I guess cockroaches are different... but maybe they're not.
I live out in the bush here in Australia and there is just no way we can keep any kind of insect life out of our house, so we just don't bother. The floors are wooden, but 100 years old, so there are cracks that all kinds of spiders and beetles and critters come up through.
It's easy to live with we just:
a) NEVER leave food out and keep all the cupboards closed at all times.
b) NEVER leave clothes that we are planning on wearing again on the floor because pretty much everytime this happens I find a spider of some description hiding underneath.
c) ALWAYS check under the dunny seat for spiders.
d) DON'T even bother to spray around fly spray or similar because it just won't work.
Apart from that it's fine, relatively hygenic, and doesn't bother us at all, in fact I quite like having little spiders living in the window frames and critters and stuff living down the back of the couch.
I only wrote this because everyone is posting: "found heaps of horrible bugs so I killed them with xxx."
Everything you say is good, but it's funny that you mention the KDE paper size problem.
Here in Australia, every stupidly setup Mac or Windows box (and I've seen heaps of them!) will have been left with the default US settings, that is, bad, er... I mean "US", spelling and US legal paper sizes.
He he he, it's just nice to know that it strikes back both ways at times;-)
Sorry dude but you need a new phone/battery if you're only getting 12 hours out of it!
My (new) Nokia 8310 gives me two weeks before a recharge with my moderate usage (something like 10-20 minutes of talk time a day max). It also has a builtin radio and I love it, it's great. With the radio going I get 20+ hours of constant operation (better than a walkman, etc...) and don't ever have a problem with the battery going dead at the wrong time.
I held off getting a phone until now because I too thought that the battery life would be so bad it wouldn't be worth it, but now I've got it I realise how wrong I was!
Yes, this is rude. The last time I heard a phone ring in a theater was years ago. People have now learned what the vibrate-function does, so this is a non-issue and personally I'm sick of hearing it used as an argument.
Bullshit! Every single day I have to tell someone in my University's Library to "shut the fuck up" or "turn off that fucking phone". Here are people smart enough to be studying hard yet have shit for brains when it comes to common sense.
I have to deal with it all the time and I am just glad I haven't yet ran into some guy bigger than me who's had a shit day.
The big rock (earth) that you speak of will indeed appear to hang motionless, suspended above the event horizon for all eternity.
You're right, it is pretty weird stuff. Oh, and it doesn't matter how fast the earth is travelling towards the black hole either.
In terms of view point, as far as I know it doesn't matter where the observer is located relative to the black hole and earth. But if they are also moving at relativistic speeds then the whole mess becomes, well, messed up and rather complex.
I have just finished my senior University course in General Relativity, so while I can solve Einstein's Field equations for a Schwarzchild black hole, it will take a while yet for my intuitive understanding (and hence ability to answer questions such as this one) to fully develop.
Here here... the two times that I've been dragged off the streets by police to "freshen up" in their cosy little cells for being intoxicated my sober friends, on asking what was happening to me, were told to "fuck off or be locked up too".
Sure, they have to do a shit job that mainly involves dealing with ratbags like me, but surely *one* of the seven it took to detain me could have explained something;-)
In tasmania there is quite a solid and well established greens movement that has had a string of major wins (and losses) over the past few decades.
And yes, I've gone and sat in trees and spoken at ralleys and written to the government. But the logging is so strongly entrenched with the government that it's a complex social and political problem - as it is everywhere no doubt.
Anyways, the news is somewhat good as we just had an election and the greens party went from 1 seat to four (out of 25) so the battle shall continue.
Look, in Tasmania the forestry industry is pretty fucked for lots of reasons. Yet "they" still come out with the same crap that you've just spouted.
Chain logging may reduce the impact on the soil due to wheeled and tracked vehicles. However, it also means that the idiots can also log some of the steepest slopes, that is those that they would have never been able to log before.
They (the logging companies) don't give a rats ass about the ecological implications of what they are doing, they are simply trying to subdue the public (and Government in many cases) long enough for them to screw us all over.
I only feel a bit churned up over this because in Tasmania we have 400 year old 70+ metre tall Eucalyptus Regnums (the tallest hardwoods in the world) being sold for chips at just over AU$1000 a pop - it makes me sick
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I guess cockroaches are different... but maybe they're not.
I live out in the bush here in Australia and there is just no way we can keep any kind of insect life out of our house, so we just don't bother. The floors are wooden, but 100 years old, so there are cracks that all kinds of spiders and beetles and critters come up through.
It's easy to live with we just:
a) NEVER leave food out and keep all the cupboards closed at all times.
b) NEVER leave clothes that we are planning on wearing again on the floor because pretty much everytime this happens I find a spider of some description hiding underneath.
c) ALWAYS check under the dunny seat for spiders.
d) DON'T even bother to spray around fly spray or similar because it just won't work.
Apart from that it's fine, relatively hygenic, and doesn't bother us at all, in fact I quite like having little spiders living in the window frames and critters and stuff living down the back of the couch.
I only wrote this because everyone is posting: "found heaps of horrible bugs so I killed them with xxx."
Maybe you should give them a second chance?
Everything you say is good, but it's funny that you mention the KDE paper size problem.
;-)
Here in Australia, every stupidly setup Mac or Windows box (and I've seen heaps of them!) will have been left with the default US settings, that is, bad, er... I mean "US", spelling and US legal paper sizes.
He he he, it's just nice to know that it strikes back both ways at times
Thanks for the chuckle.
Sorry dude but you need a new phone/battery if you're only getting 12 hours out of it!
My (new) Nokia 8310 gives me two weeks before a recharge with my moderate usage (something like 10-20 minutes of talk time a day max). It also has a builtin radio and I love it, it's great. With the radio going I get 20+ hours of constant operation (better than a walkman, etc...) and don't ever have a problem with the battery going dead at the wrong time.
I held off getting a phone until now because I too thought that the battery life would be so bad it wouldn't be worth it, but now I've got it I realise how wrong I was!
In case anyone wants the file directly the direct URL is:
n g_ nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_1500.mov
http://acw.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/findi
Else you can pull these from the HTML source on Disney's page, not hard to do.
Sorry, but I think you are incorrect. The space ship will only appear to be contracted while it is moving at relativistic speeds relative to us.
Once it comes to rest in our reference frame it will resume it's original dimensions.
Yes, this is rude. The last time I heard a phone ring in a theater was years ago. People have now learned what the vibrate-function does, so this is a non-issue and personally I'm sick of hearing it used as an argument.
Bullshit! Every single day I have to tell someone in my University's Library to "shut the fuck up" or "turn off that fucking phone". Here are people smart enough to be studying hard yet have shit for brains when it comes to common sense.
I have to deal with it all the time and I am just glad I haven't yet ran into some guy bigger than me who's had a shit day.
So I think it's definitely not a non-issue.
Yes,
The big rock (earth) that you speak of will indeed appear to hang motionless, suspended above the event horizon for all eternity.
You're right, it is pretty weird stuff. Oh, and it doesn't matter how fast the earth is travelling towards the black hole either.
In terms of view point, as far as I know it doesn't matter where the observer is located relative to the black hole and earth. But if they are also moving at relativistic speeds then the whole mess becomes, well, messed up and rather complex.
I have just finished my senior University course in General Relativity, so while I can solve Einstein's Field equations for a Schwarzchild black hole, it will take a while yet for my intuitive understanding (and hence ability to answer questions such as this one) to fully develop.
Here here... the two times that I've been dragged off the streets by police to "freshen up" in their cosy little cells for being intoxicated my sober friends, on asking what was happening to me, were told to "fuck off or be locked up too". Sure, they have to do a shit job that mainly involves dealing with ratbags like me, but surely *one* of the seven it took to detain me could have explained something ;-)
True True,
However, our (getting old now) SGI(IRIX 6.5)workstations have fully scalable vector icons on the desktop.
Sorry, I don't know what the Window Manager is but it's nothing special, it just does the job, and it has scalable icons, which are awesome.
No problems about the voltage difference.
;-)
It's just some turns of wire in the right ratio (1:2) about some iron. Go pick up a transformer at your local Radio Shack
3200x1200 = 3 840 000
3600x2400 = 8 640 000
Which is 2.5 times more. So you didn't really mean to make that casual remark did you?
In tasmania there is quite a solid and well established greens movement that has had a string of major wins (and losses) over the past few decades. And yes, I've gone and sat in trees and spoken at ralleys and written to the government. But the logging is so strongly entrenched with the government that it's a complex social and political problem - as it is everywhere no doubt. Anyways, the news is somewhat good as we just had an election and the greens party went from 1 seat to four (out of 25) so the battle shall continue.
Look, in Tasmania the forestry industry is pretty fucked for lots of reasons. Yet "they" still come out with the same crap that you've just spouted. Chain logging may reduce the impact on the soil due to wheeled and tracked vehicles. However, it also means that the idiots can also log some of the steepest slopes, that is those that they would have never been able to log before. They (the logging companies) don't give a rats ass about the ecological implications of what they are doing, they are simply trying to subdue the public (and Government in many cases) long enough for them to screw us all over. I only feel a bit churned up over this because in Tasmania we have 400 year old 70+ metre tall Eucalyptus Regnums (the tallest hardwoods in the world) being sold for chips at just over AU$1000 a pop - it makes me sick