That is indeed what I meant. I thought I remembered the number as 77, not 87. I'm not that big of a fanboy, but enough to know a) he's Dunedan, and b) they're older than they look;)
Apparently, the author was surprised to learn that in the Jackson version of LotR, Aragorn is 87 years old. As anyone who has read the books knows, Aragorn is Dunedan (sp?), a race of men who once lived for 500+ years, but in the days of LotR, live a relatively short 180-200 years.
Mebbe the several hundred (a thousand?) people of middle-Eastern descent who were detained in the post Sept 11 days, merely because of their ethnicity. You look like the terrorists who crashed planes into our buildings and killed innocent people. Maybe you're a terrorist too... you think none of these people are Muslims?
Is it too hard to actually read the articles before posting in the forums? I guess if your sole aim in life is Fr1st p0st (or even first semi-on-topic post), maybe...
Why does it matter what it was shot out of? As long as it has the right velocity, angular momentum (spinning objects have more energy) and angle of impact, it shouldn't matter if it was launched from a catapult, fired from an air cannon, or lobbed by the right hand of God...
The point you're missing is that the chunk of foam had a hell of a lot of energy, and that much energy goes somewhere in a collision. Apparently, a lot of it went into the wing, and Bad Things (TM) happened.
I agree... every guy I know that brews his own beer is someone I met throught school (grad physics student) or work (programmer). Couple of pretty geeky groups there. I have quite a few friends outside those two groups, and many of them don't understand the need to do things like brewing, gardening, metalwork, etc. Explanation: they aren't geeks!
Nah... first you get a request from the RIAA to pull it. Then you can actually pull it, or you can refuse. Typically, if you pull information like this (as opposed to the actual material being violated), the RIAA has been satisfied. Of course, that's all past history, and I'm not one to predict the future...
Apparently, all it takes is an electron-positron annihilation with total energy around 10.6 GeV (and of course, looking in the right place). Surely you don't think this is the first time in the history of the universe that such an annihilation has happened...
Well, you sound like a good troll. There's a vorbis plugin for Quicktime. Granted, it only plays oggs (no encoding) and it's a 3rd party component, but the option is there. I use it frequently on my iBook. Just because Apple doesn't support it doesn't mean there's not an easy way to do it. Check out this link for details. --
Being on the lower tier of hackers, I'm not really into kernel hacking; out of curiosity, if XP's EULA was more agreeable, but still not OS/FS-compliant, would any of you consider using it?
No. I don't give a rat's ass about their EULA. I worry about the stability, security and usefulness of the computer. Well, that's not entirely true. I shuddered when I read the part about M$ collecting personal data from your computer, sharing it with others, and retaining the right to update your computer without your explicit permission (no even knowledge, I presume). That's just EVIL.
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Uh... to clarify, I meant the corporations attitudes towards their consumers. The "if it's good for our business, it's good for you too" attitude that's so prevalent these days (no, not just from M$).
Netflix's take on this... would probably be to sue him. Violation of trade secret... possibly even DMCA (even though I have no idea how they'd try...) violations.
This sort of thing is probably at the heart of their entire business model, information I doubt they want the masses to have. If so, I'd be very afraid of their reactions, given the current corporation vs. consumer attitudes out there today.
People have shown time and time again that they are incapable of making proper decisions for themselves, even when it comes to things like personal safety and survival.
There's a term for this in nature... it's called natural selection. Why should responsible people have to hand over more money to the government so it can hand-hold and babysit the irresponsible?
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Just follow the world line of your present location back in time. The world line is the four-dimensional path through spacetime that a point in 3D space follows.
I'm sorry. I completed my PhD in physics in 5 years. The first 2 years (almost all classwork) I spent 15-18 hour days during the week, and 6-12 hours on the weekend doing classwork/studying; summers were 40 hr weeks in a computer lab working on hydrodynamics code.
The last three years (almost all research), I rarely worked more than 40hrs/week on research. My programs worked a lot more than that, but I just babysat them for a good portion of time. I had to support myself with a teaching assistantship. I taught 2 astronomy labs a week, two hours a night. Grading took about another 2 hours a week (that's 6 hrs/week on TA, far less than the typical 15-20 hrs for the guys teaching intro physics labs).
God, FORTRAN-77 was such an easy language to deal with... stupid, but easy. Sometimes I miss those days.
Really? How do you know a user's intent? It's been established time and time again that you DO NOT need to decrypt the content of a DVD to copy it. What is inherently illegal about a software DVD player that isn't part of the DVDCCA cabal?
Read up on Eric Corley/2600.com vs. DVDCCA re: DeCSS. It did go to the Supreme Court. It did have the backing of EFF and ACLU. Corley/2600 lost on every level.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with the decisions (far from it... see my sig), but it's been done, and it failed. The current Supreme Court is a bit too conservative (socially, technologically, you name it) for that approach to work.
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That is indeed what I meant. I thought I remembered the number as 77, not 87. I'm not that big of a fanboy, but enough to know a) he's Dunedan, and b) they're older than they look ;)
Apparently, the author was surprised to learn that in the Jackson version of LotR, Aragorn is 87 years old. As anyone who has read the books knows, Aragorn is Dunedan (sp?), a race of men who once lived for 500+ years, but in the days of LotR, live a relatively short 180-200 years.
Here's a link for you, too.
...if you don't have a place to go, suck it up, find another job, THEN quit. You're crazy to walk out on your only opportunity these days.
Is it too hard to actually read the articles before posting in the forums? I guess if your sole aim in life is Fr1st p0st (or even first semi-on-topic post), maybe...
Why does it matter what it was shot out of? As long as it has the right velocity, angular momentum (spinning objects have more energy) and angle of impact, it shouldn't matter if it was launched from a catapult, fired from an air cannon, or lobbed by the right hand of God...
The point you're missing is that the chunk of foam had a hell of a lot of energy, and that much energy goes somewhere in a collision. Apparently, a lot of it went into the wing, and Bad Things (TM) happened.
That's right... any fun had in his park better include large amounts of alcohol and nudity!
Surname is the same thing... Not everyone is Christian, you know. Also known as family name, last name...
I agree... every guy I know that brews his own beer is someone I met throught school (grad physics student) or work (programmer). Couple of pretty geeky groups there. I have quite a few friends outside those two groups, and many of them don't understand the need to do things like brewing, gardening, metalwork, etc. Explanation: they aren't geeks!
Nah... first you get a request from the RIAA to pull it. Then you can actually pull it, or you can refuse. Typically, if you pull information like this (as opposed to the actual material being violated), the RIAA has been satisfied. Of course, that's all past history, and I'm not one to predict the future...
Apparently, all it takes is an electron-positron annihilation with total energy around 10.6 GeV (and of course, looking in the right place). Surely you don't think this is the first time in the history of the universe that such an annihilation has happened...
Well, you sound like a good troll. There's a vorbis plugin for Quicktime. Granted, it only plays oggs (no encoding) and it's a 3rd party component, but the option is there. I use it frequently on my iBook. Just because Apple doesn't support it doesn't mean there's not an easy way to do it. Check out this link for details.
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Uh... to clarify, I meant the corporations attitudes towards their consumers. The "if it's good for our business, it's good for you too" attitude that's so prevalent these days (no, not just from M$).
... and correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole purpose of the BSD split from System V a response to IP ownership claims over System V?
Netflix's take on this... would probably be to sue him. Violation of trade secret... possibly even DMCA (even though I have no idea how they'd try...) violations.
This sort of thing is probably at the heart of their entire business model, information I doubt they want the masses to have. If so, I'd be very afraid of their reactions, given the current corporation vs. consumer attitudes out there today.
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You're off by 7.09... it's 10.77. Ha ha... I love the show more than you do. Of course, it helps to have bought the DVDs!
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Just follow the world line of your present location back in time. The world line is the four-dimensional path through spacetime that a point in 3D space follows.
It's not the effects that suck, it's the scripts. Try spending some time on those instead.
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Really? Damn... might have to move there!
I'm sorry. I completed my PhD in physics in 5 years. The first 2 years (almost all classwork) I spent 15-18 hour days during the week, and 6-12 hours on the weekend doing classwork/studying; summers were 40 hr weeks in a computer lab working on hydrodynamics code.
The last three years (almost all research), I rarely worked more than 40hrs/week on research. My programs worked a lot more than that, but I just babysat them for a good portion of time. I had to support myself with a teaching assistantship. I taught 2 astronomy labs a week, two hours a night. Grading took about another 2 hours a week (that's 6 hrs/week on TA, far less than the typical 15-20 hrs for the guys teaching intro physics labs).
God, FORTRAN-77 was such an easy language to deal with... stupid, but easy. Sometimes I miss those days.
Really? How do you know a user's intent? It's been established time and time again that you DO NOT need to decrypt the content of a DVD to copy it. What is inherently illegal about a software DVD player that isn't part of the DVDCCA cabal?
Read up on Eric Corley/2600.com vs. DVDCCA re: DeCSS. It did go to the Supreme Court. It did have the backing of EFF and ACLU. Corley/2600 lost on every level.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with the decisions (far from it... see my sig), but it's been done, and it failed. The current Supreme Court is a bit too conservative (socially, technologically, you name it) for that approach to work.