Yeah cuz everyone knows the earth was at a constant temperature with absolutely no fluctuations at all before we turned up, giving all these animals all the time to adapt that that specific "pre-human" temperature that never moved or challaneged animals or anything ever before... ugh
Except it doesn't really make sense to say space expanding creates more points (or 'cells') because there's an infinite amount to begin with (eg, there's an infinite number of places you could put a point along a 1m line, such as at 0.5m, 0.5005m, 0.500005m etc. If the line expands to become 2m long, there's still an infinite number of places you could put a point on it) which is plenty no matter how much it expands.
"Make up your mind, dammit! Is the universe expanding or is matter contracting?"
Size is relative... the proportion of volume that matter is taking up in the universe is becoming less and less, as there is more and more space being formed, but no additional energy being added to the system. If you define your units as being relative to say, the length of a stick, then over time you can fit more of these sticks into the universe, and so we say the universe is expanding. If on the other hand, you define a unit as being a division of the universe, then as you can fit more and more sticks into each division over time, the sticks must be getting smaller. So I'm not saying it's one or the other, I'm saying both are as true as each other; whichever way you decide to view it, depends purely on your perspective.
"Will we eventually become black holes?"
This would only happen if matter was being squashed closer and closer together, however, we're talking about it actually getting smaller relative to the size of the universe.
Probably... all conjecture points towards this being true, but as we can't see past that, it is only conjecture that leads us to believe that it is bigger.
"But look on the bright side - you are much bigger than you were yesterday"
You might be, if the atoms in your body weren't being held together. But they do seem to be (a fact I'm truely grateful). If everything got bigger with the universe, then stuff wouldn't appear to be moving further apart. It's actually the equivalent of the universe staying the same size, but everything in it is getting smaller, either way would appear the same to us. The only way we could tell if it was one way over the other was if there was some kind of external reference. If we assume there isn't, then both must be as true as each other.
Mostly, except I think not so much "zero dimensions", as a value of zero on all dimensions. IOW, it contains all the energy in our universe, but has zero size. This makes all the maths really tricky; we can model right up to just after the beginning, but the actual beginning itself, all the maths breaks down... the beginning of the universe seems to be one big divide by zero.
Absolutely. Everytime I need a new variable, I use the md5 checksum of the file at its current point. If I ever forget a variable name, I simple undo until the first time I put the variable in (I keep vim open ALL the time, and never exit) and run md5 on it again. Simple.
Imagine a line, 2m long. There's an infinite number of places you could put a point on that line (eg, keep dividing the distance by 2).
Now, imagine a line only half that size, 1m long. It's only half as big, but there's still an infinite number of places you could put a point on it. But, with this line, as you imagine, it makes sense to ask what's beyond it. What's 2m from the middle of the 2m line?
Now, imagine an expanding circle. The perimeter will get longer as the circle gets bigger, but the same rule applies - there's always an infinite number of places you can put a point. But there's no end of the line anymore, if you keep travelling at a speed up to the speed that the perimeter is growing, you will travel forever, but you still never get back to the place which you started. But now, it no longer makes sense to ask what's beyond the end of the line, as there is no end, but that doesn't mean it's infinitely long, even though there's still an infinite number of points on it.
Next you wanna ask, well what's outside the circle then? Well the circle only represents one of the dimensions, but each of the space dimensions also looks the same. So it'd be an expanding circle whichever direction you travel in:-/
Not really, as the football is only a 2 dimensional representation (eg, across x and y axis). The third space dimension would also be doing be doing the same (whereas the third dimension on the football - that which runs from the middle of the ball to the skin of the ball, would actually represent time, not another space dimension)
I think it's actually weirder than that. The Earth isn't moving away from the "center" of the universe (the place where the big bang happened, and everything grew out from). As space itself is expanding, the Earth is still in the same place as where the big bang occured; as is everything else in the universe. Imagining space getting denser rather than expanding can help visualise it.
I know plenty of people who smoke it who are perfectly coherent, and plenty of people who don't who aren't. Weed doesn't make people stupid, but it can be another thing that can help create complacency in ignorance as that post seemed to demonstrate. But dude, your statements on "smoking pot" demonstrate ignorance on your part. Just because something can be involved in causing harm doesn't mean that it's the cause of the harm, rather than just the tool the person decides to use to achieve what they wanna be anyway.
Yes. The option to turn on glass is only enabled with high end enough graphics cards. Then, offloading the GUI to the graphics card frees up CPU time, which is a good thing.
I dunno, I've recently moved my main machine over to Win2003 (from 2000; the system came with XP which I discovered to dislike with intensity; it had to go) as I'm a web developer, and need to test websites under IE7 (is hard to believe that IE7 really cannot be run on 2000, and that they're not disallowing it just to move people off the platform).
Have to say, once the default settings are changes so, for example, you don't have to give it a reason whenever you wanna reboot, hardware acceleration's turned up etc, it's actually pretty nice. Has cut out the crap they put into XP (such as the tellytubby GUI), kept the improvements (such as concurrent driver start/stop), and even has some cool additions, such as FS level COW so that users can 'roll back' to earlier versions of files. If I wasn't just using Windows as a front end whist developing the actual software under Linux (vim's my friend) that could be totally handy.
I definitely think I'm gonna be sticking with their server line of products. Compare 2000 and 2003 with ME (pardon my foul language) and XP and... heh, I don't even really need to finish that sentence do I *lol*
"However, it doesn't prevent you from using the rest of the system"
That's incredibly naive, of cause it can. You want to reconnect the dropped network connection, but can't because it's "already mounted", and can't be unmounted because a process has an open blocking file handle within it? Or you wish to unmount the partition/network share that the process itself is running on? What if you need to make changes to the process binary or another file that it has open and locked, and can't until you close it? Okay, it might not stop you from doing something/else/, but that doesn't help if the thing you're using the system for is deadlocked until you reboot it.
"is designed not to allow a process which is blocked on I/O to be killed except by rebooting"
So it's not even a bug, it deadlocks by design?! And you think this helps your case how exactly?
And as for certain processes which cannot be killed/easily killed... yeah? What OS doesn't have those? That's like expecting to be able to kill the dcopserver and expect konqueror to keep running. Yes, you can "drop into the shell", but if the program you're in the middle of using was using dcopserver, what help is that?
"certain services which can only be seen as svchost.exe or services.exe"
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services... they're all right there (you can even create a shortcut on the desktop to it if you really need). It's also scriptable using the 'net start' and 'net stop' commands.
Yes there are processes that you cannot kill under Windows... unlike Linux's kjournald, kswapd, kthread, cifsoplockd, ndis_wq...
Like I said, it's easy to find flaws in the OS you're looking for them in, because they exist everywhere, in Mac OS, Linux, Mac OS, Windows, AND Mac OS. But it's just plain naive to pretend "your favourite OS(tm)" doesn't have flaws simply because you've never given them any thought time.
Didn't the index service originally come with Office rather than as default with Windows? I remember always turning it off, as I rarely ever need to search, and it slowed my comp down constantly as it was indexing.
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Listen, you. Open source, global warming, M$hite, soviet russia, tubes, and a tin foil hat. I think I've made my point.
Yeah cuz everyone knows the earth was at a constant temperature with absolutely no fluctuations at all before we turned up, giving all these animals all the time to adapt that that specific "pre-human" temperature that never moved or challaneged animals or anything ever before... ugh
This is probably also true if instead of being called Penguins, they were all called Nick.
"Just because his name was cook,didn't mean he had culinary talent"
No, it's because his name was Dr Cook, duh. You don't become a Dr without cooking a penguin or two ya know.
Hmm.
I felt a great disturbance in the earthquake, as if half of a nun suddenly put out in terror and was suddenly silenced.
"When an animal shits, it always covers the shit with dirt"
Always?
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Hmm don't think I've quite got the hang if this yet. I "must be new here".
Your opinion would *very* quickly change if you were the one paying the bandwidth bill.
Why doesn't he remove the chip that makes me feel shame?!
Except it doesn't really make sense to say space expanding creates more points (or 'cells') because there's an infinite amount to begin with (eg, there's an infinite number of places you could put a point along a 1m line, such as at 0.5m, 0.5005m, 0.500005m etc. If the line expands to become 2m long, there's still an infinite number of places you could put a point on it) which is plenty no matter how much it expands.
"Make up your mind, dammit! Is the universe expanding or is matter contracting?"
Size is relative... the proportion of volume that matter is taking up in the universe is becoming less and less, as there is more and more space being formed, but no additional energy being added to the system. If you define your units as being relative to say, the length of a stick, then over time you can fit more of these sticks into the universe, and so we say the universe is expanding. If on the other hand, you define a unit as being a division of the universe, then as you can fit more and more sticks into each division over time, the sticks must be getting smaller. So I'm not saying it's one or the other, I'm saying both are as true as each other; whichever way you decide to view it, depends purely on your perspective.
"Will we eventually become black holes?"
This would only happen if matter was being squashed closer and closer together, however, we're talking about it actually getting smaller relative to the size of the universe.
"but the universe is substantially bigger"
Probably... all conjecture points towards this being true, but as we can't see past that, it is only conjecture that leads us to believe that it is bigger.
"But look on the bright side - you are much bigger than you were yesterday"
You might be, if the atoms in your body weren't being held together. But they do seem to be (a fact I'm truely grateful). If everything got bigger with the universe, then stuff wouldn't appear to be moving further apart. It's actually the equivalent of the universe staying the same size, but everything in it is getting smaller, either way would appear the same to us. The only way we could tell if it was one way over the other was if there was some kind of external reference. If we assume there isn't, then both must be as true as each other.
Mostly, except I think not so much "zero dimensions", as a value of zero on all dimensions. IOW, it contains all the energy in our universe, but has zero size. This makes all the maths really tricky; we can model right up to just after the beginning, but the actual beginning itself, all the maths breaks down... the beginning of the universe seems to be one big divide by zero.
Absolutely. Everytime I need a new variable, I use the md5 checksum of the file at its current point. If I ever forget a variable name, I simple undo until the first time I put the variable in (I keep vim open ALL the time, and never exit) and run md5 on it again. Simple.
Imagine a line, 2m long. There's an infinite number of places you could put a point on that line (eg, keep dividing the distance by 2).
:-/
Now, imagine a line only half that size, 1m long. It's only half as big, but there's still an infinite number of places you could put a point on it. But, with this line, as you imagine, it makes sense to ask what's beyond it. What's 2m from the middle of the 2m line?
Now, imagine an expanding circle. The perimeter will get longer as the circle gets bigger, but the same rule applies - there's always an infinite number of places you can put a point. But there's no end of the line anymore, if you keep travelling at a speed up to the speed that the perimeter is growing, you will travel forever, but you still never get back to the place which you started. But now, it no longer makes sense to ask what's beyond the end of the line, as there is no end, but that doesn't mean it's infinitely long, even though there's still an infinite number of points on it.
Next you wanna ask, well what's outside the circle then? Well the circle only represents one of the dimensions, but each of the space dimensions also looks the same. So it'd be an expanding circle whichever direction you travel in
Not really, as the football is only a 2 dimensional representation (eg, across x and y axis). The third space dimension would also be doing be doing the same (whereas the third dimension on the football - that which runs from the middle of the ball to the skin of the ball, would actually represent time, not another space dimension)
I think it's actually weirder than that. The Earth isn't moving away from the "center" of the universe (the place where the big bang happened, and everything grew out from). As space itself is expanding, the Earth is still in the same place as where the big bang occured; as is everything else in the universe. Imagining space getting denser rather than expanding can help visualise it.
"Who's going to want to live on weekends-dark section?"
:-)
Sounds good to me, after a long party and not getting to bed until early hours of the... afternoon, the sun can be damn annoying
I know plenty of people who smoke it who are perfectly coherent, and plenty of people who don't who aren't. Weed doesn't make people stupid, but it can be another thing that can help create complacency in ignorance as that post seemed to demonstrate. But dude, your statements on "smoking pot" demonstrate ignorance on your part. Just because something can be involved in causing harm doesn't mean that it's the cause of the harm, rather than just the tool the person decides to use to achieve what they wanna be anyway.
"What's faster: drawing a grey box purely in software, or drawing a translucent box with curves, blended edges, and ripples using hardware assist?"
Depends whether you want to use the CPU for other things while the box is being drawn, doesn't it.
Yes. The option to turn on glass is only enabled with high end enough graphics cards. Then, offloading the GUI to the graphics card frees up CPU time, which is a good thing.
I dunno, I've recently moved my main machine over to Win2003 (from 2000; the system came with XP which I discovered to dislike with intensity; it had to go) as I'm a web developer, and need to test websites under IE7 (is hard to believe that IE7 really cannot be run on 2000, and that they're not disallowing it just to move people off the platform).
Have to say, once the default settings are changes so, for example, you don't have to give it a reason whenever you wanna reboot, hardware acceleration's turned up etc, it's actually pretty nice. Has cut out the crap they put into XP (such as the tellytubby GUI), kept the improvements (such as concurrent driver start/stop), and even has some cool additions, such as FS level COW so that users can 'roll back' to earlier versions of files. If I wasn't just using Windows as a front end whist developing the actual software under Linux (vim's my friend) that could be totally handy.
I definitely think I'm gonna be sticking with their server line of products. Compare 2000 and 2003 with ME (pardon my foul language) and XP and... heh, I don't even really need to finish that sentence do I *lol*
"However, it doesn't prevent you from using the rest of the system"
/else/, but that doesn't help if the thing you're using the system for is deadlocked until you reboot it.
That's incredibly naive, of cause it can. You want to reconnect the dropped network connection, but can't because it's "already mounted", and can't be unmounted because a process has an open blocking file handle within it? Or you wish to unmount the partition/network share that the process itself is running on? What if you need to make changes to the process binary or another file that it has open and locked, and can't until you close it? Okay, it might not stop you from doing something
"is designed not to allow a process which is blocked on I/O to be killed except by rebooting"
So it's not even a bug, it deadlocks by design?! And you think this helps your case how exactly?
And as for certain processes which cannot be killed/easily killed... yeah? What OS doesn't have those? That's like expecting to be able to kill the dcopserver and expect konqueror to keep running. Yes, you can "drop into the shell", but if the program you're in the middle of using was using dcopserver, what help is that?
"certain services which can only be seen as svchost.exe or services.exe"
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services... they're all right there (you can even create a shortcut on the desktop to it if you really need). It's also scriptable using the 'net start' and 'net stop' commands.
Yes there are processes that you cannot kill under Windows... unlike Linux's kjournald, kswapd, kthread, cifsoplockd, ndis_wq...
Like I said, it's easy to find flaws in the OS you're looking for them in, because they exist everywhere, in Mac OS, Linux, Mac OS, Windows, AND Mac OS. But it's just plain naive to pretend "your favourite OS(tm)" doesn't have flaws simply because you've never given them any thought time.
Didn't the index service originally come with Office rather than as default with Windows? I remember always turning it off, as I rarely ever need to search, and it slowed my comp down constantly as it was indexing.