Dude thats exactly what they are doing! The only people who have the power to go after these spammers is @HOME! @Home has not done this. The have a poorly set up network setup which has lots of loop holes for spammers. If your an @Home customer and you want to send mail go to dejanews.com
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John PS They are suing gun companies as they are negligent in allowing people access to guns. They intentionally make guns that can easily be made full automatics,... Lets not even get itno the gun shows issue.
Hello, Apple doesn't make the G4. Its done by Motorola and IBM. Apple is a partner (and the biggest buyer I think) but they didn't make it.
More to the point the G4 can run other operating systems. It makes no sense for Motorola to produce a chip that will only work for one client. I would suspect that IBm is starting to use G4's in there mainframe and workstation business.
What is more true is that apple was not very good about releasing the sepecs for both the G3 and G4 machines. Thus companies like Be have real trouble supporting them. But apple does work with some compaies (like linuxppc) to get there software to work. Linuxppc definetely works on apple G3 machines and somewhat works on newer G4's (development not quite stable).
One thing to look for in the near future is a spec for a powerpc box that IBM has released (for free I think). Slashdot I think ran a story about it.
Anyway some vendors are getting ready to produce some of these boxes. Should be cheap, industry standard, and hopefully very sweet. Linuxppc will work on it.
Also in reference to the general thread Mac OS X looks really sweet. I really like linux (especially on intel) but give me some way of doing X in Mac OS X and I might even pay the money to buy a copy of X. It gives me all the apps I don't have in linux (but are coming), easy to admin, and all the power. But then it'll be another 6 months until we see the consumer version of X and linux moves so fast... By then we should have Xfree86 4, maybe kde 2 (and kde office), some new corel suite packages,....
ACtually as an astronomer I somewhat want to disagree with that. In general in astronomy this is true but not in cosmology. It moves too fast, you can't wait the 9 months for an ApJ publication or you'll be too late. Hoever, its true that all preprints are not final so things can change.
First lets make sure everyone understands what they mean by a flat universe. This has nothing to do with the geometry of the universe. This we know to be small (i.e. curvature has to be on a very large scale) but this is talking about the expansion of the universe. As some people have already said this means that the universe will not grow forever or collapse. It will asymptotically approach some limit. But like I said this says ntohing about the geometry of the universe. We don't know what kind of "surface" the universe is on. Maybe the universe is on some N dimensional sphere or box, we just don't know.
As to boomarang these results are nothing special. What could be special would the results from there Antarctica flight last winter (summer there). That result should be the best result at the time they publish. Off course a satelitte I worked on (MAP) will blow it away but it has some unfair advantages and it will be later (2002 for results I think).
Theorists want a flat universe for the simple reason that inflationary theory more or less requires it. We don;t really know how to easily understand this problem in a non flat universe. Pure and simply the math is much more elegant in a flat universe (ask Alan Guth or Andrew Linde).
As with all these experiments getting results, understanding your systematics and backgrounds are extremely difficult. Most importantly going from data to understanding the fundamental parameters requires some assumptions and is not as clear cut as anyone would like. However, having said that, I thnk they are on the right track here. In the near future new experiments like MAP and surveys like the Sloan All Sky Survey will bring a lot fo this together. We will understand this a lot better in 4 years I promise:)
PS I'm currently an astronomer at Harvard but was a grad student at U of Chicago 6 months ago (where a lot of this work is getting done)
PPS Hopefully I din't make any glaring mistakes
PPPS There are no implications for god or theology in all this mess (whatever you believed before you should still believe, well except maybe creation but even that you could argue maybe)
Chandra was launched into a higher orbit as its much much better for science observations. Having said that, it was only allowed as people realized by then that repair missions are too expensive leaving you no reason to keep it near the earth. Sorry to be such a nitpick.
In safe mode I think the door should shut. However how much it would stop the radiation from the shower ( I would guess not much, its not optical radiation and such that you are worried about). But your going to have this problem with or wothout the gyros (just a higher cross section possibly). Plus that does nothing about the actual possibility of being hit by a meteor.
All correct I think, I would add however that HST has been given a contract until 2010 (Goldin won't go past that without a doubt)
NGST will be larger, cheaper and much more capable but it is optimized for infrared. It'll do well with optical too. However what are we going to do about ultriviolet space based missions after HST?
I think you missed the point of the question. They were supposed to have Hubble point at the antiradiant from the meteor shower. If they can't point how are they going to do this. Obviously they have some control with two gyros and rockets but enough for the extended shower? In safe mode I think there solar arrays will be OK but how about the telescope? In my head I think they will have very little control over this and it will only be OK if they are lucky (off course chances of a collision are minimal although you do want to minimize them even more).
I've never had them lose anything but 2-3 days is a joke. I have also had several packages sent to me bounce back to the sender while I never received notification that the packages had arrived. My girlfriend, who lives at a different address, has had several problems especially with her prescriptions. Her parents are on some Wall-mart plan and they send the prescriptions fairly last minute. She's gone without meds for several days just trying to get the postal service to deliver the package (and as an epileptic this is so very bad). I love UPS and Fedex.
A better comparison would probably be with the Pentium III Xeon not just the PIII. But, several groups have gotten ahold of late model K7's and there benchmarks are similar (try looking at http://www.jc-news.com/pc for more info).
SMP is coming but your going to have to wait a while. There currently just trying to get to market. (supposedly K7's are shiiping but you won't be able to buy them for at least a month)
This processor should scale to higher speeds more easily than the pIII which is being increasingly delayed. however, intel has such huge manufacturing capabilities compared to AMD.
AMD financially is in really bad shape but this is a kick ass processor. I hope they pull it off. I tink my new machine is going to be a K7:)
Actually definetely not true, recent kernels come with raid, you just have to make sure you check that as something you want to compile into your kernel.
Actually in my experience redhat 6 didn't come with raid but then it might have been a module that i didn't see.
redhat 6.0 is the first redhat i've had troubles with. on reboot the gnome display manager wouldn't take my password so i ended up having to reinstall instead of just upgrade. i've had a lot more X windows crashes and netscape crashes since. Unfortunately (not redhat's fault) i also struggled with getting several scientific applications (like idl) running as they didn't work with glibc 2.1. I find gnome crashes regularly now (I never had troubles with it when I installed it on my own). But then I still prefer kde and windowmaker so... Actually I think getting rid of glint was great but then I usually just type rpm.
My main point is that I had a lot of troubles with my install of 6.0 when I never have had troubles before. Several of the people I work with had similar problems. this worries me.
Acually the point is that no one is sure about either 1 or 2. And since current science doesn't explain them (3) we are more likely to disbelieve 1 and 2. That any heat is being produced is very controversial. Especially as the original experiment was wrong!
There is no evidence supporting that the sun is short of neutrinos. What is clear is that we don't see as many neutronis coming from the sun as we would expect. Two possibilities 1) some new process in the sun is occurring 2) we don't understand neutrinos For 30 years we have been looking into this. As time has gone by we have tested our models of the sun and found them to work better and netter with many different measurements. While, at the same time, we have had no evidence to understand the neutrino better.
Guess which theory we favored, we don't understand neutrinos! Anyway last year the Japanese Super kamiokande experiement found evidence that neutrinos have mass. Giving them mass would cause type oscialltions which would make it impossible to detect these neutrinos. This would explain why we didn't see neutrinos easily. And, as we have no evidence to support massless neutrinos astrophysicists have been very excited about this new piece of fundamental physics!
PS I'm a grad student in physics at the University of Chicago PPS Physicists would love to see a new cheap energy source, fossil fuels kill the environment, but the cold fusion people have been proved wrong time and time again (unquivocally). Something might be going on, thats recognized, why do you think they get any funding, but in the meantime methods which have better track records and more promise will get more money. If you want to see more funding go to your congressman and get him to increase the science allotments (alternate forms of energy have been hit harder than they sould have been)
I'm a grad student in physics (doing astronomy) at the university of Chicago. Many people here (slashdot) know more about cold fusion than I so I will let there comments stand
BUT, he does talk about the solar neutrino problem. It is true that for 30 years we have measured less neutrinos from the sun than calculations predict. There are two explanations, possibly not understanding the physics of the sun (possibly cold fusion) or not understanding neutronos. The evidence has been piling up recently to suggest veyr clearly that we didn't understand neutrinos. That they have mass. This completely explains the problem. I wouldn't call it a known physics fact as yet but it would explain many problems (especially as we have no reason to believe that neutrinos need be massless).
Anyway one more reason not to believe this. Off course, don't believe any science an newspaper publishes, its always slightly wrong.
I like quicktime better than mpeg but if you can figure out how to play a quicktime movie with the sorenson codec on my linux box I would much appreciate it. Anyone know somewhere where these have been converted to mpeg.
How is KDE proprietary. Yes I know about QT, but now its QT 2.0 and its not proprietary. Pressure from gnome certainly helped there. Much more importantly redhat 6.0 will ship with both gnome and kde.
Although I don't know of any products that run only on redhat I do know of several that are only SUPPORTED on redhat. Thats still a big deal.
Having said that I support redhat as much of the money they make is thrown right back into the linux community. most importantly, unlike MS, redhat's linux distro will always be available free for people to do with as they will. The community will make sure that they stay in line.
I hate the panel, its clunky, doesn't seem to give me anything I don't get in Windowmaker or Afterstep. And its so obviously MS derived it scares me. Am I missing something, can I kill the panel and get some worthwhile features out of gnome? I prefer just using Windowmaker or even kde. When's kde 2.0 coming.
I agree that a decent compiler is a must. But I swaer recently slashdot reported that Intel was putting money into a linux compiler for Pentium II & III which would be folded into the GNU compiler. Its not a big jump to see them doing the same for the merced.
Actually I don't agree the MacOS X is vaporware. MaxOS X Server will ship this february. The client version will be a bit longer but people are testing versions and i think they are saying early 3rd quarter
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Dude thats exactly what they are doing! The only people who have the power to go after these spammers is @HOME! @Home has not done this. The have a poorly set up network setup which has lots of loop holes for spammers.
... Lets not even get itno the gun shows issue.
If your an @Home customer and you want to send mail go to dejanews.com
Moderators take this message (and my reply down).
John
PS They are suing gun companies as they are negligent in allowing people access to guns. They intentionally make guns that can easily be made full automatics,
if (serious company) then
think of idea
get funding
create product
ipo
else
bring in spin doctors
ipo
Hello, Apple doesn't make the G4. Its done by Motorola and IBM. Apple is a partner (and the biggest buyer I think) but they didn't make it.
... ....
More to the point the G4 can run other operating systems. It makes no sense for Motorola to produce a chip that will only work for one client. I would suspect that IBm is starting to use G4's in there mainframe and workstation business.
What is more true is that apple was not very good about releasing the sepecs for both the G3 and G4 machines. Thus companies like Be have real trouble supporting them. But apple does work with some compaies (like linuxppc) to get there software to work. Linuxppc definetely works on apple G3 machines and somewhat works on newer G4's (development not quite stable).
One thing to look for in the near future is a spec for a powerpc box that IBM has released (for free I think). Slashdot I think ran a story about it.
Anyway some vendors are getting ready to produce some of these boxes. Should be cheap, industry standard, and hopefully very sweet. Linuxppc will work on it.
Also in reference to the general thread
Mac OS X looks really sweet. I really like linux (especially on intel) but give me some way of doing X in Mac OS X and I might even pay the money to buy a copy of X. It gives me all the apps I don't have in linux (but are coming), easy to admin, and all the power. But then it'll be another 6 months until we see the consumer version of X and linux moves so fast
By then we should have Xfree86 4, maybe kde 2 (and kde office), some new corel suite packages,
ACtually as an astronomer I somewhat want to disagree with that. In general in astronomy this is true but not in cosmology. It moves too fast, you can't wait the 9 months for an ApJ publication or you'll be too late. Hoever, its true that all preprints are not final so things can change.
First lets make sure everyone understands what they mean by a flat universe. This has nothing to do with the geometry of the universe. This we know to be small (i.e. curvature has to be on a very large scale) but this is talking about the expansion of the universe. As some people have already said this means that the universe will not grow forever or collapse. It will asymptotically approach some limit. But like I said this says ntohing about the geometry of the universe. We don't know what kind of "surface" the universe is on. Maybe the universe is on some N dimensional sphere or box, we just don't know.
:)
As to boomarang these results are nothing special. What could be special would the results from there Antarctica flight last winter (summer there). That result should be the best result at the time they publish. Off course a satelitte I worked on (MAP) will blow it away but it has some unfair advantages and it will be later (2002 for results I think).
Theorists want a flat universe for the simple reason that inflationary theory more or less requires it. We don;t really know how to easily understand this problem in a non flat universe. Pure and simply the math is much more elegant in a flat universe (ask Alan Guth or Andrew Linde).
As with all these experiments getting results, understanding your systematics and backgrounds are extremely difficult. Most importantly going from data to understanding the fundamental parameters requires some assumptions and is not as clear cut as anyone would like. However, having said that, I thnk they are on the right track here. In the near future new experiments like MAP and surveys like the Sloan All Sky Survey will bring a lot fo this together. We will understand this a lot better in 4 years I promise
PS I'm currently an astronomer at Harvard but was a grad student at U of Chicago 6 months ago (where a lot of this work is getting done)
PPS Hopefully I din't make any glaring mistakes
PPPS There are no implications for god or theology in all this mess (whatever you believed before you should still believe, well except maybe creation but even that you could argue maybe)
Chandra was launched into a higher orbit as its much much better for science observations. Having said that, it was only allowed as people realized by then that repair missions are too expensive leaving you no reason to keep it near the earth. Sorry to be such a nitpick.
In safe mode I think the door should shut. However how much it would stop the radiation from the shower ( I would guess not much, its not optical radiation and such that you are worried about). But your going to have this problem with or wothout the gyros (just a higher cross section possibly). Plus that does nothing about the actual possibility of being hit by a meteor.
All correct I think, I would add however that HST has been given a contract until 2010 (Goldin won't go past that without a doubt)
NGST will be larger, cheaper and much more capable but it is optimized for infrared. It'll do well with optical too. However what are we going to do about ultriviolet space based missions after HST?
I think you missed the point of the question. They were supposed to have Hubble point at the antiradiant from the meteor shower. If they can't point how are they going to do this. Obviously they have some control with two gyros and rockets but enough for the extended shower? In safe mode I think there solar arrays will be OK but how about the telescope? In my head I think they will have very little control over this and it will only be OK if they are lucky (off course chances of a collision are minimal although you do want to minimize them even more).
I've never had them lose anything but 2-3 days is a joke. I have also had several packages sent to me bounce back to the sender while I never received notification that the packages had arrived. My girlfriend, who lives at a different address, has had several problems especially with her prescriptions. Her parents are on some Wall-mart plan and they send the prescriptions fairly last minute. She's gone without meds for several days just trying to get the postal service to deliver the package (and as an epileptic this is so very bad). I love UPS and Fedex.
A better comparison would probably be with the Pentium III Xeon not just the PIII. But, several groups have gotten ahold of late model K7's and there benchmarks are similar (try looking at http://www.jc-news.com/pc for more info).
:)
SMP is coming but your going to have to wait a while. There currently just trying to get to market. (supposedly K7's are shiiping but you won't be able to buy them for at least a month)
This processor should scale to higher speeds more easily than the pIII which is being increasingly delayed. however, intel has such huge manufacturing capabilities compared to AMD.
AMD financially is in really bad shape but this is a kick ass processor. I hope they pull it off. I tink my new machine is going to be a K7
its hard to beat the giant
Actually definetely not true, recent kernels come with raid, you just have to make sure you check that as something you want to compile into your kernel.
Actually in my experience redhat 6 didn't come with raid but then it might have been a module that i didn't see.
redhat 6.0 is the first redhat i've had troubles with. on reboot the gnome display manager wouldn't take my password so i ended up having to reinstall instead of just upgrade. i've had a lot more X windows crashes and netscape crashes since. Unfortunately (not redhat's fault) i also struggled with getting several scientific applications (like idl) running as they didn't work with glibc 2.1. ...
I find gnome crashes regularly now (I never had troubles with it when I installed it on my own). But then I still prefer kde and windowmaker so
Actually I think getting rid of glint was great but then I usually just type rpm.
My main point is that I had a lot of troubles with my install of 6.0 when I never have had troubles before. Several of the people I work with had similar problems. this worries me.
Acually the point is that no one is sure about either 1 or 2. And since current science doesn't explain them (3) we are more likely to disbelieve 1 and 2. That any heat is being produced is very controversial. Especially as the original experiment was wrong!
There is no evidence supporting that the sun is short of neutrinos. What is clear is that we don't see as many neutronis coming from the sun as we would expect.
Two possibilities
1) some new process in the sun is occurring
2) we don't understand neutrinos
For 30 years we have been looking into this. As time has gone by we have tested our models of the sun and found them to work better and netter with many different measurements. While, at the same time, we have had no evidence to understand the neutrino better.
Guess which theory we favored, we don't understand neutrinos! Anyway last year the Japanese Super kamiokande experiement found evidence that neutrinos have mass. Giving them mass would cause type oscialltions which would make it impossible to detect these neutrinos. This would explain why we didn't see neutrinos easily. And, as we have no evidence to support massless neutrinos astrophysicists have been very excited about this new piece of fundamental physics!
PS I'm a grad student in physics at the University of Chicago
PPS Physicists would love to see a new cheap energy source, fossil fuels kill the environment, but the cold fusion people have been proved wrong time and time again (unquivocally). Something might be going on, thats recognized, why do you think they get any funding, but in the meantime methods which have better track records and more promise will get more money. If you want to see more funding go to your congressman and get him to increase the science allotments (alternate forms of energy have been hit harder than they sould have been)
I'm a grad student in physics (doing astronomy) at the university of Chicago. Many people here (slashdot) know more about cold fusion than I so I will let there comments stand
BUT, he does talk about the solar neutrino problem. It is true that for 30 years we have measured less neutrinos from the sun than calculations predict. There are two explanations, possibly not understanding the physics of the sun (possibly cold fusion) or not understanding neutronos. The evidence has been piling up recently to suggest veyr clearly that we didn't understand neutrinos. That they have mass. This completely explains the problem. I wouldn't call it a known physics fact as yet but it would explain many problems (especially as we have no reason to believe that neutrinos need be massless).
Anyway one more reason not to believe this. Off course, don't believe any science an newspaper publishes, its always slightly wrong.
I like quicktime better than mpeg but if you can figure out how to play a quicktime movie with the sorenson codec on my linux box I would much appreciate it. Anyone know somewhere where these have been converted to mpeg.
How is KDE proprietary. Yes I know about QT, but now its QT 2.0 and its not proprietary. Pressure from gnome certainly helped there.
Much more importantly redhat 6.0 will ship with both gnome and kde.
Although I don't know of any products that run only on redhat I do know of several that are only SUPPORTED on redhat. Thats still a big deal.
Having said that I support redhat as much of the money they make is thrown right back into the linux community. most importantly, unlike MS, redhat's linux distro will always be available free for people to do with as they will. The community will make sure that they stay in line.
actually I think both are. I just think gnome's is slightly more clunky. but either way I'm not fond of either.
I think the idea behind gnome is great but ...
I hate the panel, its clunky, doesn't seem to give me anything I don't get in Windowmaker or Afterstep. And its so obviously MS derived it scares me. Am I missing something, can I kill the panel and get some worthwhile features out of gnome? I prefer just using Windowmaker or even kde. When's kde 2.0 coming.
I agree that a decent compiler is a must. But I swaer recently slashdot reported that Intel was putting money into a linux compiler for Pentium II & III which would be folded into the GNU compiler. Its not a big jump to see them doing the same for the merced.
Actually I don't agree the MacOS X is vaporware. MaxOS X Server will ship this february. The
client version will be a bit longer but people are testing versions and i think they are saying early 3rd quarter