May 2005 Entries
pman, believe me, it's a can of worms. I've been thinking about it for years and gotten to succesive explanations, only to reject each as incomplete and sustitute for the next one.Lift is generated by your speed RELATIVE to the wind. Not by your ground speed. You're flying supported by the wind that surrounds you and move with it and inside it. Imagine a fly flying inside a railroad coach, it´s going perhaps a hundred MPH relative to ground but quite slow relative to wind. So the lift doesn't...
“I can answer with an andecote.During my undergraduate years I was in an honors program at a certain college in the middle of Arkansas. This honors program, by its very design, was intended to challenge the fundamental belief system of its students. It exposed students to a variety of new religious philosophies, explored the abortion debate, and took on a variety of other issues that most of the students had never been exposed to before.The results where.. shocking. About 80% of the incoming...
"Many people today only understand these nebulous dual concepts of negative and positive. You can imagine a little scorechart in their heads, and them tallying whatever people say to them, whatever they read, into either one of those lists.If you were to say to an American nationalist example of one of these people that "America is a great nation!" their positive side lights up. If you were to say "America" has issues with their large prison population. Their negative side lights up and a tick goes...
Ever wonder what the difference between varchar and nvarchar was? Well I'm still not sure what it is but one thing I discovered today was that to add japanese characters in a database, you have to use the nxxx version datatype. For example, I have to develop a japanese version of a website I created at work and ended up with a bunch of ??????? instead of the japanese characters in the table I store the content. To my surprise, the only thing I was missing was the letter 'N'. I changed the datatype...