Roto-Rooter Man said it first, but I agree: Dupe. The link's different, but the story's the same. Guess the/. editors just can't resist "free registration [and so forth]" statements. ^_^
I can't remember if bandwidth is calculated using 1024s or 1000s, but both ways give a fairly similar number.
It would be nice if 1 KB equaled 1024 bytes all the time instead of being 1000 bytes when manufacturers want to make their drives sound bigger than they really are. (Granted, they're probably using gigabytes, which are 1024^3 bytes, but you get the idea.)
That thread was in an article about Oracle, not the moderation system. See it here.. The thread isn't about Oracle, so it's offtopic. Yes, there is a large amount of good discussion there, but it's still offtopic, so it all got modded down.
Some call this the/. editors' supression of dissenting opinions, but the posts were interfering with the discussion about the article and had to be "dealt with". I don't necessarily agree with the way it was dealt with, but I can see why it was done. vidarlo made a good point when he (or she) said: This has, as far as I can see, nothing to do with Oracle debate going on. This is something that should be put in Ask Slashdot. An Ask Slashdot or a poll about moderation would have been a much better place for that discussion.
I'm going to add units to your work and elaborate on what was said above to try to help. I know, units are extra work, but it helps prevent mistakes like this.
25,000(km)/24(hr)=1,041.67(km/hr)
This part's fine.
1,041.67(km/hr)*100,000(km)=10,467,000((km^2)/hr)
(km^2)/hr is not the same as km/hr.
what you should do is this:
25,000 km / 2pi = 3,978.87 km <- Radius of earth
3,978.87 km + 100,000 km = 103,978.87 km <- Radius of earth + tower height
103,978.87 km * 2pi = 653,318.50 km <- circumfrence of circle traced by end of tower
653,318.50 km / 24 hr = 27,221.60 km/hr <- Speed of the end of the tower.
I know there was an Iowa State version floating around, in addition to (most likely) a version for every major university.
What would have been really cool is if the generator page used your IP address to determine your location, then used a local university name in the "story". I don't know if that's how it was done, but it would be much more consistent in a given area than randomly generating a college name.
"When I find the bastards who programmed this thing I'd be happy to castrate them with a pair of dull pinking shears,"
fumed one of Xupiter's many unhappy victims in a newsgroup posting.
I'd bet you could get these customized as well, with something like this:
+---+---+---+
| A | B | C | Initials
+---+---+---+
| D | E | F | Initials 2
+---+---+---+
| D | M | Y | Date/Month/Year
+---+---+---+
done on a side in the appropriate color (white, or whatever). Of course, this could put the price out of the $4.00 range.
If you really want to be devious, you can scramble them all before the wedding and see who (if anyone) can solve their cube before the end of the reception. Or something.
I thought the same thing at first, but then realized they were talking about RWs.
At 52x, it does take 92 sec to burn a 700Mb CD-R. The article abruptly changes to RWs without notice. This is what the 2.5 minute burn time is referring to.
To continue ranting about this, the HotHardware article says the drive burns RWs at 24x, which translates to 3 1/3 minutes for a 700Mb RW, not 2.5 minutes.
When you first started using a computer, did you learn how to use it via the CLI? Probably not. The main problem i see with switching to *NIXes is that most of the converts aren't used to the CLI in Windows, let alone Linux. The first step has to be to a nice (or at least decent) GUI so that the user isn't completely frustrated by every little thing.
I wanted to learn DOS, but i didnt do it by booting to the prompt. I mucked about with the terminal in Windows so that when i was frustrated, i could just go do what i wanted using Windows Explorer.
So to restate what i have said (like all good CprE majors trying to use English do): it's possible to learn to use the CLI if that's all you have, but it's much nicer to have a GUI to fall back on when you're tired of the CLI.
must be a by-product of severe sleep-deprivation
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I have looked at slashdot so often that i have read an article that had no replies. Wow.
At least the article makes no attempt to disguise the fact that it's nothing more than a stinking pile of worm feces, which is more than I can say for some of the/. articles I've seen.
To the best of my knowledge, we would be taking the energy from the moon, since it is the primary source of tides.
Since the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth (again, to the best of my knowledge), we could take just enough energy from the moon to keep it from drifting away at all.
First off, here's a map showing where the lagrange points in the earth-sun system are. This map works for the earth-moon system as well, as the earth-moon syetem is reduced to a point for earth-sun lagrange calculations.
You're right about L1, L2, and L3 not being stable, but L4 and L5 are. This link explains in a bit more detail , but the L4 and L5 points, despite being peaks of gravitational "hills", would be self stabilizing.
Here's NASA's explanation: A detailed analysis (In PostScript or PDF) confirms our expectations [of instability] for L1, L2 and L3, but not for L4 and L5. When a satellite parked at L4 or L5 starts to roll off the hill it picks up speed. At this point the Coriolis force comes into play - the same force that causes hurricanes to spin up on the earth - and sends the satellite into a stable orbit around the Lagrange point.
Putting a space station at either of these stable points wouldn't be much more difficult than putting something in orbit around the L1 point and would be easier then going around the moon to the L2 point, which NASA has shown they can do with reasonable success.
The radiation would be worse there, but if we have to improve our radiation shielding anyway, we might as well try to make it strong enough so people can be placed at these points.
I want to check and see if this works, but I can't seem to find an easy to bluescreen my computer. I found a program that did it once, but any (non-destructive) method will do.
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Roto-Rooter Man said it first, but I agree: /. editors just can't resist "free registration [and so forth]" statements. ^_^
Dupe.
The link's different, but the story's the same.
Guess the
(923 Mb/sec) (Tb / 1024^2 Mb) (TB / 8 Tb) (LOC / 20 TB)(3600 sec / hr) = 1.98 * 10^-2 LOC/hr
Or:
(923 Mb/sec) (Tb / 1000^2 Mb) (TB / 8 Tb) (LOC / 20 TB)(3600 sec / hr) = 2.08 * 10^-2 LOC/hr
I can't remember if bandwidth is calculated using 1024s or 1000s, but both ways give a fairly similar number.
It would be nice if 1 KB equaled 1024 bytes all the time instead of being 1000 bytes when manufacturers want to make their drives sound bigger than they really are. (Granted, they're probably using gigabytes, which are 1024^3 bytes, but you get the idea.)
Some call this the /. editors' supression of dissenting opinions, but the posts were interfering with the discussion about the article and had to be "dealt with". I don't necessarily agree with the way it was dealt with, but I can see why it was done. vidarlo made a good point when he (or she) said: This has, as far as I can see, nothing to do with Oracle debate going on. This is something that should be put in Ask Slashdot. An Ask Slashdot or a poll about moderation would have been a much better place for that discussion.
25,000(km)/24(hr)=1,041.67(km/hr)
This part's fine.
1,041.67(km/hr)*100,000(km)=10,467,000((km^2)/hr)
(km^2)/hr is not the same as km/hr.
what you should do is this:
25,000 km / 2pi = 3,978.87 km <- Radius of earth
3,978.87 km + 100,000 km = 103,978.87 km <- Radius of earth + tower height
103,978.87 km * 2pi = 653,318.50 km <- circumfrence of circle traced by end of tower
653,318.50 km / 24 hr = 27,221.60 km/hr <- Speed of the end of the tower.
Hope this helps.
Lisa: "Only one person in a million would find that funny!"
Prof. Frink: "Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller Ratio."
Well, with a statement like that, I have to wonder who they're competing with.
Seriously, though. Who uses a 256 bit key anymore? AFAIK, the suggested key size is at least 1024 bits.
What would have been really cool is if the generator page used your IP address to determine your location, then used a local university name in the "story". I don't know if that's how it was done, but it would be much more consistent in a given area than randomly generating a college name.
Quoted from the Wired article
+---+---+---+
| A | B | C | Initials
+---+---+---+
| D | E | F | Initials 2
+---+---+---+
| D | M | Y | Date/Month/Year
+---+---+---+
done on a side in the appropriate color (white, or whatever). Of course, this could put the price out of the $4.00 range.
If you really want to be devious, you can scramble them all before the wedding and see who (if anyone) can solve their cube before the end of the reception. Or something.
You can get source and windows binaries from ftp://ftp.xpilot.org/pub/.
Isn't it only fitting that there be uncertainty surrounding the origins of Quantum Physics?
At 52x, it does take 92 sec to burn a 700Mb CD-R. The article abruptly changes to RWs without notice. This is what the 2.5 minute burn time is referring to.
To continue ranting about this, the HotHardware article says the drive burns RWs at 24x, which translates to 3 1/3 minutes for a 700Mb RW, not 2.5 minutes.
I wanted to learn DOS, but i didnt do it by booting to the prompt. I mucked about with the terminal in Windows so that when i was frustrated, i could just go do what i wanted using Windows Explorer.
So to restate what i have said (like all good CprE majors trying to use English do): it's possible to learn to use the CLI if that's all you have, but it's much nicer to have a GUI to fall back on when you're tired of the CLI.
or something.
I have looked at slashdot so often that i have read an article that had no replies. Wow.
Hmm. I guess I do, don't I? Oh well.
You'll have to click the Translate button, but hey, deal with it.
At least the article makes no attempt to disguise the fact that it's nothing more than a stinking pile of worm feces, which is more than I can say for some of the /. articles I've seen.
I remember Mosaic. We had it in elementary school. Now I'm in college, and Mosaic is still better/as good as IE.
To the best of my knowledge, we would be taking the energy from the moon, since it is the primary source of tides.
Since the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth (again, to the best of my knowledge), we could take just enough energy from the moon to keep it from drifting away at all.
There's a link of for this story on the NY times at the bottom of the page.
I figure i'd post it here for reference:
And here it is.
You're right about L1, L2, and L3 not being stable, but L4 and L5 are. This link explains in a bit more detail , but the L4 and L5 points, despite being peaks of gravitational "hills", would be self stabilizing.
Here's NASA's explanation:
A detailed analysis (In PostScript or PDF) confirms our expectations [of instability] for L1, L2 and L3, but not for L4 and L5. When a satellite parked at L4 or L5 starts to roll off the hill it picks up speed. At this point the Coriolis force comes into play - the same force that causes hurricanes to spin up on the earth - and sends the satellite into a stable orbit around the Lagrange point.
Putting a space station at either of these stable points wouldn't be much more difficult than putting something in orbit around the L1 point and would be easier then going around the moon to the L2 point, which NASA has shown they can do with reasonable success.
The radiation would be worse there, but if we have to improve our radiation shielding anyway, we might as well try to make it strong enough so people can be placed at these points.
Better not eat it, though. You might ruin the Slim Jim RC5 team's chances at winning.
I want to check and see if this works, but I can't seem to find an easy to bluescreen my computer. I found a program that did it once, but any (non-destructive) method will do.
(This is horribly off-topic, but what the heck.)
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