From our perspective, the matter goes in. From the frame of the matter falling in, space-time is so warped that time starts to dilate really-really strongly as you approach a black hole.
But for the LHC, arguably there is no accurate prior because nothing in that energy range has ever been done before.
We are regularly bombarded with particles with 10^6 times more energy than the LHC produces. We can observe interactions much more intense than that in the visible universe.
Supposing all the scientists are wrong about their risk estimates, we should've observed the naturally occuring events at some point.
Funny, I didn't know that people who are about to be vanquished get to choose the terms of their surrender.
Let's suppose for a second you're right. The japanese did actually want to surrender before we nuked them the first time.
After we told them the conditions for their surrender between hiroshima and nagasaki, why didn't they surrender then? AFTER nagasaki, why did it take them 5 days so surrender?
We gave them the terms, they said no. We kept fighting. It's our fault?
Wikipedia can say whatever it wants. The truth is this:
We gave them an ultimatum saying were would bomb the shit out of them unless they agreed to us. They said no.
We bombed hiroshima.
Then, we airdropped leaflets and told them that we would do it again unless they surrendered. They said no.
We bombed nagasaki.
Even _then_ the majority of the military elite wanted to keep fighting. It wasn't until 5 days later that the emporer decide to capitulate.
Fuck this shit about 'oh, the poor poor japanese' The alternative was for us to invade japan with troops (estimates at the time said it would take 1,000,000 troops to take it). Yeah, it sucks that we bombed them, yeah, it was terrible for the people that had to experience it, but we were in a war where the loser was going to be vanquished. If I were the president at the time and I had a choice between bombing some cities and conceivable losing a significant percentage of 1,000,000 of my own citizens, I would make the same choice.
Well, sure, but the problem is when I switch from my machine to someone's who has an actual physical 2nd mouse button, will my brain be able to keep it straight, or will it be like when I switch cars and stall it out because it takes a while to remember how much I need to feather the clutch.
It'd be nice, but a lot of legacy hardware's probing goes something like:
1) Enter protected mode on the CPU 2) Put some data at a specific memory location 3) Set up an interrupt handler on a specific interrupt 4) Throw an interrupt (ping) 5) Wait for the hardware to return with another interrupt handler (pong)
Unfortunately, since it's an asynchronous system, you have to have a timeout to wait for the hardware to do it's thing. Double-unfortunately, a lot of hardware uses the same memory locations/interrupts, so you can't paralellize the process.
I'd rather not have 2-button right click. My dell laptop has it so that if you touch on the "scrolling" part of the touchpad, it counts as a mouse3 event. It's the most obnoxious thing ever.
It'd be great, but the problem is that a lot of the timeouts are necessarily serial processes because of the way the devices used to be written. (There's a lot of devices that depend on certain interrupts to be caught for their probing), even if you wanted to, you couldn't.
I agree there should be some sort of caching though to skip probing after the first boot. Maybe some people smarter than me are working on it?
I wish apple would sell a powerbook with a real right-click. External mice work okay for desktops, but it doesn't make much sense to haul around a mouse to use on your laptop just so you can right click
(to me, it's a memory thing. I dont' like using apple keyboards either because the machine would be my personal machine and I see troubles switching back and forth to using linux at work and mac at home because my brain's confused what keyboard layout i'm using)
You'd have to have some sort of auto-login setup, but it'd disingenuous to call your PC booted when it's just sitting at the login screen. On my ubuntu box I'd estimate a good 50% of my boot time is after the login screen before I'm able to do what I wanted to do.
the day I let RMS speak for my morality is the day I eat razor blades.
You and GP are having a conversation, it's ridiculous to say that because of something a third party has said, that GPs point is invalid (assuming, of course, that GP disagrees with the third party).
I'm gonna back up what the other reply said. Tuition at most universities doesn't even make up 50% (the rule of thumb when planning a university budget is 25% tuition 75% endowment) With all the overhead of enrolling someone plus the additional loss from the endowment, it doesn't do the university any good.
What is so bad about drive letters really? Is C:\ really so different from hda1, sda1 or/volumes/? I haven't actually played around with it much, but I would almost assume that drives are accessible without directly accessing the corresponding letter within Vista/7 it's just not fully implimented yet...
The biggest problem is that they're not combined into one tree, so it's both a pain in the ass for programmers (who have to deal with an API that keeps track of volumes instead of just being able to 'cd' to wherever you want to) and to users who are limited to how they mount their information. You can mount a volume within another volume's FS (for instance, I got a new harddrive to store my music/movies and wanted to keep it in the same location to not break playlists) but it's not simple and when I was doing it, there wasn't an interface exposed for it (and it occasionally wouldn't pop back up on boot)
As a native portuguese speaker, I have the same reaction to mexican spanish, but spanish (?) spanish is alright to listen to. I can usually catch a decent amount of what people are saying in different romance languages but mexican spanish is the worst.
Because the whole point of language is to express your ideas to someone else. My parents are Brazilian, so I speak Portuguese and could probably guess the root from there, but I'll be honest that I didn't understand what gratis meant in a software context until I dug around for it.
If I were having a discussion with someone with what "free software" meant, they probably wouldn't understand 'gratis' meant, which would kill the reason to use that word.
Not to be obtuse, but D3D dropped retained mode and kept immediate mode. RM was always kindof a toy, and wasn't "close enough to the metal" for game devs, so they dropped support.
I'd disagree that D3D has support for newer functionalify. D3D since DX10 has moved to a model where every card that is "DX10 capable" has to have the same capabilities and have moved away from having "cap bits", hardware manufacturers don't have a mechanism for exposing new features between DX revisions as opposed to OGL which can just expose a EXT_BLAHBLAH.
Given a choice, DX is different than OGL like all MS interfaces are different than standardized implementations. Like the win32 API, DX is layer upon layer of function calls without any sense of continuity (like PHP, ugh). OGL is a logically consistent state machine, which is why I enjoy it more than messing with DX.
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From our perspective, the matter goes in. From the frame of the matter falling in, space-time is so warped that time starts to dilate really-really strongly as you approach a black hole.
But for the LHC, arguably there is no accurate prior because nothing in that energy range has ever been done before.
We are regularly bombarded with particles with 10^6 times more energy than the LHC produces. We can observe interactions much more intense than that in the visible universe.
Supposing all the scientists are wrong about their risk estimates, we should've observed the naturally occuring events at some point.
that isotope of Pu decays into U, the purity is referring only to the ratio of Pu, not of the various decay products.
not knocking the effects of those people, but I wonder how many curies a typical person downwind of a coal plant receives.
Funny, I didn't know that people who are about to be vanquished get to choose the terms of their surrender.
Let's suppose for a second you're right. The japanese did actually want to surrender before we nuked them the first time.
After we told them the conditions for their surrender between hiroshima and nagasaki, why didn't they surrender then? AFTER nagasaki, why did it take them 5 days so surrender?
We gave them the terms, they said no. We kept fighting. It's our fault?
Wikipedia can say whatever it wants. The truth is this:
We gave them an ultimatum saying were would bomb the shit out of them unless they agreed to us. They said no.
We bombed hiroshima.
Then, we airdropped leaflets and told them that we would do it again unless they surrendered. They said no.
We bombed nagasaki.
Even _then_ the majority of the military elite wanted to keep fighting. It wasn't until 5 days later that the emporer decide to capitulate.
Fuck this shit about 'oh, the poor poor japanese' The alternative was for us to invade japan with troops (estimates at the time said it would take 1,000,000 troops to take it). Yeah, it sucks that we bombed them, yeah, it was terrible for the people that had to experience it, but we were in a war where the loser was going to be vanquished. If I were the president at the time and I had a choice between bombing some cities and conceivable losing a significant percentage of 1,000,000 of my own citizens, I would make the same choice.
Well, sure, but the problem is when I switch from my machine to someone's who has an actual physical 2nd mouse button, will my brain be able to keep it straight, or will it be like when I switch cars and stall it out because it takes a while to remember how much I need to feather the clutch.
It'd be nice, but a lot of legacy hardware's probing goes something like:
1) Enter protected mode on the CPU
2) Put some data at a specific memory location
3) Set up an interrupt handler on a specific interrupt
4) Throw an interrupt (ping)
5) Wait for the hardware to return with another interrupt handler (pong)
Unfortunately, since it's an asynchronous system, you have to have a timeout to wait for the hardware to do it's thing. Double-unfortunately, a lot of hardware uses the same memory locations/interrupts, so you can't paralellize the process.
I'd rather not have 2-button right click. My dell laptop has it so that if you touch on the "scrolling" part of the touchpad, it counts as a mouse3 event. It's the most obnoxious thing ever.
It'd be great, but the problem is that a lot of the timeouts are necessarily serial processes because of the way the devices used to be written. (There's a lot of devices that depend on certain interrupts to be caught for their probing), even if you wanted to, you couldn't.
I agree there should be some sort of caching though to skip probing after the first boot. Maybe some people smarter than me are working on it?
you have problems with the in-kernel filesystem structures getting out of sync with what is on the disk in that case.
I wish apple would sell a powerbook with a real right-click. External mice work okay for desktops, but it doesn't make much sense to haul around a mouse to use on your laptop just so you can right click
(to me, it's a memory thing. I dont' like using apple keyboards either because the machine would be my personal machine and I see troubles switching back and forth to using linux at work and mac at home because my brain's confused what keyboard layout i'm using)
legacy hardware. There's tons of timeouts.
You'd have to have some sort of auto-login setup, but it'd disingenuous to call your PC booted when it's just sitting at the login screen. On my ubuntu box I'd estimate a good 50% of my boot time is after the login screen before I'm able to do what I wanted to do.
the day I let RMS speak for my morality is the day I eat razor blades.
You and GP are having a conversation, it's ridiculous to say that because of something a third party has said, that GPs point is invalid (assuming, of course, that GP disagrees with the third party).
I'm gonna back up what the other reply said. Tuition at most universities doesn't even make up 50% (the rule of thumb when planning a university budget is 25% tuition 75% endowment) With all the overhead of enrolling someone plus the additional loss from the endowment, it doesn't do the university any good.
What is so bad about drive letters really? Is C:\ really so different from hda1, sda1 or /volumes/? I haven't actually played around with it much, but I would almost assume that drives are accessible without directly accessing the corresponding letter within Vista/7 it's just not fully implimented yet...
The biggest problem is that they're not combined into one tree, so it's both a pain in the ass for programmers (who have to deal with an API that keeps track of volumes instead of just being able to 'cd' to wherever you want to) and to users who are limited to how they mount their information. You can mount a volume within another volume's FS (for instance, I got a new harddrive to store my music/movies and wanted to keep it in the same location to not break playlists) but it's not simple and when I was doing it, there wasn't an interface exposed for it (and it occasionally wouldn't pop back up on boot)
As a native portuguese speaker, I have the same reaction to mexican spanish, but spanish (?) spanish is alright to listen to. I can usually catch a decent amount of what people are saying in different romance languages but mexican spanish is the worst.
Not even that, most auto places will check your codes for free (hoping you'll walk in there to buy whatever parts you need)
java SSH applets are the only things that come to mind
Wow, that nit you managed to pick is tiny.
Because the whole point of language is to express your ideas to someone else. My parents are Brazilian, so I speak Portuguese and could probably guess the root from there, but I'll be honest that I didn't understand what gratis meant in a software context until I dug around for it.
If I were having a discussion with someone with what "free software" meant, they probably wouldn't understand 'gratis' meant, which would kill the reason to use that word.
to me the dealbreaker is that skype can't accept incoming text messages. Defeats the purpose if your friends can't reply.
Not to be obtuse, but D3D dropped retained mode and kept immediate mode. RM was always kindof a toy, and wasn't "close enough to the metal" for game devs, so they dropped support.
I'd disagree that D3D has support for newer functionalify. D3D since DX10 has moved to a model where every card that is "DX10 capable" has to have the same capabilities and have moved away from having "cap bits", hardware manufacturers don't have a mechanism for exposing new features between DX revisions as opposed to OGL which can just expose a EXT_BLAHBLAH.
Given a choice, DX is different than OGL like all MS interfaces are different than standardized implementations. Like the win32 API, DX is layer upon layer of function calls without any sense of continuity (like PHP, ugh). OGL is a logically consistent state machine, which is why I enjoy it more than messing with DX.
How, exactly, is D3D "better" than OGL? The language is obtuse (a COM interface versus a simple state machine), amongst other things.
I'm not trolling, just curious about why you would think that.