haren't included either. My biggest want was to have the original 1977 Making of Star Wars documentary that showed how he created the "realistic fantasy" of the show. I haven't seen the DVD but I know it's a new doco.
Though to be honest the Episode V and VI ones were pretty lame, more of a hour long promo but the original making of satisfied the thirst of "how the fuck did they do that!" Especially all the experiments with sound.
Anyway I might be quietly surprised with the new doco BNHMB
I don't have a Mac but that statement just wants me to buy one now. For me it's obvious that anything I download from the web should be to the desktop. It's something I want to do now! I don't want to figure out in five minutes after i've done my browsing "where the hell did I put it?"
Yes I'm of those guys that never puts anything in MyDocuments.
Ciao
PS. You can tell Safari your preference folder for downloads. Jesus! I'm going to buy myself two of them preeetty iMacs.
a foot racer called Powell in 1787 attempted a four minute mile. In a trial he did it in 4 minutes 3 seconds. His time in the real event hasn't been recorded. The wager was 1000 guineas (78000 pounds in todays (british) money)
The first 4 minute mile was recorded in 1770 by one James Parrott
Marathon events including times of 2 hrs 11 minutes in 1753 and 2 hrs 10 minutes in 1769. This would have won gold until 1967 (yes, yes I know). The current record for the marathon in 2 hrs 4 minutes 55 seconds in 2003 (Paul Tergat of Kenya)
Also of interest, since 1912
- the pole vault has increased by 53% (where technical improvements are a major influence), as less technological dependent sports have these figures
- 23% for high jump, and
- 18% for long jump.
was broken, or at least within a few seconds of it, in the 18th century (see this weeks edition of New Scientist). The reason why we went backwards was that the Victorian British believed that athleticism should be an amateur pursuit. Before that it was competitive with the winner receiving money more than prestige (hence it was also well documented and timed - since the people who put up the money didn't really want to part with it). When I get home I can give details (NS even when I subscribe to the print addition doesn't allow me to look at the present edition's artciles)
I think the whole point is that women and men do have different ways of viewing THE SAME THING. Hence that's why you need women in CS (and physics and maths). We both have the same goals but maybe we have different ways of getting there.
The idea that women and men are different therefore there are subjects women should do and subjects men should do but not both(give or take a few percentage points) is the problem. We can't afford (wrt humanity's survival) to just have ONE WAY (the men's way) of looking at some very serious problems.
Hence we need to encourage even over-encourage women into the sciences. Hey, it's like you're trying to debug a program and you just can't find the reason, and so you ask someone and they pop over and have a look at your code and say after 30 seconds "oh, yeah you need to pass an empty string in that method" (whatever)
Now imagine that type of perceptive leap on a huge scale. That's what will happen with bringing women into the sciences will do.
Ciao
P.S. And of course when this is all done...any problems we can't then solve we're stuck with for a looooong time.
their OS to Apollo computers? But Sculley pulled the plug at the last minute bankrupting Apollo in the process since they invested so much energy in it.
you need to wait for heavy metals to be produced and distributed across the unviverse. you need both short lived stars (supernova by-products upto iron) and you need long lived stars (red-giants to make atoms upto uranium).
iron production can be done in stars about 100 million years old. red-giant production might be a minium of half a billion
plus you need to wait for the universe to cool down and some proto galawies need to form.
so you're looking at least at second generation stars made in some stable galaxies
my guess is about 2 billion years after the big bang...don't underestimate the need for a loooong term stable environment
then you need to take into account the production of life (hey we have oxygen now so things are getting easier:) So add 4.5 billion years to the above
I think nothing would help us more in dealing with our uncompromising nature is to find intelligent life nearby. it would take a long time for us to fuck up their life but by the time we could have we might have grown up
life is non-linear and you'll be surprised where the positive feedback comes from
...Apple ..Dell ...IBM and *talk* to a sales rep. I know how hard this is (not!) but asking Slashdot is kinda silly. Sure you might want some impartial advice but/. might not be the right place:) Ring these people and decide for yourself (you're a smart man, no?). From the media Apple is getting for its "out-of-the-box" clusters I would seriously put them as an option.
yes humans have oppossable thumbs and all. Great. But how adaptable are humans in space? Sure they can fix things but usually so they can survive the cold dark vacuum of space (a robot just doesn't die in space - or more specifically that it doesn't need to have oxygen - expect maybe for fuel:). So once again they will spend of their time just trying to survive like the explorers of old. I think it's time to rethink this.
To say just after 40 years or so of space exploration that we must have humans is a little premature for me. To be honest we don't even know if we prefer men or females, people without legs etc etc in space. Who the fuck knows right now. It's still early days. Right at this moment humans look like they can do a lot in space, but give NASA and the scientific community about 20 more years and these robots will start doing a lot more than just drilling 20 mm into a rock. Wait 100 years and i *think* that the gap between robots and humans will be even less ("hey they have two oppossable thumbs!")
Right now robots cost less and do more : humans get in the way. Or ask yourself this question : if we have 20 years to go to Mars, do you think we have enough technology to exploit all of the human adaptiness that makes us such great explorers? Or why not spend all of those billions of dollars and develop better robots and not better radiation proofing. In other words can we actually use our adaptiveness to space exploration's advantage.
And just to show you that I think they humans have a worth. I think humans should go to Mars but then stay there. That's what I call a true patriot. Look at the States, Australia, Latin America. Colonized by people who had no return journey (well, actually they were told differently). Because if we're really serious about this and not just showing how big our dicks are then this is an exploration I support. Permanent, high-risk exploration else, it's not worth the cost, because if they come back now its not exploration its just a scientific voyage (all well and good) and then we have to start the polictical process all over again. Humans are good at breeding so why not use that. Make a international treaty that we will send people there every 10-20 years and let NASA spend money on things like ecosystem and psychology reseach. In other words make a commitment that just doesn't fizzle out because of politics. I would support that! (Imagine music from Mars, literature, Martian family snaps - this is real exploration!)
In the meantime my money is on the robots, because in real life I want amazing pictures of Saturn, to see what methane oceans look like on Titan, to determine if there is life in the liquid subice oceans of Europa, etc
In the end, for me, Voyager is a lot more inspiring than Apollo any day.
goto www.apple.be and the 15G is 349 euro (without th 21% begian sales tax it's 289 euro)
fyi 40G is 549 euro
Have no idea if you're a troll or not - maybe you come from a EU country with 50% tax or something but since belgian is pretty much a representative country in the EU I think my prices above are a bit more representative too and so the yanks can make a better comparison QED
on the same wavelength: 1984 by George Orwell has to be one of the best stories ever written in the english language. A story that warns of the possible future if we don't be careful.
Non-fiction wise I would say "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Explaining *why* the West invaded the New World and not the other way around (even though it was a neck-and-neck race for a while). It is also one of the best books to try and teach aform of relativism but still within a scientific frameword. Just try and read it without breaking some of your (unconscience) racism.
(and to add salt to the festering wound) the only way Apple can make such well integrated software is by controlling both the hardware and the software part of the equation (though iTunes might be a counterargument..but i'll move on). This is called a *compromise* (americans you might not know what that word is:). Hence when you plug in a camera to a Mac, it opens up iPhoto and starts downloading any new pictures. Do that on a windows machine and I wonder how many "OK"'s you'll need to click before it does the blindlingly obvious.
Apple knows the risks it takes with such a closed system but after seeing the Tiger demo I'm kinda impressed and I think it's a direction worth pursuing. In other words, it's a compromise I'm willing to take.
Or a summary:
- Windows : proprietary software running on any Intel-compatible (cheap) hardware
- OSS Unixes : free OS running on most types of hardware.
- Apple : proprietary software and hardware with some software OSS to reduce the burden of doing everything themselves. But with guaranteed integration of hardware/software type gee-wiz things.
To me this looks like nice healthy competition and asking Apple to join one of the other bandwagons seems to be anti-choice. Dontyathink?
in australia we had a successful campaign in the 60-70s to convert to metric. It worked...but...we still like feet for height, since it is very convenient.
We can also help our american friends in europe by translating for them:) (2.54 cms per inch is imprinted in my brain until the day i die..or a few days before)
Ciao
P.S. Maybe we want a creative commons for measurements!?! I guess we call that time the 17th century
well in most of the continent a credit card is not a credit card like in UK, US and Australia. I don't know the right term so i'll just describe it to you : if I use my credit card to buy something then I have to pay it ALL back at the end/beginning of the month. Not 10% of the total - everything! Hence this is why most of the continent does not have the same consumer debt level as say the UK. I was lucky enough to get one of the last "real" credit cards before the government banned any new ones being accepted. But I had to ask and insist
In other words in the Continent the economy isn't based on consumer debt.
ciao
I actually haven't answered the question : On the Continent most people don't need a credit card - which is why they're so few of them.
"The president said some really cool things about space and stuff on the news and then we heard nothing." In a few weeks/months/years they'll be asking "why didn't NASA get off their fat butt and do something...gee the president gave you all the money you wanted."
Anyway this will be the spin that Fox/CNN will put on it since they themselves can only make a story about things you already know. Hence there is a *positive* spin story for George W Bush for free. Bush did all this work and NASA fucked it up again. I guess the best thing to do is to break up NASA and sell it to...umm...big multinational (ie American) military companies. Welfare for the rich! Split the cake up that all Americans own and give it to the Hyena's of business
this is just another way of diverting tax dollars from the people to big fat corporations (yes I am in Michael Moore mode here).
NASA is now a big pork barrel to allocate government funds from the tax payer (who would prefer - lets see - national health cover) to some nice (Republician?) states (Texan, Florida -anyone?). Yes, another way of bankrupting the government and selling its assets cheaply to big business making them even richer.
Laugh! Nearly turned South African.
Do people think that getting private enterprise is going to help some small guy who likes to tinker with rockets? Big surprise. The money will go where the most special interest groups are(remember them - they're not the Gay Marriage people or the Crack addicts for free drugs - they're...wait for it...big business. Jesus, we can't even get funding for how much sugar is too much due to their tactics. One person, one vote my ass)
i can handle your bad spelling and your weird paper siZes, but the amount of time and waste i had debugging software and using a innumerable amount of Java classes just to deal with dates would st&agger an american.
why? why? why did you need to recorrect a date format?
you purposely thought "lets fuck up every single program not developed in america for americans that tries to insert dates into a database"
there is no reason why you guys needed a new date system
"but it makes so much sense May 9, 2004"
who gives a fuck. i'm talking about databases, programs, things that need to talk to each other to make our modern world work. but no you just had to throw a spanner in the works.
and you guys probably think "would of" is good english
ciao and rot in hell
Slashdot Mirror
Though to be honest the Episode V and VI ones were pretty lame, more of a hour long promo but the original making of satisfied the thirst of "how the fuck did they do that!" Especially all the experiments with sound.
Anyway I might be quietly surprised with the new doco BNHMB
Ciao
ciao
PS Oh, I have no idea but with Tiger and CoreVideo coming soon-ish it should be fun
I found this one of the most interesting things for Tiger but no-one really commented if it was anything really new
ciao
Yes I'm of those guys that never puts anything in MyDocuments.
Ciao
PS. You can tell Safari your preference folder for downloads. Jesus! I'm going to buy myself two of them preeetty iMacs.
ciao
The first 4 minute mile was recorded in 1770 by one James Parrott
Marathon events including times of 2 hrs 11 minutes in 1753 and 2 hrs 10 minutes in 1769. This would have won gold until 1967 (yes, yes I know). The current record for the marathon in 2 hrs 4 minutes 55 seconds in 2003 (Paul Tergat of Kenya)
Also of interest, since 1912
- the pole vault has increased by 53% (where technical improvements are a major influence), as less technological dependent sports have these figures
- 23% for high jump, and
- 18% for long jump.
Ciao
Ciao
The idea that women and men are different therefore there are subjects women should do and subjects men should do but not both(give or take a few percentage points) is the problem. We can't afford (wrt humanity's survival) to just have ONE WAY (the men's way) of looking at some very serious problems.
Hence we need to encourage even over-encourage women into the sciences. Hey, it's like you're trying to debug a program and you just can't find the reason, and so you ask someone and they pop over and have a look at your code and say after 30 seconds "oh, yeah you need to pass an empty string in that method" (whatever)
Now imagine that type of perceptive leap on a huge scale. That's what will happen with bringing women into the sciences will do.
Ciao
P.S. And of course when this is all done...any problems we can't then solve we're stuck with for a looooong time.
Wired Mag (pro-Mac even before Slashdot jumped on the bandwagon :)
ciao
iron production can be done in stars about 100 million years old. red-giant production might be a minium of half a billion
plus you need to wait for the universe to cool down and some proto galawies need to form.
so you're looking at least at second generation stars made in some stable galaxies
my guess is about 2 billion years after the big bang...don't underestimate the need for a loooong term stable environment
then you need to take into account the production of life (hey we have oxygen now so things are getting easier :) So add 4.5 billion years to the above
see not so hard
ciao
life is non-linear and you'll be surprised where the positive feedback comes from
ciao
Ciao
..Dell
...IBM
and *talk* to a sales rep. I know how hard this is (not!) but asking Slashdot is kinda silly. Sure you might want some impartial advice but
ciao
To say just after 40 years or so of space exploration that we must have humans is a little premature for me. To be honest we don't even know if we prefer men or females, people without legs etc etc in space. Who the fuck knows right now. It's still early days. Right at this moment humans look like they can do a lot in space, but give NASA and the scientific community about 20 more years and these robots will start doing a lot more than just drilling 20 mm into a rock. Wait 100 years and i *think* that the gap between robots and humans will be even less ("hey they have two oppossable thumbs!")
Right now robots cost less and do more : humans get in the way. Or ask yourself this question : if we have 20 years to go to Mars, do you think we have enough technology to exploit all of the human adaptiness that makes us such great explorers? Or why not spend all of those billions of dollars and develop better robots and not better radiation proofing. In other words can we actually use our adaptiveness to space exploration's advantage.
And just to show you that I think they humans have a worth. I think humans should go to Mars but then stay there. That's what I call a true patriot. Look at the States, Australia, Latin America. Colonized by people who had no return journey (well, actually they were told differently). Because if we're really serious about this and not just showing how big our dicks are then this is an exploration I support. Permanent, high-risk exploration else, it's not worth the cost, because if they come back now its not exploration its just a scientific voyage (all well and good) and then we have to start the polictical process all over again. Humans are good at breeding so why not use that. Make a international treaty that we will send people there every 10-20 years and let NASA spend money on things like ecosystem and psychology reseach. In other words make a commitment that just doesn't fizzle out because of politics. I would support that! (Imagine music from Mars, literature, Martian family snaps - this is real exploration!)
In the meantime my money is on the robots, because in real life I want amazing pictures of Saturn, to see what methane oceans look like on Titan, to determine if there is life in the liquid subice oceans of Europa, etc
In the end, for me, Voyager is a lot more inspiring than Apollo any day.
Ciao
fyi 40G is 549 euro
Have no idea if you're a troll or not - maybe you come from a EU country with 50% tax or something but since belgian is pretty much a representative country in the EU I think my prices above are a bit more representative too and so the yanks can make a better comparison QED
ciao
Ciao
Non-fiction wise I would say "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Explaining *why* the West invaded the New World and not the other way around (even though it was a neck-and-neck race for a while). It is also one of the best books to try and teach aform of relativism but still within a scientific frameword. Just try and read it without breaking some of your (unconscience) racism.
Ciao
Apple knows the risks it takes with such a closed system but after seeing the Tiger demo I'm kinda impressed and I think it's a direction worth pursuing. In other words, it's a compromise I'm willing to take.
Or a summary:
- Windows : proprietary software running on any Intel-compatible (cheap) hardware
- OSS Unixes : free OS running on most types of hardware.
- Apple : proprietary software and hardware with some software OSS to reduce the burden of doing everything themselves. But with guaranteed integration of hardware/software type gee-wiz things.
To me this looks like nice healthy competition and asking Apple to join one of the other bandwagons seems to be anti-choice. Dontyathink?
Ciao
We can also help our american friends in europe by translating for them :) (2.54 cms per inch is imprinted in my brain until the day i die..or a few days before)
Ciao
P.S. Maybe we want a creative commons for measurements!?! I guess we call that time the 17th century
In other words in the Continent the economy isn't based on consumer debt.
ciao
I actually haven't answered the question : On the Continent most people don't need a credit card - which is why they're so few of them.
Anyway this will be the spin that Fox/CNN will put on it since they themselves can only make a story about things you already know. Hence there is a *positive* spin story for George W Bush for free. Bush did all this work and NASA fucked it up again. I guess the best thing to do is to break up NASA and sell it to...umm...big multinational (ie American) military companies. Welfare for the rich! Split the cake up that all Americans own and give it to the Hyena's of business
Ciao
NASA is now a big pork barrel to allocate government funds from the tax payer (who would prefer - lets see - national health cover) to some nice (Republician?) states (Texan, Florida -anyone?). Yes, another way of bankrupting the government and selling its assets cheaply to big business making them even richer.
Laugh! Nearly turned South African.
Do people think that getting private enterprise is going to help some small guy who likes to tinker with rockets? Big surprise. The money will go where the most special interest groups are(remember them - they're not the Gay Marriage people or the Crack addicts for free drugs - they're...wait for it...big business. Jesus, we can't even get funding for how much sugar is too much due to their tactics. One person, one vote my ass)
Ciao
Err, whatever...
i can handle your bad spelling and your weird paper siZes, but the amount of time and waste i had debugging software and using a innumerable amount of Java classes just to deal with dates would st&agger an american. why? why? why did you need to recorrect a date format? you purposely thought "lets fuck up every single program not developed in america for americans that tries to insert dates into a database" there is no reason why you guys needed a new date system "but it makes so much sense May 9, 2004" who gives a fuck. i'm talking about databases, programs, things that need to talk to each other to make our modern world work. but no you just had to throw a spanner in the works. and you guys probably think "would of" is good english ciao and rot in hell
google "measure theory"
lots of beautiful examples of finite "measure" (maths term for area)
ciao