Going with a circular orbit because they didn't specify the ellipse: 365.24*24*3600 = 31556736.00 seconds per year ./3000 = 10518.912 seconds per orbit 1/. =.00009506686623103225 orbits per second .*.14*3.1415926*2 meters per orbit = .0000836 meters per second .*1000 =.0836 millimeters per second
Pretty slow orbit. About that tungsten, 19250 kg/m3 3.1415926*(4/3)*.04*.04*.04 =.000268 m^3 .*19250 = 5.16 kg And let's say the planet is 8 mm in diameter,.004 m in radius 3.1415926*(4/3)*.004*.004*.004 =.000000268 m^3 .*19250 =.00516 kg
F = G m1 m2 / r^2 = gravitational constant = 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2 .00000000006673000000 * 5.16 *.00516 / (.1*.1) =.00000000017767262800 Newtons of force, resulting acceleration on the smaller body of ./.00516 =.00000003443267984496 m/s =.00003443267984496 mm/s
Sounds reasonable to me. Assuming they can get a clean launch at exactly.0836 millimeters per second everything should be fine!
Shouldn't we be more worried about the telcom lobby lying to and/or buying congress so that they can get the law changed to allow them to extort more money out of an Internet redesigned in the image of their maximum profit?
Global Warming deniers are the new Holocaust deniers.
On the one side you have scientists with the historical and current data, and the liberals who cheer them on. On the other side you have those who say Global Warming is just made up by a conspiracy of scientists and liberals.
My employer produces some for-profit software which runs on Linux. We specify that it runs on RH 9 or somesuch as a basic ass-covering move. We test on that and release it. It does happen to work just on the majority of linuxes we try, but it greatly reduces the load on our tech support people if we get a call saying "it doesn't work on crappy-distro-0.9" and we can tell them it's their own damn problem. And really I'd expect any decent Linux admin to be able to install any missing libraries or version problems if our binaries don't happen to Just Work out of the box. But it usually works anyway and there's no trouble.
I grew up in Los Alamos. My dad worked there over twenty years until he retired. He retired because the culture there had gotten sufficiently unbearable and it wasn't worth putting up with because he could no longer do the kind of science he loved. He wasn't alone among experienced senior researchers there who were fed up and leaving. When the braniest town in the world has a brain drain, there's trouble.
Management by the University of California is possibly the best thing that ever happened to LANL. Whatever the mission given to LANL by DOE, it would be carried out in an academic culture. People were rewarded professionally and looked up to informally for doing good science and good research. Ok, it wasn't all utopia, there was also the petty politicking that goes along with academia and grant groveling. I still think it was good and a lot of good work was done there.
When I moved to California I discovered that some people here objected to the UC management of LANL. They didn't want to be associated with a nuclear weapons lab. I think that's wrong and that they were foolish if they thought that the UC disowning LANL would make it go away. LANL needs the UC because the alternative is too horrible. That has come to pass and now LANL is under joint management of UC and defense contractors. I've heard rumors that the mission changed from far out theoretical, pure and semi-pure research and shifted towards more immediate engineering of new weapons. The new regime is pushing security and secrecy to the point of paranoia and counterproductivity. For many scientists, it isn't fun anymore.
I don't expect LANL to evaporate within the next 5 years. There is still plenty there that doesn't suck. I do expect they'll have trouble replacing talent in some areas. I think it's not yet too late to restore the soul of the place and bring it back and do some world class science.
This article seems to summarize nicely how Sony in particular breaks down the profits from an online sale to deliver "a payment to the artist of approximately 4 1/2 cents per download".
So, on the one hand, the greedy bastards should be less greedy.
On the other hand the artists need to empower their own asses and get out of stupid contracts like that and find some sort of cooperative or direct to consumer sales model. Technology is only getting more enabling of that kind of thing. Go do it.
I set up jabberd in an afternoon. Adding the jabberd 1.4 chatroom server module to jabberd 2 was a little annoying, but now it's up and hasn't given any trouble. It even comes with a decent example/etc/init.d/ style script which works with fedora core and probably other systems with little modification.
The first will always have to be native. It just has to be.
The second will be for a while yet. Any performance demanding app will still care about the blah-percent overhead. Last I checked, my JVM only gets half the megaflops of native code. I want to skip that 50% overhead.
I'm guessing that getting a lot of that overhead back will come from moving from just-in-time compilation to install compilation that can take longer and do more optimizations.
Some places remember that in a more personal and direct way. You can actually hear a fair number of the software engineers at my company debating what the best development direction to take is based on a business sense perspective. A small company that understands itself, its customers and its market can be double of some other company.
On the other hand, maybe that mission isn't the right thing to make you care about waking up in the morning.
There are different corporate cultures out there. If it matters to you, shop around until you find a team that fits.
The quoted speed you buy only counts for the first hop. If your ISP has a server immediately on the other side of that hop, you should get full speed to that. Beyond that, it gets messy.
If I have a 6 Mbit link to my ISP, and so do a thousand other schmucks, does my ISP have a 6 Gbit link to the outside world? Doubtful. Most of the time much less will be enough, but if they are overselling too much then they are cheap bastards and you should get a new ISP.
The more hops out you get the more you have to deal with the aggregate bandwidth of the internet being push over whichever backbone your packets happen to travel.
Great ideas for the future of MMORPG are plentiful. I played WoW through to the end, got Level 60, beat the game. I know the ins and outs. I can do better. Why, I just thought up half a dozen great ideas in the minute before I posted this comment. So it's just an implementation problem. Well, I have that solved to. Or I will. It'll just take some time to write. I'm going into stealth mode and living in my mom's basement to keep my burn rate down, but when I come out in a year or two I'll have the most awesome technically advanced MMORPG ever! Give away the demo, bittorrent out the client, sell subscriptions, profit! I wonder why more indie game developers aren't doing this already? I mean, it's so obvious!
Ok, so you can get to the first bit of data quickly, how long does the flash drive take to stream out bits 1 through 524287 ? Last I checked spinning bits under a read head was actually winning that statistic.
Money making or attention grabbing?
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Will this actually make a profit for any of the indie game devs on there? Amazon sells it for $27.99, suppose their distributor gets $15 and passes on $7 in royalties to split up umong all the game devs. So, maybe you get $0.10 per disk sold. If they sold 100,000 of these (a number which seems high to me), sure I'd be amused with the $10,000 I made off a game I wrote in my spare time.
Maybe the speculative win here is to get popular through this channel, have people reccommend your game to friends and have them pay $$ directly into your site to buy a copy from you. Or get repeat business and have people who bought the disc buy your next game for $$ from your site.
Anyway, best of luck to them all, but I won't be buying until the MacOS X version comes out.:-P
Once upon a time I learned morse and passed the novice, tech and tech plus tests. Then I got into computers and the internet and a zillion other things. It probably would have been easy for me to renew my license to as good or better status given the easing of the tests, but I never got around to it. I still have my radios but the batteries are dead and probably won't even hold a charge anymore. Radio is still a curiosity, but not something I've chosen to spend time on.
Remember, Windows is the prevalant desktop operating system.
Examine the options in the tools available to you, pick what works for you.
I've tried MySQL and PHP and mod-perl and CGI and python, but my current favorites are PostgreSQL and Tomcat hosting Java Servlets. No books required, their included documentation is quite good.
I will definitely not support it. Mostly because I don't run Windows-anything. I will however continue to smoke the fine fine stuff Steve Jobs is selling me. ahhhhhhh
Probably 90% of the same parts and specs, right down to the lame integrated intel 950 graphics which have no video memory and steal system memory. Still, if the $800 mini is an ok deal, then including a display, keyboard, trackpad, battery and camera for as little as $300 more is a pretty good deal.
Podcasts should be automatically fetched by torrent. This may require yet another extension to RSS for podcasting, but the benefit for creators of all size and bandwidth budget would be totally worth it.
So, based on what I've seen Apple do with things like WebKit, is that they'll have an implementation nicely packaged into a library and one killerexample App which uses it.
Really, not only is it good for search engines, it's good for my brain's relevance filter for trying to see if I care about the story the headline points to.
It's cheaper to count them by hand. A full county wide voting machine system costs a lot of money, a lot of money that could buy a lot of ballot counting labor hours.
I love a technofix as much as the next geek, but computerized voting machines are not the technology for now.
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Ok, some orbital mechanics.
./3000 = 10518.912 seconds per orbit .00009506686623103225 orbits per second
.*.14*3.1415926*2 meters per orbit =
.0000836 meters per second
.*1000 = .0836 millimeters per second
.000268 m^3
.*19250 = 5.16 kg .004 m in radius .000000268 m^3
.*19250 = .00516 kg
.00000000006673000000 * 5.16 * .00516 / (.1*.1) .00000000017767262800 Newtons of force, resulting acceleration on the smaller body of
./.00516 = .00000003443267984496 m/s = .00003443267984496 mm/s
.0836 millimeters per second everything should be fine!
Going with a circular orbit because they didn't specify the ellipse:
365.24*24*3600 = 31556736.00 seconds per year
1/. =
Pretty slow orbit. About that tungsten, 19250 kg/m3
3.1415926*(4/3)*.04*.04*.04 =
And let's say the planet is 8 mm in diameter,
3.1415926*(4/3)*.004*.004*.004 =
F = G m1 m2 / r^2 =
gravitational constant = 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2
=
Sounds reasonable to me. Assuming they can get a clean launch at exactly
They started training at 10 times earth gravity, and were well up over a hundred in just a couple villain intermissions worth of training.
So yeah, train hard, get strong. (as long as you don't break yourself in the process)
Maybe the interesting thing here is not that the chickens got stronger, but that 2g was within their biological limits.
Shouldn't we be more worried about the telcom lobby lying to and/or buying congress so that they can get the law changed to allow them to extort more money out of an Internet redesigned in the image of their maximum profit?
Huh, some perl driven web apps:
http://www.slashcode.com/
http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/
I have been trolled. Hope this helps. Have a nice day.
Personally I prefer Java Servlets, with perl a second place, then python, then bash, then C, then php.
Global Warming deniers are the new Holocaust deniers.
On the one side you have scientists with the historical and current data, and the liberals who cheer them on. On the other side you have those who say Global Warming is just made up by a conspiracy of scientists and liberals.
Discuss.
My employer produces some for-profit software which runs on Linux. We specify that it runs on RH 9 or somesuch as a basic ass-covering move. We test on that and release it. It does happen to work just on the majority of linuxes we try, but it greatly reduces the load on our tech support people if we get a call saying "it doesn't work on crappy-distro-0.9" and we can tell them it's their own damn problem. And really I'd expect any decent Linux admin to be able to install any missing libraries or version problems if our binaries don't happen to Just Work out of the box. But it usually works anyway and there's no trouble.
I grew up in Los Alamos. My dad worked there over twenty years until he retired. He retired because the culture there had gotten sufficiently unbearable and it wasn't worth putting up with because he could no longer do the kind of science he loved. He wasn't alone among experienced senior researchers there who were fed up and leaving. When the braniest town in the world has a brain drain, there's trouble.
Management by the University of California is possibly the best thing that ever happened to LANL. Whatever the mission given to LANL by DOE, it would be carried out in an academic culture. People were rewarded professionally and looked up to informally for doing good science and good research. Ok, it wasn't all utopia, there was also the petty politicking that goes along with academia and grant groveling. I still think it was good and a lot of good work was done there.
When I moved to California I discovered that some people here objected to the UC management of LANL. They didn't want to be associated with a nuclear weapons lab. I think that's wrong and that they were foolish if they thought that the UC disowning LANL would make it go away. LANL needs the UC because the alternative is too horrible. That has come to pass and now LANL is under joint management of UC and defense contractors. I've heard rumors that the mission changed from far out theoretical, pure and semi-pure research and shifted towards more immediate engineering of new weapons. The new regime is pushing security and secrecy to the point of paranoia and counterproductivity. For many scientists, it isn't fun anymore.
I don't expect LANL to evaporate within the next 5 years. There is still plenty there that doesn't suck. I do expect they'll have trouble replacing talent in some areas. I think it's not yet too late to restore the soul of the place and bring it back and do some world class science.
This article seems to summarize nicely how Sony in particular breaks down the profits from an online sale to deliver "a payment to the artist of approximately 4 1/2 cents per download".
So, on the one hand, the greedy bastards should be less greedy.
On the other hand the artists need to empower their own asses and get out of stupid contracts like that and find some sort of cooperative or direct to consumer sales model. Technology is only getting more enabling of that kind of thing. Go do it.
I set up jabberd in an afternoon. Adding the jabberd 1.4 chatroom server module to jabberd 2 was a little annoying, but now it's up and hasn't given any trouble. It even comes with a decent example /etc/init.d/ style script which works with fedora core and probably other systems with little modification.
The first will always have to be native. It just has to be.
The second will be for a while yet. Any performance demanding app will still care about the blah-percent overhead. Last I checked, my JVM only gets half the megaflops of native code. I want to skip that 50% overhead.
I'm guessing that getting a lot of that overhead back will come from moving from just-in-time compilation to install compilation that can take longer and do more optimizations.
Some places remember that in a more personal and direct way. You can actually hear a fair number of the software engineers at my company debating what the best development direction to take is based on a business sense perspective. A small company that understands itself, its customers and its market can be double of some other company.
On the other hand, maybe that mission isn't the right thing to make you care about waking up in the morning.
There are different corporate cultures out there. If it matters to you, shop around until you find a team that fits.
The quoted speed you buy only counts for the first hop. If your ISP has a server immediately on the other side of that hop, you should get full speed to that. Beyond that, it gets messy.
If I have a 6 Mbit link to my ISP, and so do a thousand other schmucks, does my ISP have a 6 Gbit link to the outside world? Doubtful. Most of the time much less will be enough, but if they are overselling too much then they are cheap bastards and you should get a new ISP.
The more hops out you get the more you have to deal with the aggregate bandwidth of the internet being push over whichever backbone your packets happen to travel.
Great ideas for the future of MMORPG are plentiful. I played WoW through to the end, got Level 60, beat the game. I know the ins and outs. I can do better. Why, I just thought up half a dozen great ideas in the minute before I posted this comment. So it's just an implementation problem. Well, I have that solved to. Or I will. It'll just take some time to write. I'm going into stealth mode and living in my mom's basement to keep my burn rate down, but when I come out in a year or two I'll have the most awesome technically advanced MMORPG ever! Give away the demo, bittorrent out the client, sell subscriptions, profit! I wonder why more indie game developers aren't doing this already? I mean, it's so obvious!
Ok, so you can get to the first bit of data quickly, how long does the flash drive take to stream out bits 1 through 524287 ? Last I checked spinning bits under a read head was actually winning that statistic.
Will this actually make a profit for any of the indie game devs on there? Amazon sells it for $27.99, suppose their distributor gets $15 and passes on $7 in royalties to split up umong all the game devs. So, maybe you get $0.10 per disk sold. If they sold 100,000 of these (a number which seems high to me), sure I'd be amused with the $10,000 I made off a game I wrote in my spare time.
:-P
Maybe the speculative win here is to get popular through this channel, have people reccommend your game to friends and have them pay $$ directly into your site to buy a copy from you. Or get repeat business and have people who bought the disc buy your next game for $$ from your site.
Anyway, best of luck to them all, but I won't be buying until the MacOS X version comes out.
Once upon a time I learned morse and passed the novice, tech and tech plus tests. Then I got into computers and the internet and a zillion other things. It probably would have been easy for me to renew my license to as good or better status given the easing of the tests, but I never got around to it. I still have my radios but the batteries are dead and probably won't even hold a charge anymore. Radio is still a curiosity, but not something I've chosen to spend time on.
Remember, Windows is the prevalant desktop operating system.
Examine the options in the tools available to you, pick what works for you.
I've tried MySQL and PHP and mod-perl and CGI and python, but my current favorites are PostgreSQL and Tomcat hosting Java Servlets. No books required, their included documentation is quite good.
I will definitely not support it. Mostly because I don't run Windows-anything. I will however continue to smoke the fine fine stuff Steve Jobs is selling me. ahhhhhhh
Can I have a 4 or 8 core Opteron Mac, pppplease?
I know places like Penguin Computing will sell me a 4 core Opteron workstation for $2500, but make it shiny and Macish and I'll happily pay $3000.
I am a mac fanboy.
Now back to agonizing over whether the wimpy graphics in the MacBook might actually be tolerable for the system which is otherwise a great deal. Oi!
Probably 90% of the same parts and specs, right down to the lame integrated intel 950 graphics which have no video memory and steal system memory. Still, if the $800 mini is an ok deal, then including a display, keyboard, trackpad, battery and camera for as little as $300 more is a pretty good deal.
Podcasts should be automatically fetched by torrent. This may require yet another extension to RSS for podcasting, but the benefit for creators of all size and bandwidth budget would be totally worth it.
So, based on what I've seen Apple do with things like WebKit, is that they'll have an implementation nicely packaged into a library and one killerexample App which uses it.
(notice my to-the-point headline)
Really, not only is it good for search engines, it's good for my brain's relevance filter for trying to see if I care about the story the headline points to.
After how mediocre their 20th Anniversary Mac was, maybe they figured they ought to lay low this time.
I love how Slashdot is acting like the regular big business media and running an advertisement as front page news.
It's cheaper to count them by hand. A full county wide voting machine system costs a lot of money, a lot of money that could buy a lot of ballot counting labor hours.
I love a technofix as much as the next geek, but computerized voting machines are not the technology for now.