If it's more than 5 million, i'll apologize publically and gladly to them.
Yeah, just like you've stopped posting to Slashdot, or stopped posting in public forums. Hell, last time we spoke was so long ago in your posting history that I'm not even on there anymore. BTW - thanks for the 'enemy' button - I earn precious few of those - feels like a real accomplishment.:)
Look man, just simmer down sometimes, alright? I bet you 'n' me, we'd even agree on lots of things if you'd stop coming across as such a blowhard. All you had to say at top of thread was "hey, it'd be interesting to see if all those stated homeless figures pan out now" and you'd have had a discussion instead of a flamewar.
But maybe that's not what you want. Are you just trolling or something?
When they do, an F-22 will wade into a crowd of whatever competition anyone else cares to throw at it and rack up a 10-1 kill ratio. That's how we do stuff.
More likely 10-0, or 20-0, given how well we train the pilots. That's what the F-22 is for, in my mind.
If you wait until after the lecture, everything after the point where you did not understand will be gibberish in your brain.
Yeah...that's why I took notes in class. It's not that hard to just write down what somebody's saying, even if you don't understand it. I would put *'s in the section where I got lost, transcribe the rest of the lecture, then in post-processing with my study pals, would get over the hurdle, and voila my notes made sense. In fact, I would go so far as to say that getting lost and having to play 'catch-up' is part of the program in most advanced disciplines - not only are you learning the course material, you're simultaneously learning how to learn by teaching yourself ex post facto.
Besides, upper-level classes (like my junior- and senior-year physics classes) are typically small enough that asking a question when you're really stumped isn't too much of a distraction - in fact, you're probably helping out other people in the class who are also lost, but too chicken to ask. I agree with grandparent poster - lectures are supposed to be dynamic and interactive. Certainly grad school is like that - students do as much of the lecturing as do the lecturer. It's all part of a process that laptops should blend into, and maybe not change. If it ain't broke...:)
Third, while the DMCA prohibits the actual circumvention of access controls, it does not prohibit the actual circumvention of copy controls.
So the tool is only unlawful under the DMCA if it removes access controls. Just taking out copy controls seems okeydokey, which agrees with my reading of the DMCA (I use a strobe light.:)
Right - ozone is consumed, but so is the hydrogen - it's now bound up in H2O. Catalytic destruction of O3 by H would dictate at the end of the reaction, you have no O3 but still have the H - it's the catalyst, right?:)
...since free radical H is (I assumed) rare given it's propensity to react favorably with other chemicals (say, Cl- for example.) But then again, I posted this one without checking the literature; I need to check the modeling of free radical hydrogen reactions compared to H2 chemistry. Do you really think you'd see a lot of free hydroxls as opposed to water molecules in the lower stratosphere?
Also, from what I understand, the output of fuel cells is water vapor, but I guess photodissociation of H2O is not too hard to imagine, leading to *duhn DUHN* hydroxls in the stratosphere. Hmm...something to think about!
Not only that, but unlike catalytic destruction of ozone (as with CFCs and such) the oxidation of this hydrogen means that the hydrogen is consumed. So I can't see how a hydrogen sink could approach the ozone loss levels attributed to CFCs and such - naively, I would say that it's probably not as big a deal. Naively, of course - this still merits some attention.
But hey, publish publish publish, whatever the cost, right?:)
It's enough to make you want to just stop reading. Hey...that's an idea...
I believe the relevant phrase here is "don't let the door smack you on the ass on your way out." After reading your last 25 or so posts to Slashdot, I wouldn't miss you or your knee-jerk ideology. There are a few Real Americans (TM) who realize that there are other countries in the world - places we trade with, places we've defended in the past, places from which we get our wonderfully broad American society. Places that are pretty nice on their own, even if the United States is where I choose to live. Rampant nationalism (like you spout) just makes things worse, in case you've forgotten your 20th century history. Anyways, some of us don't like guys like you giving us a bad name.
Holy crap, dude, don't pop your sphincter - it's just a website after all. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now, don't we feel better?:)
Personally, I don't care what the antenna is connected to - when you're being pedantic enough to put all your junk in a 17" monitor case, you hang antennae on it just because. See the beauty?
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement, I'm willing to accept at face value...
This is why I read Slashdot.
Read it again, oh sharp-tongued one...no, that would probably be too hard. I'll break it down for you...
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement...
...referring, of course, to the statement wherein grandparent poster claimed that being an elitist necessitates great-grandparent poster being a pus-nuts dumbshit...
...I'm willing to accept at face value
...something completely different, referring to philosophy and stuff. It's non-linear thought, eh?
If that makes me elitist, then it also makes you a pus-nuts dumbshit.
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement, I'm willing to accept at face value that those of us who lack an extensive background in philosophy are perhaps missing out on some of the finer aspects of Modern Thinkin' (TM). Hey, maybe we have better things to do with our time than sit around and ponder the unponderable - somebody's gotta keep the power on for guys like you, right?
Look, it's just a fucking movie. I saw it, enjoyed it, and maybe it encouraged me to dig into some philosophy, just to see how much more there is to know. I'm sure you're right - Plato probably put together a tighter thesis two millenia ago. Will I find out for myself? I'd be interested if it didn't mean wading into a crowd of self-centered, arrogant pricks whose only purpose in life is demonstrating their depth of knowledge in a limited field with little practical application to real-life.
Consider that, if you will: as much as you deride people for not knowing anything about philosophy, your attitude ensures that this won't ever change. In other words, you're as much a part of the problem as we are. The sooner you recognize this, the sooner I'll get interested in "real" philosophy. I, of course, am not holding my breath.
It's way too early for you to say the "war on terrorism" is a total flop. So far it's driven the Taliban out of Afghanistan and taken control of Iraq. This is in only about 15 months.
Mr_Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your apologist's ways, Operagost. Your sad devotion to hackneyed cheerleading has not helped you conjure up Osama Bin Laden, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Iraqi hidden weapons of mass dest...
Darth Ashcroft: *choke*...I find your lack of jingoism...disturbing...
Moff Cheney: Enough of this! Lapdog, release him!
Darth Ashcroft: As you wish.
*thunk*
Moff Cheney: This bickering is pointless. Lord Ashcroft will provide us with the location of all terrorist bases by the time the new PATRIOT Act is operational. We will then crush our opposition with one swift stroke.
Shrub: Yaay! Can we use the nookular weapons?
OK, so maybe it's not this bad yet, but the more we piddle around with every crooked third-world dictator, the more I'm reminded of the constant war-making in "1984". War is Peace! And we still haven't caught OBL yet...are we still trying, even?
Oh, for anyone who does wonder why it works other than this kid, drafting does two things -- reduces the drag on the rear of the front car, and reduces the wind resistance on the front of the trailing car... because there is a lower pressure there. Guess what happens if you put a substantially lighter car in that space?
Well kind of...:) Your analysis is correct, fundamentally, but I see you haven't actually worked out the numbers. In the drag regimes we're talking about here, the 'sweet spot' of which you speak is perhaps half-a-meter long, and is located in the turbulent flow immediately to the rear of the trailer. Aft of that, the flow regains laminar characteristics. You'd need speeds upwards of 100-150 mph to get true 'drafting' zones that would accomodate a whole car, and even that would require tailgating to the point where you may as well tie the radiator of your car to the other guy's bumper, and get a real free ride.
It's still somewhat turbulent about ten meters behind a tractor-trailer moving at 75mph, which gives one a nice impression of being 'pulled' by the turbulent flow, but it's really a mitigation of the drag force. So you see, you're not really 'drafting' like race-car drivers do -you're not going fast enough.
If you're familiar with maths, I recommend the book "Boundary-Layer Theory" by Hermann Schlichting, et al. Google for it...it's a good read.
Reading this guy's article, I was amazed at how seriously he took SWII. Taking entire paragraphs to point out plot inconsistencies, complaining about the simplistic notion of Jedi thoughts on anger, Anakin's mother, etc., etc. makes me wonder if he doesn't realize that for George Lucas, this whole Star Wars thing is pure escapism - a giddy, whimsical throwback to B-grade kiddie serial flicks from another time. Of course there's no Spielbergian display of 'inner conflict of the human hero' - that's how the genre works. The Lone Ranger would have been out of place in Saving Private Ryan but he'd be in familiar company in a Star Wars flick. Even special moments of angst (Luke looking at setting twin suns, Han contemplating a return to attack the original Death Star) are stock B-movie cheesy moments. It's What Makes Star Wars Fun.
Don't get me wrong - the guy's allowed to take Star Wars seriously. But this whole 'disgruntled fan-boy' criticism just seems like a waste of time, kind of like posting about it on Slashdot.
Wouldn't your chemical solution futher destroy brain tissue?
I don't know - I don't regularly freeze people.:) I'm just repeating what the article said - consume with the appropriate mass of sodium chloride. I would assume that the people who do this actually do think these things through, but I don't really know for certain.
I think (and this comes from a previous article about Ted Williams) that when they do this procedure, they remove as much water from the body as possible, and replace the water with a glycerol solution. Naturally, this wouldn't work so well on living tissue.:)
Did I say that? Nope, sure didn't - when I say "HP won't be happy", I mean that HP will sue saying the patent is not enforceable. Or, alternately, they could pull a Sony, offer up a pittance to get a license, and then forget about it, and only moderately affect the prices. Nowhere did I state that any big company would eat the costs - read my post again.
Maybe 3 years ago, but you can bet it will nearly IMMEDIATELY transfer into higher product prices for the consumer.
Wow, its amazing how few people really get economics.
What, like you? Business generally don't eat costs, not three years ago, not now, not ever. Here's a hint: read posts (and by 'read' I mean 'understand' and not 'apply phonetic techniques to sound out words') before replying. You've made it clear that you have all the brains/experience of an arrogant high school student. OTOH, at least you posted AC and saved yourself the embarassment of us knowing your name!:D
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Actually in McBride's case, I'm waiting for them to find a way to reconstruct what's inside his skull
:)
Jeez buddy, I can tell you that right now!
If it's more than 5 million, i'll apologize publically and gladly to them.
:)
Yeah, just like you've stopped posting to Slashdot, or stopped posting in public forums. Hell, last time we spoke was so long ago in your posting history that I'm not even on there anymore. BTW - thanks for the 'enemy' button - I earn precious few of those - feels like a real accomplishment.
Look man, just simmer down sometimes, alright? I bet you 'n' me, we'd even agree on lots of things if you'd stop coming across as such a blowhard. All you had to say at top of thread was "hey, it'd be interesting to see if all those stated homeless figures pan out now" and you'd have had a discussion instead of a flamewar.
But maybe that's not what you want. Are you just trolling or something?
When they do, an F-22 will wade into a crowd of whatever competition anyone else cares to throw at it and rack up a 10-1 kill ratio. That's how we do stuff.
More likely 10-0, or 20-0, given how well we train the pilots. That's what the F-22 is for, in my mind.
If you wait until after the lecture, everything after the point where you did not understand will be gibberish in your brain.
:)
Yeah...that's why I took notes in class. It's not that hard to just write down what somebody's saying, even if you don't understand it. I would put *'s in the section where I got lost, transcribe the rest of the lecture, then in post-processing with my study pals, would get over the hurdle, and voila my notes made sense. In fact, I would go so far as to say that getting lost and having to play 'catch-up' is part of the program in most advanced disciplines - not only are you learning the course material, you're simultaneously learning how to learn by teaching yourself ex post facto.
Besides, upper-level classes (like my junior- and senior-year physics classes) are typically small enough that asking a question when you're really stumped isn't too much of a distraction - in fact, you're probably helping out other people in the class who are also lost, but too chicken to ask. I agree with grandparent poster - lectures are supposed to be dynamic and interactive. Certainly grad school is like that - students do as much of the lecturing as do the lecturer. It's all part of a process that laptops should blend into, and maybe not change. If it ain't broke...
Ahem...
:)
Third, while the DMCA prohibits the actual circumvention of access controls, it does not prohibit the actual circumvention of copy controls.
So the tool is only unlawful under the DMCA if it removes access controls. Just taking out copy controls seems okeydokey, which agrees with my reading of the DMCA (I use a strobe light.
Right - ozone is consumed, but so is the hydrogen - it's now bound up in H2O. Catalytic destruction of O3 by H would dictate at the end of the reaction, you have no O3 but still have the H - it's the catalyst, right? :)
H + O3 -> OH + O2
O3 + OH -> 2O2 + H
Poop. I was thinking more along the lines of
H2 + O3 -> H2O + O2
Also, from what I understand, the output of fuel cells is water vapor, but I guess photodissociation of H2O is not too hard to imagine, leading to *duhn DUHN* hydroxls in the stratosphere. Hmm...something to think about!
H3O(ozone just in case you don't know)
:)
No, I didn't know that H3O is ozone...I always thought it was O3.
Not only that, but unlike catalytic destruction of ozone (as with CFCs and such) the oxidation of this hydrogen means that the hydrogen is consumed. So I can't see how a hydrogen sink could approach the ozone loss levels attributed to CFCs and such - naively, I would say that it's probably not as big a deal. Naively, of course - this still merits some attention.
:)
But hey, publish publish publish, whatever the cost, right?
Besides, that show got Drudge's foot in the door to do more high-class series like King of the Hill.
:)
Judge. Mike Judge created "Beavis and Butthead", "King of the Hill", and "Office Space."
Don't worry - I just read the Drudge report too.
It's enough to make you want to just stop reading. Hey...that's an idea...
:)
I believe the relevant phrase here is "don't let the door smack you on the ass on your way out." After reading your last 25 or so posts to Slashdot, I wouldn't miss you or your knee-jerk ideology. There are a few Real Americans (TM) who realize that there are other countries in the world - places we trade with, places we've defended in the past, places from which we get our wonderfully broad American society. Places that are pretty nice on their own, even if the United States is where I choose to live. Rampant nationalism (like you spout) just makes things worse, in case you've forgotten your 20th century history. Anyways, some of us don't like guys like you giving us a bad name.
So, AMF. I won't shed many tears.
No, YOU ARE WRONG!
:)
Holy crap, dude, don't pop your sphincter - it's just a website after all. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now, don't we feel better?
Personally, I don't care what the antenna is connected to - when you're being pedantic enough to put all your junk in a 17" monitor case, you hang antennae on it just because. See the beauty?
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement, I'm willing to accept at face value...
...referring, of course, to the statement wherein grandparent poster claimed that being an elitist necessitates great-grandparent poster being a pus-nuts dumbshit...
...I'm willing to accept at face value
...something completely different, referring to philosophy and stuff. It's non-linear thought, eh?
:)
This is why I read Slashdot.
Read it again, oh sharp-tongued one...no, that would probably be too hard. I'll break it down for you...
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement...
This is why I read Slashdot.
Yeah, me too.
If that makes me elitist, then it also makes you a pus-nuts dumbshit.
Although I fail to see the logic in this statement, I'm willing to accept at face value that those of us who lack an extensive background in philosophy are perhaps missing out on some of the finer aspects of Modern Thinkin' (TM). Hey, maybe we have better things to do with our time than sit around and ponder the unponderable - somebody's gotta keep the power on for guys like you, right?
Look, it's just a fucking movie. I saw it, enjoyed it, and maybe it encouraged me to dig into some philosophy, just to see how much more there is to know. I'm sure you're right - Plato probably put together a tighter thesis two millenia ago. Will I find out for myself? I'd be interested if it didn't mean wading into a crowd of self-centered, arrogant pricks whose only purpose in life is demonstrating their depth of knowledge in a limited field with little practical application to real-life.
Consider that, if you will: as much as you deride people for not knowing anything about philosophy, your attitude ensures that this won't ever change. In other words, you're as much a part of the problem as we are. The sooner you recognize this, the sooner I'll get interested in "real" philosophy. I, of course, am not holding my breath.
Your move.
Ahh, and now we have conclusive proof that familiarity with European numerical conventions does not necessarily imply familiarity with geek-humor.
:)
FYI, it looks like a joke. Note how grand-parent post geekily describes the number '24'.
Assclown.
It's way too early for you to say the "war on terrorism" is a total flop. So far it's driven the Taliban out of Afghanistan and taken control of Iraq. This is in only about 15 months.
...I find your lack of jingoism...disturbing...
Mr_Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your apologist's ways, Operagost. Your sad devotion to hackneyed cheerleading has not helped you conjure up Osama Bin Laden, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Iraqi hidden weapons of mass dest...
Darth Ashcroft: *choke*
Moff Cheney: Enough of this! Lapdog, release him!
Darth Ashcroft: As you wish.
*thunk*
Moff Cheney: This bickering is pointless. Lord Ashcroft will provide us with the location of all terrorist bases by the time the new PATRIOT Act is operational. We will then crush our opposition with one swift stroke.
Shrub: Yaay! Can we use the nookular weapons?
OK, so maybe it's not this bad yet, but the more we piddle around with every crooked third-world dictator, the more I'm reminded of the constant war-making in "1984". War is Peace! And we still haven't caught OBL yet...are we still trying, even?
Oh, for anyone who does wonder why it works other than this kid, drafting does two things -- reduces the drag on the rear of the front car, and reduces the wind resistance on the front of the trailing car... because there is a lower pressure there. Guess what happens if you put a substantially lighter car in that space?
:) Your analysis is correct, fundamentally, but I see you haven't actually worked out the numbers. In the drag regimes we're talking about here, the 'sweet spot' of which you speak is perhaps half-a-meter long, and is located in the turbulent flow immediately to the rear of the trailer. Aft of that, the flow regains laminar characteristics. You'd need speeds upwards of 100-150 mph to get true 'drafting' zones that would accomodate a whole car, and even that would require tailgating to the point where you may as well tie the radiator of your car to the other guy's bumper, and get a real free ride.
Well kind of...
It's still somewhat turbulent about ten meters behind a tractor-trailer moving at 75mph, which gives one a nice impression of being 'pulled' by the turbulent flow, but it's really a mitigation of the drag force. So you see, you're not really 'drafting' like race-car drivers do -you're not going fast enough.
If you're familiar with maths, I recommend the book "Boundary-Layer Theory" by Hermann Schlichting, et al. Google for it...it's a good read.
Well if he is in need of a defibrillator, I somehow doubt he has the capacity to refuse anything until after the fact....
:)
Ha-ha...defibrillator...capacity...you make funny!
Anyways...
Exactly.
:)
Reading this guy's article, I was amazed at how seriously he took SWII. Taking entire paragraphs to point out plot inconsistencies, complaining about the simplistic notion of Jedi thoughts on anger, Anakin's mother, etc., etc. makes me wonder if he doesn't realize that for George Lucas, this whole Star Wars thing is pure escapism - a giddy, whimsical throwback to B-grade kiddie serial flicks from another time. Of course there's no Spielbergian display of 'inner conflict of the human hero' - that's how the genre works. The Lone Ranger would have been out of place in Saving Private Ryan but he'd be in familiar company in a Star Wars flick. Even special moments of angst (Luke looking at setting twin suns, Han contemplating a return to attack the original Death Star) are stock B-movie cheesy moments. It's What Makes Star Wars Fun.
Don't get me wrong - the guy's allowed to take Star Wars seriously. But this whole 'disgruntled fan-boy' criticism just seems like a waste of time, kind of like posting about it on Slashdot.
Hey, wait a minute...
See the smudges from other people's fingerprints?
:)
Or the fist-prints from, um, enthusiastic voters?
That makes me smile - voting by kung fu...
Wouldn't your chemical solution futher destroy brain tissue?
:) I'm just repeating what the article said - consume with the appropriate mass of sodium chloride. I would assume that the people who do this actually do think these things through, but I don't really know for certain.
I don't know - I don't regularly freeze people.
I think (and this comes from a previous article about Ted Williams) that when they do this procedure, they remove as much water from the body as possible, and replace the water with a glycerol solution. Naturally, this wouldn't work so well on living tissue. :)
This hand would be good for a putting in a cheap screw ;)
:)
Yeah, and it'd be good for manufacturing stuff, too.
Yeah, and HP will just eat the costs...
:D
Did I say that? Nope, sure didn't - when I say "HP won't be happy", I mean that HP will sue saying the patent is not enforceable. Or, alternately, they could pull a Sony, offer up a pittance to get a license, and then forget about it, and only moderately affect the prices. Nowhere did I state that any big company would eat the costs - read my post again.
Maybe 3 years ago, but you can bet it will nearly IMMEDIATELY transfer into higher product prices for the consumer.
Wow, its amazing how few people really get economics.
What, like you? Business generally don't eat costs, not three years ago, not now, not ever. Here's a hint: read posts (and by 'read' I mean 'understand' and not 'apply phonetic techniques to sound out words') before replying. You've made it clear that you have all the brains/experience of an arrogant high school student. OTOH, at least you posted AC and saved yourself the embarassment of us knowing your name!
As per HeUniques post below...
:)
Sony said "look, kid, here's a hundred bucks, go screw yourself, or we'll sue you to oblivion."
s/'hundred bucks'/'$15 million'/
which is about the same, to Sony. Still, it's $15 million that Forgent didn't have before, the bastards.