All governments, including ours, try this cr*p all the time. "Laws" like this are why the founders created a Constitution and enshrined the common law court system. It's up to a library (or other affected indivudals & interested parties) to push this thing up to the Supreme Court & get the law smacked down hard. I trust that more learned & more reasoned Judical decisionmakers will give this "law" all the consideration it deserves and slap it silly (based upon free speech, due process, and prohibition against warrantless searches). I've never, as yet, seen any reason to doubt that our common law system will eventually do the right thing & return the system to one that is just.
It is, however, a PITA for the parties affected since the process moves so slowly (though the process was intended to move slowly to give everyone more than enough time to react based upon reason, rather than the emotion of the day).
OK, I am NOT a physicist. I don't what I'm talking about. But I figure someone here can tell me how I am wrong.
This is my silly little theory:
Given that:
1. Large planets have rings systems that rotate along the equatorial plane of the planet.
2. Stars have planets that rotate along the equatorial plane of the star.
3. Galaxies have stars that rotate along *something*, and this something might be a black hole.
Could it be a reasonable explanation that:
1. The very act of mass (especially a large mass) *spinning* has a gravatational effect.
2. These effects intensivy as mass increases and as the rate of spinning increases.
3. As the rate of spinning increases, the gravitational effect, whatever it is, increases. Furthermore, as the rate of spin approaches the speed of light, this effect becomes very large.
4. One of the properties of this effect is that it causes dust rings to form around large spinning planets, planets to orbit around large spinning stars in a plane, and stars to form into a galactic plane around large spinning black holes.
And then, if that is a reasonable explanation, could we then:
1. By looking at the mass of the rings in relation to a large spinning planet, come up with a good estimate at the rate of spin and/or the mass of a black hole at the center of a galaxy?
2. Maybe star clusters (those are galaxies without a plane, right?) are around stationary black holes?
Please feel free to tear my quaint little amateur theory apart. Thanks!!
--io333
Which was followed up by (myself):
Oh yea, two more questions:
If this effect is exists, what in the world happens if you take a small sphere and spin it at the speed of light (well just below it of course)?
And again, if the effect exists, what does that mean about all of the teeny particles that make up all matter spinning really fast in random orientations? It certainly wouldn't be the *cause* of gravity, right?
But I thought it was an interesting post at the time & I'd love to see it get modded up 'cause the resulting conversation between some of the even less cluefull here I would find entertaining.
This is kind of weird. I was going to post a comment about how linux is nice & all, but usually I find myself using WinXP, and that I was in XP right now. And then I took a good hard look -- and it turns out I'm in gentoo linux right now and have been most of the day & didn't even notice. I'm totally serious. Maybe linux has come a long way!
Here's where the difference between QBM and conventional modules comes into play; QBM modules will have a set of 8 registers (QBM-10) as well as a phase-locked loop (PLL). The purpose of the PLL is to take the incoming clock signal from the chipset and shift it by 90 degrees; this shifted signal is then fed to the second bank of the DIMM, while the first bank receives the unaltered clock directly from the chipset.
The 8 registers then switch between which bank gets to transfer data every clock; because of the 90 degree phase shift, there is a slight delay in transferring data from the second bank but both transfers actually end up happening within a single clock cycle. The end result is that you get two DDR transfers per clock, or 4 bits of data are sampled per clock thus doubling the throughput of DDR (hence the name Quad Band Memory).
*snip*
QBM modules will obviously be more expensive than regular DDR modules, the question of how much remains to be answered however.
Let's see, one PLL... damn, I don't know if I can afford the extra six cents!
(That extra six cents though doesn't detract from fact that this idea is just pure genius... with about 30,000 folks slapping their forheads for not thinking of it first!)
Not if you want to push your argument to the extreme:
Currently use of the roads is a privilege enjoyed only by those who:
1. Are trained in the rules of the road and suitably licensed as road users.
2. Obey the rules of the road.
Without both above, no travel for you.
You cannot say anything you wish: for example, for non politically correct comments you will be societally sanctioned, or in the case of making them during the commision of the crime, your penalties for that crime will be increased. In addition, you may not cry "fire" in a movie theatre or you *will* go to prison.
If you want to talk about written conversation, you are subject to copyright law.
I not saying that you're ideas do not have merit -- just that you should be sure about your analogies before you use them.
Nitpicking? Sure. But that's what law is all about & you can be sure that if your argument came up in a legal case, it would be torn apart.
My SprintPCS phone already has about a quarter second lag time between transmission at my end and reception at the other end, which, for a fast talker like me, is incredibly annoying. I always end up talking over the person at the other end. If that person doesn't realize what is actually happening, they often think I'm being extremely rude.
The delay is caused by the lag for A-D conversion in my handset, added to the D-A conversion and then possibly A-D again and then D-A again if I'm talking to a different digital cell phone user on another network.
Now if something like that were going to be combined with the added, and sometimes horrible latency of VoIP. Oh forget it. Just give me a land line. I'll pay whatever I have to for the luxury of 1880's technology.
Any self-respecting geek knows full well that whatever tech product you end up buying, no matter how well researched, no matter how "latest and greatest," will be instantaneously transformed into the lamest piece of outdated old fashioned stone knife and bearskin technology that even your grandfather wouldn't be caught dead using -- the *moment* you pay for it.
Oh really? If you'd explain to me how to get my Lexmark Z32 working correctly under Gentoo I'd love to see that explanation as *no one* else has managed to do it, and Lexmark will release a binary driver only.
Really? Wow, I missed that one. Hmmm... that seems rediculous as that's what the shuttle was originally supposed to do. Mission creep I guess. Oh well, whatever.
the cost of throwing out an old design that mostly works (with a lot of help) to build a new shuttle is simply out of the question.
You are missing my point. Every time we send up something on the shuttle, we are spending minimum 2 to 4 times more dollars per pound than if we used another launch system available right nowthis second. And just to make sure you get it, I'll say it again: That means, if we just didn't bother using the shuttle and used anything else to launch what needs to be in orbit, we could send up two to four times as much stuff for the same money, or send it up for 2 to 4 times less money.
Havn't you noticed that hardly anyone commercial uses the silly thing? Most of the missions it go on are either SSS (silly space station(tm)) releated (tax), military (tax), or "scientific" (tax). You'd have to be NUTS to pay the going rate to send up your own private satellite on the shuttle & your shareholders would *destroy* you in a derivative suit.
Do you not believe me?
Do you see anything in these missions not paid for with pure tax?
It is easy to spend money on worthless crap when the money is free.
There comes a time in every products lifetime when its time to start over,.
Exactly. And that includes the shuttle. It has never lived up to what it was envisioned to be and it is only going to become more costly and more failure prone in the future as every bit of hardware on that pig is already showing signs of fatigue.
There are many launch systems that cost far less per pound to throw things into orbit. The reasons we still have those monstrosities flying are political only, not technological or scientific.
Sure this is flamebate. (Gosh, getting rid of the old karma system is so LIBERATING!) But if we can discuss how some little bits of hardware in the shuttle are past their time, why can't we discuss the big bit?
It tells me what each option does in a little help screen below.
It runs on the desktop.
It tells me what each option does in a little help screen below!!!!!
It tells me what each option does!!!
It tells me what each option does.
I want this so bad. I can't wait until there's a Gentoo ebuild!!!!!
Yea!!! Hooray!!!!!! Yea!!!!
Yes I am stupid and don't know what every option does. I don't care, I want it I want it I want it. Because: IT TELLS ME WHAT EACH OPTION DOES!!!!!!!!!
What part of "It tells me what each option does!!!" do you not understand?
I have tried most of them at one time. ASP Linux, Caldera, SuSE, Immunix, Lycoris, Vector, Debian, Astaro, all have brought a little something unique to the table.
The first thing I always say to clair is "FUCK YOU!"
Then she says "I'm sorry."
Then I say "SUCK MY COCK YOU WHORE!"
At which point she sounds quiet and *chastised*, "OK, let me get someone to help you."
Now do I care what the robot bitch thinks of all this? Not at all. It's just that I know that they have a few techs listening in on all the things that the Claire system doesn't understand to try to improve her recognition. I'm just trying to give those poor underpaid slobs something to chuckel over.
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One comment that I havn't seen here yet (though I'm not browsing below 1 so I might have missed it):
Everyone is freaked out about them tracking our library browsing habits.
Isn't the same thing being done right now, without warrant, with regard to our *web* browsing habits?
All governments, including ours, try this cr*p all the time. "Laws" like this are why the founders created a Constitution and enshrined the common law court system. It's up to a library (or other affected indivudals & interested parties) to push this thing up to the Supreme Court & get the law smacked down hard. I trust that more learned & more reasoned Judical decisionmakers will give this "law" all the consideration it deserves and slap it silly (based upon free speech, due process, and prohibition against warrantless searches). I've never, as yet, seen any reason to doubt that our common law system will eventually do the right thing & return the system to one that is just.
It is, however, a PITA for the parties affected since the process moves so slowly (though the process was intended to move slowly to give everyone more than enough time to react based upon reason, rather than the emotion of the day).
so galaxies have a common formation process too?
This is the original post from June of this year:
OK, I am NOT a physicist. I don't what I'm talking about. But I figure
someone here can tell me how I am wrong.
This is my silly little theory:
Given that:
1. Large planets have rings systems that rotate along the equatorial plane
of the planet.
2. Stars have planets that rotate along the equatorial plane of the star.
3. Galaxies have stars that rotate along *something*, and this something
might be a black hole.
Could it be a reasonable explanation that:
1. The very act of mass (especially a large mass) *spinning* has a
gravatational effect.
2. These effects intensivy as mass increases and as the rate of spinning
increases.
3. As the rate of spinning increases, the gravitational effect, whatever it
is, increases. Furthermore, as the rate of spin approaches the
speed of light, this effect becomes very large.
4. One of the properties of this effect is that it causes dust rings to
form around large spinning planets, planets to orbit around large spinning
stars in a plane, and stars to form into a galactic plane around large
spinning black holes.
And then, if that is a reasonable explanation, could we then:
1. By looking at the mass of the rings in relation to a large spinning
planet, come up with a good estimate at the rate of spin and/or
the mass of a black hole at the center of a galaxy?
2. Maybe star clusters (those are galaxies without a plane, right?) are
around stationary black holes?
Please feel free to tear my quaint little amateur theory apart. Thanks!!
--io333
Which was followed up by (myself):
Oh yea, two more questions:
If this effect is exists, what in the world happens if you take a small
sphere and spin it at the speed of light (well just below it of course)?
And again, if the effect exists, what does that mean about all of the
teeny particles that make up all matter spinning really fast in
random orientations? It certainly wouldn't be the *cause* of gravity,
right?
Here is a weird Usenet post I put up a few months ago just to show the world that I am clueless.
But I thought it was an interesting post at the time & I'd love to see it get modded up 'cause the resulting conversation between some of the even less cluefull here I would find entertaining.
This is kind of weird. I was going to post a comment about how linux is nice & all, but usually I find myself using WinXP, and that I was in XP right now. And then I took a good hard look -- and it turns out I'm in gentoo linux right now and have been most of the day & didn't even notice. I'm totally serious. Maybe linux has come a long way!
(mozilla looks the same on both platforms)
From the article:
*snip*
Here's where the difference between QBM and conventional modules comes into play; QBM modules will have a set of 8 registers (QBM-10) as well as a phase-locked loop (PLL). The purpose of the PLL is to take the incoming clock signal from the chipset and shift it by 90 degrees; this shifted signal is then fed to the second bank of the DIMM, while the first bank receives the unaltered clock directly from the chipset.
The 8 registers then switch between which bank gets to transfer data every clock; because of the 90 degree phase shift, there is a slight delay in transferring data from the second bank but both transfers actually end up happening within a single clock cycle. The end result is that you get two DDR transfers per clock, or 4 bits of data are sampled per clock thus doubling the throughput of DDR (hence the name Quad Band Memory).
*snip*
QBM modules will obviously be more expensive than regular DDR modules, the question of how much remains to be answered however.
Let's see, one PLL... damn, I don't know if I can afford the extra six cents!
(That extra six cents though doesn't detract from fact that this idea is just pure genius... with about 30,000 folks slapping their forheads for not thinking of it first!)
Uh...
Let's see. Hmmm. Lindows $399 or Windows $899.
um...
I'll take Lindows $399 + a copy of windows xp home $99. Where is that calculator. darn, it was here somewhere.
OK.
$399 + $99 = $498. That's too much!
I'll take the $899 windows computer please?
Not if you want to push your argument to the extreme:
Currently use of the roads is a privilege enjoyed only by those who:
1. Are trained in the rules of the road and suitably licensed as road users.
2. Obey the rules of the road.
Without both above, no travel for you.
You cannot say anything you wish: for example, for non politically correct comments you will be societally sanctioned, or in the case of making them during the commision of the crime, your penalties for that crime will be increased. In addition, you may not cry "fire" in a movie theatre or you *will* go to prison.
If you want to talk about written conversation, you are subject to copyright law.
I not saying that you're ideas do not have merit -- just that you should be sure about your analogies before you use them.
Nitpicking? Sure. But that's what law is all about & you can be sure that if your argument came up in a legal case, it would be torn apart.
My SprintPCS phone already has about a quarter second lag time between transmission at my end and reception at the other end, which, for a fast talker like me, is incredibly annoying. I always end up talking over the person at the other end. If that person doesn't realize what is actually happening, they often think I'm being extremely rude.
The delay is caused by the lag for A-D conversion in my handset, added to the D-A conversion and then possibly A-D again and then D-A again if I'm talking to a different digital cell phone user on another network.
Now if something like that were going to be combined with the added, and sometimes horrible latency of VoIP. Oh forget it. Just give me a land line. I'll pay whatever I have to for the luxury of 1880's technology.
Any self-respecting geek knows full well that whatever tech product you end up buying, no matter how well researched, no matter how "latest and greatest," will be instantaneously transformed into the lamest piece of outdated old fashioned stone knife and bearskin technology that even your grandfather wouldn't be caught dead using -- the *moment* you pay for it.
1. add camera /. on launch day
2. link posted on
3. server fries before launch
4. profit?
Oh really? If you'd explain to me how to get my Lexmark Z32 working correctly under Gentoo I'd love to see that explanation as *no one* else has managed to do it, and Lexmark will release a binary driver only.
Really? Wow, I missed that one. Hmmm... that seems rediculous as that's what the shuttle was originally supposed to do. Mission creep I guess. Oh well, whatever.
There are no weapons platforms orbiting the earth.
;) (or what is the emoticon for cynicism?...)
You forgot the sarcasm emoticon
Can you come up with a better way to get humans into space (and bring them back if needed)?
I don't have to. Someone else already did that.
the cost of throwing out an old design that mostly works (with a lot of help) to build a new shuttle is simply out of the question.
You are missing my point. Every time we send up something on the shuttle, we are spending minimum 2 to 4 times more dollars per pound than if we used another launch system available right now this second. And just to make sure you get it, I'll say it again: That means, if we just didn't bother using the shuttle and used anything else to launch what needs to be in orbit, we could send up two to four times as much stuff for the same money, or send it up for 2 to 4 times less money.
Havn't you noticed that hardly anyone commercial uses the silly thing? Most of the missions it go on are either SSS (silly space station(tm)) releated (tax), military (tax), or "scientific" (tax). You'd have to be NUTS to pay the going rate to send up your own private satellite on the shuttle & your shareholders would *destroy* you in a derivative suit.
Do you not believe me?
Do you see anything in these missions not paid for with pure tax?
It is easy to spend money on worthless crap when the money is free .
There comes a time in every products lifetime when its time to start over,.
Exactly. And that includes the shuttle. It has never lived up to what it was envisioned to be and it is only going to become more costly and more failure prone in the future as every bit of hardware on that pig is already showing signs of fatigue.
There are many launch systems that cost far less per pound to throw things into orbit. The reasons we still have those monstrosities flying are political only, not technological or scientific.
Sure this is flamebate. (Gosh, getting rid of the old karma system is so LIBERATING!) But if we can discuss how some little bits of hardware in the shuttle are past their time, why can't we discuss the big bit?
It tells me what each option does in a little help screen below.
It runs on the desktop.
It tells me what each option does in a little help screen below!!!!!
It tells me what each option does!!!
It tells me what each option does.
I want this so bad. I can't wait until there's a Gentoo ebuild!!!!!
Yea!!! Hooray!!!!!! Yea!!!!
Yes I am stupid and don't know what every option does. I don't care, I want it I want it I want it. Because: IT TELLS ME WHAT EACH OPTION DOES!!!!!!!!!
What part of "It tells me what each option does!!!" do you not understand?
and i don'
t fucking care about carma. since the numbers are gone, who gives a shit.
karma without numbers is like computer without program
It was on HardOCP about a month ago.
What do you mean wait 20 seconds before posting? Why am I being penalized because I can type 100wpm?!!!
WTF?
Hmmm... that's a pretty good idea, but let's take it one step further. We could mount a chain gun under the hood, and a rail gun in the trunk....
I have tried most of them at one time. ASP Linux, Caldera, SuSE, Immunix, Lycoris, Vector, Debian, Astaro, all have brought a little something unique to the table.
But you havn't tried doubling your speed I see.
That's pretty funny: you got an email back & think it was from a real person! HAHAHA!!!!
The first thing I always say to clair is "FUCK YOU!"
Then she says "I'm sorry."
Then I say "SUCK MY COCK YOU WHORE!"
At which point she sounds quiet and *chastised*, "OK, let me get someone to help you."
Now do I care what the robot bitch thinks of all this? Not at all. It's just that I know that they have a few techs listening in on all the things that the Claire system doesn't understand to try to improve her recognition. I'm just trying to give those poor underpaid slobs something to chuckel over.