So, in my example: the store CompUSA has no right to sue the charity to get the computer back? to ask them to get it back? or to ask them not to use it?
Anology:
if I work at CompUSA (I do not, but example) and steal one of their Computers and donate it to charity. I tell the charity that it is my old machine and I don't use it. Then CompUSA tracks down the stolen computer and demands it back from the charity, should the charity give it back? YES, they SHOULD ITS called "POSSESSION of STOLEN PROPERTY"
The speed if light in a vaccum is the absolute speed limit, 3.00x10^8 m/s approximately. Nothing faster then go at speed of light in a vaccum.
When light enters a medium [glass, air, water] it slows by n, the index of refraction. for clear class, n is 1.50 so the speed of light in water is (3.00x10^8)/1.33 m/s or approximately 2.00x10^8 m/s.
However, the law states that the speed of light in a vaccum is the fundamental speed limit. So, in glass, things can travel faster then speed of light in glass (2.00x10^8) but obey the law at slower then speed of light in vaccum.
Hence, in that experiment they were saying 300c with c being speed of light in that medium.
I have to agree that F-451 is one of the best books that I've ever read. Along with ClockWork Orange, 1984, Animal Farm, and numerous others.
Too bad the younger generations are now growing up and reading too much crap. I mean, Shakespeare is all good and stuff. But how many Shakespeare books should a person read in school before its declared enough? 5? 10? All?
The reason why the teachers never mention these books is that they never read them. They don't want students to know something they don't. They don't want their students to learn new stuff.
I say, we should make reading one of those classic books [above] mandatory reading in schools.
Having spend 12 months on a co-op job at Humans Resources Development Canada's Ontario Regional Headquarters in the Systems Admin area, I have to agree that their concenpt of secure is a joke -->
1. They believe they are less prone to attacks because they use 'Banyan VINES' and no-one uses Banyan VINES.
2. Whereas most companies uses Windows NT rather then Windows 9x or 3.x since its more secure[LINUX Trolls, I know LINUX is more secure but you have to admit that NT Security is better hten Windows 9x or 3.x]. HRDC seems bent on using all three operating systems.
3. Dial-Up. These people allow workers dialup from HOME using ReachOut [think along lines of Symantec pcAnywhere].
4. Theft. When I was working there, out of an staff of 400 there was 2 stolen lap tops and someone manage to break in and steal 4 machines. I hate to know what are on those harddrives.
5. AUTO-LOGIN! Half the people in the building has it setup [through TweakUI] so that their computer automatically logon to the network for them when they bootup.
6. Job Termainals --> Any Canadian knows about them, they're the little things at malls and stuff that helps you find a job. Well, those things are connected to the entire HRDC network. If someone compromise one of these, then they're screwed.
7. Incomptant Admins --> When I did my co-op there, out of the 10 admins there only 2 had a college degree and out of the two, one was an Psychology Degree. Most of the admins are qualified because they took some 'Computer Repair' or 'Acess Design' course at a community college or somewhere.
8. Idiot Workers --> Have you heard of the recent CSIS problems? [CSIS = NSA]. A BRIEFCASE of confidental docuemnts was stolen from a car of a agent while he was at a ball game.
Expecting the Canadian Government to keep a secure private database is like asking a car to fly, its not going to happen.
They should've end it now instead of dragging on for another seasons.
This happens to a lot of shows and they drag it on till the show is no longer popular and then cut it off. This is like what happened with 'Home Imporvement'.
I thought that XF should go out when they were at least popuplar. That's what 'Sienfield' did and people still rate that show as #1.
I think that basically, they should end it now. And espically if Mulder isn't on everyweek, its going to suck. One of the best things about the show was the heat/arguments between Mulder and Scully. Without Mulder, Scully can't argue unless she's arguing with herself but then that would be crazy.
Where is porn on that list? Camon guys, that's gotta be one of the top inventions of the 20th century.
I mean, in the 19th century. It was very hard to find porn. Now, you don't even have to go outside to get porn. Making porn easily accessibly is gotta be the top invention of the 20th century.
The othe rthing is, CatScan and Ultra Sound Can help you detect Stuff.
The experiments I did, I noticed things moving cause the values that we were getting was different from the normal values that we were getting. Something had to change during all the tests to signify something. That is hard to do in real life:(
I was refering to historically. When G was first measured, the speed of light was defined in terms of meters but a meter is determined to be 1/40,000 the circumfrance of the planet. While that is close, it was not exact.
In time, the meter got redefined in terms of speed of light. But nothing similar has happened to G.
The inherant problem with measuring on the space station is satellites nearby. If a satellite gets close enough [~ a few KM] it will effect it. ALso, stuff like people moving around is very bad.
As I said before, the experiemnt was done in the Nevada Desert. No people, completely automated. hundreads of miles away from any people or movement.
I'm a 4th Year Honours Physics Major who did something similar and did a lot of research into this so I know something about this.
As the article said, G is very vague in its defination. Some new calculations have acutally put G at 6.64x10^-11 to 6.69x10^-11 which is quite a huge range. Whereas the two other constants, h [planck's contant] and c [speed of light in vaccum] is more well defined and had gotten more accurate.
The biggest problem with measuring big G [what we are discussion here, instead of little g which is 9.81m/s^2] is the influence of other objects. We did the experiement for our class in a basement labratory and I was able to predict based on minute changes in the data I was getting that people were moving their desks around. I was 4 floors down from the top floor and when I went upstairs, the professor [I was able to predict where in the building from the measurements and the fact that he was the only one up there in that section] admitted he was moving around to re-orient his new desk.
Also, another time, a huge pickup truck came to the parking lot in front of the physics building. I noticed right away my measurements go askew cause of it.
As I said, G is very sensitve to tiny changes in the enviorment, much more then h [planck's constant] and c [speed of light]. Often, to measure the constant G, people has to work when there is no activity going [either at night] or somewhere remote. In fact, one of the recent measurements was taken in the middle of the Nevada Desert.
but Konrad Zeus did not build a computer. He designed a computer but Hitler, believing that the war will end in a few months did not put money in the building.
I have a few questions and thoughts, if you will will bare with me...
1. Can he just take our comments and publish them? Doesn't he have to give credit or get permission from the writers of the origional comments? I mean even if he para-phrases them, he still have to...
2. Since the origional source is from/., I think/. should get to decide where some of the profits go [I say EFF]
3. Is it gonna be summerized or is anything gonna be cut?
What they don't realized is that for the average kid, we learn sex by watching PORN. So, I think the issue here is not potience [Viagra] although it does help. I think we have to make them watch porn. instead of letting them watch TV, watch Porn.
Now, normal people porn may or may not do it for Pandas. I don't know, but I think it will. mmmmmm, Porn for Pandas. POP:).
If that doesn't work, we have to hire Bill Gates CGI Inc to make Panda Porn. I'm sure that will get then aroused to mate:).
On the other hand, if the panda normally mates for 20 seconds and now 20 minutes due to viagra. That means 60x performance increase. It normally takes me 30 minutes, that means by sex sessions will now list, mmm, 30 hours?
Is it me or is it rather courious that these so called scientists have an AOL web page? I mean if they are reputible at all, won't they have a web page URL that either:
1] belongs to a commerical company 2] a university
but AOL? camon, no smart people comes out of AOL. no self respecting scientist would publish stuff on AOL.
Any crack pot [with some physics courses] can generate some mumble jumble drawing and formula and stuff. I won't belive it till its published in any reputible Science/Physics Journal [no, not the Playboy Science Section. The reputible journals have people that will analysis it and only publish the ones that are acutally true or promising, not any mumbe jumble. With the web, you can publish anything.
BOTTOM LINE: wait till its published in a scientific journal, that way its gone through some peer review and we can be sure its not all crap!
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So, in my example: the store CompUSA has no right to sue the charity to get the computer back? to ask them to get it back? or to ask them not to use it?
Intellectual PROPERTY, still Property
Anology:
if I work at CompUSA (I do not, but example) and steal one of their Computers and donate it to charity. I tell the charity that it is my old machine and I don't use it. Then CompUSA tracks down the stolen computer and demands it back from the charity, should the charity give it back? YES, they SHOULD ITS called "POSSESSION of STOLEN PROPERTY"
and that applies to this case.
I think we need to screw this whole Functional/Procedural/OOP Languages and go back to plain old Assmbler :)
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add $brain, $beer, food
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Moderate this to a 5, this guy is amazing :)
People,
The speed if light in a vaccum is the absolute speed limit, 3.00x10^8 m/s approximately. Nothing faster then go at speed of light in a vaccum.
When light enters a medium [glass, air, water] it slows by n, the index of refraction. for clear class, n is 1.50 so the speed of light in water is (3.00x10^8)/1.33 m/s or approximately 2.00x10^8 m/s.
However, the law states that the speed of light in a vaccum is the fundamental speed limit. So, in glass, things can travel faster then speed of light in glass (2.00x10^8) but obey the law at slower then speed of light in vaccum.
Hence, in that experiment they were saying 300c with c being speed of light in that medium.
Singer
I have to agree that F-451 is one of the best books that I've ever read. Along with ClockWork Orange, 1984, Animal Farm, and numerous others.
Too bad the younger generations are now growing up and reading too much crap. I mean, Shakespeare is all good and stuff. But how many Shakespeare books should a person read in school before its declared enough? 5? 10? All?
The reason why the teachers never mention these books is that they never read them. They don't want students to know something they don't. They don't want their students to learn new stuff.
I say, we should make reading one of those classic books [above] mandatory reading in schools.
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Shall I Say anymore?
It was my first co-op job [Think Intern] after 1 year of College. It was like work experience training.
Having spend 12 months on a co-op job at Humans Resources Development Canada's Ontario Regional Headquarters in the Systems Admin area, I have to agree that their concenpt of secure is a joke -->
1. They believe they are less prone to attacks because they use 'Banyan VINES' and no-one uses Banyan VINES.
2. Whereas most companies uses Windows NT rather then Windows 9x or 3.x since its more secure[LINUX Trolls, I know LINUX is more secure but you have to admit that NT Security is better hten Windows 9x or 3.x]. HRDC seems bent on using all three operating systems.
3. Dial-Up. These people allow workers dialup from HOME using ReachOut [think along lines of Symantec pcAnywhere].
4. Theft. When I was working there, out of an staff of 400 there was 2 stolen lap tops and someone manage to break in and steal 4 machines. I hate to know what are on those harddrives.
5. AUTO-LOGIN! Half the people in the building has it setup [through TweakUI] so that their computer automatically logon to the network for them when they bootup.
6. Job Termainals --> Any Canadian knows about them, they're the little things at malls and stuff that helps you find a job. Well, those things are connected to the entire HRDC network. If someone compromise one of these, then they're screwed.
7. Incomptant Admins --> When I did my co-op there, out of the 10 admins there only 2 had a college degree and out of the two, one was an Psychology Degree. Most of the admins are qualified because they took some 'Computer Repair' or 'Acess Design' course at a community college or somewhere.
8. Idiot Workers --> Have you heard of the recent CSIS problems? [CSIS = NSA]. A BRIEFCASE of confidental docuemnts was stolen from a car of a agent while he was at a ball game.
Expecting the Canadian Government to keep a secure private database is like asking a car to fly, its not going to happen.
They should've end it now instead of dragging on for another seasons.
This happens to a lot of shows and they drag it on till the show is no longer popular and then cut it off. This is like what happened with 'Home Imporvement'.
I thought that XF should go out when they were at least popuplar. That's what 'Sienfield' did and people still rate that show as #1.
I think that basically, they should end it now. And espically if Mulder isn't on everyweek, its going to suck. One of the best things about the show was the heat/arguments between Mulder and Scully. Without Mulder, Scully can't argue unless she's arguing with herself but then that would be crazy.
I'm no ashmed to pose for PlayGirl if some /. geek females wants to take a look so, how about it? :o)
Hey,
Where is porn on that list? Camon guys, that's gotta be one of the top inventions of the 20th century.
I mean, in the 19th century. It was very hard to find porn. Now, you don't even have to go outside to get porn. Making porn easily accessibly is gotta be the top invention of the 20th century.
The othe rthing is, CatScan and Ultra Sound Can help you detect Stuff.
:(
The experiments I did, I noticed things moving cause the values that we were getting was different from the normal values that we were getting. Something had to change during all the tests to signify something. That is hard to do in real life
The problem with that is that the equipment has to be very delicate and measurements must be taken for a long long time.
I was refering to historically. When G was first measured, the speed of light was defined in terms of meters but a meter is determined to be 1/40,000 the circumfrance of the planet. While that is close, it was not exact.
In time, the meter got redefined in terms of speed of light. But nothing similar has happened to G.
The inherant problem with measuring on the space station is satellites nearby. If a satellite gets close enough [~ a few KM] it will effect it. ALso, stuff like people moving around is very bad.
As I said before, the experiemnt was done in the Nevada Desert. No people, completely automated. hundreads of miles away from any people or movement.
9.8m/s^2 is g
G is 6.67259x10-11
I'm a 4th Year Honours Physics Major who did something similar and did a lot of research into this so I know something about this.
As the article said, G is very vague in its defination. Some new calculations have acutally put G at 6.64x10^-11 to 6.69x10^-11 which is quite a huge range. Whereas the two other constants, h [planck's contant] and c [speed of light in vaccum] is more well defined and had gotten more accurate.
The biggest problem with measuring big G [what we are discussion here, instead of little g which is 9.81m/s^2] is the influence of other objects. We did the experiement for our class in a basement labratory and I was able to predict based on minute changes in the data I was getting that people were moving their desks around. I was 4 floors down from the top floor and when I went upstairs, the professor [I was able to predict where in the building from the measurements and the fact that he was the only one up there in that section] admitted he was moving around to re-orient his new desk.
Also, another time, a huge pickup truck came to the parking lot in front of the physics building. I noticed right away my measurements go askew cause of it.
As I said, G is very sensitve to tiny changes in the enviorment, much more then h [planck's constant] and c [speed of light]. Often, to measure the constant G, people has to work when there is no activity going [either at night] or somewhere remote. In fact, one of the recent measurements was taken in the middle of the Nevada Desert.
Currently, G is defined as
6.67259 x 10 ^ -11 m^3/km/s^2
and the standard uncertaintity is
0.00085 x 10 ^ -11 m^3/kg/s^2
which is quite high when comparing to other fundamental consants
Yes,
but Konrad Zeus did not build a computer. He designed a computer but Hitler, believing that the war will end in a few months did not put money in the building.
Yes, in the Mandrake Install :)
it says 'IDE Optimization' is experimental and may cause crash
I have a few questions and thoughts, if you will will bare with me...
...
/., I think /. should get to decide where some of the profits go [I say EFF]
1. Can he just take our comments and publish them? Doesn't he have to give credit or get permission from the writers of the origional comments? I mean even if he para-phrases them, he still have to
2. Since the origional source is from
3. Is it gonna be summerized or is anything gonna be cut?
What they don't realized is that for the average kid, we learn sex by watching PORN. So, I think the issue here is not potience [Viagra] although it does help. I think we have to make them watch porn. instead of letting them watch TV, watch Porn.
:).
:).
Now, normal people porn may or may not do it for Pandas. I don't know, but I think it will. mmmmmm, Porn for Pandas. POP
If that doesn't work, we have to hire Bill Gates CGI Inc to make Panda Porn. I'm sure that will get then aroused to mate
On the other hand, if the panda normally mates for 20 seconds and now 20 minutes due to viagra. That means 60x performance increase. It normally takes me 30 minutes, that means by sex sessions will now list, mmm, 30 hours?
Oh Baby
Is it me or is it rather courious that these so called scientists have an AOL web page? I mean if they are reputible at all, won't they have a web page URL that either:
1] belongs to a commerical company
2] a university
but AOL? camon, no smart people comes out of AOL. no self respecting scientist would publish stuff on AOL.
Any crack pot [with some physics courses] can generate some mumble jumble drawing and formula and stuff. I won't belive it till its published in any reputible Science/Physics Journal [no, not the Playboy Science Section. The reputible journals have people that will analysis it and only publish the ones that are acutally true or promising, not any mumbe jumble. With the web, you can publish anything.
BOTTOM LINE: wait till its published in a scientific journal, that way its gone through some peer review and we can be sure its not all crap!