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I had a like thought. The article said:
With Longhorn and WinFS, Microsoft is tackling a nagging problem the company has long sought to address. For nearly a decade, the company has touted the vision of a single storage system that would break down barriers between applications and serve up stored information quickly and accurately.
If MS is so concerned about developing a stable and good filesystem, why not just take what's free for the taking the opensource world? I guess doing that would damage their corporate ego too much.
I understand your argument, but there's a difference between sex, violence, and drugs in video games, on tv, and in books versus the kind of behavior you're talking about. One's fantasy, the other's not. Kids learn more at an early age. Best to teach morals as early as language.
Massive games like EQ, UO, etc; stuff that gets patched a lot would benefit greatly by making use of an integrated bit torrent client. Consider that the EQ patch server was a single perma seed. Players with enough bandwidth would have the internal bit torrent client running in the background while playing and auto serve the patch to other people. People without enough bandwidth could simply disable the sharing feature or a system that detected bottlenecks could shut it off automatically.
As a result, the company would save vast amounts of money in bandwidth and could possibly lower the monthly fee as a result. P2P != illegal.
Yeah, most definitely. It's not working. But do we need it at all? Are our kids really in need of this kind of protection in the first place? It's not working because no one takes it seriously.
Am I the only one here who thinks that the whole rating system is retarded anyway? Kids are gonna grow up eventually. Just what practical purpose do we serve by censoring them to sex, drugs, and violence? It just encourages rebellious kids to go learn the hard way on their own. People don't like being censored. Especially kids.
Damn straight. I'm a Gentoo man personally, but even portage is not a solution to this dependency hell problem. You should be able to download an RPM, double click it, and install a program without having to deal with solving dependencies manually. I really wish Linux would evolve beyond this trivial crap. It's the one thing that prevents me from recommending Linux to the average Joe (besides Gentoo's abysmal install process of course).
I was wondering, is there (seriously) like some sort of filter that they don't even look at stories from users whose id is >10,000 or something, or who doesn't have like 2,000 karma points?
Offtopic, yes. But my UID is higher than your's and I probably have way less than 2,000 karma points. I've submitted about 5 stories and have had one accepted. That would seem to disprove your theory. Slashdot gets a lot of story submissions. Even good ones will fall through the cracks a lot methinks. With more editors and maybe a better submission system it would work out better, but at present, it is to be expected that the majority of your submissions be rejected.
OMG I am so sick of hearing people try to use this as if it were a valid argument!
MMORPG server down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just a game.
Internet down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just the internet.
Electricity down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just electricity.
Water supply cutoff for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just water.
Your life's going to end in 16 hours? Too bad! It's just life.
This argument is a massive cliche! Just because it doesn't mean anything to you doesn't mean it's not important to someone else. And before you go flaming me, no, I don't play MMORPGs. I just find your argument tiresome, flawed, ignorant, and insulting.
In Linux (using KDE) I remapped the Windows key to serve as a custom alt key for multiple desktop management. Win + rightarrow to switch one desktop right. Win + leftarrow to switch one desktop left. Makes it quite useful.
Well, the Voyager crew invents "transwarp" technology in one day; something that millions of Federation scientists have been trying to accomplish for a century. Furthermore, it isnt transwarp. They just call it that. It is in fact "warp 10", or "infinite speed". But there's no such thing as infinite speed. Maybe it can exist in a mathematical equation as something hypothetical, but it cannot exist in reality.
If that's not enough scientific nonsense for you, guess what? We're evolving into salamanders. Paris evolves into a salamander-like thing which crawls on the floor. Aside from the fact that this is obviously an inferior species, evolution is a process that takes place over many generations and it is a process that strongly depends on environmental conditions. Evolution doesnt happen for no reason and definitely cannot happen within a single lifetime. Infinite speed or not.
To top it all off, the doctor comes up with a miraculous way to revert Mr. Paris back to his original human self. He essentially de-evolves him. That would be like finding a way to revert yourself into a primate. Disgusted yet? Most people consider this episode comedy, not science fiction.
Transwarp theory, like many things in TOS, have been heavily contradicted by future series. Many Star Trek fans consider many parts of TOS to be totally decannonized (even by Gene Roddenberry himself), just like Voyager's Threshold episode. Unfortunately, B&B aren't getting any better at this. Star Trek Enterprise is continuing to kick continuity like a helpless puppy to the point where we're going to start feeling sorry for it.
Actually, if you sit down and look at every episode of the various different series that involve transwarp, you begin to see a pattern of which I described in my initial reply. If you discredit the utter ridiculously scientific nonsense in "Voyager: Threshold" regarding transwarp theory, it all falls into place. (Besides, Tom Paris in a later episode tells Seven of Nine that he'd never flown at Transwarp which seems to decannonize "Threshold" in the first place.)
We have natural bodies of water here? A famous, yet ignorant quote for me, when I moved here. I used to live in Syracuse, New York. Living here, where natural bodies of water are scarce, sure beats living in Syracuse next to Onondaga Lake, which is one of the most polluted lakes in the world.
I honestly don't see the point. Surfing is about skill and instinct. You need to find the right wave, then have the ability to propel yourself onto it and maintain balance for a set period of time. Automating the process takes the effort out of it.
But who am I to critisize? I live in Kansas and didn't RTFA. (Well I did look at the nifty pictures.)
God damn it. I knew something was off with that distance. It's 40,000,000 light years not 400,000,000.
So with a prelayed conduit that'd be just under 2 months and making a new conduit it would be 21.1 years of transwarp. Sorry about that. Well I guess if we ever invent the technology it isn't so unrealistic after all, is it?
You can get there with a standard warp drive, or even impulse for that matter. It would just take a very long time. In fact, using transwarp could take a long time too. Consider the mechanics of transwarp.
Transwarp conduits seem to vary in speed greatly. In TNG episode "Decsent" the Enterprise entered a pre-layed Borg transwarp conduit and covered 65 lightyears in about nine seconds, a speed of around 200,000,000 c, or 8.125 lightyears per second(!). At that speed transwarp could take you across our galaxy in roughly 6 hours! But to cross 400,000,000 lightyears, it would take roughly 1 and a half years. Gives you an idea on how much empty space there is between galaxies, huh?
That said, we're talking about a pre-layed conduit. Star Trek established during Voyager that transwarp conduits must be layed by a vessel before they can be traveled at 200,000,000 c. The process of traveling at transwarp and laying a new conduit in your wake is much slower than traveling across a premade one. Creating a new conduit also varies in speed greatly. At it's slowest in Star Trek history, we've seen it go at roughly 100,000 c, or 13.7 light years per hour. At it's fastest in Star Trek history, we've seen it go at roughly 1,500,000 c, or 2.3148^ light years per minute. By taking the mean of these two extremes, it's reasonable to assume that the average speed of transwarp speed non prelayed conduit is 800,000 c, or 3.6 light years per minute.
So, to answer your question, since no one has yet layed a transwarp conduit to the galaxy in question (or maybe we just can't find it?), it would take 211.3 years of transwarp at 3.6 light years per second (the average) to travel the 400,000,000 light years to get there.
Considering the fact that we're talking about 24th century hypothetical technology and even that won't get you there very quickly, don't plan on taking your next vacation there.
(Disclaimer: Keep in mind that these calculations are heavily rounded and generalized and I threw them all together relatively quickly.)
It's been said already in previous discussions, but I still can't get over how stupid Sony is to name it the "PSX".
Playstation 1 was called PSX for short. Playstation 2 was called PS2 for short. The Playstation X is going to be called PSX for short. And nobody saw this as a problem?
Anyone who runs MacOS 10, seeing as how the PDF file format is as integrated into MacOS 10 as Internet Explorer is into Windows or Konqueror is into KDE.
The best way to motivate people is with money. Hire more people. Maybe it isn't an option for you, but it is the best way to go. The "faceless" companies you talk of do get things done. Besides, there are ways to run a company that don't resemble Mr. Anderson's job in the Matrix. Take Google's headquarters for example. Massive company and one of the best work enviornments there is.
Trust me, I have experience working on volunteer projects that stymied. If people were getting paid to work on it, the projects wouldn't have stymied. We live in a money driven society. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Very impressive picture, kudos to the kid who took it.
Indeed. I wonder just how fast it was moving through the sky and just how much time he had to take that picture. Truly impressive, one of the best astronomy photos I've ever seen.
Enlighten me. Should I convert a web page from old HTML into XHTML, exactly how is the code reusable in areas other than web page design? I've always been under the impression that XHTML would one day just replace legacy HTML, but you seem to think otherwise.
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I understand your argument, but there's a difference between sex, violence, and drugs in video games, on tv, and in books versus the kind of behavior you're talking about. One's fantasy, the other's not. Kids learn more at an early age. Best to teach morals as early as language.
Massive games like EQ, UO, etc; stuff that gets patched a lot would benefit greatly by making use of an integrated bit torrent client. Consider that the EQ patch server was a single perma seed. Players with enough bandwidth would have the internal bit torrent client running in the background while playing and auto serve the patch to other people. People without enough bandwidth could simply disable the sharing feature or a system that detected bottlenecks could shut it off automatically.
As a result, the company would save vast amounts of money in bandwidth and could possibly lower the monthly fee as a result. P2P != illegal.
Yeah, most definitely. It's not working. But do we need it at all? Are our kids really in need of this kind of protection in the first place? It's not working because no one takes it seriously.
Am I the only one here who thinks that the whole rating system is retarded anyway? Kids are gonna grow up eventually. Just what practical purpose do we serve by censoring them to sex, drugs, and violence? It just encourages rebellious kids to go learn the hard way on their own. People don't like being censored. Especially kids.
Boring article. So boring that nobody's dashing to get the FP. You know, I'm really getting tired of first person shooters with no innovation.
Damn straight. I'm a Gentoo man personally, but even portage is not a solution to this dependency hell problem. You should be able to download an RPM, double click it, and install a program without having to deal with solving dependencies manually. I really wish Linux would evolve beyond this trivial crap. It's the one thing that prevents me from recommending Linux to the average Joe (besides Gentoo's abysmal install process of course).
that slashdot didn't reject this article! It might have been most painful to the submitter! ;)
MMORPG server down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just a game.
Internet down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just the internet.
Electricity down for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just electricity.
Water supply cutoff for 16 hours? Too bad! It's just water.
Your life's going to end in 16 hours? Too bad! It's just life.
This argument is a massive cliche! Just because it doesn't mean anything to you doesn't mean it's not important to someone else. And before you go flaming me, no, I don't play MMORPGs. I just find your argument tiresome, flawed, ignorant, and insulting.
In Linux (using KDE) I remapped the Windows key to serve as a custom alt key for multiple desktop management. Win + rightarrow to switch one desktop right. Win + leftarrow to switch one desktop left. Makes it quite useful.
Well, the Voyager crew invents "transwarp" technology in one day; something that millions of Federation scientists have been trying to accomplish for a century. Furthermore, it isnt transwarp. They just call it that. It is in fact "warp 10", or "infinite speed". But there's no such thing as infinite speed. Maybe it can exist in a mathematical equation as something hypothetical, but it cannot exist in reality.
If that's not enough scientific nonsense for you, guess what? We're evolving into salamanders. Paris evolves into a salamander-like thing which crawls on the floor. Aside from the fact that this is obviously an inferior species, evolution is a process that takes place over many generations and it is a process that strongly depends on environmental conditions. Evolution doesnt happen for no reason and definitely cannot happen within a single lifetime. Infinite speed or not.
To top it all off, the doctor comes up with a miraculous way to revert Mr. Paris back to his original human self. He essentially de-evolves him. That would be like finding a way to revert yourself into a primate. Disgusted yet? Most people consider this episode comedy, not science fiction.
Transwarp theory, like many things in TOS, have been heavily contradicted by future series. Many Star Trek fans consider many parts of TOS to be totally decannonized (even by Gene Roddenberry himself), just like Voyager's Threshold episode. Unfortunately, B&B aren't getting any better at this. Star Trek Enterprise is continuing to kick continuity like a helpless puppy to the point where we're going to start feeling sorry for it.
Actually, if you sit down and look at every episode of the various different series that involve transwarp, you begin to see a pattern of which I described in my initial reply. If you discredit the utter ridiculously scientific nonsense in "Voyager: Threshold" regarding transwarp theory, it all falls into place. (Besides, Tom Paris in a later episode tells Seven of Nine that he'd never flown at Transwarp which seems to decannonize "Threshold" in the first place.)
We have natural bodies of water here? A famous, yet ignorant quote for me, when I moved here. I used to live in Syracuse, New York. Living here, where natural bodies of water are scarce, sure beats living in Syracuse next to Onondaga Lake, which is one of the most polluted lakes in the world.
I honestly don't see the point. Surfing is about skill and instinct. You need to find the right wave, then have the ability to propel yourself onto it and maintain balance for a set period of time. Automating the process takes the effort out of it.
But who am I to critisize? I live in Kansas and didn't RTFA. (Well I did look at the nifty pictures.)
God damn it. I knew something was off with that distance. It's 40,000,000 light years not 400,000,000.
So with a prelayed conduit that'd be just under 2 months and making a new conduit it would be 21.1 years of transwarp. Sorry about that. Well I guess if we ever invent the technology it isn't so unrealistic after all, is it?
Transwarp conduits seem to vary in speed greatly. In TNG episode "Decsent" the Enterprise entered a pre-layed Borg transwarp conduit and covered 65 lightyears in about nine seconds, a speed of around 200,000,000 c, or 8.125 lightyears per second(!). At that speed transwarp could take you across our galaxy in roughly 6 hours! But to cross 400,000,000 lightyears, it would take roughly 1 and a half years. Gives you an idea on how much empty space there is between galaxies, huh?
That said, we're talking about a pre-layed conduit. Star Trek established during Voyager that transwarp conduits must be layed by a vessel before they can be traveled at 200,000,000 c. The process of traveling at transwarp and laying a new conduit in your wake is much slower than traveling across a premade one. Creating a new conduit also varies in speed greatly. At it's slowest in Star Trek history, we've seen it go at roughly 100,000 c, or 13.7 light years per hour. At it's fastest in Star Trek history, we've seen it go at roughly 1,500,000 c, or 2.3148^ light years per minute. By taking the mean of these two extremes, it's reasonable to assume that the average speed of transwarp speed non prelayed conduit is 800,000 c, or 3.6 light years per minute.
So, to answer your question, since no one has yet layed a transwarp conduit to the galaxy in question (or maybe we just can't find it?), it would take 211.3 years of transwarp at 3.6 light years per second (the average) to travel the 400,000,000 light years to get there.
Considering the fact that we're talking about 24th century hypothetical technology and even that won't get you there very quickly, don't plan on taking your next vacation there.
(Disclaimer: Keep in mind that these calculations are heavily rounded and generalized and I threw them all together relatively quickly.)
It's been said already in previous discussions, but I still can't get over how stupid Sony is to name it the "PSX".
Playstation 1 was called PSX for short.
Playstation 2 was called PS2 for short.
The Playstation X is going to be called PSX for short.
And nobody saw this as a problem?
The best way to motivate people is with money. Hire more people. Maybe it isn't an option for you, but it is the best way to go. The "faceless" companies you talk of do get things done. Besides, there are ways to run a company that don't resemble Mr. Anderson's job in the Matrix. Take Google's headquarters for example. Massive company and one of the best work enviornments there is.
Trust me, I have experience working on volunteer projects that stymied. If people were getting paid to work on it, the projects wouldn't have stymied. We live in a money driven society. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.
What, besides great-graphics gaming, can you do on a GameCube? Nothing.
All you do is play games? Buy the cheap GameCube.
Do other things with technology besides play games? Buy the Opteron.
I'd mod you up if I had mod points. It all boils down to people not fully accepting what technology can do for them out of fear, ignorance, or both.
Enlighten me. Should I convert a web page from old HTML into XHTML, exactly how is the code reusable in areas other than web page design? I've always been under the impression that XHTML would one day just replace legacy HTML, but you seem to think otherwise.