So reducing the mass m2 by a fixed amount while increasing the mass m1 by the same amount results in no net change to the forces involved.
A more complicated, more interesting question (and maybe this is what you were getting at) would be: how much mass can you remove from the moon before things like the tides and orbit start to be affected?
Can't answer that one. My physics career was brief and unspectacular.:)
I'm not willing to stipulate that MS will be the 400-lb. gorilla it is now in 15 years.
If, a decade from today, Microsoft is still trying to fix the problems they have now, then they're dead in the water. Someone leaner and meaner will come along and push them aside.
That's the way this business works. We're not the car industry.
I wonder how it feels to change your name for some reason (actors, writers, whatever) and then become wildly successful.
I would think that it has to feel kinda fake, and detract a little from the success. I can't imagine spending the formative years of my life being Jeremy Whiporell, then becoming 'Jack Whip' and being famous. I'd always feel like a bit of a fraud, as if who I really were just wasn't good enough. Kind of schizophrenic, when you think about it.
The only example I can think of off the top of my head is John Mellencamp, who I distinctly remember debuting, and performing for years, as John Cougar.
Sure, you won't be seeing a ton of Linux-capable games coming out, but that's hardly the case now anyway. I have to say I love the idea of near-infinite funding for the development of great games, like those Blizzard has released, and I don't think every game that comes out will be Xbox only.
I suppose it's more likely $Bill will take over and micromanage them into banality, but I'm ever the optimist. If he gives the clever folk who created games like Dungeon Keeper the time and money to keep the pipeline full, we could see some cool stuff coming our way real soon.
...that all the CPU cycles I have donated over the years in processing over 1400 units have been...a waste of time?
Say it ain't so.
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When I lived in Tokyo, my salary was 450,000Y per month, and I didn't exactly live high on the hog. My apartment alone was 210,000Y a month.
It's been a few years (this was 1993), and I know the economy there is sucky right now, but I can't believe prices have gone down to the point that 500K yen per year is even close to the poverty line.
I'm surprised that no one has yet sued Microsoft for some egregious breach of security, enabled by a flaw in Microsoft's released code, that ended up costing some company a ton of money. This is, afer all, the country where someone eats too many hamburgers and then sues the person who made the hamburgers.
IANAL, but it seems reasonable to me that if you use a product as it is intended to be used, and it wrecks unexpected havoc on your system, you should be entitled to redress.
If Microsoft now starts charging for extra security and other such 'features,' I'd think that would increase their liability if something does go wrong. I can't believer their EULAs are that iron-clad
It's in the best interests of the snoops to make you think that they know who you are and every little naughty thing you do, and you're only getting away with it because you're a small fish. For example:
"We have 100 percent coverage of peer-to-peer file sharing," Ishikawa claims. "If you are illegally sharing copyrighted materials, we know who you are."
Now, I'm not an internet guru, but I think a more accurate statement would be to amend that last part to say "...and we can find out who you are." I suppose it's possible to screen all of the information on the internet, but only if you had infinite resources.
There's a big gap between what is technically possible and what is, in fact, practical. For example, the article makes it seem like 'subpoenaing ISP logs' is a trivial thing. I don't think it is. The sheer size of the data pool they are swimming in is the most formidable obstacle, no matter what 'algorithm' they are using.
'Course this doesn't make it right. And if you have 30,000 mp3s shared you probably stick out like a sore thumb and are therefore asking for trouble. For most of us, though, the 'thin blue line' applies: we are not deterred from breaking the law so much because we will get caught, but because we might get caught.
...and you missed a big one: Team Dennis Conner, sailing this time for the New York Yacht Club. Check the website here. He's only won the thing four times, and was instrumental in transforming the Cup from a quirky little amateur competition to an international sporting event. That's a good thing.
Team New Zealand currently holds the America's Cup. The challengers all compete in the Louis Vuitton Cup for the right to challenge NZ. The complete list of challengers is available here.
As sports go, you'd be hard pressed to find one with more history, integrity, and passion than sailing. If you've never been in a sailboat race, then you have no idea the exhiliration that sailing provides. There is nothing like it.
No matter how many millions are spent, sailing is still much more art than science. How do you know where the wind is going to blow next? How can you know what your opponent is going to do next? Sailing is equal parts skill, training, and smarts - with just enough luck thrown in to make sure it never gets dull.
This isn't tiddlywinks, either. People get hurt, and people die. I was once almost knocked out and thrown overboard when a spinnaker pole came crashing down on me while I was working foredeck. When a 10-knot wind fills 300 sq. meters of sail, you're talking about some serious energy that has to be dealt with.
And if you're still not convinced how hardcore this can be, check out this site. One person. One boat. All the way around the friggin' world. There's a simple beauty there that is rarely seen in the world these days.
I think that there are a finite number of basic storylines, and they've all been done. And done, and done...since stories were first told around the first bonfire.
This is not bad. The beauty is in how old stories are told anew. God, as they say, is in the details.
Is Star Wars any less a great movie just because it came after The Magnificent Seven, which itself was preceded by The Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress? Of course not. They are all great movies, and the fact that they have essentially the same plot is irrelevent, because the details are what matters.
The Protagonist. The Antagonist. The Conflict. The Resolution. For the imagination-challenged, basic plotlines can even be computer generated. For example, at this site.
Doesn't matter. Make the details interesting enough and any plot will make for a good story. Now, if you can't come up with original enough details...well, then, your story really is tedious and boring and you should take up something else for a living, like accounting.
Seriously. These are small books, written in whimsical style with lots of graphics, but scientifically accurate and a great place to start. I majored in physics and still own two copies of "Einstein for Beginners" by Schwartz and McGuinness because it's a riot.
I also own "Darwin for Beginners" by Miller and Van Loon, and it's an excellent distillation of a very complicated subject.
Plus - and this is importent - they are really fun to read.
Yeah, great idea. Let's get all the smart people, chain them to desks, and force them to work on a cure for cancer.
We have a little thing in this country, which is summed up nicely as "...the pursuit of happiness."
Einstein pursued physics because it appealed to him, he enjoyed it, and he had the intellect to do so. Carmack pursues the development of video games for essentially the same reason.
I'd wager that "for the good of humanity" was a ways down on both their lists, if it made the list at all. Now if it turned out that it happened to make the world a better place, then so much the better.
In fact, you could make a pretty good case that Einstein made the world a much, much worse place and has inflicted more evil than Carmack could ever hope to. Or are you and Mr. Feinbaum not aware of the whole Einstein-atomic bomb connection? Maybe the world really would be a better place if ol' Al had stuck to pinball machines.
But that's crap, just like blaming GTA3 for Columbine is crap. Freedom is a dangerous and terrifying pursuit, but we prize it above all else in this country. We certainly prefer it to morality police and socialist fanaticism. I can see why you posted as AC because this is clearly not a well-thought-out opinion.
Listen carefully: people do not do wicked things because of Satan, witches, Communists, Dungeons&Dragons, video games or Harry Potter. They do them because it is their nature, and to blame anything else is misguided and foolish.
That got your attention, didn't it? But it's true...
Everyone else is making the very true and valid points about broadening your academic horizons, and the value of a good undergraduate degree.
And they're right.
But you will never, NEVER have the kind of relaxed, freewheeling, fun life you will have as a college undergrad. The parties. The life in student housing. The drugs, the sex, the rock and roll...to quote South Park, "there's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college."
I'm not saying it's a license to be stupid, and you should learn something along the way. But it is also a time to avail yourself of some new opportunities and push your boundaries so you can find out who you really are. An experience not to be missed - you might even enjoy it as much as I did, and do grad school as well.
The sex thing is pretty cool, too.:)
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I know because I got a check as part of the class-action settlement. Still have the stub somewhere...it was for like $50, but it was an actual check, not 'store credit' or 'Buy.com dollars' or anything like that.
Didn't get the monitor, tho, and it took over two years for the suit to be settled. But they did get sued, did settle, and had to pay out money to make it right. Sometimes going to court is the right thing to do.
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F=G(m1*m2)/r2
So reducing the mass m2 by a fixed amount while increasing the mass m1 by the same amount results in no net change to the forces involved.
A more complicated, more interesting question (and maybe this is what you were getting at) would be: how much mass can you remove from the moon before things like the tides and orbit start to be affected?
Can't answer that one. My physics career was brief and unspectacular. :)
One little piece of idiocy I do NOT want this country to adopt.
If, a decade from today, Microsoft is still trying to fix the problems they have now, then they're dead in the water. Someone leaner and meaner will come along and push them aside.
That's the way this business works. We're not the car industry.
I would think that it has to feel kinda fake, and detract a little from the success. I can't imagine spending the formative years of my life being Jeremy Whiporell, then becoming 'Jack Whip' and being famous. I'd always feel like a bit of a fraud, as if who I really were just wasn't good enough. Kind of schizophrenic, when you think about it.
The only example I can think of off the top of my head is John Mellencamp, who I distinctly remember debuting, and performing for years, as John Cougar.
I suppose it's more likely $Bill will take over and micromanage them into banality, but I'm ever the optimist. If he gives the clever folk who created games like Dungeon Keeper the time and money to keep the pipeline full, we could see some cool stuff coming our way real soon.
Say it ain't so.
It's been a few years (this was 1993), and I know the economy there is sucky right now, but I can't believe prices have gone down to the point that 500K yen per year is even close to the poverty line.
Still, it doesn't solve the problem of where to put the bodies, but my current moat-with-alligators seems to be working OK.
IANAL, but it seems reasonable to me that if you use a product as it is intended to be used, and it wrecks unexpected havoc on your system, you should be entitled to redress.
If Microsoft now starts charging for extra security and other such 'features,' I'd think that would increase their liability if something does go wrong. I can't believer their EULAs are that iron-clad
"We have 100 percent coverage of peer-to-peer file sharing," Ishikawa claims. "If you are illegally sharing copyrighted materials, we know who you are."
Now, I'm not an internet guru, but I think a more accurate statement would be to amend that last part to say "...and we can find out who you are." I suppose it's possible to screen all of the information on the internet, but only if you had infinite resources.
There's a big gap between what is technically possible and what is, in fact, practical. For example, the article makes it seem like 'subpoenaing ISP logs' is a trivial thing. I don't think it is. The sheer size of the data pool they are swimming in is the most formidable obstacle, no matter what 'algorithm' they are using.
'Course this doesn't make it right. And if you have 30,000 mp3s shared you probably stick out like a sore thumb and are therefore asking for trouble. For most of us, though, the 'thin blue line' applies: we are not deterred from breaking the law so much because we will get caught, but because we might get caught.
Team New Zealand currently holds the America's Cup. The challengers all compete in the Louis Vuitton Cup for the right to challenge NZ. The complete list of challengers is available here.
As sports go, you'd be hard pressed to find one with more history, integrity, and passion than sailing. If you've never been in a sailboat race, then you have no idea the exhiliration that sailing provides. There is nothing like it.
No matter how many millions are spent, sailing is still much more art than science. How do you know where the wind is going to blow next? How can you know what your opponent is going to do next? Sailing is equal parts skill, training, and smarts - with just enough luck thrown in to make sure it never gets dull.
This isn't tiddlywinks, either. People get hurt, and people die. I was once almost knocked out and thrown overboard when a spinnaker pole came crashing down on me while I was working foredeck. When a 10-knot wind fills 300 sq. meters of sail, you're talking about some serious energy that has to be dealt with.
And if you're still not convinced how hardcore this can be, check out this site. One person. One boat. All the way around the friggin' world. There's a simple beauty there that is rarely seen in the world these days.
This is not bad. The beauty is in how old stories are told anew. God, as they say, is in the details.
Is Star Wars any less a great movie just because it came after The Magnificent Seven, which itself was preceded by The Seven Samurai and Hidden Fortress? Of course not. They are all great movies, and the fact that they have essentially the same plot is irrelevent, because the details are what matters.
The Protagonist. The Antagonist. The Conflict. The Resolution. For the imagination-challenged, basic plotlines can even be computer generated. For example, at this site.
Doesn't matter. Make the details interesting enough and any plot will make for a good story. Now, if you can't come up with original enough details...well, then, your story really is tedious and boring and you should take up something else for a living, like accounting.
I also own "Darwin for Beginners" by Miller and Van Loon, and it's an excellent distillation of a very complicated subject.
Plus - and this is importent - they are really fun to read.
We have a little thing in this country, which is summed up nicely as "...the pursuit of happiness."
Einstein pursued physics because it appealed to him, he enjoyed it, and he had the intellect to do so. Carmack pursues the development of video games for essentially the same reason.
I'd wager that "for the good of humanity" was a ways down on both their lists, if it made the list at all. Now if it turned out that it happened to make the world a better place, then so much the better.
In fact, you could make a pretty good case that Einstein made the world a much, much worse place and has inflicted more evil than Carmack could ever hope to. Or are you and Mr. Feinbaum not aware of the whole Einstein-atomic bomb connection? Maybe the world really would be a better place if ol' Al had stuck to pinball machines.
But that's crap, just like blaming GTA3 for Columbine is crap. Freedom is a dangerous and terrifying pursuit, but we prize it above all else in this country. We certainly prefer it to morality police and socialist fanaticism. I can see why you posted as AC because this is clearly not a well-thought-out opinion.
Listen carefully: people do not do wicked things because of Satan, witches, Communists, Dungeons&Dragons, video games or Harry Potter. They do them because it is their nature, and to blame anything else is misguided and foolish.
That got your attention, didn't it? But it's true... Everyone else is making the very true and valid points about broadening your academic horizons, and the value of a good undergraduate degree. And they're right. But you will never, NEVER have the kind of relaxed, freewheeling, fun life you will have as a college undergrad. The parties. The life in student housing. The drugs, the sex, the rock and roll...to quote South Park, "there's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college." I'm not saying it's a license to be stupid, and you should learn something along the way. But it is also a time to avail yourself of some new opportunities and push your boundaries so you can find out who you really are. An experience not to be missed - you might even enjoy it as much as I did, and do grad school as well. The sex thing is pretty cool, too. :)
I know because I got a check as part of the class-action settlement. Still have the stub somewhere...it was for like $50, but it was an actual check, not 'store credit' or 'Buy.com dollars' or anything like that. Didn't get the monitor, tho, and it took over two years for the suit to be settled. But they did get sued, did settle, and had to pay out money to make it right. Sometimes going to court is the right thing to do.
Concordia is also a college...in Moorhead, Minnesota. Not that Neil is there, either, but for the sake of completeness... ;)