"Microwave heating is sometimes incorrectly explained as a rotational resonance of water molecules, but this is incorrect: such resonance only occurs at much higher frequencies, in the tens of gigahertz. Moreover, large industrial/commercial microwave ovens operating in the 900 MHz range also heat water and food perfectly well."
Except that the edges of the ring were just a small angle off being lined up with us, like the rings of Saturn. It was obviously done just to look "cool".
There's actually now a binary jdk port that you can download for x86 FreeBSD called diablo. I discovered it when updating ports one day. Rather than have to download three seperate files yourself, two of which require a stupid registration and login at Sun, you download just one from one site, and then it doesn't have to be compiled. It made the whole process a lot less painful. Sure, you do still have to download it yourself, but once you've done that it's installed right quickly. It's an improvement.
What? You've got it exactly backwards. Energy isn't the problem; we've got plenty of that. FUEL is the problem. We don't use oil to generate our electricity (for the most part), and we don't use electricity to power our cars, except for this ridiculously expensive prototype, anyway.
Intolerant? I don't think that word means what you think it means. If anything, you're the intolerant one for not tolerating these ads. Offensive you could have gotten away with, however.
Now, I'm not saying that it isn't a psycho point of view... but so is the whole concept of Mutual Assured Destruction. Actually, in this case, simply Assured Destruction. No one really wants to wipe out Iran's entire population. However, it might be the case that the only thing that would prevent Iran's president from using a nuclear weapon against another nation is the threat of destroying the entire country. It is a terrible thing to do to a country full of innocent people, but then so is the initial act of aggression. We need to threaten people who might do that simply so we can prevent the whole mess from ever occurring. And yes, I suppose that it is psycho, but such is war.
But even better than that are all those ads you hear on the radio now for High Definition HD radio. It makes me cringe every time I hear it: how can they not realize what they're saying and how stupid it makes them sound?
It's not bad math, though, if the percentages are small: say, around.5%. Then simply adding the percentages makes for a pretty good approximation. Doing it that way you get 3.5%, and doing it the mathematically correct way you get 3.45%. Pretty close. And the smaller the percentages, the closer the approximation is.
The idea of a solid state drive for swap is actually pretty terrible. The most common solid state technology, flash, has only a limited number of writes available to it. Swap would use 'em all up pretty quickly, and then you'd have a dead drive in no time. You'd be much better off just adding more RAM and having no swap on the solid state drive at all.
Except that that's still not true. Even though the expected value of the winnings exceeds the price of the ticket, the expected value of years between wins still way exceeds your lifespan. If you'd die of old age many hundreds of thousands of times before winning, you're probably better off not buying a ticket at all. Just play poker instead.
The thing that confuses me is why any of the employees would still be holding on to any stock. It's way overvalued, and it's all fueled by speculation, and there's no way Google could do anything in reality that could justify the current stock price. It's all stupidity.
Also, I believe that the insiders do hold most of the shares, though I can't prove this for you with a link. So the stock price could tank and it wouldn't affect the things that give them actual income. One thing I love about Google - in fact, the only thing I love about Google - is that they've basically told Wall Street to piss off. More corporations need to do that. They're leeches and they produce absolutely nothing!
Yeah, in fact as I was typing it I realized that what I said didn't necessarily imply that all states had to occur. But I remembered from when I read about the concept that there is a reason that all - or most - states would occur, and you've provided it for me. Still, I wonder if there are still impossible states. Perhaps the state where every quantum unit of volume is filled with matter is impossible, as the gravitational attraction would turn it into a universe-sized black hole? I haven't thought about it that much. The main attraction of the idea is the thought that everything that can happen in 13.7 billion years already has, somewhere out there. Somewhere out there, there are other us-es, talking about this very subject. There's just something I like about the idea.
Alas, we don't know that the universe is infinite...
But the observable universe has bounds. We can't observe anything more than 13.7 billion light years away, since the light from beyond that hasn't reached us yet. So the total number of states of any particular 13.7 billion-light-year-radius sphere is indeed finite, and if there's an infinite number of them, then every possible state occurs.
The dichotomy that we can at one moment be so attached to something like a video game character, a cat, a dog, a car, a robot, etc. yet still be such cold callous creatures to each other is one that always amazes me.
There is only a dichotomy here until you understand that we are, the vast majority of us, NOT cold, callous creatures to each other. In fact, there is such an strong inborn resistance to harming other members of our species that in World War II, only 25% of US infantrymen - at most - fired their guns. The rest were so unwilling to kill, even in wartime with that much on the line, that they simply didn't shoot at all. It was more or less the same in all the other nations' armies as well. People generally do not want to hurt other people, and those who do, we call sociopaths. Most people don't even like to CONFRONT other people! It's usually only in groups that human beings can become truly dangerous, where there is group pressure, and the one giving the orders is not the one carrying them out.
Read the book "On killing" for some surprising truths about people.
Well, then it isn't really his country. If he calls it "our" country and he isn't American, then that's an incorrect use of language. That was my point, really.
SIR, you are aware that the US has something called the NSA that specializes in cracking such codes? Are you aware that there have been organizations in virtually every country that has ever been at war that specialize in trying to decipher enemy communications? Are you aware that the Americans and British somehow cracked every code the Japanese used in the second world war even though Japanese is not the primary language of the United States?
Mandatory full disclosure is stupid and wrong. There is NO reason that companies should not have the right to sell people hardware without being forced to give up secrets about the hardware. You do not have the right to force others to play by your misguided morality. If a hardware company does not want to give you schematics, you have the right not to buy from them.
. . . If you buy a piece of hardware, with your own money, which you earned by your own efforts by hand or by brain, then that hardware belongs to you. And that means that you are privy to any secret it embodies {like those specs you need to write a driver}. This is a Common Law Property Right.
If the authorities would just enforce this existing law
You do have the right to do whatever you want with whatever hardware you buy. You know that, right? You have the right to take it apart and use an electron microscope and reverse engineer the chips and pcbs that make it up. Oh, but that's not what you wanted? You wanted them to GIVE YOU the specs and plans that the company used to design and build it? Well, too bad, because guess what: you DIDN'T buy that when you bought the hardware. You bought a pcb with ICs on it, and that's all you get. If you think that the law should force companies to give you something that you didn't buy from them, then you are a totalitarian.
But a 15,000 rpm SCSI drive is probably a bit of a screamer as well. What does it sound like with something like that in your computer? Is it tolerable?
What I was thinking of doing was getting two SATA drives and putting them in a RAID-1 array, as I understand that that improves latency a fair bit, and is definitely good for redundancy. Maybe having a high speed SCSI drive for the OS AND the SATA RAID-1 array for everything else would be worth trying...
That is true - and it's often needed for some special operations, and for tools such as unrar on FreeBSD (and probably Linux too). My point, however, was that having the utilities doing the globbing should be the default. If they did that, then something like DOS's "rename *.bat *.bak", for instance, would actually be possible on unix; as it is now, any such operation would have to use quotes, as you said.
It sure would be nice if Unix could evolve and improve things like the commandline. Also nice would be if they could simply disallow filenames starting with "-", thus making "-" a special character and making the interpretation of command line arguments unambiguous. I know that all of these things *could* be done, but they aren't. I've long pondered making a version of something like NetBSD with these little improvements in it, or better yet, making patches that people could apply to their existing systems...
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No they are NOT tuned to the resonance frequency of water:
"Microwave heating is sometimes incorrectly explained as a rotational resonance of water molecules, but this is incorrect: such resonance only occurs at much higher frequencies, in the tens of gigahertz. Moreover, large industrial/commercial microwave ovens operating in the 900 MHz range also heat water and food perfectly well."
Except that the edges of the ring were just a small angle off being lined up with us, like the rings of Saturn. It was obviously done just to look "cool".
There's actually now a binary jdk port that you can download for x86 FreeBSD called diablo. I discovered it when updating ports one day. Rather than have to download three seperate files yourself, two of which require a stupid registration and login at Sun, you download just one from one site, and then it doesn't have to be compiled. It made the whole process a lot less painful. Sure, you do still have to download it yourself, but once you've done that it's installed right quickly. It's an improvement.
". . . attitude towards strangers or of the unknown . . ."
Sir, you do realize that you just proved yourself wrong, don't you?
What? You've got it exactly backwards. Energy isn't the problem; we've got plenty of that. FUEL is the problem. We don't use oil to generate our electricity (for the most part), and we don't use electricity to power our cars, except for this ridiculously expensive prototype, anyway.
Intolerant? I don't think that word means what you think it means. If anything, you're the intolerant one for not tolerating these ads. Offensive you could have gotten away with, however.
Now, I'm not saying that it isn't a psycho point of view... but so is the whole concept of Mutual Assured Destruction. Actually, in this case, simply Assured Destruction. No one really wants to wipe out Iran's entire population. However, it might be the case that the only thing that would prevent Iran's president from using a nuclear weapon against another nation is the threat of destroying the entire country. It is a terrible thing to do to a country full of innocent people, but then so is the initial act of aggression. We need to threaten people who might do that simply so we can prevent the whole mess from ever occurring. And yes, I suppose that it is psycho, but such is war.
But even better than that are all those ads you hear on the radio now for High Definition HD radio. It makes me cringe every time I hear it: how can they not realize what they're saying and how stupid it makes them sound?
It's not bad math, though, if the percentages are small: say, around .5%. Then simply adding the percentages makes for a pretty good approximation. Doing it that way you get 3.5%, and doing it the mathematically correct way you get 3.45%. Pretty close. And the smaller the percentages, the closer the approximation is.
The idea of a solid state drive for swap is actually pretty terrible. The most common solid state technology, flash, has only a limited number of writes available to it. Swap would use 'em all up pretty quickly, and then you'd have a dead drive in no time. You'd be much better off just adding more RAM and having no swap on the solid state drive at all.
Except that that's still not true. Even though the expected value of the winnings exceeds the price of the ticket, the expected value of years between wins still way exceeds your lifespan. If you'd die of old age many hundreds of thousands of times before winning, you're probably better off not buying a ticket at all. Just play poker instead.
The thing that confuses me is why any of the employees would still be holding on to any stock. It's way overvalued, and it's all fueled by speculation, and there's no way Google could do anything in reality that could justify the current stock price. It's all stupidity.
Also, I believe that the insiders do hold most of the shares, though I can't prove this for you with a link. So the stock price could tank and it wouldn't affect the things that give them actual income. One thing I love about Google - in fact, the only thing I love about Google - is that they've basically told Wall Street to piss off. More corporations need to do that. They're leeches and they produce absolutely nothing!
Yeah, in fact as I was typing it I realized that what I said didn't necessarily imply that all states had to occur. But I remembered from when I read about the concept that there is a reason that all - or most - states would occur, and you've provided it for me. Still, I wonder if there are still impossible states. Perhaps the state where every quantum unit of volume is filled with matter is impossible, as the gravitational attraction would turn it into a universe-sized black hole? I haven't thought about it that much. The main attraction of the idea is the thought that everything that can happen in 13.7 billion years already has, somewhere out there. Somewhere out there, there are other us-es, talking about this very subject. There's just something I like about the idea.
Alas, we don't know that the universe is infinite...
But the observable universe has bounds. We can't observe anything more than 13.7 billion light years away, since the light from beyond that hasn't reached us yet. So the total number of states of any particular 13.7 billion-light-year-radius sphere is indeed finite, and if there's an infinite number of them, then every possible state occurs.
The dichotomy that we can at one moment be so attached to something like a video game character, a cat, a dog, a car, a robot, etc. yet still be such cold callous creatures to each other is one that always amazes me.
There is only a dichotomy here until you understand that we are, the vast majority of us, NOT cold, callous creatures to each other. In fact, there is such an strong inborn resistance to harming other members of our species that in World War II, only 25% of US infantrymen - at most - fired their guns. The rest were so unwilling to kill, even in wartime with that much on the line, that they simply didn't shoot at all. It was more or less the same in all the other nations' armies as well. People generally do not want to hurt other people, and those who do, we call sociopaths. Most people don't even like to CONFRONT other people! It's usually only in groups that human beings can become truly dangerous, where there is group pressure, and the one giving the orders is not the one carrying them out.
Read the book "On killing" for some surprising truths about people.
I am delighted that you didn't say "that begs the question". Delighted.
Well, then it isn't really his country. If he calls it "our" country and he isn't American, then that's an incorrect use of language. That was my point, really.
SIR, you are aware that the US has something called the NSA that specializes in cracking such codes? Are you aware that there have been organizations in virtually every country that has ever been at war that specialize in trying to decipher enemy communications? Are you aware that the Americans and British somehow cracked every code the Japanese used in the second world war even though Japanese is not the primary language of the United States?
Mandatory full disclosure is stupid and wrong. There is NO reason that companies should not have the right to sell people hardware without being forced to give up secrets about the hardware. You do not have the right to force others to play by your misguided morality. If a hardware company does not want to give you schematics, you have the right not to buy from them.
. . . If you buy a piece of hardware, with your own money, which you earned by your own efforts by hand or by brain, then that hardware belongs to you. And that means that you are privy to any secret it embodies {like those specs you need to write a driver}. This is a Common Law Property Right.
You do have the right to do whatever you want with whatever hardware you buy. You know that, right? You have the right to take it apart and use an electron microscope and reverse engineer the chips and pcbs that make it up. Oh, but that's not what you wanted? You wanted them to GIVE YOU the specs and plans that the company used to design and build it? Well, too bad, because guess what: you DIDN'T buy that when you bought the hardware. You bought a pcb with ICs on it, and that's all you get. If you think that the law should force companies to give you something that you didn't buy from them, then you are a totalitarian.If the authorities would just enforce this existing law
That is awesome, thanks a lot. Now I think I want one. Wonder how much a SCSI card is these days...
But a 15,000 rpm SCSI drive is probably a bit of a screamer as well. What does it sound like with something like that in your computer? Is it tolerable?
What I was thinking of doing was getting two SATA drives and putting them in a RAID-1 array, as I understand that that improves latency a fair bit, and is definitely good for redundancy. Maybe having a high speed SCSI drive for the OS AND the SATA RAID-1 array for everything else would be worth trying...
That is true - and it's often needed for some special operations, and for tools such as unrar on FreeBSD (and probably Linux too). My point, however, was that having the utilities doing the globbing should be the default. If they did that, then something like DOS's "rename *.bat *.bak", for instance, would actually be possible on unix; as it is now, any such operation would have to use quotes, as you said.
It sure would be nice if Unix could evolve and improve things like the commandline. Also nice would be if they could simply disallow filenames starting with "-", thus making "-" a special character and making the interpretation of command line arguments unambiguous. I know that all of these things *could* be done, but they aren't. I've long pondered making a version of something like NetBSD with these little improvements in it, or better yet, making patches that people could apply to their existing systems...
Good job on missing the point.