Until they get support for Firefox addons or get a base of addons equal to Firefox's, it won't be going on my computer anymore.;*( I used it for about two weeks after its release, and then switched back to Firefox and never looked back.
Sorry for the off-topic post, but this has been getting on my nerves. For the past few days, the title of the/. homepage has been "Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters (30)". This is with Firefox 3.
30? 30 what? Am I seeing things?
Go to your preferences page and under the "Index" section, click on "General". Turn the beta index off.
Metamod yesterday (the first time I've metamodded in a long time) asked me to give a thumbs up/thumbs down to COMMENTS themselves. Not moderations of comments, it was actually asking me to decide whether the comment was good or not. I know this because 1) It told me flat out to vote whether the comment is good or not, and 2) only ONE of the comments I thumbed up or down had any type of moderation on it! The rest were just Score: 1 comments.
What in the hell happened to the old metamod system?
You can have two days of work and five days of relaxation if you like, but you will probably have a hard time making ends meet.
By the way, you do know that the "five-day work week" in civilized countries is a relatively recent trend? Even South Korea had a government mandate just a couple decades ago that forced most companies to switch to it.
if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
It doesn't work like that. A push directly away from the Earth will not give a 'higher' orbit (one with more angular momentum), it will change the shape of the orbit (the eccentricity). Essentially the orbit will become longer and thinner, and at a different point in the orbit it will be lower and start to brush against the atmosphere, thus invoking atmospheric drag.
No, this is very, very wrong. The GP was more correct than you are. If you apply a prograde impulse (increasing orbit altitude) at point A of an orbit, then the rest of orbit will change shape and rise in altitude, with the opposite side of the orbit having the highest measured altitude. However, point A will _not_ change its altitude. Essentially, this means that applying a prograde impulse to space debris (or pushing it away from the earth) will _not_ cause part of its orbit to be lowered.
"Fermi team members calculated that the blast exceeded the power of approximately 9,000 ordinary supernovae, if the energy was emitted equally in all directions."
IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND~
I was hoping for a great set of comments to read, but now I have to pick and choose to get to the informative comments--all because of this number.;(
What about a drill bit heated by radioactive decay? It would automatically orient itself and melt down through the ice. The only issue is, how do you get a cable that far? Leave a base station, and put the spool on the drill/probe itself? Seems like a rather workable idea, although the engineering issues of conducting this on an alien world are steep.
Not to mention, any life we bring there likely wouldn't be able to evolve an interesting amount on reasonable time frames, so there doesn't seem to be any major reason to do this.
Because we want to discover alien life, not life that has evolved from earth. I would not be impressed with finding that earth extremophiles can adapt to alien moons. I would, however, be rather thrilled at learning that non-earth-origin life had been more-or-less definitely found.
Please, please launch a landing probe similar to the Huygens Probe. There won't be any atmosphere, so you'll have to use retrorockets. Impact probes won't cut it.;)
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Being uninstalled?
Until they get support for Firefox addons or get a base of addons equal to Firefox's, it won't be going on my computer anymore. ;*( I used it for about two weeks after its release, and then switched back to Firefox and never looked back.
Sorry for the off-topic post, but this has been getting on my nerves. For the past few days, the title of the /. homepage has been "Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters (30)". This is with Firefox 3.
30? 30 what? Am I seeing things?
Go to your preferences page and under the "Index" section, click on "General". Turn the beta index off.
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I want to be Athena!
What the heck does this have to do with my post, aside from the fact that you metamod based on the identify of the person at times?
I'm also perplexed as to why I was modded troll above, unless somebody doesn't like offtopic yet meaningful chatter?
Metamod yesterday (the first time I've metamodded in a long time) asked me to give a thumbs up/thumbs down to COMMENTS themselves. Not moderations of comments, it was actually asking me to decide whether the comment was good or not. I know this because 1) It told me flat out to vote whether the comment is good or not, and 2) only ONE of the comments I thumbed up or down had any type of moderation on it! The rest were just Score: 1 comments.
What in the hell happened to the old metamod system?
Dang you got this before me... and I already made my post above. ;)
"Why build one machine, when you can build two for double the price?"
Relativity of simultaneity
;)
There is a lot of material for the layman to easily understand. Enjoy the reading
That is to say, conditions much worse than the five-day work week existed up until rather recent times.
You can have two days of work and five days of relaxation if you like, but you will probably have a hard time making ends meet.
By the way, you do know that the "five-day work week" in civilized countries is a relatively recent trend? Even South Korea had a government mandate just a couple decades ago that forced most companies to switch to it.
Yay for prejudice against a social group.
if you blast it from down here, you're bound to hit something that points towards the earth. That means the materials vaporized will be pushed towards earth, giving whatever you're shooting at a boost towards a higher orbit.
It doesn't work like that. A push directly away from the Earth will not give a 'higher' orbit (one with more angular momentum), it will change the shape of the orbit (the eccentricity). Essentially the orbit will become longer and thinner, and at a different point in the orbit it will be lower and start to brush against the atmosphere, thus invoking atmospheric drag.
No, this is very, very wrong. The GP was more correct than you are. If you apply a prograde impulse (increasing orbit altitude) at point A of an orbit, then the rest of orbit will change shape and rise in altitude, with the opposite side of the orbit having the highest measured altitude. However, point A will _not_ change its altitude. Essentially, this means that applying a prograde impulse to space debris (or pushing it away from the earth) will _not_ cause part of its orbit to be lowered.
Netcraft confirms it... Slashdot memes are overused.
Install the camera, but switch off its power-supply, or spray-paint the lense, or...
You get the idea. As long as their wording is so vague as to simply stipulate "install... a camera" it seems pretty simple to me.
At least one guy modded you 'interesting' somehow, but this sort of defense would not avail you, Flame of Udun.
;)
Check out this previous Slashdot story from two weeks ago, entitled You Are Not A Lawyer.
Sharks can't fly, though, and they would have to be ...
You know how I know you haven't seen a flying shark? You're still alive.
We will have only a few hours' warning after the neutron detectors on earth all detect less than a hundred or thousand or so neutrinos.
The gamma rays will be the first thing to arrive after the neutrinos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN1987A#Neutrino_emissions
"Fermi team members calculated that the blast exceeded the power of approximately 9,000 ordinary supernovae, if the energy was emitted equally in all directions." IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND~
I was hoping for a great set of comments to read, but now I have to pick and choose to get to the informative comments--all because of this number. ;(
Quality Check.
"Cease fire boys, we got 'em where we want 'em!"
... surrounded from the inside!
1/d^2
What about a drill bit heated by radioactive decay? It would automatically orient itself and melt down through the ice. The only issue is, how do you get a cable that far? Leave a base station, and put the spool on the drill/probe itself? Seems like a rather workable idea, although the engineering issues of conducting this on an alien world are steep.
Not to mention, any life we bring there likely wouldn't be able to evolve an interesting amount on reasonable time frames, so there doesn't seem to be any major reason to do this.
Because we want to discover alien life, not life that has evolved from earth. I would not be impressed with finding that earth extremophiles can adapt to alien moons. I would, however, be rather thrilled at learning that non-earth-origin life had been more-or-less definitely found.
Please, please launch a landing probe similar to the Huygens Probe. There won't be any atmosphere, so you'll have to use retrorockets. Impact probes won't cut it. ;)
It's a quote from a movie... ;)