Some films made for IMAX are in 3D and use 2 projections each polarised 90 degrees to the other. In this way the only glasses I'd expect you'd need are a specially made pair of polaroid sunnies. I saw one of these films a few years ago and used those massive polaroid glases they have, does anyone know why such large devices are required?
Well the main problem is that we know of ~100 objects in the region beyond Neptune, Pluto just happens to be the easiest to spot (it's big and close compared to the others). In the end it's just a minor technicality that some get called planets and others don't, it'd just be nice to have some hard and fast definitions. For example if you take size as the only feature to define planets then the large moons of Jupiter count as a couple are larger than Mercury. If you take the original meaning of the word "planet" then anything that moves in the sky compared to the background stars is a planet, everything from asteroids to commets to our current planets...So yeah, basically it's just hard to classify them but due to this new object's location (in amoung many other similar icy objects varying in size in the kuypler belt) I hope it doesn't get classed as a planet.
I'd prefer "your application has been rejected as you were not formed in the initial solar system's accretion disk* and therefore should not qualify as a planet." Why do we count glorified KBO's as planets anyway?
Since this "10th planet" is probably an icy, dense, object I believe it's more likely to be orbiting near the sun like all the other dense objects if it were made from matter in the early solar system. It's probably just been captured by the Sun's gravity. IANAC (cosmologist), but this seems reasonable to me, feel free to prove me wrong as it'll give me more to write about in my end-of-semester astronomy exam...
2) is very much the more difficult point. A lot of wifi owners need to ask there nerdy friends to get it to allow them to use it, let alone keep others out.
True, but most people don't care about the lable, they put money into the music industry because they care about their favorite artist's new private jet.
*hugs kill -9*, from memory Windows 95/98 would give the program ~20s to respond after you asked it to die, I guess the same applies to XP so in general just waiting a while will do the same thing as telling it to end the process many times.
We don't care! We'll all just use his death as an example and threat to other spammers anyway. I can see someone else using this as an excuse to kill some other spammer too.
Remember that before socket A there was slut A, a CPU package that lasted about as long as 754. I was hoping that 754 was the new slot A and that 939 would last a long time too though:(. Maybe 12xx whatever will last a long time, then the next *3* sockets after that will be short lived follow by a long lived 4th, then the next 4 sockets will be short lived...you got the idea 3 lines back didn't you?
With the exeption of 5, all your points are the fault of the people you're playing with, not EA. 1. and 2. sounds just like what's in RTCW:ET, only they tend to work in that game (at least, they do on the servers I play on).
I suggest finding new servers, or a group of friends who you can enjoy the game with.
Exactly, just boot off a flash drive;). I'm fairly sure the HDDs would be fine though, since the metal case of the HDD would shield it against most fields. I wonder if the fans would still work though...
I was hoping for magnetic levitation:(, however that's impossible according to Maxwell's equations...unless the field is spinning relative to the object (eg a "levatron" floating spinning top, but one could also somehow spin the field, not the object to be suspended).
I predict that at first it will be a bit of a "first come first served" deal. Then later the US is sure to take, by force, all points not held by democratic countries.
Are they all typos or is querty actually a layout? I've often wondered myself why we don't rename the Dvorak layout to ',.pyf just so it's consistent with the names of all the other layouts.
Urgh, I should hand in my geek badge for this one. I had port 6969 DNAT'ed on my gateway to my computer because a few days ago I was hosting a.torrent:p. Anyway thanks for the report, it urged me to try harder at fixing the problem:).
However in the case of Microsoft you probably need a population of vagrants signficantly larger than the population of Earth to consume the entire crop for several years in a row before the family staves.
"The Universe...
POPULATION: None.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
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Some films made for IMAX are in 3D and use 2 projections each polarised 90 degrees to the other. In this way the only glasses I'd expect you'd need are a specially made pair of polaroid sunnies. I saw one of these films a few years ago and used those massive polaroid glases they have, does anyone know why such large devices are required?
And tell them to only fly at night.
Well the main problem is that we know of ~100 objects in the region beyond Neptune, Pluto just happens to be the easiest to spot (it's big and close compared to the others). In the end it's just a minor technicality that some get called planets and others don't, it'd just be nice to have some hard and fast definitions. For example if you take size as the only feature to define planets then the large moons of Jupiter count as a couple are larger than Mercury. If you take the original meaning of the word "planet" then anything that moves in the sky compared to the background stars is a planet, everything from asteroids to commets to our current planets...So yeah, basically it's just hard to classify them but due to this new object's location (in amoung many other similar icy objects varying in size in the kuypler belt) I hope it doesn't get classed as a planet.
I'd prefer "your application has been rejected as you were not formed in the initial solar system's accretion disk* and therefore should not qualify as a planet." Why do we count glorified KBO's as planets anyway?
Since this "10th planet" is probably an icy, dense, object I believe it's more likely to be orbiting near the sun like all the other dense objects if it were made from matter in the early solar system. It's probably just been captured by the Sun's gravity. IANAC (cosmologist), but this seems reasonable to me, feel free to prove me wrong as it'll give me more to write about in my end-of-semester astronomy exam...
2) is very much the more difficult point. A lot of wifi owners need to ask there nerdy friends to get it to allow them to use it, let alone keep others out.
True, but most people don't care about the lable, they put money into the music industry because they care about their favorite artist's new private jet.
And isn't the point of a turntable to convert the surface of the record into sound? A silent turntable just sounds broken to me.
*hugs kill -9*, from memory Windows 95/98 would give the program ~20s to respond after you asked it to die, I guess the same applies to XP so in general just waiting a while will do the same thing as telling it to end the process many times.
We don't care! We'll all just use his death as an example and threat to other spammers anyway. I can see someone else using this as an excuse to kill some other spammer too.
Yeah, one species decided to start charging a licence fee for the use of it's colouring.
Remember that before socket A there was slut A, a CPU package that lasted about as long as 754. I was hoping that 754 was the new slot A and that 939 would last a long time too though :(. Maybe 12xx whatever will last a long time, then the next *3* sockets after that will be short lived follow by a long lived 4th, then the next 4 sockets will be short lived...you got the idea 3 lines back didn't you?
With the exeption of 5, all your points are the fault of the people you're playing with, not EA. 1. and 2. sounds just like what's in RTCW:ET, only they tend to work in that game (at least, they do on the servers I play on).
I suggest finding new servers, or a group of friends who you can enjoy the game with.
ob. Futurama: "Awww, what is this!? The middle ages?"
The writer must be practicing to go into government.
Exactly, just boot off a flash drive ;). I'm fairly sure the HDDs would be fine though, since the metal case of the HDD would shield it against most fields. I wonder if the fans would still work though...
I was hoping for magnetic levitation :(, however that's impossible according to Maxwell's equations...unless the field is spinning relative to the object (eg a "levatron" floating spinning top, but one could also somehow spin the field, not the object to be suspended).
I predict that at first it will be a bit of a "first come first served" deal. Then later the US is sure to take, by force, all points not held by democratic countries.
You've obviously never worked on explosives then.
Are they all typos or is querty actually a layout? I've often wondered myself why we don't rename the Dvorak layout to ',.pyf just so it's consistent with the names of all the other layouts.
Urgh, I should hand in my geek badge for this one. I had port 6969 DNAT'ed on my gateway to my computer because a few days ago I was hosting a .torrent :p. Anyway thanks for the report, it urged me to try harder at fixing the problem :).
Can anyone get these to work? I can only get the evil red face from Azureus...
Sounds a bit like 42, it'll tell us the answer, but we need something else to find the question.
However in the case of Microsoft you probably need a population of vagrants signficantly larger than the population of Earth to consume the entire crop for several years in a row before the family staves.
"Microsoft's Computer"
*sigh*, must we quote Adams *again*.
"The Universe...
POPULATION: None.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
-Douglas Adams, "Restaurant at the End of the Universe"