...and all thanks to Werner von Braun and the other Nazis that the US government welcomed, with open arms, at the close of WWII. Think of all those slaves who died in Werner's rocket factories, just so he could perfect his engines and pass the technology on to the US military...
One problem I can think of is that L1 isn't stable; any spacecraft parked there will go off station over a timescale of around 20 days, unless it receives corrections to its orbit around the sun. Having to put an orbital control system on each piece of hardware you park there would make the cost unattractive.
Besides, the L1 is already used for scientific purposes -- amongst others, SOHO and ACE are in halo orbits around the Lagrange point, and I'm sure the scientists who rely on them (including some of my work colleagues) wouldn't welcome L1 becoming a junk yard.
because of a bunch of paper-thin lies the populace was too brain-dead to recognize.
Over a million people marched through the streets of London to protest against the invasion of Iraq, a couple of months before the offensive began. The population did recognize that they were being lied to, and took massive action based on that recognition. Which is more than you can say for the USA and its 'free speech' zones.
It will be hilarous if the poles flip about the time
the Mayan calendar ends, hopefully it will go as gracefully
as scientists have predicted.
Unlikely, since a full flip takes a few hundred years; it is not a sudden, catastrophic effect.
As The southern hemisphere has its winter during our summer,
I am wondering if the seasons will flip flop as well ???
Unlikely, since the seasons are defined by the orientation of the Earth's rotation axis to its Solar orbital axis; they have nothing whatsoever to do with the magnetic axis.
I also wonder if the polar shift will effect magma flows...
Unlikely; the fields are far to weak, and get even weaker during a field reversal.
I wonder if the magnetic field has any effect on plate tectonics too.
...I met Gary Glatzmeier, the guy who originally discovered the reversal effect during computer simulations. He's really smart, but at the same time very nice with it -- often a rarity for scientists who hit the big time.
...has a couple of photos of the first British H-bomb test on Christmas Island in his album. He was in one of the observation planes which recorded the test. Luckily, it appears that he was sufficiently far enough away not to be affected by radiation or fallout -- he is 86, and still going strong.
tapes were just too expensive and unreliable (and slow).
Expensive, sure, but unreliable? A decent Digital Linear Tape drive is a far superior backup solution to optical disks -- plenty of capacity, and the storage medium doesn't have the annoying habit of rusting or decaying as it sits on the shelf. The same can't be said of CDs and DVDs...
Of course, for real reliability, there is only one proven solution. Clay tablets. We've got those going back to the dawn of civilization; but, tellingly, there are no CDs from before the 1980s. Now if only someone would make a clay jukebox...
Yup, any email client with HTML capabilities is susceptible...
Nowhere did I claim that Mozilla -- and, for that matter, IE -- cannot be protected against web bugs by blocking image loading. In fact, to quote from my original post,
Web bugs work on all web browsers, unless you have image loading disabled
Now go and wipe that egg of your face, you dipshit.
Web bugs can be put in emails, allowing an identification to be made between an email address and an IP address. Mozilla is susceptible to this form of privacy link, as is any email client with HTML capabilities.
Did you actually read the article I linked to? Or are you as much the ignorant fucktard as your post makes out?
Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug??
Web bugs work on all web browsers, unless you have image loading disabled. Read about them here, and repeat after me: "I will not be a mindless fanboy. I will not be a mindless fanboy.".
Does anyone have any positive experiences with Java3D with high performance 3d applications?
I believe that it is possible for Java3D implementations to be (partial) wrappers around hardware-based OpenGL/DirectX functionality. With this in mind, I really don't see much performance overhead associated with coding 3D applications Java, as opposed to something like C++.
Of course, there are certainly other reasons why one might want to avoid using Java. For instance, if the 3D visualization is reliant on a computationally-intensive backend, it may be better to use a language specifically oriented toward number crunching -- for instance, Fortran 90/95, which has glut-featured OpenGL bindings through the f90gl project.
what they don't tell you is that 74% of those downloads were made by Sporty Spice. She d/l'ed thousands of copies of "tell me what you want, what you really, really want" in the hopes of reclaiming some of her former "glory". It's shameful for all Europeans.
Erm, that would be the same Melanie Chisholm who's debut solo album Northern Star went multi-platinum?
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I guess you're so pompous that'd you'd only buy books for "geniuses"?
Hmmm, looking at my bookshelf.... Knuth... Stroustrup... yep, I guess you're right!
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then you probably no squat in the subject area, hence making you a Dummy.
That would be 'know'. LOL, hoist on your own petard!
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I won't buy those on principle even if they may contain pertinent information on a subject I'd like to learn about.
Agreed. I won't buy any Dummies books, for the same reasons I wouldn't buy the popular Calculus for Fuckwit Retards or Programming for Crackhead Asshats.
I officially put my own genetic code under the terms of the LGPL. You can redistribute me and my clones as you like...
IIRC, the LGPL allows you to charge a modest fee for 'distribution costs'. How much are you going to be billing for the "Gentlemen's Interest" magazines necessary for extraction of your genetic code?
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Slaves indeed! The Nazis used slave labour in their factories -- Google is your friend if you wish to learn more.
...and all thanks to Werner von Braun and the other Nazis that the US government welcomed, with open arms, at the close of WWII. Think of all those slaves who died in Werner's rocket factories, just so he could perfect his engines and pass the technology on to the US military...
One problem I can think of is that L1 isn't stable; any spacecraft parked there will go off station over a timescale of around 20 days, unless it receives corrections to its orbit around the sun. Having to put an orbital control system on each piece of hardware you park there would make the cost unattractive.
Besides, the L1 is already used for scientific purposes -- amongst others, SOHO and ACE are in halo orbits around the Lagrange point, and I'm sure the scientists who rely on them (including some of my work colleagues) wouldn't welcome L1 becoming a junk yard.
Using the word 'fuck' many times is certainly a sign of True Intellect(tm). I bow down before your greatness.
Clearly, your masters degree did not require you to debate a point cogently.
because of a bunch of paper-thin lies the populace was too brain-dead to recognize.
Over a million people marched through the streets of London to protest against the invasion of Iraq, a couple of months before the offensive began. The population did recognize that they were being lied to, and took massive action based on that recognition. Which is more than you can say for the USA and its 'free speech' zones.
What did you do to stop the war?
Yeah, what the fuck would I know, I only went to a talk by the guy who discovered the physical mechanism for the flip.
1 billion sold -- but poor quality, dangerous for your health, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth?
It will be hilarous if the poles flip about the time the Mayan calendar ends, hopefully it will go as gracefully as scientists have predicted.
Unlikely, since a full flip takes a few hundred years; it is not a sudden, catastrophic effect.
As The southern hemisphere has its winter during our summer, I am wondering if the seasons will flip flop as well ???
Unlikely, since the seasons are defined by the orientation of the Earth's rotation axis to its Solar orbital axis; they have nothing whatsoever to do with the magnetic axis.
I also wonder if the polar shift will effect magma flows ...
Unlikely; the fields are far to weak, and get even weaker during a field reversal.
I wonder if the magnetic field has any effect on plate tectonics too .
Unlikely, for the reasons I give above.
...I met Gary Glatzmeier, the guy who originally discovered the reversal effect during computer simulations. He's really smart, but at the same time very nice with it -- often a rarity for scientists who hit the big time.
...has a couple of photos of the first British H-bomb test on Christmas Island in his album. He was in one of the observation planes which recorded the test. Luckily, it appears that he was sufficiently far enough away not to be affected by radiation or fallout -- he is 86, and still going strong.
tapes were just too expensive and unreliable (and slow).
Expensive, sure, but unreliable? A decent Digital Linear Tape drive is a far superior backup solution to optical disks -- plenty of capacity, and the storage medium doesn't have the annoying habit of rusting or decaying as it sits on the shelf. The same can't be said of CDs and DVDs...
Of course, for real reliability, there is only one proven solution. Clay tablets. We've got those going back to the dawn of civilization; but, tellingly, there are no CDs from before the 1980s. Now if only someone would make a clay jukebox...
Yup, any email client with HTML capabilities is susceptible...
Nowhere did I claim that Mozilla -- and, for that matter, IE -- cannot be protected against web bugs by blocking image loading. In fact, to quote from my original post,
Now go and wipe that egg of your face, you dipshit.
Web bugs can be put in emails, allowing an identification to be made between an email address and an IP address. Mozilla is susceptible to this form of privacy link, as is any email client with HTML capabilities.
Did you actually read the article I linked to? Or are you as much the ignorant fucktard as your post makes out?
Would you please post a racist comment against the Indians and check that out?!
Just read through some posts on outsourcing, which are nothing more than racist attacks on Indians. Oh, and also look up satire.
Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug??
Web bugs work on all web browsers, unless you have image loading disabled. Read about them here, and repeat after me: "I will not be a mindless fanboy. I will not be a mindless fanboy.".
Does anyone have any positive experiences with Java3D with high performance 3d applications?
I believe that it is possible for Java3D implementations to be (partial) wrappers around hardware-based OpenGL/DirectX functionality. With this in mind, I really don't see much performance overhead associated with coding 3D applications Java, as opposed to something like C++.
Of course, there are certainly other reasons why one might want to avoid using Java. For instance, if the 3D visualization is reliant on a computationally-intensive backend, it may be better to use a language specifically oriented toward number crunching -- for instance, Fortran 90/95, which has glut-featured OpenGL bindings through the f90gl project.
LOL, I get modded Flamebait for correcting my own typo. Good to see that /. still has a healthy contingent of fucktard moderators.
...and the American public, being so obese, will be the only populace in the world with enough juice to run Longhorn.
Erm, that would be the same Melanie Chisholm who's debut solo album Northern Star went multi-platinum?
...and that would be whose, and more coffee for me. Arse.
what they don't tell you is that 74% of those downloads were made by Sporty Spice. She d/l'ed thousands of copies of "tell me what you want, what you really, really want" in the hopes of reclaiming some of her former "glory". It's shameful for all Europeans.
Erm, that would be the same Melanie Chisholm who's debut solo album Northern Star went multi-platinum?
I guess you're so pompous that'd you'd only buy books for "geniuses"?
Hmmm, looking at my bookshelf.... Knuth... Stroustrup... yep, I guess you're right!
then you probably no squat in the subject area, hence making you a Dummy.
That would be 'know'. LOL, hoist on your own petard!
I won't buy those on principle even if they may contain pertinent information on a subject I'd like to learn about.
Agreed. I won't buy any Dummies books, for the same reasons I wouldn't buy the popular Calculus for Fuckwit Retards or Programming for Crackhead Asshats.
I officially put my own genetic code under the terms of the LGPL. You can redistribute me and my clones as you like...
IIRC, the LGPL allows you to charge a modest fee for 'distribution costs'. How much are you going to be billing for the "Gentlemen's Interest" magazines necessary for extraction of your genetic code?
Oh, and my uptime IN WINDOWS is about a month.
No, your uptime is actually 24.2 days, it's just that the clock has been overclocked too...