But when you advertise on the web, you can look at your web logs to gauge the audience - you don't need to trust their logs, or Media Metrix', or anyone else's.
In fact, by looking at your own logs, you can say, "Well, Yahoo sends 10,000 people a day to my site, but only 10 of those people buy anything.. Meanwhile, Slashdot sends 1,000 people, but 500 of them end up buying stuff."
It's been said over and over again, but if the music is able to get to the listener's ear, the user is able to copy it. I don't see how this could ever be gotten around. --
"Columbia University supports academic freedom and individual responsibility and does not preemptively review or monitor the contents of the files of its faculty, students, or staff that are accessible on the University network.... The University also does not block the use of any particular method of communicating or transferring information such as ftp, http, Napster, gnutella, e-mail, web drives, irc, etc., all of which can be and are used for legitimate communication and file exchange""
Isn't it nice when administrators actually get it? --
Gravity is caused by matter (and energy, but that's usually only in infintesimal amounts - see E=mc^2).. the force of gravity given off by an object is directly proportional to its mass. If we sent an object into a black hole, it couldn't change its gravity (or that of the entire hole) without destroying or creating matter, which is impossible.
I assume your thoughts about ripples are along the lines of having an object split up inside the black hole, so that there would be two little masses instead of one big one.. But outside the event horizon, the black hole acts like a point source of gravity, no matter how split up things were inside. --
For the love of god man! we're all going to be sucked into a black hole that will negate exsistance as we know it! Panic now! avoid the rush! we've only got a few billion years left!
Relax! Our sun will have exploded long before then. --
The velocity, or speed of the stars [...] , had been roughly measured, but the UCLA team took it a step further by using the infrared images of three stars to measure their acceleration -- or how fast the stars were speeding up
Thanks for the definitions. It really helped out those of us who have never owned, driven, or ridden in an automobile before!;) --
Sun is... saying "It says that anyone using its kit is responsible for ensuring that how it's used doesn't violate licenses, and that's not Sun's problem."
When i first read that, i didn't realize that the quote was from the author of the article -- i was shocked, thinking a Sun spokesperson said that.
CmdrTaco: You really should have edited that submission to make it more clear. --
Imagine that you had never heard of a babel fish, or what it does -- how the hell are you supposed to know that, in order to advance in the game, you have to enter the command 'PUT FISH IN EAR'?
(spoiler ahead)
You never have to enter that command. There's a babel fish dispenser in the room and not much else of interest. You're sitting around with nothing to do, so you try pushing the "Dispense" button.. It shoots out a fish and it goes right into a hole in the wall. So you put your gown on a hook on the wall and try again, and the fish hits the gown, goes down its sleeve, and into a drain. This continues, and eventually, the fish ends up in your ear as the result of a huge Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction. You never have to know it belongs in your ear; it just ends up there.
Plus, your character is carrying a copy of the hitchhikers' guide itself, and you can type
> LOOK UP BABELFISH IN GUIDE
and it will tell you all about them.
You really shouldn't have taken such an authoritative tone with such blatantly incorrect information. --
No indication is given of which calculations for data density the tiny vial pictured would be able to hold that much
Certainly!
En Français:
On ne donne aucune indication dont les calculs pour la densité d'enregistrement de données la fiole minuscule décrite pourraient tenir cela beaucoup
Auf Deutsch:
Keine Anzeige wird gegeben, von der Berechnungen für Datendichte die kleine Phiole, die dargestellt wurde, können würden, das viel anzuhalten
In italiano:
Nessun' indicazione è data di cui le calcolazioni per densità di dati la fiala molto piccola descritta potrebbero tenere quello molto
Em Português:
Nenhuma indicação é dada de que os cálculos para a densidade de dados o vial minúsculo retratado poderiam prender muito isso
En Español:
No se da ninguna indicación de la cual los cálculos para la densidad de datos el frasco minúsculo representado podrían sostener eso mucho
Imagine the universe consisted of a bunch of rocks within a few million miles of each other. Soon they're all going to merge into one big planet, which is more orderly than lots of little rocks. The reason this doesn't violate the second law is because gravitational potential energy is lost as the rocks come together. The same is true with black holes. --
What would happen if you just burned the book? Or did some other ghastly thing to it, like explode it in a hydrogen bomb, how could you then retrieve the information? Can someone explain all this?
While it might not be technologically possible for humans to reassemble the information, it would be technically possible for, say, someone with root access to the universe, to look at the state of the entire universe, and follow the trajectories of the zillions of ash particles back to their original locations, and determine exactly what the book used to be like.
To explain another way: Pretend you're a fatalist. That means that given the state of everything in the universe at time t, it it possible to determine what the state will be at time t+1. Well, neglecting black holes, you could also say that given the state of the universe at time t, you could determine what it was at time t-1. But black holes screw that up. --
The second law of thermodynamics says entropy
always increases, so this causes a bit of a problem.
No it doesn't. Substitute "planet" for "black hole" - gravitational potential energy is decreased, and entropy goes down. The second law refers only to closed systems.
If i have a solar-powered robot that organizes my sock drawer, that doesn't violate the second law because it's using energy to do so. A black hole sucking in an encyclopedia is using up energy (gravitational potential energy) to do so. --
This will allow the government to crack 5-bit encryption in fractions of a second! Think of the repercussions for privacy! No longer will the NSA have to brute force their way through the entire keyspace (more than 30 possible keys!) --
I know that "Make money slowly!" would be grammatically correct, but it's a play on the old "MAKE MONEY FAST!" messages, which should really have been "MAKE MONEY QUICKLY!".. basically, my version has to be bug-for-bug compatible with the original. --
The whole point of copyright is to encourage people to create. If they've abandoned their work, there's no need for copyright -- they've already gotten all the benefit they're going to get from it. --
It's cool and all that they fit X onto such a small handheld, but i don't think common X window managers will work well.. i mean, look at the real estate that the title bars take up. As Palm showed us, handhelds work better with a different kind of UI. --
Slashdot Mirror
IT Stress in the Workplace
Wow, that's much worse than IT Stress at home, on the weekends!
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But when you advertise on the web, you can look at your web logs to gauge the audience - you don't need to trust their logs, or Media Metrix', or anyone else's.
In fact, by looking at your own logs, you can say, "Well, Yahoo sends 10,000 people a day to my site, but only 10 of those people buy anything.. Meanwhile, Slashdot sends 1,000 people, but 500 of them end up buying stuff."
So why are such ratings needed?
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It's been said over and over again, but if the music is able to get to the listener's ear, the user is able to copy it. I don't see how this could ever be gotten around.
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Columbia is refusing to give in as well, saying:
... The University also does not block the use of any particular method of communicating or transferring information such as ftp, http, Napster, gnutella, e-mail, web drives, irc, etc., all of which can be and are used for legitimate communication and file exchange""
"Columbia University supports academic freedom and individual responsibility and does not preemptively review or monitor the contents of the files of its faculty, students, or staff that are accessible on the University network.
Isn't it nice when administrators actually get it?
--
Gravity is caused by matter (and energy, but that's usually only in infintesimal amounts - see E=mc^2) .. the force of gravity given off by an object is directly proportional to its mass. If we sent an object into a black hole, it couldn't change its gravity (or that of the entire hole) without destroying or creating matter, which is impossible.
I assume your thoughts about ripples are along the lines of having an object split up inside the black hole, so that there would be two little masses instead of one big one.. But outside the event horizon, the black hole acts like a point source of gravity, no matter how split up things were inside.
--
For the love of god man! we're all going to be sucked into a black hole that will negate exsistance as we know it! Panic now! avoid the rush! we've only got a few billion years left!
Relax! Our sun will have exploded long before then.
--
(nonetheless, they assumed that John Q. Public was already quite comfortable with concepts like triangulation)
--
The velocity, or speed of the stars [...] , had been roughly measured, but the UCLA team took it a step further by using the infrared images of three stars to measure their acceleration -- or how fast the stars were speeding up
;)
Thanks for the definitions. It really helped out those of us who have never owned, driven, or ridden in an automobile before!
--
Sun is ... saying "It says that anyone using its kit is responsible for ensuring that how it's used doesn't violate licenses, and that's not Sun's problem."
When i first read that, i didn't realize that the quote was from the author of the article -- i was shocked, thinking a Sun spokesperson said that.
CmdrTaco: You really should have edited that submission to make it more clear.
--
Who wants to bet we're going to get a ton of jokes along the lines of, "My mom once caught me speaking to my Palm.. I was so embarassed."?
--
Imagine that you had never heard of a babel fish, or what it does -- how the hell are you supposed to know that, in order to advance in the game, you have to enter the command 'PUT FISH IN EAR'?
(spoiler ahead)
You never have to enter that command. There's a babel fish dispenser in the room and not much else of interest. You're sitting around with nothing to do, so you try pushing the "Dispense" button.. It shoots out a fish and it goes right into a hole in the wall. So you put your gown on a hook on the wall and try again, and the fish hits the gown, goes down its sleeve, and into a drain. This continues, and eventually, the fish ends up in your ear as the result of a huge Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction. You never have to know it belongs in your ear; it just ends up there.
Plus, your character is carrying a copy of the hitchhikers' guide itself, and you can type
> LOOK UP BABELFISH IN GUIDE
and it will tell you all about them.
You really shouldn't have taken such an authoritative tone with such blatantly incorrect information.
--
Let's see... it only senses cameras?
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please tranlate this for me
No indication is given of which calculations for data density the tiny vial pictured would be able to hold that much
Certainly!
En Français:
On ne donne aucune indication dont les calculs pour la densité d'enregistrement de données la fiole minuscule décrite pourraient tenir cela beaucoup
Auf Deutsch:
Keine Anzeige wird gegeben, von der Berechnungen für Datendichte die kleine Phiole, die dargestellt wurde, können würden, das viel anzuhalten
In italiano:
Nessun' indicazione è data di cui le calcolazioni per densità di dati la fiala molto piccola descritta potrebbero tenere quello molto
Em Português:
Nenhuma indicação é dada de que os cálculos para a densidade de dados o vial minúsculo retratado poderiam prender muito isso
En Español:
No se da ninguna indicación de la cual los cálculos para la densidad de datos el frasco minúsculo representado podrían sostener eso mucho
Have a nice day!
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Imagine the universe consisted of a bunch of rocks within a few million miles of each other. Soon they're all going to merge into one big planet, which is more orderly than lots of little rocks. The reason this doesn't violate the second law is because gravitational potential energy is lost as the rocks come together. The same is true with black holes.
--
What would happen if you just burned the book? Or did some other ghastly thing to it, like explode it in a hydrogen bomb, how could you then retrieve the information? Can someone explain all this?
While it might not be technologically possible for humans to reassemble the information, it would be technically possible for, say, someone with root access to the universe, to look at the state of the entire universe, and follow the trajectories of the zillions of ash particles back to their original locations, and determine exactly what the book used to be like.
To explain another way: Pretend you're a fatalist. That means that given the state of everything in the universe at time t, it it possible to determine what the state will be at time t+1. Well, neglecting black holes, you could also say that given the state of the universe at time t, you could determine what it was at time t-1. But black holes screw that up.
--
The second law of thermodynamics says entropy
always increases, so this causes a bit of a problem.
No it doesn't. Substitute "planet" for "black hole" - gravitational potential energy is decreased, and entropy goes down. The second law refers only to closed systems.
If i have a solar-powered robot that organizes my sock drawer, that doesn't violate the second law because it's using energy to do so. A black hole sucking in an encyclopedia is using up energy (gravitational potential energy) to do so.
--
He specifically points to the previous acticle before saying this
Check the link - it's not to the previous article.
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This will allow the government to crack 5-bit encryption in fractions of a second! Think of the repercussions for privacy! No longer will the NSA have to brute force their way through the entire keyspace (more than 30 possible keys!)
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Pointless unless you're gaming or rendering...
On the contrary, i use voxels for word processing.
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I want to see the first use of the dot.
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Their messages can be moderated up to 11!
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Ouch!
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I know that "Make money slowly!" would be grammatically correct, but it's a play on the old "MAKE MONEY FAST!" messages, which should really have been "MAKE MONEY QUICKLY!" .. basically, my version has to be bug-for-bug compatible with the original.
--
The whole point of copyright is to encourage people to create. If they've abandoned their work, there's no need for copyright -- they've already gotten all the benefit they're going to get from it.
--
It's cool and all that they fit X onto such a small handheld, but i don't think common X window managers will work well.. i mean, look at the real estate that the title bars take up. As Palm showed us, handhelds work better with a different kind of UI.
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