if there's any bored document writers out there... jakarta and apache really need your donations! any corporations needing an extra tax write off? please donate a doc-writer to these projects.
I KNOW! Apache seems to make so much usefull stuff, but they never explain what it does! I like nice names as much as the next guy, but apache has so many projects it would really be helpfull if they picked more descriptive ones, I.E. "Apache JSP/Servlet server" rather then "Apache Tomcat".
Does it irritate anyone else when anything with a digital counterpart is called 'analog'? In this case, shouldn't the film be called 'chemical', after all, it was created by a chemical process, and undergoing chemical degradation. Not some form of analog interference.
To me, analog means something like a non-discrete signal, like in a VCR or radio or electric guitar. Not anything non-computerized
Saying that unprotected windows machines go un-hacked is rediculous. Just look at your server logs (if you run a web server). How many automated hack attemps do you see? quite a few.
Tons of people are infected with viruses and spyware (now that shit should be illigal, god damn) but they never notice or care, as long as their computers keep working.
Um, I don't think you can have a negative market cap. IIRC, the market cap is just the number of stocks times the stock value. In order for M$ to have a negative market cap, they would need to have negative-valued stocks.
No, people arn't going modify the kernel or download kernal mods of the 'net, but what they can do is choose between lots of diffrent distros, with diffrent options and software installed.
IE has an annoying habit of clearing the text boxes of a page when I get a timed out page and hit the 'back' button, say when posting to/. (slower than ever!?)
Yeah, but that only seems to happen on slashdot. It's really fucking annoying. I think it has something to do with the way caching is set up.
Surf to a page, click back a couple times and then click a link on the page you're looking at. Now, you can't get 'back' to the pages you looked at before you hit the back button.
It's really irritating. In order to get around it, you need to open a new window, which clutters up your desktop.
Perhaps a better back button would mean a lot less windows open for experianced surfers.
Seriously, that site is pretty poorly designed, it dosn't display right on an 800px screen.
Which, intrestingly is only slightly less then the max horozontal resolution of this screen. Whats the point of a 42 inch plasma screen with such low resolution? Why not just use a projector?
I know in Canada, for example, that all CD-Rs are taxed, and part of the money goes to the recording companies. If a Canadian importer was only sending 20% of the CDs that they imported to stores that collected the tax, they would probably be doing something illegal there, so perhaps there is a similar situation in Mexico... i.e. only 20% of the CD-Rs that are sold have the record-tax collected with the sale. If that was the case, then there would certainly be a legal reason to go after these people, if not a moral one.
(btw, It probably goes without saying, but I think these kinds of laws are ridiculous. In the US taxes are collected on blank tapes, and special CD-Rs that special music-only CD burners can record onto)
The reason e pops up while doing compound intrest stuff is because it's an exponential integral. The money you've made is n*i^t, where n and i are constants. So obviously the integral would have e in it, otherwise it would be a bitch to find:P.
the e^(ipi) thing is a result of e^(ix) = sin x + cos x or something, so you end up with sin(pi)+cos(pi). Or something. Not really that special, IMO.
We don't know exactly how life on earth started, and we never will. All we can do is come up with resonable theories that don't have any holes. They may be right, or maybe not.
Since we can't go back in time, there is no true way to figure out which theory is 'right'. You can only elimnate some theories by disproving them.
The search for the origin of life is really nothing more for the search for the condition of the earth when life began. Once you know what the conditions were, you can create models that will work under those conditions.
Finaly, scientests have been able to create life from nothing in labs for decades, its just that we don't know if the conditions were exactly the same as those of the primordial earth.
I'm not the same person who posted the invictive, but I do agree with it. Your post was not funny at all. You might not be an idiot, but you are definetly unfunny.
If they don't care, then they should give the jobs to people who do care. The only reason they dont, as far as I can tell, is that they are adicted to the power that running/. gives them, and don't want to share it with people would make them look like fools in comparison.
There are lots of people who would do it, even for free. but whatever.
Slashdot has a lot of potential, but it's all wasted by the moron editors.
For that matter, why do we bother using Cat 5 cable, since we all know barb wire works just as well... I mean, it conducts electricity, right?
Yes, but you would scrach your hands up something awful wiring your network:P.
Actualy, Cisco or lucent or someone actualy did some research and was able to transmit ethernet over barbed wire, fences, and other not-so-pure conductors.
In general, though the reason we need to use 'pure' wires like cat-5 is because you're transfering something at a very high rate. There is a huge diffrence between 1ghz and 44khz as far as distortion and stuff.
Also, when you're talking about fiber, it's totaly diffrent. The cheap $3 toslink optical cables would probably have no trouble transfering even 10ghz ethernet signals.
It's not like a record where the needle physicaly touches the disk. A CD is only looked at, looking at the center wouldn't cause it to fail more then the outside.
The problems are probably being caused by your fingers and other objects comming in contact with the disk, and more likely to touch the outside, especialy if you're a swap-junky
what, you don't think the copy protection actualy works do you?
A two second download will have you playing and burning the CD from your computer. But you can't download software to a high-end player, thus those copy-protected disks only stop people from playing the disks, not copying them.
You can also just plug an audio cable into a computer and record them.
If you a whole minute to get ready, I don't think you'd really need to worry about it to much. Since the angle would go from the one you didn't think you could be attacked from to the one you know you're going to be attacked from.
And as another poster mentioned, you'd make a really easy target.
Its been that time for a long time, and it won't..
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The Slashdot editors are addicted to their own power, and seem to have zero interest in accuracy or professionalism. There are obviously slashdotters who are far more knowledgeable in their fields (including CS and CE) who would love to be editors, but aren't given the opportunity. Rather we get lots of dupes and bogus stories being posted.
But, you can take the sorce, or better yet scoop (the software that runs kuro5hin) and make your own site. In fact, I think some bio/sci people have done so, although I don't know about any off the top of my head.
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if there's any bored document writers out there... jakarta and apache really need your donations! any corporations needing an extra tax write off? please donate a doc-writer to these projects.
I KNOW! Apache seems to make so much usefull stuff, but they never explain what it does! I like nice names as much as the next guy, but apache has so many projects it would really be helpfull if they picked more descriptive ones, I.E. "Apache JSP/Servlet server" rather then "Apache Tomcat".
Of course, MS SQL is actualy more scaleable then MySQL, but that's beside the point :P
Does it irritate anyone else when anything with a digital counterpart is called 'analog'? In this case, shouldn't the film be called 'chemical', after all, it was created by a chemical process, and undergoing chemical degradation. Not some form of analog interference.
To me, analog means something like a non-discrete signal, like in a VCR or radio or electric guitar. Not anything non-computerized
because they don't notice these viruses.
Saying that unprotected windows machines go un-hacked is rediculous. Just look at your server logs (if you run a web server). How many automated hack attemps do you see? quite a few.
Tons of people are infected with viruses and spyware (now that shit should be illigal, god damn) but they never notice or care, as long as their computers keep working.
Um, I don't think you can have a negative market cap. IIRC, the market cap is just the number of stocks times the stock value. In order for M$ to have a negative market cap, they would need to have negative-valued stocks.
No, people arn't going modify the kernel or download kernal mods of the 'net, but what they can do is choose between lots of diffrent distros, with diffrent options and software installed.
IE has an annoying habit of clearing the text boxes of a page when I get a timed out page and hit the 'back' button, say when posting to /. (slower than ever!?)
Yeah, but that only seems to happen on slashdot. It's really fucking annoying. I think it has something to do with the way caching is set up.
Surf to a page, click back a couple times and then click a link on the page you're looking at. Now, you can't get 'back' to the pages you looked at before you hit the back button.
It's really irritating. In order to get around it, you need to open a new window, which clutters up your desktop.
Perhaps a better back button would mean a lot less windows open for experianced surfers.
Seriously, that site is pretty poorly designed, it dosn't display right on an 800px screen.
Which, intrestingly is only slightly less then the max horozontal resolution of this screen. Whats the point of a 42 inch plasma screen with such low resolution? Why not just use a projector?
There are really lots of people who helped create TV as we know it.
Is that like S/PDIF?
Sorry, that was a really lame joke.
I know in Canada, for example, that all CD-Rs are taxed, and part of the money goes to the recording companies. If a Canadian importer was only sending 20% of the CDs that they imported to stores that collected the tax, they would probably be doing something illegal there, so perhaps there is a similar situation in Mexico... i.e. only 20% of the CD-Rs that are sold have the record-tax collected with the sale. If that was the case, then there would certainly be a legal reason to go after these people, if not a moral one.
(btw, It probably goes without saying, but I think these kinds of laws are ridiculous. In the US taxes are collected on blank tapes, and special CD-Rs that special music-only CD burners can record onto)
The reason e pops up while doing compound intrest stuff is because it's an exponential integral. The money you've made is n*i^t, where n and i are constants. So obviously the integral would have e in it, otherwise it would be a bitch to find :P.
the e^(ipi) thing is a result of e^(ix) = sin x + cos x or something, so you end up with sin(pi)+cos(pi). Or something. Not really that special, IMO.
We don't know exactly how life on earth started, and we never will. All we can do is come up with resonable theories that don't have any holes. They may be right, or maybe not.
Since we can't go back in time, there is no true way to figure out which theory is 'right'. You can only elimnate some theories by disproving them.
The search for the origin of life is really nothing more for the search for the condition of the earth when life began. Once you know what the conditions were, you can create models that will work under those conditions.
Finaly, scientests have been able to create life from nothing in labs for decades, its just that we don't know if the conditions were exactly the same as those of the primordial earth.
So sure nothing of import happens between dec 27 and 31 2003.
Hrm, I wonder if we'll survive 2002....
I'm not the same person who posted the invictive, but I do agree with it. Your post was not funny at all. You might not be an idiot, but you are definetly unfunny.
If they don't care, then they should give the jobs to people who do care. The only reason they dont, as far as I can tell, is that they are adicted to the power that running /. gives them, and don't want to share it with people would make them look like fools in comparison.
There are lots of people who would do it, even for free. but whatever.
Slashdot has a lot of potential, but it's all wasted by the moron editors.
Well, if it plays in your PC but not your car, then there is a very good chance that your car sterio is just a peice of shit.
Do you have any more info on this? I have a memeory stick walkman that I wouldn't mind using cheaper media on.
The CDs that didn't work were Sony, moron. Last I checked, Sony was a Japanese company.
For that matter, why do we bother using Cat 5 cable, since we all know barb wire works just as well... I mean, it conducts electricity, right?
:P.
Yes, but you would scrach your hands up something awful wiring your network
Actualy, Cisco or lucent or someone actualy did some research and was able to transmit ethernet over barbed wire, fences, and other not-so-pure conductors.
In general, though the reason we need to use 'pure' wires like cat-5 is because you're transfering something at a very high rate. There is a huge diffrence between 1ghz and 44khz as far as distortion and stuff.
Also, when you're talking about fiber, it's totaly diffrent. The cheap $3 toslink optical cables would probably have no trouble transfering even 10ghz ethernet signals.
It's not like a record where the needle physicaly touches the disk. A CD is only looked at, looking at the center wouldn't cause it to fail more then the outside.
The problems are probably being caused by your fingers and other objects comming in contact with the disk, and more likely to touch the outside, especialy if you're a swap-junky
what, you don't think the copy protection actualy works do you?
A two second download will have you playing and burning the CD from your computer. But you can't download software to a high-end player, thus those copy-protected disks only stop people from playing the disks, not copying them.
You can also just plug an audio cable into a computer and record them.
If you a whole minute to get ready, I don't think you'd really need to worry about it to much. Since the angle would go from the one you didn't think you could be attacked from to the one you know you're going to be attacked from.
And as another poster mentioned, you'd make a really easy target.
The Slashdot editors are addicted to their own power, and seem to have zero interest in accuracy or professionalism. There are obviously slashdotters who are far more knowledgeable in their fields (including CS and CE) who would love to be editors, but aren't given the opportunity. Rather we get lots of dupes and bogus stories being posted.
But, you can take the sorce, or better yet scoop (the software that runs kuro5hin) and make your own site. In fact, I think some bio/sci people have done so, although I don't know about any off the top of my head.