Ahhh, but it's gravity is caused by it's inertia. It's inertial mass anyway.
This whole April 1st thing would be much funnier if there was one or two stupid stories mixed in with the others. Much subtler, but as soon as anything becomes big and run by people who are making too much money, subtelty goes out the window. Witness holywood movies.
Is used to denote the cardinality of the set of real numbers. One of my favorite theorems in maths is 2^N = omega, where N is the cardinality of the natural numbers.
Yes Mir is quite small, compared to say a block of apartments. However your average shooting star is not much bigger than a grain of sand, compared to which Mir is quite large.
And if you would like to achieve ever lasting fame and noteriety you could try to prove the Riemann Hypothesis which conjectures that every x satisfying Zeta(x) = 0 has real part 1/2 .
How comically arrogant can people get? You can never prove the existence of god either.
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The rock in question was supposedly ejected into space 3.9 billion years ago. All the mars missions that haven't crashed and analysed rock samples have found no evidence of continuing life.
I think the knowledge we could gain from studying alien bacteria cultures would contribute enormously to our understanding of genesis here and elsewhere in the universe. You can bet researchers would take every imaginable precaution to ensure their beloved data are not contaminated, and they're probably capable of pulling it off.
And calling bacteria cultures an 'ecosphere' is a bit much. I can't speak for everyone else, but my conservationist leanings on this planet derive from a weird sense of kinship with other creatures on this planet, and awareness of their symbiotic relationships. I couldn't care less about bacteria on mars.
They'd probably have a lot less of them if they stopped suing people. Then they wouldn't be so worried about a teaspoon full of money being scooped from their ocean.
Imagine if MS spokesmen spent their time with unfouded attacks on Linux.
What attacks? Admittedly I only skimmed the article but I didn't see any unfounded attacks. The guy's entitled to his opinion and you seem to have missed topics like:
"Would you give any advice for people who might want to start an open source project?"
"But do you agree that Unix has little codebase that can be reused, and this is a problem?"
which ESR is quite definately qualified to talk about regardless of his opinions on MS
I think the problem here is the way slashdot picks headlines unrepresentative of the actual stories to promote the maximum amount of hysteria. Bad tabloids do that.
t the cost of doubling the time it takes to determine the state
In most cases you can't determine the quantum state - you measure it. And the measurement time does not double whenever you add another qubit. I'm sure you could do the math, not so sure if it would be the right problem
What are you talking about? Latex is a typesetting language which is usually compiled into Postscript. And I am not going to admit the superiority of PDF over postscript just because you can shove a viewer into Micro~1 Internet Explorer?
And what about the rest of the internet that doesn't use IE? And how will it be for the web if all the software for writing pages is owned by Adobe?
In Australia we humbly accept ourselves as we are and take pride in our achievements, insignificant as they may seem to the rest of the world. For me the real tragedy is when a country becomes so insecure it feels it must fake a moon landing to impress everybody.
I hate telephones. I hate reading about telephones. If there was a specific category about telephones I could exclude these stories from my/. experience and wouldn't post crap like this.
And don't waste your time objecting about the technical merits and geek chic of its OS and supported file formats etc. It's still a stupid telephone.
It seems to have gone unmentioned, for the most part, that the Sunday Times is Britain's equivalent of the National Enquirer. This article is most probably utter bullshit, I mean THE Sunday Times has negotiated secretly for weeks to ensure the safe return... ??? And don't forget the Sunday Times was also the rag that brought Britain the Hitler Diaries.
You Americans need to cultivate a healthy distrust of the media;)
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Ahhh, but it's gravity is caused by it's inertia. It's inertial mass anyway.
This whole April 1st thing would be much funnier if there was one or two stupid stories mixed in with the others. Much subtler, but as soon as anything becomes big and run by people who are making too much money, subtelty goes out the window. Witness holywood movies.
And it's April 2nd where I am.
Oops.
Is used to denote the cardinality of the set of real numbers. One of my favorite theorems in maths is 2^N = omega, where N is the cardinality of the natural numbers.
Yes Mir is quite small, compared to say a block of apartments. However your average shooting star is not much bigger than a grain of sand, compared to which Mir is quite large.
You George Bush voting jingoistic moron. I swear the propaganda in the US is worse than it ever was in the USSR.
Wow, this sounds like the anti-green rant I read in a recent pamphlet put out by the Christian Democratic Party. Are you a party member?
If anyone can go to the American Mathematical MOnthly website and find an article by Klehr or Bliss or both I'd appreciate you letting me know.
And if you would like to achieve ever lasting fame and noteriety you could try to prove the Riemann Hypothesis which conjectures that every x satisfying Zeta(x) = 0 has real part 1/2 .
I'd like to see a proof posted on slashdot.
Try not to view this from an ANSI-C-bigot point of view, but from a poor-guy-trying-to-learn-C
He's probably learnt something.
Now I can continue to play Ultimate Disc without worrying that I wont be able to walk by the time I'm 35.
but hey you can never disprove a good conspiracy.
How comically arrogant can people get? You can never prove the existence of god either.
The rock in question was supposedly ejected into space 3.9 billion years ago. All the mars missions that haven't crashed and analysed rock samples have found no evidence of continuing life.
I think the knowledge we could gain from studying alien bacteria cultures would contribute enormously to our understanding of genesis here and elsewhere in the universe. You can bet researchers would take every imaginable precaution to ensure their beloved data are not contaminated, and they're probably capable of pulling it off.
And calling bacteria cultures an 'ecosphere' is a bit much. I can't speak for everyone else, but my conservationist leanings on this planet derive from a weird sense of kinship with other creatures on this planet, and awareness of their symbiotic relationships. I couldn't care less about bacteria on mars.
Where does the rest of that money go?
You might like to read Steve Albini's The Problem With Music.
They'd probably have a lot less of them if they stopped suing people. Then they wouldn't be so worried about a teaspoon full of money being scooped from their ocean.
He was probably, like many people, a fan of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
'The Trial' has been made into a movie, and it was really well done.
As it should have been, being directed by Orson Welles.
Boy, the moderators sure have their heads up their asses today.
Imagine if MS spokesmen spent their time with unfouded attacks on Linux.
What attacks? Admittedly I only skimmed the article but I didn't see any unfounded attacks. The guy's entitled to his opinion and you seem to have missed topics like:
"Would you give any advice for people who might want to start an open source project?"
"But do you agree that Unix has little codebase that can be reused, and this is a problem?"
which ESR is quite definately qualified to talk about regardless of his opinions on MS
I think the problem here is the way slashdot picks headlines unrepresentative of the actual stories to promote the maximum amount of hysteria. Bad tabloids do that.
t the cost of doubling the time it takes to determine the state
In most cases you can't determine the quantum state - you measure it. And the measurement time does not double whenever you add another qubit. I'm sure you could do the math, not so sure if it would be the right problem
What are you talking about? Latex is a typesetting language which is usually compiled into Postscript. And I am not going to admit the superiority of PDF over postscript just because you can shove a viewer into Micro~1 Internet Explorer?
And what about the rest of the internet that doesn't use IE? And how will it be for the web if all the software for writing pages is owned by Adobe?
Mr. Gates was rewarded with detailed knowledge of alien computer technology gleaned from a crashed UFO
Oh, so that's the origin of the term "crash".
The war against mosquitoes has taken an interesting turn gentlemen.
In Australia we humbly accept ourselves as we are and take pride in our achievements, insignificant as they may seem to the rest of the world. For me the real tragedy is when a country becomes so insecure it feels it must fake a moon landing to impress everybody.
I hate telephones. I hate reading about telephones. If there was a specific category about telephones I could exclude these stories from my /. experience and wouldn't post crap like this.
And don't waste your time objecting about the technical merits and geek chic of its OS and supported file formats etc. It's still a stupid telephone.
It seems to have gone unmentioned, for the most part, that the Sunday Times is Britain's equivalent of the National Enquirer. This article is most probably utter bullshit, I mean THE Sunday Times has negotiated secretly for weeks to ensure the safe return ... ??? And don't forget the Sunday Times was also the rag that brought Britain the Hitler Diaries.
;)
You Americans need to cultivate a healthy distrust of the media