There's something missing - a downmod of "you are factually incorrect". Not "I disagree"
What's wrong with -1 Overrated?
I've have used "-1 Overrated" for that purpose in the past, but only in articles that I have modded in previously and feel strongly about the bad info being presented. If I have no mod points invested in the conversation and I feel strongly about it, then I comment.
You should reread the thread. It was not I who invoked the Nobel prize. I do not do ad hominems or taunts, I find rudeness interferes with the promulgation of knowledge.
So how many meters per second per second is his velocity towards the center of the earth increasing?
Zero?
No acceleration, gotcha.
Force can cause acceleration, force does not equal acceleration.
Precisely, the hangman put the noose on you and you have the force of gravity pulling you down, it is not until he opens the trap door that the force of gravity accelerates you downward to snap your neck.
So you are saying that I can use an accelerometer in order to determine that bulk of mass in the cosmos is accelerating away from us? How do you propose to determine acceleration of an object that you do not have physical access to?
You just continually monitor the distance between yourself and the target and can compute both your speed and your acceleration by comparing the distances over specific time intervals. As you take the interval times to zero, you get better and better approximations of your exact acceleration curve (that's pretty standard calculus -- sample and integrate.)
And each time you note the position you create a new reference point for the following position.
Following your logic acceleration would not be detectable either therefore pointless.
In order to detect acceleration, you must take at least 3 sample points of reference of the object in motion. The first to set a starting point, the second in order to set an velocity and the third in order to set a later velocity with this information you can detect the change in velocity.
Without these an object in empty space would never have velocity therefore no potential increase in velocity.
The AC who responded to your comment is completely wrong.
While deceleration is used in common speech to indicate a reduction of velocity, in physics there is no deceleration only acceleration in the opposite direction of the trajectory. Both concepts, acceleration reverse acceleration, require a point of reference, in this case it is the sun.
I would have been disappointed if/. used deceleration, particularly on a space article.
I agree with your point about a random auto mechanic not allowing you to use his or his employers equipment. I work on cars and computers and other things regularly and if some random person asked to use my equipment to test their stuff, I would feel they were wasting my time, but I am trying to sell a service and I make no money on replacement parts. But, most auto parts stores (even ones with service sections) will test batteries, alternators and starters for you for free if you remove the item from your vehicle and bring it in to the store. I have never brought a starter motor into a parts store/service station and had them tell me to put it back into my car and to bring the car in for their mechanics to test it.
Circuit City/Best Buy have more in common with auto parts stores with service sections than with a repair only auto shop.
Personally, I think it is foolish for a business that sells component/replacement/upgrade parts, which only pros, semi-pros and hobbyists are going to purchase, to not attempt to ingratiate themselves with these persons. In all likely-hood, if a person brings in a component part and it tests bad, that person will purchase a replacement from that same location as long as it is available, besides, these are the same people that are going to make more purchases of repair parts than any other demographic. If they are not interested in this demographic, then they should not waste their floor space with repair parts at all.
1. It would depend on whether they can discriminate between that and any other frequencies being used.
2. They would need to know what method of modulation being used, AM, FM, Single sideband, dual sideband, etc.
3. When audibly scanning frequencies, most encrypted traffic is indistinguishable from static.
Let's say you had a spectrum analyzer and hooked it to an antenna and you had an antenna that you could electronically adjust the length (antenna length is a factor in broadcast and receiving frequencies) and you specifically focused on the frequency ranges used by the military, under ideal conditions you may be able to determine signal strength indications showing you a range in which you may be able to potentially jam. Functionally, you are looking at having to use a computer program to do it fast enough and is able to discriminate between other background freqs in that area. It would be time consuming with a large number of false positives.
All of that would be if they were using low frequencies, now if they are using Higher freq. Line of Sight or Satellite bouncing communications you would have to get right in the path of the transmission to even tell it was going on. And even then, those methods work well because you do not have to put as much power into it.
Why would losing the drone compromise the secure communications channel? The drone should have a unique private key, as should HQ.
Makes no difference when the enemy is radio jamming. It would be much easier to build/modify a radio transmitter to jam signals and make the UAV unable to be remotely controlled for an area than it would be to actually intercept and take control of the UAV. I would suggest that the primary concern is that the UAVs transceiver can be reverse engineered for the frequency range/channelization and then create a device that would allow for easy end-user jamming.
When I worked on radio systems in the Navy we had some radio modules that would also allow for frequency hopping to avoid potential frequency jamming, combined with usage of encryption and daily keys made for a pretty effective system.
I have mod points and was interested in your comment. Having looked over all the comments and UIDs, I must say you are factually incorrect. At the time of the writing of this post, I only found 1 registered commenter with 3 comments with a UID greater than 2 million.
I am no right wing apologist and believe my comment history will speak for itself.
Just for those who don’t like or have trouble browsing through the images, I’ve made a PDF Version of the high-resolution image documents for convenience. All pages are in the right order.
Also, I don’t own any rights to these images, these still are of Copyright to Mike Dailly, I’ve just put the images together in a PDF format for easy reading.
As for where they break the story, probably after the Spiders and having the dwarves doing their barrel ride, else after the trolls. I am not really sure where a good break is with this book but those the two major events before getting to the Lonely Mountain.
It really would depend on where exactly PJ decides to pad out the side questing of Gandolf and any cut scenes to Sauramon and possibly Gollum (it would surprise me if extra Gollum scenes were not added to this one.) I would suggest right after the spiders just as they encounter wood elves or possibly when they meet with Beorn . The trolls are just way too early, they are the first baddie encounter in the book, 2nd chapter.
Recruitment - Trolls - Rivendell - Mountain Goblins - Gollum/Ring - Wargs/Goblins (treed) - Eagles - Beorn the Bear - Spiders - Wood Elves/Barrels - Lake Town - Lonely Mountain Back Door - Bilbo Burgles Smaug - Smaug Dies - Battle of Five Armies - Bilbo Returns to Shire
As a supporting anecdote, my grandmother was an occasional drinker and during her later life suffered from Alzheimer's. Now most of the time growing up, I had never heard her swear, unless she had a couple of drinks in her. Later in life, as her Alzheimer's progressed (I would say it started about age 70 and progressed until she died at age 81), she became more and more prone to cursing rages and/or mumbling cursing, like a one sided argument, where every other word was a curse, over some perceived slight from, say, 30 years prior. Admittedly, she was not always the most stable minded person, she probably would have been classified as a hypochondriac, she loved the sympathy, to illustrate this: in her late 50's she broke her ankle, years later, when anyone was around she would go on about the pain and difficulty it caused her, but on several occasions when no one was home she had rearranged much of the heavy furniture in the house. Until my sister took charge of her medication and doctors, she at one point was taking something like 19 different medications from 6-7 different doctors and if allowed would take 20+ aspirin a day. She was also prone to sending money to religious evangelists for blessed crosses, bottles of water, plastic saints icons and the like. Additionally, some time after the age of 60, she started cutting herself out of all the family pictures she could lay her hands on.
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While I have read this before and do find it interesting, I grew up with a kinda rhyming mnemonic:
Thirty days hath September
April, June and November
All the rest have Thirty-One
Except February which has Twenty-Eight (or Twenty-Nine)
Although the wiki one is a little better:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September
There's something missing - a downmod of "you are factually incorrect". Not "I disagree"
What's wrong with -1 Overrated?
I've have used "-1 Overrated" for that purpose in the past, but only in articles that I have modded in previously and feel strongly about the bad info being presented. If I have no mod points invested in the conversation and I feel strongly about it, then I comment.
You should reread the thread. It was not I who invoked the Nobel prize. I do not do ad hominems or taunts, I find rudeness interferes with the promulgation of knowledge.
So how many meters per second per second is his velocity towards the center of the earth increasing?
Zero?
No acceleration, gotcha.
Force can cause acceleration, force does not equal acceleration.
Precisely, the hangman put the noose on you and you have the force of gravity pulling you down, it is not until he opens the trap door that the force of gravity accelerates you downward to snap your neck.
So you are saying that I can use an accelerometer in order to determine that bulk of mass in the cosmos is accelerating away from us? How do you propose to determine acceleration of an object that you do not have physical access to?
You just continually monitor the distance between yourself and the target and can compute both your speed and your acceleration by comparing the distances over specific time intervals. As you take the interval times to zero, you get better and better approximations of your exact acceleration curve (that's pretty standard calculus -- sample and integrate.)
And each time you note the position you create a new reference point for the following position.
That would be inertia.
Following your logic acceleration would not be detectable either therefore pointless.
In order to detect acceleration, you must take at least 3 sample points of reference of the object in motion. The first to set a starting point, the second in order to set an velocity and the third in order to set a later velocity with this information you can detect the change in velocity.
Without these an object in empty space would never have velocity therefore no potential increase in velocity.
oops, sorry about responding to myself, but I messed up my link. I'm more of a hardware guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration
The AC who responded to your comment is completely wrong.
While deceleration is used in common speech to indicate a reduction of velocity, in physics there is no deceleration only acceleration in the opposite direction of the trajectory. Both concepts, acceleration reverse acceleration, require a point of reference, in this case it is the sun.
I would have been disappointed if /. used deceleration, particularly on a space article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration
I agree with your point about a random auto mechanic not allowing you to use his or his employers equipment. I work on cars and computers and other things regularly and if some random person asked to use my equipment to test their stuff, I would feel they were wasting my time, but I am trying to sell a service and I make no money on replacement parts. But, most auto parts stores (even ones with service sections) will test batteries, alternators and starters for you for free if you remove the item from your vehicle and bring it in to the store. I have never brought a starter motor into a parts store/service station and had them tell me to put it back into my car and to bring the car in for their mechanics to test it.
Circuit City/Best Buy have more in common with auto parts stores with service sections than with a repair only auto shop.
Personally, I think it is foolish for a business that sells component/replacement/upgrade parts, which only pros, semi-pros and hobbyists are going to purchase, to not attempt to ingratiate themselves with these persons. In all likely-hood, if a person brings in a component part and it tests bad, that person will purchase a replacement from that same location as long as it is available, besides, these are the same people that are going to make more purchases of repair parts than any other demographic. If they are not interested in this demographic, then they should not waste their floor space with repair parts at all.
Why would you use up perfectly good bourbon on driving somewhere?
To get more bourbon.
Missing:
Elroy Jetson
Tinker from Speed Buggy (He build a frigging sentient dune buggy)
Rhinox from Transformer: Beast Wars
Who says you have to man a transmitter?
1. It would depend on whether they can discriminate between that and any other frequencies being used.
2. They would need to know what method of modulation being used, AM, FM, Single sideband, dual sideband, etc.
3. When audibly scanning frequencies, most encrypted traffic is indistinguishable from static.
Let's say you had a spectrum analyzer and hooked it to an antenna and you had an antenna that you could electronically adjust the length (antenna length is a factor in broadcast and receiving frequencies) and you specifically focused on the frequency ranges used by the military, under ideal conditions you may be able to determine signal strength indications showing you a range in which you may be able to potentially jam. Functionally, you are looking at having to use a computer program to do it fast enough and is able to discriminate between other background freqs in that area. It would be time consuming with a large number of false positives.
All of that would be if they were using low frequencies, now if they are using Higher freq. Line of Sight or Satellite bouncing communications you would have to get right in the path of the transmission to even tell it was going on. And even then, those methods work well because you do not have to put as much power into it.
Why would losing the drone compromise the secure communications channel? The drone should have a unique private key, as should HQ.
Makes no difference when the enemy is radio jamming. It would be much easier to build/modify a radio transmitter to jam signals and make the UAV unable to be remotely controlled for an area than it would be to actually intercept and take control of the UAV. I would suggest that the primary concern is that the UAVs transceiver can be reverse engineered for the frequency range/channelization and then create a device that would allow for easy end-user jamming.
When I worked on radio systems in the Navy we had some radio modules that would also allow for frequency hopping to avoid potential frequency jamming, combined with usage of encryption and daily keys made for a pretty effective system.
I need a stealth bomber - for DUCK HUNTing.
How else are you going to get that damn snickering dog?
I have mod points and was interested in your comment. Having looked over all the comments and UIDs, I must say you are factually incorrect. At the time of the writing of this post, I only found 1 registered commenter with 3 comments with a UID greater than 2 million.
I am no right wing apologist and believe my comment history will speak for itself.
I'd be more likely to say that 48% of CBS online ghost poll respondents are morons.
I took my own poll and have determined that over 99% of online poll respondents have internet access.
As Mike from techdirt points out:
Am I Violating The DMCA By Visiting The NYTimes With NoScript Enabled?
From comments of original article:
kregg says:
March 22, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Just for those who don’t like or have trouble browsing through the images, I’ve made a PDF Version of the high-resolution image documents for convenience. All pages are in the right order.
Also, I don’t own any rights to these images, these still are of Copyright to Mike Dailly, I’ve just put the images together in a PDF format for easy reading.
Agreed, I think this quick charge application would be best saved for recharge stations and not for home use.
The best usage of this technology would be for solving the long distance traveling problem of purely electric cars.
Trickle charge for home use and fast charge at refueling recharge stations for long trips.
> My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Table
I read it that way at first and was expecting some sort of video when the heat from a laptop totally destroys a table.
*Sigh*
As for where they break the story, probably after the Spiders and having the dwarves doing their barrel ride, else after the trolls. I am not really sure where a good break is with this book but those the two major events before getting to the Lonely Mountain.
It really would depend on where exactly PJ decides to pad out the side questing of Gandolf and any cut scenes to Sauramon and possibly Gollum (it would surprise me if extra Gollum scenes were not added to this one.) I would suggest right after the spiders just as they encounter wood elves or possibly when they meet with Beorn . The trolls are just way too early, they are the first baddie encounter in the book, 2nd chapter.
Recruitment - Trolls - Rivendell - Mountain Goblins - Gollum/Ring - Wargs/Goblins (treed) - Eagles - Beorn the Bear - Spiders - Wood Elves/Barrels - Lake Town - Lonely Mountain Back Door - Bilbo Burgles Smaug - Smaug Dies - Battle of Five Armies - Bilbo Returns to Shire
How was his writing?
As a supporting anecdote, my grandmother was an occasional drinker and during her later life suffered from Alzheimer's. Now most of the time growing up, I had never heard her swear, unless she had a couple of drinks in her. Later in life, as her Alzheimer's progressed (I would say it started about age 70 and progressed until she died at age 81), she became more and more prone to cursing rages and/or mumbling cursing, like a one sided argument, where every other word was a curse, over some perceived slight from, say, 30 years prior. Admittedly, she was not always the most stable minded person, she probably would have been classified as a hypochondriac, she loved the sympathy, to illustrate this: in her late 50's she broke her ankle, years later, when anyone was around she would go on about the pain and difficulty it caused her, but on several occasions when no one was home she had rearranged much of the heavy furniture in the house. Until my sister took charge of her medication and doctors, she at one point was taking something like 19 different medications from 6-7 different doctors and if allowed would take 20+ aspirin a day. She was also prone to sending money to religious evangelists for blessed crosses, bottles of water, plastic saints icons and the like. Additionally, some time after the age of 60, she started cutting herself out of all the family pictures she could lay her hands on.