Well, there aren't genuine German words ending with 'y' either. It's just a nick I made up. But don't get me started about how Americans spell Germicisms:o).
Imperial is the inferior system and everybody knows it. Still, when it comes to efficiency you can't ignore the psychology of astronauts that grew up with weird units.
Don't know if astronauts are allowed to use (or think in) imperial units. I would suppose risks for a mission decreases if all personnel involved is "brainwashed" to metric.
Of course every Dutchman (and most european non-geek males) know, that the Amsterdam football (as in soccer) club is the only noteworthy entity called Ajax. http://english.ajax.nl/
"so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution."
I hope this is just press conference talk. Otherwise they should better not put metric in parenthesis but imperial measures. Just mod me flamebait not yet, there have rockets lost before because of this.
Can anyone tell what volume of air would have 1:1 resonance at 1 Hz?
I found some frequencies where my bathroom has resonance (propabaly 1:2 harmonics), but I am sure it is much to small to have resonance at frequencies below a few Hz.
Handing over the control over my email client to Microsoft must be the worst idea I have ever heard of. I always thought the same about Hotmail, but this is certainly worse.
Authors of GPL'ed software won every license trial so far AFAIK. Either this insurance company insures companies that don't need an insurance or it will pay. I don't think this insurance company is going to last very long.
Maybe it is targetted at people who absolutely want to keep any risks down to a minimum, including the risk of not reading / translating correctly / obeying the license.
I admit I don't have 1st hand experience how the electronic underground works in China. But I would think there are a few hackers there, that manage to get a chinese Version of Firefox and then spread it - not on the net but on CD. Like it used to be in the 80's with cracker groups.
It may be illegal (there) but it is hard to control for the government and should work.
WoW in the MMORPG vicious circle
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Stuffing new content in the game, make it so every player who wants to stay competitive needs to buy the extension (piss of others), ignore player feedback, bundle the game with spyware, make crafting pointless (still no carpenter/fletcher?), change the type of PvP every few weeks from almost nothing to total anarchy to battlegrounds to even more battlegrounds. Basically not making the game somehow special.
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Profit!
Not gonna fly. At least not for me. Been there with DAoC. Cancelled WoW a week ago.
It is called responsibility. I know it can be confusing, but the fact that I can buy baseball bats does not mean I walk around crushing everybodie's head. No need for government nannies.
I did see some targetted ads. They are better than not targetted ones. But I still don't like them so why should I bother? I find it strange so many people want to make me justify myself for not doing something I do not want to do.
Example: You write an application to a new job and get rejected. Reason: Your wannabe employer has bought data from Google that indicates that you are interested (fictional) in AIDS research and trade unions.
Example: Google has a cooperation with a company you bought something online from. They sell your profile together with your real address to someone who drowns your (real) mailbox in tailored spam and keeps trying to sell something on the phone to you.
> the vast majority of internet users are not idiots
I disagree. At least with "vast".
But that is nothing internet-specific. Any community without specific idiot filters has its fair share of idiots. I am aware that this sounds extremely arrogant but it's simply my personal experience.
People who believe in AD.
People who voted George W. Bush.
People who steer a 2-ton, 200 hp SUV without knowing jack about traffic rules.
People who let anybody in on the doorstep.
People who click on everything clickable on the internet.
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BTW: It's "Anonymous coward" with small 'c'. ;-)
Keep them coming, Amazon!
Don't know if astronauts are allowed to use (or think in) imperial units. I would suppose risks for a mission decreases if all personnel involved is "brainwashed" to metric.
Of course every Dutchman (and most european non-geek males) know, that the Amsterdam football (as in soccer) club is the only noteworthy entity called Ajax.
http://english.ajax.nl/
;-) just kidding. I like Oranje. :-)
But I get
330 m/s / (2 * pi / s) ~= 52,5 m
thus 144878 m^3
Can anyone tell what volume of air would have 1:1 resonance at 1 Hz?
I found some frequencies where my bathroom has resonance (propabaly 1:2 harmonics), but I am sure it is much to small to have resonance at frequencies below a few Hz.
Sounds like an urban legend to me.
Any chance you have something to back that up?
Handing over the control over my email client to Microsoft must be the worst idea I have ever heard of. I always thought the same about Hotmail, but this is certainly worse.
I agree. But most OSS licenses are very simple. I would say every company that violates these licenses does it on purpose.
Authors of GPL'ed software won every license trial so far AFAIK. Either this insurance company insures companies that don't need an insurance or it will pay. I don't think this insurance company is going to last very long.
Maybe it is targetted at people who absolutely want to keep any risks down to a minimum, including the risk of not reading / translating correctly / obeying the license.
It may be illegal (there) but it is hard to control for the government and should work.
How many different ways are there to pack the sources...
Hmmmmm, must be a number with maaaany digits.
It is called responsibility. I know it can be confusing, but the fact that I can buy baseball bats does not mean I walk around crushing everybodie's head. No need for government nannies.
...which of course would not keep the Chinese from getting Firefox from one of the quazillion official or unofficial mirrors.
Keep the faith, free China.
*shrug*. It just happens from time to time. Don't know why. Brains are weird.
Sry, a typo. I meant to write ID (intelligent design).
I dont' want them - I block them. End of story.
Example: You write an application to a new job and get rejected. Reason: Your wannabe employer has bought data from Google that indicates that you are interested (fictional) in AIDS research and trade unions.
Example: Google has a cooperation with a company you bought something online from. They sell your profile together with your real address to someone who drowns your (real) mailbox in tailored spam and keeps trying to sell something on the phone to you.
But that is nothing internet-specific. Any community without specific idiot filters has its fair share of idiots. I am aware that this sounds extremely arrogant but it's simply my personal experience.
- People who believe in AD.
- People who voted George W. Bush.
- People who steer a 2-ton, 200 hp SUV without knowing jack about traffic rules.
- People who let anybody in on the doorstep.
- People who click on everything clickable on the internet.
- ....
This well exceeds "uneducated".