Being that I am not a physicist nor a cosmologist I am sure there has already been answer for this question. However, if I am correct in my understanding, standard theory tells us that gravity defines orbit, correct? So if we changed the gravity of a planet by importing materials, hence making it heavier, would this not affect the orbit? Perhaps the amount of material is non-consequential at this time, however if future projects take hold, this may have a dramatic effect on the planets wieght. Does anyone have a text book answer to this question?
It was called the Art of War by some guy named Sun Tzu. I think he worked for IBM or something;-)
Ummm, who ever modded this as informative, trying stopping by the library and reading "The Art of Warfare" By Sun Tzu, I can assure the parent post was a joke and by your modding skills you must be as well.;)
Although the terrian would not be the same, turn on citzen riot and give everyone guns. Then run the missions. Not terribly recommended in GTA3 as it was nearly impossible.
I have to tell you I ran both GTA3 and Vice City on a p3 750 with a radeon 7200 and 600~megs ram. I would not call it altogether smooth and seamless, but it ran and ran well enough. Once in a while there would be a pause or hang, but all in all it worked. By the way Vice City is essentially the same game, but with very nice improvements, better selection of guns, vehicles, and so forth.
I got a good one for you. Circa 1990, 5 people driving in a small car. We were on our way to band practice. All of us were dressed in a fashion that would be "punk" (mohawks, leather jacket, etc..). We got pulled over for no reason what so ever, literally. The cops got us all out of the car, lined us up against the side of the road, took pictures and told us they were investigating "nazi" activity. Mind you the person driving was of a hispanic descent. After they pointed at us and laughed for a bit, we were "free to go". WTF?
Funny, this seems to be one of those double standards. People like ESR and Linus are praised and recognized as the fathers of OSS, heros among their kind, but as soon as they say something offensive you disown them.
I use open source software, slackware to be exact. I am quite fond of my choice of distro's. However, the creator of said distro is a dead head, I loathe the grateful dead, hate! I am happy that Patrick created this distro for me to use, but I never once said Linus, RSM, ESR, or Patrick were on my list of "hero's". Sure I appreciate thier work and dedication, but that doesn't mean they speak for me in anyway. Just because some people jump on the band wagon and pick "hero's" from the collective of personalities available does not mean and should not mean that they speak for all of us.
I am usually a fan of Eric Raymonds comments, they are in my expierence well founded and thought out. However, since when are perl/python comparable to java. I use perl for sys admin work in place of hideous (IMO) shell scripts, even if Java was free (beer/speech), I could never see myself using it in place of perl. Can someone explain to me where Eric is coming from on this one.
For all the people that posted V-Day horror stories. Thank you for the great reminder of why coding is better than girlfriends could ever be.
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It freezes over the depths of hell, but it warms my heart that/.ers can finally accept that although his parctices are sometimes out of place, Bill Gates has contributed alot to modern personal computing.
I think a little mind needs to be payed to the other side of this coin.
Not per say the company, but the people on the customer service line. I recently moved across country with no job lined up. There for taking the first thing I could find.
This resulted in working customer service for Nextel. Regardless of the terrible conditions of the call center, 80% of the customers called in already yelling and looking for a discount/credit. When they were told no, cause at least 90% of those didn't have a valid reason for such demands, they became even more irrate. What I am saying here is the customer service may suck sometimes, but a large part of this is how the people taking the calls are treated. Its an abysmal line of work and should be paid much better than what most people are getting.
Think about this next time you are calling in pissed off about your phone. These people have no control over the company, or the service, they are fodder so the people that do have sway don't have to deal with you. Treat them like people whose job you would not want to do. This may make your call to them and thier talking with you much easier and a little more pleasent on both sides. Not to mention probably a lot more productive.
--One could argue that learning shell scripting is much easier than learning Perl or Python. Shoot, I'd rather re-learn REXX (I'm an old mainframe hound) than try picking up those two from scratch.
These books are out of date, but they are all you need for perl. Elements of Programming with Perl -- Publisher Manning. Programming Perl, -- Publisher O'Reilly.
A wise man once said to me "You know whats wrong with kids today, plastic jungle gyms and wood chips, no sense of reality when thier head hits a metal bar and shortly after bounces off the pavement." Its harsh, but I think it serves the same analogy as your Murder==Pron rule.
This is my opinoin granted, but I would take William Burroughs over Shakespeare any day. Matter of fact, I am really not horribly impressed with Shakespeare. A few plays were good, but I really don't think that he was the best writer that ever lived. Anymore than I think that Elvis Presely was the king of rock and roll. This whole book is based on popular opinion and stastical viewing. I am not saying I could do it better, cause I don't think it can be done. I think that the very premise is a bad idea, espically breaking it down into numbers. So much is opinon, drawing to fact on something like this is just not feasible.
However my $.02 I am a 6'6" male. No outwardly hideous disfigurations or anything of that nature. My dating life is what I would call fair. However, I find that a lot of times women are intimated by my hieght. Precieved as threatening. Granted I am an old punk. So the leather jacket and the boots are still there, but thats about it. With that said, being tall and dating does have its disadvantages as well. Its hard to talk to someone that is scared shitless of you.;)
any excess will soon become a vice. This applies to anything. Sorry I am not terribly impressed with this study. Anything can become a mental addiction.
The day Sat. morning cartoons were split between Disney and Syban, it died in my eyes. I watched a lot of my favorite shows go, from a kid, Thundar, D&D, Mighty Mouse (80's version*) to adult years, Tick, Sam and Max, even later when D&D came back and then just as quickly went away. However, even the shows I am willing to wait for, when the mean time is filled with endless dry soap operas supposed to be action thrillers about kids in color coded jump suits preforming bad kung-fu. The wait gets less tolerable. Even more promising shows like the new John Q. cartoon (creator of Ren and Stimpy) are just shit. I still choose to drop in on Sat. morning once in a while before sleeping. But lately its become less and less a reason to stay up.
*Mighty Mouse was cancelled by the PMRC, because of a flower sniffing episode.
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Being that I am not a physicist nor a cosmologist I am sure there has already been answer for this question. However, if I am correct in my understanding, standard theory tells us that gravity defines orbit, correct? So if we changed the gravity of a planet by importing materials, hence making it heavier, would this not affect the orbit? Perhaps the amount of material is non-consequential at this time, however if future projects take hold, this may have a dramatic effect on the planets wieght. Does anyone have a text book answer to this question?
Ummm, who ever modded this as informative, trying stopping by the library and reading "The Art of Warfare" By Sun Tzu, I can assure the parent post was a joke and by your modding skills you must be as well.
and lack of backup tapes sucks the most.
Although the terrian would not be the same, turn on citzen riot and give everyone guns. Then run the missions. Not terribly recommended in GTA3 as it was nearly impossible.
I have to tell you I ran both GTA3 and Vice City on a p3 750 with a radeon 7200 and 600~megs ram. I would not call it altogether smooth and seamless, but it ran and ran well enough. Once in a while there would be a pause or hang, but all in all it worked. By the way Vice City is essentially the same game, but with very nice improvements, better selection of guns, vehicles, and so forth.
I got a good one for you. Circa 1990, 5 people driving in a small car. We were on our way to band practice. All of us were dressed in a fashion that would be "punk" (mohawks, leather jacket, etc..). We got pulled over for no reason what so ever, literally. The cops got us all out of the car, lined us up against the side of the road, took pictures and told us they were investigating "nazi" activity. Mind you the person driving was of a hispanic descent. After they pointed at us and laughed for a bit, we were "free to go". WTF?
I use open source software, slackware to be exact. I am quite fond of my choice of distro's. However, the creator of said distro is a dead head, I loathe the grateful dead, hate! I am happy that Patrick created this distro for me to use, but I never once said Linus, RSM, ESR, or Patrick were on my list of "hero's". Sure I appreciate thier work and dedication, but that doesn't mean they speak for me in anyway. Just because some people jump on the band wagon and pick "hero's" from the collective of personalities available does not mean and should not mean that they speak for all of us.
I am usually a fan of Eric Raymonds comments, they are in my expierence well founded and thought out. However, since when are perl/python comparable to java. I use perl for sys admin work in place of hideous (IMO) shell scripts, even if Java was free (beer/speech), I could never see myself using it in place of perl. Can someone explain to me where Eric is coming from on this one.
For all the people that posted V-Day horror stories. Thank you for the great reminder of why coding is better than girlfriends could ever be.
It freezes over the depths of hell, but it warms my heart that /.ers can finally accept that although his parctices are sometimes out of place, Bill Gates has contributed alot to modern personal computing.
Way tooooo much D&D, I saw that as the United Linux Undead. Although slightly interested, I don't think I would qualify, not yet at least....
Not per say the company, but the people on the customer service line. I recently moved across country with no job lined up. There for taking the first thing I could find.
This resulted in working customer service for Nextel. Regardless of the terrible conditions of the call center, 80% of the customers called in already yelling and looking for a discount/credit. When they were told no, cause at least 90% of those didn't have a valid reason for such demands, they became even more irrate. What I am saying here is the customer service may suck sometimes, but a large part of this is how the people taking the calls are treated. Its an abysmal line of work and should be paid much better than what most people are getting.
Think about this next time you are calling in pissed off about your phone. These people have no control over the company, or the service, they are fodder so the people that do have sway don't have to deal with you. Treat them like people whose job you would not want to do. This may make your call to them and thier talking with you much easier and a little more pleasent on both sides. Not to mention probably a lot more productive.
From someone who has seen the other side.
These books are out of date, but they are all you need for perl. Elements of Programming with Perl -- Publisher Manning. Programming Perl, -- Publisher O'Reilly.
A wise man once said to me "You know whats wrong with kids today, plastic jungle gyms and wood chips, no sense of reality when thier head hits a metal bar and shortly after bounces off the pavement." Its harsh, but I think it serves the same analogy as your Murder==Pron rule.
This is my opinoin granted, but I would take William Burroughs over Shakespeare any day. Matter of fact, I am really not horribly impressed with Shakespeare. A few plays were good, but I really don't think that he was the best writer that ever lived. Anymore than I think that Elvis Presely was the king of rock and roll. This whole book is based on popular opinion and stastical viewing. I am not saying I could do it better, cause I don't think it can be done. I think that the very premise is a bad idea, espically breaking it down into numbers. So much is opinon, drawing to fact on something like this is just not feasible.
Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong.
Let loose all those obscure Lovecraft refrences.
really off-topic here.
;)
However my $.02 I am a 6'6" male. No outwardly hideous disfigurations or anything of that nature. My dating life is what I would call fair. However, I find that a lot of times women are intimated by my hieght. Precieved as threatening. Granted I am an old punk. So the leather jacket and the boots are still there, but thats about it. With that said, being tall and dating does have its disadvantages as well. Its hard to talk to someone that is scared shitless of you.
He did say that he grew up in Pacific Northwest, same as Greoning.......could be....
Did anyone else notice that his technique for the interview is based off, or strikingly similiar to that used my William Burroughs cut up
any excess will soon become a vice. This applies to anything. Sorry I am not terribly impressed with this study. Anything can become a mental addiction.
So uh when you ask for a patch to this problem, is that MS or Norton that you would call? Really this is unacceptable.
But of stinking heathens I tell you.
There seems to be some kind of coincednce here, XP in a portajohn.
*Mighty Mouse was cancelled by the PMRC, because of a flower sniffing episode.
A good way to widdle away the days of unemployment.