I think a slightly more logical conversion is one fluid ounce of water equals one ounce in weight. You should already know 16 ounces in a pound.
Which is actually the only Imperial conversion that makes more sense than the metric one, where one *litre* of water equals one *kilo*gram of weight. What the hell is with the crazyass scale jumping there?
How is that not metric? It sounds exactly like a shilling is the same thing as nickel. Five pennies in a nickel, twenty nickels in a dollar.
No one says you have to have every amount only as a power of ten. That would require excess amounts of change carrying. If you wanted to carry 99 dollars you'd have nine tens and nine ones, instead of four twenties, one ten, one five, and four ones. (Well, technically, you could have two twos instead of four ones, but no one ever has twos. Or one fifty and two twenties instead of four tenties and one ten, but, again, no one ever has fifties, mainly because the ATMs give out twenties.)
Powers of ten only is simpler, yes, but twice as bulky. If you want to go to unlikely bills, it's three times as bulky!
Or are you saying it's not metric because you don't have a ten piece, a dime equivelent?
The one that blew up, yes, that one was provable destroyed, but not by any external event, but by an overload within the gate itself, using a machine designed to do things like that.
And the Abydos gate was clearly still there, they used it to get off the planet. If it vanished after that, it was by Ascended 'magic', not by force.
So let me rephrase: We've never seen any gate destroyed by a physical external force, even some of the most powerful in the universe.
As for the other gate...the ship was in a stable orbit, so the only momentum of the gate would be from the explosion. And if the gate system manages to work with the earth slingly wildly around the sun, I think it can handle something that's probably not to the moon yet. Gates coords are per solar system, not per planet, and even there they have a wild margin of error. There's no reason to believe the gate wouldn't work way the hell out in the Ort Cloud.
It's not the director's fault, it's the writing. Which is the producer's fault, BTW, not the writers. The writers can be blamed if one or two episodes stink, but if the entire tone of the show is stupid it's the producer's fault.
They don't work like the stargates in that they don't open wormholes and send the matter stream though them. And, hence, they work speed of light. (Actually a lot slower than speed of light.)
Who invented them is unknown, but they are 'Goa'uld technology' (stolen) and use the same crystaline computers as the DHDs do. I'll assume you've just seen the movie, which does't call them a DHD...they're the little table thing with the symbols on it that light up, there everyone but Earth uses to dial the gate with. (The Germans ran off with the DHD from Giza, and the Russians stole it during WWII. So we use a supercomputer to run the thing.)
However, we don't know that DHDs are part of the original gate system. There are places you can't use a DHD to get to, specifically, anywhere that requires eight chevrons instead of the standard seven, and the races that 'own' the gate system (Four very old races, all we've met are the Asgard and the Ancients.) have magic dially hand devices. And even if the DHD is part of the gate system, the Goa'uld could have stolen the crystal computers from the DHD first and the ring transporters from another species second, and they just hooked up 'their' computers to the ring transporters.
So, even wormhole issues aside, we don't have any idea if they use anywhere near the same technology, because the ring transporters are from the Goa'uld, and hence might be stolen, and we know the stargates are stolen.
BTW, the ring transporters aren't the only transporters we've seen. The Aschen have platform transporters, metal things with a pole sticking out of them that you just stand on, type something on the pole, and, bam, you're at another platform. The Asgard have something that sends out a yellow beam and works kinda like a star trek transporter in that you don't need special endpoints. And there have been others.
And right after posting, I realized the gate can't be 'inside' the blackhole, because there's no time to get inside the blackhole once you hit the event horizon...it will be frozen there forever.
But, anyway, the point was, the gate was 'working' up to the point time 'stopped', it hadn't been ripped apart yet, despite the immense forces that must have been applied to it right before it 'hit' the event horizon.
Note my quotes, because the damn thing hasn't hit the event horizon yet, and won't for a very very very very long time.
Ah ha! You forgot about the other stargate mere moments before mentioning it in your riginal post. The gate Daniel used to gate off the Goa'uld ship with. Not to be confused with the gate teleported up to Thor's ship...this gate came with the Goa'uld ship.
Yes, that ship blew up in orbit...but gates are literally indestructable. We've had them survive direct hits by meteors before, we've hurled them into a star and had them work for 30-odd minutes, and there's one inside the event horizon of a black hole that still works, or, at least, you can still dial it and have a connection established. (Don't do that, it's extremely stupid, but you could.) We've never seen a stargate provably destroyed before. There's no reason to assume it would be destroyed by a mere ship blowing up.
So while there's not another gate on earth anymore, there's another gate near earth, possibly in orbit, possibly flying away from earth, possibly it already landed on earth.
And you're about to complain that we'll never find it...it's easy to find! Put the current stargate on a ship, fly it out of the system. From off-planet, gate in a probe and see where it ends up. (If you can't gate in, it landed on earth and buried itself. There are ways of find that.)
However, SG-1 does have an amazing memory. They don't just forget inventions and events and whatnot. In fact, almost every single plotline that could have implications for the future did have implications for the future, including stuff that they could have just dropped, like the robotic duplicates (decided to keep exploring) and the Aschen (We eventually did meet them even with the warning from the future) and the Antarctic gate (way too complicated to go into) and the missing-from-the-start Earth DHD (Germans had it, Russias stole it, we blew it up.) and the alien masks for mimicing people (stolen to frame Jack for murder) and the list goes on and on and on.
Everything gets a followup. It's much nicer than Stak Trek's 'The ship's computer can tell if someone is lying in one episode, and then they never use that ability again in any series.' crap.
No, that wouldn't work here, because Atlantis probably isn't a human city...it's a Ancient city. Of course, humans are the Ancients, but whatever...it not only predates the Goa'uld taking people off earth, it probably predates their entire species. We're talking millions of years old here, not the ten thousand or so the Goa'uld have been screwing with us.
However, that wasn't Atlantis on that other planet. That wouldn't make any sense at all. Even if it was called Atlantis, which I seriously doubt, it couldn't possibly be The Atlantis, it would just be a placed named after the city.
The documentary maker was amazing. You had this guy come in and be completely opposed by all the major charactors, and even seem like a jerk in way, but at some point I kinda realized he was right, and all the main characters were wrong, even if they were wrong for understandable reasons.
It can be pretty hard to present two completely opposing viewpoints in a show, especially when one of them is being presented by a complete stranger, but they pulled it off. I kept waiting for the sterotype where he's secretly a bad guy, but he wasn't, and he had many valid points. Like the fact Hammond was just screwing with him by not letting him see any active missions, because there couldn't possibly be any security issues in tape the pentagon would review first, and wasn't even going to be published until some undetermined point in the future.
And, yes, I do define the laws I am required to observe. That's what voting is.
As the people who get elected have illegally sold out to the RIAA, I feel entirely justified in breaking whatever laws they pass intended to help the RIAA.
The universe doesn't have an infinite amount of stuff in it, and you can't steal 'from' the universe anyway. The universe is everything. If there's a 'from' to steal things to, you do not own the entire universe.
And if you owned the entire universe, you would by defination own the people in it, and thus any property of theirs is yours anyway.
Copyright infringement is basically monopoly infringement.
It's like going out and starting your own post office in the US, in violation of the law. Or attempting to run a wire by a few houses to the next county and provide a cheap long-distance relay to there.
Copyrght infringement is just violating a government granted monopoly on copying certain information. That's all it is. It's not theft, it's not piracy, it's competing in a market you're aren't supposed to compete in, copying and distributing Spice Girls music. A certain record label has been granted exclusive rights to do that under copyright law.
It's really hilarious to try to claim jury nullification is a short step on the road to fascism, when it's rather obviously the other way around.
Jury nullification is where we got several of our rights....the right to free speech, the right to not belong to the government church, both happened because citizens on the jury said 'He may have broken the law, but we don't care. He's innocent of all wrongdoing.'.
Likewise, do you have any idea how many people went free during prohibition?
Jury nullification doesn't allow anyone to magically create rights, it just lets citzens take some back from our government, if one of the twelve decide the government has gone too far.
Spammer steal the person they spammed bandwidth. And their disk space, and their time.
And, yes, some steal other's bandwidth with relays and proxies, but instead of trying to make a case of theft, let's just call that felony unauthorized computer access and be done with it.
And trying to make a connection between current P2P people and old warez FTP drops is a bit absurd, and those people were never called 'file sharers'. File sharing is, duh, sharing your files, not finding open anonymous FTP directories you can misuse. Not that there are any more of those out there.
Note by 'your', I meant, 'files you possess', not 'files that you are legally authorized to redistribute'. I'm not trying to imply most file sharing is legal.
As for xfree....my God, the GUI runs as root normal! Why, that's so much worse than Windows, where the GUI runs in kernel space.
Not to mention that there are ways of not running xfree as root, like running it on a framebuffer. Granted, it won't be as fast, because it doesn't have direct hardware access...but there's logically no way to give an application direct hardware access and still have it be 'secure', because direct hardware access is itself a security risk.
Actually, the point is that no one knows what happens to the Neanderthals. Either Cro-mags killed them all, or they interbreed with us, or quite possibly a combination. (Kill the dominate men, rape the women, lord over the less men for a few generations until there's no 'us' and 'them', just 'us'.)
I suspect it's the last one, unless it turns out that they couldn't interbreed. In which case we rather obviously wiped them out.
And there's no way in hell that airport security can tell the difference between a hiberating laptop and a powered off laptop, because a hiberating laptop is a powered off laptop...it's just one that's going to load memory from disk the next time it boots.
The test is simple. Power up the machine. Power it down. Turn the switch to the "off" position. This last they consider critical. A machine that is put into hibernation mode from the shutdown menu or by closing the lid may still be drawing current and providing functionality. See your own above comments.
You still obviously don't know what hiberation is. You can rather easily have a hiberating machine with the switch in the "off" position, or even drawing no power at all, because all a hiberating machine is one that's going to read a special disk file on startup into memory. That's all hiberation means. It's not even a power mode like S4 or S5, it's just a special way of shuttig down and booting, hell, you can do it with an old AT power supply.
You can combine this concept with wake-on-lan or all sorts of new options supported by special power requirements, and those require low-levels of power at all times. But that's nothing to do with hiberation at all.
You are arguing semantics that have nothing to do with the discussion.
'Hibernate' uses the exact same amount of power as choosing 'Shutdown' or pushing the power button. The fact that that isn't truly 'off' isn't incredibly important to anyone. We all know computers haven't truly turned 'off' for half a decade now. I mean, duh, the 'power' button is connected to the motherboard instead of the power supply, and that would have been a rather stupid design decision if it wasn't to allow the motherboard to control power on and power off...which rather obviously requires it to have power all the time.
And there's no way in hell that airport security can tell the difference between a hiberating laptop and a powered off laptop, because a hiberating laptop is a powered off laptop...it's just one that's going to load memory from disk the next time it boots.
And, BTW, you can have a computer that's 'hiberating' and is truely off...you just have to hiberate and pull the power cable. It will boot just as fast when you plug it back in and turn it on.
Hey, dumbass, that is where the ability to change resolutions is located...the control panel.
Click on the desktop and choosing properties, however, is, duh, another way to get to the control panel box called 'Display Properties'.
There are many things wrong and stupid about Windows, but the ability to right-click on something, choose properties, and then being able to change the properties of it are not one of them.
I have to point out that it's actually two clicks in Windows once you set the tray thing up. Right click, click. It's actually harder to launch a program than change the resolution. (Which is a pretty wacky UI decision, but whatever.)
And the way you describe it actually requires more clicks then you included...after you click ok to change the settings, you have to click 'Yes' within 15 seconds or it flips back to the old setting.
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Which is actually the only Imperial conversion that makes more sense than the metric one, where one *litre* of water equals one *kilo*gram of weight. What the hell is with the crazyass scale jumping there?
No one says you have to have every amount only as a power of ten. That would require excess amounts of change carrying. If you wanted to carry 99 dollars you'd have nine tens and nine ones, instead of four twenties, one ten, one five, and four ones. (Well, technically, you could have two twos instead of four ones, but no one ever has twos. Or one fifty and two twenties instead of four tenties and one ten, but, again, no one ever has fifties, mainly because the ATMs give out twenties.)
Powers of ten only is simpler, yes, but twice as bulky. If you want to go to unlikely bills, it's three times as bulky!
Or are you saying it's not metric because you don't have a ten piece, a dime equivelent?
And the Abydos gate was clearly still there, they used it to get off the planet. If it vanished after that, it was by Ascended 'magic', not by force.
So let me rephrase: We've never seen any gate destroyed by a physical external force, even some of the most powerful in the universe.
As for the other gate...the ship was in a stable orbit, so the only momentum of the gate would be from the explosion. And if the gate system manages to work with the earth slingly wildly around the sun, I think it can handle something that's probably not to the moon yet. Gates coords are per solar system, not per planet, and even there they have a wild margin of error. There's no reason to believe the gate wouldn't work way the hell out in the Ort Cloud.
It's not the director's fault, it's the writing. Which is the producer's fault, BTW, not the writers. The writers can be blamed if one or two episodes stink, but if the entire tone of the show is stupid it's the producer's fault.
Who invented them is unknown, but they are 'Goa'uld technology' (stolen) and use the same crystaline computers as the DHDs do. I'll assume you've just seen the movie, which does't call them a DHD...they're the little table thing with the symbols on it that light up, there everyone but Earth uses to dial the gate with. (The Germans ran off with the DHD from Giza, and the Russians stole it during WWII. So we use a supercomputer to run the thing.)
However, we don't know that DHDs are part of the original gate system. There are places you can't use a DHD to get to, specifically, anywhere that requires eight chevrons instead of the standard seven, and the races that 'own' the gate system (Four very old races, all we've met are the Asgard and the Ancients.) have magic dially hand devices. And even if the DHD is part of the gate system, the Goa'uld could have stolen the crystal computers from the DHD first and the ring transporters from another species second, and they just hooked up 'their' computers to the ring transporters.
So, even wormhole issues aside, we don't have any idea if they use anywhere near the same technology, because the ring transporters are from the Goa'uld, and hence might be stolen, and we know the stargates are stolen.
BTW, the ring transporters aren't the only transporters we've seen. The Aschen have platform transporters, metal things with a pole sticking out of them that you just stand on, type something on the pole, and, bam, you're at another platform. The Asgard have something that sends out a yellow beam and works kinda like a star trek transporter in that you don't need special endpoints. And there have been others.
But, anyway, the point was, the gate was 'working' up to the point time 'stopped', it hadn't been ripped apart yet, despite the immense forces that must have been applied to it right before it 'hit' the event horizon.
Note my quotes, because the damn thing hasn't hit the event horizon yet, and won't for a very very very very long time.
Yes, that ship blew up in orbit...but gates are literally indestructable. We've had them survive direct hits by meteors before, we've hurled them into a star and had them work for 30-odd minutes, and there's one inside the event horizon of a black hole that still works, or, at least, you can still dial it and have a connection established. (Don't do that, it's extremely stupid, but you could.) We've never seen a stargate provably destroyed before. There's no reason to assume it would be destroyed by a mere ship blowing up.
So while there's not another gate on earth anymore, there's another gate near earth, possibly in orbit, possibly flying away from earth, possibly it already landed on earth.
And you're about to complain that we'll never find it...it's easy to find! Put the current stargate on a ship, fly it out of the system. From off-planet, gate in a probe and see where it ends up. (If you can't gate in, it landed on earth and buried itself. There are ways of find that.)
However, SG-1 does have an amazing memory. They don't just forget inventions and events and whatnot. In fact, almost every single plotline that could have implications for the future did have implications for the future, including stuff that they could have just dropped, like the robotic duplicates (decided to keep exploring) and the Aschen (We eventually did meet them even with the warning from the future) and the Antarctic gate (way too complicated to go into) and the missing-from-the-start Earth DHD (Germans had it, Russias stole it, we blew it up.) and the alien masks for mimicing people (stolen to frame Jack for murder) and the list goes on and on and on.
Everything gets a followup. It's much nicer than Stak Trek's 'The ship's computer can tell if someone is lying in one episode, and then they never use that ability again in any series.' crap.
However, that wasn't Atlantis on that other planet. That wouldn't make any sense at all. Even if it was called Atlantis, which I seriously doubt, it couldn't possibly be The Atlantis, it would just be a placed named after the city.
It can be pretty hard to present two completely opposing viewpoints in a show, especially when one of them is being presented by a complete stranger, but they pulled it off. I kept waiting for the sterotype where he's secretly a bad guy, but he wasn't, and he had many valid points. Like the fact Hammond was just screwing with him by not letting him see any active missions, because there couldn't possibly be any security issues in tape the pentagon would review first, and wasn't even going to be published until some undetermined point in the future.
And, yes, I do define the laws I am required to observe. That's what voting is.
As the people who get elected have illegally sold out to the RIAA, I feel entirely justified in breaking whatever laws they pass intended to help the RIAA.
And if you owned the entire universe, you would by defination own the people in it, and thus any property of theirs is yours anyway.
It's like going out and starting your own post office in the US, in violation of the law. Or attempting to run a wire by a few houses to the next county and provide a cheap long-distance relay to there.
Copyrght infringement is just violating a government granted monopoly on copying certain information. That's all it is. It's not theft, it's not piracy, it's competing in a market you're aren't supposed to compete in, copying and distributing Spice Girls music. A certain record label has been granted exclusive rights to do that under copyright law.
Jury nullification is where we got several of our rights....the right to free speech, the right to not belong to the government church, both happened because citizens on the jury said 'He may have broken the law, but we don't care. He's innocent of all wrongdoing.'.
Likewise, do you have any idea how many people went free during prohibition?
Jury nullification doesn't allow anyone to magically create rights, it just lets citzens take some back from our government, if one of the twelve decide the government has gone too far.
And, yes, some steal other's bandwidth with relays and proxies, but instead of trying to make a case of theft, let's just call that felony unauthorized computer access and be done with it.
And trying to make a connection between current P2P people and old warez FTP drops is a bit absurd, and those people were never called 'file sharers'. File sharing is, duh, sharing your files, not finding open anonymous FTP directories you can misuse. Not that there are any more of those out there.
Note by 'your', I meant, 'files you possess', not 'files that you are legally authorized to redistribute'. I'm not trying to imply most file sharing is legal.
That sort of parent should be given a medal.
They could rather easily just have two cars, one with windows and one without, and use the one without when not parking in a secure garage.
As for xfree....my God, the GUI runs as root normal! Why, that's so much worse than Windows, where the GUI runs in kernel space.
Not to mention that there are ways of not running xfree as root, like running it on a framebuffer. Granted, it won't be as fast, because it doesn't have direct hardware access...but there's logically no way to give an application direct hardware access and still have it be 'secure', because direct hardware access is itself a security risk.
Except that God isn't the name of God, so 'G-d' is completely nonsensical.
Plagiarism is not a breach of copyright under any circumstances, and it's not illegal, period.
I suspect it's the last one, unless it turns out that they couldn't interbreed. In which case we rather obviously wiped them out.
The test is simple. Power up the machine. Power it down. Turn the switch to the "off" position. This last they consider critical. A machine that is put into hibernation mode from the shutdown menu or by closing the lid may still be drawing current and providing functionality. See your own above comments.
You still obviously don't know what hiberation is. You can rather easily have a hiberating machine with the switch in the "off" position, or even drawing no power at all, because all a hiberating machine is one that's going to read a special disk file on startup into memory. That's all hiberation means. It's not even a power mode like S4 or S5, it's just a special way of shuttig down and booting, hell, you can do it with an old AT power supply.
You can combine this concept with wake-on-lan or all sorts of new options supported by special power requirements, and those require low-levels of power at all times. But that's nothing to do with hiberation at all.
'Hibernate' uses the exact same amount of power as choosing 'Shutdown' or pushing the power button. The fact that that isn't truly 'off' isn't incredibly important to anyone. We all know computers haven't truly turned 'off' for half a decade now. I mean, duh, the 'power' button is connected to the motherboard instead of the power supply, and that would have been a rather stupid design decision if it wasn't to allow the motherboard to control power on and power off...which rather obviously requires it to have power all the time.
And there's no way in hell that airport security can tell the difference between a hiberating laptop and a powered off laptop, because a hiberating laptop is a powered off laptop...it's just one that's going to load memory from disk the next time it boots.
And, BTW, you can have a computer that's 'hiberating' and is truely off...you just have to hiberate and pull the power cable. It will boot just as fast when you plug it back in and turn it on.
Click on the desktop and choosing properties, however, is, duh, another way to get to the control panel box called 'Display Properties'.
There are many things wrong and stupid about Windows, but the ability to right-click on something, choose properties, and then being able to change the properties of it are not one of them.
And the way you describe it actually requires more clicks then you included...after you click ok to change the settings, you have to click 'Yes' within 15 seconds or it flips back to the old setting.