If quantum theorists are getting paid to write this kinda nonsensical prose I should be a millionaire.
For anyone interested in funding my research into quatum computing, here is a sample of my body of work:
While it is common practice to use "if, then" statements throughout contemporary programming, it shall become impossible to use these same conventions within the realm of quantum computing. In a quantum state "if" becomes iffy. If x is true let y equal z
Clearly x is always true in the context of quantum theory. Given the infinite nature of the universe, the probability of all probabilities within an infinite area of space-time is also infinite. So then, let x always be true, or at least as true as anything else.
As the "if, then" process is paramount in most programs, quantum computing will be impossible to program for, or at least as impossible as anything can be in an infinite universe.
Okay gimme money now. Thanks, I've done my work for the day.
I work at a small ISP in New England and while things have no always been rosy, we are commited to our company and customers and we have faired far better than many larger DSL providers. Vitts has been given permission to close it's doors on May 9th. Why is Vitts, a large well funded company, going out of business while our un-funded little ISP is still going? Because we don't try to offer customers things we can't afford.
Please keep in mind this is apples and oranges to your situation in SoCal. We do not do consumer DSL, we focus entirely on business solutions.
We find that people understand that we can't give away $500 sDSL modems, and respect our honest approach. If we were giving away modems, we'd be out of business with Vitts by now. So while it is more costly to them to get set up with us, it is much nicer to have a fiscally responsable ISP and not one that is spending madly to get customers.
If I could only be as cool as Jon Katz! Then I could post irrational flames/trolls DIRECTLY to the front of/. instead of embeded deeply in the top modded post.
Will articles become increasingly self-referential and hypothetical until the only articles posted are idle speculation about whether, if space aliens landed, the only articles/. would post would be about what aliens would think of idle speculation about future/. postings about aliens? This is a burning question, people!
HAHAH mod this up!!
First april fools joke of the day to really give me a laugh!
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It's gotten so bad that I'm tempted to "First post"... at least then I would be a part of the intelligent discussion portion of/., instead of this crap.
I remember a few years ago hearing "This is it, now Linux gaming will take off."... then a couple years ago "Okay, this is it... Linux gaming will take off". Then last year with the release of Q3a "okay, now most definetly linux gaming is going to take off".
Give it up. If you want to play games, install windows. Game Over
disc-chord and now back to your regularly scheduled M$ bashing, irrational ranting and first posts
What the hell is the deal with all this "oh the DC is dead!"... "oh the DC was another failure"... enough already. Consoles die, get over it. I own a DC, and I had a ton of fun with it. I would have prefered to see it last untill the Xbox, but oh well. I got my money's worth and I'm not crying in the streets.
If you are seriously broken up about the death of the dreamcast you need therapy. If you think the DC is a failure, I'd like to see you do better.
disc-chord now back to your regularly scheduled rants, MS hating and first posts
). I never got to see as much of it as I wanted, since it was on at the same time as Friends. Sorry guys, but some days I really need to laugh;-)
You make me sick.
Yes your monitor analogy is very accurate. It is also important to note that the 20/20 is a scale. I have 20/10 so at 10 feet I see as someone with 20/20 does at 5.
To give a real world perspective. I work in an office that is 14x14, and I figit alot and can't sit still. So I'm always up and walking around, but I'm also reading things on my monitor. From the maximum distance from my monitor (which is about 12 feet as it is not flush with the wall) I am seeing things like a 20/20 person sees at 6, which is still close enough to read slashdot on a 17" monitor with the Text size on the browser set to medium.
No doubt, many people such as yourself with 20/40 would have lots of fun with 20/10, and I'm very happy for you guys to have this opportunity approaching.
I've always been very fascinated with the prospects of bionic eyes, as a visual artist they are my most valued assets. I would be mortified if something ever happened to them, and having a viable replacement available would be the difference between life and death for me.
I currently have 20/10 vision naturally, and I must say it is a huge benifit in daily life. To be able to give this to everyone would not dramiatically improve the quality of life for most, but it would be something worth investing a couple of thousand dollars in.
As I'm sure most slashdotters are framiliar with, most sci-fi that discusses bionic eyes touches on the idea of night-vision, zoom, and theremal imaging. All of which sound great, but now that I come to think about it (since this is apparently becoming a sci-reality) I'm a bit concerned with the idea of everyone having thermal vision. Talk about a huge invasion of privacy. I'm an apartment dweller and would not like for other tenants snooping on me simply by looking through the wall. Being that the world is becoming infatuated with voyerism (how many reality TV shows are out there right now?) I would suspect that as soon as you started implanting this sort of thing into people it would very quickly find malicious use.
I tried to post an article on the Genome scientists mapping out the code for 98% of the diseases affecting humans earlier and it got bumped for this? Holy shit what has/. come to?
I've been asking myself the same thing. I've submited an article from CNN.com about how increadibly inaccurate most high school science textbooks in circulation are, and a really serious "Your Rights On-Line" about some poor sods that are facing legal action against them from Apogee/3dRealms over a non-profit open source project. Both rejected, but this goofy bit about ISS region encoding gets posted.
Any chance of a spin-off site. Like slashgoof.org for this goofy shit, and slashdot.org for stuff of interest and insight.
There was alot of talk about this sort of stuff 2 years ago, but I haven't heard anyone mention it since. I'm really glad to see research continuing.
Wonder what solid state memory would do for 3d cards. 4-Mbit MRAM by 2003... well it sure as hell couldn't hurt. Just in time for Doom 3.
Who cares if it's for windows only?! What other platform are you going to model in?
Just be happy to see yet another free 3d modeling suite! The biggest problem facing hobby game development has been the insane price of 3d modeling packages, leading to piracy or stiffling creativity. The more options avialable to the hobbyist developer the better. Don't complain because it doesn't work on Mac/BeOS/*nix or whatever goofy OS you were hopping for.
Here ya go, this is a very helpful list for anyone considering purchasing a DVD player and is a fan of VCDs and SVCDs or playing CD-Rs for whatever reason:
Why is it that Apex and Pioneer would use better/more-effective lasers than Sony? I find that hard to believe. If you were Sony, wouldn't you want your products supporting as many formats as possible?
It seems more likely that as Sony has found a good deal of money is to be made in the movie industry, they will do what they can to prevent themselves and their associates from being ripped off by all us VCD leechers by make home burned VCDs bunk on their players.
I can't believe this was even considered news worthy. Was ANYONE here sitting on pins and needles waiting for it? Star Wars has become a merchandise driven franchise with some pretty pictures. I would expect the/. crowd to see through Episode 1 instantly as being a 2 hour commercial to sell pod racers and jar-jar binks dolls.
How then, can you be anticipating the sequal? I've heard of some folks watching the Super Bowl just for the commericals, but this is just bastardizing the memory of Science Fiction's greatest epic.
This is the most absurd abuse of liberty I've ever heard of. Let me repeat to you what you have just stated:
"I will promote the downfall of peoples that distribute information that I find offensive, without reguard for their own personal liberties or any concern for how my actions will infringe on the corner stone of a FREENET community."
Think about the consequences of your actions before you promote your own agenda. I am not in favor of illegal pornography, but I am not inclined to infringe on the sanctity of a FREENET to enforce my own ideaology on others. I wish some of you idealists would learn something about social-interaction in a global space before you start "righteous" crusades.
The really amazing bit here is that you acknowledge that your target is those that would distribute pornography that is illegal in the US, which means you must be aware that there are more relaxed standards in other parts of the globe. So where do you feel your place is, when you seek to enforce US policy on a global community? (or did they start limiting FreeNet to US shores while I wasn't looking?) It is the notion of US policy being enforced in a global community that inspired the gnutella's, and the napsters and FreeNet, so that information may be exchanged without the threat of "the evil empire"... now only some information may be exchanged by your policy Tuxedo Mask?
"he'd be a crypto-anarchist Perl hacker with a taste for the classics of literature, political screeds, 1980s pop music, Adobe software, and lots of porn"
There are many wonderful points here of how the Sci-Fi channel has managed to totally defile the beauty of Frank Herbert's universe. Not the least of which was making the horrible mistake of trying to "update it for the kids" and re-write the dialog.
My biggest beef is with the mentat actors... WTF is that all about?! The original Piter (Brad Dourif) caputred the essence of what a mentat was ment to be. It took me the first hour and a half to figure out who the hell the mentats were! Everyone was too busy running around in horribly overwhelming colors. When I did finnaly figure out which one was Piter I weeped openly.
Brad Dourif portrayed a true mentat, with his wild eyes and shifty manners. A real tweaker right there, not a friggen comatose weirdo in 13 colors! Perhaps if a passionate director were on board for this miniseries we could see some life from the current actor.
I also echo the several thousand complaints lodged here, but I won't repeat them.
disc-chord --- would pray the end is near if he had a messiah
Don't worry, porn is what drives technology. You ever see that ascii of a naked chick that dates back to like early 70s? It's a male dominated industry, if we can't eat it we will make it give us porn... hmmm, now that I think about it I can't wait to see 36-22-34-3D
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."- Billy Idol (1994)
I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure wireless phones (the ones you have a base station for a ground line, not cell or pcs) have the FCC in their pocket for the 2.4ghz range. Quite a shame really, I'd love to run around town with a constant connection to the net.(read: not with one of those silly little phones)
Good luck to anyone thinking of talking the FCC into giving up any air space for such an endevour. They rake in millions by selling the air to private corps, and are not likely to just give it away in an effort to "do the right thing", I'm affraid.
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"though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."-Billy Idol (1994)
Once again the "promise of the internet" thwarted by a ravaging gang of geeks;) You naughty hooligans!
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit"- Billy Idol (1994)
Yes that wired article is really good, really worth reading ALL the way through.
However... while it is easy to say: we should find an alternative soon so we do not have to be dependent on only that type of fuels
It is a logistical nightmare. By the time we actually manage to convert everything that currently runs on petrol over to some alternative fuel we will probably have ruined this planet's atmosphere we will want to get the hell off it anyhow. How many people do you know that are desperatly trying to move out of LA and other high-smog areas due to allergies and asthma? I would be surprised if the same was not the case with other major cities in 50 years.
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"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."- Billy Idol (1994)
Slashdot Mirror
If quantum theorists are getting paid to write this kinda nonsensical prose I should be a millionaire.
For anyone interested in funding my research into quatum computing, here is a sample of my body of work:
While it is common practice to use "if, then" statements throughout contemporary programming, it shall become impossible to use these same conventions within the realm of quantum computing. In a quantum state "if" becomes iffy.
If x is true let y equal z
Clearly x is always true in the context of quantum theory. Given the infinite nature of the universe, the probability of all probabilities within an infinite area of space-time is also infinite. So then, let x always be true, or at least as true as anything else.
As the "if, then" process is paramount in most programs, quantum computing will be impossible to program for, or at least as impossible as anything can be in an infinite universe.
Okay gimme money now. Thanks, I've done my work for the day.
disc-chord
I work at a small ISP in New England and while things have no always been rosy, we are commited to our company and customers and we have faired far better than many larger DSL providers. Vitts has been given permission to close it's doors on May 9th. Why is Vitts, a large well funded company, going out of business while our un-funded little ISP is still going? Because we don't try to offer customers things we can't afford.
;)
Please keep in mind this is apples and oranges to your situation in SoCal. We do not do consumer DSL, we focus entirely on business solutions.
We find that people understand that we can't give away $500 sDSL modems, and respect our honest approach. If we were giving away modems, we'd be out of business with Vitts by now. So while it is more costly to them to get set up with us, it is much nicer to have a fiscally responsable ISP and not one that is spending madly to get customers.
-shameless plug- www.rhinonetworks.com
DISCLAIMER:I am just the art guy. My opinion, spelling or gramatical error(s)do not reflect those of the company management
If I could only be as cool as Jon Katz! Then I could post irrational flames/trolls DIRECTLY to the front of /. instead of embeded deeply in the top modded post.
disc-chord
Will articles become increasingly self-referential and hypothetical until the only articles posted are idle speculation about whether, if space aliens landed, the only articles /. would post would be about what aliens would think of idle speculation about future /. postings about aliens? This is a burning question, people!
HAHAH mod this up!!
First april fools joke of the day to really give me a laugh!
disc-chord
It's gotten so bad that I'm tempted to "First post"... at least then I would be a part of the intelligent discussion portion of /., instead of this crap.
disc-chord
Or report wild speculation that all the US military hardware problems are a result of microsoft products...
disc-chord
I remember a few years ago hearing "This is it, now Linux gaming will take off." ... then a couple years ago "Okay, this is it... Linux gaming will take off". Then last year with the release of Q3a "okay, now most definetly linux gaming is going to take off".
Give it up. If you want to play games, install windows.
Game Over
disc-chord
and now back to your regularly scheduled M$ bashing, irrational ranting and first posts
What the hell is the deal with all this "oh the DC is dead!"... "oh the DC was another failure" ... enough already. Consoles die, get over it. I own a DC, and I had a ton of fun with it. I would have prefered to see it last untill the Xbox, but oh well. I got my money's worth and I'm not crying in the streets.
If you are seriously broken up about the death of the dreamcast you need therapy.
If you think the DC is a failure, I'd like to see you do better.
disc-chord
now back to your regularly scheduled rants, MS hating and first posts
). I never got to see as much of it as I wanted, since it was on at the same time as Friends. Sorry guys, but some days I really need to laugh ;-)
You make me sick.
Yes your monitor analogy is very accurate. It is also important to note that the 20/20 is a scale. I have 20/10 so at 10 feet I see as someone with 20/20 does at 5. To give a real world perspective. I work in an office that is 14x14, and I figit alot and can't sit still. So I'm always up and walking around, but I'm also reading things on my monitor. From the maximum distance from my monitor (which is about 12 feet as it is not flush with the wall) I am seeing things like a 20/20 person sees at 6, which is still close enough to read slashdot on a 17" monitor with the Text size on the browser set to medium.
No doubt, many people such as yourself with 20/40 would have lots of fun with 20/10, and I'm very happy for you guys to have this opportunity approaching.
disc-chord
I've always been very fascinated with the prospects of bionic eyes, as a visual artist they are my most valued assets. I would be mortified if something ever happened to them, and having a viable replacement available would be the difference between life and death for me.
I currently have 20/10 vision naturally, and I must say it is a huge benifit in daily life. To be able to give this to everyone would not dramiatically improve the quality of life for most, but it would be something worth investing a couple of thousand dollars in.
As I'm sure most slashdotters are framiliar with, most sci-fi that discusses bionic eyes touches on the idea of night-vision, zoom, and theremal imaging. All of which sound great, but now that I come to think about it (since this is apparently becoming a sci-reality) I'm a bit concerned with the idea of everyone having thermal vision. Talk about a huge invasion of privacy. I'm an apartment dweller and would not like for other tenants snooping on me simply by looking through the wall. Being that the world is becoming infatuated with voyerism (how many reality TV shows are out there right now?) I would suspect that as soon as you started implanting this sort of thing into people it would very quickly find malicious use.
disc-chord
I tried to post an article on the Genome scientists mapping out the code for 98% of the diseases affecting humans earlier and it got bumped for this? Holy shit what has /. come to?
I've been asking myself the same thing. I've submited an article from CNN.com about how increadibly inaccurate most high school science textbooks in circulation are, and a really serious "Your Rights On-Line" about some poor sods that are facing legal action against them from Apogee/3dRealms over a non-profit open source project. Both rejected, but this goofy bit about ISS region encoding gets posted.
Any chance of a spin-off site. Like slashgoof.org for this goofy shit, and slashdot.org for stuff of interest and insight.
disc-chord
There was alot of talk about this sort of stuff 2 years ago, but I haven't heard anyone mention it since. I'm really glad to see research continuing. Wonder what solid state memory would do for 3d cards. 4-Mbit MRAM by 2003... well it sure as hell couldn't hurt. Just in time for Doom 3.
Who cares if it's for windows only?! What other platform are you going to model in?
Just be happy to see yet another free 3d modeling suite! The biggest problem facing hobby game development has been the insane price of 3d modeling packages, leading to piracy or stiffling creativity. The more options avialable to the hobbyist developer the better. Don't complain because it doesn't work on Mac/BeOS/*nix or whatever goofy OS you were hopping for.
Here ya go, this is a very helpful list for anyone considering purchasing a DVD player and is a fan of VCDs and SVCDs or playing CD-Rs for whatever reason:
Searchable database
Or
Complete List
disc-chord
Why is it that Apex and Pioneer would use better/more-effective lasers than Sony? I find that hard to believe. If you were Sony, wouldn't you want your products supporting as many formats as possible?
It seems more likely that as Sony has found a good deal of money is to be made in the movie industry, they will do what they can to prevent themselves and their associates from being ripped off by all us VCD leechers by make home burned VCDs bunk on their players.
disc-chord
I can't believe this was even considered news worthy. Was ANYONE here sitting on pins and needles waiting for it? Star Wars has become a merchandise driven franchise with some pretty pictures. I would expect the /. crowd to see through Episode 1 instantly as being a 2 hour commercial to sell pod racers and jar-jar binks dolls.
How then, can you be anticipating the sequal? I've heard of some folks watching the Super Bowl just for the commericals, but this is just bastardizing the memory of Science Fiction's greatest epic.
disc-chord
This is the most absurd abuse of liberty I've ever heard of. Let me repeat to you what you have just stated:
"I will promote the downfall of peoples that distribute information that I find offensive, without reguard for their own personal liberties or any concern for how my actions will infringe on the corner stone of a FREENET community."
Think about the consequences of your actions before you promote your own agenda. I am not in favor of illegal pornography, but I am not inclined to infringe on the sanctity of a FREENET to enforce my own ideaology on others. I wish some of you idealists would learn something about social-interaction in a global space before you start "righteous" crusades.
The really amazing bit here is that you acknowledge that your target is those that would distribute pornography that is illegal in the US, which means you must be aware that there are more relaxed standards in other parts of the globe. So where do you feel your place is, when you seek to enforce US policy on a global community? (or did they start limiting FreeNet to US shores while I wasn't looking?) It is the notion of US policy being enforced in a global community that inspired the gnutella's, and the napsters and FreeNet, so that information may be exchanged without the threat of "the evil empire"... now only some information may be exchanged by your policy Tuxedo Mask?
disc-chord
"he'd be a crypto-anarchist Perl hacker with a taste for the classics of literature, political screeds, 1980s pop music, Adobe software, and lots of porn"
What else is there!?
disc-chord
There are many wonderful points here of how the Sci-Fi channel has managed to totally defile the beauty of Frank Herbert's universe. Not the least of which was making the horrible mistake of trying to "update it for the kids" and re-write the dialog.
My biggest beef is with the mentat actors... WTF is that all about?! The original Piter (Brad Dourif) caputred the essence of what a mentat was ment to be. It took me the first hour and a half to figure out who the hell the mentats were! Everyone was too busy running around in horribly overwhelming colors. When I did finnaly figure out which one was Piter I weeped openly.
Brad Dourif portrayed a true mentat, with his wild eyes and shifty manners. A real tweaker right there, not a friggen comatose weirdo in 13 colors! Perhaps if a passionate director were on board for this miniseries we could see some life from the current actor.
I also echo the several thousand complaints lodged here, but I won't repeat them.
disc-chord --- would pray the end is near if he had a messiah
Don't worry, porn is what drives technology. You ever see that ascii of a naked chick that dates back to like early 70s? It's a male dominated industry, if we can't eat it we will make it give us porn... hmmm, now that I think about it I can't wait to see 36-22-34-3D
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."- Billy Idol (1994)
I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure wireless phones (the ones you have a base station for a ground line, not cell or pcs) have the FCC in their pocket for the 2.4ghz range. Quite a shame really, I'd love to run around town with a constant connection to the net.(read: not with one of those silly little phones)
Good luck to anyone thinking of talking the FCC into giving up any air space for such an endevour. They rake in millions by selling the air to private corps, and are not likely to just give it away in an effort to "do the right thing", I'm affraid.
disc-chord
"though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."-Billy Idol (1994)
Great now your box is /.ed
;) You naughty hooligans!
Once again the "promise of the internet" thwarted by a ravaging gang of geeks
disc-chord
"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit"- Billy Idol (1994)
Yes that wired article is really good, really worth reading ALL the way through.
However... while it is easy to say:
we should find an alternative soon so we do not have to be dependent on only that type of fuels
It is a logistical nightmare. By the time we actually manage to convert everything that currently runs on petrol over to some alternative fuel we will probably have ruined this planet's atmosphere we will want to get the hell off it anyhow. How many people do you know that are desperatly trying to move out of LA and other high-smog areas due to allergies and asthma? I would be surprised if the same was not the case with other major cities in 50 years.
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"Though we say, 'all information should be free', it is not... information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit."- Billy Idol (1994)