intersting, however, why does the probability wave collaps by the phosphor screen and not by the slits? because observation?
IIRC if you place measuring equipment by the slits you collapse the waveform there already (i.e. the electron goes through one slit or the other), this would destroy the interference pattern as well, no?
If it were only that simple, I always thought I should support the sites I look at byt not disabling the ads with an ad blocker, but lately it's been pretty much impossible to look at most news sites I go to as all those flash ads causes my browser and computer to crawl. Yes, bit old computer (Athlon - 64 3000+) but I shouldn't have to update my bloody computer just to be able to read some web pages! So, in the end, I installed Adblock and everythiong jsut works! fantastic! I am still allowing ads on slashdot to show though as it's not enough of them to cause too much harm. Anyway, if they made flash less intrusive when it comes to CPU hogging I'd appily live with it, but now it's pretty much a joke
yes,it is quite pricey unless you use the free, ad-financed version. Having said that, Spotify does have radio channels as well, so you don't *Have* to make playlists. Personally I quite like to uise it if i wan tto listen to asepcific album or song and I don't have it around, or let it mix for you when you have a party or if you want to check out some tune you heard elsewhere. I still buy my music though as I prefer to own it myself and not be dependent on a sompany for all my music - call me paranoid, etc,etc;-)
"In the early 1960s, Freeman Dyson estimated that each launch from Earth would cause, on average, 10 fatal human cancers among the population of the entire planet (some people argue that these figures may be an over estimate because of the particular mathematical model used). "
From what I recall from the Project Orion book, they managed to get the estimated death down a bit, but still. A solution would be to only use the orion drive while in space, and only when outside earth's van allen belt as the magnetic field would drag some of the fallout back to earth.
regading second point you make; IMHO it wouldn't make the police look that 'hi-tech', it'd just make them look lazy and untrained. Can picture a copper standing on a segway with a coffe on a holder and a doughnut in one hand....
yeah, but that's because he though Greenpeace wasn't radical enough and went and started Sea Shepherds - now they are nuts. I know a few people who work for greenpeace and they come from the whole political spectrum, just so you know. What they are trying to do here is teh gool ol' carrot and stick. make sure the comapiens that do good gets highlighted (cue Nokia) and the at the bad ones gets som bad publicity for it. What's wrong with that? Personally I find it a very civilized way of getting companies to clean up their act, far better that the nutters going burning down offices or simiar in some stupid effort to make their point heard
well you can download the dotnet SDK for free if that's what you mean, it ain't open source but it's free. - true, java beats dotnet here although dotnet is getting there, also lots of java stuff is being ported over to dotnet.
true, for c#, you can get the resharper plugin from Jetbrains, whic hmakes VIsual studio behave a bit more like IntelliJ, very nice. Sharpdevelop have some ok refactoring tools as well, but I think the java worlsd still beats dotnet when it comes to good tools / frameworks around the code, maven springs to mind
Having said that al ot of java stuff is finding it's way over to dotnet, like nant, spring.net, nunit, etc.
MS did not push Wordperfect and Lotus away, quite opposite it hoped they write those killer apps for windows, however they were very slow off the mark and Ms off course pushed Excel as a show piece of windows then as it was fairly successful on the mac back then. Nothing bad done by MS, just Lotus fecking up
the brits switched to Metric ages ago for all things technical, it is still only used for drink measurements in bars and in the local food market (although they have to display the weight, etc in mettric as well)
the ECMA standard standard (just as ISO standard) says that the company implementing the standard must give every other implementer a licence for all those patents:
Yes, from what I recall Word was emulated back in the day. MS build a emulation layer for MFC so they could use the same code base. Don't really think that was something they hid or anything, just a money saving affair as they didn't really gave alot of resources to their mac division on the mac. Yes, it did suck quite a bit, but it's not like MS are under any obligation to provide purrfect implementations on any of the 2 platforms it supports. I think they started to give the mac version more funding when they realised they needed to keep mac alive in order to avoid anti trusts rulings and now I suppose it make sense from a business point of view to keep it alive.
Air France 296 was a pilot error,combined with mechanical issues with equipment (altitude meter and delay on engines when applying thrust). Heck it even says in the very wikipedia entry you refer to that the pilots were found guilty in court and went to prison.
In the china airlines flight the pilot pressed the TOGA button before trying to land, indicating that he was indeed NOT going to land but go around and try again, hence the computer and the pilot got into an argument, if the pilot let go of the stick, all would have been fine, or he could have avoided to push the TOGA button from the beginning.
well, see the recatoring tools that are available now in better IDEs: * autocompletion (yay!) * extract code to a method * extract interface from class * rename class/method/variable and let IDE change every occurance of it * autogenerate repetitive code parts (singleton patterns, getters and setters for class members, etc) * shortcuts for loops and other common contructs (like type 'itar', meaning Iterate Array, and IDE generates code to iterate the nearest array it finds, etc) * find all references of a method * go to the definition of a method and more!!!
I'm sure some of this stuff can be found in emacs/vim as well iirc
Slashdot Mirror
that claim has been debunked by snoopes
intersting, however, why does the probability wave collaps by the phosphor screen and not by the slits? because observation?
IIRC if you place measuring equipment by the slits you collapse the waveform there already (i.e. the electron goes through one slit or the other), this would destroy the interference pattern as well, no?
If it were only that simple, I always thought I should support the sites I look at byt not disabling the ads with an ad blocker, but lately it's been pretty much impossible to look at most news sites I go to as all those flash ads causes my browser and computer to crawl. Yes, bit old computer (Athlon - 64 3000+) but I shouldn't have to update my bloody computer just to be able to read some web pages!
So, in the end, I installed Adblock and everythiong jsut works! fantastic! I am still allowing ads on slashdot to show though as it's not enough of them to cause too much harm.
Anyway, if they made flash less intrusive when it comes to CPU hogging I'd appily live with it, but now it's pretty much a joke
yes,it is quite pricey unless you use the free, ad-financed version. Having said that, Spotify does have radio channels as well, so you don't *Have* to make playlists. ;-)
Personally I quite like to uise it if i wan tto listen to asepcific album or song and I don't have it around, or let it mix for you when you have a party or if you want to check out some tune you heard elsewhere. I still buy my music though as I prefer to own it myself and not be dependent on a sompany for all my music - call me paranoid, etc,etc
...joined them 4 days ago, so all sorted!
according to this site. you're correct. I quote:
"In the early 1960s, Freeman Dyson estimated that each launch from Earth would cause, on average, 10 fatal human cancers among the population of the entire planet (some people argue that these figures may be an over estimate because of the particular mathematical model used). "
From what I recall from the Project Orion book, they managed to get the estimated death down a bit, but still. A solution would be to only use the orion drive while in space, and only when outside earth's van allen belt as the magnetic field would drag some of the fallout back to earth.
...as they say, you can't make an omelett without breaking some eggs...
regading second point you make; IMHO it wouldn't make the police look that 'hi-tech', it'd just make them look lazy and untrained. Can picture a copper standing on a segway with a coffe on a holder and a doughnut in one hand....
well, the russians seems to think that one can be dealt with as they want to keep their parts up in orbit after the US deorbit theirs.
yeah, but that's because he though Greenpeace wasn't radical enough and went and started Sea Shepherds - now they are nuts. I know a few people who work for greenpeace and they come from the whole political spectrum, just so you know. What they are trying to do here is teh gool ol' carrot and stick. make sure the comapiens that do good gets highlighted (cue Nokia) and the at the bad ones gets som bad publicity for it. What's wrong with that? Personally I find it a very civilized way of getting companies to clean up their act, far better that the nutters going burning down offices or simiar in some stupid effort to make their point heard
>Did you know that rabbits aren't rodents?
Actually no! googled it and they are apparently 'lagomorphs'. how cool is that?!
not rto be forgotten in the language department:Scala and Groovy
well you can download the dotnet SDK for free if that's what you mean, it ain't open source but it's free.
- true, java beats dotnet here although dotnet is getting there, also lots of java stuff is being ported over to dotnet.
true,
for c#, you can get the resharper plugin from Jetbrains, whic hmakes VIsual studio behave a bit more like IntelliJ, very nice. Sharpdevelop have some ok refactoring tools as well, but I think the java worlsd still beats dotnet when it comes to good tools / frameworks around the code, maven springs to mind
Having said that al ot of java stuff is finding it's way over to dotnet, like nant, spring.net, nunit, etc.
plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery ;-)
might have been true with c# 1.1 but now c# is far ahead (unfortunately in a way I might add)
MS did not push Wordperfect and Lotus away, quite opposite it hoped they write those killer apps for windows, however they were very slow off the mark and Ms off course pushed Excel as a show piece of windows then as it was fairly successful on the mac back then. Nothing bad done by MS, just Lotus fecking up
There is also the psychological issue that comparative measures tend to be slightly bigger in metric units
Except, thank God, for the mighty pint!!! mmm, continental lager....
the brits switched to Metric ages ago for all things technical, it is still only used for drink measurements in bars and in the local food market (although they have to display the weight, etc in mettric as well)
according to this test is seems quite alright...
the ECMA standard standard (just as ISO standard) says that the company implementing the standard must give every other implementer a licence for all those patents:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030424174805/http://mailserver.di.unipi.it/pipermail/dotnet-sscli/msg00218.html
Yes, from what I recall Word was emulated back in the day. MS build a emulation layer for MFC so they could use the same code base. Don't really think that was something they hid or anything, just a money saving affair as they didn't really gave alot of resources to their mac division on the mac.
Yes, it did suck quite a bit, but it's not like MS are under any obligation to provide purrfect implementations on any of the 2 platforms it supports. I think they started to give the mac version more funding when they realised they needed to keep mac alive in order to avoid anti trusts rulings and now I suppose it make sense from a business point of view to keep it alive.
Air France 296 was a pilot error,combined with mechanical issues with equipment (altitude meter and delay on engines when applying thrust).
Heck it even says in the very wikipedia entry you refer to that the pilots were found guilty in court and went to prison.
In the china airlines flight the pilot pressed the TOGA button before trying to land, indicating that he was indeed NOT going to land but go around and try again, hence the computer and the pilot got into an argument, if the pilot let go of the stick, all would have been fine, or he could have avoided to push the TOGA button from the beginning.
great, now my penis got blisters from all the burns all over it....
well, see the recatoring tools that are available now in better IDEs:
* autocompletion (yay!)
* extract code to a method
* extract interface from class
* rename class/method/variable and let IDE change every occurance of it
* autogenerate repetitive code parts (singleton patterns, getters and setters for class members, etc)
* shortcuts for loops and other common contructs (like type 'itar', meaning Iterate Array, and IDE generates code to iterate the nearest array it finds, etc)
* find all references of a method
* go to the definition of a method
and more!!!
I'm sure some of this stuff can be found in emacs/vim as well iirc
>Coder productivity is measured by how many "WTF?"s come up when the code is reviewed.
Isn't that code quality??