He's not referring to the economies of scale effect of building many many 1B dollar computers. He's referring to Moore's Law, and what it states about the exponential growth in computing power per unit currency.
But wouldn't it be great, if one day, perhaps, mobile phones *could* be mission critical devices. Your argument is garbage. You're saying "hey mobile phones aren't very reliable anyway, so how could it hurt to make it less reliable?"
Do you know what OTOH means? It stands for "On the other hand." So the thought process was supposed to follow like this: My cat fell from the fifth floor and was hurt really bad, and was sore for over a week. So it made me doubt the stories about cat's surviving falls. *OTOH* my father told me a story where his cat survived from the 23rd floor. What I'm saying is at first I thunked it was baloney, but then I realized maybe not, so now I'm not so sure, and I'm not ready to just toss a cat out a window.
BTW, my cat used to be pretty vicious (in a cute sorta way). Ever since he got home he's been much calmer. Take that how you want. His name is tobey.
Yeah, like I said, I'm on the fifth floor. They say above the 7th, and below the third is safer than between the two. But you have to remember, this isn't absolute or anything. I mean, drop a cat from the Empire State Building it *will* die. And the cat that fell from the 23rd window...he survived, but he still did break his leg. Let's not forget that.
What it god's sordid name would that solve? Oh, I guess libraries would only be able to access.kids TLDs? And besides, they would have the same problem we have now, in trying to decide what's "appropriate" content for a.kids website. Are you on crack or something?
This has all the signs of pseudoscience. Didn't publish his results in order to protect his idea. Went through mass media. Similar experiments were done before this. All these kinds of things are the results of overly creative people who read one too many articles/books.
Actually, perhaps, mass loss. AFAIK, mass is the constant of proportionality between weight and acceleration. If the rotating disc is lowering the weight of something, still on Earth, why do you assume the disc is disrupting gravity and not lessening the mass of the object?
I have a cat who fell out of a fifth story window just a couple of week ago. First of all, in his maneuvering, he managed to land on his jaw (dislocated) and gave himself a concussion. When I went to go get him, one pupil was completely dilated, the other was completely constricted, because of the concussion (it looked really fareeky). But even a week later, he was still in pain when I picked him up, I guess he was sore inside.
So it kind of makes me think all that stuff about cats surviving high falls is a malenky bit baloney. OTOH, my father had a cat who fell from the *23rd* window, who survived with just a broken leg. Weird stuff.
It's kind of interesting that you invoke that equation when talking about gravity. See, most people call, and consider, gravity to be a "force." But when you plug gravity into that equation, you plug it into the acceleration variable, so really gravity is an acceleration, not a force. That's why the more massive the object the greater the force. The force is not constant, the acceleration is. I guess that's why gravity is measured in units of acceleration -duh-
That's an interesting thing to say. I know I once fell from a tree, quite high up, and when I hit the ground I had the strangest sensation that I actually fell quite a while ago, like an hour or so. It was really weird, considering I wasn't *that* high up that it would take an hour or so to fall. It must've taken me about a second or two to fall.
Well, actually, I've heard very good things about Xbox's customer support, at least in the hardware department. I've heard of people who had their defective console replaced in 3 days. Sony on the other hand is notorious for not giving a shit once you actually own the console.
Actually, no people don't kill people either. It's a medical fact. You can die of general organ failure, loss of oxygen, loss of blood, but guns never killed anyone. I'm all for gun rights, and I think the people of slashdot are hypocrites for not being so. However, saying "cigarettes don't kill people," you're exposing yourself as an imbecile, because the distinction you made was implied in the original statement.
Well, they can just add (and they do) a little content on DVD's and claim that they're not willing to give you that extra content for free if you didn't pay for it when you bought a cassette.
It's not about using a machine or not. It's simply *geometrically* impossible to fold it past 8 times (depending on the original size of the paper). It's like trying to fold a toothpick down the middle in order to double it's height. Impossible because its width is less than double its height, so it's just geometrically impossible. Nothing to do with using a machine.
I don't have any positive proof that pink glowing bunnies do not appear in nature. Yet I believe it. In fact, I believe in quite strongly. An atheist treats God like a naturally occurring pink glowing bunny. I don't have any *proof* it doesn't exist, since such proof is impossible. An agnostic believes it is impossible to know whether God exists (like an atheist) so it is not worth it to bother thinking about it, and therefore takes no stance one way or another (not like an atheist). "Agnostic" comes from the root gno which means knowledge, like "cognitive". Agnostics and atheists are similar in many ways, but I think the parent post was correct.
Of course, the eye has innate banding issues. That's why a rainbow appears as bands of colors instead of continuous change. But that's different I guess.
Technically, only #7 would outlaw DVD region encoding. The first six don't specify how easy it should be to exercise those rights, only that we can't be prosecuted for doing so.
Isn't there a *free* version of IE for Unix? I think that establishes IE as free whether you use windows or not, since you could've gotten it for free even without windows.
It's not even about saving Java. The first time you come across something that requires java in Windows XP, you are presented with a dialog to download it, because MS would rather you download a new one than have you use Java from 3 years ago, which wouldn't work half the time.
You should know that Sony Electronics and Sony Music often don't seem to be operating with the same goals in mind. Almost like they were separate companies.
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Maybe he did mean "air". But if he meant airwaves, I think he was making an insightful point.
He's not referring to the economies of scale effect of building many many 1B dollar computers. He's referring to Moore's Law, and what it states about the exponential growth in computing power per unit currency.
But wouldn't it be great, if one day, perhaps, mobile phones *could* be mission critical devices. Your argument is garbage. You're saying "hey mobile phones aren't very reliable anyway, so how could it hurt to make it less reliable?"
Do you know what OTOH means? It stands for "On the other hand." So the thought process was supposed to follow like this: My cat fell from the fifth floor and was hurt really bad, and was sore for over a week. So it made me doubt the stories about cat's surviving falls. *OTOH* my father told me a story where his cat survived from the 23rd floor. What I'm saying is at first I thunked it was baloney, but then I realized maybe not, so now I'm not so sure, and I'm not ready to just toss a cat out a window.
BTW, my cat used to be pretty vicious (in a cute sorta way). Ever since he got home he's been much calmer. Take that how you want. His name is tobey.
Yeah, like I said, I'm on the fifth floor. They say above the 7th, and below the third is safer than between the two. But you have to remember, this isn't absolute or anything. I mean, drop a cat from the Empire State Building it *will* die. And the cat that fell from the 23rd window...he survived, but he still did break his leg. Let's not forget that.
What it god's sordid name would that solve? Oh, I guess libraries would only be able to access .kids TLDs? And besides, they would have the same problem we have now, in trying to decide what's "appropriate" content for a .kids website. Are you on crack or something?
This has all the signs of pseudoscience. Didn't publish his results in order to protect his idea. Went through mass media. Similar experiments were done before this. All these kinds of things are the results of overly creative people who read one too many articles/books.
Actually, perhaps, mass loss. AFAIK, mass is the constant of proportionality between weight and acceleration. If the rotating disc is lowering the weight of something, still on Earth, why do you assume the disc is disrupting gravity and not lessening the mass of the object?
I have a cat who fell out of a fifth story window just a couple of week ago. First of all, in his maneuvering, he managed to land on his jaw (dislocated) and gave himself a concussion. When I went to go get him, one pupil was completely dilated, the other was completely constricted, because of the concussion (it looked really fareeky). But even a week later, he was still in pain when I picked him up, I guess he was sore inside.
So it kind of makes me think all that stuff about cats surviving high falls is a malenky bit baloney. OTOH, my father had a cat who fell from the *23rd* window, who survived with just a broken leg. Weird stuff.
It's kind of interesting that you invoke that equation when talking about gravity. See, most people call, and consider, gravity to be a "force." But when you plug gravity into that equation, you plug it into the acceleration variable, so really gravity is an acceleration, not a force. That's why the more massive the object the greater the force. The force is not constant, the acceleration is. I guess that's why gravity is measured in units of acceleration -duh-
That's an interesting thing to say. I know I once fell from a tree, quite high up, and when I hit the ground I had the strangest sensation that I actually fell quite a while ago, like an hour or so. It was really weird, considering I wasn't *that* high up that it would take an hour or so to fall. It must've taken me about a second or two to fall.
Well, actually, I've heard very good things about Xbox's customer support, at least in the hardware department. I've heard of people who had their defective console replaced in 3 days. Sony on the other hand is notorious for not giving a shit once you actually own the console.
Actually, no people don't kill people either. It's a medical fact. You can die of general organ failure, loss of oxygen, loss of blood, but guns never killed anyone. I'm all for gun rights, and I think the people of slashdot are hypocrites for not being so. However, saying "cigarettes don't kill people," you're exposing yourself as an imbecile, because the distinction you made was implied in the original statement.
Well, they can just add (and they do) a little content on DVD's and claim that they're not willing to give you that extra content for free if you didn't pay for it when you bought a cassette.
doesn't sound like you actually play video games.
It's not about using a machine or not. It's simply *geometrically* impossible to fold it past 8 times (depending on the original size of the paper). It's like trying to fold a toothpick down the middle in order to double it's height. Impossible because its width is less than double its height, so it's just geometrically impossible. Nothing to do with using a machine.
I don't have any positive proof that pink glowing bunnies do not appear in nature. Yet I believe it. In fact, I believe in quite strongly. An atheist treats God like a naturally occurring pink glowing bunny. I don't have any *proof* it doesn't exist, since such proof is impossible. An agnostic believes it is impossible to know whether God exists (like an atheist) so it is not worth it to bother thinking about it, and therefore takes no stance one way or another (not like an atheist). "Agnostic" comes from the root gno which means knowledge, like "cognitive". Agnostics and atheists are similar in many ways, but I think the parent post was correct.
Of course, the eye has innate banding issues. That's why a rainbow appears as bands of colors instead of continuous change. But that's different I guess.
How do you do it with IE? don't tell me shift click. I want to be able to do it with my middle mouse button.
Technically, only #7 would outlaw DVD region encoding. The first six don't specify how easy it should be to exercise those rights, only that we can't be prosecuted for doing so.
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Isn't there a *free* version of IE for Unix? I think that establishes IE as free whether you use windows or not, since you could've gotten it for free even without windows.
It's not even about saving Java. The first time you come across something that requires java in Windows XP, you are presented with a dialog to download it, because MS would rather you download a new one than have you use Java from 3 years ago, which wouldn't work half the time.
You should know that Sony Electronics and Sony Music often don't seem to be operating with the same goals in mind. Almost like they were separate companies.
1 Newton != 1 pound
It's more like 4.5 newtons = 1 pound.