everyone knows that gravity increases as the size of its source diminishes.
We'll have to account for the acceleration of Enterprise towards the former Nero somehow. Either (i) the mass increased or (ii) the mass moved very close to Enterprise or (iii) magic.*
*That is, some 'sufficiently advanced and insufficiently understood technology', such as Q stopping by to change Big G.
Since we observe things (the Narada, the Enterprise) falling into (accelerating towards) the black hole much faster than they did towards the object that preceded it (the Narada), I think we're stuck with the conclusion that the mass involved increased. Which, perhaps, offers an explanation for the fact that the acceleration isn't so fast as to preempt the dialog. Perhaps the red matter is causing a slow increase in mass.
The alternative explanation of the increased acceleration--that Enterprise was suddenly much closer to an unchanged amount of mass--seems unworkable.
Here's one nice analysis of the physics of Star Trek XI:TFB.
lens flare: (n) method of replicating a 20th century image recording error sometimes used to create an impression of authenticity in viewers not used to error-free techniques. See also camera shake.
science geek:* (n) person who is willing to suspend disbelief as to 'red matter', energy drills/ray guns, 'warp drive', 'transporters', artificial gravity, ubiquitous bipedal vertebrate aliens, and time travel, but who finds fault with a story that fails to account for reentry friction and orbital mechanics
To say that a vehicle can be driven by people who are 6'0" or 6'3" leaves out 2.2 million men in the U.S.
Not all of them want to drive an SUV. Most of them could be satisfied with a nice sedan with a roof just 2" higher. While just about every change in a vehicle has tradeoffs, some one please explain to me what design constraint prevents that change.
Think about how small that is, and how large a cubic meter is. I'm impressed. Picograms per cubic meter?
If 1 m^3 of air weighs about 1.2kg, then they're into measuring something like 1 part in 41,000,000,000,000.* Now, I'm not in the air quality business (so I'll appreciate being set straight on my math and my expectations), but that sounds pretty darned sensitive to me.
(*Not accounting for the relative weights of cocaine v various air molecules.)
1. I'm not sure I understand your theory as to why both sides waived their best arguments. But I sure would love to have been a fly on the wall when those decisions were made.
Almost makes you question whether the sides are truly adverse. Perhaps neither wants to advance an argument that could expand the rights of individuals/users/customers.
(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
See, unlike plain, old-fashioned in-person bullying, this newfangled cyber-bullying is scary and harmful and needs to be prosecuted.
I'd hate to see slashdotters ignoring the basic principles of our justice system even if it were the only way successfully to pursue actual drunk drivers. Having principles means that there are effective actions that you won't take because the actions themselves can cause harm.
"better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" --William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, c. 1760
U.S. government support for circumvention software must stop! A top to bottom review must be initiated and the responsible officials sacked and prosecuted!! Won't some one think of the children?!!!
Come to think of it, if you were old enough to understand 911 (3+), then you are old enough now that you probably aren't coloring any more (9+). It's about time to retire those images anyway.
If there are Klingons in Star Trek XI who speak to each other and don't use Klingon, that's stupid. If there are no Klingons in Star Trek XI, then complaining about the lack of spoken Klingon is stupid.
This is officially the last Star Trek XI story I am reading until May 9.
...you can go to jail if you refuse to hand the police your encryption keys if they ask for them.
Interesting. Does anyone know if there are similar laws concerning assisting the police in non-digital searches? In the UK? In the States?
For example, suppose that a 9mm handgun was used to kill your husband. The police have records indicating that you own such a gun and they have your empty gun case, but your gun is missing. A ballistic analysis of your gun would be vital evidence, but you remain silent. A trial later acquits you of murder. Can the police charge you with Failure to Assist in an Authorized Search and send you to jail for not telling them where your gun was?
Having now read the entire coloring book (censorship sucks), I would share it with my young son if a disaster were to touch him. I regard it as an excellent free resource (go Government!).
Other posts explain what this class-action lawsuit is. The proposed settlement would give Google some non-exclusive rights to all the books. Using the settlement, an author* could assign those rights for his works to another hosting company.
What people are complaining about is the large subset called "orphan works", for which no author can be found. A competing hosting company can't use this settlement to get any rights to those works. People seem to be missing the fact that Google will gain no right to stop a competing hosting company from going out and scanning the orphan works just like Google did. It will then be up to the competitor and the authors to work out a separate deal.
Google is not a monopoly with respect to these books because Google cannot prevent you from scanning the books yourself, getting sued yourself, and reaching your own settlement with the authors. If you want to host these books, you will be in the same position in 2010 (post-Google) that you were in in 2008 (pre-Google) -- you need to clear the hosting rights with the authors.
Yes, it's apparently a wiki ("a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with access to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language").
No, it's apparently not a Wiki ("a type of collaborative software that runs a Wiki system"). From TFA:
TIGR is somewhat like Google Maps and Wiki, but the backend of TIGR was very, very carefully designed so that it would work over military networks in these tactical environments where, as you can imagine, the network is very fragile and the bandwidth is sparse.
Is it just me, or does Wikipedia have a pretty circular definition of what is not a wiki?
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everyone knows that gravity increases as the size of its source diminishes.
We'll have to account for the acceleration of Enterprise towards the former Nero somehow. Either (i) the mass increased or (ii) the mass moved very close to Enterprise or (iii) magic.*
*That is, some 'sufficiently advanced and insufficiently understood technology', such as Q stopping by to change Big G.
Since we observe things (the Narada, the Enterprise) falling into (accelerating towards) the black hole much faster than they did towards the object that preceded it (the Narada), I think we're stuck with the conclusion that the mass involved increased. Which, perhaps, offers an explanation for the fact that the acceleration isn't so fast as to preempt the dialog. Perhaps the red matter is causing a slow increase in mass.
The alternative explanation of the increased acceleration--that Enterprise was suddenly much closer to an unchanged amount of mass--seems unworkable.
Here's one nice analysis of the physics of Star Trek XI:TFB.
lens flare: (n) method of replicating a 20th century image recording error sometimes used to create an impression of authenticity in viewers not used to error-free techniques. See also camera shake.
science geek:* (n) person who is willing to suspend disbelief as to 'red matter', energy drills/ray guns, 'warp drive', 'transporters', artificial gravity, ubiquitous bipedal vertebrate aliens, and time travel, but who finds fault with a story that fails to account for reentry friction and orbital mechanics
*And proud of it!
What I learned:
To say that a vehicle can be driven by people who are 6'0" or 6'3" leaves out 2.2 million men in the U.S.
Not all of them want to drive an SUV. Most of them could be satisfied with a nice sedan with a roof just 2" higher. While just about every change in a vehicle has tradeoffs, some one please explain to me what design constraint prevents that change.
Think about how small that is, and how large a cubic meter is. I'm impressed. Picograms per cubic meter?
If 1 m^3 of air weighs about 1.2kg, then they're into measuring something like 1 part in 41,000,000,000,000.* Now, I'm not in the air quality business (so I'll appreciate being set straight on my math and my expectations), but that sounds pretty darned sensitive to me.
(*Not accounting for the relative weights of cocaine v various air molecules.)
1. I'm not sure I understand your theory as to why both sides waived their best arguments. But I sure would love to have been a fly on the wall when those decisions were made.
Almost makes you question whether the sides are truly adverse. Perhaps neither wants to advance an argument that could expand the rights of individuals/users/customers.
Rotten Tomatoes: Trek 95% v Wolvie 37%
MetaCritic: Trek 84% v Wolvie 44%
'Nuff said.
(a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
See, unlike plain, old-fashioned in-person bullying, this newfangled cyber-bullying is scary and harmful and needs to be prosecuted.
I'd hate to see slashdotters ignoring the basic principles of our justice system even if it were the only way successfully to pursue actual drunk drivers. Having principles means that there are effective actions that you won't take because the actions themselves can cause harm.
"better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" --William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, c. 1760
U.S. government support for circumvention software must stop! A top to bottom review must be initiated and the responsible officials sacked and prosecuted!! Won't some one think of the children?!!!
Come to think of it, if you were old enough to understand 911 (3+), then you are old enough now that you probably aren't coloring any more (9+). It's about time to retire those images anyway.
If there are Klingons in Star Trek XI who speak to each other and don't use Klingon, that's stupid. If there are no Klingons in Star Trek XI, then complaining about the lack of spoken Klingon is stupid.
This is officially the last Star Trek XI story I am reading until May 9.
...you can go to jail if you refuse to hand the police your encryption keys if they ask for them.
Interesting. Does anyone know if there are similar laws concerning assisting the police in non-digital searches? In the UK? In the States?
For example, suppose that a 9mm handgun was used to kill your husband. The police have records indicating that you own such a gun and they have your empty gun case, but your gun is missing. A ballistic analysis of your gun would be vital evidence, but you remain silent. A trial later acquits you of murder. Can the police charge you with Failure to Assist in an Authorized Search and send you to jail for not telling them where your gun was?
Having now read the entire coloring book (censorship sucks), I would share it with my young son if a disaster were to touch him. I regard it as an excellent free resource (go Government!).
Bad call, FEMA.
Other posts explain what this class-action lawsuit is. The proposed settlement would give Google some non-exclusive rights to all the books. Using the settlement, an author* could assign those rights for his works to another hosting company.
What people are complaining about is the large subset called "orphan works", for which no author can be found. A competing hosting company can't use this settlement to get any rights to those works. People seem to be missing the fact that Google will gain no right to stop a competing hosting company from going out and scanning the orphan works just like Google did. It will then be up to the competitor and the authors to work out a separate deal.
(*author/publisher/rightsholder/whatever.)
Google is not a monopoly with respect to these books because Google cannot prevent you from scanning the books yourself, getting sued yourself, and reaching your own settlement with the authors. If you want to host these books, you will be in the same position in 2010 (post-Google) that you were in in 2008 (pre-Google) -- you need to clear the hosting rights with the authors.
Twitter is a fad. No better or worse than IM before it or email before that or cell phones before that or teenage girls on the home phone before that.
Can we please stop talking about it now?
The government said it's not looking to see what you're saying, just to whom and when and how.
There is only one reason that a government who spies on you only spies on you a little: it's not cheap enough yet to spy on you a lot.
... so the figure can appear in "Terminator Salvation" as a living, breathing actor.
To recap, we will have a CGI farm pretending to be an actor pretending to be a robot pretending to be a man.
Imagine if we could get a Beowulf cluster of these things.
Those companies are not "pirates".
When you receive letters of marque from a government authorizing you to extract compensation from people, you are called "privateers^H^H^H industry".
Yes, it's apparently a wiki ("a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone with access to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language").
No, it's apparently not a Wiki ("a type of collaborative software that runs a Wiki system"). From TFA:
TIGR is somewhat like Google Maps and Wiki, but the backend of TIGR was very, very carefully designed so that it would work over military networks in these tactical environments where, as you can imagine, the network is very fragile and the bandwidth is sparse.
Is it just me, or does Wikipedia have a pretty circular definition of what is not a wiki?
A terrorist is some one who hurts you to get me to do what he wants. A person who hurts me to get me to do what he wants is just my enemy.
(Whether some one is a terrorist is really less about the fear than it is about involving the bystanders.)
Most of the publishers' nations are also extinct.
Actually, all of the publishers' nations have been acquired in various hostile takeovers. All your copyrights are belong to us. Literally.