centrifugal force would give them weight, since they have mass. the prof. in the linked article should have qualified his answer to "inside a hollow, non-rotating sphere".
True, but the centrifugal force is so small that it is effectively nonexistent. If it was significant, we'd all weigh noticeably less as we travelled down to the equator.
By my calculations, the centripetal acceleration due to earth's rotation is about 0.037m/s^2, which is about 0.003g. In addition, the force felt by the inhabitants of the inner surface would cause them to be pulled toward the equator.
Another fun math problem: how fast does the earth need to rotate in order to start flinging objects off the surface (at the equator) and into space?
Since they would be weightless based on the hollow sphere's mass alone, that means they would all die horrible, fiery deaths when they fell into the inner sun. Oh well.
If the people on the inside surface were much more evolved than us, then surely they would know calculus. Therefore, they would figure out that anywhere inside the sphere, they would actually be weightless.
Physics is handled by the game engine, not the rendering engine.
DirectX just displays the polygons that the game engine tells it to, although the video card drivers can be responsible for some artifacts, though generally you can't blame drivers for poor collision detection.
(IANAGD - I am not a game developer - there may be gray areas in the above "rules")
Why not whistle in morse code? It would carry over the same distances and it would take much less time than that long drawn-out MP3 on cnn's site.
Plus, any word that you can spell with the English alphabet, you can use in morse code.
Or I have an even better thought which saves even more time, it would go like this:
"HEEEY SERVAAAANDO0000!!!!!!!!"
"WHAAAAAAT!!!!??"
etc etc.
But seriously...
I could also take this time to mention that musical instruments have also been used for long distance communications, all over the world. Talking drums in Africa, didgeridoos in Australia, and even more recently, the drummers on the front lines in the US civil war, issuing battle commands via the drum. All the instruments have their own "language" associated with them.
Earth-based telescopes are not necessarily limited.
The VLT Array in Chile, when fully operational, will produce images with greater resolution than Hubble, using adaptive optics and interferometry.
The downside is that you are more limited in where you can point it; however, most of the more interesting astronomical stuff is visible from the southern hemisphere anyway.
find it interesting that the cable companies have no problem feeding you nearly 100 channels of television, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (remember, that's bandwidth too - voice and full screen video), for, say, $50 a month -- yet when it's *Internet* bandwidth people want, suddenly we're supposed to respect all these artifically set limits/caps, and understand what a "great value" we're getting for that additional $49.95 per month.
The bandwidth required for video is not affected by the number of people tuning in. Don't forget that cable is still just RF, like airwaves, it's just that it uses coaxial cable as the transmission medium. When you have 100 channels on your cable TV, each channel just occupies a part of that frequency spectrum. High-speed data services typically occupy only one channel. And since that one data channel is still broadcasted to all the modems on your node (your modem just listens for the data intended for it), the bandwidth you see on your end IS affected by the activity of everybody else.
The point is, with regular video, it's the same bandwidth whether you broadcast to 10 people or 1000 people. Once you start dealing with 2-way communication and trying to deliver point-to-point data over a broadcast network however, it's easy to see how your speed can be affected by everybody else.
What are these 'type writers' you speak of? Are they like mini laptops?
My mother told me about these things recently.
Apparently it's some sort of newfangled technology that is so fast that it actually produces a hardcopy in realtime -- as you're creating it.
That's something that I don't think even the fastest computers you can buy today are able to do. One can only hope it's not just hype and/or vaporware.
...is replace the light bulb with a non-luminous heating element, and then just have some UV LED's in the base to "charge" the phosporescent goo periodically.
Struts is a framework for development in the model-view-controller paradigm.
Then again, ASP.NET is supposed to be more MVC-centric as well. From a high-level perspective, struts by itself focuses primarily on the "controller" part. I believe jakarta-tiles is now integrated with the latest version, and tiles focuses on the view part.
You could actually build a framework in.net that closely resembles struts. But asp.net itself solves (or rather, makes it easier for the developer to solve) many of the same problems that struts solves, just in a different way.
Good idea, but imagine getting off the elevator and seeing a swarm of these things just sitting there waiting for you under the control of Gene Simmons.
One page 11 of the Owner's Manual for Antares Kantos (new audio-controlled synthesizer which also uses pitch tracking) is this funny little gem:
The same crafty people who unwittingly unleashed "The Cher Effect" on the world with Auto-Tune have now used this power for good: kantos can follow pitch-bending, constrain input notes to all notes of a scale, or constrain the input to only certain notes.
What most people with perfect pitch really really hate are bagpipes. Never mind the fact that most people have never actually heard bagpipes when they're played well. Highland bagpipes (the most common variety) are tuned to a very sharp A, like 448 or 449. That's almost a b-flat but not quite. When playing with other instruments they are tuned up to B-flat myxolydian (E-flat major). Even still, a piper would have to adjust a few of the individual notes by partially covering the fingerholes with tape, in order to blend in with the other instruments.
Pipe bands (good ones) will have standardized tunings for all their players, and thus 30 pipers in perfect tune is an awesome sound, but there are plenty of solo players who prefer their own tunings that would be an aural assault on the ears of people expecting to hear standard equal-tempered Western tuning.
If you actually have a pro studio, then the cost of having a silent PC is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the gear.
If you're like me and you have a home studio then it's a bigger issue to get a truly silent PC. Dell computers are very quiet, they've actually designed them to be that way. You'd probably need to replace the drive with a quiet Seagate one for even more benefit. Then put the system in a relatively inexpensive glass cabinet or home entertainment enclosure.
My home-built computer is a perfect example of what NOT to have in a studio. The 4 case fans don't make much noise now that I have them going through a rheobus, and the PSU fans are quiet, but the Vantec Aerocool makes plenty of noise, as does the radeon 9700. Stupid me, I use the same system for gaming, not the best idea!
Workarounds: I use closed-air headphones when recording. Softsynths obviously don't pick up any environmental noise, and it's also a non-issue with things like Antares Kantos. For the limited audio tracks I record, Cool Edit Pro performs near-miracles with respect to noise reduction if you use it right. This probably wouldn't cut it for a capella voice tracks but I mainly record hand drums.
I'm just a hobbyist though. It seems like the more money I put into my studio, the less time I have to actually do anything with it.
However, I would prefer Microsoft get their CSS implementation to meet the existing standards before going off to implement something brand new that has not been finalized. It's a pain in the ass to have to code two style sheets just because Microsoft gets too many basic things completely wrong.
No argument there. But having something ratified by W3C is certainly a good thing. At least the standard will exist, so that we'll know exactly how Microsoft is violating it!
DHTML itself is not a technology... it's simply a method of using existing technologies (javascript, CSS, HTML form elements, etc) to create client-side dynamic web pages.
Microsoft and Netscape both created implementations of DHTML which were largely incompatible with each other, leading to many programmer headaches.
W3C is working on a standard as we speak, which is largely dependent on the standardized Document Object Model.
Microsoft's existing standard will be very close to the final W3C standard. Netscape's was even more proprietary because it introduced new tags that are not even in the HTML 4.0 standard (Layers, anyone?)
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This particular page isn't on the regular support site (which only works in IE) but you can get the info you're looking for here, in any browser:
s .asp
http://www.cox.com/INETIncludes/policy/limitation
That still makes more sense than intel's chip versioning.
Back in the early 90's, the original Pentium was called "P5." 5th generation, I believe, whereas the 80386 and 80486 were 3rd and 4th gen.
For example, Gateway had model numbers like "P5-120" for 120MHz Pentiums.
Pentium Pro became P6.
Then came the Pentium 2. This became abbreviated as P2. Or sometimes P-II.
Pentium 3 = P3. Or sometimes P-III.
Pentium 4 = P4.
I sure hope they never come out with anything called "Pentium 5" or somebody will get punched.
But if I didn't know any better, I'd say that a Commodore-128 was twice as powerful as an Athlon-64.
centrifugal force would give them weight, since they have mass. the prof. in the linked article should have qualified his answer to "inside a hollow, non-rotating sphere".
True, but the centrifugal force is so small that it is effectively nonexistent. If it was significant, we'd all weigh noticeably less as we travelled down to the equator.
By my calculations, the centripetal acceleration due to earth's rotation is about 0.037m/s^2, which is about 0.003g. In addition, the force felt by the inhabitants of the inner surface would cause them to be pulled toward the equator.
Another fun math problem: how fast does the earth need to rotate in order to start flinging objects off the surface (at the equator) and into space?
Since they would be weightless based on the hollow sphere's mass alone, that means they would all die horrible, fiery deaths when they fell into the inner sun. Oh well.
If the people on the inside surface were much more evolved than us, then surely they would know calculus. Therefore, they would figure out that anywhere inside the sphere, they would actually be weightless.
Physics is handled by the game engine, not the rendering engine.
DirectX just displays the polygons that the game engine tells it to, although the video card drivers can be responsible for some artifacts, though generally you can't blame drivers for poor collision detection.
(IANAGD - I am not a game developer - there may be gray areas in the above "rules")
I would've left the lens cap on intentionally, because of the considerable amount of time saved during the stitching process.
If you got sick, you could be sued for patent infringement.
For the computer to win, the next time a New Game is started, Kasparov will need to select the "Nightmare" difficulty level.
Plus, any word that you can spell with the English alphabet, you can use in morse code.
Or I have an even better thought which saves even more time, it would go like this:
But seriously...
I could also take this time to mention that musical instruments have also been used for long distance communications, all over the world. Talking drums in Africa, didgeridoos in Australia, and even more recently, the drummers on the front lines in the US civil war, issuing battle commands via the drum. All the instruments have their own "language" associated with them.
Earth-based telescopes are not necessarily limited.
The VLT Array in Chile, when fully operational, will produce images with greater resolution than Hubble, using adaptive optics and interferometry.
The downside is that you are more limited in where you can point it; however, most of the more interesting astronomical stuff is visible from the southern hemisphere anyway.
find it interesting that the cable companies have no problem feeding you nearly 100 channels of television, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (remember, that's bandwidth too - voice and full screen video), for, say, $50 a month -- yet when it's *Internet* bandwidth people want, suddenly we're supposed to respect all these artifically set limits/caps, and understand what a "great value" we're getting for that additional $49.95 per month.
The bandwidth required for video is not affected by the number of people tuning in. Don't forget that cable is still just RF, like airwaves, it's just that it uses coaxial cable as the transmission medium. When you have 100 channels on your cable TV, each channel just occupies a part of that frequency spectrum. High-speed data services typically occupy only one channel. And since that one data channel is still broadcasted to all the modems on your node (your modem just listens for the data intended for it), the bandwidth you see on your end IS affected by the activity of everybody else.
The point is, with regular video, it's the same bandwidth whether you broadcast to 10 people or 1000 people. Once you start dealing with 2-way communication and trying to deliver point-to-point data over a broadcast network however, it's easy to see how your speed can be affected by everybody else.
For providing examples of invalid syntax in PHP, ASP, and java!
Two chicks at the same time.
What are these 'type writers' you speak of? Are they like mini laptops?
My mother told me about these things recently.
Apparently it's some sort of newfangled technology that is so fast that it actually produces a hardcopy in realtime -- as you're creating it.
That's something that I don't think even the fastest computers you can buy today are able to do. One can only hope it's not just hype and/or vaporware.
...is replace the light bulb with a non-luminous heating element, and then just have some UV LED's in the base to "charge" the phosporescent goo periodically.
Struts is a framework for development in the model-view-controller paradigm.
.net that closely resembles struts. But asp.net itself solves (or rather, makes it easier for the developer to solve) many of the same problems that struts solves, just in a different way.
Then again, ASP.NET is supposed to be more MVC-centric as well.
From a high-level perspective, struts by itself focuses primarily on the "controller" part. I believe jakarta-tiles is now integrated with the latest version, and tiles focuses on the view part.
You could actually build a framework in
Good idea, but imagine getting off the elevator and seeing a swarm of these things just sitting there waiting for you under the control of Gene Simmons.
What most people with perfect pitch really really hate are bagpipes. Never mind the fact that most people have never actually heard bagpipes when they're played well. Highland bagpipes (the most common variety) are tuned to a very sharp A, like 448 or 449. That's almost a b-flat but not quite. When playing with other instruments they are tuned up to B-flat myxolydian (E-flat major). Even still, a piper would have to adjust a few of the individual notes by partially covering the fingerholes with tape, in order to blend in with the other instruments.
Pipe bands (good ones) will have standardized tunings for all their players, and thus 30 pipers in perfect tune is an awesome sound, but there are plenty of solo players who prefer their own tunings that would be an aural assault on the ears of people expecting to hear standard equal-tempered Western tuning.
If you actually have a pro studio, then the cost of having a silent PC is a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the gear.
If you're like me and you have a home studio then it's a bigger issue to get a truly silent PC. Dell computers are very quiet, they've actually designed them to be that way. You'd probably need to replace the drive with a quiet Seagate one for even more benefit.
Then put the system in a relatively inexpensive glass cabinet or home entertainment enclosure.
My home-built computer is a perfect example of what NOT to have in a studio. The 4 case fans don't make much noise now that I have them going through a rheobus, and the PSU fans are quiet, but the Vantec Aerocool makes plenty of noise, as does the radeon 9700. Stupid me, I use the same system for gaming, not the best idea!
Workarounds: I use closed-air headphones when recording. Softsynths obviously don't pick up any environmental noise, and it's also a non-issue with things like Antares Kantos. For the limited audio tracks I record, Cool Edit Pro performs near-miracles with respect to noise reduction if you use it right. This probably wouldn't cut it for a capella voice tracks but I mainly record hand drums.
I'm just a hobbyist though. It seems like the more money I put into my studio, the less time I have to actually do anything with it.
Is this a time warp? Netscape deprecated layers with version 6. I don't mind a defense of Microsoft, but please do it with 2003 examples!
The original poster was referring to the beginnings of DHTML, and I was clarifying on that point. This was the late 90's time frame.
And yes, the site did appear to go down inexplicably...
However, I would prefer Microsoft get their CSS implementation to meet the existing standards before going off to implement something brand new that has not been finalized. It's a pain in the ass to have to code two style sheets just because Microsoft gets too many basic things completely wrong.
No argument there. But having something ratified by W3C is certainly a good thing. At least the standard will exist, so that we'll know exactly how Microsoft is violating it!
or rather, not JUST microsoft.
_ ch u/dhtml/standards.htm
DHTML itself is not a technology... it's simply a method of using existing technologies (javascript, CSS, HTML form elements, etc) to create client-side dynamic web pages.
Microsoft and Netscape both created implementations of DHTML which were largely incompatible with each other, leading to many programmer headaches.
W3C is working on a standard as we speak, which is largely dependent on the standardized Document Object Model.
More info...
http://www.talltech.com/student/imos98student/j
Microsoft's existing standard will be very close to the final W3C standard. Netscape's was even more proprietary because it introduced new tags that are not even in the HTML 4.0 standard (Layers, anyone?)
Microsoft will change the rules of mathematics.