He might not be bullshitting (well, the part about being firewalled might be crap). Back in the late 90's I had a Red Hat machine get rooted before it was even done installing. I'd configured the network information with a public IP address, there was no firewall. Flaw in ftpd if I remember right. Since then I leave the network unplugged until the install is complete and I've got the network set up safely.
I don't remember the particular release of Red Hat.
$23.45?! I mean, come on people, if you're going to pull a number out of your arse at least make it look semi-random!
If certain numbers are forbidden to occur because they don't "look random" enough, then by definition the numbers are not random. 23.45 is just as likely as 14.88. You happened to notice this time because it was... noticeable.
At Pomona College there is a myth that "47" is the most commonly occurring number. Working under this belief, you will surprisingly find that 47 does pop up everywhere. However, 46, 48, and every other two digit number also pops up everywhere, the difference being that you don't notice those because they aren't what you are looking for.
This is one of the most common misunderstandings of "randomness" I've seen.
2073600/307200=6.75
That isn't even a single order of magnitude more pixels - just little more than half. If we were comparing PAL instead of NTSC the difference with HDTV would be even less.
No, the definition of the magnitude is the base-10 logarithm. Log10(6.75) = 0.83, which is closer to 1 than 0.5.
Or he could have been talking about base-2 orders of magnitude (which are also commonly used), in which case this is about 2.75 orders.
In quantum mechanics a "quanta" is the smallest package something (like energy) can come in, so a "quantum leap forward" would be the smallest amount that something could progress.
That's just one way of looking at it. You could also consider the idea of quantum tunneling, where a particle is able to "jump" from one state to another state, even though there are intervening high-energy states that would be unavailable to the particle under classical physics. If you look at it that way, the term makes sense -- it's referring to a sudden, as opposed to a gradual, change in state.
But there is also the issue of solar energy heating our atmosphere and the ground.
Unless you're storing vast amounts of energy in the largest batteries known to mankind, any energy captured by solar cells is going to quickly turn back into heat again anyway. May I remind you that that is exactly what would have happened had we not captured that energy in the first place.
Now, if you covered a large portion of the planet with solar cells, and used that power to run a giant laser which blasted that energy off into space, never to return, then you might run into some problems. But we don't use energy like that.
But obviously they don't spend it as fast as it is sourced, or inflation wouldn't be happening. Why not adjust the buy/sell rates for items in NPC shops by a multiplier which adjusts dynamically to keep the total supply of money as constant as possible?
The result would be that if 100,000 units of currency per hour were flowing into player inventories, the prices of shop items would adjust, based on the current demand for items, to keep the average outflow of currency in the shops close to 100,000 units per hour.
In the real world vendors react to supply and demand realities, why not in these worlds?
Not all the tea in China is Chinese... What's your point?
My point is that the assumption that an Arab in the state of Israel is necessarily Palestinian is a sign of ignorance.
Care to say why?
Because Palestinians and Israelis are not traditionally cooperative with each other. Whereas there are many non-Palestinian Arabs living in Israeli cities. Travel for Palestinians within Israel, as you should know, is difficult. Statistically, it's likely that the two Arab members of the project are not Palestinian. Sorry if this is not politically correct enough for you.
Not all the Arabs in Israel are Palestinian. That doesn't rule out the possibility that Khawaled and Zuabi might be Palestinian but it wouldn't be my first guess.
Yes, but we're discussing the core of some fictional water planet here. Probably not a planet where humans could evolve and/or walk. My point is that on such an alien world, we need to consider physics that is outside of our common experiences.
Graphics are the only thing you can see in an advertisement. As long as game houses depend on advertisement to sell their games, their games will center around ridiculous graphics.
Why would it be unethical if the test subjects were made fully aware of what was to be done to them, and were willing to undergo the experiment? Unless somebody was deceived or coerced I don't see how ethics would even come into it.
Just a quick note: Robitussin DM contains guaifenesin, which can cause nausea and vomitting. It's there so you can't guzzle it - the DXM is a strong dissociative / hallucinatory taken in doses larger than.5 mg / kg... and becomes lethal around 25 mg / kg - the idea is to make anyone who tries to get high off cough syrup just vomit it all back up.
Where did you get this information? Guaifenesin is an expectorant, meaning it increases the production of mucus in the lungs which helps make your cough more "productive," which means it helps the cough actually remove material from your lungs. A dry hacking cough is much more harmful than a wet productive one.
The idea that guaifenesin is present to induce nausea is just silly. There are plenty of cough products on the market which contain ONLY guaifenesin as an active ingredient for its expectorant properties. Why would they do that if its only purpose is to induce nausea? Where did you find this (very wrong) information?
What sort of idiots turn down the massive number of referrals that Google News is sending their way? Before news.google.com, I would never have had a reason to read an online newspaper from Indiana, but now I do. Hey, if they want to lose my eyes and my ad impressions, I think Google should give them what they want. Fuck'em.
And oddly enough, I fell 8 feet from the edge of my roof onto soft grass, and ended up shattering my wrist into over a dozen peices. That was 6 years ago and it still bugs me.
I know a story about a rock climber who had just struggled up a several hundred foot face, was in the process of mantling over the final edge to get on top, slipped and fell 6 inches, cracking three of his ribs on the lip of the cliff.
Another guy had a few drinks too many, decided to solo an 80-footer, fell right near the top, and managed to pull off a stunt roll as he hit the ground, suffering nothing more than some severely bruised ligaments.
But I thought that solid water (ice) was less dense then the liquid form. Therefore, if you compress water enough, it cannot turn into a solid.
There are twelve known physical types of ice. Look at the phase diagram carefully. Even at 10,000 gigapascals there are forms of ice. Most of these types are denser than water. What we typically think of as "water ice" is specifically called Ice-1 (there are two subtypes, cubic and hexagonal). Ice-2 through Ice-10 are all denser than water, with Ice-10 being 2.5 times as dense. That's some heavy ice. Ice-11 is less dense than water, but Ice-12 is again denser.
Our observations of water here on earth are not really representative of all the forms of H2O in nature. On the contrary, a big part of the reason why life is able to exist on this planet is that we are almost exactly at the triple point of water. By the weak anthropic principle, we only observe those forms of water that are conducive to the existence of life.
C'mon, a 50-footer won't even get you into a movie nowadays unless you throw at least a 720...
Yeah. Anybody who's flipped through a volume of Accidents in North American Mountaineering could tell you that people have survived MUCH longer falls than 50 feet, and people have survived long falls (80+ feet) onto solid rock as well. It is highly dependent on your orientation when you land. You probably aren't going to get up and walk away from something like that, but survivable? Absolutely.
First of all, which energy drink is my fave? I occassionally enjoy a Red Bull because of the taste. But for purposes of caffeine input, it's plain old coffee.
The weird thing is, I have no problem staying awake all day without coffee. But I develop a strange craving for some by mid-afternoon. Not because I feel worn out or sleepy, I just crave it. I never use coffee to stay awake when I should be sleeping, like a lot of people do, and I hardly ever drink it after 3:00 PM.
I'm obviously addicted to it in some manner but I don't depend on it for wakefulness -- I achieve wakefulness by SLEEPING enough. So I guess it's a holdover from back when I WAS using it to stay awake.
Energy drinks are sort of a taboo with me, though (besides Red Bull like I mentioned). I feel like I'm getting a drug fix when I drink one. At least with coffee I can pretend I'm doing it for the enjoyment.
This is completely offtopic, but speaking of burning out on things... I browsed your home page and I see you like to climb on those pointy hard things commonly known as "rocks." Right on. Now there's something I'll never burn out on.
I don't think rock climbing is the most common of the Slashdotter hobbies.
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I don't remember the particular release of Red Hat.
Let me get this straight. They gave you a raise, and offered a bigger office, so you... quit?
If certain numbers are forbidden to occur because they don't "look random" enough, then by definition the numbers are not random. 23.45 is just as likely as 14.88. You happened to notice this time because it was... noticeable.
At Pomona College there is a myth that "47" is the most commonly occurring number. Working under this belief, you will surprisingly find that 47 does pop up everywhere. However, 46, 48, and every other two digit number also pops up everywhere, the difference being that you don't notice those because they aren't what you are looking for.
This is one of the most common misunderstandings of "randomness" I've seen.
No, the definition of the magnitude is the base-10 logarithm. Log10(6.75) = 0.83, which is closer to 1 than 0.5.
Or he could have been talking about base-2 orders of magnitude (which are also commonly used), in which case this is about 2.75 orders.
That's just one way of looking at it. You could also consider the idea of quantum tunneling, where a particle is able to "jump" from one state to another state, even though there are intervening high-energy states that would be unavailable to the particle under classical physics. If you look at it that way, the term makes sense -- it's referring to a sudden, as opposed to a gradual, change in state.
Unless you're storing vast amounts of energy in the largest batteries known to mankind, any energy captured by solar cells is going to quickly turn back into heat again anyway. May I remind you that that is exactly what would have happened had we not captured that energy in the first place.
Now, if you covered a large portion of the planet with solar cells, and used that power to run a giant laser which blasted that energy off into space, never to return, then you might run into some problems. But we don't use energy like that.
They should make them sound like a Wraith Dart. I'd drive that, no question about it.
The result would be that if 100,000 units of currency per hour were flowing into player inventories, the prices of shop items would adjust, based on the current demand for items, to keep the average outflow of currency in the shops close to 100,000 units per hour.
In the real world vendors react to supply and demand realities, why not in these worlds?
My point is that the assumption that an Arab in the state of Israel is necessarily Palestinian is a sign of ignorance.
Care to say why?
Because Palestinians and Israelis are not traditionally cooperative with each other. Whereas there are many non-Palestinian Arabs living in Israeli cities. Travel for Palestinians within Israel, as you should know, is difficult. Statistically, it's likely that the two Arab members of the project are not Palestinian. Sorry if this is not politically correct enough for you.
I've been there and seen the reality myself. You?
Not all the Arabs in Israel are Palestinian. That doesn't rule out the possibility that Khawaled and Zuabi might be Palestinian but it wouldn't be my first guess.
Yes, but we're discussing the core of some fictional water planet here. Probably not a planet where humans could evolve and/or walk. My point is that on such an alien world, we need to consider physics that is outside of our common experiences.
Graphics are the only thing you can see in an advertisement. As long as game houses depend on advertisement to sell their games, their games will center around ridiculous graphics.
If you rearrange the letters of "Western Union," you get "No Wire Unsent." Too bad that's no longer true.
Has anybody patented this new type of patent yet?
It would help force China to play more by international rules than by their own.
Ahhhhhhahahahahaha! That's funny. Playing by international rules instead of their own. Like the United States, right?
So if a subject asks to be removed from the experiment, you let them out. Next stupid argument?
How the hell is that even remotely analogous?
Why would it be unethical if the test subjects were made fully aware of what was to be done to them, and were willing to undergo the experiment? Unless somebody was deceived or coerced I don't see how ethics would even come into it.
Where did you get this information? Guaifenesin is an expectorant, meaning it increases the production of mucus in the lungs which helps make your cough more "productive," which means it helps the cough actually remove material from your lungs. A dry hacking cough is much more harmful than a wet productive one.
The idea that guaifenesin is present to induce nausea is just silly. There are plenty of cough products on the market which contain ONLY guaifenesin as an active ingredient for its expectorant properties. Why would they do that if its only purpose is to induce nausea? Where did you find this (very wrong) information?
What sort of idiots turn down the massive number of referrals that Google News is sending their way? Before news.google.com, I would never have had a reason to read an online newspaper from Indiana, but now I do. Hey, if they want to lose my eyes and my ad impressions, I think Google should give them what they want. Fuck'em.
I know a story about a rock climber who had just struggled up a several hundred foot face, was in the process of mantling over the final edge to get on top, slipped and fell 6 inches, cracking three of his ribs on the lip of the cliff.
Another guy had a few drinks too many, decided to solo an 80-footer, fell right near the top, and managed to pull off a stunt roll as he hit the ground, suffering nothing more than some severely bruised ligaments.
There are twelve known physical types of ice. Look at the phase diagram carefully. Even at 10,000 gigapascals there are forms of ice. Most of these types are denser than water. What we typically think of as "water ice" is specifically called Ice-1 (there are two subtypes, cubic and hexagonal). Ice-2 through Ice-10 are all denser than water, with Ice-10 being 2.5 times as dense. That's some heavy ice. Ice-11 is less dense than water, but Ice-12 is again denser.
Our observations of water here on earth are not really representative of all the forms of H2O in nature. On the contrary, a big part of the reason why life is able to exist on this planet is that we are almost exactly at the triple point of water. By the weak anthropic principle, we only observe those forms of water that are conducive to the existence of life.
Yeah. Anybody who's flipped through a volume of Accidents in North American Mountaineering could tell you that people have survived MUCH longer falls than 50 feet, and people have survived long falls (80+ feet) onto solid rock as well. It is highly dependent on your orientation when you land. You probably aren't going to get up and walk away from something like that, but survivable? Absolutely.
The weird thing is, I have no problem staying awake all day without coffee. But I develop a strange craving for some by mid-afternoon. Not because I feel worn out or sleepy, I just crave it. I never use coffee to stay awake when I should be sleeping, like a lot of people do, and I hardly ever drink it after 3:00 PM.
I'm obviously addicted to it in some manner but I don't depend on it for wakefulness -- I achieve wakefulness by SLEEPING enough. So I guess it's a holdover from back when I WAS using it to stay awake.
Energy drinks are sort of a taboo with me, though (besides Red Bull like I mentioned). I feel like I'm getting a drug fix when I drink one. At least with coffee I can pretend I'm doing it for the enjoyment.
I don't think rock climbing is the most common of the Slashdotter hobbies.