I see I didn't make myself clear enough, and was being distracted while I wrote that.
The point I was trying to make was simply the fact that the universe is expanding constantly, but the amount of the mass in the universe stays the same. I spent too much time on creating the balloon analogy and not enough on the the thing I was trying to focus on: everything's moving outwards from a center point; the mass remains the same yet the volume continues to increase. (Nothing to do with a secondary collision in the center, I kind of got carried away with the details of the analogy and ended up confusing the point.)
It's pretty obvious, just people aren't thinking about it from the right mindset:
It has to do with the expansion of outer shell of the edge the remnants of the original big bang explosion; It's really a type of a 'less resistance' problem, like as if something like air resistance gets less as the perimeter of the expanding explosion moves out, yet the mass of the universe remains the same. [Although that explanation ignores the fact that there's not a whole lot of air in space, but bear with me.]
Although it's not a normal resistance issue like the basic effect of wind resistance, it is different but similar enough to make the full point of view as follows:
Sort of easy to describe using an analogy of a balloon inside of a large bell jar. Normally, when you blow up a balloon, the air pressure increases as the balloon expands, since it's the increasing air pressure inside the balloon which is causing the expansion.
But in this case, blow the balloon up halfway, tie it, and seal it inside of the bell jar. Now you sharply/quickly reduce the air pressure in the bell jar by somehow removing a volume of air that is just less than it will take to pop the balloon by over-expansion as the air pressure drops. (Not sure of the math to determine that amount, just would have to experiment with a few balloons to get it right. It's not important to get it at the edge of popping, it's really what goes on inside the balloon while it's being inflated so quickly, yet this time with air pressure decreasing rapidly as it expands rapidly.
With the impetus coming this time from the outside of the balloon with the bell jar causing a sudden 'vacuum' (Violent loss of pressure actually, not a true vacuum.) implosion around the balloon instead of increasing the pressure on the inside of the the balloon. With the sudden change in outside air pressure, due to the elasticity of the air inside the balloon it would cause a donut-shaped compression wave to (Is there a word for three-dimensional equivalent of the act of traveling from the outer to inner rings of a set of two-dimensional concentric circles?) intensify as it shrank to a more and more compact size, then impacting itself as it reached the absolute center of the balloon, causing it to violently bounce as a shock wave radiating outward to the edge of the balloon, where it's energy would suddenly press against the edge (Yet the force of the sudden re-expansion will cause a 'vacuum ball' of lower pressure in the center of the balloon caused by the bounce causing a lot of air particles in the center to bounce out with the shock wave as they attempt to reclaim the natural equilibrium between air particles), causing it to expand a bit as the rubber/latex gives way a bit (Yet still not popping) and then de-expanding (starting to shrink) as the energy of the shock wave is spent fighting the elasticity of the balloon's edge and then loses.
Next we get it in reverse, and over and over until all the energy from that initial shock of 'vacuum' has been converted to friction/heat. But that entire process of bouncing is still not the part we are focusing on, but we're nearly to the end of this long explanation:
Now think of the particles of air inside the balloon, and how they would react as to their average distance between particles, both expanding and compressing. During the phase where the shock wave is expanding back out after it's first collision with the center, about halfway between the center and the edge of the balloon - the energy of the shock wave has already caused some of the inner air particles to begin traveling outward and gaining some inertia. While at the same time, the edge of the balloon is still rapidly receding as it expands due to the 'outer vacuum' of the bell jar still loosing pressure and 'sucking' the balloon larger.
So this sets the particles moving outwards, and if you do the math - all particles are moving away from each other at an increasing speed, just like the particles/energy of the universe are doing as it expands outwards from the core of the big bang explosion.
The C-64 was better than anything available at the time. Most amount of RAM (More than the Apple ][), color graphics (Mac was Black & White), the super-advanced SID synthesizer (Still used by a lot of musicians today) which gave it true sound back when the Apple and IBM offerings only offered pathetic beep noises.
Sure, the 6502 (Really the 6510 in a C64) was a few years old then, but there was nothing else out there in the affordable range. The megahertz wars hadn't started. the IBM PC was faster with a 4 Mhz processor, but the PC was such a barebones POS at the time that nobody wanted it.
It's what they did with the 5 year old 65xx line that was the groundbreaking part.
I still miss the C= X key combination in SpeedScript (Swapped the two characters) and wonder why it never has appeared in any of the "big boy" word processors.
Not when you want to still see your gadgets when running maximized. Sure, you can set your gadgets to "Always on top", but then they are always in the wrong place it seems.
What are these? Other than Tinker, a couple card games, and DreamScene? Are there others that were promised? Cause I was able to get the previously mentioned ones from Windows Update.
I say what I'm about to say after using Windows 7 x64 for a while, and liking it.
But...
I got a used Core2 Duo laptop off ebay that came with XP. Went to upgrade it to something that would take advantage of the 64bit cores, but I realized I was out of MSDN licenses for Windows 7 x64. But I had all my Vista x64 license keys remaining for some reason.;) Dreaded the thought, but went ahead and put Vista 64 on it, and put on all the services packs, etc.
I am very surprised at myself saying this, but I am actually liking the UI on Vista better than Windows 7. Heresy, I know. But with SP2 on it, it's (finally!) solid and it's doing everything I need it to do. (C#/Visual Studio/MVC 3/Entity Framework development...)
I really think the sidebar (introduced in Vista, ripped back out in Win7) should have been longer lived. I did not like it at all when I first encountered it, but now I am just loving it for some reason. (Maybe I just hate change??)
Of course, two weeks after I do this, they end of life it. Dammit...
Secret bureaucracy, it's just a lie The devil's henchmen, in suit and tie A sacred brotherhood; an ancient rite Politicians and the double lives they hide
Violate your rights, no more equality Surrender freedom, your Social Security We, the people face unconstitutional lies In greed we trust, in revolution we die
Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves The land of liberty needs a regime change Until you no longer know right from wrong The constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on
Screams from the future, warn of calamity The coming plagues of the new disease The illuminati, one world currency One world religion, one World everything
Violate your rights, no more equality Surrender freedom, your Social Security We, the people face unconstitutional lies In greed we trust, in revolution we die
I'd say large corporations do a lot more destruction of individual freedoms than the government does. Corporations have no checks & balances other than the mythological "invisible hand" bullshit.
Shoulda gone to Walmart. I just picked up a wired optical mouse there for $8.97 last week. No upsell, just grabbed it off the rack (right next to the wireless ones, so it was easy to find.) and went thru the self-checkout and the whole ordeal was done.
And I farking hate Walmart. But for a wired mouse, go there.
Do really off the wall things, keeps the audience involved and a bit fearful. Then they'll pay attention.
Five minutes into the presentation, suddenly step back, scream Rahr at the top of your lungs, then continue on with the presentation as if nothing happened.
Fall on the floor and twitch mumbling in a scared child's voice "Mommy, don't the the monster get me!". Get back up, keep presenting as if nothing happened.
Walk up to the biggest guy in the room, clock him square in the nose. Laugh. Keep presenting.
Fart loudly.
Pick your nose.
Praise Jesus!
Stop talking and just look at everyone strangely, as if you are fully confused.
Jump up and down a couple times and begin speaking in tongues. Seem very impressed with whatever you said in tongues.
Tell them about the baby bird you found when you were little.
I'd go for that. Just the constant flipping back and forth gets me. Grew up in Eastern Indiana (Fort Wayne) where they didn't do it (Back then anyway), so I think it messes with me worse because of it.
Are we going to abolish the stupidity of the concept of Daylight Savings Time? It saves no daylight.
There will be a higher percentage of car crashes tomorrow due to people being awake an hour earlier. Then in fall, there will be higher suicides when there is suddenly, with no logical explanation to your circadian cycle, dramatically less sunlight.
This is an abomination and really has a horrible effect on me and other each year.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms. I mortally detest it.
I picked up the first book from a Grocery Store in Missouri while on vacation in 1986. Ended up buying all of them, it's a very addictive story. The books are hard to find these days, but Google is your friend. I highly recommend this series.The Sha'um (telepathic war cats) are just awesome.
Copypasta from Wikipedia article about the series: [Off the synopsis on the cover, and really doesn't do the story justice, but it sorta describes it.]
The Gandalara Cycle is a series of seven Fantasy/Science Fiction paperback books created and written by authors Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron beginning in 1981.
Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor with a terminal illness, is flirting with a captivating young woman on a Mediterranean cruise ship. They both watch with wonder, and a growing horror, as a dazzlingly beautiful star quickly grows to engulf the sky and then crashes into the ship.
Ricardo awakens in a blinding hot desert, with no idea where he is and a dead man by his side.
Without knowing how or why, Ricardo finds himself inhabiting the body of a strong, healthy, young man named Markasset. Ricardo quickly learns that Markasset is wanted for murder and the theft of a precious and powerful gemstone, the Ra'ira. Ricardo has only a smattering of Markasset's memories, and no idea if he is guilty or innocent. But with the help of a giant warcat named Keeshah, with whom he shares a telepathic bond, and the beautiful illusionist, Tarani, Ricardo sets out on a quest to recover the missing gemstone and clear his new name.
But what has happened to Markasset? And when will he want his body back? Now that he has a new lease on life, can Ricardo let it go?
The series is full of vivid characters, sword play, great warcats, and a desert world called Gandalara...a kind of alien Arabian Nights. Originally released as seven novels, the series was repackaged into three volumes (The Gandalara Cycle I, The Gandalara Cycle II, & The River Wall).
No distractions, far better development machine, triple 24" monitors, etc.
Coming into work, I have to use a shitty laptop with a 1280 x 900 (900? not sure on Y axis) hooked to a single 1280x1024 monitor. Short cube walls. I'm really tall, so the typical cube desk is always too short for me, pinning my legs between it and the chair. (Gotta have the chair at its highest position or my posture is horrible.) Have to constantly be bothered when I'm trying to concentrate on coding. Listening to people blabber loudly on their phones in several languages. (I can easily filter out people speaking English, but if it's a language I don't know, then part of my brain is always focused on that, trying to find a pattern in the strange speaking.)
I'm not a social person while coding, so I get a hell of a lot more accomplished when I work by myself.
For the kind of work I do, there's no reason at all to come into work except for weekly meetings. When I'm working from home, I am relaxed and don't care how long I work. When I'm in the cube farm, all I want to do is leave.
Hell no! He's still gotta make the originally-promised episodes 7 thru 9.
And he needs to hurry it up, he's getting old.
I've wanted to see Episodes 7-9 far more than I ever wanted to see eps 1-3. What happens NEXT, not what happened before. (Tho I did want to see the story of the Clone Wars, but he severely botched that compared to my mental vision. Never thought it would be as lame as just hundreds of clones of Jango Fett. I imagined it more as where every warrior had a few clones, and they did the actual fighting rather than the clonee.)
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I see I didn't make myself clear enough, and was being distracted while I wrote that.
The point I was trying to make was simply the fact that the universe is expanding constantly, but the amount of the mass in the universe stays the same. I spent too much time on creating the balloon analogy and not enough on the the thing I was trying to focus on: everything's moving outwards from a center point; the mass remains the same yet the volume continues to increase. (Nothing to do with a secondary collision in the center, I kind of got carried away with the details of the analogy and ended up confusing the point.)
Faster CPU? The Atari 800 was also based on an MOS 6502, so not sure what you are talking about there.
It's pretty obvious, just people aren't thinking about it from the right mindset:
It has to do with the expansion of outer shell of the edge the remnants of the original big bang explosion; It's really a type of a 'less resistance' problem, like as if something like air resistance gets less as the perimeter of the expanding explosion moves out, yet the mass of the universe remains the same. [Although that explanation ignores the fact that there's not a whole lot of air in space, but bear with me.]
Although it's not a normal resistance issue like the basic effect of wind resistance, it is different but similar enough to make the full point of view as follows:
Sort of easy to describe using an analogy of a balloon inside of a large bell jar. Normally, when you blow up a balloon, the air pressure increases as the balloon expands, since it's the increasing air pressure inside the balloon which is causing the expansion.
But in this case, blow the balloon up halfway, tie it, and seal it inside of the bell jar. Now you sharply/quickly reduce the air pressure in the bell jar by somehow removing a volume of air that is just less than it will take to pop the balloon by over-expansion as the air pressure drops. (Not sure of the math to determine that amount, just would have to experiment with a few balloons to get it right. It's not important to get it at the edge of popping, it's really what goes on inside the balloon while it's being inflated so quickly, yet this time with air pressure decreasing rapidly as it expands rapidly.
With the impetus coming this time from the outside of the balloon with the bell jar causing a sudden 'vacuum' (Violent loss of pressure actually, not a true vacuum.) implosion around the balloon instead of increasing the pressure on the inside of the the balloon. With the sudden change in outside air pressure, due to the elasticity of the air inside the balloon it would cause a donut-shaped compression wave to (Is there a word for three-dimensional equivalent of the act of traveling from the outer to inner rings of a set of two-dimensional concentric circles?) intensify as it shrank to a more and more compact size, then impacting itself as it reached the absolute center of the balloon, causing it to violently bounce as a shock wave radiating outward to the edge of the balloon, where it's energy would suddenly press against the edge (Yet the force of the sudden re-expansion will cause a 'vacuum ball' of lower pressure in the center of the balloon caused by the bounce causing a lot of air particles in the center to bounce out with the shock wave as they attempt to reclaim the natural equilibrium between air particles), causing it to expand a bit as the rubber/latex gives way a bit (Yet still not popping) and then de-expanding (starting to shrink) as the energy of the shock wave is spent fighting the elasticity of the balloon's edge and then loses.
Next we get it in reverse, and over and over until all the energy from that initial shock of 'vacuum' has been converted to friction/heat. But that entire process of bouncing is still not the part we are focusing on, but we're nearly to the end of this long explanation:
Now think of the particles of air inside the balloon, and how they would react as to their average distance between particles, both expanding and compressing. During the phase where the shock wave is expanding back out after it's first collision with the center, about halfway between the center and the edge of the balloon - the energy of the shock wave has already caused some of the inner air particles to begin traveling outward and gaining some inertia. While at the same time, the edge of the balloon is still rapidly receding as it expands due to the 'outer vacuum' of the bell jar still loosing pressure and 'sucking' the balloon larger.
So this sets the particles moving outwards, and if you do the math - all particles are moving away from each other at an increasing speed, just like the particles/energy of the universe are doing as it expands outwards from the core of the big bang explosion.
The C-64 was better than anything available at the time. Most amount of RAM (More than the Apple ][), color graphics (Mac was Black & White), the super-advanced SID synthesizer (Still used by a lot of musicians today) which gave it true sound back when the Apple and IBM offerings only offered pathetic beep noises.
Sure, the 6502 (Really the 6510 in a C64) was a few years old then, but there was nothing else out there in the affordable range. The megahertz wars hadn't started. the IBM PC was faster with a 4 Mhz processor, but the PC was such a barebones POS at the time that nobody wanted it.
It's what they did with the 5 year old 65xx line that was the groundbreaking part.
I still miss the C= X key combination in SpeedScript (Swapped the two characters) and wonder why it never has appeared in any of the "big boy" word processors.
Not when you want to still see your gadgets when running maximized. Sure, you can set your gadgets to "Always on top", but then they are always in the wrong place it seems.
What are these? Other than Tinker, a couple card games, and DreamScene? Are there others that were promised? Cause I was able to get the previously mentioned ones from Windows Update.
I say what I'm about to say after using Windows 7 x64 for a while, and liking it.
But...
I got a used Core2 Duo laptop off ebay that came with XP. Went to upgrade it to something that would take advantage of the 64bit cores, but I realized I was out of MSDN licenses for Windows 7 x64. But I had all my Vista x64 license keys remaining for some reason. ;) Dreaded the thought, but went ahead and put Vista 64 on it, and put on all the services packs, etc.
I am very surprised at myself saying this, but I am actually liking the UI on Vista better than Windows 7. Heresy, I know. But with SP2 on it, it's (finally!) solid and it's doing everything I need it to do. (C#/Visual Studio/MVC 3/Entity Framework development...)
I really think the sidebar (introduced in Vista, ripped back out in Win7) should have been longer lived. I did not like it at all when I first encountered it, but now I am just loving it for some reason. (Maybe I just hate change??)
Of course, two weeks after I do this, they end of life it. Dammit...
Secret bureaucracy, it's just a lie
The devil's henchmen, in suit and tie
A sacred brotherhood; an ancient rite
Politicians and the double lives they hide
Violate your rights, no more equality
Surrender freedom, your Social Security
We, the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves
The land of liberty needs a regime change
Until you no longer know right from wrong
The constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on
Screams from the future, warn of calamity
The coming plagues of the new disease
The illuminati, one world currency
One world religion, one World everything
Violate your rights, no more equality
Surrender freedom, your Social Security
We, the people face unconstitutional lies
In greed we trust, in revolution we die
I'd say large corporations do a lot more destruction of individual freedoms than the government does. Corporations have no checks & balances other than the mythological "invisible hand" bullshit.
But he did do the New Tron Dance...
Shoulda gone to Walmart. I just picked up a wired optical mouse there for $8.97 last week. No upsell, just grabbed it off the rack (right next to the wireless ones, so it was easy to find.) and went thru the self-checkout and the whole ordeal was done.
And I farking hate Walmart. But for a wired mouse, go there.
"They tryin to drive me to Mac" was an epic finish for that video.
Windows 8: The Next Vista
Go be dumb somewhere else...
So register the damn thing. It's free.
You just want to whine...
It's a lot more fun when you set the Language selection to 'Pirate'
Do really off the wall things, keeps the audience involved and a bit fearful. Then they'll pay attention.
Five minutes into the presentation, suddenly step back, scream Rahr at the top of your lungs, then continue on with the presentation as if nothing happened.
Fall on the floor and twitch mumbling in a scared child's voice "Mommy, don't the the monster get me!". Get back up, keep presenting as if nothing happened.
Walk up to the biggest guy in the room, clock him square in the nose. Laugh. Keep presenting.
Fart loudly.
Pick your nose.
Praise Jesus!
Stop talking and just look at everyone strangely, as if you are fully confused.
Jump up and down a couple times and begin speaking in tongues. Seem very impressed with whatever you said in tongues.
Tell them about the baby bird you found when you were little.
Run from the room screaming.
> use the L word.
Liger?
I'd go for that. Just the constant flipping back and forth gets me. Grew up in Eastern Indiana (Fort Wayne) where they didn't do it (Back then anyway), so I think it messes with me worse because of it.
Fuck you, asshole...
Are we going to abolish the stupidity of the concept of Daylight Savings Time? It saves no daylight.
There will be a higher percentage of car crashes tomorrow due to people being awake an hour earlier. Then in fall, there will be higher suicides when there is suddenly, with no logical explanation to your circadian cycle, dramatically less sunlight.
This is an abomination and really has a horrible effect on me and other each year.
It needs to go away with other anachronisms. I mortally detest it.
True, but I thought we were talking about payment processors, not eBay specific anything.
I picked up the first book from a Grocery Store in Missouri while on vacation in 1986. Ended up buying all of them, it's a very addictive story. The books are hard to find these days, but Google is your friend. I highly recommend this series.The Sha'um (telepathic war cats) are just awesome.
Copypasta from Wikipedia article about the series:
[Off the synopsis on the cover, and really doesn't do the story justice, but it sorta describes it.]
The Gandalara Cycle is a series of seven Fantasy/Science Fiction paperback books created and written by authors Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron beginning in 1981.
Ricardo Carillo, an aging language professor with a terminal illness, is flirting with a captivating young woman on a Mediterranean cruise ship. They both watch with wonder, and a growing horror, as a dazzlingly beautiful star quickly grows to engulf the sky and then crashes into the ship.
Ricardo awakens in a blinding hot desert, with no idea where he is and a dead man by his side.
Without knowing how or why, Ricardo finds himself inhabiting the body of a strong, healthy, young man named Markasset. Ricardo quickly learns that Markasset is wanted for murder and the theft of a precious and powerful gemstone, the Ra'ira. Ricardo has only a smattering of Markasset's memories, and no idea if he is guilty or innocent. But with the help of a giant warcat named Keeshah, with whom he shares a telepathic bond, and the beautiful illusionist, Tarani, Ricardo sets out on a quest to recover the missing gemstone and clear his new name.
But what has happened to Markasset? And when will he want his body back? Now that he has a new lease on life, can Ricardo let it go?
The series is full of vivid characters, sword play, great warcats, and a desert world called Gandalara...a kind of alien Arabian Nights. Originally released as seven novels, the series was repackaged into three volumes (The Gandalara Cycle I, The Gandalara Cycle II, & The River Wall).
No distractions, far better development machine, triple 24" monitors, etc.
Coming into work, I have to use a shitty laptop with a 1280 x 900 (900? not sure on Y axis) hooked to a single 1280x1024 monitor. Short cube walls. I'm really tall, so the typical cube desk is always too short for me, pinning my legs between it and the chair. (Gotta have the chair at its highest position or my posture is horrible.) Have to constantly be bothered when I'm trying to concentrate on coding. Listening to people blabber loudly on their phones in several languages. (I can easily filter out people speaking English, but if it's a language I don't know, then part of my brain is always focused on that, trying to find a pattern in the strange speaking.)
I'm not a social person while coding, so I get a hell of a lot more accomplished when I work by myself.
For the kind of work I do, there's no reason at all to come into work except for weekly meetings. When I'm working from home, I am relaxed and don't care how long I work. When I'm in the cube farm, all I want to do is leave.
Hell no! He's still gotta make the originally-promised episodes 7 thru 9.
And he needs to hurry it up, he's getting old.
I've wanted to see Episodes 7-9 far more than I ever wanted to see eps 1-3. What happens NEXT, not what happened before. (Tho I did want to see the story of the Clone Wars, but he severely botched that compared to my mental vision. Never thought it would be as lame as just hundreds of clones of Jango Fett. I imagined it more as where every warrior had a few clones, and they did the actual fighting rather than the clonee.)