In this case (for a body enclosed by the space shuttle in free-fall) you can assume that momentum is conserved. So you you expel gas, the total momentum of you and the gas is 0.
By the same token, the force exerted by you on the gas is the same force extered by the gas on you. That's newton's third law.
The same principle that makes the shuttle go forward (conservation of momentum -- gas goes backward and you go forward) would propel you forward too. Because of air resistance, however, you would gradually slow down.
It's nice to see that at $20,000/pound, we're sending gozilla toys into orbit. The true irony would be if he were doing it from the Japanese Experiment Module
CONSPIRACY! I say conspiracy! Microsoft is paying ATI to cut off support for the linux drivers. They secretly made a large cash payment in a bag with a big '$' on it, probably made the drop somewhere in Daily plaza. This is their new strategy -- paying blood-money to other companies to get them to cut off support for our beloved linux. It's world-wide, dammit! Why won't anyone believe me?
(snip)...Baystate claims it looked only at Bowers' user interface in order to improve its CAD software product. "There was no evidence of cracking encrypted source code or anything of that nature," said Bob Kann, Baystate's lawyer, of Bromberg and Sunstein, in Boston. "This may cause havoc in the industry. Before this case, it was perfectly legal to evaluate a competitor's product."
But Bowers' lawyer countered that Baystate had two weeks in its development schedule to examine Bowers' software, giving the software vendor time to look at more than the user interface. "They had two weeks to reverse engineer his software," countered Bowers' lawyer, Frederic Meeker, of Banner and Witcoff, of Washington, D.C. "Two weeks is a long time -- that's a lot of looking."
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"From a small software company's perspective, it's virtually impossible to recover your investment without some sort of protection," Meeker said. "That's a standard provision... you put in a contract with another company so that they can't reverse engineer the trade secret out of the product. That software took years to develop."(/snip)
Ok, so this boils down to a question of fact, which is a question for a jury to decide. The burden of proof ["preponderence of the evidence" in this case, IIRC] rests squarly on the plantiff. That question is -- did Baystate decompile Bower's cad program to make their own. If so, they are guilty. If Baystate did not - if they wrote their program to match the look, feel, and usabilty of Bower's program, then they are obviously not guilty, shrinkwrap license not withstanding. I don't think you could possibly claim having a certain user-interface or user-available options are trade secrets, merely how you implement them.
Adding area code features means now you have relativity playing a part in addresses -- 5.5.5.5 would no longer be unique, it could mean any one of hundreds of computers, depending on the area code. So unless you explictly use the area code every time (which, would be the same as using longer network names, which you want to avoid) you're going to run into problems. IN the tradeoff of short network address vs unqiueness, I'd take uniqueness every time.
While your theory would seem true on its face, you have run straight into Gates' Law: software will exponentially decrease in effective speed while exponentially increasing in install size, effectively canceling the more troubling consequences of Moore's law. This, as you can imagine, means that compile times would stay about the same. So don't get too excitied about seeing your friends more just yet.
Hold on, let me cancel that oil-heater I just ordered. After reading these specs, I can only imagine how much energy this baby uses. Come this winter, my AMD is going to provide me all the heat I need
It's one thing to have a lot of hype on slashdot about lord of the rings. It's another thing entirely to give it its own catagory. That's just sick.
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Yes officer, the lock on my front door has been broken for a few weeks now. That body is in the basement because some bastard probably dropped it off there while I was at work
I do believe some smart kid in michigan used just that idea to build himself a breeder reactor about 20 years ago out of nothing but tin foil, americenium taken from smoke detectors, and his trusty (home-mady, jury rigged) neutron gun.
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If I were a storeowner, I can keep an eye, literally, on all my merchandise
You must have some really messed up eyesight. How do you deal with all those eyes lying around?
Green means not ripe or spoiled? What do they teach you young people these days?! You obviously have never met the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six.
In this case (for a body enclosed by the space shuttle in free-fall) you can assume that momentum is conserved. So you you expel gas, the total momentum of you and the gas is 0.
By the same token, the force exerted by you on the gas is the same force extered by the gas on you. That's newton's third law.
The same principle that makes the shuttle go forward (conservation of momentum -- gas goes backward and you go forward) would propel you forward too. Because of air resistance, however, you would gradually slow down.
It's nice to see that at $20,000/pound, we're sending gozilla toys into orbit. The true irony would be if he were doing it from the Japanese Experiment Module
Then again the catholic religion suggested that the earth only existed for 6,000 years
If you check the facts, you'll find it was Bishop Ulster of Armagh, England. That means he was Protestant, probably Anglican. Not Catholic.
The Nobel Prize in kickboxing!
Money Fight!
You need to add some air holes. I recommend a sawed-off loaded with buckshot. Or if you want to go old-school, just use old fashioned slugs.
...I wouldn't have spent that extra year in college. And don't think about that too hard, or blood will shoot from your ears.
...before someone else does.
CONSPIRACY! I say conspiracy! Microsoft is paying ATI to cut off support for the linux drivers. They secretly made a large cash payment in a bag with a big '$' on it, probably made the drop somewhere in Daily plaza. This is their new strategy -- paying blood-money to other companies to get them to cut off support for our beloved linux. It's world-wide, dammit! Why won't anyone believe me?
(snip) ...Baystate claims it looked only at Bowers' user interface in order to improve its CAD software product. "There was no evidence of cracking encrypted source code or anything of that nature," said Bob Kann, Baystate's lawyer, of Bromberg and Sunstein, in Boston. "This may cause havoc in the industry. Before this case, it was perfectly legal to evaluate a competitor's product."
... you put in a contract with another company so that they can't reverse engineer the trade secret out of the product. That software took years to develop."(/snip)
But Bowers' lawyer countered that Baystate had two weeks in its development schedule to examine Bowers' software, giving the software vendor time to look at more than the user interface. "They had two weeks to reverse engineer his software," countered Bowers' lawyer, Frederic Meeker, of Banner and Witcoff, of Washington, D.C. "Two weeks is a long time -- that's a lot of looking."
...
"From a small software company's perspective, it's virtually impossible to recover your investment without some sort of protection," Meeker said. "That's a standard provision
Ok, so this boils down to a question of fact, which is a question for a jury to decide. The burden of proof ["preponderence of the evidence" in this case, IIRC] rests squarly on the plantiff.
That question is -- did Baystate decompile Bower's cad program to make their own. If so, they are guilty. If Baystate did not - if they wrote their program to match the look, feel, and usabilty of Bower's program, then they are obviously not guilty, shrinkwrap license not withstanding. I don't think you could possibly claim having a certain user-interface or user-available options are trade secrets, merely how you implement them.
Adding area code features means now you have relativity playing a part in addresses -- 5.5.5.5 would no longer be unique, it could mean any one of hundreds of computers, depending on the area code. So unless you explictly use the area code every time (which, would be the same as using longer network names, which you want to avoid) you're going to run into problems. IN the tradeoff of short network address vs unqiueness, I'd take uniqueness every time.
Pharm. 2: I had a feeling that might happen. This carboxyl group sometimes causes problems. [indicates molecular model]
Homer: And we trusted you! [strangles model]
Marge: I think we should take him off the drug.
Pharm. 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't just go off Focusyn.
Pharm. 2: But we can ease Bart onto one of its sister drugs, like chlorhexinol, and augment that with some phenolbutamine.
Pharm. 1: Hmm, and maybe some cyclobenzanone?
Pharm. 2: That's a great idea!
Don't you know an urban warfare training ground when you see one?
While your theory would seem true on its face, you have run straight into Gates' Law: software will exponentially decrease in effective speed while exponentially increasing in install size, effectively canceling the more troubling consequences of Moore's law. This, as you can imagine, means that compile times would stay about the same. So don't get too excitied about seeing your friends more just yet.
(Might as well get it over with before the trolls do)
In soviet Russia, silicon deplete *you*
Mr. Smirnoff is rolling in his grave. (Oh wait, he's not dead yet...)
Hold on, let me cancel that oil-heater I just ordered. After reading these specs, I can only imagine how much energy this baby uses. Come this winter, my AMD is going to provide me all the heat I need
First Iraq, then North Korea, and now the moon! The Lunans are conspiring against our interests abroad! Conspiracy, I say!
We have such super high quality versions of LOTR, but just try finding ONE good quality copy of Meet the Feebles...
It's one thing to have a lot of hype on slashdot about lord of the rings. It's another thing entirely to give it its own catagory. That's just sick.
Yes officer, the lock on my front door has been broken for a few weeks now. That body is in the basement because some bastard probably dropped it off there while I was at work
Forunately, I never pay for software. Or books. Or movies. Or games. Or music. Thank god for p2p :)
I do believe some smart kid in michigan used just that idea to build himself a breeder reactor about 20 years ago out of nothing but tin foil, americenium taken from smoke detectors, and his trusty (home-mady, jury rigged) neutron gun.
How many generations of Palms will we see until they are producing a bona fide tricorder?