1. Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111. Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible.
2. If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you may have in the White House -- (202) 456-1414 -- to have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA.
3. If you don't have any friends in the White House, phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for 0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any friends there either (at least, none to speak of), but they do seem to have a little influence, so you may as well try.
4. If that also fails, phone the Pope for guidance. His telephone number is 011-39-6-6982, and I gather his switchboard is infallible.
5. If all these attemps fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives.
Me neither. The page linked to in the article (if the server doesn't melt) shows "2 Clicks Today (Updated Hourly)" for the MESSENGER link. I'm interested to see just how much that number will increase after a slashdotting. Although given our love for not RTFA, I don't suppose it'll move much at all.
It's not stretching it to call time a dimension, time is space, space is time, hence the term "spacetime". I won't bother explaining that to you here because it'll take me a lot of typing, and I doubt you'll bother reading it anyway judging from your post. Try reading Einsteins general theory of relativity and the experiments he did. Better yet, find a website\book which explains it in more detail and you'll be hard pushed to find a reason to deny that time is a dimension. Clearly its "not the same kind of thing", anyone with half a brain cell can see that. By the same token, the up-down dimension is not the same kind of thing as the left-right dimension.
11 Dimensions is hard to grasp for anyone, including the people that come up with these things (heck, Einstein didn't believe in some of the things he found, until he had to face the facts that his theories predicted things which wasn't possible before, and couldn't be disproved otherwise). As everyone is quantum physics says, nobody understands it, they just get used to it. I myself don't really believe there's 11 dimensions, but until it's proved either way, I'm going to accept it because the maths behind it all fits so perfectly well and has been right so many times, and to such a huge degree that it'd be grossly narrow-minded and possibly even stupid not to.
Judging from the load time of the image, that jackass will be staring at it for a day just to see the full image, by which time there'll be another 86,400 pixels revealed. Why not just give the prize to the guy with the fastest connection and save everyone the frustration?
I thought the universe had 11 dimensions (before anyone goes all crazy, there the 3 spatial (macroscopic sized) and 1 time we are familiar with, and another 7 tiny, tiny, tiny, curled up dimensions, which 'explains' why we only know of 4)? String theory has come a long way and has the power\simplicity to explain a lot of things in the universe which simply wasnt possible before. AFAIK, other theories, forumlas and phenomenon emerge naturally out of the theory (i.e. if we only knew string theory, the rest would follow in time). It's fully compatible with both 'the standard model' and quantum theorems.
Still, IANAP. But this story doesn't seem anything new. There's a whole bunch of different theories and people who think the universe has different number of dimensions.
Oh, cool. I didn't realise that before. I assumed since you could place dots in the email whilst registering, adding dots to your already-existing address means gmail would treat it as a seperate account. Cheers:)
Personally, I have a main gmail address, nobody gets this address except friends who I trust. Then I have another gmail address (they're easy to get now, and have huge inboxes) which is set up to automatically forward all mail to my main address. This 'spammy' address is the one I use to register for things and give out to people.
Whenever (although this doesn't happen much tbh) the spammy address starts to get too much SPAM, or I don't want people who know this address contacting me anymore, or whatever, I simply remove the forwarding and sign up for another gmail account. Any important websites which have my old address are updated, any important people are emailed with my new address. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. End of SPAM. No need for anti-spam software, which is great because I'm a cheapskate and on 56k.
Didn't anybody tell you? Things that aren't unique in any way at all are totally in these days. Really, hop on the bandwagon and get rich from a piece of shit like the rest of the world.
People stealing tombstones\videos inside the tombstones
Kids getting even more freaked out whilst walking through cemetaries hearing ghost noises coming from everywhere
People still whining and annoying you after they're dead
Advertising V1@GR4 whilst your trying to mourn, along with hopeless puns to do with stiffness and their product being to die for
Hacking the screens to show tubgirl, goatse guy, lemonparty, various rotten photos, home-made GNAA videos and more, as if a bunch of dead people in a field isn't bad enough
LAN parties in cemetaries, a whole new business bound to make a killing
Funny, every time I watch a show on "hey, look at how these criminals did x, and look at how were so smart that we still busted them!" I think to myself.. well, you've given us all the info on how the criminals used to do it, and told us that it still works on a large number of cases, and now you've told us how you catch people, so we can avoid doing that in future. Although I can never be bothered to get into the business of it all, mainly cos it costs a fair bit (or you need to know people) to get started and I'm lazy and don't have the money. But I'm sure for every TV show on how to bust people, you simply introduce a whole number of new crooks to the game, with bigger and better ideas.
I hear ya, but since when do\will companies *really* put customer satisfaction before profit? Sure, some may look like they care, but it may just be a ploy.
Every now and then a good company comes along with the hope of being good to their customers (or simply being the best) and not caring all that much about profit, but if you ask me, there'll come a point where the vast majority either:
Realise how popular they are and become too greedy to care anymore
The novelty starts to wear off and they want a little more than fans
They realise they're a good company and deserve good money for it
The original brainchild hands over power to someone else who turns out to be too greedy
They have to make serious money to beat the enemy, but inevitably become the enemy somewhere along the way without realising
A strength-boosting, bulletproof, super-light-weight bodysuit that can change colour and styles, doubles up as a solar battery, washes itself, heats itself up, cools you down, lights up or darkens things, temporarily blinds and electrocutes hostiles (causing paralysis), cooks food, has jetpack-like capabilities to take you places, remembers everything that happens to it and can replay it (like how much pressure in what places occur when you are hugged), has an in-built calculator, browser and email client, calendar, alarm clock, 100 Megapixel camera with flash, stores addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and bookmarks (and can communicate using them via speed-of-light methods), can play computer games, movies, music, makes you invisible, all controlled by your thoughts alone, and it will only costs 3 pennies from a wide range of stores.
Well, generally speaking it looks like that's not really a bad thing to do in this case. Check out the Symantec Security Response page (link in TFSummary), all it appears to do is remove spyware applications from the filesystem and their startup keys in the registry. Oh noes!!11!one!! "gray-hat" worm?
Quick!!1!!1one!! Shut up and reply with any HHGG refernece you can for super-uber-giga-mad mod points!
42. So long and thanks for all the fish. NASA doesn't stand a whelks chance in a supernova. They're almost, but not completely, entirely too big to deal with nanotech. I'm sure nanotech will be mostly harmless.
Occasionally when the media (or people who are in high places) use words incorrectly because it sounds cooler, don't expect them to go back to their original meaning. Heck, don't even expect to be able to use them for their original meaning without being looked at\talked about as if you're stupid (ironically, by the ignorant majority).
Slashdot Mirror
Not always.
If I missed his joke, it's not because I haven't seen it recently, it's simply because I'm a retard.
1. Phone NASA. Their phone number is (713) 483-3111. Explain that it's very important that you get away as soon as possible.
2. If they do not cooperate, phone any friend you may have in the White House -- (202) 456-1414 -- to have a word on your behalf with the guys at NASA.
3. If you don't have any friends in the White House, phone the Kremlin (ask the overseas operator for 0107-095-295-9051). They don't have any friends there either (at least, none to speak of), but they do seem to have a little influence, so you may as well try.
4. If that also fails, phone the Pope for guidance. His telephone number is 011-39-6-6982, and I gather his switchboard is infallible.
5. If all these attemps fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives.
Me neither. The page linked to in the article (if the server doesn't melt) shows "2 Clicks Today (Updated Hourly)" for the MESSENGER link. I'm interested to see just how much that number will increase after a slashdotting. Although given our love for not RTFA, I don't suppose it'll move much at all.
It's not stretching it to call time a dimension, time is space, space is time, hence the term "spacetime". I won't bother explaining that to you here because it'll take me a lot of typing, and I doubt you'll bother reading it anyway judging from your post. Try reading Einsteins general theory of relativity and the experiments he did. Better yet, find a website\book which explains it in more detail and you'll be hard pushed to find a reason to deny that time is a dimension. Clearly its "not the same kind of thing", anyone with half a brain cell can see that. By the same token, the up-down dimension is not the same kind of thing as the left-right dimension.
11 Dimensions is hard to grasp for anyone, including the people that come up with these things (heck, Einstein didn't believe in some of the things he found, until he had to face the facts that his theories predicted things which wasn't possible before, and couldn't be disproved otherwise). As everyone is quantum physics says, nobody understands it, they just get used to it. I myself don't really believe there's 11 dimensions, but until it's proved either way, I'm going to accept it because the maths behind it all fits so perfectly well and has been right so many times, and to such a huge degree that it'd be grossly narrow-minded and possibly even stupid not to.
Judging from the load time of the image, that jackass will be staring at it for a day just to see the full image, by which time there'll be another 86,400 pixels revealed.
Why not just give the prize to the guy with the fastest connection and save everyone the frustration?
Maybe because all the other information we can use to measure it is secret? ;)
Well of course! I assume most of the /. crowd will be the first 3 ^-^
Well, the really geeky geeks may actually read the pr0n, the rest just watch and... well... yes.
I thought the universe had 11 dimensions (before anyone goes all crazy, there the 3 spatial (macroscopic sized) and 1 time we are familiar with, and another 7 tiny, tiny, tiny, curled up dimensions, which 'explains' why we only know of 4)?
String theory has come a long way and has the power\simplicity to explain a lot of things in the universe which simply wasnt possible before. AFAIK, other theories, forumlas and phenomenon emerge naturally out of the theory (i.e. if we only knew string theory, the rest would follow in time). It's fully compatible with both 'the standard model' and quantum theorems.
Still, IANAP. But this story doesn't seem anything new. There's a whole bunch of different theories and people who think the universe has different number of dimensions.
mmmmm, rich creamery butter.
Damn! Someone beat me to the First Post on Pluto
Oh, cool. I didn't realise that before. I assumed since you could place dots in the email whilst registering, adding dots to your already-existing address means gmail would treat it as a seperate account. Cheers :)
Personally, I have a main gmail address, nobody gets this address except friends who I trust. Then I have another gmail address (they're easy to get now, and have huge inboxes) which is set up to automatically forward all mail to my main address. This 'spammy' address is the one I use to register for things and give out to people.
Whenever (although this doesn't happen much tbh) the spammy address starts to get too much SPAM, or I don't want people who know this address contacting me anymore, or whatever, I simply remove the forwarding and sign up for another gmail account. Any important websites which have my old address are updated, any important people are emailed with my new address. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. End of SPAM. No need for anti-spam software, which is great because I'm a cheapskate and on 56k.
Didn't anybody tell you? Things that aren't unique in any way at all are totally in these days. Really, hop on the bandwagon and get rich from a piece of shit like the rest of the world.
Sure is. Especially if the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation has anything to do with them...
Thank you for using this door. I've enjoyed opening for you. Hhmmyaahh...
What a pleasure it is to open for you. I will gladly close for you now.
Nanotube condoms are for little pussys.
BA-DUM-TSSSHHH!
Heh.
/. need these pants more than the British soldiers. [rimshot]
TBH though, I think the majority of people on
"Any man who wants to be called the Walt Disney of the graveyard seriously needs to go get some medical attention."
lol, amen to that. I burst out laughing when reading that sentence.
- Geeks jacking off in cemetaries
- People stealing tombstones\videos inside the tombstones
- Kids getting even more freaked out whilst walking through cemetaries hearing ghost noises coming from everywhere
- People still whining and annoying you after they're dead
- Advertising V1@GR4 whilst your trying to mourn, along with hopeless puns to do with stiffness and their product being to die for
- Hacking the screens to show tubgirl, goatse guy, lemonparty, various rotten photos, home-made GNAA videos and more, as if a bunch of dead people in a field isn't bad enough
- LAN parties in cemetaries, a whole new business bound to make a killing
- ???
- Profit!
In soviet Russia, you talk to the grave!Funny, every time I watch a show on "hey, look at how these criminals did x, and look at how were so smart that we still busted them!" I think to myself.. well, you've given us all the info on how the criminals used to do it, and told us that it still works on a large number of cases, and now you've told us how you catch people, so we can avoid doing that in future. Although I can never be bothered to get into the business of it all, mainly cos it costs a fair bit (or you need to know people) to get started and I'm lazy and don't have the money. But I'm sure for every TV show on how to bust people, you simply introduce a whole number of new crooks to the game, with bigger and better ideas.
Every now and then a good company comes along with the hope of being good to their customers (or simply being the best) and not caring all that much about profit, but if you ask me, there'll come a point where the vast majority either:
A strength-boosting, bulletproof, super-light-weight bodysuit that can change colour and styles, doubles up as a solar battery, washes itself, heats itself up, cools you down, lights up or darkens things, temporarily blinds and electrocutes hostiles (causing paralysis), cooks food, has jetpack-like capabilities to take you places, remembers everything that happens to it and can replay it (like how much pressure in what places occur when you are hugged), has an in-built calculator, browser and email client, calendar, alarm clock, 100 Megapixel camera with flash, stores addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and bookmarks (and can communicate using them via speed-of-light methods), can play computer games, movies, music, makes you invisible, all controlled by your thoughts alone, and it will only costs 3 pennies from a wide range of stores.
Hahaha!
"Ignore it, like millions of others."
Well, generally speaking it looks like that's not really a bad thing to do in this case. Check out the Symantec Security Response page (link in TFSummary), all it appears to do is remove spyware applications from the filesystem and their startup keys in the registry. Oh noes!!11!one!!
"gray-hat" worm?
Quick!!1!!1one!! Shut up and reply with any HHGG refernece you can for super-uber-giga-mad mod points!
42. So long and thanks for all the fish. NASA doesn't stand a whelks chance in a supernova. They're almost, but not completely, entirely too big to deal with nanotech. I'm sure nanotech will be mostly harmless.
Yeah, happens a lot, in all kinds of fields.
Occasionally when the media (or people who are in high places) use words incorrectly because it sounds cooler, don't expect them to go back to their original meaning. Heck, don't even expect to be able to use them for their original meaning without being looked at\talked about as if you're stupid (ironically, by the ignorant majority).