I can only assume Orobes is the latest codename for the 128bit windows AE (AlienEdition).
Or do you mean that we are going to send all the copies of windows to Mars? I've never been a fan of using space as a giant garbage dump, but in this case....
You can't build more then one of them easily. Suppose he accisdently blows his prototye up. Where is he going to get another clock chip?
Um... from another dead motherboard?
And as for the parts not working, the first thing he said was after cutting the chip out was powering it up to see if it works. Either it does or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you still haven't lost anything, as the board was dead anyway.
Having a brief glance at the site, this looks pretty cool/useful. Being a physics student and having to work with signal generators and oscilloscopes is fine, but when we get kicked out of the lab at the end of the day with half a project left to finish, then one of these things would start looking pretty good.
Anybody have any idea what kind of price for the additional parts would be? Couldn't find any reference on their site. Also, being able to hook the output (from the display/oscilloscope or whatever) to a computer for recording would be a very good thing too.
But will any geek actually get off his/her ass and look outside?
Well, I don't know about you, but I am certainly getting off my arse (or ass, if you prefer) and getting out to Ceduna for the total solar eclipse in december.
Admittedly, this is fairly easy due to living only about 8 hours away (This is Australia, 8 hours isn't considered very far)
I'm fairly certain It would help to be outside to see the sun, although being inside would certainly stop me going blind!
Maybe it was just me, but I intitially read this as: Sun continues to go, after Microsoft
Which would obviously be in contradiction of the fact that the world could not survive without Microsoft products. Is it possible that the sun will still produce heat and light if Microsoft no longer existed??
Are there many motherboards with USB 1 & 2 ports, and firewire ports?
I currently have 2 USB 1 ports, and 3 devices. (Scanner, digital still camera, Printer) No daisy chaining.
The scanner supports USB 2, and I'm sick of swapping cables around to fit it on. And I'm about to buy a digital video camera with firewire connectivity.
I'm looking at putting together a new pc soon anyway, so rather than buy hubs and cards, is there any MB that support all three standards out of the box?
Why bother wearing a toilet roll on your head? Simply take it to it's natural conclusion - Nappies.
Sure, you could always carry a toilet around in your pants, but thats not really practical, is it?
But really, as children, (unless we go by Homer Simpsons method of letting them run around free in the garden and let nature take its course) we wear nappies, (Diapers, whatever) As senior citizens, embarassing deterioration of our internal organs may drive us to take similar action.
So why in the middle must we train ourselves to go against what we learnt as babies, only to go back to it when elderly?
Add the fact that we sleep for roughly one third of our lives, and during the period of our lives when we aren't in nappies we can usually control our bodily functions to avoid accidents while asleep. So, in effect, time on/at the toilet makes up a miniscule amount of our lives, yet it takes a lot of time in getting to and from the toilet, not to mention buying and using toilet paper, and washing hands.
Why go through all this bother? Save space in your house! Save time! Save water! Wear a nappy today!
A paid comment brought to you by the Nappy Makers association of Australia
The speed of light -is- always constant in one sense,I disagree
simply because the length of 1 meter is defined by the distance light travels in a set time.
True enough:
Since 1983, the SI metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 seconds. It doesn't say what this length is. 1 metre = c/299792458. Since the metre is the subject being defined, c is the only variable in this equation. If c is slowing, then by this definition, the metre is decreasing in length.
I was going to try arguing this point with my physics prac. advisor when we were doing measurements. I just don't think he would allolw that as an excuse not to do the work, as I would argue that the measurements can never be made within a reasonable error, as the instruments are constantly become inaccurate.
Maybe it's time we find some other "constant" with which to define the metre?
Hello friends, how would you like to make some easy money?
human: Sure!
It's simple, all you have to do is listen to this message, follow a simple procedure and BOOM! its money in your pocket
human:... (hmm... accentuated silence!)
Simply send 10 dollars to the following address, or leave us your credit card details, and we'll send you all the information you need to complain about us! Yes, it is that simple!
Any alternate universes will either have the same laws of physics that we do here (Even if we havent figured them all out yet) or will differ somehow.
If they have different laws, some extra ones or are missing a few, then we cannot say anything about the nature of them, so I wont continue with that idea. If there exists another universe with exactly the same laws as ours, then I would argue that it would follow exactly the same path as ours has, and would end up being exactly the same.
IANAPhyscist, but it has usually been my view that on a large scale (looking at the system of the universe as a whole) the universe would run like clockwork. We cant predict very much because we cannot monitor the entire universe with any great degree of detail, and we do not know the initial conditions yet (Of course, thats always a topic for debate)
The only thing which has any unforeseeable effect is living things. (NOTE: I am NOT suggesting that we humans are able to change the universe in any major way, or ever could) Beings capable of making decisions that are not (entirely - or necessarily) based on outside (at least, very distant) objects/events can affect outside objects, but I would say not in a major way. A few different decisions years/decades/millenia ago might change our world today, but our solar system would still be in the same position in the universe.
I would then argue, if alternate universes exist with our physical laws, they would be exactly the same until somebody makes a different choice to what they did in our world. (the first different choice, after that, there is some variation)
That said, IMHO, nobody would make a different choice to what they did in this "reality" unless they had a reason to that wasnt available in this world, which wouldnt happen unless somebody from either: another time, or another dimension came to influence decisions in some way. As I am considering time travel to be traveling into an alternate dimension, then there is only one distinct option.
So, any alternate universes in existence (with the same laws...) would be exactly the same until someone (eg, us) from another universe entered, which would alter it from that point in time onwards.
this story is old enough now that I wont get any karma anyway, so more ridiulous pondering on the matter when I return from my maths lecture, for anybody who cares to read this
Redundant, I'm sure, but I came in late!
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We obviously need some more laws of thermodynamics. This is not time travel, as such, but travelling through different dimensions (as has been said).
Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has
longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes.
Obviously, if he were to do so, and return back to our time, our dimension, then he would lose whatever reason he had for travelling through time, and hence wouldnt. So, he obviously travels to a dimension which is a few decades behind ours, but the same in every other respect, and then goes to another dimension, on our time-scale, but where his father has been warned about the effects of smoking.
So, if someone can leave our dimension, and obviously never return, then we need to create a new law of thermodynamics, stating that energy (matter, mass whatever you like) is neother created or destroyed, but can be transferred through the (presumably infinite) dimensions. (Well, if it isnt infinite, then there must be some "Times" that we cannot travel to - or there arent infinitely many possibilities for the creation of our world))
And, if that is the case, then there must be infinite mass/energy (whatever) in existence (all universes/dimensions etc).
Trying to keep up with Edison, who survived on
little sleep and recharged with catnaps on top of his desk,
Reading this in one of the physics labs at uni. I decided this method might be the way to increase my grades and come up with that pesky solution, I mean, if it worked for such an obviously great inventor and man as Edison, surely it oculd do something for me!
So of course, I curled up on one of the benches in the labs, for a quick nap. let me suggest: DONT DO THIS! they dont like having students sleeping on their equipment.
.... of course, the very blurry hologram of my big toe is rather amusing
I'm at -1 karma anyway, so I might as well answer you.
Yes, there are lots of sites that have a slashdot style comment system, a lot of them use the same code. Go here and have a look, someone might be able to give you a list of some sites that that use the slashcode.
But you're right, this isnt the right place to ask that question.
How long before cdparanoia is patched to read these cd's?
It depends, Either:
Sombody capable of doing such an act (Of course, there are lots of these) actually wants to listen to Celine Dion (ie, never)
Sony releases some decent music with this formatting. (Far more likely)
Of course, in the event of the second option, I would have to say the answer is not long at all.
I'm just avoiding the option that somebody will make a patch for it just to prove a point, as the idea of making it easier for people to listen to Celine Dion is too horrible to consider.
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Gabbo is coming!
What about if i put a giant "Laser" on the moon??
I plan to turn the moon into what I like to call a "Death Star"
I for one welcome our new United Nations overlords.
Well, I live in Australia, and my uncle Sam lives here too. he won't buy me a console though. Cheap bastard.
PLEASE: Can't we get it working on Earth first?
I can only assume Orobes is the latest codename for the 128bit windows AE (AlienEdition).
Or do you mean that we are going to send all the copies of windows to Mars? I've never been a fan of using space as a giant garbage dump, but in this case....
You can't build more then one of them easily. Suppose he accisdently blows his prototye up. Where is he going to get another clock chip?
Um... from another dead motherboard?
And as for the parts not working, the first thing he said was after cutting the chip out was powering it up to see if it works. Either it does or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you still haven't lost anything, as the board was dead anyway.
Having a brief glance at the site, this looks pretty cool/useful. Being a physics student and having to work with signal generators and oscilloscopes is fine, but when we get kicked out of the lab at the end of the day with half a project left to finish, then one of these things would start looking pretty good.
Anybody have any idea what kind of price for the additional parts would be? Couldn't find any reference on their site. Also, being able to hook the output (from the display/oscilloscope or whatever) to a computer for recording would be a very good thing too.
including the entirety of openoffice.org? doesnt that seem a mite excessive? the program itself would suffice, methinks.
Not quite sure what you mean there, but openoffice.org = The suite of office programs, not the entity or community.
Being able to scan 1000 oages an hour: $Lots
Converting 8 million volumes into a digital database: > $250 million
Having robots digitize every porn collection in the world, fast : Priceless
> 4th dimension: Time
I would argue that time is only half a dimension. It only goes one way.
No, just we can only travel one way through it. (t least, at the moment)
ME LOSE MONEY??
that makes me angry, You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
But will any geek actually get off his/her ass and look outside?
Well, I don't know about you, but I am certainly getting off my arse (or ass, if you prefer) and getting out to Ceduna for the total solar eclipse in december.
Admittedly, this is fairly easy due to living only about 8 hours away (This is Australia, 8 hours isn't considered very far)
I'm fairly certain It would help to be outside to see the sun, although being inside would certainly stop me going blind!
Maybe it was just me, but I intitially read this as:
:)
Sun continues to go, after Microsoft
Which would obviously be in contradiction of the fact that the world could not survive without Microsoft products. Is it possible that the sun will still produce heat and light if Microsoft no longer existed??
Anybody else willing to find out?
They killed Daniel???
When did this happen? Or rather, when will this happen?
Obviously we still have a while to catch up in australia.
Are there many motherboards with USB 1 & 2 ports, and firewire ports?
I currently have 2 USB 1 ports, and 3 devices. (Scanner, digital still camera, Printer) No daisy chaining.
The scanner supports USB 2, and I'm sick of swapping cables around to fit it on. And I'm about to buy a digital video camera with firewire connectivity.
I'm looking at putting together a new pc soon anyway, so rather than buy hubs and cards, is there any MB that support all three standards out of the box?
IEEE1394x for men
AT LAST! Now we can finally figure out how we're meant to connect cowboy neal to our box for all those poll options!
Why bother wearing a toilet roll on your head? Simply take it to it's natural conclusion - Nappies.
Sure, you could always carry a toilet around in your pants, but thats not really practical, is it?
But really, as children, (unless we go by Homer Simpsons method of letting them run around free in the garden and let nature take its course) we wear nappies, (Diapers, whatever)
As senior citizens, embarassing deterioration of our internal organs may drive us to take similar action.
So why in the middle must we train ourselves to go against what we learnt as babies, only to go back to it when elderly?
Add the fact that we sleep for roughly one third of our lives, and during the period of our lives when we aren't in nappies we can usually control our bodily functions to avoid accidents while asleep.
So, in effect, time on/at the toilet makes up a miniscule amount of our lives, yet it takes a lot of time in getting to and from the toilet, not to mention buying and using toilet paper, and washing hands.
Why go through all this bother? Save space in your house! Save time! Save water! Wear a nappy today!
A paid comment brought to you by the Nappy Makers association of Australia
Oh c'mon! We all know that's what Arts degrees are for!
The speed of light -is- always constant in one sense, I disagree
simply because the length of 1 meter is defined by the distance light travels in a set time.
True enough:
Since 1983, the SI metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 seconds. It doesn't say what this length is. 1 metre = c/299792458. Since the metre is the subject being defined, c is the only variable in this equation. If c is slowing, then by this definition, the metre is decreasing in length.
I was going to try arguing this point with my physics prac. advisor when we were doing measurements. I just don't think he would allolw that as an excuse not to do the work, as I would argue that the measurements can never be made within a reasonable error, as the instruments are constantly become inaccurate.
Maybe it's time we find some other "constant" with which to define the metre?
Hello friends, how would you like to make some easy money?
... (hmm... accentuated silence!)
human: Sure!
It's simple, all you have to do is listen to this message, follow a simple procedure and BOOM! its money in your pocket
human:
Simply send 10 dollars to the following address, or leave us your credit card details, and we'll send you all the information you need to complain about us! Yes, it is that simple!
(Attempting to continue from the above post)
Any alternate universes will either have the same laws of physics that we do here (Even if we havent figured them all out yet) or will differ somehow.
If they have different laws, some extra ones or are missing a few, then we cannot say anything about the nature of them, so I wont continue with that idea. If there exists another universe with exactly the same laws as ours, then I would argue that it would follow exactly the same path as ours has, and would end up being exactly the same.
IANAPhyscist, but it has usually been my view that on a large scale (looking at the system of the universe as a whole) the universe would run like clockwork. We cant predict very much because we cannot monitor the entire universe with any great degree of detail, and we do not know the initial conditions yet (Of course, thats always a topic for debate)
The only thing which has any unforeseeable effect is living things. (NOTE: I am NOT suggesting that we humans are able to change the universe in any major way, or ever could) Beings capable of making decisions that are not (entirely - or necessarily) based on outside (at least, very distant) objects/events can affect outside objects, but I would say not in a major way. A few different decisions years/decades/millenia ago might change our world today, but our solar system would still be in the same position in the universe.
I would then argue, if alternate universes exist with our physical laws, they would be exactly the same until somebody makes a different choice to what they did in our world. (the first different choice, after that, there is some variation)
That said, IMHO, nobody would make a different choice to what they did in this "reality" unless they had a reason to that wasnt available in this world, which wouldnt happen unless somebody from either: another time, or another dimension came to influence decisions in some way. As I am considering time travel to be traveling into an alternate dimension, then there is only one distinct option.
So, any alternate universes in existence (with the same laws...) would be exactly the same until someone (eg, us) from another universe entered, which would alter it from that point in time onwards.
this story is old enough now that I wont get any karma anyway, so more ridiulous pondering on the matter when I return from my maths lecture, for anybody who cares to read this
We obviously need some more laws of thermodynamics. This is not time travel, as such, but travelling through different dimensions (as has been said).
Since his father, a heavy smoker, died at the age of 33 when Mallett was 10 years old, Mallett has longed for a way to travel back in time to warn him about the dangers of cigarettes.
Obviously, if he were to do so, and return back to our time, our dimension, then he would lose whatever reason he had for travelling through time, and hence wouldnt. So, he obviously travels to a dimension which is a few decades behind ours, but the same in every other respect, and then goes to another dimension, on our time-scale, but where his father has been warned about the effects of smoking.
So, if someone can leave our dimension, and obviously never return, then we need to create a new law of thermodynamics, stating that energy (matter, mass whatever you like) is neother created or destroyed, but can be transferred through the (presumably infinite) dimensions. (Well, if it isnt infinite, then there must be some "Times" that we cannot travel to - or there arent infinitely many possibilities for the creation of our world))
And, if that is the case, then there must be infinite mass/energy (whatever) in existence (all universes/dimensions etc).
Trying to keep up with Edison, who survived on little sleep and recharged with catnaps on top of his desk,
Reading this in one of the physics labs at uni. I decided this method might be the way to increase my grades and come up with that pesky solution, I mean, if it worked for such an obviously great inventor and man as Edison, surely it oculd do something for me!
So of course, I curled up on one of the benches in the labs, for a quick nap. let me suggest: DONT DO THIS! they dont like having students sleeping on their equipment.
.... of course, the very blurry hologram of my big toe is rather amusing
I'm at -1 karma anyway, so I might as well answer you.
Yes, there are lots of sites that have a slashdot style comment system, a lot of them use the same code. Go here and have a look, someone might be able to give you a list of some sites that that use the slashcode.
But you're right, this isnt the right place to ask that question.
It depends, Either:
Sombody capable of doing such an act (Of course, there are lots of these) actually wants to listen to Celine Dion (ie, never)
Sony releases some decent music with this formatting. (Far more likely)
Of course, in the event of the second option, I would have to say the answer is not long at all.
I'm just avoiding the option that somebody will make a patch for it just to prove a point, as the idea of making it easier for people to listen to Celine Dion is too horrible to consider.