All of the comments keep stating that the skiiers have inertia and will go flying off or the skiiers have to fight centripical forces to resist going off the edge.
This is not true! The skiers have NO momentum. The are not moving. They might have centripical forces, but ONLY if they angle towards the outside edge of the disk. As long as they keep aimed perpendicular to the radius (which will feel like 'turning'), they won't go flying anywhere, and will in fact remain stationary. If they speed up a little too much, then they will naturally move towards the edge, but as long as they aim perpendicular to the radius, they won't build up centripical force.
I'd switch OS's just to get the pagination to work!
Maybe this was your point, but I can't even get pagination to work under the same OS. Just when you have the pages properly, then change printers and blamo --- everything's screwed up again. Have somebody open your file on a different computer (but same printer), then blamo -- pagination is screwed up again.
Having good pagination in any MS-Office ap is akin to an unstable critical point in an ODE/PDE.
The funny thing is, that with LaTeX and GnuPlot/Matlab, I've NEVER had to worry about pagination. Occasionally I would make the margins narrower in order to make my advisor happy, but that's it. In my current job, I waste ~30 minutes per day on formatting related issues. Sure I've learned how to quickly fix formatting mistakes and reprint, but I rather waste those braincells on arbitrage pricing theory (the content of the reports) or drugs (just kidding).
When I started working for Lockheed Martin, I had 4 spam emails in my mailbox that was delivered prior to my first day of work. In addition to this, I had 2 personal (they seemed personal IT related) job offer emails in my mailbox, also from prior to my first day of work. Both from recruiting companies.
As the irony nazi it is my job to tell you that you used an improper form of Irony in your above comment. In this comment, you stated that you find the Mozilla V. Explorer performance kind of funny, in an ironical way.
The way that you, DodgyGeezer, have stated it, you find the method which you determined it was funny to be ironical. I do not think that this is true. Perhaps, if you were a Windows WebBrowser speed benchmarker, and you were writing a story about how IE is the fastest browser, and during testing you found out that it wasn't, then this would be obvious irony (to you).
On the otherhand, if you intended to show that the Mozilla V IE performance on Windows, is an example of irony, since Windows is tied to the OS, then you should have worded the last sentence differently. Normally I leave it to the grammar nazi to correct these semantic mistakes, but this time you used irony.
Anyways, please be a little more careful in the future
MPAA = Monopoly Monopoly = No innovation No innovation = behind schedule with digital screens
If we invoke the transitive property for relational operators, one sees that: MPAA = behind schedule with digital screens
They will probably get digital screens about the time that iMax starts to become a threat to them. Either that or they will wait until legislation is passed banning all video-codecs from personal computers. Then they will promote digital films in theaters.
Either way, I'm pretty disgusted with the MPAA in general and this is to be expected.
I wanted to congratulate you earlier, but I had moderated this story from my work account. Now that I'm home I can congratulate you by posting a comment.
I agree about the searches part of the Constitution.
I was referring to the parts about having a secure conversation across the country....or having privacy to purchase/sell whatever legal items that you want to without it being tracked.
An Opt-in industry standard rather than an Opt-out standard.
One cannot forget that the Right to Privacy is not a constitutional right. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that American citizens have a right to privacy.
The following is one way in which it is different and also an interesting way to look at the situation:
Mother to daughter conversation:
Mother:...and this Petunia, is our family womb. Your grandmother started her life right here in this very womb. When she was of age, then I, too, started my life in this very womb. Your father and I used this very womb for the first nine months of your own life. Daughter: Wow, mommy is this as old as great grandmother's quilt or great Uncle Herbert's Samba fileserver? Mother: Yes dear. Do you see those scratch marks, near the opening? That was from your Aunt Gertrude... she developed very long fingernails, very early, and tried to claw her way out a week before the doctor was ready.
Some day, when you grow up and decide to have childeren of your own, then this womb will allow you to remain healthy and avoid all wear-and-tear that the pioneer women of the 20st century had to endure.
irony nazi's note... I elaborated a little for/. by talking about a Samba server, but you get the point.
I don' t care for OmniWeb. It keeps crashing on my G4 PowerBook. This is my first Mac in years. Does it do this a lot or is it my set up? I was hoping for a good Macintosh web browsing experience but here's my run-down of the OS X webbrowsers...
Internet Explorer - for OS X this is an excellent browser. It has many awesome features. A customizeable and cool look. Kudos to MS for making a great browsers. The major problem with it, is that it hangs for a long time whenever rendering a large page. For example, this slashdot story will cause IE to hang for ~30 seconds (on my 667MHz G4) after downloading and prior to displaying. Note that each IE window is frozen until after the hung one renders. This is unacceptable
OmniWeb - This browser seems light, fast, efficient, but why the heck does it keep crashing on my OS X.2 powerbook? Crashes appear to be caused at random and usually occur within 10 minutes of web browsing. Since this continues to happen, I haven't had a chance to try out the features of OmniWeb.
Opera - I was hoping that this would be as good on OS X as it is in Linux. The version seems to be a bit behind the Linux version and it lacks Mousewheel support and tabbed windows. Mousewheel support is neccessary to me and tabbed windows is a *very* nice feature.
Mozilla - This is my workhorse webbrowser. Although it is slower than the others and has too many features, IMHO, it doesn't hang like IE, doesn't crash like OmniWeb, and has tabbed windows/mousewheel support, unlike Opera). Still it is slow. I'm anxious to start using a galeon-ish OS X browser as soon as I hear about one. Mozilla wins by default.
Can anybody add anything to my list? I haven't heard of many other graphical OS X browsers. I figured that OS X would have plenty of great web browsers since the web designers tend to use it. Although Quicktime and Macromedia plug-ins are cool, they still don't seem as fast they do on my roommates P3. Especially under Mozilla. IE playes Quicktime movies fast, but only after it loads the pages.
iCEBOX is basically another iOpener. Even though the market has already decided that there was no interest (outside of hackers) for a home based $99 thin client, this company thinks that a kitchen based $2999 thin client will sell.
iCEBOX is direct competition for Microsoft's Homestation. In addition to that iCEBOX is dependent upon Microsoft's future home networking technologies. (Hm... dependent upon the competitor, smart strategy).
Let's just hope that the 'Market' decides to put these guys out of business soon so we can pick them up cheap on clearance and hack them!!
The irony situation is that the parent comment is criticizing the/. editors for criticizing somebody's misspelling.
The irony nazi, who is beautiful and deserves a +999 all time funniest, was incorrectly pointing out that the situation is not ironic. The irony nazi (me) is wrong. It is ironic at so many levels.
The deep irony of the situation is that I don't even know what irony is. I created this account to reprimend people who would point out the grammar nazi's mistakes. That fact that I misspelled hypocritical was an honest mistake.
Please allow the irony nazi to point out that it would NOT be irony that the Slashdot editor is pointing out a spelling mistake, but rather it would be Hippocritical.
You post is correct Accipiter, I just wanted to point this subtle fact out to the rest of the Slashdot masses.
Wow! So many people have replied to my comment, and they all came to the wrong conclusion.
Sure, Lodestone is a rock... ...that is composed of Iron Ore... ...that IS a ceramic!
Iron = metal Iron ore = ceramic. Since I am still outnumbered in my general conclusion, and dictionary.com is being used against me, allow me to quote Brady's "Materials Handbook, 14th edition":
Magnetite, or magnetic iron ore, is found in northern New York, in New Jersey, and in Pennsylvania. It has composition FeO x Fe2O3, containing containing theoretically 72.4% iron but usually only about 62.... <snip>... The natural magnet known as lodestone is magnetite.
So there you have it. Iron Ore is magnetite is FeO and Fe2O3... both of which are ceramic materials.
You sillies! It doesn't become a metal until it has been reduced... via a smelting process.
If anyone chooses to use dictionary.com for technical definitions, I would like to point out that teeth (another ceramic) are never molded and baked while the most common forms of plastics are molded and baked. Cookies are baked, while Ceramics are sintered
Although I didn't read the article, ceramic magnets have existed throughout all time. The very first materials that human discovered to be magnets were Lodestones. These are indeed ceramic (i.e. non-metallic).
I'll read the article now, but the poster of this story is very inaccurate. But what do I know? I only have a Masters degree in Ceramics Engineering.
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That 20 second rule is annoying.
This is not true! The skiers have NO momentum. The are not moving. They might have centripical forces, but ONLY if they angle towards the outside edge of the disk. As long as they keep aimed perpendicular to the radius (which will feel like 'turning'), they won't go flying anywhere, and will in fact remain stationary. If they speed up a little too much, then they will naturally move towards the edge, but as long as they aim perpendicular to the radius, they won't build up centripical force.
Maybe this was your point, but I can't even get pagination to work under the same OS. Just when you have the pages properly, then change printers and blamo --- everything's screwed up again. Have somebody open your file on a different computer (but same printer), then blamo -- pagination is screwed up again.
Having good pagination in any MS-Office ap is akin to an unstable critical point in an ODE/PDE.
The funny thing is, that with LaTeX and GnuPlot/Matlab, I've NEVER had to worry about pagination. Occasionally I would make the margins narrower in order to make my advisor happy, but that's it. In my current job, I waste ~30 minutes per day on formatting related issues. Sure I've learned how to quickly fix formatting mistakes and reprint, but I rather waste those braincells on arbitrage pricing theory (the content of the reports) or drugs (just kidding).
Your ideas intrigue me... and I wish to subscribe to your newletter.
You don't seem to understand the point of my friend, the grammar nazi.
For example:
In 2013, will my computer agent colleagues get as frustrated as I everytime that the printer has a f@#*ing paper jam?
When I started working for Lockheed Martin, I had 4 spam emails in my mailbox that was delivered prior to my first day of work. In addition to this, I had 2 personal (they seemed personal IT related) job offer emails in my mailbox, also from prior to my first day of work. Both from recruiting companies.
As the irony nazi it is my job to tell you that you used an improper form of Irony in your above comment. In this comment, you stated that you find the Mozilla V. Explorer performance kind of funny, in an ironical way.
The way that you, DodgyGeezer, have stated it, you find the method which you determined it was funny to be ironical. I do not think that this is true. Perhaps, if you were a Windows WebBrowser speed benchmarker, and you were writing a story about how IE is the fastest browser, and during testing you found out that it wasn't, then this would be obvious irony (to you).
On the otherhand, if you intended to show that the Mozilla V IE performance on Windows, is an example of irony, since Windows is tied to the OS, then you should have worded the last sentence differently. Normally I leave it to the grammar nazi to correct these semantic mistakes, but this time you used irony.
Anyways, please be a little more careful in the future
Regards
irony nazi
Monopoly = No innovation
No innovation = behind schedule with digital screens
If we invoke the transitive property for relational operators, one sees that:
MPAA = behind schedule with digital screens
They will probably get digital screens about the time that iMax starts to become a threat to them. Either that or they will wait until legislation is passed banning all video-codecs from personal computers. Then they will promote digital films in theaters.
Either way, I'm pretty disgusted with the MPAA in general and this is to be expected.
I wanted to congratulate you earlier, but I had moderated this story from my work account. Now that I'm home I can congratulate you by posting a comment.
CDNow = Dot.com survivor, yet damaged and broke
Both sides purchase a legal team and guess which one is going to win?
I'm ashamed to be american when unbiased judicial branch of government can be so easily manipulated.
sighs>
I was referring to the parts about having a secure conversation across the country. ...or having privacy to purchase/sell whatever legal items that you want to without it being tracked.
An Opt-in industry standard rather than an Opt-out standard.
One cannot forget that the Right to Privacy is not a constitutional right. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that American citizens have a right to privacy.
Mother to daughter conversation:
Mother: ...and this Petunia, is our family womb. Your grandmother started her life right here in this very womb. When she was of age, then I, too, started my life in this very womb. Your father and I used this very womb for the first nine months of your own life.
Daughter: Wow, mommy is this as old as great grandmother's quilt or great Uncle Herbert's Samba fileserver?
Mother: Yes dear. Do you see those scratch marks, near the opening? That was from your Aunt Gertrude... she developed very long fingernails, very early, and tried to claw her way out a week before the doctor was ready.
Some day, when you grow up and decide to have childeren of your own, then this womb will allow you to remain healthy and avoid all wear-and-tear that the pioneer women of the 20st century had to endure.
irony nazi's note... I elaborated a little for /. by talking about a Samba server, but you get the point.
In other words, it only takes once to rip the DVD image to your harddrive. The *actual* disk is useless after this point.
Did I mention that 120GB harddrives are very cheap right now??
I will purchase these read-once disks if:
(cost of read-once DVD) < (cost new DVD) - (Resale value of used DVD).
It's simple mathematics.
I'm using the sneakypeak build of OmniWeb to reply. So far it hasn't crashed and it even underlines misspelled words in text boxes!!
Internet Explorer - for OS X this is an excellent browser. It has many awesome features. A customizeable and cool look. Kudos to MS for making a great browsers. The major problem with it, is that it hangs for a long time whenever rendering a large page. For example, this slashdot story will cause IE to hang for ~30 seconds (on my 667MHz G4) after downloading and prior to displaying. Note that each IE window is frozen until after the hung one renders. This is unacceptable
OmniWeb - This browser seems light, fast, efficient, but why the heck does it keep crashing on my OS X.2 powerbook? Crashes appear to be caused at random and usually occur within 10 minutes of web browsing. Since this continues to happen, I haven't had a chance to try out the features of OmniWeb.
Opera - I was hoping that this would be as good on OS X as it is in Linux. The version seems to be a bit behind the Linux version and it lacks Mousewheel support and tabbed windows. Mousewheel support is neccessary to me and tabbed windows is a *very* nice feature.
Mozilla - This is my workhorse webbrowser. Although it is slower than the others and has too many features, IMHO, it doesn't hang like IE, doesn't crash like OmniWeb, and has tabbed windows/mousewheel support, unlike Opera). Still it is slow. I'm anxious to start using a galeon-ish OS X browser as soon as I hear about one. Mozilla wins by default.
Can anybody add anything to my list? I haven't heard of many other graphical OS X browsers. I figured that OS X would have plenty of great web browsers since the web designers tend to use it. Although Quicktime and Macromedia plug-ins are cool, they still don't seem as fast they do on my roommates P3. Especially under Mozilla. IE playes Quicktime movies fast, but only after it loads the pages.
Come on!! Get to 1.0... this is taking forever!
No. You have a pack-rat complex. You need to throw away that kind of stuff, man.
iCEBOX is basically another iOpener. Even though the market has already decided that there was no interest (outside of hackers) for a home based $99 thin client, this company thinks that a kitchen based $2999 thin client will sell.
iCEBOX is direct competition for Microsoft's Homestation. In addition to that iCEBOX is dependent upon Microsoft's future home networking technologies. (Hm... dependent upon the competitor, smart strategy).
Let's just hope that the 'Market' decides to put these guys out of business soon so we can pick them up cheap on clearance and hack them!!
The irony situation is that the parent comment is criticizing the /. editors for criticizing somebody's misspelling.
The irony nazi, who is beautiful and deserves a +999 all time funniest, was incorrectly pointing out that the situation is not ironic. The irony nazi (me) is wrong. It is ironic at so many levels.
The deep irony of the situation is that I don't even know what irony is. I created this account to reprimend people who would point out the grammar nazi's mistakes. That fact that I misspelled hypocritical was an honest mistake.
Now, that's ironic!
You post is correct Accipiter, I just wanted to point this subtle fact out to the rest of the Slashdot masses.
Sure, Lodestone is a rock...
...that IS a ceramic!
...that is composed of Iron Ore...
Iron = metal
Iron ore = ceramic.
Since I am still outnumbered in my general conclusion, and dictionary.com is being used against me, allow me to quote Brady's "Materials Handbook, 14th edition":
So there you have it. Iron Ore is magnetite is FeO and Fe2O3... both of which are ceramic materials.
You sillies! It doesn't become a metal until it has been reduced... via a smelting process.
If anyone chooses to use dictionary.com for technical definitions, I would like to point out that teeth (another ceramic) are never molded and baked while the most common forms of plastics are molded and baked. Cookies are baked, while Ceramics are sintered
Although I didn't read the article, ceramic magnets have existed throughout all time. The very first materials that human discovered to be magnets were Lodestones. These are indeed ceramic (i.e. non-metallic).
I'll read the article now, but the poster of this story is very inaccurate. But what do I know? I only have a Masters degree in Ceramics Engineering.
Who would you have prefered? Perhaps, Natalie Portman?