Not so I can be an Anial Hyper Liberal and put work and effort to Fast Forward threw comericals just because they are there.
And people used to say TV rots the mind. Well, you showed them.
Heh. I was thinking the same thing! Now, if he had had something like this, it would have been an all-together different think:
Ant pee pull yews twos hay tea vee wroughts dumb hind. Wail, ewe sloughed 'hem.:)
Douglas Spolyar1, Katherine Freese2,3, and Paolo Gondolo4
1 Physics Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
2 Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
3 Visiting Miller Professor, Miller Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
4 Physics Dept., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
dspolyar@physics.ucsc.edu, ktfreese@umich.edu, paolo@physics.utah.edu
A mechanism is identified whereby dark matter (DM) in protostellar halos dramatically alters the
current theoretical framework for the formation of the first stars. Heat from neutralino DM annihilation
is shown to overwhelm any cooling mechanism, consequently impeding the star formation
process and possibly leading to a new stellar phase. A "dark star" may result: a giant (> 1 AU)
hydrogen-helium star powered by DM annihilation instead of nuclear fusion, and detectable via
annihilation products (gamma-rays, neutrinos, antimatter) possibly in combination with hydrogen
lines. (emphasis added)
Have you ever heard the term "Mad as a Hatter"? Maybe, but you probably do know who the Mad Hatter is.
Mad as a Hatter is a term that stems from "Hatters" (hat makers) using Mercury in the formation of hats. It was used in the process of removing hair from animal hides. All the hatters ultimately went insane or had the other symptons of mercury poisioning.
That's where the term comes from, and that's where the idea for the "Mad Hatter" came from for Alice in Wonderland. What does this have to do with the article? Nothing really, just trying to spread some random information.
According to: Mad As a Hatter at snopes.com, this is but one possibility. Here is some of what I found there:
In the 18th century, mercury salts were used to make felt for fancy hats. The process required copious amounts of the element, a substance then not known to be as dangerous as we now know it to be.
Hat makers who day after day handled mercury-soaked fabric risked mercury poisoning, a condition that affects the nervous systems. Those so exposed would in time develop uncontrollable twitches and trembles, making them appear demented to the casual observer.
Even though there exists a strong tie between mercury poisoning and strange behavior in those long-ago hatters, it's still more than likely the term we now toss about so casually did not spring from this combination.
and:
Even though there exists a strong tie between mercury poisoning and strange behavior in those long-ago hatters, it's still more than likely the term we now toss about so casually did not spring from this combination.
and:
Whether Carroll meant his "hatter" as a caricature of a known crackpot, a play on mad as a March hare, as a bit of tomfoolery about venomous vipers, or as a combination of all three, it seems clear that the only relation his use of the term had to mercury-maddened hat makers was that of coincidence.
A lot of good comments go unnoticed because they get a 0 score (for being ACs), while an entire ocean of useless babble get automatically promoted to +1 (registered users) or +2 (karma loaded jerks).
What I would like to see is something along the lines of:
threshold=n show all posts whose moderation is greater than or equal to n.
moderation=n show all posts whose moderation is exactly n.
submitter=AC show only posts by anonymous cowards.
That way, I can look at only the -1, or only the +5, etc. This would allow a helpful scan of moderations... "Are all of these -1's really deserving of being moderated into oblivion?", OR "Are all of these +5 posts equally deserving of being top-rated?", etc.
Is there a way to do something like this already? If so how? If not, are there others here who would make use of such a tool, or even better, be willing to add this capability to the slashcode?
Yes, this might be a darn sight better than what currently exists, but having all the systems have the same configuration is just ASKING for trouble. I predict that within two years, some virus or the like which would have attacked just a department or two is going to hit a huge swath across multiple departments, instead.
Unless, of course, the federal government has figured out how to configure their systems to be entirely secure. In which cse, I'd suggest they share it with Microsoft and the rest of the systems on the internet.
I don't get it. The flame expands outward to the surface in less than a second. I am ok so far. Now to do that the material would need to have a lot of momentum in the direction it is going, so how does it suddenly turn around and crash into itself on the other side? Not by gravity, or? Is there a pressure wave caused by the flame that travels along the surface and meets with itself on the other side, causing increased pressure and detonation as a result?
I found that passage confusing, too. I did some googling and found another (quite readable)
article
that suggests it is the latter:
It maps the progress of stellar ash and nuclear flame from the start as a tiny instability at or near the center of the star to the point where this "bubble" of material bursts through the star's surface and spreads out. It encircles the surface of the star, pushing a tidal wave of material ahead of it.
In actuality, it says "Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site." - Webmaster Guidelines, Technical Guidelines section, bullet point 1. (emphasis added)
Can anyone here recommend a good place to download a current port of Lynx for Windows/XP?
I'd like to be able to get formatted text out of a web page. I'm thinking along the lines of:
lynx foo.htm > foo.txt
(I'd prefer a version that DOES NOT require Cygwin, as I use the GNU file/text/etc. utilities.)
With all the web exploits that are out there, I'm relucant to download an out-of-date, vulnerable, and/or or poorly-ported port.
I'd appreciate knowing what YOU have found that works well, is up-to-date, and actively developed.
How is this not Slash [wikipedia.org], from our truly and good Slashdot? Everything is there, from Score to karma to Mod points. This is far from being wiki, and much more like being slash.
It sure sounds like it to me. In fact, I suggested much the same thing as this here:
PatentDot on Feb 19, 2006.
I don't know if they actually referred to this post when they designed this system, but it seems to have the same elements involved. Heh. Maybe I should have patented it? <grin>
The problem is that when this hits big in the media it is going to be a larger embarrassment than if the police department just told the people the truth or lied and said it was official business.
No kidding! Watch WSB-TV (Atlanta) video with an interview of the the Sipples, picture of the cop, etc.
Sounds Familiar...
on
Interstellar Ark
·
· Score: 5, Informative
For an interesting read on what such a ship might be like, take a look at:
Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I read it not long after it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly acclaimed, too:
Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973
Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1974
Jupiter Award for Best Novel in 1974
PMD defined
on
PMD Applied
·
· Score: 3, Informative
A simile depends on having a kind of mapping between one domain and another....
THAT has to be the most lucid and helpful explanation of a simile that I have EVER seen. It had always been explained to me as: a comparison that used "like" or "as". So entirely inadequate compared to your definition and examples. As someone who actually enjoyed studying grammar and who is also a bit of a wordsmith, you've filled in a great gap in my understanding. Thank You!
I took a quick look at Wikipedia's definition of
simile
-- it's the same old inadequate explanation I'd been taught. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE upgrade their defintion of simile with yours!!! (I'd do it myself, but you deserve the credit.)
Among other nanotechnological breakthroughs, Kurzweil says it will be possible to inject robotic blood cells that will enable you to "sit at the bottom of a swimming pool for 4 hours."
Big Deal. I can do that NOW, without any nano-anything. Heck, I bet YOU can, too!
Now, if you insist on filling the pool with water... <grin>
(Couldn't access the article's screen capture - site's bandwidth exceeded.)
I did some googling around, and it appears that Mac Pro systems have been known to Kernel Panic in a number of cases after a memory upgrade. Have you considered that you might have TWO (intermittent) problems?
FYI - Page 2 of PC site Anandtech's Mac Pro upgrades article has comments on using standard heatsink FB-Dimms (which some readers previously reported worked ok so far at least, although others have noted ECC error corrections)
"We had no problems running all of our benchmarks with the standard (flat heatsink) Crucial FB-DIMMs; however, if we ran a memory stress test for even just a short period of time the modules quickly reported correctable ECC errors. (Apple system profiler memory status section) Apple's original modules did not generate any ECC errors, so it looks like the additional cooling is necessary under the most extreme situations." (emphasis added)
Questions:
What brand of memory did you upgrade with? Apple? Crucial? Kingston? Other?
Did your memory have the standard-sized or larger-sized heat sinks?
What memory stress tests have you run?
Were any ECC errors reported?
What was the distribution of memory in your system? (which boards of what size and manufacture in
which risers?)
If you pull the original memory and use just the upgrade memory, does the problem still exist?
(Nobody on the team was especially aware of this DTD file since all of the old Netscape employees were let go last year around the time Netscape.com was redeveloped; anybody working at Netscape now was hired since then.)
Now, why this file was living under my.netscape.com is anybody's guess, but we'll have it restored ASAP. I only wish that someone had brought it to our attention so that I didn't have to find out about it from Slashdot.
Ummm, maybe I'm mising something here, but I would think that your web log would show a spike in 404 errors for this file, right? In my experience, it is helpful to assume that I do not know what I don't know, and to put procedures in place to help make those omissions stick out.
So, a scan of your log files not only for this file, but for any others that also have a high number of 404's (especially from a multitude of referers) would be worth investigating.
Very interesting idea, and many thanks for sharing your efforts and results with us here!
A Question: Have you checked with your Homeowner's Insurance Company about coverage in case of a leak? What extra rider(s) are required on your insurance policy? Better to find out now, beforehand, if there are holes in your coverage and what you can do to fill them.
An Anecdote: A relative removed a solar hot water heater from his home because of some continuing plumbing issues... and discovered he SAVED MONEY WITHOUT THE SOLAR HEATER. Apparently, the energy required to pump the water around was greater than the energy obtained from the heat exchanger on his roof.
An Observation: According to the article, water is pumped from the in-ground pool (From the looks of the pictures) up into the house's attic where the PCs are located.
A Suggestion: Move the PCs into a special area adjacent to the pool(*), and run cables up to the attic (or wherever) you want the display, keyboard, mice, etc. There are a wide variety of
KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) switches. Some send information back and forth over ethernet cables -- "KVM over IP". Depending on the model, one can find support for speakers and/or other peripherals, too. (Or, just have a small, quiet machine in your attic and share it's devices over the network.)
For cooling, a simple heat exchanger between the (nearby) pool and the enclosure for the PCs should suffice. I *suspect* it could even work out to be a mostly PASSIVE arrangement by taking advantage of the fact that heat rises.
I saw no mention of the cost to purchase and install all the plumbing, but I can't help but suspect it was a significant amount. Then again, the KVMs and cables are not free, either. Given a choice, however, I'd *personally* feel A LOT SAFER knowing that I don't have a pool's worth of corrosive water being pumped THROUGH my PCs and poised to be pumped into my home's attic.
I'm looking forward to learning what changes you make to your system and would appreciate your posting them here.
(*) There seemed to be a goodly amount of space in the picture showing the installation of the new pump; the PCs could be located there. Or, construct a special Gazebo for your pool that happens to also have space for your PCs.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. I was thinking the same thing! Now, if he had had something like this, it would have been an all-together different think: Ant pee pull yews twos hay tea vee wroughts dumb hind. Wail, ewe sloughed 'hem. :)
That's a great one! Here are a few of *MY* favorites:
The translations:
These are all I can remember at the moment. I'd love to have more to add to my "funny file", please reply with your favorites!
So, a "bright idea", gives an additional meaning to the phrase: "The sky's the limit!" :^)
Here is the PDF: Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution
Here is the abstract:
"Me too!" :^)
<spinal_tap_mode> :^)
Big Deal. You should see what the pha-11 gene can do!
</spinal_tap_mode>
According to: Mad As a Hatter at snopes.com, this is but one possibility. Here is some of what I found there:
and: and:What I would like to see is something along the lines of:
That way, I can look at only the -1, or only the +5, etc. This would allow a helpful scan of moderations... "Are all of these -1's really deserving of being moderated into oblivion?", OR "Are all of these +5 posts equally deserving of being top-rated?", etc.
Is there a way to do something like this already? If so how? If not, are there others here who would make use of such a tool, or even better, be willing to add this capability to the slashcode?
One word: Monoculture.
Yes, this might be a darn sight better than what currently exists, but having all the systems have the same configuration is just ASKING for trouble. I predict that within two years, some virus or the like which would have attacked just a department or two is going to hit a huge swath across multiple departments, instead.
Unless, of course, the federal government has figured out how to configure their systems to be entirely secure. In which cse, I'd suggest they share it with Microsoft and the rest of the systems on the internet.
I found that passage confusing, too. I did some googling and found another (quite readable) article that suggests it is the latter:
Can anyone here recommend a good place to download a current port of Lynx for Windows/XP? I'd like to be able to get formatted text out of a web page. I'm thinking along the lines of:
(I'd prefer a version that DOES NOT require Cygwin, as I use the GNU file/text/etc. utilities.) With all the web exploits that are out there, I'm relucant to download an out-of-date, vulnerable, and/or or poorly-ported port.
I'd appreciate knowing what YOU have found that works well, is up-to-date, and actively developed.
It sure sounds like it to me. In fact, I suggested much the same thing as this here: PatentDot on Feb 19, 2006.
I don't know if they actually referred to this post when they designed this system, but it seems to have the same elements involved. Heh. Maybe I should have patented it? <grin>
No kidding! Watch WSB-TV (Atlanta) video with an interview of the the Sipples, picture of the cop, etc.
For an interesting read on what such a ship might be like, take a look at: Rendevous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. I read it not long after it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly acclaimed, too:
Look at the sourceforge definition of PMD .
THAT has to be the most lucid and helpful explanation of a simile that I have EVER seen. It had always been explained to me as: a comparison that used "like" or "as". So entirely inadequate compared to your definition and examples. As someone who actually enjoyed studying grammar and who is also a bit of a wordsmith, you've filled in a great gap in my understanding. Thank You!
I took a quick look at Wikipedia's definition of simile -- it's the same old inadequate explanation I'd been taught. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE upgrade their defintion of simile with yours!!! (I'd do it myself, but you deserve the credit.)
Big Deal. I can do that NOW, without any nano-anything. Heck, I bet YOU can, too!
Now, if you insist on filling the pool with water... <grin>
BTW: Is this an altruistic link? <grin>
From the 2nd article:
I guess that's ONE way to do it. <grin>
(Couldn't access the article's screen capture - site's bandwidth exceeded.)
I did some googling around, and it appears that Mac Pro systems have been known to Kernel Panic in a number of cases after a memory upgrade. Have you considered that you might have TWO (intermittent) problems?
According to this http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/Mac_Pro/mac_pro _ram.html upgrade memory should have larger heatsinks than standard heatsinked FB-Dimms. It has links to: memory test utilities, ECC correction reports, and most notably:
Questions:
Hope this helps!
Doh! <wipes egg from face>. Point made. I would still love to get my hands on their logs to see what other important pages may be failing.
Ummm, maybe I'm mising something here, but I would think that your web log would show a spike in 404 errors for this file, right? In my experience, it is helpful to assume that I do not know what I don't know, and to put procedures in place to help make those omissions stick out. So, a scan of your log files not only for this file, but for any others that also have a high number of 404's (especially from a multitude of referers) would be worth investigating.
BTW, best of luck on the redesign!
Links to the sources:
BTW: A quote I saw on the latter site:
Very interesting idea, and many thanks for sharing your efforts and results with us here!
A Question: Have you checked with your Homeowner's Insurance Company about coverage in case of a leak? What extra rider(s) are required on your insurance policy? Better to find out now, beforehand, if there are holes in your coverage and what you can do to fill them.
An Anecdote: A relative removed a solar hot water heater from his home because of some continuing plumbing issues... and discovered he SAVED MONEY WITHOUT THE SOLAR HEATER. Apparently, the energy required to pump the water around was greater than the energy obtained from the heat exchanger on his roof.
An Observation: According to the article, water is pumped from the in-ground pool (From the looks of the pictures) up into the house's attic where the PCs are located.
A Suggestion: Move the PCs into a special area adjacent to the pool(*), and run cables up to the attic (or wherever) you want the display, keyboard, mice, etc. There are a wide variety of KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) switches. Some send information back and forth over ethernet cables -- "KVM over IP". Depending on the model, one can find support for speakers and/or other peripherals, too. (Or, just have a small, quiet machine in your attic and share it's devices over the network.)
For cooling, a simple heat exchanger between the (nearby) pool and the enclosure for the PCs should suffice. I *suspect* it could even work out to be a mostly PASSIVE arrangement by taking advantage of the fact that heat rises.
I saw no mention of the cost to purchase and install all the plumbing, but I can't help but suspect it was a significant amount. Then again, the KVMs and cables are not free, either. Given a choice, however, I'd *personally* feel A LOT SAFER knowing that I don't have a pool's worth of corrosive water being pumped THROUGH my PCs and poised to be pumped into my home's attic.
I'm looking forward to learning what changes you make to your system and would appreciate your posting them here.
(*) There seemed to be a goodly amount of space in the picture showing the installation of the new pump; the PCs could be located there. Or, construct a special Gazebo for your pool that happens to also have space for your PCs.