Yes. The meter is defined as the distance light travels in 1/299792458 of a second in a vacuum, so GP was half right.
Half-right perhaps. But circular. S/he defined a second in terms of a metre and the speed of light, and then turned around and did the opposite, defining a metre in terms of a second and the speed of light.
1 second is defined by the SI as the amount of time it takes light to travel 299792458m in vacuo.
Actually, no. It is defined in terms of the period of radiation from the transition between two hyperfine states of Cesium 133.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Un...
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This. Replacing a 102-key device with a 2-key device is not progress. Point-and-click is really just point-and-grunt. Two grunts to double-click.
You have to take steps to make progress. You can take something useful and make it more open (like librem) or you could start from scratch and make something very basic that is completely open.
This. Stallman himself took the former, more pragmatic approach when he began Gnu. He started with an existing proprietary Unix system (Sun OS?) and used it to develop parts of Gnu, with the goal of replacing the entire OS eventually with Gnu.
Or you'd simplify the tax code, which would make it easier to spot them, and which would lead to less mistakes which means less fraud and less errors.
Fewer mistakes do not lead to fewer fraud cases. Fraudsters know they are cheating. They're not making 'mistakes.'
I'm not indisposed to simplifying the tax code, but let's not kid ourselves into thinking that this would somehow 'simplify' the ever-inventive schemes of tax fraudsters.
So what happens to the fluid?
Presumably, it just gets dumped out of the rocket somewhere.
Fixed the subject for you. About 90% of the methane from cows comes from their belches. The rest comes from the other end, in the form of farts or outgassing feces.
Don't cow farts account for the second highest source of methane? Well not cows alone but human created in cattle, manure storage farming etc. I think in 2002 or 2004 methane from cattle or human created accounted for the highest source of methane release beating out the oil fuel industry as highest contributor in the US for methane.
Actually, cow belches account for most (~90%) of the methane produced by cows. The remainder comes from the other end, either as farts or as outgasses from feces.
It's the Linux-haters who are being modded down in this thread.
Name 3.
You want 3? Here are ten. And there are more.
AC got modded down, but is right. The word 'near' is an adjective in this context. It was a miss. What kind? A near miss.
Education is already tax-subsidized. There's no way most of us could afford it if it weren't.
Live remote viewing implies broadcasting, and that raises the question of the intended audience, and of the expected fate of the rifle-operator.
To me, the situations that would "require" live viewing instead of a static file after the fact are one or more of the following:
1. The audience has a real-time tactical interest in the video.
2. The rifle-operator may not be able to provide a static file later (i.e., may be captured or killed.)
3. The rifle-operators or their organization wish to send a real-time message, whose impact would be reduced if it were displayed after the fact.
The only groups I can associate with the above situations are the military (1,2) and terrorists (2,3) with obvious differences in their respective objectives and rules of engagement. One can imagine many benign consumer-oriented situations that might use this technology, but none of them really require live-streaming.
Maybe because of the lack of rifle able to aim from a mile afar and, at the same time, broadcasting it live to the Internet.
No, because they had to enter the building in order to see their targets. They forced one of the employees to surrender her pass-code in order to enter the offices.
I can see where it would be beneficial to some types of training - working on follow through, etc. for shooting skeet, trap, or sporting clays. Or working on control for position shooting matches.
Fair enough, although live-streaming isn't crucial for those applications.
But for the common consumer end user? Pure novelty. And we've been doing similar for a long time - taking pictures or video thru scopes, etc. so it really isn't much new.
It's the live-streaming that gives me pause. Real-time remote viewing might be useful for the military, but in consumer hands it seems like sick voyeurism.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
