No. The accretion disk is a ring of matter sprialing into the object. The intense gravitational pull of the object (be it a black hole or a gravistar) causes huge amounts of friction in the spiralling matter, creating huge amounts of heat. The accretion disk ends at the event horizon as any matter withing that region is lost to the rest of the universe.
The shell of the gravistar would live entirely within the event horizon.
Been there. Done that. Was not imoressed. The problem with a PC with TV out is that the TV out usually sucks. Mine is completely non-adjustable so I can't really use it in Windows for shit. Either the screen is shrunk due to running in underscan mode, or stretched outside the edges of the screen by running in overscan mode.
If I had a nice, big, easy to read interface like my ReplayTV then my system would make a good livingroom computer, but, alas, I do not.
XBox killer? This thing hasn't got a snowball's chance in Hell of being an XBox kill. Hell, I'd be willing to wager that a Dreamcast can kick this thing's ass on the gaming horsepower front.
No. This isn't an XBox killer. It's a completely different machine. This is a DVD/PVR that can also play games. Not a game console that can also play DVDs.
I haven't been happy with the VIA Athlon chipset, but I've had nothing but good luck with the VIA mini-ITX systems. I loaded Mandrake 9.1 onto a 800Mhz C3 mini-ITX system and everything on it just worked right out of the box. Everything. It wasn't a speed demon tio be sure, but it worked.
I don't know... that 45-minute hippie rant that Nimoy puts in the middle of Hammer makes me want to punch him in the face.
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My grandmother got married a month before she graduated from highschool and had to keep it a secret or they would hav expelled her because she might corrupt the other girls. Whatever. To this day we segregate girls who get pregnant in highschool like they had some sort of communicable disease. And we still get our panties in a twist because the someone might want to marry someone who has the same genetals as them.
The USA is incredably sexually screwed up.
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I can't see anything advertised on American TV offending anyone else. Save for ads for pork products getting shown in Israel or iin Islamic countries, that orgasmic shampoo in those few spots in the world more uptight that the USA, those horrid infomercials with those insultingly sterotypical "Australian" hosts, or the plethora of ads that are just insulting to the intellegence of a demented bee. Other than that, America is hopelessly anal-retentive and whitebread. Hell, we bore ourselves to death!
My forst computer was an old California Computer Systems S-100 bus based CP/M monster running an 6809 processor with two 5.25" full-height floppy drives and a Perkin-Elmer data terminal.
I traded it up for a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 64K of RAM, two floppies, an old color TV and a 32 (yes, thirty-two) collumn thermal printer.
If you thought that the artists were getting a better deal from iTMS than froim CD sales you were a complete and utter moron. Apple does not deal directly with the artists. They deal with the recording companies that handle said artists. Just like anyone else has to do. The RIAA isn't going to change the way they do business because Steve Jobs tells them to.
And the whole "Apple screws artists" angle is bullshit. It's not Apple, it's the RIAA and the recording companies that are handling each artist.
And the only thing that book sells is truth.
No, what sells that book is the promise of a reprive from the horror of death. How many people would be so gung-ho for it if it said "And You shall be rewarded with nothingness until the end of the universe!"?
Do you know the Truth? Not all of it, to be sure. But then none of us do. We've barely scratched the surface on how the universe works.
Or do you actually go outside at night see the stars and believe all that matter came from nothing? Nothing? Why not? Just because we don't know all of the mechanics that make the formation of the universe work, or even the fact that we might not like what what information do have tells us doesn't automatically mean that the scientific explination is wrong.
Did your relatively simple computer and OS just happen, or did they have a designer? Oh, yes. The "if x then y" argument. Very clever.
But the complex interaction between plants and animals, gravity and the solar system...... was it not desidned? No, it was not designed. The solar system works because of the gravitational pull of the mass of the sun. As to why the planets all seem to be in pretty stable orbits, that's easy: all of the unstable stuff fell into the sun or into the other planets already. There's even a little bit of that stuff floating around. Or don't rocks fall from the sky in your world.
Geeks have brains, don't they, where did you brain come from? Our ape ancestors. Why would a sane god create a baby with a brain so large that it puts the mother and child at risk of death at birth? And we're the only animal with this problem. Does that sound like a good design to you?
Did you even read my post? Take your axe and grind it against someone who gives a damn.
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If your mother is anything like mine, you will be her tech support. What would you rather support? If I were going to saddle my mother with a Linux distrobution I would go for the one that I'm using (unless it's something hidiously newby-unfreidnly). At least I only have to worry about the design choices made by one team.
The problem with selling songs individually is the margin per song is very low.
While true, it hardly matters. I'll willingly pay a buck each for the three songs I like from an album that will not sixteen dollars to have those three songs and six or seven other songs I can't stand.
I have gone throuh some artists entire catalogs on iTMS and out of nine CDs, I've only purchased twelve songs. That's a pretty sucky ratio. But even so, they are better off as I was not willing to go out and buy all of those CDs just to get to the few songs on them that I liked.
The real problem is that too many artists spew out piles of garbage with just a few good songs on each CD. When artists make entire albums worth buying, I buy them. Otherwise, I'm stick with just buiying the songs I like, thank you.
Gosh, I didn't see any claim in there that the OS developement model isn't working. What I saw was a list of logical errors many people make in their zeal to embrace the OS movement.
Nearly all of the article's "myths" are relevant for all software development, not just FOSS.
This is true, however, most commercial developement groups already know that these myths are just that, if not the coders, then their managers at least.
The issue he is covering is the fact that many people on the FS/OSS movements beleive that these myths are true. This article is not a condemnation of the FS/OSS community, but a reality check for them.
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You're screwed. Sorry.
Foreign journalists are already being harrased as it is.
Dressing and acting like cops iis going to get one of these fools shot. Idiots.
No. The accretion disk is a ring of matter sprialing into the object. The intense gravitational pull of the object (be it a black hole or a gravistar) causes huge amounts of friction in the spiralling matter, creating huge amounts of heat. The accretion disk ends at the event horizon as any matter withing that region is lost to the rest of the universe.
The shell of the gravistar would live entirely within the event horizon.
Been there. Done that. Was not imoressed. The problem with a PC with TV out is that the TV out usually sucks. Mine is completely non-adjustable so I can't really use it in Windows for shit. Either the screen is shrunk due to running in underscan mode, or stretched outside the edges of the screen by running in overscan mode.
If I had a nice, big, easy to read interface like my ReplayTV then my system would make a good livingroom computer, but, alas, I do not.
XBox killer? This thing hasn't got a snowball's chance in Hell of being an XBox kill. Hell, I'd be willing to wager that a Dreamcast can kick this thing's ass on the gaming horsepower front.
No. This isn't an XBox killer. It's a completely different machine. This is a DVD/PVR that can also play games. Not a game console that can also play DVDs.
I haven't been happy with the VIA Athlon chipset, but I've had nothing but good luck with the VIA mini-ITX systems. I loaded Mandrake 9.1 onto a 800Mhz C3 mini-ITX system and everything on it just worked right out of the box. Everything. It wasn't a speed demon tio be sure, but it worked.
Why shouldn't Mac users be able to get free software? Or is this some bullshit class warfare?
I don't know... that 45-minute hippie rant that Nimoy puts in the middle of Hammer makes me want to punch him in the face.
My grandmother got married a month before she graduated from highschool and had to keep it a secret or they would hav expelled her because she might corrupt the other girls. Whatever. To this day we segregate girls who get pregnant in highschool like they had some sort of communicable disease. And we still get our panties in a twist because the someone might want to marry someone who has the same genetals as them.
The USA is incredably sexually screwed up.
I can't see anything advertised on American TV offending anyone else. Save for ads for pork products getting shown in Israel or iin Islamic countries, that orgasmic shampoo in those few spots in the world more uptight that the USA, those horrid infomercials with those insultingly sterotypical "Australian" hosts, or the plethora of ads that are just insulting to the intellegence of a demented bee. Other than that, America is hopelessly anal-retentive and whitebread. Hell, we bore ourselves to death!
My forst computer was an old California Computer Systems S-100 bus based CP/M monster running an 6809 processor with two 5.25" full-height floppy drives and a Perkin-Elmer data terminal.
I traded it up for a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 64K of RAM, two floppies, an old color TV and a 32 (yes, thirty-two) collumn thermal printer.
Talk to your local version of the RIAA about that. I'm sure that they are the fly in the ointment.
I loved Gnip Gnop as a kid. Damned odd game, though.
If you thought that the artists were getting a better deal from iTMS than froim CD sales you were a complete and utter moron. Apple does not deal directly with the artists. They deal with the recording companies that handle said artists. Just like anyone else has to do. The RIAA isn't going to change the way they do business because Steve Jobs tells them to.
And the whole "Apple screws artists" angle is bullshit. It's not Apple, it's the RIAA and the recording companies that are handling each artist.
These are all either a joke, part of a story or game.
No, what sells that book is the promise of a reprive from the horror of death. How many people would be so gung-ho for it if it said "And You shall be rewarded with nothingness until the end of the universe!"?
Do you know the Truth?
Not all of it, to be sure. But then none of us do. We've barely scratched the surface on how the universe works.
Or do you actually go outside at night see the stars and believe all that matter came from nothing?
Nothing? Why not? Just because we don't know all of the mechanics that make the formation of the universe work, or even the fact that we might not like what what information do have tells us doesn't automatically mean that the scientific explination is wrong.
Did your relatively simple computer and OS just happen, or did they have a designer?
Oh, yes. The "if x then y" argument. Very clever.
But the complex interaction between plants and animals, gravity and the solar system...... was it not desidned?
No, it was not designed. The solar system works because of the gravitational pull of the mass of the sun. As to why the planets all seem to be in pretty stable orbits, that's easy: all of the unstable stuff fell into the sun or into the other planets already. There's even a little bit of that stuff floating around. Or don't rocks fall from the sky in your world.
As for the relationship with plants and animals, why would a sane god make a plant that tricks an insect into mating with it in order to get it's flower polinated?
Geeks have brains, don't they, where did you brain come from?
Our ape ancestors. Why would a sane god create a baby with a brain so large that it puts the mother and child at risk of death at birth? And we're the only animal with this problem. Does that sound like a good design to you?
Wesley Crusher is producing TV shows now? Wow.
*ducks and runs for cover*
I thought that Smeagol and Deagol were River Folk and not Hobbits.
Did you even read my post? Take your axe and grind it against someone who gives a damn.
If your mother is anything like mine, you will be her tech support. What would you rather support? If I were going to saddle my mother with a Linux distrobution I would go for the one that I'm using (unless it's something hidiously newby-unfreidnly). At least I only have to worry about the design choices made by one team.
While true, it hardly matters. I'll willingly pay a buck each for the three songs I like from an album that will not sixteen dollars to have those three songs and six or seven other songs I can't stand.
I have gone throuh some artists entire catalogs on iTMS and out of nine CDs, I've only purchased twelve songs. That's a pretty sucky ratio. But even so, they are better off as I was not willing to go out and buy all of those CDs just to get to the few songs on them that I liked.
The real problem is that too many artists spew out piles of garbage with just a few good songs on each CD. When artists make entire albums worth buying, I buy them. Otherwise, I'm stick with just buiying the songs I like, thank you.
Gosh, I didn't see any claim in there that the OS developement model isn't working. What I saw was a list of logical errors many people make in their zeal to embrace the OS movement.
That's and well and good. But what does it have to do with the article in question?
This is true, however, most commercial developement groups already know that these myths are just that, if not the coders, then their managers at least.
The issue he is covering is the fact that many people on the FS/OSS movements beleive that these myths are true. This article is not a condemnation of the FS/OSS community, but a reality check for them.