After doing my duty and modding this up... I would like to see a story on this. Let the community discuss moderation & see if there are better ideas than are currently in place.
Sounds like conspiracy to commit fraud against the MPAA, or conspiracy to circumvent the DMCA to me.
I think a better plan would be to get more games that appeal to a wider range of people, & don't charge an arm and a leg for them.
Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) isn't the only by-product of a space shuttle launch. When I was at Kennedy space centre, they said that in the big cloud that comes up when the shuttle is launching (they dump thousands of liters of water under the shuttle which immediatley gets vaporised so it doesn't melt the launch pad) contains quite a bit of sulfuric acid, and they have special teams to clean up the launch pad after the launch.
Add to that the fact that the solid rocket boosters produce some pretty nasty chemicals...
And, to top it all off, where they launch the shuttle from is smack dab in the middle of a nature preserve!
I always thought of adcritic as a problem waiting to happen. On one side, there's the potential legal problems of showing copyrighted content (i still can't belive they never got sued), and on the other hand, there's the enormous expense of the bandwidth & storage space they would need. I will dearly miss ad critic, but am suprised they lasted this long.
On the more serious side, NASA better get their ass together and send people to study Mars to study it, before it is so changed that we can't do any studying of it's past.
Heh. My computer was out of commission for quite a while a few years ago. So I dug out the old Cannon cat. Plugged the modem (300!bps!) into the phone line, dialed up a BBS with text based internet, & surfed the web with it. What an experience! And the whole cat OS was a word processor, with no concept of a file system. Ran off a 3 1/2 floppy. I heard there was a calender for it to, ran off it's own floppy & the calender was it's own OS.
The one thing I remember about it: it never, ever, ever crashed.
Well, not according to Zubrin's Mars direct plan. His plan would send astronauts for a 6 month stay for 10 Billion dollars. Bill gates himself could finance that.
As usual, it's not NASA that is doing the major research in this area, it's private companies. Same as the research being done at Devon Island, etc. NASA has no intrest in sending humans to Mars any time soon. It will be private companies, or orginizaions like the Mars Society that will send humans to Mars, not NASA.
(The Mars society actually has a cool new project underway, they are planning to launch some mice into orbit & simulate Mars gravity, so they can test the effects on mammals, & their offspring. Slightly more important and practical research than most of what NASA is doing)
Actually, you're thinking of a planck leap, as in the planck unit, which is the smallest possible unit of measurment. A quantam leap refers to when electrons jump from one quantam level to a higher level (like in a laser when they make a quantam leap from a higher level to a lower one), it's like saying "they're going to take video compression to a whole new level" or increased by an order of magnitude.
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IBM has just jumped on the bandwagon?? They've been there for a while buddy. You can already buy most of IBM's software for Linux. They've been investing in Linux like crazy for the last 2 years
Exactly how would clustering fusion reactors that don't give out more energy than is put in help?
If you'd read the article, you would see that they said currently the reaction puts out slightly more energy than it requires.
So clustering might work, although i'd think the expense of having many fusion reactors would just be too high.
Your wife was right. I read in Tribute magazine (the free magazine you can get for free at the theaters) that it wasn't 100% CGI. Some of the backgrounds were just drawn & painted.
The reason that quantam encryption isn't used everywehere, is that it's so darn hard to detect the spin of single photons. I think it's extremley unlikley that they have figured out how to discern the spin of a stream of photons, over 10 kilomiters, with a 0% error rate (otherwise you've got a bad encryption key) when it can barely be done over inches. That being said, it's still only a secure (YES, 100% Unbreakable, unless you feel like violating the laws of phyisics) method of exchanging encryption keys, but once exchanged, the data is still vulnerable to brute force cracking, like distributed.net.
I often find that many movies have really good scenes that where cut from the actual movie due to time/space, etc..
This is especially true with The Abyss. There's an option on the DVD to watch it with the original scenes put back in, and it's almost a completley different movie. The ending actually makes sense.
Here's what I did:
- Rented the VHS copy
- Downloaded a VCD of it
- Watched the VCD in my DVD player
- Returned the VHS copy and deleted the VCD
all of which I am allowed to do by fair use laws.
Umm, no. You are allowed to do this if you own the video, not if you just rented it. That is Illegal. And, even if you did own the video, your rights to make backups of it for your own use have been taken away by the DMCA. What you did is illegal in every sense of the word.
Simple. A GPS reciever needs an antenna to recieve signals from the sattelites. Simply cover that antenna with something that is opaque to the signals (The tinting on some car windows will even block GPS signals). Of course you might get a call from the rental company asking why their car just dissapeared, but GPS signals are blocked for other reasons too- the military has the ability to either make the GPS signal in an area less (or more) accurate, or block the civillian signal completley.
Besides, there's absolutley no garuntee that GPS is accurate to any amount, so I don't see how you could ever legally charge someone using unverifiable information.
Oooh, I just had a completley off-topic, evil thought: New copy protection encodes CD's with your DNA & the new Britney Spears cd requires a sperm sample before you can listen to it!
the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light
Your physics is rusty, or you'd remember that nothing can travel faster than light.
You're right. This is a common misconception about black holes. The reason light cannot escape from a black hole, is because as light approches the event horizon from within the hole, the frequency of the light gets redshifted upwards to infinity, due to the time dialation effect. In some sense, the light trying to escape ceases to exist (it doesn't, really. Read "Black holes & Time warps", it's much to complex to explain here.)
No problem there. To create a black hole, you need enough mass in a small enough space that the gravity is so large, that light is unable to escape. This experiment has nothing to do with large amounts of mass, it has everything to do with large amounts of energy. You can't create a black hole with just energy.
Acutally, quantam theory states that ALL black holes evaporate, large ones just evaporate so slowly, that it would take longer than the current age of the universe to completley evaporate.
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This is the first year that IBM didn't do the site, so it's not suprising that these probems exist.
After doing my duty and modding this up... I would like to see a story on this. Let the community discuss moderation & see if there are better ideas than are currently in place.
Cool, I stand corrected. I do know that my brother-in-law's parents can hear the space shuttle launch in Tampa, which is a long ways away.
Sounds like conspiracy to commit fraud against the MPAA, or conspiracy to circumvent the DMCA to me.
I think a better plan would be to get more games that appeal to a wider range of people, & don't charge an arm and a leg for them.
Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) isn't the only by-product of a space shuttle launch. When I was at Kennedy space centre, they said that in the big cloud that comes up when the shuttle is launching (they dump thousands of liters of water under the shuttle which immediatley gets vaporised so it doesn't melt the launch pad) contains quite a bit of sulfuric acid, and they have special teams to clean up the launch pad after the launch.
Add to that the fact that the solid rocket boosters produce some pretty nasty chemicals...
And, to top it all off, where they launch the shuttle from is smack dab in the middle of a nature preserve!
I always thought of adcritic as a problem waiting to happen. On one side, there's the potential legal problems of showing copyrighted content (i still can't belive they never got sued), and on the other hand, there's the enormous expense of the bandwidth & storage space they would need. I will dearly miss ad critic, but am suprised they lasted this long.
On the more serious side, NASA better get their ass together and send people to study Mars to study it, before it is so changed that we can't do any studying of it's past.
Heh. My computer was out of commission for quite a while a few years ago. So I dug out the old Cannon cat. Plugged the modem (300!bps!) into the phone line, dialed up a BBS with text based internet, & surfed the web with it. What an experience! And the whole cat OS was a word processor, with no concept of a file system. Ran off a 3 1/2 floppy. I heard there was a calender for it to, ran off it's own floppy & the calender was it's own OS.
The one thing I remember about it: it never, ever, ever crashed.
Well, not according to Zubrin's Mars direct plan. His plan would send astronauts for a 6 month stay for 10 Billion dollars. Bill gates himself could finance that.
As usual, it's not NASA that is doing the major research in this area, it's private companies. Same as the research being done at Devon Island, etc. NASA has no intrest in sending humans to Mars any time soon. It will be private companies, or orginizaions like the Mars Society that will send humans to Mars, not NASA.
(The Mars society actually has a cool new project underway, they are planning to launch some mice into orbit & simulate Mars gravity, so they can test the effects on mammals, & their offspring. Slightly more important and practical research than most of what NASA is doing)
Actually, you're thinking of a planck leap, as in the planck unit, which is the smallest possible unit of measurment. A quantam leap refers to when electrons jump from one quantam level to a higher level (like in a laser when they make a quantam leap from a higher level to a lower one), it's like saying "they're going to take video compression to a whole new level" or increased by an order of magnitude.
IBM has just jumped on the bandwagon?? They've been there for a while buddy. You can already buy most of IBM's software for Linux. They've been investing in Linux like crazy for the last 2 years
I did read the article and I do understand that. What the hell does that have to do with my post?
Exactly how would clustering fusion reactors that don't give out more energy than is put in help?
If you'd read the article, you would see that they said currently the reaction puts out slightly more energy than it requires. So clustering might work, although i'd think the expense of having many fusion reactors would just be too high.
Your wife was right. I read in Tribute magazine (the free magazine you can get for free at the theaters) that it wasn't 100% CGI. Some of the backgrounds were just drawn & painted.
Wow, who peed in your coffee today?
The reason that quantam encryption isn't used everywehere, is that it's so darn hard to detect the spin of single photons. I think it's extremley unlikley that they have figured out how to discern the spin of a stream of photons, over 10 kilomiters, with a 0% error rate (otherwise you've got a bad encryption key) when it can barely be done over inches. That being said, it's still only a secure (YES, 100% Unbreakable, unless you feel like violating the laws of phyisics) method of exchanging encryption keys, but once exchanged, the data is still vulnerable to brute force cracking, like distributed.net.
I often find that many movies have really good scenes that where cut from the actual movie due to time/space, etc..
This is especially true with The Abyss. There's an option on the DVD to watch it with the original scenes put back in, and it's almost a completley different movie. The ending actually makes sense.
Here's what I did: - Rented the VHS copy - Downloaded a VCD of it - Watched the VCD in my DVD player - Returned the VHS copy and deleted the VCD all of which I am allowed to do by fair use laws.
Umm, no. You are allowed to do this if you own the video, not if you just rented it. That is Illegal. And, even if you did own the video, your rights to make backups of it for your own use have been taken away by the DMCA. What you did is illegal in every sense of the word.
Simple. A GPS reciever needs an antenna to recieve signals from the sattelites. Simply cover that antenna with something that is opaque to the signals (The tinting on some car windows will even block GPS signals). Of course you might get a call from the rental company asking why their car just dissapeared, but GPS signals are blocked for other reasons too- the military has the ability to either make the GPS signal in an area less (or more) accurate, or block the civillian signal completley. Besides, there's absolutley no garuntee that GPS is accurate to any amount, so I don't see how you could ever legally charge someone using unverifiable information.
Oooh, I just had a completley off-topic, evil thought: New copy protection encodes CD's with your DNA & the new Britney Spears cd requires a sperm sample before you can listen to it!
the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light Your physics is rusty, or you'd remember that nothing can travel faster than light. You're right. This is a common misconception about black holes. The reason light cannot escape from a black hole, is because as light approches the event horizon from within the hole, the frequency of the light gets redshifted upwards to infinity, due to the time dialation effect. In some sense, the light trying to escape ceases to exist (it doesn't, really. Read "Black holes & Time warps", it's much to complex to explain here.)
No problem there. To create a black hole, you need enough mass in a small enough space that the gravity is so large, that light is unable to escape. This experiment has nothing to do with large amounts of mass, it has everything to do with large amounts of energy. You can't create a black hole with just energy.
Acutally, quantam theory states that ALL black holes evaporate, large ones just evaporate so slowly, that it would take longer than the current age of the universe to completley evaporate.
Yes, there is. I own it.