Alright, I don't care how I get modded for this. People like you just really piss me off.
Please realize that these are the same people who are denying the Bible by saying that James was not the brother of Jesus and that there is little evidence that Jesus even existed.
1) There are actually people who don't believe that Jesus was the messiah. Don't get in a huff about this, I'm just saying that there's a lot of other religions out there that you seem to be forgetting.
2) Nowhere in the article that you linked to does it say, as you put it "that James was not the brother of Jesus". Nor does the article say "that there is little evidence that Jesus even existed".
The simple fact that a piece of evidence was proven to be a fake does not prove the conclusions to be false.
The search technology, borrowed from the company's SQL Server database, is expected to make it easier to find documents locally, on individual PCs, and across the Internet by linking to MSN's search services.
So basically they're making the same kind of search engine all those college students got sued for making?
Re:Am I the only one...
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You are most certainly not the only one who thinks they look cool. I live about an hour and a half away from the Searsburg Wind Power Facility and I think they are absolutely mesmerizing.
I took a road trip up there one windy, foggy afternoon with my girlfriend and we hopped the fence to go check them out. You couldn't see more than about 75 yards because it was so foggy, but you could hear the things literally about a mile away because there was no background noise to cover the sound up.
Once we got to them, the noise was quite loud, especially when one of them malfunctioned and subsequently tripled its speed. When it adjusted again to slow down, the noise was akin to a jet taking off because we were literally beneath the massive thing.
It scared the hell out of us, but we both consider that one of the best roadtrips we've ever taken
True, I've heard that it takes 0.1A to kill (and yes it is the current that kills and not the voltage), and I've heard it takes 0.5A. I don't know the real number, but 0.02 is ok in the worst case by a factor of 5.
You used the wrong value for d in your equation, instead of using.0379 (which is miles), use 200 (feet).
When you do this, it works out to be something like 40 G's (using 33 ft/sec/sec for G). This number makes sense.
Have you ever lost a piece of paper out of your window wile driving? It's pretty much the same thing.
Air drag is a squared relation to relative velocity, so when you double your speed, the force quadruples (assuming that this relation holds true beyond the speed of sound, and that the air is the same density, which it is not at this altitude). In this case, the shuttle was going more than 2000 miles per hour, which is more than 30 times the speed at which a car goes (60 mph). That means that the force acting on a piece of paper would be about 900 times what it is out the window of a car. Couple that with the fact that the foam is larger and therefore has a larger coefficient of drag. Now divide the weight differential, and you resulting acceleration is still a very large number.
This could very easily be 40 G's, and I think that the fact that they didn't have 2000 mph winds (even at that altitude and density) means that they were being conservative
... does all the work for me. Here it is: Machine: "Hello?"
I just let the people talk until they realize I'm not actually on the phone. One time this telemarketer called - one of the ones that just start talking at full speed and don't let you interrupt - and talked for 3 or 4 minutes to the machine whlie we sat and listened while eating dinner. After she had finished talking she asked, "so all I need at this point is to verify that you are over the age of 18... Hello?.. If you don't want to talk just f***ing hang up!" - click.
I only wish I had saved the message to call them back and tell them how their foul-mouthed representative had raped my virgin ears and that I would never buy anything from them:)
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Actually peltier devices are very power-hungry, they need a LOT of current (3-4 amps) to work at high temperature differentials, which is desirable in this case. But I agree that the Cat-5 should stand up to that kind of power, especially if he just shorted 1-4 and 5-8 and used them that way.
Step 2: The MPAA sues... um... the real world for copyright infringement of countless movies by actually going to mars (Mars Attacks, Mission to Mars, Red Planet, etc). (It's only infringement of Mars Attacks when the microbes get pissed, mutate, and attack us in anger, and we beat them with grandma's bad music).
This reminds me of a story I read once, "Bobo's Star." Basically this boy grew a miniature star in an indestructible container (he got it by mail-order) and it wasn't the right shape, so he kept feeding it until the sun was suddenly a black hole and the indestructible container suddenly wasn't. Super short ending, 'the world got eaten.'
I love being reminded of fun Sci-Fi stories, espceially ones I haven't read in 5 years:-D
The Hyperion series had me reading nonstop, excellent books! The AI's did it, but they found a way to 'cast the Earth, remember? They didn't destroy it.
I just saw The Animatrix last night (I know it's not released yet), and it's really good. I especially liked Kid's Story. I think if you like The Matrix and anime, you'll like The Animatrix.
Anyone else seen it yet? Lemme know:)
Hands down, the creepiest game I ever played was "Eternal Darkness."
I was playing at about 1am without anyone else in the room, and this picture started bleeding in front of me. I turned to the side and a bust turned to watch me go down the hall. I stood up and went downstairs to watch tv with my friends instead of playing.
A few days later, I watched a friend get to the point in the game with the bathtub scene, and as itshowed up, I grabbed his shoulders from behing him and screamed - I don't think the piss smell ever came out of that chair:)
Being an RPI student, I'm familiar with Flatlan and Phynd. They are targetting the people who make / distribute / host these services.
Neither of these programs is endorsed by the RPI network admins. What I don't get is why they haven't targetted the Phynd servers at other schools, or the other fileshare index services that are available (I know of two others here).
I'm a student at RPI, and I thought I'd let the Slashdot community know about the real nature of these "Napster Networks." Create a system that only lets local IP's access the servers.
The "Flatlan" and "Phynd" search engines are limited to people with RPI IP addresses. I know this because I live off campus and can't access the systems without Cisco's VPN client, and even then I need my student ID and password, and STILL can't access the songs. I know there's ways around this, but I haven't bothered figuring them out because it's just not that important to me.
Secondly, Phynd and Flatlan are NOT napster-type programs, they simply search the windows filesharing network (RPI has a lot of people who share lots of their files, a few people are even dumb enough to full-access share their c: drive). The RPI network is fast and robust enough to stream DivX movies from one computer during peak hours and have it still be watchable.
Phynd is a (from the client's point of view) web page that lets you search for any files you want: back homework, videos, music, etc. Then it has clickable links so you can just save the file.
Flatlan is a program that searches Phynd and provides a nice interface to download the songs.
I don't know why the RIAA is avoiding two other search engines for the network that do the same thing, one of which is even maintained by the campus chapter of the network administration group.
I don't think they realize that there are Phynd search engines (to my knowledge)at at least two other colleges. IMHO, they should sue either everyone or no one.
Maybe they should try targetting Microsoft for allowing people to share illegal files on the official MS network.
It's not too much bigger than the hard drive, wireless card, and battery(ies) contained in it. And the price it because it's new. Once they start making more - assuming they do - the price will drop very quickly.
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Alright, I don't care how I get modded for this. People like you just really piss me off.
Please realize that these are the same people who are denying the Bible by saying that James was not the brother of Jesus and that there is little evidence that Jesus even existed.
1) There are actually people who don't believe that Jesus was the messiah. Don't get in a huff about this, I'm just saying that there's a lot of other religions out there that you seem to be forgetting.
2) Nowhere in the article that you linked to does it say, as you put it "that James was not the brother of Jesus". Nor does the article say "that there is little evidence that Jesus even existed".
The simple fact that a piece of evidence was proven to be a fake does not prove the conclusions to be false.
Go take a course on simple logic
The search technology, borrowed from the company's SQL Server database, is expected to make it easier to find documents locally, on individual PCs, and across the Internet by linking to MSN's search services.
So basically they're making the same kind of search engine all those college students got sued for making?
You are most certainly not the only one who thinks they look cool. I live about an hour and a half away from the Searsburg Wind Power Facility and I think they are absolutely mesmerizing.
I took a road trip up there one windy, foggy afternoon with my girlfriend and we hopped the fence to go check them out. You couldn't see more than about 75 yards because it was so foggy, but you could hear the things literally about a mile away because there was no background noise to cover the sound up.
Once we got to them, the noise was quite loud, especially when one of them malfunctioned and subsequently tripled its speed. When it adjusted again to slow down, the noise was akin to a jet taking off because we were literally beneath the massive thing.
It scared the hell out of us, but we both consider that one of the best roadtrips we've ever taken
Yes, but he said mA, so you are off by a factor of 1000.
Oh yeah, my bad.
True, I've heard that it takes 0.1A to kill (and yes it is the current that kills and not the voltage), and I've heard it takes 0.5A. I don't know the real number, but 0.02 is ok in the worst case by a factor of 5.
:)
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Good enough for me
Now if only I had an Xbox
If only you could pirate cars, or collegiate athletics...
I'm pretty sure you can pirate cars, but I think it's called "stealing" instead of "pirating."
Because if there are so many fewer people to call, the telemarketers will lose their jobs; there won't be any work for them.
You used the wrong value for d in your equation, instead of using .0379 (which is miles), use 200 (feet).
When you do this, it works out to be something like 40 G's (using 33 ft/sec/sec for G). This number makes sense.
Have you ever lost a piece of paper out of your window wile driving? It's pretty much the same thing.
Air drag is a squared relation to relative velocity, so when you double your speed, the force quadruples (assuming that this relation holds true beyond the speed of sound, and that the air is the same density, which it is not at this altitude). In this case, the shuttle was going more than 2000 miles per hour, which is more than 30 times the speed at which a car goes (60 mph). That means that the force acting on a piece of paper would be about 900 times what it is out the window of a car. Couple that with the fact that the foam is larger and therefore has a larger coefficient of drag. Now divide the weight differential, and you resulting acceleration is still a very large number.
This could very easily be 40 G's, and I think that the fact that they didn't have 2000 mph winds (even at that altitude and density) means that they were being conservative
... does all the work for me. Here it is: :)
Machine: "Hello?"
I just let the people talk until they realize I'm not actually on the phone. One time this telemarketer called - one of the ones that just start talking at full speed and don't let you interrupt - and talked for 3 or 4 minutes to the machine whlie we sat and listened while eating dinner. After she had finished talking she asked, "so all I need at this point is to verify that you are over the age of 18... Hello?.. If you don't want to talk just f***ing hang up!" - click.
I only wish I had saved the message to call them back and tell them how their foul-mouthed representative had raped my virgin ears and that I would never buy anything from them
Actually peltier devices are very power-hungry, they need a LOT of current (3-4 amps) to work at high temperature differentials, which is desirable in this case. But I agree that the Cat-5 should stand up to that kind of power, especially if he just shorted 1-4 and 5-8 and used them that way.
1.Launch probe
... um ... the real world for copyright infringement of countless movies by actually going to mars (Mars Attacks, Mission to Mars, Red Planet, etc). (It's only infringement of Mars Attacks when the microbes get pissed, mutate, and attack us in anger, and we beat them with grandma's bad music).
2.?????
3.Profit!
Step 2: The MPAA sues
ditto, because it damages the table, sounds bad, and it just plain cheap (yeah, that's a good strategy sometimes - like when you're really drunk).
True. I was just trying to be funny about it though :)
Step 1: Update software with silly restrictions.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Or the GBA SP (think the Penny Arcade Cartoon about it).
"Hey look, now I can actually see the screen of the damn thing, but oops, I can't listen to it with headphones unless I buy the adaptor."
This reminds me of a story I read once, "Bobo's Star." Basically this boy grew a miniature star in an indestructible container (he got it by mail-order) and it wasn't the right shape, so he kept feeding it until the sun was suddenly a black hole and the indestructible container suddenly wasn't. Super short ending, 'the world got eaten.'
:-D
I love being reminded of fun Sci-Fi stories, espceially ones I haven't read in 5 years
The Hyperion series had me reading nonstop, excellent books! The AI's did it, but they found a way to 'cast the Earth, remember? They didn't destroy it.
I just saw The Animatrix last night (I know it's not released yet), and it's really good. I especially liked Kid's Story. I think if you like The Matrix and anime, you'll like The Animatrix. :)
Anyone else seen it yet? Lemme know
Or maybe this is a ploy from the Linux distributors to shut down Windows!
Hands down, the creepiest game I ever played was "Eternal Darkness."
:)
I was playing at about 1am without anyone else in the room, and this picture started bleeding in front of me. I turned to the side and a bust turned to watch me go down the hall. I stood up and went downstairs to watch tv with my friends instead of playing.
A few days later, I watched a friend get to the point in the game with the bathtub scene, and as itshowed up, I grabbed his shoulders from behing him and screamed - I don't think the piss smell ever came out of that chair
Being an RPI student, I'm familiar with Flatlan and Phynd. They are targetting the people who make / distribute / host these services.
Neither of these programs is endorsed by the RPI network admins. What I don't get is why they haven't targetted the Phynd servers at other schools, or the other fileshare index services that are available (I know of two others here).
I'm a student at RPI, and I thought I'd let the Slashdot community know about the real nature of these "Napster Networks."
Create a system that only lets local IP's access the servers.
The "Flatlan" and "Phynd" search engines are limited to people with RPI IP addresses. I know this because I live off campus and can't access the systems without Cisco's VPN client, and even then I need my student ID and password, and STILL can't access the songs. I know there's ways around this, but I haven't bothered figuring them out because it's just not that important to me.
Secondly, Phynd and Flatlan are NOT napster-type programs, they simply search the windows filesharing network (RPI has a lot of people who share lots of their files, a few people are even dumb enough to full-access share their c: drive). The RPI network is fast and robust enough to stream DivX movies from one computer during peak hours and have it still be watchable.
Phynd is a (from the client's point of view) web page that lets you search for any files you want: back homework, videos, music, etc. Then it has clickable links so you can just save the file.
Flatlan is a program that searches Phynd and provides a nice interface to download the songs.
I don't know why the RIAA is avoiding two other search engines for the network that do the same thing, one of which is even maintained by the campus chapter of the network administration group.
I don't think they realize that there are Phynd search engines (to my knowledge)at at least two other colleges. IMHO, they should sue either everyone or no one.
Maybe they should try targetting Microsoft for allowing people to share illegal files on the official MS network.
Maybe, but probably not.
somber.
It's not too much bigger than the hard drive, wireless card, and battery(ies) contained in it. And the price it because it's new. Once they start making more - assuming they do - the price will drop very quickly.
Warchalking it! What a good idea! Get a sticker to stick to the back of it or on your backpack even.