Or how about a baby monitor? I had a neighbor in the late 90's that would turn on her baby monitor and would mess with my cordless phone. Sometimes I would unplug the base of the cordless phone and I could listen to the baby monitor too.
But, I fixed the problem with a 5ghz phone.
I suspect a baby monitor, especially given the time frame.
Nathan
I agree with a new set of equations. I know that I am going to get modded into the depths never explored before but here it goes.
What happens when you skip over the light speed barrier... Nothing.
Back when the the fastest plane was slower than the speed of sound, many people were afraid to go that fast. That is until Chuck Yeager went faster, which wasn't that long ago.
I firmly believe that the conversion of energy to mass and mass to energy happens near or at the speed of C as in E=MC2.
What this means is that the energy used to accelerate mass to the speed of light, some of that energy is lost and converted to mass. Whether or not that mass is added to your mass is another debate at another time. But, it is lost to mass. As the speed approaches the speed of light, a greater percentage of the energy is turned to mass and is lost as an acceleration force.
At the speed of light, all your energy has turned to mass and you have lost all acceleration force. Therefore cannot travel any faster.
But that doesn't limit mass from traveling faster, you just can't use anything with a speed limit of light as your main acceleration force. You would need something else that doesn't change to something else at that speed.
As for traveling back in time, actually you would. Since it is impossible for information to travel faster than the speed of light because information is encoded in what travels at light speed, you could travel back in time the amount of light waves that you passed by. But, it would only be relative to the opposite direction that you came from.
But just like traveling faster than the speed of sound, the sonic boom eventually catches up to you once you slow down.
Think of it this way, if you were on one planet traveling at 0.5c and there was another planet traveling in the exact opposite direction at 0.5c, to us, the time for that other planet would seem to stand still because new information from that planet would never reach us. It would always appear to be the exact same distance from us no mater how far we traveled, because the light coming at us would never change. Once we slowed down the planet to less than 0.5c and the information from the other planet started hitting us it would then appear to be moving away at an ever increasing distance.
But just because time would seem to stand sill for that one planet, doesn't mean that we couldn't receive information from other directions. It is all relative.
I say all of this to say there needs to be a new formula.
There is no reason why mass can't travel faster than light. The problem comes from what can we use to propel mass faster than the speed of light? To put this in perspective, if all you had was sound waves, could you use sound to make something go faster than the speed of sound? Kind of hard wouldn't it be?
Chemical reactions happen faster than the speed of sound and therefore can propel mass faster than the speed of sound, gun powder, Jet A, Ammonium nitrate in rockets etc... Chemical reactions do not happen faster than the speed of light, so, no go. Nuclear reactions might occur near the speed of light, but that is still a no go.
If there was some way of releasing energy faster than the speed of light, then there would be a way to propel mass faster than the speed of light. As of now, there is none.
Transferring information faster than the speed of light isn't possible, period, because we use light or electrons that travel at the speed of light to encode that information. The speed of what we use to encode information right now will never change, therefore information will never ever be transmitted faster.
Most people can't. When I used to go to church on a weekly basis, there was this guy in his middle to late 60's running the PA system for the church.
He was horrible as he couldn't hear the high pitched feedback as the preacher walked in front of the speakers with the mic. The feedback was horribly loud and I would have to cover my ears.
One Sunday morning I was running late and got there about 15 min late. As soon as I opened the door to the church I could hear the high pitch constant squeel. As I opened the door to the auditorium, it was almost deafening. I cover my ears and walk in. I sit down in the back of the church. I look up and the 200 to 300 people sitting there were all fine and good.
I look around to notice that of all the people sitting there there were only 4 or 5 people with fingers in their ears. So, as only 1/2 of a percent or so of people can hear that high of frequency, I'm not surprised of these findings.
I stopped going not long after that. But, it had nothing to do with the old guy running the PA board.
Nathan
Not only is it possible to create Helium from plain run of the mill hydrogen, it's probable. I'm telling you, it is a timing process, not a heat or pressure. Heat and pressure only increase the odds of fusion. Heavier deuterium and or trition only make it easier. You still come up with the same results... helium. Do you get a better kind of helium from trition than you would deuterium??? Can you explain 1 + 1 = 4?
http://www.americanmessaging.net/
I still have a pager from 1992 that I still use today. It isn't the original one but it is still the same exact model.
The company has changed hands several times but the account number hasn't changed since 1992.
I've been seeing a woman that has lived most of her life in the north east province of China. She has been here in the states now for 8 years I believe. She is now legal here in the US.
She told me at one time that for many years in her middle to late 20's she was part of the police force in China and she did say at one time that she was issued a gun to carry while on duty.
I know she was trained on the use of guns.
Now here in the US she owns two houses for rent. One of the houses recently became empty. As she was cleaning out the trash that the tenants had left, she found a.22 cal pistol. She was scared to death of the gun.
She felt that she was going to be arrested for the possession of the gun. She called me in a panic and asked if I would meet her. I'm the only one she knows with a gun permit. She didn't say why. She had the fear in her voice like she had murdered someone. I knew it was important but didn't know why.
She brought me to her rental house and showed me in. She brought me into the back bedroom and pointed to it on the floor. As I leaned down to pick it up, she screamed "DON'T TOUCH IT!!!"
I picked it up any way and asked why. She told me that they could now trace the gun to me. She was really afraid.
I looked at the gun and it was dirty and rusty. I would be afraid to load the gun and shoot it for fear of it blowing apart. The handled looked like it had been used more as a hammer than as a gun.
I called the local police department from my cell phone. She was so scared that she left the room. The serial number of the gun was intact. The police department basically said that if I didn't want the gun to bring it in and they would dispose of it.
If a Chinese woman that knows how to handle guns, is this scared of them, what do the rest of the Chinese population living in China think of them?
Something else that you forgot to take into account is the maintenance of the gas engine. You have to do more than just put gas in the vehicle.
Your calculation of 70 miles * 365.24 = 25566.8 miles a year.
Since most people really only work 50 weeks out of the year, 2 weeks for vacation, and only really 5 days a week, instead of 7, I come up with 250 days out of the year that you would be driving 70 miles for a total of 17,500 miles a year.
On my vehicle, I change the oil about every 3,000 miles. That would be about 6 times a year.
Now say the average person only changes their oil every 5,000 miles. That is almost 4 times a year.
A very cheap oil change from the 30 second oil change places is about ~$30, well maybe $29.95.
That is $120 a year, $480 after 4 years. Net savings just dropped to under $3000 over 4 years.
I change my air filter 2 times a year, $16 dollars for the part and I do it myself. Say $20 for someone else to do it for you 2 times a year, $40 a year, $160 for 4 years.
$2,700 savings after 4 years.
I've never known a car battery to last more than 4 years. Actually, I've replaced my Ford battery twice in the last 4 years. $100 for the two battery changes.
$2600 savings after 4 years.
I've also never known a water pump in a gas engine to last more than about 4 years.
I changed the water pump in my Ford in the first 4 years of owning the new vehicle, $400 and change.
$2200 savings after 4 years.
So, $2200 divided by 4 years = $550 a year in savings.... Not much.
I felt it this morning and I live in the North East Metro Atlanta Georgia area.
I really felt the quake Aug 24, 2005. I have a dresser that has a drawer pulls similar to a door knocker, it is a u shape a attaches in two places. The august 24th quake I woke up with these drawer pulls clinking about 20 times and the bed slowly shaking about 10 times.
This morning, these drawer pulls clinked two or three times and the bed shook twice. I woke up from it and thought there was another earthquake. It was much less than the Tennessee quake but I did feel it all the way to Atlanta.
Nathan
I have lived in the Atlanta area since 1976. I worked in the downtown area of Atlanta from 1983 to 1997. I worked at the Gold Dome Capital building, the Federal Reserve Bank and I even worked for ACOG/IBM on the 6th floor of the Apparel Mart downtown Atlanta for the Olympics.
Several months leading up to the 1996 games, it was true that the Atlanta police were rounding up the homeless. But, the city was also paying to move them to shelters/YMCA. Although they did displace occupants of the downtown area, I would fathom an educational guestimate that it was less than 5,000 people. Far less than the 1.5 million people of China.
Once the Olympics were over in Atlanta, and the city quit paying for the shelters, the homeless did return.
The only thing that has changed since then, is better policing of the downtown Atlanta area and upholding the loitering laws in place since the early 70's.
I've been to Centennial Park in the last year at night and actually felt safe to walk around. I didn't feel like that in the late 80's with a class at Georgia State University ending at 10pm and having to walk from there to the Five Points Marta Station.
I wonder what is going to happen to the 1.5 million people after the Olympics in China is over.
Have you ever outsourced a job?
You get what you pay for. If you hire cheap workers, you get cheap results. I've hardly ever used code that outsourced companies have sent me.
The company I work for outsources because I am the only programmer here. They feel that if I get overwhelmed I may quit.
If you had read my post, I'm a programmer, I've been a programmer, I don't want to be anything other than a programmer. I've done it all my adult life. Why would I want to get into human resources?
At times I've been lazy in my job, I admit that. Sometimes I feel that I have earned it.
If I really wanted to be lazy, I could used the outsourced code provided me and piece together some real crap, put my feet up on my desk and not worry about the project. I'm better than that though. I've kept the offer of outsourced code for the weeks that I want to be lazy. Yea, it is a cushy job.
I work 50 to 60 hours a week because I like programming, not because I am worried about losing my job. I have enjoyed being a programmer all my life. It has come easy for me.
I work for $40k a year because I am too lazy to go out and get a programming job where all I am is a code monkey. I enjoy my own office and being able to take a two hour lunch if I really feel like it.
Superstars do programming for the love of it, not because of the money. I enjoy my life, I enjoy my job, I enjoy my free time.
I've met every single last deadline ever set for me. Sometimes I even enjoy the deadlines. But I also enjoy the time that I am allowed to be lazy. Making deadlines gets me that.
Maybe if I didn't get that time to work on things that I wanted to, I would learn the phrase "Do you want fries with that?" and come work with you. I could be lazy all I wanted then.
Getting back to the original parent post, There are superstar programmers out there. We just don't want the hassles any more. For the right amount of cash, I would go be one. Nobody is going to pony up for one like they did in the 90's though.
There are too many in India that will work for cheap.
I'm beginning to enjoy being tagged Troll and Flamebate.
Nathan
I've been a programmer since Turbo Pascal came on 2 floppy disks. All through the 90's I was billing for 65 an hour or more. I've worked on teams where I do produce more than three other programmers. My last real programing job in 2001 I cleaned up code that other people that called themselves senior programmers would write.
After 25 years, I now work for $40,000 and struggling to survive. What happened????
India happened.
I now work on web development, I find it amazing the the trash that I get from the outsourced programmers. I'm supposed to use this code that they write and supposedly manage the three projects that I work on. I'm a programmer not a manager. I want to stay a programmer.
When I feel the need to do real programming, I spend my time programming open source projects in my off time.
Nobody wants to pay for superstars.
I get up and leave interviews when they say I have to take a test on my programming skills. Shouldn't 25 years of programming mean that I have a slight handle on programming???
So what if I haven't written any Java scripts. So what if I haven't written in Visual Basic for 3 years. I started out in ROM basic, doesn't that mean anything??
And yes, I am going to stay in my $40,000 a year job. I have a corner office with a couch in it. I like the people I work for and nobody knows that I have very rarely ever used the code from the outsourced programmers.
Since every post I have ever made gets tagged flamebate, I am waiting to see this get tagged the same.
Slashdot Mirror
My name is there... http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/frametally.php
Nathan Woodruff
Everyone of my outdoor outlets at my house has one of these...
http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xg1/R-202266482/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
It's that almost identical?
Nathan
Or how about a baby monitor? I had a neighbor in the late 90's that would turn on her baby monitor and would mess with my cordless phone. Sometimes I would unplug the base of the cordless phone and I could listen to the baby monitor too. But, I fixed the problem with a 5ghz phone. I suspect a baby monitor, especially given the time frame. Nathan
I agree with a new set of equations. I know that I am going to get modded into the depths never explored before but here it goes.
What happens when you skip over the light speed barrier... Nothing.
Back when the the fastest plane was slower than the speed of sound, many people were afraid to go that fast. That is until Chuck Yeager went faster, which wasn't that long ago.
I firmly believe that the conversion of energy to mass and mass to energy happens near or at the speed of C as in E=MC2.
What this means is that the energy used to accelerate mass to the speed of light, some of that energy is lost and converted to mass. Whether or not that mass is added to your mass is another debate at another time. But, it is lost to mass. As the speed approaches the speed of light, a greater percentage of the energy is turned to mass and is lost as an acceleration force.
At the speed of light, all your energy has turned to mass and you have lost all acceleration force. Therefore cannot travel any faster.
But that doesn't limit mass from traveling faster, you just can't use anything with a speed limit of light as your main acceleration force. You would need something else that doesn't change to something else at that speed.
As for traveling back in time, actually you would. Since it is impossible for information to travel faster than the speed of light because information is encoded in what travels at light speed, you could travel back in time the amount of light waves that you passed by. But, it would only be relative to the opposite direction that you came from.
But just like traveling faster than the speed of sound, the sonic boom eventually catches up to you once you slow down.
Think of it this way, if you were on one planet traveling at 0.5c and there was another planet traveling in the exact opposite direction at 0.5c, to us, the time for that other planet would seem to stand still because new information from that planet would never reach us. It would always appear to be the exact same distance from us no mater how far we traveled, because the light coming at us would never change. Once we slowed down the planet to less than 0.5c and the information from the other planet started hitting us it would then appear to be moving away at an ever increasing distance.
But just because time would seem to stand sill for that one planet, doesn't mean that we couldn't receive information from other directions. It is all relative.
I say all of this to say there needs to be a new formula.
There is no reason why mass can't travel faster than light. The problem comes from what can we use to propel mass faster than the speed of light? To put this in perspective, if all you had was sound waves, could you use sound to make something go faster than the speed of sound? Kind of hard wouldn't it be?
Chemical reactions happen faster than the speed of sound and therefore can propel mass faster than the speed of sound, gun powder, Jet A, Ammonium nitrate in rockets etc... Chemical reactions do not happen faster than the speed of light, so, no go. Nuclear reactions might occur near the speed of light, but that is still a no go.
If there was some way of releasing energy faster than the speed of light, then there would be a way to propel mass faster than the speed of light. As of now, there is none.
Transferring information faster than the speed of light isn't possible, period, because we use light or electrons that travel at the speed of light to encode that information. The speed of what we use to encode information right now will never change, therefore information will never ever be transmitted faster.
Most people can't. When I used to go to church on a weekly basis, there was this guy in his middle to late 60's running the PA system for the church. He was horrible as he couldn't hear the high pitched feedback as the preacher walked in front of the speakers with the mic. The feedback was horribly loud and I would have to cover my ears. One Sunday morning I was running late and got there about 15 min late. As soon as I opened the door to the church I could hear the high pitch constant squeel. As I opened the door to the auditorium, it was almost deafening. I cover my ears and walk in. I sit down in the back of the church. I look up and the 200 to 300 people sitting there were all fine and good. I look around to notice that of all the people sitting there there were only 4 or 5 people with fingers in their ears. So, as only 1/2 of a percent or so of people can hear that high of frequency, I'm not surprised of these findings. I stopped going not long after that. But, it had nothing to do with the old guy running the PA board. Nathan
You can get the latest version of Firefox for OS/2 too. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.5/contrib/firefox-3.5.3.en-US.os2.zip Nathan
I wonder how relevant it would be to add that information to this web page? http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/ Nathan
Not only is it possible to create Helium from plain run of the mill hydrogen, it's probable.
I'm telling you, it is a timing process, not a heat or pressure. Heat and pressure only increase the odds of fusion. Heavier deuterium and or trition only make it easier. You still come up with the same results... helium.
Do you get a better kind of helium from trition than you would deuterium???
Can you explain 1 + 1 = 4?
Or was it New Zealand on the internet with Candlebox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlebox )
Nathan
If you really want to know... http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/ Nathan
http://www.americanmessaging.net/ I still have a pager from 1992 that I still use today. It isn't the original one but it is still the same exact model.
The company has changed hands several times but the account number hasn't changed since 1992.
Nathan
I love apple...*&^((&^@ no carrier
I've been seeing a woman that has lived most of her life in the north east province of China. She has been here in the states now for 8 years I believe. She is now legal here in the US.
.22 cal pistol. She was scared to death of the gun.
She told me at one time that for many years in her middle to late 20's she was part of the police force in China and she did say at one time that she was issued a gun to carry while on duty.
I know she was trained on the use of guns.
Now here in the US she owns two houses for rent. One of the houses recently became empty. As she was cleaning out the trash that the tenants had left, she found a
She felt that she was going to be arrested for the possession of the gun. She called me in a panic and asked if I would meet her. I'm the only one she knows with a gun permit. She didn't say why. She had the fear in her voice like she had murdered someone. I knew it was important but didn't know why.
She brought me to her rental house and showed me in. She brought me into the back bedroom and pointed to it on the floor. As I leaned down to pick it up, she screamed "DON'T TOUCH IT!!!"
I picked it up any way and asked why. She told me that they could now trace the gun to me. She was really afraid.
I looked at the gun and it was dirty and rusty. I would be afraid to load the gun and shoot it for fear of it blowing apart. The handled looked like it had been used more as a hammer than as a gun.
I called the local police department from my cell phone. She was so scared that she left the room. The serial number of the gun was intact. The police department basically said that if I didn't want the gun to bring it in and they would dispose of it.
If a Chinese woman that knows how to handle guns, is this scared of them, what do the rest of the Chinese population living in China think of them?
Nathan
What is to say that it won't reply to the widely available cell phone network, just like the iPhones do now with e-mail???
Nathan
Something else that you forgot to take into account is the maintenance of the gas engine. You have to do more than just put gas in the vehicle.
Your calculation of 70 miles * 365.24 = 25566.8 miles a year.
Since most people really only work 50 weeks out of the year, 2 weeks for vacation, and only really 5 days a week, instead of 7, I come up with 250 days out of the year that you would be driving 70 miles for a total of 17,500 miles a year.
On my vehicle, I change the oil about every 3,000 miles. That would be about 6 times a year.
Now say the average person only changes their oil every 5,000 miles. That is almost 4 times a year.
A very cheap oil change from the 30 second oil change places is about ~$30, well maybe $29.95.
That is $120 a year, $480 after 4 years. Net savings just dropped to under $3000 over 4 years.
I change my air filter 2 times a year, $16 dollars for the part and I do it myself. Say $20 for someone else to do it for you 2 times a year, $40 a year, $160 for 4 years.
$2,700 savings after 4 years.
I've never known a car battery to last more than 4 years. Actually, I've replaced my Ford battery twice in the last 4 years. $100 for the two battery changes.
$2600 savings after 4 years.
I've also never known a water pump in a gas engine to last more than about 4 years.
I changed the water pump in my Ford in the first 4 years of owning the new vehicle, $400 and change.
$2200 savings after 4 years.
So, $2200 divided by 4 years = $550 a year in savings.... Not much.
Nathan
I felt it this morning and I live in the North East Metro Atlanta Georgia area. I really felt the quake Aug 24, 2005. I have a dresser that has a drawer pulls similar to a door knocker, it is a u shape a attaches in two places. The august 24th quake I woke up with these drawer pulls clinking about 20 times and the bed slowly shaking about 10 times. This morning, these drawer pulls clinked two or three times and the bed shook twice. I woke up from it and thought there was another earthquake. It was much less than the Tennessee quake but I did feel it all the way to Atlanta. Nathan
I have lived in the Atlanta area since 1976. I worked in the downtown area of Atlanta from 1983 to 1997. I worked at the Gold Dome Capital building, the Federal Reserve Bank and I even worked for ACOG/IBM on the 6th floor of the Apparel Mart downtown Atlanta for the Olympics.
Several months leading up to the 1996 games, it was true that the Atlanta police were rounding up the homeless. But, the city was also paying to move them to shelters/YMCA. Although they did displace occupants of the downtown area, I would fathom an educational guestimate that it was less than 5,000 people. Far less than the 1.5 million people of China.
Once the Olympics were over in Atlanta, and the city quit paying for the shelters, the homeless did return.
The only thing that has changed since then, is better policing of the downtown Atlanta area and upholding the loitering laws in place since the early 70's.
I've been to Centennial Park in the last year at night and actually felt safe to walk around. I didn't feel like that in the late 80's with a class at Georgia State University ending at 10pm and having to walk from there to the Five Points Marta Station.
I wonder what is going to happen to the 1.5 million people after the Olympics in China is over.
Nathan
IE crashes in the process of downloading it forcing you to attempt to download it several times before you actually get to install it.
Most people give up on the 100th attempt to download it. Therefore 1.5 million downloads, very little usage.
Nathan
Have you ever outsourced a job? You get what you pay for. If you hire cheap workers, you get cheap results. I've hardly ever used code that outsourced companies have sent me. The company I work for outsources because I am the only programmer here. They feel that if I get overwhelmed I may quit. If you had read my post, I'm a programmer, I've been a programmer, I don't want to be anything other than a programmer. I've done it all my adult life. Why would I want to get into human resources? At times I've been lazy in my job, I admit that. Sometimes I feel that I have earned it. If I really wanted to be lazy, I could used the outsourced code provided me and piece together some real crap, put my feet up on my desk and not worry about the project. I'm better than that though. I've kept the offer of outsourced code for the weeks that I want to be lazy. Yea, it is a cushy job. I work 50 to 60 hours a week because I like programming, not because I am worried about losing my job. I have enjoyed being a programmer all my life. It has come easy for me. I work for $40k a year because I am too lazy to go out and get a programming job where all I am is a code monkey. I enjoy my own office and being able to take a two hour lunch if I really feel like it. Superstars do programming for the love of it, not because of the money. I enjoy my life, I enjoy my job, I enjoy my free time. I've met every single last deadline ever set for me. Sometimes I even enjoy the deadlines. But I also enjoy the time that I am allowed to be lazy. Making deadlines gets me that. Maybe if I didn't get that time to work on things that I wanted to, I would learn the phrase "Do you want fries with that?" and come work with you. I could be lazy all I wanted then. Getting back to the original parent post, There are superstar programmers out there. We just don't want the hassles any more. For the right amount of cash, I would go be one. Nobody is going to pony up for one like they did in the 90's though. There are too many in India that will work for cheap. I'm beginning to enjoy being tagged Troll and Flamebate. Nathan
I've been a programmer since Turbo Pascal came on 2 floppy disks. All through the 90's I was billing for 65 an hour or more. I've worked on teams where I do produce more than three other programmers. My last real programing job in 2001 I cleaned up code that other people that called themselves senior programmers would write.
After 25 years, I now work for $40,000 and struggling to survive. What happened????
India happened.
I now work on web development, I find it amazing the the trash that I get from the outsourced programmers. I'm supposed to use this code that they write and supposedly manage the three projects that I work on. I'm a programmer not a manager. I want to stay a programmer.
When I feel the need to do real programming, I spend my time programming open source projects in my off time.
Nobody wants to pay for superstars.
I get up and leave interviews when they say I have to take a test on my programming skills. Shouldn't 25 years of programming mean that I have a slight handle on programming???
So what if I haven't written any Java scripts. So what if I haven't written in Visual Basic for 3 years. I started out in ROM basic, doesn't that mean anything??
And yes, I am going to stay in my $40,000 a year job. I have a corner office with a couch in it. I like the people I work for and nobody knows that I have very rarely ever used the code from the outsourced programmers.
Since every post I have ever made gets tagged flamebate, I am waiting to see this get tagged the same.
Nathan
There will be plenty of them on eBay soon after they start giving them out.
Nathan
will be off the grid, running small nuclear generators, running as small of appliances as possible.
It will be about saving as much energy as possible, not wasting as much as possible.
Nathan
Years ago, I used to charge my camcorder battery when I was out on a picnic with my girlfriend(I swear) by finding a coke machine and unplugging it.
You still can find coke machines outside at nearly every mom and pop gas stations.
Nathan
I've written an interpreter... http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-viewer?sh=1&fname=/pub/os2/apps/emulator/os2irl.zip
Every thing I post to slashdot gets marked as flamebait, including this post.
Nathan