It's refreshing to see linux getting more respect in INDUSTRY than simply either hacker communities or mainstream media articles on them. The fact that sites like this are starting to pop up means that more linux jobs are opening up around the marketplace, which is good for the movement, and may push linux to be an actual replacement for windows {which it is NOT at the moment, I promise you..linux is a hobby of mine but it's way too complicated and difficult for what i do regularly} Arg...bad run-on sentence. Anyway..yeah :)
It's refreshing to see linux getting more respect in INDUSTRY than simply either hacker communities or mainstream media articles on them. The fact that sites like this are starting to pop up means that more linux jobs are opening up around the marketplace, which is good for the movement, and may push linux to be an actual replacement for windows rg...bad run-on sentence. Anyway..yeah :)
Let's look at the "very mature child" first. All the mature children I met are mature because they were given the chance. Mainly, that chance was adversity. They were given the chance to speak their minds, to take action.
Excellent point..and something I admittedly never even thought before. It's terribly true nonetheless.
Umm....Time Warner is a very very large company that owns much much more than Time Magazine or Warner Brothers. Chances are they own most of the published that you come in contact with every day. Take whatever you watch and read and find out who owns it.
I'm sorry, even if Jon Postel invented and ran the internet completely on a daily basis, that doesn't mean he has influenced every person on this planet. I could find you billions of people whose lives have not been touched by the internet at all - much less by port numbers and addresses.
Perhaps that statement is an exaggeration in itself, but you get the idea.
And btw, you can email me and I can point you to some sources if you'd like to read some more on the political and philosophical leanings and implications of Einstein.
You're right, it's late and i didn't quite say exactly what was meant. Einstein wasnt entrenched in classical physics at all. What he steadfastly believed was the same thing classical physicists: that the universe could be completely understood through the scientific process, eventually. Einstein believed that there were no mysterious probabilisitic elements to the universe. He saw quantum physics as a manifestation of our current limitations - limitations which will be overcome shortly enough. He stated that we simply didn't know enough to explain it, not that electrons were these weird probability waves.
He refused to believe that the universe was not totally mechanistic....this has implications on randomness, chaos, and determinism, but/. isn't a place for modern philosophy.
Einstein was indeed a brilliant man...but he was also very...wrong. A lot. Einstein would not have been the scientist of the century...that one would have to go to Neils Bohr. This man, one of the creators of quantum theory, understood the universe in a way that Einstein never could. Einstein was very entrenched in classical physics..he was absolutely sure that the universe was, in essence, a great "clock." A clock whose gears could be seen by science, and understood in the most basic sense, ultimately.
Bohr, on the other hand, was open enough to realize the value of quantum mechanics. He saw the outcomes of quantum theory as nature's way of telling us that we have no business imposing our own macroscopic concepts on nature itself. Ideas such as color, particle, and wave have essentially no meaning in terms of electrons, quarks, and photons. Do a search on "Copenhagen interpretation" or "Einstein Bohr debates" to find out how Einstein was so shortsighted in his quick disregard of "quantum strangeness" and "weird forces at a distance" thought experiment...see the quantum physics story posted earlier for details...it's about two photons being emitted in opposite directions having a superposition of two states until one is measured...then the other becomes definite...also see "Schrodinger's cat" for an interesting thought experiment">. Anyway, Bohr was a greater thinker than Einstein, without a doubt..at this level where philosophy and science intertwine.
I would have to agree underservedly about their selection as Einstein for man of the century. Bohr was a scientist and philosopher. Einstein was a cultural icon. In his personality, his naive political beliefs, and ultimate quotability have made him an ultimately unique figure, recognized worldwide. His disregard for any cultural norms made him loved. He was also a man of paradox....showing a tremendous understanding of everything, so much more than the average genius...but also displaying a magnificent naivite in every aspect of his being. Einstein represents the goals, ideals, and accomplishments of this century more than any man - culture, science, politics.... I'll shut up now, and I'm sorry if most of this was mentioned in the article...it was/.'ed
Opera isn't faster than IE in page rendering, sorry. Especially IE 5.0..Opera is significantly slower. And even if it were faster in special situations, it's CERTAINLY not fast enough to make the Honda/Porsche analogy.
Umm...4 years earth time, but you would be in a different reference frame. Time will pass differently on you. Going at a high enough speed, you could get to the star in what seemed to you like 15 minutes. However, hundreds of years would have passed on earth.
Oh my.... I have tried to connect to my ISP using an old 300 baud modem..and it worked perfectly. Why anyone would want to do this when 56k modems can be bought over at CompUSA for less than $10 baffles me. "Without backwards compatibility we are nothing." What's wrong with you? Why would you connect to an ISP at 300 baud, and pay your $5-$10 a month to do so? 300 baud is virtually worthless for anything you can do with your ISP . Anyone who can afford an ISP account will be able to afford a cheap modem.
And...hm...I'm not a flamer, but what the hell are you doing on Slashdot if networks are worthless? If they're so useless, don't freaking use them. Dont pay your ISP for a worthless, unreliable connection. And if you're connecting at work, shame on you, both for working for a company who uses a network (those idiots) and wasting your company's bandwidth.
I disagree. With this, local DSL providers can get access to the lines..I believe whether or not the Bells are providing DSL access. IF this is true, then they'll be scrambling to get in before everyone else.
If I'm totally wrong, let me know and I apoligize:)
That sounded bad...what I meant to get across was that video cards have a long way to go until they saturate the capabilities of monitors. This is already possible, but graphics cards can, in theory, virtually mimic the real world on a 2D surface given good algorithms and ample processing power. I'm not too sure about how this would be done...but they need tremendous amounts of power and clocks to mimic the intricasies of the real world . The evolution of graphical power will continue to move quickly and steadily as we progress, just as the power of CPU's will.
Dude...I don't want to touch any of that. First, your eyes can take in and process orders of magnitude more information, bit for bit, than the ears. Sound cards these days are approaching levels of auditory saturation...and pushing standard, affordable speaker setups to their absolute limits. Hence the leveling off of sound card innovation
Now.....ugh. Your argument is the equivalent of saying that people will be happy with their PIII 550's next year and won't ever need to buy an Athlon 1 GHz. This...makes no sense at all. Video cards still have a LONG LONG way to go before they reach the maximum levels of performance they can acheive with monitors. Until we have a graphics card that processes information on a pixel-by-pixel basis with 64 million colors and real-world geometry at over 1600X1200 resolution with 60FPS we won't be anywhere near graphic cards levelling off.
Sound cards have already pushed speakers to their limits . Video cards have a long, long way to go.
It IS Quake on steroids, and that's the point. It's Quake on steroids and vast amounts of adrenaline. The game is MUCH faster, much more exciting, and much much prettier to look at than Quake's drab browns and greens. The weapons are cooler, the sounds are cooler, the graphics are far, far cooler, and the sheer _speed_ of the game make it wonderful, mindless fun.
Quake III would never make it on its own as a single player game, precisely because games like Half-Life and R6 are out there. However, it's faster than Unreal or Half-Life, and much more of a blast to play. Quake III give, in my opinion, the best testeronic (I know it's not a word) release of any computer game I've ever played.
So....accept the game for what it is and what Carmack wants it to be..a quick, visually and audially exciting game meant to be played without a lot of planning or thought (though many quake-ers I know will argue THAT point). Have fun.
I agree with everything you're saying, but...fusion is a lot cleaner than you think. There's NO radioactive waste (water and hydrogen are a BIT more stable than....uranium).
Ok, before everyone starts posting about how the hard drive will not work, or it's good because memory is too expensive, check out this story posted by Commander Taco about..the exact same thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Should work as long as your phone is on, not if you're talking on it...at least that's what i gathered :)
That's why you don't put your CD-R's on the same channel as your hard drive.
First slightly coherent post :P~
It's refreshing to see linux getting more respect in INDUSTRY than simply either hacker communities or mainstream media articles on them. The fact that sites like this are starting to pop up means that more linux jobs are opening up around the marketplace, which is good for the movement, and may push linux to be an actual replacement for windows {which it is NOT at the moment, I promise you..linux is a hobby of mine but it's way too complicated and difficult for what i do regularly}
Arg...bad run-on sentence. Anyway..yeah
:)
sorry about the double post..i missed something..feel free to moderate this one straight to hell :)
First slightly coherent post :P~
It's refreshing to see linux getting more respect in INDUSTRY than simply either hacker communities or mainstream media articles on them. The fact that sites like this are starting to pop up means that more linux jobs are opening up around the marketplace, which is good for the movement, and may push linux to be an actual replacement for windows
rg...bad run-on sentence. Anyway..yeah
:)
Let's look at the "very mature child" first. All the mature children I met are mature because they were given the chance. Mainly, that chance was adversity. They were given the chance to speak their minds, to take action.
Excellent point..and something I admittedly never even thought before. It's terribly true nonetheless.
Umm....Time Warner is a very very large company that owns much much more than Time Magazine or Warner Brothers. Chances are they own most of the published that you come in contact with every day. Take whatever you watch and read and find out who owns it.
I'm sorry, even if Jon Postel invented and ran the internet completely on a daily basis, that doesn't mean he has influenced every person on this planet. I could find you billions of people whose lives have not been touched by the internet at all - much less by port numbers and addresses.
Perhaps that statement is an exaggeration in itself, but you get the idea.
:)
And btw, you can email me and I can point you to some sources if you'd like to read some more on the political and philosophical leanings and implications of Einstein.
You're right, it's late and i didn't quite say exactly what was meant. Einstein wasnt entrenched in classical physics at all. What he steadfastly believed was the same thing classical physicists: that the universe could be completely understood through the scientific process, eventually. Einstein believed that there were no mysterious probabilisitic elements to the universe. He saw quantum physics as a manifestation of our current limitations - limitations which will be overcome shortly enough. He stated that we simply didn't know enough to explain it, not that electrons were these weird probability waves.
/. isn't a place for modern philosophy.
He refused to believe that the universe was not totally mechanistic....this has implications on randomness, chaos, and determinism, but
Einstein was indeed a brilliant man...but he was also very...wrong. A lot. Einstein would not have been the scientist of the century...that one would have to go to Neils Bohr. This man, one of the creators of quantum theory, understood the universe in a way that Einstein never could. Einstein was very entrenched in classical physics..he was absolutely sure that the universe was, in essence, a great "clock." A clock whose gears could be seen by science, and understood in the most basic sense, ultimately.
/.'ed
:)
Bohr, on the other hand, was open enough to realize the value of quantum mechanics. He saw the outcomes of quantum theory as nature's way of telling us that we have no business imposing our own macroscopic concepts on nature itself. Ideas such as color, particle, and wave have essentially no meaning in terms of electrons, quarks, and photons. Do a search on "Copenhagen interpretation" or "Einstein Bohr debates" to find out how Einstein was so shortsighted in his quick disregard of "quantum strangeness" and "weird forces at a distance" thought experiment...see the quantum physics story posted earlier for details...it's about two photons being emitted in opposite directions having a superposition of two states until one is measured...then the other becomes definite...also see "Schrodinger's cat" for an interesting thought experiment">. Anyway, Bohr was a greater thinker than Einstein, without a doubt..at this level where philosophy and science intertwine.
I would have to agree underservedly about their selection as Einstein for man of the century. Bohr was a scientist and philosopher. Einstein was a cultural icon. In his personality, his naive political beliefs, and ultimate quotability have made him an ultimately unique figure, recognized worldwide. His disregard for any cultural norms made him loved. He was also a man of paradox....showing a tremendous understanding of everything, so much more than the average genius...but also displaying a magnificent naivite in every aspect of his being. Einstein represents the goals, ideals, and accomplishments of this century more than any man - culture, science, politics....
I'll shut up now, and I'm sorry if most of this was mentioned in the article...it was
Did i miss anything?
No, no, no. Empty cache, try to render a page in both browsers. IE renders faster. Period.
Opera isn't faster than IE in page rendering, sorry. Especially IE 5.0..Opera is significantly slower. And even if it were faster in special situations, it's CERTAINLY not fast enough to make the Honda/Porsche analogy.
Umm...4 years earth time, but you would be in a different reference frame. Time will pass differently on you. Going at a high enough speed, you could get to the star in what seemed to you like 15 minutes. However, hundreds of years would have passed on earth.
Oh my....
I have tried to connect to my ISP using an old 300 baud modem..and it worked perfectly. Why anyone would want to do this when 56k modems can be bought over at CompUSA for less than $10 baffles me.
"Without backwards compatibility we are nothing." What's wrong with you? Why would you connect to an ISP at 300 baud, and pay your $5-$10 a month to do so? 300 baud is virtually worthless for anything you can do with your ISP . Anyone who can afford an ISP account will be able to afford a cheap modem.
And...hm...I'm not a flamer, but what the hell are you doing on Slashdot if networks are worthless? If they're so useless, don't freaking use them. Dont pay your ISP for a worthless, unreliable connection. And if you're connecting at work, shame on you, both for working for a company who uses a network (those idiots) and wasting your company's bandwidth.
Bah.
Copper. Which pretty much goes with the fact that it was some space junk.
I disagree. With this, local DSL providers can get access to the lines..I believe whether or not the Bells are providing DSL access. IF this is true, then they'll be scrambling to get in before everyone else.
:)
If I'm totally wrong, let me know and I apoligize
That sounded bad...what I meant to get across was that video cards have a long way to go until they saturate the capabilities of monitors. This is already possible, but graphics cards can, in theory, virtually mimic the real world on a 2D surface given good algorithms and ample processing power. I'm not too sure about how this would be done...but they need tremendous amounts of power and clocks to mimic the intricasies of the real world . The evolution of graphical power will continue to move quickly and steadily as we progress, just as the power of CPU's will.
Dude...I don't want to touch any of that. First, your eyes can take in and process orders of magnitude more information, bit for bit, than the ears. Sound cards these days are approaching levels of auditory saturation...and pushing standard, affordable speaker setups to their absolute limits. Hence the leveling off of sound card innovation
Now.....ugh. Your argument is the equivalent of saying that people will be happy with their PIII 550's next year and won't ever need to buy an Athlon 1 GHz. This...makes no sense at all. Video cards still have a LONG LONG way to go before they reach the maximum levels of performance they can acheive with monitors. Until we have a graphics card that processes information on a pixel-by-pixel basis with 64 million colors and real-world geometry at over 1600X1200 resolution with 60FPS we won't be anywhere near graphic cards levelling off.
Sound cards have already pushed speakers to their limits . Video cards have a long, long way to go.
This is great, and I totally agree with you, but I'd just like to know where your "90%" stat comes from.
That's great and all, but these little babies are wonderful Beowulf's by themselves :)))
It IS Quake on steroids, and that's the point. It's Quake on steroids and vast amounts of adrenaline. The game is MUCH faster, much more exciting, and much much prettier to look at than Quake's drab browns and greens. The weapons are cooler, the sounds are cooler, the graphics are far, far cooler, and the sheer _speed_ of the game make it wonderful, mindless fun.
Quake III would never make it on its own as a single player game, precisely because games like Half-Life and R6 are out there. However, it's faster than Unreal or Half-Life, and much more of a blast to play. Quake III give, in my opinion, the best testeronic (I know it's not a word) release of any computer game I've ever played.
So....accept the game for what it is and what Carmack wants it to be..a quick, visually and audially exciting game meant to be played without a lot of planning or thought (though many quake-ers I know will argue THAT point). Have fun.
*downloads immediately*
Well, assuming you walk an average of 2 meters/second from now til eternity, it would take on the order of 22,934,123,036 years.
I agree with everything you're saying, but...fusion is a lot cleaner than you think. There's NO radioactive waste (water and hydrogen are a BIT more stable than....uranium).
Anyway...
(a 4.6GB portable mp3 player with hard disk)