Technically, you're right. However, the earth's mass is so enormous that it makes no practical difference. By newton's third, ae = m * G / r^2 and a = M * G / r^2, giving that the acceleration between the earth and an object is
G * (M + m) / r^2
(M is the mass of the earth, and m is the mass of the object..) You can substitute values to satisfy yourself that the difference is completely negligible for any reasonable value of m, which is why the 'acceleration due to gravity' doesn't change based on mass.
I'll also be sticking with Windows XP, because I like the OS better, and I also don't see the need to support a monopoly in the making any more than I see the need to support a monopoly that already exists.
How can you be bound by a EULA at the time you buy something? (I'm honestly just curious. It would seem that the EULA could have no effect on where you buy something, because you hadn't agreed to it at that point. Am I wrong?)
Oh, be honest. Joe Public *doesn't* update his OS. He uses whatever was on his computer when he got it until he buys another one. I would doubt that more than 10% of computer users know what Windows is beyond (if you're lucky) "it makes my computer run."
What the normal user wants is not the same thing as what the hacker wants. The whole community would be better off when people realize that "Linux for Everyone" isn't such a great goal -- when that happens, it's going to be useless for those who created it.
If you're building karma by thinking stuff up, then that's your problem. Cut/paste and a minute with a thesaurus will make all your karma dreams come true.
Nope. The average speed of photons propagating through a material is slower than 3e8 m/s, but the photons themselves always travel at that speed. (Remember, to a photon, even the densest materials look like a vacuum with an occasional particle.)
When we say that light 'slows down' in a material, what is happenning is that the photons are hitting the atoms inside and being absorbed/reemmitted - not always in the same direction, and not instantaneously. Thus, the forward progress of the 'light pulse' is slowed, but not the photons themselves.
Not quite (as somebody pointed out, p=mv isn't correct for photons, or, for that matter, when v gets up to a significant fraction of c). However, what is correct is that, because photons are massless, they cannot move at a speed less than c -- A photon is always travelling at 3e8 m/s. So you're right in thinking that they didn't stop the photons (which is certainly what 'stopping light' implies.)
Right. So now that the elitists are getting what they've asked for, they're now going to petition to get rid of the choice between their preferred format and the format that others prefer? Honestly, does the mere existence of a pan-and-scan version cause you mental anguish?
More importantly, the government would also have to care. I haven't seen any evidence that they do. It's marketing corporations that want personal info.
If you had looked at the help, you would have realized that pressing 'X' would have done you more service than any savescumming cheats. And it's legit, as well.
Choosing to take your business elsewhere is hardly "throwing your hands in the air as if there is nothing you can do." In fact, it is doing something. Whether anonymity is a right is debatable, but not particularly relavant in this instance -- because in this case, you can still maintain your privacy in a very simple manner. You can choose whether to allow them to scan your ID, and they can choose whether to allow you to enter. Your privacy is in your hands, not the governments -- isn't that how it should be?
That's true. (And a reasonable point). However, I don't think that a claim that the group of 'people who don't want their IDs being recorded' is being discriminated against is going to hold up legally. The government does enough stupid things -- I don't see why we need extra laws (making the scanning of IDs illegal) which reduce freedom rather than enhancing it. Personal responsibility is what's needed here -- take care of your own personal information -- not more laws.
Sorry - NO! that is utter BS. so you are saying now that it is OK for personal info relinquishing to be a *requirement* for entering a place? That reminds me of the super-hippy-liberal teachers I had back in HS who said that if one was to get into a fight, the only right thing to do is to turn around and just walk away. Right, the right thing to do is to pummel the person who decided they were going to fight you. Walk away my ass. this attitude is the cancer of our society called victimization.
That makes no sense. You're not being victimized by not being allowed to enter a private place of business -- you're entitled to personal safety, but you're not entitled to set the terms by which you enter someone else's property. Complain to the management if you want and let them know that they won't recieve your business with their policy, but the appropriate thing to do is to take your money elsewhere.
Demos and shareware are completely different. Today's demos generally just scratch the surface of the program, and promise that there's lots of stuff that's blocked out of the program for now. Traditionally, shareware programs were fully functional and useful, and you got extra features and stuff when you registered. Today, the things laughably referred to as shareware games are one level, or time-limited or so forth -- not a full program in any sense.
As far as games go, I've been thinking about the possibilities of going open source, and releasing a "demo world" along with it -- then you can buy the "full version" with all of the graphics, sound, and other data of the entire game. Sort of like the traditional shareware games of old, when they would break the game into a few episodes, and you'd get the first one as the shareware version, and the rest if you registered -- but in other respects, the game was fully functional.
Anyway, are there any companies that do this kind of thing? I wort of wonder if it's feasible or not -- whether people would actually buy a set of data files.
I think that this is what you want. A little work interfacing the two so it picks some words and adds links based on a real story, and you'll never need to visit slashdot again.
Is there anyone currently working on software for this kind of thing?
I was thinking that the fact that p2p software is primarily useful for searching for one specific file as being one of the major reasons why it has yet to grow beyond being a "piracy tool", yet it seems to have a lot more potential.
'll reiterate once more: Gimp is nice, but doesn't come close to Photoshop.
Y'know, it seems to me that one of the sure paths to karma is to put "Photoshop is better than the Gimp, even though you say it isn't" into your post (whether or not anyone compared the two in the first place.) Yeah, everyone knows -- you can quit moderating it up now. I still fail to see how the lack of Photoshop is such a big deal for the vast majority of users -- if you need it, then Linux is out, but if you're like me and most other people, it won't effect you in any way.
Oh well, that's my rant for today. It just strikes me as bizarre that the lack of Photoshop and the nonstandard copy/paste methodology -- two things which I consider to be relatively unimportant -- are constantly held up as the primary reasons why Linux isn't going anywhere.
I often consider buying opera, but then it crashes (sometimes even on a simple static page) or mishandles javascript and I have to wonder why anyone would buy it.
I agree with this. As soon as opera becomes relatively crash-proof (IOW not crashing a couple times per hour) -- they'll have my money. As it is, though, it's definately worth using... when it crashes, with its legendary speed it only takes 5 seconds or so to start again. Annoying, but no big deal.
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G * (M + m) / r^2
(M is the mass of the earth, and m is the mass of the object..) You can substitute values to satisfy yourself that the difference is completely negligible for any reasonable value of m, which is why the 'acceleration due to gravity' doesn't change based on mass.
Wow! That's conviction, all right.
How can you be bound by a EULA at the time you buy something? (I'm honestly just curious. It would seem that the EULA could have no effect on where you buy something, because you hadn't agreed to it at that point. Am I wrong?)
Not only that; he uses Lynx.
What the normal user wants is not the same thing as what the hacker wants. The whole community would be better off when people realize that "Linux for Everyone" isn't such a great goal -- when that happens, it's going to be useless for those who created it.
Well, duh. However, this may be of some utility to those few people who can't find enough room on their desks for a CAVE.
Well, he didn't say "Free Software is about not forcing you to do anything", did he? Not all open source software is under the GPL.
If you're building karma by thinking stuff up, then that's your problem. Cut/paste and a minute with a thesaurus will make all your karma dreams come true.
When we say that light 'slows down' in a material, what is happenning is that the photons are hitting the atoms inside and being absorbed/reemmitted - not always in the same direction, and not instantaneously. Thus, the forward progress of the 'light pulse' is slowed, but not the photons themselves.
Not quite (as somebody pointed out, p=mv isn't correct for photons, or, for that matter, when v gets up to a significant fraction of c). However, what is correct is that, because photons are massless, they cannot move at a speed less than c -- A photon is always travelling at 3e8 m/s. So you're right in thinking that they didn't stop the photons (which is certainly what 'stopping light' implies.)
Of course, it's going to be even funnier when somebody gives it an 'informative' mod...
Right. So now that the elitists are getting what they've asked for, they're now going to petition to get rid of the choice between their preferred format and the format that others prefer? Honestly, does the mere existence of a pan-and-scan version cause you mental anguish?
...they said I wouldn't get bored here.
More importantly, the government would also have to care. I haven't seen any evidence that they do. It's marketing corporations that want personal info.
If you had looked at the help, you would have realized that pressing 'X' would have done you more service than any savescumming cheats. And it's legit, as well.
Choosing to take your business elsewhere is hardly "throwing your hands in the air as if there is nothing you can do." In fact, it is doing something. Whether anonymity is a right is debatable, but not particularly relavant in this instance -- because in this case, you can still maintain your privacy in a very simple manner. You can choose whether to allow them to scan your ID, and they can choose whether to allow you to enter. Your privacy is in your hands, not the governments -- isn't that how it should be?
That's true. (And a reasonable point). However, I don't think that a claim that the group of 'people who don't want their IDs being recorded' is being discriminated against is going to hold up legally. The government does enough stupid things -- I don't see why we need extra laws (making the scanning of IDs illegal) which reduce freedom rather than enhancing it. Personal responsibility is what's needed here -- take care of your own personal information -- not more laws.
That makes no sense. You're not being victimized by not being allowed to enter a private place of business -- you're entitled to personal safety, but you're not entitled to set the terms by which you enter someone else's property. Complain to the management if you want and let them know that they won't recieve your business with their policy, but the appropriate thing to do is to take your money elsewhere.
Demos and shareware are completely different. Today's demos generally just scratch the surface of the program, and promise that there's lots of stuff that's blocked out of the program for now. Traditionally, shareware programs were fully functional and useful, and you got extra features and stuff when you registered. Today, the things laughably referred to as shareware games are one level, or time-limited or so forth -- not a full program in any sense.
Anyway, are there any companies that do this kind of thing? I wort of wonder if it's feasible or not -- whether people would actually buy a set of data files.
I think that this is what you want. A little work interfacing the two so it picks some words and adds links based on a real story, and you'll never need to visit slashdot again.
I was thinking that the fact that p2p software is primarily useful for searching for one specific file as being one of the major reasons why it has yet to grow beyond being a "piracy tool", yet it seems to have a lot more potential.
Y'know, it seems to me that one of the sure paths to karma is to put "Photoshop is better than the Gimp, even though you say it isn't" into your post (whether or not anyone compared the two in the first place.) Yeah, everyone knows -- you can quit moderating it up now. I still fail to see how the lack of Photoshop is such a big deal for the vast majority of users -- if you need it, then Linux is out, but if you're like me and most other people, it won't effect you in any way.
Oh well, that's my rant for today. It just strikes me as bizarre that the lack of Photoshop and the nonstandard copy/paste methodology -- two things which I consider to be relatively unimportant -- are constantly held up as the primary reasons why Linux isn't going anywhere.
I agree with this. As soon as opera becomes relatively crash-proof (IOW not crashing a couple times per hour) -- they'll have my money. As it is, though, it's definately worth using
I generally call it the "Upgrade Steamroller".