Regular people can attack Scientology in their everyday lives by reminding people what a sinister and unfunny organization it is. Be careful not to sound like a conspiracy theorist. It usually goes like this.
somebody: [some humorous tidbit relating to Scientology]
me: heh, yeah, that's funny. But seriously, Scientology is pretty damn scary. They ruin people's lives.
somebody: oh?
me: yeah, for one thing, they demand huge fees from their gullible recruits; they drain people dry. Also their legal team is dangerously well-funded. You pretty much can't mess with them or they put you in a legal hell.
somebody: huh.
Hopefully the story I tell of sinister Scientology is interesting enough that the next time my opposite number hears a joke about scientology, or the next time Tom Cruise is in the news, he remembers it and possibly tells others how scary Scientology is.
Cool, I've got it installed and working. Thanks for the tip. I must have gotten from an outdated article the idea that this was an unsolved problem. Do you happen to know what will happen to my machine if ntfs-3g has a problem? Basically, am I putting the drive at risk, or just the data that I'm writing at any given time?
The summary invites me to say which problem I would like solved. It would make things easier for a lot of people if we could write to NTFS without running Windows.
I doubt anyone will migrate to Mac over this, but this will certainly cause a lot of people to stay with XP for a while.
There might be more damage to Vista in terms of negative feedback than in terms of people making an informed decision not to upgrade. I know a lot of iPod users who won't be aware of this warning.
There's at least one prototype open-source search engine. It's called YaCy (pronounced like "ya see"), and it works without a centralized server. They call it a p2p web search. Honestly I don't see how it could function without any central server at all, but I don't know much about the nuts and bolts of p2p.
There's a lot to like about this kind of search (transparency, uncensorability) but queries are said to take much longer than they do at google. I can't give a personal account; I tried to install it but I couldn't get it to work.
From the wii games I've played, it seems like the wii isn't capable of anything more than execution of scripted motions either. It's fun to slash by making a slashing motion, but it would be a hell of a lot more fun if the precise motion made by the user appeared in the game. I can't help but feel that if my wii motions are scripted, I might as well have a keypad.
This isn't off topic: these guys have come just as far as most of the wii game developers in harvesting data from the wiimote.
You do realize that a large Young's Modulus is stronly associated with strength, right?
This particular material certainly won't be especially strong. The internal stresses responsible for the surprising stiffness of this material will also make it more prone to failure.
Everything obeys Hooke's Law in a neighborhood of F = 0.
Isn't that more a fact of mathematics than of physics? Your claim follows directly from the assumption that the stress/strain curve is smooth. And with rare exceptions everything in physics is pretty smooth.
will you be able to CUT THE DIAMOND with this material
No, you will not. The material is only stiffer than diamond in a narrow temperature range. If you tried to cut with it, it would heat up and lose this stiffness.
The article does a lousy job of explaining this temperature-dependent stiffness to non-experts. From what I understand, this is how it works: one of the two components is like a framework of tinkertoys, and the other is like a bunch of water balloons filling up the gaps in the tinkertoy structure. Both the tinkertoys and the water expand as the material's temperature is increased, possibly at varying rates. In that small range at 58 degrees F, the water baloons fit very tightly in the structure. They strain the tinkertoys, but don't break them. The tinkertoys flex as they usually would because the water balloons are holding them in place, so the entire assembly is very stiff.
These wikipedia articles are 100% correct. Toughness and hardness are very simple concepts. Wikipedia might be unreliable for soft sciences, but for physics and materials science it's a great source of information and very rarely in need of correction.
Your other posts don't make you look like a troll, but I suspect you might be prone to flippant comments like this one. Try to restrain yourself.
Don't conflate hardness with strength or stiffness. Hardness is not well quantified. For hardness we refer to the Mohs scale, which will tell you which of two substances is the harder, but doesn't strictly quantify hardness. A claim that substance A is "twice" as hard as substance B probably refers to the Young's Modulus, or stiffness, rather than to hardness.
A common way to measure the Young's modulus is to support a sample of the material on two struts, and then apply pressure from above to the center of the sample. The less it bends, the higher the Young's modulus. The apparatus looks like this.
Strength is a different quantity. Strength is the amount of force needed, per unit cross-sectional area, to cause the material to fail. For tensile strength, this means pulling apart. For compressive strength, it means collapsing. A material with great tensile strength can have a great weight hung from it without snapping, and a material with great compressive strength can act as a pillar to support a great deal of weight.
The article claims nothing about the strength of this material.
Your indictment of Motheload for general crappiness is 100% correct, but at one point you go to far.
"No one would care about putting stuff up there otherwise."
People would still watch the stuff on youtube because it's easier (in some cases) to navigate a single repository for all TV than to go to Motherload for this, CNN.com for that, ESPN.com for the other.
By the way, I personally don't mind that Motherload chops the Daily Show into bits. I don't really care for the interviews, so I just skip them. Streaming flash technology isn't so hot that I could do that painlessly if the shows were in one piece.
What is an anonymous service?
Also, your webpage www.xganon.org is broken (HTTP Error code 500) and the link for the webmaster's e-mail is root@localhost.
That would be like the discounts that American railroads offered to large customers in the latter half of the 19th century. I think the supreme court ruled that antitrust laws against this kind of behavior were constitutional.
If Intel gave a discount to Dell, it would have to give the same discount to newegg and HP and joe-startup.com.
Is it still illegal to give preferential treatment to companies that deal in great volume?
One time I looked up the lyrics to a scottish folk song that my mother used to sing, and one of the hits auto-launched a midi file. I didn't really mind.
If you hate the sounds so much, disable them in your browser. Opera can do it. Tools > Preferences > Content (tab).
When has the RIAA ever accused anyone of downloading? The RIAA suits always claim that the user distributed music. I'm really sick of explaining to my friends that downloading leaves you in the clear, while uploading puts you in jeopardy.
The RIAA has not accused him of downloading. They have accused him of uploading, and whether he had a legal right to possess the music is immaterial. Their case is that he had no right to distribute it freely.
Why are you whining about their not taking the broken machine? Save the case for the next time you build your own, and chuck the rest in the dumpster at the next construction site you see. Save whatever else you want, too.
Search engines never respond to a query with a dialog box that might as well read "htpp://www.autodesk.com is MEANINGLESS, you imbecile! You typed it WRONG!" They're much friendlier. How many times have we seen a page that says "check the address for typos, such as ww.example.com." Search engines are friendly and they don't make you feel dumb.
Would it be possible for this IPO to be run Google-style? I don't remember the details, but slashdotters surely remember the story. There was a big online auction instead of a traditional IPO, so that investors could deal (almost, I guess) directly with Google.
Is it that only a very high-profile company like Google can make that model work?
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Regular people can attack Scientology in their everyday lives by reminding people what a sinister and unfunny organization it is. Be careful not to sound like a conspiracy theorist. It usually goes like this.
somebody: [some humorous tidbit relating to Scientology]
me: heh, yeah, that's funny. But seriously, Scientology is pretty damn scary. They ruin people's lives.
somebody: oh?
me: yeah, for one thing, they demand huge fees from their gullible recruits; they drain people dry. Also their legal team is dangerously well-funded. You pretty much can't mess with them or they put you in a legal hell.
somebody: huh.
Hopefully the story I tell of sinister Scientology is interesting enough that the next time my opposite number hears a joke about scientology, or the next time Tom Cruise is in the news, he remembers it and possibly tells others how scary Scientology is.
Also, the "slack" in Slackware is taken from the "doctrine" of the Church of the SubGenius.
Cool, I've got it installed and working. Thanks for the tip. I must have gotten from an outdated article the idea that this was an unsolved problem. Do you happen to know what will happen to my machine if ntfs-3g has a problem? Basically, am I putting the drive at risk, or just the data that I'm writing at any given time?
The summary invites me to say which problem I would like solved. It would make things easier for a lot of people if we could write to NTFS without running Windows.
I doubt anyone will migrate to Mac over this, but this will certainly cause a lot of people to stay with XP for a while.
There might be more damage to Vista in terms of negative feedback than in terms of people making an informed decision not to upgrade. I know a lot of iPod users who won't be aware of this warning.
There's at least one prototype open-source search engine. It's called YaCy (pronounced like "ya see"), and it works without a centralized server. They call it a p2p web search. Honestly I don't see how it could function without any central server at all, but I don't know much about the nuts and bolts of p2p.
There's a lot to like about this kind of search (transparency, uncensorability) but queries are said to take much longer than they do at google. I can't give a personal account; I tried to install it but I couldn't get it to work.
They didn't. He's third from the end as of 12:27, 04 Feb 2006.
From the wii games I've played, it seems like the wii isn't capable of anything more than execution of scripted motions either. It's fun to slash by making a slashing motion, but it would be a hell of a lot more fun if the precise motion made by the user appeared in the game. I can't help but feel that if my wii motions are scripted, I might as well have a keypad. This isn't off topic: these guys have come just as far as most of the wii game developers in harvesting data from the wiimote.
You do realize that a large Young's Modulus is stronly associated with strength, right?
This particular material certainly won't be especially strong. The internal stresses responsible for the surprising stiffness of this material will also make it more prone to failure.
Everything obeys Hooke's Law in a neighborhood of F = 0.
Isn't that more a fact of mathematics than of physics? Your claim follows directly from the assumption that the stress/strain curve is smooth. And with rare exceptions everything in physics is pretty smooth.
Cool! So of hardness, toughness, strength and stiffness, no two are always directly related. Thanks, man!
will you be able to CUT THE DIAMOND with this material
No, you will not. The material is only stiffer than diamond in a narrow temperature range. If you tried to cut with it, it would heat up and lose this stiffness.
The article does a lousy job of explaining this temperature-dependent stiffness to non-experts. From what I understand, this is how it works: one of the two components is like a framework of tinkertoys, and the other is like a bunch of water balloons filling up the gaps in the tinkertoy structure. Both the tinkertoys and the water expand as the material's temperature is increased, possibly at varying rates. In that small range at 58 degrees F, the water baloons fit very tightly in the structure. They strain the tinkertoys, but don't break them. The tinkertoys flex as they usually would because the water balloons are holding them in place, so the entire assembly is very stiff.
These wikipedia articles are 100% correct. Toughness and hardness are very simple concepts. Wikipedia might be unreliable for soft sciences, but for physics and materials science it's a great source of information and very rarely in need of correction.
Your other posts don't make you look like a troll, but I suspect you might be prone to flippant comments like this one. Try to restrain yourself.
Don't conflate hardness with strength or stiffness. Hardness is not well quantified. For hardness we refer to the Mohs scale, which will tell you which of two substances is the harder, but doesn't strictly quantify hardness. A claim that substance A is "twice" as hard as substance B probably refers to the Young's Modulus, or stiffness, rather than to hardness.
A common way to measure the Young's modulus is to support a sample of the material on two struts, and then apply pressure from above to the center of the sample. The less it bends, the higher the Young's modulus. The apparatus looks like this.
Strength is a different quantity. Strength is the amount of force needed, per unit cross-sectional area, to cause the material to fail. For tensile strength, this means pulling apart. For compressive strength, it means collapsing. A material with great tensile strength can have a great weight hung from it without snapping, and a material with great compressive strength can act as a pillar to support a great deal of weight.
The article claims nothing about the strength of this material.
I wonder if allofmp3 could be replaced by a competitor that offers it all for free (up to navigation through some ads). That would be nice.
Your indictment of Motheload for general crappiness is 100% correct, but at one point you go to far.
"No one would care about putting stuff up there otherwise."
People would still watch the stuff on youtube because it's easier (in some cases) to navigate a single repository for all TV than to go to Motherload for this, CNN.com for that, ESPN.com for the other.
By the way, I personally don't mind that Motherload chops the Daily Show into bits. I don't really care for the interviews, so I just skip them. Streaming flash technology isn't so hot that I could do that painlessly if the shows were in one piece.
What is an anonymous service? Also, your webpage www.xganon.org is broken (HTTP Error code 500) and the link for the webmaster's e-mail is root@localhost.
Just enough time so you can't quit on a Friday after work and never show up again.
Unless it's a three-day weekend?
That would be like the discounts that American railroads offered to large customers in the latter half of the 19th century. I think the supreme court ruled that antitrust laws against this kind of behavior were constitutional.
If Intel gave a discount to Dell, it would have to give the same discount to newegg and HP and joe-startup.com.
Is it still illegal to give preferential treatment to companies that deal in great volume?
One time I looked up the lyrics to a scottish folk song that my mother used to sing, and one of the hits auto-launched a midi file. I didn't really mind. If you hate the sounds so much, disable them in your browser. Opera can do it. Tools > Preferences > Content (tab).
If the RIAA has accused him of downloading
When has the RIAA ever accused anyone of downloading? The RIAA suits always claim that the user distributed music. I'm really sick of explaining to my friends that downloading leaves you in the clear, while uploading puts you in jeopardy.
The RIAA has not accused him of downloading. They have accused him of uploading, and whether he had a legal right to possess the music is immaterial. Their case is that he had no right to distribute it freely.
What is it?
Why are you whining about their not taking the broken machine? Save the case for the next time you build your own, and chuck the rest in the dumpster at the next construction site you see. Save whatever else you want, too.
Search engines never respond to a query with a dialog box that might as well read "htpp://www.autodesk.com is MEANINGLESS, you imbecile! You typed it WRONG!" They're much friendlier. How many times have we seen a page that says "check the address for typos, such as ww.example.com." Search engines are friendly and they don't make you feel dumb.
Sure, I did it. But I also searched 'sex' on google, out of a bizarre desire not to take sides in that competition.
Would it be possible for this IPO to be run Google-style? I don't remember the details, but slashdotters surely remember the story. There was a big online auction instead of a traditional IPO, so that investors could deal (almost, I guess) directly with Google.
Is it that only a very high-profile company like Google can make that model work?