates hypocrites. Generated by SlashdotRndSig via GreaseMonkey
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- Burn stuff up
- Maybe deflect guided missiles, if they weren't designed well
We could do this already.- Missiles and smartbombs are currently more effective at getting rid of things
- Flares/Radar Jamming/Chaff do this fine, but our current enemies don't even have guided missiles or even radar
So, this means that our government has just spent millions of dollars on "freaking lasers" for our airplanes (which are already far ahead of anyone else's airplanes) instead of developing a way to detect IEDs, which would actually be useful and save lives. Lasers are a nice idea right now, but that's all they are. We have no use for them. It should be filed in the "nice ideas for later" box.It's more efficient to do these two unrelated things separately, unless you brush your teeth each time you finish taking a shit. Stupid argument.Anyways, since you can't make anything perfectly reflective, it will burn through if it's powerful enough or stays on the same part for a long time.
Does SoIP stand for... you know...
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Or, just one missing T.
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Ya, it's to prevent joint damage.
Still... it gives them an "I told you so" angle if anything like this ever gets to court.
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So *you're* the guy who's been modding my posts down!!!
I swear, I had a post at the default Score:1, and someone modded it "Overrated". Wtf?
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Actually, you won't have to worry about not knowing for a little while. If your cooling system breaks, your CPU will be a blob of silicone in about four seconds, IIRC.
But fans usually make some kind of noise when they're dying/in need of maintainace. When it starts making grinding sounds, you'll notice it.
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- The shuttle *has* to fly where it does. There's only two landing strips capable of taking it in the world.
- Do you live in a city with an airport?
They used to have legalized military supersonic flight, (when it was relatively new) but the sonic booms would knock things off walls and sometimes break windows. I live in Dallas, and even though DFW is on the other side of town, airplanes routinely fly over my neighborhood and I'm sure it's worse when you get closer. I know I don't want sonic booms sounding outside every fifteen minutes.---
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The only time I've been woken by the shuttle coming down was when it desintegrated over my house. I didn't know what it was then, (there were no clouds for thunder) but as soon I saw it on TV, I knew what I had heard.
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Format>Page-Columns
That divides the page into 3 columns.
Insert>Manual Break and select "Column Break"
Separate the text (Like a Page Break. It forces all text after that onto the next column.)
Or you could use a table.
Anyways why would you want to do that? You can organize and re-organize them later, since it's not fixed on the page.
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I was surprised that we actually did more writing in AP World History. There were essays once or twice a month, and near the end of the school year we did several timed essays (25 mins) to prepare for the TAKS and AP exam. I'm terrible at writing essays, so I barely passed TAKS and failed the AP exam.
I am always more productive on a computer, though. I can quickly get out a general outline, then fill it in with details - on paper I just have to go with whatever I've already put down, and make it work somehow.
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On Slashdot? Dude, none of us wear designer clothes anyways. It would be like saying "Boycott Microsoft!!!"
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Because the majority of the readers on /. are American, and we think in miles per hour and feet per second. They did give you KPH, so you shouldn't be complaining - they could have left it out completely, if they felt like it.
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Go to sleep.
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He should have just used the jump pads.
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You should be ashamed. I have a higher userid than you, and I've already made a parody of my own.
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...a short story by Philip K. Dick called "Foster, You're Dead". Find a copy and read it, it's good. It's about a kid during an alternate-reality cold war whose father refuses to buy a nuke shelter. Wikipedia Link
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Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Natalie in the restaurant, but Natalie doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the ISS nearby the restaurant, in the bed-room, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bed-room like that, they got a lot of room accross the tube where the equipment used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the equipmnet, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in here, and we decided it'd be a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the Earth. So we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a white Boeing orbiter, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the Earth.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the landing strip saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a landing strip closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we flew off into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to low orbit, and off the side of the orbit there was an atmosphere and at the bottom of the atmosphere there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one slightly burned big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw ours down.
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I had an inner ear infection last year, and I went through that. It's way not cool, you seriously cannot stand in one place (or even sit up!) without falling and it's very nauseating to be still or even lie down with your eyes closed. (I must have thrown up at least six times that morning, and I had dry heaves the rest of the day.) It was also very scary because we didn't know what the hell was going on until I had been diagnosed at the hospital.
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