It's fairly easy to turn natural gas into hydrogen. Some NG wells even produce hydrogen right out of the well, all you have to do is separate it from the natural gas.
Wordstar probably has it's own swap file. Most of the heavy-duty DOS word processors did.
640k stopped being a real limitation with DOS 5.0 and the EMS/XMS standards. As long as the words and interface elements currently on the screen fit into 640k, you are fine. Also, if you are in a text-only mode (with a flashing square for a mouse cursor), there are memory hacks that can give you up to 720k of conventional ram, at the expense of losing all graphics ability.
How exactly do you "slow" something that is already at a dead stop? it's taken 10 years to go from 2mbit to 25mbit for a base subscription, meanwhile the rest of the world went from dial-up (or nothing at all) to 100mbit+ speeds.
I have no problem with the major ISPs coming to a "stop", as long as Google Fiber keeps going.
In this particular case, they might have to re-write the entire server code from scratch, depending on whether the server was written by EA or by gamespy. Even if it was written by EA, and they still have the source, it might need modification to run outside the gamespy system.
You can contest that in front of a review board, at which point he would have to explain why his special notebook was a requirement.
While it's true that the teachers are the ones that come up with with the grades, they are not the ones who have final say in what the grades will be, the review board can overrule the teachers requirements.
Unless it's one of those private for-profit "universities", in which case you are better off just finding a different school.
Except they aren't selling the printed and bound item, they are merely lending it to you for a year, when you buy the digital version of the content (which has a lot less than $200 in added value)
Also, scamming people in a large organized way IS a crime, it's called "conspiracy to commit fraud"
I would imagine most teachers wouldn't want to be staring at a sea of laptop lids and backlit faces. PDF books might make sense in a computer class where there is already a screen in front of you, but in my experience, people tend to goof-off and not pay attention when they have their laptop in front of them.
Some of the classrooms at my college have windows in the back of the room, facing the hallway. Every time I walk past one of those rooms, every single laptop screen has facebook on it, while the teacher is lecturing.
If I had a teacher try something like that I would immediately complain to the administration.
If that didn't work, I would start counterfeiting his "textbook" and giving it away to all his students. It's not copyright infringement if there is no content to copy. Even the teacher's name on the cover is fair game, since you can't copyright a name (you can only trademark it, and that costs money, unlike copyright)
Car leasing is a contract between you and the owner, and part of the terms of the contract states that you have to return the car at the end of the lease. You aren't returning the car because it's a lease, you are returning it because you signed a document stating that you agreed to return it (or face predefined penalties)
The only way this could apply to books is if the bookstore required you to sign some sort of legal document before giving you the book.
I think the eventual idea is to build an entire single-piece ship that can land like that, instead of just the booster stages. These are just the baby steps in that direction
There is a big difference between a supply contractor like Lockheed or Boeing, and a space flight company like SpaceX. Lockheed just makes whatever rockets the government orders, and then the government operates and maintains those rocket. SpaceX designs, builds, operates and maintains it's own rockets.
Lockheed sells rockets, SpaceX sells space flight.
It's like the difference between a grocery store and a restaurant
The reusable stage can essentially free-fall most of the way down. At no point during landing will you ever have to generate more thrust than the thing actually weighs, you just need to keep it upright and slow it down a bit at the end.
While this does add some fuel weight, it also gives you some spare fuel if there is an emergency during launch (at the cost of sacrificing the reusable booster of course)
All the genius in the world can be ruined by one self-important (non-technical) manager.
I have seen it in other places. They get stuck in this "I'm in charge, therefore I must be right" mentality, and before you know it you have the manager overriding engineering decisions simply because he feels that it is his duty to be the decision maker, even if he isn't qualified to make those decisions.
The French excuse is even worse: "we tried converting Ariane 5 solid-fuel rockets to liquid-fuel, and it didn't work, therefore reusable rockets are impossible"
That's like saying: "my horse can't pull my RV (mobile home), therefore RVs are impossible"
I have 1 unopened (still shrinkwrapped) box of 10 8 inch floppies, 1 opened box (9 left I think), and a cleaning kit. They are all the same brand and, as far as I can tell, intended for the Amstrad CPC (they say CPC word processor on the box)
The "cheap shit" is part of the gameplay. It's almost like an extended game of simon, where you have to remember where all the traps are and figure out how to avoid them.
it's supposed to seem lazy, that's part of the trap.
Funny that you should mention both Boeing and Airbus, as the two companies have almost opposing views on flight automation.
Boeing feels like the pilot should be in full control of the plane, with the autopilot just there to make the job easier. Airbus, on the other hand, treats the pilot as if they were only a legal requirement, and designs it's planes to completely fly themselves, to the point where the autopilot will actually try to override the human pilot if it thinks the pilot's actions are dangerous.
Try a barrel roll in a Boeing, and the plane will happily attempt a barrel roll (even if it rips the plane apart). But try the same thing in an Airbus and the autopilot will start fighting back
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It's fairly easy to turn natural gas into hydrogen. Some NG wells even produce hydrogen right out of the well, all you have to do is separate it from the natural gas.
Wordstar probably has it's own swap file. Most of the heavy-duty DOS word processors did.
640k stopped being a real limitation with DOS 5.0 and the EMS/XMS standards. As long as the words and interface elements currently on the screen fit into 640k, you are fine. Also, if you are in a text-only mode (with a flashing square for a mouse cursor), there are memory hacks that can give you up to 720k of conventional ram, at the expense of losing all graphics ability.
How exactly do you "slow" something that is already at a dead stop? it's taken 10 years to go from 2mbit to 25mbit for a base subscription, meanwhile the rest of the world went from dial-up (or nothing at all) to 100mbit+ speeds.
I have no problem with the major ISPs coming to a "stop", as long as Google Fiber keeps going.
In this particular case, they might have to re-write the entire server code from scratch, depending on whether the server was written by EA or by gamespy. Even if it was written by EA, and they still have the source, it might need modification to run outside the gamespy system.
To Google:
Please make an announcement that you are planning to expand Google fiber to the ENTIRE country.
Thank You
You can contest that in front of a review board, at which point he would have to explain why his special notebook was a requirement.
While it's true that the teachers are the ones that come up with with the grades, they are not the ones who have final say in what the grades will be, the review board can overrule the teachers requirements.
Unless it's one of those private for-profit "universities", in which case you are better off just finding a different school.
Except they aren't selling the printed and bound item, they are merely lending it to you for a year, when you buy the digital version of the content (which has a lot less than $200 in added value)
Also, scamming people in a large organized way IS a crime, it's called "conspiracy to commit fraud"
The largest part of their costs was probably the printing and binding of the textbooks, and it's the one part you don't get to keep.
In the end, you will have paid $200 to buy a bunch of PDFs full of mostly public domain text, and to rent a book for a year.
So they are "leasing" information that is already public domain? how is that even legal?
That's like some random person charging admission to a public park
I would imagine most teachers wouldn't want to be staring at a sea of laptop lids and backlit faces.
PDF books might make sense in a computer class where there is already a screen in front of you, but in my experience, people tend to goof-off and not pay attention when they have their laptop in front of them.
Some of the classrooms at my college have windows in the back of the room, facing the hallway. Every time I walk past one of those rooms, every single laptop screen has facebook on it, while the teacher is lecturing.
So you had a teacher that not only required you to take notes (which is pretty rare already) but required them to be in his special notebook?
What happened if you didn't take notes, or used a different notebook?
If I had a teacher try something like that I would immediately complain to the administration.
If that didn't work, I would start counterfeiting his "textbook" and giving it away to all his students.
It's not copyright infringement if there is no content to copy. Even the teacher's name on the cover is fair game, since you can't copyright a name (you can only trademark it, and that costs money, unlike copyright)
This assumes that your request for a CableCARD results in something besides a blank stare, followed by "what's a cable card?"
Car leasing is a contract between you and the owner, and part of the terms of the contract states that you have to return the car at the end of the lease. You aren't returning the car because it's a lease, you are returning it because you signed a document stating that you agreed to return it (or face predefined penalties)
The only way this could apply to books is if the bookstore required you to sign some sort of legal document before giving you the book.
I think the eventual idea is to build an entire single-piece ship that can land like that, instead of just the booster stages. These are just the baby steps in that direction
But it proves you know something about growing fruit, which is better than nothing
There is a big difference between a supply contractor like Lockheed or Boeing, and a space flight company like SpaceX.
Lockheed just makes whatever rockets the government orders, and then the government operates and maintains those rocket.
SpaceX designs, builds, operates and maintains it's own rockets.
Lockheed sells rockets, SpaceX sells space flight.
It's like the difference between a grocery store and a restaurant
The reusable stage can essentially free-fall most of the way down. At no point during landing will you ever have to generate more thrust than the thing actually weighs, you just need to keep it upright and slow it down a bit at the end.
While this does add some fuel weight, it also gives you some spare fuel if there is an emergency during launch (at the cost of sacrificing the reusable booster of course)
All the genius in the world can be ruined by one self-important (non-technical) manager.
I have seen it in other places. They get stuck in this "I'm in charge, therefore I must be right" mentality, and before you know it you have the manager overriding engineering decisions simply because he feels that it is his duty to be the decision maker, even if he isn't qualified to make those decisions.
The French excuse is even worse: "we tried converting Ariane 5 solid-fuel rockets to liquid-fuel, and it didn't work, therefore reusable rockets are impossible"
That's like saying: "my horse can't pull my RV (mobile home), therefore RVs are impossible"
I have 1 unopened (still shrinkwrapped) box of 10 8 inch floppies, 1 opened box (9 left I think), and a cleaning kit. They are all the same brand and, as far as I can tell, intended for the Amstrad CPC (they say CPC word processor on the box)
Are they worth anything?
I'm pretty sure McDonalds switched to a meat-substitute for most of it's low-end burgers years ago....
Goats do a much better job of mowing lawns than cows do, and they are a lot easier to move from one yard to the next.
The "cheap shit" is part of the gameplay. It's almost like an extended game of simon, where you have to remember where all the traps are and figure out how to avoid them.
it's supposed to seem lazy, that's part of the trap.
Funny that you should mention both Boeing and Airbus, as the two companies have almost opposing views on flight automation.
Boeing feels like the pilot should be in full control of the plane, with the autopilot just there to make the job easier.
Airbus, on the other hand, treats the pilot as if they were only a legal requirement, and designs it's planes to completely fly themselves, to the point where the autopilot will actually try to override the human pilot if it thinks the pilot's actions are dangerous.
Try a barrel roll in a Boeing, and the plane will happily attempt a barrel roll (even if it rips the plane apart). But try the same thing in an Airbus and the autopilot will start fighting back