Well, "could care less" is fine actually. I'm not some sort of language nazi, only accepting that the way I speak it is correct. Language is supposed to evolve and change... it's just that "rediculous" is a very strange spelling, and as far as I know, not accepted as correct anywhere. And yet you see it the whole time on slashdot.
It's only on slashdot that I've ever seen that weird spelling and I see it the whole time. Very odd. Glad it bugs someone else other than me though!;-)
Well, if you look at the poster I linked to, you will see that the decay is called "Higgs to four leptons" not "Higgs to two leptons and two anti-leptons" or whatever. Trust me (I'm writing this from an office at CERN), it's usual in particle physics to say muon for muon/anti-muon. It's normally the lepton "flavour" that's more interesting.
You're wrong. Actually higgs to 4 leptons is one of the main channels through which ATLAS will look for the Higgs boson. Remember that you can have positively and negatively charged muons... so electric charge conservation is certainly NOT violated. For more information, here's a physics poster which mentions the 4 lepton decay.
WHICH religious nuts? At any one moment in time you can probably find a "religious nut" who believe whatever you might wish for. And as for your assertation that it was only the religious nuts who believed that the universe had a beginning... bullshit. Neither you nor I know what the 'common man' thought, but I bet that an idea as intuitive and obvious as the notion that the universe had a beginning, had made a fair few rational people wonder as well.
As many other people have noted in this thread, having essentially no fat would have reduced the survival chances for our ancestors in relatively recent history, in anything less than perfect conditions.
You're confusing intensity and wavelength. Projectors, monitors etc work by producing three narrow bands of colour (RGB) and varying the intensity of each of the three bands. For a simple example, just play with the RGB colour sliders in any paint program.
I suspect a narrow bandpass filter is exactly what this screen is.
I'm not particularly a KDE fanatic, and frankly Firefox is normally better than konqueror. However I tend to use konqueror when I can just because it integrates so well with everything else. The same is a million times more applicable to kopete and kontact. If you don't think of them as separate programs, but as part of a unified desktop then I think it makes more sense.
Let's see - your sig says "please hire me" and your post says:
After 18 years of watching them, I believe they're not only as smart as people, but that part of the reason some people have problems with their border collies is that the dog is smarter than they are.
Take it from me, gong to job interviews and proudly saying "I'm almost as smart as a dog" is unlikely to get you a job anytime soon!;-)
I hope you don't seriously believe what you wrote?
No other land animal appears to be able to do this. The Tour de France lasts 22 days for a distance of 2,077 miles (info). I now have the lovely image of a cheetah trying to cycle - thank you for that!
Seriously though, a race that involves tools is a bit unfair, and do you have any proof that no other land animal can run a marathon? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just a bit surprised. I think it's more likely that no other animal is stupid enough to want to run a marathon!
I'm sorry but as respectfully as possible you have to consider that not all countries regard a PhD in the same way. For example, in Britain it is a degree. It indicates academic achievement (and therefore is worthy of respect), but not much more (I have a British PhD in physics)
However long before this appeared I had a discussion with german colleagues, who said that in Germany a PhD is *also* an indication of moral worth. For example, people with criminal convictions cannot get PhDs
I understand all the people on this thread who are shocked by the concept of a PhD being revoked but this is because they do not grasp that PhDs are NOT the same the world over. If the university hadn't done this, then I suspect that there would be serious questions being asked in germany.
The fact is that on my home machine, in Windows 2000, I have more free RAM and faster boot up times _with_ IE loaded (if nothing else as a desktop/file manager), than in KDE _without_ Konqueror loaded.
I have a completely different experience. Windows 2000 often grinds to a more or less total halt and swaps like crazy which is why I use KDE almost exclusively now.
Out of interest, how are you measuring memory consumption? It's not always as clearcut as you might think (for example, I believe that Linux tends to take all available memory for caching purposes, releasing it needed. This is sensible... there is no point in having unused memory!)
There are no two ways about it. KDE isn't "feature rich", it's a piece of badly-programmed bloatware. Even if you turned off all the "features", it's still more bloated, slower and less user-friendly than Windows with all of that turned on. (In fact, even than windows with 6 pieces of spyware of your choice.)
This is just trolling.
a) did you ever see the leaked windows code. The reports I saw suggested that it was awful (I didn't look myself). KDE on the other hand (and particularly QT) is pretty impressive.
b) I don't see it as slower. I don't see how it is bloated, and I *certainly* don't see how it's less user-friendly than windows 2000.
And finally your last points are just ridiculous: to complain about KDE being "bloated" because you load Gtk apps and OOo etc is like my saying: "Windows is a piece of crap - to run kmail i have to use cygwin, and then when I want to run I have to run a mac emulator! It takes so much memory".
Funny that. One of the biggest things I've noticed with KDE from 2.2 -> 3.2 is how much faster it's been getting (and how much discussion on the mailing lists has been devoted to optimisation, so your "without really thinking comment" is just rubbish). I can't honestly say that I've noticed whether the memory foot-print is getting larger, but since this machine is only 256Mb I guess it can't be too bad. I don't know about Gnome since I don't use it.
One comment about the review: he talked about how slow it is using kde/mozilla/openoffice (and he probably tried evolution as well). I wonder how slow it would be if he ran only KDE apps (or only Gnome apps)? I don't mean to say that KDE is perfect and that the other apps aren't needed (I used OO regularly for example since Koffice isn't good enough for me yet), but what he's basically doing is running several Guis at the same time. Of course it takes a lot of memory!
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong since I'm not an expert on civil liberties in either the US or the EU... but can you give one concrete example of how "the civil liberties in the USA are still far ahead of the ones in the EU"?
Moderators this is *NOT* a +5 interesting since amost ALL of the points raised by this idiot are answered on the Moller international website
Now I'm not saying that they've got everything sorted, but at least read the proposals before spouting off!
For example, there are planned to be two paracutes on these things (so they won't "fall out of the sky when they run out of fuel"). Also you will not need a full pilots licence (so it should be cheaper), and frankly a well-trained "cletus type" is much less likely to crash than some arrogant who thinks that he's too smart to need teaching, and who probably doesn't read manuals (or websites;-)
I wouldn't know, since I couldn't see the pcture. Instead (after a click) I got this: Site Requirements If you're visiting this page it probably means that you are experiencing some technical difficulties (or you're a computer nerd).
Our sites use advanced internet technologies that require the latest and greatest internet browsers and plug-ins. The good news is that you can upgrade for free.
Well THANKS mr/ms webmaster but actually I *AM* up to date (latest version of opera), but am out of luck because we use linux at work.
It's annoying enough not to be able to look at webpages because of some totally unnecessary plugin, without being told that it's because I'm behind the times. Flash/QT/Whatever is NOT needed to show a fucking picture. Back to amazon I go, which is focused on being as accessible to as many potential customers as possible, rather than allowing some web designer to toss off.
How in the HELL was that insightful? We had *PICTURES* of Guantanamo bay detainees, we had released prisoners talking about it, the fucking US government admitted that they were there (perhaps not thousands, but cetrainly hundreds). It is fucking THERE.It's not that people aren't asking for proof... they've already seen it!
I have (personally) NOT seen proof of Andy Grove keeping IBM employees in a cellar, and I would damn well like some evidence of it if I'm expected to take that seriously.
What does nation mean? It has national sports teams which compete against welsh, & scottish national teams (at least this is how they're described normally). I agree that the parent shoudl have said "UK" or "Britain" but still, I don't really understand what nation means in this context. Not arguing with you - but I am confused.
Congratulations, you have just qualified yourself for a job as a state official in CA!!!! All you need to do to is send 5000 USD in administration fees to the following bank account:
Edward Moyse a/c 00178892 MoronsMakeMeRich Bank Switzerland
I've hardly ever used a GC or XBOX, and probably they're better (they *look* more sensible at least). However I wanted to point out that the analogue buttons on the PS2 are surprisingly effective - I wouldn't have believed it unless I tried it.
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You scare me.
Well, "could care less" is fine actually. I'm not some sort of language nazi, only accepting that the way I speak it is correct. Language is supposed to evolve and change ... it's just that "rediculous" is a very strange spelling, and as far as I know, not accepted as correct anywhere. And yet you see it the whole time on slashdot.
It's only on slashdot that I've ever seen that weird spelling and I see it the whole time. Very odd. Glad it bugs someone else other than me though! ;-)
Well, if you look at the poster I linked to, you will see that the decay is called "Higgs to four leptons" not "Higgs to two leptons and two anti-leptons" or whatever. Trust me (I'm writing this from an office at CERN), it's usual in particle physics to say muon for muon/anti-muon. It's normally the lepton "flavour" that's more interesting.
You're wrong. Actually higgs to 4 leptons is one of the main channels through which ATLAS will look for the Higgs boson. Remember that you can have positively and negatively charged muons ... so electric charge conservation is certainly NOT violated. For more information, here's a physics poster which mentions the 4 lepton decay.
That is great! Internationalisation confusion in a thread about internationalisation. ;-)
WHICH religious nuts? At any one moment in time you can probably find a "religious nut" who believe whatever you might wish for. And as for your assertation that it was only the religious nuts who believed that the universe had a beginning ... bullshit. Neither you nor I know what the 'common man' thought, but I bet that an idea as intuitive and obvious as the notion that the universe had a beginning, had made a fair few rational people wonder as well.
As many other people have noted in this thread, having essentially no fat would have reduced the survival chances for our ancestors in relatively recent history, in anything less than perfect conditions.
You're confusing intensity and wavelength. Projectors, monitors etc work by producing three narrow bands of colour (RGB) and varying the intensity of each of the three bands. For a simple example, just play with the RGB colour sliders in any paint program.
I suspect a narrow bandpass filter is exactly what this screen is.
I'm not particularly a KDE fanatic, and frankly Firefox is normally better than konqueror. However I tend to use konqueror when I can just because it integrates so well with everything else. The same is a million times more applicable to kopete and kontact. If you don't think of them as separate programs, but as part of a unified desktop then I think it makes more sense.
Did you read the parent post? The bit where they (mistakenly) said that "they *will* win the Xprize tomorrow"? Evidently it wasn't obvious!
Let's see - your sig says "please hire me" and your post says:
;-)
After 18 years of watching them, I believe they're not only as smart as people, but that part of the reason some people have problems with their border collies is that the dog is smarter than they are.
Take it from me, gong to job interviews and proudly saying "I'm almost as smart as a dog" is unlikely to get you a job anytime soon!
I hope you don't seriously believe what you wrote?
No other land animal appears to be able to do this. The Tour de France lasts 22 days for a distance of 2,077 miles (info).
I now have the lovely image of a cheetah trying to cycle - thank you for that!
Seriously though, a race that involves tools is a bit unfair, and do you have any proof that no other land animal can run a marathon? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just a bit surprised. I think it's more likely that no other animal is stupid enough to want to run a marathon!
I'm sorry but as respectfully as possible you have to consider that not all countries regard a PhD in the same way. For example, in Britain it is a degree. It indicates academic achievement (and therefore is worthy of respect), but not much more (I have a British PhD in physics)
However long before this appeared I had a discussion with german colleagues, who said that in Germany a PhD is *also* an indication of moral worth. For example, people with criminal convictions cannot get PhDs
I understand all the people on this thread who are shocked by the concept of a PhD being revoked but this is because they do not grasp that PhDs are NOT the same the world over. If the university hadn't done this, then I suspect that there would be serious questions being asked in germany.
The fact is that on my home machine, in Windows 2000, I have more free RAM and faster boot up times _with_ IE loaded (if nothing else as a desktop/file manager), than in KDE _without_ Konqueror loaded.
... there is no point in having unused memory!)
:
I have a completely different experience. Windows 2000 often grinds to a more or less total halt and swaps like crazy which is why I use KDE almost exclusively now.
Out of interest, how are you measuring memory consumption? It's not always as clearcut as you might think (for example, I believe that Linux tends to take all available memory for caching purposes, releasing it needed. This is sensible
There are no two ways about it. KDE isn't "feature rich", it's a piece of badly-programmed bloatware. Even if you turned off all the "features", it's still more bloated, slower and less user-friendly than Windows with all of that turned on. (In fact, even than windows with 6 pieces of spyware of your choice.)
This is just trolling.
a) did you ever see the leaked windows code. The reports I saw suggested that it was awful (I didn't look myself). KDE on the other hand (and particularly QT) is pretty impressive.
b) I don't see it as slower. I don't see how it is bloated, and I *certainly* don't see how it's less user-friendly than windows 2000.
And finally your last points are just ridiculous: to complain about KDE being "bloated" because you load Gtk apps and OOo etc is like my saying
"Windows is a piece of crap - to run kmail i have to use cygwin, and then when I want to run I have to run a mac emulator! It takes so much memory".
Of course it does!
Funny that. One of the biggest things I've noticed with KDE from 2.2 -> 3.2 is how much faster it's been getting (and how much discussion on the mailing lists has been devoted to optimisation, so your "without really thinking comment" is just rubbish). I can't honestly say that I've noticed whether the memory foot-print is getting larger, but since this machine is only 256Mb I guess it can't be too bad. I don't know about Gnome since I don't use it.
One comment about the review: he talked about how slow it is using kde/mozilla/openoffice (and he probably tried evolution as well). I wonder how slow it would be if he ran only KDE apps (or only Gnome apps)? I don't mean to say that KDE is perfect and that the other apps aren't needed (I used OO regularly for example since Koffice isn't good enough for me yet), but what he's basically doing is running several Guis at the same time. Of course it takes a lot of memory!
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong since I'm not an expert on civil liberties in either the US or the EU... but can you give one concrete example of how "the civil liberties in the USA are still far ahead of the ones in the EU"?
Moderators this is *NOT* a +5 interesting since amost ALL of the points raised by this idiot are answered on the Moller international website
;-)
Now I'm not saying that they've got everything sorted, but at least read the proposals before spouting off!
For example, there are planned to be two paracutes on these things (so they won't "fall out of the sky when they run out of fuel"). Also you will not need a full pilots licence (so it should be cheaper), and frankly a well-trained "cletus type" is much less likely to crash than some arrogant who thinks that he's too smart to need teaching, and who probably doesn't read manuals (or websites
It was a joke. Burn nitrogen and you (can) get ... laughing gas.
I wouldn't know, since I couldn't see the pcture. Instead (after a click) I got this:
Site Requirements
If you're visiting this page it probably means that you are experiencing some technical difficulties (or you're a computer nerd).
Our sites use advanced internet technologies that require the latest and greatest internet browsers and plug-ins. The good news is that you can upgrade for free.
Well THANKS mr/ms webmaster but actually I *AM* up to date (latest version of opera), but am out of luck because we use linux at work.
It's annoying enough not to be able to look at webpages because of some totally unnecessary plugin, without being told that it's because I'm behind the times. Flash/QT/Whatever is NOT needed to show a fucking picture. Back to amazon I go, which is focused on being as accessible to as many potential customers as possible, rather than allowing some web designer to toss off.
How in the HELL was that insightful? We had *PICTURES* of Guantanamo bay detainees, we had released prisoners talking about it, the fucking US government admitted that they were there (perhaps not thousands, but cetrainly hundreds). It is fucking THERE.It's not that people aren't asking for proof ... they've already seen it!
I have (personally) NOT seen proof of Andy Grove keeping IBM employees in a cellar, and I would damn well like some evidence of it if I'm expected to take that seriously.
What does nation mean? It has national sports teams which compete against welsh, & scottish national teams (at least this is how they're described normally). I agree that the parent shoudl have said "UK" or "Britain" but still, I don't really understand what nation means in this context. Not arguing with you - but I am confused.
i doubt microsoft has a whole lot to do with it, i think its just probably him trying to get some fame by getting them into space.
Or maybe he's just unbelievably rich, thinks that this is a cool project and wants to support it? Lets go easy on the cynicism folks!
Congratulations, you have just qualified yourself for a job as a state official in CA!!!! All you need to do to is send 5000 USD in administration fees to the following bank account:
Edward Moyse
a/c 00178892
MoronsMakeMeRich Bank
Switzerland
Thanks for your time!
I've hardly ever used a GC or XBOX, and probably they're better (they *look* more sensible at least). However I wanted to point out that the analogue buttons on the PS2 are surprisingly effective - I wouldn't have believed it unless I tried it.