Anyway... is this even worth being upset about? As someone rightly said, the children in school mostly cannot grasp the significance of these words, so them saying "under God" isn't a big deal. If you're not religious, you can deal with saying God, right?
I in no way am trying to associate the Judeo / Christian diety with the following reference, in fact I'm only using it to make a point, but imagine if those two little words happened to be two different little words:
"Hail Hitler"
Do you now see the problem with having impressionable little children recite sayings that they probably don't understand?
Perhaps the Supreme Court will turn this ruling around. But think about it, how much more likely would they be to agree that it is unconstitutional if it instead read "One Nation, Under Allah..."?
Personally, I think the Pledge of Allegiance is sort of Nazi-like anyway. All those little children, lined up in a row and being taught mindless patriotism before many of them can fully understand what patriotism means.
The phrase 'under God' is no more unconstitutional than the prayers that start off the SC, Senate, and House of Representative daily sessions.
You never know -- this could one day be found unconstitutional as well.
these are *real people, redneck jokes aside. having a geek beta test something is a waste of time. [...] Letting walmart customers betatest might not be the smartest Idea profit wise, but they'll get a LOT of good customer feedback:)
*Ring*
Operator: "Lindows bug report center, please state the nature of the problem and what you were doing at the time the error occured."
Southern voice: "Yeah, my cumm-poo-ter ain't werk'n. An' I wudn't able t' catch no mouse, so how does I hook up dis here racoon I scrapped off deh road?"
Do you see the problem with relying upon the "normal" person to help hunt down the bugs? The typical person expects to buy a product that works flawlessly. So there's a real problem when Wal-Mart targets the common person to test a beta program. This could turn off everybody to Lindows even before it's ready to take off. Lindows might be a great product even if buggy, but they can't follow Microsoft's footsteps. Microsoft succeeded despite a buggy program due to it's establishment in the market. Lindows is starting from nothing using a buggy product to take on an already established, now stable product by Microsoft. Who also happens to be waging legal war against them. The Wal-Mart public beta doesn't help at all.
It's not necessarily individual users keeping these songs shared. Certain hosts are set up to distribute nothing but fake files -- even ones who look for words being searched and rename files after them (194.213.194.37 does this with a 28kb spam.mpg/.asf file that launches a website when viewed). If you're on gnutella and are using Gnucleus, you can filter out specific hosts.
Quantum computing does many things at once. At the slowest, every move would take one clock cycle. At fastest, every possible move in the game could be checked at once (assuming enough qbits).
Huh, I posted a reply already but it never showed up.
Anyway, just remember that we're talking about memory size, not file size. That would mean that your OS and all of the applications you are running would require more than 32 GB of address space altogether.
So if every atom in the universe could do one chess position per say, nanosecond (10^-9 seconds), and had been computing since the Big Bang (15 billion years ago), the computation would still be in its earliest stages.
Well, you could cut down on a little that time by using smart programming (I.E. it's not too bright to move your King to the front line early in the game) and I think a purely mathematical approach ignores things like this. But what about Quantum computing? Assuming we ever get it working to it's full potential we could solve for the perfect game of chess in less than a second.
I can't believe a language named "F#" got past Microsoft's marketing department. Or are they retarded enough to think it won't get expanded to "F#@%"?/i.
Eventually, Microsoft will release a simplified version of F#. They could call it BrainF#.
I really doubt the home user would ever need anything more than programs that use 36-bit (color, data size, etc). Even Doom III wouldn't need 64-bit power. So why don't we just add 4 bits to the current chips and be done with it?
I wish we'd just start calling these data types what they are - int16, int32, int64, float64, etc. It could save us all so much confusion. I mean, what are they going to call it when chips move to 512-bit? Uber Turbo Fantastically-Amazing Super Very Long Instruction Word?:/
Red Hat's additions make incompatibilities with other Linux distributions, and the company seems to follow an "embrace and extend" pattern like Microsoft does that forces companies to use Red Hat if they want the best compatibility with Red Hat... I wonder if Unbreakable Linux is just RedHat's response to UnitedLinux, because it doesn't want to lose it's top-dog status and still keep its own "standards"?
How many FPS can you get on this computer while playing Counter Strike or Doom 3?
Counterstrike: 2^28 Doom III: 7
But the second measurement is just from the Beta test, of course. Carmack has promised that the final version of Doom 3 will have more polygons and therefore will logically require a faster universe to run at the same speed.
Clue: We live in a world where most people think Microsoft invented the graphical user interface.
Yeah, most people don't know that it was an innovation by Xerox. Not that it matters today or that it would have been realistic for one company to keep a stranglehold on such an idea.
Though personally, I prefer to think the first real Graphical User Interface was sex with the lights on.
Don't forget power. 1394 can send more power across the line than USB or USB 2.0 can, eliminating the need for seperate power cords on anything that requires more power than a keyboard or a mouse.
Isn't it funny how IBM calls 1394 i.Link and Apple uses Firewire? You'd think it would be the other way around. The way it is, we should be seeing Steve Jobs promoting it's new FirePod right about now.:)
For the life of me I can't find the story (I'm pretty sure it was on BBC) but I remember reading about the idea that there is not only solar inhabitable zones, (Places not too warm but not too cold, where earth is) but galactic inhabitable zones as well. The idea is that towards the center of the galaxy life can't arize because there's too much stellar activity and any potential planets are under a constant rain of radiation. Too far out and there's not enough heavy elements to support life.
Slashdot Mirror
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of the Riemann Hypothesis...
But this margin is too small to contain it.
Anyway... is this even worth being upset about? As someone rightly said, the children in school mostly cannot grasp the significance of these words, so them saying "under God" isn't a big deal. If you're not religious, you can deal with saying God, right?
I in no way am trying to associate the Judeo / Christian diety with the following reference, in fact I'm only using it to make a point, but imagine if those two little words happened to be two different little words:
"Hail Hitler"
Do you now see the problem with having impressionable little children recite sayings that they probably don't understand?
Perhaps the Supreme Court will turn this ruling around. But think about it, how much more likely would they be to agree that it is unconstitutional if it instead read "One Nation, Under Allah..."?
Personally, I think the Pledge of Allegiance is sort of Nazi-like anyway. All those little children, lined up in a row and being taught mindless patriotism before many of them can fully understand what patriotism means.
The phrase 'under God' is no more unconstitutional than the prayers that start off the SC, Senate, and House of Representative daily sessions.
You never know -- this could one day be found unconstitutional as well.
1, How can we read the labels?
:(
2. How hard will they be to keep track of?
3. What happends to liner notes?
*sigh*
I'd be happy with 4" disks that hold about 4GB of data.
Not all mirrors have this notice. So the mirror you visited needs an update.
:)
Would Slashdotting count as an update?
who better to be a beta tester?
these are *real people, redneck jokes aside. having a geek beta test something is a waste of time.
[...] Letting walmart customers betatest might not be the smartest Idea profit wise, but they'll get a LOT of good customer feedback:)
*Ring*
Operator: "Lindows bug report center, please state the nature of the problem and what you were doing at the time the error occured."
Southern voice: "Yeah, my cumm-poo-ter ain't werk'n. An' I wudn't able t' catch no mouse, so how does I hook up dis here racoon I scrapped off deh road?"
Do you see the problem with relying upon the "normal" person to help hunt down the bugs? The typical person expects to buy a product that works flawlessly. So there's a real problem when Wal-Mart targets the common person to test a beta program. This could turn off everybody to Lindows even before it's ready to take off. Lindows might be a great product even if buggy, but they can't follow Microsoft's footsteps. Microsoft succeeded despite a buggy program due to it's establishment in the market. Lindows is starting from nothing using a buggy product to take on an already established, now stable product by Microsoft. Who also happens to be waging legal war against them. The Wal-Mart public beta doesn't help at all.
Why do people keep these song shared?
.mpg/.asf file that launches a website when viewed). If you're on gnutella and are using Gnucleus, you can filter out specific hosts.
It's not necessarily individual users keeping these songs shared. Certain hosts are set up to distribute nothing but fake files -- even ones who look for words being searched and rename files after them (194.213.194.37 does this with a 28kb spam
Ech. My replies keep dissapearing!
Quantum computing does many things at once. At the slowest, every move would take one clock cycle. At fastest, every possible move in the game could be checked at once (assuming enough qbits).
Huh, I posted a reply already but it never showed up.
Anyway, just remember that we're talking about memory size, not file size. That would mean that your OS and all of the applications you are running would require more than 32 GB of address space altogether.
So if every atom in the universe could do one chess position per say, nanosecond (10^-9 seconds), and had been computing since the Big Bang (15 billion years ago), the computation would still be in its earliest stages.
Well, you could cut down on a little that time by using smart programming (I.E. it's not too bright to move your King to the front line early in the game) and I think a purely mathematical approach ignores things like this. But what about Quantum computing? Assuming we ever get it working to it's full potential we could solve for the perfect game of chess in less than a second.
I can't believe a language named "F#" got past Microsoft's marketing department. Or are they retarded enough to think it won't get expanded to "F#@%"?/i.
Eventually, Microsoft will release a simplified version of F#. They could call it BrainF#.
I have files I'd like to use larger than 4GB. I need 64-bit.
Yes, but 4 GB is the 32-bit memory size limit. 36-bit lets you access up to 32 GB.
Can that hammer smash a block of itanium without breaking?
Sledgehammer can. Clawhammer is better used for ripping out chunks of embedded Celeron.
I really doubt the home user would ever need anything more than programs that use 36-bit (color, data size, etc). Even Doom III wouldn't need 64-bit power. So why don't we just add 4 bits to the current chips and be done with it?
It sounds like a VLIW camp inside Intel
:/
*sigh*
I wish we'd just start calling these data types what they are - int16, int32, int64, float64, etc. It could save us all so much confusion. I mean, what are they going to call it when chips move to 512-bit? Uber Turbo Fantastically-Amazing Super Very Long Instruction Word?
Red Hat's additions make incompatibilities with other Linux distributions, and the company seems to follow an "embrace and extend" pattern like Microsoft does that forces companies to use Red Hat if they want the best compatibility with Red Hat... I wonder if Unbreakable Linux is just RedHat's response to UnitedLinux, because it doesn't want to lose it's top-dog status and still keep its own "standards"?
How many FPS can you get on this computer while playing Counter Strike or Doom 3?
Counterstrike: 2^28
Doom III: 7
But the second measurement is just from the Beta test, of course. Carmack has promised that the final version of Doom 3 will have more polygons and therefore will logically require a faster universe to run at the same speed.
Okay, Sony then. Thanks.
Leave it to Apple to not try to gouge other people in the industry with licensing fees.
That would depend on whether you would call Apple originally charging $1 a pop for using its FireWire trademark "gouging".
Clue: We live in a world where most people think Microsoft invented the graphical user interface.
Yeah, most people don't know that it was an innovation by Xerox. Not that it matters today or that it would have been realistic for one company to keep a stranglehold on such an idea.
Though personally, I prefer to think the first real Graphical User Interface was sex with the lights on.
Don't forget power. 1394 can send more power across the line than USB or USB 2.0 can, eliminating the need for seperate power cords on anything that requires more power than a keyboard or a mouse.
:)
Isn't it funny how IBM calls 1394 i.Link and Apple uses Firewire? You'd think it would be the other way around. The way it is, we should be seeing Steve Jobs promoting it's new FirePod right about now.
What will it be called, Super Special Edition? Speciai Edition Pro? 32-Bit Special Edition Turbo?
Super Star Wars Alpha II Turbo... and I hear young Anakin will be playable as a secret character! Button mashers beware!
The article was just that. Doh! But I saw it a while ago so it's nothing new.
For the life of me I can't find the story (I'm pretty sure it was on BBC) but I remember reading about the idea that there is not only solar inhabitable zones, (Places not too warm but not too cold, where earth is) but galactic inhabitable zones as well. The idea is that towards the center of the galaxy life can't arize because there's too much stellar activity and any potential planets are under a constant rain of radiation. Too far out and there's not enough heavy elements to support life.
Does anybody have a URL for this?
Are those little faces various representations of RMS? I'm serious!
They're pictures of CowboyNeal.