Another issue is of course whether an 64+ bit addressing architecture is needed for mainstream PCs yet.
I don't know about everyone else, but my applications including in memory databases, can eat as much RAM is they can be given, were all ready running 16 dual processor 3GB Ram linux boxen, and those 16GB NewSys boxes look spot on to me.
Fortran having a goto isn't the problem, the problem is in fortran you have to use it, because you have got loop altering constructs like break and continue, or basic switches.
Fortrans other, problem is that its lack of pointers or references, makes it very hard to do simple datastructs like linked lists, or trees without resorting to ugle and wasteful int arrays of look up values into other arrays.
"The electrical charge hypothesis lead to a direct contradiction of the 2nd law of thermodynamics."
That would me for a moment, but its right, if the force between to identical objects in the same space increases over time, then there energy increases, so it violates both the first and seconds laws of thermodynamics.
However there is a let out here, if some process is increasing the strength of the electric field, then it might be balanced out by decreasing the strength of one of the other forces. Secondly that energy conversion may be violated on a cosmology scale may in fact be allowable. The conversion of energy used to be a law, but these days its a derevation, Noether's theorm states if the laws of physics are the same at all times, energy must be conversed, so its only natural to get a violation of the conversation of energy if the laws of physics change over time.
Actually when c approches infinity, special relavity just becomes plan old newtons laws. Unfornately i don't think General relavity would work at all as the time parts of the tensors would tend to infinity but not the spacial parts.
Your making many unjustified assumptions in your calcuations:
1. That life on Earth started out using its
current molecular basis of amino acids. 2. That life on Earth started out using the
full complement of 19 amino acids 3. That life on Earth has not evolved from a
much simpler molecular basis. 4. That the terran molecular basis for life is
is only possible form.
Luckily there going to put a metal heatspreader on the clawhammer. The K6's had then to, i'm not sure why this skipped it on the Tbird to T-bred athlons.
Aliens might know lots of stuff. But how would they no about human biology and its failings without already being here. Aliens might send us warp drives. But its up to us to fix our human failings.
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Lime disease is an autoimmune disease trigged by the very weak virus transmitted by the deer ticks. Presummibly Deer have been exposed to the virus for so long that they evolved a slightly modified immunue system or antigens to avoid the autoimmune problems.
Hey its saturday morning were I am. Been out to a club, got pissed, got pissed off by a mate snogging the girl i was chatting up. Dancing the manic disco dance of the extremely angry. Walked to the top of the hill and back, at home cooling off reading slashdot. And they say programmers have no life.
Which reminds me, they need another section on there site, terminal over-reaction revenage devices.
Al Corpone baseball bat. $50
Magick Evil Explode a minion hand gesture, in
case any ask a good question. $10,000,000
Miniture Zarug battle fleet*. One thousand years old each ship the 1.5cm in length. Currently enaged in a holy war, the the Verhug captain that back what he said about is mother. $5,000,000.
I love the humour there. I think it must have been make by Brits, as some of the pictures are from 70s brit sci-fi that americans probably wouldn't get. Did you spot, Kerr Avon, Zoltan and the federation guard uniform from Blakes seven and the Giant robot from Doctor who?
Yeah right. Of course I need the prospect of ten years of delibrating weakness followed by obvilion to make my days worth living (not). The world isn't any more meaningful because we mortal, just sadder and scarier.
"Possible consequences: loss of your immune response memory. It seems like lymphocytes retire there and protect you from the stuff they were good at killing in their youth. If you replaced your thymus, you'd probably be susceptible to chicken pox (and worse) again if it wasn't done very carefully."
That could be a very good thing. Because in auto-immune disease (MS, arthiritis and many more), the immune system has learned to attack the wrong things and busy causing you pain or is even killing you.
Alpha is not the only part of physics that
may have to change. Special relativity may
have to change as well, to be replaced with
doubly special relativity. SR gets its name because one constant (the speed of light) is
deemed special and must be viewed as the same
value by all observers, this seems fully compatible with all the forces of nature except one, quantum gravity. The strength of gravity is measured by the constant, the Planck mass, with is the mass at which a black hole's event horizion is the same size as the wavelength of the black hole. However there is a problem with this: observers travelling at different speeds will disagree about the about the size of the Planck
mass, and so some physicist, including ones with
such high credentials as Lee Smolin, are beginning to believe a theory known as double special relativity in which both the speed of
light and the planck mass are the same for all
observers.
You can see a few of the papers on it at the Los Almos
archives:
What do you mean. DiskSuite tell you what disk/slices are in use, and will complain if you try to use a slice twice, not only that you can get it to colour all the used slices in the GUI. Finally, unless you just installed a new disk you shouldn't have any unused diskslices, they should all be in the hot spare pool.
The Hindu religion contains a cyclic universe, with the universe repeating ever year of Bruma, a year of a Bruma is the time taken for a bird that rubs its beak once a year against a great wall across india, to rub the wall down to nothing.
If you think about it there are only a few possible fates of the universe, a universe that repeats or a universe that begins and ends, so it not surprising that the various religon in the world have already covered most of the possibilities.
For instance, Terry Pratchett wrote, an Azrael, the death of universe, knows the secret: "I can rembember when all this will be again"
Interestingly the cyclic universe theory is not quite cyclic, entropy always increases and each incarnation of the universe is bigger than the last. They can get away with this because the universe is infinite, and twice infinity is still infinity. The previously universes may then be scattered in tiny high entropy relics in the next universe.
Try the new find/bin/laden@home client, which operates on masses of spy statellite data to find bin laden life signs and thermal signiture.
Or the new fight/bin/laden@home client which compares masses of possible viral DNA sequences to produce one targeted to kill Bin Laden while not affecting anyone else.
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Another issue is of course whether an 64+ bit addressing architecture is needed for mainstream PCs yet.
I don't know about everyone else, but my applications including in memory databases, can eat as much RAM is they can be given, were all ready running 16 dual processor 3GB Ram linux boxen, and those 16GB NewSys boxes look spot on to me.
Won't Bluray come out in 2005, making standard
DVDs obsolete?
Fortran having a goto isn't the problem, the
problem is in fortran you have to use it, because
you have got loop altering constructs like break and continue, or basic switches.
Fortrans other, problem is that its lack of
pointers or references, makes it very hard to
do simple datastructs like linked lists, or
trees without resorting to ugle and wasteful
int arrays of look up values into other arrays.
"The electrical charge hypothesis lead to a direct contradiction of the 2nd law of thermodynamics."
That would me for a moment, but its right,
if the force between to identical objects in
the same space increases over time, then there
energy increases, so it violates both the
first and seconds laws of thermodynamics.
However there is a let out here, if some process
is increasing the strength of the electric field,
then it might be balanced out by decreasing the
strength of one of the other forces. Secondly that
energy conversion may be violated on a cosmology
scale may in fact be allowable. The conversion
of energy used to be a law, but these days its
a derevation, Noether's theorm states if the
laws of physics are the same at all times, energy
must be conversed, so its only natural to get
a violation of the conversation of energy if
the laws of physics change over time.
Actually when c approches infinity, special
relavity just becomes plan old newtons laws.
Unfornately i don't think General relavity
would work at all as the time parts of the
tensors would tend to infinity but not
the spacial parts.
Your making many unjustified assumptions in your
calcuations:
1. That life on Earth started out using its
current molecular basis of amino acids.
2. That life on Earth started out using the
full complement of 19 amino acids
3. That life on Earth has not evolved from a
much simpler molecular basis.
4. That the terran molecular basis for life is
is only possible form.
Jesus, learn about logithrims will you.
.1 = -1
Log
Log 1 = 0
Log 10 = 1
(With Logs in base 10)
etc.
Luckily there going to put a metal heatspreader
on the clawhammer. The K6's had then to, i'm
not sure why this skipped it on the Tbird to T-bred athlons.
Barton is coming out real some now, is 512K L2
cache on an Athlon enough for you, or would you
prefer to wait for the 1M L2 on the operaton?
I am who i am? So what is saying is God was Popeye
sailor man.
Aliens might know lots of stuff. But how would
they no about human biology and its failings without already being here. Aliens might send us
warp drives. But its up to us to fix our human
failings.
Lime disease is an autoimmune disease trigged
by the very weak virus transmitted by the
deer ticks. Presummibly Deer have been exposed
to the virus for so long that they evolved a
slightly modified immunue system or antigens to
avoid the autoimmune problems.
And why? Because know microsoft make the X-box,
they don't want top of the range graphics to be on
PC cards.
Hey its saturday morning were I am. Been out to
a club, got pissed, got pissed off by a mate
snogging the girl i was chatting up. Dancing the
manic disco dance of the extremely angry. Walked
to the top of the hill and back, at home cooling
off reading slashdot. And they say programmers have no life.
Which reminds me, they need another section on there site, terminal over-reaction revenage devices.
Al Corpone baseball bat. $50
Magick Evil Explode a minion hand gesture, in
case any ask a good question. $10,000,000
Miniture Zarug battle fleet*. One thousand years
old each ship the 1.5cm in length. Currently
enaged in a holy war, the the Verhug captain that
back what he said about is mother. $5,000,000.
*garanatee void if used near small dogs.
I love the humour there. I think it must have been make by Brits, as some of the pictures are
from 70s brit sci-fi that americans probably
wouldn't get. Did you spot, Kerr Avon, Zoltan and
the federation guard uniform from Blakes seven and
the Giant robot from Doctor who?
Providing you want to roll the UK back to
pre-industry times.
Yeah right. Of course I need the prospect of
ten years of delibrating weakness followed by
obvilion to make my days worth living (not). The world isn't any more meaningful because we mortal, just sadder and scarier.
"Possible consequences: loss of your immune response memory. It seems like lymphocytes retire there and protect you from the stuff they were good at killing in their youth. If you replaced your thymus, you'd probably be susceptible to chicken pox (and worse) again if it wasn't done very carefully."
That could be a very good thing. Because in
auto-immune disease (MS, arthiritis and many
more), the immune system has learned to attack
the wrong things and busy causing you pain or is
even killing you.
here and here.
Finally a changing speed of light is predicted in a DSR approach here.
What do you mean. DiskSuite tell you what disk/slices are in use, and will complain if
you try to use a slice twice, not only that you
can get it to colour all the used slices in the
GUI. Finally, unless you just installed a new
disk you shouldn't have any unused diskslices,
they should all be in the hot spare pool.
The Hindu religion contains a cyclic universe, with the universe repeating ever year of Bruma,
a year of a Bruma is the time taken for a bird
that rubs its beak once a year against a great wall across india, to rub the wall down to
nothing.
If you think about it there are only a few
possible fates of the universe, a universe that
repeats or a universe that begins and ends, so
it not surprising that the various religon in
the world have already covered most of the
possibilities.
For instance, Terry Pratchett wrote, an Azrael,
the death of universe, knows the secret: "I can
rembember when all this will be again"
Interestingly the cyclic universe theory is
not quite cyclic, entropy always increases and
each incarnation of the universe is bigger than
the last. They can get away with this because the
universe is infinite, and twice infinity is
still infinity. The previously universes may
then be scattered in tiny high entropy relics in
the next universe.
A. Folding is owned by Stanford Uni.
B. I'm more than happy to have any company, person or organisation that can cure my dads prostate cancer, being very rich indeed.
C. Someone else being rich, doesn't make you poor.
Try the new find/bin/laden@home client, which
operates on masses of spy statellite data to find
bin laden life signs and thermal signiture.
Or the new fight/bin/laden@home client which compares masses of possible viral DNA sequences
to produce one targeted to kill Bin Laden while
not affecting anyone else.
Well then, are about Curing Cancer or fighting Aids. You can't get much worthier than that.
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