Wow. Yeah. A PC built with the money it'd take to buy an Apple. That's like taking the money you'd spend on a Viper and using it to rice-out a Honda Civic. You end up with a mismatched house-of-cards that can't approach the performance of car you could have had with the money spent.
It's not like developing an antitoxin is equivelent to putting a man on Mars.
2) GM organisms driving NE organisms to extinction
Why is it that ecological niches are always considered to be a binary yes-no system? Two predators can co-exist in the same area, provided that resources are abundant enough for both to survive. Also, why is it always assumed the only the NEs will die off at the pressures of the GMs? It's certainly possible that the reverse will happen.
3) Genetic monoculture susceptible to parasites and climate
And?
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
You call this a scientifically valid reason?
5) Gene transfer between similar existing species leading to any one of the above
So the first time we crossed horses and donkeys to get mules, the environment should have collapsed and God should have rained vengeful wrath down upon us, right?
Give me a break. Go read some real science, unaltered by religious dogma, and then get back to me.
Yeah, nice to see someone buying into the bunk science that somehow a GM organism is more likely to transfer its genes to you than a naturally evolved (NE) organism. Tell me, are you carrying the genes for non-GM wheat in your genome now? Why would GM foods be more likely to pass their genes on to you than NE foods?
..and it won't be long before someone with a packet sniffer figures out what the code is and then launches it as a permanent DoS attack against anything with a.gov or.mil TLD.
Having said all of that, I suspect it is highly likely that there is nothing Microsoft could do to please the Slashdot community (nor do I think that is their goal in any of these maneuvers). Any action they can take will receive the same scorn and criticism, by the same group of people.
Now, now, they could give up, release all their code to the public domain, shut their doors forever, and the employees could gang up and lynch Monkeyboy Ballmer and Bill Gates. That's something I think we'd all be pleased by.
105,000 feet is still a lot less than orbit. Furthermore, the F-15 has an extremely good glide ratio, compared to the shuttle. The shuttle is basically a brick with a couple of winglets attached...it basically drops like an artillery shell and uses the wings for braking maneuvers.
I understand that. What I was taking the shot at was the guy who seemed to think that the Hubble would be a great place for the shuttle/crew to hang out while they made repairs or waited for a rescue mission.:-)
Oh yeah, that's about the brightest idea I've ever heard. SRBs should have NEVER been rated for manned spaceflight...once they're running, they're running, and that's it. No throttling. No kill-switch. You wait until the propellant is gone.
As for the SSMEs not having much to do with getting the orbiter into space I say this: uhhhhh, what?
Here's a great site that explains the physics of the SRBs. Before this page gets Slashdotted to hell and back, I'll recap what it says: each SRB produces 3.3 million pounds of thrust, and each one weighs 1.3 million pounds (191,000 pounds dry-weight, plus 1.1 million pounds of propellant). That means the combined pair can lift about 4 million pounds. The shuttle itself weighs 171,000 pounds (empty, with engines), and the external tank weighs 66,000 pounds. So with a little rounding off, you can add 3.75 million pounds to the stack before you have an equal balance between thrust and weight (which will get you nowhere near orbit). The aforementioned external tank carries 1.3 million pounds of liquid oxygen and 227,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen. More neat rounding brings us to 1.6 million pounds of fuel, 2.15 million pounds remaining. Let's assume the shuttle is carrying its max payload -- 63,500 pounds. Leaves us with 2.08 million pounds.
So: Booster Stack Weight + Fuel: 4.52 million pounds. Thrust of SRBs (combined): 6.6 million pounds. Resulting Thrust-to-Weight Ratio: 1.4.
By comparison, a F-15 has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.19, giving the shuttle a 15% advantage, when using SRBs alone.
That's right. I haven't forgotten about the SSMEs. When run at 104%, they provide an extra 488,000 pounds of thrust each. That's an extra 1.46 million pounds of thrust. Thus, our 4.52 million pound stack now has a 8.06 million pounds of thrust, resulting in a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.78, or a 66% advantage over the F-15. Note that these figures are assuming that the SSMEs are run at 104% from ignition (which they're not), but also bear in mind that as the shuttle burns fuel, which it does as a prodigious rate, the overall weight of the stack is reduced while the thrust remains constant, so as the vehicle climbs, it's thrust-to-weight ratio improves, and continues to do so after the SRBs are cut loose.
Now, IANARS (RS = Rocket Scientist), but it seems to me that if we want to scale up the SRBs so that they alone can carry the shuttle into orbit, the weight of the propellant is going to exceed the maximum thrust of the SRBs before you can get enough propellant for the entire burn into orbit.
What I'm trying to say is this: leave the rocket science to the rocket scientists.
Just because you can't afford bluetooth or because Bluetooth isn't inside every item on the planet doesn't mean it's failed. Shit, by that argument, Windoze is a failure because it hasn't taken that last 10% of the market away from *Nix and Mac.
Bluetooth failed? Tell that to my Palm Tungsten T, Sony Ericcson T68i and the USB dongle sticking out the side of my iBook.
Except here in the stateof hockey, where a check is something you give someone when you really want the puck. Major difference between cheque and check.
And probably more new ones, too. Let's face it, something, somewhere, is going to be calling the code they're "cleaning" and if it doesn't work right, it's going to break shit. Bigtime.
I'll be impressed when they have a robot/AI that can play ping-pong. If you look at the plane the ball travels in, foosball is pretty two-dimensional...not entirely, I'll grant you, but I'm making a generalization. If you can create a robot that can deal with three dimensions, and can build strategies to play a good game of ping-pong, then I'll be impressed.
God, how many hours has it been since I last heard that one? My response will always be the same: yeah, right. Customers who have had limitless bandwidth are too accustomed to that, and will go elsewhere to get it. If an ISP switched to metering, people would go elsewhere, and they know it.
Wow...this is so outside MS's usual routine, that I'm forced to think that they're doing this so that the courts will perceive some legal weight behind SCO's claims against IBM... It would make sense from a MS Marketing standpoint to try and start building a coffin for the IBM/Linux alliance.
As I stated in an earlier post in this thread, the Architect basically spelled out that Zion and the "real world" are an onion layer of the Matrix. That's why Neo was able to sense and act on the squiddies.
What the original poster is referring to is the sequence in which Smith embeds his persona onto the hacker and then answers the phone, getting sucked down the line and into the "real world"...
As for the Sentinels -- no, that was Neo in the "real" world...
I use the quotes because as the Architect explained at great length, that Zion and the whole human rebellion is merely another layer of the Matrix to give the 1% of humanity that can't accept reality a place where they think they are in a "real" world, making "real" changes...
The Architect specifically tells Neo that he's there to bring the cycle to an end and restart it from scratch -- walk through the one door and it all ends, you pick a new batch of men and women to start a new Zion, and it all recycles. You walk through that other door and it's all out war and the 250,000 humans of Zion will die, along with the rest of the human race, because the Matrix will collapse from its own inconsistency.
This is why the Oracle knows everything Neo and everyone else is going to do before it happens -- it's already happened 6 times before! (as per the Architect) -- and each time, the "One" has selected to walk through the door and set things in motion again (this is the control system used to counteract humans' tendencies toward choice). Where Neo differs is that he is not acting like the "Ones" that have come before him. He opts to risk everyone and everything to know the truth and to bring the war to an end.
Apple coppied the WinXP feature that lets users switch who's logged in without losing state.
Really? This feature is in 10.2.6? I'd love for you to point it out to me, as I've been using 10.2 since the day it came out, and haven't seen anything like this.
Furthermore, it's not a Microsoft innovation, it's a UNIX feature that's been around for more years than I can count.
Look, all nine planets were aligned in 2000 or 2001. NOTHING HAPPENED. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. The gravity of the first five planets is not significant enough to act on one another to that degree. Jupiter may be huge, but it's gravity is barely noticeable on Earth...I'd be surprised if it affected the tides more that.00001 inches.
Regardless of where the planets are in regards to each other, there's always gravitational interaction...but it's not enough where you're going to see anything like you described.
*sigh* I'll be you're a product of the American public schools. (Not that I'm not, but I'm just trying to take a dig at the science taught in public schools here.)
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Wow. Yeah. A PC built with the money it'd take to buy an Apple. That's like taking the money you'd spend on a Viper and using it to rice-out a Honda Civic. You end up with a mismatched house-of-cards that can't approach the performance of car you could have had with the money spent.
Well, then isn't it the economy that's making a species go "extinct" and not natural forces?
Um, correct me if I am wrong here, but isn't adding new species increasing biodiversity?
Dude, whatever drugs you're taking to damp down the paranoia...you need to up the dosage.
1) Production of previously unknown toxins
It's not like developing an antitoxin is equivelent to putting a man on Mars.
2) GM organisms driving NE organisms to extinction
Why is it that ecological niches are always considered to be a binary yes-no system? Two predators can co-exist in the same area, provided that resources are abundant enough for both to survive. Also, why is it always assumed the only the NEs will die off at the pressures of the GMs? It's certainly possible that the reverse will happen.
3) Genetic monoculture susceptible to parasites and climate
And?
4) Hubristic scientists playing God calling down the wrath of Heaven
You call this a scientifically valid reason?
5) Gene transfer between similar existing species leading to any one of the above
So the first time we crossed horses and donkeys to get mules, the environment should have collapsed and God should have rained vengeful wrath down upon us, right?
Give me a break. Go read some real science, unaltered by religious dogma, and then get back to me.
Yeah, nice to see someone buying into the bunk science that somehow a GM organism is more likely to transfer its genes to you than a naturally evolved (NE) organism. Tell me, are you carrying the genes for non-GM wheat in your genome now? Why would GM foods be more likely to pass their genes on to you than NE foods?
..and it won't be long before someone with a packet sniffer figures out what the code is and then launches it as a permanent DoS attack against anything with a .gov or .mil TLD.
Having said all of that, I suspect it is highly likely that there is nothing Microsoft could do to please the Slashdot community (nor do I think that is their goal in any of these maneuvers). Any action they can take will receive the same scorn and criticism, by the same group of people.
Now, now, they could give up, release all their code to the public domain, shut their doors forever, and the employees could gang up and lynch Monkeyboy Ballmer and Bill Gates. That's something I think we'd all be pleased by.
105,000 feet is still a lot less than orbit. Furthermore, the F-15 has an extremely good glide ratio, compared to the shuttle. The shuttle is basically a brick with a couple of winglets attached...it basically drops like an artillery shell and uses the wings for braking maneuvers.
You're missing the fact that the SRBs only have enough burn-time to get the shuttle partly to orbit.
I understand that. What I was taking the shot at was the guy who seemed to think that the Hubble would be a great place for the shuttle/crew to hang out while they made repairs or waited for a rescue mission. :-)
Oh yeah, that's about the brightest idea I've ever heard. SRBs should have NEVER been rated for manned spaceflight...once they're running, they're running, and that's it. No throttling. No kill-switch. You wait until the propellant is gone.
As for the SSMEs not having much to do with getting the orbiter into space I say this: uhhhhh, what?
Here's a great site that explains the physics of the SRBs. Before this page gets Slashdotted to hell and back, I'll recap what it says: each SRB produces 3.3 million pounds of thrust, and each one weighs 1.3 million pounds (191,000 pounds dry-weight, plus 1.1 million pounds of propellant). That means the combined pair can lift about 4 million pounds. The shuttle itself weighs 171,000 pounds (empty, with engines), and the external tank weighs 66,000 pounds. So with a little rounding off, you can add 3.75 million pounds to the stack before you have an equal balance between thrust and weight (which will get you nowhere near orbit). The aforementioned external tank carries 1.3 million pounds of liquid oxygen and 227,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen. More neat rounding brings us to 1.6 million pounds of fuel, 2.15 million pounds remaining. Let's assume the shuttle is carrying its max payload -- 63,500 pounds. Leaves us with 2.08 million pounds.
So:
Booster Stack Weight + Fuel: 4.52 million pounds.
Thrust of SRBs (combined): 6.6 million pounds.
Resulting Thrust-to-Weight Ratio: 1.4.
By comparison, a F-15 has a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.19, giving the shuttle a 15% advantage, when using SRBs alone.
That's right. I haven't forgotten about the SSMEs. When run at 104%, they provide an extra 488,000 pounds of thrust each. That's an extra 1.46 million pounds of thrust. Thus, our 4.52 million pound stack now has a 8.06 million pounds of thrust, resulting in a thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.78, or a 66% advantage over the F-15. Note that these figures are assuming that the SSMEs are run at 104% from ignition (which they're not), but also bear in mind that as the shuttle burns fuel, which it does as a prodigious rate, the overall weight of the stack is reduced while the thrust remains constant, so as the vehicle climbs, it's thrust-to-weight ratio improves, and continues to do so after the SRBs are cut loose.
Now, IANARS (RS = Rocket Scientist), but it seems to me that if we want to scale up the SRBs so that they alone can carry the shuttle into orbit, the weight of the propellant is going to exceed the maximum thrust of the SRBs before you can get enough propellant for the entire burn into orbit.
What I'm trying to say is this: leave the rocket science to the rocket scientists.
"Limiting shuttles to flights to the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope."
So they can see any stuff that has fallen off better and so they have a place to stay when bad stuff happens.
Yeah, because and that crew aboard the Hubble is probably getting bored of just looking at each other all day.
Just because you can't afford bluetooth or because Bluetooth isn't inside every item on the planet doesn't mean it's failed. Shit, by that argument, Windoze is a failure because it hasn't taken that last 10% of the market away from *Nix and Mac.
Bluetooth failed? Tell that to my Palm Tungsten T, Sony Ericcson T68i and the USB dongle sticking out the side of my iBook.
Except here in the state of hockey, where a check is something you give someone when you really want the puck. Major difference between cheque and check.
And probably more new ones, too. Let's face it, something, somewhere, is going to be calling the code they're "cleaning" and if it doesn't work right, it's going to break shit. Bigtime.
Well, hot damn! I'll have to read up on that. As it stands, nothing gets added to my knowledge base without seeing it on Slashdot first.
I'll be impressed when they have a robot/AI that can play ping-pong. If you look at the plane the ball travels in, foosball is pretty two-dimensional...not entirely, I'll grant you, but I'm making a generalization. If you can create a robot that can deal with three dimensions, and can build strategies to play a good game of ping-pong, then I'll be impressed.
God, how many hours has it been since I last heard that one? My response will always be the same: yeah, right. Customers who have had limitless bandwidth are too accustomed to that, and will go elsewhere to get it. If an ISP switched to metering, people would go elsewhere, and they know it.
Wow...this is so outside MS's usual routine, that I'm forced to think that they're doing this so that the courts will perceive some legal weight behind SCO's claims against IBM... It would make sense from a MS Marketing standpoint to try and start building a coffin for the IBM/Linux alliance.
As I stated in an earlier post in this thread, the Architect basically spelled out that Zion and the "real world" are an onion layer of the Matrix. That's why Neo was able to sense and act on the squiddies.
Man, you were tired.
What the original poster is referring to is the sequence in which Smith embeds his persona onto the hacker and then answers the phone, getting sucked down the line and into the "real world"...
As for the Sentinels -- no, that was Neo in the "real" world...
I use the quotes because as the Architect explained at great length, that Zion and the whole human rebellion is merely another layer of the Matrix to give the 1% of humanity that can't accept reality a place where they think they are in a "real" world, making "real" changes...
The Architect specifically tells Neo that he's there to bring the cycle to an end and restart it from scratch -- walk through the one door and it all ends, you pick a new batch of men and women to start a new Zion, and it all recycles. You walk through that other door and it's all out war and the 250,000 humans of Zion will die, along with the rest of the human race, because the Matrix will collapse from its own inconsistency.
This is why the Oracle knows everything Neo and everyone else is going to do before it happens -- it's already happened 6 times before! (as per the Architect) -- and each time, the "One" has selected to walk through the door and set things in motion again (this is the control system used to counteract humans' tendencies toward choice). Where Neo differs is that he is not acting like the "Ones" that have come before him. He opts to risk everyone and everything to know the truth and to bring the war to an end.
Apple coppied the WinXP feature that lets users switch who's logged in without losing state.
Really? This feature is in 10.2.6? I'd love for you to point it out to me, as I've been using 10.2 since the day it came out, and haven't seen anything like this.
Furthermore, it's not a Microsoft innovation, it's a UNIX feature that's been around for more years than I can count.
...I get the feeling that someone left a ".com" off the name of the company involved with such a waste of money.
Oh sweet Christ. Not this again.
.00001 inches.
Look, all nine planets were aligned in 2000 or 2001. NOTHING HAPPENED. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. The gravity of the first five planets is not significant enough to act on one another to that degree. Jupiter may be huge, but it's gravity is barely noticeable on Earth...I'd be surprised if it affected the tides more that
Regardless of where the planets are in regards to each other, there's always gravitational interaction...but it's not enough where you're going to see anything like you described.
*sigh* I'll be you're a product of the American public schools. (Not that I'm not, but I'm just trying to take a dig at the science taught in public schools here.)