At one point, science would have had us believe the earth was flat.
How do you know the earth is not flat? Have you ever measured the surface?
How do you know if the sun orbits the earth, or the earth rotates? What would our sky look like in an earth centric system?
According to Asmov, just about the same in either case. Until someone measures that not all of the heavenly bodies (planets) fit the model explained by the current theory earth centric, then the sun must orbit the earth just like the moon.
Don't ever denigrate early people who had not measured the surface of the earth, if you take your knowledege without collecting and analyzing the facts your self. You and I know the earth is curved, and we live in a Solar centric system based on faith in our education. Nothing more.
Learn about truth and "no truth"... There is truth in religion, meaning "God said", for which there is no argument. There is "no truth" in science, which means everything is up for re-evaluation... always. When there is truth in science, it has become religion. Atmospheric evidense shows an increase in CO2. Fossil evidense shows cyclical warming and cooling periods. The scientist says "I must examine all the facts". The politician/priest says "This is a sign from Mother Nature/God, REPENT!"
Congrats on your success. It's a dangerous mindset found in the US that having children is wrong. We have three. I've thought about making my sig:
"Children... Don't grow old with out them".
To me the greatest part is laying in bed on Saturday morning with the missus and a baby between you two. With the baby looking all around in wonder. Better yet, is the second one between you, and the first one crawling around, and the second one trying to follow the first. Total magic, there's no feeling of love like that...
One of the most common arguments aginst having kids is that we live in a horrible world. We don't, in the US (except the drug cultures), we live in the best of worlds, in the best of times. Live expectancy is approaching 100 years. The big ten killer diseases of children in 1900 are controlled. Infant mortality is practically zero for non-drug users. You can sum it up to something Paul Graham said, that I re-read today even common folk enjoy "the luxury of curiousity". Wether we spend that luxury on wastful (TV) or productive diversions is irrelevant. We have that luxury, many more. Our greatest health threat is obesity.
What he's saying is "don't pair newbie with Larry Wall". Not that newbie would not learn valuable lessons, but Larry would spend time explaining "why a list on the left hand side must match a list on the right hand side". And that might be great for newbie, but bad for progress.
Dwight Eisenhower told us "Farming is easy if your plow is a pencil, and you field is a paper". It's amazing how many slashdotters are experts in agriculture, automotive engineering, etc, but would howl like mad if a Farmer tried to tell them how to comment code.
BTW, a vast majority of Farmers have college degrees. In agriculture pencil pushing "Ag experts" are considered the PHB.
What trespass is saying is that you'd need a guidance system to get the trash into a decay orbit, or you might meet your trash in it's rebounding orbit.
Anything you meet in space is traveling very very fast.
Ever seen someone flick a cigarette butt out the window of his truck, and have it land in his load of firewood in the back? Oops is a word you don't want to hear in space.
There are actually a lot of things you don't see going on. First is 99.9% of US elections are working. But we all know that good news does not sell papers (or eyeball time). And some wannabes got their 15 minutes of sleazy fame in the middle of the last over-hyped scandal.
US citizens get to vote on a lot of things at every election. Not just the President, but US Senators (think house of Lords), US Represenatives (house of commons), State Governor, Lt. Governor, State Senate, State Assembly, State boards (Insurance Commissioner, Treasure, State Tax officials), State propositions (most states), City/County: Aldermen/Supervisors, Treasures, Tax assessors, Various local community services (school districts, fire protection, utilities, park & recreation district boards). Then the districts for the local boards are not consistant. Meaning that you and I may be in the same fire protection and school districts, but different park & recreation districts.
If you try to get a consistant election materials... then you run into that ol' "Cat herding" thing. The surest way to get knocked down is to tell a US citizen what he or she must do.... Look what happened when Jimmy Carter tried to force the metric system on the US more than 22 years ago. We collectively said "HELL NO". In the US, the metric system was repealed a few years back.... Just don't tell us that what we're using is the English measuring system, or we'll have to revolt.;)
most US citizens are happy with our mini revolutions every four years
Republicans are just more right wing and way more authoritarian
Consider the last election... One the Candidates wife's favorite charity was "keeping her daughters out of jail". The other Candidates wife's favorite charity is "Music Censoring". So I don't know where you get that kind of idea, other than really good spin.
Well, it's kind of hard to give tax cuts to people who don't pay taxes...Besides when the wealthy get a tax cut, they buy stocks (building businesses) or bonds (lessening the interest on loans for homes or businesses), or angel a startup. If the poor get more money, they buy a foreign made toy. Which benefits the economy?
more preemptive wars
"Strike while the your enemy is laying plans" --Art of war. Saddam had enough U235 for 70 nukes. Hope that's not an issue.
Your tin-foil hat is on too tight. The US has had decades of Democrats and several decades Republicans owning Executive, Legislative, and Judicial (the three branches of US government). Leaning too far to one side or the other causes correcting balance. Jerry Brown (California Governor for eight years) said "Governing is like paddling a canoe... You have to paddle a little on the left, and a little on the right, else you go no where". And thats exactly what we see today, neither much to the left or the right, just Republicats (hard to distinguish weather they are Republicans or Democrats). Everyone trying to woo the swing voters in the middle.
In Sacramento, the red light cameras were leading the red lights. Over a thousand cases were thrown out. Of course after the victims of injustice had to pay excessive fines for not committing crimes.
If the fuel cell can turn flies into electricty, why not just feed the fuel cell refined sugar? 2.2kg is ~ US$1.50. How much energy is that compared to maybe catching bugs?
Not to rain on the parade of some good investigation of a new material, but Nicoli Tesla did something similar with wires suspended in a flowing river.
How is this dis-similar from a hot wire anemometer?
But depending on the gravitational field of the sun, the period of the earth orbit must have been much different, hence the years were much different than our expected ~1,311,264 seconds. How much variation? I do not have enough data to estimate the variation of time speed between creation day, and today's current time speed. We do know that many of the people in biblical times had a longer life span. A keen observer will notice that current trends are for humans and their pets to enjoy a longer life span compared individuals living merely 100 years ago. So there seems to be a correlation between gravitational fields, time-speed, and longevity. Perhaps we can collect gravitational data from the recent past, and project gravitational anomalies from this observation. };=8) that's my cow smiley.
Personally, I hate sites that have things flashing and jumping off the page at me. Those types of sites are extremely annoying. If I visit a site like that, I usually just leave.
I call that the toy box effect. This is what happens when your five year dumps his entire toybox on the floor on the day after christmas, and tries to play with every toy at once... It's just a mess.
If you don't like blinks and other annoying animations, try Mozilla. You can set the annoyances to rotate once or off.
Reading Marx gives the impression of an idiot-savant: in one paragraph he makes an incisive, novel comment about the inner-workings of capitalism, in the next he's unable to understand the concept of risk and the value that we attach to it, (an error that goes to the core of his entire theory of value)." --Alomex, Slashdot.com 12/04/2002
I too, saw a pile of these at work, and thought "This is great, a USB master to PS2 signal generator all in a small plug". I wanted to use these to have a hot pluggable keyboard and mouse in a no keyboard P3 LINUX server under the desk. Mine did not work either. Silly me, thinking what is apparently a really cool USB device is merely an empty shell. My Cow-orker brought my attention to the name of the manufacturer stamped on the plug. I tried to dissect one at work, and sucessfully cut off the rubber shell, only to find a metal shell under that, and I have no real implements of destruction here at work.
Slashdot Mirror
How do you know the earth is not flat? Have you ever measured the surface?
How do you know if the sun orbits the earth, or the earth rotates? What would our sky look like in an earth centric system?
According to Asmov, just about the same in either case. Until someone measures that not all of the heavenly bodies (planets) fit the model explained by the current theory earth centric, then the sun must orbit the earth just like the moon.
Don't ever denigrate early people who had not measured the surface of the earth, if you take your knowledege without collecting and analyzing the facts your self. You and I know the earth is curved, and we live in a Solar centric system based on faith in our education. Nothing more.
Learn about truth and "no truth"... There is truth in religion, meaning "God said", for which there is no argument. There is "no truth" in science, which means everything is up for re-evaluation... always. When there is truth in science, it has become religion. Atmospheric evidense shows an increase in CO2. Fossil evidense shows cyclical warming and cooling periods. The scientist says "I must examine all the facts". The politician/priest says "This is a sign from Mother Nature/God, REPENT!"
"Change... It's the only thing that remains the same".
--Levar Burton
"Children... Don't grow old with out them".
To me the greatest part is laying in bed on Saturday morning with the missus and a baby between you two. With the baby looking all around in wonder. Better yet, is the second one between you, and the first one crawling around, and the second one trying to follow the first. Total magic, there's no feeling of love like that...
One of the most common arguments aginst having kids is that we live in a horrible world. We don't, in the US (except the drug cultures), we live in the best of worlds, in the best of times. Live expectancy is approaching 100 years. The big ten killer diseases of children in 1900 are controlled. Infant mortality is practically zero for non-drug users. You can sum it up to something Paul Graham said, that I re-read today even common folk enjoy "the luxury of curiousity". Wether we spend that luxury on wastful (TV) or productive diversions is irrelevant. We have that luxury, many more. Our greatest health threat is obesity.
They've also been profiting by these warnings for a long time!
Dwight Eisenhower told us "Farming is easy if your plow is a pencil, and you field is a paper". It's amazing how many slashdotters are experts in agriculture, automotive engineering, etc, but would howl like mad if a Farmer tried to tell them how to comment code.
BTW, a vast majority of Farmers have college degrees. In agriculture pencil pushing "Ag experts" are considered the PHB.
Please don't interrupt fantasies with facts...
Anything you meet in space is traveling very very fast.
Ever seen someone flick a cigarette butt out the window of his truck, and have it land in his load of firewood in the back? Oops is a word you don't want to hear in space.
The real scarey part, is that JC was a U-boat commander.
US citizens get to vote on a lot of things at every election. Not just the President, but US Senators (think house of Lords), US Represenatives (house of commons), State Governor, Lt. Governor, State Senate, State Assembly, State boards (Insurance Commissioner, Treasure, State Tax officials), State propositions (most states), City/County: Aldermen/Supervisors, Treasures, Tax assessors, Various local community services (school districts, fire protection, utilities, park & recreation district boards). Then the districts for the local boards are not consistant. Meaning that you and I may be in the same fire protection and school districts, but different park & recreation districts.
If you try to get a consistant election materials... then you run into that ol' "Cat herding" thing. The surest way to get knocked down is to tell a US citizen what he or she must do.... Look what happened when Jimmy Carter tried to force the metric system on the US more than 22 years ago. We collectively said "HELL NO". In the US, the metric system was repealed a few years back.... Just don't tell us that what we're using is the English measuring system, or we'll have to revolt. ;)
most US citizens are happy with our mini revolutions every four years
You've missed the 8 ballot boxes found floating in the San Francisco bay.
Consider the last election... One the Candidates wife's favorite charity was "keeping her daughters out of jail". The other Candidates wife's favorite charity is "Music Censoring". So I don't know where you get that kind of idea, other than really good spin.
I miss Billy's Beer...
Well, it's kind of hard to give tax cuts to people who don't pay taxes...Besides when the wealthy get a tax cut, they buy stocks (building businesses) or bonds (lessening the interest on loans for homes or businesses), or angel a startup. If the poor get more money, they buy a foreign made toy. Which benefits the economy?
more preemptive wars
"Strike while the your enemy is laying plans" --Art of war.
Saddam had enough U235 for 70 nukes. Hope that's not an issue.
Your tin-foil hat is on too tight. The US has had decades of Democrats and several decades Republicans owning Executive, Legislative, and Judicial (the three branches of US government). Leaning too far to one side or the other causes correcting balance. Jerry Brown (California Governor for eight years) said "Governing is like paddling a canoe... You have to paddle a little on the left, and a little on the right, else you go no where". And thats exactly what we see today, neither much to the left or the right, just Republicats (hard to distinguish weather they are Republicans or Democrats). Everyone trying to woo the swing voters in the middle.
In Sacramento, the red light cameras were leading the red lights. Over a thousand cases were thrown out. Of course after the victims of injustice had to pay excessive fines for not committing crimes.
I smell BS.
How is this dis-similar from a hot wire anemometer?
But depending on the gravitational field of the sun, the period of the earth orbit must have been much different, hence the years were much different than our expected ~1,311,264 seconds. How much variation? I do not have enough data to estimate the variation of time speed between creation day, and today's current time speed. We do know that many of the people in biblical times had a longer life span. A keen observer will notice that current trends are for humans and their pets to enjoy a longer life span compared individuals living merely 100 years ago. So there seems to be a correlation between gravitational fields, time-speed, and longevity. Perhaps we can collect gravitational data from the recent past, and project gravitational anomalies from this observation.
};=8) that's my cow smiley.
I call that the toy box effect. This is what happens when your five year dumps his entire toybox on the floor on the day after christmas, and tries to play with every toy at once... It's just a mess.
If you don't like blinks and other annoying animations, try Mozilla. You can set the annoyances to rotate once or off.
Oh Crap!
Now that's insightful.
You're on to something.
Reading Marx gives the impression of an idiot-savant: in one paragraph he
makes an incisive, novel comment about the inner-workings of capitalism,
in the next he's unable to understand the concept of risk and the value
that we attach to it, (an error that goes to the core of his entire theory
of value)."
--Alomex, Slashdot.com 12/04/2002
Consider who has killed more people.... Karl Marx, or Osama bin Laden. I'll choose to fight a hundred armed OBLs to one do-gooder politician.
BTW, the followers of Karl have killed about ten thousand times more people than the followers of Osamma.
With the exception of rotating things, which is about as cool as having a flash ad on my workspace.
Having many windows open with explicit focus?
Panning work spaces?
Verticle icons blocking my pretty wallpaper? I keep mine hidden in the root window, I can call them with a right mouse button.
I fall into the "one big window, cause I only have one focus group". I have function keys to change windows/navigate work spaces, thought path.
If you'd been the victim of a lawsuit, you'd share that philosophy too.
sigh: somebody please shoot me...