I have to agree. I have seen some movies where affleck really shined, especially the kevin smith movies. (yes, even chasing amy). There are two big problems with affleck: over-exposure, and a tendency to star in really shitty flicks. I think his buddy matt damon is actually the better acter, but when cast properly both of them can be quite good.
And yeah, pearl harbor should have been more about, well, the whole war thing.
Not a troll, but I am a physicist, and h is not a unit of length. It has units of Energy*time, plain and simple.
Where you probably saw planck's constant mentioned along with a distance is in the uncertainty principle, which says delta-x * delta-p > h-bar.
It's a common tactic of trolls to accuse others of being a troll, and I'm not going to sit here and keep going back and forth with someone who so clearly has no idea what he's talking about, and is fabricating nonsense to try to make people believe him. You are a troll, and I'm not wasting any more time replying to your posts.
Planck's constant is a unit of energy, it wouldn't be measured in meters.
And, as many others here have pointed out, the digits of pi aren't calculated for some direct beneift. They are calculated to study the properties of irrational numbers, as well as to provide a test bed for computer hardware and algorithms.
It's not a circumference. There's no circle. You're rambling. Goign back to school has nothing to do with it, you are either a complete moron or a very clever troll.
Judging by your searching my archives and bringing up my roland P post, I'm going to guess it's the latter.
Earth's orbit is a circle? News to me! Accurate to within the size of an atom? Yeah because the center of mass of the earth never changes, right?
Funny thing is, I have mod points, but rahter than modding this down, I wanted to point out how inaccurate it is, lest someone else just mod it up again.
I particularly like the line about calculating the circumference of the known universe. The number of digits depends on the precision you need, not the size of circle. If you are having trouble understanding the large size of the universe, maybe you need a different unit of length to show you that the order of magnitude isn't important when calculating a circumference, as Pi is a unitless constant. This guy's post seems more a string of mindless rambling than anything insightful or interesting to me.
You're making a very dangerous generalized assumption there. Both forces go like 1/r^2. Both forces get multiplied by something to determine its strength. In normal lab conditions, you aren't going to be able to gather enough mass to exceed the magnetic fields we are able to create. However, it's much harder to create a magnetic field that can, say, carry enough force to make the moon orbit the earth. Remember, to form a magnetic field you need a huge number of charges moving roughly in unison. To form a gravitational field you just need a big hunk of matter. With a black hole, you're talking quite a lot of mass, and it would be very difficult for a man-made device to move enough charge to create a field anywhere close to the magnitude of a black hole.
Plus, say you can create a strong enough magnetic field. What are you going to push/pull against? Some star out in the middle of nowhere? It probably doesn't have a strong enough magnetic field of its own? The black hole itself? Now you're getting into all kinds of other problems.
One final thing to note about your idea - gravity affects electromagnetic radiation, and hence it's affecting magnetic fields. Ever heard of gravitational lensing? Ever heard the statement that the event horizon is the point after which "even light can't excape"? It's not as simple as trying to create a bigger force, as the gravity of the black hole itself would be distorting the magnetic field you are trying to create.
Fuck you and fuck Roland use-slashdot-to-finance-my-gay-porn-addiction Pipeuphisass. The fact that timothy panders to this cockgobbling asswad is so far beyond me. All this douche does is lightly plaigarize other people's shit, post it on his shitty blog, and submit articles to his little lapdog who posts it and uses/.'s massive bandwidth to get the sleazebag more advertising dollars. I have two total people foe'd on slashdot. One is roland. We desperately need a way to filter articles by submitter, THAT would send a message to the editors. Do you HONESTLY think they check the page hit logs to see whether people are viewing the stories submitted by this cumbubble?
You know, the number 117 is the only thing that made me think twice and say "hey maybe this is an april fool's joke." I did recall seeing the same news posted a few days ago though, so I sort of doubt it's a joke. Still, the presense of the 11 and 7 is kinda a weird cooincidence.
With the number of +5's he has there, I'd say its a fair bet his karma is already maxed out at excellent. Therefore, he's probably more of a mod whore than a karma whore. Nice try though. =)
This idea is absolutely ridiculous. While it MIGHT address the "no games for the mac" issue, no one is going to buy it. Computer games and console games are fundamentally different. Console games are designed so you can crash on the sofa, grab a controller and go to town. Computer games, OTOH, heavily utlize a keyboard and mouse for precision control and chat functions and are often designed to keep your attention more focused. It is an entirely different mentality. Very few people want to grab a controller and sit in the office chair to play, especially when for the same price you could have a standalone ps3 that you can take to your friend's house or move to the basement TV when your mom is bitching that you are playing video games in the living room. I'd love to go on, as there are so very many reasons this is a terrible idea, but I'm jetlagged as hell and tired.
More importantly, the book doesn't CITE anyone. He acts as if he invented the entire field of cellular automata by himself, with no help from anyone, and with never ever reading a paper on it. There's no way a peer reviewed journal would have let him get away with writing without giving credit to those whose work he built upon.
Good point. What I should have said is that not only is water polar, it's very polar compared to most other molecules.
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To follow up on your follow-up, water is hard to splash because it's a polar molecule. There's a slight positive charge off to one side and a slight negative charge off to the other. Hence, the molecules of water tend to attract each other. They also attract lots of other stuff, which is why water is so great as a solvent, why you get a meniscus at the top of a test tube, why rain droplets form nice round bubbles on the surface of your car, etcetera.
Sometimes in science I tend to get caught up with the complex math and theory, and forget the basic stuff. Water is a truly fascinating material, and can give us a lot of insight into the workings of the world.
Welcome to the era of government run by the conservative right. We can only hope that the supreme up-fucking that is privatization of social security will lead to a massive backlash and maybe we'll actually get some SANE people into office.
Seriously, how did this get a mod as Interesting? He bitches about the arrogance of humans thinking we are the center of everything, then is INSANELY arrogant in stating his own theory as if it were an indisputable fact, while providing NO evidence to support it.
The whole POINT of the term "dark energy" is to say "there's something funny here and we don't know what it is". I'd say that's one regulation shitload less arrogant than camel pilot's claim.
By the way, I'm far from a cosmologist, but the poster clearly has no grasp on the difference between dark matter and dark energy, and therefore has proven he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
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WTF? If MS had done to the PC what Nintendo did to the hand held gaming market, it would make the current and past antitrust cases look like a walk in the park.
And to your WTF I offer my own WTF. As in, WTF does nintendo have to do with antitrust cases? From what I've seen, nintendo has steadily lost developers, market share, and general popularity to the top two. Please enlighten me on how ANYTHING nintendo does is even remotely relevant to microsoft's antitrust crap? remember the Sega game gear or the Atari Lynx? Those other hand helds that are also dam close to a decade and a half old.. remember colour screens and the ability to watch TV on them(well i only remember the GG having a TV adapter but i never liked the lynx)
remember the pathetic battery life, huge size, clunkiness, poor controls, washed out screens, and mediocre games? Gameboy didn't win because nintendo forced it down our throats, it won because it was a better system. I wish I could say the same about the DS, because from what I can see it looks pretty lame. Imagine MS having held us back at Dos 5 for 10 long years as the default desktop OS, and Linux and Mac having systems of today to compete with Dos 5 and 386's, but still losing?
Except gameboy was never a default desktop anything, it was a small, cheap, neat way to keep the kids busy in the car and make the bus ride less boring. You don't need to be on the bleeding edge of technology to occupy someone for a few minutes. My mom still plays one of those little ten dollar walmart yahtzee games, and she's had it for YEARS.
you know, I'm starting to think that this has to be some sort of troll conspiracy. People must have started noticing that the editors don't read the site, and INTENTIONALLY submit duplicate articles. It's unreal how often we see the same article again on here.
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The accesibility of said menu or tool bar depends heavily on which version of emacs you use. Obviously you can't click a menu button on a command line version, but the menu system on the command line version is far from intuitive, and the graphical versions aren't much better.
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A movie about robots that transform into big rigs and boom boxes... aimed at adults. You lost me there, amigo
Yeah, because that whole show about the french fries, meatball, and fucking milkshake, targetted at adults... is doing SOOO poorly, let me tell you.
Being an adult doesn't mean you immediately have to dismiss absurd concepts. Stop taking things so seriously and have a little fun now and then.
I have to agree. I have seen some movies where affleck really shined, especially the kevin smith movies. (yes, even chasing amy). There are two big problems with affleck: over-exposure, and a tendency to star in really shitty flicks. I think his buddy matt damon is actually the better acter, but when cast properly both of them can be quite good.
And yeah, pearl harbor should have been more about, well, the whole war thing.
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Not a troll, but I am a physicist, and h is not a unit of length. It has units of Energy*time, plain and simple.
Where you probably saw planck's constant mentioned along with a distance is in the uncertainty principle, which says delta-x * delta-p > h-bar.
It's a common tactic of trolls to accuse others of being a troll, and I'm not going to sit here and keep going back and forth with someone who so clearly has no idea what he's talking about, and is fabricating nonsense to try to make people believe him. You are a troll, and I'm not wasting any more time replying to your posts.
Planck's constant is a unit of energy, it wouldn't be measured in meters.
And, as many others here have pointed out, the digits of pi aren't calculated for some direct beneift. They are calculated to study the properties of irrational numbers, as well as to provide a test bed for computer hardware and algorithms.
It's not a circumference. There's no circle. You're rambling. Goign back to school has nothing to do with it, you are either a complete moron or a very clever troll.
Judging by your searching my archives and bringing up my roland P post, I'm going to guess it's the latter.
I was trying to avoid bringing up the term spacetime to keep things simple, but yeah your statement is more accurate.
Earth's orbit is a circle? News to me! Accurate to within the size of an atom? Yeah because the center of mass of the earth never changes, right?
Funny thing is, I have mod points, but rahter than modding this down, I wanted to point out how inaccurate it is, lest someone else just mod it up again.
I particularly like the line about calculating the circumference of the known universe. The number of digits depends on the precision you need, not the size of circle. If you are having trouble understanding the large size of the universe, maybe you need a different unit of length to show you that the order of magnitude isn't important when calculating a circumference, as Pi is a unitless constant. This guy's post seems more a string of mindless rambling than anything insightful or interesting to me.
You're making a very dangerous generalized assumption there. Both forces go like 1/r^2. Both forces get multiplied by something to determine its strength. In normal lab conditions, you aren't going to be able to gather enough mass to exceed the magnetic fields we are able to create. However, it's much harder to create a magnetic field that can, say, carry enough force to make the moon orbit the earth. Remember, to form a magnetic field you need a huge number of charges moving roughly in unison. To form a gravitational field you just need a big hunk of matter. With a black hole, you're talking quite a lot of mass, and it would be very difficult for a man-made device to move enough charge to create a field anywhere close to the magnitude of a black hole.
Plus, say you can create a strong enough magnetic field. What are you going to push/pull against? Some star out in the middle of nowhere? It probably doesn't have a strong enough magnetic field of its own? The black hole itself? Now you're getting into all kinds of other problems.
One final thing to note about your idea - gravity affects electromagnetic radiation, and hence it's affecting magnetic fields. Ever heard of gravitational lensing? Ever heard the statement that the event horizon is the point after which "even light can't excape"? It's not as simple as trying to create a bigger force, as the gravity of the black hole itself would be distorting the magnetic field you are trying to create.
Fuck you and fuck Roland use-slashdot-to-finance-my-gay-porn-addiction Pipeuphisass. The fact that timothy panders to this cockgobbling asswad is so far beyond me. All this douche does is lightly plaigarize other people's shit, post it on his shitty blog, and submit articles to his little lapdog who posts it and uses /.'s massive bandwidth to get the sleazebag more advertising dollars. I have two total people foe'd on slashdot. One is roland. We desperately need a way to filter articles by submitter, THAT would send a message to the editors. Do you HONESTLY think they check the page hit logs to see whether people are viewing the stories submitted by this cumbubble?
the 117 is BECAUSE of the 11 and 7 so common in bungie themes
You know, the number 117 is the only thing that made me think twice and say "hey maybe this is an april fool's joke." I did recall seeing the same news posted a few days ago though, so I sort of doubt it's a joke. Still, the presense of the 11 and 7 is kinda a weird cooincidence.
With the number of +5's he has there, I'd say its a fair bet his karma is already maxed out at excellent. Therefore, he's probably more of a mod whore than a karma whore. Nice try though. =)
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This idea is absolutely ridiculous. While it MIGHT address the "no games for the mac" issue, no one is going to buy it. Computer games and console games are fundamentally different. Console games are designed so you can crash on the sofa, grab a controller and go to town. Computer games, OTOH, heavily utlize a keyboard and mouse for precision control and chat functions and are often designed to keep your attention more focused. It is an entirely different mentality. Very few people want to grab a controller and sit in the office chair to play, especially when for the same price you could have a standalone ps3 that you can take to your friend's house or move to the basement TV when your mom is bitching that you are playing video games in the living room. I'd love to go on, as there are so very many reasons this is a terrible idea, but I'm jetlagged as hell and tired.
More importantly, the book doesn't CITE anyone. He acts as if he invented the entire field of cellular automata by himself, with no help from anyone, and with never ever reading a paper on it. There's no way a peer reviewed journal would have let him get away with writing without giving credit to those whose work he built upon.
Good point. What I should have said is that not only is water polar, it's very polar compared to most other molecules.
To follow up on your follow-up, water is hard to splash because it's a polar molecule. There's a slight positive charge off to one side and a slight negative charge off to the other. Hence, the molecules of water tend to attract each other. They also attract lots of other stuff, which is why water is so great as a solvent, why you get a meniscus at the top of a test tube, why rain droplets form nice round bubbles on the surface of your car, etcetera.
Sometimes in science I tend to get caught up with the complex math and theory, and forget the basic stuff. Water is a truly fascinating material, and can give us a lot of insight into the workings of the world.
Welcome to the era of government run by the conservative right. We can only hope that the supreme up-fucking that is privatization of social security will lead to a massive backlash and maybe we'll actually get some SANE people into office.
Seriously, how did this get a mod as Interesting? He bitches about the arrogance of humans thinking we are the center of everything, then is INSANELY arrogant in stating his own theory as if it were an indisputable fact, while providing NO evidence to support it.
The whole POINT of the term "dark energy" is to say "there's something funny here and we don't know what it is". I'd say that's one regulation shitload less arrogant than camel pilot's claim.
By the way, I'm far from a cosmologist, but the poster clearly has no grasp on the difference between dark matter and dark energy, and therefore has proven he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
WTF? If MS had done to the PC what Nintendo did to the hand held gaming market, it would make the current and past antitrust cases look like a walk in the park.
And to your WTF I offer my own WTF. As in, WTF does nintendo have to do with antitrust cases? From what I've seen, nintendo has steadily lost developers, market share, and general popularity to the top two. Please enlighten me on how ANYTHING nintendo does is even remotely relevant to microsoft's antitrust crap?
remember the Sega game gear or the Atari Lynx?
Those other hand helds that are also dam close to a decade and a half old.. remember colour screens and the ability to watch TV on them(well i only remember the GG having a TV adapter but i never liked the lynx)
remember the pathetic battery life, huge size, clunkiness, poor controls, washed out screens, and mediocre games? Gameboy didn't win because nintendo forced it down our throats, it won because it was a better system. I wish I could say the same about the DS, because from what I can see it looks pretty lame.
Imagine MS having held us back at Dos 5 for 10 long years as the default desktop OS, and Linux and Mac having systems of today to compete with Dos 5 and 386's, but still losing?
Except gameboy was never a default desktop anything, it was a small, cheap, neat way to keep the kids busy in the car and make the bus ride less boring. You don't need to be on the bleeding edge of technology to occupy someone for a few minutes. My mom still plays one of those little ten dollar walmart yahtzee games, and she's had it for YEARS.
There is no plain english explanation. This is why most americans don't understand how badly they are being fucked by the fcc.
Uh, I think it was more a joke about being cloudy and rainy all the time, but I could be wrong.
you know, I'm starting to think that this has to be some sort of troll conspiracy. People must have started noticing that the editors don't read the site, and INTENTIONALLY submit duplicate articles. It's unreal how often we see the same article again on here.
The accesibility of said menu or tool bar depends heavily on which version of emacs you use. Obviously you can't click a menu button on a command line version, but the menu system on the command line version is far from intuitive, and the graphical versions aren't much better.