The Inhell Pentagram processor, 666 Mhz. Sure it runs hot, but there is no need for cooling (cold day in hell? Ever seen one?) You have never seen daemons dance so fast. (Holy water user protection not included.)
Linux runs on the Merc.. Uh, Itianium. I don't know about BSD. I had heard (Maximum PC) that NT is supposed to run on it as well. I have however, also heard rumors of NT not running properly on it. (I remember hearing about Intel showcasing Linux on this chip because Windows did not work. Sorry, don't have a verifiable link for this.)
The SB Live! Works with Quake 3 now? When did this happen? The readme says that PCI based cards are not yet supported. Q3Arena runs great on my system, but I have a Live! and the sound is choppy as all hell.
I guess thats what open standards do.
I would appreciate anyone providing a link as to how to get my Q3Arena sound working properly however!
---Yeah, its slightly offtopic, but I can hardly frag in Linux with no sound can I?---
If they dont, it would be benificial to us all if they opened the source however (one way or the other). If they open the source the RIAA can only really go after the servers themselves. Going after the logged on clients would not be easy I think.
(I thought the RIAA was already after them? Was this not mentioned before?)
Still, with the advent of things like Gnap, I think that this program is here to stay.
I hope more clients get banged out for Linux and other platforms A.S.A.P. Then the RIAA will not be able to do much....
I heard that. I only wish Loki would port that game. I just finished Thief on the Expert setting last week. It is by far one of the best games I have ever played. (Looking Glass releases the most amazing games...) I added my comments to the Loki message board in what games they should port, and Thief was one of my choices.
Still, here comes Quake 3. Lets hope we all buy it to support Linux, whether you love the FPS style or not!
Unfortunatly I think that faster than light travel will never exist. (I HOPE it will, but I doubt it.)
Unless some of the "wormhole" or "warp-bubble" theories pan out faster than light travel will never exist. (See Einstein's general theory of relativity.)
However, we currently have the technology to reach 1/10 the speed of light using a fission engine. Unfortunatly, current treaties prohibit the launching of fission bombs into space: Even for the use of powering spacecraft to far off destinations. As Carl Sagan said "This is the best use of nuclear weapons that I can think of."
Now, if we used old decommisioned and stockpiled nuclear arms for space exploration I think that would be a great boon for science.
I think that the odds of these new planets having moons that harbor life is low, (still non-zero however!) We will probably have to discover a far larger number of these before we come across one that contains life.
Still, this is not the real crux of the problem, these moons could have life on them and we will probably not be able to detect it for THOUSANDS of years. Why? The odds of the lifeforms on those moons being sufficently advanced to have developed radio or space travel or ANY form of technology is about the same of their being life there in the first place.
Why? (The astronomers and biologists amongst us probably already know this) Life on our planet took billions of years to evolve to the point where a civilization capable of technology appeared. The amount of time that we have possesed technology compared to the amount of time that life on our planet existed as nothing but simple prokyarotes is insignifigant. So, if there is life around these stars it is most likely in a very simple form (or so far advanced as to make our current technology equal to the discovery of fire.)
I only wish there was some way that we could go to these stars and check. Alas this will not happen in my lifetime, or even the lifetime of many of my ancestors.:(
Just thought I would add all that because I can forsee some of the quesions in advance.:)
I see a few comments here advocating "pirating" Unreal Tournament because the Linux binaries have not been included. This is not smart. For those of you who are planning this, I ask you to read the Linux-Advocacy-How-To.
I for one am quite grateful to the guys for making the effort to have a Linux port. If you want to play the game under Linux? Buy the game, but make certain you fill out and mail in the registration card! On that card of course, indicate proudly that you purchased the game for Linux, the suits will notice this.
Every copy that you "liberate for the Linux cause" (Pah!) and pirate reduces one registration card. Emailing GT (In a constructive manner!) is good, but paying for the game and making it known that you are using the Linux version is the best course of action that we have.
GT is a company, it is their job to make money. If we can show them that they can make money off of Linux products they will change. I must admit that Quake 3 Arena is higher on my want list than Unreal Tournament, but I shall buy them both.
Its simple recursion: The more Linux stuff you buy the more there is too buy. The more Linux stuff you buy the more there is to buy.........
Its most likely in gaseous form. I doubt that the gasses would "boil off" (although hydrogen can "evaporate" -for lack of a better word- from a planets atmosphere by being subjected to solar winds and other effects.) The sheer mass of this planet makes it likely that the gas would remain, or at least the heavier elements would. Given its size it probably heats itself (Hydrogen fusing core similar to Jupiter? Perhaps.)
The proximity to the star it orbits coupled with its own internal heat would make the elements detected most likely be present in a gaseous form.
This is coupled with the fact that a gas spectograph was most likely taken of the planet. This is how spectograpy (sp) works. AFAIK, unless they used the amount of light NOT reflected by the planet, but then that would not rule out a great deal of elements, so how could they have detected these three?
The answer is again A light spectograph of gasses. The reason is because the article cleary states that they detected reflected light not absorbed. Thus, it IMO is not a rock. Given its mass, I would favour a gas giant.
I want the source. Its kinda hard to recompile your kernel without it.
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Except that one of the tennants of alchemy, lead into gold, is subatomic, not atomic. I doubt that nanites can be made to operate on a subatomic level.
(If they COULD be however that would be very very cool....)
You should look up the LEGAL (not dictonary) meaning of Monopoly. It does not mean what you think it does in the legal world. I will leave it up to you to educate yourself.
Very often this is transformed from 'find a rational explanation' to 'any other explanation is irrational', with the explanation being hallucinations, usually. Regardless of whether that was the intention of the author (in some cases it certainly seems it was), I'm tired of seeing people use 'Sagan said you're demon haunted' as a justification for dismissing anything they don't like.
I agree on you with this. I mention Sagan because he is one of my favoured writers (along with Stephen J. Gould). I am not however "hiding" behind Sagan. (Many do). I refer to his book simply because it is quite well written, and is one of the most concise sources of skeptical thinking around.
You are correct: people use the argument "Sagan said that..." I don't subscribe to that argument. Given that Carl is dead I doubt that he has said a word since his death..:) That aside, I prefer to bolster my arguments with his reasoning process, but the thoughts and conclusions are my own and not his. Again, fanatics (of any kind) scare me.
Skeptical thinking may not be "nice" but it is effective.
But I understood your argument, so I guess you get a brownie point! (Now if I could only understand mine.....)
I don't deny that you saw what you saw. However, I take issue that what you saw were ghosts. I have had my "paranormal" experiences too.
Most recently while driving home after a long whitewater kayaking trip (I had been awake for 2 days straight) I witnesses one of the shadows on the right of the road... Get up and walk across the road! Not only that, but my tired brain saw it as one of the Nine Riders in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings!!!
I swear to you that this is what I saw. Now, I don't for a moment believe that one of the Nine is out walking along the highway near my house. I do believe however that I was very tired and started to hallucinate. (Sleep deprivation causes such things, so sayeth my Psycology professors). Really, I should NOT have been driving under those conditions.
Now, after I saw this apparition I thought "Cool!", then I burst out laughing at myself. I don't think myself immune to hallucinations. I don't think anyone REALLY is. (If they were, LSD would have no effect on those people IMO.) Not that I have done LSD, but my point is that the human brain is a electro-chemical device. Minor changes in brain chemistry (for whatever reason) or simple changes in thought processes can radically alter how we percive our world. I have had other events similar (and creepier) than this occur throughout my life. I don't find the events reproducable, nor quantifiable under current scientific (Physical and Psycological) thinking.
I think its fine to believe in what you saw. Again, I am not doubting that you actually saw what you did, I am doubting that what you saw was explanied "only" by ghosts. There are other explanations.
As to the "poltergeist" you describe, there are many other reasonable explanations (other than hallucination). Occham's [sp] razor comes into play here: The simplest solution is probably the correct one. I won't proffer any explanations, I will leave it as an experiment for the readers of slashdot (those who understand the scientific method anyway) to come up with their own.
It is fine to believe in ghosts (or relgion, or magnetic therapy, or channeling, or crystals, or...) Again, many people believe in such things.
I however do not.
I believe (notice that believe is a key word here!:) That everything has a rational explanation. This is why I mentioned "The Demon Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark". It is very good reading, and could teach many people skeptical thinking skills.
I just hope to see more skeptical thinkers in this world. A lack of skepticisim IMO breeds faith (which can be quite a positive force!) but faith can become fanatacism. I fear fanatics.
This is one of the funniest links that I have seen in some time. I got a great laugh out of it. I realize that a substantial part of the population (American and otherwise) believes in the existance of ghosts.
However, if you read Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark", specifically the chapter on "baloney detection"... I think that you will see that this is bunk. People that cannot apply skeptical thinking to things such as these frighten me more than the existance of a real ghost would!
Fortunatly, there seem to be a good number of skeptics on Slashdot.
But on a lighter note: Its all hallows eve! So we might as well have fun with it.
I emailed the guys at Valve about a Linux port, and the word from them is that no port exists, nor are there plans for one. They cannot afford to put money into porting it to Linux right now. (Apparently the Linux market is too small).
I will be waiting to see what happens with Half Life 2 (being as it is based on the Q3 engine) and Q3 is portable right from the get go.
Its too bad, Half Life is the only reason I keep my windows partition around.
I am a Open Source advocate (regardless of whether it is Linux BSD or otherwise.) Sure, there are a bunch of Script Kiddie types on Slashdot, but there are also a good deal of intelligent types too.
I don't see it as a Linux only advocacy site, but Linux IS more popular than BSD as an Open Source operating system (at least it gets more hype).
It may sound silly that having Linux becoming a bonified gaming OS is one of the most important things that could happen to this little OS.
Why?
If my memory serves me correctly 50% (or greater) of all software sold is for entertainment purposes, and the majority of that is games. Linux is stable (duh) and because of its lower overhead may be able to get better framerates. I know I am upgrading to a dual celeron system for Gaming/Linux SMP goodness. (No Athalon duals yet!) NT will do SMP, but its not the best gaming OS.
What do we need? An easier method of installing games now if we... wait... What was that that Loki just released? Hmm, we seem to be working on that. Mesa? Well thats coming soon too! Hmmm.
It seems we just need a better sound API.
I also expect many gamers to migrate over to Linux without too much difficulty - Remember many gamers are used to the DOS days and messing about with all of DOS's annoyances.
You may call me crazy, but I think that an excellent selection of games for Linux will be one of the major driving forces behind Linux.
From what I can gather he was unable to detect it directly. He has inferred the location and approximate mass through studying the alteration of the comets paths. Hence it is speculated to be there. My guess as to how he assumes that it is orbiting the planet is again by mathematical calculations. I assume that the 13 comets studied had known paths as they left the solar system, and altered paths as they returned (well, I guess they did not REALLY leave, but you get the idea)
By calculating how much they were altered and the angle that they were altered by, it is possible to determine the location and mass (to some degree) of the altering influence.
Its like shining a light on an object, you dont ACTUALLY see the object itself (although we believe that we do) you see the light that has been reflected by the object. We cannot see the suspect planet, but we can detect its gravitational influence on the comets themselves.
This all taken in context that his observations and math are correct...
There is mention of a "massive" object, but no mention of its estimated mass. Given that Pluto may be de-regulated from its status as a planet (has anyone heard the results of this?) due to its insignifigant size and mass, is it fair to speculate on the existance of this as another planet?
Of course, if this object is massive enough to divert the course of comets then I suppose it is reasonable to assume that it would qualify as massive enough to factor as a planet...
Its nothing but pure speculation at this point, but that does not prevent it from being fascinating.
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I believe Alpha Linux is (I may be incorrect)
But even if its not, it wont take long to switch it over.
For immediate release:
The Inhell Pentagram processor, 666 Mhz. Sure it runs hot, but there is no need for cooling (cold day in hell? Ever seen one?)
You have never seen daemons dance so fast.
(Holy water user protection not included.)
Linux runs on the Merc.. Uh, Itianium. I don't know about BSD. I had heard (Maximum PC) that NT is supposed to run on it as well. I have however, also heard rumors of NT not running properly on it. (I remember hearing about Intel showcasing Linux on this chip because Windows did not work. Sorry, don't have a verifiable link for this.)
The SB Live! Works with Quake 3 now?
When did this happen? The readme says that PCI based cards are not yet supported. Q3Arena runs great on my system, but I have a Live! and the sound is choppy as all hell.
I guess thats what open standards do.
I would appreciate anyone providing a link as to how to get my Q3Arena sound working properly however!
---Yeah, its slightly offtopic, but I can hardly frag in Linux with no sound can I?---
If they dont, it would be benificial to us all if they opened the source however (one way or the other). If they open the source the RIAA can only really go after the servers themselves. Going after the logged on clients would not be easy I think.
(I thought the RIAA was already after them? Was this not mentioned before?)
Still, with the advent of things like Gnap, I think that this program is here to stay.
I hope more clients get banged out for Linux and other platforms A.S.A.P. Then the RIAA will not be able to do much....
I heard that. I only wish Loki would port that game. I just finished Thief on the Expert setting last week. It is by far one of the best games I have ever played. (Looking Glass releases the most amazing games...) I added my comments to the Loki message board in what games they should port, and Thief was one of my choices.
Still, here comes Quake 3. Lets hope we all buy it to support Linux, whether you love the FPS style or not!
Unfortunatly I think that faster than light travel will never exist. (I HOPE it will, but I doubt it.)
Unless some of the "wormhole" or "warp-bubble" theories pan out faster than light travel will never exist. (See Einstein's general theory of relativity.)
However, we currently have the technology to reach 1/10 the speed of light using a fission engine. Unfortunatly, current treaties prohibit the launching of fission bombs into space: Even for the use of powering spacecraft to far off destinations. As Carl Sagan said "This is the best use of nuclear weapons that I can think of."
Now, if we used old decommisioned and stockpiled nuclear arms for space exploration I think that would be a great boon for science.
I hope it will happen someday.
I think that the odds of these new planets having moons that harbor life is low, (still non-zero however!) We will probably have to discover a far larger number of these before we come across one that contains life.
:(
:)
Still, this is not the real crux of the problem, these moons could have life on them and we will probably not be able to detect it for THOUSANDS of years. Why? The odds of the lifeforms on those moons being sufficently advanced to have developed radio or space travel or ANY form of technology is about the same of their being life there in the first place.
Why? (The astronomers and biologists amongst us probably already know this) Life on our planet took billions of years to evolve to the point where a civilization capable of technology appeared. The amount of time that we have possesed technology compared to the amount of time that life on our planet existed as nothing but simple prokyarotes is insignifigant. So, if there is life around these stars it is most likely in a very simple form (or so far advanced as to make our current technology equal to the discovery of fire.)
I only wish there was some way that we could go to these stars and check. Alas this will not happen in my lifetime, or even the lifetime of many of my ancestors.
Just thought I would add all that because I can forsee some of the quesions in advance.
I see a few comments here advocating "pirating" Unreal Tournament because the Linux binaries have not been included. This is not smart. For those of you who are planning this, I ask you to read the Linux-Advocacy-How-To.
I for one am quite grateful to the guys for making the effort to have a Linux port. If you want to play the game under Linux? Buy the game, but make certain you fill out and mail in the registration card! On that card of course, indicate proudly that you purchased the game for Linux, the suits will notice this.
Every copy that you "liberate for the Linux cause" (Pah!) and pirate reduces one registration card. Emailing GT (In a constructive manner!) is good, but paying for the game and making it known that you are using the Linux version is the best course of action that we have.
GT is a company, it is their job to make money. If we can show them that they can make money off of Linux products they will change. I must admit that Quake 3 Arena is higher on my want list than Unreal Tournament, but I shall buy them both.
Its simple recursion: The more Linux stuff you buy the more there is too buy. The more Linux stuff you buy the more there is to buy.........
If you buy the Linux version you can (after Xmas) download the Windows binaries for FREE from id.
If you buy it in the Linux box you are supporting the Linux cause. 'nuff said.
Its most likely in gaseous form. I doubt that the gasses would "boil off" (although hydrogen can "evaporate" -for lack of a better word- from a planets atmosphere by being subjected to solar winds and other effects.) The sheer mass of this planet makes it likely that the gas would remain, or at least the heavier elements would. Given its size it probably heats itself (Hydrogen fusing core similar to Jupiter? Perhaps.)
The proximity to the star it orbits coupled with its own internal heat would make the elements detected most likely be present in a gaseous form.
This is coupled with the fact that a gas spectograph was most likely taken of the planet. This is how spectograpy (sp) works. AFAIK, unless they used the amount of light NOT reflected by the planet, but then that would not rule out a great deal of elements, so how could they have detected these three?
The answer is again A light spectograph of gasses.
The reason is because the article cleary states that they detected reflected light not absorbed. Thus, it IMO is not a rock. Given its mass, I would favour a gas giant.
Please mark this man up. He has something very important to say IMO. Wish I had moderator points right now...
I want the source. Its kinda hard to recompile your kernel without it.
Except that one of the tennants of alchemy, lead into gold, is subatomic, not atomic. I doubt that nanites can be made to operate on a subatomic level.
(If they COULD be however that would be very very cool....)
You should look up the LEGAL (not dictonary) meaning of Monopoly. It does not mean what you think it does in the legal world. I will leave it up to you to educate yourself.
I agree on you with this. I mention Sagan because he is one of my favoured writers (along with Stephen J. Gould). I am not however "hiding" behind Sagan. (Many do). I refer to his book simply because it is quite well written, and is one of the most concise sources of skeptical thinking around.
You are correct: people use the argument "Sagan said that..." I don't subscribe to that argument. Given that Carl is dead I doubt that he has said a word since his death..
Skeptical thinking may not be "nice" but it is effective.
But I understood your argument, so I guess you get a brownie point! (Now if I could only understand mine.....)
I don't deny that you saw what you saw. However, I take issue that what you saw were ghosts. I have had my "paranormal" experiences too.
:) That everything has a rational explanation. This is why I mentioned "The Demon Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark". It is very good reading, and could teach many people skeptical thinking skills.
:)
Most recently while driving home after a long whitewater kayaking trip (I had been awake for 2 days straight) I witnesses one of the shadows on the right of the road... Get up and walk across the road! Not only that, but my tired brain saw it as one of the Nine Riders in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings!!!
I swear to you that this is what I saw. Now, I don't for a moment believe that one of the Nine is out walking along the highway near my house. I do believe however that I was very tired and started to hallucinate. (Sleep deprivation causes such things, so sayeth my Psycology professors). Really, I should NOT have been driving under those conditions.
Now, after I saw this apparition I thought "Cool!", then I burst out laughing at myself. I don't think myself immune to hallucinations. I don't think anyone REALLY is. (If they were, LSD would have no effect on those people IMO.) Not that I have done LSD, but my point is that the human brain is a electro-chemical device. Minor changes in brain chemistry (for whatever reason) or simple changes in thought processes can radically alter how we percive our world. I have had other events similar (and creepier) than this occur throughout my life. I don't find the events reproducable, nor quantifiable under current scientific (Physical and Psycological) thinking.
I think its fine to believe in what you saw. Again, I am not doubting that you actually saw what you did, I am doubting that what you saw was explanied "only" by ghosts. There are other explanations.
As to the "poltergeist" you describe, there are many other reasonable explanations (other than hallucination). Occham's [sp] razor comes into play here: The simplest solution is probably the correct one. I won't proffer any explanations, I will leave it as an experiment for the readers of slashdot (those who understand the scientific method anyway) to come up with their own.
It is fine to believe in ghosts (or relgion, or magnetic therapy, or channeling, or crystals, or...) Again, many people believe in such things.
I however do not.
I believe (notice that believe is a key word here!
I just hope to see more skeptical thinkers in this world. A lack of skepticisim IMO breeds faith (which can be quite a positive force!) but faith can become fanatacism. I fear fanatics.
Thats my take anyhow!
This is one of the funniest links that I have seen in some time. I got a great laugh out of it. I realize that a substantial part of the population (American and otherwise) believes in the existance of ghosts.
However, if you read Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark", specifically the chapter on "baloney detection"...
I think that you will see that this is bunk. People that cannot apply skeptical thinking to things such as these frighten me more than the existance of a real ghost would!
Fortunatly, there seem to be a good number of skeptics on Slashdot.
But on a lighter note: Its all hallows eve! So we might as well have fun with it.
I emailed the guys at Valve about a Linux port, and the word from them is that no port exists, nor are there plans for one. They cannot afford to put money into porting it to Linux right now. (Apparently the Linux market is too small).
I will be waiting to see what happens with Half Life 2 (being as it is based on the Q3 engine) and Q3 is portable right from the get go.
Its too bad, Half Life is the only reason I keep my windows partition around.
I am a Open Source advocate (regardless of whether it is Linux BSD or otherwise.) Sure, there are a bunch of Script Kiddie types on Slashdot, but there are also a good deal of intelligent types too.
I don't see it as a Linux only advocacy site, but Linux IS more popular than BSD as an Open Source operating system (at least it gets more hype).
It may sound silly that having Linux becoming a bonified gaming OS is one of the most important things that could happen to this little OS.
Why?
If my memory serves me correctly 50% (or greater) of all software sold is for entertainment purposes, and the majority of that is games. Linux is stable (duh) and because of its lower overhead may be able to get better framerates. I know I am upgrading to a dual celeron system for Gaming/Linux SMP goodness. (No Athalon duals yet!) NT will do SMP, but its not the best gaming OS.
What do we need? An easier method of installing games now if we... wait... What was that that Loki just released? Hmm, we seem to be working on that.
Mesa? Well thats coming soon too! Hmmm.
It seems we just need a better sound API.
I also expect many gamers to migrate over to Linux without too much difficulty - Remember many gamers are used to the DOS days and messing about with all of DOS's annoyances.
You may call me crazy, but I think that an excellent selection of games for Linux will be one of the major driving forces behind Linux.
I just lent the book out, but Carl Sagan utterly destroyed this argument in the book Broca's Brain.
:)
-Chapter on the paradoxers.
(Don't mean to rain on your parade
From what I can gather he was unable to detect it directly. He has inferred the location and approximate mass through studying the alteration of the comets paths. Hence it is speculated to be there. My guess as to how he assumes that it is orbiting the planet is again by mathematical calculations. I assume that the 13 comets studied had known paths as they left the solar system, and altered paths as they returned (well, I guess they did not REALLY leave, but you get the idea)
By calculating how much they were altered and the angle that they were altered by, it is possible to determine the location and mass (to some degree) of the altering influence.
Its like shining a light on an object, you dont ACTUALLY see the object itself (although we believe that we do) you see the light that has been reflected by the object. We cannot see the suspect planet, but we can detect its gravitational influence on the comets themselves.
This all taken in context that his observations and math are correct...
There is mention of a "massive" object, but no mention of its estimated mass. Given that Pluto may be de-regulated from its status as a planet (has anyone heard the results of this?) due to its insignifigant size and mass, is it fair to speculate on the existance of this as another planet?
Of course, if this object is massive enough to divert the course of comets then I suppose it is reasonable to assume that it would qualify as massive enough to factor as a planet...
Its nothing but pure speculation at this point, but that does not prevent it from being fascinating.
Slackware 3.5 has doom with it. However, it is the shareware version so there is no licence conflict there at all.