The equation everyone knows offhand is E=mc^2 (even if they don't know what it means), but few people know that the full equations is E=m^2c^4 + p^2c^2. 'p' is momentum, so when you're talking about just the rest mass of the particle you have E=mc^2.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that because E=m^2c^4 + p^2c^2 is my favorite equation and most people think it looks a little familiar but wouldn't know what it was without a little additional explanation.
Potentially that could bring the server offline and cost them a bundle for a great two-sided effect
So... if I wanted to download the script, delete it, and re-download it ad infinitum, any notions on a command like trick to do that? (sorry, yes, I'm a silly n00b)
What "extra money'? When a stock price goes up, the company doesn't get a penny. A company could issue yet more stock at near the newly high price, but that isn't what's happening here.
If you read the excerpt, "Google has reported increased profits compared to the year-ago numbers in its first quarterly earnings report as a publicly held company. Google's revenue figures more than doubled, leaping to $805.9 million from $393.9 million". I hope that answers your question. The only part of the excerpt that even mentions stock price is the last sentence.
Please see: AltaVista, Yahoo!, Netscape, and InkTomi all of whom were declared "the winner for now" back in their respective days.
Question: Do you recall ever saying something like "Just a moment, I'm going to altavista for it?" or "Why don't you try yahooing the answer?" It's true that different search engines have been in the lead in the past, but you are wrong to assert that one has ever enjoyed the same degree of internet hegemony as Google.
I wonder what they're going to do with the extra money?
As far as the search engine wars go, well, I think they've pretty much been declared the winner for now. It will take something very innovative and different from existing engines to have a chance at dislodging them.
So maybe that's where you see things like Gmail and Google Desktop Search coming from? Theres not a lot of room to expand in the search engine arena; not a lot they can do other than branch out into places where there's more room to innovate and expand.
"It may not have much in the way of photo-taking abilities, but the A768i might be the thing for business users as it excels in the phone/messaging category."
Since when to people use phones for that anymore?;)
The first hook for me on Linux--what moved me away from Windows--was the multiple desktops.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, there is an icon on the panel divided into four sections. Each of these is a separate desktop in which you can open separate windows, etc. and their contents are graphically represented by the icon. To move between desktops, you simply click on the appropriate panel, or use a hot key.
For me, it was seriously like having four computers in one. Under Windows, after a certain point, you can no longer navigate between the windows you have open. Under linux, I can have all my windows divided into sections based on their content. I have never, under this setup, had the number of windows I had open become impractical or unimaginable.
So, I haven't worked with dual physical monitors, but I can saw from what I consider to be a software equivalent under Linux that it should be able to make your life easier. Especially with a stable operating system that can handle running a bunch of programs at once without crashing. *cough*
The problem with using Linux when the people you work for generally use Windows is, of course, being compatible with them. Linux has come a long way in this regard: OpenOffice reads Word documents flawlessly; gnumeric reads Excel spreadsheets; Ximian Evolution is the perfect replacement for Outlook; etc.
The one business application that isn't so well worked out is PowerPoint. OpenOffice's Impress is wonderful by itself, but it doesn't do so good with reading Microsoft generated powerpoints, especially with fancy stuff in them. I had to give a presentation recently on what my team did for the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge, and I had to transfer the presentation to some long-outdated Mac powerbook to work with it because OpenOffice would just freeze when I tried to read the file.
On the otherhand, I haven't had any trouble reading OpenOffice.ppt files in PowerPoint, so it's really only a probablem if you need to import something from another machine.
But otherwise, I don't see any advantage windows affords. I mean, if I have critical data on my machine, the number one issue for me is going to be stability, which is not one of windows' strongpoints. (And no, Rome Total War is not a business application.:p)
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Read "wrote and selected". Poor kids, getting their votes hijacked by a bunch of grumpy old fart programmers.
I'm half surprised nobody asked whether the candidates preferred 'vi' or 'emacs'. (But then, that would be a wonderfully divisive issue for the Presidential debates... can you imagine the second civil being started when the predominantly vi using states cede from the union because they code federal legislation using emacs?)
Her letter was a response to an article appearing in Thursday's Washington Post, which also alleged that Allawi was coached by US officials -- including Dan Senor, former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq-- in perfecting his delivery of the speech delivered before a joint session of Congress one week ago
So let's get this straight. Rumor gets to Washington Post that Allawi was coached by members from the Provisional Authority. The leader of Bush's political opposition gets wind of this and says the speech was jaundiced. And the title on Slashdot reads "Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech".
Apart from the fact that this has no place on Slashdot's frontpage other than that the editors have a beef with Bush, could we maybe avoid contributing to the rumor mill?
Seems in the runup to the election defending Bush even indirectly will get you moderated into the ground.
When was the last time you saw a +5 Insightful post on something good about Bush?
The closest it gets is sometimes it's okay to knock Kerry as long as you have a "As much as I hate Bush..." disclaimer.
The same people who think John Ashcroft has personally overwridden the first ammendment aren't too keen on having opinions viewed that don't jibe with their personal beliefs, it seems.
"that captures three images simultaneously through a single lens."
There is also a Kodak version, where one set of pictures is lost, another is misdeveloped, and the third is inadvertently sent to your ex with the same middle initial.
I note the "motto" (under the slashdot icon) for this theme is "It is what IT is."
Well, what it is is CRAP.
I know the slashdot editors want to be egalitarian, but does that really have to mean having blind people write the color schemes?
I say this with the greatest of affection.
See, this is the kind of thinking I mean by "dangerous." If you think ethics is a boolean function, you need to drop that horribly outmoded Kant reading and take up a real study of ethics. Boolean ethics and the kind of heavy-handed rationalism your espousing are horribly inhuman systems.
You do realize that in calling this system "horribly inhuman" you are using a moral judgment based on your own ethical determinations to argue against a different system of ethical determinations?
The only way that you can rationalize that is if you claim to have some knowledge of a "true" morality; one that is deductive. Otherwise how can you use one morality to judge another except if that one morality is the correct one? Of course, then you go on to say "There's too much to the human experience to treat "right" and "wrong" like some mechanical switch for which the equation must simply be solved."
I leave it to you to determine what you really believe here. I'm just trying to be of what service I may in making a few observations about the logical consistency of what you've said.
It's about taking from those with an overabundance and giving to those who lack. It's about charity and love and most of all respect for humanity.
And stealing, let's not forget stealing. "It's about taking from those with an overabundance."
Oh, and charity generally involves voluntary contributions. There is a difference between me giving a homeless guy 20 bucks and him pulling a knife and taking it from me. Would it be fair to say "you have a serious problem discerning between what is "legal" and what is "right."?
Dang it, I knew I should have waited on buying the mediocre-speed USB 2.0 port version. Now all my friends will be laughing at me because they have the ultra-fast version.
Well, yahoo isn't bound by the French constitution. At least not unless their servers are hosted in France.
I think the issue is the *sale* of goods to French citizens, regarding which Yahoo might appeal to the World Trade Organization. Of course, China sensor just about everything, and they're part of the WTO now, so I don't see much basis for classifying this as a trade dispute.
But maybe instead of trying to pretend that they can "out-law" anti-semitism by "burning books" (hmm... who else can we think of who made books illegal that they did not agree with?) France might do something about people smashing/vandalizing synagogues?
Sighs: dont you wonder how much better this GOP economy can get ?...
Do you wonder how many jobs 2.4 TRILLION dollars in tax cuts will buy the nation ?
Not as much as 20 trillion dollars in tax cuts, of course. Yay for tax cuts == more jobs! (Or are you a fan of the "have the goverment hire people to dig holes and fill them" methodology?)
Seriously, though, after 1. the bubble burst 2. 911 3. Enron 4. WorldCom do you realize how friggin' amazing it is that we still have an economy? National and regional economies have been obliterated by stuff a lot less consequentional than that.
Of course, that doesn't fall in line with Slashdot "Bush Bad!" mantra, so let's not expect any +5 insightful "GOP economy pretty darn good given all that's happened" posts. Yay censorship!
P.S. What the friggin' heck are you doing trying to start a business when you are in a financial predicament? Sounds like you gambled and lost. Don't go crying foul at the present administration because the cards didn't fall the way you had hoped.
I wish you the best of luck in getting back on your feet, but, really, you gotta have the foresight to wait until you are financially secure before dumping a crapload of cash into something like starting a business. Don't blame other people for your problems.
"it portends the ability for chips to talk to one another wirelessly just by being next to each other."
Well, unless each chip comes equipped with its own miniaturized nuclear reactor, aren't they still all going to have to have leads running to the powersupply?
I don't mean to be a heckler, but are you really "doing away" with the motherboard or just reducing it to a voltage bus with transmitters and receivers replacing some of the input and output pins?
The problem is that you extrapolated at all. He only ever mentioned in a theatre.
He mentioned "people in a theater". Unless people in theaters are somehow different than other people. . . . Does this "He only ever mentioned in a theater" even make sense to you? Mentioned... what? A: "In a theater." Why did you feel it necessary to cut off "people", or was that just convenient for you?
It's common knowledge that movie theatres are indoors, and no extrapolation is necessary."
You honestly don't know what the word extrapolate means, do you? Might have done well to look that up before getting in a debate about it.
But since you enjoy extrapolation so much, why not extrapolate on "invasion" and apply it to privacy in Iraq? After all, how are you supposed to know that you're not supposed to extrapolate on every single word in his sentence to feed your particular pathology?
It's funny how he is the one saying that his restrictions were implied: "I did not mention it. In fact, it was implied by the context." Yet, you're attacking me for undue inferences. Which one of us are you arguing with?
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Anyway, just thought I'd share that because E=m^2c^4 + p^2c^2 is my favorite equation and most people think it looks a little familiar but wouldn't know what it was without a little additional explanation.
So... if I wanted to download the script, delete it, and re-download it ad infinitum, any notions on a command like trick to do that? (sorry, yes, I'm a silly n00b)
Uhh... gee I hope when we were kids you never invited me over to build sand castles with you.
If you read the excerpt, "Google has reported increased profits compared to the year-ago numbers in its first quarterly earnings report as a publicly held company. Google's revenue figures more than doubled, leaping to $805.9 million from $393.9 million". I hope that answers your question. The only part of the excerpt that even mentions stock price is the last sentence.
Please see: AltaVista, Yahoo!, Netscape, and InkTomi all of whom were declared "the winner for now" back in their respective days.
Question: Do you recall ever saying something like "Just a moment, I'm going to altavista for it?" or "Why don't you try yahooing the answer?" It's true that different search engines have been in the lead in the past, but you are wrong to assert that one has ever enjoyed the same degree of internet hegemony as Google.
As far as the search engine wars go, well, I think they've pretty much been declared the winner for now. It will take something very innovative and different from existing engines to have a chance at dislodging them.
So maybe that's where you see things like Gmail and Google Desktop Search coming from? Theres not a lot of room to expand in the search engine arena; not a lot they can do other than branch out into places where there's more room to innovate and expand.
Since when to people use phones for that anymore? ;)
If you don't know what I'm talking about, there is an icon on the panel divided into four sections. Each of these is a separate desktop in which you can open separate windows, etc. and their contents are graphically represented by the icon. To move between desktops, you simply click on the appropriate panel, or use a hot key.
For me, it was seriously like having four computers in one. Under Windows, after a certain point, you can no longer navigate between the windows you have open. Under linux, I can have all my windows divided into sections based on their content. I have never, under this setup, had the number of windows I had open become impractical or unimaginable.
So, I haven't worked with dual physical monitors, but I can saw from what I consider to be a software equivalent under Linux that it should be able to make your life easier. Especially with a stable operating system that can handle running a bunch of programs at once without crashing. *cough*
"In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house"
They built a satellite designed to crash into a house? OK...
Sorry... English class really messes with your head.
The problem with using Linux when the people you work for generally use Windows is, of course, being compatible with them. Linux has come a long way in this regard: OpenOffice reads Word documents flawlessly; gnumeric reads Excel spreadsheets; Ximian Evolution is the perfect replacement for Outlook; etc.
.ppt files in PowerPoint, so it's really only a probablem if you need to import something from another machine.
:p)
The one business application that isn't so well worked out is PowerPoint. OpenOffice's Impress is wonderful by itself, but it doesn't do so good with reading Microsoft generated powerpoints, especially with fancy stuff in them. I had to give a presentation recently on what my team did for the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge, and I had to transfer the presentation to some long-outdated Mac powerbook to work with it because OpenOffice would just freeze when I tried to read the file.
On the otherhand, I haven't had any trouble reading OpenOffice
But otherwise, I don't see any advantage windows affords. I mean, if I have critical data on my machine, the number one issue for me is going to be stability, which is not one of windows' strongpoints. (And no, Rome Total War is not a business application.
Read "wrote and selected". Poor kids, getting their votes hijacked by a bunch of grumpy old fart programmers.
I'm half surprised nobody asked whether the candidates preferred 'vi' or 'emacs'. (But then, that would be a wonderfully divisive issue for the Presidential debates... can you imagine the second civil being started when the predominantly vi using states cede from the union because they code federal legislation using emacs?)
So let's get this straight. Rumor gets to Washington Post that Allawi was coached by members from the Provisional Authority. The leader of Bush's political opposition gets wind of this and says the speech was jaundiced. And the title on Slashdot reads "Senator Alleges White House Wrote Allawi's Speech".
Apart from the fact that this has no place on Slashdot's frontpage other than that the editors have a beef with Bush, could we maybe avoid contributing to the rumor mill?
Seems in the runup to the election defending Bush even indirectly will get you moderated into the ground. When was the last time you saw a +5 Insightful post on something good about Bush? The closest it gets is sometimes it's okay to knock Kerry as long as you have a "As much as I hate Bush..." disclaimer. The same people who think John Ashcroft has personally overwridden the first ammendment aren't too keen on having opinions viewed that don't jibe with their personal beliefs, it seems.
"that captures three images simultaneously through a single lens." There is also a Kodak version, where one set of pictures is lost, another is misdeveloped, and the third is inadvertently sent to your ex with the same middle initial.
Put life on mars.
I note the "motto" (under the slashdot icon) for this theme is "It is what IT is." Well, what it is is CRAP. I know the slashdot editors want to be egalitarian, but does that really have to mean having blind people write the color schemes? I say this with the greatest of affection.
You do realize that in calling this system "horribly inhuman" you are using a moral judgment based on your own ethical determinations to argue against a different system of ethical determinations?
The only way that you can rationalize that is if you claim to have some knowledge of a "true" morality; one that is deductive. Otherwise how can you use one morality to judge another except if that one morality is the correct one? Of course, then you go on to say "There's too much to the human experience to treat "right" and "wrong" like some mechanical switch for which the equation must simply be solved."
I leave it to you to determine what you really believe here. I'm just trying to be of what service I may in making a few observations about the logical consistency of what you've said.
And stealing, let's not forget stealing. "It's about taking from those with an overabundance."
Oh, and charity generally involves voluntary contributions. There is a difference between me giving a homeless guy 20 bucks and him pulling a knife and taking it from me. Would it be fair to say "you have a serious problem discerning between what is "legal" and what is "right."?
Dang it, I knew I should have waited on buying the mediocre-speed USB 2.0 port version. Now all my friends will be laughing at me because they have the ultra-fast version.
I think the issue is the *sale* of goods to French citizens, regarding which Yahoo might appeal to the World Trade Organization. Of course, China sensor just about everything, and they're part of the WTO now, so I don't see much basis for classifying this as a trade dispute.
But maybe instead of trying to pretend that they can "out-law" anti-semitism by "burning books" (hmm... who else can we think of who made books illegal that they did not agree with?) France might do something about people smashing/vandalizing synagogues?
Sighs: dont you wonder how much better this GOP economy can get ? ...
Do you wonder how many jobs 2.4 TRILLION dollars in tax cuts will buy the nation ?
Not as much as 20 trillion dollars in tax cuts, of course. Yay for tax cuts == more jobs! (Or are you a fan of the "have the goverment hire people to dig holes and fill them" methodology?)
Seriously, though, after 1. the bubble burst 2. 911 3. Enron 4. WorldCom do you realize how friggin' amazing it is that we still have an economy? National and regional economies have been obliterated by stuff a lot less consequentional than that.
Of course, that doesn't fall in line with Slashdot "Bush Bad!" mantra, so let's not expect any +5 insightful "GOP economy pretty darn good given all that's happened" posts. Yay censorship!
P.S. What the friggin' heck are you doing trying to start a business when you are in a financial predicament? Sounds like you gambled and lost. Don't go crying foul at the present administration because the cards didn't fall the way you had hoped.
I wish you the best of luck in getting back on your feet, but, really, you gotta have the foresight to wait until you are financially secure before dumping a crapload of cash into something like starting a business. Don't blame other people for your problems.
Well, unless each chip comes equipped with its own miniaturized nuclear reactor, aren't they still all going to have to have leads running to the powersupply?
I don't mean to be a heckler, but are you really "doing away" with the motherboard or just reducing it to a voltage bus with transmitters and receivers replacing some of the input and output pins?
The idea here is not to stop spammers from using their own equipment, it is to stop them from using other's equipment (i.e. trojaned windows boxes).
I, being the ubergeek that I am, already have a 14k^H^H^H^H "reverse-firewall".
No hackers for me, no siree!
He mentioned "people in a theater". Unless people in theaters are somehow different than other people. . . . Does this "He only ever mentioned in a theater" even make sense to you? Mentioned... what? A: "In a theater." Why did you feel it necessary to cut off "people", or was that just convenient for you?
It's common knowledge that movie theatres are indoors, and no extrapolation is necessary."
You honestly don't know what the word extrapolate means, do you? Might have done well to look that up before getting in a debate about it.
But since you enjoy extrapolation so much, why not extrapolate on "invasion" and apply it to privacy in Iraq? After all, how are you supposed to know that you're not supposed to extrapolate on every single word in his sentence to feed your particular pathology?
It's funny how he is the one saying that his restrictions were implied: "I did not mention it. In fact, it was implied by the context." Yet, you're attacking me for undue inferences. Which one of us are you arguing with?
Quit trolling already
Speaking of trolls. . . .