Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
1st world: United States and allies during the cold war. 2nd world: Soviet Union, China, and allies during the cold war. 3rd world: Any nation not listed in the above two categories.
I believe the current consensus is that Jupiter and Saturn (and I'm not sure about the other Gas Giants) has a compressed "liquid metal Hydrogen" core, (where Hydrogen at sufficient pressure acts as a metal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Astrophysics. IANA Physicist, so take that wiki article at face value. I'm still with you on not knowing what would happen, but I suspect that pressures significant to turn Hydrogen into a metal, I'd lean towards something akin to your diamond explanation, depending on the composition of the impacting body.
To be fair, we used to think of atoms in the same way (that's why we called them 'atomic'). We learned more, and revised our thinking, but the name stuck.
As much as it troubles me, I must agree. I loved learning Java, and I still love writing and using it, but it hasn't had the force behind it that it once did. Initially, it had a similar dictatorship running the show (albeit not a single person, but Sun wouldn't let anyone else influence its path), until the JCP came around. Since then, I haven't seen many improvements. I so desperately want Java to succeed, so much of it just makes sense to me. When used correctly, it can be a beautiful language.
I read an article a while back on Pebble Bed reactors (though, for the life of me I can't remember where, so I'll link the wiki article instead). They seem to be a lot more stable and less prone to the dangers cited by the anti-nuclear crowd (like meltdowns, etc), and the fuel is not as concentrated. I'm not a nuclear physicist, so I can't speak to their efficiency, but IMHO would be a viable avenue to pursue as well.
You're the guy that rides a motorcycle because it it's "an even better feeling" and "utterly annihilates in realworld performance". You don't mind the lack of windshield and protection from weather, heater, cooler, safety, ability to hit a pothole without dying.
Yep, I'm that guy. A bike does have an even better feeling. And, yes, utterly annihilates in real world performance. Insensitive clod. But because I love a bike doesn't mean I don't have use for a car. Most of your arguments against a bike are bad. Try cargo space (strapping 2x4s to my back doesn't work real well), passenger space, and long road trip comfort.
As for windshields? Put a helmet on. Weather? Put on a set of leathers. Heater? I have heated hand grips. Cooler? Ride faster:P Potholes? Just maneuver around them (and I have hit some pretty big ones, it's jarring, but I'm not dead). Sheesh.
So, wait... let me get this straight. We're moving from show segments with commercials between them to commercials with show segments between them? Something feels wrong here.
I just picked up his second book (Here if anyone is wondering), though I haven't had a chance to start it.
Realizing that he is a retired submariner, not an author, his first book makes a lot of sense. I love the ideas he has put forth, and he's done a lot of research into his work, but MAN, is his writing style dry:) (I guess that comes from living in a tin can for so long, or maybe just being British)
What a lot of his critics fail to realize is that he didn't approach the subject trying to empirically prove his ideas, but instead, trying to ignite discussion that we may not know everything about the discovery of the new world, but instead, have a Euro-American slant to our history. He achieved this in spades, IMHO.
You've been reading Menzies haven't you? A good book, and fulfilled it's aims (to introduce the idea that China discovering the Americas), but a lot more research needs to be done to prove it's claims.
What's amusing about the text from that link is the statement about skills. Specifically:
This solution tightly integrates with existing desktop Windows infrastructures, allowing users to extend desktop technology and skills to the realm of HPC computing.
The users shouldn't be anywhere near this system in a desktop environment! The skills needed for a desktop application DO NOT APPLY to HPC computing!
Ok, so I hadn't realized that my dev environment included boost until about a week ago, and am still coming up to speed on boost. I echo the GP's concerns (I've largely been a Java developer), and am examining the boost documentation as we speak.
The other issue I take with general C++ development is documentation. I've been fairly spoiled by Javadoc over the years, and while I know things like Doxygen exist, they aren't widely used for the C++ language (to my knowledge). A brief examination of the boost libraries, however, yields a wealth of documentation. I'm quite impressed!
Let me say this. The "Smart Pointers" defined as part of the boost library look fantastic. I'm going to incorporate them as we speak. Have a look at the examples, they really are useful.
That's a non sequitur. Except that the two items are in the same budget, education and space exploration are two completely different animals. And no, just throwing more money at education isn't going to fix the problem. Education has plenty of money, it just needs to be managed and spent wisely.
All we need to do is clear off every structure in those 8,500 square miles, and we're golden!
I don't think that TVA's facilities actually occupy 80,000 square miles (that would be ridiculous). I believe their service area is 80,000 square miles. http://www.tva.gov/sites/sites_ie2.htm
Currently local governments (or at least state governments in some cases) SELECT the textbooks, but there are options. Which is a dreadful disaster in many cases. Just look at Kansas and the creationists polluting local school districts to get their nonsense put into schools. While I agree that having the creationists polluting local school districts is a bad thing, this wouldn't solve it. The Kansas state government, in this case, would just write the textbooks in such a way that the creationists are still polluting the curriculum.
There isn't that much competition, but in this case ANY competition is a good thing. Yeah, you either spend $0 on one book or $145 on the other book, if there even is a second book available in the subject, that's basically identical. Well, actually, using an E-Book in this situation wouldn't be free. It would be free to distribute and publish, sure, but not to write. I'd be really surprised if you could find someone (especially a state employee) to write an entire textbook for free.
Well, technically, the original definition is no longer valid. The term originated during the cold war to describe countries not directly involved... The first world was the US and her Allies (NATO, western Europe, Japan, etc), the second world was the Warsaw pact (USSR, etc), and third world included all those which were not first or second world nations.
Now, that being said, I believe the intent of your statement was to say that, "until we have no poverty, and everyone on this planet lives a happy, satisfactory, want-free life, we have nothing to trade". Well, unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way. Sure, we could just give everyone all they'd ever want or need, but the consequences of doing so are pretty dire (and almost too many to list). Foremost among them would be the destruction of the non-third-world economies, as all extraneous resources would be devoted to the gift giving. At which point, there's nothing left to give, and everyone starts starving again.
Actually, that was part of my point. The regulation we have right now isn't working. Fix it, instead of pitching the whole thing. Massage it, adapt it, and make it work. And no, I don't believe that the conclusion is inevitable if it were unified. And the government having an obligation to transparency? When did that ever stop anything?
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Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
1st world: United States and allies during the cold war.
2nd world: Soviet Union, China, and allies during the cold war.
3rd world: Any nation not listed in the above two categories.
Look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_world
I believe the current consensus is that Jupiter and Saturn (and I'm not sure about the other Gas Giants) has a compressed "liquid metal Hydrogen" core, (where Hydrogen at sufficient pressure acts as a metal): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Astrophysics. IANA Physicist, so take that wiki article at face value. I'm still with you on not knowing what would happen, but I suspect that pressures significant to turn Hydrogen into a metal, I'd lean towards something akin to your diamond explanation, depending on the composition of the impacting body.
Rockets first:
Next, Launch Capabilities:
I don't know if LM or Boeing still provide launch services outside of the scope of ULA.
Which country do you live in?
To be fair, we used to think of atoms in the same way (that's why we called them 'atomic'). We learned more, and revised our thinking, but the name stuck.
As much as it troubles me, I must agree. I loved learning Java, and I still love writing and using it, but it hasn't had the force behind it that it once did. Initially, it had a similar dictatorship running the show (albeit not a single person, but Sun wouldn't let anyone else influence its path), until the JCP came around. Since then, I haven't seen many improvements. I so desperately want Java to succeed, so much of it just makes sense to me. When used correctly, it can be a beautiful language.
And make it a true 3d sandbox game! That, and Military Madness for the old TurboGrafx 16.
I thought it had Teh berculosis!
Which one?
I read an article a while back on Pebble Bed reactors (though, for the life of me I can't remember where, so I'll link the wiki article instead). They seem to be a lot more stable and less prone to the dangers cited by the anti-nuclear crowd (like meltdowns, etc), and the fuel is not as concentrated. I'm not a nuclear physicist, so I can't speak to their efficiency, but IMHO would be a viable avenue to pursue as well.
You're the guy that rides a motorcycle because it it's "an even better feeling" and "utterly annihilates in realworld performance". You don't mind the lack of windshield and protection from weather, heater, cooler, safety, ability to hit a pothole without dying.
Yep, I'm that guy. A bike does have an even better feeling. And, yes, utterly annihilates in real world performance. Insensitive clod. But because I love a bike doesn't mean I don't have use for a car. Most of your arguments against a bike are bad. Try cargo space (strapping 2x4s to my back doesn't work real well), passenger space, and long road trip comfort.
As for windshields? Put a helmet on. Weather? Put on a set of leathers. Heater? I have heated hand grips. Cooler? Ride faster :P Potholes? Just maneuver around them (and I have hit some pretty big ones, it's jarring, but I'm not dead). Sheesh.
So, wait... let me get this straight. We're moving from show segments with commercials between them to commercials with show segments between them? Something feels wrong here.
I just picked up his second book (Here if anyone is wondering), though I haven't had a chance to start it.
Realizing that he is a retired submariner, not an author, his first book makes a lot of sense. I love the ideas he has put forth, and he's done a lot of research into his work, but MAN, is his writing style dry :) (I guess that comes from living in a tin can for so long, or maybe just being British)
What a lot of his critics fail to realize is that he didn't approach the subject trying to empirically prove his ideas, but instead, trying to ignite discussion that we may not know everything about the discovery of the new world, but instead, have a Euro-American slant to our history. He achieved this in spades, IMHO.
You've been reading Menzies haven't you? A good book, and fulfilled it's aims (to introduce the idea that China discovering the Americas), but a lot more research needs to be done to prove it's claims.
The users shouldn't be anywhere near this system in a desktop environment! The skills needed for a desktop application DO NOT APPLY to HPC computing!
Ok, so I hadn't realized that my dev environment included boost until about a week ago, and am still coming up to speed on boost. I echo the GP's concerns (I've largely been a Java developer), and am examining the boost documentation as we speak.
The other issue I take with general C++ development is documentation. I've been fairly spoiled by Javadoc over the years, and while I know things like Doxygen exist, they aren't widely used for the C++ language (to my knowledge). A brief examination of the boost libraries, however, yields a wealth of documentation. I'm quite impressed!
Let me say this. The "Smart Pointers" defined as part of the boost library look fantastic. I'm going to incorporate them as we speak. Have a look at the examples, they really are useful.
Consider the people who work at Tim Hortons sixteen hours a day, go home, watch some hockey and sleep.
I thought Social Security was only for American citizens... When did Canadians start getting benefits?
Because God only knows the only thing I want to do more than actually play an MMO is to watch someone else play one on TV. Sweet.
That's a non sequitur. Except that the two items are in the same budget, education and space exploration are two completely different animals. And no, just throwing more money at education isn't going to fix the problem. Education has plenty of money, it just needs to be managed and spent wisely.
All we need to do is clear off every structure in those 8,500 square miles, and we're golden!
I don't think that TVA's facilities actually occupy 80,000 square miles (that would be ridiculous). I believe their service area is 80,000 square miles. http://www.tva.gov/sites/sites_ie2.htm
Well, technically, the original definition is no longer valid. The term originated during the cold war to describe countries not directly involved... The first world was the US and her Allies (NATO, western Europe, Japan, etc), the second world was the Warsaw pact (USSR, etc), and third world included all those which were not first or second world nations.
Now, that being said, I believe the intent of your statement was to say that, "until we have no poverty, and everyone on this planet lives a happy, satisfactory, want-free life, we have nothing to trade". Well, unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way. Sure, we could just give everyone all they'd ever want or need, but the consequences of doing so are pretty dire (and almost too many to list). Foremost among them would be the destruction of the non-third-world economies, as all extraneous resources would be devoted to the gift giving. At which point, there's nothing left to give, and everyone starts starving again.
Sounds pretty cool.... have a link?
Actually, that was part of my point. The regulation we have right now isn't working. Fix it, instead of pitching the whole thing. Massage it, adapt it, and make it work. And no, I don't believe that the conclusion is inevitable if it were unified. And the government having an obligation to transparency? When did that ever stop anything?