Most probes use a boom rather than a tether. Look at pictures of pretty much any probe, like Voyager, Galileo, Pioneer and you'll see RTGs mounted out on booms away from the main body of the probe.
To run "holographic" displays, don't you need to be able to control the liquid crystal shutter down to at least the wavelength of the light being controlled? After all, a hologram is merely an interference pattern, and the interference pattern would be on that scale. I may be out of the loop, but I don't think we have nano-scale liquid crystal tech yet.
Why has nobody made a service that even comes close to piracy? 3 clicks. type one word. wait 10 minutes and i have a full movie i can watch on any device anytime i want.
That only works for popular movies. I've had download times in days for some.
Can we stop referring to anything that is remotely controlled as a drone?
No. Otherwise we'll have to get into all sorts of grey areas. Is it a drone if it follows a pre-programmed flight path? is it a drone if it can be sent waypoints "on the fly"? At some point or another the unit is remotely controlled.
I'll say. People have been shopping at home since at least a century or more. It's just that these days it's done by website rather than by catalog and postal service.
You're supposed to use balance scales, not spring scales when measuring mass. With a balance scale, the force on the test mass and the force on the counterbalancing mass are the same, so it reads properly regardless of the strength of the gravitational pull.
True, but the real question is whether the increase in gravitational pull due to the extra mass of the mountain is greater than or less than the decrease in gravitational pull you experience by being further away from the center of the Earth due to the height of the mountain.
William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar who believed "only faith gives us access to theological truths. The ways of God are not open to reason, for God has freely chosen to create a world and establish a way of salvation within it apart from any necessary laws that human logic or rationality can uncover". In other words, scientific reasoning will never tell you anything about God or spiritual matters.
As I understand it, the appendix is also part of the immune system. It is a storehouse for intestinal flora: bacteria that aid in digestion. If you get a diahretic disease that flushes out your colon, your digestive flora are repopulated from the appendix.
We need more CEOs with egos tied to their companies.
Cute. The company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does. So It would be like someone name McDonald buying a burger company, or somebody named Ford buying an automobile manufacturer.
To be fair, did you dump the computers because they actually ceased functioning, or simply because they could no longer keep up with your expectations?
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Can you seriously not manage to add anchor tags to your link?
Seriously! You don't even have to go whole hog with anchor tags: just tack a <url: on the front and a > on the end.
Most probes use a boom rather than a tether. Look at pictures of pretty much any probe, like Voyager, Galileo, Pioneer and you'll see RTGs mounted out on booms away from the main body of the probe.
I say, if the NSA wants half coherent snatches of the population's dreams, let'em have it.
I gather you haven't seen what teens text to each other.
Come now! Aeronautics is what NASA does best.
To run "holographic" displays, don't you need to be able to control the liquid crystal shutter down to at least the wavelength of the light being controlled? After all, a hologram is merely an interference pattern, and the interference pattern would be on that scale. I may be out of the loop, but I don't think we have nano-scale liquid crystal tech yet.
Hulu's options:
1. I watch shows which have ads.
2. I pay them money, and they still show me ads.
I am really not seeing the attraction of option #2.
They're better quality ads?
Seriously.
Why has nobody made a service that even comes close to piracy? 3 clicks. type one word. wait 10 minutes and i have a full movie i can watch on any device anytime i want.
That only works for popular movies. I've had download times in days for some.
Can we stop referring to anything that is remotely controlled as a drone?
No. Otherwise we'll have to get into all sorts of grey areas. Is it a drone if it follows a pre-programmed flight path? is it a drone if it can be sent waypoints "on the fly"? At some point or another the unit is remotely controlled.
This story isn't even news!
I'll say. People have been shopping at home since at least a century or more. It's just that these days it's done by website rather than by catalog and postal service.
You're supposed to use balance scales, not spring scales when measuring mass. With a balance scale, the force on the test mass and the force on the counterbalancing mass are the same, so it reads properly regardless of the strength of the gravitational pull.
True, but the real question is whether the increase in gravitational pull due to the extra mass of the mountain is greater than or less than the decrease in gravitational pull you experience by being further away from the center of the Earth due to the height of the mountain.
America is a country which values the right to have high capacity magazines for assault weapons over the freedom of speech.
An assault weapon with a full magazine can speak volumes.
br. Or as Scotty put it: "The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank."
Obviously the crime is copyright infringement. He downloaded the app from a torrent site without paying for it.
The only dumbasses who care about privacy are the ones doing something they know to be illegal, immoral or otherwise dangerous.
Ah! That would be why politicians get so upset when they are tracked.
No. What this story means is that if you want to write trustworthy code, you have to make your own IC chips.
Don't blame me if you don't like Friar Ockham's ideas.
William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar who believed "only faith gives us access to theological truths. The ways of God are not open to reason, for God has freely chosen to create a world and establish a way of salvation within it apart from any necessary laws that human logic or rationality can uncover". In other words, scientific reasoning will never tell you anything about God or spiritual matters.
As I understand it, the appendix is also part of the immune system. It is a storehouse for intestinal flora: bacteria that aid in digestion. If you get a diahretic disease that flushes out your colon, your digestive flora are repopulated from the appendix.
I got my 1st ssd this spring, it was awesome and fast, for 3 weeks.
What a coinicidence... so was mine. Still is, as a matter of fact. Oh, and so is the one in my laptop.
> as a developer, I have no use for SSD in my desktop system.
Do you compile code?
SSDs are for booting. RAM disks are for compiling, and hdd is for long term storage.
...until all the youtube vids of Siri choking badly.
Actually, it was Koothrappali who choked.
Well played, congrats.
Finally! Someone who gets it.
We need more CEOs with egos tied to their companies.
Cute. The company he's buying happens to have the same name as he does. So It would be like someone name McDonald buying a burger company, or somebody named Ford buying an automobile manufacturer.
To be fair, did you dump the computers because they actually ceased functioning, or simply because they could no longer keep up with your expectations?
And before anyone ask "how's this news for nerds?"...
Nobody asks that anymore. That hasn't been a Slashdot slogan since Dice Holdings took over.