Karma-whoring asshole. Mods? could you please put this guy in his place for duplicating my post? (Check the times on the two identical posts, mine is first, this guy is just abusing his +1 posting bonus.)
P.S. I have that bonus too, i just chose not to use it (as evidenced in this post)
Light (in the form of photons) has mass. The only reason that gravity "doesn't" have mass is that we have yet to find a particle form of it (i.e. a graviton). If this were ever discovered, gravity would then have mass. It would also lend convenient symmetry to the universe as we have force-carrying particles for the other 3 universal forces (electromagnetic (light), strong nuclear and weak nuclear). I personally think that we will someday discover a graviton.
Well, actually that's not actually true, depending on how you define weak (the adjective). Gravity exerts the smallest force, but it does so over the greatest distances. OTOH, Electromagnetic forces are very powerful, but only over short distances. The nuclear strong and weak forces fall in the middle accordingly.
"The RIAA is the Recording Industry Ass'n of the AMERICAS..."
Isn't it the Recording Industry Ass'n of AMERICA (no 's' at the end)? that would exclude canada + mexico, but then you see the RIAA getting their dirty paws in those cookie-jars too...
"Population control is about trying to reduce the number of births."
I find one thing aggravating about this. When people make this statement, they often neglect to mention that this applies only in countries where the birth rate is way out of control (e.g. Kenya which used to have avrg. 8 kids/woman). In other, developed countries (e.g. Europe, N. America) there is no harm in having 2-3 children/couple to maintain a sustainable population. Currently, the populations in these countries are drastically shrinking and are only kept afloat by immigration. This is bad because, as a few recent studies have shown, there is a lower percentage of children comprising the total populations of these countries. As far as I am concerned, that is a very bad thing.
Ya, but then could a government be liable for not diverting a hurricane when they had the capability? It's not that unreasonable a suggestion, especially when that decision costs lives...
"Does anyone have a *good* way to get all of (a) (generalized that is, not just snow) without any of (b)? "
Yes. Do what they have done, and make it completely optional to wear such a device, and allow the user to turn it on and off as they wish. Chances are, they'll only turn it on when they are at risk of being buried, and in the case of snow, that generally happens to be far from the mostly-urban-based prying eyes of big brother
"MP3 and other lossy codecs fool our ears, and unlike our eyes, our ears require constant re-calibration to function properly. If we are calibrating to inaccurate/unnatural sounds, he thinks this could be a concern."
Hmm, are you so sure about that? It is entirely possible that our eyes require very similar forms of calibration, but that we have not even theorized the existence(sp?) of such a problem b/c we don't spend nearly as much time watching lossily encoded images as we spend listening to lossily encoded sounds. Is it possible that a form of this could partially account for eye-strain from staring at a monitor for hours on end? (I personally don't suffer from it, but I know many people who do) Something like this would be worth investigation...
Um actually, as the article mentioned briefly, the wright's approach to airplane control was all wrong. They used an approach called wing-warping which deformed the entire wing in order to control the plane. This guy use ailerons which are used in modern planes because they are mechanically simpler and more aerodynamically efficient.
That said, I think the US Air Force is taking another look at wing-warping technology for extremely high speed flight. There's a NASA page about it; if someone feels like googleing there's prob. karma to be got:-)
One thing not obvious in the chart is that quarks have not actually been observed yet. This is extremely odd, as any particle with a charge of 0x1 or -1x0 should stand out incredibly well among all of the other particles. The quark model happens to be very convenient, and it accuratly models everything we know about the other subatomic particles; but it has never been experimentally observed.
I dunno, the half-way mirror thing kind of limits this application. Not to mention the parralax problems you'll get with an audience that is spread out.
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
Ya, and it also requires that you have a half-mirror (one of those ones the cops use to watch interrogation rooms) in between you and the viewer. That is fine when you are dealing with a camera, but it isn't practically applicable to most areas that this would be useful in.
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Ya, I'm confused about how it works too. My only thought was that maybe the projector projects an image using IR and the device flouresces with the appropriate colour. That way the projection would be invisible on him.
I have no idea whether this is how they actually do it, it's just a thought.
Honestly, all this will do is cause an unholy incovenience to cancer patients such that it gets into the media, at which point any self respecting terrorist who can do a bit of research will figure out that he should just avoid the subways.
All very interesting. I remember a huge debate here on/. a while ago where the big question was about the speed of electricity vs. the speed of light, and how the speed of electricity was normally only 2/3 that of light. Does this also hold true in superconductors? Or can they transmit electricity faster? Just curious.
Actually, what I want to know is whether there are any provisions that the kids.us domain could be extended to other countries. The article said that sites in kids.us would only be allowed to link to other sites in kids.us, but does the legislation provide for the event that other countries' kids-friendly domain names could be linked to? i.e. If Canada created a kids.ca or the UK created kids.uk, are there provisions that would allow sites in kids.us to link to these sites?
I know this would make the domain system even more complicated, but it could prove useful.
Where is this school? And what school is it? Cuz if you're doing anything other than spewing lies that is really scary...
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Actually, I believe that the very fact that this film even got made is what is significant. You mention that the last time that orwellian predictions were brought up on a regular basis was during the cold war. I doubt that this was because we could see the opression in Soviet nations, but more because these were the times when western society felt threatened and gave extra powers to their governments in order to stay safe. It is at times like these when those who can see the trend towards an orwellian society feel that they must voice words of caution about the dangers involved in absolute governement power. That is why we saw these movies and books in the cold war, and that is why we are seeing them again now.
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Karma-whoring asshole. Mods? could you please put this guy in his place for duplicating my post? (Check the times on the two identical posts, mine is first, this guy is just abusing his +1 posting bonus.)
P.S. I have that bonus too, i just chose not to use it (as evidenced in this post)
Light (in the form of photons) has mass. The only reason that gravity "doesn't" have mass is that we have yet to find a particle form of it (i.e. a graviton). If this were ever discovered, gravity would then have mass. It would also lend convenient symmetry to the universe as we have force-carrying particles for the other 3 universal forces (electromagnetic (light), strong nuclear and weak nuclear). I personally think that we will someday discover a graviton.
Well, actually that's not actually true, depending on how you define weak (the adjective). Gravity exerts the smallest force, but it does so over the greatest distances. OTOH, Electromagnetic forces are very powerful, but only over short distances. The nuclear strong and weak forces fall in the middle accordingly.
nope, I'm using opera and adaware (addmittedly under windoze, on this box...) and I get the targeted ads too, i dunno how they do it.
"The RIAA is the Recording Industry Ass'n of the AMERICAS..."
Isn't it the Recording Industry Ass'n of AMERICA (no 's' at the end)? that would exclude canada + mexico, but then you see the RIAA getting their dirty paws in those cookie-jars too...
"Population control is about trying to reduce the number of births."
I find one thing aggravating about this. When people make this statement, they often neglect to mention that this applies only in countries where the birth rate is way out of control (e.g. Kenya which used to have avrg. 8 kids/woman). In other, developed countries (e.g. Europe, N. America) there is no harm in having 2-3 children/couple to maintain a sustainable population. Currently, the populations in these countries are drastically shrinking and are only kept afloat by immigration. This is bad because, as a few recent studies have shown, there is a lower percentage of children comprising the total populations of these countries. As far as I am concerned, that is a very bad thing.
end rant. sorry for the OT post.
Ya, but then could a government be liable for not diverting a hurricane when they had the capability? It's not that unreasonable a suggestion, especially when that decision costs lives...
Scary thought...
karma to burn
"Does anyone have a *good* way to get all of (a) (generalized that is, not just snow) without any of (b)?
"
Yes. Do what they have done, and make it completely optional to wear such a device, and allow the user to turn it on and off as they wish. Chances are, they'll only turn it on when they are at risk of being buried, and in the case of snow, that generally happens to be far from the mostly-urban-based prying eyes of big brother
"MP3 and other lossy codecs fool our ears, and unlike our eyes, our ears require constant re-calibration to function properly. If we are calibrating to inaccurate/unnatural sounds, he thinks this could be a concern."
Hmm, are you so sure about that? It is entirely possible that our eyes require very similar forms of calibration, but that we have not even theorized the existence(sp?) of such a problem b/c we don't spend nearly as much time watching lossily encoded images as we spend listening to lossily encoded sounds. Is it possible that a form of this could partially account for eye-strain from staring at a monitor for hours on end? (I personally don't suffer from it, but I know many people who do) Something like this would be worth investigation...
Um actually, as the article mentioned briefly, the wright's approach to airplane control was all wrong. They used an approach called wing-warping which deformed the entire wing in order to control the plane. This guy use ailerons which are used in modern planes because they are mechanically simpler and more aerodynamically efficient.
:-)
That said, I think the US Air Force is taking another look at wing-warping technology for extremely high speed flight. There's a NASA page about it; if someone feels like googleing there's prob. karma to be got
bah, stupid html ate my "less thans" in between 0, x and 1 as well as for the other one.
the 2 minute limit is stupid
One thing not obvious in the chart is that quarks have not actually been observed yet. This is extremely odd, as any particle with a charge of 0x1 or -1x0 should stand out incredibly well among all of the other particles. The quark model happens to be very convenient, and it accuratly models everything we know about the other subatomic particles; but it has never been experimentally observed.
I dunno, the half-way mirror thing kind of limits this application. Not to mention the parralax problems you'll get with an audience that is spread out.
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
Ya, and it also requires that you have a half-mirror (one of those ones the cops use to watch interrogation rooms) in between you and the viewer. That is fine when you are dealing with a camera, but it isn't practically applicable to most areas that this would be useful in.
Ya, I'm confused about how it works too. My only thought was that maybe the projector projects an image using IR and the device flouresces with the appropriate colour. That way the projection would be invisible on him.
I have no idea whether this is how they actually do it, it's just a thought.
Also films of the XCOR glider-jet tests are on the site. Does anyone have any other info about that particular project? It looks really interesting.
I will if you post it as a reply to my comment, I have messages turned on.
Honestly, all this will do is cause an unholy incovenience to cancer patients such that it gets into the media, at which point any self respecting terrorist who can do a bit of research will figure out that he should just avoid the subways.
Duh.
"The reason is that after the atmospheric atomic tests any steel made since will pick-up contamination during production."
What!? Seriously!? Can you back that up with evidence?
I have a sinking feeling that i just got duped into looking like an idiot...
All very interesting. I remember a huge debate here on /. a while ago where the big question was about the speed of electricity vs. the speed of light, and how the speed of electricity was normally only 2/3 that of light. Does this also hold true in superconductors? Or can they transmit electricity faster? Just curious.
Actually, what I want to know is whether there are any provisions that the kids.us domain could be extended to other countries. The article said that sites in kids.us would only be allowed to link to other sites in kids.us, but does the legislation provide for the event that other countries' kids-friendly domain names could be linked to? i.e. If Canada created a kids.ca or the UK created kids.uk, are there provisions that would allow sites in kids.us to link to these sites?
I know this would make the domain system even more complicated, but it could prove useful.
Where is this school? And what school is it? Cuz if you're doing anything other than spewing lies that is really scary...
Actually, I believe that the very fact that this film even got made is what is significant. You mention that the last time that orwellian predictions were brought up on a regular basis was during the cold war. I doubt that this was because we could see the opression in Soviet nations, but more because these were the times when western society felt threatened and gave extra powers to their governments in order to stay safe. It is at times like these when those who can see the trend towards an orwellian society feel that they must voice words of caution about the dangers involved in absolute governement power. That is why we saw these movies and books in the cold war, and that is why we are seeing them again now.
Is this a record for /. ? Or can someone point to a day when there were more dupes? Just curious...