Yes, we do have an approximate idea of how much a human spirit weighs. The answer is 8e-23 g, or eighty trillionths of a trillionth of a gram.
The weight of a human spirit could be tested in a lab with a sensitive enough scale. Put a dying person on a scale and watch what happens when they die.
I recall reading that someone had actually done this, but that was many years ago and from a dubious source. Has it been tried?
Hawking radiation is a very special occurence of this pair production. Supposedly, close to a black hole, it is possible that when a pair of virtual particles is created, one is eaten up by the black hole before they have a chance to anihilate one another, and the second particle manages to get away.
Actually, I thought Hawking radiation was due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle making the event horizon fuzzy so that one particle could be created inside the event horizon (and stuck inside the black hole) and the other outside (and free to escape).
What a bunch of self-righteous wankers. There's a reason that anyone with at least half a brain treats Wikipedia as an unreliable source. This is one of them.
Google can show different search results in different locations, probably due to its distributed nature and not all servers containing the same version of the data.
There is no "probably". Google goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that when you reference google.com it really goes to google.com?.XX, where XX is the country code that your IP reverse resolves to.
It didn't use to be that relentless. They started doing it when I lived in Japan and I was able to avoid google.co.jp for awhile with some magic in the URL.
Google.co.in shows the C programming language as 2 of the top four hits (1 and 3) with Vitamin C as the 2nd hit. Citibank comes in 4th. Unsurprisingly, Citibank has the largest national presence of any US bank.
In fact, I don't think Linux (or UNIX for that matter) could even do this if it wanted to, or it'd be very ugly - it would have to check the sticky bit (and other special bits), then user, group, and role for all users to generate that list.
The traditional Unix way to limit access to an executable is via group permissions and turning off all world permissions. Conceptually, this isn't any different than an ACL, except that modifying members of a group requires administrative access.
Ancient versions of Unix (System V and older) only allowed a user to be in a single group at a time. That was fixed decades ago.
The sticky bit on an executable, a hint to keep the executable in memory when the program exits, hasn't worked that way for just about as long.
Most players have gotten all of the alts they could want to level 80. Most have finished grinding out all WotLK reps to exalted that they care about and are basically biding their time (or trying to keep up with the raid progression).
Well, I guess I'm in the minority then. I'm still working on getting my first level 80 to exalted with the Wyrmrest Accord and with any luck and time this coming weekend, I'll get my 2nd level 80, but hey, I have a life.
While Apple remains quite content with its upscale OS niche - in the fat years, worth about 5%-10% of the client market, domestically.
In the meantime, in a very bad economy, AAPL is making record profit. Something Is Wrong with your picture.
I'm a hardcore Linux guy. I "signed on" to contribute my share to what has now become Linux over two decades ago. I am a programmer. I lost count long ago of how many different programming languages I've had to deal with.
I've always mocked people (or silently gagged) when I've seen people do things on Microsoft Windows in front of me - "you're in a twisty maze of gui menus, all alike". I did give Microsoft Windows XP a try 3 years ago for about 6 months in deference to a boss whom I respected. Using it made me want to drive an ice pick through my forehead.
I had never owned a Mac until the summer of 2007 when I wanted to buy a notebook computer but wanted some flavor/descendent of Unix on it. The only thing I could buy in a brick mortar store in the US without Microsoft Windows was a Macbook Pro and I like it.
It comes with/bin/zsh,/usr/bin/emacs and X11. X11 windows coexist nicely with "native" Mac windows. It takes only a few seconds knowing nothing about Mac OS X to fix the big key to the left of the A key to be a Control key as God intended - even faster than KDE. 10.4 was still a toy system like Microsoft Windows XP, but 10.5 brought virtual desktops (my *must have* feature for a serious computer).
You Microsoft fanbois can diss Mac OS X to your heart's content, but there is serious goodness in it. The Apple guys have managed to achieve my fondest dream - matching a user friendly GUI to a hardcore power O/S.
(Oh and for you gamers, has it escaped notice that the most successful gaming company, Blizzard, releases all their games on Mac?)
The tech has changed (Clouds are replacing Mainframes) but some people are still thinking the same way. There is a certain move in this direction but to say that people will not have their own "local" horsepower sitting around I believe is extrapolating a tech-craze beyond where it is actually going to end up.
It hasn't really changed. Microsoft killed AT&T Unix in the late 1980s because of software licensing costs. It was a no brainer - do you want to pay ~US$100 per seat or ~US$1000 per seat?
The trend towards things like Citrix with centralized apps not residing on a user's local machine will continue.
You realize that you can use / in path names anywhere in Windows, right?
Heh. That DOS 2.0ism is still there? In DOS 2.0 (when subdirectories were brilliantly innovated) the system code that decoded path names accepted either slashes or backslashes. There was also an undocumented system call that allowed one to change the switch character away from the slash.
You can (try to) take the Windows out of DOS, but you cannot take the DOS out of Windows. Or, something like that.
What useful features is Mac OS X missing? I can't think of any and I'm a (very) hard core Linux guy.
Or do you mean that Apple has committed the unforgivable sin of including vim and FSF Emacs on the installation CD and omitted XEmacs? On that, I can agree.
And then there are people who don't fit in anywhere else and decide they want to unite with other awkward people, and working with computers is a byproduct of that. This is the type who says, "Gee, I like video games, I should be a computer developer." Bleh.
/duel
Meet me in the Dalaran sewer or anywhere else convenient.
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Yes, we do have an approximate idea of how much a human spirit weighs. The answer is 8e-23 g, or eighty trillionths of a trillionth of a gram.
The weight of a human spirit could be tested in a lab with a sensitive enough scale. Put a dying person on a scale and watch what happens when they die.
I recall reading that someone had actually done this, but that was many years ago and from a dubious source. Has it been tried?
Hawking radiation is a very special occurence of this pair production. Supposedly, close to a black hole, it is possible that when a pair of virtual particles is created, one is eaten up by the black hole before they have a chance to anihilate one another, and the second particle manages to get away.
Actually, I thought Hawking radiation was due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle making the event horizon fuzzy so that one particle could be created inside the event horizon (and stuck inside the black hole) and the other outside (and free to escape).
What a bunch of self-righteous wankers. There's a reason that anyone with at least half a brain treats Wikipedia as an unreliable source. This is one of them.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to rampant stupidity and incompetence. This is EA afterall.
Heh. This is the same week they released a beta Tiger Woods Online golf game that has a payment screen that rejects valid credit cards.
Way to go EA! You guys are really on a roll ...
Google can show different search results in different locations, probably due to its distributed nature and not all servers containing the same version of the data.
There is no "probably". Google goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that when you reference google.com it really goes to google.com?.XX, where XX is the country code that your IP reverse resolves to.
It didn't use to be that relentless. They started doing it when I lived in Japan and I was able to avoid google.co.jp for awhile with some magic in the URL.
Google.co.in shows the C programming language as 2 of the top four hits (1 and 3) with Vitamin C as the 2nd hit. Citibank comes in 4th. Unsurprisingly, Citibank has the largest national presence of any US bank.
Esther Schindler is a troll.
You are not expected to understand this.
You're not looking very hard.
In fact, I don't think Linux (or UNIX for that matter) could even do this if it wanted to, or it'd be very ugly - it would have to check the sticky bit (and other special bits), then user, group, and role for all users to generate that list.
The traditional Unix way to limit access to an executable is via group permissions and turning off all world permissions. Conceptually, this isn't any different than an ACL, except that modifying members of a group requires administrative access.
Ancient versions of Unix (System V and older) only allowed a user to be in a single group at a time. That was fixed decades ago.
The sticky bit on an executable, a hint to keep the executable in memory when the program exits, hasn't worked that way for just about as long.
Death of Usenet predicted! Film at 11.
Most players have gotten all of the alts they could want to level 80. Most have finished grinding out all WotLK reps to exalted that they care about and are basically biding their time (or trying to keep up with the raid progression).
Well, I guess I'm in the minority then. I'm still working on getting my first level 80 to exalted with the Wyrmrest Accord and with any luck and time this coming weekend, I'll get my 2nd level 80, but hey, I have a life.
While Apple remains quite content with its upscale OS niche - in the fat years, worth about 5%-10% of the client market, domestically.
In the meantime, in a very bad economy, AAPL is making record profit. Something Is Wrong with your picture.
I'm a hardcore Linux guy. I "signed on" to contribute my share to what has now become Linux over two decades ago. I am a programmer. I lost count long ago of how many different programming languages I've had to deal with.
I've always mocked people (or silently gagged) when I've seen people do things on Microsoft Windows in front of me - "you're in a twisty maze of gui menus, all alike". I did give Microsoft Windows XP a try 3 years ago for about 6 months in deference to a boss whom I respected. Using it made me want to drive an ice pick through my forehead.
I had never owned a Mac until the summer of 2007 when I wanted to buy a notebook computer but wanted some flavor/descendent of Unix on it. The only thing I could buy in a brick mortar store in the US without Microsoft Windows was a Macbook Pro and I like it.
It comes with /bin/zsh, /usr/bin/emacs and X11. X11 windows coexist nicely with "native" Mac windows. It takes only a few seconds knowing nothing about Mac OS X to fix the big key to the left of the A key to be a Control key as God intended - even faster than KDE. 10.4 was still a toy system like Microsoft Windows XP, but 10.5 brought virtual desktops (my *must have* feature for a serious computer).
You Microsoft fanbois can diss Mac OS X to your heart's content, but there is serious goodness in it. The Apple guys have managed to achieve my fondest dream - matching a user friendly GUI to a hardcore power O/S.
(Oh and for you gamers, has it escaped notice that the most successful gaming company, Blizzard, releases all their games on Mac?)
The tech has changed (Clouds are replacing Mainframes) but some people are still thinking the same way. There is a certain move in this direction but to say that people will not have their own "local" horsepower sitting around I believe is extrapolating a tech-craze beyond where it is actually going to end up.
It hasn't really changed. Microsoft killed AT&T Unix in the late 1980s because of software licensing costs. It was a no brainer - do you want to pay ~US$100 per seat or ~US$1000 per seat?
The trend towards things like Citrix with centralized apps not residing on a user's local machine will continue.
The only "web" applications I use are flash games and stuff for school.
You will if you can find a job when you get out of school.
(And more than likely, I will be supporting something you are required to use at work. Frightening, isn't it?)
Does this remark seem strange to anyone else ? I, honestly, am not seeing this trend at all, but I've seen it talked about.
I am seeing it. The trend began in Asia almost a decade ago. The US is just starting to catch up.
I've always loved hand held units over desktops. Notebook computers are a decent second. For casual browsing and email, hand held wins hands down.
Yes, the "Windows 7 refuses to be installed if it can't write to the first partition of the first hard drive",
Now that is hilarious. This is a joke, right?
Um, Microsoft Windows XP and XP/SP1 are the most popular botnet OSes. Does this mean I can look forward to more delightful v14gr4 spam?
I see no compelling reason to attend any Windows 7 "Support Our Corporation" Party unless Pamela Anderson has accepted to do a striptease.
+1 insightful for the comparison. Yes, Pamela Anderson seems to be very much like a Microsoft Windows installation.
You realize that you can use / in path names anywhere in Windows, right?
Heh. That DOS 2.0ism is still there? In DOS 2.0 (when subdirectories were brilliantly innovated) the system code that decoded path names accepted either slashes or backslashes. There was also an undocumented system call that allowed one to change the switch character away from the slash.
You can (try to) take the Windows out of DOS, but you cannot take the DOS out of Windows. Or, something like that.
What useful features is Mac OS X missing? I can't think of any and I'm a (very) hard core Linux guy.
Or do you mean that Apple has committed the unforgivable sin of including vim and FSF Emacs on the installation CD and omitted XEmacs? On that, I can agree.
UbuntuDupe, is that you?
And then there are people who don't fit in anywhere else and decide they want to unite with other awkward people, and working with computers is a byproduct of that. This is the type who says, "Gee, I like video games, I should be a computer developer." Bleh.
/duel
Meet me in the Dalaran sewer or anywhere else convenient.
But you're showing all the signs of not knowing what Facebook does.
Guilty as charged, hence my careful disclaimer.
I like gated communities under some circumstances, but as a general rule, email is the best way to get a hold of me or any one.
It would be the same thing as saying FReepmail me. (Do you know what that means?)
I can't tell if the cartoon is a parody or not.
It's real. And now I have an unmistakable urge to go play some World of Warcraft on my warlock.
But, if I need to contact my Veteran's Administration office, I simply don't know how to do that on Facebook.
I know how to get to the first aid trainer in Dalaran. What if I don't know how to access Facebook?
Seriously. I like Facebook, but Holy crap on a catapult, everybody I'm friends with seems to be playing those games.
Hey! I've killed 300 murlocs tonight! Are you trying to tell me that all my adoring fans do not want to hear about it?