No joke, just old news. China's majority is also extremely poor and the party would have everyone believe that a better life is to be found in the city, where they can keep an eye on you.
The communists are not as short sighted as you are, politicians sometimes appear to be stupid or incompetent when the outcome they get is what they really wanted. Just look at the "war" in Iraq and the "war on terrorism/drugs/illiteracy" etc
Germany during the 20s with the "les boches payeront" (if you don't know what it means, google it, it's about war compensations). what is this "google" of which you speak? If you want me to learn something you had better damned well hand it to me on a silver platter and not expect me to do any tedious "reading"!
We did it to prove to ourselvesUSSR that it could be donewe had power. No silly, that's the reason they nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nothing like a little demonstration of power close to home...
Hollick earns nothing beyond the original $100K he was paid. Aw man, only $100K? we must be in a depression, I don't know how he can make ends meet on such a measly wage...
If someone really wants to switch to a *nix OS and give it no thought whatsoever, then OS X has been a great choice for years, and it doesn't come with the problems that plague ubuntu. Yeah that quick, easy install and lack of issues is obviously a real plague.
I'm in the same boat. I've been a linux hack since debian 3.1 (not long I know) and have tried just about every distro out there and ubuntu was the first one where everything worked "out of the box" and I mean everything..wireless, bluetooth,screen res, etc on more than a few different computers. On some laptops 7.10 is slooow, but when using 8.04 on the same lappies everything went fine. I have installed it on a few macs as well and never had a problem. I'm typing this on a dell d610 which took to 7.10 like a duck to water and have not had to use the command line out of necessity (more out of curiosity;) ).
Also, ubuntu is a very fast and trouble-free install and while I am a nerd and know "whats under the hood", I am a very lazy nerd who doesn't want to fuck around every time I install an OS with compiling tweaks and drivers. In my opinion people who don't consider ubuntu l33t enough and refer to it as an asylum are just plain gay and should stay in their parents basement where they belong
A movie that has permeated practically every culture on the planet--Jedi is a religion in some countries; when people cup their hands over their mouth and slowly and loudly breath, people recognize it as a Vader impression; and its success made ILM, Skywalker Sound, Harrison Ford, Lucas Arts, Lucasfilm, THX, and the list goes on.
You may not like the movie, but to say it's "just a movie" is like saying "the Bible is just a book"--perhaps in some literal sense it's "a book," but it's one that has shaped the course of human history. Every culture on the planet? You need to get out more...
American Graffiti gave us Harrison Ford...
And don't even mention the bible. It's a bigger piece of cruft than all versions of windows multiplied together.
but what can we expect from slashdot? unless you're wearing a t-shirt that says 'micro$oft is teh gay!!!1111!!oneone' with a tux tattoo and taken a vowel of poverty as an it professional you get labeled as a shill and a fucktard. fuck that. it's the most fucked up form of zealotry that i've ever seen. well it was until you submitted this post....pot...kettle...black?
As far as rare events, go, there has been one tsunami (boxing day tsunami), one spectacular comet (McNaught) and now a super-nova witnessed from the beginning...any other rare events we can look forward to?
Thanks for that! I often wondered where the elements heavier than iron came from since iron is at the bottom of the nuclear-reaction "valley" in the energy-per nuclide curve, just never bothered to look it up and thanks to you I never need bother;o)
Well the nova that made the Crab Nebula (witnessed in 1054AD) was visible during the day and there don't seem to have been too many ill effects. High energy radiation of the gamma/xray type makes up the minority of energy released during these events, and thanks to the inverse-square law, not much will have hit us anyways.
TV/Games/Carbs makes for a very fat ass. you forgot to mention teh internet and/. Sometimes I don't get up all day apart from visits to the fridge. And for all those wondering, I don't work because I don't have to...mortgage is paid!! yeehaa!!
But your body does not burn foods in a laboratory, it metabolises what it can and chucks the rest. Not to mention that caloric tables neglect to mention rest-mass, har har.
Modern "food/nutritional science" is bogus witch-doctory at best and blatant fraud at worst.
That wave is not static, it's vibrational displacement is assumed inert/static because we have no way of approximating such a minute difference in change, for now. Yes I know that, but to use a classical analogy, the water was still before a wave came along and moved it, but there was water before the wave and there will be water afterwards too. A wave has to oscillate something without moving it, so what are EM waves oscillating that wasn't there before?
I assume by "physics graduate" you mean you majored in it in undergrad. Yes indeed.
First, as a physics graduate, you should know better than to use the phrase "believe in" when talking science. Well I was using it in the laymans sense (yes I know it sucks that words like "theory" mean different things to different people). But the results of Michelson-Morley seem to discount the idea of the ether and subsequent theory and results also lend credence to the idea that there is no luminiferous (i love that word;o) ) aether. So i was meaning in the sense that no theory is 100% proven, it's more like a law case where the evidence stacks up to support whatever conclusion it happens to, so I don't believe in the aether because there is not much evidence for it, rather than being biased one way or another.
Second, I suppose you haven't had much field theory (can't fault you for that), so the behavior of electromagnetic fields may seem odd. What? That a field can oscillate where there was previously no field? Any electric field extends to infinity so perhaps this superposition of fields constitutes a form of aether, but with properties different to what is normally meant from the term. I think it is wrong to throw the baby out with the bathwater, especially when it could simplify things...not saying I'm right or anything, just throwing the idea out there coz it's been brewing in my head for a long time...
Yes. There is a not oft-heard hypothesis that what we see from the CMB is nothing more than the radiation from the expanding planetary nebula from a star that died nearby, thereby supplying all the heavy elements that are found in the solar system. And then there's the quantized red-shift poking holes in the big-bang theory...although how the universe's biggest ever black hole could have expanded past its own event horizon is beyond me. But then I'm only a physics grad.
disclaimer: I am a physics graduate.
EM waves consist of an oscillating electric field (along with its magnetic counterpart)...what was that electric field doing before it started oscillating? It was probably a static field. Think about this, if I have a magnet and I wiggle it around, the disturbance in the field of the magnet travels outward from the source at the speed of light, but the field was there but merely static initially. Same deal with gravity waves. So whether the local field is static or oscillating, it was always previously existent regardless of its state. While I don't believe in the luminiferous aether either I also don't see how a field disturbance (electric, magnetic or gravitational) can travel through something that isn't there. I hope people can see what I'm talking about because while relativity and the aether don't make sense on their own, there are aspects of both theories that accurately describe reality and as is often the case in modeling reality it is not often a case of either / or, eg wave-particle duality in describing the sub-atomic world.
No one said it was, it is however a solution to the problem and one I have been enjoying immensely since i made the effort to find out what this strange "ubuntu" thing really was.
As for a PDF reader in windows, try Foxit reader. Uses about 1/10th the space that adobe bogware does....
watts are joules per second...that's why a kilojoule in a picosecond makes a shitload of watts...
1000 joules / 10^-12 seconds = 10^15 joules per second or watts...simple...altho not to those on/. it would seem
Do you have any idea of the paper work and investigations that get done everytime a cop pulls his taser? they don't ever do it unless the alternative is dangerous to them or the suspect. yeah that guy they repeatedly tasered for asking John Kerry a few questions was REAL dangerous. Not to mention all the children under 10 that have been subjected to electric shocks for 'disobedience'.
the other thing you people NEVER bring into the equation is how many lives/injuries tasers have PREVENTED. they never bring it into the equation because the sum-total is close to zero. Zero has little influence on any equation unless it is all multiplication or dividing by...
if you had any idea how dangerous it is to use pyshical force to restrain someone you'd realise tasers are far safer. I have an idea having worked as crowd security on several occasions and having trained in multiple practical martial arts and I say you're wrong. So wrong in fact that you're not even close to being right. Oh yeah, a high voltage shock is WAAAAAAY less dangerous than a cop sitting on you applying handcuffs...not.
yes tasers suck to get hit with just like pepper spray, but i'd take being hit with a taser over 6 cops piling on to me to pin me down any day. If you need 6 cops to pin you down then those cops are incompetent and should be fired or retrained, but I guess incompetence passes for the norm in the USA these days. I mean it did on 9/11 and in the administration so US citizens seem to take it for granted. 1 or 2 at most should be able to do the job unless you are Andre the Giant. From all the evidence on youtube, it is obvious to all except the legally blind that cops use tasers as an alternative to physically restraining people because it is the easy option.
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and make it slackware or fedora...something they have to learn the "nuts and bolts" of... ;o)
The communists are not as short sighted as you are, politicians sometimes appear to be stupid or incompetent when the outcome they get is what they really wanted. Just look at the "war" in Iraq and the "war on terrorism/drugs/illiteracy" etc
Good work /. team, no worries down under
obligatory- in SU, google searches you!
Also, ubuntu is a very fast and trouble-free install and while I am a nerd and know "whats under the hood", I am a very lazy nerd who doesn't want to fuck around every time I install an OS with compiling tweaks and drivers. In my opinion people who don't consider ubuntu l33t enough and refer to it as an asylum are just plain gay and should stay in their parents basement where they belong
American Graffiti gave us Harrison Ford...
And don't even mention the bible. It's a bigger piece of cruft than all versions of windows multiplied together.
and boggy, bloated cruftware is teh suxorz, even if it is what you're best at
As far as rare events, go, there has been one tsunami (boxing day tsunami), one spectacular comet (McNaught) and now a super-nova witnessed from the beginning...any other rare events we can look forward to?
Thanks for that! I often wondered where the elements heavier than iron came from since iron is at the bottom of the nuclear-reaction "valley" in the energy-per nuclide curve, just never bothered to look it up and thanks to you I never need bother ;o)
Well the nova that made the Crab Nebula (witnessed in 1054AD) was visible during the day and there don't seem to have been too many ill effects. High energy radiation of the gamma/xray type makes up the minority of energy released during these events, and thanks to the inverse-square law, not much will have hit us anyways.
But your body does not burn foods in a laboratory, it metabolises what it can and chucks the rest. Not to mention that caloric tables neglect to mention rest-mass, har har. Modern "food/nutritional science" is bogus witch-doctory at best and blatant fraud at worst.
Yes. There is a not oft-heard hypothesis that what we see from the CMB is nothing more than the radiation from the expanding planetary nebula from a star that died nearby, thereby supplying all the heavy elements that are found in the solar system. And then there's the quantized red-shift poking holes in the big-bang theory...although how the universe's biggest ever black hole could have expanded past its own event horizon is beyond me. But then I'm only a physics grad.
disclaimer: I am a physics graduate. EM waves consist of an oscillating electric field (along with its magnetic counterpart)...what was that electric field doing before it started oscillating? It was probably a static field. Think about this, if I have a magnet and I wiggle it around, the disturbance in the field of the magnet travels outward from the source at the speed of light, but the field was there but merely static initially. Same deal with gravity waves. So whether the local field is static or oscillating, it was always previously existent regardless of its state. While I don't believe in the luminiferous aether either I also don't see how a field disturbance (electric, magnetic or gravitational) can travel through something that isn't there. I hope people can see what I'm talking about because while relativity and the aether don't make sense on their own, there are aspects of both theories that accurately describe reality and as is often the case in modeling reality it is not often a case of either / or, eg wave-particle duality in describing the sub-atomic world.
worthless bunch of pseudo-hippies, even their founder renounces the current state of the organisation.
No one said it was, it is however a solution to the problem and one I have been enjoying immensely since i made the effort to find out what this strange "ubuntu" thing really was. As for a PDF reader in windows, try Foxit reader. Uses about 1/10th the space that adobe bogware does....
watts are joules per second...that's why a kilojoule in a picosecond makes a shitload of watts... 1000 joules / 10^-12 seconds = 10^15 joules per second or watts ...simple...altho not to those on /. it would seem