>9. Keep a close eye on possible haxors. You know how to identify them, the kids who bring their own Cisco routers to school. They're the ones who are going to bring down your gateways.
IANASA (system admin) but ya might want to look at getting them involved in the network... ya know, they have the 1337 skillz ^_^ (or are as willing to learn them as anyone(!)) and may be less likely to want to bring down the network if they are the ones keeping it up...
There are any number of problems with that, but it's a line of thought to consider...
IANAH, but...
If it weren't for some of aristotle's (incorrect) teachings, held sacred until the renaissance, europeans might have figured some of that stuff out themselves...
Of course, part of what helped with the rise of Europe starting around the renaissance was the change in outlook, debunking old viewpoints gradually became something that caused one to become famous and revered, not beheaded.
Nowadays, someone giving good proof that, say, the earth does not revolve around the sun would get a nobel ^_^... on the flip side, if that were the case, someone would have already done so! ^_^
Of course, in large part this trend started with the influx of knowledge from the Islamic world, sorta starting the trend...
The problem with your argument, IIUC, is that the rated temp is saying that the processor will go that hot with no issues... so a higher rating is good ^_^ of course, they run hotter, and that is an issue... unless you live in a cold area ^_^
Get a free built in space heater with our AMD Tbird safely OC'ed to 1.6 with extra large case fan!
The strange thing is that about half the emails I get from physicists insist that things do move in spacetime while 20%agrees that it's impossible but still cling to time travel, wormholes and all that nonsense. Go figure!
My guess is that the half that insist that things move in spacetime don't really understand what they're saying. I simply do not see how time travel or wormholes or whatnot inherently require motion in spacetime.
Basically, what I'm suggesting is that the whole 'dt/dt=1' is not proof that one can not do time travel, because I have just given a scenario which, while it might be absurd, does not seem to me to be inherently impossible. If you take spacetime to be a fixed graph (which it is, so long as you aren't trying to merge it with quantum mechanics or something, in which case its just plain screwy ^_^) then I don't see how what I've just described is inherently impossible. If time doesn't get any special significance for being time, then you could have a circle on an xt plane and it would not inherently be an impossibility, as far as I can see, but the little point on the circle could be said to be moving backwards in time for a portion of its circling.
Don't ask me how that circle got there, but I don't see how that circle could NOT have gotten there, is my point.
BTW, one thing I can say about what you've put up is that it has actually gotten me to think, which is inherently a good thing ^_^ I'd suggest people read it, just don't take it as being necessarily correct. (this stuff is still relatively new, nothing is gospel yet, except to people who could not rightfully be called scientists.)
Oh kay... ya know, I sat through and read your page, and the problem I have with you is that you spend as much of your argument calling the other person names than to actually argue. It makes you noticable, but it also makes you an ashhole.
Of COURSE, by definition it is impossible to move in spacetime. spacetime is essentially a static construct. You can move around in three dimensions, but as soon as you start graphing that fourth you are a single static shape consisting of those movements. Your arguments, however, do NOT seem to preclude time travel. There is a key difference between time travel and motion in spacetime.
Your argument is that, since dt/dt would be 1, you can't have time travel. OK, here goes...
Imagine a guy moving forward. He encounters some black box (wierd curvature of space or something, it doesn't matter what) that allows him to turn around and start moving backwards. Eventually he turns around and starts moving forward again, having moved backwards in time, so to speak. The thing is, his differential rate of chage of time with respect to time, for the whole period, including when he is turning around and moving backwards with respect to everyone else is 1.
Also, what motion in spacetime really would be would be my taking this guy and grabbing on to him fourth dimensionally and moving him forward, for his entire life, fifteen meters. You can't do that.
Umm... nowadays, 'innovate' means to crush one's competition by means of embrace and extend or other such IcroSmofty ways...
IcroSmoft has made 'innovate' down there with @#$& and @&*# in/. society, probably lower
Sorry, couldn't resist ^_^
They want me to pay blind. In a bookstore or such I can look at the actual book I'm thinking of buying and decide whether I want it or not. A lot of online content providers want me to pay to even be able to find out what information they have. I may be willing to do that for specialized sources where the reputation of the source is enough, but not for things like general news.
This sounds like a problem that's around now even in the 'free' ROM(z) sites... I remember trying to dig a particular (somewhat rarer) one up, and I'd go to these sites that would require that I vote for them on their 'top 20/50/100/etc' lists before I could even view their lists... then the ones that still have the vote, but once I go through their voting mess I find a page saying that they no longer have roms...
I have no problem with their spamming me with porn ads or whatever they need to do to make a buck, or voting for their site on a list, or whatever, but only AFTER I get the content.
(/tangent)
Although when I've responded to this the post was labeled troll, it expresses exactly the point I was about to say. MS might be evil (that's very much a matter of opinion), Naziism was almost certainly evil for what it did, Co$ the same for what they do, but they consist entirely of people who are neither good nor evil. They are people.
Just keep that in mind, people are never evil. EVER. they might be totally psychotic, but not evil. An organization can be evil; the people involved are not evil, simply probably psychotic ^_^.
Just my $.02... Hmm, he was probably trolled though because of the whole MS fuddery ^_^
There's this guy making whoopass inside athlon decal/stickers (the thing you put on the front of the case)... they are available as auctions on ebay. I need to get one or two of those myself... ^_^
The problem, of course, is that ram is a major bottleneck... if you already have enough money to spend to buy P4's rather than AMDs for that slight gain in performance, then you might as well spend the extra money on RDRAM too...
The only computer you have to fear is the one that's programmed to be creative.
The problem with this is that it is the creative computer/program that would be most useful, imho... and also I'd doubt that one would have anything resembling AI without creativity. If a creative AI would be useful, it will be done, if it is physically possible.
From the MPAA's side:
The trial testimony was unanimous (from both sides) that DeCSS performs two functions: it decrypts an encrypted DVD movie file and then copies it to the user's computer hard drive or other storage device. (Tr. 245:11-248:5, 619:12-18; 821:21-822:8, 896:25-897:4). Under the CSS license, authorized DVD players must be designed only to decrypt, unscramble and play back the DVD movie content while preventing users from storing or transmitting that decrypted content and from making and transmitting decrypted digital copies of the copyrighted content. (Tr. 409:20-24; 505:4-6).
Ok, I'm confused... so I use this program that decrypts my DVDs, and I can't copy the resulting data to a storage device? Where AM I supposed to copy it,/dev/null?
IANAL, but there seems to be some technical cluelessness somewhere here, and I don't think its with me.
I don't why there's still this belief that there was an actual trip to the moon with people going back and forth with 30+ years old technology.
Ok, first off I have to say TROLL...
That said...
Why has not the US set up a permanent station in the moon. After all, today's technology is much better than 30 years ago.
Simple... we went to the moon for political reasons, to say we did so, to top the commies, etc. It would also be insanely expensive to maintain, as food would have to be shipped there. It would take probably two orders of magnitude more money than we are currently spending on the space program JUST to support such a station. the money would be better spent elsewhere.
Why stopping the "moon trips" altogether?
Basically the same reasons as I just mentioned.
Why even with all the powerful telescopes we have today, there's not even a single (NOT ONE) good shot of artifacts left in the moon from the trip 30 years ago? And yet, they have great shots of Neptune, Saturn, etc.
There is a very large difference between a great shot of neptune and a shot of the moon with details. Neptune, a pixel could be a square mile and it would look very very good, but a square foot pixel wouldn't give a good shot of artifacts on the moon.
That said, there is a nice tangible observable thing left on the moon that can be observed... a mirror. I remember reading somewhere about a laser being shined at this mirror and reflected into an observatory. (anyone have links?)
In any case, I think the most convincing piece of proof that we did go there was the parabolic arcs of the dust. There is no real possible way to do this without revolutionary new (but 30 years old) classified technology, and if you allow for that, you can't refute anything.
(/trollrespond)
Again, it's POINTLESS to make a criticism about this unless/until we can actually SEE how it works AFTER RELEASE. I, frankly, would be glad to pay MS, say, $10/yr -- Win2k is $120, that's 12 years! Even at $20/yr, I've NEVER kept an OS for longer than 6 years!
Where do you get these $10 and $20/yr numbers from? If it would be less than you're paying now, why would MS switch? I'd tend to think it would be more than $20 a year, especially for a version that, say, ACTUALLY HAS SMP SUPPORT! (looking at the two processors in my currently open linux box) My point is, why would MS charge you a third of what you're paying now? Benevolence? I'd trust a corporation (ANY corporation) about as far as I could throw it, with their need to make a profit... And I can't throw MS very far;)
Could I write proprietary software, and restrict its use to proprietary OSes? I think not.
Why not? IANAL (lol, how many times have you heard that before) but AFAIK you can require anything you want to in license to your software, if you wrote it completely yourself (nobody else has claims to the copyright or its required to be GPLed, etc).
This means I could write a little program that might compile on any operating system, but I might only allow it to be run on, say, MacOS 9.x. There are not very many reasons why someone would want to restrict the market this way, though... just imagine:
Corporate purchasing person:Hello, we'd like 200 licenses of that CAD software for our business. Sales person:Ok, that will come to $100,000 Corporate purchasing person:
Great! We now have a CAD program we can use with our machines running BobOS! Sales person: Wait! We don't sell to people who will run on BobOS! mua ha ha!
And so the company switches to free software, and everyone's happy, except the company that tried to restrict its license pointlessly...
the same ambitions that spawned the nuclear fucking bomb
Yeah, since the dawn of time the geek has realized that most crucial portion of mass media... Sex Sells!
So, on that note, I think that The spawn of the nuclear fucking bomb would make an interesting name for a porn flick.
Sorry, couldn't resist;)
There is the definite advantage that, as a metal, it should be ductile. One of the biggest issues with superconductors is making them into a wire... ceramic is rather brittle.
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Might the good ol' BBB be a good place to go with an issue like this? Just an idea that popped into my head...
>9. Keep a close eye on possible haxors. You know how to identify them, the kids who bring their own Cisco routers to school. They're the ones who are going to bring down your gateways.
IANASA (system admin) but ya might want to look at getting them involved in the network... ya know, they have the 1337 skillz ^_^ (or are as willing to learn them as anyone(!)) and may be less likely to want to bring down the network if they are the ones keeping it up...
There are any number of problems with that, but it's a line of thought to consider...
IANAH, but...
If it weren't for some of aristotle's (incorrect) teachings, held sacred until the renaissance, europeans might have figured some of that stuff out themselves...
Of course, part of what helped with the rise of Europe starting around the renaissance was the change in outlook, debunking old viewpoints gradually became something that caused one to become famous and revered, not beheaded.
Nowadays, someone giving good proof that, say, the earth does not revolve around the sun would get a nobel ^_^... on the flip side, if that were the case, someone would have already done so! ^_^
Of course, in large part this trend started with the influx of knowledge from the Islamic world, sorta starting the trend...
Truely, truely masterful. Not the joke, so much as the fact it didn't get modded down to -1 where, in all honesty, it should be... (-1 funny?)
>Turing... (and another language I won't speak of)
Would brainf*ck happen to be that other language? ^_^ IIUC, its like turing on crack...
Why doesn't anyone ever post links to nytimes with archives.nytimes.com, rather than www.nytimes.com, so you don't have to register at all?
The problem with your argument, IIUC, is that the rated temp is saying that the processor will go that hot with no issues... so a higher rating is good ^_^ of course, they run hotter, and that is an issue... unless you live in a cold area ^_^
Get a free built in space heater with our AMD Tbird safely OC'ed to 1.6 with extra large case fan!
Basically, what I'm suggesting is that the whole 'dt/dt=1' is not proof that one can not do time travel, because I have just given a scenario which, while it might be absurd, does not seem to me to be inherently impossible. If you take spacetime to be a fixed graph (which it is, so long as you aren't trying to merge it with quantum mechanics or something, in which case its just plain screwy ^_^) then I don't see how what I've just described is inherently impossible. If time doesn't get any special significance for being time, then you could have a circle on an xt plane and it would not inherently be an impossibility, as far as I can see, but the little point on the circle could be said to be moving backwards in time for a portion of its circling.
Don't ask me how that circle got there, but I don't see how that circle could NOT have gotten there, is my point.
BTW, one thing I can say about what you've put up is that it has actually gotten me to think, which is inherently a good thing ^_^ I'd suggest people read it, just don't take it as being necessarily correct. (this stuff is still relatively new, nothing is gospel yet, except to people who could not rightfully be called scientists.)
Oh kay... ya know, I sat through and read your page, and the problem I have with you is that you spend as much of your argument calling the other person names than to actually argue. It makes you noticable, but it also makes you an ashhole.
Of COURSE, by definition it is impossible to move in spacetime. spacetime is essentially a static construct. You can move around in three dimensions, but as soon as you start graphing that fourth you are a single static shape consisting of those movements. Your arguments, however, do NOT seem to preclude time travel. There is a key difference between time travel and motion in spacetime.
Your argument is that, since dt/dt would be 1, you can't have time travel. OK, here goes...
Imagine a guy moving forward. He encounters some black box (wierd curvature of space or something, it doesn't matter what) that allows him to turn around and start moving backwards. Eventually he turns around and starts moving forward again, having moved backwards in time, so to speak. The thing is, his differential rate of chage of time with respect to time, for the whole period, including when he is turning around and moving backwards with respect to everyone else is 1.
Also, what motion in spacetime really would be would be my taking this guy and grabbing on to him fourth dimensionally and moving him forward, for his entire life, fifteen meters. You can't do that.
-1 offtopic, I know, I know, moderators, but...
Umm... nowadays, 'innovate' means to crush one's competition by means of embrace and extend or other such IcroSmofty ways... /. society, probably lower
IcroSmoft has made 'innovate' down there with @#$& and @&*# in
Sorry, couldn't resist ^_^
I have no problem with their spamming me with porn ads or whatever they need to do to make a buck, or voting for their site on a list, or whatever, but only AFTER I get the content.
(/tangent)
Although when I've responded to this the post was labeled troll, it expresses exactly the point I was about to say. MS might be evil (that's very much a matter of opinion), Naziism was almost certainly evil for what it did, Co$ the same for what they do, but they consist entirely of people who are neither good nor evil. They are people.
Just keep that in mind, people are never evil. EVER. they might be totally psychotic, but not evil. An organization can be evil; the people involved are not evil, simply probably psychotic ^_^.
Just my $.02... Hmm, he was probably trolled though because of the whole MS fuddery ^_^
There's this guy making whoopass inside athlon decal/stickers (the thing you put on the front of the case)... they are available as auctions on ebay. I need to get one or two of those myself... ^_^
The problem, of course, is that ram is a major bottleneck... if you already have enough money to spend to buy P4's rather than AMDs for that slight gain in performance, then you might as well spend the extra money on RDRAM too...
if we're very close to time zero, logarithmic growth would be very fast... ;)
Ok, I'm confused... so I use this program that decrypts my DVDs, and I can't copy the resulting data to a storage device? Where AM I supposed to copy it,
IANAL, but there seems to be some technical cluelessness somewhere here, and I don't think its with me.
That said...
Simple... we went to the moon for political reasons, to say we did so, to top the commies, etc. It would also be insanely expensive to maintain, as food would have to be shipped there. It would take probably two orders of magnitude more money than we are currently spending on the space program JUST to support such a station. the money would be better spent elsewhere.
Basically the same reasons as I just mentioned. There is a very large difference between a great shot of neptune and a shot of the moon with details. Neptune, a pixel could be a square mile and it would look very very good, but a square foot pixel wouldn't give a good shot of artifacts on the moon.
That said, there is a nice tangible observable thing left on the moon that can be observed... a mirror. I remember reading somewhere about a laser being shined at this mirror and reflected into an observatory. (anyone have links?)
In any case, I think the most convincing piece of proof that we did go there was the parabolic arcs of the dust. There is no real possible way to do this without revolutionary new (but 30 years old) classified technology, and if you allow for that, you can't refute anything.
(/trollrespond)
Could I write proprietary software, and restrict its use to proprietary OSes? I think not. Why not? IANAL (lol, how many times have you heard that before) but AFAIK you can require anything you want to in license to your software, if you wrote it completely yourself (nobody else has claims to the copyright or its required to be GPLed, etc).
This means I could write a little program that might compile on any operating system, but I might only allow it to be run on, say, MacOS 9.x. There are not very many reasons why someone would want to restrict the market this way, though...
just imagine:
Corporate purchasing person:Hello, we'd like 200 licenses of that CAD software for our business.
Sales person:Ok, that will come to $100,000
Corporate purchasing person: Great! We now have a CAD program we can use with our machines running BobOS!
Sales person: Wait! We don't sell to people who will run on BobOS! mua ha ha!
And so the company switches to free software, and everyone's happy, except the company that tried to restrict its license pointlessly...
I think I get my point across ^_^
the same ambitions that spawned the nuclear fucking bomb ;)
Yeah, since the dawn of time the geek has realized that most crucial portion of mass media... Sex Sells!
So, on that note, I think that The spawn of the nuclear fucking bomb would make an interesting name for a porn flick.
Sorry, couldn't resist
Narf! What are we going to do tomorrow night, Dr. Algor?
The same thing we do every night, Mr. Bezos... try and TURN A PROFIT!
Those IBM Bastages KSed my pixie trickster! garrgh!
There is the definite advantage that, as a metal, it should be ductile. One of the biggest issues with superconductors is making them into a wire... ceramic is rather brittle.