I hate to get involved in a flamewar over religion, but... the parent post is exactly on.
God did not "allow" poor, innocent people to die. There are no innocent people. Everyone has done something wrong. Everyone sins. It is human nature. We are born into sin. Even "good" people, who act righteous and moral, sin. No one deserves anything from God. We do not deserve to have anything we have. So when a hurricane/natural disaster/terror attack/war/whatever comes along, people have no right to complain that God allowed it. God has no obligation to prevent it. We all deserve death, and are alive only by God's grace. I am amazed that God allowes people who are agnostic, or completely athiest, to achieve prosperous lives.
I suppose that the Slashdot crowd knows much more about this topic than Elspa, so I ask you: What games do women like most and are they experienced players?
Not sure Slashdot is the best place to ask about women (if we knew about women, we wouldn't be sitting around reading slashdot now, would we?)
From what I recall, during drowning or suffocation, brain damage occurs in humans quite soon (10 minutes?). How is it that this process negates the lack of oxygen to the brain, allowing no damage to occur? Is it the temperature of the liquid used for replacing the blood?
In a word: yes. This is how people who fall through ice and remain underwater for extended periods of time (I believe the record is several hours in extremely cold water) are able to be revived, often without brain damage. What brain damage does occur is usually during the first few minutes after clinical death, when the body is still warm. Once the body core gets cold enough, brain damage does not get any worse. Speeding up the "chilling" process limits brain damage to be, according to the article, pretty much non-existant.
Also, the article has "Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved." followed immediately by "Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery." So, which is it?
This is referring to injured people. Say you get shot, or critically wounded, or whatever, in a mass casualty situation. Doctors can only operate on one person at a time, so some people end up waiting for surgury, and die in the process. With this technology, everyone is frozen. Then the doctors can take a few hours to discover the problem, and perform surgury.
Yeah, and a computer is a computer. It should be used by large corporations and governments for large, complex computations only. Nothing else. People who use computers for anything else are just asking the computer companies to add more bloated features to the computers to have more and more reason to charge you more. I mean, if my hand-held calculator has the computing power of the first giant computer, then I shouldn't get anything else? Are you saying that I shouldn't ever upgrade my computer ever? Your argument is rediculous to the extreme. If you are such a luddite, why are you even posting on/. in the first place?
not necessarally. All our (winxp) computers at work are locked down pretty well, not even any games on them, to increse productivity. we're not even allowed to install any extra software without requesting special permission. I've been known to slip a knoppix or ubuntu cd in from time to time just to get a break when the boss isn't looking.
It's a great game, though you can only play it with two people. It helps to have a good poker face and be able to bluff, and the game is always different each time you play it. I used to play that game with a friend for hours.
Anyway, to the US slashdotters: is this true or not?
It is for me. I live in Alaska, which has been hit hard by tsunamis in the past (Kodiak island, for example, was pretty much completely destroyed by the 1964 tsunami). We have a pretty good earthquake and tsunami education system in place, with Tsunami evacuation routs (similar to hurricane evacuation routs found in the Southeast), and even a Tsunami alarm downtown.
I'm just waiting for the price to come down a bit, and someone to come up with a hacked way to transfer music from the built in memory to a computer. Then I can download all the music I want off of my MyFi radio.
Your "privacy" wouldn't be violated at all. The proposal is for cameras in public places. You can't expect privacy on a crowded street or public park. There's hundreds of people around who can see what you are doing if they look at you. The only difference is that with cameras, there's a few more people who can watch a much larger area. I for one welcome our new Security Camera Overlords!
Are there any motherboards out on the market that have dual agp slots? I did a little bit of googling, and couldn't find any, and some sites state that no one makes them.
How bout some sort of hardware tool? something that checks if the computer has been stolen added into the bios or as some other sort of hardware mod. I know there are plenty of small embedded chips with all sorts of linux tools on them, it wouldn't be too hard to make a PROM with a SSH and web client, which could implement all of the tips given above. This way, even if they trash the hard drive or even completely remove it, the computer will still report back in if it's ever turned on and connected to the internet.
I've never understood why people think that no creator means life is meaningless, so maybe you can explain it further. It seems to me that atheists, who (generally) believe that this is the only life we get, would see this life as more significant than would christians, who think that it's just the blink of an eye compared to the eternal life that follows.
However, for an athiest, it would seem that there is no purpose in life. A person could do whatever they wanted to do to make themself feel good. It means that morals are pointless except as a means of maintaining order within society. However, order within society may not be something which everyone wants. What's wrong with someone like the Unabomber trying to tear down society? I think that the natural conclusion of athieism leads to an anarchist mindset, wherin individuals strive to break apart existing social and economic structures to rise up themselves and take a position of power while everyone else flounders in the wake of the disaster. Similar to the mentality of Anarchy99 from the movie XXX. There is no one to say that this sort of mentality is "bad" without some absolute external standard of good and evil.
How do you "know" anything? we take a great deal of things on faith. Most of my engineering knowledge came from college professors, who told me that certain things were true. I have read that the mass of an electron is approx 9.10938188 × 10-31 kilograms, but i've never weighed one myself. I take fundamental properties of the universe on faith. I have never been to Australia. Because I have not directly observed it, I must take it's existence on faith. There are a great many things which we believe, but cannot prove ourselves. I can say that it is highly probable that Australia exists, and highly improbable that the Easter Bunny does not exist. I cannot make either of these statements with 100% confidence, however. The same is true for the existence of God. I cannot state with confidence that God exists or does not exist. Thus it is left up to me to decide whether i believe that he exists or not. I have chosen to believe that He exists. Others may chose to believe that He does not exist. Either statement may be perfectly valid. However, I think that belief in God is more beneficial than disbelief. If God exists and I believe in Him, then when I die I will go to heaven for eternity, which is a definate plus. If God exists and I don't believe in Him, then when I die I will spend eternity in hell, which is really, really bad. However, if God does not exist, then my belief or lack of belief in him has no bearing at all once I die, so it really doesn't matter. Thus, not believing in God gives me no benefit at all in the best case, and a terribly negative result in the worst case, while believing in God results in a great benefit in the best case, while remaining neutral in the worst case. For this reason, logic dictates that, since God can neither be proved nor disproved, it is better to believe in God than to not believe.
How can you prove that there is no God? The Tooth Fairy can be proved to not exist, ask any parent and they will tell you that it is them, not the tooth fairy who places money under a pillow. I disproved Santa Clause as a child when I caught my parents in the act of placing preasants under the tree. However, I have not yet seen one good proof that there is no God. In fact, observation of the world and universe around me lead me to believe that there must be some higher being who brought all this into existence. If not, it's an awefully big coincidence, and leads to the conclusion that all of life is a big accident, and my existance is purely meaningless. This is a very depressing thought. Thus, I chose to believe that there is a God, not for a rational reason that can be proved, but because I chose to. BTW, faith is by definition believing something which cannot be proved. Since God operates outside of our existance, and therefore cannot be proved or disproved, belief in his existance or non-existance must be an act of faith. Pure logic cannot dictate the existance or non-existance of a supernatural being. Only personal belief and experiences.
Just as I was about to make a sarcastic comment regarding how cheap they were selling the business, and how I'm still so broke that I still couldn't afford it, they go and update the article.
1 year old P4 2.6, OC'd to 2.84. The die may be a few degrees warmer, I've got my thermometer mounted at the mating point between the cpu and heat sink)
I've got a water cooling system to keep it cool, and I know it can get hotter, but I'd rather keep it in the 30's just to preserve it's lifetime. I set the shutoff temp lower because if the cpu reaches 50C, it means the water cooling has failed, and the temp is shooting up all over the system (already had this happen once, almost destroyed the heat sink on the video card).
Lots of game manufacturers (and retailers) seem opposed to used game sales (especially for pc games). The game store that I frequent has had a remarkably smaller used game section the last few times I've been. No pc games, and only a single bin of used XBox and Playstation games. They are also giving very little money for trade-ins, only a few dollars for even relatively new games. Anyone else notice this trend?
Not to worry, it has a freezing point at -108C (-162.4F for all you non metric people). This would be great for overclocking if you could refrigerate it down close to the freezing point and circulating it through your computer. Not as good as liquid nitrogen, but you don't have to worry about it destroying your system if anything leaks, and you could use it to cool the entire motherboard and all your expansion cards equally, rather than focusing on a few heat sinks for heat transfer.
Not sure what kind of processor you are running. Maybe a laptop (my old micron used to burn my legs when i had it on my lap for long periods of time), but my pc runs at a nice, cool 29-33C (a few degrees more when playing games. I get very nervous when the processor tops 40C, and it auto-shuts down when it's at 50C for more than a few seconds. With any decent cooling system you aren't going to run that hot. The problem is that it has a thermal conductivity of about 1/4 the conductivity of water, so it would be pretty crappy. If you could use an externally cooled tank of the stuff running into your sealed computer case, it would take away a lot of the heat, more so than just circulating air. IIRC, water is about 24 times more thermally conductive than air, so this stuff would be about 6 times more efficient than air, by my rough estimate. Still don't know if it'd be worth it.
If you are still running a compiler from an old 386, then maybe it's time to upgrade. there are plenty of much, much newer compilers which are free to download. just try googling for a few minutes and you should find quite a few.
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I hate to get involved in a flamewar over religion, but... the parent post is exactly on.
God did not "allow" poor, innocent people to die. There are no innocent people. Everyone has done something wrong. Everyone sins. It is human nature. We are born into sin. Even "good" people, who act righteous and moral, sin. No one deserves anything from God. We do not deserve to have anything we have. So when a hurricane/natural disaster/terror attack/war/whatever comes along, people have no right to complain that God allowed it. God has no obligation to prevent it. We all deserve death, and are alive only by God's grace. I am amazed that God allowes people who are agnostic, or completely athiest, to achieve prosperous lives.
off my soap box.
Flame at will.
I suppose that the Slashdot crowd knows much more about this topic than Elspa, so I ask you: What games do women like most and are they experienced players?
Not sure Slashdot is the best place to ask about women (if we knew about women, we wouldn't be sitting around reading slashdot now, would we?)
From what I recall, during drowning or suffocation, brain damage occurs in humans quite soon (10 minutes?). How is it that this process negates the lack of oxygen to the brain, allowing no damage to occur? Is it the temperature of the liquid used for replacing the blood?
In a word: yes. This is how people who fall through ice and remain underwater for extended periods of time (I believe the record is several hours in extremely cold water) are able to be revived, often without brain damage. What brain damage does occur is usually during the first few minutes after clinical death, when the body is still warm. Once the body core gets cold enough, brain damage does not get any worse. Speeding up the "chilling" process limits brain damage to be, according to the article, pretty much non-existant.
Also, the article has "Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved." followed immediately by "Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery." So, which is it?
This is referring to injured people. Say you get shot, or critically wounded, or whatever, in a mass casualty situation. Doctors can only operate on one person at a time, so some people end up waiting for surgury, and die in the process. With this technology, everyone is frozen. Then the doctors can take a few hours to discover the problem, and perform surgury.
Could it be?
Anyways, I'm in the same boat. I havnt had any luck finding a good motherboard that supports my ram (184 pin RIMM).
Yeah, and a computer is a computer. It should be used by large corporations and governments for large, complex computations only. Nothing else. People who use computers for anything else are just asking the computer companies to add more bloated features to the computers to have more and more reason to charge you more. I mean, if my hand-held calculator has the computing power of the first giant computer, then I shouldn't get anything else? Are you saying that I shouldn't ever upgrade my computer ever? Your argument is rediculous to the extreme. If you are such a luddite, why are you even posting on /. in the first place?
not necessarally. All our (winxp) computers at work are locked down pretty well, not even any games on them, to increse productivity. we're not even allowed to install any extra software without requesting special permission. I've been known to slip a knoppix or ubuntu cd in from time to time just to get a break when the boss isn't looking.
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu
Keep it running on all of my PC's, and they all run at 100% all the time. Good way to keep the house warm on those cold alaskan winter nights.
It's a great game, though you can only play it with two people. It helps to have a good poker face and be able to bluff, and the game is always different each time you play it. I used to play that game with a friend for hours.
Yeah, and all our pervy grandparents go to florida to watch all the college kids get naked over spring break.
Anyway, to the US slashdotters: is this true or not?
It is for me. I live in Alaska, which has been hit hard by tsunamis in the past (Kodiak island, for example, was pretty much completely destroyed by the 1964 tsunami). We have a pretty good earthquake and tsunami education system in place, with Tsunami evacuation routs (similar to hurricane evacuation routs found in the Southeast), and even a Tsunami alarm downtown.
I'm just waiting for the price to come down a bit, and someone to come up with a hacked way to transfer music from the built in memory to a computer. Then I can download all the music I want off of my MyFi radio.
Your "privacy" wouldn't be violated at all. The proposal is for cameras in public places. You can't expect privacy on a crowded street or public park. There's hundreds of people around who can see what you are doing if they look at you. The only difference is that with cameras, there's a few more people who can watch a much larger area. I for one welcome our new Security Camera Overlords!
Are there any motherboards out on the market that have dual agp slots? I did a little bit of googling, and couldn't find any, and some sites state that no one makes them.
How bout some sort of hardware tool? something that checks if the computer has been stolen added into the bios or as some other sort of hardware mod. I know there are plenty of small embedded chips with all sorts of linux tools on them, it wouldn't be too hard to make a PROM with a SSH and web client, which could implement all of the tips given above. This way, even if they trash the hard drive or even completely remove it, the computer will still report back in if it's ever turned on and connected to the internet.
I've never understood why people think that no creator means life is meaningless, so maybe you can explain it further. It seems to me that atheists, who (generally) believe that this is the only life we get, would see this life as more significant than would christians, who think that it's just the blink of an eye compared to the eternal life that follows.
However, for an athiest, it would seem that there is no purpose in life. A person could do whatever they wanted to do to make themself feel good. It means that morals are pointless except as a means of maintaining order within society. However, order within society may not be something which everyone wants. What's wrong with someone like the Unabomber trying to tear down society? I think that the natural conclusion of athieism leads to an anarchist mindset, wherin individuals strive to break apart existing social and economic structures to rise up themselves and take a position of power while everyone else flounders in the wake of the disaster. Similar to the mentality of Anarchy99 from the movie XXX. There is no one to say that this sort of mentality is "bad" without some absolute external standard of good and evil.
How do you "know" anything? we take a great deal of things on faith. Most of my engineering knowledge came from college professors, who told me that certain things were true. I have read that the mass of an electron is approx 9.10938188 × 10-31 kilograms, but i've never weighed one myself. I take fundamental properties of the universe on faith. I have never been to Australia. Because I have not directly observed it, I must take it's existence on faith. There are a great many things which we believe, but cannot prove ourselves. I can say that it is highly probable that Australia exists, and highly improbable that the Easter Bunny does not exist. I cannot make either of these statements with 100% confidence, however. The same is true for the existence of God. I cannot state with confidence that God exists or does not exist. Thus it is left up to me to decide whether i believe that he exists or not. I have chosen to believe that He exists. Others may chose to believe that He does not exist. Either statement may be perfectly valid. However, I think that belief in God is more beneficial than disbelief. If God exists and I believe in Him, then when I die I will go to heaven for eternity, which is a definate plus. If God exists and I don't believe in Him, then when I die I will spend eternity in hell, which is really, really bad. However, if God does not exist, then my belief or lack of belief in him has no bearing at all once I die, so it really doesn't matter. Thus, not believing in God gives me no benefit at all in the best case, and a terribly negative result in the worst case, while believing in God results in a great benefit in the best case, while remaining neutral in the worst case. For this reason, logic dictates that, since God can neither be proved nor disproved, it is better to believe in God than to not believe.
How can you prove that there is no God? The Tooth Fairy can be proved to not exist, ask any parent and they will tell you that it is them, not the tooth fairy who places money under a pillow. I disproved Santa Clause as a child when I caught my parents in the act of placing preasants under the tree. However, I have not yet seen one good proof that there is no God. In fact, observation of the world and universe around me lead me to believe that there must be some higher being who brought all this into existence. If not, it's an awefully big coincidence, and leads to the conclusion that all of life is a big accident, and my existance is purely meaningless. This is a very depressing thought. Thus, I chose to believe that there is a God, not for a rational reason that can be proved, but because I chose to. BTW, faith is by definition believing something which cannot be proved. Since God operates outside of our existance, and therefore cannot be proved or disproved, belief in his existance or non-existance must be an act of faith. Pure logic cannot dictate the existance or non-existance of a supernatural being. Only personal belief and experiences.
Just as I was about to make a sarcastic comment regarding how cheap they were selling the business, and how I'm still so broke that I still couldn't afford it, they go and update the article.
1 year old P4 2.6, OC'd to 2.84.
The die may be a few degrees warmer, I've got my thermometer mounted at the mating point between the cpu and heat sink)
I've got a water cooling system to keep it cool, and I know it can get hotter, but I'd rather keep it in the 30's just to preserve it's lifetime. I set the shutoff temp lower because if the cpu reaches 50C, it means the water cooling has failed, and the temp is shooting up all over the system (already had this happen once, almost destroyed the heat sink on the video card).
Lots of game manufacturers (and retailers) seem opposed to used game sales (especially for pc games). The game store that I frequent has had a remarkably smaller used game section the last few times I've been. No pc games, and only a single bin of used XBox and Playstation games. They are also giving very little money for trade-ins, only a few dollars for even relatively new games. Anyone else notice this trend?
Not to worry, it has a freezing point at -108C (-162.4F for all you non metric people).
This would be great for overclocking if you could refrigerate it down close to the freezing point and circulating it through your computer. Not as good as liquid nitrogen, but you don't have to worry about it destroying your system if anything leaks, and you could use it to cool the entire motherboard and all your expansion cards equally, rather than focusing on a few heat sinks for heat transfer.
Even better, add a few fake tropical fish, let them "swim" around your exposed cpu (no case needed, so you could see everything)
Not sure what kind of processor you are running. Maybe a laptop (my old micron used to burn my legs when i had it on my lap for long periods of time), but my pc runs at a nice, cool 29-33C (a few degrees more when playing games. I get very nervous when the processor tops 40C, and it auto-shuts down when it's at 50C for more than a few seconds. With any decent cooling system you aren't going to run that hot. The problem is that it has a thermal conductivity of about 1/4 the conductivity of water, so it would be pretty crappy. If you could use an externally cooled tank of the stuff running into your sealed computer case, it would take away a lot of the heat, more so than just circulating air. IIRC, water is about 24 times more thermally conductive than air, so this stuff would be about 6 times more efficient than air, by my rough estimate. Still don't know if it'd be worth it.
Could it be???
If you are still running a compiler from an old 386, then maybe it's time to upgrade. there are plenty of much, much newer compilers which are free to download. just try googling for a few minutes and you should find quite a few.