Well neither your nor Linux zealots' idealism are wrong.
It is just a matter of prespective-
OS programmers _like_ to "get their hands wet".
Commerical programmers _are require_ to make their programs as easy to use as possible.
So, do you want Linux remain a niche market product by making it elite and raw and impossible for IQ120 to use, or sugercoat it so that it becomes another Windows? This is where the idealogical seperation starts.
21? Old?! What does that make me?!
The game is sure nostalgic. I remember when the first game came out, I downloaded it (again with the ever-so-popular 2mb zip files from sites), played it for 2 days straight, then told all the people I know how great the game is and how its gameplay would revolutionalize the gaming world. Sadly I was the few that saw the potential of the series...
I should had invested in the damn company.
Well when it concerns about the lives of 800+ men, women, and children. I think it is safe to think that we better get it right the first time around.
If we don't, welll...
This is not a matter of US vs world- if the plane has known flaws, yet it is still certify to fly for cost/politic reason...I want to see heads rolling- and not from my side either.
If you care enough to RTFA, you will see the following line
Yet his employer ignored his concerns, he alleges, because fixing the glitches would be costly, could take up to a year and would further delay the A380's launch.(a year behind already)
Tell you what, why don't you log into your account(be it TTM or whatever) , put your money where your mouth is by presenting justifiable evidences, and get beatdown like a man.
If you refuse, then stop trying to force other drink your special Kool Aids; we don't need idiots who chant the same PR for every story.
When I toured the labs in University of British Columbia a few months ago, a person showed us his doctine thesis experiment that center on tunneling sunlight with the help of special reflective (from 3M) tunnels that is over 65% efficient.
Other than the addition of the outrageous "dish" (on shark?), tell me why this is "new".
If you think about it, US has the same "penis thing" more or less.
Japanese has the ESC that reaches 36TFlops in 2002. US, not wanting to be left behind, build Blue Gene that will reaches 1PFlops by 2006 (28x in 4 years relative to ESC).
Japan, in response to that, wants to build one that reaches 10PFlops by 2010 (10x in 6 years relative to Blue Gene).
Japanese - surpasses opponent by 10 times in 6 years. US - surpasses opponent by 28 times in 4 years.
Now, tell me, which one has the more serious disease known as "look at the size of my ego" syndrome.
When I looked at the new google maps I noticed that some of the streets near my house are not indexed. When I compare it to yahoo map, however, the roads are present.
I hope that you can answer a question that has plagued me since childhood. If every man, woman, and child in China each stood on a chair, and everyone jumped off their chair at exactly the same time, would the earth be thrown off its axis? Also, if prior to jumping, they all yelled at the top of their lungs, would we hear it here in the United States, and how much of a time delay would there be? --Robert P., Los Angeles
Dear Robert:
Amazing as it may seem, I am actually going to answer this incredibly retarded question. But first Uncle Cecil wishes to have a word with his devoted readers.
As you can imagine, I possess phenomenal scholarly resources. I have converted the spare bedroom in my house into a research library containing 16 million volumes, which are dusted twice a day by a team of robed acolytes holding candles. I have instant access via my Apple 380S GT to all the world's data banks. Why, right here on my writing table next to the box of spare quills I have a dog-eared copy of 16,000 Unbelievably Complicated Physics Experiments for the Home and Garden, With Answers, which has helped me out of many a jam.
But despite this wealth of scientific knowledge, the Teeming Millions routinely write in with questions that not one sane person has ever asked in 6,000 years of recorded history. As a result, my usual sources of information are useless.
Nonetheless, I try. I have been in repeated contact with the Beijing government all week in an effort to persuade them to get all 1,027,000,000 Chinese (1980 estimate) to jump off chairs. I have pleaded with them that will signficantly advance the cause of science. However, they have not been cooperative.
They point out the China is a poor country, and lacks a sufficient quantity of chairs. Moreover, many of the chairs that are available are of nonuniform height, meaning that even if all the Chinese jumped off at the same time, they would hit the ground at different times, thus throwing off the results of the experiment.
Finally, they point out that discipline among the Chinese people has become notoriously lax since the Cultural Revolution, and many of the participants in the project could be expected to be fooling around when they were supposed to be jumping. The Chinese government suggests that instead of having the entire nation jump off chairs, I should get one representative citizen to jump and multiply the results by 1,027,000,000. I have, needless to say, rejected this solution as grossly inadequate.
The possibility of an actual test thus being remote, I have been forced to rely on my considerable powers of inductive logic, to wit: given the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the Chinese get up on their chairs, they would essentially be pushing the earth down in the process of elevating themselves. Then, when they jumped off, the earth would simultaneously spring back, attracted by the gravitational mass of one billion airborne Chinese persons, with the result that the Chinese and the earth would meet somewhere in the middle, if you follow me. The upshot of this is that action and reaction would cancel each other out and the earth would remain securely in orbit.
Just for fun, however--after you've been doing this job for a while you get a pretty bizarre notion of what constitutes a good time--suppose 1,000,000,000 Chinese, give or take 27,000,000, were somehow to materialize atop chairs without their having to elevate themselves thereto. And suppose they jumped off.
Having performed astonishing feats of mathematical acrobatics (requiring the entire afternoon, I might note--sometimes I can't believe the crap I spend my time on), I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons. I refuse to even discuss what would happen if all the Chinese yelled at the top of their lungs.
"Actually, our country has its own Deep Impact plans, it's just we've never revealed them to the public before," the Beijing News quoted Chinese astronomer Zhao Haibin as saying.
Yah I am sure it is "quoted as saying"- look, no one would accidentally "slip" important information when a communist party is looking after you. Someone obviously directed him to say it."
1998 film "Deep Impact", for which the US spacecraft was named.
It is as if millions of voices in NASA cried out in terror, then silence.
China would use a "more clever" method that could be called "pasting", he said, explaining the plan was to soft-land a craft with an engine capable of pushing a comet or asteroid off a collision course.
Clever, really clever- no one had thought about it before, ever. I mean, not even a three year old kid know that when you attach a rocket to an object, they both fly away.
But China still had to overcome technical obstacles before it could send a comet collider into space
Yah and my time machine is almost finish, I just need to overcome some "technical obstacles", that's all- namely, how to build it.
If I have someone I hate, could I just setup an open AP network in my house, ask the guy over and ask him to bring his windows laptop. When his MS' ever-helpful wireless connection program tries to connect to my honey-pot, *BAM* the police and the NSA (hey they helped RIAA too, so obviously they have tons of free time.) comes out of hiding and nail the guy.
Slashdot Mirror
Well neither your nor Linux zealots' idealism are wrong.
It is just a matter of prespective-
OS programmers _like_ to "get their hands wet".
Commerical programmers _are require_ to make their programs as easy to use as possible.
So, do you want Linux remain a niche market product by making it elite and raw and impossible for IQ120 to use, or sugercoat it so that it becomes another Windows? This is where the idealogical seperation starts.
He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.
Oh my god, to think that a 7 years old best me when it comes to learning the good old Schrodinger equation...
Someone please bury me.
21? Old?! What does that make me?! The game is sure nostalgic. I remember when the first game came out, I downloaded it (again with the ever-so-popular 2mb zip files from sites), played it for 2 days straight, then told all the people I know how great the game is and how its gameplay would revolutionalize the gaming world. Sadly I was the few that saw the potential of the series... I should had invested in the damn company.
That's not too bad, it took me 7 rolls and the "name is important" hint to figure it out ;)
Haven't we gone through this already?
No we haven't...until Windows Vista Install Once Edition ships.
Then we are screw, daily.
Well when it concerns about the lives of 800+ men, women, and children. I think it is safe to think that we better get it right the first time around. If we don't, welll... This is not a matter of US vs world- if the plane has known flaws, yet it is still certify to fly for cost/politic reason...I want to see heads rolling- and not from my side either.
If you care enough to RTFA, you will see the following line
Yet his employer ignored his concerns, he alleges, because fixing the glitches would be costly, could take up to a year and would further delay the A380's launch.(a year behind already)
Tell you what, why don't you log into your account(be it TTM or whatever) , put your money where your mouth is by presenting justifiable evidences, and get beatdown like a man.
If you refuse, then stop trying to force other drink your special Kool Aids; we don't need idiots who chant the same PR for every story.
my bet is that Apple didn't run their prototypes over with cars. Or did they??
They probably did.
May I be the first one to say LINK NOT WORK/FAMILY SAFE?!
/.
DAMN YOU!!! YOU SET ME UP!!!
Even though I should had known not to open random link on
They are taking the whole Persocon/Chobits /Chi thing WAY too seriously.
When I toured the labs in University of British Columbia a few months ago, a person showed us his doctine thesis experiment that center on tunneling sunlight with the help of special reflective (from 3M) tunnels that is over 65% efficient.
Other than the addition of the outrageous "dish" (on shark?), tell me why this is "new".
If you think about it, US has the same "penis thing" more or less.
;)
Japanese has the ESC that reaches 36TFlops in 2002. US, not wanting to be left behind, build Blue Gene that will reaches 1PFlops by 2006 (28x in 4 years relative to ESC).
Japan, in response to that, wants to build one that reaches 10PFlops by 2010 (10x in 6 years relative to Blue Gene).
Japanese - surpasses opponent by 10 times in 6 years.
US - surpasses opponent by 28 times in 4 years.
Now, tell me, which one has the more serious disease known as "look at the size of my ego" syndrome.
US of course
Info from Wikipedia
Mirror
/. in 6 minutes...it must be a new record or something
When I looked at the new google maps I noticed that some of the streets near my house are not indexed. When I compare it to yahoo map, however, the roads are present.
I guess google map is not as new as we thought.
and I installed Win2k P on a cyrix P166 w/ 24mb edo ram :/ last week.
where is my slashdot article.
Nothing to see here, move along now.
The sea called...they are running out of shrimps!
If all Chinese jumped at once, would cataclysm result?
Dear Cecil:
I hope that you can answer a question that has plagued me since childhood. If every man, woman, and child in China each stood on a chair, and everyone jumped off their chair at exactly the same time, would the earth be thrown off its axis? Also, if prior to jumping, they all yelled at the top of their lungs, would we hear it here in the United States, and how much of a time delay would there be? --Robert P., Los Angeles
Dear Robert:
Amazing as it may seem, I am actually going to answer this incredibly retarded question. But first Uncle Cecil wishes to have a word with his devoted readers.
As you can imagine, I possess phenomenal scholarly resources. I have converted the spare bedroom in my house into a research library containing 16 million volumes, which are dusted twice a day by a team of robed acolytes holding candles. I have instant access via my Apple 380S GT to all the world's data banks. Why, right here on my writing table next to the box of spare quills I have a dog-eared copy of 16,000 Unbelievably Complicated Physics Experiments for the Home and Garden, With Answers, which has helped me out of many a jam.
But despite this wealth of scientific knowledge, the Teeming Millions routinely write in with questions that not one sane person has ever asked in 6,000 years of recorded history. As a result, my usual sources of information are useless.
Nonetheless, I try. I have been in repeated contact with the Beijing government all week in an effort to persuade them to get all 1,027,000,000 Chinese (1980 estimate) to jump off chairs. I have pleaded with them that will signficantly advance the cause of science. However, they have not been cooperative.
They point out the China is a poor country, and lacks a sufficient quantity of chairs. Moreover, many of the chairs that are available are of nonuniform height, meaning that even if all the Chinese jumped off at the same time, they would hit the ground at different times, thus throwing off the results of the experiment.
Finally, they point out that discipline among the Chinese people has become notoriously lax since the Cultural Revolution, and many of the participants in the project could be expected to be fooling around when they were supposed to be jumping. The Chinese government suggests that instead of having the entire nation jump off chairs, I should get one representative citizen to jump and multiply the results by 1,027,000,000. I have, needless to say, rejected this solution as grossly inadequate.
The possibility of an actual test thus being remote, I have been forced to rely on my considerable powers of inductive logic, to wit: given the principle that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the Chinese get up on their chairs, they would essentially be pushing the earth down in the process of elevating themselves. Then, when they jumped off, the earth would simultaneously spring back, attracted by the gravitational mass of one billion airborne Chinese persons, with the result that the Chinese and the earth would meet somewhere in the middle, if you follow me. The upshot of this is that action and reaction would cancel each other out and the earth would remain securely in orbit.
Just for fun, however--after you've been doing this job for a while you get a pretty bizarre notion of what constitutes a good time--suppose 1,000,000,000 Chinese, give or take 27,000,000, were somehow to materialize atop chairs without their having to elevate themselves thereto. And suppose they jumped off.
Having performed astonishing feats of mathematical acrobatics (requiring the entire afternoon, I might note--sometimes I can't believe the crap I spend my time on), I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons. I refuse to even discuss what would happen if all the Chinese yelled at the top of their lungs.
--CECIL ADAMS
some people just don't have a sense of humor...
so
when can we see the whole human body in its full 3D glory
New Way to Make Hydrogen
When I saw the title I instantly thought-
Jesus(God) is here!!! YOU are ALL going to HELL.
Seriously, there should be a limit on simplification.
"Actually, our country has its own Deep Impact plans, it's just we've never revealed them to the public before," the Beijing News quoted Chinese astronomer Zhao Haibin as saying.
Yah I am sure it is "quoted as saying"- look, no one would accidentally "slip" important information when a communist party is looking after you. Someone obviously directed him to say it."
1998 film "Deep Impact", for which the US spacecraft was named.
It is as if millions of voices in NASA cried out in terror, then silence.
China would use a "more clever" method that could be called "pasting", he said, explaining the plan was to soft-land a craft with an engine capable of pushing a comet or asteroid off a collision course.
Clever, really clever- no one had thought about it before, ever. I mean, not even a three year old kid know that when you attach a rocket to an object, they both fly away.
But China still had to overcome technical obstacles before it could send a comet collider into space
Yah and my time machine is almost finish, I just need to overcome some "technical obstacles", that's all- namely, how to build it.
via the impactor's mothership
Ok now I am scare.
In case the winner sues Apple for making Ipod baterry that drops dead after 6 months.
;)
Back up, I call it
If I have someone I hate, could I just setup an open AP network in my house, ask the guy over and ask him to bring his windows laptop. When his MS' ever-helpful wireless connection program tries to connect to my honey-pot, *BAM* the police and the NSA (hey they helped RIAA too, so obviously they have tons of free time.) comes out of hiding and nail the guy.
You fools! That's no Godzilla!! It's obviously Ms. Frizzle and her gang of volcano-blowing students!
Now if the Japs finally capture the ever-elusive Ms. Frizzle and interrogate her...