> > By most surveys, more than 90% of professional scientists don't believe in a personal god.
> Except for the best ones.
That's not true. This has been surveyed among the
National Science Foundation members and the
results can bee seen here.
I remember seeing an article in Scientific American, where these numbers were compared to the university
professors in the States in general and among them
the belief in god was much higher.
This reminds me of something a successful businessman told me about accountants: "Accountants know the cost of everything, and the value of nothing".
This, of course, is an adaptation of a quote from
Oscar Wilde. Alan Pernis modified this to: "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and
the cost of nothing".
Please mod the parent down, he has no clue whatsoever what he's talking about.
For example:
Tritium must be manufactured, atom by atom.
They are actually using Lithium instead of Tritium
both in h-bombs and experimental fusion reactors.
A neutron hitting a Lithium-7 nucleus splits it
to a Tritium and He-4 nuclei. Or:
The ideal reaction to use of course would be proton-proton fusion, which powers the sun.
This is utter nonsense. There is no such thing
as proton-proton fusion, since this would result in
a Helium nucleus with no neutrons, which simply
does not exist. The lightest Helium isotope is
He-3 with two protons and one neutron.
I have absolutely no problem if those sites were adult sites. My issue with these dudes is that they are delibrately TRICKING kids into viewing the porn.
So fudging what? Seeing violent tv programming and movies are much more harmful to minors than porn.
5,500 domains, say 10 people per day (quite conservative), for a year. So this guy makes 20,075,000 people look at p0rn (daughters, mothers, grandmothers), with no way of using the back button or getting out of it, and prison time is excessive?
You must be American since you make such a big deal about pornography.
This bizarre obsession over the semantics of the word "steal" just shows that Slashdotters try to blur and distract the very valid issue of the illegality of downloading music and movies you have not paid money for. Yes, it is theft. That point is supported morally, ethically, and legally.
Well, downloading and copying music for one's personal use is not illegal everywhere. In Finland it is perfectly legal as long as one doesn't distribute.
The question I have is this: Is there any change from the book that actually bothers people?
One thing which really annoyed me was Jackson's
portrayal of Elrond. The impression what I got from
the books was that Elrond wasn't as hostile towards
men's weaknesses as in the movies. Certainly he
didn't think Isildur (or men in general) was to blame
about the situation. What could have happened if
Elrond got the ring instead of Isildur in the first place?
Galadriel had hard time refusing to take the ring and
if the ring had ended up in the hands of Elrond, he
would have become the Bad Guy.
15 Billion for a tunnel. Drive in. Stop the car, draw a chalk line arround the car. The cost of that space is more than you will make in your life. Probably more than all your close friends will make in there ENTIRE lives. Someone made a killing!
Don't be ridiculous. There are about 80 lane miles
in those tunnels and if you cut that into five meter
pieces, you end up with 25000 slots, which makes
only 600000 dollars per slot.
Also, I find Redhat 9 to be deadly slow on the desktop. SuSE 8 has proven to be much better (a KDE vs GNOME here?).. but I'm waiting for Fedora Core 2 (with the 2.6.0 kernel) until I make my next foray into trying Linux as a desktop OS. (I continue to use SuSE 8 via emulation for development purposes)
I heard that Red Hat 9 has some speed and
responsiveness problems of its own and that this
is related somehow to the kernel they ship being
heavily patched. Does anyone have any more
information on this?
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I thought both of them are free software licenses.
> Except for the best ones.
That's not true. This has been surveyed among the National Science Foundation members and the results can bee seen here.
I remember seeing an article in Scientific American, where these numbers were compared to the university professors in the States in general and among them the belief in god was much higher.
Sheesh, did they have to change the name of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox/whatever again?!?
This, of course, is an adaptation of a quote from Oscar Wilde. Alan Pernis modified this to: "Lisp programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing".
Tritium must be manufactured, atom by atom.
They are actually using Lithium instead of Tritium both in h-bombs and experimental fusion reactors. A neutron hitting a Lithium-7 nucleus splits it to a Tritium and He-4 nuclei. Or:
The ideal reaction to use of course would be proton-proton fusion, which powers the sun.
This is utter nonsense. There is no such thing as proton-proton fusion, since this would result in a Helium nucleus with no neutrons, which simply does not exist. The lightest Helium isotope is He-3 with two protons and one neutron.
So fudging what? Seeing violent tv programming and movies are much more harmful to minors than porn.
You must be American since you make such a big deal about pornography.
Could the editors please put a summary of the results, so that we don't have to RTFA.
The funny thing is that the Slashdot parter link seems to work as well. The question now is: why don't the editors use it? :-)
Well, downloading and copying music for one's personal use is not illegal everywhere. In Finland it is perfectly legal as long as one doesn't distribute.
One thing which really annoyed me was Jackson's portrayal of Elrond. The impression what I got from the books was that Elrond wasn't as hostile towards men's weaknesses as in the movies. Certainly he didn't think Isildur (or men in general) was to blame about the situation. What could have happened if Elrond got the ring instead of Isildur in the first place? Galadriel had hard time refusing to take the ring and if the ring had ended up in the hands of Elrond, he would have become the Bad Guy.
Don't be ridiculous. There are about 80 lane miles in those tunnels and if you cut that into five meter pieces, you end up with 25000 slots, which makes only 600000 dollars per slot.
I heard that Red Hat 9 has some speed and responsiveness problems of its own and that this is related somehow to the kernel they ship being heavily patched. Does anyone have any more information on this?