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You are misunderstanding relativity. If you are standing still and I come running at you with a flashlight the light travels at c because that is the speed at which light travels in a vacuum. In reality we'd both see light travelling at slightly below c because if we were in a vacuum we'd have other things to worry about. Think of it like a train coming towards you sounding it's whistle. The whistle is higher pitch coming towards you because the wave compressions are created closer to each other. The light would just happen to be a higher frequency.
Relativity definately allows for faster than light travel, you just need to fudge things a bit. Ie, expand the space behind you while collapsing the space in front of you. This is very possible the problem is the insane energy requirements. It's all relative, as long as you are not moving faster than the speed of light relative to the region of space you are in the universe is happy with you.
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Uhm...no. Think of it like you are in a car going 60mph. On the other side of the street is another car going at 60mph. Now for some reason you decide to hit the other car. The two cars collide at 120mph, not 60mph. The original poster had it right, the classic example being if you are on a train going at just under the speed of light and you run towards the front of the train, relative to the universe you just moved faster than the speed of light, but relative to the train you did not so it's all ok.
I've heard that the Insight actually gets much higher than the advertised mpg. As high as 90mpg highway. My personal theory on this (note this is based on no actual facts) is that honda tested the MPG at "standard" driving speeds, ie 60mph, but in reality people drive much faster and this car just happens to do better at higher speeeds.
Adelphia in philly is great. My parents have an adelphia cable modem that averages between 100 and 300 KBps. Some sites, like sunsite or ftp.funet.fi would give consistent speeds of around 700 KBps. It was great downloading the kernel source in about 20 seconds.
Read the GPL:
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
Just FYI, rats bred (well that were attempted to be bred) without the AIF gene did not grow beyond the embryotic stage. I'd say that is pretty good evidence for this gene being required.
Uhm...did you read the article? AIF acounts for natural cell death. All cells must die at some point. Besides, think of how a virus works. IIRC a virus takes over a host cell and modifies it so that it produces more viruses. Eventually this host cell will die, killing the virus production factory. Now think about what would happen if said cell didn't die; it would continue to produce more viruses indefinately. Sure your immune system would be able to kill said cells eventually, but it would need to do so for the rest of your life, or until the cell died due to some other circumstances.
AIF would not be usefull in fighting standard viruses. It COULD be usefull in fighting cancer by telling the cancer cells to self destruct (which would be much less invasive than physically removing the cancerous tissue). Then again, one slight mistake and you could easily kill the patient, either by making all of their cells die immediately, or making them all live forever, which (I think) would make the patient's entire body cancerous. In short, AIF seems like a very sharp double edge sword.
The reason you've never seen a logical argument, is because, as best as I can tell there isn't one. I have yet to see a solid argument for why one is inheirently better than the other. Sure apt-get handles installing packages much nicer than rpm (the command line tool, not the package format). But from what I understand (at least with the latest version of rpm (the pacakge) found in rh7) there is nothing at all that prevents rpm from having rpm get program and having it resolve all of the dependencies and download everything for you. Also, last I heard (this might be different) rpm supports signing packages where deb does not.
Half of the arguments I've seen for why debs are better than rpms were because debs use a directory for package info, where rpm uses a single file.
Does anyone have a good (based in fact not religion) argument for why one is better than the other?
Apache starts as root and then drops it's privs (su's to www-data), so apache does infact run as root initially. As for ping, that really doesn't seem possible. ping must be setuid root in order to function, same with traceroute.
Apple is just as bad as Microsoft. Had they been less greedy in the 80s Microsoft and Apple would probably be in opposite positions today. I doubt much else would be different though. Besides, has Microsoft sued anyone for copying the win9x look and feel?
Musicians can and do sue over music that sounds like their own. Example, Queen and David Bowie with "Under Pressure" vs. "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. They sued Vanilla Ice and effectively won (IIRC the suit was dropped due to an out of court settlement).
That's completely not true. First off, Apple does not have a patent on the GUI for OSX, the best they can do is copyright it. Second, the "if you don't enforce it you lose it" rule applies to trademarks, not patents.
This type of behavior is childish at best. In every industry companies create knock-off products. It's just something you have to deal with. Besides, it's not like an Aqua GTK theme is going to steal any business from Apple. Maybe finally people will realise that Apple is no better than Microsoft, just smaller.
Actually no. A few years ago there was a lawsuit in PA over a guy whose front lawn was an absolute mess filled with all kinds of crap, like furniture, broken car parts, things of that sort. His neighbors sued him, and the court found that it was his property and he had the right to put whatever he wanted on it. I'm sure it would have been different if it was food stuffs and other trash that could create a hazardous situation, but since it was all stuff that wouldn't rot and leave a smell or provide food for foraging animals it was ok. A sattalite dish would definately be ok in that situation.
Now if you live in a town-home community with one of those neighborhood commities it might be a different story. Even though from what I understand those commities have no legal power either, they enforce their decisions because people believe they are legally binding.
Actually if you want to get technical about it, I'm pretty certain that a penis is an overgrown clitoris seeing as how being a male is technically a birth defect (just an incredibly common one).
Ok, my video card has 16mb of memory on it. X is using up 56M. 56 - 16 = 40. IMHO 40mb is still a lot of ram. I'm not trying to rip on X or anything, I'm just saying that it's hardly easy on ram.
Yes you would, because the first three would be your area code. SO if you know all numbers in your area are either 215, 267, 484, or 610 you only have to remember which of those four. It's really not hard. Philadelphian's have been using mandatory 10 digit numbers for over a year now, and about 5 or 6 years ago they split 215 into 215 and 610 so if you were calling the other area code you had to dial the 10 digits. Philly schools rank among the lowest in the nation and we got this. I'm sure the rest of the country can deal. Hell I say let's just move to 14 digit numbers so we don't have to worry until phones become completely obsolete.
No it wouldn't. The X server does not connect to the client. When you start netscape it connects to X and starts talking to it. Usually you need to open a connection to the computer that netscape will be running on, but this isn't done through X it's done through telnet, rsh, ssh or some other protocol of the nature.
The client/server terminology only becomes unclear when you are talking about the actual computers. Usually servers run on big beefy boxes with lots of ram and cpu cycles to spare. In X the server runs on what is usually nothing more than a frame buffer with a weak cpu and some ram.
Then again what you choose to call a server and what you choose to call a client really makes no difference in how the system performs. Replace every occurance of kernel with banana, Linux would still be my OS of choice.
You have to admit that the concept of client/server in X at least SEEMS backwards.
Uhm...that's terminology and really doesn't effect X in any way at all. I could call a car a boat if I wanted to, it would still get me to work just fine.
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You are misunderstanding relativity. If you are standing still and I come running at you with a flashlight the light travels at c because that is the speed at which light travels in a vacuum. In reality we'd both see light travelling at slightly below c because if we were in a vacuum we'd have other things to worry about. Think of it like a train coming towards you sounding it's whistle. The whistle is higher pitch coming towards you because the wave compressions are created closer to each other. The light would just happen to be a higher frequency.
Relativity definately allows for faster than light travel, you just need to fudge things a bit. Ie, expand the space behind you while collapsing the space in front of you. This is very possible the problem is the insane energy requirements. It's all relative, as long as you are not moving faster than the speed of light relative to the region of space you are in the universe is happy with you.
Uhm...no. Think of it like you are in a car going 60mph. On the other side of the street is another car going at 60mph. Now for some reason you decide to hit the other car. The two cars collide at 120mph, not 60mph. The original poster had it right, the classic example being if you are on a train going at just under the speed of light and you run towards the front of the train, relative to the universe you just moved faster than the speed of light, but relative to the train you did not so it's all ok.
I've heard that the Insight actually gets much higher than the advertised mpg. As high as 90mpg highway. My personal theory on this (note this is based on no actual facts) is that honda tested the MPG at "standard" driving speeds, ie 60mph, but in reality people drive much faster and this car just happens to do better at higher speeeds.
Adelphia in philly is great. My parents have an adelphia cable modem that averages between 100 and 300 KBps. Some sites, like sunsite or ftp.funet.fi would give consistent speeds of around 700 KBps. It was great downloading the kernel source in about 20 seconds.
Read the GPL:
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things."
I disagree. How much extra work do the DJs have to do for the net broadcast? Nothing. Why should they be paid extra for not doing extra work?
Just FYI, rats bred (well that were attempted to be bred) without the AIF gene did not grow beyond the embryotic stage. I'd say that is pretty good evidence for this gene being required.
Uhm...did you read the article? AIF acounts for natural cell death. All cells must die at some point. Besides, think of how a virus works. IIRC a virus takes over a host cell and modifies it so that it produces more viruses. Eventually this host cell will die, killing the virus production factory. Now think about what would happen if said cell didn't die; it would continue to produce more viruses indefinately. Sure your immune system would be able to kill said cells eventually, but it would need to do so for the rest of your life, or until the cell died due to some other circumstances.
AIF would not be usefull in fighting standard viruses. It COULD be usefull in fighting cancer by telling the cancer cells to self destruct (which would be much less invasive than physically removing the cancerous tissue). Then again, one slight mistake and you could easily kill the patient, either by making all of their cells die immediately, or making them all live forever, which (I think) would make the patient's entire body cancerous. In short, AIF seems like a very sharp double edge sword.
The reason you've never seen a logical argument, is because, as best as I can tell there isn't one. I have yet to see a solid argument for why one is inheirently better than the other. Sure apt-get handles installing packages much nicer than rpm (the command line tool, not the package format). But from what I understand (at least with the latest version of rpm (the pacakge) found in rh7) there is nothing at all that prevents rpm from having rpm get program and having it resolve all of the dependencies and download everything for you. Also, last I heard (this might be different) rpm supports signing packages where deb does not.
Half of the arguments I've seen for why debs are better than rpms were because debs use a directory for package info, where rpm uses a single file.
Does anyone have a good (based in fact not religion) argument for why one is better than the other?
CDDB should be free for one specific reason. The database was created by the users when it was free. IMHO this is blatent theft.
Apache starts as root and then drops it's privs (su's to www-data), so apache does infact run as root initially. As for ping, that really doesn't seem possible. ping must be setuid root in order to function, same with traceroute.
> Apple is not the bad guy.
Apple is just as bad as Microsoft. Had they been less greedy in the 80s Microsoft and Apple would probably be in opposite positions today. I doubt much else would be different though. Besides, has Microsoft sued anyone for copying the win9x look and feel?
Musicians can and do sue over music that sounds like their own. Example, Queen and David Bowie with "Under Pressure" vs. "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. They sued Vanilla Ice and effectively won (IIRC the suit was dropped due to an out of court settlement).
That's completely not true. First off, Apple does not have a patent on the GUI for OSX, the best they can do is copyright it. Second, the "if you don't enforce it you lose it" rule applies to trademarks, not patents.
This type of behavior is childish at best. In every industry companies create knock-off products. It's just something you have to deal with. Besides, it's not like an Aqua GTK theme is going to steal any business from Apple. Maybe finally people will realise that Apple is no better than Microsoft, just smaller.
Actually no. A few years ago there was a lawsuit in PA over a guy whose front lawn was an absolute mess filled with all kinds of crap, like furniture, broken car parts, things of that sort. His neighbors sued him, and the court found that it was his property and he had the right to put whatever he wanted on it. I'm sure it would have been different if it was food stuffs and other trash that could create a hazardous situation, but since it was all stuff that wouldn't rot and leave a smell or provide food for foraging animals it was ok. A sattalite dish would definately be ok in that situation.
Now if you live in a town-home community with one of those neighborhood commities it might be a different story. Even though from what I understand those commities have no legal power either, they enforce their decisions because people believe they are legally binding.
All I can say is icky. Honestly this car looks like crap. The design looks a pickup that crunched down. *wretch*
Actually if you want to get technical about it, I'm pretty certain that a penis is an overgrown clitoris seeing as how being a male is technically a birth defect (just an incredibly common one).
Ok, my video card has 16mb of memory on it. X is using up 56M. 56 - 16 = 40. IMHO 40mb is still a lot of ram. I'm not trying to rip on X or anything, I'm just saying that it's hardly easy on ram.
Actually that's exactly how it works, except the boot screen is on console 2, and the messages are on console 1.
My landlady actually can't even knock at my door w/o giving me 24 hours notice. Weird, huh?
Yes you would, because the first three would be your area code. SO if you know all numbers in your area are either 215, 267, 484, or 610 you only have to remember which of those four. It's really not hard. Philadelphian's have been using mandatory 10 digit numbers for over a year now, and about 5 or 6 years ago they split 215 into 215 and 610 so if you were calling the other area code you had to dial the 10 digits. Philly schools rank among the lowest in the nation and we got this. I'm sure the rest of the country can deal. Hell I say let's just move to 14 digit numbers so we don't have to worry until phones become completely obsolete.
Guess what, we already have 10 digit numbers, and four different area codes. Deal with it everyone.
No it wouldn't. The X server does not connect to the client. When you start netscape it connects to X and starts talking to it. Usually you need to open a connection to the computer that netscape will be running on, but this isn't done through X it's done through telnet, rsh, ssh or some other protocol of the nature.
The client/server terminology only becomes unclear when you are talking about the actual computers. Usually servers run on big beefy boxes with lots of ram and cpu cycles to spare. In X the server runs on what is usually nothing more than a frame buffer with a weak cpu and some ram.
Then again what you choose to call a server and what you choose to call a client really makes no difference in how the system performs. Replace every occurance of kernel with banana, Linux would still be my OS of choice.
You have to admit that the concept of client/server in X at least SEEMS backwards.
Uhm...that's terminology and really doesn't effect X in any way at all. I could call a car a boat if I wanted to, it would still get me to work just fine.