Face it, calculus does not accurately represent the real universe, in the real universe there is no such thing as a limit, and you can't ignore irregularities. Even if we are an irregularity, whats to say there are not others like us?
The universe is most likeley not infinite. You see we know from cosmic radiation discovered by Edwin Hubble that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, that is to say all bodys are accelerating away from each other, thus moving faster and faster away from each other at every moment in time. (Einstiens cosmological constant) Now trace that acceleration and movement in the opposite direction and you will realize that at one point all the matter in the universe was a one single point, the singularity that the big bang emerged from. Now if the Universe is expanding how could it be infinite, you see if it were infinite what would it be expanding into? Also if it had a beginning and at that beginning it was finite, it would be very difficult to become infinite.
There Must be life in the universe. With the amount of stars in the amount galaxies that may exist, for us to be the only place with life would be like hitting the lottery every moment in time, the implications of our uniqueness would be staggering.
I for one believe that there must be life out there, and this fact has drawn me away from modern religions which I think attempt to answer the wrong questions about us. You see I don't feel the question is "how" are we here, but rather "why". And if we are the only life, what possible explination for our unique existance could be given.
Sorry if my points got a little distorted its hard to carry out a deep thought like this and explain it well in writing or in speech. If anyone knows of a board where discussions like this take place clue me in as I would certainly get in there and be active.
what about those of us who have already had a university education. I attended UCSB and recieved a degree in business economics. Now I am sitting around working shit jobs and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. I've always had an interest in computer science and have done some programming as a hobbyist. For people like me this could be the perfect opportunity to quickly and efficiently gain a real-world skill in something we are interested in.
Oh man, its late, I'm tired, and for a second there I thought you said Oh great, Tortoise in Space. And I was thinking to myself, hey thats not a bad idea. Then I realized the shell probably wouldn't protect them from radiation. The image of those poor tortoises boiling in a vaccum after the Russians tried to send them to the moon got me pretty depressed. Then I realized you said Tourists, and well, now I'm really depressed.
I was working late one night a few months ago and getting frustrated trying to get my Geforce 4 TI out of my tiny small form factor case. Well in my haste I grabbed on to a capacitor with my pinky while I was trying to get the card out and POP! off came the capacitor. I was distraught, but amazingly when I popped the card back in and brought up my system, everything seemed to work fine. I later learned that capacitors can sometimes be used for overflow electricity so I'm hoping this doesn't have lasting effects on the card.
I agree, money drives the law in this and many countries. This is crazy. If Microsoft were truly worried about their business, they should fix their OS's problems before they start suing anyone with a similar name. Besides, weren't there windowing systems called windows or window before Microsoft?
Uh oh, I don't think LinDOS would please Microsoft, they are going to complain it infringes on their DOS copyright. And besides, now all the techies are going to think its a dos emulator for linux or something. Since it will now be the D that is causing trouble I suggest they take out the D and become LinOS. But then MS will complain it sounds too much like WinOS or something. So I suggest the just change the name to L. Microsoft cannot complain at all about the L. You could even call the theL that would be kinda catchy.
Is this parent being modded up to 5-funny another April fools joke? I mean honestly, talk about selfless promotion. I think a nice April fools joke for this guy would be MyDoom.Y or whatever they are upto now, targeting his site for a DOS. He'd probably just think he was getting slashdotted till the site was unreachable for days. Talk about funny.
Yes, there is (or at one time was) A cheatcode for thinkpads so that the keyboard would work properly. Just follow the prompts at boot up (if you can) or check knoppix.net for a list of cheatcodes.
The distro uses openzaurus, which has the opie windowing system. Opie was originaly forked off of Qtopia, an embedded qt qui and pim software that draws directly to the frambuffer, so no x is needed. X can be run the the devices, but the screen on some of the zaruii can be as small as 320x320 so x may not be the best option.
The public's fear is not the only thing that killed nuclear technology. there is still the serious problem of where to store the waste products of a reaction. If the reaction was part of a rocket engine it would be much easier to dispose of, we simply eject it on a trejectory that would allow it to safely leave the solar system before the ship returns to earth. Then it would either end up someone elses problem or just drift endlessly throughout space safely tucked in a vaccum.
KWin is the KDE window manager. If you are using KDE and you haven't specifically changed your window manager yourself, then you are using KWin. KDE is a desktop environment not a windowmanager, it handles things like your taskbar, the kicker, and the menus.
There is a great book on Project Orion out, take a look if you interested in this kinda stuff, it really almost became reality and would have allowed for much larger ships in space than we have today. Chemical rockets will never allow us to travel among the stars or allow for large crews so I'm glad to see we are finally making a change. Besides we have tested nukes all over the planet, at least if we use them for this, they will be doing something with all those blasts.
Instead, they're allegedly offering a somehwat lower price to folks who've already bought Lindows
This is also VERY illegal according to the Clayton Acts. Price descrimination is not legal. Microsoft must sell to all distributors and retailers at the same price (althought there is a distinction between OEM and retail due to product differentiation) Microsoft must sell a copy of XP to retailers at the same price. This means if it costs the retailer near fifty dollars it would not be profitable to sell for fifty. This is absolutely a case of price descrimination, if windows is sold to Lindows users for $50 then we are all going to get it for $50 or the FTC is going to have a nice little case against MS.
The moral of the story: IQ is meaningless. What matters is the combination between discipline, energy, educational opportunity, ethical motivation, and intellectual potential. If they all align, you get Einstein. They never all align.
You just contradicted yourself here, in the case of Einstein you sau they do all align so its not true that they never all align. I would also assert that a pretty good combination created Descartes, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edison, and probably many others who are less famous or simply aren't coming to mind right now. The fact that I know the names of these people who are from a different part of the world and died long before I was born certainly shows their significance.
The source code to God is essentially released open source. It's called the Bible, and its basically all the content embodied in god except that no human can compile it (yet). I mean after all, without the bible our modern idea of god would not resemble what it does.
I live with a Wookie, but alas I do not live in Canada. Btw before living with him I never realized Wookies could be so short, fat, and stinky. They sure are hairy though...
I think its the new theme for games.slashdot.org It's nice they have a games site now, and I kinda like the theme. Although I am red-green color blind, so maybe it looks different to me.
Yeah, his company is called armadillo aerospace, it uses a hydrogen peroxide engine and has no control surfaces, instead it is controlled by software so that the engines are independently controlled and can be used to stabalize the craft. check it out at Armadillo Aerospace
Slashdot Mirror
Face it, calculus does not accurately represent the real universe, in the real universe there is no such thing as a limit, and you can't ignore irregularities. Even if we are an irregularity, whats to say there are not others like us?
-kaplanfx
The universe is most likeley not infinite. You see we know from cosmic radiation discovered by Edwin Hubble that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, that is to say all bodys are accelerating away from each other, thus moving faster and faster away from each other at every moment in time. (Einstiens cosmological constant) Now trace that acceleration and movement in the opposite direction and you will realize that at one point all the matter in the universe was a one single point, the singularity that the big bang emerged from. Now if the Universe is expanding how could it be infinite, you see if it were infinite what would it be expanding into? Also if it had a beginning and at that beginning it was finite, it would be very difficult to become infinite.
There Must be life in the universe. With the amount of stars in the amount galaxies that may exist, for us to be the only place with life would be like hitting the lottery every moment in time, the implications of our uniqueness would be staggering.
I for one believe that there must be life out there, and this fact has drawn me away from modern religions which I think attempt to answer the wrong questions about us. You see I don't feel the question is "how" are we here, but rather "why". And if we are the only life, what possible explination for our unique existance could be given.
Sorry if my points got a little distorted its hard to carry out a deep thought like this and explain it well in writing or in speech. If anyone knows of a board where discussions like this take place clue me in as I would certainly get in there and be active.
-kaplanfx
what about those of us who have already had a university education. I attended UCSB and recieved a degree in business economics. Now I am sitting around working shit jobs and I still don't know what I want to do with my life. I've always had an interest in computer science and have done some programming as a hobbyist. For people like me this could be the perfect opportunity to quickly and efficiently gain a real-world skill in something we are interested in.
-kaplanfx
Oh man, its late, I'm tired, and for a second there I thought you said Oh great, Tortoise in Space. And I was thinking to myself, hey thats not a bad idea. Then I realized the shell probably wouldn't protect them from radiation. The image of those poor tortoises boiling in a vaccum after the Russians tried to send them to the moon got me pretty depressed. Then I realized you said Tourists, and well, now I'm really depressed.
-kaplanfx
With respect to that arctile about V2G:
"In Soviet Russia, car powers you!"
-kaplanfx
I was working late one night a few months ago and getting frustrated trying to get my Geforce 4 TI out of my tiny small form factor case. Well in my haste I grabbed on to a capacitor with my pinky while I was trying to get the card out and POP! off came the capacitor. I was distraught, but amazingly when I popped the card back in and brought up my system, everything seemed to work fine. I later learned that capacitors can sometimes be used for overflow electricity so I'm hoping this doesn't have lasting effects on the card.
-kaplanfx
Can someone give an example showing this error? I am unable to reproduce it.
-kaplanfx
I agree, money drives the law in this and many countries. This is crazy. If Microsoft were truly worried about their business, they should fix their OS's problems before they start suing anyone with a similar name. Besides, weren't there windowing systems called windows or window before Microsoft?
Uh oh, I don't think LinDOS would please Microsoft, they are going to complain it infringes on their DOS copyright. And besides, now all the techies are going to think its a dos emulator for linux or something. Since it will now be the D that is causing trouble I suggest they take out the D and become LinOS. But then MS will complain it sounds too much like WinOS or something. So I suggest the just change the name to L. Microsoft cannot complain at all about the L. You could even call the theL that would be kinda catchy.
Is this parent being modded up to 5-funny another April fools joke? I mean honestly, talk about selfless promotion. I think a nice April fools joke for this guy would be MyDoom.Y or whatever they are upto now, targeting his site for a DOS. He'd probably just think he was getting slashdotted till the site was unreachable for days. Talk about funny.
Yes, there is (or at one time was) A cheatcode for thinkpads so that the keyboard would work properly. Just follow the prompts at boot up (if you can) or check knoppix.net for a list of cheatcodes.
The distro uses openzaurus, which has the opie windowing system. Opie was originaly forked off of Qtopia, an embedded qt qui and pim software that draws directly to the frambuffer, so no x is needed. X can be run the the devices, but the screen on some of the zaruii can be as small as 320x320 so x may not be the best option.
The public's fear is not the only thing that killed nuclear technology. there is still the serious problem of where to store the waste products of a reaction. If the reaction was part of a rocket engine it would be much easier to dispose of, we simply eject it on a trejectory that would allow it to safely leave the solar system before the ship returns to earth. Then it would either end up someone elses problem or just drift endlessly throughout space safely tucked in a vaccum.
KWin is the KDE window manager. If you are using KDE and you haven't specifically changed your window manager yourself, then you are using KWin. KDE is a desktop environment not a windowmanager, it handles things like your taskbar, the kicker, and the menus.
There is a great book on Project Orion out, take a look if you interested in this kinda stuff, it really almost became reality and would have allowed for much larger ships in space than we have today. Chemical rockets will never allow us to travel among the stars or allow for large crews so I'm glad to see we are finally making a change. Besides we have tested nukes all over the planet, at least if we use them for this, they will be doing something with all those blasts.
Just wanted to correct myself, the Clayton Acts were not what I was looking for there, but price descrimination is DEFINATELY illegal.
Instead, they're allegedly offering a somehwat lower price to folks who've already bought Lindows
This is also VERY illegal according to the Clayton Acts. Price descrimination is not legal. Microsoft must sell to all distributors and retailers at the same price (althought there is a distinction between OEM and retail due to product differentiation) Microsoft must sell a copy of XP to retailers at the same price. This means if it costs the retailer near fifty dollars it would not be profitable to sell for fifty. This is absolutely a case of price descrimination, if windows is sold to Lindows users for $50 then we are all going to get it for $50 or the FTC is going to have a nice little case against MS.
The moral of the story: IQ is meaningless. What matters is the combination between discipline, energy, educational opportunity, ethical motivation, and intellectual potential. If they all align, you get Einstein. They never all align.
You just contradicted yourself here, in the case of Einstein you sau they do all align so its not true that they never all align. I would also assert that a pretty good combination created Descartes, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edison, and probably many others who are less famous or simply aren't coming to mind right now. The fact that I know the names of these people who are from a different part of the world and died long before I was born certainly shows their significance.
The source code to God is essentially released open source. It's called the Bible, and its basically all the content embodied in god except that no human can compile it (yet). I mean after all, without the bible our modern idea of god would not resemble what it does.
What? You mean your penis isn't square?
I live with a Wookie, but alas I do not live in Canada. Btw before living with him I never realized Wookies could be so short, fat, and stinky. They sure are hairy though...
Or iPorcelinGoddess or my favorite, iCrapper
I think its the new theme for games.slashdot.org It's nice they have a games site now, and I kinda like the theme. Although I am red-green color blind, so maybe it looks different to me.
If anyone knows of a fast mirror on anon ftp I'd be interested :) I had those ads and waits.
Yeah, his company is called armadillo aerospace, it uses a hydrogen peroxide engine and has no control surfaces, instead it is controlled by software so that the engines are independently controlled and can be used to stabalize the craft. check it out at Armadillo Aerospace