In this orbit, obviously, centrifugal acceleration exactly counterbalances gravity. (Else the thing would rise or sink to a different orbit).
Umm... in ALL circular orbits, centripetal acceleration (not centrifugal btw) exactly counterbalances gravity -- that's the definition of a circular orbit. The only thing that's special about a geosynchronous orbit is that the period of revolution for the orbit happens to be the same as the period of rotation for the Earth.
I've always heard # refered to as sharp, hash or gate.
It's also referred to by a little known term, octothorp.
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My point was this: as written, locutus is a pure Windows-only app, which was not in any way apparent from the original posting. And, according to the faq [locut.us], the developers of locutus do not intend to release the source for the app, which means no porting to Mono, lisp, Applescript, FORTRAN, or anything else for that matter. Only for Windows.
According to the FAQ:
3.1 What is.Net and why does Locutus need it?
.Net is, at its core, an attempt to standardize the way that software applications communicate with the underlying Operating System..Net was developed by Microsoft, and at the time of writing is only available for Windows, however.Net has been embraced by some in the Linux community who are working on Open Source versions of.Net such as Mono. Once finished, these will allow Locutus to run on non-Microsoft operating systems.
You don't need the source to port Locutus to Mono... it's compiled to the.NET Common Language Runtime, which Mono is attempting the implement for Linux. So all you need is the compiled program; the source is not necessary... similar to the way Java apps run on top of JVMs running on different platforms.
Short answer: fire half of the school administrators, get rid of the retarded children, raise teacher saleries, get rid of the 'team sports', and ban disruptive children permently.
And where do you suppose these retarded and disruptive children will go? Cutting the bottom tail of the curve only gives the appearance higher quality by increasing the average grade but in actuality changes nothing. In addition, I don't see how banning 'team sports' helps your argument.
I agree we are using our money inefficiently, but your solutions do nothing to solve the problem.
This article on spacefuture.com has a pretty good analysis of what centripetal forces we should be looking for in deciding to build a rotating space station. It takes into account not only the physics, but also the effects of this artificial gravity on humans (since there is a significant effect due to Coriolis forces that make it behave differently from natural gravity).
There are many more uses of pictures within documents than in publishing alone. Maybe you should reevaluate your choice of program. Might I suggest notepad or emacs?
or are you one of those LUSERS that complain
HA! Those complaints are exactly the reason why those features were added in.
Exactly... even though every single car radio interface is different, I always seem to know how to program the time/radio stations just by looking at the buttons (helps a lot in rental cars), even though I've never encountered that particular radio before, and other people always ask me "how do you do that?" I guess this is along the same lines.
Even Office 97 has a large plethora of thoroughly useless features.
Send To Routing Recipient, Send To Fax Recipient, Footnotes, Comments, Document Map, Field, Cross-Reference, Index & Tables, Insert Object, Insert Bookmark, Look Up Changes, Track Changes, Change Case, Style Gallery, Merge Documents, Letter Wizard, Formula
Don't call them useless because you never learned how to use them. I've found comments, track changes, cross-references, and styles to be extremely helpful, especially when you have multiple people working on the same document.
"Insert Object" is useless!? Then how do you think you can insert even a picture into your document?
Dr. Michael Brent has designed a novel algorithm for discovering new Slashdot stories by factoring out commonalities between the sotries of diferent days. Using the algorithm to compare the sories of today and of a few days ago, he and his collegues have already discovered over a thousand Slashdot stories that haven't even been noticed.
On an interesting sidenote, during his analysis Dr. Brent also discovered that many of the stories appeared to be duplicates of each other. The evolutionary purpose and reason for these duplicates are still under speculation, but he has been overheard mentioning the word "CmdrTaco".
WHY are all docking rings on manned spacecraft not compatible? Standards like that will save lives in future, dammit.
Actually I believe there is a de facto standard. In fact, that's how our shuttles were able to attach to the Mir a few years back without much modification. It turns out that the Russians had stolen some designs from us and used the exact same docking mechanism.:)
Anyway, the problem was that Columbia wasn't fitted with the docking ring because there was no need to dock with the ISS.
I remember the days where MS gave away compiliers (Quick Basic) so you could do basic programming stuff.
Actually, IIRC, MS gave away QBasic, not Quick Basic. QBasic was an interpreter, but if you wanted to actually compile your programs, you needed to buy QuickBasic.
The real answer is a smaller scale super computer controllig the distributed computing.
The whole point of distributed computing is to get away from the reliance on central controllers. If the controller crashes, then the whole system dies, whereas in a distributed mechanism, several nodes may die and the entire system can keep running.
In addition, there are massive problems with scaling if you have a central controller. You simply cannot add more nodes to the system past a certain point without heavily loading the controller.
it's not at issue, from what little I pay attention to the anti-office crusade I see it's mostly an issue of open standards.
linux zealots wouldn't give two bits about Office,...
But Linux zealots aren't the ones making Macs successful. The ones who buy Macs the most are regular users that like the Mac interface while still being able to use their familiar MS Office programs. I think that is what thryllkill intended to say in his post.
The name, UNIX, was coined by Brian Kernighan and was a pun on the name of another operating system, Multics (an expensive operating system that couldn't support multiple users, as opposed to UNIX, which was cheap and supported multiple users).
This isn't out of the ordinary. The Oddworld game on XBox features Sobe beverages, which didn't really detract from the game at all. As long as game designers don't put the ads in your face, I don't see a problem.
Is this a bug in slashcode? When I copy and paste the link in, it shows up with a space between the final / and HIER. That space is not in my submission, and it was presumably not in the original poster's submission...
The space is to prevent trolls from page widening (i.e., posting an entire line of WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW... in order to stretch the page beyond readability). Slashdot automatically inserts a space so that long words will be wrapped.
There is a difference. X-rays you get at the dentist/doctor are several times the power you get daily from the environment. However, emissions from cellphones or powerlines are lower that the daily amount you get from the environment anyway.
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Orgasm at the touch of a button... too bad they don't say anything about whether it works for men too.
In Boston, you might end up waiting at a stop for an hour, and then you'll see 3 buses coming up to the stop at the same time.
I agree we are using our money inefficiently, but your solutions do nothing to solve the problem.
This article on spacefuture.com has a pretty good analysis of what centripetal forces we should be looking for in deciding to build a rotating space station. It takes into account not only the physics, but also the effects of this artificial gravity on humans (since there is a significant effect due to Coriolis forces that make it behave differently from natural gravity).
Exactly... even though every single car radio interface is different, I always seem to know how to program the time/radio stations just by looking at the buttons (helps a lot in rental cars), even though I've never encountered that particular radio before, and other people always ask me "how do you do that?" I guess this is along the same lines.
"Insert Object" is useless!? Then how do you think you can insert even a picture into your document?
Anyway, the problem was that Columbia wasn't fitted with the docking ring because there was no need to dock with the ISS.
In addition, there are massive problems with scaling if you have a central controller. You simply cannot add more nodes to the system past a certain point without heavily loading the controller.
This isn't out of the ordinary. The Oddworld game on XBox features Sobe beverages, which didn't really detract from the game at all. As long as game designers don't put the ads in your face, I don't see a problem.
There is a difference. X-rays you get at the dentist/doctor are several times the power you get daily from the environment. However, emissions from cellphones or powerlines are lower that the daily amount you get from the environment anyway.