Actually I've noticed the opposite. People always talk about their medical ailments.
That's a good point (although no-one will ever see it unless you stop posting as an AC.:))
I wonder whether, if they were to extend their scale further, they would have found that (for example) extremely obese people would suddenly start being less private? That is, the proportionality breaks down when you get to an extreme deviation, where people start to have (for want of a better expression) "no shame"?
Sorta like all those 24-stone women on Oprah. You go, girl!
(This comment not indented as discriminatory or inflammatory in any way. Really! Oh what the hell, flame on then.:))
You're right though. Mea culpa, although I'm not sure exactly how that happened. I think I must have been looking at Methods: paragraph 2 (Page 8) which mentioned height, and somehow had a brain jam. I remember thinking at the time, "surely your willingness to reveal your age depends hugely on the characteristics of the audience?"
Tsk. (Temptation to insert "mod parent up informative" repressed by Karma-preserving circuitry.)
> complained about skimming thru a whole paper, a pdf!
Hey, my lunchbreak is short. Plus I have a few hundred pages of *actual* research to read after lunch. Most of which contains much worse than the occasional "log" thrown in.:)
> I found the paper was a good read
I must admit, I think I overreacted. They have a reasonable survey of previous work in the area, and there is something of interest in the asymmetry of the pricing curve. But I'm not sure what else they were expecting to find, or indeed whether their experiment could have shown them any other result (other than the unlikely "there is no correlation").
The lack of social/emotional context was what really annoyed me. But I'm no sociologist. (I know, I know, it shows.:))
Not only is this news, but it would appear that people get paid to write papers about it.
This is possible some of the most useless research I've ever seen. The headline was quite promising and I even downloaded the PDF and skimmed through it, and it turns out that the "example" of weight given in the submission accounts for the whole paper! Oh no wait, they also mention... height. Woohoo. Add some pseudo-statistics and some almost-economic analysis, and wrap up with... absolutely no conclusions whatsoever. For heaven's sake, tell me your theory why this situation should arise! Tell me what implications it has!
I'm actually going to stop now because I can tell be reading what I've written already that I'm far to worked up to be objective about this. But for the love of God, why can't you do research into something that isn't blindingly obvious?
OK, so I knew that (sort of), but I thought "The Santa Cruz Organisation" had more of a Nigerian-scam ring to it than any of the other candidates. Nevertheless, you have a point.
their web server [...] as recently as December 12 [...has] been running [...] on Linux.
From their standpoint (assuming they believe their own BS, that is), Linux belongs to them. It's their IP, so running it wouldn't be hypocritical in the slightest.
As for Samba and Apache though, you're right on the money as far as I can see.
Seems like it's about time SCO came up with a new business model. Here's my suggestion:
FROM: Mr. Darl McBride
Santa Cruz Organisation
Lindon, Utah
Dear Sir:
I have been requested by the Santa Cruz Organisation to contact
you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Santa Cruz Organisation
has recently concluded a large number of dubious security trades.
These pump-and-dump operations have immediately produced moneys
equalling US$75,000,000. The Santa Cruz Organisation is desirous
of setting up business in other parts of the world, however,
because of certain regulations of the U.S. Government, it is
unable to move these funds to another region.
Your assistance is requested as a non-U.S. citizen to assist the
Santa Cruz Organisation in moving these funds out of the U.S. If the
funds can be transferred to your name, in your Swedish account, then
you can forward the funds as directed by the Santa Cruz Organisation.
In exchange for your accomodating services, the Santa Cruz Organisation
would agree to allow you to retain 10%, or US$7.5 million of this amount.
However, to be a legitimate transferee of these moneys according to U.S.
law, you must hold at least one license for Santa Cruz Organisation
Intellectual Property, which are available at a cost of US$699.
If it will be possible for you to assist us, we would be most grateful.
We suggest that you meet with us in person in Lindon, and that during
your visit I introduce you to the representatives of the Santa Cruz
Organisation.
Please call me at your earliest convenience. Time is of the essence in
this matter; very quickly the U.S. Government will realize that the
Federal Reserve is maintaining this amount on deposit, and attempt to
levy certain depository taxes on it.
It was just the juxtaposition of a tirade against careless spelling and a misspelled word in an otherwise excellent post that made that impossible to resist. Sorry.:)
Hmm. Proof-reading slashdot posts - what will they think of next?
How strange! I'm only 25, and yet I measured up my flat in units of feet just yesterday. If I were buying furniture, I'd have to convert centimetres to feet and inches before I could visualize it. I order meat from the butcher's in pounds, and measure the thickness of snow and the length of grass in inches.
The UK is effectively metric now, all schoolchildren are only taught metric units
Except by their parents, who will teach them the Imperial units anyway.
My experience is at odds with this assertion that all the youngsters talk metric. Although when at work, just about everything is metric (except if it's American:)), everyone I know (including those younger than me) measures their weight in stones and pounds, and their height in feet and inches. And, more importantly, their beer in pints!
I much prefer units I can relate to, personally. If the metric system has given us nothing else (which it hasn't), at least we have the Centigrade scale. I'm all for keeping the old-fashioned units alive, but really! Who thought water freezing at 32 and boiling at 212 was a sensible scale?
I know the significance of 0F as being the lowest acheivable temperature where salted water remains liquid, but can anyone explain the rest? It still completely baffles me!
To be honest, that's the part that surprised me the most. When I saw the first film, I absolutely loved the music. But when I left the cinema after ROTK, I couldn't help thinking that if anything, the score had been a bit lacking. It seemed almost like all the themes from the first two installments had been stirred up, re-heated and served up without much thought. There wasn't very much that was new; as a scene appeared on the screen I could already guess what the orchestra would be doing in a few seconds' time, and I was invariably right.
Normally, that wouldn't spoil a film for me. But I think all the imperfections of ROTK were magnified (for me, at least) by the knowledge that there was no Part Four. Some of the stuff in TTT was much worse in terms of Tolkien-sacrilege, but I could ignore it (just) because I knew there was another helping left to come which might just make up for it. Ho hum.
Having said all that, I'm still driving people up the wall by whistling the major themes incessantly...:)
Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on. Someone care to explain this to me?
Without getting too technical - you're right, sort of. The article is rather muddled; it mentions the frequencies in question (2.5GHz region, which is microwave), and then has some confused sentence about "point-to-multipoint meaning no line-of-sight is necessary". Well, that's nonsense. Microwave propogation is almost exclusively line-of-sight. Without LOS, signal strength drops off dramatically.
However, if you use spread-spectrum techniques (which 802.16 does), you can overcome a lot of these problems. Basically, the characteristics of a wideband SS signal are such that multiple reflections (even weak ones) can be separately received and combined. This is a big gain over narrowband radio, where reflections cause inter-symbol interference which causes the signal to deteriorate.
Another factor that may be more significant - this standard seems mainly to be for delivering broadband to fixed installations (not mobile stations). Well that's an easier job by orders of magnitude: you only have to site the antennas correctly once, and you never have to worry about them moving around.
In conclusion: it's quite different from the radio technology we're most used to, and there's a little thing called progress to factor in too!:)
Do its moons reflect enough light for detail in nearby objects to be discernable, or is everything just cast in shadow?
Unlikely. Phobos and Deimos are tiny, and orbit very fast, very close to the surface of Mars. They can't even be seen from all points of the Martian surface. I'm guessing that in the Martian night-time, if they pass overhead they're entirely in Mars's shadow and thus cast no light. I think they're only visible at dawn and at dusk, under certain lucky conditions.
What I'd love to see it some photos of the night sky. I've always wanted to see the same constellations from a planet other than Earth. Dunno why, just seems significant to me.
Stop spoiling my well-ingrained stereotype of republicans as slack-jawed rednecks who couldn't crack into a nut, let alone a computer! How can this be?:)
[...] the company had decided to settle because they were "a small business" and it would be financially "imprudent" for them to try and take the case to the Court of Appeal or the European Court.
(snip)
CD-Wow! has more than one million users a month worldwide.
In my defense, I haven't seen it for about ten years (and in any case, I prefered the A-team). In my haste to be the first person on the thread to post the joke, I didn't bother to check how it was spelled. Just to add insult to injury, I failed miserably anyway because Orion442 got there first.
OK, It's a fair cop. I actually work for a company that makes 3G basestations (hardware and software) for the European and Japanese markets, and we've been shipping them to the operators for years. But even though I have (in some ways, I am!) tangible evidence that the product exists, it still feels strangely like no-one's using it yet.
Then again, I don't have a cellphone, broadband, digital TV or a DVD player. But my SuSE boxen all support IPv6, fershure.
Slashdot Mirror
is there a word for
a haiku that is about
another haiku?
Hey I started the most controversial thread on /. ever, and all I got was an IP ban.
Do they have that T-shirt at ThinkGeek yet? :)
I am curious
just how many syllables
seth shoen should take up
Actually I've noticed the opposite. People always talk about their medical ailments.
That's a good point (although no-one will ever see it unless you stop posting as an AC. :))
I wonder whether, if they were to extend their scale further, they would have found that (for example) extremely obese people would suddenly start being less private? That is, the proportionality breaks down when you get to an extreme deviation, where people start to have (for want of a better expression) "no shame"?
Sorta like all those 24-stone women on Oprah. You go, girl!
(This comment not indented as discriminatory or inflammatory in any way. Really! Oh what the hell, flame on then. :))
Facts? Who needs facts! This is slashdot!
You're right though. Mea culpa, although I'm not sure exactly how that happened. I think I must have been looking at Methods: paragraph 2 (Page 8) which mentioned height, and somehow had a brain jam. I remember thinking at the time, "surely your willingness to reveal your age depends hugely on the characteristics of the audience?"
Tsk. (Temptation to insert "mod parent up informative" repressed by Karma-preserving circuitry.)
> Another poster
:)
:))
(takes bow)
> complained about skimming thru a whole paper, a pdf!
Hey, my lunchbreak is short. Plus I have a few hundred pages of *actual* research to read after lunch. Most of which contains much worse than the occasional "log" thrown in.
> I found the paper was a good read
I must admit, I think I overreacted. They have a reasonable survey of previous work in the area, and there is something of interest in the asymmetry of the pricing curve. But I'm not sure what else they were expecting to find, or indeed whether their experiment could have shown them any other result (other than the unlikely "there is no correlation").
The lack of social/emotional context was what really annoyed me. But I'm no sociologist. (I know, I know, it shows.
Not only is this news, but it would appear that people get paid to write papers about it.
:)
This is possible some of the most useless research I've ever seen. The headline was quite promising and I even downloaded the PDF and skimmed through it, and it turns out that the "example" of weight given in the submission accounts for the whole paper! Oh no wait, they also mention... height. Woohoo. Add some pseudo-statistics and some almost-economic analysis, and wrap up with... absolutely no conclusions whatsoever. For heaven's sake, tell me your theory why this situation should arise! Tell me what implications it has!
I'm actually going to stop now because I can tell be reading what I've written already that I'm far to worked up to be objective about this. But for the love of God, why can't you do research into something that isn't blindingly obvious?
I need to sit down.
Yes, sir. :)
OK, so I knew that (sort of), but I thought "The Santa Cruz Organisation" had more of a Nigerian-scam ring to it than any of the other candidates. Nevertheless, you have a point.
their web server [...] as recently as December 12 [...has] been running [...] on Linux.
From their standpoint (assuming they believe their own BS, that is), Linux belongs to them. It's their IP, so running it wouldn't be hypocritical in the slightest.
As for Samba and Apache though, you're right on the money as far as I can see.
Seems like it's about time SCO came up with a new business model. Here's my suggestion:
FROM: Mr. Darl McBride
Santa Cruz Organisation
Lindon, Utah
Dear Sir:
I have been requested by the Santa Cruz Organisation to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Santa Cruz Organisation has recently concluded a large number of dubious security trades. These pump-and-dump operations have immediately produced moneys equalling US$75,000,000. The Santa Cruz Organisation is desirous of setting up business in other parts of the world, however, because of certain regulations of the U.S. Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region.
Your assistance is requested as a non-U.S. citizen to assist the Santa Cruz Organisation in moving these funds out of the U.S. If the funds can be transferred to your name, in your Swedish account, then you can forward the funds as directed by the Santa Cruz Organisation. In exchange for your accomodating services, the Santa Cruz Organisation would agree to allow you to retain 10%, or US$7.5 million of this amount.
However, to be a legitimate transferee of these moneys according to U.S. law, you must hold at least one license for Santa Cruz Organisation Intellectual Property, which are available at a cost of US$699.
If it will be possible for you to assist us, we would be most grateful. We suggest that you meet with us in person in Lindon, and that during your visit I introduce you to the representatives of the Santa Cruz Organisation.
Please call me at your earliest convenience. Time is of the essence in this matter; very quickly the U.S. Government will realize that the Federal Reserve is maintaining this amount on deposit, and attempt to levy certain depository taxes on it.
Yours truly, etc.
Darl McBride
It was just the juxtaposition of a tirade against careless spelling and a misspelled word in an otherwise excellent post that made that impossible to resist. Sorry. :)
Hmm. Proof-reading slashdot posts - what will they think of next?
I found a "spell check" and a proofreader, why can't you?
How strange! I'm only 25, and yet I measured up my flat in units of feet just yesterday. If I were buying furniture, I'd have to convert centimetres to feet and inches before I could visualize it. I order meat from the butcher's in pounds, and measure the thickness of snow and the length of grass in inches.
Help! I think I'm some sort of freak!
> Sounds like slashdot could be in the line of fire.
Karma: Classified (mostly affected by frivolous lawsuits)
The UK is effectively metric now, all schoolchildren are only taught metric units
Except by their parents, who will teach them the Imperial units anyway.
My experience is at odds with this assertion that all the youngsters talk metric. Although when at work, just about everything is metric (except if it's American :)), everyone I know (including those younger than me) measures their weight in stones and pounds, and their height in feet and inches. And, more importantly, their beer in pints!
I much prefer units I can relate to, personally. If the metric system has given us nothing else (which it hasn't), at least we have the Centigrade scale. I'm all for keeping the old-fashioned units alive, but really! Who thought water freezing at 32 and boiling at 212 was a sensible scale?
I know the significance of 0F as being the lowest acheivable temperature where salted water remains liquid, but can anyone explain the rest? It still completely baffles me!
P.S. Slashdot ate my ° markup, sorry!
> What secrets are these?
At a guess: "Trade Secrets"; those pesky things that give you an advantage over your direct competitors in a market.
> Brilliant score - kudos to Howard Shore!
:)
To be honest, that's the part that surprised me the most. When I saw the first film, I absolutely loved the music. But when I left the cinema after ROTK, I couldn't help thinking that if anything, the score had been a bit lacking. It seemed almost like all the themes from the first two installments had been stirred up, re-heated and served up without much thought. There wasn't very much that was new; as a scene appeared on the screen I could already guess what the orchestra would be doing in a few seconds' time, and I was invariably right.
Normally, that wouldn't spoil a film for me. But I think all the imperfections of ROTK were magnified (for me, at least) by the knowledge that there was no Part Four. Some of the stuff in TTT was much worse in terms of Tolkien-sacrilege, but I could ignore it (just) because I knew there was another helping left to come which might just make up for it. Ho hum.
Having said all that, I'm still driving people up the wall by whistling the major themes incessantly...
Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on. Someone care to explain this to me?
Without getting too technical - you're right, sort of. The article is rather muddled; it mentions the frequencies in question (2.5GHz region, which is microwave), and then has some confused sentence about "point-to-multipoint meaning no line-of-sight is necessary". Well, that's nonsense. Microwave propogation is almost exclusively line-of-sight. Without LOS, signal strength drops off dramatically.
However, if you use spread-spectrum techniques (which 802.16 does), you can overcome a lot of these problems. Basically, the characteristics of a wideband SS signal are such that multiple reflections (even weak ones) can be separately received and combined. This is a big gain over narrowband radio, where reflections cause inter-symbol interference which causes the signal to deteriorate.
Another factor that may be more significant - this standard seems mainly to be for delivering broadband to fixed installations (not mobile stations). Well that's an easier job by orders of magnitude: you only have to site the antennas correctly once, and you never have to worry about them moving around.
In conclusion: it's quite different from the radio technology we're most used to, and there's a little thing called progress to factor in too! :)
Hope that helps.
Do its moons reflect enough light for detail in nearby objects to be discernable, or is everything just cast in shadow?
Unlikely. Phobos and Deimos are tiny, and orbit very fast, very close to the surface of Mars. They can't even be seen from all points of the Martian surface. I'm guessing that in the Martian night-time, if they pass overhead they're entirely in Mars's shadow and thus cast no light. I think they're only visible at dawn and at dusk, under certain lucky conditions.
What I'd love to see it some photos of the night sky. I've always wanted to see the same constellations from a planet other than Earth. Dunno why, just seems significant to me.
Stop spoiling my well-ingrained stereotype of republicans as slack-jawed rednecks who couldn't crack into a nut, let alone a computer! How can this be? :)
From the BBC's coverage:
[...] the company had decided to settle because they were "a small business" and it would be financially "imprudent" for them to try and take the case to the Court of Appeal or the European Court.
(snip)
CD-Wow! has more than one million users a month worldwide.
So are they big, or are they small?
Heh. You have no idea how embarrasing that is. :)
In my defense, I haven't seen it for about ten years (and in any case, I prefered the A-team). In my haste to be the first person on the thread to post the joke, I didn't bother to check how it was spelled. Just to add insult to injury, I failed miserably anyway because Orion442 got there first.
<prepares for serious karma-drubbing>
Drat - you beat me by seconds! <doffs hat>
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=93845&cid=805using a BASIC controller stamp, a disposable camera flash, an air compressor, an electronic sprinkler valve and some pipe.
It's like falling asleep and waking up half-way through an episode of McGuyver.
Not badmouthing! Not badmouthing!
> Interesting that you feel it is vaporware
OK, It's a fair cop. I actually work for a company that makes 3G basestations (hardware and software) for the European and Japanese markets, and we've been shipping them to the operators for years. But even though I have (in some ways, I am!) tangible evidence that the product exists, it still feels strangely like no-one's using it yet.
Then again, I don't have a cellphone, broadband, digital TV or a DVD player. But my SuSE boxen all support IPv6, fershure.
How about "Hot air-ware"?