I thought they would invent something better, something that reminds Z-buffering, i.e, each pixel on the display has a Z value, which determines the distance of the point from the viewer.
Now, that would be cool, for viewing 3D maps and such.
It's more like a merge of experimental advanced kernel features, but much more faster and rapidly maintained than the dying FOLK project.
Basically it could be a good idea maintaining (read *actively* maintaining) more diverse ports of the kernel tree, though it's more coatic than just having a stable and development branches.
The problematic side of this stable-expermintal tree is locating the cause of crashes when instabilty strikes. When the patches are seperated, it's easier to isolate the cause.
Timothy, 24 bits per spot means that it has to differ between 2^24 (16777216) different shades of grey... it's very hard to reach that level of precision, so I don't see it coming any time soon.
No, I don't think that specific example is arrogance, I think that SETI are just trying to contact the wrong type of aliens! i.e, aliens that are developed more or less like us... that can't be good;-)
I don't agree to your measure of the probablity of the existance of intelligent life in the universe.
There is very high probablity for high intelligence to develop on every lifeful planet, and the reason for that is evolution and genetics. Among the millions of different types of creatures that evolve on a planet, there will always be at least one creature that at some point in time will reach a level of philosophical thinking, invention, and eventually modernization. The next stage for us is discovering the technology for interstellar travel, and it has high possibility of existance as we didn't discover all the laws of physics.
About morality: The human race has changed its morality throughout time, to the better, and I believe it's a part of evolution. If it's not, then it could be some sort of thought control. Who said Democracy is the best system? Maybe an highly intelligent race may choose another system, that enforces morality.
Here, you have just presented another example of how modern socity rendered the term "aliens" as to be regarded in an unscientific dismissful kind of way, by ignoring any lead to any real evidence.
Apparently it only showed for a while. It means that this object moves really fast. Now this kind of an abject must also have an enourmous weight. So it's not only producing enough energy to fight gravity. It's also producing enough energy to move itself very fast. How come we didn't notice anything of that energy? How come the friction from moving so fast didn't fry the object? And why didn't we at least see a huge fireball?
Well, it is mostly possible that they are using a very non-conventional drive (which might have some side effect on the space around them), and the covering of their spaceship is not made of the rather simple materials we use.
With all due respect, I think it's even more arrogant to expect those parts of physics we don't know to rule out fundamental parts of the physics we do know. Like gravity, for example.
The fact is, that we know nothing about gravity. Really. We don't know exactly what drives gravity, and whether there are several types of it, or maybe it could be controled or reproduced in some sort. It was the the same thing with electricity - people knew it powers stuff, but didn't know exactly what drives it, until we discovered electrons.
Well, remember Einstain's theory of relativity ruled out Newton's laws as incorrect at the larger scale.
Just highly intelligent extra-terrasials didn't come formally and presented themselves to the world, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
We simply know nothing about their socity laws, and the inter-planetary laws that they enforce. It might be that they regard this planet and all of its lifeforms as a zoo, not wanting to disturb the zoo because they aren't as destructive as us.
Oh, I see you think I am one of those fanatics alien-loving-manics, but I am not. The existance of aliens and their arrival here doesn't contradict the laws of physics. It would be arrogance to say we know all the laws of physics, as it is arrogance to say we are the only ones out there, in the entire universe.
I think that alien autopsy is faked, and I am not trying to solve everything we don't understand with the aliens issue. I am a man of science, and I regard the theories presented as ones who need verifing instead of dismising just because they mention the term "aliens". I think that the movie industry has turned that term into something that can never be reality or never can be related to in a scientific rational method. But hey, that same movie industry, in the 30's, did the same to the moon landing, and guess what - after 40 years, the did land on the moon.
Gravity scales lineary to the ratio between different radiuses for planets with the same density, so even if they have like, 3, 4, or 5 g-force, life can be developed on them if the right materials are combined in the right temperatures.
A.P: Celeste Torvalds was elected today to the US presidency, and won
against George K. Bush, who is the grandchild of the infamous former
president of the US, George W. Bush, who was elected on year 2000.
Celeste is the daughter of Linus Torvalds, the programmer and inventor of
Linux, the best operation system ever created for a computer system, which
has brought to life the Open Source movements through out the world, that
helped replacing faulty governments with open ideas, and caused the
foundation of The Federation on 2023.
The 82 years old Linus Torvalds, told on an interview from his home in
Florida: "Now that my daughter is the President, I can finally achieve
world domination!"
Element 115 is stable, RELATIVELY speaking, ie. its half-life is measured in the millisecond to second region of things as opposed to elements 109 to 113 which have lives shorter than that of Bill Gates at a Linux Convention.
Not exactly. There's a proven aisle of stability aound the 115 area. A certain isotope of 115, is *much* more stable than you think. It's very stable. Colored orange. Has a density of 31.5 g/cm3. Melting point: 1740 C, boiling point: 3530 K
.
The transition from 115 to 116 is very unique. I don't know exactly what causes the created 116 to be antimatter.
Do you want to hear the physics' approach to Genesis?
Since the laws of physics have lead to the creation of life, of intelligence, we should assume that there was some sort of infinite intelligence present in the universe before the laws of physics as we know them were applied, before the existance of space and time.
That infinite intelligence, call it God if you would like, reached to a conclusion that the existance of itself alone is pointless, so it
simply thought of basic mathematical and physical laws, that can lead to the creation of other intelligence (hint: us), of life. After it thought over the laws, it created space and time, and in time 0 it transformed itself into the singularity that resulted in the Big Bang. That's pretty much it.
Where is that infinite intelligence right now? Many believe it exists in another plane, and no one can communicate with it. Or, it sacrified itself when it created the universe.
Just for you, I'll say that this is probably the worst reply I ever got to any of my comments. Feel free to (-1) Off Topic, I have *way* enough Karma to spare.
I have been following the development of the 2.4 kernel since test5, which is about 3 months ago.
For starters, a bunch of drivers that worked in 2.2.x are broken currently in 2.4. Those need a fix before 2.4 turns final.
Recently there was a lot of work on the VM (virtual memory subsystem). It's a very smooth VM, reminds you of FreeBSD;). But it's also a bit buggy at the moment, so it must be fixed before 2.4-final.
With more people testing the 2.4 kernel, with more bug reports, it will be a lot better for the developers to fix 2.4 to perfection, so hurry up and try the new kernel. I recommend trying out test8 or test7, or test9 with Rik van Riel's latest VM patch.
I meant everybody should block all services as a *precaution*, and then release the blocks one by one after you verifyed that what you're running is safe after looking it up in bugtraq or someplace else. It's better than using any other crackable/unstable WinSoftware.
Or maybe install a distro that is targeted on safetiness.
Linux could have been securted if people wanted too. All you need is a few ipchains or iptables lines to make a box almost totally secured. The problem is that people leave their boxes connected to the Internet without configuring it.
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No problem, just use the nearest Starfleet standard issue replicator.
After they invent it.
I really hate that pseudo gcc release.
Did they finally kick it out of the distro?
I knew it, they were building the MAGI system!
Go Akagi!
I thought they would invent something better, something that reminds Z-buffering, i.e, each pixel on the display has a Z value, which determines the distance of the point from the viewer.
Now, that would be cool, for viewing 3D maps and such.
It's more like a merge of experimental advanced kernel features, but much more faster and rapidly maintained than the dying FOLK project.
Basically it could be a good idea maintaining (read *actively* maintaining) more diverse ports of the kernel tree, though it's more coatic than just having a stable and development branches.
The problematic side of this stable-expermintal tree is locating the cause of crashes when instabilty strikes. When the patches are seperated, it's easier to isolate the cause.
'Captain, I am reading no signs of Anthrax on the surface'
tee hee!!
- Richard M. Stallman, May 29th 2001, New York.
Timothy, 24 bits per spot means that it has to differ between 2^24 (16777216) different shades of grey... it's very hard to reach that level of precision, so I don't see it coming any time soon.
There is very high probablity for high intelligence to develop on every lifeful planet, and the reason for that is evolution and genetics. Among the millions of different types of creatures that evolve on a planet, there will always be at least one creature that at some point in time will reach a level of philosophical thinking, invention, and eventually modernization. The next stage for us is discovering the technology for interstellar travel, and it has high possibility of existance as we didn't discover all the laws of physics.
About morality: The human race has changed its morality throughout time, to the better, and I believe it's a part of evolution. If it's not, then it could be some sort of thought control. Who said Democracy is the best system? Maybe an highly intelligent race may choose another system, that enforces morality.
Well, it is mostly possible that they are using a very non-conventional drive (which might have some side effect on the space around them), and the covering of their spaceship is not made of the rather simple materials we use.
With all due respect, I think it's even more arrogant to expect those parts of physics we don't know to rule out fundamental parts of the physics we do know. Like gravity, for example.
The fact is, that we know nothing about gravity. Really. We don't know exactly what drives gravity, and whether there are several types of it, or maybe it could be controled or reproduced in some sort. It was the the same thing with electricity - people knew it powers stuff, but didn't know exactly what drives it, until we discovered electrons.
Well, remember Einstain's theory of relativity ruled out Newton's laws as incorrect at the larger scale.
We simply know nothing about their socity laws, and the inter-planetary laws that they enforce. It might be that they regard this planet and all of its lifeforms as a zoo, not wanting to disturb the zoo because they aren't as destructive as us.
I think that alien autopsy is faked, and I am not trying to solve everything we don't understand with the aliens issue. I am a man of science, and I regard the theories presented as ones who need verifing instead of dismising just because they mention the term "aliens". I think that the movie industry has turned that term into something that can never be reality or never can be related to in a scientific rational method. But hey, that same movie industry, in the 30's, did the same to the moon landing, and guess what - after 40 years, the did land on the moon.
Lack of signs? I wouldn't call a 20km-long object showing on a european air controler's radar, a lack of signs...
About what about strange lights and hugh cylinders orbiting Saturn
? Maybe you mean, lack of contact.
Gravity scales lineary to the ratio between different radiuses for planets with the same density, so even if they have like, 3, 4, or 5 g-force, life can be developed on them if the right materials are combined in the right temperatures.
Celeste is the daughter of Linus Torvalds, the programmer and inventor of Linux, the best operation system ever created for a computer system, which has brought to life the Open Source movements through out the world, that helped replacing faulty governments with open ideas, and caused the foundation of The Federation on 2023.
The 82 years old Linus Torvalds, told on an interview from his home in Florida: "Now that my daughter is the President, I can finally achieve world domination!"
. The transition from 115 to 116 is very unique. I don't know exactly what causes the created 116 to be antimatter.
Since the laws of physics have lead to the creation of life, of intelligence, we should assume that there was some sort of infinite intelligence present in the universe before the laws of physics as we know them were applied, before the existance of space and time.
That infinite intelligence, call it God if you would like, reached to a conclusion that the existance of itself alone is pointless, so it simply thought of basic mathematical and physical laws, that can lead to the creation of other intelligence (hint: us), of life. After it thought over the laws, it created space and time, and in time 0 it transformed itself into the singularity that resulted in the Big Bang. That's pretty much it.
Where is that infinite intelligence right now? Many believe it exists in another plane, and no one can communicate with it. Or, it sacrified itself when it created the universe.
Just for you, I'll say that this is probably the worst reply I ever got to any of my comments. Feel free to (-1) Off Topic, I have *way* enough Karma to spare.
Couldn't they put the questions and answers in different colors? pshy.
I have been following the development of the 2.4 kernel since test5, which is about 3 months ago.
For starters, a bunch of drivers that worked in 2.2.x are broken currently in 2.4. Those need a fix before 2.4 turns final.
Recently there was a lot of work on the VM (virtual memory subsystem). It's a very smooth VM, reminds you of FreeBSD ;). But it's also a bit buggy at the moment, so it must be fixed before 2.4-final.
With more people testing the 2.4 kernel, with more bug reports, it will be a lot better for the developers to fix 2.4 to perfection, so hurry up and try the new kernel. I recommend trying out test8 or test7, or test9 with Rik van Riel's latest VM patch.
.Or maybe install a distro that is targeted on safetiness.
Linux could have been securted if people wanted too. All you need is a few ipchains or iptables lines to make a box almost totally secured. The problem is that people leave their boxes connected to the Internet without configuring it.
2000 - (now)
2020 - Software can make replicate hardware.
2030 - Software gets artificial intelligence.
2050 - [KABOOM]
2199 - You get to meet Morphious