You could get a good aftermarket cooler for it for around $50. That makes it a little cheaper than the 6970, but you do get a much cooler and quieter card.
"If it weren't for religion..." you mean. Actually there might not be marriage at all if it weren't for religion and people wouldn't have any difference in standing whether they were part of a couple or not. Anybody?
With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.
Applet for viewing data. Put in your location, then on Input tab under Satellite, select orbit and destination you're expecting, KSC237 (ENTRY) for example. It tells you times, directions to look, elevation in degrees above horizon. The higher the elevation and the lower the range the better for viewing and listening obviously. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html
I enjoy my job. I have many roles now even though my primary role is supposed to be programmer/developer (I'm the only one in a small company so I do it all). So I do get annoyed when I have to do unrelated and unexpected things sometimes, such as random reports (every single one is different and you have to go back to them to get the actual requirements), or managing one part of our business etc. When I am programming though, I'm into it and can go for quite a while. I'm sometimes into it and look at the clock and it's 5 o'clock, whoa how did that happen. I need to get to a good place to stop so there aren't a dozen hairy untested things out there that might give me a headache the next day when I get back into the flow of it. If it's a big project I can definitely put in some hours. The fiancee isn't too nice about that though.
Anyway a lot of the previous comments are right on. If you're interested by what you're working on it's easier. Personally I can motivate myself to work on a project even if it's not my idea or interesting in any way, and then once I'm into it, it's ok and I want to get it right. When I am interested by it or I'm working on my idea it's similar but I'm already motivated. I also get slowed down by interruptions and the flow matters as another poster described. Interruptions take me out of my focus and the flow of things I'm working on. Sometimes you have to keep track of a lot of stuff in the back of your head while working (outstanding unknowns or you have to keep track of everything you have to update because it had a dependency or something else you changed, or you have to remember you changed something and there might be lots of dependencies you have to check on still).... so when that happens frequently, I go a lot slower and end up coding less. I also do a little web surfing in between these things sometimes. When I'm going though, it can be for long stretches. Sometimes I wear headphones and sometimes I don't. Sometimes the person next door in the office who is on the phone frequently and has Rush Limbaugh going on the radio annoys me and sometimes not. I do put the headphones on often if I know I really need to focus on something like if I'm in the middle of coding something difficult or I'm starting a project and need to do some careful planning.
I'm guessing you actually work more than 10-15hrs, that is just programming time. That's probably ok. I might have a problem with myself if I worked less than half the time I was at work. That could be a reason to be looking for another job. If you have time, start your own project! If you really aren't bothered by it, work on it during work too. I have lots of things I really want to work on but frustratingly don't have the time.
Actually it would make sense to do the opposite - reserve a little more acceleration for when you floor it. It's a safety no brainer there. Much better to allow the people with their foot on the correct pedal to escape accidents than to assume someone has their foot on the wrong pedal.
But they settled, right? That means there is nothing to use as a legal precedent really I believe. But they can use it as a precedent or sorts in public sentiment, and lawyers will know how things work a little better etc. IANAL
I know you're kind of just bunching them all together there, but the Shuttle probably doesn't belong in that group. It has significantly more capability than any of those, and as a poster above mentioned, doesn't necessarily cost more.
The reason this is more private is because it actually is like using an Atlas V or Delta IV instead of Shuttle or Constellation. NASA has used those first two launch vehicles before, but not for ISS missions. They planned on needing quite a bit of launches to ISS in the future so they came up with COTS to pick commercial providers and stimulate commercial space. ULA (Boeing/LockMart) were participants with their Atlas V and Delta IV, but SpaceX and Orbital Sciences won the contracts in the end. Guess why.
That's correct. Constellation/Orion was to be using a new, much nicer soft docking mechanism (Low Impact Docking System aka LIDS). Dragon is using an easier approach with the use of the robot arm. It allows for flexibility and they don't need to build docking into it from the beginning which speeds development without sacrificing anything major, though they might add it in later. They might actually use Orion's docking mechanism in some form in the future as well. Bigelow is interested in licensing it for their modules as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Impact_Docking_System
Yeah, and also good for NASA for the same reason. They might buy the DragonLabs too for themselves or whatever research project that's out there they want to support... and they provide another way for SpaceX to advance the Dragon on each iteration, giving them more capability launched to ISS long term.
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You could get a good aftermarket cooler for it for around $50. That makes it a little cheaper than the 6970, but you do get a much cooler and quieter card.
I'm guessing it's cheaper than an HTPC :)
I think the story is that more stupid people are doing this.
Darn those Evony ads
"If it weren't for religion..." you mean. Actually there might not be marriage at all if it weren't for religion and people wouldn't have any difference in standing whether they were part of a couple or not. Anybody?
Here's something he said:
Ground track maps (easy way to see where it's going). These are updated for the opportunities tomorrow. Let's hope it's Orbit 237 or 238 to Kennedy.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts131/news/landing.html
NASA TV - listen to see if they are landing on a particular orbit.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public
Applet for viewing data. Put in your location, then on Input tab under Satellite, select orbit and destination you're expecting, KSC237 (ENTRY) for example. It tells you times, directions to look, elevation in degrees above horizon. The higher the elevation and the lower the range the better for viewing and listening obviously.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html
It was. They built a runway for it too.
Oh yeah, by the way, I just finished a couple week long project so right now I'm happy about that and taking my "reward" surf time :)
I enjoy my job. I have many roles now even though my primary role is supposed to be programmer/developer (I'm the only one in a small company so I do it all). So I do get annoyed when I have to do unrelated and unexpected things sometimes, such as random reports (every single one is different and you have to go back to them to get the actual requirements), or managing one part of our business etc. When I am programming though, I'm into it and can go for quite a while. I'm sometimes into it and look at the clock and it's 5 o'clock, whoa how did that happen. I need to get to a good place to stop so there aren't a dozen hairy untested things out there that might give me a headache the next day when I get back into the flow of it. If it's a big project I can definitely put in some hours. The fiancee isn't too nice about that though.
Anyway a lot of the previous comments are right on. If you're interested by what you're working on it's easier. Personally I can motivate myself to work on a project even if it's not my idea or interesting in any way, and then once I'm into it, it's ok and I want to get it right. When I am interested by it or I'm working on my idea it's similar but I'm already motivated. I also get slowed down by interruptions and the flow matters as another poster described. Interruptions take me out of my focus and the flow of things I'm working on. Sometimes you have to keep track of a lot of stuff in the back of your head while working (outstanding unknowns or you have to keep track of everything you have to update because it had a dependency or something else you changed, or you have to remember you changed something and there might be lots of dependencies you have to check on still).... so when that happens frequently, I go a lot slower and end up coding less. I also do a little web surfing in between these things sometimes. When I'm going though, it can be for long stretches. Sometimes I wear headphones and sometimes I don't. Sometimes the person next door in the office who is on the phone frequently and has Rush Limbaugh going on the radio annoys me and sometimes not. I do put the headphones on often if I know I really need to focus on something like if I'm in the middle of coding something difficult or I'm starting a project and need to do some careful planning.
I'm guessing you actually work more than 10-15hrs, that is just programming time. That's probably ok. I might have a problem with myself if I worked less than half the time I was at work. That could be a reason to be looking for another job. If you have time, start your own project! If you really aren't bothered by it, work on it during work too. I have lots of things I really want to work on but frustratingly don't have the time.
Man, that sucks. Why not? Need a micro-revolution?
Wow that sounds just like the Chinese people who put up with government censorship because that's just the way it is.
Well now you're arguing something else. Fine with me. You said something I saw was wrong and pointed it out.
Maybe you should add: "But cars really shouldn't accelerate suddenly on their own, right"
Actually it would make sense to do the opposite - reserve a little more acceleration for when you floor it. It's a safety no brainer there. Much better to allow the people with their foot on the correct pedal to escape accidents than to assume someone has their foot on the wrong pedal.
For some reason my posts never make it through moderation to the page on Chinese websites. Hmmm
Called their bluff by letting them continue to run Google.cn with censorship turned off? That works for me.
Before China did that, Google was more than happy to censor their search results and hand over dissidents just like everyone else.
Actually no they weren't.
Ah... I guess not.
But they settled, right? That means there is nothing to use as a legal precedent really I believe. But they can use it as a precedent or sorts in public sentiment, and lawyers will know how things work a little better etc. IANAL
I know you're kind of just bunching them all together there, but the Shuttle probably doesn't belong in that group. It has significantly more capability than any of those, and as a poster above mentioned, doesn't necessarily cost more.
The reason this is more private is because it actually is like using an Atlas V or Delta IV instead of Shuttle or Constellation. NASA has used those first two launch vehicles before, but not for ISS missions. They planned on needing quite a bit of launches to ISS in the future so they came up with COTS to pick commercial providers and stimulate commercial space. ULA (Boeing/LockMart) were participants with their Atlas V and Delta IV, but SpaceX and Orbital Sciences won the contracts in the end. Guess why.
Thanks, I always wondered what a barrel roll was
That's correct. Constellation/Orion was to be using a new, much nicer soft docking mechanism (Low Impact Docking System aka LIDS). Dragon is using an easier approach with the use of the robot arm. It allows for flexibility and they don't need to build docking into it from the beginning which speeds development without sacrificing anything major, though they might add it in later. They might actually use Orion's docking mechanism in some form in the future as well. Bigelow is interested in licensing it for their modules as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Impact_Docking_System
Yeah, and also good for NASA for the same reason. They might buy the DragonLabs too for themselves or whatever research project that's out there they want to support... and they provide another way for SpaceX to advance the Dragon on each iteration, giving them more capability launched to ISS long term.
I download my movies from Baidu. I search and download MP3s there too, really handy. No steaks though.
(and people wonder why Baidu has the market share there)