...that way if a company tries to claim if for their own sue them and pull out the postmarked envelope as evidence and bam, thats all the proof any judge will need.
Aside from what techno-vampire just said, what exactly would one sue them for? The royalties one isn't collecting anyway? Damages to what income?
Assuming they worked at all (which I'm not granting, but let's say), they'd only be good for defending against lawsuits by companies (or conceivably individuals) trying to enforce a patent against oneself or a third party.
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Not much chance of slowing down to go into orbit - you need 25K mi/hr for escape velocity for Earth (IIRC)....
Actually, the "25K mi/hr for escape velocity" is irrelevant for these purposes; what makes it an escape velocity, after all, is that that's how much speed will be lost if it escapes from Earth. So something launched at exactly escape velocity will asymptotically approach 0 mi/hr; something launched at 26K mi/hr will approach 1K mi/hr (assuming the accuracy of 25K mi/hr).
And of course, anything launched at less than 25K mi/hr will not escape Earth, and will stay in orbit around it (unless it gets too close to the Moon, or something like that).
You know, scientific notation was created for a reason.
Yes, and that reason was to confuse the hell out of me. It sounds a lot bigger to say billion million trillion than to say 1x10^24.
But seeing as how a billion million trillion would be 10^27, or 10^36 if you're using British billions etc., I think the hell is pretty well confused out of you anyway.
Aside from it being more easily & properly called an "octillion", or "quadrilliard" by British counting.
I would think the key to what you want is something with plenty of memory for storing the village locations and, perhaps more importantly, the routes to access them.
What you need for that, of course, is hard drive space, not memory, assuming you don't mean the computer's capacity to display all the data at once.
And, as alluded to in many other posts, you should probably pay attention to the manufacturer's specs for shock the drives can withstand, out in the field. Perhaps temperature and relative humidity as well.
Yeah, that was exactly my reaction, but I figured someone would've pointed that out before I got here.
Might be nice for the luser in your life, though. They can't complain about how their computer is behaving without any feedback. And no annoying flashy screensavers, obnoxious sound schemes....
There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
Kind of off topic but since this thread is about giving people unwanted criticism, shouldn't that be 10 types of people?:)
I dunno, one of my own favourite variations (that I came up with myself, though I sincerely doubt I was the first) is "There are three types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't," so his version seems a cute hybrid of the two to me.:)
If it's already that obvious what you're going to say, then why bother to say it at all, if everyone already knows it at that point? It certainly drops the signal-to-noise ratio, or bits of entropy per word, however you like to look at it, either by redundancy or by increased noise (i.e., saying things backwards one time).
It has nothing to do with the topic being discussed, and makes you sound like a show off intellectual.
If showing off were the primary motivation, then why would I (and, I suspect, many others) always go AC when making such corrections? I mean, I know it's because of down-modding, but going AC pretty well blows away your supposed motive, doesn't it?
To tell the truth, I couldn't see any of those colours myself. But then, I live in a rather brightly lit area of the city, which makes it even harder to see the colours.
And yes, they do change that quickly! (Note the timestamps on the pictures.) This was much more active than the couple of others I've seen, and a big part of the reason for the pictures being so grainy is that I didn't want to leave the shutter open too long, or they would've blurred out all over the place, so I had to crank up the ISO. I tried taking a few "movies" with the camera, too, but those didn't turn out at all. But there were these bright spots shooting up from about a third of the way up the sky to the zenith, in a second or two. My dinky little camera couldn't do them justice.:(
Oh, an afterthought: I'm not sure just how you mean "time lapse photography"; if you mean, did the shutter stay open longer than just a quick *click*, then yes, mostly around 2-5 seconds (again, all of them are marked with the exposure times); if you mean did I set it so that the shutter would stay open a nice long while in order to catch the movement, then no, just the opposite, I was trying to keep the exposures as short as possible and still collect enough photons.
Can't say I'm sure which way you meant that, but I don't think I've ever posted a link to my own "server" before in a Slashdot post (not counting the link that's part of my profile), so I had no idea how severe it would be for a link that wasn't in the article itself, or at least a first post. So far, it seems pretty trivial, so if the gist of your sarcasm was "as if it's going to bring you a massive buttload of traffic," you're right on the money. If, on the other hand, your sarcasm was meaning "as if anyone's single machine could stand the traffic after being posted in a reply a ways down in a Slashdot thread," it's not been bad at all. It hasn't even made a bump in my MRTG (although that's measured against a peak around 660 kb/s, and my max up seems to be around 400 kb/s), only 87 hits so far from those who reveal their referer. (Though I would imagine more of the Slashdot crowd conceals their referer than the general public.) All in all, an educational experience for me, and one that hasn't left a molten puddle of slag on my basement floor where my "server" used to be.
Of course, as I pointed out to the other response above, I've no way of knowing how much his coral cache link might've helped me out on that.
Thanks for the tip. It's a bit late now, of course, and too bad I can't go back and edit my post. It seems to be bearing up fairly well (but then, it's not like it got on the front page or in a first post), but I suppose I'll never know whether that's because of your "coral cache" link, or in spite of it. But at least I'll know better next time.
"...I've seen the Borealis here on Earth, and they're beautiful. I can't imagine what they must look like in a Martian night."
For those who haven't seen them, I happened to get some nice pictures of the bunch from this past May 14/15. Please don't melt down my server, but enjoy the pictures.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem likely anyone here hasn't already seen them in pictures, but what the heck.
Get over your Star Trek fantasies and beam back down here to Earth 2005.
You know what? I don't so much care about "Earth 2005", because I can state, with a moderate degree of confidence, that there's still intelligent life around on "Earth 2005" (OK, I'm not absolutely certain about this.). Since 2005 is pretty much a sure thing, I might be just a bit more worried about "Earth 2100", "Earth 3000", or even "Solar System 100,000 AD" or "Milky Way 100,000,000 AD". If there's no one around anymore to care about what "Earth 2005" meant, then what the hell significance did "Earth 2005" really carry?
Terribly sorry if I just can't bring myself to be as nearsighted as you.
53 is DNS, not SMB, though SMB can make use of DNS services. But that's pretty certainly going to have to be let through for anything at all to work. But without having delved into any TFAs yet, it sounds to me like it just means they don't provide any mail servers for you, not that they necessarily restrict access to some ports (whether by whitelist or blacklist). I suppose they might block port 25, to keep from becoming a spam nuisance. Maybe I'll check and see exactly what TFAs say.
Damn, I'm not even the first person to point out that I'm not the first person to point out that all you need is a little SSH or telnet (if you dare) and a home box with some handy Pine or whatever you prefer. Or hell, just telnet straight to port 25/110/143 or whatever, and skip the middleman. Real Geeks know how to speak SMTP/POP/IMAP.;) I suppose if you were really feeling ambitious, you could do some X forwarding or VNC, and run your Thunderbird or whatever you prefer.
Heh, I was thinking there should be something with the iCopulate, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I think you've got it pegged, though; wish I could mod you up, too.
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Aside from what techno-vampire just said, what exactly would one sue them for? The royalties one isn't collecting anyway? Damages to what income?
Assuming they worked at all (which I'm not granting, but let's say), they'd only be good for defending against lawsuits by companies (or conceivably individuals) trying to enforce a patent against oneself or a third party.
Actually, the "25K mi/hr for escape velocity" is irrelevant for these purposes; what makes it an escape velocity, after all, is that that's how much speed will be lost if it escapes from Earth. So something launched at exactly escape velocity will asymptotically approach 0 mi/hr; something launched at 26K mi/hr will approach 1K mi/hr (assuming the accuracy of 25K mi/hr).
And of course, anything launched at less than 25K mi/hr will not escape Earth, and will stay in orbit around it (unless it gets too close to the Moon, or something like that).
But seeing as how a billion million trillion would be 10^27, or 10^36 if you're using British billions etc., I think the hell is pretty well confused out of you anyway.
Aside from it being more easily & properly called an "octillion", or "quadrilliard" by British counting.
Good post, except for one minor thing (out of 2):
What you need for that, of course, is hard drive space, not memory, assuming you don't mean the computer's capacity to display all the data at once.And, as alluded to in many other posts, you should probably pay attention to the manufacturer's specs for shock the drives can withstand, out in the field. Perhaps temperature and relative humidity as well.
Yeah, that was exactly my reaction, but I figured someone would've pointed that out before I got here.
Might be nice for the luser in your life, though. They can't complain about how their computer is behaving without any feedback. And no annoying flashy screensavers, obnoxious sound schemes....
Better than Spaceball One's "Ten... nine... eight... six... just kidding!"
A funny way I misread this line: first time through, I thought it said "in the fight against privacy." Might've been rather more fitting.
I dunno, one of my own favourite variations (that I came up with myself, though I sincerely doubt I was the first) is "There are three types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't," so his version seems a cute hybrid of the two to me. :)
Actually, that's present perfect (which, despite the name, is a past tense); the past perfect would be "you had got (or gotten) mail".
If it's already that obvious what you're going to say, then why bother to say it at all, if everyone already knows it at that point? It certainly drops the signal-to-noise ratio, or bits of entropy per word, however you like to look at it, either by redundancy or by increased noise (i.e., saying things backwards one time).
If showing off were the primary motivation, then why would I (and, I suspect, many others) always go AC when making such corrections? I mean, I know it's because of down-modding, but going AC pretty well blows away your supposed motive, doesn't it?
Obviously, you're not familiar with the Obfuscated Perl/C/whatever contests, are you?
To tell the truth, I couldn't see any of those colours myself. But then, I live in a rather brightly lit area of the city, which makes it even harder to see the colours.
And yes, they do change that quickly! (Note the timestamps on the pictures.) This was much more active than the couple of others I've seen, and a big part of the reason for the pictures being so grainy is that I didn't want to leave the shutter open too long, or they would've blurred out all over the place, so I had to crank up the ISO. I tried taking a few "movies" with the camera, too, but those didn't turn out at all. But there were these bright spots shooting up from about a third of the way up the sky to the zenith, in a second or two. My dinky little camera couldn't do them justice. :(
Oh, an afterthought: I'm not sure just how you mean "time lapse photography"; if you mean, did the shutter stay open longer than just a quick *click*, then yes, mostly around 2-5 seconds (again, all of them are marked with the exposure times); if you mean did I set it so that the shutter would stay open a nice long while in order to catch the movement, then no, just the opposite, I was trying to keep the exposures as short as possible and still collect enough photons.
Can't say I'm sure which way you meant that, but I don't think I've ever posted a link to my own "server" before in a Slashdot post (not counting the link that's part of my profile), so I had no idea how severe it would be for a link that wasn't in the article itself, or at least a first post. So far, it seems pretty trivial, so if the gist of your sarcasm was "as if it's going to bring you a massive buttload of traffic," you're right on the money. If, on the other hand, your sarcasm was meaning "as if anyone's single machine could stand the traffic after being posted in a reply a ways down in a Slashdot thread," it's not been bad at all. It hasn't even made a bump in my MRTG (although that's measured against a peak around 660 kb/s, and my max up seems to be around 400 kb/s), only 87 hits so far from those who reveal their referer. (Though I would imagine more of the Slashdot crowd conceals their referer than the general public.) All in all, an educational experience for me, and one that hasn't left a molten puddle of slag on my basement floor where my "server" used to be.
Of course, as I pointed out to the other response above, I've no way of knowing how much his coral cache link might've helped me out on that.
Thanks for the tip. It's a bit late now, of course, and too bad I can't go back and edit my post. It seems to be bearing up fairly well (but then, it's not like it got on the front page or in a first post), but I suppose I'll never know whether that's because of your "coral cache" link, or in spite of it. But at least I'll know better next time.
For those who haven't seen them, I happened to get some nice pictures of the bunch from this past May 14/15. Please don't melt down my server, but enjoy the pictures.
On the other hand, it doesn't seem likely anyone here hasn't already seen them in pictures, but what the heck.
In case you missed it, see this post above. It confirms your hunch.
Uh, gee, aside from the dozens of crews who flew on them before their respective catastrophes. Other than those, yeah, they're "all" dead. Dumbass.
Uh, I think you mean third try: Apollo 11 was the first, then Apollo 12, and third would have been Apollo 13.
You know what? I don't so much care about "Earth 2005", because I can state, with a moderate degree of confidence, that there's still intelligent life around on "Earth 2005" (OK, I'm not absolutely certain about this.). Since 2005 is pretty much a sure thing, I might be just a bit more worried about "Earth 2100", "Earth 3000", or even "Solar System 100,000 AD" or "Milky Way 100,000,000 AD". If there's no one around anymore to care about what "Earth 2005" meant, then what the hell significance did "Earth 2005" really carry?
Terribly sorry if I just can't bring myself to be as nearsighted as you.
Maybe he's still using UUCP only?
53 is DNS, not SMB, though SMB can make use of DNS services. But that's pretty certainly going to have to be let through for anything at all to work.
But without having delved into any TFAs yet, it sounds to me like it just means they don't provide any mail servers for you, not that they necessarily restrict access to some ports (whether by whitelist or blacklist). I suppose they might block port 25, to keep from becoming a spam nuisance. Maybe I'll check and see exactly what TFAs say.
Damn, I'm not even the first person to point out that I'm not the first person to point out that all you need is a little SSH or telnet (if you dare) and a home box with some handy Pine or whatever you prefer. Or hell, just telnet straight to port 25/110/143 or whatever, and skip the middleman. Real Geeks know how to speak SMTP/POP/IMAP. ;)
I suppose if you were really feeling ambitious, you could do some X forwarding or VNC, and run your Thunderbird or whatever you prefer.
Actually, "mammatus" and "mammary" both come from "mamma", Latin for "breast", rather than the one coming from the other.
Now let's hope the cycle is complete with this even more random reply....
Heh, I was thinking there should be something with the iCopulate, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I think you've got it pegged, though; wish I could mod you up, too.