A few people have posted with a comment about how they consider time to be the fourth dimension.
Sure, that's one way to think of it, but I think what this animation is attempting to describe is a fourth spatial dimension. That is, describing a geometry where 4 lines can be perpendicular to eachother, instead of the 3 that we are used to.
Saying the 4th dimension is time is an easy way out.
Well, let me just confirm what the article said...most college students really will not care about this. Here is a list of things college students care about:
-Sleeping -Drinking -Eating -Girls (or boys) -Downloading music
There are a lot of things on this list before "the usage of their extra CPU cycles".
I applaud Kazaa for finding a way to utilize the apathy of America's university students, and I applaud America's university students for that apathy!
Many happy hours were spent on Mixed Up Mother Goose....Anyone else remember that classic? I've got a paper to write, but I feel somehow it is more important to search for that one.
Man, if you don't care about it, don't read or comment on it!
Are you suggesting that the 15 seconds it takes you to read the front page story and decide if it interests you is too much of a waste of your time, nevermind the people who are interested by it? That is really what the editors do...every story has a group who will be interested and a group that won't be. They decide if enough people will be interested in the story to justify sacrificing the 15 seconds of time uninterested people like you will spend looking at it.
If you don't think something is worthy of slashdot, just relax and move on.
Like in the movie "Go"... (a great film, gets better every single time you watch it...available from a P2P service near you (I've heard))
when they are in the appartment of the big time drug dealer...and Bose has prominently displayed a box, featuring large logo, along one of the walls.
I'm sure all those upper class people who buy Bose because of the "if it's the most expensive, it must be the best" mentality would love to be associated with a guy selling Ecstasy to minors.
Criminal penalties for certain acts of desecration to the flag were contained in Title 18 of the United States Code prior to 1989. The Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson; June 21, 1989, held the statute unconstitutional. This statute was amended when the Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Oct. 28, 1989) imposed a fine and/or up to I year in prison for knowingly mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor or trampling upon any flag of the United States. The Flag Protection Act of 1989 was struck down by the Supreme Court decision, United States vs. Eichman, decided on June 11, 1990.
While the Code empowers the President of the United States to alter, modify, repeal or prescribe additional rules regarding the Flag, no federal agency has the authority to issue 'official' rulings legally binding on civilians or civilian groups. Consequently, different interpretations of various provisions of the Code may continue to be made. The Flag Code may be fairly tested: 'No disrespect should be shown to the Flag of the United States of America.' Therefore, actions not specifically included in the Code may be deemed acceptable as long as proper respect is shown.
The Acts declared unconstitutional imposed penalties for desecration. I don't really understand how it can be all right without penalties, but unconstitutional in the "Flag Protection Act". The Flag Code is still on the books, and the "Thanks for traveling" signs are clearly in violation.
After seeing those "Thanks for Traveling" signs at hotels on my way back to school, I began to wonder if those were legal. Turns out we already have a law, the U.S. Flag Code which states
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
Now, the Flag Code is an interesting piece of legislature, at the top of the link above it talks about the lack of penalties included, and how other, stronger, legislation has been struck down. The article also states
The Flag Code may be fairly tested: 'No disrespect should be shown to the Flag of the United States of America.' Therefore, actions not specifically included in the Code may be deemed acceptable as long as proper respect is shown.
We all know that those signs are marketing for the hotels as much they are promoting "Unity" and that jazz. Is that disrespect?
Yeah, 11-digit dialing sucks. I've noticed the cell phone companies are the only ones enforcing it so far, though. Local, hardline numbers still work with 7 digits.
Found this on the "web browser" tab of Morpheus that no one ever looks at because there is no pirated music or movies on it.....it's in PDF, but it is a response to this lawsuit.
It's dated Nov. 6.....has this suit been going on that long?
Anyway, sorry it's in PDF. If this gets modded up, somone should probably mirror it.
I am excited in one sense, I will definitely read it, but is this entirely ethical? I mean, I don't think I want the contents of my computer published when I die. Especailly since they made such a big point about his being a perfectionist. Maybe he wouldn't have wanted people to read this. What does everyone else think?
I wonder if there has ever been anything that was 300db...remember, the decibel scale is logarithmic, and the space shuttle taking off is about 180db or so. I can't imagine anything being 10^whatever times louder than that.
This also raises the question "Did the big bang make any noise?" because there was no universe for it to be heard in....
Of course we all realize that this doesn't work for us that use the accelerated-hunt-and-peck method. I remember the "home row" vaguely and of course it seems like it would be faster, but hey, you can't contain these fingers in any "home row"! They were born to roam free about the keyboard!
Seriously, how many people on Slashdot use the home row method that would actually work for this thing? It'd be a good poll, that's for sure. Or would the "Artifical Intelligence" be able to figure out which keys I am pressing no matter what style I use..?
This is definitely a Cool Thing, but it has a long way to go before people start using them (especially for coding, I would think....How hard is it going to be to hit the right direction of curly brace each time??)
I've heard of this happening before, and I've heard of the "chicken cannon" project. IANAP (pilot), but I would think something could be done to protect the engines.....especially if , as you say,
To the west and south of JFK Airport is a very large marshy area that serves as a sanctuary for migratory birds (plus some native waterfowl)
and other planes have been brought down by this before. I'm not saying this theory is wrong, but I am wondering why the reaction seems to be "well, looks like this one ran into some birds....I guess that'll happen sometimes."
I'm imagining a cone of some sort, but I'm not an engineer (yet).
I think slashdot would be a better place if more AC's spontaneously combusted. And what is Compaq writing in their notbooks about this? Why do they care?
Slashdot Mirror
A few people have posted with a comment about how they consider time to be the fourth dimension.
Sure, that's one way to think of it, but I think what this animation is attempting to describe is a fourth spatial dimension. That is, describing a geometry where 4 lines can be perpendicular to eachother, instead of the 3 that we are used to.
Saying the 4th dimension is time is an easy way out.
Well, let me just confirm what the article said...most college students really will not care about this. Here is a list of things college students care about:
-Sleeping
-Drinking
-Eating
-Girls (or boys)
-Downloading music
There are a lot of things on this list before "the usage of their extra CPU cycles".
I applaud Kazaa for finding a way to utilize the apathy of America's university students, and I applaud America's university students for that apathy!
Many happy hours were spent on Mixed Up Mother Goose....Anyone else remember that classic? I've got a paper to write, but I feel somehow it is more important to search for that one.
Where would Slashdot fit in to this? There's links to everywhere!
Man, if you don't care about it, don't read or comment on it!
Are you suggesting that the 15 seconds it takes you to read the front page story and decide if it interests you is too much of a waste of your time, nevermind the people who are interested by it? That is really what the editors do...every story has a group who will be interested and a group that won't be. They decide if enough people will be interested in the story to justify sacrificing the 15 seconds of time uninterested people like you will spend looking at it.
If you don't think something is worthy of slashdot, just relax and move on.
"All I want are sharks with frickin' laser beams on them."
We really need to knock that one down out of the hof, this one is getting pretty close to 4th.
I don't think it'll touch the WTC stuff though.
How many times do you think Taco hit reload in that 15 minutes and 30 seconds?
And every time some spam arrived......
Must have been a brutal quarter hour.
Congrats.
Like in the movie "Go"...
(a great film, gets better every single time you watch it...available from a P2P service near you (I've heard))
when they are in the appartment of the big time drug dealer...and Bose has prominently displayed a box, featuring large logo, along one of the walls.
I'm sure all those upper class people who buy Bose because of the "if it's the most expensive, it must be the best" mentality would love to be associated with a guy selling Ecstasy to minors.
Is this what you are referring to?
Criminal penalties for certain acts of desecration to the flag were contained in Title 18 of the United States Code prior to 1989. The Supreme Court decision in Texas v. Johnson; June 21, 1989, held the statute unconstitutional. This statute was amended when the Flag Protection Act of 1989 (Oct. 28, 1989) imposed a fine and/or up to I year in prison for knowingly mutilating, defacing, physically defiling, maintaining on the floor or trampling upon any flag of the United States. The Flag Protection Act of 1989 was struck down by the Supreme Court decision, United States vs. Eichman, decided on June 11, 1990.
While the Code empowers the President of the United States to alter, modify, repeal or prescribe additional rules regarding the Flag, no federal agency has the authority to issue 'official' rulings legally binding on civilians or civilian groups. Consequently, different interpretations of various provisions of the Code may continue to be made. The Flag Code may be fairly tested: 'No disrespect should be shown to the Flag of the United States of America.' Therefore, actions not specifically included in the Code may be deemed acceptable as long as proper respect is shown.
The Acts declared unconstitutional imposed penalties for desecration. I don't really understand how it can be all right without penalties, but unconstitutional in the "Flag Protection Act". The Flag Code is still on the books, and the "Thanks for traveling" signs are clearly in violation.
After seeing those "Thanks for Traveling" signs at hotels on my way back to school, I began to wonder if those were legal. Turns out we already have a law, the U.S. Flag Code which states
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
Now, the Flag Code is an interesting piece of legislature, at the top of the link above it talks about the lack of penalties included, and how other, stronger, legislation has been struck down. The article also states
The Flag Code may be fairly tested: 'No disrespect should be shown to the Flag of the United States of America.' Therefore, actions not specifically included in the Code may be deemed acceptable as long as proper respect is shown.
We all know that those signs are marketing for the hotels as much they are promoting "Unity" and that jazz. Is that disrespect?
Your school has a Counterstrike department? Cool.
Yeah, 11-digit dialing sucks. I've noticed the cell phone companies are the only ones enforcing it so far, though. Local, hardline numbers still work with 7 digits.
That's the price I see on the site for the 256 CD collection of the continental US.
How long do you think before I can get it from Morpheus?
Found this on the "web browser" tab of Morpheus that no one ever looks at because there is no pirated music or movies on it.....it's in PDF, but it is a response to this lawsuit.
It's dated Nov. 6.....has this suit been going on that long?
Anyway, sorry it's in PDF. If this gets modded up, somone should probably mirror it.
I am excited in one sense, I will definitely read it, but is this entirely ethical? I mean, I don't think I want the contents of my computer published when I die. Especailly since they made such a big point about his being a perfectionist. Maybe he wouldn't have wanted people to read this. What does everyone else think?
you mean the DOJ doesn't read slashdot every day? I think they know how we feel.
I wonder if there has ever been anything that was 300db...remember, the decibel scale is logarithmic, and the space shuttle taking off is about 180db or so. I can't imagine anything being 10^whatever times louder than that.
This also raises the question "Did the big bang make any noise?" because there was no universe for it to be heard in....
...a USB mood ring?
Of course we all realize that this doesn't work for us that use the accelerated-hunt-and-peck method. I remember the "home row" vaguely and of course it seems like it would be faster, but hey, you can't contain these fingers in any "home row"! They were born to roam free about the keyboard!
Seriously, how many people on Slashdot use the home row method that would actually work for this thing? It'd be a good poll, that's for sure. Or would the "Artifical Intelligence" be able to figure out which keys I am pressing no matter what style I use..?
This is definitely a Cool Thing, but it has a long way to go before people start using them (especially for coding, I would think....How hard is it going to be to hit the right direction of curly brace each time??)
I've heard of this happening before, and I've heard of the "chicken cannon" project.
IANAP (pilot), but I would think something could be done to protect the engines.....especially if , as you say,
To the west and south of JFK Airport is a very large marshy area that serves as a sanctuary for migratory birds (plus some native waterfowl)
and other planes have been brought down by this before. I'm not saying this theory is wrong, but I am wondering why the reaction seems to be "well, looks like this one ran into some birds....I guess that'll happen sometimes."
I'm imagining a cone of some sort, but I'm not an engineer (yet).
Airbus 300 on it's way to Santo Domingo, Flight 587
There was little I could do on my Tandy 1000 that was more enjoyable than
/s
.bat files? I still regularly use "killdocs.bat" to clean the pr0n out of my documents menu.....
dir \*.*
and watch it grind away through my 10MB drive.
Also, does this mean no more support for
I just flipped to a high numbered channel here, and it seems that "Anti-Terrorism" Legislation is losing in a vote.
However, I never can tell what they are voting on, but this would seem to be a good thing...
Is anybody also watching want to explain what is going on?
I think slashdot would be a better place if more AC's spontaneously combusted.
And what is Compaq writing in their notbooks about this? Why do they care?