As far I as I understand, memory usage becomes an issue usually with block-sorting algorithms. The more data you analyze at a time, the larger memory usage you will have.
Key word is "fermion". I guess I didn't stress that enough in the article, or the editors butchered it. Bosonic superfluidity isn't new of course, but that's natural. Also, I guess the bit about the unsymmetrical fermions being ejected from the "pool" would have been useful to include in the summary, but oh well...
Thanks for clarifying that. There wasn't enough room in the article title to mention "fermionic", and besides, we all know that fully factual stories always get rejected.:P
I had to simplify the concept behind it because most people at Slashdot don't understand particle physics. The Pauli Exclusion principle (half-spin => cannot have the same quantum number) isn't violated, but actually is taken advantage of in a superfluid state. The fermions don't combine, but they become more "powerful" when their spins work together in such a way.
Also, I tried to write it as quick as possible thinking that someone else would submit a version that didn't have any extra details. Of course, it took over 24 hours to actually be posted, so whatever...
I'm guessing that Google Earth doesn't run on Windows NT (the highest Windows version I've ever seen Wine or similar claim). If it's a 2000/XP-only application, then of course it's going to bitch.:/
Every time someone mentions the EFF early on in the story, someone goes and mentions that article about them losing their usefulness. Then we argue about it. This is a new application of Godwin's Law.
Some articles (like the ones in question) are already very comprehensive and offer a good amount of information. There is usually no need to actually edit those articles anymore, so it's all in the best interest of keeping the content good by locking out noobs from vanadalising.
But the big Canadian telcos are all awful, just like BellSouth claims to be. Canada's in the same "fuck the rest of the world; North America will have slow internet!" boat as America is in. Plus, you guys have levies on storage media (an outright inane idea in the first place).
Yeah, another idea is that since there are so many black holes, it just seems a lot more possible for at least one of those billions upon billions of black holes containing a universe would not be hostile to life or our physics.
If you find a brand new suit that fits you perfectly lying out on the freeway in the middle of nowhere, you'd be undeniably surprised. However, if you found that exact suit at a large tailor's shop, you wouldn't be so surprised knowing that they carry a large variety of suits and sizes, so they would be bound to carry your size.
Apply that analogy to black holes, universes, etc.
Those crazy Japanese typically have at least 100 Mbps up/down connections for usually less than $30USD a month, while we suffer with 6M down/512k up (if you're very lucky that is) for prices at least double that of Japan's. This holds true for where I live (Chicago, near O'Hare even), so don't give that "Japan is highly dense" bullshit.
And all those Korean kids playing Starcraft, some even dying as a result. So I'm going to say, "No, America does not have a technology addiction."
Maybe I'm simplistic, or maybe it's because the filters in Thunderbird 1.5 (trunk or the release candidates and whatnot) are actually quite advanced, but I think that the filters in Thunderbird are quite robust. Maybe there are some magic filtering tools I have yet to use, but nothing beats [e]grep'ing a directory or file. Automatic filters, sure, it'd be nice to have tools for it, but a lot of very powerful filters can be done just by some relatively simple shell scripts (or via Perl one-liners if you're masochistic).
I hate at least 99% of HTML email. Sure, there are good uses for it (e.g. using only semantic mark-up to represent meaning to the email, not presentational crap), but even situations that would call for it are usually accomplished via ASCII text (or even Unicode if in another language).
I was thinking of replying with this. Combine Mutt, Lynx, Vim (not Emacs because this is a collection of software; if you want Emacs, this list doesn't apply to you as all your applications are available under the Emacs framework), wget, and maybe a few other CLI tools, and you have yourself a very good Internet application suite.;)
The only scientific subject I know of that might prove (or strongly suggest) the presence of some omniscient or external God is the study of quantum gravity. An idea related to it is that the chances that all our mathematical constants (the ones used in physics, e.g. Planck's constant, the speed of light, the charge of an electron) are exactly what they are in the form that they can support matter's existance is extraordinarily slim. Combine that with the chances of the Earth coming to form the way it perfectly did, and you have yourself a near-infinite improbability...
The most common is "100%". That is, "width: 100%;" in CSS.
Every web developer or designer that uses absolute widths for the page content should piss off and go into typography instead. Nobody is going to be using the same exact resolution, screen size, monitor size, DPI, gamma settings, et al. as you, so don't design things in that way.
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As far I as I understand, memory usage becomes an issue usually with block-sorting algorithms. The more data you analyze at a time, the larger memory usage you will have.
Spoken like a true right-wing nut...
An extremist view on anything is bad.
Key word is "fermion". I guess I didn't stress that enough in the article, or the editors butchered it. Bosonic superfluidity isn't new of course, but that's natural. Also, I guess the bit about the unsymmetrical fermions being ejected from the "pool" would have been useful to include in the summary, but oh well...
Thanks for clarifying that. There wasn't enough room in the article title to mention "fermionic", and besides, we all know that fully factual stories always get rejected. :P
I had to simplify the concept behind it because most people at Slashdot don't understand particle physics. The Pauli Exclusion principle (half-spin => cannot have the same quantum number) isn't violated, but actually is taken advantage of in a superfluid state. The fermions don't combine, but they become more "powerful" when their spins work together in such a way.
Also, I tried to write it as quick as possible thinking that someone else would submit a version that didn't have any extra details. Of course, it took over 24 hours to actually be posted, so whatever...
Hey now, don't upstage me! I actually wrote a decent summary about what the article didn't delve into. (submitter here) ;)
Or you could do it the right way: /proc -type f -execdir compress -f {} + :P
find
The first time I read that, I felt like that, but when I read it again a couple days ago, I actually understood what most of those scripts were. :)
Be careful with dd, though.
Microsoft went and had C# (Mono?) and other .net languaged standardised. .Net is just another good competitor to Java.
J2EE is a very powerful server program, and Tomcat is also a very good substitute as well. Java is amazingly good when it comes to this sort of thing.
I'm guessing that Google Earth doesn't run on Windows NT (the highest Windows version I've ever seen Wine or similar claim). If it's a 2000/XP-only application, then of course it's going to bitch. :/
Uh, what you're trying to modernise the post with is from before the 1970's as well...
Grammar Syntax Error: unmatched parenthesis.
Every time someone mentions the EFF early on in the story, someone goes and mentions that article about them losing their usefulness. Then we argue about it. This is a new application of Godwin's Law.
Some articles (like the ones in question) are already very comprehensive and offer a good amount of information. There is usually no need to actually edit those articles anymore, so it's all in the best interest of keeping the content good by locking out noobs from vanadalising.
Should be +5 Informative. We all know that the Internet is for porn...
But the big Canadian telcos are all awful, just like BellSouth claims to be. Canada's in the same "fuck the rest of the world; North America will have slow internet!" boat as America is in. Plus, you guys have levies on storage media (an outright inane idea in the first place).
Yeah, another idea is that since there are so many black holes, it just seems a lot more possible for at least one of those billions upon billions of black holes containing a universe would not be hostile to life or our physics.
If you find a brand new suit that fits you perfectly lying out on the freeway in the middle of nowhere, you'd be undeniably surprised. However, if you found that exact suit at a large tailor's shop, you wouldn't be so surprised knowing that they carry a large variety of suits and sizes, so they would be bound to carry your size.
Apply that analogy to black holes, universes, etc.
Those crazy Japanese typically have at least 100 Mbps up/down connections for usually less than $30USD a month, while we suffer with 6M down/512k up (if you're very lucky that is) for prices at least double that of Japan's. This holds true for where I live (Chicago, near O'Hare even), so don't give that "Japan is highly dense" bullshit.
And all those Korean kids playing Starcraft, some even dying as a result. So I'm going to say, "No, America does not have a technology addiction."
Maybe I'm simplistic, or maybe it's because the filters in Thunderbird 1.5 (trunk or the release candidates and whatnot) are actually quite advanced, but I think that the filters in Thunderbird are quite robust. Maybe there are some magic filtering tools I have yet to use, but nothing beats [e]grep'ing a directory or file. Automatic filters, sure, it'd be nice to have tools for it, but a lot of very powerful filters can be done just by some relatively simple shell scripts (or via Perl one-liners if you're masochistic).
Read those emails in Lynx?
I hate at least 99% of HTML email. Sure, there are good uses for it (e.g. using only semantic mark-up to represent meaning to the email, not presentational crap), but even situations that would call for it are usually accomplished via ASCII text (or even Unicode if in another language).
I was thinking of replying with this. Combine Mutt, Lynx, Vim (not Emacs because this is a collection of software; if you want Emacs, this list doesn't apply to you as all your applications are available under the Emacs framework), wget, and maybe a few other CLI tools, and you have yourself a very good Internet application suite. ;)
The only scientific subject I know of that might prove (or strongly suggest) the presence of some omniscient or external God is the study of quantum gravity. An idea related to it is that the chances that all our mathematical constants (the ones used in physics, e.g. Planck's constant, the speed of light, the charge of an electron) are exactly what they are in the form that they can support matter's existance is extraordinarily slim. Combine that with the chances of the Earth coming to form the way it perfectly did, and you have yourself a near-infinite improbability...
The most common is "100%". That is, "width: 100%;" in CSS.
Every web developer or designer that uses absolute widths for the page content should piss off and go into typography instead. Nobody is going to be using the same exact resolution, screen size, monitor size, DPI, gamma settings, et al. as you, so don't design things in that way.
Tony Blair.
Him and Bush go hand in hand together. Touching, no?