Interestingly, the guy in the featured article supports my argument that CmdrTaco's regular mixing up of "then" and "than" comes from the fact that they sound alike: In the article, LOS of course means Line-of-Sight, not Line-of-Site.
Altavista sides with me here, giving 306 hits for Line-Of-Site versus 4557 hits for Line-Of-Sight.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with facts that said Line-Of-Site had been common use since 1800 A.D. .
MagLev trains can climb a steeper elevation, thus saving money on tunnels you would have to build instead.
If you every played 1630 or railroad tycoon you will understand the savings.
In addition, they are better at keeping track at higher speeds ( I guess ? ).
Europe is too f*cking crowded to do any reprocessing(maybe applies to US West). The waste has to be transported through populated areas, and the best, "soviet-style" solution to have several nuclear plants with a waste processing facility in one place, and maybe a place to dispose the unreusuable stuff to( and there ARE ALWAYS f*cking toxic wastes, even if you recycle ), just needs too much room.
Not that "soviet-style" really works, the security standards and environmental awareness in such a site would become incredibly low.
Nice concept, but how do you proceed after you have completed 8 nanomachines ? having re-order the created machines so they get a new surface to build other robots on takes time and thinking.
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And now where is the exponential growth ?
Rather better to push them apart every step, but can you really do this if you want to use silicon/hard material based nanontech ?
You don't think english as written, but in sounds.
It often happens you write a word in a different spelling, but the same sounds. Can't recall right now for which words it happens to me, but for example knights(nights), too(two)
I'd say: scout out your other choices for places to work. See what they can offer you. Make them sign a contract. Take the contract with you "to think about it and check it".
Then go to your employers and tell them why you want to leave. If they try to intimidate you, leave. If they try to cream you, leave.
You have given them the chance to play fair,
and by explaining why you leave, and playing it hard, you will make life better for your colleagues too.
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You are welcome.. . That reply was fully expected:-)
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How many spins do you need to store one beam ?
And if you take just one cooled atom, can you take apart the beam to several places ? And more importantly, does the freezing operation preserve the quantumness of the light in the spins of the atoms ?
Now this surely must be a way to realize super-lightspeed-communications.. and distributed quantum computing.. imagine receiving your SETI parcel in a fridge brought to you by FedEx.
That is US05864863. Also check out US06021409, which is the continuation.
The first Claim from that really is a troll:
I claim:
1. A system for indexing stored information, comprising: a processor configured to parse the stored information into indexable words, each indexable word representing a portion of the stored information [and (ii)] or an attribute of one or more portions of the stored information; and
a memory configured to store index entries, each index entry including a word entry representing a unique one of the indexable words and one or more location entries, each of the one or more location entries indicating a respective location of the unique one of the indexable words within the stored information.
Again, I find it fascinating *spock eyebrow* how patents are issued by the patent office without giving a clue what part of the patent actually is considered the smart part.
Obviously, looking at the fact that they have about 40 pages, which is a lot even for a bloated patent application, they don't patent search engines, but an implementation with several features of it; unfortunately, it is completely unclear whether the patented thing is in the sum of all features, or whether reproducing just a single feature or even claim 1 would be a violation.
It seems that the whole purpose of the law in society is to set up laws so as to give people something to harry other people, regardless of reason. I guess that system works fine, because if people don't like something, they can sue, even if for a different reason. This system ws invented ages past: Just accusing someone of using Voodoo(TM) or Witchcraft(TM) against you and bringing him to a kind of court for that works too.
Of course, again slashdot is falling for a troll.
This post should be up once Altavista is actually suing, not when the CEO is just boasting about the company. Imagine all those freaks blocking scooter on their routers for no reason.
It is really easy to fuck up netscape 4.6, although they fixed the following problem:
Netscape 4.6 displays tables that are nested 3 deep very very very very very very very very very slowly.
Note that this is correct HTML.
And not even THAT complex.
Mozilla fixes this.
However, at the speed that mozilla launches, the
only hope that they ever get this browser accepted is launching it as a service on Win2000.
Even worse, correct me if I am wrong, it seems that Netscape and IExplorer never did sort out whether to use the "Layer" tag or the (retracted) ILayer tag, or ids and styles to create dynamic html.
This really fucks up everything, if you expect a dropdown menu, which has become very common, for example.
And it has been a long time since I heared anyone complain about frames used in websites.
As a rule of thumb, websites that cannot be navigated without frames cannot be viewed by the blind, and cannot be navigated with lynx, when you need a quick look at the site from a linux console. I addition, to have about 80 images without alt-tags cluttered around a page doesn't help.
But nobody in B2B or B2C cares for this, since it is extra, unpaid work, and on the other hand, nobody is asking for simple, single page and single table websites.
This really makes me wonder why anyone would invest in WAP, considering that people don't even manage to produce simple webpages - pages that might require a small content reduction to be viewable on portable phones.
ObWhy is this even on/. ? Everybody knows, nobody cares - get used to it.
End Of Rant.
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I think one of the reasons halflife is such a good game is because it captures that kind of atmosfear.
Just perfect for someone as risk-averse as me:-)
While we are picking at details ..
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You wanted to say:
It boils at 1 Kelvin, which means it's vaporous even in deep space, which maintains a constant 2.73 Kelvin.
If you actually do read the article you will find that the virus was genetically improved with genes from mammals that normally wouldn't appear in the virus.
This means that to find somemouse resistant to the strain, diversity isn't enough, you need somemouse with a very strong resistance to smallpox.
I really wonder about the line "we thought it would be best to release this news" considering that such a virus might be "easily" doable for human smallbox/immune system too.
But if you have a big planet, which acts like a small star, you can build a sphere around that to capture the emissions. Kind of a practice project for a real dyson sphere, and a smaller sphere is actually more feasible. In addition, you might gain shielding for the emissions of your civilization, so that you can feel safer from detection in the universe.
.. is that it could be a 'small' dyson sphere - which would explain why a planet of that size, which would likely be star-like, doesn't record in the spectrum with his emissions.
To be less extravagant, it could be just 14x the size of jupiter with a lot of companion moons one of which might be the size of jupiter:-)
I think the system proposed would lead to "trusted systems" at home, which are a bad thing.
This because hackers could try to avoid tagging files. On the other hand, okay they still do use bandwidth,.. so there is no incentive.. until the ISPs start to charge you the number of tagged files you transfer, that is.
Also, how to you keep people from breaking up their stuff into several pages to produce more tags.. How do you keep the users from compressing.. And the producers from bloating the distribution ( much like it is done with CD games for copy protection ).
But, as a service, like gnutella/napster, I think it might be an interesting project.
Section 12.1 c (You may not sue Apple for patent infingement) is probably unenforcable, so by section 12.1 b (aka 13.5 b) the license terminates.
Note that Apple can engineer termination of the license at any time by letting a lawyer discover an unenforcable condition in the license.
Okay, so Intel will in some time be able to make a decent chip that goes much faster.. Not allowing complex instructions means it is basically doing a RISC - style processor.
So what it comes up to that you as a normal PC user are being asked by Intel to subsidize the development of CPU which would fit in better with a supercomputer.
Now I am sure your average 3D-gamer would not mind that AS LONG AS HE GOT DECENT 3D game results.
However, the only game where it excels is quake - and you not only have to buy the costly PIV, but memory that supports the higher bus-speed the PIV needs.
Interesting is that Intel gives us the PIV with worse and less accurate floating point performance,
but better integer perf., much like AMD was in the past.
So my guess what will happen is this: Intel and AMD will swop their market segments: AMD will become mainstream, while Intel will reap larger profits from a smaller market share by first selling PIV, then PIV at higher speed, then PIV with better floating point, in way of repeating their past successes.
So, IMHO, intel is fine for you if can afford to pay six times as much for a continous 50% better performance, but it is more economic to avoid the upgrade cycle.
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Altavista sides with me here, giving 306 hits for Line-Of-Site versus 4557 hits for Line-Of-Sight.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with facts that said Line-Of-Site had been common use since 1800 A.D. .
MagLev trains can climb a steeper elevation, thus saving money on tunnels you would have to build instead.
If you every played 1630 or railroad tycoon you will understand the savings.
In addition, they are better at keeping track at higher speeds ( I guess ? ).
Not that "soviet-style" really works, the security standards and environmental awareness in such a site would become incredibly low.
What did I do wrong ? I know, I should have written "started living differently" instead of "died" - sorry for that.
It's cool, you rest your head between the halves of the keyboard and doze off while keeping the hands on the keyboard to look like you are typing.
But, seriously, don't you think a keyboard that felt like a pair of tits would sell better among the male geeks ?
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xx...
xxx..
xxx..
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And now where is the exponential growth ? Rather better to push them apart every step, but can you really do this if you want to use silicon/hard material based nanontech ?
x.......
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You don't think english as written, but in sounds. It often happens you write a word in a different spelling, but the same sounds. Can't recall right now for which words it happens to me, but for example knights(nights), too(two)
Then go to your employers and tell them why you want to leave. If they try to intimidate you, leave. If they try to cream you, leave. You have given them the chance to play fair, and by explaining why you leave, and playing it hard, you will make life better for your colleagues too.
You are welcome.. . That reply was fully expected :-)
And if you take just one cooled atom, can you take apart the beam to several places ? And more importantly, does the freezing operation preserve the quantumness of the light in the spins of the atoms ?
Now this surely must be a way to realize super-lightspeed-communications .. and distributed quantum computing .. imagine receiving your SETI parcel in a fridge brought to you by FedEx.
And remember, you read it on slashdot first :-)
The first Claim from that really is a troll:
I claim:
1. A system for indexing stored information, comprising: a processor configured to parse the stored information into indexable words, each indexable word representing a portion of the stored information [and (ii)] or an attribute of one or more portions of the stored information;
and
a memory configured to store index entries, each index entry including a word entry representing a unique one of the indexable words and one or more location entries, each of the one or more location entries indicating a respective location of the unique one of the indexable words within the stored information.
Again, I find it fascinating *spock eyebrow* how patents are issued by the patent office without giving a clue what part of the patent actually is considered the smart part.
Obviously, looking at the fact that they have about 40 pages, which is a lot even for a bloated patent application, they don't patent search engines, but an implementation with several features of it; unfortunately, it is completely unclear whether the patented thing is in the sum of all features, or whether reproducing just a single feature or even claim 1 would be a violation.
It seems that the whole purpose of the law in society is to set up laws so as to give people something to harry other people, regardless of reason. I guess that system works fine, because if people don't like something, they can sue, even if for a different reason. This system ws invented ages past: Just accusing someone of using Voodoo(TM) or Witchcraft(TM) against you and bringing him to a kind of court for that works too.
Of course, again slashdot is falling for a troll. This post should be up once Altavista is actually suing, not when the CEO is just boasting about the company. Imagine all those freaks blocking scooter on their routers for no reason.
And that is why everyone is up in arms on slashdot - because we want to keep it like this.
On the other hand, many search engines are disappearing anyway or taking their data from a single data source like altavista or inktomi.
Also, the simple application of database technology or a perl hash to create an index would hardly qualify as patentable.
Netscape 4.6 displays tables that are nested 3 deep very very very very very very very very very slowly.
Note that this is correct HTML. And not even THAT complex.
Mozilla fixes this. However, at the speed that mozilla launches, the only hope that they ever get this browser accepted is launching it as a service on Win2000.
Even worse, correct me if I am wrong, it seems that Netscape and IExplorer never did sort out whether to use the "Layer" tag or the (retracted) ILayer tag, or ids and styles to create dynamic html.
This really fucks up everything, if you expect a dropdown menu, which has become very common, for example.
And it has been a long time since I heared anyone complain about frames used in websites. As a rule of thumb, websites that cannot be navigated without frames cannot be viewed by the blind, and cannot be navigated with lynx, when you need a quick look at the site from a linux console. I addition, to have about 80 images without alt-tags cluttered around a page doesn't help.
But nobody in B2B or B2C cares for this, since it is extra, unpaid work, and on the other hand, nobody is asking for simple, single page and single table websites.
This really makes me wonder why anyone would invest in WAP, considering that people don't even manage to produce simple webpages - pages that might require a small content reduction to be viewable on portable phones.
ObWhy is this even on /. ? Everybody knows, nobody cares - get used to it.
End Of Rant.
I think one of the reasons halflife is such a good game is because it captures that kind of atmosfear. Just perfect for someone as risk-averse as me :-)
You wanted to say: It boils at 1 Kelvin, which means it's vaporous even in deep space, which maintains a constant 2.73 Kelvin.
Mod up :-)
This means that to find somemouse resistant to the strain, diversity isn't enough, you need somemouse with a very strong resistance to smallpox.
I really wonder about the line "we thought it would be best to release this news" considering that such a virus might be "easily" doable for human smallbox/immune system too.
- You can use it to control the tesla coils you equip your tanks with.
- Might be useful for the electronics in an unmanned craft that is sent down to the venus' surface.
But if you have a big planet, which acts like a small star, you can build a sphere around that to capture the emissions. Kind of a practice project for a real dyson sphere, and a smaller sphere is actually more feasible. In addition, you might gain shielding for the emissions of your civilization, so that you can feel safer from detection in the universe.
To be less extravagant, it could be just 14x the size of jupiter with a lot of companion moons one of which might be the size of jupiter :-)
Actually describes fully the invention made ..
in contrast to a lot of other patents .. .
but it would be lots of fun !
Think of all the meta-games that can be played with that: The piracy game, the spamming game, the trojan traffic game, the advertising game .. .
This because hackers could try to avoid tagging files. On the other hand, okay they still do use bandwidth, .. so there is no incentive .. until the ISPs start to charge you the number of tagged files you transfer, that is.
Also, how to you keep people from breaking up their stuff into several pages to produce more tags .. How do you keep the users from compressing .. And the producers from bloating the distribution ( much like it is done with CD games for copy protection ).
But, as a service, like gnutella/napster, I think it might be an interesting project.
Section 12.1 c (You may not sue Apple for patent infingement) is probably unenforcable, so by section 12.1 b (aka 13.5 b) the license terminates. Note that Apple can engineer termination of the license at any time by letting a lawyer discover an unenforcable condition in the license.
So what it comes up to that you as a normal PC user are being asked by Intel to subsidize the development of CPU which would fit in better with a supercomputer.
Now I am sure your average 3D-gamer would not mind that AS LONG AS HE GOT DECENT 3D game results.
However, the only game where it excels is quake - and you not only have to buy the costly PIV, but memory that supports the higher bus-speed the PIV needs.
Interesting is that Intel gives us the PIV with worse and less accurate floating point performance, but better integer perf., much like AMD was in the past.
So my guess what will happen is this: Intel and AMD will swop their market segments: AMD will become mainstream, while Intel will reap larger profits from a smaller market share by first selling PIV, then PIV at higher speed, then PIV with better floating point, in way of repeating their past successes.
So, IMHO, intel is fine for you if can afford to pay six times as much for a continous 50% better performance, but it is more economic to avoid the upgrade cycle.