The light doesn't care whether it was reflected or emitted; if you have a mixture of red, green and blue spots, whether the spots are emitting their own light or giving you reflected light, their wavelength composition is the same (except that emitted stuff may be brighter).
The reason you have yellow paint is because it is impractical to make a fine mesh of red and green paint spots every time you want yellow. But it is possible and it is additive. There's no way light from a red spot will subtract light from a separate green spot. But when you mix the two, then of course the subtraction happens.
And another thing, oppositely charged particles most certainly will want to mix, thoroughly, since they attract. To separate them, you need an electric field, but a weak field can only weakly separate them (you need to balance the lower energy due to the field with the higher energy internally due to your separating them).
That's not what it looks like. Where do you get these ideas from? Not the article, surely. There is only one sort of charged particle, and it is white, and it floats in a black fluid. Colours are generated by filters which are completely static and separate from this machinery.
No it's not either on or off. Its intensity is continuously varied by some electrostatic process (attracting charged white particles to the top or to the bottom of a black fluid). Plus, the output from each such object is filtered red, green or blue. This gives you a continuously varying intensity of each of the primary colours, from total black up to some maximum value (which could produce a light shade of grey, but I don't see how it can produce white).
I thought so too at first. But it will be additive. Only, the intensity may eventually be low.
Think of it this way: if you mix green and red paint, you'll get an ugly mess. But if you make a fine array of alternating green paint spots and red spots, you'll actually end up with something like yellow. Similarly, mixing cyan and yellow paint make green, but an alternating array of those colours will make something greyish (maybe tinged with blue or yellow, but not green).
It seems to me that the surface would need to be highly reflecting, indeed, to reproduce white; but RGB the system is, not CMYK.
if you type obscenities into their system, that's
your problem. But if they send obscenities back
at you, they should be sure that you've explicitly
authorised it.
I know someone whose Sun 4c's main hard drive
died. The second hard drive was ok but he couldn't boot.
I loaded NetBSD on the second drive. It was beautiful, and he was very impressed. It emulated all the Sun binaries he needed, and the speed seemed as good as better as it was under SunOS.
He had never heard of NetBSD, but he was quite reassured by the (C) Regents of the University of
California messages that scrolled past on bootup...
OK, Bind 9.0 was a complete rewrite, but does that mean it's safer?
What's the reason for not shipping qmail or djbdns at least as an option? You can distribute it freely, you can distribute the source, you can distribute patches to the source. So you can't distribute a patched source file or modified binary -- do you actually have such important patches that this holds you back?
As DJB says, coming from people who distribute a binary-only Netscape, this is pretty hypocritical.
If you have an account on a mail server which runs qmail, in fact, you can easily set up aliases for yourself which begin with your username. So if your name is foobar, you can create an alias for yourself called foobar-slashdot (no help from root required).
Odd. Here in Paris I saw it quite a while ago at a major cinema hall. It is still running at some smaller places.
Definitely worth seeing. And probably Katz was hoping for a more guessable ending, or a so-they-all-lived-happily-ever-after thing.
Keep in mind that the ending of the movie is really the beginning of the story: the movie goes backward in time so you have to figure out how it all began chronologically. The ending is hard to guess, and makes perfect sense.
at least, going by his site. Click on the "Contact Wallmart Directly" link, and you get contact info to various people at Wal-Mart, not Wallmart. His "Wallmart Horror Stories" are also Wal-Mart horror stories. So I don't see how he can claim the "l" makes a difference.
How about something like how Advogato does it? You moderate users, not comments. Everyone must log in to post. Established users have posting privileges based on their rating, newcomers posts must initially be vetted by someone. May be a good idea for slashdot too, actually.
The comments above seem to show how much Slashdot has degenerated: typical readers can no longer distinguish trolls, genuine intended humour, and serious posts.
I am sitting on a text-only console (often by choice), or telnetting over a slow line.
I am interested in the text, not the pretty pictures.
I am comfortable with keeping my hands on the keyboard, rather than the mouse.
I want the browser to start up immediately, rather than take several seconds. (It just makes no sense to start up netscape to view local text-only documentation, for instance.)
I want a browser that doesn't crash.
Lots of other reasons I can't think of now, or can't put into words.
Well, apparently the current GNOME html code is based on KDE code. (Saw that somewhere on www.mosfet.org, I think, with a link to some page on www.gnome.org)
I like lynx too, but on most web pages it doesn't compare at all with w3m. Moreover, the article is a bit outdated: w3m does handle cookies now. It handles tables and frames, too. A thing like the new-software table at www.gnome.org is pretty much unreadable on lynx, but comes out very nicely on w3m. Moreover a lot of options like proxies can be set through menus, without leaving the browser. <P> It does have problems with some forms (maybe that's fixed in newer versions) but other than that I can think of no reason to use lynx anymore...
In India, NRI is a common abbreviation for "Non Resident Indian" -- ie an Indian citizen who lives abroad. This gaffe is hilarious. If you don't know, ask.
I believe there are some Beowulfs running in some research institute. This guy has slapped together some boxes and plans to sell them. Maybe he'll do well, maybe not.
shows what the guy knows. All of electronics, magnetism, superconductivity, even our understanding of normal conduction, depend on quantum theory. The list is endless.
Anderson's quote sums it up. If we don't understand the hydrogen atom, we don't understand *anything*. Obviously most scientists would prefer to believe in the work of the last 75 years, than that of some unrefereed weirdo -- until he writes up his theory, makes real predictions with it, and they have the chance to test it out for themselves. I wouldn't bet on such a theory.
Yes to all three. It uses GNU ld, works with gdb and existing shared libraries, but apparently ladebug works better than gdb for the fortran compiler. The C compiler is fairly gcc-compatible and compiles 70% of the RPM's in Red Hat's distribution without problem, according to the docs.
Yes to all three. It uses GNU ld, works with gdb and existing shared libraries, but apparently ladebug works better than gdb for the fortran compiler. The C compiler is fairly gcc-compatible and compiles 70% of the RPM's in Red Hat's distribution without problem, according to the docs.
True, Knuth does not need another award. But to nominate him, shortlist him for the finals, and then not give it to him on these grounds, is ridiculous. They could have shortlisted someone else, and announced that they weren't considering people like Knuth.
I find I can do just about anything in either KDE or XFCE without using a mouse. I'm referring to the desktop environment only: many applications still need a mouse. Also, though one can position windows with arrow keys, I find the mouse more convenient for that.
I was a heavy lynx user till I discovered w3m. Now it's 45%/45% (the other 10% being Netscape). w3m handles tables very nicely (try reading www.gnome.org on lynx) and you can use lynx keybindings if you like. On the other hand it doesn't display pages partially while downloading but only after it's received everything.
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The reason you have yellow paint is because it is impractical to make a fine mesh of red and green paint spots every time you want yellow. But it is possible and it is additive. There's no way light from a red spot will subtract light from a separate green spot. But when you mix the two, then of course the subtraction happens.
And another thing, oppositely charged particles most certainly will want to mix, thoroughly, since they attract. To separate them, you need an electric field, but a weak field can only weakly separate them (you need to balance the lower energy due to the field with the higher energy internally due to your separating them).
That's not what it looks like. Where do you get these ideas from? Not the article, surely. There is only one sort of charged particle, and it is white, and it floats in a black fluid. Colours are generated by filters which are completely static and separate from this machinery.
No it's not either on or off. Its intensity is continuously varied by some electrostatic process (attracting charged white particles to the top or to the bottom of a black fluid). Plus, the output from each such object is filtered red, green or blue. This gives you a continuously varying intensity of each of the primary colours, from total black up to some maximum value (which could produce a light shade of grey, but I don't see how it can produce white).
Think of it this way: if you mix green and red paint, you'll get an ugly mess. But if you make a fine array of alternating green paint spots and red spots, you'll actually end up with something like yellow. Similarly, mixing cyan and yellow paint make green, but an alternating array of those colours will make something greyish (maybe tinged with blue or yellow, but not green).
It seems to me that the surface would need to be highly reflecting, indeed, to reproduce white; but RGB the system is, not CMYK.
if you type obscenities into their system, that's your problem. But if they send obscenities back at you, they should be sure that you've explicitly authorised it.
I know someone whose Sun 4c's main hard drive died. The second hard drive was ok but he couldn't boot.
I loaded NetBSD on the second drive. It was beautiful, and he was very impressed. It emulated all the Sun binaries he needed, and the speed seemed as good as better as it was under SunOS.
He had never heard of NetBSD, but he was quite reassured by the (C) Regents of the University of California messages that scrolled past on bootup...
What's the reason for not shipping qmail or djbdns at least as an option? You can distribute it freely, you can distribute the source, you can distribute patches to the source. So you can't distribute a patched source file or modified binary -- do you actually have such important patches that this holds you back?
As DJB says, coming from people who distribute a binary-only Netscape, this is pretty hypocritical.
If you have an account on a mail server which runs qmail, in fact, you can easily set up aliases for yourself which begin with your username. So if your name is foobar, you can create an alias for yourself called foobar-slashdot (no help from root required).
Definitely worth seeing. And probably Katz was hoping for a more guessable ending, or a so-they-all-lived-happily-ever-after thing.
Keep in mind that the ending of the movie is really the beginning of the story: the movie goes backward in time so you have to figure out how it all began chronologically. The ending is hard to guess, and makes perfect sense.
Of course, it will be interesting if he does win.
I think it's supposed to be:
"You can take a horticulture but you can't make her think."
(Dorothy Parker)
I think that should be John Baez.
How about something like how Advogato does it? You moderate users,
not comments. Everyone must log in to post. Established users have
posting privileges based on their rating, newcomers posts must initially be
vetted by someone. May be a good idea for slashdot too, actually.
The comments above seem to show how much Slashdot has degenerated: typical readers can no longer distinguish trolls, genuine intended humour, and serious posts.
Well, apparently the current GNOME html code is based on KDE code. (Saw that somewhere on www.mosfet.org, I think, with a link to some page on www.gnome.org)
I like lynx too, but on most web pages it doesn't
compare at all with w3m. Moreover, the article is
a bit outdated: w3m does handle cookies now. It
handles tables and frames, too. A thing like the
new-software table at www.gnome.org is pretty much
unreadable on lynx, but comes out very nicely on
w3m. Moreover a lot of options like proxies can
be set through menus, without leaving the browser.
<P>
It does have problems with some forms (maybe
that's fixed in newer versions) but other than
that I can think of no reason to use lynx
anymore...
-- ie an Indian citizen who lives abroad. This gaffe is
hilarious. If you don't know, ask.
I believe there are some Beowulfs running in some research
institute. This guy has slapped together some boxes and
plans to sell them. Maybe he'll do well, maybe not.
shows what the guy knows. All of electronics, magnetism,
superconductivity, even our understanding of normal
conduction, depend on quantum theory. The list is endless.
Anderson's quote sums it up. If we don't understand the
hydrogen atom, we don't understand *anything*. Obviously
most scientists would prefer to believe in the work of
the last 75 years, than that of some unrefereed weirdo --
until he writes up his theory, makes real predictions with
it, and they have the chance to test it out for
themselves. I wouldn't bet on such a theory.
Yes to all three. It uses GNU ld, works with gdb and
existing shared libraries, but apparently ladebug works
better than gdb for the fortran compiler. The C
compiler is fairly gcc-compatible and compiles 70% of
the RPM's in Red Hat's distribution without problem,
according to the docs.
Yes to all three. It uses GNU ld, works with gdb and existing
shared libraries, but apparently ladebug works better than gdb for
the fortran compiler. The C compiler is fairly gcc-compatible
and compiles 70% of the RPM's in Red Hat's distribution without
problem, according to the docs.
True, Knuth does not need another award. But to nominate him, shortlist him for the finals, and then not give it to him on these grounds, is ridiculous. They could have shortlisted someone else, and announced that they weren't considering people like Knuth.
I find I can do just about anything in either KDE or XFCE without using a mouse. I'm referring to the desktop environment only: many applications still need a mouse. Also, though one can position windows with arrow keys, I find the mouse more convenient for that.
I was a heavy lynx user till I discovered w3m. Now it's
45%/45% (the other 10% being Netscape). w3m handles tables
very nicely (try reading www.gnome.org on lynx) and
you can use lynx keybindings if you like. On the other
hand it doesn't display pages partially while downloading
but only after it's received everything.