If loops per second = 0.152, then radians/sec = 0.95
The acceleration is independent of the mass of the astronaut. If the speed is 1 radian/sec and the radius is 50,000 / (2*pi) m, then the acceleration is 1^2 * 50,000/(2 * pi) m/sec^2. Divide that by 1 G = 9.8 to get ~800 Gs.
The air is too thick close to ground to go that fast anyway. We need to get the space elevator built.
I don't have a problem with filling voids in the English language with new usages. I also don't have a problem with words changing meanings as usage evolves.
What I do have a problem with is deliberately using a word to mean something different than its former meaning in order to change the dialog: examples are "stealing" music, "liberal" to mean someone in favor of increased government (I would use authoritarian), or in this article "hacker" to refer to someone swiping phone service.
Another problem I have is when people don't understand a term and just use it because it sounds smarter. Examples would be "fortuitous" for fortunate, or "comprised" for composed. I'm not being reactionary, I just think that the language is diminished by losing the original meanings.
First, accepted common usage in everyday speech is pretty much the definition of what makes something right or wrong in language.
I disagree. It's right or wrong based on whether the listener understands it with the same meaning as the speaker. Some sort of statistical definition doesn't make sense. Language is a means to convey information. It's either successful at doing that or it isn't.
By this definition, once a majority of people use a word or phrase in a new way, then the people who use it in the original sense are "wrong" when their intended meaning is not being conveyed correctly. Likewise when someone uses it in the new sense and the listener is hearing the old sense, then that's wrong as well. If there is no confusion, then it is right.
"If the majority of society has changed the meaning of some workds (hacker/pirate), then the meaning has changed for THE MAJORITY, which now makes you WRONG."
Please tell the biologists to stop misusing bisexual, then. Also tell physicists that quantum leap actually means a big change, not a small one.
A related exercise is: with over 1.2M slashdot UIDs issued over a period of 11 years, how many of those users are deceased? The worldwide mortality rate of 9.5/100,000/year suggests about 600 UIDs are "pushing up vaxes". Come to think of it, I haven't been attacked by some of my foes in a while.
At Primanti's they serve the fries and coleslaw IN the sandwich -- saves on utensils. It opened around midnight for the truckers bringing in produce and closed before dawn. We found out about them as the best place to get great food cheap in the middle of the night when I was in college. Even better than Mineo's pizza in Squirrel Hill. These days they are even open at lunchtime.
Once Brady's foot is amputated, the Stillers are gonna kick ass this year. I heard Eli Manning's voice is changing and Bret Favre's walker has a broken wheel.
To keep acceleration to a tolerable 6 Gs and get up to 17,000 mph (-1000 mph that you get for free if you point it East), you would need to accelerate for
s = 0.5 * V^2 / a
= 0.5 * (16,000*5280/3600)^2 / 6*32.2 feet
= 270 miles
also the curvature of the Earth would require the railgun to be a couple of miles taller at the ends than the center.
It's been considered. Leave the first stage on the ground. Launch with a cannon or railgun to get the initial acceleration instead of putting the engine and fuel on board. Non-living cargo can take considerable acceleration. You just need a longer railgun if you want to launch pesky humans.
As for this system, it seems like what they are doing is basically the same as noise-canceling headphones. Maybe they need a couple of giant bass speakers. Once in space they can switch them over to play techno.
"I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
The problem is that even if every website also did this, which they won't, your ISP could still sell your browsing history to advertisers or give it to the feds because they know what sites you visit even if they don't see the contents of the packets.
Yes. At 5E-09 Volkswagens we are indeed close to the limit which is one nano-wagen (nVW).
The limiting factor these days is the ability to form the circuit designer's personal logo out of individual copper atoms, however advances in X-ray lithography may reduce that limit.
I think that this phrase is "gaining too much mindshare" now, to the point where people use it instead of "becoming common". I vote that we give it some forgetshare.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm having problems.
Why do you say you are having problems?
The aft coolant pump is making a funny noise.
What makes you believe that?
I can hear it.
Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
What plans?
Is it because of your life that you say what plans?
Yes. My life might be in grave danger.
Are you sure that your life might be in grave danger?
Fairly sure.
Is it because of the people you hang around with that you are going
through all this?
You mean the other astronauts?
Is it because of problems at school that you say I mean the other
astronauts?
I didn't have problems at school. I graduated top of my class.
Do you really think you graduated top of your class?
each lime dream
maybe we want one in French, tho:
michael a merde
If loops per second = 0.152, then radians/sec = 0.95
The acceleration is independent of the mass of the astronaut. If the speed is 1 radian/sec and the radius is 50,000 / (2*pi) m, then the acceleration is 1^2 * 50,000/(2 * pi) m/sec^2. Divide that by 1 G = 9.8 to get ~800 Gs.
The air is too thick close to ground to go that fast anyway. We need to get the space elevator built.
I don't think you looked at the acceleration required to make a 27-mile circle at 17,000 mph. It is a lot more than 6G.
I don't have a problem with filling voids in the English language with new usages. I also don't have a problem with words changing meanings as usage evolves.
What I do have a problem with is deliberately using a word to mean something different than its former meaning in order to change the dialog: examples are "stealing" music, "liberal" to mean someone in favor of increased government (I would use authoritarian), or in this article "hacker" to refer to someone swiping phone service.
Another problem I have is when people don't understand a term and just use it because it sounds smarter. Examples would be "fortuitous" for fortunate, or "comprised" for composed. I'm not being reactionary, I just think that the language is diminished by losing the original meanings.
Is anybody really happy that the FCC is asserting authority over the internet? I kind of preferred it being run by the IETF.
I disagree. It's right or wrong based on whether the listener understands it with the same meaning as the speaker. Some sort of statistical definition doesn't make sense. Language is a means to convey information. It's either successful at doing that or it isn't.
By this definition, once a majority of people use a word or phrase in a new way, then the people who use it in the original sense are "wrong" when their intended meaning is not being conveyed correctly. Likewise when someone uses it in the new sense and the listener is hearing the old sense, then that's wrong as well. If there is no confusion, then it is right.
"If the majority of society has changed the meaning of some workds (hacker/pirate), then the meaning has changed for THE MAJORITY, which now makes you WRONG."
Please tell the biologists to stop misusing bisexual, then. Also tell physicists that quantum leap actually means a big change, not a small one.
oops
A related exercise is: with over 1.2M slashdot UIDs issued over a period of 11 years, how many of those users are deceased? The worldwide mortality rate of 9.5/100,000/year suggests about 600 UIDs are "pushing up vaxes". Come to think of it, I haven't been attacked by some of my foes in a while.
At Primanti's they serve the fries and coleslaw IN the sandwich -- saves on utensils. It opened around midnight for the truckers bringing in produce and closed before dawn. We found out about them as the best place to get great food cheap in the middle of the night when I was in college. Even better than Mineo's pizza in Squirrel Hill. These days they are even open at lunchtime.
Once Brady's foot is amputated, the Stillers are gonna kick ass this year. I heard Eli Manning's voice is changing and Bret Favre's walker has a broken wheel.
To keep acceleration to a tolerable 6 Gs and get up to 17,000 mph (-1000 mph that you get for free if you point it East), you would need to accelerate for
s = 0.5 * V^2 / a
= 0.5 * (16,000*5280/3600)^2 / 6*32.2 feet
= 270 miles
also the curvature of the Earth would require the railgun to be a couple of miles taller at the ends than the center.
Yeah. But with PHP I can't get go dahntahn and get a sanwich and a cold Iron at Primanti's, now can I?
"What is wrong with you Perl programmers? Does the thought of a newline or indentation, possibly even whitespace fill you with fear and horror?"
It does when the compiler considers it significant.
It's been considered. Leave the first stage on the ground. Launch with a cannon or railgun to get the initial acceleration instead of putting the engine and fuel on board. Non-living cargo can take considerable acceleration. You just need a longer railgun if you want to launch pesky humans.
As for this system, it seems like what they are doing is basically the same as noise-canceling headphones. Maybe they need a couple of giant bass speakers. Once in space they can switch them over to play techno.
"I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
-- Mark Twain
This is totally wrong. Any geek knows that you should use a trebuchet.
The problem is that even if every website also did this, which they won't, your ISP could still sell your browsing history to advertisers or give it to the feds because they know what sites you visit even if they don't see the contents of the packets.
To avoid this you need something like Tor.
Yes. At 5E-09 Volkswagens we are indeed close to the limit which is one nano-wagen (nVW).
The limiting factor these days is the ability to form the circuit designer's personal logo out of individual copper atoms, however advances in X-ray lithography may reduce that limit.
I think that this phrase is "gaining too much mindshare" now, to the point where people use it instead of "becoming common". I vote that we give it some forgetshare.
What is a "reverse engineer?"
A very specialized transmission engineer in Detroit.
Buying a used CD is theft. The EULA licenses the music to be listened to only by the original purchaser and this license is not transferable.
Also, we have reports that some of you have been listening to old mono recordings with both ears. You're next.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212671/
Yes. The above link was successful for 6 years.
The fake Steve Jobs blog was pretty good.
I was thinking maybe China Telecom has stopped supporting spamming until the end of the Olympics, but that would be too much to hope for.