I always thought with nuclear weapons, that really after a certain size there were precious little point is making it more powerful
Before ICBMs, the bombs had to be delivered by parachute - as shown in the video. This left a lot of error involved in the whole 'dropping' process. By making really big bombs, the bombs didn't have to hit their target but only get close. As long as they hit the correct city, their primary target would get hit too.
Once ICBMs came out, it cut the error down dramatically, and thus cut down the size of the bombs. It has gotten to the point today where a small missile can take down a building with a very small explosion.
Many of EAs games are reworks of the same game with a new feature or 2 added: madden and the sims come to mind. Perhaps this is a way for EA to jumpstart some innovation - by buying people who are already innovative.
If I get a song stuck in my head and I can't get it out, will I have to pay them each time it runs through?
What if it is a song that I can only remember one line of. I keep trying to remember the rest of the song, but I can't. All I can hear is that one stupid line. Over and over and over . . . . driving me crazy. Are they going to start charging me a percentage of the song's cost every time that line tortures me as it mocks my feeble existance playing over and over? And if I can't remember the song, or the artist, who do I pay?
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Going for the stupid/funny post, and it pales in comparison to the asinineness of Sony.
"Not to mention the flood is not possible nor did it happen"
There are other references to a huge flood in relation to the biblical great flood. The epic of Gilgamesh references a great flood. Wikipedia has others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(mythology)
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. 40 in the bible (and other arabic cultures) was used as an uncountable number. 'I cooked dozens of cookies' does not mean that I baked cookies in some unnamed multiple of 12, it means I cooked a lot of cookies. 'I drove a thousand miles to get here' does not mean that I drove 5,280,000 feet, it means that I drove a long way.
The company I work for, a physical was part of the application.
I work in manufacturing. Though I do networking, I still went through a physical to make sure I was able to do my job (everyone does) and to screen for drugs. It is a drug-free workplace. There are random drug screens about once a month. We were told that up front and given the opportunity to decline employment on that fact. Some people balk at the fact that we have random screening, but it doesn't bother me.
Blood tests are also common. We screen certain areas of manufacturing to check for poisoning from some of the chemicals we use. A blood test was given during the physical to test some of these things. (I was not fingerprinted, however)
The company should have no problem telling you why certain tests are being done. You might be working for them so they should at least let you know what you are getting into. Afterall, with urine tests, blood tests, and fingerprinting, they surely know alot about you.
There was a teacher at my wife's school that did something similar to that.
The school applied for a technology grant. With that money, they were able to purchase 3 roaming laptop labs (one for each grade 6 - 8) and projectors and some other equipment. Also, as part of the grant, this teacher moved into a support role for the equipment. He would teach teachers how to use the equipment and help out in the classroom when they wanted to use it.
Down side is that grant money runs out. The teacher is no longer supporting the equipment and has resumed his 7th grade position.
Everyone knows that doing almost anything in education results in less money. Your skills as an SA would be greatly appreciated, but underpaid. It would have to be a calling rather than a 'job.' With that in mind, it might be possible for the system in question to get a technology grant to cover (part of) your salary for a few years. I do not know much about applying for educational grants, only that it can be done, and has been done in the school where my wife works.
I'm selling mine for what I have in it due to some funding issues. No takers yet. I think I decided to sell right as the stores actually are able to keep a few in stock (regionally)
They file suit against people because their IP downloaded something. Easily could have been someone leaching an unsecure wireless connection. Even if the **AA has no way to prove it was them, they file suit anyway because their strongarm tactics allow it.
Tuesday night, my professor read verbatim wikipedia to the class when defining something. He cited it as such, and I think used it correctly. He was not doing scholarly research at the time, just giving us a loose definition and background on a certain topic.
I dont remember the topic, so it didn't to me any good. I looked it up on wikipedia before he gave us the definition, and I was so surprised that he was reading directly, that I didn't listen to anything he was saying. Then he cited . . .
His house will all the modern conveniences has become totally self sufficient. In the event of an extended blackout (as mentioned by a previous poster), this guy will still have power and luxury. If OPEC ever puts an embargo on the US, this guy still has transportation. If doomsday comes, and the economy shuts down, this guy is still living well.
Being green is great. No power bills is great. But the security of having to rely on NOONE is the most valuable part of this article.
When/If I move to a different town, I plan on building a house on some land. And I plan on putting at least a few solar panels on my roof to give a modest amount of electricity. Not to this extent, but just a few.
Probably too late a post to get a useful read, but here goes:
Mythbusters recently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_ 4)/ 12/16/06) that addressed the issue on lights. Adam and Jamie were not involved, so there were no explosions. But this was one of the more practical mythbuster shows. It dealt with whether it was more efficient to leave lights on if you are leaving a room, if you are going to quickly return.
Part of the testing involved testing the power consumption for many different types of bulbs. Not surprisingly, incandescent used the most energy. Florescent and CF used about the same. LED lights used hardly any energy at all.
The results were it is better to turn the lights off when you leave the room. Unless with Florescent, and you will be out of the room less than 23 seconds. Also, they proved that the turning on and off does not produce cause more wear and tear on the bulbs.
Space Flight has only become more expensive because the government(s) is involved. Only the government is involved because there is little money to be made by having people in space.
If there was money to be made, someone in the private sector would have already designed and built what is needed. Eventually, the government backed scientists in the ISS or on a shuttle will find a way to so something profitable in space. Once this happens, and the cost of the space flight is justified by price of the returning product, then, we will see a useful step toward a space colony of some type.
There is not enough monetary justification for a moon base. The cost of transportation would far outpace the price of the minerals returned.
Whether like windows or not, he is a very good business man. He did not inherit any of his money. Inside the US with respect to businesses, there are rules regulating (not against) monopolies, laws against cartels and anti-trust actions. But in the world economy, none of those laws exist. OPEC is the worlds biggest cartel and holds the balls of the world in its hand.
The US needs a good business man in charge of running the country. Any business is not allowed to continue to operate, and constantly lose money. But the US Government only loses money. Why not put the richest person in the world in charge of running the (potentially) richest country in the world.
Democrats spend money on crap that pushes us closer to socialism. Republicans spend money on crap that pushes us closer to fascism. Let a business man have a try. That has to be better than lawyers.
All speech should be protected provided it doesn't violate the 9th ammendment. (Fire! on an airplane)
The biggest problem is how 'hate speech' is defined. I am in the minority of most slashdot readers in the fact that I am a mostly conservative southerner. Gay rights were mentioned, so I will use that example. If I say that homosexuality is wrong, I am labeled a hater, and that is hate speech. I actually have a friend who is gay as they come, and he knows exactly how I feel. I dont agree with what he is doing, but that doesn't change the fact that he is still a person.
That is where a lot of people get it wrong. Most people on the far left/right wing, dont want you to accept their views, they want you to adopt them. I dont care if a skinhead thinks that blacks aren't really people. I definetly DO NOT agree with that statement, but that is their belief. I dont care if a man wants to screw another man. I DO NOT agree with that action, but that is their belief.
When one side of the left/right gains control of a certain outlet, they will supress the other in whatever way they can. One group labeling the extreme opposite as hate speech is a way to get the speech outlawed. As long as certain groups claim to be protecting rights, but do so by supressing others rights, they have achieved nothing but move the country closer to a type of dictatorship.
Political Correctness will destroy this nation. As for me, I will call queers queers, fat people FAT, yankees yankees, and I am right on everything I say (just like Maddox)
Make the slingbox only allow 1 connection at a time. Then, only one person can view the content at a time. You would have to assume that the one person is the owner.
Under fair use, you cannot tell me that I can not view something that I have paid for. In the same way it is not illegal to back up your CDs and store them on your computer in MP3 format. (Even if sony tries to make it difficult) The problem is the sharing.
My wife and I lived on 1000 a month for about a year and got my car paid off, got a decent down payment for our house, and paid off some other debts. Living on so little isn't a vacation while you are doing it, but it provides many vacations afterwards.
Pay off the student loans, and live like a tight wad for the first few years. The "I just graduated" excuse can carry you for a couple of years as for why you dont spend any money on anything extra. Then in 4 - 5 years, you can write checks for everything (vacations, cars, etc) and have enough money in the bank for emergencys that even if you get laid off from your job, you dont have to panic and worry.
Im still waiting on Phillip Morris to come and sue me for enjoying their product without paying for it when I step outside with some of my smoking co-workers on their smoke break.
"Rickett, you did not pay for that nicotine that you are inhaling, so we are filing suit for 3000 dollars."
I wish the article had gone into a little more detail about how it was created.
For a thesis project in undergrad, I did some work with chaos and the mandelbrot and julia sets. These numbers really do produce some beautiful pictures. But the pictures that were produced was not the art, but the math and code that drove them.
With nothing else to show, it looks like he got some computer generated building blocks and glued them together.
In many elections, if a certain candidate does not recieve 50% of the vote, a new election is held dropping off the lowest vote reciever. An example is choosing the site for the world cup. If this had happened in the 92 election, there is a good chance that Bush would have won because Perot took many of the republican votes.
If you go to a system where popular vote alone chooses the president, you would be setting this country up for another civil war. Even though noone alive today even knew someone who faught in the civil war, there is still anamosity to the north from the 'south' because of state's rights issues. The country's polarization only splits the citizens and doing away with the EC would further that. New York, California, Illinois, Texas, and Florida (a piece of long island that floated down) would dominate the political landscape and would recieve all the national campaining.
An interesting fact about Nebraska's and Maine's system. If the entire country had adopted their format, Bush would have recieved more electorial votes than he did under the current system in both elections.
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Before ICBMs, the bombs had to be delivered by parachute - as shown in the video. This left a lot of error involved in the whole 'dropping' process. By making really big bombs, the bombs didn't have to hit their target but only get close. As long as they hit the correct city, their primary target would get hit too.
Once ICBMs came out, it cut the error down dramatically, and thus cut down the size of the bombs. It has gotten to the point today where a small missile can take down a building with a very small explosion.
Many of EAs games are reworks of the same game with a new feature or 2 added: madden and the sims come to mind. Perhaps this is a way for EA to jumpstart some innovation - by buying people who are already innovative.
If I get a song stuck in my head and I can't get it out, will I have to pay them each time it runs through? What if it is a song that I can only remember one line of. I keep trying to remember the rest of the song, but I can't. All I can hear is that one stupid line. Over and over and over . . . . driving me crazy. Are they going to start charging me a percentage of the song's cost every time that line tortures me as it mocks my feeble existance playing over and over? And if I can't remember the song, or the artist, who do I pay? ------- Going for the stupid/funny post, and it pales in comparison to the asinineness of Sony.
There are other references to a huge flood in relation to the biblical great flood. The epic of Gilgamesh references a great flood. Wikipedia has others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(mythology)
It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. 40 in the bible (and other arabic cultures) was used as an uncountable number. 'I cooked dozens of cookies' does not mean that I baked cookies in some unnamed multiple of 12, it means I cooked a lot of cookies. 'I drove a thousand miles to get here' does not mean that I drove 5,280,000 feet, it means that I drove a long way.
The number 40 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_(number) has interesting religious significance. It is mentioned many other times.
The company I work for, a physical was part of the application.
I work in manufacturing. Though I do networking, I still went through a physical to make sure I was able to do my job (everyone does) and to screen for drugs. It is a drug-free workplace. There are random drug screens about once a month. We were told that up front and given the opportunity to decline employment on that fact. Some people balk at the fact that we have random screening, but it doesn't bother me.
Blood tests are also common. We screen certain areas of manufacturing to check for poisoning from some of the chemicals we use. A blood test was given during the physical to test some of these things. (I was not fingerprinted, however)
The company should have no problem telling you why certain tests are being done. You might be working for them so they should at least let you know what you are getting into. Afterall, with urine tests, blood tests, and fingerprinting, they surely know alot about you.
Everyone knows that doing almost anything in education results in less money. Your skills as an SA would be greatly appreciated, but underpaid. It would have to be a calling rather than a 'job.' With that in mind, it might be possible for the system in question to get a technology grant to cover (part of) your salary for a few years. I do not know much about applying for educational grants, only that it can be done, and has been done in the school where my wife works.
I'm selling mine for what I have in it due to some funding issues. No takers yet. I think I decided to sell right as the stores actually are able to keep a few in stock (regionally)
They file suit against people because their IP downloaded something. Easily could have been someone leaching an unsecure wireless connection. Even if the **AA has no way to prove it was them, they file suit anyway because their strongarm tactics allow it.
I dont remember the topic, so it didn't to me any good. I looked it up on wikipedia before he gave us the definition, and I was so surprised that he was reading directly, that I didn't listen to anything he was saying. Then he cited . . .
His house will all the modern conveniences has become totally self sufficient. In the event of an extended blackout (as mentioned by a previous poster), this guy will still have power and luxury. If OPEC ever puts an embargo on the US, this guy still has transportation. If doomsday comes, and the economy shuts down, this guy is still living well.
Being green is great. No power bills is great. But the security of having to rely on NOONE is the most valuable part of this article.
When/If I move to a different town, I plan on building a house on some land. And I plan on putting at least a few solar panels on my roof to give a modest amount of electricity. Not to this extent, but just a few.
Probably too late a post to get a useful read, but here goes:_ 4)/ 12/16/06) that addressed the issue on lights. Adam and Jamie were not involved, so there were no explosions. But this was one of the more practical mythbuster shows. It dealt with whether it was more efficient to leave lights on if you are leaving a room, if you are going to quickly return.
Mythbusters recently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season
Part of the testing involved testing the power consumption for many different types of bulbs. Not surprisingly, incandescent used the most energy. Florescent and CF used about the same. LED lights used hardly any energy at all.
The results were it is better to turn the lights off when you leave the room. Unless with Florescent, and you will be out of the room less than 23 seconds. Also, they proved that the turning on and off does not produce cause more wear and tear on the bulbs.
If there was money to be made, someone in the private sector would have already designed and built what is needed. Eventually, the government backed scientists in the ISS or on a shuttle will find a way to so something profitable in space. Once this happens, and the cost of the space flight is justified by price of the returning product, then, we will see a useful step toward a space colony of some type.
There is not enough monetary justification for a moon base. The cost of transportation would far outpace the price of the minerals returned.
Whether like windows or not, he is a very good business man. He did not inherit any of his money. Inside the US with respect to businesses, there are rules regulating (not against) monopolies, laws against cartels and anti-trust actions. But in the world economy, none of those laws exist. OPEC is the worlds biggest cartel and holds the balls of the world in its hand.
The US needs a good business man in charge of running the country. Any business is not allowed to continue to operate, and constantly lose money. But the US Government only loses money. Why not put the richest person in the world in charge of running the (potentially) richest country in the world.
Democrats spend money on crap that pushes us closer to socialism. Republicans spend money on crap that pushes us closer to fascism. Let a business man have a try. That has to be better than lawyers.
The biggest problem is how 'hate speech' is defined. I am in the minority of most slashdot readers in the fact that I am a mostly conservative southerner. Gay rights were mentioned, so I will use that example. If I say that homosexuality is wrong, I am labeled a hater, and that is hate speech. I actually have a friend who is gay as they come, and he knows exactly how I feel. I dont agree with what he is doing, but that doesn't change the fact that he is still a person.
That is where a lot of people get it wrong. Most people on the far left/right wing, dont want you to accept their views, they want you to adopt them. I dont care if a skinhead thinks that blacks aren't really people. I definetly DO NOT agree with that statement, but that is their belief. I dont care if a man wants to screw another man. I DO NOT agree with that action, but that is their belief.
When one side of the left/right gains control of a certain outlet, they will supress the other in whatever way they can. One group labeling the extreme opposite as hate speech is a way to get the speech outlawed. As long as certain groups claim to be protecting rights, but do so by supressing others rights, they have achieved nothing but move the country closer to a type of dictatorship.
Political Correctness will destroy this nation. As for me, I will call queers queers, fat people FAT, yankees yankees, and I am right on everything I say (just like Maddox)
Dont buy advertising with (insert company name here)
Under fair use, you cannot tell me that I can not view something that I have paid for. In the same way it is not illegal to back up your CDs and store them on your computer in MP3 format. (Even if sony tries to make it difficult) The problem is the sharing.
Only one connection allowed solves this problem.
My wife and I lived on 1000 a month for about a year and got my car paid off, got a decent down payment for our house, and paid off some other debts. Living on so little isn't a vacation while you are doing it, but it provides many vacations afterwards.
Pay off the student loans, and live like a tight wad for the first few years. The "I just graduated" excuse can carry you for a couple of years as for why you dont spend any money on anything extra. Then in 4 - 5 years, you can write checks for everything (vacations, cars, etc) and have enough money in the bank for emergencys that even if you get laid off from your job, you dont have to panic and worry.
"Rickett, you did not pay for that nicotine that you are inhaling, so we are filing suit for 3000 dollars."
For a thesis project in undergrad, I did some work with chaos and the mandelbrot and julia sets. These numbers really do produce some beautiful pictures. But the pictures that were produced was not the art, but the math and code that drove them.
With nothing else to show, it looks like he got some computer generated building blocks and glued them together.
In many elections, if a certain candidate does not recieve 50% of the vote, a new election is held dropping off the lowest vote reciever. An example is choosing the site for the world cup. If this had happened in the 92 election, there is a good chance that Bush would have won because Perot took many of the republican votes. If you go to a system where popular vote alone chooses the president, you would be setting this country up for another civil war. Even though noone alive today even knew someone who faught in the civil war, there is still anamosity to the north from the 'south' because of state's rights issues. The country's polarization only splits the citizens and doing away with the EC would further that. New York, California, Illinois, Texas, and Florida (a piece of long island that floated down) would dominate the political landscape and would recieve all the national campaining. An interesting fact about Nebraska's and Maine's system. If the entire country had adopted their format, Bush would have recieved more electorial votes than he did under the current system in both elections.