Just speculating, but since black holes do evaporate, and the smaller they are the faster they evaporate, I wonder what the implications of evaporation would be in the presense of an acretion disk.
Given that in the process of evaporation, a black hole emits radiation, at some point the radiation pressure from the evaporation would balance out the force of gravity pulling matter into the black hole so then the black hole might stabilize in size.
Surely they'll have named that limit already, but I don't think it's the same as the eddington limit.
Or perhaps there won't be a limit here because the cross section area of the acretion disk would be so small compared to the surface area of the event horizon. (yes, I think that incoming matter would have to form a disk and not form an acretion shell)
One day on the bus home from campus, I sat next to two people having a conversation about philosophy. The one doing most of the talking was a fairly typical long-haired pseudointellectual type making a kind a claim about existence similar to Descartes but more in line with Berkeley.
After hearing him repeat "But I can't know if you really exist -- you could just be a figment of my imagination" in response to protests from his companion, I leaned forward with the following suggestion to the annoying metaphysician:
"After I punch you in the nose as hard as I can, will you tell me again about my being just a figment of your imagination, or will you just be too busy wiping away imaginary blood?"
Unfortunately I wasn't too original. I remember a philosophy lecture where Berkeley arrives at the home of a rival philospher (Locke?) in a rainstorm and finds the door locked. He bangs on the door loudly demanding to be let in, and his friend leans out the window and asks him what the problem is. Berekely complains that its raining, he's wet and cold, and the door is locked. His friend laughs and says "George, the door, the lock and the rain are all just figments of your imagination -- can't you get past them?"
The problem is that no one teaches mainframe operations in schools, you basically need to learn by being dropped into it - and not screwing up everything. Fewer and fewer businesses are willing to invest in promising new talent to learn these legacy systems, but their own mainframe gurus are retiring or dying off - so eventually this corporations will 'bleed out' skill-wise.
And no, the mainframe cannot be replaced by a client-server solution. I listened to this moron chant throughout school - mainframes are not dead. REALITY CHECK - there are just some applications where a mainframe makes more sense. Mainframes can handle enormous amounts of data without having to break it up for a cluster, or without being bogged down with I/O like most client-server type solutions. Mainframes are great when you need to handle databases with tons of information in it - and you need to consistantly dig through it. Most machines cannot handle it, and will buckle. Mainframes almost never buckle, unless you are testing new stuff on them (naughty newbie - that's what a test LPAR is for) or you do funky things to them.
Valentine wonders if somebody passing through took the Segway and unable to start it, abandoned it. He's already searched the area and along the river.
This allegation really underscores a primary issue of closed source software - it's not out for public review, and hence, it would be VERY difficult to validate these claims. For all we know, SCO's code is a rip-off of Linux or some prior open-source code that Linux was a beneficiary of. SCO never published their source and there's nothing outside of SCO (or maybe IBM, if there was some kind of agreement) to validate the claims. The trouble is, we can trust neither of those parties to present untainted copies of the relevant code as both could have altered timestamps or copied in code. There's also the fact that some processes in software can just really be done in one optimum way.
This is a good reason software should not be considered "published", hence copyrightable, unless the source code exists in some human-readable means in some organization outside of the "software publisher" (who truly publishes nothing), a place the courts could seriously look at as proof of the existance.
A way that might serve as a valid stopgap would be the generation of an MD5 hash of each source file and submitting that to some trusted agency (Library of congress?) for another digital signature and timestamp to be added, proving the date of creation to some legal standard so that these allegations could be backed with proof. We'd know the plaintext was validly signed by the LOC and that it existed at the time alleged to.
I bet ppl there is more worried about eating then sending e-mail. Its ridiculous talking about wiring a country where 87.6% of the population lives with less then a dolar/day.
"Why Xbox Linux?" Well I have a legitimate reason for wanting Linux on an unmodded Xbox.
My Xbox is going back to MS as they have attempted to fix a problem several times and have so far been unsuccessful. This time, they're considering swapping systems for a new one, which I'm fine with except for one thing: Loss of saved games.
They will not just swap drives as it would save them at least 5 minutes of work, so I will lose all of my info on the HD.
With Linux running on my unmodded Xbox, I could possibly FTP the data elsewhere and restore it on the new system. This makes so much sense to me that I wonder why there is no way of doing it by default.
Microsoft's idea is to purchase their Memory Units and backup this way. Problem is, since each Xbox comes with a hard drive, no developer tries to make the smallest possible size save file. I would need several MUs to backup my data. Plus, some files cannot even be copied to a MU which means they cannot be backed up at all.
You can rightly accuse Microsoft of many things but being dumb isn't one of them. Due to their lack of headway in the embedded systems market and the extreme popularity of Linux in this same market Microsoft is smart enough not to mortgage the Windows Media farm on the success of their embedded OSes.
The cynical among us might think that by porting Windows Media to Linux and then "enhancing" the Windows versions faster than the Linux version you could lure Linux-committed companies to make an "easy port" to CE. Personally I think it should be watched-for but unlikely as embedded-Windows is decent, companies are abandoning it not for functionality issues, but cost and choice -- things much more important in the embedded space.
I am so disapointed! This release is nothing like I hoped it would be. It's sad that there is so little new stuff. Thank God that Suse is releasing 8.2 soon. At least they have made an effort to give something new. Redhat looks nice, but from a home user perspective I must say that nothing much has changed. No hotplug support, terrible scanner support, XSane 0.89 while Mandrake 9.1 has chosen 0.90 with updated libs so more scanners are covered.
I had high hopes for this release, but I can promise that Redhat has lost me! I will no more go for Redhat softwarel. Create something new and I will think about it.
Wishes for a new release: Graphical boot, instead of the boring old text based. Suse 8.2 has done this. Much better support for HW. Hot plug support. MPlayer included. There should be no reason why this is a problem for Redhat when a lot of other distributors are including it.
While the physics is generally sane there are a number of practical problems heer that are not sufficiently covered in the article:
boron nitride is still regarded as slightly exotic, using this in harsh environment might be OK but mass production of large scale items are not
storage problems are glossed over, for instance bringing a large number of radioactive items close together requires strict handling rules
environmental damage when a laser rifle breaks is not even mentioned, also militaries are strict about such things. For instance the US navy has stricter environmental rules than the British merchant navy...
reloading the powercell must be reasonably easy when you only have a half life of 138 days.
pressure is immense and boron nitride is not just hard, it is brittle. Protecting against shattering requires a bit more than a little injection moulded plastic. When this high pressure hot gas breaks free it is a good idea to stay away.
wavelangth is 10.6um which means it will be eaten up by the CO2 in the air so useful range becomes limited. This is not described properly.
the large wavelength makes for more diffraction but the opening aperture is not stated.
this wavelength chouce makes locating a shooter relativgely simple, just look for massive re-radiation in the CO2 band.
of course the massive constant power flux from the Po source makes for nice thermal targets too.
this wavelength is not eye safe. No, this is not a joke. The snag is that it can then be construed to be a violation of various convensions of war.
thrust is said to be big, yet recompression is said to be part of the plan in which case most of the recoil should be possible to compensated for. Why is this not mentioned?
and compression takes a lot of power, where does this come from?
the gas expansion is likely to cause a hideous noise and makes for even more simple location.
This installs the 1.29 English version by default. See above to play in your language. The beta2 binaries are included.
CDROM Mount Point
If your cdrom mount point is not listed below, you will have to set an environment variable first. These are the mount points:/mnt/mnt/cdrecorder/mnt/cdrom/mnt/dvd/media/cdrecorder/media/cdrom/media/dvd
If your mount point is not listed here, before you run the installer, from a shell, type export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint. Replace/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint with where your cdrom gets mounted.
Temp Directory
This installer uses close to 1GB of space in/tmp during installation. If you have limited space in/tmp, change your temp directory to somewhere where you have more than 1GB free. eg. from a shell, type export TMPDIR=/home//
If any of these apply to you, do them otherwise Neverwinter Nights will not install. If any of these do not apply to you, then you can just run the installer.
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Just speculating, but since black holes do evaporate, and the smaller they are the faster they evaporate, I wonder what the implications of evaporation would be in the presense of an acretion disk.
Given that in the process of evaporation, a black hole emits radiation, at some point the radiation pressure from the evaporation would balance out the force of gravity pulling matter into the black hole so then the black hole might stabilize in size.
Surely they'll have named that limit already, but I don't think it's the same as the eddington limit.
Or perhaps there won't be a limit here because the cross section area of the acretion disk would be so small compared to the surface area of the event horizon. (yes, I think that incoming matter would have to form a disk and not form an acretion shell)
... I bet some wrote 2 or more :P
Would it work for editors too? If so *please* implement it!
One day on the bus home from campus, I sat next to two people having a conversation about philosophy. The one doing most of the talking was a fairly typical long-haired pseudointellectual type making a kind a claim about existence similar to Descartes but more in line with Berkeley.
After hearing him repeat "But I can't know if you really exist -- you could just be a figment of my imagination" in response to protests from his companion, I leaned forward with the following suggestion to the annoying metaphysician:
"After I punch you in the nose as hard as I can, will you tell me again about my being just a figment of your imagination, or will you just be too busy wiping away imaginary blood?"
Unfortunately I wasn't too original. I remember a philosophy lecture where Berkeley arrives at the home of a rival philospher (Locke?) in a rainstorm and finds the door locked. He bangs on the door loudly demanding to be let in, and his friend leans out the window and asks him what the problem is. Berekely complains that its raining, he's wet and cold, and the door is locked. His friend laughs and says "George, the door, the lock and the rain are all just figments of your imagination -- can't you get past them?"
3D p0rn :)
Bah, gimme a call when Light Sabers become available :)
The problem is that no one teaches mainframe operations in schools, you basically need to learn by being dropped into it - and not screwing up everything. Fewer and fewer businesses are willing to invest in promising new talent to learn these legacy systems, but their own mainframe gurus are retiring or dying off - so eventually this corporations will 'bleed out' skill-wise.
And no, the mainframe cannot be replaced by a client-server solution. I listened to this moron chant throughout school - mainframes are not dead. REALITY CHECK - there are just some applications where a mainframe makes more sense. Mainframes can handle enormous amounts of data without having to break it up for a cluster, or without being bogged down with I/O like most client-server type solutions. Mainframes are great when you need to handle databases with tons of information in it - and you need to consistantly dig through it. Most machines cannot handle it, and will buckle. Mainframes almost never buckle, unless you are testing new stuff on them (naughty newbie - that's what a test LPAR is for) or you do funky things to them.
From the article:
:)
Valentine wonders if somebody passing through took the Segway and unable to start it, abandoned it. He's already searched the area and along the river.
My bet is on the *bottom* of that river
That downgrade would be an upgrade for some...
A 14 y old l33t h4x04 with a EMP gun...
Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka get screwed by DMCA
I thought the same but over the *3rd DUP* :)
This allegation really underscores a primary issue of closed source software - it's not out for public review, and hence, it would be VERY difficult to validate these claims. For all we know, SCO's code is a rip-off of Linux or some prior open-source code that Linux was a beneficiary of. SCO never published their source and there's nothing outside of SCO (or maybe IBM, if there was some kind of agreement) to validate the claims. The trouble is, we can trust neither of those parties to present untainted copies of the relevant code as both could have altered timestamps or copied in code. There's also the fact that some processes in software can just really be done in one optimum way.
This is a good reason software should not be considered "published", hence copyrightable, unless the source code exists in some human-readable means in some organization outside of the "software publisher" (who truly publishes nothing), a place the courts could seriously look at as proof of the existance.
A way that might serve as a valid stopgap would be the generation of an MD5 hash of each source file and submitting that to some trusted agency (Library of congress?) for another digital signature and timestamp to be added, proving the date of creation to some legal standard so that these allegations could be backed with proof. We'd know the plaintext was validly signed by the LOC and that it existed at the time alleged to.
What about a baseball bat?
I bet ppl there is more worried about eating then sending e-mail. Its ridiculous talking about wiring a country where 87.6% of the population lives with less then a dolar/day.
"Why Xbox Linux?" Well I have a legitimate reason for wanting Linux on an unmodded Xbox.
My Xbox is going back to MS as they have attempted to fix a problem several times and have so far been unsuccessful. This time, they're considering swapping systems for a new one, which I'm fine with except for one thing: Loss of saved games.
They will not just swap drives as it would save them at least 5 minutes of work, so I will lose all of my info on the HD.
With Linux running on my unmodded Xbox, I could possibly FTP the data elsewhere and restore it on the new system. This makes so much sense to me that I wonder why there is no way of doing it by default.
Microsoft's idea is to purchase their Memory Units and backup this way. Problem is, since each Xbox comes with a hard drive, no developer tries to make the smallest possible size save file. I would need several MUs to backup my data. Plus, some files cannot even be copied to a MU which means they cannot be backed up at all.
You can rightly accuse Microsoft of many things but being dumb isn't one of them. Due to their lack of headway in the embedded systems market and the extreme popularity of Linux in this same market Microsoft is smart enough not to mortgage the Windows Media farm on the success of their embedded OSes.
The cynical among us might think that by porting Windows Media to Linux and then "enhancing" the Windows versions faster than the Linux version you could lure Linux-committed companies to make an "easy port" to CE. Personally I think it should be watched-for but unlikely as embedded-Windows is decent, companies are abandoning it not for functionality issues, but cost and choice -- things much more important in the embedded space.
And maybe we should change that slogan, what about:
News for the amnesiac. Stuff that mattered
I am so disapointed! This release is nothing like I hoped it would be. It's sad that there is so little new stuff. Thank God that Suse is releasing 8.2 soon. At least they have made an effort to give something new. Redhat looks nice, but from a home user perspective I must say that nothing much has changed. No hotplug support, terrible scanner support, XSane 0.89 while Mandrake 9.1 has chosen 0.90 with updated libs so more scanners are covered.
I had high hopes for this release, but I can promise that Redhat has lost me! I will no more go for Redhat softwarel. Create something new and I will think about it.
Wishes for a new release: Graphical boot, instead of the boring old text based. Suse 8.2 has done this. Much better support for HW. Hot plug support. MPlayer included. There should be no reason why this is a problem for Redhat when a lot of other distributors are including it.
What happens if the student installs it on his (or the universitie's or their workplace) PC, and the BSA shows up?
In two "words": format c:
Port Slashcode to this, and we'll have FP comments *before* the articles appear!
:)
And dont forget TACO posting dupes *before* the original posts
12 links on a story! Now I see why my submitions are never aproved ;)
Remember, the DOJ blocked the Microsoft attempt to acquire Intuit. Maybe they could block this if MS really goes to it.
Suppose that some "public interest" suggestion could be put to bear on MS acquiring companies in related fields...
boron nitride is still regarded as slightly exotic, using this in harsh environment might be OK but mass production of large scale items are not
storage problems are glossed over, for instance bringing a large number of radioactive items close together requires strict handling rules
environmental damage when a laser rifle breaks is not even mentioned, also militaries are strict about such things. For instance the US navy has stricter environmental rules than the British merchant navy...
reloading the powercell must be reasonably easy when you only have a half life of 138 days.
pressure is immense and boron nitride is not just hard, it is brittle. Protecting against shattering requires a bit more than a little injection moulded plastic. When this high pressure hot gas breaks free it is a good idea to stay away.
wavelangth is 10.6um which means it will be eaten up by the CO2 in the air so useful range becomes limited. This is not described properly.
the large wavelength makes for more diffraction but the opening aperture is not stated.
this wavelength chouce makes locating a shooter relativgely simple, just look for massive re-radiation in the CO2 band.
of course the massive constant power flux from the Po source makes for nice thermal targets too.
this wavelength is not eye safe. No, this is not a joke. The snag is that it can then be construed to be a violation of various convensions of war.
thrust is said to be big, yet recompression is said to be part of the plan in which case most of the recoil should be possible to compensated for. Why is this not mentioned?
and compression takes a lot of power, where does this come from?
the gas expansion is likely to cause a hideous noise and makes for even more simple location.
And so on. I could go on at lengths.
As the article fails miserably to do that...
/mnt /mnt/cdrecorder /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd /media/cdrecorder /media/cdrom /media/dvd
/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint with where your cdrom gets mounted.
/tmp during installation. /tmp, change your temp directory to somewhere where you have more than 1GB free.
Where to download the Linux NWN instaler:
Here or here or here.
MD5SUM for the files: b72d9ec2b9c43e7e3cd39bec22afbe7c
You will need to download these extra file to play in your language:
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Unzip into your nwn directory and move the files to their correct case. ie.
mv dialog.TLK dialog.tlk
mv dialogF.TLK dialogf.tlk
Notes:
This installs the 1.29 English version by default. See above to play in your language.
The beta2 binaries are included.
CDROM Mount Point
If your cdrom mount point is not listed below, you will have to set an environment variable first.
These are the mount points:
If your mount point is not listed here, before you run the installer, from a shell, type export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint.
Replace
Temp Directory
This installer uses close to 1GB of space in
If you have limited space in
eg. from a shell, type export TMPDIR=/home//
If any of these apply to you, do them otherwise Neverwinter Nights will not install.
If any of these do not apply to you, then you can just run the installer.