Thanks for the link.
This seems to say that the x-ray bursts are integer multiples of the orbital period of the system; What would it look like to us on earth if the matter stream from the gas-supply star played across a planet that was in orbit of one or the other?
I bet it would look like an extremely bright burst of (insert name of favorite photon/high-energy particle here).
At almost relativistic velocities of the infalling matter, how long would such a planet last, before being blown away like a snowball in a blowtorch?
Although a Jupiter type planet with a large magnetic field might last quite some time, maybe even steal enough matter to become a star, eventually.
There's always the theory that they've(the martians) have tapped into our Sattelite TV net and saw the images, and decided to 'relandscape' so as to avoid any undue attention...
It would have been really cool to have a maquis episode....Except for the small detail that they were all killed off in DS9.
Something Anti-Trek would make a really cool web novel, in that the people who own the series would never allow evil shit to happen in 'their' universe. Put on the web, it would be immensely popular, and would really piss off the studios.
Hell, how about including the Kzin? I believe i read that theyre in the Trek universe.
All it will require is for ur to find the enzyme or dna sequence that starts the process the same way cnncer does; if these cells can reproduce indefinately, all cells can.
But without a culling process that targets the out of control cells, cancer results.
Somehow, I think this is the long end of darwin; the guys and gals with the cool dna will live longer, have more fun than the ones with the really bad dna. Unfortunately, most of us have worse DNA than the guys who smoke for forty years and don't get lung cancer.
Carnivore gives the FBI the ability to use data gathered by echelon legally, without having to release its existance in court. Get data, show to judge, get warrants, apply carnivore, tap all communications of subject, Fsck royally.
Then when you get to court the original source of the information that got the warrants is lost along the way.
when the next American Revolution comes, I believe that the troops who are the most 'indoctrinated' will certainly kill Defenseless Citizens in large numbers. That is one of their functions. Their deaths will be reported as 'Armed gangs', 'Terrorists' or andy of the other semantically-loaded labels that our govt propaganda office uses regularly. The cops don't gun down 'students'; only other govts do that. We only kill 'Drug dealers', 'Gang members' or suspected mafioso. Who would have thought that the same propaganda that Hitler used against the jews would be so popular in the 'Drug War'? We have 10 percent of our population in jail for nonviolent crimes. Guess that really makes the unemployment numbers look good; those people wont be vying for jobs anytime soon. Makes it a lot easier for the congress' idiot relatives to keep their jobs. We wont see the cops shooting down any Kennedy children, but the rest of us are out of luck.
To turn a Coke into pure energy all you have to do is turn every other atom into its antimatter counterpart. Then it will "spontaneously dissasemble" having become ~450 grams of pure energy. A mini_big-bang, if you will. This is more energy than that released by _all_ the nukes we ever used, plus tunguska, plus that meteor that killed the dinosaurs. (Kinetic energy is big; much bigger that the nuke term in this. Matter-antimatter is just biggerer.)
This is about enough energy to significantly change earth's orbit, let alone dust all life on earth.
If you could figure out how to rearrange the quarks in matter without disrupting it, and 'flipping' it into antimatter, you could usher in the age of limitless power, at least until humanity converted our entire universe into heat.
Dude... Nukes are hard to set off because you have to increase the density of the 'material to several times its normal, at rest density. to make this happen requires a great deal of timing expertise, because jets of plasma are relatively easy to create, compared to a compression wave...
The real trip is, pound for pound, the energy in a hydrogen bomb comes from the non-fissionable u238. (see richard rhodes, the making of the hydrogen bomb.)
This shit about personal responsibility just might work. Kill some assholes, everyone is more polite.
Of course this particular asshole is from romania, likely a bullet is all he understands.
Dude. the tv industry is getting ready to fsck us totally. the conversion to digital tv is going to have encryption between all units, so you wont be able to digitall record the signal. then the decoder boxes that will sell by the millions to allow our current setups to even work will all be macrovision enabled, not allowing us to record that way either. This has been widely reported in the electronics trade mags, advertising the encryptation technology. (EDN, EE Times, etc.)
Actually, bong materials are best used for C or assembler; the others don't require enough effort to stay awake at the trancendental level of awareness!
Besides, everyone knows that windows was written on a mix of free flowing coke. (a cola?)
to your comment:
Quite the opposite - in most cases, Intel's newest CPU architecture doesn't perform as well as what it replaces - at least for a while, until the compilers have been modified.
The 386 was cool bacause it could do some instructions in only one clock instead of several.
The 486 was cooler, because of more of the same, and a built in , if slightly slower FPU.
The pentium was supposed to have a FPU as fast as the 486, and added some pipelining to the mix. It also added the rest of the functionality to properly virtualize the 'windoze' approach to computing. Win 95 will run on a 486, but not as well as NT. NT is more deterministic, and doesnt get 'lost' as often.
Now, if you read the data sheets for amd's products, and how processes are pipelined, they're quite different than the intel processes they replace/emulate.
Unfortunately the K6-2 or 3 cache units are far superior to the athlon's, currently. probably ate up too much silicon at this time, but after the next shrink, it would make sense to return to the better algorythm.
All in all, these processors from the past superceded and brought new functionality to the software. It just takes awhile for people to write it into the compilers for the masses.
Anyone who writes assembler can use these capibilities today, and i think i saw the VC libs somewhere yesterday. knowing the net community, someones probably doing a recompile of Q3A for sse as we speak!
building a gun is also building a prohibited device.
It's also illegal to 'recode' a AR-15 into an M-16, which probably seems similar, I suppose, to someone who knows nothing of guns, or code, and just wants control.
Could you possibly have a word with the RIAA?... and the MPAA? and all the other assholes who think technology is a great way to fuck with us?
Fsck DeCSS! Lock 'n' Load!!
Using your argument, If I spoke in pig latin to avoid a total idiot from understanding me, then someone would be in violation of the DCMA for translating what I said. This Law is Fscked.
I became aware of this problem when, much to my dismay, the killer Creative Labs video card I bought last year has A ANTI-COPYing DEVICE built into the Fsking TV-OUT. It specifically blocks
DVD content (and probably VCD) with an algorythm called MACROVISION. Not only does this ruin the picture, it also makes it harder to record.
IF I HAD KNOWN IN ADVANCE OF THE PURCHASE, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT THE DAMN THING. I would have bought a much cheaper video card, and spent the rest on a VGA to TV converter. I've spent hours writing code and rewriting drivers to get rid of these features. Noe the bastards want our vcrs, too. Man.
I can see the headlines now: "MPAA nuked by 'Matrix' style attack."
Yeah, a lot of crap dies before it gets to the west coast. More crap comes from the west coast.
DK's rule, Pistols rule, And I was DEFINATELY a Punk before YOU were A Punk!
Kiss our CollectiveAss,
You Anonymous Coward posting, Snotty-nosed-sounding, Polyoptic Carbuncle.
It seems that the entire computer economy has become a intel-biased monopoly. The Memory price increases can only stifle increased purchases of pc's. Would this global slowdown in production have came about if intel was the dominant chip supplier? Probably not. What we will see is more intel "partners " file more lawsuits against Via, Hyundai, Samsung, and anyone else possible to slow down the market so that intel can play catch-up. I Can now say that i will never buy RAMBUS memory, at any cost, due to their pissing in the punchbowl, so to speak. DDR memory, let alone QDR memory, will outperform RAMBUS to such an extent that all their billions will be wasted. -And I think that's pretty cool.
These guys are way too late as far as the whole dvd thing goes. There is easily available software to decrypt, play , convert, save, de-macrovision, and any other thing you could possibly do to a dvd. (without getting weird.) Advd fits nocely, with error correction, on a backup tape. Re-load it to hard drive and it plays much better with the 'encryptation' removed. Oh, and removing the macrovision before you save it makes it have _much_ Better video quality. Macrovision really makes the picture dark. Watch 'The Matrix' with and without and you'll see what I mean. The DCMA is a BAD LAW and will have to be repealed, with either the existing congress, or the one we elect next! GET OUT THE GEEK VOTE!!!
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Dudes been dead for years.
Heard his face exploded, or something.
Thanks for the link.
This seems to say that the x-ray bursts are integer multiples of the orbital period of the system; What would it look like to us on earth if the matter stream from the gas-supply star played across a planet that was in orbit of one or the other?
I bet it would look like an extremely bright burst of (insert name of favorite photon/high-energy particle here).
At almost relativistic velocities of the infalling matter, how long would such a planet last, before being blown away like a snowball in a blowtorch?
Although a Jupiter type planet with a large magnetic field might last quite some time, maybe even steal enough matter to become a star, eventually.
There's always the theory that they've(the martians) have tapped into our Sattelite TV net and saw the images, and decided to 'relandscape' so as to avoid any undue attention...
...or maybe not.
It would have been really cool to have a maquis episode....Except for the small detail that they were all killed off in DS9.
Something Anti-Trek would make a really cool web novel, in that the people who own the series would never allow evil shit to happen in 'their' universe. Put on the web, it would be immensely popular, and would really piss off the studios.
Hell, how about including the Kzin? I believe i read that theyre in the Trek universe.
All it will require is for ur to find the enzyme or dna sequence that starts the process the same way cnncer does; if these cells can reproduce indefinately, all cells can.
But without a culling process that targets the out of control cells, cancer results.
Somehow, I think this is the long end of darwin; the guys and gals with the cool dna will live longer, have more fun than the ones with the really bad dna. Unfortunately, most of us have worse DNA than the guys who smoke for forty years and don't get lung cancer.
We're calling the Ironica now!!!
Carnivore gives the FBI the ability to use data gathered by echelon legally, without having to release its existance in court. Get data, show to judge, get warrants, apply carnivore, tap all communications of subject, Fsck royally.
Then when you get to court the original source of the information that got the warrants is lost along the way.
when the next American Revolution comes, I believe that the troops who are the most 'indoctrinated' will certainly kill Defenseless Citizens in large numbers. That is one of their functions. Their deaths will be reported as 'Armed gangs', 'Terrorists' or andy of the other semantically-loaded labels that our govt propaganda office uses regularly. The cops don't gun down 'students'; only other govts do that. We only kill 'Drug dealers', 'Gang members' or suspected mafioso. Who would have thought that the same propaganda that Hitler used against the jews would be so popular in the 'Drug War'? We have 10 percent of our population in jail for nonviolent crimes. Guess that really makes the unemployment numbers look good; those people wont be vying for jobs anytime soon. Makes it a lot easier for the congress' idiot relatives to keep their jobs. We wont see the cops shooting down any Kennedy children, but the rest of us are out of luck.
To turn a Coke into pure energy all you have to do is turn every other atom into its antimatter counterpart. Then it will "spontaneously dissasemble" having become ~450 grams of pure energy. A mini_big-bang, if you will. This is more energy than that released by _all_ the nukes we ever used, plus tunguska, plus that meteor that killed the dinosaurs. (Kinetic energy is big; much bigger that the nuke term in this. Matter-antimatter is just biggerer.)
This is about enough energy to significantly change earth's orbit, let alone dust all life on earth.
If you could figure out how to rearrange the quarks in matter without disrupting it, and 'flipping' it into antimatter, you could usher in the age of limitless power, at least until humanity converted our entire universe into heat.
Dude... Nukes are hard to set off because you have to increase the density of the 'material to several times its normal, at rest density. to make this happen requires a great deal of timing expertise, because jets of plasma are relatively easy to create, compared to a compression wave...
The real trip is, pound for pound, the energy in a hydrogen bomb comes from the non-fissionable u238. (see richard rhodes, the making of the hydrogen bomb.)
This shit about personal responsibility just might work. Kill some assholes, everyone is more polite.
Of course this particular asshole is from romania, likely a bullet is all he understands.
Dude. the tv industry is getting ready to fsck us totally. the conversion to digital tv is going to have encryption between all units, so you wont be able to digitall record the signal. then the decoder boxes that will sell by the millions to allow our current setups to even work will all be macrovision enabled, not allowing us to record that way either. This has been widely reported in the electronics trade mags, advertising the encryptation technology. (EDN, EE Times, etc.)
Actually, bong materials are best used for C or assembler; the others don't require enough effort to stay awake at the trancendental level of awareness!
Besides, everyone knows that windows was written on a mix of free flowing coke. (a cola?)
This totally rules!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should submit this for an episode!
to your comment:
Quite the opposite - in most cases, Intel's newest CPU architecture doesn't perform as well as what it replaces - at least for a while, until the compilers have been modified.
The 386 was cool bacause it could do some instructions in only one clock instead of several.
The 486 was cooler, because of more of the same, and a built in , if slightly slower FPU.
The pentium was supposed to have a FPU as fast as the 486, and added some pipelining to the mix. It also added the rest of the functionality to properly virtualize the 'windoze' approach to computing. Win 95 will run on a 486, but not as well as NT. NT is more deterministic, and doesnt get 'lost' as often.
Now, if you read the data sheets for amd's products, and how processes are pipelined, they're quite different than the intel processes they replace/emulate.
Unfortunately the K6-2 or 3 cache units are far superior to the athlon's, currently. probably ate up too much silicon at this time, but after the next shrink, it would make sense to return to the better algorythm.
All in all, these processors from the past superceded and brought new functionality to the software. It just takes awhile for people to write it into the compilers for the masses.
Anyone who writes assembler can use these capibilities today, and i think i saw the VC libs somewhere yesterday. knowing the net community, someones probably doing a recompile of Q3A for sse as we speak!
1776- American revolution US 1, UK 0
1812- see War of; US 2, UK 0
And what about lend-lease?
building a gun is also building a prohibited device.
It's also illegal to 'recode' a AR-15 into an M-16, which probably seems similar, I suppose, to someone who knows nothing of guns, or code, and just wants control.
Wait a minute!! You forgot the all-important "Hot Grits Down the Pants" death penalty clause!!!!
Could you possibly have a word with the RIAA?... and the MPAA? and all the other assholes who think technology is a great way to fuck with us?
Fsck DeCSS! Lock 'n' Load!!
(To The FBI: JUST KIDDING!)
Using your argument, If I spoke in pig latin to avoid a total idiot from understanding me, then someone would be in violation of the DCMA for translating what I said. This Law is Fscked.
I became aware of this problem when, much to my dismay, the killer Creative Labs video card I bought last year has A ANTI-COPYing DEVICE built into the Fsking TV-OUT. It specifically blocks
DVD content (and probably VCD) with an algorythm called MACROVISION. Not only does this ruin the picture, it also makes it harder to record.
IF I HAD KNOWN IN ADVANCE OF THE PURCHASE, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT THE DAMN THING. I would have bought a much cheaper video card, and spent the rest on a VGA to TV converter. I've spent hours writing code and rewriting drivers to get rid of these features. Noe the bastards want our vcrs, too. Man.
I can see the headlines now: "MPAA nuked by 'Matrix' style attack."
Yeah, a lot of crap dies before it gets to the west coast. More crap comes from the west coast.
DK's rule, Pistols rule, And I was DEFINATELY a Punk before YOU were A Punk!
Kiss our CollectiveAss,
You Anonymous Coward posting, Snotty-nosed-sounding, Polyoptic Carbuncle.
It seems that the entire computer economy has become a intel-biased monopoly. The Memory price increases can only stifle increased purchases of pc's. Would this global slowdown in production have came about if intel was the dominant chip supplier? Probably not. What we will see is more intel "partners " file more lawsuits against Via, Hyundai, Samsung, and anyone else possible to slow down the market so that intel can play catch-up.
I Can now say that i will never buy RAMBUS memory,
at any cost, due to their pissing in the punchbowl, so to speak.
DDR memory, let alone QDR memory, will outperform RAMBUS to such an extent that all their billions will be wasted. -And I think that's pretty cool.
These guys are way too late as far as the whole dvd thing goes. There is easily available software to decrypt, play , convert, save, de-macrovision, and any other thing you could possibly do to a dvd. (without getting weird.)
Advd fits nocely, with error correction, on a backup tape. Re-load it to hard drive and it plays much better with the 'encryptation' removed. Oh, and removing the macrovision before you save it makes it have _much_ Better video quality. Macrovision really makes the picture dark. Watch 'The Matrix' with and without and you'll see what I mean.
The DCMA is a BAD LAW and will have to be repealed, with either the existing congress, or the one we elect next!
GET OUT THE GEEK VOTE!!!
Hey! i didn't think arm. sucked at all!
How many movies these days do you see someone get to touch off a nuke with a thumb switch?