Mass doesn't increase at *non*-relativistic speeds. At non-relativistic speeds, the conservation of mass applies.
Typo. I meant relativistic.
You don't need to get the rate of acceleration of the projectile very high. You just need to accelerate it for a long time.
Acceleration requires energy, no matter the rate. As you apply energy, the object's mass increases as well, not just its speed, though it's insignificant at low speeds, so you get Newtonian physics if you disregard it. At speeds comparable to c, however, the mass increases significantly, so you have to add even more energy to accelerate it further. This is why you can't reach light speed: at c, the mass, and thus the required energy would be infinite.
So what if everybody stops spending? The whole economy dies.
No, it's the people who stop buying food that die.
Economy is not a physical thing, stop obsessing about it. It's just a collection of interactions between people, and money is not God.
The only way you can say that "spending doesn't stimulate" is if you take spending entirely as granted.
Isn't it? Do you grow your own food? Do you chop up wood in the forest to heat your house? Do you walk to work? Do you sow your own clothes? Do it for a couple of years and tell me how it worked out for you.
Back when I was in GSM land I was kind of hoping to get my hands on an OpenMoko and design an encryption system for SMS. It wouldn't be that hard to implement for secure text messaging. Voice may be harder but should still be doable by someone with the right skill set.
What's wrong with encrypted VOIP and email? Tried, tested, and the provider can't fuck it up for you.
These toys may be cool, but I can already see a fault with them. I'm fairly knowledgeable about neurofeedback, and I know that messing with the wavelengths of your neocortex without knowing what you're doing can end up making it work improperly.
Nah. You can't break your brain just by thinking. The brain can and will adapt, unless you have serious problems. Have you ever been daydreaming on the highway, and suddenly you realize you don't know what happened in the last five miles? Yet you didn't crash, because your brain can drive even if you don't pay attention. And it's a complex task, too. Just remember what it felt like when you started out.
The problem with this is that it lacks the act of moving one of your bodyparts to trigger the change, which is what you've been doing your whole life, and probably can control much better than this thing can read your mind. Just imagine what it would be like having to concentrate on the gas pedal to keep going.
Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
If you can change the boot device, you pop in your favorite LiveCD and you don't even need to know what you just broke. If not, a passworded GRUB is as good as it gets.
If he firmly believes in copyright as a matter of law and principle, I don't think it's much different than a judge being a member of an organization lobbying for tougher murder penalties, etc. We wouldn't exclude him from murder trials.
If he demonstrate bias in one case, the only time I'd ever let him in a courtroom again is when he gets his sentence for it. The only time behavior like that I'd consider acceptable is with laws where jury nullification would do the same.
When we let the judges be corrupted with a political agenda, the whole system is really close to falling apart.
By the way, WHO LET A MEMBER OF A COPYRIGHT LOBBY GROUP JUDGE A COPYRIGHT CASE?
A few questions: Freely available to whom? Everyone? On whose conditions? What kinds of property, besides intellectual, can/should be made freely available?
Can you make a copy of your car in a fraction of a second? How about that gold brick?
How much do you think Vista is worth, if they can be copied at the same rate, and Linux is free? How much should development really cost, if people develop Linux for free... for fun!
I remember one of my first computer courses in school where we were taught computer history. I still remember the professor telling us about the early days of Microsoft and how it didn't take long for them to start ripping off ideas, only to then buy the company that was suing them.
And they're still in business. Something's wrong here.
And yes, this is a "monthly load" rather than an instantaneous load... but I think somewhat similar to tier'ed ala-carte pricing that the bandwidth providers would like to do... so seems like a reasonable analogy (?)
Except if you're proud of being the most advanced Water Technology country in the world, and then get to realize, in Japan everyone has their own Mississipi-sized river now.
This means you might be able to hide applications in the tray using TrayIt or something, but only 3 can be unhidden at a time.
Or, most likely, this feature will end up just like every other artificial limitation: random groups of highly trained and motivated people will compete to see who can fix it first. And, like always, they will succeed within a day of release.
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Mass doesn't increase at *non*-relativistic speeds. At non-relativistic speeds, the conservation of mass applies.
Typo. I meant relativistic.
You don't need to get the rate of acceleration of the projectile very high. You just need to accelerate it for a long time.
Acceleration requires energy, no matter the rate. As you apply energy, the object's mass increases as well, not just its speed, though it's insignificant at low speeds, so you get Newtonian physics if you disregard it. At speeds comparable to c, however, the mass increases significantly, so you have to add even more energy to accelerate it further. This is why you can't reach light speed: at c, the mass, and thus the required energy would be infinite.
See here and play it out as v approaches c.
So what if everybody stops spending? The whole economy dies.
No, it's the people who stop buying food that die.
Economy is not a physical thing, stop obsessing about it. It's just a collection of interactions between people, and money is not God.
The only way you can say that "spending doesn't stimulate" is if you take spending entirely as granted.
Isn't it? Do you grow your own food? Do you chop up wood in the forest to heat your house? Do you walk to work? Do you sow your own clothes? Do it for a couple of years and tell me how it worked out for you.
she might spend that same money more fully and more quickly, thus stimulating faster.
It's not the spending that stimulates, but making money by creating something of value. The money exchange is just an arbitrary measure of that value.
Back when I was in GSM land I was kind of hoping to get my hands on an OpenMoko and design an encryption system for SMS. It wouldn't be that hard to implement for secure text messaging. Voice may be harder but should still be doable by someone with the right skill set.
What's wrong with encrypted VOIP and email? Tried, tested, and the provider can't fuck it up for you.
I am in line waiting for similar software to drive any portable device for communication I want to use.
What are you talking about?
We already have something like that. It won't run on devices with hardwired OSes of course, but nothing else will, either. Did I miss your point?
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had an yield of 75 to 100 million megatonnes. So you'd need a 740 metric tonne projectile at 0.99c
So you need that much energy to set it on course. Any ideas? Blow up 1,5 million Tsar Bombas?
Also, doesn't mass increase at non-relativistic speeds?
These toys may be cool, but I can already see a fault with them. I'm fairly knowledgeable about neurofeedback, and I know that messing with the wavelengths of your neocortex without knowing what you're doing can end up making it work improperly.
Nah. You can't break your brain just by thinking. The brain can and will adapt, unless you have serious problems. Have you ever been daydreaming on the highway, and suddenly you realize you don't know what happened in the last five miles? Yet you didn't crash, because your brain can drive even if you don't pay attention. And it's a complex task, too. Just remember what it felt like when you started out.
The problem with this is that it lacks the act of moving one of your bodyparts to trigger the change, which is what you've been doing your whole life, and probably can control much better than this thing can read your mind. Just imagine what it would be like having to concentrate on the gas pedal to keep going.
Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
If you can change the boot device, you pop in your favorite LiveCD and you don't even need to know what you just broke. If not, a passworded GRUB is as good as it gets.
I'm seriously wondering what you meant by that.
Agreed. See x.org for how quickly a community can switch to a fork.
And EGCS, the fork of GCC now called GCC.
If he firmly believes in copyright as a matter of law and principle, I don't think it's much different than a judge being a member of an organization lobbying for tougher murder penalties, etc. We wouldn't exclude him from murder trials.
If he demonstrate bias in one case, the only time I'd ever let him in a courtroom again is when he gets his sentence for it. The only time behavior like that I'd consider acceptable is with laws where jury nullification would do the same.
When we let the judges be corrupted with a political agenda, the whole system is really close to falling apart.
By the way, WHO LET A MEMBER OF A COPYRIGHT LOBBY GROUP JUDGE A COPYRIGHT CASE?
Exactly.
I actually laughed out loud at the "plot-depth" part. Then again, I was just playing Baldur's Gate 2.
Go for the eyes, Boo!
If the first 30 seconds of a song are missing- maybe that makes youtube confident that it could be considered fairuse.
Nope. The principle of CYA says that if there's any possibility of a lawsuit, nuke it from orbit.
A few questions: Freely available to whom? Everyone? On whose conditions? What kinds of property, besides intellectual, can/should be made freely available?
Can you make a copy of your car in a fraction of a second? How about that gold brick?
How much do you think Vista is worth, if they can be copied at the same rate, and Linux is free? How much should development really cost, if people develop Linux for free... for fun!
It was intentional because of the content.
Fear of a chair to the head?
http: //www.documentingreality.com/forum/f10/death-chair-3339/ (Warning: extremely NSFW)
I remember one of my first computer courses in school where we were taught computer history. I still remember the professor telling us about the early days of Microsoft and how it didn't take long for them to start ripping off ideas, only to then buy the company that was suing them.
And they're still in business. Something's wrong here.
You know it's a bad article when the first comment is a troll and all the others whine about the overuse of a word.
Can these people do anything without inventing meaningless buzzwords?
At least they have balls. I mean, file a patent for the oldest concept humankind has?
I wish they die a horrible death, but only because it wasn't my idea.
And yes, this is a "monthly load" rather than an instantaneous load ... but I think somewhat similar to tier'ed ala-carte pricing that the bandwidth providers would like to do ... so seems like a reasonable analogy (?)
Except if you're proud of being the most advanced Water Technology country in the world, and then get to realize, in Japan everyone has their own Mississipi-sized river now.
This means you might be able to hide applications in the tray using TrayIt or something, but only 3 can be unhidden at a time.
Or, most likely, this feature will end up just like every other artificial limitation: random groups of highly trained and motivated people will compete to see who can fix it first. And, like always, they will succeed within a day of release.
You don't have to be faster than the predator, just faster than someone else in your group.
Or team up, grab a rock and claim the top of the food chain.
Would Chrome be limited to two tabs? (One for the host window, two and three for the first two tabs.)
Chrome and Firefox count as 4 applications each, and thus can't run.
That guy is a psycho. Seriously. Stay far, far away.
That's the point. The elk wanted to do that too.