My father used to work for Tandy at that office in the early 80's as a system programmer on the Tandem until he had a stroke. I remember riding those subways to his office when I was a little kid and he would show me around the data processing center. We also used to go ice skating at the Tandy Center and my sister and I would love riding on those little subways. For me, this is an era gone by.
Now I am a programmer myself and it gives me a great deal of pride to be a chip off the old block.
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The other mechanisim for black whole evaporation concerns virtual particles. If a e-/e+ pair get created right on the event horizon, the positron can possibly fall beyond the horizon and the electron could escape. The positron would then destroy an electron inside the backhole and decrease its mass. The reverse situation is forbidden as the electron wouldn't be elliminated inside the black whole and the positron may exist for a decent amount of time before coliding with another electron, thus breaking dE*dT = Hbar.
That's the way I understand but I may be an idiot.
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Yes, but it's depressing though. No matter how the universe ends, it will kill us all (let's pretend that the human race- in some form- will be around for billions of years despite President Bush). The idea of the universe expanding forever (if it has escape velocity) or actually accelerating is quite depressing (the former leads to all the stars running out of hydrogen and helium). I always liked the idea of a big crunch and this will all start again someday in some form. Now, you start to get into the ideas about fractal universes being created by different outcomes when a wave function is collapsed (in some universes, Schrodinger's cat is alive, although in my expeirment, I killed it:) but unless we can interact with these realities, it seems just academic.
I know this is a redundent post as infinite other versions of me have already posted this on infinite other/. sites.
As I understand, the theory part behind eveolution is the mechanisim. We know that species have evolved from other species (how much eveidence do you need?), what is still the theory is the detail of natural selection driving this evelution.
If these intelligent design people want to believe that God or whoever was behind natural selection and selected species for extinction using the rules [HhSs]e developed, etc., that's fine. It doesn't really matter as long as they accept the fact that the genesis of man happened in the same way as the genesis of every other species. Perhaps God gave us a soul, perhaps not. Does it matter when trying to understand the fossil record?
It's the same thing as the origin of the Universe. If enlighteded Christians want to believe that God set the universe in motion (catalyzed the Big Bang), great. Can they proove it? No. Can we proove them wrong? No.
Now, teaching of a First Cause has no place in a science class. Science is about that which can be known (sciere - to know), not that which can be believed.
X-Rays wouldn't work anyway as your eyes can't detect them (your eyes are as transparent as your flesh to high frequency radiation). And even if our eyes were opaque, we don't percieve light that blue (our eyes are opaque to low frequencies of UV but we still can't see them).
Well, over the coarse of 25 years, perhaps a couple of new species will evolve but as long as they pop up slower than we can count them, should be ok.
I think the problem is all of the tiny ecosystems all over the world. There are species of frogs that have only been found in a certain cave, etc. How many of those systems lie in places like the bottom of the ocean? Does anyone think we will have the bottom of the ocean explored to the kind of detail needed to search for worms in the next 25 years?
Can you say free market. I know Fry's has horrible customer service and I know there is a good chance I'll end up with defective hardware but if I need an IDE cable and I don't want to wait a week for UPS, Fry's is where I'll go.
The market is what regulates customer service as it should be. One company's business model may be selling a superior product with excelent service at a primium price, another retailer should be able to go the other way. It's up to the consumer to decide which best suits them. Instead of talking about more regulation, we should talk about more consumer education. Consumers need to know where they can go to get information on a company's quality of service and let them make their mind up for themselves. I don't want to pay for Fry's to hire expeirenced people to help me find the hardware I need- I know what hardware I need.
In defense of the English system (however much I hate it), it does have seperate units for mass and force, the slug (I have no idea where that one came about) and pound respectivly. How many times have you heard someone from a metric system country ask how many kilos something weighs?
Yep, I'm glad to see my tax payer dollars help fight these horrible crimes against humanity. Manipulating your cable modem to steal extra bandwidth from your ISP is not only a crime against the ISP but every American!! How many packets of p0rn were delayed from reaching my system because of these terrorists? They must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. In fact, I think that the ISP's should be given unilateral judicial power to protect me and my constitutional rights from these evil-doers. I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
I wonder what percentage of Joe Users out there have heard of the DMCA or have any idea about the war over fair use. Unless the public becomes educated on the problem, Senator Hollings has nothing to fear from the voter.
If you look at the AT&T Acceptable Use Policy, on section 10 it says
Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using the AT&T Broadband Equipment (as defined in the Subscriber Agreement) or the Service to... provide the ability to connect multiple computers behind the cable modem to set up a LAN (Local Area Network) unless it is done with AT&T Broadband approved equipment. For additional information on supported equipment refer to: http://help.broadband.att.com/faq.jsp?content_id=1 748&category_id=50.
I've got a series 2 TiVo (with the USB port and network functionality). I've been wondering how hard it would be to expose the video on my network and pull it down to one of my systems to burn onto VCD (I don't want a DVD burner yet, waiting for the formats to settle down).
I tried that with AT&T and they said "Oh a router, huh? Well we need to charge you for extra computers on the connection." I checked their FAQ and he won, they do charge for extra computers on the connection so after he left, I removedd all of the crap and hooked up my router. Every call to tech support I make when it's down, I just fake my way though the "Okay, type winipcfg" crap (I know it's not on my end, if it were, I would have fixed it myself).
Although anyone buying this case will be able to use it over and over again so you couuld say that after 3 - 5 systems, you got a good return on your investment.
Of course, anyone buying this case wouldn't use a 2.8 GHz CPU. I imagine they could have hit similar clock speeds with a 2.4a (100 MHz FSB) or a 2.26b (133 MHz FSB) as they are far better OCers that the 2.8b.
I spent more money than necessary on setting up a water cooled system and yes, it is one hell of a status symbol (until this thing came along) but I will be able to highly overclock all of my future systems using this setup. Plus it's just so damn quiet.
Hey, if they want to change the influence of government over their lives, I can think of no better way. Get everyone together who agrees with you in a small area and exercise your consititutional rights. They aren't talking about a revolution or coup but simply becoming an influential political group in local politics and operating within the rights given by the U.S. Constitution to the many states.
While the RIAA and MPA are buying votes like the House was an EBay auctioning site, this is a refreshing thing to see; imagine voters using their votes to influence government instead of lobbiests using their money to buy the government.
Well, most of us geeks would probably vote Liberterian but we are in the minority. I imagine most people with computers and an AOL account are Republicans.
In the US, it is unconstitutional. We are only allowed to vote in private and anonymously. If I could vote on my own system at home, how do they know that my wife isn't looking over my shoulder? The other problem with that is I fear that it will give the elections to the Republicans as most of the people with internet access tend to vote for them and since it will be so much easier than going to your local school/church to vote, Republican voter turn out will be much higher than it usually is.
That's easy, just increase the O2 content in the room. As I understand the process of screaming implies hyperventalation. Can't do that in an 80% O2 environment. Might even make the movies seem a little better. No smoking, please:)
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Of course, this would be much better (you don't need the array length to be the size of the vector, it just needs to know what class it is):
...
return (String[]) vector.toArray(new String[0]);
or even
private static final String dummy[] = {};
return (String[]) vector.toAyyar(MyClass.dummy);
My father used to work for Tandy at that office in the early 80's as a system programmer on the Tandem until he had a stroke. I remember riding those subways to his office when I was a little kid and he would show me around the data processing center. We also used to go ice skating at the Tandy Center and my sister and I would love riding on those little subways. For me, this is an era gone by.
Now I am a programmer myself and it gives me a great deal of pride to be a chip off the old block.
The other mechanisim for black whole evaporation concerns virtual particles. If a e-/e+ pair get created right on the event horizon, the positron can possibly fall beyond the horizon and the electron could escape. The positron would then destroy an electron inside the backhole and decrease its mass. The reverse situation is forbidden as the electron wouldn't be elliminated inside the black whole and the positron may exist for a decent amount of time before coliding with another electron, thus breaking dE*dT = Hbar.
That's the way I understand but I may be an idiot.
Yes, but it's depressing though. No matter how the universe ends, it will kill us all (let's pretend that the human race- in some form- will be around for billions of years despite President Bush). The idea of the universe expanding forever (if it has escape velocity) or actually accelerating is quite depressing (the former leads to all the stars running out of hydrogen and helium). I always liked the idea of a big crunch and this will all start again someday in some form. Now, you start to get into the ideas about fractal universes being created by different outcomes when a wave function is collapsed (in some universes, Schrodinger's cat is alive, although in my expeirment, I killed it :) but unless we can interact with these realities, it seems just academic.
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Wolfenstien Castle I run on an Apple ][ emulator runs real well.
If these intelligent design people want to believe that God or whoever was behind natural selection and selected species for extinction using the rules [HhSs]e developed, etc., that's fine. It doesn't really matter as long as they accept the fact that the genesis of man happened in the same way as the genesis of every other species. Perhaps God gave us a soul, perhaps not. Does it matter when trying to understand the fossil record?
It's the same thing as the origin of the Universe. If enlighteded Christians want to believe that God set the universe in motion (catalyzed the Big Bang), great. Can they proove it? No. Can we proove them wrong? No.
Now, teaching of a First Cause has no place in a science class. Science is about that which can be known (sciere - to know), not that which can be believed.
In response to new developments in energy generation using home waste, the state of CA will begin taxing residents on any waste they don't throw away.
X-Rays wouldn't work anyway as your eyes can't detect them (your eyes are as transparent as your flesh to high frequency radiation). And even if our eyes were opaque, we don't percieve light that blue (our eyes are opaque to low frequencies of UV but we still can't see them).
Well, over the coarse of 25 years, perhaps a couple of new species will evolve but as long as they pop up slower than we can count them, should be ok.
I think the problem is all of the tiny ecosystems all over the world. There are species of frogs that have only been found in a certain cave, etc. How many of those systems lie in places like the bottom of the ocean? Does anyone think we will have the bottom of the ocean explored to the kind of detail needed to search for worms in the next 25 years?
Can you say free market. I know Fry's has horrible customer service and I know there is a good chance I'll end up with defective hardware but if I need an IDE cable and I don't want to wait a week for UPS, Fry's is where I'll go.
The market is what regulates customer service as it should be. One company's business model may be selling a superior product with excelent service at a primium price, another retailer should be able to go the other way. It's up to the consumer to decide which best suits them. Instead of talking about more regulation, we should talk about more consumer education. Consumers need to know where they can go to get information on a company's quality of service and let them make their mind up for themselves. I don't want to pay for Fry's to hire expeirenced people to help me find the hardware I need- I know what hardware I need.
In defense of the English system (however much I hate it), it does have seperate units for mass and force, the slug (I have no idea where that one came about) and pound respectivly. How many times have you heard someone from a metric system country ask how many kilos something weighs?
Well, you should always take a shower at least once a year.
Yep, I'm glad to see my tax payer dollars help fight these horrible crimes against humanity. Manipulating your cable modem to steal extra bandwidth from your ISP is not only a crime against the ISP but every American!! How many packets of p0rn were delayed from reaching my system because of these terrorists? They must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. In fact, I think that the ISP's should be given unilateral judicial power to protect me and my constitutional rights from these evil-doers. I propose that we give ISP's a small island in the Pacific that they can use as a prison to save society from these attacks and as part of their punishment, give them AOL and a 28.8Kbps modem.
Well, it seems that AT&T doesn't usually enforce that policy but my installer did (perhaps he was just a asshole).
I wonder what percentage of Joe Users out there have heard of the DMCA or have any idea about the war over fair use. Unless the public becomes educated on the problem, Senator Hollings has nothing to fear from the voter.
Anyone remember that book? Any one out there with one of those vapor-chilled cases, keep an eye out on your rubber gaskets.
I've got a series 2 TiVo (with the USB port and network functionality). I've been wondering how hard it would be to expose the video on my network and pull it down to one of my systems to burn onto VCD (I don't want a DVD burner yet, waiting for the formats to settle down).
I tried that with AT&T and they said "Oh a router, huh? Well we need to charge you for extra computers on the connection." I checked their FAQ and he won, they do charge for extra computers on the connection so after he left, I removedd all of the crap and hooked up my router. Every call to tech support I make when it's down, I just fake my way though the "Okay, type winipcfg" crap (I know it's not on my end, if it were, I would have fixed it myself).
Although anyone buying this case will be able to use it over and over again so you couuld say that after 3 - 5 systems, you got a good return on your investment.
Of course, anyone buying this case wouldn't use a 2.8 GHz CPU. I imagine they could have hit similar clock speeds with a 2.4a (100 MHz FSB) or a 2.26b (133 MHz FSB) as they are far better OCers that the 2.8b.
I spent more money than necessary on setting up a water cooled system and yes, it is one hell of a status symbol (until this thing came along) but I will be able to highly overclock all of my future systems using this setup. Plus it's just so damn quiet.
When in doubt, err on the side with the most lawyers.
It's unconstitutional as hell!
Hey, if they want to change the influence of government over their lives, I can think of no better way. Get everyone together who agrees with you in a small area and exercise your consititutional rights. They aren't talking about a revolution or coup but simply becoming an influential political group in local politics and operating within the rights given by the U.S. Constitution to the many states.
While the RIAA and MPA are buying votes like the House was an EBay auctioning site, this is a refreshing thing to see; imagine voters using their votes to influence government instead of lobbiests using their money to buy the government.
Well, most of us geeks would probably vote Liberterian but we are in the minority. I imagine most people with computers and an AOL account are Republicans.
In the US, it is unconstitutional. We are only allowed to vote in private and anonymously. If I could vote on my own system at home, how do they know that my wife isn't looking over my shoulder? The other problem with that is I fear that it will give the elections to the Republicans as most of the people with internet access tend to vote for them and since it will be so much easier than going to your local school/church to vote, Republican voter turn out will be much higher than it usually is.
That's easy, just increase the O2 content in the room. As I understand the process of screaming implies hyperventalation. Can't do that in an 80% O2 environment. Might even make the movies seem a little better. No smoking, please :)