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Is there anyone else out there besides me that gets a bit creeped out by these experiments? The philosopher physicists tell us that it is impossible to know what was "before" the big bang because before it, there was nothing at all. I cry BS. My theory: before the big bang there were some idiots in a different spacial dimention standing around some new quantum experiment gizmo, playing with the fundamental bits of their little universe... BLAM!
How do we know that we're not spinning off different universes all the time in the different spatial dimentions with these experiments?! What if we're making huge explosions in their universes? What if they're pissed off and know where we are?
This all smacks to me like shades of Steven King's "The Mist".
Most people believe that they are "better than average" drivers, even if they have no evidence to support that belief. That's just human nature.
How about my 22 years of driving in the downtowns of congested cities and never an accident? Very few people can say that. And yes, when I'm out on the open road between the hellholes I have to live in in a high performance car I speed like hell to get away from the rest of you idiots!
I used to overclock, but I don't anymore. It mattered when a medium speed CPU was barely affordable, and then I could ramp it up to being a fast CPU by OCing. And then when CPUs starting getting cheap it turned into a hobby, and I'd buy a new CPU not because I needed extra speed, but because I just wanted to see what I could pull off. I had MEGAHUGE fans all over the place and finally graduated to water cooling. I was even starting to think about cryo stuff. Then one day a year or two ago I bought an XP2000+ for $65 shipped. I even clocked it up for a few days, but it was so fast at stock speed I just couldn't tell a lick of difference. Stuff happened either instantly, or instantly. The only delays on my system, were non-CPU related. Now today, for practically no money at all, I can have a rediculously fast CPU, or a rediculously fast CPU, depending on whether or not I want to try to clock it. So I don't bother.
I'd rather see all those billions (trillions?) in cash go to paying physicists to hang out in the lab all day and dream up a new engine -- and test it -- and perfect it. Ion power maybe. That could at least take a probe to a near star. Or how about playing with the double event horizon of a spinning black hole? Math that is decades old now shows that if you have a little rotating black hole (and huge brass ones to fly close to it) you can move across time, space and dimensions. Supposedly some folks at CERN (or someplace, I can remember) are making black holes to order now. The reason we aren't exploring our universe (and at this rate NEVER will) is because our current propulsion systems SUCK. Everything that can be done practically and reliably with a chemical rocket has been done. Moon? Been there done that. Mars, same, just without people. So what. Who cares!
Recorded history isn't very long compared to the sun's age, to say nothing of the still-shorter track record of scientific solar observation. The sun may (and probably does) exhibit other epicyclic phenomena on timescales too long for us to have directly measured.
You are correct, but it's very easy to indirectly measure the cycle with tree rings.
On/. the posting is too fast and furious and hypertextlike for either top of bottom posting. That's why the default is to just leave the previous discussion out. But usenet discussions are slower and (mostly)linear; folks on the thread have been following it for weeks or longer. So when a new post pops up, everyone *already read* what has been said before, so scrolling down through what had already been read is just tedium.
Oh no, a bottom poster. I've been on usenet longer than you, and have been top posting from the beginning. I wish you bottom posters would stop screwing with the most logical, the easiest, and above all the *fastest* way to read through a discussion.
This is not a troll, just my honest feelings. I tuned out of all mass media almost 10 years ago. Every once in a while I accidentally see or hear a bit of it and can't believe that the garbage the megacorps churn out has become even worse than when I tuned out. What, like more consolidation will make it even sh*ttier, and that's why I should care? Hmmm.... That's a thought: Let them consolidate. Maybe consolidation will make them all go under sooner; hopefully there will be enough remnants of our culture left to help people learn to be creative *on their own* again.
Once upon a time, folks finished out their evening singing around a piano or playing parolor games instead of stearing mindlessly into the hypnotizing blue light of the boob tube telling them what to think about and how to think about it.
Take a walk around your neighborhood some night and look at all the houses around 10pm. Seriously, go do it. It's surreal. All you'll see is the eerie blue glow in each and every house. The living rooms without curtains drawn will let you see that every house is now filled with overweight listless expressionless creatures plopped down on overstuffed furniture with their mouths half open. It's like the aliens came down to earth and took over our minds with glowing blue mind control devices. BUT WE DID IT TO OURSELVES!
I've run linux for years, and unix before there was linux. It's fine for what it is. Here is an example of why it isn't ready for prime time, and maybe never will be:
I was visiting an old friend last month, but could only stay another three hours before running off to catch a plane.
She asked if there were any way I could install a scanner, and a new printer(old one was broken) before I had to leave.
She was running Windows 98.
No problem. We went down to Staples, bought the cheapest scanner and the cheapest printer. I don't even remember the brand names, although I think the printer was a bottom of the line HP inkjet.
I slapped it together. Or tried too anyway. Sh*t. I needed another USB port. Back to Staples. Bought cheapest USB2.0 card. *Finally* slapped it together. Everything worked, stable. Ran off to catch my plane.
Now let's say it was running any modern distro. Could I make it work? Sure. Would I have caught my plane?
My goodness. You nailed me on that one! Looking again I can hardly believe I wrote that. I thought I was immune. I even have mod points and would mod you up but can't cause you're replying to my post.
I went digging through the site while it's still up and I can't figure it out. There's a flash demo and it shows someone just waving this thing about the size of a mouse all over the paper and the print magically appears. And it's supposed to write on any surface. How in the world can it know where the print?.... Unless maybe you are supposed to start in the direct center of where the image is supposed to be and then it tracks from there I guess? In any case, I WANT ONE! And this is the first computer related item I've wanted in a long time. I think the company is going to make zillions.
It would be nice if they put out the specs on everything so some enterprising and bored guru could find a way to stick a teeny version of linux on it and make it a reader again. Why waste a good display?
Agreed. I went through eight (8!) snazzy Sprint PCS phones, spent into the thousands and they were wiz-bang titanium works of art that I couldn't make a damn call on. What I settled on? Their cheapest, the Audiovox 9155 at $99 simply *blew away* all the others for both sound quality and reception. I bought three of them in case they get discontinued for something that smells better or has some other bizzare feature totally unrelated to being a phone.
I doubt it. It would be more or less impossible to destroy only that circuit without also taking out the module that is going to deploy the airbags too. It's easier to just not buy a GM vehicle. They havn't made anything but junk since the late sixties anyway. GM is like the Microsoft of the Automotive world.
No, under pure Prime, ls did nothing. However there was a common piece of FORTRAN66 code that everyone passed around and tossed in the... uh... oh heck what was the name of that directory... well anyway it was written to give a more unix like directory listing.
Maybe someone stuck in a different bit of code and named it ls and it did that on whatever huge box you were using.
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Is there anyone else out there besides me that gets a bit creeped out by these experiments? The philosopher physicists tell us that it is impossible to know what was "before" the big bang because before it, there was nothing at all. I cry BS. My theory: before the big bang there were some idiots in a different spacial dimention standing around some new quantum experiment gizmo, playing with the fundamental bits of their little universe... BLAM!
How do we know that we're not spinning off different universes all the time in the different spatial dimentions with these experiments?! What if we're making huge explosions in their universes? What if they're pissed off and know where we are?
This all smacks to me like shades of Steven King's "The Mist".
Most people believe that they are "better than average" drivers, even if they have no evidence to support that belief. That's just human nature.
How about my 22 years of driving in the downtowns of congested cities and never an accident? Very few people can say that. And yes, when I'm out on the open road between the hellholes I have to live in in a high performance car I speed like hell to get away from the rest of you idiots!
I used to overclock, but I don't anymore. It mattered when a medium speed CPU was barely affordable, and then I could ramp it up to being a fast CPU by OCing. And then when CPUs starting getting cheap it turned into a hobby, and I'd buy a new CPU not because I needed extra speed, but because I just wanted to see what I could pull off. I had MEGAHUGE fans all over the place and finally graduated to water cooling. I was even starting to think about cryo stuff. Then one day a year or two ago I bought an XP2000+ for $65 shipped. I even clocked it up for a few days, but it was so fast at stock speed I just couldn't tell a lick of difference. Stuff happened either instantly, or instantly. The only delays on my system, were non-CPU related. Now today, for practically no money at all, I can have a rediculously fast CPU, or a rediculously fast CPU, depending on whether or not I want to try to clock it. So I don't bother.
Parent needs to be modded up... but somehow there's such an oxymoron in saying that my head is going to explode.
OK. That's pretty funny!
I'd rather see all those billions (trillions?) in cash go to paying physicists to hang out in the lab all day and dream up a new engine -- and test it -- and perfect it. Ion power maybe. That could at least take a probe to a near star. Or how about playing with the double event horizon of a spinning black hole? Math that is decades old now shows that if you have a little rotating black hole (and huge brass ones to fly close to it) you can move across time, space and dimensions. Supposedly some folks at CERN (or someplace, I can remember) are making black holes to order now. The reason we aren't exploring our universe (and at this rate NEVER will) is because our current propulsion systems SUCK. Everything that can be done practically and reliably with a chemical rocket has been done. Moon? Been there done that. Mars, same, just without people. So what. Who cares!
I'd like to check out the rest of our galaxy.
linky
Recorded history isn't very long compared to the sun's age, to say nothing of the still-shorter track record of scientific solar observation. The sun may (and probably does) exhibit other epicyclic phenomena on timescales too long for us to have directly measured.
You are correct, but it's very easy to indirectly measure the cycle with tree rings.
I see your point, but you're missing mine:
/. the posting is too fast and furious and hypertextlike for either top of bottom posting. That's why the default is to just leave the previous discussion out. But usenet discussions are slower and (mostly)linear; folks on the thread have been following it for weeks or longer. So when a new post pops up, everyone *already read* what has been said before, so scrolling down through what had already been read is just tedium.
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Oh no, a bottom poster. I've been on usenet longer than you, and have been top posting from the beginning. I wish you bottom posters would stop screwing with the most logical, the easiest, and above all the *fastest* way to read through a discussion.
Munich has over 100 Windows-only custom apps! They can't be expected just to switch to Linux and loose those overnight.
That's the first time I've ever seen the word lose mispelled and it still worked in the sentence. Kinda cool.
This is not a troll, just my honest feelings. I tuned out of all mass media almost 10 years ago. Every once in a while I accidentally see or hear a bit of it and can't believe that the garbage the megacorps churn out has become even worse than when I tuned out. What, like more consolidation will make it even sh*ttier, and that's why I should care? Hmmm.... That's a thought: Let them consolidate. Maybe consolidation will make them all go under sooner; hopefully there will be enough remnants of our culture left to help people learn to be creative *on their own* again.
Once upon a time, folks finished out their evening singing around a piano or playing parolor games instead of stearing mindlessly into the hypnotizing blue light of the boob tube telling them what to think about and how to think about it.
Take a walk around your neighborhood some night and look at all the houses around 10pm. Seriously, go do it. It's surreal. All you'll see is the eerie blue glow in each and every house. The living rooms without curtains drawn will let you see that every house is now filled with overweight listless expressionless creatures plopped down on overstuffed furniture with their mouths half open. It's like the aliens came down to earth and took over our minds with glowing blue mind control devices. BUT WE DID IT TO OURSELVES!
I've run linux for years, and unix before there was linux. It's fine for what it is. Here is an example of why it isn't ready for prime time, and maybe never will be:
I was visiting an old friend last month, but could only stay another three hours before running off to catch a plane.
She asked if there were any way I could install a scanner, and a new printer(old one was broken) before I had to leave.
She was running Windows 98.
No problem. We went down to Staples, bought the cheapest scanner and the cheapest printer. I don't even remember the brand names, although I think the printer was a bottom of the line HP inkjet.
I slapped it together. Or tried too anyway. Sh*t. I needed another USB port. Back to Staples. Bought cheapest USB2.0 card. *Finally* slapped it together. Everything worked, stable. Ran off to catch my plane.
Now let's say it was running any modern distro. Could I make it work? Sure. Would I have caught my plane?
That's why it's not ready.
Not if it travels in a tunnel and they evacuate all the air.
I loved that old story. I hope this really happens!
Someone gave that post a modpoint? Wow. No accounting for taste.
My goodness. You nailed me on that one! Looking again I can hardly believe I wrote that. I thought I was immune. I even have mod points and would mod you up but can't cause you're replying to my post.
I went digging through the site while it's still up and I can't figure it out. There's a flash demo and it shows someone just waving this thing about the size of a mouse all over the paper and the print magically appears. And it's supposed to write on any surface. How in the world can it know where the print? .... Unless maybe you are supposed to start in the direct center of where the image is supposed to be and then it tracks from there I guess? In any case, I WANT ONE! And this is the first computer related item I've wanted in a long time. I think the company is going to make zillions.
My Fujitsu P1120 has more or less similar specs, weighs the same, and comes with a beautiful touch screen display.
It would be nice if they put out the specs on everything so some enterprising and bored guru could find a way to stick a teeny version of linux on it and make it a reader again. Why waste a good display?
Agreed. I went through eight (8!) snazzy Sprint PCS phones, spent into the thousands and they were wiz-bang titanium works of art that I couldn't make a damn call on. What I settled on? Their cheapest, the Audiovox 9155 at $99 simply *blew away* all the others for both sound quality and reception. I bought three of them in case they get discontinued for something that smells better or has some other bizzare feature totally unrelated to being a phone.
I doubt it. It would be more or less impossible to destroy only that circuit without also taking out the module that is going to deploy the airbags too. It's easier to just not buy a GM vehicle. They havn't made anything but junk since the late sixties anyway. GM is like the Microsoft of the Automotive world.
What in the world are you talking about? Have *you* tried it?
No, under pure Prime, ls did nothing. However there was a common piece of FORTRAN66 code that everyone passed around and tossed in the... uh... oh heck what was the name of that directory... well anyway it was written to give a more unix like directory listing.
Maybe someone stuck in a different bit of code and named it ls and it did that on whatever huge box you were using.
Can someone please explain to me how SCO, AT&T (do they still exist), and Open Group all own Unix, or what bits each is supposed to own?
In my mind at least, linux is unix, bsd is unix, and unix is unix. I bet it is for lots of you too. Here is why:
Say I'm facing a prompt. It could be anything:
> or
%a
or
whatever>
So what OS is is it. Let's see:
ls
Did ls work? Yes. Ah OK, unix. I know what I'm doing.
Did it not work. Sh*t. What is it. Is it Prime, VMS, AppleDos, DOS, CPM, etc etc etc.
Basically. If it has ls built in, it's unix.
For me anyway.