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There are a couple of companies releaseing to the mini-itx standard now, but not a lot. And though others have claimed good linux support I have yet to get a distro to install on my first gen mini-itx... I've tried SuSe 7.1 personal, 7.1 pro, 8.0 pro, and Redhat 8.
For all your mini-itx goodness, checkout www.mini-itx.com daily.
Do you hate everyone who provides critical feedback? Users are all the time saying reply, don't mod... and in this case there was no mod which fit how I felt about your comment... It wasn't a troll or flamebait, it wasn't redundant, and I believe that overrated is ALWAYS unfair, but it was certainly negative... so I responded letting you know how I felt about it.
I've had enough of paying twenty bucks for a CD so some lazy kid doesn't have to get a job.
I was gonna mod this a troll, but it doesn't really count. It's really just incomprehensible. I fail to see how this story can possibly lead you to that conclusion... I would think, if anything, this story supports the opposite conclusion.
So here's wishing for the [Stupid, -1] moderation.
Due to its high bandwidth, it's expected to replace AGP as well.
This is not technically true, though I can see why you would be confused.
They anticipate that customer demand for PCI-X will be so great that it will be difficult to sell AGP boards, therefore AGP will be renamed PCI-X. In order to distinguish between the two, the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"
Seems to me that a router with only one ethernet port is kinda limited in functionality...
That is why this router has a VPN built-in.
The idea being that you connect all your computers in a flat LAN configuration, with your router sitting on the LAN like everything else. Then you configure all your network connected devices besides the router to talk to the router via VPN on private network addresses. You basically then have two different networks running over the same cable; your private VPN that the broadband adapter won't route, because you used private network addresses, and the public IP network that basically only includes your broadband modem and your dreamcast router. The router takes VPN packets and turns them into public IP packets, and the reverse.
He had another musician play some notes - it wasn't a sample from a copyrighted work. Surely there is a difference
Yeah there is something of a difference and this is murky ground (as others have said)
Take a recording of someone else and use it unaltered and you are clearly on the wrong side of copyright law
Take a section of a song that someone else composed (and the composition itself is copyrighted) and you may be on the wrong side of the law, depending on if the section you used is unique.
If the "musicologist" (WTF is a musicologist? Anyone ever heard this term before? Would George Clinton be a "funkologist"???)
Sorry I digress... If the "musicologist" that Dre consulted is correct then Dre shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Oh and then there's the other side of the coin: Some people feel that if a single note is different then its a different work. Some people feel that if the timing is slightly different then its a different work. Some people feel that no section of a song should be copyrightable because its so easy to derive that section without having to steal it, and since all art (and especially music) is derivative... blah blah blah...
For those curious, I'm a DJ that makes his own music entirely from samples and loops. And yes, I license all my samples. But if one day I find something cool and quirky and not for sale at any reasonable price I would not feel it unconscienable to use it without permission.
Actually Orson Scott Card comes out about once every 18 months or so and asks for creative proposols on how to make Ender's game into an interactive movie... he wants to release it on the web. Some kind of immersive flash presentation.
Now if you wanna pitch the animated movie idea (which I'm personally in favor of over some clunky flash web thingie), I can put you in touch with him...
Alright I resisted posting for a while but seeing all these people posting $650+ solutions I had to.
Here's what I got:
1. VIA Mini-ITX EPIA 8000... $99 2. 128 MB PC133 RAM... $20 3. 20GB WD HDD... $69 4. Hauppage TV Tuner card... $129 5. Cupid case (looks like a home theatre component)... $60 6. Laptop DVD Drive w/ converter... $60 7. Windows XP Media Center Edition... free (MSDN Universal) Total: $437 I could've built it using free software, I just chose not to. If a professionally built and supported piece of software is available free to you, why go with a beta?
If you're going for JUST Tivo functionality, you can leave off the DVD Drive and save some cash. Oh, and the more recent Cupid cases have a flash connector built in... so you can view media on CF cards and the like...
My ONLY caveat to the whole thing is that the Quicktime movie format relies on good floating-point support... so Quicktime movies are practically unwatchable. (I got a framerate of 3-5 fps on the first two episodes of animatrix)
DivX, DVD, MP3, and most other media formats I've tried have been great.
BTW, Off-Topic, but did anyone else notice that the chronologically first two posts rated at 5 were posted by users with uids only 5 apart?
Read avs forums (Score:5, Informative) by scootr1 (159749) on Monday April 21, @06:49PM (#5776658) http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdi splay.php?s= &forumid=26
My setup (Score:5, Informative) by Kallahar (227430) on Monday April 21, @06:50PM (#5776663) (http://quickwired.com/)
500 WATTS!??! Even if a third of that power actually goes to lasing, thats a really powerful laser!
Most lasers have a power efficiency of about 1%... sealed CO2 lasers happen to have an efficiency of up to 20%... which is why they're used for stuff like this... but still not too much to get excited about.
100 W of heat is a good amount, but not really spectacular when it comes to cutting...
CO2 cutting is well documented to work on a variety of materials...
Including most metals. The beam itself has enough power that individual atoms are vaporized before heat conduction has enough to work. But expect your cutting rate to be kinda low with metals...
If this is something you do alot, get SQL Server DTS. It does this beautifully, as well as many other tasks.
Not to mention that its pretty much free. The SQL Server Tools install is free if you have SQL Server installed anywhere. There's no licensing anyways, and the DTS stuff is redistributable whether you have one or not...
The problem is that most bills are declared unconstitutional many years after they were passed... long enough where it doesn't meet the planning horizon of an elected official (who is after all only concerned with making it through the next election holding their office)
One possible method is CVD - Chemical Vapor Deposition. When I was going through High School, for a couple hundred dollars of lab equipment (most of which was usable for other experiments and found in the store room of the chemlab), you could setup a lab to grow a diamond film. Now the diamond film grown there was mostly amorphous carbon, but there were micron-sized diamond crystals embedded in it.
The process involves flowing a mixture of alcohol (-COOH), Water Vapor, and Hydrogen over a hot (2400 degree Centigrade) tungsten filament, flowing the resulting gas over a warm (900 degree Centigrade) Si or Mb plate in an oxygen free environment. The idea being that when the mix hits the tungsten, the alcohol combines with the Hydrogen to from two water molecules, leaving the carbon as a free radical.
This was a repeat of an experiment from the 50's. I imagine they've improved the process to the point of being able to reliably grow larger crystals by now. I seem to remember that the heat differential between the filament and the plate was a problem (smaller heat differential = bigger/better crystals at a trade off of time to grow) and that the substrate was also a problem... an existing diamond crystal seed of some sort would provide a much better substrate. An Si substrate, for instance, means that the attatchment points on the surface of the plate for the carbon free radicals doesn't match what you would find in diamond, so adjacent deposition sites can't work together to form the same larger crystal.
Do we know the physical size or the particle density of black holes?
You pose two excellent questions.
The physical size of a black hole depends on how you measure it and where you are and what you're doing when you measure it. The gravity near a black hole bends space itself in such a way that rulers contract and clocks run slower. Rulers only contract when in certain directions, and if a ruler is very close to the black hole those directions change randomly, continuously.
A direct consequence of this is that a black hole's circumference is not always 2 pi r. And the radius as measured by the space that was in the same place as the black hole is very different as the radius you would get if you could somehow measure it through the black hole. Which measurement is correct?
Both. That's why physical size doesn't have much meaning when applied to black holes. The best, constant measurement is the area of the black hole's schwarzchild radius or event horizon. And that is actually easy to measure; measure the black hole's temperature very accurately. The area of the black hole's event horizon times its size is directly proportional to its temperature; given the temperature, one can derive the rest.
As for particle density... no current theory on what happens inside a black hole states that there will be particles inside. The best model is that of a singularity... an infinitely small point-source of mass at the center. The size is theorized to be either 0 or the plank-wheeler radius, which is the smallest an object can be according to our current understanding of quantum physics, and is quite a bit smaller than an electron.
Another theory contends that when the singularity in its formation reaches the plank-wheeler size, it stops being a classical object and starts being a quantum object of some sort, quite possibly a quantum probability foam, in which any region of space has a certain constantly changing probability of containing a specific amount of mass, with the totals of all of those probabilities equalling at any time the total amount of mass that has fallen into the black hole.
Other more exotic theories deal with things like super strings and dimensional gateways.
None of them mention anything resembling a particle.
However, your basic question "Once a hole's mass is known, is its size known" I can answer that with a probably yes.
There are only THREE numbers required to describe a black hole; mass, spin, and electrical charge. Spin can deform the hole's horizon (as well as swirl all the space around it) and electrical charge makes its effects felt on the size of the event horizon as well. But, for very big black holes, that is for black holes big enough to have formed themselves, these two extra quantities are very very close to zero. Any other feature of the black hole can be derived from these three numbers, so yes; we can determine the size of the black hole, however you choose to measure it.
Only large black holes will have accretion disks. The radiation coming from a black hole is negligible until the black hole itself is tiny. It is my guess that the radiation pressure from a black hole would never be enough to prevent a net gain of mass.
Actually, very tiny blackholes can shrink. The radiation from a black hole is blackbody radiation resulting from the hole's "temperature", measured as the amount of chaos the matter that fell into the hole possessed.
As a hole gets smaller, that amount gets smaller linearly while the area of the radius gets smaller exponentially... at a certain size or smaller, it becomes great enough that the black hole will completely radiate its energy away. This is an increasing reaction; the more it radiates, the faster it radiates, until once it reaches a certain very small size, it explodes.
How small does it have to be for this kind of situation to occur? Pretty small... smaller than a black hole that forms in today's universe through natural means. However it may be possible to create a black hole that small and it is almost certainly possible that the early moments of the universe DID create a good number of black holes that small... which is why they're called primordial black holes.
Once again I refer the reader to Stephen Hawking's From the Big Bang to Blackholes.
If a black hole is a sphere, doubling it's radius increases it's volume by a factor or about 33 1/2! Since mass only doubled, it's density just dropped by a factor of 17?
Actually, radius, circumference, and volume cease to have meaningful correlations in the vicinity of a macro relativistic object such as a black hole.
Density also is a meaningless measure when it comes to a black hole. Black holes are infinitely dense, since they have a measureable mass but their size is 0. A black hole is a point source of gravity, nothing more.
Now if you are measuring density as a function of space inside the Event Horizon (also known as the Schwarzschild radius) that is not at the maximum possible density. The Event Horizon is merely the line at which events that happen have a possibility of effecting the outside world. On the "inside" of the event horizon no event can possibly effect anything but events that are closer to the center of the black hole.
While we're talking about black holes and radius... there's actually several competing theories about how black holes get bigger. The only mathematical model that makes sense is one where the radius smoothly grows as matter falls into it; but in this case, the radius actually starts growing BEFORE the matter hits it in some strange time-bending type action.
Another model suggest discontinuous jumps; the event horizon grows in a discrete amount at the exact moment the matter falls in.
That's all slightly off-topic but here's the point I was getting to: the area of the event horizon is the most meaningful spatial measure of a black hole. There is a direct correlation between the area of the event horizon, and the amount of chaos the black hole has accreted.
When you measure chaos as the number of ways that a closed system can be reorganized while its macroscopic structure remains the same, then a black hole that is accreting matter REMOVES chaos from the universe, violating Newton's laws of thermodynamics. This is compensated by the fact that the area of the event horizon increases by exactly the decrease in chaos.
Quite fascinating subject. Stephen Hawking's From the Big Bang to Black Holes is definitely recommended reading on this subject.
to quote another of the replies to this and add onto it:
-5 misinformation
...nor did they have anything resembling a 32-bit filesystem. FAT32, Microsoft's 32-bit file system, didn't come along until Windows 95; prior to that they had FAT16.
Technically, FAT32 didn't resemble a 32-bit filesystem either; that came when fdisk 32, which actually enabled the 32-bit goodness at the partition level, was released with Win98 OEM version D.
286, IIRC, had a 24-bit address space and could therefor address up to 16 megabytes when running in 16-bit protected mode
You did not recall correctly. It's 20-bit. 5 nibbles. And yes, the segmentation was horrible.
<nostalgia> You'd get the full 20-bits by turning on virtual addressing mode (which required several magic words in itself) and then load up segment pointers to point to the starts of segments. You only had two segment pointers available to you which made it especially fun. They were the most significant 16 bits of the 20 bit address bus. Meaning they had to point to a memory paragraph boundary (paragraph = 16 bytes)... Then you had an index pointer that was the LEAST significant 16 bits of the 20 bit address bus. It was such a pain until you coddled onto treating it as a 20-bit number and only dealing with the most significant nibble of the segment pointers, masking the rest out.
Now THAT was a way to write a memory manager. I could spend days on just the memory management scheme, which was entirely up to the programmer in DOS, and wasn't much better in Windows. Not like today's systems. C#, I curse your garbage collection. </nostalgia>
What these kids don't realize is that every time they pull up music and movies and make a copy, they are committing a felony under the United States code
Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. If I walk into an electronics store, snatch a DVD or CD or whatever, stuff it under my shirt, and walk out... I've just committed a misdemeanor, petty larceny.
Doing the equivalent electronically should carry no stiffer penalty.
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There are a couple of companies releaseing to the mini-itx standard now, but not a lot. And though others have claimed good linux support I have yet to get a distro to install on my first gen mini-itx... I've tried SuSe 7.1 personal, 7.1 pro, 8.0 pro, and Redhat 8.
For all your mini-itx goodness, checkout www.mini-itx.com daily.
Also, since I can't resist:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...on a BOOKCASE!
I hope it's a metal bookcase and that you took all the books out first.
Cause otherwise that's gonna be real hard to explain to the apartment manager how that fire started...
Whoo-hoo! I have a freak!
:D
Do you hate everyone who provides critical feedback? Users are all the time saying reply, don't mod... and in this case there was no mod which fit how I felt about your comment... It wasn't a troll or flamebait, it wasn't redundant, and I believe that overrated is ALWAYS unfair, but it was certainly negative... so I responded letting you know how I felt about it.
And now you hate me forever.
Well pooh on you.
I've had enough of paying twenty bucks for a CD so some lazy kid doesn't have to get a job.
I was gonna mod this a troll, but it doesn't really count. It's really just incomprehensible. I fail to see how this story can possibly lead you to that conclusion... I would think, if anything, this story supports the opposite conclusion.
So here's wishing for the [Stupid, -1] moderation.
Due to its high bandwidth, it's expected to replace AGP as well.
This is not technically true, though I can see why you would be confused.
They anticipate that customer demand for PCI-X will be so great that it will be difficult to sell AGP boards, therefore AGP will be renamed PCI-X. In order to distinguish between the two, the PCI-X spec will be designated "PCI-X High Speed" while the AGP spec will be designated "PCI-X Full Speed"
Seems to me that a router with only one ethernet port is kinda limited in functionality...
That is why this router has a VPN built-in.
The idea being that you connect all your computers in a flat LAN configuration, with your router sitting on the LAN like everything else. Then you configure all your network connected devices besides the router to talk to the router via VPN on private network addresses. You basically then have two different networks running over the same cable; your private VPN that the broadband adapter won't route, because you used private network addresses, and the public IP network that basically only includes your broadband modem and your dreamcast router. The router takes VPN packets and turns them into public IP packets, and the reverse.
He had another musician play some notes - it wasn't a sample from a copyrighted work. Surely there is a difference
Yeah there is something of a difference and this is murky ground (as others have said)
Take a recording of someone else and use it unaltered and you are clearly on the wrong side of copyright law
Take a section of a song that someone else composed (and the composition itself is copyrighted) and you may be on the wrong side of the law, depending on if the section you used is unique.
If the "musicologist" (WTF is a musicologist? Anyone ever heard this term before? Would George Clinton be a "funkologist"???)
Sorry I digress... If the "musicologist" that Dre consulted is correct then Dre shouldn't have anything to worry about.
Oh and then there's the other side of the coin: Some people feel that if a single note is different then its a different work. Some people feel that if the timing is slightly different then its a different work. Some people feel that no section of a song should be copyrightable because its so easy to derive that section without having to steal it, and since all art (and especially music) is derivative... blah blah blah...
For those curious, I'm a DJ that makes his own music entirely from samples and loops. And yes, I license all my samples. But if one day I find something cool and quirky and not for sale at any reasonable price I would not feel it unconscienable to use it without permission.
Yeah I realized that after I posted...
Why can't the spammers just cooperate and give us a target!
Oh wait. They're spammers. Cooperation is not an option to them.
speaking of which it ain't /.ed yet.
I think its time we all lean on the refresh button, if you get my point...
Actually Orson Scott Card comes out about once every 18 months or so and asks for creative proposols on how to make Ender's game into an interactive movie... he wants to release it on the web. Some kind of immersive flash presentation.
Now if you wanna pitch the animated movie idea (which I'm personally in favor of over some clunky flash web thingie), I can put you in touch with him...
Alright I resisted posting for a while but seeing all these people posting $650+ solutions I had to.
i splay.php?s= &forumid=26
Here's what I got:
1. VIA Mini-ITX EPIA 8000... $99
2. 128 MB PC133 RAM... $20
3. 20GB WD HDD... $69
4. Hauppage TV Tuner card... $129
5. Cupid case (looks like a home theatre component)... $60
6. Laptop DVD Drive w/ converter... $60
7. Windows XP Media Center Edition... free (MSDN Universal)
Total: $437
I could've built it using free software, I just chose not to. If a professionally built and supported piece of software is available free to you, why go with a beta?
If you're going for JUST Tivo functionality, you can leave off the DVD Drive and save some cash. Oh, and the more recent Cupid cases have a flash connector built in... so you can view media on CF cards and the like...
My ONLY caveat to the whole thing is that the Quicktime movie format relies on good floating-point support... so Quicktime movies are practically unwatchable. (I got a framerate of 3-5 fps on the first two episodes of animatrix)
DivX, DVD, MP3, and most other media formats I've tried have been great.
BTW, Off-Topic, but did anyone else notice that the chronologically first two posts rated at 5 were posted by users with uids only 5 apart?
Read avs forums (Score:5, Informative)
by scootr1 (159749) on Monday April 21, @06:49PM (#5776658)
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumd
My setup (Score:5, Informative)
by Kallahar (227430) on Monday April 21, @06:50PM (#5776663)
(http://quickwired.com/)
500 WATTS!??! Even if a third of that power actually goes to lasing, thats a really powerful laser!
Most lasers have a power efficiency of about 1%... sealed CO2 lasers happen to have an efficiency of up to 20%... which is why they're used for stuff like this... but still not too much to get excited about.
100 W of heat is a good amount, but not really spectacular when it comes to cutting...
CO2 cutting is well documented to work on a variety of materials...
Including most metals. The beam itself has enough power that individual atoms are vaporized before heat conduction has enough to work. But expect your cutting rate to be kinda low with metals...
after reading what the laser will cut through.. man i wish they could have one of those on a battle bot :-p
:(
I thought of doing it... it is possible to take a system like this off-grid... but directed-energy weapons are not allowed
Oh and this would be perfectly safe. The frequencies at which this operates are stopped by glass.
If this is something you do alot, get SQL Server DTS. It does this beautifully, as well as many other tasks.
Not to mention that its pretty much free. The SQL Server Tools install is free if you have SQL Server installed anywhere. There's no licensing anyways, and the DTS stuff is redistributable whether you have one or not...
The problem is that most bills are declared unconstitutional many years after they were passed... long enough where it doesn't meet the planning horizon of an elected official (who is after all only concerned with making it through the next election holding their office)
One possible method is CVD - Chemical Vapor Deposition. When I was going through High School, for a couple hundred dollars of lab equipment (most of which was usable for other experiments and found in the store room of the chemlab), you could setup a lab to grow a diamond film. Now the diamond film grown there was mostly amorphous carbon, but there were micron-sized diamond crystals embedded in it.
The process involves flowing a mixture of alcohol (-COOH), Water Vapor, and Hydrogen over a hot (2400 degree Centigrade) tungsten filament, flowing the resulting gas over a warm (900 degree Centigrade) Si or Mb plate in an oxygen free environment. The idea being that when the mix hits the tungsten, the alcohol combines with the Hydrogen to from two water molecules, leaving the carbon as a free radical.
This was a repeat of an experiment from the 50's. I imagine they've improved the process to the point of being able to reliably grow larger crystals by now. I seem to remember that the heat differential between the filament and the plate was a problem (smaller heat differential = bigger/better crystals at a trade off of time to grow) and that the substrate was also a problem... an existing diamond crystal seed of some sort would provide a much better substrate. An Si substrate, for instance, means that the attatchment points on the surface of the plate for the carbon free radicals doesn't match what you would find in diamond, so adjacent deposition sites can't work together to form the same larger crystal.
Do we know the physical size or the particle density of black holes?
You pose two excellent questions.
The physical size of a black hole depends on how you measure it and where you are and what you're doing when you measure it. The gravity near a black hole bends space itself in such a way that rulers contract and clocks run slower. Rulers only contract when in certain directions, and if a ruler is very close to the black hole those directions change randomly, continuously.
A direct consequence of this is that a black hole's circumference is not always 2 pi r. And the radius as measured by the space that was in the same place as the black hole is very different as the radius you would get if you could somehow measure it through the black hole. Which measurement is correct?
Both. That's why physical size doesn't have much meaning when applied to black holes. The best, constant measurement is the area of the black hole's schwarzchild radius or event horizon. And that is actually easy to measure; measure the black hole's temperature very accurately. The area of the black hole's event horizon times its size is directly proportional to its temperature; given the temperature, one can derive the rest.
As for particle density... no current theory on what happens inside a black hole states that there will be particles inside. The best model is that of a singularity... an infinitely small point-source of mass at the center. The size is theorized to be either 0 or the plank-wheeler radius, which is the smallest an object can be according to our current understanding of quantum physics, and is quite a bit smaller than an electron.
Another theory contends that when the singularity in its formation reaches the plank-wheeler size, it stops being a classical object and starts being a quantum object of some sort, quite possibly a quantum probability foam, in which any region of space has a certain constantly changing probability of containing a specific amount of mass, with the totals of all of those probabilities equalling at any time the total amount of mass that has fallen into the black hole.
Other more exotic theories deal with things like super strings and dimensional gateways.
None of them mention anything resembling a particle.
However, your basic question "Once a hole's mass is known, is its size known" I can answer that with a probably yes.
There are only THREE numbers required to describe a black hole; mass, spin, and electrical charge. Spin can deform the hole's horizon (as well as swirl all the space around it) and electrical charge makes its effects felt on the size of the event horizon as well. But, for very big black holes, that is for black holes big enough to have formed themselves, these two extra quantities are very very close to zero. Any other feature of the black hole can be derived from these three numbers, so yes; we can determine the size of the black hole, however you choose to measure it.
Only large black holes will have accretion disks. The radiation coming from a black hole is negligible until the black hole itself is tiny. It is my guess that the radiation pressure from a black hole would never be enough to prevent a net gain of mass.
Actually, very tiny blackholes can shrink. The radiation from a black hole is blackbody radiation resulting from the hole's "temperature", measured as the amount of chaos the matter that fell into the hole possessed.
As a hole gets smaller, that amount gets smaller linearly while the area of the radius gets smaller exponentially... at a certain size or smaller, it becomes great enough that the black hole will completely radiate its energy away. This is an increasing reaction; the more it radiates, the faster it radiates, until once it reaches a certain very small size, it explodes.
How small does it have to be for this kind of situation to occur? Pretty small... smaller than a black hole that forms in today's universe through natural means. However it may be possible to create a black hole that small and it is almost certainly possible that the early moments of the universe DID create a good number of black holes that small... which is why they're called primordial black holes.
Once again I refer the reader to Stephen Hawking's From the Big Bang to Blackholes.
If a black hole is a sphere, doubling it's radius increases it's volume by a factor or about 33 1/2! Since mass only doubled, it's density just dropped by a factor of 17?
Actually, radius, circumference, and volume cease to have meaningful correlations in the vicinity of a macro relativistic object such as a black hole.
Density also is a meaningless measure when it comes to a black hole. Black holes are infinitely dense, since they have a measureable mass but their size is 0. A black hole is a point source of gravity, nothing more.
Now if you are measuring density as a function of space inside the Event Horizon (also known as the Schwarzschild radius) that is not at the maximum possible density. The Event Horizon is merely the line at which events that happen have a possibility of effecting the outside world. On the "inside" of the event horizon no event can possibly effect anything but events that are closer to the center of the black hole.
While we're talking about black holes and radius... there's actually several competing theories about how black holes get bigger. The only mathematical model that makes sense is one where the radius smoothly grows as matter falls into it; but in this case, the radius actually starts growing BEFORE the matter hits it in some strange time-bending type action.
Another model suggest discontinuous jumps; the event horizon grows in a discrete amount at the exact moment the matter falls in.
That's all slightly off-topic but here's the point I was getting to: the area of the event horizon is the most meaningful spatial measure of a black hole. There is a direct correlation between the area of the event horizon, and the amount of chaos the black hole has accreted.
When you measure chaos as the number of ways that a closed system can be reorganized while its macroscopic structure remains the same, then a black hole that is accreting matter REMOVES chaos from the universe, violating Newton's laws of thermodynamics. This is compensated by the fact that the area of the event horizon increases by exactly the decrease in chaos.
Quite fascinating subject. Stephen Hawking's From the Big Bang to Black Holes is definitely recommended reading on this subject.
-5 misinformation
Technically, FAT32 didn't resemble a 32-bit filesystem either; that came when fdisk 32, which actually enabled the 32-bit goodness at the partition level, was released with Win98 OEM version D.
286, IIRC, had a 24-bit address space and could therefor address up to 16 megabytes when running in 16-bit protected mode
You did not recall correctly. It's 20-bit. 5 nibbles. And yes, the segmentation was horrible.
<nostalgia>
You'd get the full 20-bits by turning on virtual addressing mode (which required several magic words in itself) and then load up segment pointers to point to the starts of segments. You only had two segment pointers available to you which made it especially fun. They were the most significant 16 bits of the 20 bit address bus. Meaning they had to point to a memory paragraph boundary (paragraph = 16 bytes)... Then you had an index pointer that was the LEAST significant 16 bits of the 20 bit address bus. It was such a pain until you coddled onto treating it as a 20-bit number and only dealing with the most significant nibble of the segment pointers, masking the rest out.
Now THAT was a way to write a memory manager. I could spend days on just the memory management scheme, which was entirely up to the programmer in DOS, and wasn't much better in Windows. Not like today's systems. C#, I curse your garbage collection.
</nostalgia>
What these kids don't realize is that every time they pull up music and movies and make a copy, they are committing a felony under the United States code
Rubbish. Absolute rubbish. If I walk into an electronics store, snatch a DVD or CD or whatever, stuff it under my shirt, and walk out... I've just committed a misdemeanor, petty larceny.
Doing the equivalent electronically should carry no stiffer penalty.
Do you really need that much back muscle to kiss a dripping wet Kirsten Dunst?
I don't think it's the back muscle that is strained by kissing a dripping wet Kirsten Dunst.
And I do think I could suck up a little back pain for the opportunity.
From the story...
Last month, Maguire's agents renegotiated a record £11 million deal for the sequel...
£11M is NOT $11M... its approximately $17.6M... quite a difference.
And quite a lot more money to be losing because your back hurts...
In Soviet Russia, net frees YOU!