In addition, every component must survive the severe stresses involved in a plane crash.
Why? After the crash, it's job is done. It doesn't need to record any more. As long as the data is retrievable, it doesn't matter if the recorder is toast.
In other news, Sirus/XM predicts swift end for terrestrial radio. Why would people use a free/advertiser-supported service when they can pay a large monthly fee for a marginally better service?
The humans on BSG are deeply religious and believe that humanity is defined by a Gods-given soul, which a man-made machine cannot have - it's a pretty major part of the show, if a little unsubtle.
I'd have to disagree slightly with that assessment. Most humans on BSG (at least the ones the show centers around) only show a token devotion to their Gods (if at all). Baltar is an atheist (at least at the start) as is Adama (he thinks Earth is a myth). Rosalind is a believer but is not above using religious posturing for her own political ends. The Cyclons on the other hand are unswervingly devoted to their God. I believe there's an intentional parallel with western secular 'Christians' and extremist Muslims.
The lunar landing being faked is as outrageous as all of us are really inhabited by alien life forces or that all of us are decedents from just two people.
I don't know how things worked in your family but I descended from two people (who each descended from two people, who each descended from two people...).
Scenario 2: all companies involved decide that no one really wins a format war (particularly the end-users) and come up with an open standard, like we had with DVDs and CDs.
Perhaps you don't remember the DVD / DIVX war or the CD / DAT war. There's always a format war, it's just that sometimes the winner is more obvious and the war doesn't last as long.
About a third of our developer workforce has basically lost 6 months or more of time to write documentation on things that range from current file formats, to things that aren't even current technologies anymore.
Shouldn't those already be documented (preferably before they're released)? Yes, I've worked at places that didn't document file formats and with people who claimed they didn't need to document their code because it was "self-documenting" but I figured a large firm like Microsoft would be more regimented than that.
Other difficulties I've noticed are: that those who do not accept evolutionary theory are convinced that evolution is directed towards some 'goal'
Actually, I find that misconception more common among those who do accept evolution (but don't understand it). Most especially so among science-fiction writers, where concepts like 'accelerated evolution' or 'directed evolution' or 'reversed evolution' are common.
You don't sell new cars by convincing people the last model was rubbish.
You're kidding right? That's been exactly Microsoft's marketing strategy for the last ten years. Remember the Win9X BSOD ads for Windows XP? Microsoft is in the difficult position where their only real competition is their own previous products.
How would you feel if you started finding threatening notes on your car and around your home and the perp could not be caught because of privacy laws and you suffered great harm?
I'd feel that the police must be idiots if the only way they can think of to catch the perp is by using secret printer codes. It's a good thing people never use handwriting for threatening notes (or the letters cut out of magazines that always seem to be used for ransom notes on TV).
When they discover one sith (Darth Maul), Yoda says "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice." This means that there is at least one more, but I don't think it precludes the possibility of more pairs of sith.
This is a bit of exaggeration. Anyone following Canadian politics knows that a federal election may be forced in the next few weeks, but the reasons for that are:
1) Parliamentary vote on the extension of Canada's military mission in Afghanistan.
2) Parliamentary vote on this years federal budget.
3) Parliamentary vote on contentious anti-crime bill.
With a minority government, any of these could, and likely will, trigger an election. Copyright issues are about #753 on the list.
love the Wii, but you can't use Wii Play as any kind of reliable metric for the popularity of that kind of game. It's essentially a $10 game bundled with a $40 remote that most console owners were intending to buy anyway.
Agreed. A better example of a popular Wii game with excellent gameplay but graphics that wouldn't challenge a SNES is Geometry Wars (yes, I know it's also available on XBOX360 and PC, but it really shines on the Wii). It also scores a respectable 80 on Metacritic.
Could someone show me why you couldn't use this method of adjusting boyancy to get more energy out than you put in?
First law of thermodynamics. The system you describe might work (probably very inefficiently) but it would not be getting more energy out than is put in. Every trip up and down would make the temperature of the ocean slightly more uniform; that's the energy loss to balance the energy being created.
Paypal could state that *all* of their Mail will be signed with DomainKeys; Gmail could then immediately put all non-signed mail from Paypal into the spam folder (or reject it).
What about mail from paypa1.com? or paypal.srv13.hk? or legitimate mail from paypalsucks.com? Now you're back to the same old game of black-list-filter-arms-race.
I made the mistake of putting the majority of my gameboy and gamegear games into the same drawer as this 8" speaker magnet that I had and none of them work anymore.
Contrary to popular belief, game cartridges are not 8-track tapes (or core memory); there is nothing in them that is stored magnetically or that could be damaged by a magnet. More likely, the connectors have oxidized.
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Why? After the crash, it's job is done. It doesn't need to record any more. As long as the data is retrievable, it doesn't matter if the recorder is toast.
In other news, Sirus/XM predicts swift end for terrestrial radio. Why would people use a free/advertiser-supported service when they can pay a large monthly fee for a marginally better service?
I'd have to disagree slightly with that assessment. Most humans on BSG (at least the ones the show centers around) only show a token devotion to their Gods (if at all). Baltar is an atheist (at least at the start) as is Adama (he thinks Earth is a myth). Rosalind is a believer but is not above using religious posturing for her own political ends. The Cyclons on the other hand are unswervingly devoted to their God. I believe there's an intentional parallel with western secular 'Christians' and extremist Muslims.
Please don't give David E Kelley any ideas.
I don't know how things worked in your family but I descended from two people (who each descended from two people, who each descended from two people...).
"Troll" is not Latin for "I disagree with you".
Perhaps you don't remember the DVD / DIVX war or the CD / DAT war. There's always a format war, it's just that sometimes the winner is more obvious and the war doesn't last as long.
Shouldn't those already be documented (preferably before they're released)? Yes, I've worked at places that didn't document file formats and with people who claimed they didn't need to document their code because it was "self-documenting" but I figured a large firm like Microsoft would be more regimented than that.
Actually, I find that misconception more common among those who do accept evolution (but don't understand it). Most especially so among science-fiction writers, where concepts like 'accelerated evolution' or 'directed evolution' or 'reversed evolution' are common.
Yeah, and there's a theory of string (rather than string theory) because strings are a factual phenomena, I use them to tie my shoes everyday.
You're kidding right? That's been exactly Microsoft's marketing strategy for the last ten years. Remember the Win9X BSOD ads for Windows XP? Microsoft is in the difficult position where their only real competition is their own previous products.
So what? Macs have better success in desktop publishing than PCs, that doesn't change that fact that 90%+ of all computers are PCs.
Mini-disc became Mini-HD
And no one but Sony uses either of them.
Memory stick is still being used.
by Sony products. Face it, Sony has a poor track record for format introductions. Want some more examples?
DAT (digital audio tape)
"Universal" Media Disc (UMD)
Super Audio CD (SACD)
ATRAC
I'd feel that the police must be idiots if the only way they can think of to catch the perp is by using secret printer codes. It's a good thing people never use handwriting for threatening notes (or the letters cut out of magazines that always seem to be used for ransom notes on TV).
Lisa: "Dad, that's Fox."
Homer: "Ahh! Undo, undo!"
When they discover one sith (Darth Maul), Yoda says "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice." This means that there is at least one more, but I don't think it precludes the possibility of more pairs of sith.
but they can smell your bad breath.
This is a bit of exaggeration. Anyone following Canadian politics knows that a federal election may be forced in the next few weeks, but the reasons for that are:
1) Parliamentary vote on the extension of Canada's military mission in Afghanistan.
2) Parliamentary vote on this years federal budget.
3) Parliamentary vote on contentious anti-crime bill.
With a minority government, any of these could, and likely will, trigger an election. Copyright issues are about #753 on the list.
Agreed. A better example of a popular Wii game with excellent gameplay but graphics that wouldn't challenge a SNES is Geometry Wars (yes, I know it's also available on XBOX360 and PC, but it really shines on the Wii). It also scores a respectable 80 on Metacritic.
First law of thermodynamics. The system you describe might work (probably very inefficiently) but it would not be getting more energy out than is put in. Every trip up and down would make the temperature of the ocean slightly more uniform; that's the energy loss to balance the energy being created.
What about mail from paypa1.com? or paypal.srv13.hk? or legitimate mail from paypalsucks.com? Now you're back to the same old game of black-list-filter-arms-race.
I assume you mean either READ Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, or WATCH Grapes of Wrath by John Ford.
So, first one, then the other.
Arthur C Clark's "The Nine Billion Names of God" is a similar short story (though with a different ending).
It always equates to true, so I guess Shakespeare was onto something.
Contrary to popular belief, game cartridges are not 8-track tapes (or core memory); there is nothing in them that is stored magnetically or that could be damaged by a magnet. More likely, the connectors have oxidized.