I'm still so upset, I picked up the earlier slashdot story 2am my time, I couldn't sleep after that, all honour to our brave exploerers, and may God grant your families and loved ones peace.
I just hope that NASA is allowed to honour them this time, the recation to chanllenger (cutting back exploration), was an insult to the sacrifice of the astronaughts, Lets hope that Columbus's dead are honoured instead.
Ok, first thing this isn't any kind of teleportation as we have used the word in the past, however it does prove one thing, just as the uncertainty priciple can be gotten around, for this kind of transfer, so to we MAY be able to get around the obsticles that appear to prevent real teleportation, or maybe not, but lets not give up hope.:-)
Who knows the universe is stranger and more fun than our predecessor's ever imagined, and it will be the same for us.
The article says he sat at his computer for up to 18 hours a day, Like did he ever go to the dunny (for a crap/slash), wow I don't know about you but I carn't go even 8 hours with out a slash, maybe he worked from the throne.
P.S. for non-aussies dunny == throne == toilet == wc
Who would have thought that sitting in a chair for 8 hours straight without moving would be bad for their health?
I hope these researchers didn't have a big grant.
the actual article said 18 hours "They discovered the link when a 32-year-old man who sat at his computer terminal for up to 18 hours a day nearly died after he developed a blood clot in his leg which travelled to his lungs."
Earth to borring Guy "get a life", who spends that long in front of their monitor?
There's a subtle tautology involved in the author's claim that "the whole product" that cornered the market was superior.
This is not a tautology as a "tautology" is always true by definition (or trivially), (i.e.a tautology is some thing like all pixels of rgb value 0x00FF00
are green), this is a market droid truism and it's not true, the flaw lies in the false assumption that better or superiour means it's the top seller.
But better is relative, to the video professional, beta Max/Super beta Max was better because it was technically superiour, hence they mainly used it, so many things started life as Beta and where only copied to the inferior VHS to sell. As for his dat/with normal tapes, once again the profesionals use it.
It's always inspiring to see a "committed Christian" who really takes the seventh chapter of Matthew [biblegateway.com] to heart.
Note that it's Jesus Himself who's speaking in this passage.
And of course you wouldn't be judging me, nah nah, of course not, kind of creates a logical dilemma, when one uses such a simplistic interpretation, doesn't it.
How about we apply the whole word to this: i.e. 1john4:1
might be a good start, and of course
1Thessalonians5:21 is also relevent,
as is
Philippians1:7-10, the point being that we are also told to use discernment, and not just to take things on face value.
I have problems with the fact that on one hand the Amish seem to have incredible hubris about following all kind of teaching of man, (i.e. their own teaching which are not in GOD's word), but on the other hand they will grow stuff like tobbacco which kills people, what of thou shalt not murder, and the totally ignore
Matthew 10:16, the Amish seem to be more like as "harmless as serpents and as wise as doves"
But there not Geeks and they haven't got Computers so kill those Amish Bastards.
Seriously as a geek & a comitted christian I've always found the Amish & similar to be the ultimate in wierdo Hypocrites, various articles that try to make them look better have only made them look worse.
I admit I was surprised. More and more behavioral aspects of an organism are being defined by genetics these days. Look at how identical twins raised in different environments exhibit similar behavioral patterns, down to the occupations they choose. Nature vs. nurture's an ongoing battle, but over the past few years it's seemed that nature would win.
I have always suspected that this whole argument is futile, and that neither side will ever truly win, becuase neither is more important than the other, and in humans at least choice must be considered.
Yeah it's even worse for him, I applied his article recursively, and that was it, I couldn't finish it as I'd flushed down the Dunny (john, toilet, wc for those not of the Aussie persausion).
The article is just a dumb troll, the man is to stupid for me to spend any more time on. Bye
This is just not right game playing is supposed to be bad for you, next thing you know they'll be trying to fob us of with healthy MacDonalds, wouldn't that make Ronald mad?:-)
Heck, I've got to say it, some of you guys are so stingy!!!
"why would i go buy the book, when i just downloaded the pdf for free?"
Well to start with, at the moment I cannot afford to buy books as I'm on a benifit due to a break down: but reading is one of my greatest loves, and hence is therapeutic for me, so I need books to read, so what do I do. The loverly folks at Baen books let people download stuff free, so I get to read lots of loverly scifi & fantasy (my favorite's), so how do I feel about them, well would you believe it Grateful, so what will I do when I'm back in the work force, you've got it buy those awsesome books.
Other reasons for buying those books,
A physical book is just nicer than one on my box.
I'm not a stingy bugger like some of you.
I believe in rewarding people for doing good. (same as I intend to reward my open source brothers/sisters by writting OSS, [all true open sourcers should contribute some how, some time.])
Yup well this really only emphasizes a need I've seen for a while now, someone, somewhere somehow; the one device/technology which the world needs most, is the universal recycler. i.e. arbitary waste in, raw material for new things out, sum(waste) - sum(reproccessed waste) = 0.
Total zero waste industry/civilisation has to be our goal, the eco benefits are obvious, the social/techo/economic ones are pretty clear too!!.
Tech like this printing thing could be an awesome start in the right dirrection, if a method of recycling all it's products where to come out with it (given it makes it), then we could print out new device to replace broken one, and recycle old one into new printer cartrige.
But one thing is for sure, until we find a way to make true arbitairy recycling happen, we cannot afford to leave the recycling of new tech as an after thought for when the problem of it's waste gets beyound a joke.
Having read the article completely now I can only say I was right, this guy lambasts us for not creating a program which cannot be written, the proof I mentioned above is an existance proof, or rather a non-existance proof, which assumes that the perfect debugger/code checker exists and shows that this assumption leads to contradiction, hence that such a program does not exist, it's basically a form of russells paradox in the end, although differently formulated.
The long and the short of is the perfect debugger does not exist, we have long ago passed the point of diminishing returns, that is to half the distance from the best we have to the unabtainable perfect debugger, will take more efrort and creativity than it took to get what we already have, and to further halve that is still harder still.
Neither the less the new idea's are still worth looking at as we can still get better, but be warned the advances ahead will be smaller than the total sum behind.
Mathematicians have proved that you cannot create tools, which will guarantee that there are no bugs, I was taught it as a postgrad doing formal logic.
bugs in debuggers can interfere with debugging.
The environment of the debugger alone can change bug behaviour, or prevent the bug from, exhibiting the behaviour in question (i.e. no bug shows).
Lots has been done to help this area, but only a fool would think debugging can ever be easy, if it was so simple, regular and predictable, then they wouldn't be bugs.
...or is the military run by 7-year-old boys? In third grade, I too would have been very excited about a truck with missile launchers and a huge artillery system termed "Crusader".
Don't even get me started on the names of operations. "Infinite Justice", anybody? It sounds like something out of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
That's because it is, they get all there stuff from kid's toon stuff.
Only a fool makes these kind of broad sweeping, predictions, and the ones in some of the comments, we'll see, we can say this much for sure linux is here for a good while (so long as us linux heads are around anyhow), yes linux on the desktop has arrived (it arrived before those lame brains all started saying it never would:-) ), as for the popularity contest, (not that it matters), but yeah we probably will get to #2 or #3, will we get #1? most likely but who can say, will M$ keep this spot forever? of course not! all empire have there day.
If I was to predict, I'd say that eventually, open source OS's will kill propriety crap, but that assumes that a large proportion of the world grows a brain, or fashion does something intelligent, by some fluke.
The one thing I'll predict is that: the future will surprise us all!!!, (safe bet it always does).
Also you need to whatch things like the height of your desktop (the surface the keyboard and mouse sit on), if it is even a cm to high or low for you, you will have problems (pain in wrists, arms, sholders), having somewhere comfortable to rest them when you think is good too, or go for a (walk, cuppa, whatever) whilst thinking. If your thinking what to type next you don't need to have, your hands at the ready, if it's a long think you don't need to be at the keyboard at all.
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All you've done is prove that you have no interest in the discussions, on/. , forgive me for being obvious, but the soln is real simple, "g o f i n d a s i t e y o u l i k e", or make your own, this is/. it's like it is because most of us like it that way, if you don't like it then, you are not a/. geek (maybe not even a geek), so go find a site you like. Like how dumb are you???
The only things I don't like about/. is:
1. Idiots like you, who can only whinge that/. is/. and not some other site.
2. Trolls who post links to some guys enourmous rectial cavity: (hint this is not a gay porn site, so your in the wrong place).
3. M$ Trolls, who complain becuase we give tiny sensitive ittle M$ a hard time.
& the Trolls.
if we could get rid of all you Troll types/. would be as near to perfect as I could hope for.
Slashdot is greater than 1 million strong (members/visitors).
sorry to be a party pooper, but you'd need to have a by country break down on that, I mean I'm an Aussie I can influence things here, but no US rep will give a damm what I think, I can't vote for them.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it have a sister called Jill. :-)
What drug are you on?, how can a worm operrate in a secure manner?, is that like a shark eating you gently?
I just hope that NASA is allowed to honour them this time, the recation to chanllenger (cutting back exploration), was an insult to the sacrifice of the astronaughts, Lets hope that Columbus's dead are honoured instead.
Who knows the universe is stranger and more fun than our predecessor's ever imagined, and it will be the same for us.
P.S. for non-aussies dunny == throne == toilet == wc
Ooops too late I guess as he's dead
I hope these researchers didn't have a big grant.
the actual article said 18 hours "They discovered the link when a 32-year-old man who sat at his computer terminal for up to 18 hours a day nearly died after he developed a blood clot in his leg which travelled to his lungs."
Earth to borring Guy "get a life", who spends that long in front of their monitor?
This is not a tautology as a "tautology" is always true by definition (or trivially), (i.e.a tautology is some thing like all pixels of rgb value 0x00FF00 are green), this is a market droid truism and it's not true, the flaw lies in the false assumption that better or superiour means it's the top seller.
But better is relative, to the video professional, beta Max/Super beta Max was better because it was technically superiour, hence they mainly used it, so many things started life as Beta and where only copied to the inferior VHS to sell. As for his dat/with normal tapes, once again the profesionals use it.
And of course you wouldn't be judging me, nah nah, of course not, kind of creates a logical dilemma, when one uses such a simplistic interpretation, doesn't it.
How about we apply the whole word to this: i.e. 1john4:1 might be a good start, and of course 1Thessalonians5:21 is also relevent, as is Philippians1:7-10, the point being that we are also told to use discernment, and not just to take things on face value.
I have problems with the fact that on one hand the Amish seem to have incredible hubris about following all kind of teaching of man, (i.e. their own teaching which are not in GOD's word), but on the other hand they will grow stuff like tobbacco which kills people, what of thou shalt not murder, and the totally ignore Matthew 10:16, the Amish seem to be more like as "harmless as serpents and as wise as doves"
Seriously as a geek & a comitted christian I've always found the Amish & similar to be the ultimate in wierdo Hypocrites, various articles that try to make them look better have only made them look worse.
I have always suspected that this whole argument is futile, and that neither side will ever truly win, becuase neither is more important than the other, and in humans at least choice must be considered.
Yeah, Learned anything Mitnick?, You got what you deserved, why should I have any sympathy for you?
Does someone really always make one of these lame comments about do we need that much, blah blah, or does slashdot pay someone to do it? :-)
The article is just a dumb troll, the man is to stupid for me to spend any more time on. Bye
This is just not right game playing is supposed to be bad for you, next thing you know they'll be trying to fob us of with healthy MacDonalds, wouldn't that make Ronald mad? :-)
"why would i go buy the book, when i just downloaded the pdf for free?"
Well to start with, at the moment I cannot afford to buy books as I'm on a benifit due to a break down: but reading is one of my greatest loves, and hence is therapeutic for me, so I need books to read, so what do I do. The loverly folks at Baen books let people download stuff free, so I get to read lots of loverly scifi & fantasy (my favorite's), so how do I feel about them, well would you believe it Grateful, so what will I do when I'm back in the work force, you've got it buy those awsesome books.
Other reasons for buying those books,
(same as I intend to reward my open source brothers/sisters by writting OSS, [all true open sourcers should contribute some how, some time.])
Total zero waste industry/civilisation has to be our goal, the eco benefits are obvious, the social/techo/economic ones are pretty clear too!!.
Tech like this printing thing could be an awesome start in the right dirrection, if a method of recycling all it's products where to come out with it (given it makes it), then we could print out new device to replace broken one, and recycle old one into new printer cartrige.
But one thing is for sure, until we find a way to make true arbitairy recycling happen, we cannot afford to leave the recycling of new tech as an after thought for when the problem of it's waste gets beyound a joke.
The long and the short of is the perfect debugger does not exist, we have long ago passed the point of diminishing returns, that is to half the distance from the best we have to the unabtainable perfect debugger, will take more efrort and creativity than it took to get what we already have, and to further halve that is still harder still.
Neither the less the new idea's are still worth looking at as we can still get better, but be warned the advances ahead will be smaller than the total sum behind.
Lots has been done to help this area, but only a fool would think debugging can ever be easy, if it was so simple, regular and predictable, then they wouldn't be bugs.
That's because it is, they get all there stuff from kid's toon stuff.
If I was to predict, I'd say that eventually, open source OS's will kill propriety crap, but that assumes that a large proportion of the world grows a brain, or fashion does something intelligent, by some fluke.
The one thing I'll predict is that: the future will surprise us all!!!, (safe bet it always does).
Also you need to whatch things like the height of your desktop (the surface the keyboard and mouse sit on), if it is even a cm to high or low for you, you will have problems (pain in wrists, arms, sholders), having somewhere comfortable to rest them when you think is good too, or go for a (walk, cuppa, whatever) whilst thinking. If your thinking what to type next you don't need to have, your hands at the ready, if it's a long think you don't need to be at the keyboard at all.
The only things I don't like about /. is:
- 1. Idiots like you, who can only whinge that
/. is /. and not some other site.
- 2. Trolls who post links to some guys enourmous rectial cavity: (hint this is not a gay porn site, so your in the wrong place).
- 3. M$ Trolls, who complain becuase we give tiny sensitive ittle M$ a hard time.
- & the Trolls.
if we could get rid of all you Troll typesWhat you mean not telling lies like enron & others.
sorry to be a party pooper, but you'd need to have a by country break down on that, I mean I'm an Aussie I can influence things here, but no US rep will give a damm what I think, I can't vote for them.