Back around 1999 or so when Bill Gates gave a speech at Indiana University and right after he got a pie in the face by that Belgium guy, someone on a Linux mailing list said that he was going to spell out Linux in 5 pies on a table and put a sign that said "Not a threat, just a reminder". I encouraged him not to do it because the pie thing had nothing to do with Linux. He didn't want to listen to me because he thought he was right. But anyways, there are people like that out there that want to take things to far and do it in the name of Linux/Open source/whatever.
Actually, I've been surprised (and somewhat impressed) that there hasn't been some crazy person who has tried to assassinate Mr. Gates. I would think that with all the pent up frustration, there would be someone depressed enough and who doesn't care about their own life enough to do it. Especially with all the websites talking about Bill being satan and loose comments everywhere over the past several years about nuking Redmond.
They should probably just concentrate on the DVD-R market for now, so that their price does not make them be ignored. Then as they (and DVD-R) gets more popular, they can also make CD-Rs. But probably by that time, everyone will be using DVD-Rs instead anyways.
Well then, if we are just waiting for the right ideas to come along, then perhaps they will much like Einstein came along. It only takes one person to come up with an idea or rationalize it. So someone growing up right now could be the one to do it.
Before they "dumbed down" TLC and the Discovery Channel they used to show hard core stuff like The Mechanical Universe, which was pretty much a video taping of the freshman physics course at Harvard with some extra stuff thrown in. THAT was educational.
Ok, I'm being serious (not a troll). I would have thought that other countries would have been sending manned missions to space back in the 80s or 90s at least. I guess other countries just aren't interested?
this should have happened long ago. It's one thing to put a man into space when you're the first one to do it or when you are part of the initial space race. But 40+ years is long enough that all the information and resources are probably available to country that has enough money to throw at it.
Do you realize how rediculous you sound? Actually you are no the only one. Lots of people who say this sound rediculous.
The Universe is not some "magical" object that will turn you around in the direction you came from if you try to go to the edge of it. The problem with everyone trying to define it is that there is no end to it. The universe IS in 3d if there was a big bang or this inflation, then there was a "center" point from which the big bang or inflation happened from. Using the balloon analogy is dumb because a balloon has an "shell".
All we need to do is get rid of money and the materiality and we'll mostly solve about half the world's problems, including spam/marketing/greed/corruption. Of course, it will create a few new ones, but I think things would generally be better.
Ok, now bring on all the slashdotters who think that they are all wise and shit.
Um, I don't care what the explanation is. If the Universe is 70 billion light years in diameter (what they are saying in this article) then it would take light 35 billion years to go from the center to the edge. Anything getting there sooner than that would be traveling faster than the speed of light. It's that simple. I thought the acceptable size of the visible universe was something more reasonable like 1-5 billion light years across.
So if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and the universe is supposed to be 7-15 billion years old (depending on who you ask), how ca n it be 70 billion light years across? Hmmm. Answer me that one scientist.
Ya know, there are all kinds of programs to keep kids off drugs/alcohol, off the streets, etc. What about one to educated kids on the dangers of hacking. I know, it kinda makes me cringe at first too and the implementation would probably be lame at first. But I think that's a way to help and also help educate others about the issues so that they don't think that just every computer geek is a hacker/cracker.
The obvious problem with aural feedback is privacy, but beyond that it would get rather combersome to have to listen to everything rather than just skim the text.
Maybe we could hook the feedback up to those double speed DVD players to speed up the process.
It's amazing how slowly audio/music software progressed in the 80s and early and mid 90s and then BANG! Over the past few years many companies have sprung up and made revolutionary software for audio production and composition. Why does audio/music always take a backseat in the evolution of computer software?
One of the Mississippi universities, I think it was MSU in 60s wanted to improve their academic rankings amongst other universities and decided that they could appear to be a harder school if they just started flunking students. This, as you would think, didn't work out very well.
It never ceases to amaze me that Betamax (video tape format) was able to do something as convient as play the audio while playing at x2 speed. But yet all the other formats think that you don't want to hear the audio when playing x2. They could at least have an option for it.
I find that the faster the delievery of information, the less accurate it is. Also, just because you have access to the world's newspapers and news media online, doesn't mean that you are getting the right information. For instance, news.ru is saying that the magnitude of the earthquake that struck southwestern Siberia last night was a 9.5 (Yeah right). But on neic.usgs.gov's site they are listing it as a 6.7.
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Back around 1999 or so when Bill Gates gave a speech at Indiana University and right after he got a pie in the face by that Belgium guy, someone on a Linux mailing list said that he was going to spell out Linux in 5 pies on a table and put a sign that said "Not a threat, just a reminder". I encouraged him not to do it because the pie thing had nothing to do with Linux. He didn't want to listen to me because he thought he was right. But anyways, there are people like that out there that want to take things to far and do it in the name of Linux/Open source/whatever.
Actually, I've been surprised (and somewhat impressed) that there hasn't been some crazy person who has tried to assassinate Mr. Gates. I would think that with all the pent up frustration, there would be someone depressed enough and who doesn't care about their own life enough to do it.
Especially with all the websites talking about Bill being satan and loose comments everywhere over the past several years about nuking Redmond.
They should probably just concentrate on the DVD-R market for now, so that their price does not make them be ignored. Then as they (and DVD-R) gets more popular, they can also make CD-Rs. But probably by that time, everyone will be using DVD-Rs instead anyways.
Well then, if we are just waiting for the right ideas to come along, then perhaps they will much like Einstein came along. It only takes one person to come up with an idea or rationalize it. So someone growing up right now could be the one to do it.
That's cool. I don't know why any of the students in the class needed to be actors since they never really participated or said anything.
Before they "dumbed down" TLC and the Discovery Channel they used to show hard core stuff like The Mechanical Universe, which was pretty much a video taping of the freshman physics course at Harvard with some extra stuff thrown in. THAT was educational.
Ok, I'm being serious (not a troll). I would have thought that other countries would have been sending manned missions to space back in the 80s or 90s at least. I guess other countries just aren't interested?
this should have happened long ago. It's one thing to put a man into space when you're the first one to do it or when you are part of the initial space race. But 40+ years is long enough that all the information and resources are probably available to country that has enough money to throw at it.
But using a cheaper system that had more power would make sense.
Do you realize how rediculous you sound? Actually you are no the only one. Lots of people who say this sound rediculous.
The Universe is not some "magical" object that will turn you around in the direction you came from if you try to go to the edge of it. The problem with everyone trying to define it is that there is no end to it. The universe IS in 3d if there was a big bang or this inflation, then there was a "center" point from which the big bang or inflation happened from. Using the balloon analogy is dumb because a balloon has an "shell".
All we need to do is get rid of money and the materiality and we'll mostly solve about half the world's problems, including spam/marketing/greed/corruption. Of course, it will create a few new ones, but I think things would generally be better.
Ok, now bring on all the slashdotters who think that they are all wise and shit.
Um, I don't care what the explanation is. If the Universe is 70 billion light years in diameter (what they are saying in this article) then it would take light 35 billion years to go from the center to the edge. Anything getting there sooner than that would be traveling faster than the speed of light. It's that simple. I thought the acceptable size of the visible universe was something more reasonable like 1-5 billion light years across.
So if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and the universe is supposed to be 7-15 billion years old (depending on who you ask), how ca n it be 70 billion light years across? Hmmm. Answer me that one scientist.
Ben Franklin would probably get arrested for flying a kite without a license.
goes to [insert name here] for figuring out the comment scoring system on slashdot.org by creatively typing with their toes.
I think someone could make some kind of cgi/php based generator for these topics.
Yeah, and no problems if it runs out of battery power. ;-)
I don't know what's more interesting, that he wrote this program or that he wrote it in PHP?
a few days ago APOD had posted this picture. If this picture was taken recently, maybe the asteroid and the fireball are related.
Ya know, there are all kinds of programs to keep kids off drugs/alcohol, off the streets, etc. What about one to educated kids on the dangers of hacking. I know, it kinda makes me cringe at first too and the implementation would probably be lame at first. But I think that's a way to help and also help educate others about the issues so that they don't think that just every computer geek is a hacker/cracker.
The obvious problem with aural feedback is privacy, but beyond that it would get rather combersome to have to listen to everything rather than just skim the text.
Maybe we could hook the feedback up to those double speed DVD players to speed up the process.
It's amazing how slowly audio/music software progressed in the 80s and early and mid 90s and then BANG! Over the past few years many companies have sprung up and made revolutionary software for audio production and composition. Why does audio/music always take a backseat in the evolution of computer software?
One of the Mississippi universities, I think it was MSU in 60s wanted to improve their academic rankings amongst other universities and decided that they could appear to be a harder school if they just started flunking students. This, as you would think, didn't work out very well.
It never ceases to amaze me that Betamax (video tape format) was able to do something as convient as play the audio while playing at x2 speed. But yet all the other formats think that you don't want to hear the audio when playing x2. They could at least have an option for it.
I find that the faster the delievery of information, the less accurate it is. Also, just because you have access to the world's newspapers and news media online, doesn't mean that you are getting the right information. For instance, news.ru is saying that the magnitude of the earthquake that struck southwestern Siberia last night was a 9.5 (Yeah right). But on neic.usgs.gov's site they are listing it as a 6.7.
you'd get hired. ;-)=