The tumbling is due to the fact that the full thrust us taking too much time to come. By the time full thurst came, the initial thrust had already lifted of the rocket and naturally due to that newton guy this thing would start tumbling, and when thrust was enough to pull it with speed it was horizontal.
The solution would be to have a pipe around the rocket, by the time the rocket exits the pipe full thrust would be generated, and before that the pipe would keep it more or less straigt. Or if you can have such a motor design which can go to full thurst in minimal time it would be great, but that is expensive.
If you want a safer demo of this you can try this. Take the ordinary fireworks rocket, the small one with the long stick which you put in a bottle and then ignote the fuse. You will see that the rocket goes quite save. Next take a smaller bottle and place the rocket so that the bottom of the stick is very near to top of botle. you will see that the initial thrust will have the rocket out of the bottle, but since the thrust is not enough yet the rocket will begin to fall sideways and by the time it falls power is max and you have a SSM!
It's also the most overhyped and overpriced toy ever, and I'm kicking myself for posting it since that just contributes to the problem. Why did you post it then?
For those who in clouds or daylight can tune their FM radio to some far FM channel(102+ MHz) where there is no FM radio signal. Whoosh whoosh sounds you will hear:)
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I dunno about this baby, but earlier GL versions are much faster on windows. For a fast machine this change is not noticable. But I run a 600 MHz celeron with 16MB RIVA TNT. I have noticed that tuxracer crawls, but UT runs much faster under higher res. Is it due to GL or due to the game. Also I have noticed that most linux games based on GL really crawl on my machine. I havent tried UT2003 yet, but could anyone enlighten my why this performance difference between linux and win, considering most other apps are much much faster on win.
Whoa man, you sure got yourself mixed up. this is a movie, a work of fiction. This is for entertainment. A kids movie where they want a hero.
Supreman, batman all are frauds that way. All movies are fraud. I read the article it is absolute bullshit. The write is indiscriminately butchering the character.
Did your mom love you? Good, maybe you deserve to be a hero, too. The love of Harry's mother saves his life not once but twice in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Not only that, but her love for Harry sends Voldemort into hiding for 13 years, saving countless other lives in the process. The book and the movie should be named after Lily Potter. But thanks to the revisionist histories of J.K. Rowling, Lily's son is remembered as the world's savior.
I found the writer weird. The kind who see conspiracy in everything!
Uncertainity principle
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The Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.
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Q: How many [slashdotters] does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, the bulb gets screwed as soon as it is slashdotted
From: Johan Blixt blixt@trantor.math.kth.se I found this in "The Guardian." (UK)
Disregarding the metaphysical aspects of Schrodinger's cats, (Letters, April 28) I must protest at the use of (possibly live) animals for experiments such as these. I urge readers to boycott whatever product this research is leading to.
Roger Bisby, Reigate, Surrey.
[Note - originally appeared in RHF during second quarter of 1990 - ed]
From: "Anthony Coulter" c17gmaster@earthlink.net There is nothing wrong with the Schroedinger's Cat experiment! You aren't actually killing the cat until you measure it... When the Humane Society comes up and looks into your box, you can rest assured that the cat's death is their fault...
this one I never forget..
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Law 1: A cat always lands on its feet
Law 2: A toast always falls with buttered side down
New Technology: Scientists have proposed that we will glue cats to unbuttered sides of toasts. By law one and 2, both will never fall and keep spinning above the ground. This buttered cat array will be used for high speed cat-but-lev trains.
We've all heard the joke about the computer programmer who, when given the choice of transforming a frog into a beautiful princess with a kiss, declines, saying he has no need for a beautiful woman, 'but a talking frog is REALLY cool!'
Actually no, I haven't.
You better sue taco for slashdotting your ears, but its good you read it before your eyes got slashdotted;-)
Like it or not, with these sort of tools available for free, ogg is haven for audio pirates and EMI will not have any of it.
What next.... OSS users are also pirates eh? For your kind information all the songs being pirated in mp3 chatrooms and napster were not in ogg, they were in mp3. I seriously think whoever modded you up was on crack. As far as free encoders are there, even mp3 encoders are for free. Before you post such inflamatory comments do a little research, most of the cracking, virus building, pirating, warez are on closed source platforms.
A pirate is a pirate, wether you give it mp3 or ogg the pirate ses no difference.
quite an insightful comment, I wonder why it wasnt modded up!
But people wont demand something, unless they know that it will really effect them. Most of the managerial staff will not realize that the core infrastucture beneath the win boxes is OSS. Unless they are educated of course. But you have to realize that intial costs of migration will be high. There will be glitches, crashes and what not. People will be realy put off and you will be called a bad sys-admin. It may take about 4-5 months of low productivity, can you sustain that. After that things will be stable and good, and soon people will realize that the ice-cream tastes better than the cake, which was stale anyways;-)
I agree with you. One comment I liked is the bit about international cooperation. I receive a lot of international spam(from the US). Now I cant call them up and tell them to shut up in the US or for that matter take cause any real annoyance to them except for spamassasin!
This problem will grow unless govt takes more interest in internet and stricter anto-spam laws are there. But the case is that with more govt interference come more evils. The only option is offence, like finding their home numbers and ringing them up at 2am to tell them if they want to buy so and so cream... Mahatma Gandhi once said "An eye for an eye will make the world blind" But I guess that seems a better option than my ISP bills.
NASA makes plan
Congress shoots it down. I doubt if congress will increase spending in these times, unless NASA assures that mars is made of Gold, Oil and Platinum and they are going to bring it to us. Another way to get a huge budget is to convince the congress that all the gold will be used for paying their election campaingn costs. To convince slashdotters simply tell them that all RIAA executives will be sent out of solar system with Gates at the helm. For the masses all you have to tell them that the whole congress will be sent to pluto.
To the moderators: If you dont mod this up I will bribe that guy to send you all to venus...urm..well i will bribe Europe to send you to venus
Music industry follows a grand screw-up plan.
The profits reported are after these cuts :
Producers Pay
Actors/Director/etc pay
Cut for the guy who put in money ++++++ Some inflated expences. There is no way Stan is going to win. Marvel can easily show that the movie made a loss, well it did only after the producer took his 200 Million $ fee
Consider this, RIAA says 1$ per user, okay the radio station beams to one user, and that user passes it along. RIAAs jurisdiction will end at that point, ie the point of radio station. Beyond the radio station what the user is doing with stream is not under their control, unless some CARPA/DARPA bullshit comes to tackle it. So you can have live365 type stations take a breather. They can have only 5 streams, thats damn cheap by current rates, and the listenrs keep passing it along.
I am not too sure what legal redressal RIAA has against this thing, I doubt if there is any right now. Could anyone enlighten me?
Frankly speaking this could be a big coupe. Even if they change laws etc( I doubt that will be any time soon) they cant go running after everybody in the chain. If this network gets to be big, the hounds have a big task ahead of them. The only possible redressal for them is if they get the govt to ban the internet itself!
with this software, now the number of listeners is unlimited... yay!!
Apparently it appears so. But the fact is that the bandwidth would again limit it. Well the server will need only one or 2 user BW, but what if you have somebody behind a firewall and dosent want to share... You have a broken chain. In the ideal world everybody would share, and you can have 1000 listeners on 100 K orginal source, but in the real world around 20% will be willing to share.
hmm, for starters you can stream data on a 56K modem, ie a broadcast. This is what peercast says. I think P2P is a misnomer, it is more like a streamer, if you wanna start a radio station.
I tried fitting in a particular airline EULA, and guess what my jacket tore. After that I took the pledge that I wont carry anything heavier than a tank ever ever in my pocket.
am not sure if Saddam has heard about cheap linux systems. But what if he could build a super computer cluster?
So what.. he hasnt nuked anyone till yet. Though a particular country has already used a nuke
There can be no particular date.
The change will be gradual, with about a thousand years of no field. But I wont worry about it. There is no precedent of extinction due to pole reversal.
If primitive beings could survive so can we. There must be some mechanism by which the earth wards of the effects. Maybe some thing in ionosphere. It kind of difficult to beleive that something which couldnt make anything extinct 250000 years ago will do it now on a species which spends most of its life under radiation shields(read buildings)
"Mars will probably disappoint you visually. But it is cool to know you are looking at Mars, dispite the poor view. "
Not exactly. Mars disappoints very rarely. It has a distinctive red tinge. Infact when the sky is slightly hazy(due to vapour) like when all start are slightly dim, at that time mars is noticable because red light gets scattered the least. The best time is after it has rained and skys gone clear, the pollution leves are low, but water vapour content is high. Then you see the planed of war shine.
Infact there is an interesting story. During WW2 over europe, Mars was very very visible!
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The solution would be to have a pipe around the rocket, by the time the rocket exits the pipe full thrust would be generated, and before that the pipe would keep it more or less straigt. Or if you can have such a motor design which can go to full thurst in minimal time it would be great, but that is expensive.
If you want a safer demo of this you can try this. Take the ordinary fireworks rocket, the small one with the long stick which you put in a bottle and then ignote the fuse. You will see that the rocket goes quite save. Next take a smaller bottle and place the rocket so that the bottom of the stick is very near to top of botle. you will see that the initial thrust will have the rocket out of the bottle, but since the thrust is not enough yet the rocket will begin to fall sideways and by the time it falls power is max and you have a SSM!Why did you post it then?
Lemme guess,... slow news day
For those who in clouds or daylight can tune their FM radio to some far FM channel(102+ MHz) where there is no FM radio signal. Whoosh whoosh sounds you will hear :)
I dunno about this baby, but earlier GL versions are much faster on windows. For a fast machine this change is not noticable. But I run a 600 MHz celeron with 16MB RIVA TNT. I have noticed that tuxracer crawls, but UT runs much faster under higher res. Is it due to GL or due to the game. Also I have noticed that most linux games based on GL really crawl on my machine. I havent tried UT2003 yet, but could anyone enlighten my why this performance difference between linux and win, considering most other apps are much much faster on win.
managers have fun with wine, we developers have to make do with beer ;-)
Supreman, batman all are frauds that way. All movies are fraud. I read the article it is absolute bullshit. The write is indiscriminately butchering the character.
Did your mom love you? Good, maybe you deserve to be a hero, too. The love of Harry's mother saves his life not once but twice in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Not only that, but her love for Harry sends Voldemort into hiding for 13 years, saving countless other lives in the process. The book and the movie should be named after Lily Potter. But thanks to the revisionist histories of J.K. Rowling, Lily's son is remembered as the world's savior.
I found the writer weird. The kind who see conspiracy in everything!The Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
You can never be sure how many beers you had last night.
A: None, the bulb gets screwed as soon as it is slashdotted
This is an actual incident !
From: Johan Blixt blixt@trantor.math.kth.se
I found this in "The Guardian." (UK)
Disregarding the metaphysical aspects of Schrodinger's cats, (Letters,
April 28) I must protest at the use of (possibly live) animals for
experiments such as these. I urge readers to boycott whatever product
this research is leading to.
Roger Bisby, Reigate, Surrey.
[Note - originally appeared in RHF during second quarter of 1990 - ed]
From: "Anthony Coulter" c17gmaster@earthlink.net
There is nothing wrong with the Schroedinger's Cat experiment! You aren't
actually killing the cat until you measure it... When the Humane Society
comes up and looks into your box, you can rest assured that the cat's death
is their fault...
Law 1: A cat always lands on its feet
Law 2: A toast always falls with buttered side down
New Technology: Scientists have proposed that we will glue cats to unbuttered sides of toasts. By law one and 2, both will never fall and keep spinning above the ground. This buttered cat array will be used for high speed cat-but-lev trains.
*ducks*
Actually no, I haven't.
You better sue taco for slashdotting your ears, but its good you read it before your eyes got slashdotted ;-)
What next.... OSS users are also pirates eh? For your kind information all the songs being pirated in mp3 chatrooms and napster were not in ogg, they were in mp3. I seriously think whoever modded you up was on crack. As far as free encoders are there, even mp3 encoders are for free. Before you post such inflamatory comments do a little research, most of the cracking, virus building, pirating, warez are on closed source platforms.
A pirate is a pirate, wether you give it mp3 or ogg the pirate ses no difference.Sorry for the spelling mistake my concious is moonlight powered.
In case the above site gets roasted, space.com also has pics and article.
This article has the links.You can also zoom in and use the viewer.
quite an insightful comment, I wonder why it wasnt modded up! ;-)
But people wont demand something, unless they know that it will really effect them. Most of the managerial staff will not realize that the core infrastucture beneath the win boxes is OSS.
Unless they are educated of course. But you have to realize that intial costs of migration will be high. There will be glitches, crashes and what not. People will be realy put off and you will be called a bad sys-admin. It may take about 4-5 months of low productivity, can you sustain that. After that things will be stable and good, and soon people will realize that the ice-cream tastes better than the cake, which was stale anyways
I agree with you. One comment I liked is the bit about international cooperation. I receive a lot of international spam(from the US). Now I cant call them up and tell them to shut up in the US or for that matter take cause any real annoyance to them except for spamassasin!
This problem will grow unless govt takes more interest in internet and stricter anto-spam laws are there. But the case is that with more govt interference come more evils. The only option is offence, like finding their home numbers and ringing them up at 2am to tell them if they want to buy so and so cream... Mahatma Gandhi once said
"An eye for an eye will make the world blind"
But I guess that seems a better option than my ISP bills.
NASA makes plan ..well i will bribe Europe to send you to venus
Congress shoots it down. I doubt if congress will increase spending in these times, unless NASA assures that mars is made of Gold, Oil and Platinum and they are going to bring it to us.
Another way to get a huge budget is to convince the congress that all the gold will be used for paying their election campaingn costs.
To convince slashdotters simply tell them that all RIAA executives will be sent out of solar system with Gates at the helm.
For the masses all you have to tell them that the whole congress will be sent to pluto.
To the moderators: If you dont mod this up I will bribe that guy to send you all to venus...urm
Music industry follows a grand screw-up plan.
The profits reported are after these cuts :
Producers Pay
Actors/Director/etc pay
Cut for the guy who put in money
++++++
Some inflated expences. There is no way Stan is going to win. Marvel can easily show that the movie made a loss, well it did only after the producer took his 200 Million $ fee
I am not too sure what legal redressal RIAA has against this thing, I doubt if there is any right now. Could anyone enlighten me?
Frankly speaking this could be a big coupe. Even if they change laws etc( I doubt that will be any time soon) they cant go running after everybody in the chain. If this network gets to be big, the hounds have a big task ahead of them. The only possible redressal for them is if they get the govt to ban the internet itself!Guess what, technology always stays ahead...
Apparently it appears so. But the fact is that the bandwidth would again limit it. Well the server will need only one or 2 user BW, but what if you have somebody behind a firewall and dosent want to share... You have a broken chain. In the ideal world everybody would share, and you can have 1000 listeners on 100 K orginal source, but in the real world around 20% will be willing to share.
Is it like icecast?
I tried fitting in a particular airline EULA, and guess what my jacket tore. After that I took the pledge that I wont carry anything heavier than a tank ever ever in my pocket.
am not sure if Saddam has heard about cheap linux systems. But what if he could build a super computer cluster? So what.. he hasnt nuked anyone till yet. Though a particular country has already used a nuke
There can be no particular date.
The change will be gradual, with about a thousand years of no field. But I wont worry about it. There is no precedent of extinction due to pole reversal.
If primitive beings could survive so can we. There must be some mechanism by which the earth wards of the effects. Maybe some thing in ionosphere. It kind of difficult to beleive that something which couldnt make anything extinct 250000 years ago will do it now on a species which spends most of its life under radiation shields(read buildings)
Not exactly. Mars disappoints very rarely. It has a distinctive red tinge. Infact when the sky is slightly hazy(due to vapour) like when all start are slightly dim, at that time mars is noticable because red light gets scattered the least. The best time is after it has rained and skys gone clear, the pollution leves are low, but water vapour content is high. Then you see the planed of war shine.
Infact there is an interesting story. During WW2 over europe, Mars was very very visible!