I think the typo-fixing only refers to the top-level domain, not anything else. I'm guessing that's the only way they can avoid blocking valid sites. See how the examples on the site don't imply any intelligent typo-fixing? So, slashdo.torg would probably just be redirected to slashdo.org (and maybe you'll even be lucky enough to get some FREE advertising out of it?!)
NASA is reporting that researchers have discovered thunderstorms above Tibet offer a direct path for water vapor and chemicals to move from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere.
Should be (pick one):
NASA is reporting that researchers have discovered [that] thunderstorms above Tibet [that] offer a direct path for water vapor and chemicals to move from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere.
Sorry/., but bad grammar annoys the crap out of me. </grammar police>
Like the article mentioned, it's probably got something to do with mod_ssl being included as standard in Apache 2.0. Maybe it's just that those running websites these days are more paranoid than their 'forefathers'? Afterall, generally, Apache use has fallen recently.
Is noone talking about which OS will 'lose' (ie. the winning program will run slower on it rather than the competition) because you all assume that Windows will?
1. "you don't age slower, others age faster" isn't a distinction in itself, it is only distinct from the way the title post is worded: "the faster a person travels the slower time passes for that person relative to someone left on Earth". Time never passes slower, only faster. Getting it the wrong way around is about as ignorant as you can be on the subject (that's aimed at the original poster btw:p).
2. I'm a spaz, ok, but I'm not wrong about the first one.
3. A month isn't exciting? Even when you're travelling at half the speed of light? One hell of a trip imho;p.
1. True. I'm not sure why you stated this in reply to my post though. Perhaps it was just for your other points ??
2. Good point, but stress is cumulative. It'd have an effect if you did it day and night for an entire year (but maybe not enough to shorten your life much). It was just an afterthought so that could well be wrong. Using 'rediculous' was definitely over-zealous on my part. Oops.
3. If you moved at 0.46c for a year you'd miss a month. You wouldn't notice that?
You don't age slower when you travel faster: others age faster. The difference might seem superfluous but it isn't at all.
If you are travelling mightily fast you still only live 80 years or so - there's no way to prolong that according to Einstein. It's just that if you went back to where you started you'd find that everything else would have aged more than you; how much more would depend on how fast you were going.
In fact you'd probably live for less than normal due to the stress on your body from the rediculous accelleration you'd have to go through to make time dilation make any noticeable difference (I'd say you'd need to be travelling at about half a billion kph for that to happen).
Just because the article came from NASA doesn't mean they have 'their best men' working on it!
Is it not just a melding of already existing products? If it is then what matter is it that a 17 year old did it? That said though, I'm glad he's getting the attention for having the sense to do stick it all in there in the first place.
'I'm not a racist; in fact some of my best friends are black, but .'
I always find it funny that America calls itself* the 'Land of the Free'. The problem is that this bill is pretty insignificant in the face of what a tragedy that country is these days.
*NB: I don't think I've ever heard a non-American call it the same thing except for when they were trying to be ironic. *sigh*
In fact it seems to be exactly the one from Firefox.
First there's the announcement that IBM Germany are giving up on Microsoft, next there'll be the one where Microsoft decide to 'migrate away from prohibitive MS products'. Or something (one up for imagination!).
Given that Wikipedia and its sister projects are inevitably going to continue growing, what are 'the ideas' on working around the real-world limits they face, especially their reliance on users' generosity?
One question that many/.ers might wonder about is if there plans to start rewriting bits of the 'engine' in a faster language than PHP (or a combination such as C/C++/Python)? Do you think optimising the cacheing is enough?
There's also the fact that inference from 2000 people to 60 million is probably going to show up some 'irregularities'. I know a sample of 2000 people isn't very different from the norm in these kinds of polls, but I don't exactly put much credit to politically motivated ' research groups' ' surveys.
I think I actually don't know a single person who believes ID/Creationism over Evolution (I live in Britain too). Maybe it's just that I attract the ones that are going to hell. *shrugs*
Yep. Google are finally becoming a normal company. There I was living in a fantasy world and thinking that they were going to be different. It turns out that they were different to get market share, that's all.
Ever heard the one about power corrupting?
(OK, so it hasn't already happened, but doesn't their spidering out into so many traditional markets give people inclinations of what's to come?)
The first package lets consumers who bought XCP CDs to obtain a cash payment of $7.50 and a promotion code allowing them to download one additional album from a list of more than 200 titles. The second package permits them to download three additional albums from the list.
So those would be Sony titles then? Hmm, yes. Get one free, then maybe you'd like to buy another, sir? *cough...cough*
What, governments having the monopoly on information? Sounds like a great idea; if people are already getting jittery about a single company defining what's 'important' and what's not, then things can only get better by having Dick Cheney having the keys to the Library of the United States (LOTUS).;)
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I think the typo-fixing only refers to the top-level domain, not anything else. I'm guessing that's the only way they can avoid blocking valid sites. See how the examples on the site don't imply any intelligent typo-fixing? So, slashdo.torg would probably just be redirected to slashdo.org (and maybe you'll even be lucky enough to get some FREE advertising out of it?!)
Should be (pick one):
NASA is reporting that researchers have discovered [that] thunderstorms above Tibet [that] offer a direct path for water vapor and chemicals to move from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere.
Sorry /., but bad grammar annoys the crap out of me. </grammar police>
Like the article mentioned, it's probably got something to do with mod_ssl being included as standard in Apache 2.0. Maybe it's just that those running websites these days are more paranoid than their 'forefathers'? Afterall, generally, Apache use has fallen recently.
Ahh, you'd be American then...
Is noone talking about which OS will 'lose' (ie. the winning program will run slower on it rather than the competition) because you all assume that Windows will?
2. I'm a spaz, ok, but I'm not wrong about the first one.
3. A month isn't exciting? Even when you're travelling at half the speed of light? One hell of a trip imho ;p.
1. True. I'm not sure why you stated this in reply to my post though. Perhaps it was just for your other points ??
2. Good point, but stress is cumulative. It'd have an effect if you did it day and night for an entire year (but maybe not enough to shorten your life much). It was just an afterthought so that could well be wrong. Using 'rediculous' was definitely over-zealous on my part. Oops.
3. If you moved at 0.46c for a year you'd miss a month. You wouldn't notice that?
You're exactly right about relativity, but wrong about the article: the article is in fact saying nothing . ;)
If you are travelling mightily fast you still only live 80 years or so - there's no way to prolong that according to Einstein. It's just that if you went back to where you started you'd find that everything else would have aged more than you; how much more would depend on how fast you were going.
In fact you'd probably live for less than normal due to the stress on your body from the rediculous accelleration you'd have to go through to make time dilation make any noticeable difference (I'd say you'd need to be travelling at about half a billion kph for that to happen).
Just because the article came from NASA doesn't mean they have 'their best men' working on it!
Is it not just a melding of already existing products? If it is then what matter is it that a 17 year old did it? That said though, I'm glad he's getting the attention for having the sense to do stick it all in there in the first place.
I always find it funny that America calls itself* the 'Land of the Free'. The problem is that this bill is pretty insignificant in the face of what a tragedy that country is these days.
*NB: I don't think I've ever heard a non-American call it the same thing except for when they were trying to be ironic. *sigh*
First there's the announcement that IBM Germany are giving up on Microsoft, next there'll be the one where Microsoft decide to 'migrate away from prohibitive MS products'. Or something (one up for imagination!).
One question that many /.ers might wonder about is if there plans to start rewriting bits of the 'engine' in a faster language than PHP (or a combination such as C/C++/Python)? Do you think optimising the cacheing is enough?
I think I actually don't know a single person who believes ID/Creationism over Evolution (I live in Britain too). Maybe it's just that I attract the ones that are going to hell. *shrugs*
Yep. Google are finally becoming a normal company. There I was living in a fantasy world and thinking that they were going to be different. It turns out that they were different to get market share, that's all. Ever heard the one about power corrupting? (OK, so it hasn't already happened, but doesn't their spidering out into so many traditional markets give people inclinations of what's to come?)
Look, we still can't go faster than light, ok guys?
It's the anti-santa!
What, governments having the monopoly on information? Sounds like a great idea; if people are already getting jittery about a single company defining what's 'important' and what's not, then things can only get better by having Dick Cheney having the keys to the Library of the United States (LOTUS). ;)