That is, they deliver air at a pressure that is near to the surrounding pressure. This makes it so you can actually draw in a breath of air given all the pressure on your chest (and hence the 3000 psi scuba tanks).
I used to suffer from asthma as a kid, and although I haven't had any symptoms or taken medication for over 10 years, I was told that there was a chance my lungs would rupture when breathing pressurized air.
Is this true? Because it was very disappointing:(
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I see your point.
I think the issue of binary-only drivers and firmware is pretty important though. It probably would have been harder to remove them after an official release. Still surprised how little voter turnout their was.
even tho giving a glacier a nice shiny coat isn't gone solve the problem on the long term, it will extend the glaciers life a bit, giving those environmentalists time to find and sort out the real problem. So why the hell are they protesting it?
Because the whole idea is stupid and indicative of the developed world's approach to climate change: spend money so that rich people can still ski in Switzerland.
Enviromentalists can't sort out the real problem. Every single person on the planet has to take responsibility for it. But we won't. And we'll vote out any government that tries to make us change.
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I just wish they wouldn't hold up the release cycle for reasons more political than technical.
What are the political reasons?
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ow do you know what happens when the system goes down?
Heh. From experiences with its w2k predecessor:)
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The thing is, Debian stable is actually really, really stable. The uptime for a file / intraweb / domain server at a busy record store I part-time admin for is 454 days. It was installed 454 days ago. If this server goes down, the crappy stock system freezes (possibly corrupting data if someone is doing an order or receiving stock) all the checkout staff have to logout of their machines while large queues form at the counters, and generally it's a bit stressful for people.
Why the heck should Debian compromise on its definition of 'stable' for people who want to play neverwinter nights? Especially as, like you say, you can just run sarge anyway?
A big thankyou to all the Debian maintainers. May all your beers be cold.
I don't think this has anything to do with power generation, regardless of the blurb at the NIF. It's about researching better bombs.
What a brilliant idea. Next time I apply for a grant, I'm going to call it "Z_2 gauge theories on spin lattices and applications to builiding a bigger bomb". I'll probably get millions.
The Simpsons is built around the dynamic of the family, you care about the family, satire in the Simpsons can be stinging and timely, but it doesn't carry a series for sixteen years.
The Simpsons has, for the most part, sucked for the last ten of those sixteen years. The only thing that's carrying it is the sad fact that large numbers of people appear to have turned into zombies.
Comedy doesn't always have to be deep. Futurama seems to appeal to those people that have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous.
Well, imagine for a moment that you're an angry male teenager midway through puberty. And imagine that you're too spineless to become a real vandal, or a skate punk or something.
One option that is open to you is to join an IRC channel and prattle on about how 31337 you are and how you will h4x0r t3h w3b.
Unfortunately, you don't have any coding skills. You can, however, download some network scanner with instructions on how to scan for ports that web proxies like squid use. Normally these should be closed to everything but internal networks, but nobody's perfect.
Once you've found one you update your browser settings to use said proxy and post stupid messages on slashdot. Since they're all coming from the ip address of the proxy server, the ip will be banned along with all the people who connect to the web with that proxy server. Then you go back to your IRC channel where you are the toast of the town for the next five minutes.
Sadly, deep down you feel sad and unfufilled and, as the months go by, you realise that you are unlikley to ever have sex in your entire life.
Because of the nature of electricity travelling through a wire broadcast to thousands or millions of households, it is not realistically possible to determine Television ratings by trying to discover if all the televisions are tuned into a certain channel(and the fact that there are a wide variety of cable recievers makes this task virtually impossible
The main system in use is called the "peoplemeter" which, apart from being the most unimaginative name for a device in existence, just takes a snapshot of whatever's being watched at specific time intervals and then sends that off to be matched with the channel.
A couple of weeks ago, this dazzling technology showed than 600,000 people in australia watched a blank screen for 45 minutes when one of our free-to-air channels went down.
What's really sad is that SCO has been able to make IBM spend all that time and money without ever once presenting any evidence whatsoever of "stolen code"
According to the folks at groklaw the judge believes SCO has no case, but wants to ensure that they have no grounds for appeal at a later date.
This way SCO can't use lack of discovery as such a grounds.
1. What is the working principle behind this (mechanism of trapping) ?
They usually trap ions which are charged, and so can be trapped with an electro-magnetic field. A slight subtelty is that you need an oscillating electric-magnetic field which is exactly what the laser provides.
2. Are these experiments performed at room temperature ?
Hell no, unless you have a holiday house on Triton. They are cooled to almost absolute zero, because otherwise the ions are just moving too quickly to be trapped.
3. How do they ensure they have trapped one "desired" atom and not more atoms and not some other impurity?
A variety of techniques are available to detect individual atoms. One of the most common is to focus a laser tuned to a resonant frequency of the ion at one of the lattice points, the ion will then flouresce and the resulting photons can be detected.
4. How is the laser prevented from interfering with lattice (non-desirable interactions) ?
The laser is the lattice - it's an 'optical lattice'.
5. What is the decoherence time which governs if you can really do any computation before the result is lost ?
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Very perceptive of you. Like it.
Doesn't *anyone* on slashdot run linux anymore?
never really understood how money can be worth more in one place than another
:P
To be honest, I've never really understood how money can be worth anything
that can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometers per second
They never get their SI units right.
And don't forget the quantum computer algorithm for finding prime factors in polynomial time.
And subtract points from google for performing research into advertising.
That is, they deliver air at a pressure that is near to the surrounding pressure. This makes it so you can actually draw in a breath of air given all the pressure on your chest (and hence the 3000 psi scuba tanks).
:(
I used to suffer from asthma as a kid, and although I haven't had any symptoms or taken medication for over 10 years, I was told that there was a chance my lungs would rupture when breathing pressurized air.
Is this true? Because it was very disappointing
I see your point.
I think the issue of binary-only drivers and firmware is pretty important though. It probably would have been harder to remove them after an official release. Still surprised how little voter turnout their was.
even tho giving a glacier a nice shiny coat isn't gone solve the problem on the long term, it will extend the glaciers life a bit, giving those environmentalists time to find and sort out the real problem. So why the hell are they protesting it?
Because the whole idea is stupid and indicative of the developed world's approach to climate change: spend money so that rich people can still ski in Switzerland.
Enviromentalists can't sort out the real problem. Every single person on the planet has to take responsibility for it. But we won't. And we'll vote out any government that tries to make us change.
I just wish they wouldn't hold up the release cycle for reasons more political than technical.
What are the political reasons?
ow do you know what happens when the system goes down?
:)
Heh. From experiences with its w2k predecessor
The thing is, Debian stable is actually really, really stable. The uptime for a file / intraweb / domain server at a busy record store I part-time admin for is 454 days. It was installed 454 days ago. If this server goes down, the crappy stock system freezes (possibly corrupting data if someone is doing an order or receiving stock) all the checkout staff have to logout of their machines while large queues form at the counters, and generally it's a bit stressful for people.
Why the heck should Debian compromise on its definition of 'stable' for people who want to play neverwinter nights? Especially as, like you say, you can just run sarge anyway?
A big thankyou to all the Debian maintainers. May all your beers be cold.
Don't read slashdot. Especially the comments.
I don't think this has anything to do with power generation, regardless of the blurb at the NIF. It's about researching better bombs.
What a brilliant idea. Next time I apply for a grant, I'm going to call it "Z_2 gauge theories on spin lattices and applications to builiding a bigger bomb". I'll probably get millions.
The Simpsons is built around the dynamic of the family, you care about the family, satire in the Simpsons can be stinging and timely, but it doesn't carry a series for sixteen years.
The Simpsons has, for the most part, sucked for the last ten of those sixteen years. The only thing that's carrying it is the sad fact that large numbers of people appear to have turned into zombies.
Comedy doesn't always have to be deep. Futurama seems to appeal to those people that have a highly developed sense of the ridiculous.
Why is the thread spammed by nazi proxies?
Well, imagine for a moment that you're an angry male teenager midway through puberty. And imagine that you're too spineless to become a real vandal, or a skate punk or something.
One option that is open to you is to join an IRC channel and prattle on about how 31337 you are and how you will h4x0r t3h w3b.
Unfortunately, you don't have any coding skills. You can, however, download some network scanner with instructions on how to scan for ports that web proxies like squid use. Normally these should be closed to everything but internal networks, but nobody's perfect.
Once you've found one you update your browser settings to use said proxy and post stupid messages on slashdot. Since they're all coming from the ip address of the proxy server, the ip will be banned along with all the people who connect to the web with that proxy server. Then you go back to your IRC channel where you are the toast of the town for the next five minutes.
Sadly, deep down you feel sad and unfufilled and, as the months go by, you realise that you are unlikley to ever have sex in your entire life.
Because of the nature of electricity travelling through a wire broadcast to thousands or millions of households, it is not realistically possible to determine Television ratings by trying to discover if all the televisions are tuned into a certain channel(and the fact that there are a wide variety of cable recievers makes this task virtually impossible
The main system in use is called the "peoplemeter" which, apart from being the most unimaginative name for a device in existence, just takes a snapshot of whatever's being watched at specific time intervals and then sends that off to be matched with the channel.
A couple of weeks ago, this dazzling technology showed than 600,000 people in australia watched a blank screen for 45 minutes when one of our free-to-air channels went down.
Look, we've all seen "the armchair coder's guide to programming languages" a thousand times now. It wasn't even that interesting the first time.
What's really sad is that SCO has been able to make IBM spend all that time and money without ever once presenting any evidence whatsoever of "stolen code"
According to the folks at groklaw the judge believes SCO has no case, but wants to ensure that they have no grounds for appeal at a later date.
This way SCO can't use lack of discovery as such a grounds.
I think XML is complete overkill for config files where there is next to no hierachial relationship between configuration parameters.
Is Darl McBride on the board of Tiger Direct too?
I stand corrected.
1. What is the working principle behind this (mechanism of trapping) ?
They usually trap ions which are charged, and so can be trapped with an electro-magnetic field. A slight subtelty is that you need an oscillating electric-magnetic field which is exactly what the laser provides.
2. Are these experiments performed at room temperature ?
Hell no, unless you have a holiday house on Triton. They are cooled to almost absolute zero, because otherwise the ions are just moving too quickly to be trapped.
3. How do they ensure they have trapped one "desired" atom and not more atoms and not some other impurity?
A variety of techniques are available to detect individual atoms. One of the most common is to focus a laser tuned to a resonant frequency of the ion at one of the lattice points, the ion will then flouresce and the resulting photons can be detected.
4. How is the laser prevented from interfering with lattice (non-desirable interactions) ?
The laser is the lattice - it's an 'optical lattice'.
5. What is the decoherence time which governs if you can really do any computation before the result is lost ?
I'm not sure anyone knows just yet.
This whole 'ethical' line of argumentation. A more mainstream economic argument holds a lot more water.
It's an extremely sad indictment on our society that economic arguments hold more weight for people than ethical ones.
The main difference is that Linus did not reverse engineer the MINIX kernel in order to write Linux's kernel
Would you be so good as to give a technical definition of reverse engineering, and then demostrate how what Andrew Tridgell did meets that definition?
screw the liberal tree hugging hippy vegan strait edge freaks
I don't think these people actually exist.