The particles absorbed do not need to be anti-particles. Anti-particles have positive mass as well, and both the absorbtion of virtual particles and anti-particles will draw mass/energy from the singularity by creating their real complements.
the thing that strikes me is that episodes got shorter when years passed by. Is this because then they can squeeze in more commercials? Like, with the original series 13 minutes of commercials, 2 more for TNG, DS9 and VOY, and then a couple of years later again 3 minutes more for ENT...
From September 2008 onwards all digital office-documents of the federal government wil be ODF-files.
ODF or open document format is a file format for office documents that was officially accepted last month by the international standards-organisation ISO.
It concerns an "open standard", that can be used at will by software developers to create applications. ODF is therefor a potential concurrent for the own file formats the software giant Microsoft uses in its office software Microsoft Office.
The federal ministrial counsel took the radical decision last friday to make the ODF-standards obligatory from September 2008 onwards for all federal governmental services. One year earlier all services must already be able to read the ODF documents. According to the magazine IT Professional Belgium is the first country in the world to take such measures, and thus de facto forbids the usage of the Microsoft formats.
However the door isn't entirely closed for Microsoft. The company now has the choise: either they open their programs for ODF-files, or they develop a standard themselves that can be used next to ODF. The most important candidate for the latter is the by Microsoft designed Open XML.
But according to Peter Strickx, who is responsible for software standards at the federal government, Open XML has to be first officially recognized and there have to be enough applications supporting the format. According to Microsoft spokesman Frank De Graeve they also consider supporting ODF in the Office software.
Belgium decided today to adopt ODF for all goverment-related documents, starting from September 2008. Microsoft Office will no longer be allowed to be used, unless it fully supports ODF by then.
Being able to read ODF has to be implemented on all federal computersystems a year earlier.
I would provide a link to an article, but I don't find anything in english. Here is a dutch article
Simple calculation: speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s, frequency is 5*10^11, so in one clock you can travel 3/5 millimeter at the speed of light. But electrical signals in copper and semiconductors travel at approx. two third of the speed of light, so in one clock an electrical pulse can travel roughly 0.4 mm. Your processor has to be way smaller than this, because all routes signals can take from anywhere to anywhere must be shorter than this distance. And let's forget entirely about phase-problems, synchronization,... These things are now already causing difficulties in chip-design, at current speeds where signals can travel several centimeters.
I honestly do not expect that processor speeds will increase very much anymore. The past however has time after time proven everybody wrong that made that statement.
Lots of people seem to have problems with that. Anyway, I'm going on my coffeebreak from a quarter to two to two to two.
You have coffee breaks from a quarter to two to two to two too?
Just a random thought that popped up in my mind: The speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s, and you want to send a bitstream of 10^11 bit/s. If we forget that the actual speed of an electrical pulse is lower than the speed of light, this results in a mean travellenght of 0.003m, or 3 millimeter per bit. So in my utp-cable I will have a bit travelling through it every few millimeters. Isn't this going to cause severe trouble when e.g. one of the eight wires is a bit longer than the rest? Or how tight will you need to twist the cable then, to avoid self-induction? Even with fiberglass this might give trouble I think (e.g. a longer travellenght on the outside of a curve compared to the inside).
I don't have a name for what you have, but I have something similar. There are three things I canNOT remember: dates, names and jokes. History lessons were a burden, and I don't even remember my parents birthdays. It took me three weeks before I could say my girlfriends name without hard thinking and hesitation. And when someone tells me a joke, well, how hard I try I forget it the same day.
But it does seem to get better when getting older, at least the names part. But that is more because of when I hear someone's name for the first time now, I know I easily forget it, and I will start repeating it over and over to myself the next minutes. Although I still forgot about 4 out of 5 names an hour later, at least sometimes I am able to remember them.
Strangely enough other things, like scientific trivia, I only need to hear once and I will never forget them.
That is how it works at our company. The default is linux. All "regular joe's" have linux on their desktop. All servers are linux. If you begin and you don't know linux, that's your problem, learn it. But you can have windows, if you have VERY good reasons (e.g. secretaries that receive MS-office documents all the time). These windows-machines are completely locked down. You can do exactly what you wanted your windows-machine for, but nothing more. Also, these machines are reinstalled every single night (ghost) with a new image maintained by the IT-department (so daily updates). The linux-machines are gentoo-based, and are also tuned. Nothing too much in there, but what is there simply works. These machines can also be automatically installed by just connecting them to the network and booting from a usb-stick, or remotely from a server.
Combine this with a little education of your users, a little trust, a security-model not based on the "hard shell soft inside" model, but the "insiders can also seriously mess things up" model, a decent network-infrastructure (e.g. managed switches, fast uplink) and some guys that really know how to setup and secure a server or a network, and you won't have many problems or complaints.
It always feels good to see the bastard that made your life so difficult for months in a row because you are a "geek" having to serve you your salmonfilet in your favorite fancy restaurant.
Or the "cool guys of the class" that apparently got addicted to amphetamines and are now walking zombies without a job or any prospects of finding one soon.
It can make things too hot inside because dust is a good isolator (works as a blanket) and it blocks airflow. This can cause strange errors. A too hot CPU will make calculation errors (which may crash programs), GPU's will start spewing out strange things on your screen (lines, triangles,...), harddisks will lock up or take ages to find the data requested,...
If the screen doesn't work, is it plugged in? Is the power on? If the laptop doesn't print, is it connected to the network or printer? If your freshly installed HD is not detected, did you plug in the power cable?...
I cannot imagine how much money is already wasted on transportation, man-hours, phone bills,... because this rule got violated. When you think "They cannot be that stupid"... think again and check, because yes, they can be that stupid.
The things you point out are very similar to my own experiences. A few months ago we decided to hire someone to manage our (modest) IT-infrastructure, which includes windows and linux clients, and linux-servers. Nobody showed up with the skills we needed. What did show up were lots of under-graduate java-spewing codemonkeys which were supposed to know everything about every windows-version ever invented if you'd believe them, but never heard of a domain controller before (don't even start about linux). Then on the other hand I have several friends which use linux since they could type and would be very qualified for the job, but they "do not qualify" because they don't have a paper that says they have degree X or Y... Sad
I use linux for work and windows for pleasure (games...), but am very interested in all these mac-thingies. But is it somehow possible to get a taste of what OS X and Mac is all about, without effectively buying one? And since the main reason I still keep a windows around is for games, how about gaming-support for Mac? Does e.g. farcry, halflife2, UT2004, etc. exist for Mac?
You are imprisoned together with 2 other prisoners. 2 of you have been chosen to be executed at random, and the guard knows which two. Your chance of being executed is thus 2/3.
But you ask the guard that, since at least one of the others will die as well, if he can't tell you who it will be. The guard reasones that indeed this doesn't matter, and tells you the first guy has to die.
But now you know the first has to go, so the second one that will die is either you or the other guy, and your chance of being executed decreases from 2/3 to 1/2...
or not...
100 years from now, they will laugh at us for our crazy notions about strings, chaos, and the human genome.
Yes, but they will be rofl about things like intelligent design, the inability of the masses to see through propaganda and the hate-relation most people have with knowledge and common sense.
Well, let me quickly calculate the price of gas here in Belgium for you:
one liter "super" (regular fuel for cars, no diesel): 1.40 euro / liter
1 Euro = 1.2417 U.S. Dollars
1 gallon = 3.79 liter
This makes 6.59 $ per gallon, or more than double of what you consider troublesome. On a side note, cars here probably need less than half the gas you guys need for the same distance. My own car does 100 kilometers on 5-6 liters diesel (you do the conversion). Yet another side note, cars in the US are a lot cheaper...
Well, as this may be true for you, I just like my job. I can wake up in the morning before my wakeup alarm starts, and jump out of bed, thinking "wow I wish I already was at my desk, so I can continue what I was doing yesterday". Yes I have flexible hours and can start whenever I want. Yes I work too much each and every day. No I don't get paid more because of this. But most important: No I don't mind doing this, I even like it. But I must be an exception...
You may want to check out the miller-urey experiment: They created a (sterile) environment of how the earth looked like before the emergence of life (water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen) and then sent some flashes of electricity through the mixture. They easily generated complex organic molecules necessary for life. This experiment is reproducible. If it is possible to generate e.g amino acids so fast and on such a small scale, what would such an experiment on a global scale for billions of years produce? Some viruses/virii only consist out of a few amino acids such as created in this experiment. For me it is not hard to imagine that eventually "accidentally" reproducing molecules are generated, and the evolution of life starts...
I'm not very sure. If you start a program, a lot of the time is also spent on "trivial" stuff, as allocating program space, asking a PID, opening file descriptors, etc. Then when it finally starts, it needs to ask for free memory, it has to wait when the cpu needs to spend some cycles on temperature checking (acpi), interrupt handling, getting data from the HD,... And how much of code doesn't consist of "fill the next 1 million doubles with zeros"-like code.
I think you would be surprised of how much cpu cycles are effectively used for just keeping your computer and operating system running. But on the other hand I agree that brains and computers are totally different, but at another point:
flop = floating point operation = multiplying two numbers with comma's (ok ok, exponents). This takes me way more than one second to do, so I have something like, 0.1 flops capacity?
I can however in split seconds render depth maps when I see a room, recognize situations, objects, persons, sounds, perform highly complex sequential tasks (think for a moment about an algorithm for a robot to just dress himself). This is where the petaflops comparison holds. The reason why we are able to do this is because our brain is massively parallel: 50 billion interconnected (very simple) chemical processors, who communicate with a scala of electrical and chemical signals.
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The particles absorbed do not need to be anti-particles. Anti-particles have positive mass as well, and both the absorbtion of virtual particles and anti-particles will draw mass/energy from the singularity by creating their real complements.
the thing that strikes me is that episodes got shorter when years passed by. Is this because then they can squeeze in more commercials? Like, with the original series 13 minutes of commercials, 2 more for TNG, DS9 and VOY, and then a couple of years later again 3 minutes more for ENT...
Just wondering.
Here you go guys:
Government bans Microsoft-documents
From September 2008 onwards all digital office-documents of the federal
government wil be ODF-files.
ODF or open document format is a file format for office documents that
was officially accepted last month by the international
standards-organisation ISO.
It concerns an "open standard", that can be used at will by software
developers to create applications. ODF is therefor a potential
concurrent for the own file formats the software giant Microsoft uses
in its office software Microsoft Office.
The federal ministrial counsel took the radical decision last friday to
make the ODF-standards obligatory from September 2008 onwards for all
federal governmental services. One year earlier all services must
already be able to read the ODF documents. According to the magazine IT
Professional Belgium is the first country in the world to take such
measures, and thus de facto forbids the usage of the Microsoft formats.
However the door isn't entirely closed for Microsoft. The company now
has the choise: either they open their programs for ODF-files, or they
develop a standard themselves that can be used next to ODF. The most
important candidate for the latter is the by Microsoft designed Open
XML.
But according to Peter Strickx, who is responsible for software
standards at the federal government, Open XML has to be first
officially recognized and there have to be enough applications
supporting the format. According to Microsoft spokesman Frank De Graeve
they also consider supporting ODF in the Office software.
Belgium decided today to adopt ODF for all goverment-related documents, starting from September 2008. Microsoft Office will no longer be allowed to be used, unless it fully supports ODF by then.
Being able to read ODF has to be implemented on all federal computersystems a year earlier.
I would provide a link to an article, but I don't find anything in english. Here is a dutch article
Simple calculation: speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s, frequency is 5*10^11, so in one clock you can travel 3/5 millimeter at the speed of light. But electrical signals in copper and semiconductors travel at approx. two third of the speed of light, so in one clock an electrical pulse can travel roughly 0.4 mm. Your processor has to be way smaller than this, because all routes signals can take from anywhere to anywhere must be shorter than this distance. And let's forget entirely about phase-problems, synchronization, ... These things are now already causing difficulties in chip-design, at current speeds where signals can travel several centimeters.
I honestly do not expect that processor speeds will increase very much anymore. The past however has time after time proven everybody wrong that made that statement.
Lots of people seem to have problems with that. Anyway, I'm going on my coffeebreak from a quarter to two to two to two. You have coffee breaks from a quarter to two to two to two too?
You mean the y3k bug...
I don't care, I welcome it. Greetings from, well, not from america ...
Just a random thought that popped up in my mind: The speed of light is 3*10^8 m/s, and you want to send a bitstream of 10^11 bit/s. If we forget that the actual speed of an electrical pulse is lower than the speed of light, this results in a mean travellenght of 0.003m, or 3 millimeter per bit. So in my utp-cable I will have a bit travelling through it every few millimeters. Isn't this going to cause severe trouble when e.g. one of the eight wires is a bit longer than the rest? Or how tight will you need to twist the cable then, to avoid self-induction? Even with fiberglass this might give trouble I think (e.g. a longer travellenght on the outside of a curve compared to the inside).
I don't have a name for what you have, but I have something similar. There are three things I canNOT remember: dates, names and jokes. History lessons were a burden, and I don't even remember my parents birthdays. It took me three weeks before I could say my girlfriends name without hard thinking and hesitation. And when someone tells me a joke, well, how hard I try I forget it the same day.
But it does seem to get better when getting older, at least the names part. But that is more because of when I hear someone's name for the first time now, I know I easily forget it, and I will start repeating it over and over to myself the next minutes. Although I still forgot about 4 out of 5 names an hour later, at least sometimes I am able to remember them.
Strangely enough other things, like scientific trivia, I only need to hear once and I will never forget them.
That is how it works at our company. The default is linux. All "regular joe's" have linux on their desktop. All servers are linux. If you begin and you don't know linux, that's your problem, learn it. But you can have windows, if you have VERY good reasons (e.g. secretaries that receive MS-office documents all the time). These windows-machines are completely locked down. You can do exactly what you wanted your windows-machine for, but nothing more. Also, these machines are reinstalled every single night (ghost) with a new image maintained by the IT-department (so daily updates).
The linux-machines are gentoo-based, and are also tuned. Nothing too much in there, but what is there simply works. These machines can also be automatically installed by just connecting them to the network and booting from a usb-stick, or remotely from a server.
Combine this with a little education of your users, a little trust, a security-model not based on the "hard shell soft inside" model, but the "insiders can also seriously mess things up" model, a decent network-infrastructure (e.g. managed switches, fast uplink) and some guys that really know how to setup and secure a server or a network, and you won't have many problems or complaints.
It always feels good to see the bastard that made your life so difficult for months in a row because you are a "geek" having to serve you your salmonfilet in your favorite fancy restaurant.
Or the "cool guys of the class" that apparently got addicted to amphetamines and are now walking zombies without a job or any prospects of finding one soon.
Sorry if this sounds sadistic, but sometimes...
Not when you have to pay...
I neeeeeeeeeeed my many keys!!!
Also how do you play continuum on such a monster? Or type Latex-documents without accidentally tying your fingers in a knot?
It can make things too hot inside because dust is a good isolator (works as a blanket) and it blocks airflow. This can cause strange errors. A too hot CPU will make calculation errors (which may crash programs), GPU's will start spewing out strange things on your screen (lines, triangles, ...), harddisks will lock up or take ages to find the data requested, ...
Check the most obvious first!!!
...
... because this rule got violated. When you think "They cannot be that stupid"... think again and check, because yes, they can be that stupid.
If the screen doesn't work, is it plugged in? Is the power on?
If the laptop doesn't print, is it connected to the network or printer?
If your freshly installed HD is not detected, did you plug in the power cable?
I cannot imagine how much money is already wasted on transportation, man-hours, phone bills,
The things you point out are very similar to my own experiences. A few months ago we decided to hire someone to manage our (modest) IT-infrastructure, which includes windows and linux clients, and linux-servers. Nobody showed up with the skills we needed. What did show up were lots of under-graduate java-spewing codemonkeys which were supposed to know everything about every windows-version ever invented if you'd believe them, but never heard of a domain controller before (don't even start about linux). Then on the other hand I have several friends which use linux since they could type and would be very qualified for the job, but they "do not qualify" because they don't have a paper that says they have degree X or Y... Sad
I use linux for work and windows for pleasure (games...), but am very interested in all these mac-thingies. But is it somehow possible to get a taste of what OS X and Mac is all about, without effectively buying one? And since the main reason I still keep a windows around is for games, how about gaming-support for Mac? Does e.g. farcry, halflife2, UT2004, etc. exist for Mac?
You are imprisoned together with 2 other prisoners. 2 of you have been chosen to be executed at random, and the guard knows which two. Your chance of being executed is thus 2/3.
But you ask the guard that, since at least one of the others will die as well, if he can't tell you who it will be. The guard reasones that indeed this doesn't matter, and tells you the first guy has to die.
But now you know the first has to go, so the second one that will die is either you or the other guy, and your chance of being executed decreases from 2/3 to 1/2...
or not...
Where is the flaw, or is this correct?
100 years from now, they will laugh at us for our crazy notions about strings, chaos, and the human genome.
Yes, but they will be rofl about things like intelligent design, the inability of the masses to see through propaganda and the hate-relation most people have with knowledge and common sense.
Well, let me quickly calculate the price of gas here in Belgium for you:
...
one liter "super" (regular fuel for cars, no diesel): 1.40 euro / liter
1 Euro = 1.2417 U.S. Dollars
1 gallon = 3.79 liter
This makes 6.59 $ per gallon, or more than double of what you consider troublesome. On a side note, cars here probably need less than half the gas you guys need for the same distance. My own car does 100 kilometers on 5-6 liters diesel (you do the conversion). Yet another side note, cars in the US are a lot cheaper
My boss doesn't really care what I do, as long as I get the job done.
Well, as this may be true for you, I just like my job. I can wake up in the morning before my wakeup alarm starts, and jump out of bed, thinking "wow I wish I already was at my desk, so I can continue what I was doing yesterday". Yes I have flexible hours and can start whenever I want. Yes I work too much each and every day. No I don't get paid more because of this. But most important: No I don't mind doing this, I even like it. But I must be an exception...
You may want to check out the miller-urey experiment: They created a (sterile) environment of how the earth looked like before the emergence of life (water, methane, ammonia, hydrogen) and then sent some flashes of electricity through the mixture. They easily generated complex organic molecules necessary for life. This experiment is reproducible. If it is possible to generate e.g amino acids so fast and on such a small scale, what would such an experiment on a global scale for billions of years produce? Some viruses/virii only consist out of a few amino acids such as created in this experiment. For me it is not hard to imagine that eventually "accidentally" reproducing molecules are generated, and the evolution of life starts...
I think you would be surprised of how much cpu cycles are effectively used for just keeping your computer and operating system running. But on the other hand I agree that brains and computers are totally different, but at another point:
flop = floating point operation = multiplying two numbers with comma's (ok ok, exponents). This takes me way more than one second to do, so I have something like, 0.1 flops capacity?
I can however in split seconds render depth maps when I see a room, recognize situations, objects, persons, sounds, perform highly complex sequential tasks (think for a moment about an algorithm for a robot to just dress himself). This is where the petaflops comparison holds. The reason why we are able to do this is because our brain is massively parallel: 50 billion interconnected (very simple) chemical processors, who communicate with a scala of electrical and chemical signals.