I used to dual boot windows 98 and linux. I'd only ever boot into windows to play games and relax. Since Quake 3 and Tribes 2 now run just as well if not better under linux these days I don't bother with windows anymore, and I don't imagine I'm alone.
To microsoft, this is another erosion of their market share, and it's not just the server market anymore. So I think they're out to squash linux gaming like a bug before it *really* takes off.
"Gee little dynamix finance company, it'd be really nice if you dropped your support for tribes 2. Gee Mr Loki creditor, we can make life very unpleasant for you unless you help us out with a little problem."
If you misread everything else the way you misread this I doubt you understand the fundamentals of anything. The researchers make a clear distinction between physical networks and hyperlinks, calling them the 'internet' and the 'web' respectively. One of their suprising results is that the internet and web have similar network topologies. Or in their words
Why do systems as different as the Internet, which is a physical network, and the Web, which is virtual, develop similar scale-free networks?
They go on to describe some properties of scale free networks and mention some interesting examples from physics.
So, in summary, you have completedly misunderstood the article.
Bernoulli principle - decreased pressure exerted by air in motion - the same physics that allows airplanes to fly
I've never found this believable, and thought a recent scientific american article addressed the problem well. As I understand it the traditional explanation goes like 'the top of the wind has more curvature and so the air has to travel further when the flow isn't turbulent so it has to be moving faster and so by Bernoulli's principle implies that the pressure above the wing is lower than the pressure below the wing so there is a net force upwards'.
Where are Newton's laws of motion in this picture? And how does it explain airplanes successfully flying upside down? A more plausible answer(to me anyway) involves the angle of attack the wing makes. Air is forced downwards and by conservation of momentum something must be forced upwards - the plane. The curvature of the wing is necessary to maintain non-turbulent flow without which there wouldn't be a regular stream of air flowing downwards. Increasing the angle of attack too much causes this to break down.
I find this explanation intuitive and more in accord with the rest of my knowledge of physics, but I'd love to hear objections...
and then tell me I'm wrong for having them, and that I should just shut up because I'm evil and dear god does this website suck now
Ahhh yes. First come the dilated pupils, then come the paranoid delusions of persecution. This is a path I know well. Go with the feelings Taco - don't try to fight it.
This lack of variety to be seen in the artistic world at a fundamental, reductionist level is only excacerbated by the forms of Plato; there exists only one perfect form of each concept.
You have your forms and ideas mixed up. Each form is an imperfect representation of the divine idea. And, of course, there exists the divine idea of a troll, very closesly perfected here.
Damn. I just spent weeks coding a complicated algorithm in c++, all on the assumption that fortran sucked. Thanks for the tip you bastard, where were you last month?;)
Ah,I see a great career for you in a sortsof journalism with such skills in ignoring context. The into paragraph is written as a caricature of the simple, innocent all-american folk which existed before they were so rudely awakened by bombs in Hawaii.
And besides, do I complain at all the neighbors and centers I have to look at on the net every day?
I suppose a unit of quantum speed could be how long your average gate operation takes. In an ion trap QC it's about 10^-3 s. Or a clock speed of 1 milliHertz. Crap, in other word.
All I ever play is Rocket Arena to turn my brain off in the evening (though I might diversify to Tribes 2). My little celeron 300A with the hand-me-down GeForce 2 gets 80fps and looks ab-so-lut-ely sweet.
Not radio-controlled, so someone's not likely to hack the contol signals. I more interesting question is whether or not Phillip Ruddock, the Australian immigration minister, will deem the robot an illegal immigrant and throw it into the Woomera Detention Centre. And you think you had to wait ages to get people out if China huh?
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
It occurs in nature, therefore it is a natural act.
I'm trying to put a line in my firewall script (iptables v1.1.2) which will reject packets based on source address and the date. Can anyone help? I think this would be useful for a lot of people.
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I used to dual boot windows 98 and linux. I'd only ever boot into windows to play games and relax. Since Quake 3 and Tribes 2 now run just as well if not better under linux these days I don't bother with windows anymore, and I don't imagine I'm alone.
To microsoft, this is another erosion of their market share, and it's not just the server market anymore. So I think they're out to squash linux gaming like a bug before it *really* takes off.
"Gee little dynamix finance company, it'd be really nice if you dropped your support for tribes 2. Gee Mr Loki creditor, we can make life very unpleasant for you unless you help us out with a little problem."
Isn't it about time for Code Red IV now?
Instant perpetual motion machine and violation of thermodynamic law.
Not if it costs you a large amount of energy to run your Average Household Gravity Manipulation Device. Which it probably would.
If you misread everything else the way you misread this I doubt you understand the fundamentals of anything. The researchers make a clear distinction between physical networks and hyperlinks, calling them the 'internet' and the 'web' respectively. One of their suprising results is that the internet and web have similar network topologies. Or in their words
Why do systems as different as the Internet, which is a physical network, and the Web, which is virtual, develop similar scale-free networks?
They go on to describe some properties of scale free networks and mention some interesting examples from physics.
So, in summary, you have completedly misunderstood the article.
That makes goatse.cx a little too close for comfort. Keep those homepages with pictures of your cat coming people.
Can you ever imagine me living in the suburbs? I don't think so.
Neither do I, you need to have urban areas in order to have suburban areas. And New Zealand is all sheep farms. All of it.
I wasn't disputing Bernoulli's principle, I was disputing its utility in explaining why aircraft fly.
Bernoulli principle - decreased pressure exerted by air in motion - the same physics that allows airplanes to fly
...
I've never found this believable, and thought a recent scientific american article addressed the problem well. As I understand it the traditional explanation goes like 'the top of the wind has more curvature and so the air has to travel further when the flow isn't turbulent so it has to be moving faster and so by Bernoulli's principle implies that the pressure above the wing is lower than the pressure below the wing so there is a net force upwards'.
Where are Newton's laws of motion in this picture? And how does it explain airplanes successfully flying upside down? A more plausible answer(to me anyway) involves the angle of attack the wing makes. Air is forced downwards and by conservation of momentum something must be forced upwards - the plane. The curvature of the wing is necessary to maintain non-turbulent flow without which there wouldn't be a regular stream of air flowing downwards. Increasing the angle of attack too much causes this to break down.
I find this explanation intuitive and more in accord with the rest of my knowledge of physics, but I'd love to hear objections
ent:chris% cat open.cpp
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x4001e000)
/lib/libm.so.6 (0x40064000)
/lib/libc.so.6 (0x40086000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
#include <fstream>
This is what i'm a doing
int main() {
ofstream out;
out.open("/tmp/stuff");
out << "1";
return 0;
}
with
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (Debian release)
and
ent:chris% ldd a.out
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 =>
libm.so.6 =>
libc.so.6 =>
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 =>
Which gives me 4000 bytes if I use the -s switch. Are yours statically linked or something?
354K??? The same program compiles to 5978 bytes using g++ on my system.
and then tell me I'm wrong for having them, and that I should just shut up because I'm evil and dear god does this website suck now
Ahhh yes. First come the dilated pupils, then come the paranoid delusions of persecution. This is a path I know well. Go with the feelings Taco - don't try to fight it.
This lack of variety to be seen in the artistic world at a fundamental, reductionist level is only excacerbated by the forms of Plato; there exists only one perfect form of each concept. You have your forms and ideas mixed up. Each form is an imperfect representation of the divine idea. And, of course, there exists the divine idea of a troll, very closesly perfected here.
Damn. I just spent weeks coding a complicated algorithm in c++, all on the assumption that fortran sucked. Thanks for the tip you bastard, where were you last month? ;)
Ah,I see a great career for you in a sortsof journalism with such skills in ignoring context. The into paragraph is written as a caricature of the simple, innocent all-american folk which existed before they were so rudely awakened by bombs in Hawaii. And besides, do I complain at all the neighbors and centers I have to look at on the net every day?
I suppose a unit of quantum speed could be how long your average gate operation takes. In an ion trap QC it's about 10^-3 s. Or a clock speed of 1 milliHertz. Crap, in other word.
I rented that video last week. Very racy.
All I ever play is Rocket Arena to turn my brain off in the evening (though I might diversify to Tribes 2). My little celeron 300A with the hand-me-down GeForce 2 gets 80fps and looks ab-so-lut-ely sweet.
A much better solution is diesel fuel derived from plant sources (biodiesel)
Yes that sounds like a much better solution. There's acres and acres of rainforest we can cut down for fuel.
Because there's no way this things fuel consumption exceeds the waste produced by your average child during a long car trip
Likewise, I bought myself an inspiron 4000 six months ago, stuck in a debian install disk and haven't had a single problem with it since then.
The only gripe I do have is that the price has dropped about $500 since then *grumble*.
So yeah, keep your VA fud to yourself.
Imagine how long it would take to get to the top of this thing
2 minutes according to the article.
Not radio-controlled, so someone's not likely to hack the contol signals. I more interesting question is whether or not Phillip Ruddock, the Australian immigration minister, will deem the robot an illegal immigrant and throw it into the Woomera Detention Centre. And you think you had to wait ages to get people out if China huh?
Smalltalk is sleeping. Please don't wake it up.
Wow. You must have been such a child prodigy.
How is sodomy a natural act? Given that the sole purpose of sex is for procreation (in both a Biblical and biological sense no less), how is sodomy a "natural act"? It cannot cause conception, is extremely dangerous for the person on the receiving end and causes pain. This is not a "natural act" now is it?
It occurs in nature, therefore it is a natural act.
I'm trying to put a line in my firewall script (iptables v1.1.2) which will reject packets based on source address and the date. Can anyone help? I think this would be useful for a lot of people.