Heather's Heavenly Vapes - THE BIG THREAD (Part 6)

[retic1959]

I don't even know what Virtualbox is, so no.

It's software that allows you to run another OS on a virtual machine in a box . I was running a full copy of Windoze 7 in a box under Linux Mint just for S&G . It's a safe way of experimenting with other OS's . Virtualization has to be supported by your cpu and enabled in the BIOS to be able to use it . Almost any multi-core cpu can run it . I can run an .iso file with it same as using a dvd or usb stick . Oracle VM VirtualBox

 

[CMD-Ky]

I got the latest Windows 10 update. "wsappx" now takes a minimum of 10% up to 50% of CPU time. Evidently there no fix for this excessive use by a useless "feature". Linux is getting closer and closer.

 

[kkay59]

Thank you Retic. I just may be interested in trying that out one day. I would like to be able to use both on one computer for a while.

 

[Bronze]

while I was driving home tonite from a delivery..... I had a thought...
if one was to travel at or beyond the speed of light... everything would go dark.

Eventually. But you'd have to outrace billions of years of light before it happens.

 

[Bronze]

Replaced twitchy temp control switch on wash machine. Still twitchy (at least it seems like it to me...I don't do laundry enuf to know for certain) but definitely better than what it was. It's about a $50 part but some guy was selling one on ebay for $22. Says it came off a new washer that had cosmetic damage so he gutted it and was selling the parts. Sure looked new.

Got to thinking....I could probably buy a brand new wash machine for $500 and sell the components for at least three times that much. Ebay is a good place to do that.

 

[retic1959]

I got the latest Windows 10 update. "wsappx" now takes a minimum of 10% up to 50% of CPU time. Evidently there no fix for this excessive use by a useless "feature". Linux is getting closer and closer.

MS insist's nothing is wrong with their updates no matter how many IT people tell them otherwise , I refuse to believe they don't know , I think they think they're too big to fail so they don't give a crap . There isn't a day that goes by that I don't see refugees from Windoze on the Linux forums . More and more people are getting fed up with their crap .

 

[Bunnykiller]

Eventually. But you'd have to outrace billions of years of light before it happens.

ahhhh but heres the clincher... if you move at the speed of light or faster the photons behind you cant catch up to you and the photons in front of you are entering your eye at 2 times the speed of light so therefore the dopler effect ( blue shift) would be so intense that it would go beyond blue and into the ultra violet range ( which we cant see) and therefore go dark... the only thing I can think of as far as seeing anything would be a "halo" at the side of the ship which would look more like a circular rainbow... in front dark, the rainbow along side, overhead and below, and dark behind you....

 

[Bunnykiller]

I got the latest Windows 10 update. "wsappx" now takes a minimum of 10% up to 50% of CPU time. Evidently there no fix for this excessive use by a useless "feature". Linux is getting closer and closer.

did you notice that the middle letters spell sap... as in it will sap all your resources away

or it could mean Windows Slowing APP ( model X)

 

[Hulamoon]

ahhhh but heres the clincher... if you move at the speed of light or faster the photons behind you cant catch up to you and the photons in front of you are entering your eye at 2 times the speed of light so therefore the dopler effect ( blue shift) would be so intense that it would go beyond blue and into the ultra violet range ( which we cant see) and therefore go dark... the only thing I can think of as far as seeing anything would be a "halo" at the side of the ship which would look more like a circular rainbow... in front dark, the rainbow along side, overhead and below, and dark behind you....

!

 

[Bunnykiller]

!

I think this picture would be a good "explanation"

the vapor would be equal to the rainbow, the clear air would be comparable to darkness

 

[PapawBrett]

Hello Army. Vibrating thanks to this TNS device. I can feel my neck and upper spine loosening up.
Don't know about windows anymore. I am figuring out that Apple loves money. $15 a month for iTunes. YouTube is free (listening to shine on you crazy diamond as I type).
Should I ask BK .... are there colors beyond the speed of light ? Color perception is new to light reflection/ refraction ....
NFL Pre Season is on. That's kind of like a prom dress. Looks good but not what you really want ...

 

[Bunnykiller]

this will mess ya up... we "can see sound and hear colors"...
we hear because we pick up waves/vibrations of a certian frequency with our ears.. altho limited ( 20Hz -20KHz is an average range) and we can see from nearly infrared to nearly ultra violet ( from about 350nM UV to 760nM IR)
and depending on what direction you are moving, to or away from the source of light, the color can change with enuf speed....if you move fast enuf towards a red light source it will become yellow and then green, then blue.

same as if you are moving towards a sound, it will "sound" higher in pitch and then lower as it passes by ( Doppler effect for sound or red/blue shift for light) but the original sound wave never changes in pitch ( frequency)...

If we could hear in the same range that light is produced, we would be able to hear light... but we have eyes to do that

as far as seeing colors beyond the speed of light with our human eyes... no, it would be like trying to listen to a "dog whistle" that produces sound at 40KHz... our ears just cant do it. But with the same "idea" ( Doppler) in mind, UV and X-rays could be visible if you were to travel fast enuf away from them...something basically invisible becomes visible but its not considered light in a true sense since light is specifically denoted to the 350 - 750 nM range.

hmmm here ya go... lets say "red" water can only make waves that wash up onto the shore once per 3 seconds and "yellow" water does it once every 2 seconds, and "blue" water does it every second and black water has no waves...

if you were to close your eyes and stand at the beach of these 4 lakes you can tell what color the water is by how many times the waves hit your feet... if you were to start to swim into the waves and the times you got hit by the waves increased you would think you were in a different lake ( either yellow or blue) and if you got into a boat and went into the waves so fast you couldnt tell how many waves were hitting you so you would say there were no waves but a smooth surface ( and a smooth surface means no waves thus no color ergo black)...

and on the reversal side of things... if you were in the boat and traveling with the waves, you could actually ride on top of a wave and no longer feel the wave bounces and once again say you were on smooth water ( black)

either this is going to help or totally confuse

 

[Bunnykiller]

Hello Army. Vibrating thanks to this TNS device. I can feel my neck and upper spine loosening up.
Don't know about windows anymore. I am figuring out that Apple loves money. $15 a month for iTunes. YouTube is free (listening to shine on you crazy diamond as I type).
Should I ask BK .... are there colors beyond the speed of light ? Color perception is new to light reflection/ refraction ....
NFL Pre Season is on. That's kind of like a prom dress. Looks good but not what you really want ...

dayummm... Papaw is kewl

 

[Bunnykiller]

ohhh welllll football has started... it was nice to have a wifey around for the summer Im gonna miss our conversations

 

[Bronze]

this will mess ya up... we "can see sound and hear colors"...
we hear because we pick up waves/vibrations of a certian frequency with our ears.. altho limited ( 20Hz -20KHz is an average range) and we can see from nearly infrared to nearly ultra violet ( from about 350nM UV to 760nM IR)
and depending on what direction you are moving, to or away from the source of light, the color can change with enuf speed....if you move fast enuf towards a red light source it will become yellow and then green, then blue.

same as if you are moving towards a sound, it will "sound" higher in pitch and then lower as it passes by ( Doppler effect for sound or red/blue shift for light) but the original sound wave never changes in pitch ( frequency)...

If we could hear in the same range that light is produced, we would be able to hear light... but we have eyes to do that

as far as seeing colors beyond the speed of light with our human eyes... no, it would be like trying to listen to a "dog whistle" that produces sound at 40KHz... our ears just cant do it. But with the same "idea" ( Doppler) in mind, UV and X-rays could be visible if you were to travel fast enuf away from them...something basically invisible becomes visible but its not considered light in a true sense since light is specifically denoted to the 350 - 750 nM range.


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hmmm here ya go... lets say "red" water can only make waves that wash up onto the shore once per 3 seconds and "yellow" water does it once every 2 seconds, and "blue" water does it every second and black water has no waves...

if you were to close your eyes and stand at the beach of these 4 lakes you can tell what color the water is by how many times the waves hit your feet... if you were to start to swim into the waves and the times you got hit by the waves increased you would think you were in a different lake ( either yellow or blue) and if you got into a boat and went into the waves so fast you couldnt tell how many waves were hitting you so you would say there were no waves but a smooth surface ( and a smooth surface means no waves thus no color ergo black)...

and on the reversal side of things... if you were in the boat and traveling with the waves, you could actually ride on top of a wave and no longer feel the wave bounces and once again say you were on smooth water ( black)

either this is going to help or totally confuse

How many jigawatts is that?

 

[Bronze]

dayummm... Papaw is kewl

Since y'all are in the mood...(one of my faves)

 

[DavidOH]

Evening...….

 

[LAwaters]

Well, it got very educational in here!

My day’s pursuit was not so intellectual. Anyone who knows me knows I am a freak for pretzels. It’s one thing they just don’t have much of in the West. Must be an East Coast Thing.

Since I can’t get good ones, I have to make my own. My old favorite was Snyder’s of Hanover Sourdough Hard Pretzels. Then it was Unique Extra Dark pretzels. My old teeth just can’t take hard pretzels anymore.

Since I have to make my own, I tried out a sourdough soft pretzel recipe. Absolutely yummy! Better than a Philly street vendor (and that’s among the best).

Turns out the secret is to boil them for one minute in water and baking soda before you bake them Who knew?

The first batch had sautéed jalapeños, garlic and Parmesan. This batch I skipped the jalapeños. I’ve had three total and must stop! I don’t even have anymore room to have a beer!

 

[LAwaters]

Don't know about windows anymore. I am figuring out that Apple loves money. $15 a month for iTunes. YouTube is free (listening to shine on you crazy diamond as I type).

The fee is only if you want to pay for their streaming service. You can still use iTunes for your own digital music. I imported many of my CDs. And yes, Apple clearly loves money.

 

[retic1959]

Were we ever this young ?