I think I'm wrong about the speed needed to escape the solar system. Forgot that the voyagers got a lot of energy from their encouters with Jupiter and Saturn. So you probably need a lot more, but you get my point about how tough it is to rocket something into the sun.
Getting something to the sun takes a much larger rocket than sending something out of the solar system. The reason is that to reach the sun, you have to first eliminate the velocity of the earth in its orbit. That's 18.5 miles per second, not counting any other thrust required to aim directly at the sun.
By comparison, the velocity of things in Earth orbit is just about 4.7 miles per second.
And to send something out of the solar system you need to have a speed of 6.9 miles per second.
But complaining about spam is like pissing on a forest fire. I've accepted reality and now I just filter it with Spam Probe. The only way spam will stop is with a law and hefty fines.
The next time you see a cop car sitting in the corner of a parking lot, answer this question:
What is the cop doing? a) he's eating his donuts b) he's trying to catch a master car thief c) he's going to swoop in on a drug deal d) sleeping e) he's trying to get an inch thick stack of paperwork done so he can get back to his real job: driving around on his regular patrol and keeping one ear on the radio just in case he needs to take another police report.
Actually, I was just making a joke and not even trying to troll. I'm as mystified by the +1 mod as the other guy is, since a table computer that needs a keyboard is just goofy.
why my dog keeps getting so much spam! I'm waiting for the credit card offers to arrive in the mail. Then, one day soon, he'll mysteriously find his way into the social security database. He'll have to do jury duty. Then the IRS will figure out that he hasn't ever paid taxes and come after him. Finally, he'll get drafted and have to fight in a war against terrorism (down with feral cats!)
Just remember how crazy a moon landing must have been seen in 1955. I'm not saying that they'll actually be able to build it, just that it would be an absolutely astonishing thing if they manage to do it. And unlike the moon landing, this will enable future exploration.
The hypothesis that this is inherited could mean that you'd look to your mother's lineage for that feature, since mitochondria are inherited exclusively from your mother.
Cool. My maternal great grandma lived to 104 years old. Have to wait to see how my grandma and my mother fare, but this could be good for me.
I tried out Turbo Tax, after many years of doing my own taxes. I'd always used the 1040 form myself, and it was no big deal. Enter the W-2 stuff and I'm basicaly done. But the year that I tried Turbo Tax my wife had book royalties, I had stock option income, and I was a contractor, not a regular employee for part of the year. Oh, and we also had to pay state taxes in both Michigan and Arizona.
Damn what a nightmare. I pay someone to do it for me now. Even if they save me no money at all, it's completely worth it for the frustration factor.
Chemical reactions happen with times on the order of a femtosecond. That's about 10^-15 second. Probably protein folding would take a bit longer than that. Maybe these are the chemical reactions that they were talking about?
It might not seem like much, but didn't someone win a nobel prize for directly observing a single chemical reaction with femtosecond timing? Someone out there must get a hardon for accurate clocks then.
They'd want to do it because they are profitable right now, and a lot of portals are not. If their page can become a portal of sorts without cluttering it up, then it makes perfect sense to strike while their competitors are weak.
I used to run a PC emulator on my Atari ST. I got a whopping Norton SI score of 0.3!
For most things it wasn't very usable. But, my main app was Turbo Pascal 3.0a, which was very very speedy on an IBM PC. Under the emulator, it compiled about as fast as g++ compiles C++ code on my 800mhz laptop today. I used it quite a bit to do classwork in college, and some other programs for myself.
Plus, time on big scopes is limited and there's a huge demand. Even the Palomar 200 inch scope, with optics that aren't as good as what we'd make today, keeps a full schedule of research. And that thing has to be 70 years old or something close to that. Big research scopes never become obsolete in the sense that nobody wants to use them.
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I think I'm wrong about the speed needed to escape the solar system. Forgot that the voyagers got a lot of energy from their encouters with Jupiter and Saturn. So you probably need a lot more, but you get my point about how tough it is to rocket something into the sun.
Getting something to the sun takes a much larger rocket than sending something out of the solar system. The reason is that to reach the sun, you have to first eliminate the velocity of the earth in its orbit. That's 18.5 miles per second, not counting any other thrust required to aim directly at the sun.
By comparison, the velocity of things in Earth orbit is just about 4.7 miles per second.
And to send something out of the solar system you need to have a speed of 6.9 miles per second.
Nobody can legally watch me commute from home to work because I drive well above the speed limit.
But complaining about spam is like pissing on a forest fire. I've accepted reality and now I just filter it with Spam Probe. The only way spam will stop is with a law and hefty fines.
It was UNIX. You can put that exact window manager on your Linux box.
re: cop shows
The next time you see a cop car sitting in the corner of a parking lot, answer this question:
What is the cop doing?
a) he's eating his donuts
b) he's trying to catch a master car thief
c) he's going to swoop in on a drug deal
d) sleeping
e) he's trying to get an inch thick stack of paperwork done so he can get back to his real job: driving around on his regular patrol and keeping one ear on the radio just in case he needs to take another police report.
If you're inside a hyperbaric chamber, it's difficult to watch the latest Michael Jackson special on Fox.
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
You're right about that. Dictionary.com let me down!
The plural of platypus is not platypi. It's platypusses.
Other than that, very informative report.
Actually, I was just making a joke and not even trying to troll. I'm as mystified by the +1 mod as the other guy is, since a table computer that needs a keyboard is just goofy.
It runs well and does everything a tablet PC is supposed to. One small hitch: you need to have a keyboard hooked up to it.
Those were midichlorions.
why my dog keeps getting so much spam! I'm waiting for the credit card offers to arrive in the mail. Then, one day soon, he'll mysteriously find his way into the social security database. He'll have to do jury duty. Then the IRS will figure out that he hasn't ever paid taxes and come after him. Finally, he'll get drafted and have to fight in a war against terrorism (down with feral cats!)
All because of a simple passport.net signup.
Just remember how crazy a moon landing must have been seen in 1955. I'm not saying that they'll actually be able to build it, just that it would be an absolutely astonishing thing if they manage to do it. And unlike the moon landing, this will enable future exploration.
The hypothesis that this is inherited could mean that you'd look to your mother's lineage for that feature, since mitochondria are inherited exclusively from your mother.
Cool. My maternal great grandma lived to 104 years old. Have to wait to see how my grandma and my mother fare, but this could be good for me.
I tried out Turbo Tax, after many years of doing my own taxes. I'd always used the 1040 form myself, and it was no big deal. Enter the W-2 stuff and I'm basicaly done. But the year that I tried Turbo Tax my wife had book royalties, I had stock option income, and I was a contractor, not a regular employee for part of the year. Oh, and we also had to pay state taxes in both Michigan and Arizona.
Damn what a nightmare. I pay someone to do it for me now. Even if they save me no money at all, it's completely worth it for the frustration factor.
Chemical reactions happen with times on the order of a femtosecond. That's about 10^-15 second. Probably protein folding would take a bit longer than that. Maybe these are the chemical reactions that they were talking about?
It might not seem like much, but didn't someone win a nobel prize for directly observing a single chemical reaction with femtosecond timing? Someone out there must get a hardon for accurate clocks then.
They'd want to do it because they are profitable right now, and a lot of portals are not. If their page can become a portal of sorts without cluttering it up, then it makes perfect sense to strike while their competitors are weak.
That's the Google step #2 as I see it.
Not as bad as the Titan IV. Very expensive, liked to blow up, and they retired it after a ridiculously small number of launches.
It's replaced with that new Delta that can lift the heavy payloads. And Deltas are much nicer.
Anti-semitism is not an essential element of fascism.
At restaurants they don't really need your name. They're just looking for a primary key, and anything will do.
Go ahead and tell them your name is George Bush, always good for a laugh.
That's why I wrote emulator and not VM.
I used to run a PC emulator on my Atari ST. I got a whopping Norton SI score of 0.3!
For most things it wasn't very usable. But, my main app was Turbo Pascal 3.0a, which was very very speedy on an IBM PC. Under the emulator, it compiled about as fast as g++ compiles C++ code on my 800mhz laptop today. I used it quite a bit to do classwork in college, and some other programs for myself.
Plus, time on big scopes is limited and there's a huge demand. Even the Palomar 200 inch scope, with optics that aren't as good as what we'd make today, keeps a full schedule of research. And that thing has to be 70 years old or something close to that. Big research scopes never become obsolete in the sense that nobody wants to use them.