How hard is that? Please. I remember when Slashdot used to be populated with nerds and talked about stuff that mattered. Not whiners that couldn't open a shell.
With a quick look I wonder if the FAsT is destined for EOL now. This looks to be taking aim directly at EMC's Clariion line (I've admined both).
If you really can maintain seperate install images inside LPARed storage processors that would be too freekin' cool. No more closing your eyes and trusting the vendor's QA when it's time for an upgrade.
Top and Bottom were originally known as Truth and Beauty. Okay maybe not originally, but I've sure seen them presented that way. Hell I even saw Feynman refuse to name them in his QED Lecture Series, and I'm betting it's because he couldn't bring himself to call them Truth and Beauty.
you cannot go out and mine anti-matter. Why? Mostly because if there were any antimatter around, it would have a nasty tendency to interact with all that matter and be converted to energy.
Ummmm... actually... there's plenty of anti-matter around. It's everywhere actually, poping into an out of existance all the time on a quantum scale. The tricky part is botteling it before it annihalates with the virtual matter particle that was spontaneously created with it.
Still, I bet you could get more bang out of evaporating quantum black holes. You just need a Tevatron to make them.
And why wasn't it seen until now? And why did it start effecting the two craft at the same time? Provide a few more details of the radiation pressure hypothesis, or better a few links and I'll be more apt to believe you. Until then I remain skeptical. The Pioneer Anomaly has been around for a little while, long enough to generate more than a few ( Google Search of Citebase)) papers written to try to explain the anomaly. Dismissing them all out of hand in two sentences is NOT good science, but then hey, this is Slashdot, what do I expect?
Yeager's ejection seat in that '104 clocked him in the face, shattering the helmet glass and starting a fire (something left over from the ejection rocket) his face burned as he was in free-fall.
And Gus didn't just have a problem with Liberty Bell 7's hatch, if memory serves he had a big problem with the one on Apollo 1 as well.
The history geeks among us will remember that Yeager had the same problem with that modified F-104 used for NASA pilot training. Enough out of the atmosphere for the aerodynamic controls not to work, but not enough into space for the peroxide jets to function either. I hope SS1 recovers from a spin better than an F-104 does.
While I agree with most of your points, as a Mac user who has taken the time (and blood and sweat) to lean vi keyboard shortcuts I must say I would LOVE some cocoa app that allowed me to use them. Esc-$ is now a muscle memory thing for me, and Apple-LARROW just doesn't feel right.
I do use SEE because gvim on OS X is such crap, but I'd really like to see vi key bindings in a native cocoa text editor.
No, I'm afraid that that honor goes to Sea Shadow. True, it was only a technology demonstrator, but it WAS the first stealth ship. This Swedish upstart may be the first PRODUCTION stealth ship, but it certainly ain't the first.
That said, lessons from Sea Shadow were incorporated into the Burke class Destroyers. So this isn't even the first 'stealthy' ship out here.
Am I the only geek here that heard the Guys from the JPL call into Car Talk to ask how to winterize the rovers? That was classic! Talk about Stump the Chumps. I think it's the first time I've ever really heard Ray flustered.
Funny, I priced out and got a G5 1.6 GHz with 512 MB and no superdrive for about $1300. Granted that's Edu pricing, but I got the OS, iLife, and firewire in the bargain. Yeah, they're more expensive, quality products are. They aren't mind-blowingly more expensive.
Actually, (if you're even still watching this thread) check out this month's Scientific American (May 2004). You may just be right. Well, not that we're inside a black hole, but the possibility that the universe was created from one.
Remember though that the arrangement inside a blackhole is that of maximal entropy. No matter how you shake a blackhole it can't get any more disordered. Looking around the universe over time it's obvious that it is not in a state of maximal entropy, if it were time wouldn't appear to flow.
Now... our Universe could be just another 3brane in a larger multi-verse of multi-branes. There's nothing that says that a braneworld has to have a certain level of entropy, or that the levels of entropy can't change over time.
While I'll agree with you that this is a pro-states rights decision, the end effect will be the large Telecos buying state representatives and senators. This was pretty much all that municipal telecoms had to fight the large telecos. Now that the gloves are off the large telecos will buy anti-municipal teleco legislation. It's sad really, the community next door to me (Cedar Falls Iowa) has bad Fiber to the curb for what, 10 years now, much longer than most other communities in the state (or just most other communities period) the local muni telecom/cable companie decided to do it when the big boys where barely starting to think about it.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the few shining examples of Municiple telecom done properly now that the big boys are free to by our elected officials.
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With a quick look I wonder if the FAsT is destined for EOL now. This looks to be taking aim directly at EMC's Clariion line (I've admined both).
If you really can maintain seperate install images inside LPARed storage processors that would be too freekin' cool. No more closing your eyes and trusting the vendor's QA when it's time for an upgrade.
Top and Bottom were originally known as Truth and Beauty. Okay maybe not originally, but I've sure seen them presented that way. Hell I even saw Feynman refuse to name them in his QED Lecture Series, and I'm betting it's because he couldn't bring himself to call them Truth and Beauty.
We'll probably use a form of particle trickery, directing the resulting anti-matter towards matter. Viola. Weapon.
What, like THIS?
you cannot go out and mine anti-matter. Why? Mostly because if there were any antimatter around, it would have a nasty tendency to interact with all that matter and be converted to energy.
Ummmm... actually... there's plenty of anti-matter around. It's everywhere actually, poping into an out of existance all the time on a quantum scale. The tricky part is botteling it before it annihalates with the virtual matter particle that was spontaneously created with it.
Still, I bet you could get more bang out of evaporating quantum black holes. You just need a Tevatron to make them.
And why wasn't it seen until now? And why did it start effecting the two craft at the same time? Provide a few more details of the radiation pressure hypothesis, or better a few links and I'll be more apt to believe you. Until then I remain skeptical. The Pioneer Anomaly has been around for a little while, long enough to generate more than a few ( Google Search of Citebase)) papers written to try to explain the anomaly. Dismissing them all out of hand in two sentences is NOT good science, but then hey, this is Slashdot, what do I expect?
I hear they wear women's clothes too. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Yeager's ejection seat in that '104 clocked him in the face, shattering the helmet glass and starting a fire (something left over from the ejection rocket) his face burned as he was in free-fall.
And Gus didn't just have a problem with Liberty Bell 7's hatch, if memory serves he had a big problem with the one on Apollo 1 as well.
The history geeks among us will remember that Yeager had the same problem with that modified F-104 used for NASA pilot training. Enough out of the atmosphere for the aerodynamic controls not to work, but not enough into space for the peroxide jets to function either. I hope SS1 recovers from a spin better than an F-104 does.
Of course no conversation of really big guns can be complete without a link to Gerry Bull. Kinda like Werner von Brahm for guns.
While I agree with most of your points, as a Mac user who has taken the time (and blood and sweat) to lean vi keyboard shortcuts I must say I would LOVE some cocoa app that allowed me to use them. Esc-$ is now a muscle memory thing for me, and Apple-LARROW just doesn't feel right.
I do use SEE because gvim on OS X is such crap, but I'd really like to see vi key bindings in a native cocoa text editor.
Speaking from experience on the other side of the aisle (Oracle Fin Apps in a University Setting) the grass is no greener over here.
Actually, my guess is that this was the first stealth ship.
That's not a ship, that's a boat, as any submariner will tell you.
As well as being the first stealth ship,
No, I'm afraid that that honor goes to Sea Shadow. True, it was only a technology demonstrator, but it WAS the first stealth ship. This Swedish upstart may be the first PRODUCTION stealth ship, but it certainly ain't the first.
That said, lessons from Sea Shadow were incorporated into the Burke class Destroyers. So this isn't even the first 'stealthy' ship out here.
Am I the only geek here that heard the Guys from the JPL call into Car Talk to ask how to winterize the rovers? That was classic! Talk about Stump the Chumps. I think it's the first time I've ever really heard Ray flustered.
Funny, I priced out and got a G5 1.6 GHz with 512 MB and no superdrive for about $1300. Granted that's Edu pricing, but I got the OS, iLife, and firewire in the bargain. Yeah, they're more expensive, quality products are. They aren't mind-blowingly more expensive.
That's no heat sink. It's a spacestation.
God I wish you were right. A non-windows Discoverer Admin client would make my day. Don't get me started on Jinitiator.....
The obvious answer here is to plant a remote controlled 'thumper' device (or several) and set up a program to activate them in random order.
I think it is common for people to make up something that helps fill gaps in science. sometimes it turns out right many times it turns out wrong.
What like the Cosmological Constant?
Actually, (if you're even still watching this thread) check out this month's Scientific American (May 2004). You may just be right. Well, not that we're inside a black hole, but the possibility that the universe was created from one.
Remember though that the arrangement inside a blackhole is that of maximal entropy. No matter how you shake a blackhole it can't get any more disordered. Looking around the universe over time it's obvious that it is not in a state of maximal entropy, if it were time wouldn't appear to flow.
Now... our Universe could be just another 3brane in a larger multi-verse of multi-branes. There's nothing that says that a braneworld has to have a certain level of entropy, or that the levels of entropy can't change over time.
While I'll agree with you that this is a pro-states rights decision, the end effect will be the large Telecos buying state representatives and senators. This was pretty much all that municipal telecoms had to fight the large telecos. Now that the gloves are off the large telecos will buy anti-municipal teleco legislation. It's sad really, the community next door to me (Cedar Falls Iowa) has bad Fiber to the curb for what, 10 years now, much longer than most other communities in the state (or just most other communities period) the local muni telecom/cable companie decided to do it when the big boys where barely starting to think about it.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to the few shining examples of Municiple telecom done properly now that the big boys are free to by our elected officials.
Someone reads too much Stephen Baxter (oh, wait that's me)
What, you mean like this?
I'm all for a mission to Mars. First, build a Space Elevator, then....