Seriously though, I'm a fan of games as much as most people, and moreso than others, but if we want to teach kids strategy, wit, cunning, et. al. we shouldn't be giving them GTA3 or State of Emergency (My two currently favorite games on PS2).
We should be teaching them chess or checkers (strategy) and tic-tac-toe (futility) as well as many of the other games on Falken's system. That movie had a great message, games have, plain and simple, become nothing more than eye candy.
They don't really teach you anything anymore, except how to launch a grenade into a store window (State of Emergency), drive over pedestrians at 45mph in a tank while shooting 20mm shells at pollice cars (GTA3), or do a faceplant into concrete after a 3.5sec hangtime and get up without a scratch (THPS3).
5+k for headers? I suppose it depends on how it is sent, but that sounds a bit high.
Actually I think this is rather low.
Assuming a generally short email address of a 4 character username + '@intel.com' means 15 bytes, plus a ';' for 16 bytes for each email address.
Multiply this by 29000 recipients, and you have a minimum header size of 464 bytes (453.125 kbytes) just for the to line.
Ignoring all routing and relaying information its still ~ 450k per email for the headers.
Or would it make the light generated within the flashlight stay in the flashlight (as the source is moving in the same speed as the product) such that we would never see it until we slow down the ship?
No.
If the universe shrank by 10% but our perception of the speed of light did not chage, then the speed of light dropped.
Your parent however spoke of increasing the speed of light (or at least our measurement of it). To increase the measurement you would need to increase the distance, as we have not yet learned how to increase time (although I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find someone today who could stretch the universe). Therefore increasing the size of the universe by 10% would effectively increase our measurement of the speed of light, but technically since we too were increased by 10% we would perceive no change.
No.
With traditional 11Mbps 802.11 100% of your packets can be sniffed. 7 * this number is 700%.
It is both theretically and practically impossible to see more packets than are being sent. therefore you cannot sniff 700% or your packets. You will be transmitting them at 700% of the speed, so your data can be sniffed faster.
If you transmit 100kb of data, someone cannot sniff 700kb from you when you start using this card. The can just sniff it in 1/7th the time that they would have been able to had you been using a traditional 11mb 802.11
From the article: The design fits 26 letters of the alphabet, the * and #, 10 numbers, three punctuation keys, a space bar, shift and delete key into an area no larger than one-third of a business card.
I dont think we (North) Americans could use it, with our large hands and all... "Your fingers are too fat to use this telephone; To order a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand now..."
The problem with your statement is that the article said that these strangelets are the size of a piece of pollen.
Pollen is monolithic when compared to the size of an atom. You get hit by a piece of pollen with a mass of a couple tons travelling at 900000 mph and tell me it wont leave a mark. It won't leave a large one, but it will leave one.
I totally agree...
In the small company I work for (12 employees, incl), I am the only one in the office who drinks tap water or drinking-fountain water. Although some of you in smaller towns would laugh at me and some of you in larger cities would cringe and gag, Toronto's tap water (in most places anyways) is pretty good.
FTR, I also get sick the least in the office, and by the least I mean everyone else in the office is sick at least once a month, I get sick about once a year.
I attribute this to the tap water... as I am also a smoker and drinker (both of which have been proven to be detrimental to immune system functions).
Well of course CbN wouldn't be able to move that fast. If you think about it, CbN is about 10 trillion times the size of a pollen-sized fragment. If his density is that of these strangelets, i.e. 10 trillion times that of lead (11.4 g/ml), then the strangelets are approximately 114 MT/ml. If we (widely inaccurately) assume CbN's displacement to be about 45 litres (with numbers as big as 114Megatons/Millilitre it really doesn't matter that much... does it?)
Now, 45l * 1000 ml/l is 45000ml...
45,000 ml * 114 MT/ml (bear in mind i'm using metric tons, not Imperial tonnes) makes CbN's mass approximately 5.13 million megatons, or 5.13 petatons.
With a mass this large, its no wonder he can't move, hell even the Big Bang probably didn't expend enough energy to move him.
And people wonder where most of the mass in the universe is... Yet another reason why the hyper-intelligent (and not-so-hyper intelligent) astro-physicists should read Slashdot, we solve all of their problems for them:)
I don't think so.
If you shot a bullet at a piece of cloth or paper that was held taught, it would merely put a hole in the paper, not obliterate it.
If you shot it at point-blank, the explosion from the initial firing of the shell would have more effect on the paper than damage caused by the shell itself.
If such a strangelet shot through matter, it would probably do two things (both, not one or the other)...
1. It would create a tiny pin-sized hole in what it was passing through (as the only way matter can go through other matter is to push said other matter out of its way). It's not like the particle would mushrooom like a hollowpoint round, think of it more as an AP round (DUC maybe?). If a person gets shot with a depleted uranium shell (at a far enough range with a high velocity) It will merely pass through said person, whereas a hollowpoint (because of the mushrooming) would either leave a big exit wound or bounce around for a little while turn said person's guts into pudding... (no, don't say blood pudding... that's just a bad pun)...
2. A lot of the matter it passes through would be converted to some other form of matter, as the strangelet particle loses/gains other quarks from the surrounding matter it passes through. If effect, passing through something like a planet would probably take half its mass and at least some of its velocity as the energy is expended.
Many of you are discussing this and saying it doesn't apply to OSS.
Technically, under thet respect, it doesn't apply to Microsoft either.
If you buy a uesd car, and in the next couple months have to put a lot of money into it to keep it running (i.e. a prime candidate for the 'lemon law'), you don't sure Ford/GM/whoever for making a crappy car that no longer works, you sue the person who sold it to you. In effect, you sue the distributor for charging you for a crappy product, not the publisher.
It should be the same with software. Microsoft ships software to retailers and OEMs, windows get sold to consumer, consumer is unhappy, consumer sues retailer/OEM. After this, the OEM will no longer buy windows from Microsoft, so the quality of the product and the strength of the corporation will be indirectly affected, but it shouldn't be directly. If 50 owners of windows sue Microsoft, many will lose as they don't have the resources to beat out a large corporation in a legal battle. If Dell or HP/Compaq stopped selling windows with its PCs because they got a very large bad review from those consumers who bought their PC, it will have a much larger impact on Microsoft and its lines of products.
In this case also, with OSS, the writers would not be the ones who can be sued, but the corporations (RedHat, Hummingbird, Ximian et. al)
Actually it is both. Which it is depends on whether or not you're looking at it
Shroedinger[sp?] theorized this, although I can't remember from physics class if he was able to prove it or not.
Basically light acts as a wave (exisiting with no finite mass or size) when not being observed. The [milli/pico/nano]second it is observed it acts as a particle, as if it had mass, size, and charge.
Simplified, we will pretend Shroedinger's cat is light.
We take two black boxes, one of which we know contains the cat. Since we did not put the cat in there ourselves (cats it seems have a habit of getting into boxes on their own), we do not know which box the cat exists in. Therefore we theorize that the cat is in both boxes.
Until we open one of the boxes, and observe that the cat is either there or not, we do not know. Therefore the cat theoretically acts as energy (a wave) until we look in a box, at which point the cat becomes matter.
Corrent me if I am wrong, IANAPhysicist
For the record, I am not a physician either, and I'm glad the poster of the parent isn't either...
If he doesn't even know the difference between a physicist and a physician, I dont' want him cutting me open... although I will take fake prescriptions:)
If Pac-Man affected us as children, many of us would be running around in darkened rooms/hallways eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music...
Eventually, however, you would run out of power.
Say you have a 100W P/S (I know, incredibly low by modern desktop standards but... we are talking about systems that are designed to have low power requirements).
Each nodes does require a finite amount of power, and having a P/S that outputs a finite amount of power, you are limited to a finite number of nodes...
Now all we have to do is build a toilet out of these things and hook it up to of one of these (detailed here), and we really could have infinite processor power...
Actually I think its something more like "Guns don't kill people, bullets made by people trying to feed other people kill people..."
So indirectly... since in most cases it's someones family, i.e. women and children (I know this is the new millenium, figure of speech... flame away... blahblahblah...), it's the women and children that kill people.
Depends on your interpretation of the term 'nerd'...
geek, yes
hacker, yes
coder, yes
have intelligence... no...
wear glasses... no...
have money... no...
If you play enough you do, however, reach the point where you must buy a new controller, as the buttons start to stick, the contacts wear out, or the analog sticks become de-sensitized...
At about CDN$50 (+tax) It adds up... I've had my PS2 not even a year and the controller that shipped with it has the L1 button sticking regularly, such that SSX Tricky can be difficult to play (attempt a hold every time you jump, for the entire duration of the jump)...
Can you give me an E as well? Caffeine just doesn't work well enough anymore...
Computer games don't affect children... If Pac-Man affected us as kids we'd spend all of our time running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music... Oh... Wait...
Slashdot Mirror
"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?"
Seriously though, I'm a fan of games as much as most people, and moreso than others, but if we want to teach kids strategy, wit, cunning, et. al. we shouldn't be giving them GTA3 or State of Emergency (My two currently favorite games on PS2).
We should be teaching them chess or checkers (strategy) and tic-tac-toe (futility) as well as many of the other games on Falken's system. That movie had a great message, games have, plain and simple, become nothing more than eye candy.
They don't really teach you anything anymore, except how to launch a grenade into a store window (State of Emergency), drive over pedestrians at 45mph in a tank while shooting 20mm shells at pollice cars (GTA3), or do a faceplant into concrete after a 3.5sec hangtime and get up without a scratch (THPS3).
5+k for headers? I suppose it depends on how it is sent, but that sounds a bit high.
Actually I think this is rather low.
Assuming a generally short email address of a 4 character username + '@intel.com' means 15 bytes, plus a ';' for 16 bytes for each email address.
Multiply this by 29000 recipients, and you have a minimum header size of 464 bytes (453.125 kbytes) just for the to line.
Ignoring all routing and relaying information its still ~ 450k per email for the headers.
Or would it make the light generated within the flashlight stay in the flashlight (as the source is moving in the same speed as the product) such that we would never see it until we slow down the ship?
Everyone knows that constant's value is 42.
I thought it was 56... that explains why the universe is so screwed up.
No.
If the universe shrank by 10% but our perception of the speed of light did not chage, then the speed of light dropped.
Your parent however spoke of increasing the speed of light (or at least our measurement of it). To increase the measurement you would need to increase the distance, as we have not yet learned how to increase time (although I'm sure you'd be hard pressed to find someone today who could stretch the universe). Therefore increasing the size of the universe by 10% would effectively increase our measurement of the speed of light, but technically since we too were increased by 10% we would perceive no change.
No. With traditional 11Mbps 802.11 100% of your packets can be sniffed. 7 * this number is 700%.
It is both theretically and practically impossible to see more packets than are being sent. therefore you cannot sniff 700% or your packets. You will be transmitting them at 700% of the speed, so your data can be sniffed faster.
If you transmit 100kb of data, someone cannot sniff 700kb from you when you start using this card. The can just sniff it in 1/7th the time that they would have been able to had you been using a traditional 11mb 802.11
From the article:
The design fits 26 letters of the alphabet, the * and #, 10 numbers, three punctuation keys, a space bar, shift and delete key into an area no larger than one-third of a business card.
I dont think we (North) Americans could use it, with our large hands and all...
"Your fingers are too fat to use this telephone; To order a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand now..."
This means that, in theory, up to 255 PaceBooks in a room at the same time working away on keyboards wirelessly
And what happens when you want to use this in an English-Lit 101 class with easily 1000+ students in a lecture room?
no... they are at work because my bosses suck and wont pay them on sick days :P
The problem with your statement is that the article said that these strangelets are the size of a piece of pollen.
Pollen is monolithic when compared to the size of an atom. You get hit by a piece of pollen with a mass of a couple tons travelling at 900000 mph and tell me it wont leave a mark. It won't leave a large one, but it will leave one.
IIRC Xmms supports many (if not all) winamp plugins now.
I totally agree...
In the small company I work for (12 employees, incl), I am the only one in the office who drinks tap water or drinking-fountain water. Although some of you in smaller towns would laugh at me and some of you in larger cities would cringe and gag, Toronto's tap water (in most places anyways) is pretty good.
FTR, I also get sick the least in the office, and by the least I mean everyone else in the office is sick at least once a month, I get sick about once a year.
I attribute this to the tap water... as I am also a smoker and drinker (both of which have been proven to be detrimental to immune system functions).
Well of course CbN wouldn't be able to move that fast. If you think about it, CbN is about 10 trillion times the size of a pollen-sized fragment. If his density is that of these strangelets, i.e. 10 trillion times that of lead (11.4 g/ml), then the strangelets are approximately 114 MT/ml. If we (widely inaccurately) assume CbN's displacement to be about 45 litres (with numbers as big as 114Megatons/Millilitre it really doesn't matter that much... does it?) :)
Now, 45l * 1000 ml/l is 45000ml...
45,000 ml * 114 MT/ml (bear in mind i'm using metric tons, not Imperial tonnes) makes CbN's mass approximately 5.13 million megatons, or 5.13 petatons.
With a mass this large, its no wonder he can't move, hell even the Big Bang probably didn't expend enough energy to move him.
And people wonder where most of the mass in the universe is... Yet another reason why the hyper-intelligent (and not-so-hyper intelligent) astro-physicists should read Slashdot, we solve all of their problems for them
I don't think so.
If you shot a bullet at a piece of cloth or paper that was held taught, it would merely put a hole in the paper, not obliterate it.
If you shot it at point-blank, the explosion from the initial firing of the shell would have more effect on the paper than damage caused by the shell itself.
If such a strangelet shot through matter, it would probably do two things (both, not one or the other)...
1. It would create a tiny pin-sized hole in what it was passing through (as the only way matter can go through other matter is to push said other matter out of its way).
It's not like the particle would mushrooom like a hollowpoint round, think of it more as an AP round (DUC maybe?).
If a person gets shot with a depleted uranium shell (at a far enough range with a high velocity) It will merely pass through said person, whereas a hollowpoint (because of the mushrooming) would either leave a big exit wound or bounce around for a little while turn said person's guts into pudding... (no, don't say blood pudding... that's just a bad pun)...
2. A lot of the matter it passes through would be converted to some other form of matter, as the strangelet particle loses/gains other quarks from the surrounding matter it passes through. If effect, passing through something like a planet would probably take half its mass and at least some of its velocity as the energy is expended.
Many of you are discussing this and saying it doesn't apply to OSS.
Technically, under thet respect, it doesn't apply to Microsoft either.
If you buy a uesd car, and in the next couple months have to put a lot of money into it to keep it running (i.e. a prime candidate for the 'lemon law'), you don't sure Ford/GM/whoever for making a crappy car that no longer works, you sue the person who sold it to you. In effect, you sue the distributor for charging you for a crappy product, not the publisher.
It should be the same with software. Microsoft ships software to retailers and OEMs, windows get sold to consumer, consumer is unhappy, consumer sues retailer/OEM. After this, the OEM will no longer buy windows from Microsoft, so the quality of the product and the strength of the corporation will be indirectly affected, but it shouldn't be directly. If 50 owners of windows sue Microsoft, many will lose as they don't have the resources to beat out a large corporation in a legal battle. If Dell or HP/Compaq stopped selling windows with its PCs because they got a very large bad review from those consumers who bought their PC, it will have a much larger impact on Microsoft and its lines of products.
In this case also, with OSS, the writers would not be the ones who can be sued, but the corporations (RedHat, Hummingbird, Ximian et. al)
Actually it is both. Which it is depends on whether or not you're looking at it
:)
Shroedinger[sp?] theorized this, although I can't remember from physics class if he was able to prove it or not.
Basically light acts as a wave (exisiting with no finite mass or size) when not being observed. The [milli/pico/nano]second it is observed it acts as a particle, as if it had mass, size, and charge.
Simplified, we will pretend Shroedinger's cat is light.
We take two black boxes, one of which we know contains the cat. Since we did not put the cat in there ourselves (cats it seems have a habit of getting into boxes on their own), we do not know which box the cat exists in. Therefore we theorize that the cat is in both boxes.
Until we open one of the boxes, and observe that the cat is either there or not, we do not know. Therefore the cat theoretically acts as energy (a wave) until we look in a box, at which point the cat becomes matter.
Corrent me if I am wrong, IANAPhysicist
For the record, I am not a physician either, and I'm glad the poster of the parent isn't either...
If he doesn't even know the difference between a physicist and a physician, I dont' want him cutting me open... although I will take fake prescriptions
$count = 0;
while ($count {
if((strtoupper($parent_post[$count]) != $parent_post[$count]) || ($parent_post[$count] == " " && $parent_post[$count + 1] == " ")) echo $parent_post[$count];
$count = $count + 1;
}
?>
There, it removes your echo and your lame allcaps...
If Pac-Man affected us as children, many of us would be running around in darkened rooms/hallways eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music...
Wait a second...
"In rod we trust..."
"All hail the rod..."
Sorry folks... haven't seen a Simpsons quite since slashback... Had to do it...
Eventually, however, you would run out of power. Say you have a 100W P/S (I know, incredibly low by modern desktop standards but... we are talking about systems that are designed to have low power requirements).
Each nodes does require a finite amount of power, and having a P/S that outputs a finite amount of power, you are limited to a finite number of nodes...
Now all we have to do is build a toilet out of these things and hook it up to of one of these (detailed here), and we really could have infinite processor power...
Actually I think its something more like "Guns don't kill people, bullets made by people trying to feed other people kill people..."
So indirectly... since in most cases it's someones family, i.e. women and children (I know this is the new millenium, figure of speech... flame away... blahblahblah...), it's the women and children that kill people.
Depends on your interpretation of the term 'nerd'...
geek, yes
hacker, yes
coder, yes
have intelligence... no...
wear glasses... no...
have money... no...
Unfortunately only 50% nerd... IMHO anyway
If you play enough you do, however, reach the point where you must buy a new controller, as the buttons start to stick, the contacts wear out, or the analog sticks become de-sensitized...
At about CDN$50 (+tax) It adds up... I've had my PS2 not even a year and the controller that shipped with it has the L1 button sticking regularly, such that SSX Tricky can be difficult to play (attempt a hold every time you jump, for the entire duration of the jump)...
Wow, and unlike Andover's childe, Peru didn't have to be hosted by the same company as /. for all of this exposure...
:P
Ok, here it is...
You're welcome Rob...
Can you give me an E as well? Caffeine just doesn't work well enough anymore... Computer games don't affect children... If Pac-Man affected us as kids we'd spend all of our time running around in darkened rooms eating magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music... Oh... Wait...