Has anyone found a decent Linux distribution, which fits in 32 Mb (i.e. any smartdisk)? By decent I mean, a desktop distro, with say KDE or Gnome, and all your basic tools. It also would be useful if it could boot directly from windoze or DOS (loadlin?) as well as boot from the smartdisk (is this possible?). I know there's knoppix out there, but you need to repackage it. Has anyone done this (and keeps the distro up to date?)
First of all, there's basically no difference between a galaxy (or a physical body) made of matter and antimatter... Actually you wouldn't be able to tell. The major physical difference is the charge of particles (e.g. anti-electrons, or positrons, have +ve charge) but of course you wouldn't be able to tell since you would call +ve charge -ve and vice versa.
Secondly, according to the theories you mentioned, there's basically very little chance that large lumps of antimatter were formed during the big bang, since most of the annihilation would have taken place at a stage when all the matter was condended in a very small place, and therefore the distribution of antimatter would be quite uniform (so you wouldn't have a galaxy of am here and one of normal matter there).
Thirdly, there are no antiphotons. Photons are the antiparticles of themselves!
You should compare your life an Israeli, Iraqi, or Burma before whining that "life is hard". Most of here at slashdot have it very good.
This is ludicrous... Very good compared to WHAT? One feels good or bad depending on his expetations, and I guess the expectations of an Iraqi or Israeli are way different from those of a typical slashdotter... So if someone feels their life sucks, who are you to judge? It probably does, in their own mind, and your smartass words will not help.
Snood SUCKS big time. Who did the graphics? A colour blind 5 year old? Game play sucks too! And also there's no audio... Oh, did I mention that it's a clone of Puzzle Bobble?
It's THE worst game I've played in a very long time!
The record labels could have cut the head right off of file sharing years ago by putting their catalog online and letting users pay a reasonable fee ($.50 - $1) to download an MP3.
Yes, but only in theory: as of today there is no way to accept micropayments yet. I think $1 is about the right percieved price for a track, and about $0.50 of that would go in transaction fees!
Digital distrubtion makes complete sense.
Except it's a well-known fact (at least in the "industry") that major labels are in the business of selling plastic and not IP!!! Really. Sony and Philips get royalties for any CD or DVD produced, and all majors have their own manifacturing plants... That's why you hear so much crap music... They are mostly interested in printing and selling plastic.
The record labels are monopolistic and greedy and it's coming back to haunt them.
Greedy - yes, although what industry isn't? Monopolistic - no, there are 5 different major label families (Vivendi, Warner, Sony, Philips, BMG - IIRC) and about a zillion indy labels. How is that monopolistic?
What is totally ridiculous about this law (and the RIAA attitude) is that MP3s and filesharing could actually help the music industry instead of killing it! How so? Think about the radio, you still get music for free, you can record it, and so on. Point is, it makes music known, it's publicity!
So why this crackdown attitude on filesharing? Essentially for two reasons:
1) "Real" pirating. People, say, in East Europe download CD from p2p. Same people go to a CD or tape pressing firm, get a gazillion copies and sell them as real copies. Honest buyers buy CD of their favorite band and, guess what? They are helping pirates and not the artists or their label.
2) Loss of control. Majors currently control radios and music TVs. They can impose their artists and thus somewhat control sales. With p2p, the most popular/distributed artists are those people like and therefore keep on their HD. This allows even small bands to get a lot of recognition - a thing that majors don't like, they invest a lot on money on their artists, and don't like having them killed off by some minor artist, obviously.
My 10 binary cents.
Base-12 was used by the Romans, and is responsible the very existance of the words "eleven" (instead of oneteen), "twelve" (instead of twoteen)
To be honest, 11 in latin is "undecim" and 12 is "duodecim", which are exactly "oneteen" and "twoteen"!
"Eleven" comes from the old English "endleofan" which means "oneteen", and "twelve" comes from old English "twelf", contraction of "twA-leofan", which means (you guessed it!) "twoteen".
GR says that gravity is an apparent force which comes out of the bending of spacetime. On the other hand, gravity IS a force according to quantum theory. The whole paper we're discussing treats gravity as a field (author calculates Laplacian and Hamiltonian to derive the coupling). Hence my reasoning. Of course if gravity is NOT a force, but the others are, then you can say goodbye to most unified theories, which sounds wrong to me (Einstein would agree with me on this;-)
You'll forgive my honest ignorance - but I'm having a bit of a hard time finding more than indirect evidence pointing to the expectation that gravity should act like other recognized massless particle just because it travels like it has 0 mass - since that's just assuming it can't be different in any way in order to stick with one form of relativity.
One of the reasons why GR was developed is that Newtonian gravity is instantaneous whereas that is impossible for SR. Actually, according to SR, there is no meaning to the concept of simultaneity (two events can occour in any order, depending on who's looking). Therefore the concept of instantaneous forces (action at a distance) is flawed also. According to GR (which gives extremely accurate predictions on experiment), gravitational forces travel at exactly c, the speed of light.
Of course the way science really works is that the 99% of people who propose kooky ideas like this, and who don't work for a university, get labelled as cranks while this guy gets recognition and publicity based solely on some back of the envelope speculation.
Is this idea so kooky? All other forces (EM, Weak and Strong) seem to be coupled at certain energy levels. I would find quite extraordinary if we discover that Quantum Gravity does NOT allow gravity and the other forces to couple (or interact).
Note that the author can still be totally wrong on HOW these forces are coupled, but the idea that they are is, honestly, quite a solid statement.
Do you have any evidence or reason to believe that there's not an _infinite_ number of dimensions?
Well, you seem to forget the reason why those extra dimensions were put in string theory! The K-K equations show that adding an extra (curled up) dimension makes EM a consequence of GR. So, in simple terms, you do see the extra dimension, but you "measure" it as EM charge. The other dimensions are added up to provide for the other charges (i.e. weak and strong charges). Is that so strange? Not to me, not stranger than allowing for phantomatic "charges" (what is EM charge made of?).
So basically, we don't have an infinite number of dimensions because we don't have an infinite number of different possible charges.
The commercial idea behind shareware is to get your software on as many desktops as possible with low cost. You know from the start that most people will not pay for what they get, but still, the more people use your software, the more people will buy it. Take for example winzip, everybody has it, but just a few pay for it, mainly companies. The guy behind it is still making loads of cash, and wouldn't be if he sold it as shrinkwrap. If I crack a program is either to evaluate it, or because I can't afford it/it's not worth the price. Shareware works on word of mouth ads, and most of the people who carry the word are not paying for your software. If you don't like it, go shrinkwrap. Then you can call it theft.
"Them" meant "the company"... I did not mean to make it sound like a Borg collective, it's just that i'm not a native English speaker.
Regarding "keeping under control"... All companies (should) have some standards to how employees use Internet and Email while at work. These people weren't posting from home (i.e. privately) but from work. It makes a big difference.
They seem quick to point out that some people from the microsoft.com domain tried to use automated voting, and they therefore blame that on the parent corporation. I'd have a much easier life if I could blame all my problems on my employer too.
Maybe still Microsoft should keep these things under control. I have no doubt MS does not need to use these methods, but still I find it so lame of them!:-)
Other companies are smart enough not to get caught!
I also find this way of doing PR quite stupid... Anyone knowing at least a bit of how Internet works would have known this would backfire... Oh, I forgot we were talking about Microsoft PR people, hehehhehe!!!!
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DOS == Windows... that's what i meant... that's all!
You can actually BOOT linux from windows... LOADLIN.EXE does that... I'm not a troll, get your facts straight, sweetie! ;-)
LINUX!
Has anyone found a decent Linux distribution, which fits in 32 Mb (i.e. any smartdisk)? By decent I mean, a desktop distro, with say KDE or Gnome, and all your basic tools. It also would be useful if it could boot directly from windoze or DOS (loadlin?) as well as boot from the smartdisk (is this possible?).
I know there's knoppix out there, but you need to repackage it. Has anyone done this (and keeps the distro up to date?)
Ok, reading the article and following a couple links - here's the penis pill spammer!
Braden Bournival
561 Montgomery. St, Manchester, NH 03102
Tel. #: (603) 669-7422
Email: frappe_boy@yahoo.com
Do whatever you want with this info but don't blame ME!!!
In Soviet Italy, we DO take pot breaks! :-)
A lucky 5% has 2 crashes a day, the remaining 95% has 3 or more!
Site is slashdotted :-)
:-)
Google cache is here!
Please mod as informative hehehe
First of all, there's basically no difference between a galaxy (or a physical body) made of matter and antimatter... Actually you wouldn't be able to tell. The major physical difference is the charge of particles (e.g. anti-electrons, or positrons, have +ve charge) but of course you wouldn't be able to tell since you would call +ve charge -ve and vice versa.
Secondly, according to the theories you mentioned, there's basically very little chance that large lumps of antimatter were formed during the big bang, since most of the annihilation would have taken place at a stage when all the matter was condended in a very small place, and therefore the distribution of antimatter would be quite uniform (so you wouldn't have a galaxy of am here and one of normal matter there).
Thirdly, there are no antiphotons. Photons are the antiparticles of themselves!
Hope it helps!
You should compare your life an Israeli, Iraqi, or Burma before whining that "life is hard". Most of here at slashdot have it very good.
This is ludicrous... Very good compared to WHAT? One feels good or bad depending on his expetations, and I guess the expectations of an Iraqi or Israeli are way different from those of a typical slashdotter... So if someone feels their life sucks, who are you to judge? It probably does, in their own mind, and your smartass words will not help.
Snood SUCKS big time. Who did the graphics? A colour blind 5 year old? Game play sucks too! And also there's no audio... Oh, did I mention that it's a clone of Puzzle Bobble?
It's THE worst game I've played in a very long time!
Blah!
Uhm fp? :-P
Ok... gotta wait 15 secs now...
lata!
Base-12 was used by the Romans, and is responsible the very existance of the words "eleven" (instead of oneteen), "twelve" (instead of twoteen)
To be honest, 11 in latin is "undecim" and 12 is "duodecim", which are exactly "oneteen" and "twoteen"!
"Eleven" comes from the old English "endleofan" which means "oneteen", and "twelve" comes from old English "twelf", contraction of "twA-leofan", which means (you guessed it!) "twoteen".
Cheers!
Unfortunately, Einstein proved that the universe cannot achieve stability so the choice it's either Big Crunch or eternal expansion...
gravity isn't a force
;-)
GR says that gravity is an apparent force which comes out of the bending of spacetime. On the other hand, gravity IS a force according to quantum theory. The whole paper we're discussing treats gravity as a field (author calculates Laplacian and Hamiltonian to derive the coupling). Hence my reasoning. Of course if gravity is NOT a force, but the others are, then you can say goodbye to most unified theories, which sounds wrong to me (Einstein would agree with me on this
You'll forgive my honest ignorance - but I'm having a bit of a hard time finding more than indirect evidence pointing to the expectation that gravity should act like other recognized massless particle just because it travels like it has 0 mass - since that's just assuming it can't be different in any way in order to stick with one form of relativity.
One of the reasons why GR was developed is that Newtonian gravity is instantaneous whereas that is impossible for SR. Actually, according to SR, there is no meaning to the concept of simultaneity (two events can occour in any order, depending on who's looking). Therefore the concept of instantaneous forces (action at a distance) is flawed also. According to GR (which gives extremely accurate predictions on experiment), gravitational forces travel at exactly c, the speed of light.
Of course the way science really works is that the 99% of people who propose kooky ideas like this, and who don't work for a university, get labelled as cranks while this guy gets recognition and publicity based solely on some back of the envelope speculation.
Is this idea so kooky? All other forces (EM, Weak and Strong) seem to be coupled at certain energy levels. I would find quite extraordinary if we discover that Quantum Gravity does NOT allow gravity and the other forces to couple (or interact).
Note that the author can still be totally wrong on HOW these forces are coupled, but the idea that they are is, honestly, quite a solid statement.
Do you have any evidence or reason to believe that there's not an _infinite_ number of dimensions?
Well, you seem to forget the reason why those extra dimensions were put in string theory! The K-K equations show that adding an extra (curled up) dimension makes EM a consequence of GR. So, in simple terms, you do see the extra dimension, but you "measure" it as EM charge. The other dimensions are added up to provide for the other charges (i.e. weak and strong charges). Is that so strange? Not to me, not stranger than allowing for phantomatic "charges" (what is EM charge made of?).
So basically, we don't have an infinite number of dimensions because we don't have an infinite number of different possible charges.
The commercial idea behind shareware is to get your software on as many desktops as possible with low cost. You know from the start that most people will not pay for what they get, but still, the more people use your software, the more people will buy it.
Take for example winzip, everybody has it, but just a few pay for it, mainly companies. The guy behind it is still making loads of cash, and wouldn't be if he sold it as shrinkwrap.
If I crack a program is either to evaluate it, or because I can't afford it/it's not worth the price.
Shareware works on word of mouth ads, and most of the people who carry the word are not paying for your software. If you don't like it, go shrinkwrap. Then you can call it theft.
The patch does not work!!!! See here!
:-(
thanks bill....
A Google search on Danese turns up more than 1000 results
So? If I search my name on Google (and it's not a common name) I get 3000+ results. Why doesn't
Guess these are the privileges of being a stupid rock star...
</joke>
Waysted, yes... Old, not yet!
"The DRRRAGON is EVERYWHERRRRE!"
"Them" meant "the company"... I did not mean to make it sound like a Borg collective, it's just that i'm not a native English speaker.
Regarding "keeping under control"... All companies (should) have some standards to how employees use Internet and Email while at work. These people weren't posting from home (i.e. privately) but from work. It makes a big difference.
They seem quick to point out that some people from the microsoft.com domain tried to use automated voting, and they therefore blame that on the parent corporation. I'd have a much easier life if I could blame all my problems on my employer too.
:-)
Maybe still Microsoft should keep these things under control. I have no doubt MS does not need to use these methods, but still I find it so lame of them!
Other companies are smart enough not to get caught!
I also find this way of doing PR quite stupid... Anyone knowing at least a bit of how Internet works would have known this would backfire... Oh, I forgot we were talking about Microsoft PR people, hehehhehe!!!!