In a few years when everyone starts hitting the RAM ceiling for 32 bit CPUs, 64 bit will have to take off.
I find that statement laughable. There are other ways to utilize more than 4 gigabytes of address space without having to move to full-blown 64-bit addressing. Doesn't anybody remember the days of DOS? Under 16-bit real mode, the CPU could only directly address 64 kilobytes! Yet this was not a fundamental problem. Segmented addressing expands the range to a full megabyte. And doesn't anyone recollect the Extended and Expanded Memory Managers which used some protected mode features to page extended data in and out of the 20-bit addressable space?
And the biggest point? Since the 80386, the CPU supported native 32-bit addressing in protected mode and nobody used it! Why? I'll let you ponder it.
There is no necessity built into evolution that makes it true, because it is a scientific claim. There could be a counterexample tomorrow that refutes evolution completely
How the hell do you refute the concept that the individuals which are most adept at surviving are the ones who survive? It's a TAUTOLOGY.
The clock likes to crawl under the bed. It is annoying, even when you're awake, to have to duck under your bed in order to reach for the clock. Imagine the pain for a queen or king sized bed!
When I was 10 years old or so I happened to sleep very deeply. So deeply that one night I rolled out of bed onto the floor without waking up. Apparently I then rolled slightly back toward the bed, so that I was halfway under the bedframe.
In the morning when I woke up, I opened my eyes, felt confused about my surroundings, and tried to sit up. I struck my head on the bedframe hard enough to knock myself out. Some period of time later, I woke up again, with a vague recollection of having struck my head on something. I tried to sit up... and proceeded to knock myself out again.
It was not until the third repetition of this cycle that I actually yelled "Ouch!" at which point my brother walked into the room and began laughing at me.
A vibrating alarm clock, huh? I think I know where a sizable portion of Slashdotters would place such a device. And the after-effects of it going off might actually cause more sleepiness instead of less.
Place newborn baby in a crib in your bedroom. Let your alarm go off one morning.
Use the pain from the beating serve as a reminder to ALWAYS wake up before your alarm clock.
If you always try to keep your house absolutely silent "so the baby can sleep," the baby will obviously learn that it is only appropriate to sleep when it is totally silent. You're doing yourself more harm than good.
Hint: One way or the other, the baby is going to fall asleep eventually. If you stop catering to the baby's imaginary need for total silence, he/she will eventually learn to sleep even when there is a (reasonable) ruckus going on. Now you don't have to tiptoe around your house all the time.
But there's nothing more important than human life.
What a silly statement. Imagine a population of 1000 slaves. Suppose that by the death of one, the remaining 999 will be released to live free lives. You're saying that the life of that one person is more valuable than the freedom of the other 999?
"High frequencies?" We're not even talking terahertz here. The frequency of VISIBLE LIGHT is about a million times higher. This frequency is "high" in the sense that it is one of the highest frequencies ever achieved with an oscillating circuit. It's nowhere near the highest frequencies humans have ever produced or measured.
So how do they "visualize" these frequencies? Probably with the same techniques they use to visualize frequencies trillions of times higher?
By 1927, Einstein's interest in quantum mechanics was strongly waning. It was during this general time period that he developed his rather militant views on the interpretations of quantum collapse and uttered the famous quote "God does not play dice." His work on general relativity was coming strongly to the forefront as physicists started to apply its mathematical principles in earnest to a wide range of problems. The search for a grand unified theory of all forces would essentially consume the remainder of his lifetime.
He undoubtedly received the article and read it. He may have even found it interesting. But it wasn't where he was "at" in his physics career, so to speak.
Ah yes, the American Dream: to languish in pitiable work conditions hoping some rare enlightened higher-up will have mercy on you and, if not actually pay you more, at least fail to sack you.
Wait. That's not the American Dream I know about. Oh yeah -- it's more about self-determination and a drive to succeed by the power of one's own capabilities. But hey, I can see how a person could get the two ideas confused...
As a home Mac user, my "sole purpose" is to forget the damn operating system exists and get some work done. Worrying about the OS is like constantly thinking about the frame of your vehicle as you drive down the highway. What a waste of fucking time.
If the operating system actively gets in the way, that's a real issue. I haven't had problems with Mac OS X so far.
1. standardized operation for ALL applicatation.
2. cut and paste between ALL applications..
3. Applications must ALL be uniform in operation of common functions..
What a load of crap. You're basically saying "There must be no application development unless it is KDE application development." KDE can't guarantee something it has no control over. Or are you saying that you want a "KDE-Certified" sticker on all software, like that "Windows-Certified" crap?
How exactly it KDE supposed to ensure that the "common functions" of some unknown third-party application conform to KDE guidelines? Perhaps we should embed some kind of DRM in KDE to prevent all non-KDE apps from running?
Humans probably wouldn't be here right now if not for the meteor that wiped out most predators on Earth. Primates probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to evolve....
Things don't evolve "given the opportunity." They evolve because the environment kills off the ones who don't. Do you think the advanced intelligence of the primate brain is due to sitting around all day waiting for bananas to fall off trees?
On the contrary, humans evolved in an environment absolutely chock-full of dangerous animals. We're talking saber-tooth cat, dire wolf, woolly mammoth, and of course all manner of lions, tigers, and bears, ALL larger and more terrifying than the ones we have today. If anything these dangers DROVE human evolution.
If one person does it and it is biodegradeable, it isn't a problem. If 300Million people do it, you have an environmental disaster.
That does not necessarily follow. We have no idea what this biodegradable waste product IS. The article is short on details. Urine is also biodegradable, and produced by everyone on the planet, and as far as I can tell we're not in the middle of Urine Armageddon...
There will likely be warning signs years it advance, but we won't recognize them as such until afterwards.
Why would you think that? We only had two months warning with Mt. St. Helens, and that was plenty of time to assess risk and clear out the "red zone." There were 57 fatalities, but it's not like we didn't know it was coming.
The problem with warning signs years in advance isn't that they won't be seen -- the problem is people becoming complacent as they wait years for a geological event to play out. If scientists go on and on for years about an imminent disaster, people start to think the scientists are full of crap. Then, of course, the worst happens.
There is only a finite amount of movable charge (electrons) inside the wire. The tether basically turned into an electric dipole. The current which flowed as the dipole formed was enough to cause heat damage. But had that damage not occurred, the current would eventually have stopped flowing, as the dipole reached its maximum magnitude.
Somebody else already pointed out the "9600 volts of current" thing. I won't go there.
no force is ever encountered parallel to the field lines due to the magnetic field.
With a radioactive source emitting alpha and beta radiation it might be possible to use two ion drives; one ejecting the positively charged alpha particles and the other ejecting the negatively charged beta particles.
For that to work, the two materials would have to emit charge at exactly the same rate (more accurate, the beta rate would have to be twice the alpha rate, because alpha has twice the charge of beta). You could place just the right amount of two materials to INITIALLY have the same rate, but because no two materials (unless they are identical) have the same half-life, the rates would eventually not be matched and a charge would start building up.
Unless you had a way to actively manage the particles and control how many of them actually left the spacecraft (which I think would be difficult) I don't see how it could work, except momentarily.
There are other non-textbook science-related books which aren't fictional. For instance Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," Greene's "The Elegant Universe," Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warps," or the various and sundry works about Feynman's life.
Then there's Lederman with "The God Particle," "Chaos" by Gleick, or if you're really into torturing yourself, "A New Kind of Science" by Wolfram.
There are plenty of good sci-fi works that are pertinent to real science, but I wouldn't limit myself only to fiction.
"If you really care about stopping DRM, then DO NOT BUY DVDs! CSS is DRM at its worst and will not let you rip your DVD content to watch on your computer. So, if you really do care about DRM and stopping it, then DO NOT BUY DVDs! Show them that we, the customer, do not want DRM."
Get real. CSS was cracked, and HDCP will be cracked. If the DMCA impedes you because you feel some weird moral obligation to follow a completely bullshit law, that could never be enforced against you anyway, that's your problem.
As such, unless they are monitoring your CM, which I admit is not impossible, all they see is your cable modem's MAC.
Well yeah, but I'm not sure I understand your point. It sounds like you're saying "The cable company knows who their customers are." True, but I don't see what you're getting at.
It seems we're in agreement that changing the MAC is a useless exercise. So I'm not sure what part of what I said you are disagreeing with.
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In a few years when everyone starts hitting the RAM ceiling for 32 bit CPUs, 64 bit will have to take off.
I find that statement laughable. There are other ways to utilize more than 4 gigabytes of address space without having to move to full-blown 64-bit addressing. Doesn't anybody remember the days of DOS? Under 16-bit real mode, the CPU could only directly address 64 kilobytes! Yet this was not a fundamental problem. Segmented addressing expands the range to a full megabyte. And doesn't anyone recollect the Extended and Expanded Memory Managers which used some protected mode features to page extended data in and out of the 20-bit addressable space?
And the biggest point? Since the 80386, the CPU supported native 32-bit addressing in protected mode and nobody used it! Why? I'll let you ponder it.
There is no necessity built into evolution that makes it true, because it is a scientific claim. There could be a counterexample tomorrow that refutes evolution completely
How the hell do you refute the concept that the individuals which are most adept at surviving are the ones who survive? It's a TAUTOLOGY.
My interpretation: Congressmen need more than 6 figures to be bought off.
My interpretation: The companies in question didn't think the issue was important enough to be worth more than a few hundred grand.The clock likes to crawl under the bed. It is annoying, even when you're awake, to have to duck under your bed in order to reach for the clock. Imagine the pain for a queen or king sized bed!
When I was 10 years old or so I happened to sleep very deeply. So deeply that one night I rolled out of bed onto the floor without waking up. Apparently I then rolled slightly back toward the bed, so that I was halfway under the bedframe.
In the morning when I woke up, I opened my eyes, felt confused about my surroundings, and tried to sit up. I struck my head on the bedframe hard enough to knock myself out. Some period of time later, I woke up again, with a vague recollection of having struck my head on something. I tried to sit up... and proceeded to knock myself out again.
It was not until the third repetition of this cycle that I actually yelled "Ouch!" at which point my brother walked into the room and began laughing at me.
A vibrating alarm clock, huh? I think I know where a sizable portion of Slashdotters would place such a device. And the after-effects of it going off might actually cause more sleepiness instead of less.
Place newborn baby in a crib in your bedroom. Let your alarm go off one morning. Use the pain from the beating serve as a reminder to ALWAYS wake up before your alarm clock.
If you always try to keep your house absolutely silent "so the baby can sleep," the baby will obviously learn that it is only appropriate to sleep when it is totally silent. You're doing yourself more harm than good.
Hint: One way or the other, the baby is going to fall asleep eventually. If you stop catering to the baby's imaginary need for total silence, he/she will eventually learn to sleep even when there is a (reasonable) ruckus going on. Now you don't have to tiptoe around your house all the time.
But there's nothing more important than human life.
What a silly statement. Imagine a population of 1000 slaves. Suppose that by the death of one, the remaining 999 will be released to live free lives. You're saying that the life of that one person is more valuable than the freedom of the other 999?
I've got a better idea for an article: "Slashdot's 20 most annoying duplicate articles."
Of the 12 patients being treated, eight can currently be evaluated for overall survival
That's the politest way of saying "They're dead" that I've ever heard.It is a tragedy and saddening, but again more people will die in Iraq today (and tomorrow)
The latter is, sadly, not news. The former is. Honestly, the original poster's comment was the first I'd heard of it.
"High frequencies?" We're not even talking terahertz here. The frequency of VISIBLE LIGHT is about a million times higher. This frequency is "high" in the sense that it is one of the highest frequencies ever achieved with an oscillating circuit. It's nowhere near the highest frequencies humans have ever produced or measured. So how do they "visualize" these frequencies? Probably with the same techniques they use to visualize frequencies trillions of times higher?
By 1927, Einstein's interest in quantum mechanics was strongly waning. It was during this general time period that he developed his rather militant views on the interpretations of quantum collapse and uttered the famous quote "God does not play dice." His work on general relativity was coming strongly to the forefront as physicists started to apply its mathematical principles in earnest to a wide range of problems. The search for a grand unified theory of all forces would essentially consume the remainder of his lifetime.
He undoubtedly received the article and read it. He may have even found it interesting. But it wasn't where he was "at" in his physics career, so to speak.
But Google Book Search allows publishers to contact them to opt out. This service does not. Correlation failed.
Well then, I guess I'll just keep distributing my pirated MP3 files. The RIAA hasn't yet written to me to opt out of my "program."Ah yes, the American Dream: to languish in pitiable work conditions hoping some rare enlightened higher-up will have mercy on you and, if not actually pay you more, at least fail to sack you.
Wait. That's not the American Dream I know about. Oh yeah -- it's more about self-determination and a drive to succeed by the power of one's own capabilities. But hey, I can see how a person could get the two ideas confused...
As a home Mac user, my "sole purpose" is to forget the damn operating system exists and get some work done. Worrying about the OS is like constantly thinking about the frame of your vehicle as you drive down the highway. What a waste of fucking time.
If the operating system actively gets in the way, that's a real issue. I haven't had problems with Mac OS X so far.
1. standardized operation for ALL applicatation.
What a load of crap. You're basically saying "There must be no application development unless it is KDE application development." KDE can't guarantee something it has no control over. Or are you saying that you want a "KDE-Certified" sticker on all software, like that "Windows-Certified" crap? How exactly it KDE supposed to ensure that the "common functions" of some unknown third-party application conform to KDE guidelines? Perhaps we should embed some kind of DRM in KDE to prevent all non-KDE apps from running?2. cut and paste between ALL applications..
3. Applications must ALL be uniform in operation of common functions..
Humans probably wouldn't be here right now if not for the meteor that wiped out most predators on Earth. Primates probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to evolve....
Things don't evolve "given the opportunity." They evolve because the environment kills off the ones who don't. Do you think the advanced intelligence of the primate brain is due to sitting around all day waiting for bananas to fall off trees?
On the contrary, humans evolved in an environment absolutely chock-full of dangerous animals. We're talking saber-tooth cat, dire wolf, woolly mammoth, and of course all manner of lions, tigers, and bears, ALL larger and more terrifying than the ones we have today. If anything these dangers DROVE human evolution.
If one person does it and it is biodegradeable, it isn't a problem. If 300Million people do it, you have an environmental disaster.
That does not necessarily follow. We have no idea what this biodegradable waste product IS. The article is short on details. Urine is also biodegradable, and produced by everyone on the planet, and as far as I can tell we're not in the middle of Urine Armageddon...
There will likely be warning signs years it advance, but we won't recognize them as such until afterwards.
Why would you think that? We only had two months warning with Mt. St. Helens, and that was plenty of time to assess risk and clear out the "red zone." There were 57 fatalities, but it's not like we didn't know it was coming.
The problem with warning signs years in advance isn't that they won't be seen -- the problem is people becoming complacent as they wait years for a geological event to play out. If scientists go on and on for years about an imminent disaster, people start to think the scientists are full of crap. Then, of course, the worst happens.
the tether fried and detached from the shuttle.
There is only a finite amount of movable charge (electrons) inside the wire. The tether basically turned into an electric dipole. The current which flowed as the dipole formed was enough to cause heat damage. But had that damage not occurred, the current would eventually have stopped flowing, as the dipole reached its maximum magnitude.
Somebody else already pointed out the "9600 volts of current" thing. I won't go there.
no force is ever encountered parallel to the field lines due to the magnetic field.
Unless you happen to be a magnet.
With a radioactive source emitting alpha and beta radiation it might be possible to use two ion drives; one ejecting the positively charged alpha particles and the other ejecting the negatively charged beta particles.
For that to work, the two materials would have to emit charge at exactly the same rate (more accurate, the beta rate would have to be twice the alpha rate, because alpha has twice the charge of beta). You could place just the right amount of two materials to INITIALLY have the same rate, but because no two materials (unless they are identical) have the same half-life, the rates would eventually not be matched and a charge would start building up.
Unless you had a way to actively manage the particles and control how many of them actually left the spacecraft (which I think would be difficult) I don't see how it could work, except momentarily.
There are other non-textbook science-related books which aren't fictional. For instance Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," Greene's "The Elegant Universe," Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warps," or the various and sundry works about Feynman's life.
Then there's Lederman with "The God Particle," "Chaos" by Gleick, or if you're really into torturing yourself, "A New Kind of Science" by Wolfram.
There are plenty of good sci-fi works that are pertinent to real science, but I wouldn't limit myself only to fiction.
Oh get the hell over it. How about this:
"If you really care about stopping DRM, then DO NOT BUY DVDs! CSS is DRM at its worst and will not let you rip your DVD content to watch on your computer. So, if you really do care about DRM and stopping it, then DO NOT BUY DVDs! Show them that we, the customer, do not want DRM."
Get real. CSS was cracked, and HDCP will be cracked. If the DMCA impedes you because you feel some weird moral obligation to follow a completely bullshit law, that could never be enforced against you anyway, that's your problem.
As such, unless they are monitoring your CM, which I admit is not impossible, all they see is your cable modem's MAC.
Well yeah, but I'm not sure I understand your point. It sounds like you're saying "The cable company knows who their customers are." True, but I don't see what you're getting at.
It seems we're in agreement that changing the MAC is a useless exercise. So I'm not sure what part of what I said you are disagreeing with.
so how am i, on my gb keyboard suppose to conveniently type in all sorts of foreign characters?
What are you saying -- that you actually TYPE URLs into the address bar? Have you never heard of del.icio.us? Or bookmarks? Or clicking on a link?