"In that case you would start the whole process over again."
"How do you do that?"
"One traditionally starts by being born."
(Thud!, by Terry Pratchett)
Forget government, let NASA play it's space game and retire the shuttle, government will never do space right.
Space needs to be done by the public, companies, individuals, etc need to be permitted to go into space without fighting NASA for each flight.
Burt Rutan discusses this issue fairly well, I'm with him, private industry and people will be the viable plan for future spaceflight, forget the government.
It's probably to do with even propagation and loss of volume at distance, they could likely setup a radar transmitter in the middle of the wind farm and have a fairly even spread of radar pulses which evenly drive away the bats no matter the conditions, however with sound it will be effected by air density, wind direction and speed, etc and would be unlikely to have enough of an impact for one unit to cover a large area, they would likely have to set it up on each tower, which would increase the maintenance costs dramatically over just one unit parked in the middle.
Sensible winter vehicles! That does not include SUVs (center of gravity too high). My Sensible Winter Vehicle of choice is a Subaru Outback (AWD).
Actually winter of 2007-2008, January-February when those really bad ice/snow storms were happening I was driving around (slowly) in my outback and I saw plenty of cars off the side of the road, even saw a Semi ditched into the median.
And since when have you 'rarely' seen cars in the ditch in Wisconsin? I'm in the southern part of the state (frequently between Madison and Wisconsin-Iowa border) and with the first dusting of snow (just enough to make the ground white) I see people in sports cars, convertibles, etc off the side of the road. Especially with all the people forgetting that a vehicle with wide tires and tons of horsepower make for terrible traction on anything but dry clean pavement. You see cars plenty of times in the ditch around here, but most of it is around the first snow fall and the first bad storm, when everyone is 'reminded' of what winter driving is all about (slow and careful).
Ahh yes, the first snowfall of Winter, when all the people driving sensible winter vehicles get to laugh at all the people in fancy sports cars off in the ditch.
Speaking as a citizen of Wi, we also tip cows and eat cheese.
As for the cabs, that depends on the city, here in Platteville WI you can apparently get a cab from outskirts of the city to the college area for under $5, I'd expect that to get you a few miles out of town might be as high as $10 or $15... of course that only works for towns with taxis, when most towns in WI have a population under 10k (and I know of more that have a population less then 1k) 'public transportation' is a pipe dream.
Was that Mythbusters episode right after the one where they disproved the movie myth that gas tanks blow up after a few bullets? (they included firing incendiary 50cal bullets, and actually got a flame after a few shots, but small enough for them to stand there and watch)
The scheme is very interesting, I'd say that if they ever got caught and put in front of a jury this would be close enough to legal that they'd have no problem walking... very interesting...
Voyager made it around the world, non-stop, with two pilots and an autopilot. If they could do it in that aircraft in the mid '80s there should be no problem doing it now for this solar aircraft!
I've always had more trouble with FWD in snow than RWD, mainly because I drive a lot in country roads, FWD is supposed to be better in stop-n-go, but it's terrable for long drives that have hills and curves. You let off the gas and you start 'engine breaking', when that happens your front wheels break free from it's limited traction and you've lost all ability to control. With RWD if you let off the gas, start engine breaking, and the rear wheels break free (or step on the gas and the rear wheels break free) you've still got the front wheels to give you a chance of control, not a lot of control but a chance.
Unless the iPhone is jailbroken or the thief Jailbrakes it you can't swap SIM cards, the iPhone only works with specific SIM cards that have to be registered at AT&T (USA only, other countries my have other policies).
That's what Virgin Galactic is doing with White Knight and Spaceship One. White Knight is jet propelled and carries Spaceship One to a high altitude, at that point Spaceship One drops, ignites it's rocket, and heads up to the stars.
I think what he is saying is that numerals are purely arbitrary symbols, if you have no experience with the numbers a first glance at the sequence "1, 2, 3" would net you nothing. the Mayans used symbols that actually represented the number in a more universal way: ".", "..", "..." (I would continue the numbering but it's challenge using word processing) with the Mayan method the first 4 'numbers' directly correlate to quantity, and the bar can be inferred by a simple number progression. I'd say Genius.
I've never had any luck doing any 'long exposure' shots with DSLR, I've got an old German 35mm that I use instead, especially for Lightning, DSLR's just can't get a good lightning shot.
Though I'm no expert, I think the big problem is that the DSLR is too intelligent with long exposure, it's trying to average the light values over the entire x seconds that the shutter is open, and when a lightning strike happens the brilliance is averaged out until you can barely see it.
As for stars, I've never been able to get the focus right, auto focus doesn't work and manual focus is very difficult when trying to use the viewfinder to see if those very very tiny points of light are in clear focus are not.
While it is kinda hard to find a 'wow' in what they were talking about from most perspectives, looking at it from a developer perspective (not a Mac dev) it's very cool news.
6gb reduction in space VS 10.5
1.8x to 2.3x faster application launching
Full 64bit (was mix of 64bit/32bit)
OpenCL support
Grand Central support
If I was doing Mac dev I'd definitely be jumping for joy, but even as a non-Mac dev I'm looking at these things with excitement.
I'm also very jealous that they had the opportunity to do such work (going back and cleaning things up). I've wanted to do that every time I send code out the door on a deadline but have never really had the opportunity... there's always another deadline...
It's tied into a MobileMe subscription, so unless you hand such your account passwords out to everyone you know it shouldn't be too bad, and I would expect a 'loved one' to have a separate MobileMe subscription so they wouldn't have access to these features, though that may depend on the situation.
And you cannot use Visual Studio on anything other than Windows... so what's your point? Microsoft stays with Microsoft for dev, Apple stays with Apple for it's dev, business as usual.
Superman was never "ends justify means" superhero, he was always trying to save the innocent and would take the hard road if it meant more lives saved (hard as in much harder to do, harder on him, etc.).
Batman was a millionaire by birth and by being an intelligent businessman... he didn't "steal food from the mouths of poor and oppressed", he made his money and used it. I will admit that he was very much 'outside the law' and a vigilante, more concerned with taking out the bad guy vs saving the innocent.
It really seems like you have a twisted view of the superhero genera, and the ideology of the USA (though I will admit that the ideology of recent times is pitiful in comparison to the ideology that this country was founded on).
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"In that case you would start the whole process over again."
"How do you do that?"
"One traditionally starts by being born."
(Thud!, by Terry Pratchett)
Forget government, let NASA play it's space game and retire the shuttle, government will never do space right.
Space needs to be done by the public, companies, individuals, etc need to be permitted to go into space without fighting NASA for each flight.
Burt Rutan discusses this issue fairly well, I'm with him, private industry and people will be the viable plan for future spaceflight, forget the government.
Actually that's not a bad idea, no problem of 'vacuum leaks' up there, and the black hole could suck up all the space junk in orbit! Great idea!
Now off to patent it... :)
It's probably to do with even propagation and loss of volume at distance, they could likely setup a radar transmitter in the middle of the wind farm and have a fairly even spread of radar pulses which evenly drive away the bats no matter the conditions, however with sound it will be effected by air density, wind direction and speed, etc and would be unlikely to have enough of an impact for one unit to cover a large area, they would likely have to set it up on each tower, which would increase the maintenance costs dramatically over just one unit parked in the middle.
Sensible winter vehicles! That does not include SUVs (center of gravity too high). My Sensible Winter Vehicle of choice is a Subaru Outback (AWD).
Actually winter of 2007-2008, January-February when those really bad ice/snow storms were happening I was driving around (slowly) in my outback and I saw plenty of cars off the side of the road, even saw a Semi ditched into the median.
And since when have you 'rarely' seen cars in the ditch in Wisconsin? I'm in the southern part of the state (frequently between Madison and Wisconsin-Iowa border) and with the first dusting of snow (just enough to make the ground white) I see people in sports cars, convertibles, etc off the side of the road. Especially with all the people forgetting that a vehicle with wide tires and tons of horsepower make for terrible traction on anything but dry clean pavement. You see cars plenty of times in the ditch around here, but most of it is around the first snow fall and the first bad storm, when everyone is 'reminded' of what winter driving is all about (slow and careful).
Ahh yes, the first snowfall of Winter, when all the people driving sensible winter vehicles get to laugh at all the people in fancy sports cars off in the ditch.
Speaking as a citizen of Wi, we also tip cows and eat cheese.
As for the cabs, that depends on the city, here in Platteville WI you can apparently get a cab from outskirts of the city to the college area for under $5, I'd expect that to get you a few miles out of town might be as high as $10 or $15... of course that only works for towns with taxis, when most towns in WI have a population under 10k (and I know of more that have a population less then 1k) 'public transportation' is a pipe dream.
Was that Mythbusters episode right after the one where they disproved the movie myth that gas tanks blow up after a few bullets? (they included firing incendiary 50cal bullets, and actually got a flame after a few shots, but small enough for them to stand there and watch)
iPhone is actually running Objective C v2, which has Garbage collection.
True, the hacking bit they wouldn't get away with, but the 'click fraud' is close enough to be difficult to call.
The scheme is very interesting, I'd say that if they ever got caught and put in front of a jury this would be close enough to legal that they'd have no problem walking... very interesting...
Voyager made it around the world, non-stop, with two pilots and an autopilot. If they could do it in that aircraft in the mid '80s there should be no problem doing it now for this solar aircraft!
I've always had more trouble with FWD in snow than RWD, mainly because I drive a lot in country roads, FWD is supposed to be better in stop-n-go, but it's terrable for long drives that have hills and curves. You let off the gas and you start 'engine breaking', when that happens your front wheels break free from it's limited traction and you've lost all ability to control. With RWD if you let off the gas, start engine breaking, and the rear wheels break free (or step on the gas and the rear wheels break free) you've still got the front wheels to give you a chance of control, not a lot of control but a chance.
You only have to worry about that during the summer, all 3 days of it. :)
Unless the iPhone is jailbroken or the thief Jailbrakes it you can't swap SIM cards, the iPhone only works with specific SIM cards that have to be registered at AT&T (USA only, other countries my have other policies).
That's what Virgin Galactic is doing with White Knight and Spaceship One. White Knight is jet propelled and carries Spaceship One to a high altitude, at that point Spaceship One drops, ignites it's rocket, and heads up to the stars.
I think what he is saying is that numerals are purely arbitrary symbols, if you have no experience with the numbers a first glance at the sequence "1, 2, 3" would net you nothing. the Mayans used symbols that actually represented the number in a more universal way: ".", "..", "..." (I would continue the numbering but it's challenge using word processing) with the Mayan method the first 4 'numbers' directly correlate to quantity, and the bar can be inferred by a simple number progression. I'd say Genius.
You must have missed that part of the film, such screenings were illegal but were done anyway, probably like a lot of our anti-discrimination laws.
Well, from a theoretical standpoint it could be the metal itself burning (oxidized metal heated by a run-away nuclear reaction? Think thermite)
I've never had any luck doing any 'long exposure' shots with DSLR, I've got an old German 35mm that I use instead, especially for Lightning, DSLR's just can't get a good lightning shot.
Though I'm no expert, I think the big problem is that the DSLR is too intelligent with long exposure, it's trying to average the light values over the entire x seconds that the shutter is open, and when a lightning strike happens the brilliance is averaged out until you can barely see it.
As for stars, I've never been able to get the focus right, auto focus doesn't work and manual focus is very difficult when trying to use the viewfinder to see if those very very tiny points of light are in clear focus are not.
While it is kinda hard to find a 'wow' in what they were talking about from most perspectives, looking at it from a developer perspective (not a Mac dev) it's very cool news.
If I was doing Mac dev I'd definitely be jumping for joy, but even as a non-Mac dev I'm looking at these things with excitement.
I'm also very jealous that they had the opportunity to do such work (going back and cleaning things up). I've wanted to do that every time I send code out the door on a deadline but have never really had the opportunity... there's always another deadline...
It's tied into a MobileMe subscription, so unless you hand such your account passwords out to everyone you know it shouldn't be too bad, and I would expect a 'loved one' to have a separate MobileMe subscription so they wouldn't have access to these features, though that may depend on the situation.
Check the video on youtube of the Google Wave demo at Google IO conference, they show several reference implementations including one that is CLI.
And you cannot use Visual Studio on anything other than Windows... so what's your point? Microsoft stays with Microsoft for dev, Apple stays with Apple for it's dev, business as usual.
Who wizzed in your cereal when you were a kid?
Superman was never "ends justify means" superhero, he was always trying to save the innocent and would take the hard road if it meant more lives saved (hard as in much harder to do, harder on him, etc.).
Batman was a millionaire by birth and by being an intelligent businessman... he didn't "steal food from the mouths of poor and oppressed", he made his money and used it. I will admit that he was very much 'outside the law' and a vigilante, more concerned with taking out the bad guy vs saving the innocent.
It really seems like you have a twisted view of the superhero genera, and the ideology of the USA (though I will admit that the ideology of recent times is pitiful in comparison to the ideology that this country was founded on).