Er.....faster = lower orbit, because gravity is stronger. To orbit cm's above a planet would require much higher velocities than miles above a planet. Give a rock a strong enough throw at the right angle, and you can get it to orbit a sphere at an arbitrary height. Make the planet slightly denser and hence smaller, and the orbiting object won't know the difference. A point-mass can have an object orbiting at any distance above it...just expand the volume and keep the mass to get it as close to the orbiting object as you wish.
Go back to physics class or take some calculus and rethink your "go faster and you will automatically be pushed [farther out]" idea.
Re:A stroke of originality!
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Hmm...I don't think that's Carmina Burana. Then again, I've heard a total of maybe 10 minutes of CB (the part they played in Excalibur:), so I may just have not gotten that far.
You've never had a laptop.
I have a laptop with supposedly good battery life. It' about a year old, and with minimal use and regular battery maintenance, mine only lasts about 20-40 minutes on a single charge with the screen brightness all the way down, no cd or floppy, and processor on "slow".
Err..you don't know what you're talking about. Compaq engineers reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS and were then sued. Compaq won, and the PC Clone industry was born
And..erm....what if I go the record store and buy a cd with..gasp..CASH? Unless they're making me sign a form to buy a freaking cd, they can't trace a damn thing back to me. I can distribute at will.
A Watt-hour is a measure of raw energy. A watt is energy/time, so energy/time * time gives you energy.
Maybe what the poster was going for was something like "10 Watt-hours per hour," which is of course just 10 Watts. A 100 Watt light bulb consumes 100 Watt-hours every hour, hence 100 Watts.
I've had lots of joysticks, and I _HATE_ MS joysticks. They feel very...cheap. Same goes for gravis..lots of nice buttons on those Gravis sticks though:)
By far, my favorite joystick company is CH Products. Nothing beats an F-16 Fightertick with a Pro Throttle and Pro Pedals. MMMMMMMMM:)
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Latin was never the language of choice for educated people, even in the times of the Roman Empire. I believe that was Greek (?).
Go read your history and quit sounding like an asshole.
My user number is less than 80,000. I have been active at/. since I arrived (not TOO many postings, but I have had 2 stories on the front page, and metamod almost every day. Guess how manay times I have become a moderator.
3 times.
Almost 2 years, I believe. Don't expect too much unless you post and get modded up a _lot_.
In all of the moderation systems I have seen proposed, there's something missing that keeps all moderation systems ridiculously stupid. It's called negative feedback.
All of the systems I have seen either totally lack feedback at all (for instance, Slashdot's miserable attempt called MM) or have some type of positive feedback - this proposal included. I may be wrong, but it seems that a "poster" with an "idea" can grow to wield power. Someone accumulates enough points, he or she can consistently post to the most active categories and be seen. What would this lead to? A few people who are very active and dominate the board.
I don't know what to propose as a negative feedback system for this type of situation. All I know is that I see a desperate need for someone to design a system in which all users share power equally, however cheesy that may sound. I would love to see a proposal that intends to keep power out of a select few individuals so we rarely see the same name twice. Everyone could have the power to moderate every story they see. The bad stories will quickly drop off the front page, and the good ones will stay. The site won't have the highest-quality news, but you simply can't have both.
What you will get from a site like this is a myriad of opinions and views from all sorts of places. It won't be CNN, and it won't be nearly as homogenized as/.'s "napster, mp3.com, linux" current portfolio. This kind of site would be a great place to get a fresh look on things.
This is just an idea, but such a site would cater to the crowd that kiro5hin has attracted. Hence, I think it would provide a nice counterpoint to Slashdot, where one can get a more mainstream, less off-the-wall and imaginitive, quality news source.
Again, admittedly, I didn't inspect the original story too closely..I read the first half and skimmed the second. Just felt like giving something to think about though.
Not only did Hemos forget to include a link or two, he forgot to close the italics too:)
While I'm at it, does anyone know what exactly te patent(s) in question are for? To be honest, I'm too lazy to go look them up. Aren't they the companies that help Yahoo, etc. work more quickly?
I have to agree with my other anonymous poster regarding your grammar skills. The sentence beginning "As to quoting" is a run-on.
The sentence beginning "So I appreciate your comment" has a comma splice: the comma before "and sympathise [sic]" is incorrect. Additionally, The following comma should be a period.
I'm not going to touch the last paragraph - the beginning is a mess and not a complete sentence at all. The last sentence is also a fragment.
Enjoy..and let me know if you need an editor for some papers;)
Excuse me, but wasn't it the now-vice-presidential candidate and Democratic Senator Leiberman that spearheaded the entire games rating process in the first place?
Well, the question is..how do we say which tastes better? This apple or this orange? Or _this_ apple or _this_ orange?
An apple has white flesh with less juice. That's nice. Is extra juice good? How much is too much? Which is better - white flesh that's slightly chalky and uniform, or a thick orange flesh divided into sections?
THAT'S why we say "that's like comparing apples to oranges." You can compare apples to apples, saying "this one isn't as chalky, and chalkiness is bad" or "this one is juicier, and juice is good in an apple." You can't say "this apple is chalkier than this orange, and chalkiness is always bad, so the orange is a superior fruit."
Apples and oranges are both fruit; Linux and Windows 2000 are both operating systems. We can compare feature sets, but we absolutely cannot conclude that one is superior to the other because they _are_ as different as apples and oranges on the inside and outside.
I'd like to know where you read that the PIV's won't be faster than Athlons. From the vibe I get, AMD better get their collective ass in gear or the PIV will totally rape the Athlon.
I would honestly love to read something that will counter this, because I don't much trust Intel anymore. But if they can make a faster processor than AMD that is cost effective, go Intel. So where did you read this?
Nah, not really. I'm closely related to a few employees and good friends with the rest of them (there are only 15 people in the office). I'm there quite frequently visiting and doing computer help, though not for pay. Therefore, my use of "us" was correct though not explained:)
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Er.....faster = lower orbit, because gravity is stronger. To orbit cm's above a planet would require much higher velocities than miles above a planet. Give a rock a strong enough throw at the right angle, and you can get it to orbit a sphere at an arbitrary height. Make the planet slightly denser and hence smaller, and the orbiting object won't know the difference. A point-mass can have an object orbiting at any distance above it...just expand the volume and keep the mass to get it as close to the orbiting object as you wish.
Go back to physics class or take some calculus and rethink your "go faster and you will automatically be pushed [farther out]" idea.
Hmm...I don't think that's Carmina Burana. Then again, I've heard a total of maybe 10 minutes of CB (the part they played in Excalibur :), so I may just have not gotten that far.
;)
Increased startup time, or increased startup speed?
You've never had a laptop.
I have a laptop with supposedly good battery life. It' about a year old, and with minimal use and regular battery maintenance, mine only lasts about 20-40 minutes on a single charge with the screen brightness all the way down, no cd or floppy, and processor on "slow".
Err..you don't know what you're talking about. Compaq engineers reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS and were then sued. Compaq won, and the PC Clone industry was born
And..erm....what if I go the record store and buy a cd with..gasp..CASH? Unless they're making me sign a form to buy a freaking cd, they can't trace a damn thing back to me. I can distribute at will.
A Watt-hour is a measure of raw energy. A watt is energy/time, so energy/time * time gives you energy.
Maybe what the poster was going for was something like "10 Watt-hours per hour," which is of course just 10 Watts. A 100 Watt light bulb consumes 100 Watt-hours every hour, hence 100 Watts.
Watts have the time component built in.
I wonder how much lower his user # is than yours ;)
I've had lots of joysticks, and I _HATE_ MS joysticks. They feel very...cheap. Same goes for gravis..lots of nice buttons on those Gravis sticks though :)
:)
By far, my favorite joystick company is CH Products. Nothing beats an F-16 Fightertick with a Pro Throttle and Pro Pedals. MMMMMMMMM
Latin was never the language of choice for educated people, even in the times of the Roman Empire. I believe that was Greek (?).
Go read your history and quit sounding like an asshole.
To both of you:
/. since I arrived (not TOO many postings, but I have had 2 stories on the front page, and metamod almost every day. Guess how manay times I have become a moderator.
My user number is less than 80,000. I have been active at
3 times.
Almost 2 years, I believe. Don't expect too much unless you post and get modded up a _lot_.
Not only was the post not written by Hemos, but it appears grammatically perfect. Try again.
Good luck.
In all of the moderation systems I have seen proposed, there's something missing that keeps all moderation systems ridiculously stupid. It's called negative feedback.
/.'s "napster, mp3.com, linux" current portfolio. This kind of site would be a great place to get a fresh look on things.
All of the systems I have seen either totally lack feedback at all (for instance, Slashdot's miserable attempt called MM) or have some type of positive feedback - this proposal included. I may be wrong, but it seems that a "poster" with an "idea" can grow to wield power. Someone accumulates enough points, he or she can consistently post to the most active categories and be seen. What would this lead to? A few people who are very active and dominate the board.
I don't know what to propose as a negative feedback system for this type of situation. All I know is that I see a desperate need for someone to design a system in which all users share power equally, however cheesy that may sound. I would love to see a proposal that intends to keep power out of a select few individuals so we rarely see the same name twice. Everyone could have the power to moderate every story they see. The bad stories will quickly drop off the front page, and the good ones will stay. The site won't have the highest-quality news, but you simply can't have both.
What you will get from a site like this is a myriad of opinions and views from all sorts of places. It won't be CNN, and it won't be nearly as homogenized as
This is just an idea, but such a site would cater to the crowd that kiro5hin has attracted. Hence, I think it would provide a nice counterpoint to Slashdot, where one can get a more mainstream, less off-the-wall and imaginitive, quality news source.
Again, admittedly, I didn't inspect the original story too closely..I read the first half and skimmed the second. Just felt like giving something to think about though.
Not only did Hemos forget to include a link or two, he forgot to close the italics too :)
While I'm at it, does anyone know what exactly te patent(s) in question are for? To be honest, I'm too lazy to go look them up. Aren't they the companies that help Yahoo, etc. work more quickly?
This article has nothing to do with 3dfx. What's wrong with you?
I have to agree with my other anonymous poster regarding your grammar skills. The sentence beginning "As to quoting" is a run-on.
;)
The sentence beginning "So I appreciate your comment" has a comma splice: the comma before "and sympathise [sic]" is incorrect. Additionally, The following comma should be a period.
I'm not going to touch the last paragraph - the beginning is a mess and not a complete sentence at all. The last sentence is also a fragment.
Enjoy..and let me know if you need an editor for some papers
His name is Ed Reed, and he's a college student here at RPI. He's a sophomore and has no intentions of paying
Cnet's story
Excuse me, but wasn't it the now-vice-presidential candidate and Democratic Senator Leiberman that spearheaded the entire games rating process in the first place?
That's the whole idea ;)
It's a subjective decision, and youc an't say one is better than the other. It's all based on taste.
Well, the question is..how do we say which tastes better? This apple or this orange? Or _this_ apple or _this_ orange?
An apple has white flesh with less juice. That's nice. Is extra juice good? How much is too much? Which is better - white flesh that's slightly chalky and uniform, or a thick orange flesh divided into sections?
THAT'S why we say "that's like comparing apples to oranges." You can compare apples to apples, saying "this one isn't as chalky, and chalkiness is bad" or "this one is juicier, and juice is good in an apple." You can't say "this apple is chalkier than this orange, and chalkiness is always bad, so the orange is a superior fruit."
Apples and oranges are both fruit; Linux and Windows 2000 are both operating systems. We can compare feature sets, but we absolutely cannot conclude that one is superior to the other because they _are_ as different as apples and oranges on the inside and outside.
I'd like to know where you read that the PIV's won't be faster than Athlons. From the vibe I get, AMD better get their collective ass in gear or the PIV will totally rape the Athlon.
I would honestly love to read something that will counter this, because I don't much trust Intel anymore. But if they can make a faster processor than AMD that is cost effective, go Intel. So where did you read this?
The fact that there are orders of magnitudes more monies being exchanged via the internet in the US than Germany.
Nah, not really. I'm closely related to a few employees and good friends with the rest of them (there are only 15 people in the office). I'm there quite frequently visiting and doing computer help, though not for pay. Therefore, my use of "us" was correct though not explained :)
My old company, a nursing agency, hasn't upgraded off of DOS yet. Lots of us exist.