> Collisions would be impacted, possibly -very- > strongly, by exactly how the GUIDs are > generated. Just because there are 2^128 bits > to play with doesn't mean we are using them > all. There may be significant gaps; a large > number of values may never be generated by the > algorithm used.
Exactly. Has anyone done a statistical analysis of these to show they'll cover a significant portion of the range based upon typical input domain?
> The finding could revolutionize the field of > electronics, providing a leap ahead for > everything from computers to batteries to > medical equipment to Beowulf clusters."
Julian's anonymity, however, itself testifies to his larger life's work. More clearly than almost anyone else, Julian understood Adam Smith's insight that in free markets wealth is the product of human creativity. And the greater the number of free people, the greater the number of innovative ideas for transforming raw resources into goods and services that improve human lives. In free markets, more people mean more wealth. This is the reason why Julian rightly celebrated population growth, and why he devoted so much effort toward championing open immigration.
1. Should cheaper hardware become available, MS will make it legal. Er, MS will make their OS run on it, this insta-slaughtering the other OS.
2. You still have to get applications running on it to interest anyone but a handful of techies. Again, in addition to porting Windows, MS has the backup option of porting their apps to the new OS, thus turning it into a cash cow for them. IIRC, MS earns more per Apple sold than per PC.
So this is slaying Microsoft just how again? (Note that refusing to port their apps to Linux is slowing adoption among hoi polloi.)
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Wasn't Morpheus killed at the end of (the free) beta?
Yes, it could be interpreted as his ship is so powerful, it can create a hyperspace tunnel that is only 12 parsecs in length.
However, that's still 30-something light years, so assuming the speed of light is constant in hyperspace, it'd still take 30-something years, real-space time, to get there. They wouldn't notice it on the ship, but 30 years'd've gone by when they exited hyperspace.
Of course, since we're bs-ing, we could claim the speed of light doesn't apply in hyperspace, or that it's much faster. This hyperspace would presumably be 4 spacial dimensions (or more) and one time dimension, whereas IIRC per Einstein you are traveling at the speed of light through the combined 4-D spacetime continuum, 3 spacial and 1 time dimension.
> he played a crucial role dimwittingly > supporting the rise of the Sith while he was > filling in for Amadala in the Senate...
That also made absolutely no sense. First, why would they keep a rogue, ne'er-do-well (romantic speak for lazy slacker whose prolly not a stranger to death sticks) as a tag along leaving the planet with the queen of the entire planet?!?!?
Ok, and assuming they stupidly do so (Top Secret Level 282 security clearances are fast to get in the future, I guess) why turn him over as the replacement Representative o' the Queen?
And even if you do that why in god's name is he making any decisions or strategies on his own? Where are all her advisors telling him what to do and exactly what to say and to whisper in his ear as he says it?
This isn't Jar Jar's fault. It's Amidala's.
If she hadn't replaced him, his weak mind wouldn't have listened to Palpatine's instructions on what to do.
It's all her fault, from Jar Jar to Anakin's fall to the Republic's collapse. I just hope her tail was worth it.
Uhhhh, if everyone here has a McJob and can barely afford dry dog food for their cereal, who's paying the outrageous prices of Wal Mart?
Ummmm, if you don't like Wal Mart, stop going to Wal Mart! Nobody says you have to buy giant two-packs of Doritos which are just two single bags with some tape around them.
Do any of you sit and listen to your rhetoric and try to think thru to the logical consequences? To what it would imply reality is like? As compared to what reality actually is like?
> The studios diligently working to illegally > take away my fair use rights of the movie.
How do you have any "fair rights" to a movie in first release?
> The studios screwing movie theaters by making > unreasonable monetary demands
The theaters, by agreeing, agree its not unreasonable.
> The studios undermining my Constitutional freedom
Talk to your congressman. Live by the populist sword, die by the populist sword.
> Imposing excessive fines and punishment > [geek.com] on a minor crime when copyright > violators are caught
"But your honor, I only released one virus into the population. I had no idea it would multiply and multiply!"
Puh and leeze.
And in the final run, how are people creating entertainment and selling it for as much as they can get ripping you off?!?!?!?!?
Perhaps a "system" where the only movies made were government-approved ones, at government-approved prices, made by government-assigned people would clear this up?
Or are you trying to get the benefits to creativity that freedom provides without allowing the attendant freedom of people to pursue their own economic decisions as well?
> Microsoft is looking for true stories about > people using Windows computers to pursue a > passion or hobby.
I'd make a logical, sound comment about the most common use of Windows, far and away, for this purpose, but I'm still digging out of my -1 hole the Slashdot gods put me in for similar, fully relevant comments.
>...and then kill the original (killing is optional).
That is, of course, the entire point.
I don't wanna be killed. That a copy of me now exists is irrelevant.
I would feel safe with a Star Trek-like "disassemble-and-transport-and-reassemble" teleporter.
I would not feel safe with a "disassemble and transport only the info and reassemble from local atoms" teleporter. I have been disintegrated. That a copy pops into existance, swears it's me, and claims everything is fine, does not affect that I went to sleep and never woke up. The machine whose operation instantiates my mind is destroyed.
On the other hand, if "waking up" is a re-instantiation immediately populated by memories and so on, didn't I just die last night when I went to sleep?
Disturbing, yet that seems the most likely. I have no continuity with last night (dreams aside). Getting consciousness "turned off" doesn't scare us because, most of the time, it will be turned back on shortly. Consciousness is like a flame -- put it out and it's gone. Add heat back and the candle starts up again. "Whew!", says the flame. "That was a bad nightmare! I'm glad I'm awake again. I wonder if you teleport the candle, will the flame there still be me?"
I wondered about the masking, too, for the same reason. Was that his "force face" and his normal one was the mask, so to speak? They don't show the Emperor's face (in hood) too much prior to that, but what I did see (I was looking for it) was apparently a normal, if whitish, face.
The first thing it will probably say is, "What the... Oh shit, I'm the copy!"
How would he/I know which was the copy?
"What the...Oh shit, my weiner is straight! And long! And not rubbed raw! My back doesn't hurt! My feet and crotch don't stink! My teeth are straight and ungrodyficated!"
> The person coming out the other side would not > be considered a person under Christianity and > many other religions).
On the other hand, when Yaweh is blowing hot air at Job, saying, "Can you make a mountain? Can you make a whale?" we can say, "Ya, we sure can, foo!"
Thus making a mockery of the religious concept that only gods can create life (hey, it was just an engineering problem after all). At that point, one hopes humanity will abandon ancient, savage notions of how the cosmos operates.
I'd make a comment as to what this search engine would primarily be used for, but the owners of/. recently reset my 50 karma to -1 because of similar comments.
So, I'm scared, but we all know what it'll be used for, nudge nudge, wink wink.
I saw him burning pretty much for what seemed like a good 20-30 seconds off and on, including his face melting away. It was more gruesome than I was expecting. I also expected him to fall in lava, or have a big splash hit him. He just happened to catch on fire (clothing) from lava, and burned "normally".
It's sad Kenobi didn't finish the job, just assuming he had died.
It's also surprising Kenobi did as well as he did -- he truly was a premeir Jedi, even if surpassed by Anakin (but not by too much.) He was being driven back through the entire battle. Even at the end, it was that "high ground" thing that did in Anakin -- because of his arrogance -- and not because Kenobi was superior. But he took advandage at the right time of the Sith's prototypical "tragic flaw" -- belief in power.
Especially by a bunch of mere proto-stormtroopers.
Yes, Anakin could individually have handled any one of the non-Yoda/Kenobi's, or maybe several (look how easily Palpy slaughtered the first 3 of 4 Jedi, also leading you to believe his "almost losing" to Windu was a fake on his part) but clones? Are we to expect the only reason Yoda survived was because he was the only one to sense it and had only two troopers to contend with?
I'm sad that green Twilek with the nice hips went down like a ton of bricks. From the previews I thought she'd've had a more substantial part, not that she had a life expectancy of about 3 more seconds.
Slashdot Mirror
> 7-Year Old Prequel Fan On ANH
"Where's Jar-Jar?"
"So Anakin killed his own brother and sister-in-law?"
"How did a highly placed Wookie war hero become a rogue ne'er-do-well on the run from a Hutt?"
"Ewwww, they kissed!"
"How come Vader is so huge but Luke isn't very tall at all?"
"Obviously Obi-Wan could take Anakin at his best. So why didn't he just go back and kill him?"
"Where's the Emperor?"
"Why can that guy talk to Vader like that and get away with it?"
"Gosh, little beady-eyed trading nomads who'll try to sell you junk called Jews" "No, son. That's 'Jawas'".
"Do those Sandpeople have mental problems or something?"
And his final observation:
"Why do they all only use one regular lightsaber?"
> Collisions would be impacted, possibly -very-
> strongly, by exactly how the GUIDs are
> generated. Just because there are 2^128 bits
> to play with doesn't mean we are using them
> all. There may be significant gaps; a large
> number of values may never be generated by the
> algorithm used.
Exactly. Has anyone done a statistical analysis of these to show they'll cover a significant portion of the range based upon typical input domain?
Neither the ID4 Aliens nor the ones from 3001 A Space Odysse stand a chance.
> The finding could revolutionize the field of ."
> electronics, providing a leap ahead for
> everything from computers to batteries to
> medical equipment to Beowulf clusters
Golly!
> argument, you should spend your entire life
> having more children.
Actually, that's largely true.
Two observations:
1. Should cheaper hardware become available, MS will make it legal. Er, MS will make their OS run on it, this insta-slaughtering the other OS.
2. You still have to get applications running on it to interest anyone but a handful of techies. Again, in addition to porting Windows, MS has the backup option of porting their apps to the new OS, thus turning it into a cash cow for them. IIRC, MS earns more per Apple sold than per PC.
So this is slaying Microsoft just how again? (Note that refusing to port their apps to Linux is slowing adoption among hoi polloi.)
Wasn't Morpheus killed at the end of (the free) beta?
It's tough to keep a bad man down, I guess...
> I'll never watch another Wachowski brothers movie again.
I highly recommend certain scenes in the first half of "Bound".
Hehe, crushed his groove, you did."
Yes, it could be interpreted as his ship is so powerful, it can create a hyperspace tunnel that is only 12 parsecs in length.
However, that's still 30-something light years, so assuming the speed of light is constant in hyperspace, it'd still take 30-something years, real-space time, to get there. They wouldn't notice it on the ship, but 30 years'd've gone by when they exited hyperspace.
Of course, since we're bs-ing, we could claim the speed of light doesn't apply in hyperspace, or that it's much faster. This hyperspace would presumably be 4 spacial dimensions (or more) and one time dimension, whereas IIRC per Einstein you are traveling at the speed of light through the combined 4-D spacetime continuum, 3 spacial and 1 time dimension.
> he played a crucial role dimwittingly
> supporting the rise of the Sith while he was
> filling in for Amadala in the Senate...
That also made absolutely no sense. First, why would they keep a rogue, ne'er-do-well (romantic speak for lazy slacker whose prolly not a stranger to death sticks) as a tag along leaving the planet with the queen of the entire planet?!?!?
Ok, and assuming they stupidly do so (Top Secret Level 282 security clearances are fast to get in the future, I guess) why turn him over as the replacement Representative o' the Queen?
And even if you do that why in god's name is he making any decisions or strategies on his own? Where are all her advisors telling him what to do and exactly what to say and to whisper in his ear as he says it?
This isn't Jar Jar's fault. It's Amidala's.
If she hadn't replaced him, his weak mind wouldn't have listened to Palpatine's instructions on what to do.
It's all her fault, from Jar Jar to Anakin's fall to the Republic's collapse. I just hope her tail was worth it.
Uhhhh, if everyone here has a McJob and can barely afford dry dog food for their cereal, who's paying the outrageous prices of Wal Mart?
Ummmm, if you don't like Wal Mart, stop going to Wal Mart! Nobody says you have to buy giant two-packs of Doritos which are just two single bags with some tape around them.
Do any of you sit and listen to your rhetoric and try to think thru to the logical consequences? To what it would imply reality is like? As compared to what reality actually is like?
> The studios diligently working to illegally
> take away my fair use rights of the movie.
How do you have any "fair rights" to a movie in first release?
> The studios screwing movie theaters by making
> unreasonable monetary demands
The theaters, by agreeing, agree its not unreasonable.
> The studios undermining my Constitutional freedom
Talk to your congressman. Live by the populist sword, die by the populist sword.
> Imposing excessive fines and punishment
> [geek.com] on a minor crime when copyright
> violators are caught
"But your honor, I only released one virus into the population. I had no idea it would multiply and multiply!"
Puh and leeze.
And in the final run, how are people creating entertainment and selling it for as much as they can get ripping you off?!?!?!?!?
Perhaps a "system" where the only movies made were government-approved ones, at government-approved prices, made by government-assigned people would clear this up?
Or are you trying to get the benefits to creativity that freedom provides without allowing the attendant freedom of people to pursue their own economic decisions as well?
> Yes, per the Slashdot manual, Making a Profit = Evil
Unless it's the huge honkin' profits called "a programmer's salary".
Then greed is Good!
> Last time I checked, the two were orthogonal.
> Being an American is almost always an accident
> of birth
Actually:
1. America has the biggest lines to get into our country from basically all other countries.
2. These countries are frequently socialist because hard working people want to get away from the dragging economies of same.
Oops! Shot down your fantasized rhetoric. Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.
> Microsoft is looking for true stories about
> people using Windows computers to pursue a
> passion or hobby.
I'd make a logical, sound comment about the most common use of Windows, far and away, for this purpose, but I'm still digging out of my -1 hole the Slashdot gods put me in for similar, fully relevant comments.
"Greed works"
> ...and then kill the original (killing is optional).
That is, of course, the entire point.
I don't wanna be killed. That a copy of me now exists is irrelevant.
I would feel safe with a Star Trek-like "disassemble-and-transport-and-reassemble" teleporter.
I would not feel safe with a "disassemble and transport only the info and reassemble from local atoms" teleporter. I have been disintegrated. That a copy pops into existance, swears it's me, and claims everything is fine, does not affect that I went to sleep and never woke up. The machine whose operation instantiates my mind is destroyed.
On the other hand, if "waking up" is a re-instantiation immediately populated by memories and so on, didn't I just die last night when I went to sleep?
Disturbing, yet that seems the most likely. I have no continuity with last night (dreams aside). Getting consciousness "turned off" doesn't scare us because, most of the time, it will be turned back on shortly. Consciousness is like a flame -- put it out and it's gone. Add heat back and the candle starts up again. "Whew!", says the flame. "That was a bad nightmare! I'm glad I'm awake again. I wonder if you teleport the candle, will the flame there still be me?"
I wondered about the masking, too, for the same reason. Was that his "force face" and his normal one was the mask, so to speak? They don't show the Emperor's face (in hood) too much prior to that, but what I did see (I was looking for it) was apparently a normal, if whitish, face.
"What the...Oh shit, my weiner is straight! And long! And not rubbed raw! My back doesn't hurt! My feet and crotch don't stink! My teeth are straight and ungrodyficated!"
Hmmmm...how would this copy know?
> The person coming out the other side would not
> be considered a person under Christianity and
> many other religions).
On the other hand, when Yaweh is blowing hot air at Job, saying, "Can you make a mountain? Can you make a whale?" we can say, "Ya, we sure can, foo!"
Thus making a mockery of the religious concept that only gods can create life (hey, it was just an engineering problem after all). At that point, one hopes humanity will abandon ancient, savage notions of how the cosmos operates.
> Unless you find even your own cloned brain hates you as well.
That would be uncool. Imagine him revealing embarassing truths, like "Hey! LiquidCool once while looking at a video of a sow suckling its piglets!"
I'd make a comment as to what this search engine would primarily be used for, but the owners of /. recently reset my 50 karma to -1 because of similar comments.
So, I'm scared, but we all know what it'll be used for, nudge nudge, wink wink.
I saw him burning pretty much for what seemed like a good 20-30 seconds off and on, including his face melting away. It was more gruesome than I was expecting. I also expected him to fall in lava, or have a big splash hit him. He just happened to catch on fire (clothing) from lava, and burned "normally".
It's sad Kenobi didn't finish the job, just assuming he had died.
It's also surprising Kenobi did as well as he did -- he truly was a premeir Jedi, even if surpassed by Anakin (but not by too much.) He was being driven back through the entire battle. Even at the end, it was that "high ground" thing that did in Anakin -- because of his arrogance -- and not because Kenobi was superior. But he took advandage at the right time of the Sith's prototypical "tragic flaw" -- belief in power.
Especially by a bunch of mere proto-stormtroopers.
Yes, Anakin could individually have handled any one of the non-Yoda/Kenobi's, or maybe several (look how easily Palpy slaughtered the first 3 of 4 Jedi, also leading you to believe his "almost losing" to Windu was a fake on his part) but clones? Are we to expect the only reason Yoda survived was because he was the only one to sense it and had only two troopers to contend with?
I'm sad that green Twilek with the nice hips went down like a ton of bricks. From the previews I thought she'd've had a more substantial part, not that she had a life expectancy of about 3 more seconds.