They claim that they should work in any system that's at least 550 MHz. If you need that much processing power for a DSL modem to be hardly noticible (which is what I suppose they mean, maybe less than 20-30% processor usage), then can you imagine playing Quake 3 or UT on the net? Just your modem would be pulling a large percentage of your FPS, which would not make these people very happy.
56k WinModems are fine; even though they may be a little buggy, at least the data transfer rate doesn't require a dedicated Pentium II-class chip just to run.
Give me my hardware DSL modem, or the lovely ethernet-based cable modem i'm going to get in a few months.
Umm hello guys. He was making a reference to the fact that the tuxedo place just changed the name to "Pierce Bronzen Tuxedo" so they wouldn't get sued. He knows that isn't the correct spelling.
I'm gonna get moderated down for being harsh, but oh well.
It's a program that sends files over a network to any computer who simply sends a request. ICQ doesn't work like that. Apache and Napster do. The user doesn't have control (any more than a web server) over what gets sent - if it's in the directory that's available, Napster will send it when it is requested to do so. Period.
And the banning windows thing...hm. Not only does the ISP have nothing to do with that (Network Neighborhood doesn't exactly do anything with a 56k modem), but any method of file sharing is only available from the local network, not anyone with a net connection, as Napster and any web server are.
Not to flame or anything, but your sarcasm and completely reactionary outcry were totally unncessary. Before crying that the ISP is using arbitrary rules for what defines a server, why don't you try to find out what actually defines a server? I'm not claiming to know much about what a server is, but the definition I just kinda made up makes a lot more sense than anything you said.
I think the ISP has every right to ban Napster on the basis that it's a server. And there are no arbitrary definitions for differentiation.
Don't ask a question (illustrating your ignorance of the answer) then answer it in an arbitrary way.
email croakd2@rpi.edu and I believe he'll point you to a good Lisp source. He seems big into it and is helping develop a big multiplayer game over here at RPI called Omega Worlds.
Check out the new article on the anti-gravity stuff..there's a guy who goes through the particle physics pretty well. As for gravity propogating at the speed of light, there are a few articles I remember reading and discussing in a Philosophical Problems of Space and Time class that show a couple logical inconsistencies if they were instantaneous (obviously). And somewhere else, I believe in an article called "Our Elastic Spacetime: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves" by Smarr and Press they demonstrate it mathematically (I think) and give some strong evidence - some binary neutron star system. Apparently, they're losing mass rapidly, and the gravitational forces between them correspond to speed of light gravity propogation.
And note that the warpage of space time as a result of mass is totally compatible with the "particle" theory. Check out Don Howard's essay entitled "Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments." If nowehere else, it can be found in Cushing's collection dealing with reflections on the Bell experiments (can't think of the title).
Couple of notes. First, the speed of light isn't exactly considered the maximum speed possible. It is considered the maximum possible speed for a massive particle (universal speed limit), but the violation of Bell's inequality tells us that locality doesn't hold. A little explanation.
Bell's inequality, which has nothing to do with quantum physics, gives an upper limit to the correlation two distant events can have. For example, if I have a 20% chance of eating ice cream today at 1:00 pm, and you have a 40% chance of eating ice cream at the exact same time, then we will both eat ice cream at 1:00 about 8% of the time. However, the Aspect experiment (as well as others) have showed that, essentially, in the quantum world, you will eat ice cream every single time I do, giving a 100% correlation. This is called the violation of the Bell inequality.
The Bell inequality is based on two premises: 1) There is a real world independant of our existence 2) Locality (the assumption that instantaneous action at a distance is impossible)
Since the inequality does not hold, one of the two has to go. The Aspect experiment therefore told us that ANY theory explaining quantum physics HAS to have non-locality (that somehow there is either superluminal (faster than light) signaling or instantaneous action) built right into it. There have been several theories to get around the faster than light signaling (including my own paper outlining spacetime as nothing more than a property of matter, and therefore the correlated events are either seperated by zero effective space or zero effective time).
Anyway, gravity has been shown to propogate from a body at the speed of light. These supposed gravitons are, i believe, like photons and therefore "massless particles" with wavelike properties. If you want to know more about why we can only measure one or the other, email me and i'll point you to a good book or explain it to you myself. However, the point is that these "Wavicles" cannot be shielded, and that is not what Greenglow is trying to do. Greenglow doesn't know what the hell they're trying to do. And BTW, the existence of gravitons has a fairly large amount of convincing evidence and the vast majority of theoretical physicists have accepted their existence.
One more thing - if gravitons had mass, and all massive bodies had gravity, and had these gravitons propogating in all directions all the time, why wouldnt the mass of the object be constantly decreasing? Don't tell me they're just exchanging gravitons, I have a nice story about planetary shielding and why that can't work:)
That is true, and that is the problem with it. In that case, we're looking at the two-dimensional surface of the matress (or rubber sheet as is commonly used) as space. The bowling ball distorts the flat sheet in a 3rd dimension. You need the 3-dimensional case to visualize the curvature of spacetime in 2 dimensions. This is why there are no examples in 3 dimensions - we'd need a fourth dimension (commonly time) to see our three dimensions bend in.
haha (Score:0) by ArchieBunker (root@[127.0.0.1]) on 02:33 PM March 27th, 2000 EST (#245) (User Info) http://www.stormfront.org
Best fight choreography? Thats a laugh, all those backflips and jumps were 90% CG. "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus [ Reply to This | Parent ]
You saw enough of the movie to claim that "90%" of the backflips were CGI, but you refuse to see it..?
I know you're being silly, but you'll notice most "images" you see from space are actually mosaics. Take any picture you've seen of a planet close up from Voyager or something like that - these are all many smaller pictures put together to create the big one. They only put together what we needed to see the planets and left the rest off.
every 45? Maybe when trackpoints first came out, but I'm typing this on a Thinkpad with an "eraser nub" that has 360 degree motion, and moves faster the harder you press it. I think it's a wonderful thing for a laptop - weighs less and takes up much less space than either a pad or ball. I've been looking at a superlight notebook (2-3 lbs, just as big as the 10.4" screen), and the Vaio's have been calling to me...but I'm going with another brand _just_ for the trackpoint.
You can resume a download. It's called the "Resume Download" button. And you can exit the program by right clicking on it in the system tray and hitting (get this) "Exit"
Yeah, but very few servers dishing out live Realaudio can do anything more than what a 56 kbps modem can handle...and even if they can, the connections have bandwidth limiters so that one guy with a T3 doesn't such up all the bandwidth of the server. It's hard to find a radio station or anything useful on the net that streams out at more than 20-30 kbps. I've been trying for a while since I got on campus at RPI - it all depends on the server, and it's usually prettt nasty.
How often do you stream live stuff? Can't be much, because it usually just sucks.
You can install a little proggie called "Critical Update Notifier" that runs in your system tray and alerts you as soon as some remotely significant bug gets posted to that site. Pretty darn neat, and even better than getting an email.
It's not considered a sense usually, but it is referred to as "the vestibular senses." These include balance among other types of orientation. Their main source is cochlear fluids, i think -- apparently this organ has very sensitive hair-live nerve fibers sensitive to motions of all kinds {such as those resulting from sound vibrations AND gravity and rotation). The organ is filled with fluid that moves the nerves, or so i remember from my intro to gen psych classes.
Hey...prob won't read this, but if anyone does, could you point me to an actual Linux security FAQ for an average, relatively new user? I'm having trouble finding one geared towards a home, non-server desktop system Thanks
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They claim that they should work in any system that's at least 550 MHz. If you need that much processing power for a DSL modem to be hardly noticible (which is what I suppose they mean, maybe less than 20-30% processor usage), then can you imagine playing Quake 3 or UT on the net? Just your modem would be pulling a large percentage of your FPS, which would not make these people very happy.
56k WinModems are fine; even though they may be a little buggy, at least the data transfer rate doesn't require a dedicated Pentium II-class chip just to run.
Give me my hardware DSL modem, or the lovely ethernet-based cable modem i'm going to get in a few months.
Umm hello guys. He was making a reference to the fact that the tuxedo place just changed the name to "Pierce Bronzen Tuxedo" so they wouldn't get sued. He knows that isn't the correct spelling.
I'm gonna get moderated down for being harsh, but oh well.
It's a program that sends files over a network to any computer who simply sends a request. ICQ doesn't work like that. Apache and Napster do. The user doesn't have control (any more than a web server) over what gets sent - if it's in the directory that's available, Napster will send it when it is requested to do so. Period.
And the banning windows thing...hm. Not only does the ISP have nothing to do with that (Network Neighborhood doesn't exactly do anything with a 56k modem), but any method of file sharing is only available from the local network, not anyone with a net connection, as Napster and any web server are.
Not to flame or anything, but your sarcasm and completely reactionary outcry were totally unncessary. Before crying that the ISP is using arbitrary rules for what defines a server, why don't you try to find out what actually defines a server? I'm not claiming to know much about what a server is, but the definition I just kinda made up makes a lot more sense than anything you said.
I think the ISP has every right to ban Napster on the basis that it's a server. And there are no arbitrary definitions for differentiation.
Don't ask a question (illustrating your ignorance of the answer) then answer it in an arbitrary way.
486's aren't clock-locked like new Pentiums. Change the multiplier (II have an old Compaq 486 DX/4 100 that I oc'd to 133 by 4*33)
email croakd2@rpi.edu and I believe he'll point you to a good Lisp source. He seems big into it and is helping develop a big multiplayer game over here at RPI called Omega Worlds.
Check out the new article on the anti-gravity stuff..there's a guy who goes through the particle physics pretty well. As for gravity propogating at the speed of light, there are a few articles I remember reading and discussing in a Philosophical Problems of Space and Time class that show a couple logical inconsistencies if they were instantaneous (obviously). And somewhere else, I believe in an article called "Our Elastic Spacetime: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves" by Smarr and Press they demonstrate it mathematically (I think) and give some strong evidence - some binary neutron star system. Apparently, they're losing mass rapidly, and the gravitational forces between them correspond to speed of light gravity propogation.
And note that the warpage of space time as a result of mass is totally compatible with the "particle" theory. Check out Don Howard's essay entitled "Holism, Separability, and the Metaphysical Implications of the Bell Experiments." If nowehere else, it can be found in Cushing's collection dealing with reflections on the Bell experiments (can't think of the title).
Couple of notes. First, the speed of light isn't exactly considered the maximum speed possible. It is considered the maximum possible speed for a massive particle (universal speed limit), but the violation of Bell's inequality tells us that locality doesn't hold. A little explanation.
:)
Bell's inequality, which has nothing to do with quantum physics, gives an upper limit to the correlation two distant events can have. For example, if I have a 20% chance of eating ice cream today at 1:00 pm, and you have a 40% chance of eating ice cream at the exact same time, then we will both eat ice cream at 1:00 about 8% of the time. However, the Aspect experiment (as well as others) have showed that, essentially, in the quantum world, you will eat ice cream every single time I do, giving a 100% correlation. This is called the violation of the Bell inequality.
The Bell inequality is based on two premises:
1) There is a real world independant of our existence
2) Locality (the assumption that instantaneous action at a distance is impossible)
Since the inequality does not hold, one of the two has to go. The Aspect experiment therefore told us that ANY theory explaining quantum physics HAS to have non-locality (that somehow there is either superluminal (faster than light) signaling or instantaneous action) built right into it. There have been several theories to get around the faster than light signaling (including my own paper outlining spacetime as nothing more than a property of matter, and therefore the correlated events are either seperated by zero effective space or zero effective time).
Anyway, gravity has been shown to propogate from a body at the speed of light. These supposed gravitons are, i believe, like photons and therefore "massless particles" with wavelike properties. If you want to know more about why we can only measure one or the other, email me and i'll point you to a good book or explain it to you myself. However, the point is that these "Wavicles" cannot be shielded, and that is not what Greenglow is trying to do. Greenglow doesn't know what the hell they're trying to do.
And BTW, the existence of gravitons has a fairly large amount of convincing evidence and the vast majority of theoretical physicists have accepted their existence.
One more thing - if gravitons had mass, and all massive bodies had gravity, and had these gravitons propogating in all directions all the time, why wouldnt the mass of the object be constantly decreasing? Don't tell me they're just exchanging gravitons, I have a nice story about planetary shielding and why that can't work
-Jon
That is true, and that is the problem with it. In that case, we're looking at the two-dimensional surface of the matress (or rubber sheet as is commonly used) as space. The bowling ball distorts the flat sheet in a 3rd dimension. You need the 3-dimensional case to visualize the curvature of spacetime in 2 dimensions. This is why there are no examples in 3 dimensions - we'd need a fourth dimension (commonly time) to see our three dimensions bend in.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/27/09582 01&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&mode=threa d&pid=181#245
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by ArchieBunker (root@[127.0.0.1]) on 02:33 PM March 27th, 2000 EST (#245)
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Best fight choreography? Thats a laugh, all those backflips and jumps were 90% CG.
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" - Tacitus
[ Reply to This | Parent ]
You saw enough of the movie to claim that "90%" of the backflips were CGI, but you refuse to see it..?
I know you're being silly, but you'll notice most "images" you see from space are actually mosaics. Take any picture you've seen of a planet close up from Voyager or something like that - these are all many smaller pictures put together to create the big one. They only put together what we needed to see the planets and left the rest off.
>> If you answered 'Yes' to all of the above,
>> congratulations, you're qualified for
>> practically any job out there.
1) Yes, I have a pulse
2) Yes, I am a crack addict
3) Yes, I plan to immediately defraud the company
4) Yes, I have been convicted of homocide.
Therefore, I am qualified for any job out there (!).
every 45? Maybe when trackpoints first came out, but I'm typing this on a Thinkpad with an "eraser nub" that has 360 degree motion, and moves faster the harder you press it. I think it's a wonderful thing for a laptop - weighs less and takes up much less space than either a pad or ball. I've been looking at a superlight notebook (2-3 lbs, just as big as the 10.4" screen), and the Vaio's have been calling to me...but I'm going with another brand _just_ for the trackpoint.
From what I gather, Napster does _NOT_ track IP addresses of its users, so it's not quite that simple.
You can resume a download. It's called the "Resume Download" button.
And you can exit the program by right clicking on it in the system tray and hitting (get this) "Exit"
I'm not positive, but I think he meant LinuxOne.
Um...the guy was serious. Pathfinder was a remarkable feat of engineering.
Yeah, but very few servers dishing out live Realaudio can do anything more than what a 56 kbps modem can handle...and even if they can, the connections have bandwidth limiters so that one guy with a T3 doesn't such up all the bandwidth of the server. It's hard to find a radio station or anything useful on the net that streams out at more than 20-30 kbps. I've been trying for a while since I got on campus at RPI - it all depends on the server, and it's usually prettt nasty.
How often do you stream live stuff? Can't be much, because it usually just sucks.
What's with #15? What happened in August '89?
You can install a little proggie called "Critical Update Notifier" that runs in your system tray and alerts you as soon as some remotely significant bug gets posted to that site. Pretty darn neat, and even better than getting an email.
It's not considered a sense usually, but it is referred to as "the vestibular senses." These include balance among other types of orientation. Their main source is cochlear fluids, i think -- apparently this organ has very sensitive hair-live nerve fibers sensitive to motions of all kinds {such as those resulting from sound vibrations AND gravity and rotation). The organ is filled with fluid that moves the nerves, or so i remember from my intro to gen psych classes.
Ok, maybe I'm stupid, but I'm not that far into /. or RMS' philosophies or writings or linx zealotry, but I don't know what the word is.
..what is it??
Um..go to graphics and National Socialist graphics.
what is the word?
erm..David Duke?
Hey...prob won't read this, but if anyone does, could you point me to an actual Linux security FAQ for an average, relatively new user? I'm having trouble finding one geared towards a home, non-server desktop system
Thanks