Actually, our team is doing states up here in New Jersey, having moved on from regionals by default.
Ehem. This requires some explaining.
Our high school had never before fielded a Science Olympiad team and we figured that our first time would be just a learning experience and didn't expect to do well. There is an event called "Sounds of Music" where you build two instruments and play Chester, and answer a few music related questions. We didn't have time to build them, so we didn't have any. After the first round of events, someone told our team leader that since only eight teams showed up, all eight would move on unless they couldn't compete in all events. So, my friend and I were pulled out of whatever event we were currently doing (and had backups), and we built two musical instruments for the event less than an hour away!
I was dumbfounded. Even so, using the manilla folders we had, we build a cross between a bugle and a kazoo. That is, until my buddy found that he could play a ruler pretty well. I added his rolled up folder tube to my tube and made a thing that sounded like crap but played from the required C3 (middle C) to C4. I had never played a buzzed instrument before, as I play Alto Sax. However, my friend has never played an instrument with more than one pitch, as he is a drummer.
So, we went into the auditorium, explained our musical knowledge, tuned our instruments, and played Chester. Turns out that he could get TWO WHOLE OCTAVES out of a ruler! I got maybe one and a half. We then had to figure out the frequency of a note based on that of A3 (440 Hz). My friend did it logaritmically and the judges were confused and told us that we were wrong. But we couldn't calculate it because we couldn't use a calculator and can't do logs in our heads. He went and got a calculator anyway, and sure enough, he got the correct frequency (well, on an even tempered scale). They were amazed and said we were the only ones who had gotten close to their value, calculated by musical intervals.
I also competed in astronomy, and we placed second, even though I know very little about astronomy. My other friend did fossil identification and placed fourth by bullshitting the entire way!
So, we are going to states and I'm trying to perfect (more or less) what I call a SSPACARTD, or Single String Plucked Air Compression And Rarification Tunable Device. Basically, a single stringed guitar.
Deceleration is just a fancy term for negative acceleration and so I don't think physicists like to use it. However, if you instead define forewards as backwards, then any apparent deceleration becomes acceleration. They also don't like "centrifugal force", because it doesn't exist in an inertial (non-accelerating) reference frame.
I wrote that about the military a little tounge-in-cheek. There are quite a few cases I've heard where people have their careers ruined by just an accusation, and because it is a much smaller society, they are effectively punished. It just gives the rest of the military courts a bad name.
Also, as I read futher in this topic, it seems that, ID is never required except on grounds of suspicious activity, or you look like a fugitive, or "just cause". A name is probably only ever required.
Because it is too easy to lose it or have it taken away. In the South of the U.S. before the (U.S.) Civil War, free blacks (freedmen) were given papers to prove that they were not slaves. They were still second class citizens, though, and if they forgot their papers one day and someone asked, it was off to the plantation you go.
In the U.S., most people revere very highly "innocent until proven guilty" (except for the military) and that is what this case appears to be about. I'm not sure the exact letter of the law is, however, because in essence, we do have a national ID (Social Security Number). But I don't think that anywhere one is required to carry ID everywhere as that would seem morally wrong to me.
I believe that Freenet has taken the approach that if you don't want someone oppressing your free speech, you can't oppress others. Also, you are no more qualified to make decisions about what is right than anyone else. Therefore, since the system works by transfering and temporarily storing random (encrypted) files over/on random nodes, logic states that you cannot determine what can and can't be stored on your node.
Even if you could determine what was on your node or what it was transfering, how would you filter the traffic? By hand? By a Bayesian filter? There is no "Child Porn" flag in the Freenet protocol (at least I don't think so!). It would be impractical.
So, by running a node, you are only supporting Freenet infrastructure, not any idea or organization other than your own. Would you stop watching all Disney movies because they make R rated moves also?
Not really, because once the Wine developers see and use it, their entire project is tainted and Micro$oft can sue them to hell. However, it would be rather ironic if it contained source code from the Wine project itself.
I believe that if you moved two protons to a distance at which the electromagnetic forces between them were the same as the gravitational forces between them, they would be about 40 lightyears apart. I don't remember if that is the right number or particles, but indeed, gravity is really weak. A comb attracting a light piece of paper is overcoming the entire gravitational force of Earth.
The magnitude and direction of the acceleration is constant, assuming a simple circular orbit. The acceleration is directed inwards.
You proved his point that the acceleration's direction isn't constant. It is always directed toward the center of whatever. It is the centripetal force that is causing it to go in a circle or ellipse. For a perfect circular path, the acceleration is always perpendicular to the velocity. Remember that constant acceleration gives you a parabolic path.
The Earth is not a closed system. You get massive amounts of light coming from the sun, which, when used to create sugars and oxygen from CO2 and water, is reducing entropy locally in the plant. However, overall, entropy is increasing due to heat given off by the reaction and the light hitting stuff and turning into heat. If there was no such things as local decreasing entropy, then the universe would start out as a beautiful structureful blob and slowly break down into split pea soup. However, superclusters, galaxies, stars, planets, plants, and people, exist, so somewhere, entropy must have been reduced.
For example, those neat little ecosystems in a glass sphere live because you are putting energy into the system and entropy does not increase. However, if you sealed it off from the rest of the world by putting it in a dark vacuum chamber, it would quickly die, correct?
Ballmer: He's (Gates) the only guy I know who can make furniture out of Playboys. You don't even have to worry about it moving; the pages are all stuck together!
-- from "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (probably misquoted)
An older/. article did directly compare *BSD and Linux, but it really had only benchmarks of specific system calls, not much in the way of real application performance. However, it did show that, while Linux 2.6 was mostly O(1) and at most O(n), the BSDs were mostly O(n) or more, only occasionally being O(1). I think NetBSD was the worst offender. But then again it had few or no real world benchmarks.
They'd only stand a chance if they had a petabit network connection with a petahertz Pentium 4 on the other end. The petabytes of storage is for the log files.
I've read the LoTR story (okay, only 5 out of the 6 books, I'll finish it eventually) and have seen the first one and a bootleg version of the second, and I don't like them. Some of it is not bad, and I think everything before Frodo leaves Hobbiton is excellent. Afterwards, it just deviates too much, with the Council of Elrond probably being the some of the hokiest junk I've ever seen. Did Peter Jackson even realize that these guys are being sent to their DEATHS? It is not something to be necessarily happy about, but is made to sound upbeat. I'll have to read the series again, though. I'll admit that it is a movie, and having/all/ the meaningful stuff in would make each movie twice as long as it already is. However, many of the things that could be a lot better aren't.
I can barely remember my social security number, let alone a IPv6 IP address! I understand that you don' t have to remember all of it, but once real web sites start using IPv6, there will be some long addresses. Of course, people memorize pi to a gazillion decimal places, too.
See Tony Bourke's older article, which conluded that 64 bit binaries are slower than 32 bit binaries. This set of statistics he posted has totally obliterated his previous conclusion. He had only used GCC 3.3.2 and assumed that compiling for both 32 and 64 bits were optimized similarly. However, in most of the benchmarks he did with Sun's compiler, 64 bit programs came ahead of 32 bit ones. This means that GCC 3.3.2 is not as well optimized for his computer for 64 bits as for 32 bits, while the Sun compiler is. If he had just looked at his own data, he would have seen that.
It would be great to have more drivers for Linux, but a compatibility driver for Windows drivers would be such an incomplete, dirty, buggy kludge that you would wish you had never thought of it. For one, I believe that much of the Windows driver API is an industry secret. Second, people won't write Linux drivers anymore, and requests for native drivers will be responded with "You can just use the Windows drivers!" Third, Linux and Windows have very different driver models, meaning incompatibility and having to code it in bug-for-bug. Plus, how can you ensure that the Windows drivers won't trample over the Linux ones, or are you going to isolate them, reducing their effectiveness?
"Now, maybe you don't use MPlayer (and the other "native" driver apps) but there are a hell of a lot of us that do and love it."
The reason MPlayer et al. can use Windows drivers (honestly, I've never tried it) because all they are are codecs, which seem to have a well defined and fairly open API (XviD has a Windows codec "driver", I believe) and don't depend on too much. However, an operating system kernel is not the place for untrusted code that depends on a lot of stuff working at the right time.
Pffft... only 250 kilodollars? I'm worth more than that! Tell me when they are offering at least a megadollar or two. What do they think I am, an amateur? I'm the master haxor who wrote this thing.
"After all, Timothy McVeigh (likewise Arabs) blew up the Murrah building (World Trade Center) in Oklahoma city (New York City) and he was a Christian (were Islamic), but I hardly think that makes the rest of the Christian (Islamic) community responible for his actions."
Face it: every group of people has people in them that will do something stupid. They are called extremists and they are the real threat, not any one group. RMS himself is extreme enough to be a threat to his own philosophy, but thankfully not extreme enough to write a stupid virus like that luser.
If you were a real geek, you would have already had an i386 emulator on your Mac running */Linux running WINE. Or if you wanted the same effect as running the program, you could just
while true ; do wget -O/dev/null -r http://www.sco.com ; done
Slashdot Mirror
I'm doing that, you insensitive clod!
Actually, our team is doing states up here in New Jersey, having moved on from regionals by default.
Ehem. This requires some explaining.
Our high school had never before fielded a Science Olympiad team and we figured that our first time would be just a learning experience and didn't expect to do well. There is an event called "Sounds of Music" where you build two instruments and play Chester, and answer a few music related questions. We didn't have time to build them, so we didn't have any. After the first round of events, someone told our team leader that since only eight teams showed up, all eight would move on unless they couldn't compete in all events. So, my friend and I were pulled out of whatever event we were currently doing (and had backups), and we built two musical instruments for the event less than an hour away!
I was dumbfounded. Even so, using the manilla folders we had, we build a cross between a bugle and a kazoo. That is, until my buddy found that he could play a ruler pretty well. I added his rolled up folder tube to my tube and made a thing that sounded like crap but played from the required C3 (middle C) to C4. I had never played a buzzed instrument before, as I play Alto Sax. However, my friend has never played an instrument with more than one pitch, as he is a drummer.
So, we went into the auditorium, explained our musical knowledge, tuned our instruments, and played Chester. Turns out that he could get TWO WHOLE OCTAVES out of a ruler! I got maybe one and a half. We then had to figure out the frequency of a note based on that of A3 (440 Hz). My friend did it logaritmically and the judges were confused and told us that we were wrong. But we couldn't calculate it because we couldn't use a calculator and can't do logs in our heads. He went and got a calculator anyway, and sure enough, he got the correct frequency (well, on an even tempered scale). They were amazed and said we were the only ones who had gotten close to their value, calculated by musical intervals.
I also competed in astronomy, and we placed second, even though I know very little about astronomy. My other friend did fossil identification and placed fourth by bullshitting the entire way!
So, we are going to states and I'm trying to perfect (more or less) what I call a SSPACARTD, or Single String Plucked Air Compression And Rarification Tunable Device. Basically, a single stringed guitar.
Deceleration is just a fancy term for negative acceleration and so I don't think physicists like to use it. However, if you instead define forewards as backwards, then any apparent deceleration becomes acceleration. They also don't like "centrifugal force", because it doesn't exist in an inertial (non-accelerating) reference frame.
I wrote that about the military a little tounge-in-cheek. There are quite a few cases I've heard where people have their careers ruined by just an accusation, and because it is a much smaller society, they are effectively punished. It just gives the rest of the military courts a bad name.
Also, as I read futher in this topic, it seems that, ID is never required except on grounds of suspicious activity, or you look like a fugitive, or "just cause". A name is probably only ever required.
Thank you for the response.
...and I use MPlayer for DVDs.
(Note: MPlayer has no seek/fast foreward restrictions)
Because it is too easy to lose it or have it taken away. In the South of the U.S. before the (U.S.) Civil War, free blacks (freedmen) were given papers to prove that they were not slaves. They were still second class citizens, though, and if they forgot their papers one day and someone asked, it was off to the plantation you go.
In the U.S., most people revere very highly "innocent until proven guilty" (except for the military) and that is what this case appears to be about. I'm not sure the exact letter of the law is, however, because in essence, we do have a national ID (Social Security Number). But I don't think that anywhere one is required to carry ID everywhere as that would seem morally wrong to me.
Could someone enlighten me some too?
I believe that Freenet has taken the approach that if you don't want someone oppressing your free speech, you can't oppress others. Also, you are no more qualified to make decisions about what is right than anyone else. Therefore, since the system works by transfering and temporarily storing random (encrypted) files over/on random nodes, logic states that you cannot determine what can and can't be stored on your node.
Even if you could determine what was on your node or what it was transfering, how would you filter the traffic? By hand? By a Bayesian filter? There is no "Child Porn" flag in the Freenet protocol (at least I don't think so!). It would be impractical.
So, by running a node, you are only supporting Freenet infrastructure, not any idea or organization other than your own. Would you stop watching all Disney movies because they make R rated moves also?
Not really, because once the Wine developers see and use it, their entire project is tainted and Micro$oft can sue them to hell. However, it would be rather ironic if it contained source code from the Wine project itself.
Isn't that
/* variable */
int i_i;
Mind you Hungarian Notation!
Yeah they do. I see them on sheet music every once in a while. I think composers use them to make the scales look pretty.
I believe that if you moved two protons to a distance at which the electromagnetic forces between them were the same as the gravitational forces between them, they would be about 40 lightyears apart. I don't remember if that is the right number or particles, but indeed, gravity is really weak. A comb attracting a light piece of paper is overcoming the entire gravitational force of Earth.
The magnitude and direction of the acceleration is constant, assuming a simple circular orbit. The acceleration is directed inwards.
You proved his point that the acceleration's direction isn't constant. It is always directed toward the center of whatever. It is the centripetal force that is causing it to go in a circle or ellipse. For a perfect circular path, the acceleration is always perpendicular to the velocity. Remember that constant acceleration gives you a parabolic path.
The Earth is not a closed system. You get massive amounts of light coming from the sun, which, when used to create sugars and oxygen from CO2 and water, is reducing entropy locally in the plant. However, overall, entropy is increasing due to heat given off by the reaction and the light hitting stuff and turning into heat. If there was no such things as local decreasing entropy, then the universe would start out as a beautiful structureful blob and slowly break down into split pea soup. However, superclusters, galaxies, stars, planets, plants, and people, exist, so somewhere, entropy must have been reduced.
For example, those neat little ecosystems in a glass sphere live because you are putting energy into the system and entropy does not increase. However, if you sealed it off from the rest of the world by putting it in a dark vacuum chamber, it would quickly die, correct?
Maybe ol' Billy G. could give them tips:
Ballmer: He's (Gates) the only guy I know who can make furniture out of Playboys. You don't even have to worry about it moving; the pages are all stuck together!
-- from "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (probably misquoted)
while true ; do wget -O /dev/null -r http://www.sco.com ; done
I wonder if the new chemical elements have coffee cup electron orbitals to go with their doughnut nuclei.
An older /. article did directly compare *BSD and Linux, but it really had only benchmarks of specific system calls, not much in the way of real application performance. However, it did show that, while Linux 2.6 was mostly O(1) and at most O(n), the BSDs were mostly O(n) or more, only occasionally being O(1). I think NetBSD was the worst offender. But then again it had few or no real world benchmarks.
They'd only stand a chance if they had a petabit network connection with a petahertz Pentium 4 on the other end. The petabytes of storage is for the log files.
I've read the LoTR story (okay, only 5 out of the 6 books, I'll finish it eventually) and have seen the first one and a bootleg version of the second, and I don't like them. Some of it is not bad, and I think everything before Frodo leaves Hobbiton is excellent. Afterwards, it just deviates too much, with the Council of Elrond probably being the some of the hokiest junk I've ever seen. Did Peter Jackson even realize that these guys are being sent to their DEATHS? It is not something to be necessarily happy about, but is made to sound upbeat. I'll have to read the series again, though. I'll admit that it is a movie, and having /all/ the meaningful stuff in would make each movie twice as long as it already is. However, many of the things that could be a lot better aren't.
I can barely remember my social security number, let alone a IPv6 IP address! I understand that you don' t have to remember all of it, but once real web sites start using IPv6, there will be some long addresses. Of course, people memorize pi to a gazillion decimal places, too.
See Tony Bourke's older article, which conluded that 64 bit binaries are slower than 32 bit binaries. This set of statistics he posted has totally obliterated his previous conclusion. He had only used GCC 3.3.2 and assumed that compiling for both 32 and 64 bits were optimized similarly. However, in most of the benchmarks he did with Sun's compiler, 64 bit programs came ahead of 32 bit ones. This means that GCC 3.3.2 is not as well optimized for his computer for 64 bits as for 32 bits, while the Sun compiler is. If he had just looked at his own data, he would have seen that.
It would be great to have more drivers for Linux, but a compatibility driver for Windows drivers would be such an incomplete, dirty, buggy kludge that you would wish you had never thought of it. For one, I believe that much of the Windows driver API is an industry secret. Second, people won't write Linux drivers anymore, and requests for native drivers will be responded with "You can just use the Windows drivers!" Third, Linux and Windows have very different driver models, meaning incompatibility and having to code it in bug-for-bug. Plus, how can you ensure that the Windows drivers won't trample over the Linux ones, or are you going to isolate them, reducing their effectiveness?
"Now, maybe you don't use MPlayer (and the other "native" driver apps) but there are a hell of a lot of us that do and love it."
The reason MPlayer et al. can use Windows drivers (honestly, I've never tried it) because all they are are codecs, which seem to have a well defined and fairly open API (XviD has a Windows codec "driver", I believe) and don't depend on too much. However, an operating system kernel is not the place for untrusted code that depends on a lot of stuff working at the right time.
Pffft... only 250 kilodollars? I'm worth more than that! Tell me when they are offering at least a megadollar or two. What do they think I am, an amateur? I'm the master haxor who wrote this thing.
I agree. Once RTFA is better supported, maybe Slashdotters will actually RTFA when presented in the RTFA format. Wait, RTF, oh...
"After all, Timothy McVeigh (likewise Arabs) blew up the Murrah building (World Trade Center) in Oklahoma city (New York City) and he was a Christian (were Islamic), but I hardly think that makes the rest of the Christian (Islamic) community responible for his actions."
Face it: every group of people has people in them that will do something stupid. They are called extremists and they are the real threat, not any one group. RMS himself is extreme enough to be a threat to his own philosophy, but thankfully not extreme enough to write a stupid virus like that luser.
If you were a real geek, you would have already had an i386 emulator on your Mac running */Linux running WINE. Or if you wanted the same effect as running the program, you could just
/dev/null -r http://www.sco.com ; done
while true ; do wget -O
and DOS it yourself.