Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother?
During that scene, it's before Luke reveals their kinship, so it's entirely plausible that Leia believed that Bail Organa's wife (who doesn't appear to be named anywhere that I've seen) was her birth mother.
Writing legible code without relying on comments is a skill set that most programmers don't have, but it's perfectly possible.
This is valuable, but does not mean that block comments are not useful and desireable.
Being able to read a small comment at the top of a block of code to tell what the block does is much more efficient than reading the code. Competant programmers have better things to spend their time on, like actually programming.
the black hole presumed to be at the center of our galaxy has probably swallowed a huge amount of stars by now, so its gravity pull will be MUCH larger then even the largest know starts.
The mass was already there in the combination of the earlier black hole and the stars it hadn't yet "swallowed". Mass and energy are conserved.
it shots away from the heavy object at great speed because of the centrifugal force.
No, there is no such force. What people refer to as centrifugal force is the effect felt when inertia resists an inward centripetal force, in this case due to gravitation. You can't possibly gain speed due to inertia, you already have it.
they use the same techniek to give space probes some extra speed inside our solar system
Not exactly. An object on a parabolic or hyperbolic trajectory around a planet gains speed as it approaches the planet, but loses speed as it recedes. A slingshot trajectory allows you to get somewhere faster with less fuel not because it speeds you up, but because it allows you alter your trajectory without using fuel.
and what have they actually released (i.e. actually out of beta)? A search engine, and a couple of average web services.
A search engine with over a quarter of a billion searches per day. That's an average of nearly 3000 per second. Every one of those gets a fast response. They index over *8 billion* documents. (I have no idea if that includes their Usenet archives obtained from DejaNews and other sources.)
Google has developed an amazingly large, fast, and healthy distributed infrastructure that runs those services.
A few amateur nerds could probably do that in their basement in a few days.
This is the "I've never tried it, but it seems simple" fallacy, the one that causes CVs/resumes to get bloated with all sorts of inappropriate claims.
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
oops! hi everyone, sorry my site has been down for the past day or so. i goofed and put some stuff up on my blog that's not supposed to be there. nothing serious and they didn't ask me to take anything down (even the stuff where i'm critical about the company). i'm learning that google is understandably careful about disclosing sensitive information, even vague financial-related things. the quickest way for me to fix the situation at the time was to take it all down. now i'm back up. just so you know, google was pretty cool about all this. thanks for and sorry for the frenzy of speculation.
You appear to be referencing Telular, who sued over the Vox2 VOX.LINK product. Telular does not seem to have any similar products, and they blasted the VOX.LINK consumer product off the market.
Telular's press release cites the following patents:
Patent 4,658,096 - System for interfacing a standard telephone set with a radio transceiver Patent 5,715,296 - Concurrent wireless/landline interface apparatus Patent 5,949,616 - Suspension having relief against flexure movement interference (??!!)
(That last one appears to be a typo in their press release. I hope.)
Street light puts 1/4 of its light emitted energy in the sky (based on a worst case of 45% above horizontal). If they were designed to shine only below horizontal they would produce up to 25%* more light for the same energy consumption.
Because it's a lot harder to kill someone with a knife than a gun, and if you come at guy with a knife in a school, you risk getting beaten down with a chair.
Or simply bare-handed disarmed and knocked senseless.
Traditional martial arts that many kids study work well on more traditional weapons like knives. Kung Fu, et al., don't do much against someone with a gun, IMHO.
I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel.
Heaven forbid you remove a hand from the wheel to shift gears, change the radio station, turn on your turn signal, roll up the window, engage your cruise control, fire the passenger ejection seat, and so on.
Some people simply don't have the skills to drive safely. Someone who is incapable of controlling their vehicle and concentrating on the task at hand will have problems no matter the catalyst.
Blaming this on cellphones makes about as much sense as blaming it on other passengers and car audio systems. Let's outlaw those, too.
Unfortunately, priority in a car most often goes to the conversation.
Only for those incapable of realizing they're hurtling down the road at 65 MPH in a metal and glass envelope.
Slashdot Mirror
In the books, the witches are old.
Esme and Nanny, yes. Magrat not so much.
Pterry? Sounds like a Pokemon.
If you haven't already, read Pyramids. Pteppic, Ptraci, and other Pt* names.
Or, even better, a faithful recreation of Dune!
Personally, I found the SciFi Channel's treatment of Dune (and Messiah and Children) to be remarkably true to the books.
Although, after further review, maybe in ROTJ she was vaguely remembering her adoptive mother Mrs. Organa, and was not aware that she had a different birth mother?
During that scene, it's before Luke reveals their kinship, so it's entirely plausible that Leia believed that Bail Organa's wife (who doesn't appear to be named anywhere that I've seen) was her birth mother.
Or at least just use the construction that Slashdot provides, which shows up as http://www.example.com/.
Since when has sarcasm meant the poster was a troll?
I thought it meant "Xtra Patches".
Xbox360.com is already registered to someone with a yahoo mail address
Yeah, that would stop Microsoft from using it.
People who have spent a lot of time soldering tend to have twitchy eyes because their brain is compensating for solder burns...
One wonders if the fumes might be contributing to that.
The Galactica's mass isn't shown as increasing to infinity when it travels at superluminal velocities.
It's making FTL jumps using an undescribed transport mechanism, not accelerating beyond c.
Writing legible code without relying on comments is a skill set that most programmers don't have, but it's perfectly possible.
This is valuable, but does not mean that block comments are not useful and desireable.
Being able to read a small comment at the top of a block of code to tell what the block does is much more efficient than reading the code. Competant programmers have better things to spend their time on, like actually programming.
the black hole presumed to be at the center of our galaxy has probably swallowed a huge amount of stars by now, so its gravity pull will be MUCH larger then even the largest know starts.
The mass was already there in the combination of the earlier black hole and the stars it hadn't yet "swallowed". Mass and energy are conserved.
it shots away from the heavy object at great speed because of the centrifugal force.
No, there is no such force. What people refer to as centrifugal force is the effect felt when inertia resists an inward centripetal force, in this case due to gravitation. You can't possibly gain speed due to inertia, you already have it.
they use the same techniek to give space probes some extra speed inside our solar system
Not exactly. An object on a parabolic or hyperbolic trajectory around a planet gains speed as it approaches the planet, but loses speed as it recedes. A slingshot trajectory allows you to get somewhere faster with less fuel not because it speeds you up, but because it allows you alter your trajectory without using fuel.
and what have they actually released (i.e. actually out of beta)? A search engine, and a couple of average web services.
A search engine with over a quarter of a billion searches per day. That's an average of nearly 3000 per second. Every one of those gets a fast response. They index over *8 billion* documents. (I have no idea if that includes their Usenet archives obtained from DejaNews and other sources.)
Google has developed an amazingly large, fast, and healthy distributed infrastructure that runs those services.
A few amateur nerds could probably do that in their basement in a few days.
This is the "I've never tried it, but it seems simple" fallacy, the one that causes CVs/resumes to get bloated with all sorts of inappropriate claims.
TIMON: They're fireflies. Yeah, fireflies stuck in that great big...bluish-black thing.
PUMBAA: And I always thought they were huge flaming balls of gas burning billions of miles away.
TIMON: Pumbaa, with you, everything's gas.
Ask and ye shall receive.
You appear to be referencing Telular, who sued over the Vox2 VOX.LINK product. Telular does not seem to have any similar products, and they blasted the VOX.LINK consumer product off the market.
Telular's press release cites the following patents:
Patent 4,658,096 - System for interfacing a standard telephone set with a radio transceiver
Patent 5,715,296 - Concurrent wireless/landline interface apparatus
Patent 5,949,616 - Suspension having relief against flexure movement interference (??!!)
(That last one appears to be a typo in their press release. I hope.)
We are already at the point where making a large purchase with paper money is unusual.
Depending on your level of belief, there's also trouble passing certain small bills, too.
Internet Exploder was not based upon Netscape, but it was based upon the Mosaic Web Browser.
This is probably confused in some techies' minds because IE 3.0 and above have all claimed to be Mozilla in their HTTP User-Agent string.
And of course, since Microsoft did this, the lemmings followed them.
Obviously you have not transcended the level where you can block bullets.
[after watching Neo stop hundreds of bullets in the air]
Merovingian: Okay, you have some skill.
Street light puts 1/4 of its light emitted energy in the sky (based on a worst case of 45% above horizontal). If they were designed to shine only below horizontal they would produce up to 25%* more light for the same energy consumption.
ITYM a 33% increase.
Because it's a lot harder to kill someone with a knife than a gun, and if you come at guy with a knife in a school, you risk getting beaten down with a chair.
Or simply bare-handed disarmed and knocked senseless.
Traditional martial arts that many kids study work well on more traditional weapons like knives. Kung Fu, et al., don't do much against someone with a gun, IMHO.
Big apologies to Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone"
Whew, that's a relief. I couldn't figure out why your lyrics wouldn't scan properly to the Outfield's "Since You've Been Gone".
I have always maintained that handsfree doesn't do squat... it's the split mental attention and not having both hands on the wheel.
Heaven forbid you remove a hand from the wheel to shift gears, change the radio station, turn on your turn signal, roll up the window, engage your cruise control, fire the passenger ejection seat, and so on.
Some people simply don't have the skills to drive safely. Someone who is incapable of controlling their vehicle and concentrating on the task at hand will have problems no matter the catalyst.
Blaming this on cellphones makes about as much sense as blaming it on other passengers and car audio systems. Let's outlaw those, too.
Unfortunately, priority in a car most often goes to the conversation.
Only for those incapable of realizing they're hurtling down the road at 65 MPH in a metal and glass envelope.
If you're at the wheel of a machine with lethal force, maybe you should put the bus down.
Carrying a bus while driving is definitely distracting.
What about the polar bears?!? Has anyone thought of the polar bears?!??
Let them eat cak^H^H^Hpenguin.
I saw the article headline and thought to myself, "Damn, why couldn't they have done that 12 years ago and saved us all a lot of headaches?"