I'm sure a more advanced would find radio signals a primitive technology.
I don't have a deep understanding of Quantam Mechanics/Physics, but from what I do understand, you can have two particles, separated by distance that "mirror each other" in other words if one starts to spin, the other does as well.
If my understanding is correct, then it seems that you could build transmitters based on this, and these transmitters would not leave tell-tail signals.
I know some Quantum Physicist is going to flame me for my post, but my point is, we have not yet discovered everything. Just because we use radio waves for communication doesn't mean an advanced civilization would.
If we had the technology to visit other worlds, and we discovered a more primitive life form, what would we do?
Would we abduct some of them as specimins to examine? I'm sure that we would. And we would do what we could to supress their memories of the encounters, because we wouldn't want to disrupt their natural course of evolution too much.
It's exactly what the alledged aliens here are accused of doing.
Now I can't say for sure if it's really happening, I've never encountered anything that made me say "That has to be a UFO". But I think it is certainly possible.
Sure there is a lot of BS out there, but sometimes a given UFO event is much more plausable than the explaination given by skeptics. Example:
"The silver ball flying around the trees was simply the planet Saturn being refracted through ice crystals in the atmosphere. The light that came from the silver ball was caused by ignited swamp gases that drifted from the nearby (10 mile away) swamp. The aliens were a form of mass hallucination, and the 20 foot, perfectly round charred grass were the craft was alleged to have landed was caused by the heat of the swamp gases, and the perfect circle is just a coincidence, case closed!"
While that's not an actual debunker statement, it is similar, and as far fetched as some I've seen. It's easier to believe in UFOs than in that!
SCO hurting? Naw it can't be..
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I thought I read an article just yesterday where SCO claimed to hold 41% of the Unix market because the are the *cough* *cough* "leader in stability and scalability" *cough* *cough*. They also claimed to own 80% of the Unix on Intel market.
Alot of the posts here seem to indicate that people are suspecting that the WSP has an anti-MS stance. I remember a year ago, before it was decided that Mozilla would be 100% compliant, I was reading messages on the Mozilla site, and the people there seemed to thing that the WSP was anti-Netscape.
A goal of the WSP is to have the two major browsers be compliant. Since Mozilla is already working towards that goal, there's nothing to petition there at this time.
The WSP was after Netscape about a year ago for the same thing.
The current Mozilla/ NS 5.0 layout engine, that supports these standards (known as NGlayout) was not originally going to be part of NS 5.0. The WSP lobbyied Netscape to use NGlayout in the 5.0 browser, Netscape change their mind.
Since Mozilla AKA Netscape 5.0, does appear to pass the standards tests and is trying to adhear to standards, there is no need to lobby Netscape at this time, except to maybe make it happen faster.
I guess it's because the moon doesn't have a perfect orbit. As I understand it, the moon doesn't actually revolve around the Earth, but instead sort of waves around (well that's the best I can describe it) earth's orbit. There is a Solar Eclipse every month, but most times to view it you'd have to leave the planet.
Also, some guy posted there was going to be a lunar eclipse too tonight.
You're right, that is impossible, I think there was one at the end of July though (25th?)
There are between 2 and 7 eclipses every year (counting both Solar and Lunar). 5 is the max number of Solar Eclipses in a year (according to NASA's page)
He doesn't actually say "July" he says "seven months", and he doesn't say during the seventh month, so he could mean after seven months. Also he doesn't say 1999 AD, so he could mean 1999 years after he made the prediction or something.
Anyway, we do know that he was an astrologer, and as such could predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, etc through non-supernatural means, so he probably figured out that there would be an eclipse across Europe in 1999 (he lived in France)
I don't really believe that Nostradamus could predict anything. If you wrote a book of 900+ Giberish verses, I'm sure I could convince people that you predicted things because some of your verses are remarkable close to real events.
I don't know about the Aztec calendar, but the Mayan calendar ends in 2011 or 2012 (depending on who you listen to)
Also I think there is a planetary alignment called the "great cross" sometime this week, and NASA's Cassini space probe, which is carrying a large quantity of plutonium, is supposed to flyby earth next week, within only a few hundred miles (to use Earth's gravity as a boost to go deep into space).
Some speculate that the Cassini space probe will crash into Earth, causing a major environmental disaster, NASA says that there is no problem. Nostradamus says that the "King of terror" will "come from the sky" during or after the seventh month of 1999.
I'm sure Nostradamus fanatics will claim afterwords that Nostradamus' 1999 prediction was a prediction of the JFK jr. plane crash or something.
Nostradamus' quantrains are like poetry, and are cryptic. I've seen many predictions of the future based on them (Killer Earthquake in CA in 1988, etc.) all have failed.
But people claim afterwords that he predicted things like the death of Princess Di, because they found a quantrain that sounds like that event. I've even found someone who claimed that one quantrain predicted the Pentium bug! The same quantrain has been interpreted by others to be a prediction of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Even if Nostradamus's "Centuries" do predict the future, they're pretty useless because nobody understands what they mean. Personally, I think he deliberatly wrote a book of giberish poetry, knowing how gullible people are.
Lack of professionalism is an SSC hallmark! I cringe at some of the things that I see in LJ. They've become slicker, (IE, they don't look as much like a user group newsletter as they used to) also somewhat more professional over the years, but still are lacking.
The last issue printed a snapshot of the OS Sucks/rules O'meter! Sure thats a cool net think, but looks appallingly tacky in print..
They printed a review of the GIMP book even though they published it, and the book author is a major LJ contributor, thankfully he didn't write the review himself.
They tend to fill the whole magazine with articles of narrow interest. IE, a "Linux in Manufacturing" issue, or what-not. Sure an article here and there on the subject is good, but don't fill the whole issue with them.
I notice that there is now another Linux magazine on the market (forget the name, saw it at Barnes and Noble. Maybe I'll switch when my sub. runs out.
Reminds me of that girl who sued to get into the Citadel (US Male-only military school). She was obviously not REALLY interested in going to the school, since she quit after her first day when she finally did get in.
Yes it will take awhile to write the drivers. But USB looks like it will be a big part of the future of PCs and Macs, so if Linux is serious about these platforms, it cannot be ignored.
USB has been around a couple of years, yet Linux support is just starting to materialize. NetBSD has had USB support for a year or more.
What's not okay is for you to bitch at other people, telling them that they need to scratch your itch before their own.
To clarify my post, All of my own hardware works under Linux, but that's because I built my own PC and only chose components that are known to work with Linux. I am not whining for drivers for my own needs
Most people would rather buy a PC off the shelf of a Superstore, and are often stuck with whatever hardware their PC came with. If they want to run Linux they may be out of luck.
I know that the Open Source community scratches their own itches first, this is understandable, it's human nature. However, there are people out there, notably ESR, who make Open Source out to be something that will solve any problem.
If the community spent all of its time satisfying the needs of newbies, nothing significant would ever get done.
Agreed, but then we need to stop pretending that Free Software/Open Source has all the answers. The reality is, if the Linux/OS community doesn't care enough provide something, companies may see the need and provide proprietary solutions, which will make the end user happy, but infuriate the Linux/OS community.
As Linux becomes more popular, a number of these peoblems will vanish. Why? Realizing the lucrative market, hardware vendors will write Linux drivers and/or open their "propritary standard"
This will certainly happen. Creative has released Soundblaster Live drivers, for instance
But wait till you see the community scream when these vendors don't release source code, in truth many won't be able to, even if they wanted to because of patent problems and what not.
USB - being addressed, will be available in the 2.4 kernel. PnP - also being addressed
Pnp was "being addressed" for four years now.
Parallel port scanners - I believe some are supported; if yours isn't, write a driver.
Oooh I was waiting for this! I work full time and have a family-- I don't have the time to write and maintain a driver. My wife gets upset when I spend too much time using the computer as it is.
Anyway is that the answer we want to give the newbie who barely knows how to install Linux, and has probably never coded? Write a driver?
Personally, all of my hardware is hand picked to run Linux, but what about the new user who buys a PC, then hears about how much better this "Linux" OS is over Windows, goes out and pays $50 for Red Hat, and finds that he can't get his USB mouse to work, his PNP sound card etc? Should Red Hat put a message on the screen that says:
"Screw you buddy! You bought hardware to run Windows? So run your Windows and shut up!"?
Among all criticism directed toward Solaris I never heard anything about its inability to run on HP-PA -- if you want HP-PA, you buy HP-UX, and if you want Solaris, you buy Sparc.
That's a totally different argument. Solaris doesn't claim to run on HP-PA, but Linux DOES claim to run on Intel PCs
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Why do our scientists travel deep into the jungle, and put tags on the native wildlife?
I'm sure a more advanced would find radio signals a primitive technology.
I don't have a deep understanding of Quantam Mechanics/Physics, but from what I do understand, you can have two particles, separated by distance that "mirror each other" in other words if one starts to spin, the other does as well.
If my understanding is correct, then it seems that you could build transmitters based on this, and these transmitters would not leave tell-tail signals.
I know some Quantum Physicist is going to flame me for my post, but my point is, we have not yet discovered everything. Just because we use radio waves for communication doesn't mean an advanced civilization would.
If we had the technology to visit other worlds, and we discovered a more primitive life form, what would we do?
Would we abduct some of them as specimins to examine? I'm sure that we would. And we would do what we could to supress their memories of the encounters, because we wouldn't want to disrupt their natural course of evolution too much.
It's exactly what the alledged aliens here are accused of doing.
Now I can't say for sure if it's really happening, I've never encountered anything that made me say "That has to be a UFO". But I think it is certainly possible.
Sure there is a lot of BS out there, but sometimes a given UFO event is much more plausable than the explaination given by skeptics. Example:
"The silver ball flying around the trees was simply the planet Saturn being refracted through ice crystals in the atmosphere. The light that came from the silver ball was caused by ignited swamp gases that drifted from the nearby (10 mile away) swamp. The aliens were a form of mass hallucination, and the 20 foot, perfectly round charred grass were the craft was alleged to have landed was caused by the heat of the swamp gases, and the perfect circle is just a coincidence, case closed!"
While that's not an actual debunker statement, it is similar, and as far fetched as some I've seen. It's easier to believe in UFOs than in that!
I thought I read an article just yesterday where SCO claimed to hold 41% of the Unix market because the are the *cough* *cough* "leader in stability and scalability" *cough* *cough*. They also claimed to own 80% of the Unix on Intel market.
If you ever boot or log into a SCO server, you will see a list of copyright credits about two screens long.
I don't think anybody would have an easy time making it Open Source because you'd have to get permission from all the copyright holders.
Alot of the posts here seem to indicate that people are suspecting that the WSP has an anti-MS stance. I remember a year ago, before it was decided that Mozilla would be 100% compliant, I was reading messages on the Mozilla site, and the people there seemed to thing that the WSP was anti-Netscape.
A goal of the WSP is to have the two major browsers be compliant. Since Mozilla is already working towards that goal, there's nothing to petition there at this time.
The WSP was after Netscape about a year ago for the same thing.
The current Mozilla/ NS 5.0 layout engine, that supports these standards (known as NGlayout) was not originally going to be part of NS 5.0. The WSP lobbyied Netscape to use NGlayout in the 5.0 browser, Netscape change their mind.
Since Mozilla AKA Netscape 5.0, does appear to pass the standards tests and is trying to adhear to standards, there is no need to lobby Netscape at this time, except to maybe make it happen faster.
I think here in Boston there would have been about an 80% eclipse at sunrise, unfortunatly, I slept through it. It's cloudy anyway
Check this out: ;-)
Nostradamus predicted the Pentium bugI guess it's because the moon doesn't have a perfect orbit. As I understand it, the moon doesn't actually revolve around the Earth, but instead sort of waves around (well that's the best I can describe it) earth's orbit. There is a Solar Eclipse every month, but most times to view it you'd have to leave the planet.
Also, some guy posted there was going to be a lunar eclipse too tonight.
You're right, that is impossible, I think there was one at the end of July though (25th?)
There are between 2 and 7 eclipses every year (counting both Solar and Lunar). 5 is the max number of Solar Eclipses in a year (according to NASA's page)
He doesn't actually say "July" he says "seven months", and he doesn't say during the seventh month, so he could mean after seven months. Also he doesn't say 1999 AD, so he could mean 1999 years after he made the prediction or something.
Anyway, we do know that he was an astrologer, and as such could predict eclipses, planetary conjunctions, etc through non-supernatural means, so he probably figured out that there would be an eclipse across Europe in 1999 (he lived in France)
I don't really believe that Nostradamus could predict anything. If you wrote a book of 900+ Giberish verses, I'm sure I could convince people that you predicted things because some of your verses are remarkable close to real events.
It's either 2011 or 2012, on either Dec 22, 23, or 24, or maybe July... (depending on who's counting)
Anyway they say that the Mayan calendar is more accurate than our own.
So here's my question:
If it's so accurate, why can't we even figure out the exact day it ends?
I don't know about the Aztec calendar, but the Mayan calendar ends in 2011 or 2012 (depending on who you listen to)
;-)
Also I think there is a planetary alignment called the "great cross" sometime this week, and NASA's Cassini space probe, which is carrying a large quantity of plutonium, is supposed to flyby earth next week, within only a few hundred miles (to use Earth's gravity as a boost to go deep into space).
Some speculate that the Cassini space probe will crash into Earth, causing a major environmental disaster, NASA says that there is no problem. Nostradamus says that the "King of terror" will "come from the sky" during or after the seventh month of 1999.
In short, it's an interesting week!
I'm sure Nostradamus fanatics will claim afterwords that Nostradamus' 1999 prediction was a prediction of the JFK jr. plane crash or something.
Nostradamus' quantrains are like poetry, and are cryptic. I've seen many predictions of the future based on them (Killer Earthquake in CA in 1988, etc.) all have failed.
But people claim afterwords that he predicted things like the death of Princess Di, because they found a quantrain that sounds like that event. I've even found someone who claimed that one quantrain predicted the Pentium bug! The same quantrain has been interpreted by others to be a prediction of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Even if Nostradamus's "Centuries" do predict the future, they're pretty useless because nobody understands what they mean. Personally, I think he deliberatly wrote a book of giberish poetry, knowing how gullible people are.
Lack of professionalism is an SSC hallmark! I cringe at some of the things that I see in LJ. They've become slicker, (IE, they don't look as much like a user group newsletter as they used to) also somewhat more professional over the years, but still are lacking.
The last issue printed a snapshot of the OS Sucks/rules O'meter! Sure thats a cool net think, but looks appallingly tacky in print..
They printed a review of the GIMP book even though they published it, and the book author is a major LJ contributor, thankfully he didn't write the review himself.
They tend to fill the whole magazine with articles of narrow interest. IE, a "Linux in Manufacturing" issue, or what-not. Sure an article here and there on the subject is good, but don't fill the whole issue with them.
I notice that there is now another Linux magazine on the market (forget the name, saw it at Barnes and Noble. Maybe I'll switch when my sub. runs out.
Reminds me of that girl who sued to get into the Citadel (US Male-only military school). She was obviously not REALLY interested in going to the school, since she quit after her first day when she finally did get in.
Think of the implications.
You drink the beer the commercial told you to drink, what? you're not suddenly surrounded by bikini models? Go sue...
You buy that new SUV and try to drive it to the summit of your nearest snow capped mountain, you don't make it? Go sue.
You use that shampoo, but don't achieve orgasm in the shower. Go sue..
A $23M jet for $700,000. I'm sure that the IRS would be all over him for that especially if it's considered a prize.
Even still, I'm sure that he would not be able to afford to fly the thing, with fuel, maintanence, what not.
Yes it will take awhile to write the drivers. But USB looks like it will be a big part of the future of PCs and Macs, so if Linux is serious about these platforms, it cannot be ignored.
USB has been around a couple of years, yet Linux support is just starting to materialize. NetBSD has had USB support for a year or more.
before their own.
To clarify my post, All of my own hardware works under Linux, but that's because I built my own PC and only chose components that are known to work with Linux. I am not whining for drivers for my own needs
Most people would rather buy a PC off the shelf of a Superstore, and are often stuck with whatever hardware their PC came with. If they want to run Linux they may be out of luck.
I know that the Open Source community scratches their own itches first, this is understandable, it's human nature. However, there are people out there, notably ESR, who make Open Source out to be something that will solve any problem.
If the community spent all of its time satisfying the needs of newbies, nothing significant would ever get done.
Agreed, but then we need to stop pretending that Free Software/Open Source has all the answers. The reality is, if the Linux/OS community doesn't care enough provide something, companies may see the need and provide proprietary solutions, which will make the end user happy, but infuriate the Linux/OS community.
This will certainly happen. Creative has released Soundblaster Live drivers, for instance
But wait till you see the community scream when these vendors don't release source code, in truth many won't be able to, even if they wanted to because of patent problems and what not.
Looks like Linus learned from the last development cycle, where it took 2 1/2 years to get a new stable version out the door.
A weak Windows is our friend, do you think Linux would have gotten as far as it has if Windows worked as well as advertised?
Pnp was "being addressed" for four years now.
Parallel port scanners - I believe some are supported; if yours isn't, write a driver.Oooh I was waiting for this! I work full time and have a family-- I don't have the time to write and maintain a driver. My wife gets upset when I spend too much time using the computer as it is.
Anyway is that the answer we want to give the newbie who barely knows how to install Linux, and has probably never coded? Write a driver?
Personally, all of my hardware is hand picked to run Linux, but what about the new user who buys a PC, then hears about how much better this "Linux" OS is over Windows, goes out and pays $50 for Red Hat, and finds that he can't get his USB mouse to work, his PNP sound card etc? Should Red Hat put a message on the screen that says:
"Screw you buddy! You bought hardware to run Windows? So run your Windows and shut up!"?
Among all criticism directed toward Solaris I never heard anything about its inability to run on HP-PA -- if you want HP-PA, you buy HP-UX, and if you want Solaris, you buy Sparc.That's a totally different argument. Solaris doesn't claim to run on HP-PA, but Linux DOES claim to run on Intel PCs