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  1. Re:lack of gravitational pull?? on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Yes but how does the dust cloud start to spin. I know that is what I find interesting in my simulation even starting with 10000 stationary 'dust particals' (and a very long week end) if the system survived not throwing itself apart you never ended up with a 'planitary plane' only 'comets' with no two orbits in the same plane. I have occasionaly got a 'planet' with a 'moon' circling a 'sun'. (looks very prety in 3d) The system always colapses on itself, particals joining as the get really close, never really forming anything like a disk. Maybe I am not using enough particals.

  2. dy/dx on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Why is it that people who can't comprehend second and third order differential equations can still catch a ball? Something even my dog can do.

  3. nothing moves ??? on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Not to nit pick, he says with a sly smile, but nothing, 'by virtue of not being a thing' cannot move, regardless.

  4. Analog Computing on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this would correct that sort of error. Not that I thought about it much it just floated through my mind.

  5. Re:lack of gravitational pull?? on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, Numerical Analysis classes, that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

  6. Runge-Kutta!! on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grabs his hair and runs screaming from the room.

  7. Re:lack of gravitational pull?? on The Sun Had Sisters · · Score: 1

    Write a program using standard Newtonian physics that takes as its input a cluster of 'stars' of various masses. Start the program. After a while there is nothing left because all og the stars havesling shoted themselfs off to never never land. Once in a while you will get 'solar systems' flying off and if you are really luck you can end up with a stable solar system that does not move. Although I have never got all the 'planets' to go in the same directon on a planitary disk.

  8. Re:Use the money to generate new works on Wikipedia's $100 Million Dream · · Score: 1

    You would not need to bring the technology back up to the 1940's because the current technology is still in place it is just broken it will not magically disapear. The trick is to get a source of electrical power. Getting that implimented would be easy since, for example, every car has an alternator. And for knowlage, every school has a library.

  9. Dark Star on Telemarketers Use Emotionally Intelligent Software · · Score: 1

    Dark Star. Trying to talk the bomb down.

  10. Re:dooms was great on Fox And Universal Say Goodbye To Halo Movie · · Score: 1

    The only good thing about the the Doom movie was the 'Rocks' attitude/camp.

  11. Re:How many laws broken?? on Reporter's Story — How HP Kept Tabs On Me · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes it is illegal, but they are rich, they can get away with it. Remember OJ.

  12. Re:Defending current assets... on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1

    "must reverse our stance on Missle Defense." Only when they pry my plowshare from my cold dead fingers. Smartest thing Canada ever did since the thing does not and cannot really, ever work.

  13. Re:Leave before it is too late. on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1

    And the space shuttle with a military cargo is not a military space ship.

  14. Leave before it is too late. on U.S. Announces New Space Security Policy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So if someone else puts up a spy satalite, space station or (heaven forbid) military space ship. The US will feel it has the right to destroy it. Do they not realize that if it is done often enough that will only increase the amount of debrise orbiting the earth. Do they not realise that they could very well lock us up on this planet because you will just not be able to leave the surface without space garbage shooting you down. This is a very dangerous attitude that hs the potential for trapping us in this planet for ever. Not to mention making satalite launches a crap shoot that would make the situation even worse. No weather salalites, not communications satalites, no spy satalites.

  15. Active X Support on Firefox Accepting Feature Suggestions for Version 3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Untill Firefox supports 'Active X' components it will never achive the market penetration that it requires to displace IE. Supporting 'Active X' components, a Microsoft web standard, will also make it more acceptable to corporate IT departments since lagacy web services will not have to be re-written in order to run in its non Microsoft standard environment resulting in a lower cost of conversion.

  16. US Mail is not safe either. on Stopping "PattyMail" Email Bugs · · Score: 1

    Don't do that. The Government will read your mail. After all you might be a terrorist? Why else would you send your stuff in a closed and sealed envelope. Do you have something to hide?

  17. Re:Liberal! on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 1

    If the conservative element does not like the liberal bias in schools then they should go into education instead of business.

  18. So its' a youth oriented (liberal) site. on YouTube Accused Of Censorship · · Score: 0

    So lets get this straight. Right wing talk radio will not give time to 'liberal' ideas but a left leaning "youth oriented arts & entertainment" site must. IF the right wing wants access to a "youth oriented arts & entertainment" they can create one. However the target demographic, youth, is rarly jaded enough to be right wing.

  19. Re:I hate my librarian, boss, etc. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: 1

    They would trace the IP address of the originating comments. Note the time and then review the survalence taps to see who was using the computer in question at the time and sue them.

  20. DVD hardware Lockin on New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does any one else think that just maybe the plan is to lock in media with a specific manufacturer. Sony DVDs will only play on Sony DVD players that will only connect to Sony TVs.

  21. Re:TUCOWS on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    In that case I hope the chaps that run TUCOWS never want to visit the US let alone have to use a transfer point with in it.

  22. Re:Just remember...and also that on ICANN Grants Temporary Reprieve to Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    politicians aren't required to know how technology works, they just make laws that affect it.

  23. Major Powers Keep UN down. on MySpace Organizes Sudan Fundraiser · · Score: 1

    Unfortunatly the UN is powerless to do anything meaningful because the major world powers do not want a precident set that can then be used against them in regards to their own internal problems.

  24. Re:Wouldn't it be more appropriate if... on MySpace Organizes Sudan Fundraiser · · Score: 1

    Preditors will find picking s very hard on MySpace with statistically only about 300 active myspace users, 0.001173185961207483%, that identify themselfs as 13-15 year old girls. You would have better luck standing at a bus stop.

  25. Re:More refined guys, in SP1 :) on Vista RC2: More Refined, But Still Not Perfect · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vistas' not done till Google won't run......