The difference between the humor in A New Hope and the humor in Ep. I is that ANH is actually well thought out and even a little subtle. Ep. I is more like the Three Stooges. I don't want slapstick comedy. Boy, that was pointless.
Sony's NOW supporting PS/2 for Linux!! YES, now I can use all those mice and keyboard's that didn't work in Linux!!!!
What? It's the Console Playstation 2? Shit! What have I been saving all these fscking keyboards and mice? NOW YOU TELL ME.
I don't know about you, but I only need one mouse and keyboard for a playstation. You tell ME why you need so many.
-David
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Ordinarilly, this would cause them to float, however, since they are wet, the added mass of water drags them down. The piling you observe is a result of the fact that the water is pushing outward (centrifugal force) and is denser than the leaves.
By the very definition of flotation, the water cannot be denser than the leaves, else the leaves would float. Things sink when they are more dense than water.
It occurs to me that if the supreme court killed the line-item veto because congress gave some of its lawmaking powers to the president, this is certainly congress giving away some of its lawmaking powers to a forking international organization, so why is it ok? The reason it's ok, of course, is because no one with the money opposes this kind of thing, and it takes serious money to get to the supreme court.
In addition, it provides the common, yet complex functionality that
everyone needs in a physics-based animation system
Everyone needs this in a physics-based animation system? Oy vey! I don't even have a physics-based animation system! I'm doubly behind. I hadn't any idea I needed anything like this! Where can I get it, quick, before someone finds out?
/. is the one place where the ads are targeted at me. I kinda like 'em, and I consciously try and click on the interesting ones, to give/. money. Where else would I find out about the nifty program Compaq has to give you shell acount on spiffycool computers or what the latest Thinkgeek stuff is? Of course, I'm tired of this DNS crap. -David
Good god. It doesn't work that way.
The equatorial circumference of the earth is 40,000 kilometers.
Given that the earth rotates with a period of 24*3600 seconds, give or take a few, the velocity of a person on the equator is 40,000,000=v86,400 or 462 m/s.
Centripetal force is F=(mv^2)/r. The equatorial radius of the earth is 6,400km or so. Thus, a 100 kg person at the equator experiences F=(150*462^2)/6,400,000=5 newtons of centripetal force. One kg is 9.8 newtons. Thus, centripetal force has next to no effect on your perceived weight today.
Now. Assume that a subtraction of 2m/s of acceleration from the downward gravity induced Fw is significant. Centripetal acceleration is v^2/r. 2=v^2/6,400,000 v=3600. V would have to be 3600m/s for a significant counter to gravitational force. Note that this is 9 times the current value, so the earth's day would have to be less than 3 hours long. I don't think that's very bloody likely.
Yes, I know that centripetal force is actually an inward force and isn't applicable in this situation. But the magnitude of centripetal force is equivalent to the magnitude of centrifugal force, which I didn't use because it doesn't actually exist. At any rate, it all works out. Trust me.
What made that idea (and company, I think) fold was the lack of security. Anyone could connect to your house's power outlet and get connected. Furthermore, there were no filtering devices that served as "firewall" between your house and the external power grid.
Your ground wires shouldn't be connected to the power grid, to the best of my knowledge anyway. They should be connected to, um, the ground. Even if someone were to stick a pole in the ground next to your house, I doubt they could get the connectivity needed to tap your net.
I can probably safely bet that 9/10ths of us would commit suicide if technology were eliminated from the planet tomorrow. (This is a safe bet because I'd probably be the first to go.)
Heh, you might, but a lot of the folks around here would commence hacking on rocks to turn them into computers.
Being as I just spent $1500 on my computer, I'm not really into dropping some money on a PS2. BUT, I think that GTA3 is a really spiffy game, so I was wondering if someone would happen to know if and when it's coming out for the PC?
Aye, that's what I said. Perhaps I wasn't verbose enough.
The Athlon/draft horse is still correct. It pulls a hell of a lot, just not as far as fast.
The P4, on the other hand, is blurringly fast, but it doesn't pull as much.
It's a handicapped horse race. The Athlon has the larger handicap (although in this case it works out to be a good thing), in that it does more every clock cycle. The P4 is going faster, but its handicap isn't as large, so it's not _actually_ doing as much.
Hey hey...here's how it goes. (I don't know if anyone has used this analogy before, but it's new to me). Transport yourself back to the 1920's or so.
The P4 is like a race horse. Really honkin' fast, but it needs to know where it's going and gets a little skittish at times and then it doesn't do so hot. Rather on the expensive side, too.
The Athlon XP is more of a draft horse. It's not very fast, but you can throw damn near anything at it and it'll never flinch, just keep on going.
Remember the fable? Slow and steady wins the race.
Errr, I don't have the initiative to check and see if the device supports it, but USB 2.0 is 480 megabits per second. That's forty times faster than 12 megabits per second, which would let you fill the HD in 1/40 of 5 hours, or about 7 anda half minutes. And that's using your faulty math.
WTF? DOS never crashed for me. I'm not sure I ever lost a document in Windows 3.1. From Win95 on, though, it's been downhill. Sure, you can do more, but you have to wait for the computer to boot when it screws up (and that takes an unseemly long time compared to lightening fast DOS 6 boots).
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Gee, I guess I shouldn't wear my "Got Root?" tshirt when I go down there, eh?
The difference between the humor in A New Hope and the humor in Ep. I is that ANH is actually well thought out and even a little subtle. Ep. I is more like the Three Stooges. I don't want slapstick comedy.
Boy, that was pointless.
I don't know about you, but I only need one mouse and keyboard for a playstation. You tell ME why you need so many.
-David
By the very definition of flotation, the water cannot be denser than the leaves, else the leaves would float. Things sink when they are more dense than water.
You could be.
It occurs to me that if the supreme court killed the line-item veto because congress gave some of its lawmaking powers to the president, this is certainly congress giving away some of its lawmaking powers to a forking international organization, so why is it ok?
The reason it's ok, of course, is because no one with the money opposes this kind of thing, and it takes serious money to get to the supreme court.
-David
Everyone needs this in a physics-based animation system? Oy vey! I don't even have a physics-based animation system! I'm doubly behind. I hadn't any idea I needed anything like this! Where can I get it, quick, before someone finds out?
/. is the one place where the ads are targeted at me. I kinda like 'em, and I consciously try and click on the interesting ones, to give /. money.
Where else would I find out about the nifty program Compaq has to give you shell acount on spiffycool computers or what the latest Thinkgeek stuff is?
Of course, I'm tired of this DNS crap.
-David
Good god. It doesn't work that way.
The equatorial circumference of the earth is 40,000 kilometers.
Given that the earth rotates with a period of 24*3600 seconds, give or take a few, the velocity of a person on the equator is 40,000,000=v86,400 or 462 m/s.
Centripetal force is F=(mv^2)/r. The equatorial radius of the earth is 6,400km or so. Thus, a 100 kg person at the equator experiences F=(150*462^2)/6,400,000=5 newtons of centripetal force. One kg is 9.8 newtons. Thus, centripetal force has next to no effect on your perceived weight today.
Now. Assume that a subtraction of 2m/s of acceleration from the downward gravity induced Fw is significant. Centripetal acceleration is v^2/r. 2=v^2/6,400,000 v=3600. V would have to be 3600m/s for a significant counter to gravitational force. Note that this is 9 times the current value, so the earth's day would have to be less than 3 hours long. I don't think that's very bloody likely.
Yes, I know that centripetal force is actually an inward force and isn't applicable in this situation. But the magnitude of centripetal force is equivalent to the magnitude of centrifugal force, which I didn't use because it doesn't actually exist. At any rate, it all works out. Trust me.
-David
Your ground wires shouldn't be connected to the power grid, to the best of my knowledge anyway. They should be connected to, um, the ground. Even if someone were to stick a pole in the ground next to your house, I doubt they could get the connectivity needed to tap your net.
Heh, you might, but a lot of the folks around here would commence hacking on rocks to turn them into computers.
Being as I just spent $1500 on my computer, I'm not really into dropping some money on a PS2. BUT, I think that GTA3 is a really spiffy game, so I was wondering if someone would happen to know if and when it's coming out for the PC?
Aye, that's what I said. Perhaps I wasn't verbose enough.
The Athlon/draft horse is still correct. It pulls a hell of a lot, just not as far as fast.
The P4, on the other hand, is blurringly fast, but it doesn't pull as much.
It's a handicapped horse race. The Athlon has the larger handicap (although in this case it works out to be a good thing), in that it does more every clock cycle. The P4 is going faster, but its handicap isn't as large, so it's not _actually_ doing as much.
Hey hey...here's how it goes. (I don't know if anyone has used this analogy before, but it's new to me). Transport yourself back to the 1920's or so.
The P4 is like a race horse. Really honkin' fast, but it needs to know where it's going and gets a little skittish at times and then it doesn't do so hot. Rather on the expensive side, too.
The Athlon XP is more of a draft horse. It's not very fast, but you can throw damn near anything at it and it'll never flinch, just keep on going.
Remember the fable? Slow and steady wins the race.
-David
Is it gonna have those same butt-ugly alien characters? If so, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
-David
Errr, I don't have the initiative to check and see if the device supports it, but USB 2.0 is 480 megabits per second. That's forty times faster than 12 megabits per second, which would let you fill the HD in 1/40 of 5 hours, or about 7 anda half minutes. And that's using your faulty math.
"A long way since DOS?"
WTF? DOS never crashed for me. I'm not sure I ever lost a document in Windows 3.1. From Win95 on, though, it's been downhill. Sure, you can do more, but you have to wait for the computer to boot when it screws up (and that takes an unseemly long time compared to lightening fast DOS 6 boots).
Color me stupid, but do we really need _another_ new VM in the kernel?
What's wrong with the one we have?
What features would a new VM have that would make it better for these high-end systems?
Why do these high-end systems with skads and kaboodles of RAM need VM?
Just curious.