Technically all matter "creates" gravity (I'm with you on the create or cause thing, I have no idea). The pen on your desk attracts you too, it's just small so you don't get pulled toward it. Not important to the discussion, but details rarely are...
I live in New Mexico which is (terrible Latin pun ahead) state-a non grata to our carrier, US West so all I can do is live vicariously through all you people with your DSL and cable modems. Damn you US West! I'm just hoping that the merger/takeover by Qwest will improve things. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.:)
I setup 3 network cards in one system at work with little problems. The real time waster was that I didn't realize I was using a regular cable I made instead of a crossover cable like I should have since it was NIC to NIC. oops. I'll never make that stupid-ass mistake again. Other than that, it went pretty well and easily even though I had never done even 2 cards in one machine before.
I was wondering if anything else could account for the redshift in the matter that they saw. I don't doubt the scientists, there's just something about that I can't put my finger on that feels a little weird. Not a physicist (or a good speller), just curious.
I don't suppose it would be possible to get a list of the domains that didn't pay, would it? Not for anything nasty, I just want to make sure I don't support them accidently.
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I think the previous poster was refering to the way 'Pi' dealt with those issues. While 'Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land' and 'Good Will Hunting' may be good movies that have math included in their plots, math is an important part of 'Pi' and the movie doesn't shy away from it. 'Pi' also dares to make statements about religion and the connections to math in the world that other movies don't make. 'Pi' isn't for everybody but do yourself a favor and at least see it so you can experience it for yourself. And of course, I recommend seeing it on DVD, if you have the means.
Corporations do not have to become governments in order to have that power. In addition to the intellectual property arguments made by other responses to this comment, corporations write laws and pay congresspeople to pass them every single day in the USA. Beyond the obvious things like writing laws and donating to candidate's coffers if they "support" corporate causes, companies mire up the enforcment of laws they don't like in the courts, they get around fines (especially within the EPA) by stalling and "negotiating" with the government. William Greider has written extensively on this topic, I suggest you check him out. I recommend 'Who Will Tell The People' for a good intro to his work.
The Scientific American Frontiers program on PBS here in the US did a show awhile about answering some of life's little questions and one of the segments was about this topic. They talked to some guys in Atlanta (I think) where they modeled a huge traffic tunnel to find out the best ways to get traffic jams under control and how to take care of accidents. They also did a talk with the guys from LANL who modeled their entire city. They even gave the city people with tasks to perform and places to go in certain time frames. It was really neat and if the show reruns in your area, try to catch it. As a semi-side note, the Scientific American Frontiers program is usually really good, it's one of my favorites.
I just finished reading Stephenson's nano-epic 'The Diamon Age' and this (as well as the other) nations of the mind, as opposed to nations of land, remind me greatly of the tribes and philes from that book. For those who haven't read the book, it's set in the future where people of common interest and belief form their own countries. Since the information network allows people to disregard national land boundries, these philes come to be the defining boundries between peoples of the world. A very interesting concept to be sure, and one that I think will come to have more and more significance in the years to come.
The US seems to be the only country in the world that has so little faith in it's citizens that those in charge feel the need to protect the citizenry from fiction, nudity, and "foul" language. The worst thing is, that American parents go right along with it, fooling themselves into believing that it's helping. Instead, all it's doing is creating a new generation of kids who will grow up to give parental control over to some other arbitrary authority figure. Parents need to teach their children about the human body and about so-called foul language, then it won't be so much more appealing as a forbidden fruit. If the worst thing an American kid does this year is see Nicole Kidman naked or hear the South Park kids cussing up a storm, this would quickly become a much better place to live.
Can somebody post some URLs for some Linux CPU temp monitors? I looked on Freshmeat but only found something called/proc/health that didn't even compile. Thanks.
The GPL is based on a philosophy. It's not a philosophy that everyone appreciates and like all philosophies, it has it's proponents and it's opponents. If you happen to like the BSD licenses better, feel free to use them for your program. It's up to the author of the program to choose which license suits their particular code-philosophy and really, it's nobody else's business. Just as your religion is not my business, and mine isn't your concern. One is not better than the other.
Also,
I agree that some good comments get moderated down just because they are anti-GPL but that is the fault of a few moderators, not all of them (us, I should say sometimes). All moderators have the power to remoderate comments that they feel have been unfairly downgraded and to tell Rob and Co. about any perceived misuse. Labeling all moderators is stupid since it's not one group, the roster rotates between all people with accounts who haven't checked the box saying they don't want to moderate. If you see moderators seemingly misusing their power to further their beliefs and not helping the discussion, please, for Pete's sake, email Rob and tell him about it. Don't just sit and complain.
From everything I read, Kubrick approved the use of computer inserted figures to cover some of the more "offending" bits in the orgy scene but the studio did the actual editing after his death. I cannot in good conscience approve of someone else editing Kubrick's vision (being one of the only directors who actually had a vision for his movies) but to tell the truth, the CG manipulation didn't hurt too much since the focus of the scene was not the sex or private parts.
How about a copy of the posting that those green card lawyers sent to Usenet? Probably not the first instance of what we now call "spam" but definately the first bigtime one where people called attention to it. Archiving spam is a pretty lame concept but no one can deny that it has had a huge impact on the lives of everyone who spends even a little time on the net.
While you might think that because of the huge amounts of money thrown at ad houses, I don't think that's true of watching while muted especially. Most commercial directors aren't good enough to get their message across without both spoken words and images. Those that are that good are a danger to humanity if they continue to work in advertising.:)
This doesn't surprise me at all really. Before I went to college, I watched tons of TV and only used my parents computer to program an hour or so a day. Once in college, I only turned the TV on for certain good shows (Simpsons, Homicide, Charlie Rose, etc) but I was on my personal computer all the time. Now, I usually have the TV on behind me while I'm on my computer so I have something to listen to. How would that rate on the poll? I'm not really watching the TV but it's on.
You sound like you read "The Innovator's Dilemma" recently. Correct? If it's just a coincedence that you use the same terms as that book, you might enjoy reading it.
I believe the article was talking about Neil and Buzz because Collins would have been able to return to Earth. Although you're right, he would have suffered the same fate if he was also stranded.
This would have been too bad but it's something that would have had to happen. Long, sad transcripts of the dying days of two heroes would have filled the newspapers everyday and it probably would have been the death of the space program.
If you use Pine, there is a package called PGP4Pine which you can find at freshmeat. It lets you use PGP seamlessly in Pine. I haven't personally had time to set it up but a bunch of my friends use it and recomend it.
I'd like to ask a question I read in an article about IPv6 a while ago. Now that IPv6 uses : to seperate different sections of the address, how do you specify ports? If I use 1.1.1.1:33 or whatever right now, how do you do that in IPv6? Might be a dumb question but I haven't seen the answer yet.
Stop reading it. Wow, I'm no genius or anything, that came to me in a flash of insight. Jeez, since nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to read it, don't read it! That's the lesson for today, print it out and think about it a bit.
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Technically all matter "creates" gravity (I'm with you on the create or cause thing, I have no idea). The pen on your desk attracts you too, it's just small so you don't get pulled toward it. Not important to the discussion, but details rarely are...
I live in New Mexico which is (terrible Latin pun ahead) state-a non grata to our carrier, US West so all I can do is live vicariously through all you people with your DSL and cable modems. Damn you US West! I'm just hoping that the merger/takeover by Qwest will improve things. :)
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.
I setup 3 network cards in one system at work with little problems. The real time waster was that I didn't realize I was using a regular cable I made instead of a crossover cable like I should have since it was NIC to NIC. oops. I'll never make that stupid-ass mistake again. Other than that, it went pretty well and easily even though I had never done even 2 cards in one machine before.
I was wondering if anything else could account for the redshift in the matter that they saw. I don't doubt the scientists, there's just something about that I can't put my finger on that feels a little weird. Not a physicist (or a good speller), just curious.
I don't suppose it would be possible to get a list of the domains that didn't pay, would it? Not for anything nasty, I just want to make sure I don't support them accidently.
I think the previous poster was refering to the way 'Pi' dealt with those issues. While 'Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land' and 'Good Will Hunting' may be good movies that have math included in their plots, math is an important part of 'Pi' and the movie doesn't shy away from it. 'Pi' also dares to make statements about religion and the connections to math in the world that other movies don't make. 'Pi' isn't for everybody but do yourself a favor and at least see it so you can experience it for yourself. And of course, I recommend seeing it on DVD, if you have the means.
Corporations do not have to become governments in order to have that power. In addition to the intellectual property arguments made by other responses to this comment, corporations write laws and pay congresspeople to pass them every single day in the USA. Beyond the obvious things like writing laws and donating to candidate's coffers if they "support" corporate causes, companies mire up the enforcment of laws they don't like in the courts, they get around fines (especially within the EPA) by stalling and "negotiating" with the government. William Greider has written extensively on this topic, I suggest you check him out. I recommend 'Who Will Tell The People' for a good intro to his work.
The Scientific American Frontiers program on PBS here in the US did a show awhile about answering some of life's little questions and one of the segments was about this topic. They talked to some guys in Atlanta (I think) where they modeled a huge traffic tunnel to find out the best ways to get traffic jams under control and how to take care of accidents. They also did a talk with the guys from LANL who modeled their entire city. They even gave the city people with tasks to perform and places to go in certain time frames. It was really neat and if the show reruns in your area, try to catch it. As a semi-side note, the Scientific American Frontiers program is usually really good, it's one of my favorites.
I just finished reading Stephenson's nano-epic 'The Diamon Age' and this (as well as the other) nations of the mind, as opposed to nations of land, remind me greatly of the tribes and philes from that book. For those who haven't read the book, it's set in the future where people of common interest and belief form their own countries. Since the information network allows people to disregard national land boundries, these philes come to be the defining boundries between peoples of the world. A very interesting concept to be sure, and one that I think will come to have more and more significance in the years to come.
The US seems to be the only country in the world that has so little faith in it's citizens that those in charge feel the need to protect the citizenry from fiction, nudity, and "foul" language. The worst thing is, that American parents go right along with it, fooling themselves into believing that it's helping. Instead, all it's doing is creating a new generation of kids who will grow up to give parental control over to some other arbitrary authority figure. Parents need to teach their children about the human body and about so-called foul language, then it won't be so much more appealing as a forbidden fruit. If the worst thing an American kid does this year is see Nicole Kidman naked or hear the South Park kids cussing up a storm, this would quickly become a much better place to live.
Can somebody post some URLs for some Linux CPU temp monitors? I looked on Freshmeat but only found something called /proc/health that didn't even compile. Thanks.
The GPL is based on a philosophy. It's not a philosophy that everyone appreciates and like all philosophies, it has it's proponents and it's opponents. If you happen to like the BSD licenses better, feel free to use them for your program. It's up to the author of the program to choose which license suits their particular code-philosophy and really, it's nobody else's business. Just as your religion is not my business, and mine isn't your concern. One is not better than the other.
Also,
I agree that some good comments get moderated down just because they are anti-GPL but that is the fault of a few moderators, not all of them (us, I should say sometimes). All moderators have the power to remoderate comments that they feel have been unfairly downgraded and to tell Rob and Co. about any perceived misuse. Labeling all moderators is stupid since it's not one group, the roster rotates between all people with accounts who haven't checked the box saying they don't want to moderate. If you see moderators seemingly misusing their power to further their beliefs and not helping the discussion, please, for Pete's sake, email Rob and tell him about it. Don't just sit and complain.
From everything I read, Kubrick approved the use of computer inserted figures to cover some of the more "offending" bits in the orgy scene but the studio did the actual editing after his death. I cannot in good conscience approve of someone else editing Kubrick's vision (being one of the only directors who actually had a vision for his movies) but to tell the truth, the CG manipulation didn't hurt too much since the focus of the scene was not the sex or private parts.
How about a copy of the posting that those green card lawyers sent to Usenet? Probably not the first instance of what we now call "spam" but definately the first bigtime one where people called attention to it. Archiving spam is a pretty lame concept but no one can deny that it has had a huge impact on the lives of everyone who spends even a little time on the net.
Why should I believe one Anonymous Coward over another? Do you work for SGI? Do you have any more credibility than that other guy, nope?
While you might think that because of the huge amounts of money thrown at ad houses, I don't think that's true of watching while muted especially. Most commercial directors aren't good enough to get their message across without both spoken words and images. Those that are that good are a danger to humanity if they continue to work in advertising. :)
This doesn't surprise me at all really. Before I went to college, I watched tons of TV and only used my parents computer to program an hour or so a day. Once in college, I only turned the TV on for certain good shows (Simpsons, Homicide, Charlie Rose, etc) but I was on my personal computer all the time. Now, I usually have the TV on behind me while I'm on my computer so I have something to listen to. How would that rate on the poll? I'm not really watching the TV but it's on.
You sound like you read "The Innovator's Dilemma" recently. Correct? If it's just a coincedence that you use the same terms as that book, you might enjoy reading it.
I believe the article was talking about Neil and Buzz because Collins would have been able to return to Earth. Although you're right, he would have suffered the same fate if he was also stranded.
This would have been too bad but it's something that would have had to happen. Long, sad transcripts of the dying days of two heroes would have filled the newspapers everyday and it probably would have been the death of the space program.
Thanks. Any info about why they decided to use ':' instead of the trusty '.'?
If you use Pine, there is a package called PGP4Pine which you can find at
freshmeat. It lets you use PGP seamlessly in Pine. I haven't personally had time to set it up but a bunch of my friends use it and recomend it.
I'd like to ask a question I read in an article about IPv6 a while ago. Now that IPv6 uses : to seperate different sections of the address, how do you specify ports? If I use 1.1.1.1:33 or whatever right now, how do you do that in IPv6? Might be a dumb question but I haven't seen the answer yet.
I have to read anything posted by 'the monkey flying around in my butt'
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Stop reading it. Wow, I'm no genius or anything, that came to me in a flash of insight. Jeez, since nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to read it, don't read it! That's the lesson for today, print it out and think about it a bit.