of course if the lead ball was shot and the feather was attached to a pidgeon then the feather would hit first:)
Only if the lead ball was shot at an upwards angle. Don't forget, that when shot horizontally the cannon ball will hit the ground at the same time as the ball dropped straight down at the same height.
Thanks for that: I was wondering where the "MC" parody was in the off-color Columbine joke. It seemed only to use the MC work to joke about the massacre.
Does anyone care...What the days slashdot articles are from 50 years ago?
The problem with planning for the future is that it is hard to know today what will be important tomorrow. Perhaps the insignificant trolls on Slashdot will be of great import in the future (and, no, I'm not referring mainly to Jon Katz articles). Who woulda thunk that an accounting ledger from ancient mesopotamia would be of any interest 2500 years later?
That's why the spy planes so close to China's borders.
70 miles out with an Internationally-recognized (but not universally, I concede) 12-mile territorial limit is "so close"? Huh? That seems to be a reasonable distance.
Oh, and spying happens. That's a known, a given, and an expected occurance internationally. Yes, we spy. So do they. So do our international friends. So do we on our international friends.
Exactly. Now it has also come out that the US plane was forced by the surviving pilot to land in Chinese Territory (which makes sense: I've never heard of a spy plane intentionally landing at the observed country's military base before).
Thermo isn't a troll (I saw a Troll moderation at the time of my response) but Jon Katz' comment "obviously an accident" was obviously a troll.
To Jon: did you see video of this incident we don't know about? How do you know it was obviously an accident caused by our spy plane?
Again, I couldn't read the rest of the article because of an asinine assumption at the start.
Mundie said the public will fully accept the HailStorm concept and Microsoft as a trusted repository within five to 10 years. "They'll trade off aspects of personal information in order to get a benefit," he said.
Bullshhh.
People probably have forgotten but there was a time when Lotus, then PC application leader (to the extent that business buyers didn't want an IBM-compatible as much as a Lotus 123 compatible computer) and Equifax decided to market a CD-ROM, called "Marketplace: Households", that contained everyone's address and phone number and personal demographically-significant data. There was outrage. Eventually, public opinion forced Lotus/Equifax to abandon the project (for more info on this, see NTIA Privacy Report, 10/23/1995, esp. footnote 26).
Now, eventually such products did make it to market, and scaled-down versions (less data, that is) are freely available on-line. But not by Lotus. And Lotus had a relatively good reputation compared to Microsoft.
Will such a clearinghouse/repository exist in 5 to 10 years? Sure. Just not in Redmond.
Astronomy Picture of the Day, yesterday, had a write up about this with great links, including (UNIX optimized) media files (AVIs) of the process (theoretical, not empirical, I'm sure). Those AVIs can be found here.
Very helpful, thanks. Also, since I've been using LCD for the last two months I can't stand to use a CRT, especially a curved one. Spoilt, am I.
One problem, though, that may affect the viability of equiping a lab with nice, safe, enviro- and elctro- friendly LCDs: how do you stop people from poking the screen with their fingers/pens when their pointing out things?? (Extreme Programmers must hate this, too!)
Actually, something like this burned some people with an airline promotion some time back....IIRC, what happened was that there was a deal where if you went somewhere on business, you got to take your spouse for free. Some people took their girlfriends instead, but in their wife's name. Later, the airline sent out a thank-you letter addressed to the spouse...
It should be true, but it's an Urban Legend: details.
IIRC, what happened was that there was a deal where if you went somewhere on business, you got to take your spouse for free. Some people took their girlfriends instead, but in their wife's name. Later, the airline sent out a thank-you letter addressed to the spouse...
Couldn't happen today (not easily, anyway), with the requirement to produce picture identification. This reminds me of a movie with Harrison Ford and... some actress playing a senator... lame movie but the plot was their spouses were cheating, secretly, and the plane they were on crashed. Interesting premise...
*Sigh* That's the way of almost all Ask Slashdots. Michael should make an obligatory link to a Google keyword search for each question (that would at least cut down on "Didn't you check Google?" missives).
And then, the scientists came along and pursued their righteous agenda of proving that the world wasn't flat. But we didn't mind, since we were busy milking our cows and scratching an existence out of the ground.... Why couldn't they have left us in peace?
If you would have just kept on milking your cows instead of picking up each new gadget these scientists wrought, you'd be in plenty 'o peace.
When I wrote my reply I was vaguely recalling something Samuel Johnson (Mark Twain) said that basically condemned Spelling Bees. Anyway, true intelligence doesn't fuss on others mistakes, but on one's own.
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Before anyone calls me insensitive, let me do it first...
Only if the lead ball was shot at an upwards angle. Don't forget, that when shot horizontally the cannon ball will hit the ground at the same time as the ball dropped straight down at the same height.
When I was 6 I drew a picture of a tree and got a gold star...
Thanks for that: I was wondering where the "MC" parody was in the off-color Columbine joke. It seemed only to use the MC work to joke about the massacre.
The problem with planning for the future is that it is hard to know today what will be important tomorrow. Perhaps the insignificant trolls on Slashdot will be of great import in the future (and, no, I'm not referring mainly to Jon Katz articles). Who woulda thunk that an accounting ledger from ancient mesopotamia would be of any interest 2500 years later?
70 miles out with an Internationally-recognized (but not universally, I concede) 12-mile territorial limit is "so close"? Huh? That seems to be a reasonable distance.
Oh, and spying happens. That's a known, a given, and an expected occurance internationally. Yes, we spy. So do they. So do our international friends. So do we on our international friends.
Thermo isn't a troll (I saw a Troll moderation at the time of my response) but Jon Katz' comment "obviously an accident" was obviously a troll.
To Jon: did you see video of this incident we don't know about? How do you know it was obviously an accident caused by our spy plane?
Again, I couldn't read the rest of the article because of an asinine assumption at the start.
;-)
How about a Penguin who's not afraid to cry at a wedding?
Point is that Microsoft is full of itself if it thinks that it will be the repository of personal data.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cpe1704tks
(And I thought I was the only one to have caught that...)
Astronomy Picture of the Day, yesterday, had a write up about this with great links, including (UNIX optimized) media files (AVIs) of the process (theoretical, not empirical, I'm sure). Those AVIs can be found here.
And how many of you use CPE1704TKS as a password?
One problem, though, that may affect the viability of equiping a lab with nice, safe, enviro- and elctro- friendly LCDs: how do you stop people from poking the screen with their fingers/pens when their pointing out things?? (Extreme Programmers must hate this, too!)
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It should be true, but it's an Urban Legend: details.
Couldn't happen today (not easily, anyway), with the requirement to produce picture identification. This reminds me of a movie with Harrison Ford and ... some actress playing a senator ... lame movie but the plot was their spouses were cheating, secretly, and the plane they were on crashed. Interesting premise...
Well, just explain that to your wife when she gets a little note from Passport Information Services...
Oops. I meant Cliff, not Michael. And, looking at the OpenDesk project at SourceForge it appears they have a long way to go before there is a product.
For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+help+de sk. Lo! and Behold! A SourceForge project OpenDesk as the "Lucky" result.
[Boy, do I feel stupid!]
If you would have just kept on milking your cows instead of picking up each new gadget these scientists wrought, you'd be in plenty 'o peace.
When I wrote my reply I was vaguely recalling something Samuel Johnson (Mark Twain) said that basically condemned Spelling Bees. Anyway, true intelligence doesn't fuss on others mistakes, but on one's own.
They had problems when they tried to sue the United States of America. Those wacky Brits!