Gore: I invented the electoral process as a reform to the rampant socialism present in the united states during the 1940's ( i invented the 40's too)
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
Gore: Since i invented everything, it's really a moot point, isn't it?
6) Encryption....
Gore: I devised the first encryption algorithms to circumvent ancient chinese from reading the king's military orders.
7) Rising Political Protests
Gore: Being a 'hippie', i helped to invent political protests in the 60's, and then moved to china, where i was that guy in front of the tank.
8) Asteroid Defenses
Gore: When i came up with asteriods, i never thought they would hit the earth... my bad.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
...a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature...
No. This is not right. What you're talking about is entangled? photons. These share the same wavefunction, so that when one is collapsed, the other collapses. However, no information is actually exchanged.
While it IS possible for things to occur at speeds greater than that of light (flick a laser quickly across the surface of the moon), information cannot be exchanged at speeds greater than c.
Basically you've got this group of atoms, and you start shining several lasers on it. Photons from the lasers do transfer momentum to the atoms,but there is another laser on the atoms pointing from the opposite way. Now, these aren't just any lasers, the light they emit is of a wavelength that is readily absorbed by the atoms which are being studied. So, now the atoms, which we'd made very cold even before the lasers were turned on, are kinda moping around, not having much total energy. All the lasers are turned on simultaneously, so that whatever direction the atom is travelling in, it sees a laser pointed right at it. So what happens when an object is moving toward a light source? Doppler effect! The light from the laser is blueshifted, and is blueshifted to a frequency more readily absorbed by the atom. So, whatever direction the atom is going, it's going to get slowed down. There is, of course, a limit to how cold you can go with this.
If you want to go colder than that, you have to put the atoms is a little magnetic cup, and then slowly make the bottom of the cup come up as the top expands. This will allow any atoms with larger kinetic energies to escape, cooling the group even more. Once you've done this enough, you'll have a bose-einstein condensate. These are really, REALLY cool (pun intended). You've basically cooled the atoms to the point where the de Broglie wavelength becomes large than the interatomic spacing, and all the atoms fall into the ground state, all occupying the same region of space.
By the way, this isn't exactly news: Wieman and Cornell did it in 1995.
Good. Maybe now I won't need to deal with so much paper in the future. On the downside, maybe some script kiddie will hack my signature and find cool things to buy online.
Offtopic, I know, but...
After all the bitching and complaining, all the attempts to get people to use the correct word, you know the war is over when someone who should know better doesn't.
I dont understand what all the fuss is. We here at the Leasing Impregnated Nuns with Unmarred Xylophones network are very excited about our upcoming IPO. There is a huge untapped market in pregnant nuns and their clean xylophones. We've already been drowned in orders!
So, please, make sure you grab some of our stock when we begin our IPO. (symbol INUX) You won't regret it!
There is a story in the New Scientist that details efforts to use enzymes that destroy ethanol as catalytic converters, turning noxious carbon dioxide into methanol.
Enzymes that destroy ethanol... noxious CO2 -> methanol...
So basically they're the kind of like me. I break down ethanol with my liver, and then produce noxious methane (you know what i mean)
Why spend all the money on a rackmount case, when you can just go to the hardware store, buy some cheap supplies, and make some rails?
If you have access to a machine shop, you can even make metal rails. If not, a few sturdy pieces of wood screwed into the mounting holes inside the rack should make nice rails. Then just get another piece of sturdy wood the size of the rack (19" by 22" or whatever) and you've got a shelf.
To see an example of our cluster's custom built rack stuff, check here, and here. (Note these are ~650k images)
Granted, it won't be extremely efficient on rack space, but it's not THAT in-efficient. If we needed to, we could fit another row in there; space for 16 computers.
The talk.origins faq is ripe with lots of info on evolution, fossil records, etc., with which to debunk the views of your not-so-friendly neighborhood bible-thumper www.talkorigins.org
Seems to me that since no one really 'owns' the linux kernel (correct me if i'm wrong, as i tend to be that way), it can't be regulated by nationality laws.
I would assume that long as you used a non-commercial version of linux, a loophole in the export laws is there for exploiting (not that i'm a lawyer or anything).
Old style command line stuff? That IS computer science my friend.
Beat about the head with math? If your nephew ever wants to understand what's happening under the hood of that computer (the hardware) he's going to need vector calculus, among other things. "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
Slashdot Mirror
1) War on Drugs
Gore: I invented drugs
2) Minority Religions...
Gore: I invented both minorities and religion
3) Why give a tax cut?
Gore: Taxes & cutting... Invented 'em
4) electoral reform
Gore: I invented the electoral process as a reform to the rampant socialism present in the united states during the 1940's ( i invented the 40's too)
5)How Do You Feel About Intellectual Property?
Gore: Since i invented everything, it's really a moot point, isn't it?
6) Encryption....
Gore: I devised the first encryption algorithms to circumvent ancient chinese from reading the king's military orders.
7) Rising Political Protests
Gore: Being a 'hippie', i helped to invent political protests in the 60's, and then moved to china, where i was that guy in front of the tank.
8) Asteroid Defenses
Gore: When i came up with asteriods, i never thought they would hit the earth... my bad.
9) The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
...a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature...
with apologies to stanley kubrick
Long overdue my ass... inference find
We can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world's first Biological furby.
Furby #11252 will be that furby.
Better than it was before.
Better . . . cuddlier . . . and ten times more annoying!
(quickly brings pinky to side of mouth)
No. This is not right. What you're talking about is entangled? photons. These share the same wavefunction, so that when one is collapsed, the other collapses. However, no information is actually exchanged.
While it IS possible for things to occur at speeds greater than that of light (flick a laser quickly across the surface of the moon), information cannot be exchanged at speeds greater than c.
Last time i checked, RFC 882 put the dot in .com
Basically you've got this group of atoms, and you start shining several lasers on it. Photons from the lasers do transfer momentum to the atoms,but there is another laser on the atoms pointing from the opposite way. Now, these aren't just any lasers, the light they emit is of a wavelength that is readily absorbed by the atoms which are being studied. So, now the atoms, which we'd made very cold even before the lasers were turned on, are kinda moping around, not having much total energy. All the lasers are turned on simultaneously, so that whatever direction the atom is travelling in, it sees a laser pointed right at it. So what happens when an object is moving toward a light source? Doppler effect! The light from the laser is blueshifted, and is blueshifted to a frequency more readily absorbed by the atom. So, whatever direction the atom is going, it's going to get slowed down. There is, of course, a limit to how cold you can go with this.
If you want to go colder than that, you have to put the atoms is a little magnetic cup, and then slowly make the bottom of the cup come up as the top expands. This will allow any atoms with larger kinetic energies to escape, cooling the group even more. Once you've done this enough, you'll have a bose-einstein condensate. These are really, REALLY cool (pun intended). You've basically cooled the atoms to the point where the de Broglie wavelength becomes large than the interatomic spacing, and all the atoms fall into the ground state, all occupying the same region of space.
By the way, this isn't exactly news: Wieman and Cornell did it in 1995.
Now we just need a pipe-shaped mp3 player, so the MPAA can put 'em in it's pipe and smoke it =D
Good. Maybe now I won't need to deal with so much paper in the future. On the downside, maybe some script kiddie will hack my signature and find cool things to buy online.
Offtopic, I know, but...
After all the bitching and complaining,
all the attempts to get people to use the correct word,
you know the war is over when someone who should know better doesn't.
=(
I'll just tell you now.. I bought linux.net
I dont understand what all the fuss is. We here at the Leasing Impregnated Nuns with Unmarred Xylophones network are very excited about our upcoming IPO. There is a huge untapped market in pregnant nuns and their clean xylophones. We've already been drowned in orders!
So, please, make sure you grab some of our stock when we begin our IPO. (symbol INUX) You won't regret it!
There is a story in the New Scientist that details efforts to use enzymes that destroy ethanol as catalytic converters, turning noxious carbon dioxide into methanol.
Enzymes that destroy ethanol... noxious CO2 -> methanol...
So basically they're the kind of like me. I break down ethanol with my liver,
and then produce noxious methane (you know what i mean)
=D
Think where we would be if antibiotics hadn't developed...
Their development has lead to the lengthening of the average human lifespan.
We could even go as far as to speculate whether a few of the great minds of our time would have been killed in childhood by diseases like strep.
Why spend all the money on a rackmount case, when you can just go to the hardware store, buy some cheap supplies, and make some rails?
If you have access to a machine shop, you can even make metal rails. If not, a few sturdy pieces of wood screwed into the mounting holes inside the rack should make nice rails. Then just get another piece of sturdy wood the size of the rack (19" by 22" or whatever) and you've got a shelf.
To see an example of our cluster's custom built rack stuff, check here, and here. (Note these are ~650k images)
Granted, it won't be extremely efficient on rack space, but it's not THAT in-efficient. If we needed to, we could fit another row in there; space for 16 computers.
So now we just need some penguins in the centerfold, pictured in some skimpy little... hey wait, they're already naked =D
Perhaps Miss January can cuddle with tux for 'warmth'
The talk.origins faq is ripe with lots of info on evolution, fossil records, etc., with which to debunk the views of your not-so-friendly neighborhood bible-thumper www.talkorigins.org
Does that law mean 10% of the copyrighted code?
Seems to me that since no one really 'owns' the linux kernel (correct me if i'm wrong, as i tend to be that way), it can't be regulated by nationality laws.
I would assume that long as you used a non-commercial version of linux, a loophole in the export laws is there for exploiting (not that i'm a lawyer or anything).
Cheers.
Josh
Old style command line stuff?
That IS computer science my friend.
Beat about the head with math? If your nephew ever wants to understand what's happening under the hood of that computer (the hardware) he's going to need vector calculus, among other things.
"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad