Just to clarify, I intended to point out in a humorous way that the decision to levy an additional tax on education was less than intelligent already. If Luke Ravenstahl believes that the citizens of Pittsburgh will support this to their own detriment, well, that says something about his attitude toward his constituency, doesn't it? (If they do wind up supporting it, that says something as well.)
I believe lpaul55 meant that such a move will have a deleterious effect on higher education in Pittsburgh, and with that I certainly agree.
FidoNet has been in operation since 1984 and has always supported attachment of arbitrary files. I'd suppose that the first issue of the FidoNews newsletter, dated 1 December of that year, probably constituted the first episodic media transmitted to subscribers on that system. I don't know which issue was first to include a WAV or GIF file, but the capability was there from the beginning.
Who, oh, do you mean the draft dodging guy who smokes hashish and sleeps with hippie chicks while writing crazy ass cyberpunk drivel?
I'm quite sure he's referring to William Gibson, the Tony-Award-winning playwright and novelist who died last year at the age of 94, still writing. His best-known work is "The Miracle Worker," a true American stage classic.
Why anyone on Slashdot would refer to that other William Gibson is beyond me.
It would most likely bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 8980 meters. Minor local damage might occur if a larger fragment happens to hit a house.
Thanks for not rounding that off to "nine kilometers" or even "about 10 km" as some less mathematically-inclined contributors would have done. If you've laboriously and precisely calculated that 2009 AV is exactly 7.000 meters in diameter, has a density of 8.000 g/cm3 and will hit the atmosphere at a 45.00 degree angle at exactly 17.00 km/s, why give up that hard-earned precision in your result?
Obviously, the Internet is to the American newspaper publisher and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone. Information wants to be free, you say? Well, so does Charles Manson!
This is slashdot, all patents are evil, and the most profitable thing for you to do would be to to let everyone know the details, and let them all build whatever it is you invented. That way, it gets worked on by different people in an open source way and you get a better ultimate product. And somehow you profit from that. I'm still trying to figure out that last part, but if a million slashdotters say something it can't be wrong.
I believe the standard notation for this is a single line containing three question marks.
Brilliant. Thank you. You've just made my morning.
She wants to shoot bugs out of the air with a water gun.
Unless the water gun has an extremely high muzzle velocity, she would need to lead the target bugs by a non-trivial angle. The flightpath prediction algorithms required for reliable hits would probably be prohibitively complex since they would have to take species, sex and several environmental factors into account (and math is HARD).
Yes, the vast scale of the distances involved does mean that the relatively small influence of relativistic effects will be magnified over the course of the mission, but they also dictate that large variances will have a commensurately smaller effect.
From Earth's vantage point, an error of a million miles at 2500 A.U. would amount to a pointing error of about.55 arcseconds, not significant enough to bother correcting where we (or the probe) point our antennas.
As for the environment at the Oort cloud, it will probably be just as interesting as the one a million kilometers to the left or right. This would be analogous to a shift of 18 meters left or right in low Earth orbit.
Finally, a correction can be easily applied if pinpoint accuracy becomes important. A delta vee of only 1.6 m/sec applied as late as 10 years after launch would do the trick.
Verizon spokesman Rich Young said the company has "zero tolerance for any sort of unethical or illegal behavior" and noted Benjamin was not convicted of any crime. "In the months since this incident, his conduct has been blameless. As a result, we will not take further action," Young said.
Wow, they've gotten no complaints from the HUNDREDS of homes they've sent this guy into since "this incident." Makes you feel warm and trusting all over, doesn't it?
Apparently "zero tolerance" doesn't mean the same thing to Verizon that it does where I work. Do they at least give their service techs "___ Days without Attacking a Customer" buttons?
The selection is about the same, the staff is equally competent, and they don't even ask for your address when you buy some batteries.
Yes, the equally competent Wal-Mart staff were very helpful last week when I needed a 2200 microfarad capacitor. I believe the kid's exact response was, "Dude, you shoulda hit the 'Shack."
I'm kidding of course. I hit the 'Shack first. And yes, I'm one of those guys who walks right past the luser filter--er--consumer electronics section.
Apparently it was found next to an 18" Stonehenge.
And the 13' monitor's contrast knob goes to 11. The colors don't get any brighter at 11, but the blacks get REALLY black. It's like, "How much more black could this be?" and the answer is none. None more black.
The movie he was referring to was Phase IV. The last line still haunts me. On a related note, if you haven't read Charles Stross' award-winning 2007 novella "Missile Gap", read it now.
Meanwhile, in the non-fictional realm, the VR Lab at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) has been working for years on "Ensphered Vision", complete with sound.
There are no Crocodiles in Florida, except in zoo's or animal parks. There are plenty of Alligators however.
These are American crocodiles. And yes, there are plenty of alligators in Florida—which is why they aren't endangered. The American crocodile is endangered, however, which is pointed out in article that you didn't read.
1. Buy a couple hundred acres in the National Radio Quiet Zone and build a resort/spa/retirement community for all the well-heeled electromagnetophobes.
2. Quietly buy up as much of the valley as you can, then support campaigns to get Blue Cross and Medicare to cover electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
3. Profit.
I'd do it, but I don't believe I could live with myself. Especially if I had to give up ubiquitous broadband.
If your hydrazine rocket can expel mass at, say, 1000 mph (making numbers up here) then the top speed of your rocket is 1000mph for reasons I hope are obvious. But ion engines can potentially eject mass at much higher speeds.
Actually, that turns out not to be the case. Neglecting outside forces, if two unequal masses are pushed apart, Newton's Third Law requires the smaller mass to move at a higher residual velocity. That's why most of a spacecraft's mass is fuel--to take advantage of that inequality.
2 out of 4 people? That's a startling and frightening statistic. However, it's not very useful due to the low sample number (4).
Now HERE's a shocker that will make you check your home for DHMO leaks: 99.4% of the American population have more than the average number of limbs. What a nation of freaks!
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Just to clarify, I intended to point out in a humorous way that the decision to levy an additional tax on education was less than intelligent already. If Luke Ravenstahl believes that the citizens of Pittsburgh will support this to their own detriment, well, that says something about his attitude toward his constituency, doesn't it? (If they do wind up supporting it, that says something as well.)
I believe lpaul55 meant that such a move will have a deleterious effect on higher education in Pittsburgh, and with that I certainly agree.
That's a way to dumb down the city.
Too late!
FidoNet has been in operation since 1984 and has always supported attachment of arbitrary files. I'd suppose that the first issue of the FidoNews newsletter, dated 1 December of that year, probably constituted the first episodic media transmitted to subscribers on that system. I don't know which issue was first to include a WAV or GIF file, but the capability was there from the beginning.
Who, oh, do you mean the draft dodging guy who smokes hashish and sleeps with hippie chicks while writing crazy ass cyberpunk drivel?
I'm quite sure he's referring to William Gibson, the Tony-Award-winning playwright and novelist who died last year at the age of 94, still writing. His best-known work is "The Miracle Worker," a true American stage classic.
Why anyone on Slashdot would refer to that other William Gibson is beyond me.
It would most likely bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 8980 meters. Minor local damage might occur if a larger fragment happens to hit a house.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=0.001&diam=7&pdens=&pdens_select=8000&vel=17&theta=45&tdens=2500&tdens_select=0
Thanks for not rounding that off to "nine kilometers" or even "about 10 km" as some less mathematically-inclined contributors would have done. If you've laboriously and precisely calculated that 2009 AV is exactly 7.000 meters in diameter, has a density of 8.000 g/cm3 and will hit the atmosphere at a 45.00 degree angle at exactly 17.00 km/s, why give up that hard-earned precision in your result?
The rest is history.
I thought the rest was mystery!
Also, you forgot the obligatory links to their website and the Wikipedia article thereunto appertaining. There, fixed that for you.
Obviously, the Internet is to the American newspaper publisher and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.
Information wants to be free, you say? Well, so does Charles Manson!
A company called Medicago grows its VLPs in transgenic tobacco plants...
So tomorrow's vaccines can be administered by cigarette?
This is slashdot, all patents are evil, and the most profitable thing for you to do would be to to let everyone know the details, and let them all build whatever it is you invented. That way, it gets worked on by different people in an open source way and you get a better ultimate product. And somehow you profit from that. I'm still trying to figure out that last part, but if a million slashdotters say something it can't be wrong.
I believe the standard notation for this is a single line containing three question marks.
Brilliant. Thank you. You've just made my morning.
Unless the water gun has an extremely high muzzle velocity, she would need to lead the target bugs by a non-trivial angle. The flightpath prediction algorithms required for reliable hits would probably be prohibitively complex since they would have to take species, sex and several environmental factors into account (and math is HARD).
She might get better results adapting this project to her purposes. Please invest in a high-powered laser for the project—killing mosquitos with a Blu-Ray laser is just cruel.
What, the American or the European version?
...am completely grossed out.
Yes, the vast scale of the distances involved does mean that the relatively small influence of relativistic effects will be magnified over the course of the mission, but they also dictate that large variances will have a commensurately smaller effect.
.55 arcseconds, not significant enough to bother correcting where we (or the probe) point our antennas.
From Earth's vantage point, an error of a million miles at 2500 A.U. would amount to a pointing error of about
As for the environment at the Oort cloud, it will probably be just as interesting as the one a million kilometers to the left or right. This would be analogous to a shift of 18 meters left or right in low Earth orbit.
Finally, a correction can be easily applied if pinpoint accuracy becomes important. A delta vee of only 1.6 m/sec applied as late as 10 years after launch would do the trick.
Verizon spokesman Rich Young said the company has "zero tolerance for any sort of unethical or illegal behavior" and noted Benjamin was not convicted of any crime. "In the months since this incident, his conduct has been blameless. As a result, we will not take further action," Young said.
Wow, they've gotten no complaints from the HUNDREDS of homes they've sent this guy into since "this incident." Makes you feel warm and trusting all over, doesn't it?
Apparently "zero tolerance" doesn't mean the same thing to Verizon that it does where I work. Do they at least give their service techs "___ Days without Attacking a Customer" buttons?
The selection is about the same, the staff is equally competent, and they don't even ask for your address when you buy some batteries.
Yes, the equally competent Wal-Mart staff were very helpful last week when I needed a 2200 microfarad capacitor. I believe the kid's exact response was, "Dude, you shoulda hit the 'Shack."
I'm kidding of course. I hit the 'Shack first. And yes, I'm one of those guys who walks right past the luser filter--er--consumer electronics section.
Apparently it was found next to an 18" Stonehenge.
And the 13' monitor's contrast knob goes to 11. The colors don't get any brighter at 11, but the blacks get REALLY black. It's like, "How much more black could this be?" and the answer is none. None more black.
The movie he was referring to was Phase IV. The last line still haunts me.
On a related note, if you haven't read Charles Stross' award-winning 2007 novella "Missile Gap", read it now.
Meanwhile, in the non-fictional realm, the VR Lab at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) has been working for years on "Ensphered Vision", complete with sound.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
There are no Crocodiles in Florida, except in zoo's or animal parks. There are plenty of Alligators however.
These are American crocodiles.
And yes, there are plenty of alligators in Florida—which is why they aren't endangered.
The American crocodile is endangered, however, which is pointed out in article that you didn't read.
1. Buy a couple hundred acres in the National Radio Quiet Zone and build a resort/spa/retirement community for all the well-heeled electromagnetophobes.
2. Quietly buy up as much of the valley as you can, then support campaigns to get Blue Cross and Medicare to cover electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
3. Profit.
I'd do it, but I don't believe I could live with myself. Especially if I had to give up ubiquitous broadband.
"Geopolitical politics"? From an editor? Shocking but, alas, not surprising.
I think we can do without the editorial editorializing, thank you.
If your hydrazine rocket can expel mass at, say, 1000 mph (making numbers up here) then the top speed of your rocket is 1000mph for reasons I hope are obvious. But ion engines can potentially eject mass at much higher speeds.
Actually, that turns out not to be the case. Neglecting outside forces, if two unequal masses are pushed apart, Newton's Third Law requires the smaller mass to move at a higher residual velocity. That's why most of a spacecraft's mass is fuel--to take advantage of that inequality.
2 out of 4 people? That's a startling and frightening statistic. However, it's not very useful due to the low sample number (4).
Now HERE's a shocker that will make you check your home for DHMO leaks: 99.4% of the American population have more than the average number of limbs. What a nation of freaks!
That's the punchline of economist Robin Hanson's concept of a "Great Filter," discussed here back in April.