If you think former leaders in times of war were more truthful, that just they were more successful in lying to you. Propaganda and wars go hand in hand like bread and butter. That's why I dislike wars so much and think they should be avoided at all costs (and I can't exactly say the Iran war was unavoidable:-p). They bring out the worst in people -- it's nothing about glory or fame. Just finishing the ugly work that one's leaders started.
I don't think either OS is poaching much from the other's pool of users. No, thanks to OS X not wanting to work well with my hardware. That's the killer "feature" of OS X here that prevents it from grabbing the interest from me as someone who dual boots with Linux. It's not much about its features lacking. Those are actually kind of interesting. But I won't pay overpriced hardware to get to the software.
I agree, I also have pretty high demands from a Linux distro and it having to work for a casual user, and it's the same thing here, that Gutsy is the first distro that I've started to be pleased with. What's really interesting to me is how short time this distro has evolved -- I think that really goes to show how efficient development model open source can be when there's lots of developer attention thanks to the software being popular.
It's also funny from a Windows user perspective how I have by now patched the install with over a hundred automatic updates and not once had to reboot my computer.:-)
That doesn't mean that what we know now is true though. The aurora could also be a conspiracy against us. Because of this, I'm afraid you'll have to give up a few human rights, such as going outdoors alone when there is one being active. The major news networks will air a press conference detailing these new potentially dangerous theories soon. Thanks for your cooperation.
You're joking, but dyson spheres have actually crossed the mind of astronomers. None found yet however.:-)
According to Wikipedia:
Given the amount of energy available per square meter at a distance of 1 AU from the Sun, it is possible to calculate that most known substances would be re-radiating energy in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thus, a Dyson Sphere, constructed by life forms not dissimilar to humans, who dwelled in proximity to a Sun like star, made with materials similar to those available to humans, would most likely cause an increase in the amount of infrared radiation in the star system's emitted spectrum. Hence, Dyson selected the title "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" for his published paper.
SETI has adopted these assumptions in their search, looking for such "infrared heavy" spectra from solar analogs. As of 2005 Fermilab has an ongoing survey for such spectra by analyzing data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). And from the SETI Institute:
DATE: 1980 OBSERVER(S): WITTEBORN SITE: NASA - U OF A, MT. LEMMON INSTR. SIZE (M): 1.5 SEARCH FREQ.(MHz): 8.5 microns - 13.5 microns FREQUENCY RESOL.(Hz): 1 micron OBJECTS: 20 STARS FLUX LIMITS (W/m**2): N MAGNITUDE EXCESS < 1.7 TOTAL HOURS: 50 REFERENCE: COMMENTS: Search for IR excess due to Dyson spheres around solar type stars. Target stars were chosen because too faint for spectral type.
DATE: 1984 OBSERVER(S): SLYSH SITE: SATELLITE INSTR. SIZE (M): RADIOMETER SEARCH FREQ.(MHz): 37x10**3 FREQUENCY RESOL.(Hz): 4x10**8 OBJECTS: ALL SKY 3K BB FLUX LIMITS (W/m**2): T/T =<.01 TOTAL HOURS: 6000 REFERENCE: 27 COMMENTS: Lack of fluctuations in 3K background radiation on angular scales of 10**-2 Strd. rules out optically thick Dyson spheres radiating more than 1 solar luminosity within 100 pc.
DATE: 1987 OBSERVER(S): TARTER, KARDASHEV & SLYSH SITE: VLA INSTR. SIZE (M): 26 (9 ANTENNAS) SEARCH FREQ.(MHz): 1612.231 FREQUENCY RESOL.(Hz): 6105 OBJECTS: G357.3-1.3 FLUX LIMITS (W/m**2): TOTAL HOURS: 1 REFERENCE: COMMENTS: Remote observation (by VLA staff) of IRAS source near galactic center to determine if source could be nearby Dyson sphere. Source confirmed as OH/IR star.
Microsoft got boring though, now that page simply redirects here instead.
It's interesting to follow the revision histories on that page on archive.org. It started out pretty much as my first link, then they removed the "illegal activities" section probably out of political correctness and not wanting to damage their reputation, and now there's no info on leetspeak at all.
Their purpose is to be small, simple aid if you have nowhere better to look. Yahoo Answers is hardly even that. If you've used it for a total of an hour, you'll probably see it's more like a community site for people interested in discussing various topics. A lot of questions there are rhetorical and can't even be answered... Others are asked not because the one asking wants an actual answer, yet others seem to do it as some weird way of trolling. And that's just about the people asking questions. Those answering them are often even worse.
Things like "Why is the sky blue?" Answers are like: "Because of reflections from the water":-S
People often don't even know, or care to tell they don't know, they just guess and pretend like they do... Err... Why? They won't even win prizes, just fictional "points".
It's among the lamest forms of lameness I can imagine wasting time on. At least if I waste time here on Slashdot on discussing topics, I may feel I'm actually helping someone.
Or do you think that timmy would have bought those 3500 albums and 700 games he downloaded from piratbay? No, I think he never would have bought those in the first place.
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I don't see a shortage here, really... Watching the other replies in this thread, I wonder how common problem this really is.
... and one more thing -- it works so well that it's been shown that laugh tracks in sitcoms make it seem more funny. That's how easily the brain can be fooled. So it's not even that important to have live humans doing it, although it may help a bit further in have it be "contagious" (it's not *really* contagious, but almost on a subconscious level one trying to fit in). I think that further goes to show how hardwired it is into us. We probably got laughter long before speech.
I don't think you know what that word really means. Eh, what, wasn't it obvious?
A dilemma (Greek - "double proposition") is a problem offering two solutions or possibilities, in particular two solutions neither of which is acceptable. The alleged problem in choosing between using Windows as an unpreferred OS with a functional drive, or Linux with a non-functional drive?
There is no way referencing Wikipedia is OK. It's not peer reviewed. Not only is the information often wrong, but the information it does has is very biased (which is OK - all information is biased, but you need to see the whole range). Referencing Wikipedia is like saying "Some random guy on the internet once said...". Not exactly a lot of weight. Most good articles, and all featured articles, on Wikipedia have the information referenced though. And they use to have to pass peer reviews too.
Students should definitely use Wikipedia as a good place to find real sources. Of course, if they actually cite it, they're freakin' insane and should go back and re-learn how to research. I don't see the problem in citing Wikipedia if you have verified that the information is correct according to the provided source. I don't think there'd be much difference from that compared to going to referencing the original source. After all, it's pretty rare students do that anyway, or that it's a requirement. When citing something about how radioactivity works, one don't usually backtrace to published papers from Madame Curie. As long as the info has been verified, I think the only problem with citing Wikipedia is teachers who oppose it regardless how well sourced the facts were. That's the main obstacle to overcome. Especially if you switch source from Wikipedia to something else, and do the same background checks, and suddenly everything is OK.
The problem with that analogy is that a manufactured CPU can still execute code regardless if it's using the Ruby framework, or any other framework, or a custom software API.
- CSS support Hmm, will an integrated Silverlight plugin do for much improved web site dynamics and visual effects over CSS?
- DOM support in their javascript implementation Hmm, will a.NET interface for a vastly improved integration with scripting languages do?
- XHTML support Hmm, will rather supporting HTML 5.0 with Microsoft Extensions do?
- SVG rendering Hmm, the Windows Presentation Foundation already supports vector graphics as part of Silverlight, so I don't understand this demand.
There'll be a lot of sweating the next few days as the IE team "invent" the new feature set of IE 8 overnight.;-)
My guess is a further catch up with the existing browser market: - Better support for customization? - Perhaps extension support. - Mouse gestures? - Some improved web standard support. - A few new web standard bugs introduced. - Increased resource consumption.
That ought to only take them about one year to develop.
I don't even see how having that will even help their sales...
Their problem is that they're still living in a society where we had: - No Internet. - No home cinema systems. - No media centers.
Many today don't even want to go to the cinemas because they think it's noisy and with annoying people in front of them, or even people telling about the events in the movie or constantly laughing at bad places. Or maybe they just want to easily go to the bathroom when they wish during a LOTR-like movie marathon. So then they pirate stuff instead of just twiddling their thumbs with a useless 50" home cinema system until the artificially delayed DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD release is made, usually also with artifically imposed regional restrictions.
I mean, there's a whole new field of technology at play here that completely seem to pass them. They still seem to think we are sitting on: a mix of cassette, vinyl, and CD players, and on CRT TV sets. That's what their business model is still geared for. And people today barely even own these relics anymore. They use the media in totally different ways than before.
Agreed about the weirdness about that (that is probably largely to thank religion for). I'd really like to know how society would change with a more open mind about nudity and even sex on TV. I'm not talking about rape scenes or whatever feminists use to provide as examples of "typical pornography", but more regular softer stuff where both the man and woman is treated well.
The word is so in right now that people use it as much as they can, like replaying a newly found long lost porn video on a large hard drive. It's annoying but we'll just have to deal with it because people are like that.
I've already started to dislike it though, because unlike before when people wrote what the problem was, they may now just throw that word around and you don't even know what the problem is. Patch causing hardware to break? A software issue? Who cares, it's "bricked". *sigh*
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If you think former leaders in times of war were more truthful, that just they were more successful in lying to you. Propaganda and wars go hand in hand like bread and butter. That's why I dislike wars so much and think they should be avoided at all costs (and I can't exactly say the Iran war was unavoidable :-p). They bring out the worst in people -- it's nothing about glory or fame. Just finishing the ugly work that one's leaders started.
I agree, I also have pretty high demands from a Linux distro and it having to work for a casual user, and it's the same thing here, that Gutsy is the first distro that I've started to be pleased with. What's really interesting to me is how short time this distro has evolved -- I think that really goes to show how efficient development model open source can be when there's lots of developer attention thanks to the software being popular.
:-)
It's also funny from a Windows user perspective how I have by now patched the install with over a hundred automatic updates and not once had to reboot my computer.
That doesn't mean that what we know now is true though. The aurora could also be a conspiracy against us. Because of this, I'm afraid you'll have to give up a few human rights, such as going outdoors alone when there is one being active. The major news networks will air a press conference detailing these new potentially dangerous theories soon. Thanks for your cooperation.
Hmm, that site just told me to upgrade Firefox 2 to Internet Explorer 5. :-/
People really do get the reference of sharks with laser beams without all the quotage AND the link.
None found yet however.
According to Wikipedia: Given the amount of energy available per square meter at a distance of 1 AU from the Sun, it is possible to calculate that most known substances would be re-radiating energy in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Thus, a Dyson Sphere, constructed by life forms not dissimilar to humans, who dwelled in proximity to a Sun like star, made with materials similar to those available to humans, would most likely cause an increase in the amount of infrared radiation in the star system's emitted spectrum. Hence, Dyson selected the title "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" for his published paper.
SETI has adopted these assumptions in their search, looking for such "infrared heavy" spectra from solar analogs. As of 2005 Fermilab has an ongoing survey for such spectra by analyzing data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). And from the SETI Institute:
They must just now be discovering Microsoft's leet speak tutorial archives.
Microsoft got boring though, now that page simply redirects here instead.
It's interesting to follow the revision histories on that page on archive.org. It started out pretty much as my first link, then they removed the "illegal activities" section probably out of political correctness and not wanting to damage their reputation, and now there's no info on leetspeak at all.
A user making a convenient Firefox extension out of that procedure in 3... 2... 1...
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But that's what the article is saying too. w00t, not wOOt.
Yeah, I wonder if this applies to my Amiga too. Damn Microsoft for not porting their stuff. :-(
Things like "Why is the sky blue?" Answers are like: "Because of reflections from the water"
People often don't even know, or care to tell they don't know, they just guess and pretend like they do... Err... Why? They won't even win prizes, just fictional "points".
It's among the lamest forms of lameness I can imagine wasting time on. At least if I waste time here on Slashdot on discussing topics, I may feel I'm actually helping someone.
I don't see a shortage here, really... Watching the other replies in this thread, I wonder how common problem this really is.
The retail price hasn't shot up for the holidays either. http://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?pu=48126
... and one more thing -- it works so well that it's been shown that laugh tracks in sitcoms make it seem more funny. That's how easily the brain can be fooled. So it's not even that important to have live humans doing it, although it may help a bit further in have it be "contagious" (it's not *really* contagious, but almost on a subconscious level one trying to fit in). I think that further goes to show how hardwired it is into us. We probably got laughter long before speech.
Oh, definitely. Laughter is an important bonding mechanism, that's why we're born with it.
Sounds like a dilemma to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review
The problem with that analogy is that a manufactured CPU can still execute code regardless if it's using the Ruby framework, or any other framework, or a custom software API.
There'll be a lot of sweating the next few days as the IE team "invent" the new feature set of IE 8 overnight. ;-)
My guess is a further catch up with the existing browser market:
- Better support for customization?
- Perhaps extension support.
- Mouse gestures?
- Some improved web standard support.
- A few new web standard bugs introduced.
- Increased resource consumption.
That ought to only take them about one year to develop.
I don't even see how having that will even help their sales...
Their problem is that they're still living in a society where we had:
- No Internet.
- No home cinema systems.
- No media centers.
Many today don't even want to go to the cinemas because they think it's noisy and with annoying people in front of them, or even people telling about the events in the movie or constantly laughing at bad places. Or maybe they just want to easily go to the bathroom when they wish during a LOTR-like movie marathon. So then they pirate stuff instead of just twiddling their thumbs with a useless 50" home cinema system until the artificially delayed DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD release is made, usually also with artifically imposed regional restrictions.
I mean, there's a whole new field of technology at play here that completely seem to pass them. They still seem to think we are sitting on: a mix of cassette, vinyl, and CD players, and on CRT TV sets. That's what their business model is still geared for. And people today barely even own these relics anymore. They use the media in totally different ways than before.
Agreed about the weirdness about that (that is probably largely to thank religion for). I'd really like to know how society would change with a more open mind about nudity and even sex on TV. I'm not talking about rape scenes or whatever feminists use to provide as examples of "typical pornography", but more regular softer stuff where both the man and woman is treated well.
The word is so in right now that people use it as much as they can, like replaying a newly found long lost porn video on a large hard drive. It's annoying but we'll just have to deal with it because people are like that.
I've already started to dislike it though, because unlike before when people wrote what the problem was, they may now just throw that word around and you don't even know what the problem is. Patch causing hardware to break? A software issue? Who cares, it's "bricked". *sigh*