At wind speed there is no force on the car from the wind (not counting the propeller).
I see your problem in understanding this now. The force is on the propeller, not the car itself. Yes, take the propeller out and then you're absolutely right... the propeller-powered car wouldn't work.
And to think I've been paying for gasoline when I had this free energy all the time.
Yep! But the free energy is WIND, not your car's momentum. If there is no wind, there is no energy. If you're moving at the same speed as the wind, that air is still moving relative to the ground... free energy for the taking. But I can't explain it, and if I could you wouldn't get it. These scientists am smarter than either of us. Luckily google is also smart enough to get it.
Next after that is an ordering procedure at McDonalds.
As you walk in the place move immediately to your right. The main thing is to keep the line moving. You hold out your money, speak your order in a loud, clear voice, step to the left and receive. It's very important not to embellish on your order. No extraneous comments. No questions. No compliments.
expecting the staff to scrape and bow and tug their forelock as they mumble "Yes M'Lord. Right away M'Lord. May it please M'Lord."
If the doctors were expecting the technicians to go out of their way (scrape and bow and tug their forelock, whatever that means... BTW it's the 20th century in the UK too you know; they're not stuck in the dark ages), or if they were asking the technicians to do a personal favor, then perhaps you would have a point.
In fact, by requiring the doctors to say "please", the administration is effectively telling the doctors that the support services they need to be able to do their jobs, are there only as a personal favor that they have to earn, and can be denied on whim. It's about power, and it's disgusting. They ruin the meaning of the word "please" by making it a mandatory formality. Shall the doctors then demand the same of others? Perhaps the patients? To what madness will this lead????
EMS paramedic: Pardon me, doctor, please, sorry, thank you, the patient was involved in a head-on collision and is unconscious and losing a lot of blood, thank you, sorry, thank you.
Doctor: Thank you paramedic, sorry, please, your hair looks good today, thank you, sorry but I'm afraid I cannot operate on this patient, sorry, thank you. If the patient is able to say "please" neither vocally nor in written form, I must follow hospital policy and deny medical treatment. Sorry, please, and thank you.
Also... troll detected. The doctors are the ones effectively being asked to bow, and the doctors are the ones explicitly being required to say please. How did you go from that to thinking the doctors are the ones expecting the technicians to say "may it please m'lord"?
But they have improved, and this should be both acknowledged and encouraged.
Sure, maybe in Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows forums such as slashdot. But pertaining to the original story, that of Google dumping Windows, Microsoft is being -1 off topic in talking about how much their grades have improved in remedial school. That's beside the point. It is not Google's responsibility to pat Microsoft on the back for making strides to catch up to where they should be. Good for Google, I say, to have the means to dump Windows for something that suits them better. Nothing encourages Microsoft to improve their products, more than losing market share. It's just too bad for them that they waited so long to start.
I have no idea how moving to a Canadian cosmetic brand will eliminate security issues.
MAC cosmetics are very difficult to hack. Actually, moving to any platform that doesn't run ANYTHING as a super user is inherently more secure. It's been years since I moved from Windows to a small ham and swiss on rye sandwich, and I no longer have ANY security issues to worry about.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Is it truly magic, or is it just sufficiently advanced technology? Why doesn't he throw in claims that it will make you irresistible to women, promotes a healthy lifestyle by balancing the body's chi, and (as long as he's making false claims) that it supports an "Other OS" install option?
Snowfall will affect the height of glaciers. Glacier recession happens at the edge of a glacier, where it is affected mainly by temperature. Glaciers move over time, and the bottom is pushed into warmer areas where it can't stay frozen year after year. In stable conditions the amount that is eroded from the edge of the glacier balances the distance the glacier moves, and there is no recession.
Does a few years of snowfall really make a difference on rate that the edge of a glacier melts? Or does snowfall affect the rate that a glacier moves? I don't know. Yes, lack of snow should cause a glacier to decrease in mass due to normal melting, even at constant temperature, but I would guess that its effects on glacial recession in a short term (multiple years) would be negligible compared to the effect of warming.
I was relieved to hear about how you tweeted about the news. It's not enough for people to say how they feel about something, because then we're left wondering, "But how did they tweet about it? Is there something more in a tweet somewhere that I'm missing out on?"
I wish more people would post about how they tweet about something, or blog about what they tweeted, or tweet about what they tweeted about something else. In a Utopian future, Slashdot "stories" will no longer be posts about webpages on other sites. Instead they'll be posts about how we all tweeted about something we heard or saw, or what we read in someone else's tweets about stuff.
I've retweeted that it's "clueless" and I've also tweeted that I'm glad you tweeted about it and I've also tweeted that I wrote this slashdot reply about all this and I've also tweeted that I feel a lot more comfortable now that everything that needs to be tweeted has been tweeted, so there's no awkward gaps in our communication. Oh, one final tweet: thanks again!
At a billion-to-one scale, the Earth would be about as big as a thumbnail (12.7562 mm diameter).
At any scale, the "sphereyness" should be exactly the same. The Earth when viewed from the moon, should look just as much like a sphere as such a model held in your hand somewhere in front of your face. You're wondering, how closely or largely would you have to view such a model, to distinguish its details? For making maps to be viewed with the naked eye, the nanoscopic detail described in TFA is far too dense to be practical.
you would vote to make it illegal (criminalize it)? BECAUSE you don't care one way or the other??? That sounds pretty screwed up to me.
This modest proposal makes perfect sense to me. Everything that someone, somewhere doesn't care about, should be made illegal. This way, law-abiding citizens can spend their time doing only things that are of a concern to all others. The result is a perfectly efficient society, that wastes nothing. Even the carcasses of those choosing to involve themselves with unimportant activities can be re-used as food. It will lead to a Utopian future where people are kept in pods, free from their physical inefficiencies, generating energy so efficiently that our productivity as a species is effectively optimal.
It's also obvious that the image was rendered with a point of view different from the sonar sensor. "image is not computer generated" makes no sense at all.
why doesn't Kenya and all these other 3rd world countries build a real sewer system?
Way to wait till someone invents a simple solution, to come up with an even simpler solution!
Also... I heard that a lot of people don't even have bread to eat. Why don't they just eat cake?
"Why don't they just" is a good solution to having the poor pull themselves up out of poverty by their bootstraps, but there are a lot of interrelated problems keeping them down, that need to be solved first (or simultaneously) in order to allow building infrastructure to pay off. It's worth trying to tackle, I think, but I also think that a few thousand dollars worth of bags that turn disease-producing waste into fertilizer would go a LOT further than the same money spent on heavy diesel equipment.
Also keep in mind that much of rural north america isn't fit with a sewer system, and if it's not feasible here it certainly isn't in rural parts of the third world. A sewer system isn't a solution for all parts of the world.
Michael: What's all this? George Sr.: Computer stuff from the office. Michael: No, no, no, no, pop. You're not doing another one of those Black Fridays, are you? The mass firings? Narrator: Before firing his employees, George Sr. would be sure to clear the office of its valuables. Ted: So when do we get to see our fancy new offices? George Sr.: [closing the truck door] When you get your fancy new jobs. You're all fired. Narrator: The employees never saw it coming, although their first task was to unload their equipment from a truck. George Sr.: No, it's not black Friday although I did enjoy those.
Do you expect people to get upset over this? What, are they expecting it to just keep on going?
People who aren't using it will get upset over the principle: software that is advertised as expiring in June 2010 becomes unusably crippled months before then.
People who are using it have lower expectations, because they realize it's a beta version of commercial software, and are used to the idea that the only principles you have a right to are ones that you've paid for.
I have been running XP at work with 100% uptime for years...
How many years? That's incredible! Not a single system crash, reboot, or power failure even in all that time? Or do you mean something different than "100% uptime"?
But if two of your enemies fight, which of them you align with? (I'm not saying that it is the case here.)
In that case they're both enemies of enemies, and thus each both a friend and enemy. They're guys you maybe hang out with but secretly hate. So you get out of the way and let them scrap it out for awhile. You watch, with a silly grin. Perhaps you take out your cell phone and get some footage.
"The actual operating system of Windows 8 will be provided by other organizations, but it will have exclusive Microsoft branding, including a wide range of monopolistic features."
I wrote it regarding NZ schools still having to pay Microsoft whether they use their software or not, but it applies here as well.
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Huh? That's news to all the sailors out there who do routinely sail faster than the wind.
Yes, but in this thread you'll find plenty of proof that what they've been doing is impossible. Therefore they can't.
At wind speed there is no force on the car from the wind (not counting the propeller).
I see your problem in understanding this now. The force is on the propeller, not the car itself. Yes, take the propeller out and then you're absolutely right... the propeller-powered car wouldn't work.
And to think I've been paying for gasoline when I had this free energy all the time.
Yep! But the free energy is WIND, not your car's momentum. If there is no wind, there is no energy. If you're moving at the same speed as the wind, that air is still moving relative to the ground... free energy for the taking. But I can't explain it, and if I could you wouldn't get it. These scientists am smarter than either of us. Luckily google is also smart enough to get it.
Next after that is an ordering procedure at McDonalds.
As you walk in the place move immediately to your right. The main thing is to keep the line moving. You hold out your money, speak your order in a loud, clear voice, step to the left and receive. It's very important not to embellish on your order. No extraneous comments. No questions. No compliments.
expecting the staff to scrape and bow and tug their forelock as they mumble "Yes M'Lord. Right away M'Lord. May it please M'Lord."
If the doctors were expecting the technicians to go out of their way (scrape and bow and tug their forelock, whatever that means... BTW it's the 20th century in the UK too you know; they're not stuck in the dark ages), or if they were asking the technicians to do a personal favor, then perhaps you would have a point.
In fact, by requiring the doctors to say "please", the administration is effectively telling the doctors that the support services they need to be able to do their jobs, are there only as a personal favor that they have to earn, and can be denied on whim. It's about power, and it's disgusting. They ruin the meaning of the word "please" by making it a mandatory formality. Shall the doctors then demand the same of others? Perhaps the patients? To what madness will this lead????
EMS paramedic: Pardon me, doctor, please, sorry, thank you, the patient was involved in a head-on collision and is unconscious and losing a lot of blood, thank you, sorry, thank you.
Doctor: Thank you paramedic, sorry, please, your hair looks good today, thank you, sorry but I'm afraid I cannot operate on this patient, sorry, thank you. If the patient is able to say "please" neither vocally nor in written form, I must follow hospital policy and deny medical treatment. Sorry, please, and thank you.
Also... troll detected. The doctors are the ones effectively being asked to bow, and the doctors are the ones explicitly being required to say please. How did you go from that to thinking the doctors are the ones expecting the technicians to say "may it please m'lord"?
But they have improved, and this should be both acknowledged and encouraged.
Sure, maybe in Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows forums such as slashdot. But pertaining to the original story, that of Google dumping Windows, Microsoft is being -1 off topic in talking about how much their grades have improved in remedial school. That's beside the point. It is not Google's responsibility to pat Microsoft on the back for making strides to catch up to where they should be. Good for Google, I say, to have the means to dump Windows for something that suits them better. Nothing encourages Microsoft to improve their products, more than losing market share. It's just too bad for them that they waited so long to start.
I have no idea how moving to a Canadian cosmetic brand will eliminate security issues.
MAC cosmetics are very difficult to hack. Actually, moving to any platform that doesn't run ANYTHING as a super user is inherently more secure. It's been years since I moved from Windows to a small ham and swiss on rye sandwich, and I no longer have ANY security issues to worry about.
Best decision I ever made.
Plagiarizing Wikipedia is like singing Happy Birthday without paying royalties.
Which would also be news-worthy if a happy-birthday-singing politician was trying to send people who sing "Happy Birthday" to jail.
magical
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Is it truly magic, or is it just sufficiently advanced technology? Why doesn't he throw in claims that it will make you irresistible to women, promotes a healthy lifestyle by balancing the body's chi, and (as long as he's making false claims) that it supports an "Other OS" install option?
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo?
Do not the bison that are buffaloed, also buffalo the same set of bison?
Snowfall will affect the height of glaciers. Glacier recession happens at the edge of a glacier, where it is affected mainly by temperature. Glaciers move over time, and the bottom is pushed into warmer areas where it can't stay frozen year after year. In stable conditions the amount that is eroded from the edge of the glacier balances the distance the glacier moves, and there is no recession.
Does a few years of snowfall really make a difference on rate that the edge of a glacier melts? Or does snowfall affect the rate that a glacier moves? I don't know. Yes, lack of snow should cause a glacier to decrease in mass due to normal melting, even at constant temperature, but I would guess that its effects on glacial recession in a short term (multiple years) would be negligible compared to the effect of warming.
I was relieved to hear about how you tweeted about the news. It's not enough for people to say how they feel about something, because then we're left wondering, "But how did they tweet about it? Is there something more in a tweet somewhere that I'm missing out on?"
I wish more people would post about how they tweet about something, or blog about what they tweeted, or tweet about what they tweeted about something else. In a Utopian future, Slashdot "stories" will no longer be posts about webpages on other sites. Instead they'll be posts about how we all tweeted about something we heard or saw, or what we read in someone else's tweets about stuff.
I've retweeted that it's "clueless" and I've also tweeted that I'm glad you tweeted about it and I've also tweeted that I wrote this slashdot reply about all this and I've also tweeted that I feel a lot more comfortable now that everything that needs to be tweeted has been tweeted, so there's no awkward gaps in our communication. Oh, one final tweet: thanks again!
At a billion-to-one scale, the Earth would be about as big as a thumbnail (12.7562 mm diameter).
At any scale, the "sphereyness" should be exactly the same. The Earth when viewed from the moon, should look just as much like a sphere as such a model held in your hand somewhere in front of your face. You're wondering, how closely or largely would you have to view such a model, to distinguish its details? For making maps to be viewed with the naked eye, the nanoscopic detail described in TFA is far too dense to be practical.
Anyone else here more of a perv than a nerd and can only come up with Nudes A Poppin' when trying to remember what NAP means?
you would vote to make it illegal (criminalize it)? BECAUSE you don't care one way or the other??? That sounds pretty screwed up to me.
This modest proposal makes perfect sense to me. Everything that someone, somewhere doesn't care about, should be made illegal. This way, law-abiding citizens can spend their time doing only things that are of a concern to all others. The result is a perfectly efficient society, that wastes nothing. Even the carcasses of those choosing to involve themselves with unimportant activities can be re-used as food. It will lead to a Utopian future where people are kept in pods, free from their physical inefficiencies, generating energy so efficiently that our productivity as a species is effectively optimal.
Sorry, off topic a bit...
It's also obvious that the image was rendered with a point of view different from the sonar sensor. "image is not computer generated" makes no sense at all.
They can dream about unicorns and world peace too but doesn't mean it's gonna happen...
Not with that attitude it won't!
why doesn't Kenya and all these other 3rd world countries build a real sewer system?
Way to wait till someone invents a simple solution, to come up with an even simpler solution!
Also... I heard that a lot of people don't even have bread to eat. Why don't they just eat cake?
"Why don't they just" is a good solution to having the poor pull themselves up out of poverty by their bootstraps, but there are a lot of interrelated problems keeping them down, that need to be solved first (or simultaneously) in order to allow building infrastructure to pay off. It's worth trying to tackle, I think, but I also think that a few thousand dollars worth of bags that turn disease-producing waste into fertilizer would go a LOT further than the same money spent on heavy diesel equipment.
Also keep in mind that much of rural north america isn't fit with a sewer system, and if it's not feasible here it certainly isn't in rural parts of the third world. A sewer system isn't a solution for all parts of the world.
Michael: What's all this?
George Sr.: Computer stuff from the office.
Michael: No, no, no, no, pop. You're not doing another one of those Black Fridays, are you? The mass firings?
Narrator: Before firing his employees, George Sr. would be sure to clear the office of its valuables.
Ted: So when do we get to see our fancy new offices?
George Sr.: [closing the truck door] When you get your fancy new jobs. You're all fired.
Narrator: The employees never saw it coming, although their first task was to unload their equipment from a truck.
George Sr.: No, it's not black Friday although I did enjoy those.
WinZip should have been thinking like Microsoft! They could start corrupting archives on day 24 of your 30-day trial!
Do you expect people to get upset over this? What, are they expecting it to just keep on going?
People who aren't using it will get upset over the principle: software that is advertised as expiring in June 2010 becomes unusably crippled months before then.
People who are using it have lower expectations, because they realize it's a beta version of commercial software, and are used to the idea that the only principles you have a right to are ones that you've paid for.
I have been running XP at work with 100% uptime for years...
How many years? That's incredible! Not a single system crash, reboot, or power failure even in all that time? Or do you mean something different than "100% uptime"?
I understand. In jail, a member of Anonymous has a name. His name is Brian Thomas Mettenbrink. His name is Brian Thomas Mettenbrink.
But if two of your enemies fight, which of them you align with? (I'm not saying that it is the case here.)
In that case they're both enemies of enemies, and thus each both a friend and enemy. They're guys you maybe hang out with but secretly hate. So you get out of the way and let them scrap it out for awhile. You watch, with a silly grin. Perhaps you take out your cell phone and get some footage.
Score: 0, Offtopic
That's right, you're now supporting microsoft by choosing to not use windows, or internet explorer.
Holy shit! I think I may have called this one, indirectly. Windows 8 to Feature Fully Virtual Monopoly
"The actual operating system of Windows 8 will be provided by other organizations, but it will have exclusive Microsoft branding, including a wide range of monopolistic features."
I wrote it regarding NZ schools still having to pay Microsoft whether they use their software or not, but it applies here as well.