I didn't suggest doing the experiment here on Earth. And I do expect it would be hard to get grant money to fund the experiment. But, yes, you get the point exactly, but you overlook the obvious implication of it. Sure, if you drop a Jupiter value mass onto that airless earth size planet, the planet would be pulled to the mass and the mass would be pulled to the planet. The combined acceleration would be greater than 1 g. Now start reducing the size of the neutron star mass. What happens? The effect is still the same, it is just reduced as the mass gets less. When we get down to the value of any mass that you could get grant money for it is so negliable that is can be disregards in most calculations, but it is not absolutely completely zero. Yes, that means that when you hold anything over the earth and drop it onto the earth the mutual attraction between them depends on both of the masses, and indeed the smaller mass attracts the earth towards it, although obviously it would be extremely hard to measure the amount of movement that the earth undregoes with less than planet size masses.
So you believe that dropping a Jupiter value mass onto an Earth value mass will happen at a slower acceleration of gravity than dropping an Earth value mass onto a Jupiter value mass? No, it's the exact same thing, relativity should tell you that. So the acceleration of the two bodies towards each other must be more than 1 g, since the acceleration on Jupiter is more than 1 g. Sure, the effect is so very small when we are dealing with normal masses that it is completely negliable, but it is not zero, as you believe.
If this principle is broken, then two objects dropped in a gravitational field should fall at slightly different rates
Duh! Two objects dropped in a gravitational field do fall at slightly different rates. We don't need any new fancy changes to the laws of nature to prove that. What they keep telling you in physics class about a light object and a heavy object falling at exactly the same rate when dropped in a vacumn is a lie, plain and simple, and there is an easy way to realize that:
Say that you are on an earth size planet with no atmosphere and you drop two similar size spheres (but, and this is important, you drop them one at a time and measure the time of the fall). One is normal matter. One is Neturon Star matter and has the mass of Jupiter. Do you think they fall at the same speed in this 1 G planet? The answer is clearly that can't, The Jupiter mass sphere pulls on the planet with the same G forces that Jupiter does, so dropping the Jupiter mass on the 1 G planet would be more like dropping the Earth or any other mass on Jupiter than just dropping a large mass on a 1 G planet. It is clear that the mass of the the dropped object contributes to the attraction between the two bodies and that a heavy mass must fall faster than a light mass. That object the mass of Jupiter must pull anything towards it with the same pull of gravity that you would measue on Jupiter, be it Newton's apple or a planet the mass of Earth. Oh sure, it normally doesn't fall much faster, and something twice as heavy certainly doesn't fall twice as fast. But in spite of everything the physics book say, this simple thought experiment with ultra heavy masses should prove that the heavier the mass, the more it will fall faster.
Well, if you don't care one way or the other that's fine with me. But I resent those who actually complain to stores like CompUSA to drop the rebates when there in no proof that the lower prices will ever come. If you can find good low prices at retail stores as a result of dropping rebates, please let me know (if you find clowns and hot dogs please don't bother me, and my local Best Buy already has plenty of clowns). Sure, I would rather pay $50 less than have to send in my paperwork and wait for my own money for a disk or monitor, or to pay tax on the extra. But I do want to still be able to buy from a local retailer. You may be happy with on-line sales, but I find too many on-line retailers try to make the shipping and "handling charges" (whatever the hell handling charges are) a profit center that quickly eats away from any pretend savings on the item cost. And too many on-line retailers even charge their inflated shipping charges item-by-item, even if you order multiple things or even more than one of the same item (I'm not naming names, but Egghead). And I've had too many on-line retailers completely unresponsive to customers complaints (I'm not naming names, but Geeks.com) I don't want to have to order heavy items like computer cases from on-line sources and then see my saving eaten in shipping and mystery charges, and I sure don't want to deal with it when the item arrives abused in shipping. I rarely have to return anything (although some of that may be form seeing what I'm buying and not having the mail order people misrepresent things), but if I do I want to be able to deal with someone face to face, not have to drive the package top the post office, pay to ship it back, and then hope I can get the on-line seller to give me a refund on the part of the cost that was the item price (yea, that overcharge for "handling" is already lost).
Sure,it would be absolutely fantastic if the physical retailers dropped prices rather than have us play with rebates. But I have absolutely not seen it happening. You can use fuzzy logic to say that gee, it should happen. But all signs are that, if anything, the opposite is happening. Particularly in the case of OfficeMAx. I've seen many of the things that they now claim are "Great Deals, NO REBATE NEEDED". But when I look at the price of some of them I see that they are selling the product for more than I've paid for the same thing at other stores even before I sent in my rebates! Yes, that's right, I could buy it elsewhere with a rabate deal and not even send in the rebate and still pay less than at OfficeMax with their "No Rebate" price. Where in the world is the savings?
To everyone who is rejoicing about this and suggesting it's time for other to follow suit, let me tell you that you are wrong. Yea, I know this is an unpopular thing to say and that zelot modders will quickly mod me down and burn my karma just because they don't like what I'm going to say, but that doesn't change the truth.
Several years ago we were rolling in freebies and good deals. I used to have to decide which store to be at when they opened, there were so many good offers. And I did get a lot of loot from OfficeMax, including plenty of Free After Rebate CDRs and other free stuff, as well as good low prices on other things. I have extensive records on my rebates. I have received ever single rebate on everything I bought through OfficeMax. Yes, occasionally it did take a call to a rebate center, and OfficeMaAx dealt with some really bad "services", but I got it all. Those unwilling or too lazy to do this, fine, but don't spread the lie that we'll "finally get some savings", we are loseing the savings big time.
The rebates had virtually died already at OfficeMax. In fact they had already started advertising many items caliming Savings with "No Rebate Neded". But I couldn't quite find the savings. One week that they were selling a "Gread Deal" on a hard disk (WD brand if I remember right) for $89.99 "NO Rebate Required", I got the same size hard drive for $29.99 at CompUSA after rebate, and it was even a Segate drive with a 5 year warranty, not a WD 1 year take-a-chance drive. I've seen this pattern over and over again. The rebates are vanishing, but the good deals are not being replaced by true deals in the form of low prices. Same for Best Buy. They have almost completely dropped rebates, and I have not found one thing to buy there since the week they announced their identity tracking personal information database wallet busting loyality cards. Rebates are gone, but good deal prices have not replaced them.
Yes, I didn't like paying tax on the unreal higher price. I didn't like waiting to get my money back and occasionally having to make a phone call or even two. I didn't even like paying for the stamp (there were days that I sent out ten or more rebate envelopes, it adds up). But I loved the free stuff, and I certainly would pay the sales tax on a stack of fee CDs or DVDs to get them. Those days are gone. I don't really know how the organizations justified the offers, but I took them.
I doubt that those of you who are saying that we are "finally going to get some savings" are really that stupid that you haven't seen the trends, or that you would say this without any evidence at all to back it up when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary (my above hard disk example is just one of many that I could post). I rather suspect that what you mean is "I was too lazy to send in the rebate or just passedup the deal because I didn't want to deal with it, so now I'm glad that no one else is getting the deal either".
I doubt very much that the "experts" that the FBI has looking into this are so lame that they don't realize that a Live CD like Knoppix or any of the hundreds of others couldn't have been used to make a copy of the data without changing the "last accessed dates". Heck, that is likely what they are doing themselves when they made the forensic copy of the data that they examined. It seems much more likely that they have been told what result it would be in their best interest to come to, and baring any extremely obvious indications otherwise, we will be told what the government wants to tell us.
There doesn't seem to be much problem of that, since as far as I can tell the software doesn't even claim to be very useful, at least not the "free" version that this article suggests downloading. It requires, at a minumum, a AMD Athlon® 3200+ (ouch, what the hell are they doing with all that CPU that a AMD 3000 isn't quite enough for???), and looking over the list of feature for the free version there seems to be nothing there - The "network map" can't be enough to justify this thing, the "network monitoring and repair" is a vague unexplained term, and the wireless protection doesn't seem to work with all routers (the web site says it doesn't work with mine, although it doesn't actually explain what router feature it requires to make it work). I looked it over, but there seems to be no merit all all to this software, and I'm hard pressed to understand why it is promoted on the front page of Slashdot (aimed at Geeks), unless there was some sort of undisclosed financial arangement to promote it.
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OK, I've read both links. What does this mean? Can anyone give a breakdown of ext3 vs. ext4, particularly in terms of what size files and what size partitions they both support, as well as any other differences that can be quantified?
By the way, my guess as to how Spain will figure out who the poor copyright holders are to give the tax to is that the RIAA will "help" them. And somehow no independent artists will get any of the tax money (and very few real artists either, with it instead going to the record labels).
The alternative, of course is not much better; if the independent artists do get a share of the money every socialist system scammer in Spain will suddenly become an "artist" and start copyrighting everything they can, so the can get their share of the tax.
OK, first we learn that they have a "tax" on all blank media (even flash memory!!). And that Spain will somehow figure out who the copyright holders are and give them this "tax" money. OK, lets ignore the obvious, that much of that blank media is going to be used for system backup and perfectly legitimate and legal uses, from making live Linux CDs to making and saving home videos and all the rest. After all, it must make all the sense in the world to tax these people as long as the money goes to "copyright owners" like Disney.
So now they are paying the copyright owners, presumably to cover all of those copies that the Spanish people make. So if the copyright holder has been compensated, why in the workd outlaw P2P? Rather than outlawing P2P becasue some uses of it may infringe on copyright, even though it has many valid good uses, why not realize that the copyright holders have been compensated anyway? Sure, I expect that some politicians lined their own pockets in order to pass these laws, but still how can the justify taxing all media, that used for copying and that used for uses that in no way infringe on copyrigh, even flash drives, and then over agressively start outlawing things that might (but certainly don't always) let users copy copyrighted materials when they have already paid the tax?
I just hope they make it useful. In the past I know there has been information that I wanted on publically finded, publically open sites, because I found it, but when I asked Google for the same information I was told that my search got zero matches. I was told here that the likely cause of this was someone flagging the page or pages above the information "no robots" or whatever the flag is to keep spiders out. This is a complete crock for public information, and I hope that Google indexes as much as it can, no matter what flag some low level tax-payer paid employee decided to stick on it.
If the don't, the terrorists have won. (Heck, that argument seems to work for anything Bush wants.)
Actually, this article demonstrates what is wrong with the "more pixels" mentatlity and the above post shows just how lame some people think (particularly ACs). The truth is that the camera on the NASA MARS rover that has retured all of those great pictures of the red planet (or the studio mock-up of the red planet if you prefer) is 1.3 mega pixes, as was reported here previously on/. It's not all about the pixels, much more important is the quality of the lenses and the quality of the sensor. Using a 8 megapixel sensor on a camera with a cheap lense is a senseless mix, it will waste memory in each shot but will not give quality pictures. And, while I have not had a chance to evaluate this particular device, in general CMOS devices have a much poorer quality than CCD devices. So unless this chip somehow manages to give much better results than we have any reason to expect, it will only be used to hype "8 megapixels" and waste memory space with each shot, not provide better quality pictures.
And you are extremely stupid to post and call others names when you didn't try the program and get the facts. It printes out a URL and claims that that URL will give your your results. But it doesn't (even when the URL is cut and pasted into Firefox). Of couser, that's to be expected from an AC.
I think you missed the point - I permitted the application to send packets through the firewall - it seemed to send them fine. But then it opened IE - which is an action that I will not tolerate on my system. When IE tried to go to the web page it was blocked dead in it's tracks (as I told the firewall to always do, no exceptions). Any application that uses IE is one that I don't want on my system, and if I had been warned about this behaviour I would have never tried to run the program.
The win versionh is less than useless. Doesn't work on Win98. When I tried it under XP it ran, but in a command shell and then tried to start IE. Well, IE will never get past my firewalls, and I couldn't tell much from the giberish the stupid client printed out (the final html link it gave me was useless).
You need to look into how that hydrogen is being produced. The only large scale production of hydrogen that I know of makes hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel. And it is amazingly wasteful and inefficent, and as dirty as burning natural gas or gasoline in a motor veichle. Although it does allow one to relocate the polution from a given area, it contributes even more to global warming than older technologies.
Yup, mod parent up. Some might call this anti-homeland defense (particularly if the childishly believe the feds can't get your data this way), but the reality is that it is a maror shove in the DRM direction. With DRM already in the SATA hard drives, this is another way to fence the user away from their data. And what happens when Windows does it's all too common trick of refusing to boot and let you at your existing files? Well just reinstall everything (from the CDs that the major OEMs like Dell no longer even bother to give you) and retype it, because you sure are not going to recover it any longer. This is called trusted computing.
Neat joke... A little late for April 1 but still funny. Keep talking about the most expensive mp3 player but never actually mention a price, even if you RTFA. Funny. Yea, right!
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I don't find it acceptable to tell a client that they need to jump through such hoops. I send the exe with a smtp client and another mail server. Problem solved. Just Gmail has the wrong approach here. And people who think it's acceptabe to have to do such things as renaming or RARing to get around it.
Unfortunately, I find I have problems with Gmail security the other way. Gmail blocks outbound attachments with exe files, even when those files are included inside zip files. I write programs and occasionally have to e-mail a client a change. Yet, unless I want to try to get my low-tech users to use more tools to help me sneak something past the Gmail filtering, I have to use a second e-mail account when I want to send out EXE files.
I'm all for Google not doing stupid things on their web interface, but I don't think they should be encouraged to be even more agressive and invasive as to what we send and receive in our e-mail. Claiming you are doing this for the users' protection just assumes that all of your users are idiots, and if you build a system that repeatedly makes that assumption then eventually all of your users will be idiots, as you will drive the others away.
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I didn't suggest doing the experiment here on Earth. And I do expect it would be hard to get grant money to fund the experiment. But, yes, you get the point exactly, but you overlook the obvious implication of it. Sure, if you drop a Jupiter value mass onto that airless earth size planet, the planet would be pulled to the mass and the mass would be pulled to the planet. The combined acceleration would be greater than 1 g. Now start reducing the size of the neutron star mass. What happens? The effect is still the same, it is just reduced as the mass gets less. When we get down to the value of any mass that you could get grant money for it is so negliable that is can be disregards in most calculations, but it is not absolutely completely zero. Yes, that means that when you hold anything over the earth and drop it onto the earth the mutual attraction between them depends on both of the masses, and indeed the smaller mass attracts the earth towards it, although obviously it would be extremely hard to measure the amount of movement that the earth undregoes with less than planet size masses.
So you believe that dropping a Jupiter value mass onto an Earth value mass will happen at a slower acceleration of gravity than dropping an Earth value mass onto a Jupiter value mass? No, it's the exact same thing, relativity should tell you that. So the acceleration of the two bodies towards each other must be more than 1 g, since the acceleration on Jupiter is more than 1 g. Sure, the effect is so very small when we are dealing with normal masses that it is completely negliable, but it is not zero, as you believe.
Duh! Two objects dropped in a gravitational field do fall at slightly different rates. We don't need any new fancy changes to the laws of nature to prove that. What they keep telling you in physics class about a light object and a heavy object falling at exactly the same rate when dropped in a vacumn is a lie, plain and simple, and there is an easy way to realize that:
Say that you are on an earth size planet with no atmosphere and you drop two similar size spheres (but, and this is important, you drop them one at a time and measure the time of the fall). One is normal matter. One is Neturon Star matter and has the mass of Jupiter. Do you think they fall at the same speed in this 1 G planet? The answer is clearly that can't, The Jupiter mass sphere pulls on the planet with the same G forces that Jupiter does, so dropping the Jupiter mass on the 1 G planet would be more like dropping the Earth or any other mass on Jupiter than just dropping a large mass on a 1 G planet. It is clear that the mass of the the dropped object contributes to the attraction between the two bodies and that a heavy mass must fall faster than a light mass. That object the mass of Jupiter must pull anything towards it with the same pull of gravity that you would measue on Jupiter, be it Newton's apple or a planet the mass of Earth. Oh sure, it normally doesn't fall much faster, and something twice as heavy certainly doesn't fall twice as fast. But in spite of everything the physics book say, this simple thought experiment with ultra heavy masses should prove that the heavier the mass, the more it will fall faster.
But why would couples who are having difficulties with conception want mice, particularly deformed and sickly ones?
Sure,it would be absolutely fantastic if the physical retailers dropped prices rather than have us play with rebates. But I have absolutely not seen it happening. You can use fuzzy logic to say that gee, it should happen. But all signs are that, if anything, the opposite is happening. Particularly in the case of OfficeMAx. I've seen many of the things that they now claim are "Great Deals, NO REBATE NEEDED". But when I look at the price of some of them I see that they are selling the product for more than I've paid for the same thing at other stores even before I sent in my rebates! Yes, that's right, I could buy it elsewhere with a rabate deal and not even send in the rebate and still pay less than at OfficeMax with their "No Rebate" price. Where in the world is the savings?
Several years ago we were rolling in freebies and good deals. I used to have to decide which store to be at when they opened, there were so many good offers. And I did get a lot of loot from OfficeMax, including plenty of Free After Rebate CDRs and other free stuff, as well as good low prices on other things. I have extensive records on my rebates. I have received ever single rebate on everything I bought through OfficeMax. Yes, occasionally it did take a call to a rebate center, and OfficeMaAx dealt with some really bad "services", but I got it all. Those unwilling or too lazy to do this, fine, but don't spread the lie that we'll "finally get some savings", we are loseing the savings big time.
The rebates had virtually died already at OfficeMax. In fact they had already started advertising many items caliming Savings with "No Rebate Neded". But I couldn't quite find the savings. One week that they were selling a "Gread Deal" on a hard disk (WD brand if I remember right) for $89.99 "NO Rebate Required", I got the same size hard drive for $29.99 at CompUSA after rebate, and it was even a Segate drive with a 5 year warranty, not a WD 1 year take-a-chance drive. I've seen this pattern over and over again. The rebates are vanishing, but the good deals are not being replaced by true deals in the form of low prices. Same for Best Buy. They have almost completely dropped rebates, and I have not found one thing to buy there since the week they announced their identity tracking personal information database wallet busting loyality cards. Rebates are gone, but good deal prices have not replaced them.
Yes, I didn't like paying tax on the unreal higher price. I didn't like waiting to get my money back and occasionally having to make a phone call or even two. I didn't even like paying for the stamp (there were days that I sent out ten or more rebate envelopes, it adds up). But I loved the free stuff, and I certainly would pay the sales tax on a stack of fee CDs or DVDs to get them. Those days are gone. I don't really know how the organizations justified the offers, but I took them.
I doubt that those of you who are saying that we are "finally going to get some savings" are really that stupid that you haven't seen the trends, or that you would say this without any evidence at all to back it up when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary (my above hard disk example is just one of many that I could post). I rather suspect that what you mean is "I was too lazy to send in the rebate or just passedup the deal because I didn't want to deal with it, so now I'm glad that no one else is getting the deal either".
I doubt very much that the "experts" that the FBI has looking into this are so lame that they don't realize that a Live CD like Knoppix or any of the hundreds of others couldn't have been used to make a copy of the data without changing the "last accessed dates". Heck, that is likely what they are doing themselves when they made the forensic copy of the data that they examined. It seems much more likely that they have been told what result it would be in their best interest to come to, and baring any extremely obvious indications otherwise, we will be told what the government wants to tell us.
There doesn't seem to be much problem of that, since as far as I can tell the software doesn't even claim to be very useful, at least not the "free" version that this article suggests downloading. It requires, at a minumum, a AMD Athlon® 3200+ (ouch, what the hell are they doing with all that CPU that a AMD 3000 isn't quite enough for???), and looking over the list of feature for the free version there seems to be nothing there - The "network map" can't be enough to justify this thing, the "network monitoring and repair" is a vague unexplained term, and the wireless protection doesn't seem to work with all routers (the web site says it doesn't work with mine, although it doesn't actually explain what router feature it requires to make it work). I looked it over, but there seems to be no merit all all to this software, and I'm hard pressed to understand why it is promoted on the front page of Slashdot (aimed at Geeks), unless there was some sort of undisclosed financial arangement to promote it.
OK, I've read both links. What does this mean? Can anyone give a breakdown of ext3 vs. ext4, particularly in terms of what size files and what size partitions they both support, as well as any other differences that can be quantified?
What do you expect in a country where we discriminate against applicants to the police force because they are too intelligent?
The alternative, of course is not much better; if the independent artists do get a share of the money every socialist system scammer in Spain will suddenly become an "artist" and start copyrighting everything they can, so the can get their share of the tax.
So now they are paying the copyright owners, presumably to cover all of those copies that the Spanish people make. So if the copyright holder has been compensated, why in the workd outlaw P2P? Rather than outlawing P2P becasue some uses of it may infringe on copyright, even though it has many valid good uses, why not realize that the copyright holders have been compensated anyway? Sure, I expect that some politicians lined their own pockets in order to pass these laws, but still how can the justify taxing all media, that used for copying and that used for uses that in no way infringe on copyrigh, even flash drives, and then over agressively start outlawing things that might (but certainly don't always) let users copy copyrighted materials when they have already paid the tax?
Wow! An old aricle on computers. Big deal!
Is this what they mean by "Linux for Dummies"?
If the don't, the terrorists have won. (Heck, that argument seems to work for anything Bush wants.)
Actually, this article demonstrates what is wrong with the "more pixels" mentatlity and the above post shows just how lame some people think (particularly ACs). The truth is that the camera on the NASA MARS rover that has retured all of those great pictures of the red planet (or the studio mock-up of the red planet if you prefer) is 1.3 mega pixes, as was reported here previously on /. It's not all about the pixels, much more important is the quality of the lenses and the quality of the sensor. Using a 8 megapixel sensor on a camera with a cheap lense is a senseless mix, it will waste memory in each shot but will not give quality pictures. And, while I have not had a chance to evaluate this particular device, in general CMOS devices have a much poorer quality than CCD devices. So unless this chip somehow manages to give much better results than we have any reason to expect, it will only be used to hype "8 megapixels" and waste memory space with each shot, not provide better quality pictures.
And you are extremely stupid to post and call others names when you didn't try the program and get the facts. It printes out a URL and claims that that URL will give your your results. But it doesn't (even when the URL is cut and pasted into Firefox). Of couser, that's to be expected from an AC.
I think you missed the point - I permitted the application to send packets through the firewall - it seemed to send them fine. But then it opened IE - which is an action that I will not tolerate on my system. When IE tried to go to the web page it was blocked dead in it's tracks (as I told the firewall to always do, no exceptions). Any application that uses IE is one that I don't want on my system, and if I had been warned about this behaviour I would have never tried to run the program.
The win versionh is less than useless. Doesn't work on Win98. When I tried it under XP it ran, but in a command shell and then tried to start IE. Well, IE will never get past my firewalls, and I couldn't tell much from the giberish the stupid client printed out (the final html link it gave me was useless).
You need to look into how that hydrogen is being produced. The only large scale production of hydrogen that I know of makes hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel. And it is amazingly wasteful and inefficent, and as dirty as burning natural gas or gasoline in a motor veichle. Although it does allow one to relocate the polution from a given area, it contributes even more to global warming than older technologies.
Yup, mod parent up. Some might call this anti-homeland defense (particularly if the childishly believe the feds can't get your data this way), but the reality is that it is a maror shove in the DRM direction. With DRM already in the SATA hard drives, this is another way to fence the user away from their data. And what happens when Windows does it's all too common trick of refusing to boot and let you at your existing files? Well just reinstall everything (from the CDs that the major OEMs like Dell no longer even bother to give you) and retype it, because you sure are not going to recover it any longer. This is called trusted computing.
Neat joke... A little late for April 1 but still funny. Keep talking about the most expensive mp3 player but never actually mention a price, even if you RTFA. Funny. Yea, right!
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I don't find it acceptable to tell a client that they need to jump through such hoops. I send the exe with a smtp client and another mail server. Problem solved. Just Gmail has the wrong approach here. And people who think it's acceptabe to have to do such things as renaming or RARing to get around it.
I'm all for Google not doing stupid things on their web interface, but I don't think they should be encouraged to be even more agressive and invasive as to what we send and receive in our e-mail. Claiming you are doing this for the users' protection just assumes that all of your users are idiots, and if you build a system that repeatedly makes that assumption then eventually all of your users will be idiots, as you will drive the others away.