there was an IWW member (Industrial Workers of the World for anyone unfamiliar -- aka "wobblies") standing on a street corner doing nothing but publicly reading our own Declaration of Independence. After a few minutes, a police officer comes by and arrests him
That was Frank Little.
"zero-gravity" is usually used synonymously to mean effective weightlessness, neglecting tidal effects.
So, yes, there is plenty of gravity acting upon satellites in orbits, but they are in free fall, so there isn't a significant gravitational force experienced by the components of the satellite due to their accelerating reference frame. Thanks to our somewhat sloppy terminology, this is zero-gravity.
Call me curious, but what does Yahoo! offer these days besides a buggy version of Gmail and Flickr?
Yahoo! Answers, which admittedly is very hit-and-miss, but sometimes it gets the job done.
Humans work with base 10 [ten] for good reason.
What reason(s)? All I can see are:
I personally think that hexadecimal is a superior system, especially for communicating with binary computers which use binary naturally. The only reason we can't use it is because we decided that ten was a great number base for some reason.
Who pronounces it with a silent e.
I've never heard it pronounced without a silent e. How would you pronounce it without a silent e? Sil-ih-co-neh? Sil-ih-co-nee?
But really you'll never achieve randomness, at least not using a traditional turning machine...
What are you talking about? I make random things with my lathe all the time!
Let's test Slashdot Unicode support: ó
vi is a simple screen-oriented text editor from UNIX. Many clones of vi exist throughout the software world. It is difficult to learn how to use vi because it behaves differently from most other text editors. However, once you learn how to use vi, it is an extremely efficient text editor, and so you'll have vi x.txt ingrained in your frequently-used-commands muscle memory.
Here is how I typically use vi:
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
