However, the position of the sun does get transmitted to the earth faster than the speed of light. Its called aberration, and the instantaneous position of hte sun is 20 arc seconds ahead of the visible (8.3 minute light lagged) position that you see in the sky. Astronomers are unable to point their telescopes in the correct direction if they assume gravity effects travel at the speed of light. they get the correct position if they assume it is instantaneous (at least for stuff in our star system).
Yeah, now we're (18 years for me) reduced to thinking we can fix any problem we encounter, and wishing other people didn't agree so they would stop coming to us for a solution they should already know...
I've taken a similiar call when I worked for an ISP here in Austin.
A car dealership was complaining because it was going to be "up to 72 hours" for the phone company to roll out and check the line. He started bitching because he was losing "hundreds of dollars per hour" while the connection was out ($30/month ADSL). I explained he had, basically, a home DSL connection and that was how it was handled. I also explained that if the line was that important, he should probably look into getting the $600/month fractional T1 with an 8hr response guarantee instead. Once he stopped and thought about it, he calmed down (he was still unhappy, but he calmed down).
What it comes down to is that there are a great many users that don't bother getting what they need, but instead get what they want to pay. In the end they get what they pay for. The hard part for me was not rubbing their noses in it when I had the opportunity (its one thing to laugh about it after the call, its unprofessional to do so while talking to the customer;).
After having played a couple hours of L4D (i only got it two days ago) I'd have to class it as a survival-horror game that happens to be a first-person shooter. I agree with you that having the game decide what is a challenge based on the players progress so far definitely makes things challenging (when the zombies rush, OMG a LOT of zombies rush!).
When the US switched to a fiat currency, I believe it also instituted laws that made it illegal for an individual to hold gold bullion (beyond a certain small amount). The exception to this was jewelry and 'coin collections' (how a friend of mine stocks up on gold for when the fiat economy crashes).
What "solid practical studies" would these be? You may actually know of studies that show this, but all my personal experience of human nature goes counter to what you are claiming.
How do you know there isn't any iron ore on the moon? Nobody has looked for it yet. And no, bag of surface rocks brought back is NOT a valid sample size to say whether any particular element is present or not.
Considering the number of nickle iron rocks floating around our system, and the fact that more rocks hit the moon than the earth, it would actually be quite reasonable to assume there IS iron ore on the moon. I'm not saying it would be cost effective to mine it (I'm of the opinion that capturing a nickle-iron asteroid is a better plan, for the gravity well reason you mentioned), but by no means is it a sure thing that it doesn't exist.
This reminds me of the not-quite-a-joke: A programmer will spend 30 days writing a script that saves him 30 seconds... every time he uses it. Using vim (or emacs, for those that insist;) is the same way; you spend time up front to learn how it works only to save truly stupendous amounts of time later when the "obscure commands and meta-keystrokes" you now know saves you minutes to hours per file.
every time i see someone say, "you should use emacs and do it this way..." they list somethign that is at best the same number of keystrokes and at worst two to three times as many as the vi(m) command they claim is inferior.
of course, what you are familiar with makes a difference as well, so please don't think i'm trying to say you shouldn't use emacs.;)
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I really wish I had mod points for that post, hesiod.
(Does slashdot have a +1, Nostalgia mod?)
No, but I think it needs one ... as well as -1, Off My Lawn.
However, the position of the sun does get transmitted to the earth faster than the speed of light. Its called aberration, and the instantaneous position of hte sun is 20 arc seconds ahead of the visible (8.3 minute light lagged) position that you see in the sky. Astronomers are unable to point their telescopes in the correct direction if they assume gravity effects travel at the speed of light. they get the correct position if they assume it is instantaneous (at least for stuff in our star system).
/hands Avatar8 a beer
Yeah, now we're (18 years for me) reduced to thinking we can fix any problem we encounter, and wishing other people didn't agree so they would stop coming to us for a solution they should already know ...
I've taken a similiar call when I worked for an ISP here in Austin.
A car dealership was complaining because it was going to be "up to 72 hours" for the phone company to roll out and check the line. He started bitching because he was losing "hundreds of dollars per hour" while the connection was out ($30/month ADSL). I explained he had, basically, a home DSL connection and that was how it was handled. I also explained that if the line was that important, he should probably look into getting the $600/month fractional T1 with an 8hr response guarantee instead. Once he stopped and thought about it, he calmed down (he was still unhappy, but he calmed down).
What it comes down to is that there are a great many users that don't bother getting what they need, but instead get what they want to pay. In the end they get what they pay for. The hard part for me was not rubbing their noses in it when I had the opportunity (its one thing to laugh about it after the call, its unprofessional to do so while talking to the customer ;).
Ah, but if you had $1 and it was increased by $3, you would only have $3 total ... after the taxes took away $1 of it. ;)
After having played a couple hours of L4D (i only got it two days ago) I'd have to class it as a survival-horror game that happens to be a first-person shooter. I agree with you that having the game decide what is a challenge based on the players progress so far definitely makes things challenging (when the zombies rush, OMG a LOT of zombies rush!).
When the US switched to a fiat currency, I believe it also instituted laws that made it illegal for an individual to hold gold bullion (beyond a certain small amount). The exception to this was jewelry and 'coin collections' (how a friend of mine stocks up on gold for when the fiat economy crashes).
What "solid practical studies" would these be? You may actually know of studies that show this, but all my personal experience of human nature goes counter to what you are claiming.
How do you know there isn't any iron ore on the moon? Nobody has looked for it yet. And no, bag of surface rocks brought back is NOT a valid sample size to say whether any particular element is present or not.
Considering the number of nickle iron rocks floating around our system, and the fact that more rocks hit the moon than the earth, it would actually be quite reasonable to assume there IS iron ore on the moon. I'm not saying it would be cost effective to mine it (I'm of the opinion that capturing a nickle-iron asteroid is a better plan, for the gravity well reason you mentioned), but by no means is it a sure thing that it doesn't exist.
In terms of reasonable quality software, there isn't very much decent software for windows either ...
I can think of a worse movie ... Starship Troopers.
Ja
or sudo bash
This reminds me of the not-quite-a-joke: A programmer will spend 30 days writing a script that saves him 30 seconds ... every time he uses it. Using vim (or emacs, for those that insist ;) is the same way; you spend time up front to learn how it works only to save truly stupendous amounts of time later when the "obscure commands and meta-keystrokes" you now know saves you minutes to hours per file.
You had rolls of punched paper? That's way better than a deck of punch cards ... especially if you drop it.
And yet the cat would *still* hear that can open ...
You had stone? In my day we had to paint on cave walls with plant juice. we'd use ashes instead but most of us didn't have any fire.
I've tried to blot the memory from my mind: was the PDP 11/70 the one with the 128kb 11 inch floppy drive for booting? If so, I *hated* that machine!
vim for windows works pretty good ... thought not quite as useful as having cygwin installed.
* leaves himself a note to get cygwin installed on the home system
so, you prefer about 24 keystrokes instead of 14?
every time i see someone say, "you should use emacs and do it this way ..." they list somethign that is at best the same number of keystrokes and at worst two to three times as many as the vi(m) command they claim is inferior.
of course, what you are familiar with makes a difference as well, so please don't think i'm trying to say you shouldn't use emacs. ;)
Only if its not the novelization of the horrible movie that happens to use the same title.
Good Gods, but the M2010 is heavy ...
Or the Empire State Building
why do i get the feeling your comments are opaque to quite a few people ...