there are no odds, since what you are asking is not a measurable function. basically the only source of uncertainty would be some cataclysmic event that nobody knows about anyway, and thus there's now way of knowing how "often" such an even would happen. Essentially it is probability-1.0 that it will miss. That is, there is no uncertainty and no odds. The trajectory of an object in space is deterministic. What would make it random? Randomness only occurs when there are uncertainties. Assuming that you know all the nearby gravitational sources, solar wind, etc. then you can darn well predict exactly where the adsteroid is going. The solar wind can probably contribute to uncertainty, since we don't know exactly its strength at all points in space, but then again its effect on the asteroid is probably negligible since it already has so much momentum.
This is something people need to realize. Calculating odds is really just masturbation with numbers.
A 114" HDTV to be precise. Doesn't everybody have one, or are you one of those welfare-receiving, MacDonalds eating East LA pieces of trash. Come out to the Cape sometime (that's Cape Cod, you ignorant baffoons), and I'll show it to you after we take a spin in my Aston Martin, you pathetic mendicant.
With the number of known vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems, (not to mention the ones we don't even know about) it is really not hard to imagine these botnets being frighteningly large. I read one article that estimated the current number at something like 100,000! I'm doubt it's enough to bring down the entire Internet, but this could still be capable of providing some crushing DoS attacks, a la SCO.
Gives some merit to distributed hosting companies like akamai, etc.
SO like, the most important thing i wanted to say was that I wasn't suggesting we bring the spanish inquisition with us to iraq and hold a mass-baptism, though i suppose it would be a halfway reasonable idea. I really just meant that we should exercise the most Christian virtues of compassion, charity, etc. That means giving them medical aid, education, clean water, food, etc. Being a Christian and helping others doesn't mean zealously forcing others into submission.
"Are you claiming catholics have never repressed non-catholics? Certainly non-catholics have opressed catholics too."
like every other person and his mom, yes there have always been people in high places who are corrupt. that's history, and it stays in the past unless it repeats itself which it does not because we have blessed people like you to remind us. in modern times I would really be surprised to see it. it's a weak argument. "Got news for you: you're little more than dust in eternity whether you beleive in santa or not."
That's why on Ash Wednesday we say "You are dust and to dust you will return". That is what becomes of the body but you've got no more proof than I do of anything after that, the soul, etc. Whatever you want to believe. What I have that you don't is faith that there is a life after our mortal death, even though it defies human understanding.
"I, and as far as I can tell the grandparent poster, do not hate the religious; we don't spread a doctrine of lies. We just think you're a little silly to spend so much energy and attribute so much of your own goddness and acomplishments to what as far as I can tell is an imaginary friend." And who are you to say it is a doctrine of lies? How do you know my friend is imaginary? It is certainly not obviously so. You can call it silliness, stupidity, whatever you like, for me to spend my energy the way I do, but I can name for you just as many reasons why it is better this way. As far as I can tell, the human mind is incapable of knowing very much more than what it can see and hear, but that does not mean something outside of these dimensions doesn't exist. Just because I stick my head in the sand the sun doesn't cease to shine.
Anyway, myself and most Christians are willing to accept the mystery of faith without proof. that's why it's a "leap of faith".
it's too bad that all of your "bible is pro-war" quotes have NOTHING to do with the teachings of Christ. Seriously, you're not making a tenable case. I mean I understand where you're coming from, but it's closed minded.
You are really really not making a new point to me. I and everyone else has heard and will admit things like that exist. Let me refer you to, oh i dunno Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul's letters, etc and you will see what it is I am trying to explain to you.
The Hebrew scriptures are important, but you must realize that the word "Christianity" has the word "Christ" in it for a reason.
you're the model anti-catholic. And that is why you ignore all the good we do, instead taking note of past wrongdoing.
Unfortunately, some of your points are sketchy at best. such as the "Catholic persecution of Protestants". I think you have it the other way around, bud. I once had a home-schooled neighbor. We were looking through his textbook that said "The Catholic Church enslaves the world". That's when I realized how far some of these people went.
Anyway, you're not being fair to yourself in your judgment. You are looking at the sins of man rather than the glorious salvation of God, and the millions of good Catholics out there. It's people like you who slander us and say we are no good, spreading a doctrine of lies and hatred against the religious.
If you'd take the time to look at what is the real teaching, you would find something incontrovertibly good.
And yes, religion can provide peace, but I can tell you right away you will have none of it until you see for yourself and take that leap of faith. Else you're little more than dust in eternity.
And a change in US foreign policy is nothing without a driving force. Again, if you'd look at Christian teaching it would tell you that war is only justified when it is absolutely necessary for defending oneself from an imminent threat. Forgiveness, compassion, charity. how can you argue with that and still call yourself human, rather than a beast.
Okay, I don't think it's right to say evolution is a "doctrine", because it's not. In fact, why would the Church even need to comment on it? Regardless of where we came from, the Church's mission is to evangelize the Good News, etc.
But more to the point, the Church certainly recognizes that even if evolution is true, it does not contradict our belief.
My comment: It doesn't affect me, the prostitute or homeless on the street, the people in Iraq, or anyone with any worry in her life whether or not evolution is true! We just want lasting peace, which only Christ can provide.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05654a.htm):
Passing now to the theory of evolution as a philosophical speculation, the history of the plant and animal kingdoms upon our globe is but a small part of the history of the entire earth. Similarly, the geological development of our earth constitutes but a small part of the history of the solar system and of the universe. The theory of evolution as a philosophical conception considers the entire history of the cosmos as an harmonious development, brought about by natural laws. This conception is in agreement with the Christian view of the universe. God is the Creator of heaven and earth. If God produced the universe by a single creative act of His will, then its natural development by laws implanted in it by the Creator is to the greater glory of His Divine power and wisdom. St. Thomas says: "The potency of a cause is the greater, the more remote the effects to which it extends." (Summa c. Gent., III, c. lxxvi); and Suarez: "God does not interfere directly with the natural order, where secondary causes suffice to produce the intended effect" (De opere sex dierum, II, c. x, n. 13). In the light of this principle of the Christian interpretation of nature, the history of the animal and vegetable kingdoms on our planet is, as it were, a versicle in a volume of a million pages in which the natural development of the cosmos is described, and upon whose title-page is written: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
Seriously, I am a EE and my religion keeps me grounded and shows me how to make my life wholesome. I see plenty of examples in the world around me reminding me why I believe what I believe and do what I do.
In the end, science is a pursuit of truth. There is nothing wrong with seeking the truth.
In the end, Christianity is about believing something without having proof of it, because it is true goodness and because it wouldn't be a religion if you didn't believe it.
Regardless of what you believe, you can't fault one in favor of the other without making an absolute fool of yourself.
"Admittedly this is better than messing with everything that uses the same frequencies cellphones do . "
I seriously doubt there are any other publicly available devices that operate in the same band as cell phones. Sure, maybe a personal computer, but that does not "transmit or receive", i.e. it is shielded (uh oh lexan cases!) and doesn't transmit (FCC regs).
So, while the person who submitted this headline made his/her final sentence "sound good", it is in fact meaningless.
Well, not until we attach rockets to the planes to get them fast enough to make a scram jet possible. recall, the scram jet won't work until you're going that bast, and the only way to get going that fast is through a rocket. At least that's what I read (Even the fastest plane, the Sr-71 could go 3,000 mph, it's top speed is classified).
In other words, that ain't happening for a while.
and really, we need new technology. what we have right now just won't do.
Blue lasers are really what's letting this technology take off! Here is some backgroudn info from this snippet off USA Today:
Most lasers use red or infrared. Blue lasers exploit the benefits of blue light, which has a smaller wavelength. Consequently, blue lasers can get into much tighter spaces than other lasers, and do jobs others can't, or at least do them a lot better and faster.
Blue lasers are only now starting to fledge from some of the world's leading commercial R&D labs, with several major American and Japanese electronics companies reporting plans to use them in the next year or so in some of their consumer products and specialized professional devices. Blue lasers are able to do this because of their wavelength - the distance between the peaks of two successive waves - which is one of the most important qualities in defining a laser.
You must remember that LDPC codes rely upon block (Codeword) lengths of many bits, e.g. over 10,000 bits long in order to achieve performance better than turbo codes. So your parity check matrix is enormous.
I'm sure there are some efficient implementations, but for certain applications having packets that long can be prohibitive.
Slashdot Mirror
show some respect and ....
move along, move along
i think they mean usenet.
i mean, duh...
who needs gps when you can use an anti-radiation missile
is it gentoo?
How long do you think it would take to compile on my cell phone?
either way, sweet.
there are no odds, since what you are asking is not a measurable function. basically the only source of uncertainty would be some cataclysmic event that nobody knows about anyway, and thus there's now way of knowing how "often" such an even would happen. Essentially it is probability-1.0 that it will miss. That is, there is no uncertainty and no odds. The trajectory of an object in space is deterministic. What would make it random? Randomness only occurs when there are uncertainties. Assuming that you know all the nearby gravitational sources, solar wind, etc. then you can darn well predict exactly where the adsteroid is going. The solar wind can probably contribute to uncertainty, since we don't know exactly its strength at all points in space, but then again its effect on the asteroid is probably negligible since it already has so much momentum.
This is something people need to realize. Calculating odds is really just masturbation with numbers.
neither Doom 3 nor HL-2 are officially "out." Why do I even care what happens after that? Give me that gravity gun, darnit!
woop dee freaking doo (it was a joke)
A 114" HDTV to be precise. Doesn't everybody have one, or are you one of those welfare-receiving, MacDonalds eating East LA pieces of trash. Come out to the Cape sometime (that's Cape Cod, you ignorant baffoons), and I'll show it to you after we take a spin in my Aston Martin, you pathetic mendicant.
GOOOOOO SSSSVVVVVEEEEERRRIIIIIGGEEEEE!!!!!!!
wtf is a DKK? donkey kong kountry? thank God i'm american and don't have to deal with your european monopoly-money currency.
You mean it's not really dead?
Sometimes you can't trust slashdot, can you.
Me? I'm pulling IPv4 stakes up. Only been spammed once by someone with an IPv6 address.
Looks like the only person using IPv6 is a spammer!
With the number of known vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems, (not to mention the ones we don't even know about) it is really not hard to imagine these botnets being frighteningly large. I read one article that estimated the current number at something like 100,000! I'm doubt it's enough to bring down the entire Internet, but this could still be capable of providing some crushing DoS attacks, a la SCO.
Gives some merit to distributed hosting companies like akamai, etc.
SO like, the most important thing i wanted to say was that I wasn't suggesting we bring the spanish inquisition with us to iraq and hold a mass-baptism, though i suppose it would be a halfway reasonable idea. I really just meant that we should exercise the most Christian virtues of compassion, charity, etc. That means giving them medical aid, education, clean water, food, etc. Being a Christian and helping others doesn't mean zealously forcing others into submission.
"Are you claiming catholics have never repressed non-catholics? Certainly non-catholics have opressed catholics too."
like every other person and his mom, yes there have always been people in high places who are corrupt. that's history, and it stays in the past unless it repeats itself which it does not because we have blessed people like you to remind us. in modern times I would really be surprised to see it. it's a weak argument.
"Got news for you: you're little more than dust in eternity whether you beleive in santa or not."
That's why on Ash Wednesday we say "You are dust and to dust you will return". That is what becomes of the body but you've got no more proof than I do of anything after that, the soul, etc. Whatever you want to believe. What I have that you don't is faith that there is a life after our mortal death, even though it defies human understanding.
"I, and as far as I can tell the grandparent poster, do not hate the religious; we don't spread a doctrine of lies. We just think you're a little silly to spend so much energy and attribute so much of your own goddness and acomplishments to what as far as I can tell is an imaginary friend."
And who are you to say it is a doctrine of lies? How do you know my friend is imaginary? It is certainly not obviously so. You can call it silliness, stupidity, whatever you like, for me to spend my energy the way I do, but I can name for you just as many reasons why it is better this way. As far as I can tell, the human mind is incapable of knowing very much more than what it can see and hear, but that does not mean something outside of these dimensions doesn't exist. Just because I stick my head in the sand the sun doesn't cease to shine.
Anyway, myself and most Christians are willing to accept the mystery of faith without proof. that's why it's a "leap of faith".
it's too bad that all of your "bible is pro-war" quotes have NOTHING to do with the teachings of Christ. Seriously, you're not making a tenable case. I mean I understand where you're coming from, but it's closed minded.
You are really really not making a new point to me. I and everyone else has heard and will admit things like that exist. Let me refer you to, oh i dunno Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul's letters, etc and you will see what it is I am trying to explain to you.
The Hebrew scriptures are important, but you must realize that the word "Christianity" has the word "Christ" in it for a reason.
Hope this helps.
you're the model anti-catholic. And that is why you ignore all the good we do, instead taking note of past wrongdoing.
Unfortunately, some of your points are sketchy at best. such as the "Catholic persecution of Protestants". I think you have it the other way around, bud. I once had a home-schooled neighbor. We were looking through his textbook that said "The Catholic Church enslaves the world". That's when I realized how far some of these people went.
Anyway, you're not being fair to yourself in your judgment. You are looking at the sins of man rather than the glorious salvation of God, and the millions of good Catholics out there. It's people like you who slander us and say we are no good, spreading a doctrine of lies and hatred against the religious.
If you'd take the time to look at what is the real teaching, you would find something incontrovertibly good.
And yes, religion can provide peace, but I can tell you right away you will have none of it until you see for yourself and take that leap of faith. Else you're little more than dust in eternity.
And a change in US foreign policy is nothing without a driving force. Again, if you'd look at Christian teaching it would tell you that war is only justified when it is absolutely necessary for defending oneself from an imminent threat. Forgiveness, compassion, charity. how can you argue with that and still call yourself human, rather than a beast.
you are a wilted piece of lettuce.
Okay, I don't think it's right to say evolution is a "doctrine", because it's not. In fact, why would the Church even need to comment on it? Regardless of where we came from, the Church's mission is to evangelize the Good News, etc.
But more to the point, the Church certainly recognizes that even if evolution is true, it does not contradict our belief.
My comment: It doesn't affect me, the prostitute or homeless on the street, the people in Iraq, or anyone with any worry in her life whether or not evolution is true! We just want lasting peace, which only Christ can provide.
From the Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05654a.htm):
Passing now to the theory of evolution as a philosophical speculation, the history of the plant and animal kingdoms upon our globe is but a small part of the history of the entire earth. Similarly, the geological development of our earth constitutes but a small part of the history of the solar system and of the universe. The theory of evolution as a philosophical conception considers the entire history of the cosmos as an harmonious development, brought about by natural laws. This conception is in agreement with the Christian view of the universe. God is the Creator of heaven and earth. If God produced the universe by a single creative act of His will, then its natural development by laws implanted in it by the Creator is to the greater glory of His Divine power and wisdom. St. Thomas says: "The potency of a cause is the greater, the more remote the effects to which it extends." (Summa c. Gent., III, c. lxxvi); and Suarez: "God does not interfere directly with the natural order, where secondary causes suffice to produce the intended effect" (De opere sex dierum, II, c. x, n. 13). In the light of this principle of the Christian interpretation of nature, the history of the animal and vegetable kingdoms on our planet is, as it were, a versicle in a volume of a million pages in which the natural development of the cosmos is described, and upon whose title-page is written: "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
Deo gratias,
that's the kind of thinking i like.
Seriously, I am a EE and my religion keeps me grounded and shows me how to make my life wholesome. I see plenty of examples in the world around me reminding me why I believe what I believe and do what I do.
In the end, science is a pursuit of truth. There is nothing wrong with seeking the truth.
In the end, Christianity is about believing something without having proof of it, because it is true goodness and because it wouldn't be a religion if you didn't believe it.
Regardless of what you believe, you can't fault one in favor of the other without making an absolute fool of yourself.
Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est.
You mean they release Apple Linux?
PS almost first post
first post!
"Admittedly this is better than messing with everything that uses the same frequencies cellphones do . "
I seriously doubt there are any other publicly available devices that operate in the same band as cell phones. Sure, maybe a personal computer, but that does not "transmit or receive", i.e. it is shielded (uh oh lexan cases!) and doesn't transmit (FCC regs). So, while the person who submitted this headline made his/her final sentence "sound good", it is in fact meaningless.
Well, not until we attach rockets to the planes to get them fast enough to make a scram jet possible. recall, the scram jet won't work until you're going that bast, and the only way to get going that fast is through a rocket. At least that's what I read (Even the fastest plane, the Sr-71 could go 3,000 mph, it's top speed is classified).
In other words, that ain't happening for a while.
and really, we need new technology. what we have right now just won't do.
I think you mean nucular war
Blue lasers are really what's letting this technology take off! Here is some backgroudn info from this snippet off USA Today:
Most lasers use red or infrared. Blue lasers exploit the benefits of blue light, which has a smaller wavelength. Consequently, blue lasers can get into much tighter spaces than other lasers, and do jobs others can't, or at least do them a lot better and faster.
Blue lasers are only now starting to fledge from some of the world's leading commercial R&D labs, with several major American and Japanese electronics companies reporting plans to use them in the next year or so in some of their consumer products and specialized professional devices.
Blue lasers are able to do this because of their wavelength - the distance between the peaks of two successive waves - which is one of the most important qualities in defining a laser.
You must remember that LDPC codes rely upon block (Codeword) lengths of many bits, e.g. over 10,000 bits long in order to achieve performance better than turbo codes. So your parity check matrix is enormous.
I'm sure there are some efficient implementations, but for certain applications having packets that long can be prohibitive.