Chances are 20-21st century english will never, ever be forgoten, as long as humanity will have some kind of civilisation. Just like Latin is not forgoten now, because there was continuity in preserving the language. Latin was the language of the most 'civilised' empire in the old days and ordinary people could read it (unlike Egiptian Hieroglyphs, where only selected few knew how to interpret them). As long as there will be continuity (and there will be continuity because we will WANT to preserve the current technical achievements) the language will survive as well.
Maybe it's because we've been treated as the lesser of two human beings for centuries.
No offense, but I don't think you're THAT old. Unless you are older than 50-60 years, I don't think you lived such times. Women have nowadays the same opportunities as men.
It is, when you consider that ping time through a satellite connection is above 100ms. That's mostly because of the time spent by the signal to and from the satellite.
Not to mention, we can't communicate in real-time with the probes on Mars. There's a delay of at least several minutes. So any faster-than-light information exchange would be most welcome.
We don't know yet if gravitational influence travels at light speed. Theoretically, it does, but It hasn't been checked yet. I think there's an experiment scheduled for 2010, something involving 3 satellites at big distances one from the others, testing whether differences in gravitation propagate at the speed of light.
your numbers suggest that the gravitational attraction from Phobos on the Martian surface is roughly 1000 times smaller than the moon.
Nevertheless, there are seas on Earth that harbor life without significant tides. Ex: The Caspian Sea, The Black Sea, etc.
also, describing much of what einstein did as "a nice, simple theory" is... "creative".
not my words. I think this was Einstein's opinion, but I'm too lazy now to look it up.
one could de-shield the network cable on one centimeter length then insert needles through the plastic isolation to each copper wire (or only those that carry data, I don't know much about the phisical layer). The problem is that after this you leave 'tracks' and later on one can see that there was a tapping involved.
This would be important if everyone had slow computers. I remember using Opera way back on when I had a computer that needed a speed bost over IE/Netscape. That was five years ago. But Firefox's performance is more than adequate on every system I used, e.g. Firefox and IE can load pages faster than they can downloads them. Opera may, however, provide a benefit on an old 266MHz system I have, so I plan on trying it out.
In my experience, Opera *feels* much faster. No matter if i'm on an Athlon 2200+, no matter if I'm on T1, pages seem to load and display faster in Opera.
Plus all other goodies, like easy mouse gestures, keeping all open tabs when you open it again, reopening accidentaly closed tabs, and now voice.
I like it myself, but anyone is entitled to their opinion.
Well, Eistein's theories were fully accepted only after they were tested by experiments. Before that, it was just a nice, simple theory that DID 'fit in' with the previous works.
There are people who have no teeth problems and no one in their family has. This leads me to think that this problem is genetical.
Should we not have dental treatment, probably in a few tens of thousands of years this gene would be naturally selected out.
How the eye evolved from the primitive verted type common to invertebrates into the inverted eye of vertebrates is... an unexplained mystery. No evidence exists of any transitional forms, and all known animals have either verted or inverted eyes.
This assumes that vertebrates evolved from (advanced) invertebrates, which is not the case. it's like saying that mammals evolved from birds.
Zoological and paleontological proofs suggest that the evolution from primitive worms to primitive vertebrates didn't go through more advanced invertebrate forms. The vertebrates and invertebrates evolved separately.
Silly me, I forgot to mention the most important part of the rant:
By definition, this perpendicular component is called CENTRIPETE and is always INWARD.
You can't have centrifugal and centripetal force at the same time. If the reference system is not rotating, you can call the INWARD force centripete. If the reference system is rotating (this being the case when you consider the Earth in its orbit as standing still) then you also have a centrifugal force that balances the gravitational force (which can no longer be called centripete).
From Phisics 101:
Inertia is what makes a body of mass keep it's current speed and linear trajectory if there's no external force acting on it.
A force applied on that body, along its trajectory will either accelerate or decelerate it.
A force applied on that body, in other direction than the bodys current trajectory (current = defined by the current speed vector of the body) will have two components: one along the current trajectory and one perpendicular on it. The tangent ('along') component will increase or decrease the speed of the body. The perpendicular one will only modify the direction of the speed. By definition, this perpendicular component is called CENTRIPETE.
When a body of mass revolves around another body of (grater) mass, on a circular orbit, the speed is always perpendicular to the radius, such that there is no tangent component to the gravitational force. Thus, in this case, the gravitational force is centripete and it 'keeps' the body of mass in orbit.
There are at least two ways of seing the system:
The big mass is in the centrum and the small mass moves around it on a circle. In this case only the centripetal force of gravity acts on the small mass.
Or, The big mass is in the centrum and the small mass doesn't move around it, it just stands there at *radius* distance. Thus the whole reference system turns around the big mass, along with the small one. In this system there are 2 forces that act on the small body, one is gravitation (wich in this reference system is NOT centripete force, since in this system the small body does not revolve around the big one) and the other one is the centrifugal force.
You are right in one point, Newton's 3rd law does not require the existence of the centripete force. What it says in this case is that the big mass body is also attracted towards the small one, with the same force.
And, by the way, in the every-day reference system we don't even go as far as to consider the Earth to be the center of the Universe. There's just up and down,north,south,east,west. ... and boobies, and strawberries and all that.
One way to see this is that there is already stuff at L4 and L5 (dust clouds or something like that). It's kept there because L4 and L5 are stable. L1, L2 and L3 don't keep anything there now.
So, if we put a space station at L4 or L5 it will stay there by itself. At the other three points it will have to be kept there by small thruster corrections from time to time.
I've had crash problems with Opera too, back in the Opera 5 days. Nowadays, if Opera 8 crashes on you, it's because you picked the wrong package to download. Usually packages compiled for non-hiperthreading-enabled processors choke on modern processors.
A quick search on google solved this problem and i've been using the same Opera window, without me closing it or it crashing, with 30+ open tabs, for about a week. That's good enough for me.
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Chances are 20-21st century english will never, ever be forgoten, as long as humanity will have some kind of civilisation. Just like Latin is not forgoten now, because there was continuity in preserving the language. Latin was the language of the most 'civilised' empire in the old days and ordinary people could read it (unlike Egiptian Hieroglyphs, where only selected few knew how to interpret them). As long as there will be continuity (and there will be continuity because we will WANT to preserve the current technical achievements) the language will survive as well.
Actually, since the females are smaller, one would guess that they'd be under higher evolutional pressure to become smart.
Or, they'd be under higher evolutional pressure to assure the social bonding of the tribe/pack/whatever.
Are you saying the Republicans use 'feminine' attacks? :)
nnnnoh...
Galileian Relativity does not apply any more at speeds comparable to c. So you don't get v1+v2.
It is, when you consider that ping time through a satellite connection is above 100ms. That's mostly because of the time spent by the signal to and from the satellite.
Not to mention, we can't communicate in real-time with the probes on Mars. There's a delay of at least several minutes. So any faster-than-light information exchange would be most welcome.
We don't know yet if gravitational influence travels at light speed. Theoretically, it does, but It hasn't been checked yet. I think there's an experiment scheduled for 2010, something involving 3 satellites at big distances one from the others, testing whether differences in gravitation propagate at the speed of light.
your numbers suggest that the gravitational attraction from Phobos on the Martian surface is roughly 1000 times smaller than the moon.
Nevertheless, there are seas on Earth that harbor life without significant tides. Ex: The Caspian Sea, The Black Sea, etc.
also, describing much of what einstein did as "a nice, simple theory" is... "creative".
not my words. I think this was Einstein's opinion, but I'm too lazy now to look it up.
one could de-shield the network cable on one centimeter length then insert needles through the plastic isolation to each copper wire (or only those that carry data, I don't know much about the phisical layer). The problem is that after this you leave 'tracks' and later on one can see that there was a tapping involved.
Plus all other goodies, like easy mouse gestures, keeping all open tabs when you open it again, reopening accidentaly closed tabs, and now voice.
I like it myself, but anyone is entitled to their opinion.
Well, Eistein's theories were fully accepted only after they were tested by experiments. Before that, it was just a nice, simple theory that DID 'fit in' with the previous works.
That's like asking for the skeletons of all the people mentioned in the Bible to prove it's true.
There are people who have no teeth problems and no one in their family has. This leads me to think that this problem is genetical.
Should we not have dental treatment, probably in a few tens of thousands of years this gene would be naturally selected out.
Zoological and paleontological proofs suggest that the evolution from primitive worms to primitive vertebrates didn't go through more advanced invertebrate forms. The vertebrates and invertebrates evolved separately.
one more degree and the females would start boiling. Damn, they're hot!
i urge everybody on slashdot to set their homepage to one of your pages.
seriously, that's just asking for trouble to the server...
Silly me, I forgot to mention the most important part of the rant:
By definition, this perpendicular component is called CENTRIPETE and is always INWARD.
You can't have centrifugal and centripetal force at the same time. If the reference system is not rotating, you can call the INWARD force centripete. If the reference system is rotating (this being the case when you consider the Earth in its orbit as standing still) then you also have a centrifugal force that balances the gravitational force (which can no longer be called centripete).
From Phisics 101:
Inertia is what makes a body of mass keep it's current speed and linear trajectory if there's no external force acting on it.
A force applied on that body, along its trajectory will either accelerate or decelerate it.
A force applied on that body, in other direction than the bodys current trajectory (current = defined by the current speed vector of the body) will have two components: one along the current trajectory and one perpendicular on it. The tangent ('along') component will increase or decrease the speed of the body. The perpendicular one will only modify the direction of the speed.
By definition, this perpendicular component is called CENTRIPETE.
When a body of mass revolves around another body of (grater) mass, on a circular orbit, the speed is always perpendicular to the radius, such that there is no tangent component to the gravitational force. Thus, in this case, the gravitational force is centripete and it 'keeps' the body of mass in orbit.
There are at least two ways of seing the system:
The big mass is in the centrum and the small mass moves around it on a circle. In this case only the centripetal force of gravity acts on the small mass.
Or, The big mass is in the centrum and the small mass doesn't move around it, it just stands there at *radius* distance. Thus the whole reference system turns around the big mass, along with the small one. In this system there are 2 forces that act on the small body, one is gravitation (wich in this reference system is NOT centripete force, since in this system the small body does not revolve around the big one) and the other one is the centrifugal force.
You are right in one point, Newton's 3rd law does not require the existence of the centripete force. What it says in this case is that the big mass body is also attracted towards the small one, with the same force.
And, by the way, in the every-day reference system we don't even go as far as to consider the Earth to be the center of the Universe. There's just up and down,north,south,east,west.
... and boobies, and strawberries and all that.
One way to see this is that there is already stuff at L4 and L5 (dust clouds or something like that). It's kept there because L4 and L5 are stable. L1, L2 and L3 don't keep anything there now.
So, if we put a space station at L4 or L5 it will stay there by itself. At the other three points it will have to be kept there by small thruster corrections from time to time.
Anybody remember Ghostzilla?
Man, That was the ultimate porn-watching browser...
I've had crash problems with Opera too, back in the Opera 5 days. Nowadays, if Opera 8 crashes on you, it's because you picked the wrong package to download. Usually packages compiled for non-hiperthreading-enabled processors choke on modern processors.
A quick search on google solved this problem and i've been using the same Opera window, without me closing it or it crashing, with 30+ open tabs, for about a week. That's good enough for me.
For work, check out Ghostzilla.
Mercury is VERY expensive. It would also shortcircuit any circuitry it touches (liquid metal, you know?)
Another option is CrossCrypt + CrossCrypt GUI.
I don't know about the rest, but encripted volumes made with CrossCrypt are also accessible on Linux (provided you use a 20+ length password)