But the biggest problem of all is harnessing enough energy simply to get a spaceship off the ground. That is where rocket engines come in. Rocket Image Gallery Rocket engines are, on the one hand, so simple that you can build and fly your own model rockets very inexpensively (see the lin...
If you don’t like its suggestions, you can simply ignore them, and you’re unlikely to spend much time wondering why it recommended what it did. Timeliness vs. human involvement: How fast does the decision need to be made?Decisions that need to be made quickly are prime candidates for ...
The monks--who appeared to mesh better with the scenery than did the previous day’s visitor, Marilyn Quayle--had been invited to the Paramount lot to attend a taping of “Cheers.” But they made it known that as much as they liked Cliff, Norm, Frazier and Lilith, they and their spir...
Dear Startup: You have no idea how much that costs- “We are completely clueless about how long things should take.” Here is atrick to handle expectation of unreasonable estimates. Escalation of commitment- A.k.a. sunk-cost fallacy, or the rational explanation of why the hell do we stil...
A cache miss, on the other hand, means the CPU has to go scampering off to find the data elsewhere. This is where the L2 cache comes into play -- while it's slower, it's also much larger. Some processors use an inclusive cache design (meaning data stored in the...
While the space shuttles are a great technological advance, they are limited as to how much payload they can take into orbit. The shuttles are not the heavy lift vehicles like the Saturn V or the Delta rockets. The shuttle cannot go to high altitude orbits or escape the Earth's gravitation...
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Mayorcas said that because the left absolutely believes this. Partly because they very much want to. And they fail to realize it is the most absolute, utter garbage. No? Well, tell me what parts of America are now under water? None, you say? In fact, wealthy lefties keep buying sea ...
On the other hand, you planned and carefully prepared in advance to cheat effectively, and you even recruited a friend (who is apparently not so honest himself but might not have done anything wrong if you hadn't brought him into your plan). It's pretty much the worst case scenario for...
And we were informed by the manager/ Haus Frau that if we used too much hot, our rent would go up because of the utility excess. This was in the 1990s. I shudder to think what the cost of real hot water is today. CeliaHayes says: December 6, 2021 at 4:13 pm *snicker* I ...