It's nice to pick and choose bits of previous posts to make it sound like that's what you meant, but I know that what you meant is that "oscillating means AC" and that just doesn't jive with the dictionary definition of the term. But congratulations, you won a pointless battle with somebody who wasn't trying to fight in the first place and who you'll never meet:-)
The terms AC and DC have two subtly different meanings. In one of them, AC is distinguished from DC because AC oscillates and DC does not. In the other sense, AC differs from DC by virtue of the direction of current flow -- the current only "alternates" if it actually comes to a stop and flows in the opposite direction. It's possible to have oscillation without the current changing direction, for instance a 1 MHz oscillation that ranges from 0 volt to 1 volt. The current always moves in one direction, though its amplitude varies.
So yes, indicating AC is not redundant. It means the voltage passes through 0.
This was, you know, part of an art piece... What is art for if not to draw attention? For that matter, what's wrong with doing something "out there" and drawing some attention anyway? Are we all supposed to behave like soldier ants all the time?
If a dimwitted student is holding back the rest of the class, I want the teachers empowered to say so and do something about it.
There are ways to do that that don't involve ridiculing the "dimwitted" students. This isn't about protecting the self-images of precious little snowflakes, it's about basic human decency and the fact that it's fucking rude to talk about people that way, children or otherwise, especially in a public forum.
It's not the idea she communicated that got her fired, it's the unprofessional manner in which she did so. What happened here isn't "bad speech, you get fired," it's "unprofessional behavior is not tolerated."
If the only force you experienced was an upward force, you'd accelerate upward. You do not, because the upward force of the chair is the same magnitude as the downward force of gravity.
In terms of general relativity, the force of gravity isn't really a force, and the only true force on you is that of the chair, which serves to keep your body moving along a geodesic of spacetime, but seriously, general relativity is unnecessary to explain the operation of an iPhone accelerometer.
Really? I was under the impression that gravity was accelerating me towards the center of the earth. At least, when I jump, I seem to come back down again. Maybe I'm standing upside down.
No, he's right. The force of gravity is indistinguishable from what you'd feel if you were in an elevator accelerating upwards at 1 g. Come on, this goes back almost 100 years to Einstein's thought experiment which led to the general theory of relativity.
When you're standing on solid ground, what do you feel? A force pushing UPWARDS on the soles of your feet. The sensation you have of gravity is that of a force pushing your body UPWARDS. Think carefully about it. Sit in a chair. What parts of your body experience force, and in what direction? Do you feel a downward pressing on your shoulders, or an upward pressing on the backs of your legs and your butt?
This is a matter of perception. The force is actually a downward force. But in all respects, the effects due to that force are the same as if you were in an accelerating reference frame with the acceleration directed upwards.
AI is always in the future, almost by definition. As soon as any new "artificial intelligence" algorithm goes mainstream, and starts to be incorporated into real products, people tend to stop thinking of it as AI and more of "just what those computer thingies do." So it's you who keeps changing the definition of what AI is, it's not a lack of forward progress.
AI tends to be "whatever the most advanced stuff is that people are working on." I hate the terminology, as do you apparently, but a problem with terminology doesn't mean we're not inventing anything.
I wasn't aware that a computer did that. My Windows machines don't. My Linux machines don't.
If some random Linux distro is automatically running programs from inserted media, it sounds to me like somebody had a major brain fart. "Autorun is the problem" is not my first assumption...
The location of the largest trees in the United States (they are somewhere in the groves of the Redwoods in northern California) is kept secret by the arborists and other researchers who study them. It's not unprecedented, when you have only a single piece of evidence, to do something to protect it from vandals and psychopaths.
Shortly afterwords, when this friend went back for another visit, most of what he took with him, including his laptop, was seized. No charges, no due process, no probable cause.
Manning is being held in solitary confinement and this is the best example you can come up with of how the government is abusing rights? "His friend got his shit taken away when he went to visit him?" Don't you think, I don't know, the incarceration of Manning without due process, is a better testament to his situation? What the fuck?
Yeah, having a computer automatically react to a piece of media... What a stupid idea. Next thing you know they'll be using computers to compute things, and then we've just gone straight to hell.
Assuming a density of 80 grams per liter (about 8% that of water), a cubic meter of snow has a mass of 80 kg. Heat of fusion of water ice is 333.55 kJ/kg, so it would take a minimum of 27 MJ to melt one cubic meter of snow (more, if it is substantially below freezing). Assuming a 10 hectare campus, and a depth of 1 meter, that's 100,000 cubic meters of snow requiring 2,700,000 MJ of energy to melt, which is 2.7 TJ which is about the amount of energy produced by a 1 gigawatt power plant in a time of 45 minutes... It's a ridiculously huge amount of energy.
I have no doubt that Bear Grylls has some pretty mad skills. What I don't like is how he presents certain things as if they were actually valid survival techniques for the average person, instead of admitting that he's just trying to be impressive. Sometimes it's stemming up a ridiculous chimney climb in tennis shoes, sometimes it's constructing a rope swing from a flimsy vine and then swinging across a 200 foot chasm, or climbing a rickety tree to take a look at the terrain ("It's hilly"), or tackling a wild board and killing it with a knife... All of which are probably decent survival techniques for Bear Grylls, but for most other people doing any of these things is a GUARANTEED way to get killed.
Sure, at the beginning of the show they throw up that disclaimer, but the guy's ATTITUDE during the show is more like "Watch me and learn these techniques, so you can save yourself if you're ever lost in a desert/deep forest/ice plateau." It's suicidal to try to do most of the things this guy is doing.
Internet. Look it up. Does it say "Network of computers with the sole and express purpose of facilitating commerce?"
If the Commerce clause gives the federal government the right to regulate commerce on the Internet (which I think is obvious), then fine, but it does not grant the government the right to turn the whole damn thing off under the guise of "regulating commerce" because commerce is not the only thing which happens on the Internet.
Saying it's like a balloon proves the point. The balloon may be expanding, but it is expanding into the box/room/whatever.
You're on the right track. Take the above picture in your mind, then eliminate the "box/room/whatever." That's what's happening. The fact that it's hard to visualize, or that you don't "get it," doesn't make it incorrect. It just means you can't imagine it. Other people have no problem imagining it.
Imagine being on the surface of an expanding balloon. The balloon is expanding at a rate such that the distance between you and the antipode is increasing faster than the wave speed on the balloon surface. You can never hear anything happening at the antipode, because the waves from there cannot reach you. But there is no "edge" to the surface of a balloon -- every point is just like every other point. There is no preferred location.
It's cheating because instead of generating good search results, they look at someone else's search results and output those.
Yeah, those piggybacking FUCKERS! They don't do any of their own reporting or editing, they just screen-scrape the sites of reputable, hard-working news organizations and populate their front page with purloined content!
Actually,/. should delete the accounts of people who do nothing but look for somewhere else the article has appeared first then bitch about how Slashdot didn't "scoop" it -- as if that's EVER how Slashdot worked.
Some of us aren't on Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever the fuck else you are using to get news. Thankfully we have Slashdot.
Whether to capitalize the word "Internet" is hardly a settled matter. Personally, I don't care if you capitalize it, but if you start arguing about it like it's a big deal, you get put on my list of funny people.
You're officially even less connected than Bhutan. You might as well take a step into the twelfth century, that's about where you are, technologically, at the moment.
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It's nice to pick and choose bits of previous posts to make it sound like that's what you meant, but I know that what you meant is that "oscillating means AC" and that just doesn't jive with the dictionary definition of the term. But congratulations, you won a pointless battle with somebody who wasn't trying to fight in the first place and who you'll never meet :-)
The terms AC and DC have two subtly different meanings. In one of them, AC is distinguished from DC because AC oscillates and DC does not. In the other sense, AC differs from DC by virtue of the direction of current flow -- the current only "alternates" if it actually comes to a stop and flows in the opposite direction. It's possible to have oscillation without the current changing direction, for instance a 1 MHz oscillation that ranges from 0 volt to 1 volt. The current always moves in one direction, though its amplitude varies.
So yes, indicating AC is not redundant. It means the voltage passes through 0.
If there isn't at least one person who doesn't like your artwork, you're doing it wrong.
This was, you know, part of an art piece... What is art for if not to draw attention? For that matter, what's wrong with doing something "out there" and drawing some attention anyway? Are we all supposed to behave like soldier ants all the time?
So, because administrators and legislators make bad decisions, it's okay to sling insults at little kids?
Just because I have a bad day at work, I don't feel entitled to slap someone on my way home...
If a dimwitted student is holding back the rest of the class, I want the teachers empowered to say so and do something about it.
There are ways to do that that don't involve ridiculing the "dimwitted" students. This isn't about protecting the self-images of precious little snowflakes, it's about basic human decency and the fact that it's fucking rude to talk about people that way, children or otherwise, especially in a public forum.
It's not the idea she communicated that got her fired, it's the unprofessional manner in which she did so. What happened here isn't "bad speech, you get fired," it's "unprofessional behavior is not tolerated."
If the only force you experienced was an upward force, you'd accelerate upward. You do not, because the upward force of the chair is the same magnitude as the downward force of gravity.
In terms of general relativity, the force of gravity isn't really a force, and the only true force on you is that of the chair, which serves to keep your body moving along a geodesic of spacetime, but seriously, general relativity is unnecessary to explain the operation of an iPhone accelerometer.
Really? I was under the impression that gravity was accelerating me towards the center of the earth. At least, when I jump, I seem to come back down again. Maybe I'm standing upside down.
No, he's right. The force of gravity is indistinguishable from what you'd feel if you were in an elevator accelerating upwards at 1 g. Come on, this goes back almost 100 years to Einstein's thought experiment which led to the general theory of relativity.
When you're standing on solid ground, what do you feel? A force pushing UPWARDS on the soles of your feet. The sensation you have of gravity is that of a force pushing your body UPWARDS. Think carefully about it. Sit in a chair. What parts of your body experience force, and in what direction? Do you feel a downward pressing on your shoulders, or an upward pressing on the backs of your legs and your butt?
This is a matter of perception. The force is actually a downward force. But in all respects, the effects due to that force are the same as if you were in an accelerating reference frame with the acceleration directed upwards.
And the point of that would be what?
AI is always in the future, almost by definition. As soon as any new "artificial intelligence" algorithm goes mainstream, and starts to be incorporated into real products, people tend to stop thinking of it as AI and more of "just what those computer thingies do." So it's you who keeps changing the definition of what AI is, it's not a lack of forward progress.
AI tends to be "whatever the most advanced stuff is that people are working on." I hate the terminology, as do you apparently, but a problem with terminology doesn't mean we're not inventing anything.
Why would you want a computer to do that?
I wasn't aware that a computer did that. My Windows machines don't. My Linux machines don't.
If some random Linux distro is automatically running programs from inserted media, it sounds to me like somebody had a major brain fart. "Autorun is the problem" is not my first assumption...
The location of the largest trees in the United States (they are somewhere in the groves of the Redwoods in northern California) is kept secret by the arborists and other researchers who study them. It's not unprecedented, when you have only a single piece of evidence, to do something to protect it from vandals and psychopaths.
Shortly afterwords, when this friend went back for another visit, most of what he took with him, including his laptop, was seized. No charges, no due process, no probable cause.
Manning is being held in solitary confinement and this is the best example you can come up with of how the government is abusing rights? "His friend got his shit taken away when he went to visit him?" Don't you think, I don't know, the incarceration of Manning without due process, is a better testament to his situation? What the fuck?
Yeah, having a computer automatically react to a piece of media... What a stupid idea. Next thing you know they'll be using computers to compute things, and then we've just gone straight to hell.
Assuming a density of 80 grams per liter (about 8% that of water), a cubic meter of snow has a mass of 80 kg. Heat of fusion of water ice is 333.55 kJ/kg, so it would take a minimum of 27 MJ to melt one cubic meter of snow (more, if it is substantially below freezing). Assuming a 10 hectare campus, and a depth of 1 meter, that's 100,000 cubic meters of snow requiring 2,700,000 MJ of energy to melt, which is 2.7 TJ which is about the amount of energy produced by a 1 gigawatt power plant in a time of 45 minutes... It's a ridiculously huge amount of energy.
If a share is not a share of ownership, what exactly is it a share of?
I have no doubt that Bear Grylls has some pretty mad skills. What I don't like is how he presents certain things as if they were actually valid survival techniques for the average person, instead of admitting that he's just trying to be impressive. Sometimes it's stemming up a ridiculous chimney climb in tennis shoes, sometimes it's constructing a rope swing from a flimsy vine and then swinging across a 200 foot chasm, or climbing a rickety tree to take a look at the terrain ("It's hilly"), or tackling a wild board and killing it with a knife... All of which are probably decent survival techniques for Bear Grylls, but for most other people doing any of these things is a GUARANTEED way to get killed.
Sure, at the beginning of the show they throw up that disclaimer, but the guy's ATTITUDE during the show is more like "Watch me and learn these techniques, so you can save yourself if you're ever lost in a desert/deep forest/ice plateau." It's suicidal to try to do most of the things this guy is doing.
Internet. Look it up. Does it say "Network of computers with the sole and express purpose of facilitating commerce?"
If the Commerce clause gives the federal government the right to regulate commerce on the Internet (which I think is obvious), then fine, but it does not grant the government the right to turn the whole damn thing off under the guise of "regulating commerce" because commerce is not the only thing which happens on the Internet.
Saying it's like a balloon proves the point. The balloon may be expanding, but it is expanding into the box/room/whatever.
You're on the right track. Take the above picture in your mind, then eliminate the "box/room/whatever." That's what's happening. The fact that it's hard to visualize, or that you don't "get it," doesn't make it incorrect. It just means you can't imagine it. Other people have no problem imagining it.
Imagine being on the surface of an expanding balloon. The balloon is expanding at a rate such that the distance between you and the antipode is increasing faster than the wave speed on the balloon surface. You can never hear anything happening at the antipode, because the waves from there cannot reach you. But there is no "edge" to the surface of a balloon -- every point is just like every other point. There is no preferred location.
It's cheating because instead of generating good search results, they look at someone else's search results and output those.
Yeah, those piggybacking FUCKERS! They don't do any of their own reporting or editing, they just screen-scrape the sites of reputable, hard-working news organizations and populate their front page with purloined content!
Wait... We're talking about Google News, right?
Actually, /. should delete the accounts of people who do nothing but look for somewhere else the article has appeared first then bitch about how Slashdot didn't "scoop" it -- as if that's EVER how Slashdot worked.
Some of us aren't on Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever the fuck else you are using to get news. Thankfully we have Slashdot.
Whether to capitalize the word "Internet" is hardly a settled matter. Personally, I don't care if you capitalize it, but if you start arguing about it like it's a big deal, you get put on my list of funny people.
You're officially even less connected than Bhutan. You might as well take a step into the twelfth century, that's about where you are, technologically, at the moment.