Take a look at what is known as "symplectic integration" and also "discrete exterior calculus" (DEC). Both of these should work, and they use some heavy math to justify the methods. Its quite entertaining. The basic outline for DEC is that, in vacuum, you have four constraint equations which much be satisfied (there's not any stray electric or magnetic fields) and so the equations evolve in such a way as to strictly keep this at zero. The algebra of the constraints dictates where answers can be found from one timestep to the next, so it improves stability to use a calculus which makes sure that the algebraic properties of the constraints are maintained. I hope that helps. Feel free to email me.
Special interests vote... they turn out in droves. They turn our political discourse into the 3 ring circus that it is today... you're either a pinko commie liberal who wants to kill babies or a racist homophobe with "good wholesome family values" who wants all automatic weapons to be legal, chocolate covered, and free for kids. Not in reality, but in "TV land" thats what you are, because those are the people that show up to vote.
My advice (for what its worth): if you don't know who you want to vote for, take 30 seconds and look up who is not going to win, and vote for that person. It sends the appropriate message, "I'm want to vote, but you won't provide me with decent candidates to vote for, so I'm going to vote for the homeless transvestite because I at least know where he stands on g-strings."
When purchasing a CD I want to know how its benefiting the artist. I want to be able to read the insert and the "official" lyrics. It would also be nice to have some way to download some other "recommended artists", though this should be based on the kind of music I already own, and the kind of music I've purchased, not just whatever the record company is pushing. I'd like to see the record companies stop being sleazy and start being "good".
you mean 6000? Cause thats how long ago God created the universe...
Seriously, instead of funding real science like the hubble and other versatile projects, we're funding crazy "man to mars" missions and finishing the ISS so that we can dump it into the ocean... we could probably stand to have a decent collider project here (on earth) also, to compete with some of the others that are soon to come online / being proposed. Either that or we can all move to mars, or wait for God to come back.
get trashed and tell their boss what they really think... about the boss' daughter. She's hot, it should be a complement, but no, mr. 40oz and my tuckus get dumped on the curb to pour some out for the newly deceased homie; my job.
Sure, good things come out of a relaxed social environment, but so do horrible things... pros and cons to be weighed carefully.
"And for what it's worth, I don't believe that people are flat-out denied their rights to vote en masse..."
I suggest that you vote early, and then make your way down to the inner-city on election day to see what goes on. Granted, I can not vouch for either side's credibility, but what I can/specifically/ vouch for is the current downward trend that I've seen, specifically targeted towards minorities. Its our responsibility to be as vocal as possible in defending the least among us. If I vote in suburbia, I wait 5 min, have a cup of coffee, get my sticker, and leave. If I vote in a poorer part of town, or predominantly minorities, I have to wait 30 min at least, and about half the time (with the electronic voting machines that I've used) something goes wrong while waiting in line and I end up waiting an hour. Great if you have half a day off, but not quite so grand if you are making minimum wage.
The Democrats have been far from perfect on this point, but more so than their counterparts (probably because they are in the minority), they have supported security measures for electronic voting and a verifiable paper trail. The current administration's fiasco in florida back in 2000 should still be unsettling, and should still make you want to spew your lunch... does the Bush administration seem like people who would go/backwards/ and suddenly become righteous folks looking for an honest contest? Sort of makes me want to pick up an opium habit till November 2008... but at least he hasn't lied about a blow job, right?
"Actually, it's not that hard to make A QRTY keyboard type Dvoark letters,
In X, you just have to make sure that the "XkbLayoiut" option in the keyoard section is set to "dvorak" instead,. I have this in my gentoo startup scripts.
The first thing I usually do when I get a new keyboard is to pop off all the caps and rearrange them in Dvorak layout. Once I have the keys set up right, I can once again look at my fingers whild I type. hehe.
It's hard being so 1337."
Daymn, you're so 13373 you don't even need to use "QWERTY" you can use "QRTY" (I admit, the shift "WE" can be a bitch...)... other than that just an extra "i" in the X config and "," on the same line... not bad (thats dvorak smack for all you qwurdy folk...)
Isn't it "John Doe"? I thought the whole point was a generic name... Jon (short for Jonathan) seems more specific... Just lookin out for the Jon Doe's of the world who's homonyms just can't keep themselves out of trouble...
As far as I know, there have been -no- cases tried (except for the very recent one, in which, the case was tried because the soldier was suspected of being a spy...) for adultry. Ms Lewinsky made no ploy that Clinton was abusing his power. It might be noted that Clinton admited that he did not want to go to war, and didn't have his family get him out and then pretend he -did- serve. In my opinion, thats a whole lot better than covering it up after you got out of serving anyhoww and attempt to maintain your position... along with this he didn't attack persons with military history. Clinton's "I didn't inhale" comment was a statement of his generation (60's)... bush did inhale, or snort, however you want to put it. Clinton also didn't drive drunk into a hedge... And while getting head may cause some issues in the domestic front, it doesn't endanger anyone else (I am assuming that, from what I've seen of Hillary, it did endanger himself!:) Do I think Kerry is the right man for the job? I don't know, I only know 2 things... bush is not the man for the job, and kerry makes a damn good caricature... it makes my choice easier.
sorry if I'm a little skeptical... the poster is "johnnyb", the author is "jonathan bartlett" and the publisher is Bartlett Publishing? Granted I think that asm is useful, great to know, and does build a solid foundation for understanding. I just find a fundamental flaw when someone gets something/.'d that benifits them directly. "100,000 targets in this demographic... for free... sweet"
I'm sure we could find some poor russian in siberia who would gladly accept say... 5k USD to sell one of their family members into the luxury of a US jail system. Plus we'd get to milk SCO for 250k... I like this plan. We'd probably also have to pay off an official "investigator" to forge some data, but it seems worth while... probably still come out 200k up for our side...
including the author of the blog. Java is great for what it is supposed to be used for. Yes, managed improperly its a great scapegoat for developers who have no clue whats going on. Managed properly (I say managed as in development code, concept usage, and production) it can be a valuable tool. Its quick to develop larger scale applications in, it provides a fairly uniform method of creating documentation, a framework so that others can understand whats going on, and (once again) when used properly is sufficiently fast for most all applications. The problem that comes about is the same problem with all new technology aimed at the business market... its not designed for a/single/ user. Its designed for a business, and what makes the most sense for that market. If I want to do something, yes, I'm going to do it in a scripting language. If someone else wants me to work on a team, share code, resources, and not be tied to a proprietary platform / application base, then yes, I'm going to write something in java. Thats the difference that everyone is missing, its not for me and you, its for a company. Swing and Awt suck, but the world doesnt revolve around gui applets. Java is great for server side applications that require stability (bug tracking is easy... its either there and you fix it, or its sun/ibm's fault and you wait or work around it). I wouldnt compare it to an suv, but maybe more of a bus: Its not/really/ small, it doesnt go/really/ fast, but if you have a lot of people that all need to get to the same place, and they need to get there as quickly / cheaply as possible, then it does the trick.
Is there an open source turtle project thats decent, and ported to os x? I have a soft spot in my heart for it, and my original se 30:) If not, guess its time to write one...
he has a good point though. I think the part that he overlooked (using a perfect mirror w/ no thermal expansion) is that the recoil from the light leaving the mirror and heading back from the sun will have a doppler shift according to the acceleration imparted on the mirror (and of course in the lab frame, of the velocity of the object itself).
My waves book from 61' clearly shows that the phase velocity can travel much much faster than the group velocity of waves... radio engineers have known this for about 70 years... I'm not exactly sure whats new. They're using the superposition of signals that dont degregate as much in cheap wire? (wow, they pick up that idea from 19th century physicists?) Thats worth publishing? I'm surprised this site doesnt have information about the/exciting/ developments in hydrinos (this is sarcasm). Measuring a signal whose wave peaks over the wavelength arive at 4 times the speed of light (note: The information or/energy/ of the wave still doesnt go faster than the speed of light) is about as exciting and mysterious as eating beans and getting gas from them...
"including the idea of storing kernel panic info in NVRAM and writing it to a logfile on reboot." Not to be a bring down to the party (I own only apple and sun machines) but just to be fair, sun has had this since solaris 2.6 (possibly earlier)...
So they'll find out what I think about the girl standing in line... and the same joke I think everytime I go to the airport; I want to run into a long lost friend named Jack, and shout "Hi" to him.
well, if you look at the "burst" of ultraviolet light, that would put the electron somewhere within the maximum probability of the nucleus of the atom (from the energy that it would have to lose to produce ultraviolet light and the average energy level drop of the electron)... probably not such a good idea. We should either talk to the engineers and people funding this adventure, or consult God and tell him to redesign the universe.
Yeah, apple is designed to be easy to use, yeah os x 10.0 or beta is slow as hell, yeah the normal apple user isnt going to know the word optimization from the phrase multitasking or "two buttons", but we're nerds, so we have no right to complain. I like to open word, and walk off, then come back and hour or two later and run top (g4 400 w/ a gig of ram)... what process is taking up 40% of my processor time and 20% of my memory? Word you say? that right! Turn off genie, dont run aim (adium is much better), and shut down your freakin microsoft applications (IE isnt actually that bad... texshop all the way!). Check out some of the speed optimization tips online (there is more than a hand full of sites out there directed specifically at this) and you can get it running pretty speedy (its more than usable on my g3 400 w/ only 192 megs of ram). If you really care, buy more ram, and 2 scsi drives (apple supports the 2940u2b and the 2940u160 cards oem'd by them... other than that I cant say, especially not for a boot drive), make a ufs file system on there (HFS+ is rather slow, IMHO... perhapse the bfs thing will pan out (or some kind of speedy journalling file system)), and run some software raid. Even on a 400 my system rocks, and I've had no performance issues what so ever (much faster than a 400mhz or even 700mhz x86 machine). And if all else fails... just wait until nvidia and ati start making cards that do hardware support for all the nifty features in os X.
Since they stop putting easter eggs in the software, apple has become serious cutting out all the fun and games. As a result any dvd not labled as a "Drama" "Action/Thriller" or "Mystery" will cause the machine to panic... took me 3 reboots just to make it half way through holy grail:) (j/k... I've never actually/had/ to reboot my os X box, I just boot into linux sometimes to remind myself that I like the way applications actually work together on a stable operating system, instead of no standard ui api in the range of standard unix applications)
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Take a look at what is known as "symplectic integration" and also "discrete exterior calculus" (DEC). Both of these should work, and they use some heavy math to justify the methods. Its quite entertaining. The basic outline for DEC is that, in vacuum, you have four constraint equations which much be satisfied (there's not any stray electric or magnetic fields) and so the equations evolve in such a way as to strictly keep this at zero. The algebra of the constraints dictates where answers can be found from one timestep to the next, so it improves stability to use a calculus which makes sure that the algebraic properties of the constraints are maintained. I hope that helps. Feel free to email me.
Special interests vote... they turn out in droves. They turn our political discourse into the 3 ring circus that it is today... you're either a pinko commie liberal who wants to kill babies or a racist homophobe with "good wholesome family values" who wants all automatic weapons to be legal, chocolate covered, and free for kids. Not in reality, but in "TV land" thats what you are, because those are the people that show up to vote.
My advice (for what its worth): if you don't know who you want to vote for, take 30 seconds and look up who is not going to win, and vote for that person. It sends the appropriate message, "I'm want to vote, but you won't provide me with decent candidates to vote for, so I'm going to vote for the homeless transvestite because I at least know where he stands on g-strings."
When purchasing a CD I want to know how its benefiting the artist. I want to be able to read the insert and the "official" lyrics. It would also be nice to have some way to download some other "recommended artists", though this should be based on the kind of music I already own, and the kind of music I've purchased, not just whatever the record company is pushing. I'd like to see the record companies stop being sleazy and start being "good".
you mean 6000? Cause thats how long ago God created the universe...
Seriously, instead of funding real science like the hubble and other versatile projects, we're funding crazy "man to mars" missions and finishing the ISS so that we can dump it into the ocean... we could probably stand to have a decent collider project here (on earth) also, to compete with some of the others that are soon to come online / being proposed. Either that or we can all move to mars, or wait for God to come back.
get trashed and tell their boss what they really think... about the boss' daughter. She's hot, it should be a complement, but no, mr. 40oz and my tuckus get dumped on the curb to pour some out for the newly deceased homie; my job.
Sure, good things come out of a relaxed social environment, but so do horrible things... pros and cons to be weighed carefully.
"And for what it's worth, I don't believe that people are flat-out denied their rights to vote en masse..."
/specifically/ vouch for is the current downward trend that I've seen, specifically targeted towards minorities. Its our responsibility to be as vocal as possible in defending the least among us. If I vote in suburbia, I wait 5 min, have a cup of coffee, get my sticker, and leave. If I vote in a poorer part of town, or predominantly minorities, I have to wait 30 min at least, and about half the time (with the electronic voting machines that I've used) something goes wrong while waiting in line and I end up waiting an hour. Great if you have half a day off, but not quite so grand if you are making minimum wage.
/backwards/ and suddenly become righteous folks looking for an honest contest? Sort of makes me want to pick up an opium habit till November 2008... but at least he hasn't lied about a blow job, right?
I suggest that you vote early, and then make your way down to the inner-city on election day to see what goes on. Granted, I can not vouch for either side's credibility, but what I can
The Democrats have been far from perfect on this point, but more so than their counterparts (probably because they are in the minority), they have supported security measures for electronic voting and a verifiable paper trail. The current administration's fiasco in florida back in 2000 should still be unsettling, and should still make you want to spew your lunch... does the Bush administration seem like people who would go
"Actually, it's not that hard to make A QRTY keyboard type Dvoark letters,
In X, you just have to make sure that the "XkbLayoiut" option in the keyoard section is set to "dvorak" instead,. I have this in my gentoo startup scripts.
The first thing I usually do when I get a new keyboard is to pop off all the caps and rearrange them in Dvorak layout. Once I have the keys set up right, I can once again look at my fingers whild I type. hehe.
It's hard being so 1337."
Daymn, you're so 13373 you don't even need to use "QWERTY" you can use "QRTY" (I admit, the shift "WE" can be a bitch...)... other than that just an extra "i" in the X config and "," on the same line... not bad (thats dvorak smack for all you qwurdy folk...)
Isn't it "John Doe"? I thought the whole point was a generic name... Jon (short for Jonathan) seems more specific... Just lookin out for the Jon Doe's of the world who's homonyms just can't keep themselves out of trouble...
The alternative is probably not far short of civil war.
And THEY have all the guns! We're screwed!
As far as I know, there have been -no- cases tried (except for the very recent one, in which, the case was tried because the soldier was suspected of being a spy...) for adultry. Ms Lewinsky made no ploy that Clinton was abusing his power. It might be noted that Clinton admited that he did not want to go to war, and didn't have his family get him out and then pretend he -did- serve. In my opinion, thats a whole lot better than covering it up after you got out of serving anyhoww and attempt to maintain your position... along with this he didn't attack persons with military history. Clinton's "I didn't inhale" comment was a statement of his generation (60's)... bush did inhale, or snort, however you want to put it. Clinton also didn't drive drunk into a hedge... And while getting head may cause some issues in the domestic front, it doesn't endanger anyone else (I am assuming that, from what I've seen of Hillary, it did endanger himself! :) Do I think Kerry is the right man for the job? I don't know, I only know 2 things... bush is not the man for the job, and kerry makes a damn good caricature... it makes my choice easier.
Intelligent slashdot readers? man, you sure aren't looking for a broad audience... :) Pehaps your fanclub specializes in off-topic, posts...
sorry if I'm a little skeptical... the poster is "johnnyb", the author is "jonathan bartlett" and the publisher is Bartlett Publishing? Granted I think that asm is useful, great to know, and does build a solid foundation for understanding. I just find a fundamental flaw when someone gets something /.'d that benifits them directly. "100,000 targets in this demographic... for free... sweet"
I'm sure we could find some poor russian in siberia who would gladly accept say... 5k USD to sell one of their family members into the luxury of a US jail system. Plus we'd get to milk SCO for 250k... I like this plan. We'd probably also have to pay off an official "investigator" to forge some data, but it seems worth while... probably still come out 200k up for our side...
including the author of the blog. Java is great for what it is supposed to be used for. Yes, managed improperly its a great scapegoat for developers who have no clue whats going on. Managed properly (I say managed as in development code, concept usage, and production) it can be a valuable tool. Its quick to develop larger scale applications in, it provides a fairly uniform method of creating documentation, a framework so that others can understand whats going on, and (once again) when used properly is sufficiently fast for most all applications. The problem that comes about is the same problem with all new technology aimed at the business market... its not designed for a /single/ user. Its designed for a business, and what makes the most sense for that market. If I want to do something, yes, I'm going to do it in a scripting language. If someone else wants me to work on a team, share code, resources, and not be tied to a proprietary platform / application base, then yes, I'm going to write something in java. Thats the difference that everyone is missing, its not for me and you, its for a company. Swing and Awt suck, but the world doesnt revolve around gui applets. Java is great for server side applications that require stability (bug tracking is easy... its either there and you fix it, or its sun/ibm's fault and you wait or work around it). I wouldnt compare it to an suv, but maybe more of a bus: Its not /really/ small, it doesnt go /really/ fast, but if you have a lot of people that all need to get to the same place, and they need to get there as quickly / cheaply as possible, then it does the trick.
Is there an open source turtle project thats decent, and ported to os x? I have a soft spot in my heart for it, and my original se 30 :) If not, guess its time to write one...
he has a good point though. I think the part that he overlooked (using a perfect mirror w/ no thermal expansion) is that the recoil from the light leaving the mirror and heading back from the sun will have a doppler shift according to the acceleration imparted on the mirror (and of course in the lab frame, of the velocity of the object itself).
I hope someone gets my joke :)
My waves book from 61' clearly shows that the phase velocity can travel much much faster than the group velocity of waves... radio engineers have known this for about 70 years... I'm not exactly sure whats new. They're using the superposition of signals that dont degregate as much in cheap wire? (wow, they pick up that idea from 19th century physicists?) Thats worth publishing? I'm surprised this site doesnt have information about the /exciting/ developments in hydrinos (this is sarcasm). Measuring a signal whose wave peaks over the wavelength arive at 4 times the speed of light (note: The information or /energy/ of the wave still doesnt go faster than the speed of light) is about as exciting and mysterious as eating beans and getting gas from them...
"including the idea of storing kernel panic info in NVRAM and writing it to a logfile on reboot." Not to be a bring down to the party (I own only apple and sun machines) but just to be fair, sun has had this since solaris 2.6 (possibly earlier)...
So they'll find out what I think about the girl standing in line... and the same joke I think everytime I go to the airport; I want to run into a long lost friend named Jack, and shout "Hi" to him.
well, if you look at the "burst" of ultraviolet light, that would put the electron somewhere within the maximum probability of the nucleus of the atom (from the energy that it would have to lose to produce ultraviolet light and the average energy level drop of the electron)... probably not such a good idea. We should either talk to the engineers and people funding this adventure, or consult God and tell him to redesign the universe.
are you using an optical mouse?
Yeah, apple is designed to be easy to use, yeah os x 10.0 or beta is slow as hell, yeah the normal apple user isnt going to know the word optimization from the phrase multitasking or "two buttons", but we're nerds, so we have no right to complain. I like to open word, and walk off, then come back and hour or two later and run top (g4 400 w/ a gig of ram)... what process is taking up 40% of my processor time and 20% of my memory? Word you say? that right! Turn off genie, dont run aim (adium is much better), and shut down your freakin microsoft applications (IE isnt actually that bad... texshop all the way!). Check out some of the speed optimization tips online (there is more than a hand full of sites out there directed specifically at this) and you can get it running pretty speedy (its more than usable on my g3 400 w/ only 192 megs of ram). If you really care, buy more ram, and 2 scsi drives (apple supports the 2940u2b and the 2940u160 cards oem'd by them... other than that I cant say, especially not for a boot drive), make a ufs file system on there (HFS+ is rather slow, IMHO... perhapse the bfs thing will pan out (or some kind of speedy journalling file system)), and run some software raid. Even on a 400 my system rocks, and I've had no performance issues what so ever (much faster than a 400mhz or even 700mhz x86 machine). And if all else fails... just wait until nvidia and ati start making cards that do hardware support for all the nifty features in os X.
Since they stop putting easter eggs in the software, apple has become serious cutting out all the fun and games. As a result any dvd not labled as a "Drama" "Action/Thriller" or "Mystery" will cause the machine to panic... took me 3 reboots just to make it half way through holy grail :) (j/k... I've never actually /had/ to reboot my os X box, I just boot into linux sometimes to remind myself that I like the way applications actually work together on a stable operating system, instead of no standard ui api in the range of standard unix applications)
were they hit by cars or something? No offense, but small grey boxes dont exactly strike me as cute :)