Well, that's what you get for buying content instead of just copying it from pirate bay or whatever. Maybe it's time for us to finally learn our lesson?
I downloaded "Lays of Beleriand" (by J.R.R. Tolkien) from Piratebay, because it wasn't available on Amazon for Kindle. I transferred it over to my kindle, but all the formatting was borked... the eight-syllable-per-line Lay of Leithian was no longer separated into lines like a poem, but rather into paragraphs. Does anybody know a good way to transfer something like that over to my Kindle without removing the page breaks at the end of the lines?
You just quoted him twice and said the same thing as he did, twice... all while saying he was wrong. I guess you just misunderstood what he wrote.
No, I just understand the difference between a "spiral" and an "ellipse". Trust me on this, nothing in free flight "spirals" anywhere.
Orbits do NOT (in spite of what you may have seen in the movies or read in bad science fiction) "spiral".
What orbits do is follow elliptical paths. An ellipse, in case you're wondering, goes down a bit, then back up to the same point that it started from. Or up a bit, and back down to the same point in started from.
Absent perturbing forces, of course.
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/images/moontrajectoryjpg_1.jpg -- This picture shows the spiral he was talking about. Nobody said anything about "spiral orbits". Reread his comment, and you'll see he was talking about the launch--which does, indeed, "spiral" away from the earth until the orbit is made circular. The "spiral" portion is from the launch at the surface of the earth until the line hits the red circular orbit. You are wrong and after reading another your reply, I think your reading comprehension is a little low.
If you need another example, check out http://www.satcom.co.uk/images/Presentations/rpcstl3s7a.gif -- Although the entire orbit shows up as a spiral, it's just coincidental to how the burns are shown one after the other. The actual spiral that we are all discussing in this thread is from Launch (at "Boost Phase" point) until the "Perigee Burn" point. In any common, everyday terms, this is a spiral shape. Go back and reread your original parent's post with a more open mind.
Correct me if I'm wrong (you probably will), but the shuttle (or any other rocket for that matter), does not just go straight up and then stop... it spirals away from the earth and then levels out gradually at whatever oribital plane is desired.
You're wrong. The shuttle goes straight up, then begins to tilt over to enter an orbit that is tangential to the desired orbit. When it reaches that tangential point, it makes a very small burn to circularize the orbit.
Likewise, when they want to "come down" again, after a brief thrust, it gradually spirals back down to earth.
It makes a short burn which puts it into an orbit that will intersect the Earth.
You just quoted him twice and said the same thing as he did, twice... all while saying he was wrong. I guess you just misunderstood what he wrote.
NONE of those abort scenarios are as good as a launch escape system. Russians had one go off once with astronauts on the pad... those were some pretty bruised, beat up, angry, but alive astronauts...
I wrote a "Pro-Kindle" post down below, but I don't think digital pads are going to be the way of the near future... using a notebook, with as fine of print as you can whittle your mechanical pencil down to, will beat any digital solution for a while to come.
And of course Kindle doesn't have touch screen... just a QWERTY pad. You can't really type fast on it, but the "click" when you push a button is satisfying and appropriate.
I just got my Kindle 2 yesterday. While I have yet to see if it sticks, right now I'm pretty impressed by it. The screen looks just like paper, and I don't think it uses any battery power to "hold" its image on the screen (it has no backlight, but neither do books). When it showed up, I peeled off the clear sticker with a printed "Amazon" logo on it, only to realize that the sticker was a clear sheet... and the "Amazon" was actually displayed on the screen and kept during shipping. Pretty cool.
I never buy books because I'm lazy and I never know if I'll like them, plus the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you. I've never read Larry Niven, instead opting to read the synopsis of the plots of Wikipedia, but I have read three short stories (Core, Neutron Star, and now in the middle of Flatlander) and I am loving it. I'm writing this because an eBook reader is better than I thought it would be, and it would probably be better than you think, as well. I like it and I'm impressed.
North Korea conducted its first and only nuclear test in 2006, described as "completely successful" and "revealing new dimensions in gunpowder science."
How hard is it to get a fizzle that releases a "decent" amount of energy? I also wonder if DPRK just rolled a few hundred tons of conventional explosives into their cave.
If we do not have souls, then the universe is a harsh, dark mistress, there is no God, and all we see is all there really is.
I'm totally a nonbeliever in anything as far as religion goes, but are you seriously suggesting that your all-powerful or even semi-powerful god can't make a universe where there aren't souls?
If I had a god, he'd be pretty damn omnipotent in that he could set the big bang in motion and receive exactly the results he wanted to 15 billion years later.
Now they're delaying it... or you know, just assume that Google is horribly evil. Whichever.
Thanks for offering the choice. I'm gonna assume they're horribly evil.
See, the truth of the matter is that Google is now assembling a database of all the possible ways the world could be saved. Meanwhile, they have a crack team of evil underlords working to make sure that Google has appropriate counter-strategies to the the world-saving methods with the highest PageRanks.
This way, when Googol the Destroyer is summoned from the Plane of Infernal Terrors to wreak the End of Days upon the world, no measly humans will be able to execute a plan to thwart him.
Mwua-ha-ha-ha.
Humanity's only hope will be that the eminent rival sorcerors, Gatus and Joba, will overcome their mutual disdain in order to devise an artifact of true power, the One True Operating System with Built-in Global Web Search, that will condemn Googol to return to the Plane of Infernal Terrors. Unfortunately, the roving druid Stallmanx has thrown a wrench into the works by turning the hearts and minds of lesser sorcerors (and hedge wizards) against Gatus and Joba, and so our heroes must overcome the animosity of their lesser brethren before they can fulfill their quest.
Will Gatus and Joba succeed? Will we ever find out what wonders lie beneath the surface of Stallmanx's Beard of Druidic Prowess? Will Googol succeed in bringing about the End of Days via the Rite of a Million Targeted Ads?
Tune in to next week's broadcast of "Googol the Destroyer"!
Mod this guy overrated, because it lowers his score without impacting his karma... then mod him informative to boost his karma.
Well I do believe he was toying with using Earth's resonant frequency to essentially generate electricity using the atmosphere (by putting in a small amount he could receive a lot back and I think there was a story about him blowing up some power plant's generators doing this). Just some of the crazy things he did...
+4 informative? Let me try... I heard he was tapping into the sub-ether (which normally cancels out the regular ether, see Michelson-Morley experiment) which can start a cascade reaction to generate electricity. I think there was a story about him blowing up some power station's transformers doing this. Just some of the crazy things he did...
If you are stateside, you don't need permission to get married, and you ALWAYS get BAH and BAS (about $2000 a month, depending on rank, cost of living for the locale, etc.)
Overseas is a different deal because space is limited and CI/force protection become issues. But if you are married and your wife stays in the US while you go to Korea, or any other analogous situation where you are separated, you still get the monthly BAH payment to buy an apartment/housing/food/etc.
I found it ironic that as a service member, I had less freedoms available to me. The freedom of speech, needing to ask for permission to get married, etc. Throw in the the base clubs weren't allowed to have "offensive" music (and of course the sensitive types wouldn't have the decency to stay home)./sigh. Buy all the liquor, tobacco and bibles you want, but no porn!
You don't need permission to get married, unless you are planning on marrying a foreigner while you are stationed in a foreign country.
Did you know that your smoke detector in your home contains radioactive material (americium)?
Yep, a whopping 1 microCurie, maximum. Successfully releasing the innards of even a small reactor would release millions of Curies. That's not "a little radioactivity." Spreading that all over a few blocks of a port city probably wouldn't kill anybody on the spot, but it would make it unusable for a long time, because we have laws about how much of that stuff you can have lying around with people wandering about.
Yes, a lot of people are overly scared of any amount of radioactivity and/or radiation, but there are legitimate concerns about the wrong people getting their hands on this stuff.
Even the most harmful radioactive material did come from nature. The real harm is in the vast quantity we can accumulate these things in one place, and this vast quantity is what a nuclear reactor should lack.
If there's not "vast quantities" of radioactive material in an operating nuclear reactor, then there's not vast quantities anywhere on earth.
Uranium is poisonous. It's not deadly because of the radioactivity, but rather because of its toxicity.
He means that a strong gravity source in our galaxy doesn't automatically force an incoming celestial body into a circular orbit. It needs to interact with a third object in some way in order to keep the incoming celestial body from either passing through the galaxy or being flung out.
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Well, that's what you get for buying content instead of just copying it from pirate bay or whatever. Maybe it's time for us to finally learn our lesson?
I downloaded "Lays of Beleriand" (by J.R.R. Tolkien) from Piratebay, because it wasn't available on Amazon for Kindle. I transferred it over to my kindle, but all the formatting was borked... the eight-syllable-per-line Lay of Leithian was no longer separated into lines like a poem, but rather into paragraphs. Does anybody know a good way to transfer something like that over to my Kindle without removing the page breaks at the end of the lines?
No, I just understand the difference between a "spiral" and an "ellipse". Trust me on this, nothing in free flight "spirals" anywhere.
Orbits do NOT (in spite of what you may have seen in the movies or read in bad science fiction) "spiral".
What orbits do is follow elliptical paths. An ellipse, in case you're wondering, goes down a bit, then back up to the same point that it started from. Or up a bit, and back down to the same point in started from.
Absent perturbing forces, of course.
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/images/moontrajectoryjpg_1.jpg -- This picture shows the spiral he was talking about. Nobody said anything about "spiral orbits". Reread his comment, and you'll see he was talking about the launch--which does, indeed, "spiral" away from the earth until the orbit is made circular. The "spiral" portion is from the launch at the surface of the earth until the line hits the red circular orbit. You are wrong and after reading another your reply, I think your reading comprehension is a little low.
If you need another example, check out http://www.satcom.co.uk/images/Presentations/rpcstl3s7a.gif -- Although the entire orbit shows up as a spiral, it's just coincidental to how the burns are shown one after the other. The actual spiral that we are all discussing in this thread is from Launch (at "Boost Phase" point) until the "Perigee Burn" point. In any common, everyday terms, this is a spiral shape. Go back and reread your original parent's post with a more open mind.
You're wrong. The shuttle goes straight up, then begins to tilt over to enter an orbit that is tangential to the desired orbit. When it reaches that tangential point, it makes a very small burn to circularize the orbit.
It makes a short burn which puts it into an orbit that will intersect the Earth.
You just quoted him twice and said the same thing as he did, twice... all while saying he was wrong. I guess you just misunderstood what he wrote.
NONE of those abort scenarios are as good as a launch escape system. Russians had one go off once with astronauts on the pad... those were some pretty bruised, beat up, angry, but alive astronauts...
Sulu offered nothing either and was basically "Harold" (from Harold and Kumar fame) on the bridge of the Enterprise... oh and he could fence.
He's got a boooomb!
Poison gaaas!
Marketing is more relevant than internet word-of-mouth. You don't know what you're talking about at all.
How was this guy marked troll? It's an entirely reasonable comment. I thought the same exact thing when I read the GP.
They have been running the beta in Japan since Office '97 ;)
I wrote a "Pro-Kindle" post down below, but I don't think digital pads are going to be the way of the near future... using a notebook, with as fine of print as you can whittle your mechanical pencil down to, will beat any digital solution for a while to come.
And of course Kindle doesn't have touch screen... just a QWERTY pad. You can't really type fast on it, but the "click" when you push a button is satisfying and appropriate.
I just got my Kindle 2 yesterday. While I have yet to see if it sticks, right now I'm pretty impressed by it. The screen looks just like paper, and I don't think it uses any battery power to "hold" its image on the screen (it has no backlight, but neither do books). When it showed up, I peeled off the clear sticker with a printed "Amazon" logo on it, only to realize that the sticker was a clear sheet... and the "Amazon" was actually displayed on the screen and kept during shipping. Pretty cool.
I never buy books because I'm lazy and I never know if I'll like them, plus the hassle of having to acquire them and then wait for them to get to you. I've never read Larry Niven, instead opting to read the synopsis of the plots of Wikipedia, but I have read three short stories (Core, Neutron Star, and now in the middle of Flatlander) and I am loving it. I'm writing this because an eBook reader is better than I thought it would be, and it would probably be better than you think, as well. I like it and I'm impressed.
Welcome back to Slashdot. ;)
North Korea conducted its first and only nuclear test in 2006, described as "completely successful" and "revealing new dimensions in gunpowder science."
How hard is it to get a fizzle that releases a "decent" amount of energy? I also wonder if DPRK just rolled a few hundred tons of conventional explosives into their cave.
If we do not have souls, then the universe is a harsh, dark mistress, there is no God, and all we see is all there really is.
I'm totally a nonbeliever in anything as far as religion goes, but are you seriously suggesting that your all-powerful or even semi-powerful god can't make a universe where there aren't souls?
If I had a god, he'd be pretty damn omnipotent in that he could set the big bang in motion and receive exactly the results he wanted to 15 billion years later.
I thought you post was interesting, but I'm still left wondering why you are tying junebugs to strings...
Are normal people still on the pill? Depo provera, anyone?
Thanks for offering the choice. I'm gonna assume they're horribly evil. See, the truth of the matter is that Google is now assembling a database of all the possible ways the world could be saved. Meanwhile, they have a crack team of evil underlords working to make sure that Google has appropriate counter-strategies to the the world-saving methods with the highest PageRanks. This way, when Googol the Destroyer is summoned from the Plane of Infernal Terrors to wreak the End of Days upon the world, no measly humans will be able to execute a plan to thwart him. Mwua-ha-ha-ha. Humanity's only hope will be that the eminent rival sorcerors, Gatus and Joba, will overcome their mutual disdain in order to devise an artifact of true power, the One True Operating System with Built-in Global Web Search, that will condemn Googol to return to the Plane of Infernal Terrors. Unfortunately, the roving druid Stallmanx has thrown a wrench into the works by turning the hearts and minds of lesser sorcerors (and hedge wizards) against Gatus and Joba, and so our heroes must overcome the animosity of their lesser brethren before they can fulfill their quest. Will Gatus and Joba succeed? Will we ever find out what wonders lie beneath the surface of Stallmanx's Beard of Druidic Prowess? Will Googol succeed in bringing about the End of Days via the Rite of a Million Targeted Ads? Tune in to next week's broadcast of "Googol the Destroyer"!
Mod this guy overrated, because it lowers his score without impacting his karma... then mod him informative to boost his karma.
Well I do believe he was toying with using Earth's resonant frequency to essentially generate electricity using the atmosphere (by putting in a small amount he could receive a lot back and I think there was a story about him blowing up some power plant's generators doing this). Just some of the crazy things he did...
+4 informative? Let me try... I heard he was tapping into the sub-ether (which normally cancels out the regular ether, see Michelson-Morley experiment) which can start a cascade reaction to generate electricity. I think there was a story about him blowing up some power station's transformers doing this. Just some of the crazy things he did...
If you are stateside, you don't need permission to get married, and you ALWAYS get BAH and BAS (about $2000 a month, depending on rank, cost of living for the locale, etc.)
Overseas is a different deal because space is limited and CI/force protection become issues. But if you are married and your wife stays in the US while you go to Korea, or any other analogous situation where you are separated, you still get the monthly BAH payment to buy an apartment/housing/food/etc.
I found it ironic that as a service member, I had less freedoms available to me. The freedom of speech, needing to ask for permission to get married, etc. Throw in the the base clubs weren't allowed to have "offensive" music (and of course the sensitive types wouldn't have the decency to stay home). /sigh. Buy all the liquor, tobacco and bibles you want, but no porn!
You don't need permission to get married, unless you are planning on marrying a foreigner while you are stationed in a foreign country.
Did you know that your smoke detector in your home contains radioactive material (americium)?
Yep, a whopping 1 microCurie, maximum. Successfully releasing the innards of even a small reactor would release millions of Curies. That's not "a little radioactivity." Spreading that all over a few blocks of a port city probably wouldn't kill anybody on the spot, but it would make it unusable for a long time, because we have laws about how much of that stuff you can have lying around with people wandering about.
Yes, a lot of people are overly scared of any amount of radioactivity and/or radiation, but there are legitimate concerns about the wrong people getting their hands on this stuff.
Even the most harmful radioactive material did come from nature. The real harm is in the vast quantity we can accumulate these things in one place, and this vast quantity is what a nuclear reactor should lack.
If there's not "vast quantities" of radioactive material in an operating nuclear reactor, then there's not vast quantities anywhere on earth.
Uranium is poisonous. It's not deadly because of the radioactivity, but rather because of its toxicity.
They also didn't use Akamai 30 years ago.
Same here... with the southern dark lands being Africa.
He means that a strong gravity source in our galaxy doesn't automatically force an incoming celestial body into a circular orbit. It needs to interact with a third object in some way in order to keep the incoming celestial body from either passing through the galaxy or being flung out.
The saying is "If it bleeds, it leads" as in leading story.
Hillary was defeated in the Primaries.
;)
I keed, I keed.
If the petition were titled "End Women's Right to Vote", it would have gotten a lot fewer signatures. The meaning of "suffrage" is the issue.