Yes, there is absorption and reflection. Think of absorption and reflection analagous to inelastic and elastic colisions, respectively.
Supposing that you did have a perfect reflector, I fail to see how you'd be violating laws of thermodynamics. You'd have light oscillating back and forth between two mirrors, which isn't a bad thing, per se. Since they are both connected, they would want to stretch apart, but would remain still.
Because you can never have a materialthat will reflect absolutely 100% of the light that's going in. Pretty soon, the light source will have diminished, transferring it's energy to the sails. Incidentally, the absorption of light is what gives solar sails their 'push' (due to conservation of momentum, the light comes in with a certain amount of momentum, and that momentum is transferred to the sail when it gets absorbed)
Wasn't it just yesterday we read that article on Infoweek(I think) that declared that linux would NEVER defeat windows on the desktop because buisnesses required a stable, solid platform they could count on? And windows was the epitome of that because of it's (supposedly) notorious stability between releases?
That shot of (I assume) your wife overlooking the valley looks incredibly like a place I like to hang out at on my campus(Sewanee). Where was that picture taken?
Right, well, uh.. How exactly would you distinguish light from matter if it's moving at the speed of light? Aside from when it hits you, that is. Light and matter behave differently. Matter can't occupy the same space as other matter, light can be superimposed on the same position(for example)
There's an easy way to make matter move at the speed of light.. set it on fire. It's converting it back to it's original form that's the tough part. The light coming from fire is energy released (un the form of light) from chemical bonds being broken, not from the matter converting spontaneously to light.
I'm not sure on the specifics myself (I'm a physics major, but it's not all completely clear to me) But, the.99C object would experience time at a much slower rate than the.05C object. Actually, both 'reference frames' would experience time dialation so that from the perspective of one, the other wouldn't be traveling faster than the speed of light.
However, from a third(stationary) perspective, both objects would have an apparent relative velocity of greater than C but that's not violating any laws.
I thought an advantage of ogg was that it was less demanding on CPU power..specifically the decoder doesn't require a FPU which allows it to efficently run on devices that don't have them.
Then again, i'm trying to speak from memory, so I could be wrong
This 'MUD' thing he speaks of is not WoW. It's one of a huge number of text-based online RPGs, the precursers to MMORPGS like EQ and WoW. Mud Connector is a good portal. Alternatively, telnet into hexonyx.com:7777 to see what it's about.
Not to disagree with you if you're confident about that, but I do remember a while back a story that went something like this:
The russian government (or another forumer USSR government) offered a cash reward for people to return any weapons they had around. A scientist who worked for a nuclear lab around the fall of the USSR walked up with a sizeable quantity (half a kilo, IIRC) of plutonium. Apparently, when the soviet union fell and all of the security around their labs evaporated, he didnt want it to fall into wrong hands, so he took it and buried it in his backyard. I'm trying to find the link, but the world's conspiring against me right now:(
This may or may not be true, but I've heard that these messages may be legitimate. Someone said once (here on./ I think..so I guess take it with a grain of salt) that it may be a debt collection agency/living will type phone call. If theyre trying to get a hold of you, theyre required by law to not even state that theyre a collection agency to anyone other than you. So, when they leave messages, they can't do anything about it. The only thing is, other nefarious companies may be doing it to.
Does anyone know of webmail/local clients that can do labels like gmail does? To me, that's the slickest thing about gmail, and i'd kill a man for that feature in thunderbird (I'd code it myself, but my stuff would never past QA, even if I could get it to work:( )
I'd say inertia. But I'd say in the next few years or so, the competition will be heating up bigtime between us and other, less developed nations for manufactured goods. I'm just suggesting that everyone be on the same playing field is all.
Yes, they are on the list, but they are not on the list of 'Annex 1' countries, effectively exempting them from the polution controls. (Although, some people say taht at the current rate, China will make the list of Annex 1 nations within the next two decades)
Russia is on the list of Annex 1 countries, however, since the restrictions are %5.2 less than exports in 1990, Russia already satisfies the restrictions due to the fall of the soviet union and the subsequent collapse of their industrial machine.
Point is, as it's written, India, China, and Russia effectively don't have restrictions which would place us at a severe disadvantage if we're trying to compete with a global market. According to the Wikipedia entry on the kyoto treaty
The current President, George W. Bush, has indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he does not support the general idea, but because he is not happy with the details of the treaty. For example, he does not support the split between Annex I countries and others. Bush said of the treaty:
The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol
This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Of course take it how you will, but I think that is the sentiment of most of the Anti-Kyoto politics.
Regardless, if we can go ahead and assume that the great-grandparent is a guy (since he talked about being beat up over being a geek) and since the great-grand parent also was lamenting not being able to get the cheerleader, I think it'd be fair to assume that he is both a)Straight and b)A guy. QED.
The point is though what's the point of all this. It's not like the grandparent was directly/intentionally slandering anyone. All this has gone and done has turned what could've been a funny thread into the detailed analysis of someone's sexual preference which frankly, I don't care for.
It's not an insult to homosexuals, it's an insult to the guy with the USB dongle.
The grandparent's trying to say that if some guy is trying to get an attractive cheerleader with a USB dongle on his neck, he's got a better chance of actually getting the exact opposite of what he's looking for. If you're looking for an attractive girl, and get an ugly guy...it kinda says that you suck, not the other way around.
I'm for not offending people as much as anyone else, but sometimes it's taken too far.
No, it just means that news groups can't use SPF verification on the addresses that are expected to receive mail from a number of different news servers.
That said, if it's moderated, it shouldn't matter because the moderators could deal with with incoming spam (like, I would assume, they do now).
I second the parent's vote to get over it, and I'll now interject a completely random joke I heard from some talkshow host somewhere back this spring.
"Man, what's been up in Saddam lately? You know, he goes into hiding for months and noone hears a word from him. Today, we see him for the first time in nearly a year in court. He gets on TV and all he does the whole time is insist that he's the president...
Jeeze, it's kinda like Al Gore."/bad humor: off//at home sick and drugged up
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Yes, there is absorption and reflection. Think of absorption and reflection analagous to inelastic and elastic colisions, respectively.
Supposing that you did have a perfect reflector, I fail to see how you'd be violating laws of thermodynamics. You'd have light oscillating back and forth between two mirrors, which isn't a bad thing, per se. Since they are both connected, they would want to stretch apart, but would remain still.
Because you can never have a materialthat will reflect absolutely 100% of the light that's going in. Pretty soon, the light source will have diminished, transferring it's energy to the sails. Incidentally, the absorption of light is what gives solar sails their 'push' (due to conservation of momentum, the light comes in with a certain amount of momentum, and that momentum is transferred to the sail when it gets absorbed)
Hope that helps.
Wasn't it just yesterday we read that article on Infoweek(I think) that declared that linux would NEVER defeat windows on the desktop because buisnesses required a stable, solid platform they could count on? And windows was the epitome of that because of it's (supposedly) notorious stability between releases?
Hmmmm
What happens when the servers are down? (i.e. valve goes out of buisness/decides to not support HL2 anymore)
That shot of (I assume) your wife overlooking the valley looks incredibly like a place I like to hang out at on my campus(Sewanee). Where was that picture taken?
I think by 'register file' he meant, 'place where the state of the CPU's registers are saved' as opposed to 'a register'
Right, well, uh.. How exactly would you distinguish light from matter if it's moving at the speed of light? Aside from when it hits you, that is.
Light and matter behave differently. Matter can't occupy the same space as other matter, light can be superimposed on the same position(for example)
There's an easy way to make matter move at the speed of light.. set it on fire. It's converting it back to it's original form that's the tough part.
The light coming from fire is energy released (un the form of light) from chemical bonds being broken, not from the matter converting spontaneously to light.
I'm not sure on the specifics myself (I'm a physics major, but it's not all completely clear to me) But, the .99C object would experience time at a much slower rate than the .05C object. Actually, both 'reference frames' would experience time dialation so that from the perspective of one, the other wouldn't be traveling faster than the speed of light.
However, from a third(stationary) perspective, both objects would have an apparent relative velocity of greater than C but that's not violating any laws.
I thought an advantage of ogg was that it was less demanding on CPU power..specifically the decoder doesn't require a FPU which allows it to efficently run on devices that don't have them.
Then again, i'm trying to speak from memory, so I could be wrong
nice hhgg reference :)
Damnit, i knew there was a problem with my tags...
Is there a list somewhere of extensions that are known to be non-thread safe? Or do I need to just test them one by one?
This 'MUD' thing he speaks of is not WoW. It's one of a huge number of text-based online RPGs, the precursers to MMORPGS like EQ and WoW. Mud Connector is a good portal. Alternatively, telnet into hexonyx.com:7777 to see what it's about.
Not to disagree with you if you're confident about that, but I do remember a while back a story that went something like this:
:(
The russian government (or another forumer USSR government) offered a cash reward for people to return any weapons they had around. A scientist who worked for a nuclear lab around the fall of the USSR walked up with a sizeable quantity (half a kilo, IIRC) of plutonium. Apparently, when the soviet union fell and all of the security around their labs evaporated, he didnt want it to fall into wrong hands, so he took it and buried it in his backyard. I'm trying to find the link, but the world's conspiring against me right now
I always have trouble with mem usage in firefox. Trying to use a fusker just kills the thing while IE handles it in stride.
*shrug*
This may or may not be true, but I've heard that these messages may be legitimate. Someone said once (here on ./ I think..so I guess take it with a grain of salt) that it may be a debt collection agency/living will type phone call. If theyre trying to get a hold of you, theyre required by law to not even state that theyre a collection agency to anyone other than you. So, when they leave messages, they can't do anything about it. The only thing is, other nefarious companies may be doing it to.
Hey guys-
:( )
Does anyone know of webmail/local clients that can do labels like gmail does? To me, that's the slickest thing about gmail, and i'd kill a man for that feature in thunderbird (I'd code it myself, but my stuff would never past QA, even if I could get it to work
thanks-
How come we're still quite competive?
I'd say inertia. But I'd say in the next few years or so, the competition will be heating up bigtime between us and other, less developed nations for manufactured goods. I'm just suggesting that everyone be on the same playing field is all.
Thanks.
Yes, they are on the list, but they are not on the list of 'Annex 1' countries, effectively exempting them from the polution controls. (Although, some people say taht at the current rate, China will make the list of Annex 1 nations within the next two decades)
Russia is on the list of Annex 1 countries, however, since the restrictions are %5.2 less than exports in 1990, Russia already satisfies the restrictions due to the fall of the soviet union and the subsequent collapse of their industrial machine.
Point is, as it's written, India, China, and Russia effectively don't have restrictions which would place us at a severe disadvantage if we're trying to compete with a global market. According to the Wikipedia entry on the kyoto treaty
The current President, George W. Bush, has indicated that he does not intend to submit the treaty for ratification, not because he does not support the general idea, but because he is not happy with the details of the treaty. For example, he does not support the split between Annex I countries and others. Bush said of the treaty:
The world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol
This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world's. America's unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
Of course take it how you will, but I think that is the sentiment of most of the Anti-Kyoto politics.
Go easy on the Grammar, it's early, too early
And you're assuming that it's a guy :)
Regardless, if we can go ahead and assume that the great-grandparent is a guy (since he talked about being beat up over being a geek) and since the great-grand parent also was lamenting not being able to get the cheerleader, I think it'd be fair to assume that he is both a)Straight and b)A guy. QED.
The point is though what's the point of all this. It's not like the grandparent was directly/intentionally slandering anyone. All this has gone and done has turned what could've been a funny thread into the detailed analysis of someone's sexual preference which frankly, I don't care for.
gah.
It's not an insult to homosexuals, it's an insult to the guy with the USB dongle.
The grandparent's trying to say that if some guy is trying to get an attractive cheerleader with a USB dongle on his neck, he's got a better chance of actually getting the exact opposite of what he's looking for. If you're looking for an attractive girl, and get an ugly guy...it kinda says that you suck, not the other way around.
I'm for not offending people as much as anyone else, but sometimes it's taken too far.
No, it just means that news groups can't use SPF verification on the addresses that are expected to receive mail from a number of different news servers.
That said, if it's moderated, it shouldn't matter because the moderators could deal with with incoming spam (like, I would assume, they do now).
I second the parent's vote to get over it, and I'll now interject a completely random joke I heard from some talkshow host somewhere back this spring.
/bad humor: off //at home sick and drugged up
"Man, what's been up in Saddam lately? You know, he goes into hiding for months and noone hears a word from him. Today, we see him for the first time in nearly a year in court. He gets on TV and all he does the whole time is insist that he's the president...
Jeeze, it's kinda like Al Gore."
Hmm *Whips out Calculator*
:)
2^32 = 4,294,967,296
If you were making a joke about 32 bit variables rolling over, you were off by a couple orders of magnitude