In my experience, when you have installed a Java VM there are numerous problems, ranging from slight display glitches in the applets, to the occasional random browser implosion. These problems don't occur when you're using IE.
[For reference, this is with Mozilla 1.0 and Sun's JRE, either 1.3.1 and 1.4.0_01. YMMV with other VMs]
The source would be microbes buried deep in the hot rocks of the earth.
Unless it's just the fact that the oil and gas are under fairly high pressure underground (the gushing effect isn't just to make the whole thing Freudian, you know)
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I vomit at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you ckoke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.
The Gnutella network does do what you want to some extent - users have the option to set themselves up as Ultrapeers/Supernodes, which create an index of some/all of the files on nodes connected to them. So instead of searching all of those nodes, you just have to search through one or two ultrapeers, which then tell you where the file is located.
Other than that, there is no permanent indexing - when you send out a search, it first goes to the nodes that you're connected to, who pass it on to their peers, who pass it on further... and in the same way the search results are passed from peer to peer and eventually get back to you.
Therefore searching will often be slow until people learn to use the Ultrapeer system properly - currently there are a lot of Joe Sixpack 56Kbps-modem users setting themselves up as Ultrapeers (sometimes without realising it - Gnucleus by default has "Ability to become an Ultrapeer" checked), then finding lots of people trying to upload/download info all at once down their tiny bit of bandwidth. This slows things down for everyone.
When you download a file, it is a direct TCP connection, independent of the two nodes' positions in the Gnutella network. If a file is slow to download, it's nothing to do with Gnutella, it may just be that the other person has a slow connection, or is throttling bandwidth, or that there's a bottleneck somewhere in between the two of you.
If someone who actually knows a reasonable amount about the Gnutella protocol could clarify/correct any of the above, I'd appreciate it.
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Never respond to junk mail or follow an "unsubscribe" link, since this will only confirm that the spammers have a live address. Also, do not use your e-mail address when participating in chat rooms. Finally, you should carefully review a Web site's privacy policy when performing online activities such as shopping and banking, to ensure that your e-mail address will not be shared with a third party. Keep in mind that MSN does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Which contradicts both the FAQ (which says they only do it with permission) and the resetting of profiles.
BTW, this arrived 4 days ago - technically before this happened, so they can probably get away with it in that sense.
Yes, electrons can exist in multiple places at once, but that is limited to very short distances - the planck length.
As I've said somewhere else, you can do diffraction experiments using electron beams. The distances involved there are 10^25 times the Planck length. (Atoms are ~10^-10m apart, the Planck length is 1.6*10^-35m)
Using a beam splitter you can show that the same photon exists in two positions miles apart from each other simultaneously. This is actually done in the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory.
I'd imagine that the effects of photons interfering with themselves are negligible compared to the overall interference of the two beams, composed of millions of (coherent) photons.
Let's see you do that with electrons, and I'll concede that they are particles in the same sense.
As far as I can see, the main problem with doing this is that electrons are far more likely to interact with the intervening matter. If it were possible to create a perfect vacuum, I see no reason why this couldn't be done with electrons (although if there is a good reason, I'd love to hear it)
Disclaimer: IANA Experimental Physicist, and I haven't studied Quantum Electrodynamics (yet - next year), which is needed to deal with this sort of thing more exactly.
When you perform the double slit experiment with a beam of electrons, you get virtually identical results to performing it with a laser. If you replace the photon detector with an electron detector, the results for this will also be the same.
Electron diffraction is very commonly used to study crystal structures, and to estimate the size of the nuclei of atoms. Diffraction is a wavelike effect.
In quantum mechanics, everything can be represented by a wavefunction, but this doesn't mean that everything is a wave. Similarly, and everything has quantised energy, momentum, etc, but this doesn't mean that everything is a particle. Photons, electrons, muons etc behave like particles under some circumstances, and waves in other situations.
It isn't possible to definitively say photons are waves, electrons are particles, because as far as we can tell, they are neither. They're strange quantum objects that obey certain postulates defined in terms of probabilities.
Slashdot Mirror
[For reference, this is with Mozilla 1.0 and Sun's JRE, either 1.3.1 and 1.4.0_01. YMMV with other VMs]
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100309
(Bugzilla blocks /. referrals)
Unless it's just the fact that the oil and gas are under fairly high pressure underground (the gushing effect isn't just to make the whole thing Freudian, you know)
[Sorry, but it had to be done by someone.]
Other than that, there is no permanent indexing - when you send out a search, it first goes to the nodes that you're connected to, who pass it on to their peers, who pass it on further ... and in the same way the search results are passed from peer to peer and eventually get back to you.
Therefore searching will often be slow until people learn to use the Ultrapeer system properly - currently there are a lot of Joe Sixpack 56Kbps-modem users setting themselves up as Ultrapeers (sometimes without realising it - Gnucleus by default has "Ability to become an Ultrapeer" checked), then finding lots of people trying to upload/download info all at once down their tiny bit of bandwidth. This slows things down for everyone.
When you download a file, it is a direct TCP connection, independent of the two nodes' positions in the Gnutella network. If a file is slow to download, it's nothing to do with Gnutella, it may just be that the other person has a slow connection, or is throttling bandwidth, or that there's a bottleneck somewhere in between the two of you.
If someone who actually knows a reasonable amount about the Gnutella protocol could clarify/correct any of the above, I'd appreciate it.
BTW, this arrived 4 days ago - technically before this happened, so they can probably get away with it in that sense.
Disclaimer: IANA Experimental Physicist, and I haven't studied Quantum Electrodynamics (yet - next year), which is needed to deal with this sort of thing more exactly.
- When you perform the double slit experiment with a beam of electrons, you get virtually identical results to performing it with a laser. If you replace the photon detector with an electron detector, the results for this will also be the same.
- Electron diffraction is very commonly used to study crystal structures, and to estimate the size of the nuclei of atoms. Diffraction is a wavelike effect.
In quantum mechanics, everything can be represented by a wavefunction, but this doesn't mean that everything is a wave. Similarly, and everything has quantised energy, momentum, etc, but this doesn't mean that everything is a particle. Photons, electrons, muons etc behave like particles under some circumstances, and waves in other situations.It isn't possible to definitively say photons are waves, electrons are particles, because as far as we can tell, they are neither. They're strange quantum objects that obey certain postulates defined in terms of probabilities.