Wrong. 1 meter is equal to the distance traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. 1Km is 1000 times that.
Actually, you're both wrong. But the previous poster is closer to correct than you are. According to Wikipedia:
The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole. In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition.
In order to establish a universally accepted foundation for the definition of the metre, measurements of this meridian more accurate than those available at that time were imperative. The Bureau des Longitudes commissioned an expedition led by Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1799, which measured the length of the meridian between Dunkerque and Barcelona. This portion of the meridian, which also passes through Paris, was to serve as the basis for the length of the half meridian, connecting the North Pole with the Equator.
Do you really believe people were able to measure the distance traveled by light in vacuum for 1/299,792,458th of a second back in the 1700's? And you also fail to explain the significance of the 299,792,458 figure.
I want a replacement for the crappy itunes app which grabs all my stuff from all my nice, neat little folders and throws them willy nilly into a screen which is extremely hard to use for re-organising.
2001 called. It wants its whine back. And throw in a little cheese while you're at it.
In other words -- get over it already. You're not unique or interesting because you developed a filing system in your head that's less intuitive for 99.9% of the rest of the world.
You're assuming that the situation in 12% of the country is the same for the other 88%.
U.S. Cellular has home territory in 26 states (including parts of the east coast), and free roaming nationwide. Cincinnati Bell's home territory is Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana, but also offers free national roaming.
And there are dozens of other options for people who don't live on the east coast. Don't assume everyone is in your same shit boat.
And as for T-Mobile crippling phones.. why are you buying your phone from T-Mobile in the first place? You just buy whatever handset you want and use it contract-free on T-Mobile's network. I've done that with the last five or six phones in my family.
If you keep going back to the carrier and buying crippled phones, they you shouldn't complain about it. You did it to yourself.
which comes after the Canadian government caved to US pressure and enacted anti-camcording legislation."
Geez, it only took the Canuks what... like two seconds... to blame the 'States?
Everything that goes wrong north of the border is the fault of people south of the border. You're starting to sound like a passive aggressive version of Arizona.
This bring on Slashdot is just another example of the pathetic groupthink that infests this site.
The whole reason the article is here and people hate him is because he made the comment about the internet being like "tubes." All the uber-nerds sat back and laughed. And then, how many of them went on a few hours later to brag about thier "fat pipe" internet connections in IRC? Somehow you're a retard if you refer to the internet as TUBES, but PIPES is just fine.
Probably the same crowd of youngsters who jump ugly with G.H.W. Bush over the word "internets" but are too young to have ever read the R.F.C.s and other basic documents written by the people who actually built the 'net. Those documents upon which this wonderful medium is based repeatedly refer to "internets." In that case, the people who built the internet must be "morans" because they wrote and envisioned "internets" but the Slashdot crowd is cool because it's ignorant.
No, I'm not a Republican. And I'm not from Alaska. I just like to point out hypocrisy when I see it.
Sorry, Mr. Gates. I know you love to spread FUD, but some Macs have had 64-bit processors for years; since at least 2003.
And what was Intel pushing in that year? Oh, right -- Pentium M. And then nothing for the next THREE YEARS.
I don't blame Apple for not pushing the "newest thing" out the door. Why would it want to go down the Microsoft road? Apple would rather have products that actually work. I don't understand how anyone can get any serious work done on a Windows system. It's just not ready for the desktop yet. Maybe when WinFS comes along.
Solitare, Minesweeper, and blue screens of death aren't any better on the "latest x64 processor" than they were on the Pentium.
Plain and simple, you are a dumbass. You don't know what you're yammering on about. There have been GSM phones that work in both America and Europe for at least a decade, possibly longer. Do us all a favor and shut up because you're the troll.
"The initial version was slow, not feature complete, and had very few applications available at the time of its launch, mostly from independent developers. Many critics suggested that while the OS was not ready for mainstream adoption, they recognized the importance of its initial launch as a base on which to improve."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
Smooth move. You walked right into that one and proved his/her point by using the word "delusions." You can't find a more civil way to disagree on philosophy? You make all athiests look like the people he thinks they are.
My wife likes to hear the hourly "It's X o'clock" announcement that my Powerbook makes. Kind of like the way some people have clocks or watches the chime at the top of the hour. It would be nice if the announcement on my computer could be in a language that she's more comfortable with without having to change the UI so it's in a language I can't read.
Eventually I plan to flip the whole thing anyway as a language learning tool, but I'm not ready for that yet.
35-year-old men hooking up with 15-year-olds is ILLEGAL in the United States.
And it's getting really old to hear people with marginal morals saying, "well... everyone else in the world does it!" That was the whole point of founding the United States -- we didn't want to be like the rest of the world (well, Europe) anymore.
Don't like the law -- change it, or move. There are plenty of countries where it's perfectly fine for a grown man to sodomize a child. It's not OK in the United States.
Can't say I'm surprised. They have some strange legal notions in Belgium that don't match up with the rest of the civilized world. I got C&D from a Belgian company through a law firm in New York. The Belgian company claims to own the copyright to my vacation photos (with me standing in them!). The law firm (acting on behalf of the Belgians) demanded I take them off my web site or they'd sue me into oblivion.
I always warn people I know who are vacationing in Europe -- avoid Belgium. Who knows what else they will try to persecute you for there.
Haven't you heard? Low end is the new high end.
Or perhaps it's a particularly strong lobe of the Reality Distortion Field caused by atmospheric disturbances.
Since I don't have the option of paying less, I'm not paying more for it. I'm paying a fixed amount for the amenities I use. The rest is leftovers. Just like I don't take advantage of the staff masseuse, but that doesn't mean my rent goes down. And food costs the same whether I use the restaurant's dining room or have it delivered.
Just like you don't have the option of getting a lower credit card rate because you don't call customer service every day. Or like you have pay property taxes, either directly or through your rent, whether you have children in the local school system or not.
Looks like you're the poor fool since you don't realize you're in the same boat as everyone else.
I can understand your outrage, especially since you're a subscriber. At least people like me aren't PAYING for dupes. Moreover, this is one of the reasons I don't subscribe to/.
It's like when I look through the TV listings and see that HBO is running "Earnest Goes To Camp" or some other really bad 20-year-old movie. I just have to shake my head and wonder if people are mad that they're actually paying for garbage.
(For the record, I get all of the HBOs and Showtimes included in my rent.)
Back somewhere near 1989/1990 I cobbled together an XT from scavenged parts that included a hardcard. The thing was a full-length card and was very heavy.
Around the same time I also fell into a computer that used bubble memory. It was a GRiD Compass. I remember being amazed that I could unplug it and it would remember my word processing documents for months and months with no power. Back then, this was a big deal.
As an aside, the GRiD also had a label silk screened on the bottom of it listing the nine countries the computer was legal to be used in, and taking it to any other country was a violation of some law or other. That was one of many really weird things about that machine. I got it from someone tight with the Reagan administration who said they were standard issue for the Secret Service at the time.
It's not like the Americans or Europeans have a perfect track record, either. This is tricky stuff. How many satellites has the U.S. Air Force lost during launch in the last ten years? 20?
It may not matter to you. The encryption certainly doesn't bother me. But I was responding to a poster who claimed, "I never bought any copy-protected thing in my life and I never will. " I was demonstrating that he is incorrect.
Becase the signal is scrambled by the stations from their uplink to the cable company's head end to prevent people with TVRO dishes from watching it for free.
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Actually, you're both wrong. But the previous poster is closer to correct than you are. According to Wikipedia:
The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the Earth's meridian along a quadrant, that is the distance from the equator to the north pole. In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition.
In order to establish a universally accepted foundation for the definition of the metre, measurements of this meridian more accurate than those available at that time were imperative. The Bureau des Longitudes commissioned an expedition led by Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1799, which measured the length of the meridian between Dunkerque and Barcelona. This portion of the meridian, which also passes through Paris, was to serve as the basis for the length of the half meridian, connecting the North Pole with the Equator.
Do you really believe people were able to measure the distance traveled by light in vacuum for 1/299,792,458th of a second back in the 1700's? And you also fail to explain the significance of the 299,792,458 figure.
In other words -- get over it already. You're not unique or interesting because you developed a filing system in your head that's less intuitive for 99.9% of the rest of the world.
U.S. Cellular has home territory in 26 states (including parts of the east coast), and free roaming nationwide.
Cincinnati Bell's home territory is Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana, but also offers free national roaming.
And there are dozens of other options for people who don't live on the east coast. Don't assume everyone is in your same shit boat.
And as for T-Mobile crippling phones.. why are you buying your phone from T-Mobile in the first place? You just buy whatever handset you want and use it contract-free on T-Mobile's network. I've done that with the last five or six phones in my family.
If you keep going back to the carrier and buying crippled phones, they you shouldn't complain about it. You did it to yourself.
Everything that goes wrong north of the border is the fault of people south of the border. You're starting to sound like a passive aggressive version of Arizona.
This bring on Slashdot is just another example of the pathetic groupthink that infests this site.
The whole reason the article is here and people hate him is because he made the comment about the internet being like "tubes." All the uber-nerds sat back and laughed. And then, how many of them went on a few hours later to brag about thier "fat pipe" internet connections in IRC? Somehow you're a retard if you refer to the internet as TUBES, but PIPES is just fine.
Probably the same crowd of youngsters who jump ugly with G.H.W. Bush over the word "internets" but are too young to have ever read the R.F.C.s and other basic documents written by the people who actually built the 'net. Those documents upon which this wonderful medium is based repeatedly refer to "internets." In that case, the people who built the internet must be "morans" because they wrote and envisioned "internets" but the Slashdot crowd is cool because it's ignorant.
No, I'm not a Republican. And I'm not from Alaska. I just like to point out hypocrisy when I see it.
Sorry, Mr. Gates. I know you love to spread FUD, but some Macs have had 64-bit processors for years; since at least 2003.
And what was Intel pushing in that year? Oh, right -- Pentium M. And then nothing for the next THREE YEARS.
I don't blame Apple for not pushing the "newest thing" out the door. Why would it want to go down the Microsoft road? Apple would rather have products that actually work. I don't understand how anyone can get any serious work done on a Windows system. It's just not ready for the desktop yet. Maybe when WinFS comes along.
Solitare, Minesweeper, and blue screens of death aren't any better on the "latest x64 processor" than they were on the Pentium.
Plain and simple, you are a dumbass. You don't know what you're yammering on about. There have been GSM phones that work in both America and Europe for at least a decade, possibly longer. Do us all a favor and shut up because you're the troll.
Smooth move. You walked right into that one and proved his/her point by using the word "delusions." You can't find a more civil way to disagree on philosophy? You make all athiests look like the people he thinks they are.
Congratulations, dumbass. You just proved his point.
You'd think that someone with a UID as low as yours would remember that lots of people mod down for replying to sigs.
My wife likes to hear the hourly "It's X o'clock" announcement that my Powerbook makes. Kind of like the way some people have clocks or watches the chime at the top of the hour. It would be nice if the announcement on my computer could be in a language that she's more comfortable with without having to change the UI so it's in a language I can't read.
Eventually I plan to flip the whole thing anyway as a language learning tool, but I'm not ready for that yet.
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Seriously, though...
35-year-old men hooking up with 15-year-olds is ILLEGAL in the United States.
And it's getting really old to hear people with marginal morals saying, "well... everyone else in the world does it!" That was the whole point of founding the United States -- we didn't want to be like the rest of the world (well, Europe) anymore.
Don't like the law -- change it, or move. There are plenty of countries where it's perfectly fine for a grown man to sodomize a child. It's not OK in the United States.
Can't say I'm surprised. They have some strange legal notions in Belgium that don't match up with the rest of the civilized world. I got C&D from a Belgian company through a law firm in New York. The Belgian company claims to own the copyright to my vacation photos (with me standing in them!). The law firm (acting on behalf of the Belgians) demanded I take them off my web site or they'd sue me into oblivion.
I always warn people I know who are vacationing in Europe -- avoid Belgium. Who knows what else they will try to persecute you for there.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/ 1643236
Consider yourself educated, Coward. You're welcome.
Who knew Nintendo and Apple had so much in common?
Haven't you heard? Low end is the new high end. Or perhaps it's a particularly strong lobe of the Reality Distortion Field caused by atmospheric disturbances.
Whoo, my first first post ever.
No it's not.
Raincoast Books managed to get an injunction prohibiting the people who recieved the books from talking about them
O.K., so from now on I'm no longer going to listen to any more crap from any of you Canadian Slashdotters criticizing free speech in America.
(Now watch the Kanucks and Newfies mod me into oblivion!)
Since I don't have the option of paying less, I'm not paying more for it. I'm paying a fixed amount for the amenities I use. The rest is leftovers. Just like I don't take advantage of the staff masseuse, but that doesn't mean my rent goes down. And food costs the same whether I use the restaurant's dining room or have it delivered.
Just like you don't have the option of getting a lower credit card rate because you don't call customer service every day. Or like you have pay property taxes, either directly or through your rent, whether you have children in the local school system or not.
Looks like you're the poor fool since you don't realize you're in the same boat as everyone else.
I can understand your outrage, especially since you're a subscriber. At least people like me aren't PAYING for dupes. Moreover, this is one of the reasons I don't subscribe to /.
It's like when I look through the TV listings and see that HBO is running "Earnest Goes To Camp" or some other really bad 20-year-old movie. I just have to shake my head and wonder if people are mad that they're actually paying for garbage.
(For the record, I get all of the HBOs and Showtimes included in my rent.)
I believe the Naval Observatory is where the Vice Presidents live. So, if the White House is blotted it makes sense that this would be, as well.
Back somewhere near 1989/1990 I cobbled together an XT from scavenged parts that included a hardcard. The thing was a full-length card and was very heavy.
Around the same time I also fell into a computer that used bubble memory. It was a GRiD Compass. I remember being amazed that I could unplug it and it would remember my word processing documents for months and months with no power. Back then, this was a big deal.
As an aside, the GRiD also had a label silk screened on the bottom of it listing the nine countries the computer was legal to be used in, and taking it to any other country was a violation of some law or other. That was one of many really weird things about that machine. I got it from someone tight with the Reagan administration who said they were standard issue for the Secret Service at the time.
It's not like the Americans or Europeans have a perfect track record, either. This is tricky stuff. How many satellites has the U.S. Air Force lost during launch in the last ten years? 20?
It may not matter to you. The encryption certainly doesn't bother me. But I was responding to a poster who claimed, "I never bought any copy-protected thing in my life and I never will. " I was demonstrating that he is incorrect.
Becase the signal is scrambled by the stations from their uplink to the cable company's head end to prevent people with TVRO dishes from watching it for free.
Don't think Macrovision. Think VideoCypher.