Others will sit on the sideline (mostly EU) and wait to pick apart the carcass.
You mean, sit it out for the first half of the war while our main rivals for world domination blow the hell out of each other, quietly take over all their markets and business interests overseas, and then get involved late on and claim all the credit and a major say in the post-war settlement?
Interesting idea. Sounds good, actually. Might work very well. Has it ever been tried before, do you know?
When OOo came, I was thrilled to hear there was an alternative to MS-Word. It turned out to be a bloated MS-Word clone, just orders of magnitude slower, and filled with bugs.
Have you tried AbiWord? Certainly it's a Word clone, but it's small, and fast, and free.
Neither government is stupid enough to ever fight each other. In today's modern global economy, the entire world's economy would go to shit if the US and China went to war.
Funnily enough, that's what everyone in Europe was saying in 1913.
Maybe American readers of this site are not that much aware of the situation in Britain, but for the last years signs held up at demonstrations asking to 'behead those who insult Islam' or for 'death to Israel' have gone 'unnoticed' by the British authorities, meaning that no-one ever got arrested for displaying them (or relentlessly shouting similar slogans). Many Europeans are already taking this as proof that Britain has finally fallen to the Islamists.
Well, you got your +5 Insightful from mods who are convinced that Europe is well on its way to sharia submission, but you might like to know that the people to whom you refer were sent to prison for four years. Don't let that get in the way of a good rant, though.
Just bought a NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT with 512 MB for 100$ and have it running under 64Bit Ubuntu.
Word of advice: find a Windows machine, put that card in it and play Half-Life 2 for a few hours. If the computer crashes to a blank screen while doing so, send the card back for a replacement.
It seems there's a bad batch of chips that got out of NVIDIA and ended up in 9600GTs of all brands. The fault crashed Linux every couple of days, if I was running a 3D desktop, but would happen much more quickly if I fired up certain games. Half-Life 2 and related games in particular, though not Portal for some reason.
People have reported some success avoiding this fault by playing BIOS or driver or configuration games, or by underclocking the core or the memory or whatever, but life's too short. I RMA'd it and got a replacement, which works perfectly.
The delay between the time of arrival of the X-ray burst and the neutrino signal would put bounds on the mass of the neutrino.
Actually, the neutrino burst would arrive before the X-ray burst. The neutrinos are released as the degenerate gas at the stellar core collapses to neutronium; they pass through the surrounding material as if it wasn't even there, and set out into the universe immediately.
Once the neutron core has formed, further infalling matter hits the hardest surface in the universe, and this produces a colossal shock. The X-ray burst is released only when this shock wave reaches the surface of the star. That won't take long, but it's long enough; the neutrinos are already far out into space.
The principle still holds, of course; the neutrino mass affects the neutrino velocity, and so the timing of the two bursts will give us data on those quantities. But the delay will probably be in quite the opposite direction to what you suggested.
Simply put, you don't have to type out the whole word. As you enter characters, the phone will display a list of words it thinks you want. All you have to do is enter the first few characters, then pick the word from the list. If it is a word you use often, it will appear at the top of the list. This makes entering common phrases a snap.
... What, your phone doesn't do that in English? Is this another backwards American thing? Mine does exactly what you describe, and so did the one I had before it, and the one before that, going back to time immemorial.
What the hell is everyone talking about? BBS,/b/, 2chan, 2channel, 4chan, futaba...
BBS: Bulletin Board System. What we used in the eighties, dialling up some local server with an acoustic coupler, long before mainstream internet access.
2ch, 2channel, futaba: Japanese message / imageboards.
4chan: An English-language derivative of futaba, established four years or so ago by some SomethingAwful goon. A fecund breeding-ground for memes.
/b/: The 'Random' imageboard on 4chan. People make anonymous posts which are usually lost forever once they drop below page ten. They post images. You can probably see where this is going. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Oh, and it's not 'Waaaaah' unless you're an Ork. It's 'BAWWWWW'. Lurk moar.
are you forgetting google and its text only ads? i think there were people who scoffed at that too. i mean who didn't love flashing banner ads in 1999? are you forgetting craigslist? i mean if anything, craigslist proves you need flash flashing everywhere to be a successful website in the usa, right?
I can think of another popular site which is similarly stone-aged in its technology. You can't post images. Or Flash. There's a very tight limit on how much you can put in your signature. You can't edit your posts. You can't even have an avatar. At all. They've only lately been rewriting the site to use contemporary web technologies, to bring it out of the nineties; many of the users complained vehemently, and it still doesn't look quite right.
And yet I reckon 100% of Slashdot regulars use this site... regularly.
I'm planning a trip to England and Italy at the beginning of 2010. When asked what I wanted to see in England all I could come up with is the working difference engine (I can't remember what museum it's in off the top of my head) and Bletchley Park.
I believe it's in the Science Museum in London. Excellent place to visit. While you're in London pay a visit also to the British Museum, full of all the ancient statuary, relics, and important cultural artefacts that we plundered over the century or two in which we ruled the world - iconic figures of every civilisation there's ever been. In all honesty I wasn't so impressed by the Elgin Marbles, but the gods of the Assyrians they have there are magnificent.
What, does England have so much history that it doesn't see the value of protecting a historic site that's from something as new as the last century?
Yep, that's pretty much it. There's only so much funding to go around, and there are thousands and thousands of sites of historical interest competing for it. Bletchley isn't really such a strong competitor; the site itself is of no architectural interest, it's nothing to look at. All it ever was was a bunch of army huts. There are ancient castles and manors falling down which are much more photogenic and attract more tourists.
To me Bletchley is of more intellectual than historic interest: it's where Turing did his work founding the discipline of computer science. As such, I wonder if the best way forward would be for the site to become a technology park, or a research centre attached perhaps to the OU? That would preserve what was important there - the intellectual tradition - even if it meant doing away with most of the WW2-era buildings.
I wouldn't put it past them to say "okay, then you won't mind if I zero out all the stuff that you claim doesn't have any data". That wouldn't take particularly long, so what is your defense going to be?
If something's important enough to encrypt, it's important enough to back up. Zero out what you like, customs goon.
Is everyone here mentally defective or something? Arguing in one breath how, if you had something you didn't want customs to see, you could just send it through the internet, and in the next breath trying to figure out how to get something hidden through customs instead of just sending it through the internet.
OK, here's how it works. This is/., and a large proportion of readers are hackers.
Present a hacker with a problem in information security and he will try to solve it. It's just a puzzle: what is the best way to beat the customs guy? Extra points are given for using Linux, and for showing off how clever you are with computers. Yes, we all know that the safest solution is to send it encrypted over the internet (Debian's best efforts to the contrary notwithstanding), but that's a trivial solution and it's not interesting. Much more fun to concoct elaborate schemes, and plans within plans, nested layers of obfuscation and misdirection as the recursive operating systems emulate each other until nobody's sure any more where the real system truly lies...
hardly a great philosopher or metaphysicist or actually anyone who's opinion on religion should matter for the rest of the mankind who consider religious experience to be outside of realm of science and deeply personal experience.
No? Einstein discovered some of the most important principles upon which the Universe is built; he revealed the strange nature of space and time and how the two are related, the equivalence of solid material things and abstract energy, the connection between the propagation of light and the principle of causality itself.
If there exists a creator, then Einstein's study of the creation has told us more about that creator than any prophet ever has.
Sadly, theists will still claim he was a religious man, how he changed after this letter was written (despite it being written only a short time before his death) and so on.
Well, naturally. Spend enough time with these people and you'll realise that everybody of interest accepted Jesus Christ on their deathbed, and renounced all the heretical doctrines for which they are famous, and said so only to some unattributable Christian who was apparently there at the very end despite appearing in no other accounts.
the evidence that Jesus walked over water is exactly as strong as the evidence Julius Caesar conquered Gaul
In case (a) we have some guy telling a story of how Jesus walked on water. In case (b) we have some guy telling a story of how Caesar conquered Gaul, plus coins found throughout France showing Caesar's image, plus Roman and Gaulish weapons of the period found throughout France, plus centuries of evidence in writing and in artefacts of continuous Roman occupation of Gaul which coincidentally begin at the time of Caesar.
And that's before we discuss the relative plausibility of the two written accounts we began with. One describes a man doing something exotically impossible, while the other describes a man doing something we know perfectly well that men do from time to time. Does that not make one far more likely to be a fiction than the other?
Er... all of us were born atheist. Many of us were later taught theism, and then some of us still later rejected that. Nobody is born believing in God, any more than they are born believing in Father Christmas.
There's no 'quasi' about it. Look at the way your retinas are wired - backwards! Look at the way those tubes in your throat are arranged - food tube crosses over air tube, a potentially lethal hazard, patched up by a half-assed hack involving a flimsy flap of flesh and a gag reflex.
And, as a wise man once said, what kind of intelligent designer runs a sewage pipe straight through a recreational facility?
This reminds me of a topic that used to come up on alt.atheism from time to time. Former Catholics would occasionally ask how they might go about obtaining a formal excommunication. The great joke of course was that, as atheists, why should they care what the Church thinks, or desire formal recognition from a bishop?
(Of course, by openly holding and teaching heretical doctrine, every one of us on that newsgroup incurred automatic excommunication anyway; the episcopal rubber-stamp is quite unnecessary in our case:-)
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We can't. Copying and pasting from Wikipedia loses the superscript: that was 10^5 Tesla. Ten thousand Tesla. Way beyond our current capabilities :-)
You mean, sit it out for the first half of the war while our main rivals for world domination blow the hell out of each other, quietly take over all their markets and business interests overseas, and then get involved late on and claim all the credit and a major say in the post-war settlement?
Interesting idea. Sounds good, actually. Might work very well. Has it ever been tried before, do you know?
Sorry, but I don't want to have to think in Russian just to control a web browser. I'll stick with my trackball, thanks.
Have you tried AbiWord? Certainly it's a Word clone, but it's small, and fast, and free.
Funnily enough, that's what everyone in Europe was saying in 1913.
Here in the UK it's a crime to ride your bike on the pavement. You go on the road with the rest of the traffic. Pavements are for pedestrians.
Remember these are Americans. I gather that over there, if you work 40 hours a week you're obviously Not A Team Player.
Word of advice: find a Windows machine, put that card in it and play Half-Life 2 for a few hours. If the computer crashes to a blank screen while doing so, send the card back for a replacement.
It seems there's a bad batch of chips that got out of NVIDIA and ended up in 9600GTs of all brands. The fault crashed Linux every couple of days, if I was running a 3D desktop, but would happen much more quickly if I fired up certain games. Half-Life 2 and related games in particular, though not Portal for some reason.
People have reported some success avoiding this fault by playing BIOS or driver or configuration games, or by underclocking the core or the memory or whatever, but life's too short. I RMA'd it and got a replacement, which works perfectly.
Actually, the neutrino burst would arrive before the X-ray burst. The neutrinos are released as the degenerate gas at the stellar core collapses to neutronium; they pass through the surrounding material as if it wasn't even there, and set out into the universe immediately.
Once the neutron core has formed, further infalling matter hits the hardest surface in the universe, and this produces a colossal shock. The X-ray burst is released only when this shock wave reaches the surface of the star. That won't take long, but it's long enough; the neutrinos are already far out into space.
The principle still holds, of course; the neutrino mass affects the neutrino velocity, and so the timing of the two bursts will give us data on those quantities. But the delay will probably be in quite the opposite direction to what you suggested.
... What, your phone doesn't do that in English? Is this another backwards American thing? Mine does exactly what you describe, and so did the one I had before it, and the one before that, going back to time immemorial.
BBS: Bulletin Board System. What we used in the eighties, dialling up some local server with an acoustic coupler, long before mainstream internet access.
2ch, 2channel, futaba: Japanese message / imageboards.
4chan: An English-language derivative of futaba, established four years or so ago by some SomethingAwful goon. A fecund breeding-ground for memes.
/b/: The 'Random' imageboard on 4chan. People make anonymous posts which are usually lost forever once they drop below page ten. They post images. You can probably see where this is going. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Oh, and it's not 'Waaaaah' unless you're an Ork. It's 'BAWWWWW'. Lurk moar.
I can think of another popular site which is similarly stone-aged in its technology. You can't post images. Or Flash. There's a very tight limit on how much you can put in your signature. You can't edit your posts. You can't even have an avatar. At all. They've only lately been rewriting the site to use contemporary web technologies, to bring it out of the nineties; many of the users complained vehemently, and it still doesn't look quite right.
And yet I reckon 100% of Slashdot regulars use this site... regularly.
Especially when the licence is the GPL. I don't have to agree to the terms in order to use the software, only to distribute it!
I believe it's in the Science Museum in London. Excellent place to visit. While you're in London pay a visit also to the British Museum, full of all the ancient statuary, relics, and important cultural artefacts that we plundered over the century or two in which we ruled the world - iconic figures of every civilisation there's ever been. In all honesty I wasn't so impressed by the Elgin Marbles, but the gods of the Assyrians they have there are magnificent.
Yep, that's pretty much it. There's only so much funding to go around, and there are thousands and thousands of sites of historical interest competing for it. Bletchley isn't really such a strong competitor; the site itself is of no architectural interest, it's nothing to look at. All it ever was was a bunch of army huts. There are ancient castles and manors falling down which are much more photogenic and attract more tourists.
To me Bletchley is of more intellectual than historic interest: it's where Turing did his work founding the discipline of computer science. As such, I wonder if the best way forward would be for the site to become a technology park, or a research centre attached perhaps to the OU? That would preserve what was important there - the intellectual tradition - even if it meant doing away with most of the WW2-era buildings.
If something's important enough to encrypt, it's important enough to back up. Zero out what you like, customs goon.
OK, here's how it works. This is /., and a large proportion of readers are hackers.
Present a hacker with a problem in information security and he will try to solve it. It's just a puzzle: what is the best way to beat the customs guy? Extra points are given for using Linux, and for showing off how clever you are with computers. Yes, we all know that the safest solution is to send it encrypted over the internet (Debian's best efforts to the contrary notwithstanding), but that's a trivial solution and it's not interesting. Much more fun to concoct elaborate schemes, and plans within plans, nested layers of obfuscation and misdirection as the recursive operating systems emulate each other until nobody's sure any more where the real system truly lies...
No? Einstein discovered some of the most important principles upon which the Universe is built; he revealed the strange nature of space and time and how the two are related, the equivalence of solid material things and abstract energy, the connection between the propagation of light and the principle of causality itself.
If there exists a creator, then Einstein's study of the creation has told us more about that creator than any prophet ever has.
Well, naturally. Spend enough time with these people and you'll realise that everybody of interest accepted Jesus Christ on their deathbed, and renounced all the heretical doctrines for which they are famous, and said so only to some unattributable Christian who was apparently there at the very end despite appearing in no other accounts.
In case (a) we have some guy telling a story of how Jesus walked on water. In case (b) we have some guy telling a story of how Caesar conquered Gaul, plus coins found throughout France showing Caesar's image, plus Roman and Gaulish weapons of the period found throughout France, plus centuries of evidence in writing and in artefacts of continuous Roman occupation of Gaul which coincidentally begin at the time of Caesar.
And that's before we discuss the relative plausibility of the two written accounts we began with. One describes a man doing something exotically impossible, while the other describes a man doing something we know perfectly well that men do from time to time. Does that not make one far more likely to be a fiction than the other?
Er... all of us were born atheist. Many of us were later taught theism, and then some of us still later rejected that. Nobody is born believing in God, any more than they are born believing in Father Christmas.
An alien encounter in Horsell near Woking? The chances of anything like that happening must be a million to one...
There's no 'quasi' about it. Look at the way your retinas are wired - backwards! Look at the way those tubes in your throat are arranged - food tube crosses over air tube, a potentially lethal hazard, patched up by a half-assed hack involving a flimsy flap of flesh and a gag reflex.
And, as a wise man once said, what kind of intelligent designer runs a sewage pipe straight through a recreational facility?
(Of course, by openly holding and teaching heretical doctrine, every one of us on that newsgroup incurred automatic excommunication anyway; the episcopal rubber-stamp is quite unnecessary in our case :-)