Old retired/tenured professors are often less hidebound than the young whipper-snappers. They are not afraid to try seemingly kookey things since they are in a secure position careerwise. They also have valuable experience, and have been around for a few paradigm shifts.
I wonder if this guy has tried measuring current draw, or the rpms of the spinning disk with an item being lightened. Thermodynamics would dictate that it should take some energy to make something lighter. If he could measure where it comes from, that might give some insight on how this all works, and lessen the chances that it was all due to air currents from evaporating liquid nitrogen. I doubt this highly, because if this guy truly had something he'd have patented it, and we'd see antigrav this and that all over the place by now.
You can demagetize anything with refrigerator magnet sized Nd magnets available for 15 bucks from wondermagnet.com. They can lift 100 pounds too. They also cause any tv/monitor CRT within 30 feet to go squrrelly and need degaussing. Although neither I nor anyone else should commit such a heinous crime, the thought of sticking one inconspicuously to the exit of a WAL*MART and watching to see how long it takes for them to figure out why they are having so many TV returns intrigues me.
A desktop environment needs to solve a certain set of problems. Desktop GUIs have been evolving long enough that the best ways of solving those problems have already been discovered, and are implemented in all commonly used desktop environments including KDE and Gnome
Why not bust the site, and it's viewers? If it's outside PA, then call the FBI, and have them do it. It is not really in the interest of law enforcement to block those sites since a sting would be much more effective.
They altered your computer without your permission by installing New.Net so they should have to pay for the damages, but authors of software should not be liable for bugs. If someone needs that kind of reliability let them pay also for an SLA
I say leave Microsoft alone, let them think they have something they can bully users with. Soon they will get EVEN MORE OBNOXIOUS and users/corp-customers will get tired of paying by the hour to keep their Windows XPv2 license and decide to switch to linux. The $$$ penalty for NOT switching to a free OS will get bigger and bigger, until linux and free software will have become easy enough for joe user, and a good number of joe-type users will have spent little time to learn what is needed to free themselves of the MS monkey on their backs. This could be as simple as having the local computer shop build them a linux box instead of buying a box with windows preinstalled and lots of corners cut to pay for it.
A word about Macs: My first real computer ( not counting the TI 99 4/A ) was a Mac 512Ke then a Mac II si then a Mac Centris 610.
By the time of the 610, I had internet access through my college ( though ISPs were still rare ). This is when I downloaded TONS of free Mac software using Fetch. There was SO much more free stuff for the Mac than for Windows! People loved the Mac and wanted to have lots of software be available for it. So the wrote it and gave it away for free.
Shortly after graduating I got an IBM with Win95 installed. But.. Windows sucked...
Then I bought a second hard drive for it and made it a dual boot Win95/redhat 5.2? box. I was new to linux, and never got my modem to work ( A year later I found out I had a WinModem and decided to replace it so I could get PPP working on Slackware )
I used primarily Win95 until I got PPP running under Slackware. ) I used redhat 6.2 at work.
Now I run redhat 7.2 with KDE at work and at home on my Pentium 4 Dell. It runs like a dream, and I never touch Windows now. It is as easy to install as windows ever was! PPP, Printing, Sound all worked with no tweaking from me!
There is so much free stuff for linux, and most free stuff that is being produced is for linux now.
This is because the technical people who once loved macs, and wrote free software for MacOS now love Linux and write free software for Linux. This is because they know Linux is the best OS around and they want to make sure their operating system continues to kick ass by writing software for it. Anyone without a hole in their head knows that Pre-OSX MacOs did not have preemptive multitasking and therefore sucked.
Even though MacOS is Unix and good and talented technical people like *nix over M$, why should somewone write a free program for Cocoa when they can write it for X and have everyone use it?
I downloaded and read the pdf version of the Science mag paper, and saw that they didn't publish a graph of neutron pulse timing vs sound frequency ( the article merely says that they 'analyzed this'. I would like to see what happens to heavy acetone with cavitation, but no irradiation.
Yeah, languages like scheme/lisp let you do just about anything you can imagine. Because of their simplicity and completeness you can pretty much support any type of object oriented or other programming paradigm you want. This guy's boss seems like a typical nincompoop boss. He gives the guy a laundry list of buzzwords that he probably doesn't know the meaning of as criteria of a programming language to use for a (undescribed ) project. Bosses love buzzwords that they can impress their bosses with. This guy's boss ought to shut up, sit back, and let the people who know what they are doing make te decisions about language criteria.
I know some certain relatively tech savvy people who use AOL dispite the fact that it is not as good as a normal ISP. The ONLY reason they use it is so they can search AOL's vast database of users for a date! You can't search without having AOL, and AOL has the largest pool of 'babes' to choose from. AOL know that this captive community of people is the main real benefit of having AOL instead of a real ISP.
AOL sux because:
1) They cost $10 more/month than other ISPs
2) They still suffer from busy signals
3) They are the LEAST USER FRIENDLY ISP! By comparison, they are NOT EASY!
3A) I set up my generic ISP in one step! I merely typed in the phone number. AOL makes you search through a complcated phone directory to set it up.
3B) AOL is not integrated into the OS. You have to keep an app open to use it
3C) AOL hides the 'real internet' behind their junky browsing tools. AOL users most times don't know what MSIE is for!
3D) AOL boots you off for 'idleness' while you are downloading things
Cool stuff NASA has done or is doing
1) Voyager/Mars Orbiter/Viking/Comet Explorer/Galileo et al
2) Hubble space telescope
3) Land man on moon to goad the Russians into wasting money
Dumb stuff NASA is doing:
1) The International Space Station. This is a waste of time and money now that it's one time value as PR for US/Soviet cooperation and piece and to goad the Soviets into wasting money.
1A) The positive and deleterious effects of weightlessness are well known. Given out limited technology, any future long term spacefarers will have to accept the damage to their health that such a voyage inherently entails. Exploring even since the days of wooden sailing ships and scurvy has been a job for a few good men with the right stuff.
1B) We already know how to mitigate the bad effects of weightlessness: Create 'gravity' by centrifugal force or by constant accelleration. Since NASA won't be able to afford to implement this tech for the foreseeable future, spacedudes will have to suck it up and accept some bone/mucsle loss.
1C) Lack of weight is not that freaking magical, and neither are vaccums. Why are we wasing billions on studying them?
2) Any human endeavor including space travel must have value to people for anyone to want to pay for it. Since everybody libes on Earth, people living on Earth are the ones for which space science must be useful. We learn alot about geology/climatology/physics and maybe someday biology from space science, but What to we get out of the space shuttle? More 'lets see how frogs act in weightlessness so we can send a clip of it to entertain Animal Planet viewers' science. Gimme a break.
What NASA SHOULD be doing:
1) Learn of to get people/things into orbit more cheaply
1A) Get those laser powered lightcraft working ( Sci-Am has a great article about the possibilities of lightcraft )
1B) Fund research/development on risky but not hair-brained schemes that the private sector won't fund. Make some mistakes. Make some breakthroughs.
2) Encourage the private sector to exploit space resources. The gub'mint helped connect the East and West by rail with loans etc. Nasa should have one pure science branch and one economic incentive branch that do different jobs.
3) Continue exploring space with unmanned probes and sattelites. Good job on that by the way.
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Old retired/tenured professors are often less hidebound than the young whipper-snappers. They are not afraid to try seemingly kookey things since they are in a secure position careerwise. They also have valuable experience, and have been around for a few paradigm shifts.
I wonder if this guy has tried measuring current draw, or the rpms of the spinning disk with an item being lightened. Thermodynamics would dictate that it should take some energy to make something lighter. If he could measure where it comes from, that might give some insight on how this all works, and lessen the chances that it was all due to air currents from evaporating liquid nitrogen. I doubt this highly, because if this guy truly had something he'd have patented it, and we'd see antigrav this and that all over the place by now.
You can demagetize anything with refrigerator magnet sized Nd magnets available for 15 bucks from wondermagnet.com. They can lift 100 pounds too. They also cause any tv/monitor CRT within 30 feet to go squrrelly and need degaussing. Although neither I nor anyone else should commit such a heinous crime, the thought of sticking one inconspicuously to the exit of a WAL*MART and watching to see how long it takes for them to figure out why they are having so many TV returns intrigues me.
A desktop environment needs to solve a certain set of problems. Desktop GUIs have been evolving long enough that the best ways of solving those problems have already been discovered, and are implemented in all commonly used desktop environments including KDE and Gnome
Why not bust the site, and it's viewers? If it's outside PA, then call the FBI, and have them do it. It is not really in the interest of law enforcement to block those sites since a sting would be much more effective.
I've broken more cds by stepping on them accidentally than I care to admit. These oughtta be more durable.
They altered your computer without your permission by installing New.Net so they should have to pay for the damages, but authors of software should not be liable for bugs. If someone needs that kind of reliability let them pay also for an SLA
I say leave Microsoft alone, let them think they have something they can bully users with. Soon they will get EVEN MORE OBNOXIOUS and users/corp-customers will get tired of paying by the hour to keep their Windows XPv2 license and decide to switch to linux. The $$$ penalty for NOT switching to a free OS will get bigger and bigger, until linux and free software will have become easy enough for joe user, and a good number of joe-type users will have spent little time to learn what is needed to free themselves of the MS monkey on their backs. This could be as simple as having the local computer shop build them a linux box instead of buying a box with windows preinstalled and lots of corners cut to pay for it. A word about Macs: My first real computer ( not counting the TI 99 4/A ) was a Mac 512Ke then a Mac II si then a Mac Centris 610. By the time of the 610, I had internet access through my college ( though ISPs were still rare ). This is when I downloaded TONS of free Mac software using Fetch. There was SO much more free stuff for the Mac than for Windows! People loved the Mac and wanted to have lots of software be available for it. So the wrote it and gave it away for free. Shortly after graduating I got an IBM with Win95 installed. But.. Windows sucked... Then I bought a second hard drive for it and made it a dual boot Win95/redhat 5.2? box. I was new to linux, and never got my modem to work ( A year later I found out I had a WinModem and decided to replace it so I could get PPP working on Slackware ) I used primarily Win95 until I got PPP running under Slackware. ) I used redhat 6.2 at work. Now I run redhat 7.2 with KDE at work and at home on my Pentium 4 Dell. It runs like a dream, and I never touch Windows now. It is as easy to install as windows ever was! PPP, Printing, Sound all worked with no tweaking from me! There is so much free stuff for linux, and most free stuff that is being produced is for linux now. This is because the technical people who once loved macs, and wrote free software for MacOS now love Linux and write free software for Linux. This is because they know Linux is the best OS around and they want to make sure their operating system continues to kick ass by writing software for it. Anyone without a hole in their head knows that Pre-OSX MacOs did not have preemptive multitasking and therefore sucked. Even though MacOS is Unix and good and talented technical people like *nix over M$, why should somewone write a free program for Cocoa when they can write it for X and have everyone use it?
I downloaded and read the pdf version of the Science mag paper, and saw that they didn't publish a graph of neutron pulse timing vs sound frequency ( the article merely says that they 'analyzed this'. I would like to see what happens to heavy acetone with cavitation, but no irradiation.
Yeah, languages like scheme/lisp let you do just about anything you can imagine. Because of their simplicity and completeness you can pretty much support any type of object oriented or other programming paradigm you want. This guy's boss seems like a typical nincompoop boss. He gives the guy a laundry list of buzzwords that he probably doesn't know the meaning of as criteria of a programming language to use for a (undescribed ) project. Bosses love buzzwords that they can impress their bosses with. This guy's boss ought to shut up, sit back, and let the people who know what they are doing make te decisions about language criteria.
I know some certain relatively tech savvy people who use AOL dispite the fact that it is not as good as a normal ISP. The ONLY reason they use it is so they can search AOL's vast database of users for a date! You can't search without having AOL, and AOL has the largest pool of 'babes' to choose from. AOL know that this captive community of people is the main real benefit of having AOL instead of a real ISP.
AOL sux because:
1) They cost $10 more/month than other ISPs
2) They still suffer from busy signals
3) They are the LEAST USER FRIENDLY ISP! By comparison, they are NOT EASY!
3A) I set up my generic ISP in one step! I merely typed in the phone number. AOL makes you search through a complcated phone directory to set it up.
3B) AOL is not integrated into the OS. You have to keep an app open to use it
3C) AOL hides the 'real internet' behind their junky browsing tools. AOL users most times don't know what MSIE is for!
3D) AOL boots you off for 'idleness' while you are downloading things
Cool stuff NASA has done or is doing
1) Voyager/Mars Orbiter/Viking/Comet Explorer/Galileo et al
2) Hubble space telescope
3) Land man on moon to goad the Russians into wasting money
Dumb stuff NASA is doing:
1) The International Space Station. This is a waste of time and money now that it's one time value as PR for US/Soviet cooperation and piece and to goad the Soviets into wasting money.
1A) The positive and deleterious effects of weightlessness are well known. Given out limited technology, any future long term spacefarers will have to accept the damage to their health that such a voyage inherently entails. Exploring even since the days of wooden sailing ships and scurvy has been a job for a few good men with the right stuff.
1B) We already know how to mitigate the bad effects of weightlessness: Create 'gravity' by centrifugal force or by constant accelleration. Since NASA won't be able to afford to implement this tech for the foreseeable future, spacedudes will have to suck it up and accept some bone/mucsle loss.
1C) Lack of weight is not that freaking magical, and neither are vaccums. Why are we wasing billions on studying them?
2) Any human endeavor including space travel must have value to people for anyone to want to pay for it. Since everybody libes on Earth, people living on Earth are the ones for which space science must be useful. We learn alot about geology/climatology/physics and maybe someday biology from space science, but What to we get out of the space shuttle? More 'lets see how frogs act in weightlessness so we can send a clip of it to entertain Animal Planet viewers' science. Gimme a break.
What NASA SHOULD be doing:
1) Learn of to get people/things into orbit more cheaply
1A) Get those laser powered lightcraft working ( Sci-Am has a great article about the possibilities of lightcraft )
1B) Fund research/development on risky but not hair-brained schemes that the private sector won't fund. Make some mistakes. Make some breakthroughs.
2) Encourage the private sector to exploit space resources. The gub'mint helped connect the East and West by rail with loans etc. Nasa should have one pure science branch and one economic incentive branch that do different jobs.
3) Continue exploring space with unmanned probes and sattelites. Good job on that by the way.