What effect do objects that come into the atmosphere have on it? Does a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere burn up and destroy atmospheric gases - and create new ones? and on what scale.
Obviously it would take a whole hell of a lot of meteors to cause rather large scale damage to an atmosphere - but imagine if there was a tremendous amount of space travel. If (like in Sci-FI futures) there were personal vehicles - like cars - that were capable of breaking int orbit - and most people did this on a typical commute, and every re-entry casued a "burn-up" - would a planet only be able to withstand so much of this before it had adverse effects on the planets atmosphere?
you are correct in that they were originally supposed to be selling the "consumer" version - but are actually selling the industrial model (I assume due to the fact that the consumer model is just not ready) - but what is this sterling engine people are mentioning?
that first link shows a girl riding that little C5 thing with a shoulder seatbelt on. If that thing gets hit and starts rolling she is *dead* she is tethered to that thing with no helmet - and *no* structure around her upper body to protect her in the event of a tip/roll/whatever.
First of all - this post assumes that the fundamental reason for the internet is Advertising Revenue - instead of information sharing.
And you get modded up insightful?!
Its funny how things can shift so subtley (sp) yet so significantly.
On the one hand - they need to have revenue in order to stay in business - and provide us with the reviews we want to see... on the other hand the internet is about sharing information, without a bias from marketing.
Yet - now we see the both are so dependant on eachother we even get people who are upset over the bypassing of Advertiser Sponsored information in favor of just the raw information we are talking about in the first place.
WTF has our perception of the way the internet should be come to?!
Just because its the way it is - doesn't mean its the way it should be.
wouldnt this make the shoes you apply this to rather slippery and dangerous?
This reminds me of the time I decided to pledge my hardwood floor. A friend came over right as I finished and said "Wow - your floor looks greaaaaaahhHH!!" thump. Oops!
WEhat would be interesting is trying to get a list of songs - sponsored by artists ofr example - that are designated "non-profit playable", which would allow those songs to be played by radio - webcasters - or traditional - without any royalty red tape.
Maybe artists could designate a song off their previously released album or something...
then all college radios could promote/play these songs with the hopes of getting the college populous to go out and buy the artists other CDs.
the other thing that should be tried - is that non profit radio stations should make compilation CDs of music that they play and sell them to their listeners - then take a percentage of those proceeds to support the station, while the rest goes to the artists or labels in leiu (sp) of royalties.
so forgive me for being naive about this but it would seem to me that congress should not be able to mandate the prices for a service. I dont understand how congress can actually set the amounts that should be paid by webcasters.
Take insurance for example - they can make it a law that you must actually carry insurance - but they cant make a law telling me how much i have to pay for it (although they should regulate the prices due to the fact that we are forced to carry a product sold by a private company)
Just because they *can* pass crap like this doesn *not* make it right.
This country is so ass-backwards these days I am amazed at the things that congress get away with without any repremands.
From my couch? so I *have* to have linux and mplayer to accomplish this?
No thanks. Not that i am against linux - or mplayer, I just want to plop it in the tray and sit at my couch and wathc the movie. My computer room is upstairs and far away from my single TV. and I am dont want a machine wasted on being my DVD player when i have a dvd playter already thankyouverymuch.
Exactly. The thing is that the testing that is done on Intels latest chips is done in a subjective manner for marketing purposes. They test the chips on machines that are not Identicle - with software that is optimized for that chips instruction set - then push it out to people saying "Look at Intel's latest chip! The new $Pentium-X will runs your applications so much faster!"
but there is a threshold we will hit - on the consumer level - and that day (although still a bit away) is coming faster and faster with every release. It is the subjective speed threshold, where the Human is the bottleneck. Where the computer can do anything the user can so fast - that the computer is then waiting on input from the user.
All input from a human comes in little spurts - and therefore will be processed by the CPU before the next batch comes in.
The point is that there is a somewhat finite desktop market incentive for faster processors, in that, for the average user - there will be a time, sooner than later, where they find that the machine they have is fast enough, featureful enough and big enough (storgage) to meet their (rather long term) needs.
Really? I think the issue here is that there is a domain name - and the issue is who has the rights to it? Bill Wyman born as Bill Wyman who maintains a fan site to Bill Wyman the bassist? Or Bill Wyman who changed his name to bill Wyman in 1964 - but is now semi-famous?
Should it be first come first serve based on who registered the domain name first - or who has the older birthcertificate/business incorporation documentation.
Its tough to say. For example - if Bill Wyman was born in '61 and the otehr Bill Wyman changed his name in '64 - but the first Bill Wyman was just some loser from a trailer park in Wisconsin - and had waited for the other Bill Wyman to become famous before he tried to get the domain name, then obviously I could not choose in favour of the domain name registered by Bill Wyman. Its inconceivable!
exactly. thats one issue that has the possibility of being a deterent to thinks like this - the pollution and environmental resposibility. we do not need 400 million CDs flooding the landfills.
if they are giving them away for free - to test the market. gladly walk up and ask for as many as they can give you - then throw them on the ground and stomp them to pieces before their very eyes.
Then be sure to thank them - and tell them that you are really happy with the new stress releiving features they are planning on putting into these new CDs. oh? They're not stress releiving features? Copy protection? well - I guess I cant copy the CDs now, huh? Thanks guys!
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You would probably want to know what those trajectories were before launching your second nuke, and those are going to be hard to predict
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You must be an oil rig worker, huh?
Here's a question....
What effect do objects that come into the atmosphere have on it? Does a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere burn up and destroy atmospheric gases - and create new ones? and on what scale.
Obviously it would take a whole hell of a lot of meteors to cause rather large scale damage to an atmosphere - but imagine if there was a tremendous amount of space travel. If (like in Sci-FI futures) there were personal vehicles - like cars - that were capable of breaking int orbit - and most people did this on a typical commute, and every re-entry casued a "burn-up" - would a planet only be able to withstand so much of this before it had adverse effects on the planets atmosphere?
I kept reading "Stopping Killer Hemroids(sp)" - It took me three attempts to read it correctly.
you are correct in that they were originally supposed to be selling the "consumer" version - but are actually selling the industrial model (I assume due to the fact that the consumer model is just not ready) - but what is this sterling engine people are mentioning?
that first link shows a girl riding that little C5 thing with a shoulder seatbelt on. If that thing gets hit and starts rolling she is *dead* she is tethered to that thing with no helmet - and *no* structure around her upper body to protect her in the event of a tip/roll/whatever.
Read: Deathtrap!
What!
First of all - this post assumes that the fundamental reason for the internet is Advertising Revenue - instead of information sharing.
And you get modded up insightful?!
Its funny how things can shift so subtley (sp) yet so significantly.
On the one hand - they need to have revenue in order to stay in business - and provide us with the reviews we want to see... on the other hand the internet is about sharing information, without a bias from marketing.
Yet - now we see the both are so dependant on eachother we even get people who are upset over the bypassing of Advertiser Sponsored information in favor of just the raw information we are talking about in the first place.
WTF has our perception of the way the internet should be come to?!
Just because its the way it is - doesn't mean its the way it should be.
You have to ask? He'd...fight the ....Evil Captain Kirk!
wouldnt this make the shoes you apply this to rather slippery and dangerous?
This reminds me of the time I decided to pledge my hardwood floor. A friend came over right as I finished and said "Wow - your floor looks greaaaaaahhHH!!" thump. Oops!
I'll do it, the whole, uh, upgrade. BTW - Whats an Oracle Server? Do you want me to put the Internet on it?
Noob Astronaught: We appear to be flying towards that small moon.
Seasoned AStronaught: Thats no moon....
WEhat would be interesting is trying to get a list of songs - sponsored by artists ofr example - that are designated "non-profit playable", which would allow those songs to be played by radio - webcasters - or traditional - without any royalty red tape.
Maybe artists could designate a song off their previously released album or something...
then all college radios could promote/play these songs with the hopes of getting the college populous to go out and buy the artists other CDs.
the other thing that should be tried - is that non profit radio stations should make compilation CDs of music that they play and sell them to their listeners - then take a percentage of those proceeds to support the station, while the rest goes to the artists or labels in leiu (sp) of royalties.
so forgive me for being naive about this but it would seem to me that congress should not be able to mandate the prices for a service. I dont understand how congress can actually set the amounts that should be paid by webcasters.
Take insurance for example - they can make it a law that you must actually carry insurance - but they cant make a law telling me how much i have to pay for it (although they should regulate the prices due to the fact that we are forced to carry a product sold by a private company)
Just because they *can* pass crap like this doesn *not* make it right.
This country is so ass-backwards these days I am amazed at the things that congress get away with without any repremands.
The term trailers is refering to hooking the viewer in to trail him behind you to see the movie.
(that and they used to occur at the end of a movie - hence trailing)
From my couch? so I *have* to have linux and mplayer to accomplish this?
No thanks. Not that i am against linux - or mplayer, I just want to plop it in the tray and sit at my couch and wathc the movie. My computer room is upstairs and far away from my single TV. and I am dont want a machine wasted on being my DVD player when i have a dvd playter already thankyouverymuch.
The term Mega- is so last month!
Does slashdot really run faster on dual CPUs?
Exactly. The thing is that the testing that is done on Intels latest chips is done in a subjective manner for marketing purposes. They test the chips on machines that are not Identicle - with software that is optimized for that chips instruction set - then push it out to people saying "Look at Intel's latest chip! The new $Pentium-X will runs your applications so much faster!"
but there is a threshold we will hit - on the consumer level - and that day (although still a bit away) is coming faster and faster with every release. It is the subjective speed threshold, where the Human is the bottleneck. Where the computer can do anything the user can so fast - that the computer is then waiting on input from the user.
All input from a human comes in little spurts - and therefore will be processed by the CPU before the next batch comes in.
The point is that there is a somewhat finite desktop market incentive for faster processors, in that, for the average user - there will be a time, sooner than later, where they find that the machine they have is fast enough, featureful enough and big enough (storgage) to meet their (rather long term) needs.
that, and they would have 4 hours of non-fast-forwardable previews before each movie
Really? I think the issue here is that there is a domain name - and the issue is who has the rights to it? Bill Wyman born as Bill Wyman who maintains a fan site to Bill Wyman the bassist? Or Bill Wyman who changed his name to bill Wyman in 1964 - but is now semi-famous?
Should it be first come first serve based on who registered the domain name first - or who has the older birthcertificate/business incorporation documentation.
Its tough to say. For example - if Bill Wyman was born in '61 and the otehr Bill Wyman changed his name in '64 - but the first Bill Wyman was just some loser from a trailer park in Wisconsin - and had waited for the other Bill Wyman to become famous before he tried to get the domain name, then obviously I could not choose in favour of the domain name registered by Bill Wyman. Its inconceivable!
exactly. thats one issue that has the possibility of being a deterent to thinks like this - the pollution and environmental resposibility. we do not need 400 million CDs flooding the landfills.
if they are giving them away for free - to test the market. gladly walk up and ask for as many as they can give you - then throw them on the ground and stomp them to pieces before their very eyes.
Then be sure to thank them - and tell them that you are really happy with the new stress releiving features they are planning on putting into these new CDs. oh? They're not stress releiving features? Copy protection? well - I guess I cant copy the CDs now, huh? Thanks guys!
now it will be called "Long-in-the-tooth"
try writing perl in graffiti!