I just found a retraction on the web and wrote it up on my website. Check out the two articles right at the top about the Daily Evergreen plagarizing a joke page about a Filopino ship being named "the big ass spanish boat".
Go ahead and mod me down, it's OK. But I just had to tell somebody.
Let's spend our scarce space budget on things that are actually worth knowing about, not flavor-of-the-month "discoveries".
This isn't a good argument. Technically, not much beyond our atmosphere is "worth knowing about" in any practical sense. Oceans on Europa, melting lead on Venus, water under the sands of Mars, I mean, who gives a shit, right?
When the argument is made that these things are worth knowing about because it fulfils our curiosity, and that learning things is the complete justification for our attempts to learn things, then there's no distinction at all between a rock in the Kuiper Belt and something closer to home.
Pluto will remain a planet because that's the convention that has been established. We call it a planet because we call it a planet. Circular reasoning, but all taxonomy is arbitrary at some level. As long as they send spacecraft to this new thing, I don't care what they call it.
Right, but someone out there will replace their NiCd battery with NiMH. Then they will run a pack all the way down. Then they will start crying when their NiMH pack dies after 10 charges because they reverse biased a cell in the pack.
I posted the same thing a while ago, and it turns out that practically speaking, NiCd batteries do not have memory. But technically, if you have the right equipment to discharge batteries to exactly the same level over and over you can develop a memory.
Regular users are not likely to ever develop a memory in a NiCd battery.
NiMH batteries are very sensitive to being reverse biased. If you discharge your pack all the way down, you WILL kill it.
My advice is to forget about memory effects. You're not likely to see them anyway. Worry more about running the pack all the way down and destroying a cell with a reverse bias. Keep the thing charged all the time if you can.
That threshhold must be larger than the shuttle SRB's, because when Challenger was safetied, the SRB's were nullified by removing the nose caps. The remaining fuel burned out producing zero net thrust.
The same person posted the same story to both sites. Bad form, possibly, but not plagarism.
Oh, and moderators, GET A CLUE. Offtopic is NOT the right moderation for this. Seriously folks, if you can't select the right item from a very short list, I don't know you ever were potty trained.
Interesting! To compare, my site has a free content management system I wrote myself in Python. The URL's are not too bad, except for the ones that my digital camera made up in the photo album.
Wow! I always thought that Valenti's *fat pipe* referred to the fact that he was always sucking Hollywood's dick. I never knew he was talking about a beowulf of cable modems.
No, that's a lie that was invented by and perpetuated by Xtians who just wanted to smear the good name of Darwin. Darwin did not denounce evolution, nor did he have a conversion to Xtianity on his deathbed.
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When's the last time you ever saw an alkaline battery that put out .75 volts? Do you understand what a half-cell is?
I just found a retraction on the web and wrote it up on my website. Check out the two articles right at the top about the Daily Evergreen plagarizing a joke page about a Filopino ship being named "the big ass spanish boat".
Go ahead and mod me down, it's OK. But I just had to tell somebody.
Let's spend our scarce space budget on things that are actually worth knowing about, not flavor-of-the-month "discoveries".
This isn't a good argument. Technically, not much beyond our atmosphere is "worth knowing about" in any practical sense. Oceans on Europa, melting lead on Venus, water under the sands of Mars, I mean, who gives a shit, right?
When the argument is made that these things are worth knowing about because it fulfils our curiosity, and that learning things is the complete justification for our attempts to learn things, then there's no distinction at all between a rock in the Kuiper Belt and something closer to home.
So, I say, let the rockets fly! Hallelulah!
That sounds like the description of a computer programmer!
Vulcan is the name reserved for the mythical planet that was hypothesized to exist inside the orbit of Mercury. So, it's already "taken".
Some asteroids have moons. Do a google search on the name Dactyl and you'll find an example of one.
It's pronounced Qwa O Wahr. Three syllables.
Pluto will remain a planet because that's the convention that has been established. We call it a planet because we call it a planet. Circular reasoning, but all taxonomy is arbitrary at some level. As long as they send spacecraft to this new thing, I don't care what they call it.
Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why rechargable battery makers don't put out 1.5V rechargeable batteries and kill off alkalines once and for all?
Could it be the half-cell voltage conspiracy?
Right, but someone out there will replace their NiCd battery with NiMH. Then they will run a pack all the way down. Then they will start crying when their NiMH pack dies after 10 charges because they reverse biased a cell in the pack.
I posted the same thing a while ago, and it turns out that practically speaking, NiCd batteries do not have memory. But technically, if you have the right equipment to discharge batteries to exactly the same level over and over you can develop a memory.
Regular users are not likely to ever develop a memory in a NiCd battery.
NiMH batteries are very sensitive to being reverse biased. If you discharge your pack all the way down, you WILL kill it.
My advice is to forget about memory effects. You're not likely to see them anyway. Worry more about running the pack all the way down and destroying a cell with a reverse bias. Keep the thing charged all the time if you can.
That threshhold must be larger than the shuttle SRB's, because when Challenger was safetied, the SRB's were nullified by removing the nose caps. The remaining fuel burned out producing zero net thrust.
Or can it? I want this on my desktop.
It's a trade-off. I couldn't filter squat until I started running my own mail server on my my DSL connection.
I don't see spam anymore, but I see lots of evidence in my mail logs that people have tried to send me some.
And I haven't noticed any of my mail bouncing because I run on a DSL line.
BTW, I use Exim as my MTA. Can't recommend it highly enough - it just works.
Offtopic?
Moderators, if you were born with HALF A BRAIN STEM please refrain from moderating.
Fucking cocksucking idiots... Picking the right item from a very short list isn't that difficult.
But copyright IS good. Copyright is the foundation upon which free software rests.
Pretty girl: So Mr. Spock, you never told me if you had a name for your degree...
Spock: You couldn't pronounce it.
That would be a pachyderm pork pork.
The same person posted the same story to both sites. Bad form, possibly, but not plagarism.
Oh, and moderators, GET A CLUE. Offtopic is NOT the right moderation for this. Seriously folks, if you can't select the right item from a very short list, I don't know you ever were potty trained.
This is an alternate form of the corporate death penalty. Since charters hardly ever get revoked, this is the next best thing.
Interesting! To compare, my site has a free content management system I wrote myself in Python. The URL's are not too bad, except for the ones that my digital camera made up in the photo album.
You could download a million movies a day
Wow! I always thought that Valenti's *fat pipe* referred to the fact that he was always sucking Hollywood's dick. I never knew he was talking about a beowulf of cable modems.
Don't use them. Enough said about that topic.
No, that's a lie that was invented by and perpetuated by Xtians who just wanted to smear the good name of Darwin. Darwin did not denounce evolution, nor did he have a conversion to Xtianity on his deathbed.