Oh don't worry, I knew full well it was a troll. I can even point you to the article that troll was stolen from. But it was on an upward moderation trend, so I tried to point out how ridiculous it was in hopes that our Crack Moderation Squad (aka. Moderators on Crack) would get a clue.
If he has to bail at 35miles (180,000 ft.) he'll shatter the record for highest parachute jump (102,000 ft.). But really, there shouldn't be much difference between 180,000 and 102,000 ft except for a few more minutes of free fall. It goes without saying that he's going to need to bring oxygen with him, and god-knows-what kind of protective clothing.
anthroposophist:
an*thro*pos*o*phy:n. A system of beliefs and practice based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner and maintaining that by correct training and personal discipline one can attain experience of the spiritual world.
And that qualifies someone as an expert the effects of microwaves on food, how, exactly?
And I was envious of people with ColecoVisions. All I had was a Coleco Game System, the predicesor to the ColecVision. It had about 6 built-in games, all of them variants of Pong. They were all hard wired in and you selected them with a switch.
Are you thinking of ULTRIX? As far as I can tell, it was pretty much phased out about the time that the Alpha processor launched. It was replaced by OSF/1, aka Digital UNIX, aka Tru64, which itself has now been retired in favor of HP/UX.
Also, I nearly forgot about ULTRIX, which was a DEC product introduced somewhat later. It was a heavily VMS influenced version of UNIX for VAX, but I don't know if it has any relationship with the forementioned UNIX port.
It happened shortly after the VAX was introduced in 1977, when DARPA contracted with the Computer Sciences Research Group to port their version of UNIX from the PDP-11.
Actually, the smoke from burning plenum-rated cable is just as toxic as that from non-plenum cable. There is just less of it, and it tends to be invisible. Somewhere it was determined that toxicity of burning cable was less of a factor than the loss of visibility. There is a subset of plenum rated cable called low-toxicity, also known as Zero Halogen or Low Smoke cable. It burns very clean, unfortunately it also burns very fast, having almost no fire retardant properties.
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Great! So now everyone can listen to their crappy ass 64kbps MP3's with perfect amplification. You'll be able to hear every digital artifact, high frequency echo, midrange warble and all that bass attenuation with perfect clarity.
The buildings did perform well under extreme stress, but that doesn't mean there aren't lessons to be learned. For example, the breaking of the floor beams was the trigger for the final collapse. The beams were fireproofed with a spray-on coating, that pretty much departed the building on impact. Fireproofing does no good when it's laying on the sidewalk. Another example - stairwells and elevators all clustered together in the building's core, and all destroyed at once. Only a handful of people who were above the impact floors made it out.
Sorry, but a spitball gun does not count as a 'particle accelerator'. Neither does anything involving a rubber band, a slinky or Lego bricks.
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Umm, if the ship is not accelerating there'd be no such difficulties with walking on the outside no matter how fast it's going. You'd just need a little tug to keep your feet planted. I'm not sure you're grasping how intertia actually works.
And I'm not sure about the rest of what you're bitching about, but if these boots had something like a simple electromagnet and some trivial controls, I don't see what the problem is.
You need to add one more assumption to your assesment: maximum takeoff weight. When I did this thought experiment a long time ago, assuming a 747-400 freightliner full of DAT tapes, it was apparent thet you could only use about 60% of the available cargo space and still have a plane that could get off the ground.
Actually that sounds about right. 100GB is 800 gigabits, so once you factor in the error correction data, it comes out to be close to 1 Tb. Well, close enough for journalism, anyway.
And my experience is completly contrary. I have here a fairly basic PC. After installing Win2k it still requires 8 separate driver downloads (and 8 reboots) before it's fully functional. Even the motherboard chipset requires an updated driver to be stable. On the other had, after installing Red Hat 7.3, everything works - no downloads needed.
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"This page intentionally left blank" (no "not") are common in IBM manuals (as well as quite a few others). It's actually there as check against duplication errors. If you found an actual blank page in an IBM manual it meant something went wrong when it was printed.
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Oh don't worry, I knew full well it was a troll. I can even point you to the article that troll was stolen from. But it was on an upward moderation trend, so I tried to point out how ridiculous it was in hopes that our Crack Moderation Squad (aka. Moderators on Crack) would get a clue.
Heating tap water releases toxins? Holy crap, I'm going to have to buy a bunch of biohazard stickers for the old Mr. Coffee.
If he has to bail at 35miles (180,000 ft.) he'll shatter the record for highest parachute jump (102,000 ft.). But really, there shouldn't be much difference between 180,000 and 102,000 ft except for a few more minutes of free fall. It goes without saying that he's going to need to bring oxygen with him, and god-knows-what kind of protective clothing.
anthroposophist:
an*thro*pos*o*phy: n. A system of beliefs and practice based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner and maintaining that by correct training and personal discipline one can attain experience of the spiritual world.
And that qualifies someone as an expert the effects of microwaves on food, how, exactly?
And I was envious of people with ColecoVisions. All I had was a Coleco Game System, the predicesor to the ColecVision. It had about 6 built-in games, all of them variants of Pong. They were all hard wired in and you selected them with a switch.
Are you thinking of ULTRIX? As far as I can tell, it was pretty much phased out about the time that the Alpha processor launched. It was replaced by OSF/1, aka Digital UNIX, aka Tru64, which itself has now been retired in favor of HP/UX.
Also, I nearly forgot about ULTRIX, which was a DEC product introduced somewhat later. It was a heavily VMS influenced version of UNIX for VAX, but I don't know if it has any relationship with the forementioned UNIX port.
It happened shortly after the VAX was introduced in 1977, when DARPA contracted with the Computer Sciences Research Group to port their version of UNIX from the PDP-11.
Actually, the smoke from burning plenum-rated cable is just as toxic as that from non-plenum cable. There is just less of it, and it tends to be invisible. Somewhere it was determined that toxicity of burning cable was less of a factor than the loss of visibility. There is a subset of plenum rated cable called low-toxicity, also known as Zero Halogen or Low Smoke cable. It burns very clean, unfortunately it also burns very fast, having almost no fire retardant properties.
And pointing this out to slashdot, you just ensured it won't stay that way for very long.
Actually, they are now to be regarded as "Mostly Evil".
You want quality audio in a PC? Go get a card made by these people, these people, these people, these people, these people, or these people. Then we'll talk.
Great! So now everyone can listen to their crappy ass 64kbps MP3's with perfect amplification. You'll be able to hear every digital artifact, high frequency echo, midrange warble and all that bass attenuation with perfect clarity.
That actually required an intern in a room, under a desk. That last part is important.
The buildings did perform well under extreme stress, but that doesn't mean there aren't lessons to be learned. For example, the breaking of the floor beams was the trigger for the final collapse. The beams were fireproofed with a spray-on coating, that pretty much departed the building on impact. Fireproofing does no good when it's laying on the sidewalk. Another example - stairwells and elevators all clustered together in the building's core, and all destroyed at once. Only a handful of people who were above the impact floors made it out.
Sorry, but a spitball gun does not count as a 'particle accelerator'. Neither does anything involving a rubber band, a slinky or Lego bricks.
Umm, if the ship is not accelerating there'd be no such difficulties with walking on the outside no matter how fast it's going. You'd just need a little tug to keep your feet planted. I'm not sure you're grasping how intertia actually works.
And I'm not sure about the rest of what you're bitching about, but if these boots had something like a simple electromagnet and some trivial controls, I don't see what the problem is.
Great, now all you have to do is invent monopole magnets and you're all set.
No no no ... It's a Buttered
Cat Array. The toast is incidental to the design.
But Monorails are more of a Shelbyville idea...
You need to add one more assumption to your assesment: maximum takeoff weight. When I did this thought experiment a long time ago, assuming a 747-400 freightliner full of DAT tapes, it was apparent thet you could only use about 60% of the available cargo space and still have a plane that could get off the ground.
Actually that sounds about right. 100GB is 800 gigabits, so once you factor in the error correction data, it comes out to be close to 1 Tb. Well, close enough for journalism, anyway.
And my experience is completly contrary. I have here a fairly basic PC. After installing Win2k it still requires 8 separate driver downloads (and 8 reboots) before it's fully functional. Even the motherboard chipset requires an updated driver to be stable. On the other had, after installing Red Hat 7.3, everything works - no downloads needed.
Are you sure that is what it said? Pages saying "This page intentionally left blank" (no "not") are common in IBM manuals (as well as quite a few others). It's actually there as check against duplication errors. If you found an actual blank page in an IBM manual it meant something went wrong when it was printed.
Yeah, but tubes don't automatically mean better sound. Junk is junk with tubes or without. There are plenty of tube amps that sound like crap.