I'm American, but I don't play sports, so I looked it up. A basketball hoop is about 46cm in diameter. (That's 18 inches for those of you who don't understand metric)
Right, but notice that they say not to look directly into a laser pointer. It's not the wattage produced, but the amount of radiation.
LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
So it seems to be more of an optical maser, which is a type of laser that emits visible radiation.
Different types of lasers are visible in different spectrums of light. Most low-intensity beams are invisible because they operate in the infrared spectrum, which encompasses wavelengths ranging 750 nanometers to just under 1 millimeter. This is why these beams are red (750 nanometers is just longer than the color red).
This makes me wonder...the range of green is something like 480-520 nanometers, so since the laser beam is green, wouldn't that mean that that is the approximate wavelength of this beam? If that's the case, this thing is such a low intensity that it is really more of a giant flashlight than a laser. I mean the way the light is produced is enough to qualify as a laser device, of course, but it's wavelength is barely half the length of a microwave.
At any rate, if there's enough power behind the beam pushing it, then yes, youy can produce a beam of concentration high enough to be visible. I've watched the beam of a cutting laser (from behind protective goggles, of course)
And our top story this hour, the RIAA has commandeered Aerospace's big laser and has started frying mp3 downloaders. When reached for comment, they told us "The lawsuits just weren't inspiring the right kind of fear."
I was wondering about that myself...Where the hell is the focus point? Oh wait, I see now. Had to blow up the picture. It looks like they just blasted the beam out of some kind of an amplifier/emitter thing and didn't even bother to focus it through any kind of a lens...Well, either that or that emitter is some kind of convex lens that amplifies the size of the beam at the sacrifice of intensity. Hard to tell with such a crappy picture...
It'd be interesting to see some technical specs on this giant laser, to see how similar it is to the cutting laser I used to work on. I bet that baby takes about 12 hours to warm up. Anyone know what the frequency on the green beam is? C'mon people, get technical! Also, all you people in that area: take pictures!
I'm also running Windows XP Pro, and it crashes on me all the damn time. It rarely shuts down properly, and less often does it load up properly. Many of my old games don't work any more, it sucks down my memory like a programmer on a bottle of Jolt, and hangs constantly. In general, I preferred 98SE. However, I'll give it this. It runs a few more games than W2K did, and anything is better than ME (AKA Windows Masochist Edition)
I don't know anything really about Mumia, but Leonard Peltier is most certainly a cop-killer, and should have been executed years ago instead of stewing in jail soaking up my tax-money. Might as well free Charles Manson as any of them.
Actually, I agree with him completely. However, since you seem to be so anti-American, please don't ever come here. If you're in America already, I would like it if you'd leave, since you seem to hate is to much. Also, you could at least have the balls to post as a semi-real person instead of as an AC.
Yeah, laugh it up, fun-boy. And while you do, realize that it's only because of the freedoms your government has granted you that you can make such comments withou fear of serious retribution. Of course, it's also thanks to these freedoms that I can tell you that I think you are an idiot jack-ass with nothing better to do than piss people off. I also believe that the reason you do so is because you have only the base minimum I.Q. required to use a computer (ergo, that of a chimpanzee) and you use such comments as a method to release your frustrations at being so stupid. Sadly, your simian-like intelligence cannot grasp any concept other than your base sexual urges, and certainly not the vocabulary required to effectively communicate to others your immense angst at being nothing more than a pathetic little spider monkey jerking off 20 hours a day and then not understanding why your dick hurts.
Yeah, that's all well and good that they let her go and all, but what about the ones they haven't released? The ones nobody knows of, or remembers? What about the people the Chinese government has abandoned over the years, all the young girls sent off to learn the joys of Communism in the 40's, then abandoned to their fates when they decided the project sucked? How about the way women are viewed as third-class citizens, slightly above slaves, by both government and society? It's a worthless gesture on their part. Yes, they're so cool, ignore the fact that they hate us, and our wonderful Republic. Ignore the fact that they produce many of our import goods, and that every dollar we give them is another dollar they put towards bringing us down. Remember folks, America is the Evil Empire because we promote trade and capitalism. We don't hold our women down, like the Muslims and Chinese do (anymore). We have abundant natural resources under our soil, but if we tap them, we're greedy bastards hell-bent on the destruction of the environment. We are infidels, heretics, heathens, and our love of freedom is a threat to the rest of the world. And to make matters worse, every day more of our own citizens side with those who would see us fall. Other nations can feel pride for being born in their country, but don't you dare, because if you do, you're an evil capitalist bastard who takes perverse sexual pleasure in the oppression you force upon the rest of the world. The only reason those countries hate us is because we have the basic freedoms they lack, and their governments realize this. They encourage their citizens to hate us because if they would stop to think, they would realize that they themselves want these freedoms. This is very dangerous to the control a dictator exerts over his subjects. I apologize for turning this into a political rant, and I know it's all basically flamebait, but this stuff gets me pretty worked up. But anyway, we've worked very hard to become the great country we are today, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let some jealous asshole take that from me simply because he's pissed that I have more than he does.
Didn't I see these in Dominion Tank Police or something?
Seriously, it's an interesting concept, but let's say you're cruising at 35 M.P.H. or more, your one wheel hits a patch of ice or something, you go spinning across the road and get hit by a Mack truck. Not such a big deal you'd think, until that Hydrogen fuel cell ruptures. Then...BOOM!!! I think I'll stick to 4 wheels surrounded by a half ton of Detroit steel, thank you very much.
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a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, and may also include access to proprietary content, information, and other services as part of a package of services offered to consumers.
You could consider a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) to be a service that offers these very things, so could we possibly glean from this that only a protocol can sue? Damn sneaky if you ask me...
None of their links worked for me either, but then again, I'm not running Windows. If the transcoding is handled by the application layer, it becomes a situation of "wait for the upgrade" or, to look at it from a M$ point of view, "push now, patch later." However, that's still more feasible than creating hyperlinks to the complicated form, because then the webmaster still has to remember all that crap, and some of those transcoded domain names (especially the Asian ones) look so much like a random string of babble that it just becomes ludicrous. So what you have here is a string of crap with a neat little "xn--" in front of it. So...why not use that as some kind of little subroutine trigger, use a standardized assignation of a fifth and possibly sixth character as some kind of country code, the servers modify the packet accordingly, and the routers handle the rest? Or maybe I'm just stupid...
Not only that, but the English language itself isn't even standardized. So do we use American English, or British English, or Australian English, or what? I'm a big fan of "Engrish" myself. Let's face it, a "common world language" is never going to happen, nor should it. We should be able to learn to communicate effectively, as civilized people, without resorting to forcing everyone to accept one single language, whichever one it might be.
It looks to me like this isn't really going to be such a big deal. Their domain names are going to be converted for DNS anyway, so it's not like we would have to type in a complicated string of characters that aren't on our keyboards. So we can't remember what to type so easily, so what? That's why we have bookmarks. Besides, this isn't really for us anyway. It's purpose seems to be to allow the people in other countries to use their own native languages for their own domain names. Easier for them, right? And if we want to access their domains, we just have to remember a few extra letters and dashes. No big deal. They get to do stuff in their language, we translate to ours, the whole world speaks, and maybe something gets done.
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I'm American, but I don't play sports, so I looked it up. A basketball hoop is about 46cm in diameter. (That's 18 inches for those of you who don't understand metric)
Ahh, duct tape...physical emodiment of the Force...how would we live without it?
Right, but notice that they say not to look directly into a laser pointer. It's not the wattage produced, but the amount of radiation.
LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
So it seems to be more of an optical maser, which is a type of laser that emits visible radiation.
Different types of lasers are visible in different spectrums of light. Most low-intensity beams are invisible because they operate in the infrared spectrum, which encompasses wavelengths ranging 750 nanometers to just under 1 millimeter. This is why these beams are red (750 nanometers is just longer than the color red).
This makes me wonder...the range of green is something like 480-520 nanometers, so since the laser beam is green, wouldn't that mean that that is the approximate wavelength of this beam? If that's the case, this thing is such a low intensity that it is really more of a giant flashlight than a laser. I mean the way the light is produced is enough to qualify as a laser device, of course, but it's wavelength is barely half the length of a microwave.
At any rate, if there's enough power behind the beam pushing it, then yes, youy can produce a beam of concentration high enough to be visible. I've watched the beam of a cutting laser (from behind protective goggles, of course)
And our top story this hour, the RIAA has commandeered Aerospace's big laser and has started frying mp3 downloaders. When reached for comment, they told us "The lawsuits just weren't inspiring the right kind of fear."
I was wondering about that myself...Where the hell is the focus point? Oh wait, I see now. Had to blow up the picture. It looks like they just blasted the beam out of some kind of an amplifier/emitter thing and didn't even bother to focus it through any kind of a lens...Well, either that or that emitter is some kind of convex lens that amplifies the size of the beam at the sacrifice of intensity. Hard to tell with such a crappy picture...
It'd be interesting to see some technical specs on this giant laser, to see how similar it is to the cutting laser I used to work on. I bet that baby takes about 12 hours to warm up. Anyone know what the frequency on the green beam is? C'mon people, get technical! Also, all you people in that area: take pictures!
Or maybe AOL has tried it before? I'm not sure, but either way, here's a little better idea of what that PC will really be like...& mode=classic
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020929
I'm also running Windows XP Pro, and it crashes on me all the damn time. It rarely shuts down properly, and less often does it load up properly. Many of my old games don't work any more, it sucks down my memory like a programmer on a bottle of Jolt, and hangs constantly. In general, I preferred 98SE. However, I'll give it this. It runs a few more games than W2K did, and anything is better than ME (AKA Windows Masochist Edition)
I don't know anything really about Mumia, but Leonard Peltier is most certainly a cop-killer, and should have been executed years ago instead of stewing in jail soaking up my tax-money. Might as well free Charles Manson as any of them.
Actually, I agree with him completely. However, since you seem to be so anti-American, please don't ever come here. If you're in America already, I would like it if you'd leave, since you seem to hate is to much. Also, you could at least have the balls to post as a semi-real person instead of as an AC.
Yeah, laugh it up, fun-boy. And while you do, realize that it's only because of the freedoms your government has granted you that you can make such comments withou fear of serious retribution. Of course, it's also thanks to these freedoms that I can tell you that I think you are an idiot jack-ass with nothing better to do than piss people off. I also believe that the reason you do so is because you have only the base minimum I.Q. required to use a computer (ergo, that of a chimpanzee) and you use such comments as a method to release your frustrations at being so stupid. Sadly, your simian-like intelligence cannot grasp any concept other than your base sexual urges, and certainly not the vocabulary required to effectively communicate to others your immense angst at being nothing more than a pathetic little spider monkey jerking off 20 hours a day and then not understanding why your dick hurts.
Yeah, that's all well and good that they let her go and all, but what about the ones they haven't released? The ones nobody knows of, or remembers? What about the people the Chinese government has abandoned over the years, all the young girls sent off to learn the joys of Communism in the 40's, then abandoned to their fates when they decided the project sucked? How about the way women are viewed as third-class citizens, slightly above slaves, by both government and society? It's a worthless gesture on their part. Yes, they're so cool, ignore the fact that they hate us, and our wonderful Republic. Ignore the fact that they produce many of our import goods, and that every dollar we give them is another dollar they put towards bringing us down. Remember folks, America is the Evil Empire because we promote trade and capitalism. We don't hold our women down, like the Muslims and Chinese do (anymore). We have abundant natural resources under our soil, but if we tap them, we're greedy bastards hell-bent on the destruction of the environment. We are infidels, heretics, heathens, and our love of freedom is a threat to the rest of the world. And to make matters worse, every day more of our own citizens side with those who would see us fall. Other nations can feel pride for being born in their country, but don't you dare, because if you do, you're an evil capitalist bastard who takes perverse sexual pleasure in the oppression you force upon the rest of the world. The only reason those countries hate us is because we have the basic freedoms they lack, and their governments realize this. They encourage their citizens to hate us because if they would stop to think, they would realize that they themselves want these freedoms. This is very dangerous to the control a dictator exerts over his subjects. I apologize for turning this into a political rant, and I know it's all basically flamebait, but this stuff gets me pretty worked up. But anyway, we've worked very hard to become the great country we are today, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let some jealous asshole take that from me simply because he's pissed that I have more than he does.
Didn't I see these in Dominion Tank Police or something?
Seriously, it's an interesting concept, but let's say you're cruising at 35 M.P.H. or more, your one wheel hits a patch of ice or something, you go spinning across the road and get hit by a Mack truck. Not such a big deal you'd think, until that Hydrogen fuel cell ruptures. Then...BOOM!!! I think I'll stick to 4 wheels surrounded by a half ton of Detroit steel, thank you very much.
a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet, and may also include access to proprietary content, information, and other services as part of a package of services offered to consumers.
You could consider a protocol (such as HTTP or FTP) to be a service that offers these very things, so could we possibly glean from this that only a protocol can sue? Damn sneaky if you ask me...
None of their links worked for me either, but then again, I'm not running Windows. If the transcoding is handled by the application layer, it becomes a situation of "wait for the upgrade" or, to look at it from a M$ point of view, "push now, patch later." However, that's still more feasible than creating hyperlinks to the complicated form, because then the webmaster still has to remember all that crap, and some of those transcoded domain names (especially the Asian ones) look so much like a random string of babble that it just becomes ludicrous. So what you have here is a string of crap with a neat little "xn--" in front of it. So...why not use that as some kind of little subroutine trigger, use a standardized assignation of a fifth and possibly sixth character as some kind of country code, the servers modify the packet accordingly, and the routers handle the rest? Or maybe I'm just stupid...
Not only that, but the English language itself isn't even standardized. So do we use American English, or British English, or Australian English, or what? I'm a big fan of "Engrish" myself. Let's face it, a "common world language" is never going to happen, nor should it. We should be able to learn to communicate effectively, as civilized people, without resorting to forcing everyone to accept one single language, whichever one it might be.
English as the world language is surely as efficient as a single standards based unix as a world operating system. Yeah, and about as likely too.
It looks to me like this isn't really going to be such a big deal. Their domain names are going to be converted for DNS anyway, so it's not like we would have to type in a complicated string of characters that aren't on our keyboards. So we can't remember what to type so easily, so what? That's why we have bookmarks. Besides, this isn't really for us anyway. It's purpose seems to be to allow the people in other countries to use their own native languages for their own domain names. Easier for them, right? And if we want to access their domains, we just have to remember a few extra letters and dashes. No big deal. They get to do stuff in their language, we translate to ours, the whole world speaks, and maybe something gets done.