The kilogram doesn't define the concept of mass, it merely measures it (imperfectly). Same with the Newton and the concept of force. Thus the force of the Earth's gravity on the Kilogram is qualitatively different, even if our imperfect measurements are incapable of quantifying it.
You're going to have a very hard time explaining how the latter logically follows from the former (justifying your use of "thus" above). You might want to go the route of saying that Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation applies, but there's no logical reason to think that the process that affected the prototype didn't affect the rest of the planet as well.
From the SI: "The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram." Note that the prototype kilogram has mass of exactly, to infinite precision, 1.0... kg by definition.
Mass is conceptually understood as the quantity of matter in an object or system. If the prototype kilogram contains less matter now than before, either the kilogram is not a measure of mass, or mass is fundamentally misunderstood.
By the way, in the sense of "taking a measurement", the kilogram does not measure mass. Scales or accelerometers do. This is an important distinction. Don't conflate the notions.
I disagree with your assessment regarding the validity of the logic.
I'll say I agree with your factual claims about Microsoft. Note that if Microsoft wasn't around, some other company (or companies) would have probably done all that Microsoft has. I presume this is where you see a flaw. But, as a matter of fact, Microsoft did do them.
Here's an analogy: The American Revolution was going to happen whether or not George Washington was alive at the time. If he wasn't, someone else would have stepped up to lead. Does that discredit the notion that George Washington was an effective general and that his victories were in some part responsible for expelling the British? No, of course not.
As a matter of fact, Google depended on Microsoft when those users were playing at HTML with their Windows 95 boxes.
And now, as a matter of fact, Google depends on Microsoft to play nice. If every copy of Windows shipped with a slightly modified hosts file (or maybe more sophisticated sabotage), Google would be toast.
It doesn't weigh fewer kilograms, that is certainly true. But the force of the Earth's gravity on the object (what most people refer to as 'weight') appears to have changed.
This gets really hard to think about if you try to think about it in depth. It's defined to be 1 kg exactly. A unit of mass. But the Newton is a derived unit, linear in mass. So the reference kilogram isn't feeling less of a force from gravity.
On the other hand, the "amount of matter" in the reference kilogram has decreased. From which one can conclude that mass is not a measure of the amount of matter, but of something closely related. What does this mean for the law of conservation of mass?
Oh, let's all get the warp whistle and warp to "big world"! Too bad big world isn't fucking fun, like the rest of this game. The entire thing is designed to anger and frustrate you. Oh, you get Kuribo's shoe on one fucking level! Wow, pardon me while I make the universal motion for a handjob. Kuribo's shoe fucking sucked. What did it do, exactly? It let you JUMP ON THINGS, something you were able to do the entire fucking game. Oh, also you looked gay.
There are some interesting power-ups in the game, such as Tanookie Mario, Hammer Mario, and Frog Mario. But guess what? You can get them on like 2 levels total, and if you fuck up and get hit ONCE, you lose them, FOREVER. Wow, that's fun! I love games that demand I play perfectly or have no fun, because I'm a fucking jap who strives for absolute perfection in gaming otherwise I kill myself.
Mario 3 may have been interesting or fun at one time, but the game is a worthless piece of shit in today's day and age. It's horribly flawed and full of punch-in-the-dick moments, much more so than it has moments that are just fun to play.
Is it really though? That's not rhetorical. Without RTFAing, I want the slashdot opinion - is this or is this not the proof that ATI is the solution for linux graphics? I was almost certain that my next card would be an nvidia, but this may change that.
It will be, in a few weeks. Moreso in a few months as the drivers improve. Performance tuning is one of the open source methodology's strengths.
I scored 453 wpm. On a completely unfamiliar English text.
Surprisingly, eye movement is the first bottleneck. Research has shown that if eye movement is limited (say, by flashing words on a screen instead of having the reader scan), one can read up to 2400 or so wpm. Speed reading exercises are about making your eyes move faster. You can get up to 1200 or so if you exercise your eye muscles.
What law (in the US at least) says it is illegal to download? Copyright infringement does not happen when you download, it happens via distribution. So, if you download without uploading, I would suspect you would be a gray area of the law. While P2P may cause a user to upload as they download, switch to Usenet to get away from that issue.
Wrong.
USC17,501:
(a) Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A (a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be.
USC17,106:
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
...
Fair use provisions aside, copyright is the exclusive right to copy a work.
I hoped that after 10 years of this debate, people would at least understand the basics.
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Did you even read the fucking summary? The journalist refused the NDA. The journalist reported that AMD uses abusive NDAs. AMD denies the journalist's claim. Proof of the claim is found.
From a physical point of view, it doesn't matter. The average energy flux through a given point is going to be the same whether the implant is there or not. (First order approximation, depends on the convexity of the reflector, and that energy comes from random (if limited) directions).
And I was saying that the consumer has the right/responsibility to throw a fit before the movie is made in a suck manner if he would be interested in watching a non-suck version. One consumer's opinion might not change the suck/non-suck nature of the movie, but many opinions might.
Making a movie is being a contractor (for the director, crew, and cast).
You're pretty dense. The point was that the consumer has power to dictate the terms under which a product is made. If the consumer did not, contractors could not exist as such. They would have to create a product without the consumer's input and put it on the market.
To be fair, people who were stupid enough to watch a thirty-minute Saturday morning toy advertisement is going to be stupid enough to watch any crap movie and enjoy it, too.
It remains to be Hollywood's business to decide what they put into a movie and it remains our business to chose if we think it might be worth wasting our money and time on.
Negotiation isn't something only done when a product is ready and you and the seller are trying to settle on a price. If this were true, nobody would become a contractor.
Indeed, potential customers become customers through negotiation. You can't get terms you like if you don't try.
Granted, in a case like this, many people would have to share your opinion. And they would have to be vocal. But at least the complainers are doing their part.
I've got a bad feeling that Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, or W.S. Anderson is going to direct. This has the potential to make Team America: World Police the world's first parody of a chronologically later film.
I don't know about that. The producers presumably bought the rights with the intent to try to make it your business. The movie is a product they intend to sell.
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The kilogram doesn't define the concept of mass, it merely measures it (imperfectly). Same with the Newton and the concept of force. Thus the force of the Earth's gravity on the Kilogram is qualitatively different, even if our imperfect measurements are incapable of quantifying it.
You're going to have a very hard time explaining how the latter logically follows from the former (justifying your use of "thus" above). You might want to go the route of saying that Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation applies, but there's no logical reason to think that the process that affected the prototype didn't affect the rest of the planet as well.
From the SI: "The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram." Note that the prototype kilogram has mass of exactly, to infinite precision, 1.0... kg by definition.
Mass is conceptually understood as the quantity of matter in an object or system. If the prototype kilogram contains less matter now than before, either the kilogram is not a measure of mass, or mass is fundamentally misunderstood.
By the way, in the sense of "taking a measurement", the kilogram does not measure mass. Scales or accelerometers do. This is an important distinction. Don't conflate the notions.
I think the pirates are looking forward to setting sail, not abandoning ship.
Bad idea. He'd have to bill her for his time doing that.
I disagree with your assessment regarding the validity of the logic.
I'll say I agree with your factual claims about Microsoft. Note that if Microsoft wasn't around, some other company (or companies) would have probably done all that Microsoft has. I presume this is where you see a flaw. But, as a matter of fact, Microsoft did do them.
Here's an analogy: The American Revolution was going to happen whether or not George Washington was alive at the time. If he wasn't, someone else would have stepped up to lead. Does that discredit the notion that George Washington was an effective general and that his victories were in some part responsible for expelling the British? No, of course not.
As a matter of fact, Google depended on Microsoft when those users were playing at HTML with their Windows 95 boxes.
And now, as a matter of fact, Google depends on Microsoft to play nice. If every copy of Windows shipped with a slightly modified hosts file (or maybe more sophisticated sabotage), Google would be toast.
It's possible, and no less legitimate.
It doesn't weigh fewer kilograms, that is certainly true. But the force of the Earth's gravity on the object (what most people refer to as 'weight') appears to have changed.
This gets really hard to think about if you try to think about it in depth. It's defined to be 1 kg exactly. A unit of mass. But the Newton is a derived unit, linear in mass. So the reference kilogram isn't feeling less of a force from gravity.
On the other hand, the "amount of matter" in the reference kilogram has decreased. From which one can conclude that mass is not a measure of the amount of matter, but of something closely related. What does this mean for the law of conservation of mass?
This game is shit, plain and simple.
Oh, let's all get the warp whistle and warp to "big world"! Too bad big world isn't fucking fun, like the rest of this game. The entire thing is designed to anger and frustrate you. Oh, you get Kuribo's shoe on one fucking level! Wow, pardon me while I make the universal motion for a handjob. Kuribo's shoe fucking sucked. What did it do, exactly? It let you JUMP ON THINGS, something you were able to do the entire fucking game. Oh, also you looked gay.
There are some interesting power-ups in the game, such as Tanookie Mario, Hammer Mario, and Frog Mario. But guess what? You can get them on like 2 levels total, and if you fuck up and get hit ONCE, you lose them, FOREVER. Wow, that's fun! I love games that demand I play perfectly or have no fun, because I'm a fucking jap who strives for absolute perfection in gaming otherwise I kill myself.
Mario 3 may have been interesting or fun at one time, but the game is a worthless piece of shit in today's day and age. It's horribly flawed and full of punch-in-the-dick moments, much more so than it has moments that are just fun to play.
The Black Screen of Death was a hoax. blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/09/microsoft-vista.html
Up to know, I've gone through life thinking that Cheez Whiz was the aerosolized cheese product.
Only if they hire you.
Is it really though? That's not rhetorical. Without RTFAing, I want the slashdot opinion - is this or is this not the proof that ATI is the solution for linux graphics? I was almost certain that my next card would be an nvidia, but this may change that.
It will be, in a few weeks. Moreso in a few months as the drivers improve. Performance tuning is one of the open source methodology's strengths.
I scored 453 wpm. On a completely unfamiliar English text.
Surprisingly, eye movement is the first bottleneck. Research has shown that if eye movement is limited (say, by flashing words on a screen instead of having the reader scan), one can read up to 2400 or so wpm. Speed reading exercises are about making your eyes move faster. You can get up to 1200 or so if you exercise your eye muscles.
Duh, reproduce means copy. As in download or upload. You're both participating in a reproduction process.
Wrong.
USC17,501:
Great, a link to a wikipedia article. Wonderful.
Did you even read the fucking summary? The journalist refused the NDA. The journalist reported that AMD uses abusive NDAs. AMD denies the journalist's claim. Proof of the claim is found.
From a physical point of view, it doesn't matter. The average energy flux through a given point is going to be the same whether the implant is there or not. (First order approximation, depends on the convexity of the reflector, and that energy comes from random (if limited) directions).
And I was saying that the consumer has the right/responsibility to throw a fit before the movie is made in a suck manner if he would be interested in watching a non-suck version. One consumer's opinion might not change the suck/non-suck nature of the movie, but many opinions might.
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Making a movie is being a contractor (for the director, crew, and cast).
You're pretty dense. The point was that the consumer has power to dictate the terms under which a product is made. If the consumer did not, contractors could not exist as such. They would have to create a product without the consumer's input and put it on the market.
To be fair, people who were stupid enough to watch a thirty-minute Saturday morning toy advertisement is going to be stupid enough to watch any crap movie and enjoy it, too.
;-)
Yeah, fuck you too.
It remains to be Hollywood's business to decide what they put into a movie and it remains our business to chose if we think it might be worth wasting our money and time on.
Negotiation isn't something only done when a product is ready and you and the seller are trying to settle on a price. If this were true, nobody would become a contractor.
Indeed, potential customers become customers through negotiation. You can't get terms you like if you don't try.
Granted, in a case like this, many people would have to share your opinion. And they would have to be vocal. But at least the complainers are doing their part.
(That said, Libertarians are still stupid)
Yeah, Ernest Borgnine and Telly Savalas were such hotties.
Google for "Project Bojinka." The intelligence community had known about a plan to fly passenger planes into buildings since the early 90s.
I've got a bad feeling that Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, or W.S. Anderson is going to direct. This has the potential to make Team America: World Police the world's first parody of a chronologically later film.
I don't know about that. The producers presumably bought the rights with the intent to try to make it your business. The movie is a product they intend to sell.