I took enough physics to know that you're thinking of volume being a length cubed quantity, but the way you should think of it is like this.
Imagine your source (gravity, light, whatever) as a small sphere. That sphere has a surface area of 4*pi*(r^2). Parenthesis for no ambiguity. So, if you double the radius (the distance) you have four times the surface area. If you triple the radius, you get nine times the surface area. The Wikipedia page has a lovely diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
If gravity worked in a different way mathematically, and instead was 'filling a volume' then yes, you would be cubing and what-not.
I don't know why I'm explaining this to an AC but it should nonetheless be informative.
The mythbusters tested the portable earthquake machine on an unused bridge and got the whole thing to start vibrating using only a small linear motor.
Given that more powerful mechanical forces introduced by wind can cause much more damage, I would like to see a repeat experiment with a more powerful linear motor and a more accurate measurement of the resonant frequency.
As far as causing an earthquake goes, I think you'd need to connect it to bedrock or something.
Grandma doesn't need 21mbps, nor would she care to pay for it!
VOIP is measured in dozens of kilobits per second. I believe with modern algorithms, 40 is ok to make a signal and get an OK signal, and 100 kbps is plenty. This signal is two hundred times faster.
Antibiotics and antibacterial are not necessarily the same thing. Bleach, rubbing alcohol, strong acids or bases can all act as antibacterials. A number of other things that I'm forgetting as well.
Germ-X for example is ethyl alcohol (as in *burp*) and rubbing alcohol at 70% is commonly used to disinfect. Bleach even at low concentrations, I believe, kills all bacteria.
I don't think many, or even any off the shelf soaps include antibiotics, which are vastly more expensive than simple antibacterials.
Or we could mire ourselves in a conflict while we have our own problems for petty, insignificant reasons in the long term.
Fact: Money, publicity, fame and glory doesn't go to the cause that saves the most lives, prevents the most diseases, feeds the most people... it goes only to the most obvious and visible and theatrical.
Let's be entirely honest. We could save more lives for less money by doing a number of fairly simple things. Providing vitamins to developing nations, using existing, working methods of distributing food to the starving, etc.
It's tough glamorizing things like vitamins though.
To be fair, the prison population is almost certainly skewed the other direction because it only takes one homicide to rack up many more years in jail than a lot of pot use.
Of course, I don't know the statistics. Perhaps I'm wrong and someone would enlighten us all if they know where to find such stats.
I didn't mention Hitler, and only referred to socialism and fascism as terms whose definition became fluid during the above discussion.
I'm not trying to argue your views, haven't had enough time to read them thoroughly, but it's very important to remember that you're arguing the semantics of terms and not their definitions, because you haven't yet defined socialism or fascism very clearly.
No True Scotsman, good sir. You're saying that so long as we accept your definitions, why, there's no argument at all!
But that's silly, when we let one party dictate all the definitions, so that when I say socialism and fascism they always mean what you want, and not what I intended, well... What information has really been expressed?
You can't define the terms other people are using. If there's a disparity in definitions you have to agree to disagree and continue on in the argument and attempt to not taint your opponent's views with your preconceived notions.
He is a nutter, and that's a good thing for rallying a cause. It's not so good once the cause becomes influential--then you need great orators, which AFAIK, neither Linus nor RMS can claim to be.
When I read the objective C in your signature, I realized why you decided to use such self-aggrandizing language. Not that what you said was wrong, but, eh, tone it down a bit?
I leave the explanation as an exercise to the reader.
Why no swapping, journaling, logging or timestamps? Wear leveling is pretty standard fair for SSDs and AFAIK, at least three of those won't write a significant amount of data to the disk.
Oh god please, don't say they look cool. If one more thing in my house has a blue LED I'm never going to be able to get a night's sleep ever again. The damn things are like portals into a strange neon blue hell.
Hadoop implements MapReduce, using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) (see figure below.) MapReduce divides applications into many small blocks of work. HDFS creates multiple replicas of data blocks for reliability, placing them on compute nodes around the cluster. MapReduce can then process the data where it is located.
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The Department of Energy is a major source of government funding for big computer systems. There are others, but I believe they're the largest.
I took enough physics to know that you're thinking of volume being a length cubed quantity, but the way you should think of it is like this.
Imagine your source (gravity, light, whatever) as a small sphere. That sphere has a surface area of 4*pi*(r^2). Parenthesis for no ambiguity. So, if you double the radius (the distance) you have four times the surface area. If you triple the radius, you get nine times the surface area. The Wikipedia page has a lovely diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
If gravity worked in a different way mathematically, and instead was 'filling a volume' then yes, you would be cubing and what-not.
I don't know why I'm explaining this to an AC but it should nonetheless be informative.
If we're going by sales, StarCraft and Half-Life crush VisiCalc :)
The mythbusters tested the portable earthquake machine on an unused bridge and got the whole thing to start vibrating using only a small linear motor.
Given that more powerful mechanical forces introduced by wind can cause much more damage, I would like to see a repeat experiment with a more powerful linear motor and a more accurate measurement of the resonant frequency.
As far as causing an earthquake goes, I think you'd need to connect it to bedrock or something.
Wrong way. The power should decrease with the inverse of the square. 2/5 = 0.4, 0.4^2 = 0.16.
So 60*0.16 = 9.6W at 5m.
That's an increase of nearly a hundredfold.
Though I am not an electrical engineer / physicist and I don't know if the inverse square law is necessarily applicable.
It's probably a lot easier with Internet Explorer, because typing C:\ takes you... guess where?
And if they have some trivial block on using that path mapping, you can always just do \\127.0.0.1\C$
Grandma doesn't need 21mbps, nor would she care to pay for it!
VOIP is measured in dozens of kilobits per second. I believe with modern algorithms, 40 is ok to make a signal and get an OK signal, and 100 kbps is plenty. This signal is two hundred times faster.
It makes compression very efficient when all you have to do is return "BLOCKED CONTENT" for any traffic outside .au
Since SELinux was developed by the NSA, it has to have backdoors.
But it's open source and part of Linux, so it must be airtight.
*head explode*
(Maybe generalities are bad?)
Antibiotics and antibacterial are not necessarily the same thing. Bleach, rubbing alcohol, strong acids or bases can all act as antibacterials. A number of other things that I'm forgetting as well.
Germ-X for example is ethyl alcohol (as in *burp*) and rubbing alcohol at 70% is commonly used to disinfect. Bleach even at low concentrations, I believe, kills all bacteria.
I don't think many, or even any off the shelf soaps include antibiotics, which are vastly more expensive than simple antibacterials.
Or we could mire ourselves in a conflict while we have our own problems for petty, insignificant reasons in the long term.
Fact: Money, publicity, fame and glory doesn't go to the cause that saves the most lives, prevents the most diseases, feeds the most people... it goes only to the most obvious and visible and theatrical.
Let's be entirely honest. We could save more lives for less money by doing a number of fairly simple things. Providing vitamins to developing nations, using existing, working methods of distributing food to the starving, etc.
It's tough glamorizing things like vitamins though.
To be fair, the prison population is almost certainly skewed the other direction because it only takes one homicide to rack up many more years in jail than a lot of pot use.
Of course, I don't know the statistics. Perhaps I'm wrong and someone would enlighten us all if they know where to find such stats.
I didn't mention Hitler, and only referred to socialism and fascism as terms whose definition became fluid during the above discussion.
I'm not trying to argue your views, haven't had enough time to read them thoroughly, but it's very important to remember that you're arguing the semantics of terms and not their definitions, because you haven't yet defined socialism or fascism very clearly.
Semantics tends to be pretty important, I think.
No True Scotsman, good sir. You're saying that so long as we accept your definitions, why, there's no argument at all!
But that's silly, when we let one party dictate all the definitions, so that when I say socialism and fascism they always mean what you want, and not what I intended, well... What information has really been expressed?
You can't define the terms other people are using. If there's a disparity in definitions you have to agree to disagree and continue on in the argument and attempt to not taint your opponent's views with your preconceived notions.
He is a nutter, and that's a good thing for rallying a cause. It's not so good once the cause becomes influential--then you need great orators, which AFAIK, neither Linus nor RMS can claim to be.
I wouldn't want to remove him from his current practice when there aren't many others like him.
If we elect this Ivan fellow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IV_of_Russia
I have a feeling he can get things done. And he may once and for all solve the analog hole, too!
When I read the objective C in your signature, I realized why you decided to use such self-aggrandizing language. Not that what you said was wrong, but, eh, tone it down a bit?
I leave the explanation as an exercise to the reader.
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Why no swapping, journaling, logging or timestamps? Wear leveling is pretty standard fair for SSDs and AFAIK, at least three of those won't write a significant amount of data to the disk.
Oh god please, don't say they look cool. If one more thing in my house has a blue LED I'm never going to be able to get a night's sleep ever again. The damn things are like portals into a strange neon blue hell.
Electrical tape works wonders, though.
Hadoop uses MapReduce :) From their site:
The Old Testament God was vindictive and angry, and Perl is the unspoken 11th Plague.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/interview-with-john-ziegler-on-zogby.html
It's a Redundant Array of Idiotic Cartridges! The mirroring means surely at least one will survive...