If Kazaa wins, could this mean that all "evidence" presented against people that they have been illegally sharing copyrighted music must be thrown out?
There is a bit more reason to believe CO2 is causing the warmup than corrolation.
Scientists are running climate models on supercomputers, and simulating the effect with and without the human-emitted CO2. When the scientists recommend cutting CO2 emition is desireable it is probably because they have run the numbers through their simulations.
Holy shit... that was a whole heap load of empty words.
Basically all you said was that scientists are running climatic simulations... and scientitst think cutting C02 emission is "desireable" probably because they "ran the numbers through their simulations".
So you made no actual conclusion there... no actual argument either way... but just said "they're running simulations and probably running the numbers through it".
For example, when a consumer buys what he thinks is a 150 gigabyte hard drive, the plaintiffs said, he actually gets only 140 gigabytes of storage space. That missing 10 gigabytes, they claim, could store an extra 2,000 digitized songs or 20,000 pictures.
::insert joke about 20,000 pictures really should be 20480 or something::
If the consumer was actually an intelligent consumer, they would have noticed that the units of measurment are printed (somewhere) on the box.
Sure in the future the extra 10Gigs will be noticed, but when you have 150Gigs already, how much porn and ripped songs do you need anyway? 300,000 pictures? 30,000 songs? I'm doin just fine with my 40.
Lawsuits to come:
The People vs. Monitor Manufacturers
The People vs. ISP's for "confusing" them on how fast their connection really is
Drivers vs. Car Manufactures because not all the HP advertised is transfered to the wheels
The People vs. Potatoe Chip makers because the bag size is "misleading"
The People vs. Intel for falsely marketing Celerons as "fast" in TV ads
It's called street smarts, but I guess it's ok to be stupid and sue everybody because you didn't know what the hell you were buying.
Nasa played around with dragging wires through the atmosphere to generate static electricity.
This thing will could possibly generate HUGE amounts of SE as the atmosphere whizzes past it 24/7. Are there plans to capture and use this electricity or what??
For one, it's not static electricity... it's just electricity. The current is flowing through the wire (thus it is not static). This experiment was just the shuttle dangling a very long wire from the space shuttle in order to generate electricity due to a neat effect that happends when you move a wire through an electromagnetic field (in this case, the earth's). Sadly, the wire broke and the experiment was dumped (to my best knowledge).
Since this space elevator will NOT be moving with respect to the earths magnetosphere, this will generate no (non-static) electricity.
#8: US/British forces knowingly use illegal depleted uranium weapons in Gulf War
I had no idea that depleted uranium was illegal to use as munition? Really it's not radio-active anymore, just really frekin heavy.
Anyway, how is that "unpublished"? If you are any sort of war-buff, aviation-buff, or anything else that would tie you to knowing about the A10 Warthog, you would know that the A10 uses depleted uranium rounds in its massively powerful gun. In fact, I just watched a special about the A10 and it's role in the Gulf War and how they used those rounds to easily penitrate the hull of enemy tanks.
So we used heavy bullets.... what about the chemicals that Iraq used?
"What it leaves behind," Dr. Susskind said, "it's hard to say. Almost certainly not a livable universe."
Livable? To our current standards, no. Livable in some other form, I'd bet my last 2 cents on it.
Somehow flatland comes to mind with that statement... anyway...
It is somewhat arrogant to say that life cannot exist in that universe in which it's description is "hard to say". It is also somewhat arrogant to say that we can understand our universe from the 4 dimensions that we are trapped in... especially concidering that the universe we are describing has dimensions beyond ours. Our 4-dimensional way of thinking can be applied to 10+ dimensional universes? To me that's like trying to apply algebra to calculus... or better yet, sureal numbers.
What I'm trying to get at is the very question of if we are capable of understanding our universe fully, or are we stuck in our close-minded 4-dimensional realm in which there is no escape? And their statement of life certianly brings up the philosophical question of the very definition of life or sentient beings.
There's just too many unanswered questions that many of these statements are balancing on. If one were to take my opinion seriously, I'd say that we're going to reach a limit to our scientific discoveries until a revolution of the accepted philosophical model of the universe is undergone.
The author says that suborbital RLVs, like what Carmack, Rutan, and the other X Prize contenders are working on, will create a business cycle that will eventually lead to orbital vehicles.
So basically we just sit back on our asses and wait for a business to evolve so space exploration is profitable? Doesn't sound like true science exploration or engineering to me, just a bunch of people who only look at it for the dollars and cents.
First of all, I want to point out that American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
Anndd... how many of those people were there 30 or 40 years ago to be "unsympathetic"?
The idea is for computers to learn how to use with users -- instead of vice versa.
I can just imagine tech support phone calls:
Tech: Ok, now tap Ctrl-Esc to bring up your start menu.
Customer: Oh... I usually don't do that.
Tech: Ok then, just click on it with your mouse.
Customer: My start menu dissappeared because I never click on it.
Tech: Then what DO you do?
Customer: Oh I forget... Apple-Shift-V? Wait... no...
Tech:.... Ok, then just double click on "My Computer".
Customer: Oh! That! I usually just pound on the left side of my keyboard until it comes up, but I broke it yesterday so I only have the mouse. But I never used my mouse before to do that so moving it just shuts down my computer.
the G5 edged out the Xeon 17.2 to 16.7 in the integer score and 15.7 to 11.1 in the floating point tests, suggesting Apple makes far better use of its two CPUs than the Xeon machine
Looks to me like we're coming into a new age of sattelites. Instead of just having sattelites orbit around, decompose, then fall into the atmosphere, we'll now have "helper" satellites that just go around and repair the others... like nano-bots in a system repairing the damaged components. This could possibly lead to little sattelites swarming around the ISS that will perform routine matenance.
But who will repair the helper sattelites? One of his helper friends, of course.
I've never met anybody who was smart enough to write a good virus and simultaneously preferred using Microsoft Windows as his/her desktop OS.
And how many people of that do you know?
I knnow many acomplished programmers that could definately write some nasty things if they wanted to. Yes, they're smart enough, and yes they use Windows on their main computer.
Using Windows isn't about how smart you are, how computer literate you are, or any other characteristic that you may posses... it's just about what you wan't out of the OS.
Do I use windows? yes. Do I use linux? No. Can I use linux? Yes. What Unix variant do i use? BSD (open/free).
That has nothing to do with my intelligence, social status, political background, religion, skin-color, sexuality, health, whatever weird excuse you come up with... it's just using the right tool for the right job. Simple enough.
According to an article on cdfreaks.com, a test done by the Dutch PC-Active magazine showed that among 30 different CD-R brands tested, a lot of them were already unreadable after twenty months
That is, of course, 2-year-old CR-R technology they tested. Have they improved them at all?
flares release enough dangerous radiation that it would kill anyone who stayed on the moon's surface for an extended period of time.
Correct me if I'm wrong (which I very well may be), but I thought that the moon was well within the earth's magnetosphere. The only problem was that it didn't have an atmosphere to block out certian radiation.
Candidates Arnold Shwarzenegger and Larry Flynt surely haven't been asked the vital "Vi or Emacs?" question, and would probably give you a blank stare in reply if it came up.
That's because anyone with an answer has probably never had oral sex.
Now now... don't take your shortcomings and complain about them on slashdot...
SCO is selling Linux licenses now... what happens after they loose the battle in court?...do the people who bought licenses get ther money back? Does SCO get sued?
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If Kazaa wins, could this mean that all "evidence" presented against people that they have been illegally sharing copyrighted music must be thrown out?
There is a bit more reason to believe CO2 is causing the warmup than corrolation.
...and that got "insightful"???
Scientists are running climate models on supercomputers, and simulating the effect with and without the human-emitted CO2. When the scientists recommend cutting CO2 emition is desireable it is probably because they have run the numbers through their simulations.
Holy shit... that was a whole heap load of empty words.
Basically all you said was that scientists are running climatic simulations... and scientitst think cutting C02 emission is "desireable" probably because they "ran the numbers through their simulations".
So you made no actual conclusion there... no actual argument either way... but just said "they're running simulations and probably running the numbers through it".
exactly who the hell accurately knew the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in the 1500's... or 1800's?
Java is the SUV of programming languages.
You mean big, slow, and gas guzzling?
That's been around for years now...
If the consumer was actually an intelligent consumer, they would have noticed that the units of measurment are printed (somewhere) on the box.
Sure in the future the extra 10Gigs will be noticed, but when you have 150Gigs already, how much porn and ripped songs do you need anyway? 300,000 pictures? 30,000 songs? I'm doin just fine with my 40.
Lawsuits to come:
It's called street smarts, but I guess it's ok to be stupid and sue everybody because you didn't know what the hell you were buying.
I found most interesting was that Sony will also be named in the lawsuit because GTA was exclusive to their console.
Ummm... so what have I been playing on my PC? I could have sworn it was GTA 2, 3, Vice City... etc...
Should they sue PC makers as well?
Nasa played around with dragging wires through the atmosphere to generate static electricity.
This thing will could possibly generate HUGE amounts of SE as the atmosphere whizzes past it 24/7. Are there plans to capture and use this electricity or what??
For one, it's not static electricity... it's just electricity. The current is flowing through the wire (thus it is not static). This experiment was just the shuttle dangling a very long wire from the space shuttle in order to generate electricity due to a neat effect that happends when you move a wire through an electromagnetic field (in this case, the earth's). Sadly, the wire broke and the experiment was dumped (to my best knowledge).
Since this space elevator will NOT be moving with respect to the earths magnetosphere, this will generate no (non-static) electricity.
#8: US/British forces knowingly use illegal depleted uranium weapons in Gulf War
I had no idea that depleted uranium was illegal to use as munition? Really it's not radio-active anymore, just really frekin heavy.
Anyway, how is that "unpublished"? If you are any sort of war-buff, aviation-buff, or anything else that would tie you to knowing about the A10 Warthog, you would know that the A10 uses depleted uranium rounds in its massively powerful gun. In fact, I just watched a special about the A10 and it's role in the Gulf War and how they used those rounds to easily penitrate the hull of enemy tanks.
So we used heavy bullets.... what about the chemicals that Iraq used?
"What it leaves behind," Dr. Susskind said, "it's hard to say. Almost certainly not a livable universe."
Livable? To our current standards, no. Livable in some other form, I'd bet my last 2 cents on it.
Somehow flatland comes to mind with that statement... anyway...
It is somewhat arrogant to say that life cannot exist in that universe in which it's description is "hard to say". It is also somewhat arrogant to say that we can understand our universe from the 4 dimensions that we are trapped in... especially concidering that the universe we are describing has dimensions beyond ours. Our 4-dimensional way of thinking can be applied to 10+ dimensional universes? To me that's like trying to apply algebra to calculus... or better yet, sureal numbers.
What I'm trying to get at is the very question of if we are capable of understanding our universe fully, or are we stuck in our close-minded 4-dimensional realm in which there is no escape? And their statement of life certianly brings up the philosophical question of the very definition of life or sentient beings.
There's just too many unanswered questions that many of these statements are balancing on. If one were to take my opinion seriously, I'd say that we're going to reach a limit to our scientific discoveries until a revolution of the accepted philosophical model of the universe is undergone.
And until that happens, I'll be watching TV.
The author says that suborbital RLVs, like what Carmack, Rutan, and the other X Prize contenders are working on, will create a business cycle that will eventually lead to orbital vehicles.
So basically we just sit back on our asses and wait for a business to evolve so space exploration is profitable? Doesn't sound like true science exploration or engineering to me, just a bunch of people who only look at it for the dollars and cents.
but the monitor is actually an LCD screen placed on top of a conventional monitor.
And you're supposed to fit a conventional monitor on your LAP?
First of all, I want to point out that American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
Anndd... how many of those people were there 30 or 40 years ago to be "unsympathetic"?
The idea is for computers to learn how to use with users -- instead of vice versa.
.... Ok, then just double click on "My Computer".
::click::
I can just imagine tech support phone calls:
Tech: Ok, now tap Ctrl-Esc to bring up your start menu.
Customer: Oh... I usually don't do that.
Tech: Ok then, just click on it with your mouse.
Customer: My start menu dissappeared because I never click on it.
Tech: Then what DO you do?
Customer: Oh I forget... Apple-Shift-V? Wait... no...
Tech:
Customer: Oh! That! I usually just pound on the left side of my keyboard until it comes up, but I broke it yesterday so I only have the mouse. But I never used my mouse before to do that so moving it just shuts down my computer.
Tech:
the G5 edged out the Xeon 17.2 to 16.7 in the integer score and 15.7 to 11.1 in the floating point tests, suggesting Apple makes far better use of its two CPUs than the Xeon machine
Edging out now implies that it's far better?
Looks to me like we're coming into a new age of sattelites. Instead of just having sattelites orbit around, decompose, then fall into the atmosphere, we'll now have "helper" satellites that just go around and repair the others... like nano-bots in a system repairing the damaged components. This could possibly lead to little sattelites swarming around the ISS that will perform routine matenance.
But who will repair the helper sattelites? One of his helper friends, of course.
I've never met anybody who was smart enough to write a good virus and simultaneously preferred using Microsoft Windows as his/her desktop OS.
And how many people of that do you know?
I knnow many acomplished programmers that could definately write some nasty things if they wanted to. Yes, they're smart enough, and yes they use Windows on their main computer.
Using Windows isn't about how smart you are, how computer literate you are, or any other characteristic that you may posses... it's just about what you wan't out of the OS.
Do I use windows? yes. Do I use linux? No. Can I use linux? Yes. What Unix variant do i use? BSD (open/free).
That has nothing to do with my intelligence, social status, political background, religion, skin-color, sexuality, health, whatever weird excuse you come up with... it's just using the right tool for the right job. Simple enough.
a listening device the size of a grain of sand could be put into your bedroom and you'd never find it
That technology is far.... far....... far off (that is, if it is even POSSIBLE).
Stop your ranting and raving and just listen to your own words.
...that patent is just bull shit.
According to an article on cdfreaks.com, a test done by the Dutch PC-Active magazine showed that among 30 different CD-R brands tested, a lot of them were already unreadable after twenty months
That is, of course, 2-year-old CR-R technology they tested. Have they improved them at all?
flares release enough dangerous radiation that it would kill anyone who stayed on the moon's surface for an extended period of time.
Correct me if I'm wrong (which I very well may be), but I thought that the moon was well within the earth's magnetosphere. The only problem was that it didn't have an atmosphere to block out certian radiation.
Well he won't pay microsoft a penny... but the SCO might hit him even harder.
"Shortcomings" or "short comings"?
Neither... bad spacebar
Candidates Arnold Shwarzenegger and Larry Flynt surely haven't been asked the vital "Vi or Emacs?" question, and would probably give you a blank stare in reply if it came up.
Now now... don't take your shortcomings and complain about them on slashdot...
SCO is selling Linux licenses now... what happens after they loose the battle in court? ...do the people who bought licenses get ther money back? Does SCO get sued?