Get a Microsoft mouse, I've taken a couple MS mice of mine apart, and all of them just use common screws. I wasn't able to fix my optical mouse, but I could take it apart. I think getting mad and banging my mouse down tended to break it.
I'm still trying to figure out where the sense of humor of the slashdot crowd lies. Apparently people don't understand that I was trying to make a comment so stereotypical that it would be funny, but I guess that it doesn't work that way.
I was thinking about this very problem recently, and came up with a possible solution. One theoretical time machine involves putting one end of a wormhole near a neutron star or black hole so that one end gains a time differential as compared to the other. If perchance, there are natural wormholes, some of them may already have an end located near an object dense enough to cause this time differential, and thus there may be natural time macines out there waiting to be discovered. Of course you wouldn't have any control over how far back in time you went with any one wormhole, so it could be difficult to actually make it to the time of the conference. Thus I predict that even if time travel is possible, there will be few if any future attendees. Also they may not show up to avoid altering the timeline, should that turn out to be possible.
sorry, I didn't think that through when I was writing it. What I meant to say was that light goes about 2.5 times faster in a vaccum than it does in diamond.
That has to be a typo. Even in diamond the speed of light is only a little about 2.5 times slower than in a vaccum. I'm very interested if the light is going 120 km/h in the optical cable though, because that would make it possible to theoretically build a time machine by winding the cable in a cylinder, but only if it retained that speed with more light in the cable. There is also the caveat that the metric this was solved for involved an infinitely long cylinder of rotating light, so it may not apply to finite cylinders.
Having recently worked though a 40 Kb cgi script (agora cart) with about a quarter Mb of libraries trying to make a few changes, I can safely say I would have rather had a lot more comments rather than the descriptive variable names in the program. Of course, descriptive variable names should be used with the good comments for maximum understandability.
Now they just need to figure out how to make popcorn taste like something other than cardboard, preferably corn. I am of course talking about pre butter and salt taste.
Just show them how you can change the case of selected text. Then they will beg you to install it.
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Actually, it's called a ballistic conductor. There is a small resistance when electrons pass through the ends of the nanotube, and while it is traveling along the rest of the tube there is no resistance.
I'm a scientist (physics), and I believe in creation in some form. I haven't quite figured out exactly how it works in with natural history yet though. I do believe that the earth and universe are billions of year old. Mostly though, I'm not going to risk my soul without being able to go back in time and see things for myself. I think that there would be very few creationists in life sciences, as evolution is a major part of that. Anyone who believed in creation and was going into any biological field would hear about evolution so much that they would eventually start to believe it or just give up and go into a different field.
Yes, of course it can be, but it only helps prove micro-evolution (variations within a species over different generations), which has already been well documented and proven. It doesn't do much for macro-evolution, or the development of new species. Personally I think taking the leap from micro to macro evolution is a longshot.
I'd rather be right about evolution being wrong rather than wrong about evolution being right.
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Like hell Archimedes didn't set ships on fire with mirrors! We're talking about a guy who built a giant mechanical arm to tip over ships in the harbor in the 3rd century BC! I think burning ships with mirrors would be easier than that!
Wait a second, there was a shooting in Texas and the homeowner didn't fight back with a gun!? I thought everybody in Texas had guns! Sounds like some sort of conspiracy to me.
Voting for a candidate who is the lesser of 2 evils is the only way to true way to throw away your vote. The first event that will trigger a change of the electoral system is a third party presidential candidate getting 5% of the vote, as this qualifies that party for federal campaign funding in the next election. Then that third party would get an even higher percentage in the next election. Say this were the green party, who primarily get votes from people who have voted for democrats in the past. At this point it would get harder for democrats to win the presidency, and they would actually have motivation to change the electoral system.
What we really need is a panel on the future. The government needs to take a good hard look at how things are going to change in the future, and start laying down some laws to help guide things in a positive direction. I think a good place to start would be a law gradually phasing out copyrights and patents over the next 40 years. As we convert to a society that is more and more based on information, we need to ensure that that information is kept freely available to everybody. Of course I hardly trust the current administration to make such changes.
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Just don't become a Mathologist, because 50 - 5 = 45, not 75.
So, do they call a series of 9 movies a nonology?
If anyone puts up a space advertisment, I'm going to get a big laser and shoot it down myself.
Why do you think the military is trying to get approval for space weapons?
Get a Microsoft mouse, I've taken a couple MS mice of mine apart, and all of them just use common screws. I wasn't able to fix my optical mouse, but I could take it apart. I think getting mad and banging my mouse down tended to break it.
Let's just start our own country and be done with all these stupid laws.
I always lie down when I'm thinking about a serious problem.
I'm still trying to figure out where the sense of humor of the slashdot crowd lies. Apparently people don't understand that I was trying to make a comment so stereotypical that it would be funny, but I guess that it doesn't work that way.
STFU noob, RTFA.
I was thinking about this very problem recently, and came up with a possible solution. One theoretical time machine involves putting one end of a wormhole near a neutron star or black hole so that one end gains a time differential as compared to the other. If perchance, there are natural wormholes, some of them may already have an end located near an object dense enough to cause this time differential, and thus there may be natural time macines out there waiting to be discovered. Of course you wouldn't have any control over how far back in time you went with any one wormhole, so it could be difficult to actually make it to the time of the conference. Thus I predict that even if time travel is possible, there will be few if any future attendees. Also they may not show up to avoid altering the timeline, should that turn out to be possible.
Someone take some pictures and post them online later. I want to see if I show up at the conference.
Here are some links with some more info about the theory (by Ronald Mallet) I was talking about.
University Press Release
Ronald Mallet's Reasearch Summary
sorry, I didn't think that through when I was writing it. What I meant to say was that light goes about 2.5 times faster in a vaccum than it does in diamond.
That has to be a typo. Even in diamond the speed of light is only a little about 2.5 times slower than in a vaccum. I'm very interested if the light is going 120 km/h in the optical cable though, because that would make it possible to theoretically build a time machine by winding the cable in a cylinder, but only if it retained that speed with more light in the cable. There is also the caveat that the metric this was solved for involved an infinitely long cylinder of rotating light, so it may not apply to finite cylinders.
Having recently worked though a 40 Kb cgi script (agora cart) with about a quarter Mb of libraries trying to make a few changes, I can safely say I would have rather had a lot more comments rather than the descriptive variable names in the program. Of course, descriptive variable names should be used with the good comments for maximum understandability.
Now they just need to figure out how to make popcorn taste like something other than cardboard, preferably corn. I am of course talking about pre butter and salt taste.
Just show them how you can change the case of selected text. Then they will beg you to install it.
Actually, it's called a ballistic conductor. There is a small resistance when electrons pass through the ends of the nanotube, and while it is traveling along the rest of the tube there is no resistance.
I'm a scientist (physics), and I believe in creation in some form. I haven't quite figured out exactly how it works in with natural history yet though. I do believe that the earth and universe are billions of year old. Mostly though, I'm not going to risk my soul without being able to go back in time and see things for myself. I think that there would be very few creationists in life sciences, as evolution is a major part of that. Anyone who believed in creation and was going into any biological field would hear about evolution so much that they would eventually start to believe it or just give up and go into a different field.
Yes, of course it can be, but it only helps prove micro-evolution (variations within a species over different generations), which has already been well documented and proven. It doesn't do much for macro-evolution, or the development of new species. Personally I think taking the leap from micro to macro evolution is a longshot.
I'd rather be right about evolution being wrong rather than wrong about evolution being right.
Like hell Archimedes didn't set ships on fire with mirrors! We're talking about a guy who built a giant mechanical arm to tip over ships in the harbor in the 3rd century BC! I think burning ships with mirrors would be easier than that!
Wait a second, there was a shooting in Texas and the homeowner didn't fight back with a gun!? I thought everybody in Texas had guns! Sounds like some sort of conspiracy to me.
Because you need to learn a dead language before you can start your own country and make it the official language.
Voting for a candidate who is the lesser of 2 evils is the only way to true way to throw away your vote. The first event that will trigger a change of the electoral system is a third party presidential candidate getting 5% of the vote, as this qualifies that party for federal campaign funding in the next election. Then that third party would get an even higher percentage in the next election. Say this were the green party, who primarily get votes from people who have voted for democrats in the past. At this point it would get harder for democrats to win the presidency, and they would actually have motivation to change the electoral system.
What we really need is a panel on the future. The government needs to take a good hard look at how things are going to change in the future, and start laying down some laws to help guide things in a positive direction. I think a good place to start would be a law gradually phasing out copyrights and patents over the next 40 years. As we convert to a society that is more and more based on information, we need to ensure that that information is kept freely available to everybody. Of course I hardly trust the current administration to make such changes.