No, unneeded pedantry would be pointing out that the earth's velocity wrt the sun is roughly constant, therefore it's accelerating at 0 km/second/second. Not hard to 'accelerate' something faster than that.
That's false. There's an acceleration because the velocity is changing in direction, even if it isn't changing in magnitude. This should be obvious from the fact that there's a force (the sun's gravitational force) acting on it. Basic physics, F = ma, yada yada yada.
Although the article summary is wrong in saying that the plate was accelerated "at" 34 km/sec, perhaps accelerated "to" 34 km/sec may have been more accurate.
Netcraft seems to show every site that I've looked at running Apache 1.3.x, and none of them running Apache 2.0.x. Is this just Netcraft being weird in attempting to determine what version of Apache a server is running (or perhaps an equivalence in transmitted data between 1.3.x and 2.0.x), or a more significant sign of the "stability" that major servers require?
Well, here's one prank that managed to make it's way onto the webpage for an artificial intelligence course that I'm taking. Note that the Head TA's picture has been replaced by Chuck Vest's (MIT president) and the professor's (Patrick Winston) has been replaced by Winston Churchill:
Right, since anything sold by a corporation is automatically evil or conspiratorial, contributing to the vast right-wing conspiracy to subjugate every American and enslave them to the military-industrial complex...Please...
While games like Army Ops are scary since they're blunt recruiting tools for the Army, your simplistic thinking concerning all video games is ridiculous...Try to post something educated and thought-out instead of mere flamebait...
Haha, the original EV games also teach you that an invincible space pirate named Captain Hector will hunt you down if you don't register your shareware within 30 days...Good times...
Anyways, here in Cupertino, CA (courtesy of Apple Computer), we used plenty of video games in elementary school for learning purposes...Cross-Country USA and Cross-Country California for geography, Oregon Trail and Amazon Trail for history, Reader Rabbit and some others for English and other skills, and one other castle-based semi-RPG for learning logic skills (fun game)...We also used spreadsheets to learn some "accounting" and mathematical skills...Combine that with the regular Nintendo and computer games (especially sims) that my friends and I used to play, and I think we learned quite a bit from computer games as children...Fun and educational..
True, but stable Market Cap is at least a good indication of size, not necessarily stability and/or viability...Given EBay's history of putting up profits and considering that there doesn't appear to be any fall-off in its business despite this "recession", I think it's fair to say that they're a large company that would be next to impossible for Oracle to acquire...
According to Yahoo! Finance, EBay has a market capitalization of $34.9 billion, while Oracle has one of $63.6 billion. So unless Larry Ellison has "pocket change" on the order of tens of billions of dollars, he doesn't have a shot in hell of purchasing EBay. While it may be a stretch to assume that EBay will some day grow large enough to purchase Oracle, it is kind of suprising how large EBay has grown.
This is the reason why Netscape lost out to IE on the Windows platform, not because Microsoft somehow unfairly leveraged its position as the developer of Windows...Netscape used to be the king of browsers, but their laziness/refusal to innovate eventually led them to fall behind Internet Explorer...By the time Communicator rolled around, Netscape was bloated and inefficient, while Internet Explorer loaded quickly (even on Macs, not just on Windows) and ran far more smoothly while incorporating support for more HTML standards...
Netscape can whine all it wants about how Microsoft competed with it unfairly, but the fact remains that Netscape is the only party responsible for its own doom...And now that its parent company AOL has signed an agreement with Microsoft, there's no way in hell that they're ever going to recover...At least some of their efforts will live on in Mozilla...
Seriously, I find tech news from investor magazines so outrageous that i want to puke.
Shows how little you know about the Economist. The Economist is a high quality British magazine devoted to general international news (with a slight tilt towards international finance), not an investor's magazine that runs around dishing out stupid stock tips. While this story may not be exactly very technical or all that exciting to the Slashdot crowd, the Economist generally does a very good job at covering technological issues without a lot of hype or other assorted crap you find in magazines like Time.
Figure out what the hell you're talking about next time instead of just lashing out any magazine that attempts to report tech news without being geeky about it.
Oh? Show me where it says in the (US) Constitution you are entitled to unconditional privacy?
4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This is certainly not unconditional (and I don't believe that's what the previous poster intended with those words), but the key point is that probable cause is required for the issue of any warrant. The FTC, like any other investigative agency, needs a warrant to probe personal files/information. Publicly sent spam, obviously, is open for investigation as it always has been.
Finally, keep in mind the 9th Amendment. The Bill of Rights' purpose is not to enumerate the only rights which we hold, but instead lay out some of those which the government may not trample upon. Just because some are not enumerated does not "deny or disparage" their being "retained by the people."
Wow, this is absolutely amazing, I've been waiting for this for years...I used to play the original Escape Velocity on my old 66 MHz Power PC 6100, and I was addicted (Confederates vs. Rebels, those awesome Alien cruisers, and all those user-made plug-ins)...It's the reason why I learned to use ResEdit and figure out some of the nuts and bolts actually present behind MacOS...And then I got a PC, and it was history...
I actually tried about a year or so ago to get a Mac emulator for my PC (I think it was vMac), and I got it up and running, but when I tried playing EV: Override, the graphics just weren't quite as smooth and it didn't quite have the same feeling as it used to...Actually made me wish I had a real Mac for a couple of weeks...
Ambrosia's making the right move...I'm shocked they didn't do it earlier...I'll be the first person to buy EV: Nova for the PC...
now use SpamAssassin. Basically, a set of new headers is attached to the e-mail of the form X-Spam-foo, and if X-Spam-Score is 7.5 or greater (on a scale of 10 I believe), then X-Spam-Flag is yes. It's really useful for sorting out spam quickly, and I haven't gotten a false positive yet...It doesn't get all of the spam, but it gets the vast majority of it...
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No, unneeded pedantry would be pointing out that the earth's velocity wrt the sun is roughly constant, therefore it's accelerating at 0 km/second/second. Not hard to 'accelerate' something faster than that.
That's false. There's an acceleration because the velocity is changing in direction, even if it isn't changing in magnitude. This should be obvious from the fact that there's a force (the sun's gravitational force) acting on it. Basic physics, F = ma, yada yada yada.
Although the article summary is wrong in saying that the plate was accelerated "at" 34 km/sec, perhaps accelerated "to" 34 km/sec may have been more accurate.
Netcraft seems to show every site that I've looked at running Apache 1.3.x, and none of them running Apache 2.0.x. Is this just Netcraft being weird in attempting to determine what version of Apache a server is running (or perhaps an equivalence in transmitted data between 1.3.x and 2.0.x), or a more significant sign of the "stability" that major servers require?
Well, here's one prank that managed to make it's way onto the webpage for an artificial intelligence course that I'm taking. Note that the Head TA's picture has been replaced by Chuck Vest's (MIT president) and the professor's (Patrick Winston) has been replaced by Winston Churchill:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/
Right, since anything sold by a corporation is automatically evil or conspiratorial, contributing to the vast right-wing conspiracy to subjugate every American and enslave them to the military-industrial complex...Please...
While games like Army Ops are scary since they're blunt recruiting tools for the Army, your simplistic thinking concerning all video games is ridiculous...Try to post something educated and thought-out instead of mere flamebait...
Haha, the original EV games also teach you that an invincible space pirate named Captain Hector will hunt you down if you don't register your shareware within 30 days...Good times...
Anyways, here in Cupertino, CA (courtesy of Apple Computer), we used plenty of video games in elementary school for learning purposes...Cross-Country USA and Cross-Country California for geography, Oregon Trail and Amazon Trail for history, Reader Rabbit and some others for English and other skills, and one other castle-based semi-RPG for learning logic skills (fun game)...We also used spreadsheets to learn some "accounting" and mathematical skills...Combine that with the regular Nintendo and computer games (especially sims) that my friends and I used to play, and I think we learned quite a bit from computer games as children...Fun and educational..
True, but stable Market Cap is at least a good indication of size, not necessarily stability and/or viability...Given EBay's history of putting up profits and considering that there doesn't appear to be any fall-off in its business despite this "recession", I think it's fair to say that they're a large company that would be next to impossible for Oracle to acquire...
According to Yahoo! Finance, EBay has a market capitalization of $34.9 billion, while Oracle has one of $63.6 billion. So unless Larry Ellison has "pocket change" on the order of tens of billions of dollars, he doesn't have a shot in hell of purchasing EBay. While it may be a stretch to assume that EBay will some day grow large enough to purchase Oracle, it is kind of suprising how large EBay has grown.
This is the reason why Netscape lost out to IE on the Windows platform, not because Microsoft somehow unfairly leveraged its position as the developer of Windows...Netscape used to be the king of browsers, but their laziness/refusal to innovate eventually led them to fall behind Internet Explorer...By the time Communicator rolled around, Netscape was bloated and inefficient, while Internet Explorer loaded quickly (even on Macs, not just on Windows) and ran far more smoothly while incorporating support for more HTML standards...
Netscape can whine all it wants about how Microsoft competed with it unfairly, but the fact remains that Netscape is the only party responsible for its own doom...And now that its parent company AOL has signed an agreement with Microsoft, there's no way in hell that they're ever going to recover...At least some of their efforts will live on in Mozilla...
Seriously, I find tech news from investor magazines so outrageous that i want to puke.
Shows how little you know about the Economist. The Economist is a high quality British magazine devoted to general international news (with a slight tilt towards international finance), not an investor's magazine that runs around dishing out stupid stock tips. While this story may not be exactly very technical or all that exciting to the Slashdot crowd, the Economist generally does a very good job at covering technological issues without a lot of hype or other assorted crap you find in magazines like Time.
Figure out what the hell you're talking about next time instead of just lashing out any magazine that attempts to report tech news without being geeky about it.
4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This is certainly not unconditional (and I don't believe that's what the previous poster intended with those words), but the key point is that probable cause is required for the issue of any warrant. The FTC, like any other investigative agency, needs a warrant to probe personal files/information. Publicly sent spam, obviously, is open for investigation as it always has been.
Finally, keep in mind the 9th Amendment. The Bill of Rights' purpose is not to enumerate the only rights which we hold, but instead lay out some of those which the government may not trample upon. Just because some are not enumerated does not "deny or disparage" their being "retained by the people."
Wow, this is absolutely amazing, I've been waiting for this for years...I used to play the original Escape Velocity on my old 66 MHz Power PC 6100, and I was addicted (Confederates vs. Rebels, those awesome Alien cruisers, and all those user-made plug-ins)...It's the reason why I learned to use ResEdit and figure out some of the nuts and bolts actually present behind MacOS...And then I got a PC, and it was history...
I actually tried about a year or so ago to get a Mac emulator for my PC (I think it was vMac), and I got it up and running, but when I tried playing EV: Override, the graphics just weren't quite as smooth and it didn't quite have the same feeling as it used to...Actually made me wish I had a real Mac for a couple of weeks...
Ambrosia's making the right move...I'm shocked they didn't do it earlier...I'll be the first person to buy EV: Nova for the PC...
now use SpamAssassin. Basically, a set of new headers is attached to the e-mail of the form X-Spam-foo, and if X-Spam-Score is 7.5 or greater (on a scale of 10 I believe), then X-Spam-Flag is yes. It's really useful for sorting out spam quickly, and I haven't gotten a false positive yet...It doesn't get all of the spam, but it gets the vast majority of it...