Overrated? What the hell? How can this post possibly be overrated with a score of 2? Come on, you asshole moderator. Show your face and defend your score. I dare you. I'm sure you're far too cowardly to do it, but I dare you to come here and reply to my post and tell me why you think this post is "Overrated". No doubt you're too chicken to do it, but I'll be waiting.
Talk about broken reasoning! The fact that car crashes are more survivable does not outweigh the fact that they are vastly more common and therefore your chances of dying in one are vastly greater.
Your chance of a fatal car accident on a trip of any given length is ten times greater than your chance of a fatal airplane accident on the same trip. The fact that you'd probably be dead after 4 plane crashes is irrelevant, because you wouldn't have had 4 plane crashes.
I keep my seat belt fastened as well, but consider that you are protecting against what are literally one-in-a-million events. It's not like a car, where not wearing your seat belt has a good chance of making the difference between life and death, or between a normal life and being horribly crippled. While it does happen sometimes, your chances of being involved in an incident where wearing an airliner seat belt saves you from serious injury or death are about as good as your chances of winning the lottery. That's not to say that you shouldn't wear it, but I would not call people who don't wear them "dumbfucks".
You have a sort of twisted concept of what a stall is. A wing does not cease to generate lift in a stall. In fact, when a wing stalls, it is at the point where it is generating the maximum lift for a given airspeed. A stall is simply the point where, as angle of attack increases (the angle at which the wing meets the oncoming air), lift decreases. In normal flight, increasing angle of attack generates increased lift which allows for stable flight. When stalling, the airplane does begin to fall, but not nearly as fast as it would fall if the wing were producing no lift at all.
And just for the record for anyone reading this, you do not need third-party software to use third-party USB mice. You can just plug them in and go. Third-party software comes in handy if you want to assign special functions to extra buttons or other such things, but for a standard two-buttons-plus-scroll-wheel USB mouse, you can just plug it into your Mac and start using it.
I generally dislike applying water to my electronics. The idea that I'd have to do it once every month forever just to keep this hunk of junk working is absurd. My Mighty Mouse's replacement has gone for well over a year without needing any cleaning, and I fully expect it to go many more years without it.
Also I have to say, I never needed soap and water to clean out old-style rubber ball mice.
I guess some people adapt faster than others. After a week of having my Mighty Mouse never reliably right click, I gave up on it and got a Logitech mouse instead, with actual physical buttons. Somehow it has never thought I wanted a left click when I actually wanted a right click.
In the computer world, I always consider "security" to be a matter of allowing authorized people in and keeping unauthorized people out. CAPTCHAs are more a case of determining whether a particular user is desirable or not, not a case of authorization.
How funny! I wonder if you subconsciously trained to do that after getting a Mighty Mouse, or if you just do it anyway. If a lot of people do this subconsciously it would explain why there are so many people out there who don't think it's horrible.
I used one for about a week before I gave up on it, gave it to my wife, and went out and bought a $10 Logitech mouse which has worked perfectly ever since. The thing simply would not register right clicks when I wanted it to. Maybe it would if I kept using it. But honestly, spending weeks training my hand to use this mouse is not worth it compared to spending $10 on one that works properly from the start.
As for scrolling, one dimension is superior to zero dimensions, which is what my Mighty Mouse ended up having after a few months of use by my wife. When the scroll clit gets dirty it ceases to function, and the thing appears to be impervious to all known cleaning methods. So now the Mighty Mouse sits in a drawer and she uses a $10 USB scroll wheel mouse.
But it can tell which finger applied the pressure, and tell the difference between a left and a right click.
No it can't. It can tell which fingers are touching it. But it cannot tell the difference between pressing with your right finger or your left finger if both fingers are in contact. To perform a right click with the Mighty Mouse you have to lift up with your left finger and click with the right.
This, in a word, sucks.
Hopefully the MacBook trackpads are better. Sounds like they are. But the Mighty Mouse is just utterly horrible.
Wrong. Most sites with CAPTCHAs are trying to keep out automated systems because they are abusive. But this is not "security" any more than banning abusive human posters is "security".
The problem with this theory is that for every person who thinks about it and comes to a decision that they want to raise children, there are three people who think that God commands them to be fruitful and multiply to the greatest extent possible. And since the former group tends to have 1-2 children each whereas the latter group is more like 5-8 each, the God-folk quickly outnumber the rest.
Hey, it's a free country, you can do whatever you like to people you think deserve it, so long as it's legal. I never said that people should treat Ayers like any average Joe just because prosecutors screwed up his case. But the law is obligated to treat him just like every average Joe. And anyone who insists otherwise cares more about their personal beliefs than the rule of law.
Well, wind resistance is generally considered to be the force imparted by the wind, which also scales by speed squared. Generally, this sort of thing is considered to be quadratic. The only time it's cubic is when you're considering engine size.
To be more specific, the formula is:
F = -0.5pv^2AC_d
Pardon my wild substitution of ASCII characters for the various non-ASCII letters actually used in the formula. On the left, F is force due to fluid drag. On the right, p is the density of the fluid, v is speed, A is the cross sectional area, and C_d is the dimensionless drag coefficient which is determined by things like the shape and surface character of the object in question. (And then for the true vector form, the whole works is multiplied by the unit vector in the direction of the object's velocity so that the resulting force is also a vector.)
Since most of these things don't change while we're driving, the proportionality can be expressed more simply:
F = kv^2
In other words, fluid drag is equal to some constant multiplied by speed squared.
The cube comes into it if you multiply both sides by v again:
Fv = kv^3
Because Fv is force times speed, which is just another way to write power. (Fv = Fd/t = E/t = P where d is distance, t is time, E is energy, and P is power.) Therefore the power dissipated by fluid drag (and thus the power required to maintain speed) is proportional to the cube of the speed.
The power needed to overcome air resistance does indeed scale with speed cubed. But you're also going faster. So the total energy losses per distance to air resistance scale with speed squared.
The reason I'm evading the question is because he was abusive with it. You'll note that he did not, in fact, ask a question at all. He started off by saying this:
If you don't have a problem with Osama bin Laden being on the list (he was not convicted either, was he?) then you should not have a problem with anyone else being there.
At which point I told him not to make assumptions about my position. (I really hate it when people do this, because my positions are not the simplistic right/left of American politics, but people insist on pigeonholing me into them.) I did this without stating my actual position, because I did not feel it was relevant. He then took this as some kind of affront, and the whole thing spiraled down the drain.
You want to know my position? Ask the question. The other guy never did, which is why I never answered it. He thought that I should spontaneously state my position on the matter despite its irrelevance to the discussion, and that a failure to do so was indicative of... I really don't know what. But I do know that if you want me to answer a question, it helps a lot to actually ask it.
You sort of asked it. I mean, you did so it a really leading way that makes you look like an asshole, but you asked it. So here's my answer: the list is stupid and should not exist. Therefore nobody, including Osama bin Laden, should be on it. Putting Osama bin Laden on such a list is pointless anyway, because he's already on a much more significant and sensible list, namely a list of people who will be instantly arrested and put on trial the moment they reach US territory.
As I said, either arrest them or let them be. Bin Laden is in the former category. Ayers was in the former category, then prosecutors screwed up his case and now he's in the latter category.
That mechanism consists of getting large lists at infrequent intervals from the phone companies to tell them who not to call. This is not practical for realtime billing purposes because, for example, a phone number which reaches a landline one day can reach a cell phone the next day thanks to number portability.
Have you ever considered, say, using a dictionary? They're handy things, you know.
I'll save you that horror this time, though. A casualty includes both injuries and deaths. The casualty count is therefore always equal to or greater than the death count, and for most things it is vastly greater.
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Overrated? What the hell? How can this post possibly be overrated with a score of 2? Come on, you asshole moderator. Show your face and defend your score. I dare you. I'm sure you're far too cowardly to do it, but I dare you to come here and reply to my post and tell me why you think this post is "Overrated". No doubt you're too chicken to do it, but I'll be waiting.
Talk about broken reasoning! The fact that car crashes are more survivable does not outweigh the fact that they are vastly more common and therefore your chances of dying in one are vastly greater.
Your chance of a fatal car accident on a trip of any given length is ten times greater than your chance of a fatal airplane accident on the same trip. The fact that you'd probably be dead after 4 plane crashes is irrelevant, because you wouldn't have had 4 plane crashes.
I keep my seat belt fastened as well, but consider that you are protecting against what are literally one-in-a-million events. It's not like a car, where not wearing your seat belt has a good chance of making the difference between life and death, or between a normal life and being horribly crippled. While it does happen sometimes, your chances of being involved in an incident where wearing an airliner seat belt saves you from serious injury or death are about as good as your chances of winning the lottery. That's not to say that you shouldn't wear it, but I would not call people who don't wear them "dumbfucks".
You have a sort of twisted concept of what a stall is. A wing does not cease to generate lift in a stall. In fact, when a wing stalls, it is at the point where it is generating the maximum lift for a given airspeed. A stall is simply the point where, as angle of attack increases (the angle at which the wing meets the oncoming air), lift decreases. In normal flight, increasing angle of attack generates increased lift which allows for stable flight. When stalling, the airplane does begin to fall, but not nearly as fast as it would fall if the wing were producing no lift at all.
That is odd, I've never experienced this. I suppose it's good to have the option in any case!
And just for the record for anyone reading this, you do not need third-party software to use third-party USB mice. You can just plug them in and go. Third-party software comes in handy if you want to assign special functions to extra buttons or other such things, but for a standard two-buttons-plus-scroll-wheel USB mouse, you can just plug it into your Mac and start using it.
I generally dislike applying water to my electronics. The idea that I'd have to do it once every month forever just to keep this hunk of junk working is absurd. My Mighty Mouse's replacement has gone for well over a year without needing any cleaning, and I fully expect it to go many more years without it.
Also I have to say, I never needed soap and water to clean out old-style rubber ball mice.
Only in that every single thing, ever, is flawed.
I don't see anything in there that says they discovered it first, asshole.
I guess some people adapt faster than others. After a week of having my Mighty Mouse never reliably right click, I gave up on it and got a Logitech mouse instead, with actual physical buttons. Somehow it has never thought I wanted a left click when I actually wanted a right click.
In the computer world, I always consider "security" to be a matter of allowing authorized people in and keeping unauthorized people out. CAPTCHAs are more a case of determining whether a particular user is desirable or not, not a case of authorization.
How funny! I wonder if you subconsciously trained to do that after getting a Mighty Mouse, or if you just do it anyway. If a lot of people do this subconsciously it would explain why there are so many people out there who don't think it's horrible.
I used one for about a week before I gave up on it, gave it to my wife, and went out and bought a $10 Logitech mouse which has worked perfectly ever since. The thing simply would not register right clicks when I wanted it to. Maybe it would if I kept using it. But honestly, spending weeks training my hand to use this mouse is not worth it compared to spending $10 on one that works properly from the start.
As for scrolling, one dimension is superior to zero dimensions, which is what my Mighty Mouse ended up having after a few months of use by my wife. When the scroll clit gets dirty it ceases to function, and the thing appears to be impervious to all known cleaning methods. So now the Mighty Mouse sits in a drawer and she uses a $10 USB scroll wheel mouse.
But it can tell which finger applied the pressure, and tell the difference between a left and a right click.
No it can't. It can tell which fingers are touching it. But it cannot tell the difference between pressing with your right finger or your left finger if both fingers are in contact. To perform a right click with the Mighty Mouse you have to lift up with your left finger and click with the right.
This, in a word, sucks.
Hopefully the MacBook trackpads are better. Sounds like they are. But the Mighty Mouse is just utterly horrible.
Wrong. Most sites with CAPTCHAs are trying to keep out automated systems because they are abusive. But this is not "security" any more than banning abusive human posters is "security".
Hilarious. A completely illogical post complaining about the non-existent illogic of someone else's post.
The problem with this theory is that for every person who thinks about it and comes to a decision that they want to raise children, there are three people who think that God commands them to be fruitful and multiply to the greatest extent possible. And since the former group tends to have 1-2 children each whereas the latter group is more like 5-8 each, the God-folk quickly outnumber the rest.
Hooray!
Hey, it's a free country, you can do whatever you like to people you think deserve it, so long as it's legal. I never said that people should treat Ayers like any average Joe just because prosecutors screwed up his case. But the law is obligated to treat him just like every average Joe. And anyone who insists otherwise cares more about their personal beliefs than the rule of law.
Well, wind resistance is generally considered to be the force imparted by the wind, which also scales by speed squared. Generally, this sort of thing is considered to be quadratic. The only time it's cubic is when you're considering engine size.
To be more specific, the formula is:
F = -0.5pv^2AC_d
Pardon my wild substitution of ASCII characters for the various non-ASCII letters actually used in the formula. On the left, F is force due to fluid drag. On the right, p is the density of the fluid, v is speed, A is the cross sectional area, and C_d is the dimensionless drag coefficient which is determined by things like the shape and surface character of the object in question. (And then for the true vector form, the whole works is multiplied by the unit vector in the direction of the object's velocity so that the resulting force is also a vector.)
Since most of these things don't change while we're driving, the proportionality can be expressed more simply:
F = kv^2
In other words, fluid drag is equal to some constant multiplied by speed squared.
The cube comes into it if you multiply both sides by v again:
Fv = kv^3
Because Fv is force times speed, which is just another way to write power. (Fv = Fd/t = E/t = P where d is distance, t is time, E is energy, and P is power.) Therefore the power dissipated by fluid drag (and thus the power required to maintain speed) is proportional to the cube of the speed.
The power needed to overcome air resistance does indeed scale with speed cubed. But you're also going faster. So the total energy losses per distance to air resistance scale with speed squared.
The reason I'm evading the question is because he was abusive with it. You'll note that he did not, in fact, ask a question at all. He started off by saying this:
If you don't have a problem with Osama bin Laden being on the list (he was not convicted either, was he?) then you should not have a problem with anyone else being there.
At which point I told him not to make assumptions about my position. (I really hate it when people do this, because my positions are not the simplistic right/left of American politics, but people insist on pigeonholing me into them.) I did this without stating my actual position, because I did not feel it was relevant. He then took this as some kind of affront, and the whole thing spiraled down the drain.
You want to know my position? Ask the question. The other guy never did, which is why I never answered it. He thought that I should spontaneously state my position on the matter despite its irrelevance to the discussion, and that a failure to do so was indicative of... I really don't know what. But I do know that if you want me to answer a question, it helps a lot to actually ask it.
You sort of asked it. I mean, you did so it a really leading way that makes you look like an asshole, but you asked it. So here's my answer: the list is stupid and should not exist. Therefore nobody, including Osama bin Laden, should be on it. Putting Osama bin Laden on such a list is pointless anyway, because he's already on a much more significant and sensible list, namely a list of people who will be instantly arrested and put on trial the moment they reach US territory.
As I said, either arrest them or let them be. Bin Laden is in the former category. Ayers was in the former category, then prosecutors screwed up his case and now he's in the latter category.
Simple, no?
What makes you think that your traffic isn't being snooped and recorded just because it's running over wires?
That mechanism consists of getting large lists at infrequent intervals from the phone companies to tell them who not to call. This is not practical for realtime billing purposes because, for example, a phone number which reaches a landline one day can reach a cell phone the next day thanks to number portability.
Have you ever considered, say, using a dictionary? They're handy things, you know.
I'll save you that horror this time, though. A casualty includes both injuries and deaths. The casualty count is therefore always equal to or greater than the death count, and for most things it is vastly greater.