The page linked to from the/. post makes almost no sense, but the link at the bottom of that page goes to a better/longer/more coherent version of the story.
That's crap. "Mr. Gates" does not control my life, or yours, or the General's. It's just a browser, for chrissake. Not everything in life has deep implications for personal freedom.
I use CSS. I think it works just fine. Both Netscape and IE support it adequately (not CSS positioning, true) (and IE has more complete support than Netscape 4).
Neutrinos don't travel faster than c. In fact, since recent evidence from SuperKamiokande (spelling?) and other neutrino detectors suggests that neutrinos have mass, they must travel at speeds strictly less than c. You might be thinking of tachyons, which are purely theoretical particles that travel at speeds greater than c (but never less than c).
Yes, according to special relativity the speed of light is a strict speed limit for moving particles, but the important clarification is that the speed limit is enforced relative to the local space around that particle. I can only reach a particular speed while running 100m on a track, but I'll get a boost if the actual space between me and the start line is expanding as I run; I'm still running at my top speed relative to the track under my feet, but I appear to be moving away from the start line much faster because of the combined effect of my velocity and the expansion of space. Similarly, a distant star that's moving away from us can appear to be receding at speeds greater than c (as determined by measurements of redshift of light coming from it) if its velocity relative to its local space, combined with the expansion of space in between, is high enough.
The article on MSNBC indicated that two gravitational wave observatories are required to determine the direction of an incoming gravitational wave; presumably the time separation between signal detections at the two observatories would determine which observatory the wave passed through first. There's one LIGO facility in Hanford (which is the subject of this article) and another in Livingston, Louisiana.
I think that sometimes the best IT managers are former IT stars - former expert programmers, etc. - who moved up into management positions; they understand the nature of IT and also can learn how to manage and coordinate teams. But I think it's generally hard for people to cross between the management and IT camps; the skills of management and the skills of IT seem to have little overlap.
And when a skilled programmer is promoted to a management position, it generally means that he/she is doing less programming... Why move people into job positions where they get to do less of what they do best?
Typical, but a little on the small side, as supermassive black holes go. A black hole at the center of M87, in Virgo, might have a mass as large as three billion suns, for example.
See this article at space.com for more info.
This is a terrible proof of how weak is Windows and Outlook security..
No, this is proof of how easy it is to get screwed if you don't think before double-clicking email attachments. It's a simple rule: if you don't know what it is, don't open it. Virus scanners don't protect you from viruses that haven't been identified yet.
Others have already pointed out the error in the earlier post - the surface of a sphere is an example of a surface with positive curvature, not negative curvature. For discussion (and a Java applet - yay) of a surface with negative curvature (in this case, hyperbolic geometry), try http://math.rice.edu/~joel/NonEuclid/.
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The page linked to from the /. post makes almost no sense, but the link at the bottom of that page goes to a better/longer/more coherent version of the story.
-Gabe
That's crap. "Mr. Gates" does not control my life, or yours, or the General's. It's just a browser, for chrissake. Not everything in life has deep implications for personal freedom.
-Gabe
I use CSS. I think it works just fine. Both Netscape and IE support it adequately (not CSS positioning, true) (and IE has more complete support than Netscape 4).
-Gabe
A couple of points:
Neutrinos don't travel faster than c. In fact, since recent evidence from SuperKamiokande (spelling?) and other neutrino detectors suggests that neutrinos have mass, they must travel at speeds strictly less than c. You might be thinking of tachyons, which are purely theoretical particles that travel at speeds greater than c (but never less than c).
Yes, according to special relativity the speed of light is a strict speed limit for moving particles, but the important clarification is that the speed limit is enforced relative to the local space around that particle. I can only reach a particular speed while running 100m on a track, but I'll get a boost if the actual space between me and the start line is expanding as I run; I'm still running at my top speed relative to the track under my feet, but I appear to be moving away from the start line much faster because of the combined effect of my velocity and the expansion of space. Similarly, a distant star that's moving away from us can appear to be receding at speeds greater than c (as determined by measurements of redshift of light coming from it) if its velocity relative to its local space, combined with the expansion of space in between, is high enough.
-Gabe
The article on MSNBC indicated that two gravitational wave observatories are required to determine the direction of an incoming gravitational wave; presumably the time separation between signal detections at the two observatories would determine which observatory the wave passed through first. There's one LIGO facility in Hanford (which is the subject of this article) and another in Livingston, Louisiana.
-Gabe
I think that sometimes the best IT managers are former IT stars - former expert programmers, etc. - who moved up into management positions; they understand the nature of IT and also can learn how to manage and coordinate teams. But I think it's generally hard for people to cross between the management and IT camps; the skills of management and the skills of IT seem to have little overlap.
And when a skilled programmer is promoted to a management position, it generally means that he/she is doing less programming... Why move people into job positions where they get to do less of what they do best?
Typical, but a little on the small side, as supermassive black holes go. A black hole at the center of M87, in Virgo, might have a mass as large as three billion suns, for example. See this article at space.com for more info.
This is a terrible proof of how weak is Windows and Outlook security..
No, this is proof of how easy it is to get screwed if you don't think before double-clicking email attachments. It's a simple rule: if you don't know what it is, don't open it. Virus scanners don't protect you from viruses that haven't been identified yet.
The other thing is, why not just create two versions of the chip?
:-)
Why not just give the option of disabling it in the BIOS?
Others have already pointed out the error in the earlier post - the surface of a sphere is an example of a surface with positive curvature, not negative curvature. For discussion (and a Java applet - yay) of a surface with negative curvature (in this case, hyperbolic geometry), try http://math.rice.edu/~joel/NonEuclid/.