Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the second to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the third to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.....
Saving Private Ryan???
Just couldnt resist... I know its a matter of personal liking, and I must admit that my first impressions of this movie were great... but then I went out and got to see the *other* war movie of the time, The Thin Red Line.
I know there are other war movies, like Full Metal Jacket(one of my all time fav) and Apocalypse Now, but the whole tone and character building of TTRL is flawless.
SPR is too much hollywoodise, spielbergised, hankised version of war. Barring the starting scence and a few glimpses of genius here and there (the whole german prisoner scenes, etc), it relies too much on shock-and-awe strategy, with ofcourse a herioc battle in the end to win the crowd over.
No... IMDB list is based on user votings, which gives u a farr idea of what people generally like, or maybe like to say what they like. And that too is mostly based on opinions of young kids, bored housewives and officeworkers, ppl with easy access to internet. Most foreign movies are obviously neglected unless they have the 'oscar' buzz and is released on DVD.
By the way... Shawshank Redemption on number 2.... lol, dont even get me started. With so many great movies out there....
Indeed. According to Snopes, they weren't unsolvable problems. They were just unproven theorems.
This is getting silly. Obviously the problems were solvable; You cannot have a solution for known *unsolvable* problems, thus the title.
There is a difference between a conjecture and a theorem. Theorem is a statment, conjectured by someone, and proven to be true or false.
So here is how it should be stated. Dantzig mistook for homework a conjectured problem, which was infact proven to be *solvable* but no solution was known. Thus classifying them to be *open* problems.
So where was I....
Look, who are we kidding here. This all sounds cool, ' Oh , Oh... look at my new get-ur-but-off-the-couch gadet'. This will never work.
Television, computer games- if done to excessive and alarming levels- should be treated as addiction. You have to a) Motivate and b) provide good alternatives. Just turning a t.v. off, by using force will never work.
Having said that, excessive and alarming levels... hmm... 50 points for the first one who tells me what that means.
Oh, no tv/computer/cd player in my new apartment:~). Plenty of time to do nothing. Cool !!! not really. I know i ll be getting one soon if i dont find something else to do ~)
I know some ppl would love the oppurtunity to post the *earliest* comment--and most of them have good reason for that (being originally funny, avoiding dups); but I like it cold and dull.
The reason--well I dont open slashdot for the news alone. Its the discussions and the comments that make it worth wasting precious long work-hours. I hardly ever read a story before it reaches a 3-figure comment mark. If its fresh, its been visited by less ppl; and ofcourse the moderators still havent done the job.
So if you are like me, going through only the 4+ comments, u better stay away from subscription for this particular reason.
Consider this an honest advise...coz its coming from the heart. Both of us can't be lazy. Either U get ur ass moving right now, or I would have to do it for u later. Sooo... so i think U should STOP BEING A LAZY ASS
Rest almost eveething works out fine... so far atleast:D. Better times still await both of us
P.S: If its not too much trouble, buy a guitar soon:)
On the risc of being a lil offtopic, I would like to share the following observations. Interesting how our brain works. Powerpoint Syndrom is a very fine observation. English is not my first language( and that explains all the gramatical and spelling mistakes:-) ). However, it has been the language of my education. One of the tips'n'tricks that my english teacher from school told me was that in order to imporve my english, I should start thinking in it. The idea was that we our brain uses the first language (urdu in my case), and so our thoughts are limited by the expressions we can come up with using the language. Whatever language we learn afterwards is a process of run-time translations. But then with the passage of time we master other languages and we can train our brain to think in all these languages.
So whats the point in pointing out the obvious. We are taught the basics, like the alpabets, and then we build upon these basics. However our knoweldge, our way of thinking will always be limited by basics. Its just like the decimal system. There are only 10 digits. You ll only be re-using them again and again. Consider how difficult it would have been if we were all to use the binary system for our daily mathematics. Same goes for the possiblity of using hexa or maybe centa number systems.
Edward D. Bono pointed out in his book on lateral thinking the very same things. We are taught a basic way of thinking, of reasoning. Thats limits us in looking at things from a different prospective.
Change isn't bad unless it is change for the sake of change. Isnt this a cheezy cliche. Change for the sake of change.
Its always good to change and shuffle things around, whatever the reason is. It eliminates monotony.
As a programmer, I think the most important thing that often works for me is change for the sake of change. U can easily be stuck with the same old techniques that u learned in college, courtesy ur teacher and colleagues. There are so many different ways to implement the same thing. You should, every now and then try to shuffle things a bit and in the process learn new, efficient metthods.
Since the subject of this said phone calling from Linux i was thinking of some weird kernel patch. I agree...the title could have been better. However this doesnt change the fact that this is the first time any such application has been made for linux. The main idea is that Linux is becoming more and more *user-friendly* and its not only the console-based server-side operating system.
Linux is the kernel, and only that. Linux is more than a kernell. It symbolysis a lot more than just-another operating sys.
phew... a friend of mine got a brand new computer, with a zero meter hard disk. And he got loads and loads of data on it. Some coy called Microsoft is selling used disks as new. And ppl tell me they are earning a lot of money too.
The whole point is to go crazy with your imagination and come up with something that may not be according to the "physics" as we know it, but challenges it.
The 19th century scientists and physicists at one stage had a strong beleif that they have completely understood the laws of nature and universe. Not untill someone challenged the said laws of physics was is discovered that many of these laws were baseless and false. We need dreamers and artists like DiVinci, and Wells, who thrive upon nothing but pure creative thinking, and thus provide modern science with its biggest challenges.
So i say go crazy with ur imaginations. Keeping it restricted to the "sceintific knowledge" might just be stopping us from viewing it from some other angle.
We have a silly habbit of discussing such QUESTIONS, which have haunted philosophers and thinkers for ages, in a terribly trivial manner.
What should I do with my LIFE? now really thats something to think about.. and hey... dont expect a simple ans... coz there are no quick fixes here... there are no shorcuts...and that is the first lesson Honestly.. most ppl just ask themselves what should I do?...and they dont do this till the very last moment when all hope has left them and this deletes all intelligence... so why ask this question when we are fragile and when we are vulnerable... why not think about it, giving it more time, giving it yrs and yrs before even thinking that we are capable of answering such questions.
i know most of u smart ppl have already figured it out what u want in ur life.. and some of u might be lucky enough to be doing just that... but my Question for eveeone is... have u always planned it this way.. What I mean is were u always aware of the fact that u have a LIFE and that you have to spend it as u would spend something of ur own, carefully and with full planning, and u would not rather just let it go-with-the-flow
i think that this is our main problem.. by the time we start even realizing that we have a LIFE of our own(which is late teens or even later in most cases) we are already on our way to somewehre, and this could lead to two things... either we just say OK now that i am here..so wats the harm in going a lil further and we just keep going on... And the other is that we just throw away all we have gained and try to start afresh what we need to do is to give it some thought... but only after we have experienced it.. first know wat LIFE is... wat it means to you... wat value does it hold for u.. and for others... and then.... and then u must learn... from ur own experience and from other ppls experience.
billions of yrs have passed since this universe was created.. maybe millions since LIFE itself appered in any form.... and we usually base our decision on like 2 3 hours of hasty thinking... ok.. now i get it.. this is wat i want to do... this is wat i want to be...
I once again stress.. there are no shortcuts and quick fix solutions for these kind of issues... U have to struggle.. it wont just hit u on ur head and u ll come up with some Newtonian laws for ur LIFE... u ll have to struggle to find the answer to this question.. and then to do it
"There are entire countries with very few computers out there...if they get a good old 486, they would be quite happy as long as they can use it...man-hours are cheap there "
Really, this reaches a level of stupidity, I mean where is this place...man hour cheap...for what...porting linux on older machines wont be the priority, even if the man hour are cheap, and really... no one can Love to have an old 486, which cant run windows..except for some nerd who cant afford a P4 and risk experimenting with it..thank you for being considerte for the poors...but they would like to have clean water and food rather than an old 486 that cant be cooked
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Badboy. Forgot to inc loopvariable
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Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the second to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the third to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
Saving Private Ryan???
Just couldnt resist... I know its a matter of personal liking, and I must admit that my first impressions of this movie were great... but then I went out and got to see the *other* war movie of the time, The Thin Red Line. I know there are other war movies, like Full Metal Jacket(one of my all time fav) and Apocalypse Now, but the whole tone and character building of TTRL is flawless.
SPR is too much hollywoodise, spielbergised, hankised version of war. Barring the starting scence and a few glimpses of genius here and there (the whole german prisoner scenes, etc), it relies too much on shock-and-awe strategy, with ofcourse a herioc battle in the end to win the crowd over.
No... IMDB list is based on user votings, which gives u a farr idea of what people generally like, or maybe like to say what they like. And that too is mostly based on opinions of young kids, bored housewives and officeworkers, ppl with easy access to internet. Most foreign movies are obviously neglected unless they have the 'oscar' buzz and is released on DVD.
By the way... Shawshank Redemption on number 2.... lol, dont even get me started. With so many great movies out there....
"There are no rules"
Indeed. According to Snopes, they weren't unsolvable problems. They were just unproven theorems.
This is getting silly. Obviously the problems were solvable; You cannot have a solution for known *unsolvable* problems, thus the title.
There is a difference between a conjecture and a theorem. Theorem is a statment, conjectured by someone, and proven to be true or false.
So here is how it should be stated. Dantzig mistook for homework a conjectured problem, which was infact proven to be *solvable* but no solution was known. Thus classifying them to be *open* problems.
So where was I....
lol! (I'm gonna be modded down for this... I just know it)
Huh!!! You wish
Look, who are we kidding here. This all sounds cool, ' Oh , Oh... look at my new get-ur-but-off-the-couch gadet'. This will never work. ... hmm... 50 points for the first one who tells me what that means.
:~). Plenty of time to do nothing. Cool !!! not really. I know i ll be getting one soon if i dont find something else to do ~)
Television, computer games- if done to excessive and alarming levels- should be treated as addiction. You have to a) Motivate and b) provide good alternatives. Just turning a t.v. off, by using force will never work.
Having said that, excessive and alarming levels
Oh, no tv/computer/cd player in my new apartment
I know some ppl would love the oppurtunity to post the *earliest* comment--and most of them have good reason for that (being originally funny, avoiding dups); but I like it cold and dull.
:-)
The reason--well I dont open slashdot for the news alone. Its the discussions and the comments that make it worth wasting precious long work-hours. I hardly ever read a story before it reaches a 3-figure comment mark. If its fresh, its been visited by less ppl; and ofcourse the moderators still havent done the job.
So if you are like me, going through only the 4+ comments, u better stay away from subscription for this particular reason.
But thats just me
Ya... like thats gonna work... just send spam advertising the domain of ur adversaries
... no new mails in my inbox :-(
Dear Self,
:D. Better times still await both of us
:)
Consider this an honest advise...coz its coming from the heart. Both of us can't be lazy. Either U get ur ass moving right now, or I would have to do it for u later. Sooo... so i think U should STOP BEING A LAZY ASS
Rest almost eveething works out fine... so far atleast
P.S: If its not too much trouble, buy a guitar soon
On the risc of being a lil offtopic, I would like to share the following observations. :-) ). However, it has been the language of my education. One of the tips'n'tricks that my english teacher from school told me was that in order to imporve my english, I should start thinking in it. The idea was that we our brain uses the first language (urdu in my case), and so our thoughts are limited by the expressions we can come up with using the language. Whatever language we learn afterwards is a process of run-time translations. But then with the passage of time we master other languages and we can train our brain to think in all these languages.
Interesting how our brain works. Powerpoint Syndrom is a very fine observation. English is not my first language( and that explains all the gramatical and spelling mistakes
So whats the point in pointing out the obvious. We are taught the basics, like the alpabets, and then we build upon these basics. However our knoweldge, our way of thinking will always be limited by basics. Its just like the decimal system. There are only 10 digits. You ll only be re-using them again and again. Consider how difficult it would have been if we were all to use the binary system for our daily mathematics. Same goes for the possiblity of using hexa or maybe centa number systems.
Edward D. Bono pointed out in his book on lateral thinking the very same things. We are taught a basic way of thinking, of reasoning. Thats limits us in looking at things from a different prospective.
An interesting paper, Beyond Language: Cultural Predispositions in Business Correspondence disucsses this issue.
Is it just me.. or the pic on the left top looks like a nasty Di*k with a lump.
ya.. now u have done it.. now every
ahh... so u dont need to read the actual article to comment... damn it #*#@
Change isn't bad unless it is change for the sake of change.
Isnt this a cheezy cliche. Change for the sake of change.
Its always good to change and shuffle things around, whatever the reason is. It eliminates monotony.
As a programmer, I think the most important thing that often works for me is change for the sake of change. U can easily be stuck with the same old techniques that u learned in college, courtesy ur teacher and colleagues. There are so many different ways to implement the same thing. You should, every now and then try to shuffle things a bit and in the process learn new, efficient metthods.
Since the subject of this said phone calling from Linux i was thinking of some weird kernel patch.
I agree...the title could have been better. However this doesnt change the fact that this is the first time any such application has been made for linux. The main idea is that Linux is becoming more and more *user-friendly* and its not only the console-based server-side operating system.
Linux is the kernel, and only that.
Linux is more than a kernell. It symbolysis a lot more than just-another operating sys.
phew... a friend of mine got a brand new computer, with a zero meter hard disk. And he got loads and loads of data on it. Some coy called Microsoft is selling used disks as new. And ppl tell me they are earning a lot of money too.
The whole point is to go crazy with your imagination and come up with something that may not be according to the "physics" as we know it, but challenges it.
The 19th century scientists and physicists at one stage had a strong beleif that they have completely understood the laws of nature and universe. Not untill someone challenged the said laws of physics was is discovered that many of these laws were baseless and false. We need dreamers and artists like DiVinci, and Wells, who thrive upon nothing but pure creative thinking, and thus provide modern science with its biggest challenges.
So i say go crazy with ur imaginations. Keeping it restricted to the "sceintific knowledge" might just be stopping us from viewing it from some other angle.
Sue her... eeeh... is that an L
heh Wats the difference.
We have a silly habbit of discussing such QUESTIONS, which have haunted philosophers and thinkers for ages, in a terribly trivial manner. .. by the time we start even realizing that we have a LIFE of our own(which is late teens or even later in most cases) we are already on our way to somewehre, and this could lead to two things... either we just say OK now that i am here..so wats the harm in going a lil further and we just keep going on... And the other is that we just throw away all we have gained and try to start afresh
.... and then u must learn... from ur own experience and from other ppls experience.
.. this is wat i want to do... this is wat i want to be...
What should I do with my LIFE? now really thats something to think about.. and hey... dont expect a simple ans... coz there are no quick fixes here... there are no shorcuts...and that is the first lesson
Honestly.. most ppl just ask themselves what should I do?...and they dont do this till the very last moment when all hope has left them and this deletes all intelligence... so why ask this question when we are fragile and when we are vulnerable... why not think about it, giving it more time, giving it yrs and yrs before even thinking that we are capable of answering such questions.
i know most of u smart ppl have already figured it out what u want in ur life.. and some of u might be lucky enough to be doing just that... but my Question for eveeone is... have u always planned it this way..
What I mean is were u always aware of the fact that u have a LIFE and that you have to spend it as u would spend something of ur own, carefully and with full planning, and u would not rather just let it go-with-the-flow
i think that this is our main problem
what we need to do is to give it some thought... but only after we have experienced it.. first know wat LIFE is... wat it means to you... wat value does it hold for u.. and for others... and then
billions of yrs have passed since this universe was created.. maybe millions since LIFE itself appered in any form.... and we usually base our decision on like 2 3 hours of hasty thinking... ok.. now i get it
I once again stress.. there are no shortcuts and quick fix solutions for these kind of issues... U have to struggle.. it wont just hit u on ur head and u ll come up with some Newtonian laws for ur LIFE... u ll have to struggle to find the answer to this question.. and then to do it
"There are entire countries with very few computers out there...if they get a good old 486, they would be quite happy as long as they can use it...man-hours are cheap there "
Really, this reaches a level of stupidity, I mean where is this place...man hour cheap...for what...porting linux on older machines wont be the priority, even if the man hour are cheap, and really... no one can Love to have an old 486, which cant run windows..except for some nerd who cant afford a P4 and risk experimenting with it..thank you for being considerte for the poors...but they would like to have clean water and food rather than an old 486 that cant be cooked