I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept anything as a fact when it's cited by someone who believes in planet X.
Actually, I'm not sorry.
And I believe only 2 of the 4 Lagrange points are 'stable' for the purposes of parking anything there for a long time. The points leading and trailing earth in its orbit are the most stable, which is why they will tend to hold small debris for fairly long periods of time.
While others might, I'm afraid I can't agree with you there.
The first Matrix movie shows us that the simulation is based on late pre-2nd millenium Earth. That means that simulation contained the knowledge that humans do not make good batteries... especially when you realise that they were not describing batteries anyway, but generators, and that they were fed the liquified remains of the previous generation as their fuel. That would be a 'free energy' system, and humanity (except for some cranks) knew for some time before the year 2000 that such devices are impossible.
What is even more frustrating about that lapse of logic is that several explanations exist that would better serve the needs of the plot - like needing enslaved human minds to augment the Matrix AI.
Actually, I believe the sky is blue due to its refraction index. If the colour was determined by reflection from the surface below it, the sky would be green-brown in the center of a continental land mass.
While hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, they are a storage medium that is significantly more efficient than batteries.
The idea is to centrally generate hydrogen (and maybe supliment at home with solar generation) so we don't have to burn so many hydrocarbons anymore. How the central generation of hydrogen is acheived can be altered as technology permits, WITHOUT replacing the entire energy infrastructure.
Nevermind large sports screens using lightbulbs, it's been done with every CRT I've ever seen.
If you want to go pre-television, I believe there is some art in my local gallery from quite some time ago that uses small blobs of paint in much the same way that inkjets use dithering of 3-4 colours of ink.
I believe that orbital speed and orbital distance are related - so if you managed to get the satellite into orbit about the Sun in the Earth's shadow, it would have a year that was longer than ours and would fall out of the shadow into direct sunlight anyway.
Technically, space itself is cold around here, yes... but only because there isn't much in the way of matter to heat up. That also means there isn't any physical medium of significance to transfer heat to kinetically, so you can only radiate heat away.
Effectively, this means that if your spacecraft is directly exposed to a radiant heat source like, say, the sun, and you are fairly close to it, you have a serious need to dump heat from the far side if you want to stay frosty.
Perhaps I missed something by not RTFA, but EM DOES shift down the spectrum noticably as it travels large distances, and it ain't because of 'tired light'.
Maybe your post would have been more useful if you'd posted about why you think I was completely wrong, instead of just complaining.
Umm, d00d, I think you're supposed to understand that light was in those ranges when it was created, but redshift due to the expansion of space and the massive distances this light has travelled have resulted in it shifting down-spectrum into the infrared.
treat them like a mushroom and keep them in the dark.
I have many CD-R discs that are still quite readable despite being 4-5 years old. On the other hand, I've seen a disk erase itself in less than a day when left in direct sunlight, and many disks will slowly degrade at light levels found in most human-occupied spaces.
Yes, but guess how many small-medium size businesses actually are willing to bother? For me, this is the first client that even shows signs of listening!
This part never made sense to me... why should they care if the person who took it off the shelf is the one paying for it? Shouldn't the retailer only worry about whether or not it HAS been paid for, not by WHOM?
Filter at the switch. Get LAN traffic between workstations and servers, as well as external traffic.
One client of mine is actually considering moving all network drops used by laptops to a seperate switch and putting a firewall between that switch and the rest of the LAN.
How does the BSA know you have some of their member's software, and thus *might* be breaking license and are a good target for a raid?
Either you've registered your software and the software vendor shared the list with the BSA, or you were stupid enough to call up the BSA after seeing one of their ads and asking for assistance with license compliance auditing.
The TRUE lesson to be learned from the BSA is pirate ALL software published by BSA members... then there is no record of your company in their databases. Just make sure you don't ever email them from Outlook or via an Exchange server unless you can 'correct' the headers appropriately.
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I like the lawnmower idea, and would only add one thing to it - if you run the 12V output of the alternator through an inverter to create AC, then plug the UPS into the inverter you get line conditioning at the inverter inputs (because they're usually designed to run in a car, which has an alternator, which has the noisy DC), plus you don't have to hack open a perfectly good UPS.
You do lose a bit of power converting AC-DC-AC-DC-AC (Mower Alternator - Car Inverter - UPS Inverter - UPS Battery - UPS Inverter), but I think it's worth it... I'm going to build one of these things as soon as I hunt down the parts.
Well, to be fair, government officials were all over the radio telling us NOT to go out at the time, since there were no traffic lights, street lights, gas stations, etc up and running.
Honestly, traceroutes are not my everyday source of entertainment!
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Apparently not around my neck of the woods... I had fun doing traceroutes as the power came back up and seeing how far I could get as more and more routers along the way were returning to service.
Of course, I had to wait for MY neighbourhood's power to come back up as my UPS died about 4.5 hours into the blackout; my wife won't let me add the additional 300lbs of batteries required to last a full 24 hours.:( Still, I was up and running before connectivity in my area was restored.
What we need to do is throw some of those nifty processors that make fuel from Martian air plus a few habitat modules at the red planet every time we can afford to do so. When there is enough there to provide basic life support for people for, say six months, ship off a load of people.
Have the best guess at the necessary tools waiting for them and let them try and live there forever. You'd get hundreds of useful volunteers even if you only gave them a 50% chance of lasting a year. And by God, even if every last one of them died, we'd learn so much from them. Earth has about 5-6 BILLION people too many... throwing a few *volunteers* on a probable suicide mission in the name of knowledge and expanding human frontiers is NOT insanity.
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Actually, you'd probably still have a sign tit... -1 for negative, +1 for positive, and 0 for imaginary.
Hehehehe... I said, 'tit'.
When you start slagging the Page3 girls, *THAT* is when the gloves come off! ;)
I'm sorry, but I refuse to accept anything as a fact when it's cited by someone who believes in planet X.
Actually, I'm not sorry.
And I believe only 2 of the 4 Lagrange points are 'stable' for the purposes of parking anything there for a long time. The points leading and trailing earth in its orbit are the most stable, which is why they will tend to hold small debris for fairly long periods of time.
Just FYI... there was a mistake in the math, it has been corrected, and scientific theory now agrees that bumblebees can fly.
That is not to say, however, that I disagree with your point.
While others might, I'm afraid I can't agree with you there.
The first Matrix movie shows us that the simulation is based on late pre-2nd millenium Earth. That means that simulation contained the knowledge that humans do not make good batteries... especially when you realise that they were not describing batteries anyway, but generators, and that they were fed the liquified remains of the previous generation as their fuel. That would be a 'free energy' system, and humanity (except for some cranks) knew for some time before the year 2000 that such devices are impossible.
What is even more frustrating about that lapse of logic is that several explanations exist that would better serve the needs of the plot - like needing enslaved human minds to augment the Matrix AI.
Actually, I believe the sky is blue due to its refraction index. If the colour was determined by reflection from the surface below it, the sky would be green-brown in the center of a continental land mass.
While hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, they are a storage medium that is significantly more efficient than batteries.
The idea is to centrally generate hydrogen (and maybe supliment at home with solar generation) so we don't have to burn so many hydrocarbons anymore. How the central generation of hydrogen is acheived can be altered as technology permits, WITHOUT replacing the entire energy infrastructure.
Nevermind large sports screens using lightbulbs, it's been done with every CRT I've ever seen.
If you want to go pre-television, I believe there is some art in my local gallery from quite some time ago that uses small blobs of paint in much the same way that inkjets use dithering of 3-4 colours of ink.
I think it's just my day to be an unobservant, reactionary twit. Plus, I was having fun being a know-it-all.
I believe that orbital speed and orbital distance are related - so if you managed to get the satellite into orbit about the Sun in the Earth's shadow, it would have a year that was longer than ours and would fall out of the shadow into direct sunlight anyway.
That'll teach me to pay better attention to the threading... maybe... for a while.
Still, I do believe I was correct in my critique - the poster probably should have included his reasoning instead of just saying, "you're wrong".
Technically, space itself is cold around here, yes... but only because there isn't much in the way of matter to heat up. That also means there isn't any physical medium of significance to transfer heat to kinetically, so you can only radiate heat away.
Effectively, this means that if your spacecraft is directly exposed to a radiant heat source like, say, the sun, and you are fairly close to it, you have a serious need to dump heat from the far side if you want to stay frosty.
Exqueeze me?
Perhaps I missed something by not RTFA, but EM DOES shift down the spectrum noticably as it travels large distances, and it ain't because of 'tired light'.
Maybe your post would have been more useful if you'd posted about why you think I was completely wrong, instead of just complaining.
Umm, d00d, I think you're supposed to understand that light was in those ranges when it was created, but redshift due to the expansion of space and the massive distances this light has travelled have resulted in it shifting down-spectrum into the infrared.
treat them like a mushroom and keep them in the dark.
I have many CD-R discs that are still quite readable despite being 4-5 years old. On the other hand, I've seen a disk erase itself in less than a day when left in direct sunlight, and many disks will slowly degrade at light levels found in most human-occupied spaces.
Yes, but guess how many small-medium size businesses actually are willing to bother? For me, this is the first client that even shows signs of listening!
This part never made sense to me... why should they care if the person who took it off the shelf is the one paying for it? Shouldn't the retailer only worry about whether or not it HAS been paid for, not by WHOM?
Filter at the switch. Get LAN traffic between workstations and servers, as well as external traffic.
One client of mine is actually considering moving all network drops used by laptops to a seperate switch and putting a firewall between that switch and the rest of the LAN.
I post on Slashdot. Why on Earth would that lead you to believe I'd ever RTFA?
Besides, 99.9% of the time it's already Slashdotted straight to hell and not worth the effort of clicking on the link.
Right. Damn. Of course, then I'd have to break his legs just on principal. :)
How does the BSA know you have some of their member's software, and thus *might* be breaking license and are a good target for a raid?
Either you've registered your software and the software vendor shared the list with the BSA, or you were stupid enough to call up the BSA after seeing one of their ads and asking for assistance with license compliance auditing.
The TRUE lesson to be learned from the BSA is pirate ALL software published by BSA members... then there is no record of your company in their databases. Just make sure you don't ever email them from Outlook or via an Exchange server unless you can 'correct' the headers appropriately.
I like the lawnmower idea, and would only add one thing to it - if you run the 12V output of the alternator through an inverter to create AC, then plug the UPS into the inverter you get line conditioning at the inverter inputs (because they're usually designed to run in a car, which has an alternator, which has the noisy DC), plus you don't have to hack open a perfectly good UPS.
You do lose a bit of power converting AC-DC-AC-DC-AC (Mower Alternator - Car Inverter - UPS Inverter - UPS Battery - UPS Inverter), but I think it's worth it... I'm going to build one of these things as soon as I hunt down the parts.
Well, to be fair, government officials were all over the radio telling us NOT to go out at the time, since there were no traffic lights, street lights, gas stations, etc up and running.
Honestly, traceroutes are not my everyday source of entertainment!
Apparently not around my neck of the woods... I had fun doing traceroutes as the power came back up and seeing how far I could get as more and more routers along the way were returning to service.
Of course, I had to wait for MY neighbourhood's power to come back up as my UPS died about 4.5 hours into the blackout; my wife won't let me add the additional 300lbs of batteries required to last a full 24 hours. :( Still, I was up and running before connectivity in my area was restored.
See, that's where you're wrong!
What we need to do is throw some of those nifty processors that make fuel from Martian air plus a few habitat modules at the red planet every time we can afford to do so. When there is enough there to provide basic life support for people for, say six months, ship off a load of people.
Have the best guess at the necessary tools waiting for them and let them try and live there forever. You'd get hundreds of useful volunteers even if you only gave them a 50% chance of lasting a year. And by God, even if every last one of them died, we'd learn so much from them. Earth has about 5-6 BILLION people too many... throwing a few *volunteers* on a probable suicide mission in the name of knowledge and expanding human frontiers is NOT insanity.