These are great theoretical discoveries and all, but I can't help but compare them to years past. How does the spin of a neutrino stack up against Faraday's invention of the electric motor and generator? How does anti-matter compete with James Watts creation of the first working steam engine? Who cares about dark matter in light of Maxwell's promise of information transfer via radio waves?
Science used to make our lives better but what has it done for us lately?
I worry about my paycheck as much as anyone, but I'm also about free choice. If employers want to hire people from other countries, that's up to them. Making a law like this would be racist, IMHO.
You need something to do with your life? Go to the Free Software Foundation, find a project and start coding or writing man/info pages or something. If you aren't working for freedom, you are part of the problem. If you aren't technical, find an online forum where you can tell people about Linux. It doesn't have to be a computer-related forum, everybody online cares deeply about their OS--tap in to that passion and help us take over the world!
Obviously satire. But the one about Slashdot, that's already come true.
Slashdot regulars will rebel, and some will attempt to set up alternative discussion sites -- but Slashdot's founder, Rob Malda, will sue under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent any copycat sites.
There are a lot of Slash sites out there, and recently they've begun switching to Scoop. Naturally I applaud this move because the Scoop software is of much higher quality, being written in C as it is. But I wonder how many of those moves are due to arm-twisting by VA lawyers trying to get blood from a stone?
He doesn't seem to have modified the game itself much either. This is probably due to the stranglehold the WFF (World Foosball Federation) has on the standards committee. In recent years several people have been charged with copyright infringement after playing foosball with altered rules. They were all acquitted, but only on technicalities. I'm sure he didn't want to be a test case.
Is it ok to covet the card but not the membership?
As a matter of fact, no, it isn't. If you aren't contributing back to the community you are part of the problem and might as well work for Microsoft themselves.
"...a fearsome carnivore that terrorised ocean life 150 million years ago."
Interesting claim, but I seriously doubt the time quoted can be backed up, given what we now know about the age of the Earth. Let's apply some basic physics.
The sun puts out 386 billion billion megawatts. Expressed in scientific notation, that 3.86e26 watts, which is 3.86e26 joules per second. According to Einstein's famous equations, that's also 1.29e20 kg/s. But the Earth is so small, we only intercept one one-billionth of that, which is 1.29e11 kg/s. The mass of the Earth is 5.89e24 kg. Divide the one into the other and you have a mere 1.5 million years, much much shorter than evolutionary "scientists" say it would take to spontaneously create simple DNA, let alone the profusion of God's creation that we see around us. And that's being generous and assuming there was no rock here to begin with (which we know is false from Genesis). My gut feeling is that the calculated figure of 40,000 years is probably right on target.
The reason I eat only plant matter is that I don't feel comfortable exploiting animals for my own selfish needs. Admittedly, stealing their genes to grow meat is less painful than killing them, but I think animals still have rights that are being trampled on by this technology.
The best way to deal with a lawyer who deals in one of the "shady areas" of the law (like copyright enforcment, etc) is to fight fire with fire. Check into the public records and see if that lawyer has broken any laws and respond with a veiled threat to countersue. You are quite likely to find some major skeletons in the closet, due to an interesting quirk in the legal field and hasn't been made fully public yet.
We all know that the crime rate is soaring. This creates a demand for more lawyers and judges, plus we need to get the criminals that are already in jail out sooner to make room for more. Some enterprising people have made a business out of educating the less violent of the nation's convicts in the law. That's right, around 40% of new judges (and about 80% of new lawyers) have criminal convictions in their pasts.
So take that lawyer who is harassing you and search for his name in the records. You'll be surprised how much useful dirt you can dig up.
Why is Slashdot's search so weird? When I type in a phrase, I get any story that has any of those words (and sometimes I get all recent stories regardless of matching). Comment searching "works" the same way. It's actually easier to go to Google and search for "phrase +slashdot"--so why not make that box a Google link or get a Google account or something?
I'd also like to note that a previous Top Ten item should be "links hidden behind decorative elements", much like the little balls on the Slashdot headers that unexpectedly lead to user info.
Designing a supersonic craft is kind of tricky. As you start getting closer and closer to Mach 1 (the speed of sound), the air around the leading edges of the plane start getting compressed. That means the air is getting denser and therefore less bouyancy is provided to the plane, which means less lift.
Of course, once you break through the barrier you are flying faster than the air molecules and the rarefaction that creates provides a great deal of bouyancy.
Otherwise, it is useless. Worse, "regular" programmers (meaning anyone not writing a compiler or assembler) will probably spend countless hours poring over this document trying to "squeeze out that last little bit of performance" despite the fact that Knuth proved performance is a useless metric..
That's great news! Just today I was tasked with writing a cross-platform UI app for minimal cost. MFC works great on Windows but clearly isn't very portable. Java is the ultimate in portability, but this app needs some serious speed (it's a data-entry thing). I thought of GTK but I find that ugly (sorry, but I do). Eventually all I had left on the table was QT, but I'd hate to use a non-Free toolkit, so this is great news to me.
Fun, but...
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This is no roller coaster. How do you simulate the a freefall of 150 ft in 3 seconds in a space that's only a dozen meters tall?
I for one welcome our new rat overlords and would like to mention that particle physicists will be very useful to them in synthesizing low-fat cheese substitutes.
Except for one small dot, there is no burn-in there. That dot is most likely a magnetic anomaly. My TV does the same thing periodically and then gets back in phase when the planet align (or whatever).
I have used it on many occassions to tighten up some particularly loose default installs[1]. It has great advice that everyone should follow.
Which is the problem, really. Why is this security stuff put on the user/administrator to do? This is OS-level work. The people who really need this book are the Alans and Linii of the world. It's their fault that Linux requires a 600 page book to make it usable, make them fix it.
I think it's great that anime in particular and cartoons in general are gaining such ground as winning Oscars and so on. When their entertainment is up there on the silver screen right next to legitimate entertainment, it's really a sign that children are not going to be treated as second-class citizens anymore. Soon we may find the drinking age lowered to 5 and I can once again feel comfortable handing out cigarettes to toddlers, secure in the knowledge that if they felt it wasn't worth the lung cancer they could Just Say No.
"12:00 PM" and "12:00 AM" are not meaningful terms. There is "12 noon" and there is "12 midnight". AM and PM are contractions for "ante meridian" and "post meridian" where meridian is the point where the sun is at it highest point (or same on the other side of the world). Therefore it makes no sense to speak of the 12:00 that comes before or after that highest point, because it is defined as being that highest point.
Thus they can put whatever letters they want on their tickets and it doesn't matter, because they said the "12:00" part and that was accurate.
The drivers aren't Free or Open. That makes them crap in my book. Repressive crap, even.
I've just sent an email to nVidia telling them to stay out of the Linux world as their attempts to take over our freedoms has not been appreciated. You can thank me later.
This is really great news
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With broadband becoming more and more available, I hope we will see an increase in choice regarding things like where people get their news from and so forth. Diversity of opinion == good.
Unfortunately, broadband is only part of the picture. It isn't enough for people to be passive consumers of information. They must contribute to the global dialog. In order to do this, they have to publish to the web. The problem here, is that only the rich can afford an easy to use web publishing package like FrontPage running on Windoes XP/2000. Everyone else is forced to use a free but hard to use knock-off like Linux to make their voices heard.
Maybe if the terrorists had been able to participate in the global economy, they wouldn't have attacked us so viciously. Perhaps we should send them a complimentary copy of Windows. Just my $.02.
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Fortunately some of us still know how to RTFM
Science used to make our lives better but what has it done for us lately?
I worry about my paycheck as much as anyone, but I'm also about free choice. If employers want to hire people from other countries, that's up to them. Making a law like this would be racist, IMHO.
You need something to do with your life? Go to the Free Software Foundation, find a project and start coding or writing man/info pages or something. If you aren't working for freedom, you are part of the problem. If you aren't technical, find an online forum where you can tell people about Linux. It doesn't have to be a computer-related forum, everybody online cares deeply about their OS--tap in to that passion and help us take over the world!
Slashdot regulars will rebel, and some will attempt to set up alternative discussion sites -- but Slashdot's founder, Rob Malda, will sue under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent any copycat sites.
There are a lot of Slash sites out there, and recently they've begun switching to Scoop. Naturally I applaud this move because the Scoop software is of much higher quality, being written in C as it is. But I wonder how many of those moves are due to arm-twisting by VA lawyers trying to get blood from a stone?
He doesn't seem to have modified the game itself much either. This is probably due to the stranglehold the WFF (World Foosball Federation) has on the standards committee. In recent years several people have been charged with copyright infringement after playing foosball with altered rules. They were all acquitted, but only on technicalities. I'm sure he didn't want to be a test case.
The Earth has been absorbing all that energy for all that time. It isn't here as energy, it must be here as mass.
As a matter of fact, no, it isn't. If you aren't contributing back to the community you are part of the problem and might as well work for Microsoft themselves.
Interesting claim, but I seriously doubt the time quoted can be backed up, given what we now know about the age of the Earth. Let's apply some basic physics.
The sun puts out 386 billion billion megawatts. Expressed in scientific notation, that 3.86e26 watts, which is 3.86e26 joules per second. According to Einstein's famous equations, that's also 1.29e20 kg/s. But the Earth is so small, we only intercept one one-billionth of that, which is 1.29e11 kg/s. The mass of the Earth is 5.89e24 kg. Divide the one into the other and you have a mere 1.5 million years, much much shorter than evolutionary "scientists" say it would take to spontaneously create simple DNA, let alone the profusion of God's creation that we see around us. And that's being generous and assuming there was no rock here to begin with (which we know is false from Genesis). My gut feeling is that the calculated figure of 40,000 years is probably right on target.
Just my $.02.
We all know that the crime rate is soaring. This creates a demand for more lawyers and judges, plus we need to get the criminals that are already in jail out sooner to make room for more. Some enterprising people have made a business out of educating the less violent of the nation's convicts in the law. That's right, around 40% of new judges (and about 80% of new lawyers) have criminal convictions in their pasts.
So take that lawyer who is harassing you and search for his name in the records. You'll be surprised how much useful dirt you can dig up.
I'd also like to note that a previous Top Ten item should be "links hidden behind decorative elements", much like the little balls on the Slashdot headers that unexpectedly lead to user info.
Of course, once you break through the barrier you are flying faster than the air molecules and the rarefaction that creates provides a great deal of bouyancy.
Otherwise, it is useless. Worse, "regular" programmers (meaning anyone not writing a compiler or assembler) will probably spend countless hours poring over this document trying to "squeeze out that last little bit of performance" despite the fact that Knuth proved performance is a useless metric..
That's great news! Just today I was tasked with writing a cross-platform UI app for minimal cost. MFC works great on Windows but clearly isn't very portable. Java is the ultimate in portability, but this app needs some serious speed (it's a data-entry thing). I thought of GTK but I find that ugly (sorry, but I do). Eventually all I had left on the table was QT, but I'd hate to use a non-Free toolkit, so this is great news to me.
This is no roller coaster. How do you simulate the a freefall of 150 ft in 3 seconds in a space that's only a dozen meters tall?
I for one welcome our new rat overlords and would like to mention that particle physicists will be very useful to them in synthesizing low-fat cheese substitutes.
Please continue computing normally.
mplayer also handles Quicktime, though you may have to recompile your kernel.
Reviews: 1,2,3,4 That last one lets you submit your own review. Pretty cool.
Which is the problem, really. Why is this security stuff put on the user/administrator to do? This is OS-level work. The people who really need this book are the Alans and Linii of the world. It's their fault that Linux requires a 600 page book to make it usable, make them fix it.
[1]*cough*debian*cough*
I think it's great that anime in particular and cartoons in general are gaining such ground as winning Oscars and so on. When their entertainment is up there on the silver screen right next to legitimate entertainment, it's really a sign that children are not going to be treated as second-class citizens anymore. Soon we may find the drinking age lowered to 5 and I can once again feel comfortable handing out cigarettes to toddlers, secure in the knowledge that if they felt it wasn't worth the lung cancer they could Just Say No.
Thus they can put whatever letters they want on their tickets and it doesn't matter, because they said the "12:00" part and that was accurate.
I've just sent an email to nVidia telling them to stay out of the Linux world as their attempts to take over our freedoms has not been appreciated. You can thank me later.
Unfortunately, broadband is only part of the picture. It isn't enough for people to be passive consumers of information. They must contribute to the global dialog. In order to do this, they have to publish to the web. The problem here, is that only the rich can afford an easy to use web publishing package like FrontPage running on Windoes XP/2000. Everyone else is forced to use a free but hard to use knock-off like Linux to make their voices heard.
Maybe if the terrorists had been able to participate in the global economy, they wouldn't have attacked us so viciously. Perhaps we should send them a complimentary copy of Windows. Just my $.02.