..Dude. Have you read the article? It ill be priced identically to the GeForce cards. That's what happens when you use 2 relatively old chips. $250 for that sweetness.....T&L won't start appearing native in games until late next year, probably. Give me 50fps in Q3:A at 1024,32...aww yea. Nice.
A big picture of Tux would certainly be inappropriate. However, having a cover-sized shape of Tux, but filled with the said types of graphics would be great. Tux has to be there, but it has the be in the background or subtle. Draw an outline of Tux, being sure to make the shape recognizable, but...graphics depicting the personal and free elements of Linux inside would be fabulous:) Good luck..do us proud.
The Big Bang, which is still a much debated THEORY, happened..a long time ago. At the "time" of the Big Bang (since we have no idea what the concept of time would have meant back then) the universe ITSELF exploded. There wasn't a tiny piece of matter that contained everything..the universe itself exploded and sent into motion _everything_. This explains microwave background radiation - we detect it everywhere, from every direction, equally. This radiation was released in the Big Bang, so it literally fills the universe.
To go on...matter essentially didn't exist at this time. Some fundamental particles were in existence, but nothing that exists now in our percieved nature. Most of what "inhabited" the universe was radiation. Until approximately 10^-43 seconds, no one has any idea. Between 10^-43 s and 10^-35 s, what existed is called the GUT era - Grand Unified Theory era. At this point, everything was uniform - quarks and leptons were the same thing, in other words. From 10^-35 to 10^-4 s is called the Hadron era. This refers to the "soup" that was the universe...extremely dense radiation and quarks and such. Physics, matter, and energy were beginning to form [remember, they didn't exist before..physics came about during the Big Bang].
From 10^-4 to 10 seconds was the Lepton era. Lighter particles - electrons, neutrinos, etc - were dominant, along with lots of heat and radiation. The next 5*10^7 years were dominated by radiation, then from then to now became matter dominated as radiation formed matter and solar systems and such began to form.
Throughout this time, the average temperature of the universe has steadily declined, from around 10^32 K to its present state of about 3 K.
If you're still awake, it's obvious that no hydrocarbons were formed at the Big Bang. Chances are that Gold knows this very well, but the reporter screwed it up pretty royally.
There's your lesson on cosmology for the day.. Cheers
Doh. The next century begins with the end of 2000. Next year will be the two thousandth year of the Common Era (or anno domini, however it's spelled). Therefore, when we complete the two thousandth year, we will begin the two thousand first in 2001. The millenium ends in 14 months.
If you read the freaking article, he put the extra l in there to differentiate. The guy loves the Iliad, but spells his name Illiad because he wants to. Freak.
Actually, that;s not the case. The BUS is really 33 1/3 MHz and 66 2/3, leading to exactly 100, 233, etc... not 231 or whatnot. the 66 MHz machine is closer to 67, and 233 is 233.33333333 etc.
Offtopic, but... To be more ACCURATE, you should use the word accurate. Precision tends to refer to how closely and consistently something can be measured or described using a particular instrument or method. Accuracy, on the other hand, usually refers to how close the measurement or description is to the actual truth.
Ok, I understand exactly what you mean...but I think you're missing that they're presenting a totally NEW idea in this article. The research they're talking about is suggesting things never thought of before and attacking some of the most fundamental beliefs of neuroscience.
Dont understand it as just presenting some new inconclusive research regarding one "side" or the other...the author of this article was informing the reader of very important new developments in how we see the brain. This is a very important function of a NEWSpaper.......
If you still thought that there was no way for the brain to produce more neurons, then you'd be seriously ignorant of modern neuroscience...so good job, NY Times.
Mind you, I'm not arguing that it should be on slashdot:)
[its 3:15 AM here in New York....forgive me for any incoherence]
I think this is admirable in a newspaper. I'm sick of papers with slanted arguments - this one seems to actually be presenting _BOTH_ sides of the picture!
Umm....no, not at all. Dry ice if frozen CO2.as it warms, it turns directly into gaseous CO2, as the pressure is not high enough for it to exist as a liquid at any temperature. Any high school science class would teach you that.
Pretty strange..i have a PIII and a TNT2 [not ultra]. The thing is...when i switch from 32-bit to 16-bit and vice versa, the game slows down pathetically. If you change the setting, exit the game, and return, it will be fixed. I get around 30-40 FPS in 800X600 32-bit with every option turned all the way up, and about 40-50 in 1024X768, 16-bit. Anyway...there you go..I think i remember reading about this, and it should be fixed in the final. Enjoy.
He does. That's why he writes on/. so often. Katz sees the Slasdot crowd as a big field to bounce ideas off of. Do you have any idea how much this guy gets flamed? Another poster here said "Katz knows that the flames make better steel." He will write on Slasdot, take in the responses, and change/alter/reevaluate what he thinks..it would only waste space if he wrote revised articles here..but trust me...they're all somewhere.
I wonder if he is writing another book...something compilating everything he has learned from Slashdot and such. If one does happen, I assure you that many of the ideas he presents will be drastically different from what was initially written on/., simply because of the input he recieved.
Katz is a good guy, he doesn't deserve to get flamed..he puts his "ass on the line" every single time he writes a feature, and he keeps doing it. Katz recognizes what/. is and makes use of it. Some of you need to realize that
He does. That's why he writes on/. so often. Katz sees the Slasdot crowd as a big field to bounce ideas off of. Do you have any idea how much this guy gets flamed? Another poster here said "Katz knows that the flames make better steel." He will write on Slasdot, take in the responses, and change/alter/reevaluate what he thinks..it would only waste space if he wrote revised articles here..but trust me...they're all somewhere.
I wonder if he is writing another book...something compilating everything he has learned from Slashdot and such. If one does happen, I assure you that many of the ideas he presents will be drastically different from what was initially written on/., simply because of the input he recieved.
Katz is a good guy, he doesn't deserve to get flamed..he puts his "ass on the line" every single time he writes a feature, and he keeps doing it. Katz recognizes what/. is and makes use of it. Some of you need to realize that
Uhhhh They use the same fiber for all 40 or 80 channels. The light used is basically 80 different wavelengths...and crosstalk can occur between the wavelengths.
It's GATTACA, btw. Anyway, yes, I agree..definitely one of the "pivotal" sci fi flicks of the decade. Very powerful...I do believe you left out an important point . The scene where Vincent's parents are planning for their child.
They basically go to a clinic, and based on samples both parents gave, egg and sperm are screened and picked to give the best possible child. This is becoming more and more possible as time goes on and genetic engineering advances. Personally I don't see a whole lot wrong with this..If we possess the technology to decrease the likelihood of diseases and disorders, go for it. However, I would have a _serious_ problem with people trying to decide what is best for me or society based on my genes, as it is presented in the movie. I don't think this technology will ever exist .
The scary part is...if it does exist, it will be used. That's where the queasiness comes in. It doesn't matter whether I have a problem with "genetically engineered children." What matters is that if the technology exists, it will be used. Pure science has never asked why. I can't think of a single technology that has ever been developed but didn't come into use for ethical reasons.
Anyway, you all get the idea, so I'll shut my hole now. Just...be wary and skeptical, but don't attack something without stopping to think about it first.
The point was that no John Smiths will be trademarked in your subdomain. If there's a big company with it TM'd, then they'd use a COMmercial domain name. I think reznor.com is a perfectly OK site...but the Don Henley one? It's a personal site, and should NOT have a.com address!
Champagne? What is this, Wayne's World? In my original post, I stated that MIT is very likely the most respected _technical_ university in the world. I stand by this. Cambridge and Imperial are of course excellent schools with excellent reputations. However, neither posesses the engineering and fundamental technical sciences reputation or talent. I'm sure you'll find it very difficult to point out any university that rivals the resources, history, and ongoing talent base of MIT. World wide. If you do find one or two, my claim still stands as "perhaps." Read the post and use your brain a little bit before you start screaming that I'm so ignorantly US-centered.
I shuddered when I saw this. I'm a freshman at RPI right now - I decided to come here instead of MIT due to monetary concerns [read: didn't want to owe $75,000 at graduation]. Right now...I'm terribly happy that I made this decision. I would have gone mad if I had to put up MS propaganda for four years in a place that was supposed to a very open environment.
I have a problem with this article itself..particularly the paragraph that states that MS products have become the "de facto standard" among universities. While there is a slight overreliance on Excel and Powerpoint by much of the faculty, IRIX and Linux, as well as Macs and at least one other flavor of Unix, are a very large part of this campus. This I like. If Microsoft tried to move into this university, there would be very vocal opposition from any number of clubs and societies.
While I don't have that big a problem with MS software itself, I think this is a totally inappropriate move on their part. I can't believe an institution like MIT would, essentially, let Microsoft hire all of its students. I can see it now - no more *nix servers on campus, free copies of windows to make sure it's on every desktop, extreme pressure on the Linux community, the pushing of MS development tools...this literally makes me sick. MIT, perhaps the most respected technical university in the world (don't flame me if you're at Caltech..I'm a little resentful because i didn't get in:) ), has licensed itself off to the largest, most predatory corporation in the world. The administrators at this school have sold their souls to the devil. (I actually don't have _that_ big a problem using MS software or anything, but..when it is forced down my throat I will scream bloody penguin murder).
Anyway, I got 5 hours of sleep last night, and this is probably totally random, so I'm going to shut up while I'm ahead. None of you need to be told how horrible this is. The non-MS using public of this country [ie/.] has to stay together and be vocal, with one voice. Linux isn't going to win based solely on its techincal merit, I'm sad to say. It's the things like this we must work hardest to fight. Good day.
It's not the hyperlinks that eBay has a problem with. Meta-search engines continually query the eBay database. Imagine you sat on ebay's search page and sent in 1000 searches every minute, every hour of every day. Would you be surprised if eBay got pissed at you? I sure wouldn't. I'm sure eBay would be ecstatic if every one of these meta-auction searches put links to eBay's home page, but they have every right to get upset if these engines make such intensive use of their servers and databases.
Sony is the MS of the consumer electronics world..though not quite as successful. They do have quite a few good artists signed, and make some damn fine stereo systems [their ES line], so it's...sad to see this. I hope other companies don't follow suit
Not that I disagree with anything being said, but theres a frightening trend here. When an article comes out claiming NT is faster than Linux at anything, immediately everyone on/. attacks it as much as possible, whatever the merits of the study are. Had that study not been "funded" by MS, or had been properly tweaked and NT still at least equalled Linux performance, then there still would have been/. outcry. On the other hand, no one looks for holes in an article that comes out stating that Linux is blazingly fast. All Linux users [maybe not all, but it is the prominent position] simply sit back and smile, claiming "real proof" is here at last. I haven't seen a single thread discussing what might have been wrong with the benchmarking in any way.....
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..Dude. Have you read the article? It ill be priced identically to the GeForce cards. That's what happens when you use 2 relatively old chips. $250 for that sweetness.....T&L won't start appearing native in games until late next year, probably. Give me 50fps in Q3:A at 1024,32...aww yea. Nice.
A big picture of Tux would certainly be inappropriate. However, having a cover-sized shape of Tux, but filled with the said types of graphics would be great. Tux has to be there, but it has the be in the background or subtle. Draw an outline of Tux, being sure to make the shape recognizable, but...graphics depicting the personal and free elements of Linux inside would be fabulous :) Good luck..do us proud.
Just for the record, spin numbers are -1/2 and +1/2, not 0 and 1.
Look who posted! ROBlimo. ROBably.
Please tell me you see this.
Ok. A little clarification is in order.
The Big Bang, which is still a much debated THEORY, happened..a long time ago. At the "time" of the Big Bang (since we have no idea what the concept of time would have meant back then) the universe ITSELF exploded. There wasn't a tiny piece of matter that contained everything..the universe itself exploded and sent into motion _everything_. This explains microwave background radiation - we detect it everywhere, from every direction, equally. This radiation was released in the Big Bang, so it literally fills the universe.
To go on...matter essentially didn't exist at this time. Some fundamental particles were in existence, but nothing that exists now in our percieved nature. Most of what "inhabited" the universe was radiation. Until approximately 10^-43 seconds, no one has any idea. Between 10^-43 s and 10^-35 s, what existed is called the GUT era - Grand Unified Theory era. At this point, everything was uniform - quarks and leptons were the same thing, in other words. From 10^-35 to 10^-4 s is called the Hadron era. This refers to the "soup" that was the universe...extremely dense radiation and quarks and such. Physics, matter, and energy were beginning to form [remember, they didn't exist before..physics came about during the Big Bang].
From 10^-4 to 10 seconds was the Lepton era. Lighter particles - electrons, neutrinos, etc - were dominant, along with lots of heat and radiation. The next 5*10^7 years were dominated by radiation, then from then to now became matter dominated as radiation formed matter and solar systems and such began to form.
Throughout this time, the average temperature of the universe has steadily declined, from around 10^32 K to its present state of about 3 K.
If you're still awake, it's obvious that no hydrocarbons were formed at the Big Bang. Chances are that Gold knows this very well, but the reporter screwed it up pretty royally.
There's your lesson on cosmology for the day..
Cheers
Doh. The next century begins with the end of 2000. Next year will be the two thousandth year of the Common Era (or anno domini, however it's spelled). Therefore, when we complete the two thousandth year, we will begin the two thousand first in 2001. The millenium ends in 14 months.
If you read the freaking article, he put the extra l in there to differentiate. The guy loves the Iliad, but spells his name Illiad because he wants to. Freak.
Actually, that;s not the case. The BUS is really 33 1/3 MHz and 66 2/3, leading to exactly 100, 233, etc... not 231 or whatnot. the 66 MHz machine is closer to 67, and 233 is 233.33333333 etc.
Offtopic, but...
To be more ACCURATE, you should use the word accurate. Precision tends to refer to how closely and consistently something can be measured or described using a particular instrument or method. Accuracy, on the other hand, usually refers to how close the measurement or description is to the actual truth.
:)
Just for everyone's information...the world's population reached 1 billion right around 1820.
And don't count on it getting that low again.....ever.
Ok, I understand exactly what you mean...but I think you're missing that they're presenting a totally NEW idea in this article. The research they're talking about is suggesting things never thought of before and attacking some of the most fundamental beliefs of neuroscience.
:)
Dont understand it as just presenting some new inconclusive research regarding one "side" or the other...the author of this article was informing the reader of very important new developments in how we see the brain. This is a very important function of a NEWSpaper.......
If you still thought that there was no way for the brain to produce more neurons, then you'd be seriously ignorant of modern neuroscience...so good job, NY Times.
Mind you, I'm not arguing that it should be on slashdot
[its 3:15 AM here in New York....forgive me for any incoherence]
I think this is admirable in a newspaper. I'm sick of papers with slanted arguments - this one seems to actually be presenting _BOTH_ sides of the picture!
Go NY Times!
Umm....no, not at all. Dry ice if frozen CO2.as it warms, it turns directly into gaseous CO2, as the pressure is not high enough for it to exist as a liquid at any temperature. Any high school science class would teach you that.
Pretty strange..i have a PIII and a TNT2 [not ultra]. The thing is...when i switch from 32-bit to 16-bit and vice versa, the game slows down pathetically. If you change the setting, exit the game, and return, it will be fixed. I get around 30-40 FPS in 800X600 32-bit with every option turned all the way up, and about 40-50 in 1024X768, 16-bit.
Anyway...there you go..I think i remember reading about this, and it should be fixed in the final.
Enjoy.
He does. That's why he writes on /. so often. Katz sees the Slasdot crowd as a big field to bounce ideas off of. Do you have any idea how much this guy gets flamed? Another poster here said "Katz knows that the flames make better steel." He will write on Slasdot, take in the responses, and change/alter/reevaluate what he thinks..it would only waste space if he wrote revised articles here..but trust me...they're all somewhere.
/., simply because of the input he recieved.
/. is and makes use of it.
I wonder if he is writing another book...something compilating everything he has learned from Slashdot and such. If one does happen, I assure you that many of the ideas he presents will be drastically different from what was initially written on
Katz is a good guy, he doesn't deserve to get flamed..he puts his "ass on the line" every single time he writes a feature, and he keeps doing it. Katz recognizes what
Some of you need to realize that
He does. That's why he writes on /. so often. Katz sees the Slasdot crowd as a big field to bounce ideas off of. Do you have any idea how much this guy gets flamed? Another poster here said "Katz knows that the flames make better steel." He will write on Slasdot, take in the responses, and change/alter/reevaluate what he thinks..it would only waste space if he wrote revised articles here..but trust me...they're all somewhere.
/., simply because of the input he recieved.
/. is and makes use of it.
I wonder if he is writing another book...something compilating everything he has learned from Slashdot and such. If one does happen, I assure you that many of the ideas he presents will be drastically different from what was initially written on
Katz is a good guy, he doesn't deserve to get flamed..he puts his "ass on the line" every single time he writes a feature, and he keeps doing it. Katz recognizes what
Some of you need to realize that
Uhhhh
They use the same fiber for all 40 or 80 channels. The light used is basically 80 different wavelengths...and crosstalk can occur between the wavelengths.
It's GATTACA, btw.
Anyway, yes, I agree..definitely one of the "pivotal" sci fi flicks of the decade. Very powerful...I do believe you left out an important point . The scene where Vincent's parents are planning for their child.
They basically go to a clinic, and based on samples both parents gave, egg and sperm are screened and picked to give the best possible child. This is becoming more and more possible as time goes on and genetic engineering advances. Personally I don't see a whole lot wrong with this..If we possess the technology to decrease the likelihood of diseases and disorders, go for it.
However, I would have a _serious_ problem with people trying to decide what is best for me or society based on my genes, as it is presented in the movie. I don't think this technology will ever exist .
The scary part is...if it does exist, it will be used. That's where the queasiness comes in. It doesn't matter whether I have a problem with "genetically engineered children." What matters is that if the technology exists, it will be used. Pure science has never asked why. I can't think of a single technology that has ever been developed but didn't come into use for ethical reasons.
Anyway, you all get the idea, so I'll shut my hole now. Just...be wary and skeptical, but don't attack something without stopping to think about it first.
The point was that no John Smiths will be trademarked in your subdomain. If there's a big company with it TM'd, then they'd use a COMmercial domain name. I think reznor.com is a perfectly OK site...but the Don Henley one? It's a personal site, and should NOT have a .com address!
Champagne? What is this, Wayne's World? In my original post, I stated that MIT is very likely the most respected _technical_ university in the world. I stand by this. Cambridge and Imperial are of course excellent schools with excellent reputations. However, neither posesses the engineering and fundamental technical sciences reputation or talent. I'm sure you'll find it very difficult to point out any university that rivals the resources, history, and ongoing talent base of MIT. World wide. If you do find one or two, my claim still stands as "perhaps." Read the post and use your brain a little bit before you start screaming that I'm so ignorantly US-centered.
I shuddered when I saw this. I'm a freshman at RPI right now - I decided to come here instead of MIT due to monetary concerns [read: didn't want to owe $75,000 at graduation]. Right now...I'm terribly happy that I made this decision. I would have gone mad if I had to put up MS propaganda for four years in a place that was supposed to a very open environment.
:) ), has licensed itself off to the largest, most predatory corporation in the world. The administrators at this school have sold their souls to the devil. (I actually don't have _that_ big a problem using MS software or anything, but..when it is forced down my throat I will scream bloody penguin murder).
/.] has to stay together and be vocal, with one voice. Linux isn't going to win based solely on its techincal merit, I'm sad to say. It's the things like this we must work hardest to fight.
I have a problem with this article itself..particularly the paragraph that states that MS products have become the "de facto standard" among universities. While there is a slight overreliance on Excel and Powerpoint by much of the faculty, IRIX and Linux, as well as Macs and at least one other flavor of Unix, are a very large part of this campus. This I like. If Microsoft tried to move into this university, there would be very vocal opposition from any number of clubs and societies.
While I don't have that big a problem with MS software itself, I think this is a totally inappropriate move on their part. I can't believe an institution like MIT would, essentially, let Microsoft hire all of its students. I can see it now - no more *nix servers on campus, free copies of windows to make sure it's on every desktop, extreme pressure on the Linux community, the pushing of MS development tools...this literally makes me sick. MIT, perhaps the most respected technical university in the world (don't flame me if you're at Caltech..I'm a little resentful because i didn't get in
Anyway, I got 5 hours of sleep last night, and this is probably totally random, so I'm going to shut up while I'm ahead. None of you need to be told how horrible this is. The non-MS using public of this country [ie
Good day.
It's not the hyperlinks that eBay has a problem with. Meta-search engines continually query the eBay database. Imagine you sat on ebay's search page and sent in 1000 searches every minute, every hour of every day. Would you be surprised if eBay got pissed at you? I sure wouldn't. I'm sure eBay would be ecstatic if every one of these meta-auction searches put links to eBay's home page, but they have every right to get upset if these engines make such intensive use of their servers and databases.
Didn't the Sega Master System use a Z80 processor?
Sony is the MS of the consumer electronics world..though not quite as successful. They do have quite a few good artists signed, and make some damn fine stereo systems [their ES line], so it's...sad to see this.
I hope other companies don't follow suit
Not that I disagree with anything being said, but theres a frightening trend here. When an article comes out claiming NT is faster than Linux at anything, immediately everyone on /. attacks it as much as possible, whatever the merits of the study are. Had that study not been "funded" by MS, or had been properly tweaked and NT still at least equalled Linux performance, then there still would have been /. outcry.
On the other hand, no one looks for holes in an article that comes out stating that Linux is blazingly fast. All Linux users [maybe not all, but it is the prominent position] simply sit back and smile, claiming "real proof" is here at last. I haven't seen a single thread discussing what might have been wrong with the benchmarking in any way.....