Those commands were included in Win95 at least. I hate DOG, but at least it has "|" and ">". I can't wait until all mainstream OS's have real shells hidden somewhere, and all slashes are the one true slash/. At least Apple is on the right path.
Yes . . . but you shouldn't think of a Black Hole as a drain hole in the universe. You should think of it the same way as a star, just without the light.
If our sun collapsed in to a Black Hole instantly. The lights would go out, but otherwise the planets would continue to orbit. The planets would not stop orbiting and get sucked in.
In different cultures, the colours are defined differently, and this makes translation very dificult.
Eskimo, for example, have three colours.
1) red -> orange
2) yellow-orange -> yellow
3) green-yellow -> violet-blue
Eskimo have no regular words for violet-red's and strong violets
Athapaskan have four colours
1) violet-red -> yellow-orange
2) orange-yellow
3) yellow -> violet-blue
4) blue-violet -> violet
The only absolute thing about colours is that we all have RGB cones in our eyes, which are centered around the greens in vegitation, which are centered around the max intensity of sun light that gets through our atmosphere.
Superman, being from a red sun system, if he is anything like a human, would have IRG (soft? infrared, red, green) cones; and everything that we see as red and green, he would see as green and blue.
I suppose that attempting to imagine more than three colours is just as difficult as is more than three geometric dimensions.
But enough rambling, red is red is red, a specific wavelength on the spectrum. And red is not the experience of red; experiences are finite and distinct, red is not, it is red, as is defined.
This article seems to claim that C# is a reaction to Java as programming language for the Internet. But this can't be right, because although C# (and other languages to come) will run on a Universal Runtime Engine, this 'Universal' blob only runs on Windows. What this really sounds like to me is a version of C that acts like PASCAL or BASIC. If this is a reaction to anything, then it is Perl or Python.
I think it would be a great idea to be able to use a dialect of the same language for programming, scripting, and CLI: C, C#, and csh , whatever that language may be . . .
shit, micros~1 can't even get new versions of Word to read old doc files correctly. micros~2's own filters seem to fall off exponentialy with time. I swear they don't even test those things.
According to the figures by Jens Gundlach and Stephen Merkowitz, Earth weighs in at 5.972 sextillion (5,972 followed by 18 zeroes) metric tons. Recent textbooks list the weight as 5.98 sextillion metric tons.
My astrophysics book lists the earth at 5.974 E 24 kg. Considering that the influence of gravity from the sun is ~0.0006 that of the earth, I would expect an uncertainty of at least 0.003 E 24 kg. If you want more digits of accuracy, you will have factor in the tidal forces from the moon and sun. But how can you do this without knowing more accurate measurements of the mass of the moon and sun and the distances in between? Oh, are you still using Newton's Law of gravity? Well its wrong; you need to use Einstein's field equations. AGHHGGHGHG! TENSORS !#@^$#
In the end we have to merge a bunch of satellite data, whereby radio waves are bounced off of planets (this gives distances to within kilometers) with the G value gotten from super precise balances, as with this experiment. These measurements always have and always will be a tremendous pain in the ass. We know the mass of an electron with more certainty than the mass of our own planet! And you can't see an electron!
What was that old saying about gravity. It was the first fundamental force discovered, but it is excluded from the rest our modern fundamental forces because we don't understand it enough to fit it in with the rest of our theory.
Anyway, I hope them good luck with the torsion balance, and may equivalence be with you all.
It's 2:00 AM and nothing is on television except infomercials
"Do you want to surf the web and play old computer games in low resolution on a fuzzy television"
"Do you want to strain your eyes trying to read some fuzzy 6pt font that some asshole CSS author set on your 400 line resolution, three color TV^H^H^H^H, I mean surf the web"
"From the same company that brought you fast and reliable computer service (paraphrased from the MSN ad), introducing the X-Bung"
"the next generation in home electronics. It replaces that shitty WebTV we sold you last Christmas. It's a hundred times better than CDi and DIVIX combined."
"It even plays DVD's and provides you with one feature that regular DVD players don't. The Blue Screen Intermission feature, so you can take a piss break in the middle of a long movie."
"Computers are expensive, hard to use, and require you to constantly purchase and upgrade new software (taken from the WebTV ad), and we know because we made them that way. And monitors make graphics look blocky, while your television smooths graphics."
"But for the price of a cheap computer^H^H^H^H, for only $300, a four year subscription to MSN, and your soul . .."
... Actually, for $300 that's a great deal. Often times console manufacturers will make no money or loose money in the sale of the console, because they plan on make their money on software licensing and need to maximize market penetration to get more companies writting software for their platform. If Microcruft is doing this, then the whole undertaking is fundamentally flawed. If this device is made up of standard computer parts, which it seems to be. Software companies could simply bypass Microsoft's software licensing and press DVD's that boot off of their own stuff. In the past it has been difficult for companies to do this, because gamming consoles have lots of strange chips; and you couldn't do without the dev kits. But if they are actually making good money selling all that hardware for only $300, then none of that applies.
_________________________ Of course every real gammer knows that you always buy the console that SquareSoft supports, because they only support one platform and it's _always_ the best one.
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wc -l
hmmm. . . maybe I should start an underground hostz trading site.
www.ultimatehostz2000t150.ce.org
"grep", "tail", "less","cat"
/. At least Apple is on the right path.
nope, nope, "more", "type"
Those commands were included in Win95 at least. I hate DOG, but at least it has "|" and ">". I can't wait until all mainstream OS's have real shells hidden somewhere, and all slashes are the one true slash
Yes . . . but you shouldn't think of a Black Hole as a drain hole in the universe. You should think of it the same way as a star, just without the light.
If our sun collapsed in to a Black Hole instantly. The lights would go out, but otherwise the planets would continue to orbit. The planets would not stop orbiting and get sucked in.
In different cultures, the colours are defined differently, and this makes translation very dificult.
Eskimo, for example, have three colours.
1) red -> orange
2) yellow-orange -> yellow
3) green-yellow -> violet-blue
Eskimo have no regular words for violet-red's and strong violets
Athapaskan have four colours
1) violet-red -> yellow-orange
2) orange-yellow
3) yellow -> violet-blue
4) blue-violet -> violet
The only absolute thing about colours is that we all have RGB cones in our eyes, which are centered around the greens in vegitation, which are centered around the max intensity of sun light that gets through our atmosphere.
Superman, being from a red sun system, if he is anything like a human, would have IRG (soft? infrared, red, green) cones; and everything that we see as red and green, he would see as green and blue.
I suppose that attempting to imagine more than three colours is just as difficult as is more than three geometric dimensions.
But enough rambling, red is red is red, a specific wavelength on the spectrum. And red is not the experience of red; experiences are finite and distinct, red is not, it is red, as is defined.
This article seems to claim that C# is a reaction to Java as programming language for the Internet. But this can't be right, because although C# (and other languages to come) will run on a Universal Runtime Engine, this 'Universal' blob only runs on Windows. What this really sounds like to me is a version of C that acts like PASCAL or BASIC. If this is a reaction to anything, then it is Perl or Python.
I think it would be a great idea to be able to use a dialect of the same language for programming, scripting, and CLI: C, C#, and csh , whatever that language may be . . .
shit, micros~1 can't even get new versions of Word to read old doc files correctly. micros~2's own filters seem to fall off exponentialy with time. I swear they don't even test those things.
Conversion % = exp(-dt)
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault
#0 0x80d9521 in XtRemoveTimeOut ()
#1 0x0 in ?? ()
Anyone have an idea?
I have qt-2.1.0
lots of slashdot posters seem to have their own opinion on what system will win and why.
I have only one thing to say
When Sony went to create their next generation system, they asked Square what they wanted.
Squaresoft has _always_ picked the winner. The Final Fantasy series has _always_ been on the best system.
NES -> SNES -> PSX -> PS2
My astrophysics book lists the earth at 5.974 E 24 kg. Considering that the influence of gravity from the sun is ~0.0006 that of the earth, I would expect an uncertainty of at least 0.003 E 24 kg. If you want more digits of accuracy, you will have factor in the tidal forces from the moon and sun. But how can you do this without knowing more accurate measurements of the mass of the moon and sun and the distances in between? Oh, are you still using Newton's Law of gravity? Well its wrong; you need to use Einstein's field equations. AGHHGGHGHG! TENSORS !#@^$#
In the end we have to merge a bunch of satellite data, whereby radio waves are bounced off of planets (this gives distances to within kilometers) with the G value gotten from super precise balances, as with this experiment. These measurements always have and always will be a tremendous pain in the ass. We know the mass of an electron with more certainty than the mass of our own planet! And you can't see an electron!
What was that old saying about gravity. It was the first fundamental force discovered, but it is excluded from the rest our modern fundamental forces because we don't understand it enough to fit it in with the rest of our theory.
Anyway, I hope them good luck with the torsion balance, and may equivalence be with you all.It's 2:00 AM and nothing is on television except infomercials
."
"Do you want to surf the web and play old computer games in low resolution on a fuzzy television"
"Do you want to strain your eyes trying to read some fuzzy 6pt font that some asshole CSS author set on your 400 line resolution, three color TV^H^H^H^H, I mean surf the web"
"From the same company that brought you fast and reliable computer service (paraphrased from the MSN ad), introducing the X-Bung"
"the next generation in home electronics. It replaces that shitty WebTV we sold you last Christmas. It's a hundred times better than CDi and DIVIX combined."
"It even plays DVD's and provides you with one feature that regular DVD players don't. The Blue Screen Intermission feature, so you can take a piss break in the middle of a long movie."
"Computers are expensive, hard to use, and require you to constantly purchase and upgrade new software (taken from the WebTV ad), and we know because we made them that way. And monitors make graphics look blocky, while your television smooths graphics."
"But for the price of a cheap computer^H^H^H^H, for only $300, a four year subscription to MSN, and your soul . .
...
Actually, for $300 that's a great deal. Often times console manufacturers will make no money or loose money in the sale of the console, because they plan on make their money on software licensing and need to maximize market penetration to get more companies writting software for their platform.
If Microcruft is doing this, then the whole undertaking is fundamentally flawed. If this device is made up of standard computer parts, which it seems to be. Software companies could simply bypass Microsoft's software licensing and press DVD's that boot off of their own stuff. In the past it has been difficult for companies to do this, because gamming consoles have lots of strange chips; and you couldn't do without the dev kits.
But if they are actually making good money selling all that hardware for only $300, then none of that applies.
_________________________
Of course every real gammer knows that you always buy the console that SquareSoft supports, because they only support one platform and it's _always_ the best one.