Physicists were a little different back then, and had a more intuitive feeling for the science involved. These days, the average physics grad student is screwed if he/she can't model it on a computer. It's a failing that is going to end up hurting physics as a whole in the next 100 years.
Bad Jet Li = Osama and Good Jet Li = the US Military.
It's a frightening correlation - except the whole part about time travel. And the part with the two guys chasing the Bad Jet Li. In any event, it's clearly very suspicious.
Most knowledgeable people are aware that Jet Li is from China, which is very close to the Middle East. And most Chinese food involves oil and vegetables, and everyone knows that the Middle East has oil and Muslims can't eat pork.
Use of the internet isn't a freedom, you idiot. In its initial stages, it was only used by universities and the government. So what if other countries want to restrict access to it? Not having an email address doesn't mean that someone is going to starve, does it? Being unable to ftp the latest quake patch doesn't make someone homeless. These people still have the necessities of life. HAVING INTERNET ACCESS IN NOT A NECESSITY. Jesus.
It's about time someone kicked the US in the pants and got them going. In the past, we've complained about China's policies regarding "subversives", their willingness to exploit child labor, and their lack of hesitation to cane the crap out of American teenagers that
think that they can get away with being obnoxious in someone else's country. But unlike us Americans, they're actually interested enough in space to get back into orbit and possibly to the moon. They're going to get results. Can we, as Americans, stand to see space dominated by the threat from the East? Maybe we'll see something other than talk from American politicans now. Maybe we'll see a push into space.
This pleases me greatly. I was frightened that
we'd never seriously get back into space in my
lifetime. Come on, George. Respond to the yellow threat! Get us back into space where we belong.
Many of the models involving it treat it as a fluid, so I'm not so sure I can agree with it being a different state of matter. As for the article itself, well, it's interesting an all, but it doesn't really *mean* anything unless they repeat the experiment at other colliders to demonstrate that the error observed doesn't come from the apparatus itself. If they can get the same thing elsewhere, then maybe they have something.
I've been running alphas as shell and firewall boxes on my home lan for a few years now. Even though they are pricey, cheap ones are fast and with the compaq c compiler any real work I have to do is well taken care of. It's good to see that the processor line will continue. Now if they'd develop on freebsd a little more.....
I dunno about this one. Wouldn't you be solving some pretty harsh nonlinear d.e's in order to model weather correctly? AFIAK, the only real way to solve these things is to make assumptions about the boundary conditions and the parameters in the equations that simplify the equation in such a way as to make it solvable by means we do know. Not only that, you have mixed fluid equations - one equation for each type of particle in the atmosphere. You'll have boundary conditions on each layer of the atmosphere, and where things behave like plasmas you'll have an entirely new set of equations to consider. It sounds like there are way, way, way to many considerations that go into an exact solution of an atmospheric model. So, solving a 1000 years in advance seems ridiculous. I'd be happy if we could solve a day in advance!
My understanding is that a very very large chunk of the missing mass in the universe has been accounted for via neutrino mass.
If these guys can FIND subatomic black holes and demonstrate that their existence in nature doesn't cause problems for us, then I don't see why they can't play around with making them. On the other hand, physicists have been wrong about things in the past (I know, I am one).......
Hardly. Most people don't consider martial arts films to be the ultimate in filmmaking. When people go to see a martial arts film, they in general aren't going to see it for the plot. They're going so that they can see the hero beat the living crap out of all of the bad guys.
Let's be honest here. A typical kung fu movie has the following plot:
1. Good guy is bullied somehow by the bad guy's gang or the government. This results in either his friends or his family being killed, and then...
2. Good guy trains hard at kung fu either at shaolin or from some old guy that initially refuses to teach him until he is swayed out of pity or persistance. This causes...
3. The good guy gets his "Revenge(tm)" on the bad guy. The "Revenge(tm)" ends in either...
(a) The good guy killing all of the bad guys with no problems, or
(b) The good guy getting stomped by the bad guys until his teacher/girlfriend jump in to protect him. They get beat, and in a fit of godlike endurance and skill the good guy kills all of the bad guys.
Invariably, the plot is peppered with Chineseisms that us dumb roundeyes are doomed to only partially get (read: nationalism, honesty, rising to the call of duty, defending ones fellow man at your own potential cost) much like our understanding of Japanese budo consists of something on the order of "raw fish, wierd sex acts, and hot nubile women."
So. Anti-asian? No. Anti-chan? No. Cookie-cutter plots? Yes. But who cares? It's a kung fu movie. That's what I couldn't understand about america's fascination with crouching tiger. For all of it's beauty, IT'S A KUNG FU MOVIE. It's what you would have gotten if the Shaw Brothers had a budget. Sheesh.
So what?
I'm not denying that ozone blocks UV. I'm not denying that there is a hole in the ozone layer. What I am decrying are the claims that we are the cause of that hole. There was a sizable hole in the ozone layer in the 50's - comparable in size, if not bigger than the hole that was detected in the ozone layer before we started "doing anything about it."
Sorry. I classify global warming in the same category as I classify the global epidemic of mad cow disease. It's a joke. James P. Hogan wrote a really good commentary on this called "Ozone Politics." It's a good read. You might be able to find it on his web site here.
So what if the climate is changing? There was an ice age not so long ago, remember? For some reason, I don't think that humanity's industrialized heat and waste output 100,000+ years ago had anything to do with warming the environment to what it is today. And what about the huge ozone hole detected in the 50's? Why don't we hear about things like this?
The reason is because the only information that makes the news is the information that supports a catastrophe. You can thank the media for that one.
So, while the rest of you whine about global warming and cover up, I'll be eating a nice hamburger made from european beef and afterwards I'll catch some rays on the beach.
The problem with the Dune books and their being cast into a visual media is as follows - Paul Atredies didn't have any spiffy powers and couldn't make things blow up just by looking at them. Apart from some Bene Gesserit teachings from his mother, his only real ability was precognition. By being able to sense the paths that lead to the future, he was able to begin pushing humanity into the direction of his Golden Path. The rest of the books are more or less what happens along that Path.
What does this mean? Well, 99% of the people that watch sci fi movies aren't watching them for an intense storyline filled with plots and subplots. They're watching them to see stuff explode and people get eaten by bug-eyed monsters. So a cerebral series or movie won't get anywhere near the audience that it should get. In the movie, the obvious solution was to add wierding modules and give Paul Atredies all sorts of abilities that people who have read the books cringe at.
At least the miniseries was a little closer to being accurate. They didn't portray the Baron Harkonnen as a pustule-ridden fat man on a flying chair, they portrayed him as a man of excess, which is exactly what he was. Sure, Paul is a whiny bitch in the movie. If you've read the books, you will discover that he ends up being pretty spineless in the end. I only have three gripes with the series:
1. The way Duncan Idaho died. In the books he was fighting off the Sardaukar, in the series he gets hit by a bomb.
2. How whiny Chani is in the series. Come on, guys. She's FREMEN. Crying wastes water.
3. The fremen in the series are nowhere near as dogmatic about water loss as they are in the books.
Other than that, the series was excellent.
Now, my concerns about the next series. The best way I can describe the 6 books in the series is that it's a cosine wave. It starts out on a high note, the middle books lose their momentum a little, and then it ends on a high note. The next two books are going to be rough going. I just hope that they don't sacrifice good story for idiot eye candy.
I've done this before. I used to teach "internet concepts" classes for the ISP that I worked at, about 6 years ago. I realized that the trick isn't to teach them about the technology, but to teach them about the concepts.
So. Here's what you do. Start off by explaining what the internet is. This includes DNS, not in a technical sense but it the "nickname for a number you don't want to remember" sense. Then explain the client-server model. Then explain email, and how an email client sends stuff to an email server. From there, you should be able to cover all of the services that a normal ISP has.
The next thing you do is talk about search engines. Then it's hands-on time, and you let them send email, read news, and search for things on the web.
Of course, this is geared towards a couple-of-hour class. But the general idea is there, you should be able to expand in as much detail as you want.
Indeed. What's the big deal about this? The only wierdness I could see resulting from this would be that by google claiming ownership (non-exclusive) of a post they also claim a part of liability in case some retard with a lawyer and a grudge has a beef with one of google's posters.
As for usenet dying, since when? As long as there is an alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* and an alt.*.warez heirarchy, usenet will thrive. These two heirarchies easily consist of 80% of the volume that newsfeeds contain, anyway.
Consumer-grade DSL isn't cost-effective at all. For the most part, those $29.99-$39.99 offers involve one of the bells reselling the line to an ISP. The ISP is the one that gives you services like usenet, email, and such, but the rest of the stuff is the bells'. And the amount that an ISP makes off of it is miniscule - remember, bell offers more or less the same deal for the same amount.
The place to make cash off of DSL is with business grade stuff, like SDSL. The problem with this is that the majority of the people out there want business-grade speeds for consumer-grade prices. For 1.1 mbit sdsl, we charge in the range of upper $200. For 1.1 mbit cable, the cable companies charge under $40. The difference? With business class DSL you get your own ip block.
A normal consumer doesn't care about this. Hell, a normal consumer doesn't even know what an IP block *is*. So they pay $40 to a cable company for speeds that only a business class dsl line can give you.
That's why it isn't cost effective. The majority of DSL customers aren't businesses, they are normal consumers. And a serious business will skip DSL and go T1.
A 10 day suspension is almost the same as expulsion for a year. Each day of suspension counts as an unexcused abscence, and most school districts have restrictions on the number of unexcused ones that you can have during a semester. Sure, 10 days is hefty - but I wouldn't jump to call it extreme. The article specifically does not say what he did while he was in the school's machines. He could have been changing grades, gathering address information of students or teachers that he has a grudge against, stealing expense credit card numbers, etc. If he wasn't willing to pay the consequences, he shouldn't have hacked the system. I wouldn't really call this news slashdot-worthy, either...papers are chock full of proplr taking the easy way out to avoid personal responsibility. Now if he had hung himself with a mouse cord.....
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It seems to me that the majority of the people that ride the shuttle into space since its inception aren't "real astronauts" in the Right Stuff sense. So what? The only difference between this guy and anyone
else that has ridden into space is that he *paid* for his seat and he's there as a tourist and not as a researcher.
So, NASA bitches and moans about how this guy might get in the way because he's not a "trained astronaut." So what? NASA has a well established background of sending non-astronauts into space anyway. Recall the challenger incident? McAuliffe's *only* real purpose of being on that mission was for PR. She was going to teach a few classes to her students from space.
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Physicists were a little different back then, and had a more intuitive feeling for the science involved. These days, the average physics grad student is screwed if he/she can't model it on a computer. It's a failing that is going to end up hurting physics as a whole in the next 100 years.
like in real genius.
Bad Jet Li = Osama and Good Jet Li = the US Military.
It's a frightening correlation - except the whole part about time travel. And the part with the two guys chasing the Bad Jet Li. In any event, it's clearly very suspicious.
Most knowledgeable people are aware that Jet Li is from China, which is very close to the Middle East. And most Chinese food involves oil and vegetables, and everyone knows that the Middle East has oil and Muslims can't eat pork.
Use of the internet isn't a freedom, you idiot. In its initial stages, it was only used by universities and the government. So what if other countries want to restrict access to it? Not having an email address doesn't mean that someone is going to starve, does it? Being unable to ftp the latest quake patch doesn't make someone homeless. These people still have the necessities of life. HAVING INTERNET ACCESS IN NOT A NECESSITY. Jesus.
no cheese allowed
It's about time someone kicked the US in the pants and got them going. In the past, we've complained about China's policies regarding "subversives", their willingness to exploit child labor, and their lack of hesitation to cane the crap out of American teenagers that
think that they can get away with being obnoxious in someone else's country. But unlike us Americans, they're actually interested enough in space to get back into orbit and possibly to the moon. They're going to get results. Can we, as Americans, stand to see space dominated by the threat from the East? Maybe we'll see something other than talk from American politicans now. Maybe we'll see a push into space.
This pleases me greatly. I was frightened that
we'd never seriously get back into space in my
lifetime. Come on, George. Respond to the yellow threat! Get us back into space where we belong.
Many of the models involving it treat it as a fluid, so I'm not so sure I can agree with it being a different state of matter. As for the article itself, well, it's interesting an all, but it doesn't really *mean* anything unless they repeat the experiment at other colliders to demonstrate that the error observed doesn't come from the apparatus itself. If they can get the same thing elsewhere, then maybe they have something.
I could NEVER justify going back to a modem.
I've been running alphas as shell and firewall boxes on my home lan for a few years now. Even though they are pricey, cheap ones are fast and with the compaq c compiler any real work I have to do is well taken care of. It's good to see that the processor line will continue. Now if they'd develop on freebsd a little more.....
Sometimes the only way that you can get :)
severance is through liberated equipment.
I dunno about this one. Wouldn't you be solving some pretty harsh nonlinear d.e's in order to model weather correctly? AFIAK, the only real way to solve these things is to make assumptions about the boundary conditions and the parameters in the equations that simplify the equation in such a way as to make it solvable by means we do know. Not only that, you have mixed fluid equations - one equation for each type of particle in the atmosphere. You'll have boundary conditions on each layer of the atmosphere, and where things behave like plasmas you'll have an entirely new set of equations to consider. It sounds like there are way, way, way to many considerations that go into an exact solution of an atmospheric model. So, solving a 1000 years in advance seems ridiculous. I'd be happy if we could solve a day in advance!
My understanding is that a very very large chunk of the missing mass in the universe has been accounted for via neutrino mass.
If these guys can FIND subatomic black holes and demonstrate that their existence in nature doesn't cause problems for us, then I don't see why they can't play around with making them. On the other hand, physicists have been wrong about things in the past (I know, I am one).......
Hardly. Most people don't consider martial arts films to be the ultimate in filmmaking. When people go to see a martial arts film, they in general aren't going to see it for the plot. They're going so that they can see the hero beat the living crap out of all of the bad guys.
Let's be honest here. A typical kung fu movie has the following plot:
1. Good guy is bullied somehow by the bad guy's gang or the government. This results in either his friends or his family being killed, and then...
2. Good guy trains hard at kung fu either at shaolin or from some old guy that initially refuses to teach him until he is swayed out of pity or persistance. This causes...
3. The good guy gets his "Revenge(tm)" on the bad guy. The "Revenge(tm)" ends in either...
(a) The good guy killing all of the bad guys with no problems, or
(b) The good guy getting stomped by the bad guys until his teacher/girlfriend jump in to protect him. They get beat, and in a fit of godlike endurance and skill the good guy kills all of the bad guys.
Invariably, the plot is peppered with Chineseisms that us dumb roundeyes are doomed to only partially get (read: nationalism, honesty, rising to the call of duty, defending ones fellow man at your own potential cost) much like our understanding of Japanese budo consists of something on the order of "raw fish, wierd sex acts, and hot nubile women."
So. Anti-asian? No. Anti-chan? No. Cookie-cutter plots? Yes. But who cares? It's a kung fu movie. That's what I couldn't understand about america's fascination with crouching tiger. For all of it's beauty, IT'S A KUNG FU MOVIE. It's what you would have gotten if the Shaw Brothers had a budget. Sheesh.
if they can be tuned to cancer cell membranes. Maybe they can be used as a "cocktail" - part of a combination of chemotherapy drugs.
And since they work by puncturing cell walls, there shouldn't be side effects like there are in normal antibiotics....
I just don't see how it relates to RIAA...
funny, most people think that about journalists....
check out the rfc's for ftp. There's a link at http://www.wu-ftpd.org/rfc/
So what?
I'm not denying that ozone blocks UV. I'm not denying that there is a hole in the ozone layer. What I am decrying are the claims that we are the cause of that hole. There was a sizable hole in the ozone layer in the 50's - comparable in size, if not bigger than the hole that was detected in the ozone layer before we started "doing anything about it."
Sorry. I classify global warming in the same category as I classify the global epidemic of mad cow disease. It's a joke. James P. Hogan wrote a really good commentary on this called "Ozone Politics." It's a good read. You might be able to find it on his web site here.
So what if the climate is changing? There was an ice age not so long ago, remember? For some reason, I don't think that humanity's industrialized heat and waste output 100,000+ years ago had anything to do with warming the environment to what it is today. And what about the huge ozone hole detected in the 50's? Why don't we hear about things like this?
The reason is because the only information that makes the news is the information that supports a catastrophe. You can thank the media for that one.
So, while the rest of you whine about global warming and cover up, I'll be eating a nice hamburger made from european beef and afterwards I'll catch some rays on the beach.
The problem with the Dune books and their being cast into a visual media is as follows - Paul Atredies didn't have any spiffy powers and couldn't make things blow up just by looking at them. Apart from some Bene Gesserit teachings from his mother, his only real ability was precognition. By being able to sense the paths that lead to the future, he was able to begin pushing humanity into the direction of his Golden Path. The rest of the books are more or less what happens along that Path.
What does this mean? Well, 99% of the people that watch sci fi movies aren't watching them for an intense storyline filled with plots and subplots. They're watching them to see stuff explode and people get eaten by bug-eyed monsters. So a cerebral series or movie won't get anywhere near the audience that it should get. In the movie, the obvious solution was to add wierding modules and give Paul Atredies all sorts of abilities that people who have read the books cringe at.
At least the miniseries was a little closer to being accurate. They didn't portray the Baron Harkonnen as a pustule-ridden fat man on a flying chair, they portrayed him as a man of excess, which is exactly what he was. Sure, Paul is a whiny bitch in the movie. If you've read the books, you will discover that he ends up being pretty spineless in the end. I only have three gripes with the series:
1. The way Duncan Idaho died. In the books he was fighting off the Sardaukar, in the series he gets hit by a bomb.
2. How whiny Chani is in the series. Come on, guys. She's FREMEN. Crying wastes water.
3. The fremen in the series are nowhere near as dogmatic about water loss as they are in the books.
Other than that, the series was excellent.
Now, my concerns about the next series. The best way I can describe the 6 books in the series is that it's a cosine wave. It starts out on a high note, the middle books lose their momentum a little, and then it ends on a high note. The next two books are going to be rough going. I just hope that they don't sacrifice good story for idiot eye candy.
I've done this before.
I used to teach "internet concepts" classes for the ISP that I worked at, about 6 years ago. I realized that the trick isn't to teach them about the technology, but to teach them about the concepts.
So. Here's what you do. Start off by explaining what the internet is. This includes DNS, not in a technical sense but it the "nickname for a number you don't want to remember" sense. Then explain the client-server model. Then explain email, and how an email client sends stuff to an email server. From there, you should be able to cover all of the services that a normal ISP has.
The next thing you do is talk about search engines. Then it's hands-on time, and you let them send email, read news, and search for things on the web.
Of course, this is geared towards a couple-of-hour class. But the general idea is there, you should be able to expand in as much detail as you want.
Indeed. What's the big deal about this? The only wierdness I could see resulting from this would be that by google claiming ownership (non-exclusive) of a post they also claim a part of liability in case some retard with a lawyer and a grudge has a beef with one of google's posters.
As for usenet dying, since when? As long as there is an alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* and an alt.*.warez heirarchy, usenet will thrive. These two heirarchies easily consist of 80% of the volume that newsfeeds contain, anyway.
Consumer-grade DSL isn't cost-effective at all. For the most part, those $29.99-$39.99 offers involve one of the bells reselling the line to an ISP. The ISP is the one that gives you services like usenet, email, and such, but the rest of the stuff is the bells'. And the amount that an ISP makes off of it is miniscule - remember, bell offers more or less the same deal for the same amount.
The place to make cash off of DSL is with business grade stuff, like SDSL. The problem with this is that the majority of the people out there want business-grade speeds for consumer-grade prices. For 1.1 mbit sdsl, we charge in the range of upper $200. For 1.1 mbit cable, the cable companies charge under $40. The difference? With business class DSL you get your own ip block.
A normal consumer doesn't care about this. Hell, a normal consumer doesn't even know what an IP block *is*. So they pay $40 to a cable company for speeds that only a business class dsl line can give you.
That's why it isn't cost effective. The majority of DSL customers aren't businesses, they are normal consumers. And a serious business will skip DSL and go T1.
A 10 day suspension is almost the same as expulsion for a year. Each day of suspension counts as an unexcused abscence, and most school districts have restrictions on the number of unexcused ones that you can have during a semester. Sure, 10 days is hefty - but I wouldn't jump to call it extreme. The article specifically does not say what he did while he was in the school's machines. He could have been changing grades, gathering address information of students or teachers that he has a grudge against, stealing expense credit card numbers, etc. If he wasn't willing to pay the consequences, he shouldn't have hacked the system. I wouldn't really call this news slashdot-worthy, either...papers are chock full of proplr taking the easy way out to avoid personal responsibility. Now if he had hung himself with a mouse cord.....
It seems to me that the majority of the people that ride the shuttle into space since its inception aren't "real astronauts" in the Right Stuff sense. So what? The only difference between this guy and anyone else that has ridden into space is that he *paid* for his seat and he's there as a tourist and not as a researcher.
So, NASA bitches and moans about how this guy might get in the way because he's not a "trained astronaut." So what? NASA has a well established background of sending non-astronauts into space anyway. Recall the challenger incident? McAuliffe's *only* real purpose of being on that mission was for PR. She was going to teach a few classes to her students from space.