(The projection of the planet's geography was pretty neat, though.)
I've been wondering about that. We are used to thinking of continent (land surrounded by water) How many planets do you think have more water than land?
SETI's automated systems make no attempt to find a message, they are looking for a signal. Note the difference: a signal is an EM spike - a message is the information that spike contains. But to answer your question, if you broadcast this message on frequencies that are commonly used by celestial objects then no, SETI probably wouldn't pick it out. If on the other hand, you used a dish as powerful as arecibo to broadcast it at the frequency of say pi*H then yeah, I think some buzzers would go off.
Ok look, I'm suggesting anybody use this method to go stalking anybody or anything - but, has anyone ever searched google for those "send a dollar to the people of this list" spams where the message contains an address local to your area?
Because I have. The search I did was something like:
"this is totally legal" dollar [my home town]
I found 20 or so people's names and addresses and looked up their names in the phone book. Of those 20, I only found 2 people who's names and street addresses matched what was in the spam.
So... I called them. I asked if anybody had sent them money and if there had been any consequences. Neither one of them had any idea what I was talking about. They denied ever posting the spam. I even got the impression that they didn't know what usenet was.
I still have a high-school science book that states "a star will appear as a single point of light even in the largest telescopes"
Now we can see surface features on stars and even objects orbiting them. Pretty cool. Imagine what an orbiting interferometer will do!
Millions of people have to move out of the way of the dam
oh yeah? 13 million had to move out of the way of the *river* during one of the Yangtze's floods. The dam will control that - so in my opinion it's a good thing.
Since that life could not exist prior to the volcanic vent opening, it can be assumed that the formation of life, at it's most basic, is occuring on a regular basis.
Maybe I missunderstand you. Are you saying that those little white crabs and shrimp evolved completely separate from the crabs and shrimp that live in shallow water and look exactly like them?
That sounds more reasonable. I actually had no idea how much it costs. The only time I was in an internet cafe was in Hong Kong and I don't remember what I paid.
I saw kids in Korea playing Diablo in cafes. I guess there's no way they could've afforded that at an hourly rate.
To celebrate the birthday of email:
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· Score: 5, Funny
In order to celebrate the 30th birthday of email, Microsoft has agreed to pay $1 to some little girl each and every time this email message is forwarded. But to qualify for this charity donation, you'll have to forward this message to at least 60 people as soon as you get it.
A friend went to peru and in almost every small village they had public (not free) access.
The same is true of the countries I've visited. I imagine part of the reason is that a higher percentage of people here in the US already pay for access at home and so are less likely to pay again to access the net while out shopping.
I know that I would not pay $2/min or whatever starbucks charges. I'll go there with friends or even to read a book - but I'll check my mail at home.
This sentiment is probably common and makes it less profitable to operate public internet access in the US.
Knuth's book sounds interesting, I should pick it up.
the book I quoted from _Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About_ isn't all that great IMHO. It is about his religious beliefs. Fortunatly, it's short enough to read over a weekend if you are bored.
Knuth's paper _Coping with Finiteness_ and his book _Surreal Numbers_ do sound interesting. I get the feeling he'll be talking way over my head though!
In 1976 Donald Knuth published a paper titled Coping with Finiteness in which he names a number Super K. It is defined as 10^^^^3 where 10^^10 = 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10 or 10^10 10 times.
I couldn't find the paper (damnit) but Knuth says in Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About "If you don't agree that Super K is so large as to be beyond human comprehension, I can at least prove conclusively that if you consider all the numbers less than or equal to Super K, almost all of them are impossible to describe in any way in the univerise"
I dunno, is that bigger than a googleplex? I wouldn't be surprised if the Guinness people spent less than 30 seconds researching this - in fact I suspect this was just some piece of useless trivia someone who happened to be in the office that day happened to know
forgot and played it and then went right to bed to surreal nightmares
I'll never forget the time I played Quake III so long I got up from the computer and nearly walked into a door because I just expected it to open automatically. Wierd!
In many cases, it is the military;s fault - not the ISP. Take for example, www.gordon.army.mil. You can't hit that site because the administrators are so paranoid they have closed it off to outside access.
Courts are going to protect the copyright holders' rights (they HAVE to) and they don't like their orders to be ignored. They have the power of the government at their disposal, and can call on it to enforce their orders.
IIRC, governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. If enough people realize they are getting screwed they will demand change. As I see it, the only way to bring the issue to the table for discussion is through effective civil disobedience.
Compare P2P with the Boston Tea Party. The obvious difference is that the colonists destroyed the tea rather than taking it home and drinking it. In our case, the object of our anger has no physical substance. The only way to "destroy" it is to reduce its value by making it freely available.
The grenades sound cool. The problem I always had with lasertag-like games was that, since the shots didn't actually hurt, there was too little incentive to avoid being hit. Paintball on the other hand >:-)
We have histories in the form of writing or stories when other civilizations were wiped out through catastrophe. At the very least we have ledgeds or religious tales of being smitten by the hand of God. But in this case, these civilizations vanished, to quote the article "without a trace" Wouldn't somebody have survived (maybe somebody who was traveling at the time) and passed the story of this down through history?
Are there any slashdot archeologists who can clarify this?
2.4 is greater than 2.2.20 according to my math, which means it's better and more recent
no, no, no...
Linux is a next-generation operating system. The whole thing was planned out by The Creator before even the first line of code was committed to disk. We are in fact on a count down to Linux version 1. That will be the perfect version that will signal the end times. You see, linux started with, IIRC version 5. Each time The Creator completes one stage of the plan, we decrement the version number by one. We are at 2.2 now so as you can see, it wont be long until the end times.
I'm kind of a newbie to Linux
Welcome aboard brother.
Why, I can remember my first experience with linux. I had a version 4.6.2 kernel running on a 386 with only 640K RAM. Ahh... those were the days!
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(The projection of the planet's geography was pretty neat, though.)
I've been wondering about that. We are used to thinking of continent (land surrounded by water) How many planets do you think have more water than land?
SETI's automated systems make no attempt to find a message, they are looking for a signal. Note the difference: a signal is an EM spike - a message is the information that spike contains. But to answer your question, if you broadcast this message on frequencies that are commonly used by celestial objects then no, SETI probably wouldn't pick it out. If on the other hand, you used a dish as powerful as arecibo to broadcast it at the frequency of say pi*H then yeah, I think some buzzers would go off.
It orbits 14 AU away from it's star, it's orbital period is at least decades long.
Unless the parent star is very massive. It's still probably a pretty long period though.
Ok look, I'm suggesting anybody use this method to go stalking anybody or anything - but, has anyone ever searched google for those "send a dollar to the people of this list" spams where the message contains an address local to your area?
Because I have. The search I did was something like:
"this is totally legal" dollar [my home town]
I found 20 or so people's names and addresses and looked up their names in the phone book. Of those 20, I only found 2 people who's names and street addresses matched what was in the spam.
So... I called them. I asked if anybody had sent them money and if there had been any consequences. Neither one of them had any idea what I was talking about. They denied ever posting the spam. I even got the impression that they didn't know what usenet was.
So, what do you make of that?
I still have a high-school science book that states "a star will appear as a single point of light even in the largest telescopes"
Now we can see surface features on stars and even objects orbiting them. Pretty cool. Imagine what an orbiting interferometer will do!
The forth one sucks the big time
I agree, but did you do any better? Compare his inflammatory statement:
executes thousands of them a year to sell their body parts!
with yours:
name them as terrism supporting country and nuke them
It sounds to me like both of you have difficulty expressing an opinion intelligently.
Millions of people have to move out of the way of the dam
oh yeah? 13 million had to move out of the way of the *river* during one of the Yangtze's floods. The dam will control that - so in my opinion it's a good thing.
That's funny, I thought there already was an animated buffy
Isn't Devil Hunter Yoko what the show was based on anyway?
Since that life could not exist prior to the volcanic vent opening, it can be assumed that the formation of life, at it's most basic, is occuring on a regular basis.
Maybe I missunderstand you. Are you saying that those little white crabs and shrimp evolved completely separate from the crabs and shrimp that live in shallow water and look exactly like them?
That should read "First Usenet post from someone *admitting* to having an AOL account"
Those run $6 to $11 for a full day's access.
That sounds more reasonable. I actually had no idea how much it costs. The only time I was in an internet cafe was in Hong Kong and I don't remember what I paid.
I saw kids in Korea playing Diablo in cafes. I guess there's no way they could've afforded that at an hourly rate.
In order to celebrate the 30th birthday of email, Microsoft has agreed to pay $1 to some little girl each and every time this email message is forwarded. But to qualify for this charity donation, you'll have to forward this message to at least 60 people as soon as you get it.
A friend went to peru and in almost every small village they had public (not free) access.
The same is true of the countries I've visited. I imagine part of the reason is that a higher percentage of people here in the US already pay for access at home and so are less likely to pay again to access the net while out shopping.
I know that I would not pay $2/min or whatever starbucks charges. I'll go there with friends or even to read a book - but I'll check my mail at home.
This sentiment is probably common and makes it less profitable to operate public internet access in the US.
Knuth's book sounds interesting, I should pick it up.
the book I quoted from _Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About_ isn't all that great IMHO. It is about his religious beliefs. Fortunatly, it's short enough to read over a weekend if you are bored.
Knuth's paper _Coping with Finiteness_ and his book _Surreal Numbers_ do sound interesting. I get the feeling he'll be talking way over my head though!
In 1976 Donald Knuth published a paper titled Coping with Finiteness in which he names a number Super K. It is defined as 10^^^^3 where 10^^10 = 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10 or 10^10 10 times.
I couldn't find the paper (damnit) but Knuth says in Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
"If you don't agree that Super K is so large as to be beyond human comprehension, I can at least prove conclusively that if you consider all the numbers less than or equal to Super K, almost all of them are impossible to describe in any way in the univerise"
I dunno, is that bigger than a googleplex? I wouldn't be surprised if the Guinness people spent less than 30 seconds researching this - in fact I suspect this was just some piece of useless trivia someone who happened to be in the office that day happened to know
forgot and played it and then went right to bed to surreal nightmares
I'll never forget the time I played Quake III so long I got up from the computer and nearly walked into a door because I just expected it to open automatically. Wierd!
let me guess... government job?
In many cases, it is the military;s fault - not the ISP. Take for example, www.gordon.army.mil. You can't hit that site because the administrators are so paranoid they have closed it off to outside access.
Courts are going to protect the copyright holders' rights (they HAVE to) and they don't like their orders to be ignored. They have the power of the government at their disposal, and can call on it to enforce their orders.
IIRC, governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. If enough people realize they are getting screwed they will demand change. As I see it, the only way to bring the issue to the table for discussion is through effective civil disobedience.
Compare P2P with the Boston Tea Party. The obvious difference is that the colonists destroyed the tea rather than taking it home and drinking it. In our case, the object of our anger has no physical substance. The only way to "destroy" it is to reduce its value by making it freely available.
The grenades sound cool. The problem I always had with lasertag-like games was that, since the shots didn't actually hurt, there was too little incentive to avoid being hit. Paintball on the other hand >:-)
We have histories in the form of writing or stories when other civilizations were wiped out through catastrophe. At the very least we have ledgeds or religious tales of being smitten by the hand of God. But in this case, these civilizations vanished, to quote the article "without a trace" Wouldn't somebody have survived (maybe somebody who was traveling at the time) and passed the story of this down through history?
Are there any slashdot archeologists who can clarify this?
It isn't about using zany toys
You sir, are not a geek.
2.4 is greater than 2.2.20 according to my math, which means it's better and more recent
no, no, no...
Linux is a next-generation operating system. The whole thing was planned out by The Creator before even the first line of code was committed to disk. We are in fact on a count down to Linux version 1. That will be the perfect version that will signal the end times . You see, linux started with, IIRC version 5. Each time The Creator completes one stage of the plan, we decrement the version number by one. We are at 2.2 now so as you can see, it wont be long until the end times .
I'm kind of a newbie to Linux
Welcome aboard brother.
Why, I can remember my first experience with linux. I had a version 4.6.2 kernel running on a 386 with only 640K RAM. Ahh... those were the days!
because one cannot normalize a spreadsheet
there is a new 4ghz intel chip ready to go
really? I hadn't heard anything about an 8ghz chip. I'm gonna submit that to slashdot!
...wow, imagine a beowulf cluster of those rendering final fantasy with natalie portman.