If the lasers aren't "breaking" the satellites, than I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with what China is doing. While its certainly in our best interests to see what China is up to, its in theirs to stop us. Regardless of whether or not we are "legally" in their airspace or not, if they point a laser in space and it happens to blind our satellite, than I can't see that they've done anything wrong.
This is great, come I'm sick of trying to be accurate when I explain to my kids that SOMETIMES Neptune is the 9th planet instead of Pluto because of their orbits. This saves me that grief.
Boy are the Plutonians going to be pissed when they hear about this. How many minutes does it take for radio waves to get there? Everybody better duck. Anyone bad enough to live on Pluto is not someone I'd want to mess with...
The term reflects the nature of the change - not the magnitude...
In physics, a quantum leap or quantum jump is a change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to the next. This is a discontinuous change in which the electron goes from one energy level to another without passing through any intermediate levels. This phenomenon contradicted expectations set by theories older than quantum mechanics that energy should always change continuously. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap
I'm still trying to figure out how you blow up a bridge with 1000 Trac phones... It seems like it would be a lot easier to sell them at a profit. Hmmm...
Maybe you wire all the batteries together and short them out? Hmmm...
Would anyone miss being able to get to the U.P. anyway?
Amen, I was a computer geek of the Apple//e generation. I spent what was probably too much time fiddling with Apple Pascal and Beagle Bros. Peek and Poke charts. I had a few games but mostly I programmed. When I got older it made for useful little programs for math class and engineering assignments (i.e., plotting 3D functions, matrix solvers, etc.) The little bit that I got into games (Wizardry I,II,III,V) were fun at the time but totally time wasters, and they were nothing compared to the hours required now to play some of these games.
I'm afraid to get my kids into the computer too much, because they is very little benefit to surfing the web or playing games. It's not teaching them anything (except for the occasional surfing the web to learn something - about 10% of time spent). My daughter (10) asked about programming, and I couldn't think of the modern day equivalent to Applesoft.. Visual basic doesn't quite do it.
I think maybe you missed the point of chaos theory. Chaos theory shows that not everything can be predicted. Thus, the universe provides the ultimate loophole for free will.
The deterministic universe idea was shattered by chaos theory. Computers can use chaos theory to simulate chaotic events and determine probabilities, but not predict events.
I'm sure NAMBLA would agree. I guess I'm just a prude to think that an 8th grader shouldn't be having sex. 4 years is a hell of a big difference when you're a teenager.
Any parent who lets their child date someone four years older is an idiot. You see, 14 year olds are allowed to be idiots - its part of growing up. Their parents aren't. Besides, can't the 19 year old get someone his own age to rape?
Sucks to be him? Oh yeah, booh frikkin hooh... A 14 year old is a kid, and any 19 year old that doesn't know that is nothing better than a pedophile.
This is not an 18 year old and a 17 year old. She was stupid, but stupid is not an excuse for rape. If she had met him at the library he'd still be an a-hole with a nice "sexual predator" tag coming at him for the rest of his life.
It's not myspaces fault, it's not the schools fault. Its her fault she put herself in that situation, but its NOT her fault she got raped. ITS HIS FAULT.
As someone who's spec'd motors for a wide variety of projects for the last ten years, I think your way off. Your point might be valid, but motors come in a standard variety of sizes and configurations. You tell me what HP (or torque), operating voltage and a handful of other variables, I'll get you a motor that will work just fine.
Motors, like most devices have standardized over the years to common frame sizes, HP ratings, etc making selection much easier - a matter of catalog browsing.
There are certainly specialized motors out there, but there is no end-to-end strategy on 25HP 480V/3P motor. I won't say they are commodities, but I could almost the exact same thing (mount and form-factor wise) from 4 different companies without any trouble at all.
And don't forget the clicking keyboards... Talk about driving you insane...
On a similar subject, don't you want to take the people behind CSI and just hang them by their thumbnails?
Hotmail on my desktop... IN BED (that one doesn't work).
I'm still trying to figure out why I care. I use hotmail for some "alias" accounts for webforums I belong to - every once in a while I check them and delete the spam. I don't like the interface, a hotmail address is automatically suspect (to me), and its run by the great satan (MS).
Why would I want hotmail when I can use gmail, a product from a company that does no evil and only has my interests at heart? Right? Right?
The whole point of hotmail, gmail, whatever is the web component. If I want to tie it to a desktop, I'll POP3 it (which gmail has always let you do). Hotmail moving towards something like this is hardly news, its marketing.
That said, I WOULD like a way to manage multiple gmail accounts on one computer (me, my wife, and three kids) instead of having to sign in and out every time. Anyone? Anyone?
Maybe I'm missing something. I've got a DSM-320 media player sitting right on top of my DVD player. While it could certainly be improved (its like 2 years old - so I'm sure they have), its a hell of a lot better than having a PC sucking up all the air in my family room. PC's are a PIA, fixed purpose hardware is the way to go. I've got 20 Gigs of music and video on a PC in the basement that does just fine with streaming and automatically refreshes the catalog every 30 minutes if I download or rip something new.
Per usual, the CNET article doesn't really say much new or interesting, just kind of glosses over a subject to try to make it sound new and exciting.
A Upnp DVD player that rips and plays DVD's and streaming media and memory cards is the way to go. Why have a $1000+ "Media Center" PC dedicated to your television when you can have a $300 Media Appliance (adapter)?
So the whole "1 is not a prime number" thing was bothering me. I was a pretty big math guy in my glory days, but not like uber-geek big.
In case anyone else is wondering, one is not a prime number because it has only one factor (1) instead of two like a prime number would. It used to be called a prime number (like a long time ago).
I started out at Ohio State in the Math 190 series (the uber-geek math class). The first day they proved why -1*-1=1. The next day I dropped the class. Being an engineer I can honestly say I've used almost all the math I was taught (in the 160 series), but I've never yearned for the knowledge of why -1*-1=1. I guess I'm just simple that way...
Holy crap that was disturbing! I am at a loss for anything witty to say. I've got to go pour vinegar into my eyes immediately, lest the images remain burned into my cornea.
One has to wonder what the context of such an odd "video" would be...
In other news, scientists in New Zealand were surprised to discover that a moisture probe the had developed capable of measuring humidity from 0-90% malfunctioned after being lowered into a mysterious salty substance found at the edge of the island.
Due to the malfunctioning instrument, scientists are still unsure about what this salty liquid mixture could be.
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"(which is totally unnecessary today - a small connector that provided 5v and 1000 mv would be able to power almost all portable media devices)"
I bet that you could even get away with 5V and 1V if you wired it right...
If the lasers aren't "breaking" the satellites, than I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with what China is doing. While its certainly in our best interests to see what China is up to, its in theirs to stop us. Regardless of whether or not we are "legally" in their airspace or not, if they point a laser in space and it happens to blind our satellite, than I can't see that they've done anything wrong.
If they blew it up, that would be something else.
This is great, come I'm sick of trying to be accurate when I explain to my kids that SOMETIMES Neptune is the 9th planet instead of Pluto because of their orbits. This saves me that grief.
Boy are the Plutonians going to be pissed when they hear about this. How many minutes does it take for radio waves to get there? Everybody better duck. Anyone bad enough to live on Pluto is not someone I'd want to mess with...
The term reflects the nature of the change - not the magnitude...
In physics, a quantum leap or quantum jump is a change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to the next. This is a discontinuous change in which the electron goes from one energy level to another without passing through any intermediate levels. This phenomenon contradicted expectations set by theories older than quantum mechanics that energy should always change continuously.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap
If they were smart they'd go after Cabella's and shut down Michigan's tourism industry once and for all.
da children, da children, It's always da children...
I'm still trying to figure out how you blow up a bridge with 1000 Trac phones... It seems like it would be a lot easier to sell them at a profit. Hmmm...
Maybe you wire all the batteries together and short them out? Hmmm...
Would anyone miss being able to get to the U.P. anyway?
Amen, I was a computer geek of the Apple //e generation. I spent what was probably too much time fiddling with Apple Pascal and Beagle Bros. Peek and Poke charts. I had a few games but mostly I programmed. When I got older it made for useful little programs for math class and engineering assignments (i.e., plotting 3D functions, matrix solvers, etc.) The little bit that I got into games (Wizardry I,II,III,V) were fun at the time but totally time wasters, and they were nothing compared to the hours required now to play some of these games.
I'm afraid to get my kids into the computer too much, because they is very little benefit to surfing the web or playing games. It's not teaching them anything (except for the occasional surfing the web to learn something - about 10% of time spent). My daughter (10) asked about programming, and I couldn't think of the modern day equivalent to Applesoft.. Visual basic doesn't quite do it.
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
I think maybe you missed the point of chaos theory. Chaos theory shows that not everything can be predicted. Thus, the universe provides the ultimate loophole for free will.
The deterministic universe idea was shattered by chaos theory. Computers can use chaos theory to simulate chaotic events and determine probabilities, but not predict events.
I'm sure NAMBLA would agree. I guess I'm just a prude to think that an 8th grader shouldn't be having sex. 4 years is a hell of a big difference when you're a teenager.
Any parent who lets their child date someone four years older is an idiot. You see, 14 year olds are allowed to be idiots - its part of growing up. Their parents aren't. Besides, can't the 19 year old get someone his own age to rape?
Nice... What is this, 1945? Sex with a 14 year old is a crime for a lot of good reasons. Pathetic.
Sucks to be him? Oh yeah, booh frikkin hooh... A 14 year old is a kid, and any 19 year old that doesn't know that is nothing better than a pedophile.
This is not an 18 year old and a 17 year old. She was stupid, but stupid is not an excuse for rape. If she had met him at the library he'd still be an a-hole with a nice "sexual predator" tag coming at him for the rest of his life.
It's not myspaces fault, it's not the schools fault. Its her fault she put herself in that situation, but its NOT her fault she got raped. ITS HIS FAULT.
As someone who's spec'd motors for a wide variety of projects for the last ten years, I think your way off. Your point might be valid, but motors come in a standard variety of sizes and configurations. You tell me what HP (or torque), operating voltage and a handful of other variables, I'll get you a motor that will work just fine.
Motors, like most devices have standardized over the years to common frame sizes, HP ratings, etc making selection much easier - a matter of catalog browsing.
There are certainly specialized motors out there, but there is no end-to-end strategy on 25HP 480V/3P motor. I won't say they are commodities, but I could almost the exact same thing (mount and form-factor wise) from 4 different companies without any trouble at all.
And don't forget the clicking keyboards... Talk about driving you insane... On a similar subject, don't you want to take the people behind CSI and just hang them by their thumbnails?
I have two reactions. Is this actually new information?
If it is, God help us. Since the Defense Department "invented" the internet, shouldn't they have kind of been working on this for a while now?
"Captain, our SARC detector is offline, they didn't get it!"
"Reroute power from tertiary humor subsystems, we've got to get that joke through dammnit!"
"It's too late!"
Crash/Burn/Etc.
Hotmail on my desktop... IN BED (that one doesn't work).
I'm still trying to figure out why I care. I use hotmail for some "alias" accounts for webforums I belong to - every once in a while I check them and delete the spam. I don't like the interface, a hotmail address is automatically suspect (to me), and its run by the great satan (MS).
Why would I want hotmail when I can use gmail, a product from a company that does no evil and only has my interests at heart? Right? Right?
The whole point of hotmail, gmail, whatever is the web component. If I want to tie it to a desktop, I'll POP3 it (which gmail has always let you do). Hotmail moving towards something like this is hardly news, its marketing.
That said, I WOULD like a way to manage multiple gmail accounts on one computer (me, my wife, and three kids) instead of having to sign in and out every time. Anyone? Anyone?
Google Pages isn't for your, its for your Mom.... IN BED
Seriously though, did anyone thing that Google Pages would be met by anything but annoyance and derision by the uber-geeks of the slashdot crowd?
Its like discussing Garanimals (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=garanimals) in a fashion forum. I wish they had those for adults... sigh...
Maybe I'm missing something. I've got a DSM-320 media player sitting right on top of my DVD player. While it could certainly be improved (its like 2 years old - so I'm sure they have), its a hell of a lot better than having a PC sucking up all the air in my family room. PC's are a PIA, fixed purpose hardware is the way to go. I've got 20 Gigs of music and video on a PC in the basement that does just fine with streaming and automatically refreshes the catalog every 30 minutes if I download or rip something new.
Per usual, the CNET article doesn't really say much new or interesting, just kind of glosses over a subject to try to make it sound new and exciting.
A Upnp DVD player that rips and plays DVD's and streaming media and memory cards is the way to go. Why have a $1000+ "Media Center" PC dedicated to your television when you can have a $300 Media Appliance (adapter)?
So the whole "1 is not a prime number" thing was bothering me. I was a pretty big math guy in my glory days, but not like uber-geek big.
In case anyone else is wondering, one is not a prime number because it has only one factor (1) instead of two like a prime number would. It used to be called a prime number (like a long time ago).
I started out at Ohio State in the Math 190 series (the uber-geek math class). The first day they proved why -1*-1=1. The next day I dropped the class. Being an engineer I can honestly say I've used almost all the math I was taught (in the 160 series), but I've never yearned for the knowledge of why -1*-1=1. I guess I'm just simple that way...
Holy crap that was disturbing! I am at a loss for anything witty to say. I've got to go pour vinegar into my eyes immediately, lest the images remain burned into my cornea.
One has to wonder what the context of such an odd "video" would be...
In Soviet Russia, temperature measures YOU...
In other news, scientists in New Zealand were surprised to discover that a moisture probe the had developed capable of measuring humidity from 0-90% malfunctioned after being lowered into a mysterious salty substance found at the edge of the island.
Due to the malfunctioning instrument, scientists are still unsure about what this salty liquid mixture could be.
Man, I can already see the reality show... It will be like People's Court with a twist. Wapner can be the ref... "The Ring of Justice"
touche...
And those of us with jobs and lives will STILL not be a part of it...