> Perhaps you've heard of centrifugal force? I heard that it doesn't really exist. Perhaps you've heard of centripetal force?
Perhaps I've got a degree in Physics?
Whether a force is "fictional" or "real" all depends on your frame of reference. In this context, the distinction hardly matters and would be a digression.
Why is this article filed under "funny"? If 161 Americans had been fired by instant message I rather think it'd be "your rights online". But because they're foreigners it's only important as something to laugh at. Maybe the editors have their aidience pegged, as the post above and the majority I've looked at are dumb insensitive jokes.
If there's a north america, and a south america, then collectively the whole thing is america.
If you want a term that means both N & S America, the accepted one is "the Americas". On a related note, one often sees the term "Western Hemisphere" when what the writer obviously means is the Americas; forgetting that the Western Hemisphere starts at Greenwich and includes most of the Atlantic (Ireland, Iceland, and many smaller islands) and half of the Pacific.
>Even back in the 70s when O'Neill advocated space colonies in the L5 orbits it was possible to make a case. With a much cheaper launch method it becomes compelling.
What would be the point behind this? A station at a lagrange point would be weightless, so long term inhabitation would essentially be impossible unless we invent a gravity generator.
Perhaps you've heard of centrifugal force? Please, read O'Neill's The High Frontier for a detailed explanation of how large space colonies would be built.
Honestly, I see no useful purpose for a space station near earth. In fact, I see no useful purpose for a space station anywhere in space. One we have the capability to build space elevators, it becomes much more financially sane to build space stations on a planet surface and offer access to space through a space elevator. Maybe someone can point out a real use of an orbiting space station to me.
You have a better point there. But to get from one planet or the Moon to another you still need spaceships. And you have to have a facility at the centre of gravity of the elevator, and maybe at the end too -- and these are space stations. It also seems certain that large metallic asteroids could be very useful -- and to work on these we'd need people in space. Ditto for large solar arrays to beam energy to Earth or elsewhere via microwaves.
Not to diss NASA, but how many people do you know who have benefitted significantly from the space program?
We've all benefited greatly from weather and telecom satellites.
Note these are both forms of information -- to get physical goods and energy, it's still much too expensive. Thus a radically cheaper way to get to orbit will make much more possible (solar energy collection, asteroid mining, to pick a couple at random).
Surely the porn magnet wishes to avoid kids seeing porn? After all, it's 1) Bad publicity, 2) Not productive (kids don't pay) and 3) Likely to involve the wrath of the Federal Government.
The guy was scamming them. He was paid for each hit on their websites; obviously they wouldn't want kids for the reasons you state, but theres's no way for them to tell -- he probably laundered the referrers so they couldn't see the initial site. But I hardly feel sympathy for those guys either.
No, RTFA.
"sentenced Thursday to 30 months in federal prison... he pleaded guilty to 49 counts of violating the federal Truth in Domain Names Act and one count of possessing child pornography."
With time off etc he'll probably be out in a year.
Ohh Google, can you tell me info about "high altitude balloons"
And the good lord google said: even my children have flown over 82,000+ miles or 131962.6 kilometers using boyancy, which is way above AC's stated 35,785 km geostationary orbit my child.
So lord google, what is the altitude for geostationary orbit?
And the lord google replied: 35,787 km above mean sea level.
Whenever a space story is brought up, some person always brings up the argument that perhaps we should spend money on the poor instead of a useless space elevator
I'm sure that more is spent on any one of: cosmetics, fizzy drinks, cigarettes, SUVs, cocaine. If you're just talking about govt expenditure; at least 100 times as much is spent on the military.
If access to space is much cheaper, the benefits to the world will be immense; though it'll take a few decades. Even back in the 70s when O'Neill advocated space colonies in the L5 orbits it was possible to make a case. With a much cheaper launch method it becomes compelling.
Surely Nigeria should be on that list, with all its bank account spams?
I get a couple of Nigerians a month. Dozens of viagras, cable descramblers, mortgages, credit card accoutns a day. All of the latter quite definitely from American vendors.
If the user interfaces are so poor, why don't you help fix them? Instead of approaching this in a manner designed to piss people off and create enemies, why don't you say things like:"It seems to me that the cups configuration wizard could be a bit more intuitive. Specifically at these points..."
About 5 years ago I was deciding to buy my first home PC (after working with them for several years). I was strongly leaning towards a Mac, even though it did cost considerably more. I decided on one that included a DOS card with a 486 that could run my Windows software too. So I said I want that, with a bigger hard disk (I think it came with a 3GB disk, pretty tight for two OSs). The answer was no. I could buy another hard disk and install it myself. So I took my money and had a PC built to order. That arrogance and inflexibility lost them a costomer.
How long before the US government starts to notice how much foreign countries are saving with OSS?
Probably some time after they notice how much they're saving by using metric measures. I'm amazed that the US actually has a decimal currency -- with the conservative attitudes they have to these things I'd expect they'd still be using pieces of eight (though that's what "two bits" refers to).
That might well be true, if they had actually tried using something else. It's always amazed me how people will just refuse to even consider anything else than MS Office/Windows/IE/Outlook. If a menu is a different colour, it's a showstopper.
I think the main reason for wiping of programmes was to do with the cost of tapes.
I read recently (no citation, I'm afraid, but it was probably on a BBC site) that the old film (rather than video) was literally piled up in a building and was a fire risk. As the perceived value of these old programmes was zero, they were trashed (not reused). With most of the ephemera, they were right. They weren't to know the cult status some like Dr Who would achieve years later, and selling video was also years in the future (ironic for an SF show to suffer from the lack of thinking forward).
Mostly I use the Search box in Opera's toolbar. It defaults to Google, but there are a dozen others (AlltheWeb, etc). But I do go to the homepage when I need to do an "advanced" search.
>I'm not sure if that was irony or stupidity. Anyway, here's a clickable link to the patent.
Isn't is better to just post the href in text instead of in an anchor-tag? I mean, most of us need to copy and paste it in our addressbar ya know.
Is that a joke about the IE vulnerability? Anyway, you may have noticed that Slashdot fucks up long text strings by inserting spaces, (to prevent assholes who try to mess up the tables) so you have to copy , paste and edit to use the original version. If you want to paste it rather than click it for some paranoid reason, just right click on the link and copy.
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Perhaps I've got a degree in Physics?
Whether a force is "fictional" or "real" all depends on your frame of reference. In this context, the distinction hardly matters and would be a digression.
Why is this article filed under "funny"? If 161 Americans had been fired by instant message I rather think it'd be "your rights online". But because they're foreigners it's only important as something to laugh at. Maybe the editors have their aidience pegged, as the post above and the majority I've looked at are dumb insensitive jokes.
If you want a term that means both N & S America, the accepted one is "the Americas". On a related note, one often sees the term "Western Hemisphere" when what the writer obviously means is the Americas; forgetting that the Western Hemisphere starts at Greenwich and includes most of the Atlantic (Ireland, Iceland, and many smaller islands) and half of the Pacific.
What would be the point behind this? A station at a lagrange point would be weightless, so long term inhabitation would essentially be impossible unless we invent a gravity generator.
Perhaps you've heard of centrifugal force? Please, read O'Neill's The High Frontier for a detailed explanation of how large space colonies would be built.
Honestly, I see no useful purpose for a space station near earth. In fact, I see no useful purpose for a space station anywhere in space. One we have the capability to build space elevators, it becomes much more financially sane to build space stations on a planet surface and offer access to space through a space elevator. Maybe someone can point out a real use of an orbiting space station to me.
You have a better point there. But to get from one planet or the Moon to another you still need spaceships. And you have to have a facility at the centre of gravity of the elevator, and maybe at the end too -- and these are space stations. It also seems certain that large metallic asteroids could be very useful -- and to work on these we'd need people in space. Ditto for large solar arrays to beam energy to Earth or elsewhere via microwaves.
We've all benefited greatly from weather and telecom satellites.
Note these are both forms of information -- to get physical goods and energy, it's still much too expensive. Thus a radically cheaper way to get to orbit will make much more possible (solar energy collection, asteroid mining, to pick a couple at random).
The guy was scamming them. He was paid for each hit on their websites; obviously they wouldn't want kids for the reasons you state, but theres's no way for them to tell -- he probably laundered the referrers so they couldn't see the initial site. But I hardly feel sympathy for those guys either.
So why post uninformed comment?
No, RTFA.
"sentenced Thursday to 30 months in federal prison... he pleaded guilty to 49 counts of violating the federal Truth in Domain Names Act and one count of possessing child pornography."
With time off etc he'll probably be out in a year.
Ohh Google, can you tell me info about "high altitude balloons"
And the good lord google said: even my children have flown over 82,000+ miles or 131962.6 kilometers using boyancy, which is way above AC's stated 35,785 km geostationary orbit my child.
So lord google, what is the altitude for geostationary orbit?
And the lord google replied: 35,787 km above mean sea level.
That was 82000 FEET = 15 miles.
I'm sure that more is spent on any one of: cosmetics, fizzy drinks, cigarettes, SUVs, cocaine. If you're just talking about govt expenditure; at least 100 times as much is spent on the military.
If access to space is much cheaper, the benefits to the world will be immense; though it'll take a few decades. Even back in the 70s when O'Neill advocated space colonies in the L5 orbits it was possible to make a case. With a much cheaper launch method it becomes compelling.
Open the pod bay doors please, Hal.
I get a couple of Nigerians a month. Dozens of viagras, cable descramblers, mortgages, credit card accoutns a day. All of the latter quite definitely from American vendors.
Or, since OSX uses CUPS, why not copy their interface? At least some of it should be open source already.
He DID say things like that.
About 5 years ago I was deciding to buy my first home PC (after working with them for several years). I was strongly leaning towards a Mac, even though it did cost considerably more. I decided on one that included a DOS card with a 486 that could run my Windows software too. So I said I want that, with a bigger hard disk (I think it came with a 3GB disk, pretty tight for two OSs). The answer was no. I could buy another hard disk and install it myself. So I took my money and had a PC built to order. That arrogance and inflexibility lost them a costomer.
Dummies.com Search: Your search for "linux" returned : 26 books
Probably some time after they notice how much they're saving by using metric measures. I'm amazed that the US actually has a decimal currency -- with the conservative attitudes they have to these things I'd expect they'd still be using pieces of eight (though that's what "two bits" refers to).
That might well be true, if they had actually tried using something else. It's always amazed me how people will just refuse to even consider anything else than MS Office/Windows/IE/Outlook. If a menu is a different colour, it's a showstopper.
I was hoping it was "Rome" meaning the seat of the Catholic faith. If the Vatican went Linux it'd be hard to call Linux users Commies.
The Office?
I read recently (no citation, I'm afraid, but it was probably on a BBC site) that the old film (rather than video) was literally piled up in a building and was a fire risk. As the perceived value of these old programmes was zero, they were trashed (not reused). With most of the ephemera, they were right. They weren't to know the cult status some like Dr Who would achieve years later, and selling video was also years in the future (ironic for an SF show to suffer from the lack of thinking forward).
Mostly I use the Search box in Opera's toolbar. It defaults to Google, but there are a dozen others (AlltheWeb, etc). But I do go to the homepage when I need to do an "advanced" search.
Pirates of Silicon Valley:
Jobs: "Our stuff is better."
Gates: "Ya don't get it Steve, that doesn't matter."
So it was a unanimous anonymous vote?
Isn't is better to just post the href in text instead of in an anchor-tag? I mean, most of us need to copy and paste it in our addressbar ya know.
Is that a joke about the IE vulnerability? Anyway, you may have noticed that Slashdot fucks up long text strings by inserting spaces, (to prevent assholes who try to mess up the tables) so you have to copy , paste and edit to use the original version. If you want to paste it rather than click it for some paranoid reason, just right click on the link and copy.