Weight is not a measure of the gravitional pull on an object. This is incompatible with the notion of an object in free fall being weightless. The weight of a body is not the force exerted on the mass but the force that the mass exerts on another body supporting it. This actually corresponds with common usage: for example we place an object on a scale to measure its weight, and what the scale measures is the force applied to it. And this definition is completely compatible with the idea of an object with no support being weightless.
Of course this means that planets are weightless. That seems entirely reasonable, it's the mass that's being measured, and weight isn't a terribly useful concept when you're talking about planets.
With a sample size of only nine (and those only studied close up with a handful of sensing devices) you've determined which planets are and are not suitable for life.
Every computing magazine had BASIC programs for you to type in. The good magazines had machine code programs for you to type in. (Come to think of it, that's how I first got into print!) And I don't mean assembly language. I remember once typing an implementation of space invaders into a 380z in hex. Actually, I did in in shifts with some friends. Can you imagine our disappointment when after all that effort it didn't work?
Interesting problem. Have you tried looking into this. Is it an http problem or is the HTML bad. If you save the HTML from IE and try to reopen it from Mozilla, say, can you read it?
One of the things that I love about my Linksys router is that it's configurable from just about anywhere. It's one of the few things I didn't need drivers for.
Language change is all well and good. But what we see on/. aren't as much language shifts as idiosyncracies. These are a hindrance to reading.
Human reading is pipelined, like the way a CPU works. Your eyes are scanning words while your brain is still lagging behind. When you hit a word whose meaning is unclear, even for a tiny fraction of a second, you don't just have to stop and think about that word - it essentially causes a pipeline stall. For a fraction of a second you may have to go back and rescan all of the words that were busy making their way through the pipeline. The net effect is that an idiosyncracy can disrupt the smooth flow of reading for a significant period of time. Not only does it slow down reading, it takes the pleasure out of reading too.
Of course if you don't read very fast then bad spelling probably has little impact on you.
...is that the very same group of people will obsess over coding style conventions and whether or not their web browser implements every nook and cranny of the latest CSS spec.
You are all still missing the point. My Mom, with no previous computer experience, is now able to surf the web, edit short movies and manage her digital photographs without ever having to join a Windows forum.
Actually, one could argue that frame dragging predates general relativity. Frame dragging grew out of Mach's Principle. Essentially Mach was worrying about relativity pretty early on. Although Einstein asserted that velocity relative to empty space was meaningless, Mach wanted to argue that so was acceleration. The only way he could make sense of it was if acceleration was relative to the distant stars. This is the very first version of frame dragging - that somehow our local coordinate frame follows the mass in the universe. This whole debate eventually found a partial resolution through General Reltivity where frame dragging became explicit and it was clear that moving masses did, at least in some sense, drag spacetime along with them. Even though GR didn't fully resolve Mach's worries, Einstein's development of General Relativity was probably heavily influenced by Mach's thoughts.
Maybe TCP/IP was incorrectly configured or the NIC was not recognized.
Of course a Windows or Mac user frequently doesn't even have no know that there is such a thing as TCP/IP to be configured. Last time I tried using a wireless card with Linux (maybe 12 months ago) I had to edit a couple of config files. It probably took me an hour to eventually gather the relevant information and get it working (and that required burning drivers onto a CD from a Windows machine because of course I couldn't actually do the download from the Linux box...). It wasn't hard for me, but it would have been next to impossible for inexperienced users.
Actually, I don't think it matters. Even if this is a troll it reflects many people's experience of Linux. I'm sceptical of the claim that konqueror couldn't display the router web page because I'm sure most routers use pretty basic HTML. And I'm sceptical about mp3s skipping unless this was a very old PC. But I've had plenty of problems with playing video (though mplayer is my player of choice even on MacOS X), printers, DSL configuration, and video cards. And to add one to the list, I still can't get any sound out of the SUSE box I use at work. (Yes, I'm sure it's a simple thing to fix, but the points is that with Windows and MacOS X I've never even had anything to fix.)
So I really don't think this should be modded troll.
When you say we you use a pronoun that includes me. So that's me you're talking about there. I'm not discussing how dinosaurs attacked the ark. So you're offending me buddy. Watch what you're saying. You really mean "Today there's this crackpot talking about how dinsoaur's attacked the Ark...". And you see, when you phrase it correctly, it has nothing to do with Einstein but is just a statement about a crackpot. Crackpots existed in Einstein's time too.
There have already been radar sweeps over Titan and I'm sure there were reports of interestingly smooth surfaces. But it's still hard to tell whether these represent a liquid surface or something produced by some other mechanism. With the right radar it would be possible to probe under the surface and determine a wealth of information from the radar reflectivity at different types of boundary eg. between atmosphere and 'lake', lake and lake bed and so on. This can tell you a ton of information about geometry and also give you good clues as to the chemical composition. I don't know the details of Cassini's radar but I'm pretty sure it's only useful for measuring the surface reflectivity and altitude.
Clearly there'll be many different groups - meteorologists, geologists, vulcanologists, xenobiologists and so on fighting for every gram of space. What finally gets installed is probably more a matter of departmental politics than anything else.
And of course these games probably run on more platforms now than any other games so no one has an excuse not to try them! I'm still playing Zork, Starcross and others on my Palm but they run on anything from the PDP-11 or Kaypro II to any machine with a Java VM. In fact, I love the Infocom games so much I eventually bought all 35 or so on eBay.
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You mean like use acid. I heard that can raise your level of consciousness.
I must have read the same book as a kid as that's the exact example I have in my head. Though I don't think it was from a Gardner book.
Of course this means that planets are weightless. That seems entirely reasonable, it's the mass that's being measured, and weight isn't a terribly useful concept when you're talking about planets.
With a sample size of only nine (and those only studied close up with a handful of sensing devices) you've determined which planets are and are not suitable for life.
Every computing magazine had BASIC programs for you to type in. The good magazines had machine code programs for you to type in. (Come to think of it, that's how I first got into print!) And I don't mean assembly language. I remember once typing an implementation of space invaders into a 380z in hex. Actually, I did in in shifts with some friends. Can you imagine our disappointment when after all that effort it didn't work?
One of the things that I love about my Linksys router is that it's configurable from just about anywhere. It's one of the few things I didn't need drivers for.
Human reading is pipelined, like the way a CPU works. Your eyes are scanning words while your brain is still lagging behind. When you hit a word whose meaning is unclear, even for a tiny fraction of a second, you don't just have to stop and think about that word - it essentially causes a pipeline stall. For a fraction of a second you may have to go back and rescan all of the words that were busy making their way through the pipeline. The net effect is that an idiosyncracy can disrupt the smooth flow of reading for a significant period of time. Not only does it slow down reading, it takes the pleasure out of reading too.
Of course if you don't read very fast then bad spelling probably has little impact on you.
...is that the very same group of people will obsess over coding style conventions and whether or not their web browser implements every nook and cranny of the latest CSS spec.
You are all still missing the point. My Mom, with no previous computer experience, is now able to surf the web, edit short movies and manage her digital photographs without ever having to join a Windows forum.
Actually, one could argue that frame dragging predates general relativity. Frame dragging grew out of Mach's Principle. Essentially Mach was worrying about relativity pretty early on. Although Einstein asserted that velocity relative to empty space was meaningless, Mach wanted to argue that so was acceleration. The only way he could make sense of it was if acceleration was relative to the distant stars. This is the very first version of frame dragging - that somehow our local coordinate frame follows the mass in the universe. This whole debate eventually found a partial resolution through General Reltivity where frame dragging became explicit and it was clear that moving masses did, at least in some sense, drag spacetime along with them. Even though GR didn't fully resolve Mach's worries, Einstein's development of General Relativity was probably heavily influenced by Mach's thoughts.
Learn to read man. If man you are.
Microsoft is funded by terrorists who use their software to plot devilish crimes. (Windows 2K in fact.)
Actually, I don't think it matters. Even if this is a troll it reflects many people's experience of Linux. I'm sceptical of the claim that konqueror couldn't display the router web page because I'm sure most routers use pretty basic HTML. And I'm sceptical about mp3s skipping unless this was a very old PC. But I've had plenty of problems with playing video (though mplayer is my player of choice even on MacOS X), printers, DSL configuration, and video cards. And to add one to the list, I still can't get any sound out of the SUSE box I use at work. (Yes, I'm sure it's a simple thing to fix, but the points is that with Windows and MacOS X I've never even had anything to fix.)
So I really don't think this should be modded troll.
Of course it makes perfect sense. "Red objects are red" makes perfect sense too. I expect that will be the next /. story.
You mean there are times when sarcasm isn't useful?
Still huh?
Er...isn't that the definition of hype, otherwise known as hyperbole.
There have already been radar sweeps over Titan and I'm sure there were reports of interestingly smooth surfaces. But it's still hard to tell whether these represent a liquid surface or something produced by some other mechanism. With the right radar it would be possible to probe under the surface and determine a wealth of information from the radar reflectivity at different types of boundary eg. between atmosphere and 'lake', lake and lake bed and so on. This can tell you a ton of information about geometry and also give you good clues as to the chemical composition. I don't know the details of Cassini's radar but I'm pretty sure it's only useful for measuring the surface reflectivity and altitude.
Clearly there'll be many different groups - meteorologists, geologists, vulcanologists, xenobiologists and so on fighting for every gram of space. What finally gets installed is probably more a matter of departmental politics than anything else.
Your post gives more insight into you.
And of course these games probably run on more platforms now than any other games so no one has an excuse not to try them! I'm still playing Zork, Starcross and others on my Palm but they run on anything from the PDP-11 or Kaypro II to any machine with a Java VM. In fact, I love the Infocom games so much I eventually bought all 35 or so on eBay.
Personally I think they could have started with dumping the microphone designed to listen for thunder :-)