I thought the movie was slow at the beginning and was wondering why the hell my friends dragged me to see it, but as it started to get going, the characters became easier to differenciate, the stories started to cross, and the jokes and speedups became so funny people had to "shhh" to keep the theather quiet from laughter. I don't know what Katz was talking about. The plot is easy to remember. The boxing match, the car wrecks, and the other important aspects of the plot are still with me and laughable. Definitely worthy to go see at least once at full price. I have a group of friends that see almost every movie that comes out. I see movies with them and then pick the good ones so my other group of friends, who don't have as much time to watch film, and I can see. This is definitely one of those good ones.
Snatch doesn't have the same slang meaning in Britain as it does over here. It just means "to obtain discreetly." But in the movie theater lines last night I could hear a million jokes a minute about the title. Someone up in the chain of producers didn't want to change the name of the movie when it came to the States, and thus it stuck.
This is absurd. The cost of keeping such a superconductor at 5 K is going to keep the general public, and even most corporations, from buying this technology. It's expensive to keep a box at that temperature in the lab (I should know, I'm a chemist). Only the US government would be willing to shell out the money for these low-maintenence devices (maybe). Corporations would rather just use the money to buy the computing speed in multiple CPUs rather than as one - it'd be a hellofa lot cheaper.
Perhaps the people working on the project will eventually be able to use a superconducting material that works at liquid nitrogen temp instead of niobium (perhaps a yttrium complex like we use now? - I don't know the specifics of this 700GHz IC or whether it would be able to use Yttrium complexes). In that case, the cost will go down and perhaps we'll see more corporations buying this tech. In order for personal consumers to buy a 700GHz computer, we'd have to have room-temp or near-room-temp superconductors.
But then we run into one of the hugest physics problems of the late twentieth century. The scientific community no longer has the enthusiasm it once had for searching for that
"perfect" superconductor.
The administraters redirected this site to the SourceForge website a few hours after this was posted. Presumably, because they didn't like to get slashdotted.
Jesus. Now I understand why the network terminals here at Tufts kept beeping, shrilling, and telling me I'm a loser.
I just wanted to do my project from class.
Me: (type type type)
Terminal: "Your database project sucks."
Me: "What? who said that?"
Terminal: "I can't stand this utter algorithm stupidity. I'm rebooting"
Me: AHHHHHHHHHH! Damn you Mike!
My solution to spam on my school account was simply telling friends that I won't accept any email from msn.com and then filter out the whole domain. So far this has worked wonders. Now I know why I have received so much mail originating from msn.com - I read in the linked article that msn is a UUnet partner and that it lacks port 25 filtering. I wish I didn't have to filter out a whole origin domain. I would just ditch the account, but my school refuses to send school-related email to another account.
However the BEST way to go spam-free is to buy oneself a domain that has never been bought before. I have unlimited POP3 (within the space limits that my hoster provides) for myself a few of my friends. I have been spam free on my domain email for just over 2 years now. Not one single one. It's worth the price of email hosting. Just make sure no one has ever had the domain before and let it go back up for sale. Another of my domains have spam associated with certain email addresses. Careless past owners and users! It was funny though seeing the "kmoore" that previously had an email account has subscribed to various porn sites.
I installed a Goldstone DS Network Dish (facing south of course) outside my home once. For the life of me, I couldn't understand why all I got was one channel with the same show - a whole lot of blackness and the occasional white dots. Now I know!
Actually... I live in Boston, and last time I checked I have no ancestory nor relatives in Malaysia/SE Asia. Malaysia is pretty damn developed. Maybe not as well as the US, Britain, etc. but definitely not 3rd world.
I think Malaysia had something like that before except it was on land. It was some sort of van that travelled around Malaysia and taught children how to use the internet. I'm glad that Malaysia is taking the initiative to help its 3rd world neighbors and itself out with the high-tech world. It's much more than the US is doing for its neighbors.
Us slashdotters tend to argue, "I lose my privacy by signing up - bad thing." Privacy, like alcohol, is good in moderation. We give up a little of our privacy every time we go shop, every time we vote, every time we fill out ANY form. Anonymized privacy is fine - the companies don't know our name, just our preferences. If we start denying our preferences to companies they tend to lose track of what developments we really want. As long as I know that the company doesn't sell my information I am fine with clicking boxes indicating what I like so that the company makes more money to give me better products. It doesn't cost me money and I haven't told anyone anything that I wouldn't tell a random person that wants to help me, say, a hotel concierge.
We need to get off our binging on our precious misnomered "privacy." I agree that real privacy is a good thing, that is, personal information like my social security number, what I like to do with my wife in bed, etc. But we tend to encompass too many aspects of ourself within that category when it come to the online world. We need to stop being hypocrites - giving out information in the real world that we refuse to give out in the online world.
Wireless just does not seem like a good idea for the United States. Here there are phone lines everywhere and ethernet jacks spread across campuses, and hotels. For the money, the temporary convenience of being able to move around in a limited area that comes with wireless is not that wonderous
Countries that are technologically strong, but dont'have the people-base that the United States has are good candidates for wireless ISPs. Take, for example, Australia. Australia's population is concentrated in a few major cities. With wireless, a company manager can take his laptop in essence to any other venue and know for sure that he will be connected. Without wireless and with the limited spread of LANs within cities such as Sydney this would not be possible.
Large universities in Australia are already taking advantage of wireless. Large campuses (they have the space over there in Australia) provide their students with wireless (take for example University of New South Wales. Acting like a wireless ISP, UNSW does not have to spread ethernet jacks around its many buildings for the limited number of people that use the service while on campus. This saves money for the school.
I'm interested. For those slashdotters that live in countries with large populations centered only in a few cities, how common are wireless ISPs?
That ultimatechaos.com site thrives on slashdot hits. I had to use my own extreme counter code to find the correct URL, but I finally put together the correct URL for their stats. As you can see, today (Tues Dec 05) is well on its way to being the highest day in unique hits (1245 unique hits for today when I checked). Oh, those 10,000 hits back in week 39? That corresponds to this.
I think I'm to blame for PB Internet Call Center's change. I was going to ask them about a problem with some wiring, but I accidentally yelled "First Post." I heard someone in the background saying: "Troll... -1 his ass." Then I got put on hold, but since I was at the bottom of the list, no one at their tech support ever read my query.
From the site: "If you're interested in satellites or astronomy, you've come to the right place! Our aim is to provide you with all the information you need to observe;
satellites
Mir and the International Space Station
the Space Shuttle
the dazzlingly bright flares from Iridium satellites"
It fails to mention the "dazzling bright flare" from the Iridium satellite on Nov. 29th. Now that was a spectacle...
If need be, use this link to see what I'm talking about or to see the exciting graphics at the bottom of the page.
With the new GSM standard, AT&T wireless customers will be able to communicate with Aruba, Jamaica,... Bermuda, and Bahama. But does AT&T really wanna go, way down to DoCoMo?
Why the UScentricism? There are plenty of examples of products that the US should take the advice of. Mobile protocols such as GSM is only one of them. European fashions are another.
There will never be more memorable consoles than the 8-bit Nintendo and the Atari 2600. Remember back when consoles were milked of all their power before abandoning the system. Gaming is being so commercialized now that none of these new systems will ever get the chance to become memorable before then next newer system comes by.
I too remember that begin old news many years ago too
"John von Neumann proved years ago that a universal Turing machine could be realized in two dimensions, and Conway constructed a universal Turing machine in his two-dimensional Life world" (D.C.Dennett "Fast Thinking" The Intentional Stance, 1989).
DCD went on to support 2D intelligence along with a couple of arguments on how speed is necessary to be intelligent.
BTW, to refute the parent post, Life is an interesting simulation BECAUSE of its predictability. From any one state, one can determine ANY of the future states. It is NOT backwards predictable (as you might imagine). This has meaning for us because we live in a world that isn't future predictable but IS past predictable (we know our history but not our future).
I find that a lot of people say that. Being a philosophy major, I found the post-Ender's Game books (except for Ender's Shadow) quite interesting. He certainly has some interesting philosophy that good to ponder, but wouldn't cut crap in the language and mind philosophical circles (even though some, such as Daniel Dennett, with whom I study under, would agree with him).
The conceptual and ethical ideas of a self-conscious computer make great SF corallary reading to all the dry texts that I read.
If you take the time to try to pick up these tidbits, I'm sure you'll enjoy the AI philosophical side (along with the other phil tangents that OSC takes).
This story reminded me of the good old Rhesus monkey head transplant. Dr. White did it 30 years ago and now he wants to do it for a human head. The monkey lived for 8 days.
Most relevant and most interesting of the linked article is the section on Longer Life for the Paralyzed.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought the movie was slow at the beginning and was wondering why the hell my friends dragged me to see it, but as it started to get going, the characters became easier to differenciate, the stories started to cross, and the jokes and speedups became so funny people had to "shhh" to keep the theather quiet from laughter. I don't know what Katz was talking about. The plot is easy to remember. The boxing match, the car wrecks, and the other important aspects of the plot are still with me and laughable. Definitely worthy to go see at least once at full price. I have a group of friends that see almost every movie that comes out. I see movies with them and then pick the good ones so my other group of friends, who don't have as much time to watch film, and I can see. This is definitely one of those good ones.
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Snatch doesn't have the same slang meaning in Britain as it does over here. It just means "to obtain discreetly." But in the movie theater lines last night I could hear a million jokes a minute about the title. Someone up in the chain of producers didn't want to change the name of the movie when it came to the States, and thus it stuck.
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on the other hand, they have yet to find any water on any planet for sure.. yet
This explains why I've been thirsty all my life here on earth.
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This is absurd. The cost of keeping such a superconductor at 5 K is going to keep the general public, and even most corporations, from buying this technology. It's expensive to keep a box at that temperature in the lab (I should know, I'm a chemist). Only the US government would be willing to shell out the money for these low-maintenence devices (maybe). Corporations would rather just use the money to buy the computing speed in multiple CPUs rather than as one - it'd be a hellofa lot cheaper.
Perhaps the people working on the project will eventually be able to use a superconducting material that works at liquid nitrogen temp instead of niobium (perhaps a yttrium complex like we use now? - I don't know the specifics of this 700GHz IC or whether it would be able to use Yttrium complexes). In that case, the cost will go down and perhaps we'll see more corporations buying this tech. In order for personal consumers to buy a 700GHz computer, we'd have to have room-temp or near-room-temp superconductors.
But then we run into one of the hugest physics problems of the late twentieth century. The scientific community no longer has the enthusiasm it once had for searching for that "perfect" superconductor.
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I'm a chemist (yeah, I know, what am I doing here?), but new to the field. I've never heard the word used as a substitute for sublime.
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Brian, you didn't get that email. You just borrowed Marco's McSweeneys.
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The administraters redirected this site to the SourceForge website a few hours after this was posted. Presumably, because they didn't like to get slashdotted.
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Jesus. Now I understand why the network terminals here at Tufts kept beeping, shrilling, and telling me I'm a loser.
I just wanted to do my project from class.
Me: (type type type)
Terminal: "Your database project sucks."
Me: "What? who said that?"
Terminal: "I can't stand this utter algorithm stupidity. I'm rebooting"
Me: AHHHHHHHHHH! Damn you Mike!
But really, congrats!
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My solution to spam on my school account was simply telling friends that I won't accept any email from msn.com and then filter out the whole domain. So far this has worked wonders. Now I know why I have received so much mail originating from msn.com - I read in the linked article that msn is a UUnet partner and that it lacks port 25 filtering. I wish I didn't have to filter out a whole origin domain. I would just ditch the account, but my school refuses to send school-related email to another account.
However the BEST way to go spam-free is to buy oneself a domain that has never been bought before. I have unlimited POP3 (within the space limits that my hoster provides) for myself a few of my friends. I have been spam free on my domain email for just over 2 years now. Not one single one. It's worth the price of email hosting. Just make sure no one has ever had the domain before and let it go back up for sale. Another of my domains have spam associated with certain email addresses. Careless past owners and users! It was funny though seeing the "kmoore" that previously had an email account has subscribed to various porn sites.
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I installed a Goldstone DS Network Dish (facing south of course) outside my home once. For the life of me, I couldn't understand why all I got was one channel with the same show - a whole lot of blackness and the occasional white dots. Now I know!
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- The guys behind the discovery
- Their information on this project
- A good picture and some good background from Ast. Pic. o' Day
I recommend the last link for a quick fill.---
Actually ... I live in Boston, and last time I checked I have no ancestory nor relatives in Malaysia/SE Asia. Malaysia is pretty damn developed. Maybe not as well as the US, Britain, etc. but definitely not 3rd world.
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I think Malaysia had something like that before except it was on land. It was some sort of van that travelled around Malaysia and taught children how to use the internet. I'm glad that Malaysia is taking the initiative to help its 3rd world neighbors and itself out with the high-tech world. It's much more than the US is doing for its neighbors.
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sorry about the unclosed bold tag
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Us slashdotters tend to argue, "I lose my privacy by signing up - bad thing." Privacy, like alcohol, is good in moderation. We give up a little of our privacy every time we go shop, every time we vote, every time we fill out ANY form. Anonymized privacy is fine - the companies don't know our name, just our preferences. If we start denying our preferences to companies they tend to lose track of what developments we really want. As long as I know that the company doesn't sell my information I am fine with clicking boxes indicating what I like so that the company makes more money to give me better products. It doesn't cost me money and I haven't told anyone anything that I wouldn't tell a random person that wants to help me, say, a hotel concierge.
We need to get off our binging on our precious misnomered "privacy." I agree that real privacy is a good thing, that is, personal information like my social security number, what I like to do with my wife in bed, etc. But we tend to encompass too many aspects of ourself within that category when it come to the online world. We need to stop being hypocrites - giving out information in the real world that we refuse to give out in the online world.
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Wireless just does not seem like a good idea for the United States. Here there are phone lines everywhere and ethernet jacks spread across campuses, and hotels. For the money, the temporary convenience of being able to move around in a limited area that comes with wireless is not that wonderous
Countries that are technologically strong, but dont'have the people-base that the United States has are good candidates for wireless ISPs. Take, for example, Australia. Australia's population is concentrated in a few major cities. With wireless, a company manager can take his laptop in essence to any other venue and know for sure that he will be connected. Without wireless and with the limited spread of LANs within cities such as Sydney this would not be possible.
Large universities in Australia are already taking advantage of wireless. Large campuses (they have the space over there in Australia) provide their students with wireless (take for example University of New South Wales. Acting like a wireless ISP, UNSW does not have to spread ethernet jacks around its many buildings for the limited number of people that use the service while on campus. This saves money for the school.
I'm interested. For those slashdotters that live in countries with large populations centered only in a few cities, how common are wireless ISPs?
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That ultimatechaos.com site thrives on slashdot hits. I had to use my own extreme counter code to find the correct URL, but I finally put together the correct URL for their stats. As you can see, today (Tues Dec 05) is well on its way to being the highest day in unique hits (1245 unique hits for today when I checked). Oh, those 10,000 hits back in week 39? That corresponds to this.
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I think I'm to blame for PB Internet Call Center's change. I was going to ask them about a problem with some wiring, but I accidentally yelled "First Post." I heard someone in the background saying: "Troll ... -1 his ass." Then I got put on hold, but since I was at the bottom of the list, no one at their tech support ever read my query.
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From the site:
...
"If you're interested in satellites or astronomy, you've come to the right place! Our aim is to provide you with all the information you need to observe;
satellites
Mir and the International Space Station
the Space Shuttle
the dazzlingly bright flares from Iridium satellites"
It fails to mention the "dazzling bright flare" from the Iridium satellite on Nov. 29th. Now that was a spectacle
If need be, use this link to see what I'm talking about or to see the exciting graphics at the bottom of the page.
---
With the new GSM standard, AT&T wireless customers will be able to communicate with Aruba, Jamaica,... Bermuda, and Bahama. But does AT&T really wanna go, way down to DoCoMo?
---
Why the UScentricism? There are plenty of examples of products that the US should take the advice of. Mobile protocols such as GSM is only one of them. European fashions are another.
---
There will never be more memorable consoles than the 8-bit Nintendo and the Atari 2600. Remember back when consoles were milked of all their power before abandoning the system. Gaming is being so commercialized now that none of these new systems will ever get the chance to become memorable before then next newer system comes by.
---
I too remember that begin old news many years ago too
"John von Neumann proved years ago that a universal Turing machine could be realized in two dimensions, and Conway constructed a universal Turing machine in his two-dimensional Life world" (D.C.Dennett "Fast Thinking" The Intentional Stance, 1989).
DCD went on to support 2D intelligence along with a couple of arguments on how speed is necessary to be intelligent.
BTW, to refute the parent post, Life is an interesting simulation BECAUSE of its predictability. From any one state, one can determine ANY of the future states. It is NOT backwards predictable (as you might imagine). This has meaning for us because we live in a world that isn't future predictable but IS past predictable (we know our history but not our future).
---
I find that a lot of people say that. Being a philosophy major, I found the post-Ender's Game books (except for Ender's Shadow) quite interesting. He certainly has some interesting philosophy that good to ponder, but wouldn't cut crap in the language and mind philosophical circles (even though some, such as Daniel Dennett, with whom I study under, would agree with him).
The conceptual and ethical ideas of a self-conscious computer make great SF corallary reading to all the dry texts that I read.
If you take the time to try to pick up these tidbits, I'm sure you'll enjoy the AI philosophical side (along with the other phil tangents that OSC takes).
This story reminded me of the good old Rhesus monkey head transplant. Dr. White did it 30 years ago and now he wants to do it for a human head. The monkey lived for 8 days.
Most relevant and most interesting of the linked article is the section on Longer Life for the Paralyzed.