I'm no astronomer, but wouldn't the force of attraction between Jupiter and the Sun be dependant on the masses sum of their masses. As the mass of Jupiter decreases it so would the force of attraction. As the force of attraction decreased wouldn't the orbit get larger?
I have all of these question marks because I'm not sure how the reduction in mass would affect the momentum of the Jupiter. Lemme try to work this out before you answer me.
The gravitational force between the Sun and Jupiter would be ((G * massSun * massJupiter)/ (orbit of Jupiter)^2).
The momentum of Jupiter as it travels in its orbit would be (massJupiter * orbitalVJupiter).
It seems to me that if the momentum of Jupiter exceeded the force of attraction between it and the Sun, Jupiter would just drift away. and if force of attraction between Jupiter and the Sun exceeded Jupiter's momentum it would be pulled into the Sun. Therefore it seems that the two forces must be equal.
Since the mass of the Sun, the orbital velocity of Jupiter, and the distance between the two bodies is effectivly constant, reducing the mass of Jupiter should have equal affect on both the momentum and the force of attraction.
So to answer my question: No. the orbit of Jupiter should not get any bigger.
Its worse than that. The government in the past few years the governemnt has actually been encouraging the mergers. The environemtn the governement seems to want is to have two giant def contract houses and a slew of tiny ones that the giant ones farm work out to.
In the past ten years I have been involved in two situiations that I feel well illustrate the idiocy of the policy. (I've simplified these situiation a bit for the sake of brevity).
In one case the company I worked for denied contracts because the government customer thought they were too small to do the job. The contracts were then awarded to larger contractors that sub'd out 100% of the work.
In another case the government customer was not comfortable with the size of the company I worked for, so insisted on a dual award. Half of the work would be performed by my company, the other half to be performed by one of ubercontractors. The contracts required significant domain expertice, that just wasn't available in the marketplace and the the end result was that the ubercontractor ended up subbing its half of the work back to us.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with design paterns. But if you liked Design Patersn, you'll probably like this essay. The law of leaky abstractions.
Yeah, and Penicillin was found on a piece of bread. What's your point? It's not like they are going to just scoop this stuff out of the ocean and inject it. It will require refining, processing, and then a crap load of animal and human trials.
You make it sound like it was an accident that they discovered this. Per the article, they combed the beaches of Scottland specifically looking for things of this nature.
I don't know why they make the disctinction, but certain contracts let by the government contractually define a difference between 'coding' and 'scripting'. On any given contract, some roles may allowed to do both, some one or the other, some neither.
As an example, project managers are not be authorised to code or script, software engineers may both code and script, technical leads are not allowed to 'code' but are allowed to 'script'.
My only experience with this policy cones second hand over lunch. It is the case of a small project that consisted of a project manager, a tech lead, and an a small number of junior engineers. The engineers were allowed to write 'code', the tech lead was allowed to 'script', and the project managers duties were restricted to scheduling and budget. Though it sounded like a good idea, schedule concerns required that the tech lead contribute to the project. Since the tech lead was not allowed to bill for time spent 'coding' it was decided to write the project in Perl (since it was considered to be a scripting language).
I don't want to get into a Perl flamewar, but I don't think anyone can disagree that Perl is not an appropriate choice of language for production systems. Perl _can_ do everything that a more structured language can do, but it doesn't necessarily do them well (it doesn't encourage good software engineering practices, has a steep learning curve, can be cryptic).
I've probably dis'd Perl too much already. flamewar is certain to follow. I'll stop more before I incite a holocaust. Suffice it to say that Perl wasn't the best choice for that project, yet the distinction between sripting and coding effectivly made it a requirement.
You can put together a cheaper system. You could save $25 dollars by going with an 1100Mhz Duron processor and save $20 more by shaving the RAM down to $128. That would bring you down to $400. It just seems like that extra $45 buys a hell of a lot extra power. (check out Toms CPS Performance Check)
You're oversimplifying. When you walk, you carry something, when you drive, you can put something on the seat next to you, when you use a Segway, the best you can do is wear a backpack. But can you really go grocery shopping for a family of four with one of these, or buy a new computer and take it home, etc? I don't think so. We'll still need our cars to do simple and mundane tasks.
I think this is what Kamen was talking about when he mentionedc revolutionizing how cities were designed. With quick and reliable transportation at your disposal there is no need to put off shopping for your family of four to the point that you must take the car to the grocery. If you need something, just pop down to the corner grocery on your Segway.
What?!? You don't have a corner grocery? Of course you don't, your city hasn't been redesigned yet. And why hasn't your city been redesigned? Because not enough people have Segways.
It may seem like a chicken and the egg arguement, but it isn't. The Segway will enter the market slowly. First it will be a luxery item, then policemen and postmen will get it, and it will expand through the marketplace from there. As it gains acceptance cities will evolve to accomodate it.
None of this is certain though. The soft economy and crushing amounts of hype have done a good deal of damage to the Segway. But the fate of the scooter is by no means sealed.
I don't think its's staged. I think it's an affect of the approaching deadline.
After nine hours the team has probably done all of the planning they need in order to build their machine. The impending deadline forces them to stop their 'is this the best way to do things' discussions and actually turn out a product.
Current proposals specify placing the beanstalk on an ocean platform off the coast of Equador.
Initial analysis on of catastrophic failure of the tether indicate that that it would break into small due to the extrordinary forces of reentry. The affect of a terrorist attack on the beanstalk would likely be more symbolic than damaging.
Disclaimer: I have worked as a govt contractor in the past.
I have never gone over budget on any of the contracts I worked on.
The government has an unfortunate habit of not being able to decide what they want. You can sign the contract, work it, and be 3 days from completion when your Government PM comes you you and declares that what you are doing is no longer what they want you to do. They will say so in a manner that implies you are to do the work for free. But since you don't like working for free, you'll look concerned and say something like, ".. but that's not in the contract". They'll look concerned and say something like, "well we'll just have to work up a follow-on". Massive piles of paper will move through the inboxes of a dozen functionaries and three months later new money will be made available to you. You did exactly what you were contractually obligated to do, yet the project ran over budget.
Just look that marketer in the eye, give them a little wink and ask, "So, do you want to go back to my room and get a litle...frisky?" (Try to roll the 'r' in frisky when you say it.) Ideally you would ask this question to several marketers under different conditions: wearing nice clothes, looking kind of dumpy, wearing cologne, wearing overpowering cologne, etc.
>If implementing technology like this can save one life, I say go for it!
If you really want to save lives you would mandate that all passengers in a motor vehicle wear helmets and sit in seats with four point restraints. Instituting a national speed limit of 20 mph would help too.
Were it not for the following simple reasons, I'd mod you down:
I don't have any mod points.
there is no moderation option for 'the truth hurts'
I jest.
I used to mod down posts like the one you were talking about. But apparently the meta-masses didn't like my style and I don't get mod points any more. I still meta-mod, and mods like the ones you refer to get rated appropriatly, but its like trying to hold back the ocean.
My Advice: Go read kuro5hin.org. It's like slashdot, but brainier.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm no astronomer, but wouldn't the force of attraction between Jupiter and the Sun be dependant on the masses sum of their masses. As the mass of Jupiter decreases it so would the force of attraction. As the force of attraction decreased wouldn't the orbit get larger?
I have all of these question marks because I'm not sure how the reduction in mass would affect the momentum of the Jupiter. Lemme try to work this out before you answer me.
The gravitational force between the Sun and Jupiter would be ((G * massSun * massJupiter)/ (orbit of Jupiter)^2).
The momentum of Jupiter as it travels in its orbit would be (massJupiter * orbitalVJupiter).
It seems to me that if the momentum of Jupiter exceeded the force of attraction between it and the Sun, Jupiter would just drift away. and if force of attraction between Jupiter and the Sun exceeded Jupiter's momentum it would be pulled into the Sun. Therefore it seems that the two forces must be equal.
Since the mass of the Sun, the orbital velocity of Jupiter, and the distance between the two bodies is effectivly constant, reducing the mass of Jupiter should have equal affect on both the momentum and the force of attraction.
So to answer my question: No. the orbit of Jupiter should not get any bigger.
Did I miss anything?
Its worse than that. The government in the past few years the governemnt has actually been encouraging the mergers. The environemtn the governement seems to want is to have two giant def contract houses and a slew of tiny ones that the giant ones farm work out to.
In the past ten years I have been involved in two situiations that I feel well illustrate the idiocy of the policy. (I've simplified these situiation a bit for the sake of brevity).
In one case the company I worked for denied contracts because the government customer thought they were too small to do the job. The contracts were then awarded to larger contractors that sub'd out 100% of the work.
In another case the government customer was not comfortable with the size of the company I worked for, so insisted on a dual award. Half of the work would be performed by my company, the other half to be performed by one of ubercontractors. The contracts required significant domain expertice, that just wasn't available in the marketplace and the the end result was that the ubercontractor ended up subbing its half of the work back to us.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with design paterns. But if you liked Design Patersn, you'll probably like this essay. The law of leaky abstractions.
Yeah, and Penicillin was found on a piece of bread. What's your point? It's not like they are going to just scoop this stuff out of the ocean and inject it. It will require refining, processing, and then a crap load of animal and human trials.
You make it sound like it was an accident that they discovered this. Per the article, they combed the beaches of Scottland specifically looking for things of this nature.
What is Louis Wu up to?
I don't know why they make the disctinction, but certain contracts let by the government contractually define a difference between 'coding' and 'scripting'. On any given contract, some roles may allowed to do both, some one or the other, some neither.
As an example, project managers are not be authorised to code or script, software engineers may both code and script, technical leads are not allowed to 'code' but are allowed to 'script'.
My only experience with this policy cones second hand over lunch. It is the case of a small project that consisted of a project manager, a tech lead, and an a small number of junior engineers. The engineers were allowed to write 'code', the tech lead was allowed to 'script', and the project managers duties were restricted to scheduling and budget. Though it sounded like a good idea, schedule concerns required that the tech lead contribute to the project. Since the tech lead was not allowed to bill for time spent 'coding' it was decided to write the project in Perl (since it was considered to be a scripting language).
I don't want to get into a Perl flamewar, but I don't think anyone can disagree that Perl is not an appropriate choice of language for production systems. Perl _can_ do everything that a more structured language can do, but it doesn't necessarily do them well (it doesn't encourage good software engineering practices, has a steep learning curve, can be cryptic).
I've probably dis'd Perl too much already. flamewar is certain to follow. I'll stop more before I incite a holocaust. Suffice it to say that Perl wasn't the best choice for that project, yet the distinction between sripting and coding effectivly made it a requirement.
Just about.
Assuming you can borrow a CDROM for the initial OS install and already have a mouse, keyboard, and monitor you get...
Micro ATX Case = $52
Nforce Motherboard = $78
Athalon XP1600 = $58
256MB PC2100 RAM = $41
20 GB Hardrive = $69
Subtotal = $298
If you insist on building a complete system you need to add...
Keyboard and Mouse = $20
52x CDRom = $28
15" Monitor = $99
Subtotal = $147
For a grand Total of $445
You can put together a cheaper system. You could save $25 dollars by going with an 1100Mhz Duron processor and save $20 more by shaving the RAM down to $128. That would bring you down to $400. It just seems like that extra $45 buys a hell of a lot extra power. (check out Toms CPS Performance Check)
Prices courtesy of Five O'clock Computers
For what it's worth, the above desktop system BLOWS AWAY my current desktop system (a PIII 700). So I know its possible to do some serious work on it.
Dear self,
On March 30, 1981, a man named John Hinckley will assassinate President Reagan as he leaves the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
It's up to you to stop him.
In my view, the no excercise argument really isn't valid, since you get more excercise on the scooter than you would riding in a car.
I think this is what Kamen was talking about when he mentionedc revolutionizing how cities were designed. With quick and reliable transportation at your disposal there is no need to put off shopping for your family of four to the point that you must take the car to the grocery. If you need something, just pop down to the corner grocery on your Segway.
What?!? You don't have a corner grocery? Of course you don't, your city hasn't been redesigned yet. And why hasn't your city been redesigned? Because not enough people have Segways.
It may seem like a chicken and the egg arguement, but it isn't. The Segway will enter the market slowly. First it will be a luxery item, then policemen and postmen will get it, and it will expand through the marketplace from there. As it gains acceptance cities will evolve to accomodate it.
None of this is certain though. The soft economy and crushing amounts of hype have done a good deal of damage to the Segway. But the fate of the scooter is by no means sealed.
I don't think its's staged. I think it's an affect of the approaching deadline.
After nine hours the team has probably done all of the planning they need in order to build their machine. The impending deadline forces them to stop their 'is this the best way to do things' discussions and actually turn out a product.
The ugly truth of the matter is that Life really IS fair. We just don't like the rules.
Without the floppies how will Del users flash their Bios?
Current proposals specify placing the beanstalk on an ocean platform off the coast of Equador.
Initial analysis on of catastrophic failure of the tether indicate that that it would break into small due to the extrordinary forces of reentry. The affect of a terrorist attack on the beanstalk would likely be more symbolic than damaging.
Don't feed the trolls.
espescially those filled with such venom and ire as this one.
Disclaimer: I have worked as a govt contractor in the past.
I have never gone over budget on any of the contracts I worked on.
The government has an unfortunate habit of not being able to decide what they want. You can sign the contract, work it, and be 3 days from completion when your Government PM comes you you and declares that what you are doing is no longer what they want you to do. They will say so in a manner that implies you are to do the work for free. But since you don't like working for free, you'll look concerned and say something like, ".. but that's not in the contract". They'll look concerned and say something like, "well we'll just have to work up a follow-on". Massive piles of paper will move through the inboxes of a dozen functionaries and three months later new money will be made available to you. You did exactly what you were contractually obligated to do, yet the project ran over budget.
Just curious, but when you say, "Water is getting poorer in quality..." what do you mean?
the salaries of lawyers now make up TWO PERENT of the GDP for the United Stated of America.
Stop the madness.
Just look that marketer in the eye, give them a little wink and ask, "So, do you want to go back to my room and get a litle...frisky?" (Try to roll the 'r' in frisky when you say it.) Ideally you would ask this question to several marketers under different conditions: wearing nice clothes, looking kind of dumpy, wearing cologne, wearing overpowering cologne, etc.
Try to get a good sample of linux marketers.
Kudos will be awarded for propositioning Linus.
>If implementing technology like this can save one life, I say go for it!
If you really want to save lives you would mandate that all passengers in a motor vehicle wear helmets and sit in seats with four point restraints. Instituting a national speed limit of 20 mph would help too.
Auto Accident Death Rates would plummet.
Unless I'm mistaken, the SVG plugin is built right in to IE6 and above. Most windows users have it and don't even know it.
I would not be at all surprised if the first that the PCI-SIG people heard about this entire situiation was through slashdot.
They retain the lawyers to do things like this so that they don't have to.
I feel it necessary to preemptivly envoke Godwin's Law to end this thread before it gets too far.
Here goes -- -- Hitler liked dogs and children too. Bill Gates is just like Hitler. You don't like Hitler do you?
Of course now someone can invoke the Muntz Corollary and respond, "What did Hitler ever do to you?"
I, of course, will not dignify that with a response.
I jest.
I used to mod down posts like the one you were talking about. But apparently the meta-masses didn't like my style and I don't get mod points any more. I still meta-mod, and mods like the ones you refer to get rated appropriatly, but its like trying to hold back the ocean.
My Advice: Go read kuro5hin.org. It's like slashdot, but brainier.
They didnt use one windshield washer pump. they used 16 - one for each bottle. I don't think they need to worry about cross contamination.
Where exactly are these contaminants supposed to leech in from?