So, if someone were to create a Slashdot.us site, Slashdot would have to file against them. If they didn't, slashdot would become a generic term like aspirin that anyone could use.
* In October 2005, at least eighty-five people were killed in street fighting in the southern Russian city of Nalchik after Chechen rebels assaulted government buildings, telecommunications facilities, and the airport.
* A three-day attack on Ingushetia in June 2004, which killed almost a hundred people and injured another 120.
* A December 2002 dual suicide bombing attack on the headquarters of Chechnya's Russian-backed government in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Russian officials claim that international terrorists helped local Chechens mount the assault, which killed eighty-three people.
* A bomb blast that killed at least forty-one people, including seventeen children, during a military parade in the southwestern town of Kaspiisk in May 2002; Russia blamed the attack on Chechen terrorists.
* In Moscow, an August 1999 bombing of a shopping arcade and a September 1999 bombing of an apartment building that killed sixty-four people, and two more terrorist bombings in September 1999 in the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan and southern Russian city Volgodonsk. Controversy still surrounds questions about whether these attacks were conclusively linked to Chechens.
* In 2004, when Basayev, ordered an attack on a school Beslan, a town in North Ossetia. More than 300 people died in the three-day siege, most of them children. There were thirty-two militants, all but three or four were non-Chechens, and all but one were reportedly killed during the siege.
Why should the people of Russia demand change in the policy against Chechens when the image they portray is not that of the righteous freedom fighter, but that of the ruthless, child killing terrorist? If my child was held hostage and then slaughtered, I wouldn't have much sympathy for their cause, either.
Let me add that the Chechen butchers also brutally murdered four telecommunications workers in 1998, who were installing a system that would greatly benefit the ordinary citizen of Chechnya. The more brutality that the Russians can mete out on those worms, the better AFAIC.
Borrowing 8 times your salary at 9% interest would mean spending the vast majority of your income (indeed if you are in a place where income is usually quoted gross maybe more than your net income) or mortgage interest alone. Sorry but that is not responsible lending whereever you happen to be.
My bank won't lend if the cost of repayments exceeds 35% of your income ; I presume the other banks have similar standards. In practice this means that normal people just can't afford houses, except in really bad areas or 50 km out of town.
i don't think we've seen a really big bright comet in how long? hasn't it been decades, or centuries even?
Huh? Comet McNaught last year was magnificent. Pure white against the orange of the sunset behind it. And a few days later, once it was high in the sky during full dark, you could see the tail arcing over about 60 degrees.
A responsible lender shouldn't lend more than four times yearly salary
This is specific to your economy.. in my city, the median house price is about eight times the median income, and the interest rate is around 9% . (Yes, I can't wait for the next election..)
Inflation is only a tentative theory, that has no evidence in favour of it. People only believe it because it is supposedly a 'simple' explanation of some things that we can observe today (e.g. uniformity of the microwave background). However it is not so simple; e.g. there is no firm theory of what caused inflation to start in the first place.
It gets talked up a lot more than it is actually worth.
Obviously the game is not balanced around one-on-one PvP play, as you say in your second paragraph. But in your first paragraph you whinge about the exact same thing.
) why is everything moving away from us?
it's not, everything is just "inflating" 2) why do we appear to be in the middle?
its just the way it looks, and it looks the same way everywhere else too 3) why are we moving apart at all?
because time is going forward (just look at your watch)
Something's not quite right with this analogy. In the balloon example, the centre of the balloon is a point in space, and the balloon is expanding over time. If you try to say that the centre of the universe is a point in spacetime, you can't then say that the balloon is expanding as time increases. In fact, things don't "move through spacetime" at all. Time is intrinsic to spacetime; things have a fixed worldline.
Perhaps a better analogy would be that the universe is a rubber band that's being stretched over the surface of a sphere (then add 2 dimensions). At the start (north pole) it was point-sized; now it is larger as it approaches the equator. The question of the shape of spacetime is: are we on a sphere, where the rubber band will get shorter after a halfway point, or are we on some sort of paraboloid where we approach a maximum size? Or even a cone where there is no maximum size?
God, what a load of crap. How can anyone mod that up?
Here are the parts of Capitalism that I don't understand: - unsafe products - unhealthy products Yeah, communism and fascism fix this problem. Auschwitz was teeming with Occupational Safety & Health inspectors I'm sure.
- unsustainable processes It's in a company's best interest to do something sustainable, they don't want to go out of business in 10 years or any length of time. On the other hand, state governments don't care about anything except retaining power again in 4 years' time.
- suppression of the truth about unsafe products Go on, name an unsafe product that's been suppressed. I'm sure I can find dozens of web links revealing the truth.
- exploitation of the poor and the uninformed Many organizations exist to inform the poor and uninformed. School being one of them. If people don't avail themself of the opportunities handed to them on a platter, whose fault is that?
- outsourcing (abandonment of the community) QQ
- tax evasion Any society has criminals. To pretend that a non-capitalist society won't have people who try to avoid contributing to the state coffers, is ludicrous.
- consumerism Oh noes, people might actually cater to what other people want!
- competition that puts profits before people So how are you going to 'force' microsoft to make a good OS instead of one that makes the most money? And where do business profits go anyway? answer: PEOPLE. The people who choose to invest in the company. The people who work at the company. The people who receive charitable donations from the Gates foundation. Etc.
- profitable relationship with war Profit from war comes about because the prospect of war makes people afraid, so they approve of companies involved in war efforts. In other words, war helps companies to control people and channel resources away from the people. In a communist or fascist society, the state controls people anyway. War companies (which would be commandeered by the state) are fantastically profitable, having first pick of available resources. People come last. Have you read 1984?
Except that the bus's angle would have been more like 7 degrees. If you've ever seen the making of the movie, you would know that they actually filmed it by placing a steep ramp there, and editing it out of the final version. Watch the movie scene closely next time and you will see the front wheels of the bus rise up , before the bus leaves the first half of the bridge.
The Greek mathematical and scientific knowledge was mostly lost with the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire. In fact there had been little new development since Rome took over Alexandria, as the Roman culture did not place much value on science even before religion took over.
It's not called the Dark Ages for nothing. Euclid's Elements did not appear again in Europe until about the 15th century, when it was translated back from copies that the Arabs held. (Original manuscripts have subsequently been found).
Much of what we now know of Greek science was only re-discovered in the last couple of centuries (example). I don't think you can make any interpolations about pre-Renaissance Europe, based on the fact that we have knowledge now, and the Greeks had knowledge 2000 years ago.
void main() { This is an error in C++ (although your compiler might support it as a non-standard extension)
class local {
public: void hello() { printf("hello world\n"); }
};
local::hello();
Must either declare 'hello' static, or call it as:
local().hello(); Oh, and if you are worried about cluttering up "the namespace", that's what namespace MySpace { } is for:P
Actually that's what the unnamed namespace is for:
namespace {
struct foo.......
};
Something that's often omitted in writeups of these 'dark energy' claims, is that a non-zero cosmological constant would also explain the observations, without the need to invoke 'dark energy'. However that isn't in fashion in the mainstream at the moment.
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico.
There's just too many uncertainties in that, for mine.
We have deliberately crashed craft into planets. We have accidentally crashed into planets. We have missed our targets. We have had equipment failure. And that's just the solar system. Why wouldn't someone else do that?
Who says they came from interstellar space? Perhaps they live on the inside of Mars, or an unexplored area of Venus. Perhaps they come from one of the stars that's only a few light years away.
Who says they are more technologically advanced? Perhaps their version of Einstein also happened to invent a drive that can accelerate their ship to 0.99c, but they haven't yet got to things like left-handed toast racks, or Windows Genuine Advantage.
Why New Mexico? Maybe their earlier probe landed in the ocean and sank and we never noticed. Maybe they do live relatively nearby and aimed for the land mass that had emitted the most EM radiation, indicating the more advanced and therefore more benevolent society. Who knows how they think?
There's just so many unknowns for a comment like "I don't think they would have crashed in X location" to be treated as any kind of effective argument.
Slashdot Mirror
...and we've had Angband Borg for some time (which is very impressive!)
So, if someone were to create a Slashdot.us site, Slashdot would have to file against them. If they didn't, slashdot would become a generic term like aspirin that anyone could use.
How do you explain this then?
* In October 2005, at least eighty-five people were killed in street fighting in the southern Russian city of Nalchik after Chechen rebels assaulted government buildings, telecommunications facilities, and the airport.
* A three-day attack on Ingushetia in June 2004, which killed almost a hundred people and injured another 120.
* A December 2002 dual suicide bombing attack on the headquarters of Chechnya's Russian-backed government in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Russian officials claim that international terrorists helped local Chechens mount the assault, which killed eighty-three people.
* A bomb blast that killed at least forty-one people, including seventeen children, during a military parade in the southwestern town of Kaspiisk in May 2002; Russia blamed the attack on Chechen terrorists.
* In Moscow, an August 1999 bombing of a shopping arcade and a September 1999 bombing of an apartment building that killed sixty-four people, and two more terrorist bombings in September 1999 in the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan and southern Russian city Volgodonsk. Controversy still surrounds questions about whether these attacks were conclusively linked to Chechens.
* In 2004, when Basayev, ordered an attack on a school Beslan, a town in North Ossetia. More than 300 people died in the three-day siege, most of them children. There were thirty-two militants, all but three or four were non-Chechens, and all but one were reportedly killed during the siege.
Why should the people of Russia demand change in the policy against Chechens when the image they portray is not that of the righteous freedom fighter, but that of the ruthless, child killing terrorist? If my child was held hostage and then slaughtered, I wouldn't have much sympathy for their cause, either.
Let me add that the Chechen butchers also brutally murdered four telecommunications workers in 1998, who were installing a system that would greatly benefit the ordinary citizen of Chechnya. The more brutality that the Russians can mete out on those worms, the better AFAIC.
There is no such thing as "instantaneous velocity" - as velocity is a function of time.
learn2highschoolphysics
Borrowing 8 times your salary at 9% interest would mean spending the vast majority of your income (indeed if you are in a place where income is usually quoted gross maybe more than your net income) or mortgage interest alone. Sorry but that is not responsible lending whereever you happen to be.
My bank won't lend if the cost of repayments exceeds 35% of your income ; I presume the other banks have similar standards. In practice this means that normal people just can't afford houses, except in really bad areas or 50 km out of town.
i don't think we've seen a really big bright comet in how long? hasn't it been decades, or centuries even?
Huh? Comet McNaught last year was magnificent. Pure white against the orange of the sunset behind it. And a few days later, once it was high in the sky during full dark, you could see the tail arcing over about 60 degrees.
A responsible lender shouldn't lend more than four times yearly salary
.. in my city, the median house price is about eight times the median income, and the interest rate is around 9% . (Yes, I can't wait for the next election..)
This is specific to your economy
PCC supports almost no GCC extensions (e.g. inline asm, attributes, etc),
That's a good thing. It discourages people from writing non-portable code.
doesn't support C99 fully,
Nor does GCC
Inflation is only a tentative theory, that has no evidence in favour of it. People only believe it because it is supposedly a 'simple' explanation of some things that we can observe today (e.g. uniformity of the microwave background). However it is not so simple; e.g. there is no firm theory of what caused inflation to start in the first place.
It gets talked up a lot more than it is actually worth.
Obviously the game is not balanced around one-on-one PvP play, as you say in your second paragraph. But in your first paragraph you whinge about the exact same thing.
Negation (in natural language) is a tricky business, even if we forget about the psychological part for a minute.
I could care less
) why is everything moving away from us?
it's not, everything is just "inflating"
2) why do we appear to be in the middle?
its just the way it looks, and it looks the same way everywhere else too
3) why are we moving apart at all?
because time is going forward (just look at your watch)
Something's not quite right with this analogy. In the balloon example, the centre of the balloon is a point in space, and the balloon is expanding over time. If you try to say that the centre of the universe is a point in spacetime, you can't then say that the balloon is expanding as time increases.
In fact, things don't "move through spacetime" at all. Time is intrinsic to spacetime; things have a fixed worldline.
Perhaps a better analogy would be that the universe is a rubber band that's being stretched over the surface of a sphere (then add 2 dimensions). At the start (north pole) it was point-sized; now it is larger as it approaches the equator. The question of the shape of spacetime is: are we on a sphere, where the rubber band will get shorter after a halfway point, or are we on some sort of paraboloid where we approach a maximum size? Or even a cone where there is no maximum size?
God, what a load of crap. How can anyone mod that up?
Here are the parts of Capitalism that I don't understand:
- unsafe products
- unhealthy products
Yeah, communism and fascism fix this problem. Auschwitz was teeming with Occupational Safety & Health inspectors I'm sure.
- unsustainable processes
It's in a company's best interest to do something sustainable, they don't want to go out of business in 10 years or any length of time. On the other hand, state governments don't care about anything except retaining power again in 4 years' time.
- suppression of the truth about unsafe products
Go on, name an unsafe product that's been suppressed. I'm sure I can find dozens of web links revealing the truth.
- exploitation of the poor and the uninformed
Many organizations exist to inform the poor and uninformed. School being one of them. If people don't avail themself of the opportunities handed to them on a platter, whose fault is that?
- outsourcing (abandonment of the community)
QQ
- tax evasion
Any society has criminals. To pretend that a non-capitalist society won't have people who try to avoid contributing to the state coffers, is ludicrous.
- consumerism
Oh noes, people might actually cater to what other people want!
- competition that puts profits before people
So how are you going to 'force' microsoft to make a good OS instead of one that makes the most money? And where do business profits go anyway? answer: PEOPLE. The people who choose to invest in the company. The people who work at the company. The people who receive charitable donations from the Gates foundation. Etc.
- profitable relationship with war
Profit from war comes about because the prospect of war makes people afraid, so they approve of companies involved in war efforts. In other words, war helps companies to control people and channel resources away from the people. In a communist or fascist society, the state controls people anyway. War companies (which would be commandeered by the state) are fantastically profitable, having first pick of available resources. People come last. Have you read 1984?
Hey, it IS just like Slashdot, but in Spanish! :)
.. hasta la XP!
Also, 'bar' could mean 'slash', and 'punt' sounds like 'point' (dot)
Except that the bus's angle would have been more like 7 degrees. If you've ever seen the making of the movie, you would know that they actually filmed it by placing a steep ramp there, and editing it out of the final version. Watch the movie scene closely next time and you will see the front wheels of the bus rise up , before the bus leaves the first half of the bridge.
All that template garbage is going to inflate the size of your code,
Oh rubbish. The template code will be the same as, or smaller than, the non-template code. Unless your compiler is truly awful.
Yeah, the situation sucks, but I don't see why you can't just use C... since it allows you to do leaner things.
What 'leaner thing' can you do in C but not in C++?
Appropriate subject! If I try this modification in World of Warcraft, it drops my framerate from 60fps to about 5fps. No idea why.
Your evidence that it's false?
The Greek mathematical and scientific knowledge was mostly lost with the rise of Christianity in the Roman empire. In fact there had been little new development since Rome took over Alexandria, as the Roman culture did not place much value on science even before religion took over.
It's not called the Dark Ages for nothing. Euclid's Elements did not appear again in Europe until about the 15th century, when it was translated back from copies that the Arabs held. (Original manuscripts have subsequently been found). Much of what we now know of Greek science was only re-discovered in the last couple of centuries (example). I don't think you can make any interpolations about pre-Renaissance Europe, based on the fact that we have knowledge now, and the Greeks had knowledge 2000 years ago.
void main() {
:P
This is an error in C++ (although your compiler might support it as a non-standard extension)
class local {
public: void hello() { printf("hello world\n"); }
};
local::hello();
Must either declare 'hello' static, or call it as:
local().hello();
Oh, and if you are worried about cluttering up "the namespace", that's what namespace MySpace { } is for
Actually that's what the unnamed namespace is for:
namespace {
struct foo.......
};
How about a Beowulf cluster of these?
.. no science will ever be able to revive that one.
Oh wait
Something that's often omitted in writeups of these 'dark energy' claims, is that a non-zero cosmological constant would also explain the observations, without the need to invoke 'dark energy'. However that isn't in fashion in the mainstream at the moment.
Entropy is generally conserved in the universe (making the amount of entropy irrelevent),
Huh? 2LOT says that entropy increases with time.
and no, the early conditions for the universe give a large amount of entropy, given a large number of particles and high temperature
Perhaps it's large in some sense, but it has to be less than the entropy at any time in the future
but probably the best source for an introduction to cosmology is Weinberg's 'The First Three Minutes'.
I'll look out for that one. (My knowledge about entropy mostly comes from reading books by Penrose).
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico.
There's just too many uncertainties in that, for mine.
We have deliberately crashed craft into planets. We have accidentally crashed into planets. We have missed our targets. We have had equipment failure. And that's just the solar system. Why wouldn't someone else do that?
Who says they came from interstellar space? Perhaps they live on the inside of Mars, or an unexplored area of Venus.
Perhaps they come from one of the stars that's only a few light years away.
Who says they are more technologically advanced? Perhaps their version of Einstein also happened to invent a drive that can accelerate their ship to 0.99c, but they haven't yet got to things like left-handed toast racks, or Windows Genuine Advantage.
Why New Mexico? Maybe their earlier probe landed in the ocean and sank and we never noticed. Maybe they do live relatively nearby and aimed for the land mass that had emitted the most EM radiation, indicating the more advanced and therefore more benevolent society. Who knows how they think?
There's just so many unknowns for a comment like "I don't think they would have crashed in X location" to be treated as any kind of effective argument.
The main postulates of Big Bang Theory are that
1) The universe was in thermal equilibrium at an early time
Huh? It is exactly the opposite to that. Thermal equilibrium is the maximum entropy state. The Big Bang was a minimum entropy state.
What can I say about this post? First of all you failed to spell refridgerator correctly.
Pot calling the kettle black!
From the dictionary:
No results found for refridgerator.
Did you mean refrigerator