No, if you have continuous thrust, you can escape slowly. This is damned difficult, however, so the usual way to escape a gravity well is to accelerate an object to greater than the escape velocity and let it fly. HOWEVER: when you are within the event horizon of a black hole, the slow escape doesn't work. On earth, the slow escape requires more thrust than your weight. In a relativistic setting, the thrust necessary to counteract your weight approaches infinity, and you're stuck.
-aiabx (IAAP)
You aren't the only one. I felt like I was watching a filmed version of the Cliff Notes for LOTR. A whole lot of plot points strung together with none of the poetry, character development or skillful writing that made the book so worthwhile for me. I don't believe you can make a movie out of LOTR any more than you can paint a picture of Bach's Mass in B Minor. If you can't do it right, you should just leave the damn thing alone.
-aiabx
I always took that to mean that the place in question was the forested moon belonging to the planet Endor. Just the kind of ambiguity to cause a mistrial.
-aiabx
If I recall my grade 8 Canadian history correctly, the French and English found Native American allies for their wars so easily by exploiting an already existing war between the Huron and Iroquois. That doesn't sound like peacefully inhabiting the land to me. I put it to you that Native Americans are/were just as violent and warlike as any other members of the species.
-aiabx
Arnprior, Ontario is the centre of eh-ness. The further you get from Anprior, the less likely you are to hear "eh". But we still all say it sometimes. I usually hear it as a contraction of "isn't it?"; for instance, "The hockey team is great, eh?".
-aiabx
If the only evidence pointing to insanity was hearing meteors, then you probably aren't. Back in 1973, I heard a hissing Perseid (a -6th magnitude fireball) that I've never beem able to explain until now. But I was wearing glasses in a campsite in pine woods.
-aiabx
The counter-argument is provided by the companies that purged their middle management in the recession of the 80's. They saved a lot of money, there was less management, and everyone was happy(er), but now the senior managers are due to retire, and there's a critical shortage of people available to be promoted to the senior positions. So you end up importing people who don't understand the business, and you're heading for a brand new disaster.
-aiabx
I have a "Rolex" I got on the street corner for $15 that impresses women just as well as yours (that is to say, not at all).
-aiabx
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I believe there was an official denial by the Childrens Television Workshop that went along the lines of "Bert and Ernie aren't gay. They're puppets." I think that sums it up just fine.
-aiabx
This ratio may also be measuring the difficulty of shooting down a B-29 from different angles. Perhaps a big glass nose makes a frontal attack an easier kill for the Japanese. The solution is still the same, of course.
-aiabx
I partly agree with you - the Nazis were the bad guys, but I don't think you can say that membership in the army or air force precluded them from being Nazis. When you consider that the Nazi leadership publicly stated their aims before they were *democratically elected*, I think there's plenty of war guilt to spread around the majority of Germans of that generation, and serving evil in uniform is still serving evil.
Now I do believe that there were many Germans fighting in WWII who were trapped by circumstances they didn't choose, and the bad guys were the Nazis, but I think you have to consider just how many Germans were Nazis, and pause before you absolve the German armed forces of their guilt.
-aiabx
Sneakers is the only one on the list that is actually a good movie in it's own right, not just a good hacker movie. Yeah, some of it is a bit implausible, but nothing happens that ever made me sit up and snort at the impossibility of it. It was well cast, well acted, well scripted, and a decryption chip makes a good credible McGuffin. What's more, they're a funny/ordinary looking bunch of people. I know damned few nerds/geeks who look like Angelina Jolie or Ryan Phillippe, and a lot who look like Dan Aykroyd or River Phoenix.
-aiabx
The point of this is to develop new technology. Ok, a linux watch may not be the most useful thing, but there are probably a million other uses for computers that small. Imagine how light a head-mounted computer with an OLED screen suspended in front of your eye would be. And if you can't think of a good use for that, get back to unloading the potato truck.
-aiabx
I've read a couple of books from Gutenberg on screen, and a few dozen public domain works on my pilot while riding the bus, so yes, it can be done. It's not as pleasant as a paper book, but I don't always have a paper book with me.
-aiabx
Pathetic, eh?
I was actually rereading my BC books a few weeks ago, and it's shocking how dated a lot of the material is. Not just current events, but that Reagan-era liberalism that just doesn't sound right anymore. Still you never know - 2 more years and it may fit like a glove again.
-aiabx
I disagree and agree at the same time. Not everyone is involved in the coding of every open-source project. I would be happy to try a game of someone's home brewed Marathon 4, and it's surprises would still be intact for me.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to play internet Marathon with a bunch of strangers - the potential for hacking in cheats is just too high.
-aiabx
It wasn't exactly what you want, but I think it's worth mentioning: Avalon Hill used to publish a game called "Republic of Rome", where you and your family jockeyed for political power and control of Rome. The twist was this; if you didn't cooperate with your opponents, barbarians would come and destroy Rome, and everyone would lose. Kind of a mixed competitive/cooperative kind of game.
-aiabx
further clarification - DB2 on Linux is also available running on Linux virtual machines running on S/390's. That and the DB2 for clustered databases on linux are both completely new.
-aiabx
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No, if you have continuous thrust, you can escape slowly. This is damned difficult, however, so the usual way to escape a gravity well is to accelerate an object to greater than the escape velocity and let it fly.
HOWEVER: when you are within the event horizon of a black hole, the slow escape doesn't work. On earth, the slow escape requires more thrust than your weight. In a relativistic setting, the thrust necessary to counteract your weight approaches infinity, and you're stuck.
-aiabx (IAAP)
You aren't the only one. I felt like I was watching a filmed version of the Cliff Notes for LOTR. A whole lot of plot points strung together with none of the poetry, character development or skillful writing that made the book so worthwhile for me. I don't believe you can make a movie out of LOTR any more than you can paint a picture of Bach's Mass in B Minor. If you can't do it right, you should just leave the damn thing alone.
-aiabx
I always took that to mean that the place in question was the forested moon belonging to the planet Endor. Just the kind of ambiguity to cause a mistrial.
-aiabx
I believe the current price for OS-X is $129. -aiabx
If I recall my grade 8 Canadian history correctly, the French and English found Native American allies for their wars so easily by exploiting an already existing war between the Huron and Iroquois. That doesn't sound like peacefully inhabiting the land to me. I put it to you that Native Americans are/were just as violent and warlike as any other members of the species.
-aiabx
Arnprior, Ontario is the centre of eh-ness. The further you get from Anprior, the less likely you are to hear "eh". But we still all say it sometimes. I usually hear it as a contraction of "isn't it?"; for instance, "The hockey team is great, eh?".
-aiabx
for the record, those are reseller commercials, and not real bona-fide IBM commercials. IBM has Leon aka "The Walrus" in their commercials.
-aiabx
how about a gyro-scooter?
-aiabx
If the only evidence pointing to insanity was hearing meteors, then you probably aren't. Back in 1973, I heard a hissing Perseid (a -6th magnitude fireball) that I've never beem able to explain until now. But I was wearing glasses in a campsite in pine woods.
-aiabx
The counter-argument is provided by the companies that purged their middle management in the recession of the 80's. They saved a lot of money, there was less management, and everyone was happy(er), but now the senior managers are due to retire, and there's a critical shortage of people available to be promoted to the senior positions. So you end up importing people who don't understand the business, and you're heading for a brand new disaster.
-aiabx
I have a "Rolex" I got on the street corner for $15 that impresses women just as well as yours (that is to say, not at all).
-aiabx
I believe there was an official denial by the Childrens Television Workshop that went along the lines of "Bert and Ernie aren't gay. They're puppets." I think that sums it up just fine.
-aiabx
This ratio may also be measuring the difficulty of shooting down a B-29 from different angles. Perhaps a big glass nose makes a frontal attack an easier kill for the Japanese. The solution is still the same, of course.
-aiabx
shhh.
If everyone on slashdot chips in $2, we can buy the thing and store it at Cmdr Taco's house.
-aiabx
I partly agree with you - the Nazis were the bad guys, but I don't think you can say that membership in the army or air force precluded them from being Nazis. When you consider that the Nazi leadership publicly stated their aims before they were *democratically elected*, I think there's plenty of war guilt to spread around the majority of Germans of that generation, and serving evil in uniform is still serving evil.
Now I do believe that there were many Germans fighting in WWII who were trapped by circumstances they didn't choose, and the bad guys were the Nazis, but I think you have to consider just how many Germans were Nazis, and pause before you absolve the German armed forces of their guilt.
-aiabx
You'll be missed.
I won't panic.
-aiabx
Sneakers is the only one on the list that is actually a good movie in it's own right, not just a good hacker movie. Yeah, some of it is a bit implausible, but nothing happens that ever made me sit up and snort at the impossibility of it. It was well cast, well acted, well scripted, and a decryption chip makes a good credible McGuffin. What's more, they're a funny/ordinary looking bunch of people. I know damned few nerds/geeks who look like Angelina Jolie or Ryan Phillippe, and a lot who look like Dan Aykroyd or River Phoenix.
-aiabx
The point of this is to develop new technology. Ok, a linux watch may not be the most useful thing, but there are probably a million other uses for computers that small. Imagine how light a head-mounted computer with an OLED screen suspended in front of your eye would be. And if you can't think of a good use for that, get back to unloading the potato truck.
-aiabx
I've read a couple of books from Gutenberg on screen, and a few dozen public domain works on my pilot while riding the bus, so yes, it can be done. It's not as pleasant as a paper book, but I don't always have a paper book with me.
-aiabx
Good lord man, I can't support that.
Pathetic, eh?
I was actually rereading my BC books a few weeks ago, and it's shocking how dated a lot of the material is. Not just current events, but that Reagan-era liberalism that just doesn't sound right anymore. Still you never know - 2 more years and it may fit like a glove again.
-aiabx
I disagree and agree at the same time. Not everyone is involved in the coding of every open-source project. I would be happy to try a game of someone's home brewed Marathon 4, and it's surprises would still be intact for me.
On the other hand, I wouldn't want to play internet Marathon with a bunch of strangers - the potential for hacking in cheats is just too high.
-aiabx
It wasn't exactly what you want, but I think it's worth mentioning: Avalon Hill used to publish a game called "Republic of Rome", where you and your family jockeyed for political power and control of Rome. The twist was this; if you didn't cooperate with your opponents, barbarians would come and destroy Rome, and everyone would lose. Kind of a mixed competitive/cooperative kind of game.
-aiabx
how about a cloning movie written by someone who passed grade 7 biology? DNA comes first.
-aiabx
further clarification - DB2 on Linux is also available running on Linux virtual machines running on S/390's. That and the DB2 for clustered databases on linux are both completely new.
-aiabx