Hey, we live in a 3-d world. Recalculate for cubic inches including atmosphere and ocean. And convert to metric while you're at it for our non-SAE people (most of the world).
IIRC, the Oracle downloads are only licenced to be used for developing apps for Oracle. i.e. you're not supposed to use them (except for developing/testing), even for noncommercial use.
I downloaded 8i or 9i for Linux and tried installing it on Knoppix-installed Debian. Never quite got it working, but honestly I didn't try too much, and Oracle isn't supported on Debian in the first place.
As jsebrech says it'd be damn near impossible to launch them into a head-on orbit from the earth. Orbit-bound and space-bound rockets don't go straight up; they are already spinning with the earth and boost that orbital speed incrementally. As the other guy said you'd have to at least double the effort (and rocket fuel, I presume...but then you'd have to have more rocket fuel to carry the load of the extra rocket fuel...yikes). And I suspect you'd have more issues with air friction.
Not likely, if not imposible. Setting aside the difficulties of doing so, if you got some debris flying at a speed so much greater or lesser than satellites to damage them the mass would either fall towards the earth or rise to a higher orbit while the satellite is in a stable orbit.
I suppose it's possible to launch debris in an intersecting orbit, but that would probably require a lot more fuel and would likely miss a lot.
In answer to your question, if someone launched an abrasive it would either fly out of orbit, fall out of orbit or stabilize in an orbit. If it stabilized in an orbit it wouldn't hit anything in the same orbit since it's going at the same speed. If it somehow got into the same altitude orbit but at a different angle than existing satellites maybe it could hit them, but I doubt it.
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I hadn't heard about the weightlifter. Too afraid to click on that even after turning images off, I used wget and read the source (cut and pasted from shell window of source, so the formatting is really screwy...sorry): ---------------
This rather shocking photo was snapped in November 16th by a spectator at
the collegiate power lifting championships at Pennsylvania State. The unfortunate competitor, who expressed a plea to remain anonymous, remembered to surgeons that he was "stuck" at the bottom of a personal best attempt in the squat lift when he "sort of pulled his stomach in and pushed extra hard, at the same time as trying to complete the lift." He remembers a loud popping, splattering noise then a fierce stabbing pain and then not being able to move from the squat position. He remained in this position for about half an hour, since trying to stand caused him overwhelming agonizing pain.
Paramedics arrived and applied anaesthesia on the spot and carried him to an ambulance. He was rushed to surgery, where surgeons described the trauma as an "explosive and aggravated prolapse of the bowel". Meanwhile it was revealed that the weight was removed from his shoulders at the time of the incident by two "spotters" on either side of the lifter. The third spotter who was standing behind the lifter was unfortunately sprayed with fecal matter at the time of the incident. This spotter promptly fainted when he realized the extent of the injury to the lifter, who was a personal friend. This compounded the task of first aid officers who were at a loss as to how to treat the injury to the lifter in any case, who remained in the squatting position moaning in pain much to the consternation of the helpless audience.
The hapless lifter had successful surgery to relieve the prolapse, but remained immobilized with his feet elevated in stirrups for 2 weeks to ensure "internal compliance with the surgery and that the organs retracted successfully". To add insult to injury, the ex-lifter required rectal stitching to partially occlude the anal orifice and stitch the rectal passage (which had significantly expanded and torn during the prolapse) and also was put on a low fibre low residue diet to combat flatulence to avoid any possibility of a recurrence. CBS news spoke to his wife and asked if she thought he would resume his power lifting career. "Not if I have anything to say about it, would you like to risk something like that again?"
We agreed!!
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The annual USAPL Pennsylvania State Powerlifting Championship contests are held early in the year (February or March), not in November.
No such injury as the one described occurred to any weight lifter at the Pe nnsylvania State Powerlifting Championships in the last several years.
The "weight lifter" in the photograph is posed squatting immediately in fro nt of a doorway or wall, which would not be the case if had suffered an injury i n the midst of a powerlifting match and then found himself "not able to move fro m the squat position." (He'd be in the middle of an arena or gymnasium floor wi th plenty of room on all sides.)
Ah, you missed out. The boxed version came with a pair of Joojanta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, a microscopic alien invasion fleet, pocket lint and a "Don't Panic!" button. (Black cardboard sunglasses, a small plastic bag w/cardboard label and a cotton ball, respectively.) There were some other things, but I forget...seems like maybe $200k Altarian dollars or something.
Vorbis is the codec. Ogg is the container (file) format.
Very cool and very good, but same as you I have to rip my CDs to mp3 if I want to hear them on my mobile digital music players. (Or pay more money to buy a niche player; my players were gifts.)
Why the hell is this +4 interesting? I'm not trying to troll here, I just really want to know? Is it more interesting installing Gentoo than.. say.. Slackware, Debian, RHEL or whatever's your favorite distribution.
Actually now it's +5 Funny. Gentoo is heralded for it's source distribution: You compile it as you install it, so a multi-CPU and parallel compiling are probably making the Gentoo guys orgasm with delight.
Sadly, that hasn't changed with the advent of ringtones in my experience.
Recently at a busy restaraunt I sat next to a table of businessmen, and within 10 minutes *I* knew which ring tone belonged to which businessman, but I swear every time one went off all of them reached for their phones!
My mother is the same way. If a family member's phone rings, she digs for hers frantically. I feel odd telling her it's not her phone ringing.
OK, now in seriousness, I think this is a great achievement. Flash forward 10-12 years, and imagine what this could do for other organs.
I imagined a progression from growing your own bone molds to donated bone molds to a paid bone grower profession. The mental image: an analog to a paid dog walker moving through the city streets with an odd assortment of 25 off of a web of leashes pointing in every direction.
"Hi Bob, how's business?"
"I got the Johnson kneecap contract today, but I hope to land the Smith femur job next week."
"Geez, Bob, how can you handle that on top of all your other work?"
Since you asked: I sold my late-model big-engine truck and bought a cheaper and more economical car, got rid of my cell phone and cable TV, quit buying new computer components every month, resisted buying other electronic gadgets (like MP3 players DVD players and their media), severely reduced my 401(k) contributions, consolidated my credit cards at a lower rate and mostly kept myself to a budget. For a year I lived with a family member (yeah, moved back in with mommy temporarily), but the other 4 years had my own $600/month 1-bedroom apartment. I didn't go on expensive vacations over those 5 years.
I think I make decent money; that and being single helps a lot, as does help from family in the form of a year in mommy's house and a low interest car loan from granddad. But the real secret is to live below your means. Unless you're below the poverty line (and maybe even then) you can probably cut expenses somewhere without severely impacting your quality of life.
I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying it won't be harder for others, but for most people it's doable. And it's a great feeling when you finally get there.
As far as your other bitter comments, aren't you the one that racked up the debt? Were you buying shelter and food for your children or buying consumer goods and entertainment? For my debt buildup it was the latter. I'm not trying to pick on you, but I don't think I've met somone (especially online) who was so financially strapped they have trouble buying food or paying rent. (Blowing the rent money on beer, cigarettes or a new GeForce doesn't count as being too poor to pay the rent in my book.)
I'm very bitter towards credit card companies and lenders in general myself. If you're really hopelessly in debt *and* have proven to yourself that you could live within your means and not build debt again if it were gone, carefully consider bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy is frequently abused and has many downsides, but there is a point where it is a valid option.
I'm surprised to see so many people complaining. This is my favorite color scheme, and I fail to see how it could possibly be harder to read. The text is black, the body background is white and the header highlights are subtle yet enough to break up the messages. What's so hard to read about it? I like it much better.
Anyway, I sense a demand for a FireFox extension to modify all Slashdot links to point to the slashdot domain with the users' favorite color scheme. I'm not a real developer, but I'll bet it's not too hard...I'll check into it this weekend.
So, what's the deal? I actually RTFA'ed, but did I miss something? What will KDE do that ht://Dig and mnogosearch and the like don't? User-friendly setup and use, I suppose.
A tip to avoid getting into the crime vs. job connundrum: pay off your debt. The idea of losing a job is much scarier when you have $20k in credit card debt plus $15k owing on your car. I spent the last 5 years paying off all my debt, and although the thought of losing my job still frightens me I know I could quit and not go bankrupt or have things repossesed. Standing up against a boss pressuring me into a criminal act is a no-brainer when you're in this position.
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Hey, we live in a 3-d world. Recalculate for cubic inches including atmosphere and ocean. And convert to metric while you're at it for our non-SAE people (most of the world).
Oh, crap! What about the moon, Mars and Io?
With webcams! Duh!
IIRC, the Oracle downloads are only licenced to be used for developing apps for Oracle. i.e. you're not supposed to use them (except for developing/testing), even for noncommercial use.
I downloaded 8i or 9i for Linux and tried installing it on Knoppix-installed Debian. Never quite got it working, but honestly I didn't try too much, and Oracle isn't supported on Debian in the first place.
As jsebrech says it'd be damn near impossible to launch them into a head-on orbit from the earth. Orbit-bound and space-bound rockets don't go straight up; they are already spinning with the earth and boost that orbital speed incrementally. As the other guy said you'd have to at least double the effort (and rocket fuel, I presume...but then you'd have to have more rocket fuel to carry the load of the extra rocket fuel...yikes). And I suspect you'd have more issues with air friction.
Not likely, if not imposible. Setting aside the difficulties of doing so, if you got some debris flying at a speed so much greater or lesser than satellites to damage them the mass would either fall towards the earth or rise to a higher orbit while the satellite is in a stable orbit.
I suppose it's possible to launch debris in an intersecting orbit, but that would probably require a lot more fuel and would likely miss a lot.
In answer to your question, if someone launched an abrasive it would either fly out of orbit, fall out of orbit or stabilize in an orbit. If it stabilized in an orbit it wouldn't hit anything in the same orbit since it's going at the same speed. If it somehow got into the same altitude orbit but at a different angle than existing satellites maybe it could hit them, but I doubt it.
Disclaimer: I am an ignorant idiot.
I have a mental image of one of those plastic 35mm film canisters w/decelleration thrusters and a ceramic heat shield cap.
I'm always amazed how much free stuff is on the internet. Free million dollar solutions!
Just think of how many free flatscreens that would buy...
You're new here? Better tell this guy.
(Great, now I'm reduced to proxy troll.)
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y other news agency. (The poor writing, non-news format, and focus on "gross ou
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are held early in the year (February or March), not in November.
nnsylvania State Powerlifting Championships in the last several years.
nt of a doorway or wall, which would not be the case if had suffered an injury i
n the midst of a powerlifting match and then found himself "not able to move fro
m the squat position." (He'd be in the middle of an arena or gymnasium floor wi
th plenty of room on all sides.)
I, for one, welcome nobody.
Ah, you missed out. The boxed version came with a pair of Joojanta 2000 Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, a microscopic alien invasion fleet, pocket lint and a "Don't Panic!" button. (Black cardboard sunglasses, a small plastic bag w/cardboard label and a cotton ball, respectively.) There were some other things, but I forget...seems like maybe $200k Altarian dollars or something.
Vorbis is the codec. Ogg is the container (file) format.
Very cool and very good, but same as you I have to rip my CDs to mp3 if I want to hear them on my mobile digital music players. (Or pay more money to buy a niche player; my players were gifts.)
PGAccess it Tk-based. phpPgAdmin, though, is php-based.
Other GUI clients in the pgSQL FAQ.
By the letter of the law, my using Bittorrent to download the latest Adam Sandler flick is stealing.
By all other measures, it's a sad waste of bandwitch and p2p technology.
(okay, I liked Wedding Singer and Punch Drunk Love)
Why the hell is this +4 interesting? I'm not trying to troll here, I just really want to know? Is it more interesting installing Gentoo than.. say.. Slackware, Debian, RHEL or whatever's your favorite distribution.
Actually now it's +5 Funny. Gentoo is heralded for it's source distribution: You compile it as you install it, so a multi-CPU and parallel compiling are probably making the Gentoo guys orgasm with delight.
Sadly, that hasn't changed with the advent of ringtones in my experience.
Recently at a busy restaraunt I sat next to a table of businessmen, and within 10 minutes *I* knew which ring tone belonged to which businessman, but I swear every time one went off all of them reached for their phones!
My mother is the same way. If a family member's phone rings, she digs for hers frantically. I feel odd telling her it's not her phone ringing.
OK, now in seriousness, I think this is a great achievement. Flash forward 10-12 years, and imagine what this could do for other organs.
I imagined a progression from growing your own bone molds to donated bone molds to a paid bone grower profession. The mental image: an analog to a paid dog walker moving through the city streets with an odd assortment of 25 off of a web of leashes pointing in every direction.
"Hi Bob, how's business?"
"I got the Johnson kneecap contract today, but I hope to land the Smith femur job next week."
"Geez, Bob, how can you handle that on top of all your other work?"
"I still have some room on my tibula."
I think I make decent money; that and being single helps a lot, as does help from family in the form of a year in mommy's house and a low interest car loan from granddad. But the real secret is to live below your means. Unless you're below the poverty line (and maybe even then) you can probably cut expenses somewhere without severely impacting your quality of life.
I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying it won't be harder for others, but for most people it's doable. And it's a great feeling when you finally get there.
As far as your other bitter comments, aren't you the one that racked up the debt? Were you buying shelter and food for your children or buying consumer goods and entertainment? For my debt buildup it was the latter. I'm not trying to pick on you, but I don't think I've met somone (especially online) who was so financially strapped they have trouble buying food or paying rent. (Blowing the rent money on beer, cigarettes or a new GeForce doesn't count as being too poor to pay the rent in my book.)
I'm very bitter towards credit card companies and lenders in general myself. If you're really hopelessly in debt *and* have proven to yourself that you could live within your means and not build debt again if it were gone, carefully consider bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy is frequently abused and has many downsides, but there is a point where it is a valid option.
I'm surprised to see so many people complaining. This is my favorite color scheme, and I fail to see how it could possibly be harder to read. The text is black, the body background is white and the header highlights are subtle yet enough to break up the messages. What's so hard to read about it? I like it much better.
Anyway, I sense a demand for a FireFox extension to modify all Slashdot links to point to the slashdot domain with the users' favorite color scheme. I'm not a real developer, but I'll bet it's not too hard...I'll check into it this weekend.
Are you threatening me?
So, what's the deal? I actually RTFA'ed, but did I miss something? What will KDE do that ht://Dig and mnogosearch and the like don't? User-friendly setup and use, I suppose.
A tip to avoid getting into the crime vs. job connundrum: pay off your debt. The idea of losing a job is much scarier when you have $20k in credit card debt plus $15k owing on your car. I spent the last 5 years paying off all my debt, and although the thought of losing my job still frightens me I know I could quit and not go bankrupt or have things repossesed. Standing up against a boss pressuring me into a criminal act is a no-brainer when you're in this position.
Unless they don't believe in capital punishment. (He was CEO of a corporation, after all...)
Scientists don't run very fast.