My company has a name one character off from another company, so our 404s are frequently people mistyping an address for the other one. So our 404 page has links to both company's main page and a who's who.
What's the reasoning behind only allowing the top 200 web sites anyway? Why are websites with less traffic bad?
This is wrong on so many levels.
Simple. The **AA want you kicked off the Internet, but your ISP still wants to collect their full monthly rate from you. So this way everybody is happy except you and you don't have a vote.
1) Read the problem statement 2) Find the library call with the longest sequence of letters in common 3) Write the call using as parameters the variables that you have 4) Hope that it does what you want
But like any caricature, there is a grain of truth in what he says. Let's take a quick poll. How many people have read a work by a "Great Author" in the last year, like Shakespeare or Faulkner? And no, I don't count Neal Stephenson as a Great Author -- the only sci-fi that might make the cut is Bradbury. My personal favorite, Elmore Leonard, is not on the list, either, so I fail.
Everyone would condemn someone who said the above quote as anti-intellectual, but maybe we should glance at the mirror first.
That's the classical physics view, anyway. Quantum physics may say that the electron is simultaneously a wave and a particle, but the particle mode still has to have definable characteristics.
Quantum mechanics is a statistical theory, valid only in the statistical limit of an infinite number of measurements and looking at the ensemble. It actually places no inherent limits on a single measurement, only on an ensemble of measurements. Hence, you have no violation of the uncertainty principle because you are tracking individual photons or a very small number of them. The Stern-Gerlach experiment back in the day observed individual particle strikes but when viewed as a large average you had the interference pattern characteristic of wave phenomena, while the individual flashes on the phosphor screen indicated a particle nature.
That's absurd. The interference patterns in the two-slit experiment are still created even when the intensity is reduced to the point that there is never more than one photon traversing the slits at a time. The QM rules apply to every wavicle, not just to aggregations.
You are misinterpreting Stern-Gerlach which also shows that each particle has quantized values for angular momentum and hence meets QM predictions.
lithotrophic bacteria that live from certain anorganic chemicals found down there
According to the team that found these nematodes (and the bacteria five years earlier), the bacteria lives off of radiation in the rocks, not chemistry. (Come back in a few years to see what eats the worms?)
The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.
-- Redacted from a US Supreme Court document by the Ashcroft
Justice Department in the name of national security.
The only real problem that I have is that court case and cross-sterilization that you refer to.
Other than that, if company A sells heirloom seeds that produce tasty food year after year and company B sells GMO seeds that produce tasty food for only one year, then I trust the free market to make the right decision and choose the seed that is best for the food supply. I'm not going to hate a company just because their seed is GMO.
I trust the free market only when the free market has access to all of the information needed to make a correct decision. When there is legislation to block disclosure of information, for example requiring labeling GMO foods, then the free market isn't very free.
Slashdot Mirror
But could it measure a Library of Congress of Volkswagens full of ping-pong balls on an aircraft carrier?
From the article:
Gaia's transmitter is weak, much less powerful than a standard 100 W light bulb.
You have left out the all-important light bulb unit.
I've been thinking of making a 404 page that looks like a BSOD.
My company has a name one character off from another company, so our 404s are frequently people mistyping an address for the other one. So our 404 page has links to both company's main page and a who's who.
What's the reasoning behind only allowing the top 200 web sites anyway?
Why are websites with less traffic bad?
This is wrong on so many levels.
Simple. The **AA want you kicked off the Internet, but your ISP still wants to collect their full monthly rate from you. So this way everybody is happy except you and you don't have a vote.
There's a lot of that going around.
Cop: Do you know how fast you were going?
Me: Talk to the driver.
This nonsense may inexplicably result in feverish night terrors among those in Redmond, but the rest of us - the best of the best?
Not impressed. Not interested. Don't care. Never will...
Redmond? ITYM San Jose
The typical "cargo cult" programming process:
1) Read the problem statement
2) Find the library call with the longest sequence of letters in common
3) Write the call using as parameters the variables that you have
4) Hope that it does what you want
But like any caricature, there is a grain of truth in what he says. Let's take a quick poll. How many people have read a work by a "Great Author" in the last year, like Shakespeare or Faulkner? And no, I don't count Neal Stephenson as a Great Author -- the only sci-fi that might make the cut is Bradbury. My personal favorite, Elmore Leonard, is not on the list, either, so I fail.
Everyone would condemn someone who said the above quote as anti-intellectual, but maybe we should glance at the mirror first.
It's inconvenient to read TFA when the link provided is for "http://slashdot.org/olduse.net".
It should have been "news:alt.misc.slashdot"
Well, I knew there would be a reference for size-to-charge and size-to-mass ratio, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electron_radius
That's the classical physics view, anyway. Quantum physics may say that the electron is simultaneously a wave and a particle, but the particle mode still has to have definable characteristics.
Quantum mechanics is a statistical theory, valid only in the statistical limit of an infinite number of measurements and looking at the ensemble. It actually places no inherent limits on a single measurement, only on an ensemble of measurements. Hence, you have no violation of the uncertainty principle because you are tracking individual photons or a very small number of them. The Stern-Gerlach experiment back in the day observed individual particle strikes but when viewed as a large average you had the interference pattern characteristic of wave phenomena, while the individual flashes on the phosphor screen indicated a particle nature.
That's absurd. The interference patterns in the two-slit experiment are still created even when the intensity is reduced to the point that there is never more than one photon traversing the slits at a time. The QM rules apply to every wavicle, not just to aggregations.
You are misinterpreting Stern-Gerlach which also shows that each particle has quantized values for angular momentum and hence meets QM predictions.
imagine that the first telecom company kept their protocols private, locking everybody in!
Umm. They did. You never heard of A. G. Bell's little company? Subject of an antitrust suit back in the 70's? Name of AT&T?
Of course, like the T-1000, the Baby Bells are slowly coalescing back into the monster.
The worm is now claiming that its twitter account was hacked and somebody else sent that picture. But it does admit that it really is that long.
lithotrophic bacteria that live from certain anorganic chemicals found down there
According to the team that found these nematodes (and the bacteria five years earlier), the bacteria lives off of radiation in the rocks, not chemistry. (Come back in a few years to see what eats the worms?)
Trapped miners?
IE6 is no longer supported
The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts
to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic
security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security
interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest
becomes apparent.
-- Redacted from a US Supreme Court document by the Ashcroft
Justice Department in the name of national security.
The War On Terror was used to justify internal spying and the eradication of checks and balances on the Executive Branch.
The War on Cyber Terror will be used to justify controls on the Internet.
The problem isn't GMO, it's patents and business models. Getting rid of GMO won't fix anything.
It will fix the GMO food problem.
The only real problem that I have is that court case and cross-sterilization that you refer to.
Other than that, if company A sells heirloom seeds that produce tasty food year after year and company B sells GMO seeds that produce tasty food for only one year, then I trust the free market to make the right decision and choose the seed that is best for the food supply. I'm not going to hate a company just because their seed is GMO.
I trust the free market only when the free market has access to all of the information needed to make a correct decision. When there is legislation to block disclosure of information, for example requiring labeling GMO foods, then the free market isn't very free.
Since electrons have mass, I guess you are ok with a singularity at the center of every electron, also.
If I was very rich and knew a lot of people hated me I might start paying attention to where my food comes from too.
It's actually kinder to slit someone's throat than to fire them.
Don't let pesky little things like facts get in the way of a stupid post, though.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2222236/posts
The TSA has done nothing to make us more secure. Every attempted airline incident has been stopped by passengers and/or air marshals.
You mean the Federal Air Marshals employed by the TSA, right?
Yeah. Those air marshals. Imagine if we were spending that money on, I don't know, something to make us safe from terrorists.