If it was worthwhile it would have been implemented. You *can* boil off your coolant and run a turbine with that, I suppose, but the added weight and complexity probably would not be worthwhile. The steam engine only works when the water has been heated up to boiling, which is pretty slow for a significant amount of water. As well, boiling off engine coolant may mean that you run a greater risk of having inadequate cooling, meaning your pistons will be apt to seize.
I'm really pretty mellow in person, but I do get very annoyed at companies talking about "losses" that are, shall we just be generous and say, "non-real".
The "cost of piracy" and "cost of hacking" claims which all/. readers are probably familiar with are just as bad, and are being used to put people in jail now. How soon do you think it'll be before we see Craig's List users put on trial for "stealing" revenue from the print newspapers? It really doesn't seem like it'd take all that much to make the leap.
When I spend my money on your competition, it doesn't COST you money. You don't LOSE money when I don't give you MY money. You just don't GAIN money. Just because you USED to get my money doesn't mean you'll ALWAYS be able to count on getting that money. What part of "Past performance not indicative of future results" is so hard for you to understand?
Some scientists would surely double-check, even if it's just for practice. I'd think amateur astronomers would, as well. There's bound to be a lot of interest in this object.
Putting out a press release isn't all that hard. Gettting any attention from it is somewhat more hard. But it'd be by far more productive to get the findings published in a peer reviewed journal of science -- physics or astronomy.
And thankfully, there are still news agencies, space agencies, AND nuclear powers which all operate outside of US jurisdiction. So that should come as a comfort to any who worry that the government is handing us a snowjob.
If this sucker is really going to hit us, it won't be kept a secret forever, and there are others who have the power to do something about it if the US decides to sit on its hands. Whether they will or not is of course another matter.
Yeah, but anyone with a decent telescope, a book on physics, and a slide rule can double-check the calculations of any officially published numbers, and call bullshit if the government appears to be spewing it.
Check the DOD stats on the estimated radius of total destruction for a 20MT burst -- it's on the order of kilometers.
OK, this should be really easy to figure out. Just give me the thermal output of a 20MT nuke, and then calculate the amount of energy needed to vaporize a 300m ball of rock or nickel-iron.
I don't know what the numbers are offhand, but I'm pretty sure that you can easily vaporize that much material with a 20MT burst. I'm not going to be convinced by some random/.er saying "not a chance". Back it up with some physics.
Yes, some, possibly. But keep in mind that a decent-sized nuclear blast should be enough to fully vaporise that rock. Most of the vapor will be dispersed over a WIDE area (just how wide depends entirely upon how far away it is from Earth when destroyed). And most of that vapor will have a trajectory significantly altered from the original path of the asteroid, and will miss Earth entirely. The real key is to hit it when it's well away from Earth, and preferrably well away from the Earth's orbital plane.
In a huge hurry, a single thermonuclear warhead ought to be able to totally vaporise a 300m diameter asteroid, without question. It's just a matter of delivering it.
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/_page2401/these ve ns.html
Way back when, this page was built and if you read through all of it you'll be impressed with how detailed and immersive the plot and setting were for this game. This site cataloged ALL of that and made sense of it, and included a puzzle, the solution for which involved guessing a URL based on mathematical clues. I was the third person to find the solution to this puzzle, and... well, all you Xbox/Halo newbs are all just poseurs.
Hell, there were some games I couldn't dream of beating without the benefit of slowdown. "1943" being a prime example -- sometimes when there was so much on the screen that you could not avoid hitting something, the slowdown and flicker that would result would screw up the hit detection in the game, and it would be just enough to let you get through that tight spot unscathed. I don't think I could beat some stages without relying on this "feature".
I don't have children, but my mortgage should be about paid off in 2029. Which just about seals the probability, in my opinion. Better start building arcologies...
If you can boot/ban a griefer, what's to stop a griefer from meta-griefing? That is, using the built-in anti-griefing tools that the game provides to boot/ban a non-griefing regular d00d?
I'd think once the old griefing tactics were effectively quashed, it'd only get them thinking about more creative ways to grief, and probably the first thing they'd do is turn the anti-griefing countermeasures against the anti-griefers.
Uploading is downloading. There's no distinction, it's just what side of the data you're on, giver or receiver. It's not really possible to distribute something unless you have a party who's willing to receive it. I'd say that makes the downloader an accomplice.
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I bought my computer in 1982... how will I know if it's worth upgrading if the data only goes back to 1995?
You're right, my apologies.
Fox will report that the show is 24 Hours, and the viewers will decide that it is 24 Hours.
Better?
No; Fox doesn't care about accuracy. They know that if they say it's 24 Hours, their audience will believe it's 24 Hours.
If it was worthwhile it would have been implemented. You *can* boil off your coolant and run a turbine with that, I suppose, but the added weight and complexity probably would not be worthwhile. The steam engine only works when the water has been heated up to boiling, which is pretty slow for a significant amount of water. As well, boiling off engine coolant may mean that you run a greater risk of having inadequate cooling, meaning your pistons will be apt to seize.
You still have the excess weight and consequential lack of space problem.
$300 item? I'm going to assume it was an iPod... in which case, just report the crime as strong-arm robbery AND music theft, and you should be OK.
I'm really pretty mellow in person, but I do get very annoyed at companies talking about "losses" that are, shall we just be generous and say, "non-real".
/. readers are probably familiar with are just as bad, and are being used to put people in jail now. How soon do you think it'll be before we see Craig's List users put on trial for "stealing" revenue from the print newspapers? It really doesn't seem like it'd take all that much to make the leap.
The "cost of piracy" and "cost of hacking" claims which all
When I spend my money on your competition, it doesn't COST you money. You don't LOSE money when I don't give you MY money. You just don't GAIN money. Just because you USED to get my money doesn't mean you'll ALWAYS be able to count on getting that money. What part of "Past performance not indicative of future results" is so hard for you to understand?
Some scientists would surely double-check, even if it's just for practice. I'd think amateur astronomers would, as well. There's bound to be a lot of interest in this object.
Putting out a press release isn't all that hard. Gettting any attention from it is somewhat more hard. But it'd be by far more productive to get the findings published in a peer reviewed journal of science -- physics or astronomy.
And thankfully, there are still news agencies, space agencies, AND nuclear powers which all operate outside of US jurisdiction. So that should come as a comfort to any who worry that the government is handing us a snowjob.
If this sucker is really going to hit us, it won't be kept a secret forever, and there are others who have the power to do something about it if the US decides to sit on its hands. Whether they will or not is of course another matter.
Yeah, but anyone with a decent telescope, a book on physics, and a slide rule can double-check the calculations of any officially published numbers, and call bullshit if the government appears to be spewing it.
Check the DOD stats on the estimated radius of total destruction for a 20MT burst -- it's on the order of kilometers.
/.er saying "not a chance". Back it up with some physics.
OK, this should be really easy to figure out. Just give me the thermal output of a 20MT nuke, and then calculate the amount of energy needed to vaporize a 300m ball of rock or nickel-iron.
I don't know what the numbers are offhand, but I'm pretty sure that you can easily vaporize that much material with a 20MT burst. I'm not going to be convinced by some random
Yes, some, possibly. But keep in mind that a decent-sized nuclear blast should be enough to fully vaporise that rock. Most of the vapor will be dispersed over a WIDE area (just how wide depends entirely upon how far away it is from Earth when destroyed). And most of that vapor will have a trajectory significantly altered from the original path of the asteroid, and will miss Earth entirely. The real key is to hit it when it's well away from Earth, and preferrably well away from the Earth's orbital plane.
In a huge hurry, a single thermonuclear warhead ought to be able to totally vaporise a 300m diameter asteroid, without question. It's just a matter of delivering it.
Nah, he's a real geek. He's running in root on someone else's box.
Not true; the largest nuke of all, "Tsar Bomba" had a theoretical yield of 100MT. Its actual yield when detonated was closer to 50MT.
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http://marathon.bungie.org/story/_page2401/thes
Way back when, this page was built and if you read through all of it you'll be impressed with how detailed and immersive the plot and setting were for this game. This site cataloged ALL of that and made sense of it, and included a puzzle, the solution for which involved guessing a URL based on mathematical clues. I was the third person to find the solution to this puzzle, and... well, all you Xbox/Halo newbs are all just poseurs.
Marathon rocks.
Hell, there were some games I couldn't dream of beating without the benefit of slowdown. "1943" being a prime example -- sometimes when there was so much on the screen that you could not avoid hitting something, the slowdown and flicker that would result would screw up the hit detection in the game, and it would be just enough to let you get through that tight spot unscathed. I don't think I could beat some stages without relying on this "feature".
I don't have children, but my mortgage should be about paid off in 2029. Which just about seals the probability, in my opinion. Better start building arcologies...
If nothing else, we'll get a 6th great lake out of it...
You're obviously a casualty, not a survivor.
If you can boot/ban a griefer, what's to stop a griefer from meta-griefing? That is, using the built-in anti-griefing tools that the game provides to boot/ban a non-griefing regular d00d?
I'd think once the old griefing tactics were effectively quashed, it'd only get them thinking about more creative ways to grief, and probably the first thing they'd do is turn the anti-griefing countermeasures against the anti-griefers.
Even if you can predict it, you still can't control it, so you might as well still pray.
If it won't run on Linux, how is it competing with GIMP?
Uploading is downloading. There's no distinction, it's just what side of the data you're on, giver or receiver. It's not really possible to distribute something unless you have a party who's willing to receive it. I'd say that makes the downloader an accomplice.
Suddenly I'm typing engrish... should have included the words "the" and "who" in there somewhere.