I guess when you think about it (which i didnt) it makes sense that the word "matrix" must have meant something before it was used for mathematics, as mathematical matrices has only been used for what? - 100 or 150 years?
"that which gives form or origin to anything" seems to fit the role it has in connection with the bunch of numbers inside it nicely.
But i can still make jokes about star trek right?:-)
> You could furl the sail and use planets to > slingshot the puppy home...or change > course....or whatever.
Sure, you can do that as well. I guess you dont even need to furl them - merely tilt them away from the solar flux when it is desireable to head back home (and use them to brake with and whatnot).
The flux of photons will decrease just as rapidly as the strength of the gravitational pull from the sun (~1/r^2). Therefore, while the acceleration due to this "sun-sail", might go down, but it will never become negative.
Depending on the construction of the sail, the craft will therefore leave our solar system with some fixed velocity.
>I hope they misunderestimate Linux right until it kills them. > I stand by my belief that once non-windows home computers > have around 20% of the market share, MS is doomed. > [snip] > Let's just hope they don't know it yet.
> Have you installed Linux lately? Its not hard to > install.. far from it. I'd rather install Linux > than Windows.
Actually i have, and yes it is way easier than it was a couple of years ago. But it isnt always totally without problems. For instance i had to recompile the kernel as well as install an extra kernel module i found somewhere to get power management to work on my laptop. And i have yet to get my winmodem to work (not that i really need the it). Plus i had to get some nvidia drivers.
But yes, my comment about linux being harder to install than windows might be totally wrong. The thing is that i havent installed windows for several years:-)
(i dont even have windows anymore)
And yes, i wouldnt even dream of trying installing windows after linux... Not if there was any data i cared about on the disks anyway.
But in any case, i guess all this doesnt change the fact that to get mr. and ms. Ordinary to adopt linux, it needs to come preinstalled. (just imagine my mom installing ANY os from scratch)
> Most people cannot install Windows either. They > get it installed on their new PC.
Exactly!
At the moment linux is hard to install but stable afterwards, while Windows is the opposite.
Because of this I am convinced that as soon as we start to see more machines preinstalled with linux, "ordinary" people will start to flock to linux as well. And as soon as they do that the remaining hurdle will be overcome as well: namely that many programs are only written for windows because of the current market dominance.
This whole "there are so and so many particle positions" is crap. If for nothing else then because bosons (like the photon) does not obey the Pauli principle of exclusion. This means that it is possible to have infinitely many photons in the same quantum state.
All we can talk about is really how many different ways we can pack the fermions (e.g. electrons, nuclei), but the fermions are not the whole picture.
Actually, at the bottom of the page with the "Periodic table of Haiku", theres a link to the "Periodic table of Poetry" (http://superdeluxe.com/elemental/) which apparently served as inspiration for the Haiku one.
But it doesnt seem to be complete though.
Without tld's we would need a few central dns servers that held all domains in the world. As it is now when you for instance write politiken.dk, the root dns servers will tell your computer (actually your local dns server) to go and ask at the server that administers.dk domains instead (which is located in denmark). Next time you ask for, say, information.dk, your computer already knows to ask the dns server that administers.dk domains directly, thus most often making it unnecessary to go and ask the root servers.
Maybe this is not exactly how it is done, but close enough. (otherwise feel free to correct me)
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... quite interesting.
I guess when you think about it (which i didnt) it makes sense that the word "matrix" must have meant something before it was used for mathematics, as mathematical matrices has only been used for what? - 100 or 150 years?
"that which gives form or origin to anything" seems to fit the role it has in connection with the bunch of numbers inside it nicely.
But i can still make jokes about star trek right?
Matrix my this and matrix my that.
:-)
I always thought a matrix was a mathematical object - the two-dimensional equivalent of a vector (or however one chose to look at it).
If a science fiction movie has to name a computer program which simulates every part of life, its called "The Matrix".
If something doesnt work in Enterprise it is because "The matrix" is not aligned.
And now, if someone presents something in a table, it is also a matrix?!?
maybe i'm just in a pedantic mood today
Maybe you are thinking about fortune cookies, which were invented in china town in san francisco.
> Not negligible, but solar intensity does fall off as 1/r^3.
I should think the photon flux would fall off as 1/r^2.
(surface of sphere, not volume of sphere).
> You could furl the sail and use planets to
> slingshot the puppy home...or change
> course....or whatever.
Sure, you can do that as well. I guess you dont even need to furl them - merely tilt them away from the solar flux when it is desireable to head back home (and use them to brake with and whatnot).
Just aa thought:
The flux of photons will decrease just as rapidly as the strength of the gravitational pull from the sun (~1/r^2). Therefore, while the acceleration due to this "sun-sail", might go down, but it will never become negative.
Depending on the construction of the sail, the craft will therefore leave our solar system with some fixed velocity.
IIRC you can also use it to log on to the student
allowance system (SU).
+ they are trying to eliminate tons of snail mail by having banks etc. sending their normal snail mail through the system to you.
I think it has all been implemented, but people still need to learn to use it.
>I hope they misunderestimate Linux right until it kills them.
:-)
> I stand by my belief that once non-windows home computers
> have around 20% of the market share, MS is doomed.
> [snip]
> Let's just hope they don't know it yet.
JEEESUS MAN!! Not so loud, are you mad...
we want to keep it a secret damnit!
sssshhhh....
> Have you installed Linux lately? Its not hard to
:-)
> install.. far from it. I'd rather install Linux
> than Windows.
Actually i have, and yes it is way easier than it
was a couple of years ago. But it isnt always
totally without problems. For instance i had to
recompile the kernel as well as install an extra
kernel module i found somewhere to get power
management to work on my laptop. And i have yet to
get my winmodem to work (not that i really need
the it). Plus i had to get some nvidia drivers.
But yes, my comment about linux being harder to
install than windows might be totally wrong. The
thing is that i havent installed windows for
several years
(i dont even have windows anymore)
And yes, i wouldnt even dream of trying installing
windows after linux... Not if there was any data
i cared about on the disks anyway.
But in any case, i guess all this doesnt change
the fact that to get mr. and ms. Ordinary to adopt
linux, it needs to come preinstalled. (just
imagine my mom installing ANY os from scratch)
> Most people cannot install Windows either. They
> get it installed on their new PC.
Exactly!
At the moment linux is hard to install but stable afterwards, while Windows is the opposite.
Because of this I am convinced that as soon as we start to see more machines preinstalled with linux, "ordinary" people will start to flock to linux as well. And as soon as they do that the remaining hurdle will be overcome as well: namely that many programs are only written for windows because of the current market dominance.
Hopefully it will be 1 or 2 years, and not 5...
> Its pretty much a fact that most internet
> innovations are due to military and pornography
> pushing early use.
Well... what about the world wide web? It was developed at CERN (www.cern.ch) due to the communication needs of a huge international research project.
This whole "there are so and so many particle positions" is crap. If for nothing else then because bosons (like the photon) does not obey the Pauli principle of exclusion. This means that it is possible to have infinitely many photons in the same quantum state.
All we can talk about is really how many different ways we can pack the fermions (e.g. electrons, nuclei), but the fermions are not the whole picture.
2 cents from a particle physicist
A 1GB solid-state CF card has been out in years already. Last thing i heard IIRC was a planned 4GB or something like that.
oops, i meant to write 6MB/s... doh, i even got it wrong in the parentheses... *blushes with shame*
Simply use a different mirror then.
/.
:=)
I used one, and got 60 MB/s out of it (yes, 60 mega bytes per second).
And that was after it was posted on
No, wont tell you what mirror (otherwise, poor mirror
>"Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehen, daß er
> nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird." -- Nietzsche
If my little german+memory serves me right then that means:
"Those who wishes to battle monsters, should take care that they do not themselves become monsters in the process"
Something that I think those waging the "war on terror" ought to be wary of.
This reminds me of the old discussions between Einstein and Bohr about the nature of Quantum Mechanics:
Einstein: "God does not play dice."
Einstein: "God is not malicious."
Bohr: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
Actually, at the bottom of the page with the "Periodic table of Haiku", theres a link to the "Periodic table of Poetry" (http://superdeluxe.com/elemental/) which apparently served as inspiration for the Haiku one. But it doesnt seem to be complete though.
The way i understand it:
.dk domains instead (which is located in denmark). Next time you ask for, say, information.dk, your computer already knows to ask the dns server that administers .dk domains directly, thus most often making it unnecessary to go and ask the root servers.
Without tld's we would need a few central dns servers that held all domains in the world. As it is now when you for instance write politiken.dk, the root dns servers will tell your computer (actually your local dns server) to go and ask at the server that administers
Maybe this is not exactly how it is done, but close enough. (otherwise feel free to correct me)
Just in case you wondered, "aften" means "evening".