Beyond the possibility of the ping-pong ball undergoing explosive decompression (a good thought in and of itself): IANAPM (I am not a physics major) but, wouldn't the lack of air resistance remove the one thing that actually causes ping-pong balls to be even remotely slow? And to heck with.5 km rocks, viva the ping pong ball bombs from space!
Any connection between me an logical thought is purely coincidental
I'm a student up at RIT, going into 2nd year, and this is my major. While Network Security is not yet a 6 class focus, it should be before long. Sure 4 years is too long to explode into the field, but if you meet pre-reqs, you can take the classes as night classes, or even on-line with no other offiliation to RIT.
I love the new degree though, it was just presented as a new major last year, technically an off-shoot if IT. It itself is... a bit weak of a major at RIT, trying to cover too many things with too many introductory classes, but cut out some web design and interactive media, and you've got a usable, enjoyable major.
Just my 0.0169284 Euro (as of 3:41 GMT) (thanks XE.com)
A snippet of the lyrics below:
Who do you represent?
I represent the smallest planet
Attorney in this tourney versus those who tried to ban it
If you don't agree go see interplanet Janet
Cause sun is star like Pluto is planet
So lend me all ears and let me state my case
about all the types of satellites we must embrace
Cause like my parents' great grandparents - this planet is an immigrant,
to deport it's an offense
It's an upstanding member of the solar system
Apply the laws of Earth and make it a victim
Of Proposition 187
If Pluto spawns a moon, it will apply to the heavens.
I'll damn you like Judas of Iscariot
If you demote this mote remote to affiliate
It's like taking ET's custody from Elliot
Support your Lilliput, 'cause simply put
Pluto is a planet
Do it for the children
(If not for yourselves)
Pluto is a planet
If it happens that the Russkie program folds, (which I don't like, I rather like some healthy competition to become co-operation) I saw that the US Program give Lance Bass a free ride to see the station.
Once he's up there, I say we de-man the station, and breach the hull.
I'm working on building that family idea, I'm only 18 as it stands today, but you're correct. I live in a real world environment, I don't believe M$ is evil, I believe they use underhanded and downright unfair means of promotiong their products.
That said, those methods have worked, and they have saturated the markets with their products. I work on Windows boxes for Mr. Joe Average, and I fix what they have, what errors they've created...
joshsisk, thank you for being a real person as well, too many people these days are only viewpoints.
I use M$ products, I'm gaining their certifications, but I don't like how they do a lot of their business, and I think Dell's doing something great here by not just bending to each one of the big corporation's wishes.
To band together and teach a multi-national corporation that they are not gods.
Sony products will continue to sell to everyone who doesn't know just what this is, and how it's leading to potentially very-bad-things(tm)
We/. readers could boycott until we're red in the face, and Sony'd never feel the difference
We could DDoS them, but we'd bring ourselves below their level to do that, and they'd never care.
Now is the time to get active in your community, including, but not limited to: Telling those who will listen about what DRM is, and how it will affect us; Offering non-Sony non-DRM components at a lower cost (for retailers); Standing inside/outside a store/reseller that pushes/sells Sony products with flyers, a good positive attitude, and the willingness to educate and not attack.
to cause a change, we must be active, willing, and open... I hope we can be.
And if not, let's start flooding their servers with bunk data in a BAD way. It'd fun while it lasted, but wouldn't accomplish much.
Cancel my statement about rational, now you're starting to speak sense. What needs to be done by a p2p though, is they need to get the big names in on it from the get-go, because once you understand something, you generally can fear it a whole lot less.
Support yout local indiemusic scene, if musicians find that they can be profitable w/o a giant conglomerate, they'll do that instead... Fighting a conglomerate by trying to kill their profts (the only thing that keeps them together visavis enron visavis worldcom visavis..etc..) as a single man won't help, making a viable alternative for musicians to release their music in just might.
You've proven yourself incapable of rational thought or discussion on this topic, good day sir, I hope some other day you have an open mind.
I won't copy something if it's not copyable, because that's fair? No respect in the young, it's true.
The DMCA is a bunch of crap, it's very poorly written, and needs a major overhaul, but about copying... just because you can doesn't mean you should.
If it's theirs, as in, their intellectual property (in this case, their music, which is their soul and dream if it's any good) then out of respect for their wishes, once you own the CD, you should no freely distribute their work. You'll note that even though you own the CD, you don't own the rights to do that, and you shouldn't. A backup copy? Sure. That's cool, even lend it to a friend, get them hooked on it, to support the artist making money, especially if they're not part of that gorgon of stupidity and wealth that the RIAA is.
Get some morals, call me back in the morning.
Music that I like, I buy, but the music is still the artists, and it is not yours, the CD is yours, and it has a performance of the music that you can use to listen to, not treat as your own music.
I don't refute your point, I have shared music, but your means for justifying your standing are without sound foundation. Music sharing of other's works is in no way protected by the First Amendment. That is my single point. Justify it how you will, but justify it in some way that has merit, not by trying to make a parallel to your granted rights.
The First Amendment does not allow absoloute freedom of religion, what is does grant is that provided your excercize of the First Amendment does not infringe on other's abilities to excercize the First Amendment, the government is not supposed to stop you.
Take human sacrifices for an example, replace stealing with killing in your arguement. The government will run you up the flagpole for it, because it too is illegal. Or, to view it by my method, your killing of that person infringes on their First Amendment rights.
It's the same view I have on many things, including sexual practices. People should be allowed to do what they want, provided it doesn't infringe on or impair someone else's ability to do so. I don't wanna be tied up, so don't tie me up.
Nice try on the arguement, but it really doesn't hold that much water
The trick about the shower is to get some steam in the air, such that it will adhere to the airbourne dust, and weight it down somewhat. You steam up the room nicely, get the air a *bit* (not much) saturated with water vapor, then kill the shower, and let the dust settle in the room. The fan would ruin the effect, as it would only whip up the dust that's just settled.
Now, this is nowhere near as good as a clean room, it's quite a ghetto hardware mod, but you can get the room clean enough such that you can take off the cover, and saran wrap it quickly enough to avoid harming the drive 90+% of the time.
Another cool tip?: Clean the acryllic very very well before installing it.
NASA, being hesitant to waste any of their very very expensive space & upper atmosphere craft have secretly brought on a contractor to test what would happen if an aircraft made of very expensive materials lost pressure in the stratosphere and plummeted to the earth.
The competeing schools of thought have theorized many possibilites, but there remains only one way to test it... to crash such an aircraft
In unrelated news, NASA's experiment dropping a pressurized balloon cabin from high altitudes failed when a $5 blow-bolt froze, and would not release the heated cabin. No sources have yet come forth to find out what manner of monitoring NASA will have onboard these "crash tests"
Well, it's obvious to me that a strategic merger with Boeing might be a good call in the near future, so that ZD could make use of this new anti-gravity technology. : )
Using the M82-A1 Barret.50BMG sniper rifle against personnel is also against the Geneva Convention, so the weapon is listed as for use against materiel only.
As one Marine Sniper-School instructor was quoted saying, "Yes, it's only for shooting equipment and vehicles, so don't shoot people with it... Shoot their uniforms."
I've found Trillian to be a great management tool for all my IM accounts. It allows the use of AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Y! Messenger, and an IRC client all from one program. It winds up hogging less resources than running all five other at once, and provides great support, functionality, and customizability. (sp?)
MSN accidentally blocked it once, and AIM tried to block it for a few weeks, as it eliminates their revenue from advertizing. However, fixes were released very quickly, and Trillian is now unofficially allowed to run on the AIM network again. Give it a try, you just might like it.
True, to a point, but I think the densities are typically in the mol/km^3 range in the densest of nebulae... And we're a long way from being filled with hydrogen gas like that. The speed of sound in space would therefore be something along the lines of 1E-16 Miles per Hour at the most, in the densest of Nebulae, and would probably die instantly because the vibrational tendencies of the gasses (or on this scale, even the Planck Cosntant) are greater than the impulses provided by a point-source of noise.
I think what they mean is that rather rapidly, the speed of the solar wind stops, and this may have the chance of shaking up the probe pretty badly, or, may provide some deeper insight into the universe's structures.
The whole article is a bit long to post here, but the gist lies along the lines of;
Pioneer 10, the first space probe to go through the kupier belt of asteroids between Mars & Jupiter was originally slated for a four year trek to the edge of our solar system, but because of the strong design used in it's manufacture it continues sending data back to earth every-so-often with a signal that has roughly the power of a nightlight.
The probe is now around 30 years old, but is not the farthest man-made object from earth, that honor goes to Voyager 1, which overtook pioneer in Feb. 1998.
Pioneer will hopefully reach the Heilopause boundry before it's life ceases, which is where the pressure of the solar wind becomes equal to that of interstellar wind of cosmic rays. It is thought to be preceeded by the termination shock, which is where the solar wind suddenly slows from supersonic speeds to subsonic speeds (which I fail to find the relevance of in space, because mach-speeds have relevance based on the media through which they flow). However, if the probes reach this far, they may be able to beam back data confirming scientific theory about interstellar cosmic radiation.
The other spacecraft-which-refuses to die is IMP-8, a satellite orbiting earth at around 2/3rds the distance between the earth and the moon. It was used to collect data about long-scale solar processes. It had no magnetic drum onboard (hey, it was launched in 1973) but was made to beam data back to earth at the whopping fast rate of 6000-bits per second (whopping for the 70s anyway). Unfortunately, this data stream is in the VHF band, and as such, is becoming increasingly obsolete for data transmission. However, even though the satellite cannot be used for it's primary function anymore (the Magnetometer finally failed) it is still used to collect data about cosmic radiation densities, which is of help to know when finding times to launch long distance probes like the Voyagers & Pioneer.
Pioneer 10 is slated to eventually reach the Taurus constellation... in roughly two million years. The Voyagers will chug along for a few more years anyway, their nuclear power sources should keep them happy until at least 2020. And old IMP-8? He'll be used until at least 2005. "Pioneer 10, the Voyager twins and IMP-8 show you just can't keep a good spacecraft down."
While I'm far from a material's engineer, (and Karmically down from stopping to feed the trolls on an OT post) there has been much discussion of this both at Icrontic Forums and Gideon Tech Forums
From the general views of young overclockers (myself included) water is really the only way to go, though concepts involving chilled mineral oil have been floating around. If there's no debris on your electronics, you could run them under de-ionized and de-mineralized water, but as that so rarely happens in the real world, it's generally best to just go with good water, in a well tubed system.
Tygon(r) tubing is wonderful stuff, that very rarely kinks, and can sustain many bends before it's strucural integrity is comprimised. Just clamp the tubes down tightly, and I'd be willing to use the system with no more fear that an aircooled desktop. Aircooled laptops scare me more, those things can heat up very quickly, and the airflow in them is low to none.
Mineral Oil just doesn't transfer heat well enough to be practical, and water runs the risk of shorting things out. What we need is non-viscous non-conductive Arctic Silver! : )
We've got things made out of plastic, that could, someday be used to display images or text. With all the things plastics can do, imagine the possibilites for these lighted ones!
Though, personally, I always though putting directions on the condom's wrapper was sufficient.
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I can't believe I'm diginifying this with a response
What your very very small brain fails to understand is that unlike the RIAA & MPAA there are many viable alternatives to/. This site is provided as a free service, which means that it's use is subject to whatever terms the provider would like to enforce or use. The RIAA & MPAA are not free services, when they force something out of the press, they do not do it because it's on their site. This is a free website, use it as you're allowed to, because it's a service provided for you without cost.
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Beyond the possibility of the ping-pong ball undergoing explosive decompression (a good thought in and of itself): .5 km rocks, viva the ping pong ball bombs from space!
IANAPM (I am not a physics major) but, wouldn't the lack of air resistance remove the one thing that actually causes ping-pong balls to be even remotely slow? And to heck with
Any connection between me an logical thought is purely coincidental
I'm a student up at RIT, going into 2nd year, and this is my major. While Network Security is not yet a 6 class focus, it should be before long. Sure 4 years is too long to explode into the field, but if you meet pre-reqs, you can take the classes as night classes, or even on-line with no other offiliation to RIT.
I love the new degree though, it was just presented as a new major last year, technically an off-shoot if IT. It itself is... a bit weak of a major at RIT, trying to cover too many things with too many introductory classes, but cut out some web design and interactive media, and you've got a usable, enjoyable major.
Just my 0.0169284 Euro (as of 3:41 GMT) (thanks XE.com)
- Jones
2 Skinnee Js
HomePage Here have already covered this topic on the first track of $upermercado.
Full link to lyrics - warning, pop-ups - Lyrics
A snippet of the lyrics below:
Who do you represent?
I represent the smallest planet
Attorney in this tourney versus those who tried to ban it
If you don't agree go see interplanet Janet
Cause sun is star like Pluto is planet
So lend me all ears and let me state my case
about all the types of satellites we must embrace
Cause like my parents' great grandparents - this planet is an immigrant,
to deport it's an offense
It's an upstanding member of the solar system
Apply the laws of Earth and make it a victim
Of Proposition 187
If Pluto spawns a moon, it will apply to the heavens.
I'll damn you like Judas of Iscariot
If you demote this mote remote to affiliate
It's like taking ET's custody from Elliot
Support your Lilliput, 'cause simply put
Pluto is a planet
Do it for the children
(If not for yourselves)
Pluto is a planet
If it happens that the Russkie program folds, (which I don't like, I rather like some healthy competition to become co-operation) I saw that the US Program give Lance Bass a free ride to see the station.
Once he's up there, I say we de-man the station, and breach the hull.
- Me, Bitter? Jones : )
That's the near infrared spectrum... But I don't know anything about that.... Really! ; )
I'm working on building that family idea, I'm only 18 as it stands today, but you're correct. I live in a real world environment, I don't believe M$ is evil, I believe they use underhanded and downright unfair means of promotiong their products.
That said, those methods have worked, and they have saturated the markets with their products. I work on Windows boxes for Mr. Joe Average, and I fix what they have, what errors they've created...
joshsisk, thank you for being a real person as well, too many people these days are only viewpoints.
- Jones
Hooah for Dell.
I use M$ products, I'm gaining their certifications, but I don't like how they do a lot of their business, and I think Dell's doing something great here by not just bending to each one of the big corporation's wishes.
Kudos Dell!
- Jones
To band together and teach a multi-national corporation that they are not gods.
/. readers could boycott until we're red in the face, and Sony'd never feel the difference
Sony products will continue to sell to everyone who doesn't know just what this is, and how it's leading to potentially very-bad-things(tm)
We
We could DDoS them, but we'd bring ourselves below their level to do that, and they'd never care.
Now is the time to get active in your community, including, but not limited to: Telling those who will listen about what DRM is, and how it will affect us; Offering non-Sony non-DRM components at a lower cost (for retailers); Standing inside/outside a store/reseller that pushes/sells Sony products with flyers, a good positive attitude, and the willingness to educate and not attack.
to cause a change, we must be active, willing, and open... I hope we can be.
And if not, let's start flooding their servers with bunk data in a BAD way. It'd fun while it lasted, but wouldn't accomplish much.
- Jones
Cancel my statement about rational, now you're starting to speak sense. What needs to be done by a p2p though, is they need to get the big names in on it from the get-go, because once you understand something, you generally can fear it a whole lot less.
Why only support the big labels then?
Support yout local indiemusic scene, if musicians find that they can be profitable w/o a giant conglomerate, they'll do that instead... Fighting a conglomerate by trying to kill their profts (the only thing that keeps them together visavis enron visavis worldcom visavis..etc..) as a single man won't help, making a viable alternative for musicians to release their music in just might.
You've proven yourself incapable of rational thought or discussion on this topic, good day sir, I hope some other day you have an open mind.
- Jones
I won't copy something if it's not copyable, because that's fair? No respect in the young, it's true.
The DMCA is a bunch of crap, it's very poorly written, and needs a major overhaul, but about copying... just because you can doesn't mean you should.
If it's theirs, as in, their intellectual property (in this case, their music, which is their soul and dream if it's any good) then out of respect for their wishes, once you own the CD, you should no freely distribute their work. You'll note that even though you own the CD, you don't own the rights to do that, and you shouldn't. A backup copy? Sure. That's cool, even lend it to a friend, get them hooked on it, to support the artist making money, especially if they're not part of that gorgon of stupidity and wealth that the RIAA is.
Get some morals, call me back in the morning.
Music that I like, I buy, but the music is still the artists, and it is not yours, the CD is yours, and it has a performance of the music that you can use to listen to, not treat as your own music.
- Jones
I don't refute your point, I have shared music, but your means for justifying your standing are without sound foundation. Music sharing of other's works is in no way protected by the First Amendment. That is my single point. Justify it how you will, but justify it in some way that has merit, not by trying to make a parallel to your granted rights.
- Jones
The First Amendment does not allow absoloute freedom of religion, what is does grant is that provided your excercize of the First Amendment does not infringe on other's abilities to excercize the First Amendment, the government is not supposed to stop you.
Take human sacrifices for an example, replace stealing with killing in your arguement. The government will run you up the flagpole for it, because it too is illegal. Or, to view it by my method, your killing of that person infringes on their First Amendment rights.
It's the same view I have on many things, including sexual practices. People should be allowed to do what they want, provided it doesn't infringe on or impair someone else's ability to do so. I don't wanna be tied up, so don't tie me up.
Nice try on the arguement, but it really doesn't hold that much water
- Jones
I thought there was only one reason we needed Java 3: Three Times The Caffiene
And in another groundbreaking discovery today (paid for by a $92Million Government Grant) a study team has discovered that:
The Grass *is* Greener on the Other Side
The amount of dark is inversly proportional to the amount of light, and tends to be reduced when the sun is up
And that if she's a witch, she'll weigh the same as a duck.
- Jones
Actually, as discussed here: Icrontic Forums and here: Overclocker's Article You should *not* use a box fan.
The trick about the shower is to get some steam in the air, such that it will adhere to the airbourne dust, and weight it down somewhat. You steam up the room nicely, get the air a *bit* (not much) saturated with water vapor, then kill the shower, and let the dust settle in the room. The fan would ruin the effect, as it would only whip up the dust that's just settled.
Now, this is nowhere near as good as a clean room, it's quite a ghetto hardware mod, but you can get the room clean enough such that you can take off the cover, and saran wrap it quickly enough to avoid harming the drive 90+% of the time.
Another cool tip?: Clean the acryllic very very well before installing it.
- Jones
NASA, being hesitant to waste any of their very very expensive space & upper atmosphere craft have secretly brought on a contractor to test what would happen if an aircraft made of very expensive materials lost pressure in the stratosphere and plummeted to the earth.
The competeing schools of thought have theorized many possibilites, but there remains only one way to test it... to crash such an aircraft
In unrelated news, NASA's experiment dropping a pressurized balloon cabin from high altitudes failed when a $5 blow-bolt froze, and would not release the heated cabin. No sources have yet come forth to find out what manner of monitoring NASA will have onboard these "crash tests"
- Jones
Well, it's obvious to me that a strategic merger with Boeing might be a good call in the near future, so that ZD could make use of this new anti-gravity technology. : )
- Jones
Using the M82-A1 Barret .50BMG sniper rifle against personnel is also against the Geneva Convention, so the weapon is listed as for use against materiel only.
As one Marine Sniper-School instructor was quoted saying, "Yes, it's only for shooting equipment and vehicles, so don't shoot people with it... Shoot their uniforms."
- Jones
I've found Trillian to be a great management tool for all my IM accounts. It allows the use of AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Y! Messenger, and an IRC client all from one program. It winds up hogging less resources than running all five other at once, and provides great support, functionality, and customizability. (sp?)
MSN accidentally blocked it once, and AIM tried to block it for a few weeks, as it eliminates their revenue from advertizing. However, fixes were released very quickly, and Trillian is now unofficially allowed to run on the AIM network again. Give it a try, you just might like it.
Get Trillian Here
- Jones
True, to a point, but I think the densities are typically in the mol/km^3 range in the densest of nebulae... And we're a long way from being filled with hydrogen gas like that. The speed of sound in space would therefore be something along the lines of 1E-16 Miles per Hour at the most, in the densest of Nebulae, and would probably die instantly because the vibrational tendencies of the gasses (or on this scale, even the Planck Cosntant) are greater than the impulses provided by a point-source of noise.
I think what they mean is that rather rapidly, the speed of the solar wind stops, and this may have the chance of shaking up the probe pretty badly, or, may provide some deeper insight into the universe's structures.
The whole article is a bit long to post here, but the gist lies along the lines of;
/.ing other websites!
Pioneer 10, the first space probe to go through the kupier belt of asteroids between Mars & Jupiter was originally slated for a four year trek to the edge of our solar system, but because of the strong design used in it's manufacture it continues sending data back to earth every-so-often with a signal that has roughly the power of a nightlight.
The probe is now around 30 years old, but is not the farthest man-made object from earth, that honor goes to Voyager 1, which overtook pioneer in Feb. 1998.
Pioneer will hopefully reach the Heilopause boundry before it's life ceases, which is where the pressure of the solar wind becomes equal to that of interstellar wind of cosmic rays. It is thought to be preceeded by the termination shock, which is where the solar wind suddenly slows from supersonic speeds to subsonic speeds (which I fail to find the relevance of in space, because mach-speeds have relevance based on the media through which they flow). However, if the probes reach this far, they may be able to beam back data confirming scientific theory about interstellar cosmic radiation.
The other spacecraft-which-refuses to die is IMP-8, a satellite orbiting earth at around 2/3rds the distance between the earth and the moon. It was used to collect data about long-scale solar processes. It had no magnetic drum onboard (hey, it was launched in 1973) but was made to beam data back to earth at the whopping fast rate of 6000-bits per second (whopping for the 70s anyway). Unfortunately, this data stream is in the VHF band, and as such, is becoming increasingly obsolete for data transmission. However, even though the satellite cannot be used for it's primary function anymore (the Magnetometer finally failed) it is still used to collect data about cosmic radiation densities, which is of help to know when finding times to launch long distance probes like the Voyagers & Pioneer.
Pioneer 10 is slated to eventually reach the Taurus constellation... in roughly two million years. The Voyagers will chug along for a few more years anyway, their nuclear power sources should keep them happy until at least 2020. And old IMP-8? He'll be used until at least 2005. "Pioneer 10, the Voyager twins and IMP-8 show you just can't keep a good spacecraft down."
Now! Back to
- Jones
While I'm far from a material's engineer, (and Karmically down from stopping to feed the trolls on an OT post) there has been much discussion of this both at Icrontic Forums and Gideon Tech Forums
From the general views of young overclockers (myself included) water is really the only way to go, though concepts involving chilled mineral oil have been floating around. If there's no debris on your electronics, you could run them under de-ionized and de-mineralized water, but as that so rarely happens in the real world, it's generally best to just go with good water, in a well tubed system.
Tygon(r) tubing is wonderful stuff, that very rarely kinks, and can sustain many bends before it's strucural integrity is comprimised. Just clamp the tubes down tightly, and I'd be willing to use the system with no more fear that an aircooled desktop. Aircooled laptops scare me more, those things can heat up very quickly, and the airflow in them is low to none.
Mineral Oil just doesn't transfer heat well enough to be practical, and water runs the risk of shorting things out. What we need is non-viscous non-conductive Arctic Silver! : )
- Jones
We've got things made out of plastic, that could, someday be used to display images or text. With all the things plastics can do, imagine the possibilites for these lighted ones!
Though, personally, I always though putting directions on the condom's wrapper was sufficient.
I can't believe I'm diginifying this with a response
/. This site is provided as a free service, which means that it's use is subject to whatever terms the provider would like to enforce or use. The RIAA & MPAA are not free services, when they force something out of the press, they do not do it because it's on their site. This is a free website, use it as you're allowed to, because it's a service provided for you without cost.
What your very very small brain fails to understand is that unlike the RIAA & MPAA there are many viable alternatives to
- Jones