I sent a letter to my MP detailing my concerns (in non-geekspeak). I requested a reply including both my MP and the Conservative party's position on the issue.
I got a 'thank you for your letter', but after a week have heard nothing further.
However, I still encourage you to write your MP as well. Enough letters will result in action... and even though most people are irritated that their illegal torrents are slower, the truth is that there are LEGAL torrents, and that's irrelevant anyway. Bell has a last-mile monopoly, and they shouldn't be messing with the reseller ISPs - they sell bandwidth and transfer, not bandwidth and transfer tiered by packet type.
I was thinking of the Oort cloud as the surface of a sphere - would there be a lessening of gravitational effect while inside the sphere (because some of the mass is still ahead of you) followed by an increase once you passed it?
Or, does it all effectively balance out at the center of the sun as far as the math is concerned...
No, it's perfectly normal! In 2D, the background is blurred because you're not supposed to be focused on it. When you move to 3D, your eyes will try to focus on whatever part of the image you're looking at based on the parallax. When the parallax and focal distance disagree, you get eyestrain and a headache.
There are only two fixes for this: dynamically adjust the image based on where the viewer is looking, or create a real 3D image where the actual distance to the image is the same as the apparent distance. I'd say VR goggles are probably the only hope, and they're not there yet.
I'm smarter than my cats, and that's genetic. There will be a day when IQ can be adjusted genetically.
Some primates are social, some aren't - gorillas vs orangutans, and that's genetic. There will be a day when the need for social approval can be adjusted genetically.
I still have an old rotary. I agree they're damn near bulletproof, and put no load on the line, etc, etc, etc. Come Armageddon, the old Bell phones will still work.
They were still overpriced, and lacked nifty features like call display, hold, and speed dial... nevermind the capacity for multiple lines and built-in answering machines and it really burned to pay rental on them every month.
Some of us who ARE old enough to remember the Bell monopoly are glad it's gone.
Government-sponsored monopoly telcos are forced to supply infrastructure access to other companies. They're allowed to make a 15% profit on the line.
This has resulted in cheaper long distance rates, cheaper (and better) Internet access, better hardware, etc.
In the old days, Bell told you to like your Bakelite rotary phone, and that nothing else was economically or technically feasible... and keep paying your monthly rental, since you can't purchase a phone.
Because the telcos were forced to give access to the lines, we now own the phone lines inside our homes, and have fully electronic phones we OWN. We can have Internet access that isn't filtered by Bell, or passed through their misconfigured HTTP proxies. Oh, and the rates for everything are lower after adjustments for inflation.
I HATE sniping on eBay on principal... and it never occurred to me that you could simply have the auction end at the latter of either a set time or 15 minutes since the last bid.
Just because you believe some programmer in a 'higher' level of reality created this one, doesn't mean you don't believe he did it with rules that we see as the Laws of Nature. You can still investigate those Laws and try to figure them out.
This is different from the ID crowd, who apparently feel that 'God did it' means you actively refuse to even think about the rules.
Actually, artists are doing this NOW, all the time.
They give away writing credit to pop stars who can't write worth shit - the pop star demands it for the prestige and extra residuals, the artist takes the shaft just to get some work.
Most pop culture art is crap. Only a very small percentage of it is worth anything to begin with, a small percentage of that lasts only a few years, and a small percentage of that will be remembered on a 'What were we thinking' show a couple of decades later. Very little still remains front and center for the long term.
So, to encourage artists, we hold out the carrot of living off that one hit for life. A side effect is that some continually hit it big and become ridiculously rich.
Everything should go into the public domain after a period long enough to have allowed the creator to profit under most circumstances. Copyright should also last at least long enough that it discourages companies from just waiting it out.
Your post makes me wonder - has anyone ever tried putting a sharp steel 'x' on the front of a bullet to help it cut through body armour? You could even put a small amount of twist in to assist with rifling.
XP's nice if you want to have driver compatibility and fairly good plug-and-play. 2K's nice if you want a fairly stable machine with decent performance. (This assumes an MS environment)
I generally install XP and turn off all the unnecessary features and services, and uninstall the unnecessary components. Basically, I end up with 2K + drivers.
Once you've scripted that and burned a slipstreamed CD, it's all golden... which doesn't say much for Microsoft. I really only want 2K and a service pack, and think XP was a waste. Vista's the same but instead of having features I don't care about having, it has features I care about NOT having.
Weight is a measure of the acceleration of your mass due to gravity relative to another mass.
So, in the ISS I'd say you are weightless relative to the ISS... and so is the duck. As a frame of reference the ISS is more important to a station occupant than the Earth. You are NOT, however, massless, and inertia is a bugger.
A 700mhz-wireless 4.25"x5.5" tablet running some form of embedded Linux, starts up with a browser connected to a GoogleApps homepage? Let's see - email (gmail), mapping (maps.google.com + gps), phone (skype), word processing, home finance, contact manager (gmail), MP3 & Mpeg playback, online storage (gmail)...
They could put one in every student's and businessman's hands and still have market left over...
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I sent a letter to my MP detailing my concerns (in non-geekspeak). I requested a reply including both my MP and the Conservative party's position on the issue.
I got a 'thank you for your letter', but after a week have heard nothing further.
However, I still encourage you to write your MP as well. Enough letters will result in action... and even though most people are irritated that their illegal torrents are slower, the truth is that there are LEGAL torrents, and that's irrelevant anyway. Bell has a last-mile monopoly, and they shouldn't be messing with the reseller ISPs - they sell bandwidth and transfer, not bandwidth and transfer tiered by packet type.
I was thinking of the Oort cloud as the surface of a sphere - would there be a lessening of gravitational effect while inside the sphere (because some of the mass is still ahead of you) followed by an increase once you passed it?
Or, does it all effectively balance out at the center of the sun as far as the math is concerned...
My Newtonian physics is a little weak - does the effect of gravity within a sphere change as you travel from the center to the surface?
/Hey, I may be ignorant, but I'm ASKING, right?
I'm wondering whether the Pioneer Anomaly can be explained by the Oort cloud.
No, it's perfectly normal! In 2D, the background is blurred because you're not supposed to be focused on it. When you move to 3D, your eyes will try to focus on whatever part of the image you're looking at based on the parallax. When the parallax and focal distance disagree, you get eyestrain and a headache.
There are only two fixes for this: dynamically adjust the image based on where the viewer is looking, or create a real 3D image where the actual distance to the image is the same as the apparent distance. I'd say VR goggles are probably the only hope, and they're not there yet.
Bullshit.
I'm smarter than my cats, and that's genetic. There will be a day when IQ can be adjusted genetically.
Some primates are social, some aren't - gorillas vs orangutans, and that's genetic. There will be a day when the need for social approval can be adjusted genetically.
Assuming I don't want to go without Internet access, where exactly do you propose I take my business?
Compromised web sites contain stealthed links to these honeypots?
I still have an old rotary. I agree they're damn near bulletproof, and put no load on the line, etc, etc, etc. Come Armageddon, the old Bell phones will still work.
They were still overpriced, and lacked nifty features like call display, hold, and speed dial... nevermind the capacity for multiple lines and built-in answering machines and it really burned to pay rental on them every month.
Some of us who ARE old enough to remember the Bell monopoly are glad it's gone.
Government-sponsored monopoly telcos are forced to supply infrastructure access to other companies. They're allowed to make a 15% profit on the line.
This has resulted in cheaper long distance rates, cheaper (and better) Internet access, better hardware, etc.
In the old days, Bell told you to like your Bakelite rotary phone, and that nothing else was economically or technically feasible... and keep paying your monthly rental, since you can't purchase a phone.
Because the telcos were forced to give access to the lines, we now own the phone lines inside our homes, and have fully electronic phones we OWN. We can have Internet access that isn't filtered by Bell, or passed through their misconfigured HTTP proxies. Oh, and the rates for everything are lower after adjustments for inflation.
OK, now I feel like an idiot.
I HATE sniping on eBay on principal... and it never occurred to me that you could simply have the auction end at the latter of either a set time or 15 minutes since the last bid.
Now THAT would be a great eBay modification.
ooh... I like that. It's evil, but it's a good-evil thing, like two evils canceling each other out in a big bash up.
I may just do that if I can get my hands on some stuff Tommy, Johnny, or any of the other whackjobs don't like.
If we were still using vinyl, it'd be neat to put in a constant but inaudible tone that you could use as a baseline for restoration.
Hindsight is 20/20 etc, etc...
If it's that vibration sensitive, we ought to put it at a Lagrange point.
Actually, I don't think that's a valid point.
Just because you believe some programmer in a 'higher' level of reality created this one, doesn't mean you don't believe he did it with rules that we see as the Laws of Nature. You can still investigate those Laws and try to figure them out.
This is different from the ID crowd, who apparently feel that 'God did it' means you actively refuse to even think about the rules.
Actually, artists are doing this NOW, all the time.
They give away writing credit to pop stars who can't write worth shit - the pop star demands it for the prestige and extra residuals, the artist takes the shaft just to get some work.
Most pop culture art is crap. Only a very small percentage of it is worth anything to begin with, a small percentage of that lasts only a few years, and a small percentage of that will be remembered on a 'What were we thinking' show a couple of decades later. Very little still remains front and center for the long term.
So, to encourage artists, we hold out the carrot of living off that one hit for life. A side effect is that some continually hit it big and become ridiculously rich.
120 years is INSANE.
Everything should go into the public domain after a period long enough to have allowed the creator to profit under most circumstances.
Copyright should also last at least long enough that it discourages companies from just waiting it out.
I figure 10-15 years for most things.
Try harder. 2007/May/28 isn't all that recent either.
Besides, why should I Google when I'm not the one making a claim? I'm pointing out that the evidence provided so far is out of date.
I think you need a more recent reference that 2004 to prove your point...
Your post makes me wonder - has anyone ever tried putting a sharp steel 'x' on the front of a bullet to help it cut through body armour? You could even put a small amount of twist in to assist with rifling.
I doubt it is a static number - it would depend heavily on the selection pressures on the two separated groups.
It never ceases to amaze me how people always think that, if there is life out there, it isn't as limited as we are by the laws of physics.
XP's nice if you want to have driver compatibility and fairly good plug-and-play. 2K's nice if you want a fairly stable machine with decent performance. (This assumes an MS environment)
I generally install XP and turn off all the unnecessary features and services, and uninstall the unnecessary components. Basically, I end up with 2K + drivers.
Once you've scripted that and burned a slipstreamed CD, it's all golden... which doesn't say much for Microsoft. I really only want 2K and a service pack, and think XP was a waste. Vista's the same but instead of having features I don't care about having, it has features I care about NOT having.
Weight is a measure of the acceleration of your mass due to gravity relative to another mass.
So, in the ISS I'd say you are weightless relative to the ISS... and so is the duck. As a frame of reference the ISS is more important to a station occupant than the Earth. You are NOT, however, massless, and inertia is a bugger.
A 700mhz-wireless 4.25"x5.5" tablet running some form of embedded Linux, starts up with a browser connected to a GoogleApps homepage? Let's see - email (gmail), mapping (maps.google.com + gps), phone (skype), word processing, home finance, contact manager (gmail), MP3 & Mpeg playback, online storage (gmail)...
They could put one in every student's and businessman's hands and still have market left over...