1. Energy does not have an associated frame of reference. Unless you talk about energy that has been "frozen" into matter, but then you mean mass.
2. A (normal) rocket does not convert mass into energy. It uses a chemical reaction in which lots of energy is converted from being tied up in chemical bonds to being the kinetic energy of molecules. The rocket works by conservation of momentum. The fuel basically explodes but has no-where to go except out the back of the rocket. To conserve momentum, the rest of the rocket moves in the opposite direction.
3. From the astronaut's perspective, it would still take him forever to reach c.
"When you have a material advance which literally materially changes the way that energy is absorbed and transmitted to our devices... somebody out there tinkering away in a bedroom or in a government lab is going to come up with a great idea for a new device that will shock us all,'' he said in a phone interview.
"When the Internet was created nobody envisioned that the killer app (application) would be e-mail or instant messaging.''
A while ago, I bought myself a nice, shiny Parker fountain pen. Now I awake to find myself locked-in to their proprietary, long-style ink refill cartridges.
Meanwhile, all of my friends are running around, laughing their asses off with their shorter ink cartridges that they can fit into every other type of fountain pen, or even lend to each other (illegally!)...
I recently spoke to Microsoft research chief Rick Rashid, who noted, with appropriate awe, that a terabyte of storage now costs about $500. That's enough space to hold every conversation you will ever have from birth to death,...
Ah, so that's what it was! You know, I was on a flight from Finland to England a while ago, and I was sat by the window over the wing. I could see a definite vertical line in my vision where things just didn't seem to line up. It moved with me as I moved my head, and after I had determined that it wasn't something to do with the window glass, I had absolutely no idea what it was. So thanks for that.
Oh well, just another 100 things to do then before I go...
Slashdot Mirror
Ouch!
I hope this helps a little:
1. Energy does not have an associated frame of reference. Unless you talk about energy that has been "frozen" into matter, but then you mean mass.
2. A (normal) rocket does not convert mass into energy. It uses a chemical reaction in which lots of energy is converted from being tied up in chemical bonds to being the kinetic energy of molecules. The rocket works by conservation of momentum. The fuel basically explodes but has no-where to go except out the back of the rocket. To conserve momentum, the rest of the rocket moves in the opposite direction.
3. From the astronaut's perspective, it would still take him forever to reach c.
Alot, alot, alot, alot...
I really, really hope that 'alot' will never become accepted usage. But its use seems to be growing... a lot.
Oh dear. "Effect" is actually the correct word here.
Slashdot is slashdotted, and the FBI fail it!
Any word on motherboards for AMD Athlon 64 (esp. socket 939) with PCI-express, or even dual--PCI-express slots for SLI?
I've got to say, I'm on this guy's side.
A while ago, I bought myself a nice, shiny Parker fountain pen. Now I awake to find myself locked-in to their proprietary, long-style ink refill cartridges.
Meanwhile, all of my friends are running around, laughing their asses off with their shorter ink cartridges that they can fit into every other type of fountain pen, or even lend to each other (illegally!)...
I believe the children are our future.
Yeah, pretty much all MS *anything* are admins on their "own" machine.
Erm... sorry, but no-one in the U.K. is named "Martha".
"I'm a lawyer"
YAL?
...an anti-advertisement!
Yes, yes, very good. But I think that the hardest part would be "staying still."
Oh well, just another 100 things to do then before I go...
...wait long enough in the place that you lost it, and it will come back.
Just what the Internet needs, another 1.3 billion bloggers letting us be privy to their inane thoughts.
"Oh, I go out for rest of day. Anybody call for your Grandpa, you tell them this nigga... gone fishin'!"
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
Um... my storage has not changed from 100 MB to 250 MB. Am I missing something? - Do I need to actually RTFA?
Hang on, we have "friends" that we need to buy for?
I know that Jeff K thinks very highly of you guys and your strip, as evidenced here.
How do you two feel about the adorable, non-haxoring peaceful little fellow?
Intel employee: "Shall I try migrating Pentium M to the desktop?"
Intel boss: "Fork off!"
</shame>
Go LaTeX!
For Windows:
http://www.miktex.org/
http://www.toolscenter.org/