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Ok. I heard stories of 20hp karts that can spin the wheels and are insanely powerful, and assumed you drive the same one.

From this point of view it looks exactly the same as An-124 Ruslan, the 225's little brother.

This was unbelievable. I drove 6hp carts, those left little bruises too, but 10hp was beyond imagination. I'm scared to imagine what you feel if you have a bigger racing car with equally stiff suspension. Are Formula-1600 or -3 same stiff? We used to play Live for Speed game quite seriously (which has very good mechanics), so switching from a good feeling and good skills to barely controlling anything was a shock. We had troubles to hold tea cups and spoons in the café after driving. I guess one gets trained eventually, but I'd get spinal disk herniation quicker than this.

Drove a 10hp cart, was too painful for the back, ribs and hands, to make it a permanent hobby. Apart from that it's really amazing.

An-2 This thing has no stall speed. Flying manual instructs that if you have engine outage and need to land unsure of altitude, just pull the yoke to the limit and let it descend at ~10 degrees slope, very slow but still fully controlled (leading edge slats expand automatically), and land safely without flaring before touch down. An urban legend about it: in traumatology hospital, a newbie is brought into a room, in bandage from head to toes. Everybody asks him what happened, he is embarassed, but resiliently tells the story. He was flying An-2 from one aviation club to another, alone, and wanted to take a leak. So he set it on autopilot and went to the toilet in the tail. When he came out, he saw that because of his motion, the aircraft changed attitude, and the door closed itself, and there was no unlock lever outside. (paratrooper version interior) He tried to steer by walking back and forth, but eventually the An-2 ran out of fuel and crashed.

If you read about the failure reasons, you'll see that every time something new fails. It's bad manufacturing. Roskosmos had it's specialists write on community blog habrahabr.ru, and they confirm this. As I know, during putinism there were more and more managers, budget overuse, and savings on the ordinary assembly specialists.

I occasionally hear them, once in a year, flying around. You can't confuse this deep and long heard turboprop roaring with anything. My favorite it on the very other end of scale. Has anyone thought if it's possible to make a man-powered aircraft? Ask your not-so-tech-fan friends if it's possible. Most likely they'll say "no". But this plane was the first to fly figure-8 to win Kermer prize. Paul McCready is the engineer that made an aircraft that was the first to fly 1 mile figure 8 and then over the Channel (La Manche). While other teams spent months building perfect aircrafts, McCready used a fast iteration approach: very simple materials (pvc, aluminum tubes, metal wires) allowed to rebuild an aircraft in a couple of hours. Months compacted to hours allowed him to build a successful model in half a year.

On some planet, big steel trains eat trucks. Dune

Night in mid-November. Keeps snowing and fortunately quite warm for winter, about -5°C. This is why I like cold climate: what is winter rain in Europe is just snow here. Every year when winter comes it's great pleasure to see you can't stop admiring it. A good compensation for moving your activities indoors.

Great timelapse! Never thought lakes can affect weather this way. Well, it must be because it's surface is not frozen.

I was there changing trains, went out for 10 minutes, and didn't know the cathedral was just behind the corner in 5 meters! So pity.

http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6946/20140313/woolly-mammoth-dna-cloning-elephant-clone.htm

A guy takes pills trying to fight computer dependency. Matrix

My personal preferences are synthesizers of 1980s. This cartoon had quite original and good score from a barely known composer. The don't make things like this anymore.

Since the SRBs were burning downwards and main engines were burning at some angle, the CoM was at the crossing of the thrust vectors, and some delta V was lost in one vector pushing against the other: /| If you find that angle, you can calculate how much force was cancelling out. Or better, you can calculate a "what if" situation: what if both kinds of engines were burning in the same direction pointing at CoM, what the difference would have been. The angle seems to be about 15 degrees, so losses are 1-cos(15deg) = 3.5%.

Good point. Actually, recently I realised that we not necessarily expect intellectual stimulation. We at least expect having sympathy towards the character. This often times does not happen. Before you want to sympathise their dares and adventures, you need to build a bit of sympathy, see they are worthy. The more movie makers try to impress you, the less they build character, and you end sitting through the film and just don't care. So, I should say, probably the intellectual bit was a cliche that I followed. Sympathy is a real rarity now. Bad example: Maleficient. The intro is the standard Disney opening, you don't feel this character is worthy, and right away they show THE epic battle, where you know what to expect: magic will happen (read: someone thrown by explosion or beaten against the ground). Bad example: Hunger Games. Before you understand what the hell it was, they drop you the "mass protest" scene. Oh, not quite mass, but a protest in oppressed country. Again. Yawn. Stop pushing me to like them. Good example: Blade Runner. You completely feel for the guy and worry about him. Good example: Le Professionel. Before Beaumont starts his offence, you see how he is (mis)treated and how stoic he stayed. Then you're ready to forgive all the illogical decisions. Good example: Interstellar. No need to explain. Was a good surprise.

I rarely had such issues. What Ubuntu version and hardware did you use? I only had blocking problem in booting, when I needed to boot with a special option, but no more serious issues.

KSP runs prefectly for me, except that my laptop has only built-in weak video. I use Ubuntu since 2008, as web developer I have same Ubuntu everywhere, so maintaining it is not a problem. But I acknowledge without this side-effect it's a hard duty. Lack of quality is a big problem. Audacity/GIMP/(name a famous Windows program analogue) all crash regularly, but still it's not my main job. Not going to use Windows as main system in near future, but if I change profession from web dev to design/research, will give MacOS a try. Linux was designed with "fix it yourself" philosophy. Turns out the area where users are skilled enough to do this is limited to servers and infra.

I don't know if this experience is realistic, or it's that I started hearing these news back in 1990s, but I remember the moment when movies changed. It started with Titanic. The movie broke both cost and box office records. And this was the most interesting part of the movie at all. We all knew what was about to happen, we all knew how they were making it, most of the content was social realism (pictures of real life of the society and its different members). So you could reflect on all this, but you didn't really care. Like I was thinking: "Ok, so here this is happening. And now this happens, all right." Overall this was Ok movie. Actually, they did only one bad thing: the crappy annoying tune that was playing everywhere that year. But the hype around "Titanic" was annoyingly too strong (I guess PR agencies did their job very well). Since then it happened more and more: much hype around huge budgets and CG, and actually good writers, actors and directors making mediocre but profusely promoted movies. Void plots that leave no ideas and you don't care about: Spiderman, Harry Potter, Avatar, Hobbit, the new Star Wars trilogy, Transformers, new Terminators, Maleficient, Hunger games, etc. I now feel like I don't care about movies. Even of the most popular ones. They're just void. You watch and think: "ok, so this is an epic battle, *yawn*". I tried watching new cinema around 2008-2009 several times, and the amount of crappy but hyped movies just stunned me, so I stopped going to the cinema. I give it another chance once a year, and every time come out with facepalm. My theory is that around that time, end of 1990s cinema networks finally got global, so that they could run and leverage a movie across the whole world faster than illegal copies were spreading. So big money came in. Then they could spend a lot of money on CG, on promotion, and marketing department made sure the plot had nothing too smart, and in the end it made a good return. (Actually, look at the "most expensive movies" in Wikipedia, there's a clear mark: historically most expensive movies start around 2004, but I guess if the table were bigger, it would be mostly the 1997-2004 range.) Do others have similar impressions? *edit*To put it better way, it's about sympathy to the characters which becomes rarity: Good point. Actually, recently I realised that we not necessarily expect intellectual stimulation. We at least expect having sympathy towards the character. This often times does not happen. Before you want to sympathise their dares and adventures, you need to build a bit of feeling for them, see they are worthy. The more movie makers try to impress you, the less they build character, and you end sitting through the film and just don't care. So, I should say, probably the intellectual bit was a cliche that I followed. Sympathy is a real rarity now. Bad example: Maleficient. The intro is the standard Disney opening, you don't feel this character is worthy, and right away they show THE epic battle, where you know what to expect: magic will happen (read: someone thrown by explosion or beaten against the ground). You immediately understand it will change nothing, because nothing real has even started. Bad example: Hunger Games. Before you understand what the hell it was, they drop you the "mass protest" scene. Oh, not quite mass, but a protest in oppressed country. Again. Yawn. Stop pushing me to like them. Good example: Blade Runner. You completely feel for the guy and worry about him. Good example: Le Professionel. Before Beaumont starts his offence, you see how he is (mis)treated and how stoic he stayed. Then you're ready to forgive all the illogical decisions. Good example: Interstellar. You totally feel for the guy quite soon. Was a good surprise despite rough plot towards the end.

Again? How long can they kick that dead horse? Hoverbikes, spaceships flying, sand dunes, mighty space warriors helping nice and cute sassies a proletarian revolution on yet another planet... Oh come on!!! The old ones looked cool and impressive at least in the 80s and early 90s. I guess they won't pass nostalgy test today, but as a kid I liked them. Not having video recorder, I loved every showing on TV. The new trilogy (I could see them in AVI on local networks to decide if it was worth going to cinema) seemed a CG fest. "Look what we can do with this!" But the plot was not appealing. And here we go again. From 5 years ago I completely stopped watching fresh movies. Most of them is just profusely advertized crap.

What the hell was that? I didn't get what were you trying to show, except some incomprehensible game action. Got bored after 1 minute. At least you edited it to show the most interesting action. Suggestion: 1) get something substantial to say/show 2) get the viewer interested right from the beginning You could start with a review of the game. There are plenty of boring reviews, so if you make quick-paced video, this is great for a review. You can try making the viewer want to play this game.

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I recommend Ubuntu + install Mate Desktop Environment. Mate DE is much lighter and reliable than anything in Ubuntu package (Unity, KDE or XFCE). Just google 'mate de install ubuntu', you'll see how to add ppa (google how to add ppa ) and install it. If you need publishing/graphics/ArchiCAD/accounting stuff, forget Linux. If you are/want to be a developer/programmer, go ahead.

A man is detecting psychologically handicapped people.

In 2013, I filled half of 128GB card on my camera by not cleaning new images at all. Was carrying it everywhere, shooting profusely. I was doing this at almost professional level (Professionals make about 2-5 times more images.) Still it's insane. I can't imagine filling up more on a phone. Unless you photograph every single Capuccino you drink. I think a couple of external HDDs are a good and reliable solution. Offload stuff onto them. By the way, SD cards deteriorate. Some of my many vids of early 2013 are broken already.