Rowling is on the list.
There are people out there that fantasy is taking over the place of SF.
Perhaps they are right, how many "hard SF" books have we seen the last years ?
Most authors seem to mix fantasy elements these days in.
that it's only the sources needed for the mods.
Linux and other OSSes don't need such sick violent games. Let's leave this blood gore for XP users. After the next Columbine the use of Microsoft Windows will perhaps made illegal for children.
Quake Satan IV will then achive want any anti-trust lawsuits didn't get.
The world's first consistent and complete theory of everything.
Well this is slightly offtopic, but I discovered recently an universal
theory of everything and I can't whithold such important information
from the slashdot crowd.
The theory is mainly inspired by the posts I read here at slashdot and
consists of the revolutionary thesis:
Everything is a troll.
I'll explain now what leads me to this conclusion.
Let's start with the most important part of most slashdotters lives:
the computer.
As you all know operating systems have lead to many heated and sometimes
flamebait discussions, take all these Linux vs Windows XP vs *BSD etc
flamewars here at slashdot as an example.
In fact we all now that the most important differences of the OSes are
for these discussion, for most practical uses an operating system is as
good and any other. Therefore the main purpose of modern operating
systems is just trolling and not any practical issues anymore !
The same goes for programming languages.
Today we have enough programming languages for any purpose which comes into
our minds. And we all know that the best programming is choosen
specifically for an explicit task.
But nevertheless there are always more and more universal programming
languages which "suit all purposes perfectly" created all the time.
Take Microsofts C# as an example.
Thus we can conclude that the main purpose of modern programming languages
is again trolling.
C# takes us direct to Microsofts monopolic behavoir.
If you examine it long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that
their practices to subdue the competitors is just a very clever way of
trolling. The the whole anti-trust case is just the way of
the competitors and the goverment to troll back at Microsoft !
You can go on and on with this and you'll finally reach the same
conclusion as I: the main purpose of the entire computer/IT industry is
just trolling.
Can we extend this statement to other parts of our lives ?
Let's look at something basic: emotions.
Hate is obviously a form of trolling.
If you think about it a little,
you'll see that the same goes to the opposite: love.
If you love someone you just troll everybody you don't love
and if you love everybody you troll the people who don't want
to be loved.
In fact any kind of emotion is a form of trolling.
The same goes for the society war is an obvious form of trolling.
The rule above for love applies at society leave at peace.
Terrorism, trade contracts, diplomany, just anything is trolling.
Religions are trolling just by their existence, because they always
claim all other relgions to be wrong.
You'll have to do some examination to see this always
but once you know the pattern it's relatively easy to spot.
This lead to the next conclusion: humans and society are always
trolling.
But what about nature ?
Well we know how to approach such thing know, so it's not very
difficult to procceed.
Carnivores are trolling herbivores
and other carnivores by eating them.
Herbivores troll plants by eating them.
Plants are trolling everybody by sitting around
doing nothing and being green.
Bacteria are trolling everybody by
causing such things as rotting and diarreea.
In fact even the physical laws are trollish.
Take the laws of thermodynamics.
The law of entropia is trollish by causing disorder everywhere.
The law of energy conservation is trollish by causing energy problems
all over the world.
As another example
the law of gravitation is trollish by hitting people with apples on
the head.
The moon circles around earth to troll it which on the other
hand trolls around the sun. And the sun trolls the planets by
sending radition and light at them. The milkyway trolls around
it's own axis. The whole universe is trolling by expanding
infinitely !
Well, this leaves the question wether the laws of trolling hold outside
our universe.
But the existance of such questions would be oviously trolling and
therefore everything outside the universe must be trolling, too !
So we can conclude the universal laws of the universe: EVERTHING IS TROLLING !
This law has some interesting implications:
All slashdot readers, editors, crapflooders are trolls.
Every slashdot post is a troll. Moderating it "troll" is always fair.
Moderation is always trolling. Therefore all moderation is unfair.
This is inconstent with the above statement that moderation "troll"
is always fair, but this is just a troll.
If Taco wants to get rid of the trolls he must close down slashdot
entirely. This action would be, of course, trollish.
If someone stops trolling slashdot then this is just a troll.
If you moderate this post (up or down) you are a troll.
If you don't moderate you are a troll, too.
All factual, logical, grammatical, spelling errors is this post
are there to troll you.
Everybody is homeomorphic to himself because the identity mapping is continuous for E->E.
Re:Doesn't mean it's right...
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Time Travel
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You imply the existence of space whose exitence is extremely difficult (personally I think even impossible) to prove. You imply the existence of laws in this space which you can probably never prove. Too much hypothesises for my taste.
People make cracks about the creationists here, but honestly with such much unproven hypotheses this is just a type of science religion than hard science. You could also claim that ethernal
super-space beings create new universes with little yellow stars in it everytime the time machine is used.
Re:ways around the time travel paradox
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Time Travel
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· Score: 1
Instead of constructing "explanations" for this paradox which partially can't ever be proven (like parallel universes), you could also apply just Occams razor: The simplest theory is most likely to be correct. And in this case the simplest theory would be that there is no time travel. And the paradox arises because you can deduct any (true or false) statement from wrong hypotheses.
Why shouldn't this be correct ?
Just because we want time travel this doesn't mean that the laws of the universe allows this.
And for this professor: a physicist jumping around having the "working method is time travel" is 100% bullshit. If this would be true he would have had just published his theories to any major journal and might even got the Nobel prize. No serious papers usually implies crackpot theories.
And beware: have you ever thought about the implications of parallel universes ? This theory in fact implies that these universes are elements of a meta-universe in which certain laws hold.
While the principle is simple, the idea itself is massively overrated these days. It's not that distributed computing is exactly a new idea. Parallel massively machines are around for decades. And distributed computing is just using computers on a (large scale) network as a massively parallel machine. But history has already shown that many problems can't be solved by parallel computations therefore limiting the power of distributed computing. The only new benefit is that you don't need spend $$$ on cray systems etc. Just buy some processing power in a grid. However there won't be as much customers as you would expect.
This stuff is just overhyped by some companies which think that they can make the big buck.
Re:I don't know what subject to give this...
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Globalism Post 9/11
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· Score: 1
In Europe they hate US because
This is plain nonsense. If we would hate the US there would be no NATO. The political situation allows all European countries in the NATO to leave any time now.
You obvilously confuse the left-wing US critic babble with hate.
But you see we are Europe. Things are done differently here. We don't agree with all you actions. That's all.
The demand to restrict the copyright to 14 years is pretty naive. It's a well known fact that the US enlarges the duration of the copyright every 10 years or so just to make sure that Disney still has it's copyright on Micky Mouse & co. If they bend laws just for a single company, does he really expect that the copyright will be restricted to such a short period ?
The entire US entertainment industry will be hurt.
Making corporations unable to own a copyright is just nonsense. Some works are in fact created by corporations. Just take one of the bigger movies.
Oh, forcing the removal of implants is very easy: you just need a knife (if the knife is also sharp then you know that you are served by a high quality airport).
Well, weren't the deadheads some kind of ocultists, too ? And weren't the Dead deep into satanist stuff like black metal etc ? Anyone here has more info ?
This might be very good.
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Wireless Mania
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· Score: 3, Funny
All these electromagnetic waves everywhere might make our brains grow and more intelligent. So we might look in the end like the aliens from "mars attacks".
And we all know that electromagnetic waves make flowers grow. At least light is electromagnetoc waves and flowers don't grow without light as you might know. So, all electromagnetic waves might be very very good for them.
...US masters thesises aren't accepted as a diploma thesis in most european countries. Guess why.
Slashdot social structure
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If I Had a Hammer
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
Well, here at our lingustics department we did some
inofficial analysis of the social background of the slashdot readers.
We did this to test our new
language analysis software "Medusa".
As any reader with decent scientific background should know computerized
understandig of human language is beyond the capabilities of toways computers.
But (and notices that this is a fat, big, huge "but") you can
go after phrases.
Modern computers hold more than enough power to analyze the phrases used in
a text. Note that such phrase analysis is much more than merely pattern matching
(perl/sed/awk won't be sufficient), it needs a rather complicated analysis
of reflexion, phoneme search, grammatical style and similar things.
The result is that you can get information about the socio-cultural background
of the writer of a text. And it's even rather complicated the fool the program
because even if you know the algorithms and want to fake a different social
background. There are always certain phrases/ grammatical styles which
just "skip in" unconciously.
Lets look at some simple examples:
John Katz's articles: background journalist, white, male, protestant,
liberal with some small conservative strains.
Taco's articles: background software enigneering, however no affections to math,
white, male, atheist, (slightly radical) liberal
What were the results of the slashdot analysis ?
69 percent adcademic background (abbr.: bg), at least BS/BA degree
45 percent computer science or practical computer experience bg
16 percent mathematical bg (might include some people with physics bg)
7 percent physics bg
2 percent rated "professor"
at UIDs UIDs > 300000 seem to be nearly always replications of accounts below 300000
comments rated at -1 seem to come at 83 percent from academic bg
comments rated > 0 to BSD topics have 89 percent academic bg
comments to YRO come at only 52 percent from academic bg (we are not sure if our
program catches all laywers as "academics")
Please note that we could only include comments with enough text (more then 20 words)
in our analysis. It also ignores reposts of older comments and non-text comments
like "ascii art"
Some results were very surprising though, e.g. we are pretty sure that the user
Tollaxor has background in plasma physics.
Well, you never know with some people.
Slashdot Mirror
if it's possible to use usable distros with an ibook, too.
Rowling is on the list.
There are people out there that fantasy is taking over the place of SF.
Perhaps they are right, how many "hard SF" books have we seen the last years ?
Most authors seem to mix fantasy elements these days in.
The US entertainment industry treats the average criminal as a consumer.
that it's only the sources needed for the mods. Linux and other OSSes don't need such sick violent games. Let's leave this blood gore for XP users. After the next Columbine the use of Microsoft Windows will perhaps made illegal for children. Quake Satan IV will then achive want any anti-trust lawsuits didn't get.
Well this is slightly offtopic, but I discovered recently an universal theory of everything and I can't whithold such important information from the slashdot crowd.
The theory is mainly inspired by the posts I read here at slashdot and consists of the revolutionary thesis:
Everything is a troll.
I'll explain now what leads me to this conclusion.
Let's start with the most important part of most slashdotters lives: the computer.
As you all know operating systems have lead to many heated and sometimes flamebait discussions, take all these Linux vs Windows XP vs *BSD etc flamewars here at slashdot as an example. In fact we all now that the most important differences of the OSes are for these discussion, for most practical uses an operating system is as good and any other. Therefore the main purpose of modern operating systems is just trolling and not any practical issues anymore !
The same goes for programming languages. Today we have enough programming languages for any purpose which comes into our minds. And we all know that the best programming is choosen specifically for an explicit task. But nevertheless there are always more and more universal programming languages which "suit all purposes perfectly" created all the time. Take Microsofts C# as an example. Thus we can conclude that the main purpose of modern programming languages is again trolling.
C# takes us direct to Microsofts monopolic behavoir. If you examine it long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that their practices to subdue the competitors is just a very clever way of trolling. The the whole anti-trust case is just the way of the competitors and the goverment to troll back at Microsoft !
You can go on and on with this and you'll finally reach the same conclusion as I: the main purpose of the entire computer/IT industry is just trolling.
Can we extend this statement to other parts of our lives ?
Let's look at something basic: emotions.
Hate is obviously a form of trolling. If you think about it a little, you'll see that the same goes to the opposite: love. If you love someone you just troll everybody you don't love and if you love everybody you troll the people who don't want to be loved. In fact any kind of emotion is a form of trolling.
The same goes for the society war is an obvious form of trolling. The rule above for love applies at society leave at peace. Terrorism, trade contracts, diplomany, just anything is trolling. Religions are trolling just by their existence, because they always claim all other relgions to be wrong. You'll have to do some examination to see this always but once you know the pattern it's relatively easy to spot.
This lead to the next conclusion: humans and society are always trolling.
But what about nature ?
Well we know how to approach such thing know, so it's not very difficult to procceed.
Carnivores are trolling herbivores and other carnivores by eating them.
Herbivores troll plants by eating them.
Plants are trolling everybody by sitting around doing nothing and being green.
Bacteria are trolling everybody by causing such things as rotting and diarreea.
In fact even the physical laws are trollish. Take the laws of thermodynamics. The law of entropia is trollish by causing disorder everywhere. The law of energy conservation is trollish by causing energy problems all over the world. As another example the law of gravitation is trollish by hitting people with apples on the head. The moon circles around earth to troll it which on the other hand trolls around the sun. And the sun trolls the planets by sending radition and light at them. The milkyway trolls around it's own axis. The whole universe is trolling by expanding infinitely !
Well, this leaves the question wether the laws of trolling hold outside our universe. But the existance of such questions would be oviously trolling and therefore everything outside the universe must be trolling, too ! So we can conclude the universal laws of the universe:
EVERTHING IS TROLLING !
This law has some interesting implications:
The realdoll reseach labs.
No.1 in human/computer interaction.
I rather surprised that some people don't know about them.
It might be R'ley or Leng.
Or even something worse.
Did they found any seals of the elder gods out there ?
Everybody is homeomorphic to himself because the identity mapping is continuous for E->E.
You imply the existence of space whose exitence is extremely difficult (personally I think even impossible) to prove. You imply the existence of laws in this space which you can probably never prove. Too much hypothesises for my taste.
People make cracks about the creationists here, but honestly with such much unproven hypotheses this is just a type of science religion than hard science. You could also claim that ethernal super-space beings create new universes with little yellow stars in it everytime the time machine is used.
Why shouldn't this be correct ?
Just because we want time travel this doesn't mean that the laws of the universe allows this.
And for this professor: a physicist jumping around having the "working method is time travel" is 100% bullshit. If this would be true he would have had just published his theories to any major journal and might even got the Nobel prize. No serious papers usually implies crackpot theories.
And beware: have you ever thought about the implications of parallel universes ? This theory in fact implies that these universes are elements of a meta-universe in which certain laws hold.
Phear my differential operator !
I love calculus !
Mine.
While the principle is simple, the idea itself is massively overrated these days. It's not that distributed computing is exactly a new idea. Parallel massively machines are around for decades. And distributed computing is just using computers on a (large scale) network as a massively parallel machine. But history has already shown that many problems can't be solved by parallel computations therefore limiting the power of distributed computing. The only new benefit is that you don't need spend $$$ on cray systems etc. Just buy some processing power in a grid. However there won't be as much customers as you would expect.
This stuff is just overhyped by some companies which think that they can make the big buck.
This is plain nonsense. If we would hate the US there would be no NATO. The political situation allows all European countries in the NATO to leave any time now.
You obvilously confuse the left-wing US critic babble with hate.
But you see we are Europe. Things are done differently here. We don't agree with all you actions. That's all.
The demand to restrict the copyright to 14 years is pretty naive. It's a well known fact that the US enlarges the duration of the copyright every 10 years or so just to make sure that Disney still has it's copyright on Micky Mouse & co.
If they bend laws just for a single company, does he really expect that the copyright will be restricted to such a short period ?
The entire US entertainment industry will be hurt.
Making corporations unable to own a copyright is just nonsense. Some works are in fact created by corporations. Just take one of the bigger movies.
The latest version of the IBM JRE (v1.3) installs in /opt. So they don't seem to take his ideas too serious.
Oh, forcing the removal of implants is very easy: you just need a knife (if the knife is also sharp then you know that you are served by a high quality airport).
Well, weren't the deadheads some kind of ocultists, too ?
And weren't the Dead deep into satanist stuff like black metal etc ?
Anyone here has more info ?
All these electromagnetic waves everywhere might make our brains grow and more intelligent. So we might look in the end like the aliens from "mars attacks".
And we all know that electromagnetic waves make flowers grow. At least light is electromagnetoc waves and flowers don't grow without light as you might know. So, all electromagnetic waves might be very very good for them.
- lynx
- netcat with less
- vi
- emacs
- ed
- telnet
Graphics is just for banner ads.My experiences with IP6 and Debian woody:
- inetd is fucked up accepts only connections to
::1, no other addresses supported which makes the box practically unreachable from outside
- netstat/route etc don't support ip6, only ifconfig
- if ip6 is supported then no or only crippled documentation existd
These are only a few issus. Unless these thing get fixed fast then FreeBSD will replace Linux at most professional environments....US masters thesises aren't accepted as a diploma thesis in most european countries. Guess why.
As any reader with decent scientific background should know computerized understandig of human language is beyond the capabilities of toways computers. But (and notices that this is a fat, big, huge "but") you can go after phrases.
Modern computers hold more than enough power to analyze the phrases used in a text. Note that such phrase analysis is much more than merely pattern matching (perl/sed/awk won't be sufficient), it needs a rather complicated analysis of reflexion, phoneme search, grammatical style and similar things. The result is that you can get information about the socio-cultural background of the writer of a text. And it's even rather complicated the fool the program because even if you know the algorithms and want to fake a different social background. There are always certain phrases/ grammatical styles which just "skip in" unconciously.
Lets look at some simple examples:
- John Katz's articles: background journalist, white, male, protestant,
liberal with some small conservative strains.
- Taco's articles: background software enigneering, however no affections to math,
white, male, atheist, (slightly radical) liberal
What were the results of the slashdot analysis ?- 69 percent adcademic background (abbr.: bg), at least BS/BA degree
- 45 percent computer science or practical computer experience bg
- 16 percent mathematical bg (might include some people with physics bg)
- 7 percent physics bg
- 2 percent rated "professor"
- at UIDs UIDs > 300000 seem to be nearly always replications of accounts below 300000
- comments rated at -1 seem to come at 83 percent from academic bg
- comments rated > 0 to BSD topics have 89 percent academic bg
- comments to YRO come at only 52 percent from academic bg (we are not sure if our
program catches all laywers as "academics")
Please note that we could only include comments with enough text (more then 20 words) in our analysis. It also ignores reposts of older comments and non-text comments like "ascii art"Some results were very surprising though, e.g. we are pretty sure that the user Tollaxor has background in plasma physics. Well, you never know with some people.
Well, it's a well known fact that theoretical mathematics keeps barbarians off.