Cant you see that his "ask slashdot" is just a way to scare Microsoft and get a better deal? The next time a MS representative comes around and offers them an upgrade for 65K He answers: "But I can get that for free!" They offer him a better price Deal.
The other replies are mostly right: you use more than one detector so you can look for a signal in both of them...
then you have the fact that the signal you look for has a very well known shape (it can be calculated in our teoretical framework)
you also expect to observe it toghether with other (indipendent) signatures: a supernova for example would be observed by all astrophisics experiments sensitive to light (common visible light telescopes, radio/gamma telescopes) and by most of the neutrino experiments around (this is no sci-fi neutrino telescopes already "saw" a supernova a few years ago)
and finally every piece interferometer apparatus is contained in a vacuum tank and suspended at the end of many pendules designed in such a way that it is as decoupled as possible from external vibrations (bunnies humping, trains, earthqakes, everything mentioned by the other/.ers)
what the hell! Cant/. mods tell a troll from a well crafted joke?!? A troll disguis itself as someone very in the know and very sure of itself, the parent is evidently (to me) just joking! So why did you mod it down to hell as troll and nobody considered the Funny part of it? If you don't find it funny well, ok, save your mod points. But dont be too trigger happy with that "-1 troll"!
Or is it Fyodor such a godlike beeing that we mere mortals are not allowed to make a little fun of him?
Accordin to a researcher in drug tendencies (cant remember who), most phishing attempt are run by crackheads on meta-anfetamine. You are not going to keep that job if your boss finds out you are and addict
stop throwing buzzwords around. Biometrics is far frome secure and so are pregenerated random numbers. To get real security you want shared secret handshakes and real random numbers (jhonson noise froa a resistor for example)
The United States has a stronger free speech than most of Europe
Are you doing drugs?
Where is exactly that more than 50% of the population thinks that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks?
That your civil rights should be limited because of your religion?
And you call that freedom of speech?
It does not run on the same hardware, yet... And it will probably require non trivial cracking to run on not mac-produced hardware even in the future, when mac start shipping mac os X for x86
Skype has already presented their next move: SkypeIn, that will let you receive incoming calls to a phone numbere whereevr you are. If they can get the service working in most of the 1st world by the end of the year it would be the best answer to Microsoft I could think of.
Anyway its sadly true that 90% of the market will use Microsoft software only because its already there and they could not install skype on their pc if they had a gun pointed at their head (sorry no sworfish joke for you!).
It could be the ground for a new legal battle anyway, that'd be interesting!!!
Come on, do not be so rude to him (you are proving one of his points, btw)!!!! He's a _gamer_, not a linux user, he probably wants to use his pc to _do_ things, nice and smooth. Play Doom 7 or edit a picture or whatever, getting basic things done. And linux is not delivering it. I am a (kinda) linux nerd, I am willing to spend time looking for compatible hardware, recompiling the kernel to get things faster... he does not. And, belive it or not, most useres are like him. And untill the linux comunity does not find a way to give them what they look for they'll be Microsoft most secure market share.
BTW the parent-parent article states a lot of false assertments (read bull$hit): you can have a nice guy to install application on your system (say, synaptic), for example.
More likely you'd have a 5-10 meter uncertainty, and you'd have a similar uncertainty with nearby landmarks (so if the village is next to the river, they're both uncertain by 10 meters but you can see where the river is.)
No.
We are talking about a casual error, not a consistent shift in measurement (bias) (take a look at wikipedia Errors and residuals in statistics)
If youmeasure the same locatio coordinates many times you will get many values, distribute around a mean value witha a spread of 100 meter.
This means, btw, that the error on your distance btween the two villages will be sqrt(100^2+100^2)=141 meters
but noone wrote a post on/. to inform the masses... too bad but it's probably because develope do not want to many lusers asking questions arount untill things get a little more stable...
I start fearing slashdot is not as reliable a source as I used to feel. I mean, I have heard WAY too many times about The Hobbit movie with no real official confirmation whatsoever, and no tvnz.co.nz is not reliable enough for me. I would have rejoiced once but I'm a little too skeptic now to give this news more than a 50% chance. (and a/. post, of course)
"NF: I think there should be framebuffer options in the installation boot prompt, something like choosing resolution. I had to type linux26 vga=791. Do you plan to put resolution options in the boot menu?
MM: Debian-installer works very well in the default resolution; putting in too many options would confuse users. You should use the command line option."
As much as I love Debian this is stupid. It took me more than a week to figure out what was wrong with my laptop when I tried Potato! (look, it was my second linux installation and the first with debian and my laptop) This is not helping newcomers!
I also fail to see why not supporting reiser4 (ok, ok, pleas dont flame, I will compile it myself, no big deal... I just tought that, ok Ill shut up)
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Cant you see that his "ask slashdot" is just a way to scare Microsoft and get a better deal?
The next time a MS representative comes around and offers them an upgrade for 65K
He answers: "But I can get that for free!"
They offer him a better price
Deal.
The other replies are mostly right: you use more than one detector so you can look for a signal in both of them...
/.ers)
then you have the fact that the signal you look for has a very well known shape (it can be calculated in our teoretical framework)
you also expect to observe it toghether with other (indipendent) signatures:
a supernova for example would be observed by all astrophisics experiments sensitive to light (common visible light telescopes, radio/gamma telescopes) and by most of the neutrino experiments around (this is no sci-fi neutrino telescopes already "saw" a supernova a few years ago)
and finally every piece interferometer apparatus is contained in a vacuum tank and suspended at the end of many pendules designed in such a way that it is as decoupled as possible from external vibrations (bunnies humping, trains, earthqakes, everything mentioned by the other
what the hell! /. mods tell a troll from a well crafted joke?!?
Cant
A troll disguis itself as someone very in the know and very sure of itself, the parent is evidently (to me) just joking!
So why did you mod it down to hell as troll and nobody considered the Funny part of it? If you don't find it funny well, ok, save your mod points. But dont be too trigger happy with that "-1 troll"!
Or is it Fyodor such a godlike beeing that we mere mortals are not allowed to make a little fun of him?
Accordin to a researcher in drug tendencies (cant remember who), most phishing attempt are run by crackheads on meta-anfetamine.
You are not going to keep that job if your boss finds out you are and addict
stop throwing buzzwords around. Biometrics is far frome secure and so are pregenerated random numbers. To get real security you want shared secret handshakes and real random numbers (jhonson noise froa a resistor for example)
The United States has a stronger free speech than most of Europe
Are you doing drugs? Where is exactly that more than 50% of the population thinks that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks? That your civil rights should be limited because of your religion? And you call that freedom of speech?
What?!? You are supposed to open the links in background to slashdot them!
Where do you live? In kuro5hin?
It does not run on the same hardware, yet...
And it will probably require non trivial cracking to run on not mac-produced hardware even in the future, when mac start shipping mac os X for x86
They are going to commercialive the umptysquat iPod!!!!
Well if there is really 'legal space' to do that I really think EFF should try to file a suit against that, Just to mak the absurd obvious to everyone
Skype has already presented their next move:
SkypeIn, that will let you receive incoming calls to a phone numbere whereevr you are. If they can get the service working in most of the 1st world by the end of the year it would be the best answer to Microsoft I could think of.
Anyway its sadly true that 90% of the market will use Microsoft software only because its already there and they could not install skype on their pc if they had a gun pointed at their head (sorry no sworfish joke for you!).
It could be the ground for a new legal battle anyway, that'd be interesting!!!
I have heard marvels of Embryo Enlightenment version of SMALL
please tell me more about this...
I have to do a lot of math (I study physics) it cold be interesteng...
Come on, do not be so rude to him (you are proving one of his points, btw)!!!!
He's a _gamer_, not a linux user, he probably wants to use his pc to _do_ things, nice and smooth. Play Doom 7 or edit a picture or whatever, getting basic things done. And linux is not delivering it.
I am a (kinda) linux nerd, I am willing to spend time looking for compatible hardware, recompiling the kernel to get things faster... he does not.
And, belive it or not, most useres are like him.
And untill the linux comunity does not find a way to give them what they look for they'll be Microsoft most secure market share.
BTW
the parent-parent article states a lot of false assertments (read bull$hit): you can have a nice guy to install application on your system (say, synaptic), for example.
but noone wrote a post on /. to inform the masses...
too bad but it's probably because develope do not want to many lusers asking questions arount untill things get a little more stable...
what if it was Rei Toei?
(aidoru, by william gibson)
Gmail filter does not always work. It could still be a fake, even if no warnimg come up.
Beware of false sense of security.
I start fearing slashdot is not as reliable a source as I used to feel. /. post, of course)
I mean, I have heard WAY too many times about The Hobbit movie with no real official confirmation whatsoever, and no tvnz.co.nz is not reliable enough for me.
I would have rejoiced once but I'm a little too skeptic now to give this news more than a 50% chance. (and a
my favourite line from the article:
"Another hack allows teenagers in the Sims 2 to get pregnant. As the game is sold, they can't even have sex."
Oh my g0d yhis is SO...
I dunno, normal?
Why, dont they already patch the vanilla kernel? So whay not add a (maybe) widely desider patch as reiser4? Anyway I con compile my way trough it...
told you! Because it takes a newbie a week to figure out!
"NF: I think there should be framebuffer options in the installation boot prompt, something like choosing resolution. I had to type linux26 vga=791. Do you plan to put resolution options in the boot menu?
MM: Debian-installer works very well in the default resolution; putting in too many options would confuse users. You should use the command line option."
As much as I love Debian this is stupid.
It took me more than a week to figure out what was wrong with my laptop when I tried Potato! (look, it was my second linux installation and the first with debian and my laptop)
This is not helping newcomers!
I also fail to see why not supporting reiser4 (ok, ok, pleas dont flame, I will compile it myself, no big deal... I just tought that, ok Ill shut up)
Sorry, I'm sorry, really, I don't know what happened, I couldn't help it.