I meant 4/5 C reletive to the epicenter of the Big Bang, if there is one. Speaking of which, shouldn't it be obvious from the distribution of all the objects that are that distant which direction it is to the epicenter of the big bang?
There are so many varieties and they evolve so quickly, that it would be impossible to catalog all of them because there are constantly new species being made. Besides, the distinction between divergent strains of a species and different but related species is completely arbitrary on that scale, because they don't have sexual reproduction. In mammals, the ability to produce fertile offspring generally draws the boundaries between species.
"Scientists belive that they have found the earliest objects (new zork times registration required) in space. 26 galaxies and three quasars were observed at thirteen billion light years away, at time when the universe is belived to have been only 1 billion years old."
If so, that means the average rate of expansion of the universe since that time had to be at least 4/5 C... Unless our physics model is flawed on the large scale, whish it probably is... Who knows, maybe the observed outward acceleration of the universe is due to a force many orders of magnitude weaker than gravity but repelling and inversely proportional to R instead of R^2 so it would be important on the extremely large scale but unnoticeable on the scale of individual galaxies... That would fubar all our redshift measurements and wreak havoc on our largely speculative cosmological model... who knows...
Addendum: That "Free" at the beginning of the last sentance means Free as in speech, not free as in beer (which is implied anyway, because otherwise i'd be contradicting myself)
If I could buy & download high-quality divx commercial free episodes of star trek or watnot for $0.50 (way more than they make on advertizing per viewer per 1-hour show) from fast servers, then I would buy every single episode of every star trek series ever made, and a whole lot more, instead of being forced to download them illegally because I can't afford to pay $600 just for all 7 seasons of ST:TNG on DVD, and they're rarely if ever on TV. Even in the absense of copy protection, this business model would work, because almost everyone would be willing to pay that meager price just to stay legit and use the fast servers. Free, fast, commercial-free, uncopyprotected sale of TV show recordings online for say, double the amount they would have made from advertizing per viewer if it were broadcasted (a very reasonable sum always below $0.75) would be very beneficial to the consumer and they would overwhelmingly give up piracy in favor of that system, so it would also be very profitable for the makers of the TV shows.
The RIAA could keep all this personal info and use it to track down pirates! After all, people who sign up for this claims thing online are about 100 times more likely than the general population to have pirated music.
This system will never work. It's utterly ludicrous. Hmm, printing myself a hard drive using a zillion thin layers... yeah, right, like that will work. Most likely if you can ever get this technology to work it will still be less efficient than an automated assembly line.
Well obviously the more complex the work the more complex the undo function. But nobody did 3D animation in the '60s. For simple text editing, it would be easy to implement, provided you had enough RAM to store duplicates of portions of the text.
My guess would be that it's been around since the late '60s, if not earlier. It's something so useful, and so easy to implement, that I would be suprised if it hasn't been around at least that long.
If the gravity is limited to propagating at the speed of light, then consider a pair of neutron stars closely orbiting each other at, say, 1/3 C. Each would be pulled by gravity in the direction that the other used to be, and the differential between the direction of the pull of gravity and the current position of the object would be around 2/3 of a radian. How can this work with the conservation of mass-energy? Wouldn't that just make them spin faster and faster? Wouldn't limiting gravity to the speed of light destroy the reciprocity of forces, especially with respect to torque?
I didn't know portable DVD players existed until I read this article... And I believe I'm not alone... Anyway, why would you need a portable one? You still need a screen to play it on, like a laptop.
1.) you're going to test each prime between 2 and the square root of the 2048-bit "target" 2.) Convert the target and the prime to be tested into double-precision floating points and devide them. This proves that any prime that doesn't match the first 52 bits of the result can't multiply by the prime being tested to get the "target". That narrows it down a heck of a lot. Find the primes that can match using some sort of efficient indexing algorythm. 3.) If necessary, use a quad-precision floating-point operation to narrow it doen even more 4.) Of the possible matches remaining, multiply the middle one by the prime being tested. If the result is too high, you eliminate all the primes above that. Lather, rinse, and repeat until you either find the match or prove that none of them will match. This will take log(N)/log(2) iterations, where N is the number of primes you had left after narrowing it down with the floating point operations. Since N is limited to around 2^20, it will take 20 iterations or less. 5.) Repeat procedure with the next prime.
If this is implemented properly, it might take only a few hundred processor cycles to test each prime. That means you could test 10^8 primes per second on a 2ghz athlon.
First of all, what right does the government have to make laws depriving people of any rights solely on the basis of age stereotypes? There are many 17 year olds who ae more qualified to vote than a lot of 40 year olds. The vast majority of the population is hoplessly stupid and ignorant. (That's how Worst Buy, Scientology, and the Mormon church make money, after all) Those few among us who know their ass from their elbow should be voting, regardless of age. The age-stereotype is no better than the poll tax was at improving the credentials of the average voter, and maybe worse. Think voting elegebility should be determined solely on the basis of a multiple choice test that you would have to not be an ignorant dumbass to pass. That would filter out the 75% of the population who don't know their ass from their elbow, and leave the decently intelligent people of all ages, races, creeds, sexes, economic conditions, etc to rule.
Now, how this applies to the topic at hand: The government has no business using age stereotypes to restrict acess to something accross the board. There are plenty of 15 year olds mature enough to handle alcohol responsibly, and alcohol in responsible moderation is completely harmless. There are also plenty of (if not all) 7th-8th graders can play GTA3 with no harm done whatsoever. IMO it should be the PARENTS regulating what their kids can have, not some heavy-handed and futile government rulemaking that attempts to stereotype about all adolescents of a certain age and merely turns the items into forbidden fruit without actually stopping kids from getting them.
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...Fiiive core dumps!...Four reformats...Three gigs of porn...Two linux games...And a usless app on a burnt CD.
Obviously, since those apps are mac-only apps, Apple can afford to give them away for free as an incentive for people to buy macs. But, apparently, that wasn't working, so they decided to just milk their current userbase for all they're worth in the vain hope of making enough money to do some serious R&D to catch up with PCs, hardware-wise.
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I meant 4/5 C reletive to the epicenter of the Big Bang, if there is one. Speaking of which, shouldn't it be obvious from the distribution of all the objects that are that distant which direction it is to the epicenter of the big bang?
There are so many varieties and they evolve so quickly, that it would be impossible to catalog all of them because there are constantly new species being made. Besides, the distinction between divergent strains of a species and different but related species is completely arbitrary on that scale, because they don't have sexual reproduction. In mammals, the ability to produce fertile offspring generally draws the boundaries between species.
"Scientists belive that they have found the earliest objects (new zork times registration required) in space. 26 galaxies and three quasars were observed at thirteen billion light years away, at time when the universe is belived to have been only 1 billion years old."
If so, that means the average rate of expansion of the universe since that time had to be at least 4/5 C... Unless our physics model is flawed on the large scale, whish it probably is... Who knows, maybe the observed outward acceleration of the universe is due to a force many orders of magnitude weaker than gravity but repelling and inversely proportional to R instead of R^2 so it would be important on the extremely large scale but unnoticeable on the scale of individual galaxies... That would fubar all our redshift measurements and wreak havoc on our largely speculative cosmological model... who knows...
I submitted this same story 12 hours before slashdot posted it, and it was rejected.
Addendum: That "Free" at the beginning of the last sentance means Free as in speech, not free as in beer (which is implied anyway, because otherwise i'd be contradicting myself)
If I could buy & download high-quality divx commercial free episodes of star trek or watnot for $0.50 (way more than they make on advertizing per viewer per 1-hour show) from fast servers, then I would buy every single episode of every star trek series ever made, and a whole lot more, instead of being forced to download them illegally because I can't afford to pay $600 just for all 7 seasons of ST:TNG on DVD, and they're rarely if ever on TV. Even in the absense of copy protection, this business model would work, because almost everyone would be willing to pay that meager price just to stay legit and use the fast servers. Free, fast, commercial-free, uncopyprotected sale of TV show recordings online for say, double the amount they would have made from advertizing per viewer if it were broadcasted (a very reasonable sum always below $0.75) would be very beneficial to the consumer and they would overwhelmingly give up piracy in favor of that system, so it would also be very profitable for the makers of the TV shows.
The RIAA could keep all this personal info and use it to track down pirates! After all, people who sign up for this claims thing online are about 100 times more likely than the general population to have pirated music.
This is a good program is designed specifically to teach Arabic-speakers Japanese Too bad it's $179.
This system will never work. It's utterly ludicrous. Hmm, printing myself a hard drive using a zillion thin layers... yeah, right, like that will work. Most likely if you can ever get this technology to work it will still be less efficient than an automated assembly line.
Well obviously the more complex the work the more complex the undo function. But nobody did 3D animation in the '60s. For simple text editing, it would be easy to implement, provided you had enough RAM to store duplicates of portions of the text.
My guess would be that it's been around since the late '60s, if not earlier. It's something so useful, and so easy to implement, that I would be suprised if it hasn't been around at least that long.
If the gravity is limited to propagating at the speed of light, then consider a pair of neutron stars closely orbiting each other at, say, 1/3 C. Each would be pulled by gravity in the direction that the other used to be, and the differential between the direction of the pull of gravity and the current position of the object would be around 2/3 of a radian. How can this work with the conservation of mass-energy? Wouldn't that just make them spin faster and faster? Wouldn't limiting gravity to the speed of light destroy the reciprocity of forces, especially with respect to torque?
Why not upgrade to mandrake linux?
I didn't know portable DVD players existed until I read this article... And I believe I'm not alone... Anyway, why would you need a portable one? You still need a screen to play it on, like a laptop.
If what the library is doing holds up in court, it would set a good legal precedent for the legality of some kinds of file sharing...
1.) you're going to test each prime between 2 and the square root of the 2048-bit "target"
2.) Convert the target and the prime to be tested into double-precision floating points and devide them. This proves that any prime that doesn't match the first 52 bits of the result can't multiply by the prime being tested to get the "target". That narrows it down a heck of a lot. Find the primes that can match using some sort of efficient indexing algorythm.
3.) If necessary, use a quad-precision floating-point operation to narrow it doen even more
4.) Of the possible matches remaining, multiply the middle one by the prime being tested. If the result is too high, you eliminate all the primes above that. Lather, rinse, and repeat until you either find the match or prove that none of them will match. This will take log(N)/log(2) iterations, where N is the number of primes you had left after narrowing it down with the floating point operations. Since N is limited to around 2^20, it will take 20 iterations or less.
5.) Repeat procedure with the next prime.
If this is implemented properly, it might take only a few hundred processor cycles to test each prime. That means you could test 10^8 primes per second on a 2ghz athlon.
You don't know what you're talking about. there are ways to factorize a 2048-bit number that are about, oh, 2^200 times more efficient than that.
You know, by the RIAA/MPAA's logic, if we wanted to stop spam we should just make all database programs illegal...
It's dirktorn@microsoft.com
It's just a 200-foot wide asteroid that the earth-moon system happened to capture. Even if it did hit earth it wouldn't do any serious harm.
First of all, what right does the government have to make laws depriving people of any rights solely on the basis of age stereotypes? There are many 17 year olds who ae more qualified to vote than a lot of 40 year olds. The vast majority of the population is hoplessly stupid and ignorant. (That's how Worst Buy, Scientology, and the Mormon church make money, after all) Those few among us who know their ass from their elbow should be voting, regardless of age. The age-stereotype is no better than the poll tax was at improving the credentials of the average voter, and maybe worse. Think voting elegebility should be determined solely on the basis of a multiple choice test that you would have to not be an ignorant dumbass to pass. That would filter out the 75% of the population who don't know their ass from their elbow, and leave the decently intelligent people of all ages, races, creeds, sexes, economic conditions, etc to rule.
Now, how this applies to the topic at hand: The government has no business using age stereotypes to restrict acess to something accross the board. There are plenty of 15 year olds mature enough to handle alcohol responsibly, and alcohol in responsible moderation is completely harmless. There are also plenty of (if not all) 7th-8th graders can play GTA3 with no harm done whatsoever. IMO it should be the PARENTS regulating what their kids can have, not some heavy-handed and futile government rulemaking that attempts to stereotype about all adolescents of a certain age and merely turns the items into forbidden fruit without actually stopping kids from getting them.
...Fiiive core dumps! ...Four reformats ...Three gigs of porn ...Two linux games ...And a usless app on a burnt CD.
It only creates more neurons in the olfactory bulb, and more neurons don't equate intelligence anyway (duh, look at elephants)
Obviously, since those apps are mac-only apps, Apple can afford to give them away for free as an incentive for people to buy macs. But, apparently, that wasn't working, so they decided to just milk their current userbase for all they're worth in the vain hope of making enough money to do some serious R&D to catch up with PCs, hardware-wise.
Well, I prefer Fedex for my packages... UPS sucks and priority mail is too slow.