...the 2,3 Turing Machine proves that Wolfram is universal!
Sometimes I just kill myself...
Does anyone filter science posts for credibility?
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Supernova 1987A Decoded
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This is crazy talk. I studied gravitational collapse TypeII supernova explosions in grad school. It's not an electrical phenomenon: it's a gravitational bounce outward from the solid (neutron) core after fusion peters out at Iron burning. From there, for sufficiently massive stars, you either get a neutron star or a black hole. Hans Bethe got the Nobel for explaining process the energy release(~10^51 erg). Aside from some of the 3d fluid dynamics of collapse and ejecta composition, the important parts of the process are fairly well understood.
My setup is a dual-boot XP/RH8 setup. I got the laptop new with two partitions, a 10G XP FAT32, and a 20G NTFS. I deleted the NTFS partition, and recreated it with 10G free. After that, I did a stock RH8 install, with GRUB handling the dual-boot after writing stuff to the MBR.
I was somewhat relieved that Fedora 2 recognized the RH partition and was going to let me upgrade instead of wiping out things. Early in the install I got a 'partition alignment' warning, which said that it may be nothing. But after starting the install it always stopped early, claiming 'partition alignment problems'. I even tried it without updates to the bootloader, and the same prob happened during install.
I want the latest bits, but not at the risk of losing 20G of my XP partitions. I was hoping that this being a RH product assured a higher level of backwards compatibility.
Does anyone have link to an article from Munich people on this? I'd like to know what in particular they are having problems with, from someone that doesn't have a vested interest in the project's failure. Heck, if I were Ballmer, I would feel no resistance to just making up the story, or at a minimum exaggerating it out of proportion. Also consider that the article containing Ballmer is more of an MS ad than a story.
Or was there a link to something Munich-related above?
What I want to know is whether I have the choice of NOT using an electronic machine. I'd think it's reasonable to say 'I want to vote old-school, with a pen and paper.' Then, it'd be a matter of enough people requesting this that the machines would just go away. Perhaps there is some accessibility issue that can be invoked, or maybe just use absentee ballots.
I agree: current versions of these machines are prone to error or corruption, and shouldn't be foisted on us without considerable *SUCCESSFUL* testing by highly critical, technical people.
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...the 2,3 Turing Machine proves that Wolfram is universal! Sometimes I just kill myself...
This is crazy talk. I studied gravitational collapse TypeII supernova explosions in grad school. It's not an electrical phenomenon: it's a gravitational bounce outward from the solid (neutron) core after fusion peters out at Iron burning. From there, for sufficiently massive stars, you either get a neutron star or a black hole. Hans Bethe got the Nobel for explaining process the energy release(~10^51 erg). Aside from some of the 3d fluid dynamics of collapse and ejecta composition, the important parts of the process are fairly well understood.
My setup is a dual-boot XP/RH8 setup. I got the laptop new with two partitions, a 10G XP FAT32, and a 20G NTFS. I deleted the NTFS partition, and recreated it with 10G free. After that, I did a stock RH8 install, with GRUB handling the dual-boot after writing stuff to the MBR. I was somewhat relieved that Fedora 2 recognized the RH partition and was going to let me upgrade instead of wiping out things. Early in the install I got a 'partition alignment' warning, which said that it may be nothing. But after starting the install it always stopped early, claiming 'partition alignment problems'. I even tried it without updates to the bootloader, and the same prob happened during install. I want the latest bits, but not at the risk of losing 20G of my XP partitions. I was hoping that this being a RH product assured a higher level of backwards compatibility.
Yeah, I want to see if a $20 bill will catch fire, so I'm gonna stick $1000 into a microwave. Sheesh, what a moron.
Or was there a link to something Munich-related above?
I agree: current versions of these machines are prone to error or corruption, and shouldn't be foisted on us without considerable *SUCCESSFUL* testing by highly critical, technical people.