Comment Re:...stuff they see on the Science Channel. (Score 1) 841
And Mythbusters.
I'm pretty sure the rest of us left Internet Explorer due to its lack of bloat (no modern features at all) and its total lack of churn ('IE6 is perfect, it'll never need another release!').
Guess you just have a short memory.
The summary uses the word 'infamous' to describe the original announcement. In my mind it could only be considered infamous if they made a simple and blatant error. As it looks to a layman they have made an error but in finding the error physics will gain some interesting knowledge it didn't have before. If the latter is true then I'd imagine this would be remembered for all the right reasons not all the wrong ones.
Would this be the case or is the physics world full of jerks?
Don't worry, I'm sure they're just saving it for 'S'...
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I signed up for the express purpose of untagging myself from all photos that include me. I've found, not even using the most strict privacy options, I've been able to limit the exposure of my privacy fine. Marketing companies can still deduce my friendship groups, where I work, my rough age, and where I went to school but all of that was public knowledge once FB became popular regardless of my participation.
In exchange for this it's facilitated my ability to keep up with friends across two continents.
Regarding the 'Like' button tracking me I'd thought everyone would have assumed that something like this was going on. It doesn't surprise me at all.
Like the quality of your post, the opposition in the state and federal parliaments is a waste of time. If Baillieu was any good he'd win this election hands down over the horrific failure by the Brumby government regarding the bush fires. Instead we get yet another Liberal scare campaign, when they could be getting down to real issues.
My reference to reckless spending is regarding the Myki system which cost a billion dollars, and counting, to replace a system that wasn't broken. Worse still, the Metcard system it replaced is still required and the public transport network is still unreliable!
If you consider a billion dollars in context: We could have just had free public transport for 1-3 years without a single ticket instead of this failure. That's based on back of a napkin maths but a billion dollars buys a lot of zone 1 dailies. And it's not the only waste I can point to.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/355318/ipads_go_under_knife_victorian_hospitals/
Looks like this has been floating around for a good while.
This really shouldn't be a story, the likely case is the Labor government wont return to power at all.
If they do it will be with the Greens holding a deciding vote in policy and given their position to reckless spending like this they'd harpoon the idea anyway. This would be news if in three months time doctors were actually being given iPads to do their work via.
3. Space combat. This one is kinda a case of rule of cool. Realistic space combat wouldn't look like much. But really, the ranges involved in BSG are much too short, both for weapons fire and for targeting/detection.
I totally agreed with the ranges used in BSG space combat. Too many hours of EVE fleet fights have convinced me that regardless of what makes sense space combatants will always follow a simple rule regarding engagement ranges: furtherest 'safe' distance to effective deploy weapons. In BSGs context this meant incredibly close range battles due to the option of deploying nukes which needed as short a travel distance as possible since both forces had defense batteries. These close ranges were backed up with the ability to jump away, assuming the FTL stayed up (real life wouldn't have plot devices). In EVE the same sort of tactic exists, typical maximum range of battleships is 150KM and at that range it takes almost a minute to take direct action against a fleet giving it time to jump away. I assume this rule would be a constant in any combat where both parties have the option of fleeing at will.
The way space combat would look is entirely dependent on what sort of ships exist. A couple of shuttles duking it out would really be who landed the first shot. My only issue here is light source, how would you see the battle with no light. BSG battles often mimicked what you'd see in EVE where the larger ships really just sat there while the smaller ships had all the fun and the real action, if any, was in following them. BSG battles always heavily focused on the fighters.
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