It is good to see Apple improvements making their way into KDE and Linux. I recently purchased a PowerMac and made the switch from Linux/Intel to Apple/PPC. Mac OS X is absolutely everything I have ever wanted in a beautifully polished and useful user interface with everything I have ever wanted in a UNIX underneath. What a beautiful OS.
J2EE is what our nationwide corporation runs for all of its back-end and front-end enterprise applications. J2EE is highly robust, scalable, and reliable platform that has the extremely valuable benefit of allowing a multitude of different clients and systems to interact without a hitch. LAMP is meant for cute personal websites. The person who posted this article doesn't have a damn clue what he is talking about at all.
You are horribly blind to reality and unfortunately the majority of Americans are as blind as you. As a American, I cannot believe that you actually follow a man who knowingly lies to his countrymen and has sent >1000 of them to their death for his own personal reasons. Do you consider that a great quality of a leader? If you follow your leader without question, what is the difference between a president and a dictator? Nothing. Also, you call Michael Moore an anarchist? On what grounds? Having personally read independent and foreign news almost daily over the past 15 or so years I watched Fahrenheit 911 with great interest as I knew roughly 99% of the information presented in the film as true. What hurts people like you most is the truth.
This country has a long ways to go before it can consider itself mature. But, let's hope that the history of the past, especially in Europe, might some day make it into the hearts and minds of the American people. Otherwise, the continuing political corruption of our leaders and the willing ignorance and blind following of our people is going to drive this country to lead the same path as other now-fallen empires.
There is a complete difference between stumbling onto a physical law or process and completely and fundamentally understanding it. Without Mathematics, all things in this universe would be known only by observation without understanding.
For the people who don't even read the damn news, much less the headlines posted a week or more late on Slashdot, is that there is no Plutonium in the bomb. This was a training bomb without a trigger.
I think maybe you need to educate yourself on how electrical tariffs work. Most residential rates work against large watt hour spikes such as oven, dryer, air conditioning, etc. usage especially during on-peak hours. Electrical rates do vary across the country, so the resulting electrical billings will vary from area to area.
And as an aside, you are correct, I should have been more careful in my wording. I was making a point during that sentence more than making a direct factual statement.
That's a good point, but how much power does a laptop use when on 24/7? My laptop can go for 3 hours a single battery. I would assume that even having a laptop on 24/7 would use very little energy. Plus, the most power is being consumed by your monitor and your hard drive. When the monitor is off (or closed and off for a laptop) and the hard drive is in spin-down/suspend, how much energy is really being used? That wattage was in the 10-15W range and a lot of the times is was just residual energy usage. Also, the ethernet controller is still active on my laptop in this mode, so I never have network connectivity problems when in this specific sleep mode (which is VERY easy and common on all computers to set).
That's not true at all. I have an old P233 laptop that I am using as a server and two PCMCIA ethernet cards present no space problems whatsoever. How much space do two external ethernet dongles take up once the PCMCIA cards are in the laptop? Hmmm....let me measure....1" before you bend the cables back along the side of the laptop.
1) Do a search for the power requirements of a modern computer (any time after the invention of APM). There are plenty of studies to be found, many of them at university websites. The average computer, when it is in standby mode, uses 35W or less. When an EPA Green monitor (almost every modern monitor on Earth) is in sleep mode they use less than 1W. So, you are trying to figure out how to use less electricity than the equivalent of a small nightlight? The first time you leave your electric oven on 350 degrees for about one minute longer than your buzzer went off (assuming it is heating at the time), you most likely just spent more electrical energy than an entire month of computer server usage on full power.
2) Why are you trying to jack around buying proprietary solutions or exotic mini-computers for your needs? That's dumb as hell. My personal server at home is an old Dell P233 laptop I bought for $50. It sports 80MB of RAM, 100Mbit ethernet, and a 4GB HDD. It currently runs my Apache HTTP, SAMBA, SSHD, VNC, Postfix, and CUPS server and it is tucked away neatly on a shelf under my desk. It has been especially useful as my print server (since I have a wireless network) and MP3 SAMBA server. Power consumption? Please, this is a laptop and the power features have worked perfectly as they were intended to. Also, there has been no additional configuration with this system since its original installation outside of Linux OS security/bug/OS upgrades.
I read that article earlier. The real problem isn't that these people do not have the proper language to understand mathematics, but rather these people have never been taught the concepts or abstraction of basic mathematics. You can teach a completely deaf person mathematics, as long as they understand the concepts. Mathematics is the language of the universe and it is not directly tied to any verbal language whatsoever. Mathematics at its core is not a matter of numbers and words, but abstractions and concepts. It is amazing how "researchers" get studies like this published sometimes.
This is also reminds me of a story just a couple weeks ago that some "researchers" tried to prove that the successfulness of human relationships is dependent on a person name. Specifically where the vowels were placed in the person's name (and some other crap). Talk about horribly correlated data and bad conclusions.
Divine intervention? A discussion about reality and physics, backed up by good talks, and suddenly someone comes along and tosses in human make-believe. Truly, the largest lack in the human species is their unbelievable reliance on mke-believe religions.
Divine intervention? A discussion about reality adn physics, backed up by good talks, and suddenly someone comes along and tosses in human make-believe. Truly, the largest lack in the human species is religion.
We are still just bipedal monkeys with some nice toys, completely depending on earth itself.
Not exactly. Where did you get this little nugget of misinformation? For the record, you are completely wrong. The human race as a whole has moved beyond these restrictions thousands of years ago.
No, not exactly, the combination of brains and thumbs is what helped homo sapiens rise above the other animals. The homo sapiens ability to think and adapt was aided by the thumb. Although, even people without thumbs are able to live completely normal and productive lives. It all comes to down to Evolution.
I don't believe that nearly every single major accident you have ever had has been due to mechanical failure. I also race competively in the SCCA for Autocross, ProRally (my true passion in life), and GT in the future. Although I do not compete in Motocross or MotoGP, I have friends who have raced motorcycles for years and none of them have ever said that any accidents they had were due purely to mechanical failure. 99.99% of the time they just say they fucked up.
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They are not theorems, but conjectures. A theory and a conjecture are not the same thing. No one to date as posted a theory.
The difference is reality. Reality is that all religions are human make-believe. That's a simple fact.
Science is a process to discover what is, not what humans want to be. That is a simple fact.
Another fact is that Christianity, as it is a purely human creation from human imagination, is evolving from its intended roots. That is why scientific facts/theories of today fit within your beliefs. You are not truly a Christian, but instead a neo-Christian who has essentially bastardized and warped the religion to fit reality whenever a make-believe religious explanation or "fact" is disproved scientifically.
The universe is not ruled by human make-believe. That is a simple fact. The universe is ordered, predictable, and governed by a set of unaltering rules. The scientific process is the process to discover the exact rules that determine the order.
In order for something to be taken as fact, it has to be mathematically correct, repeatable, predictable, and disprovable. That is simple. Human fantasy/religions fit none of those things.
For whatever reason, you are not understanding what I am saying whatsoever. Refer to your own writing. Pure Physics is nothing except applied Mathematics. The Mathematics does not define the Physics as such that Mathematical equation on paper translates directly to Physical reality, your thoughts are confusing what is fact. Mathematics defines the rules, defines the understanding. Without Mathematics there is only observation. Without Mathematics, there is no true understanding.
The system of Mathematics can be "loose" to someone who does not understand, but that is the point I am making. People do not understand the difference between pure and applied mathematics. Pure Mathematics is the binding glue of everything and all understanding. All of the rules and properties which define our understanding. Physics applies those mathematical rules to model, explain and predict the universe around us.
Without Mathematics there is no Physics...again, Physics could only consist of observation, nothing more.
Mathematics-->Physics-->Everything else
In summary, you are wrong. Mathematics is the ubiquitous description of everything. Mathematics is independent of Physics. Physics is not independent of Mathematics. That is the point which has been missed.
If you wish to believe that you can truly understand Physics without mathematics, then be my guest. In the end you will discover the relationship between the two.
There are certain types of computing which simply cannot be done with microprocessor based platforms including clustering. One of these calculation types is vector processing. A Cray supercomputer is a vector processing based unit. When comparing a cluster of PC systems being used to calculate what a single Cray is designed to calculate, the Cray CTO is perfectly correct in his statement.
Wow, please do some research before posting. To truly understand the philosophy of Godel's theorem, you have to understand what he is talking about. Even in a 'perfect' system, you can create paradoxes out of the rules. This does not mean that the universe exists in any form of paradox or paradoxes within the universe exist naturally. It is correct to understand that Godel artificially created a system of paradox using mathematics, but he does not prove that mathematics can never be complete.
Godel, although brilliant, has created a philosophy. Science and philosophy are an interesting dance, but science always wins.
I believe you are also not clearly thinking out something you are referring to called "self-referential paradox". The symbolic systems we use to describe the universe are not separate from the universe: they are a part of the universe just as we are a part of the universe. Since we are within the system, our understanding is 'the system modeling itself'. The paradox you are referring to is that the completion of the model can never happen because of the basic self-referential paradox: The model is within the universe. Or you can view it n another way: The model models the universe. The universe includes the model. The model must model itself. The model must model the model of itself.. ad absurdum. This is interesting, although it would enlighten you to search in Google (since I am not sure you have access to a University research Library) and look for "Godel Incompleteness Theorem Counter Proofs". Godel appears to clearly not be a mechanist.
On an interesting note to the CS majors on Slashdot. Godel also predicted that Artificial Intelligence can never be achieved, as there are only a finite number of variables that can be calculated using a machine. Will this be proven true? I do not believe so. As Godel was apparently not a mechanist, it follows that he would have concluded that statement.
In layman's terms, do some research before posting a reply next time, Anonymous Coward.
"Since I've done a PhD in Physics, I think I have some insights into the subject. I think *intrinsically* rather than *unequivocally* as well, btw. I think there can be some doubt (equivocation) in the relation when a physical property can allow data transferral under conditions that no known mathematical transformation can..."
Wrong again. I am currently studying for my Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics with a special emphasis in Quantum Chaotic Dynamics. I would be interested in seeing a peer reviewed example of your statement. Please, by all means, point me to the research paper and I will look up your problem and write-back. I will need the Title, Author(s), Journal Name, and ISBN (or equivalent).
The solution to everything in Physics is mathematical by definition. Therefore any so-called physical property you find that cannot be described mathematically is either false or has not yet been mathematically discovered/formulated. Physics is applied mathematics and nothing more.
Of course, you are just a high school or at best college undergrad and have no idea what you are talking about...which leads me to wonder why I even bother to read the crap on Slashdot.
Wrong. Mathematics is both the language of the universe and the language of Physics (Mathematics and Physics are the only true understanding of our universe). Physics is unequivocally bound to Mathematics. Mathematics is not unequivocally bound to Physics. Mathematics itself is not bound to physical application, it is as perfect puzzle pieces to a grander system, its existence, laws and logical truths allows Physics to exist.
Pure Mathematics is absolutely unforgiving. Applied Mathematics, such as Physics, only appears forgiving if the system is setup incorrectly for your model.
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It is good to see Apple improvements making their way into KDE and Linux. I recently purchased a PowerMac and made the switch from Linux/Intel to Apple/PPC. Mac OS X is absolutely everything I have ever wanted in a beautifully polished and useful user interface with everything I have ever wanted in a UNIX underneath. What a beautiful OS.
J2EE is what our nationwide corporation runs for all of its back-end and front-end enterprise applications. J2EE is highly robust, scalable, and reliable platform that has the extremely valuable benefit of allowing a multitude of different clients and systems to interact without a hitch. LAMP is meant for cute personal websites. The person who posted this article doesn't have a damn clue what he is talking about at all.
You are horribly blind to reality and unfortunately the majority of Americans are as blind as you. As a American, I cannot believe that you actually follow a man who knowingly lies to his countrymen and has sent >1000 of them to their death for his own personal reasons. Do you consider that a great quality of a leader? If you follow your leader without question, what is the difference between a president and a dictator? Nothing. Also, you call Michael Moore an anarchist? On what grounds? Having personally read independent and foreign news almost daily over the past 15 or so years I watched Fahrenheit 911 with great interest as I knew roughly 99% of the information presented in the film as true. What hurts people like you most is the truth.
This country has a long ways to go before it can consider itself mature. But, let's hope that the history of the past, especially in Europe, might some day make it into the hearts and minds of the American people. Otherwise, the continuing political corruption of our leaders and the willing ignorance and blind following of our people is going to drive this country to lead the same path as other now-fallen empires.
There is a complete difference between stumbling onto a physical law or process and completely and fundamentally understanding it. Without Mathematics, all things in this universe would be known only by observation without understanding.
For fuck's sake, Welcome To Last Week's News.
For the people who don't even read the damn news, much less the headlines posted a week or more late on Slashdot, is that there is no Plutonium in the bomb. This was a training bomb without a trigger.
I think maybe you need to educate yourself on how electrical tariffs work. Most residential rates work against large watt hour spikes such as oven, dryer, air conditioning, etc. usage especially during on-peak hours. Electrical rates do vary across the country, so the resulting electrical billings will vary from area to area.
And as an aside, you are correct, I should have been more careful in my wording. I was making a point during that sentence more than making a direct factual statement.
That's a good point, but how much power does a laptop use when on 24/7? My laptop can go for 3 hours a single battery. I would assume that even having a laptop on 24/7 would use very little energy. Plus, the most power is being consumed by your monitor and your hard drive. When the monitor is off (or closed and off for a laptop) and the hard drive is in spin-down/suspend, how much energy is really being used? That wattage was in the 10-15W range and a lot of the times is was just residual energy usage. Also, the ethernet controller is still active on my laptop in this mode, so I never have network connectivity problems when in this specific sleep mode (which is VERY easy and common on all computers to set).
One more thing:
3) Make sure to set the laptop's BIOS to keep the computer fully running once you shut the laptop's screen.
That's not true at all. I have an old P233 laptop that I am using as a server and two PCMCIA ethernet cards present no space problems whatsoever. How much space do two external ethernet dongles take up once the PCMCIA cards are in the laptop? Hmmm....let me measure....1" before you bend the cables back along the side of the laptop.
1) Do a search for the power requirements of a modern computer (any time after the invention of APM). There are plenty of studies to be found, many of them at university websites. The average computer, when it is in standby mode, uses 35W or less. When an EPA Green monitor (almost every modern monitor on Earth) is in sleep mode they use less than 1W. So, you are trying to figure out how to use less electricity than the equivalent of a small nightlight? The first time you leave your electric oven on 350 degrees for about one minute longer than your buzzer went off (assuming it is heating at the time), you most likely just spent more electrical energy than an entire month of computer server usage on full power.
2) Why are you trying to jack around buying proprietary solutions or exotic mini-computers for your needs? That's dumb as hell. My personal server at home is an old Dell P233 laptop I bought for $50. It sports 80MB of RAM, 100Mbit ethernet, and a 4GB HDD. It currently runs my Apache HTTP, SAMBA, SSHD, VNC, Postfix, and CUPS server and it is tucked away neatly on a shelf under my desk. It has been especially useful as my print server (since I have a wireless network) and MP3 SAMBA server. Power consumption? Please, this is a laptop and the power features have worked perfectly as they were intended to. Also, there has been no additional configuration with this system since its original installation outside of Linux OS security/bug/OS upgrades.
I read that article earlier. The real problem isn't that these people do not have the proper language to understand mathematics, but rather these people have never been taught the concepts or abstraction of basic mathematics. You can teach a completely deaf person mathematics, as long as they understand the concepts. Mathematics is the language of the universe and it is not directly tied to any verbal language whatsoever. Mathematics at its core is not a matter of numbers and words, but abstractions and concepts. It is amazing how "researchers" get studies like this published sometimes.
This is also reminds me of a story just a couple weeks ago that some "researchers" tried to prove that the successfulness of human relationships is dependent on a person name. Specifically where the vowels were placed in the person's name (and some other crap). Talk about horribly correlated data and bad conclusions.
Soft science. *rolls eyes*
Divine intervention? A discussion about reality and physics, backed up by good talks, and suddenly someone comes along and tosses in human make-believe. Truly, the largest lack in the human species is their unbelievable reliance on mke-believe religions.
Divine intervention? A discussion about reality adn physics, backed up by good talks, and suddenly someone comes along and tosses in human make-believe. Truly, the largest lack in the human species is religion.
We are still just bipedal monkeys with some nice toys, completely depending on earth itself.
Not exactly. Where did you get this little nugget of misinformation? For the record, you are completely wrong. The human race as a whole has moved beyond these restrictions thousands of years ago.
It would most likely be a motherly entity.
No, not exactly, the combination of brains and thumbs is what helped homo sapiens rise above the other animals. The homo sapiens ability to think and adapt was aided by the thumb. Although, even people without thumbs are able to live completely normal and productive lives. It all comes to down to Evolution.
I don't believe that nearly every single major accident you have ever had has been due to mechanical failure. I also race competively in the SCCA for Autocross, ProRally (my true passion in life), and GT in the future. Although I do not compete in Motocross or MotoGP, I have friends who have raced motorcycles for years and none of them have ever said that any accidents they had were due purely to mechanical failure. 99.99% of the time they just say they fucked up.
They are not theorems, but conjectures. A theory and a conjecture are not the same thing. No one to date as posted a theory.
The difference is reality. Reality is that all religions are human make-believe. That's a simple fact.
Science is a process to discover what is, not what humans want to be. That is a simple fact.
Another fact is that Christianity, as it is a purely human creation from human imagination, is evolving from its intended roots. That is why scientific facts/theories of today fit within your beliefs. You are not truly a Christian, but instead a neo-Christian who has essentially bastardized and warped the religion to fit reality whenever a make-believe religious explanation or "fact" is disproved scientifically.
The universe is not ruled by human make-believe. That is a simple fact. The universe is ordered, predictable, and governed by a set of unaltering rules. The scientific process is the process to discover the exact rules that determine the order.
In order for something to be taken as fact, it has to be mathematically correct, repeatable, predictable, and disprovable. That is simple. Human fantasy/religions fit none of those things.
It is unfortunate that you do not understand what I am saying.
Everything in our universe is defined mathematically.
For whatever reason, you are not understanding what I am saying whatsoever. Refer to your own writing. Pure Physics is nothing except applied Mathematics. The Mathematics does not define the Physics as such that Mathematical equation on paper translates directly to Physical reality, your thoughts are confusing what is fact. Mathematics defines the rules, defines the understanding. Without Mathematics there is only observation. Without Mathematics, there is no true understanding.
The system of Mathematics can be "loose" to someone who does not understand, but that is the point I am making. People do not understand the difference between pure and applied mathematics. Pure Mathematics is the binding glue of everything and all understanding. All of the rules and properties which define our understanding. Physics applies those mathematical rules to model, explain and predict the universe around us.
Without Mathematics there is no Physics...again, Physics could only consist of observation, nothing more.
Mathematics-->Physics-->Everything else
In summary, you are wrong. Mathematics is the ubiquitous description of everything. Mathematics is independent of Physics. Physics is not independent of Mathematics. That is the point which has been missed.
If you wish to believe that you can truly understand Physics without mathematics, then be my guest. In the end you will discover the relationship between the two.
There are certain types of computing which simply cannot be done with microprocessor based platforms including clustering. One of these calculation types is vector processing. A Cray supercomputer is a vector processing based unit. When comparing a cluster of PC systems being used to calculate what a single Cray is designed to calculate, the Cray CTO is perfectly correct in his statement.
Wow, please do some research before posting. To truly understand the philosophy of Godel's theorem, you have to understand what he is talking about. Even in a 'perfect' system, you can create paradoxes out of the rules. This does not mean that the universe exists in any form of paradox or paradoxes within the universe exist naturally. It is correct to understand that Godel artificially created a system of paradox using mathematics, but he does not prove that mathematics can never be complete.
Godel, although brilliant, has created a philosophy. Science and philosophy are an interesting dance, but science always wins.
I believe you are also not clearly thinking out something you are referring to called "self-referential paradox". The symbolic systems we use to describe the universe are not separate from the universe: they are a part of the universe just as we are a part of the universe. Since we are within the system, our understanding is 'the system modeling itself'. The paradox you are referring to is that the completion of the model can never happen because of the basic self-referential paradox: The model is within the universe. Or you can view it n another way: The model models the universe. The universe includes the model. The model must model itself. The model must model the model of itself.. ad absurdum. This is interesting, although it would enlighten you to search in Google (since I am not sure you have access to a University research Library) and look for "Godel Incompleteness Theorem Counter Proofs". Godel appears to clearly not be a mechanist.
On an interesting note to the CS majors on Slashdot. Godel also predicted that Artificial Intelligence can never be achieved, as there are only a finite number of variables that can be calculated using a machine. Will this be proven true? I do not believe so. As Godel was apparently not a mechanist, it follows that he would have concluded that statement.
In layman's terms, do some research before posting a reply next time, Anonymous Coward.
"Since I've done a PhD in Physics, I think I have some insights into the subject. I think *intrinsically* rather than *unequivocally* as well, btw. I think there can be some doubt (equivocation) in the relation when a physical property can allow data transferral under conditions that no known mathematical transformation can..."
Wrong again. I am currently studying for my Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics with a special emphasis in Quantum Chaotic Dynamics. I would be interested in seeing a peer reviewed example of your statement. Please, by all means, point me to the research paper and I will look up your problem and write-back. I will need the Title, Author(s), Journal Name, and ISBN (or equivalent).
The solution to everything in Physics is mathematical by definition. Therefore any so-called physical property you find that cannot be described mathematically is either false or has not yet been mathematically discovered/formulated. Physics is applied mathematics and nothing more.
Of course, you are just a high school or at best college undergrad and have no idea what you are talking about...which leads me to wonder why I even bother to read the crap on Slashdot.
I look forward to your scientific evidence.
Wrong. Mathematics is both the language of the universe and the language of Physics (Mathematics and Physics are the only true understanding of our universe). Physics is unequivocally bound to Mathematics. Mathematics is not unequivocally bound to Physics. Mathematics itself is not bound to physical application, it is as perfect puzzle pieces to a grander system, its existence, laws and logical truths allows Physics to exist.
Pure Mathematics is absolutely unforgiving. Applied Mathematics, such as Physics, only appears forgiving if the system is setup incorrectly for your model.