> Concentric circles seem to indicate a > "straight-in" impact
No, since the concetric circles around the crater are created by shockwaves from the impact wich propagate with the same speed in all directions through the soil - independent of the direction of the impacting object.
The ship is owned by a German company, but the crew is very likely (since it's common in commercial shipping) multinational and the passengers are Russians.
I think you mean Phillipp Reis who made a public display of his telephone in october 1861 (BTW, it worked!). He died in the age of 40 two years before Bell filed in his patent and managed to get his prototype working.
And the other guy you mentioned was Elisha Gray. In the patent fight with Bell Gray used Phillipp Reis' invention for his defence ("prior art") but that hasn't helped him - Bell won.
This was the old western assumption based on information provided by secret services during the cold war. (You still read it everywhere nowadays, I know.)
But now we know the history of that plane better: Russian sources say it was designed to intercept high and fast flying spy planes (and cruise missiles).
That's an assumption from the days of the cold wars that still circulates, but now we know it better. You can read about it on russion aviation sites like this one.
The F-15 is a special case since it was the US answer to (or copy of) the SU Mig-25 (and not the other way round). The Mig-25 could fly so fast because it was designed to be able to intercept the A-11 spy plane (which later evolved into the better known SR-71). But the Americans didn't know that so they made an air superiority fighter out of "their" Mig-25. That's the main reason why the F-15 is so fast.
Speed is not necessary in dog fights or for air superiority - if you every played with a good flight simulator you'll know that planes are not very agile at high speeds (it needs ages for an 180 turn etc...), that's why most dog fights take place in the 500-700kn range. Remember that the Royal Navy managed to gain control of the air space around the Falklands with subsonic Harriers against supersonic Mirages.
Actually the flaw in the argument is that exchanging one monoculture (MS) against another (IBM/Suse's Linux) doesn't change the situation. - I haven't seen an article about Germany's government talking about other [OS or not OS] OSes so far.
Even the graph has been done by a marketing guy. They sorted the benchmark results in ascending order and the connected the data points of completely different and independet benchmarks by a line!
What shall the line tell you? The faker the benchmark the better the results? Or "This is a line graph that doesn't make sense at all. But look: It shows an increase, increase is good, so Itanion 2 is good!"
Actually it's not just bad style, it's a violation of the URI syntax (RFC2396).
Even further: RFC2616 (HTTP/1.1) recommends that spaces should be stripped out of the URI (at least the default squid.conf says so and I'm to lazy to verify that) - but I bet the result would be a 404 in this case.
The reason for that was not so the high g force. The problem was that the high g force started and stopped immediately. Modern (or better well designed) coasters are build so that the forces gradually build up and gracefully go down without aprupt changes.
That's why the loops in modern coasters are more elliptical than circular and don't have straights before and after the looping. Actually a looping in a modern roller coaster consists of two spirals (clothoids) joint together in the highest point.
Read more about the roller coaster maths/physics here (with great picutres;-), here or here if you are interested.
They didn't "change" the past - they made the past! The phone call is the best example for that.
(BTW: Without the phone call Cole would probably never have been sent to that time/place and Dr. Railly wouldn't have made the phone call - some kind of paradoxon. Like Kirk's glasses or the invention of transparent aluminium in Star Trek IV.)
Well, I first though something like that as well. But then... Why the heck *is* she there? It's risky and certainly not fun to go back in time (look what happend to Cole: They sent him at least two times to the wrong time (and place)), so she's not there to assist that guy or have the pleasure of seeing the virus spread. And why do they send Cole and the other guys back in time in the first place if they were not interested in stopping the plague (in the past or future)? Sorry, but this all doesn't make sense.
I think they sent Cole to locate the guy/virus, then got rid of him ordering him his last suicide mission and then came and picked up the virus.
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> Concentric circles seem to indicate a
> "straight-in" impact
No, since the concetric circles around the crater are created by shockwaves from the impact wich propagate with the same speed in all directions through the soil - independent of the direction of the impacting object.
You can say the same about i386, i286, and even 8086 or any other CISC CPU. It's called 'microcode'.
You mean 802.11a. But no, doesn't sound like it's 802.11a - there's no 10Mnps mode in 802.11a.
The ship is owned by a German company, but the crew is very likely (since it's common in commercial shipping) multinational and the passengers are Russians.
Actually the inventor of the light bulb is Heinrich "Henry" Göbel, who built a working light bulb in 1854.
I think you mean Phillipp Reis who made a public display of his telephone in october 1861 (BTW, it worked!). He died in the age of 40 two years before Bell filed in his patent and managed to get his prototype working.
And the other guy you mentioned was Elisha Gray. In the patent fight with Bell Gray used Phillipp Reis' invention for his defence ("prior art") but that hasn't helped him - Bell won.
I don't have that book. Is he really talking about the A-12 or does he mean the YF-12A?
No, the B-70 connection is not true. It's just a wide spread myth (I wrote that two times already...)
And BTW: The A-11 (or A-12 which was its real name) didn't have any guns or missiles, it was a pure reconnaissance plane.
The existence of the A-11 was confirmed to the public by Lyndon B. Johnson at a press conference in Feb. 1964 - so much for secret.
This was the old western assumption based on information provided by secret services during the cold war. (You still read it everywhere nowadays, I know.)
But now we know the history of that plane better: Russian sources say it was designed to intercept high and fast flying spy planes (and cruise missiles).
That's an assumption from the days of the cold wars that still circulates, but now we know it better. You can read about it on russion aviation sites like this one.
The F-15 is a special case since it was the US answer to (or copy of) the SU Mig-25 (and not the other way round). The Mig-25 could fly so fast because it was designed to be able to intercept the A-11 spy plane (which later evolved into the better known SR-71). But the Americans didn't know that so they made an air superiority fighter out of "their" Mig-25. That's the main reason why the F-15 is so fast.
Speed is not necessary in dog fights or for air superiority - if you every played with a good flight simulator you'll know that planes are not very agile at high speeds (it needs ages for an 180 turn etc...), that's why most dog fights take place in the 500-700kn range. Remember that the Royal Navy managed to gain control of the air space around the Falklands with subsonic Harriers against supersonic Mirages.
And what does the amount of anti-BSD trolling say about Linux then?
Actually the flaw in the argument is that exchanging one monoculture (MS) against another (IBM/Suse's Linux) doesn't change the situation. - I haven't seen an article about Germany's government talking about other [OS or not OS] OSes so far.
Well, Open Source Software /has/ a long history.
Infact a longer one as commercial closed source software has.
But I wouldn't call the original AT&T Unix "Open Source".
Not on my system.
Why is it j? Who knows?Well, no idea why your tar uses such weird options. Let me guess - is your system some kind of GNU/linux? (Then you have the answer ;-)
Or:
tar xpvzf foo.tar.bz2
(I personally prefer using the p flag as well...)
Like "Wi" in Wireless and "Fi" in Fidelity.
But usually I say 802.11b...
Cray used (or uses?) SPARCs (CS6400) and Alphas (T3 line) in many of their systems. The T3s are the fastest Crays ever built (see www.top500.org).
Even the graph has been done by a marketing guy.
They sorted the benchmark results in ascending order and the connected the data points of completely different and independet benchmarks by a line!
What shall the line tell you? The faker the benchmark the better the results? Or
"This is a line graph that doesn't make sense at all. But look: It shows an increase, increase is good, so Itanion 2 is good!"
Actually it's not just bad style, it's a violation of the URI syntax (RFC2396).
Even further: RFC2616 (HTTP/1.1) recommends that spaces should be stripped out of the URI (at least the default squid.conf says so and I'm to lazy to verify that) - but I bet the result would be a 404 in this case.
That's not recursive since "Near" in "Near Earth ..." is no acronym.
Something like "BIANA Is A Nice Acronym" is recursive.
Haven't you read the slashdot story "E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool"?
The reason for that was not so the high g force. The problem was that the high g force started and stopped immediately. Modern (or better well designed) coasters are build so that the forces gradually build up and gracefully go down without aprupt changes.
;-), here or here if you are interested.
That's why the loops in modern coasters are more elliptical than circular and don't have straights before and after the looping. Actually a looping in a modern roller coaster consists of two spirals (clothoids) joint together in the highest point.
Read more about the roller coaster maths/physics here (with great picutres
They didn't "change" the past - they made the past! The phone call is the best example for that.
(BTW: Without the phone call Cole would probably never have been sent to that time/place and Dr. Railly wouldn't have made the phone call - some kind of paradoxon. Like Kirk's glasses or the invention of transparent aluminium in Star Trek IV.)
Well, I first though something like that as well. But then... Why the heck *is* she there? It's risky and certainly not fun to go back in time (look what happend to Cole: They sent him at least two times to the wrong time (and place)), so she's not there to assist that guy or have the pleasure of seeing the virus spread. And why do they send Cole and the other guys back in time in the first place if they were not interested in stopping the plague (in the past or future)? Sorry, but this all doesn't make sense.
I think they sent Cole to locate the guy/virus, then got rid of him ordering him his last suicide mission and then came and picked up the virus.