secondly...who actually pays attention to warning labels....does the smoker look at a pack of smokes and thinks to him/herself...SHIT! these can kill me! i better stop.....uh...NO....same with alcohol...sure it has some health side affects if abused...but take a look around any college campus (where we are assumed to be "educated") and youll clearly see that it is promply ignored.
so really...piss off....you were a shitty parent and you turned your kid into what he became...sue your fucking self and quit turning your bad parenting into a paycheck
there could be some sort of magnetization going on, i agree...
the rotation wouldnt really focus the magnetic field at all because the field is probably uniform anyway..what the rotation is probably for is it creates stability in the disk (it is acting like a gyro)
what this results in who the hell knows...but i really am doubting its anything anit-gravity like
as always, extraordinary results require extraordinary proof
as much as id love to see this kind of stuff a reality, this particular claim seems off to me. It happens way too often in the physics community that someone claims to have made some breakthrough, be it in superluminal light pulses, or cold fusion and really they are just full of it.
it seems most often that theyve put so much of their life and time into their work that when they dont get anything meaningfull they either fudge the results or "see" what they want to.
unfortunately that is probably the case here..a dead giveaway is Mr P's (i cant spell his name) initial secrecy, that always kind of says something about the authenticity of the claim...it also doesnt help that his hosting university throws him out and noone else can reproduce his claim...on the grounds that its too complicated to set up properly. bs
but im always the skeptic...even if im hopeful
good for nasa though in actually staking out the claim...and if they need to killing the hype
id like to know how Mr P measured his weight change too...if he use similiar ballances to nasa or something else he cooked up
It is not right to compair this to a pearl harbor. That was an act of war on a millitary target. This was a terrorist attact on mostly civilian targets involving mostly civilian casualties. Based on this, there should be no compairison.
you might be able to, but ive noticed problems with trying to dupe software with similar protection schemes. the bit copy almost has to be a clone of the disk, and not just a bit for bit copy, because some of the bits will point to others (breaking up the tracks). try copying a Black & White cd for instance with a regular cd burning program, youll have no luck. with a cloner though...you have more success
really...come on...all it would take...(and there are many really easy ways around this but here is one)...is some one with a digital mixer to dump its tracks over and then cut a new cd....and that would even be a lot more effort than needed.
The patent refers to realistic 3d worlds that are interactive, mainly refering to chat based 3d worlds. The C6 and C2 type systems are not necessarily this. These are systems for creating 3D environments for simulation of a variety of things. Worlds.com can't pattent 3D....and i would love to see them try issuing a lawsuit against someone for building a 3d environment.
I agree, much cost went to artistic design. In my oppinion though cost put towards harware could have been further reduced from using more non-brand name technology (i.e. not SGI).
The C6 is extremely cool, but Iowa State paid far to much money to do it. They probably could have cut many structural costs and even system costs to have gotten an equal job done.
It kind of bothers me that just about anyone can stick what ever crap they want into space these days. I really dont think we need beloved fido's ashes whipping around the earth, waiting to do damage to something useful.
The naivety of some scientists really gets me sometimes. Saving the earth from getting fried is a little more complex than just a two body gravity problem. It would involve highly complex ecological calculation, something an astronomer isn't cabable of really performing. Yes, looking toward the future is a great idea, but shouldn't we be concentrating on getting to that future a billion years away? Maybe we should be looking towards the near future and how to prevent possibly getting blown out of the heavens by a big mean rock.
I dissagree with your comment about astronauts being "generally millitary men." The days where space and the millitary went hand in hand are pretty much long gone (thank god). Today's astronaut need not be a millitary monkey as they were in the early days of the space program. Now they are mainly composed of scientist, only the pilot usually being of millitary (test pilot) training.
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but id rather see the government just move over to linux exclusively
sure didnt take long to slashdot this one:)
since the big san francisco one in.....90 something?...and i was in tahoe..now that was interesting..
so i guess ill be doing my part
i still cant figure out why you think it would
first off....this whole case is crap..
secondly...who actually pays attention to warning labels....does the smoker look at a pack of smokes and thinks to him/herself...SHIT! these can kill me! i better stop.....uh...NO....same with alcohol...sure it has some health side affects if abused...but take a look around any college campus (where we are assumed to be "educated") and youll clearly see that it is promply ignored.
so really...piss off....you were a shitty parent and you turned your kid into what he became...sue your fucking self and quit turning your bad parenting into a paycheck
there could be some sort of magnetization going on, i agree...
the rotation wouldnt really focus the magnetic field at all because the field is probably uniform anyway..what the rotation is probably for is it creates stability in the disk (it is acting like a gyro)
what this results in who the hell knows...but i really am doubting its anything anit-gravity like
as always, extraordinary results require extraordinary proof
as much as id love to see this kind of stuff a reality, this particular claim seems off to me. It happens way too often in the physics community that someone claims to have made some breakthrough, be it in superluminal light pulses, or cold fusion and really they are just full of it.
it seems most often that theyve put so much of their life and time into their work that when they dont get anything meaningfull they either fudge the results or "see" what they want to.
unfortunately that is probably the case here..a dead giveaway is Mr P's (i cant spell his name) initial secrecy, that always kind of says something about the authenticity of the claim...it also doesnt help that his hosting university throws him out and noone else can reproduce his claim...on the grounds that its too complicated to set up properly. bs
but im always the skeptic...even if im hopeful
good for nasa though in actually staking out the claim...and if they need to killing the hype
id like to know how Mr P measured his weight change too...if he use similiar ballances to nasa or something else he cooked up
i cant wait till the processor starts the tree on fire
It is not right to compair this to a pearl harbor. That was an act of war on a millitary target. This was a terrorist attact on mostly civilian targets involving mostly civilian casualties. Based on this, there should be no compairison.
good point. if this were the case it might be possible to just sample the audio, using some lossless method to get around the transfer of the raw data
you might be able to, but ive noticed problems with trying to dupe software with similar protection schemes. the bit copy almost has to be a clone of the disk, and not just a bit for bit copy, because some of the bits will point to others (breaking up the tracks). try copying a Black & White cd for instance with a regular cd burning program, youll have no luck. with a cloner though...you have more success
really...come on...all it would take...(and there are many really easy ways around this but here is one)...is some one with a digital mixer to dump its tracks over and then cut a new cd....and that would even be a lot more effort than needed.
The patent refers to realistic 3d worlds that are interactive, mainly refering to chat based 3d worlds. The C6 and C2 type systems are not necessarily this. These are systems for creating 3D environments for simulation of a variety of things. Worlds.com can't pattent 3D....and i would love to see them try issuing a lawsuit against someone for building a 3d environment.
I agree, much cost went to artistic design. In my oppinion though cost put towards harware could have been further reduced from using more non-brand name technology (i.e. not SGI).
The C6 is extremely cool, but Iowa State paid far to much money to do it. They probably could have cut many structural costs and even system costs to have gotten an equal job done.
have come across IT people that are worth their salt?
It kind of bothers me that just about anyone can stick what ever crap they want into space these days. I really dont think we need beloved fido's ashes whipping around the earth, waiting to do damage to something useful.
The naivety of some scientists really gets me sometimes. Saving the earth from getting fried is a little more complex than just a two body gravity problem. It would involve highly complex ecological calculation, something an astronomer isn't cabable of really performing. Yes, looking toward the future is a great idea, but shouldn't we be concentrating on getting to that future a billion years away? Maybe we should be looking towards the near future and how to prevent possibly getting blown out of the heavens by a big mean rock.
Couldn't we just send up a bunch of rowdy oil drillers to do the job for us?
I agree.....my comment was more meant as a joke more than anything!
We the "owners" of the sites should have the power to decide whether or not our info is displayed, other-wise it could just say Anonymous Coward!!!
I dissagree with your comment about astronauts being "generally millitary men." The days where space and the millitary went hand in hand are pretty much long gone (thank god). Today's astronaut need not be a millitary monkey as they were in the early days of the space program. Now they are mainly composed of scientist, only the pilot usually being of millitary (test pilot) training.
not completely true
it should read that a neutron star is composed almost entirely of neutrons
just thought I'd be anal!
Oh the horror!!!