Okay, I'll bite. I understand the whole premise in GR that gravity is a side effect of the curvature of space-time. Ignoring the quantum crowd with their gravitons (not that it's wrong, it's just not relevant to my question)... can you have negative curvature of space-time? Or is there a horizontal asymptote at 0? If you could somehow invert the curvature, would you have anti-gravity?
the answer to the marble jars is incredibly easy if you're allowed to take them all out first. put the black ones on the bottom half of both jars, and the white ones on the top half. Voila.
It's not the same as the tax on music cd-r's. It doesn't presuppose "guilt." It presupposes that people will be copying music, and legitimizes it. There can be no presupposition of guilt if no crime is committed.
With AdCritic's unfortunate demise, who can we turn to online to download the awesome superbowl commercials? Yes, the anti-terrorism ones will suck, but every year there *are* at least a few gems. So, with AdCritic gone, any suggestions?
Just because the rest of the world doesn't know where they are doesn't mean the US doesn't know. All of you people saying "ooh, oh no, there's gonna be a collision..." no there won't be one. The US knows damn well where its expensive satellites are and it'd be damned if it let one collide with a commercial satellite. If it's headed right for one, it'll change orbit, simple as that.
Does this mean if you sat down a bunch of monkeys in front of a computer, and had them calculate pi forever, you'd wind up with all the works of William Shakespeare?;)
...with biometric stuff getting so cheap, soon typed passphrases may only be part of the puzzle...
As it stands right now I see passphrases as being MORE secure than biometrics, the way the FBI stands. Think about it -- if they're willing to illegally wiretap your computer to get your passphrase, who's to say they won't drug you and use your body against you? Fingerprints and retinal scans are the same when you're drugged as when you're sober. Passphrases can die with you... your fingerprints can't.
Funny, I have an old keyboard from 1994. Big enter key, big backspace key, and sure the |\ key might be a little smaller and in the lower right corner, but it's not much of an annoyance. The other plus is that it has a macro key on it, though nobody has ever been able to tell me what it does or how the hell to use it. I'm assuming it does macro stuff. Oh, and no windows key either, and nicely spaced ctrl and alt keys. The function keys were duplicated on the left on the early-90s gateway keyboards. So sure, your perfect keyboard exists, but only in parts.
I have an A7V board too. I believe it's cooling program for windows just does idle commands during idle states, similar to Waterfall and Rain, etc.
Sadly, though, the thermal sensor on the A7V is extremely inaccurate. One german site reported temp differences of up to 20 degrees celsius!
MaximumPC did a great article on how to quiet down noisy PCs back in their August 2000 issue. They took their PC from a noisy 49dB to a really quiet 34.6dB. I wish I could do the same for mine. If only I could find that link...
All you really need to do is buy high quality equipment, and when you can, anything from the "silencer" line from PC Power & Cooling. Try to make the most out of the fewest fans possible. Also, buy the quietest hard drives possible. If you can afford the slight performance hit, go with some brand new 5400rpm drives, and buy a silencer kit from New England Digital. The easiest way to quiet it down though is just to get it out of your line of hearing. If you have an entertainment center with closeable doors, close the doors!
Hope this has been helpful. Moderators -- don't bother modding me up, since this is OT. Don't mod me down either, it's useful knowledge.
I'm pretty sure Malin Space Science Systems, the ones who put the camera on Mars Global Surveyor, already examine each picture and write a short description of it. I say this, having downloaded hundreds of narrow-angle camera images of the Iapygia region (270W-300W, 30S-0N. quadrangle MC-21) and seeing comments on a lot of their pages. So odds are you're not the first person to examine that spot, and I guarantee you're not if it's in the Iapygia region.;)
NASA needs to send another one of Gil's missions. Their current policy is to not allow any manned missions to Mars until we are sure whether or not there is any life there, lest we contaminate the planet before we know. So until we carry out more of these simple tests (so small they could piggyback on a geology mission) we will never know whether or not there is life, and therefore, never land a man on Mars. Of course, then NASA will probably come up with some new excuse for not sending men to Mars, like they don't know what kind of life it is or the dang things keep crashing.
Maybe, instead of voting from home, just have a touch-screen system at the polls. It would be secure and much easier to use than a butterfly ballot. Using an open encryption protocol (RSA 2048 bit, anyone?), it would be all but impossible to crack and tamper with the votes.
Also, pictures are nice but if someone in power really wanted one candidate to win over the other one, then they could just have a really flattering picture of their favorite, and an awful picture of the person they want to have lose.
I wish I could mod you down to -1 Troll. While the panhandle of Florida is indeed in the Central Time Zone, the polls open and close at the same time all over the state. So if the polls close at 8pm EST in the eastern part of the state, the panhandle would close at 7pm CST, the same time.
Why can I imagine somebody just painting two nipples on this thing and selling it as an adult-oriented product? I'll stick to keyboards that look like keyboards, and not breasts!
We've already had the Stupid Patent Tricks Contest, so why not a "Fool Slashdot" Contest? Readers could submit anything from previously posted articles (already a favorite pasttime!) to the ludicrous, or even just plain funny. First reader whose story is posted wins. I'm a student, so I'm broke and have no money for prizes, but the knowledge that you too can fool slashdot should be more than enough!
Beat the crowd, sumbit your hoax now!
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Have you ever considered approaching the government for some grant money? If so, would there be icky strings attached that make it counterproductive?
Okay, I'll bite. I understand the whole premise in GR that gravity is a side effect of the curvature of space-time. Ignoring the quantum crowd with their gravitons (not that it's wrong, it's just not relevant to my question)... can you have negative curvature of space-time? Or is there a horizontal asymptote at 0? If you could somehow invert the curvature, would you have anti-gravity?
the answer to the marble jars is incredibly easy if you're allowed to take them all out first. put the black ones on the bottom half of both jars, and the white ones on the top half. Voila.
It's not the same as the tax on music cd-r's. It doesn't presuppose "guilt." It presupposes that people will be copying music, and legitimizes it. There can be no presupposition of guilt if no crime is committed.
With AdCritic's unfortunate demise, who can we turn to online to download the awesome superbowl commercials? Yes, the anti-terrorism ones will suck, but every year there *are* at least a few gems. So, with AdCritic gone, any suggestions?
Maybe that would explain why Daikatana took so long and was so bad... it was the distractions, people! ;)
no jokes on Airport security?
Just because the rest of the world doesn't know where they are doesn't mean the US doesn't know. All of you people saying "ooh, oh no, there's gonna be a collision..." no there won't be one. The US knows damn well where its expensive satellites are and it'd be damned if it let one collide with a commercial satellite. If it's headed right for one, it'll change orbit, simple as that.
Does this mean if you sat down a bunch of monkeys in front of a computer, and had them calculate pi forever, you'd wind up with all the works of William Shakespeare? ;)
...with biometric stuff getting so cheap, soon typed passphrases may only be part of the puzzle...
As it stands right now I see passphrases as being MORE secure than biometrics, the way the FBI stands. Think about it -- if they're willing to illegally wiretap your computer to get your passphrase, who's to say they won't drug you and use your body against you? Fingerprints and retinal scans are the same when you're drugged as when you're sober. Passphrases can die with you... your fingerprints can't.
Funny, I have an old keyboard from 1994. Big enter key, big backspace key, and sure the |\ key might be a little smaller and in the lower right corner, but it's not much of an annoyance. The other plus is that it has a macro key on it, though nobody has ever been able to tell me what it does or how the hell to use it. I'm assuming it does macro stuff. Oh, and no windows key either, and nicely spaced ctrl and alt keys. The function keys were duplicated on the left on the early-90s gateway keyboards. So sure, your perfect keyboard exists, but only in parts.
I have an A7V board too. I believe it's cooling program for windows just does idle commands during idle states, similar to Waterfall and Rain, etc.
Sadly, though, the thermal sensor on the A7V is extremely inaccurate. One german site reported temp differences of up to 20 degrees celsius!
With price cuts like these, you can almost have enough money left over to afford a GeForce3 with that P4. ;)
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I'm fairly sure that Comedy Central used the "Indecision" moniker back in '96 when Politically Incorrect still had the 7pm/11pm time slot.
We'll all be sucked into a black hole. ;)
MaximumPC did a great article on how to quiet down noisy PCs back in their August 2000 issue. They took their PC from a noisy 49dB to a really quiet 34.6dB. I wish I could do the same for mine. If only I could find that link...
All you really need to do is buy high quality equipment, and when you can, anything from the "silencer" line from PC Power & Cooling. Try to make the most out of the fewest fans possible. Also, buy the quietest hard drives possible. If you can afford the slight performance hit, go with some brand new 5400rpm drives, and buy a silencer kit from New England Digital. The easiest way to quiet it down though is just to get it out of your line of hearing. If you have an entertainment center with closeable doors, close the doors!
Hope this has been helpful. Moderators -- don't bother modding me up, since this is OT. Don't mod me down either, it's useful knowledge.
Could this be used to help cancer patients regrow bone marrow after a transplant?
I am now moving back to my original idea of a canvas-winged plane controlled by punch cards
When you build it, make sure it turns without having to telegraph the supreme court first.
I'm pretty sure Malin Space Science Systems, the ones who put the camera on Mars Global Surveyor, already examine each picture and write a short description of it. I say this, having downloaded hundreds of narrow-angle camera images of the Iapygia region (270W-300W, 30S-0N. quadrangle MC-21) and seeing comments on a lot of their pages. So odds are you're not the first person to examine that spot, and I guarantee you're not if it's in the Iapygia region. ;)
NASA needs to send another one of Gil's missions.
Their current policy is to not allow any manned missions to Mars until we are sure whether or not there is any life there, lest we contaminate the planet before we know. So until we carry out more of these simple tests (so small they could piggyback on a geology mission) we will never know whether or not there is life, and therefore, never land a man on Mars.
Of course, then NASA will probably come up with some new excuse for not sending men to Mars, like they don't know what kind of life it is or the dang things keep crashing.
Maybe, instead of voting from home, just have a touch-screen system at the polls. It would be secure and much easier to use than a butterfly ballot. Using an open encryption protocol (RSA 2048 bit, anyone?), it would be all but impossible to crack and tamper with the votes. Also, pictures are nice but if someone in power really wanted one candidate to win over the other one, then they could just have a really flattering picture of their favorite, and an awful picture of the person they want to have lose.
I wish I could mod you down to -1 Troll. While the panhandle of Florida is indeed in the Central Time Zone, the polls open and close at the same time all over the state. So if the polls close at 8pm EST in the eastern part of the state, the panhandle would close at 7pm CST, the same time.
Why can I imagine somebody just painting two nipples on this thing and selling it as an adult-oriented product? I'll stick to keyboards that look like keyboards, and not breasts!
We've already had the Stupid Patent Tricks Contest, so why not a "Fool Slashdot" Contest? Readers could submit anything from previously posted articles (already a favorite pasttime!) to the ludicrous, or even just plain funny. First reader whose story is posted wins. I'm a student, so I'm broke and have no money for prizes, but the knowledge that you too can fool slashdot should be more than enough!
Beat the crowd, sumbit your hoax now!