The brief says 'gravitation'. I have a strong feeling that the points should be considered as charged particles in a cosmic magnetic field. See Alfven's later works.
If we can measure the effect of the earth's surface during a solar eclipse, we should be able to measure the effect in the same place during a ""lunar eclipse""?
We should be able to measure the difference between midday and midnight on the earth's surface. We don't have to go to the moon for this.
Besides, the pendulum effect on the moon is less, because of the smaller moon's mass.
If this were effective, pendulum clocks would run slower at night, or in the dark.
Has anyone carefully run the experiment at midday, in bright sunlight, and at darkest midnight?
[The earth's mass should have a shielding effect]
And again, at midday, in bright sunlight, and at midday, in the dark?
[Purely photon dependant]
Einstein is famous for having discovered (Special) Relativity. Look into the history here, and you find that Lorentz (he of the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction) might have got there first, and been famous instead. And there were several other contenders.
[I'm not sure the others would have developed General Relativity, though. But someone would have got around to it.]
This man has it right.
I had questions in my head like 'what are you going to do for us?', and 'how will you help us do our job?'.
A manager's job is to get the resources necessary to do the job, and to decide between the use of scarce resources. His job is not to tell us how to do our job. On the man-management side, his job is to keep interfering busy-bodies off our backs, and that includes customers.
[For 'he' replace with 'she', or 'it', as appropriate!]
If you want a general purpose software construction and test kit, then Linux is good. If you want to write a letter to Auntie Angela, then Windows/Office/Word is good.
It is important to find out what the newbie wants to do with the system before asking any more questions
As for RTFM, a novice should read several good books on Unix and Linux before trying to understand any manuals.
It is certainly a waste of time to 'do their work for them'. The essence of the problem is to get them to do the job 'properly', and that means legislating to clarify the definition of their work, how their effectiveness shall be monitored and controlled, and that they are paid adequately for the work that is to be done.
The snag at the moment is the insanity of patenting software. The whole business should be taken away from the patent world, and put in the copyright world. Furthermore, in the copyright world, it should be the design of the software/system which has copyright, not the implementation.
The analogy with pure science is that the basic laws are free, but a design is special interpretaion of these laws, and as such has value. A design may work on a variety of computer architectures, and the value of each implementation should accrue in some measure to the original designer.
Software should go the way of music, and be subject to the performing rights society, or its equivalent: execution of a program would be the same as playing a song. It should be simple for an operating system to keep a log of each execution.
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The back mind is wondering what reply I should have my system send from my Linux box. It should not be too difficult to send some FUD back.
The brief says 'gravitation'. I have a strong feeling that the points should be considered as charged particles in a cosmic magnetic field. See Alfven's later works.
Where are the white mice?
If we can measure the effect of the earth's surface during a solar eclipse, we should be able to measure the effect in the same place during a ""lunar eclipse""? We should be able to measure the difference between midday and midnight on the earth's surface. We don't have to go to the moon for this. Besides, the pendulum effect on the moon is less, because of the smaller moon's mass.
If this were effective, pendulum clocks would run slower at night, or in the dark. Has anyone carefully run the experiment at midday, in bright sunlight, and at darkest midnight? [The earth's mass should have a shielding effect] And again, at midday, in bright sunlight, and at midday, in the dark? [Purely photon dependant]
Einstein is famous for having discovered (Special) Relativity. Look into the history here, and you find that Lorentz (he of the Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction) might have got there first, and been famous instead. And there were several other contenders. [I'm not sure the others would have developed General Relativity, though. But someone would have got around to it.]
Try, a nice hot cup of tea. (Hitchiker's guide)
Linux is a toolbox, not a desktop support system.
Which is Linux?
Linux is a very large software Meccano set. Build what you like out of it.
This man has it right. I had questions in my head like 'what are you going to do for us?', and 'how will you help us do our job?'. A manager's job is to get the resources necessary to do the job, and to decide between the use of scarce resources. His job is not to tell us how to do our job. On the man-management side, his job is to keep interfering busy-bodies off our backs, and that includes customers. [For 'he' replace with 'she', or 'it', as appropriate!]
Its the design that should have copyright protection, for exactly this reason.
If you want a general purpose software construction and test kit, then Linux is good. If you want to write a letter to Auntie Angela, then Windows/Office/Word is good.
It is important to find out what the newbie wants to do with the system before asking any more questions
As for RTFM, a novice should read several good books on Unix and Linux before trying to understand any manuals.
It is certainly a waste of time to 'do their work for them'. The essence of the problem is to get them to do the job 'properly', and that means legislating to clarify the definition of their work, how their effectiveness shall be monitored and controlled, and that they are paid adequately for the work that is to be done. The snag at the moment is the insanity of patenting software. The whole business should be taken away from the patent world, and put in the copyright world. Furthermore, in the copyright world, it should be the design of the software/system which has copyright, not the implementation. The analogy with pure science is that the basic laws are free, but a design is special interpretaion of these laws, and as such has value. A design may work on a variety of computer architectures, and the value of each implementation should accrue in some measure to the original designer. Software should go the way of music, and be subject to the performing rights society, or its equivalent: execution of a program would be the same as playing a song. It should be simple for an operating system to keep a log of each execution.