Accually, you'll notice that in star trek, they never use phasers at warp speeds. (They may have cheated in a few places, but nothing comes to mind.)
Simple concept: When travelling faster than light, dont use weapons that can only move at light speed.
Photon torpedos, on the other hand, are physical objects. If you fire them out at a relative speed of a few thousand meters per second while you're going a few times the speed of light, they're still moving away from you, and not blowing up in your face.
And, from my recollections of the star trek technical manual (TNG), the navigational deflector is key to travelling faster than light. It projects a field far in front of the warp bubble moving small particles out of the way. Otherwise, a gram of asteroid would do significant damage to a ship moving faster than light. The warp bubble itself only propells the ship forward (by bending space around it).
You'd be amazed how well thought out the physics of star trek are. Off topic of parent, but mentioned elsewhere was that of inertial dampeners and structural integrity - two systems that make it possible to accually accelerate at values that would normally crush people into gelatinous goo and snap even the hardest substances. They say that the scripts were written in the "we've got a [tech problem] down here!" format - but I can say one thing - the guy who substituted that text in was no idiot. The problems almost always match the situation. Ever wonder why when the bridge crew starts falling around, the next line is often "Inertial Dampers are offline!". Stating the obvious, yes, but at least they didnt say something like "the warp core containment system just went offline".
Theres a song by They Might be Giants (Those wonderful folks that brought you "You're not the boss of Me Now" of television fame and the old classic "Istanbul, not Constantinople") that came to mind when reading this.
The lyrics are:
You're older than you've ever been, And now you're even older. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. (*lather, rinse, repeat*)
While your post is quite interesting, and very much inline with my views - you need to post a source on all of this. I can't take it seriously until you give me something other than your own ranting.
Exactly. Bluetooth isnt dead, its just starting to pick up now. The real application for bluetooth is replacing those crappy little IR devices (TV Remotes, Palm "Beaming"), and those devices with short little annoying wires (mouse, cell phone headset).
Problem is that its being touted as some kind of cheep, short range 802.11 networking. Get out of selling it like that, and maybe it'll go somewhere.
Nothing in those benchmarks makes me think that the Athlon "trounced" the G5. Look closely. The machines that beat out the G5 in *SOME* areas (not all) are running twice the graphics memory and RAID.
You can get a MAC with those specs. If you're gonna run benchmarks, run them with at least partly equal hardware specs.
One thing does stand out however - the specs of the alienware machine and the ployware machine are not that much different according to that table. So why is one behaving so differently?
I have an question about stocks, as I'm completely financially inept.
I've heard of 'put' options, basically betting that a specific stock is going to fall through the floor. Is it possible for me to buy put options on SCOX and make a shitload of money when their stock drops through the floor?
Suse did take up the fight - in their area, germany. SCO has been told to shut up there, that their claims have no basis and they cannot harrass Suse/Linux customers.
Well, in the grand scale of things, asteroids are going to increase dramatically in the next little while. When I say next little while, I mean the next 50 million years.
We're entering a phase where our system is moving back into the galatic disk in our solar system. In fact, we're closer to the middle of the galactic disk now than we have been for about 70 million years.
Think of it this way - as we whip around in the arms of the milky way, we also move up and down in them. I wonder if an attempt at ascii art would help explain...
------+++------ - Milky Way
^- Us
We accually move back and forth from the top of the dash to the bottom of the dash. Comprende? So we're now moving into the more dense part of the disk, so we'll see more asteroids. Coincedence that the last time we were here the dinosaurs mysteriously vanished? I think not.
Now, one the size of a small house could do some decent damage. Assume that a small house is about 15 meters in diameter. An asteroid about 100 meters in diameter hit siberia in 1908 and flattened 2000 Square Miles of forest. These things aint big, but they do good damage.
Not only that, but whats with all the wires? Isnt this type of application where bluetooth is supposed to take over? MIT should be leading that charge.
Along those same lines - is california making a killing in taxes because most of the buisness online is located there? What about the state that a lot of companies register for incorporation in (is that meriland? (sp))?
If the taxes are "leaving" one state, someones' making up for it somewhere. Either you're in for globalization, or you're not. Creating new taxes just because globalization doesnt fit your model of buisness is rather short-sighted. Same thing happens when countries start adding tarrifs because they cant compete with the imports.
If money is leaving the state (or country), its because something outside is better than whats inside.
Ive got rogers cable, and I regularly go over 2.5Mbps. Recently, I downloaded 1.8 Gigs (3 isos) in about 50 minutes. You do the math.
By the way, sympatico residential DSL is capped at one Meg here in Canada. You can get the 2.2 Meg corporate package for approaching $80 a month.
Oh, and if you stick with rogers, they're soon going to have a 5 meg package availible to both corporate and residential clients for about $80 a month. At least thats the rumour from my friend whos wife works in that department of rogers.
I'm playing around with their selection now. Be aware that any label just starting out isnt going to be producing stereotypically popular artists immediately.
I am enjoying this group however. It vaguely reminds me of a combination of dylerium and dead can dance mixed in the style of hybrid.
There is one thing thats good about this label thus far - they're not going for the stereotype. They're looking for artists that produce a unique sound, which is the only place to put your label on the map.
That chick?! THAT CHICK?! Show some damned respect for Seven of Nine. First of all, shes not evil. Second of all, if you piss her off, she could very likely blackhole your network. Now, take it back, damnit.
If you want to have someone as an evil lawyer for SCO, my vote is for this guy.
My God, that this is terrible looking. I can barely let blackberrys' pass as cell phones, but that thing doesnt even look like a PDA, it looks like neither.
It accually kinda reminds me of that kids game with the four different buttons that make four different sounds, and you have to replay the sounds the game kicks out - and it gets faster and faster and faster.
If they want to marry everything together, put it on my wristwatch and give me a bluetooth hands-free set for the phone.
The stack of floppies would be 2.52 Kilometers (or 1.57 Miles) high. This assumes one double-sided 1.4MB floppy disk is two millimeters think. If we calculate 1.2TB to mean 1,200,000 MB - then the height of our floppy disk stack becomes 2.4 Kilometers or 1.49 Miles high.
As a Canadian, I am unfamiliar with this "Congress" of which you speak, though im sure she has a very big libraries.
The article claims that the arguement was that a national do-not-call list violates free speech. How can a list which is opt-in violate free speech? These telemarketers are perfectly free to say whatever they like - I just dont them to call my house to say it.
Other things to speed up boot time
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These may seem obvious, but if you're after a quick boot, try doing these things:
Recompile the kernel with bare essentials only - monolithic.
Turn off non-essential non-inetd services.
Tweek your rc.d scripts to get rid of things like modprobe calls.
Dont boot directly to xdm if you dont have to.
Personally, I dont give a shit about how long my linux machines take to boot up, because they dont go off once they're up.
...with revenue of $15,530,000 from our SCOsource licensing initiative, have resulted in the first two profitable quarters in our history.
They're profitable. First time ever. Its interesting that this licencing scheme brought them over the top. Does anyone have any numbers of how far they'd be in the red if it wasnt for this initiative? It doesnt seem to say in the article.
But it does say this:..."a decline in product revenue of $1,835,000 and a decline in services revenue of $774,000."
So, if they werent profitable before, then a decline in product and service revenue should put them *far* into the red without the SCOSource thing.
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The speed of light, sir, is a constant. It doesnt go faster just because the source is in motion.
Accually, you'll notice that in star trek, they never use phasers at warp speeds. (They may have cheated in a few places, but nothing comes to mind.)
Simple concept: When travelling faster than light, dont use weapons that can only move at light speed.
Photon torpedos, on the other hand, are physical objects. If you fire them out at a relative speed of a few thousand meters per second while you're going a few times the speed of light, they're still moving away from you, and not blowing up in your face.
And, from my recollections of the star trek technical manual (TNG), the navigational deflector is key to travelling faster than light. It projects a field far in front of the warp bubble moving small particles out of the way. Otherwise, a gram of asteroid would do significant damage to a ship moving faster than light. The warp bubble itself only propells the ship forward (by bending space around it).
You'd be amazed how well thought out the physics of star trek are. Off topic of parent, but mentioned elsewhere was that of inertial dampeners and structural integrity - two systems that make it possible to accually accelerate at values that would normally crush people into gelatinous goo and snap even the hardest substances. They say that the scripts were written in the "we've got a [tech problem] down here!" format - but I can say one thing - the guy who substituted that text in was no idiot. The problems almost always match the situation. Ever wonder why when the bridge crew starts falling around, the next line is often "Inertial Dampers are offline!". Stating the obvious, yes, but at least they didnt say something like "the warp core containment system just went offline".
I should have mentioned, the song title is "Older".
Theres a song by They Might be Giants (Those wonderful folks that brought you "You're not the boss of Me Now" of television fame and the old classic "Istanbul, not Constantinople") that came to mind when reading this.
....
...
..
...
The lyrics are:
You're older than you've ever been,
And now you're even older.
And now you're even older.
And now you're even older.
(*lather, rinse, repeat*)
Time! (dhh dhh)
Marches on! (dhh dhh)
And time! (dhh)
Is still marching on! (dhh dhh)
And so on...
Hi. Do a search for my nickname. Chances are you can associate it with my real name within the first ten hits on Google.
Some of us have an online identity that is not entirely separate from reality.
(Im not the AC)
While your post is quite interesting, and very much inline with my views - you need to post a source on all of this. I can't take it seriously until you give me something other than your own ranting.
Exactly. Bluetooth isnt dead, its just starting to pick up now. The real application for bluetooth is replacing those crappy little IR devices (TV Remotes, Palm "Beaming"), and those devices with short little annoying wires (mouse, cell phone headset).
Problem is that its being touted as some kind of cheep, short range 802.11 networking. Get out of selling it like that, and maybe it'll go somewhere.
Nothing in those benchmarks makes me think that the Athlon "trounced" the G5. Look closely. The machines that beat out the G5 in *SOME* areas (not all) are running twice the graphics memory and RAID.
You can get a MAC with those specs. If you're gonna run benchmarks, run them with at least partly equal hardware specs.
One thing does stand out however - the specs of the alienware machine and the ployware machine are not that much different according to that table. So why is one behaving so differently?
I have an question about stocks, as I'm completely financially inept.
I've heard of 'put' options, basically betting that a specific stock is going to fall through the floor. Is it possible for me to buy put options on SCOX and make a shitload of money when their stock drops through the floor?
Suse did take up the fight - in their area, germany. SCO has been told to shut up there, that their claims have no basis and they cannot harrass Suse/Linux customers.
Thinkgeek is your friend.
Well, in the grand scale of things, asteroids are going to increase dramatically in the next little while. When I say next little while, I mean the next 50 million years.
We're entering a phase where our system is moving back into the galatic disk in our solar system. In fact, we're closer to the middle of the galactic disk now than we have been for about 70 million years.
Think of it this way - as we whip around in the arms of the milky way, we also move up and down in them. I wonder if an attempt at ascii art would help explain...
------+++------ - Milky Way
^- Us
We accually move back and forth from the top of the dash to the bottom of the dash. Comprende? So we're now moving into the more dense part of the disk, so we'll see more asteroids. Coincedence that the last time we were here the dinosaurs mysteriously vanished? I think not.
Now, one the size of a small house could do some decent damage. Assume that a small house is about 15 meters in diameter. An asteroid about 100 meters in diameter hit siberia in 1908 and flattened 2000 Square Miles of forest. These things aint big, but they do good damage.
Not only that, but whats with all the wires? Isnt this type of application where bluetooth is supposed to take over? MIT should be leading that charge.
Along those same lines - is california making a killing in taxes because most of the buisness online is located there? What about the state that a lot of companies register for incorporation in (is that meriland? (sp))?
If the taxes are "leaving" one state, someones' making up for it somewhere. Either you're in for globalization, or you're not. Creating new taxes just because globalization doesnt fit your model of buisness is rather short-sighted. Same thing happens when countries start adding tarrifs because they cant compete with the imports.
If money is leaving the state (or country), its because something outside is better than whats inside.
Ive got rogers cable, and I regularly go over 2.5Mbps. Recently, I downloaded 1.8 Gigs (3 isos) in about 50 minutes. You do the math.
By the way, sympatico residential DSL is capped at one Meg here in Canada. You can get the 2.2 Meg corporate package for approaching $80 a month.
Oh, and if you stick with rogers, they're soon going to have a 5 meg package availible to both corporate and residential clients for about $80 a month. At least thats the rumour from my friend whos wife works in that department of rogers.
Anyone know how much they spent on making it?
According to their what is section of their website, about $1000 NZD. Appearently the most expensive item was the main characters' costume.
yeah.. makes me nervous. "we are not evil". Reminds me of "I am not a crook". Or "I dont have a wife".
I am not a karma whore
I'm playing around with their selection now. Be aware that any label just starting out isnt going to be producing stereotypically popular artists immediately.
I am enjoying this group however. It vaguely reminds me of a combination of dylerium and dead can dance mixed in the style of hybrid.
There is one thing thats good about this label thus far - they're not going for the stereotype. They're looking for artists that produce a unique sound, which is the only place to put your label on the map.
That chick from voyager as the evil SCO lawyer
That chick?! THAT CHICK?! Show some damned respect for Seven of Nine. First of all, shes not evil. Second of all, if you piss her off, she could very likely blackhole your network. Now, take it back, damnit.
If you want to have someone as an evil lawyer for SCO, my vote is for this guy.
My God, that this is terrible looking. I can barely let blackberrys' pass as cell phones, but that thing doesnt even look like a PDA, it looks like neither.
It accually kinda reminds me of that kids game with the four different buttons that make four different sounds, and you have to replay the sounds the game kicks out - and it gets faster and faster and faster.
If they want to marry everything together, put it on my wristwatch and give me a bluetooth hands-free set for the phone.
The stack of floppies would be 2.52 Kilometers (or 1.57 Miles) high. This assumes one double-sided 1.4MB floppy disk is two millimeters think. If we calculate 1.2TB to mean 1,200,000 MB - then the height of our floppy disk stack becomes 2.4 Kilometers or 1.49 Miles high.
As a Canadian, I am unfamiliar with this "Congress" of which you speak, though im sure she has a very big libraries.
Newsflash: The OS does see it as one great big 1.2TB drive. Look at the screenshots. (Hes' using OSX - not sure if that is why it is seen that way).
Sidenote: With windows dynamic disks, you could see the drive as one unified peice of media. Not sure how hard it would be with linux offhand though.
The article claims that the arguement was that a national do-not-call list violates free speech. How can a list which is opt-in violate free speech? These telemarketers are perfectly free to say whatever they like - I just dont them to call my house to say it.
Personally, I dont give a shit about how long my linux machines take to boot up, because they dont go off once they're up.
...with revenue of $15,530,000 from our SCOsource licensing initiative, have resulted in the first two profitable quarters in our history.
..."a decline in product revenue of $1,835,000 and a decline in services revenue of $774,000."
They're profitable. First time ever. Its interesting that this licencing scheme brought them over the top. Does anyone have any numbers of how far they'd be in the red if it wasnt for this initiative? It doesnt seem to say in the article.
But it does say this:
So, if they werent profitable before, then a decline in product and service revenue should put them *far* into the red without the SCOSource thing.