Antimatter is... just as it sounds. The opposite of matter.
No it isn't, not at all. An anti-particle is identical to the corresponding particle, except that certain properties are reversed. For an easy-to-grasp example, the anti-electron has a positive electrical charge, while the anti-proton has a negative electrical charge. (Obviously it's not that simple, and other quantum-mechanical properties are reversed too, such as spin). It would be truer to say that anti-matter is the "mirror reflection" of matter, but "opposite of matter" is pretty-much meaningless.
To answer the OP's other question, no you can't hold it. When an anti-matter particle meets its matter equivalent, the two are annihilated producing a gamma photon; if you were to actually touch a lump of anti-matter, you'd lose whatever you touched it with (and most likely the rest of yourself, a large chunk of the building you were in, etc). That is mostly immaterial though, as anti-matter can't survive for long in an atmosphere - all those air molecules are comprised of matter particles, all of which are going to be annihilating with their anti-matter equivalents (protons and anti-protons, not oxygen and anti-oxygen, so just making a lump of anti-iron and keeping it away from normal iron isn't good enough)
A cheap prize? The offer of Office for $75AU is good to all Australian Uni students. The blog thing is essentially a free prize draw, to win a scooter, laptop, etc. I don't see that it's any different to the competitions where you mail in a card, finishing off a sentence (e.g. "Microsoft Office is great because...") in X words or less. The only difference is it's longer and public.
Seriously, I don't really see what your problem is; sure the site sucks to my eyes, but I'm not an Aussie student, maybe it's appropriate for the target demographic. Apart from that, what is the problem?
So if Novell wants to avoid GPLv3, they will have to forever stay with Glibc 2.5, GCC 4.1, coreutils 6.7, and old versions of GIMP, emacs, bash, gdb, etc. etc.
Yes, because they can't possibly hire a team of programmers to keep their GPL2 versions of the stuff that's relicensed under GPL3 up to date - even assuming that the community doesn't take up a lot of that slack anyway. Judging from articles here, GPL3 adoption is far from a given for many people.
That's the entire point of open source though. Don't like the direction the original team is taking the software? Fork it and maintain your own. Questions of scale may make it impractical in this case, but I don't think that's a given at this point.
The place for commentary is down here with us unwashed masses, in the comments, where it can be moderated and replied to properly. It's bad enough that the editors do it, can we at least avoid submitors doing it please?
they should remain tethered while in the lunar lander
You do realise that that's going to be for a few days at least, right?
Besides which, I think you're thinking far too small scale and short term - what about if/when we finally establish a colony on the Moon, and people are there for months at a time?
Because it's a knee-jerk reaction that paints a new law in a bad light, and this is slashdot where a large number of people think that the government and the law should make itself as small as possible and specifically stay the hell away from them and their affairs.
Utter rubbish. Do you have any links to back up a single thing you've said in this post? Yes, there have been reports of happy slapping incidents in the press, but if it was anywhere near being a "serious problem" or the majority of them being the children of immigrants then the British tabloids especially would be all over the story. Believe me, they'll latch on to any story that can be used to whip the mob up into a frenzy, and the triple whammy of immigration, safety and kids running riot would ensure that it was never off the front pages.
People don't dare to fight back against these youth, as they will assuredly be convicted of committing a "hate crime".
Bullshit. The right to self defence, and to come to the defence of others, is enshrined in UK law.
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instead we pin everything on the war
There's good reason for that:
* it's more expensive than your other examples * it's less popular (amongst slashdotters at least) than your other examples * it's arguably none of our business what goes on in a sovereign country * even if it is, we turned (and continue to turn) a blind eye to many other arguably worse regimes and more serious humanitarian crises * it's a destabilising influence in an already less-than-stable area
Other than that I agree, it's irritating that almost any article that even tangentially involves US public policy or spending ends up with at least one flame war about either the Iraq war or Bush himself. The whole damn thing should be Off Topiced into oblivion (yes, including this).
Well that really depends on whether you're talking about mixing paints/pigments or mixing light. White light is a mixture of all colours, while a black surface contains a mixture of pigments that absorb light of all colours. In that sense, both black and white are a mixture of all colours, depending on the context.
Office is not a franchise, it is a product, like any other piece of software. Please stop using words you don't understand, it lowers the tone of the entire site and leads to otherwise utterly redundant posts like this one.
That's not the poster saying that, that's kdawson - all of PreacherTom's words are in the blockquoted section.
Besides, kdawson's wrong. The article does not say that SR says that matter can't travel faster than light, it says that "The result appears to be at odds with one of the basic principles of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum". Further down the article it then says "The scientific statement "nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light" is an entirely different belief, one that has yet to be proven wrong.".
Other than that, I agree - there seems to be little point to posting this until more information is available. I just wish that the editors would realise that slashdot isn't (or shouldn't be) about scoops and breaking news, and only post when it's worth posting.
I think all in one multi-core chips is the future if you ask me.
Great, so now instead of spending a couple of hundred to upgrade just my CPU or just my GPU, I'll need to spend four, five, six hundred to upgrade both at once, along with a "S[ound]PU", physics chip, etc?
Never happen. Corporations aren't going to want to have to spend hundreds of pounds more on machines with built-in high-end stuff they don't want or need. At home, I want loads of RAM, processing power and a strong GPU. At work, I absolutely do not require the GPU - anything that can do 1600x1200 @ 32bpp and 60Hz for 2D is perfectly adequate.
Likewise, the chip builders aren't going to want to have to release these all-in-one chips in a myriad of options, for low/medium/high spec CPU/GPU/PPU/SPU/$fooPU, it simply won't be cost-effective.
It's lose-lose imho; you're either stuck buying things you don't want, or have a mind-boggling number of options to choose from (consumers/business) and support (manufacturers/OEMs/IT depts).
Heat rises. That creates wind. The Earth isn't going to get appreciably hotter, it's just going to get windier.
You do realise that whether moving or still, the air is at the same temperature, right? It only feels cooler to us because it carries warm air away from our skin quicker, replacing it with cooler air that we can then more easily radiate & conduct heat into (that's the "wind chill"). A thermometer will register exactly the same temperature in still and moving air.
I think it would be more efficient if the people who go to the gym instead would just put on a pair of running shoes and would not have to exercise in a room that had not to be lit and heated for the purpose of them having a place to exercise.
While that's true, running isn't ever going to replace gyms. Two immediate reasons are that running does little or nothing for building up muscle bulk, and it's a high impact exercise (as opposed to something like swimming or cycling, where you're not pounding the pavement the whole time).
Since when does SONY dictate what journalists (let alone BLOGS) publish?
Since when is Sony forced to extend special favours to a site that has refused a request?
Sony isn't dictating what the blog can and cannot post, they're merely saying that if they post something they don't like, they'll stop giving them access to inside information. Seems fair enough to me - or would you expect Sony to continue treating them as they were no matter what the blog posted about them?
If you ditch Oracle for someone else's proprietary Oracle look-alike, what exactly are you gaining?
Having worked with Oracle's DB for a number of years, this one is easy - you're almost certainly gaining a shit-load of money. (or at least, not spending it on Oracle...)
For "new information", read "additional information". He's saying that re-encoding it will lose even more information, not that it will lose some new information that decoding it somehow added.
Works fine with an admin account on XP Pro SP2 and Firefox 2.0.0.2 and IE 7.
Also, there is no need to type all that jibberish about cheese
The gibberish is there to demonstrate pulling selected key presses out of the string that you type in. Getting someone to type a path to a file would be tricky; pulling a path out of a reasonably long message would be much, much easier (although getting enough slashes would seem to be unlikely...)
You sue for copyright infringement, not plagiarism. If he retains the copyright on the first article, he can do whatever he wants with it. If it was produced as a work for hire and someone else owns it (eg his employer at the time) then he may be liable, if they find out and object.
I work at a web agency/hosting/application management company, and we're starting to move from dedicated separate boxes to VMs on a single, beefy box for our dev and test servers. That way we can have two machines hosting (typically) two load-balanced web/app servers and a database server, rather than 6. (In reality, in dev at least we'd skip the load-balancing and any associated clustering to save on hardware)
It takes up less space in the hosting centre (thus reducing hosting costs) and our machine room, it costs less in hardware (even with the VMWare licences and beefier boxes, and we mostly use Linux as the server OS) and costs less in power.
I can't comment on management issues (as I'm a developer), but the set up on my last project has been running for about 18 months with very very few issues.
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Antimatter is... just as it sounds. The opposite of matter.
No it isn't, not at all. An anti-particle is identical to the corresponding particle, except that certain properties are reversed. For an easy-to-grasp example, the anti-electron has a positive electrical charge, while the anti-proton has a negative electrical charge. (Obviously it's not that simple, and other quantum-mechanical properties are reversed too, such as spin). It would be truer to say that anti-matter is the "mirror reflection" of matter, but "opposite of matter" is pretty-much meaningless.
To answer the OP's other question, no you can't hold it. When an anti-matter particle meets its matter equivalent, the two are annihilated producing a gamma photon; if you were to actually touch a lump of anti-matter, you'd lose whatever you touched it with (and most likely the rest of yourself, a large chunk of the building you were in, etc). That is mostly immaterial though, as anti-matter can't survive for long in an atmosphere - all those air molecules are comprised of matter particles, all of which are going to be annihilating with their anti-matter equivalents (protons and anti-protons, not oxygen and anti-oxygen, so just making a lump of anti-iron and keeping it away from normal iron isn't good enough)
What if the interface picks up a strong one of those thoughts and messes up my game ?
Then you would either have to learn not to think those things and to concentrate on the game, stop using the controller, or suck at using it.
A cheap prize? The offer of Office for $75AU is good to all Australian Uni students. The blog thing is essentially a free prize draw, to win a scooter, laptop, etc. I don't see that it's any different to the competitions where you mail in a card, finishing off a sentence (e.g. "Microsoft Office is great because...") in X words or less. The only difference is it's longer and public.
Seriously, I don't really see what your problem is; sure the site sucks to my eyes, but I'm not an Aussie student, maybe it's appropriate for the target demographic. Apart from that, what is the problem?
So if Novell wants to avoid GPLv3, they will have to forever stay with Glibc 2.5, GCC 4.1, coreutils 6.7, and old versions of GIMP, emacs, bash, gdb, etc. etc.
Yes, because they can't possibly hire a team of programmers to keep their GPL2 versions of the stuff that's relicensed under GPL3 up to date - even assuming that the community doesn't take up a lot of that slack anyway. Judging from articles here, GPL3 adoption is far from a given for many people.
That's the entire point of open source though. Don't like the direction the original team is taking the software? Fork it and maintain your own. Questions of scale may make it impractical in this case, but I don't think that's a given at this point.
Are we actively trying to appear childish now?
The place for commentary is down here with us unwashed masses, in the comments, where it can be moderated and replied to properly. It's bad enough that the editors do it, can we at least avoid submitors doing it please?
they should remain tethered while in the lunar lander
You do realise that that's going to be for a few days at least, right?
Besides which, I think you're thinking far too small scale and short term - what about if/when we finally establish a colony on the Moon, and people are there for months at a time?
How is this comment insightful?
Because it's a knee-jerk reaction that paints a new law in a bad light, and this is slashdot where a large number of people think that the government and the law should make itself as small as possible and specifically stay the hell away from them and their affairs.
Utter rubbish. Do you have any links to back up a single thing you've said in this post? Yes, there have been reports of happy slapping incidents in the press, but if it was anywhere near being a "serious problem" or the majority of them being the children of immigrants then the British tabloids especially would be all over the story. Believe me, they'll latch on to any story that can be used to whip the mob up into a frenzy, and the triple whammy of immigration, safety and kids running riot would ensure that it was never off the front pages.
People don't dare to fight back against these youth, as they will assuredly be convicted of committing a "hate crime".
Bullshit. The right to self defence, and to come to the defence of others, is enshrined in UK law.
instead we pin everything on the war
There's good reason for that:
* it's more expensive than your other examples
* it's less popular (amongst slashdotters at least) than your other examples
* it's arguably none of our business what goes on in a sovereign country
* even if it is, we turned (and continue to turn) a blind eye to many other arguably worse regimes and more serious humanitarian crises
* it's a destabilising influence in an already less-than-stable area
Other than that I agree, it's irritating that almost any article that even tangentially involves US public policy or spending ends up with at least one flame war about either the Iraq war or Bush himself. The whole damn thing should be Off Topiced into oblivion (yes, including this).
I got it, but would I have if you hadn't asked? (Mind you, he did bold it...)
Well that really depends on whether you're talking about mixing paints/pigments or mixing light. White light is a mixture of all colours, while a black surface contains a mixture of pigments that absorb light of all colours. In that sense, both black and white are a mixture of all colours, depending on the context.
n. The right to sell a company's products in a particular area using the company's name
From Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
Office is not a franchise, it is a product, like any other piece of software. Please stop using words you don't understand, it lowers the tone of the entire site and leads to otherwise utterly redundant posts like this one.
That's not the poster saying that, that's kdawson - all of PreacherTom's words are in the blockquoted section.
Besides, kdawson's wrong. The article does not say that SR says that matter can't travel faster than light, it says that "The result appears to be at odds with one of the basic principles of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in a vacuum". Further down the article it then says "The scientific statement "nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light" is an entirely different belief, one that has yet to be proven wrong.".
Other than that, I agree - there seems to be little point to posting this until more information is available. I just wish that the editors would realise that slashdot isn't (or shouldn't be) about scoops and breaking news, and only post when it's worth posting.
I think all in one multi-core chips is the future if you ask me.
Great, so now instead of spending a couple of hundred to upgrade just my CPU or just my GPU, I'll need to spend four, five, six hundred to upgrade both at once, along with a "S[ound]PU", physics chip, etc?
Never happen. Corporations aren't going to want to have to spend hundreds of pounds more on machines with built-in high-end stuff they don't want or need. At home, I want loads of RAM, processing power and a strong GPU. At work, I absolutely do not require the GPU - anything that can do 1600x1200 @ 32bpp and 60Hz for 2D is perfectly adequate.
Likewise, the chip builders aren't going to want to have to release these all-in-one chips in a myriad of options, for low/medium/high spec CPU/GPU/PPU/SPU/$fooPU, it simply won't be cost-effective.
It's lose-lose imho; you're either stuck buying things you don't want, or have a mind-boggling number of options to choose from (consumers/business) and support (manufacturers/OEMs/IT depts).
I don't see anything in "battlespace" or "battleground" that states or implies "foreign".
Heat rises. That creates wind. The Earth isn't going to get appreciably hotter, it's just going to get windier.
You do realise that whether moving or still, the air is at the same temperature, right? It only feels cooler to us because it carries warm air away from our skin quicker, replacing it with cooler air that we can then more easily radiate & conduct heat into (that's the "wind chill"). A thermometer will register exactly the same temperature in still and moving air.
I think it would be more efficient if the people who go to the gym instead would just put on a pair of running shoes and would not have to exercise in a room that had not to be lit and heated for the purpose of them having a place to exercise.
While that's true, running isn't ever going to replace gyms. Two immediate reasons are that running does little or nothing for building up muscle bulk, and it's a high impact exercise (as opposed to something like swimming or cycling, where you're not pounding the pavement the whole time).
Since when does SONY dictate what journalists (let alone BLOGS) publish?
Since when is Sony forced to extend special favours to a site that has refused a request?
Sony isn't dictating what the blog can and cannot post, they're merely saying that if they post something they don't like, they'll stop giving them access to inside information. Seems fair enough to me - or would you expect Sony to continue treating them as they were no matter what the blog posted about them?
If you ditch Oracle for someone else's proprietary Oracle look-alike, what exactly are you gaining?
Having worked with Oracle's DB for a number of years, this one is easy - you're almost certainly gaining a shit-load of money. (or at least, not spending it on Oracle...)
For "new information", read "additional information". He's saying that re-encoding it will lose even more information, not that it will lose some new information that decoding it somehow added.
Unless it's an unintended consequence of one (or more) of the relevant specs, or it's in a third-party library that both browsers happen to use.
Works fine with an admin account on XP Pro SP2 and Firefox 2.0.0.2 and IE 7.
Also, there is no need to type all that jibberish about cheese
The gibberish is there to demonstrate pulling selected key presses out of the string that you type in. Getting someone to type a path to a file would be tricky; pulling a path out of a reasonably long message would be much, much easier (although getting enough slashes would seem to be unlikely...)
I know you're joking, but...
Can he sue himself for plagarism?
You sue for copyright infringement, not plagiarism. If he retains the copyright on the first article, he can do whatever he wants with it. If it was produced as a work for hire and someone else owns it (eg his employer at the time) then he may be liable, if they find out and object.
I mean there's definitely prior art there
Prior art is for patents, not copyright.
I work at a web agency/hosting/application management company, and we're starting to move from dedicated separate boxes to VMs on a single, beefy box for our dev and test servers. That way we can have two machines hosting (typically) two load-balanced web/app servers and a database server, rather than 6. (In reality, in dev at least we'd skip the load-balancing and any associated clustering to save on hardware)
It takes up less space in the hosting centre (thus reducing hosting costs) and our machine room, it costs less in hardware (even with the VMWare licences and beefier boxes, and we mostly use Linux as the server OS) and costs less in power.
I can't comment on management issues (as I'm a developer), but the set up on my last project has been running for about 18 months with very very few issues.
Patent the idea of having a software application reliant on a hardware dongle for correct operation?
There's prior art for that going back as long as I've been using computers to my knowledge (24 years), and probably longer.