Actually, black holes are NOT "Very very heavy weights" as you suggest -- they are no more massive than the stars from which they are formed. What makes a black hole so strange isn't it's mass, but it's density - the amount of mass crammed into a very tiny volume.
This matters: because all the matter is smashed into a small radius, it means you can get a lot *closer* to the all of mass of the object all at once.
Step back from a black hole and it's going to tug at you no harder than a star of equal mass.
As as astronomy professor of mine once said: Black Holes Are Only Weird Up Close.
Not taking anything away from Gordon Cooper - I will miss him too - You shouldn't go bragging about the fact that you don't know a great film actress like Janet Leigh.
"In Search Of..." and "Reading Rainbow" (ISO and RR for those of us who know and love the Trek Canon) are two of the least-watched and certainly least understood of the Trek Shows.
ISO was a Spock vehicle, a spinoff meant to explore the mind of our favorite Vulcan. Week after week he would show off his latest research; giving us a sense of what he was doing, peering into that scope of his while Kirk was seducing the alien babes.
Spock's facination with UFOs (naturally) later gave way to an obsession with Uri Geller and the Bermuda Triangle, by which time, most Trekkers left feeling that this show had jumped the shark.
RR was a prequel to the TNG storyline -- wherein a very gifted warp physics engineer shows his softer side by reading children's books, set at a time before he was blinded in a tragic e-book explosion. Paramount, for reasons that are not totally clear, decided to set this futuristic space adventure somewhere in modern times, and sadly, the pilot that explains the temporal anomoly was never aired and is lost to posterity.
How about this: replace mailing lists with RSS feeds. Mass mailings of a legit nature go to a pull model, and if you upgrade your email client to something smart that can consume RSS feeds, your user experience won't have to change even a little.
This guy got modded as funny, and he should have been given "Insightful" -- the ability to execute VBA script is a huge gain. Large corporations customize their distributions of Word throughout the enterprise with custom email, form, and word processing apps, and MSFT knows this and encourages this.
If you don't see Word as a platform, you're missing the point.
OO will never have a chance in these markets unless and until it can do the same.
Suppose you're wearing a suit of this stuff and you have two friends standing right in front of you.
For you to be invisible, the friend on your left will need to see the stuff that's behind you to your right, and the one on the right will need to see the stuff behind you to the left. So, tell me, what are you going to put on the display? The lefthand side stuff or the right.
To those on/. who think that "information wants to be free" or "this wasn't hacking, the tech screwed up" or "these were public (govt) computers"
ask yourself this: what do you think would happen if you just sat down at your boss's computer and started reading stuff? Suppose your boss is a state senator (making the machine one 'owned' by the public).
you'd be fired. for a damn good reason.
the Reps who did this were doing something wrong and they knew it, or should have known it. The Dems were negligent in protecting themselves but that doesn't absolve the crime.
Hm... not sure what you're saying here. You're scolding this guy for not using hyperlinks, but you admit that it only took you only two minutes to find this stuff with Google? Maybe the lesson here is that hyperlinks aren't as much of a value-add as you think.
By not having the state throw you in jail for speaking your mind, that's how. That holds true whether every medium in the world is owned by an evil corporation or not. Freedom from the state control over speech is all that's in the 1st ammendment - that's what free speech is, no more, no less. Anything else you might imagine it to be is not and never has been part of the deal.
Man, you guys need to get out more. Google's been synonymous with internet search among a huge swath of non-geek people, and it's been that way for a pretty long time now.
William Safire mentions Google in passing without bothering to define it in the NYT just a few Sundays ago.
- rape rooms - 300,000 dead spread over multiple mass graves - torture chambers
Say what you will about the war and the bad planning of the aftermath, about the needless alienation of the world over the reasons for it and the often cynical rewarding of contracts for Iraq's reconstruction, but to assert that Iraq was better off under Saddam is to show that you're not thinking straight.
Teddy's shapes can be imported into a 3D animation scripting system Alice (http://www.alice.org). There's a close relationship between Squeak and Alice (not a coincidence that they look so similar).
And yeah, Teddy's several years old at this point. Still rocks the house though.
1.) Name calling. 2.) Derision, insult and dismissal. 3.) Dismissal and blaming the victim (e.g. the game isn't the problem, it's the player) 4.) Insult again, dismissal and condescending gesture that looks like a suggestion, but isn't. 5.) Repetition.
This guy just contributed something very rare and very valuable - an analysis of why he's not a paying customer in spite of his obvious attraction to a class of video game products. Product developers of any kind, software or otherwise, rarely get a free feedback this detailed, this well-argued and this thoughtful, and here you are, treating like a personal insult wrapped in radioactive waste, without a single shred of justification. Take a deep breath, dude and try not to lash out. This guy is trying to help.
Specifically to your #2 point:
If you aren't going to pay beyond the first free month than why should the developers care about you?
Man, I really wish there was a:) at the end of this so I could give you the benefit of the doubt that you might have been joking, but it sounds like you're dead serious.
You have it exactly backwards. The only question that matters here is: if the game developers can't make the game exciting enough to buy after a month of trying, why should the player care about the game?
Anyone writing/designing/developing games who treats a customer like you've done here *deserves* to fail big in the marketplace.
And please don't take that personally. We all have bad days.;)
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Actually, black holes are NOT "Very very heavy weights" as you suggest -- they are no more massive than the stars from which they are formed. What makes a black hole so strange isn't it's mass, but it's density - the amount of mass crammed into a very tiny volume.
This matters: because all the matter is smashed into a small radius, it means you can get a lot *closer* to the all of mass of the object all at once.
Step back from a black hole and it's going to tug at you no harder than a star of equal mass.
As as astronomy professor of mine once said: Black Holes Are Only Weird Up Close.
Amen, Brother.
Mod parent to the sky.
Not taking anything away from Gordon Cooper - I will miss him too - You shouldn't go bragging about the fact that you don't know a great film actress like Janet Leigh.
And all this time, I thought the Klingons were modeled on the Soviets of the late 1960s. Clever bastards turn out to be Brits the whole time?
You're blowing my mind, man.
Welcome to Slashdot, Mister Bush.
"In Search Of..." and "Reading Rainbow" (ISO and RR for those of us who know and love the Trek Canon) are two of the least-watched and certainly least understood of the Trek Shows.
ISO was a Spock vehicle, a spinoff meant to explore the mind of our favorite Vulcan. Week after week he would show off his latest research; giving us a sense of what he was doing, peering into that scope of his while Kirk was seducing the alien babes.
Spock's facination with UFOs (naturally) later gave way to an obsession with Uri Geller and the Bermuda Triangle, by which time, most Trekkers left feeling that this show had jumped the shark.
RR was a prequel to the TNG storyline -- wherein a very gifted warp physics engineer shows his softer side by reading children's books, set at a time before he was blinded in a tragic e-book explosion. Paramount, for reasons that are not totally clear, decided to set this futuristic space adventure somewhere in modern times, and sadly, the pilot that explains the temporal anomoly was never aired and is lost to posterity.
Hope that clears things up.
Parent is right. For comparison:
We're blowing about $4 billion a MONTH in Iraq.
The cost of war is high.
The opportunity cost is staggering.
Fire, theives and axe-wielding maniacs? And you want to move your TAPES off site? Heck, I'd think about moving MYSELF outta there. ;)
poser. ;) Bill's real email is (no secret)
billg@microsoft.com
Check consumer reports about that -- The Ionic Breeze scored at the *bottom* of the list for air purifiers, miles behind the rest of the pack.
Get a real HEPA filter.
How about this:
replace mailing lists with RSS feeds. Mass mailings of a legit nature go to a pull model, and if you upgrade your email client to something smart that can consume RSS feeds, your user experience won't have to change even a little.
Just a thought.
This guy got modded as funny, and he should have been given "Insightful" -- the ability to execute VBA script is a huge gain. Large corporations customize their distributions of Word throughout the enterprise with custom email, form, and word processing apps, and MSFT knows this and encourages this.
If you don't see Word as a platform, you're missing the point.
OO will never have a chance in these markets unless and until it can do the same.
most users wouldn't know how to answer this questions any better. Best to do the homework for your user base.
Remember - giving the user options they can't understand *isn't* choice. It's a burden.
It's also abdicating your responsibility as a UI designer. This guy is asking exactly the right questions.
I wish people would stop suggesting this.
Parallax, my friend, will kill this idea.
Suppose you're wearing a suit of this stuff and you have two friends standing right in front of you.
For you to be invisible, the friend on your left will need to see the stuff that's behind you to your right, and the one on the right will need to see the stuff behind you to the left.
So, tell me, what are you going to put on the display? The lefthand side stuff or the right.
sorry to burst your bubble.
To those on /. who think that
"information wants to be free" or
"this wasn't hacking, the tech screwed up" or
"these were public (govt) computers"
ask yourself this:
what do you think would happen if you just sat down at your boss's computer and started reading stuff? Suppose your boss is a state senator (making the machine one 'owned' by the public).
you'd be fired.
for a damn good reason.
the Reps who did this were doing something wrong and they knew it, or should have known it. The Dems were negligent in protecting themselves but that doesn't absolve the crime.
And I use the word crime very deliberately.
Hm... not sure what you're saying here. You're scolding this guy for not using hyperlinks, but you admit that it only took you only two minutes to find this stuff with Google? Maybe the lesson here is that hyperlinks aren't as much of a value-add as you think.
Just a thought.
Yet another ill-considered Slashdot article that shows why we should be able to moderate the articles on Slashdot and not just the comments.
;)
C'mon, guys! Mod me up! You know you feel the same way!
55%?
Jeeeeezus! What the f--- tax bracket are YOU in?
By not having the state throw you in jail for speaking your mind, that's how. That holds true whether every medium in the world is owned by an evil corporation or not. Freedom from the state control over speech is all that's in the 1st ammendment - that's what free speech is, no more, no less. Anything else you might imagine it to be is not and never has been part of the deal.
Man, you guys need to get out more. Google's been synonymous with internet search among a huge swath of non-geek people, and it's been that way for a pretty long time now.
William Safire mentions Google in passing without bothering to define it in the NYT just a few Sundays ago.
Or perhaps you're thinking of the uber-geek reference of the Oxford English Dictionary which now lists Google as a new word for 2003.
So they're not better off?
- rape rooms
- 300,000 dead spread over multiple mass graves
- torture chambers
Say what you will about the war and the bad planning of the aftermath, about the needless alienation of the world over the reasons for it and the often cynical rewarding of contracts for Iraq's reconstruction, but to assert that Iraq was better off under Saddam is to show that you're not thinking straight.
Teddy's shapes can be imported into a 3D animation scripting system Alice (http://www.alice.org). There's a close relationship between Squeak and Alice (not a coincidence that they look so similar).
And yeah, Teddy's several years old at this point. Still rocks the house though.
No. Check and book on english usage.
"ON sale" means you're selling it for less.
"FOR sale" means you're vending it.
English is a precise instrument. Don't swing it like an axe just because you don't know how to use a flycast.
Pretty arrogant attitude, dude. Did you even RTFA? Here's a guess: Marc's done more in this space than *you* have. Quit sniping from the sidelines.
Let's summarize this "critique" of yours:
1.) Name calling.
2.) Derision, insult and dismissal.
3.) Dismissal and blaming the victim (e.g. the game isn't the problem, it's the player)
4.) Insult again, dismissal and condescending gesture that looks like a suggestion, but isn't.
5.) Repetition.
This guy just contributed something very rare and very valuable - an analysis of why he's not a paying customer in spite of his obvious attraction to a class of video game products. Product developers of any kind, software or otherwise, rarely get a free feedback this detailed, this well-argued and this thoughtful, and here you are, treating like a personal insult wrapped in radioactive waste, without a single shred of justification. Take a deep breath, dude and try not to lash out. This guy is trying to help.
Specifically to your #2 point:
Man, I really wish there was a
You have it exactly backwards. The only question that matters here is: if the game developers can't make the game exciting enough to buy after a month of trying, why should the player care about the game?
Anyone writing/designing/developing games who treats a customer like you've done here *deserves* to fail big in the marketplace.
And please don't take that personally. We all have bad days.