The ability to search PDF's seems like it could be useful if it is actually searching inside the PDF. I haven't actually seen another Windows based tool do that[...]
Copernic http://www.copernic.com/ is a pretty nice program which can do just that. After GDS came out, I tried it, but one of the abilities which I needed, and which it didn't provide, was the ability to search within PDFs.
There are other things I don't especially like about Copernic, but all-in-all it's handy, and fast. I'll have to try out this new version of Google's search, though!
Gads. But does it run *anything*? That metaphor is about the most screwed up (no pun intended), on all levels possible, that I've ever seen. And yet it makes sense!
First: I have not read your whole message, because I'm a bit busy. But your assertion that people who don't think about the minus sign in front of the time-term in the spacetime metric is vapid, since if it's not there, it has to be in front of each of the space terms. There's no real significance to where you place it (just as there's no real significance as to what sign you choose for the Laplacian for a potential). The important thing is that *either* the time term be negated, *XOR* the space terms be negated in the spacetime interval.
Second: The word "dimension" means simply that there is some parameter with which we can measure some aspect of a system, and which is independent in some sense from the other parameters. To convince me that the "time dimension" is somehow "moving" relative to the "space dimensions", you need to tell me what ticks I can detect on the "time dimension" which will register as they flow by. Otherwise, that axis may move, or not, arbitrarily, and I'll have no clue about it (and thus it doesn't matter one way or the other). After all, a perfectly smooth, infinitely long ruler does me absolutely no good. It needs some invariants on it that I can measure against.
Does that mean that every electron travels every possible path in space AND in time? So whenever it is possible for an electron to be fired, it does, and interferes with all other electrons fired at all other times?
Basically, yup. Read Feynman's QED. He claims (and the math and experiments bear him out thus far) that all photons are particles, all electrons are particles, etc., and that this "all possible paths" concept is what accounts for their "wavelike" manifestations.
Einstein won the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, which basically kicked off the whole study of quantum mechanics on its own. Too, he solved equations for the gas circulation in a radiometer, and got into the famous EPR "paradox" and debates with Bohr. If you think he only worked on gravity, you're sorely mistaken.
MacOS X does a lot of really nice, small things. For example, say you're mousing around in the finder looking for a file, and then you want to access it from the command line. How do you get the path out to the shell? Easy, just drag the file onto the terminal window in which you need the filename, and bam, it types the filename in for you. You want to look at your current shell directory in the finder? No problem, type "open.".
I just tried this using my Mepis (Konsole -- i.e. bash as terminal) box, and it provides that functionality, too. A menu pops up with 'Paste', 'cd', 'cp', 'ln', and 'mv' as its options, and you can choose any to give the file path, parent path, and so forth.
Being that the bathroom isn't flight critical that code was probably only done to DO-178B Level E or maybe D. The software for flight critical components like displays and flight controls is scrutinized much more heavily.
Oh, swell. So the display telling me that the bathroom is free is more critical than turd-dumping optimization?
If a distribution can run a tool like "alien" to convert packages, you probably don't need a "native" package in order to install the program. I install LyX from.rpms all the time, because I alien will convert those packages nicely to.deb ones.
They'll power them using the force needed to overcome those stuck wheels. The only problems will come when local sports teams show up to stop, and get carts with two or more stuck wheels. Then batteries will start to explode.
Right, like I regularly go to Fry's to stock up on some DS4100s and Bladecenters. I'd love to be the geek for whom that stuff is "off-the-shelf". Can you even buy bare PPC CPUs and mobos?
Let alone Linux 2.6! Where the hell does one find that?!?
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....to the article mentioned in the /. blurb.
The ability to search PDF's seems like it could be useful if it is actually searching inside the PDF. I haven't actually seen another Windows based tool do that[...]
Copernic http://www.copernic.com/ is a pretty nice program which can do just that. After GDS came out, I tried it, but one of the abilities which I needed, and which it didn't provide, was the ability to search within PDFs.
There are other things I don't especially like about Copernic, but all-in-all it's handy, and fast. I'll have to try out this new version of Google's search, though!
You can't program a hammer to only pound nails.
Gads. But does it run *anything*? That metaphor is about the most screwed up (no pun intended), on all levels possible, that I've ever seen. And yet it makes sense!
First: I have not read your whole message, because I'm a bit busy. But your assertion that people who don't think about the minus sign in front of the time-term in the spacetime metric is vapid, since if it's not there, it has to be in front of each of the space terms. There's no real significance to where you place it (just as there's no real significance as to what sign you choose for the Laplacian for a potential). The important thing is that *either* the time term be negated, *XOR* the space terms be negated in the spacetime interval.
Second: The word "dimension" means simply that there is some parameter with which we can measure some aspect of a system, and which is independent in some sense from the other parameters. To convince me that the "time dimension" is somehow "moving" relative to the "space dimensions", you need to tell me what ticks I can detect on the "time dimension" which will register as they flow by. Otherwise, that axis may move, or not, arbitrarily, and I'll have no clue about it (and thus it doesn't matter one way or the other). After all, a perfectly smooth, infinitely long ruler does me absolutely no good. It needs some invariants on it that I can measure against.
Does that mean that every electron travels every possible path in space AND in time? So whenever it is possible for an electron to be fired, it does, and interferes with all other electrons fired at all other times?
Basically, yup. Read Feynman's QED. He claims (and the math and experiments bear him out thus far) that all photons are particles, all electrons are particles, etc., and that this "all possible paths" concept is what accounts for their "wavelike" manifestations.
Excuse me?!?
Einstein won the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, which basically kicked off the whole study of quantum mechanics on its own. Too, he solved equations for the gas circulation in a radiometer, and got into the famous EPR "paradox" and debates with Bohr. If you think he only worked on gravity, you're sorely mistaken.
Hm... strip club....
Gas? Check.
Femtosecond pulses? Not that kind of club, but Check.
Maxima with a minimum between them? Yup.
Dude, it was all there. What else did you need?!?
It's a perfectly good flutzpah.
MacOS X does a lot of really nice, small things. For example, say you're mousing around in the finder looking for a file, and then you want to access it from the command line. How do you get the path out to the shell? Easy, just drag the file onto the terminal window in which you need the filename, and bam, it types the filename in for you. You want to look at your current shell directory in the finder? No problem, type "open .".
I just tried this using my Mepis (Konsole -- i.e. bash as terminal) box, and it provides that functionality, too. A menu pops up with 'Paste', 'cd', 'cp', 'ln', and 'mv' as its options, and you can choose any to give the file path, parent path, and so forth.
Thanks for the tip!
Being that the bathroom isn't flight critical that code was probably only done to DO-178B Level E or maybe D. The software for flight critical components like displays and flight controls is scrutinized much more heavily.
Oh, swell. So the display telling me that the bathroom is free is more critical than turd-dumping optimization?
It's OK -- the great-grandparent poster optimized his humour code a little *too* much. Now we have to work on interpreters for /. readers...
Hope for slashdot. I've always wondered if we only have artificially intelligent editors...
If a distribution can run a tool like "alien" to convert packages, you probably don't need a "native" package in order to install the program. I install LyX from .rpms all the time, because I alien will convert those packages nicely to .deb ones.
The texture just makes it look a bit prettier, but by no means makes the game any better.
I have a 2-bit videocard I'd like to sell you.
Call me when their dials go to 11.
I'd rather ruminate upon some of those crumbs in the brushes.
There's a city?
So I have to be able to say the alphabet backwards while standing on one leg and touching my nose[...]
Actually, you could just do what this guy does: http://www.big-boys.com/articles/topdui.html
Seriously, someone has to make a movie called "Debbie does Dalles".
Yeah, I have relatives who voted for Bush, too.
They'll power them using the force needed to overcome those stuck wheels. The only problems will come when local sports teams show up to stop, and get carts with two or more stuck wheels. Then batteries will start to explode.
Right, like I regularly go to Fry's to stock up on some DS4100s and Bladecenters. I'd love to be the geek for whom that stuff is "off-the-shelf". Can you even buy bare PPC CPUs and mobos?
Let alone Linux 2.6! Where the hell does one find that?!?
It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days.
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Cute, guys. 1991 is valid, though.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/2
Again, it doesn't take a genious to see that most of the crappy infotainment out there isn't really educational.
Gosh, no.
Maybe looking into some adult reading eductation programs in your local area to see if they have any tips.
Penthouse Letters?