we've never actually tried to go faster than light.
Of course we have. Consider particle accelerators, which pour gigantic amounts of energy into single protons and electrons. They approach but never reach c. Their mass increases exactly in accord with relativity's predictions.
If something is out of spec to the customer's favor,
What's out of spec is not the actual performance of the board, but its misreporting of its settings, misleading the user. And there are possible disadvantages. Other posts report on hardware sensitive to overclocking that becomes unstable.
I'd disagree here - the consumer of the board is getting a "better" product that has a higher spec than what is on the box.
Though I hate car analogies, perhaps this tie one might be appropriate. Consider a car where the speedo was deliberately calibrated to show it going 2% faster than reality. This car will have a lower 0-60 mph time in benchmark tests (probably they don't trust the car speedo in reality, ignore this...). The car isn't better, it just appears to be. And the mobo isn't better; it's misreporting its settings. A similar board with honest settings could perform as well, but the overclocking would be apparent. Both probably have the same ultimate limits when tweaked.
I have to say, I find Dark City to be quite silly and altogether lame. Besides the fact that both have somilar clothes and start with the fact that things aren't as they seem, they don't have much at all in common.
Another thing they have in common, Matrix was shot on a lot of the same sets, in Sydney.
TV news is the greatest waste of time on the box. Except for coverage of disasters where cameras happen to be present (9/11, shuttle crashes), much better coverage for breaking news from radio (BBC preferably), newspapers for detail and analysis, net for more obscure interests. In a 30 minute bulletin, 12 minutes of ads, 10 minutes of sports (zero interest), 5 minutes of "human interest", 5 miutes of actual news. Dedicated news channels like CNN are mostly filler betwen real news.
The number one thing I hear, and the thing that pisses me off the most, is: "Well, *I* didn't have a ny problem with it, but I can see where someone *else* may have difficulty."
I often have a similar problem when editing text -- authors often feel the need to repeat and use three metaphors when explaining something that is REALLY REALLY important, and can't believe that their readers aren't stupid, and actually will be alienated and bored by treating them as if they were.
are the REAL customers complaining
Yeah, that was a problem with the submitter's form letter. He just says he can't access the site using SUSE Linux. He really should be saying something like he has a wonderful patent he wants to register, but can't unless he buys a copy of Windows and installs it.
Scientist Robert V. Gentry, in the 60's or 70's, completely invalidated the 'Billion year earth' and Evolution theory
Polonium Halo FAQs: "Professional geologist Tom Bailleul takes a second look at Gentry's claimed polonium haloes, arguing that there is no good evidence they are the result of polonium decay as opposed to any other radioactive isotope, or even that they are caused by radioactivity at all. Gentry is taken to task for selective use of evidence, faulty experiment design, mistakes in geology and physics, and unscientific principles of investigation and argument style."
You should watch his videos,
As a rule of thumb, any "scientist" who presents his theories on videos is almost certainly full of shit.
No, the submitter had no idea either. It's the author of the piece's fault, as they absolutely failed to mention what units they were using
It was on CBS News, so undoubtedly they were using American units. In this traditional system, used by all popular media when translating scientific stories for the unwashed, the unit of area is the "football field" (also of length, depending on context), "Rhode Island" or "Texas"; the unit of weight is "the Volkswagen", unit of money is "mile-high stack of dollar bills", unit of data is "New York phonebook", or "Library of Congress", etc. Though for 50F, the official American equivalent is, I believe, slightly warmer than a witch's tit.
The real question is why bother? Terraforming Mars might be a cool thing to do, but it'd be far less costly to settle Mars without terraforming it.
If it happens at all, we'll have had settlements on Mars long before terraforming has had much effect. Diverting megatonnes of comets could be a very cheap method of pumping up the atmosphere, though it would take decades from landing a robot engine to splashdown. I think there's plenty of comets to supply all our space colony needs for a few million years, by which time we can start on the gas giants and make our Ringworld.
You need a tide system to slosh the seas around to keep the waters from becoming stagnant.
I'm not an oceanologist, but I think currents are driven by temperature differences, not tides, except in a few narrow bays. But lack of tides would make considerable differences to coastal areas.
I find netflix to be far more convenient than going to a theater and paying the extortion rate prices for popcorn and soda.
Is it impossible to watch a movie without buying popcorn and soda? With determination, one CAN go for two, or even three, hours withiou eating a snack. Work up to it, start by watching a 30-minute sitcom without eating.
If the monkey is really on your back, it's not hard to smuggle snacks into a cinema.
sometimes (gasp) am away from/. for days at a time and don't have time to sift through the Older Stuff section.
I guess you're trolling, but that makes no sense at all, unless you're Steven Hawking and take 10 seconds to hit each keystroke. The dupes are duped not because they're important (obviously, this one hardly is), but due to incompetence. If your time is so valuable, why are you reading and commenting on this trivial story about a two year old novelty?
Why do you hate me so? This is going to kill my alotted bandwidth.
The images aren't being served now. Doesn't matter, as I remember this from the last time Slashdot ran it a couple of years ago. Anyway, how about an update -- does it still work?
Here's an idea. Instead of complaining about it, write up a new story.
I don't think there's a shortage of good stories; I've submitted a few, had them rejected, then a while later seen a crappier version posted. The problem is the low quality of the editing, which normally would include 1) selecting a novel story 2) doing a minimal fact/sanity check 3) formatting and spell-checking. It seems however that none of these steps are followed by slashdot "editors".
Anyway, just punching in the domain "multipledigression.com" inot the slashdot search pulled up the original story. It's not like they have to use their memories.
The head librarian should be implementing sane policies that prevent things like this
Such as what? Give an example that couldn't be circumvented by an average teenager with a Google search. The only guaranteed method is to have a librarian, or preferably two, watching them continuosly, an excellent use of resources.
if i take an hour of the library staffs time to reserve those books then it takes an hour
My public library lets me do that by myself on a terminal, or via the web. Search the catalogue, then click to reserve. It might take up to 5 minutes to find and reserve 18 books.
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Of course we have. Consider particle accelerators, which pour gigantic amounts of energy into single protons and electrons. They approach but never reach c. Their mass increases exactly in accord with relativity's predictions.
I think the terms of the bet are for global warming/cooling. I think even if Europe freezes, as a whole the world will be warmer.
I just corrected some spelling.
What's out of spec is not the actual performance of the board, but its misreporting of its settings, misleading the user. And there are possible disadvantages. Other posts report on hardware sensitive to overclocking that becomes unstable.
Though I hate car analogies, perhaps this tie one might be appropriate. Consider a car where the speedo was deliberately calibrated to show it going 2% faster than reality. This car will have a lower 0-60 mph time in benchmark tests (probably they don't trust the car speedo in reality, ignore this...). The car isn't better, it just appears to be. And the mobo isn't better; it's misreporting its settings. A similar board with honest settings could perform as well, but the overclocking would be apparent. Both probably have the same ultimate limits when tweaked.
Google. Hit #1.
Another thing they have in common, Matrix was shot on a lot of the same sets, in Sydney.
And the complaints that they're broken becasue they can't play their Windows games on them.
TV news is the greatest waste of time on the box. Except for coverage of disasters where cameras happen to be present (9/11, shuttle crashes), much better coverage for breaking news from radio (BBC preferably), newspapers for detail and analysis, net for more obscure interests. In a 30 minute bulletin, 12 minutes of ads, 10 minutes of sports (zero interest), 5 minutes of "human interest", 5 miutes of actual news. Dedicated news channels like CNN are mostly filler betwen real news.
To me it looks lke 80-20, on the losing team.
In any case, posterity will decide.
Getting a job and one's performance in it are two different things. The Peter Principle applies here as well.
I often have a similar problem when editing text -- authors often feel the need to repeat and use three metaphors when explaining something that is REALLY REALLY important, and can't believe that their readers aren't stupid, and actually will be alienated and bored by treating them as if they were.
are the REAL customers complaining
Yeah, that was a problem with the submitter's form letter. He just says he can't access the site using SUSE Linux. He really should be saying something like he has a wonderful patent he wants to register, but can't unless he buys a copy of Windows and installs it.
Without a deadline, it can easily get pushed back and back, until they can say it's working fine with IE only; why bother?
Polonium Halo FAQs: "Professional geologist Tom Bailleul takes a second look at Gentry's claimed polonium haloes, arguing that there is no good evidence they are the result of polonium decay as opposed to any other radioactive isotope, or even that they are caused by radioactivity at all. Gentry is taken to task for selective use of evidence, faulty experiment design, mistakes in geology and physics, and unscientific principles of investigation and argument style."
You should watch his videos,
As a rule of thumb, any "scientist" who presents his theories on videos is almost certainly full of shit.
It was on CBS News, so undoubtedly they were using American units. In this traditional system, used by all popular media when translating scientific stories for the unwashed, the unit of area is the "football field" (also of length, depending on context), "Rhode Island" or "Texas"; the unit of weight is "the Volkswagen", unit of money is "mile-high stack of dollar bills", unit of data is "New York phonebook", or "Library of Congress", etc. Though for 50F, the official American equivalent is, I believe, slightly warmer than a witch's tit.
If it happens at all, we'll have had settlements on Mars long before terraforming has had much effect. Diverting megatonnes of comets could be a very cheap method of pumping up the atmosphere, though it would take decades from landing a robot engine to splashdown. I think there's plenty of comets to supply all our space colony needs for a few million years, by which time we can start on the gas giants and make our Ringworld.
The Martian atmosphere is about 1/1000th of earth pressure at sea level; that does add up to a lot, but not nearly enough in itself.
I'm not an oceanologist, but I think currents are driven by temperature differences, not tides, except in a few narrow bays. But lack of tides would make considerable differences to coastal areas.
Is it impossible to watch a movie without buying popcorn and soda? With determination, one CAN go for two, or even three, hours withiou eating a snack. Work up to it, start by watching a 30-minute sitcom without eating.
If the monkey is really on your back, it's not hard to smuggle snacks into a cinema.
I guess you're trolling, but that makes no sense at all, unless you're Steven Hawking and take 10 seconds to hit each keystroke. The dupes are duped not because they're important (obviously, this one hardly is), but due to incompetence. If your time is so valuable, why are you reading and commenting on this trivial story about a two year old novelty?
The images aren't being served now. Doesn't matter, as I remember this from the last time Slashdot ran it a couple of years ago. Anyway, how about an update -- does it still work?
In that vein, check out the beautiful ElectriClerk -- a 1923 Underwood typewriter as a keyboard for a Mac.
I don't think there's a shortage of good stories; I've submitted a few, had them rejected, then a while later seen a crappier version posted. The problem is the low quality of the editing, which normally would include 1) selecting a novel story 2) doing a minimal fact/sanity check 3) formatting and spell-checking. It seems however that none of these steps are followed by slashdot "editors".
Anyway, just punching in the domain "multipledigression.com" inot the slashdot search pulled up the original story. It's not like they have to use their memories.
Such as what? Give an example that couldn't be circumvented by an average teenager with a Google search. The only guaranteed method is to have a librarian, or preferably two, watching them continuosly, an excellent use of resources.
My public library lets me do that by myself on a terminal, or via the web. Search the catalogue, then click to reserve. It might take up to 5 minutes to find and reserve 18 books.